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NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. (NYSE: WTT)'s sale to Maury Microwave, Inc. for $2.13 per share. If you are a Wireless Telecom shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM)'s sale to Stratasys Ltd. for 0.123 ordinary shares of Stratasys for each share of Desktop Metal Class A common stock. Upon closing of the proposed transaction, Desktop Metal stockholders will own approximately 41% of the combined company. If you are a Desktop Metal shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS)'s merger with Desktop Metal, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Desktop Metal stockholders will receive 0.123 ordinary shares of Stratasys for each share of Desktop Metal Class A common stock. Upon closing of the proposed transaction, Stratasys shareholders will own approximately 59% of the combined company. If you are a Stratasys shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Martin County - Tuesday April 4, 2023: The first week of April is National Public Health Week, and in recognition of that, the Florida Department of Health in Martin County is highlighting what they do to keep residents safe and healthy.
This week is an opportunity, says says Martin County’s Public Health Officer Carol Ann Vitani, to highlight the importance of public health and to recognize the contributions of public health professionals. “We like to say we’re the community’s doctor, and our mission is to promote, and protect, and improve the health of all the people in the state of Florida.”
The Department has a wide range of responsibilities, says Vitani, monitoring and preventing health threats as well as encouraging healthy choices year-round.
“We continually watch for infectious diseases in an effort to control any type of outbreak," said Vitani, "and various health screenings that we do, immunizations, encouraging healthy eating and lifestyle choices.”
In particular her Department is actively working to address the crisis of opioid abuse.
“We provide free NARCAN, that life-saving medication to reverse an overdose. Anyone can come in and just ask for it,” she said.
Learn more at: martin countyhealth.com. | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-04-04/martin-county-celebrating-national-public-health-week | 2023-04-04 23:39:34 | 0 | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-04-04/martin-county-celebrating-national-public-health-week |
Health plan deductibles keep getting higher — the proportion of workers with a deductible that topped $1,000 for single coverage nearly tripled in the past five years, to 34 percent.
Since high-deductible plans often mean you pay more out of pocket for medical care, it might seem like a no brainer to sign up for a plan that links to a health savings account so you can sock away money tax free to cover your medical expenses. But there are good reasons to think twice before making that choice.
In order to get the tax advantages of a health savings account, the health plan it's linked to has to meet certain criteria. In 2013, for instance, an HSA-qualified plan has to have a deductible of at least $1,250 for single coverage and $2,500 for family coverage, and the maximum out-of-pocket limits can be no higher than $6,250 and $12,500, respectively, for single and family coverage.
But HSA-qualified plans have other limitations that consumers often aren't aware of. For one thing, even though the Affordable Care Act allows parents to keep their adult children on their policies until they reach age 26, they can't use funds from their HSA to pay for the child's care after age 24. That's because "dependent" is defined differently for HSA purposes than it is under the ACA provisions that extend dependent coverage to adult children.
In addition, except for preventive care, which is generally covered at 100 percent and is not subject to the deductible, consumers in an HSA-qualified plan may be on the hook for the entire cost of medical care, including doctor visits, medications, tests and treatments, until they reach their deductible. (They'll be charged the negotiated rate their insurer has agreed to pay providers for services, however, not the "rack" rate paid by the uninsured.)
Regular high-deductible plans, on the other hand, offer many more options. In addition to covering preventive care at 100 percent, some function like traditional plans, requiring only a copayment for doctor visits and medicines even before the deductible is met. Or they may offer a limited number of doctor visits with a copayment before people meet their deductible, says Carrie McLean, senior manager of customer care at eHealthInsurance.com, an online vendor.
Consumers need to evaluate the full spectrum of costs and benefits for HSA plans, but the advantages may have nothing to do with medical expenses, she advises. "The true benefit you get from these accounts is because you're putting money away and you get that tax [savings]," says McLean.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Brooke Shields has been known as beautiful, smart and famous since she was a baby, but a new documentary reveals why it’s taken decades for her to feel confident in her talent.
With a dazzling array of archival photos and footage, and in-depth interviews with Shields, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” is a firsthand examination of her success as a model, actor, author and now lifestyle entrepreneur, despite being sexualized and objectified at a young age and managing her alcoholic mother — the original “momager,” Teri Shields.
Like other recent documentaries on Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson, “Pretty Baby” includes a cringeworthy barrage of media clips where mostly older men reduce her to a pretty face and have little interest in her answers to their questions. The film, which drops in two parts on Hulu on Monday, looks back at how women were treated in the 1980’s and 1990’s — including Shields revealing she was the victim of a sexual assault by a Hollywood executive after she graduated college.
Shields spoke to The Associated Press recently about what she learned from the project, how she overcame being shamed for her personal choices and gained confidence, and how she sees her future.
Answers have been edited for length and clarity.
AP: In the series you say “I’m owning my identity fully.” What did you mean?
SHIELDS: I made myself small for so long, either to be relatable or to not be threatening or humbled, you know? Don’t be a snob. Don’t be arrogant. Have people like you. Be kind to everyone. It was like this the way I grew up, and I was rewarded for it. I’m saying that it’s okay to pat myself on the shoulder a little bit. It’s okay to say I really do have talent because I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t. It’s not just because I’m smart or just because I look a certain way. I’ve maintained a career and kept challenging myself, and I don’t think I ever felt confident enough to say it out loud. I always just wanted other people’s approval about my talent, never thinking that I could give it to myself.
AP: The documentary details the press scrutinizing you for years, how have you felt promoting the series?
SHIELDS: What I noticed when I was a little girl was that nobody really wanted my answers. They wanted their narrative to be the soundbite that I gave them. And being very stubborn always, I, in my own way, refused to give it to them. Now, I don’t ever feel like I’m on the defensive because I’ve learned that I’m not at anybody else’s mercy. Looking back, I can see that that’s what I was doing, and I don’t need to do that anymore, which is very empowering but, you know, it took 40-something years (laughs).
AP: What was the hardest part to reveal in the documentary?
SHIELDS: I was worried about the #MeToo stuff just because I didn’t want it to be reduced to just a headline. And yet I knew that if I didn’t, I would have felt like a hypocrite or inauthentic. I haven’t been able to talk about it up until now, and then it felt like, you sort of owe it to yourself. And I just hoped that out of two hours and however many minutes, the one brief story — I mean, I knew it’s going to be clickbait — but I was worried that I would get let down again by the press.
AP: It sounds like compartmentalizing was a survival technique for you?
SHIELDS: I think that happens with a child of an alcoholic. You know, you really do learn to compartmentalize. You love a person who is very broken and has a disease that they cannot seem to get under control. But you can’t afford to have their love not be real. So you learn, when things felt …not in control…I would become very organized, and that sort of was my center, that was my meditation, you know, redoing my Filofax or refolding my socks.
AP: You recently started a company aimed at celebrating women’s lives after 40. Why is that important to you?
SHIELDS: I decided at an early age that if I was going to speak about anything, it was going to be about things that I believe that could help other people. Over the years I’ve thought, how can I not feel alone? I can share my story and I’m sure there’s someone else who can identify with it. Before COVID I was healthy and I was working out a lot and I felt good. I was feeling so easy about things. My kids are all right. I like my life. I’m proud of it.
The irony was that whenever I looked outside of myself, there wasn’t anything addressing me. You know, your agents tell you, ‘Well, you’re of a certain age...’ I’m not dead and I don’t have one foot in the grave, come on! I was shocked. You have to own how hard it is just to get to this age, and with your wits about you, and good people in your life and how much more there is.
AP: What are your dreams now?
SHIELDS: To be in another television show. I really want to find the right (one) because “Suddenly Susan” to me was such a revelation and it was the happiest time for me. And I want to feel that whole thing again because it was a very healthy, pure place for me to be. And I really, really loved it. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/brooke-shields-takes-charge-of-her-story-in-17871913.php | 2023-03-31 20:18:56 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/brooke-shields-takes-charge-of-her-story-in-17871913.php |
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy will report its 2022 financial results before the market opens Thursday, Feb. 16.
Drew Marsh, chairman and chief executive officer, Kimberly Fontan, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and company leaders invite you to listen to a live webcast discussion of Entergy's financial results at 10 a.m. Central time the same day. Visit entergy.com/investors for information on how to access the webcast, including instructions on how to register to participate by telephone.
The presentation materials will be available on Entergy's website before the market opens on the day of the call. An archived replay of the webcast will be available on Entergy's Investor Relations website at entergy.com/investors. From time to time, Entergy posts new and/or revised materials on its website and on social media and anticipates doing so in connection with this event.
Entergy (NYSE: ETR), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, powers life for 3 million customers through its operating companies across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy is creating a cleaner, more resilient energy future for everyone with our diverse power generation portfolio, including increasingly carbon-free energy sources. With roots in the Gulf South region for more than a century, Entergy is a recognized leader in corporate citizenship, delivering more than $100 million in economic benefits to local communities through philanthropy and advocacy efforts annually over the last several years. Our approximately 12,000 employees are dedicated to powering life today and for future generations. Learn more at entergy.com and follow @Entergy on social media. #WePowerLife
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The Daily Minute is the Journal Star's morning news briefing where you can get the latest news in about a minute each weekday. Previous Daily Minute videos are archived here .
Good morning, Lincoln. Here are this morning's top headlines.
Husker Athletics under president The responsibility for directing the future of Husker Athletics now rests in Varner Hall .
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents on Thursday revised its bylaws to move oversight and big-picture planning for the athletic department from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor's office to NU President Ted Carter's office.
The move also puts the eight members of the Board of Regents one step closer to the decision-making process in Husker Athletics. It passed unanimously.
Vintage car events If you saw a few dozen vintage cars cruising down the highway on Thursday, don’t worry, you didn’t jump back into the 1900s.
On Thursday morning, dozens of classic cars and hot rods left the Museum of American Speed for a 180-mile ride through Southeast Nebraska . The road tour is part of the International Speedsters Trials and Reunion weekend hosted by Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed.
The events continue into today with a Hill Climb from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 6200 West Fletcher Ave. On Saturday, the reunion ends with a family-friendly Cars & Coffee gathering from 8 a.m. to noon at Speedway Motors, 340 Victory Lane.
Donovan Jones joins Huskers And, the Nebraska football team continued its recruiting surge by adding Donovan Jones from Omaha North High School.
Jones committed to the Huskers on Thursday. The defensive back entered the summer without any Division One offers but had strong showings at recent recruiting camps to garner interest, including Nebraska’s.
“Jones fits the mold Nebraska is looking for. He is dynamic and versatile enough to play any spot in the secondary, something he's already done for Omaha North,” Journal Star sports reporter Luke Mullin writes .
That’s it for Friday, June 23. Stay in the know with Lincoln’s longest-standing news source at JournalStar.com ., we’ll see you back here on Monday.
Top Journal Star photos for June 2023
A'rielle Harvell (bottom), 5, slides down an inflatable water slide next to her sisters, Yahkira Harvell (top), 4, and Samirah Graham, 13, on Monday in central Lincoln. The temperature in Lincoln reached 96 on Monday and was in the 90s again on Tuesday. The National Weather Service is forecasting highs in the 90s and mostly sunny conditions for at least the next week.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
David Campbell, a recent graduate from Union college's international rescue and relief program, climbs and repels from a tree alongside Mike Mikler (not pictured) on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at Holmes Lake Park in Lincoln.
The duo, who had earlier created a giant swing, said they were climbing the trees for fun and practice. The program for International rescue and relief is a bachelor of science degree designed for students who want to serve and help others in disaster and humanitarian relief.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Southeast Community College Professor Michael Mellon teaches anatomy of the human brain to his class Tuesday in Lincoln. A change to community college funding in Nebraska will result in higher property taxes to support SCC next year, but officials say a tax credit will offset those increases.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
Crane removal equipment sits on Q St. between North 9th and 10th St. temporarily closing the section of Q until June 23rd, Monday, June 19, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Malone Ribbon Dancers, including Maisey Ratliff, 8, dance during Lincoln's Juneteenth celebration Saturday at Trago Park.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Scott Copeland (Left) and Donnette Thayer (right) play Irish folk music with friends during the Hub Farmers Market at Union Plaza park on Wednesday. The markets are Wednesdays, from 5-7 p.m., through Sept. 20.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
Open Harvest employees shovel gravel at the Open Harvest ground breaking in the Telegraph District, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Dynasty Volleyball players Abigail Mullen (bottom left), Reese Messer (left), Claire Cisneros (top right), and Skyler Pierce (right) share snacks and stories with one another as they rest on the catwalk overlooking the volleyball courts ahead of their next match during the Midwest PreNationals tournament on Friday, June 9, 2023, at the Sports Pavilion Lawrence in Lawrence.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Fisherman Salem Alsareni, catches a 24 inch carp, weighing in at six and a half pounds at Holmes Lake, Monday, June 12, 2023, in Lincoln.
HAYDEN ROONEY Journal Star
Angela Gebhardt walks next to Star City Chorus during the Star City Pride Parade Saturday at the Nebraska state Capitol.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Foster Care Closet employee Brooke Horton lifts boxes of diapers onto the bus before departing for Norfolk on Friday.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor candidate Rodney Bennett answers questions from students and staff who are part of the College of Law on Thursday at the Office of the President.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Terrance McIntyre gets his hair cut by Treveon Phinney at 402 Fades Barber Shop on Thursday at Gateway Mall.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Eliana Athena Vargas Smith, 2, plays in the fountain at Union Plaza park on Wednesday, when temperatures reached 88 degrees in Lincoln.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
Children extend their arms outward as they reach for bubbles to pop during a family fun night ice cream party on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at the Charles H. Gere Branch Library in Lincoln.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Harper Trumble (top right) dances with her cousin Keegan VanDeWater (right) while Alexis Arai y Su Grupo perform as part of the Jazz in June concert series on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at in the Sheldon Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln. The first performers for Jazz in June drew a sizable crowd on Tuesday. The free concert series, held each Tuesday in June, will feature two sets of music from 7-7:45 p.m. and 8-8:45 p.m. Beyond the performances, the series will include education outreach coordinated by community centers and artists. A market offered food and drinks to hungry patrons. And a bike Valet will provided free, secure parking for bicycles from 5 p.m. until the end of the performance in the market.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
The Rev. T. Michael Williams signs the petition to repeal LB753 during Support our Schools Nebraska petition drive kickoff at the state Capitol on Tuesday.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
Mia Masch, 5, has her hair adjusted by her father Ian while his pet parrot Mango rests atop his shoulder during an animal blessing ceremony at First-Plymouth Church.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Shriner clowns cover their hearts for the invocation before the Nebraska Shrine Bowl on Saturday at Cope Stadium in Kearney.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
A rainbow is seen near Ralston High School stadium during the Nebraska High School Soccer Senior Showcase on Friday.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Grace Jacobson of Lincoln holds a rainbow umbrella over a coffin prop in front of the Governor's Mansion on Thursday, the final day of the legislative session.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Nikita (black) jumps into the dog pool as Pearl chases after her at Off Leash Dog Bar on Wednesday.
HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star
Lincoln East’s Carter Mick (10) poses for portrait , Monday, May 29, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Rebecca Rager greets her grandfather Alfred Zieg (from left) during a celebration before his birthday on Wednesday, in the Gramercy dining room on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at The Residence at Gramercy in Lincoln. 'It has been a life for sure," Alfred Zieg said during the celebration. "And on Wednesday I get to start all over again, right?"
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Muggs, a 6 year-old chocolate lab fetches his toy from the water following his dive on Saturday at Paws 4 Fun in Lincoln.
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Fire fighters clear out hot debris pulled off of 411 Mulder Dr home after alert two back yard fire, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Lincoln.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With violent crimes increasing nationwide, the Fayetteville City Council and Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) are looking at ways to increase the number of police officers, taking a proactive stance against the rise of violence in the area.
The $625,000 grant will fund five full-time police officers over the course of three years with the purpose of the grant to target violent crimes and gun violence through community policing.
“It would give them give them the opportunity to target those specific crimes and those areas that we need to target." said
Community Policing is a big portion of what the FPD does with the department hosting more than 200 community events each year that target gun violence.
"If we receive this grant we would go out and talk about gun safety, we’d not only talk about it with adults...if permitted we would talk with children. we’ve done backpacking initiatives, we’ve also done.. not only backpacking initiatives, we’ve done food drives, and we’ve done national nights out," said
This grant provides officers more time to focus on educating the community and taking guns off the streets.
“Where normal patrol officers, they’re out patrolling, doing accident reports, taking other types of reports, they’re running from call to call and often times don’t have a lot time to stop and educate the community when it comes to gun violence,” said
In 2020, FPD saw a 26% increase in violence with 18 shootings and tied a record for seven homicides. This following year had a 4% increase.
"We know what’s going on in our communities, I think it behooves us to get ahead of that in Fayetteville, I think this grant will help us do that,” said
Chief Reynolds says providing all this data to the city council members and says he is hopeful for their support.
“I think that they feel like it’s important, certainly the safety of our citizens but not only important to the police department but its very important to our elected officials as well," Reynolds said.
Chief Reynolds says if the grant is not approved they'll find other options to address the gun violence in Fayetteville. The city council will vote on the initiative next Tuesday night, June 7.
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Technology veteran brings 30-year perspective on technology disruption and digital transformation
DRESHER, Pa., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascensus—whose technology and expertise helps millions of people save for retirement, education, and healthcare—announced that technology veteran Bradley Strock has joined its Board of Directors.
Strock most recently served as PayPal's Global Chief Information Officer, overseeing all internal technologies and scaling the company's global technology and data infrastructure to serve more than 250 million customers across 200 global markets. Responsible for global operations product development in support of customer service and the processing of billions of transactions annually, he advanced the company's use of data to design customer-centric experiences and enhanced service capabilities.
"Brad brings a wealth of highly relevant technology and business leadership experience across the global financial services industry to the Ascensus Board," said David Musto, Ascensus president and CEO and chair of the Ascensus Board. "Purpose-built technology platforms have always served as the foundation for our growth and driving value to our clients at Ascensus – enabling us to deliver flexible solutions at scale while delivering high levels of quality and leading digital experiences. Brad's experience and insights into technology-enabled growth and transformation will only enhance our ability to create value for those we serve through data, analytics, and emerging technologies."
Prior to joining PayPal in 2011, Strock served as senior vice president with Bank of America, overseeing end-to-end technology supporting customer service and the transformation of bill pay as well as leading the bank's next generation payment and commerce team. He previously held leadership roles in marketing operations technology and business process improvement with JPMorgan Chase and First USA/Bank One, respectively.
About Ascensus
Ascensus is a market-leading enabler of tax-advantaged savings—providing technology, services, and expertise that help more than 15 million people save for retirement, education, and healthcare.
We are a premier savings program service provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator. Our platforms, industry knowledge, and data-based insights enhance the growth and success of our partners, their clients, and savers through co-branded, private-labeled, and governmental partnerships.
Ascensus offers comprehensive qualified and non-qualified retirement plan solutions, third-party retirement plan administration, 529 education and ABLE savings program administration, health savings and COBRA administration, corporate- and bank-owned life insurance solutions, and fiduciary and total rewards services.
The company's brands include Ascensus; Newport, an Ascensus company; PAi, an Ascensus company; and FuturePlan by Ascensus. Ascensus has more than $700 billion in assets under administration and employs more than 5,700 associates as of December 31, 2022.
For more information, visit ascensus.com and newportgroup.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience, which provides cyber insurance and security solutions to mid-market enterprises to help them holistically evaluate, manage, and quantify their cyber risk, continues its global expansion in the UK and Europe with five senior executive appointments:
- Jack Jenner, International Head of Distribution and Strategy
- Rehan Hussain, Head of Underwriting, Europe, UK, and Lloyd's of London
- Tom Ryan, Lead Underwriter, UK
- Tom Egglestone, International Claims Leader, UK and Europe
- Simon West, Cyber Advisory Lead
"Our new hires' extensive experience and relationships in the UK and European marketplace ensures our international expansion is launched from a position of strength," said Mario Vitale, President of Resilience. "I am thrilled to welcome such an impressive group of leaders to the team. Their track record of innovative thinking is exactly the approach we need to set the new security standard for cyber risk and redefine what it means to be cyber resilient."
Resilience has made key hires to their security team in support of its UK expansion, appointing industry veteran Simon West as Cyber Advisory Lead. "We are extremely excited to add Simon West to our growing security team," said Michael McNerney, SVP of Security at Resilience. "Simon is a recognized security expert with years of practical experience helping clients achieve cyber resilience."
Jack Jenner joins Resilience as International Head of Distribution and Strategy. Jenner has over 20 years of experience in international insurance and most recently served as Group COO at Orient Insurance in Dubai. Previously, he served as CEO of Middle East and North Africa at Allianz, where he also held prior leadership positions in Asia and London.
Rehan Hussain joins Resilience as Head of Underwriting, Europe, UK, and Lloyd's of London.
Most recently Hussain served as Head of Cyber UK and Nordics, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, based in London, where he led a team of underwriters serving London, UK, and European markets, underwriting middle market and large global accounts. Hussain has more than 14 years of international insurance experience, including serving as Head of Financial Lines for Middle East and North Africa, where he developed the cyber insurance proposition and underwriting team for the region.
Tom Ryan joins Resilience as Lead Underwriter, UK. Ryan was most recently Major Account Segment Leader, Cyber and Technology at Chubb UK, where he led a team of underwriters serving the large global account segment through the London market and retail distribution. Previously, he served as Senior Underwriter, UK Retail, where he developed and executed the retail middle market strategy for Chubb UK. Ryan brings to Resilience nearly a decade of underwriting experience in cyber, technology, and financial lines products.
Tom Egglestone joins Resilience as International Claims Leader, UK and Europe. Egglestone most recently served as Cyber and Intellectual Property Claims Manager at Tokio Marine Kiln where he was recognized as a specialist in cyber and intellectual property products, having handled some of the London market's largest claims in those areas. Previously a claims adjuster at CFC and Hiscox,
Egglestone has over a decade of escalating experience and responsibility for complex specialty claims and claims operations in the London market.
Simon West joins Resilience as Cyber Advisory Lead. West has more than 25 years of global security risk management experience across government, military, and civil agencies. He is a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) certified instructor leading training for global underwriting teams on complex risk issues. West served over 14 years in the Royal Marines and has an MSc in Cyber Security and Human Factors from Bournemouth University.
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When my wife got her first iPhone long ago and I went looking for wireless service to put on it, I was very particular. I sought value and simplicity.
Also, I avoided plans that involved contracts. Instead of getting locked into a wireless provider for a time, I wanted the freedom to jettison one whenever I wanted and embrace another — repeatedly, if needed — until I found the one that best fit my wife’s needs.
We ended up with Ting Mobile, which I’ll tell you about in a bit.
This year, when my wife upgraded to an iPhone 13 mini, I undertook another review of cellular service options. My crucial criteria, again, were affordability and ease of use.
Lock-in, fortunately, is much less of an issue nowadays because you can easily get a phone in an “unlocked” state — meaning you are free to install any service you want on it. Apple only sells unlocked iPhones, for instance.
I had a new criterion: speed. We have entered the 5G era, with blazingly fast wireless data speeds comparable to those of wired home Internet services, so I wanted to make sure my wife’s cellular service properly tapped into those.
I eventually narrowed my search to Ting, along with Visible and Xfinity Mobile. Read on to find out which one I ended up picking for my wife.
But first, a bit of background …
LOTS OF OPTIONS
So many cellular service choices are available. The big-three carriers — AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile — all want your business.
And there are the off-brand options. You have seen them on the tube. Actor Ted Danson is pushing Consumer Cellular. Actor Ryan Reynolds, who is not only Mint Mobile spokesman but part owner, hawks the service with cameos by the likes of his mother, his sister-in-law and one of his oldest customers, Waseem Iqnaibi.
Services like Ting Mobile, Mint and Consumer Cellular don’t exist apart from the big-three carriers but, in fact, use their cellular network infrastructures in rebranded form. Mint and Ting piggyback on T-Mobile, for instance. Consumer Cellular taps into AT&T and T-Mobile.
Such “mobile virtual network providers” are free to set their own pricing, and to run their own billing, marketing and customer-service operations. Reynolds and his team, for instance, are renowned for their Mint marketing campaigns, which have little to do with T-Mobile.
Some providers that behave like scrappy MVNOs are actually owned by the big-three carriers. Visible, for instance, is a part of Verizon — Its full name is Visible by Verizon.
Regardless, this is a consumer-friendly state of affairs because phone owners are not stuck with the few, stodgy options long offered by the major carriers but can shop around for services that better fit their budgets and lifestyles.
For instance, if you know based on your experience that Verizon works reliably in the locations you frequent — such as your St. Paul house and your cabin — then you can weigh a Verizon plan against the many from Verizon-associated MVNOs until you hit upon one that best meets your needs. Ditto with AT&T or T-Mobile.
THE 5G FACTOR
Wireless-data service has become blazingly fast. In many cases, 5G service on your phone might be as fast or faster than your home broadband service.
But you have to pick your cellular-service provider with care because some 5G options are better than others in the Twin Cities.
T-Mobile, until recently, was the best option in the metro because it had the fastest service. Its wireless network did a nice job of balancing coverage and performance for an excellent experience.
Last year, AT&T and Verizon played catch-up when they switched on new spectrum (technically known as C-band) that largely nullified T-Mobile’s speed advantage.
The catch? While Verizon’s C-band service is widely available here, AT&T has yet to offer the service in Minnesota — except at Target Center and U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
So, if you’re shopping for wireless service with 5G in mind, AT&T and its associated MVNOs aren’t bad options but are far from the best in the Twin Cities (for the moment).
SERVICE FINALISTS
After a ton of research, and based on our particular circumstances, I landed on Ting, Visible and Xfinity Mobile as my finalists for my wife’s iPhone.
Here’s what I like about each one.
Ting. I dig this option because it is easy to understand. It’s a “postpaid” service, meaning it tallies up your use for the month and it bills you accordingly.
My wife, for instance, has a Flex or “pay as you go” plan that starts at just $15 a month, and adds charges based on how she uses data, talk and text. My wife’s bills typically come in at $30 to $40 a month.
Ting provides a cool way to keep track of usage: It has a web dashboard with dials showing data, talk and text activity. You can set up alerts so you are flagged whenever you exceed certain thresholds.
Ting also has plans costing $25, $35, $45 and $55 a month, with varying amounts of data (5, 12, 22 and 35 gigabytes) allotted to you. Warning: you’ll be throttled if you exceed your data allowance, but you can rev your service back up for $5 per gigabyte.
All plans offer unlimited talk and text.
Ting makes fine use of T-Mobile’s 5G service. My wife routinely gets downloads of 100 and 150 megabits per second, and uploads in the neighborhood of 30 to 40 Mbps. For comparison, my Xfinity home broadband plan from Comcast has 50-Mbps downloads and uploads in the single digits.
Note: wireless-data performance can vary from place to place, so your mileage might vary.
Visible. This service caught my eye because of its “eSIM” support, which means you don’t need a physical SIM card to activate service. Instead, it’s all handled as software (assuming you have a recent-model iPhone or Android phone with the circuitry to support the feature) that a Visible rep helps a user install over the Internet.
Visible even lets you test-drive its service via eSIM for two weeks at no cost.
Ting, by comparison, only provides physical SIMs through the postal mail. That’s annoying.
Visible keeps things very simple. It has just one plan costing $40 a month. For that amount, you get unlimited data, talk and text.
If you add users to the account, the monthly bill goes down. It’s $25 a month per user for four users. This is something for me to think about if I decided I wanted to consolidate all members of my household on a single service.
Visible dubs such group usage “Party Pay” because any two, three or four people can join together to lower their monthly bills. They don’t have to be family members, or even know each other. Regardless, it’s a party!
Xfinity Mobile. Comcast’s service offering, similar to Ting, provides unlimited plans along with pay-as-you-go options.
The latter, called “By the Gig,” allots a certain amount of data a month for a standard price. If you don’t go over that data allotment, you just pay that amount. It’s $15 a month for 1 GB, $30 a month for 3 GB, and $60 a month for 10 GB. If you exceed your data allowance, you are charged an additional $15 that month.
If you want to stick with a traditional plan that offers unlimited data, that will cost you $45 per month as a single user. The cost goes down as you add users. With four people, it is $30 a month per user.
Beware: Xfinity Mobile throttles your speed if you exceed 20 GB in one month.
Xfinity Mobile helps you save money in a clever way: Because it has a nationwide network of Wi-Fi hotspots, you can sign into one of those just about anywhere to message, surf and such at no cost.
If we used Xfinity Mobile, it would come conveniently on the same bill as our broadband service, making Comcast our single point of contact. But this would be an issue if we switched broadband providers (we’re considering it) because we’d be rendered illegible to use Xfinity Mobile and would have to port our service over to another wireless provider.
Visible and Xfinity Mobile both piggyback on Verizon’s network, and my speed tests on that network are eyebrow-raising. I experienced downloads consistently exceeding 300 Gbps, though with uploads only in the low teens. (Again, your mileage might vary.)
TING IS THE WINNER
Ting Mobile, Visible and Xfinity Mobile are all excellent options for my wife, but Ting has the home-court advantage. That is, I would have needed a good reason to ditch it for one of the others — and I didn’t have one.
On the contrary, Ting has been dependable, consumer-friendly and hassle-free. I’d recommend it almost without reservation — It would be nice to have an eSIM option, but that’s a quibble.
Which one is right for you? I can’t answer that because every user has different needs, and because so many MVNOs exist. But Ting Mobile, Visible and Xfinity Mobile are good places to start.
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It's been a week since actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on assault and harassment charges. The Army has pulled recruiting ads featuring Majors, while Hollywood has yet to respond to the allegations.
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Wednesday is the 81st anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. We remember the sailors lost and the war that followed.
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Establishment of an eighth Colorcon film coating facility meets the expanding needs of the pharmaceutical and nutritional sectors in Southeast Asia
HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorcon, Inc. is proud to formally announce its investment in a new manufacturing plant in Johor State, Malaysia for its film coating products. Construction will begin in August 2023, with completion expected by July 2025. This best-in class facility will be the eighth in Colorcon's global network; and will produce high quality and innovative film coating products for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturers located in Southeast Asia region, including Australia and New Zealand.
According to CPHI's 2022 Global Survey, the ASEAN pharmaceutical manufacturing industry will grow by 12.8% annually over 2021-2027 driven by increasing prevalence of chronic ailments, growing geriatric population, high investment in research and development, and increasing per capita healthcare expenditure.
Simon Tasker, CEO, Colorcon Inc. explains: "This investment strengthens our strategy to position Colorcon facilities close to our customers and support the projected growth in the region. The new plant in Malaysia will reduce delivery lead-times, improve our sustainability and strengthen our assurance of supply for our customers in the region; while assuring quality and equivalency of product manufactured at any of our network of manufacturing locations around the world."
Willem Hoogwater, Managing Director – NESEA explains: "We want to make it easy for customers to work with Colorcon. The new plant represents a significant commitment to customer satisfaction, convenience, and the resilience of the supply chain in Southeast Asia. The investment in regional production will further enhance Colorcon's ability to provide the high service level our customers expect, and we believe our customers deserve."
This investment in local manufacturing will improve Colorcon's flexibility in the scheduling of production, resulting in higher efficiency for customers and secure the supply chain to meet future industry needs. Colorcon has 11 manufacturing facilities, 25 technical service laboratories globally and more than 1400 employees exclusively dedicated to its customer base.
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2 killed, 11 hurt after pickup strikes bicyclists in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — Two people were killed and 11 others injured after a pickup truck crashed into a group of bicyclists Saturday morning in Arizona.
The Goodyear Police Department said the pickup struck a “large group of adult bicyclists” just before 8 a.m. in suburban Phoenix.
A woman died at the site of the crash, police said, while a second bicyclist died at a hospital. Eleven others were taken to hospitals in the area with “various” injuries.
Police said the driver of the pickup truck, who has not been identified, stayed at the scene of the crash.
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DALLAS (AP) — Officials: Six people were killed after two historic military planes collided during a Dallas air show Saturday.
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Amazon CEO says job cuts will continue into next year
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said job cuts at the e-commerce giant would continue into early next year, in his first public remarks since the company began widespread layoffs earlier this week.
“Our annual planning process extends into the new year, which means there will be more role reductions as leaders continue to make adjustments,” Jassy wrote in a letter to staff Thursday. “Those decisions will be shared with impacted employees and organizations early in 2023.”
Jassy said that the company hasn’t “concluded yet exactly how many other roles will be impacted” by the layoffs, but added that “each leader will communicate to their respective teams when we have the details nailed down.”
Amazon confirmed on Wednesday that layoffs had begun at the company, just days after multiple outlets reported the e-commerce giant planned to cut around 10,000 employees this week.
Amazon and other tech firms significantly ramped up hiring over the past couple of years as the pandemic shifted consumers’ habits toward e-commerce. Now, many of these seemingly untouchable tech companies are experiencing whiplash and laying off thousands of workers as people return to pre-pandemic habits and macroeconomic conditions deteriorate.
Facebook-parent Meta recently announced 11,000 job cuts, the largest in the company’s history. Twitter also announced widespread job cuts after Elon Musk bought the company for $44 billion.
Jassy alluded to the macroeconomic climate in his memo Thursday, saying this year’s annual operating review “is more difficult due to the fact that the economy remains in a challenging spot and we’ve hired rapidly the last several years.”
Jassy said that this is the most difficult decision the company has had to make during his year-and-a-half tenure at Amazon’s helm.
“It’s not lost on me or any of the leaders who make these decisions that these aren’t just roles we’re eliminating, but rather, people with emotions, ambitions, and responsibilities whose lives will be impacted,” Jassy wrote.
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KENNESAW, Ga. — A suspect running away from police during an attempted traffic stop prompted a shelter-in-place order at Kennesaw State's Marietta campus Friday night. An all-clear has since been given and the university returned to normal operations, KSU said.
Cobb County Police said they conducted a traffic stop near the campus and that's why KSU's Marietta campus was told to remain indoors. The university added a police K-9 tracked down a suspect who had been on campus grounds, the school said.
Marietta Police also assisted in the incident.
Kennesaw State said police were looking for a suspect who ran from police. They do not know if the person was armed at the time.
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Alleged Abe assassin to undergo mental evaluation until Nov
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TOKYO (AP) — The alleged assassin of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be detained until late November for mental evaluation so prosecutors can determine whether to formally press charges and send him to trial for murder. The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, has told police that he fatally shot Abe in July because of his links to a religious group that he hated because it bankrupted his family. Abe’s assassination has shed a light on his and his party’s decades-long questionable links to the conservative Unification Church that Japan’s opposition said needs to be investigated further. The church was founded in Seoul in 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War, by a self-proclaimed messiah whose teachings are backed by conservative, family-oriented values. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/25/alleged-abe-assassin-to-undergo-mental-evaluation-until-nov/ | 2022-07-25 11:48:56 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/25/alleged-abe-assassin-to-undergo-mental-evaluation-until-nov/ |
Utah's public flagship university taps national nonprofit InsideTrack to provide one-on-one coaching to first-year students and enhance its holistic student success efforts
SALT LAKE CITY, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Utah (the U), a public flagship research university ranked among the top programs in the nation for value by Times Higher Education and The Wall Street Journal, today announced an ambitious multi-year initiative that will harness the power of one-on-one student success coaching to help more students complete college. In collaboration with student success nonprofit InsideTrack, the institution will deliver one-on-one success coaching for up to 500 first-year, high-financial-need students, helping them to navigate a range of complex challenges facing first-time college students.
"Today's students are facing a broader and more complex range of financial, professional and social-emotional pressures than they have in the past. Colleges have a profound responsibility to help students navigate these myriad factors within and beyond the classroom that influence their academic success," said Dr. Thomas Chase Hagood, senior associate vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Utah. "This is about scaling the personalized, direct support of success coaching to help students achieve their goals in the critical first year of college."
The initiative is part of a university-wide shift to address a broad range of challenges that impede student success, including time and stress management, connecting to school community, and financial wellness. The last decade has seen the U's persistence and graduation rates increase by ten percent. Hagood's arrival in summer 2021 marked the U's recommitment to a student-driven, data-informed approach to providing an Exceptional Educational Experience for and with every student. The efforts to raise first-year persistence is helping to address the ambitious higher education attainment goal set by the Utah Board of Higher Education to increase the percentage of Utah high school graduates enrolling in college within five years to 75% by 2025.
Staff from Utah's Student Success Coaching unit will partner with InsideTrack to build and expand the university's capacity to provide personalized support to all students. Using InsideTrack's proven coaching methodology, Utah will be able to use a single, evidence-based approach to coaching, helping to meet the wide variety of barriers to student success.
In addition to providing direct coaching for first-year students, InsideTrack will also work with the university over the next two years to establish the internal diagnostics, training process, certification and professional development to operate its own coaching program. At the end of this first phase, the university will be able to implement a train-the-trainer model that will enable staff to sustain the program for years to come and replicate and expand the coaching program using completely internal resources.
"While addressing affordability is critical, students from under-resourced backgrounds often face an array of other challenges beyond finances that can impact student success," said Malika Clinkscales, associate vice president of partner success at InsideTrack. "This is about combining financial access with the power of success coaching to ensure that every student has the support they need to thrive and achieve their educational potential."
Over more than two decades, InsideTrack has developed a national reputation for its rigorous student success coaching model, which is proven to enhance student enrollment, persistence, completion, and career readiness. In addition to directly coaching hundreds of thousands of students annually, InsideTrack's seasoned team of professional coaches, trainers, and consultants also supports institutions in implementing changes to improve the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of their own student support services.
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The most important objective for investors is to review portfolios and bring them in line with long-term strategic allocation recommendations
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - A U.S. recession may arrive mid-2023 based on historical economic markers and waning consumer financial power, RBC Wealth Management suggests in its Global Insight 2023 Outlook, released Tuesday.
An inverted yield curve on U.S. Treasuries, coupled with the arrival of "tight money" and inflation rates that have pushed real incomes below where they were a year ago, are further indications a recession and accompanying global equity bear market may be on the horizon. The most important objective for investors is to review portfolios and bring them in line with long-term strategic allocation recommendations.
History has shown that the market rebounds well before a recession ends – usually about three to five months before.
"Recessions are painful, but they are relatively short in the context of long-term investment horizons," said Kelly Bogdanova, vice president and portfolio analyst at RBC Wealth Management – U.S. "The economy and already successful businesses should adapt as they have in the past, and it's wise for investors to keep that in mind when making big portfolio decisions."
Even if the economy goes in to recession next year, with history as a guide, the equity market would likely begin a new bull market cycle before the recession ends, according to the report.
Moderating inflation data, negative investor sentiment around October lows, and the fact the S&P 500 has almost always delivered strong, positive returns for months following the U.S. midterm elections could mean a rally in equity prices over the next few weeks or months.
Investors could see the equity market continue to rally into 2023, then give way to another period of falling share prices and subsequently tick back up later in the year.
"Despite the lingering and anticipated economic challenges, the equity market has already absorbed significant blows, including one of the Fed's fastest and biggest tightening cycles in history," Bogdanova said. "It would also be rare for the S&P 500 to deliver back-to-back negative return years, and the corporate earnings outlook isn't as bad as in previous periods of economic stress."
Going into 2023, investors should consider leaning more heavily toward quality and sustainable dividends and away from individual company risks. Small-cap and midcap segments are attractive due to their valuation discounts and because they are likely to benefit as economic green shoots start to emerge, according to the report.
Within the large-cap S&P 500, the analysts continue to favor the energy sector next year. Tight energy commodity supplies will linger, supporting prices and earnings to a greater degree than in typical periods of economic weakness.
The Federal Reserve spent the past two years focused on boosting employment rates in the labor market and stabilizing pricing in the economy. Its next act will be to zero in on financial stability in 2023.
The historically aggressive tightening campaign will likely necessitate a far more cautious approach from policymakers, and a heightened focus on domestic and global financial vulnerabilities that may come as a result of higher interest rates, particularly from the strength of the dollar.
"This could mean the Fed soon places the blunt tool of rate hikes back in the toolbox and employs more surgical, macroprudential measures that help to ensure the soundness of, and liquidity within, the financial system," said Tom Garretson, fixed income senior portfolio strategist at RBC Wealth Management – U.S.
Interest rates may peak in early 2023 on the heels of an anticipated 50-basis-point hike at the Federal Reserve's December meeting. This could mark the last of sharp hikes, and rates could even drop modestly over the back half of 2023 in an attempt to mitigate the anticipated mid-year economic slowdown.
Yields across the fixed income landscape are expected to fall in 2023. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield could fall below 3.5% by the end of the year, from levels close to 4.0% currently, based on RBC Capital Markets' forecast.
The window for fixed income investors to put money to work is open, but it could close sooner than expected. If yields continue to fade over the course of 2023, that could introduce heightened reinvestment risk for short-maturity securities. Analysts continue to favor a strategy of locking in historically high yields in intermediate and longer-dated bonds.
The Global Insight 2023 Outlook also presents RBC Wealth Management's house position for regional equity and fixed income markets. Those views can be found here.
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GLAMIS, Calif. (KSWB) — The five Marines killed in an aircraft crash Wednesday near Glamis in Imperial County, California, have been identified, a U.S. Marine Corps official announced Friday.
The victims, based at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, were all assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 364, Marine Aircraft Group 39 and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, according to a release from Major Mason Englehart of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Their names are as follows:
- Cpl. Nathan E. Carlson, 21, of Winnebago, Illinois, a Tiltrotor Crew Chief
- Capt. Nicholas P. Losapio, 31, of Rockingham, New Hampshire, an MV-22B Pilot
- Cpl. Seth D. Rasmuson, 21, of Johnson, Wyoming, a Tiltrotor Crew Chief
- Capt. John J. Sax, 33, of Placer, California, an MV-22B Pilot
- Lance Cpl. Evan A. Strickland, 19, of Valencia, New Mexico, a Tiltrotor Crew Chief
The crash, involving a MV-22B Osprey, happened around 12:25 p.m., 1st Lt. Duane Kampa said. The crew and aircraft were conducting routine flight training, Englehart stated.
“It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of five Marines from the Purple Fox family” said Lt. Col. John C. Miller, commanding officer of VMM-364. “This is an extremely difficult time for VMM-364 and it is hard to express the impact that this loss has had on our squadron and its families. Our primary mission now is taking care of the family members of our fallen Marines and we respectfully request privacy for their families as they navigate this difficult time. We appreciate all the prayers and support from the strong extended Purple Fox family and want them to know that more information will be forthcoming on how to help.”
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BEIJING — Global stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors braced for another sharp interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve to cool inflation.
London and Shanghai advanced while Tokyo and Frankfurt declined. Oil rose nearly $2 per barrel.
Wall Street futures were lower after the benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.1% on Monday.
This week’s Fed meeting is expected to announce a rate hike of up to three-quarters of a percentage point, triple the usual margin. That would put the Fed’s benchmark rate in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018 before the coronavirus pandemic.
Optimists hope for a “Fed dial back,” but mixed reactions suggest sentiments are conflicted, said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.
In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London advanced 0.7% to 7,348.61 while the DAX in Frankfurt lost 0.5% to 13,144.82. The CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.1% to 6,232.77.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 future was off 0.3% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.4%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.8% to 3,277.44 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shed 0.2% to 27,655.21.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 1.7% to 20,905.88 after Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, announced plans to change the status of its Hong Kong-traded shares to make them more accessible to mainland Chinese buyers.
Alibaba went public in New York in September 2014 and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in November 2019. The proposed change would upgrade Alibaba’s Hong Kong status to a primary listing along with New York, making the shares eligible for purchase through mainland brokerages.
The Kospi in Seoul added 0.4% to 2,412.96 after data showed the South Korean economy grew by a stronger-than-expected 0.7% over the previous quarter in the three months ending in June.
Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 was 0.3% higher at 6,807.30.
India’s Sensex lost 0.7% at 55,384.00. New Zealand and Bangkok retreated while Singapore and Jakarta gained.
Investors worry aggressive rate hikes by the Fed to contain inflation that is at four-decade highs and similar action by central banks in Europe and Asia might derail global economic growth.
U.S. inflation has accelerated to 9.1%, its highest since 1981.
The U.S. economy is slowing, but healthy hiring shows it isn’t in recession, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday. Fed officials who publicly support a rate hike also cite a strong job market as evidence the economy can stand higher borrowing costs.
On Wall Street, the Dow gained 0.3% while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.4%.
On Monday, Walmart shares fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading after the retail giant lowered its profit outlook for the second quarter and full year. The company said shoppers are cutting back on discretionary items, particularly clothing, that carry higher profit margins.
On Thursday, the Commerce Department is due to release U.S. economic growth estimate for the thee months ending in June. Some forecasters expect a second quarter of contraction after output shrank 1.6% in the three months ending in March.
Also this week, tech heavyweights Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are due to report results. So are Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.79 to $98.48 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained $2 to $96.70 on Monday. Brent crude, the price basis for international trading, advanced $1.79 to $101.98 per barrel in London. It added $1.95 the previous session to $105.15.
The dollar declined to 136.51 yen from Monday’s 136.72. The euro held steady at $1.0221.
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Andor will give us a fresh helping of Star Wars when the first three episodes land on Disney Plus this Wednesday, but you might be wondering when Mando and Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) will return for more adventures. The Mandalorian season 3 will kick off in 2023, and a trailer hints at where the shiny dad/green son duo's story will go after their show-stealing appearance in The Book of Boba Fett earlier this year.
Let's take a look at where Mando's adventures, which take place five years after Return of the Jedi, are likely to go next. We'll be diving into full SPOILER territory for the first two seasons and The Book of Boba Fett, so be warned if you aren't up to date.
Is there a Mandalorian season 3 trailer?
There sure is -- the first trailer was released during Disney's D23 Expo in early September. It's nearly identical to the trailers shown to the crowd at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim (but not released online) back in May.
When is season 3 coming to Disney Plus?
It's scheduled to arrive in February 2023, as revealed during Celebration Anaheim, but we don't have an exact release date yet. Since new episodes of Disney Plus shows generally come on Wednesdays, the season 3 premiere will likely come on Feb. 1, Feb. 8, Feb. 16 or Feb. 23.
However, the month was conspicuously absent from the trailer released in September. It suggests that the show's release date could slip out of February, especially since season 2 of CGI animated series The Bad Batch was pushed from this fall to January 2023. Disney isn't likely to have two Star Wars shows airing at once, so Mando's return may come after The Bad Batch season 2 finale airs. Disney didn't immediately respond to CNET's request for comment about the release date.
What else do we know about season 3?
The trailers hinted that we'll be going to Mandalore, a world we've previously seen only in animated shows The Clone Wars and Rebels, along with a flashback glimpse in The Book of Boba Fett. It's been ruined by the Empire, but Mando must return to the planet to atone for removing his helmet.
Grogu is along for the ride, and still ridiculously cute. Former Mandalorian leader Bo-Katan Kryze has a regal moment sitting on a throne similar to the one in Mandalorian capital Sundari (this room features prominently in the final episodes of The Clone Wars). Mando allies the Armorer and Greef Karga will also return.
Action sequences included massive Imperial Star Destroyers and suggested that Mando will lead some of his fellow Mandalorians into battle.
The second season ended with Luke Skywalker taking Grogu for Jedi training and a post-credits scene teasing Boba Fett's show. It initially seemed like the bounty hunter's solo show would tell a completely separate story. However, the narrative shifted to Mando and Grogu in the last few episodes -- the pair reunited after the little guy rejected Luke's training and returned to his armored space dad.
During season 2, Mando (real name Din Djarin) also ran into another group of Mandalorians, led by Bo-Katan. She was on a mission to retake their home-world Mandalore and get the Darksaber (a Mandalorian symbol of leadership) back from Moff Gideon. In the season finale, Mando took possession of the Darksaber and inadvertently became the leader of the Mandalorians.
It seems likely that he'll join Bo-Katan's mission to some degree, but the Darksaber will remain a source of tension.
We also found out that Mando isn't a typical Mandalorian. Bo-Katan revealed that he's a Child of the Watch, a "cult of religious zealots that broke away from Mandalorian society." That's why he isn't supposed to remove his helmet and reveal his face to anyone. But he gradually became more open to showing his face during the first two seasons, and admitting that to his fellow Children of the Watch -- led by the Armorer -- got him kicked out of the group.
Beloved Back to the Future actor Christopher Lloyd will also show up in a guest role (which likely means he'll be in one or two episodes), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
What's the deal with Boba Fett?
The closing shot of season 2's first episode revealed a mysterious man (Temuera Morrison) watching Mando from afar. He appears to be wearing Tusken Raider gear, and then he turns around, revealing the face of Boba Fett -- the bounty hunter who fell into the sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi.
The Mandalorian armor that Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant) was wearing in the episode was Boba's, and he tracked Mando until he could reclaim it in the season's sixth episode.
After helping Mando rescue Grogu from the Imperial Remnant in the season finale, a post-credits scene revealed Boba's next move: seizing power in Tatooine's criminal underworld, leading directly into spinoff show The Book of Boba Fett.
Morrison played bounty hunter Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones and also portrayed the clone troopers in that movie and Revenge of the Sith. Jango was recruited by Count Dooku to serve as the genetic template for the clone army used by the Galactic Republic, as part of Darth Sidious' convoluted plot to wipe out the Jedi. Part of Jango's payment was an unaltered clone that he could raise as his son -- Boba -- but the elder Fett was killed during the Battle of Geonosis.
The younger Fett was played by Daniel Logan in Attack of the Clones and The Clone Wars, but The Mandalorian takes place decades later, and a grown-up Boba would look identical to Jango.
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See all photosHowever, Boba isn't the only person with Jango's face. Even though clone troopers were designed to age at an accelerated speed, some could still be alive. The Rebels series finale revealed that Commander Rex fought in Return of the Jedi's Battle of Endor (a few years prior to the events of The Mandalorian), while Commander Wolffe survived until at least the end of Rebels (which took place years before A New Hope).
We saw a mysterious person approach assassin Fennec Shand's body on Tatooine in the final moments of the fifth episode of season 1, with Fett's trademark spur sound effect, and the sixth episode of season 2 revealed that it was indeed Boba. He saved her life, and she teamed up with him to repay the favor -- she also joined him in The Book of Boba Fett.
Fans of the Legends material (developed in novels, comics and games prior to 2014) will recall that Boba escaped the sarlacc in that continuity and went on to become the leader of Mandalore in a very different (and noncanon) post-Return of the Jedi galaxy.
Other Mandalorian spinoffs
Ahsoka Tano, the former Padawan of the late Anakin Skywalker and star of CGI animated series The Clone Wars, made her live-action debut in season 2. She's played by Rosario Dawson, whom you might remember playing Claire Temple in Netflix's Marvel shows.
Her spinoff series, Ahsoka, is coming to Disney Plus and will probably see her hunting for Grand Admiral Thrawn as it continues the story of animated series Rebels (which is set years before The Mandalorian). The Imperial villain was last seen in the Rebels finale, but we don't know why Ahsoka is after him. This show is scheduled for release in 2023, and its events will likely tie directly into future Mandalorian plotlines.
There was also Rangers of the New Republic, which fans initially speculated would feature Marshal Cara Dune, but that show isn't going to happen. In February 2021, Lucasfilm said that Gina Carano, who played Cara in the first two seasons, would no longer be in The Mandalorian or future Star Wars projects.
In May 2021, Variety reported that the show was "not currently in active development," and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy later told Empire Magazine that elements from it would likely be used in The Mandalorian instead.
What about Baby Yoda?
This little guy captured everyone's heart the moment he appeared in the first episode. We also learned that he was 50 years old and could use the Force, but we were well into season 2 before we learned anything else about him.
In that season's fifth episode, Ahsoka Tano communicated with him using the Force and discovered that his real name is Grogu. He was raised in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, before being hidden when the Empire wiped out the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith, and in the decades since, he's suppressed his powers to stay off the bad guys' radar.
The Imperial Remnant apparently wanted him so it can use his blood to create Force-strong beings. But it's unclear if this is for Moff Gideon's own ends, or if Gideon is knowingly working for the reborn Palpatine or unknowingly doing the hidden Emperor's bidding.
He went with Luke Skywalker to be trained in the ways of the Force in the season 2 finale, but he reunited with Mando in the last episode of The Book of Boba Fett.
Oh, and the most detailed version of the puppet apparently cost around $5 million.
What happened in seasons 1, 2 and The Book of Boba Fett?
You're in luck! I wrote detailed recaps of each episode that you can use to catch up:
Season 1
Chapter 1: The Mandalorian
Chapter 2: The Child
Chapter 3: The Sin
Chapter 4: Sanctuary
Chapter 5: The Gunslinger
Chapter 6: The Prisoner
Chapter 7: The Reckoning
Chapter 8: Redemption
Season 2
Chapter 9: The Marshal
Chapter 10: The Passenger
Chapter 11: The Heiress
Chapter 12: The Siege
Chapter 13: The Jedi
Chapter 14: The Tragedy
Chapter 15: The Believer
Chapter 16: The Rescue
The Book of Boba Fett
Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land
Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine
Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa
Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian
Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger
Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor
Is there a bounty of Mandalorian merch?
Merchandise hunting is a complicated hobby, but you know you want it. Since the show's debut in November 2019, a mountain of toys and other collectibles have been released. Highlights include Hasbro's six-inch Black Series and Vintage Collection.
There was a steady stream for season 2 as well, like Lego's huge Baby Yoda set, Polaroid's Mandalorian-themed instant camera and Hasbro's Black Series The Mandalorian and Grogu (Arvala-7) deluxe set.
. Lucasfilm revealed new collectibles each Monday during season 2's run -- a merchandising push known as "Mando Mondays."
One of the coolest items is probably the Force FX Elite Darksaber replica, which has a removable blade, a metallic hilt, makes excellent sound effects and comes with a lovely stand. It'll set you back around $280.
Are there any tie-in books?
If you're into the show's aesthetic, Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Szostak's The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season One and Season Two are available now.
Marvel is also adapting the first season into an eight-issue comic series that starting in July.
What's the deal with the documentary?
Season 1 got an eight-episode Disney Plus making-of series called Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. It includes interviews with the cast and crew, footage from the show's production and roundtable conversations hosted by Favreau.
The second season didn't take the episodic approach for its behind-the-scenes feature; much of the behind-the-scenes footage was all stuffed into a one-hour special instead. A special focused on the season 2 finale dropped in August 2021, revealing the digital trickery used to pull off that incredible young Luke Skywalker cameo. Director Peyton Reed also shared a photo of Mark Hamill bonding with Grogu.
What's a Mandalorian?
Mandalorians are humans from the Outer Rim world of Mandalore, its moon Concordia and the planet Kalevala, whose story was largely told in The Clone Wars and Rebels.
Their world went through major political upheaval during the Clone Wars and early days of the Galactic Empire's rule, but many of the clans united under the rule of Bo-Katan Kryze after she took control of the Darksaber. The black-bladed weapon was created more than 1,000 years earlier by Tarre Vizsla (the first Mandalorian to join the Jedi Order) and became a symbol of leadership.
Who's in the show?
Pedro Pascal (best known for playing Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones) is the bounty hunter behind the helmet: He's a lone Mandalorian gunfighter operating in the outer reaches of the galaxy.
He's joined by a star-studded cast, though a couple of these characters didn't survive:
- Gina Carano as ex-Rebel Alliance shock trooper Cara Dune
- Carl Weathers as bounty hunter boss Greef Carga
- Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon
- Omid Abtahi as Dr. Pershing
- Emily Swallow as the Mandalorian Armorer
- Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze
- Sasha Banks as Koska Reeves
- Simon Kassianides as Axe Woves
- Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano
- Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett
- Ming-Na Wen as assassin Fennec Shand
- Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Captain Carson Teva
- Bill Burr as sharpshooter Mayfield
- Natalia Tena as mercenary Xi'an
- Clancy Brown as mercenary Burg
- Julia Jones as villager Omera
- Amy Sedaris as mechanic Peli Motto
- Timothy Olyphant as marshall Cobb Vanth
- Diana Lee Inosanto as magistrate Morgan Elsbeth
- Nick Nolte as mechanic Kuiil (dead)
- Taika Waititi as assassin droid IG-11 (destroyed)
- Werner Herzog as the Imperial Client (dead)
- Richard Ayoade as droid Zero (destroyed)
- Ismael Cruz Cordova as criminal Qin (presumed dead)
- Mark Boone Jr. as Ranzar Malk (presumed dead)
- Jake Cannavale as rookie bounty hunter Toro Calican (dead)
- Michael Biehn as mercenary Lang (dead)
Who else is involved?
Directors for the first and second seasons include:
- Dave Filoni
- Rick Famuyiwa
- Deborah Chow
- Bryce Dallas Howard
- Taika Waititi
- Jon Favreau
- Carl Weathers
- Peyton Reed
- Robert Rodriguez
Favreau, Filoni, Colin Wilson and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy are the executive producers, with Karen Gilchrist as co-executive producer.
The Mandalorian is among the first projects for ILM TV, a division of Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic visual effects company. The show's soundtrack is composed by Ludwig Göransson, who scored Black Panther, Venom and Creed II. Göransson's Black Panther score won him a Grammy and an Oscar in 2019. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-mandalorian-season-3-trailer-release-date-what-we-know-about-baby-yoda-future/ | 2022-09-19 17:49:18 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-mandalorian-season-3-trailer-release-date-what-we-know-about-baby-yoda-future/ |
Clemson baseball draft tracker: Every Tiger and commit selected in 2023 MLB Draft
The 2023 MLB Draft began Sunday, and Clemson baseball saw a standout drafted in Round 2. Left-handed pitcher and first baseman Caden Grice, the No. 118 overall prospect in the draft per MLB Pipeline, was the first Tiger selected.
Two Clemson commits from the high school ranks were also selected, and more could go in the coming rounds. Rounds 3-10 begin Monday (2 p.m. ET, MLB.com), and Rounds 11-20 will be Tuesday (2 p.m. ET, MLB.com). More draft-eligible Tigers, including catcher Cooper Ingle and infielder Blake Wright, could go in the middle-to-late rounds.
Here's who's been drafted from Clemson's current and future roster.
Clemson baseball players taken in 2023 MLB Draft
LHP/1B Caden Grice
Drafted: Arizona Diamondbacks, Round 2 (#64 overall)
Slot value: $1,213,200
What to know: Grice emerged as Clemson's top weekend starter on the mound and its best power hitter at the plate this season. He led the rotation with a 3.35 ERA and struck out a team-high 101 with an opponent batting average of .196. As a hitter, Grice hit .307 and led the Tigers in home runs (18). He showed dramatic improvement over his sophomore hitting slump the year before and impressive development in his first season as a true starting pitcher. When the pick was announced at the draft, Grice was announced as a pitcher.
MORE:Clemson baseball's Caden Grice drafted 64th overall by Arizona Diamondbacks in 2023 MLB Draft
C Cooper Ingle
Drafted: Cleveland Guardians, Round 4 (#125 overall)
Slot value: $526,200
What to know: Ingle put together two strong seasons at the plate for Clemson in 2022 and 2023. As a junior this year, he was the Tigers’ third-best hitter by batting average, hitting .328. His 39 walks were second-most on the team, and he posted a .417 on-base percentage. In his sophomore and junior seasons, he walked more than he struck out. Baseball America’s scouting report for Ingle says he has “solid backup catcher potential” in the pros.
Clemson baseball commits taken in 2023 MLB Draft
OF Dillon Head
Drafted: San Diego Padres, Round 1 (#25 overall)
Slot value: $3,165,400
What to know: Illinois product Head has gained praise for his speed in the outfield and on the base paths, as well as his ability to hit the ball anywhere in the field. He committed to Michigan while Erik Bakich was there but flipped to Clemson when Bakich took over with the Tigers. As an early pick with a big slot value, Head will likely go pro rather than come to college.
INF Samuel Stafura
Drafted: Cincinnati Reds, Round 2 (#43 overall)
Slot value: $1,998,200
What to know: New York native Stafura committed to Clemson back in July 2021, when Monte Lee was still the Tigers' coach. He stayed committed when Bakich took over, but as an early pick, he'll likely opt to go pro rather than come to Clemson. Stafura is a power-hitting shortstop who batted .516 and slugged 1.107% at Panas High School this season. His strong senior season helped him climb from a projected second-to-fourth-round pick to a first-rounder. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/clemson/2023/07/10/mlb-draft-2023-clemson-baseball-prospects-caden-grice/70372890007/ | 2023-07-10 20:24:48 | 1 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/clemson/2023/07/10/mlb-draft-2023-clemson-baseball-prospects-caden-grice/70372890007/ |
TSX-V Trading Symbol: SURG
OTCQX: SRGXF
Frankfurt Trading Symbol: G6D2
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV: SURG) (OTCQX: SRGXF) (Frankfurt: G6D2) ("Surge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from its recently completed metallurgical testwork program focused on the Seel deposit, located on the Ootsa Property in central British Columbia. This testwork program was designed to advance bulk copper-molybdenum concentrate flotation parameters, confirm molybdenum recovery performance into a separate molybdenum concentrate at marketable grades, and investigate further opportunities to increase precious metal recoveries from tailings streams within the flowsheet. Surge engaged ALS Metallurgy Kamloops to complete the testwork program which ran from February 2022 to October 2022.
- Large-scale flotation testwork program utilizing a set of 4 composites made up of 2,000 kilograms of sample material representative of different rock types, grades, and volumes within the deposit
- Excellent overall molybdenum recoveries from bulk circuit feed to molybdenum concentrates of 75 to 82 percent at molybdenum concentrate grades of 47 to 52 percent, including high separation recoveries relative to bulk concentrate feed of between 90 to 97 percent
- Confirmation of robust copper and precious metal recoveries in locked cycle tests across all composites using standardized parameters resulting in copper concentrates grading between 27 to 29 percent copper, with copper recoveries ranging from 83 to 90 percent, gold recoveries ranging from 47 to 60 percent, and silver recoveries ranging 41 to 68 percent
- Confirmation of potential for additional leach recoveries of gold from tailings streams
Leif Nilsson, Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Overall, this testwork program was quite successful in that it greatly improved our understanding around some key variables, and generally advanced our knowledge on metallurgical performance for this deposit, further preparing us for future advanced economic or engineering studies. A standardized set of parameters was able to produce the desired metal recoveries and give the Surge team great confidence that the varying lithologies and grade ranges will perform in an operational scenario."
The Seel deposit forms the largest overall component of the recently updated mineral resources at Ootsa (see press release dated June 21, 2022). This testwork program utilized a set of 4 composites comprised of approximately 2,000 kilograms of sample material derived from 9 separate core holes drilled from the West Seel zone during the 2020-2021 exploration program. All of the sample material falls within the current resource estimate, with depths ranging from near-surface at 32 metres downhole depth, to deeper portions of the deposit at 528 metres downhole depth. The program builds on prior testwork programs completed between 2012 and 2014 that were focused on the East Seel zone, the West Seel zone, and the Ox deposit at Ootsa. These prior programs showed greater than 90 percent recovery of copper to a marketable concentrate in both cleaner flotation and locked-cycle flotation tests and showed positive results from 3 unoptimized copper-molybdenum separation tests. Collectively, these testwork programs provide confidence in the ability to use standard comminution and flotation flowsheets to recover copper, molybdenum, gold, and silver into marketable concentrates at robust recovery rates from the distinct mineralized zones that comprise the mineral resources at Ootsa.
In the 2022 program, samples were sent to ALS Metallurgy in Kamloops and subjected to crushing, grinding, and flotation for recovery of copper, molybdenum, gold, and silver. The first phase of the program consisted of 8 rougher flotation tests, 12 cleaner flotation tests, and 4 locked-cycle flotation tests focused on producing a bulk copper-molybdenum concentrate. The best result from this phase of the program produced approximately 90% copper recovery, with the 4 locked-cycle tests across the 4 composites averaging 87% recovery to a concentrate with an average grade of 27% copper. The finalized test parameters used a primary grind size of 125 microns with a rougher concentrate regrind to 20 microns, and 3418A as the collector. Table 1 provides a simplified summary of the test results from the bulk circuit locked-cycle tests, and Figure 1 shows an image of a bulk concentrate during a cleaner test, demonstrating the froth quality.
Following the confirmation of test parameters for bulk flotation, the composites were then processed using the developed test parameters to create a large volume of bulk concentrate for copper-molybdenum separation testing. In this second phase of the program, 8 copper-molybdenum separation cleaner tests were run using a variety of test parameters with the final 4 separation cleaner tests run under final conditions across each of the composites. Results for separation testing found high recoveries to molybdenum concentrates with molybdenum grades approaching or exceeding 50% and considered saleable. The best result demonstrated a molybdenum recovery relative to the bulk concentrate feed of 97% to a concentrate grading 47% molybdenum, with an average recovery relative to bulk concentrate feed across all 4 composites of 93% into concentrates with an average molybdenum grade of 50%. Table 2 provides a simplified summary of the test results showing the characteristics of the separate molybdenum and copper concentrates. Over the course of the program, the various tests produced a total of 5.6 kilograms of copper concentrate and 284 grams of molybdenum concentrate.
The test program also included various tests to indicate whether additional gold and silver recoveries could be made. Additional testing was completed on several samples of a flotation pyrite rougher concentrate mixed with a first cleaner tails of the copper flotation process of the respective composites. A standardized set of test parameters that included a re-grind stage, pre-aeration and oxygen sparging was then run on leach composites made from each main composite. Final leach results showed promise with gold recoveries relative to the leach composite feed of up to 87 percent from the leach composite constructed from test Composite 3. Results showed average gold recoveries relative to leach composite feed of 75 percent from all leach composites. Additional studies will be required to evaluate the economic recovery of adding such a system to the overall flow sheet that takes into account reagent and operating costs being offset by additional recoveries.
The Company anticipates updating the market on results from the following activities:
- Drill results from 2022 regional exploration program
- Berg project updates
This metallurgical testwork has been undertaken at ALS Metallurgy Kamloops which conforms to ISO 9001:2015. The laboratory also conducts internal QC checks to ensure data is reported accurately. The analytical lab voluntarily partakes in the Proficiency Testing Program for Mineral Analysis laboratories (PTP-MAL). Samples of half core were delivered and, following some comminution testing, were stage-crushed to -6 mesh (3.35 mm), homogenized into composites, and rotary split into test charges. Head samples were split from each of the sub-samples for assay. Each of the master composites has been analyzed by standard analytical techniques. Mineralogical analysis was conducted by QEMSCAN.
Dr. Shane Ebert P.Geo., is the Qualified Person for the Ootsa and Berg projects as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has approved the technical disclosure contained in this news release.
Mark Wheeler, P.Eng., VP of Projects at the Company as well as a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has supervised the preparation of the technical information in this news release.
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Ootsa Property, an advanced stage exploration project containing the East Seel, West Seel and Ox porphyry deposits located adjacent to the open pit Huckleberry Copper Mine, owned by Imperial Metals. The Ootsa Property contains pit constrained NI 43-101 compliant resources of copper, gold, molybdenum, and silver in the Measured and Indicated categories.
The Company is also earning into a 70% interest in the Berg Property from Centerra Gold. Berg is a large, advanced stage exploration project located 28 km northwest of the Ootsa deposits. Berg contains pit constrained 43-101 compliant resources of copper, molybdenum, and silver in the Measured and Indicated categories. Combined, the adjacent Ootsa and Berg properties give Surge a dominant land position in the Ootsa-Huckleberry-Berg district and control over four advanced porphyry deposits.
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"Leif Nilsson"
Chief Executive Officer
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This News Release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will", "may", "should", "expects", "plans", or "anticipates" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, are forward looking statements, including but not limited to the Company's plans regarding the Berg Property and the Ootsa Property. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking-statements. Such uncertainties and risks may include, among others, actual results of the Company's exploration activities being different than those expected by management, delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required government or other regulatory approvals, the ability to obtain adequate financing to conduct its planned exploration programs, inability to procure labour, equipment and supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis, equipment breakdown, impacts of the current coronavirus pandemic, and bad weather. While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith, and reflect the Company's current judgment regarding the direction of its business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions, or other future performance suggestions herein. Except as required by applicable law, the Company does not intend to update any forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Nuggets vs. Lakers Western Conference Finals Game 2 on May 18, 2023
You can wager on player prop bet odds for Nikola Jokic, Anthony Davis and others on the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers heading into their matchup at 8:30 PM ET on Thursday at Ball Arena.
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Nuggets vs. Lakers Game Info
- Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Ball Arena
NBA Props Today: Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic Props
- Thursday's over/under for Jokic is 28.5 points. That's 4.0 more than his season average of 24.5.
- Jokic has averaged 11.8 rebounds per game, 1.7 less than his prop bet in Thursday's game (13.5).
- Jokic has averaged 9.8 assists per game this season, 0.7 less than his prop bet on Thursday (10.5).
- Jokic's 0.8 made three-pointers per game is 0.7 fewer than his over/under in Thursday's game (1.5).
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Jamal Murray Props
- Jamal Murray is putting up 20 points per game this season, 5.5 fewer than his points prop on Thursday.
- He collects 3.9 rebounds per game, 0.6 fewer than his prop bet on Thursday.
- Murray averages 6.2 assists, 0.7 more than Thursday's prop bet (5.5).
- He makes 2.6 three-pointers per game, 0.1 more than his over/under on Thursday (2.5).
Aaron Gordon Props
- Aaron Gordon is averaging 16.3 points during the 2022-23 season, 2.8 higher than Thursday's prop total.
- Gordon has grabbed 6.6 boards per game, 1.1 more than his over/under for Thursday's game.
- Gordon averages three assists, 0.5 more than his over/under for Thursday.
- Gordon has connected on 0.9 three-pointers per game, which is more than his over/under on Thursday (0.5).
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NBA Props Today: Los Angeles Lakers
Anthony Davis Props
- The 25.9 points Davis scores per game are 1.4 more than his prop total on Thursday.
- Davis averages the same number of rebounds as his over/under for Thursday's game (12.5).
- Davis averages 2.6 assists, 0.1 more than Thursday's over/under.
- Davis averages 0.3 made three-pointers, which is less than his over/under on Thursday (0.5).
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LeBron James Props
- The 25.5-point total set for LeBron James on Thursday is 3.4 fewer points than his per-game scoring average.
- James has averaged 1.2 fewer rebounds per game (8.3) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (9.5).
- James has averaged 6.8 assists per game this season, 0.3 more than his prop bet for Thursday (6.5).
- James has averaged 2.2 made three-pointers per game, 0.3 less than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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The House Select January 6 Committee has released its final report. It comes after an 18-month investigation into the events which culminated in the insurrection at the Capitol in 2021. In more than 800 pages, the report details what led the panel to vote to issue four criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump, among other recommendations. And it lays out a path forward for the panel's findings. Here's Chairman Bennie Thompson.
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BENNIE THOMPSON: We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a roadmap to justice and that the agencies and institutions responsible for ensuring justice under the law will use the information we've provided to aid in their work.
FADEL: To walk us through all of this is NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales. Hi, Claudia.
CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: Good morning, Leila.
FADEL: Good morning. So what are some of the report's major findings?
GRISALES: It focuses largely on former President Trump's premeditated role in the January 6 attack and goes further into his criminal referrals from the committee. The report is eight chapters long, covering false claims of a stolen election, the fake electors scheme, and, quote, "187 minutes of dereliction," referencing Trump's inaction during the siege. One chapter is titled after a federal judge's description of Trump's post-2020 election efforts, calling it a, quote, "coup in search of a legal theory," and captures desperate attempts to overturn the presidential result, such as trying to force then-Vice President Mike Pence to illegally reverse President Biden's win in a ceremonial counting of the vote. Finally, it details ties between extremist groups and Trump allies.
FADEL: So how does the report delve into law enforcement and intelligence failures?
GRISALES: It reiterates other findings, that there were significant failures here. For example, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, said before January 6, the probability for violence was clear, and he expected, quote, "street fights when the sun went down."
FADEL: What role does the American public play when it comes to these findings?
GRISALES: The panel says while the danger to the Capitol by an armed and angry crowd was foreseeable, the fact that a president would be the catalyst was unprecedented. The report says, quote, "If we lacked the imagination that a president would incite an attack on his own government," it goes on to say, "we lack that insight no more." And it says the best defense against that danger in the future will not come from law enforcement, but rather an informed and active citizenry.
FADEL: OK, so what recommendations does the report lay out?
GRISALES: The first is reforms to the Electoral Count Act. This would solidify a vice president's role as ceremonial, and this is part of a major spending bill that could head to President Biden's desk today. It also says it's now up to the Justice Department and courts to take the lead on criminal referrals and that respective legal bar associations should evaluate the conduct of attorneys named in the report who should not, quote, "undermine the constitutional and statutory process for peacefully transferring power in our government." This includes attorney John Eastman, who was tied to the plot to overturn the result, Kenneth Chesebro, a central figure in the fake elector scheme, and other Trump-aligned attorneys such as Rudy Giuliani.
FADEL: OK, so, Claudia, now that this investigation is done, the report is out, what are the next steps?
GRISALES: There are still more records to come and plenty. For example, a few dozen witness transcripts have been shared so far by the panel, but hundreds more are expected in the coming days, as the panel will sunset December 31.
FADEL: NPR's Claudia Grisales, thank you so much.
GRISALES: Thank you much.
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FADEL: American forces brought tens of thousands of Afghans to the U.S. after the Taliban takeover in 2021. But the majority still don't have legal status here. A bipartisan bill in Congress to fix that was blocked by immigration hard-liners this week. We're joined now by NPR's Quil Lawrence, who has been following this story. Good morning, Quil.
QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Hey, good morning, Leila.
FADEL: So I understand you spoke with one prominent Afghanistan war veteran about this, Jack McCain, son of the late Senator John McCain.
LAWRENCE: Right, yeah. And McCain is a - he's a fairly private person, but he's been out in the public on this issue. He's a Navy pilot. He went to Afghanistan in 2018 on a mission to train Afghan pilots to fly American-made Black Hawk helicopters. And while he was there, he kept a very low profile for his own safety and the safety of everyone around him as a well-known figure. So in August of that year, though, he went home for five days for his father, John - Senator John McCain's funeral. And then the secret was out. And McCain - Jack McCain, the younger McCain - says that the danger was very clear.
JACK MCCAIN: If one of them had wanted to make a high-profile target out of me, they could have. It would have been extremely easy. I believe that they protected me or at least kept the secret. I can't overstate how important that is to me.
LAWRENCE: You know, so he got very close to these Afghan Black Hawk pilots; on the next eight months left on his deployment, trained up dozens of them to fly the chopper. And he said he saw those pilots rescue Afghan and American troops under fire in ways that were worthy of the highest combat medals.
FADEL: Worthy of the highest combat medals. So what's happened to these pilots just three years later when the Taliban took over Afghanistan?
LAWRENCE: Well, they kept flying missions, some of them even after Kabul fell, trying to help the resistance. But it was seen as very important to bring them in. They and their helicopters then were very high-value targets to the Taliban. And so McCain and others were part of this massive digital Dunkirk trying to get everybody out. About 120,000 people were airlifted out of Kabul during those two weeks in August of 2021.
FADEL: Yeah. And many of them were flown to bases in the U.S. But almost a year and a half later, their status isn't clear. Right?
LAWRENCE: Right. I mean, many - most of them are here on an emergency immigration status that will probably run out sometime next year.
FADEL: OK.
LAWRENCE: There was a bill in Congress this week called the Afghan Adjustment Act to help them normalize their immigration status. But it had bipartisan support. It had a growing list of former generals and ambassadors supporting it and a yearlong campaign by Afghanistan veterans. But it was blocked by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley because of concerns about security vetting of these Afghans. And so now they're in limbo. I spoke with one of the pilots that Jack McCain says helped keep him safe in Afghanistan. The pilot's name is Colonel Salim Faqiri. He put it this way.
SALIM FAQIRI: All the people, they come during the evacuations, and they don't know what will happen to them. The U.S. government - will they turn them back to the - for the Taliban? But everybody's waiting for the Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment.
LAWRENCE: Faqiri himself is in Phoenix right now. He's with his wife and three daughters. He has another reason to want the act to pass because it would actually help him get a green card so that he and all these other pilots can fly helicopters again, which is what the U.S. trained them to do.
FADEL: So he said everybody's waiting for Congress. Does the bill have a chance in the next Congress?
LAWRENCE: It probably will have a harder time getting through the Republican-controlled House, but it's not a strictly party-line vote. And many Republicans, especially Republicans who served at war, did support this bill.
FADEL: NPR's Quil Lawrence, thanks so much.
LAWRENCE: Thanks, Leila.
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FADEL: For nearly three years, China used extremely strict testing and lockdown policies to keep COVID out. Then it abruptly lifted nearly all those controls as a COVID surge spread across the country. Public health experts are warning the country's health care system could now be overwhelmed. NPR's Emily Feng joins us to talk about the outbreak. Good morning, Emily.
EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Good morning.
FADEL: So, Emily, what are things like right now in China? Has the health care system been able to keep up with this surge?
FENG: So far it appears, yes, but barely. And that's because the surge in China is forecast to get way worse this month and into January. Anecdotally, everyone I know in Beijing has basically come down with COVID already in the last month, and it's spreading to other cities. A Shanghai hospital warned this week that half of the city's population - that's about 12.5 million people - could be infected by just the end of next week. There are long lines already outside of funeral homes and crematoria that we visited in Beijing. Crematoria are telling us that their waiting list is now more than one week, which is unusual. Pharmacies in the countryside have been emptied of fever and pain medication. But the good news is that outside fever clinics and hospitals in Beijing that we visited this week is pretty busy, but it's actually pretty orderly. Unfortunately, we've seen in other pandemics that there's usually a lag of about a month after initial outbreak before we really start to see an increase in deaths and severe cases. And in China, that's supposed to happen in January.
FADEL: So what are public health experts saying about how bad it could get?
FENG: Their predictions vary widely, but they're all pretty devastating. There was one model last week from the University of Hong Kong that estimates up to nearly 1 million people will die if China doesn't mount a new vaccine booster campaign. And then this month, the U.S.'s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts up to half a million deaths just by April if China doesn't have new travel and mask mandates. And the reason why they vary so widely is a model is only as good as the data that you put into it, and right now, there's no accurate data from China on infections. In fact, the WHO said this week that China has not released hospital data since early this month on who is coming in with COVID. For this, I talked to Ray Yip. He's an epidemiologist who founded the U.S. CDC office in China in 2003 and more recently the China office for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
RAY YIP: They're going to do the same thing what they did in Wuhan. In Wuhan, unless you have a confirmed PCR test, they're not going to call you a case of COVID in the beginning. So that's why the number of deaths in Wuhan was only 4,000. I'm sure it's at least four or five times that much. And what's happening in China right now - the death rate is probably, you know, in the thousands and every day. But they are only willing to report, you know, a small handful.
FENG: He's referring here to the extremely strict standards that China uses to determine who dies of COVID - so strict, in fact, that officially only two people have died in this latest surge, which just does not match up with what people are going through on the ground.
FADEL: So where does China go from here?
FENG: Well, it can only get worse because the real concern now is holiday travel. China has its Lunar New Year in late January, but people are already traveling home now for the holiday, and they're bringing the virus with them from cities to villages where the health care system is even patchier. But in China, the trend is still towards rapid, full-scale opening up. In fact, some cities, like Chengdu, for example, are already reducing their quarantine requirements for inbound travelers coming from other countries. This was just simply unthinkable about a month ago when China was in the full throttle of zero-COVID.
FADEL: That's NPR's Emily Feng. Thank you, Emily.
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Man in hospital after being struck by car on Mt. Rushmore Rd.
Published: Jan. 14, 2023 at 9:03 PM CST
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A man was transported to the hospital Saturday night after being hit by a car on Mount Rushmore Rd.
The incident occurred around 6:30 PM near the intersection on Mount Rushmore and Cleveland St.
Police say a man was walking without the use of a crosswalk, and was struck, but obtained non-life-threatening injuries.
The RCPD spoke with witnesses at the scene, and have reason to believe the man crossing the street may have been intoxicated.
They say there’s no evidence the driver was impaired.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
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The first three buildings at Lou Pektor's River Pointe Logistics project were deemed not consistent with the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's regional plan on Thursday.
The LVPC, a regional planning agency, reviews big developments in Northampton County to see if they conform to its FutureLV standards. At the suggestion of Commissioner Charles Elliott, LVPC staff recommendations for each of the three buildings will note that they are inconsistent with the regional plan.
That wording has no actual effect. The LVPC is an advisory body that does not approve or block development. Final decisions on land use will be made in Upper Mount Bethel Township, where Pektor is developing his 800-acre, 12-building industrial park.
Pektor owns the land and it is zoned for industrial use, and as UMBT Supervisor Martin Pinter said in 2020, "We can't stop Lou from building."
The three buildings discussed at Thursday's LVPC meeting will cover 1.9 million square feet, close to a third of the total planned development.
Pektor contends that the development, known as RPL, will bring in thousands of jobs and generate millions of dollars in tax revenue for the township, Northampton County and the Bangor Area School District. Opponents say it will bring in traffic, pollution and noise, changing their rural way of life.
RPL is on the eastern edge of the township, just off the Delaware River and near the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, providing access to Interstate 80 in New Jersey and New York City-area markets.
The potential for warehouses has been used to attack RPL, but Pektor says the land's location and access to rail service make it too valuable for distribution centers. He has said he plans to bring in food processors and other manufacturers.
The LVPC objections came down to the size of RPL, although supporters say it will cover just 3% of the township's 44 square miles.
Despite the "inconsistent" ruling, the commission finds some good things in RPL.
The development "has the potential to provide numerous economic benefits to the Township and Lehigh Valley, including jobs and tax revenues." Then the report notes, "However, the size and scale of the project significantly surpasses any existing development and infrastructure in the surrounding area."
The LVPC staff review went on to raise issues of traffic and a lack of housing for workers in the immediate area, leading to lots of commuting from Monroe County in Pennsylvania and Warren County, across the river in New Jersey. The commission report estimates RPL will generate 15,475 passenger-car trips and 3,015 truck trips on a typical weekday.
It is, as the staff report notes, "The largest development the Lehigh Valley has seen in recent memory." RPL is in the northeastern corner of the region.
The LVPC also noted that "The potential for this development to pay for itself now or in the future is questionable," a point that was disputed by Lou Pektor's daughter Lisa Pektor, who is project manager for RPL.
She pointed out that River Pointe includes an assessment on buildings that will fund emergency services and more in the township, compensating for a tax break granted to RPL by Northampton County.
LVPC Executive Director Becky Bradley said the commission does not consider taxing issues when reviewing plans.
Lisa Pektor also said that RPL is in talks with the Norfolk Southern Railroad about a rail bridge that the LVPC says may be too low for trucks.
"We know that some improvements do need to be made there," she said, adding that the bridge is not as low as indicated in the LVPC report.
Lou Pektor said that while RPL will have one major entrance, it will have four emergency access roads.
The LVPC consists of a professional staff that reviews plans, and 37 commissioners appointed by Lehigh and Northampton counties. The commissioners go over staff recommendations, sometimes alter them, and then vote on approving them.
Recommendations are then sent to municipalities and developers. Final land-use decisions are made by each municipality. The LVPC does not approve or reject developments.
The commission's next meeting will be Thursday, June 22, at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually. The agenda and a link to the webcast will be posted on the LVPC website. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/3-river-pointe-logistics-buildings-inconsistent-with-regional-plan-lvpc-says/article_e9e9ad20-fb6e-11ed-8510-430882e6128b.html | 2023-05-26 03:51:18 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/3-river-pointe-logistics-buildings-inconsistent-with-regional-plan-lvpc-says/article_e9e9ad20-fb6e-11ed-8510-430882e6128b.html |
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PARIS (AP) — Quite a trip to Paris in the springtime for 18-year-old American Coco Gauff: She celebrated graduating from high school — an achievement saluted via social media by former first lady Michelle Obama — and now is into the French Open quarterfinals for the second consecutive year.
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Learning as she goes, Gauff took control of a tight opening set against No. 31 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium on Sunday and grabbed the last eight games to pull away for a 6-4, 6-0 victory in the fourth round at Roland Garros.
“You’re never going to play your best tennis in a Slam every moment of the match, but I think I’m getting better and better,” said Gauff, who is seeded 18th at the clay-court major tournament, “and I think, mentally, I can’t ask for much more from myself in each match.”
Next up will be a match against Sloane Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion and 2018 French Open runner-up, or No. 23 seed Jil Teichmann of Switzerland.
The other quarterfinal on the bottom half of the draw will be a meeting between left-handers: No. 17 Leylah Fernandez, a 19-year-old Canadian who reached the final at last year's U.S. Open, against 59th-ranked Martina Trevisan of Italy, who also got to the quarterfinals in Paris two years ago.
Fernandez compiled more than twice as many winners, 35, as unforced errors, 17, and broke serve a half-dozen times to beat 20-year-old American Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 on a chilly, windy day. Trevisan grabbed the last four games and eliminated Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-6 (10), 7-5.
“Every time I step out on the court, I still have something to prove,” said Fernandez, who was ranked only 73rd last September when she beat four-time major champion Naomi Osaka on the way to being the runner-up to Emma Raducanu at Flushing Meadows. “I still have that mindset I’m the underdog. I’m still young.”
Gauff, of course, is even younger.
A 2021, she was the youngest French Open quarterfinalist in 15 years, but frittered away five set points in the opener of a loss to eventual champion Barbora Krejcikova.
That stuck with her Sunday, when she was in a back-and-forth first set against Mertens that was 4-all before Gauff got going. Afterward, she praised herself for staying calm in the moment.
“That was the biggest lesson I learned last year in my quarterfinal match. I had a couple set points and I think I freaked out when some of those points didn’t go my way,” said Gauff, who delivered one around-the-net-post backhand on the run, but ultimately lost that exchange. “Today, I didn’t freak out when a couple of those important points didn’t go my way.”
Gauff burst onto the scene at Wimbledon in 2019 when she was 15 by becoming the youngest — yes, there's that word again — qualifier in tournament history, beating Venus Williams in the first round of the main draw and getting all the way to the fourth.
Other Week 2 runs at major tournaments have followed, although she's prouder of her success with schoolwork. She posted a series of pictures on Instagram of herself wearing her cap and gown and holding a diploma, the Eiffel Tower in the background.
A response from Obama, whom Gauff has met, was a nice surprise.
“I’m super thankful for that message. ... What really meant a lot: It wasn’t about the tennis, it was about my education,” Gauff said. “So I think that meant more to me.”
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House to vote on same-sex marriage, abortion rights, contraceptive coverage over SCOTUS concerns
The House vote will put all Democrats and Republicans on record
The Democratic majority in Congress is planning a series of votes this week on several key judiciary items, including a vote to legalize abortion access, keep same-sex marriage legal, and secure contraceptive services.
The votes are seen as a direct response to a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court voting to overturn Roe v. Wade — which recognized constitutionally protected abortion rights — in its decision in Hobbs vs. Jackson Health Center, which returned the legality of abortion to the states.
"As this Court may take aim at other fundamental rights, we cannot sit idly by," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, in a statement announcing the votes.
The votes are also seen as a response to Justice Clarence Thomas, who brought the legality of same-sex marriage into question in his concurring opinion in the Hobbs case.
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Justice Samuel Alito clarified in the majority decision that "the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion" but the Hobbs decision "concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right."
A vote scheduled for Tuesday on the Respect for Marriage Act, which amends the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, will put all Democrats and Republicans on record regarding same-sex marriage.
JUSTICE THOMAS RISES: A MONUMENTAL SUPREME COURT TERM'S RIGHTWARD SHIFT SHOWS NO SIGN OF SLOWING
The decades-old bill, signed into law by former President Bill Clinton, defined marriage as a heterogeneous relationship between a man and woman. The Supreme Court changed this definition in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, but now the House wants the change codified into law.
The Respect for Marriage Act also provides legal protections for other marriages as it prevents states from denying marriage licenses on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity or national origin.
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A vote on contraceptive care is scheduled for later this week.
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LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — One man is behind bars and more arrests are expected after Lafayette Police say they caught a man stealing as much as $600,000 in checks from U.S. Postal Service boxes in the Lafayette area.
Beau Alexander LaFleur, 28, faces 19 counts of monetary instrument abuse, 15 counts of theft, 14 counts of forgery, two counts of identity theft, one count of bank fraud and one count of illegal carrying of a weapon. No bond was listed as of the time of this release.
Lafayette Police Sgt. Robin Green said the arrest comes after a three-month investigation. Earlier this morning, May 26, Green said detectives “conducted an operation” on Coolidge St. near Travis St. based on several thefts of mail from Postal Service drop boxes.
Green said officers made a traffic stop on LaFleur’s vehicle and found “several pieces of mail” which police believe he stole from Postal Service drop boxes. LaFleur was found in possession of a US Postal key, said Green.
“The investigation is still on-going and detectives are expecting more victims to come forward and additional arrests,” said Green. “If anyone thinks that they may have been a victim of fraud they are urged to contact Lafayette Police Department. We want the community to know that the thefts are occurring only from the blue United States Postal drop boxes, not individuals’ mail boxes.” | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/louisiana-man-arrested-after-allegedly-stealing-600k-of-checks-from-u-s-mail/ | 2022-05-30 15:35:33 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/louisiana-man-arrested-after-allegedly-stealing-600k-of-checks-from-u-s-mail/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — In many cities, no one knows where the lead pipes lie underground. That’s important because lead pipes contaminate drinking water. After the lead crisis in Flint, officials in Michigan accelerated efforts to locate their pipes, a first step toward removal.
But other places are moving more slowly.
That means as billions of dollars in new federal funding becomes available to address the problem, some places are in a better position than others to quickly apply for funds and start digging.
Those that wait are at risk of being left behind.
“The issue right now is we want to reduce the time that vulnerable folks are living with lead exposure,” said Eric Schwartz, co-CEO of BlueConduit, which uses computer modeling to help communities predict where their lead pipes are.
In Iowa, for example, only a handful of cities have located their lead water lines and so far only one – Dubuque – has asked for newly-available federal funds to remove them. State officials still expressed confidence they will find their lead lines by the federal government’s 2024 deadline and communities will have time to apply for funds.
Lead in the body can lower IQ, stunt development and cause behavior problems in children. Lead pipes can leach into drinking water. Removing them eliminates the threat.
There are millions of lead pipes in the ground, installed decades ago, that carry tap water to homes and businesses. They are concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast but are present across much of the country. Scattershot record keeping means many cities don’t know which of their water pipes are made of lead versus PVC or copper.
Some places like Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin, have managed to remove theirs. But it’s an expensive problem and historically there’s been little federal funding to address it.
“The lack of resources has been a huge issue,” said Radhika Fox, head of the Environmental Protection Agency office of water.
President Joe Biden signed an infrastructure bill last year that finally provided a big boost, allocating $15 billion over five years to assist communities with lead pipes. It’s not enough to solve the problem, but will help.
Communities that avoid the issue or wait too long may not be eligible.
“If you don’t get your act together and you don’t submit an application, you’re not going to get the money,” said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Local officials can start replacement work before they complete a detailed inventory, but it helps to have an estimate of where lead pipes are, said Eric Oswald, director of Michigan’s drinking water division.
“We need to know that they have identified the lead service lines before we’re going to fund the removal process,” he said.
SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL
Lead pipes have caused harm for decades. In recent years, residents in Newark, New Jersey, and Benton Harbor, Michigan, were forced to use bottled water for basic needs like cooking and drinking, after tests revealed elevated levels of lead. Flint, a majority-Black community where officials initially denied there were lead problems, focused national attention on the health crisis. Public trust in tap water fell afterwards, especially in Black and Hispanic communities.
Sri Vedachalam, director of water equity and climate resilience at Environmental Consulting & Technology Inc., said he hopes communities are replacing pipes for residents’ benefit.
“But realistically, if it is to avoid embarrassment, that’s still a win,” he said.
There is some indication that embarrassment has been a motivator. Michigan and New Jersey passed tough measures to combat lead in drinking water, including speeding up the mapping process, after downplaying high lead levels. But things are moving more slowly in some other states like Iowa and Missouri that haven’t experienced similar headline-grabbing crises.
Earlier in August, the EPA instructed communities how to document their pipes. Money will flow according to the needs of each state, Fox said. There is technical assistance available and also easier terms for disadvantaged communities.
Water testing in Hamtramck, a city of nearly 30,000 surrounded by Detroit, has periodically revealed worrisome levels of lead. The city assumes most of its pipes are made of the problem metal and work is underway to replace them.
“We’ve been doing street after street,” said city manager Max Garbarino.
Pipe replacement is so sought after in Michigan that communities have applied for more funds than will be immediately available.
EQUITY CONCERNS
EPA distributed early funds using a formula that doesn’t consider the number of lead pipes in each state. So some states received far more money per lead pipe than others. The agency is working to correct that for future years. Michigan is hopeful that if states don’t spend their money, it will eventually flow to them.
Schwartz of BlueConduit said officials should be sure not to skip pipe inspections in poor neighborhoods, to ensure inventories are accurate. Otherwise if there is better documentation in wealthy areas, they might receive replacement funding more quickly even if they don’t need it as much.
Dubuque, a city of about 58,000 on the Mississippi River, wants more than $48 million to replace roughly 5,500 of its pipes that contain lead. Mapping work started years ago and previous officials ensured that it was properly updated, anticipating it would one day be a federal requirement. They were right.
Christopher Lester, manager of the city’s water department, said those past efforts made applying for funds easy.
“We’re fortunate to have the inventory developed. We don’t need to try and play catch up,” Lester said.
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Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with its findings in a hearing next week, launching into what lawmakers hope will be one the most consequential oversight efforts in American history.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with its findings in a prime-time hearing this week, the start of what lawmakers hope will be a high-profile airing of the causes and consequences of the domestic attack on the U.S. government.
Lawmakers plan to hold a series of hearings in June that they promise will lay out, step-by-step, how former President Donald Trump and his allies worked feverishly to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, spreading lies about widespread voter fraud — widely debunked by judges and his own administration — that fueled a violent assault on the seat of democracy.
The six hearings, set to begin June 9 and expected to last until late June, will be the first time the committee discloses “previously unseen material” about what it has discovered in the course of a sprawling 10-month investigation that has touched nearly every aspect of the insurrection.
The committee, which has called Jan. 6 “one of the darkest days of our democracy,” was formed in the aftermath to “investigate the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.”
Unlike any other congressional committee in recent times, the panel’s work has been both highly anticipated by Democrats and routinely criticized by Trump and the former president’s allies, including some Republicans in Congress, who complain it is partisan.
More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only brief snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings. The hearings are expected to showcase a series of witnesses but the committee has not yet publicly released the names.
The investigation has focused on every aspect of the insurrection, including the efforts by Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol Police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves.
The hearings are expected to be exhaustive, but not the final word from the committee, which plans to released subsequent reports on its findings, including recommendations on legislative reforms, ahead of the midterm elections. | https://www.postregister.com/news/government/jan-6-committee-sets-prime-time-hearing-date-for-findings/article_19ecb04a-8214-5c1f-8a12-b086e3d567c3.html | 2022-06-05 09:06:31 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/government/jan-6-committee-sets-prime-time-hearing-date-for-findings/article_19ecb04a-8214-5c1f-8a12-b086e3d567c3.html |
A nonprofit in Billings has used donations to bring awareness to the problem of missing indigenous people in Montana, and now they're directing donors to head online and give through their new GoFundMe account.
It's been six years since Freman Bends mysteriously disappeared in the Lodge Grass area before he was found dead in a ditch, and his sister Daphne Bends is still haunted by it.
“He called me the evening and told me to pick him up, and I never did," Daphne told MTN Tuesday morning. "And that’s the day he went missing. He was our protector. He was a good guy, hardworking, and very friendly to a lot of people."
Freman was 38 years old when he died. He left behind seven children, including Cara Oldcrow, who was only 18 years old at the time of his death.
“My dad in general was a really nice guy," Oldcrow said. "He got along with everybody. He was someone you could go to who you knew would have your back."
As shocking as Freman's story may seem, many members of Montana's indigenous communities have similar stories. It's because of these cases that Charlene Sleeper created Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, or MMIP, in 2019.
“The first case that I worked was Henny Scott, who was a 14-year-old Northern Cheyenne victim that unfortunately passed away," Sleeper said. "I believe it was that particular case that catalyzed my own passion of addressing the overall MMIP crisis."
MMIP focuses on raising awareness and honoring those who have been lost. Sleeper is Crow and said providing this service to her people is an honor.
“Our people have been here for a millennia, so to be able to be in our homelands and create this option to heal is special," Sleeper said. "It’s crucially important in order to continue building and rebuilding our culture here."
The program runs completely on donations and recently established the GoFundMe page to try and make that process easier for those that want to support the cause.
“The GoFundMe itself is for people that are interested in supporting our work," Sleeper said. "So, it’s for community members or any kind of organizations that want to do a monetary donation."
And for the Bends family, it's certainly made an impact.
“We feel a sense of comfort with them helping us through our tragic, horrific experience,” Daphne said. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/billings-based-missing-indigenous-peoples-nonprofit-creates-gofundme-to-boost-donations | 2022-12-07 18:39:01 | 0 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/billings-based-missing-indigenous-peoples-nonprofit-creates-gofundme-to-boost-donations |
SV Health Investors leads round for rapidly expanding telehealth provider
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ria Health, a leading telehealth provider specializing in alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, today announced the closing of $18 million in Series A funding led by SV Health Investors, LLC ("SV"). SV limited partner, BPEA Private Equity, and current Ria Health investor, SOSV, participated in the financing. The announcement comes on the heels of commercial partnerships with regional and national health plans, including Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealth Group Optum, Beacon Health Options, Highmark Health, and Magellan Health, among others.
Ria Health will utilize funds to expand care delivery to meet demand for AUD treatment from health plans, multi-state employers, Taft-Hartley plans, and healthcare providers. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, misuse of alcohol has increased sharply, with recent studies indicating that excessive drinking among U.S. adults is up more than 35 percent.
"More than 1 in 10 adults struggle with alcohol use disorder, and for the past 40 years the one-size-fits-all approach to multi-addiction treatment has yielded poor results," said Tom Nix, CEO of Ria Health. "Ria Health's mission is to increase access to our clinically effective, evidenced-based treatment that meets the preferences of people who have AUD and removes the barriers of stigma, cost, and inconvenience."
Ria Health has been providing a comprehensive telehealth alcohol treatment program since 2016. The Company was the first AUD provider to receive The Joint Commission accreditation based on providing evidence-based treatment protocols and clinical quality measured by patient outcomes. Ria Health's expert providers empower their patients to set personalized goals, which may focus on clinically-measured reduction of alcohol misuse rather than abstinence. Patients utilize a combination of one-on-one coaching, medical support, digitally connected breathalyzers, and physician prescribed medications to systematically reduce the adverse impacts of AUD and treat co-occurring mental illness.
Ria Health patient outcomes show that within 30 days, 70% of patients reduce their World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking level, and over 12 months, more than 80% of patients reduce their WHO risk drinking level. In addition, studies show that patients who subsequently reduce their WHO risk drinking level report clinically significant improvements in how they feel and function. These improvements include a lower risk for alcohol dependence, less severe alcohol-related consequences, reduced health care costs, improved mental health, improved quality of life, improved liver function, and lower systolic blood pressure.
"As drinking rose dramatically during the pandemic, Ria Health's talented founders and management team led the way with innovative treatment of alcohol use disorder by combining pharmacological and behavioral support," said Michael Balmuth, Managing Partner at SV, who has joined the Ria Health board. "Ria Health's clinical approach and high-quality outcomes will continue to transform the substance use treatment industry."
Over their lifetime, 1 in 10 adults will struggle with alcohol use disorder, the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. At Ria Health, we envision a world with accessible, effective, and compassionate treatment for people who suffer from alcohol misuse. Ria Health is the first evidence-based telehealth treatment program for people who want to drink less and live better by changing their relationship with alcohol. We combine medical science, technology, and human compassion to help people rapidly improve their lives with a simple, online alcohol treatment program that works. For more information, visit riahealth.com.
SV Health Investors is a growth equity and venture capital firm dedicated to investments in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Founded in 1993 with offices in Boston and London, SV has approximately $2.7B in assets under management across multiple investment strategies. SV's dedicated healthcare growth fund – SV7 Growth Fund – seeks to partner with experienced management teams to accelerate the success of innovative healthcare companies across tech-enabled healthcare services, medical products, and digital health. SV combines decades of healthcare transaction and operating experience to drive long-term value creation and realize the triple aim of healthcare – higher quality care, accessible to more patients, at a lower cost. For more information, please visit www.svhealthinvestors.com.
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LONDON — Thousands of mourners lined up through the night to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in Parliament’s Westminster Hall on Thursday, as King Charles III spent a day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne.
“I’m glad there was a queue because that gave us time to see what was ahead of us, prepared us and absorbed the whole atmosphere,” said health care professional Nimisha Maroo. “I wouldn’t have liked it if I’d had to just rush through.”
After a day of high ceremony and high emotion as the queen was borne in somber procession from Buckingham Palace, the king was spending the day in “private reflection” at his Highgrove residence in western England. Charles has had calls with U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron and is speaking to a host of world leaders — many of whom will come to London on Monday for the queen’s funeral.
Heir to the throne Prince William and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, will visit the royal family’s Sandringham estate in eastern England to see some of the tributes left by well-wishers.
On Wednesday the queen left Buckingham Palace for the last time, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall.
Charles, his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and her crown resting on a purple velvet pillow.
The military procession underscored Elizabeth’s seven decades as head of state as the national mourning process shifted to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.
The 900-year-old Westminster Hall is now the focus of events, as the queen lies in state until Monday. Thousands have already paid their respects, filing past the casket draped with the royal standard and topped with a diamond-encrusted crown.
People old and young, dressed in dark suits or jeans and sneakers, walked in a steady stream through the historic hall, where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where previous monarchs have lain in state.
After filing past the casket, most mourners paused to look back before going out through the hall’s great oak doors. Some wiped away tears; others bowed their heads or curtseyed. One sank onto a knee and blew a farewell kiss.
Keith Smart, an engineer and British Army veteran, wiped away tears as he left the hall. He had waited more than 10 hours for the chance to say his goodbye.
“Everybody in the crowd was impeccably behaved. There was no malice, everybody was friends. It was fantastic,” he said. “And then, to come into that room and see that, I just broke down inside. I didn’t bow — I knelt to the floor, on my knees, bowed my head to the queen.”
The late-night silence was broken when one of the guards standing vigil around the coffin collapsed and fell forward off a raised platform. The man, his chest adorned with medals, could be seen on livestreams of the queen’s coffin lying in state swaying on his feet before pitching forward onto the floor. Two police officers rushed to his assistance.
Crowds have lined the route of the queen’s coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland — where the monarch died Sept. 8, aged 96 — to London.
On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the hearse, with interior lights illuminating the casket, drove slowly from an air base to Buckingham Palace.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, about 33,000 people filed silently past her coffin in 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
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Dedicated health equity funding, inclusive models of care, and a new slate of top-tier care solutions for diverse health needs demonstrate Buoy's commitment to bringing inclusivity to digital health
Buoy invites leaders and innovators in LGBTQ+ care and health services to expand their reach and impact through its healthcare marketplace
BOSTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride this month, AI-powered health platform Buoy Health (Buoy) today announces several exciting updates to its ongoing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts, including a recently-awarded grant from the AWS Health Equity Initiative. These developments further underscore Buoy's mission to create more inclusive and accessible health solutions for everyone—especially those in underserved groups—by crafting personalized, holistic paths to care.
Launched through the AWS for Health initiative at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the AWS Health Equity Initiative is a $40 million, three-year commitment that seeks to energize cloud technology innovations to tackle lingering health disparities around the globe. Buoy was recently selected to participate in this grant program to build out its data and product capabilities for users identifying as transgender or gender diverse—allowing Buoy's teams to improve their demographic data collection, enhance their medical database and AI algorithms, and develop new product options that are instrumented with inclusivity by design.
"Patients that identify as LGBTQ+ often face significant gaps and disparate outcomes across the US healthcare system that fail to account for the unique barriers, care considerations and clinical presentations in this community," said Adrienne McFadden, MD, JD, and Chief Medical Officer at Buoy Health. "The AWS Health Equity Initiative is one more resource we can use to deploy these vital resources toward stronger clinical guidance and more informed data sets as we work to create more equitable health systems and outcomes."
Buoy's involvement with the AWS Health Equity Initiative augments the recent launch of its healthcare marketplace, which currently connects users with a wide range of care solutions across physical, mental, and specialized health needs. Working through Buoy's signature AI-driven symptom checker, users can navigate through Buoy for personalized guidance and access a tailored marketplace experience that matches them to the solution that works best for them by aligning with their unique health histories and any current healthcare plans or coverage. This focus on personalization and a wider range of choices remains core to Buoy's focus and ethos as the company seeks to drive better care solutions at more cost-effective rates for LGBTQ+ users and other historically underserved or marginalized groups.
Rather than operate in siloed chains with preferred healthcare partners, Buoy seeks to offer a range of inclusive solutions through specialized providers and services, including those that are dedicated to LGBTQ+ flourishing, accessibility, and the advancement of health equity more broadly. As of today, these tailored care solutions include Health in Her HUE, Spora Health, and VitalXchange, among others.
"Digital health solutions that center health equity are the future," said Ashlee Wisdom, Chief Executive Officer at Health in Her HUE. "Buoy Health is leading, not just with words, but in how it builds its technology to help patients find healthcare services and solutions that can meet their specific needs. Buoy is modeling how digital health companies can and should be leading the way in making health equity the new status quo for digital health and the larger healthcare ecosystem."
McFadden added: "At a time when so many health equity innovators are looking to provide more touchpoints and access to high-quality healthcare for a diverse swathe of patients, Buoy's efforts geared toward creating an inclusive marketplace model offers a key piece to the puzzle. Now, more than ever, organizations committed to delivering quality care to underserved groups are empowered to expand their services in an environment that prioritizes the end-result for the patient and enhances patient-provider relationships across the healthcare system. We are proud to see Buoy's marketplace make such important inroads with these important health equity initiatives and look forward to growing our family of solutions on behalf of all our users."
Care solutions interested in joining Buoy's marketplace can reach out here for more information.
Buoy is a Boston-based digital health company that provides personalized clinical guidance the moment an individual has a health concern and matching to covered care options. Developed out of the Harvard Innovation Labs by a team of doctors and data scientists, Buoy navigates people through to the healthcare they need, delivering triage at scale, and connecting them with the right care endpoints at the right time based on self-reported symptoms. Buoy works with employers, health plans, and health solutions to simplify and streamline discovery and access to the right covered care options. For more information, please visit www.buoy.com.
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HIDALGO, Texas (Border Report) — Hundreds of tattered tents line the Mexican banks of the Rio Grande in what migrant aid workers are calling Rio Camp.
Volunteers work as best as they can to pass out toiletries and provide water and other assistance that the asylum-seekers need.
But Erin Hughes, co-founder of the non-governmental organization Solidarity Engineering, says it isn’t enough.
“The homeless population of asylum-seekers has skyrocketed. There are thousands of people who have to live on the streets. There’s just not enough room in the shelters right now,” Hughes told Border Report on Wednesday just before crossing from McAllen, Texas, into Reynosa, Mexico, where her organization goes three times a week to give what assistance they can.
The all-female-led team of engineers has helped to design and expand the two existing shelters — Senda I and Senda II — and is now focusing on Rio Camp.
“We’re doing our best to provide enough bathrooms and water but the people living on the streets are in dire need of help,” Hughes said.
Thousands of asylum-seekers have been expelled to Mexico under Title 42, a public health policy that prevents them from crossing into the United States to claim asylum as a way to limit the spread of coronavirus. The policy was enacted during the Trump administration and has not been limited by the Biden administration.
Solidarity Engineering helps migrants in Reynosa, Mexico, including teaching children physics lessons at the migrant camps. (Photos by Solidarity Engineering)
Hughes, 33, splits her time between the Rio Grande Valley and her hometown of Philadelphia.
She says she disagrees with immigration policies that keep desperate people out of the United States.
“The motivation behind doing this work is just that these people are in need and, honestly, it’s due to American policies that they are being forced to live in these conditions,” Hughes said.
Aside from Haitians, she says there are Venezuelans, Ukrainians and Russians seeking help in Reynosa.
Border Report first caught up with her a year ago and at the time she was struggling with her Spanish skills. But now she says Haitian Creole is the language needed to assist the Haitian asylum-seekers living in Reynosa.
There are about 4,000 migrants in the two shelters, and 700 people living in Rio Camp, she said.
In the past 18 months, Solidarity Engineering has put in solar panels for cellphone charging stations, built separate bathroom blocks with dozens of showers and toilet stalls for men and women at the shelters, and put in laundry basins.
They have even given pre-teens and teens physics lessons on donated tablets that the children use to play ice skating games after learning about friction and energy.
They give out toiletries like menstrual pads, soap, and toilet paper: “A lot of the consumables that we use every day to keep us healthy, to keep us clean,” she said.
They are currently working to construct a large water tower to distribute between the men’s and women’s bathrooms and the kitchen, she said.
And they are embarking on what she calls her “favorite project”: a new community playscape for the families.
“It will have chutes, ladders, lots of things for kids to climb over and play through. The theme of the playground is, essentially, that these kids can overcome,” Hughes said. “I think it’s really easy to forget that play is such a critical aspect of a child’s life and it might be as necessary as food and water to them.”
They still need about $14,000 in donations to complete the playscape project, she said.
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What’s a Chromebook?
A Chromebook is neither Windows or Mac; it runs Google’s Chrome OS. The operating system is built around Google’s cloud apps and is optimized for Gmail and Google Drive, making it a good choice if you need a basic machine for work and you already have a Google account. They’re often small and affordable — a good choice for children or anyone who just needs a simple computer.
The Chromebook’s reputation for having poor computing power may be a turnoff for some, but there are powerful new Chromebooks by HP and Samsung that have better performance at the same low price tag. But which of these new options has the most value? How do you know which Chromebook is best for you? Before you buy, you should consider the following factors.
Price
One major advantage of any Chromebook is the low cost. They range anywhere from $100 to $1,000, but most hover around $300. These lightweight systems easily contend with notebooks that cost twice as much.
Power
When buying your Chromebook, you’ll notice that the more affordable options mostly utilize Celeron or N4000 processors. These low-end processors are slow and unsuited for much other than basic functionality. So if you want the best performance at the best price, look for midrange laptops with Intel processors and Intel UHD GPUs.
HP Chromebook x360 Convertible Laptop
The HP Chromebook x360 is powered by an Intel Core i3 processor. Its ultra-crisp, full HD display doubles as a touch screen, making this Chromebook a versatile option for a variety of situations, from classrooms to boardrooms. The Chrome OS makes navigation simple, and there’s a built-in fingerprint scanner on the touchpad so you don’t always have to input your password.
The 8 GB of RAM makes it easier for you to open multiple windows without a lag in performance, and the 64 GB hard disk size is impressive for the price.
The Intel UHD card isn’t suitable for graphics-intensive games, but it works perfectly for basic photo editing and casual gaming. The x360, like all Chromebooks, comes with access to the Google Play store, meaning you’ll have access to all of your favorite apps and mobile games.
You can find it in the HP store.
HP Chromebook x360 pros
The 360-degree flip and fold design and touch screen offer extreme utility and ease of use. It’s got a lot of power for a Chromebook, and at 2.1 GHz speed, you’ll be breezing through your work. It also comes with a USB port, two USB-C ports and a headphone jack.
It’s no gaming laptop, but it can handle a lot, and the backlit OLED screen ensures the colors really pop and edges feel crisp. For what you’re paying, this is the best performance you can get.
HP Chromebook x360 cons
This laptop might not be compatible with software such as Photoshop. The Chrome OS is useful in its simplicity but not always versatile. The 64 GB of storage is good, but you’ll still probably need to invest in external storage.
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 4
The Galaxy Chromebook 4 is a steal at $240. But you don’t have to worry about the quality: It’s powered by an HD Intel Celeron processor with turbo boost, 6 GB of RAM and up to 64 GB of memory. Those are outstanding specs for a Chromebook under $300. It comes in silver-gray and has a 720p display. It’s extremely sturdy, compact and will fit into most bags for convenient transport. Smart Amp audio technology prevents your speakers from distorting at high volumes, allowing you to play music nearly twice as loud as other laptops.
You can find it on Amazon.
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 4 pros
The specs of this laptop are beyond impressive for something so affordable. You’ll be able to tackle most projects with this device and even do basic video or photo editing. It’s suitable for watching movies in the backseat or taking notes during a meeting. It also comes with responsive, backlit keys that make typing feel more natural and responsive. The large keys are clicky and respond fast when pressed. It also has a lightning-fast boot-up time. Turn it on and you’ll be working in as little as six seconds.
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 4 cons
Some people have reported having problems with the screen since it’s not that high resolution, but it gets the job done for the price. This system also tends to get hot quickly. Make sure you clean it out now and then to help the fan run smoothly.
Is the Samsung Chromebook or the HP Chromebook better?
If you want a powerful computer you can use for work and playing games, HP’s x360 is the notebook for you. It’s a good quality laptop that will last you for years and perform reliably. If you need an inexpensive computer but still want a wide range of functionality, choose the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 4, whose performance is almost as good as the x360’s.
HP enjoys an advantage over Samsung in terms of better components. Samsung doesn’t skimp on quality, but HP machines work faster and perform better.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University has won its fight to trademark the word “The.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the university’s request Tuesday. The school says it allows Ohio State to control use of “The” on branded products associated with and sold through athletics and collegiate channels, such as T-shirts, baseball caps and hats.
“THE has been a rallying cry in the Ohio State community for many years, and Buckeye fans who purchase official Ohio State gear support student scholarships, libraries and other university initiatives,” said Ben Johnson, the university’s senior director of media and public relations. He noted the university’s licensing and trademark program generates over $12.5 million a year in revenue, which helps fund student scholarships and university programs.
Ohio State started pursuing a trademark in August 2019 after fashion retailer Marc Jacobs had filed an application for the word a few months earlier. The company and the university reached a deal in August 2021 that allows both parties to use the branding.
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Kansas loses legal fight over voting law passed in 2021
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has lost a legal fight over one of the voting laws that its Republican-led Legislature passed in the wake of the 2020 election.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to make it a crime for groups to include voter’s name, address and other information on advance ballot applications.
Two national nonprofit groups, VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center, sued after two voting laws were passed in 2021 over the veto of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. One of them included the restriction on prefilling ballots, even if the voter provided the information and requested an advance mail ballot application.
The groups, whose mission is to promote voting among traditionally underserved groups, including young and minority voters, argued that there is a higher response rate when the group prefills the applications. Nearly 70,000 Kansas voters submitted an advance mail voting application provided by the Voter Participation Center to their county election official in the 2020 general election, the lawsuit said.
But the state countered that the groups’ mailing efforts led to a flood of duplicate applications during the 2020 presidential election. Election officials testified that the flood of applications led to confusion, with many voters repeatedly requesting mail-in ballots.
Vratil acknowledged in the ruling that some election officials likely felt “overburdened” as the pandemic sent mail-in votes soaring. More than three times as many Kansans voted by mail in 2020 compared to 2018.
“Because of the highly contested nature of the election, in addition to the pandemic, many voters were concerned that their mail ballots would not be received and counted, and requested duplicate ballots for peace of mind,” Vratil said.
She said that in that environment, the surge in duplicate ballots couldn’t be solely blamed on the prefilled ballots that voting groups mailed out to try and spurn turnout.
In fact, she wrote, having the ballots prefilled might even prove “more helpful than harmful to overburdened elections officials” and found that the restriction infringed on the group’s First Amendment free speech rights.
Whitney Tempel, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Scott Schwab, said the office didn’t immediately have a comment.
Another law passed in 2021 also is being challenged in court. In March, the Kansas Court of Appeals reinstated the suit filed by Loud Light, the League of Women Voters of Kansas, the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center and the Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice.
They challenged provisions of a law that limit how many advance mail ballots individuals can collect and require election officials to match the signatures on an advance ballot to a person’s voter registration record. A Shawnee County judge originally dismissed it after finding the restrictions were reasonable.
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Which fireplace decorations are best?
There are few spaces in your home that won’t look better with a little extra decoration. Your fireplace is not one of them. Like with any decor, what looks great or terrible is a matter of taste. You also have to consider what kind of fireplace you have. For example, if you have a real one, you should probably stay away from things that can easily catch fire.
What to know before you buy fireplace decor
Fireplace decor types
Your decor options are only as limited as your creativity. However, there are a few common ones:
- Fireplace set: These are mostly for function, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be decorative. However, you only need one of these if you have a real wood-burning fireplace. Sets usually include a poker for shifting logs, a pair of tongs for minute adjustments, a shovel and brush for cleaning up the ash and a base to hold them all.
- Fireplace screen: Again, you only need one of these if you have a wood-burning fireplace, as the screen is meant to catch any escaping materials. However, they don’t look odd when placed in front of a gas or electric fireplace.
- Pictures: The fireplace mantel is usually home to pictures, whether they be of your loved ones, landscapes or something else entirely.
- Holiday: If you’re the type to decorate for every holiday, your fireplace is a prime candidate for holding your rotating goodies.
What are the best decorative fireplace sets to buy?
Amagabeli Garden and Home Fireplace Set
The base of this set is nice and wide to avoid the risk of teetering over, and a small ring on its base makes it more decorative. It comes in solid black or black with gold accents.
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This square set has a rugged, rustic look that’s just as well suited to the average home as it is to a cabin in the woods. It comes in black, sanded black, antique bronze and pewter.
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The base of this set is decorated with wisps of metal, making it more elegant than most. The base is 31.5 inches tall, and the tools are 26.8 to 28.1 inches long.
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Myfireplacedirect Fireplace Set
This set’s base is topped with an iron moose, which is perfect for animal lovers. It’s 28.3 inches tall, with tools that measure 21.7 to 22.8 inches long.
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Rocky Mountain Goods Fireplace Set
This set is a shimmering antique brass that bucks the typical black color popular for its ability to hide ash and soot. You’ll need to clean them from time to time, but it’s worth it for the shine.
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What are the best decorative fireplace screens to buy?
The cabin, trees and pinecones of this fireplace screen are perfect for your outdoor home away from home. It measures 44.5 by 31.5 inches and is powder-coated to resist rust.
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This screen has two designs; the first is a living tree with a mighty trunk and bountiful green leaves. while the second is the dead and withered branches of dormant trees in winter.
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Deco 79 Peacock Fireplace Screen
This screen adds a splash of color and life to your fireplace, and it only gets better once the flames start flickering their light along the feathers. It measures 48 by 32 inches.
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This screen is more understated, featuring just a few delicate spirals for people who dislike extravagant designs. It comes in black, sanded black, antique bronze, brushed copper and pewter.
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Minuteman International Fireplace Screen
This screen is meant to decorate your fireplace during the hotter months of the year when fires are unnecessary. It measures 26 by 26 inches.
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What are the best picture frames to buy?
This large 24-by-36-inch picture frame is perfect for holding a family portrait or pictures of the like. It comes with 10 border styles. Other sizes and border styles are also available.
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This set is perfect for those who want to display many pictures on their mantel but don’t want all the frames to be identical. It comes with two 8-by-10-inch frames and four each 5-by-7 and 4-by-6-inch frames.
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These unique frames are only bordered on the bottom, so attention can be focused on the picture instead of what’s holding the picture. Two are included, and they come in 4-by-6, 5-by-7 or 8-by-10-inch sizes.
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Sometimes you just want a simple, back-to-basics picture frame. This one comes with a black, white or brown border and has a stand so that you don’t have to hang it.
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If you can’t decide what picture to use from an event, get this collage frame to use several without taking up too much space on your mantel.
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What are the best holiday fireplace decorations to buy?
The Dreidel Company Hanukkah Menorah
This menorah makes a wonderful centerpiece for your fireplace’s mantel. It comes in polished aluminum, copper or gold. Plus, if you don’t like it, it has a money-back guarantee.
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Fun Express “Give Thanks” Blocks
These cute Thanksgiving-themed resin blocks are hand painted, roughly 3 inches tall and spell out “thanks.” Leave them up until late November finally rolls around.
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Christmas stockings on the mantel are among the most classical decorations for the season. Six are included, and each has its own design so everyone in your household can know which is theirs.
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This generic banner is the perfect decoration for fireplaces in households that celebrate many different holidays at the end of the year. It’s pre-strung, so all you need to do is hang it up.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee tight end Chig Okonkwo has a really good reason not to be working with the rest of the Titans' rookies as they wrap up their offseason at the team headquarters.
Okonkwo, the rookie who ran the fastest 40-yard dash among tight ends earlier this year at the NFL Combine, had somewhere better to be.
Tight End University, the equivalent of a master class at the rookie's position.
“It’s just so amazing to be able to be here and do this ...,” Okonkwo said Thursday. "And it’s just awesome. There’s like 80 of us out here. ... And there’s so many Pro Bowl guys, so many big contract to the guys. It’s just really nice to be able to go out there as a rookie in my first season.”
Going into his first NFL season, Okonkwo is trying to be a sponge, soaking up everything he can, especially when seven-time Pro Bowl tight end Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs speaks.
“He showed me something that I’ve never seen before,” Okonkwo said. “And I was like, ‘I think I should probably start working on that because he’s really good, he’s the best in the business.’ So just learning things like that, like being able to just take little tidbits like that from different guys.”
That was the whole reason for Tight End U — or TEU for short.
A three-time Pro Bowler for San Francisco, George Kittle already had been working with eight to 10 tight ends in the offseason after moving to Nashville five years ago. He talked with Kelce and three-time Pro Bowler Greg Olsen about expanding the group, and Olsen said to invite everybody.
They expected 20, with 50 in attendance last year at the high school where Kittle’s father, George, works as an assistant football coach for former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer. The invite list grew so much for this week's camp they had moved to Vanderbilt University and had at least 85 tight ends in attendance.
Kelce, Kittle and Olsen also had to tell a bunch of young tight ends no.
“We're still expanding and trying to find room for everybody to be able to come out here because everybody sees what kind of turnout it is,” Kelce said. “And on top of that, to hear the stories from the guys that are coming through and what they’ve learned, we know how unique of a situation it is. We’re going to keep trying to make it bigger and better every year.”
The tight ends spend camp working through problems like blocking 300-pound linemen to running routes against much faster players. They picked the brains of veterans like Olsen in a classroom before moving onto the field to hone the physical techniques to thrive in an NFL season.
Getting that many people together costs money.
TEU has Bridgestone, Charmin, Gatorade, Levi's and Bud Light as sponsors. The tight ends also raised money again for the Boys and Girls Club. Dawson Knox of Buffalo winning the competition with Okonkwo second, and they brought in more than $131,000. Bridgestone brought that to $681,000 with a further donation Thursday.
More TEU expansion is likely in the future. Kelce said they would like to bring in more tight ends, possibly tight end coaches and maybe even college tight ends.
For now, everyone leaves having learned something, whether it's a new release on a route, a blocking technique or something off tape.
“And everyone here is hungry and everybody here wants to be a great NFL tight end,” Kittle said. "And so when you put all that hunger together, it’s just big ol' nasty beast, and that’s what a tight end is.”
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Man dies in construction accident at ice cream plant
Published: Feb. 14, 2023 at 5:41 AM CST|Updated: 39 minutes ago
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA/Gray News) – A man died Monday morning in a construction accident at an Edy’s Ice Cream Plant in Indiana, according to officers from the Fort Wayne Police Department.
Emergency officials were called around 11:40 a.m. to respond to reports of a construction worker who was hit by a vehicle on the site.
Authorities said in a news release the man, who has not been identified, was on his phone and unaware of the construction vehicle backing up at the time of the accident.
The construction worker hit died at the scene, according to police.
Officials barricaded the area and said all construction is stopped until the investigation is complete.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — (EDITOR’S NOTE: Orlando Magic rookie Paolo Banchero, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NBA draft, will do a periodic diary for The Associated Press to chronicle his first season in the league. Banchero plays his first regular season game Wednesday when Orlando visits Detroit.)
Everything counts now. The season is starting and it’s the real thing. Every win, every loss counts, so this is another level of seriousness that you’ve got to bring. You’ve got to focus while also embracing it and having fun.
It’s not like college, and in a good way. You have all day to focus on your job and your craft, your body and yourself. We’re here in the AdventHealth Training Center probably for three, four hours out of the day. Other guys have a wife and kids or other obligations, but myself, I don’t have anything else to do but this.
I’m spending that time getting a massage or stretching, making sure I get the right amount of sleep that I’m supposed to get, trying to do all the little things right. When I walk into the facility or walk into game day, I want to know I’m prepared and in the best possible state mentally and physically that I can be. That’s the best thing about being a professional. You’ve got all the time in the world to just be your best self. That’s what I’ve been trying to do.
We have goals. We want to compete in our conference, whether it’s for a play-in or playoff spot, just trying to get there and play meaningful games later on in the season. We want to grow as a team, be better than we were the game before and, hopefully, every step we take will be in the right direction this year. For myself, I want to play free, play instinctive and if I do that, everything else is going to take care of itself. I think that’s how it’s always been for me.
One of my goals is to be rookie of the year. That’s not THE goal. The goal is to get to the play-in, or playoffs. But obviously, I expect myself to play well. I feel like I’m the best rookie. Winning that award would mean a lot, but it’s not the end-all, be-all for me. It’s something I would like to win, for sure.
I like our team. I could go on about every player, but I feel like Franz Wagner just brings a certain level of seriousness to the team. He’s focused, smart, student of the game, very, very smart player. Him and his brother, Moritz. I picked up on that pretty early because I’m kind of the same way in terms of just being focused and having a serious approach and just trying to do whatever it takes to win. I think we align a lot mentality-wise and just the way we see the game or how much we want to win. Wendell Carter Jr., too. Really everyone, but I’d say Franz and Wendell are two guys who I immediately got that vibe from. We’re all forwards who can handle, pass and shoot. I think we have an understanding of what we all want to do and where we can get to with this team.
Orlando, the city, has been great so far. I wouldn’t say I go out a lot or even go out to eat a lot. But just driving around the city, being around the city, it’s a nice city to be in and I feel like people here are very welcoming. The city’s not too busy, but it’s also not boring. It’s not quiet and not packed with people. It’s got a nice vibe to it.
As far as like what I do, I’m really in my place, just chilling. I like to leave the balcony door open because it’s always got a nice breeze. Little stuff like that is what I like. I really don’t have anyone out here with me right now, even to do stuff with.
We’re all young. Everyone on this team kind of has something to prove. Whether it’s their own agendas or the team agenda, with the recent struggles around here, we want to just put the Orlando Magic back to where they should be, which is the playoffs and in contention for championships. I mean, it’s not going to happen overnight. It’s not going to happen in a week. It’s a long process. It’s a marathon. I think we all embrace that.
And I think we’ll surprise people this year.
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CHICAGO – There are still going to have plenty of chances to get victories against their division rivals, since 11 games still remain against them in the 2022 season.
But right now when the White Sox are facing the Twins, it just simply hasn’t been pretty, and Tuesday was another example.
Minnesota got to starter Michael Kopech for six runs in 4 2/3 innings to build a lead they wouldn’t let go in an 8-2 victory on Tuesday night. It’s a loss that now puts the White Sox 6 1/2 games behind the Twins for first in the AL Central as they hand the hosts their second loss in a three-game series.
The rubber match is Wednesday at 1:10 PM at Guaranteed Rate Field, and maybe the White Sox can finally break through against Minnesota at that point with Lance Lynn on the mound.
With Monday and Tuesday’s loss, the hosts are now 0-5 on the season against the Twins, which includes an early three-game sweep at Target Field from April 22-24. At the moment, it’s a departure from the look of the team’s match-ups in 2021 where the White Sox went 13-6 against Minnesota.
The Twins used their power to turn the game into a rout as they hit five homers off White Sox pitching, with four of those coming off of Kopech. Max Kepler hit a solo shot in the third with Jose Miranda getting a two-run shot in the fourth, but the real damage came in the fifth inning when Jorge Polanco’s two-run homer and a solo long ball from Alex Kirilloff chased Kopech from the game.
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A report out this week suggests that federal models for predicting precipitation don't fully account for the bigger storms driven by climate change.
Jeremy Porter, of the weather research nonprofit First Street Foundation, says the gold standard for precipitation models was created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But he says flooding is becoming more frequent than the NOAA model suggests, especially in the New England and mid-Atlantic areas.
"You can see that a 1-in-100 year depth from the NOAA precipitation records actually is observed in our current climate about once every 20 years," Porter says. "So we're actually seeing it four or five times more often than we should see, given the precipitation records."
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- ISG cites GEP's ability to address complex categories in direct and indirect sourcing and spend management, and continued success in large engagements
- GEP also recognized as leader in recently announced ISG study for procurement software and services
- Cements GEP as the ideal global partner for transforming procurement, supply chain and business operations
CLARK, N.J., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GEP®, a leading provider of procurement and supply chain software to Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide, announced today that it has been named a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ – Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Transformation Services 2023, for the third year in a row. GEP is named a Leader in all four categories:
- BPO Services ― for 'Large Accounts' and Midmarket'
- Transformation Consulting Services ― 'Large Accounts' and 'Midmarket'
GEP's chief marketing officer, Al Girardi, explained, "At a time when business is transforming procurement to mitigate inflation and global uncertainty, GEP's ability to integrate consulting, managed services and software makes us the ideal strategic partner for companies' driving competitive advantage, resilience, cost savings and shareholder value. GEP is the only firm globally that provides end-to-end procurement and supply chain strategy, managed services and technology solutions under one umbrella, providing one-handshake solution for clients."
GEP is positioned as a 'Leader' in this study and in the recently released ISG Provider Lens 2023™ – Procurement Software Platforms and Solution 2023, stating "GEP is almost completely self-contained, providing all the software platforms, tools and services required to optimize procurement operations for customers."
According to the ISG Provider Lens lead analyst, Bruce Guptill, "GEP's leadership in this quadrant builds on its ability to address complex categories in direct and indirect sourcing and spend management, their continued success in large engagements and expertise integrated with an industry-leading platform suite."
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ISG Provider Lens™ – Procurement BPO and Transformation Services 2022 Global cites GEP strengths as:
- Proprietary platform and software modules: GEP's procurement BPO and transformation services build around its GEP SMART procurement platform and associated GEP NEXXE supply chain management, GEP CLICK cloud integration platform and GEP MINERVA, a cognitive, AI-enabled data management and decision support platform.
- Autonomous and cognitive sourcing: Integration with its GEP MINERVA cognitive platform, including AI-enhanced master data management, helps GEP deliver more efficient direct and indirect spend management.
- Improving direct sourcing and spend management: GEP has spent considerable time and money improving direct sourcing management in its GEP SMART platform, helping clients not only unify spend management but also mitigate supply chain-driven business disruptions.
- Touchless procure-to-pay operations: GEP focuses on more streamlined integration of UI/UX, applications and data within and across procurement (and supply chain) operations to enable optimal automation and reduce human interaction with processes.
ISG Provider Lens™ – Procurement Platforms 2022 cites GEP SOFTWARE strengths as:
- Software-plus-services leadership: The company's software platforms and associated tools are complemented by its own procurement and supply chain consulting, transformation, implementation and managed services.
- Direct and indirect sourcing: GEP has outpaced most in advancing capabilities in direct materials category management, sourcing and procurement, a strong advantage for clients seeking to optimize direct sourcing to prevent supply chain disturbances and to minimize disruption.
- Multi-platform, unified, AI-driven procurement and supply chain platform: GEP SMART™ (procurement), GEP NEXXE™ (supply chain), and SPECTRUM solutions enable management, automation, analytics and unified UX and data from procurement source-to-procure (S2P) through supply chain management (SCM). The GEP MINERVA™ proprietary AI and ML engine enables cross-solution, cross-organization data analytics and decision support. GEP CLICK™ acts as a cloud-based, low-code/no-code integration layer with third-party data, applications and service providers.
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The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team. The research currently covers providers offering their services globally, across Europe and Latin America, as well as in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, the U.K., France, the Nordics, Brazil and Australia/New Zealand, with additional markets to be added in the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens™ research, please visit this webpage. ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm with more than 700 clients, including more than 75 of the world's top 100 enterprises. For more information, visit www.isg-one.com.
About GEP
GEP® delivers transformative supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value.
Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world's best companies, including hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals.
A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP's cloud-native software and digital business platforms consistently win awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, and Spend Matters. GEP is also regularly ranked a top supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others.
Headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, GEP has offices and operations centers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. To learn more, visit www.gep.com.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain.
For now, the child will stay with Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, under a temporary custody order they obtained before the adoption. The Masts will have to re-prove to the court that they should be granted a permanent adoption.
Despite the uncertainty, the ruling was a welcome move for the Afghan couple, who had been identified by the Afghan government as the child’s relatives in February 2020 and raised her for 18 months. They dropped to their knees in prayer outside the courthouse. As they held each other, the young man wiped the tears from both their eyes with his wife’s headscarf.
The Masts quickly left the courthouse after Thursday’s hearing, flanked by their attorneys. The parties are forbidden from commenting by a gag order.
The dispute raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban, after an Associated Press investigation in October revealed how Mast became determined to rescue the baby and bring her home as an act of Christian faith. But until now, the adoption order has remained in place.
“There’s never, ever been a case like this,” said Judge Claude V. Worrell Jr. on Thursday.
The girl, who will turn 4 this summer, was an infant when she was found injured in the rubble after a U.S.-Afghan military raid in a rural part of the country in September 2019. She spent more than five months in a U.S. military hospital before the Afghan government and International Committee of the Red Cross determined she had living relatives, and united her with them.
Unbeknownst to them, Mast learned about the baby while she was hospitalized, and decided that he and his wife should be her parents. The Masts told Virginia Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore that she was the daughter of transient terrorists who died in the fight, and thus a stateless orphan. He claimed that the Afghan government was prepared to waive jurisdiction over her, though it never did. Moore granted him the adoption.
The Masts contacted the couple in Afghanistan, offering to help with her medical treatment. After the U.S. military withdrew and Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, the Masts helped them evacuate to the United States. Once they arrived, Mast used the adoption order to take the child, and the Afghan couple have not seen her since.
The Masts claim in court filings that they legally adopted the child, and that the Afghan couple’s accusations that they kidnapped her are “outrageous” and “unmerited.” They have repeatedly declined to comment to the AP.
Judge Worrell, who took over the case after Judge Moore retired in November, said the Afghan couple “were the de facto parents when they arrived in the U.S.” and their due process was violated. Worrell also said from the bench that the Masts knew things that they never told the court, particularly about what was happening in Afghanistan at the same time the judge in Virginia was granting the adoption. He said he wasn’t sure it was intentional, but “the fact of the matter is that the court did not have all the information known to (the Masts) at the time the order was entered.”
The ruling is one more twist in what is already a standout case.
“Once an adoption is final, it is extremely difficult and rare for it to be overturned,” said Virginia attorney Stanton Phillips.
“This is really, really unusual,” said adoption attorney Barbara Jones. “You just don’t hear about this happening.”
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Winter is not over yet. The best heating solutions leave you prepared for this season and beyond.
Your situation determines the best heating solution, but if you have easy and regular access to electricity, consider a Dr. Infrared heater. There are many models to choose from, split between four types of heaters.
In this article: Dr. Infrared Heater DR-998 Space Heater, Dr. Infrared Heater DR-238 Carbon Infrared Outdoor Heater and Dr. Infrared Heater DR-P2100 Unit Heater
Dr. Infrared heater types
The four Dr. Infrared heater types are space, outdoor, workshop and bedbug.
- Space heaters are used inside to help out your indoor heating and cooling system. They draw too much power and raise your energy bill too high to use on their own, so don’t try it.
- Outdoor heaters are used to keep patios and other similar places warm in cold weather. They’re usually large and powerful.
- Workshop heaters are used in workshops, garages and other similar indoor spaces to keep them warm. They have higher power than most Dr. Infrared Heater heaters but typically require special outlets.
- Bedbug heaters don’t heat the space around them. They heat the space inside them to kill bedbugs, which are easily killed by prolonged high temperatures.
Cost
Dr. Infrared space heaters typically cost $100-$150. Outdoor heaters typically cost $100-$700. Workshop heaters typically cost $100-$600. Its bedbug heater costs $200.
Best Dr. Infrared Heater space heaters
Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968 Space Heater
This is Dr. Infrared’s entry-level space heater, but it still packs a punch, being able to reach a range of 50 to 85 degrees with its thermostat. It also has a 12-hour automatic shut-off timer.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-968H Space Heater
This heater takes the entry-level model and upgrades it with a built-in humidifier. This lowers the chances of rough skin and nosebleeds from dry air. It also has tip-over and overheating protection.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-998 Space Heater
This heater adds yet another upgrade: an oscillating function that quickly spreads its heat to a wider area. It still has the humidifier too.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-998W Space Heater
This version of the DR-998 uses a walnut finish rather than the usual cherry finish found on most Dr. Infrared Heaters. Otherwise, it’s functionally identical.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-978 Space Heater
This heater uses dual heating technology to crank out higher temperatures. Its thermostat range is 50 to 86 degrees. It comes in black and white.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-999 Space Heater
This heater’s design resembles a nightstand to better blend in with the rest of your bedroom furniture. It comes with a remote so you can adjust it without getting out of bed.
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Best Dr. Infrared Heater outdoor heaters
Dr. Infrared Heater DR-238 Carbon Infrared Outdoor Heater
This heater comes in two styles: 120-volt, 1,500-watt and 240-volt, 3,000-watt. Both have ingress protection ratings of 55, meaning that almost nothing is going to get inside and ruin it.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-PS11024 Salamander
This heater requires a 240-volt hardwired power supply, but in return, you get 10,000 watts of power. It has an adjustable thermostat of 40 to 100 degrees. It comes on wheels for easy positioning.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-PS11524 Salamander
This souped-up version of the DR-PS11024 requires the same hardwired 240-volt power supply but offers 15,000 watts of power instead. It is also on wheels and has the same thermostat range.
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Best Dr. Infrared Heater workshop heaters
Dr. Infrared Heater DR218 1,500W Greenhouse Infrared Heater
This greenhouse heater works on a home’s usual 120-volt power supply and has 1,500 watts of power. It can cover 150 square feet and has water ingress protection to a degree of 4.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR218 3,000W Greenhouse Infrared Heater
This stronger version of the above greenhouse heater needs a 240-volt power supply but offers 3,000 watts of power in return. It has low and high heating modes and the same water ingress protection.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR966 Commercial Heater
This heater needs a 240-volt power supply, has a low power mode of 3,000 watts and has a high power mode of 6,000 watts. It has five adjustable louvers to direct the heat and comes in gray and black.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-988 Portable Workshop Heater
This portable heater is perfect for those with large, private workshops so they can keep the heat focused around the equipment they’re currently using. It comes in gray and red.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-975 Workshop Heater
This heater comes with a ceiling mount for easy installation plus a remote control, so you won’t need to climb a ladder just to change the thermostat by 1 or 2 degrees.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-910F Workshop Heater
This heater also comes with a ceiling mount but is more powerful than the DR-975. It has five adjustable louvers for directional control and a thermostat range of 50 to 90 degrees.
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Dr. Infrared Heater DR-P2100 Unit Heater
This wall-mounted heater is meant for use in most large buildings, not just in workshops. It has overheating protection and an enclosed, permanently lubricated heavy-duty bearing.
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Best Dr. Infrared Heater bedbug heater
Dr. Infrared Heater DR-122 Bedbug Heater
This heater can quickly reach temperatures of 120 to 155 degrees, a range effective at killing bedbugs at all stages of their lives. It has a treatment area of 38 by 38 by 26 inches, and it has two interior shelves.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 16, 2022, Pampa Energía S.A. ("Pampa" or the "Company") announced the commencement of an offer to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") any and all of the outstanding 7.375% Notes due 2023 (CUSIP Nos. 71647X AA5 and P7873P AE6 ISIN Nos. US71647XAA54 and USP7873PAE62) (the "Old Notes") for newly issued 9.500% Notes due 2026 of Pampa (the "New Notes") and certain cash consideration, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the exchange offer memorandum dated June 16, 2022 (as amended and supplemented by the announcements made by Pampa on July 7 and 18, 2022, the "Exchange Offer Memorandum"), the related eligibility letter (the "Eligibility Letter") and, where applicable, the related letter of transmittal (together the "Exchange Offer Documents"). Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Exchange Offer Documents.
The Exchange Offer expired as of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on July 29, 2022 (the ("Expiration Date"). On August 8, 2022 (the "Settlement Date"), Pampa delivered the Early Exchange Consideration in exchange for the Old Notes validly tendered, together with the Accrued Interest Payment in respect thereof. All conditions described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum that were to be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Settlement Date were duly satisfied. On the Settlement Date, Pampa issued US$292,796,835 aggregate principal amount of New Notes and paid US$122,127,894.75 in cash as total consideration for the Old Notes validly tendered in the Exchange Offer.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Santander Investment Securities Inc. acted as the Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers (the "Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer. BNP Paribas Securities Corp., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as the Joint Dealer Managers (the "Joint Dealer Managers" and, together with the Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers, the "Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer. Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina) S.A.U and Balanz Capital Valores S.A.U. acted as local placement agents.
Important Notice
This announcement is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States, and none of the New Notes has been or will be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or any state securities law. They may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act. This press release does not constitute an offer of the New Notes for sale, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, in any state or other jurisdiction in which any offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Any person considering making an investment decision relating to any securities must inform itself independently based solely on an offering memorandum to be provided to eligible investors in the future in connection with any such securities before taking any such investment decision.
This announcement is directed only to holders of Old Notes who are (A) "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act or (B) (x) outside the United States as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act, (y) if located within a Member State of the European Economic Area ("EEA") or in the United Kingdom, "qualified investors" as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation") and (z) if outside the EEA or the UK, are eligible to receive this offer under the laws of its jurisdiction. No offer of any kind is being made to any beneficial owner of Old Bonds who does not meet the above criteria or any other beneficial owner located in a jurisdiction where the Exchange Offer solicitation is not permitted by law.
The distribution of materials relating to the Exchange Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. The Exchange Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the Exchange Offer come into your possession, you are required by the Company to inform yourself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to the Exchange Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the Exchange Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a dealer manager or any affiliate of a dealer manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the Exchange Offer shall be deemed to be made by the dealer manager or such affiliate on behalf of the Company in that jurisdiction.
Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this press release, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on expectations and assumptions on the date of this press release and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions, and factors over which the Company has no control. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, and does not intend to do so, unless otherwise required by law.
Notice to Investors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). For these purposes, (a) a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"); and (b) the expression "offer" includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the New Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to subscribe for the New Notes. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore otherwise offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For these purposes: (a) the expression retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EUWA); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the "FSMA") and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA and (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; and (b) the expression an offer includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to subscribe for the New Notes. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the "UK PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
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David Goodworth LaMar Goodworth David LaMar Goodworth, 82, of Blackfoot, Idaho, peacefully returned to his heavenly home on Monday, October 4, 2021, with his wife of 60 years, Marilyn Veibell Goodworth, at his side. The family gathered the night before to surround his bed and offer a prayer and blessing of release. David was born of goodly parents in Kamas, Utah on June 24, 1939, to Richard V. and Elena A Jensen Goodworth. He was the 2nd of their nine children.The love felt from his parents made it easy for him to believe in a loving Heavenly Father and merciful Lord. At age 7, David contracted polio and spent three months without family in a Salt Lake City hospital. David hated bed confinement and inactivity and promised his Father in Heaven that he would never be idle again if He would let him go home.David kept that promise and led a life of good works, activity, and obedience. While in his youth, David gained a great love and appreciation for nature, the outdoors, and the high country. He spent many hours in the beautiful mountains near his home with his father, who was the superintendent of the State Fish Hatchery. David's youth was filled with frequent trips with his dad to stock fish, or go camping, fishing, hunting, or hiking in the high country. These experiences instilled in David a love for God's creations. David attended South Summit High School, a rival to Wasatch, where Marilyn attended. She knew him as a scholar, a star athlete, and an excellent musician. He played the French horn and had a beautiful singing voice that blessed many choirs for years to come. But it was David's kindness and compassion that touched Marilyn's heart. David graduated high school as Valedictorian and joined the Army Reserve before attending the University of Utah. A year and a half later, David was called as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Central States Mission where he served in Oklahoma and East St. Louis, Illinois. When David returned from his mission, Marilyn was conveniently living with his sister, JoAnn. As fall classes began, his Army Reserve unit was activated for the Berlin Crisis.During his orientation at Fort Douglas, he courted Marilyn and the Spirit spoke.He returned on furlough from Fort Lewis, Washington to be married in the Salt Lake Temple on December 20, 1961. They enjoyed an 8-month honeymoon at Uncle Sam's expense!David said the smartest thing he ever did was to marry Marilyn. As David completed his schooling, the family grew rapidly. He returned to the University of Utah, and in 1966 completed his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He then moved his family to Blackfoot, Idaho where he began his career at American Potato Company. Six years later he received his MBA from Idaho State University. The household continued to grow, and in 1980 they moved to Rose, Idaho, where their 10th and final child was born. As patriarch of the home, David set the ultimate example. He was strong, energetic, determined, quick witted and duty bound. Raising the family included plenty of hard work...gardening, berry and apple picking, canning, sewing, lawn mowing, pipe moving, cooking, and caring for babies. However, the family also enjoyed music, sports, and dancing. Frequent parties, sing-a-longs, and firesides added to the fun. David and his family were often found in the hills, camping, hunting, fishing, and basking in the beauty of God's creations. David had an artist's eye and in his later years developed his talents in many areas, focusing much of his artistic ability through photography. David was a loyal career man. He spent 36 years applying his education to research and development, plant start-up, implementing programs, writing manuals, and teaching/training for American Potato Company, now known as Basic American Foods. His attention to detail and tireless work ethic made him a great asset in the business world. Service was a driving force throughout David's life. He was an example and role model in his various callings which included teacher, scoutmaster, ward clerk, stake clerk, and counselor in various bishoprics. In recognition of his years of service in scouting, David proudly received his Silver Beaver Award in 2010 from the Boy Scouts of America. All 8 of his sons received their Eagle Scout Award and served missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but David always attributed that success to Marilyn. In 2004-2005, David and Marilyn served as Family and Church History Missionaries in Salt Lake City for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where David's work ethic and teaching and organizational skills were relied on to solve problems and bless those around him. David was a man of God. He was not casual in spiritual matters and chose to live a consecrated life. David followed Elder Maxwell's counsel to "grow as we are stretched...to try to become like Jesus...to partake of life's bitter cup without becoming bitter." Elder Maxwell had a profound effect on David and Marilyn, as he was David's Sunday school teacher and Marilyn's bishop at the University of Utah. David's life was a reflection of his relationship with God. His testimony was firm, he was loyal to his covenants, he embraced wholehearted obedience, and he showed goodness and compassion in all he did. David is survived by his wife, Marilyn Veibell Goodworth and his siblings, (Carolyn Ford), JoAnn (Ted) Crittenden, Louise Young, Carol (Jack) Larsen, Marie Richins, Susan (Richard) Brady, Rex Goodworth, and Glen (LoAnn) Goodworth. He is also survived by his children, Ken (Ada) Goodworth, Dean (Michelle) Goodworth, Fred (Cherilynn) Goodworth, Kathy (Rex) Carter, Wayne (Noell) Goodworth, Clark (Kari) Goodworth, Tim (Heather) Goodworth, Greg (Sherilynn) Goodworth, Becky (Jason) Arnold, Clint (Kim) Goodworth, as well as 59 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren. David was preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Elena Goodworth, his brother, Richard Goodworth, brothers-in-law LaMar Richins and Wayne Young, sister-in-law Vikki Goodworth and his granddaughter, Gracie Goodworth. The family will host two viewings. The first will be from 5-7:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17, 2021, at the Hawker Funeral Home, 132 South Shilling Ave. in Blackfoot. The second viewing will be held on Monday, October 18th at the Blackfoot Stake Center at 1650 Highland Drive from 10-11:30 a.m. prior to the funeral. Funeral services for David Goodworth will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, October 18th at the Blackfoot Stake Center at 1650 Highland Drive in Blackfoot, ID. The family would like to thank the many people who helped care for David in his home during his years of dementia and declining health. Condolences to the family can be shared at www.hawkerfuneralhome.com. | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/obituaries/goodworth-david-lamar/article_2f6b04ea-78b2-59e0-ab0a-b14d18ddb9ea.html | 2022-08-31 15:54:49 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/obituaries/goodworth-david-lamar/article_2f6b04ea-78b2-59e0-ab0a-b14d18ddb9ea.html |
National Poppy Day recognizes veterans
Published 2:27 pm Friday, May 26, 2023
Volunteers were at Hy-Vee Friday and Saturday handing out poppies.
“Monies that go to the Poppy Day go to our veterans,” said Lynn Koza, one of the organizers of the event, noting the nationally recognized event was to raise money for services such as transportation services, clothing and food.
According to Koza, the national donation didn’t have a fundraising goal, though Jean Enstad, the chairwoman for the poppy event, estimated they raised over $2,000 last year.
“People are usually really willing to give us a little donation,” Koza said.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, over $200 was already collected.
Volunteers started handing out poppies at 8 a.m. Friday and continued through 4 p.m. They also plan to be at the grocery store from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. National Poppy Day is always the Friday preceding Memorial Day. To that effect, Mayor Rich Murray proclaimed Friday and Saturday National Poppy Day earlier this month.
Koza encouraged people to wear their poppies not just this weekend but at any time so as to recognize veterans.
“The poppy is a symbol for our veterans,” Enstad said.
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(CNN) — President Joe Biden welcomed the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House Monday, offering effusive praise for players’ performance on and off the field.
“Most important, as much as these guys know about football, they know about life and how to use their platform to make a difference,” Biden said during the South Lawn ceremony. “Speaking out for racial justice, honoring veterans as you do, supporting tutors and mentors for local schools – this is an organization that emphasizes community service and encourages players to create their own charitable organizations, which many have done, and it matters. You’re showing the power of one of the most elusive things in the world: Unity.”
The Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in a thrilling 38-35 shootout at Super Bowl LVII in February. It was the team’s second Super Bowl victory in four years, having won the championship in Super Bowl LIV.
Biden offered special praise for 2023 Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes who, with tight end Travis Kelce, presented the president with a Chiefs jersey at the end of the ceremony.
“You got a young quarterback named Patrick – boy can play, man,” Biden said. “Two-time MVP, comeback king, the only player in history with a winning record when down by 10 points or more. We saw him play with that high ankle sprain – another legendary chapter in the story of one of the greatest quarterbacks of his generation, and I predict of any generation.”
Biden took the opportunity to offer a tribute to the late Norma Hunt – wife of the Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, for whom the AFC trophy is named – who was the only woman to attend every Super Bowl in history.
“Jill and I send our condolences the entire Hunt family including her son and current CEO of the Chiefs, Clark Hunt,” he said. “And the Chiefs not only hold the title again, they’re building a dynasty.”
The president also acknowledged first lady – and famous Philadelphia sports fan – Dr. Jill Biden.
“I married a Philly girl – that explains a lot, doesn’t it?” he joked. “Fortunately, she is overseas right now in the Middle East. She’s a rabid Eagles fan, and the way the game ended, I might be in for a rough night.”
And he noted his own brief time playing football at the University of Delaware before his mother, and lack of skill, forced him to quit, noting one coach told him, “You run faster backward than anyone I’ve ever seen.”
“Well, my political opposition thinks the same thing,” he quipped.
Following the ceremony, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid called the team’s visit “a great time.”
“We’re really gracious being here, and thankful for all that the White House staff did for us, along with the president – he was phenomenal,” Reid said. “He took us, gave us a couple of personal talks there, and he was tremendous with it. And the one thing – it doesn’t really, the one thing I want to say, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a Democrat or Republican or independent, it’s about the unity and the opportunity to come together here as the United States and be a part of that.”
Kelce also offered praise for Biden, telling reporters he enjoyed “hearing President Biden talk about the pieces and the things that mean a lot to him in the Oval Office and over in the West Wing.”
“It was just it was pretty eye-opening, and you can tell he’s in it for the right reasons,” Kelce added.
Mahomes called the entire visit “surreal.”
“I mean, I’ve never been to Washington, DC – I’ve never even got to see from the outside, seeing the White House or any of the monuments or memorials,” Mahomes told reporters. “And so, to be able to be here and see that, and see the history of this great nation that we have, it was really cool for me to just be here and be in the moment, and I don’t think I could ever really imagine it being as cool as it was.”
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Florida has most lead pipes in US, EPA survey finds
(AP) – Some 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency survey that will dictate how billions of dollars to find and replace those pipes are spent.
The survey released Tuesday was the first time the agency asked about lead pipes and gave the best count yet of how many are underground. Florida, with an estimated 1.16 million pipes, was a surprise to one expert. Industrial states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania are more typically associated with extensive lead pipe issues.
Illinois ranked second in Tuesday’s survey, with 1.04 million lead pipes, followed by Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and New York.
The agency’s drinking water infrastructure survey will be used to steer billions of dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to water infrastructure upgrades like finding and removing lead pipes in states that need it most. Previously, a state’s share of lead pipe funds was based on its general infrastructure need and didn’t consider how many lead pipes the state had.
Lead can cause brain damage and the EPA says no amount is safe for children’s bodies. The Biden administration has set a goal to remove all of the country’s lead water pipes. The $15 billion from the infrastructure law for lead pipe work will significantly help, but it won’t be enough, to solve the problem.
“Every community deserves access to safe, clean drinking water,” said EPA Administrator Michael Regan who was in Illinois for the announcement. “Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure investments, we have an unprecedented opportunity to revitalize America’s drinking water systems, support the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of removing 100% of lead pipes across our country, and protect communities from PFAS pollution.”
The EPA recently proposed drinking water limits for PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances often called “forever chemicals,” in a push that the agency said will save lives and reduce illness but will require many water providers to install costly treatment systems.
The EPA’s survey of roughly 3,500 water providers also found the country needs to spend $625 billion on drinking water infrastructure over the next two decades, an amount that’s increased sharply in recent years. The biggest need is upgrading water pipes that are too old, broken or in some cases, made of lead.
On Tuesday, the EPA also announced states, U.S. territories and tribes will have $6.5 billion to upgrade drinking water infrastructure, with $6 billion of that total coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, made lead in drinking water a national concern and demonstrated how old pipes can quickly become an urgent public health threat. Newark, New Jersey, saw prolonged lead water problems that led to rapid replacement of thousands of lead pipes, as did Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, said the EPA was “trying to do the right thing” by using its survey to direct lead pipe funds to states that need it most. But he called Florida’s figure “a big surprise.” Olson said the state told his group in 2021 that it doesn’t track lead service lines. The NRDC’s estimate for the state was about 200,000.
Olson said the Florida number is puzzling because lead pipes were most frequently installed in the decades before Florida’s population rapidly grew.
“We look forward to hearing an explanation,” Olson said.
The EPA said it extrapolated from water providers’ responses to come up with the state-level estimates. The location of many lead pipes are still unknown and the EPA said states like Florida had a lot of water lines that were either made of an unknown material or lead.
A representative from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch is suing the owner of a small Australian political news site for defamation over a column that held him responsible for the rhetoric on Fox News ahead of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol last year.
The lawsuit came just a day after the website, Crikey — in full page ads in The New York Times and Australia's Canberra Times — dared Murdoch to make good on his earlier threats to sue.
The offending opinion column on the site on June 29 argued that thanks to Fox News, Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert shared responsibility for the U.S. Capitol siege with former President Donald Trump.
In his lawsuit, Murdoch's lawyers said the CEO "has been gravely injured in his character, his personal reputation, and his professional reputation as a business person and company director" and has also suffered "substantial hurt, distress and embarrassment" from the article and its promotion.
In a post in response, Crikey's leadership said the site "stands by its story and we look forward to defending our independent public interest journalism in court against the considerable resources of Lachlan Murdoch."
Crikey's editor-in-chief Peter Fray tells NPR the site didn't mean he was literally responsible — but that the "buck has to stop somewhere."
"Lachlan Murdoch appears desperate to disassociate himself from the actions of Fox in inciting the January 6th insurrection," Fray told NPR previously. "And he's taking quite extraordinary steps to shut down public debate in this country."
Murdoch's attorneys filed in Australian federal court in Sydney on Tuesday. The case cites the article's circulation on Twitter and Crikey's claims of intimidation by Murdoch.
Crikey's leaders said they hoped the lawsuit would serve as a test case for Australia's defamation laws, which they argue are too restrictive.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., Murdoch and Fox are fending off a pair of defamation cases from election technology and voting machine companies in the U.S. The cases, involving false claims of fraud in the November 2020 elections, are seeking more than $4 billion combined.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative Nebraska lawmakers are taking what could be an all-or-nothing bet by proposing to merge two of the legislative session’s most contentious proposals — one to restrict abortion and another that would ban gender-affirming care for minors.
The unconventional move follows conservatives' failure by a single vote last month to advance a bill that would have banned abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy. Now, conservatives are backing an effort to amend the transgender health bill to include restricting abortion to 12 weeks of gestation.
The strategy sets up a vote on Tuesday that could give conservatives a win on both abortion and trans health bans this year — or could see them lose both.
Here’s a look at the combination of the trans and abortion bans proposals and how the process of debating and voting on them is expected to play out this week:
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HOW THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE WORKS:
Nebraska has the only one-chamber, nonpartisan Legislature in the country, meaning its process of passing bills is also uncommon.
Bills introduced at the beginning of the legislative session all get public committee hearings, and the committee later decides whether to advance a given bill to the full Legislature of 49 lawmakers.
If advanced, the bill must survive three rounds of debate to be passed. Noncontroversial bills tend to sail through the process. But Nebraska lawmakers rely heavily on the filibuster to stall contested bills. Each round has a set amount of time allowed for debate: Eight hours for the first round, four hours for the second and two hours for the third.
At the end of the allotted time, a vote is taken to end debate, called a cloture vote. It takes a supermajority of 33 lawmakers to end debate. If the vote fails, the bill is shelved for the remainder of the session. If it gets enough votes to end debate, only a simple majority is needed to advance it to the next round or pass it in the final round.
While officially nonpartisan, lawmakers self-identify as Republican, Democrat or independent and tend to propose and vote for legislation along party lines.
Republicans currently hold 32 seats, while Democrats hold 16 and one is a progressive independent who votes with Democrats. With such a slim margin, the defection of a single lawmaker from either side can derail efforts to pass or block bills.
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WHAT HAPPENS ON TUESDAY?
Late in the afternoon, lawmakers are set to begin what would have been the final round of debate on a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. But because legislative rules don’t allow amendments to be attached in the final round, lawmakers will instead debate for two hours on whether to send the bill back to the second round of debate with the abortion amendment attached.
If the motion garners at least 33 votes to end debate, the combination bill is certain to get enough votes to return for a second round of debate Tuesday night. The combined bill would have to survive another filibuster vote to advance to a final round likely to be held Thursday.
But if the first vote to end debate Tuesday fails, both the abortion amendment and the underlying trans health ban bill will be shelved for the year, according to the clerk of the Legislature’s office.
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WHAT'S PROPOSED IN THE TWO MEASURES?
The trans health bill would ban hormone treatments, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for anyone 18 and younger.
The bill advanced to a final round of debate last month on the promise from its author, freshman Sen. Kathleen Kauth of Omaha, and Speaker of the Legislature Sen. John Arch to hammer out a compromise between supporters and opponents before a final vote.
Instead, bill opponents say, Kauth unilaterally put forth an amended version that would make exceptions for minors who were already on hormone treatments before the ban takes effect. It also would give the state's chief medical officer — currently an ear, nose and throat doctor appointed by the Republican governor -- wide-ranging authority to set rules for use of use of hormone treatments for transgender minors. Opponents say that would give a political appointee the power to block such treatments, even for those minors grandfathered in.
The abortion amendment would ban the procedure at 12 weeks of gestation, making exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. Sen. Ben Hansen, a chiropractor from Blair, characterized his proposal as a reboot of a compromise amendment introduced during the abortion debate last month by Republican Sen. Merv Riepe that was initially rejected by conservative lawmakers.
Opponents note that Hansen's measure differs from Riepe's proposal in that it provides no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies and doesn't explicitly protect doctors who perform abortions from criminal prosecution.
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HOW CONTENTIOUS ARE THE MEASURES?
The trans health bill has been the most contentious this session, prompting Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh to follow through on a promise to filibuster every single bill before the body — even ones she supports — unless conservative supporters pull it. Her efforts greatly slowed the work of the Legislature this year, forcing lawmakers to package bills together and endure grueling 12-hour and sometimes 15-hour days to pass legislation.
Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt joined Cavanaugh's effort when the bill advanced from the first round of debate in March, revealing during the debate that her 12-year-old son is transgender.
The proposed abortion restrictions have drawn fierce pushback from those who argue that the state already limits abortion to 20 weeks of pregnancy and that restricting access further violates women's rights to have autonomy over their own bodies.
The six-week ban was derailed last month when Riepe withheld his vote to end a filibuster over it. Riepe was an original cosigner of the bill, but later worried that six weeks wouldn't give women enough time to even know they're pregnant. Since then, he has been praised by abortion rights proponents, but he's also endured calls from fellow Republicans for his resignation and censure.
“I've taken a lot of heat in the last several days,” the 80-year-old Riepe said.
Riepe has refused to say how he will vote on the 12-week abortion ban amendment.
Both the trans health and abortion bans proposals have brought hundreds of protesters to the Capitol on the days they've been debated, leading to speculation that thousands of protesters could descend Tuesday on Lincoln when the combination proposal is up for debate.
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HAILEY, Idaho, July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO
The NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots (NJASAP) represents the professional interests of the 3,000-plus pilots who fly in the service of NetJets Aviation, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK) subsidiary.
WHAT
Informational picketing by NetJets pilots and their families coinciding with the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
WHERE
Near Atlantic Aviation, 2230 Aviation Dr., Hailey, ID 83333
WHEN
Friday, July 14, 2023, from 1000LT to 1400LT
WHY
• Despite the sustained pilot labor crisis, NetJets executives have chosen not to take meaningful steps to attract and to retain talented pilot personnel, putting the brand's status as the global leader in private air transportation at risk.
• Indeed, as the pilot shortage tightens its grip on the marketplace, NetJets's competitive position continues to diminish based on the Executive Management Team's refusal to acknowledge and to take steps to compete for pilot talent by securing an industry-leading collective bargaining agreement for its pilots.
• NetJets pilots will earn, on average, 60 percent of what their peers at some low-cost carriers will earn across a 30-year career. At a time when carriers are aggressively competing for and recruiting pilot talent, what will compel the best aviators to choose NetJets, which refuses to make appropriate competitive adjustments?
• Rather than compete for talent, NetJets has opted to avert a hiring crisis by lowering minimum flight time standards. Unsurprisingly, new hire pilot experience at NetJets has plummeted 77 percent since 2018 – a shift NJASAP attributes to the brand's decision to downplay the sustained pilot labor crisis.
• NJASAP views this head-in-the-sand stance as unfathomable – especially when we stand ready to partner with management to recapture NetJets's former cache, benefiting all Berkshire Hathaway stakeholders.
• NJASAP members are picketing to inform the public of the ongoing labor dispute and their concerns with NetJets's training deficiencies as well as to show the NetJets Executive Management Team that the pilots support their Union's efforts.
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Ernie Bennett, a school building engineer and community activist, died on Sunday, Sept. 18, from bacterial infection complications. He was 66.
He was born on Aug. 8, 1956, to the late James Wendell Bennett Sr. and Ophalie Bennett.
He became a mentor in the Neighborhood Youth Corps and received his GED through Temple University, passing all segments the first time.
Bennett’s chosen religion was Islam, but he was exposed to many religions, which taught him how to appreciate and respect everyone’s differences. He encouraged children to study different religions and to choose what was right for them.
He spent 36 years as a building engineer for many schools in the School District of Philadelphia, including Widener Memorial, the district’s school for children with disabilities. He also worked at All Aluminum Products and was in charge of laundry and housekeeping at Tucker House.
He met Jeanie in 1979. They were married in a ceremony presided over by his late father in 1981. The couple raised their children in a household where neighbors often compared them to the “Huxtables” or “Brady Bunch.” It wasn’t unusual for the Bennett household of seven to swell to 10. His gentle way of nurturing and caring for his children led the way for his children to become the same way for their children.
His daughter, Khalifah Bennett, told the Tribune how much she and her siblings will miss his stern lectures.
“He had a natural way with words,” she said. “My dad’s way of disciplining us was with lectures. If you did something wrong, he would sit you at the dinner table, and it didn’t matter what time of day it was. We will miss those lectures the most.
“My dad would ask us, ‘What did you learn from this?’ said his son, Charles Dickens. “I would literally have to write out an apology and deliver it.”
Bennett dedicated his life to being a community activist. With organizations such as Jam Brothers and Sisters, Panati Basketball Association, 21st Street Community Development Corporation, and Men United Against Violence Network, he found ways to give back to the community.
His commitment to labor rights led him to get involved in SEIU 32BJ District 1201, first as a shop steward and then as vice president and district leader of the 32BJ executive board from 2015 until his retirement this year.
“Ernie did not live his life for acknowledgement or accolades,” his family said in a tribute. “Still, whenever he received one he cherished it. He kept every card, letter and award he ever received.”
In addition to his son and daughter, he is survived by his wife, Eugenia Bennett; children, Brandon Graham (Marcele), Ernie Williams (Tasheeva) and Nadiyah Gause (Raymond); siblings, Doriene Tyler, Jacqueline Hughes (Donald), Sylvia Bennett, Francis Kent and Martha Dickens; grandchildren, Charles Dickens Jr., Marcele Bassett Jr., Brandi Graham, Jabreel Dickens, Justin Gause, Jade Dickens, Rayyah Gause, Kairat Odeny, Braylon Williams and Eugenia Odeny; and other family members and friends.
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- Randomized first patient in the Phase 2b EU-SolidAct platform for hospitalized COVID-19 patients -
- Initiated Phase 1b/2a trial in 1st line NSCLC patients harboring STK11 mutations -
- Strengthened financial position with support from largest shareholder -
BERGEN, Norway, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BerGenBio ASA (OSE: BGBIO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, selective AXL kinase inhibitors for severe unmet medical needs, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022 and provided a business update.
"The recent initiation of two clinical trials and bolstering of our cash position has been transformational for the Company as we continue to execute on our strategy," said Martin Olin, Chief Executive Officer of BerGenBio. "Mounting evidence substantiates that AXL plays a significant role in exacerbating many severe cancers and respiratory diseases. We believe that AXL inhibition by our lead compound, bemcentinib, can make a life-changing difference in patients suffering from STK11m NSCLC and hospitalized COVID-19.
Clinical Development
Bemcentinib
BerGenBio's lead compound, bemcentinib, is a potentially first-in-class highly selective inhibitor of the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL, which is activated in response to oxidative stress, inflammation, hypoxia and drug treatment, resulting in a number of deleterious effects in cancer and severe respiratory diseases. Bemcentinib inhibits AXL activation to prevent the progression of serious disease through the modulation of resistance mechanisms and the adaptive immune system.
The Company is advancing bemcentinib development in two lung indications, STK11 mutated (STK11m) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) and Hospitalized COVID-19 patients, where bemcentinib's novel mechanisms of action and primary accumulation in the lungs make it uniquely positioned to address severe lung diseases.
First-Line STK11m NSCLC
Subsequent to the quarter end, BerGenBio announced in October the initiation of a Phase 1b/2a trial evaluating bemcentinib in combination with the current standard of care, the checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab and platinum doublet chemotherapy, for the treatment of 1L NSCLC patients harboring STK11 mutations.
Approximately 20% of non-squamous NSCLC patients harbor STK11m, which are a recognized resistance mechanism for anti-PD-1/L1 therapy and currently result in a poor prognosis with standard of care treatment in 1st line NSCLC. The Company believes that STK11m patients almost universally express AXL, causing a severely immunosuppressed tumor microenvironment, the development of drug resistance, immune evasion, and metastasis. Preclinical and clinical data suggest that bemcentinib's inhibition of AXL on immune and cancer cells sensitizes STK11m NSCLC patients to checkpoint inhibitors and improves the effects of chemotherapy.
The global, open-label Phase 1b/2a trial is designed to determine the safety, tolerability and efficacy of bemcentinib with standard of care in 1st line untreated advanced/metastatic non-squamous NSCLC patients with STK11 mutations and no other actionable co-mutations. The first patient is expected to begin treatment in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
BerGenBio announced in September that the first patient was randomized in a Phase 2b trial evaluating bemcentinib in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The trial is part of the EU-SolidAct platform, a pan-European research project designed to investigate treatment options for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases.
Higher levels of AXL expression and activation caused by COVID-19 infection have been linked to an increase in disease severity. The interaction of AXL and SARS-CoV-2 is believed to promote the entry and enhancement of infection in pulmonary and bronchial epithelial cells. Through the inhibition of AXL, bemcentinib blocks viral entry, stimulates the innate immune system and promotes lung tissue repair.
The Phase 2b, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial will enroll up to 500 patients, includes 68 clinical sites in 8 countries and is sponsored by Oslo University Hospital, Norway, in collaboration with the Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), France, and the not-for-profit intergovernmental organization European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN).
Update on Relapsed/Recurrent AML (BGBC003) and 2L NSCLC (BGBC008) studies
In study BGBC003 of Relapsed/Recurrent AML patients, the last patient completed their last visit in late Q2, with database lock completed in Q3. In study BGBC008 of 2L NSCLC patients, the last patient's last visit occurred in Q4 2022. The Company expects to provide results of these studies following database lock and subsequent data analysis in 1H of 2023.
Corporate Activities
Following the end of the third quarter, BerGenBio announced in October that it secured a NOK 100 million shareholder loan facility from Meteva AS, a 27.23% shareholder in BerGenBio. In addition to the Company's existing cash position, the facility will enable BerGenBio to continue advancing its lead compound, bemcentinib, in 1L STK11m NSCLC and hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
(Figures in brackets = same period 2021 unless otherwise stated)
- Revenue amounted to NOK 0.0 million (NOK 0.0 million) for the third quarter 2022
- Total operating expenses for the third quarter were NOK 62.4 million (NOK 71.4 million)
- The operating loss for the third quarter came to NOK 62.4 million (NOK 71.4 million)
- Cash and cash equivalents amounted to NOK 225.1 million (NOK 292.1 million at the end of the second quarter 2022).
Presentation and Webcast Details
The live webcast link is available at www.bergenbio.com in the Investors/Financial Reports section. A recording will be available shortly after the webcast has finished.
Webcast link: https://channel.royalcast.com/landingpage/hegnarmedia/20221115_2/
Dial-in numbers:
NO: +47-21-956342
UK: +44-203-7696819
US: +1 646-787-0157
SE: +46-4-0682-0620
DK: +45 78768490
Pin: 712491
The third quarter report and presentation are available on the Company's website in the Investors/Financial Reports section and a recording of the webcast will be made available shortly after the webcast has finished.
Contacts
Martin Olin CEO, BerGenBio ASA
ir@bergenbio.com
Rune Skeie, CFO, BerGenBio ASA
rune.skeie@bergenbio.com
Investor Relations / Media Relations
Graham Morrell
graham.morrell@bergenbio.com
About BerGenBio ASA
BerGenBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative drugs targeting AXL as a potential cornerstone of therapy for aggressive diseases, including cancer and severe respiratory infections. The Company is focused on its proprietary lead candidate bemcentinib a potentially first-in-class selective AXL inhibitor in development for STK11 mutated NSCLC and COVID-19.
BerGenBio is based in Bergen, Norway with a subsidiary in Oxford, UK. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker: BGBIO). For more information, visit www.bergenbio.com
Forward looking statements
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements, which as such are not historical facts, but are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions. These assumptions are inherently subject to significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in this announcement by such forward-looking statements.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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By Kelli Warner & Christine Sherk
When the Eugene Family YMCA built its current facility on Patterson Street in 1955, the founders couldn’t have known that the needs of the community would one day outgrow the building.
Fast forward to 2022. Through a nearly $48 million ongoing capital campaign, a new facility will soon offer more space, services and programs to those who need them. Projected to open in December 2023, this new, world-class Eugene Family YMCA will be located on East 24th Ave., just a few blocks south of the current facility.
Eugene Family YMCA CEO Brian Steffen explains why it’s important to have a local banking relationship and community bank in your corner when undertaking a massive project like the construction of a new facility to serve a community like Eugene-Springfield for the next century.
“Oregon Pacific Bank made a deeply impactful and extremely generous $25,000 donation to help build the new YMCA here in Lane County,” says Brian. “It shows visionary support on behalf of Oregon Pacific Bank to understand that investing in the Y is investing in the health and educational outcomes of our community. We’re so proud of their leadership and so grateful for their support.”
The new facility will include a fully ADA-accessible, flexible floor plan, an indoor track, an aquatics facility, an outdoor exercise terrace, three indoor group exercise studios, and plenty of classrooms and maker spaces – all built with the highest seismic standards. There will be extensive parking, too.
OPB has also provided loan financing to fund YMCA construction costs and bridge any gaps while capital campaign pledges continue to roll in over the next several years.
“OPB looks for partners to enhance our mission in giving back to the communities that we are in, so when we had this opportunity to provide funding for the loan, we also knew we wanted to be able to give back to the campaign for the new Y,” says Megan Horvath, Vice President and Commercial Relationship Manager at OPB’s Eugene branch. “We’re excited that they’re here and growing and we just want to do what we can to help enhance this project as best as possible.”
OPB recognizes the YMCA’s positive impact not only within the community, but also personally.
“The YMCA played a really critical role for me in becoming an active adult,” says Vicki Gray, Senior Vice President and Relationship Banking Team Leader at OPB. “I can see how others might really benefit from having a place to go where there’s safe childcare with trustworthy adults and then lots of different types of classes to meet every need. The YMCA is a collaborator and a convenor, and it’s a great place for people to come to build a community.”
Brian says he’s grateful for OPB’s role. With multiple funding streams contributing to the project – private dollars, state lottery funding, grants and foundations – it’s important to have a local banking relationship and a community bank helping to keep things on track. It’s a lot to manage, Brian says, but the excitement and anticipation and ultimately its realization are all worth it.
“It’s going to be a beautiful place that will serve Lane County for another hundred years, and we can’t wait for that gift to help change the health and educational outcomes in our community,” Brian says.
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WASHINGTON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots aboard the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks.
CFT commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, whom NASA assigned to the prime crew in October 2020, will join NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who will serve as pilot. Williams previously served as the backup test pilot for CFT while assigned as commander of NASA's Boeing Starliner-1 mission, Starliner's first post-certification mission. As CFT pilot, Williams takes the place of NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, originally assigned to the mission in 2018. NASA reassigned Mann to the agency's SpaceX Crew-5 mission in 2021.
Based upon current space station resources and scheduling needs, a short duration mission with two astronaut test pilots is sufficient to meet all NASA and Boeing test objectives for CFT, which include demonstrating Starliner's ability to safely fly operational crewed missions to and from the space station. To protect against unforeseen events with crew transportation to the station, NASA may extend the CFT docked duration up to six months and add an additional astronaut later, if needed.
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, whom the agency previously assigned as the Joint Operations Commander for CFT, will now train as the backup spacecraft test pilot and remains eligible for assignment to a future mission. Fincke's unique expertise will continue to benefit the team as he retains his position as flight test lead, filling a vital role in Starliner certification.
"Mike Fincke has dedicated the last nine years of his career to these first Boeing missions and Suni the last seven. Butch has done a marvelous job leading the team as the spacecraft commander since 2020," said Reid Wiseman, chief, Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "It was great to see Starliner's successful journey to the International Space Station during the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission last month. We are all looking forward to cheering on Butch and Suni as they fly the first crewed Starliner mission."
Wilmore, Williams, and Fincke each have flown previously as long-duration crew members aboard the space station.
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps continues to prepare for an upcoming long duration mission aboard Starliner-1. NASA also has identified backup flight opportunities for Epps on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for additional scheduling and resource flexibility. Epps has begun cross-training on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to prepare for this possibility.
Meanwhile, NASA and Boeing are continuing to conduct OFT-2 data reviews while assessing future CFT launch opportunities. Following successful completion of the uncrewed OFT-2 mission, the Starliner crew module has returned to Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will undergo system checkouts and vehicle inspections. The Starliner team is in the process of delivering the initial test flight data to NASA and jointly determining forward work ahead of a crewed flight. These engineering and program reviews are expected to continue for several weeks, culminating in a launch schedule assessment at the end of July, based upon spacecraft readiness, space station scheduling needs, and Eastern Range availability.
"Starliner and the Atlas V performed well during all phases of OFT-2, and now we are taking a methodical look at each system to determine what needs to be upgraded or improved ahead of CFT, just as we do with every other crewed flight," said Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program. "Additionally, Butch, Suni, and Mike have been instrumental in the development of Starliner on the path to having a second space station crew transportation system."
For the crewed flight test, Boeing's Starliner will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Following a successful CFT mission, NASA will begin the final process of certifying the Starliner spacecraft and systems for crew missions to the space station. Regular, long-duration commercial crew rotation missions enable NASA to continue the important research and technology investigations taking place aboard the orbiting laboratory. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future exploration of the Moon and Mars, starting with the agency's Artemis missions, which include landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW/WNCN) — Officials are warning beachgoers not to touch or move any possible Chinese spy balloon debris that may wash up on Carolina beaches.
At about 2:40 p.m., an F-22 fighter jet fired a missile at the balloon, puncturing it while it was about 7 miles off the coast near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, senior defense officials said. The location of the shootdown was just a few miles south of the North Carolina border.
Police in the southernmost North Carolina beach town, Sunset Beach, warned residents against touching or moving any of the balloon’s debris.
“These stray pieces are expected to wash ashore in the North Carolina area,” Sunset Beach police warned in a news release Saturday afternoon.
Police said the debris is part of a federal investigation and no one should touch or remove it.
The debris landed in 47 feet of water, shallower than they had expected. Still, it was not immediately clear how long the recovery would take.
Fighter jets shot down the giant white balloon east of Myrtle Beach after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that Biden approved the shootdown on Wednesday, saying it should be done “as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon’s path.”
Austin said that due to the size and altitude of the balloon, which was moving at about 60,000 feet in the air, the military had determined that taking it down over land would pose an undue risk to people on the ground.
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BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee contemplated the sunset and her worsening options.
Umm Jawad fled to Lebanon in 2011 to escape a Syrian government siege of her hometown of Homs. She managed to survive over the past decade, despite Lebanon’s devastating economic meltdown and souring attitudes toward Syrian refugees.
But now Lebanon wants to send her and a million other refugees back to Syria, claiming that much of the war-shattered country is safe. She is terrified. Life in Lebanon is difficult, but she fears returning to Syria could be fatal.
She’s considering a risky escape to Europe by sea with her husband and their children, ages 11 and six. There, she could complete her accounting degree, put the children back in school and secure a steady supply of medication for her epilepsy.
“They (the Europeans) live a better quality of life,” said Umm Jawad, who asked to be identified by her nickname, which means mother of Jawad in reference to her older son’s first name, to speak freely about her family and plans. “But here, my children, husband, and I live in a tent.”
Lebanon’s economic meltdown -– one of the worst in modern history — has pushed a growing number of Lebanese and Syrians to attempt the perilous journey by sea to Europe.
The Lebanese government’s recently announced plan to deport 15,000 refugees per month to Syria appears set to push more people to make that journey, at a time when Europe is struggling with millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the months-long war in their country.
The Lebanese Army and other security agencies report foiled migration attempts off the coast of the northern coasts on a weekly basis. At least seven migrants drowned following a confrontation between a boat of Lebanese and Syrian migrants and the Lebanese Army in April.
“The Lebanese are not happy with their life here and are trying to leave, so what does that mean for Syrians?” said Umm Jawad. “May God help both the Lebanese and Syrians out of this crisis.”
Umm Jawad lives in a Syrian refugee camp near Lebanon’s eastern border crossing with Syria, On a recent day, children played soccer in the camp’s labyrinth of alleys, while some residents bartered with a street vendor who passed by with his cart carrying produce. One man set up a makeshift barbershop inside a tent.
Life in the camp has been getting harder. Donor fatigue, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lebanon’s crippling economic crisis have forced more refugees to go into debt to afford food, medicine, and rent.
Lebanon, a country of five million people, says it can no longer afford to host more than a million Syrian refugees, and is adamant to start deporting them within months, despite opposition from the United Nations and rights groups.
The Lebanese authorities have supported forced refugee returns for years but had not come up with a comprehensive plan until recently. In justifying such measures, they say Syrian officials have assured them there are now many safe areas refugees can return to.
In a Lebanese government document obtained by The Associated Press, Damascus assured Beirut in April that returnees would be able to secure identification cards, birth certificates, social services, temporary housing, and a viable infrastructure. Syrian officials also wrote that returnees would benefit from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s pardons of political opponents and military draft evaders.
In reality, the Assad government has struggled to rebuild areas it has reclaimed through devastating sieges and air raids, and Syria’s economy, like that of Lebanon, is in tatters. Western-led sanctions on Damascus following the government’s brutal crackdown on political opposition in 2011 have further exacerbated the economic downturn.
Many Syrian refugees fear for their safety if forced to return, including the oppressive omnipresence of their country’s notorious security services.
Human Rights Watch has documented cases of Syrian refugees facing detention, torture, and a host of human rights violations upon their return, even with security clearances from the Syrian government, said Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa director at the watchdog group.
Umm Jawad worries her husband could be forced to return to the military. “You have check points every few hundred meters, between every neighborhood, and crime is rampant. You just can’t feel safe even in your own home,” she said.
Hassan Al-Mohammed, who works in the fields of Lebanon’s lush Bekaa Valley, along with several of his 12 children, said he dreams of going home, but that now is not the time. He said his hometown southwest of the city of Aleppo is still a frontline. “Should I flee an economic crisis just to have my family slaughtered?” he said, sitting in his tent.
At the same time, many Lebanese feel that sending the Syrians home would ease the economic crisis in Lebanon, wherethree out of four people now live in poverty.
Tensions between Lebanese and Syrians are increasingly palpable.
Al-Mohammed says bakeries would sometimes prioritize Lebanese nationals for their bundle of bread and make Syrians and non-Lebanese wait for hours. He is frustrated by claims that refugees have been benefitting economically at the expense of Lebanese. “They reduced aid, so we’re working to eat. The money we make is to buy bread,” he said.
Lebanese ministers in recent months have proposed that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees redirect refugee aid to Syria, as a way of improving the situation there and encouraging returns.
But those calls have so far fallen on deaf ears. The U.N. refugee agency, along with Europe, the United States and several rights groups, say that Syria simply isn’t safe yet.
Lebanese officials expressed their frustration.
The U.N.’s refusal to redirect aid deters refugees from returning, Issam Charafeddine, the Cabinet minister dealing with refugee issues, said in an interview earlier this month. He also said reports of an imminent start of deportations amount to an unfounded “fear campaign.”
Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, a member of the Lebanese government’s refugee returns committee, told reporters last week that “it seems the international community doesn’t want the Syrians to return to their country.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/syrian-refugees-anxious-over-lebanons-plans-to-deport-them/ | 2022-07-21 18:29:56 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/syrian-refugees-anxious-over-lebanons-plans-to-deport-them/ |
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Posted/updated on: January 18, 2023 at 3:30 amSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A nine-person jury has been seated to hear a trial that will determine whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk cheated investors by asserting in 2018 tweets that he had lined up financing to take the electric automaker private. The five-hour process set the stage for opening statements to begin Wednesday in the case. The trial is expected to include testimony from Musk to explain his thinking while engaged in one of his favorite activities — tweeting on the Twitter service that he now owns. The tweets fueled a rally in the company’s stock price that abruptly ended a week later. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1194894 | 2023-01-18 12:31:04 | 0 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1194894 |
Ranee Ramaswamy believes her oldest daughter was put upon the planet to dance.
"We all talk about previous births and reincarnation," says Ramaswamy. When it came to her eldest, Aparna Ramaswamy, she had no doubt. "I think she was a dancer in her previous birth, so it was natural to her. From the age of 3 to now, she has never deviated."
So 30 years ago, Ranee founded the Ragamala Dance Company in Minneapolis, partly as a vehicle for her talented daughter. In the decades since, Ragamala has become famous among U.S. fans of India's oldest classical dance form, bharatanatyam. The dance company regularly gets rave reviews for the dancers' technical precision and spiritual transcendence, as well as for innovative collaborations with other artists.
The company is Ranee's life's work — which she now shares with her daughters. Ranee and Aparna are the co-artistic directors, and Aparna's younger sister, Ashwini Ramaswamy, works for the company as dancer, choreographer and communications director. Each woman brings a specific set of talents to the family business. If Aparna is the head of the company and Ranee is its soul, then Ashwini is, perhaps, its heart.
"There is a feeling when I'm with my mother and sister. ... It's intangible — it's a high," says Ashwini Ramaswamy. "When I watch them onstage from the wings, when I'm onstage and I see them watching me from the wings, when we're together on the stage — it's incredible. And I don't know any other way that I would have that feeling if we didn't work together."
The Ramaswamy family practices bharatanatyam, a sacred form of dance designed to evoke a sense of spiritual bliss and that's demanding to perform. It combines precise footwork, hand gestures, facial expressions and even eye moments. What draws this mother-daughter team to this work and keeps them going are their shared values, says older sister Aparna Ramaswamy.
"This deep love for this art form, this deep value of discipline, dedication, excellence and reaching for something that is so much bigger than us," she says.
Being a family makes the dance stronger, Aparna says. But younger sister Ashwini adds that it's not always easy. She points out that her mom and Aparna had a relationship grounded in dance that started before she was even born.
"So I'm kind of fighting against that," she says. "I'm like, 'What can I do that's different than what's already been handed to me?'"
Wrestling with that question is part of the soul of their dancing. It helps, Aparna says, that they're the rare kind of family that can provide each other with honest feedback and take criticism with the security that it's grounded in love.
When you're a creative person or when you're an artist, it can be a very lonely journey. And so the fact that you have built-in companions on that journey is such a gift.
"And that's a wonderful thing," she says. "Because when you're a creative person or when you're an artist, it can be a very lonely journey. And so the fact that you have built-in companions on that journey is such a gift."
Mother Ranee Ramaswamy recently turned 71, but she says she has no intention of leaving the stage anytime soon.
"The one thing, to have two daughters in the company, is that they will tell me when I should get out, I am confident," she says, laughing. "Because you can't trust others! They'll just tell you, 'Oh, you look good.' But I know I have two people who will tell me, 'Mom, you should stop' — then I will stop."
Until then, mother and daughters will continue to dance together, evoking the divine and urging each other on to greater heights.
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MUSKEGON, MI – The night before Shane Brown would enter the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office building as its captain for one final time, he received a message that verified the impact he aimed to make in his career.
The message came through on Brown’s Facebook messenger from a somewhat familiar name.
“It took me a second to fully remember them,” Brown told MLive/Muskegon Chronicle in an interview. “But sure enough, I remembered that person and their case.”
Without giving away too many details, in order to hide the person’s identity, Brown recalled the sexual assault victim and their case he helped solve 22 years ago. In the message, they showed their gratitude and thanked Brown for his years of service as he prepared to enter a new chapter in life.
It was a full-circle moment of why Brown, a Muskegon County native, wanted to be a police officer.
Brown, a 32-year veteran in the law enforcement community, retired from the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office last month after spending 26 years with what he called his “dream department.”
He’s made headlines in the media over the years for his bravery and dedication to the job. Several scenarios proved he excelled in high-pressure law enforcement situations.
In the line of duty in 2011, Brown shot and killed one of two bank robbers at the end of a deadly car chase as the suspect was pointing a rifle at a state trooper. In 1998, he went toe-to-toe with two convicted murderers one Thanksgiving night and prevented an escape at the Muskegon County Jail.
He’s highly thought of by his now-former colleagues and those in the Muskegon County community. It’s an area he’s known his entire life and somewhere he looks forward to enjoying moving forward.
In the days after retirement, Brown agreed to meet with MLive/Muskegon Chronicle journalists for an interview to talk about his career in policing.
“I’ve heard over the years when you know, you know,” Brown told MLive at Carmen’s Café in Muskegon. “I thought, ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever know,’ because I like to work. It makes me feel like I’m contributing to society and doing something for people.”
“It was a weird feeling to wake up for the first time, in all those years, not a police officer,” he added.
MLive’s interview was frequently interrupted. Once Brown is spotted in public these days, folks don’t hesitate to stop by the table to say, “Congratulations on the retirement,” accompanied with a handshake or hug.
‘You just have to be mentally tough’
Brown said his career in law enforcement can be attributed to childhood memories of the sheriff’s office.
Growing up in small Sullivan Township, Brown remembered any time police were needed in the area, it was the sheriff’s office responding at the scene.
“That’s who I was used to. That’s who I was comfortable with,” he said with a hot cup of coffee in hand. “To be that guy to some other little kid, it was huge.”
Brown graduated from the police academy in 1991 and spent the next four-and-a-half years working part-time, seasonal, and temporary full-time positions with various police agencies in West Michigan. It wasn’t until 1996 when Brown landed his gig with the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office.
It’s a job that “you just have to be mentally tough,” Brown said.
That became apparent on Thanksgiving Night in 1998.
Brown, a corrections deputy at the time, was working his shift at the Muskegon County Jail when four inmates – including two convicted murderers – tried escaping.
The inmates used a smuggled hacksaw blade to cut through their cell’s steel bars to make their violent getaway. However, they were shortly met by Brown and other deputies.
“We go in there and this is hand-to-hand combat,” he recalled the confrontation.
The four inmates were later charged and convicted for the brutal attacks.
Despite that, Brown kept at it with the sheriff’s office. Over the years, he solved numerous murder, sexual assault and robbery cases.
However, nothing could prepare him for the deadly events that unfolded one afternoon over a decade ago.
Brown, then a lieutenant, knew something was different Oct. 13, 2011, when dispatchers advised of two Ravenna bank robbery suspects on the loose.
“When you’re chasing people at 100 mph — with lights and sirens on — and they’re shooting at you, you just know this is not going to end well. You’re hoping that an innocent person doesn’t come into your path,” Brown told a Muskegon Chronicle reporter in 2011 just weeks after the chase. “You’re measuring things in your mind as you go and there’s this desperate hope.
“You always have hope no matter how bad it gets, but everything else tells you that the chances of this coming out OK are extremely thin.”
The duo – Kristopher Cheyne and Derryl LaFave Jr. – fired at police from the back seat of the crashed Oldsmobile Bravada that the two used as a getaway vehicle from the Ravenna bank.
“When you get shot at, some people would say, ‘I’m heading for the hills,’” Brown said last week. “And other people would say, ‘You did not just shoot at me.’”
Brown chose the latter option.
At one point in the shootout, LaFave pointed a long gun at Michigan State Police Trooper Joseph Young. Brown yelled commands for LaFave to cease.
When LaFave failed to comply, Brown fired at LaFave and killed him. Several police officers also fired at Cheyne, killing him.
The shootout happened moments after the Bravada hit and killed Walker Police officer Trevor Slot as he prepared to deploy spike strips near an off-ramp.
“Talk about bravery. It’s off the charts outstanding,” Brown said of the late officer’s actions. “There’s not even words to describe Trevor Slot. … He took his duties seriously – to his family, to his friends, to his community, to the public at large.”
“He didn’t have to do any of that, but he did it,” he added. “Why’d he do it? Because that was his job, that’s what was his duty was.”
Muskegon County prosecutors later justified Brown’s actions, noting, “They acted with an honest and reasonable belief that they or their fellow officers were in immediate danger.”
Brown was described as “the most decorated officer to retire from the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office,” according to the county’s top cop.
“We’ve been working together since Day 1,” Muskegon County Sheriff Michael J. Poulin recalled his time with Brown.
Before they were sheriff and captain, respectively, Poulin was Brown’s field training officer when Brown was first hired at the sheriff’s office.
Poulin was confident in Brown’s ability to not only do his job but do it in a manner that the entire department can be proud of.
“I respected him for that,” Poulin said. “I trusted in him.”
Retirement begins to settle in
Over the years, Brown worked his way through the ranks as a corrections officer, lieutenant, detective, and helped solved numerous cases.
Though each of those titles carries a different memory in Brown’s legacy, he’s been enjoying a new position in life: a father enjoying retirement.
Brown recently took on a coaching position for his son’s basketball team. He was quick to admit he doesn’t know much about the sport, but that’s not what matters to him.
“I love being a part of that team and my son is so proud,” Brown said with a wide smile.
After working throughout his entire life, Brown is eager to use some well-earned vacation time. The father-son duo plan to go to Europe this summer.
“We’re going to go on a World War II tour,” he said, noting a few family-related sites they plan on visiting.
When asked if the Muskegon County community can expect to see Brown in a law enforcement uniform again, he kept his response simple:
“I’m not going to rule it out,” he said. “Some guys have joked with me about it. Right now, I’m going to say, ‘No,’ but I’m going to keep my options open if something were to come up.”
“It’s only been a short time, but I miss the guys already,” he added.
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- 8 in 10 travellers recognise the importance of sustainable travel
- COVID-19 greatly fueled people's appetite to travel sustainably
- 67.7% of travellers are open to paying more for sustainable options
SHANGHAI, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, today released its inaugural "Sustainable Travel Consumer Report 2022", celebrating the annual World Tourism Day.
This report sheds light on the increased acceptance of sustainable travel and its implications for the travel industry and the wider world.
Across the globe, sustainable travel as a concept and practice has moved from the back of travellers' minds to claim a dominant position in the decision-making process, with close to eight in 10 travellers (78.7%) acknowledging its importance.
Sustainable Travel an Increasingly Accepted Idea
Based on a survey of 7,705 respondents across 11 markets in Asia and Europe, the report finds that the impact of travel has topped the list of reasons why travellers are increasingly drawn to sustainable travel.
Some 50.5% of respondents said they care about the impact of travel on future generations, a third (26.8%) cited its role in improving the travel experience, another 13.2% perceived it as trendy, and 8.4% admitted people opted for sustainable travel due to societal pressure.
Perception of sustainable travel also varies among the respondents. The report indicates a growing proportion of travellers now approach the term more holistically, emphasising the economic, cultural and biodiversity aspects in addition to the usual environmental considerations.
The more diversified understanding of sustainable travel manifests itself through several ways that travellers consider conducive to tourist destinations.
About 30% of respondents recognise the benefit of supporting local businesses and livelihoods, and a striking 43% believe respecting the culture and heritage of local destinations is also part and parcel of sustainable travel.
The Rising Awareness of Sustainable Travel
The pandemic is a key driver of a stronger desire to travel sustainably because of the shift in consumer mindset and behaviour.
The report points out that over two-thirds (67.8%) of respondents named COVID-19 as a catalyst for their increased appetite to choose sustainable options. About 38.3% said travel restrictions enhanced their appreciation for nature, and another 30.4% yearned to travel closer to home. The pandemic has led many travellers to discover short-haul journeys and realises how it can help reduce their carbon footprint.
One of the report's highlights is that it allows a glimpse into how Asian and European travellers understand and practise sustainable travel differently.
Notably, 21.3% of Europe-based respondents stated that people opt for sustainable travel because "it is trendy", while the portion of Asian travellers who took this view is much smaller, at 7.1%.
They also differed in their attitudes towards paying a higher price for sustainable options, with 39.1% of European travellers reluctant to pay extra for them, compared to 29.5% among their Asian counterparts.
Despite the regional disparities, however, it's clear from the report that more and more people have practised sustainable travel in multiple forms.
Amid heightened sustainability awareness, more than half (59.2%) of respondents demonstrate a tendency to pay for carbon offsetting to reduce the impact of their travel.
A significant opportunity for OTAs
Notwithstanding a spike in the popularity of sustainable travel, only 20% of respondents didn't report any barrier to sustainable travel, while the rest encountered various obstacles.
Inadequate visibility of sustainable options poses a significant barrier to their wider adoption. Travellers blame this on the difficulty of accessing information about sustainable travel products, with 32.9% stating there is a lack of sustainable options and 25.4% saying these are not clearly marked.
Accordingly, a little over half of them (50.7%) believed Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) should clearly label sustainable options, followed by 41.5% who called upon OTAs to make it easier to find these options, and 39.4% who suggested OTAs offer incentives.
While 67.7% of travellers are open to paying more to include sustainable options in their trips, they display varying levels of price sensitivity to the higher costs it usually entails, with only around 10% of them would be willing to pay over 10% of the total price for a sustainable option.
Against this backdrop, online travel agencies and booking platforms have a significant opportunity to tap into this by showcasing their sustainable travel credentials and endearing themselves to like-minded users. The report shows that an overwhelming 93.0% of respondents would consider booking via OTAs that provide sustainable options.
Jane Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group, said: "The results reaffirm our vision to educate travellers better and provide a greater volume and variety of reliable, sustainable travel options. Our findings are a clarion call to ourselves as to our allies in the travel sector.
"In the future, we will join hands with partners, travellers and other stakeholders to venture towards a more sustainable world."
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BOSTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) ("Ginkgo"),which is building the leading platform for cell programing and biosecurity, today announced that it intends to offer and sell $100 million of its Class A common stock in an underwritten public offering. As part of this offering, Ginkgo intends to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $15 million of the shares of Class A common stock. All of the shares in the proposed offering are to be sold by Ginkgo.
BTIG, LLC is acting as the sole book-running manager for the offering.
Ginkgo intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to offset the cash used to finance the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Bayer CropScience LP and for other general corporate purposes. The shares described above are being offered by Ginkgo pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 4, 2022 and declared effective by the SEC on October 14, 2022. The offering will be made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained, when available, from BTIG, LLC at 65 East 55th Street, New York, NY, 10022 or by e-mail at ProspectusDelivery@btig.com.
The final terms of the offering will be disclosed in a final prospectus supplement to be filed with the SEC.
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First Republic clients pulled $100B in deposits during panic
Apr 24, 2023, 2:33 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of First Republic Bank pulled more than $100 billion in deposits out of the bank during last month’s crisis, as fears swirled that it could be the third bank to fail a fter the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
San Francisco-based First Republic said Monday that it was only after a group of large banks stepped in to save it by depositing $30 billion in uninsured deposits that the bank was able to staunch the bleeding.
The bank said it now plans to sell off assets and restructure its balance sheet, and said it also expects to lay off as much as a quarter of its workforce, which totaled about 7,200 employees at the end of 2022.
First Republic reported first-quarter results Monday that showed it had $173.5 billion in deposits in early March before Silicon Valley Bank failed on March 9. On April 21, it had deposits of $102.7 billion, including the $30 billion the big banks deposited. It said since late March, its deposits have been relatively stable.
“We continue to take steps to strengthen our business,” Jim Herbert, the bank’s executive chairman and Mike Roffler, the bank’s CEO, said in a joint statement.
Before the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic had a banking franchise that was the envy of most of the industry. Its clients, mostly the rich and powerful, rarely defaulted on their loans. The bank made much of its money making low-cost loans to the rich, which reportedly included Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Even through this crisis, the bank’s book of loans more than 90 days past due was zero.
But its franchise became a liability when bank customers and analysts started focusing on the fact that the vast majority of First Republic’s deposits, like Silicon Valley and Signature Bank, were uninsured — that is, above the $250,000 limit set by the FDIC — which means that if First Republic were to fail, its depositors may not get all their money back.
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It was a nice week for players selected with the Orioles’ second pick of a draft.
The most notable case was Gunnar Henderson, who arrived in the majors Wednesday to put the Orioles’ first three selections of the 2019 draft together in their lineup. The former second-round pick recorded a hit in all but one of his first seven games, including a home run in his second major league at-bat.
Jordan Westburg, who Henderson left behind on Triple-A Norfolk’s infield, didn’t put together his best week, but 2020′s 30th overall pick still left it with a .500 slugging percentage thanks to half of his four hits being home runs.
Likewise, 2021 second-round Connor Norby continued his power output with Double-A Bowie, while Dylan Beavers, the Orioles’ top pick this year behind No. 1 overall selection Jackson Holliday, impressed with Low-A Delmarva. Both are highlighted here as each week, The Baltimore Sun will break down five of the top performers in the Orioles’ prospect ranks and hand out some superlatives for those who didn’t make that cut.
1. Double-A Bowie infielder Connor Norby
Norby is tied with Westburg for the organization’s minor league home run crown with 23, with three of those coming among his six hits last week as he slugged .895. He added a triple for good measure. Norby is hitting .292/.373/.575 with 15 home runs since joining Bowie, with an OPS more than 200 points above his mark with High-A Aberdeen.
2. Low-A Delmarva outfielder Dylan Beavers
Beavers, the 33rd overall pick in the 2022 draft, has had little trouble adapting to pro ball. He slashed .375/.423/.542 for the Shorebirds last week, and his OPS in Low-A actually went down. It’s certainly still respectable at .999.
3. Triple-A Norfolk right-hander Mike Baumann
Before pitching solidly for the Orioles in the opening game of Monday’s doubleheader as Baltimore’s 29th man, Baumann dominated for the Tides. The only run he allowed over six innings was unearned as he struck out 13 in a start Wednesday. In the two months between his previous major league stint and Monday’s start — after which he was returned to Norfolk — Baumann had a 2.89 ERA and struck out nearly a third of the batters he faced in Triple-A.
4. Triple-A Norfolk infielder Joey Ortiz
Even with Henderson, Adley Rutschman and Kyle Stowers in the majors, Ortiz is an example of why executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias believes there’s more talent coming from Baltimore’s 2019 draft. In his first week with Triple-A, Ortiz continued to mash in the manner that got him there, putting up an OPS of 1.124 with two doubles, a triple and a home run with three steals in as many tries to go along with it.
5. Double-A Bowie right-hander Noah Denoyer
Amid all of the recent talk about the Orioles’ 2019 draft, a pitcher they — and every other team — didn’t take that year had a strong outing for the Baysox. Signed as an undrafted free agent, Denoyer worked four nearly perfect innings Thursday, with a walk the only baserunner against him. Working largely in bulk relief, Denoyer has a 2.44 ERA for Bowie, striking out 64 of 181 opposing hitters.
The top prospect not featured so far
Grayson Rodriguez starts for Bowie on Tuesday in his second start since returning from a Grade 2 right lat muscle strain. In the first, he threw 31 pitches over 1 1/3 innings on Thursday for High-A Aberdeen, shaking off some rust but working in each piece of his repertoire. Each outing from Rodriguez, the game’s top pitching prospect, will provide more information as to whether he can join the Orioles to help a late playoff push.
International acquisition of the week
As a 19-year-old in Low-A, Delmarva’s Moises Chace has not had the smoothest first season in affiliated ball. But perhaps he’s closing it well. Friday for the Shorebirds, he completed five innings for the first time this season, allowing two runs on three hits and a walk while striking out four. It marked his first outing without multiple free passes since mid-June.
The best former top-30 prospect of the week
Time has likely run out for Robert Neustrom to break into the Orioles’ 2022 outfield plans, but a late push with Norfolk wouldn’t hurt. He hit .385 with a .538 slugging percentage last week, beginning September well after he struggled mightily in August.
Time to give some shine to …
Among Orioles minor leaguers with at least 300 plate appearances, Aberdeen outfielder Donta’ Williams has the sixth-highest walk rate, and of the five players above him, only Henderson has a better strikeout rate. That’s a welcome sign for Baltimore’s 2021 fourth-round pick, even as he’s generally had struggles in his first full season. Last week, he hit .313/.389/.625 with a double and two triples, stealing two bases and walking twice against three strikeouts.
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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West Hollywood hires more police amid crime fears year after slashing staffing, hiring unarmed 'ambassadors'
The West Hollywood City Council voted 3-2 to cut four police officer positions last year in favor of more unarmed security ambassadors
A southern California city council has reversed course and moved to hire more police officers amid crime concerns less than a year after moving to cut police staffing in favor of unarmed security ambassadors.
The West Hollywood City Council voted 4-0 with one council member abstaining on Monday to add four L.A. Sheriff’s Department positions and possibly more in the future as crime continues to be an issue for residents and business owners in the trendy neighborhood known for its nightlife.
"Seeing my staff crying, coming to work and not being able to feel safe in the city, it makes me responsible to be here in front of you and ask you for help," a local restaurant manager told the council shortly before the Monday vote, ABC 7 Los Angeles reported.
The vote to add more police officers comes roughly a year after the council slashed LASD funding in favor of hiring unarmed "security ambassadors" as part of a "reimagined" approach to policing.
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Supporters of the police staffing cut last June, which passed by a margin of 3-2 and cut five LASD positions, argued the unarmed security "ambassadors" would increase public safety with more eyes on the street and would provide a "rebalance of a lopsided system focused on arrests instead of safety."
Since that vote, crime in West Hollywood has taken a significant toll on residents in the form of a sharp increase in crimes like robbery and burglary as 2022 came to a close.
Members of the community were particularly rattled by an incident last month when the people were robbed at gunpoint, including by one suspect carrying an apparent assault rifle on a busy street at around 9 p.m.
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A trio of victims were robbed by a group of suspects in an incident captured on video Tuesday night in West Hollywood.
"I think what we've been hearing for the last six months as well as most recently with some of the news stories about public safety incidents is that people don't feel safe and that's however they want to define that and explain for themselves," City Council member and Mayor Pro Tempore John Erickson, who proposed the measure to establish LASD funding, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"I think what we saw last night is everyone really expressing their own opinion, their own viewpoints, but at the end of the day, we all came together and compromised and voted accordingly," Erickson added. "I'm really proud of the city and everyone that serves on that council for sure."
"I’m thrilled that Council majority could agree to reinstate several LASD positions," Council Member Lauren Meister, one of two members to oppose the cuts last year, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"I think everyone is seeing what I’ve stated before. The Ambassadors, while they provide beneficial services, are not a replacement for sworn personnel. In addition, I believe Sheriff Luna has had a positive impact on the department, as well as the relationship between the department and the city."
"I’m glad the Council listened to members of the public and restored some of the funding which was previously cut," Council Member John Heilman, who voted for the measure and was not on the council when funds were cut last year, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Last night all members of the City Council indicated that public safety is the City’s number one priority. We need to continue to work with the community and our public safety staff to make West Hollywood safer."
West Hollywood Mayor Sepi Shyne, who voted to cut funding last year before voting to restore it this year, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that crime is trending downward.
"The safety and well-being of our community is the City of West Hollywood’s top priority. We’re seeing that crime is trending downward in 2023 from 2022 levels," Shyne said. "We’re deeply committed to continuing that trend and making sure our city is safe. We are continuing to work proactively with our community safety partners."
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"There are more Block by Block security ambassadors than ever before and our Sheriff’s community policing team is out during days and our entertainment policing team is out at night so that West Hollywood is a safe place to live, work, and visit around the clock," Shyne added.
Fox News Digital reached out to Council Member Chelsea Byers, the lone member to abstain from the vote, but did not immediately receive a response.
L.A. County Sheriff's Captain Bill Moulder of the West Hollywood division told Fox News Digital he had asked the city to restore several of the positions that had been cut and was glad to see them do so.
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The central argument of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is that he understands how the economy works — thanks to his business background — in a way that President Obama does not.
Democrats have been challenging the former Massachusetts governor's claim that the private equity firm he founded helped to create more than 100,000 jobs. Now, some of Romney's Republican rivals are raising questions of their own.
Randy Johnson worked at a paper company in Indiana that was bought and later shut down by Romney's investment firm, Bain Capital. Johnson has traipsed around Iowa and New Hampshire this winter telling anyone who will listen that Bain is not the unblemished job-generating engine that Romney makes it out to be.
"They bought my plant in '94. And then in 2000, they let Ampad go bankrupt and they made $100 million," he says. "Now tell me what's right. There's something wrong with that."
Johnson and other paper workers began shadowing Romney when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994, and their complaints about Bain Capital's treatment contributed to Romney's loss that year.
Under Fire
Now that Romney is on a roll, some of his fellow Republicans are taking up the workers' charge. On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused Romney of "looting" two South Carolina companies that Bain invested in. And a superPAC supporting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is promoting a new video alleging that Romney grew wealthy in part by sacrificing U.S. workers.
Romney continues to share in Bain's profits, though he left the firm more than a decade ago. Asked about these charges during an ABC debate last weekend, Romney defended his work with Bain Capital.
"This is a free-enterprise system. We don't need government to come in and tell us how to make businesses work," he said. "We need people with passion, willing to take risks and help turn things around. And where that works, you create jobs."
Romney insists that Bain's investments helped create more than 100,000 jobs, even if you subtract the workers who were laid off to cut costs or because a business failed. He routinely cites successful companies that were backed by Bain, such as Staples, Sports Authority and Domino's Pizza, which together employ more than 100,000 people. But Romney has been less forthcoming about jobs that were cut on Bain's watch.
Some Jobs Lost
This weekend, for example, he pointed to the Steel Dynamics company of Indiana as one that grew thanks to Bain's investment. He did not mention a century-old steel plant in Kansas City where 750 workers lost their jobs. Donny Box was one of them. He had spent 32 years at the plant as a maintenance millwright.
"You've got a piece of equipment out in the mill that broke down, that was my expertise," he says. "I'd go out there and keep the mill running. And the guys that worked out there on the production plant, these guys' jobs were to put steel out the end of the door.
"And that's what we did as good or better than anybody else in the United States, right up to the day they shuttered the plant."
The plant closed in 2001. It was a tough time for the steel industry, and many plants shut down. But Box says Romney's company didn't help, by taking on so much debt.
"These people that have never produced one thing in their lives, other than shuffle one pile of money into the next pile of money," he says. "What do they know about reality?"
Jobs A 'Byproduct'
Workers lost severance pay and health insurance, and saw their pensions cut. But Bain still walked away with millions of dollars in profit. According to the Los Angeles Times, four of the top 10 companies Bain invested in on Romney's watch ultimately filed for bankruptcy. Bain still made a profit on three of them.
"It's a wonderful business in good times, and it's a pretty good business in bad times," says Howard Anderson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has followed Bain's business for years.
"What Bain Capital was in the business of doing was increasing the wealth of their investors," he says. "In some cases, it meant expanding companies and growing. In some cases, they may have eliminated jobs. Job growth was never the goal. Job growth was the byproduct."
Bain's success gave Romney a personal fortune and a campaign storyline. Some of the workers who were left behind are now giving his opponents ammunition.
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US agents search properties linked to Russian oligarch
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. federal agents on Thursday simultaneously searched properties in Manhattan, a posh Hamptons beach community, and an exclusive Miami island that have been linked to a billionaire Russian oligarch whose $120 million yacht was seized in April.
The FBI confirmed it was at a Park Avenue high-rise, an estate in Southampton, New York, and the enclave of Fisher Island on Thursday, conducting what Miami-based FBI spokesperson Jim Marshall described as “court-ordered law enforcement activity.” The bureau would not provide more information. Dozens of federal agents could be seen carrying boxes out of the Park Avenue property.
FBI agents and Homeland Security Investigations personnel searched the properties, linked to Viktor Vekselberg, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. There was no immediate response to a request for comment sent to lawyers who have represented Vekselberg.
A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Vekselberg was the target of the searches. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
A similar search occurred in Fisher Island, a stone’s thrown from Miami Beach, where dozens of agents from the FBI and other federal agencies could be seen on properties linked to Vekselberg and his associates.
NBC News first reported the searches.
A federal task force has been looking into Russian oligarchs and the money trail that helps fuel Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and the task force is working to enforce U.S. financial restrictions imposed on Russia and its billionaires. A spokesperson for the task force declined to comment.
Vekselberg, a Ukrainian-born businessman, built a fortune by investing in the aluminum and oil industries in the post-Soviet era. According to U.S. Treasury Department documents, Vekselberg heads the Moscow-based Renova Group, a conglomerate encompassing metals, mining, tech and other assets.
He was one of the first Putin allies sanctioned in April 2018 by the U.S. Treasury Department in response to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. Vekselberg’s assets in the U.S. are frozen, and American companies are barred from doing business with him and his entities.
In April, the U.S. government seized a 254-foot yacht owned by Vekselberg at a port in Spain. At the time, the U.S. Justice Department asserted that the yacht could be forfeited for violations of U.S. bank fraud, money laundering and sanctions laws.
All the properties searched Thursday are owned by Vekselberg’s childhood friend Vladimir Voronchenko or companies tied to Voronchenko’s family and associates. Voronchenko was the founding director of a St. Petersburg museum built to house the oligarch’s Faberge egg collection.
Among the properties were four luxury condominiums on Fisher Island. Three were purchased for a combined $42 million but are worth considerably more today, property records show. Two are owned by The Medallion Inc., a Panama-registered company that lists Voronchenko’s wife, Olesya Kharlamova, as a director.
Kharlamova, who like her husband was born and raised in Ukraine, is also an officer of a condominium association for two luxury high rises on Fisher Island, which is so favored by jet-setting Russians that they’ve been dubbed the “Red Zone” by other residents. Amenities include infinity-edge pools, a state-of-the-art theater and a fur coat storage facility to protect garments from Miami’s humidity.
In New York, Medallion Inc. in 2008 paid nearly $11 million for a penthouse unit at 515 Park Avenue in Manhattan and $11.4 million for the Southampton home. Both were searched Thursday.
Voronchenko’s family and associates did not immediately respond to a call placed to them seeking comment.
___
Goodman reported from Miami.
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday said more than 10 U.S. high-altitude balloons have flown in its airspace during the past year without its permission, following Washington’s accusation that Beijing operates a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world.
The Chinese allegation comes after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had crossed from Alaska to South Carolina, sparking a new crisis in bilateral relations that have spiraled to their lowest level in decades.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details about the alleged U.S. balloons, how they had been dealt with or whether they had government or military links.
“It is also common for U.S. balloons to illegally enter the airspace of other countries,” Wang said at a daily briefing. “Since last year, U.S. high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China’s airspace more than 10 times without the approval of Chinese authorities.”
Wang said the U.S. should “first reflect on itself and change course, rather than smear and instigate a confrontation.”
China says the balloon shot down by the U.S. was an unmanned airship made for meteorological research that had been blown off course. It has accused the U.S. of overreacting by shooting it down and threatened to take unspecified action in response.
Following the incident, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a visit to Beijing that many had hoped would put the brakes on the sharp decline in relations over Taiwan, trade, human rights and threatening Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea.
Also Monday, the Philippines accused a Chinese coast guard ship of targeting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the South China Sea, calling it a “blatant” violation of Manila’s sovereign rights.
Wang said a Philippine coast guard vessel had trespassed into Chinese waters without permission on Feb. 6 and that Chinese coast guard vessels responded “professionally and with restraint.” China claims virtually all of the strategic waterway and has been steadily building up its maritime forces and island outposts.
“China and the Philippines are maintaining communication through diplomatic channels in this regard,” Wang said. China’s Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a question about the incident.
Adding to tensions, a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime precedent.
The Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance program that targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden administration declared Thursday, citing imagery from American U-2 spy planes.
Part of the reason for the repeated shootdowns is a “heightened alert” following the alleged Chinese spy balloon, Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command, said in a briefing with reporters.
The United States has since placed economic restrictions on six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its response to the incident. The U.S. House of Representatives also voted unanimously to condemn China for a “brazen violation” of U.S. sovereignty and efforts to “deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns.”
Wang, the Chinese spokesperson, repeated China’s dismissal of such claims, saying, “the frequent firing of advanced missiles by the U.S. to shoot down the objects is an overreaction of overexertion.”
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GRAND BLANC, MI -- Dr. Michael McKenna is being remembered for his leadership at the Grand Blanc-based McLaren Health Care.
He died on May 9 following a short illness. He was 69 years old.
McKenna worked as a “foundational” executive with official titles of Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the company.
He joined McLaren Health Care in 2013, where he served for more than a decade’s time.
“During Dr. McKenna’s tenure at McLaren, he brought national recognition to the system through year-over-year improvement in clinical outcomes and expanded access to high-quality care throughout McLaren’s three-state service area,” a memorial on the McLaren website reads. “Dr. McKenna served as a mentor to hundreds of physicians, nurses, and health care professionals.”
McKenna was born in Elgin, Illinois in March 1953. McKenna became a physician like his father. He worked as a gastroenterologist at Midwest Digestive Disease Specialists for many years before moving on to medical administration.
He was a dad, husband, brother, uncle and friend to many, according to his obituary. McKenna enjoyed reading and spending time on his boat with friends and family.
Dr. Michael McKenna is survived by his wife, Susan, four kids and seven grandchildren.
A visitation was held for McKenna on May 15 and a funeral on May 16 in Illinois.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in McKenna’s honor are asked to be made to the McLaren Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute online at https://www.karmanos.org/karmanos-foundation/donate-to-karmanos-dr-mckenna.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Lawmakers began voting Monday to choose India’s next president in an election expected to be won by a tribal woman from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The election of Draupadi Murmu is a formality as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP controls enough seats in federal and state legislatures to push its favored candidate. She is also likely to get the support of other regional parties in state assemblies.
The president in India is chosen by an electoral college that consists of lawmakers in both houses of Parliament and elected members of the legislative assemblies of all states. The president’s role is largely ceremonial, but the position can be important during times of political uncertainty such as a hung Parliament, when the office assumes greater power.
The votes from Monday’s election will be counted Thursday.
Modi’s party has projected Murmu as a leader representing poor tribal communities, which generally lacks health care and education facilities in remote villages. Murmu, 64, hails from the eastern of state Odisha and previously was governor of Jharkhand state.
If elected, she will become the first tribal president and the second-ever female president of India.
Murmu’s main opponent is a former BJP rebel, a candidate put up by a divided opposition. Yashwant Sinha, 84, was finance minister during the previous BJP government from 1998 to 2002. He quit the party following a divergence with Modi on economic issues in 2018.
The winner will replace Ram Nath Kovind, a leader from the Dalit community, which is at the lowest end of the complex hierarchy of caste in Hinduism.
Kovind, 76, is also a longtime associate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or National Volunteer Corps, a Hindu nationalist group that has long been accused of stoking religious hatred against Muslims. He has been president since 2017. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/indian-lawmakers-vote-for-president-likely-a-tribal-woman/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-18 06:43:09 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/indian-lawmakers-vote-for-president-likely-a-tribal-woman/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
27-year-old Cleveland woman missing since June 5, police say
Published: Jun. 18, 2022 at 11:22 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 27-year-old woman from Cleveland is missing and police have asked for the community’s help to find her.
Brianna Rush has been missing since June 5, according to a Facebook post from the department.
Rush is 5 feet, 2 inches tall, and weighs 110 pounds, police said.
She has brown hair, green eyes and wears glasses, police said.
Anyone with information on Rush’s whereabouts has been asked to call detectives at 216-623-2755.
This story is ongoing and will be updated as more details are released.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) has scheduled the release of its first quarter financial results for Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET. The results will be available on the Ally Press Room website (http://media.ally.com).
Ally will host a conference call at 9 a.m. ET to review the company's performance. You may listen to the call via webcast or dial-in. The webcast will be live on Ally's Investor Relations website in the Events & Presentations section (http://www.ally.com/about/investor/events-presentations/index.html).
To join the conference via dial-in, please pre-register via the following link at least 15 minutes before the call begins: https://register.vevent.com/register/BI5aac46030789469983029aeeb8d0774a. Upon registration, you will be provided with the conference dial-in number as well as a unique registrant ID.
The presentation and financial supplement will be posted in the Events & Presentations section of Ally's Investor Relations website on April 19, 2023 at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET.
A replay of the call will be available via webcast on the Ally Investor Relations website.
About Ally Financial
Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a financial services company with the nation's largest all-digital bank and an industry-leading auto financing business, driven by a mission to "Do It Right" and be a relentless ally for customers and communities. The company serves more than 11 million customers through a full range of online banking services (including deposits, mortgage, point-of-sale personal lending, and credit card products) and securities brokerage and investment advisory services. The company also includes a robust corporate finance business that offers capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies, as well as auto financing and insurance offerings through more than 23,000 dealers nationwide. For more information, please visit www.ally.com and follow @allyfinancial.
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TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - The dresses are laid out and the suits are pressed and ready for Friday's charity ball in Tupelo.
The Junior Auxiliary of Tupelo is holding its 60th annual gala at the Cadence Bank Arena.
The event kicks off Friday night at 7:00 and will feature dinner by members of the Junior Auxiliary of Tupelo, as well as dancing.
The charity ball is the Junior Auxiliary's only fundraiser of the year and raises money to help serve the children of Tupelo and Lee County.
The Citizen of the Year will also be announced Friday night. Tickets are $50 each and can be purchased at the door. | https://www.wtva.com/news/junior-auxiliary-of-tupelo-prepares-for-annual-charity-ball/article_eb55ca76-b3d0-11ed-ad4e-33b85211af93.html | 2023-02-24 01:32:33 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/junior-auxiliary-of-tupelo-prepares-for-annual-charity-ball/article_eb55ca76-b3d0-11ed-ad4e-33b85211af93.html |
CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Thursday, March 16, 2023
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544 FPUS56 KMTR 171001
ZFPMTR
San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
300 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographic areas. For a more site specific
forecast...please visit weather.gov/sanfrancisco
(1) Select a location from the drop down menu above the map...
-- or --
(2) Click a location on the map.
You can refine your selection by clicking on the map displayed on
the resulting page.
CAZ505-180100-
Coastal North Bay...Including Point Reyes National Seashore-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds
around 5 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of showers 60 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the
mid 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 39 59 42 60 / 20
$$
CAZ503-180100-
Sonoma Coastal Range-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph...
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
around 5 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...A chance of showers in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
$$
CAZ502-180100-
Marin Coastal Range-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph...
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ506-180100-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear except patchy fog. Lows in the
30s to mid 40s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s. North winds up to 5 mph
increasing to south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to upper 40s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of showers
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to
lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 34 66 39 67 / 20
San Rafael 41 62 44 63 / 20
Napa 39 64 43 65 / 20
$$
CAZ504-180100-
North Bay Interior Mountains-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph...
becoming northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the upper 40s to mid
50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 41 63 45 64 / 20
$$
CAZ006-180100-
San Francisco-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows near
50. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows near 50. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 43 61 45 63 / 20
Ocean Beach 43 60 45 62 / 20
$$
CAZ509-180100-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph increasing to 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds...becoming southwest
5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ508-180100-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. South winds around 5 mph...
becoming west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming south after
midnight. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows around 50. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 44 62 48 64 / 20
Oakland 42 63 45 65 / 20
Fremont 40 65 45 69 / 20
Redwood City 41 65 45 68 / 20
Mountain View 42 64 46 67 / 20
$$
CAZ510-180100-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph...
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around
50. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs around 60. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 39 65 43 68 / 20
Livermore 38 65 43 68 / 10
$$
CAZ513-180100-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Light
winds.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds...
becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds around 5 mph...
becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around
50. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 41 67 46 69 / 10
Morgan Hill 39 67 44 68 / 20
$$
CAZ512-180100-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. East winds around
5 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
around 5 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the 40s to
mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers and snow showers likely. Lows in the
upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ515-180100-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Light
winds.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
around 60. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds...becoming south 5 to 10 mph
in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ514-180100-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s to lower 40s. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Areas
of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 40. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph after
midnight. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the upper
40s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Showers and snow showers. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Lows in the lower to mid
30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers and snow showers likely. Highs in the lower
40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of snow showers and showers. Lows in the
lower to mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and snow
showers. Highs in the upper 40s.
$$
CAZ529-180100-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph...becoming southwest
5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southeast after
midnight. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 39 62 43 64 / 20
$$
CAZ530-180100-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming east after
midnight. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 42 60 45 63 / 20
Big Sur 42 57 46 61 / 20
$$
CAZ528-180100-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower
40s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph...becoming southeast after
midnight. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers. Lows around 40. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 39 64 44 68 / 10
Carmel Valley 40 63 45 66 / 20
Hollister 39 65 44 68 / 10
$$
CAZ516-180100-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower
40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs around 70. Southeast
winds around 5 mph...becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph...
becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of showers
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower
60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper
50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Showers likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. A chance of showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 39 67 43 70 / 10
$$
CAZ517-180100-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s. East winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming south 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
30s to upper 40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of showers
40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the 40s to 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the 40s to 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers and snow showers. Heavy snow accumulations.
Highs in the upper 30s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow showers likely and a chance of
showers. Moderate snow accumulations. Lows in the 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers and snow showers likely. Light snow
accumulations. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and snow showers. Lows in the 30s. Highs in the lower 40s
to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ518-180100-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PDT Fri Mar 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost and patchy fog.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s. East winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph...becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph...
becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of showers 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper
40s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Lows in the 40s. Highs in the mid 40s to upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Showers and snow showers. Highs in the upper 30s to
lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of snow showers.
Lows in the 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...A chance of showers and snow showers likely. Highs
in the 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the 20s to upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 36 66 42 68 / 10
$$
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FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Delivered diluted EPS of $0.34, 62% over last year's second quarter
- Grew total year-over-year net sales 18.4% and comparable sales 19.5%
- Expanded gross margin 300 basis points over last year's second quarter to 41.4%
- Generated $58 million of operating income, a 63% increase above last year's second quarter
Chico's FAS, Inc. (NYSE: CHS) (the "Company" or "Chico's FAS") today announced its financial results for the thirteen weeks ended July 30, 2022 (the "second quarter"). The Company also provided fiscal 2022 third quarter outlook and updated its full year outlook.
Molly Langenstein, Chico's FAS Chief Executive Officer and President, commented, "Our strong momentum continues. We posted another quarter of outstanding operating income and our highest-ever second quarter EPS, driven by continued robust digital and store sales growth as well as significant year-over-year gross margin rate expansion. Our consistent performance is evidence of the power of our portfolio and the successful implementation of our strategic pillars.
"Apparel was again the standout performer for the quarter, with a 32% comparable sales increase at White House Black Market®, closely followed by a 30% comparable sales gain at Chico's®. Customers continued to respond in nearly every category to our elevated fashion and product. Soma® posted a second quarter comparable sales decline of 9%, largely impacted by the continued slowdown of the lounge and cozy categories, but Soma comparable sales have grown nearly 24% compared to 2019, demonstrating the overall strength and long-term power of the brand. Year-over-year, we significantly reduced promotional activity and achieved more full-priced sales, higher average unit retail and better productivity for all three brands."
"Our strong performance and continued momentum show that our strategy is working," concluded Langenstein. "We are a customer-led, product-obsessed, digital-first, operationally-excellent company with a compelling portfolio of three unique brands, each with their own market share opportunities. Six months into our three-year strategic growth plan, we are pleased with the considerable progress to date and are confident in our ability to achieve our long-term goals."
Business Highlights
The Company's second quarter highlights include:
- Consistent strong results: Chico's FAS posted $0.34 net income per diluted share for the second quarter, driven by strong comparable sales growth and meaningful gross margin expansion. This performance was 62% over the thirteen weeks ended July 31, 2021 ("last year's second quarter") and the Company's highest-ever second quarter net income per diluted share.
- Powerful portfolio outperforming: For the second quarter, total Chico's FAS net sales grew 18.4% and comparable sales increased 19.5% versus last year's second quarter, led by the Company's apparel brands. Chico's and White House Black Market ("WHBM") comparable sales grew 29.7% and 31.9%, respectively, in the second quarter versus last year's second quarter. Compared to the thirteen weeks ended August 3, 2019, all three brands delivered double-digit comparable sales growth.
- Marketing drove traffic and new customers: Chico's FAS continued to elevate its marketing, focusing more resources on digital. Strategic marketing efforts continue to drive more customers to the Company's brands, with total year-over-year customer count up mid-single digits, spend per customer up over last year's second quarter and the average age of new customers continuing to trend younger.
- Newly launched loyalty programs exceeding expectations: During the second quarter, Chico's FAS launched its new loyalty programs at Chico's and WHBM. Customer sentiment and redemption rates are exceeding expectations, and the newly-launched programs are increasing shopper frequency.
- Gross margin expansion: The second quarter gross margin rate rose to 41.4%, outperforming last year's second quarter by 300 basis points. Higher average unit retail and full-price sales combined with inbound freight and occupancy leverage was partially offset by elevated raw material costs.
- Double-digit operating margin: Income from operations for the second quarter was $58.2 million, or 10.4% of net sales, driven by strong sales growth and gross margin expansion, partially offset by planned increased selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A"), including labor and marketing.
Overview of Financial Results
For the second quarter, the Company reported net income of $42.0 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, compared to net income of $26.2 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, for last year's second quarter.
Sales
For the second quarter, net sales were $558.7 million compared to $472.1 million in last year's second quarter. This 18.4% improvement primarily reflects a comparable sales increase of 19.5%, partially offset by 26 permanent net store closures since last year's second quarter. The 19.5% comparable sales improvement was driven by an increase in transaction count and higher average dollar sale.
Gross Margin
For the second quarter, gross margin was $231.5 million, or 41.4% of net sales, compared to $181.5 million, or 38.4% of net sales, in last year's second quarter. The 300 basis point improvement in gross margin rate primarily reflects higher average unit retail and full price sales combined with inbound freight and occupancy leverage, partially offset by higher raw material costs.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
For the second quarter, SG&A was $173.3 million, or 31.0% of net sales, compared to $145.8 million, or 30.9% of net sales, for last year's second quarter, primarily reflecting planned marketing investments and elevated labor costs, partially offset by ongoing expense management.
Income Taxes
For the second quarter, the effective tax rate was 26.6% compared to 22.7% for last year's second quarter. The second quarter effective tax rate of 26.6% primarily reflects the impact of losses in foreign jurisdictions on which a full valuation allowance is recorded. Last year's second quarter effective tax rate of 22.7% primarily reflects a change in the estimate from the first quarter of fiscal 2021 due to an increase in the Company's projected annual pre-tax income and an increase in annual projected deferred tax assets on which a full valuation allowance exists, partially offset by the impact of the annual loss projected during the first quarter of fiscal 2021.
Cash, Marketable Securities and Debt
At the end of the second quarter, cash and marketable securities totaled $172.5 million compared to $137.2 million at the end of last year's second quarter. Debt at the end of the second quarter totaled $99.0 million compared to $149.0 million at the end of last year's second quarter.
Inventories
At the end of the second quarter, inventories totaled $338.8 million compared to $202.1 million at the end of last year's second quarter. The $136.6 million increase over last year's second quarter primarily reflects elevated in-transit inventories and early receipts to mitigate supply chain disruptions. On-hand inventories, adjusted for early fall receipts, increased 25.0% year-over-year to more align with higher consumer demand.
Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter and Full Year Outlook
For the fiscal 2022 third quarter, the Company currently expects:
- Consolidated net sales of $495 million to $510 million;
- Gross margin rate as a percent of net sales of 38.9% to 39.4%;
- SG&A as a percent of net sales of 34.4% to 34.8%;
- Effective income tax rate of 25.0%; and
- Earnings per diluted share of $0.11 to $0.14.
For the fiscal 2022 full year, the Company currently expects:
- Consolidated net sales of $2,140 million to $2,170 million;
- Gross margin rate as a percent of net sales of 38.8% to 39.1%;
- SG&A as a percent of net sales of 32.2% to 32.5%;
- Effective income tax rate of 25.0%;
- Earnings per diluted share of $0.79 to $0.87; and
- Capital and cloud-based expenditures of approximately $65 million to $70 million.
Conference Call Information
The Company is hosting a live conference call on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET to review the operating results for the second quarter. The conference call is being webcast live over the Internet, which you may access in the Investors section of the Company's corporate website, www.chicosfas.com. A replay of the webcast will remain available online for one year at http://chicosfas.com/investors/events-and-presentations.
The phone number for the call is 1-877-883-0383. International callers should use 1-412-902-6506. The Elite Entry number, 0443821, is required to join the conference call. Interested participants should call 10-15 minutes prior to the 8:00 a.m. start to be placed in queue.
ABOUT CHICO'S FAS, INC.
Chico's FAS is a Florida-based fashion company founded in 1983 on Sanibel Island, Fla. The Company reinvented the fashion retail experience by creating fashion communities anchored by service, which put the customer at the center of everything we do. As one of the leading fashion retailers in North America, Chico's FAS is a company of three unique brands - Chico's, White House Black Market and Soma - each thriving in their own white space, founded by women, led by women, providing solutions that millions of women say give them confidence and joy.
Our Company has a passion for fashion, and each day, we provide clothing, shoes and accessories, intimate apparel and expert styling in our brick-and-mortar boutiques, digital online boutiques and through StyleConnect®, the Company's customized, branded, digital styling tool that enables customers to conveniently shop wherever, whenever and however they prefer.
As of July 30, 2022, the Company operated 1,258 stores in the U.S. and sold merchandise through 58 international franchise locations in Mexico and 2 domestic franchise airport locations. The Company's merchandise is also available at www.chicos.com, www.chicosofftherack.com, www.whbm.com and www.soma.com.
To learn more about Chico's FAS, please visit our corporate website at www.chicosfas.com. The information on our corporate website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this press release or incorporated into our federal securities law filings.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
This press release contains statements concerning our current expectations, assumptions, plans, estimates, judgments and projections about our business and our industry and other statements that are not historical facts. These statements, including without limitation the quote from Ms. Langenstein and the sections captioned "Business Highlights" and "Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter and Full Year Outlook," are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In most cases, words or phrases such as "aim," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "target," "may," "will," "plans," "path," "outlook," "project," "should," "strategy," "potential," "confident" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based largely on information currently available to our management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although we believe our expectations are based on reasonable estimates and assumptions, they are not guarantees of performance. There is no assurance that our expectations will occur or that our estimates or assumptions will be correct, and we caution investors and all others not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, those described in Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and, from time to time, in Item 1A, "Risk Factors" of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the following:
The effects of the pandemic, including uncertainties about its depth and duration, new variants of COVID-19 that have emerged, the speed, efficacy and availability of vaccines and treatments, its impact on general economic conditions, human capital management, consumer behavior and discretionary spending, the effectiveness of any actions taken in response to the pandemic, and the impact of the pandemic on our manufacturing operations, shipping costs and timelines and the global supply chain; the ability of our suppliers, logistics providers, vendors and landlords, to meet their obligations to us in light of financial stress, labor shortages, liquidity challenges, bankruptcy filings by other industry participants, and supply chain and other disruptions; increases in unemployment rates and labor shortages; our ability to sufficiently staff our retail stores; changes in general economic conditions, including but not limited to, consumer confidence and consumer spending patterns; the impact of inflation on consumer spending; market disruptions including pandemics or significant health hazards, severe weather conditions, natural disasters, terrorist activities, financial crises, political crises, war and other military conflicts (such as the war in Ukraine) or other major events, or the prospect of these events, including their impact on consumer spending, inflation and the global supply chain; shifts in consumer behavior, and our ability to adapt, identify and respond to new and changing fashion trends and customer preferences, and to coordinate product development with buying and planning; changes in the general or specialty retail or apparel industries, including significant decreases in market demand and the overall level of spending for women's private branded clothing and related accessories; our ability to secure and maintain customer acceptance of in-store and online concepts and styles; increased competition in the markets in which we operate, including our ability to remain competitive with customer shipping terms and costs; decreases in customer traffic at our stores; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices; significant increases in the costs of manufacturing, raw materials, transportation, importing, distribution, labor and advertising; decreases in the quality of merchandise received from suppliers and increases in delivery times for receiving such merchandise; our ability to appropriately manage our store fleet, including the closing of underperforming stores and opening of new stores, and our ability to achieve the expected results of any such store openings or store closings; our ability to appropriately manage inventory and allocation processes and leverage targeted promotions; our ability to maintain cost saving discipline; our ability to operate our retail websites in a profitable manner; our ability to successfully identify and implement additional sales and distribution channels; our ability to successfully execute and achieve the expected results of our business, brand strategies, brand awareness programs, and merchandising and marketing programs including, but not limited to, the Company's turnaround strategy, retail fleet optimization plan, sales initiatives, multi-channel strategies and five operating priorities which are: 1) continuing our ongoing digital transformation; 2) further refining product through fit, quality, fabric and innovation in each of our brands; 3) driving increased customer engagement through marketing; 4) maintaining our operating and cost discipline; and 5) further enhancing the productivity of our real estate portfolio; our ability to utilize our distribution center and other support facilities in an efficient and effective manner; our reliance on sourcing from foreign suppliers and significant adverse economic, labor, political or other shifts (including adverse changes in tariffs, taxes or other import regulations, particularly with respect to China, or legislation prohibiting certain imports from China); U.S. and foreign governmental actions and policies and changes thereto; the continuing performance, implementation and integration of our management information systems; our ability to successfully update our information systems; the impact of any system failure, cyber security or other data security breaches, including any security breaches resulting in the theft, transfer, or unauthorized disclosure of customer, employee, or company information; our ability to comply with applicable domestic and foreign information security and privacy laws, regulations and technology platform rules or other obligations related to data privacy and security; our ability to attract, hire, train, motivate and retain qualified employees in an inclusive environment; our ability to successfully recruit leadership or transition members of our senior management team; increased public focus and opinion on environmental, social and governance ("ESG") initiatives and our ability to meet any announced ESG goals and initiatives; future unsolicited offers to buy the Company and actions of activist shareholders and others and our ability to respond effectively; our ability to secure and protect our intellectual property rights and to protect our reputation and brand images; unanticipated obligations or changes in estimates arising from new or existing litigation, income taxes and other regulatory proceedings; unanticipated adverse changes in legal, regulatory or tax laws; and our ability to comply with the terms of our credit agreement, including the restrictive provisions limiting our flexibility in operating our business and obtaining additional credit on commercially reasonable terms.
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In accordance with accounting guidance, unvested share-based payment awards that include non-forfeitable rights to dividends, whether paid or unpaid, are considered participating securities. As a result, such awards are required to be included in the calculation of income per common share pursuant to the "two-class" method. For the Company, participating securities are comprised entirely of unvested restricted stock awards granted prior to fiscal 2020.
Net income per share is determined using the two-class method when it is more dilutive than the treasury stock method. Basic net income per share is computed by dividing net income available to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period, including participating securities. Diluted net income per share reflects the dilutive effect of potential common shares from non-participating securities such as restricted stock awards granted after fiscal 2019, stock options, PSUs and restricted stock units. For the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended July 30, 2022 and July 31, 2021, potential common shares were excluded from the computation of diluted income per common share to the extent they were antidilutive.
The following unaudited table sets forth the computation of net income per basic and diluted common share shown on the face of the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income (in thousands, except per share amounts):
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WI health care system dealing with worker shortage
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A new report released Tuesday says the health care system in Wisconsin is seeing growing issues with its workforce.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association released its 2023 Health Care Workforce Report, which highlights data trends and analysis of the health care workforce. According to the report, Wisconsin’s population has continued to age, leading to many people leaving the workforce, creating high job vacancy rates.
Christina Flisram, Member of the Recruitment and Retention Strategic Workteam at Gundersen Health System, says a new generation of health care workers is bringing in new issues as well.
“We’re seeing a lot of individuals come forward that want work to fit into their life versus life fitting into work, which is a little bit of a historical mentality that people have had with their careers in the past. And I don’t know that this is a bad change. It’s just something that is important for us to adapt and make sure that we’re addressing,” Flisram said.
Flisram says a recent increase in violence towards health care workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused issues with the hiring and retention of staff.
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Western Kenosha County Transit will be implementing service changes effective Aug. 15.
WKTC is a public bus service that operates in western Kenosha County. Hours of operation for the door-to door service will be Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. No Sunday hours will be available.
Limited service is also available to the Lake Geneva, Antioch (Metra only) and the Aurora clinic in Burlington.
- Lake Geneva: Arrival 11 a.m., departure 1:30 p.m.
- Antioch: Arrival 6:30 a.m., departure 6 p.m.
- Burlington: Arrival 9 a.m., departure 11:30 a.m.
All rides must be scheduled at least a day in advance. It is recommended to give as much notice as possible, up to 30 days. Reservations may be made by calling WKCT at 1-888-203-3498. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/western-kenosha-county-transit-plans-service-changes/article_453209fc-101f-11ed-838d-4f4d7f6a9743.html | 2022-07-30 22:05:52 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/western-kenosha-county-transit-plans-service-changes/article_453209fc-101f-11ed-838d-4f4d7f6a9743.html |
Baltimore police investigate dozens of rideshare carjackings
BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Baltimore are investigating dozens of rideshare carjackings and robberies over the past month but have seen more cases despite several arrests, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said Wednesday.
In many cases, an active rideshare driver’s car and phone are stolen and the carjacker then poses as a driver, using the rideshare app to pick up unsuspecting riders, who are robbed through mobile payment apps or taken to ATMs to withdraw cash, Harrison said at a news conference.
“These incidents involve both drivers and customers, with multiple incidents where victims were forced into the vehicle, essentially being kidnapped, and then driven around to various areas,” Harrison said.
There have been 39 such cases since Nov. 22 and the most recent case was on Tuesday, he said. Six teens with ties to 12 of the cases have been arrested, Harrison said. Four of the six, who range in age from 15 to 18, have prior arrests and there are two open warrants for one more suspect, he said. Another nine people have been arrested in relation to other crimes linked to the rideshare carjackings, Harrison said.
“While we have made some arrests, we saw it continue so we know that there are more people out there who have not yet been arrested,” he said, calling on people to help police identify the perpetrators.
The carjackings and robberies have been happening primarily in the department’s southern district, but they are also crossing into neighboring Baltimore County, Harrison said. The suspects, male and female juveniles, often work in pairs or groups, he said.
“It is important for our riders to be able to get around, especially in colder months, to buy groceries, to go to work, to run errands. And therefore this is absolutely a top priority for all of us,” Harrison said. “We must protect the quality of life of our friends, our neighbors, and our co-workers.”
Uber encouraged riders to double check the details of their ride before getting in and for users to cancel trips if they don’t feel safe.
“The reported attacks are horrifying,” Uber said in a statement. “We’re in close touch with law enforcement to support their continued investigation and worked with them to send safety tips to riders and drivers in the Baltimore area.”
Calling the crimes “absolutely unacceptable,” Lyft said in a statement that it has also been in touch with law enforcement and had offered support to impacted drivers.
“Safety is fundamental to Lyft, and the incidents described are deeply troubling,” Lyft said.
City police have updated carjacking protocols to get information on these incidents in real time, uploading information to the department’s license plate reader system and getting information to patrol officers to look out for these vehicles, Harrison said.
The FBI is working with city police and has opened several investigations involving numerous individuals, according to Special Agent in Charge Thomas Sobocinski of the FBI’s Baltimore field office. The department is working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Attorney General to prosecute these cases, Harrison said.
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(KTLA) – In recent weeks, McDonald’s has re-released some fan-favorite food items, including the Cheese Danish, its iconic Halloween pails, and the McRib, and introduced new items like the Adult Happy Meal.
However, fans are still patiently awaiting the return of one menu item – Snack Wraps.
According to the McDonald’s website, the Snack Wrap consisted of chicken, shredded lettuce, and cheese wrapped in a warm tortilla.
Customers were once able to order a spicy chicken Snack Wrap or a crispy chicken wrap topped with ranch dressing. Launched in 2006, Snack Wraps were pulled from national menus a decade later (some individual franchises continued to sell them) over complaints that they took too long to make and limited success, according to Business Insider.
In 2020, when McDonald’s thinned out its menus, the Snack Wrap was completely removed from restaurants.
Fans of the fast-food chain have since expressed their grievances with McDonald’s reluctance to bring back the beloved item on social media for quite some time.
Others have created petitions – multiple petitions – or social media campaigns to persuade the company to re-release Snack Wraps.
Certain fans have even asked Doja Cat, a rapper and singer, to bring back the Snack Wrap after a viral TikTok video of her making a rap about Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza led to the resurgence of the item, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Unlike the Cheese Danish and the Halloween Happy Meal pumpkin pails, the Snack Wrap likely won’t be making a return. McDonald’s confirmed to Business Insider earlier this year that they have no re-release plans.
Even so, fans have continued to demand the item get another chance. Other food companies, like Slim Jim, have also inquired about the Snack Wraps.
After McDonald’s announced the return of the McRib – dubbed a “Farewell Tour” – on Twitter Monday, the Slim Jim account asked McDonald’s when the Snack Wraps are coming back.
McDonald’s response: “I just run the Twitter Slim Jim.”
Nexstar’s KTLA reached out to McDonald’s for an updated comment about a potential Snack Wrap return but didn’t hear back in time for publication.
Even KFC seems to be taking on the Snack Wrap, announcing earlier this month that it would be testing chicken wraps at select locations. It discontinued a similar product in 2014, the Twister Wrap. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/following-other-re-releases-mcdonalds-fans-want-this-item-to-return-to-menus-nationwide/ | 2022-10-26 04:15:06 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/following-other-re-releases-mcdonalds-fans-want-this-item-to-return-to-menus-nationwide/ |
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salvation Army announced today that it will be hosting the 2022 Homelessness Symposium, which will be held Thursday, September 29th at the offices of Gibson Dunn in downtown Los Angeles. The Symposium will feature leading voices from the public and private sectors and will provide attendees valuable insights into the homelessness crisis facing the greater Los Angeles community.
The confirmed speakers to date include: City Attorney Mike Feuer, City Councilmember Joe Buscaino, LAHSA Chair Wendy Gruel, CCA CEO Jessica Lall, LABC Chair Mary Leslie, Gilmore & Associates CEO Tom Gilmore, Homelessness Blue Ribbon Commissioner Sarah Dusseault, Former LA Councilmember and current Chief Strategy & Advancement Officer for Kedren Community Health Center David Ryu, Union Rescue Mission CEO Andy Bales, Los Angeles Mission President & CEO Troy Vaughn, USC Professor Dr. Carl Castro, and Michael Lehrer, President and Founder of Lehrer Architects LA.
"There is no greater issue facing the city of Los Angeles than Homelessness and there are few organizations with as much depth, expertise and comprehensive capability as The Salvation Army," said Andrew Jameson, Chair of The Salvation's Army LA Metropolitan Advisory Board. "It is my hope that this symposium can stimulate productive, engaging and even disruptive conversation between thought leaders in the public and private sectors as we continue to confront and find ways to resolve this crisis."
Added Captain Sean Kelsey, The Salvation Army's Los Angeles Metro Coordinator, "We are excited to bring together some of the most influential leaders in the public and private sectors to discuss the problems of homelessness, but more importantly, pursue solutions to one of the greatest humanitarian crises that the city of Los Angeles has ever experienced."
The Salvation Army's Homelessness Symposium is an educational forum that seeks to ignite conversation and action around the most pressing homelessness issues facing the Los Angeles community. It will feature keynotes, fireside chats, panels, and Q&As.
Registration is available now at https://usawest.wufoo.com/forms/r18ho6uw1wnif57/ and parking has been arranged at the Gibson Dunn Office.
For more information about the event & to RSVP, please visit: https://westernusa.salvationarmy.org/la-metro/
The Salvation Army annually helps more than 30 million Americans overcome poverty, addiction, and economic hardships through a range of social services. By providing food for the hungry, emergency relief for disaster survivors, rehabilitation for those suffering from drug and alcohol abuse, and clothing and shelter for people in need, The Salvation Army is doing the most good at 7,000 centers of operation around the country. In 2021, The Salvation Army was ranked No. 2 on the list of "America's Favorite Charities" by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more information, visit SalvationArmyUSA.org Follow us on Twitter @SalvationArmyUS and #DoingTheMostGood.
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NEW YORK — Have you ever wondered what a black hole sounds like?
It's about as haunting as you'd expect.
NASA's Exoplanets team tweeted out an eerie 34-second audio clip this week of a "data sonification" of the black hole in a galaxy cluster 240 million light-years from Earth.
Essentially, scientists turned data from the depths of space into a sound humans can hear.
"The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel," NASA tweeted. "A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound."
Even if space seems totally quiet, objects are still making noise — there's just nothing for sound waves to vibrate.
Scientists have known since 2003 that the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster is associated with some sort of sound, NASA said, because there is so much gas in the surrounding galaxy cluster. Astronomers discovered the pressure waves sent out by the black hole were causing ripples in the hot gas. Those vibrations could be translated into a musical note, but the note is far too low for humans to hear, some 57 octaves below middle C.
So the signals were adjusted into the range of human hearing, scaled upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch. NASA originally released the "remix" in May.
"Another way to put this is that they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency," NASA said.
NASA released another data sonification of a different black hole, Messier 87 — one that isn't quite so spooky.
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“Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around and try to do nothing.”
— Hope Davis, actress
Summer has returned. In Maine, that means it’s time to host relatives and friends from other parts of the country that, if we may be so immodest, aren’t as nice as Maine in the summer.
For some, house guests are a touch of heaven. For others, they are like the black flies that start in early June and, as tourist season stretches into the fall, keep arriving into September, and even October.
The worst is when they call from somewhere on Interstate 95 and say, “We’re on our way, and unfortunately we can only stay a week.” Some of them add, “And I’m sure you’ll understand that we have to bring the dogs.” These can be casual acquaintances to whom you said thoughtlessly last winter that it would be nice to see them in Maine sometime.
Maine is still mostly balmy, while Boston, Washington, New York and Philadelphia are still feeling stifling heat, so heading Down East sounds attractive. Free rent is not the only factor, but it helps.
Family visitors, of course, are usually a pleasant exception, but intrusion by virtual strangers can be a curse. Many don’t seem to realize that, while they are on vacation, their Maine hosts have their own lives to lead, including earning a living. So do a few things on your own to give them time off.
For those who come visiting, a few bits of advice: Remember the classic three-day rule, which usually means two nights and three days. That is plenty of time to catch up without the stay getting tired and repetitive. Two days is usually adequate.
If you bring a gift, make it something to eat or drink. Don’t bring wind chimes or trivets. Mainers probably have them already or hate them.
Finally, beware of telling Mainers how to live their lives. Be cautious with advice on how to sharpen knives or work a grill or build a fire. They probably know already and like the way they do it.
The late editor of the Ellsworth American, James Russell Wiggins, used to say that everyone thinks they know how to do three things: build a fire, hold a baby and put out a newspaper.
Visitors, you have been warned. Hosts, you have been defended. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/26/opinion/editorials/maine-summer-house-guests/ | 2023-06-26 16:04:33 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/26/opinion/editorials/maine-summer-house-guests/ |
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Cadillac on Monday confirmed it will enter three V-Series.R LMDh race cars in the premier Hypercar class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race cars made their competition debut in January during the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the car fielded by Cadillac Racing and Chip Ganassi finished in third place, behind a pair of Acura ARX-06 LMDh cars.
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(THE CONVERSATION) Body camera and surveillance footage depicting the Jan. 7, 2023, fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was key in raising national awareness and prompting protests for police reform. It may now play a crucial part in any prosecution of those accused in his death.
Five Memphis police officers have been charged with murder and are set to appear in court on Feb. 17. Additionally, the U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Nichols’ death.
For over a decade, I have studied how video evidence has helped civil rights and human rights claims get recognition and restitution in the U.S. and around the world. As a media scholar, I am especially interested in understanding the power and limitation of video evidence inside the courtroom, especially as video is now estimated to form a part of four in every five criminal cases.
I have found that video does not provide a unified, objective window onto the truth. Rather, jurors may perceive the depicted events differently – based, among other factors, on how the video is presented in court.
How video’s presentation can influence perception
Video can turn its viewers into witnesses, giving them the impression that they are transported directly to the event in question. Even judges may believe that the opportunity to see a video is equivalent to those in court seeing the real event. In the words of one district judge, it is as if the court had “witnessed with its own eyes.” Yet a growing body of interdisciplinary research has shown that there are many influences on how people perceive events recorded on video.
The speed at which video is played in court, for example, can affect people’s judgments. Videos played in slow motion, compared with normal speed, result in greater judgment of the intention of the person in the depicted action. Sports replays are an easy way to understand this point – slowing down events can make a foul in soccer or football seem more egregious.
Additionally, even the type of video people see can change their perception of what it shows. Across eight different experiments, viewers of body camera footage were less likely to judge the police officer as having acted intentionally than those who watched the same incident captured on a dashboard camera.
The variations in the perception of intent were driven, in part, by the distinctive camera perspective. A body camera records from the police officer’s point of view, so it is unable to show the officer. On the other hand, a dashboard camera is mounted on a police car, thus it can show the officer’s actions from a wider angle and not necessarily from their viewpoint.
Confirmation bias
The discrepancies in perception and the judgments that ensue from the type and presentation of video are significant: They can be highly consequential in a criminal court trial where intent needs to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Furthermore, these cognitive biases may be particularly pernicious to people of color within a legal system that already discriminates against them. The perspective of body cameras, for example, may worsen racial biases in viewers of videos depicting police use of force. A study shows that white viewers perceived dark-skinned civilians more negatively than light-skinned individuals when the body camera made them the subject of primary focus.
A common assumption is that repeated viewing can assist people to focus on information they may have missed on the first viewing, seemingly helping them better evaluate the depicted event. During trial, jurors indeed have multiple opportunities to see the same video.
However, an eye-tracking study demonstrates how people engage in visual confirmation bias: Their eyes follow a very similar pattern of visual attention, making them overconfident about their initial perception of the video in question. In other words, multiple viewing opportunities are ultimately unlikely to reduce biases that may already exist.
The proliferation of video is therefore challenging the existing legal practices regarding its presentation and use in court.
Equal and fair justice in an age of video
The Bureau of Justice Assistance at the U.S. Department of Justice estimates that video now appears in about 80% of criminal cases. Yet U.S. courts, from state and federal all the way to the Supreme Court, lack clear guidelines on how video can be used and presented as evidence.
As a result, the U.S. legal system provides substantial discretion in evaluating video evidence by ignoring a range of biases that may shape visual perception and judgment in court.
The footage of Tyre Nichols is yet another reminder that video can help people bear witness to traumatic events. However, the way video is presented in court can greatly influence jurors’ perceptions.
As more and more encounters with police officers that are proving deadly are making their way into criminal and civil courts, I believe, the legal system needs mechanisms that can ensure consistency and fairness in the presentation and evaluation of video as evidence.
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Rodgers says Packers offense can grow from early adversity
Aaron Rodgers says he expects the Green Bay Packers offense to face plenty of adversity during the preseason as it lines up against a defense that seems far more settled
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers says he expects the Green Bay Packers offense to face plenty of adversity during the preseason as it lines up against a defense that seems far more settled.
The four-time MVP quarterback believes that could prove beneficial in the long run.
“I think we need that,” Rodgers said. “We need to go against a top-notch defense every single day and kind of get it handed to us.”
Rodgers returns for his 18th season in Green Bay as the reigning MVP, just as he was a year ago. But the circumstances have changed dramatically.
Last year, Rodgers reported for training camp after sitting out the Packers mandatory minicamp in a standoff with team management. The two parties have since smoothed out those differences. Rodgers said earlier this year he “definitely” plans to end his career as a Packer.
“We had a process to go through collectively, and it’s nice to be on the other side of those conversations,” Rodgers said. “I enjoyed them. I enjoyed the conflict and the back and forth and trying to find some common ground, and I think it’s meant a lot to all of our friendships individually.”
His satisfaction was evident from his decision to report for training camp in a white tank top to resemble Nicolas Cage’s character from the 1997 movie “Con Air,” a look that went viral after the Packers posted a video of their quarterback’s arrival on social media.
That followed Rodgers’ decision to dress as Keanu Reeves’ “John Wick” character for a Halloween party last year.
“It’s easy to take things a little too seriously,” Rodgers said. “There’s a time and a place for everything. I felt like I gave an ode to one of my all-time favorite actors last year for Halloween and an ode to possibly my all-time favorite actor Day One of training camp. I feel like I’ve checked all the boxes.”
Rodgers, 38, arrives at training camp with plenty of work to do now that All-Pro wideout Davante Adams is with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Adams had caught 432 passes for 5,310 yards and 47 touchdowns over the past four seasons to lead all NFL players in each of those three categories. The Packers also must replace deep threat Marquez Valdes-Scantling, now with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Rodgers’ best seasons have come when he’s had a clear-cut top wideout such as Adams or Jordy Nelson. He doesn’t have that luxury at this point as he works with a group currently missing veteran free-agent signee Sammy Watkins and rookie second-round draft pick Christian Watson, who are unavailable for the start of training camp because of injuries.
“When you walk in the locker room for so many years and you see 87’s locker over there, Jordy Nelson, (or) you see Davante Adams, it gives you a different feel,” Rodgers said. “You just know you’ve got that guy. And we have some opportunity for some guys to kind of step into that role.”
That’s not the offense’s only concern.
Green Bay’s two best offensive linemen — left tackle David Bakhtiari and guard Elgton Jenkins — aren’t practicing yet as they recover from knee injuries.
Nathaniel Hackett, the Packers offensive coordinator the previous two seasons, is now the Denver Broncos head coach and has ex-Green Bay tight ends coach Justin Outten on his staff. Luke Getsy, the Packers quarterbacks coach last year, is the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator.
Rodgers is confident the Packers will again have a strong offense even after all the offseason upheaval. It just might not be evident early in the preseason, though the offense fared well Wednesday in the first training camp workout.
“We’re going to take our lumps,” Rodgers said. “And I look forward to that because it’s going to build some character I think through the adversity we have to face as an offense after some of the pieces that we don’t have right now.”
Packers coach Matt LaFleur says the approach Rodgers takes each day should help those newer players in their development.
“I think there’s a standard which, number one, he holds himself to,” LaFleur said. “And then I think all the guys kind of see that. They just stand up a little straighter in that huddle, so to speak. He demands it of himself first and foremost. He exemplifies what it looks like to be a pro.”
One positive for Rodgers is that he is working again with quarterbacks coach Tom Clements, who is back for a second stint in Green Bay after previously working for the Packers from 2006-16. Rodgers led the Packers to a Super Bowl title in the 2010 season with Clements as his quarterbacks coach.
Rodgers remembers that as a young player, he “wanted nothing more than to make Tom Clements happy.”
“I loved that Tom held me accountable in more ways than just the stat sheet,” Rodgers said. "It was all about the fundamentals, the decision-making, the footwork and stuff that really actually has molded me into the quarterback I am today.”
Green Bay’s younger players feel the same way about Rodgers.
“He’s like the cool uncle to me,” running back A.J. Dillon said. “He’s the guy like in college and you’re in middle school, and he’s telling you these cool stories, so every time you go out there, you want to impress him and make sure you’re doing the right thing.”
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McLaren Automotive will introduce a next-generation V-8 engine to power its future supercars, the automaker announced on Tuesday.
The engine is being developed in-house and will be manufactured under contract by Ricardo, the British engineering company that supplies McLaren’s current V-8 and V-6 engines.
McLaren’s current V-8, a turbocharged 4.0-liter unit, traces its roots to the turbocharged 3.8-liter V-8 that debuted in the 12C supercar more than a decade ago. That engine had links to a Nissan V-8 originally developed in the late 1980s for endurance racing.
McLaren hasn’t said when the new V-8 will be introduced, but it will likely end up in at least two models. These include successors to the P1 hypercar and new 750S supercar. The successor models are expected to arrive in 2026, when McLaren is expected to exclusively offer electrified cars, according to information that was allegedly revealed during a recent dealer meeting.
The supply agreement for the new V-8 will extend into the next decade, according to Graham Ritchie, Ricardo’s CEO, meaning McLaren isn’t planning to phase out V-8 engines anytime soon.
“We are extremely pleased to have concluded this new engine supply agreement with McLaren Automotive for their next generation high-performance V-8 powertrain, which extends the long-term relationship between both companies into the next decade,” he said.
Despite McLaren planning to stick with V-8 engines, the company is also investigating electric powertrains. However, the automaker has said existing EV technology isn’t appropriate for supercar applications due to weight and charge duration issues.
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