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NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, 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:
Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPTX)'s sale to Bristol Myers Squibb for $76.00 per share. If you are a Turning Point shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE)'s sale to Prologis, Inc. for 0.475x of a Prologis share for each Duke Realty share. If you are a Duke Realty shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Covetrus, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVET)'s sale to funds affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and TPG Capital for $21.00 per share in cash. If you are a Covetrus shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: YMTX)'s sale of its product candidate, YTX-7739, and Yumanity's unpartnered discovery-stage neuroscience product candidates and targets to Janssen Pharmaceutica NV for $26 million in cash, and Yumanity's proposed merger with Kineta, Inc. If you are a Yumanity shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calliditas Therapeutics AB (publ) ("Calliditas") today announced that it will host a fireside chat with its commercial partner Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest") on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 at 8am Eastern Time (2pm Central European Time, 8pm China Standard Time).
The fireside chat will feature an introduction to Rogers Yongqing Luo, Everest's new CEO, and a presentation from Dr Zhengying Zhu, Everest's Chief Medical Officer, Internal Medicine, who will discuss the IgA nephropathy (IgAN) disease landscape and market in China, the NefIgArd clinical trial, and Everest's strategic plans in the renal space. There will then be a Q&A session.
To register, please click here.
Calliditas entered into a license agreement with Everest to develop and commercialize Nefecon in Greater China and Singapore in IgAN in 2019 and expanded the agreement to include South Korea in March 2022. Everest's New Drug Application (NDA) for Nefecon was accepted for review by the Chinese regulatory authority National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in November 2022.
For further information, please contact:
Marie Galay, IR Manager, Calliditas
Tel.: +44 79 55 12 98 45, email: marie.galay@calliditas.com
The information was sent for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, on December 9, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. CET.
About Calliditas
Calliditas Therapeutics is a commercial stage biopharma company based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product, developed under the name Nefecon, has been granted accelerated approval by the FDA under the trade name TARPEYO® and conditional marketing authorization by the European Commission under the trade name Kinpeygo®. Kinpeygo is being commercialized in the European Union Member States by Calliditas' partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG. Additionally, Calliditas is conducting a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis and a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial in head and neck cancer with its NOX inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. Calliditas' common shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
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Platform Methods Reduce GMP Turnaround Times (TAT) by Three-fold, from 22 to 6 Weeks
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM), a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) dedicated to addressing the testing challenges associated with commercializing cell and gene therapies, announced today the launch of their Analytical Accelerator™ for AAV Testing to help gene therapy developers meet the quality domains of identity, safety, purity, potency, and stability required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and global regulatory authorities.
"Given recent gene therapy approvals and a growing clinical pipeline, there is currently a severe shortage of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) testing capacity for AAV-based gene therapies, resulting in extremely long leads for key assays, missed turnaround targets, and the need to rely on five providers on average to get AAV-based gene therapies tested," said Joerg Ahlgrimm, CBM's Chief Executive Officer. "Launching this cohesive set of 40+ GMP AAV platform assays and domain-specific modules supports our recently announced plans to build the most comprehensive contract testing capabilities in the world."
CBM's Analytical Accelerator™ for AAV Testing Platform speeds time to GMP batch release more than three-fold (22 to 6 weeks) with no wait times and a complete package of platform assays across the full spectrum of FDA quality domains located at a single provider. Consolidating providers allows AAV gene therapy developers to ship to a single laboratory, reducing sample volumes needed by up to 50 percent. Beyond platform assays, custom assay development has been performed in half the time (6 months vs. 12) of de novo development using Analytical Accelerator™ methods. This comprehensive, single-source approach significantly saves time and costs.
"Everyone at CBM comes to work to make therapies for patients – especially those with rare genetic disease with no approved treatments," said Dana Cipriano, Sr. Vice President of Testing and Analytical Services for CBM. "This comprehensive offering will drive down the costs of AAV-based gene therapies and bring much needed testing capacity to improve access for the patients that need them. The Analytical Accelerator™ for AAV Testing Platform combined with our first-time right process development approach and no wait time for GMP slots for manufacturing along with our batch success guarantee, positions CBM to offer the most integrated AAV capabilities to our clients to bring the next-generation of AAV-based gene therapies to market faster."
"Drug material is extremely precious when it comes to rare diseases or any other small-batch production (e.g., individualized medicines). All partners involved must be resourceful, creative, and fully comply with regulatory requirements," said Julia Taravella, Executive Director of Rare Trait, a non-profit biotechnology research company who selected CBM as its testing partner for AAV9 drug release for a Phase I clinical trial to treat Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU), a fatal childhood disorder that presents like autism. "CBM's attention to details and customer priorities will help bring the treatment to more patients living with AGU and accelerate our path to clinic and market."
Visit https://now.breakthroughmedicines.com/aav-testing-platform to learn more.
About The Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM)
The Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM) is a cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) uniquely positioned to enable pharma and biotech companies to develop, test, manufacture and market life-saving therapies and treatments on a global scale. Ideally located in the heart of Philadelphia's Cellicon Valley, CBM has assembled the most accomplished cell and gene therapy experts in the world, armed with cutting-edge and innovative technologies, to offer scalable, best-in-class pre-clinical through commercial manufacturing capabilities including process development, plasmid DNA, viral vector manufacturing, cell banking, cell processing, and a full suite of complementary and standalone testing and analytical capabilities.
Purpose-built and patient-driven, CBM was designed from the ground up to be a more-effective CDMO; providing single-source, end-to-end solutions to deliver true partnership and unprecedented value to its customers through teamwork, transparency and speed-to-market dedication.
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SF Conservatory buys Askonas Holt representation agency
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Conservatory added a major classical music agency to its commercial businesses, announcing Friday it was acquiring London-based Askonas Holt.
Askonas’ clients includes conductors Daniel Barenboim, Myung-Whun Chung, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann and Michael Tilson Thomas; sopranos Angel Blue and Eva-Maria Westbroek; mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; tenors Marcelo Álvarez and Ian Bostridge; and composers Thomas Adès and George Benjamin.
The conservatory purchased Opus 3 artists in October 2020 and added the record label Pentatone Music this past May.
Donagh Collins, Askonas’ CEO since 2014, will become CEO of both agencies and join the conservatory trustees’ committee on business and corporate alliances. Conservatory president David Stull is chairman of the alliance of the various organizations. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/12/09/sf-conservatory-buys-askonas-holt-representation-agency-2/ | 2022-12-09 17:25:22 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/12/09/sf-conservatory-buys-askonas-holt-representation-agency-2/ |
By Liann Herder
diverseeducation.com
In just two months, the pause on federal student loan repayment will come to an end. Many borrowers are not financially prepared to resume payments due to the lingering effects of the pandemic, particularly women, who disproportionately shoulder two thirds of the $1.7 trillion of federal student loan debt.
That’s according to a new report released by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a research and policy group focusing on consumer lending. Using datasets from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey and a focus group of 33 diverse women who lost or left their jobs during the pandemic, CRL found that women today have less job security than before the pandemic, and any gains experienced by the economy in 2021 fell inequitably towards white people, in particular white men.
The report concludes that, for economic equity, student debt should be cancelled across the board, $50,000 per borrower.
Sunny Glottmann, a researcher with CRL and co-author of the report, said that she and her fellow researchers wanted to understand how student loan balance impacted the finances and financial well-being of women as they “persist through an economic hardship.”
“We find that young people, especially young women of color, are now in a position where they are less able to build a life that has all the benefits of economic prosperity” said Glottmann. “Black and Latina women are working their tuchuses off to provide for their families and have no real promise of being able to get out from debt. And that is a really, really tough burden to bear.”
Dr. Stella Flores, an associate professor of higher education and public policy at The University of Texas at Austin, said that the results of this report should not come as a surprise due to the pre-existing racial and gender wealth gap in America.
“Owning a home and the transfer of wealth tends to pay for college and homes. For generations, Black and Latinx and Native Americans missed out on that opportunity to earn any wealth because of legal discrimination. It builds up,” said Flores. “The racial wealth gap is one of our biggest problems in this nation and an uncomfortable one. Certain groups had honors imposed on them because of race, that only whites and white men could earn the wealth that ultimately pays for education, housing, and health.”
Flores added that borrowers are often told their burden of debt is due to bad personal choices, as opposed to centuries of racial wealth and class gaps.
“It’s a compounding, cumulative force which really calls for more attention,” said Flores.
Of the 33 women in CRL’s focus group, only four had paid off their student loans. Of the remaining 29, those that identified as Black or Latinx were more likely than their white counterparts to have a student loan debt greater than $50,000. Each confirmed they took full advantage of the federal repayment pause, and two-thirds either said they were not ready for loan repayment to begin, or that resuming payments would cause stress.
Women’s wages are less on average than a man’s earnings over time.
Katherine Welbeck, director of advocacy and civil rights counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit focused on alleviating student debt, said the gender wage gap speaks to the value society places on the work of women.
“It’s really a matter of equity and economic justice to fix [the loan crisis],” said Welbeck. “The gender pay gap, the costs of childcare, and so many other costs women bear, we have to put that into the ways that student debt disproportionately effects women.”
Women are more likely to engage in jobs that have high interpersonal contact, those most impacted by a pandemic that required social distancing. In February 2020, 77.4% of all jobs in education and healthcare were held by women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The majority of jobs lost during the pandemic were held by women, according to a 2021 report from the National Women’s Law Center.
Sabrina Calazans, director of borrower outreach at the Student Debt Crisis Center, a nonprofit working to end student debt, agreed with the report’s conclusion that student debt should be cancelled. Calazans actively liaisons with student borrowers, working to share their stories with those empowered to impact policy.
“The biggest connecting thread I’ve seen [between borrowers] is shame and guilt, because people were told to go to college, that it would help them in social mobility, and they’d be in a better position because they went to school. But because of the barriers faced by students of color and women, they’re saddled with this debt—working, but they can’t pay it off,” said Calazans. “A lot of people fall into default and have their wages, social security, and even taxes garnished. It’s putting people in a worse spot than they were before.”
Flores said that while loans have an important purpose in helping people climb the ladder of social mobility, a robust public policy debate on the widening of wealth inequities is needed.
“There has to be more innovative ways of cancelling loan debt for the nation. Can there be donors, or charitable contributions? It doesn’t just to have to be government.” said Flores. “If you think about it, $50,000, $40,000, $30,000 to a low-income person, that’s still insurmountable. If you were to forgive that, what you’re doing is freeing human capital to develop their own and future generations without the heavy burden—the bricks on their back—that is debt.”
Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com. | http://www.birminghamtimes.com/2022/07/black-and-latina-women-hold-the-most-student-debt/ | 2022-07-04 18:14:05 | 1 | http://www.birminghamtimes.com/2022/07/black-and-latina-women-hold-the-most-student-debt/ |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley Research Group (BRG), a global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm, announced today that labor economists Mike DuMond, PhD, Eric Mitchem, PhD, Benjamin S. Shippen, PhD and Wayne Strayer, PhD, have joined the firm as managing directors in its Labor and Employment practice. The four new hires previously served as managing directors at a premier economic consulting firm.
"As a former labor and employment attorney, I know these professionals have the breadth of experience and industry connections to add meaningful value to BRG's clients," said Raymond Kolls, a managing director and co-leader of BRG's Economics and Damages community. "This distinguished group will deepen our Labor and Employment practice's consulting and litigation capabilities, encompassing everything from class certification matters, wage and hour, pay equity studies, EEOC risk assessment and OFCCP compliance, as well as disparate impact testing in promotions, terminations and assessments of employee performance. With these additions, BRG is now home to one of the most comprehensive L&E consulting and expert witness groups in the industry."
DuMond said on behalf of the group: "BRG has always been a destination for the world's most preeminent labor consulting talent, and we are excited to join the ranks of its industry leaders like David Lewin and Janet Thornton. Our group looks forward to providing services that span the full scope of BRG's offerings––whether it be quantitative data analysis, development of statistical models or administration of complex electronic databases."
The group significantly expands and complements the existing expertise of BRG's Labor and Employment practice, which includes managing directors Lewin, Thornton and Stefan Boedeker. BRG's full-service practice is one of the few in the country that also offers industrial–organizational psychology and organizational development capabilities provided by directors Elizabeth Arnold and Chester Hanvey, who conduct job analyses (e.g., on-site observations, questionnaires, interviews) and validate employee selection procedures. In addition, the practice offers advisory and expert services in the areas of executive compensation, no poaching and non-compete arrangements, and independent contractor versus employee status. The arrival of these new experts marks the evolution of BRG's Labor and Employment practice into one of the most robust in the marketplace today.
DuMond's consulting experience includes numerous engagements in matters involving pay equity, disparate impact, wage and hour compliance, systemic Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigations, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) audits and calculation of economic exposure. He routinely works with counsel and internal subject-matter experts to design statistical models that are reflective of an employer's hiring, promotion, compensation, termination and performance evaluation processes. He also routinely works with employers and internal and external counsel on proactive audits relating to potential compensation disparities. His engagements in wage-and-hour matters have involved allegations relating to off-the-clock work, miscalculation of the regular rate of pay, missed meal/rest periods and misclassification of exempt status. His academic research focuses on employee compensation and selection procedures and has been published in professional peer-reviewed journals including Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic Inquiry and the Journal of Sports Economics.
Mitchem focuses on the application of economic, econometric and statistical analysis to employment litigation, EEOC investigations, OFCCP audits and proactive self-monitoring studies. He consults with large corporations, government contractors and leading law firms on employment discrimination matters to monitor and assess the risk of litigation or government investigation for various occupations and industries. He also helps clients design statistical models consistent with their hiring, promotion, performance evaluation, compensation, termination and reduction-in-force decisions.
Shippen concentrates his consulting practice on economic modeling and statistical analysis in the areas of labor and employment. He has worked on engagements involving allegations of discrimination in compensation, hiring, termination, performance, promotion and other employment decisions under Title VII, Equal Pay Act and Americans with Disabilities Act claims. In wage-and-hour matters, Shippen has provided analysis and expertise addressing both Fair Labor Standards Act and state law issues of unpaid overtime pay claims, off-the-clock work, improper tip pooling and employee misclassification. In addition, Shippen has experience in building and managing large and complex employment databases to analyze the effects of employment practices and policies. His research has been published in professional peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Labor Research, Atlantic Economic Journal and Legal Applications of Data for Institutional Research.
Strayer provides expertise in matters involving claims of discrimination in employment practices, studies of pay equity, EEOC and OFCCP audits and investigations, and studies of wage-and-hour compliance. He works with attorneys and human resource professionals to identify and study data relevant to employment practices, including hiring, promotions, compensation, terminations and performance and discipline decisions. He also assists clients who are involved in litigation or conducting proactive studies of their employment practices. His research has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources and The Review of Economics and Statistics.
"In today's fast-changing labor market, our clients rely on us for expert counsel and guidance more than ever before," added Jeffery A. Stec, a managing director and co-leader of BRG's Economics and Damages community. "This group's arrival further cements our market-leading Labor and Employment practice and represents a significant milestone for the practice's growth."
To learn more about BRG's Labor and Employment practice, visit https://www.thinkbrg.com/services/labor-employment/.
About BRG
Berkeley Research Group, LLC (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps leading organizations advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. Headquartered in California with offices around the world, we are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists and professionals working across borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what's next. Visit thinkbrg.com to learn more.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top U.N. officials, health industry leaders and activists demanded Monday that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in tuberculosis fueled by the impact of COVID-19 and conflicts including Ukraine and Sudan.
At a crowded meeting punctuated by activists chanting “End TB Now,” there were speeches from many TB sufferers and a keynote by U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who spoke about how her father passed on tuberculosis to her two-year-old sister: TB claimed his life at the age of 60, but her sister, now 50, is a survivor.
Tuberculosis is the biggest infectious disease killer in the world today, taking the lives of around 4,400 people every day around the world including 700 children, Dr. Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, said ahead of Monday’s hearing to prepare for a high-level meeting on Sept. 22 during the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
The U.N. deputy secretary-general said global response efforts to tuberculosis have saved 74 million lives since 2000, but over 10.5 million people got the disease and an estimated 6.1 million died in 2021, and it is now the leading cause of death for people with HIV.
The TB epidemic is driven by a host of factors including poverty, malnutrition and HIV and disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in all countries, Mohammed said, stressing that these drivers of the disease must be addressed.
She said $22 billion is needed to provide all people diagnosed with TB access to quality treatment by 2027 along with access to health and social benefits so they don’t suffer financial hardship — and an additional $5 billion a year is needed for TB research and innovation.
“We can develop safe and effective tuberculosis vaccines and simple one-stop shops for quality tests and care,” Mohammed said. “This would be a game changer.”
U.N. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a video address to the meeting that COVID-19 “turned our world upside-down” for three years, and in addition to the millions of deaths it deprived millions of people of essential health services including for tuberculosis.
“Conflicts across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East have made life-saving services even harder to access for people living with TB,” he said. “These challenges have been a setback in the fight against TB, reversing some of the significant gains we have made over the past 20 years in expanding access to prevention, testing and treatment.”
The WHO chief said the high-level meeting in September must be a turning point in reinvigorating progress in the fight against TB, not only by expanding existing tools but also developing new tools including new TB vaccines. That’s why WHO “has proposed establishing a TB vaccine accelerator council to facilitate the development, licensing and use of new TB vaccines,” Ghebreyesus said.
Dr. Özlem Türeci, chief medical officer of BioNTech which developed one of the main COVID-19 vaccines with Pfizer using messenger RNA technology, told the meeting that it started trials of a new vaccine candidate for TB several weeks ago.
The Stop TB Partnership’s Ditiu said a COVID vaccine was developed in less than a year while it has taken 19 years to get three or four other vaccines for TB to phase 3 trials because of a lack of money.
Before COVID, which like TB is transmitted through the air, “we didn’t see very dramatic cases of TB,” she said, “but after COVID we saw a type of TB that we saw in … movies in which people spit blood and they are very weak, and so on.”
Ditiu said the economic impact of COVID and conflicts, first and foremost in Ukraine but now also in Sudan, are having “a huge impact” on efforts to treat people with TB and diagnose new cases.
Ukraine has the highest number of estimated people with TB in the European region – 34,000 – and also a high number with drug-resistant TB, she told a news conference on Thursday.
“It’s remarkable, the fact that the Ukrainian people are actually showing an amazing resilience in doing their best to maintain the services for TB,” Ditiu said. “But obviously a lot of people left the country.”
Nonetheless, she said, major efforts have been made to track down those with the disease, but what worries everyone is to ensure that people in Ukraine have access to treatment.
According to the Stop TB Partnership, which is managed by the U.N. Office for Project Services and aims to achieve a world free of tuberculosis, 18,000 people in Sudan received treatment in 2021.
Ditiu said the situation there for TB sufferers because of the ongoing fighting and collapse of most of the health system is “probably like a ticking bomb.” | https://www.wfla.com/community/health/ap-health/ukraine-sudan-conflicts-fuel-alarming-surge-in-tuberculosis/ | 2023-05-09 03:05:24 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/community/health/ap-health/ukraine-sudan-conflicts-fuel-alarming-surge-in-tuberculosis/ |
No. 22-4-01629-1
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR PIERCE COUNTY
In re Estate of Randolph L. Wilson, Deceased.
The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. Date of filing: July 22, 2022
Date of first publication: September 2, 2022.
Personal Representative: Alisa Novello
Address for mailing or service:
16714 Meridian E Ste 9
Puyallup, WA 98375
Court of probate proceedings: Pierce County Superior Court
Cause number: 22-4-01629-1
DATED this 1st day of September, 2022.
HONEYCUTT & HARRIS, PLLC
/s/ TONIA HONEYCUTT, WSBA 47776
Attorney for Personal Representative
253-260-4655
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Bring in the toast.
A fire at a dairy plant in Wisconsin left storm drains and a historic canal clogged with butter.
Bring in the toast.
A fire at a dairy plant in Wisconsin left storm drains and a historic canal clogged with butter.
The fire took place at an Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage on Monday, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Approximately 20 gallons of butter flowed into the adjacent Portage canal via a storm sewer, says the department. The butter has since been removed from the canal and the storm sewers were clear as of Thursday.
Environmental impacts are "minimal," officials said in the news release.
"Most of the butter that left the facility exited via the sanitary sewer and traveled to the wastewater treatment plant," according to the department. "Wastewater plant personnel have been clearing butter out of the plant since the incident. The treatment plant has operated effectively without disruption, though some temporary exceedances are anticipated."
The fire started in a room that was used to store butter, according to a Facebook post from the Portage Fire Department, which was first responded to the incident. Butter runoff and heavy smoke made it difficult for personnel to enter the facility. It took several hours and help from other fire departments in the area to contain and extinguish the fire, the department added.
In a statement to CNN, Associated Milk Producers thanked local fire departments and first responders for controlling the fire.
"We appreciate their professionalism and hard work, as well as that of our employees, under difficult circumstances," wrote the company.
They added that responders blocked the street drains and placed "absobent materials in the canal to minimize milkfats."
An investigation is ongoing into the origins of the fire, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The number of applications for visas used in the technology industry soared for a second straight year, raising “serious concerns” that some are manipulating the system to gain an unfair advantage, authorities said Friday.
There were 780,884 applications for H-1B visas in this year’s computer-generated lottery, up 61% from 483,927 last year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a message to “stakeholders.” Last year’s haul was up 57% from 308,613 applications the year before.
Each year, up to 85,000 people are selected for H-1B visas, a mainstay for technology giants such as Amazon.com Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and International Business Machines Corp.
Last year, the government began requiring workers who won the lottery to sign affidavits stating they didn’t try to game the system by working with others to file multiple bids under different company names, even if there was no underlying employment offer. By winning at least once, these companies could market their services to technology companies that wanted to fill positions but didn’t have visas, effectively becoming labor contractors.
“The large number of eligible registrations for beneficiaries with multiple eligible registrations — much larger than in previous years — has raised serious concerns that some may have tried to gain an unfair advantage by working together to submit multiple registrations on behalf of the same beneficiary. This may have unfairly increased their chances of selection,” the agency wrote.
The agency said it has “undertaken extensive fraud investigations” based on lottery submissions from the last two years, denied some petitions and is “in the process” of referring some cases to federal prosecutors for possible crimes.
The number of registrations tied to people who applied more than once rose to 408,891 this year from 165,180 last year and 90,143 the year before.
“We remain committed to deterring and preventing abuse of the registration process, and to ensuring only those who follow the law are eligible to file an H-1B cap petition,” the agency said.
H-1B visas, which are used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. They are issued for three years and can be extended another three years.
Technology companies say H-1Bs are critical for hard-to-fill positions even as they have had to lay off workers in other areas. As the number of applications have soared in the last two years, major companies have seen winning lottery submissions dwindle.
Andrew Greenfield, a partner at the law firm Fragomen, which represents major technology companies, said the increase in applications is “bizarre” given widespread layoffs in the industry. His clients had a roughly 15% success rate on lottery entries this year, down from about 30% last year.
“It’s devastating,” Greenfield said. “Our clients are legitimate employers that are just unable to source enough talent in the United States to fill all their hiring needs.”
Fraud, as outlined by U.S. authorities, may be driving up applications, with companies under different names but the same ownership submitting entries on behalf of the same person, Greenfield said, but there may be other reasons. Some applicants may convince different, independently-owned companies to sponsor them in the lottery, which is perfectly legal. Some companies may overestimate their labor demands when they enter the lottery in March.
The computer-generated lottery in March selected 110,791 winners for the 85,000 slots. Companies have until June 30 to confirm they plan to go ahead with hiring. If confirmations fall short of 85,000, the government may hold another lottery to fill remaining slots. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/us-agency-raises-serious-concerns-about-tech-visa-lottery/ | 2023-04-29 02:47:55 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/us-agency-raises-serious-concerns-about-tech-visa-lottery/ |
Newsmax has cut ties with former broadcast journalist turned conservative pundit Lara Logan for comments she made on the network suggesting there was a global conspiracy among world leaders to harm children.
While appearing on Eric Bolling’s evening program on the small conservative cable network, Logan spoke of what she said is a cabal of world leaders that “want us eating insects” while they “dine on the blood of children.”
“God believes in sovereignty and national identity and the sanctity of family, and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time. And he knows that the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants,” Logan said.
“And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us. … You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not going to win. They’re not going to win.”
Newsmax, in a statement to The Hill on Friday morning, said it “condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan” and said that the channel has “no plans to interview her again.”
Logan has sparked controversy with comments on a number of topics in recent years, including a comparison she made on Fox News late last year between White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who experimented on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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Finn throws late TD pass to lift Toledo over Ball St. 28-21
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Dequan Finn threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jamal Turner with 1:18 remaining to give Toledo a 28-21 victory over Ball State. Finn led a 7-play, 50-yard drive for the game-winning score. John Paddock drove Ball State to the Toledo 47, but he was sacked and then threw and interception to end it. Finn was 21 of 38 for 301 yards passing and threw three touchdown passes. Jerjuan Newton and Devin Maddox also had a touchdown catch apiece for Toledo (7-3, 5-1 Mid-American Conference). Carson Steele ran for 198 yards and three touchdowns for Ball State (5-5, 2-4). | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/08/finn-throws-late-td-pass-to-lift-toledo-over-ball-st-28-21/ | 2022-11-09 06:40:38 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/08/finn-throws-late-td-pass-to-lift-toledo-over-ball-st-28-21/ |
Atop a proposed class action lawsuit filed by one of its shareholders, Twitter is probing associates of Elon Musk and seeking other information in far-reaching legal requests about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company, according to legal documents obtained by The Washington Post.
In a subpoena Twitter issued Monday, its legal team asked for information about a who's who of Silicon Valley elite, including investors Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, Steve Jurvetson, Marc Andreessen, Jason Calacanis and Keith Rabois, among others.
Some of the figures have not been previously named as having any involvement in the deal, suggesting the breadth of Twitter's search for information to support its legal attempt to force a deal-wary Musk to go through with his deal to buy the company.
Twitter declined to comment. Palihapitiya, Sacks, Calacanis, Jurvetson and Rabois did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Musk and two of his attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After Musk said he was exiting the deal last month -- accusing Twitter of not being forthright about the amount of spam and bots on its service -- Twitter sued Musk in a Delaware business court, known as a Chancery Court. Musk in turn countersued Twitter on Friday.
Musk also formally answered Twitter's suit Friday in a court filing that remains under seal.
Over the weekend, Twitter issued subpoenas to a group of banks involved in the deal, including Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.
The subpoena obtained by The Post includes extensive requests for communications, including "checklists, timelines, presentations, decks, organizational calls, meetings, notes, recordings" related to the deal's financing.
Calacanis and Andreesen were previously known to be involved in financing aspects of the deal.
The Monday subpoena obtained by The Post also specifically asks for any communications about spam and bots, as well as for information about the All-In Summit 2022, a Miami event held in May by Palihapitiya, Calacanis, Sacks and David Friedberg.
The men host a popular podcast together and the summit was a live event associated with the podcast. Musk spoke at the event via videoconference, telegraphing his apprehension about the deal and saying "the more questions I ask, the more my concerns grow."
He said at the conference that he could seek a lower price for the social media site and accused Twitter of potentially misleading him about the percentage of fake accounts on the platform, likening the issue to buying a house with a termite problem.
Calacanis and Sacks are known to be friends of Musk. Sacks worked with Musk when they ran PayPal, along with billionaire Peter Thiel, who is a friend of both. Rabois also was a PayPal executive, and is a friend of Thiel. Jurvetson is a longtime friend of Musk who is on the board of Musk's SpaceX and served on the board of electric car company Tesla, which Musk helms as CEO.
A subpoena also went out to investor Joe Lonsdale, an associate of Musk and Thiel who also spoke at the All-In event, he said Monday on Twitter. Lonsdale declined to comment beyond his tweet.
In the tweet, Lonsdale described the subpoena as a "giant harassing fishing expedition," and he said he had "nothing to do with this aside from a few snarky comments."
Calacanis launched a pool known as a special purpose vehicle to raise money for the deal this spring, using a tool that brings smaller investors into a larger bid. It aimed to attract investors at a minimum of $250,000. Investors were told to show their interest no later than May 11. Calacanis hosted Musk at the All-In Summit a few days later.
"There are a couple things that Twitter is probably looking for here. The first would be anything nice Musk said about Twitter to encourage people to participate in the equity financing," said Adam Badawi, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who is not involved in the case, in a text. "The second would be anything he said that contradicts his public statements about bots."
The investors targeted by the subpoenas could be compelled to testify by the court, he added.
A Twitter shareholder, meanwhile, hit Musk this week with a proposed class action lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed in the Delaware Chancery Court -- the same forum that's set to hold a fast-tracked trial in October over Twitter's claims against Musk -- by investor Luigi Crispo, who holds 5,500 Twitter shares.
In addition to Musk, lawsuit names as defendants two "corporate acquisition entities" related to the deal.
The suit, docketed July 29, targets Musk's "lame rationales for reneging on his contract," accusing the billionaire of fabricating excuses to get out of the buyout. Like Twitter's earlier suit, it seeks a court order compelling Musk to consummate the transaction.
Crispo's allegations echo Twitter's claim that Musk is exploiting phony concerns about spam and "bot" accounts as a bogus pretext for backing out of the deal without a valid legal basis.
Information for this article was contributed by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui and Gerrit De Vynck of The Washington Post, as well as Mike Leonard of Bloomberg News. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/03/twitters-questions-fly-after-deal-fails/ | 2022-08-03 08:24:20 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/03/twitters-questions-fly-after-deal-fails/ |
Stepping into Spielberg’s shoes, James Mangold takes Indiana Jones on one last adventure
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
CANNES, France (AP) — When the lights came up after a screening on the Walt Disney lot of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Steven Spielberg was incredulous.
“Damn!” he said. “I thought I was the only one who knew how to make one of these!”
“Dial of Destiny,” which premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, is the first Indiana Jones film without Spielberg behind the camera. After years of development, Spielberg and Lucasfilm decided to pass the reigns to James Mangold, the “Ford vs. Ferrari” filmmaker, who was 18 years old when he saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in a Hudson Valley theater on opening day in 1981.
“When I got over my initial hesitation of just: holy s—- this is a big challenge to step into these very big shoes that Steven Spielberg is leaving, the opportunity, on a very selfish level, to collaborate and learn and have the tools and the resources to play on this level was hard to resist,” Mangold said.
Mangold was being tasked with not only restoring the luster of one of the most beloved film series after a disappointing fourth film in 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” but giving Harrison Ford a poignant send-off in his last performance as the character.
While no one is saying “Dial of Destiny” matches “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the consensus in Cannes was that it betters “Crystal Skull” by a wide margin. Mangold certainly has Ford’s endorsement.
“He more than filled the shoes,” Ford told reporters. “He made, for me, a beautiful movie.”
Before “Dial of Destiny” opens in theaters June 30, Mangold spoke about the challenges of capturing “Indiana Jones” tradition and carrying it forward. After a 1940s-set opening with a de-aged Ford, “Dial of Destiny” moves to the ’60s and finds an aged Jones weary and on the cusp of retirement. The space race has made him a relic of a bygone era.
And the notion of who Indiana — an Errol Flynn-like hero forged in the moral clarity of WWII — would be in a more complicated time, without the spryness of youth, factored heavily into Mangold’s thinking on “Dial of Destiny.” Remarks have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
AP: How did you respond when this opportunity arose?
Mangold: When Harrison and Kathy (Kennedy) and Steven came to me about this — you’re talking about just heroes of my life. George Lucas. John Williams, too. The idea of being invited to not only play in an all-star game with that kind of team, but also take the mound and be the pitcher, is beyond. So you flash forward to this moment where I’m kind of stepping in to the director’s chair, and it’s a chance for me to both try and carry forward what I feel like I’ve been learning all my life from Steven’s work. And at the same time carrying my own voice, but wanting very much to work within the same kind of golden-age vernacular that he’s operating in. It’s pressure because you can’t be playing at a higher level with a headier crowd of luminaries around you. You either have to rise to the occasion or not.
AP: Were you surprised the job was even open? During the film’s long development, it was long assumed that Spielberg would direct.
Mangold: I don’t think directing an Indiana Jones film is a job. It is a lifetime commitment. There’s too many luminaries and too much involved. When they came to me they were very laser focused on me stepping in. The idea for me was that I wanted to write a script that I could get behind. I wanted to really retool the existing script pretty aggressively, almost entirely. But when they first came to me? It was a complete shock. I was numb. But I’m also not new at this. There’s a kid in me that’s tickled and flattered — the romantic in me. And then there’s the rational person who’s survived these movies up to this and knows how to make a picture like this.
AP: And so much of the what defines “Indiana Jones” is the ingenuity of the filmmaking: the clever reveals, the ingenious blocking.
Mangold: These are love letters to Golden Age cinema. You’re making a narrative and you’re making a movie about characters who have to feel real, but you’re also making a movie that in and of itself is about enjoying the sheer beautiful spectacle of movie making. The way shots move together, the way sequences are constructed, the way you kind of unwind the onion of a revelation in the movie. These are all things where you’re taking your guidance from the classics.
AP: You’ve described wanting to make “Dial of Destiny” about “a hero at sunset.” How did age relate to your intentions for the film?
Mangold: When they approached me, I immediately found myself faced with making an Indiana Jones with a hero in his late 70s. There’s no way around the fact that the audience is going to be confronted with Harrison’s age. They’re going to see a man they’ve grown up with in his late 70s. To me, it’s not about what I’m doing, it’s about what I’m not doing. I’m not going to allow myself to be in denial that this is going to be a huge factor in the audience’s mind.
AP: So even though you begin with a de-aged Indiana, you wanted to embrace who Ford, 80, is today.
Mangold: The movie becomes about the very thing that is undeniable. What is it like to be a hero, to be a kind of swashbuckling, mischievous, demanding, fearless, but also fearful? What I thought about, even in relation to some of the struggles they had with “Crystal Skull,” was that it’s very challenging to carry a kind of golden-age character forward past the dividing line after modernism arrived. The optimism and clarity of purpose with which characters operated in the ‘30s or ’40s is not the same environment that they’re operating in in the ‘50s, ’60s and ’70s. The arrival of modernism has brought realpolitik and a kind of lack of clarity about who are enemies and who our heroes are. It’s brought a kind of cynicism into the world about easy heroes. Science has replace mysticism, and we’re landing on the moon where nuclear weapons are all around us.
AP: Was it moving to shoot Ford’s last scene as Indiana?
Mangold: We shot his last shot and everyone applauded and we all drank champagne. And it is very moving. But you’ve been through almost a year of making this movie together. To do a good job making a movie like this, you can never sink completely into that way of thinking. Because if you did, you’d be lost in kind of the symbolism of each moment. Indiana Jones is a part of Harrison, so in a way, I don’t think he’s ever saying goodbye to the character because he carries this character. It’s very close to who he is.
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Tyler Seguin Player Prop Bets: Stars vs. Golden Knights - Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 5
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Wall Street steadies itself after painful drop on rate fears
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are steadying on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after sinking to one of their worst days of the year.
The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in morning trading The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 62 points, or 0.2%, at 32,793, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.1% higher.
Stocks are coming off a sharp drop the prior day after the head of the Federal Reserve warned it could speed up its hikes to interest rates if pressure on inflation stays high. Such hikes can ease inflation by slowing the economy, but they also hit prices for stocks and other investments and raise the risk of a recession in the future.
The Fed’s chair, Jerome Powell, said again Wednesday that a suite of recent reports suggest pressure on inflation is running higher than it earlier expected. But he also stressed in testimony before a House committee that the Fed hasn’t made a decision yet on the size of its future hikes.
He said policy makers want to see what reports say in the run-up to their next meeting later this month. That gave some solace to the market, which a day earlier shuddered on fears the Fed was set to increase the size of its rate hikes.
“We’re not on a preset path, and we will be guided by the incoming data,” Powell said.
One of the reports he highlighted in particular was one that came out as he spoke Wednesday morning. It showed that the number of job openings advertised across the country remained higher than expected last month. Such data has become excruciatingly scrutinized on Wall Street because they can give a clue about where wages are heading for workers.
Strong wage gains are good for workers struggling to keep up with high inflation, but too-high growth could cause a vicious cycle that only pushes inflation higher, the Fed worries.
While the higher-than-expected number of job openings could spook markets, the report also showed some signs of easing pressure, including fewer Americans quitting their jobs.
A separate report Wednesday morning suggested hiring is still stronger across the economy than expected. Private employers added a net 242,000 workers to their payrolls last month, according to ADP. That was an acceleration from January’s hiring and more than expected.
It could offer a sneak peek of what the U.S. government’s more comprehensive report on hiring will show. It’s scheduled for Friday, and a jaw-dropping number for that report last month was what got Wall Street’s worries going that inflation may not be cooling as quickly and smoothly as hoped.
Besides last month’s gangbusters jobs report, other data showed surprising strength in everything from spending by U.S. consumers to inflation itself at multiple levels. That caused stocks to drop and bond yields to jump in February. It was a reversal from a rally at the start of the year, born from hope that inflation would continue to cool and get the Federal Reserve to take it easier on interest rates.
Instead, Wall Street got a pivot in the opposite direction it was hoping. Powell said Tuesday that the strong data will likely mean rates will ultimately have to go higher than earlier expected. He also said the Fed may accelerate the pace of its hikes, a turnaround after it had just downshifted the size of its increases last month.
Expectations for a firmer Fed have been most clear in the bond market, where yields have shot higher in recent weeks. They eased a bit Wednesday, giving the stock market some breathing space.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.91% from 3.97% late Tuesday.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, slipped to 4.98% from 5.02% late Tuesday. It’s still near its highest level since 2007.
Yields on shorter-term Treasurys remain far above those for Treasury maturing many more years in the future. That’s an unusual occurrence and one that Wall Street sees as a fairly reliable signal for an upcoming recession.
Based on where traders are betting yields will be in the future, it appears the market is implying inflation will continue to run hot, the Fed will quickly ramp up rates and then will reduce them only gradually afterward, according to Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. He also said the bond market appears to be signaling a recession could begin in August 2025.
For the moment, the economy still looks resilient despite the hikes to interest rates the Fed has already thrown at it. The Fed’s key overnight interest rate has jumped to a range of 4.50% to 4.75%, up from virtually zero at the start of last year, amid the fastest flurry of hikes in decades.
The question is how long a strong job market and spending by U.S. consumers can prop up other weakening areas of the economy, especially if the Fed keeps rates higher for longer as it’s been warning.
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AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.
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Pelosi arrives in Malaysia, tensions rise over Taiwan visit
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday for the second leg of an Asian tour that has been overshadowed by an expected stop in Taiwan, which would escalate tensions with Beijing that claims the self-ruled island as its own territory.
The plane carrying Pelosi and her delegation touched down at an air force base amid tight security. She called on lower house Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun in Parliament and adjourned for a luncheon meet with Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
While there have been no official announcements, local media in Taiwan reported that Pelosi will arrive in Taipei on Tuesday night, becoming the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to visit in more than 25 years. The United Daily News, Liberty Times and China Times — Taiwan’s three largest national newspapers — cited unidentified sources as saying she would fly to Taipei and spend the night after visiting Malaysia.
China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province to be annexed by force if necessary, has warned of repercussions, saying its military will “never sit idly by" if Pelosi pushes ahead with the visit. China's threats of retaliation have driven concerns of a new crisis in the Taiwan Strait, which separates the two sides, that could roil global markets and supply chains.
The White House on Monday decried Beijing's rhetoric, saying the U.S. has no interest in deepening tensions with China and “will not take the bait or engage in saber rattling.”
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby underscored that the decision on whether to visit the self-ruled island was ultimately Pelosi’s. He noted that members of Congress have routinely visited Taiwan over the years.
Kirby said administration officials are concerned that Beijing could use the visit as an excuse to take provocative retaliatory steps, including military action such as firing missiles in the Taiwan Strait or around Taiwan, or flying sorties into the island’s airspace and carrying out large-scale naval exercises in the strait.
“Put simply, there is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit consistent with long-standing U.S. policy into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait,” Kirby said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also urged China to “act responsibly” in the event that Pelosi proceeds with the visit.
“If the speaker does decide to visit, and China tries to create some kind of a crisis or otherwise escalate tensions, that would be entirely on Beijing,” he told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York. “We are looking for them, in the event she decides to visit, to act responsibly and not to engage in any escalation going forward.”
U.S. officials have said the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region if Pelosi visits Taiwan. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group were in the Philippine Sea on Monday, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.
The Reagan, the cruiser USS Antietam and the destroyer USS Higgins left Singapore after a port visit and moved north to their homeport in Japan. The carrier has an array of aircraft, including F/A-18 fighter jets and helicopters, on board as well as sophisticated radar systems and other weapons.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after the Communists won a civil war on the mainland. The U.S. maintains informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan even as it recognizes Beijing as the government of China.
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi, head of one of three branches of the U.S. government, would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
Pelosi kicked off her Asian tour in Singapore on Monday but her purported visit to Taiwan has sparked jitters in the region.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong “highlighted the importance of stable U.S.-China relations for regional peace and security” during talks with Pelosi, the city-state's foreign ministry said. This was echoed by Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo, who said stable ties between the two rival powers “are extremely important for the international community as well.”
The Philippines urged U.S. and China to be “responsible actors" in the region. “It is important for the U.S. and China to ensure continuing communication to avoid any miscalculation and further escalation of tensions," said Foreign Affairs spokesperson Teresita Daza.
China has been steadily ratcheting up diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan. China cut off all contact with Taiwan’s government in 2016 after President Tsai Ing-wen refused to endorse its claim that the island and mainland together make up a single Chinese nation, with the Communist regime in Beijing being the sole legitimate government.
On Thursday, Pelosi is to meet with South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo in Seoul for talks on security in the Indo-Pacific region, economic cooperation and the climate crisis, according to Kim’s office. Pelosi is also due to visit Japan, but it is unclear when she heading there.
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Associated Press journalists Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report. | https://www.kcra.com/article/pelosi-arrives-in-malaysia-tensions-rise-over-taiwan-visit/40777846 | 2022-08-02 09:55:51 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/pelosi-arrives-in-malaysia-tensions-rise-over-taiwan-visit/40777846 |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Attackers armed with guns and hand grenades ambushed a police van assigned to guard polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, wounding five policemen, authorities said.
Police returned fire after coming under attack near a bridge in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police chief Aman Ullah.
The police chief, who was traveling with the convoy to a nearby vaccination site, said between six to eight suspected militants ambushed them, opened fire and threw hand grenades at the police van.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but Islamic militants often target polio teams and police protecting them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children. The latest anti-polio campaign started this week, the first in 2023.
In late November, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers in the southwestern city of Quetta. A police officer in the truck was killed, as were three members of a family traveling in another car next to the truck.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed the Nov. 30 attack. A month earlier, in October, gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer assigned to guard a polio vaccination team in southwestern Baluchistan province.
Pakistan, which along with neighboring Afghanistan is the only country where polio remains endemic, regularly launches vaccination campaigns. The latest, five-day campaign started this week in northwestern Pakistan and is the first in 2023.
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Veteran Heat guard Kyle Lowry’s knee injury will keep him off the court for a while longer.
The 36-year-old will miss the next three games due to his lingering left knee pain, the Heat announced Tuesday.
Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said he was not concerned by Lowry’s absence and the veteran would not need any “procedure” for his ailing knee to heal.
“I think this is just what you deal with in a long, NBA season,” Spoelstra said. “There’s going to be unpredictable things. The encouraging thing about it is there doesn’t need to be a procedure. … We just need to calm it down.”
Lowry did not dress for Miami’s loss to Milwaukee on Saturday and has missed 10 games this season.
Lowry’s absence comes amid trade rumors before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, where the Heat could be looking to potentially offload his $29.7 million contract for next year.
The Heat already made one move approaching the deadline, dealing center Dewayne Dedmon and a 2028 second-round pick to the San Antonio Spurs.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greencity Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: GRCY) (the "Company") today announced that it has received a notice ("Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") as a result of its failure to file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 (the "Form 10-Q") in a timely fashion. The Notice advised the Company that it was not in compliance with Nasdaq's continued listing requirements under the timely filing criteria established in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1).
As reported by the Company in its Form 12b-25 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 15, 2022, the Company was unable to file its Form 10-Q within the prescribed time period without unreasonable effort or expense. The extension period provided under Rule 12b-25 expired on November 21, 2022.
Nasdaq has informed the Company that, under Nasdaq rules, the Company has 60 calendar days from receipt of the Notice (November 22, 2022), to submit a plan to regain compliance with the Rule. If Nasdaq accepts the Company's plan, then Nasdaq may grant an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the due date of the Form 10-Q (November 21, 2022), or until May 15, 2023, to regain compliance. However, there can be no assurance that Nasdaq will accept the Company's plan to regain compliance or that the Company will be able to regain compliance within any extension period granted by Nasdaq. If Nasdaq does not accept the Company's plan, then the Company will have the opportunity to appeal that decision to a Nasdaq hearings panel.
As noted above, the Company is working diligently to complete its Form 10-Q. The Company intends to file it as soon as practicable to regain compliance with Nasdaq continued listing standards.
About Greencity Acquisition Corporation
The Company is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. While the Company may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any industry or sector, the Company intends to focus on businesses that have a connection to the Asian market.
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Georgia race remains tight
New polling from Emerson College and The Hill continues to show a tight race for Georgia’s Senate seat amid recent bombshell accusations that have shaken up the contest between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Forty-eight percent of Georgia voters say they support Warnock, while 46 percent say they back Walker, falling within the plus-or-minus three-point margin of error. However, since the last Emerson College poll in August, Warnock’s support has increased by four points and Walker’s support has decreased by two points.
The poll was conducted Oct. 4-7, falling within the time period that the Daily Beast published a bombshell report alleging that Walker encouraged a former partner to get an abortion and paid for the procedure. That report was published on Oct. 4.
Warnock remains favorable: In terms of favorability, 51 percent of Georgia voters said they had a favorable view of Warnock while 48 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him. Forty-seven percent of voters said they had a favorable view of Walker while 49 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him.
Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, points out that the gender gap in the race has increasingly favored Warnock.
Women break for Warnock: “The gender gap in the Senate race has shifted in the Democrats’ favor since August,” Kimball said. “Republican Walker’s 8-point advantage with men has closed to 6, and Warnock’s lead with women has grown from 5 points to 9.”
The poll of the gubernatorial race paints a different scenario for incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. Fifty-one percent of voter say they support Kemp, while 46 percent said they supported Abrams. Another two percent say they are undecided.
House Dem optimism grows
With exactly a month to go until the midterms, Democrats are feeling increasingly confident about the battle for the lower chamber.
The Hill’s Mike Lillis reports that Democrats believe they can minimize their losses, and in the case that they do lose the majority, they believe they can at least make life more difficult for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) if he becomes Speaker McCarthy.
A red ripple?: Republicans need to net only four seats to gain back control of the lower chamber, but margins could matter to the House GOP when it comes to moves like impeaching President Biden and cutting federal spending.
While Democrats acknowledge behind closed doors that they are still facing an uphill climb, election experts are increasingly pointing out that the odds of a massive red wave appear to be slimming. Last week, the Cook Political Report shifted seven House races in favor of Democrats and analysts at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia shifted four House seats in favor of Democrats.
SENATE RACES TURN UGLY
Meanwhile in the race for the upper chamber, things are getting nastier.
The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports that this dynamic is most noticeable in the three battleground states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
In Nevada, the vitriol spiked last week at a rally for GOP candidate Adam Laxalt when Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) dubbed Democrats as “pro-crime” before going on to suggest that Democrats who back reparations want them because they think people who committed crimes are owed it. In Wisconsin, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R) and Republicans are lambasting Democratic Senate nominee Mandela Barnes with attacks accusing him of being soft on crime.
In both states, Barnes and incumbent Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto have hit back accusing Johnson and Laxalt of being close with the pro-Trump rioters that stormed the Capitol in 2021.
It gets uglier: Keystone Pennsylvania has proven to be a beast of its own when it comes to the negativity and vitriol seen in the Senate race. The Republican nominee Mehmet Oz has continuously hit Democratic nominee John Fetterman over his record on crime and the state of his health after Fetterman suffered a stroke in May. Fetterman, on the other hand, has painted Oz as being out of touch, portraying him as a quack doctor that has stronger ties to New Jersey than he has to Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, Fetterman made headlines when his campaign put up billboards calling Oz a Dallas Cowboys fan ahead of this Sunday’s NFL matchup between the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Will Nevada turn red?
And speaking of Nevada, The Hill’s Caroline Vakil reports that signs are emerging of a growing red wave in the state.
Some recent polling shows Laxalt narrowly leading Masto within the margin of error. The stakes for Democrats are higher this year because the state’s Senate race could play a deciding factor in who ultimately controls the upper chamber next year.
“They’ve been masterful for several cycles in registering and turning out voters. Now, the registration numbers are not what they used to be. The Democratic lead is much smaller than it usually is this time of year,” Jon Ralston, CEO of The Nevada Independent, told Vakil.
GOP optimism grows: And it’s not just the state’s Senate race that has Democrats nervous. Incumbent Democratic Reps. Dina Titus and Susie Lee are facing tough races in both of their respective districts.
Republicans, on the other hand, are feeling optimistic.
“The question has always been how good of a year, and you don’t really need to ask Republicans to find that out. You need just look at the way Democrats are campaigning, and it will tell you what they think,” Zachary Moyle, former executive director for the Nevada GOP, told Vakil.
Takeaways from the first Ohio debate
Ohio Senate candidates Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance faced off in a Nexstar television debate Monday in Cleveland.
The forum saw the two hit each other over a number of topics including China, President Biden, former President Trump and ties to Washington and Silicon Valley.
One of the most memorable lines of the evening was perhaps when Ryan branded Vance an “ass-kisser” to former President Trump.
The Hill’s Julia Manchester breaks down five takeaways from last night’s showdown in Ohio.
POLL WATCH
An poll from the Arizona-based OH Predictive Insights shows incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly leading his GOP challenger Blake Masters 46 percent to 33 percent, while Libertarian candidate Marc Victor came in with 15 percent support. Another six percent said they were undecided.
A new Marist poll shows incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet leading his Republican challenger Joe O’Dea by seven points in Colorado.
A WDIV/Detroit News survey in Michigan’s 10th House district shows Republican John James leading Democrat Carl Marlinga 44 percent to 36.1 percent.
A Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll of Rhode Island’s second House district shows Republican candidate Allan Fung leading Democrat Seth Magaziner 45 to 37 percent. Another 13 percent said they were undecided.
AD WATCH
A political action committee supporting Herschel Walker, 34N22, rolled out a new ad titled “Good Actor,” showing body camera footage of Raphael Warnock’s ex-wife after an alleged domestic violence incident in 2020.
Democratic Florida Senate candidate Val Demings rolled out a new ad titled “Independence” in which she touts her independence from her own party.
Republican Missouri Senate candidate Eric Schmitt put out a new ad titled “Heiress” contrasting himself with his Democratic opponent Trudy Busch Valentine.
The Senate Majority PAC released a new spot titled “In Charge” hitting North Carolina Senate candidate Ted Budd over his anti abortion stance.
In the House, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee released ads in Iowa’s 3rd district, Michigan’s 8th district, Maine’s 2nd district, New Hampshire’s 1st district, Arizona’s 6th district, California’s 22nd district, New Mexico’s 2nd district, Pennsylvania’s 17th district, and New York’s 17th district.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee rolled out ads in Michigan’s 8th district, two ads in Maine’s 2nd district, North Carolina’s 13th district, and Texas’ 34th district.
Incumbent Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar’s campaign rolled out a new ad hitting back against attacks from his Republican opponent Cassy Garcia in Texas’ 28th congressional district.
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WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced Christopher Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, CPEL, will join as President of its 503B Outsourcing Facility.
In his new role, Fortier will oversee all operations at the industry-leading facility that produces sterile medications for hospitals and medical facilities across America in an effort to alleviate their drug shortage needs.
"Chris has not only the education and skill, but also the knowledge of what major hospitals and pharmacies around the country need every day," said Nephron CEO and Owner Lou Kennedy. "That combination will be an invaluable asset to the Nephron team."
Prior to joining Nephron, Fortier was the Chief Pharmacy Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was responsible for leading all aspects of Mass General's pharmacy enterprise. He chaired the Mass General Brigham Chief Pharmacy Officer's Council and was responsible for leading large-scale pharmacy initiatives at the health system level.
Fortier has served in healthcare leadership roles for numerous state and national professional organizations, has been published in multiple healthcare journals, and has been featured in a variety of media outlets including NBC Nightly News, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, and the Washington Post.
Fortier received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and completed a PGY-1/PGY-2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston. He has given over 100 national and international presentations, is a course coordinator at Harvard Medical School, and has academic appointments at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, the University of Connecticut, and Northeastern University. Fortier is a Fellow of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) and has also been certified as a Pharmacy Executive Leader by ASHP.
Fortier serves as chair of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy Board of Directors and vice chair of United Way of Greater New Bedford Board of Directors.
A West Columbia, S.C.-based company, Nephron develops and produces safe, affordable generic inhalation solutions and suspension products. The company also operates an industry-leading 503B Outsourcing Facility division which produces pre-filled sterile syringes, luer-lock vials, IV bottles and IV bags for hospitals across America, in an effort to alleviate drug shortage needs. For more information, please visit www.nephronpharm.com.
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JUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Canoo Inc. (Nasdaq: GOEV), a high-tech advanced mobility company, today named Ken Manget, Chief Financial Officer. Reporting directly to Canoo Chairman and CEO, Tony Aquila, Manget will be responsible for Capital Markets, Investor Relations, Accounting & Financial Reporting. Ramesh Murthy, who served as interim CFO, will continue in his role as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer.
"We are pleased to appoint Ken to Canoo's executive management team. We have worked together for many years, starting at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan including as a consultant to AFV Partners," said Tony Aquila, Chairman and CEO at Canoo. "I'd like to thank Ramesh for his hard work in the interim CFO role. As we now move to the go-to-market phase, he will focus his attention on his SVP and Chief Accounting Officer duties."
Manget has many years of financial industry experience on the buy and sell side, including running a multi-billion global equity investment strategy at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and having originated and closed several billion of equity, debt and structured finance transactions while at BMO Capital Markets.
Canoo's mission is to bring EVs to Everyone. The company has developed breakthrough electric vehicles that are reinventing the automotive landscape with bold innovations in design, pioneering technologies, and a unique business model that spans the full lifecycle of the vehicle. Distinguished by its experienced team from leading technology and automotive companies – Canoo has designed a modular electric platform purpose-built to deliver maximum vehicle interior space that is customizable across all owners in the vehicle lifecycle to support a wide range of vehicle applications for consumers and businesses.
Canoo has teams in California, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Michigan. For more information, please visit www.canoo.com. For Canoo press materials, including photos, please visit press.canoo.com. For investors, please visit investors.canoo.com.
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Statement Pursuant to Section 19(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
DENVER, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Clough Global Equity Fund (NYSE MKT: GLQ) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund, paid a monthly distribution on its common stock of $0.1162 per share to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 20, 2022.
The following table sets forth the estimated amount of the sources of distribution for purposes of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the related rules adopted thereunder. The Fund estimates the following percentages, of the total distribution amount per share, attributable to (i) current and prior fiscal year net investment income, (ii) net realized short-term capital gain, (iii) net realized long-term capital gain and (iv) return of capital or other capital source as a percentage of the total distribution amount. These percentages are disclosed for the current distribution as well as the fiscal year-to-date cumulative distribution amount per share for the Fund.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this 19(a) Notice are only estimates and not for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes. The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income.'
Presented below are return figures, based on the change in the Fund's Net Asset Value per share ("NAV"), compared to the annualized distribution rate for this current distribution as a percentage of the NAV on the last business day of the month prior to distribution record date.
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Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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+Cumulative distribution rate is based on distributions paid to date for the period November 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
*Cumulative fiscal year-to-date return is based on the change in NAV including distributions paid and assuming reinvestment of these distributions and that all rights in the Fund's rights offering were exercised, for the period November 1, 2022 through November 30, 2022.
**The 5 year average annual total return is based on change in NAV including distributions paid and assuming reinvestment of these distributions and that all rights in the Fund's rights offering were exercised, as of the last business day of the month prior to the month of the current distribution record date.
While the NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Shareholders should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
Furthermore, the Board of Trustees reviews the amount of any potential distribution and the income, capital gain or capital available. The Board of Trustees will continue to monitor the Fund's distribution level, taking into consideration the Fund's net asset value and the financial market environment. The Fund's distribution policy is subject to modification by the Board of Trustees at any time. The distribution rate should not be considered the dividend yield or total return on an investment in the Fund.
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A stroke is a serious medical emergency.
The Central Valley has a high population of people considered at risk of stroke. These can be people with diabetes, high blood pressure, people who smoke, people with heart disease, and people with obesity.
Dr. Martinez joined the show with how Community Medical Centers brings advanced stroke care to the Central Valley.
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Panic! at the Disco, the emo-pop band that began in 2004, is ending its run after seven albums and nearly two decades.
Brendon Urie, the band's frontman and last remaining original member, made the announcement on Instagram Tuesday. The post said the band's upcoming European tour for the 2022 album Viva Las Vengeance will be its last.
"Growing up in Vegas I could've never imagined where this life would take me," Urie wrote. "But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin."
In the post, he also announced that his wife is pregnant with their first child.
"I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family," Urie wrote.
By the time Urie made this announcement, Panic! at the Disco had been a solo project for years. The last album with all of the band's original members was Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! in 2013.
More than a dozen of Panic! at the Disco's songs have made the Billboard Hot 100 songs, with two — "High Hopes" at No. 4 in 2019 and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" at No. 7 in 2006 — making it into the top 10.
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A grass fire spread to at least nine homes in a rural North Texas subdivision Tuesday, marking the second such damaging grass fire spread in the drought-ravaged region in as many days.
The fire in the rural Rendon community, 11 miles (17 kilometers) southeast of Fort Worth, came one day after a grass fire spread into a subdivision in Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb.
The Rendon fire was reported about 7 p.m. Tuesday when a grass fire spread rapidly to one home on a rural back road. The fire, aided by flying embers, spread rapidly to neighboring homes. Video online showed homes completely involved in flames as the fire attack was hampered for a while when a primary water hose ruptured when vehicles drove over it, according to the Rendon Fire Department Twitter feed. Units relied on tanker trucks for water and had to shuttle to refill their tanks.
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Units from Fort Worth and 13 other departments assisted the Rendon department crew.
High-voltage power lines were downed and propane tanks were set on fire, according to the feed. No injuries were immediately reported.
The fire came a day after the Balch Springs fire, which destroyed nine homes. Residents of the city's Spring Ridge subdivision said the fire swept from an adjoining open field after weeks of complaining to city officials about its owner failing to keep the field mowed.
The field owner finally sent a mowing crew to the field Monday after two unheeded requests by city officials culminated in a citation for a code violation, city Fire Marshal Sean Davis said.
That was when a spark from the mower blade striking debris ignited the tinder-dry grass, and a fire sped into the adjacent subdivision, damaging 26 homes, destroying nine of them, Davis said.
Damage estimates topped $6 million, according to a city statement.
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Field-mowing crews had been urged to have a spotter watch for sparks and ignitions, Davis said.
North Texas has been vulnerable to explosive wildfires for at least two weeks with temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) with 20-mph (32-kph) wind gusts and 20% humidity.
Fire crews working a 10 1/2-square-mile (27-square-kilometer) wildfire that destroyed 16 homes and damaged five others turned their attention Tuesday toward hot spots inside the fire footprint, officials said.
In a statement, the Southern Area Blue, Type-I Incident Management Team said “significant hotspots” throughout the Chalk Mountain Fire involved unburned and partially burned fuels.
Fire crews are performing grid searches throughout the fire zone 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Fort Worth, with particular emphasis given near homes within the fire zone.
With the fire 20% contained, crews also are working to secure fire lines around the fire zone.
And fire crews are standing down on the western shore of Possum Kingdom Lake after a fire that destroyed five homes was declared 100% contained.
This year has been plagued by wildfires fostered by severe to extreme drought throughout the West.
In California, firefighters were making progress Tuesday against a huge wildfire that spread to a forest near Yosemite National Park, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate mountain communities. The fire is the second to strike the area. Another fire that broke out in the area earlier this month burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias.
In New Mexico, a prescribed burn in early April got out of control and grew to the biggest wildfire in the state’s history, blackening more than 500 square miles (1295.00 square kilometers) in the north of the state.
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SHREVEPORT, La. — Forecasters warned people celebrating Father's Day outdoors to take precautions as triple-digit temperatures prompted heat advisories across much of the southern U.S., triggered thunderstorms that knocked out power from Oklahoma to Mississippi and whipped up winds that raised wildfire threats in Arizona and New Mexico.
A suspected tornado struck near Scranton, Arkansas early Sunday, destroying chicken houses and toppling trees onto homes, the National Weather Service said. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries.
Meteorologists said that dangerous and potentially record-breaking temperatures would continue into midweek over southern Texas and much of the Gulf Coast. Storms producing damaging winds, hail and possibly tornadoes could strike the lower Mississippi Valley.
“If you have outdoor plans this #FathersDay, don’t forget to practice heat safety! Take frequent breaks, stay hydrated, NEVER leave people/pets alone in a car!” the weather service office in Houston said on Twitter.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency for north and central parts of his state after strong winds and severe weather caused widespread power outages on Saturday. On Sunday, more than 450,000 people were without electricity in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, according to PowerOutage.us.
Catherine Haley was hosting her six grandchildren, ages 7 to 13, in Shreveport, Louisiana when the storm knocked out electricity to her block and many surrounding neighborhoods. Haley, who has trouble breathing, said they draped damp towels around their necks to try and stay cool, but when the heat became unbearable the family took refuge at a cooling center set up by the city.
“I am so grateful. We tried the first day to stay at home and they were just so uncomfortable. And then I have COPD, and the heat really took effect on me as well,” Haley, 64, said Sunday.
She said five of the grandchildren had just arrived from Houston for the summer when the storm hit, causing widespread damage. “Nice little welcome for them,” she joked.
In Florida, the weather service issued another heat advisory Sunday, this time mainly for the Florida Keys. Forecasters said heat index readings - the combination of high temperatures and oppressive humidity - could reach between 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) and 112 degrees (45 C) in places such as Key Largo, Marathon and Key West.
"These conditions will cause increased risk of heat illness for people outdoors or in non-air conditioned spaces,” the weather service said in a bulletin.
In the Southwest, where fire crews are battling multiple wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico, forecasters said triple-digit temperatures and gusty winds would lead to critical fire weather over the next couple of days. Sunday promised to be the hottest day of the year in Arizona, with highs up to 110 degrees (43.5 C) in Phoenix.
Winds were forecast to gust from 30 mph to 40 mph (48-64 kph) on Sunday east of Flagstaff, Arizona along the Interstate 40 corridor and up to 50 mph (80 kph) on Monday, creating potentially critical fire weather across much of northeast New Mexico.
A large brush fire that broke out Friday afternoon south of Tucson, Arizona shut down a state highway on Saturday. Arizona 83 reopened on Sunday and no homes were in immediate danger, authorities said.
The prolonged closure took a toll on local businesses during what’s usually a busy Father’s Day weekend in an area with recreational lakes and reservoirs.
Dena Proez said the only business at her Corner Scoop ice cream shop along the highway in Sonoita was serving a few travelers who stopped to get updates on the fire “and feeding all the firefighters.”
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It's been a whirlwind end to Cale Jacobsen's senior year at Ashland-Greenwood, and the all-state guard now has his college decision figured out too.
Jacobsen announced Saturday that he will be walking on at Nebraska, choosing the Huskers over Division I offers from North Dakota and Holy Cross.
Jacobsen sees the decision to choose a walk-on opportunity over a guaranteed scholarship as an chance to see how much he can progress with the help of Nebraska's coaching staff.
“They have all the resources you could ever want as a basketball player, so it’s kind of like betting on myself," Jacobsen said. "The way I’ve been raised is to work hard and take advantage of the opportunities I have, so I know there’s a lot of support that can guide me there.”
The recruiting attention for Jacobsen came after he set a C-1 postseason record with 43 points in the state semifinals and led Ashland-Greenwood to a C-1 state title. Nebraska assistant coach Nate Loenser was in attendance for that state tournament run, and the Huskers extended a walk-on opportunity to Jacobsen not long after.
Loenser kept up with Jacobsen in the coming weeks to ensure the Ashland-Greenwood senior was ready to make his decision, while a couple other Lincoln locals played their part, too. The chance to continue working with North Dakota State transfer and former Lincoln East star Sam Griesel and local trainer Thomas Viglianco helped Jacobsen decide to stay close to home.
“The people in Lincoln and the people they have on staff and on the team was the biggest part of it," Jacobsen said. "The relationship I have with those two guys and with coach Loenser were all big reasons why I wanted to go to Nebraska.”
He joins Elkhorn South's Henry Burt as another in-state walk-on for the Huskers' 2022 class. With his college decision now out of the way, Jacobsen can turn his attention to offseason work with the Husker coaching staff. As a legendary gym rat and practice competitor around the Ashland-Greenwood gym, Jacobsen will look to bring that same mentality to Nebraska.
“The best way to get better as a basketball player is go against good basketball players and I’ll be able to do that every day," Jacobsen said. "I’ll be able to learn from them and hopefully take some of the things they do and implement it into my game.”
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was elected Arkansas governor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the state and the highest profile Trump administration official in elected office.
Sanders defeated Democratic nominee Chris Jones in the race for governor in her predominantly Republican home state, where former President Donald Trump remains popular. Sanders had been heavily favored to win the race, which also included Libertarian nominee Ricky Dale Harrington.
Sanders shattered state fundraising records with her campaign, which focused primarily on national issues. Sanders, the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, regularly promised to use the office to fight President Joe Biden and the “radical left.”
Sanders succeeds Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits. Hutchinson, who endorsed Sanders’ bid, is considering running for president in 2024 and has frequently split with Trump.
Trump publicly encouraged Sanders to run for governor when she left the White House in 2019 to return to Arkansas.
But Sanders was a known figure in the state long before Trump. She appeared in ads for her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, and worked on his campaigns. She managed Sen. John Boozman’s 2010 election and worked as an adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton’s in 2014.
Sanders briefly left the campaign trail in September after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer. Her doctor said Sanders was cancer free after the surgery.
During Sanders’ nearly two-year tenure at the White House, she scaled back daily televised briefings after repeatedly sparring with reporters who aggressively questioned her. She faced questions about her credibility, particularly after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed that Sanders admitted making an unfounded claim to reporters about FBI agents’ reaction to director James Comey’s firing. But she also earned reporters’ respect working behind the scenes to develop relationships with the media.
Sanders embraced Trump’s rhetoric during her bid for governor and adopted many of his favorite targets, including critical race theory and the national news media. But she’s avoided criticizing Hutchinson, even after the former president labeled Hutchinson a RINO — Republican In Name Only — for vetoing an anti-transgender law.
Sanders said she would have signed that measure — a ban on gender affirming care for minors — into law.
She’s stopped short of agreeing with Trump that his loss in the 2020 presidential election was stolen, though she’s said the former president has the right to make that claim.
Jones, an ordained Baptist minister and nuclear engineer, had presented himself to voters as a more unifying figure than Sanders. He launched his campaign with a video that went viral where he talked about his family’s history in the state. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-sarah-sanders-wins-arkansas-governor-race-20221109-5qj7tgjvw5dsrenolv6ich4vce-story.html | 2022-11-09 01:58:36 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-sarah-sanders-wins-arkansas-governor-race-20221109-5qj7tgjvw5dsrenolv6ich4vce-story.html |
LAKELAND, Fla., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College students benefit from "a solid liberal arts foundation" and support from an inclusive community "dedicated to developing well-rounded graduates," explains the newly released Fiske Guide to Colleges 2024
Now in its 40th year, the Fiske Guide is one of the most trusted college search aids, highlighting less than 350 of the best colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland and includes student feedback on everything from academic programs to dining options and social life. Providing an overview of "the best and most interesting four-year colleges," this is the 15th consecutive year the College has been included.
Founded in 1883, FSC has been steadfast in providing students with a distinctive combination of skill-building core courses and professional learning, the Fiske Guide notes. Students can choose from diverse academic offerings, including outstanding pre-professional programs that "boast exceptional placement rates into medical, dental, and pharmacy schools nationwide," extensive internship opportunities, and an enriching study abroad program.
As the guide further explains: The College's dedication to engaged learning is exemplified in its classroom environment, where learning happens through collaborative activities such as debate, small-group discussions, case studies, and research. With the core curriculum revolving around eight key learning outcomes, students develop the skills they need to be successful in the workplace, including critical and creative thinking abilities, effective communication skills, and a sense of personal and social responsibility.
Fiske also lauds Florida Southern College for its emphasis on career development. All FSC students are encouraged to participate in an internship. More than 1,000 students take advantage of this opportunity annually, gaining invaluable experience with renowned organizations such as Charles Schwab, the Kennedy Center, ESPN, and NASA. Moreover, the College's Junior Journey program provides students with short-term travel-study experiences, often at no additional cost.
Along with opportunities to gain real-world experience, the College's picturesque campus, centrally located between Tampa and Orlando, offers an ideal environment for students to thrive academically and personally. The guide calls out the "inclusive" nature of the community, which not only fosters a collaborative atmosphere but also provides a vibrant social scene noting the plethora of student clubs and activities, including cookouts, concerts, sporting events, and monthly trips that allow students to explore Florida's many recreational amenities. One student shared, "[People here] are very down-to-earth and easy to get along with."
Florida Southern College takes immense pride in its continued recognition by the Fiske Guide. The College remains dedicated to providing an exceptional educational experience, shaping the leaders of tomorrow. In the words of an FSC senior, "Florida Southern College is a great community where students can grow academically, socially, and emotionally."
For more about the Fiske Guide, visit fiskeguide.com.
About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2023 "Best Colleges" guide. It is included in The Princeton Review's 2023 Best 388 Colleges guide and the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2024. The 2023-2024 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB-accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 25 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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WACO, Texas (AP) — Staring down a possible indictment, a defiant Donald Trump is hoping to put on a show of force Saturday as he holds the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign in a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement.
The former president will gather with supporters at an airport in Waco, which will mark the 30th anniversary of the Waco massacre next month. In 1993, an attempted raid by law enforcement of a compound belonging to the Branch Davidians, a religious cult, resulted in a shootout that led to a 51-day siege, ending in a blaze that left dozens dead.
The rally comes as Trump has berated prosecutors, encouraged protests and raised the prospect of possible violence should he become the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges. Some of his recent rhetoric has echoed language he used before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters seeking to stop the transfer of power.
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States … and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” Trump wrote on his social media site early Friday.
Trump’s campaign insisted the location and timing of the event had nothing to do with the Waco siege or anniversary. Instead, a spokesperson said the site was chosen because it was conveniently situated near four of the state’s biggest metropolitan areas — Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio — and has the infrastructure to handle a sizable crowd.
“This is the ideal location to have as many supporters from across the state and in neighboring states attend this historic rally,” said Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung.
The city is part of McLennan County, which Trump won in 2020 by more than 23 points. The airport where the rally is being held is 17 miles from the Branch Davidian compound.
The rally had already been in the works before it became clear that a grand jury in New York was drawing closer to a possible indictment as it investigates hush money payments made to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump during the height of his 2016 campaign. Trump has denied the women’s claims.
But the timing will give Trump an opportunity to demonstrate his continued popularity with the GOP base and to portray himself as the victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt” as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.
The grand jury investigating the hush money payment is expected to meet again Monday in New York.
Trump has spent weeks now railing against the investigation. In a move that seemed designed to preempt a formal announcement and to galvanize his loyal base, he claimed last Saturday that he would be arrested the following Tuesday. While that did not happen, Trump has used the days since to try to shape public perception, claiming, for instance, that the Manhattan district attorney’s office had plunged into “Total disarray,” though there was no evidence to suggest prosecutors were backing away from the case.
His efforts echoed a strategy the former president has used before, including during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Trump has also launched a series of increasingly personal attacks against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, calling him “a danger to our Country” who “should be removed immediately,” and using increasingly racist and dehumanizing rhetoric.
On Thursday, he sought to tie Bragg, Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, to George Soros, a liberal billionaire donor who doesn’t know Bragg and hasn’t donated directly to him. “A SOROS BACKED ANIMAL,” Trump wrote of Bragg, adding, “THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM, THIS IS THE GESTAPO.” He also shared an article that juxtaposed a picture of Bragg with a photo of Trump swinging a baseball bat in Bragg’s direction.
The former president has also repeatedly involved violence. Last Saturday, he called on his supporters to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” And on Thursday, he bemoaned, “OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!”
On Friday, a powdery substance was found with a threatening letter in a mailroom at Bragg’s offices, authorities said. Officials later determined the substance wasn’t dangerous.
Bragg’s office sent an internal email to staff last Saturday saying, “We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.” After the powder was discovered, Bragg sent another email to staffers telling them their safety was the top priority.
“We will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly, which is what each of you does every single day,” he wrote Friday.
Even before the threatening letter was sent to Bragg’s office, Democrats warned that Trump’s remarks had the potential to incite violence.
“The twice-impeached former president’s rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible. It’s dangerous, and if he keeps it up he’s going to get someone killed,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said earlier Friday.
The Manhattan case focuses on a $130,000 payment that Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels as Trump was in the throes of the 2016 campaign. Trump later reimbursed Cohen and his company logged the reimbursements as a legal expense. Cohen has already served time in prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes.
Trump is also facing an investigation in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election as well as federal probes into his handling of classified documents and possible obstruction, as well as his efforts on Jan. 6.
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How to Watch the Stars vs. Kraken Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 1
Published: May. 1, 2023 at 9:12 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Seattle Kraken take the road against the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Tuesday, May 2, beginning at 9:30 PM ET on ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS.
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Stars Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
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Stars vs. Kraken Head-to-Head
Stars Stats & Trends
- Defensively, the Stars have been one of the stingiest units in league action, allowing 215 total goals (2.6 per game) to rank third.
- The Stars' 281 total goals (3.4 per game) make them the seventh-best scoring team in the league.
- In the last 10 games, the Stars have gone 8-1-1 (85.0% of possible points).
- Defensively, the Stars have given up 17 goals (1.7 per game) in those 10 outings.
- They have scored 34 goals during that time.
Stars Key Players
Kraken Stats & Trends
- The Kraken's total of 252 goals conceded (3.1 per game) is 14th in the league.
- The Kraken's 289 goals on the season (3.5 per game) rank them fourth in the league.
- Over the last 10 contests, the Kraken have claimed 75.0% of the possible points with a 5-5-0 record.
- Over on the defensive end, the Kraken have allowed 2.4 goals per game (24 total) in those 10 outings.
- They are scoring at a 2.4 goals-per-game average (24 total) during that time.
Kraken Key Players
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MONTREAL, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Air Canada today updates its 2023 financial and capacity guidance.
Air Canada is updating its guidance for 2023. The revised guidance for adjusted EBITDA* reflects expected earnings resulting from an improvement in traffic and yield from a stronger-than-anticipated demand environment and lower-than expected fuel price. The revised guidance for adjusted CASM* reflects adjustments to various expense items including those resulting from the higher-than-expected traffic. Air Canada's 2023 capacity guidance remains substantially unchanged.
Air Canada is also modifying the baseline comparison for its 2023 adjusted CASM guidance, comparing it to a 2022 instead of a 2019 baseline. Given the new cost environment, prior comparisons to the 2019 baseline are no longer as meaningful, and comparisons to 2022 are more appropriate.
Air Canada is providing the following updates to its 2023 guidance.
Air Canada is not updating its 2024 targets at this time and will continue evaluating them as it progresses towards its plans and executes on its strategic priorities.
Major Assumptions
Assumptions were made by Air Canada in preparing its updated guidance. As part of its assumptions, Air Canada assumes moderate Canadian GDP growth for 2023. Air Canada also assumes that the Canadian dollar will trade, on average, at C$1.34 per U.S. dollar for the full year 2023 and that the price of jet fuel will average C$1.09 per litre for the full year 2023.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Below is a description of certain non-GAAP financial measures and ratios used by Air Canada to provide readers with additional information on its financial and operating performance. Such measures are not recognized measures for financial statement presentation under GAAP, do not have standardized meanings, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other entities and should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results.
Adjusted CASM
Air Canada uses adjusted CASM to assess the operating and cost performance of its ongoing airline business without the effects of aircraft fuel expense, the cost of ground packages at Air Canada Vacations, impairment of assets, and freighter costs as these items may distort the analysis of certain business trends and render comparative analysis across periods less meaningful and generally allows for a more meaningful analysis of Air Canada's operating expense performance and a more meaningful comparison to that of other airlines.
In calculating adjusted CASM, aircraft fuel expense is excluded from operating expense results as it fluctuates widely depending on many factors, including international market conditions, geopolitical events, jet fuel refining costs and Canada/U.S. currency exchange rates. Air Canada also incurs expenses related to ground packages at Air Canada Vacations which some airlines, without comparable tour operator businesses, may not incur. In addition, these costs do not generate ASMs and therefore excluding these costs from operating expense results provides for a more meaningful comparison across periods when such costs may vary.
Air Canada also incurs expenses related to the operation of freighter aircraft which some airlines, without comparable cargo businesses, may not incur. Air Canada had six dedicated freighter aircraft in its fleet as at March 31, 2023. Prior to 2021, Air Canada did not incur any costs related to the operation of dedicated freighter aircraft. These costs do not generate ASMs and therefore excluding these costs from operating expense results provides for a more meaningful comparison of the passenger airline business across periods.
Adjusted CASM is reconciled to GAAP operating expense as follows:
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) is commonly used in the airline industry and is used by Air Canada as a means to view operating results before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as these costs can vary significantly among airlines due to differences in the way airlines finance their aircraft and other assets. In calculating adjusted EBITDA, Air Canada excludes impairment of assets as this may distort the analysis of certain business trends and render comparative analysis across periods or to other airlines less meaningful.
EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are reconciled to GAAP operating income (loss) as follows:
For further information on Air Canada's public disclosure file, including Air Canada's 2022 Annual Information Form dated March 29, 2023, consult Air Canada's website at aircanada.com/investors or SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
First quarter of 2023 financial results
Air Canada will be releasing its first quarter 2023 results on Friday, May 12, 2023. Following this, Michael Rousseau, Air Canada President and Chief Executive Officer, Amos Kazzaz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mark Galardo, Executive Vice President, Revenue and Network Planning, will hold a its conference call to present the results and be available for analysts' questions.
Media and the public may access this call on a listen-only basis. Details are as follows:
CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results and estimates of amounts not yet determinable. These statements may involve, but are not limited to, comments relating to guidance, strategies, expectations, planned operations or future actions. Forward-looking statements are identified using terms and phrases such as "preliminary", "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "plan", "predict", "project", "will", "would", and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions.
Forward-looking statements, by their nature, are based on assumptions including those described herein and are subject to important risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements cannot be relied upon due to, among other things, changing external events and general uncertainties of the business of Air Canada. Actual results may differ materially from results indicated in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed below.
Factors that may cause results to differ materially from results indicated in forward-looking statements include economic and geopolitical conditions such as the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Air Canada's ability to successfully achieve or sustain positive net profitability, industry and market conditions and the demand environment, competition, the remaining effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, Air Canada's dependence on technology, cybersecurity risks, Air Canada's ability to successfully implement appropriate strategic and other important initiatives (including Air Canada's ability to manage operating costs), energy prices, Air Canada's ability to pay its indebtedness and maintain or increase liquidity, interruptions of service, climate change and environmental factors (including weather systems and other natural phenomena and factors arising from anthropogenic sources), Air Canada's dependence on key suppliers (including government agencies and other stakeholders supporting airport and airline operations), Air Canada's dependence on regional and other carriers, Air Canada's ability to attract and retain required personnel, the availability and onboarding of Air Canada's workforce, other epidemic diseases, changes in laws, regulatory developments or proceedings, employee and labour relations and costs, terrorist acts, war, Air Canada's ability to successfully operate its loyalty program, casualty losses, Air Canada's dependence on Star Alliance® and joint ventures, Air Canada's ability to preserve and grow its brand, pending and future litigation and actions by third parties, currency exchange fluctuations, limitations due to restrictive covenants, insurance issues and costs, and pension plan obligations, as well as the factors identified in Air Canada's public disclosure file available at www.sedar.com and, in particular, those identified in section 18 "Risk Factors" of Air Canada's 2022 MD&A. The forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference in this news release represent Air Canada's expectations as of the date of this news release (or as of the date they are otherwise stated to be made) and are subject to change after such date. However, Air Canada disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities regulations.
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West Virginia Department of Transportation announces temporary bridge will be installed next week
WV officials predict heavy construction traffic on Forest Road 19, increased truck traffic on the west side of the bridge on Laneville Road
Installation of a temporary replacement for a West Virginia bridge that was closed for safety reasons is expected to start next week, the state Department of Transportation said.
The Laneville Bridge provides access to the community of Laneville in Parsons County, the Red Creek trailhead, Dolly Sods Wilderness and other recreational facilities and is a connection between Randolph, Tucker and Grant counties, the department said.
The U.S. Forest Service built the bridge and maintained it, but it is on a road maintained by the state. Safety issues were discovered in a routine inspection on July 26, causing the bridge to be closed.
WEST VIRGINIA 12-YEAR-OLD'S BODY FOUND IN OHIO RIVER
OHIO WOMAN WHO WAS THE FINANCE DIRECTOR AT WV AIRPORT SENTENCED FOR THEFT
The department said there will be heavy construction traffic on Forest Road 19 and increased truck traffic on the west side of the bridge on Laneville Road.
An $800,000 contract was awarded to A.L.L. Construction Inc. of Mount Storm to complete the replacement project, Forest Service officials said previously. The agency hopes to open the temporary bridge to traffic on Nov. 1.
WEST VIRGINIA PROTESTOR ARRESTED FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF STATE ABORTION BAN
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A Passaic County man was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexually assaulting a child in Paterson two decades ago.
Edwin Chaparro, 56, of Paterson, is charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, two counts of second-degree sexual assault, and three counts of endangering, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a statement.
Paterson police notified the prosecutor’s special victims unit on Nov. 5, 2022, that Chaparro had allegedly assaulted the child in a residence on more than one occasion between 2001 and 2004, Valdes said.
Detectives arrested Chaparro after speaking with multiple witnesses and collecting evidence, the prosecutor said.
Chaparro was held in the Passaic County Jail pending a pre-trial detention hearing, Valdes said.
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March Madness 2023 Sweet 16: Odds, Game Times, Where to Watch - March 23
There are four Sweet 16 games on the March Madness slate for March 23, with No. 3 Gonzaga taking on No. 2 UCLA as one of the day's best matchups. Find more info on game times, betting odds, and details on how to watch upcoming NCAA Tournament games below.
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Sweet 16 Odds and How to Watch
No. 7 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 3 Kansas State Wildcats
- Game Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Venue: Madison Square Garden
- Location: New York City, New York
How to Watch Michigan State vs Kansas State
- TV: TBS
Michigan State vs Kansas State Odds
- Favorite: Michigan State (-1.5)
- Total: 138.5
- Michigan State Moneyline: -125
- Kansas State Moneyline: +105
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No. 8 Arkansas Razorbacks vs. No. 4 UConn Huskies
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Venue: T-Mobile Arena
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
How to Watch Arkansas vs UConn
- TV: CBS
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No. 9 Florida Atlantic Owls vs. No. 4 Tennessee Volunteers
- Game Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Venue: Madison Square Garden
- Location: New York City, New York
How to Watch Florida Atlantic vs Tennessee
- TV: TBS
Florida Atlantic vs Tennessee Odds
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No. 3 Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. No. 2 UCLA Bruins
- Game Time: 9:45 PM ET
- Venue: T-Mobile Arena
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
How to Watch Gonzaga vs UCLA
- TV: CBS
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Gonzaga vs UCLA Odds
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
309 AM CST Wed Jan 18 2023
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
Much drier air is expected behind a Pacific front moving through
our area early this morning. This will allow relative humidity
values to fall below 20 percent areawide this afternoon. At the
same time, wind speeds out of the west will increase to between
20-35 mph with gusts to 45 mph possible. Both of these factors
combined with the lack of precipitation across the area this year
and freeze-cured grasses will result in critical fire weather
conditions across all of West Central Texas this afternoon and
evening.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM CST THIS
EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT, STRONG WEST
WINDS, AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
The National Weather Service in San Angelo has issued a Red Flag
Warning for low relative humidities, strong west winds, and high
fire danger, which is in effect from noon today to 8 PM CST this
evening. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.
* WINDS...West 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 15 percent.
* FUELS...DRY.
* IMPACTS... ANY WILDFIRES THAT DEVELOP COULD BE DIFFICULT TO
CONTROL AND WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now or will occur shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low humidity and dry fuels will contribute to
extreme fire behavior.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM CST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.
* WHERE...The Concho Valley, western portions of the Big Country,
and Crockett County.
* WHEN...From noon today to 8 PM CST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Isaac Paredes Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Rangers - July 18
Published: Jul. 18, 2023 at 6:23 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Isaac Paredes -- with a slugging percentage of .633 in his past 10 games, including four home runs -- will be in action for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Texas Rangers, with Nathan Eovaldi on the hill, on July 18 at 8:05 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless performance (0-for-1) against the Rangers.
Isaac Paredes Game Info & Props vs. the Rangers
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
- Game Time: 8:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rangers Starter: Nathan Eovaldi
- TV Channel: BSSW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Isaac Paredes At The Plate
- Paredes is hitting .260 with 14 doubles, 17 home runs and 33 walks.
- He ranks 69th in batting average, 23rd in on base percentage, and 17th in slugging among the qualified batters in MLB play.
- Paredes has picked up a hit in 54.9% of his 82 games this season, with multiple hits in 23.2% of them.
- He has homered in 18.3% of his games in 2023 (15 of 82), and 5.4% of his trips to the plate.
- In 40.2% of his games this season, Paredes has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 11.0% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- He has scored in 33 games this year (40.2%), including multiple runs in 11 games.
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Isaac Paredes Home/Away Batting Splits
Rangers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Rangers pitching staff ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Rangers' 3.97 team ERA ranks 11th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Rangers surrender the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (103 total, 1.1 per game).
- Eovaldi (10-3 with a 2.83 ERA and 109 strikeouts in 117 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Rangers, his 19th of the season.
- The right-hander last appeared on Thursday, July 6 against the Boston Red Sox, when he threw 5 1/3 innings, allowing four earned runs while giving up five hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 33-year-old's 2.83 ERA ranks seventh, 1.020 WHIP ranks fourth, and 8.3 K/9 ranks 40th.
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Wander Franco Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Padres - June 17
Published: Jun. 17, 2023 at 5:26 AM EDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
Wander Franco -- with an on-base percentage of .262 in his past 10 games, 96 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Tampa Bay Rays against the San Diego Padres, with Blake Snell on the hill, on June 17 at 7:15 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-5) against the Padres.
Wander Franco Game Info & Props vs. the Padres
- Game Day: Saturday, June 17, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: PETCO Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Padres Starter: Blake Snell
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +195)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Wander Franco At The Plate
- Franco leads Tampa Bay with a slugging percentage of .476, fueled by 30 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualified hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 15th, his on-base percentage ranks 30th, and he is 44th in the league in slugging.
- Franco has picked up a hit in 72.1% of his 68 games this season, with more than one hit in 35.3% of those games.
- Looking at the 68 games he has played this year, he's went deep in eight of them (11.8%), and in 2.7% of his trips to the plate.
- Franco has had at least one RBI in 32.4% of his games this season (22 of 68), with two or more RBI eight times (11.8%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 44.1% of his games this year (30 of 68), with two or more runs 10 times (14.7%).
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Padres Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Padres pitching staff ranks 15th in MLB.
- The Padres have the seventh-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (3.84).
- The Padres rank 13th in baseball in home runs surrendered (75 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Padres are sending Snell (2-6) to make his 14th start of the season. He is 2-6 with a 3.91 ERA and 81 strikeouts through 69 2/3 innings pitched.
- The lefty's most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, when he went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up three hits.
- The 30-year-old's 3.91 ERA ranks 34th, 1.333 WHIP ranks 44th, and 10.6 K/9 ranks seventh among qualifying pitchers this season.
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When you sit down at Bar+Cart Lounge and Restaurant, start on the back of the menu — or maybe it’s the front.
Either way: The side with the drinks. We’ll get to the food side in a moment, but first, order a cocktail.
On both sides of the menu, the chefs and bartenders are playing with flavor, and the fun they’re having is palpable. The cocktail list is almost triple the length of the main wine and beer lists combined, and Bar+Cart’s drinks program shines in resurfacing lesser-known cousins of classic cocktails and executing them extraordinarily well. Even the dinner components I thought fell a bit short on a recent Friday night were, all things considered, quite enjoyable. Not quick, though; the only reservation available was at 4:30 p.m. and we signed the receipt ($106 for two) about two and a half hours later.
You could feel the buzz of the restaurant, which has been transformed from its longtime identity as Khyber Pass Cafe. The walls have been repainted a dark teal, and the gorgeous interior archways a stark black. New tables, new chairs, new rustic behind-the-bar shelving for a significant array of bottles. The space is simultaneously chic and understated — and a very tight squeeze. Nobody ever accused the Afghan restaurant near Snelling and Grand avenues of being particularly large, and Bar+Cart has added even more tables. It’s challenging not only for servers but also for those who would like to make their way to the restrooms; the restaurant’s layout may be uncomfortable for folks who have difficulty navigating tight spaces.
As for drinks: Their old-school Martinez, sweeter than a martini and more floral than a Manhattan, is an absolute gem. Strong, not boozy. The A La Louisiane, which comfortably sits somewhere between New Orleans staple drinks Sazerac and Vieux Carre, is delightfully brooding and well-balanced with an unexpected but quite welcome dark cherry undercurrent.
As for food: The menu is divided into four categories — ‘light’ options ranging from salads to steak tartare; ‘spreads’ like loaded hummus and whipped feta; ‘foot longs,’ a.k.a. subs and related sandwiches, and ‘homey,’ where more composed entrees live.
And the dishes were good. Not as well-balanced and impressive as the cocktails. But good.
The burrata cheese, housed in the ‘spreads’ column, was served with pistachio-raisin-herb pesto, honey and crushed red pepper, and crostini. Any careful calibration of the flavors in the pesto — the component that otherwise might’ve set this dish apart from other burrata appetizers — was trounced by the base-line power players of capital-S Sweet honey and capital-S Spicy red pepper. But hey, I’ll eat hot honey and creamy cheese with a strong drink any day of the week.
In the ‘foot longs’ department (see: Coney Island dog, porketta roll; all served with chips), the Alabama pulled chicken sub with white barbecue sauce, celery, arugula and, uh, Kool-Aid pickles caught my eye. The Alabama part fell flat for me; I wish the white sauce in particular had been several degrees punchier, but I was satisfied with the sandwich as a simple chicken salad hoagie. As for ‘homey’ entrees, think bolognese, coconut curry sea bass, lamb chops. Speaking of those lamb chops: They were served with red lentil dal and garlic yogurt sauce for a cross-cultural dish that nods to both South Asian and Middle Eastern lamb traditions and highlights the earthy savoriness of the meat itself. Clever and inventive and delicious.
Dessert was a bit of a flop; the “almond torta” turned out to be a pie-slice-shaped lemon bar, too chilled to be gooey, dusted with powdered sugar and slivered almonds. Perhaps the pistachio ricotta cake would’ve been better, but I’d already had one run-in that night with a pistachio-and-cheese dish!
None of the dishes are particularly fancy, but the menu certainly has quite a bit of variation in the vibe of each of its categories. The sandwiches, for example, have a much more casual feel than the entrees do, though both categories’ portion sizes seem to be matched correctly so nobody goes hungry.
It’s near-impossible to be all things to all people. As far as modern small-menu spots go, Bar+Cart manages to get pretty darn close.
You want killer cocktails with … elevated bar snacks? Yep. A hefty dinner-time or late-night sandwich? For sure, on the same menu. Fun date-night entrees? They’ve got those down too.
Bar+Cart Lounge and Restaurant
Where: 1571 Grand Ave, St Paul
Contact: The restaurant currently appears to have no functional website or phone number, but you can make reservations online
Prices: Starters and spreads run from $12 to $20; hoagies from $13 to $25; entrees from $16 to $30; cocktails from $10 to $13
Good to know: Reservations are unavailable for groups larger than 4
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Micron will invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.
Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Boise, Idaho-based Micron, said his company’s investment was made possible by last month’s passage of the CHIPS and Science ACT of 2022, a $280 billion bill aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness against China and avoiding another chip shortage like the one that derailed the auto and tech industries during the pandemic.
The CHIPS law sets aside $52 billion to bolster the semiconductor industry, which due to COVID-related supply chain constraints beginning in 2020, has struggled to manufacture the diminutive chips that power everything from smartphones to computers to automobiles.
“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel U.S. technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Mehrotra said.
Micron said locating the manufacturing plant at the company’s operational headquarter will improve efficiency and help get products to market faster.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said the partnership will help the city’s economy grow and attract and diverse workforce.
“This is a once in a generation investment in Boise from a home-grown company that is critical to the economic vitality of our community, our state and our nation,” McLean wrote on Twitter.
McLean and Mehrotra last month attended President Biden’s bill signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act. Idaho’s entire congressional delegation, all Republicans, voted against it.
Biden called the Micron announcement “another big win for America.”
Micron is one of Idaho’s largest employers. The company has several chip manufacturing plants around the world, including in Singapore and Taiwan.
Last week, the chipmaker Intel Corp. announced that it would break ground Sept. 9 on its planned $20 billion Ohio semiconductor facilities. The factories, known as fabs, are expected to open in 2025. President Biden is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking.
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Since the beginning of the monkeypox outbreak, scientists and activists have pushed for the name of the virus and the disease to be changed to something "non-discriminatory" and "non-stigmatizing."
Public health experts have worried that stigma could steer people away from getting tested and vaccinated. A new name can help slow the spread of the disease, they say, but it needs to come quickly.
Globally, nearly 60,000 cases have been identified, placing the name "monkeypox" in individuals' medical files. The World Health Organization's director-general promised in June that a change in the name was coming "as soon as possible," and WHO said it was working with experts to change the name of the virus, its variants and the disease it causes.
But that was months ago.
How a virus gets its name
Typically, the scientist who isolates a virus gets to suggest a name. The naming of the species is the responsibility of WHO's International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
Scientists have been calling this virus "monkeypox" for 64 years.
In 1958, researcher Preben von Magnus and his team in Copenhagen, Denmark, discovered two outbreaks of a "pox-like disease" in a colony of crab-eating macaque monkeys that their lab used for polio vaccine production and research.
The first human case of monkeypox wasn't documented until 1970. Scientists discovered a case in a 9-month-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The child recovered from the monkeypox infection but died six days later from measles. After that, cases of the painful disease were documented in West and Central Africa.
Cases in other places were almost all linked to travel, according to the CDC. But in 2018, the agency noted that over the previous decade, more human cases had been reported in countries that had not seen the disease in several decades. This emergence, it said, was a "global health security concern."
The global push for the name change started this year, when an outbreak took off in countries where monkeypox was not commonly found.
New names for old viruses
The naming process had already been underway to reconsider the names of all orthopoxvirus species, WHO said in an email to CNN, including cowpox, horsepox, camelpox, raccoonpox and skunkpox, as well as monkeypox.
According to WHO taxonomy committee member Colin McInnes, the panel has a mandate to bring "virus species nomenclature into line with the way that most other forms of life are named."
Traditionally, poxviruses were named after the animal in which the disease was first spotted, but that created some inconsistencies, he said.
Monkeypox probably didn't start in monkeys. Its origin is still unknown. The virus can be found in several other kinds of animals like Gambian giant rats, dormice and a couple of species of squirrels.
McInnes, who is deputy director and principal scientist with the Moredun Group, which develops vaccines and tests for livestock and other animals, studies squirrelpox -- which also may be in line for a name change. He has been looking into the feasibility of producing a vaccine against the virus, which can be fatal for red squirrels in the UK.
The current species known as "monkeypox virus" and the others would then be renamed to "orthopoxvirus 'something,' " he said in an email to CNN.
"It is the 'something' that is currently being debated," McInnes wrote.
He said some scientists would prefer that the monkeypox name be kept in order to retain the link to 50 years of published research. Others would like a totally different name.
The WHO committee has until June 2023 to suggest changes.
In August, WHO announced that a group of experts had come up with new names for the clades, or variants, of monkeypox. Prior to more modern conventions about names, scientists would name a variant for the region where it emerged and was circulating.
Now, to remove any stigma that comes with naming a disease for a region or country, the Congo Basin clade will be called clade I. The former West African clade is clade II. A subvariant, clade IIb, is what is primarily in circulation in the current outbreak.
Dangerous stigma
Many scientists say WHO needs to work with more urgency.
In July, after weeks had gone by no action, the New York City health commissioner sent a letter to WHO, urging it to "act in this moment before it is too late." It cited "growing concern for the potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the 'monkeypox' virus can have on these already vulnerable communities."
Since the outbreak has largely affected gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, stigma has been an ongoing concern for WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
"Stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus," Tedros said when he declared monkeypox a global health emergency in July.
In the US, the virus is disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic people, according to the CDC. Local public health data also shows that fewer members of either community are getting the monkeypox vaccine.
Experts are concerned that in addition to the barriers that make access to any kind of health care difficult, some people may not get the vaccine or get tested because of the stigma associated with the disease.
Dozens of suggestions
In the WHO 2015 naming conventions, the organization encouraged those who name diseases to avoid places, names, occupations and animals due to stigmatization.
In August, WHO encouraged people who want to propose new names for monkeypox to submit suggestions to its website. More than 180 ideas have been suggested, some with a wide mix of creative explanations.
Some -- like lopox, ovidpox, mixypox and roxypox -- had no explanation.
A handful -- like rodentpox, bonopox and alaskapox -- may have been facetious.
Johanna Vogl, who submitted "greypox," wrote that the name "refers to a phenotypic mark of the disease, greyish blisters and is not associated with human skin color nor a location, group or animal."
Other suggestions come with more robust scientific explanations. Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an instructor in emergency medicine at Harvard, suggested changing the name to opoxid-22.
"While the monkeypox virus causing the current outbreak is not a novel pathogen, I propose that due to its designation as a public health emergency of international concern, renaming it is warranted," Faust wrote in his proposal. He added that although this particular lineage of the virus seems to have originated before 2022, using this year may "limit confusion."
Opoxid-22 reflects what's known about the virus while removing "monkey" from the name.
Faust said he was bothered by the inaccuracy of the monkeypox name and the stigma it conveyed. But he said he submitted the name when he was waiting for some other work to finish.
"Honestly, I was just procrastinating," Faust said.
He said that if WHO picked his name, it could help more people seek treatment, testing and care.
"This is important," Faust said. "The right name should sound dry, technical, boring, so people aren't afraid to say that they have that problem, right?"
Rossi Hassad, a professor of research and statistics at Mercy College and a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, submitted a few names including zpox-22, zopox-22, zovid-22, hpox22 and hpi-22.
His proposal argues that given the uncertainty over where the virus originated, a more general name derived from a zoonosis -- meaning a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans -- would eliminate the word "monkey" and be more inclusive.
Adding "22" would reflect the year in which scientists learned about this "outbreak with unusual and worrisome human-to-human transmission," the proposal says.
Hassad said he was motivated to submit names because the word "monkey" can carry a lot of negative connotations.
"It has been used in racial and racist slurs against certain groups. I think it will be disingenuous not to recognize the damage that that word has done," he said. "It is also scientifically incorrect. It's a misnomer. If we want to be scientific, we have to be correct."
'A day late and a dollar short'
Some US health departments aren't waiting for WHO, but the change is inconsistent.
San Francisco's Department of Health calls it MPX. Chicago's calls it MPV. Other cities hit hard by the outbreak, including Houston, New York City and Philadelphia, have stuck with the traditional name, as has the CDC.
Daniel Driffin, an HIV patient advocate and a consultant with NMAC, a national organization that works for health equity and racial justice to end the HIV epidemic, said he hopes the name will change. At the same time, he is disappointed that it wasn't until this outbreak, when people outside of Africa were widely affected, that the pushing for the change started.
"It's a name steeped in racism. It's a day late and a dollar short. But I support the change and think it will help," Driffin said. "Think about the populations who will continue to be impacted disproportionately with this disease. It's been Black and brown folks, so if we can strip racist oppressive tendencies from the nomenclature, I think we have to do that."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli was freed Wednesday from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company.
His attorney, Ben Brafman, said Shkreli, 39, was released early from a prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. The move was confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
“I am pleased to report that Martin Shkreli has been released from Allenwood prison and transferred to a BOP halfway house after completing all programs that allowed for his prison sentence to be shortened,” Brafman said.
Shkreli was moved to a halfway house overseen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ New York Residential Reentry Management Office, the bureau said in a statement.
The Bureau of Prisons said Shkreli’s projected release date from federal custody was Sept. 14.
Brafman said he has encouraged Shkreli to make no statements, and the lawyer planned no comments beyond confirming Wednesday’s moves.
Shkreli was sentenced to the seven-year term after a 2017 conviction for lying to investors about the performance of two hedge funds he ran, skimming money for himself from those funds, and defrauding investors in a drug company, Retrophin, by hiding his ownership of some of its stock. He was also ordered to forfeit $7.3 million.
Shkreli was originally due to be released from prison in September 2023.
Dubbed “Pharma Bro,” Shkreli gained fame and notoriety after buying rights to Daraprim, a drug used to treat an infection that occurs in some AIDS, malaria and cancer patients and raising its price from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
Shkreli defended the decision as capitalism at work, saying insurance and other programs ensured that people who need Daraprim would ultimately get it.
During the campaign for the presidency in 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton called it price-gouging and future President Donald Trump, a Republican, called Shkreli “a spoiled brat.”
Shkreli resigned as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals — later Vyera — in 2015, a day after he was arrested on securities fraud charges.
Earlier this year, he was ordered by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company gained by raising the price of the drug. She also barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for life.
He also once regularly attacked critics on social media and once offered a bounty to anyone who could give him one of Hillary Clinton’s hairs. He also was known for owning a rare, one-of-a-kind album by the Wu-Tang Clan which was sold to satisfy some of his court debts.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man has been arrested for murder months after a teenager was killed in a shooting in Fayetteville.
Khailil Johnson, 19, was arrested on Monday and is being charged with first degree murder. He is currently being held at the Cumberland County Jail under no bond.
Lee Otis Evans Jr., 18, was found shot outside of an apartment building in the 100 block of Treetop Drive back in May. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police have not released any other information at this time.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact Detective R. Vernon at (910) 729-2525 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477). | https://abc11.com/fayetteville-murder-arrest-police/12533162/ | 2022-12-06 16:01:27 | 1 | https://abc11.com/fayetteville-murder-arrest-police/12533162/ |
WORKING WITH NON-PROFIT PHIT AMERICA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Billie Jean King joins PHIT America to help kids all over the nation improve their physical and mental health by implementing new school physical activity programs using the Billie Jean King Eye Coach Brain Training system (BJK-BTS).
"American school aged children ranked last in children's physical health in a recent UNICEF study," King said. "Now, PHIT America and the Eye Coach Brain Training System are a viable solution to combat this challenge. The program is also shown to improve academic performance in helping kids focus and do better in the classroom."
PHIT America is on a mission to get fifty million kids active through its school program, AMPED. This incentivized running/walking program incorporates BJK-BTS, which develops focus and ball-striking skills. Kids are motivated to learn important basic physical skills that help them throughout life including their ability to find success in sports, notably tennis. For youth, tennis is especially beneficial in promoting social skills, sportsmanship and physical fitness.
PHIT America's AMPED program with BJK-BTS is part of a three-step pathway, including PLAY TENNIS and USTA's NET GENERATION that evolve to play opportunities in community-based programs.
This approach provides a natural collaboration with the United States Tennis Association, a supporter of PHIT America, as the organization is also very involved with the pathway. Craig Morris, Chief Executive, Community Tennis for the USTA, adds, "The USTA and PHIT have a like-minded focus to create active opportunities for children around the country. Working together, we will get kids moving, keep them healthy and get more of them playing the great sport of tennis."
Jim Baugh, Founder of PHIT America, says we have a perfect partnership. "Billie has made a major investment in our kids and schools with her Eye Coach Brain Training system in conjunction with the USTA's focus on getting more kids playing a lifetime, healthy sport. Together, we are creating PHIT Kids, who are healthier, smarter, and happier. We have already helped over 1300 schools and 740,000 children and now we can help millions of kids with this partnership."
The team is meeting with major companies and foundations to expand their impact in helping America's children. "We need others to step up," says King. "Fifty million kids need our help. We have the solution, and we can make a major and immediate difference."
Interested companies, foundations or individuals should visit PHITAmerica.org or contact Jim Baugh at Jim@PHITAmerica.org.
PHIT America is a non-profit organization, established in 2013, leading a national 'Movement' to greatly improve the physical and mental health of 50 million children in the USA, with a plan to beat the Inactivity Pandemic. All data and research sources can be found at IP.PHITAmerica.org. PHIT America is led by Sports Industry and Tennis Industry Hall of Fame Inductee, and former President of Wilson Sporting Goods, Jim Baugh.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban announced they have arrested and will soon sentence an Afghan woman who appeared in a video on social media earlier this week and said a senior Taliban official forced her into marriage and raped her repeatedly.
In the video, the woman, who identified herself only by her first name Elaha, wept as she described being beaten and raped by former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosti. She said she was speaking from an apartment in Kabul where the Taliban had confined her after she tried to escape the country, and she pleaded for rescue.
“These may be my last words. He will kill me, but it is better to die once than to die every time,” she said.
Late Wednesday, a day after the video surfaced, the Taliban-run Supreme Court said in a tweet that Elaha had been arrested for defamation on orders of the chief justice Abdul Hakeem Haqqani. Without mentioning any trial taking place, it said she would “soon be sentenced according to Sharia law.”
“No one is allowed to harm the name of Mujahideen or defame the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the 20-years of holy jihad,” it said, referring to the Taliban and their war against U.S.-led troops and the U.S.-allied government, which the hardline insurgents toppled just over a year ago.
Since the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021, Afghan women activists, as well as Amnesty International, have reported an increase in forced marriages of women — including cases where Taliban officials coerced women into marriage by intimidating them or their families.
In the video, Elaha identified herself as a medical student at Kabul University and the daughter of an intelligence service general under the former government. She said Khosti had forced her into marriage six months ago, when he still held the spokesman post. Khosti tried to marry her sister to another Taliban official, but her family successfully fled, she said.
“Saeed Khosti beat me a lot. Every night he raped me,” she said, breaking into tears.
She said she tried to escape to neighboring Pakistan, but the Taliban arrested her at the border crossing and brought her back to Kabul and confined her to an apartment there. After they brought her back, she heard a Taliban member telling Khosti that she had lived under the former government for 20 years and should be stoned to death as an infidel, she said.
In tweets Wednesday, Khosti confirmed that he had married Elaha, but he denied mistreating her. “I assure you that I have not done anything illegal,” he wrote. In recent months, Khosti was transferred out of his spokesman post and it is not clear what his new position is.
Khosti said he divorced her after finding she “has a problem in her faith” and he accused her of insulting Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
Elaha’s video was widely shared on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp groups, sparking a wave of calls for help and denunciations of the Taliban from women activists.
Since seizing power, the Taliban have imposed increasing restrictions on women. They have prevented many women from working, barred teenage girls from school and required women in public to cover themselves completely except for their eyes. The world has refused to recognize the Taliban’s rule, demanding it respect human rights and show tolerance for other groups. | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-woman-arrested-after-accusing-taliban-official-of-rape/ | 2022-09-01 17:13:47 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-woman-arrested-after-accusing-taliban-official-of-rape/ |
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has told George Washington University that he won't be returning to teach at its law school this fall. The decision followed student protests over the Supreme Court's vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Thomas told the school he will not be available to give a constitutional law seminar which he was expected to co-teach. He had been teaching the course at the Washington, D.C., law school since 2011.
"The students were promptly informed of Justice Thomas' decision by his co-instructor who will continue to offer the seminar this fall," GWU spokesperson Joshua Grossman said Thursday in a statement to NPR.
Thomas faced backlash from some GWU law students after he voted with the Supreme Court's conservative majority to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which deemed abortion a constitutional right for Americans.
"We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want," Thomas told a group largely comprised of lawyers and judges at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta in May, NBC News reported.
Since the court ruling, "we have heard from members of our community who have expressed feelings of deep disagreement with this decision," GWU Provost Christopher Alan Bracey and law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew wrote in an email to the university community.
The university received calls to terminate Thomas and cancel the seminar he teaches, they wrote.
"Justice Thomas' views do not represent the views of either the George Washington University or its Law School," Bracey and Matthew said. "Additionally, like all faculty members at our university, Justice Thomas has academic freedom and freedom of expression and inquiry."
The law school faculty additionally cited the school's academic freedom guidelines, which say the university should not shield its students from "ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive."
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DALLAS, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: BHR) ("Braemar" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
Braemar plans to issue its earnings release for the second quarter after the market closes on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, and will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. ET. The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (201) 389-0920. A replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, August 9, 2023, by dialing (412) 317-6671 and entering the confirmation number, 13739430.
The live broadcast of Braemar's quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.bhrreit.com, on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for approximately one year.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in luxury hotels and resorts.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials predicted two years ago that the Islamic State group would likely regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and other Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement, according to a newly declassified report.
Analysts said many of the judgments in the 2020 report appear prescient today, particularly as the group is resurgent in Afghanistan following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of American forces last year.
The Islamic State group is no longer controlling huge swaths of territory or staging attacks in the United States as it did several years ago before a major U.S.-led offensive. But it is now slowly rebuilding some core capabilities in Iraq and Syria and increasingly fighting local governments in places including Afghanistan, where an affiliate of the IS group, also known by the acronym ISIS, is fighting the ruling Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal.
“If the United States and our partners pull back or withdraw further from areas where ISIS is active, the group’s trajectory will increasingly depend on local governments’ will and capability to fill the resulting security voids,” says the report, originally published in classified form in May 2020, months after then-President Donald Trump’s administration reached an agreement with the Taliban to pull out American troops.
Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. U.S. special forces also killed the head of the Islamic State group in a February raid in northwest Syria.
“The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how serious this threat environment remains,” said Christy Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Thursday. But she added that analysts believe the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland is “less acute than we’ve seen it” at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Analysts have recently seen growth in IS group branches around the world, particularly in Africa, said Abizaid, who spoke at the Intelligence and National Security Summit outside Washington.
“Afghanistan is a really interesting story along those lines about where the ISIS affiliate is and how we continue to be concerned about it,” she said.
Some outside analysts say al-Zawahri’s apparent presence in downtown Kabul suggests that extremist groups are more comfortable operating in Afghanistan — and that it will be tougher to counter the Islamic State group as it grows across the country.
Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, called the May 2020 report “very clear-eyed and forthright.”
“It’s very different operating against ISIS in the isolated mountain redoubts or deep valleys of Afghanistan,” he said. “The advantages that enabled us to so brilliantly take out al-Zawahri, I would guess, are absent outside of Kabul.”
While the White House last month released declassified points from an intelligence assessment saying al-Qaida had not reconstituted in Afghanistan, the points did not address the Islamic State in Khorasan, the local IS group affiliate. IS-K was responsible for killing 13 U.S. troops outside the Kabul airport during the withdrawal and has continued to mount an insurgency against the Taliban now in control of the country.
The National Security Council said in a statement that the U.S. is working to deny “ISIS-K access to financing, disrupt and deter foreign terrorist fighters from reaching Afghanistan and the region, and counter ISIS-K’s violent extremism.”
The May 2020 report was declassified this August and published online last week by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI periodically declassifies and releases older intelligence assessments. A spokesperson for the ODNI’s National Counterterrorism Center declined to answer questions about the assessment or address the intelligence community’s current view on the Islamic State group.
The report predicts that the Islamic State group’s global branches are likely to increase its “capability to conduct attacks in many regions of the world, including the West.” The U.S. would more likely face attacks from people inspired by the group’s ideology than plots directed or supported by the group, the report said.
Pressure by local governments where the IS group is active and their international partners “almost certainly will shape the scale of ISIS’ resurgence in Iraq and Syria and its expansion worldwide,” the report said.
Experts commonly agree with the report’s predictions, said Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism who is director of research for The Soufan Group, an intelligence and security consultancy. But top intelligence analysts would have been involved in drafting and reviewing the assessment, formally known as a national intelligence estimate, he said.
Clarke noted several recent IS-linked attacks in Afghanistan, including an apparent suicide bombing outside the Russian embassy in Kabul that killed two diplomats, as well as ongoing fighting between militants and U.S.-backed forces at a sprawling camp in Syria.
“There are some things that have happened in the last few weeks,” he said, “that make you wonder if the situation is not more dire than is being presented.”
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has approved a cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock for the third quarter of 2022. The dividend of $0.85 is payable on September 12, 2022, to shareholders of record on August 26, 2022. The annualized dividend rate is $3.32 per share.
The Company has paid a dividend each year since 1937 and is one of fewer than 25 companies in the S&P 500® that has increased its dividend annually for at least the last 49 years.
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S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) provides essential intelligence. We enable governments, businesses and individuals with the right data, expertise and connected technology so that they can make decisions with conviction. From helping our customers assess new investments to guiding them through ESG and energy transition across supply chains, we unlock new opportunities, solve challenges and accelerate progress for the world.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Conroy, the prolific voice actor whose gravely delivery on “Batman: The Animated Series” was for many Batman fans the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader, has died at 66.
Conroy died Thursday after a battle with cancer, series producer Warner Bros. announced Friday.
Conroy was the voice of Batman on the acclaimed animated series that ran from 1992-1996, often acting opposite Mark Hamill’s Joker. Conroy continued on as the almost exclusive animated voice of Batman, including some 15 films, 400 episodes of television and two dozen video games, including the “Batman: Arkham” and “Injustice” franchises.
In the eight-decade history of Batman, no one played the Dark Knight more.
“For several generations, he has been the definitive Batman,” Hamill in a statement. “It was one of those perfect scenarios where they got the exact right guy for the right part, and the world was better for it.”
“He will always be my Batman,” Hamill said.
Conroy’s popularity with fans made him a sought-after personality on the convention circuit. In the often tumultuous world of DC Comics, Conroy was a mainstay and widely beloved. In a statement, Warner Bros. Animation said Conroy’s performance “will forever stand among the greatest portrayals of the Dark Knight in any medium.”
“Kevin brought a light with him everywhere, whether in the recording booth giving it his all or feeding first-responders during 9/11 or making sure every fan who ever waited for him had a moment with their Batman,” said Paul Dini, producer of the animated show. ”A hero in every sense of the word.”
Born in in Westbury, New York, and raised in Westport, Connecticut, Conroy started out as well-trained theater actor. He attended Juilliard and roomed with Robin Williams. After graduating, he toured with John Houseman’s acting group, the Acting Company. He performed in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Public Theater and in “Eastern Standard” on Broadway. At the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, he performed in “Hamlet.”
The 1980s production of “Eastern Standard,” in which Conroy played a TV producer secretly living with AIDS, had particular meaning to him. Conroy, who was gay, said at the time he was regularly attending funerals for friends who died of AIDS. He poured out his anguish nightly on stage.
In 1980, Conroy moved to Los Angeles, began acting in soap operas and booked appearances on TV series including “Cheers,” “Tour of Duty” and “Murphy Brown.” In 1991, when casting director Andrea Romano was scouting her lead actor for “Batman: The Animated Series,” she went through hundreds of auditions before Conroy came in. He was there on a friend’s recommendation — and cast immediately.
Conroy began the role without any background in comics and as a novice in voice acting. His Batman was husky, brooding and dark. His Bruce Wayne was light and dashing. His inspiration for the contrasting voices, he said, came from the 1930s film, “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” about an English aristocrat who leads a double life.
“It’s so much fun as an actor to sink your teeth into,” Conroy told The New York Times in 2016. “Calling it animation doesn’t do it justice. It’s more like mythology.”
As Conroy’s performance evolved over the years, it sometimes connected to his own life. Conroy described his own father as an alcoholic and said his family disintegrated while he was in high school. He channeled those emotions into the 1993 animated film “Mast of the Phantasm,” which revolved around Bruce Wayne’s unsettled issues with his parents.
“Andrea came in after the recording and grabbed me in a hug,” Conroy told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. “Andrea said, ‘I don’t know where you went, but it was a beautiful performance.’ She knew I was drawing on something.”
Conroy is survived by his husband, Vaughn C. Williams, sister Trisha Conroy and brother Tom Conroy.
In “Finding Batman,” released earlier this year, Conroy penned a comic about his unlikely journey with the character and as a gay man in Hollywood.
“I’ve often marveled as how appropriate it was that I should land this role,” he wrote. “As a gay boy growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s in a devoutly Catholic family, I’d grown adept at concealing parts of myself.”
The voice that emerged from Conroy for Batman, he said, was one he didn’t recognize — a voice that “seemed to roar from 30 years of frustration, confusion, denial, love, yearning.”
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9-year-old found dead near his home’s shed
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (WPXI) - A community is devastated after a 9-year-old boy was found dead Wednesday.
No one has yet been charged in the death of Azuree Charles, but the county’s district attorney confirms there is a person of interest, although she won’t specify who or what their relationship is to the child.
In the meantime, on Thursday afternoon, police picked up Azuree’s father. They had a warrant out for Jean Charles for a simple assault and child endangerment case from November.
He is accused of punching his son in the eye, causing bruising. He was denied bail.
“We are unified in solving this homicide, and I really cannot stress that enough,” said Nicole Ziccarelli, the Westmoreland County district attorney.
As the investigation presses on, officers spent the day canvassing the neighborhood.
On Thursday night, hundreds in the East Ken Manor community came to remember Azuree.
“He was honestly a super nice person, and I can’t believe someone would do that to him,” said his friend, Azalynn Lookhart.
Just days prior to Azuree’s death, “we used to ride bikes together and we used to play together,” said his friend, Zariyah Carter.
The news also hit Azuree’s third-grade teacher especially hard.
“He was the most innocent, sweet, kind and caring child that I have ever met,” Brian Heidenreich said.
People said under no circumstance should they have to hold a vigil for a child in the first place.
“You never have to hurt a child, I don’t care who you are. There are safe places for these kids. Look at this, this is our future. We have to love them, no matter what!” neighbor Tasha Williams said.
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WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Monday, October 3, 2022
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212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
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Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, Quincy,
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212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
Light wind, becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East wind 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to lower
50s. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
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Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s to mid 50s. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 70s.
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Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, Cashmere,
Waterville, and Mansfield
212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Smoke. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, smoke. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, smoke. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
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212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH COLUMBUS DAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
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Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
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80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy smoke in the evening. Areas of
smoke overnight. Lows in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to
lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke. Lows in the
upper 40s to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to
lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of
smoke. Lows in the upper 40s to upper 50s. Highs in the mid to
upper 70s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke.
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50s.
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Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
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212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
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80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to mid
80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke. Lows in the 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to mid
80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of
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.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of smoke.
Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Lows in the 50s.
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Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
212 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning. Patchy smoke in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy smoke. Lows in the upper 40s to
mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning. Patchy smoke
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy smoke. Lows in the upper
40s to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s to
lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy smoke. Lows in the lower
to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the mid to upper
70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy smoke. Lows in the upper
40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the mid 70s to lower
80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy smoke. Lows in the upper
40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy smoke. Lows in the mid 40s
to lower 50s.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
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NEW YORK, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark has raised $500 million for a programmatic joint venture ("the Venture") between a global real estate private equity firm and Castle Park Investments ("CPI") that will focus on core plus and value-add manufactured housing communities ("MHC"), recreational vehicle ("RV") resorts and campground assets across the U.S. The team was led by Newmark's Co-Heads of Debt & Structured Finance Jordan Roeschlaub and Dustin Stolly, along with Director Eden Abraham.
The Venture's focus on the acquisition of MHC, RV resorts and campgrounds provides the opportunity to generate core plus to high value-add returns through leasing, repositioning and limited redevelopment. The Venture was seeded by the acquisition of a 700+ pad portfolio across strategic markets in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Newmark is also arranging the debt financing for the Venture.
The Venture will target MHC assets in strategic markets across the U.S., where the asset class presents a strong affordability option relative to other forms of housing. The Venture will target RV and campground destination assets where historical performance demonstrates a strong demand for long-term reservations.
"Manufactured housing as an asset class is one of the only real estate sectors that experienced positive earnings growth in the last two recessions while showing significant resilience during the pandemic," commented Roeschlaub.
"With the continued limited supply of MHCs and RV resorts, this opportunity was extremely well received by the capital markets community due to the nation's continued need for affordable housing," added Stolly.
The effort to raise capital for the program is part of Newmark's continued push into complex joint venture financing. The initiative focuses on raising capital for both platform and programmatic joint ventures.
"We are excited about the opportunity to grow our platform and to deliver exceptional results for our new partner. The capital commitment is a testament to our dedicated and hard-working team at Castle Park," commented CPI Co-Founder Evan Bernstein.
"This programmatic investment facilitates our ability to provide affordable housing for years to come," concluded CPI Co-Founder Brad Scott.
About Castle Park Investments
Castle Park Investments, LLC is a New York based Real Estate Private Equity firm focused on niche investment opportunities. Castle Park sources investments nationwide and implores strict deal screening criteria to generate long term wealth and cash flow while protecting investor capital. Founded in 2020, Castle Park was formed by Brad Scott and Evan Bernstein to aggregate portfolio of assets across target U.S. markets through acquisitions and ground up development. The Castle Park executive team has acquired over 10,500 MH and RV sites in their careers. Castle Park currently owns and operates 18 assets totaling over 2,800 units with over $150mm of assets under management.
About Newmark
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries ("Newmark"), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark's comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform's global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.7 billion for the year ending December 31, 2022. Newmark's company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from approximately 180 offices with nearly 6,700 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements about Newmark
Statements in this document regarding Newmark that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These include statements about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's business, results, financial position, liquidity and outlook, which may constitute forward-looking statements and are subject to the risk that the actual impact may differ, possibly materially, from what is currently expected. Except as required by law, Newmark undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see Newmark's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors and Special Note on Forward-Looking Information set forth in these filings and any updates to such risk factors and Special Note on Forward-Looking Information contained in subsequent reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K.
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West Charlotte High’s head football coach suspended, district officials say
The coach’s suspension comes months after West Charlotte High had to forfeit its 2021 season due to ineligible students playing on the team.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – West Charlotte High School’s head football coach has been suspended, according to district officials.
While Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools confirmed Sam Greiner’s suspension, staff said they would not comment further on personnel matters.
Greiner accepted the West Charlotte job in 2020 after serving as head coach at Harding and Hickory Ridge high schools.
The coach’s suspension comes months after West Charlotte High had to forfeit its 2021 season due to ineligible students playing on the team.
Myers Park and Julius L. Chambers high schools also had to forfeit last year’s games due to ineligible players.
In the aftermath of those forfeitures, CMS announced new steps to ensure its schools follow state athletic eligibility rules.
That plan includes:
- Develop a districtwide coaches symposium
- Conduct a comprehensive program evaluation
- Create districtwide trainings for learning community superintendents, principals, social workers, registrars and other support personnel as needed
- Develop a districtwide parent symposium
Related: CMS unveils new action plan to help schools follow state athletic eligibility rules
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SEATTLE — In "Luther: The Fallen Sun," Idris Elba plays a disgraced detective in London serving time, yet determined to find a serial killer.
Elba portrayed Detective Chief Inspector John Luther for 10 years on BBC.
This film is a continuation of the award-winning TV Series.
"This is one of those characters as an actor that you really go the whole spectrum. He's a delicate guy with sensitivities around his victims. He's also a ferocious guy when it comes to how he feels about perpetrators," explained Elba.
In "Luther: The Fallen Sun," the perpetrator is David Robey, played by Andy Serkis. He is a disturbing cyber psychopath who uses technology to entangle his victims.
It's a role he considered turning down because the script was so dark.
"In terms of the role itself, I really didn't want to do it, and then what drove me to it finally was the fact that it's the tip of the iceberg of the real monster, which is social media, the internet, the dark web, AI," Serkis said.
The creator of the series, Neil Cross, also wrote the script for the movie. He acknowledges the twisted nature of the serial killer character.
"It's never about what I would like to do to other people. It's always about what I'm scared other people might do to me," Cross said.
Luther is the kind of character who will do whatever it takes to catch the bad guys – even if it means bending the rules.
Elba said it's rewarding to see this series continue on as a movie.
"It's a dream come true. When we started this 10 years ago, we didn't know if it would get past season one. We got to season five," Elba said. "I think for new audiences, if you love a genre that has a dark element to it and a sort of feel-good how to catch him at the end, this is for you." | https://www.king5.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/evening/idris-elba-luther-the-fallen-sun-movie-british-tv-series/281-258d4821-91a8-45e8-be27-7d28fa5245ab | 2023-03-10 04:24:53 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/evening/idris-elba-luther-the-fallen-sun-movie-british-tv-series/281-258d4821-91a8-45e8-be27-7d28fa5245ab |
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wedge, the first smart debit card that lets users pay for everyday purchases with any asset, announced today that they joined the newly launched Bankers Helping Bankers (BHB) Banking as a Service (BaaS) Association to further its commitment to support community banks.
The BaaS Association was formed by Bankers Helping Bankers, a FedFis and Independent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT) collaborative, that connects bankers nationwide so that they can identify solutions that will enable them to compete with large financial institutions. "The BaaS serves a unique need. Adopting a regulatory-forward and secure bank-to-fintech relationship is the foundation required to deploy new technologies responsibly, and the BHB Association is uniquely positioned to provide that," said Billy Roberts, Wedge CEO. "Here at Wedge, we look forward to working with the Association and its participants of like-minded professional experts within the FinTech space."
- Coordinate legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts to promote an environment for the responsible delivery of BaaS by Federally-insured depository institutions.
- Promote best practices and standards for the delivery of BaaS to non-banks.
- Build a community of like-minded bankers and other industry participants to share experiences, insights, successes, and failures realized in BaaS endeavors.
- Connect Federally-insured financial institutions to the fintech technology partners who will help them facilitate a successful BaaS program.
BaaS is a highly specialized niche and one that is seeing a tremendous increase in bank participants. Fueled by rapid expansion in FinTech funding and a constant supply of new startups, there simply aren't enough BaaS Sponsor banks to meet the growing demand from hundreds of FinTech applicants.
Tanner Mayo, co-founder of BHB, said, "Bankers delivering BaaS are leaders in profitability and innovation. It is essential that banks getting into this space do so in a safe, sound, and regulatory compliant way. This association is intended to help them embrace the opportunities of BaaS, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks."
Wedge changes how consumers use their assets such as stocks, ETF, and cryptocurrencies by enabling them to be used for everyday purchases. Wedge's smart debit card puts users' money to work in the markets without sacrificing liquidity, allowing them to capitalize on market movements any time they make a purchase.
To learn more about Wedge and how to get the most out of your assets through everyday spending, visit wedge.us.
Wedge provides the first digital wallet and spending app that lets users pay for everyday purchases by using any asset in their Wedge wallet, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and bonds. Wedge is reinventing everyday spending by giving users the choice of selecting the optimal asset to use at checkout to save on purchases by taking advantage of real-time market movements. Wedge is available through the Apple and Google Play app stores.
The BHB BaaS Association is a premiere governance association with the purpose of promoting, creating, and supporting Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS). Our goal is to teach and to guide through education, collaboration and find new ways for community banks to make money. BaaS is a highly specialized niche and one that is seeing a tremendous increase in bank participants. Fueled by rapid expansion in fintech funding and a constant supply of new startups, there simply aren't enough BaaS Sponsor banks to meet the growing demand from hundreds of FinTech applicants. The BaaS Association aims to serve the unique needs of BaaS Sponsor banks.
Media contact: media@wedge.us
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In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all.
No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet secretaries. Some former mayors have become commander in chief, but only after serving in higher-profile positions.
None of that has deterred Suarez, who announced his campaign this past week by talking up his experience leading the city of about 450,000 residents. Being a two-term mayor of Miami, he said, has helped him understand and confront issues facing most Americans, such as crime and homelessness. In the video for his kickoff, Suarez went for a run past his childhood home and his high school and spoke of his record of cutting taxes and expanding Miami's technology economy.
“In Miami, we stopped waiting for Washington to lead,” Suarez said.
The 45-year-old corporate and real estate lawyer, a former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is competing for the nomination against two other Florida residents — former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis. They have consistently been first and second, respectively, in early primary polling, well ahead of the rest of the field.
That has so far made it difficult for other candidates to break through. Among them are former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, radio host Larry Elder and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
Throughout U.S. history, just three presidents were former mayors, though each — Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge — held offices such as governor or vice president in between. And while this year's primary field is crowded and the odds for a sitting mayor long, there is recent precedent both for a mayor to become a major candidate and for a person without government experience at all to become president.
Trump, a businessman and former reality television star, is the only person elected president without ever having served in public office or in the military.
In the 2020 election cycle, Pete Buttigieg — the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana — was the biggest surprise success story of the Democratic primary. Known during the campaign as "Mayor Pete," he had a top finish in the leadoff Iowa caucuses and a close second-place finish in New Hampshire before flailing in more diverse states and dropping out to back Joe Biden.
When Biden won the presidency, he tapped Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, and Buttigieg is now considered one of the party's most promising future presidential candidates.
Buttigieg leaned heavily into his experience as mayor in his campaign, including his own work to turn around a Rust Belt city that was once described as “dying” because of the shutdown of manufacturing. He liked to tell voters that Washington should run more like the best U.S. cities.
Voters appreciated that being a mayor is a hands-on job and that mayors are accountable to voters in a way that senators and governors are not, said Lis Smith, a senior adviser to Buttigieg’s campaign who shaped his communications from the start. One of Buttigieg's favorite lines while campaigning was about how he frequently ran into his constituents at the grocery store. The fact that Buttigieg was not a product of Washington also “was very, very appealing to voters,” Smith said.
“Republican and Democratic voters don't have a lot in common these days, but I think that one thing they do share is their distaste for Washington politics and Washington politicians,” Smith said.
But Smith also warned that while mayors get to claim credit for all of the things that go right in their community, they also carry the responsibility for things that go wrong.
Buttigieg experienced that when a white South Bend police officer fatally shot a Black man, prompting the mayor to step away from campaigning so he could respond not just to the shooting but also to questions about racial inequality and tensions between Black residents and police in South Bend. That, Smith said, "by far was the toughest part" of his candidacy.
Suarez, the son of Miami's first Cuban-born mayor and the only Hispanic candidate in the race, believes he can help the party better appeal to Hispanic voters. He also promotes his relative youth compared with the rest of the field — most of whom range in age from their 50s to 70s — saying he represents "generational change" that America needs.
"It's time for a leader who can connect with segments of our country that Republicans have historically lost," Suarez said during a speech about his presidential campaign at the Ronald Reagan Library in California on Thursday night.
Then, briefly repeating his credentials as Miami's leader, he slipped for a moment into mayoral mode.
“I believe this city needs more than a shouter or a fighter,” Suarez said, apparently substituting “city” for “country.”
“I believe it needs a servant. It needs a mayor.”
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If you haven’t yet voted in King County’s April 25 special election, you can stop by a drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Many people in Washington state vote by mail, but elections officials recommended doing so by last Friday because ballots must be postmarked by today.
A list of drop box locations is available on the King County elections website.
The King County Crisis Care Centers Levy (Proposition No. 1) would fund behavioral health services, including construction and operation of five walk-in crisis centers countywide. The property tax, set at 14.5 cents per $1,000 of assessed home value, would raise an estimated $1.2 billion over nine years.
While the crisis care proposal is the only countywide measure, people in some parts of the county will also be voting on other proposals: renewal of a levy for the Vashon-Maury Island Park and Recreation District, issuing $495,000 in general obligation bonds for the Kent School District, and a property tax increase to support the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital.
Voters who need help can go to a King County vote center and work with trained staff to cast a private ballot.
For more Seattle Times coverage, visit st.news/crisislevy.
Or, you can read coverage of the proposed levy below:
- Property tax levy proposed to fund mental health care in King County
- Your taxes fund King County mental health, addiction programs: Here’s where the dollars go
- Kirkland plans to build mental health crisis center
- Where did King County’s mental health beds go?
- King County Council votes to put tax funding crisis centers on April ballot
- King County crisis center tax: What do you want to know?
- Macklemore makes the case for King County’s crisis care levy
- King County’s proposed crisis centers: What they are, how they would work
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JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 16 people when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia.
More rainstorms are forecast in coming days as rescue crews continue the struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in America.
The rain let up early Friday after parts of eastern Kentucky received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches (20-27 centimeters) over 48 hours. But some waterways were not expected to crest until Saturday and Gov. Andy Beshear warned the death toll could rise further.
“From everything we’ve seen, we may be updating the count of how many we lost for the next several weeks,” Beshear said. “In some of these areas, it’s hard to know exactly how many people were there.”
Patricia Colombo, 63, of Hazard, Kentucky, became stranded when her car stalled in floodwaters on a state highway. Colombo began to panic when water started rushing in. Though her phone was dead, she saw a helicopter overhead and waved it down. The helicopter crew radioed a ground team that plucked her to safety.
Colombo stayed the night at her fiance’s home in Jackson and they took turns sleeping, repeatedly checking the water with flashlights to see if it was rising. Though her car was a loss, Colombo said others had it worse in a region where poverty is endemic.
“Many of these people cannot recover out here. They have homes that are half underwater, they’ve lost everything,” she said.
It’s the latest in a string of catastrophic deluges that have pounded parts of the U.S. this summer, including St. Louis earlier this week and again on Friday. Scientists warn climate change is making weather disasters more common.
As rainfall hammered Appalachia this week, water tumbled down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and streams coursing through small towns. The torrent engulfed homes and businesses and trashed vehicles. Mudslides marooned some people on steep slopes.
Rescue teams backed by the National Guard used helicopters and boats to search for the missing. Beshear said Friday that at least six children were among the victims and that the total number of lives lost could more than double as rescue teams reach more areas. Among those who died were four children from the same family in Knott County, the county coroner said Friday.
President Joe Biden said in a social media post that he spoke Friday with Beshear and offered the federal government's support. Biden also declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties.
The flooding extended into western Virginia and southern West Virginia.
Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six counties in West Virginia where the flooding downed trees, power outages and blocked roads. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration, enabling officials to mobilize resources across the flooded southwest of the state.
More than 20,000 utility customers in Kentucky and almost 6,100 in Virginia remained without power late Friday, poweroutage.us reported.
Extreme rain events have become more common as climate change bakes the planet and alters weather patterns, according to scientists. That’s a growing challenge for officials during disasters, because models used to predict storm impacts are in part based on past events and can’t keep up with increasingly devastating flash floods and heat waves like those that have recently hit the Pacific Northwest and southern Plains.
“It's a battle of extremes going on right now in the United States,” said University of Oklahoma meteorologist Jason Furtado. “These are things we expect to happen because of climate change. ... A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and that means you can produce increased heavy rainfall.”
The deluge came two days after record rains around St. Louis dropped more than 12 inches (31 centimeters) and killed at least two people. Last month, heavy rain on mountain snow in Yellowstone National Park triggered historic flooding and the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. In both instances, the rain flooding far exceeded what forecasters predicted.
The floodwaters raging through Appalachia were so swift that some people trapped in their homes couldn’t be immediately reached, said Floyd County Judge-Executive Robbie Williams.
Just to the west in hard-hit Perry County, authorities said some people remained unaccounted for and almost everyone in the area suffered some sort of damage.
“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the county's emergency management director.
More than 330 people have sought shelter, Beshear said. And with property damage so extensive, the governor opened an online portal for donations to the victims.
Beshear predicted that it would take more than a year to fully rebuild.
The governor got a look at the flooding from aboard a helicopter Friday.
“Hundreds of homes, the ballfields, the parks, businesses under more water than I think any of us have ever seen in that area,” the governor said. “Absolutely impassable in numerous spots. Just devastating.”
Portions of at least 28 state roads in Kentucky were blocked due to flooding or mudslides, Beshear said. Rescue crews in Virginia and West Virginia worked to reach people where roads weren’t passable.
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Brown reported from Billings, Montana. Contributors include Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky; Timothy D. Easley in Jackson, Kentucky, and Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Governor-Search-for-Kentucky-flood-victims-could-17339667.php | 2022-07-30 04:49:45 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Governor-Search-for-Kentucky-flood-victims-could-17339667.php |
Off and on rain and thunderstorms will continue to be the weather story for the next several days. We will every now and then see a few of the thunderstorms get a little on the hefty side at times. Also, every now and then we get a few hours of sunshine through all of this mishmash. All of this is due to some fronts, along with bits and pieces of low pressure that will continue to move through our area over the next several days.
Temperatures will stay mostly in the 80s to near 90 for the highs. While most of the overnight low temperatures will be in the 60s to near 70 degrees. We will see the heat index get into the 90s during the afternoon hours in many areas. | https://www.wtva.com/weather/forecast/wednesday-will-see-more-scattered-showers-and-isolated-thunderstorms-at-times/article_4fb68f32-eebe-11ed-bfbe-e3a2eb9bf8af.html | 2023-05-10 13:51:54 | 0 | https://www.wtva.com/weather/forecast/wednesday-will-see-more-scattered-showers-and-isolated-thunderstorms-at-times/article_4fb68f32-eebe-11ed-bfbe-e3a2eb9bf8af.html |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, May 5, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
645 AM EDT Thu May 5 2022
...AREAS OF DENSE FOG ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK...
Areas of dense fog will continue this morning. Expect visibility
to be reduced to a quarter mile or less in some locations. The
most widespread fog will be along the Lake Erie shoreline, the
Buffalo metro area and the higher terrain of the western Southern
Tier.
Motorists should be prepared for rapidly changing visibility.
If driving, slow down, use your low beam headlights and leave
plenty of distance ahead of you.
The dense fog will gradually dissipate between 7 am and 9 am.
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After months of uncertainty, Tesla CEO Elon Musk now officially owns Twitter.
In a tweet, Musk said Thursday he bought the site because "it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence."
Reaction to the purchase, which is valued at $44 billion, was immediate, and now people want to see some new features.
The presence of bots is a big concern
Previously, Musk said one of the reasons he no longer wanted to buy Twitter was because there's so many bots, and users are asking him to fix it.
"Elon, next step is the bots. Please. We are begging you," one user tweeted.
Elon, next step is the bots. Please. We are begging you.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 27, 2022
"All user accounts need a verified human behind it, can be anonymous to the public, but required and verified by twitter behind the curtain," someone else said. "Rid this world of Bots and trolls!"
All user accounts need a verified human behind it, can be anonymous to the public, but required and verified by twitter behind the curtain. Rid this world of Bots and trolls ! You sir are the man. In Elon I Trust
— Cameron Fous (@Cameronfous) October 28, 2022
"I am looking forward to tweeting and not having 50 bot replies within the first 10 seconds," another user said.
I am looking forward to tweeting and not having 50 bot replies within the first 10 seconds
— Benjamin Cowen (@intocryptoverse) October 27, 2022
Some would like to see tweets be monetized
Many social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok allow users to make money from their posts. Twitter has not joined the camp yet.
"Also, Twitter should find a way to compensate/monetisation partner with its top creators. Like every other social media app," one user said.
Yes.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) October 27, 2022
Also, Twitter should find a way to compensate/monetisation partner with its top creators. Like every other social media app.
A small % create all the high engagement content and keep the site active.
"Elon my tweets are fuego let me monetize them," one person said.
elon my tweets are fuego let me monetize them
— 🔥 CarlosR ocelote 🔥 (@CarlosR) October 27, 2022
I am to become the first Billionaire Tweeter
Others, though, think that move would contradict Musk's vision of bringing people together.
"I disagree with paying creators on this platform," another user said. "If this is truly going to be a free speech town square then we should not give people different height soap boxes. Draw people to the town square for the same reasons they went to the real ones."
I disagree with paying creators on this platform. If this is truly going to be a free speech town square then we should not give people different height soap boxes. Draw people to the town square for the same reasons they went to the real ones.
— Vanman83 (@VanwervenBryce) October 27, 2022
A few more things
The public has other suggestions, as well.
"Also, if you pay for Twitter Blue, ads should be removed," someone said.
Also, if you pay for Twitter Blue, ads should be removed.
— Brian Feroldi (🧠,📈) (@BrianFeroldi) October 27, 2022
"Just one thing, give us the option to save video directly like we save pictures," another said.
Just one thing, give us the option to save video directly like we save pictures.
— LERRY 👑 (@_AsiwajuLerry) October 27, 2022
"Give 18+ accounts the ability to be hidden from accounts belonging to users 17 and under please," one user tweeted. "This is a feature that exists for advertisers that sell or market products not for specific ages (i.e. alcohol to under 21). This would combat a lot of toxicity and help..."
Give 18+ accounts the ability to be hidden from accounts belonging to users 17 and under please. This is a feature that exist for advertisers that sell or market products not for specific ages (i.e. alcohol to under 21). This would combat a lot of toxicity and help...
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One person has a very simple request: "Please provide Dislike Button."
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And as always, there's high demand for an edit button.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Zac Brown Band will replace country legend Willie Nelson on the closing day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Nelson canceled his Sunday performance and postponed other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band. The 89-year-old musician was slated to close the Gentilly Stage — the same stage where his son, Lukas Nelson, is performing earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Real.
The Zac Brown Band is a country band from Atlanta that's best known for hits like “Chicken Fried,” “Highway 20 Ride," “Knee Deep" and “Goodbye in Her Eyes.”
Melissa Etheridge also canceled her scheduled performance after members of her crew tested positive for COVID-19. Mavis Staples has been tapped to replace Etheridge in the Blues Tent on Saturday.
“Oh my heart hurts not to be there. Mavis will be amazing, I know. I am hoping I can be asked back again. Dave and crew are healing. Thank you for all the well wishes. COVID heartbreak,” tweeted Etheridge after news that Staples would appear on Saturday was announced.
The seven-day festival draws tens of thousands to the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by arts and crafts exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond. While it attracts national and international talent such as Nelson and Etheridge, the festival is also known for showcasing the wide gamut of musical talent and genres found in Louisiana such as zydeco, gospel, blues and of course, jazz. | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Zac-Brown-Band-replaces-Willie-Nelson-at-Jazz-Fest-17156463.php | 2022-05-07 18:28:00 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Zac-Brown-Band-replaces-Willie-Nelson-at-Jazz-Fest-17156463.php |
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Ethan Chapin’s last day was spent with his siblings, dressed up and dancing.
Chapin — one of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death last weekend, the police still searching for a killer — was a triplet. His brother and sister also attend the scenic state school tucked away in the rolling hills of north-central Idaho.
“He was our our daughter Maizie's date, and his brother was Maizie's roommates date,” Chapin’s mother, Stacy Chapin, said in an interview Wednesday. The group was attending a dance hosted by Maizie's sorority. “They all spent their last day together, all dressed up, and had a great time. We’re all thankful that they spent that time together.”
Ethan Chapin captured photos of the event on his phone, but the family has yet to see them. The device is being held by law enforcement as potential evidence in the homicide investigation.
Chances are, the photos will show the waves in his dark hair and the dimple that emerges when he smiles. What they won't show is Ethan's knack for making people laugh, or that he never cared what restaurant the family was headed to, so long as they were going there together.
“He could read any situation and make it better,” Stacy Chapin said. “He was just so carefree.”
Ethan, a 20-year-old member of the Sigma Chi fraternity who loved sports, was dating 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, a junior who was majoring in marketing and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Both were killed in the violent attack Sunday, stabbed by a killer or killers inside Kernodle's rental home, which was steps away from the university campus.
Two of Kernodle's roommates and friends, 21-year-old Madison Mogen and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, were also killed in the attack. The four students' bodies were discovered hours later, and police have yet to find a suspect or a murder weapon.
Kernodle was lighthearted — the kind of person who always lifted up a room, her older sister Jazzmin Kernodle said.
“You rarely get to meet someone like Xana,” her sister said via text message. “She was so positive, funny and was loved by everyone who met her.”
Xana Kernodle went to high school in the scenic northern Idaho city of Post Falls. For her graduation in 2020, she decorated her mortarboard with flower and butterfly cut-outs and the words, “For The Lives That I Will Change."
During a candlelight vigil in northern Idaho on Wednesday, one of her high school friends, Garrett Sciortino, was overwhelmed by emotion. But he couldn't help but laugh when recounting stories about their time together, the Coeur d'Alene Press reported.
Mogen was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She and Kernodle both had jobs at the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow.
Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were friends before they began dating, his mother said. By this summer, Kernodle was spending time with the entire Chapin family.
Mogen and Goncalves grew up together in northern Idaho, such close friends that they were practically sisters. Goncalves chronicled some of their history in an Instagram post celebrating Mogen's 21st birthday in May.
Pictures of the pair as tweens making silly faces for the camera, wearing matching navy-and-khaki school-style uniforms and carefully laced sneakers, and side-by-side in high school graduation gowns were accompanied with a heartfelt caption.
“I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to be the main character in all my childhood stories,” Goncalves wrote.
“I love you more than life! My best friend forever and more,” Mogen replied, adding a heart emoji.
Mogen, a marketing major, was using those skills to run a social media campaign for the Greek restaurant where she worked. She loved the color pink and planned to move to Boise after graduating this spring, family friend Jessie Frost told The Idaho Statesman.
Goncalves, who had joined the Alpha Phi sorority and was a senior majoring in general studies, also had big plans. She'd recently bought a 2016 Range Rover, planned a trip to Europe next year, and expected to move to Texas after graduation, her sister Alivea Goncalves told NBC's “Today” show.
“She had everything going for her, absolutely everything,” her sister said. “She had her job lined up. She had worked really hard for it."
Along with photos, Mogen collected quotes on her Instagram page.
“It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is,” read one brightly colored post. For now, friends and family are trying to find refuge in the light they left behind.
Talking about Ethan Chapin, memorializing him in conversation, has been cathartic, his mother said, during a time when complete strangers have been spreading speculation and conjecture about the family's greatest tragedy. Shortly after learning of the murders, the family escaped to the privacy of a vacation home for a time.
“We realized yesterday morning, watching information about our son being posted that didn't come from us personally, that the greatest gift we could do for our son in this moment is be his voice,” Stacy Chapin said.
As the Chapins drove home, they braced themselves for what lay ahead: The funeral planning, the interminable wait for answers. The uniquely difficult burden of holding their own, unfathomable loss inside a community that is also grieving.
“We can't go back and change the outcome. We really have to focus on just memorializing our own son,” said Stacy Chapin. “We're grieving as a family, but I can see so many hurt kids, like the fraternity which has all these kids flying in for the funeral.
“I have continually tried to remind Maizie and Hunter that we are grieving, but we have to be aware of everybody else who needs to grieve this as well,” she explained. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Slain-Idaho-students-leave-behind-bright-17593279.php | 2022-11-17 23:51:52 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Slain-Idaho-students-leave-behind-bright-17593279.php |
-- Medicaid improves Phexxi coverage for more than 3.7 million lives across 11 states --
-- Largest commercial insurer in Michigan and a marquis university plan in Pennsylvania move Phexxi to Preferred formulary position with $0 copay and no restrictions, affecting nearly 2.25 million lives in aggregate --
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Evofem Biosciences, Inc. (OTCQB: EVFM) today announced multiple new insurance wins that give millions of additional women access to Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid, potassium bitartrate) for the hormone-free prevention of pregnancy.
"Evofem's unrelenting focus and engagement with payers continues to deliver results, expanding and improving access to Phexxi for millions of women across the country," said Saundra Pelletier, Chief Executive Officer of Evofem.
Three recent Medicaid wins move Phexxi to a Preferred formulary position with no restrictions, improving Phexxi coverage for more than 3.7 million lives in 11 states.
- A leading Managed Medicaid provider removed the Prior Authorization (PA) and moved Phexxi from Non-Preferred to Preferred for 14 of its Managed Medicaid plans effective November 2, 2022. This change improved Phexxi coverage for approximately 3 million lives in nine states: Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Nevada, Nebraska and Florida.
- Mississippi Medicaid removed the PA and moved Phexxi from Non-preferred to Preferred Agent effective January 1, 2023. Mississippi has a Universal Preferred Drug List, so this change positively impacts both Fee for Service and Managed Medicaid beneficiaries – more than 600,000 lives.
- Phexxi was added to the Indiana State Medicaid Preferred Drug List with no PA effective January 1, 2023. Its prior position was Non-preferred with a PA. When Indiana transitions to a Universal PDL on July 1, 2023, the state's 1.4 million Managed Medicaid lives will also gain access to Phexxi as Preferred with no PA.
Evofem also expanded its commercial coverage for Phexxi with wins including a marquis university health plan in Pennsylvania (effective November 30, 2022) and the largest commercial payer in Michigan (effective January 1, 2023). These payers serve over 2.25 million lives in aggregate. Both payers have removed the PA and moved Phexxi to Preferred formulary status; Phexxi's new position is $0 Preferred with no restrictions.
Earlier in 2022, Evofem opened avenues for Phexxi with payers including one of the nation's largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs); a highly respected national-level commercial payer that added Phexxi to formulary for standard plans nationwide; large payers in California and Hawaii, both with no copay for Phexxi patients; and one of the largest payers in Utah, with no prior authorization.
Under section 2713 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, group health plans and health insurers are required to cover preventive care and screenings under guidelines issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). PHS Act section 2713 took effect when added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. The HRSA guidelines currently in effect were issued in 2019 and require broad coverage of contraceptive care and services for women. Updated guidelines issued in late 2021 took effect on January 1, 2023, for calendar year plans.
In July 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury released further guidance regarding birth control coverage clarifying that group health plans and insurers must cover contraceptives at no cost to individuals. As the new guidance reminds employers, violators of the preventive care coverage requirements may be subject to the $100 per person per day excise tax under section 4980D of the Internal Revenue Code or a civil monetary penalty under PHS Act section 2723. The guidance states that the departments "will take enforcement action as warranted."
About Evofem
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., is developing and commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health. The Company's first FDA-approved product, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate), is a hormone-free, on-demand prescription contraceptive vaginal gel. It comes in a box of 12 pre-filled applicators and is applied 0-60 minutes before each act of sex. Learn more at phexxi.com and evofem.com.
Phexxi® is a registered trademark of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
About Phexx
Phexxi is an on-demand method of birth control used to prevent pregnancy. Phexxi is not effective when used after sex. For more information about Phexxi, talk to your healthcare provider and see full Product Information at www.phexxi.com.
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This press release includes "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including, without limitation, statements related to the timing and impact of the transition by Indiana to a Universal PDL. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, including market and other conditions, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are current only as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or that could impair the value of Evofem Biosciences' assets and business, are disclosed in the Company's SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 filed with the SEC on January 6, 2023 and any subsequent filings. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors. The Company does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
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There are looming Supreme Court decisions. A tax relief plan has yet to materialize. And there’s mounting pressure to act, including from a lame-duck governor hoping to button up the last of his legislative legacy.
With 42 days to complete major business, the Massachusetts Legislature’s typical late-session logjam of budget negotiations and unfinished work is being complicated by an unusual crush of circumstances.
House Speaker Ronald Mariano has privately urged lawmakers to speed the pace of their closed-door negotiations, on issues such as climate and energy legislation. Democratic leaders say they’re crafting various contingency plans for if, or when, Supreme Court decisions sweeping away abortion rights and gun safety requirements upend decades-old law.
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The glut of proposals, both known and unknown, virtually guarantees there will be a torrent of major new laws put on the books this summer. It also raises the potential for a cluttered cutting room floor come Aug. 1.
“When you’re trying to make things happen and you don’t have the ability to just say, ‘Do it,’ it’s frustrating as hell,” Mariano said in an interview. The timing of the Supreme Court decisions — due within days — is “awful,” he said. “It’s the worst. Because we’re gone July 31. People have elections. No one wants to come back in the midst of a fight if they have one. It’s a challenge.”
Senate President Karen E. Spilka said the Senate is ready for a “busy and productive” final six weeks, including confronting “events outside our control.”
Perhaps of the highest interest to many on and off Beacon Hill: a potential tax relief package.
Lawmakers have been pressed for months by Governor Charlie Baker, business leaders, and others to ease the burden on taxpayers at a time when inflation is running at a 40-year high and state revenues have far exceeded expectations. For Baker, who’s not seeking reelection, it’s also topped his final-year agenda: He tied a $700 million package of tax breaks onto his final budget proposal, and has repeatedly, and publicly, prodded the Legislature to take action.
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They’ve signaled they will, but if they have a plan, it’s still hiding under the golden dome. Mariano has indicated he’s interested in a proposal that mixes reshaping parts of the tax code with providing immediate relief.
He and other legislative leaders have repeatedly rejected suspending the state’s gas tax, but the Quincy Democrat said addressing other fuel costs, such as home heating oil, could be on the table. He, like Baker, has also expressed support for revising Massachusetts’ estate tax and its $1 million threshold, the lowest in the country.
Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, said at a New England Council event last week that should the Democratic-controlled Legislature not act, it would be a poor look after last year advancing a constitutional amendment known as the “millionaires tax.”
The proposal, which is on the November ballot, would impose a 4 percent surtax on annual earnings above $1 million, and has drawn steep opposition from within the business community, including Hurst’s organization.
“If [Democrats] don’t do it,” Hurst said of providing tax relief, “that’s giving the voters more reason to say: ‘Who is more important here, the taxpayer or the tax collector?’ ”
Mariano said failing to reach a tax relief deal would be a “missed opportunity,” and given the few weeks remaining, suggested the chambers must work together to shape its details.
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“The last thing you want to do is have that die on the table,” Mariano said. “We’d look foolish. You can’t even give money away.”
House and Senate leaders are also weighing a host of major spending decisions before the end of July. State Representative Aaron Michlewitz, the House budget chief, and his Senate counterpart, Senator Michael J. Rodrigues, are leading negotiations over the $50 billion state budget, the sprawling spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The two are also discussing what to do with more than $2 billion in unused federal stimulus aid. And they’re in talks about how to spend what could be a multibillion-dollar budget surplus.
“This is still a lot of different balls in the air here that we’re trying to juggle,” Michlewitz told reporters last week.
In most years, the budget proposal eats up much of the oxygen on Beacon Hill, where lawmakers view it not only as the one sure thing to pass — lawmakers are constitutionally obligated to do so — but a vehicle for any number of priorities.
This year, that could include a response to the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade. A provision added to the Senate’s version of the spending bill aims to protect those here who perform abortions or gender-affirming care from being prosecuted in states that may restrict such procedures. That includes shielding them from penalties, spikes in medical insurance, or being extradited to states that would seek to punish them.
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But Mariano last week raised the prospect of pursuing a separate, more sprawling bill depending on how the Supreme Court ultimately rules in place of “piecemeal and patchwork” effort.
State Senator Jamie Eldridge, the Senate chairman of the judiciary committee, cast doubt on that, saying the time crunch and “range of views” among lawmakers make it unlikely the chambers would debate an abortion protections bill separate from what the Senate already passed.
The Supreme Court could also soon rule on — and, many legal observers expect, strike down — a New York law that puts strict limits on people carrying a handgun outside their home.
Such a ruling could also invalidate parts of Massachusetts’ similarly written law, and a top House lawmaker said the Legislature could “move very quickly in response to” a decision. But what a legislative package could look like depends heavily on how, exactly, the court rules.
Much else remains unsettled. The House last month voted to criminalize so-called revenge porn, something 48 other states have already outlawed, but the Senate has yet to take up what, too, has been a Baker priority. That chamber also has not taken action yet on another House bill — one of Mariano’s top interests — that would give the state health commission more authority to scrutinize hospital expansion plans.
Eldridge said generally, he feels confident that bills that have passed at least one branch of the Legislature, and have “lots of advocacy,” have a shot. Those include a Senate prescription drug pricing bill, differing versions of mental health legislation that cleared both chambers, and a reshaping of the state’s marijuana laws.
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There’s more, of course. Legislation that would ban discrimination on the basis of a person’s natural hairstyle passed both chambers with fanfare, but it has sat in limbo since April, sidelined amid the springtime churn.
The Legislature is also charged with shepherding more common bills that pass virtually every legislative session, like a wide-ranging economic development package and borrowing bills.
Before the end of the session, legislative leaders also may reach deals on bills to reform the management of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, as well as legalize sports betting.
There is also a growing sense of uneasiness — “almost panic” — about a package of climate bills crossing the finish line, Eldridge said. The House passed a much narrower bill than the Senate, and Mariano said he has become a “little concerned that progress is slow” on talks and prodded Representative Jeffrey Roy, the House’s lead negotiator, to accelerate negotiations.
“I feel confident,” Roy said, “we will get there.”
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TROY, Mich., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BORA® Tool, a leading manufacturer of tools and woodworking accessories, has added a new Angle Duplicator to their line of workshop tools.
The BORA® MiteriX Compact™ angle duplicator is designed to help turn complex miters into easy cuts. Like the original customer favorite MiteriX, this unique tool captures and locks in angles; and easily transfers them to a miter saw to create accurate miter cuts every time. The new compact design fits perfectly in a pocket, tool belt, or toolbox for instant access and convenient portability. The MiteriX Compact™ can duplicate an angle range of 0°-180° on inside corners and 65°-180° on outside corners, taking the guesswork out of miter cuts. Perfect for crown molding, casing, trim, and more, the MiteriX Compact™ will conquer the most challenging projects effortlessly and accurately; while saving time, money, and material.
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The New York Yankees will literally do anything to win an AL Championship Series game at this point.
The Yankees, who have one more chance to preserve a spot in the World Series after losing the first three games of the series to the Houston Astros, tried a new tactic ahead of Game 4 in the Bronx: watching Red Sox highlights.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said that the team’s mental skills coach Chad Bohling sent around highlight clips of the 2004 Red Sox, which, of course, was the team that beat the Yankees after suffering a 3-0 deficit and went on to capture the title.
Additionally, ESPN’s Eduardo Perez FaceTimed former Red Sox legend David Ortiz into Boone’s office ahead of Sunday night’s contest.
If New York doesn’t find a way to bust out of the playoff slump, that will be 13 years without a World Series appearance.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott won a third term Tuesday, defeating Democrat Beto O’Rourke in a midterm race that tested the direction of America’s supersized red state following the Uvalde school massacre and a strict new abortion ban.
The victory underlined Abbott’s durability after record spending that topped more than $200 million in a state where Republicans in recent years have seen their lopsided margins of victories shrink.
But in rapidly changing Texas — a booming juggernaut of 29 million people that is becoming younger, less white and a magnet for major companies — Abbott remained a bulwark for the GOP in the face of a high-profile and hard-charging challenger. Abbott capitalized on anxieties about crime and inflation against a charismatic rival who took up the fight for voters soured by mass shootings, an abortion ban and the deadly failure of the state’s power grid in 2021.
The outcome now puts two of Texas’ biggest political figures — one who has already run for the White House, the other potentially eyeing a bid of his own — on opposite trajectories.
Abbott, 64, strengthened his position as a potential 2024 presidential contender and secured his place as the state’s second-longest serving governor. He has maximized executive power, stewarding a dramatic $4 billion operation on the U.S.-Mexico border in the name of curbing immigration, all while crushing challengers from his right and spending lavishly to sideline legislative critics.
He will remain buffeted by a solid GOP majority in the Legislature following a victory that aggressively courted Hispanic voters in South Texas and seized on economic anxieties and recession fears. More than 4 in 10 Texas voters rank the economy as the most important issue facing the country, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of almost 3,400 voters.
Voters slightly favor Abbott’s decision to send migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to northern Democratic states, with nearly 6 in 10 favoring the move.
O’Rourke now confronts whether it’s time to move on.
It was his third failed campaign for office in four years, further dimming the once-bright future of the former congressman who catapulted to Democratic superstardom after nearly wining a U.S. Senate race in 2018.
O’Rourke did not say during a relentless yearlong campaign across Texas whether this run for governor would be his last. But the race revealed the damage done by his flame-out in the Democratic presidential primary in 2019 as he had to answer for liberal positions he took on the national stage that put off Texans he needed to win back home.
He also faced the headwinds of President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, which Abbott exploited, running ads that morphed the faces of O’Rourke and Biden together and portrayed their policies as one in the same. O’Rourke tried to animate Democratic voters over the Uvalde shooting and Abbott signing an abortion ban that made no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
Roughly 8 in 10 Texas voters say the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, which recognized a constitutional right to abortion, was a factor in their votes. But only 1 in 10 say abortion is the top issue facing the country.
O’Rourke’s campaign was a long shot from the start in Texas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat governor since 1990. Yet he had no trouble exciting donors or drawing big crowds that rekindled the enthusiasm of his breakout Senate campaign. He raised more than $75 million, by far a record for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Texas, and spent much of the year outraising Abbott, one of the most prolific GOP fundraisers in the country
The stakes, O’Rourke said, were crystallized over the summer after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in May and killed 19 children and two teachers. The shooting was one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history and continued a grim series of mass shootings in Texas, where Abbott and Republicans have loosened firearm laws and eliminated background checks for concealed handguns.
A day after the shooting, O’Rourke interrupted a press conference Abbott was holding in Uvalde, telling him “This is on you” in reference to the governor’s opposition of tougher gun measures. To Republicans, the moment was a tasteless political stunt, but O’Rourke’s supporters saw the confrontation as an authentic reflection of their anger.
Parents of some of the Uvalde victims rallied behind O’Rourke and lashed out at Abbott in campaign events and television ads. Abbott, meanwhile, sought to refocus the race on record numbers of migrants crossing into Texas and provocative measures that included bussing hundreds of them to Democrat-led cities across the U.S.
If Abbott finishes another full term by 2026 he will have served 12 years as governor, second only to Rick Perry, who was in office for 14.
They have overseen an era of explosive growth in Texas, which since 2010 has added nearly 4 million people, more than any other state in sheer numbers. Hispanics have accounted for half of that growth, accelerating demographic shifts that Democrats have long believed will, eventually, turn Texas their way.
But Abbott, whose wife Cecilia is Texas’ first Hispanic first lady, sees no such political reckoning on the horizon.
In Dallas, Danette Galvis, 48, voted for Abbott, saying she likes the job he’s done. In her view, Abbott sending migrants to other states was “more of a message he was trying to send, not so much harming anything or anyone.”
“We’re kind of under attack just because we’re on the border,” Galvis said.
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Associated Press writer Jake Bleiberg in Plano, Texas, and Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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New state-of-the-art facility will support US Navy's principal research, development, test and evaluation activities
DALLAS, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was awarded the Underwater Launch Test Capability (ULTC) services contract with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), located in Crane, Indiana.
Through the $99.8 million contract, Jacobs will provide integration and activation of special test equipment, verification and commissioning services of this test facility, and support launch test operations and sustainment in collaboration with NSWC Crane.
"With Jacobs' global experience designing, delivering, operating and maintaining world-class test facilities, we are poised to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center's mission by providing technical engineering solutions and total lifecycle leadership for systems that protect and enable the warfighter," said Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions Senior Vice President of Advanced Engineering, Research and Operations Mark Walter. "This new contract expands our relationship with NSWC Crane, building on our proven performance supporting the center since 2019."
The ULTC services contract establishes interoperability between several hardware and software elements which were previously delivered under separate contracts, including: the facility, launch reaction stand, arrestment system, crossflow simulator, support equipment, test vehicles, and the control and data acquisition system. Following site activation, Jacobs will support test operations and site sustainment throughout the life of the contract.
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Voters in four states on Tuesday will determine their party’s nominees for the statewide office that typically oversees elections.
Much of the attention will center on Wisconsin, where the secretary of state does not have any role with elections. Republicans want to change that should they win the office in November. Primaries are also being held in Minnesota, Connecticut and Vermont.
In Wisconsin, all three GOP candidates on Tuesday’s ballot have echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that fraud cost him the 2020 election and have called for the dismantling of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, an agency established just six years ago by Republican lawmakers with bipartisan support.
The Republican candidates have all sharply criticized decisions made by the commission heading into the 2020 election, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought major challenges to running elections, and say they would rather empower the secretary of the state so voters can hold someone accountable for election-related decisions.
To accomplish their goal, Republicans also would need to defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who would block such a move, in November.
The Republicans vying for the nomination in Wisconsin are state Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, businessman Jay Schroeder and Justin Schmidtka, who hosts a political podcast.
On the Democratic side, longtime Secretary of State Doug La Follette faces challenger Alexia Sabor, who is the chair of the Dane County Democratic Party Executive Board. La Follette, 81, was first elected to the position in 1974.
La Follette has said he decided to run again to stop Republicans from meddling with elections, citing Trump’s call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, after the 2020 election asking him to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state.
This year, races for secretary of state have drawn tremendous interest and money largely because of the 2020 election, when voting systems and processes came under attack by Trump and his supporters. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting systems occurring in the 2020 election.
In Minnesota, the leading Republican candidate has called the 2020 election “rigged” and has faced criticism for a video attacking three prominent Jewish Democrats, including the current secretary of state, Democrat Steve Simon, who is seeking reelection.
Kim Crockett has also called the 2020 election a “train wreck” and accused state election officials of using the pandemic as “cover to change how we vote, but also how the vote is counted.”
In their respective primaries, Crockett and Simon face lesser-known opponents — Republican Erik van Mechelen and Steve Carlson, a perennial candidate running as a Democrat.
Races in Connecticut and Vermont are noteworthy because it’s the first time in more than a decade that the seats have been open. Both longtime Democratic secretaries of state opted not to seek reelection this year.
Connecticut GOP candidate Dominic Rapini, who is a former board chairman of a group called Fight Voter Fraud Inc., has called for tightening ID requirements and cleaning the state’s voter rolls. Rapini faces state Rep. Terrie Wood, R-Darien, who has also called for tighter voter ID rules and cleaning voter lists.
On the Democratic side, state Rep. Stephanie Thomas of Norwalk, who won the party’s endorsement at the state convention this spring, faces Maritza Bond, health director for the city of New Haven.
In Vermont, the Democratic primary has drawn the most interest. The candidates are Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters, state Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas, and Montpelier City Clerk John Odum.
A perennial candidate for office, H. Brooke Paige, is the lone person running in the GOP primary. He also appears on the ballot for three other statewide offices.
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WESTBROOK, Maine, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), a global leader in pet healthcare innovation, has scheduled the release of its 2022 fourth quarter and full year financial results for Monday, February 6, 2023 before the market opens. The Company will conduct an analyst conference call beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET on that day.
Individuals can access a live webcast of the conference call, transcript of prepared remarks, and the Q4 2022 Earnings Snapshot through a link on the IDEXX website, www.idexx.com/investors. An archived edition of the webcast will be available after 1:00 p.m. ET on that day via the same link and will remain available for one year.
The live call also will be accessible by telephone. To listen to the live conference call, please dial 1-800-289-0459 or 1-323-794-2095 and reference access code 819614.
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NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. ("Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LILM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LILM investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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The streak started a little over nine years ago. A trio of kids — Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green — went into Denver on a cool April night in 2013 and helped Golden State win Game 2 of a Western Conference first-round series.
And afterward, Curry said something prophetic.
“We’re a resilient team,” Curry proclaimed that night.
He had no idea how right he was.
The Warriors have been in 27 playoff series over those nine seasons. They’ve won a road game in every single one of them, a streak that is beyond compare in NBA history. And it can be argued that none of those road wins for Golden State in the Curry-Thompson-Green era were bigger than the latest one, a 107-97 win over Boston in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night.
Series tied, 2-2. Home-court advantage reclaimed. Game 5 is on Monday in San Francisco, the start of a best-of-three to decide the NBA title. And if the Warriors didn’t extend that road streak, the story would be wildly different right now. The Celtics would be on the brink of a title. The Warriors would be just on the brink.
“What a gut-check win,” Thompson said.
Indeed it was, probably more so than any other road victory in this Warriors’ run.
There have been bigger moments: the Warriors have three championships in this era, and yes, getting handed a golden trophy by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is the biggest moment a team can have. But of the 39 road wins that the Warriors have enjoyed during this run, only one might truly measure up to the one Golden State got on Friday in terms of significance.
That would be Game 4 of the 2015 NBA Finals. Same scenario: the Warriors were trailing that series 2-1, they were on the road and facing the dreaded 3-1 deficit, but found a way that night in Cleveland to top the Cavaliers and even the series on their way to a six-game triumph for a title.
Thompson mused after Boston’s win in Game 3 that he was feeling those 2015 vibes again.
He might be right.
“You have a group of guys who are going to be in the Hall of Fame someday: Steph, Klay, Draymond,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “These guys are the constant. They have been here together throughout that span. So, they are not only gifted but they are incredibly competitive, and that’s what it takes to win on the road. You have to summon that kind of will and intensity and passion, and those guys have that.”
Imagine, 48 hours before Game 4, the question was whether Curry could even play. He sprained his left foot late in Game 3, the same injury that ended his regular season a few games early. Curry said Thursday that he would play, and on Friday, he delivered a performance for all-time — 43 points, 10 rebounds, four assists.
“This was nearly a must-win game, and to go out there and shoot as efficiently as he did, and grab 10 rebounds and they were attacking him on defense … Steph played incredible,” Thompson said.
The 43 points represented Curry’s second-highest total ever in a road playoff game. He had 44 in a game at San Antonio in 2013, a second-round affair that probably very few people remembers and certainly didn’t have anywhere near the stakes, spotlight and pressure that was present on Friday night in Boston.
He was demonstrative. Yelling at the crowd a couple times, even. Very un-Steph-like. But the moment couldn’t have been bigger, and Curry delivered, all those years of winning road games at playoff time on enemy hardwood preparing him for this ultimate moment.
“He wasn’t letting us lose,” Green said. “That’s just what it boils down to. … He was going to come out with that type of fire, and he did.”
And now, instead of Boston fans starting to wonder when the parade will be, buckle up for another huge game Monday. The winner of Game 5 will have a chance to claim the trophy with a win in Game 6 on Thursday in Boston. Otherwise, next Sunday, the whole thing gets decided with a Game 7 in San Francisco.
Like Curry said after that first road win nine years ago, the Warriors are resilient.
That might have never been more evident than it was Friday night.
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Tim Reynolds is a national basketball writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at treynolds(at)ap.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros.' “Black Adam” opened with an estimated $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Dwayne Johnson his biggest box-office weekend as a leading man and launching the D.C. Comics character he spent a decade to bring to the big screen.
“Black Adam” was a $200-million bid to upset the power balance in a DC Extended Universe dominated by the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman. The $67 million debut fell well shy of that stratosphere, even with the considerable draw of Johnson acting in his first superhero movie. Still, “Black Adam” managed the highest opening weekend since “Thor: Love and Thunder” debuted with $143 million in July.
“Black Adam,” which stars Johnson as an ancient Egyptian summoned to the modern day, was notably hobbled by poor reviews (40% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). Moviegoers were kinder, giving the film a B+ CinemaScore. It collected $73 million internationally for a $140 million global haul.
“Black Adam” took a circuitous route to reach theaters. The character had originally been planned to launch as a villain in 2019's “Shazam!” before executives pivoted to give Black Adam a standalone feature. The goofier “Shazam!,” which cost closer to $100 million to make, opened with $53.5 million in ticket sales and wound up an over-achieving success with $366 million worldwide.
The stakes were higher for “Black Adam,” though. While promoting the film, Johnson hasn't been shy about his desire to follow up “Black Adam” with a showdown with Superman. But whether the receipts for “Black Adam” are enough to warrant that remains unclear. Under new leadership, Warner Bros. is overhauling its approach to DC Comics adaptations.
Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros., celebrated the results as a personal best for Johnson outside of the “Fast & Furious” films, and a PG-13 film with broad-based appeal that audiences responded to better than critics. Still, it's a time of transition for Warner Bros.' reorganizing DC unit as the studio seeks more Marvel-sized successes. Next on tap is “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” in March.
“It’s all about making good movies. It’s all about finding the right scripts,” said Goldstein. "Our studio is definitely going through a major revamping of our production leadership and style and approach. I think that we’ll be able to crack this nut. We’re definitely focused in on doing that."
“Ticket to Paradise,” the Bali-set romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, proved smart counterprogramming. The Universal Pictures release debuted with $16.3 million, well above recent sales for rom-coms, which have struggled in recent years at the box office. The film is already a hit abroad, where it's been in release for the last month, accruing $80.2 million in ticket sales.
Earlier this month, Universal's R-rated “Bros,” an LGBTQ milestone in the genre, debuted with a disappointing $4.8 million. “Ticket to Paradise” had a notable advantage in its two stars, and appealed particularly to older audiences; 64% of ticket buyers were 35 and up, the studio said.
“It became an event film for all audiences this weekend but especially for older audiences that can be difficult to get into theaters,” said Jim Orr, head of distribution for Universal. “We all know this is a demographic group that doesn't exactly run out to see films opening weekend. That gives us great encouragement for the weeks and months ahead.”
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, noted it was the first weekend with a $65 million opener and more than $100 million in overall domestic ticket sales since July. That was owed largely to star power, he said, in the appeal of both “Ticket to Paradise" and “Black Adam” with Johnson.
“He was the engine that really drove this box office despite some headwinds in terms of the DC brand and this not being as known a character,” said Dergarabedian. “This is a very strong starting point for Dwayne Johnson in the mix of DC Comics. He's like a box-office supercharger. Forty-percent Rotten Tomatoes, but people just want to see Dwayne Johnson on the big screen because he is bigger than life.”
Last week's top film, “Halloween Ends,” dropped massively in its second weekend. The Universal horror sequel, which was simultaneously released on Peacock, declined 80% with $8 million. Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures' “Smile,” continued to defy the typical declines for horror releases. With $8.4 million in its fourth week of release, “Smile” came in third and boosted its overall domestic sales to $84.3 million.
As more acclaimed awards contenders land in theaters, Searchlight Pictures' “The Banshees of Inisherin” started its run with one of the best per-theater averages of the year. The Martin McDonagh drama, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, opened with $181,000 in four theaters for a per-theater average of $45,250. For A24, Charlotte Wells' “Aftersun,” starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio as a father and daughter on vacation, also debuted solidly in four theaters, with a $16,589 per-theater average.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Black Adam," $67 million.
2. “Ticket to Paradise,” $16.3 million.
3. “Smile,” $8.4 million
4. “Halloween Ends,” $8 million.
5. “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," $4.2 million.
6. “The Woman King,” $1.9 million.
7. “Terrifier 2,” $1.9 million.
8. “Don't Worry Darling,” $880,000.
9. “Amsterdam,” $811,000.
10. “Triangle of Sadness,” $600,000.
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Air India reveals orders for 470 Boeing, Airbus jets
By KELVIN CHAN
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — Air India has unveiled orders for 470 Boeing and Airbus aircraft. India’s largest international airline is racing to tap surging demand for increasingly affordable air travel from the nation’s growing ranks of middle-class consumers. Air India is buying 220 Boeing aircraft valued at $34 billion. It marks the U.S. plane maker’s third-largest sale of all time, in dollar value, and its second of all time in quantity. India’s second-largest domestic carrier also is buying 250 passenger jets from European plane manufacturer Airbus. The airline is seeking to reinvent itself by expanding its operations and modernizing its fleet. The leaders of the U.S., France and India championed the orders. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/02/14/air-india-reveals-orders-for-470-boeing-airbus-jets/ | 2023-02-14 19:59:28 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/02/14/air-india-reveals-orders-for-470-boeing-airbus-jets/ |
DENVER (KDVR) — Monkeypox cases are rapidly rising in the U.S., with cases surpassing 14,000 this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced additional supply of the limited vaccine is on the way, but medical experts are urging leaders to distribute the medicine to communities who need it.
Health officials have delivered messaging on the disease’s impact on people in the gay community, but new demographic data shows monkeypox is disproportionately affecting people of color, too.
“Similar to the data we experienced and what we saw with COVID-19, we are seeing overrepresentation of cases among some of our BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) communities,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state epidemiologist of Colorado. “So we see overrepresentation of cases in our Hispanic population and also our African American community.”
It is not just Colorado either. It is part of a national trend.
About 28% of the more than 14,000 cases in the U.S. are among African Americans, and nearly 33% are from Hispanic communities, despite Black and Hispanic communities only making up around 12% and 16% of the U.S. population, according to U.S. Census data.
“The percentages are almost identical to what we saw in COVID, and I think what that is demonstrating is that the healthcare system has a lot of work to do in providing equal care to all populations,” said Dr. Reginald Washington, chief medical officer for Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Washington said the reason for the disproportionate number of cases in communities of color may have less to do with ancestry and more to do with equity.
“There’s no evidence, absolutely no evidence that monkeypox is more contagious, for example, in one population or another,” Washington said. “Minorities have inadequate access to the healthcare system. That means they will have delays in seeking treatment and getting and receiving treatment. They also have a delay in finding healthcare sites that will care for them, and there’s also a delay in even admitting that they may have a problem.”
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Shareholders with $100,000 losses or more are encouraged to contact the firm.
LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMZN).
Class Period: February 1, 2019 – April 5, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 5, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Amazon lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/amazoncom-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (2) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (3) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and thus unsustainable; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Expert advice on managing money as a couple
Almost 40% of people in a committed relationship keep money secrets from their partner, report finds
(InvestigateTV) — A recent survey by Bankrate found just over 40% of committed couples completely combine their finances, 23% have completely separate accounts and 34% have a mix of joint and separate funds.
Cherry Dale, a financial coach with the Virginia Credit Union, said the way couples manage their money depends on each person’s financial style.
For instance, if one person is a saver and the other is a spender, Dale said they need to find the right financial strategy for both styles.
“I will say if you’re somebody that does value freedom and feels like you want to be able to spend, having separate accounts and then maybe having a joint account together to pay the bills that you know you’re going to split, might be a good way to give you that freedom,” Dale recommended.
Dale said to think about what you want life to look like 30 or 40 years down the road and talk about it, so you can plan for it.
A certified financial advisor is also a good way to go, according to Dale. A professional looking from the outside in can help you make some money moves together.
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards can help you find an advisor near you.
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Crews are battling a fire in York County
Crews are battling a fire in York County
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The fire is at a barn at the intersection of Franklin Church and Franklintown roads.
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Altus man charged with lewd molestation
Published: May. 24, 2023 at 1:58 PM CDT|Updated: 56 minutes ago
ALTUS, Okla. (KSWO) - An Altus man is facing charges for two counts of lewd molestation of a minor under the age of 16.
Court documents say the victim told investigators Henry Flores used to touch their private parts and once even grabbed their hand and made them touch Flores inappropriately.
The victim says they were around 5 years old when this happened.
When interviewed, Flores, who is a registered sex offender, denied the allegations against him.
His bond is also set at $100,000.
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SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin had to overcome a lot of pressure Tuesday to end her one-year drought in women’s World Cup giant slaloms.
And not all the pressure on the American was coming from her rivals.
Holding a big advantage of 0.72 seconds, Shiffrin found it hard to focus on her last run. Standing in the start house on top of the Panorama course, the race leader could hear exactly how well her competitors were doing.
“You can hear the (finish area) announcer on the top, she’s announcing in English, so it’s really getting into my head,” Shiffrin said after the race.
After she heard the announcer enthusiastically call new best times for Marta Bassino and then for Petra Vlhová, Shiffrin tried to tell herself: “Just ignore it!”
She knew she had to push hard all the way — and did just that. Shiffrin lost nearly six-tenths of her advantage but ultimately beat Vlhová by 0.13 seconds, the American’s first triumph in the discipline in more than a year.
“It’s quite loud at the start, there is a lot of distraction. And I was starting to get really nervous, so I just tried to push. These other women pushed so hard on the second run, they almost caught up all the way,” Shiffrin said.
The result marked Shiffrin’s fourth World Cup win of the season and 78th overall, leaving her four short of the women’s record set by her former teammate Lindsey Vonn.
Bassino, who won the previous GS and remains in the lead of the discipline standings, was 0.31 behind in third. France’s Tessa Worley, who was third after the opening run, dropped to fourth, and Olympic GS champion Sara Hector of Sweden trailed by 1.52 in eighth.
It was the 15th GS win in total for Shiffrin, who was the 2018 Olympic champion, but the first since triumphing in Courchevel, France, in December 2021. She had just one podium result from the seven previous giant slaloms in the calendar year 2022.
“Very special,” Shiffrin said about ending the drought. “GS is one of the hardest events for me, but also, when I’m skiing well, then it’s just amazing.”
The race was a replacement for the season-opening giant slalom that was canceled in another Austrian resort, Sölden, in October, and is the first in a three-day series, followed by another GS on Wednesday and a night slalom the next day.
“The start of (an event) with three races is always a bit nerve-racking. You hope that you are on the right shape, that you can bring intensity to the start,” Shiffrin said.
Shiffrin won all three events when Semmering last hosted races on three consecutive days in December 2016 and she was on her way to the first of her four overall World Cup titles.
Tuesday’s race was also the first in a series of eight technical events in Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia.
“It’s important to start this block with good skiing, with a good mindset, a good mentality, and the right motivation,” Shiffrin said. “I feel I’m there, so no matter what happens the next two days, it’s a really, really good place to start this block.”
Sofia Goggia, the Italian speed specialist who is runner-up to Shiffrin in the overall standings, does not compete at Semmering, enabling the American to extend her lead to 205 points.
Valérie Grenier posted the fourth-fastest time in the opening run but was disqualified as the Canadian had left the start house too early.
Shiffrin’s American teammate Paula Moltzan placed 10th, two weeks after earning her career-best eighth at a GS in Italy.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An elected Florida prosecutor who was removed from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis because of his positions on abortion and transgender rights filed suit Wednesday to get his job back, saying the Republican leader violated his First Amendment rights.
DeSantis said he suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren this month for signing a national pledge to not prosecute women and doctors for violating state abortion laws or families seeking treatments for transgender minors.
"DeSantis's Order does not identify any actual conduct by Warren related to his official duties involving alleged criminal activity for seeking gender-affirming healthcare or abortion," the lawsuit said. "DeSantis's Order does not identify any other conduct by Warren or other reason sufficient to justify a suspension."
DeSantis, who has come under attack by Democrats for his support of abortion restrictions and bills he's signed that are seen as anti-LGBTQ, held a campaign-like event to announce Warren's suspension, with supporters cheering the decision.
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Now seeking re-election in November and positioning himself as a potential 2024 presidential candidate, the governor cited Warren's "neglect of duty" and other alleged violations.
Warren was elected in 2016 by Tampa-area voters and re-elected in 2020.
"What's happening here is, he's trying to throw out a free and fair election," Warren said on CNN early Wednesday. "Even my 8-year-old understands this."
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Warren described the pledge circulated by prosecutors around the country as "a value statement," not a definitive decision on how he might handle any particular case. He also noted that Florida's new ban on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation has been ruled unconstitutional and that the state doesn't even have a law against hormone treatments for transgender minors.
Warren's lawsuit said the suspension was retaliatory after he opposed the governor on a number of issues, including DeSantis' efforts to deny the restoration of voting rights for felons and create new crimes for public protests in response to the Black Lives Matter movement as well as the new abortion restrictions.
"Of course, DeSantis is free to express his views and his disagreements with Warren as often as he likes. Indeed, the Federal Constitution ensures that he is," the suit said. "DeSantis went too far."
The suit said Warren has an obligation to voters to say where he stands on such issues and that as a prosecutor, he has the right to decide how the limited resources he has should be used to prosecute crimes. That priority should be on public safety, it said.
"The First Amendment protects the right of elected officials to speak out on matters of public controversy, and in fact, it does so because it's so important that the voters who choose these elected officials know where they stand on these issues," Jean-Jacques Cabou, a lawyer for Warren, said in a phone interview.
Warren's suspension is now an issue in the governor's race as Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the state's only statewide-elected Democrat and Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, enter the final week of the primary to see who will challenge DeSantis.
"For this governor to weaponize his office and remove a state attorney — a prosecutor — who has prosecutorial discretion over which cases he brings forward and which he doesn't, this is the overreaching and overstepping of this governor," Fried said at a campaign event Tuesday night. "It is the most dangerous thing to our democracy that we have seen." | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/andrew-warren-sues-desantis-over-suspension | 2022-08-17 13:13:18 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/andrew-warren-sues-desantis-over-suspension |
"Not my king."
"He is and there is nothing you can do about it."
That exchange between two commenters on Twitter encapsulates the current friction in the U.K., where King Charles III's ascension to the throne has sparked anti-royalist protests.
In dramatic ways, the dynamic is playing out in real life: police have made a series of arrests against people protesting the monarchy in recent days, raising questions about the right to freedom of speech as the U.K. proclaims a new head of state to replace the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Police in Scotland allege breaches of peace
In widely seen photos, a woman holding a sign reading "Abolish monarchy" and "F*** imperialism" was arrested on Sunday at St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, where the queen's body is to lie at rest until Tuesday.
"Let her go! It's free speech!" one man shouted, according to The Scotsman newspaper. Others yelled back, "Have some respect."
The woman, 22, was arrested "in connection with a breach of the peace," a Police Scotland spokesperson told NPR, adding that she was formally charged and released, and her case is now pending at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Similar reports emerged Monday, including one case involving a man who was seen being forcibly removed from a parade barrier after shouting at the royal procession leading to the cathedral. He was reportedly heckling Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew heckled as the Queen's coffin passes pic.twitter.com/85m9jUgszF
— Christopher Marshall (@chrismarshll) September 12, 2022
And in London, a woman was led away by four uniformed officers on Monday after holding up a sign reading "Not my king" — which has become a trending hashtag — near Westminster Hall.
🔴An anti-Royal protestor holding a poster with the slogan ‘Not my king’ has been pictured being led away by police 👇 pic.twitter.com/qsur4TT6vz
— Evening Standard (@standardnews) September 12, 2022
Protester says he didn't disrespect the late queen
The most high-profile case comes from Oxford, where author and activist Symon Hill says he was arrested for protesting Charles' ascension, in what he called "an outrageous assault on democracy."
Hill said he objected only to Charles being proclaimed king, and that he didn't do anything to disrespect Elizabeth or disrupt those mourning her.
"It was only when they declared Charles to be 'King Charles III' that I called out 'Who elected him?'" Hill said as he related his experience. "I doubt most of the people in the crowd even heard me. Two or three people near me told me to shut up."
The U.K. adopted new laws on protests this year
Hill said police initially told him he was arrested under the U.K.'s recently toughened laws on protests, a change that came after advocacy groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter mounted large and/or disruptive protests in recent years.
The new law allows police to act in cases which they deem to be "unjustifiably noisy protests that may have a significant impact on others" or seriously disrupt an organization's activities.
The arrests highlight individuals' troubles with the authorities — but large groups have also chosen or been forced to change their plans due to Elizabeth's death.
Extinction Rebellion had for months planned to hold a large protest in London this past weekend, dubbed the Festival of Resistance. But after the queen died, the group postponed its plan, saying that "occupying a Royal Park at this time would not be practical."
Groups such as Republic — in the U.K., to be a Republican means to support the end of monarchy — are amplifying calls for change, sharing comments from people who are comparing the crackdown on protests in the U.K. to the actions of authoritarian regimes.
Republic said on Monday that it's contacting police agencies to ask about the rules for demonstrators, adding that it intends to organize protests around Charles' coronation "and will expect those protests to be allowed to go ahead peacefully."
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Wearing shorts and his familiar No. 3 blue practice jersey, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin began easing his way back into football during the team’s voluntary minicamp on Tuesday, some five months after having a near-death experience on the field.
The only thing missing was his helmet.
Though held back from taking part in team sessions, Hamlin participated in individual drills and the stretching portions to open and end practice in taking the next steps toward resuming his football career.
“We’re taking it one day at a time and just support Damar in every way possible,” coach Sean McDermott said. He otherwise did not provide any timetable as to when the player can resume practicing fully a little over a month after Hamlin was cleared to play.
The 25-year-old Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field after making what appeared to be a routine tackle during the first quarter of a game at Cincinnati, and being broadcast to a national prime-time audience on Jan. 2.
Defensive backs coach John Butler shed further light on the team’s approach to Hamlin's practice routine by saying it’s based on constant communication between the player and the Bills medical staff.
“This is Damar’s process,” Butler said. “All we can do is listen, communicate with him and try to get on the same level as him.”
The Bills’ slow approach to Hamlin’s participation appears in line with how they’ve eased back other players coming off major injuries. And it’s understandable in regards to Hamlin, given how much time he missed during a lengthy recuperation process that limited him from much physical exertion before reporting for the team’s voluntary workout program last month.
Hamlin still required a respirator to help him breathe for several weeks after being released from the hospital in mid-January.
He has made it clear he wants to resume playing. Saying his heart was still in the game, Hamlin announced his NFL comeback a little over a month ago after being cleared to play by the Bills and several independent specialists. Not wanting to give into fear and concern, Hamlin said there was little chance of the episode recurring in revealing specialists agreed his heart stopped as a result of commotio cordis, which is a direct blow at a specific point in a heartbeat that causes cardiac arrest.
“This was a life-changing event, but it’s not the end of my story,” Hamlin said last month.
With his focus now on resuming football, Hamlin’s next steps will be no different from any other NFL player in his bid to secure a roster spot entering his third season. The Bills have two more weeks of voluntary practices before opening a mandatory minicamp in mid-June, followed by training camp opening in late July.
“It’s a miracle,” Butler said, assessing how far Hamlin has come since January.
“To have him out there, in the drills, in the walk-throughs, in the meetings and just around day to day, I think it’s incredible,” he added. “But based on where he’s going, I think he’s definitely heading the right direction.”
Hamlin’s recovery has been called remarkable by doctors who treated him. He spent the first few days of his recovery in a medically induced coma at the University Cincinnati Medical Center. His motor and cognitive skills quickly returned and he spent 10 days in hospitals in Cincinnati and Buffalo before being released.
Hamlin’s collapse led to an outpouring of support from around the NFL and across North America, with donations made to Hamlin’s charitable organization topping more than $9 million. And his recovery has been celebrated, with the player honored by the NFL, the NFL Players Association and most recently being selected by the Professional Football Writers of America as winner of the George Halas Award, which is given to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes adversity to succeed. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/damar-hamlin-eases-back-into-practice/507-2650df76-dbca-4b23-9096-09a955aa4c11 | 2023-05-24 14:14:17 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/damar-hamlin-eases-back-into-practice/507-2650df76-dbca-4b23-9096-09a955aa4c11 |
(The Car Connection) — The average new car price is set to reach $46,259 by the end of August, eclipsing last month’s record and the one before that, according to the latest sales forecast from J.D. Power.
New car prices breaking records has become a broken record for car shoppers in the past year. The average transaction price customers paid for a new car was $45,844 last month, up from more than $41,000 a year ago. The automotive research firm and consultancy estimate the highest new car price on record was an increase of 11.5% from last year.
The usual suspects of the global microchip shortage and other supply constraints have resulted in demand still outstripping supply.
“This August, the industry is still constrained by insufficient inventory to meet robust consumer demand,” Thomas King, president of J.D. Power’s analytics and data division, said in a statement. “The result is a retail sales pace that fails to fulfill its potential.”
The estimated sales volume for the year for both retail and fleet customers is projected to be 13.3 million vehicles, down from the 17 million pre-pandemic highs. Fleet sales will be slightly higher this year than last year, while retail sales are projected to be a fraction lower.
The lack of volume is more than being made up for by high margins on more expensive models. Many automakers are either delaying base models or discontinuing entry-level grades in favor of better equipped and higher-priced models. Shoppers continue to buy higher-priced trucks and SUVs. Together, trucks and SUVs will account for more than 78% of new car sales in August.
Dealers continue to benefit with an average profit of $4,976 on each car sold. That’s down from $5,123 in June but still up $639 from last year and way higher than the pre-pandemic expectation that hovered around $2,000.
Car shoppers keep paying more. The increases come amid prevailing trade winds meant to tame inflation, such as higher car loan interest rates. But robust demand powers through the economic rationale, leading to the highest monthly loan payment on record of $716. That’s an increase of $78, or 12.2%, from a year ago, according to J.D. Power. The average interest rate for a new car loan spiked to 5.5%.
Typically around Labor Day, automakers push new model-year cars and dealers offer more incentives to clear lots of the outgoing model years. Incentives remain low.
On the upside, used car prices remain high and trade-in values offset some of the high costs of new vehicle ownership. Of course, the downside to that is deals on any car are hard to find. | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/new-car-buyers-paying-record-prices-taking-on-record-loan-payments/ | 2022-08-27 23:47:18 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/new-car-buyers-paying-record-prices-taking-on-record-loan-payments/ |
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Kelishadi, a visionary in the field of plastic surgery and the "King of Cleavage" at SSK Plastic Surgery is revolutionizing the beauty industry by embracing NFC (Near Field Communication) technology to provide unparalleled customized care. Dr. Kelishadi's groundbreaking approach establishes him as a leader in delivering personalized experiences and establishing deeper relationships with his patients.
NFC technology has transformed the way Dr. Kelishadi interacts with his patients, allowing for seamless and effortless data collection. Each patient interaction gathers valuable insights such as individual preferences, medical history, and treatment goals, enabling Dr. Kelishadi to create highly personalized and safe care plans.
"In an industry where personalization & attention to detail is paramount, Dr. Kelishadi is setting a new standard for the client journey," explains Matt McGuire from Berify. "By harnessing the power of our dynamic direct-to-consumer features, he is revolutionizing the patient experience and redefining the level of care provided by the beauty industry."
Integrating NFC technology empowers Dr. Kelishadi to deliver customized care that precisely caters to each patient's unique needs. By analyzing the information collected through NFC interactions, Dr. Kelishadi understands individual requirements comprehensively, enabling him to offer tailored recommendations, targeted treatment plans, client referral programs, and exclusive offers. Patients feel valued and empowered, knowing that their preferences and goals are at the forefront of their personalized care.
Dr. Kelishadi's adoption of NFC technology streamlines the patient experience, revolutionizing the traditional process of manual follow-ups through emails, texts, and calls. Patients can now effortlessly tap through to the practice's website, access personalized information, schedule appointments, and even receive post-operative care instructions. This seamless and technology-driven approach enhances convenience, engagement, and overall satisfaction for every patient.
By leveraging NFC technology, Dr. Kelishadi is transforming the beauty industry's landscape, showcasing the potential for personalized care and deepening patient relationships. His pioneering approach exemplifies a commitment to innovation and a dedication to meeting patients' unique expectations in an industry where customization is highly valued.
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Dr. Sean Kelishadi is a distinguished board-certified Plastic Surgeon and the founder of SSK Plastic Surgery of Newport Beach, CA. Through his cutting-edge innovation and state-of-the-art technology, Dr. Kelishadi is one of the most coveted surgeons nationwide for plastic, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgeries. Dr. Kelishadi has been featured in Playboy, Forbes, Yahoo, Real Self, and more. In addition, Dr. Kelishadi was awarded Surgical Makeover of the Year by Beverly Hills Magazine.
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Berify is a next-generation solution to engage users with company brands directly from the product by unlocking new experiences and possibilities. Instead of extracting value from users, Berify believes in creating a better-decentralized ecosystem to distribute opportunities back to the consumers through trust, empowerment, and rewards. Berify's technology combines blockchain, cybersecurity, social media engagement, and intuitive dashboards to create limitless product experiences, engagements & social interactions.
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It was Miles Morales and the Spider-Verse versus the “Transformers” at the box office this weekend and the bots came out on top.
“ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” the seventh entry in the series, took the No. 1 spot in its first weekend in North American theaters with $60.5 million according to studio estimates Sunday. “ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ” wasn’t too far behind, however, with an estimated $55.4 million in its second weekend.
Paramount Pictures released “Rise of the Beasts” in 3,678 locations starting with Thursday previews. Set in 1994, it’s technically a sequel to the 1980s-set “Bumblebee” and a prequel to the other films. With a new cast led by Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback and a new director in Steven Caple Jr., it’s also an attempt to reset and breathe fresh life into the $4.8 billion franchise.
Critics didn’t love the movie, but that’s also par for the course for this franchise. Overall, Rotten Tomatoes aggregated a less-than-fresh 52% rating.
“The problem with “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is the same problem faced by all of the installments — balancing the humanity with the metal,” wrote AP’s Mark Kennedy in his review.
In fact, the only movie that did get a fresh rating was “Bumblebee,” which also made the least money of all of them. Audiences were more positive, giving “Rise of the Beasts” an A- CinemaScore.
While a $60.5 million opening might not seem like enough to support a $200 million production budget, “Rise of the Beasts” is a movie that will make most of its money abroad. Since 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” international ticket sales have accounted for at least 70% of the global box office total. Two of the seven movies, “Dark of the Moon” and “Age of Extinction,” from 2014, made over $1 billion each.
Sony’s “Spider-Verse” sequel fell about 54%. In just two weeks, it’s already surpassed the total domestic box office of the first film with $225.4 million in ticket sales and become the highest grossing Sony Pictures Animation release. With terrific reviews in its arsenal, “Spider-Verse” is likely destined for a longer life at the box office, too.
Third place went to Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” which earned $23 million in its third weekend, where it’s playing in 4,320 locations in the U.S. and Canada. The live-action movie has made $414.2 million globally to date.
Two other Walt Disney Co. releases rounded out the top five, with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” in fourth with $7 million in its sixth weekend and “The Boogeyman,” in weekend two, in fifth place with $6.9 million.
The summer movie season should continue to pick up heat with major new films coming nearly every week. Next weekend family audiences get Pixar’s “Elemental,” while the superhero crowd can catch up with “The Flash.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/transformers-edge-out-spider-verse-to-claim-first-place-at-box-office/ | 2023-06-11 15:33:29 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/transformers-edge-out-spider-verse-to-claim-first-place-at-box-office/ |
Montana’s Republican leaders looking for answers to drag show held at Malmstrom AFB
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KUMV) - Montana’s Republican leaders are asking national defense officials about a drag show being held two years ago at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls.
The subject came up during a U.S. House Armed Services Committee on March 29 when Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL, questioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about several events being held on military bases.
Austin said these events are not supported or funded by the DOD.
Senator Steve Daines, R-MT; along with Representatives Matt Rosendale, R-MT; and Ryan Zinke, R-MT; sent a letter to Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley demanding answers to who sanctioned the event and asking if taxpayer funds were used.
“It is impossible to see how this event at Malmstrom helps the military fulfill its mission rather than a woke agenda. This and events like it at our military bases worldwide further erode the credibility of one of our nation’s most important institutions,” the letter stated.
They called for any policies that led to these activities to immediately and permanently end.
Your News Leader reached out to Sen. Jon Tester, D-MT, for comment. Tester is the chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: “As Chairman of the Senate committee that sets the military’s budget, Senator Tester takes seriously his responsibility to make sure our armed forces have the necessary resources to keep our nation safe. That’s why he brought the Air Force Secretary to Malmstrom last week to see Montana’s critical defense installations firsthand. With foreign adversaries like China and Russia actively working to make our country less safe, Senator Tester has made clear that the military’s top priority needs to be its own readiness.”
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LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") (NYSE: YEXT).
Class Period: March 4, 2021 – March 8, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 16, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, inter alia, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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GRAPHIC: Man seriously injured in attack on Halloween night: ‘Why would they do this?’
HONOLULU (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - A Hawaii man is recovering after a brutal assault on Halloween night in Waikiki.
KHNL/KGMB reports Nui Furtado was with friends and co-workers, celebrating a recent job promotion and taking in the sights and sounds of Halloween before the attack happened.
Nui Furtado said he and his friends were walking on Kalakaua Avenue near the Duke Kahanamoku statue before 11 p.m. when they passed another group of men.
“There was a group of guys walking past us, and Nui looked back at them,” said Nui Furtado’s friend Hannah Tyler. “And when I looked back, about five of them ran at us.”
Nui Furtado said he was pushed into bushes, punched, and hit with a weapon or object.
“I was trying to get back up, and someone was hitting me in the face with what I found out later was a shovel,” Nui Furtado said.
Tyler said Nui Furtado’s friends pleaded with the men to stop before the group ran away.
According to Nui Furtado, the attack left him with several broken bones on his face, along with other injuries. He said he called his father to the hospital after the incident.
“I saw his face, and I couldn’t believe that that was my son,” said Nui Furtado’s father, Kimo Furtado. “I gave him a hug and a kiss, and I said, “Son, I’m sorry this happened to you.’”
Nui Furtado spent a day and a half in the hospital before being released Wednesday. However, he faces at least two to three weeks of recovery.
Honolulu police said there were at least two felony assault cases in Waikiki on Halloween night, including the attack on Nui Furtado.
Police said they are still looking for the suspects involved but have made an arrest in the other assault case.
Nui Furtado said he believes he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time but also can’t understand why it happened.
“Why would they do this?” Nui Furtado said. “It doesn’t take much to be a nice person or have a fun time. You can still have fun without doing bad things.”
Nui Furtado’s family has started a GoFundMe page to help with his medical expenses.
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BLOOMINGTON — A new director of arts and entertainment has joined the city of Bloomington, city leaders announced Monday.
Anthony Nelson, who previously was team lead for the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, will begin his new role Oct. 10.
“We are going to bring great entertainment to the city that offers diverse events and acts,” said Nelson, who will act as executive director for the BCPA and Grossinger Motors Arena. “The team will focus on getting the arena and the BCPA back on the map as top performing art destinations in Central Illinois.”
Nelson, a Lincoln College business management graduate, has worked for the city for more than seven years. He began as business manager for Miller Park Zoo and in the past year, he worked as business manager for the parks, recreation and cultural arts department.
“We had a strong pool of candidates with a couple heavy hitters that have been there and done that,” City Manager Tim Gleason said. “We kept coming back to Anthony as the obvious choice. His loyalty, passion and dedication to the community truly shone through. You can train a person up or into a position, but you can’t buy all the traits Anthony brings to the position. I’m excited about what comes next.”
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Bake delicious bread at home
Imagine tucking into homemade bread with the perfect springy yet soft crumb, but without all the hard work of kneading, proving, shaping and baking. Once you know how to use a bread maker, that could be your life.
These appliances are simple to use but they can seem intimidating when you’ve never used one before. Each is slightly different, so you’ll need to consult the manual for yours, but they all share the same basic principles.
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What is a bread maker?
A bread maker, or bread machine, is a kitchen appliance that handles most of the bread-making process from start to finish. It can knead dough, prove dough to let it rise, and finally bake it to turn it into bread, all with little effort on the part of the user.
What programs and settings do bread makers have?
This varies between brands and models, so you’ll need to check which settings your machine includes. However, these are some of the most common programs.
- Basic white: This program produces a basic white sandwich loaf or everyday loaf.
- French: Use this setting for a crusty white loaf with a fluffy interior similar to French baguettes.
- Whole grain: Whole grain loaves require slightly different kneading, proving, and baking times, which this setting accommodates for.
- Sweet: Perfect for sweet yeasted bread, this cycle adjusts for the fact that sugar causes yeast to work more quickly.
- Express: In a hurry? The express program cuts down on proving time to give you quicker (though usually somewhat inferior) results.
- Dough: The dough cycle is for when you want to knead and prove dough but shape and bake it yourself; for instance, when making pizza or rolls.
In addition to these programs, you’ll find settings to adjust the crust color to your liking and settings for different loaf sizes.
How to bake bread in a bread maker
Set up your machine
Make sure the pan is clean and dry before fitting it into the bread machine and positioning the kneading paddles. Although they’re usually made from nonstick material, grease the pan and paddles so your loaf is easy to remove from the pan.
Gather your ingredients
Check your recipe and gather all the ingredients you need. Getting them all out before you start lets you check that you have everything you need and makes it less likely that you’ll forget to add an ingredient.
Weigh or measure your ingredients
Depending on the recipe, you’ll either need to weigh your ingredients with a kitchen scale or measure them out by volume using measuring cups. You can weigh or measure all of your ingredients before adding them to the pan, or do it as you go along.
Add ingredients
Add the ingredients to the baking pan in the order specified in the recipe. The order can be important in some recipes, so follow it precisely.
Choose a program
Select a program on your machine that corresponds to the type of bread you’re baking. The exact process for doing this varies widely between models, so check the instruction manual if you’re unsure.
Choose a crust shade
Most bread machines have a crust shade selector that gives you pale, medium, or dark options. Choose whichever crust shade you prefer, then press start to begin the cycle of kneading, proving, and baking.
Wait
You’ve now finished the part of the process that requires human intervention. All that’s left to do is wait until the cycle completes and your bread is ready.
How to make good bread with a bread machine
Follow a recipe
While it can be tempting to just throw ingredients in and hope for the best, you should follow a recipe for optimal results. Ideally, it should be a recipe meant for baking in a bread machine, because recipes for making bread by hand don’t always translate well.
Use the right flour
Use bread flour, whether white or whole grain, rather than all-purpose flour. The protein content in bread flour is higher, which gives more structure to the crumb. You can also use gluten-free bread flour mixes, though results can vary.
Use the right yeast
Some types of yeast must be mixed with liquid and pre-fermented before adding them to a recipe, but these aren’t a good option for use in a machine. Instead, use yeast that can simply be added to the rest of the ingredients without pre-fermentation. These types of yeast are usually labeled as quick yeast, easy bake yeast, or instant yeast, and occasionally even bread machine yeast.
Consider baking in the oven
If you find the standard loaf shapes and sizes limiting, you can use the machine for kneading and proving, before shaping the loaf yourself and baking it in the oven. Some people prefer doing this even for standard loaves, but it gives you more flexibility to bake bread and bread products such as boules, braided loaves, bagels, and rolls.
Use room-temperature ingredients
Unless otherwise specified, you’ll usually get the best results by using room-temperature ingredients, rather than anything that’s too hot, too cold, or that comes straight from the fridge.
FAQ
Q. Is it easy to use a bread maker?
A. Yes, they’re easy for most people to use. When you want to bake a loaf, you just add the ingredients, select the right setting, and the appliance does the rest. It takes the effort out of baking your own bread.
Q. What’s the point of a bread maker?
A. The point is to make baking bread at home easier and more accessible. Some people would love to eat homemade bread because they prefer the taste or want to control what goes in their loaves, but they don’t have the time or inclination to bake bread by hand. Then you have others who physically aren’t able to knead dough but can add ingredients to a bread maker and press a few buttons, so these appliances open up the door to homemade bread.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
514 PM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Zapata.
* WHEN...Until 815 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 514 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Northwestern Zapata County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
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Volvo is working on an electric crossover to slot in below the C40 and XC40 Recharge compact duo.
The newcomer was teased during last November’s reveal of the 2024 EX90 mid-size electric SUV, and Volvo CEO Jim Rowan last month tentatively confirmed it will be called the EX30.
Rowan has since revealed the debut will take place in June. He made the latest comment during an interview with Wheels published on Monday.
“We release a smaller SUV next,” he said. “We teased that for you guys back in November, so we’ll release a smaller SUV on June 15, I think, so sometime in the middle of June this year we’ll release that.”
Production will be handled in China and sales will begin before the end of 2023. Volvo hasn’t said whether the EX30 will be sold in the U.S., though.
The vehicle will be aimed at attracting younger buyers and could potentially become the brand’s top seller. Volvo sold 615,121 vehicles in 2022 but wants to grow to around 1.2 million vehicles by 2025—half of which are to be EVs.
Given the size and positioning, the EX30 will likely be the most affordable vehicle in the Volvo lineup. This should help Volvo in its goal to attract younger buyers, as should Volvo’s plans to offer the EX30 through the Care by Volvo subscription plan. Rowan in his interview with Wheels said subscriptions with a minimum period of only three months will be available, at least in Europe.
Volvo briefly showed a shadowy image of the EX30 during the EX90’s reveal. The teaser points to a vehicle with similar styling to the EX90, but on a smaller scale.
The EX30 is expected to be based on the SEA modular EV platform from Volvo parent company Geely. The platform made its debut in 2021 in the 001 hot hatch from fellow Geely brand Zeekr and features an 800-volt electrical system for high-speed charging.
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ÄNGELHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OXE Marine AB (publ) have conducted sea trials where the company's 300 hp diesel outboard OXE300 has been tried against a gasoline outboard of equivalent power. The tests, conducted on a popular 12-meter tender, show that OXE Marine's OXE Diesel outboards consume 50% less than the traditional gasoline alternative. When the outboards were run using biodiesel (HVO100) carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by an astonishing 92% compared to the gasoline alternative.
The tests were conducted start of October in the waters outside of Öresund. The boat, built by one of the bigger recreational boat builders in Sweden, had been mounted with a dual OXE Diesel OXE300 installation. As reference, test runs were also conducted with gasoline outboards of equivalent power.
"We knew our diesel outboards had a very low fuel consumption, but these tests prove it in black and white just how much better they are. Diesel fueled outboards can also be run on biodiesel like HVO100, which means that you lower your CO2 emissions significantly. Everyone in the business is chasing products with less consumption, but when you're talking about changes as big as these, it's no doubt our diesel-powered outboards are the real game-changers," says Anders Berg, CEO for OXE Marine AB.
OXE Marine will be exhibiting the OXE300 for the recreational marine market at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, the world's largest floating boat show, starting today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
CONTACT:
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Anders Berg, CEO, OXE Marine AB, anders.berg@oxemarine.com, +46 70 358 91 55
OXE Marine AB (publ) (NASDAQ STO: OXE) is the company behind the world's first high performance diesel outboard. The company's unique and patented solutions for high transmission between powerhead and lower leg has led to a global high demand for the company's outboards. OXE Marine are on a journey to make life at sea prosperous for people and planet.
Certified Adviser FNCA Sweden AB is Certified Adviser for OXE Marine AB (publ). Contact details to FNCA Sweden AB: tel. +46 8 528 00 399, e-mail info@fnca.se.
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET's guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals.
You've probably heard of Amazon's devices, like the Fire TV Stick, Echo Dot and even the Ring Video Doorbell. These things are everywhere because they're usually pretty affordable regularly, but Amazon Prime Day deals happen to make them even more affordable. Right now, you can save on nearly all of Amazon's own devices. Here are our favorite Prime Day 2022 deals on Amazon devices.
If you were hoping to snag a cheap tablet deal this month, you're in luck. Prime Day is here and Amazon has launched a sale on its affordable Fire 7 tablets, dropping prices to record lows with as much as 53% off. With the 7-inch tablet as low as $30 for Prime members, it's an inexpensive pickup for someone wanting a new device.
Blink has been making security cameras for a few years now, but it was only this year that it got into the video doorbell game. If you don't like the look of the Ring Video Doorbell, or want something a little cheaper, this option is a great one to consider. It can be wired in or used with the included battery, which makes installing it even easier. It comes in both black and white models.
Give the kid in your life the freedom to learn, imagine and grow with an e-reader designed especially for children. Kindle Kids devices are specifically for reading, so there are no distractions from apps, videos or games. As well as a 55% discount, your purchase includes a kid-friendly cover, a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus and a two-year, worry-free guarantee. That means if they happen to break it, Amazon will replace it, no questions asked.
Bring some smarts to your existing TV without buying an entirely new screen with Amazon's Fire TV Stick. It's a great option for those who are still rocking regular HD TVs, by giving you access to all the best streaming services, apps and voice controls that you can usually only get with a modern smart TV. And right now, Amazon is offering Prime members an exclusive $23 discount on the basic Fire TV Stick, dropping the price down to just $17.
You have your choice between three different color Echo Dot models right now, all of which are still in stock and shipping quickly. You can get just the Echo Dot for $20, or add a free smart bulb (which of course you should do). There's also an option to add Amazon's Smart Plug for an extra $5, making the bundle $25.
Eero deals
- Eero Mesh Wi-Fi system: $143 (save $26)
- Eero Pro Mesh Wi-Fi system: $154 (save $155)
Amazon Fire Tablet deals
- Fire 7 Tablet: $30 (save $20)
- Fire HD 8: $45 (save $45)
- Fire HD 8 Kids: $70 (save $70)
- Fire HD 10: $75 (save $75)
- Fire HD 10 Kids: $120 (save $80)
- Fire HD 10 Kids Pro: $120 (save $80)
- Fire 7 Kids Tablet: $50 (save $50) (Out of stock)
Kindle deals
- Kindle Paperwhite: $95 (save $45)
- Kindle Paperwhite Kids: $105 (save $55)
- Kindle Oasis: $210 (save $90)
- Kindle with Front Light: $45 (save $45) (Out of stock)
Amazon Fire TV deals
- Fire TV Stick Lite: $12 (save $18)
- Fire TV Cube: $60 (save $60)
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max: $35 (save $20)
- Amazon Fire TV Omni Series 4K UHD Smart TVs: Up to 40% off
- Insignia HD Smart Fire TVs: From $90
- Toshiba HD Smart Fire TVs: From $130
- Toshiba 4K Smart Fire TVs: From $230
- Pioneer 4K Smart Fire TVs: From $200
Amazon Echo deals
- Echo Dot (4th-gen): $20 (save $30)
- Echo Dot (4th-gen) Kids: $25 (save $35)
- Echo (4th-gen): $60 (save $40)
- Echo Show 5: $35 (save $50)
- Echo Show 5 Kids: $40 (save $55)
- Echo Show 8 (1st-gen): $55 (save $55)
- Echo Show 8 (2nd gen): 75 (save $55)
- Echo Glow: $17 (save $13)
- Echo Frames: $100 (save $150)
Amazon smart home and security deals
- Amazon Smart Plug: $13 (save $12)
- Amazon Smart Thermostat: $42 (save $18)
- Amazon Smart Thermostat with Echo Dot bundle: $62 (save $48)
Other Amazon device deals
- Luna Controller: $40 (save $30)
- Amazon Halo View: $45 (save $35)
- Amazon Halo Band: $45 (save $55)
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