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Milwaukee police say 19-year-old reckless driver killed in crash
Police say the driver sped through a stop light near 13th and Oklahoma.
Police say the driver sped through a stop light near 13th and Oklahoma.
Police say the driver sped through a stop light near 13th and Oklahoma.
The Milwaukee Police Department is investigating a deadly crash involving reckless driving.
It happened on Tuesday around 12:30 a.m. near 13th Street and Oklahoma Avenue.
Police said a 19-year-old Illinois man was speeding in a Chevy Suburban on Oklahoma, drove through a stop light and slammed into a Nissan Altima with three people inside.
Police say the driver of the Chevy died at the hospital.
The driver of the Nissan, a 24-year-old Milwaukee man, was taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries.
The two other passengers of the Nissan were not injured.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-tips or P3 Tips.
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Elderly woman rescued after car goes into canal in Phoenix
By Hector Gonzales
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PHOENIX (KNXV) — A woman has been taken to a hospital after her vehicle went into a canal.
Just before noon Wednesday, Phoenix Fire crews were called to the canal near Central Avenue and Baseline Road for a water rescue.
When crews arrived they located a midsize SUV that was submerged in about four feet of water.
The driver, identified as a 76-year-old woman, was sitting on the roof and in need of rescuing.
Firefighters used the platform of a ladder truck to get her off the vehicle and onto dry land.
The woman was taken to a hospital for precautionary measures.
It’s unclear how the vehicle ended up in the canal.
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NEW YORK and BADEN, ON, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CVE North America ("CVE"), an independent solar power producer based in New York City, announced today that it completed the acquisition of a portfolio of solar PV projects in upstate New York from Saturn Power Corporation. The portfolio consists of seven community solar projects located throughout National Grid utility territory, totaling 41 megawatts (MW). Saturn Power developed the projects to Notice to Proceed (NTP) status and CVE will begin construction by the end of 2022.
CVE will own and operate the portfolio and will work with third party providers to construct the projects and acquire community solar subscribers.
The projects are set to participate in the New York Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) program, a mechanism launched by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to encourage and support energy created by distributed energy resources like solar installations. Under this program, all seven installations will be community solar projects and help subscribers, especially low to moderate-income households, save money on their utility bills.
Through community solar programs customers can enjoy the benefits of lower cost energy from renewable resources without the need of installing their own solar system. By subscribing to local community solar farms and supporting local solar development, customers receive credits on their utility bills for their share of the power that is produced, just as if the panels were on their own roofs.
In addition to delivering clean energy locally, the portfolio will provide employment opportunities as well as community and environmental benefits. Once complete, the portfolio will produce enough clean energy per year to power approximately 8,500 homes and offset the equivalent of over 9,000 passenger vehicles' emissions.
"These community solar projects represent a significant milestone in Saturn's push towards creating a more sustainable environment and we are proud of the hard work that our amazing team has exhibited in originating and developing this portfolio." said Doug Wagner, President & CEO for Saturn Power. "Saturn will continue to work closely with CVE to ensure this portfolio is successful in progressing through the next stages of procurement, and construction on through to commercial operation, ensuring long-term benefit for these local communities along with strengthening the footprint of renewable energy in North America".
"With this acquisition, CVE is accelerating its participation in the United States' largest and most active community solar market, the State of New York. This consolidates the company's position as a distributed clean energy producer committed to delivering energy and environmental services to households, businesses, and municipalities. The portfolio will help contribute to a more equitable clean energy transition by expanding New York residents' access to affordable solar power." said Thibaut Delespaul, General Manager of CVE North America.
The seven projects acquired are part of a broader CVE portfolio of thirteen projects in New York State totaling 73MW, all of which will be under construction between 2022 and early 2023. These projects will join CVE's operating portfolio of 9 Massachusetts community solar projects totaling 37MW, and its development pipeline of more than 250MW across several states.
CVE North America is an independent solar power producer based in New York City since 2017. It has the personal attributes of a small to medium sized company and the skills, experience, and financial assets of a large group. The company currently has plans to expand to over 450 MW across the United States by 2026. CVE draws on the international expertise of its parent company, CVE Group, which has been recognized for financing, building and operating ground-mounted solar installations in communities for 12 years. CVE Group has over 550 MW in operation and construction in France, Chile, South Africa, and the US. CVE Group is invested to ensure the highest environmental and qualitative performance. It is ISO 9001 (quality management system) and ISO 14001 (environmental management system) certified.
To learn more, visit www.cvenorthamerica.com.
Saturn Power, founded in 2007 and based in Baden, Ontario, Canada, has over 600 MW of renewable energy generation and storage projects in development, built or operating, including solar, battery storage and wind power projects in Canada, Bermuda, the United States and Turkey. The company also has expertise in project financing, engineering, procurement, and construction as well as the operation and maintenance of existing renewable assets.
To learn more, visit www.saturnpower.com.
Press Contacts:
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Shadé Jaiyeola
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Saturn Power
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David Froelich
Director, Business Development
david.froelich@cvegroup.com
Saturn Power
Pat Goodale
Director Asset Acquisition and Strategy
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LONDON — Aine Davis, an alleged member of a notorious Islamic State group that tortured, starved and killed hostages in Syria, has been charged with terrorism offenses after he landed in England following his deportation by Turkish authorities.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement that Davis was charged with offenses under the Terrorism Act. He appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and will be held in custody.
The charges relate to alleged terrorism offenses from 2014 and possession of a firearm for a purpose connected with terrorism, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Davis has denied being part of an Islamic State quartet known as the “Beatles” because of their British accents.
U.S. investigators say the group beheaded at least 27 hostages — including American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Footage of the gruesome killings was recorded and shared online.
Two members of the group, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, are imprisoned in the United States, while the group’s leader, Mohammed Emwazi, who was known globally as “Jihadi John,” was killed in a U.S.-British drone strike in Syria in 2015.
Kotey pleaded guilty in September in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to playing a role in the kidnapping and deaths of journalists Foley, Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller. He was given a life sentence.
Elsheikh became the only member of the group to be convicted by a U.S. jury, earlier this year. He was found guilty of conspiring to murder Foley, Sotloff, Kassig and Mueller — and faces a mandatory life sentence.
Rachel Weiner in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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WATCH: Rare hybrid solar eclipse seen in few places around the world
Published: Apr. 20, 2023 at 10:34 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – A rare hybrid solar eclipse appeared over western Australia Thursday.
It was one of the few places in the world that was able to see the cosmic event.
Visitors from across the country, and the world, poured into the Town of Exmouth to get a glimpse of this rare solar event, when the sun, the Earth and the moon aligned to awe-inspiring effect.
Scientists, eclipse hunters and enthusiasts could be seen on Wednesday gearing up for the occasion at the viewing site in the town.
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HONG KONG, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oriental Culture Holding LTD. ("Oriental Culture" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OCG), a leading online service provider of collectibles and artworks, announced today that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, HKDAEx Limited, has entered into a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with Hangzhou Metaverse Internet Technology Co., Ltd. ("HMIT").
Pursuant to the MOU, the parties will cooperate and integrate their respective industry resources to provide services to global users in connection with NFTs for cultural and artwork collections, including the mint, sales, auctions, trading of NFTs. This strategic partnership aligns the unique strengths of OCG and HMIT, advances the listing business for physical and digital collectibles and artwork portfolios on the platform of HKDAEx，which is open for the collectors, artists, art dealers and owners worldwide.
About Oriental Culture Holding LTD.
Oriental Culture Holding LTD is an online collectibles and artwork e-commerce service provider that allows collectors, artists, art dealers and owners to access a much bigger art trading market where they can engage with a wider range of collectibles or artwork investors than they could likely encounter without our platforms. We currently facilitate trading by individual and institutional customers of various kinds of collectibles and artworks and certain commodities on our leading online platforms owned by our subsidiaries in Hong Kong. We also provide online and offline integrated marketing, storage and technical maintenance service to our customers in China. The Company is in the process of developing business and services relating to NFTs for cultural and artwork collections as well as a metaverse project. For more information about the Company, please visit: www.ocgroup.hk.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, as well as underlying assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. A company is making forward-looking statements when it uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks, including, but not limited to, the Company's objectives and strategies; the Company's future business development; financial condition and results of operations; demand for and acceptance of products and services; reputation and brand name; the impact of competition and pricing; changes in technology; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and assumptions relating to any of the foregoing and the Company's other risks contained in its reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, we caution investors not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date hereof.
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From early childhood, I've loved books about underdogs, where heroines only triumph after they've paid their dues. Nancy Drew didn't speak to me: Rich and omnicapable, her life bore no resemblance to my own. She could not compare with Jo March, Anne of Green Gables or Jane Eyre. Call me perverse, but I've always identified with heroines who suffer before they succeed.
I used to reread the opening chapters of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, which detail the heroine's privations at home and at school, like a glutton. They were reassuring: You knew a promised land lay on the far side of misery.
Jane Eyre was such an important part of my private world that when a friend told me, "You have to read the Wide Sargasso Sea," by Jean Rhys, I refused at first to look at it. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys' 1966 novel tells the life of Mr. Rochester's first wife, the notorious Madwoman in the Attic.
In a narrative that alternates between Rochester's voice and that of the Creole woman he marries and destroys, we experience the beauty and the history of the Indies. Like the islands themselves, Rhys' story seems to pour out of her with a heart-choking urgency. But the narrative is tightly controlled, each word carefully chosen. Rhys wrote and rewrote it for almost two decades: It's the distillation of her life and craft.
After reading this novel, we come to know <em>Jane Eyre's</em> Madwoman as a woman who's made mad by the bewildering white and male world in which she loses everything: her home, her beauty and, above all, her identity.
I have mixed feelings about so-called vampire novels — books that depend on someone else's creation for their life. Shakespeare stole story lines without compunction. Lesser mortals retell Hamlet or Othello in a thousand different guises. Most vampire books make me impatient: I think to myself, take a chance, invent something of your own.
But I had a completely different reaction to Wide Sargasso Sea.
Rhys grew up in the West Indies and came to England as a young woman. She was a protege and lover of Ford Madox Ford in the 1920s, when she wrote a number of acclaimed novels.
Wide Sargasso Sea knits the colonial Indies to England, for Rhys as well as for the reader. Rhys makes you understand that the Madwoman in the Attic isn't Bronte's swollen, drunken avatar of passion. She's a Creole, a woman of mixed European and African descent, like Rhys herself. The author understands how Europeans imagined West Indians — as sensual, almost animal in their passions. After reading this novel, we come to know Jane Eyre's Madwoman as a woman who's made mad by the bewildering white and male world in which she loses everything: her home, her beauty and, above all, her identity.
Ford said of Rhys that she had "a terrifying instinct for stating the case of the underdog." Nowhere does she do it more powerfully than in Wide Sargasso Sea, nowhere is her prose more supple, more assured than here. It's the kind of book that makes me despair of ever mastering my craft. You must read it.
You Must Read This is edited and produced by Ellen Silva.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
6-2-0
(six, two, zero)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
6-2-0
(six, two, zero)
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A man found dead in southwest Little Rock early Sunday appeared to have been killed by a crossbow bolt, a Little Rock police incident report states.
Officers responding to a report of a battery near 7515 Geyer Springs Road around 4:40 a.m. found the man lying dead on the ground with an injury from a crossbow bolt, the report states.
A Cricket Wireless cell phone store is located at that address, but the report indicates the call was to a residential address.
Police had not publicly named the man Tuesday and were trying to contact his next of kin. Department spokesman Mark Edwards said they expected to identify the victim soon, but he had few details about the circumstances of the killing.
The report indicates that the homicide was the result of an argument without offering details. Police had not yet named any suspects in the slaying.
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US reaches deal with Moderna for omicron COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has reached an agreement with Moderna to buy 66 million doses of the company’s next generation of COVID-19 vaccine that targets the highly transmissible omicron variant, enough supply this winter for all who want the upgraded booster.
The order of the bivalent shot follows the announcement last month that the federal government had secured 105 million doses of a similar vaccine from rival drugmaker Pfizer. Both orders are scheduled for delivery in the fall and winter, assuming regulators sign off on their effectiveness. The Pentagon said the Moderna contract was worth $1.74 billion.
The omicron strain has been dominant in the U.S. since December, with the BA.5 subvariant now causing a massive wave of infections across the country, even infecting President Joe Biden.
“We must stay vigilant in our fight against COVID-19 and continue to expand Americans’ access to the best vaccines and treatments,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “As we look to the fall and winter, we’re doing just that — ensuring Americans have the tools they need to stay safe and help keep our nation moving forward.”
The U.S. orders with Pfizer and Moderna include options to purchase 300 million doses each, but reaching that total will require more funding from Congress, the Biden administration said.
About 261 million Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot, but only 108 million have received a booster.
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(The Hill) – Forty-seven percent of people who did not finish their postsecondary degree say they would “very likely” go back to school if they got some student debt relief.
The State of Higher Education 2023 report released early Wednesday morning by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation found 31 percent of all students who left school with debt would “somewhat likely” go back, while 22 percent say they are “not very likely” or “not likely at all” to return to higher education.
The poll comes as student borrowers are set to find out soon if they will receive the up to $20,000 in student loan forgiveness President Biden proposed last year. Biden’s plan could receive a ruling any day now from the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.
On average, students in the survey who did not finish their degree said they would need 70 percent of their loans forgiven in order to reenroll in school.
For a person to get 70 percent of their student debts forgiven under Biden’s plan, they would need to have around $29,000 in student loans or less, provided they qualified for the maximum amount of forgiveness.
The Chamber of Commerce says the average student loan debt is around $37,172 for U.S. borrowers.
While students may be considering going back, the poll also found 41 percent said they had a “very difficult” or “difficult” time remaining in their programs, with Black and Hispanic students more likely than white students to report the difficulty.
The report surveyed 6,008 students, ages 18 to 59, currently enrolled in a postsecondary education program and 3,004 adults in the same age range who had some college experience but do not have a degree and are not currently enrolled in a postsecondary education program. It did not list a margin of error.
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DADEVILLE, Ala. (WIAT) — Hundreds gathered at First Baptist Church Dadeville to pray, support and show unity Sunday after a shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party left four dead and 28 injured in Dadeville.
Dadeville High School student Taniya Cox ran to the back of the building when she heard gunshots at the party. She was shot twice in her arm.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” Cox said. “I just saw blood going down my arm. I’m still in shock because that was my first time getting shot.”
She said she’s OK but thinking of the other victims brought tears to her eyes. Other Dadeville High School students also struggled holding back their emotions for their classmates and friends.
Kameron Moss said he lost his best friend Philstavious Dowdell and told CBS 42 how he wants him to be remembered.
“He was as a good person and athlete,” Moss said. “He would of made it somewhere in life he had everything going for him.”
Dowdell was also the best friend of Antojun Woody. While remembering his best friend, he also sent a message that violence has to stop.
“We got to come together as people and unite,” Woody said. “It’s not good for us at all.”
Dr. Ben Hayes, pastor of First Baptist Church Dadeville, said having the community come together makes them stronger.
“I think as the song says what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, and this is one of those things that will draw our community together,” Hayes said.
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The first Vulcan rocket is complete and headed to the launch site
DECATUR, Ala., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket has begun its journey to the launch site in preparation for the first test flight. The certification flight one (Cert-1) rocket was completed, loaded onto the R/S RocketShip outside of ULA's rocket factory in Decatur, Ala. and is on a 2,000-mile voyage to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
"The first Vulcan is complete, and we look forward to the test flight this year. Vulcan is a powerful rocket with a single core booster that is scalable for all missions including heavy class performance normally requiring a Delta IV Heavy configuration," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO. "Vulcan provides higher performance and greater affordability while continuing to deliver our unmatched reliability and orbital precision for all our customers across the national security, civil and commercial markets."
Once RocketShip arrives in Cape Canaveral, the Vulcan hardware will be transferred to ULA facilities for inspections and processing ahead of launch preparations. Vulcan will undergo a series of flight readiness verification tests including multiple tanking tests and a wet dress rehearsal, culminating in an engine flight readiness firing. Following the successful final testing, the payloads will be integrated, and the vehicle will be readied for launch.
"The ULA team has worked tirelessly to complete the rocket for the first certification flight," said Mark Peller, vice president of Vulcan Development. "Now that production is complete, our launch team will begin processing and testing this innovative new rocket in preparation for the first mission which will deliver a payload to the Moon."
Leveraging a legacy of 100 percent mission success launching more than 150 missions to explore, protect and enhance our world, ULA is the nation's most experienced and reliable launch service provider with world-leading reliability, schedule confidence, and mission optimization. We deliver value unmatched by any launch services company in the industry, a tireless drive to improve, and commitment to the extraordinary.
For more information on ULA, visit the ULA website at www.ulalaunch.com.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision, a global comprehensive communications platform, is proud to announce that it was named 'Adoption Hero' for 2022, as part of ChurnZero's third annual ChurnHero Awards, which celebrate companies who use ChurnZero's platform to exemplify and evolve customer success best-practices with remarkable results.
"Delivering remarkable customer experiences is our number one priority at Cision, both from a product and service perspective. As the communications landscape is rapidly changing, it's more important than ever that our customers receive maximum value to put public relations at the forefront of their success," said Jay Webster, Cision Chief Product & Technology Officer and Cision Comms Cloud President. "This award truly exemplifies our commitment to understanding our customers' objectives and giving them the right recommendations on how to use our products and services to achieve them."
Cision Communications Cloud enables communicators to connect to a network of more than 1.1 billion media and influencers, easily target and engage them with outreach campaigns, monitor coverage and measure real business outcomes. Learn more here.
"This year, we partnered with ChurnZero and leveraged their platform, data insights and customer success expertise to understand our users at much deeper level," said Amy Gorham, Cision's Vice President of Customer Experience. "This intelligence allows our teams across the entire customer journey to share best-practice with customers and enable them to achieve their desired business outcomes."
This year's ChurnHero Awards recognize companies in five categories, each representing a fundamental customer experience objective: onboarding, adoption, renewals and expansion, customer advocacy, and innovation. Companies submitted a case study of their achievements and were assessed by ChurnZero based on innovation, customer-centricity and data-driven decision-making. Read more about the ChurnHero Awards here.
About ChurnZero
ChurnZero is a recognized leader in Customer Success dedicated to helping subscription businesses succeed at scale. The company is known for its powerful, enterprise-class Customer Success platform and ongoing partnership with its customers to ensure they get everything they need to improve efficiency, increase revenue, and deliver the best possible customer experiences. Through the platform, Customer Success teams can spot potential churn risks early and identify renewal and expansion opportunities. Best-in-class automation and in-app communication make it easy to engage with customers and lead them to value.
About Cision
Cision is a comprehensive communications platform enabling more than 100,000 public relations and marketing professionals around the world to understand, influence and amplify their stories. As the market leader, Cision enables the next generation of communication professionals to strategically operate in the modern media landscape where company success is directly impacted by public opinion. Cision has offices in 24 countries through the Americas, EMEA and APAC, and offers a suite of best-in-class solutions, including PR Newswire, MultiVu, Brandwatch, Cision Communications Cloud® and Cision Insights. To learn more, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.
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The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding.
The flooding has all the hallmarks of a catastrophe juiced by climate change, but it is too early to formally assign blame to global warming, several scientists tell The Associated Press. It occurred in a country that did little to cause the warming, but keeps getting hit, just like the relentless rain.
“This year Pakistan has received the highest rainfall in at least three decades. So far this year the rain is running at more than 780% above average levels,” said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member of Pakistan’s Climate Change Council. “Extreme weather patterns are turning more frequent in the region and Pakistan is not a exception.”
Climate Minister Sherry Rehman said “it’s been a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.”
Pakistan “is considered the eighth most vulnerable country to climate change,” said Moshin Hafeez, a Lahore-based climate scientist at the International Water Management Institute. Its rain, heat and melting glaciers are all climate change factors scientists warned repeatedly about.
While scientists point out these classic climate change fingerprints, they have not yet finished intricate calculations that compare what happened in Pakistan to what would happen in a world without warming. That study, expected in a few weeks, will formally determine how much climate change is a factor, if at all.
The “recent flood in Pakistan is actually an outcome of the climate catastrophe … that was looming very large,” said Anjal Prakash, a research director at India’s Bharti Institute of Public Policy. “The kind of incessant rainfall that has happened … has been unprecedented.”
Pakistan is used to monsoons and downpours, but “we do expect them spread out, usually over three months or two months,” said the country’s climate minister Rehman.
There are usually breaks, she said, and not as much rain — 37.5 centimeters (14.8 inches) falls in one day, nearly three times higher than the national average for the past three decades. “Neither is it so prolonged. … It’s been eight weeks and we are told we might see another downpour in September.”
“Clearly, it’s being juiced by climate change,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts.
There’s been a 400% increase in average rainfall in areas like Baluchistan and Sindh, which led to the extreme flooding, Hafeez said. At least 20 dams have been breached.
The heat has been as relentless as the rain. In May, Pakistan consistently saw temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit). Scorching temperatures higher than 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) were recorded in places like Jacobabad and Dadu.
Warmer air holds more moisture — about 7% more per degree Celsius (4% per degree Fahrenheit) — and that eventually comes down, in this case in torrents.
Across the world “intense rain storms are getting more intense,” said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer. And he said mountains, like those in Pakistan, help wring extra moisture out as the clouds pass.
Instead of just swollen rivers flooding from extra rain, Pakistan is hit with another source of flash flooding: The extreme heat accelerates the long-term glacier melting then water speeds down from the Himalayas to Pakistan in a dangerous phenomena called glacial lake outburst floods.
“We have the largest number of glaciers outside the polar region, and this affects us,” climate minister Rehman said. “Instead of keeping their majesty and preserving them for posterity and nature. We are seeing them melt.”
Not all of the problem is climate change.
Pakistan saw similar flooding and devastation in 2010 that killed nearly 2,000 people. But the government didn’t implement plans to prevent future flooding by preventing construction and homes in flood prone areas and river beds, said Suleri of the country’s Climate Change Council.
The disaster is hitting a poor country that has contributed relatively little to the world’s climate problem, scientists and officials said. Since 1959, Pakistan has emitted about 0.4% of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, compared to 21.5% by the United States and 16.4% by China.
“Those countries that have developed or gotten rich on the back of fossil fuels, which are the problem really,” Rehman said. “They’re going to have to make a critical decision that the world is coming to a tipping point. We certainly have already reached that point because of our geographical location.”
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Borenstein reported from Kensington, Maryland, and Arasu from New Delhi. AP journalists Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Aniruddha Ghosal in New Delhi contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive recall of millions of sleep apnea machines has stoked anger and frustration among patients, and US officials are weighing unprecedented legal action to speed a replacement effort that is set to drag into next year.
Sound-dampening foam in the pressurized breathing machines can break down over time, leading users to potentially inhale tiny black particles or hazardous chemicals while they sleep, manufacturer Philips warned in June 2021.
Philips initially estimated it could repair or replace the units within a year. But with the recall expanding to more than 5 million devices worldwide, the Dutch company now says the effort will stretch into 2023.
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That’s left many patients to choose between using a potentially harmful device or trying risky remedies, including removing the foam themselves, buying second-hand machines online, or simply going without the therapy.
The devices are called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines. They force air through a mask to keep passageways open during sleep.
Untreated sleep apnea can cause people to stop breathing hundreds of times per night, leading to dangerous drowsiness and increased heart attack risk. The problem is more common in men than women, with estimates ranging from 10 percent to 30 percent of adults affected.
Most patients are better off using a recalled device because the risks of untreated sleep apnea still outweigh the potential harms of the disintegrating foam, physicians say. But doctors have been hard pressed to help patients find new machines, which generally cost between $500 and $1,000, and were already in short supply due to supply chain problems.
“What happened is the company just said, ‘Talk to your doctor.’ But doctors can’t manufacture new machines out of the blue,” said Dr. John Saito, a respiratory specialist near Los Angeles.
Risks from the foam include headache, asthma, allergic reactions, and cancer-causing effects on internal organs, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The recalled devices include DreamStation and System One CPAP models and several other Philips machines, including Trilogy ventilators.
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Last March, the FDA took the rare step of ordering Philips to expand its communication effort, including “clearer information about the health risks of its products.” Regulators estimated then that only half of US consumers affected had registered with the company.
The agency hadn’t issued such an order in decades.
In a statement, Philips said ongoing testing on the recalled devices is “encouraging” and shows low levels of particles and chemical byproducts emitted by its leading brand of machine. Philips said its initial communication about the dangers posed by the foam was “a worst-case scenario for the possible health risks.” The deterioration appears to worsen with unauthorized cleaning methods, the company noted.
The FDA has received more than 70,000 reports of problems attributed to the devices, including pneumonia, infection, headache, and cancer. Such reports aren’t independently confirmed and can’t prove a causal connection. They can be filed by manufacturers, patients, physicians, or attorneys.
More than 340 personal injury lawsuits against Philips have been consolidated in a Pennsylvania federal court and thousands more are expected in coming months.
In May, the FDA put Philips on notice that it was considering a second order that would force the company to improve and accelerate its repair-and-replace program.
Medical device companies typically conduct recalls voluntarily, and former FDA officials say the agency has never actually used its authority to force additional steps.
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“The FDA shares the frustrations expressed by patients who are awaiting a resolution for this recall,” the agency said in a statement. Philips still hasn’t provided “all information we requested to evaluate the risks from the chemicals released from the foam.”
Philips disclosed earlier this year that it received a Department of Justice subpoena over the recall. The agency hasn’t publicly commented on the matter, per federal rules.
But an FDA inspection of Philips’ Pennsylvania offices uncovered a spate of red flags last fall, including emails suggesting the company was warned of the problem six years before the recall. In an October 2015 email, one customer appeared to warn Philips that the polyester polyurethane foam could degrade, according to FDA.
Between 2016 and early 2021, FDA found 14 instances where Philips was made aware of the issue or was analyzing the problem internally. “No further design change, corrective action or field correction was conducted,” the FDA inspectors repeatedly note.
In a May 2018 email, foam supplier William T. Burnett wrote to Philips in an email: “We would not recommend use of polyester foam in such an environment. ... It will eventually decompose to a sticky powder,” according to an affidavit filed as part of a lawsuit over the foam.
Since the recall, Philips has been using a new type of foam made from silicone to refurbish machines.
But the FDA alerted consumers last November that the new material had failed one safety test. And regulators asked the company to perform more testing to clarify any health risks with both the new foam and the recalled material. Philips says independent testing has not identified any safety issues.
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The company says it has replaced or repaired about 69 percent of recalled devices globally and aims to ship 90 percent of those requested by year’s end. On average, the company produces about 1 million sleep devices annually.
“We have scaled up by more than a factor of three, but inevitably it still takes time to remediate 5.5 million devices globally,” the company said. About half are in the US.
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Romania's second earthquake in two days reaches 5.7 magnitude
No damage or casualties were reported in aftermath of either Romanian earthquake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rattled Romania Tuesday, the second tremor of similar magnitude to shake the country in 24 hours. No serious damage was reported in either case.
The quake on Tuesday occurred at 3:16 p.m. in Romania’s southwest Gorj County at a depth of approximately 40 km (25 miles), data from Romania’s National Earth Physics Institute shows.
The quake was reportedly felt in the capital, Bucharest, and the northern city of Cluj in the north. Social media posts showed supermarket products that had purportedly fallen from their shelves during the quake.
TURKEY, SYRIA EARTHQUAKE: BIDEN, NETANYAHU AND OTHER WORLD LEADERS OFFER AID AFTER THOUSANDS KILLED
Local emergency authorities in Gorj County said in a statement Tuesday that they didn’t receive any calls related to the earthquake and that no damage or casualties were reported.
SHALLOW EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA KILLS 4 AFTER RESTAURANT COLLAPSES
It was the second earthquake to hit Romania’s Oltenia region in as many days. On Monday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 was reported also in Gorj County at a depth of 13.2 kilometers (8 miles).
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Quinton Morton-Robertson's 26 points helped Purdue Fort Wayne defeat Manchester 111-31 on Monday night.
Morton-Robertson was 9 of 11 shooting, including 8 for 9 from distance, for the Mastodons (2-1). Eric Mulder scored 15 points while going 6 of 10 from the floor and added seven rebounds. Deonte Billups finished 4 of 5 from 3-point range and 3 for 3 from the line to finish with 15 points.
Mike Elliott finished with five points for the Spartans (0-1). Manchester also got five points from Bryant Smith. Kolby Bullard also had five points.
Purdue Fort Wayne visits Northwestern in its next matchup on Friday.
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Duke Energy: All equipment damaged in NC shooting now fixed
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Updated: 10:46 AM MST Dec 7, 2022
pay phones. Good to see you presents *** little bit on the flash. All right, good afternoon. Everybody what happened here, saturday night was *** criminal attack and federal, state and local law enforcement are actively working to bring those responsible to justice. I've been briefed regularly since this happened both on the investigation and on the emergency management effort here to support those who have been affected by the loss of power. Today, I visited one of the substations that was attacked and I want to thank the people who are working so hard to restore power. It's very complex what they're doing and they've been working around the clock to do that. I've met with the emergency management team here in moore County and I've met with local, state and federal law enforcement to get updated on the investigation, helping the vulnerable people and the places where they live, including adult care homes is *** priority. Making sure that people are warm as the night approaches, Making sure people are cared for, making sure that critical services at hospitals and law enforcement at emergency management services or supported and available. All of that is crucial. Now while we are determined to keep people safe, we're also deeply concerned about the small businesses that are losing out on valuable retail time right here before the holidays as well as our school students who are missing valuable class time because of closure of schools, local and the state response to all of this has been swift and strong and I know that we'll all keep working until the power is restored and do whatever we need to do afterward as well. Will be important protecting critical infrastructure like our power system must be *** top priority. This kind of attack raises *** new level of threat. We will be evaluating ways to work with our utility providers and our state and federal officials to make sure that we harden our in frustration our infrastructure where that's necessary and work to prevent future damage. I will continue to get briefed on this investigation as it continues and I'm sure that we will learn more about motives of this intentional attack, an attack that damaged an entire community regardless of motive violence and sabotage will not be tolerated. In the meantime, I have been impressed with the resilience and the community spirit of the people of moore County. I'm grateful for their public spirit and their help for each other, helping to serve meals to the people down at the substation, who are working on making repairs, helping each other in the community. And I am deeply appreciative of the first responders. The 911 operators, uh the good work that they were doing today in Moore County, making sure they had all of those positions filled with personnel who were handling the load the law enforcement, the people who are helping with traffic with traffic likes being out the healthcare providers, the emergency personnel and others who are doing their very best to get us past this. Have *** number of people here who are with me working from the state perspective, Secretary Eddie Buffalo, who is the Secretary of our Department of Public Safety also have Will Ray, who is our Emergency Management Director from north Carolina. Colonel Freddy johnson who was ahead by Highway Patrol. And of course Sheriff Fields who has been working diligently on this case since the beginning, he's here as well. And we have Jeff brooks from Duke Energy who is going to give us *** briefing here as well. First, I'm gonna turn it over to Secretary Buffalo for *** word or two. Secretary Buffalo, thank you Governor for your leadership sir. First of all, let me say thank you to the moore County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Fields and to the moore County Public Safety Director, mr phillips for your extraordinary quick response in this event. And thank you all the public safety partners as the Governor alluded to. The North London Department of Public Safety is fully engaged. We're fully engaged with personnel and resources. We have the north Carolina State Highway Patrol, the North Clan Division of Emergency Management, the alcohol Law Enforcement. And of course, our State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the FBI as well as the moore County Sheriff's Office to bring these folks to justice that did this unprecedented uh event here in moore County. We're resilient here in moore County. I know citizens are helping you out Sheriff. We do ask those who have information that they contact the moore County Sheriff's office to assist in this investigation and we'll be able to bring these folks to justice as the law requires. And Governor alternate back over you sir. Now I'm here from Jeff brooks from Duke Energy. Thank you. Governor Mr Secretary, thank you as well for being here and for the opportunity to give an update. Duke Energy continues to keep this community and our hearts certainly as we work diligently to restore power uh for the homes and businesses here in this area, we recognize how challenging these conditions are and we recognize that as the days progress, those challenges become more acute. So we take our jobs very seriously and are very committed to serving you in this time. Um As *** reminder, we had about 45,000 customers that were impacted by this incident here in in moore County on saturday evening. Uh we have worked to make some progress as our repairs continue. We were able to restore about 7000 customers last night uh as we were completed some repairs on some of the equipment that was damaged, uh that work continues and we have some repair past that we hope can can potentially restore *** few 1000 more. Uh but as we said yesterday, we continue to to maintain that for the majority uh this outage will continue until we get those repairs completed and so we will gradually see more recovery, but we could still see this extend uh Wednesday into thursday somewhere in that time frame. So just keeping those expectations, you know transparent and as you think about that. Obviously one message we say is you know, if you do rely on electricity for medical needs, our our local communities have offered resources uh that you can take advantage of and and certainly we want you to keep your family safe and the way you need to be um we are working diligently to make those repairs. In some cases equipment could be repaired in place and that is *** that's *** good thing in other cases that the damage was to the point that that the equipment had to be replaced. And so we are working to get those those equipment that we need here to get it into position, understand though that that it's not as simple as changing *** light bulb as it were. Some of this equipment does take, you know, *** significant amount of work, *** significant amount of process that goes through putting into place safely getting it in service. But we are working in parallel on many paths to make sure there is nothing that delays this return. That when one piece is ready to go into service, the grid is ready to receive it and we're ready to restore your power incrementally as we go. Um We continue to partner with our local sheriff and his agency as well as state and federal partners to make sure that we are providing all the information that is needed to be able to assist in your investigation. And we appreciate the resources. Uh we appreciate the support from the state, certainly in this as well. Uh, resiliency is about community, it's about more county, it's about the state, it's about all of us working together and Duke energy is committed with this instance to make sure that that we are getting our system back up. But we also remain committed to continuing to make the the improvements that are needed on the grid to strengthen the grid to make it increasingly resilient, increasingly able to uh to uh recover quickly when these types of outages occur. So we will continue to learn from these situations. But obviously our focus right now is on recovery. We're also focused on helping the local community. Um we live and work in this community just as as many of you do. And uh in addition to our crews working to restore power. We have been on the ground here volunteering trying to help out where we can speaking with local leaders and local businesses to understand what are your needs. Um and as part of that, uh we have announced today that we're gonna make an initial commitment of $100,000 to this community to be able to help with some of those community needs. Um We'll be working with organizations like the Red Cross and other groups to to help help address where we need to be. And it's just, it's *** way that, that we can do something as employees and as an organization to assist even as we're trying to get the power back restored. Uh, but we will continue to work until everyone is back up. We appreciate your patients. Uh, we, you know, this is *** situation that has affected us all, but we will, we will get through this together and we will appreciate the opportunity to serve you in this time. Thank you. So I've spoken with us District Attorney for the middle District, Sandra hairston. Uh, mike Harden, the district attorney. Uh, the FBI, the FBI uh Sheriff Fields. Uh, they were just meeting upstairs. I know that they are leaving no stone unturned uh, in this investigation to find those who are responsible. I know you had told me that there wasn't really an update sheriff, but if you would like to speak, you certainly may thank you governor. And I just want to thank you again for all the support uh that you have given us through the state. I really truly appreciate that the citizens of our county appreciate that The only thing I may add is just our tip line. We're working together with the federal and state agencies were running all tip lines through the moore County Sheriff's office. And our tip line number is 910947 44 44. Any information or anything you hear, please call that number and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you so much. Take any questions that you might have. Yes. I just need to share about the attack itself. Little bit about sort of what we know about what firearm what. So I'm, I'm not gonna get into the specifics of the attack. I'm gonna leave that to the local, state and federal investigators. I know that they are working hard on this. I do know and they've said this publicly that this was an intentional attack. That caused significant harm to *** lot of people. The sheriff wants to comment on that. They certainly can governor. I don't have anything further to comment. Uh, we other than to say it was uh, the damage was done by farm and uh, that's pretty much all we want to elaborate as far as that. Yes. Like failed due to stress on the system. Yes. So there was physical damage at two substations in the area and then you know that the effect of that ultimately resulted in the larger outage that affected 45,000, which is nearly all the customers that Duke Energy serves in Moore County 40,000 individual don't have an estimate. But you're exactly right. Those are, those are households and businesses. So you can imagine if *** typical house has two or three people in them, it affects far more than just the number of customers that we mentioned through that count. Yes. Let me make sure I'm clear on the question you are asking if if if the hurricanes recently, is that what you're asking or affecting the part. Now in this case it's more of *** situation of of the time it takes to to move those materials from from either locally or but in some cases regional distribution areas and locations to then install them in place. Um And and it would be more like perhaps the comparison of of of changing *** small thing, like *** light bulb in your house versus your H VAC system. If you want to kind of get *** sense of of some some repairs are easier, some repairs are more complex and there's *** time associated with those Governor. Did these attacks happen simultaneously? Or was one substation attacked? And then the other. You wanna answer that uh that is still under investigation and that's not been determined yet. Sheriff, you say more the average person this one well you handled it pretty well. The other day, I will say this, the individual uh that done the damage knew exactly what they were doing to cause the damage and cause the outage that they did. We're we're working with Duke power here in the county. Uh and uh the governor as well uh to make sure that our substations here in the county. And and as well as across the state that they're looking at all security issues with our utility company. Let me, let me just respond to that. Uh, I'm always concerned about critical infrastructure and I think we certainly need to learn from this incident as to what we may need to do because these kinds of things cannot happen. I mean, we cannot tolerate this type of wide power power outage to so many people. And I know that I had *** conversation with the ceo of Duke Energy today, Lynn Good. She understands that as well. Uh, we know that there may be some things that that need to change to make sure that our infrastructure is protected. The military of the opening training. We have been in contact with the colonel over in fort Bragg. They've offered all assistance with us with us, uh, to formulate any investigative needs that we might need. Yes, you all have. I think the sheriff would want to say that that's *** matter of the investigation right here. Yes. And if you can the questions dealing with the investigation, what specifically happened? I don't think you're gonna get very many answers on that today. So what other questions might you have investigated as an act of domestic terror? I think investigators are leaving no stone unturned as to what this is. They are looking at every motivation that could possibly occur here. And they want to find the perpetrators. Yes. Right here. Um, for security reasons, we don't speak specifically about measures that we have at our, at our facilities. What I can say is that Duke Energy has, you incorporates multiple layers of security across its system to to monitor and protect critical infrastructure. And uh, we're certainly working with the Sheriff's office and with law enforcement to provide any information that we have that's available to assist their investigation, information, shelter help. I think they had 19 people who were there last night and I think they were ready for most any capacity. Will would you like to comment on that? Okay. Other question, there was *** similar incident back in 2013 in California, where *** substation was shot up by people who clearly knew what they were doing. So, since then what has been done was anything done to upgrade the security around the stations here. I would just say we learn from every incident that security is always an evolving process and from those incidents, we took learnings from them, incorporated them into our security response plan. Uh We take information from our peers, We share information with with our trade organizations, government agencies and and it's *** collaborative effort to stay ahead of these types of challenges. Uh, certainly that event provided learnings for for all of the industry and was incorporated into, into our responses. So, you know, as far as the equipment goes, it's more of *** case of, of getting that equipment in place and getting it installed that takes time. Uh, there's there's there's very, you know, deliberate processes that go, this is not *** small equipment, this is, this is big stuff. So that's really what's driving some of the timelines is the ability to, to have that equipment in place and get, there's not so much *** supply, you know, issue. The second aspect of it is, um, substations have specialized personnel that work on them that are trained to do that and we have those, you know, here in the region that can do that. So unlike *** storm where, you know, I know you've experienced before, we might bring in crews from out of state or we might bring crews from other regions. This is *** fairly localized incident that, that, you know, we just, we have to get through the work process. It's not as much the scale of work as in *** storm where you might have, uh, you know, thousands of locations. So in some cases, equipment could be repaired in place. In other cases, it was damaged beyond repair and that equipment then has to be removed, other equipment brought in and replaced. And when you consider what it takes to decommission that equipment, bring in new commission or equipment and commission it, there is *** time factor involved in that. And that's certainly playing into the to the estimates that we've, we've provided to customers. Obviously, security was *** concern at these substations initially, what is being done now to secure them better even as crews are still out there. Well, again, one of the things that that we said earlier, our security model involves multiple layers and and so um you've seen part of that in this in this instance, but what I would say is that that we are continuing to take information from this, this incident. It will be incorporated into near term and long term planning. But uh, we evaluate our security measures on an individual basis when we look across the system and then we have other measures in place, you know, uh, full time teams that do nothing but monitor and respond to these types of things, processes and procedures, all of that is working and in play here. So I would, I would say that that physical security is absolutely an important part of it, but there's many layers to that that are still in place. State of I think for americans watching this around the country right now. How individuals on saturday, what is this? Well, we know that our infrastructure is critical and one of our areas of concentration lately has been cyber security. We know that massive damage could potentially be done by the cyber terrorists who are located worldwide. So I, I formed our joint terrorism task cyber Security task force, Sorry, that helps us to plan and to prevent those kinds of attacks. I know that with our power sector, uh water infrastructure uh there we know that potential vulnerabilities are there, I think that you will look at this this incident and evaluate where we are, not only with this but for other infrastructure hoping to that this criminal investigation, we can determine what's going on and what the motivations are and learn from that as well. Thank you guys for for being with us today. Okay.
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Duke Energy: All equipment damaged in NC shooting now fixed
Video above: Gov. Roy Cooper talks about attacks on power substations in Moore CountyDuke Energy said Wednesday it has completed repairs on substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend that cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes and it expects power to be fully restored by midnight.In a statement on its website, the energy company said all of the equipment damaged in an attack on two North Carolina substations Saturday has been fixed or replaced. The company said Moore County customers will gradually get power back throughout the day as it finishes testing and completes restoration safely."To avoid overwhelming the electrical system we will bring power back on gradually, with the goal of having the majority of customers restored before midnight tonight," the statement said.As of late Wednesday morning, about 14,000 customers were without power in the county, according to poweroutage.us. That's down from a peak of more than 45,000 customers without power over the weekend.Video below: FBI joins investigation into NC power outage caused by 'intentional' attacks on substationsAuthorities have said the outages began shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday night after one or more people drove up to two substations, breached the gates and opened fire on them.Police have not released a motive or said what kind of gun was used. But Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields told reporters Monday that whoever was responsible "knew exactly what they were doing to ... cause the outage that they did."The FBI posted a notice Wednesday seeking information related to the investigation.Schools are closed through Thursday. The Moore County School District will announce by Wednesday at 4 p.m. whether schools will be closed to students Friday. Once power is restored, the district requires 24 hours to prepare the facilities before it can welcome back students.FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, a 402-bed acute care facility in Pinehurst, regained power shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday and was gradually transitioning from emergency generators to normal power, the hospital website said.The county's transportation services are operating only for clients who have scheduled dialysis, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, according to the Moore County website.
Video above: Gov. Roy Cooper talks about attacks on power substations in Moore County
Duke Energy said Wednesday it has completed repairs on substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend that cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes and it expects power to be fully restored by midnight.
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In a statement on its website, the energy company said all of the equipment damaged in an attack on two North Carolina substations Saturday has been fixed or replaced. The company said Moore County customers will gradually get power back throughout the day as it finishes testing and completes restoration safely.
"To avoid overwhelming the electrical system we will bring power back on gradually, with the goal of having the majority of customers restored before midnight tonight," the statement said.
As of late Wednesday morning, about 14,000 customers were without power in the county, according to poweroutage.us. That's down from a peak of more than 45,000 customers without power over the weekend.
Video below: FBI joins investigation into NC power outage caused by 'intentional' attacks on substations
Authorities have said the outages began shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday night after one or more people drove up to two substations, breached the gates and opened fire on them.
Police have not released a motive or said what kind of gun was used. But Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields told reporters Monday that whoever was responsible "knew exactly what they were doing to ... cause the outage that they did."
The FBI posted a notice Wednesday seeking information related to the investigation.
Schools are closed through Thursday. The Moore County School District will announce by Wednesday at 4 p.m. whether schools will be closed to students Friday. Once power is restored, the district requires 24 hours to prepare the facilities before it can welcome back students.
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, a 402-bed acute care facility in Pinehurst, regained power shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday and was gradually transitioning from emergency generators to normal power, the hospital website said.
The county's transportation services are operating only for clients who have scheduled dialysis, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, according to the Moore County website.
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61% of Twitter users in the U.S. and 53% of American adults say Musk should stay on as head of Twitter in statistically relevant poll of 1,028 general population respondents and 429 Twitter Users
Musk finds strong support for his role among educated respondents (4 year plus of college; 62%), men (62%), and 35-49 year-olds (62%)
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An overnight poll conducted by global consumer and voter research specialist HarrisX found that a 61% of Twitter users in the United States, and 53% of American adults aged 18 years plus, want Elon Musk to continue in his role as Twitter CEO.
The survey was conducted by HarrisX within the United States from December 18-19, 2022 among 1,028 adults and 429 Twitter users. The sampling margin of error of this survey is plus or minus 3 percentage points among the general population and 5 percentage points among Twitter users. The general population results were weighted by gender, age, race/ethnicity, income, and education, where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population, and respondents were asked to identify whether or not they use Twitter within the poll.
"The findings of the study debunk the results of Elon Musk's Twitter poll on whether or not he should step down as CEO, and provide a representative, statistically relevant perspective of what Twitter users and Americans think of his leadership. A majority would like Mr. Musk to remain on as head of Twitter, with over 6 in 10 Twitter users expressing that sentiment" said Dritan Nesho, CEO of HarrisX and chief researcher.
Added Nesho: "We developed the HarrisX Overnight Poll, the only true overnight solution in the market research industry – and one with a deep track record of accuracy in difficult-to-call situations, such as having been the most accurate political poll of the 2020 U.S. presidential election – precisely for these types of situations. Our goal is to give a fast and reliable feedback mechanism to business leaders and public policy decision-makers so they have the best information from customers, voters, and the general public at their fingertips, and in a scientifically sound way. We will continue to cover Twitter and Mr. Musk's actions as his work on the organization plays out."
The poll was run independently of Twitter or any Elon Musk related organizations.
HarrisX is a technology-driven market research and data analytics company that conducts multi-method research in over 40 countries around the world on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, public policy institutions, global leaders, NGOs and philanthropic organizations. HarrisX was the most accurate pollster of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. For more information visit: www.harrisx.com
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Marine officials say a dead North Atlantic right whale that washed ashore in Virginia Beach earlier this week "suffered a catastrophic blunt force traumatic injury," consistent with a vessel strike.
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) Fisheries said the whale's body washed up on Aeries on the Bay Park on Sunday. A multi-agency necropsy was performed in the following days to determine how the endangered mammal died.
NOAA said that the necropsy showed the whale's injuries included "multiple vertebral fractures and separations" that would have quickly killed the animal. The whale showed no other obvious signs of illness or injury.
North Atlantic right whales are one of the most endangered whale species in the world, with fewer than 350 whales remaining, and only about 70 breeding females.
Right whales had been spotted in the waters off our coast in recent weeks, with NOAA urging boaters to slow down to avoid hitting them. The non-profit Center for Biological Diversity said vessel strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear are the two primary threats to whales.
"This whale’s death is a tragic reminder of the constant danger North Atlantic right whales are facing,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity in a news release. “Right whales desperately and immediately need more protections from vessel strikes and all the other human-caused threats they encounter. Otherwise, this species is likely to go extinct."
To read more about current concerns that conservationists have about the declining North Atlantic right whale population, click here.
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The Finals matchup: Celtics vs. Warriors for NBA title
MIAMI (AP) - Somewhere, Gregg Popovich must be pleased.
Ime Udoka and Steve Kerr both played for Popovich with of the San Antonio Spurs, both served as assistant coaches under him, and neither makes any effort to hide the affinity they have for the NBA’s career victory leader.
And now, Udoka and Kerr are about to go head-to-head — in the NBA Finals.
The title matchup is set: It’ll be Udoka and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics facing Kerr and the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors, a series that begins Thursday night in San Francisco. The teams split their two regular-season meetings, each winning on the other’s home floor.
The Warriors have been waiting for an opponent since this past Thursday after needing only five games to beat Dallas for the West title. The Celtics got there the hard way, winning Game 7 in Miami on Sunday night to capture the East.
“We stayed with it. We believed in each other. We made a commitment on the defensive end,” said Celtics forward Al Horford, who, after 141 playoff games, is headed to the NBA Finals for the first time. “That was the biggest thing, defending.”
For the Celtics, it’s a chance at an 18th NBA championship — which would break the tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history. For the Warriors, it’s a chance at a seventh crown — which would break a tie with the Chicago Bulls for third-most in league history.
It’s also a rematch of the 1964 finals, when Bill Russell and the Celtics topped the Warriors in five games.
“I’ve said it many times: You go to the finals, it’s almost a two-month journey filled with stress and fatigue and everything else,” said Kerr, who gave his team Friday and Saturday off before bringing them back to work Sunday. “So, if you can get a little bit of a break, it’s very meaningful. Hopefully, we can get healthy and have a few days of really good prep and be ready to go on Thursday.”
Golden State won at Boston 111-107 on Dec. 17, behind 30 points from Stephen Curry. The Celtics rolled on Golden State’s home floor in the rematch on March 16, winning 110-88 in the game where Curry injured his foot — and that’s where his regular season ended.
Curry was ready to go for the playoffs. So were the rest of the Warriors. They’re 12-4 in the playoffs, getting through Denver, Memphis and Dallas to get to the title round.
“It all starts with Steph,” Kerr said.
Udoka has a chance to become the 10th coach to win a title in his first season. Eddie Gottlieb (1947 Philadelphia Warriors), Buddy Jeanette (1948 Baltimore Bullets), John Kundla (1949 Minneapolis Lakers), George Senesky (1956 Philadelphia Warriors), Paul Westhead (1980 Los Angeles Lakers), Pat Riley (1982 Los Angeles Lakers), Tyronn Lue (2016 Cleveland Cavaliers) and Nick Nurse (2019 Toronto Raptors) are eight of the coaches who have pulled off the feat.
The other name on that list is Kerr — who did it with Golden State in 2015, the start of this run of greatness from the Warriors. That was the beginning of six finals appearances in eight years, the two exceptions being when injuries and a roster reset kept them from the playoffs in 2020 and 2021.
“You can’t take it for granted,” Curry said after the West title series. “Nothing’s ever guaranteed. We understand how hard it is to win. We’ve said that until we’re blue in the face the last two years. This is definitely special. Proud of everybody that is in that locker room, that came with it all year. Now we have an opportunity to go finish a job.”
Udoka played for Popovich and later was a San Antonio assistant. Kerr played for the Spurs, then assisted Popovich with USA Basketball through last summer’s Tokyo Olympics — when the Americans won a fourth consecutive gold medal.
The Warriors’ Draymond Green was on that Olympic team. So was Boston’s Jayson Tatum. They celebrated winning gold together, and now they’ll try to go through one another to get their fingerprints on the gold trophy that goes to the NBA champions — the Larry O’Brien.
“This is an opportunity that players dream of,” Golden State’s Andrew Wiggins said. “To be put in a position to win it all.”
And if nothing else, a Warriors-Celtics matchup made Green seem prophetic.
After the Warriors won the West, Green visited the TNT broadcast set after the game and was prodded by Shaquille O’Neal to say which team from the then-undecided East title series that he would like to play.
Green began giving a diplomatic answer, saying that both the Heat and Celtics were tough. O’Neal pressed him to be honest, and Green — never shy with words — gave in.
“You’re asking me who I want to play. I’m gonna tell who I think we’re going to play: We’re going to play Boston,” Green said Thursday night. “That’s who we’re going to play.”
He was right.
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Customers will apple-solutely fall for this tangy and tasty new treat
IRVING, Texas, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A mouth-watering new Slurpee® drink flavor is dropping at 7-Eleven, Inc., and it's sure to ap-peal to customers looking for a bit of festive fall fun. The new, limited time only Green Apple Slurpee is a delightful combination of tart and sweet that tastes like a freshly picked apple on a crisp autumn day. This seasonal flavor is now available at participating 7-Eleven®, Speedway®, and Stripes® stores.
"Fall is an exciting time for us at 7-Eleven as we begin to roll out our seasonal takes on classic menu items – like the Smokey Cheddar Sausage and the Maple Pecan Danish – and our Slurpee drinks are no exception," said Dennis Phelps, 7-Eleven's Proprietary Beverages Senior Product Director. "Our customers are the apples of our eyes, and we hope they love the new Green Apple Slurpee flavor as much as we do!"
Need a morning beverage to complement that tangy afternoon treat? Look no further! For a limited time, 7Rewards® and Speedy Rewards® loyalty members who purchase six cups of coffee – including Pumpkin Spice Lattes – Big Gulp®, or Slurpee drinks, will receive their 7th cup free*. And although summer may be over, fans can still enjoy $1 small Slurpee drinks** this fall and through the end of the year.
And with 7-Eleven's 7NOW® delivery app, customers can get their Green Apple Slurpee drink delivered right to their door. 7NOW delivery is available throughout the U.S. and offers real-time tracking that lets customers know when to expect their orders. Even better, with the 7NOW Gold Pass™ subscription delivery service, customers can get their delivery fee waived on more than 3,000 of their favorite 7-Eleven products for just $5.95 a month***.
The 7NOW delivery app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play, or by visiting 7Rewards.com.
*MFR coupon. Available while supplies last. Offer applies only to 7Rewards® and Speedy Rewards® loyalty members. Offer good at participating U.S. 7-Eleven® stores, excludes Hawaii. Offer not valid with any other coupon or discount. No cash value. Consumer pays applicable fees & sales taxes. COPIES OR REPRODUCTION BY ANY MEANS IS PROHIBITED AND SHALL VOID THE COUPON. ©2022 7-Eleven, Inc. MUST use the app to earn punches and redeem the free cup. All rights reserved.
**$1 Sm Slurpee: Offer good at participating U.S. 7-Eleven® stores, excludes Hawaii.
***By joining you will be signing up for a recurring monthly subscription to the 7NOW Gold Pass. After the 14-day free trial period ends, your payment method on file will be charged $5.95 plus applicable taxes and your subscription will automatically renew monthly until you cancel through your account page. Delivery fee will be waived on delivery orders. Additional terms and conditions apply. For more information visit 7-Eleven's website.
7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 13,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to 7-Eleven® stores, 7-Eleven, Inc. operates and franchises Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits locations. Known for its iconic brands such as Slurpee®, Big Bite® and Big Gulp®, 7-Eleven has expanded into high-quality sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings and mini beef tacos. 7-Eleven offers customers industry-leading private brand products under the 7-Select™ brand including healthy options, decadent treats and everyday favorites at an outstanding value. Customers can earn and redeem points on various items in stores nationwide through its 7Rewards® loyalty program with more than 50 million members, place an order in the 7NOW® delivery app in over 2,000 cities, or rely on 7-Eleven for bill payment service, self-service lockers and other convenient services. Find out more online at www.7-Eleven.com.
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For Soccer Ventures acquires Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing to form largest full service soccer-specific media and experiences company in buildup to North America's Men's World Cup in 2026
NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For Soccer Ventures (FSV) today announced a definitive strategic acquisition of Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing, combining two of America's foremost soccer-specific firms into one industry-leading marketing, media, and experiences company. Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing founder and president John Guppy will join the executive team alongside CEO Ernesto Bruce and Heath Pearce. The new company, "For Soccer," will provide the marketplace with an innovative offering that includes best-in-class soccer marketing and media services alongside a portfolio of unique owned and operated soccer properties.
For Soccer's principal owner is Richie Graham, the founder of For Soccer Ventures and managing principal of Striker Partners. Striker is a private investment firm and member of The Graham Group, which manages approximately $8 billion in private capital deploying investments in industries that range from industrial technologies and advanced manufacturing to software development, healthcare, education, sports, and related media. Richie leads the Graham family's investment in Major League Soccer through the Philadelphia Union, where he was actively involved in building the highly regarded Union Academy program and where he founded YSC Academy — an innovative and first-of-its-kind soccer-specific school for elite soccer players from grades 6 through 12.
"For Soccer Ventures has seen tremendous growth since we launched the business a little more than three years ago with a deep commitment to help to accelerate and grow the sport of soccer in North America," Graham said. "Together with Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing — which has unprecedented research and fan activation capabilities — we are better positioned to support brands and soccer organizations who wish to authentically connect with the rapidly growing American soccer consumer base."
Since 2008, Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing has operated as North America's original soccer-specific marketing agency, providing strategic consultation and activation services to more than 60 clients. Those clients include major corporate brands Alcatel, Bimbo Bakeries, Heineken, Microsoft, Pepsi, PUMA, Unilever, and Volkswagen as well industry partners Chelsea FC, Girls Academy, Liverpool FC, Major League Soccer, Paris Saint-Germain FC, and the Premier League.
"We disrupted the sports marketing industry with the launch of a soccer-specific marketing services agency and have witnessed soccer's exponential growth ever since," Guppy said. "Combining our companies is a natural evolutionary step in providing differentiated soccer-specialized services to the marketplace as an alternative to the mainstream general sports marketing agency offering."
Under the direction of Bruce, For Soccer's leadership team includes FSV co-founders John Parker, Burke Cherrie, Marc Horine and Aaron Maines as well as Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing's Scott Hutchison and Danielle Prior.
"As a region, North America is entering a defining moment in respect to its blended sporting and social culture ahead of the highly anticipated 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup," said Bruce. "What For Soccer Ventures has built in such a short amount of time is remarkable. I'm honored to lead the team as we continue investing in a growing portfolio of owned soccer properties like Alianza de Futbol, while further growing our portfolio of best-in-class soccer marketing services."
For Soccer Ventures was founded in 2019 and has developed a portfolio of media and experience properties. Alianza de Futbol — FSV's most prominent property — is the leading grassroots Hispanic community platform providing events and media. Other innovative properties include Black Star (a platform accelerating the growth and popularity of soccer in Black American communities), FootyCon (a curated experience where soccer and culture collide), The Association (an experiential soccer league celebrating the sport and culture), and The Soccer Collective (a proprietary network of social media accounts and creator communities).
"We believe, to create truly great experiences for players, fans and brands, you have to understand the culture of the sport," Pearce said. "Our 'From Soccer, For Soccer,' mantra has helped guide us to create unique, authentic, and innovative opportunities for all constituents, with many brands looking to jump on the soccer wave with this summer's 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Copa America 2024 in the U.S., and the lead up to the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup in the U.S., Canada and Mexico."
Combining the two firms immediately increases the scale and influence of the company. For Soccer clients will benefit from a broader and deeper array of expertise and services. For Soccer's more than 50 full-time employees include a multicultural and multilingual roster of marketing and creative experts located throughout the U.S. and Mexico. For more information on For Soccer, please visit ForSoccer.com.
About For Soccer
For Soccer is the preeminent soccer marketing, media, and experiences company formed through the merger of For Soccer Ventures and Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing.
For Soccer's specialized consultancy services includes research and insights, strategic consultancy, experiential marketing, multicultural marketing, digital and social media marketing, creative and content, media and distribution, public relations and communications, sponsorship services, creative services, as well a technical soccer expertise.
For Soccer's growing owned and operated property portfolio includes participatory and cultural events, podcasts, OTT, experiential, and playing programs.
About Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing LLC
Since 2008, Gilt Edge Soccer Marketing (GESM) has innovatively serviced American soccer as a dynamic integrated-marketing agency solely focused on helping brands understand and connect via an expertise that includes research, strategic consultancy, sponsorship management, experiential and event marketing, digital and social media marketing, consumer promotions, and public relations.
About For Soccer Ventures
Founded in 2019, For Soccer Ventures (FSV) is a new media and experiences company that has led a collaborative movement to connect brands and platforms to the diverse American soccer community through immersive storytelling, properties, activations and strategic services.
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DENVER (KDVR) – The February full snow moon will be illuminating the sky this weekend.
The snow moon will reach its peak illumination on Sunday, according to the Farmer’s Almanac.
The Almanac cited the National Weather Service in saying that February is the snowiest month in the U.S.
“In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver, who had visited with the Naudowessie (Dakota), wrote that the name used for this period was the Snow Moon, ‘because more snow commonly falls during this month than any other in the winter,'” the Almanac stated.
Though the snow moon is so named due to the month’s typically heavy snowfall, it also goes by names that have a connection to animals and oftentimes come from Native Americans, the Almanac says.
For instance, the Cree called it the Eagle Moon, while the Ojibwe and Tlingit called it the Bear Moon and Black Bear Moon, respectively, since bear cubs are born during this time.
Other names were derived from the perspective of scarcity, including the Bony Moon and Hungry Moon, both of which originated with the Cherokee since “food was hard to come by at this time,” the Almanac says.
Incidentally, February’s rarest full moon is called the Black Moon, which occurs when there appears to be no full moon at all. This happens once every five to 10 years, according to the Almanac, and can occur during other months as well.
Here’s a look at when the 2023 full moons will take place:
- Feb. 5
- March 7
- April 5
- May 5
- June 3
- July 3
- Aug. 1
- Aug. 30
- Sept. 29
- Oct. 28
- Nov. 27
- Dec. 26
The March full moon is the final full moon of winter. It’s called the Worm Moon, since earthworms start to appear in the soil in spring.
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‘We’re shocked’: Day care manager arrested after baggie of meth found in infant room
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - A day care worker has been arrested and is facing drug charges after methamphetamine was found at a child care facility.
KMOV reports Nichole Doster, 36, was working as a manager at KidsPlay Childcare & Preschool and is accused of leaving a bag of meth on the floor in the facility’s infant room on June 16.
Authorities said Doster has been charged with possession of a controlled substance and eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
According to a probable cause statement, police were contacted by the child care facility for a report of a possible controlled substance found.
When officers arrived, they located a small plastic baggie that contained a large crystalline structure and crystalline dust.
The officer was told the bag was found in the infant room, which reportedly had eight infants in it at the time.
Investigators found that the baggie belonged to Doster, and when police searched her purse, they spotted another bag containing crystals.
According to the probable cause statement, a lab analysis confirmed the crystal substances in both baggies were methamphetamine.
The management team at the facility said Doster has since been fired and no children were harmed.
An administrator shared that a teacher was the one who found the bag and immediately contacted authorities and the school’s protocols were initiated.
The child care management team said Doster had been working at the facility for two years and that she had passed a background check without any other issues.
“We’re shocked by this,” the management team said.
Doster was booked into the St. Louis County Jail and is currently being held on a $75,000 bond.
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- The company announced late on Thursday that a review of issues at subsidiary Siemens Gamesa had found a "substantial increase in failure rates of wind turbine components."
- The Siemens Gamesa board has initiated an "extended technical review" that will incur "significantly higher costs" than previously assumed, estimated to be in excess of 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion).
Siemens Energy shares plunged 33% on Friday morning after the company scrapped its profit forecast and warned that costly problems at its wind turbine unit could last for years.
The company, born from the spinoff of the former gas and power division of German conglomerate Siemens, announced late on Thursday that a review of issues at subsidiary Siemens Gamesa had found a "substantial increase in failure rates of wind turbine components."
The Siemens Gamesa board has initiated an "extended technical review" aimed at improving product quality that the parent company said will incur "significantly higher costs" than previously assumed, now estimated to be in excess of 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion).
"It is too early to have an exact estimate of the potential financial impact of the quality topics and to gauge the impact of the review of our assumptions on our business plans," Siemens Energy said in a statement.
"However, based on our initial assessment as of today, the potential magnitude of the impact leads us to withdraw the profit assumptions for Siemens Gamesa and consequently the profit guidance for Siemens Energy Group for fiscal year 2023."
Siemens Gamesa has been a thorn in the side of its parent company since its full takeover late last year.
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Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch told journalists on a call Friday that "too much had been swept under the carpet" at Siemens Gamesa and that the quality issues were "more severe than [he] thought possible," according to Reuters.
Nicholas Green, head of European capital goods at Alliance Bernstein, said Siemens Energy would likely be able to climb back from fall, but the scale of the problems had shocked the market.
"There's a 17 billion euros service order book and that is delivering service on installed wind farms and in wind turbines for quite a number of years ahead — five years ahead, sometimes 10-year contracts — and to discover that a handful of your components aren't working as you planned, that maybe you'll need to go in and replace those components, that is a very large liability that you're taking on," he said.
Siemens Energy estimates that component failures may be occurring in between 15% and 30% of its installed fleet of turbines, but Green noted that there is still a "slight question mark about where that liability ends."
"With luck, when they report back at the beginning of August, they will have managed to put some sort of brackets around the scale of the cost here and the scale of the obligations ahead of them, but certainly it is an alarmingly large hit and it's taken the market by surprise," he added.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court voted unanimously Thursday to reject multiple challenges that sought to invalidate President Guillermo Lasso’s decree dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly as it tried to oust him in an impeachment trial.
With the ruling, there are no impediments for the country’s electoral body to call elections for president and the legislature, which are tentatively set for August.
In challenging Lasso’s dissolution of the legislature Wednesday, his adversaries tried to persuade the Constitutional Court to rule that the move was illegal on the grounds Ecuador is not facing any urgent crisis. But the court said it does not have jurisdiction to “rule on the verification and motivation of the cause of serious political crisis and internal upheaval invoked” by Lasso to dissolve the assembly.
The conservative president, who sparred with the left-leaning assembly over his pro-business agenda since taking office in 2021, disbanded the chamber under a constitutional provision. Challenges to his decision were filed in the court by three opposition parties, the former president of the assembly, and two private citizens.
Lasso made the first use of a 2008 constitutional provision that allows the president to dissolve the National Assembly during times of political crisis, with the requirement that new elections be held for both lawmakers and the president.
A lawsuit filed by the assembly’s former head, Virgilio Saquicela, argued that Lasso’s move violated the constitution because the country was not experiencing any social upheaval. Lasso’s detractors argued that the president chose to disband the chamber merely to avoid his own ouster.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Saquicela slammed Lasso’s move as a last-minute ploy to avoid his removal once it became clear that was under way.
“When he saw that he didn’t have the votes, he got scared,” Saquicela said.
Minister of Government Henry Cucalón defended Lasso’s decision during a news conference Thursday, arguing that the constitution makes it clear that the legislature’s dismissal is up to the president’s “judgment, criteria, discretion and reason,” and that it does not require approval of any other entity.
The Constitutional Court is known for acting slowly, but lawmakers had urged the panel to move quickly this time.
Medardo Oleas, a lawyer and electoral analyst, said lawmakers wanted the court to decide quickly because once an election date is set “no authority may interfere in the carrying out of the process.” He said that if the Constitutional Court interfered in those circumstances, its members “could be dismissed.”
The National Electoral Council has tentatively chosen Aug. 20 as election day. If needed, a runoff would take place Oct. 15.
The president appears to have the support of the armed forces, but faces pushback from critics including a powerful confederation of Indigenous groups that has nearly paralyzed Ecuador with protests in the past.
Lasso can now govern for up to six months by means of decrees on economic and administrative issues under the oversight of the Constitutional Court. The National Electoral Council is required to set a date for presidential and legislative elections within seven days from Lasso’s decision.
Those elected would finish the terms of Lasso and the lawmakers he ousted, which had been set to end in May 2025. Lasso, a former banker, can choose to run in the election.
Lawmakers seeking Lasso’s removal by impeachment accused him of not having intervened to end a contract between the state-owned oil transport company and a private tanker company. They argued Lasso knew the contract was full of irregularities and would cost the state millions in losses.
During impeachment proceedings Tuesday, Lasso noted the contract predated his administration. He also said that the state-owned company experienced losses of $6 million a year before he took office and that it has seen $180 million in profits under his watch.
Lasso had clashed from the start of his four-year term with the assembly. He accused them Wednesday of focusing “on destabilizing the government.” On Tuesday, he dismissively referred to their impeachment allegations against him as stretching “the limits of human imagination.”
Saquicela accused Lasso’s government of being “incapable of solving the real problems of Ecuadorians,” including health, transportation and security issues.
He rejected any shared responsibility for the turmoil, arguing that the assembly complied with its constitutional obligation to legislate.
“I do not want to justify whether the assembly has been good or bad, what I defend is the constitutional framework,” he said. “However, we believe that as a political class, we fell short in our legislating and oversight duties.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Alex Joyce, CEO of ReJoyce Financial, joined us today to give an introduction to a Roth IRA, or Individual Retirement Account. He opened with a unique question: would you rather pay taxes on the seed or the harvest?
For many people, the concept of a Roth IRA may be tough to understand, so Joyce advised seeking professional financial tax advice before jumping in. The team at ReJoyce Financial does Roth conversions every day, which makes them a great resource. The decision to create a Roth IRA is not one to take lightly, as Joyce said there is no redo and there is potential to hurt yourself financially.
Before you consider a Roth IRA, it’s important to understand how taxes work and how your marginal and progressive tax bracket works. The question he recommends asking is: how much money should we convert and how long should we convert it?
There’s no time like the present to consider professional financial advice. Whether you’re ready to create a Roth IRA or are just interested in learning more, ReJoyce Financial is here to help.
Information on financial planning is available at the ReJoyce Financial website or by calling 317-903-0517.
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Teachers across the country are facing new obstacles in post-pandemic life as they try and shape young minds at the same time. We catch up with a group of educators to find out what's on their mind.
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Teachers across the country are facing new obstacles in post-pandemic life as they try and shape young minds at the same time. We catch up with a group of educators to find out what's on their mind.
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Not sure who won this Iron Bowl caption contest but it was fun to watch. It was a surprisingly civil competition, which makes me wonder: Are Alabama and Auburn fans the key to bringing the country together politically? Never mind. Too complicated. Let’s just focus on tigers and elephants for now.
This contest was in reference to my colleague Ramsey Archibald’s series of compelling data stories about the real non-football differences between Alabama fans and Auburn fans. To summarize: Alabama fans like MMA cage fighting stuff. Auburn fans prefer golf.
R E L A T E D: Alabama fans vs Auburn fans: Trash talk caption contest smackdown - al.com
R E L A T E D: What’s the difference between Alabama and Auburn fans? Income, education and more - al.com
R E L A T E D: Alabama fans love MMA, Auburn fans prefer golf. But the differences don’t stop there - al.com
Here are my Top 10 captions (including the featured caption at the top,) in no particular order. How would you rank them?
Thanks for your contribution, Coach GOAT.
True stories and stuff:
Robert Plant head-butted me. Thanks, David Coverdale - al.com
I was ZZ Top’s drummer for a night and got kidnapped by groupies - al.com
Check out more cartoons and stuff by JD Crowe
Ivan Lopez: Tribute to fallen Mount Vernon police officer - al.com
Is Donald Trump a flight risk? - al.com
Trump drained after pleading the Fifth 440 times - al.com
Karma smacks Alex Jones upside the head - al.com
Feel the burn pit: Shelby, Tuberville turn their backs on sick veterans - al.com
‘The Bill Russell I knew for 60 years’: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s touching tribute to his idol - al.com
JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi and John Schreiber used their sliders without throwing a pitch. The Boston Red Sox pitchers grabbed their hunks of flattened cardboard and took flight for the traditional slide down the outfield hill outside the Little League World Series stadium.
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde hit the hill and raced head-to-head against his 14-year-old son in the cardboard challenge.
“I wasn’t sure,” Hyde said with a laugh. “But once I saw people going down, I wanted to try it. You never know when you’re going to be back.”
Oh, and Hyde won the father-son competition.
“A little more mass rolling down,” he said.
On a sunny Sunday morning, the Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles acted like kids again as they mingled with Little League stars from around the globe at the site of the pinnacle of youth baseball.
Hours later, it was time to trash the soggy cardboard. The Red Sox and Orioles could have used a raft to get around the rainy field. Weather warning signs flashed on the scoreboard instead of the starting lineups.
The heavy rains subsided eventually and the Red Sox and Orioles played the Major League Baseball Little League Classic on Sunday night at 2,366-seat Historic Bowman Field. President George W. Bush shook hands with Orioles players in front of the dugout and later went into the stands to meet the Little Leaguers and their families that made up the crowd.
The Red Sox were set to send right-hander Nick Pivetta (9-9, 4.28 ERA) to the mound against Orioles righty Dean Kremer (5-4, 3.58 ERA) in the rubber match of the three-games series. Both teams are competing for the final AL wild-card spot.
After playing Saturday at Camden Yards, the Orioles and Red Sox were greeted Sunday morning at the airport by smiling Little Leaguers and they signed autographs — yes, even the 12-year-olds signed jerseys and balls for the big leaguers — and watched some of the early Little League World Series games.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora called a visit with his native Puerto Rico’s Little League team “a great experience.” And yes, his baseball cap turned backward, Cora also dove head-first onto the cardboard and sailed down the hill. He also sat in the rear of a makeshift race car with members of the Little League team out of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Most of the Orioles had their Little League photos at their locker inside the cramped clubhouse of the non-affiliated Williamsport Crosscutters.
Who was that Oriole wearing No. 8 taking off for first base in his Pop Warner football cleats after a swing of the bat?
Cal Ripken Jr.?
Nope, try Orioles outfielder Austin Hays who gave the uniform a test drive as a kid playing Little League in Florida. Hays had no trouble finding the throwback photo — the original still hangs on his grandmother’s refrigerator.
Hays said the day was the kind of experience he would loved growing up. Not many kids can say they reached the Little League World Series. Now, they get the added perk of meeting baseball stars. The lucky few raced against the O’s.
“I made it about halfway down. Fell off my piece of cardboard,” Hays said. “The kid I was racing fell off his, too. So I ran back up, hopped on mine and he tried to go down without his, so I think I won by disqualification.”
Not all the big leaguers were Williamsport rookies. Now Boston’s game-planning coordinator, former Red Sox star Jason Varitek, led Altamonte Springs out of Florida to the 1984 United States championship. Varitek’s advice to today’s Little Leagues is much the same as what he received 38 years ago.
“Enjoy the moment, enjoy the atmosphere, trade pins,” Varitek said as he headed into Sunday’s game. “Meet other players from other countries. Leave your best out there. Enjoy being where you are.”
Of course, the $7 hot dogs at the concession stand — only a buck at your local Little League field — and the poker chips stacked during the clubhouse card game showed this was still a major league experience in the town for pint-sized players.
The Little League Classic is MLB’s latest experiment to try and attract new fans — and re-ignite the passion of lapsed ones — through offbeat settings. The last one was a hit — Major League Baseball’s second “Field of Dreams” game last week came straight out of the cornfields of Dyersville, Iowa. More than 3.1 million viewers watched Fox Sports’ broadcast of the game, the most-watched regular-season baseball game on any network this year.
ESPN had Sunday’s telecast and promised all the added features that make the game a more appealing watch to kids. Much like other Sunday night telecasts, the telecast is expected to include a mic’d up player to talk to the broadcast booth. There’s also an all-kids broadcast team on ESPN2.
“This is our job now. We get paid to do it,” Hays said. “But at the end of the day, we were in those kids shoes and we started playing the game because it was fun. Something we liked to do. And it led us to here.”
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MiniTool has just announced the release of its data recovery software for Windows - MiniTool Power Data Recovery to version 11.3. The newly released version brings users brand-new data filtering options and continues to improve its data recovery capabilities.
Newly Designed Data Filter Option
Pick out wanted data from numerous files is not easy in the whole data recovery process. But with a data filter, things are different. Previous versions of MiniTool Power Data Recovery also give limited ways to filter files but earn unsatisfactory utilization. From this point of view, MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.3 focuses on the improvement of the quick data filter this time and it offers four options for users to quickly navigate to the desired files. To be specific, these options are:
- Filter by file type: drop down the menu and choose to show a file type including pictures, audio, video, document, email, database and achieve.
- Filter by modified dates such as past day, past week, past month, past year, and more.
- Filter by file size: data size ranges from 0KB - 1MB, 1 MB - 100MB, 100MB - 1GB, more than 1GB, etc.
- Filter by file category: to show all files or deleted files only.
As long as users can remember any of the above information about their lost files, they will spend less time than usual to get the desired files back.
Enhanced Data Recovery from exFAT Partitions
In addition, MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.3 also continues to improve the data recovery efficiency and data recovery results from exFAT partitions, as exFAT is frequently used on USB flash drives. Through comprehensive testing and verification, the new version can bring users a better data recovery experience on exFAT drive recovery.
More Bug Fixes
Bug fixes of version 11.3 mainly focus on the interface. Among them, the most notable one is the dynamic layout bug of partitions on the Home page. If users switch to Utilities or Settings and then expand the left menu, after that they go to This PC and they will see partitions cannot be automatically repositioned. Of course, in MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.3, this bug has been resolved successfully.
About MiniTool Power Data Recovery
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is one of the most effective data recovery software for HDDs, SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and external hard drives. This program can help users recover lost files from hard drive errors, system crashes, virus attacks, human errors, and more.
For more information, feel free to visit https://www.minitool.com
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BANGKOK (AP) — Groups of protesters gathered in Thailand's capital on Tuesday to call for the country’s prime minister to step down, saying he has exceeded his constitutional term limit.
A demonstration at Bangkok's Democracy Monument, a traditional protest venue, appeared to draw fewer than 200 protesters, mixed in with bystanders and journalists.
Anti-government activists have been seeking Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's resignation for almost three years, saying he holds the post illegitimately because he came to power by leading a military coup that ousted an elected government in 2014.
They have fresh hopes that he can be thrown out of office because of an article in the constitution that limits prime ministers to eight years in office. They say the eight years ended on Tuesday, a day before the anniversary of Prayuth taking the post of prime minister in the military government installed after the coup.
But Prayuth’s supporters contend the countdown on his term began after 2014.
They say the current constitution, which contains the provision limiting prime ministers to eight years, came into effect on April 6, 2017, and that should be used as the starting date. Another interpretation favoring his continuing tenure is that the countdown began on June 9, 2019, when Prayuth took office under the new constitution following a 2019 general election. He must call new elections by next year in any case.
A petition from opposition lawmakers arguing that Prayuth has reached the eight-year limit was sent Monday to the Constitutional Court, with speculation that its nine-member panel might announce on Wednesday whether it will rule on the matter.
The possibility that the court might decide against Prayuth — considered slight because it has generally ruled in the government’s favor in a slew of political cases — has raised tensions.
Polls show the prime minister’s popularity is at a low ebb. He has been accused of mishandling the economy and botching Thailand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in multiple protests to demand that Prayuth and his Cabinet resign, while calling for the constitution to be amended and the monarchy to be reformed. The student-driven movement was sparked in part by the court-ordered dissolution of the popular opposition Future Forward Party.
The protest movement at one point attracted crowds of 20,000-30,000 in Bangkok. Several confrontations with the authorities grew violent. A legal crackdown on activists, arrested in many cases under a law against insulting the monarchy because of their criticism of the royal institution, has embittered Prayuth’s critics more.
The major faction of the protest movement, calling itself Ratsadon — The People — issued a statement Sunday affirming its call for Prayuth’s ouster.
“For more than eight years, Thai society has fallen under the darkest and most bitter times. A period under the rule of a tyrant who took power away from the people. A tyrant who inherits power through a mechanism without democratic legitimacy,” the statement said.
It declared that the Constitutional Court “must listen.”
“We, the people, are hopeful that deep down, you, and General Prayuth’s cronies will come to your senses and realize that the time of General Prayuth as prime minister of Thailand has come to an end according to the 2017 constitution of Thailand.”
Fearful of protesters marching to Prayuth’s offices at Government House, security forces have blocked some streets with shipping containers, a tactic they have previously used against anti-government protesters.
At Democracy Movement, where the protest was set to end at midnight and resume Wednesday, a costumed dancer slowly whirled around lit candles placed on the ground while another protester burned Prayuth’s picture in a bowl together with items such as salt and incense sticks in a ritual curse. Firecrackers were set off and protesters raised a three-finger salute that has become their symbol of resistance.
“The people are suffering. It’s difficult to earn a living. Prices are rising. Oil prices are on the rise and eggs are expensive. Everything is expensive. Nothing is good right now. Prayuth shouldn’t run the government anymore," said Manee, a 44-year-old protester who declined to give her last name for fear of retribution by the authorities. "He must get out.”
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This version corrects that Tuesday was the day before the anniversary of Prayuth becoming prime minister in the post-coup military government, not that it was the anniversary of the coup.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – NASA has published new photographs taken from space of the drastic water loss seen at Lake Mead over the last twenty years.
The natural-color images below were taken on July 6, 2000, and July 3, 2022, by Landsat 7 and Landsat 8. The detailed images also include a view from Landsat 8 on July 8, 2021 (middle).
Lake Mead and much of the Colorado River basin have been experiencing a 22-year drought. As of July 19, 2022, the water elevation at the Hoover Dam was 1,040.99 feet above sea level; the water elevation at the end of July 2000 (around the time of the Landsat 7 image above) was 1,199.97 feet.
Above Lake Mead, Lake Powell is currently filled to just 27% of capacity, and the entire Colorado river system stands at 35%.
Click the image above to see a higher resolution photograph.
Experts say climate change and drought have led to the lake dropping to its lowest level since it was full about 20 years ago.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said last month that the agency would take action to protect the system if the seven states in the Colorado River basin don’t quickly come up with a way to cut the use of up to 4 million acre-feet of water — more than Arizona and Nevada’s share combined.
An acre-foot is about 325,850 gallons (about 1.23 million liters). An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
The two states, California and Mexico already have enacted voluntary and mandatory cuts. Water from some reservoirs in the upper basin — Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah — has been released to prop up Lake Powell.
Farmers use a majority of the river’s supply.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Maryland senior left tackle Jaelyn Duncan declared for the 2023 NFL draft on Saturday night.
Duncan will leave Maryland as one of the program’s best offensive linemen in more than a decade. The former St. Frances standout was a three-time All-Big Ten honorable mention, using his speed and athleticism to transform into an intriguing prospect who could be picked as high as the first round in April.
“I would venture to say there are very few tackles throughout the country that have the athleticism he has,” Terps coach Mike Locksley said of the 6-foot-6, 320-pound Duncan.
Duncan is among a handful of Maryland players to declare for the NFL draft in recent weeks. Edge rusher Durell Nchami, wide receivers Rakim Jarrett, Jacob Copeland and Dontay Demus Jr. and cornerbacks Deonte Banks and Jakorian Bennett have announced their decisions to turn pro. Duncan, Bennett and kicker Chad Ryland will compete in the Reese’s Senior Bowl in February.
Maryland is still waiting on redshirt junior quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa and senior wide receiver Jeshaun Jones to decide whether they want to return to College Park for another season or enter the draft.
“Thankful for it all can’t wait to see what this next chapter has in store,” Duncan wrote in an Instagram post announcing his decision.
The New Carrollton native was a reliable player at Maryland, starting 41 games after joining the program in 2018. The four-star prospect was rated the No. 45 overall prospect in the ESPN300 and chose the Terps over Florida, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State and others. After Duncan allowed only five sacks in the previous two seasons, he gave up seven sacks and 28 pressures in 2022, according to Pro Football Focus.
Duncan is likely to be Maryland’s first offensive lineman drafted since Bruce Campbell in 2010. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. ranked Duncan as the seventh-best offensive tackle in this year’s draft class. In a recent mock draft, CBS Sports has Duncan getting picked No. 21 overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which would make him the first Terp to be drafted inside the top 20 since wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, who was selected seventh overall in 2009.
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KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash — A search is underway for a 7-year-old girl reported missing in Kittitas County.
Kittitas County Search and Rescue responded Sunday to an area near the Cathedral Rock trailhead in the northern Cle Elum River Valley, according to a Facebook post from the Kittitas County Sheriff on Monday.
The girl was part of a large family group and was last seen playing near the foot bridge over the Cle Elum River around noon Sunday.
K9s, drones, 4x4s, and ground searchers were all deployed in the initial search for the girl Sunday. The search is continuing Monday with personnel from King, Pierce, Snohomish, Chelan and Yakima counties along with Kittitas personnel.
Helicopter support is also being provided by King and Spokane counties.
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Seasoned Software and Security Executive Joins Alviere to Spearhead Global Marketing Efforts
DENVER, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alviere, the leading embedded finance platform enabling any brand to offer their customers financial solutions, today announced that it has named Christine Bottagaro as its chief marketing officer. With more than twenty years of experience in brand messaging, go-to-market strategy, and customer engagement with major software companies, including Sybase, SAP, and Rally Software, Ms. Bottagaro will lead Alviere's global marketing efforts for the world's only complete enterprise fintech platform. The first fully-licensed embedded finance provider, Alviere enables brands to offer a full suite of financial products, increasing customer engagement, generating new revenue streams, and delivering on the promise of financial inclusion.
"We see brands interact with their customers everyday through loyalty programs and affinity cards. As these organizations look for new ways to deepen engagement and offer new revenue pathways, I'm thrilled to bring my expertise to fuel growth at Alviere," said Christine Bottagaro, chief marketing officer, Alviere. "Through our comprehensive, innovative, and fully licensed embedded finance platform, Alviere offers a seamless path to richer customer engagement and new revenue opportunities."
Formerly the co-founder at Resurface Labs, Bottagaro was an integral team member who successfully built the API security company from the ground-up. Prior to Resurface Labs, she served as Chief Marketing Officer for Upland Kapost, and earlier for Rogue Wave Software, where Ms. Bottagaro was responsible for all aspects of marketing for the company's $150 million business. She also spent ten years at Sybase/SAP, where she developed and executed worldwide integrated marketing and customer programs.
"Christine is the perfect fit to lead Alviere's marketing efforts, as we were seeking a high-performance and seasoned executive from the enterprise software sector to mirror the expertise of our existing management team," said Yuval Brisker, Co-Founder and CEO of Alviere. "We're thankful Christine has joined our team and look forward to her contributions as we continue to help the world's leading brands capture additional revenue while deepening their customer relationships."
Recent senior hires include Isabelle Cole as Senior Vice President, Success and Revenue
Assurance, and Gareth Evans, Vice President, Sales and Business Development for Europe.
Alviere is the enterprise embedded finance company that enables leading brands to offer their customers financial solutions, powered by the world's only complete enterprise fintech platform. By leveraging a fully-licensed, compliant, one-stop solution, brands foster a higher level of customer engagement, generate new revenue streams, expand brand exclusivity and deliver on the promise of financial inclusion. For additional information on Alviere's embedded financial products, please visit https://alviere.com/
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4-year-old chokes to death while at Costco, coroner says
Published: Jul. 17, 2023 at 2:45 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
KENNEWICK, Wash. (Gray News) – A 4-year-old died after choking on what was believed to be a hot dog at a Costco in Washington state earlier this month, according to Benton County Coroner Bill Leach.
The child was just a few days away from her 5th birthday, KNDU reported.
Leach said several people at the store saw what happened and tried to use life-saving measures to keep the little girl alive.
EMS personnel removed food from the girl’s mouth before she was taken to the hospital where she died.
No autopsy is scheduled.
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Republicans in some heavily conservative states won their campaigns for secretary of state last year after claiming they would make sweeping changes aimed at keeping fraud out of elections.
So far, their efforts to make good on their promises are mixed, in some cases because their rhetoric has bumped up against skepticism from members of their own party.
Voters in politically pivotal swing states such as Arizona, Michigan and Nevada rejected candidates seeking to oversee elections who had echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election. But newly elected secretaries of state in Alabama, Indiana and Wyoming who had questioned the legitimacy of that election won easily in those Republican-dominated states.
They are now facing the task of backing up their campaign pledges in states where Republicans have already set strict election laws.
In Indiana, Secretary of State Diego Morales has been relatively quiet. He has not been making the rounds at the Statehouse trying to persuade lawmakers to embrace the wide-ranging tightening of voting rules he promoted as a candidate.
After defeating the incumbent secretary of state for the Republican nomination last summer, Morales dialed back his description of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election as a “scam” and his calls for tighter voting laws. That push included cutting Indiana’s 28-day early voting period in half and requiring new voters to prove their U.S. citizenship when registering.
No bills for such steps were introduced for this year’s legislative session. Morales, who was an aide to Mike Pence when the former vice president was governor, also did not seek any money in his budget request to lawmakers for creating an “election task force,” which he had discussed as a candidate, that would investigate voting “shenanigans” around the state.
A concept backed by Morales for requiring voters to include a copy of their driver’s license with a mail-in ballot application is being sponsored by a Republican lawmaker, but he said he wasn’t working with Morales on the proposal.
Morales’ office has declined interview requests from The Associated Press since he took office Jan. 1. Kegan Prentice, the office’s legislative director, said Morales was “currently focused on the ongoing transition.”
During remarks at an early January inaugural ceremony, Morales continued his campaign theme of promoting “election integrity” without giving specifics.
“My priority is to make Indiana a national model for election confidence and integrity,” he said.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston, also a Republican, said recently he had talked with Morales and told him he was “comfortable” with the state’s election laws.
“I think our election laws are as good as any in the country,” Huston said.
Morales was among the otherwise unsuccessful candidates associated with the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which called for large-scale changes to elections with candidates aligned with Trump’s views. The group supported losing candidates in several battleground states.
They claimed widespread fraud and manipulation of voting machines, but there has been no evidence of either as exhaustive reviews in states lost by Trump have not revealed wrongdoing. That hasn’t stopped Republican candidates, particularly in contested primaries, from parroting the false claims that have taken hold among the party’s supporters.
A large segment of Republicans, 58%, still believe Biden’s 2020 victory was not legitimate, according to an October poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
While Alabama’s Wes Allen and Wyoming’s Chuck Gray were not on the America First coalition’s candidate list, they also raised doubts about the 2020 vote.
Allen repeated a debunked claim calling the 31-state Electronic Registration Information Center organization a “Soros-funded, leftist group,” a reference to liberal billionaire George Soros. The voter registration data-sharing partnership is designed to maintain accurate voter rolls by identifying people who have moved or died. It’s funded by states after receiving initial startup support from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Allen’s first official act was to withdraw Alabama from the group, citing privacy concerns. Indiana and Wyoming weren’t part of the organization.
Even though Wyoming gave Trump his widest victory margins in 2016 and 2020, Gray’s election denials worried some of his fellow Republicans. The former state legislator and right-wing radio host often showed “2000 Mules,” a film that made unsubstantiated claims about ballot fraud, during his campaign events last year. He solidly beat a fellow Republican lawmaker who said the 2020 presidential outcome wasn’t in doubt.
A few Republicans questioned whether Gray should be stripped of his election oversight role given his views, but that idea has received little support. Instead, he has received a warm welcome from Wyoming lawmakers considering several election bills that are moving ahead.
One would prohibit “ballot harvesting,” or gathering others’ completed ballots for delivery, while another would implement new requirements for voting machines that would, in part, ensure they could not be connected to the internet.
But so far there is no legislation to follow through on Gray’s campaign proposals to ban ballot drop boxes or electronic voting machines, which despite mainly paper balloting in Wyoming are available in every county to help voters with disabilities.
That reflects the reality of trying to implement the most far-reaching election campaign promises in a heavily Republican state.
In January, Gov. Mark Gordon made a point in his state of the state speech of saying that Wyoming counts on election integrity because of its “professional and dedicated” county clerks.
But going off-script, Gordon hinted at Gray’s challenges ahead: “And I’m thrilled that our secretary of state takes that charge very seriously.”
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Twitter glitches as links, logins fail
(AP) - Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.
The company, which has experienced an uptick instability and bugs in recent months after Elon Musk cut its staff sharply, said, “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.”
Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running. Just last month, a bug left users unable to send tweets.
Already in November, engineers who left Twitter described for The Associated Press why they expect considerable unpleasantness for Twitter’s more than 230 million users now that well over two-thirds of the San Francisco-based company’s pre-Musk core services engineers are apparently gone.
While they don’t anticipate near-term collapse, the engineers said Twitter could get very rough at the edges — especially if Musk makes major changes without much off-platform testing.
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NEW YORK, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Republic of Germany honored American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris with the prestigious Stern/Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit. It is the highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals for services to the nation.
German Ambassador to the United States Emily Haber presented the award to Harris as "a worthy recognition of your lifelong commitment to the Jewish community and the relationship between Jews and Germany." The ceremony took place last evening at the residence of German Consul General David Gill in New York.
Harris, the son of Holocaust survivors, has spearheaded the positive evolution of the special relationship between AJC and Germany since he became AJC CEO in 1990. In doing so, he has built on the groundbreaking achievements of his predecessors at the helm of AJC. The global Jewish advocacy organization was founded in 1906 by Jews of German descent.
The excruciatingly difficult decision of AJC leaders in the late 1940s, very soon after the Holocaust, to reengage Germany set AJC, uniquely among international Jewish organizations, on a journey that has yielded a range of productive partnerships with the German government and civil society. AJC was the first global Jewish organization to commit itself to Germany's renewed sovereignty, as well as to the reestablishment of Jewish life in Germany.
Under Harris's leadership, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, AJC was the first major Jewish organization to support German unification. In 1994, he helped conceive and launch the unique partnership between AJC and the German armed forces. And in 1998, AJC became the first international Jewish organization to establish a permanent presence in Germany, the AJC Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations.
AJC and Germany: History in the Making 1945 – 2020 details the special relationship between Germany and AJC, and Harris's role at pivotal moments over the past 32 years.
Harris has been honored more than 20 times by foreign governments for his international work. Indeed, he is the most decorated Jewish organizational leader in American history.
He previously received two major German awards. In 2004, German Defense Minister Peter Struck presented Harris with the Gold Cross of the German Armed Forces, for "ten years of partnership between the German Armed Forces and the American Jewish Committee." In 2000, German Federal President Johannes Rau presented the Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz (Grand Cross of Merit) to Harris for "contributions to German-American and German-Jewish relations."
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Former FBI employees testify on GOP politicization claims after losing clearances
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency disclosed that two of the men had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, affected their work.
The three men alleged overreach and retaliation by the FBI in testimony to a special House committee investigating what Republicans assert is the “weaponization” of the federal government against conservatives.
“If you’re not politically correct ... you’re not in line with what they think to be the political position or the proper position, you’re the target,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican chairman of the committee, said in his opening statement.
Former FBI employees Marcus Allen and Steve Friend testified to the panel just hours after the FBI informed Jordan in a letter Wednesday — obtained by The Associated Press — that both men had been stripped of security clearances after either attending the Capitol riot in 2021 or espousing alternate theories about the attack.
A mob of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, bats and bear spray, charged into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, quickly overrunning overwhelmed police officers trying to keep them back. More than 100 police officers were injured, many beaten, bloodied and bruised. Over 1,000 people have been prosecuted in the Jan. 6 attack on a range of charges from low-level misdemeanors for those who only entered the Capitol to felony seditious conspiracy charges against far-right extremists.
“My colleagues have brought in these former agents, men who lost their security clearances because they were a threat to our national security,” said Del. Stacey Plaskett, the top Democrat on the committee. “People who out of malice or ignorance or both have put partisan agenda above the oath they swore to serve this country and protect its national security.”
Jordan and other Republicans on the committee hailed the former FBI employees as rank-and-file patriots who were facing retribution for speaking out against government abuse. Allen, Friend and Garrett O’Boyle, a former field agent, shared stories with the committee about how they said their decision to come forward has resulted in suspensions and dismissals for their posts.
“My oath did not include sacrificing the hopes, dreams and livelihood of my family,” said O’Boyle.
Many of them testified about their personal struggles, including not being able to find employment elsewhere and struggling to support their loved ones and young children while their cases were being investigated.
“I sacrificed my dream job to share this information with the American people,” Friend testified. “I humbly ask all the members to do your jobs and consider the merit of what I have presented.”
But Democrats dismissed the testimony, calling the hearing another attempt by Republicans on the committee to help former President Donald Trump.
“This select committee is a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for Donald Trump to use in his 2024 presidential campaign,” Plaskett added.
The letter from the FBI detailed how Friend refused to participate in a SWAT team arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 insurrection while serving in Florida, and “espoused an alternative narrative” about the attack. Friend maintained the show of force wasn’t needed.
Allen, a former operations specialist at the FBI field office in Charlotte, North Carolina, also backed “alternative theories” about Jan. 6 to co-workers multiple times, even after his supervisor told him to stop, according to the FBI letter. Allen disputed those findings, and a lawyer for both men cast suspension of their security clearances as retaliation against whistleblowers.
“I’m hopeful that scrutiny from Congress and from the inspector general will deter the FBI from abusing the security clearance process to retaliate against others the way it’s retaliated against me,” Allen told the committee.
The FBI, though, has said that of the nearly 80,000 staff at the agency, only 32 currently have their clearances suspended, a clear departure from the GOP claims that retaliation of rank-and-file staff is widespread. That’s according to recently transcribed testimony from Jennifer Leigh Moore, an executive assistant director of human resources at the agency.
A third employee who did not testify had a security clearance revoked after he entered the restricted area around the Capitol himself on Jan. 6, and later provided false or misleading information to investigators about what he did that day, the FBI’s letter said. All three employees can appeal the security clearance decisions.
Two of the former FBI employees who testified, Friend and O’Boyle, acknowledged that they had received money from Kash Patel, a close Trump ally who held multiple roles in his administration and now oversees a charity.
They said they needed that money to support their families after FBI suspensions left them unable to work, but Democrats said those ties show the partisan nature of the “weaponization” investigation.
In a series of contentious exchanges, Democrats complained that one of Thursday’s witnesses, Allen, was only interviewed by Republican lawmakers on the committee. Many pointed to House rules that state minority and majority staff are required to have equal access to witness testimony, regardless of whether it is a whistleblower account or not.
Since January, House Democrats on both the select and Judiciary committees have accused Jordan and GOP lawmakers of stonewalling them from several transcribed interviews, refusing to allow them into the room or provide official transcripts or videos of the interviews after the fact.
“We’re in the dark. That’s not how Congress works. That’s not how committees work,” said Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York.
The investigation by the select committee has also encompassed social media companies and other large businesses. Republicans on the committee released a report before the hearing with new allegations against the FBI, including that Bank of America had given data to the FBI on all of their customers who made transactions in Washington, D.C., in the days around Jan. 6.
Lawmakers played video testimony from George Hill, a retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor, who told the committee about the list after seeing it in the system, although he said he never opened it. Bank of America provided the information to the FBI voluntarily, according to Hill’s testimony, though it remained unclear whether and how the agency may have used the data.
Bank of America issued a brief statement to The Associated Press, saying it follows the law to “narrowly respond” to law enforcement requests, but it did not directly answer whether it shared the customer data with the FBI.
“We don’t comment on our communications with law enforcement,” bank spokesperson Naomi Patton said. “The report’s suggestion that Bank of America proactively searched our data for broad types of customer behavior, such as making any purchase in a specific city on a specific day, did not occur.”
Democrats have said Hill was among the former FBI employees who are “deeply biased,” citing social media posts where some committee witnesses have referred to Jan. 6 as a “setup.”
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Associated Press writer Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this report.
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DETROIT, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian of Michigan, a leading provider of government-sponsored health plans in the state, and Faith Redemption Center COGIC have teamed up to provide free backpacks and school supplies to local children heading back to school.
On Aug. 27, Faith Redemption will welcome families to a Back-to-School Rally, where kids in grades K-12 can get free backpacks, spiral notebooks, pencils, pens, glue sticks, highlighters, and packs of loose-leaf paper. Food boxes from Forgotten Harvest and lunch will also be available.
"We are excited about the upcoming school year since a good education contributes to a person reaching their goals in life and to their future well-being," said Bishop Clyde D. Jones, Jr. "At the rally, our school-age children will be provided with health screenings, essential vaccinations, and school supplies. Thanks to Meridian for helping us to contribute to the success and well-being of the people we serve."
"This is our way of making sure all families have what they need to start the school year out right," said Sean Kendall, Plan CEO and President for Meridian in Michigan.
In addition to the back-to-school event on Aug. 27 at Faith Redemption, Meridian also partnered with other community organizations to help make sure no child goes without school supplies.
Other events included:
- Meridian donated 100 backpacks filled with school supplies as part of Volunteers of America Michigan's Operation Backpack® program. Health plan employees stuffed backpacks and dropped them off at VOA's Southfield, MI office which will distribute the supplies to homeless and at-risk youths.
- Meridian donated 100 backpacks to the Viola Liuzzo Association's Back-to-School event held on Aug. 17 at the Viola Liuzzo Park, located on the northwest side of Detroit.
Detroit Public Schools Community District students will return to classes on Aug. 29.
Meridian in Michigan provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors, and individuals with complex medical needs primarily through Medicaid (Meridian), Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Wellcare), Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MeridianComplete), and the Health Insurance Marketplace (Ambetter from Meridian). Meridian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives. For more information about Meridian, visit mimeridian.com.
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Beaverton’s Roy Johnston notched his 800th career win as the Beavers’ boys’ basketball coach on Wednesday in a 72-35 victory over Pinconning.
The victory gives Johnston a total of 818 boys’ basketball coaching wins and 873 total wins, including girls’ basketball, during his career. No other coach in MHSAA history has amassed 800 career victories.
Landon Love led the Beavers with 16 points on Wednesday, while Layk Woodruff had 15 points, Alex Pahl had 14 points, and Logan Love added 10 points.
“The guys played well tonight. We’re getting more assists than earlier in the year, and guys are rewarding each other with buckets,” said Beaverton co-coach Shad Woodruff. “It’s also great to see Landon continue to improve. For a young guy, he is really doing a nice job.”
The Beavers (9-5 overall, 7-2 Jack Pine Conference) will head to Meridian on Friday.
FLYING G'S WIN CLOSE ONE OVER PIONEERS
Gladwin held on late to edge Clare 59-52 in Jack Pine Conference boys’ basketball on Wednesday.
The score was tied at 10-10 after one quarter before the Flying G’s outscored the Pioneers 17-12 in the second to take a 27-22 lead into the break. Both teams scored 10 points again in the third quarter to make it 37-32, and Gladwin had a 22-20 edge in the fourth to win it.
“They took a one-point lead in the second half twice after we managed to push it to 10. We did just enough down the stretch to hold them off,” said Gladwin coach Mike Verellen. “We were much better at the free-throw line tonight late in the game.”
Kaden McDonald led the G’s with 17 points, while Seth Mead had 16 points, four assists, and four steals, Lucas Mead had 14 points, seven rebounds, five steals, and four assists, and Brady Gehrett added eight points and four steals.
Gladwin (7-6 overall, 6-3 JPC) will host Farwell on Friday.
The G’s won the junior varsity game 46-33 behind 12 points by Connor Ritchie and won the freshman game 49-36 behind 21 points by Ben Verellen.
DOW WRESTLING WINS ONE, LOSES ONE
Dow High’s wrestling team split a pair of matches on Wednesday, losing 48-33 to Frankenmuth and beating Essexville Garber 42-21.
Winning both of their matches for the Chargers were Oliver Senkowski at 106 pounds, Jacob Batha at 126, Jay Stevens at 144, Lukus Studebaker at 157, Cooper Ostyn at 190, and Lennon Anderson at 215. Gabe Crumb won one match at 150 for Dow.
FREELAND GIRLS WIN LOW-SCORING BATTLE
Freeland outlasted New Lothrop 38-30 in nonconference girls’ basketball on Wednesday.
The Falcons led 7-5 after the first quarter before the Hornets pulled even at 12-12 by halftime. Freeland had a 14-9 advantage in the third quarter to go up 26-21, then outscored New Lothrop 12-9 in the fourth for the final margin.
Karie Keefer led the Falcons with 16 points and six steals, while Lauren LaFond had eight points and nine rebounds.
Freeland (11-4) will head to Birch Run on Friday.
COLEMAN BOYS LOSE TO FULTON
Coleman fell 60-45 to Fulton in nonconference boys’ basketball on Wednesday.
Jared DeVrieze led the Comets with 14 points, while Trenton Risdon had eight points and Vance Sysak six.
“We had a slow start, and giving up offensive rebounds was a killer for us tonight,” said Coleman coach Christian Maloney. “We continue to put up scores that will win games, but we fail to hold down other teams on the defensive end. Figuring out things on the defensive end must be our top priority.
“I have faith that we will figure things out and see it come together,” he added.
The Comets (2-12) will host Merrill on Friday.
MERIDIAN BOWLING BEATS CLARE
Meridian beat Clare 20-10 in boys’ bowling on Wednesday.
The Mustangs won the Baker games 150-146 and 231-133.
Winning twice in the Peterson games for Meridian was Maxx Burdick with scores of 224 and 155, while Evan Burdick won once with a 180, and Lucas Young won once with a 115.
MIDLAND GIRLS FALL TO HERITAGE ON TUESDAY
Midland High lost 51-28 to Saginaw Heritage in Saginaw Valley League girls’ basketball on Tuesday.
The Hawks led 6-3 after one quarter and 22-14 at halftime before outscoring the Chemics 19-5 in the third quarter and 10-9 in the fourth.
Emmalea TerBurgh led Midland with seven points, seven rebounds, and three assists, while Payton Palmer had eight points, Morgan Williams had seven rebounds, and Maria Tessin added four assists.
The Chemics (2-12 overall, 1-6 SVL) will host Grand Blanc on Friday.
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A deep sea-mapping company has created the first-ever full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, revealing an entirely new view of the world's most famous shipwreck.
The 1912 sinking of the Titanic has captivated the public imagination for over a century. And while there have been numerous expeditions to the wreck since its discovery in 1985, its sheer size and remote position — some 12,500 feet underwater and 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada — have made it nearly impossible for anyone to see the full picture.
Until now, that is. Using technology developed by Magellan Ltd., scientists have managed to map the Titanic in its entirety, from its bow and stern sections (which broke apart after sinking) to its 3-by-5-mile debris field.
The result is an exact "digital twin" of the wreck, media partner Atlantic Productions said in a news release.
"What we've created is a highly accurate photorealistic 3D model of the wreck," 3D capture specialist Gerhard Seiffert says. "Previously footage has only allowed you to see one small area of the wreck at a time. This model will allow people to zoom out and to look at the entire thing for the first time ... This is the Titanic as no one had ever seen it before."
The Titanic site is hard to get to, hard to see and hard to describe, says Jeremy Weirich, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Exploration program (he's been to the site).
"Imagine you're at the bottom of the ocean, there's no light, you can't see anything, all you have is a flashlight and that beam goes out by 10 feet, that's it," he says. "It's a desert. You're moving along, you don't see anything, and suddenly there's a steel ship in front of you that's the size of a skyscraper and all you can see is the light that's illuminated by your flashlight."
This new imagery helps convey both that sense of scale and level of detail, Weirich tells NPR.
Magellan calls this the largest underwater scanning project in history: It generated an unprecedented 16 terabytes of data and more than 715,000 still images and 4k video footage.
"We believe that this data is approximately ten times larger than any underwater 3D model that's ever been attempted before," said Richard Parkinson, Magellan founder and CEO.
Experts in Titanic history and deep-sea exploration are hailing the model as an invaluable research tool. They believe it could help scientists and historians solve some of the ship's lingering mysteries — and learn more about other underwater sites, too.
Longtime Titanic explorer and analyst Parks Stephenson described the model as a "game changer" in a phone interview with NPR.
"It takes [us] further into new technology that's going to be the standard, I think, not just for Titanic exploration, but all underwater exploration in the future," he adds.
A project years in the making, featuring Romeo and Juliet
Explorers and artists have spent decades trying to depict the Titanic wreck, albeit in lower-tech ways.
After Robert Ballard — along with France's Jean-Louis Michel — discovered the site in 1985, he combined all of his photos to form the first photomosaic of the wreck, which showed the ship's bow and was published in National Geographic. Those efforts have been replicated in the years since.
"But the problem with all that is it requires interpretation," Stephenson says. "It requires human interpretation, and there are gaps in the knowledge."
Flash forward to the summer of 2022. Scientists spent six weeks capturing scans of the site, using technology that Magellan says it had been developing over the course of five years.
The expedition deployed two submersibles, named Romeo and Juliet, some 2.3 miles below the surface to map every millimeter of the wreck site.
They didn't go inside the ship, let alone touch the site, in accordance with existing regulations, and paid their respects to the more than 1,500 victims with a flower laying ceremony.
And they describe the mission as a challenge, with the team fighting bad weather and technical challenges in the middle of the Atlantic.
"When we saw the data come in it was all worth it," Seiffert says. "The level of detail we saw and recorded was extraordinary."
The scientists spent months processing and rendering the data to create the "digital twin," which the company says it's looking forward to sharing publicly.
Stephenson saw an early version of the model, when Atlantic Productions brought him on to consult on its validity. So did Ken Marschall, the maritime artist known for his Titanic paintings.
"We've both seen it with our eyes. We've both seen thousands of digital images of the wreck in imagery, moving imagery," Stephenson said. "But we'd never seen the wreck like this. It was different, but at the same time you just knew it was right."
There's still a lot left to learn about the Titanic
Can there really be that much left to discover about the Titanic, more than 110 years on?
Stephenson says "at the end of the day, none of this matters." But there's a reason people keep visiting and talking about the wreck, he adds, and it's not because of any buried treasure.
"It's fame, I guess," Stephenson says. "People can't get enough of Titanic. And as long as people can't get enough of the Titanic, people will keep going to ... these mysteries."
In Stephenson's case, it's the unanswered questions that keep drawing him back.
"I've been grinding away at this for a while, and I'm not on a crusade to dismantle the Titanic narrative that has grown since 1912," he says. "But ... I have had enough experience and seen enough evidence that makes me seriously question even some of the most basic aspects of the Titanic story."
One example: Stephenson says there's reason to doubt the long-accepted conclusion that the ship hit the iceberg along its starboard side. He points to a growing body of evidence that suggests it actually grounded briefly on part of the iceberg that was submerged underwater instead.
Just looking at the preliminary modeling has helped Stephenson bring a lot of his evidence and questions into focus — it may be early days, but he says he already has a better understanding of how the ship's stern came to be in such bad shape.
Stephenson sees this moment as a paradigm shift in underwater archaeology.
"We're essentially getting to the end of the first generation of Titanic research and exploration, and we're getting ready to transition into the next generation," he says. "And I think this tool basically signals a shift from that generation to the next."
Stephenson wants to use the model to document the extent of Titanic exploration up to this point, from Ballard to James Cameron and beyond. He says a "massive project" is underway, and will hopefully result in a scientific paper and online archive. Then, he plans to use the tool to answer whatever questions remain.
The Titanic is a gateway into deep ocean exploration
As a maritime archaeologist, Weirich is most interested in what the ship's condition can teach us about how to better preserve deep-sea shipwrecks in general. For example, how has it impacted the environment since it sunk, and how have the visits since its discovery impacted the site?
The Titanic site has been designated as a maritime memorial, which makes preservation even more important. And Weirich says research on everything from its rate of deterioration to the microbial environment can be applied to other such sites worldwide.
There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of wrecks in the world, from ancient wooden ships in the Black Sea to World War II vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, Weirich says.
And this kind of technology could play a crucial role in learning more about deep-sea environments in general, from undersea resources to geological features to unknown species.
Weirich says he hopes these images of the Titanic will give people a greater appreciation for the deep ocean, and a better understanding of just how much is left to explore.
"The story of Titanic and the shipwreck itself is extremely compelling, but it is a gateway for people to understand what we know and don't know about the deep ocean," he adds.
Weirich remembers being personally captivated by those first images of the shipwreck in National Geographic when he was just 10 years old. That sparked his lifelong interest in ocean exploration — and he hopes young people seeing these latest images are inspired too.
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Much of Alabama will get the much-anticipated annual “taste of fall” in the next few days.
Full-on fall weather isn’t in the cards just yet, but Alabama will get a tantalizing hint of what is to come, according to the National Weather Service.
A cold front was sweeping across the state as of Monday morning. It will bring the usual chance of rain for some areas in south Alabama, and clouds were lingering over parts of north and central Alabama.
However, behind the front the weather will turn glorious, for a bit.
It won’t be cool, exactly, during the day, but humidity levels will be lower, so it may feel cooler.
Nights and early mornings will be where the change will be the most noticeable, according to the weather service.
By Tuesday morning lows will have fallen into the mid-50s in much of north and central Alabama and low to mid-60s in south Alabama (see the map at the top of this post). Wednesday should feature more of the same.
As far as highs go, on Tuesday temperatures will make it into the upper 70s to mid-80s for north and central Alabama, with mid-80s expected in south Alabama.
Here are Tuesday’s forecast highs:
The weather service said to expect temperatures to rise a bit during the week.
The warmth may return but rain chances are expected to stay low to zero through most of the work week as high pressure stays in control of Alabama’s weather, according to forecasters.
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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — K.H. Lee ran across the fairway to try to get a better view of the key shot in his second consecutive victory in the Byron Nelson.
The South Korean must have known it would be close, same as the low-scoring drama around him that included hometown favorite Jordan Spieth and a couple of other major winners in Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Thomas.
Lee's 240-yard shot on the par-5 12th hole stopped less than 5 feet from the pin, and the eagle put him in front for good Sunday on the way to a 9-under 63 and a one-shot victory over Spieth at birdie-besieged TPC Craig Ranch.
Spieth shot a 67 to finish a stroke ahead of Matsuyama (62) and Sebastián Muñoz (69), who held or shared the lead the first three rounds.
Xander Schauffele had a career-best 61 and tied for fifth with Ryan Palmer (66) and Thomas (67), who was part of an eight-way tie for the lead at 20 under early in the final round.
A year ago, Lee was playing for a spot in the PGA Championship, where he'll be again next week at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This time it was for a place in history as the 30-year-old joined Sam Snead (1957-58), Jack Nicklaus (1970-71) and Tom Watson (1978-80) as the only repeat winners at the Nelson.
Lee's career-best round overcame a four-shot deficit going into the final round and put him at 26 under, one shot better than last year. Both of his PGA Tour wins have come at the Nelson.
“It still feels like I'm dreaming,” said Lee, a first-time winner as a father after his wife was pregnant when he won last year. “Last year and this year, to make a good memory.”
Spieth had to settle for another career-best finish in the event he so badly wants to win, a year after the three-time major champion was ninth but never really close in a disappointing final round.
This final round was really close.
Leading by one, Lee made a curling 12-foot putt to save par on the par-3 17th after a short chip ran long when Lee tried to find his footing in the sand with the ball above his feet just outside the bunker.
Spieth missed a 9-foot birdie putt on 17 that would have pulled him even, then had to have eagle on the par-5 18th after Lee's tap-in birdie. Spieth's eagle chip stayed left of the hole.
After two bogeys in the first three holes, Spieth had another with a three-putt inside seven feet on 10, and the wait will continue 12 years after his remarkable tour debut as a Sunday contender when he was a 16-year-old high schooler.
“I love playing at home. I would love to win it some day,” said Spieth, who won his previous start at Hilton Head the week after the Masters. “I had a good chance here, I don’t think I ever really had the lead on my own. But it would be nice to close one out.”
With short par 4s and reachable par 5s, the birdies never stopped at TPC Craig Ranch, the second-year home of the Nelson.
There were 2,228 birdies after 2,007 a year ago, which was the most on tour last season. Eagles were plentiful, too. Last year, six players reached 20 under. This time it was 14.
Even missed chances at eagles were costly, such as on No. 12 when Muñoz's 6-footer circled the cup and stayed out, leaving him a stroke behind not long after Lee followed his clutch shot by making the short putt.
Matsuyama, who finished 39th at the Nelson last year when he was the defending Masters champion, had six birdies on the front and three on the back before a bogey stopped his momentum. An eagle on 18 got him closer.
Masters champ Scottie Scheffler, who shared the hometown spotlight with Spieth as a pair of former Texas golfers, shot 69 and finished 19 under. The top-ranked player never was a serious contender after winning four of his previous six individual starts.
Schauffele posted a clubhouse lead at 23 under with a birdie on 18 just as the last groups were making the turn. The 12th-ranked player said he didn't figure on hanging around long with the scoring so low.
He was free to go after Matsuyama's eagle at 18 put the 2021 Masters champion a shot ahead. Still, Schauffele's turnaround was remarkable in his first event since teaming with Patrick Cantlay to win the Zurich Classic.
The reigning Olympic champion was 26 under over the final 49 holes, starting with eight birdies from No. 6 on in the second round to rally from 3 over and make the cut on the number (5 under). He began the final round nine shots back.
Schauffele holed a 97-yard wedge for eagle on the short par-4 sixth then added eight birdies over the last 11 holes for the third score of 61 or better this week. Muñoz opened with his second 60 of the season, a first on tour.
“I had no pressure to shoot a low score,” Schauffele said. “The leaders are expected to shoot at least five or six (under) to kind of keep the pace. So I was literally just trying to birdie as many holes as possible while being smart as well.”
Justin Lower recorded the second of two aces in the round in the stadium setting on 17, landing a low 9-iron from 135 yards just right of the pin before the ball backed up and rolled in.
Marc Leishman had the first hole-in-one on the 213-yard 15th, land a 7-iron short and watching it roll in. It was Leishman's second career ace and the first at the Nelson since Tyler Duncan in 2018.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad is nationalizing all assets from multinational oil giant Exxon Mobil, including its hydrocarbon and exploration permits, said the government.
″The finance and budget minister must make sure the said decree is implemented from the date of its publishing,” said Haliki Choua Mahamat the government’s general secretary on state media.
The nationalization of a private company means that all assets are now owned by the government. While this used to happen in the 1960s and 1970s, it hasn’t happened recently and doesn’t conform to usual legal frameworks in the sector, say energy experts.
Chad began producing oil in 2003 and Exxon has been operating in the country for several decades. It was running the Doba oil project in Chad.
The move could scare away investors from West Africa at a time of growing global energy demand and a decline in foreign investments in the region, said Olufola Wusu, a partner and head of the oil and gas desk at Megathos Law Practice based in Nigeria.
“Expropriation of any sort without compensation is not a step in the right direction, because it is going to erode investor confidence in that particular country and once investors are jittery, they pull back their investment, so regulators and leaders in Africa need to play by the rules,” he said.
The government’s decision came after a long dispute between Exxon and Chad, which rejected the sale of the company’s operations last year.
Tensions have risen in the West African nation in recent months with unprecedented protests mounting against the government of President Mahamat Idriss Deby.
Deby was declared the head of state after his father’s death in April 2021. The son’s succession did not follow Chad’s constitutional line of succession. Opposition political parties at the time called the handover a coup d’etat, but later agreed to accept Deby as interim leader for 18 months.
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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody said Friday that agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk.
Agents said her daughter’s diagnosis of influenza did not require hospital care, Mabel Alvarez Benedicks said in an emotional phone interview. They knew the girl had a history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia.
“They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe,” the mother said. “She cried and begged for her life and they ignored her. They didn’t do anything for her.
The girl died Wednesday on what her mother said was the family’s ninth day in Border Patrol custody. People are to be held no more than 72 hours under agency policy, a rule that is violated during unusually busy times.
The account is almost certain to raise questions about whether the Border Patrol properly handled the situation, the second child fatality in two weeks after a rush of illegal border crossing severely strained holding facilities.
Roderick Kise, a spokesperson for the Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection, said he could not comment beyond an initial statement because the death was the subject of an open investigation. In that statement, CBP said the girl experienced “a medical emergency” at a station in Harlingen, Texas, and died later that day at a hospital.
Alvarez Benedicks, 35, said she, her husband and three children, aged 14, 12 and 8, crossed the border to Brownsville, Texas, on May 9. After a doctor diagnosed the 8-year-old, Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, with influenza, the family was sent to the Harlingen station on May 14. It was unclear why the family was held so long.
Anadith woke up her first day in the Harlingen station with a fever and had a headache, according to her mother, who said the station was dusty and smelled of urine.
When she reported her daughter’s bone pain to an agent, she said he responded, “’Oh, your daughter is growing up. That’s why her bones hurt. Give her water.’”
“I just looked at him,” Alvarez Benedicks said. “How would he know what to do if he’s not a doctor?”
She said a doctor told her the pain was related to influenza. She asked for an ambulance to take her daughter to the hospital for breathing difficulties but was denied.
“I felt like they didn’t believe me,” she said.
Anadith received saline fluids, a shower and fever medication to reduce her temperature, but her breathing problems persisted, her mother said, adding that a sore throat prevented her from eating and she stopped walking.
At one point, a doctor asked the parents to return if Anadith fainted, Alvarez Benedicks said. Their request for an ambulance was denied again when her blood pressure was checked Wednesday.
An ambulance was called later that day after Anadith went limp and unconscious and blood came out of her mouth, her mother said. She insists her daughter had no vital signs in the Border Patrol station before leaving for the hospital.
The family is staying at a McAllen, Texas, migrant shelter and seeking money to bring their daughter’s remains to New York City, their final destination in the U.S.
Anadith, whose parents are Honduran, was born in Panama with congenital heart disease. She received surgery three years ago that her mother characterized as successful. It inspired Anadith to want to become a doctor.
Her death came a week after a 17-year-old Honduran boy, Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, died in U.S. Health and Human Services Department custody. He was traveling alone.
A rush to the border before pandemic-related asylum limits known as Title 42 expired brought extraordinary pressure. The Border Patrol took an average of 10,100 people a into custody a day over four days last week, compared to a daily average of 5,200 in March.
The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, one day before pandemic asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing. By Sunday, the custody count dropped 23% to 22,259, still historically high.
Custody capacity is about 17,000, according to a government document last year, and the administration has been adding temporary giant tents like one in San Diego that opened in January with room for about 500 people.
On Sunday, the average time in custody was 77 hours.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Temperatures were expected to soar on Wednesday in a region of eastern Kentucky where people are shoveling out from the wreckage of massive flooding, many in places without electricity.
The rising heat and humidity meant heat index values near 100 by midday, a steam bath that will continue through Thursday evening, the National Weather Service said.
This week's weather added to the hardships in Knott County, where Kirsten Gomez's husband and cousin were gutting their doublewide trailer of drywall, flooring and cabinets ruined by floodwaters from nearby Troublesome Creek.
“It is so miserable. The humidity is so high, it takes your breath,” Gomez said Tuesday. “Your clothes stick to you. Your hair sticks to you. This mud is caked on you. ... But I’m just blessed that we don’t have rain anymore.”
Cooling centers were opened after forecasters warned of the risk of heat-related illnesses in an advisory issued for the flood-ravaged area.
The death toll stood at 37, and while more than 1,300 people have been rescued, crews were still trying to reach some people who remain cut off by floods or mudslides. About 5,000 customers still lacked electricity in eastern Kentucky as of Wednesday morning, according to Poweroutages.com. Emergency shelters housed hundreds of residents who had homes destroyed or damaged.
The historic flooding also hit areas just across the state line in Virginia and West Virginia, where some people also remained without power.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to counties flooded after 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours last week in the Appalachian mountain region.
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Viral social media posts claim construction workers are dying from fentanyl-laced water bottles being given to them by members of the public. This has also spurred safety warnings from companies about the incidents.
“We want to bring your attention to a matter of utmost importance. Recently, we have received distressing reports of several incidents in different regions, such as California and Chicago, where unsuspecting workers have been offered free water bottles by the public, only to find out later that these bottles were laced with fentanyl. Tragically, we have lost at least one union member due to this dangerous situation,” a labor union based out of Boston posted on Facebook. This post directed people to call the Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association directly for more information.
An article posted by a radio station out of central New York said the same thing happened to a flagging company in Spokane, Washington. Safety bulletins appearing to come from companies claim similar incidents have happened in cities including San Diego and Chicago.
A VERIFY viewer reached out to ask if these claims were real, because he heard about them in his morning safety meeting while at work.
THE QUESTION
Are construction workers overdosing or dying from bottles of water laced with fentanyl?
THE SOURCES
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
- Spokane Police Department spokesperson
- City of Spokane spokesperson
- NPL Construction Company
- A spokesperson with the Chicago Police Department
- Anthony Wagner, a spokesperson with San Diego Gas & Electric
- San Diego Police Department spokesperson
- A spokesperson with the Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association
THE ANSWER
No, there is no evidence that workers are overdosing, dying from or even being given fentanyl-laced drinks.
WHAT WE FOUND
Fentanyl is a dangerous and highly addictive synthetic opiate. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), more than 150 people die every day from fentanyl overdoses in the U.S.
VERIFY found no evidence workers have overdosed or died after being exposed to fentanyl-laced water bottles.
VERIFY looked through local news reports, reached out to police departments and city officials, and reached out to several companies referenced by name in the social media posts.
Phoenix-based NPL Construction Company – referred to as NPL Pipeline Company in one safety alert about the alleged overdoses – posted on social media that the information about fentanyl claims is “entirely false.” The incident involving NPL allegedly occurred in a Chicago suburb, the post said.
“We are aware of a false report stating NPL employees were harmed after drinking drug-laced water offered to them by a member of the public. This information is entirely false. No NPL employees have been involved in any incident of this nature anywhere throughout the country. We are unsure where this story originated but can confirm no NPL employees have been harmed in this way,” the statement said.
In an email to VERIFY, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said they have no information about the incident and referred VERIFY to NPL’s statement debunking the claims.
In Spokane, where one of the viral claims alleges an overdose took place, the police department told VERIFY there have been no official reports.
“No incidents have been reported or verified,” a Spokane Police Department spokesperson told VERIFY in an email. An official with the City of Spokane also confirmed they are “not aware of any reports of tainted water being dispensed.”
In San Diego, power company San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) had posted alerts about workers with a local contractor being given the laced water. When VERIFY reached out to them for comment, they told us they had retracted the warning, saying "after further evaluation, we discovered the source of this incident information could not be confirmed. All external social media sources that posted this information have been taken down.”
A spokesperson with the San Diego Police Department also confirmed they have not had any reports of water bottle poisoning incidents happening in San Diego.
VERIFY checked with the Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association (OPCMIA), who was mentioned on social media by a Boston labor union about these claims. A spokesperson with OPCMIA said they were waiting for more information about the incident and didn’t provide further comment.
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BEIRUT — Youssef Safouri wandered through a noisy jam-packed Beirut Christmas market, where the hundreds of families who flocked to stands selling gifts by Lebanese designers belied a severe economic crisis that has sapped the savings of millions.
From his new home in Canada, Safouri, an accountant, sends part of his monthly salary back to his family to help cover skyrocketing monthly expenses, from private generator and water bills to surging food prices.
“Everyone is having a hard time getting their money out of the bank and trying to cover their basic expense at home,” he said. “I was forced to leave the country and my family to make money abroad and send it back.”
Lebanon will receive roughly $6.8 billion in remittances this year, up from almost $6.4 billion in 2021, as they continue to be a core component of the country’s shrinking and battered economy. The World Bank estimates they are worth almost 38% of the country’s gross domestic product.
Apart from the remittances sent from abroad, many of the diaspora return during the holiday season, bringing with them much-needed cash dollars.
Caretaker Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said last month that the crisis-hit country is expecting some 700,000 people to come into the country during the holiday season, most of them of Lebanese descent. He estimated they will bring some $1.5 billion between December and mid-January.
Beirut international airport is expected to receive 6.1 million tourists this year, about 400,000 more than in 2021, with daily arrivals doubling during the holiday season.
Since Lebanon’s financial meltdown over three years ago, banks have essentially locked out depositors from their own savings as they suffered losses worth tens of billions of dollars. The country’s mismanaged economy for decades has been mired in corruption and wasteful spending.
Before its fragile economy collapsed, Lebanon had a sizable middle class that was able to spend money to celebrate Christmas and other holidays with family.
The crisis has forced a drastic lifestyle change for most of the country, unable to afford skyrocketing costs for Christmas gifts and celebrations.
Farah Jurdi, a mother of two, says her husband’s job in Saudi Arabia over the past decade has been crucial for her to avoid having to compromise on her children’s quality of life. With the economic crisis, it has become even more critical, as he helps his parents and his siblings with their expenses as well.
“I always worry that he would have to come back to Lebanon one day, because life will not be the same,” she said.
Remittances have become necessary not only for celebrating the holidays but for many families in Lebanon they cover the most basic household expenses, said Mohamad Faour, assistant professor of Finance at the American University of Beirut.
“Prices are steadily reverting back to pre-crisis levels, but salary increases are nowhere near these levels,” he said. “Someone earning a salary of 5 million Lebanese pounds (about $113) cannot afford a generator bill unless some relative sends them U.S. dollars.”
At the Christmas market, which was filled with hundreds of families strolling past the maze of decorated stands and enjoying live music, most refused to talk about the remittances they receive from relatives abroad and the lifestyle changes they’ve had to endure.
But the planner behind the event admitted they have had to go the extra mile to make their Christmas market more affordable this year. They have included more affordable pop-up gift shops and cut entry fees for children.
“People who live in Lebanon need a breath of fresh air or a change of scenery,” organizer Cynthia Wardi said.
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MONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (NewsNation) — Bodycam footage shows the arrest of Chad Doerman, who is accused of shooting his three boys “execution-style” in front of their mother, right before Father’s Day.
Prosecutors said Doerman, 32, admitted to planning the killings for months. Doerman, who is also accused of wounding the boys’ mother at the family’s home, has been charged with aggravated murder, authorities said. The victims’ names have not been released.
David Gast, Clermont County’s chief prosecutor of municipal court, said during Doerman’s arraignment Friday that one of the boys tried to flee into a nearby field but Doerman “hunted” his son down and brought him back to their home before killing him.
Gast called the killings the worst crime he’d ever seen.
Doerman’s bail has been set at $20 million. Court records did not indicate whether he was represented by a lawyer at his arraignment. He is currently being held in Clermont County Jail.
Officials have not released a motive behind the shootings.
The murder of the three boys has shaken the community of Monroe Township, Ohio. There were at least two candlelight vigils over the weekend to remember their lives, and there’s another one planned for next week to also thank the police who showed up on the scene.
Deputies responded to the home in Monroe Township shortly before 4:30 p.m. on June 15 after receiving a pair of 911 calls, one apparently from the mother who was screaming that “her babies had been shot” and another from a passing motorist who said a girl was running down the street saying her father was killing people, a news release from the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office said.
The deputies found three boys, ages 3, 4, and 7, outside the home with gunshot wounds and tried to save their lives, but the children died at the scene.
The sheriff’s office said the 34-year-old mother, who was not identified, was outside the home and had suffered a gunshot to the hand while trying to shield her sons from their father. She was transported to a hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.
Doerman was found sitting on a stoop at the home and was taken into custody without incident.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur: Live Stream, TV Channel, How to Watch | Wimbledon
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:27 AM EDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
The title bout is set, as Marketa Vondrousova and Ons Jabeur will go head to head in the finals of Wimbledon at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground on July 15.
You can watch on ESPN as Vondrousova tries to hold off Jabeur.
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Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur Date and TV Info
- Round: Final
- Date: Saturday, July 15
- TV Channel: ESPN (Watch on Fubo)
- Court Surface: Grass
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Vondrousova vs. Jabeur Matchup Info
- Vondrousova took down Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals on Thursday.
- In the Bett1open, Vondrousova's last tournament, she was defeated in the quarterfinals 6-7, 1-6 by No. 8-ranked Maria Sakkari on June 24.
- Jabeur advanced past Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals on Thursday.
- In the round of 16 of her previous tournament (Viking International Eastbourne) on June 28, Jabeur was beaten by No. 67-ranked Camila Giorgi 3-6, 2-6.
- Vondrousova and Jabeur are at a deadlock, with the two each winning two of four head-to-head matches. The pair's last matchup on March 13, 2023 ended with Vondrousova earning the 7-6, 6-4 win.
- Vondrousova and Jabeur have matched up evenly when going head-to-head, as they've each taken five of 10 sets.
- Vondrousova and Jabeur have gone head to head in 98 games, and it's been Vondrousova who has emerged victorious, claiming 50 of them. Jabeur has won 48 games.
Vondrousova vs. Jabeur Odds and Probabilities
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CRANE COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Texas Rangers are investigating after an officer involved shooting left one person dead Sunday.
According to Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis, around 9:55 a.m. on July 9, the Crane County Sheriff’s Office called for assistance after a wanted man barricaded himself inside a home in the 3200 block of Haley Street. Around 4:15 p.m., the man, identified as 44-year-old Salvador Manzo Jr., was struck by gunfire from an ECSO deputy after Manzo reportedly grabbed a gun. Manzo was taken to Medical Center Hospital where he later died.
Griffis said the deputy has been placed on administrative leave, as is policy with all officer involved shootings, pending the outcome of the investigation.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- North America's fastest-growing optimization solution, Kameleoon, offers the most complete native, two-way integration with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) available for A/B testing today.
"There is much speculation as to how existing third-party optimization solutions will integrate with GA4, which is set to replace Universal Analytics this year," said Fred De Todaro, Chief Product Officer at Kameleoon. "As early as 2021, Kameleoon has offered a native, two-way integration with GA4 for our customers who made the switch early on. Since then, our team has built the most advanced integration with GA4 leveraging proprietary features that no other third-party solution can provide."
The powerful integration makes it possible for teams to pull in existing segments in GA4 for experiments and personalizations with minimal developer support.
The two-way nature of the integration also allows users to send campaign exposure events back to GA4 for advanced closed-loop reporting.
Kameleoon's integration has many advantages that no other third-party solution can match, including:
- Send campaign goals, including number of pages viewed, and click and scroll tracking to GA4. With Kameleoon's no-code graphic editor, users can create new goals for tracking, without requiring developers to configure the events in GA4.
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BERLIN (AP) — A prominent environmental group said Tuesday that it is suing the German government over the failure to meet its own climate targets.
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Friends of the Earth Germany, also known as BUND, said in its submission to the Berlin-Brandenburg administrative court that the government should be required to put forward an emergency program for the transport and building sectors.
Both sectors have fallen behind on their legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The group, which has more than 450,000 members, argues that time is running out for Germany to meet its national climate goals for 2030 and achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2045.
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A report published earlier this month by the think tank Agora Energiewende concluded that Germany's emissions of planet-heating gas last year were likely higher than the target set for 2020.
The government has put together an ambitious program to expand the use of renewable energy in the coming years.
But differences between two members of the coalition government — the environmentalist Greens and the libertarian Free Democratic Party — have stalled efforts to drastically cut fossil fuel use in the transport sector.
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LONDON (AP) — A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to restore her citizenship.
Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 years old when she and two other girls from London joined the extremist group in February 2015. Authorities withdrew her British citizenship on national security grounds soon after she surfaced in a Syrian refugee camp in 2019.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a tribunal which hears challenges to decisions to remove someone’s British citizenship on national security grounds, ruled there was a “credible suspicion” that Begum was trafficked to Syria for “sexual exploitation.” It said there also were “arguable breaches of duty” by state bodies in allowing her to travel to the country.
But Judge Robert Jay said that evidence was “insufficient” for Begum to win the argument that the deprivation of her British citizenship failed to respect her human rights. Given that she remains in Syria, UK authorities are not compelled to facilitate her return, the judge said.
“Reasonable people will differ as to the threat she posed in February 2019 to the national security of the United Kingdom, and as to how that threat should be balanced against all countervailing considerations,’’ Jay said in delivering the decision of the tribunal. “However, under our constitutional settlement, these sensitive issues are for the secretary of state to evaluate and not for the commission.”
Begum had challenged the action of Sajid Javid, the U.K.’s home secretary at the time, arguing that it left her stateless and that she should have been treated as a child trafficking victim, not a security risk.
The British government claimed she could seek a Bangladeshi passport based on family ties. But Begum’s family argued that she was from the U.K. and never held a Bangladeshi passport.
Javid expressed satisfaction with the decision.
“This is a complex case, but home secretaries should have the power to prevent anyone entering our country who is assessed to pose a threat to it,” he said.
The immigration tribunal held a hearing in November on Begum’s appeal. The case threw into sharp relief the larger question of how Western societies deal with people who joined IS but want to go back to their home countries. Many remain in camps in northeast Syria.
Begum fled east London with two friends to marry IS fighters in Syria at a time when the group’s online recruitment program lured many impressionable young people to its self-proclaimed caliphate.
Begum married a Dutch man fighting for IS and had three children, all of whom died.
But her apparent lack of remorse in interviews soon after she surfaced in the refugee camp triggered criticism in Britain. Her tone has changed since then as she reflected on her actions and fought to return home.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when two passenger buses collided with a truck in Mali, the government said.
The accident occurred Tuesday morning between Fana and Konobougou cities in the country’s south, said Mama Djenepo, the secretary general for Mali’s ministry of transport.
“The accident involved two passenger coaches bound for Mopti, which collided with a 10-ton truck carrying livestock traveling in the opposite direction,” he said, adding that the cause is believed to be speeding by tired drivers.
While traffic accidents are common in Mali, especially during the rainy season, this is the worst in the West African nation this year, the government said. More than 680 people were killed last year in road accidents and some 8,200 were injured.
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LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida teenager was arrested on a felony child abuse charge Friday after she allegedly recorded herself putting a marijuana cigarette in a child’s mouth, according to deputies.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the teenager, of Largo, was babysitting a 1 year-old belonging to a 16 year-old friend of hers.
Deputies said when they responded to a report of child abuse at the teen’s home in unincorporated Largo, the 17 year-old admitted to smoking marijuana around the child but denied giving the child the cigarette.
However, according to the sheriff’s office, detectives were able to find a video that the babysitter recorded showing her putting the cigarette in the 1 year-old’s mouth.
“The victim then inhales while the lit marijuana cigarette is in their mouth, and the embers begin to glow brighter,” a release from the sheriff’s office states. “[The teen] then takes the marijuana cigarette out of the mouth of the one-year-old victim and places it into her own mouth, and inhales, causing the embers to glow brighter.”
Detectives said when they interviewed the teenager again Friday, she admitted to her actions but did not explain why she put the marijuana cigarette in the child’s mouth.
The suspect was taken to the Pinellas Juvenile Assessment Center after being arrested. Due to her age, Nexstar’s WFLA will not be sharing her name.
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Women's nutritional needs change as we age. For instance, we need more iron from roughly 15 to 49 to offset what we lose during menstruation. That changes when we become postmenopausal, and our bodies don't need the same amount of iron to stay healthy.
Aging also affects how our bodies absorb nutrients from our food, like in the case of vitamin B12. Even if you haven't needed a supplement up until now, you might find that you now may benefit from one. The best multivitamins for women over 50 are formulated to specifically address the nutritional needs and deficiencies of women.
While you can combat most possible nutrient deficiencies with a well-balanced diet, it can be difficult to manage consistently. Sometimes, you need a little help. The best multivitamins for women over 50 can help ensure your body gets the nutrients it needs to stay healthy.
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Thorne Women's Multi 50 Plus is best overall multivitamin for women over 50 because of its robust nutritional value. It's one of the most comprehensive women's multivitamins available. Thorne supplements include key nutrients like folate, biotin, calcium, iodine, boron, vitamin A, C, D, E and various B vitamins.
With Thorne, you're getting a hefty lineup of vitamins and nutrients. The magnesium and calcium included are in an extremely absorbable chelated form, meaning they are bound to an amino acid and don't require stomach acid to digest -- so you get the most out of what you're taking. Thorne supplements also contain lutein, which is an antioxidant that is critical for eye and brain function. Studies show that higher lutein levels result in better performance on cognitive tasks.
Price: $46 for 180 capsules
Dosage: 6 capsules per day
Thorne best features:
- Facilities that produce Thorne multivitamins are third-party certified for quality and NSF Certified for Sport.
- Thorne includes numerous vitamins and nutrients that traditional vitamin options don't have, like lutein.
Things to consider:
- Thorne multivitamins are more expensive than other options on the list at $46 for 180 capsules. With a serving size of six capsules a day, that's only a 30-day supply.
- Six vitamins a day are a lot to manage.
Those looking for a gummy multivitamin instead of a tablet or pill should keep SmartyPants Masters Formula Women 50 Plus on their list. It's our pick for the best gummy multivitamin for women over 50. This multivitamin includes various nutrients like folate, vitamins A, C, D, B6 and B12. You also get lutein for eye health. It doesn't include iron to accommodate the needs of women over 50.
When it comes to the best gummy multivitamins for women over 50, we have to talk about sugar. With the delicious flavors comes the high sugar content. User reviews point to SmartyPants gummies tasting really good and not leaving any sort of aftertaste in your mouth. Still, SmartyPants multivitamins have a considerable amount of sugar at 6 grams per serving.
Price: $30 for 180 gummies
Dosage: 4 gummies per day
SmartyPants best features:
- SmartyPants multivitamins for women over 50 are made in CGMP-compliant facilities. These are third-party testing facilities that ensure purity. However, the name of these third-party organizations are not available.
- In addition to a solid nutritional profile, users say these gummy vitamins taste really good.
Things to consider:
- SmartyPants has a high sugar content that some people may want to avoid.
- Four gummies may be more than you want to manage each day.
If you're looking for a women's 50-plus multivitamin and certified vegan product, consider Ritual, a subscription-based vitamin brand.
Ritual Essential for Women focuses on your body's needs after menopause and includes nutrients like folate, magnesium, DHA, omega-3s and various B vitamins. I was happy to see boron on Ritual's ingredient list. Boron aids bone metabolism and health, which is crucial for women over 50 who are at risk of osteoporosis.
Note that Ritual is a great addition to an already healthy diet, but it isn't as comprehensive as other multivitamins for women over 50 options could be. The nutrients included in the multivitamin are synthesized compounds from nature. Vitamin D3 is made from lichen and the DHA included is derived from microalgae. The gel capsule and patented beadlet in oil design is claimed to have a delayed-release capsule that dissolves in the small intestine to help you better absorb nutrients.
Price: $35 for 60 capsules
Dosage: 2 capsules per day
Ritual best features:
- The manufacturing facilities that produce Ritual vitamins are National Sanitation Foundation-certified, ensuring that FDA quality standards are met. Ritual vitamins are also third-party tested by Eurofins and IEH laboratories and USP certified.
- The dosage is only two capsules daily, which is much more manageable than other women's multivitamins. Capsules have a natural mint flavoring to reduce nausea.
- Certified vegan product.
Things to consider:
- This women over 50 multivitamin is not the most comprehensive vitamin on the market. It's not best suited for people with significant deficiencies.
Owned by German pharma giant Bayer, One A Day is one of the most popular and affordable vitamin supplements. The best part is that you only have to take one tablet a day. With other women's multivitamin options on this list requiring five or more capsules a day, One A Day is a great choice for women over 50 who are too busy to manage multiple doses.
Note that the tablets are on the larger size; user reviews compare it to the width of a quarter. While it isn't what I would consider too big, it may be a problem for women who have trouble swallowing pills.
One A Day includes the essential nutrients for issues faced by women over 50, like bone and nerve health decline. You'll get a healthy dose of B vitamins, vitamin D, calcium and magnesium. It contains no artificial colors or flavors and is allergy-free.
Price: $17 for 200 tablets
Dosage: 1 tablet per day
One A Day best features:
- Only having to take one a day is helpful for women with busy schedules.
- One A Day women's multivitamins are ConsumerLab approved, which signals to me that what is listed on the bottle is what you actually get.
Things to consider:
- Even though you only have to take one, the tablet is pretty big, which can be difficult to swallow.
- While One A Day doesn't offer a lot of personalization or added perks (like the mint flavor of Ritual), One A Day is a dependable option that people know and trust.
Seeking Health Optimal Multivitamin offers women over 50 something that other vitamins on this list don't: a hefty dose of antioxidants. Antioxidants are more than just a buzzword. Antioxidants repair DNA and keep our cells healthy. This women's multivitamin contains carotenoid antioxidants and N-acetyl cysteine, aka NAC, which protect against cell damage.
While studies suggest that taking antioxidant supplements does not prevent some diseases or slow aging, others say that having additional antioxidants in the body give additional protection from the sun, reduces inflammation and improves skin appearance.
Seeking Health Optimal Multivitamin is an iron-free supplement, making it a good choice for women over 50.
Price: $55 for 240 capsules
Dosage: 8 capsules per day
Seeking Health best features:
- While it's not third-party tested, this women's over 50 multivitamin is made at facilities that meet CGMP requirements.
- The multivitamin comes in capsule form, though you can opt for a chewable tablet.
Things to consider:
- It's not the most affordable multivitamin for women over 50 at around $55 for a 240-count bottle. The serving size for this multivitamin is eight capsules a day, which means one bottle is a 30-day supply.
- If you have trouble keeping up with multivitamins, eight might be too much for you.
How we test multivitamins
Multivitamins aren't a one-size-fits-all industry. There is a ton of nuance that can't be ignored when shopping around. Based on a few key factors, I've pulled together a curated list of the best multivitamins for women over 50 available. I haven't tested these products in-house; the selections were made based on product research for certifications and vitamin and mineral ingredients.
Frequently asked questions
What do women over 50 need from their multivitamins?
We change as we age, and so does what our bodies need. For many people, they change in predictable patterns. For instance, premenopausal women need extra iron to make up for what's lost during menstruation. However, after menopause, a woman's iron needs decrease. Keeping up the same supplemental iron level after menopause can have side effects like stomach aches, nausea and vomiting. More severely, excess iron can lead to organ failure and death.
It's estimated that 50% of women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. However, don't add that calcium supplement to your cart just yet; not every woman over 50 is calcium-deficient. And having too much calcium from supplements in your body can have some serious side effects. Research shows that excess calcium can damage your heart and kidneys. Always consult your doctor before taking a supplement high in calcium.
The key is to make sure you only supplement the nutrients you need. You can get too much of a good thing, so you shouldn't overload yourself with any one nutrient. It's important to speak with your doctor about any vitamin deficiencies you may have. You may or may not need vitamin supplements at all.
How do I choose the best vitamin for women over 50?
Finding the best multivitamin for women over 50 can be tough, especially with a market that's flooded with really good options. My best advice is to choose a product that best fits your needs, even if it is not the best regarded option. Your specific health, budget and dietary concerns will help you decide which multivitamin is best suited for you.
Factors to keep in mind:
- Drug interactions: Some supplements, like antioxidants or vitamin E, can interact with existing medications you may be taking. For example, vitamin E can amplify the effects of blood thinners.
- Your budget: There is a quality multivitamin at every budget level. However, the ones with the most personalization or special additives -- like probiotics -- will cost more. Deciding how much you're willing to spend will help you narrow down your search.
- Dosage: If only all vitamins were one pill. That's not the reality of the vitamin market. Many of the best supplements require that you take five or more capsules a day. That is not ideal for some.
- Vitamin form: For those who have difficulty swallowing pills, you should consider the form your multivitamin comes in. Some tablets or capsules are larger than others and may impede your ability to consistently take them. Consider one of the best gummy vitamins for women over 50 instead.
- Your deficiencies: Vitamins are intended to fill in the gaps left by our diet. If you don't have any gaps, you don't need to take a vitamin supplement. Depending on your needs, some options will be better suited than others. If you're not sure what you need, talk to your doctor before taking any supplements.
Is a multivitamin worth taking?
Multivitamins and supplements are worthwhile to take if you need them. For many people, multivitamins aren't necessary because they get everything they need from their diet. However, some will not get what they need, whether because of age-related absorption issues, chronic illness or dietary restrictions, and multivitamins are necessary. If you're unsure if you're deficient in any nutrients, talk to your doctor.
Is it better to take a multivitamin or individual vitamins?
Think about multivitamins as a safety net for the key vitamins and minerals your body needs, but you might not be getting enough of. The typical multivitamin, like One A Day or Nature Made, doesn't have extremely high nutrient levels, meaning that most people can take them safely without worry. However, multivitamins can get expensive the more personalized or comprehensive they get, and if you don't need all the vitamins included, it can be an unnecessary cost.
Individual vitamins are best suited for people with few deficiencies and don't need all the extra ones a multivitamin includes. One isn't better or worse; it will depend on your needs and deficiencies.
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
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Judge considers stopping Phoenix ballot drop box watchers
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge in Arizona said he hopes to decide by Friday whether to order members of a group to stop monitoring outdoor ballot drop boxes in the Phoenix area in an effort that has sparked allegations of voter intimidation.
The groups Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and Voto Latino asked U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi during a Wednesday hearing to prevent members of Clean Elections USA from gathering within sight of drop boxes in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous, and from following voters and taking photos and videos of them and their cars.
The attorney for Clean Elections USA said that such a broad restraining order would be unconstitutional.
Liburdi said he hoped to issue a decision by Friday but could continue to weigh the matter into the weekend.
The League of Women Voters filed a similar suit Tuesday in federal court in Arizona, alleging that Clean Elections USA is intimidating voters.
That suit also alleges that the groups Lions of Liberty and the Yavapai County Preparedness Team, which are associated with the far-right anti-government group Oath Keepers, have undertaken their own effort to watch ballot boxes and film voters in Arizona’s Yavapai County.
Election deniers around the United States have embraced a film that has been discredited called “2000 Mules” that claims that people were paid to travel among drop boxes and stuff them with fraudulent ballots during the 2020 presidential vote.
There’s no evidence for the notion that a network of Democrat-associated ballot “mules” has conspired to collect and deliver ballots to drop boxes, either two year ago or in the upcoming midterm elections.
Amid the complaints from voters who say they have been harassed, Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone said this week his office has begun providing security around drop boxes. Sheriff’s deputies responded when two masked people carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests showed up at a drop box in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
The secretary of state this week said her office has received six cases of potential voter intimidation to the state attorney general and the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as a threatening email sent to the state elections director.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona said it is also keeping an eye on cases alleging voter intimidation and vowed to prosecute those who violate federal law.
Federal officials said local police officers would be the “front line in efforts to ensure that all qualified voters are able to exercise their right to vote free of intimidation or other election abuses.”
“We will vigorously safeguard all Arizonans’ rights to freely and lawfully cast their ballot during the election,” the office said Wednesday. “As the several election threat-related cases pending federal felony charges from alleged criminal activity arising out of our State show, acts which cross the line will not go unaddressed.”
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is calling on voters to report any intimidation immediately to police and file a complaint with his office.
“Regardless of intent, this type of misguided behavior is contrary to both the laws and values of our state,” said Brnovich, a Republican.
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Police continue to investigate shooting death of Elsa teen
The Elsa Police Department continues to investigate the shooting death of an Elsa teen.
The body of Gianni Ruiz was found last month in the parking lot of the Elsa Housing Authority after police responded to a report of shots fired in the area.
Elsa police Chief Robert McGinnis said investigators received the records of three phones — one of which belongs to the victims.
Information from the phone records will be used to put together a timeline that may help investigators, police said.
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RICHMOND, Ky. (AP)Michael Moreno’s 35 points led Eastern Kentucky over Boyce 140-79 on Saturday night.
Moreno poured in 11 3-pointers (on 22 attempts) for the Colonels (5-5). Leland Walker scored 21 points and added eight assists and three steals. Isaiah Cozart recorded 13 points and shot 6 of 8 from the field.
Brody Madeira finished with 18 points and five assists for the Bulldogs (0-2). Tyler Nauert added 15 points for Boyce. Davent’e Stone also recorded 10 points.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometers (435 miles) to take the animals to their new home.
Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in the country’s north to rescue them from drought, as the ravages of climate change replace poaching as the biggest threat to wildlife.
About 400 elephants, 2,000 impalas, 70 giraffes, 50 buffaloes, 50 wildebeest, 50 zebras, 50 elands, 10 lions and a pack of 10 wild dogs are among the animals being moved from Zimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy to three conservancies in the north — Sapi, Matusadonha and Chizarira — in one of southern Africa’s biggest live animal capture and translocation exercises.
“Project Rewild Zambezi,” as the operation is called, is moving the animals to an area in the Zambezi River valley to rebuild the wildlife populations there.
It's the first time in 60 years that Zimbabwe has embarked on such a mass internal movement of wildlife. Between 1958 and 1964, when the country was white-minority-ruled Rhodesia, more than 5,000 animals were moved in what was called “Operation Noah.” That operation rescued wildlife from the rising water caused by the construction of a massive hydro-electric dam on the Zambezi River that created one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, Lake Kariba.
This time it's the lack of water that has made it necessary to move wildlife as their habitat has become parched by prolonged drought, said Tinashe Farawo, spokesman for the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
The parks agency issued permits to allow the animals to be moved to avert “a disaster from happening,” said Farawo.
“We are doing this to relieve pressure. For years we have fought poaching and just as we are winning that war, climate change has emerged as the biggest threat to our wildlife,” Farawo told The Associated Press.
“Many of our parks are becoming overpopulated and there is little water or food. The animals end up destroying their own habitat, they become a danger unto themselves and they encroach neighboring human settlements for food resulting in incessant conflict,” he said.
One option would be culling to reduce the numbers of wildlife, but conservation groups protest that such killings are cruel. Zimbabwe last did culling in 1987, said Farawo.
The effects of climate change on wildlife is not isolated to Zimbabwe. Across Africa, national parks that are home to myriad wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes are increasingly threatened by below-average rainfall and new infrastructure projects. Authorities and experts say drought has seriously threatened species like rhinos, giraffes and antelope as it reduces the amount of food available.
For example, a recent study conducted in South Africa's Kruger National Park linked extreme weather events to the loss of plants and animals, unable to cope with the drastic conditions and lack of water due to longer dry spells and hotter temperatures.
The mass movement is supported by the Great Plains Foundation, a non-profit organization that works “to conserve and expand natural habitats in Africa through innovative conservation initiatives,” according to its website. The organization is working with the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, local experts, the University of Washington-Seattle’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science and Oxford University’s Department of Zoology, according to the website.
One of the new homes for the animals moved in Zimbabwe is Sapi Reserve. the privately-run 280,000-acre private concession is east of Mana Pools National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its splendid setting along the Zambezi River that forms the border between Zimbabwe with Zambia.
Sapi “is the perfect solution for many reasons,” Great Plains chief executive officer Dereck Joubert said on the foundation’s website.
“This reserve forms the middle-Zambezi biosphere, totaling 1.6 million acres," wrote Joubert. "From the 1950s until we took it over in 2017, decades of hunting had decimated wildlife populations in Sapi Reserve. We are rewilding and restoring the wild back to what it once was.”
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Alpha Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results
Published: Feb. 23, 2023 at 6:30 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
Posts net income of $220.7 million, or $13.37 per diluted share, for the quarter
Reports fourth quarter Adjusted EBITDA of $247.9 million
Returns roughly $517 million to shareholders through buybacks in 2022
Returns approximately $100 million to shareholders through dividends declared in 2022
Increases share buyback authorization to $1.2 billion from prior level of $1 billion
Increases quarterly dividend to $0.44 from $0.418 per share
BRISTOL, Tenn., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (NYSE: AMR), a leading U.S. supplier of metallurgical products for the steel industry, today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2022.
"2022 was an extremely successful year for our company," said Andy Eidson, Alpha's chief executive officer. "Even with the previously-announced fourth quarter issues that prevented us from finishing as strong as we would have liked, the year as a whole brought about record performance in Adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow as well as the successful elimination of our term loan debt. In 2022, we returned more than half a billion dollars of capital to our stockholders in the form of share repurchases and we declared another $100 million in dividends in 2022, the most recent of which we paid on January 3, 2023. Additionally, the Alpha board has approved an increase in the share repurchase authorization of $200 million to further demonstrate our commitment to our capital return program. We look forward to bringing this positive momentum into the rest of 2023."
Financial Performance
Alpha reported net income of $220.7 million, or $13.37 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter 2022. In the third quarter of 2022, the company had net income of $252.8 million, or $14.27 per diluted share.
For the fourth quarter, total Adjusted EBITDA was $247.9 million, compared to $296.2 million in the third quarter 2022.
Todd Munsey, chief financial officer, commented on the fourth quarter results: "As mentioned in our earnings pre-announcement, fourth quarter volumes were weaker than expected, largely due to challenging geology and transportation issues, both of which have continued to improve as we have worked through the first quarter of 2023."
Coal Revenues
Coal Sales Realization(1)
Fourth quarter net realized pricing for the Met segment was $186.29 per ton and net realization in the All Other category was $126.10.
The table below provides a breakdown of our Met segment coal sold in the fourth quarter by pricing mechanism.
Cost of Coal Sales
Alpha's fourth quarter Met segment cost of coal sales increased to an average of $112.97 per ton. Third quarter cost of coal sales for the Met segment was $104.86. Cost of coal sales for the All Other category increased to $80.76 per ton in the fourth quarter 2022 against an average cost of $67.48 per ton in the third quarter 2022. The higher costs in fourth quarter were attributable to operational challenges and approximately $2.00 per ton of discretionary incentive compensation to our employees.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Cash provided by operating activities in the fourth quarter decreased to $185.0 million as compared to $497.0 million in the third quarter 2022. Third quarter 2022 operating cash flow included an approximate $235 million reduction in accounts receivable as a result of coal indices softening from historical highs reached earlier in the year. In addition, the fourth quarter operating cash was reduced by a reclass to deposits of approximately $85 million related to the previously announced quarterly and special dividend. Capital expenditures for the fourth quarter 2022 were $61.0 million compared to $33.3 million for the third quarter of 2022.
As of December 31, 2022, the company had total liquidity of $441.1 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $301.9 million, short-term investments of $46.1 million, and $93.1 million of unused availability under the ABL. The future available capacity under the ABL is subject to inventory and accounts receivable collateral requirements and the maintenance of certain financial ratios. As of December 31, 2022, the company had no borrowings and $61.9 million in letters of credit outstanding under the ABL. Total long-term debt, including the current portion of long-term debt as of December 31, 2022, was $11 million.
Dividend Program
On February 21, 2023, Alpha's board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.44 per share, increased from the prior quarter's dividend of $0.418 per share, which will become payable on April 3, 2023 for holders of record as of March 15, 2023.
Any decision to pay future cash dividends will be made by the board and depend on Alpha's future earnings and financial condition and other relevant factors.
Share Repurchase Program
In 2022, Alpha's board of directors authorized a share repurchase program allowing for the expenditure of up to $1 billion for the repurchase of the company's common stock. On February 21, 2023, Alpha's board increased this authorization by $200 million, bringing the total authorization of the share repurchase program to $1.2 billion. As of January 31, 2023, the company has acquired approximately 3.8 million shares of common stock at a cost of approximately $560 million. The number of common stock shares outstanding as of January 31, 2023 was 15,326,644, not including the potentially dilutive effect of unexercised warrant shares or unvested equity awards.
The timing and amount of share repurchases will continue to be determined by the company's management based on its evaluation of market conditions, the trading price of the stock, applicable legal requirements, compliance with the provisions of the company's debt agreements, and other factors.
Operational and Performance Update
During the fourth quarter, in our continuing efforts to secure in-demand supplies and services, our subsidiary Maxxim Rebuild Co., LLC ("Maxxim") purchased certain assets of Industrial Plating and Machine, Inc., which manufactures essential mining equipment components, including gear cases. In addition, in January 2023, Maxxim completed a series of transactions to acquire a number of coal trucks and related equipment and facilities.
As of February 14, 2023, Alpha has committed and priced approximately 38% of its metallurgical coal within the Met segment at an average price of $195.89 per ton and 52% of thermal coal in the Met segment at an average expected price of $119.79 per ton. In the All Other category the company is 97% committed and priced at an average price of $94.08 per ton.
Additionally, the board of directors has scheduled the company's annual meeting of stockholders for May 3, 2023.
Conference Call
The company plans to hold a conference call regarding its fourth quarter and full year 2022 results on February 23, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The conference call will be available live on the investor section of the company's website at https://investors.alphametresources.com/investors. Analysts who would like to participate in the conference call should dial 877-407-0832 (domestic toll-free) or 201-689-8433 (international) approximately 15 minutes prior to start time.
About Alpha Metallurgical Resources
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE: AMR) is a Tennessee-based mining company with operations across Virginia and West Virginia. With customers across the globe, high-quality reserves and significant port capacity, Alpha reliably supplies metallurgical products to the steel industry. For more information, visit www.AlphaMetResources.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Alpha's expectations and beliefs concerning future events and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. These factors are difficult to predict accurately and may be beyond Alpha's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release or elsewhere speak only as of the date made. New uncertainties and risks arise from time to time, and it is impossible for Alpha to predict these events or how they may affect Alpha. Except as required by law, Alpha has no duty to, and does not intend to, update or revise the forward-looking statements in this news release or elsewhere after the date this release is issued. In light of these risks and uncertainties, investors should keep in mind that results, events or developments discussed in any forward-looking statement made in this news release may not occur.
The discussion below contains "non-GAAP financial measures." These are financial measures that either exclude or include amounts that are not excluded or included in the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("U.S. GAAP" or "GAAP"). Specifically, we make use of the non-GAAP financial measures "Adjusted EBITDA," "non-GAAP coal revenues," "non-GAAP cost of coal sales," "non-GAAP coal margin," and "Adjusted cost of produced coal sold." We use Adjusted EBITDA to measure the operating performance of our segments and allocate resources to the segments. Adjusted EBITDA does not purport to be an alternative to net income (loss) as a measure of operating performance or any other measure of operating results or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. We use non-GAAP coal revenues to present coal revenues generated, excluding freight and handling fulfillment revenues. Non-GAAP coal sales realization per ton for our operations is calculated as non-GAAP coal revenues divided by tons sold. We use non-GAAP cost of coal sales to adjust cost of coal sales to remove freight and handling costs, depreciation, depletion and amortization - production (excluding the depreciation, depletion and amortization related to selling, general and administrative functions), accretion on asset retirement obligations, amortization of acquired intangibles, net, and idled and closed mine costs. Non-GAAP cost of coal sales per ton for our operations is calculated as non-GAAP cost of coal sales divided by tons sold. Non-GAAP coal margin per ton for our coal operations is calculated as non-GAAP coal sales realization per ton for our coal operations less non-GAAP cost of coal sales per ton for our coal operations. We also use Adjusted cost of produced coal sold to distinguish the cost of captive produced coal from the effects of purchased coal. The presentation of these measures should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.
Management uses non-GAAP financial measures to supplement GAAP results to provide a more complete understanding of the factors and trends affecting the business than GAAP results alone. The definition of these non-GAAP measures may be changed periodically by management to adjust for significant items important to an understanding of operating trends and to adjust for items that may not reflect the trend of future results by excluding transactions that are not indicative of our core operating performance. Furthermore, analogous measures are used by industry analysts to evaluate the Company's operating performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the presentations of these measures may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies and can differ significantly from company to company depending on long-term strategic decisions regarding capital structure, the tax jurisdictions in which companies operate, and capital investments.
Included below are reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the Consolidated Balance Sheets that sum to the total of the same such amounts shown in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
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SHENZHEN, China, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jayud Global Logistics Limited (Nasdaq: JYD) (the "Company" or "Jayud"), one of the leading Shenzhen-based end-to-end supply chain solution providers in China, today announced the closing of its initial public offering (the "Offering") of 1,250,000 Class A ordinary shares at a public offering price of US$4 per Class A ordinary share. The Class A ordinary shares began trading on April 21, 2023 under the ticker symbol "JYD."
The Company received the gross proceeds of US$5 million from the Offering. In addition, the Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 187,500 Class A ordinary shares at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts.
Proceeds from the Offering will be used for supplementing the Company's operating cash flow and general corporate use; leasing or purchasing warehouses that have strategic importance to the Company's business operation; adding new chartered services in key trade lines in the future; registration and operation of the Company's overseas business entities, branches and offices; and potential mergers and acquisitions in the future.
The Benchmark Company, LLC acted as the sole bookrunning manager for the Offering.
A registration statement on Form F-1, as amended, relating to the Offering was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") (File Number: 333-269871) and was declared effective by the SEC. A final prospectus related to the Offering was filed on April 21, 2023. The Offering was made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the prospectus relating to the Offering may be obtained from The Benchmark Company, LLC, 150 East 58th Street, 17th floor, New York, NY 10155, by email at prospectus@benchmarkcompany.com, or by calling +1 (212)312-6700. In addition, copies of the prospectus relating to the Offering may be obtained via the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company's securities, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any of the Company's securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
About Jayud Global Logistics Limited
Jayud Global Logistics Limited is one of the leading Shenzhen-based end-to-end supply chain solution providers in China, with a focus on cross-border logistics services. Headquartered in Shenzhen, the Company benefits from the unique geographical advantages of providing high degree of support for ocean, air and overland logistics. The Company has established a global operation nexus featuring logistic facilities throughout major transportation hubs in China and globally, with footprints in 12 provinces in Mainland China and 16 countries across 6 continents. Jayud offers a comprehensive range of cross-border supply chain solution services, including freight forwarding services supply chain management, and other value-added services. With its strong service capabilities and research and development capabilities in proprietary IT systems, the Company provides customized and efficient logistics solutions and develops long-standing customer relationships. For more information, please visit the Company's website: https://ir.jayud.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on the Company's current expectations and projections about future events that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "is/are likely to," "potential," "continue" or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company's registration statement and other filings with the SEC.
For more information, please contact:
Jayud Global Logistics Limited
Investor Relations Department
Email: ir@jayud.com
Ascent Investors Relations LLC
Tina Xiao
Phone: +1 917 609-0333
Email: tina.xiao@ascent-ir.com
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Danville Schlarman earned a convincing 10-2 win over Farmer City Blue Ridge in an Illinois high school baseball matchup.
In recent action on May 3, Farmer City Blue Ridge faced off against Cerro Gordo-Bement Coop and Danville Schlarman took on Watseka on May 5 at Watseka High School.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Monday signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, including hormonal treatments and some surgeries.
The bill, which will go into effect on July 1, says that any health care provider in the state who violates the ban risks having their medical license revoked and could face civil action.
“South Dakota’s kids are our future. With this legislation, we are protecting kids from harmful, permanent medical procedures,” Noem said in a statement on Monday. “I will always stand up for the next generation of South Dakotans.”
The bill reads, “A healthcare professional may not, for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of, or to validate a minor’s perception of, the minor’s sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex, knowingly.”
H.B. 1080 bans health care providers from prescribing and administering drugs that can delay puberty and bans them from prescribing sex hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone, to those under 18 years old. The ban also includes the prohibition of gender transition surgeries.
Leading medical organizations and child advocacy groups have denounced such measures, saying what’s healthiest for transgender children is to raise them in accordance with their gender identity. Conservatives, however, have increasingly seized on anti-transgender policies in recent years as a way to motivate their base.
The move by Noem, who is considered a possible 2024 presidential candidate, was swiftly condemned by LGBTQ advocacy groups.
“This ban denies transgender and nonbinary youth crucial support and care. Even in the face of professional guidance from every major medical and mental health association in the country that supports this type of care, politicians are intruding into the private medical decisions best left to transgender young people and their families,” said Casey Pick, director of law and policy for The Trevor Project.
South Dakota is the second state in recent weeks to restrict gender-affirming health care. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed a bill last month banning gender-affirming care for minors in the state and defended his decision on Sunday, saying that the bill is about “whether we might potentially be harming young people.”
Other states have passed similar bills banning gender-affirming care, but some states’ bans, including Alabama and Arkansas, have been blocked by court orders.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former NBA player Ben Gordon is facing assault charges for allegedly punching his son at a New York airport.
The alleged assault occurred Monday evening at LaGuardia Airport. According to the Queens district attorney’s office, witnesses including an American Airlines employee saw Gordon yell at his son and punch him several times in the face after the boy dropped a book on the ground.
Gordon later confirmed to police that it was his son. Gordon also allegedly assaulted officers as they attempted to handcuff him and put him in a patrol car.
At an arraignment Tuesday night, Gordon was charged with offenses including assault, resisting arrest, contempt and child endangerment. He was ordered to return to court Friday.
According to a criminal complaint, Gordon’s son has an order of protection against him dating from 2018 that forbids Gordon from “committing physical abuse, harassment, or the interference with personal liberty,” and prohibits him from removing the boy from Illinois.
A message was left Wednesday with an attorney representing Gordon.
The 39-year-old, who played collegiately at the University of Connecticut, was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2004 and played 11 seasons in the NBA with Chicago, Detroit, Charlotte and Orlando, most recently in the 2014-15 season with the Magic.
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Latvia president supports reinstating military conscription
By JARI TANNER
Associated Press
HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia’s president says he supports a plan to reinstate national conscription for men, and for women on a voluntary basis. The draft could be reintroduced next year after a hiatus of over 15 years. President Egils Levits, who is the supreme military commander of Latvia — a NATO member that borders Russia — said in an interview with Latvian broadcaster TV3 that he favors the idea floated by the Baltic country’s defense minister last week to create an 11-month mandatory military service for men aged 18-27 from the beginning of 2023.
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KENDALLVILLE — East Noble’s current school board president has a challenge this fall as the two candidates faces off for the Allen Township seat on the panel.
Incumbent Brent Durbin is being challenged by Samantha Porter, one of three contests on East Noble’s ballot this year as Wayne Township and the at-large seats are also contested.
A reminder to voters: While many people utilize the straight-party ticket voting option at the beginning of the electronic ballot, that options does not select school board candidates, which are non-partisan positions. Voters who choose to vote straight-ticket will still have to individually select their school board candidates of choice.
Durbin was first elected to the school board in 2014 and, with Barb Babcock retiring at the end of her term this year, is the board’s next most senior member as none of the other five members have served more than one term yet.
Durbin is a 1982 East Noble High School graduate with associates degrees and a bachelor’s degree in engineering and supervision and works as an applications engineer and project manager for J.O. Mory. He is a past Kendallville Redevelopment Commission and Kendallville Board of Zoning Appeals member, currently serves on the Avilla Redevelopment Commission and is secretary/treasurer of the Big Ten Football Officials Association.
Porter is a Prairie Heights High School alumna and graduated from four-county vocational school of cosmetology. She’s currently a licensed cosmetologist and salon owner and member of the Kendallville Chamber of Commerce.
Both candidates are members of Grace Christian Church in Kendallville.
The News Sun posed four questions to the candidates. Here’s how they answered:
Why should voters select you as their Wayne Township representative to the East Noble School Board?
Porter: With the knowledge I have gained from communicating daily with people in our area, I believe I have a good understanding of ways we can learn together to better our school. I have been working with the public, one-on-one, for the last 20 years. My biggest goal for myself is being a good listener. I love hearing positive goals, new ideas, and feedback from staff, parents and students. I would do my best to implement positive changes.
Durbin: Being a lifelong member of the East Noble community, I care about the needs and wants of the students and educators. I have been involved with area businesses and industries; I understand their needs to continue to provide gainful employment for our community. As much as we would like for our children to stay small and adorable forever, they will grow up to become adults. We need to ensure they are prepared for the future.
What are the top three issues you see facing East Noble over the next four years?
Durbin: We need to ensure that our students continue get the best education and training opportunities possible. With the constant changes in technology and the needs of business and industry, we need to continue to adjust to make sure our students are ready for whichever career path they choose.
We must continue to pay competitive salary compensation for your educators and support staff all while staying within our allotted funds.
Finally, we face the challenge of how school systems are funded. Changes at the state level continue to impact our corporation’s finances.
Porter: First issue: If you visit my website, I have “Transparency and Clarity” as my No. 1 goal. Communication is something I would like to focus on and simplify. I would like to work toward providing a universal ENSC application, that would provide information for all stakeholders.
Second issue: Teacher retention: Teachers are so important in the growth of our schools. I would like to promote getting back to the basics: smaller class sizes, recognizing teachers as important professionals and supporting competitive wages to both maintain and sustain the the most highly effective teachers, support Title I literacy and math. These are a few that fall in that category.
Last issue: I would like to create unification within our school to better all students. I want to focus on education and future careers for students, without it being clouded with politics. Students need a safe environment and climate to be successful.
East Noble has heard some complaints about its curriculum and instruction materials over the past year. What are your thoughts on the instruction given at East Noble and what, if anything, would you change?
Porter: My biggest goal for curriculum would be to push for basic education. We need to focus on test scores, and helping teachers to have the tools they need to reach goals. Although laptops are convenient, I don’t believe leaning on technology alone is always the best option either. I would like to focus on life skills that all children will need as adults. Learning a trade should be a focus for students as much as a college degree is.
Durbin: Curriculum and instructional materials are like everything else, they continue to change over time. I believe our educators strive to make each of our students successful by trying different teaching methods, providing individualized instruction and adjusting to their students’ needs. As board members, it is our job to support our educators. I think we as a corporation can do better at recognizing when instructional materials are not working and make changes in a timely manner.
The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be behind us, but how do you think East Noble navigated the pandemic and what, if anything, would you suggest in the event of a major resurgence or new communicable disease sweeping schools?
Durbin: Regulations are dictated to our school district by federal, state, and county officials. We were required to abide by state-mandated school closures and initiate online learning. East Noble School Corp. was well prepared with the technology. The transition was a bit easier for our students and staff than many school corporations throughout the country. In the fall of 2020, we were able to return to in-person learning by following the Federal and State guidelines. So much of what is done during these events is outside of the school corporation’s control. The pandemic quickly escalated. I believe we handled the pandemic as best we could under the circumstances.
Porter: I believe parents are responsible for their child’s safety and medical choices. The school can have recommendations for families, but ultimately it is up to parents to have the responsibility of making all health decisions for their children. Parents know their child best. On a positive note, with already supporting the implementation of one-to-one devices, EN was ahead of many other schools during the pandemic. EN quickly stepped up to the challenges with providing online instruction. I hope to be a leader who supports continued innovative, 21st-century educational endeavors to always puts our children first in any “crisis type situations.”
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8, with polls open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. For all of KPC Media’s election coverage, read online at kpcnews.com/election.
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The US economy shrunk .9% from April through June, according to federal projections released Thursday, marking the second consecutive quarter the US economy failed to grow.
By many definitions, if the projections released by the federal government hold true, the US could be starting a recession. Many economists consider two consecutive quarters where the economy does not grow as a recession.
The White House in a statement ahead of the release of Thursday’s figures pushed back on talks of a recession.
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House said. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.”
While the economy appears to be shrinking, the job market has remained strong.
The United States added 372,000 jobs in June, which held the national unemployment rate at 3.6%.
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MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon and welcome to the “Capehart” podcast and Washington Post Live. I am Jonathan Capehart, Associate Editor at The Washington Post.
Well, 23 years later, "Kindred" is on the screen. American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the two-time Pulitzer finalist and McArthur Genius Grant awardee has adapted Butler's 1979 novel into an eight-part FX series that I just finished last night on Hulu, and it was today nominated for two NAACP Image awards.
Joining me now is the person you see on the screen, writer and executive producer of "Kindred," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Branden, welcome to "Capehart" on Washington Post Live.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Hi. Thank you so much. I'm so honored to be here.
MR. CAPEHART: Well, thank you for being here. So, that quote I read from Octavia Butler, she was talking about a movie, but you turned "Kindred" into a television series. Why that medium and why was "Kindred" right for it?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, you know, I think "Kindred" is the one book of hers that's been under constant option since 1979 when it was published. And in all that time, they kept trying to make a movie. So, there's clearly something about the film form that wasn't quite doing the job of translating what the book was up to, ultimately.
And you know, when I first pitched this and began pitching it, television was sort of in the throes of what we now call its golden age and people were kind of realizing that there was something new happening in this form that has always been interested in sort of time and the experience of time, of being with people, of witnessing people grow over years and years as opposed to just kind of two hours with a big bowl of popcorn in front of you.
MR. CAPEHART: Right. And in fact, in an interview I think with Deadline, you said, guys, it's a TV show. And to your point making--you're able to show the transformation of these relationships and intricacies of these relationships when you spread it out over, oh, say, eight parts as opposed to a few hours.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: You know, Branden, one thing, instead of 1976, the story takes place in 2016, which was a polarizing year in America, as we all remember.
What other--
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Turns out, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: What other creative changes--yeah. What other creative changes did you make to "Kindred," and what was most important for you to keep?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: That's a great question. I think everything sort of was sprung from this choice to set it in 2016. So, you know, you kind of shift things about 40 years and you realize there is, like, very significant transformations in cultural mores, especially around kind of accepted behavior within relationships, gender expectations. What it is to be part of a creative class looks very different than it did in 1976, which was when the book was set.
And so, everything we kind of had to do was about dealing with this bigger choice, right, to try to make the story more immediate, to have it sort of sit in the audience's laps and not risk becoming somewhat of a museum piece. Because that was really an honor of Octavia's original impulse, which was to write this story for her audience, for her contemporary moment. We really tried to take that task on.
In terms of what we kept, you know, for me, I would argue there's maybe no bigger fan of this book than I am, especially at this point when I've read it, like, a trillion, bajillion times. But it was important that someone who knows the book could read--could follow what we were doing, right? I was interested in sort of expanding the universe or always kind of--you know, I don't love things that kind of--when they're adaptations, they kind of want to replace the book. I like things that sort of send me back to the book with different questions or different thoughts.
And we really wanted to think about how maybe we were doing a kind of remix or interpretation of the book that, if you knew the book really well, you would sort of--it would be another layer of meaning for you in some of the choices that we were making. And that meant keeping all of the--you know, these characters you grow super attached to in the book, maintaining these sort of central relationships between people that felt like the heart of the metaphor that she's ultimately working out about American life and the American psyche.
We kept the same location. I really loved that she set it in Maryland, which is--you know, I'm from D.C., so I'm from the DMV area, as opposed to the kind of portrait or slavery or the settings we're used to, which are sort of usually, like, Plantation Alley in Louisiana or the hills of Georgia. There is something about reminding folks that slavery started somewhere and it definitely started closer to the nation's capital than people want to remember.
MR. CAPEHART: Right, and when I think of Maryland, I think of probably the two of the most famous former enslaved people, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, you know--
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: Ran for their freedom from the Eastern Shore, from Maryland.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, yeah, you can't get more famous than that.
MR. CAPEHART: Right, right. And you know, I take your point on using the series to maybe drive people to the book, because I have not read "Kindred," but as I was watching the series, I was thinking, you know, I really should pick this up and read it.
Wait, so, Branden, as we saw in the intro video, Dana doesn't time travel willingly. We have a clip of her first trip back in time. Let's take a look and I'll talk to you about it on the other side.
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MR. CAPEHART: And that's in the first--that is in the first episode. And when I saw that, I was like, what the--what is happening, here? You find out why she screams like that later.
But talk about who that was, who Dana encounters in that very intense scene, and how does that set the tone for the journey?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah. Yeah, so, this--I mean, speaking of sort of interventions or alterations on the book, this character that she's encountering we realize is a woman named Olivia who turns out to be our hero Dana's biological mother who underwent a similar phenomenon around Dana's age, and in that version, it was interpreted as having disappeared from her family's life, or died, actually. So, there is this sort of story that emerges in our version that is almost a rescue mission, as Dana is sort of putting together why this very strange thing is happening to her, she's also kind of unraveling a bit of a family mystery or family story that sits in the backdrop of this.
MR. CAPEHART: In watching the--right, okay. This show was so--your series is so fantastic. We saw there Olivia, we see Dana, but there's another person who figures prominently in the story, and that's Kevin.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Oh, yes. Uh-huh.
MR. CAPEHART: And talk about the role of Kevin and the importance he plays in this journey.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, so, in the book, Kevin is Dana's husband, and this has been an interesting controversy amongst the kind of diehard "Kindred" fans who've encountered the series. But in our version, we really walk their marriage all the way back to a bit of meet-cute. So, he's a guy--a kind of cute guy Dana meets at the very beginning of our pilot, actually, and winds up going on this sort of, like, moony date with him. And they evolve into a very quick, what people have called, like, a situation-ship. And this happens to, unfortunately or fortunately, coincide with the worsening of this phenomenon. So, she winds up actually in the course of our first season bringing him back with her.
And when they're both kind of trapped in the past, there's almost a strange sort of upstairs/downstairs thing that emerges because--he's--if I haven't mentioned already, he's a Caucasian identified male. You know, he's having a very different experience of the past than she is. And it's actually that kind of disjunct in their experience and their inability to sort of see through each other's eyes or see the past through each other's eyes that actually creates a lot of interesting tension and really puts pressure on this love relationship that seemed to be underway between them.
You know, I would often say that this is like a love story that's trying very hard not to become a horror story. But he does provide an interesting sort of counterpoint to the ways in which, even now, we're so divided about our perceptions or point of views on this history. You know, it's so, our--we're geared as human beings to project into the experiences of those in the past, but people that it's easier for us to project into might be having a very different experience of that past than someone else.
MR. CAPEHART: And you know, the dynamic between Kevin and Dana is the thing that made me stay with it. I'm going to explain what I mean by that in a moment. But in watching the experiences through their respective--through their eyes, particularly Kevin's as a White man thrust back to a time when his authority was unquestioned, and then watching him as a 21st century White man looking at 18th century White men and what they were doing and able to get away with and just see how he grapples with that. But then, the compromises he makes for the larger mission that he and Dana are on.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's all about sort of how--it's easy for us to assume that we know--we know, the gift of hindsight, we know what we would do if we were back there but actually those things are impossible to do, because what you want to do is so far from the norm that it actually puts you in danger to think like yourself. And I think some of Kevin's best moments are when he's trying--you know, he acknowledges he has a kind of power and agency that Dana doesn't, and he has to figure out the best way to deploy it, right, without causing any damage.
You know, and it's odd, because my experience with watching the show, and I think this was the experience of the writers as we worked on it, like, it's--he really--because like you said, his positionality gives him such freedom that it's almost absurd and there's times it's almost comic with him. And that comedy is so much harder to access when you're talking about the people on the other side of the tracks, you know what I mean?
MR. CAPEHART: Right.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: And it does create an interesting kind of tonal game with the show that I think is one of the more interesting things about it, you know?
MR. CAPEHART: Well, yeah, because finding comedy in a situation where the person is thrust back to slavery times and the horrors that he has to witness, that they both witness with their own eyes.
Let's flip to Dana, because we watch her go from being this very 21st century, assertive woman--
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, I do what I want. Yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: --and then, as the series goes along, she--those edges are softened in a lot of ways, or am I misreading that?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: No, no. I mean, there's a great line in the book where--the book is written from Dana's point of view, so it's in first person. And she's startled again and again about how easy it is to become a slave. Like, she shows up just like in our series kind of headstrong, entitled, no one's going to tell her she's not going to get what she wants. And of course, it's death by a thousand of cuts.
The experience of enslavement is, yes, enforced by violence, but there's a slower, almost crueler violence that's just about a daily reminder that you're just a passenger in your own life, that your own existence is in service of someone who claims to own you. And I do think that there's an interesting, you know, her struggle to allow that to happen is the great struggle, I think, of the series for her. How does she kind of squirrel away these moments to feel like a human again. And, like, what does she do with the everyday kind of atrocities and traumas that she's subject to, big and small? Like, she doesn't have a therapist, right? She can't call up her best friend.
And at the same time, the things that make her, the way that she speaks, kind of her literacy, even, are things that make it impossible for her to fit in with who she would consider her "skin folks." You know, she's sort of having to assess her privileges--privileges she never even allowed herself to think about having just in order to survive this experience, I would say.
MR. CAPEHART: And I do want to come back to why I said I almost didn't stick with it, but we have to talk about the present-day people, the neighbors who we saw in that intro video. Talk about their role in this story, even though they don't time travel back.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Right. Well, you know, one of our--one of the stranger parts of the conceit is that time is moving at a different pace. It's sort of similar to that movie "Inception," if people know where, where she can be in the past for, like, days at a time, but when she comes back, only, like, minutes have passed in the present.
So, this thing keeps happening where she's having this experience of being trapped, she's there for weeks and weeks, but she keeps going back to the same day that she left, and her point of view on that day keeps changing. And things keep escalating in that time because no one seems to understand what she's going through.
And I think the biggest kind of holders of that point of view are her neighbors. So, Dana just moved into a brand-new house. She's a brand-new neighbor so they don't really know her. They're meeting her this night. And you know, the phrase "Karen" has been bandied about in discussing them. They are definitely, like, pre-Karen in terms of, like, a timeline, but they're people--we were very inspired, honestly, in the writer's room by this phenomenon of something called the Nextdoor app, which was this app that people realized was revealing the problematic or bigotry--the bigotedness of their neighbors they never thought about. Because it was suddenly about surveillance and anxiety and they were misreading people simply because of their race, even though they were their neighbors. And were just interested in having people who had eyes on this event who we, as viewers, know is a crazy, supernatural, like, extraordinary thing. But to these people, they think it's everything but. They think that what's happening next door seems like it can slot itself into any number kind of racialized and gender tropes, ultimately.
And you know, it's interesting to see over the course of the series if they are able to gain allies, right, if there's a world in which they can make Dana's literal home a living hell for her just by being unwelcoming, or unsympathetic to what's happening, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: And I have to say that, as terrifying as the scenes are when Dana and Kevin are there in 1800s slavery America and the horrors that they're watching--as hard as that was to watch, for me, even more uncomfortable to watch was the interaction between Dana and her next door neighbor. The house is in Los Angeles. So, she just moved there from Brooklyn.
So, here you have, in Los Angeles, these people who you would think maybe are West Coast liberal types, and yet they're all up in Dana's business--well, because they hear shrieking coming from next door, but still--okay--
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, the boundaries, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: Right, right. So, Branden, let's come back to the whole--why I almost didn't stick it out.
In 2017, Roxane Gaye wrote that, despite being, quote, "exhausted by slavery narrative"--stories like "Kindred,"--that stories like "Kindred" remind me "why there are still stories from that era to be told." Why must these stories be told? And I bring this question up because in a profile or an interview in Vulture last month, I can't remember--I messed up the notation, here. I can't remember if this comes from you or the writer, saying that people are sick of trauma porn. And it goes on to say, this makes it a tricky time to adapt "Kindred," and the first episode has the daunting task of drawing people in enough to keep watching.
And when Jonathan Majors was here, I told him, I love "Lovecraft Country," but I just can't finish it because it's just too hard. And the first two episodes of "Kindred" were really hard. I watched the first episode and said, nope, can't watch the second one; need some time. Watched the second, I was like, nope, all right, can't watch the third one; need some time. But I went back and watched the third one and finished it, because it was--it pulled me in and it was that good.
So, talk about why. Why should we stick with it? Why should we stick with not just "Kindred" but slave--narratives from the country's slaveholding era?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, it's such an interesting--I get asked this question a ton, obviously, and not just even in this television work. But you know, I think it's worth pointing out that this is only a question people ask Black creatives, right?
It's only Black creatives that get told there's a quota on the stories that you want to tell about your own history. And the truth is, you know, why "Kindred" was such a profound book for me, and still is, and why it's been an honor to make this show is that, like, it was the first book I ever finished that felt like it was actually talking directly to me, right?
You're in conversation with someone who has both Black and White ancestry who identifies as Black, and that ancestry is complicated and they're not, surprise, surprise, love relationships as far as they're passed down through the generations. And you know, storytelling at its finest is supposed to be the place that we all can gather and assess our values and really ask ourselves real questions about who we are and where we come from.
And I fear that when we talk about, you know, not telling stories about slavery, why are we not telling those stories? Like, is there a shame that we're running from about this material? You know, I can understand, like, not wanting to enter it every time and feel the effects of physical trauma, you know, witness one female character after another sexually assaulted. And that's definitely an aversion I have as a viewer. I think one of the big statements I made to my writers early on is that I wasn't interested--I wanted to--there's already enough work out there that talks about the absolute gory degradation of slavery, and that was a reality of that system.
But I think when we make work just about that element, we lose sight of the fact that this was a pervasive way of life for people. This is a thing that most people thought they were doing good within that system. They thought--you know, most slave owners thought they were good people. And things that were happening day-to-day, the things that--you know, like Octavia Butler said, you know, she wasn't really interested in runaway stories. She wanted stories of the people who stayed, right? She wanted stories of the people who stayed, right, she wanted stories about survival.
And that, to me, is about giving ourselves a fuller sense of what the lives of these people were like. You know, how do we empathize more purely with our ancestors, with the people who came before us, with our forefathers, with the people who've "left up" the legacy of this country, you know, warts and all.
So, for me, you have to tell the stories. I mean, there are people, literally, who want to remove this from the history books. So, you know there's something at stake in it, you know what I mean? Now, whether or not it's--you know, whether or not it's what you need to watch every day after work after your hard job, you want to sit down and kick back and enjoy some Jujubes and some of this, that's another conversation. But the stories are essential because the stories are us. You know, we can't cheat ourselves of our ourselves, in that way.
MR. CAPEHART: I'm glad you said what you said, because a lot of slave narratives are focused on the Harriet Tubmans, the Frederick Douglass, the folks who said, enough of this; I'm going.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Exceptional, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: Literally going to run for my freedom.
And sometimes, when we talk about--when we talk about those exceptions, we sort of implicitly say that the folks who stayed beyond didn't have the gumption, didn't have the drive for freedom, and it's a whole lot more complicated than that.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: That's right. That's right. You know, Harriet Tubman, legend that she is--I guess the idea that she helped free maybe a few hundred people was just profound. But if you look at that as a percentage of the number of people who were enslaved in the State of Maryland, there's other questions to ask yourself. You know, and I'm someone whose roots are from the South. My family is from Arkansas. Now, we weren't enslaved in Arkansas; that was part of the migration. But my family was not able to run to freedom, because freedom was a much farther run from Louisiana than from Maryland.
So, I think there's so much dimension to this--again, this pervasive system which was our economic backbone for, like, over a century. You know, there's more to explore, here. And I think one of my other refrains is that nothing has done more damage to our ability to understand history than film and television. You know, I think there's still room within television and film to break new ground in these stories, find new ways to feel and think about these people and this time period.
You know, the last thing I want is for people to be afraid of history, afraid to experience or imagine history in productive ways. But you're right, it does sort of weirdly cast a value judgment on the folks who didn't seem to have the access or even privilege someone like Frederick Douglass who, you know, was educated as a child, as a slave. That was part of how he could conceive of freedom as a thing to aspire to. That's very different from most folks.
MR. CAPEHART: Branden, we have an audience question. This question comes from George Fleming from Virginia, and he asks, "Are slave stories for Black or White people? As a Black man, I don't feel the need to watch them."
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: They're for everyone. I mean, they're stories of history.
I feel--you know, we should all feel the freedom to not watch what we don't want to watch. I mean, there's a million things I don't watch, you know, and maybe you just don't have time for it. But I would hate to feel that your not wanting to watch them has something to do with you being a Black man, because I'm also a Black man and I wanted to write this story and I wanted to receive this story.
So, I think it's a slightly--for me, like, whether or not these stories are valid or valuable actually has nothing to do with the racial makeup or racial identification of the viewer, right? It's the fact that it's a reflection of the reality of the history and the country and the world we live in.
MR. CAPEHART: You know, Ayana Jamieson, founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network--
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Yeah, excellent, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: --told The Post it's no accident that "Kindred" was the first of Butler's works to be greenlit for TV.
She said, quote, "The question is, why are White people interested in this? Black people have been interested in this for a long time?" What are your thoughts on that question?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: You know, I mean, I know Ayana. She's amazing. She's an amazing person.
I would say that--I guess I'd half-challenge that fact, in the sense that all Black art in all the forms, going back as far as we've been telling stories, painting pictures, has taken slavery as its subject at some point, at some crucial point, and that it's
often been the masterwork of that--I'm thinking of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison; I'm thinking of "Known World" by Edward P. Jones. You know, I think an interest in stories about slavery, depictions of slavery, representations of slavery is not a new phenomenon that I would attribute to anyone.
I would say, though, that if you look at--and again--and I'm sorry that I'm being a professor right now. That's what I am in my other life. You look at sort of cultural history, there are these cycles of interest that come and go, right? In the '70s, you're having an important moment about that; it's happened again in the '90s. It's almost like roughly every 20 years it seems to happen. And I would say that, when I originally began to go out with "Kindred"--which I've been trying to make this show literally for--I think we figured out, like, since 2010, like 12 years. And we--and FX came on board in 2016. At that time, I could not get--I could not pay someone to listen to me talk about "Kindred," much less make this TV show.
But I will say that something happened in the summer of 2020 when the project did sort of seem to get elevated very quickly, right? Because I think that we had to kind of move through the years between 2016 and I guess I would say up until now to sort of wake up to the fact, yet again, that we have some unresolved issues amongst us. And suddenly, there is a desire to talk very openly about the origins of what might be the social wounds we're all managing in this moment, right? So, I think there's a very easy answer, which is that, in 2016, a lot of folks felt like they were backsliding through time. And suddenly, here was this book and this television show that wanted to be based on the book that was giving people an opportunity to meditate, as one wants to do, right, in--with story on what was happening in the world around them.
So, maybe that would be my response, my gentle response.
MR. CAPEHART: And real quickly, because we are out of time but I can't have you here and not ask you this. I mean, "Kindred" was marketed as a miniseries, but it's actually a multi-season show. The show hasn't been renewed, yet. Has it? Will it?
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Not yet. Well, you know, the writers--ironically enough, I'm speaking to you from the writers' room. So, we have writers literally in the next room kind of banging out a second season. But we're still waiting for our season pickup. So, this is why I'm begging people to keep watching and keep talking about it, because that's how it works now in the world of streaming.
But we're hoping--we have whole plan--we have plans and plans for many seasons. But yes, the first season only covers about a third of the book, for the people--
MR. CAPEHART: Yes, because--yeah, FX, y'all better renew this because the cliffhanger at the end of season one, I'm like, "Kevin!"
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Brutal. It's brutal. Yeah, yeah.
MR. CAPEHART: Oh, my God. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, writer and executive producer of "Kindred," thank you so much for coming to Capehart on Washington Post Live.
MR. JACOBS-JENKINS: Thank you. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Have a great day.
MR. CAPEHART: Thanks. You, too.
And thank you for joining us. To check out what interviews we have coming up, head to WashingtonPostLive.com.
Once again, I'm Jonathan Capehart, Associate Editor at The Washington Post. Thanks for watching Capehart, on Washington Post Live.
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WOOD DALE, Ill. (AP) _ AAR Corp. (AIR) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $23.9 million.
The Wood Dale, Illinois-based company said it had profit of 66 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 72 cents per share.
The airplane maintenance company posted revenue of $476.1 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $78.7 million, or $2.17 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.82 billion.
AAR shares have risen 15% since the beginning of the year. The stock has increased 24% in the last 12 months.
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New funding will further fuel Taranis' growth, global expansion, and investment in technologies to make the agri-carbon market a reality for growers
WESTFIELD, Ind. and TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taranis, the leading AI-powered crop intelligence provider, announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Inven Capital, a European climate tech fund, with participation from new investors Seraphim Space Investment Trust ('SSIT') and Farglory Group, and strong backing from existing investors: Vertex Growth, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, La Maison Partners, Hitachi Ventures, K3 Ventures, UMC Capital, OurCrowd, Micron Ventures, iAngels Ventures, Presidio Ventures (Sumitomo), Cavallo Ventures (Wilbur Ellis), Finistere Ventures, and Eyal Gura. This latest round brings Taranis' total funding to $100 million.
"We see a tremendous need for crop intelligence at scale as growers deal with soaring costs and a constant need to increase productivity and yield,'' said Ofir Schlam, Taranis' President & Co-Founder. "Over 100 agricultural retailers and advisors are sharing our journey as innovation partners. They rely on Taranis as the critical source of insights into crop health and threats across millions of acres, to drive better outcomes for their growers."
Taranis' crop intelligence platform uniquely leverages leaf-level imagery and is powered by cutting-edge machine learning, trained by the industry's largest crop dataset containing over 200 million AI-data points. In the most recent growing season, Taranis delivered millions of actionable insights to ag advisors and growers, empowering decision making, simplifying crop management, and improving their bottom line.
Petra Sokolová, Investment Manager at Inven Capital, said: "Inven Capital is delighted to lead this important investment round. Agritech innovations are critical in advancing sustainable agriculture, making the most efficient use of our Earth's resources, and securing the future of farming. Technologies that facilitate crop intelligence and agricultural carbon credits such as Taranis' solutions have large-scale potential to improve sustainability and enduring prosperity. We are excited about the impact they will have in the local communities they serve, and to support them in their mission."
"Responsibly increasing global food supply is a critical challenge we face today. We have been following the Agritech market for quite some time as we see the value of using Earth observation data to optimize crop yields," said Andre Ronsoehr, Investment Principal at Seraphim Space Manager. "When we discovered Taranis, they immediately stood out to us, given their sub-millimeter imaging capabilities. These images unlock early detection of nutrient deficiencies and diseases which is the key to improving crop yields."
"I'm excited about our growth trajectory," said Bar Veinstein, Taranis' CEO. "The new funding will allow us to accelerate our 3-year plan, rapidly expand our operations, and deliver transformative technology to the market faster. We are delighted to welcome our new investors and continue to be grateful to our existing investors for their support."
Taranis is the world's leading AI-powered crop intelligence platform, 100% focused on helping ag advisors demonstrate value to their growers and build better relationships through full-service, leaf-level data capture that allows them to accelerate decision making, simplify management, and improve their bottom line. Since starting in 2015, Taranis has worked with the world's top agricultural retailers and crop protection companies, serving millions of acres for customers in the United States, Brazil, and Europe. Taranis has offices located in Westfield, Indiana, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Campinas, Brazil. To learn more visit www.taranis.ag.
Inven Capital is a European VC fund with EUR 430m fund size focused on later-stage climate tech investments in Europe & Israel, backed by CEZ Group and European Investment Bank (EIB). Inven Capital's strategy is to seek out investment opportunities in innovative and fast growing climate tech startups, with focus on CO2 footprint reduction. It primarily focuses on later-stage growth investment opportunities with a sound business model proven by realized revenues and long-term growth potential. The fund is a member of Invest Europe (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association), VentureESG and Cleantech for Europe. Since 2015, INVEN CAPITAL has invested in a total of fourteen companies (e.g. CyberX, Driivz, Sonnen, Sunfire, tado, Forto or Zolar), and made successful exits from three of them. For more information, visit www.invencapital.cz.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc is the world's first listed fund focused on SpaceTech. The Company seeks exposure predominantly to early and growth stage privately financed SpaceTech businesses that have the potential to dominate globally and that are category leaders with first mover advantages in areas such as climate, communications, mobility and cyber security.
The Company listed on the London Stock Exchange on 14 July 2021, following an oversubscribed IPO raising £150m of fresh capital. As 31 March 2022, the Company had net assets of £250m and exposure to 23 SpaceTech companies.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc is managed by Seraphim Space Manager LLP.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterdrop Inc. ("Waterdrop", the "Company" or "we") (NYSE: WDH), a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact, recently opened its first agency outlet in Wuhan. It will provide local residents with a range of specialized insurance services, such as insurance customization, security risk assessment, policy consulting, and entrusted policy management.
At the end of 2020, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission ("CBIRC") released relevant policies, encouraging insurance practitioners to open outlets in urban communities, counties, and towns.
Over the past few years, Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace has kept exploring the new path that combines online and offline presence. In March 2022, Waterdrop kicked off the recruitment of independent insurance agents nationwide, with the aim to cultivate professional elites who are proficient in digital operations.
Aiming at our independent insurance agents, Waterdrop earlier launched exclusive rules with industry-leading income allocation methods, thereby improving our agent retention rate and providing customers with more professional and qualified services.
Besides, by delving into local communities, Waterdrop's agency outlets in community learn more about customer needs, improve customers' recognition of insurance products, including the product features, the processes for insurance application and claims settlement, as well as the meanings of health declaration and other relevant clauses, thereby assuring customers in purchases.
Li Jia, Waterdrop Vice President in Insurance, said, "the Wuhan agency outlet is one of the first pilot outlets set up by Waterdrop; after the sustainable operation capability is proven, Waterdrop will expand the model into more cities and communities."
Shen Peng, our Founder, Chairman and CEO, commented, "Waterdrop will build a highly-specialized and well-trained professional team, so as to provide clients with customized insurance services through efficient online and deep-going offline operations. The agency outlets in community will enhance the stability and professionalism of insurance practioners, raise the awareness of compliant operation, improve the industry's overall image, and facilitate the high-quality development of the industry."
About Waterdrop Inc.
Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to billions through technology. For more information, please visit www.waterdrop-inc.com.
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DALLAS, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) (the "Company") and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have reached a Tentative Agreement for a new contract to cover the Company's more than 8,000 Customer Service Employees.
"Our goal from the beginning has been to reach an agreement that rewards our Customer Service Employees for their many contributions to Southwest®, while being mindful of needed efficiencies to keep our Company agile and competitive. We feel strongly this agreement does just that," said Adam Carlisle, Vice President Labor Relations at Southwest Airlines.
The Tentative Agreement covers Southwest's Customer Service Agents, Customer Representatives, and Source of Support Representatives, who are keenly focused on delivering world-class Hospitality and Customer Service. These valued Employees support Customers during their Southwest journey, whether that is taking a phone call to change a Customer's travel plans or assisting a Customer or Fellow Employee on the ground at one of the airports the Company serves.
The IAM will communicate to its membership the details of the Tentative Agreement and the ratification process.
ABOUT SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates one of the world's most admired and awarded airlines, offering its one-of-a-kind value and Hospitality at 121 airports across 11 countries. Having celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2021, Southwest took flight in 1971 to democratize the sky through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel and now carries more air travelers flying nonstop within the United States than any other airline1. Based in Dallas and famous for an Employee-first corporate Culture, Southwest maintains an unprecedented record of no involuntary furloughs or layoffs in its history. By empowering its more than 62,0002 People to deliver unparalleled Hospitality, the maverick airline cherishes a passionate loyalty among as many as 130 million Customers carried a year. That formula for success brought industry-leading prosperity and 47 consecutive years3 of profitability for Southwest Shareholders (NYSE: LUV). Southwest leverages a unique legacy and mission to serve communities around the world including harnessing the power of its People and Purpose to put communities at the Heart of its success. Learn more by visiting Southwest.com/citizenship. Southwest is also continuing to develop tangible steps toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, including offering Customers an opportunity to help the airline offset its carbon emissions. To be part of the solution, visit Southwest.com/wannaoffsetcarbon.
1) U.S. Dept. of Transportation most recent reporting of domestic originating passengers boarded
2) Fulltime-equivalent active Employees
3) 1973-2019 annual profitability
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Luann de Lesseps is not impressed with Bethenny Frankel's latest post-Bravo career move.
On the Nov. 4 episode of Danny Pellegrino's podcast Everything Iconic, Luann slammed her former Real Housewives of New York City co-star after Bethenny announced a new Housewives-centric podcast where she'll re-watch iconic episodes and give hot takes on them.
"I think she's trying to grab the fame of Housewives to keep her storyline going," Luann said. "She's thrown Housewives under the bus a million times. I remember at one point she wouldn't even say the word Housewives. So a disgruntled Housewife doing a Housewives podcast—I don't think anybody wants to listen to."
Luann added, "If she s--ts on the show that means she's going to s--t on us on her little podcast about the Housewives."
The cabaret star went on to criticize Bethenny's post-Housewives projects over recent years. Bethenny left RHONY for good in 2019 and has since said she'd never return.
"It's pretty sad and pathetic that she has to resort to Housewives because of all of her failed pivots since the Housewives," the Countess continued. "She's tried everything other than Housewives and it doesn't seem to work, and now she's going back to Housewives. So it's a pretty desperate scenario."
Luann also sounded off on the possibility of Bethenny returning for Bravo's in-the-works RHONY Legacy spinoff featuring former cast members. "I don't think there's a world where we need Bethenny," she stated, "or actually want to see her on the show."
As for her own chances of returning for Legacy, Luann teased, "They're probably going to need the O.G.s, so I imagine I'll be getting a contract soon. I always cross that bridge when I get to it. Depends how good the offer is."
Bravo is currently filming RHONY season 14 with an entirely new cast that was announced last month at BravoCon.
(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family)
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NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes"), is an alternative asset manager and, since 2017, has raised four funds dedicated to Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). As the market leader in monetizing TRAs, Parallaxes is dedicated to increasing the visibility and transparency of TRAs which remain an often overlooked and misunderstood asset class. In the vein of creating greater visibility into the TRA ecosystem, Parallaxes, is pleased to highlight a notable development in the market as GoDaddy Inc. ("GoDaddy") previously terminated its TRAs.
GoDaddy disclosed that it paid $850 million to its TRA holders to terminate its TRAs. The GoDaddy TRAs provided for the payment of 85% of the savings realized from certain tax attributes, including savings from (i) certain depreciation and amortization deductions and (ii) net operating losses.
Parallaxes views TRAs, including the GoDaddy TRA, as a valuable tool to reduce certain moral hazard problems and informational asymmetry inherent in a company's public offering. TRAs help ensure that pre-IPO owners are economically aligned with new public shareholders and incentivize pre-IPO owners to pursue an IPO structure that provides the company with ongoing tax benefits. Parallaxes anticipates enhanced awareness and understanding of TRAs will drive increased market adoption.
Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). Parallaxes offers private equity sponsors, co-investors and management team members solutions to achieve liquidity, diversification and optionality from their TRAs. Parallaxes was founded in 2017 and is comprised of experienced investment professionals from leading private equity and growth equity firms. To learn more, please visit www.plxcap.com
This press release should not be regarded as representative of an official position or statement of Parallaxes or any related entity.
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METUCHEN, N.J. (AP) — The remains of an Army Air Force sergeant from New Jersey who died during World War II have been positively identified, Defense Department officials announced Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Michael Uhrin, 21, of Metuchen, was assigned to the 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, 40th Combat Wing, 8th Air Force in the European Theater, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA.
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On Oct. 14, 1943, Uhrin was the radio operator of a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber that was flying a mission to Schweinfurt, Germany, when it was shot down by enemy fighters near Rommelhausen and Langenbergheim, Hessen, Germany. The plane was among 60 lost during the mission. Surviving crew members said Uhrin was killed before the aircraft crashed and none of them saw him bail out.
His death was confirmed shortly after the crash, but there was no record of his burial location.
After the war, the American Graves Registration Command investigated around Rommelhausen and Langenbergheim, but couldn’t find any concrete evidence linking recovered remains with Uhrin. He was declared nonrecoverable in April 1955.
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DPAA historians who are focused on air losses over Germany later located a set of remains that they said had a strong chance of being Uhrin’s. The remains — which were buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery in Belgium — were disinterred in June 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
DPAA scientists used dental and anthropological analysis to identify Uhrin's remains, as well as circumstantial evidence, while scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System performed DNA testing. He was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on the case.
Uhrin’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the United Kingdom, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for, officials said.
Uhrin will be buried in Metuchen, though a date hasn't been determined.
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — State and federal health officials are warning U.S. residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas who got procedures there came back and developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis. One of them died, officials said.
The five people who became ill traveled to Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, for surgical procedures that included the use of an epidural, an anesthetic injected near the spinal column, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Tuesday. Four remain hospitalized, and one of them later died.
Those who became ill range in age from 30 to 50 years old, the department said.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory Tuesday for U.S. residents seeking medical care in Matamoros.
Meningitis is the swelling of the protective covering of the brain and spinal cord and should be treated urgently. Symptoms include fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, confusion and sensitivity to light. Cases of meningitis can be caused by viruses, bacteria, trauma or fungi.
Fungal meningitis, like in the Texas cases, is not transmitted person to person, health officials say. It could be accidentally introduced during a medical or surgical procedure.
U.S. and Mexican authorities are attempting to find the source of the infection, whether the cases are linked and if there are other cases, the Texas health department said.
The CDC urged anyone who had an epidural injection of anesthetic in that region after Jan. 1, 2023, to watch for symptoms of meningitis symptoms and consider consulting a doctor.
Patients in the Texas cases began showing symptoms three days to six weeks after surgery in Matamoros.
People leaving the U.S. for prescription drugs, dental procedures, surgeries and other medical treatment — also known as medical tourism — is common, experts say. Besides Mexico, other common destinations include Canada, India and Thailand.
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Gen Z, millennials discuss their reluctance to become parents
NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven’t ruled out adoption.
The graduate student who works in legal services in Austin, Texas, has a list of reasons for not wanting to give birth: the climate crisis and a genetic health condition among them.
“I don’t think it’s responsible to bring children into this world,” Johnson said. “There are already kids who need homes. I don’t know what kind of world it’s going to be in 20, 30, 40 years.”
She’s so sure, in fact, that she’ll soon have her tubes removed. It’s a precautionary decision sealed by the fall of Roe v. Wade and by tight restrictions on abortion services in her state and around the country.
Other women interviewed also cited climate change, along with overwhelming student debt coupled with inflation, as reasons they’ll never be parents. Some younger men, too, are opting out and more are seeking vasectomies.
Whatever the motivation, they play a role in dramatically low birth rates in the U.S.
The U.S. birth rate fell 4% in 2020, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report. The government noted a 1% uptick in U.S. births last year, but the number of babies born was still lower than before the coronavirus pandemic: about 86,000 fewer than in 2019.
Walter and Kyah King live in suburban Las Vegas. Walter, 29, a sports data scientist, and Kyah, 28, a college career counselor, have been together nearly 10 years, the last four as a married couple. The realization that they didn’t want to have kids came on slowly for both of them.
“It was in our early 20s when the switch sort of flipped,” Kyah said. “We had moved to California and we were really just starting our adult lives. I think we talked about having three kids at one point. But just with the economy and the state of the world and just thinking about the logistics of bringing children into the world. That’s really when we started to have our doubts.”
Finances are top of mind. Before taxes, the two earn about $160,000 combined, with about $120,000 in student loan debt for Kyah and about $5,000 left for Walter. The couple said they wouldn’t be able to buy a house and shoulder the costs of even one child without major sacrifices they’re not willing to make.
But for Kyah, the decision goes well beyond money.
“I think we would be great parents, but the thought of going into our health system to give birth is really scary. Black women, black mothers, are not valued in the same way that white mothers are,” said Kyah, who is Black.
When Kyah’s IUD expires, Walter said he’ll consider a vasectomy, a procedure that went on the rise among men under 30 during the pandemic.
Jordan Davidson interviewed more than 300 people for a book out in December titled, “So When are You Having Kids?” The pandemic, she said, led many to delay childbirth among those contemplating children at all.
“These timelines that people created for themselves of, I want to accomplish X by three years from now, changed. People weren’t necessarily willing to move the goalposts and say, OK, I’m going to forgo these accomplishments and do this differently,” she said. “People still want to travel. They still want to go to graduate school. They still want to meet certain financial benchmarks.”
Fears about climate change have cemented the idea of living without children for many, Davidson said.
“Now with increased wildfires, droughts, heat waves, all of a sudden it is becoming real that, OK, this is happening during my time, and what is this going to look like during the time that my children are alive?” she said.
In New York City, 23-year-old Emily Shapiro, a copywriter for a pharmaceutical ad agency, earns $60,000 a year, lives at home as she saves money and has never wanted children.
“They’re sticky. I could never imagine picking up a kid that’s covered in ice cream. I’m a bit of a germaphobe. I don’t want to change a diaper. If I did have one, I wouldn’t want them until they’re in, like, sixth grade. I also think the physical Earth isn’t doing so great so it would be unfair,” she said.
Among those Jordan interviewed, concerns over the environment were far more prevalent among the younger group. Questions of affordability, she said, troubled both millennials and members of Gen Z.
“There is a lot of fear around having children who would be worse off than they viewed themselves during their childhoods,” Davidson said.
Dannie Lynn Murphy, who helps find software engineers for Google, said she was nearly 17 when she was removed from her home by child protective services due to a pattern of child abuse. Her wife, she said, was similarly raised in a “not great” environment.
“Both of us at one point would have said yes to kids,” she said. “In my late teenage, early adult years, I saw and understood the appeal and was attracted to the idea of getting to raise someone differently than I was raised. But the practical realities of a child kind of suck.”
Murphy earns about $103,000 a year, with bonuses and equity that can drive that amount up to $300,000. Her wife earns about $60,000 as an attorney. They don’t own their Seattle home.
“I can’t see myself committing to a mortgage, let alone a child,” the 28-year-old Murphy said. “I think the primary reason is financial. I would prefer to spend that money on traveling versus sinking a half a million dollars into raising a child. Secondarily, there’s now the fear of behaving with our children the way our parents behaved with us.”
Alyssa Persson, 31, was raised in small town South Dakota. Getting married and having children was ingrained in the culture, she said. It wasn’t until after her divorce from her high school sweetheart that she took a step back and asked herself what she actually wanted out of life.
“Most women where I’m from lose their identities in motherhood,” said Persson, who now lives in St. Louis and earns about $47,000 a year as a university librarian.
She’s carrying student loan debt of about $80,000. Persson is a former teacher who loves children, but she feels she is now thinking more clearly than ever about the costs, implications and sacrifices of parenting.
“Having children sounds like a trap to me, to be frank,” she said. “Financially, socially, emotionally, physically. And if there were ever any shadow of a doubt, the fact that I cannot comfortably support myself on my salary is enough to scare me away from the idea entirely.”
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Which Oster toaster oven is best?
Oster is one of the most trusted kitchen appliance brands and has its feet firmly planted in the toaster oven field. Oster makes several toaster ovens, but before you buy one, there are a few key considerations.
If you want a high-quality toaster oven, the Oster Silver Countertop Digital French Door Convection Oven is the most popular unit, thanks to its dual doors, large capacity, two racks and a modern, stainless steel finish that makes it look great in any kitchen.
What to know before you buy an Oster toaster oven
Size
The larger the toaster oven, the more powerful it is. However, bigger isn’t always better necessarily, as you may have limited kitchen space to work with. If that’s the case, a smaller oven is ideal, but you won’t be able to heat as much food.
A larger toaster is better for households consisting of four or more people since you can heat more food. However, if you don’t have enough space on your countertop, finding a place for a big toaster oven where it doesn’t make your kitchen appear untidy might be challenging.
How they work
You can toast bread slices and other foods in a toaster oven, but they’re fundamentally different than standard toasters. For one, toaster ovens are bigger and essentially miniature ovens that can be used to cook and heat up smaller portions of food using less power than a traditional oven.
Noise
Most toaster ovens operate quietly, much like traditional ovens. However, convection ovens require more power and are usually much louder. If you have roommates or live in close quarters, such as in an apartment building, it’s best to avoid loud convection toaster ovens, as they may disrupt or annoy your neighbors.
What to look for in a quality Oster toaster oven
Temperature range
If you plan on using your Oster toaster oven often, you’ll want to ensure it has a broad temperature range. A standard toaster oven can be set as low as 150 degrees and as high as 450 degrees. A range of 250 to 400 degrees is ideal for heating most foods, but the broader the temperature range, the more options you have for how you want to cook your food.
Preset modes
Even if you’re a talented cook, sometimes you won’t want to be bothered with monitoring and managing heat and cooking time. Most Oster toaster ovens come with several preset cooking modes that do all the hard work for you. With the push of a button, you can kick back and wait for your toaster oven to broil, roast or toast your favorite foods.
Convection ovens
Many toaster ovens work similarly to traditional ovens, but others use advanced convection cooking technology. It works the same way air fryers do, where they use rapidly moving air to cook food. Using convection to cook foods usually gives them a crispier quality and evenly cooked layers for foods like lasagna.
How much you can expect to spend on an Oster toaster oven
For a large-capacity toaster oven with premium features and several presets, you can expect to pay $150-$200. However, if you’re looking for something more compact with fewer features, you can get a unit for $100-$150.
Oster toaster oven FAQ
Do I need oven mitts when using a toaster oven?
A. It depends on how long you heat something. However, food generally comes out very hot, and the inside gets extremely hot, so it’s advisable to use oven mitts or a utensil whenever possible.
Can I get rid of my microwave if I get a toaster oven?
A. Toaster ovens are great for toasting and broiling, but you might want to hang on to your microwave if you’re too busy to use your toaster oven often since microwaves can heat food much faster.
What’s the best Oster toaster oven to buy?
Top Oster toaster oven
Oster Silver Countertop Digital French Door Convection Oven
What you need to know: This countertop oven is energy-efficient and has a unique single-pull two-door handle.
What you’ll love: The control panel lets you adjust the heat and time settings, and the interior has two racks that are big enough to fit two 16-inch pizzas. It has a convenient 90-minute timer that automatically turns off the oven and a maximum cooking temperature of 450 degrees.
What you should consider: Some customers complained about the doors not staying open on their own, while others said the control panel buttons are hard to press.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Oster toaster oven for the money
Oster Countertop Digital Convection Toaster Oven
What you need to know: This large-capacity toaster works fast and is perfect for large households.
What you’ll love: This oven circulates hot air to give foods a crispy texture and cook layers evenly. You can broil, toast and roast your favorite foods using one of seven preset modes, and the digital panel lets you adjust temperature and cooking time.
What you should consider: Some users complained that the clock doesn’t accurately keep time. Additionally, some noted that the rear light bulb is too weak.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Oster Compact Countertop Toaster Oven with Air Fryer
What you need to know: This toaster cooks food well and is suitable for anyone opposed to using the digital controls found on other models.
What you’ll love: This oven has a sleek, compact design, a temperature range up to 450 degrees and preset toast, bake, broil, air fry and convection cooking modes. It has analog knob controls and a 60-minute timer.
What you should consider: Some customers say all functions do not work as well.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Junior guards Pye, Boyd leading charge for Springers
Behind the dynamic junior guard duo of Ah'Kiah Pye and Morgan Boyd, No. 6-ranked Highland Springs girls basketball (14-4) is hitting its stride ahead of what coach Franklin Harris said is sure to be a hotly contested Region 5C tournament.
Pye is averaging about 17 points, Harris said, adding that she's been his most consistent player and very much fits into the tough-nosed mold synonymous with guards who've excelled in his system over the years. Boyd is averaging about 13 points, and completes a formidable backcourt partnership.
"Those two have had to shoulder most of the load this year," Harris said. "But Pye has been outstanding, I'd say she's one of the top five [players] in this area."
The Springers, which under Harris are known for an up-tempo style, defensive tenacity and plenty of full-court pressure, will vie for a region final berth and spot in the state tournament with No. 1 Glen Allen (16-0) and No. 7 L.C. Bird (15-3), along with other contenders like Hermitage (12-4) and Mills Godwin (13-6).
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The Springers took down a strong Hanover (13-7) team 56-45 on the road Tuesday night.
"Best time of the year coming up, it's what I live for," Harris said with a chuckle.
Collegiate's Fleming reaches 300 victories
Collegiate girls basketball coach Rives Fleming, who has led the Cougars program for 26 years dating to the 1997-98 season, earned the 300th victory of his career in a 60-28 win over Cox (Virginia Beach) on Jan. 7.
A 1983 Collegiate graduate, Fleming, who attended UVa., is the longest tenured and winningest basketball coach in Cougars history.
Local football commitments
- Varina senior football standout Kenny Faison, a second-team All-Metro defensive back this past season and key cog of the Blue Devils' state championship run in 2021, announced his commitment to play at Virginia State University.
- Atlee senior 6-5, 250-pound offensive lineman Jacob Rose announced his commitment to play at Virginia Military Institute.
Douglas Freeman announces hall of fame class
The Douglas S. Freeman High School Athletic Hall of Fame has announced its 2023 induction class, to be honored Sunday, April 30 in a banquet held at the Short Pump Hilton Hotel.
The Class of 2023 includes: Dr. Melvin Fratkin (Class of 1957, track); Gene Griggs ('64, football, track); Dr. Jimmy Abbott ('67, football, wrestling); Rudy Ward ('68, football, track, contributor); Sam Cosby ('72, basketball); Bonnie Bunsavage Williams ('83, tennis); David Budlong ('94, basketball, track); Robert Hamilton ('97, basketball, track); Graham Kearney ('02, cross country, track); Johnny Campbell ('02, football, wrestling); Abbey Thornhill ('13, field hockey, cross country, track); Sue Manahan (softball coach).
For additional information regarding tickets to the banquet, visit dsfhof.com or contact Drew Bright at 804-314-0187.
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PARIS, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vans unveils its new pinnacle category, OTW by Vans: a new platform where the brand's most elevated product expressions and brand experiences come together with the innovators of art, design, style, skate culture and entertainment.
OTW by Vans is a new vision for the most pinnacle expression of Vans, conceived under the direction of Ian Ginoza, Vice President, Creative Direction for Pinnacle. A platform for pushing boundaries and challenging conventions, OTW by Vans channels its skateboarding origins to drive a distinct and unique point of view.
"We are rooting the next chapter of Vans in the attitude and mindset of the brand's true self, defined and shaped by the community of original disruptors. Skateboarding embraced us many years ago from the fringe to drive culture forward," says Ginoza.
"Every step forward will be embedded in that original spirit of defiance and exploration as the pioneers and trailblazers of skateboarding did many years ago and that skateboarders continue to do today. OTW by Vans is a reorientation back to who we truly are... back to 'Off The Wall'."
The Vault by Vans product chapter will conclude by the end of 2023, making way for the launch of OTW by Vans in early 2024 with its own distinctive e-commerce experience and availability at a curated selection of wholesale partners globally.
Pinnacle apparel and footwear will be presented in two distinct lines under OTW by Vans: OTW, a designated space for product exploration with collaborators to push the edges of design expression, and Premium Standard, an elevated premium collection of classics from our beloved range of iconic silhouettes.
Both categories are overseen by the OTW by Vans team appointed by Ginoza, including Dylan Petrenka, Design Director, Footwear, and Lanie Alabanza-Barcena, Design Director, Apparel & Accessories, driving the evolution of Vans' 50 plus year legacy into the future.
OTW by Vans will welcome new collaborators, leading with S.R. STUDIO LA. CA. by Sterling Ruby, whose debut release will launch in early 2024.
"It is a personal collaboration; it is the first SR. STUDIO. LA. CA. collaboration. Vans feels right to us, it defines a certain West Coast history," says Ruby. "The company started in 1966 and has run in tandem to so many skaters, bands, and movements that have been influential to me, my art, and how my studio runs as a whole."
In the leadup to the category's launch at retail, OTW by Vans will activate at high-visibility global moments, including a live skate exhibition designed in partnership with PLAYLAB, INC. and California Skateparks at Paris Fashion Week Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 this week.
For more information, follow @OTWbyVans on Instagram.
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About Vans
Vans®, a VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) brand, is the original action sports footwear, apparel and accessories brand. Vans® authentic collections are sold in more than 100 countries through a network of subsidiaries, distributors and international offices. Vans® has more than 2,000 retail locations globally including owned, concession and partnership doors. The Vans® brand supports the journey of creative exploration and self-discovery across action sports, music, art and design, delivering progressive platforms such as Vans Pipe Masters and Vans' cultural hub and international music venue, House of Vans.
Vans, "Off The Wall" Since '66
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- The full publication is available with open access at: Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (JDST), Improved Glycemic Control Using a Bluetooth®-Connected Blood Glucose Meter and a Mobile Diabetes App: Real-World Evidence From Over 144,000 People With Diabetes.
MALVERN, Pa., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeScan, a world leader in blood glucose monitoring, today announced that the peer-reviewed Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (JDST) has published Improved Glycemic Control Using a Bluetooth Connected Blood Glucose Meter and a Mobile Diabetes App: Real-World Evidence From Over 144,000 People With Diabetes, detailing results from a retrospective analysis of real-world data from over 144,000 people with diabetes – one of the largest combined blood glucose meter (BGM) and mobile diabetes app datasets ever published. These 180-day findings expand on the results from a 90-day timeframe first presented at the 82nd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in June 2022.
The real-world data provides insights into improved glycemic metrics among people with diabetes using a Bluetooth connected BGM together with a diabetes management digital app - in this study, patients used the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter and OneTouch Reveal® app.
"The overwhelming majority, approximately 95%, of people with diabetes who monitor their blood glucose rely on cost-effective blood glucose monitoring with a blood glucose meter. It is critical that we continue to research how they can get the most health benefits from their blood glucose meter readings," said study co-author, Dr. Elizabeth Holt, Head of Global Medical, Clinical, and Safety, LifeScan. "These findings, from the largest patient population we have studied to date, offer real-world evidence that people with diabetes can further increase their health benefits by using their Bluetooth connected blood glucose meter in tandem with a diabetes app on their smartphone."
The retrospective analysis showed that, overall, people with diabetes with at least 180 readings within the 180-day timeframe using the OneTouch Reveal® app with the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter:
- experienced better glycemic control, improving glucose readings in range (70-180 mg/dL) by +6.1 percentage points (54.5% to 60.6%) in T1D, and +11.9 percentage points (68.2% to 80.1%) in T2Ds;
- reduced hyperglycemic readings (>180 mg/dL) by −6.6 percentage points (40.5% to 33.9%) in T1Ds, and −12.0 percentage points (30.3% to 18.3%) in T2Ds;
- reduced mean glucose by -11.4 mg/dL in T1Ds, and -19.5 mg/dL in T2Ds.
All glycemic changes were statistically significant (P < .005 level).
Abbreviations: T1D, type 1 diabetes; T2D, type 2 diabetes.
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The data also showed that a cohort spending as few as 10 to 20 minutes per week in the OneTouch Reveal® app connected to the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter showed:
- improved glucose readings in range (70-180 mg/dL) in T1Ds by +7.0 percentage points, and in T2Ds by +12.0 percentage points;
- reduced hyperglycemic readings (>180 mg/dL) in T1Ds by -7.7 percentage points, and -12.1 percentage points in T2Ds.
Study Methodology
This analysis included two separate datasets extracted from the LifeScan data lake. The first dataset covered 24,386 T1Ds and 119,876 T2Ds using the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter with the OneTouch Reveal® app over a 90-day timeframe, and the second dataset covered 16,591 T1Ds and 97,119 T2Ds over a 180-day timeframe, again using the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter with the OneTouch Reveal® app. Data from the first 14 days using the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter with the OneTouch Reveal® app were compared with the 14 days prior to 90- and 180-day timepoints using paired within-subject differences.
TABLE: Effect of App Engagement Level on Glycemia and Monitoring Behavior in PWDs.
Abbreviation: PWDs, people with diabetes.
About the OneTouch® brand made by LifeScan
LifeScan is a global leader in blood glucose monitoring and digital health technology and has a vision to create a world without limits for people with diabetes and related conditions. More than 20 million people and their caregivers around the world count on LifeScan's OneTouch brand products to manage their diabetes. Together, LifeScan and OneTouch improve the quality of life for people with diabetes with products and digital platforms defined by simplicity, accuracy, and trust. LifeScan.com and OneTouch.com.
The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by LifeScan Scotland Ltd. and its affiliates is under license.
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'Rust' movie weapons handler charged with dumping drugs after Alec Baldwin shooting
The weapons supervisor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of the Alec Baldwin film "Rust" was charged Thursday with evidence tampering for allegedly passing drugs to someone else on the day of the shooting.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed "did transfer narcotics to another person with the intent to prevent the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of herself." the special prosecutors appointed in the case said in a Santa Fe County court filing. They gave no further details.
Gutierrez-Reed's attorney Jason Bowles called the move "retaliatory and vindictive."
Signage indicating the location of the Bonanza Creek Ranch film set, near where a crew member was fatally shot during production of the western film "Rust", is seen on October 28, 2021 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Gett
"It is shocking that after 20 months of investigation, the special prosecutor now throws in a completely new charge against Ms. Gutierrez Reed, with no prior notice or any witness statements, lab reports, or evidence to support it," Bowles said in a statement.
READ MORE: 'Rust' movie reboots after Alec Baldwin shooting
Gutierrez-Reed is the sole remaining defendant in the case after prosecutors in April dropped an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin, who was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killed her and injured director Joel Souza on Oct. 21, 2021. Prosecutors can still refile charges against Baldwin.
The new charge comes a week after prosecutors alleged in a court filing that Gutierrez-Reed was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the filming of "Rust" and was likely hungover on the day a live bullet was placed into the gun Baldwin used.
A photo of Serge Svetnoy and Halyna Hutchins is displayed after a press conference with attorney Gary Dordick (not pictured) and Serge Svetnoy, chief lighting technician for the film Rust, about a lawsuit filed after the fatal shooting on the film Ru
Bowles called that allegation "character assassination" from prosecutors with a weak case that the defense has asked a judge to dismiss.
In his own filing Thursday, Bowles revealed that he had been accidentally included on an email to District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies from her lead investigator in the case, who slammed the law enforcement response to the shooting.
"The conduct of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office during and after their initial investigation is reprehensible and unprofessional to a degree I still have no words for," Robert Schilling wrote in the email, in which he said he will be stepping down so special prosecutors can use their own investigator. "Not I or 200 more proficient investigators than I can/could clean up the mess delivered to your office."
Bowles said in his filing that the email demonstrates the weakness of the case against his client. He said it suggests that the prosecution has been withholding evidence from the defense.
Emails seeking comment from the Sheriff's Office and the special prosecutors were not immediately returned.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Felipe Haase's 19 points helped Southern Mississippi defeat McNeese 86-67 on Sunday.
Haase made 4 of 8 from 3-point range for the Golden Eagles (11-1), who have won three straight. DeAndre Pinckney scored 18 points with nine rebounds. Mo Arnold scored 14.
Zach Scott led the Cowboys (4-9) with 21 points and four steals. Trae English added 14 points and three steals. Ty McMillan had eight points and seven rebounds.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
8-9-5, WB: 6
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester.
As a borrower who still owes just over $20,000 on her undergraduate student loans, she has been counting on President Joe Biden’s promised debt relief to wipe nearly all of that away.
Now, both affirmative action and the student loan cancellation plan — policies that disproportionately help Black students — could soon be dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court. To Green and many other people of color, the efforts to roll them back reflect a larger backlash to racial progress in higher education.
“I feel like working people have been through enough — I have been through enough,” said Green, a community organizer. “From a pandemic, an uprising, a recession, the cost of living price going up. I deserved some relief.”
The rulings could also have political consequences among a generation of young voters of color who took Biden at his word when he promised to cancel debt, said Wisdom Cole, director of NAACP’s youth and college program.
“Year after year, we have elected officials, we have advocates, we have different politicos coming to our communities making promises. But now it’s time to deliver on those promises,” he said.
The president’s plan forgives up to $10,000 in federal student debt for borrowers, and doubles the debt relief to $20,000 for borrowers who also received Pell Grants. About half of the average debt held by Black and Hispanic borrowers would be wiped out, according to the White House. Six Republican-led states filed a legal challenge questioning whether the president, a Democrat, has authority to forgive the debt.
In the affirmative action cases, the court is considering the use of race-conscious admissions policies that many selective colleges have used for decades to help build diversity on their campuses. The cases were brought by a conservative activist who argues the Constitution forbids the use of race in college admissions.
The high court is expected to rule in each of the cases by the end of June.
Both cases focus on policies that address historic racial disparities in access to higher education, as Black borrowers tend to take on disproportionately more debt to afford college, said Dominique Baker, an education policy professor at Southern Methodist University.
Backlash to racial progress tends to follow periods of social change and advancement, Baker said. In a study published in 2019, Baker and her co-authors found states were more likely to adopt bans on affirmative action when white enrollment at public flagship universities dropped.
“These are policy tools that have an explicit aim around reducing the power of white supremacy,” Baker said. The two court challenges, she said, can be seen “as linked backlash to two attempts towards racial justice.”
Green, who grew up in a low-income household in Harlem, New York, graduated from Rochester with about $40,000 in federal loan debt. Some of that was erased under a public service forgiveness program when she completed two terms with Americorps, and she whittled it down further with monthly installments until the government paused repayment due to the pandemic.
Green said she sees both court cases as connected to conservative attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Critics say opposition to such programs is rooted in questions of fairness and in white grievances over the advancement of nonwhite people.
“This is white supremacy at work,” Green said. “This is a long tactic of conservative, white supremacist-leaning groups to use education and limit Black people’s access to education, as a way to further control and oppress us.”
In the 1960s and 1970s, many colleges developed affirmative action plans to address the fact that many predominantly white schools struggled to attract people from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities. Policies were also created to promote greater inclusion of women.
Since the late 1970s, the Supreme Court has three times upheld affirmative action in college admissions on grounds that institutions have a compelling interest to address past discrimination that shut nonwhite students out of higher learning. Justices have also agreed with arguments that more diverse student bodies promoted cross-racial understanding.
But with the Supreme Court skewing more ideologically conservative, some former students and advocates worry how a ruling against affirmative action might affect diversity on campuses.
Tarina Ahuja, a rising senior at Harvard College, said being part of a diverse student body has been a crucial part of her undergraduate experience. She recalled classes where students discussed their lived experiences on topics such as police violence, colonialism and labor movements — discussions that would have fallen flat without a diverse range of student perspectives.
“The decision is going to very likely be something that is scary to a lot of us,” she said.
In anticipation of a possible ruling against race-conscious admissions, some colleges are considering adding more essays to get a better picture of an applicant’s background. Others are planning to boost recruiting in racially diverse areas. But in states that have already banned affirmative action, similar efforts at selective colleges have largely failed to maintain diversity gains.
Jonathan Loc, a graduate student at Harvard who helped organize teach-ins in support of affirmative action, said that for students of color, it’s impossible to speak about their lives without mentioning race, whether through hardships faced or simply their pride in their cultural heritage.
“I grew up as the son of refugees in a low-income community and a single parent family burdened with the model minority myth,” he said. “But I think that that kind of narrative also helps me to be an Asian American focused on racial justice, focused on making sure that everyone who has a unique story related to their racial background or any background has that story heard.”
If the court rules against affirmative action, it will be important for colleges to find ways to show they see the students as more than a number on paper, said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
“We need the schools to say, ’Look, the court says we can’t consider race, but we still see you,’” said Hewitt, whose organization defended affirmative action before the Supreme Court in October.
Kristin McGuire, the executive director of Young Invincibles, said that she could not overlook the decisions looming over the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, which marks the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. For two years after abolition, Black Americans were kept as laborers and denied the freedom to begin building generational wealth, McGuire said.
“If both of these are struck down, it will send a very clear signal that our court system does not support the most vulnerable populations, especially those who helped build this country,” McGuire said.
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Migration is the biggest issue on the table at the Summit of the Americas this week. What can the regions leaders do to help relieve the crush and human misery at their borders?
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Segment Revenue and Profit Grew Steadily
Gene and Cell Therapy CDMO Maintained High Growth Trend
- Revenue of the Group for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was approximately US$304.7 million, representing an increase of 32.7% as compared with approximately US$229.6 million for the same period in 2021, among which, the external revenue of non-cell therapy business was approximately US$247.7 million, representing an increase of 26.6% as compared with approximately US$195.7 million for the same period in 2021, and the external revenue of cell therapy business was approximately US$57.0 million, representing an increase of 68.1% as compared with approximately US$33.9 million for the same period in 2021.
- Gross profit of the Group for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was approximately US$175.5 million, representing an increase of 26.6% as compared with approximately US$138.6 million for the same period in 2021, among which, the gross profit of non-cell therapy business before eliminations was approximately US$126.2 million, representing an increase of 16.4% as compared with approximately US$108.4 million for the same period in 2021, and the gross profit of cell therapy business before eliminations was approximately US$52.1 million, representing an increase of 53.7% as compared with approximately US$33.9 million for the same period in 2021.
- Loss of the Group for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was approximately US$225.9 million, whilst loss was approximately US$156.1 million for the same period in 2021.
The adjusted net loss of the Group was approximately US$130.1 million, whilst the adjusted net loss was approximately US$135.8 million for the same period in 2021, among which, the adjusted net profit of non-cell therapy business before eliminations was approximately US$30.2 million, representing an increase of 14.4% as compared with approximately US$26.4 million for the same period in 2021, and the adjusted net loss of cell therapy business before eliminations was approximately US$160.5 million, whilst the adjusted net loss of cell therapy business before eliminations was approximately US$162.2 million for the same period in 2021.
- During the Reporting Period, the Group invested significantly in research and development activities as well as talent recruitment, and both of which are key drivers for a sustainable business growth in the long run. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Group's research and development expenses was approximately US$177.4 million as compared with approximately US$175.1 million for the same period in 2021.
NANJING, China, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GenScript Biotech, the world's leading biotech company, today announces its annual results as of June 30, 2022.
"In the first half of 2022, GenScript Group has delivered satisfactory results across all business segments," said Dr. Patrick Liu, Rotating CEO of GenScript. "Our life science business reported steady growth while focusing on R&D innovation and leveraging superior technology platforms to get into emerging fields. Thanks to excellent market capabilities and track record, ProBio's macromolecular CDMO and GCT CDMO business maintained strong momentum. In the future, ProBio will focus on medium-sized and large pharma and biotech customers and add value to our service projects. By improving product mix, Bestzyme improved its profitability. Bestzyme will optimize its enzyme product portfolio and industrial-grade manufacturing capability, and capture new opportunities in the synthetic biology field. Legend and its partner Janssen successfully commercialized Carvykti™. As Legend moves cilta-cel into earlier line clinical trials, Carvykti™ will benefit more patients worldwide. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of GenScript. GenScript has developed a diversified business portfolio over years. GenScript will stay committed to the corporate culture and mission to "make people and nature healthier through biotechnology" and create value for our shareholders and investors."
Results Analysis of the Four Business Segments
As the Group has reallocated back office administrative expenses into each business segment following the establishment of Probio legal entities in the second half of 2021, segment operating profit is not directly comparable to the same period in 2021.
Life-science Services and Products
During the Reporting Period, revenue of life-science services and products amounted to approximately US$176.0 million, representing an increase of 15.8% over the same period in 2021. The gross profit was approximately US$99.8 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 8.8% as compared with approximately US$91.7 million for the same period in 2021. The gross profit margin decreased from 60.3% for the same period in 2021 to 56.7% this Reporting Period. The operating profit of life-science services and products during the Reporting Period was approximately US$26.0 million.
The increase in revenue was mainly attributable to the (i) continued growth in molecular biology, protein and antibody business, (ii) successful commercialisation of innovative platforms such as sgRNA, and partially offset by (iii) the decrease in sales in COVID-19 related products and the negative impact on sales due to pandemics in Shanghai, China. Production efficiency gains contributed positively to gross profit margin while (i) loss from overseas production during the initial capacity ramp-up, (ii) increased freight and duty costs, and (iii) decreased price and volume of COVID-19 related products all had negative impacts on gross profit margin. The operating profit was positively impacted by growth in revenue and gross profit while negatively impacted by (i) increased expenses brought by operation and depreciation of overseas production capacity, and (ii) increment in labor costs brought by research and development.
Biologics Development Services
During the Reporting Period, revenue of biologics development services amounted to approximately US$62.7 million, representing an increase of 99.0% over the same period in 2021. Total backlog for biologics development services reached US$228.0 million as at June 30, 2022. The gross profit was approximately US$16.2 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 62.0% as compared with approximately US$10.0 million for the same period in 2021. Adjusted gross profit was US$23.9 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 125.5% over the same period in 2021. Adjusted gross profit margin expanded from 33.7% for the same period in 2021 to 38.1% this Reporting Period. Adjusted operating profit during the Reporting Period was approximately US$3.2 million.
The growth of revenue was mainly attributable to the (i) significant increase of customer projects from overseas business, (ii) expanded capacity and productivity of pre-clinical and clinical development, and(iii) shorter delivery time for antibody discovery and process development. The adjusted gross profit and adjusted operating profit were positively impacted by higher capacity utilization and production efficiency gains.
Industrial Synthetic Biology Products
During the Reporting Period, revenue of industrial synthetic biology products amounted to approximately US$16.8 million, representing a decrease of 6.7% over the same period in 2021. The gross profit was approximately US$7.2 million, representing an increase of 41.2% as compared with approximately US$5.1 million for the same period in 2021. The gross profit margin increased from 28.3% for the same period in 2021 to 42.9% this Reporting Period. The operating profit of industrial synthetic biology products was approximately US$0.4 million during the Reporting Period, whilst the operating loss was approximately US$0.7 million for the same period in 2021.
The decrease in revenue was mainly due to the (i) active pruning of low or negative profit products, (ii) the feed industry in China downturn which led to reduction of use of feed enzymes, and (iii) the situation in Ukraine and Russia which caused the decrease of orders in Eastern Europe. The increase in both gross profit and operating profit was primarily attribute to the (i) adjustment of product portfolio and enhancement of the promotion of high-margin products, (ii) improvement of production process and workflow, and (iii) profit from the license of patents.
Cell Therapy
During the Reporting Period, revenue of cell therapy amounted to approximately US$57.1 million, representing an increase of 68.4% over the same period in 2021. The gross profit was approximately US$52.1 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 53.7% as compared with approximately US$33.9 million for the same period in 2021. The operating loss of cell therapy was approximately US$180.1 million during the Reporting Period, whilst the operating loss was US$168.9 million for the same period in 2021.
The increase in both revenue and gross profit was primarily attributable to the additional milestones achieved in 2021 and 2022, and thus the further recognition of contract revenue from collaboration with Janssen on developing cilta-cel. The operating loss was primarily attributable to the (i) investment in clinical trials resulting from higher patients enrollment and more pipelines, (ii) cost for commercial preparation activities for the launch of cilta-cel, and (iii) expansion of administrative functions.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Revenue
During the Reporting Period, the Group recorded revenue of approximately US$304.7 million, representing an increase of 32.7% from approximately US$229.6 million for the same period in 2021. This is mainly attributable to (i) the continued increase of non-cell therapy products and services from major strategic customers and new competitive services and products, especially in biologics development services, and (ii) the increase of contract revenue derived from Legend's collaboration with Janssen with new milestones achieved.
Gross profit
During the Reporting Period, the Group's gross profit increased by 26.6% to approximately US$175.5 million from approximately US$138.6 million for the same period in 2021. This is mainly attributable to the (i) rapid growth of revenue, and (ii) operational efficiency improvement.
The increase in gross profit was partially offset by (i) increased share-based compensation expenses to production teams, particularly in biologics development services, and (ii) increased shipping cost. Adjusted gross profit increased by 31.4% over the same period in 2021.
Selling and distribution expenses
During the Reporting Period, the Group's selling and distribution expenses increased by 49.1% to approximately US$86.9 million from approximately US$58.3 million for the same period in 2021. This increase is mainly driven by (i) more investment on talent with recruiting experienced personnel with competitive packages, (ii) increased expenses, primarily attributable to the global expansion of our business, and (iii) increased marketing expenses related to Legend's collaboration with Janssen. Adjusted selling and distribution expenses increased 45.3% over the same period in 2021.
Administrative expenses
During the Reporting Period, the Group's administrative expenses increased by 41.4% to approximately US$79.6 million from approximately US$56.3 million for the same period in 2021. This is mainly attributable to (i) more investment on talent with recruiting experienced personnel with competitive package and share-based compensation expenses for all business segments, and (ii) the reinforcement of some key administrative functions to support the Group's overall business expansion and compliance. Adjusted administrative expenses increased 31.0% over the same period in 2021.
Research and development expenses
During the Reporting Period, the research and development expenses kept stable and increased by 1.3% to approximately US$177.4 million from approximately US$175.1 million for the same period in 2021. This is mainly attributable to (i) the continuous investment in talents with competitive package and share-based compensation expenses, and (ii) continuous investment in new products and services, which will significantly strengthen our competitiveness. Adjusted research and development expenses decreased by 1.4% over the same period in 2021.
*For reference only. Please refer to Company's 2022 Interim Results Announcement dated August 31, 2022 for more details.
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Aid groups get hot meals to tornado survivors in Mississippi Published March 28, 2023 at 4:11 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email In the path of a devastating tornado, volunteers are arriving in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, to help with the clean-up and feed those in need. Copyright 2023 NPR
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Experts: Russia finding new ways to spread propaganda videos
Russia has devised yet another way to spread disinformation about its invasion of Ukraine, using digital tricks that allow its war propaganda videos to evade restrictions imposed by governments and tech companies.
Accounts linked to Russian state-controlled media have used the new method to spread dozens of videos in 18 different languages, all without leaving telltale signs that would give away the source, researchers at Nisos, a U.S.-based intelligence firm that tracks disinformation and other cyber threats, said in a report released Wednesday.
The videos push Kremlin conspiracy theories blaming Ukraine for civilian casualties as well as claims that residents of areas forcibly annexed by Russia have welcomed their occupiers.
English-language versions of the Russian propaganda videos are now circulating on Twitter and lesser-known platforms popular with American conservatives, including Gab and Truth Social, created by former President Donald Trump, giving Russia a direct conduit to millions of people.
In an indication of the Kremlin's ambitions and the sprawling reach of its disinformation operations, versions of the videos were also created in Spanish, Italian, German and more than a dozen other languages.
“The genius of this approach is that the videos can be downloaded directly from Telegram and it erases the trail that researchers try to follow," Nisos' senior intelligence analyst Patricia Bailey told The Associated Press. “They are creative and adaptable. And they are analyzing their audience.”
The European Union moved to ban RT and Sputnik, two of Russia's leading state-run media outlets, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February. Tech companies such as Google's YouTube and Meta's Facebook and Instagram also announced they would ban content from the outlets within the 27-nation EU, undermining Russia's ability to spread its propaganda.
Russian attempts to get around the new rules began almost immediately. New websites were created to host videos that make debunked claims about the war. Russian diplomats took on some of the work.
The latest effort revealed by analysts at Nisos involved uploading propaganda videos to Telegram, a loosely moderated platform that is broadly popular in Eastern Europe and used by many conservatives in the United States. In some cases, watermarks identifying the video as RT's were removed in a further attempt to disguise their source.
Once on Telegram, the videos were downloaded and reposted on platforms including Twitter without indications that the video was produced by Russian state media. Hundreds of accounts that later posted or reposted the videos were linked by Nisos researchers to the Russian military, embassies or state media.
Some of the accounts appeared to use fake profile photos or posted content in strange ways that suggested they were inauthentic.
One example: a Twitter account supposedly run by a woman living in Japan that had a singular interest in Russian propaganda. Instead of posting about a variety of topics such as entertainment, food, travel or family, the account user only posted Russian propaganda videos — and not just in Japanese, but also in Farsi, Polish, Spanish and Russian.
The account also cited or reposted content from Russian embassies hundreds of times, researchers found, showing again the close relationship between Russian diplomats and the country's propaganda work.
When it comes to Russia's overall disinformation capabilities, Bailey said, the network is “just one piece of a puzzle that is quite large."
Last week, Russia sought to spread a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the U.S. for sabotage to the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
The same week, Meta announced the discovery of a sprawling Russian disinformation network that created websites designed to look like major European news outlets. Instead of news, the websites carried propaganda intended to drive a wedge between Ukraine and its western allies.
That operation was the largest of its kind to originate in Russia since the war began, researchers concluded.
“The network exhibited an overarching pattern of targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine narratives and expressions of support for Russian interests,” according to a report from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which helped identify the network disabled by Meta.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/10/05/russia-ukraine-war-disinformation-propaganda/69542078007/
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2022-10-05 18:06:25
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/10/05/russia-ukraine-war-disinformation-propaganda/69542078007/
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A mural highlighting Warrior Breed Motorcycle Club’s contributions to the community and celebrating the history of Fort Wayne’s 122nd Fighter Wing will be dedicated during a ceremony from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at 135 W. Main St.
A street closure on Harrison Street will be in effect during these hours to allow for a block party-style dedication event, offering a cash bar, food, and live musical entertainment by local artists Debutants.
Local artist Mitchell Egly designed the 2,000-square-foot mural to commemorate the Fighter Wing and the memorialized aircraft at Heritage Park. Located near Fort Wayne International Airport, Heritage Park showcases aircraft flown by the Indiana Air National Guard since 1947. In 2019, Warrior Breed Motorcycle Club raised funds to restore the planes at the park.
The mural project is a partnership of Art This Way, a program of Downtown Fort Wayne, and Warrior Breed Motorcycle Club, which is a nonprofit, veteran-based, traditional motorcycle club focusing on veteran issues.
Speakers at the dedication will include: Gary Perkey, founder of Warrior Breed MC; a representative from the 122nd Fighter Wing; Steve Shine, property owner; Stephanie Crandall, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the City of Fort Wayne; Mitchell Egly, muralist; and Alexandra Hall, Director of Art This Way.
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https://www.journalgazette.net/living/local-arts/fighter-wing-mural-to-be-dedicated-friday-in-downtown-fort-wayne/article_324afafa-f7b1-11ec-8871-3f2c111e40f4.html
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2022-06-29 17:42:56
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https://www.journalgazette.net/living/local-arts/fighter-wing-mural-to-be-dedicated-friday-in-downtown-fort-wayne/article_324afafa-f7b1-11ec-8871-3f2c111e40f4.html
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Vote for the Community Credit Union Florida Athlete of the Week for Jan. 30-Feb. 4
It is time again to vote for the Community Credit Union Florida Athlete of the Week at 321preps.com and floridatoday.com.
The following athletes were nominated for their performances from Jan. 30-Feb. 4. You will find the ballot at the bottom of the page. Be sure to refresh if the poll isn't visible upon first loading. Voting will be open until noon on Thursday.
Our last winner was Hayden Deane of MCC basketball.
Deane received 26,234 of 48,837 votes cast at 321preps.com, which was 53.72 percent. Erynn Moffett of West Shore basketball followed, with 13,562 votes.
Coaches and athletic directors are invited to nominate athletes each week. E-mail the athlete's accomplishments for the previous Monday through Saturday to bmccallum@floridatoday.com by 10 a.m. each Monday.
Here are this week's nominees:
Amarion Berry, Heritage basketball
Berry scored 27 points in a Panthers win over Space Coast on Tuesday.
Kestervens Dera, Palm Bay soccer
Dera scored two goals, one of which was on a penalty kick, in a District 8-4A semifinal game.
Eli Edwards, Bayside soccer
Edwards recorded six saves in the District 13-5A championship game versus Merritt Island on Wednesday and assisted on one goal.
Nathan Furman, Palm Bay wrestling
Furman stayed unbeaten at 36-0 and won the 152-pound Cape Coast Conference title Saturday with two pins and a title-match shutout.
Kaleb Ivie, Merritt Island wrestling
Ivie won the 220-pound Cape Coast Conference title Saturday, taking three matches by pin.
Alexander McMiller, Satellite wrestling
McMiller won the 120-pound Cape Coast Conference title Saturday with three pins and a title-match shutout.
Preston Pineiro, Astronaut wrestling
Pineiro won the 126-pound Cape Coast Conference title Saturday with three wins and a technical fall.
Elizabeth Steinmetz, Edgewood soccer
Steinmetz contributed an assist against West Shore in the District 10-3A final on Tuesday and was key on defense as center back.
Jake Wells, Holy Trinity soccer
Wells scored goals for the Tigers in of Holy Trinity's semifinal win over Cocoa Beach and championship game over West Shore last week.
Here is the ballot:
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https://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/02/06/community-credit-union-florida-athlete-of-the-week-ballot/69870308007/
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2023-02-06 20:02:36
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