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Brad Larsen has been fired as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets after two seasons without a playoff appearance, a move general manager Jarmo Kekalainen called “absolutely a necessary change that we needed to make.”
Kekalainen did not elaborate on why he thought Larsen wasn't the right person to lead the team from behind the bench. He informed Larsen and players of his decision Saturday morning and was not interested in explaining exactly when he made it.
“We need a change,” Kekalainen said. “That became clear that we need a change.”
The Blue Jackets finished last in the Eastern Conference and 31st out of 32 NHL teams. While they were ravaged by injuries throughout the season after beginning it with expectations to contend, the call was made nevertheless to move on from Larsen, who had been under contract through next season.
Columbus lost 102 of 164 games since Larsen succeeded John Tortorella as coach. Goaltending coach Manny Legace also will not be back after five seasons on the job.
“I’m not going to dissect the strengths and weaknesses of the coaches that got let go today, out of respect to them,” Kekalainen said. “But it was a lot of things that factored in that made us come to this conclusion, and it was absolutely necessary to make these moves.”
Larsen, 45, was a Blue Jackets assistant for seven years under Tortorella and predecessor Brad Richards before getting promoted.
When Blue Jackets President John Davidson and Kekalainen chose Larsen in 2021 over more experienced coaches, including Gerard Gallant and Rick Tocchet, they cited his communication skills and thought his institutional knowledge of the organization made him the best fit. Kekalainen said Larsen had earned the promotion and that he was “going to be a fresh, new voice.”
Larsen at the time said some patience would be needed.
“I’m going to learn more now,” he said at his introductory news conference. "I’m going to make mistakes — I promise you — but that’s part of the process.”
That process in Columbus will continue without Larsen. It may include Connor Bedard, the prospective No. 1 pick in the draft who is considered the most talented generational player since Connor McDavid entered the league in 2015. The Blue Jackets have the second-highest chance, 13.5%, of landing Bedard.
Winning the lottery could change the course of the franchise that came into existence in 2000 and has not gotten past the second round of the playoffs. Kekalainen said he was not going to rush into anything in the interview process and would see how the rest of the NHL landscape looks before hiring a coach.
He won't necessarily wait until after the lottery is drawn on May 8 to make a hire based on the outcome, even though it could affect immediate expectations.
“I don’t know if that would be the deciding factor,” Kekalainen said. “If the decision’s not made by then, it’s something that factors into what kind of team we have here next year. All those things go into the process of evaluating the next head coach and who it should be.”
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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Consovoy McCarthy PLLC's founding partner, Will Consovoy, died last night. He was surrounded by his family. He will be missed by all who knew him to be a great lawyer and a better friend.
"Most of the legal community knows of Will because of his brilliant analytical mind. With good reason. He was an exceptionally skilled writer and among the top advocates of his generation. And he was widely respected throughout the legal world for his unique skill as a litigation strategist," said Tom McCarthy, co-founder of the firm. "But to those lucky enough to count him as a friend, Will was so much more than that. He had a huge heart and was the most loyal of friends. Always putting others' interests before his own, Will went out of his way to help a friend or family member in need. He loved to make other people smile—and loved even more to make them laugh. It is his love, loyalty, and laughter that we will miss most of all."
Will's impact on the law was enormous. A graduate of Monmouth University and George Mason's Antonin Scalia Law School, Will clerked in Arlington County Circuit Court and for the Honorable Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before clerking for the Honorable Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following his clerkships, Will worked at Wiley Rein, where he was instrumental in litigating Supreme Court cases challenging the University of Texas's use of race in admissions (Fisher v. Texas) and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (Shelby County v. Holder).
In 2014, Will left Wiley Rein with Tom to start Consovoy McCarthy PLLC. There he spearheaded landmark lawsuits against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, both of which were argued in the Supreme Court this fall. At Consovoy McCarthy, Will represented businesses large and small, numerous states and local governments, non-profit organizations, individuals seeking fair and just treatment, and a sitting President of the United States. During that time, Will personally argued two Supreme Court cases, Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins and Evenwel v. Abbott.
Under his watch and steady guidance, the firm grew from two lawyers to more than 20 in eight years. Will believed passionately in providing every client the highest quality representation, no matter the forum. And he believed just as passionately in providing opportunities for young lawyers to gain experience; during his time at the firm, five other Consovoy McCarthy attorneys argued in the Supreme Court and a sixth will argue next month.
"Will insisted that the lawyers he hired be given every opportunity to improve themselves," said his friend and law partner, Patrick Strawbridge. "He was the most loyal and decent person I knew. He cared about those around him more than he did about himself, and nothing made him happier than to see the ones he loved having a good time—whether it was at an oral argument, a football game, a blackjack table, a Springsteen concert, or the beach."
Consistent with his Jersey roots, Will was an ardent fan of the Philadelphia sports teams, especially the Philadelphia Eagles, and perhaps an even bigger fan of Bruce Springsteen. Among his happiest moments was attending Super Bowl LII to see the Eagles beat the Patriots. He was a devoted uncle to his niece, Lila, who he often referred to as "his favorite person in the world."
Will married the love of his life, Masa Anisic, in 2020. She died in April 2021 following a brief battle with cancer.
Will is survived by his father, Andrew Consovoy; his mother, Linda Whalen; his stepfather, Bernie Whalen; his sister, Amanda Consovoy; and his niece, Lila. There will be a celebration of his life at a later date.
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Leverages Planful's AI Engine to Quickly Build Forecast Scenarios; Business User Experience Supports Enterprise Collaboration, Accelerates Planning Cycles
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, today announced the availability of Predict: Projections, the latest addition to its Planful Predict suite of AI and ML applications, and a new experience for business users to update plans, forecasts, and budgets within the platform, reducing friction across the business. Announced at Planful Perform 2022, these innovations give finance and accounting professionals, and the broader business, groundbreaking new ways to improve the speed, accuracy, and interconnectedness of their budgets and forecasts.
Predict, introduced in 2021 with the release of Predict: Signals, is a Planful-developed proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) engine designed specifically for financial data. Predict: Projections significantly extends the suite's capabilities and effectiveness by enabling users to quickly build accurate, AI-driven budgets and forecast scenarios.
Planful's new business user experience brings together finance and non-finance users in a collaborative, one-stop experience. This enables budget managers to advance their insights into actuals and trends and allows finance users to up-level their insights into the business' financial state. It also connects finance users with non-finance users in an AI-driven process to create more accurate forecasts in the shortest possible time.
"The office of the CFO is undergoing an historic digital transformation as we enter the Golden Age of CFO technology," noted Sanjay Vyas, Chief Technical Officer of Planful. "Predict: Projections and the new experience for business users are ideal examples of how AI can enable finance professionals to reduce errors, increase forecast accuracy, and tighten collaboration both within and outside of the finance department, ultimately bringing a new level of visibility and accuracy into forecasts and budgets."
Intelligent Financial Decision Making
Predict: Projections allows planners to create trusted forecasts that link plans to business outcomes without bias. It uses a proprietary mix of AI and machine learning algorithms to generate a forecast that reflects the inherent trends, seasonality, and other variables the Planful AI engine has learned from historical data.
Andrew Chatfield, Planful's Chief Product Officer, noted "The majority of AI solutions are unable to handle the nuances of financial data, such as negative values, missing periods, and intersectional, calculated data. This is why we spent two years of R&D to build our own proprietary AI engine upon which the Predict suite of applications is built."
A Human In The Loop (HITL) capability in Predict: Projections gives users the ability to leverage the AI-generated forecast or adjust the AI-generated projections to their preference when finalizing forecast numbers. A detailed, visual context around projected numbers and adjustments makes the AI generated values easily understandable to end users, enabling them to compare actuals, AI-generated projections, and adjusted projections to make more fast, informed decisions.
A Business User Experience Based on Smart Collaboration Improves Alignment
Planful's reimagined business user experience is a major step forward in the preparation of accurate, actionable forecasts and budgets. By sharing smart templates with business teams, Finance can rapidly expedite the data gathering and aggregation process as well as minimize the need for data requests and repeated manual follow-ups. This allows everyone to focus more of their time on high-value analysis and less on menial, manual, and error-prone work.
Business users can use this new experience to work on budgets and plans knowing the context behind the numbers. The collaborative aspect of the new capability eliminates much of the friction caused when business users are forced to work with confusing or inaccurate data, which saves hours while increasing forecast accuracy.
"It's more important than ever for the Office of the CFO to have access to accurate, data-driven forecasts," said Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. "With this release, Planful is helping to lead the way in enabling business users across the organization to collaborate on forecast accuracy with modern AI/ML technology."
To learn more visit Planful Predict.
About Planful
Planful is the pioneer of cloud financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday's, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.
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Mike Balado's tenure as Arkansas State men's basketball coach has come to a close.
Arkansas State University fired Balado on Thursday after buying out the final year of his contract, which was extended last March through the 2023-24 season. Balado, 47, went 82-100 over six seasons with the Red Wolves, never winning more than eight Sun Belt Conference games in a single season.
First reported Thursday morning by Stadium's Jeff Goodman, ASU made the news official in the afternoon through a news release.
"We want to thank Coach Balado for his service and contributions to our men's basketball program and Arkansas State University the past six years," Athletic Director Jeff Purinton wrote.
"We appreciate the hard work and time he committed to the program, as well as the way his student-athletes have represented us on the court and in the community."
Balado's extension came with a provision that saw its buyout drop in half -- from $350,000 to $187,500 -- if the Red Wolves failed to win a regular-season Sun Belt Conference title or win 10 league games or reach either the NCAA or NIT tournaments in 2022-23. ASU went 13-20 this season, finishing just 4-14 in Sun Belt play before exiting in the second round of the conference tournament.
After winning their Sun Belt opener at Old Dominion on Dec. 29, the Red Wolves lost 10 straight games and 13 of their next 14.
"I have nothing but great things to say about [Jonesboro] and the people in it, and they've made this a very special place for me and my family," Balado said in the release. "I'm very proud of the players we've recruited here and that we've been able to graduate 100 percent of our seniors who exhausted their eligibility.
"To all the players who have played for me, I want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the program, as well as me and my family."
The firing came after the only winning season of Balado's six seasons as a Division I head coach, all at ASU. The Red Wolves went 18-11 during the 2022-23 season but finished 8-7 in the Sun Belt, good for sixth in the conference.
That was also with a pair of future high-major players who later transferred in Norchad Omier -- a third-team All-ACC honoree at Miami -- and Desi Sills, who averaged 8.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists for a Kansas State team that earned a No. 3 seed in this year's NCAA Tournament.
Under Balado, ASU never advanced past the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament, and as a program, the Red Wolves have won at least 20 games in a season just once this century -- they went 20-12 in 2016-17 under Grant McCasland, who departed for North Texas after one season at ASU.
Adding to ASU's wounds, freshman Terrance Ford announced via Twitter on Thursday morning that he had put his name into the transfer portal. The Chicago native played for Victory Rock Prep in Bradenton, Fla., a program from which Balado has recruited previously.
Ford finished the year as the Red Wolves' third-leading scorer, averaging 10.8 points per game and shooting 40.6% on three-pointers, but came on late in the year -- he scored double-figure points in eight of ASU's last 10 games.
Purinton added that the Red Wolves will immediately begin a national search for the program's 17th head coach.
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It is 1941. The Nazis are about to lay siege to Leningrad, and the city's residents take refuge in the Hermitage museum.
There we meet Marina, a young museum worker whose story moves between Russia in World War II and the present, where she is about to attend her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle. The modern-day Marina has Alzheimer's disease and is lost in the memories of her past.
The Madonnas of Leningrad is the first novel by Debra Dean, who was once an actress in New York. She tells Liane Hansen what moved her to begin writing and what the book taught her about the precious quality of memories.
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Putin's shadow looms large at Munich Security Conference
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine dominated discussions at the Munich Security Conference. Western leaders and diplomats had a clear message for the man in the Kremlin who started the war nearly a year ago.
Baerbock added, however, that it was up to the Russian leader. "He can decide that he changes his course by 360 degrees tomorrow," she said.
"If he doesn't change his mind, we stand on the side of Ukraine until they have freedom, peace and liberty again," Baerbock said.
Putin was not invited to the annual gathering of diplomatic, security and defense leaders, but he was mentioned — by name or indirectly — by almost every speaker.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on Ukraine's allies to "double down'' on their support.
"When Putin started this war, he gambled that our resolve would falter. Even now, he is betting we will lose our nerve,'' Sunak told the delegates on the second day of the three-day conference.
US Vice President Kamala Harris warned that hoping for a drop in the West's resolve to support Ukraine would be a miscalculation.
"If Putin thinks he can wait us out, he is badly mistaken," she said. "Time is not on his side."
"Kyiv is still standing, Russia is weakened, the trans-Atlantic alliance is stronger than ever, and, most importantly, the spirit of the Ukrainian people endures," Harris said.
That is just some of the reason why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Putin was facing a "day of reckoning."
"Look at what has happened, what Putin has done to his own country," Blinken said. "The course he is on is a strategic failure for him in the most graphic terms possible."
Territorial integrity 'not negotiable'
There was also another message for Putin about the face of a postwar Ukraine.
"We need to end this war with the respect of territorial integrity and also with a clear understanding that aggressors will pay for aggression," Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu told DW on the sidelines of the conference.
Estonia's FM urges European states to boost defense spending
It comes as China's top foreign policy official, Wang Yi, said Beijing would push for a "political settlement of the Ukraine crisis."
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed thjat Putin should not be rewarded for his invasion.
"The biggest risk of all is if Putin wins. If Putin wins in Ukraine, the message to him and other authoritarian leaders will be that they can use force to get what they want," he said.
Germany's Baerbock also ruled out territorial concessions to Russia, saying peace requires "that the one who has violated territorial integrity, namely Russia, withdraws its troops from the occupied country."
"World peace is based precisely on the fact that we all recognize the territorial integrity and sovereignty of every country," she said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said there could be "no concessions" made to Russia when it came to Ukrainian sovereignty and territory.
"No compromise is possible with regard to the territorial integrity of Ukraine or any other nation in the world," he said.
'Everything except Vladimir Putin is my retirement plan'
Asked if he could imagine a time when Ukraine is at peace, Russia had completely withdrawn its forces from Ukrainian territory, and he would be having negotiations with Putin, Kuleba replied: "Everything except Vladimir Putin is my retirement plan."
"I want to end the war. I want to go to the village and the countryside, live there in peace, raise ... see my children. I don't have to be old for that to happen. I'm ready for that to happen when the war is over," Kuleba said. "As long as Putin is in power, we'll be in trouble, because Ukraine is his personal obsession."
"The period between the moment when Putin is gone and the new leader emerges will be the period of opportunity for all of us," he said. "But we cannot forecast when that will happen."
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Show of support for abortion rights expected at US rallies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demonstrators facing down a Supreme Court decision that could overturn the constitutional right to abortion planned rallies from coast to coast Saturday to express their outrage – and to mobilize for the fight ahead.
More than 380 events were set from Maine to Hawaii, with the largest gatherings expected in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other big cities, organizers said.
In the nation’s capital, activists planned to gather at the Washington Monument before marching to the Supreme Court, which is now surrounded by a security fence.
Tens of thousands of people were expected at the “Bans off our Bodies” events, providing an outlet for anger and frustration for abortion rights activists after a leaked draft Supreme Court ruling suggested Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
“If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get,” said Rachel Carmona, executive director of the Women’s March.
Polls show that most Americans want to preserve access to abortion — at least in the earlier stages of pregnancy — but the Supreme Court appeared to be poised to let the states have the final say.
If that happens, roughly half of the states, mostly in the South and Midwest, are expected to quickly ban abortion.
The upcoming ruling stands to energize voters, potentially shaping the upcoming midterm elections.
Saturday’s rallies were being held three days after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade. Sponsors included the Women’s March, Move On, Planned Parenthood, UltraViolet, MoveOn, SEIU and other organizations.
Carmona said the fight will continue at polling places, demonstrations and other venues “until we have a full restoration of our rights.”
“It’s no exaggeration to say that for the women of this country, this will be a summer of rage,” she said.
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ASHBURN, Va., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Renowned NFL wide receiver Stefon Diggs is making a name for himself on the field while actively making a positive impact off the field through his philanthropic efforts with the Diggs Deep Foundation. The Diggs Deep Foundation was established through Athletes Charitable, a division of United Charitable, with a vision to provide immediate and ongoing emotional support and financial assistance to children and their families in the DC area.
At the heart of the Diggs Deep Foundation is its mission to raise community awareness about the vital role that loving, healthy, and well-cared-for mothers play in their children's lives. The foundation aims to achieve this goal by creating life-changing experiences that alleviate stress and help families cope with their suffering.
Recently, the Diggs Deep Foundation organized an exceptional event that showcased the power of unity, community, and compassion. The All-Star Charity Basketball game, held at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, DC, drew an enthusiastic crowd of over 600 attendees. Participants included event co-hosts Trevon Diggs and Quinn Cook, as well as John Wall, P.J. Tucker, Damar Hamlin, Leonard Fournette, and more. The event was an entertaining sports spectacle and an opportunity for the foundation to give back to the community.
During the All-Star Charity Basketball game, the Diggs Deep Foundation presented a $30,000 grant to The Tender Foundation, an organization dedicated to building a safety net for single mothers, empowering them to resist poverty and focus on what truly matters—their children. This contribution will make a tangible difference in the lives of these families, providing them with essential support and resources.
Building on this momentum, Stefon Diggs and the Diggs Deep Foundation are excited to announce the upcoming 2nd Annual Diggs Day Youth Football Camp. Taking place on June 17th, the Diggs Deep Camp is an incredible opportunity for children in the DC area to engage in a day of fun, learning, and personal growth.
You can contribute to the foundation by visiting the Diggs Deep Foundation donation page to support Stefon's impactful work.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform.
It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday. The attack involved computers from 114 countries, causing outages and delays in high school exams but failing to incapacitate the system, the ministry said.
The cyberattacks prompted a judicial investigation ordered by a Supreme Court prosecutor, to be assisted by the police’s cybercrime division.
“It is the most significant attack ever carried out against a Greek public or government organization,” the Education Ministry said, describing the incidents on Monday and Tuesday as “large-scale and of sustained duration.”
End-of year high school exams in Greece are administered using an online platform known as the Subject Bank, designed to to set a uniform standard nationwide.
The outages left students waiting in classrooms for hours for the exams to start and touched off a political spat, following an inconclusive general election earlier this month. A caretaker government has been appointed ahead of a new election on June 25, with the conservative New Democracy party, which headed the previous government, favorite to win re-election.
“All we’ve got so far is an arrogant abdication of responsibility of the New Democracy government, which for four years failed to take adequate digital protection measures to shield the Subject Bank platform and ensure that school examinations run smoothly,” said Popi Tsananidou, a spokeswoman for the main opposition party, left-wing Syriza.
Caretaker Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas chaired a meeting Tuesday on the attacks, which a statement from his office said “were of great intensity and indicate a strong motive and know-how.” But the statement made no reference to who might be responsible for the disruption.
It said the attacks had been “efficiently repelled” and Greek authorities would if necessary “mobilize whatever is needed to address cyberattacks in the immediate future.”
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(NEXSTAR) — It may seem early to be thinking about Thanksgiving, but experts are already predicting the holiday and its traditionally large meal will be expensive, especially the main course: the turkey.
Turkey prices ahead of Thanksgiving could reach record high prices, economists with the American Farm Bureau Foundation said last week.
Last month, the retail price for fresh boneless, skinless turkey breast hit a record high of $6.70 per pound, according to AFBF’s report. That’s 112% higher than the same time last year when it was around $3.16 per pound.
The last time turkey prices were this high was in 2015 when the U.S. was experiencing an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which is contributing to today’s record-high prices.
In February, the USDA warned of HPAI after it was found in three states, adding that it could spread rapidly and wreak havoc on the poultry industry. By early April, HPAI had spread to at least 20 states. The most recent data from the USDA shows cases have been confirmed in 40 states, with Iowa barring the brunt of the impact.
AFBF economists also point to inflation, which has reached levels Americans haven’t seen in years. In August, retail food prices were more than 11% higher than they were during the same time last year. Some of the hardest-hit items include staples of the holiday baking season, like butter, eggs, and flour.
Though turkey prices will likely be higher this year, economists say there shouldn’t be a problem with supply. But higher prices aren’t expected to ease anytime soon.
“The combination of lower production and increased demand will likely keep turkey prices higher for some time looking forward,” Bernt Nelson, an economist at the AFBF, told Nexstar.
AFBF hasn’t released its annual Thanksgiving meal cost projection for this year, but the prices for a number of common items are trending upward, the latest Labor Department data shows. That includes fresh biscuits, rolls, and muffins, which are up 17% over last year; frozen and refrigerated bakery items (like pies and tarts) are up 18%; canned fruit and vegetables at 16%; sauces and gravies at 17%; and potatoes at 15%.
Thanksgiving feasts were forecasted to be expensive last year, too. The AFBF predicted the average cost to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner would be around $53 in 2021, up from $47 in 2020. Since 2011, the average cost has hovered around $50 each year.
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Convinced that the boom in leisure travel is permanent, Airbnb aims to expand its listings by convincing more people to turn their homes into short-term rentals.
The company said Wednesday that it will increase the amount of liability coverage for hosts, up to $3 million, in a play for owners of nicer houses in high-cost places such as California. It will also pair newbies with a “superhost” to guide them through the process of becoming a short-term landlord, from signing up through welcoming their first guest.
More listings would not seem to be Airbnb’s biggest challenge.
CEO Brian Chesky says the San Francisco company is taking steps to make price more transparent when consumers browse Airbnb listings, and he predicts that will reduce sky-high cleaning fees that many hosts tack on well into the booking process — a major complaint of consumers.
The company also continues to try to crack down on large parties at rentals, a few of which have turned violent. And it faces efforts to increase regulation of short-term rentals.
Through it all, Airbnb has fared better than most travel companies during the pandemic. This month, it reported a record $1.21 billion profit for the third quarter. Its stock fell, however, because earnings and bookings were less than Wall Street expected and the company gave a cautious fourth-quarter outlook.
Investors worry that consumers paying more for food, gas and housing — and facing predictions of recession — will cut back on discretionary spending like travel, hurting Airbnb.
Some current hosts are worried that might already be happening. Last month, a post on a Facebook page for Airbnb “superhosts” asked, “Has anyone seen a huge decrease in bookings over the last 3 to 4 months? We went from at least 50% occupancy to literally 0% in the last two months.”
Other hosts on social media have suggested theories ranging from a fragile economy to pent-up travel demand finally running out, and some think the problem might be that Airbnb already has too many listings.
AirDNA, which tracks short-term-rental numbers, said Airbnb listed nearly 1.4 million rentals in the U.S. in September, a 23% jump from a year earlier and 9% over 2019. Nearly two-thirds were added since 2020. The trends are similar for global listings.
Chesky said in an interview that Airbnb has enough hosts now — he didn’t say it has too many — but needs more because leisure travel will keep growing. And, he said, a recession could push more people to turn their homes into Airbnbs. After all, he likes to point out, Airbnb launched during the great recession in 2008.
“People are pulling back spending in tons of areas, but not travel,” he said. “And with a looming recession, we felt like more people than ever are going to want to make extra money.”
Potential hosts sometimes hesitate, Chesky said, because they are uncomfortable having strangers in their homes. The company’s response is to triple the amount of coverage for hosts — from $1 million to $3 million — against damage, including to vehicles, boats and a wider range of art on the property.
Chesky is betting that will persuade more owners of nice homes to list them on Airbnb.
“Exactly, and home values have increased since we wrote the $1 million plan,” he said. “We just noticed more than 20% of the homes on Airbnb, and maybe even more than that, were over the $1 million limit in value.”
The company said it is also launching a system to verify the identity of guests and flag potential parties, immediately in the U.S. and Canada and worldwide by next spring. Chesky said the system is “not a silver bullet,” and he didn’t provide many details but said in the U.S. it will include a check of criminal and sex-offender records.
In the meantime, the company is working on a plan to display the all-in price of a stay up front on its app and website — an amount that would include cleaning fees, which can be very high and only appear later in the booking process.
Chesky said he didn’t want to bar or cap cleaning fees — that’s a decision for hosts, he said. But including fees in the upfront price — and in the order in which search results are displayed — “is going to correct the market,” he said.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Torrid Holdings (NYSE: CURV) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted in July 2021 (the "IPO"), of the important January 17, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Torrid securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Torrid class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9874 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 17, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO's offering documents failed to disclose the following material facts: (1) in the first half of 2021, Torrid had experienced a temporary surge in demand as a result of changed consumer behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and government stimulus and that such ephemeral demand trends had dissipated and were not internally projected to continue following the IPO; (2) Torrid was suffering from severe supply chain disruptions caused by the emergence of the Delta variant of COVID-19, which had first emerged in May 2021; (3) Torrid was running materially below historical inventory levels as a result of supply chain disruptions; (4) as a result, Torrid did not have sufficient inventory to meet expected consumer demand for its fiscal third quarter of 2021; (5) as a result, late inventory arrival had materially impaired the Company from effectively matching consumer buying trends, creating an undisclosed risk of increased markdowns and promotional activities necessary to sell undesirable inventory; (6) Torrid's CFO planned to retire shortly after the IPO; and (7) as a result of the above, the Registration Statement's representations regarding Torrid's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the IPO, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
To join the Torrid class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9874 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Solutions from seals, bearings, and belts to AC motors and hydraulic pumps, valves, and power units are available from a wide range of industry-leading suppliers.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation, a trading brand of RS Group plc (LSE: RS1), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, continues to broaden its extensive array of motion control products for automation applications. Solutions spanning seals, bearings, and belts to AC motors and hydraulic pumps, valves, and power units are available from industry-leading suppliers including SKF USA Inc., CR Seals, Encoder Products Company, Goodyear Belts, Toshiba Motors & Drives, and Nachi America Hydraulics.
Allied offers nearly 850 in-stock solutions and dozens of drop-ship solutions from SKF USA Inc., a leading global supplier of motion control technologies, including roller bearings, ball bearings, bearing accessories, bearing maintenance solutions, and bearing sensor solutions. SKF's deep-groove ball bearings are amongst its most versatile and widely used motion control solutions and are well stocked at Allied. These bearings exhibit low friction and are optimized for low noise and vibration, enabling high rotational speeds. They also accommodate radial and axial leads in both directions, are easy to install, and require less maintenance than competing bearings.
Allied also offers more than 140 in-stock seals from SKF brand CR Seals, which has been part of SKF since 1990 and is globally renowned for improving uptime, bolstering bottom lines, and consistently outperforming the competition on the test bench and in the field.
Encoder Products Company (EPC) is another well-known worldwide motion control manufacturer available through Allied. EPC produces the most comprehensive line of incremental and absolute rotary encoders in the industry to provide customers in diverse markets with quality products backed by expert support and also offers mounting and programming kits to hasten and ease installation. Its 15T Series Accu-Coder incremental through-bore encoders offer high-performance feedback in a low-profile package and feature an integral bearing set and innovative, flexible mounting system that's more tolerant to axial misalignment and radial shaft runout than modular and kit encoders. They are also easy to install and rated for operating temperatures up to 100°C or 120°C, which allows connected servo motors to operate at higher power outputs and duty cycles.
Goodyear Belts' industrial belts are ideally suited for motion control applications, and Allied offers more than 280 in-stock solutions, including classic and narrow, cogged and wrapped belts featuring highly engineered synthetic rubber compounds and proprietary adhesion layers for superior tensile strength and long-lasting performance. Built to enable more compact and higher-torque drive designs in industrial applications that require premium performance, its 5VX Series narrow cogged V-belts feature molded cogs for excellent flexibility, precision ground sides for maximum pulley contact, durable EPDM rubber compounds, adhesive rubber for added integrity, high-strength synthetic tensile cords designed to minimize tension decay and required maintenance, and static-conductive and oil- and abrasion-resistant covers.
Solutions from Toshiba Motors & Drives are also available through Allied and are designed to deliver superior product quality, performance, and durability in a wide range of motion control applications. Based on the trusted and proven EQPIII Series motors and named for efficiency, quality, and performance, its EQP Global SD Series motors offer NEMA Premium motors with enhanced rotors, frames, brackets, fans, and bearings and are designed to optimize motor efficiency to reduce electrical power consumption and costs and improve system reliability.
Allied also offers a variety of motion control solutions from Nachi America Hydraulics, which is known for its world-class pumps, valves, flow controls, and hydraulic power units, its competitive pricing, and its ready availability. In-stock solutions include NNP Series hydraulic power units, which have a compact design equipped with SAE ports for easy connectivity and are optimized for low power consumption and reduced heat generation, power loss, and noise, and IPH Series hydraulic pumps, which are equipped with a patented axial and radial pressure loading system that provides high-efficiency performances and generates up to 30MPa, a modified involute short-toothed gear that significantly reduces pulsation and enables exceptionally quiet operation, and a simple structure that delivers exceptional durability and makes maintenance and inspections easier.
For more information about Allied's selection of motion control solutions, including motion controllers, AC drives, motor drives, motors and motor controls, and encoders, please click the links embedded here or click through to access relevant content from Allied's Expert Advice series. For assistance identifying and deploying motion control solutions that provide high-efficiency, long-lifetime performance in your automation applications, please contact your local Allied representative at 1.866.433.5722 or reach out to Allied's technical support team.
Allied Electronics & Automation, part of RS Group
Allied Electronics & Automation is a trading brand of RS Group plc, a leading global omni-channel industrial product and service solutions provider to customers who are involved in designing, building, and maintaining industrial equipment and operations, safely and sustainably. RS Group plc stocks more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provides a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 million industrial customers. With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship nearly 60,000 parcels daily.
We support customers across the product life cycle, whether via innovation and technical support at the design phase, improving time to market and productivity at the build phase, or reducing purchasing costs and optimizing inventory in the maintenance phase. We offer our customers tailored product and service propositions that are essential for the successful operation of their businesses and help them save time and money.
RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1 and in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022, reported revenue of $3.3 billion.
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MISSOULA - A small single-engine airplane crash landed at the Missoula airport just after 10 a.m. on Monday, sending the lone occupant to the hospital.
Airport Deputy Director Tim Damrow tells MTN News it appears there was an issue on landing.
The airport had emergency crews out there immediately, but Damrow tells us there was no fire.
They did transport the pilot to the hospital. We do not know the victim’s condition.
The airstrip was closed for about 90 minutes and some flights were diverted to Kalispell.
The airport opened up abound 11:30 a.m. and those diverted flights were expected to return to Missoula.
We have no information yet on the type of plane involved.
Crews remain on the scene to remove debris and to assess the circumstances of the accident.
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(The Hill) — A new Eli Lilly experimental drug has helped patients lose 24 percent of their weight, according to new mid-stage clinical trial results.
The results, released on Monday, followed 338 adults, nearly 52 percent of whom were men, who were obese or overweight and had either received Eli Lilly’s retatrutide injection or a placebo treatment.
Eli Lilly’s retatrutide is a weekly injection that changes the way patients eat, which leads to the patient having a decreased appetite by mimicking certain hormones in the gut, according to CNBC.
Retatrutide is also comparable to Eli Lilly’s other obesity drug, Mounjaro.
Mounjaro, which can also be used for Type 2 diabetes treatment, helped patients lose 21 percent of their body weight in a clinical trial, CNBC reported.
The phase two trial saw patients who took a 12-milligram dose of retatrutide lose 17.5 percent of their weight after 24 weeks, compared with patients who lost 1.6 percent of their body weight in the placebo group.
After 48 weeks, patients using retatrutide lost 24.2 percent of their body fat, as those who took a placebo lost 2.1 percent of their body weight.
In their conclusion, the trial researchers said that retatrutide treatment resulted in substantial reductions in body weight for those who took the medication.
This comes as retatrutide has three different hunger-regulating hormones: GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. These hormones help with the drug being more potent in curbing a person’s appetite and satisfaction with food.
Eli Lily is currently recruiting patients for a phase three trial, CNBC reported.
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IRVING, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Texas Commission has announced recipients of the organization's 2022 Regional Leadership. The awards recognize North Texas organizations and individuals who have had a lasting impact shaping the region.
The North Texas Commission's Regional Awards Selection Committee convened in early August to determine who would receive the awards. Out of more than 50 nominees, nine recipients were selected to receive the Awards, including business leaders, elected officials, civic leaders, and organizations. Honoring the memory of the organization's former president/CEO Dan Petty, the North Texas Commission also established the Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award, announced for the first time during the Commission's 51st Annual Members' Luncheon.
"These nine unique awards represent the significance of our region's public and private sector leaders and the importance of collaboration in North Texas. These past few years have reminded us that we are better together as we work as one, unified region to tackle our challenges and work on future growth opportunities," said Chris Wallace, the NTC's President and CEO.
Recipients of the 2022 Regional Leadership Awards are:
Civic Leadership Award: Dr. Susan Bohn, Aledo ISD – In addition to serving as Superintendent of Aledo ISD, Dr. Bohn is an engaged and active member of her North Texas community. By forging meaningful relationships with leaders in the region, she has created strategies to help boost economic development and collaboration.
Corporate/Organization Leadership Award: DFW International Airport – DFW Airport serves as a major economic generator for the North Texas region. The organization supports over 200,000 full-time jobs, promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion through programs like their Capacity Building Program Series, and works to enhance infrastructure development through various sustainable design projects such as the Terminal D expansion, which incorporated sustainable approaches and products to reduce energy usage.
Diversity Leadership Award: Wendy Lopez, AECOM – As one of the most significant female leaders within AECOM, Wendy Lopez has had the power to influence positive change across the region. As a gay female in a male-dominated industry, Wendy has worked with her peers and colleagues to help grow AECOM's diversity, equity, and inclusion focus. As a top female executive in North Texas, Wendy has been able to encourage members of the LGBTQ community and young engineers to be themselves.
Education Leadership Award: Dr. James Hurley, Tarleton State University – Since becoming president of Tarleton State University in 2019, Dr. Hurley has shown his commitment to education. Through the creation of partnerships with regional school districts and two-year colleges, he has deepened the university's commitment to educational attainment and affordability for all North Texas students.
Elected Official Leadership Award: Councilmember Adam McGough, City of Dallas – Throughout time as a Dallas City Councilmember, Adam McGough has made significant contributions to the North Texas region. McGough has served on the City of Dallas's Public Safety committee, Regional Transportation Council, and TEX-21. During his time as an elected official, Councilmember McGough has championed the voice of the underrepresented and has been known to bridge gaps, provide solutions, and mitigate disagreement and dissension inside of his council.
Philanthropy Award: Anthony Mbroh, Mbroh Engineering – Anthony Mbroh, PE, is an advocate and a leader who has devoted his time to supporting various North Texas non-profit organizations over the past 25 years. Tony's philanthropic endeavors include mentoring disadvantaged students, donating his time to help small businesses grow, and supporting the ongoing education at the University of Dallas.
Social Impact Award: University Crossroads, The University of Texas at Arlington – For more than three decades, University Crossroads has been helping students navigate the road to higher education by providing services that focus on college awareness, readiness, and access; career exploration; and financial literacy. Through the help of community partners, the organization is able to offer these services free of charge to more than 40,000 students annually across North Texas.
Rising Star Award: Kyle Riley, HNTB – Kyle Riley has not only become a leader in the HNTB organization but as a rising leader in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Kyle currently leads the HNTB Fort Worth office, has been appointed to the Downtown FTW Inc. board, is an Leadership North Texas Alumnus, and participates in several local chambers. As he continues to rise in his career, Kyle will continue to make a positive impact in the region.
Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award: Victor Vandergriff – Recognizes a visionary leader who has demonstrated a history of pioneering solutions across a wide spectrum of sectors and needs.
Established in 1971, the North Texas Commission is a unique public-private partnership that drives large impactful projects and legislative issues benefiting a robust 13-county region, and tackles the region's greatest challenges with board and staff subject matter experts who provide resources to market the region and educate future leaders. The Commission also manages the region's unified advocacy voice at the state and federal levels.
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SALEM, N.H., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standex International Corporation (NYSE: SXI) announced today that David Dunbar, President & CEO, will be presenting at Baird's 2022 Global Industrial Conference in Chicago on Thursday, November 10, 2022.
Interested parties may access the Company's presentation on the Investor Relations section of Standex's website under the subheading, Events and Presentations, located on the Company's website standex.com.
Standex International Corporation is a global multi-industry manufacturer in five broad business segments: Electronics, Engraving, Scientific, Engineering Technologies, and Specialty Solutions with operations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, India and China. For additional information, visit the Company's website standex.com.
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis man has been found guilty of killing of a 94-year-old woman in his care nearly five years ago.
A jury found Tommie Coffer Jr., 58, guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Geneva Richardson in her Florissant home in December 2017.
Prosecutors said Coffer killed the older woman after she confronted him over accusations that he had forged several of Richardson’s personal checks to pay himself $7,000. Police said Coffer beat the woman to death with a skillet, then stabbed her to death.
Prosecutors said Coffer used a ride-share service the night Richardson was killed to leave her home, and records show he was dropped off at an intersection in Ferguson. Police found evidence tied to the crime scene — including a bloody pillowcase belonging to Richardson — at spots close to where Coffer was dropped off, prosecutors said.
Coffer faces life in prison when he’s sentenced next month.
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U.S. border policy is stuck in the past. The expiration of Title 42 gives the U.S. government another chance to effectively manage migration and border security, but it will be successful only if it addresses the reality of Western Hemisphere migration.
Our deterrence policies and enforcement infrastructure were built decades ago for single adult men seeking employment. Since 2013, vulnerable populations — unaccompanied children, families and vulnerable adults seeking refuge — have dominated border arrivals. Successive administrations, no matter how draconian or punitive their chosen policies, have been unable to prevent migrants from arriving at the border.
The last three years have seen a firm commitment to Title 42, public health guidance implemented in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic that expelled most border crossers without granting them an asylum interview. This policy was an abject failure at preventing the spread of COVID-19. The side effect was that it was absolutely terrible for border enforcement.
Without any real legal penalties for unauthorized crossing, Title 42 incentivized migrants to try again and again to get across the border and drove border encounter numbers to very high levels. The U.S. government needs a nimble, flexible approach that can adapt to the constantly changing demographics of migrants at the border.
The Biden administration has released the contours of a regional plan to address migration that attempts to prevent many migrants from requesting asylum at the border through a combination of deterrence initiatives and alternative legal pathways.
The deterrence initiatives presume migrants are ineligible for asylum in the United States if they enter without documentation and have traveled through another country where they could ask for protection. These restrictions on asylum concern advocates, who rightfully are worried about the impact on vulnerable people who need protection in the U.S. rather than elsewhere in the region.
The use of alternative legal pathways has shown some success. The family sponsorship program for Venezuela significantly decreased encounters of Venezuelans since the program launched. Additional programs for Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans will hopefully be just as effective. The announcement of increased refugee resettlement, regional processing centers and agreements to share resettlement across other nations in the region is promising.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app, which allows migrants to request asylum appointments, is a good idea but poorly executed, with too few appointments and design flaws that hinder its usefulness.
The success of all these efforts will depend greatly on swift and effective implementation. The administration’s plan isn’t perfect, but it has some strong components. The next few months will show whether these new policies can effectively manage migration.
But the missing piece in all of this is, of course, Congress. Even the best border policies won’t be as effective as they could be without an equally robust legal immigration system, which only Congress can provide.
For many migrants, asylum is the only legal pathway to the U.S., creating huge backlogs in our asylum system. Many in Congress are focused on the idea of reforming our asylum system, but continuing to try to “fix” asylum won’t stop people from coming to the border. The U.S. certainly needs additional immigration judges. We probably need to streamline asylum processing. But changing the rules on who deserves protection in the U.S. won’t solve the problem.
Lawmakers from both parties championed Title 42 and urged the Biden administration to keep it in place, despite its ineffectiveness. There is even bipartisan legislation that, if passed, would reinstitute a Title 42-like border enforcement mechanism but without the veneer of keeping Americans healthy.
This is disappointing. A government serious about managing its border would not maintain a policy that contributed to dysfunction like Title 42 did.
The return to regular immigration processing has been a bit boring so far. The five-year bars to reentry for unlawful crossers are likely encouraging some to wait for their chance to gain access at a port of entry. But given the scale of the refugee crisis in our region, returning to the policies designed for migration patterns from 20 years ago won’t work for long.
The migrants leaving home for a better life in the U.S. need our laws to provide them another legal way to enter. Permanent, sustainable change to the U.S. immigration system can be done only with legislation.
If Congress is serious about the border, it has the power to legislate good changes. I remain hopeful it will.
Laura Collins is director of the George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative in Dallas. She wrote this column for the Chicago Tribune.
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FanDuel promo code gives $3,000 first bet offer for Super Bowl Sunday
You can place your first bet for up to $3,000 on the Super Bowl following the redemption of the FanDuel promo code.
FanDuel is one of the best NFL betting sites on the market for new players, and the FanDuel promo code is a big reason why they’re as successful as they are. You simply won’t find any welcome offer that offers you a first bet on the house for more than FanDuel’s $3,000 no sweat first bet.
This year’s Super Bowl matchup one of the most anticipated in NFL history, with the winner being a toss-up in the eyes of all the major sportsbooks. This game will have millions of eyes on it, and you can be one of the millions betting on the game by redeeming the FanDuel promo code.
FanDuel promo code for Super Bowl Sunday
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Whereas some sportsbooks require you to type in a promo code when signing up, you can redeem the FanDuel welcome offer without the use of one.
Just place a bet on any Super Bowl market you want after you make your initial deposit. This bet can be up to $3,000, and you don’t have to sweat losing since your stake will be refunded in bonus bets if you lose.
FanDuel Sportsbook Super Bowl bets to wager on
The latest FanDuel Sportsbook odds for the Super Bowl above show Pennsylvania’s own Philadelphia Eagles being favorited to win the game over the Kansas City Chiefs by 1.5 points.
I don’t advise wagering on the moneyline unless you feel particularly strong about one of these teams. These teams had the same record, same number of Pro Bowlers, and scored the same amount of points per game. Additionally, these teams led the NFL in sacks and had the two MVP frontrunners at quarterback, making it a coin-toss when trying to determine a winner.
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Woman, 25, dies after being swept over 170-foot waterfall
EMERALD BAY, Calif. (KCRA) - Deputies in California say a 25-year-old tourist near Lake Tahoe died when she was swept over the edge of a waterfall by rushing water.
First responders issued a warning to tourists to be careful when visiting waterfalls near Lake Tahoe after the July 4 death of 25-year-old Ishrat Binta Azim, of San Francisco.
El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies say Azim died while visiting Eagle Falls, a powerful, 170-foot-long waterfall. Deputies say Azim got into the water, and the fast current swept her over the edge. Her body was later found in a pool of water near the Vikingsholm walking path.
First responders always warn about being safe around the cliffs and waterfalls near Lake Tahoe, but they say this year is even more dangerous with the above-average snow melt.
Some tourists say they respect the stunning views but keep a safe distance away. Others were crawling over wet rocks near the waterfall Friday afternoon and playing in the water.
Before visiting the falls, Mike Matranga shared the news of Azim’s death with his teenage children and their friends to make them aware of the dangers.
“This is one of the things I wanted to point out to them was, ‘Hey, this is dangerous, you know? The water’s moving extremely fast,’” he said.
Deputies do not suspect foul play in Azim’s death. The coroner will determine her exact cause of death.
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Amiah Manlove used most of her savings to buy a $711 airline ticket to go home for the holidays. Then the Army private got stuck midway through the over 4,000-mile journey from Hawaii to Indianapolis and had to sleep on an airport floor.
Manlove, 20, an active-duty soldier stationed in Oahu, was among the many travelers whose holiday plans were upended when Southwest Airlines canceled wave after wave of flights across the country. Her father then spent his rent money to buy her a new flight after she was stranded at the Phoenix airport.
“This is the only time that I have to come home, the time we were going to cherish most for the next year — and to lose any of it is just devastating,” said Manlove, who was finally able to make it home the afternoon of Christmas Day. “They would have done anything in their power to get me home.”
Travelers who are in the military are often on fixed schedules that make it challenging to roll with the punches of chaotic airline breakdowns.
The Army typically shuts down basic training and advanced individual training schools for a 10-day break during the Christmas season. Active-duty soldiers can use some of their 30 days of accrued annual leave if they want to travel home during that period, but transportation costs aren’t covered.
While she was stranded, Manlove’s family searched frantically for solutions, and her father, a home health aide who relies on disability payments, used the $650 he saved for rent to purchase the only flight he could find — a one-way flight to Louisville, Kentucky, a two-hour drive from Indianapolis.
When he came to pick her up, they were so happy to be reunited that he was in tears before she opened the door to get in the car, she said.
“It was heartbreaking,” she said.
Manlove, who is scheduled to fly back to Hawaii on Sunday, said she has not been able to reach Southwest on the phone to get a refund. She called more than 10 times and reached out on social media. The airline expected to resume normal operations on Friday.
The family still doesn’t know how her father is going to pay rent, she said. For now, they’ve just been trying to enjoy the time they have together.
“It put a lot of stress on me because I have so many friends and family to see, and 10 days is not a lot,” she said. “It’s not like I can just call my leadership and be like, ‘Oh, hey, can I have some more time?’ That’s not how that works.”
“I’m sure their hearts would be just as heavy as mine, telling them what happened, but I have a duty and a job to do, and I can’t spend all the time in the world here at home.”
Crystal and Steve Molidor in Trout Creek, Montana, said they’ve been waiting 15 months to see their son, who serves in the Air Force and just returned to the U.S. from being deployed. He is now stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, and his mother said his flight home on Southwest Airlines has been canceled at least four times already.
“We lost four plus days and Christmas with him due to their complete incompetence,” she said. “We can’t extend his trip because he can’t change up his leave dates at this point.”
Crystal Molidor said she was on hold with Southwest for six hours Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday morning trying to reach a customer service representative, but wasn’t able to get through to anyone. When she woke up Wednesday, she tried again but gave up after a few more hours of silence.
She said the family finally decided to spend a couple hundred dollars to schedule a flight home for him on a different airline for Thursday, she said.
“I know this isn’t a lot of money – it’s more the stress they’ve caused our family and the principle of it,” she said. “To continue to let people rebook instead of looking at other options when they knew the flights would be canceled is wrong. Had they been honest upfront, we could have gotten him here a few days sooner.”
“I’ll just be glad when he’s home,” she said.
Veterans have faced their own challenges. Air Force veteran Kevin Moffitt was finally able to schedule a flight home to Atlanta for Thursday after being stuck since Monday in Philadelphia, where he flew last week to visit family for Christmas.
The 51-year-old, who served in Afghanistan and now works in law enforcement, said the delays caused him to miss work and a long-awaited appointment for a scan he needs for back pain at the veteran’s hospital.
He said he had to spend $579 with Delta for his new flight after being rescheduled multiple times by Southwest. He said he tried calling Southwest five times to discuss a refund but to no avail. On Wednesday, he received an email from the airline telling him he was getting a $15 refund with no context explaining what it was for.
Meanwhile, he’s been paying to park his car at the Atlanta airport on top of a $50-a-day charge to board his dog.
But he said his biggest concern was that he ran out of medication he relies on to treat his PTSD. When he misses a day, he experiences nausea, vomiting and severe headaches, among other symptoms.
“Hopefully nothing goes wrong,” he said of his next flight. “I’m hoping and praying nothing happens.”
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Fresh Capital Used to Build on Trial Library's Mission to Improve Health Equity by Expanding Access to Cancer Precision Medicine
Spearheaded by Dr. Hala Borno, Leading UCSF oncologist and Health Equity Researcher
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial Library, Inc., an oncology clinical trials company, today announced it has come out of stealth mode and received its first funding to address the need for equity in patient recruitment to oncology clinical trials. The $5 million seed round was led by Deena Shakir, Partner at Lux Capital, with participation from Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTŪRES, Unseen Capital, as well as other notable angel investors. This investment supports the growing need for more inclusivity in oncology clinical trials, and will expand the usage of the Trial Library platform among community oncologists who are patients' trusted sources for advice on clinical trials.
After a decade of researching inequities in clinical trials with a team of veteran researchers and best-in-class physicians in cancer digital health, Trial Library CEO and founder Dr. Hala Borno, a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) oncologist and experienced health equity researcher, introduced a new, tech-enabled approach that prioritizes the need for diverse and underrepresented patient groups. While advancements in personalized oncology therapeutics continue to produce astounding results, not all patients are afforded the opportunity to receive the latest therapies available. Along with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Steve Buck, former vice president and general manager at Ro Pharmacy and an accomplished healthcare entrepreneur who co-founded cancersurvivalrates.com and RxDividends (a company sold to GoodRx that he joined as a co-founder), the two have built Trial Library's virtual care navigation platform with 24/7 delivery. As a result, patients who decide to participate in a clinical trial will be supported throughout their journey to a clinical trial site.
"The lack of equity in access is a huge barrier that needs to be solved," said Trial Library CEO and founder Dr. Hala Borno. "As a society, we've invested so much into exciting new biotech therapies and we're optimistic that many of these personalized treatments will extend patients' lives. However, there are still many obstacles that exist, and we aim to combat the barriers experienced by all participants in our research ecosystem - the patients, providers and researchers."
"The flow of a more diverse set of patients in trials is an important and measurable outcome that will only come if community oncologists are motivated to participate," said co-founder and Chief Product Officer Steve Buck. "About half of all patients undergoing treatment for cancer rely upon a community oncologist for advice on next steps. If these clinicians are not actively exploring nearby trial opportunities, there's little chance a patient will find out about a trial or go to one on their own. We need to promote engagement with community providers through a combination of better technology and reimbursement opportunities. Trial Library will be the go to for community providers that have been overlooked to date."
Research indicates that 90% of patients and physicians do not participate in oncology clinical trials.1 Trial inclusion and exclusion criteria have become more complex for oncology practices attempting to screen for eligible patients. As a result, participation in trials, especially among community oncology practices, has fallen far down on the list of priorities for oncologists treating patients. A net outcome is that racial and ethnic minorities and women are far less likely to be offered and recruited into clinical trials compared to non-Hispanic white men.2
"There is a renewed need and desire from the major stakeholders in healthcare to start facilitating more inclusive clinical trials, especially as it relates to cancer precision medicine, in order to achieve broader health equity goals," said Deena Shakir, Partner at Lux Capital. "Trial Library's deep understanding of this complex space has enabled them to align on incentives and stakeholders, and build a platform that patients, providers and researchers can trust. For years, Dr. Borno has been my go-to diligence call for all things precision medicine, and I couldn't be more excited to back her and Steve in their effort to take this vision to market."
"Growing up, many of my family members lost hard-fought battles to cancer. It brings joy to my heart to know that we can look to technology, community support, and research to be our superpowers in defeating health inequities and improving clinical outcomes," said Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTŪRES. "We fundamentally believe that Trial Library's strategy of enabling physicians to provide contextually relevant awareness and enrollment pathways is novel and promising. It's been an honor to partner with Dr. Borno and Steve, as their combined experiences represent hope and promise in an industry chock-full of competition."
"The lack of representation in clinical trials has had significant ramifications on the design and outcome of oncology treatments," said Dr. Ivor Horn, an advisor toUnseen Capital. "Trial Library has an incredible potential to tackle the systemic barriers underrepresented individuals face in accessing clinicals trials."
How it Works
Trial Library aims to solve the lack of equity in clinical trial participation in two ways. Initially, Trial Library targets the "first mile" problem by providing fair reimbursement to local, community oncology practices who today are offered little, if any, reimbursement for pre-screening and managing patient referrals to trials. The company reimburses community oncology practices for its time and effort of screening patients for nearby trials. Oncology practices can use the Trial Library website to discover paid pre-screening opportunities and register to participate in a few keystrokes.
Second, Trial Library solves the "last mile" problem by providing patients, many with limited economic means and resources, with navigation support to get to clinical trial sites regardless of distance. The company provides free "Ally" navigator services that are available 24/7 to direct patients to resources for travel, logistics, food, or other support needed. Trial Library also taps into many social determinants of health assessment tools to help personalize support.
Trial Library has support from a host of credible partners including the Association of Community Cancer Centers, UCSF, as well as advisors such as Dr. Alan Ashworth from UCSF, and noted health equity researchers like Dr. Lori Pierce from the University of Michigan and Dr. Robert A. Winn from Virginia Commonwealth University.
About Trial Library
Trial Library is an oncology clinical trials company helping patients, providers, and pharmaceutical sponsors of clinical trials. With an unprecedented level of investment in cancer research that is poised to produce a vast new array of therapeutic options, Trial Library seeks to improve access for all patients right when therapies are available. For more information, visit us at TrialLibrary.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
1 "MAKING THE CASE FOR ONCOLOGY CLINICAL RESEARCH" American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 2020. https://www.asco.org/sites/new-www.asco.org/files/content-files/research-and-progress/documents/2020-ASCO-RCF-MakingCaseOncologyResearch-AtaGlance.pdf
2 "Clinical Trial Enrollment of Racial, Ethnic, and Underrepresented Groups—Leveraging a Digital Infrastructure" JAMA Oncology, August 5, 2021. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2782739
Contact:
Hala Borno
hala.borno@triallibrary.com
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Inflation hit a new record for the 19 countries that use the euro as skyrocketing fuel prices boosted by the war in Ukraine add new burdens to household finances and weigh on a slowing economic recovery from the latest outbreaks of COVID-19.
Annual inflation hit 7.5% for April, the highest since statistics started in 1997 and the sixth record in a row, topping the old record of 7.4% from March, the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat reported Friday.
Energy prices jumped a startling 38%, a testimony to how the war and the accompanying global energy crunch are affecting the eurozone’s 343 million people.
Fears that the war may lead to an interruption of oil or gas supplies from Russia, the world’s largest oil exporter, have pushed prices for oil and natural gas higher. That comes on top of rebounding global demand amid recovery from the pandemic downturn and a cautious approach to increasing production from oil cartel OPEC and allied countries including Russia.
High inflation is reverberating through politics and the economy, as governments enact cash support for hard hit households. Germany is dropping a charge for supporting renewable energy on electric bills, saving a family of four around 300 euros ($317) a year. Germany’s IG Metall industrial union is proposing an 8.2% annual increase for the country’s steelworkers going into wage talks.
And fear of even higher heating, electricity and auto fuel prices are one factor holding back European governments from deciding to halt energy imports from Russia as part of the sanctions over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Inflation is also putting uncomfortable pressure on the European Central Bank to look at raising interest rates from record lows in coming months. Higher rates to quell inflation could also weigh on a recovery that has been shaken by the energy crunch, the war, and the latest outbreaks of COVID-19.
Growth in the 19 EU member countries that use the euro slowed to 0.2% in the first three months of the year as voluntary and government restrictions during the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus joined with higher inflation to hold back demand as people made less use of in-person services. The first quarter figure was down from 0.3% in the last three months of 2021.
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The fifth and final Texas event of the PGA Tour season will take place this week at Colonial Country Club.
It's the week after a major championship but a strong field is still headed to the Lone Star State. The event is headlined by world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth, but there are at least a dozen other notable names making the trip.
As an invitational, the field is limited to just 120 players to start the week. The low 65 and ties will still advance through the 36-hole cutline.
Michael Block wouldn't normally fall in the "notable names" bucket but he became a fan favorite at Oak Hill last week and his story is getting shared across the country, not being limited to just golf fans. The PGA club pro, who tied for 15th during a remarkable performance at the PGA Championship, received a sponsor's invite to play Colonial, so we'll see if he can build on that momentum from last week.
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PLAYERS TO WATCH
Scottie Scheffler
You have to go back to October to find the last finish outside of the top 12 for Scheffler. He regained the world No. 1 title after last week's runner-up finish at Oak Hill. He also posted a runner-up finish at Colonial last year. That really improved his course resume, which previously only featured a T-55 (2020) and a missed cut (2021). He's the clear betting favorite to start the week, and for good reason, when you look at his body of work this season.
Jordan Spieth
He's had to overcome wrist troubles in the last few weeks but played all four rounds at Oak Hill without having to withdraw. He was optimistic after his T-29 finish at the PGA Championship, saying, "I feel good. I feel like I'm going to just trend back upwards in that direction that I was a month ago." Spieth has posted top-15s in nine of 10 starts at Colonial, so he's a top target in all formats, as long as there are no setbacks with the wrist.
Sam Burns
The LSU product was hovering near the bottom of the leaderboard last week at the PGA Championship and he missed the cut in his previous start (Wells Fargo Championship). The bookmakers aren't forecasting a prolonged slump, though, as they have him priced eighth on the odds board. He's the defending champ, so he will have some good vibes as he attempts to snap out of this little lull.
Rickie Fowler
Had his first down week of 2023, missing the cut at Oak Hill. He's been trending toward a big finish all season, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see him bounce back right away. On the flip side, he has just three top-35s in nine tries at Colonial Country Club.
Tony Finau
Colonial is considered a less-than-driver layout by most, but Finau is someone that really takes an aggressive route at this classic course and it's paid off in the past. "I do think it's a golf course you have the opportunity to push it up if you want to, and I was able to take advantage of some of my length," he has said. He's bagged top-35s in all seven trips to Colonial, including a runner-up finish in 2019 and T-4 last year.
RANKING THE FIELD
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Tony Finau
3. Viktor Hovland
4. Collin Morikawa
5. Jordan Spieth
6. Max Homa
7. Sungjae Im
8. Justin Rose
9. Tommy Fleetwood
10. Rickie Fowler
11. Chris Kirk
12. Sam Burns
13. Denny McCarthy
14. Si Woo Kim
15. Russell Henley
16. Brendon Todd
17. Cam Davis
18. Davis Riley
19. Brian Harman
20. Tom Hoge
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During MWC 2023, Huawei launched three solutions — Huawei FTTR OptiXstar F30, industry's first commercial 50G PON, and Huawei OptiX Alps-WDM, solutions designed for all-optical home, ultra-broadband access, and all-optical metro network fields. While helping operators build E2E green all-optical networks to support high-quality development of all services, these solutions also support smooth evolution to F5.5G networks and striding to 10Gbps Everywhere.
- In the all-optical home field, Huawei FTTR OptiXstar F30 is the industry's first all-optical FTTR networking product that runs on the C-WAN architecture to achieve six major improvements:
- Aesthetics: Four colors and three installation modes allow it to blend in perfectly with the design of a modern home.
- Speed: Hardware acceleration and algorithm optimization ensure 2000 Mbps connection throughout the entire house.
- Coverage: Multi-beam smart antennas improve coverage by around 30%.
- Roaming: Huawei's innovative seamless roaming coordinated network (SRCN) algorithm enables imperceptible roaming in the entire house.
- Concurrency: Multi-device collaboration minimizes Wi-Fi interference and allows up to 128 devices to connect concurrently.
- Service: One-stop premium 5A[1] service capabilities enable operators to deliver premium installation, maintenance, and operation services. Huawei FTTR OptiXstar F30 enables users to enjoy a digital life and helps operators to enhance broadband competitiveness. It has opened up a trillion-dollar market. - In the ultra-broadband access field, Huawei 50G PON is the industry's first commercial solution to implement the following functions:
- It provides high-density symmetrical 50G PON to meet the increasing bandwidth requirements in future campus, industrial interconnection, enterprise, and home scenarios.
- It uses an innovative tapered amplifier and a superlattice reflection structure to increase the optical power budget by around 25% and enable ODN deployment on the live network without re-cabling.
- It integrates GPON, 10G PON, and 50G PON into one port, allowing for service upgrade on demand and minimizing investment costs for operators.
As a next-generation PON technology defined by ITU-T, the 50G PON effectively supports 10Gbps Everywhere. Huawei's innovative 50G PON solution provides a TCO-effective evolution path for operators to upgrade their networks to 10G.
- In the all-optical metro network field, Huawei OptiX Alps-WDM solution provides four capabilities:
- Agile: This capability extends OXC to the network edge and enables one-hop optical connection and flexible grooming on the entire network, improving network connectivity performance and shortening service provisioning time from months to minutes.
- Long-Term: The metro-oriented innovative 100G coherent module helps move 100G OTN to CO, improving bandwidth by 10 times and reducing costs remarkably.
- Pooling: By using the wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology to integrate nine traditional subracks into one module, this architecture allows nine access rings to share 96 wavelengths, significantly improving wavelength efficiency and reducing equipment room footprint.
- Simplified: This capability attaches digital optical labels to wavelengths and uses a centralized management and control unit to achieve automatic planning, construction, and O&M, thereby reducing OPEX.
Huawei's OptiX Alps-WDM solution with these four capabilities build a simplified architecture and provide the ultimate experience. They help redefine green all-optical networks and meet operators' requirements for developing B2C, B2H, and B2B services. They will support service evolution in the coming decade.
Richard Jin, President of Huawei's Optical Business Product Line, said, "From F5G to F5.5G, more than planning the future, we create it. Today, gigabit connectivity is rapidly growing more popular around the world. Looking towards 2025, diversified network requirements will require ubiquitous 10-gigabit connectivity. All industries need to work together to embrace F5.5G and stride to 10Gbps Everywhere. Huawei will join hands with global operators to accelerate network upgrade and the application of new technologies, helping operators continuously expand their business boundaries and seize opportunities with ultimate user experience to lead the future."
MWC 2023 will run from February 27 to March 2 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei will showcase its products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1. Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we will dive into topics such as 5G business success, 5.5G opportunities, green development, digital transformation, and our vision of using the GUIDE business blueprint to build on the success of 5G for even greater prosperity of 5.5G. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/cn/events/mwc2023
[1] 5A: Accurate Planning, Agile Installation, All-in Acceptance, Active Assurance, and Attentive Care
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Pro Forma RevPAR Increases 78%; 2019 RevPAR Recapture Rate Reaches New Quarterly High
Completed the Acquisition of $822 Million 27-Hotel NewcrestImage Portfolio
Accretive Transaction Activity Continues with Pending Acquisition of AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell and Pending Sale of Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North
AUSTIN, Texas, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) (the "Company"), today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
"Our operating results continue to improve as we have begun to see a more meaningful increase in demand segments beyond the robust leisure travel demand that has driven the industry's results in the early part of the recovery. We were particularly encouraged by the sequential monthly improvements we experienced across all operating and financial metrics, including first quarter hotel-level profitability that was more than three times higher compared to a year ago. President's Day weekend again served as a notable demand inflection point across our portfolio, culminating with March RevPAR of $120 – a 87% recapture to 2019 – and hotel EBITDA margin of 40%, the highest we have achieved since the onset of the pandemic," said Jonathan P. Stanner, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
"In January, we closed on the previously announced acquisition of 27 hotels from NewcrestImage, which represented the largest transaction in the Company's history and significantly increased our presence in high growth Sun Belt markets. We are also excited to announce the pending acquisition of the newly developed dual-branded AC Hotel by Marriott and Element located in the rapidly growing Brickell submarket of Miami. The transaction represents our first exercised option in connection with our mezzanine lending program. Since the onset of the pandemic, we have closed or announced the acquisition of nearly $1 billion of high-quality hotels. In addition, our joint venture with GIC has entered into an agreement to sell the Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North hotel for $75 million, or $444,000 per key, nearly 30% higher than what we acquired the hotel for in 2019. Collectively, these transactions demonstrate our ability to thoughtfully and opportunistically allocate capital, and we remain well positioned for future growth," continued Mr. Stanner.
First Quarter 2022 Summary
- Net Loss: Net loss attributable to common stockholders improved to $12.4 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $35.1 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021.
- Pro forma RevPAR: Pro forma RevPAR increased 77.9 percent to $97.09 compared to the first quarter of 2021. Pro forma ADR increased 47.5 percent to $151.97 compared to the same period in 2021, and pro forma occupancy increased 20.6 percent to 63.9 percent.
- Same Store RevPAR: Same Store RevPAR increased 87.6 percent to $98.30 compared to the first quarter of 2021. Same store ADR increased 49.5 percent to $155.63 compared to the same period in 2021, and same store occupancy increased 25.5 percent to 63.2 percent.
- Pro Forma Hotel EBITDA(1): Pro forma hotel EBITDA increased to $47.3 million from $15.8 million in the same period in 2021. Pro forma hotel EBITDA margin expanded to 32.6 percent from 19.7 percent in the same period of 2021.
- Same Store Hotel EBITDA(1): Same store hotel EBITDA increased to $33.8 million from $7.7 million in the same period in 2021. Same store hotel EBITDA margin expanded to 31.2 percent from 13.3 percent in the same period of 2021.
- Adjusted EBITDAre(1): Adjusted EBITDAre increased to $32.9 million from $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2021.
- Adjusted FFO(1): Adjusted FFO was $20.1 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, compared to ($6.9) million, or ($0.07) per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2021.
The Company's results for the three months ended March 31, 2022, are as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
Monthly Operating Data
Transaction Activity
During the first quarter, the Company completed the previously announced 27-hotel portfolio acquisition through its existing joint venture with GIC from affiliates of NewcrestImage. The transaction included 27 hotels totaling 3,709 guestrooms, two parking structures, and various financial incentives. The total consideration for the transaction is comprised of $776.5 million, or $209,000 per key, for the 27-hotel portfolio, $24.8 million for the two parking structures, and $20.7 million for the various financial incentives.
Pending Transactions
Acquisition of the AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell
Subsequent to quarter-end, the Company exercised its initial equity purchase option to acquire a 90% interest in the newly constructed, dual-branded 264-guestroom AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell (the "Brickell Hotels"). The option price was based on a gross hotel valuation of $89.0 million, or $337,000 per key, and the Company expects to fund its estimated $38 million equity requirement with the conversion of the previously funded $30 million mezzanine construction loan, which earned 9% cash interest during the loan term, and $8 million in cash. The transaction will be funded with the assumption of an estimated $47 million mortgage loan that will have a variable interest rate of 30-day LIBOR + 300 basis points and maturity date of February 15, 2025.
Opened in December 2021, the Brickell Hotels are located in the heart of Brickell, a chic and vibrant neighborhood of downtown Miami, and adjacent to the Brickell City Centre - downtown Miami's landmark mixed-use development consisting of 5.4 million square feet of office, residential, retail and entertainment space. The Brickell Hotels' premier location creates a unique opportunity to capitalize on Miami's robust corporate and leisure demand growth. The Brickell Hotels feature Rosa Sky, a rooftop bar and lounge, an amenity deck with a pool, cabana seating, and outdoor bar, the AC lounge restaurant and bar, modern fitness center, nearly 5,000 square feet of meeting and event space, and 150 structured parking spaces in the property's garage.
The Miami market has been a leader in the lodging recovery during the pandemic ranking first in the nation in nominal RevPAR in both 2020 and 2021 and one of only three markets among the top 25 in the U.S. that surpassed 2019 RevPAR levels in 2021. The Miami market was the best performing top 25 market in the first quarter of 2022 surpassing the comparable 2019 RevPAR by 18%.
The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2022. The project was developed by an affiliate of Robert Finvarb Companies, LLC, an established Miami based developer, who will remain our joint venture partner with a 10% equity interest in the Brickell Hotels. Upon closing, a $10 million letter of credit that currently supports the equity purchase option will be released and the Company will retain the option to acquire the remaining 10% equity interest of the Brickell Hotels in December 2026.
Disposition of the Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company's joint venture with GIC entered into a contract to sell the 169-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North for total consideration of $75.0 million, or $444,000 per key. The transaction represents a 1.0% capitalization rate based on the hotel's net operating income after a 4% FF&E reserve for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022. The Company will also forego a comprehensive renovation that was scheduled for late 2022 estimated to be $7.1 million, or $42,000 per key, as a result of the sale.
The joint venture acquired the hotel in October 2019 for $58.0 million, or $343,000 per key, and the transaction is expected to result in a $20.5 million net gain on sale. Net proceeds from the transaction are estimated to be $73 million, of which the Company's share will be equal to approximately $37 million. The Company expects to use the net sale proceeds to repay indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes.
Capital Markets and Balance Sheet
On March 31, 2022, inclusive of its pro rata share of the Joint Venture debt, the Company had the following:
- Pro rata outstanding debt of $1.2 billion with a weighted average interest rate of 3.39 percent.
- After giving effect to interest rate derivative agreements, $839.0 million, or 69 percent, of our pro rata outstanding debt had fixed interest rates, and $377.2 million, or 31 percent, had variable interest rates.
- Pro rata unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $62.7 million.
- Revolving credit facility availability of $340.0 million, plus an additional $50.0 million available to borrow subject to certain requirements. The Company had no borrowings outstanding on its revolving credit facility.
- Total liquidity of $452.7 million, including unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and revolving credit facility availability.
Capital Improvements
The Company invested $10.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022 and plans to invest a total of $60.0 million to $80.0 million on a consolidated basis and $50.0 million to $70.0 million on a pro rata basis for the full year 2022. The Company anticipates completing or starting renovations at 13 hotels during the year, nine of which are expected to commence in the fourth quarter. Renovations expected to be complete by year-end include the Hilton Garden Inn Houston Energy Corridor, Hyatt Place Orlando Universal Studios, and SpringHill Suites Nashville MetroCenter.
Dividends
On April 29, 2022, the Company declared a quarterly cash preferred dividend of $0.390625 per share of the Company's 6.25% Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the dividend period ending on May 31, 2022, and a cash dividend of $0.3671875 per share of the Company's 5.875% Series F Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the dividend period ending on May 31, 2022.
The Company also declared on behalf of the operating partnership, distributions pertaining to the operating partnership's unregistered 5.25% Series Z Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Units that were issued as part of the recently completed NewcrestImage portfolio acquisition. The cash distributions are $0.328125 per unit for the units issued on January 13, 2022, and $0.249660 per unit for the units issued on March 23, 2022.
The dividends and distributions are payable on May 31, 2022, to holders of record as of May 17, 2022.
2022 Outlook
Given the continued uncertainty and volatility of the operating environment, the Company is not providing operational or earnings guidance at this time. However, the Company is providing its expectations for certain non-operational items based on 101 hotels owned as of March 31, 2022 and pending transaction activity including the acquisition of the 264-guestroom dual-branded AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell and the disposition of the 169-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North currently owned by the Company's joint venture with GIC, both of which are expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call
The Company will conduct its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 9:00 AM ET. To participate in the conference call, please follow the steps below:
- On May 4, 2022, dial 877-930-8101 approximately ten minutes before the call begins (8:50 AM ET).
- Enter conference identification code 3183004.
- Please state your full name and company affiliation and you will be connected to the call.
A live webcast of the quarterly conference call will be available through the Company's website, www.shpreit.com. A replay of the quarterly conference call webcast will be available until 12:00 PM ET Wednesday, May 11, 2022, by dialing 855-859-2056, conference identification code 3183004. A replay will also be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website until July 31, 2022.
About Summit Hotel Properties
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on owning premium-branded hotels with efficient operating models primarily in the Upscale segment of the lodging industry. As of May 3, 2022, the Company's portfolio consisted of 101 hotels, 61 of which are wholly owned, with a total of 15,228 guestrooms located in 24 states.
For additional information, please visit the Company's website, www.shpreit.com, and follow the Company on Twitter at @SummitHotel_INN. Investors and others should note that the Company routinely announces material information to investors and the marketplace using U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, press releases, public conference calls, webcasts, and the Investors section of the Company's website. The Company uses these channels as well as social media channels (e.g., the Company's Twitter account @SummitHotel_INN) as a means of disclosing information about the Company's business to our colleagues, investors, and the public. While not all the information that the Company posts to the Company's website or on the Company's social media channels is of a material nature, some information could be deemed to be material. Accordingly, the Company encourages investors, the media, and others interested in the Company to review the information that it shares on https://investor.shpreit.com/corporate-profile.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "intend," "expect," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "approximately," "believe," "could," "project," "predict," "forecast," "continue," "plan," "likely," "would" or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections, or other forward-looking information. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following: the Company's ability to realize growth from the allocation of capital; projections of the Company's cash corporate G&A, interest expense, capital expenditures or other financial items; descriptions of the Company's plans or objectives for future operations, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings; and descriptions of assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing expectations regarding the timing of their occurrence. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, not all of which are known to the Company and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the state of the U.S. economy, supply and demand in the hotel industry, and other factors as are described in greater detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Unless legally required, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
For information about the Company's business and financial results, please refer to the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC, and its quarterly and other periodic filings with the SEC. The Company undertakes no duty to update the statements in this release to conform the statements to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We disclose certain "non-GAAP financial measures," which are measures of our historical financial performance. Non-GAAP financial measures are financial measures not prescribed by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). These measures are as follows: (i) Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted Funds from Operations ("AFFO"), (ii) Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA"), Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate ("EBITDAre"), Adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA (as described below). We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP financial measures in the same manner. Our non-GAAP financial measures should be considered along with, but not as alternatives to, net income (loss) as a measure of our operating performance. Our non-GAAP financial measures may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures, property acquisitions, debt service obligations and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that our non-GAAP financial measures can enhance the understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily better indicators of any trend as compared to a comparable measure prescribed by GAAP such as net income (loss).
Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted FFO ("AFFO")
As defined by Nareit, FFO represents net income or loss (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding preferred dividends, gains (or losses) from sales of real property, impairment losses on real estate assets, items classified by GAAP as extraordinary, the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, plus depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, and adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships, and joint ventures. AFFO represents FFO excluding amortization of deferred financing costs, franchise fees, equity-based compensation expense, debt transaction costs, premiums on redemption of preferred shares, losses from net casualties, non-cash lease expense, non-cash interest income and non-cash income tax related adjustments to our deferred tax assets. Unless otherwise indicated, we present FFO and AFFO applicable to our common shares and common units. We present FFO and AFFO because we consider FFO and AFFO an important supplemental measure of our operational performance and believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO and AFFO when reporting their results. FFO and AFFO are intended to exclude GAAP historical cost depreciation and amortization, which assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes ratably over time. Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions. Because FFO and AFFO exclude depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, gains and losses from real property dispositions and impairment losses on real estate assets, FFO and AFFO provide performance measures that, when compared year over year, reflect the effect to operations from trends in occupancy, guestroom rates, operating costs, development activities and interest costs, providing perspective not immediately apparent from net income. Our computation of FFO differs slightly from the computation of Nareit-defined FFO related to the reporting of corporate depreciation and amortization expense. Our computation of FFO may also differ from the methodology for calculating FFO used by other equity REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such other REITs. FFO and AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to pay dividends or make distributions. Where indicated in this release, FFO is based on our computation of FFO and not the computation of Nareit-defined FFO unless otherwise noted.
EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDAre, and Hotel EBITDA
EBITDA
EBITDA represents net income or loss, excluding: (i) interest, (ii) income tax expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results. Our management team also uses EBITDA as one measure in determining the value of acquisitions and dispositions.
EBITDAre and Adjusted EBITDAre
EBITDAre is based on EBITDA and is expected to provide additional relevant information about REITs as real estate companies in support of growing interest among generalist investors. EBITDAre is intended to be a supplemental non-GAAP performance measure that is independent of a company's capital structure and will provide a uniform basis to measure the enterprise value of a company compared to other REITs.
EBITDAre, as defined by Nareit, is calculated as EBITDA, excluding: (i) loss and gains on disposition of property and (ii) asset impairments, if any. We believe EBITDAre is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.
We make additional adjustments to EBITDAre when evaluating our performance because we believe that the exclusion of certain additional non-recurring or certain non-cash items described below provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our ongoing operating performance. We believe that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDAre, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income, is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.
Hotel EBITDA
With respect to hotel EBITDA, we believe that excluding the effect of corporate-level expenses and non-cash items provides a more complete understanding of the operating results over which individual hotels and operators have direct control. We believe the property-level results provide investors with supplemental information on the ongoing operational performance of our hotels and effectiveness of the third-party management companies operating our business on a property-level basis.
We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP measures in the same manner. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative measure of our net income (loss) or operating performance. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures and property acquisitions and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA can enhance your understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily a better indicator of any trend as compared to a comparable GAAP measure such as net income (loss). Above, we include a quantitative reconciliation of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre and hotel EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial performance measure, which is net income (loss) and operating income (loss).
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Wall Street closed lower again, though a rally for Microsoft and some other Big Tech stocks helped limit the losses.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday after erasing an earlier gain. The index is coming off its worst day in a month, hurt by concerns about the strength of U.S. banks. The spotlight has been harshest on First Republic Bank, which lost another 30% after nearly halving the day before.
Microsoft helped stanch the market’s losses after it surged following a stronger profit report than analysts expected. Treasury yields were mixed.
On Wednesday:
The S&P 500 fell 15.64 points, or 0.4%, to 4,055.99.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 228.96 points, or 0.7%, to 33,301.87.
The Nasdaq composite rose 55.19 points, or 0.5% to 11,854.35.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 15.54 points, or 0.9%, to 1,730.41.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 77.53 points, or 1.9%.
The Dow is down 507.09 points, or 1.5%.
The Nasdaq is down 218.11 points, or 1.8%.
The Russell 2000 is down 61.09 points, or 3.4%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 216.49 points, or 5.6%.
The Dow is up 154.62 points, or 0.5%.
The Nasdaq is up 1,387.87 points, or 13.3%.
The Russell 2000 is down 30.83 points, or 1.8%.
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By JUAN LOZANO and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — One by one, they took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one, they insisted that further restricting access to firearms was not the answer to preventing future tragedies.
“The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens,” said former President Donald Trump, who was among the Republicans who lined up to speak before the gun rights lobbying group Friday as thousands of protesters angry about gun violence demonstrated outside.
“The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens,” he said Friday.
The gathering came just three days after the shooting in Uvalde and as the nation grappled with revelations that students trapped inside a classroom with the gunman repeatedly called 911 during the attack — one pleading “Please send the police now” — as officers waited in the hallway for more than 45 minutes.
The NRA had said that convention attendees would “reflect on” the shooting at the event and “pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure.”
The meeting was the first for the troubled organization since 2019, following a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization has been trying to regroup following a period of serious legal and financial turmoil that included a failed bankruptcy effort, a class-action lawsuit and a fraud investigation by New York’s attorney general. Once among the most powerful political organizations in the country, the NRA has seen its influence wane following a significant drop in political spending.
Wayne LaPierre, the group’s embattled chief executive, opened the program with remarks bemoaning the “21 beautiful lives ruthlessly and indiscriminately extinguished by a criminal monster.”
Still, he said that “restricting the fundamental human rights of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is not the answer. It never has been.”
Later, several hundred people in the auditorium stood and bowed their heads in a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting. Several thousand people were inside the auditorium during the speeches, which appeared fewer than the number gathered outside. Many seats were empty.
Trump accused Democrats of trying to exploit the tragedy and demonizing gun owners.
“When Joe Biden blamed the gun lobby he was talking about Americans like you,” Trump said, referring to the president’s emotional plea in a national address asking, “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”
Trump called for overhauling school security and the nation’s approach to mental health, telling the group every school building should have a single point of entry, strong exterior fencing, metal detectors and hardened classroom doors and every school should have a police officer or armed guard on duty at all times. He also called yet again for trained teachers to be able to carry concealed weapons in the classroom.
He and other speakers overlooked the security upgrades that were already in place at the elementary school and did not stop the gunman, who entered the building through a back door that had been propped open.
According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools have a wide range of safety measures in place. The district had four police officers and four support counselors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. It also had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.
Security experts say the Uvalde case illustrates how fortifying schools can backfire. A lock on the classroom door, for instance — one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures — kept victims in and police out.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who, like Trump, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2024, railed against Democrats’ calls for universal background checks for gun purchases and bans of assault-style weapons and instead pointed to broken families, declining church attendance, social media bullying and video games as the real problems.
“Tragedies like the event of this week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding that we see where our culture is failing,” he said. “We must not react to evil and tragedy by abandoning the Constitution or infringing on the rights of our law-abiding citizens.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another potential presidential contender, said calls to further restrict gun access are “all about control and it is garbage. I’m not buying it for a second and you shouldn’t, either.”
Some scheduled speakers and performers backed out of the event, including several Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act after the country’s latest mass shooting. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday morning that he had decided not to speak at an event breakfast after “prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials.”
“While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde,” he wrote in a statement.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was to attend, addressed the convention by prerecorded video instead.
Outside the convention hall, protesters gathered in a park where police set up metal barriers — some holding crosses with photos of the Uvalde shooting victims.
“Murderers!” some yelled in Spanish. “Shame on you!” others shouted at attendees.
Among the protesters was singer Little Joe, of the popular Tejano band Little Joe y La Familia, who said in the more than 60 years he’s spent touring the world, no other country he’s been to has faced as many mass shootings as the U.S.
“Of course, this is the best country in the world,” he said. “But what good does it do us if we can’t protect lives, especially of our children?”
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Abbott in the governor’s race, ticked off a list of previous school shootings and called on those attending the convention to “join us to make sure that this no longer happens in this country.”
While Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws after the Uvalde shooting, NRA board members and others attending the conference dismissed talk of banning or limiting access to firearms.
Samuel Thornburg, 43, a maintenance worker for Southwest Airlines in Houston who was attending the NRA meeting, said: “Guns are not evil. It’s the people that are committing the crime that are evil. Our schools need to be more locked. There need to be more guards.”
There is precedent for the NRA to gather during local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
Most U.S. adults think that mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get and believe schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling finds.
Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support. A May AP-NORC poll found, for instance, that 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons. But the numbers are highly partisan, with 75% percent of Democrats agreeing versus just 27% of Republicans.
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, guns were not permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed from Jefferson City, Missouri.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — With Fort Smith schools starting back up next week, a local salon is hosting a two-day braiding event, with discounts, for children to get their hair done.
House of Braids LLC is hosting its first Back to school Braid Extravaganza on Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20. Owner and operator Tanisha Tucker is welcoming parents to bring their children from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. to get their hair done at a discounted rate. Tucker is asking parents to bring extra braiding hair for the kids.
The salon is located at 104 N 17th Street just a few blocks away from Northside High School. There is no need to book any appointments and there will be free food for the wait as well as something special for the kids on Saturday.
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When Ken Thompson died on Oct. 18, 2021, his granddaughter struggled to accept the fact that he was gone.
Delainey Thompson, 16, of Taylor, didn't want to let her "Pappaw" go, and unbeknownst to her family and friends, she found a way to hold on to the close connection they shared.
Once a week or whenever there is a significant accomplishment in her life, Delainey reaches for her cellphone and sends a text message to her grandfather's old cellphone number.
She knows there is no one on the other end receiving the message, but the teenager said it is comforting just to feel like she is talking with him.
She said they were close and this was her way to stay connected.
'It always made me feel better," she said. "I would text him about stuff happening in school, about my trips, my dance — a variety of things."
Delainey, who was accepted into the National Honor Society at Taylor High School, believes that since she can't reach out to her grandfather, this is the next best thing to holding on to their bond.
But on May 30, something very unexpected occurred.
When she sent a text to his number that time, she got a response.
His telephone number had been put back into rotation and now belonged to someone else.
The message made the reality of the situation hit home for her, but it was the message from the unknown person on the other end that offered a different sense of comfort to the teenager, as well as the youngster's mother, Sharon Thompson.
"A woman texted me back and she figured by my text message that I was texting someone who had passed away," Delainey said. "She could have been annoyed that she was getting a text message from a stranger, but she wasn't. She was so kindhearted. She told me I could text the number anytime."
That meant the world to the teenager.
She is just now letting her mother and a few close friends in on what she had been doing.
"My friends thought it was sweet that I kept in contact that way," the teenager said. "They didn't think it was weird."
Sharon Thompson doesn't know much about the person who responded to her daughter, but there is no doubt in her mind that the person is a parent.
The stranger complimented Delainey on the "beautiful pictures" she shared and congratulated her on her school accomplishments.
"The text message said, 'I'm sure your Pappaw would be very proud of you,'" Sharon Thompson said. "They could have been rude about getting the text. I'm so touched at the generosity. It doesn't surprise me that Delainey would text him, but it just hits you right in the heart. They were close."
The mother is so moved by the care the recipient of the text message took to comfort her daughter and understanding how sensitive the situation must be to receive such a message.
She posted a message about her daughter's texting and the response she received on social media as a way of publicly saying thank you and showing the family's deepest gratitude.
Her daughter had no idea she was going to post anything on social media and was overwhelmed to see such positive responses reach well over the 2,300 mark.
"You didn't have to respond to her," the mom said on social media. "You didn't have to be so kind and uplifting. Thank you for being so kind to a broken-hearted teenage girl just wanting to 'talk' to her Pappaw. Thank you for taking the time to message her back and for sending the sweetest message. You made this mama's day."
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(NEXSTAR) — As Rihanna takes the halftime stage for Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII, it’s the perfect time to take a deep dive into her nearly 20-year discography. (Her first album was released in 2005.) As you come across the superstar’s 2016 single “This Is What You Came For,” with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, you may be surprised to learn one of pop music’s other biggest superstar women helped pen the song.
But she wasn’t originally listed on the credits for the dance track.
Instead, Harris and someone named “Nils Sjöberg” were credited as the songwriters. The mystery writer went unnoticed for a short while before reports surfaced that Sjöberg was none other than Harris’ former girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
Both Harris and Swift later confirmed it.
Swift, now 33, discussed her reasoning at the time, and then again in a November 2020 conversation with music legend Paul McCartney for Rolling Stone. As Swift explained, she hadn’t wanted her relationship with Harris to overshadow the song.
“I wrote under the name Nils Sjöberg because those are two of the most popular names of Swedish males,” Swift told McCartney. “And nobody knew for a while. I remembered always hearing that when Prince wrote ‘Manic Monday,’ they didn’t reveal it for a couple of months.”
But the story doesn’t stop there. (Warning: Relationship drama ahead.)
By the time “This Is What You Came For” hit radio, both Swift and Harris had broken up after about a year of dating, as timelined by Cosmopolitan and confirmed in 2016 by both stars via Twitter. In a tweet, Harris addressed the split, saying “the only truth is that a relationship came to an end and what remains is a huge amount of love and respect.” Swift retweeted the message.
But several months of tension between the pair would follow, especially after Swift soon began dating actor Tom Hiddleston.
It was widely speculated — though never publicly discussed by any involved — that the Swift-Harris relationship may have ended due to the Swift-Hiddleston relationship.
Long story made short: Harris and Swift scrubbed photos and mentions of each other from social media and unfollowed each other. Then, when news of the Swift’s “This Is What You Came For” penmanship surfaced, Harris seemingly downplayed Swift’s involvement in the song, tweeting: “I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and cut the vocals though.”
As Vanity Fair explains, after Harris’ assumed slight, a Swift representative responded with a seeming implication that Swift alone was responsible for the hit, saying: “Taylor Swift wrote ‘This Is What You Came For’ under the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg.”
In yet another (now deleted) tweet, Harris responded to the statement by saying, “I figure if you’re happy in your new relationship, you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do.”
While both Harris and Swift would follow up the social media barbs with songs that appearing to take jabs at each other (Swift’s 2017 album “Reputation” is believed to contain many references), the drama over “This Is What You Came For” appeared to die here.
Coincidentally, “Nils Sjöberg” was killed off in the video for Swift’s 2017 single “Look What You Made Me Do.” Shortly after, Harris addressed the song’s aftermath, telling British GQ the online drama was “completely the wrong instinct. I was protecting what I see as my one talent in the world being belittled. … Now I see that Twitter thing as a result of me succumbing to pressure. It took me a minute to realize that none of that matters.”
Ultimately, “This Is What You Came For” reached No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, though it was No. 1 on two other Billboard dance charts. It reached Nno. 1 chart status in 12 other countries, including Harris’ native Scotland.
Official credits for the song have since been updated with Swift’s real name.
Though it just missed the top spot in the U.S., the song nevertheless helped continue Rihanna’s long stretch of chart smashes. Altogether, Rihanna has won nine Grammy Awards and dozens of other industry accolades. Come March 12, she could earn her first Academy Award, with her song “Lift Me Up” from 2022’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” nominated for Best Original Song at the 95th annual ceremony.
Super Bowl LVII kicks off Sunday, Feb. 12 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
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Parents who talk more to their infants improve their babies' brain development, according to new research.
A team led by a University of Texas at Dallas neurodevelopment researcher is behind the study, which is among the most conclusive evidence showing a link between caregiver speech and an improvement in infant brain development. The study was published in the June edition of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Specifically, exposure to more words demonstrated a positive impact on long-term language progress in infants.
The research monitored babies at several stages; home language recordings were collected when the subjects were 9 months old and then again six months later, and MRIs were performed at 3 months and 6 months old, and at ages 1 and 2.
"This timing of home recordings was chosen because it straddles the emergence of words," corresponding author of the study and assistant professor of psychology Meghan Swanson said in a statement. "We wanted to capture both this prelinguistic, babbling time frame, as well as a point after or near the emergence of talking."
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The study explored how the brain's white matter develops in connection with caregiver speech. White matter in the brain is what facilitates communication between gray matter regions, which is where information processing takes place in the brain, explained a study breakdown via the University of Texas at Dallas.
The team, headed by Swanson, imaged several areas of white matter in baby brains, focusing on developing neurological pathways.
Infants who had heard more words showed signs that the structure of their white matter was slower to develop. This was evident by lower fractional anisotropy (FA) values, which is the metric for the freedom or restriction of water movement in the brain. FA values are used as a proxy for the progress of white matter development.
When the infants showing lower FA values — and thus slower developing white matter — after exposure to more words began to speak, they had better linguistic performance.
"As a brain matures, it becomes less plastic — networks get set in place. But from a neurobiological standpoint, infancy is unlike any other time. An infant brain seems to rely on a prolonged period of plasticity to learn certain skills," Swanson said. "The results show a clear, striking negative association between FA and child vocalization."
Co-first author of the paper Sharnya Govindaraj said at first researchers were surprised with the results.
"We initially didn't know how to interpret these negative associations that seemed very counterintuitive. The whole concept of neuroplasticity and absorbing new knowledge had to fall into place," Govindaraj said in a statement. "Which ability we're looking at also matters a great deal, because something like vision matures much earlier than language."
Swanson herself is a mother and said she was curious of the impact on her toddler, who is raised in a household using two languages.
"Raising a bilingual child, it is remarkable how she is not confused by languages, and she knows who she can use which language with," she said.
Swanson said the key takeaway is that parents have the power to help their children develop.
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(AP) — “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, pop star Ricky Martin and award-winning actress/singer Michaela Jae Rodriguez joined the Hispanic Federation this summer to launch an advocacy initiative to serve Latinx LGBTQ+ communities.
The Advance Change Together initiative will provide 20 Latinx nonprofits grants of $25,000 to $50,000 to support their efforts and infrastructure in those communities. The Hispanic Federation, the national nonprofit dedicated to Latino empowerment, will fund the initiative with a $1 million grant for the first two years. But it hopes to encourage other donors to support and expand the program, which will also convene a summit to set a national agenda for LGBTQ+ groups.
Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation said the initiative, announced in Florida, is a necessary expansion of the group’s existing work with the LGBTQ+ community.
“We have been identifying all this anti-LGBTQ legislation popping up around the country,” he said. “It’s an indication that once certain groups that have been focusing on abortion get the result they want from the Supreme Court, we’re forecasting that the next frontier is to intensify anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country. We’re seeing it right now.”
Miranda points to the recently passed so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida, which bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade, as well as the Pulse shooting in 2016, when 49 were killed at the Orlando LGBTQ+ nightclub, as examples of why the community needs more support.
“It is estimated that less than 1% of foundation funds go to Latinx organizations,” Miranda said. “When we apply that to LGBTQ-oriented organizations, we see that it’s much, much less. So this is our call for action. We are not going to wait.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda (no relation) said the Pulse shooting feels as though it happened yesterday. It’s a tragedy that he will always be connected to, because he immortalized it in his Tony acceptance speech for “Hamilton” — a sonnet remembered for the line “And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.”
“One of the deadliest shootings in our nation’s history was an act of hate against this community in Florida,” the “Encanto” composer told The Associated Press, calling the “Don’t Say Gay” law a “dispiriting” development. His Miranda Family Fund, as well as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, made additional contributions to the ACT initiative Tuesday.
“It’s such an important reminder that the hate that led to the Pulse shooting is not in the past,” he said. “And that laws like this do nothing but encourage and allow that hate to proliferate. So we just keep having to fight.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda credits his father — Luis Miranda Jr., co-founder of the MirRam Group, a political consulting firm that has worked on campaigns for Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — with encouraging him to speak out on social issues and show his support through actions.
“The way the world affects me is it makes me want to write and makes me want to make things,” he said, adding that the surprise No. 1 hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was his response to the COVID-19 lockdowns. “When it’s something like this – this horribly discriminatory law – and the question is ‘How do we help? How do we put our shoulder into it in a way that’s meaningful?’ I’ve got a dad who has dedicated his life to organizing and protests and putting that feeling of wanting to do something into practice.”
Ricky Martin said he wanted to become involved to battle those in power who he said look to create hate and division in the United States and Puerto Rico.
“There’s never been a more important time for communities and organizations to come together to empower one another,” Martin said in a statement. “With the ACT initiative, we’re uniting to remind Latinx LGBTQ+ organizations that they have the support they need to serve and empower their communities.”
The Hispanic Federation’s Miranda said the initiative will help Latino nonprofits reach their communities in their own way. At the launch event Tuesday, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his friend “In the Heights” actress Stephanie Beatriz, joined “Pose” actress Rodriguez and performer Valentina to bring attention to the initiative.
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ATHENS, Ga. — Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score and No. 1 Georgia shut down No. 2 Tennessee’s high-powered offense, dominating the Volunteers 27-13 on Saturday in an SEC showdown of the nation’s top-ranked teams.
In a deafening and soggy Sanford Stadium, Georgia led 27-6 before Tennessee scored its first touchdown with 4:15 remaining.
Bennett threw scoring passes of 37 yards to Ladd McConkey and 5 yards to Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint in the first half. Bennett also had a 13-yard scoring run.
Hendon Hooker, who entered as the Heisman Trophy frontrunner after taking down Alabama last month, passed for only 195 yards for Tennessee (8-1, 4-1) and was sacked six times by star defensive tackle Jalen Carter and the Bulldogs’ defense.
Hooker threw an interception, lost a fumble that nearly resulted in a safety for Georgia and didn’t throw a touchdown pass.
Tennessee’s final possession ended with Hooker dropped for no gain on a fourth-down run with less than 3 minutes remaining. The Volunteers came in averaging almost 50 points per game.
NO. 2 OHIO STATE 21, NORTHWESTERN 7
EVANSTON, Ill. — Miyan Williams ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes held on in rainy and windy conditions.
The Buckeyes (9-0, 6-0 Big Ten, No. 2 CFP) came in tied with Tennessee in the AP poll but didn’t score until the closing minutes of the first half, when Emeka Egbuka ran it in from the 15.
Williams gave Ohio State the lead with a 27-yard touchdown in the third quarter. He made it 21-7 when he scored from the 2 with about 4 1/2 minutes remaining in the game after C.J. Stroud broke a 44-yard run.
Stroud, the Big Ten leader in yards passing, set a career low with 76. He completed just 10 of 26 passes in his only game this year without a touchdown throw.
Evan Hull ran for 122 yards and a touchdown for the Wildcats (1-8, 1-5), who dropped their eighth straight, matching their worst skid since 1998.
NO. 7 TCU 34, TEXAS TECH 24
FORT WORTH, Texas — Derius Davis returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown and Kendre Miller ran for the go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter as TCU reached 9-0 for the first time since 2010.
Davis caught one of Max Duggan’s two fourth-quarter TD passes for the Horned Frogs, 6-0 in the Big 12.
The Red Raiders (4-5, 2-4) went ahead 17-13 in the third quarter on Tyler Shough’s 33-yard touchdown pass to J.J. Sparkman.
Miller surpassed 100 yards rushing for the sixth time in seven games, finishing with a season-high 158 yards on 21 carries. Duggan was 12 of 23 for 195 yards without an interception, giving him 24 TDs and two picks.
NO. 8 OREGON 49, COLORADO 10
BOULDER, Colo. — Bo Nix completed 20 of 24 passes for 274 yards and two TDs and caught a touchdown pass to key the rout on a windy day.
Oregon dialed up the gadget plays, including an offensive lineman catching a touchdown pass and a linebacker scoring from short, becoming the first FBS team to have a receiving TD from an offensive lineman, a receiving score from a quarterback, and a rushing TD by a defensive player in the same game since at least 1996, according to research provided by Oregon.
It was the eighth straight win for the Ducks (8-1, 6-0 Pac-12, No. 8 CFP) since a season-opening loss to No. 1 Georgia.
Offensive tackle Josh Conerly Jr. caught a 4-yard TD pass to open the scoring and linebacker Noah Sewell scored on a 1-yard plunge. Even Nix got into the trick-play act by catching an 18-yard touchdown pass from tailback Bucky Irving.
Freshman receiver Jordyn Tyson had five catches for 137 yards for the Buffaloes (1-8, 1-5), including an 81-yard score before being hurt late.
MICHIGAN STATE 23, NO. 14 Illinois 15
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —Payton Thorne passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns as Michigan State ended a troubling week on a positive note and kept alive its bowl hopes.
The Spartans (4-5, 2-4 Big Ten), who were without eight suspended players, stopped the Illini five times on fourth down. Illinois turned the ball over on downs three times in the red zone and went a combined 7 of 23 on third- and fourth-down attempts.
Spartans wideout Jayden Reed got loose for a 16-yard touchdown reception for a 23-7 lead with 2:57 to go and the defense did enough to halt a late comeback effort. Quarterback Tommy DeVito and the Illini (7-2, 4-2) stalled at the Spartans’ 25 when time expired.
NO. 16 PENN STATE 45, INDIANA 14
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Kaytron Allen ran for 86 yards and scored a season-high three times to as the Hoosiers lost their sixth straight.
Penn State (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) has won eight of the last nine in the series with Indiana (3-6, 1-5).
Nicholas Singleton started the scoring for Penn State with a 1-yard TD run. After Jack Tuttle tied the score with an 11-yard TD pass to AJ Barner, the Nittany Lions quickly took control.
Allen scored on runs of 11 and 6 yards on back-to-back, second-quarter possessions and Jack Pinegar closed out the half with a career-long 50-yard field goal to make it 24-7.
Allen’s 6-yard TD run in the third quarter sealed the victory.
NO. 17 NORTH CAROLINA 31, VIRGINIA 28
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Drake Maye threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as North Carolina rallied after halftime for the win.
Elijah Green scored twice and Josh Downs caught 15 passes, including a touchdown, for the Tar Heels (8-1, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 17 CFP), now 5-0 in league play for the first time since 2015.
Maye finished 26 for 37 for 293 yards and ran for 74 yards. Downs’ catches went for 166 yards.
Brennan Armstrong, Xavier Brown and Ronnie Walker ran for scores for the Cavaliers (3-6, 1-5), who were playing without three starting wide receivers and lost for the fifth time in six games.
KANSAS 37, NO. 18 OKLAHOMA STATE 16
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Devin Neal ran for 224 yards and a touchdown and had 110 receiving yards for Kansas to key the upset.
The Jayhawks (6-3, 3-3 Big 12 Conference) are bowl-eligible for the first time since 2008.
Kansas had 351 yards rushing, with Neal setting career highs in both rushing and receiving yards. Jason Bean went 18-for-23 passng for 203 yards with two touchdowns while rushing for a 72-yard touchdown.
The Cowboys (6-3, 3-3) played without quarterback Spencer Sanders. Freshman Garrett Rangel threw interceptions on the Cowboys’ first two drives and went 27 of 40 for 304 yards and two touchdowns. Bryan Green had nine catches for 105 yards.
NO. 19 TULANE 27, TULSA 13
TULSA, Okla. — Tyjae Spears ran for 157 yards and a touchdown and Shaadie Clayton-Johnson gained 106 as Tulane dominated on the ground.
Tulane (8-1, 5-0 American Athletic Conference) had lost the past two meetings with Tulsa (3-6, 1-4) in overtime.
The Hurricane gained 357 yards on the ground, with Spears and Johnson each running the ball 14 times.
Michael Pratt completed 11 of 19 passes for 125 yards for Tulane.
PITTSBURGH, 19, NO. 22 SYRACUSE 9
PITTSBURGH — Rodney Hammond ran for a career-high 124 yards and a touchdown while filling in for injured Israel Abanikanda as Pittsburgh handed Syracuse its third straight loss.
The Panthers (5-4, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) relied heavily on Hammond and a defense that kept Orange redshirt freshman quarterback Carlos Del Rio-Wilson in check in his first career start. Pitt sacked Del Rio-Wilson six times and limited the Orange (6-3, 3-2) to 145 total yards.
C’Bo Flemister added a short touchdown run for Pitt as the defending ACC champions righted themselves after three losses in four games.
Andre Szmyt hit three field goals for the Orange, who likely will fall out of the AP Top 25.
NO. 23 LIBERTY 21, ARKANSAS 19
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Johnathan Bennett threw three touchdown passes in the first half and Liberty used a late goal-line stop on a 2-point conversion to hang on.
Liberty (8-1) stopped KJ Jefferson’s conversion attempt with 1:11 left. The Razorbacks (5-4) scored 19 unanswered points on a field goal, safety, two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion. Jefferson took a shotgun snap up the middle on the conversion try and was marked short of the end zone near the goal line. Officials upheld the call after more than two minutes of review.
Liberty raced to a 21-point lead behind Bennett’s three first-half TD passes. Bennett finished 15 of 25 for 224 yards. But the Flames were outgained 250- 79 in the second half.
Jefferson was 23 of 37 passing for 284 yards with two touchdown passes, both to tight end Trey Knox, and two interceptions.
Arkansas entered with the sixth-ranked rushing game in FBS, averaging more than 244 yards. Liberty held Arkansas to 144, including just 60 from Rocket Sanders, the ninth-ranked rusher in the nation.
NO. 25 UCF 35, MEMPHIS 28
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mikey Keene passed for 219 yards and three touchdowns and RJ Harvey rushed for 151 yards and a score as UCF handed the Tigers their fourth straight loss.
Keene was pressed into his first start of the season for UCF (7-2, 4-1 American Athletic Conference) after quarterback John Rhys Plumlee suffered an injury in last weekend’s upset of nationally ranked Cincinnati.
Keene rallied the Knights, who were held scoreless in the third quarter, by tossing two fourth-quarter touchdowns. The first was a 13-yarder to Kobe Hudson early in the fourth quarter for a 28-21 UCF lead.
Quarterback Seth Henigan passed for 284 yards and a touchdown to lead Memphis (4-5, 2-4) but was intercepted twice. Henigan also led the Tigers with 69 rushing yards and a touchdown.
The Knights held Memphis scoreless on three trips inside the UCF 10-yard line in the first half.
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Funds will support relief, recovery efforts across impacted region
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truist Foundation today announced it is donating $250,000 to support relief and recovery efforts for South Carolina communities impacted by Hurricane Ian.
A portion of the donation will be made to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's (CDP) Atlantic Hurricane Season Recovery Fund for Hurricane Ian in South Carolina, specifically focused on medium- and long-term community needs such as rebuilding homes and livelihoods, mental health services and other challenges identified by communities that arise as recovery efforts progress.
"As hurricanes continue devastating communities across the Atlantic, from Puerto Rico to Florida to the Carolinas, Truist Foundation is committed to putting our purpose into action," said Lynette Bell, president of Truist Foundation. "This donation benefitting local nonprofit organizations in South Carolina will help provide immediate and long-term aid as these communities assess and address specific needs. Our heartfelt thoughts remain with those in the wake of these storms as the restoration process begins."
"As a company committed to care, it's important to meet moments like Hurricane Ian by focusing on how to best support the developing needs in real time," said Mike Brenan, South Carolina regional president for Truist. "While the full extent of damage from this hurricane is still coming to light, we want to ensure that communities across the state of South Carolina have the funding necessary to begin the recovery process as quickly as possible."
Yesterday, Truist Foundation announced $1 million in grants to support disaster relief efforts for communities impacted by Hurricane Ian in Florida. A significant portion of those funds will be directed to recovery efforts through the CDP's Atlantic Hurricane Season Recovery Fund for Hurricane Ian in Florida.
Earlier this year, Truist Foundation donated $1 million to the American Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program, designed to deploy assistance quickly to communities impacted by events such as Hurricane Ian. Those funds will help shelter and support thousands of families and individuals impacted by the storm.
About Truist Foundation
The Truist Foundation is committed to Truist Financial Corporation's (NYSE: TFC) purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities. Established in 2020, the foundation makes strategic investments in nonprofit organizations to help ensure the communities it serves have more opportunities for a better quality of life. The Truist Foundation's grants and activities focus on building career pathways to economic mobility and strengthening small businesses. Learn more at Truist.com/Purpose/Truist-Foundation.
About Truist
Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) is a purpose-driven financial services company committed to inspiring and building better lives and communities. Truist has leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country. The company offers a wide range of services including retail, small business and commercial banking; asset management; capital markets; commercial real estate; corporate and institutional banking; insurance; mortgage; payments; specialized lending; and wealth management. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is a top 10 U.S. commercial bank with total assets of $545 billion as of June 30, 2022. Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at Truist.com.
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Well, it was nice while it lasted.
For nearly a year, the average used vehicle in the United States had been edging toward affordable again for millions of people. The relief felt belated and relatively slight, but it was welcome nonetheless.
From an eye-watering peak of $31,400 in April of last year, the average price had dropped 14% to $27,125 early this month.
Now, with the supply of used vehicles failing to keep up with robust demand, prices are creeping up again, with signs pointing to further increases ahead. So many buyers have been priced out of the new-car market that fewer trade-ins are landing on dealer lots. Deepening the shortage, fewer used vehicles are coming off leases or being off-loaded by rental car companies.
Average list prices for used car have edged up by about $700 in the past month, and Alex Yurchenko, chief data officer for Black Book, which tracks prices, expects them to keep rising at least into summer.
“If you have to buy a used vehicle,” he suggested, “right now would be a good time.”
Pete Catalano, a dealer in Independence, Missouri, near Kansas City, has been struggling to get his hands on enough affordably priced cars. Typically, Catalano and his daughter, who co-own Stadium Auto, would have about 50 vehicles on their used-car lot near Arrowhead Stadium. They now have only about half as many. Some of their rival dealers, Catalano said, enjoy a competitive advantage because they can afford to offer financing to buyers with poor credit.
Squeezed by higher prices for gasoline, groceries and utilities, many of Catalano’s customers can’t afford either new or late-model used vehicles. Some would-be buyers he knows are using tax refunds just to make ends meet instead of buying a needed car.
“A used inexpensive car is now becoming more and more of a luxury,” Catalano said. “What the market wants right now is not available, and that’s $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 cars.”
Behind the vehicle shortage and inflated prices is simple supply and demand. Much of the problem stems from the surging prices of new cars. In February, according to Edmunds, the average new vehicle in the United States sold for nearly $48,000 — beyond the reach of many consumers.
Though the supply of new vehicles has inched up, they remain relatively scarce and expensive. Automakers still lack sufficient computer chips to produce enough vehicles to meet demand, a lingering consequence of pandemic-related supply shortages. Sales of new vehicles last year were about 3 million below normal levels. Fewer new-car sales mean fewer trade-ins, which mean fewer used vehicles for sale.
With used prices rising again, analysts say buyers who can afford to do so should buy soon. Auto loan rates may continue rising this year as the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates.
On used lots these days, bargains are hard to find. Even after accounting for the price drops of the past year, the average used vehicle remains about 35% above where it was before the pandemic erupted three years ago. At that time, the average price was $20,425.
Once the government sent stimulus checks to most American households, demand for autos rose as many people spent their money. As they did, the supply of used vehicles fell and prices surged. By early last year, the average used-vehicle price was more than 50% above its pre-pandemic point.
Worsening the shortfall was a scarcity of affordable new vehicles. Automakers were using their tight supply of computer chips to build pricier and more profitable SUVs and pickups. They built fewer affordable new models — a trend that sent more buyers to used-car lots. The result was increased demand and higher prices for used vehicles.
All of which left people like Carol Rice struggling to find a decent affordable used vehicle. Rice, 65, endured a long period of frustration while shopping for a used small pickup for her farm near Carbondale, Kansas. For six months, she found little.
“I’m retired, and I can’t afford to buy a new vehicle,” she said. “There weren’t that many used vehicles, and if there were used vehicles, they were quite expensive.”
Last month, she finally found a 2003 Ford Ranger on Catalano’s website that she liked and could afford. She bought it for $7,700. Though it’s 20 years old and has 140,000 miles on it, the Ranger is in solid condition and has the all-wheel-drive that Rice wanted.
“It was a good-looking vehicle, and the price was right,” she said.
In the immediate future, few analysts expect price declines for used vehicles. Catalano doesn’t foresee any sustained price drops for perhaps the next year or two.
Others say it’s hard to predict. Amy Gieffers, a senior vice president at Vroom, an online auto buying site, notes that some market forces could continue to keep supply down and prices up: Fewer trade-ins, less leasing, lower fleet sales by rental car companies.
On the other hand, she says, more expensive vehicles and higher loan rates could depress buyer demand. Eventually, dealers might be forced to cut prices.
“It’s really complex right now,” she said, “because you have some competing forces.”
Both Yurchenko of Black Book and Charlie Chesbrough, a senior economist at Cox Automotive, say they expect used-vehicle prices to rise through summer before easing slightly as part of a normal late-year depreciation cycle.
At the start of this year, Chesbrough said, he thought higher loan rates would chase away buyers from both the new and used markets. Instead, robust demand from affluent buyers for pricey late-model used vehicles has strengthened sales in the United States.
Many of these buyers are paying cash to avoid higher interest rates. Edmunds.com says the average loan rate on a used vehicle is now 11.3%, up from 8.1% when the Fed started raising rates a year ago.
Because demand is intense and vehicle supplies short, Chesbrough doesn’t foresee sales dropping even if the economy were to slide into a recession. Though many buyers with lower credit scores have left the market, sales remain solid.
With used-car inventories likely to remain crimped for the foreseeable future, Chesbrough doesn’t expect prices to ever fall back to near their pre-pandemic levels
“We just haven’t been creating enough personal transportation in the last couple of years,” Chesbrough said.
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Releases Details of New Hyperledger Besu Execution Client Incentive Program
SAN FRANCISCO and AUSTIN, Texas, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at Consensus 2022, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced seven new members, including Avast, Infosys, The Digital Dollar Project and the National FinTech Center at Morgan State University. During Consensus 2022, Hyperledger Foundation will be highlighting the widespread enterprise adoption and commitment to open source blockchain technologies. Attendees can visit the Hyperledger Foundation booth (623) to learn more about the recent inclusion of Hyperledger Besu in the Ethereum Foundation's Execution Layer Client Incentive Program, new project milestones with various projects including Hyperledger Cactus and Hyperledger Firefly and more.
Hyperledger Foundation exists to foster the community-development of enterprise-grade blockchain software that will reshape commerce, currency, communications, identity and more. For that reason, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) has opted to include Hyperledger Besu in the Execution Layer Client Incentive Program (ELCIP). The program will provide execution-layer client teams with locked ETH in the form of live validators to be released according to certain milestones, including post-merge performance and progress towards enabling withdrawals from the beacon chain. The client incentive program is a strategic investment by the EF to engage the Hyperledger Besu community in ensuring a diversity of clients and overall health of the network.
In a further indication of the commitment to open source software in the enterprise market, Avast is joining Hyperledger Foundation after acquiring two Hyperledger member companies, Evernym and SecureKey. Both companies have been long-time contributors to Hyperledger and integrated the technology into the core of their businesses. A recent case study with Bosch focused on the company's strategic process for developing open source technologies and how that led to Hyperledger Lab Perun. In another case study, Hitachi shares the ROI of implementing a Hyperledger-based solution to streamline its own internal procurement process, putting the open source software it helps develop to work to better its own business.
"As we move towards an increasingly decentralized future, the role of openly developed and governed enterprise blockchain technologies will only grow in importance," said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. "We see more and more of our technologies being adopted and adapted to support new business models, creating opportunities for new developers and driving innovation at companies of every size. We welcome the investment both our new members and the Ethereum Foundation are making in accelerating the development and deployment of Hyperledger technologies."
Hyperledger Foundation allows organizations to create enterprise-grade, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by offering enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries and tools. General members joining the community are Avast, Corsha, Infosys and NextGenTek Consulting.
Hyperledger Foundation supports a premier global open source blockchain community that values the contributions and participation from various entities. As such, pre-approved non-profits, open source projects and government entities can join Hyperledger Foundation at no cost as associate members. Associate members joining this month include the National FinTech Center at Morgan State University, The Digital Dollar Project and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Córdoba.
New member quotes:
"A strong developer community is foundational to the adoption of decentralized identity technology, and we're proud to join the Hyperledger Foundation to help grow this community and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the space," said Charles Walton, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Identity at Avast. "Our membership comes in the wake of our recent acquisitions of Evernym and SecureKey, two long-time contributors to Hyperledger that will continue their involvement under Avast."
"We are incredibly excited and honored to join the Hyperledger Foundation," said Anusha Iyer, co-founder and CTO of Corsha. "Hyperledger Fabric is an integral part of Corsha's product and is truly at the root of what makes our technology unique and innovative. We can't wait to work alongside some of the best minds and biggest contributors to Hyperledger Fabric and engage with this fantastic community over the years to come."
"Infosys is delighted to join the Hyperledger Foundation and work together with community members to unlock the true potential of blockchain technology," said Gopikrishnan Konnanath, Senior Vice President, Global Head – Engineering Services and Blockchain, Infosys. "We see blockchain as a vital cog in building a truly digital future for our clients from the very core of their enterprise and at scale. We are excited to share our experiences here and learn from the community members to drive adoption of blockchain across various facets of business."
"It is a privilege to be able to join the Hyperledger Foundation," said Dr. Harry Hunter, CEO of NextGenTek Consulting. "NextGenTek is passionate about providing solutions to industry wide issues using innovative technology. With the adoption of blockchain technology, NextGenTek has been able to provide a new technological foundation to critical sectors and aid businesses to find a real source of truth. By being part of the Hyperledger community, we hope to be a vehicle to spread truth to other businesses, public services, and individuals that can benefit from this technological revolution that has not yet reached its full potential."
About Hyperledger Foundation
Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non member organizations, individual contributors and software developers building enterprise-grade platforms, libraries, tools and solutions for multi-party systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. Organizations join Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness around their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing, technology and beyond. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V, and more, are critical to the world's infrastructure. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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JACKSON, MI -- The Jackson County Animal Shelter, 3770 Spring Arbor Road, has many pets available for adoption.
Here are two of them.
Crisco is a 1-year-old Catahoula Leopard mix who was a stray. He has the most beautiful light blue eyes.
Crisco is still adjusting to life at the shelter and he is unsure who to trust. Once he gets to know you, his guard comes down. Catahoula Leopard dogs are intelligent, inquisitive and energetic.
Norma May is just 5 months old and was surrendered by her owner. Norma is charcoal gray and has white markings.
Norma May gets along with other cats but is not initially trusting of humans. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a perfect cat whisperer out there who will warm her heart and become best buds.
Come meet this green-eyed girl today.
Dog adoptions require an application, online A meet-and-greet with a dog also is mandatory. A cat room walk-through is available to test reaction. The dog adoption fee is $150 for medium and large dogs and $250 for puppies and small dogs, which includes vaccinations, microchip and sterilization.
Cat adoption fees are $60 for one cat, $80 for two, which includes applicable tests, vaccinations and spay/neutering.
Visiting the shelter is always best, but other adoption resources include online applications at https://www.co.jackson.mi.us/2302/Our-Adoptable-Animals, faxing 517-780-4750 or emailing animalshelter@mijackson.org.
The shelter’s current hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
More information is available on the shelter’s Facebook page. See more pets available for adoption at Petango.com.
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Pets of the week: Hogan is a love bug. Dinky is a laid-back cool cat
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Beth, Homeless in Atlantic City, Talks About Life on the Streets
Beth is 38 years-old. She's trained as a graphic designer. She can draw, paint, and even create logos for your business.
She doesn't do much graphic designing these days.
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Most of her time is spent "boosting" - finding money - mostly through stealing and selling goods - so she can buy drugs.
She's a self-proclaimed addict - addicted to heroin.
She's also homeless, living on the streets of Atlantic City.
This is a fascinating interview with Beth, available on YouTube:
Thanks to Lamont On the Run for this fascinating interview.
Beth is just one of the many homeless in our area. We wish her the best.
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Check Out This Historical Gem and Park In Atlantic City
At the entrance to Atlantic City on Albany Avenue is the World War One Memorial and O'Donnell Memorial Park.
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Northwestern’s baseball team rocked Class 2A No. 2-ranked Eastern 20-3 in five innings Saturday at Greentown.
The Tigers (15-7) led 2-0 after the first inning, 6-1 after the second, 11-1 after the third and 14-1 after the fourth.
Cole Wise and Tate Mullens combined to drive in 10 runs. Wise was 3 for 5 with a triple and a double and six RBI and Mullens was 2 for 4 with a home run and four RBI.
Also for the Tigers, who had 16 hits, Cole VanNatter was 3 for 3 with three RBI and five runs scored, Lincoln Cardwell was 2 for 2 with a double and Kai Jackson and Jansen Slate had a double apiece. Koen Berry scored four runs and Jackson scored three runs.
Mullens earned the win. He started and pitched 4.2 innings. He allowed six hits and three runs (two earned) with seven strikeouts and six walks. Cam Adams recorded the final out.
“Tate did a nice job of setting the tone on the mound,” Northwestern coach Ryan Ward. “He also got us started with a two-run home run in the first, gave us a lot of momentum.
“We had really struggled the last 13 or 14 innings or so with scoring guys in scoring position so we really worked on that in practice [Friday]. It was nice see guys all over the lineup executing what we’ve been working on. Hopefully our hot bats continue as we’re ending the season and looking forward to the sectional.”
Northwestern hosts Rossville at 5 p.m. today to close the regular season.
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Kokomo capped the regular season with a doubleheader sweep of Muncie Central at Municipal Stadium.
In the opener, the Kats took a 10-1 win. Larry Hamilton went 3 for 4 with a double, John Curl went 2 for 3 with a triple and a double and Preston Sanford was 2 for 3. Hamilton drove in four runs, Curl drove in two runs and scored three runs and Sanford had an RBI and two runs.
Isaac Flamino earned the win. He started and pitched five innings. He allowed four hits and one run, struck out four and walked two. Andrew Guerre pitched the final two innings.
In the second game, the Kats blanked the Bearcats 6-0. Leadoff hitter Chad Washburn had a monster game at the plate as he belted a home run and two triples and drove in five runs. He finished 3 for 4 with two runs scored.
Sanford was 1 for 3 with an RBI double. Sanford, Ashton Sexton, Hamilton and Curl combined on the shutout with Sexton earning the win.
Kokomo finished the regular season 16-13. The Kats will face Harrison in the Class 4A Logansport Sectional on Saturday.
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NW WINS 2
Northwestern hosted Culver Academies and Rochester for games and the Tigers beat both.
Northwestern beat CA 14-4 in six innings. Jaylyn Harrison ended the game with a grand slam in the sixth. That capped a huge game for the Tiger senior — 4 for 4 with nine runs batted in. She had a double to go with her homer.
Also for the Tigers, Jaci Elson was 3 for 3 with a double and two RBI, Morgan Walker had a triple and two RBI and Megan York had a double. Bailey Henry pitched all six innings for the win. She allowed five hits, struck out nine and walked five.
Northwestern then beat Rochester 10-0 in five innings. Ady Altman hit a triple and drove in three runs, Kate Graves had a triple, a double and two RBI and Henry had a triple, a single and two RBI. Harrison pitched all five innings for the win. She held the Zebras to two hits, struck out three and walked none.
The Tigers (14-7) have the bye in the Class 3A Twin Lakes Sectional. They will face the Western-Peru winner at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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ROCK HOLLOW INVITE
Led by medalist Maverick Conaway’s sizzling 3-under 69, Tipton tied for second place in the 19-team field. Conaway beat the field by six shots. Teammate Gavin Hare shot a 75 and was part of a four-way tie for second place.
Westfield’s JV team took the team title with a score of 316. Tipton and Carmel’s JV team both shot 322. Center Grove (325) and Maconaquah (326) rounded out the top five.
Lewis Cass (346) and Kokomo (348) were sixth and seventh, Western (368) was 10th, Northwestern (397) was 14th, Eastern (423) was 17th and Peru (463) was 19th.
Also for Tipton, Nolan Swan shot an 83 and Calvin Conduit shot an 95.
For Maconaquah, Hayden Williamson tied for second with a 75 and Mason Taylor backed him with a 77. The Braves also counted Drake Guyer’s 84 and Ayden Jernagan’s 90.
Rowdy Frey and Ryan Stoller led Lewis Cass with 85s. Cooper Frey followed with an 87 and Jensen Burrous had an 89.
Brandon Hansen led Kokomo with a 77. Ty Lauderbaugh (80) and Karson Parrott (81) followed for the Kats.
Andrew Hartman (88) and Nolan Kessler (89) led Western, Sammy Shotwell (93) had Northwestern’s best score, Bryce Barker (94) led Eastern and Seth Young (85) led Peru.
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SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – An investigation is underway following an overnight fire at a restaurant in Salisbury, the Salisbury Fire Department confirmed on Wednesday.
Crews responded to the three-alarm fire overnight at 431 E. Innes Street., which is where Christos Family Restaurant is located.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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Homeless people in Michigan face health challenges amid wildfire smoke
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Hazy skies continue to cast a somber veil over Michigan, as smoke from wildfires in Canada blankets the region, posing a severe threat to air quality and public health.
Sadly for some, staying inside, out of the bad air, is not an available option.
Related: Smoke and haze from Canadian wildfires leave Detroit with some of the worst air quality in the US
For those with health problems and no place to call home, unhealthy air compounds safety concerns. Meteorologists at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy have issued air quality alerts for most of Mid-Michigan through Thursday.
In Lansing, the air quality level is ranked as unhealthy, meaning everyone can experience health effects from the haze, and sensitive groups like those with asthma or the elderly can experience serious health effects.
“I have a hard time breathing anyway,” said Wayne Mundy. “Because I have COPD, asthma, I’m diabetic, and my van doesn’t have air conditioning.”
Mundy, a resident of Jackson, said he has been living out of his vehicle, unable to keep the windows up because of the summer heat.
“Just breathing a little abnormal probably because of the air, but I can’t keep my windows up because it gets too hot in there,” Mundy said.
At Holy Cross Services in Lansing, they want to make sure everyone is staying safe, especially the homeless community.
“When people are unhoused they are exposed to a number of health conditions,” said Alexis Dye, with Holy Cross Services.
Asthma, COPD, lung and heart disease are just some of the conditions the smoky conditions will make worse.
“The air and the quality of air that they breathe is really crucial,” Dye said. “So, we hope that they would take some measures to get themselves inside to get some rest from those conditions.”
Holy Cross is offering masks to those who have no choice but to stay outside.
“A mask is truly important to use during this time,” Dye said. “We’re also offering water because staying hydrated is going to be key. “>
The air quality alert remains in effect through Thursday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services advises everyone to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and keep their trips outdoors short.
Related:
- Businesses across Michigan impacted by bad, unhealthy air
- Canadian haze leads to flight cancellations ahead of Independence Day
- Michigan issues warning as Canadian wildfire smoke triggers health risks
- Houseplants offer solution for cleaner air amid poor air quality
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The beloved singer Roberta Flack has announced through a spokesperson that she is battling ALS. The brain disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has made it "impossible to sing and not easy to speak," the spokesperson said in a press release on Monday.
The statement did not disclose how long ago Flack was diagnosed with the fatal condition.
The statement continued: "Miss Flack plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits. Her fortitude and joyful embrace of music that lifted her from modest circumstances to the international spotlight remain vibrant and inspired." The North Carolina native is now 85 years old and has won four Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement prize in 2020.
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Flack's most famous album, Killing Me Softly. The title tune, which was originally recorded by vocalist Lori Lieberman, was also famously covered by Fugees in 1996, with Lauryn Hill on lead vocals. Last year, Rolling Stone named both Flack's and Fugees' versions of "Killing Me Softly With His Song" to its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
In January, Flack will publish a children's book that she co-authored with Tonya Bolden and which tells the story of her childhood, called The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music. The book is centered on the piano that Flack's father rescued for her from a junkyard, and set her on a musical path. Also in January, a documentary about Flack called Roberta will air on PBS' "American Masters" series, after premiering at New York's DOCNYC film festival later this month.
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Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel banked $4.75 million on Saturday by winning the richest tournament in golf history.
Schwartzel held on for a one-shot victory at the inaugural LIV Golf event outside London to secure the $4 million prize for the individual victory — along with another $750,000 from his share of the $3 million purse earned by his four-man Stinger team for topping the team rankings.
Schwartzel collected more prize money from winning the three-day, 54-hole event than he had from the last four years combined. Not that it could match the sense of sporting achievement that he felt after his win at Augusta National in 2011.
"Money is one thing, but there you're playing for prestige, history," he said. "Winning a major will always top anything you do."
This hefty check has come at a cost to Schwartzel's career status, having resigned his membership on the PGA Tour to play on the unsanctioned series without a waiver.
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"Never in my wildest dreams did I think we could play for that much money in golf," Schwartzel, who had not won a PGA or European tour event since 2016, told the crowd.
Pressed in the news conference, he dismissed criticism of the windfall coming from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
"Where the money comes from is not something … that I've ever looked at playing in my 20 years career," the South African said. "I think if I start digging everywhere where we played, you could find fault in anything."
Finau, defending champ McIlroy share RBC Canadian lead: Tony Finau birdied the final hole for an 8-under 62 and a share of the RBC Canadian Open lead with defending champion Rory McIlroy.
McIlroy had a 65 to match Finau at 11-under 199 at St. George's Golf and Country Club in Toronto.
McIlroy had to wait three years to defend his 2019 title because of the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled golf's fourth-oldest championship the last two years.
Birdies help Kinhult take LPGA lead: Frida Kinhult birdied the par-5 18th for a 4-under 67 and the second-round lead in the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway Township, New Jersey.
The 22-year-old Swede who starred at Florida State is seeking her first tour victory.
“It felt pretty good out there,” Kinhult said. “The course has been a very scorable one this weekend and I have to keep it going. I know I can’t go out there (Sunday) and just make pars.”
Kinhult also birdied Nos. 8, 12 and 13 — all par 4s — in a bogey-free round in overcast and mostly calm conditions at Seaview Hotel and Golf Club. She had a 9-under 133 total.
Jaidee, seeking first Champions win, grabs share of lead: Thongchai Jaidee shot a 7-under 65 for a share of the second-round lead with Miguel Angel Jimenez in the PGA Tour Champions’ American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wisconsin.
Thongchai birdied Nos. 14-16 and closed the bogey-free round at University Ridge with two pars. The 52-year-old Thai player is winless on the 50-and-over tour. He has 19 international victories.
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Morning news brief By Leila Fadel, Rachel Martin Published May 19, 2022 at 5:11 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Two thirds of Americans oppose reversing abortion rights in a new poll. The accused Buffalo shooter appears in court. And Turkey opposes Finnish and Swedish bids to join NATO. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Which organic menstrual pad is best?
If you’re prone to irritation and itchiness down there, it might be time to invest in organic menstrual products. The ingredients in conventional pads can cause imbalances in vaginal flora and even lead to yeast infections.
Organic pads are made from either 100% cotton or cotton blends that are free from pesticides. They also often contain fewer dyes and perfumes that can cause reactions to sensitive skin. And the best ones, including Rael Organic Cotton Cover Pads in Regular Absorbency, are just as protective as synthetic pads.
What to know before you buy an organic menstrual pad
Benefits of organic
While there is some debate over whether organic pads are safer for your health than conventional pads, gynecologists agree that for users prone to irritation and yeast infections, organic is better. In addition, these nontoxic pads are better for the environment because agrochemicals aren’t used in their production.
However, most organic pads are disposable and end up in a landfill. For the most eco-friendly choice, opt for organic reusable menstrual pads.
Absorbency
Organic pads come in a range of absorbency levels just like conventional ones.
- Regular pads are designed for normal flow days. If you find yourself changing your regular pad every hour, it’s time to move up to the next level of absorbency.
- Super pads are made for heavy flow days and are also called maxi pads. These have a high level of absorbency.
- Overnight pads feature maximum absorbency and are designed to be worn overnight. They are also longer, and often wider, than regular and super pads to prevent leaks while you’re sleeping.
Liners
For light flow days, between periods or if you’re experiencing spotting, an organic liner is your best bet to protect your underwear. These are shaped like pads but are very thin. They can also be used to absorb vaginal discharge or as backup protection for a tampon or menstrual cup.
Material
All organic pads contain cotton that has not been treated by pesticides or herbicides. However, not all organic pads are made from 100% cotton. Many feature an organic cotton top sheet with an absorbent synthetic core made from rayon or plastic (superabsorbent polymers). For many users, the organic cover is sufficient to keep irritation at bay. For an SAP-free pad, you may need to pay more.
Length
While all overnight pads feature extended lengths, some users find that they need longer protection during the day as well. Many brands offer extra-long organic pads and liners. Be aware that length doesn’t affect the absorbency but only increases the coverage in your underwear.
What to look for in a quality organic menstrual pad
Fragrance-free
Added fragrance, whether synthetic or natural, can irritate the vulvar region and possibly hormone disruption. In addition, manufacturers aren’t required to list the chemicals in their fragrances and are only required to list “fragrance” in the ingredients. The majority of organic pads are unscented or fragrance-free.
Chlorine-free
Another label you’ll see on select organic pads is that they’re free from chlorine bleaching. Conventional pads are bleached bright white with chlorine. This process produces dioxins, which are linked to a host of health issues. You can also find pads that are free from dyes.
Wings
If you experience pads shifting in your underwear, consider looking for an organic pad with wings. This extra material extends out from the center of the pad and secures around the middle of your underwear with adhesive backing. While this design offers a more secure placement, the wings are visible on the outside of your underwear.
Ultrathin
No one likes the feeling of a bulky pad between their legs. Just like conventional pads, you can find organic ones in ultrathin thicknesses in both regular and super absorbencies. These feature super-absorbent cores without the added thickness associated with pads and still do their job to absorb your flow.
How much you can expect to spend on an organic menstrual pad
Organic pads range from $0.22-$0.60 a pad.
Organic menstrual pads FAQ
Are organic pads as absorbent as synthetic ones?
A. Organic pads may absorb surface wetness slower than synthetic ones. This is because conventional pads feature a perforated surface and absorb moisture faster. Some users experience more wetness with organic pads; however, organic cotton absorbs more than synthetic materials.
Can I wear an organic pad all day?
A. Although pads don’t carry the risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome as tampons do, you still want to change your pad at two- to four-hour intervals to curb the growth of odor-causing bacteria and yeast that thrive in moist environments.
What’s the best organic menstrual pad to buy?
Top organic menstrual pad
Rael Organic Cotton Cover Pads in Regular Absorbency
What you need to know: This top-selling and highly rated organic pad features an organic top sheet made from non-GMO cotton grown in Texas.
What you’ll love: These popular pads are also fragrance- and chlorine-free. They come in a wide variety of options, including petite and large sizes. These hypoallergenic pads are highly breathable.
What you should consider: The core is made from wood pulp and SAP, which is super absorbent but not biodegradable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top organic menstrual pad for the money
The Honey Pot Clean Cotton Regular Absorbency Pads
What you need to know: These herbal-infused pads are a low-cost alternative to organic pads and feature pesticide- and chlorine-free cotton.
What you’ll love: For users looking for a bit of scent without harsh chemicals, these pads are lightly fragranced with essential oils. The pads are also pH balanced and gynecologist-approved. Some users find that these herbal-infused pads alleviate pain.
What you should consider: While the mint essential oil gives a nice cooling sensation for many, for some it burns.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Cora The Peace-of-Mind Overnight Pad
What you need to know: This top-selling organic pad isn’t as pricey as the top choice, but it works just as well.
What you’ll love: This overnight pad is thin and light but ultra-absorbent. It features wings and extra length. Some women use them postpartum. The pad is free from chlorine, fragrance and artificial dye.
What you should consider: Only its top sheet is 100% GOTS-certified organic. They may not provide enough protection if your period is super-heavy overnight.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Tests negative, Sen. John Fetterman leaves hospital
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman left a hospital in Washington after a two-day stay, his office said Friday, following a spell of lightheadedness that prompted the visit as he recovers from a stroke he suffered last year on the campaign trail.
In a statement, Fetterman’s office said he was discharged from George Washington University Hospital after tests found no evidence of a new stroke or a seizure.
“In addition to the CT, CTA, and MRI tests ruling out a stroke, his EEG test results came back normal, with no evidence of seizures. John is looking forward to spending some time with his family and returning to the Senate on Monday,” Fetterman’s communications director Joe Calvello said in the statement.
Fetterman checked himself in on Wednesday after feeling lightheaded during a Senate Democratic retreat.
He continues to suffer the aftereffects of the stroke, in particular auditory processing disorder, which can render someone unable to speak fluidly and quickly process spoken conversation into meaning.
In November, Fetterman, 53, won the seat held by now-retired Republican Pat Toomey, spending the last five months of the campaign recovering from the stroke even as he waged a hard-fought contest against GOP nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Fetterman, who was Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, defeated the celebrity heart surgeon by 5 percentage points, flipping a seat that was key to Democrats holding the Senate majority. More than $300 million was spent during the campaign, making it the most expensive Senate race in 2022.
Fetterman is an outsized presence on Capitol Hill, standing 6-foot-8 with a clean-shaven head and a goatee, and is a rising star in progressive politics.
His campaign was temporarily derailed on May 13, just days before the Democratic primary, when he suffered a stroke that he said nearly killed him.
He underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator to manage two heart conditions, atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy, and spent much of the summer recovering and off the campaign trail.
He refused to release his medical records or allow his doctors to answer reporters’ questions, as Oz made an issue of whether his opponent was honest about the effects of the stroke and whether Fetterman was fit to serve. The Democrat insisted his doctors said he could have a full recovery.
The effects of the stroke were apparent in Fetterman’s uneven performance during the fall campaign’s only debate when he struggled to complete sentences and jumbled words.
On election night, he told cheering supporters he ran for “anyone that ever got knocked down that got back up.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With Republicans in control of the House, there’s no chance that President Joe Biden’s new budget plan will become law as it stands. Instead, the financial blueprint that he announced Thursday in Philadelphia will serve as a political talking point for a president preparing to run for reelection.
“I just laid out the bulk of my budget,” Biden said during a stop at a union training center. “Republicans in Congress should do the same thing. Then we can sit down and see where we disagree.”
Many of the key proposals are designed to draw sharp contrasts with Republicans.
Some of the highlights of Biden’s plan:
BIDEN EMPHASIZES FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
Biden’s budget covers the next 10 years. Overall, he expects an additional $4.7 trillion in tax revenues and $800 billion in savings from making changes to government programs. Biden also wants $2.6 trillion in new spending. That leaves him with an estimated $2.9 trillion reduction in the deficit.
The president emphasized fiscal responsibility as he prepared his budget, portraying Republicans as not being serious about getting the country’s finances in order. Republicans have said Biden’s plan doesn’t go far enough, but they haven’t released proposals of their own.
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MINIMUM TAX ON BILLIONAIRES
Biden frequently talks about making companies and the wealthy “pay their fair share,” and the budget is designed to further that goal.
The president wants a 25% tax on the richest 0.01% of Americans. The White House calls this a “minimum tax on billionaires.” The idea is designed to extract more revenue from income that isn’t derived from salaries, ending what the administration describes as “special treatment” and “giant loopholes.”
Biden also wants to roll back tax breaks enacted under his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. For example, people making more than $400,000 a year would once again face a top tax rate of 39.6%.
The budget proposal would also close the “carried interest” loophole that allows wealthy hedge fund managers and others to pay their taxes at a lower rate.
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MEDICARE FUNDING BOOSTED
A key trust fund that funds Medicare, which provides health care to older adults, is on track to become insolvent in about five years, meaning it would be unable to fully cover the cost of benefits. The White House says Biden’s plan would push that date back to the 2050s.
Some of the money would come from expanding the federal government’s ability to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs, something that began with the Inflation Reduction Act that Biden signed last year. He also wants to increase the Medicare tax rate from 3.8% to 5% on income exceeding $400,000 per year, including salaries and capital gains.
Biden has frequently targeted Republicans over their proposals to reduce Medicare benefits or force Congress to reauthorize the program. (Social Security is similarly being threatened by Republicans, Biden often says.) So expect to hear more from the White House on how the president’s plan would help older Americans.
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FULLY REFUNDABLE CHILD TAX CREDIT
Congress expanded the child tax credit during the pandemic to help families cope with the economic fallout, but the extra money expired last year.
Now Biden wants to restore the credit to its previous level. The change would provide families up to $3,600 per child, up from $2,000. The credit would be “fully refundable,” which means households could receive all of the money even if they don’t owe any taxes. That approach is designed to make sure the credit benefits low-income families.
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REDUCTION OF CANCER DEATH RATES
Biden made fighting cancer part of the “unity agenda” that he outlined near the beginning of his administration, and he wants $2.8 billion to advance that goal.
He’s described the effort as a “cancer moonshot” that should become a “national purpose” for Americans. It’s a personal issue for Biden. His eldest son, Beau, died from a brain tumor. In addition, the president and first lady Jill Biden both recently had lesions removed that contained basal cell carcinoma, a kind of skin cancer.
Biden wants to reduce cancer death rates in half over the next quarter-century.
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PROMOTING CLEAN ENERGY TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act provided hundreds of billions of dollars in financial incentives to promote clean energy. Now Biden’s budget proposal would add more to the further the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The plan includes $4.5 billion to further clean energy development and $16.5 billion to develop new technologies and conduct scientific research. Biden also wants $7 billion, an increase of about $1 billion, to support economic revitalization and job creation in communities that relied on coal, oil and gas production.
The budget would spend $35 million to begin planning for a new national lab at a historically Black college or university, a tribal college or university, or another minority-serving institution.
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EYES ON CHINA
Some of the budget is designed to help Biden’s effort to steer U.S. foreign policy to confront China’s rising influence.
The Pentagon would receive $842 billion, which includes money to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. There’s also a proposed 5.2% proposed pay increase for troops, designed to help the military boost its lagging recruitment.
In addition, the budget would allocate $7.1 billion to renew agreements with three Pacific Island nations that the Chinese have been wooing. The amount includes $6.5 billion over 20 years to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau, plus an additional $634 million to maintain U.S. Postal Service operations there.
Under “Compact of Free Association” agreements with the three, the U.S. provides the islands with an array of services that range from weather forecasting to disaster management, air traffic control and mail delivery.
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Associated Press writers Josh Boak, Matthew Daly, Tara Copp, Matthew Lee and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Kansas attorney general sues to prevent transgender people from changing driver’s licenses
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver’s licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his interpretation of a new law.
Attorney General Kris Kobach went to a state court in hopes of getting an order to stop Gov. Laura Kelly and agencies under her control to stop allowing the changes to transgender people’s licenses. Kobach contends a law that took effect Saturday prevents such changes and requires the state to reverse any previous changes in its records, including about 1,300 made over the past four years.
The new law defines a person’s sex as male or female, based on the “biological reproductive system” identified at birth, applying that definition to any state law or regulation. It also says that “important governmental objectives” of protecting people’s privacy, health and safety justify single-sex spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms. Kansas is among at least 10 states with a law against transgender people using facilities in line with their gender identities, though the new law includes no enforcement mechanism.
But Kelly’s office announced last week that the state health department, which handles birth certificates, and the motor vehicle division, which issues driver’s licenses, will continue allowing transgender people to change the markers for sex on those documents. Her office said lawyers in her administration had concluded that doing so doesn’t violate the new law. Kelly is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and vetoed the measure, but the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode her.
In response to that announcement, Kobach said, “She is violating her oath of office to uphold Kansas law.”
The lawsuit filed Friday names as defendants two officials who oversee driver’s licenses. Part of the lawsuit reads: “The Governor cannot pick and choose which laws she will enforce and which laws she will ignore.”
His lawsuit seeks to force the governor to enforce the law as he sees it but did not request to stop changes to birth certificates. The rationale for restricting the lawsuit to driver’s licenses wasn’t immediately clear, nor was it clear how quickly the district court in Shawnee County, home to the state capital, Topeka, would deal with the case. Judges have the option of sending the lawsuit to a trial court to do fact-finding, which could delay a resolution for months.
The new Kansas law was among a raft of measures rolling back transgender rights enacted this year in statehouses across the U.S. But only a few states do not allow transgender people to change their birth certificates. Federal judges last month upheld policies in Oklahoma and Tennessee, and a no-changes rule in Montana is expected to face a legal challenge.
Kelly won her first term as governor in 2018 by defeating Kobach, then the Kansas secretary of state. He staged a political comeback last year by winning the attorney general’s race as she captured a second term, both of them by slim margins.
The governor’s statements about the new law are at odds with descriptions from LGBTQ+ rights advocates before the Republican-controlled Legislature enacted it over Kelly’s veto. The advocates predicted that it would prevent transgender people from changing their driver’s licenses and amounted to a legal “erasure” of their identities, something Kobach confirmed as the intent when he issued his legal opinion.
“For me to go into a bathroom and not have a marker that represents who I am, I was terrified. I was afraid I was going to get accosted or harassed,” said Ty Goeke, a 37-year-old transgender Topeka resident who changed both his birth certificate and driver’s license last month.
Goeke participated in a transgender rights rally last week with his wife, Mallory, who carried a sign made from a toilet seat, calling for the new law to be “flushed.” Ty Goeke said he sobbed with joy in a state health department office when he changed his birth certificate.
“Now that I have the correct marker, I feel much better, feel more confident,” he said. “I feel at ease with myself.”
The legal wrangling is complicated by a federal lawsuit filed in 2018 against Kansas health department officials by four transgender residents over a previous no-changes policy on birth certificates imposed under a Republican governor. That policy also hindered changes in driver’s licenses.
Kelly settled the federal lawsuit months after taking office in January 2019, and a federal judge issued an order to enforce the settlement that requires the state to allow birth certificate changes. The order remains in effect.
Kobach has asked the federal judge to rescind his order but argues that the new state law supersedes it. Others disagree.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As missed warning signs pile up in investigations of mass killings, New York state is rolling out a novel strategy to screen applicants for gun permits. People seeking to carry concealed handguns will be required to hand over lists of their social media accounts for a review of their “character and conduct.”
It’s an approach applauded by many Democrats and national gun control advocacy groups, but some experts have raised questions about how the law will be enforced and address free speech concerns.
Some of the local officials who will be tasked with reviewing the social media content also are asking whether they’ll have the resources and, in some cases, whether the law is even constitutional.
Sheriffs haven’t received additional money or staffing to handle a new application process, said Peter Kehoe, the executive director of the New York Sheriffs’ Association. The law, he asserted, infringes on Second Amendment rights, and while applicants must list their social media accounts, he doesn’t think local officials will necessarily look at them.
“I don’t think we would do that,” Kehoe said. “I think it would be a constitutional invasion of privacy.”
The new requirement, which takes effect in September, was included in a law passed last week that sought to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection. It was signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who noted shooters sometimes telegraph their intent to hurt others.
Increasingly, young men have gone online to drop hints of what’s to come before executing a mass killing, including the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school.
Under the law, applicants have to provide local officials with a list of current and former social media accounts from the previous three years. It doesn’t specify whether applicants will be required to provide access to private accounts not visible to the general public.
It will be up to local sheriff’s staff, judges or county clerks to scroll through those profiles as they check whether applicants have made statements suggesting dangerous behavior.
The law also will require applicants to undergo hours of safety training, prove they’re proficient at shooting, provide four character references and sit for in-person interviews.
The law reflects how the Supreme Court ruling has shifted responsibility to states for vetting those who carry firearms in public, said Tanya Schardt, senior counsel and director of state and federal policy for gun control advocacy organization Brady.
Her group said it was not aware of any other states requiring gun permit applicants to submit social media profiles.
The new approach, however, comes amid growing debate over the policing of social media posts and a legacy of unwarranted surveillance of Black and brown communities.
“The question should be: Can we do this in an anti-racist way that does not create another set of violence, which is the state violence that happens through surveillance?” said University of Pennsylvania social policy, communications and medicine professor Desmond Upton Patton, who also founded SAFElab, a research initiative studying violence involving youths of color.
Meanwhile, gun rights advocates are blasting the law.
“You’re also going to have to tell them your social media accounts because New York wants to thoroughly investigate you to figure out if you’re some of those dangerous law-abiding citizens who are taking the country by storm and causing crime to skyrocket,” Jared Yanis, host of the YouTube channel Guns & Gadgets, says in a widely viewed video on the new law. “What have we come to?”
Hochul, who also has tasked state police with routing out extremism online, didn’t immediately respond to a list of questions about the social media requirement, including how the state will address free speech and privacy concerns.
“Often the sticking point is: How do we go about enforcing this?” Metro State University criminal justice professor James Densley, cofounder of research initiative The Violence Project, said. “I think it starts to open up a bit of a can of worms, because no one quite knows the best way to go about doing it.”
It can be tricky, he said, to decode social media posts by younger people, who could simply be expressing themselves by posting a music video.
“Where this will get tricky is to what extent this is expression and to what extent is this evidence of wrongdoing?” Densley said.
Spokespeople for the social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, 4Chan and Parler didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
New York should instead consider giving the job to a trained group tasked with figuring out how to best reach out to people online who are showing signs of radicalization or trauma and may need help, Patton said.
“There’s a lot of nuance and contextual issues. We speak differently; how we communicate, that could be misunderstood,” Patton said. “I’m concerned we don’t have the right people or the right tools in place to do this in a way that’s useful in actually preventing violence.”
Adam Scott Wandt, a public policy professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that he supports gun control, but that he worries the New York law could set a precedent for mandatory disclosure of social media activity for people seeking other types of licenses from the state.
New York’s law is rushed and vague, said Wandt, who teaches law enforcement personnel how to conduct searches on people through social media.
“I think that what we might have done as a state here in New York is, we may have confirmed their worst fears — that a slippery slope will be created that will slowly reduce their rights to carry guns and allow a bureaucracy to decide, based on unclear criteria, who can have a gun and who cannot,” Wandt said. “Which is exactly what the Supreme Court was trying to avoid.”
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Maysoon Khan is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Bobby Wagner is headed back to the Seattle Seahawks to rejoin the team with which he became one of the top linebackers in the NFL.
The team announced Wagner’s return Saturday night, filling a major need on Seattle’s remodeled defense. It’s a one-year contract, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce terms.
“BOBBY. IS. BACK,” the Seahawks posted on their Twitter account. “We’ve agreed to terms with the future Hall of Famer.”
Seattle teammates Quandre Diggs and Tyler Lockett first broke the news on Twitter, and NFL Network and ESPN said the deal was worth up to $7 million.
“Glad to be back in Seattle! It means a lot to be able to come back!” Wagner tweeted.
Wagner spent the first 10 seasons of his career with the Seahawks after being selected in the second round of the 2012 draft by Seattle. He became a six-time first-team All-Pro selection during his tenure in Seattle, where he was regularly regarded as one of the best middle linebackers in the league.
Wagner was released by Seattle just over a year ago in a salary cap move. Wagner was due nearly $17 million and Seattle wanted to give Jordyn Brooks the opportunity to step into the middle linebacker role.
But Brooks suffered a torn ACL late last season and is expected to miss a significant chunk of the 2023 season. Seattle signed Devin Bush to a one-year deal earlier in free agency, but still needed additional answers.
Enter Wagner, who was a second-team All-Pro selection last season playing for his hometown Los Angeles Rams. Wagner started all 17 games and had 140 tackles for the Rams, but was let go by the Rams earlier this offseason with Los Angeles entering a rebuild phase.
Wagner is the latest addition to what will be a significantly altered defense in Seattle. The Seahawks have already signed Bush, defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones and Jarran Reed, and safety Julian Love as part of their offseason makeover.
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MASKWACÎS, Alberta — Lucy Johnson never spoke the Cree language when she was growing up. Her father wouldn’t allow it. He called it “jungle talk.”
“The more he spoke, the more punishment he received,” Johnson said.
It’s a legacy of Ermineskin that Johnson, now 55 and a paralegal, can’t speak the language of her people. Nor can her six siblings. Across Canada, the often brutal residential school system, designed to assimilate Indigenous people into White, European culture, succeeded in breaking the tradition of passing on languages from generation to generation — and put the survival of some in jeopardy.
But now, 25 years after the last residential school was shuttered, some Indigenous communities — including the one here that Pope Francis visited Monday — are reviving and relearning their native languages. It’s a movement fueled by a desire to recover what has been lost, and by a sense that progress is possible. The youngest Cree didn’t attend residential schools. Unlike their parents or grandparents, they didn’t internalize the idea that speaking their language might be wrong.
Isaiah Swampy Omeasoo, 20, studied and made himself fluent in Cree. His wife is expecting a child in February, he said, and he’ll speak to his son or daughter in the language.
“I wanted to change the pattern,” he said. “It’s not going to skip another generation.”
In Maskwacîs — an area with four First Nations reserves on the Alberta prairie between Edmonton and Calgary — Cree, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Canada, can be found written on stop signs, municipal buildings and emergency vehicles. A local radio station has Cree-speaking DJs. The school district says its mission is about “embedding” Cree culture and language into education — a direct response to the damage wrought by residential schools.
But restoring a language isn’t easy. Steve Wood, the vice principal at the high school, said only six of 54 staff members can speak Cree fluently. Many in the community aren’t conversational. Robert Ward Jr., the radio station manager, says he sometimes runs into ideas on air that he can’t express because he lacks the vocabulary. He’ll admit as much on live radio, he says, with the hope that an elder will call in and help him.
“This is a language that’s been taken from us,” he said.
For the bulk of the 20th century, Indigenous children in Canada were forcibly removed from their families to be placed in residential schools — often hundreds of miles from their communities — where they were forbidden to speak their native languages or practice cultural traditions. Some were physically and sexually abused.
The United States also ran what were called Indian boarding schools through much of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Interior Department is now investigating abuses in that system.
In Canada, a majority of the schools were run by Catholic entities. When Francis delivered his apology here Monday, he noted how Indigenous languages and cultures had been “denigrated and suppressed.” Many in Maskwacîs felt the pope’s apology was necessary and helpful. But they also noted that in delivering his words in his native Spanish, he was exercising a privilege that they were denied.
“If you look at the pope, he was speaking in his language,” Johnson said. “How come my father couldn’t speak in his own language?”
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools reported on the many punishments to which children were subjected for trying to speak their languages. One former student testified about being given a close haircut. Others said they were beaten with straps, or had their mouths washed out with soap.
Many arrived at the schools knowing little or no English or French, triggering the wrath of nuns who expected them to understand instructions. Over time, some children forgot their own languages or suppressed them, to return home and struggle to communicate with their parents.
More than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in Canada, but they’re far less prevalent in everyday life than English and French — Canada’s two official languages — or even languages spoken by many of the country’s immigrant groups.
It wasn’t until 2019 that simultaneous translation services for an Indigenous language were available in Parliament. That year, for the first time, a National Hockey League game was broadcast in Plains Cree. Elections Canada offers information guides in 16 Indigenous languages, but ballots are in English and French.
The share of the Indigenous population with the ability to speak an Indigenous language well enough to have a conversation declined from 22 percent in 2006 to 16 percent in 2016, according to the federal census. On the bright side, the proportion of people who learned an Indigenous language as a second language increased from 18 percent in 1996 to 26 percent in 2016.
UNESCO in 2010 recognized 86 Indigenous languages in Canada, but warned that 32 of them were “critically endangered,” meaning they were “used mostly by very few speakers, of the great-grandparental generation.”
Several of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action centered on language and culture. They included recommendations that the federal government recognize that Indigenous rights include language rights and that universities offer degree programs in Indigenous languages. Several now do.
Parliament passed legislation in 2019 to provide long-term funding to reclaim and strengthen Indigenous languages and to establish a commissioner of Indigenous languages who must report on progress annually. The first commissioner was appointed last year.
And after Indigenous groups said last year that ground-penetrating radar had uncovered evidence of unmarked graves near the sites of several former residential schools, the government announced it would allow Indigenous people to reclaim their traditional names — often changed at the schools — on government identification for free until 2026.
Lorna Williams, an associate professor emeritus of Indigenous education at the University of Victoria, said the 2019 legislation was “important in giving the message that Canada itself now finally gives some importance to Indigenous languages, and that makes a huge difference.”
But “what has made a difference, really up until now,” she added, “has been the efforts of the people themselves in the Indigenous-language communities.”
Though most education in Canada is administered by the provinces and territories, on First Nations reserves, it’s funded by the federal government. Critics say the chronic underfunding of reserve schools has effectively institutionalized inequalities.
In 2018, the four First Nations in Maskwacîs signed an agreement with the federal government that gave them far greater control over education, allowing them to offer and design a curriculum infused with the Cree language, culture and traditions.
Brian Wildcat, the superintendent of the Maskwacîs Education Schools Commission, said educators are planning to pilot a new curriculum in the fall with a heavy focus on the Cree language, identity and way of life. He hopes it eventually will replace the district’s current curriculum, which was written by the province.
Wildcat’s mother was a teacher who brought language and culture into her classrooms.
“The residential schools were weapons used against the community to destroy families, destroy the community and get rid of the identity of the Cree people,” he said. “Our schools today are the tool for hope and change that are based on what the community wants.”
Wood, the vice principal, called restoring the language a “monumental effort” — and one that requires immersion. So he tries to use Cree as much as he can: when ordering a sandwich at the local Subway or filling his car up at the gas station. “The language has to be heard for people to pick it up,” he said.
It’s with the young people, he said, where he sees progress.
“We have kids that come home from our kindergarten schools who know more Cree than their parents,” Wood said. “It’s a product of what transpired.”
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CHESTERFIELD, Mo., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iCover, a Missouri-based Insurtech that provides an algorithmic underwriting and QUI™ based eApp Service for life insurance companies, raised $5 million in Pre-Series A funding.
Lead investor for the round is Kesan Parasuraman, a private investor who also led iCover's Seed round in August 2021. The company intends to use the funds raised to increase technical staff, expand sales and marketing, and bolster R&D efforts related to their AI underwriting framework and private Blockchain network.
iCover is currently working with six (6) insurance companies and launching an array of products that include, Income Protection, Final Expense, Term and Whole Life. Insurance companies will use iCover's proprietary AI / algorithmic underwriting platform with the patent-pending QUI™ eApp technology to deliver a 5-minute point-of-sale buying journey for consumers.
iCover's omnichannel capabilities will help insurance partners launch products and sell through agency, direct to consumer and embedded channels.
"In terms of traction and momentum, 2022 has been a great year so far. Fast and accurate Point-of-Sale underwriting has become more relevant than ever before. With this capital infusion, we can fuel our sales and marketing efforts through 2023 and expand iCover's Intellectual Property with increased R&D in the areas of AI and Blockchain," said Hari Srinivasan, Founder & CEO for iCover.
iCover is the first "plug and play" algorithmic underwriting platform in the InsurTech space. iCover's proprietary underwriting framework comes with pre-configured guidelines and algorithms to score and price life insurance applications based on medical and non-medical data. By leveraging patent pending QUI™ technology and algorithmic underwriting, iCover can quote, underwrite, and deliver life insurance at the point-of-sale in under 5 minutes. iCover was built by industry insiders Hari Srinivasan and Nicole Mwesigwa who applied their 30+ years of InsurTech experience and intimate knowledge of automated underwriting technologies. To learn more about iCover, visit www.icoverinsure.com.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — If you’re coming to Davos this year, try to take the train instead of flying, organizers of the World Economic Forum said.
So I did.
That meant a 12-hour journey from London to the exclusive gathering in the Swiss Alps, which I'm helping cover for The Associated Press.
Taking a train is much less convenient than a plane, but the scenery made up for it — the rolling farm fields of England and France gave way to Switzerland's towering mountains and idyllic valleys dotted with chalets. And my carbon footprint will be a lot lower than a flight.
To many, Davos conjures up images of government leaders, billionaire elites and corporate titans jetting in on carbon-spewing private planes even as the meeting increasingly focuses on climate change.
Organizers have been stung by such criticism, even dedicating a webpage in past years to debunk those claims. Encouraging European attendees to come by train is part of their efforts to burnish the event's sustainability credentials amid criticism it's merely a talking shop that doesn't produce systemic change.
I’m not the first to go by train. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg famously took a 32-hour train ride to get to the Davos meeting in 2019, where she astonished participants with a fiery speech. I’m also riding a broader wave of traveler interest in train trips over short-haul flights tied to climate guilt.
My journey begins at London’s St. Pancras International train station, where I board the high-speed Eurostar that whisks me through a tunnel under the English Channel to Paris in about two and a half hours. There I take a short metro ride to another train station for the next four-hour leg to Zurich.
By plane, I would have been crammed on a discount flight from London’s Gatwick Airport for the hour and 40-minute flight to Zurich, the closest airport to Davos.
But for those who don’t live in Europe, a plane ride is unavoidable. And to speed up my trip after days of back-to-back speeches from government leaders and sessions about decarbonization, the global economic outlook and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine, that’s how I’ll be traveling home.
Aboard the French high-speed TGV train, the first-class seats are comfy and spacious and the upper deck view offers pleasant scenes of the countryside whizzing by at 320 kilometers an hour (about 200 mph).
If I had flown, my 870-kilometer trip would have emitted up to 197 kilograms (434 pounds) of carbon dioxide per passenger into the atmosphere.
The same trip by train would contribute a fraction of that amount — 12.2 kilograms, according to ecopassenger.org.
World Economic Forum officials say climate is a priority for this year’s meeting and tout its green credentials.
“The overwhelming majority of participants arrive by shuttle or by train, and emissions in Davos actually go down during the week of the meeting,” forum Managing Director Adrian Monck told reporters ahead of the event, without elaborating.
Organizers say that since 2017 they have offset 100% of the carbon emissions from the group’s activities by supporting environmental projects in Switzerland and elsewhere. Experts say offsets can be problematic because there’s no guarantee they’ll deliver on reducing emissions.
The forum also can provide sustainable jet fuel at Zurich’s airport for those who take private jets.
“It’s probably one of the most sustainably organized meetings in the world, if not the most sustainable,” Monck said.
High-profile attendees include U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and Alok Sharma, head of last year's U.N. climate conference, COP26.
Kerry, who has been criticized for his use of a private jet belonging to his wife’s family, will be traveling by commercial plane to the Davos meeting, his spokesperson said.
Sharma, a British lawmaker who drew flak last year for his frequent flights, will travel by plane and train.
“Carbon emissions associated with the COP President’s travel will be offset for the Presidency year,” the U.K. government said, without providing further details.
Nakate declined to comment on her travel.
Aviation accounts for about 2% of global carbon emissions.
The World Economic Forum has acknowledged that “from an environmental perspective, taking a private jet is the worst way to travel to Davos.”
Private jets emit about 10 times the carbon dioxide per person that commercial flights do and about 50 times more than an equivalent train journey, said Jo Dardenne, aviation manager at Brussels-based climate policy group Transport & Environment.
Jet engines also spew soot and nitrous oxide, which contributes to pollution around airports and heat-trapping atmospheric contrails, she said.
Sustainable jet fuel is a step in the right direction, depending on the source, but carbon offsetting deserves more skepticism because of concerns such as double counting, she said.
“It’s just especially a bit socially and politically unfair for some sectors to continue to rely on offsetting instead of actually reducing their emissions,” while others face pressure to reduce their climate impact, Dardenne said.
Eymeric Segard, CEO of Swiss private jet chartering company LunaJets, said some VIPs have no other choice than to fly private.
“Because of their visibility and fact that everybody knows them, they just cannot take a commercial aircraft,” he said.
“Some don’t have three weeks free to take sailboats to cross the Atlantic like our friend Greta. So what’s the alternative?”
Segard declined to discuss how much demand he’s seeing for travel to Davos but said his company, which acts like a taxi dispatcher for private jets, tries to reduce carbon emissions by looking for “empty leg flights,” which have already been chartered but have extra seats.
Not only is it cheaper but “the planet is happy because anyway the plane was gonna fly, so at least we put someone on it,” he said.
From Zurich’s main train station, I change again, this time boarding a slower local train. This is where most people can’t avoid rail as they head to Davos, which doesn’t have an airport, unless they take a shuttle or helicopter from Zurich or two other small nearby airports.
Fashionably dressed people hauling expensive-looking luggage climbed aboard, mentioning to others what panels they're part of in Davos.
The train skirts Lake Zurich and heads into the mountains. After another quick change at a local station, I’m down to my last hour, and the scenery becomes more impressive with each mile.
The narrow-gauge train trundles through steep valleys and alongside whitewater rivers, overshadowed by forested peaks with chalets scattered on grassy lower slopes until arriving in Davos. Here my journey ends but my work for the week begins.
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Kelvin Chan is an AP business writer in London. Follow him at http://twitter.com/chanman.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
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STREETSBORO, Ohio (WJW) — A police officer in Streetsboro, Ohio, is being saluted for going above and beyond the call of duty.
Patrolman Matthew Colvin pulled over a car and discovered that the driver was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant and that his driver’s license was suspended. The driver, 21-year-old Bryson Nobles, told the officer that he was a DoorDash driver on his way to make two deliveries.
After placing Bryson Nobles under arrest, Colvin decided to finish the DoorDash deliveries while another officer took Nobles to jail.
One of the deliveries was to a home in Streetsboro, where Ashley Csorba was wondering what happened to the food she ordered for her husband.
“He was like, ‘Ash, what’s taking so long? Like, I am hangry,’ and I was like, ‘I know, I’m sorry.’ So I checked it and I said, ‘They’re coming up Route 14 now. We should be fine. They’ll be here soon,'” Csorba said.
She was shocked to see the food was being delivered by a police officer.
“At first, obviously I was scared. I thought maybe something had happened, and he said, ‘Did you order Sonic?’ and I was like, ‘We did,’ and he said ‘OK, well we had a run-in with your driver, but I just wanted to make sure you got your order,'” she said.
The professionalism of Colvin, a first-year officer on the police force, is a source of pride for the chief who hired the 26-year-old.
“I think it says what’s out there that a lot of people just don’t know about: We’re human, we’re part of the community and we understand that ‘hangry’ is a thing, and we want to get people their food and serve the community,” said Chief Patricia Wain.
Csorba decided to post a video on social media that paid tribute to the officer’s commitment to protect and serve.
“I was like, ‘That is the craziest thing that has ever happened, but it was so kind of him,'” she said.
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It’s no surprise that Carson Wentz experienced an online backlash when posting on social media the aftermath of a successful (not for the bear) Alaskan bear hunt. The real question is whether Wentz realized that would happen.
He should have. If he didn’t, he’s got even less self-awareness than Michael Scott.
Hunting is a controversial subject, regardless of whether it’s done legally, properly, and as humanely as possible. Wentz knew or should have known that posting photos with a large, dead bear would spark sharp criticism from many.
Maybe he’s just oblivious. It’s either that, or he was trolling those who don’t like hunting by doing a victory lap through the pushing of images that plenty of people would find objectionable.
If he really was clueless as to the reaction he would get, maybe it explains a few things. About some of the decisions he has made during games. About how he has interacted with teammates at times. About the various leaks regarding his current NFL unemployment, which at one point included a straight-faced claim that he is open to opportunities to be a starter.
The bear incident will be forgotten soon enough, by most. The bigger question is whether Wentz is destined to be forgotten as a football player, or whether his phone will be ringing as camp approaches or during training camp or during the season, once injuries inevitably happen.
Currently, that bear in his photos could be the perfect metaphor for his football career. If the bear was something less massive and fierce and closer to something more cuddly and Koala.
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GULFPORT, Fla. (WFLA) — The future is uncertain for one Gulfport school.
Sunflower School has called Gulfport home for 50 years, and has rented space from Gulfport Presbysterian Church for 42 of those years.
The church is now selling the property.
Leaders at the school started a campaign to raise $750,000 towards the purchase price.
“We just really love our community and we feel we’ve been an essential part to it and they’ve been essential to us,” Co-director and teacher Nicole Molnar Riveros said. “We’re really focused on our goal and our goal is to secure this location for the next 50 plus years and generations to come.”
Andrea Smith’s son is a 5th grader at Sunflower Private School. She said the school is the center of his life.
“It’s been a place that let’s him be who he is, Smith said.
Smith said if the school can’t stay, it’s not just a huge loss for her son.
“The school is a healthy part of the community,” Smith said. “Gulfport needs Sunflower School.”
The school also hopes to expand its arts and theater program, build outdoor classrooms within a greener courtyard and add new arts facilities on-site.
“If we could stay here and keep teaching children and they go into society, they may come back with more ideas,” Co-director and teacher Bevin O’Brien said.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) announces today the news of multiple wins at the Anthem Awards for their HIV IS NOT A CRIME campaign. The awards will be handed out in New York City on February 27th, one day before the second annual HIV IS NOT A CRIME Awareness Day.
The Awards are being given for the short play NIGHT OVER AMERICA which was performed in Washington DC and New York as a tool to bring awareness to the HIV IS NOT A CRIME campaign whose goal is to modernize laws in 30 states that still criminalize people living with HIV.
The Anthem Awards honor the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide. By amplifying the voices that spark global change, we're defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to act in their own communities. You can find more information about the Anthem Awards at: https://www.anthemawards.com
The winning categories are:
NIGHT OVER AMERICA from The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
- Category: Human & Civil Rights – Event *SILVER AWARD*
- Category: Human & Civil Rights – Special Projects *SILVER AWARD*
- Category: Human & Civil Rights – National Awareness Campaign *SILVER AWARD*
"This campaign, supported through funding from Gilead Sciences, Inc., is a pivotal program for us in our commitment to continue the incredible work that our founder Elizabeth Taylor started" said Cathy Brown, Executive Director at The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation: "Receiving the awards on what would have been her 91st birthday and the day before our HIV IS NOT A CRIME Awareness Day feels like perfect timing and we are so honored." You can learn more about HIV IS NOT A CRIME at: https://elizabethtayloraidsfoundation.org/
Since the inception of the HIV IS NOT A CRIME campaign, six states (Nevada, New Jersey, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois, and Virginia) have updated and/or eliminated these extremely outdated laws.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
02-23-28-33-34, Lucky Ball: 11
(two, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four; Lucky Ball: eleven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
02-23-28-33-34, Lucky Ball: 11
(two, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four; Lucky Ball: eleven)
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When Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” opens in theaters on Dec. 23, moviegoers will be treated to an orgiastic re-creation of Silent Era Hollywood at the edge of industrial disaster — a.k.a. the Talkie Revolution. Clocking in at over three hours, the movie doesn’t just remind audiences that the early days of the flickers were an offscreen riot of sex, drugs, and jazz; it wallows in them. (Any film with this much snow going up its characters’ noses has to count as a Christmas movie.)
Look past all the glorious excess, though, and you can spy the real-life tragedies, and farces, on which Chazelle (“La La Land,” “Whiplash”) has based his epic Tinseltown mashup. Here’s a cheat sheet to help tell historical truth from cinematic fiction. (Warning: Some spoilers ensue.)
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Who’s Margot Robbie’s character based on?
In “Babylon,” Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy a wild-child wannabe actress who becomes a star of the Silents before being felled in the sound era by various addictions and an unpurgeable Brooklyn accent. Nellie’s inspirations include a young Joan Crawford (who broke out as a late Silent Era star in flapper roles, dancing on tables as Nellie does in the movie) as well as Jeanne Eagels and Alma Rubens both of whom struggled with alcohol and heroin and died young, in 1929 and 1931 respectively.
But the main model for the character is Clara Bow, who, like Nellie, rose from a dire Brooklyn childhood — Bow’s schizophrenic mother once attacked her with a knife; Nellie visits her mentally ill mother (Vanessa Bednar) in a New York sanatorium — to become the icon of Roaring Twenties hedonism in films like “It,” “Mantrap,” and “Rough House Rosie.” Hugely popular, Bow was notorious for her brazen sexuality and the subject of endlessly reported scandals, many invented: As portrayed in “Babylon,” she did party down with the USC football team but did not take them all on in the bedroom as Kenneth Anger’s infamous book “Hollywood Babylon” claims. Bow’s career was damaged by the talkies but killed by the tabloids; she died at the age of 60 in 1965.
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Brad Pitt’s character, Jack Conrad — real or invented?
Effortlessly cool and forever in evening dress (even among a writhing crowd of nude revelers), Jack has the athletic savoir faire of Douglas Fairbanks — the Tom Cruise of his day and, with wife Mary Pickford, half of the Silent Era’s chief power couple. He also has the bad luck of John Gilbert, the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome, whose speaking voice proved too high-pitched and squeaky for audiences craving matinee idols who talked.
The canard persists that MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who detested Gilbert, had the actor’s vocal tracks on 1929′s “His Glorious Night” sped up to make him sound effeminate. “Babylon” gets it right when it shows a preview audience howling with laughter not at Jack’s voice but at the florid romantic dialogue that seemed fine on a silent film title card but sounded ridiculous when you heard it said out loud. Unlike his onscreen counterpart, who chooses a quick and permanent end to his career, Gilbert lost himself to the bottle and died of heart failure at 38 in 1936.
How many times did stars get married back then, anyway?
A running joke in “Babylon” is that Jack has a new wife practically every time we see him. One is Olga Putti (Karolina Szymczak), a tempestuous European star à la Pola Negri and Olga Baclanova, femmes fatales whose careers were over when it turned out no one could understand a word they said (early microphone quality didn’t help). Another wife (Katherine Waterston) is a snooty Broadway thespian, reflecting Hollywood’s insecurity about “real” actors who could talk.
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Was there really an Asian movie star in silent Hollywood?
The character of Lady Fay Zhu (Li Jun Li), a sultry, bisexual screen icon in “Babylon,” is drawn from various sources, mostly Anna May Wong’s run as an exotic vamp in early talkies. The scene where a top-hatted Lady Fay performs a cabaret act in which she kisses a lady audience member is lifted intact from 1932′s “Blonde Venus,” where it’s Marlene Dietrich who offers the taboo smooch. There may have not been a female Asian star of the Silent Era, but Japan’s Sessue Hayakawa was an American movie heartthrob in films like “The Cheat” (1915) decades before being nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957).
How about a Black star of early talkie musicals?
The presence of Sidney Palmer (Jovan Adepo), a jazz trumpeter who becomes an early talkie star, represents perhaps the biggest reach in “Babylon.” The character’s chops and swagger seem borrowed from Louis Armstrong, but while a few Black jazz bandleaders appeared in early sound musicals (Cab Calloway) or in their own short films (Duke Ellington) — and performers like the Nicholas Brothers sustained careers as featured players as the 1930s rolled on — Palmer’s arc seems as ahead of its era as the style of jazz he plays. There was a separate and segregated world of Black movies and moviemakers like Oscar Micheaux, but that’s outside of Chazelle’s purview here.
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Jean Smart’s all-knowing gossip queen Elinor St. John — true?
Pretty much so: The character’s a portmanteau of Adela Rogers St. Johns, the chief celebrity journalist of the Jazz Age — and arguably the first celebrity journalist, period — and Elinor Glyn, the author of “It,” which before it was the title of a Stephen King novel was a scandalous bestseller about female sex appeal. As a film, it made a star of Clara Bow.
Other real or semi-real characters?
Look fast for “boy wonder” producer Irving Thalberg (Max Minghella), media baron William Randolph Hearst (Pat Skipper), and his actress-mistress Marion Davies (Chloe Fineman). Ruth Adler (Olivia Hamilton), Nellie’s harried director, is a stand-in for women filmmakers like Lois Weber, just as Lady Fay’s sideline as a screenwriter nods to powerful women scripters like Frances Marion, June Mathis, and Anita Loos. Adler’s Asian-American cameraman is a tip of the beret to pioneering cinematographer James Wong Howe.
How true is the movie’s depiction of the transition to talking pictures?
Very. From crude soundstage microphones that picked up everything but the dialogue to cameras encased in sweltering sound-proof boxes to stars desperately signing up for elocution lessons, “Babylon” barely exaggerates the movie industry’s torturous paradigm shift. Interestingly, we glimpse the filming of the “Singin’ in the Rain” musical number from MGM’s all-star “Hollywood Revue of 1929,” and then, much later in the film, scenes from “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952), the first movie to dramatize (or comedicize) the same period as “Babylon.” Holy meta-movie.
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Were Gary Cooper and Charlie Chaplin really as, um, gifted in a certain department as one character implies?
To quote an old movie, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Ty Burr was the Globe’s’ movie critic from 2002 to 2021. He now writes the Substack newsletter “Ty Burr’s Watch List” (tyburrswatchlist.substack.com).
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Tuesday, May 24, Sacramento County Public Health officials announced they are investigating a potential case of monkeypox.
Health officials said based on the patient's symptoms and preliminary testing, it is likely the virus. However, the county is still waiting for confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). The person who potentially has the virus is currently isolated at home and is not in contact with others.
“This case appears to be related to recent travel to Europe,” Dr. Olivia Kasirye, Sacramento County Public Health Officer, wrote in a statement. “Public Health is working with CDPH to conduct contact tracing, and risk to the general public is extremely low.”
What is monkeypox?
Monkeypox is a virus that originates in wild animals like rodents and primates, and occasionally jumps to people. It belongs to the same virus family as smallpox.
Most human cases have been in central and west Africa and outbreaks have been relatively limited.
The illness was first identified by scientists in 1958 when there were two outbreaks of a “pox-like” disease in research monkeys — thus the name monkeypox. The first known human infection was in 1970, in a young boy in a remote part of Congo.
What are the symptoms and how is it treated?
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
Most people recover within about two to four weeks without needing to be hospitalized, monkeypox can be fatal for up to 6% of cases and is thought to be more severe in children.
Smallpox vaccines are effective against monkeypox and anti-viral drugs are also being developed.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recommended all suspected cases be isolated and that high-risk contacts be offered a smallpox vaccine. The U.K. is offering high-risk contacts the smallpox vaccine and recommending anyone who might be infected to isolate until they recover.
The U.S. has 1,000 doses of a vaccine approved for the prevention of monkeypox and smallpox, plus more than 100 million doses of an older-generation smallpox vaccine in a government stockpile, officials said.
How is monkeypox transmitted?
The virus can be transmitted through contact with an infected person or animal or contaminated surfaces. Typically, the virus enters the body through broken skin, inhalation or the mucous membranes in the eyes, nose or mouth. Researchers believe that human-to-human transmission is mostly through inhalation of large respiratory droplets rather than direct contact with bodily fluids or indirect contact through clothes. Human-to-human transmission rates for monkeypox have been limited.
Health officials are worried the virus may currently be spreading undetected through community transmission, possibly through a new mechanism or route. Where and how infections are occurring are still under investigation.
What caused the latest outbreak?
Health officials are still investigating, but a top adviser to the World Health Organization said this week that the leading theory is that monkeypox was likely spread after sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe.
Dr. David Heymann, who chairs WHO's expert advisory group on infectious hazards, said monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with someone already infected with the disease, and that "it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission.”
Authorities in countries including Britain, Spain, Germany and Portugal say most of the known cases in Europe have been among men who have sex with men, but experts emphasize that anyone can be infected through close contact with a sick person, their clothing or bedsheets.
Scientists say it will be difficult to determine whether the spread is being driven by sex or merely close contact.
How worrying is this outbreak?
Any outbreak of an emerging virus is concerning, but most of the cases have been mild and there have been no deaths so far.
Monkeypox also requires very close contact to spread, so it is not likely to prompt big waves of disease like COVID-19, which can be transmitted in the air by people with no symptoms.
Still, Britain’s Health Security Agency has said it expects to see new infections “on a daily basis” and WHO’s Europe director warned that the summer season of festivals and parties could spread the disease. Many of the cases being identified have no links to previous infections, suggesting the virus is already spreading widely.
On Tuesday, Germany’s Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said the outbreak “is not the beginning of a new pandemic” but needed to be contained quickly.
How many monkeypox cases are there typically?
The World Health Organization estimates there are thousands of monkeypox infections in about a dozen African countries every year. Most are in Congo, which reports about 6,000 cases annually, and Nigeria, with about 3,000 cases a year.
In the past, isolated cases of monkeypox have been spotted outside Africa, including in the U.S. and Britain. The cases were mostly linked to travel in Africa or contact with animals from areas where the disease is more common.
In 2003, 47 people in six U.S. states had confirmed or probable cases. They caught the virus from pet prairie dogs that were housed near imported small mammals from Ghana.
Why are most of the current infections outside Africa in men who have sex with men?
It's unclear, but the disease is no more likely to infect gay and bisexual men than anyone else.
“This may just be unlucky that (monkeypox) happened to get into this one particular community first,” said Dr. Jake Dunning, an infectious diseases researcher at the University of Oxford, who is also involved in treating cases in London. “It's just that they are a community and by having sex with each other, that is how it's spreading,” he said.
Other experts warn the disease could spread more widely if measures aren't taken to stop the outbreak.
“Infectious diseases don’t care about borders or social networks. Some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, but by no means is the current risk of exposure to monkeypox” exclusive to men who have sex with men, said the CDC’s Dr. John Brooks.
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A viewing for Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez is scheduled for 10 a.m. followed by her funeral this afternoon.
The community came together Wednesday night outside the 31-year-old officer's home to remember her.
It was Monday when she was found stabbed several times during an apparent domestic dispute.
Her estranged husband and the father of her 3-year-old girl, 33-year-old Argenis Baez, later turned himself in.
He's now charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.
At Wednesday night's vigil, Officer Reyes-Gomez was remembered as someone who bravely protected the public at work - but at home, she was clearly in danger.
"What happens sometimes is folks forget behind that shield on the chest, even though we look strong, even though we live in your neighborhood and patrol your neighborhood, we are part of the community," said PBA President Pat Lynch. "And the things and the violence and the sorrow that affects you in your home, affects us in ours."
Officer Reyes-Gomez was assigned to patrol the subway and recently commended for saving a man from an overdose.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with a vote Thursday on a massive defense spending bill.
Advancing on a 86-11 Senate vote, the provisions would extend health care coverage and compensation to so-called downwinders exposed to radiation during weapons testing to several new regions stretching from Guam to the New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in 1945.
The Senate-backed plan also would extend compensation to more former uranium industry workers. The proposed changes to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act are not yet included in a House-approved defense bill, amid negotiations toward final legislation.
The hit summer film “Oppenheimer” about the top-secret Manhattan Project and the dawn of the nuclear age during World War II has brought new attention to a decades-long efforts to extend compensation for families who were exposed to fallout and still grapple with related illness.
“We’re elated with the vote today. We’re extremely hopeful,” said Mary Martinez White, who recounted that her parents and several siblings were ravaged by cancer after the family’s exposure to nuclear fallout at a farm in Carrizozo, New Mexico, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) for the Trinity Site test.
She blames her family’s suffering on decisions at the outset of the Cold War — and applauded efforts to make amends through federal compensation by lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
“I have faith that people who are alive today will right those choices, and quickly, especially when so much is being asked of New Mexico in terms of storage” of radioactive waste and nuclear weapons production, she said.
Advocates also have been trying for years to bring awareness to the lingering effects of radiation exposure on the Navajo Nation, where millions of tons of uranium ore were extracted over decades to support U.S. nuclear activities.
“The Navajo Nation has borne the brunt of America’s nuclear program, the cost of which can be measured in human lives, environmental devastation, and communities that are still suffering,” President Buu Nygren of the Navajo Nation said Thursday in a statement. “We will not stand by and allow this legacy to be forgotten or dismissed.”
The Senate bill would expand eligibility to more former uranium mining, processing and transportation workers who participated after 1971, the current cutoff date for eligibility.
Since the compensation program began in 1992, more than 54,000 claims have been filed and about $2.6 billion has been awarded for approved claims in Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Coverage would be expanded to New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana and previously excluded areas of Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
Earlier this month, Hawley promised to help people with cancer and other diseases connected to nuclear contamination in the St. Louis, Missouri, region. He cited reports by The Associated Press, The Missouri Independent and the nonprofit newsroom MuckRock that detailed nonchalance and indifference to the risks nuclear waste posed dating back to the 1950s.
St. Louis was part of the national campaign to build a nuclear bomb, with uranium processing that produced harmful waste.
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That's a fat pumpkin.
A New York farmer just set national and state records for heaviest pumpkin, showcasing a gourd the size of a compact car at an Eric County farm during its annual pumpkin weighing contest.
The pumpkin, grown by Williamsville's Scott Andrusz, weighed in at 2,554 pounds -- roughly the size of a small vehicle -- at Saturday's event at the Great Pumpkin Farm. According to the farm, Andrusz was hoping to just break the state record, but he squashed the national one, too.
This isn't the first time the Great Pumpkin Farm has been the site of history. It saw the first 1,000-plus-pound pumpkin during its 1996 Fall Festival -- and that one made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Since then, it has seen pumpkins more than double that weight, like Andrusz's.
If you want to see it for yourself, the record-breaking pumpkin will be on display at The Great Pumpkin Farm through Oct. 16. Learn more here.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Cole Kuiper saw a report on Twitter: Aaron Judge was nearing a deal with the San Francisco Giants. Cole called his father, Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper, to share the good news.
Then the report was scrubbed, and Cole had to get back to his vacationing dad.
“I called him to tell him Judge is a Giant, but now I can’t get ahold of him to update him on the retraction,” Cole Kuiper posted on Twitter on Tuesday.
Ah, baseball’s winter meetings in the social media age.
While much of the majors awaited the resolution of Judge’s free agency, Mitch Haniger, Cody Bellinger, Josh Bell, Tommy Kahnle and Andrew Heaney all found new homes. Negotiations continued for a couple of baseball’s top free agents, including shortstops Carlos Correa, Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson, along with catcher Willson Contreras and left-hander Carlos Rodón.
“This marketplace is very aggressive, particularly aggressive for elite players,” super agent Scott Boras said.
St. Louis president John Mozeliak and manager Oliver Marmol recently spent time with Contreras and his agents. The Cardinals have an opening behind the plate after Yadier Molina retired.
“This is a guy that loves to win, who wakes up thinking about it, goes to sleep thinking about it,” Marmol said of Contreras, who began his big league career with the Cubs. “And we’ve seen quite a bit across the way. And it’s a guy you don’t want to compete against because you know he’s pretty good.”
Bell agreed to a $33 million, two-year contract with Cleveland, and Bellinger, another Boras client, reached a $17.5 million, one-year deal with the Chicago Cubs.
Haniger got a $43.5 million, three-year deal with San Francisco.
Bell played for Washington and San Diego last season, batting .266 with 17 homers and 71 RBIs in 156 games.
Cleveland is coming off a surprising 2022 season, going 92-70 and winning the AL Central for the first time since 2018. The addition of Bell gives the Guardians more power for their lineup after they hit just 127 homers this year — the second-lowest total in the majors.
The switch-hitting Bell also is expected to benefit from restrictions on defensive positioning coming to the game next year.
A person familiar with the negotiations confirmed the Bell contract on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a review of medical records.
Bellinger, the 2019 NL MVP, was cut by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Nov. 18 after the 27-year-old outfielder hit .210 with 19 homers, 150 strikeouts and a .654 OPS in 144 games.
“Got a track record of a lot of success and dynamic defense,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “I remember when he first got in the league — first base, smooth hands, dynamic center fielder, great outfielder. Hadn’t had the success he had early on, but definitely a lot of potential for a great player.”
Bellinger figures to play center for the Cubs, but could see some time at first. He had a $17 million contract this season and likely would have received a slight raise in arbitration.
The 31-year-old Haniger dipped to 11 home runs and 34 RBIs in 57 games for Seattle last season, a year after the former All-Star outfielder had 39 homers and 100 RBIs for the Mariners.
The 33-year-old Kahnle is going back to the New York Yankees on an $11.5 million, two-year contract, and the 31-year-old Heaney agreed to a $25 million, two-year deal with the Texas Rangers.
Kahnle and Heaney each pitched for the Dodgers this year. Kahnle, who played for New York for 2 1/2 seasons beginning in 2017, posted a 2.84 ERA in 13 relief appearances. Heaney went 4-4 with a 3.10 ERA in 16 games, 14 starts.
A person familiar with the contracts for Kahnle and Heaney confirmed the deals on condition of anonymity because there was no immediate announcement of each move.
The Yankees are one of the teams waiting to hear from Judge, who set an American League record with 62 homers for the Bronx Bombers this season. He also tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs and just missed a Triple Crown with a .311 batting average.
San Francisco also is in the mix, and there likely are more teams lurking on the periphery of the market for the 6-foot-7 outfielder.
New York manager Aaron Boone said he was in the shower when he saw the report about Judge and the Giants.
“A lot of unknown right now. … Yeah, we haven’t heard anything,” Boone said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the 10 Republicans who attempted to cast Electoral College ballot s for Donald Trump even though he lost Wisconsin said Monday he is running to become chairman of the state elections commission where he currently serves as a member.
Robert Spindell has been an outspoken member of the bipartisan commission and supporter of the investigation into the 2020 election being led by a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. Spindell has also traveled the state giving a presentation he calls “Thirteen Ways the 2020 Election was Rigged in Wisconsin.”
“I am far and away the best qualified for (commission chair) and it would really help the image of the Wisconsin Elections Commission if I am chosen for that,” Spindell said Monday.
The next chair of the commission will hold the position heading into the November election and in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election in battleground Wisconsin. The chair by state law approves the vote canvass following elections and certifies results. The chair also sets the agenda for the commission and can exert influence over how questions are framed, an important power on the board that is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.
The commission scheduled a vote Wednesday to elect the next chair. State law requires the commission chair post to alternate every two years between a Republican and Democratic member who has been appointed by legislative leaders.
The current chair is Democrat Ann Jacobs. That means the next chair must be either Spindell or Dean Knudson, a former Republican state lawmaker, who served as commission chair for two years before Jacobs.
Knudson did not return messages seeking comment Monday. Spindell said he has spoken with Knudson about the chairman post, but he did not know if he would seek it.
“It has to be me or Dean," Spindell said. "But I think I’m far and away the best qualified for that.”
Jacobs declined to comment about the prospect of Spindell, whom she has sparred with often, being the next chair.
“I think the discussion of who should be chair should best be held in our meeting in front of the public on Wednesday," she said.
At least one Democratic member would have to vote for Spindell in order for him to become the next chair. It's not immediately clear what would happen if the board were to deadlock.
“We’ll find out on Wednesday," Jacobs said.
Spindell dismissed concerns raised by Democrats and others about his support for Michael Gableman's election investigation, his serving as one of the 10 fake Republican electors and his questioning of how the 2020 election was run. Spindell and other Republicans who cast electoral votes for Trump, even though he lost to Biden, said they were trying to preserve his options in case a court overturned the Biden victory.
Spindell and the other fake GOP electors were sued last week.
Even though Gableman called for the Legislature to consider decertifying President Joe Biden's win in the state, Spindell opposes that. Numerous attorneys, both conservative and liberal, have said the idea is illegal.
“You cannot withdraw the 10 elector votes," Spindell said. "You can’t take Biden in and put Trump in today. I think that’s pretty clear. So I know a lot of this stuff, what you can do and can’t do.”
As for whether there was fraud in the 2020 election, Spindell said, “Nobody knows, maybe God only knows. But it’s certainly apparent that no fraud I can see has been proven in a court of law."
Spindell said by electing him chair, he could help speak with Republicans who have concerns about the way the commission operates and alleviate their fears. The Republican Party on Saturday at its state convention approved a resolution calling for the commission to be dissolved.
Spindell opposes doing away with the commission, but said he was open to making changes to how it runs.
“Right now the organization is under quite a bit of attack," Spindell said. “What we need to do with that is make things more transparent and show some of the good stuff that’s been done by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.”
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Dentsply Sirona Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased Dentsply's common stock between June 9, 2021, and May 9, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 1, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating the Company's accounting for a distributor rebate program so that senior executives would be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation. In order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the class period. As a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Dentsply you have until August 1, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned of extremely high levels of respiratory illness in the U.S. on Monday, particularly flu hospitalizations, and made another call for people to stay up to date on their vaccinations.
In a briefing, Walensky said the U.S. is seeing elevated levels of COVID-19, the flu and RSV. The CDC director noted higher levels of the latter two viruses compared to last year.
“Levels of flu-like illness, which includes people going to doctors with a fever and a cough or sore throat, are either high or very high level in 47 jurisdictions, and that is up from 36 jurisdictions just last week,” Walensky said.
According to Walensky, the CDC estimates that since the start of October, there have been at least 8.7 million cases of flu, 78,000 related hospitalizations and 4,500 deaths detected.
Two more pediatric deaths due to flu were reported last week, bringing the total for this season to 14.
“Flu hospital admissions reported through HHS’s hospital surveillance system, which were already high for this time of year, have nearly doubled during the last reporting period compared to the week prior,” said Walensky. “Hospitalizations for flu continue to be the highest we have seen at this time of year in a decade, demonstrating the significantly earlier flu season we are experiencing.”
According to CDC data, about 26 percent of U.S. adults have received a flu vaccine, slightly higher than the vaccine coverage at this time last year. However, Walensky noted vaccination rates are lower among some high-risk groups, including children, adults over 65 and pregnant people.
Flu vaccination rates for pregnant people were significantly lower across all ethnicities. Among non-Hispanic white pregnant people, vaccine uptake was 14 percent lower. This drop was even greater among non-Hispanic Asian pregnant people, with 15 percent fewer getting the shot compared to last year.
Sandra Fryhofer, board chair of the American Medical Association, said during the briefing that it was particularly important for pregnant people to get vaccinated against the flu because this protection would in turn be conferred to their infants, who are not eligible for vaccination for the first six months of their lives.
“I want to emphasize that flu vaccine can be life-saving and importantly there is still time to get vaccinated to be protected against flu this season,” Walensky said.
The CDC director also noted an “unfortunate and expected” rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country following the Thanksgiving holiday.
She urged people to get the updated COVID-19 booster if they have not done so already, stating that those who received their first two shots are still considered fully vaccinated but are not considered fully protected against the coronavirus.
“Both the updated COVID-19 vaccines and this year’s flu vaccines were formulated to protect against the viruses that are currently circulating right now,” Walensky said. “And recent data from CDC show updated COVID-19 vaccines help protect against COVID-19 illness and COVID-19-associated deaths. Early surveillance shows that people who receive their updated COVID-19 vaccine this year were nearly 15 times less likely to die from COVID-19 compared to people who are not vaccinated.”
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation.
If Rushdie had been murdered then, I would have been happy.
Now that he has been nearly killed in a knife attack, I am shattered.
In the intervening years, I came to realize that the religion of my youth was an oppressive, dangerous version of the faith. Forced into marriage in the early 1990s, I fled to the Netherlands, where I successfully sought political asylum. There, I studied political science, later becoming a member of parliament. And I watched with mounting anger, and horror, as radical Islam pursued its war on modern civilization — perhaps these words can still be said, on Western civilization.
I cherish the freedoms afforded by Western civilization, and I especially cherish the freedom to speak freely. That is why the attack on Rushdie, beyond the terrible fact of his injuries, is so abhorrent.
The freedom to speak out — to challenge and even to offend — is the driver of every form of progress. The advance of science, the emancipation of women, revolutions that have taken down monarchies and corrupt regimes — these achievements, at their core, were driven by free expression.
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, Rushdie wrote: “The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women’s rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex.”
Speaking as a former teenage believer, I concur: Islamic fundamentalism is a wholesale assault on the foundational principles of the West. We must not only protect but also stand alongside those whose lives are threatened by theocracy merely for what they say or write.
When someone attempts to take Rushdie's life, what’s at stake is not just the inventive language and far-sighted vision of one person. Also at stake is our freedom to share ideas: the lifeblood of Western civilization.
But in place of the courageous confrontation and unified defense that such an assault demands, I see around me today far too much shuffling of feet and mumbling. What ought to have prompted simply a resounding defense of free speech has stirred, from some on the left, criticism of the act itself, but hollowed out by caveats: I believe in free speech … but not if this or that minority is offended.
The secular cult of wokeism uses diversity, equity and inclusion — words that should be pillars of progress — to impose a fearful conformity that is fundamentally inimical to free speech. Indeed, the wokeists and the Islamists have this in common: Both use the language of offense and hurt feelings to shut down ideas. “Hate speech” can be just a secular version of “blasphemy.”
When free speech is under assault, we risk losing the precious values that countless people around the world have bled for — that Rushdie’s blood was spilled for last week. Enough of the tired declarations of sympathy and outrage. It is time to act in defense of our ideals. This means calling out the evils committed in the name of Islam, supporting dissident Muslims fighting to reform their faith, being unafraid and unapologetic in championing Western freedoms and ideals, and fearlessly standing up for free expression — in our universities, as everywhere else.
Yes, many of us are scared. We who live with the fundamentalists’ threats — in the West and in the Muslim world — live with fear, and have done so for years. But we cannot let fear cow us into silence. Times like these reaffirm to me the clear necessity of championing Western values — chief among them the freedom to speak and publish, regardless of hurt feelings, regardless of whether our words violate concepts of blasphemy, old or new.
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SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — The man accused of attempting to kill three people by driving a Tesla off a cliff on Highway 1 is now behind bars, according to San Mateo County inmate records.
Dharmesh Patel, 41, a doctor from Pasadena, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse while he was treated at Stanford Hospital for injuries sustained in the crash. Investigators believe that Patel purposefully drove his vehicle over the cliff near Devils Slide while his wife and two young children were inside on Jan 2.
The rescue of the family required a heavy emergency response. A helicopter repelled crews down the side of the cliff to access the Tesla, which landed in between several large boulders. Emergency personnel needed to cut the family from the vehicle including Patel’s wife who is 41, their 7-year-old daughter and 4-year old son.
The family members survived the collision, but they each suffered severe injuries. Patel was booked into San Mateo County Jail and was not offered bail.
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Patel is scheduled to face arraignment on Monday for the crash. San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told The Los Angeles Times that investigators will be examining all possible causes of the crash, including the possibility of a mechanical problem.
“We’re having the car looked at from top to bottom,” Wagstaffe said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. earned his record 77th single-season North American stakes victory on Saturday when he guided Dr B to victory in the $200,000 Go for Wand at Aqueduct.
The 30-year-old native of Puerto Rico broke the old mark of 76 set by the late Hall of Fame rider Garrett Gomez in 2007.
“This is great. Amazing feeling,” said Ortiz, Jr., who won the Eclipse Award as outstanding jockey from 2018-20. “Gomez did it in 2007 and he was a great rider, one of the best in the game. I’m so happy just to be a part of this. I love this sport.”
Ortiz Jr. won the Belmont Stakes with Mo Donegal in June to go with Breeders' Cup victories in the Juvenile, Filly & Mare Sprint and Sprint. He also earned nine other Grade 1 wins in New York, including Life Is Good in the Woodward and Whitney and Nest in the Alabama and Coaching Club Oaks. He won riding titles at Belmont's spring-summer meet and Saratoga's summer meet.
Ortiz Jr. leads North American riders with 304 overall victories this year. His purse earnings totaled over $35.8 million going into Saturday's races, which already surpassed his single-season record of $34.1 million in 2019.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The company planning to buy Donald Trump’s new social media business has disclosed a federal grand jury investigation that it says could impede or even prevent its acquisition of the Truth Social app.
Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. dropped almost 10% Monday as the company revealed that it has received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York.
The Justice Department subpoenas follow an ongoing probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission into whether Digital World broke rules by having substantial talks about buying Trump’s company starting early last year before Digital World sold stock to the public for the first time in September, just weeks before its announcement that it would be buying Trump’s company.
Trump’s social media venture launched in February as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech, a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
The Trump Media & Technology Group — which operates the Truth Social app and was in the process of being acquired by Digital World — said in a statement that it will cooperate with “oversight that supports the SEC’s important mission of protecting retail investors.”
The new probe could make it more difficult for Trump to finance his social media company. The company last year got promises from dozens of investors to pump $1 billion into the company, but it can’t get the cash until the Digital World acquisition is completed.
Stock in Digital World rocketed to more than $100 in October after its deal to buy Trump’s company was announced. The stock closed at $25.16 Monday.
Digital World is a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, part of an investing phenomenon that exploded in popularity over the past two years.
Such “blank-check” companies are empty corporate entities with no operations, only offering investors the promise they will buy a business in the future. As such they are allowed to sell stock to the public quickly without the usual regulatory disclosures and delays, but only if they haven’t already lined up possible acquisition targets.
Digital World said in a regulatory filing Monday that each member of its board of directors has been subpoenaed by the grand jury in the Southern District of New York. Both the grand jury and the SEC are also seeking a number of documents tied to the company and others including a sponsor, ARC Global Investments, and Miami-based venture capital firm Rocket One Capital.
Some of the sought documents involve “due diligence” regarding Trump Media and other potential acquisition targets, as well as communications with Digital World’s underwriter and financial adviser in its initial public offering, according to the SEC disclosure.
Digital World also Monday announced the resignation of one of its board members, Bruce Garelick, a chief strategy officer at Rocket One.
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Ribbon-cutting celebrates $4 million gift from ZT Systems, bringing urgent care, primary care, imaging and laboratory services, specialty care and more to Hudson County
ENGLEWOOD, N.J., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians, local leaders, and members of the community gathered today to celebrate the opening of the Englewood Health ZT Systems Outpatient Center at 2 Journal Square.
The outpatient center is a three-floor, 73,000+ square-foot facility that offers urgent care, primary care, imaging and over a dozen specialty care services to the Hudson County community.
Conveniently located across from the PATH station, the outpatient center also offers patients free parking and easy access to public transportation. The facility brings all the expertise, resources, and existing infrastructure of the hospital to its patients in Jersey City and beyond.
"Travel should never be a barrier to comprehensive, high-quality health care," said Warren Geller, president and CEO of Englewood Health. "That's why we continue to expand our services throughout northern New Jersey. Our outpatient center in Jersey City will increase access to preventive care and diagnostics right where people live and work."
For those who already receive care within the Englewood Health Physician Network—which provides primary and specialty care services across Hudson County—the outpatient center offers seamless collaboration with their referring physicians and true continuity of care.
The founding of the outpatient center was made possible by a historic philanthropic gift from ZT Systems, an international leader in the IT sector.
The $4 million gift from ZT Systems is the largest corporate pledge in Englewood Health's history and has fueled the mission of bringing these important medical services to Hudson County.
"ZT Systems is proud to support Englewood Health in giving back to the local community by bringing urgent care, primary care, imaging and laboratory services, specialty care and more to Jersey City," said Frank Zhang, president and CEO of ZT Systems. "The Englewood Health Foundation shares our company's values of partnership and people first, and we are very excited to be a part of this important initiative."
Primary and specialty care
On the first floor of the outpatient center, orthopedic experts care for patients from diagnosis through rehabilitation for any orthopedic-related condition.
Primary care services are located on the second floor, as are specialties including pulmonology, gastroenterology, dermatology, neurology, bariatric and general surgery, colon and rectal surgery, behavioral health, and vascular surgery.
A diabetes center on the second floor offers patients access to diabetes education and nutritional counseling, as well as podiatry and endocrinology. Also on the second floor are hematology and oncology offices.
"For over 130 years, Englewood Health has provided personalized, compassionate care to the residents of Northern New Jersey and beyond," said Stephen Brunnquell, MD, president of the Englewood Health Physician Network. "While our reach has included Jersey City and the people who live and work there, the addition of this new location at Journal Square will be a game changer. With increased access to expertise, services, and screenings, people will be able to get the care they need, when they need it, right in their own neighborhood."
Imaging
Born of a need for increased access to high-quality medical imaging, Englewood Hospital Imaging at Jersey City is a full-service imaging center, offering highly sophisticated technology and advanced diagnostic testing opening to patients on October 3, 2022.
"Access to imaging services such as CT scans and MRIs enable the early detection of cancer, heart disease, joint and spine injuries, abdominal disease, and problems related to brain function," said Mark Shapiro, MD, chief of radiology at Englewood Health. "As many of these conditions are treatable or curable in their early stages, Englewood Health's continued efforts to expand diagnostic imaging directly improve health outcomes within our community."
At the brand-new imaging center, a team of fellowship-trained radiologists provides same-day results, as well as urgent and emergent consultations when necessary. The facility will offer multimodal imaging using state-of-the-art equipment, including:
- 3T MRI – body/musculoskeletal, breast, neuro, MR elastography
- 128-Slice CT and full-service CT – CT angiography, cardiac CTA including FFRct
- Ultrasound
- Women's imaging – 3D mammography, breast ultrasound, stereotactic biopsy
- DEXA/Bone Densitometry
- X-Ray
- Cardiac Imaging – nuclear and non-nuclear stress testing, echocardiography, vascular lab, Holter monitor
- Maternal Fetal Medicine – perinatology, high-risk obstetrical ultrasound, amniocentesis, nuchal translucency screening
Breast services
A major focus of this new center is to bring Englewood Health's expert breast services into the community.
"Getting an annual mammogram in Hudson County just got easier," said Mindy Goldfischer, MD, chief of breast imaging at Englewood Health and medical director of The Leslie Simon Breast Care and Cytodiagnosis Center at Englewood Health. "At the imaging center in Jersey City, screening mammography, diagnostic evaluations, and advanced breast procedures are performed by our breast imaging specialists. Having access to these important breast services locally will save lives."
Englewood Health is a regional leader in breast imaging and is accredited and nationally recognized by the American College of Radiology as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence.
In addition, Englewood Health's breast cancer disease management team—which includes medical oncologists, breast surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, and geneticists—works together to create individual care plans for each of their patients.
Urgent Care
Located on the main level, Englewood Health Urgent Care at Jersey City offers same-day, walk-in services for adults and children with non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses, as well as preventive care services, routine vaccinations, and telemedicine. Urgent Care is open Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., as well as Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information or to make an appointment at Englewood Health ZT Systems Outpatient Center, visit englewoodhealth.org/jerseycity.
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FLINT, MI -- Dr. Abdelmajid Jondy. The name should ring a bell.
Jondy, 84, has worked for Hurley Medical Center as a general surgeon for 50 years, and in March 2022, decided to retire. A serious retirement, this time.
“He did retire once before and we were laughing because it only lasted 10 days,” said his daughter, Muna Jondy. “But after he and my mom got COVID, that’s when we said we can’t keep doing this.”
While retiring was almost an impossible thought for those who know him, it took a serious bout with COVID for Jondy to finally consider it.
Hospitalized along with his wife, Gada, in September 2021 through October, Jondy’s family pushed him to call it a career.
“To be honest, I’m somebody that had been telling him it’s time for him to retire,” Muna said. “Because of his age and the nature of his job being a trauma surgeon, it’s just very demanding. You’re like 84 years old, what are you doing? It’s probably time to hang up your gown. But my family also had mixed reviews about him retiring.”
Both Jondy and his wife, who is 72 years old, are doing well.
Raised in the rural south of Syria, Jondy intended to continue working on the family farm, but he dreamed of being a doctor. Through intense perseverance, and driven by his values, he pursued an education and was awarded a scholarship to study medicine. His story with Flint begins when he immigrated to the city on Jan. 1, 1972.
Together with his wife, Jondy has nine children: Muhanad, Jumana, Jenan, Muna, Muaz, Bayan, Aman, Mohammad and Abrar. Seven of them were born at Hurley.
Upon his arrival to the U.S., Jondy first considered applying for orthopedic residency at the University of Illinois but would have been required to wait six months.
Waiting was not an option, so he applied for general surgery and interviewed with several hospitals in Ohio and Michigan. Finally, he set his sights on Hurley, where he noticed trauma surgery was developing. With trauma surgery, there was a wide range of options for him to pursue––from bones and fractures to hips and hands.
Hurley welcomed him with open arms and offered him a contract, beginning what would become a 50-year journey with the city’s healthcare system.
The Jondy name around Genesee County is recognizable to just about anyone in the area.
“It was one of those things where you’ll meet people randomly and they’ll say, oh, you know Dr. Jondy?” said his granddaughter, Sumaya Tabbah, a graduate student at American University. “So I think people also feel a lot of love towards him and I just want it immortalized in some capacity. Just to capture all of those emotions.”
Muna, a 46-year-old immigration attorney in Flint, was recently at a dinner with Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson and right on cue, her father was brought up.
“He said, ‘I want you to know that I trained with your dad 20 years ago as a medic,” Muna said. “He said he remembers it so distinctly because he knew he had to know his stuff when he was around Dr. Jondy. My father was never a slacker.”
Muna recalls an apartment within Hurley when they were young, where Muna and her siblings would pile up and stay the weekend while Jondy worked endless hours.
Jondy was always on call. It did not matter if it was 4 p.m. or 4 a.m.
And he always proudly took the call.
“We always felt good about it,” Muna said. “It was never like we felt dad was too busy for us. We always knew he was doing good things.”
Dr. Steve Lackie, a physician assistant in neurosurgical trauma, worked with Jondy from 1991-2015.
Jondy was one of the leading proponents of endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery. While neurosurgery is his forte, laparoscopic surgery never was for Lackie.
One day, around 2003 or 2004, Lackie was ready to leave the hospital, when Jondy quickly stopped him, saying with a smile, “Steve, my friend, I need your help.”
The smile caught Lackie off guard. Jondy needed to perform surgery on a gallbladder patient.
Jondy quickly changed his tone, seriously saying, “We need to do it with a laparoscope.”
“He said even if I get sick to my stomach, it’s going to be OK,” Lackie laughed.
In the middle of the surgery, Jondy looked up at Lackie, and said “You’re turning green, are you kidding? Just take a deep breath. You’re doing fine, you won’t get spanked.”
Lackie knew the patient was in good hands. The procedure lasted 20 minutes.
“Dr. Jondy was just so calm,” he said. “When he says he needs my help, how can I turn that down?”
In 2012, Jondy returned to Syria in the height of a war waged by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime against the Syrian people following the outbreak of peaceful protests in 2011. The war left many Syrians without food, water, shelter, or access to medical care.
That drove Jondy to do what he’s always been known to do; help people. Jondy risked reprisal from the Syrian government for aiding the Syrian people, but it didn’t deter him.
With hospitals, homes, and shelters destroyed, he performed a total of 23 surgeries on wounded civilians. The surgeries were done in the basements of houses and other buildings so that the government wouldn’t find out.
Dr. Michael Jaggi, chairman of the ER and chief medical officer at Hurley, worked closely with Jondy since 1996.
He credits Jondy for being one of the earliest surgeons to put Hurley on the map for trauma care. He helped build the foundation and saw it mature over 50 years.
“I don’t know if I ever saw him fatigued or tired,” Jaggi said, 59. “It’s still remarkable looking back at it. I think that’s what really set him apart and people identified with him that he always was there.”
Jondy’s dedication to improving the lives of those around him didn’t stop at the hospital. He embodied that same mission within his family and the community at large.
Jondy always found time for his family. He built a basketball and tennis court at his home in Clio, with roughly 30 acres of land. Muna remembers those games played like it was yesterday, including the time he taught her how to ride a bike.
As the founder of the Flint Islamic Center, a massive 82,000 square-foot mosque sitting on 45 acres, Jondy’s work expanded beyond the surgery room, and his dedication to his Islamic faith spread across the community.
His legacy speaks for itself.
“He worked the way he lived,” she said. “He’s a very straightforward guy and it’s funny because I got that personality from him. He’s very generous and very giving. He’s been a real asset to the Muslim community and obviously to the greater Genesee County community.”
In 2020, Jondy and his wife celebrated their 50th anniversary with a small outdoor gathering. Considering the bout with COVID last year, he preferred not to have a large gathering for a retirement celebration.
Other organizations have also committed to honoring his career. The Islamic Medical Association of Mid Michigan- IMA Flint, which consists of over 250 physicians and medical care providers, are planning to honor Jondy during their upcoming November meeting.
“Flint has lost such an incredible, incredible physician,” Lackie said. “I have had the honor to work with him and you get to a point where you feel love for the man. I am happy for him but it’s also mixed emotions.”
Tressa Ramirez, 53, worked directly with Jondy for 25 years as a registered nurse and scrub tech. It was not a specific surgery Jondy performed that impressed her, or the fact he always showed up on time. Those are traits that are expected.
But what isn’t always expected from people, especially now, is showing kindness. Jondy always made sure to do so.
“He always told me ‘good morning,” she said. “He always took the time to say that. And I always knew how busy he was. Sometimes I wouldn’t even be in his room, and every time I saw him, he said, ‘good morning’ and addressed me by name. That made me feel good. He’s one of those surgeons you just always admire.”
While Jondy’s work in the hospital is over, the lasting impact he left on those that knew him is evident in the hospitals he’s served, his family, and the Flint community.
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Indiana Jones 5 director warns of a darker, morally ‘gray’ take on franchise: ‘Good and evil’ not so clear
The director told viewers to expect an 'Indiana Jones' movie that asks 'who’s a villain?... It’s not as simple as the era around World War II'
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" director James Mangold recently described how the upcoming sequel will be a departure in tone from the previous films in the summer blockbuster series. He insisted that viewers should be ready for an Indiana Jones movie set in a world "no longer seen in such clear demarcations of black and white and good and evil."
80-year-old actor Harrison Ford will soon be seen portraying a grizzled, older version of the adventurous archeology professor Americans have watched for decades. Director James Mangold, famous for films such as "Logan" and "3:10 to Yuma" spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about the tone of the newest sequel to the Indiana Jones series.
"We can’t hide from where we are in our lives — none of us can — and neither can Indiana Jones," Mangold told The Hollywood Reporter. "I wanted to follow Harrison’s own lead and simply deal with it straight on."
He added further that Indiana Jones will be grappling with growing older in a changing world.
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"It’s not just a movie about a hero in his twilight years who is called back into action. It’s more than just that his bones might ache, it’s that his soul might ache, or that some of his optimism or sense fitting into the world might have evaporated," he wrote. "The mistake you can make in movies — and we’ve all seen movies like this — is where someone is of a ripe age, but the entire movie is continuing this charade along with them that they’re not that old."
Mangold emphasized that part of this change is because the first three films were clustered around World War II and the Nazis, but claimed this most recent installment is set during an era with less easily definable heroes and villains.
"The first three Indiana Jones movies took place in roughly the same period," Mangold told The Hollywood Reporter. "They all easily fit with the serialized, theatrical, almost screwball-action style of the movies that were being released in the period they’re set in."
Mangold wondered, "How do you move forward into new decades where the world is no longer seen in such clear demarcations of black and white and good and evil?"
He continued, pondering, "Where the whole concept of raiding tombs and fighting over relics is looked at in a different way? It’s not about changing the story but allowing the character to experience how the world has changed around him."
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He added that "And our perception of politics is more gray," and elaborated, "Who’s a villain? Who are we working with? Who are we fighting against? Proxy wars, all of that. It’s not as simple as the era around World War II. What happens to a hero built for a black-and-white world, when he finds himself in one that is gray? It’s a problem that produces humor, produces contradictions, produces adjustments that this character’s going have to make."
Mangold said that part of the film will be a flashback, made with the help of computer animation to show Jones in his younger years, serving as a major contrast to the more modern era of 1969.
"By showing him in his most hearty and then finding him at 70 in New York City, it produces for the audience a kind of wonderful whiplash of how they’re going to have to readjust and retool their brains for this guy," he said. "His past is a live memory for the audience, hanging over a man who is now living with anonymity in a world that no longer cares or recognizes the things he felt so deeply about. You’re left with a multilayered perception of his character, both what he was and what he is, and how the world is different between the first 20 minutes of the movie."
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However, in an age of reboots and spin-offs that are slammed for disrespecting their source material, such as HBO’s "Velma," some commentators are already sounding the alarm that the new film will disparage the franchise.
Pop culture news outlet Bounding Into Comics editor-in-chief John F. Trent reacted to the same interview by writing that Mangold, "admitted what many feared that he, Disney, and Lucasfilm would do to Indiana Jones: they are maligning his character in a similar fashion to how Rian Johnson did to Luke Skywalker."
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Foreman Integrates CPower's EnerWise® Technology into Foreman's Mining Platform to Optimize and Automate Participation in Demand Response
MIAMI , July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the Mining Disrupt Conference, CPower Energy ("CPower"), and OBM ("Foreman") announced that they have partnered to integrate CPower's EnerWise® Site Optimization technology ("EnerWise") into Foreman's mining management platform. CPower is the leading, national Distributed Energy Resource (DER) monetization and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) provider. Foreman is the industry's leading miner management and curtailment software. The partnership improves the demand response functionality of Foreman's software, allowing Foreman customers to optimize participation in demand response programs to generate maximum revenue while contributing to grid reliability.
The CPower and Foreman integration allows Foreman's platform to optimize demand response enrollment and participation across numerous grid services programs. By integrating via CPower Connect, the partnership enables Foreman customers to automatically curtail their energy consumption during periods of peak grid demand. At present, CPower is the leading demand response provider enabling fast-acting programs with strike price automation capability.
"Our ongoing work with mining companies and the new partnership with Foreman is a much-needed solution to enable a more reliable grid," said Glenn Bogarde, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, CPower. "Mining is energy-intensive, and by integrating our platform with Foreman we are essentially helping each data center quickly and efficiently reduce their energy load to support the grid. This serves many benefits, including preventing blackouts and the need to turn on dirty peaker plants during high-demand periods."
"Our partnership with CPower is an extension of our ongoing commitment to provide our customers with the most advanced mining management capabilities," said Dan Lawrence, CEO and Co-founder, Foreman. "We're constantly seeking opportunities to expand our offerings and provide the most innovative products for our customers' ease-of-use that will simultaneously reduce energy loads and improve automation."
This year, EnerWise was recognized by both the Edison Awards and the Environment+Energy Leader Awards for its innovative capabilities. EnerWise unlocks the maximum earning potential of behind-the-meter DERs by optimizing hourly bidding and scheduling across complex grid services markets and utility cost avoidance programs, helping energy managers and DER portfolio owners and operators achieve combined on-bill savings and grid services revenue. By simplifying participation and increasing customer revenues, EnerWise encourages the growth of VPPs, which allow grid operators to tap into DERs to ensure energy reliability while reducing the need for more polluting energy resources. The near real-time monitoring provided by EnerWise also allows grid operators to respond more quickly to changes in supply and demand to keep the grid in balance.
About CPower Energy
CPower Energy is the leading, national DER monetization and Virtual Power Plant provider, creating the Customer-Powered Grid™ that will enable a flexible, clean and dependable energy future. With 6.3 GW of capacity at more than 19,000 sites across the U.S., we unlock the full value of distributed energy resources to strengthen the grid when and where reliable, dispatchable resources are needed most. CPower is based in Baltimore, Maryland, and is owned by LS Power, a development, investment and operating company focused on the power and energy infrastructure sector. For more information, visit: www.cpowerenergy.com.
About Foreman
Foreman is the industry leading miner management and curtailment software that enables mining operations of all sizes to manage their sites from anywhere. With a focus on simplicity, reliability, and performance, Foreman is helping miners worldwide optimize their perations and maximize their profits. For more information, visit: https://foreman.mn/
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - Thursday and Friday bring an opportunity to learn a little bit more about the work of local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals simply by tuning into your radio.
The CMN Radiothon returns to Midwest Family stations Z93, 95.7 The Rock and KQ98 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Volunteers will be ready on the phones while hosts will help share stories from families with kids facing medical challenges.
"What always stands out to me is how much families who have worked with CMN want to pay it forward," said CMN Hospitals Specialist Beth Noffsinger. "It's not necessarily just a monetary donation, which of course is great, but so many families are willing to give their time year after year to help raise awareness of CMN and the work Children's Miracle Network does in and around the Coulee Region."
In addition to learning, they are encouraging people to donate during the Radiothon with a goal of raising $90,000. You can do so either in person at Gundersen Health System's La Crosse campus, by calling the number given during the broadcasts or online by clicking here.
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MONTREAL, QUE – The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday it is seeking a four-year ban.
WADA is objecting to a finding by a Russian tribunal that Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in the case, which overshadowed last year's Beijing Olympics. WADA wants a four-year ban and for Valieva's results to be disqualified from the date she gave the sample, Dec. 25, 2021. That would include the Olympics.
A year after the Beijing Games finished, no medal ceremony has taken place for the team competition because of the uncertainty.
WADA said the Russian decision was “wrong under the terms of the World Anti-Doping Code in this case,” without giving further detail.
The Russian skater, who was then 15, won Olympic gold in the team competition in February before it was announced that a sample she gave two months before tested positive for a banned substance. The result was reported later because the laboratory which tested the sample was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Another CAS panel granted an emergency request for Valieva to be allowed to skate in the women’s competition at the Olympics, in part because of her age. Valieva was favored for the gold medal but falls in her free skate left her in fourth. She left the venue in tears.
After the Olympics finished, the Russian anti-doping agency took several months to carry out its own investigation and hold hearings. WADA tried to refer the case to CAS in November because of the delays before the Russian agency eventually produced a verdict, which it has not made public.
WADA, which has received a copy, said the Russian tribunal didn't impose a ban and only disqualified Valieva from one day of the 2021 Russian national championships, where the sample was taken.
U.S. Figure Skating said this month that it and its skaters, who placed second behind the Russians in the team event, were “deeply frustrated by the lack of a final decision" on the competition results.
The case put a spotlight on Russia's intensive training system for young skaters and in particular the practices of Valieva's coach, Eteri Tutberidze, who has worked with a series of champion Russian skaters. Tutberidze criticized Valieva as she left the ice in the women's event in Beijing.
Concerns around young skaters' physical and mental health led the International Skating Union to vote last year to raise the minimum age to compete at the Olympics to 17 in time for the next Winter Games in 2026.
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(WFRV) – When long-tenured head coach Steve Jones stepped away from the Kimberly football program a year ago, it would take a winner to fill those shoes. If there was anyone for the job, Chad Michalkiewicz was the man.
For the last 15 seasons, winning has always been a big part of the standard at Kimberly High School. The football program won five consecutive state championships from 2013-2017 and held, at the time, the longest winning streak in the country (70).
When Michalkiewicz took over at Kimberly in 2022, the standard never changed, and the program didn’t skip a beat. He led the team to a 13-1 record and the team’s 8th state championship.
“They always say pressure is a privilege. I don’t think you’re competitive if you shy away from pressure, ” Michalkiewicz expressed. “Leaning on the quality kids, first and foremost, and I’m very fortunate to have very high quality, high character assistant coaches. I think it was just a mix of everybody being aligned towards a common goal of getting better every day and then having the chips fall where they may.”
Although there was a ton of success in Michalkiewicz’s first season as the head football coach at Kimberly, he learned a lot.
“I learned probably more than they learned from me last year. I’m hoping to tip those scales a little bit more this year and offer more up,” said Michalkiewicz. “No stone is unturned in the program. A lot of lessons were learned last year. A lot of notes were taken. Still going to be true to who I am and what I believe in as a coach, but certainly a lot of growth opportunity for me heading into year two.”
Riding high after last year’s state title, the prep work for another long run at a gold ball starts now — in the summer months. Kimberly kicked off their contact days on the football field this week. The new senior group will have to step up and become leaders for the team after losing key pieces on last year’s squad within, quarterback Seth Miron and running back Blake Barry.
“You’re never going to replace a Blake Barry or a Seth Miron. You don’t have to because you’re going to be a Gavin Tyson, you’re going to be a Carson Pendleton, and that’s more than good enough,” Michalkiewicz expressed.
As week one of the WIAA high school football season is just a month away, everyone in the program is excited for another season-long journey.
“They’re just excited. They understand what goes into it. I think another thing that makes Kimberly unique is that we’re really hard to predict. It’s not uncommon for first-year starters to be seniors who are pretty darn good football players that could be multi-year starters in other programs. We have a lot of learning and a lot of growth to go through, but that’s what contact days are good for,” Michalkiewicz said.
“I think this team is capable of another state championship if it comes to it. I think our standards have set us in a good motion for that,” senior cornerback Cody Obermann explained.
“Obviously, we know that we have a chip on our shoulders from last year. Every team is going to be coming after us, but we just have to keep working hard, just keep our heads down and not worry about what everyone says about us,” senior tight end Abe Coronado said.
Kimberly starts their season at home on Thursday, August 17, versus Milwaukee Marshall.
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MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students as they slept said Tuesday that detectives have looked extensively into information that one of the victims had a stalker and have not been able to verify it.
Investigators have pursued hundreds of pieces of information about Kaylee Goncalves having a stalker but haven’t been able to identify one, the Moscow Police Department said in a news release.
Authorities have said they have no suspect or weapon more than a week after the Nov. 13 killings shook the Idaho Panhandle town of 25,000 residents.
Anyone with information that could help detectives with the stalker tips are asked to contact Moscow police.
Police also said Tuesday that there’s been much conversation about how to describe the weapon used and that the type used in the attacks is believed to be a fix-blade knife.
Police said Monday they would hold a news conference to update the public on the investigation at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
The victims were Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon, Washington; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho. The women were roommates, and Chapin was dating Kernodle.
Authorities have said they were each stabbed multiple times, and that some had defensive wounds.
On Sunday, law enforcement officers investigating the deaths asked for patience after a week passed with no arrests.
Police have said evidence leads them to believe the students were targeted, but have repeatedly declined to give details.
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Officers help deliver baby girl on side of road
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Gray News) - Officers helped with a special delivery on a rural road in California over the weekend.
California Highway Patrol officers in Buttonwillow, a small community outside of Bakersfield, were called to a medical emergency on state route 119 last Saturday.
Arriving officers said they found a woman in labor inside a car pulled to the side of the road.
Officer Pence and Officer Krahn put their training to work and “delivered a beautiful baby girl” at about 7:30 a.m., according to the department.
The CHP Central Division shared photos of the officers with the baby girl, including first responders holding the new baby wrapped in a yellow tarp.
Authorities said mom and baby were taken to a hospital and are doing well.
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The Fund's investors are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Walton Family Foundation
BALTIMORE, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week at the Mission Investors Exchange National Conference, Maycomb Capital announced the first loans out of a new, flexible, mission-aligned debt vehicle called the Educational Resources Impact Fund (ERIF). ERIF is one of Maycomb Capital's Custom Strategies and supports nonprofit developers and providers of high-quality instructional materials and aligned supports, particularly those offered as open educational resources. The first two loans were made to Illustrative Mathematics and CenterPoint Education Solutions.
The mission of ERIF is expand access to high-quality instructional materials for more students, particularly those who are Black, Latino, English learners, or affected by poverty. This effort is in pursuit of improved support for teachers to do their work effectively and ultimately better educational outcomes for students. It also aims to test this investment strategy in the market to determine if flexible, impact-aligned debt can help these organization grow and serve more students.
"As a nonprofit, we sometimes struggle to find the capital to invest in products and services whose payoff is years away," said Dr. William McCallum, CEO and Co-Founder of Illustrative Mathematics. "The loan from ERIF was crucial in giving us the financial stability to compete on the California state adoption process and further our mission of creating a world where all learners know, use, and enjoy mathematics."
"The Educational Resources Impact Fund effort really grew out of these Foundations' long-standing commitment to working towards better educational outcomes," said Andi Phillips, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Maycomb Capital, who leads its Custom Strategies. "We were thrilled when this group of foundations engaged us here at Maycomb. We worked with them to understand their vision and then leveraged our infrastructure and investment expertise to co-develop the investment thesis, structure the investment vehicle, and ultimately deploy this capital into investments that can really make a difference for teachers and students." She continued, "these foundations are well situated to seed this effort because of their capability and willingness to make flexible, catalytic investments into a pilot vehicle that is trying to do something never done before, both from and impact and financial perspective."
Dr. Lin Johnson III recently came on board at Maycomb to head up ERIF. Dr. Johnson brings deep expertise in K-12 education as well as financial management having served as the Chief Financial Officer for Shelby County Schools in Memphis, TN. He recently completed his doctorate at the Harvard School of Education and focuses specifically on issues related to equity and justice in the K-12 system.
"The recent NAEP scores have uncovered that the pandemic has wiped away decades of learning progress, widening inequities further for our most vulnerable students," said Dr. Johnson. "One of the reasons I am so energized to be leading ERIF, is that high-quality instructional material and professional learning support are important equalizers to ensure learning acceleration, effective classroom teaching, and deep, affirming student engagement for all students, regardless of their racial and cultural identities and zip codes.
The ERIF team is actively seeking out additional borrowers and would welcome the opportunity to hear from nonprofit organizations in the educational resources ecosystem who are looking for a mission-oriented loan to expand their work. Visit our website at maycombcapital.com or email us at info@maycombcapital.com for more information.
About Maycomb Capital: Maycomb Capital is a pioneering impact investing platform. We provide financing across asset classes to fund strategies and enterprises that transform communities. At Maycomb, we know that the world's problems demand patience, creativity, and an appreciation for complexity. We drive capital toward effective solutions for underserved communities, using data and rigorous analysis to guide our decisions. We identify scalable and sustainable paths to positive change, tackling entrenched social and economic challenges. By harnessing the scale, expertise and risk tolerance of the private sector in service of the public good, we're demonstrating what's possible with mission-focused, flexible capital.
The Educational Resources Impact Fund (ERIF) is one of Maycomb's Custom Strategies, which utilize the infrastructure and investment expertise of the Maycomb team to build custom investment vehicles that address a particular issue area or work in a specific geography. ERIF is a $20 million pilot fund that aims to support nonprofit developers and providers of high-quality instructional materials, particularly those offered as open educational resources. The fund's investment strategy is to provide flexible debt financing to these organizations to diversify their capital sources and enable future growth. The Fund leverages the Maycomb team's deep expertise in providing flexible debt to drive community impact.
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- Bel will develop a line of cheese products incorporating Superbrewed's Postbiotic Cultured Protein in its recipes, ensuring it delivers functionally, environmentally, and nutritionally interesting benefits to consumers.
- Given the protein's many benefits and great potential, this exclusive collaboration will become a unique competitive lever. It will ally Superbrewed Food's innovative ingredients with Bel's unique cheese know how and keen understanding of the challenges facing the agri-food market and an ever-growing population's nutritional needs.
- In keeping with its mission to offer healthier and responsible snacking products that are accessible to all, Bel thus pioneers the development of food innovations, on its three product territories – dairy, fruit and plant-based, including through working closely with best-in-class start-ups.
CHICAGO and NEW CASTLE, Del., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bel Group, a major player in healthy snacking with cheese brands such as Babybel®, The Laughing Cow® and Boursin®, and Superbrewed Food announce an exclusive strategic collaboration. This was negotiated by Bel Ventures as part of the Group's strategy to pioneer the development of dairy and plant-based food innovations to meet the food challenges of tomorrow for a growing population.
After a screening process, Bel Ventures, in partnership with Bel's R&D department, selected Superbrewed Food to accelerate on one of the Group's technological bets: biomass fermentation. Thanks to the remarkable quality, lower environmental impact, and functionality of this start-up's ingredient, the partnership with Superbrewed aligns with Bel's goal to scale up its most promising technologies offering nutritional, environmental, and sensory advantages in its products for the benefit of people and the planet.
Superbrewed Protein is nutrient-rich protein ingredient made from microflora found in nature that convert plant fibers. This high-quality protein contains all 9 essential amino acids. It is a "whole food" because it is minimally processed to retain its natural nutrition beyond protein. For example, a thirty-gram serving meets the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's requirements for being a "good source" of five B-vitamins, including a full day's supply of B-12, and a "good source" of six essential minerals, such as iron, phosphorus, and magnesium.
This protein will be ready to ship from Superbrewed Food's Delaware facility in the first half of 2023. Bel Group's goal is to develop a full range of cheeses with this ingredient and be able to propose these new products to consumers very soon.
Bel Group Chief Venture Officer Caroline Sorlin said: "Pursuing our mission to offer healthy snacks for all, Bel innovates to support the changes in nutritional needs and meet the challenges of a sustainable diet for an ever-growing world population. We are very happy to enter this exclusive collaboration, which is testament to our pioneering role and acceleration on disruptive technologies. As a family business, we are also proud to have adopted an "open collaboration" model with over 100 partners, including start-ups, to stimulate and scale up their innovations and so prepare the future of food."
Bel Group Research and Application Director Anne Pitkowski said: "We are accelerating on biomass fermentation at the R&D level for its environmental, nutritional and accessibility benefits, without compromising on taste and pleasure. Thus, we are very happy to work hand-in-hand with best-in-class startup Superbrewed Food and to be able to offer promising product innovations to consumers."
Superbrewed Food CEO Bryan Tracy, PhD, said: "We're honored to partner with Bel Group to lead the industry in the application of highly scalable alternative proteins for cheese. Given theBel global reach of their brands and inclusive "open collaboration" model, they are ideal partners for Superbrewed."
The Bel Group is a world leader in branded cheese and a major player in the healthy snacking segment. Bel produces more than thirty local and international brands that are sold in more than 120 countries around the globe. Family favorite brands such as The Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Babybel®, Boursin®, Nurishh®, Pom'Potes® and GoGo squeeZ®, as well as some twenty other local brands, have enabled The Bel Group to generate sales of 3.38 billion euros in 2021.
Superbrewed Food is a nutrition and health company focused on the development of natural ingredients for both humans and animals based on a cultured fermentation alternative protein platform. Made from microflora native to our microbiome, our products deliver superior nutritional and functional benefits compared to other plant and microbial proteins. Superbrewed Cultured Protein is sustainably produced, non-GMO, animal-free, has no known allergens, and is remarkably versatile in terms of applications in foods.
For more information on Superbrewed Food, visit www.superbrewedfood.com, or follow Superbrewed Food on Instagram @superbrewedfood.
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NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican whose lies about his background and wealth helped propel him into office, announced Monday that he's running for reelection.
More than perhaps any incumbent, Santos enters the race as an underdog — abandoned by many fellow Republicans while facing investigations over a myriad of allegations about falsehoods during his last campaign.
During that race, Santos portrayed himself as a graduate of prestigious colleges who had gone on to have a successful career on Wall Street while amassing a real estate investment portfolio. In reality, he didn't go to college, didn't work for the Wall Street firms where he claimed to have made big deals and had struggled in recent years to pay his rent.
In his campaign announcement, Santos didn't mention any of that and instead highlighted his zeal in fighting for conservative principles in Washington and his background as "a poor boy of immigrant parents in Queens."
"We need a fighter who knows the district and can serve the people fearlessly," he said.
Santos has previously referred to the fabrications about his background, which included lying about having Jewish ancestry and about having been a star volleyball player, as harmless embellishments.
Journalists have also uncovered other issues in his past, including criminal theft charges in Pennsylvania in 2017 and charges from years ago in Brazil, where he was accused of using a fraudulent check to buy apparel.
Despite those allegations, Santos refused calls from many fellow New York Republicans to resign.
While Santos faces a crush of investigations — by the House Ethics Committee and a county prosecutor in New York — he appears unmoved by the challenges.
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Raiders WIN!!! 28-26 over Richwoods. pic.twitter.com/PAeLzHdp0F
— Tony Bauman (@BHSRaiderSports) August 27, 2022
A Tashawn Ruffin interception sealed the victory as Bloomington High School edged Peoria Richwoods 28-26 in the Big 12 Conference football opener for both teams on Friday in Peoria.
BHS scored touchdowns on a 2-yard Marcus Griffin run, a 34-yard AJ Codron pass to Garrick Dickerson and a 72-yard pass from Griffin to Dickerson to lead 21-20
The clinching score came in the third quarter as BHS’ Robert Lanier ran 20 yards into the end zone. Richwoods scored a fourth-quarter touchdown but the two-point conversion run failed.
Griffin rushed for 127 yards in 18 carries and completed 4 of 6 passes for 74 yards. Codron was 5 of 10 through the air for 111 yards. Dickerson hauled in four passes for 136 yards.
Cam Smith paced the BHS defense with 11 tackles.
Saints down Pontiac
Central Catholic bolted to a 21-0 lead after the first quarter and cruised past host Pontiac, 33-12, in an Illini Prairie Conference game.
Ryan Hoeferle scored twice in the first quarter, grabbing a 29-yard pass from Colin Hayes and on a 5-yard run. Bo Moews had an 8-yard TD run.
Hunter Melvin and Aaron Shrewsbury scored for Pontiac after the Saints went ahead, 27-0.
Hayes threw for 142 yards while Will Adelman paced the Saints with 83 rushing yards.
Prairie Central prevails
Prairie Central outscored Class 3A No. 3-ranked Tolono Unity 14-0 in the second half en route to a 34-12 Illini Prairie Conference victory at Fairbury.
“It was a great team win,” Hawks coach Andrew Quain said. “We were able to run the ball and play physical on offense and defense. It’s a good start to the season against a quality team.”
Drew Fehr rushed for 72 yards and touchdowns of 1, 3 and 3 yards for Prairie Central.
Camden Palmore ran for 103 yards and a 19-yard touchdown. Tyler Curl added 71 yards on the ground for the Hawks, and Drew Haberkorn rushed 5 yards for a score.
O'Fallon tops NCHS
O'Fallon took a 13-0 lead and never trailed to defeat Normal Community, 23-17, in a nonconference game at O'Fallon.
Quarterback Chase Wiese scored on a 6-yard run early in the fourth quarter to bring the Ironmen within 20-14. O'Fallon kicked a field goal before NCHS' Ryan Millmore countered with a 20-yarder, but the Ironmen couldn't get closer.
Blake Potts' 20-yard interception return for a touchdown in the second quarter pulled NCHS within 13-7 at halftime.
Wiese completed nine passes for 63 yards and led the Ironmen with 60 yards rushing. Chris Taylor ran for 50 yards and Tommy Davis for 47 yards while Cameron Thierry had four receptions for 21 yards.
Blake had two of NCHS' three interceptions. Cooper Caraway made eight tackles while Hunter Redman had six tackles and two sacks.
Other games
Ridgeview-Lexington 21, Dee-Mack 8: Alec Thomas threw for two touchdowns and Kaden Farrell ran for 140 yards as Class 1A No. 3-ranked Ridgeview-Lexington turned back Deer Creek-Mackinaw in a non-divisional Heart of Illinois Conference game at Mackinaw.
Thomas threw scoring passes of 41 yards to Braydon Campbell and 32 yards to Zach Bork to give the Mustangs a 13-8 halftime lead. Farrell's 3-yard run in the third quarter completed the scoring.
Dee-Mack was led by Brent Denniston's 102 yards rushing, including a 2-yard TD run.
EPG 51, Meridian 26: El Paso-Gridley broke free from a 20-all halftime deadlock to earn a nonconference win at El Paso as quarterback Kamren Schumacher accounted for four touchdowns and 239 yards.
Schumacher completed 7 of 10 attempts for 139 yards, including scores of 41 and 36 yards to Dante Golden. Schumacher carried 15 times for 100 yards with two TDs. Golden had four catches for 97 yards.
Dax Gentes added two touchdown runs for the Titans while Hank Harlan scored on a 68-yard kickoff return. Declan Duley kicked a 25-yard field goal and four extra points.
Eureka 25, Canton 7: Mason Boles scored two touchdowns as Class 3A No. 8 Eureka pulled away from a 12-7 halftime lead to win the first game played on the new turf surface at McCollum Field.
Carson Gold kicked a pair of field goals for the Hornets while quarterback Jake Morin added a TD run.
Tremont 14, Sangamon Valley 8: Shemar Williams' 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter lifted host Tremont to a nonconference victory.
Ty Fuller ran for 114 of the Turks' 237 yards on the ground, including a 14-yard TD run in the second quarter that gave the Turks a 6-0 halftime lead.
Lincoln 28, Clinton 0: Kion Carson scored four touchdowns and rushed for 100 yards as Lincoln blanked visiting Clinton in a nonconference game.
Carson scored on three runs and a 64-yard pass from Darren Stevens. Isaac Decker added 111 yards rushing for the Railers, who outgained the Maroons, 366-200, in total yardage.
8-man
Milford 67, FCW 16: Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland was defeated at Milford.
The Falcons' touchdowns came on a 4-yard Jesse Simpson run and an 84-yard Payton Quaintance kickoff return.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
332 AM PDT Mon Sep 19 2022
...Cold and Wet Through Wednesday...
* An early season storm will continue bringing well below normal
temperatures and chances for rain, and even some snow for
elevations above 9000 feet, through Wednesday. A few
thunderstorms will be possible each afternoon as well, with a
10% chance for a stray nocturnal storm Tuesday night. While
overall rain rates do not appear excessive, burn scars in
northeast CA, such as the Dixie Fire, will still need to be
monitored for flood threats.
* Liquid totals will be highest for the northern Sierra into
northeast California, where 1-2 inches of rainfall is possible
over the multi-day period. Wetting rains are also anticipated
through the Tahoe Basin and into far northwestern Nevada. Totals
will be much less, if anything, from southern Mono County to
areas of western Nevada east of Highway 95.
* It will be rather damp and chilly through Wednesday with daytime
temperatures 10-20 degrees below average. Cloud cover will
moderate overnight lows through Tuesday, with Wednesday night
likely to be the coldest night as skies begin to clear.
Overnight lows could drop into the 20s in colder Sierra valleys,
with typically colder spots in western Nevada dipping to near
freezing.
* While snow will be limited to mainly areas above 9000-9500',
keep in mind travel can still be impacted by wet roads and
lowered visibility. Allow extra time, especially if you are
traveling across the Sierra.
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of Monterey County including Highway 1, the
Monterey Peninsula, and up towards Watsonville.
* WHEN...Until 545 AM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 326 AM PDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain. Minor flooding is already occurring in
Highway 1 between Ragged Pt to Pt Lobos. Between 0.5 and 2
inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Salinas, Watsonville, Seaside, Monterey, Marina, Big Sur
Village, Corralitos, Pacific Grove, Carmel-By-The-Sea, Carmel
Valley Village, San Clemente Dam, Spreckels, Cachagua Near
The Los Padres Dam, Boronda, Pico Blanco Campground, Del
Monte Forest, Castroville, Andrew Molera State Park, Moss
Landing and Prunedale.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Monday after the top U.S. and Chinese diplomats agreed to cooperate during a meeting held at a time of friction over an array of conflicts.
Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul retreated. Sydney gained. Oil prices fell by almost $1.
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.4% on Friday after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark lending rate steady but warned last week it might be raised later if needed to cool inflation.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang held what the Chinese government called “candid, in-depth and constructive talks” at a time when relations are at their lowest point in decades. They indicated willingness to cooperate on major issues but did not indicate there was any progress on disputes over Taiwan, human rights, technology and security.
“Whether that will lead to any actual positive outcomes still awaits to be seen,” said Yeap Jun Rong of IG in a report. “Any inaction on that front could still see any optimism fizzle out eventually.”
The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.3% to 3,262.59 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shed 0.3% to 33,591.82. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 0.6% to 19,915.51.
The Kospi in Seoul retreated 0.8% to 2,605.46 while Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 gained 0.4% to 7,277.70. New Zealand, Singapore, Jakarta and Bangkok also declined.
On Friday, the S&P 500 declined to 4,409.59 but closed out a fifth straight weekly gain. It is near a 14-month high following a 15% rise this year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% to 34,299.12. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.7% to 13,689.57.
Humana dropped 3.9% for one of the S&P 500’s sharpest losses after becoming the latest health insurer to warn about rising costs because of pent-up demand for medical services. Health insurance giant UnitedHealth issued a similar warning earlier.
Last week, the Fed held its benchmark lending rate steady, the first time in 10 straight monthly meetings it hasn’t announced an increase.
The Fed warned, however, that it could raise rates as often as two more times this year. Wall Street is betting on a rate hike at its next meeting on July 25-26.
A survey Friday suggested U.S. consumers are also paring back their expectations for upcoming inflation. The preliminary reading from the University of Michigan survey also suggested consumer sentiment is strengthening more than expected.
Chemical company Cabot slumped 8.1% after it said soft demand worldwide, and especially in China, will hurt profits this year.
Software maker Adobe rose 0.9% after reporting solid financial results and raising its profit forecast.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude lost $1 to $70.93 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.16 on Friday to $71.78. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, declined $1.16 to $75.45 per barrel in London. It gained 94 cents the previous session to $76.61.
The dollar rose to 141.93 yen from Friday’s 141.80 yen. The euro edged down to $1.0939 from $1.0943.
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"Jackass" star Bam Margera is still missing and wanted by police after he allegedly attacked his brother at their suburban Philadelphia home.
Pennsylvania State Police announced an arrest warrant for the 43-year-old Monday and have been unable to locate him since.
Police said they were called to the Chester County home shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday over a reported disturbance. Margera's brother, Jesse Margera, told police that his brother had pounded and kicked his locked bedroom door earlier that morning, before punching him in the eye, nose and ear in a later confrontation in the kitchen, court documents said. He then fled the property on foot before police arrived, the affidavit said.
"It's the constant death threats against my parents and other family members that I'm not going to just sit there and tolerate," Jesse Margera said on social media. "He has been up for about a week at this point and is hallucinating. He is a danger to himself and anyone around him and that is unacceptable."
He went on to say that he just wants his brother to get help and that it's "about 20 years overdue."
His mother, April Margera, told Fox News that Bam has also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was not taking his medication.
"We all love him so much, and we just want to help him, and we are not against him," his mother said. "We just want to try to get him help."
According to court documents, Margera is charged with simple assault, harassment, and four counts of terroristic threats.
Margera, who also starred in the MTV reality series "Viva La Bam," has a long history of substance abuse issues and run-ins with law enforcement.
In March, TMZ reported that Margera was arrested for public intoxication after allegedly making a scene at a restaurant where he was eating with his estranged wife and son. More recently, sources told the outlet that Margera's friends had tried to stage an intervention for him, which ultimately failed.
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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed due to a perfect storm of incompetent management, insufficient supervision and weak regulations, the Federal Reserve said in a report Friday.
The autopsy attempts to explain how federal regulators failed to prevent the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history, which prompted a banking crisis that has boosted the odds of a recession.
“Following Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, we must strengthen the Federal Reserve’s supervision and regulation based on what we have learned,” said Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, who led the internal probe.
SVB failed to manage risk
The Fed wrote that SVB’s downfall can be traced to “widespread managerial weaknesses” and its reliance on uninsured deposits from tech and venture capitalist clients.
That left the bank “acutely exposed to the specific combination of rising interest rates and slowing activity in the technology sector,” the Fed wrote in its report.
When the Fed hiked interest rates, SVB’s long-term treasury bond holdings lost value, leaving the bank with huge unrealized losses. That made it difficult for SVB to deal with a slowdown in deposits driven by the tech sector’s troubles.
When SVB’s tech-dominated depositors got wind of the bank’s struggles, they coordinated the first ever online bank run, withdrawing $40 billion in a single day. Regulators swiftly shut SVB down and later guaranteed uninsured deposits to prevent additional bank runs.
“Silicon Valley Bank managed interest rate risks with a focus on short-run profits and protection from potential rate decreases, and removed interest rate hedges, rather than managing long-run risks and the risk of rising rates,” the report noted.
Supervisors didn’t act quickly enough
The report found that SVB got strong ratings from supervisors even as its balance sheet ballooned from $71 billion to $211 over two years and despite “repeated observations of weakness in risk management.”
Supervisors did identify SVB’s “interest rate risk deficiencies” as far back as 2020. But they didn’t issue a finding on it until November 2022. SVB went under before supervisors downgraded the bank.
Fed regulations were too weak
Former president Trump in 2018 signed a bipartisan bill to loosen regulations on midsize banks such as SVB, which had lobbied lawmakers to implement weaker standards. The law exempted those banks from stress tests and capital requirements aimed at preventing a failure.
Under the law, the Fed had the ability to implement stronger standards on banks like SVB, but did not. Republicans in Congress and bank lobbyists pushed the Fed to keep the standards narrowly tailored to the biggest banks.
“While higher supervisory and regulatory requirements may not have prevented the firm’s failure, they would likely have bolstered the resilience of Silicon Valley Bank,” the report found.
The report noted that around the same time, Fed policy “placed a greater emphasis on reducing burden on firms” by heightening the burden of proof on supervisors to go after banks.
“Although the stated intention of these policy changes was to improve the effectiveness of supervision, in some cases, the changes also led to slower action by supervisory staff and a reluctance to escalate issues,” the Fed wrote.
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Two Jamestown public schools briefly went into lockout Wednesday.
A report of a suspicious person outside Jamestown High School prompted the order around noon. A lockout, the school district said, means no one is allowed entry into the school, outside classes are brought inside and interior operations continue as normal.
“A suspicious individual was observed outside the high school and a lockout was activated as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of students and staff inside the school,” the district said in a message.
A lockout also was activated at Washington Middle School out of precaution “related to a person of interest that (the Jamestown Police Department) was looking for,” JPS said.
Officers flooded the area and later verified there was no immediate threat.
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BOZEMAN — Gallatin County Sheriff/Coroner Dan Springer has identified the man who died in a head-on crash with a semi truck on Highway 191 on Friday, July 7, 2023.
According to a media release, Brent Fjeldheim, 50 of Bozeman, was pronounced dead at the scene after colliding with a Freightliner Cascadia near Gallatin Gateway on Friday.
The release said blunt force injuries of the head and abdomen were determined to be the cause of death. The Montana Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the crash.
Sheriff Springer extended "deepest condolences to the family and friends of Brent Fjeldheim during this time."
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Why the Bissell SteamShot Deluxe is a solid product
IN THIS ARTICLE:
No matter how you look at it, cleaning is a chore. That’s why there are so many articles on the internet offering timesaving advice and labor-saving hacks. When a tip resonates as true, it goes viral, spreading from one influencer to another, rapidly gaining attention until the secret becomes common knowledge. That’s what happened with the eco-friendly Bissell SteamShot Deluxe steam cleaner. Here’s why.
What makes the Bissell SteamShot Deluxe so special?
When you use a steam cleaner, it only requires high temperatures, pressure and water to get the job done. If you noticed, no chemicals or detergents of any sort were mentioned in that list, meaning this method is considered eco-friendly (as well as kid-friendly and pet-friendly). Those three elements are all it takes to break up stubborn grime so it can simply be wiped away. And in the process, the steam also kills mold and germs.
On the downside, steam cleaners are not safe on every surface. They can get very hot and larger models are not always very versatile. Cleaning with one requires a little patience, and some models can be expensive.
The Bissell SteamShot Deluxe is highly affordable and extremely versatile. This handheld model is only $41.19 on Amazon and it comes with 10 multi-surface cleaning tools, allowing you to clean everything from bathroom grime and floors to windows and fabric. The SteamShot Deluxe is compact and relatively lightweight — even when it’s filled with water — so you can easily move it to any place that needs to be cleaned. Also, the heat-up time is only 30 seconds, so you can get to cleaning faster. If that’s not enough, a portion of your purchase is used to help save homeless pets.
Best steam cleaners
This is the steam cleaner that went viral. It has 1,000 watts of power and comes with a wide range of accessories, including a fabric steamer, a window cleaner, a grout cleaning tool, a flat scraper tool and an angle concentrator tool.
Sold by Amazon
Bissell Symphony Pet Mop and Steam Vacuum Cleaner
The Symphony Pet is a two-in-one cleaning tool that lets you steam and vacuum your floors at the same time for an extra-deep clean. It comes with both soft and scrubby microfiber pads so you can clean all kinds of messes.
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The super-heated steam on this 1,200-watt model dries almost instantly as it kills 99.9% of germs. It has a soft-grip handle for comfort and a quick-release cord for storage. The cleaner comes with two reusable microfiber pads.
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This lightweight steam mop has three steam modes and a 23-foot power cord. When you have a really sticky mess, use the flip-down scrubber to take care of the problem. The mop head has a low profile so you can better clean edges and corners.
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McCulloch Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner
McCulloch is so confident you’ll love this model, the company gives you a two-year hassle-free warranty. The large-capacity tank holds an impressive 48 ounces of water to give you up to 45 minutes of cleaning power. The cleaner comes with 18 accessories, making it one of the most versatile models available.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
Steamfast SF-370 Canister Steam Cleaner
This modern-looking model has a 15-foot power cord and a 6.5-foot hose to give you a long reach. It holds 48 ounces of water and comes with 15 accessories, including mop pads, utility brushes, scrub tools and a jet nozzle.
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DBTech Multi-purpose Handheld Steamer
If budget is your primary concern, this handheld steam cleaner is a good choice. It comes with a set of accessories that lets you clean flat surfaces, drapes and more. The reservoir holds 6 ounces of water and the tip heats up to 210 degrees.
Sold by Home Depot and Wayfair
Other products worth checking out
- PurSteam Steam Mop Cleaner is a highly versatile 10-in-1 appliance that you can use in every room of your house.
- With seven attachments and a wall mount for storage, the Black and Decker steam mop is a solid purchase.
- If you just need some light-duty cleaning, SteamFast’s Everyday Handheld Steam Cleaner is a good option.
- The Poulan Pro Heavy-Duty Canister Steam Cleaner brings the power of professional-level cleaning to your home.
- You can transform the versatile Bissell 3-in-1 steam mop into an extended-reach steam cleaner and a handheld steam cleaner.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — This year, 14 restaurants, coffee shops, and even ice cream shops are participating in Lexington Vegan Week.
That list includes Moody Mike's, a food truck focused on creative, flavorful, and all vegan dishes.
The couple behind Lexington's first minority-owned, vegan food truck, Michael and Antoine Harris, started their business in 2020. They're now on a mission to show customers vegan food can be delicious.
"I always ask them, just give me a chance to change your mind," Michael said. "Just try something. I'll even give you a sample or something, just so you can see it's good."
"It doesn't have to be boring, blah, like you're eating grass or something like that," Antoine added. "That's what I was always told, you're eating grass. It's not like that. It can be creative, it can be fun, and it can be good."
The couple says they've developed a loyal customer base; many of their fans aren't even vegan.
As enthusiasm for vegan food grows, so do the plant-based options in Lexington. Michael and Antoine hope Vegan Week inspires more people to give their food a try.
"I think tofu's not the best either, which is why we like cooking our own stuff, and making things that taste similar to meat products we're used to, so that way we still have that feel and taste in our mouth," Antoine said.
After their interview with LEX 18, it was into the kitchen for a taste test with some of their specialties, including vegan drumsticks. Instead of chicken, they're made with soy protein, pea starch, and a sugar cane bone.
Another delicious menu option: cheeseburger egg rolls.
You can typically find Moody Mike's parked at Pivot Brewing on Delaware Avenue. For their full schedule and location, check their Facebook page.
Vegan Week runs through Saturday, April 29.
The following restaurants are participating:
Bourbon N' Toulouse
Broomwagon Coffee & Bikes
Cafe Emporio
Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream
Genesis Coffee House & Eatery
girlsgirlsgirls Burritos
Josanne's Homestyle Kitchen
Lussi Brown Coffee Bar
Mintons
Moody Mike's
Nourished Folks
Rise Up! Pizza
Woke Junk Food Vegan
Zundo Izakaya
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