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By REBECCA BOONE
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court says a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing, because including her could interfere with the message the pageant wants to send about the “ideal woman.”
Wednesday’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Anita Green, who said the Miss United States of America pageant violated an Oregon state anti-discrimination law when it barred her from competing in 2019.
Green, who is transgender, has competed in several pageants including Miss Montana USA and Miss Universe. She was living in Clackamas, Oregon and was preparing to compete in the Miss United States of America’s Miss Oregon pageant when she said the organization rejected her application because it did not consider her to be a “natural born female.”
Green sued, contending the organization was violating a state law that makes it illegal to deny public accommodations to people based on their sex or gender identity.
But attorneys for the Miss United States of America Pageants said the pageant program was designed to celebrate and promote “natural born women,” by sending a message of “biological female empowerment.” The pageant has several requirements for contestants, including some based on contestants’ age, marital status and gender identity.
The 9th Circuit’s three-judge panel voted 2-1 in favor of the pageant organization, saying that forcing the pageant to include a transgender woman would fundamentally alter the message the pageant was trying to send.
“As with theater, cinema, or the Super Bowl halftime show, beauty pageants combine speech with live performances such as music and dancing to express a message,” Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote for the majority. “And while the content of that message varies from pageant to pageant, it is commonly understood that beauty pageants are generally designed to express the ‘ideal vision of American womanhood.’”
The appellate court agreed with a lower court’s finding that someone viewing the pageant’s decision to exclude transgender women would likely understand that the pageant organizers did not believe transgender women qualified as female.
“The First Amendment affords the Pageant the ability to voice this message, and to enforce its “natural born female” rule,” the appellate court found.
Forcing the pageant to include transgender contestant would amount to “compelled speech,” — a violation of the First Amendment — and the fact that the pageant was a business that engages in commerce wasn’t enough to overcome that free speech right, the panel found.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Susan P. Graber, said the majority skipped important steps when it decided whether the First Amendment applied. The court first should have considered whether the Oregon state law applied to the case, which might have resolved the lawsuit before the judges had to even consider the First Amendment question, Graber said.
John Kaempf, the attorney representing the pageant organization and its owner, Tanice Smith, said the 9th Circuit’s dismissal was a matter of “simple fairness.”
“The Ninth Circuit’s conclusion says it all: “Green asks to use the power of the state to force Miss United States of America to express a message contrary to what it desires to express. The First Amendment says no,”” Kaempf said.
Green referred The Associated Press to her attorney, Shenoa Payne, who didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
After a lower court ruling sided with the pageant last year, Green said she was disappointed but that the case brought awareness about discrimination against transgender people within the pageant circuit.
“I believe United States of America Miss is on the wrong side of history for choosing to actively discriminate against transgender people, but the road to creating meaningful change has always been a long and bumpy one,” Green said at the time. “Transgender women are women. My message has always been consistent and my message is this: every person has beauty.”
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SHANGHAI, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Molecular Data, Inc. ("Molecular Data" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MKD), a technology-driven platform in China, announced today that on May 25, 2021, it had received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq"), notifying the Company that its minimum closing bid price per share for its ordinary shares had fallen below $1.00 for a period of 30 consecutive business days and that the Company did not meet the minimum bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). On November 29, 2021, the Company was provided with an additional 180 calendar day compliance period, or until May 23, 2022, to demonstrate compliance.
On May 24, 2022, the Company received notice from Nasdaq that it has not regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) and that its American Depository Shares ("ADS") would be delisted from the Capital Markets and a Form 25- NSE filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to remove the Company's securities from listing and registration on The Nasdaq Stock Market unless the Company requests a hearing for an appeal.
On May 26, 2022, the Company submitted a hearing request to a Hearings Panel (the "Panel") for an appeal pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5800 Series. The hearing request will stay the suspension and delisting action pending the issuance of a written Panel decision.
Molecular Data Inc. is a technology-driven platform in China's chemical industry, connecting participants along the chemical value chain through integrated solutions. The Company delivers e-commerce solutions, financial solutions, warehousing and logistics solutions, and SaaS suite that are intended to solve pain points for participants in the traditional chemical industry. Built upon a comprehensive knowledge engine and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, the Company's e-commerce solutions are mainly offered through its online platform, consisting of molbase.com, molbase.cn, Moku Data WeChat account, Chemical Community APP and other ancillary platforms.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including the potential impact of COVID-19 on our business within and outside of China. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results.
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The Food Whisperer and Holistic Chef Adrienne Falcone Godsell joins Gayle Guyardo the host of the nationally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom with a simple Lemon Olive Chicken recipe for dinner.
Bloom airs in 40 markets across the country, with a reach of approximately 36 million households, and in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Madison, WI.
You can watch Bloom in the Tampa Bay Market weekdays at Noon on WTTA: Spectrum 1006; Frontier 514; DirecTV 38; Dish 38; Comcast 43, and look for Bloom early mornings on WFLA News Channel 8.
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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California-based headquarters of athletic shoemaker Skechers after he showed up unannounced Wednesday, a day after Adidas ended its partnership with the artist following his antisemitic remarks.
The Grammy winner, who legally changed his name to Ye, “arrived unannounced and without invitation” at Skechers corporate headquarters in Manhattan Beach, southwest of Los Angeles, the company said.
“Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation," according to a company statement.
“Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,” the company said. “We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech.”
Email messages sent to representatives for Ye weren't immediately returned.
For weeks, Ye has made antisemitic comments in interviews and social media, including a Twitter post earlier this month that he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON. He was suspended from both Twitter and Instagram.
He apologized for the tweet on Monday.
On Tuesday, sportswear manufacturer Adidas announced that it was ending a partnership with Ye that helped make him a billionaire, saying it doesn't tolerate antisemitism and hate speech.
The German sneaker giant said it expected the decision to immediately stop production of its Yeezy products will cause a hit to its net income of up to 250 million euros ($246 million).
The company had stuck with Ye through other controversies after he suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast.”
Other companies also have announced they were cutting ties with West, including Foot Locker, Gap, TJ Maxx, JPMorgan Chase bank and Vogue magazine. An MRC documentary about him was also scrapped.
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- Geek+ to debut autonomous mobile robots in Brazilian market at Elevate Brazil
SAN DIEGO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Geek+, the global leader in autonomous mobile robot (AMR) technology, is excited to announce that it has expanded its footprint in South America with its' strategic partner Körber Supply Chain, a global leader in supply chain technology, software and material handling automation. Geek+ will be debuting its intelligent AMR solutions at Elevate Brazil 2022 in Sao Paulo and this will be the first time Geek+'s goods-to-person solutions have been showcased in Brazil.
Randy Randolph, Geek+ Americas VP of Channels and Partnerships, said: "We are thrilled to take the next step in our partnership with Körber Supply Chain to strengthen our growing presence in South America. This deepened partnership allows us to continue to support customers across the continent with flexible robotic solutions that can help them maximize warehouse throughput and meet increased consumer expectations."
Helcio Lenz, Managing Director for Körber Supply Chain in Latin America, said: "We are excited to bring, this new era of intelligent and flexible robots to Brazil. The unique solutions we provide together with our partner Geek+ will support our customers in the region to conquer their supply chain complexities and stay ahead of the competition."
With offices in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, Körber Supply Chain supports many of the largest and most sophisticated companies in Latin America on dealing with the increasing complexity of their supply chains and delivering superior service to their customers.
Together, Geek+ and Körber Supply Chain have implemented warehouse solutions in various industries across retail, apparel, e-commerce, and third-party logistics for customers all over the world, including APAC, Europe and North America. With their combined expertise in robotics, warehouse management software, and integration, Geek+ and Körber Supply Chain will provide clients in Brazil and all of South America the latest automation solutions to augment their supply chain operations.
After Elevate Brazil, Geek+ goods-to-person robots will be in operation at Körber Supply Chain's innovation center in Campinas (SP). Geek+ will continue to work closely with Körber Supply Chain to help its wide range of customers address labor challenges while reaching maximum warehouse productivity and storage density with intelligent autonomous mobile robots.
About Geek+
Geek+ is a global technology company leading the intelligent logistics revolution. We apply advanced robotics and AI technologies to realize flexible, reliable, and highly efficient solutions for warehouses and supply chain management. Geek+ is trusted by over 500 global industry leaders and has been recognized as the world leader in autonomous mobile robots. Founded in 2015, Geek+ has over 1500 employees and is headquartered with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore.
For more information, please visit: https://www.geekplus.com/
About Körber
Supply chains are growing more complex by the day. Körber uniquely provides a broad range of proven, end-to-end supply chain solutions fitting any business size, strategy or appetite for growth. Capable of delivering not just software, but automation, voice, robotics, and materials handling – plus the expertise to tie it all together. We are a global partner not just for today, but also as the needs of supply chains continue to evolve. Conquer supply chain complexity – with Körber. The Business Area Supply Chain is part of the global technology group Körber.
For more information, please visit: https://www.koerber-supplychain.com/pt/
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DOVER, Del., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Public Utilities Company, Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company and Aspire Energy of Ohio, subsidiaries of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE:CPK), were recognized by the American Gas Association (AGA) as top safety performers in 2022. The awards were presented at the 2023 AGA Operations Conference, which is the natural gas industry's premier gathering of natural gas utility and transmission company operations management from across North America.
Florida Public Utilities Company and Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company earned the AGA Safety Achievement Award, which is given to companies that demonstrate outstanding commitment to employee and vehicular safety.
Aspire Energy of Ohio was named an industry leader in accident prevention for achieving a DART (days away, restricted or transferred) rate below industry standard for local distribution companies. DART is a metric used by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to measure the impact of workplace injuries.
"We are pleased to be recognized by the American Gas Association for our exceptional safety performance and the collective dedication of our team members in upholding our safety values. These awards reflect our positive safety culture and underscore our commitment to protect our employees, our customers and the communities we serve," said Jeffrey Sylvester, senior vice president and chief operating officer.
About Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Florida Public Utilities Company
Florida Public Utilities Company (FPU), headquartered in Yulee, Florida, distributes natural gas and propane and provides electric services to approximately 120,000 customers in markets throughout Florida. For more information, visit www.fpuc.com.
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company owns and operates a 516-mile Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulated interstate transmission pipeline system that transports natural gas from four upstream pipeline interconnection points in Pennsylvania and Delaware to customers along the Delmarva Peninsula, including Chesapeake Utilities' distribution systems. For more information, visit www.esng.com.
Aspire Energy of Ohio, LLC
Aspire Energy of Ohio, owns and operates a non-regulated natural gas gathering infrastructure, including over 2,800 miles of pipeline, throughout 40 counties in Ohio. Aspire Energy provides natural gas supplies to several local distribution companies and cooperatives. To learn more about Aspire Energy of Ohio, visit www.aspireenergyco.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is not affiliated with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Brianna Patterson
Manager, Public Relations and Strategic Communications
419-314-1233
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at where control of Congress stands in the 2022 midterm elections.
WHY HASN’T THE AP CALLED CONTROL OF CONGRESS YET?
In short, because neither party has yet reached the 218 seats necessary to win in the House or the 50 (for Democrats) or 51 (for Republicans) required in the Senate. When that will happen isn’t clear.
If Democrats retain their 50 seats, they keep control because of Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
The AP does not make projections and will only declare a winner when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. In some contested races where a party or candidate has a history of consistent and convincing wins The AP can use results from AP VoteCast to confirm a candidate’s victory, even as soon as polls close. VoteCast is a survey of American voters aimed at determining why they voted how they did.
In House races, The AP has thus far declared Republicans winners in 199 seats compared with 172 for the Democrats early Wednesday. Other races hadn’t been called yet. In the Senate, where about a third of the 100 seats were up for election, the count of AP race calls meant the chamber stood at 48-48.
COUNTING CONTINUES
Key races, like contests for governor and U.S. Senate in Arizona and Nevada, remained uncalled on Wednesday as officials there continue to tally votes, including mail-in ballots.
In other close races, like the Georgia Senate contest between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, runoff contests are either pending or probable.
In Alaska, where incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola won a special election this summer to fill an open seat held for decades by Republicans, a second round of vote tabulating could take place.
That’s because Alaska has ranked-choice voting in which voters rank candidates. If no one gets 50% plus one, then the person with the fewest votes gets eliminated and voters’ choices count toward their second pick. The rounds continue until two candidates are left and the one with the most votes wins.
Peltola was leading Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich in a race too early to call.
CHALLENGES?
In 2020, former President Donald Trump challenged outcomes in close races across the country. Those challenges failed in courts, though Trump continued to insist falsely that the race was stolen.
So far, nothing like those kinds of objections has materialized.
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Mike Catalini can be reached at https://twitter.com/mikecatalini
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Check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the 2022 midterm elections. Follow AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at: https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — False earthquake alerts went off on Wednesday on Android smartphones in Iran as the country continues to grapple with nationwide protests. Authorities offered conflicting accounts as to why the incident happened.
Col. Ramin Pashaei, deputy chief of Iran’s cyber police, told Iranian state television that only Android phones received the false alert. He blamed testing at state-owned service provider Iran Mobile Communications Co. for the alert.
Meanwhile, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency described the incident as a hack and said: “This message is fake; do not leave your homes.” The two conflicting accounts of the event could not be immediately reconciled.
Google, which provides the Android software, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Iran has seen a series of hacks since the Sept. 16 death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini after her detention by the country’s morality police. Her death has sparked months of protests that now include calls for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy, one of the greatest challenges faced by Tehran since the chaotic years after its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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NEW YORK, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CIT, a division of First Citizens Bank, today announced that its Power and Energy business served as coordinating lead arranger on $714 million in financing for a portfolio of thermal generation assets in California.
The proceeds were used to refinance a 1.8-gigawatt portfolio owned by subsidiaries of the Avenue Capital Group and managed by Middle River Power. Assets within the portfolio consist of eight gas-fired peaking plants and two gas-fired combined cycle power plants located near metropolitan centers across California.
Middle River Power is a private equity-sponsored asset management platform focused on U.S. power generation assets. Their assets under management or in development include over 3,000 megawatts of natural gas, coal, geothermal and solar power generation facilities in California, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
"Middle River Power's robust and reliable energy infrastructure is a critical component of economic security and growth across California," said Mike Lorusso, managing director and group head for CIT's Power and Energy business. "We were pleased to collaborate with them to support their financing needs on this portfolio."
Power and Energy, part of CIT's Commercial Finance division, leverages its deep industry knowledge and expertise to offer comprehensive financing solutions for renewable and conventional power generation. The unit manages a large, diverse portfolio that includes investments in all asset classes across the energy sector.
About CIT
CIT is a division of First Citizens Bank, the largest family-controlled bank in the United States, continuing a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. Parent company, First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets. The company's commercial banking segment brings a wide array of best-in-class lending, leasing and banking services to middle-market companies and small businesses from coast to coast. First Citizens also operates a nationwide direct bank and a network of more than 600 branches in 22 states, many in high-growth markets. Industry specialists bring a depth of expertise that helps businesses and individuals meet their specific goals at every stage of their financial journey. Discover more at cit.com/firstcitizens.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone and the phones of other top officials are missing from the public record, including texts he sent after former President Donald Trump directed federal agents to the city to quell nightly racial justice protests.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that the city uses specialized software to capture text messaging on city-issued phones so they can be retained for public record requests, but the software can't capture encrypted messages sent using Apple's iMessage service.
OPB's investigation found the mayor and his staff sent and received thousands of iMessage texts between 2017 and 2021 and those messages were not captured — and therefore not included — in key public records requests about the protests, policing and other issues.
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Users can turn iMessage off and instead send texts outside Apple's proprietary system by toggling a button in the iPhone's settings. Wheeler and other city officials signed a document saying they understood they must toggle iMessage to the off position and Wheeler was repeatedly reminded of that, OPB reported.
Ten months after Wheeler signed the form, iMessage was turned on on the mayor’s iPhone, the outlet reported. The mayor then received over 6,400 iMessages between January 2019 and September 2021, according to a spreadsheet of all Wheeler's texts from that period requested by OPB.
Wheeler declined to comment to OPB. His spokesman, Cody Bowman, said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the mayor “never manually turned on iMessage” and was fully compliant with the archiving system.
OPB obtained the spreadsheet of the missing texts after it discovered city attorneys, concerned about his non-compliance, used special software in late 2021 to export all the content on the mayor’s phone — but iMessages sent on Wheeler's previous city-issued phones are lost forever.
Senior Deputy City Attorney Jenifer Johnston told OPB that “all messages on (his) iPhone are essentially iMessage.”
The lost messages include from several former city commissioners and Wheeler’s former police advisor Robert King. They all used iMessage and left before Portland realized the problem and extracted iMessages from current phones.
King advised the mayor on the racial justice protests, two fatal police shootings and clashes between far-right and far-left groups during the time in question. The city received a dozen fruitless public records requests seeking King’s texts.
From 2018 to 2021, the mayor’s office alone received over 130 requests for text messages from both press and constituents. For example, the city omitted 1,300 relevant texts spanning nearly every pivotal protest moment after a public records request by a local activist group because they had been sent in iMessage, OPB reported.
“I don’t see that there’s any way that this isn’t a violation of law,” said Ginger McCall, Oregon’s first-ever Public Records Advocate who now works at a progressive advocacy group in Washington D.C. “... They clearly didn’t fulfill their legal obligation. That’s a nice way of putting it.”
By 2021, staff with the city’s technology bureau, were sending increasingly frantic emails about the mayor’s conduct. They wrote that he was “re-enabling iMessage every time" even though he had been told repeatedly that doing so made the automatic text archiving impossible.
Bowman, Wheeler's spokesman, said Tuesday that while city staff initially thought Wheeler disabled iMessage himself, they now know that's not the case.
iMessage could have been turned on on the mayor’s phone without his knowledge when he got a new phone; when he changed his SIM card; when he synced his work phone with iTunes; or when he sent a message to a non-city employee who did use iMessage, Bowman said.
“What the City did not realize until very recently was all the ways that iMessage could unintentionally and inadvertently be turned on when using the Apple device,” he said in an email to the AP.
Johnston, Portland’s senior deputy city attorney, said she is confident the city operated in good faith.
“What I understand the law requires is that we perform a reasonable search,” she said. “And our search was reasonable based on what we knew at the time.”
By December 2021, all elected officials had iMessage irreversibly blocked.
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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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Nothing ‘secret’ about Arizona voting machine testing shown on video, officials say
CLAIM: Newly released video shows election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County illegally conducting “secret” voting equipment tests ahead of last November’s contested midterms.
THE FACTS: The video comes from the county’s live broadcast of the election process last fall and isn’t new footage. Election officials say it shows the installation and testing of new memory cards on ballot counting machines just days prior to the November election. But social media users are falsely suggesting the video is new evidence of ballot rigging in the contested November election in the county, which covers the Phoenix area. The video shows a small group of election staffers working on vote tabulation machines in a large warehouse-like space. “New (asterisk)video evidence(asterisk) of Maricopa election officials illegally breaking into sealed election machines after they were tested, reprogramming memory cards,” wrote one Twitter user in a post that’s been liked or shared more than 133,000 times as of Thursday. “This is the story of a sabotage,” tweeted the campaign of Kari Lake, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor, sharing the video. But there’s nothing new about the clip and it doesn’t show anything clandestine, say election officials and experts. Matt Roberts, a spokesperson for Maricopa County Election Department, said the video clips are from the county’s own livestream of its ballot tabulation center on Oct. 14, 17 and 18. He said workers in the video are installing new memory cards into the machines and then running test ballots to make sure the system is operating properly, a process that happens before every election. The county government also responded to the claims on Twitter, noting the idea that voting machines were secretly tested prior to the election came up in Lake’s lawsuit challenging the election, and that the judge found it “unconvincing.” Lake’s campaign argued in a legal filing earlier this month that 260 of the 446 vote center tabulators registered errors during this purportedly secret testing process, foreshadowing problems that would occur on Election Day, leading her to lose the governor’s office by some 17,000 votes. “They know they’re in hot water, the county’s own system logs tell the true story,” the campaign wrote in an email to the AP, referencing the argument. But the county, in a response filed in the court case, argued that Lake was misinterpreting the machine logs, assuming every instance when they noted a “ballot misread” or “paper jam” error represented a serious malfunction. The county said a range of situations could lead to the error messages, such as a ballot that’s inserted slightly askew. “These entries do not indicate failure; rather, they are a normal part of both testing tabulators and voting on them,” the county wrote in its filing. Weeks later, Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed Lake’s suit and affirmed the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs as governor, writing that “the evidence presented falls far below what is needed to establish a basis for fraud.” Paul Smith-Leonard, a spokesperson for the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, which oversees elections statewide, confirmed that the county’s description of its pre-election preparations was accurate. Tammy Patrick, CEO of programs at the National Association of Election Officials and a former officer in the Maricopa County Elections Department, agreed, stressing there’s nothing secret about the ballot counting process. “The live feed starts with the initial logic and accuracy testing and remains up until equipment is tested post-election,” Patrick explained in an email. “It is live for weeks in advance, 24X7, has been that way for every election, for YEARS.”
— Associated Press writer Philip Marcelo in New York contributed this report.
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European Union didn’t advise against COVID vaccines for pregnant women
CLAIM: The European Union is now advising that pregnant women should not receive COVID-19 vaccines because of the risk of infertility and miscarriage.
THE FACTS: The European Medicines Agency continues to support COVID-19 immunizations for pregnant women, the agency confirmed. An announcement that concerns menstrual bleeding, which is being cited to spread the false claim, is from October 2022 and explicitly stated that the vaccines are still safe before and during pregnancy. But social media users this week falsely asserted that the European Union had changed its tune on the vaccines. “The European Union is now warning pregnant women not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to the possibility of infertility and miscarriage,” reads one popular Wednesday tweet that was also shared on Instagram. But there was no such announcement, the EMA confirmed to the AP. “The claims circulating online alleging that EMA is advising pregnant women not to receive COVID-19 vaccines as these would ‘cause infertility’ are false,” the agency said in a statement. In fact, the agency’s website currently states: “People who are pregnant or who might become pregnant soon are encouraged to receive COVID-19 vaccines in line with national recommendations.” The Twitter account sharing the claim cited a statement from the EMA that said its risk assessment committee had “recommended that heavy menstrual bleeding should be added to the product information as a side effect of unknown frequency of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty and Spikevax,” referring to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, respectively. That announcement, while accurate, is from October 2022 and actually said the data at the time continued to provide “reassurance” about using the vaccines both before and during pregnancy. “After reviewing the data, the Committee concluded that there is at least a reasonable possibility that the occurrence of heavy menstrual bleeding is causally associated with these vaccines and therefore recommended the update of the product information,” the EMA said. “The available data reviewed involved mostly cases which appeared to be non-serious and temporary in nature.” The announcement added: “There is no evidence to suggest the menstrual disorders experienced by some people have any impact on reproduction and fertility. Available data provides reassurance about the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines before and during pregnancy.” Some online suggested that heavy menstrual bleeding was in and of itself evidence that the vaccines cause fertility issues. But experts say that’s not the case. “While certain causes of heavy menstrual bleeding can affect fertility, such as fibroids, heavy bleeding, on its own, does not affect fertility,” Dr. Katharine White, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University, told the AP in an email. “Any heaviness of a menses after the COVID vaccine is likely to be a short-term change, and thus, there’s no reason it should affect the chances of getting pregnant.” White said menstrual cycle disruptions in general “may affect fertility, in that if cycle timing is inconsistent (some cycles long, some short), it can be harder to time intercourse with ovulation.” But that can be overcome by increasing the frequency of sex when trying to conceive, she added.
— Associated Press writers Angelo Fichera in New Jersey and Melissa Goldin in New York contributed this report.
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Target isn’t selling satanic children’s clothes
CLAIM: Photos of a goat-headed store mannequin and a girl wearing a black shirt with a pentagram design show Target is selling a line of satanic-themed children’s clothing.
THE FACTS: The images were generated with an artificial intelligence text-to-image tool, according to the artist who created them. Target also confirmed it has never sold the merchandise. Still, amid attacks on the beleaguered retail giant over its LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month, social media users circulated the set of synthetic images to claim Target is also selling a new line of children’s clothes featuring satanic imagery. The collage includes a blood red, goat-headed mannequin and a young girl wearing a black shirt with a pentagram. Another image shows two other children wearing red sweaters, each featuring a white goat’s head with eyes made to resemble Target’s familiar red and white bullseye logo. “If you are still supporting Target… did you KNOW THIS about them?” wrote a Facebook user who shared the image this week. “Selling satanic symbols on children’s apparel???” But Dan Reese, a software developer in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, confirmed in Facebook messages to the AP on Thursday that he created the images over two days last week using a generative AI program developed by Midjourney, a San Francisco-based independent research lab. His Facebook post from May 26 includes the red goat mannequin and other images being widely shared, as well as about a dozen others of children or mannequins dressed in apparel featuring devils, pentagrams and similar imagery. Reese said he was inspired to create the images following false reports that Target was selling satanic-themed children’s clothes as part of its Pride collection. “I am a Satanist myself so I thought it would be fun to use AI to explore what Satanic themed kids fashion might actually look like,” he wrote in his Facebook message to the AP. The focus of the prior claims were around Target’s inclusion of the brand Abprallen, a London-based company that also sells some occult- and satanic-themed LGBTQ+ clothing and accessories, such as popular pins and shirts featuring the phrase “Satan respects pronouns.” Erik Carnell, the creator of the brand, stressed in a statement posted on Instagram last week that the company had just three items featured in Target’s collection, and none bore satanic references. The items included a sweatshirt featuring a pastel-colored image of a serpent wrapped around a winged staff with the slogan “Cure Transphobia, Not Trans People,” a messenger bag with a UFO image and the phrase “Too Queer for Here,” and a tote bag with images of planets and the line “We Belong Everywhere,” according to a Carnell’s statement and an announcement ahead of the launch. The Minneapolis-based big box retailer didn’t respond to requests for comment on the removal of the Abprallen items Thursday, but in a statement last week said it was removing some items because threats against the company were impacting worker safety and wellbeing. Target did confirm to the AP that the red goat-headed mannequin and other items portrayed in the images circulating this week aren’t offered in its nearly 2,000 stores nationwide. A review of Target’s website also didn’t turn up any of the purported merchandise. “Target has never sold these items,” the company wrote in an email.
— Philip Marcelo
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Florida permitless carry law hasn’t taken effect, contrary to claims after beach shooting
CLAIM: A Florida bill signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which allows people to carry concealed weapons without a government permit, went into effect in April.
THE FACTS: DeSantis signed the bill in April, but the new law will not take effect until July 1. Yet following a Memorial Day shooting at a beach near Hollywood, Florida, that injured nine people, some social media users wrongly suggested a connection to the concealed carry legislation. One tweet that reported news of Monday’s Hollywood Beach shooting states that “in April, DeSantis’ permitless carry went into effect.” It continues: “Let’s be clear: this shooter did not act alone. He was aided by spineless Republicans who refuse to protect us. When will enough be enough?” But while DeSantis did sign a bill on April 3 that will allow anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida to carry one without a government-issued permit, the law does not go into effect until July 1. The new law means that training and a background check will no longer be required to carry concealed guns in public, though it will still be possible to obtain a permit. While a background check and three-day waiting period will still be required to purchase a gun from a licensed dealer, they are already not needed for private transactions or exchanges of weapons. Police launched a search Tuesday for three suspects they believe to be the gunmen who opened fire along the crowded Hollywood Beach promenade. The shooting began as a group of people fought in front of a busy stretch of shops at about 7 p.m. on Monday. Two people involved in this altercation have been arrested on firearms charges. Nine people were injured in the shooting, including four children. Six of those shot remain hospitalized in stable condition, while three have been released, the AP has reported.
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Which office outlet extender is best?
Outlets in an office space rarely have enough spots to plug in every device you need to use daily. Computers, monitors, printers, scanners, copiers and more are common, requiring consistent power for maximized productivity. Whether used in a traditional office setting or a home office, outlet extenders can make it easier to power all of the most critical devices.
If you are looking for an extender and power strip with smart device capabilities, the top choice is the Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300. It has multiple outlets and USB ports that can all be controlled individually, unlike most strips that have only on and off states.
What to know before you buy an office outlet extender
What kind of extender do you need?
Some extender cables help connect you to an outlet that is too far away. Some power strips moderately extend the range of your outlet, in addition to expanding the number of devices that you can plug into that power source. These will often have surge-protection features, which can help ensure the electrical safety of an office or home office.
How many outlets do you need?
Sometimes the distance to the outlet is the primary issue, and you need an extension cord with reach. Other times, you will need a power strip for many devices to use a single outlet. Depending on your office setup, consider how many outlets you will need to use before buying an extender. Power strips generally have between four and a dozen outlets. It varies greatly, and you do not need a longer power strip on the end of your outlet extension cord than needed.
Is the outlet behind a desk?
If your outlet is in an awkward spot, you may need an extender adapter so that you can plug in other cables at different angles. Combining an adapter plugged into the outlet with a power strip to set up all the necessary electronics can be a convenient solution to that problem.
What to look for in a quality office outlet extender
Safety
The best outlet extension cables and devices have surge protection to protect all the plugged electronics. Surge protection is critical because it can prevent damage to property from power surges or any electrical supply issues. Worst case scenario, you may need to replace an outlet extender device, but that is preferable to replacing all the office equipment plugged into one.
Length
There is no optimal length and reach of an extension cord or power strip because it depends on the office space layout. Some outlets are too far away from where they need to be for them to be useful, but some do not need a long extension cable taking up unnecessary space. Measure the length you need before you buy any devices for your office space.
Ports
The number and type of ports are important. Note if your devices require two or three-pronged outlets. Also, consider if devices need to be plugged directly into a USB port to charge. There are lots of outlet extender products that have dedicated USB ports. The best number of ports is the number you need plus one or two extra, if you need to temporarily plug in another device or charge a mobile phone with the outlet.
How much you can expect to spend on an office outlet extender
You can find simple extenders and power for less than $30. If you need a particularly long extender cable or additional features, it could cost $30-$50 for indoor outlet extension gear.
Office outlet extender FAQ
Do outlet extenders need smart technology?
A. Tons of outlet extension cables and devices that do not use smart technology at all. Unless you want the extra quality of life features or there is a specific reason you need an extender to be a smart device, it is not needed. You can save money by opting for a simple electrical extension cord or a power strip that fits in your office space.
How many devices can you plug into one power strip?
A. It depends on the energy required to power your devices, not just the number of outlets available. For your safety, be careful to avoid plugging in too many devices into one outlet. Check how much power an outlet can safely provide before adding more devices to the same power source. Depending on the outlet, you may be able to plug in all of your devices without the need to spread them out across more than one electrical outlet.
What’s the best office outlet extender to buy?
Top office outlet extender
Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300
What you need to know: This is an excellent extender and power strip that features smart technology for convenience and safety.
What you’ll love: It has six separately controlled outlets and three dedicated USB ports. Users can cut down on energy consumption by using the companion app to monitor energy flow. The smart strip helps users to draw only the power needed and is a certified surge protector. You can use the app or a smart assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant to control the outlet.
What you should consider: Some users have had issues with the device rebooting or having trouble connecting to Wi-Fi to use smart control features.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top office outlet extender for the money
APC Surge Protector With USB Charging Ports
What you need to know: This affordable rotating power strip allows devices to plugin safely, even at odd angles.
What you’ll love: It comes in a few color options and wall mounts if needed. Each of the six outlets can rotate while maintaining a connection. It allows for easy management of multiple cables that need to connect from multiple different directions. A built-in LED indicator light informs users of the status of the device’s surge protection.
What you should consider: The LED light may have some issues with ground fault detection, but the extender is safe and affordable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
360 Electrical Habitat Braided Extension Cord
What you need to know: This outlet extender cable with a six-foot cord is especially sturdy and difficult to damage.
What you’ll love: The cord is braided and durable. It has three power outlets and two dedicated USB ports that support fast charging for tablets and smartphones. Because each outlet is on a different side of the sturdy cube, bulky or unusually shaped plugs are not an issue. The part that plugs into the outlet is low-profile and can fit if an outlet is hidden behind a desk or cabinet.
What you should consider: There are not that many outlets, so if you need to plug in a large number of devices to your outlet extender, you may need a power strip instead.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Pepsi Brings Breakout Latin Artist to St. Mary's Basilica's 9th Annual Festival Along with Check Presentation to Maricopa County Community College District to Support Higher Education for Local Students
PHOENIX, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi is showing up big in Phoenix this Sunday to celebrate Día De Los Muertos and uplift the community alongside St. Mary's Basilica with a free concert from DannyLux, named one of Billboard's "Latin Artists to Watch," and a $500,000 donation from the PepsiCo Foundation to Maricopa County Community College District to help fund education opportunities locally.
As part of Pepsi's sponsorship of the Basilica's 9th Annual Día De Los Muertos Festival on November 6, the brand is activating The Pepsi Stage for free musical performances, providing free Pepsi products throughout the event, and highlighting local food trucks on-site.
On The Pepsi Stage, the PepsiCo Foundation will present a $500,000 check to Maricopa County Community College District as part of the Uplift Scholarship program to provide 200 students with financial assistance as they pursue degrees in fields including technology and management, along with access to success coaching, emergency grants, and financial literacy resources. The scholarship will reach students enrolled in the Chandler-Gilbert, Estrella Mountain, GateWay, Glendale, Mesa, Paradise Valley, Phoenix, Rio Salado, Scottsdale, and South Mountain campuses.
The PepsiCo Foundation's Uplift Scholarship program will provide 4,000 scholarships across the country by 2025 in an effort to address historical barriers that make it challenging for minority students to enroll, persist, and graduate from college – barriers that have widened during the pandemic. This initiative is a cornerstone effort of PepsiCo's more than $570 million Racial Equality Journey, a comprehensive initiative to support marginalized and historically underserved communities, people, and businesses.
"Pepsi is showing up for Phoenix this Día De Los Muertos to amplify and celebrate the Hispanic community through the power of our connection to music and the long-term impact of our PepsiCo Foundation Uplift Scholarships," said PepsiCo Beverages North America's West Division President, Johannes Evenblij. "We're excited to be celebrating this key cultural moment alongside the community while also driving lasting support for local students."
Pepsi is amplifying the event's musical performances from The Pepsi Stage which will host free concerts throughout the day from award-winning Latin Jazz group Carmela Y Más and more, with Mexican American breakthrough artist DannyLux as the grand finale at 6 pm.
"I appreciate Pepsi for inviting me to perform for the first time in Arizona. It's cool to help them support the community and make Phoenix's Día De Los Muertos even bigger and better than ever," said singer-songwriter DannyLux. "I'm so excited to be able to show up and celebrate with fans during this iconic cultural moment."
Eventgoers will also have a chance to get their hands on the brand's recently launched, limited-edition Día De Los Muertos cans. Designed by Mexican artist Totoi Semerena, the packaging includes three new designs on Pepsi Real Sugar, Manzanita Sol, and Crush products featuring celebrated Día de Los Muertos icons including Xoloitzcuintli, revered as the spirit guide to the kingdom of the dead, La Catrina, one of the strongest and most recognizable symbols representing the relationship Mexicans have with death, and La Calavera, or skeleton, a playful symbol of life after death.
These limited-edition cans and more free Pepsi products will be available at the brand's sampling activation area. The event will run from 11 am-7 pm on Sunday, November 6. For more information about the event, visit saintmarysbasilica.org.
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.
Established in 1962, the PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, invests in the essential elements of a sustainable food system with a mission to support thriving communities. Working with non-profits and experts around the globe, we're focused on helping communities obtain access to food security, safe water and economic opportunity. We strive for tangible impact in the places where we live and work—collaborating with industry peers, local and international organizations, and our employees to affect large-scale change on the issues that matter to us and are of global importance. Learn more at www.pepsico.com/pepsico-foundation and https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pepsico-foundation/.
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A bill to overhaul Maine state government's relationships with Indian tribes in the state advanced in the Maine Senate on Friday without debate.
The tribal sovereignty bill is one of the highest-profile and most closely watched measures of the legislative session. The bill would allow the Penobscot Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to enjoy most of the rights, power and privileges afforded to more than 500 other tribes nationwide under federal law. Tribal leaders in Maine say a 1980 agreement has led the state to treat them more as municipalities than as sovereign governments.
But the bill is controversial, as evidenced by Thursday's largely party-line vote in the House. It faces additional votes in the House and Senate as well as a potential veto from Gov. Janet Mills.
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A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
I have always had a thing for the superhero the Flash. He's not a musclebound, take-charge alpha male like Superman or Batman. The Flash is all about speed and self-deprecating wit, wrapped in a slight and slender frame. Now, that description has fit me to a tee since I was a tot. I could never trade punches with bullies, so I'd run away instead. For decades, I've read Flash comic books. I've watched Flash TV series. I've collected hundreds of Flash figures and memorabilia, which I keep on display in my office at NPR West. All this to say that I've been waiting around, oh, say 45 years for a standalone Flash movie. Well, the wait is over.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FLASH")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Oh, my God. Flash.
(SCREAMING)
EZRA MILLER: (As Barry) Hi.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I love you.
MILLER: (As Barry) Thank you.
JEREMY IRONS: (As Alfred) Patching you in to Mr. Wayne.
MILLER: (As Barry) No, please don't.
BEN AFFLECK: (As Bruce) I need you here now, Barry.
MARTÍNEZ: The director of "The Flash" is Andy Muschietti, and his sister Barbara is one of the producers. They were born in Argentina. And I had some questions for them.
When Barry Allen's mom, Nora, first shows up, she's singing in the kitchen in Spanish.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FLASH")
MARIBEL VERDU: (Singing in Spanish).
MARTÍNEZ: When she speaks to Barry and his dad, Henry, in English, she has an accent.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FLASH")
VERDU: (As Nora) I love you, monkey.
IAN LOH: (As Little Barry) I love you more.
VERDU: (As Nora) I loved you first.
(LAUGHTER)
MARTÍNEZ: So I got to know, because it hit me like a bolt of lightning - pardon the pun - is the Flash Latinx? Does the Flash have Latin American ancestry, Andy?
ANDRES MUSCHIETTI: Well, he has a Latin mother, so you draw your own conclusions.
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BARBARA MUSCHIETTI: We'd like him to. I mean, we're Latinos. And we bring with us what we are. We're incredibly proud Latinos. We're incredibly happy that we went to the studio and we told them who we wanted. And that's who we have in the movie - Maribel, Sasha. We have Ruben Blades. We have Rosalia, you know? We have Natalia LaFourcade singing a Chavela Vargas song. It may be, you know, details, but we're definitely all over the movie.
MARTÍNEZ: Oh, I noticed. Everyone - (laughter) I think everyone's going to notice, for sure.
B MUSCHIETTI: Well, and hopefully it makes it better.
MARTÍNEZ: Yeah. Now, there have been lots of Batman movies, lots of Superman movies, a couple of Wonder Woman movies, even an Aquaman movie. Andy, this is the first Flash film, the first standalone Flash film. So tell us, who is the Flash? How does he fit into what we've seen from DC in the last few years?
A MUSCHIETTI: Well, I think it's a character that deserved a standalone movie, you know, not only because of what the character means in the comic book world, but also the portrayal of Barry Allen that Ezra did in previous movies like "Justice League" and "Batman v. Superman" a little bit. I think we all deserve not only a standalone movie about the character, but a movie where the character is played by Ezra Miller. And that's one of the things that got me very excited.
MARTÍNEZ: The star of "The Flash" is Ezra Miller. In the past year and a half, Miller has been fined for disorderly conduct and pled guilty to trespassing, while also being accused of assault, burglary and grooming a minor. I asked Andy what it was like to make the movie while Miller was going through those controversies.
A MUSCHIETTI: Well, obviously, we take these issues very seriously. We do have a lot of empathy for people who need help. And Ezra is going through treatment right now. And he's taking the necessary steps to recovery. And we support him in that. We support them in that sense.
B MUSCHIETTI: But as filmmakers, you keep working. You have a wonderful movie in your hands, and you get it done. You keep your head down and you get the movie done.
MARTÍNEZ: There's a few comic book stores in my neighborhood that I go to regularly just to see what new Flash toys are there for me to buy. But there are people there that I talk to, people that work there, people that go there. And some of them are saying that they will not see this movie. They will not see "The Flash" movie because Ezra Miller is in the movie. What would you say to fans who may choose not to watch the movie because Ezra Miller is in it?
A MUSCHIETTI: Look; everybody has a right to have their opinion and their sensibility and stuff. I can't speak to them. I don't want to convince them otherwise. I can say that we are very proud of this movie. We're very happy with Ezra's work in it. And we support him in his recovery and the steps that he's basically following to complete his treatment.
B MUSCHIETTI: I will also add that mental health is an issue for everybody. And I would advocate empathy.
MARTÍNEZ: Tell us, then, who is the Ezra Miller that you two know that we don't?
A MUSCHIETTI: He's a good - he's a person with a huge heart. Since the moment that we met them, we knew that they were a very special person with a lot of feelings and a lot of heart. And they are dedicated to activism and help other people, and apart from that, an extraordinary actor, just incredibly talented.
B MUSCHIETTI: And disciplined, passionate. We shot with them for 138 days. We prepped with them for six months non-stop. And they were truly incredible.
MARTÍNEZ: Now, Andy, by the time you signed on to direct "The Flash," that was July 2019. There had been production delays. At least three directors left the project, story and script changes. It seemed like a mess. I live a mile away from Warner Brothers. I know people that work on the lot. We see each other at the grocery store. We would talk all the time. What about "The Flash" got you to sign on to this?
A MUSCHIETTI: It wasn't any issue for us. I just looked at this movie as an opportunity to make something exciting for the audience. And we just jumped on it.
B MUSCHIETTI: And as Latinos, we're incredibly stubborn.
MARTÍNEZ: (Laughter).
B MUSCHIETTI: We will bite a bone and not let it go, especially, you know, if we love it. We do everything we can to make great movies. The rest, you know, can't exist. We just look forward and try to tell a beautiful story.
MARTÍNEZ: Andy Muschietti directed "The Flash." Barbara Muschietti is one of the producers. "The Flash" comes out June 16. Thanks to you both.
A MUSCHIETTI: Thank you. Thank you, A.
B MUSCHIETTI: Thank you so much, A.
A MUSCHIETTI: Thank you so much.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka passed along some advice to Masataka Yoshida, another Japanese star who came over to play for the Red Sox.
“His advice to me: Boston is really cold,” the 29-year-old outfielder said through a translator on Thursday after he signed a five-year, $90 million deal with the Red Sox. “Obviously, you have to bring your jacket.”
Yoshida won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and twice led Japan’s Pacific League in batting. He also helped Orix to a victory in the Japan Series in October, homering twice in Game 5 — including a walk-off as the Buffaloes rallied from a ninth-inning deficit.
“We became the champion in Japan. Next season, I would like to contribute to your world championship for the Red Sox,” he said, offering this assessment of Fenway Park upon seeing it for the first time: “The Green Monster is really tall.”
Yoshida has a .326 average with a .419 on-base percentage in seven seasons in Japan, all with Orix.
He greeted the Boston media on Thursday by explaining — in English — that he doesn’t speak English.
“So, nervous,” he said. “I want to learn English and I want to speak it my daughters. I am honored to be in Red Sox Nation. I will do my best. Thank you.”
Although the Red Sox have signed other Japanese players — including closer Koji Uehara, who helped them win it all in 2013 — Yoshida is Boston’s highest-profile addition from Japan since Matsuzaka arrived in 2007 after a bidding war that resulted in the team paying more than $100 million in posting fees and salary.
The Red Sox never let this one get to that, making an offer on the first day teams were allowed to talk to Yoshida’s agent, Scott Boras, and convincing him to cancel scheduled Zooms with other teams.
“You have to be prepared with the evaluation of the player when the light turns green,” Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said. “We felt we were. We knew that there was going to be a lot of interest.”
Word of Yoshida’s signing first emerged at the winter meetings at the same time that free agent shortstop Xander Bogaerts agreed to leave the Red Sox and join the San Diego Padres. Bogaerts had been the cornerstone of Boston’s offseason plans.
To make room for Yoshida on the roster, Boston designated infielder Jeter Downs for assignment. Downs had been acquired in the trade that sent former Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers and hit .154 in a 14-game major league tryout.
“I think that speaks to some of the struggles we’ve had getting him on track,” Bloom said. “I still think there’s a lot of physical ability there, but we haven’t been able to unlock it consistently.”
Bloom said there was no added disappointment in setting Downs free just because he was a key part of a decision — already unpopular — to trade Betts, the 2018 AL MVP.
“No doubt he’s a big part of a really significant trade, and that we haven’t gotten him to the level that we expected hurts,” Bloom said. “But at the end of the day, we we want to do right by all of the players. And he was the right decision (in) this case.”
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.
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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination Monday morning in North Charleston, S.C.
The senator, who has represented South Carolina in the Senate since 2013, portrays himself as a true conservative with a positive story to tell.
"We need a president who persuades not just our friends and our base," he told supporters in his hometown. "We have to have a compassion for people who don't agree with us. We have to believe that our ideas are so strong and so powerful and so persuasive that we can actually take it to the highest points in the world and be successful but we also have to be able to take it all the way down to places that today are hopeless and prove that who we are works for all Americans."
As for his own upbringing, being raised by a single mother, Scott says they found strength in faith and family and a determination to succeed — all things he accused Democrats of working to destroy.
"From the time the sun goes down until the sun comes up, Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb. And that's why I'm announcing today that I am running for president of the United States of America," he said.
In his 40-minute announcement speech, Scott highlighted his rise from poverty to prosperity and said that America is not a racist country. Scott is the only Black Republican senator in the U.S. Senate.
In defending the founding fathers of this country, Scott told his audience: "We need to stop cancelling our founding fathers and start celebrating them for the geniuses that they were. They weren't perfect, but they believed that we could become a more perfect union."
Despite his stature in the Senate, Scott enters this race with little name recognition nationally
In recent polling he ranks well back in the pack of current and potential candidates, earning support in the low single digits. In contrast, former President Donald Trump's support sometimes tops 40 or even 50 percent.
The first caucuses and primaries are still more than eight months away, so candidates looking to gain on Trump have some time. But in his announcement speech, Scott chose not to even mention Trump or any of his other rivals. He has said American's want to hear from a candidate who expresses a positive and optimistic view of America. Presumably that won't preclude launching political attacks, but there were no such broadsides Monday.
Scott also unveiled what will be one of the recurring applause lines in his campaign stump speech. With the focus for now squarely on Biden and the Democrats, he's not shy about entering into the culture war battles that have been so prominent in recent years.
"I will lead a revolution for excellence in our schools. Less C-R-T and more ABCs," adding a pitch for school choice for parents. "No child and no child should be forced to attend failing schools simply because they live in the wrong zip code."
He is the second South Carolina Republican to enter the race for the GOP nomination
Scott joins former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who declared her candidacy in February. It was Haley who just over a decade ago appointed him to the Senate to fill a vacancy. Both are very popular in their home state, which is a pivotal early voting state for both Republicans and Democrats. The South Carolina primary is the first in the South and often sets a candidate on a path for the nomination. Even so, an April poll by Winthrop University shows both Haley and Scott doing better than they do nationally, but even in South Carolina both still trail Trump by a wide margin.
Scott did pick up one key endorsement as he begins his campaign. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota — the No. 2 Republican in the chamber — is backing his friend and colleague. Thune also appeared at the kickoff rally in North Charleston.
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Florida families can save on school supplies this year through the sales tax holiday. Starting on Monday, July 24, through Sunday, Aug. 6, certain items are tax exempt.
A second back-to-school sales tax holiday will also take place on Jan. 1, 2024 through Jan. 14, 2023.
During the sales tax holiday period, tax is not due on the retail sale of the following items:
- Clothing, footwear, and certain accessories with a sales price of $100 or less per item.
- Certain school supplies with a sales price of $50 or less per item.
- Learning aids and jigsaw puzzles with a sales price of $30 or less.
- Personal computers and certain computer-related accessories with a sales price of $1,500 or less, when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use.
The sales tax holiday does not apply to:
- Any item of clothing with a sales price of more than $100.
- Any school supply item with a sales price of more than $50.
- Books that are not otherwise exempt.
- Computers and computer-related accessories with a sales price of more than $1,500.
- Computers and computer-related accessories purchased for commercial purposes.
- Rentals of any eligible item.
- Repairs or alterations of any eligible items.
- Sales of any eligible items within a theme park, entertainment complex, public lodging establishment or airport.
For more information and a list of qualifying items, please review the Department of Revenue's 2023 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday Tax Information Publication (TIP) as well as their Frequently Asked Questions for consumers and businesses.
Below, WLRN has compiled a list of organizations collecting items for school supply drives and places hosting giveaways.
School supply giveaways
Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins will host a back to school event. WHEN: Tuesday, July 25, beginning at 10 a.m.
WHERE: South Dade Park, 28151 SW 164th Avenue, Homestead, FL 33033.
Miami-Dade School Board Member Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall will distribute free bookbags, free food and gift cards.
WHEN: July 26, 2023, beginning at 9 a.m. till supplies last
WHERE: Charles Hadley Park, 1350 NW 50th Street, Miami, FL 33142
Miami-Dade County School Board Chair Mari Tere Rojas and Miami Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins (District 5), along with community leaders and local community partners, invite students and families to receive backpacks and supplies for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Supplies will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Silver Bluff Elementary School, 2609 SW 25th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board Member Mary Blanco is holding a Back to School Bookbag and Supplies Drive. Blanco and local community partners invite District 7 students and families to collect a free bookbag filled with necessary supplies for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Bookbags are available until supplies last and one bookbag is permitted per child. Children must be present with an adult.
WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., while supplies last
WHERE: William Lehman Elementary, 10990 SW 113 Place, Miami, FL 33176
The Children’s Trust Family Expo. Free backpacks and school supplies will be available. Ride-share vouchers are available to families near Kendall, Overtown and Miami Gardens. For more information, you can visit The Children’s Trust website here.
Central Family Expo
Saturday, July 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Booker T. Washington Senior High School
1200 NW 6th Ave, Miami, FL 33136
South Family Expo
Saturday, July 29, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus
11011 SW 104th St, Miami, FL 33176
North Family Expo
Saturday, August 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Florida Memorial University
15800 NW 42nd Ave, Miami Gardens, FL 33054
School supply drives
Unity Church of Delray Beach is collecting backpacks and school supplies for local children in need. Items may be brought in for donation on Sundays between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. through Aug. 3. They are to be placed in the baskets in the bookstore lobby at the south entrance to the church. Or come to the church office on the west side of the building during business hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, except 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., when the office is closed.
The church is located at 101 NW 22nd Street at Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach.
For more info, please call the church office at 561-276-5796. Or email unitychurch@unityschool.com.
Broward Education Foundation is holding its annual School Supply Drive, looking for items or monetary donations to help under-resourced children in Title I schools in Broward County. Donors can either drop off items at the Foundation's School Supply Center between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., located at 2300 West Copans Road, Bay #5, Pompano Beach, FL 33069, or can arrange for them to be picked up.
Those interested in hosting a supply drive for the campaign can call the center at 754-321-9020 or email mari-lee.baxter@browardschools.com.
The Kristi House Back to School Drive accepts monetary donations, gift cards and new school supplies for all ages. Drop off supplies and gift cards Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., at 1265 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
For more details, including how to host a drive, go to their website.
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(NewsNation) — Prices soared 9.1% in June as American consumers continue to face rising grocery bills and surging fuel costs. The latest consumer price hike announced Wednesday is the largest 12-month increase since 1981.
“This is much worse than anyone expected and there will have to be some aggressive action from the Federal Reserve to rein this in,” said NewsNation contributor Lydia Moynihan.
As bad as they are, the numbers are sure to leave many wondering: How can prices be up only 9.1%?
It’s because the core measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), represents the average change in prices across a variety of goods and services.
In some categories, such as fuel and groceries, prices have risen more than 9.1%. In others, like some electronics, prices are actually lower than at this time last year.
How do we know this? Each month, hundreds of government price checkers visit stores in 75 urban areas across the country and record the costs of specific items.
Those prices are collected from about 6,000 housing units and approximately 22,000 retail establishments, including department stores, supermarkets, hospitals and filling stations, among others.
So which prices are up the most? Here’s a breakdown:
Grocery Prices
Prices at the grocery store are up 12.2%, and depending on what you usually buy, your weekly bill may be even higher. Categories such as milk (up 16.4%) and eggs (up 33.1%) have risen faster than most food items.
One bit of good news: foods such as fresh fruits (up 7.3%) and vegetables (up 6.5%) have risen at slower rates than the average.
Energy Prices
Americans have likely noticed the biggest price hikes at the gas pump, where the cost of regular fuel has risen 61.1% in the last year. In some ways, it’s the most important indicator because the cost of fuel impacts the price of nearly everything you see at the store.
“Fuel costs are too high, diesel is too high. Everything that you buy gets to you in a truck,” said Melissa Armo, founder of The Stock Swoosh LLC.
Other Goods and Services
For the millions of Americans traveling this summer, the cost of lodging (up 11.5%) and airfare (34.1%) have soared well above the average for all goods and services.
Other industries that have been impacted by post-pandemic supply chain disruptions, like new cars (up 12.5%) and household furniture (up 15.4%), have seen prices rise faster than most.
Where Prices are Down
If you’re in the market for a new TV or smartphone, then you’re in luck, as prices have actually fallen in those categories, decreasing 12.7% and 20%, respectively. The same goes for sporting event tickets, which are down 6.1% from last year.
Inflation has continued to climb as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, making consumers increasingly anxious about a potential recession. A measure of consumer confidence has reached its lowest point in 16 months, with Americans’ outlook darkened by inflation fears, especially gas and food prices.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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DUST STORM ADVISORY
Dust Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
430 PM MST Fri Aug 12 2022
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Dust Advisory for...
Southwestern Yuma County in southwestern Arizona...
Southeastern Imperial County in southeastern California...
* Until 630 PM MST/630 PM PDT/.
* At 430 PM MST/430 PM PDT/, a wall of dust was along a line
extending from near Gadsden to Somerton to 7 miles south of Araby
to 16 miles south of Fortuna Foothills to 24 miles south of
Ligurta, moving north at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Less than two miles visibility with strong wind in excess
of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Doppler radar.
IMPACT...Hazardous travel.
* This includes the following highways...
AZ Interstate 8 between mile markers 1 and 23.
AZ Route 95 between mile markers 29 and 44.
Locations impacted include...
Yuma, Somerton, Gadsden, Fortuna Foothills, San Luis, Blaisdell,
Algodones Dunes, Kinter, Andrade, Ligurta, Winterhaven and Araby.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust brings reduced visibility, leading to dangerous driving
conditions. If driving, avoid blowing dust if possible. If caught in
dense blowing dust, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep
your foot off the brake.
Motorists should not drive into an area of blowing dust. PULL ASIDE
STAY ALIVE!
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Police reports for Feb. 8, 2023 Feb 8, 2023 3 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following are locations and nature of offense reports received from the Lawton Police Department:Drug possession, 2805 NW Lincoln.Larceny, 404 NW Columbia.Disorderly conduct, 501 NW Woodridge.Burglary, 2324 NW Lincoln.Burglary, No. 2 SW 3rd.Vandalism, burglary, 3401 W. Gore.Vandalism, 309 W. Gore. Compiled by Scott Rains: scott.rains@swoknews.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you Sign Up For Newsletters Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Obituaries Receive the most recent obituaries from The Lawton Constitution every Morning in you E-mail. Signup today! Headlines / e-Edition Would you like to receive our daily news from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Sports Headlines Would you like to receive our daily sports from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Breaking News Get the latest breaking news from The Lawton Constitution. Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 15-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to the shooting and killing of two men at a Woodbridge apartment last week.
On Sunday, May 15, shortly after 4 p.m., officers responded to the apartment complex located in the 13600 block of Mary’s Way in Woodbridge to investigate an incident involving destruction of property.
When police arrived, a resident of the complex told police that a bullet hole was found in his ceiling appearing to have come from the apartment above him.
A bullet fragment was found on the resident’s floor. Officers tried to make contact with the apartment where the gunshot was thought to have come from, but there was no answer.
Officers then requested maintenance to open the door. Upon their entry, officers found two men unresponsive with apparent gunshot wounds.
Rescue personnel confirmed both men to be dead. They were identified as 23-year-old Malik Xavier Davis and 23-year-old Christian Jamar Roberts.
According to police, there was no sign of forced entry into the apartment. There were also no additional injuries or other property damage reported.
Further investigation revealed that the victims and other acquaintances, including the 15-year-old suspect, had gathered inside the apartment. At one point during the encounter, guns were fired and both victims were shot.
Following the investigation, Prince William County Police arrested and charged the 15-year-old juvenile male on Thursday, May 19.
The suspect’s charges are as follows:
- Two counts of first-degree murder
- Attempted murder
- Use of a firearm in the commission of a felony
- Shooting into an occupied dwelling
- Possession of a firearm by a person under 18
The suspect is being held at the Prince William County Juvenile Detention Center.
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TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB, Corporate headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEO: Christopher A. Viehbacher, "Biogen") announced today that Eisai has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) for lecanemab (Brand Name in the U.S.: LEQEMBI™), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril antibody, for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease (mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild AD dementia) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This application is based on the results of the Phase III Clarity AD study and the Phase IIb clinical study (Study 201), which demonstrated that lecanemab treatment showed a reduction of clinical decline in early AD and is subject to a validation to determine whether the EMA accepts the application for review.
The Clarity AD study met its primary endpoint (CDR-SB1: Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes) and all key secondary endpoints with highly statistically significant results. The most common adverse events (>10%) in the lecanemab group were infusion reactions, ARIA-H (combined cerebral microhemorrhages, cerebral macrohemorrhages, and superficial siderosis), ARIA-E (edema/effusion), headache, and fall. In November 2022, the results of the Clarity AD study were presented at the 2022 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) conference, and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine, peer-reviewed medical journals.
In the U.S., lecanemab was granted accelerated approval as a treatment for AD by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 6, 2023. Eisai submitted a Supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the FDA for approval under the traditional pathway on the same day. In China, Eisai has initiated submission of data for BLA to the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China in December 2022. In Japan, Eisai plans to submit a marketing authorization application by the end of Eisai's fiscal year 2022, which ends March 31, 2023.
Eisai serves as the lead of lecanemab development and regulatory submissions globally with both Eisai and Biogen co-commercializing and co-promoting the product and Eisai having final decision-making authority.
1 CDR-SB is a numeric scale used to quantify the various severity of symptoms of dementia. Based on interviews of people living with AD and family/caregivers, qualified healthcare professionals assess cognitive and functional performance in six areas: memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care. The total score of the six areas is the score of CDR-SB, and CDR-SB is also used as an appropriate item for evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic drugs targeting the early stages of AD.
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1. INDICATION, DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, AND IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION IN THE U.S. INDICATION
LEQEMBI is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Treatment with LEQEMBI should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. There are no safety or effectiveness data on initiating treatment at earlier or later stages of the disease than were studied. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on reduction in amyloid beta plaques observed in patients treated with LEQEMBI. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities
LEQEMBI can cause amyloid related imaging abnormalities-edema (ARIA-E) and -hemosiderin deposition (ARIA-H). ARIA-E can be observed on MRI as brain edema or sulcal effusions, and ARIA-H as microhemorrhage and superficial siderosis. ARIA is usually asymptomatic, although serious and life-threatening events, including seizure and status epilepticus, rarely can occur. Reported symptoms associated with ARIA may include headache, confusion, visual changes, dizziness, nausea, and gait difficulty. Focal neurologic deficits may also occur. Symptoms associated with ARIA usually resolve over time.
ARIA Monitoring and Dose Management Guidelines
- Obtain recent (within one year) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to initiating treatment with LEQEMBI. Obtain an MRI prior to the 5th, 7th, and 14th infusions.
- Recommendations for dosing in patients with ARIA-E and ARIA-H depend on clinical symptoms and radiographic severity. Depending on ARIA severity, use clinical judgment in considering whether to continue dosing, temporarily discontinue treatment, or permanently discontinue LEQEMBI.
- Enhanced clinical vigilance for ARIA is recommended during the first 14 weeks of treatment with LEQEMBI. If a patient experiences symptoms suggestive of ARIA, clinical evaluation should be performed, including MRI if indicated. If ARIA is observed on MRI, careful clinical evaluation should be performed prior to continuing treatment.
- There is no experience in patients who continued dosing through symptomatic ARIA-E or through asymptomatic, but radiographically severe, ARIA-E. There is limited experience in patients who continued dosing through asymptomatic but radiographically mild to moderate ARIA-E. There are limited data in dosing patients who experienced recurrent ARIA-E.
Incidence of ARIA
- In Study 1 (Study 201), symptomatic ARIA occurred in 3% (5/161) of LEQEMBI-treated patients. Clinical symptoms associated with ARIA resolved in 80% of patients during the period of observation.
- Including asymptomatic cases, ARIA was observed in LEQEMBI: 12% (20/161); placebo: 5% (13/245). ARIA-E was observed in LEQEMBI: 10% (16/161); placebo: 1% (2/245). ARIA-H was observed in LEQEMBI: 6% (10/161); placebo: 5% (12/245). There was no increase in isolated ARIA-H for LEQEMBI compared to placebo.
- Intracerebral hemorrhage >1 cm in diameter was reported after one treatment in LEQEMBI: 1 patient; placebo: zero patients. Events of intracerebral hemorrhage, including fatal events, in patients taking LEQEMBI have also been reported in other studies.
Apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε4) Carrier Status and Risk of ARIA
- In Study 1, 6% (10/161) of patients in the LEQEMBI group were ApoE ε4 homozygotes, 24% (39/161) were heterozygotes, and 70% (112/161) were noncarriers.
- The incidence of ARIA was higher in ApoE ε4 homozygotes than in heterozygotes and noncarriers among patients treated with LEQEMBI. Of the 5 LEQEMBI-treated patients who had symptomatic ARIA, 4 were ApoE ε4 homozygotes, 2 of whom experienced severe symptoms. An increased incidence of symptomatic and overall ARIA in ApoE ε4 homozygotes compared to heterozygotes and noncarriers in LEQEMBI-treated patients has been reported in other studies.
- The recommendations on management of ARIA do not differ between ApoE ε4 carriers and noncarriers.
- Consider testing for ApoE ε4 status to inform the risk of developing ARIA when deciding to initiate treatment with LEQEMBI.
Radiographic Findings
- The majority of ARIA-E radiographic events occurred early in treatment (within the first 7 doses), although ARIA can occur at any time and patients can have more than 1 episode. The maximum radiographic severity of ARIA-E in patients treated with LEQEMBI was mild in 4% (7/161) of patients, moderate in 4% (7/161) of patients, and severe in 1% (2/161) of patients. Resolution on MRI occurred in 62% of ARIA-E patients by 12 weeks, 81% by 21 weeks, and 94% overall after detection. The maximum radiographic severity of ARIA-H microhemorrhage in patients treated with LEQEMBI was mild in 4% (7/161) of patients and severe in 1% (2/161) of patients; 1 of the 10 patients with ARIA-H had mild superficial siderosis.
Concomitant Antithrombotic Medication and Other Risk Factors for Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Patients were excluded from enrollment in Study 1 for baseline use of anticoagulant medications. Antiplatelet medications such as aspirin and clopidogrel were allowed. If anticoagulant medication was used because of intercurrent medical events that required treatment for ≤4 weeks, treatment with LEQEMBI was to be temporarily suspended.
- Most exposures to antithrombotic medications were to aspirin; few patients were exposed to other antiplatelet drugs or anticoagulants, limiting any meaningful conclusions about the risk of ARIA or intracerebral hemorrhage in patients taking other antiplatelet drugs or anticoagulants. Because intracerebral hemorrhages >1 cm in diameter have been observed in patients taking LEQEMBI, additional caution should be exercised when considering the administration of antithrombotics or a thrombolytic agent (e.g., tissue plasminogen activator) to a patient already being treated with LEQEMBI.
- Patients were excluded from enrollment in Study 1 for the following risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage: prior cerebral hemorrhage >1 cm in greatest diameter, more than 4 microhemorrhages, superficial siderosis, evidence of vasogenic edema, evidence of cerebral contusion, aneurysm, vascular malformation, infective lesions, multiple lacunar infarcts or stroke involving a major vascular territory, and severe small vessel or white matter disease. Caution should be exercised when considering the use of LEQEMBI in patients with these risk factors.
Infusion-Related Reactions
- Infusion-related reactions were observed in LEQEMBI: 20% (32/161); placebo: 3% (8/245), and the majority of cases in LEQEMBI-treated patients (88%, 28/32) occurred with the first infusion. All infusion-related reactions were mild (56%) or moderate (44%) in severity. Infusion-related reactions resulted in discontinuations in 2% (4/161) of patients treated with LEQEMBI. Symptoms of infusion-related reactions included fever and flu-like symptoms (chills, generalized aches, feeling shaky, and joint pain), nausea, vomiting, hypotension, hypertension, and oxygen desaturation.
- After the first infusion, 38% of LEQEMBI-treated patients had transient decreased lymphocyte counts to <0.9 x109/L compared to 2% on placebo, and 22% of LEQEMBI-treated patients had transient increased neutrophil counts to >7.9 x109/L compared to 1% on placebo.
- In the event of an infusion-related reaction, the infusion rate may be reduced, or the infusion may be discontinued, and appropriate therapy initiated as clinically indicated. Prophylactic treatment with antihistamines, acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or corticosteroids prior to future infusions may be considered.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
- In Study 1, 15% of LEQEMBI-treated patients, compared to 6% of placebo-treated patients, stopped study treatment because of an adverse reaction. The most common adverse reaction leading to discontinuation of LEQEMBI was infusion-related reactions that led to discontinuation in 2% (4/161) of patients treated with LEQEMBI compared to 1% (2/245) of patients on placebo.
- The most common adverse reactions reported in ≥5% of patients treated with LEQEMBI (N=161) and ≥2% higher than placebo (N=245) in Study 1 were infusion-related reactions (LEQEMBI: 20%; placebo: 3%), headache (LEQEMBI: 14%; placebo: 10%), ARIA-E (LEQEMBI: 10%; placebo: 1%), cough (LEQEMBI: 9%; placebo: 5%), and diarrhea (LEQEMBI: 8%; placebo: 5%).
Please see full Prescribing Information.
2. About Lecanemab
Lecanemab (Brand Name in the U.S.: LEQEMBI™) is the result of a strategic research alliance between Eisai and BioArctic. Lecanemab is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody directed against aggregated soluble (protofibril) and insoluble forms of amyloid-beta (Aβ). In the U.S., LEQEMBI was granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 6, 2023. LEQEMBI is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the U.S. Treatment with LEQEMBI should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. There are no safety or effectiveness data on initiating treatment at earlier or later stages of the disease than were studied. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on reduction in Aβ plaques observed in patients treated with LEQEMBI. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial.
Eisai has completed lecanemab subcutaneous bioavailability study, and subcutaneous dosing is currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD (Study 301) OLE.
Since July 2020 the Phase 3 clinical study (AHEAD 3-45) for individuals with preclinical AD, meaning they are clinically normal and have intermediate or elevated levels of amyloid in their brains, is ongoing. AHEAD 3-45 is conducted as a public-private partnership between the Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium that provides the infrastructure for academic clinical trials in AD and related dementias in the U.S, funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, Eisai and Biogen.
Since January 2022, the Tau NexGen clinical study for Dominantly Inherited AD (DIAD), that is conducted by Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is ongoing.
3. About Phase IIb (Study 201) study and Phase III Clarity AD study
Phase IIb clinical study (Study 201) was conducted as a double-blind, parallel-group, dose-finding study of lecanemab or placebo for 18 months in 856 people living with early AD. Lecanemab treatment resulted in a dose-dependent, longitudinal, and significant reduction in PET SUVR, which assesses amyloid-β accumulation in the brain, compared to placebo. At 18 months, ADCOMS2, CDR-SB, and ADAS-cog143 showed a dose-dependent reduction in clinical decline, with suppression rates of 29.7%, 26.5%, and 47.2% in the 10 mg/kg bi-weekly treatment, respectively. The study did not achieve its primary outcome measure4 at 12 months of treatment. The most common adverse events occurring in the 10 mg/kg biweekly group (incidence ≥ 5% and more frequent than in the placebo group) were infusion reactions (19.9%), headache (13.7%), ARIA-E (9.9%), cough (8.7%), diarrhea (8.1%), dizziness (7.5%), cerebral microhemorrhages (5.6%).
2 Developed by Eisai, ADCOMS combines items from the ADAS-Cog scale for assessing cognitive functions, MMSE and the CDR scale for evaluating the severity of dementia to enable highly sensitive detection of changes in clinical functions of early AD symptoms and changes in memory
3 ADAS-Cog is the most common cognitive assessment instrument used in AD clinical trials all over the world. ADAS-Cog14 consists of 14 competencies: word recall, commands, constructional praxis, object and finger naming, ideational praxis, orientation, word recognition, remembering word recognition instructions, comprehension of spoken language, word finding difficulty, spoken language ability, delayed word recall, number cancellation, and maze task. ADAS-Cog has been used in clinical trials for earlier stages of AD including MCI.
4 An 80% or higher estimated probability of demonstrating 25% or greater slowing in clinical decline at 12 months treatment measured by ADCOMS from baseline compared to placebo.
Phase III Clarity AD study was conducted as a placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, randomized study of lecanemab 10 mg/kg or placebo administered bi-weekly for 18 months in 1,795 people living with early AD. Mean change of CDR-SB from baseline at 18 months as the primary endpoint was 1.21 and 1.66 for lecanemab and placebo groups, respectively. Lecanemab treatment resulted in highly statistically significant results, reducing clinical decline on the global cognitive and functional scale, compared with placebo at 18 months by -0.45 (95% Confidence Interval (CI): -0.67, -0.23; P=0.00005), representing a 27% slowing of decline. Starting as early as six months (difference: -0.17 [95% CI: -0.29, -0.05]; P<0.01), and increasing in absolute difference over time across all time points every 3 months, the treatment showed highly statistically significant changes in CDR-SB from baseline compared to placebo (all p-values are less than 0.01). All key secondary endpoints, amyloid Positron Emission Tomography (PET) using Centiloids, ADAS-Cog14, ADCOMS and ADCS MCI-ADL5, also showed highly statistically significant results compared with placebo (P<0.001).
The most common adverse events (>10%) in the lecanemab group were infusion reactions (lecanemab: 26.4%; placebo: 7.4%), ARIA-H (combined cerebral microhemorrhages, cerebral macrohemorrhages, and superficial siderosis; lecanemab: 17.3%; placebo: 9.0%), ARIA-E (edema/effusion; lecanemab: 12.6%; placebo: 1.7%), headache (lecanemab: 11.1%; placebo: 8.1%), and fall (lecanemab: 10.4%; placebo: 9.6%). Infusion reactions were largely mild-to-moderate (grade 1-2: 96%) and occurred on the first dose (75%).
During the study period, deaths occurred in 0.7% and 0.8% of participants in the lecanemab and placebo groups, respectively and no deaths were related to lecanemab or occurred with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in 18-month double-blind study period. Serious adverse events were experienced by 14.0% of participants in the lecanemab group and 11.3% of participants in the placebo group. Treatment-emergent adverse events occurred in 88.9% and 81.9% of participants in the lecanemab and placebo groups, respectively. Treatment-emergent adverse events leading to drug withdrawal occurred in 6.9% and 2.9% of participants in the lecanemab and placebo groups, respectively.
Overall, lecanemab's ARIA incidence profile was within expectations based on the Phase 2 trial results. ARIA-E events were largely mild-to-moderate radiographically (91% of those who had ARIA-E), asymptomatic (78% of those who had ARIA-E), occurred within the first 3 months of treatment (71% of those who had ARIA-E) and resolved within 4 months of detection (81% of those who had ARIA-E). Among the 2.8% of lecanemab-treated subjects with symptomatic ARIA-E, the most commonly reported symptoms were headache, visual disturbance, and confusion. The incidence of symptomatic ARIA-H was 0.7% in the lecanemab group and 0.2% in the placebo group. No imbalance was observed in isolated ARIA-H (i.e., ARIA-H in participants who did not also experience ARIA-E) between lecanemab (8.9%) and placebo (7.8%).
5 ADCS MCI-ADL assesses the competence of patients with MCI in activities of daily living (ADLs), based on 24 questions to the patient's partner about actual recent activities of daily living.
4. About the Collaboration between Eisai and Biogen for AD
Eisai and Biogen have been collaborating on the joint development and commercialization of AD treatments since 2014. Eisai serves as the lead of lecanemab development and regulatory submissions globally with both companies co-commercializing and co-promoting the product and Eisai having final decision-making authority.
5. About the Collaboration between Eisai and BioArctic for AD
Since 2005, Eisai and BioArctic have had a long-term collaboration regarding the development and commercialization of AD treatments. Eisai obtained the global rights to study, develop, manufacture and market lecanemab for the treatment of AD pursuant to an agreement with BioArctic in December 2007. The development and commercialization agreement on the antibody lecanemab back-up was signed in May 2015.
6. About Eisai Co., Ltd.
Eisai's Corporate Concept is "to give first thought to patients and people in the daily living domain, and to increase the benefits that health care provides." Under this Concept (also known as human health care (hhc) Concept), we aim to effectively achieve social good in the form of relieving anxiety over health and reducing health disparities. With a global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to create and deliver innovative products to target diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of Neurology and Oncology.
In addition, we demonstrate our commitment to the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which is a target (3.3) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with working on various activities together with global partners.
For more information about Eisai, please visit www.eisai.com (for global headquarters: Eisai Co., Ltd.), and connect with us on Twitter @Eisai_SDGs.
7. About Biogen
As pioneers in neuroscience, Biogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological diseases as well as related therapeutic adjacencies. One of the world's first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 by Charles Weissmann, Heinz Schaller, Sir Kenneth Murray, and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp. Today, Biogen has a leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and developed the first approved treatment to address a defining pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Biogen is also commercializing biosimilars and focusing on advancing one of the industry's most diversified pipelines in neuroscience that will transform the standard of care for patients in several areas of high unmet need.
The company routinely posts information that may be important to investors on its website at www.biogen.com. Follow Biogen on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
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These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such statements, including without limitation unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis or results obtained during clinical studies, including the Clarity AD clinical trial and AHEAD 3-45 study; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs or delays; the risk of other unexpected hurdles; regulatory submissions may take longer or be more difficult to complete than expected; regulatory authorities may require additional information or further studies, or may fail or refuse to approve or may delay approval of Biogen's drug candidates, including lecanemab; actual timing and content of submissions to and decisions made by the regulatory authorities regarding lecanemab; uncertainty of success in the development and potential commercialization of lecanemab; failure to protect and enforce Biogen's data, intellectual property and other proprietary rights and uncertainties relating to intellectual property claims and challenges; product liability claims; third party collaboration risks; and the direct and indirect impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on Biogen's business, results of operations and financial condition. The foregoing sets forth many, but not all, of the factors that could cause actual results to differ from Biogen's expectations in any forward-looking statement. Investors should consider this cautionary statement as well as the risk factors identified in Biogen's most recent annual or quarterly report and in other reports Biogen has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on Biogen's current beliefs and expectations and speak only as of the date of this news release. Biogen does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Product maturity and increased options for leveraging serverless—through functions or serverless container products—is spurring adoption throughout all types of organizations and teams
NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today released the third edition of its The State of Serverless report, which is based on usage data from thousands of companies of all sizes and across all industries in Datadog's global customer base.
Datadog's research found that serverless technologies from all major cloud providers—AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—have continued to grow. Serverless is now seeing mainstream adoption with over 50 percent of customers operating in each cloud using these technologies. This growth is being driven by numerous factors, most important of which is a rapidly increasing trend toward running existing applications in serverless containers.
The report also found that the serverless usage growth trends are similarly robust across all major clouds. Google Cloud Run, GCP's serverless container product, is now being used by nearly 40 percent of Datadog customers operating in Google Cloud. This is a fourfold increase from January of 2020. Similarly, the percentage of Azure customers who are using Azure Container Instances has seen a 67 percent increase from 2020 to this year. This indicates the growing maturity of the serverless market and the value of technologies that can be used to deploy existing applications as containers while also taking advantage of serverless.
AWS Lambda users, too, are seeing the value of serverless containers. In Q1 of 2020, less than 12 percent of AWS Lambda users were leveraging its serverless containers product, ECS Fargate. Today, more than 20 percent of AWS Lambda users have adopted ECS Fargate. The percentage of AWS Lambda customers running ECS on EC2 has declined at a similar rate, showcasing that organizations are doubling down on serverless across different types of workloads.
"Serverless has long been promised as a way to scale quickly and simplify operations without having to worry about infrastructure management. Since our last report in 2021, serverless technology has become mainstream across our customer base," said Ilan Rabinovitch, Senior Vice President of Product and Community at Datadog. "Importantly, we are seeing serverless technologies being used in critical external- and internal-facing applications. This is in contrast to a couple of years ago when we first launched serverless monitoring and the usage was tilted toward R&D scenarios."
The State of Serverless report is available now. For the full results, please visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/. To learn more about Datadog's end-to-end Serverless Monitoring offering, visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/serverless-monitoring/.
About Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the second time in six months, the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is coming to New Mexico. Following a successful night in Rio Rancho in August, BKFC decided to bring Knuckle Mania 3, the biggest BKFC event yet, to Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque.
New Mexico has a history of producing world-champion athletes in various combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, and support from the community has been strong. BKFC has recognized that and wants to reward local athletes and fans by making Albuquerque a regular stop on the world tour.
“We’re certainly coming back here,” said BKFC president David Feldman. “I mean the fighters are great, the trainers are great to deal with, the fans loved it, the commission is amazing to deal with here. There’s nothing not to like about doing a BKFC event in New Mexico. We’re certainly going to make this one of our most prominent homes.”
“If they want to make this pretty much be their landing post, this is going to be it because there are going to be a lot of fans screaming, wishing that they could get in there and saying that they could do it,” fighter John Dodson said. “I’m going to be telling you guys, let’s knuckle up.”
Knuckle Mania 3 is scheduled for Friday, February 17, and tickets are selling fast. BKFC said they have already sold more seats than they did for the fight card in August.
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Federal push to put domestic violence offenders behind bars
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana wants domestic violence victims to seek federal charges.
Most domestic violence cases are handled on the local level and to take one federal a key item needs to be involved, a gun.
“Guns in a domestic violence incident increases the chance of death by 500%,” said Danyette Smith, the director of Domestic Violence Prevention at the Indy Public Safety Foundation.
How often do domestic violence situations include guns?
“Quite often. I don’t have an exact number, but there are a majority of the cases that include guns,” Smith said.
The US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Indiana explained to I-Team 8 when a domestic violence case involving a gun rises to a federal level.
“We’re going to look at their prior convictions. We’re going to look at their history of abuse and we’re going to do an assessment of how much of a risk of gun violence does this person pose. And we’re going to prioritize the people who we think are the highest risk,” U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers said.
Domestic violence is just the jumping-off point for the crime easiest to prosecute, the illegal possession of a gun.
“It lets us prosecute the firearm crime and sort of remove the need to be retraumatized by talking about the abuse you’ve suffered on the stand at trial,” Myers said.
When they get a conviction, “federal sentences can be more severe at times. There’s no parole in the federal system and people serve 85% of their time,” Myers said.
Smith says a focus on taking cases federally will have a direct impact on survivors’ ability to set up a new life.
“In regular jail when someone’s locked up for domestic violence they have so many hours and they can get out. Well, we know that with the Federal courts, it’s not that easy, so that alone can give a survivor some time,” Smith said.
Myers told I-Team 8 that local law enforcement, in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, is the one who forwards cases to them for federal prosecution.
If you’re a survivor of domestic violence and a gun was involved, make sure to tell the police so they can forward the case to federal prosecutors.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Biden later this year, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday. Details of when and where are still under discussion, he added.
The announcement comes a day before Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to visit Washington to meet with Biden and address Congress.
It also follows months of tensions between the U.S. and Israel over Netanyahu's far-right proposals to overhaul the country's judicial system. Netanyahu's supporters say liberal courts have too much power over government decisions. Opponents say the moves would endanger Israel's system of checks and balances.
Biden had not extended an invitation to Netanyahu since his election last fall. In March, after widespread protests in Israel, Netanyahu agreed to put a pause on efforts to change how Israel appoints judges to the Supreme Court. Biden told reporters at the time he was "very concerned" about Netanyahu's proposal, sparking a back-and-forth between the two nations.
Netanyahu is now moving forward with those judicial efforts, and Kirby said that in a phone call on Monday, Biden reiterated "the need for the broadest possible consensus, and that shared democratic values have always been and must remain a hallmark of the U.S.-Israel relationship."
The White House said Biden also emphasized the strong relationship between the countries; the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem said the two leaders had a "long and warm conversation."
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP)Grant Nelson led North Dakota State with 23 points and Tajavis Miller sealed the victory with a layup with 15 seconds left as the Bison knocked off South Dakota 70-68 on Sunday in the quarterfinals of the Summit League Tournament.
Nelson added 11 rebounds for the Bison (15-16 Summit League). Boden Skunberg scored 17 points and added five rebounds. Miller shot 4 for 8, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.
A.J. Plitzuweit led the way for the Coyotes (12-19) with 17 points. Kruz Perrott-Hunt added 16 points and six assists for South Dakota. In addition, Tasos Kamateros finished with 11 points and 12 rebounds. The loss was the Coyotes’ sixth in a row.
Nelson scored 13 points in the first half for North Dakota State, who led 33-25 at halftime. Miller put up 12 points in the second half for North Dakota State, including their game-winning shot in the final minute.
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New additions to the Skypod system bring Exotec one step closer to becoming an end-to-end provider for automated warehousing solutions.
ATLANTA, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Exotec, a global warehouse robotics provider, expands its product portfolio with three innovative solutions: a new conveyor system, an improved picking solution, and new proprietary warehouse software.
As inflation, economic headwinds, and labor shortages continue to place mounting pressure on supply chains, businesses around the world are looking for ways to address their immediate needs while also positioning themselves for an unpredictable future. Increasingly, this means doing more with less.
To help meet these needs, Exotec is releasing a new conveyor system, updated robotic picking solution, and proprietary warehouse software that all perfectly integrate with the Skypod system. Each of these new solutions leverages Exotec's signature modular design allowing customers to meet their dynamic business needs by easily adding new solutions to their existing systems. The new products bring Exotec closer to its vision of warehouses where people work smarter, not harder, through robotics.
Exotec customers who use the Skypod system can also take advantage of the following:
- Skypath is a modular conveyor system that can reach a maximum throughput of 2,500 totes per hour. The modular design consists of straight, curved, and inclined building blocks that fit most logistic needs and layouts and can easily adapt to customer needs.
- Skypicker is an intelligent picking solution for modern warehouses. It features machine learning-based vision that automatically detects each item's dimensions to intelligently place items in preparation containers in a way that optimizes for the available space and smooth package handling. Improvements to the system allow the Skypicker to reliably reach outputs of up to 600 items per hour.
- Deepsky is an end-to-end warehouse software that seamlessly integrates Exotec technology with most warehouse management and control systems as well as third-party automation equipment. It automatically collects data and feeds it into pre-configured dashboards for immediate visibility and optimizes for consistent performance.
"With these innovations, we are further enabling our customers to run efficient, scalable, and modular warehouses that flex to fit their unique needs," says Exotec CEO and Co-founder Romain Moulin. "Our work with more than 30 industry-leading brands provides us with a unique perspective on the most pressing warehousing needs and allows us to continuously innovate to unlock even more value for our customers."
To learn more about Exotec's innovations or to connect with a sales representative, please visit: www.exotec.com.
About Exotec
Exotec builds elegant goods-to-person warehouse robotic solutions for the world's largest brands. The company combines the best of hardware and software to offer flexible warehouse systems that drive operational efficiency, add resiliency, and improve working conditions for warehouse operators. 30+ industry-leading brands including Carrefour, Decathlon, Gap, and Uniqlo trust Exotec to improve their operations and profitably navigate rapid shifts in business models and customer expectations. Learn more at Exotec.com.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Online retail giant Amazon could be held responsible for breaching luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin’s trademark rights over the sale of counterfeit red soled high-heeled shoes on its platform, the European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday.
Third-party sellers on Amazon regularly advertise red-soled stilettos that are not made by Louboutin. The French designer brought cases against the company in Belgium and Luxembourg in 2019, arguing that he did not give his consent for these products to be put on the market.
Louboutin shoes’ red outer sole, for which they are known, is registered as an EU and Benelux trademark.
The EU’s top court said that users could mistakenly think that Amazon itself is selling shoes on behalf of Louboutin, noting that it may be the case when, for instance, Amazon displays its own logo on the third-party sellers’ ads, and when it stores and ships the shoes in question.
“These circumstances may indeed make a clear distinction difficult, and give the impression to the normally informed and reasonably attentive user that it is Amazon that markets — in its own name and on its own behalf,” the court said.
The luxury house said the court’s decision is “a victory for the protection of its know-how and creativity.”
“It initiated these proceedings to obtain recognition of Amazon’s responsibility for the offering for sale of counterfeit products on its platforms by third parties. It also brought this case to encourage Amazon to play a more direct role in the fight against counterfeiting on its platforms,” Maison Louboutin said in a statement.
The EU court said it’s now up to the local jurisdictions in Belgium and Luxembourg to determine whether users on the online marketplace could have been under the impression that ads did not come from third-party sellers but from Amazon itself.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Fulgent Genetics, Inc. ("Fulgent" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FLGT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Fulgent investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 22, 2019 and August 4, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
FLGT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Fulgent had been conducting medically unnecessary laboratory testing, engaging in improper billing practices in relation to laboratory testing, and providing or receiving remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law; (ii) accordingly, Fulgent was likely to become subject to enhanced legal and regulatory scrutiny; (iii) Fulgent's revenues, to the extent they were derived from the foregoing unlawful conduct, were unsustainable; (iv) the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to subject the Company to significant financial and/or reputational harm; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Fulgent during the relevant time frame, you have until November 21, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Former MTV star Brandon “Bam” Margera has turned himself in after allegedly assaulting his brother and fleeing police into a wooded area, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Margera was arraigned on April 27 with bail set at $50,000. Margera is scheduled to return to court on May 25 for a preliminary hearing.
According to State Police, on Sunday, April 23 at 11 a.m., troopers from PSP Avondale Station responded to the 400 block of Hickory Hill Road in Pocopson Township, Chester County for a reported disturbance.
The Associated Press, citing court documents, said on Sunday that Margera’s brother, Jesse Margera, reported Bam had punched him in the eye, nose and ear after kicking his locked bedroom door.
Jesse Margera said he’d also found a threatening handwritten note signed “Bam,” a police affidavit said.
State Police stated that Margera then fled into a wooded area and had not been seen until his court appearance Thursday.
According to State Police, Margera was fingerprinted and photographed prior to his arraignment and bail being set.
Margera is facing four misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, one misdemeanor count of simple assault, and a summary harassment charge.
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An earlier report claiming Rod Taylor had won the election did not include the final vote count. Although the county clerk’s office released a report called the “final” count, there was additional time given for voters who had their ballots rejected to “cure” their ballots. This report is based on the certified final official totals report from the clerk’s office.
It is now official. In just a matter of weeks, Rod Taylor will be seated as the Position 3 commissioner for Coos County.
In the certified final results released by the Coos County clerk’s office, Taylor edged Melissa Cribbins by 150 votes to win the seat. Taylor received 14,616 votes, or 50.17%, while Cribbins received 14,446 votes, or 49.59%.
Cribbins, who has served 10 years at the Position 3 commission, will end her term December 31, and Taylor will take the seat during the new year.
In a Facebook post, Cribbins acknowledged the results and shared some accomplishments she was proud of during her time in office.
“I was first elected to the Coos County Commission in 2012 and took office in January of 2013,” Cribbins wrote. “It has been my honor to represent all of the citizens of Coos County for the last ten years. As I look back on my time in office, there have been some accomplishments that I am especially proud of::"
1. Increased county general fund revenues and decreased debt,
2. Closed the North Bend Annex and consolidated County operations in Coquille, saving taxpayers at least $50,000 per year,
3. Built 36 miles of mountain biking trails in the County forest using only competitive grant funding, and secured funds to improve the motorized trails,
4. Built a new public health and mental health building at no additional costs to taxpayers,
5. With the cities of Coos Bay and North Bend, secured $1,000,000 to address the homeless crisis in our area,
6. Testified in front of a congressional committee in Washington D.C. about the effects of environmental regulations on rural communities,
7. Took Coos County off the bankruptcy watch list and stabilized the county budget,
8. Testified on bills that would negatively impact Coos County in Salem, both as a County Commissioner and as the President of the Association of Oregon Counties,
9. Secured state and federal funding to work on the housing crisis and worked with the Association of Oregon Counties for legislation that will help struggling Oregon families with the difficulty in finding affordable, safe housing, and
10. Served on many boards, committees, and task forces, both locally, statewide, and nationally, to try to ensure that the voice of our Coos County citizens was heard in the places where decisions are made.
When Taylor takes office, he will be one of three newly elected officials assuming the top spot in county government.
Julie Brecke, who received more than 50% of the vote in a three-person primary in May, will be seated as county clerk. Brecke will replace Dede Murphy, who was appointed by commissioners to serve as clerk last year.
Gabriel Fabrizio will also move up and take over as Coos County sheriff in the new year. Fabrizio, a current captain in the sheriff’s office, easily be M.A. Kinnaird in the race for sheriff, winning with 72.4% of the vote. Fabrizio will replace Sheriff Craig Zanni, who chose not to run for re-election.
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Stars vs. Kraken NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 4: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
The Dallas Stars and Seattle Kraken meet in Game 4 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday, May 9, starting at 9:30 PM ET on ESPN, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Kraken lead the series 2-1. The Kraken are underdogs (+120) against the Stars (-145).
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Stars vs. Kraken Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
Stars vs. Kraken Total and Moneyline
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Stars vs Kraken Additional Info
Stars vs. Kraken Betting Trends
- In 46 games this season, Dallas and its opponent have combined for more than 5.5 goals.
- The Stars are 18-7 when favored on the moneyline this season.
- This season the Kraken have nine wins in the 22 games in which they've been an underdog.
- Dallas is 15-5 (winning 75.0% of its games) when it has played with moneyline odds of -145 or shorter.
- Seattle has gone 9-6 when oddsmakers have made them underdogs of +120 or longer on the moneyline.
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HAYWARD, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it will release second quarter financial results after market close on Thursday, August 11, 2022. AcelRx management will host a live webcast and conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time/1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on August 11, 2022 to discuss the financial results and provide an update on the Company's business.
Webcast Information
The webcast can be accessed by visiting the Investors section of the Company's website at www.acelrx.com and clicking on the webcast link on the Investors home page. The webcast will be accompanied by a slide presentation. A webcast replay will be available on the AcelRx website for 90 days following the call and webcast.
Conference Call Information
Investors who wish to participate in the conference call may do so by dialing 1-866-361-2335 for domestic callers, 1-855-669-9657 for Canadian callers, or 1-412-902-4204 for international callers. The conference ID is 10168540.
About AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for use in medically supervised settings. AcelRx's proprietary, non-invasive sublingual formulation technology delivers sufentanil with consistent pharmacokinetic profiles. The Company has one approved product in the U.S., DSUVIA® (sufentanil sublingual tablet, 30 mcg), known as DZUVEO® in Europe, indicated for the management of acute pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic for adult patients in certified medically supervised healthcare settings, and several product candidates. The product candidates include: Zalviso® (sufentanil sublingual tablet system, SST system, 15 mcg), an investigational product in the U.S. being developed as an innovatively designed patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) system for reduction of moderate-to-severe acute pain in medically supervised settings; two pre-filled, ready-to-use syringes of ephedrine and phenylephrine licensed for the U.S. from Aguettant; Niyad™, a regional anticoagulant for the extracorporeal circuit; and LTX-608, for the potential treatment of COVID-19, disseminated intravascular coagulation, acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute pancreatitis. DZUVEOis an approved product in Europe.
This release is intended for investors only. For additional information about AcelRx, please visit www.acelrx.com.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight.
Investigators will look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth Train, one of the killers identified in the wake of Monday’s deadly shootout, were found on conspiracy theory forums, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said late Tuesday. The posts include references to anti-vaccine sentiments and claims that other high-profile shootings were hoaxes or false-flag operations.
“It’s very difficult at the moment for us to reason with what has happened, there are no obvious reasons,” Carroll told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. But she added she had no doubt that over the coming days and weeks, police would come back with some insight into the tragic events that unfolded.
Research and surveys show belief in conspiracy theories is common and widespread. Believers are more likely to to get their information from social media than professional news organizations. The rise and fall of particular conspiracy theories are often linked to real-world events and social, economic or technological change.
Carroll said every possible motive for the killings was being examined, including whether it was a premeditated attack on the officers.
“Some of the stuff that’s online from these people, we will investigate what they have been doing not only in recent weeks but in recent years, who they’ve been interacting with,” she said.
Four officers arrived at the property in the town of Wieambilla, in Queensland state, to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, Carroll said, and it was a miracle that two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Those killed were Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old neighbor Alan Dare.
One of the officers that escaped, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, was recovering at a hospital Wednesday from shrapnel wounds. He said he and his wife wanted to thank everybody “from the Prime Minister down” for their messages of support.
“I’m feeling fine, just a little sore. My main thoughts are with the other police families at this awful time,” Kirk said in a statement released by the police union. “It means a lot to know the community cares for us all.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier told reporters in Sydney that the country mourned with those affected.
“This is, indeed, a devastating day for everyone who loved these Australians, and our hearts go out to those in the grip of terrible grief,” he said. “We know that this news has fallen hard on a close-knit and caring Queensland community. As well as, of course, the community to which all police officers belong.”
He said officers across the nation know the risks they face, yet do their duty.
“And today and every day I pay tribute to each and every one of the police officers who serve their local communities and who serve their nation,” Albanese said. “This is not a price that anyone who puts on the uniform should ever pay.”
In all, six people died in the violence Monday in Queensland state. The killers have been identified as former school principal Nathaniel Train, 47, his brother Gareth, 46, and sister-in-law Stacey, 45.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A small number of U.S. military forces inside Ukraine have recently begun doing onsite inspections to ensure that Ukrainian troops are properly accounting for the Western-provided weapons they receive, a senior U.S. defense official told Pentagon reporters Monday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide a military update, would not say where the inspections are taking place or how close to the battlefronts the U.S. troops are getting. The official said U.S. personnel can’t do inspections “close to the front lines,” but said they are going where security conditions allow.
The official said there have been several inspections, and they are being done by the U.S. Defense attache and the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation team that is in Kyiv. So far, the official said, Ukrainian officials have been transparent about the weapons’ distribution and are supporting the inspections.
The effort is part of a broader U.S. campaign, announced last week by the State Department, meant to make sure that weapons provided to Ukraine don’t end up in the hands of Russian troops, their proxies or other extremist groups.
Earlier this year, the U.S. said a small number of U.S. military troops had returned to the embassy in Kyiv to do security and other tasks. U.S. President Joe Biden has ruled out any combat role for U.S. forces inside Ukraine.
U.S. officials have faced persistent questions from some members of Congress over how the administration is accounting for the billions of dollars in arms that have been sent to Ukraine over the past year. But the administration had been reluctant to detail its work on that front due to concerns about the state of the conflict and fears it might tip off would-be smugglers to potential evasion techniques.
The State Department plan includes short-, medium- and longer-term initiatives to bolster U.S. and Ukrainian oversight of transferred weapons, particularly more advanced missile systems and anti-aircraft devices, as well as to improve Ukraine’s aviation and border security to combat the misuse of weapons and prevent possible arms trafficking.
The State Department said that so far Ukraine’s intense demand for weapons on the battlefield appears to be impeding black-market proliferation of small arms, portable air defense systems and anti-tank weapons such as Javelins. It said the main problem has been the seizure of weapons by Russian forces as they take ground, and warned that Moscow can use them to develop countermeasures or conduct false-flag operations.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to try to identify the bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended a criminal probe of the crash that killed 275 people.
Distraught relatives of passengers killed in the crash Friday lined up outside the eastern city’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Meanwhile, survivors being treated in hospitals said they are still trying to make sense of the horrific disaster.
Outside the hospital, two large screens cycled through photos of the bodies, the faces so bloodied and charred that they were hardly recognizable.
Each body had a number assigned to it, and relatives stood near the screen and watched as the photos changed, looking for details like clothing for clues.
Many of the people said they spent days on desperate journeys from neighboring states, traveling on multiple trains, buses or rented cars to identify and claim bodies, a process that stretched into a third day.
So far only 45 bodies have been identified, and 33 have been handed over to relatives, said Mayur Sooryavanshi, an administrator who was overseeing the identification process at the hospital in the capital of Odisha state, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the site of the train crash in Balasore.
“It’s the first time I have dealt with something like this,” said Dr. Utkal Keshari Suna, a senior resident at the Bhubaneshwar hospital. “It’s been a very difficult experience. I am in forensics, so I am used to dealing with dead bodies, but nothing like this,” he said, standing inside the mortuary, where the air was thick with the smell of the dead.
“It’s horrific. Time has also passed, so many bodies have started decomposing, so it’s becoming more and more difficult to identify them,” he said.
Upendra Ram began searching for his son, Retul Ram, on Sunday after traveling about 850 kilometers (520 miles) from neighboring Bihar state. The day-long journey in a rented car, which cost him 35,000 rupees ($423), was exhausting for Ram. Retul, 17, had been on his way to Chennai to find work, Ram said.
After spending hours looking at photographs of the dead, Ram identified his son around noon Monday.
“I just want to take the dead body and go back home. He was a very good son,” said Ram, adding that Retul had dropped out of school to earn money for the family.
“My wife and daughter can’t stop crying at home. They are asking me to bring the body back quickly,” he said, wiping tears from his eyes with a red scarf he had tied around his head.
Friday’s crash was one of the worst rail disasters in India’s history. Investigators said a signaling failure might have been the cause of the disaster, in which a passenger train hit a freight train, derailing on the tracks before being hit by another passenger train coming in the opposite direction on a parallel track.
The collision involved two passenger trains, the Coromandel Express traveling from Howrah in West Bengal state to Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, and the Yesvantpur-Howrah Superfast Express traveling from Bengaluru in Karnataka to Howrah, officials said.
At least 123 trains scheduled to pass through Odisha were either canceled or delayed after the accident. The disruption led air fares to Odisha to spike, prompting India’s civil aviation ministry to warn airlines over pricing surges.
Usman Ansari, who came from Bihar to collect the body of his brother-in-law, Kasim Mia, said he spent 24 hours on the road along with two friends. After reaching the site of the crash, they were told the bodies had been moved to Bhubaneswar.
They rented a car to drive to the hospital, where Ansari was finally able to identify and collect his brother-in-law’s body.
“Kasim used to say he wanted to do everything for his children,” he said, adding that compensation promised by the federal government would help take care of the man’s four young children.
Authorities recommended on Sunday that India’s Central Bureau of Investigations, which probes major criminal cases, open an investigation into the crash.
Some train traffic was restored Sunday evening on the tracks where the crash happened, after two days of repair work in which hundreds of workers with excavators removed the mangled debris of the trains.
The crash occurred as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is focusing on the modernization of India’s colonial-era railroad network.
The South Asian nation has one of the world’s most extensive and complicated railway systems with more than 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) of track, 14,000 passenger trains and 8,000 stations.
Spread across the country from the Himalayas in the north to tropical ports in the south, it has been weakened by decades of mismanagement and neglect. Despite efforts to improve safety, several hundred accidents happen every year.
Most train accidents are blamed on human error or outdated signaling equipment.
In August 1995, two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people in one of India’s worst-ever train accidents.
In 2016, a passenger train slid off the tracks between the cities of Indore and Patna, killing 146 people.
More than 22 million people ride trains across India every day.
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Saaliq reported from New Delhi.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy travel industry press releases from PR Newswire, including new culinary experiences from Celebrity Cruises and REI's new travel offerings.
NEW YORK, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the travel industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- Celebrity Cruises Unveils New Flavors and Culinary Experiences Onboard its Upcoming Ship, Celebrity Ascent
The fourth vessel in the line's revolutionary Edge Series, Ascent, will delight travelers with redesigned restaurants, a new immersive dinner experience, expanded food and cocktail menus, a new whiskey tasting experience, and a plant-based multi-course dinner. - REI Co-op expands multiday travel offerings with return to Canada and new U.S. destinations
"Whether someone joins us for an afternoon paddle in a metro area or on a backcountry camping trip under the stars, the benefits of time outside are undeniable. The best part is that we take care of all the details," said Mark Seidl, divisional vice president of REI Experiences. - Boeing Announces Scholarships for Pilot Training
Boeing is investing $950,000 in scholarships for pilot training to grow and diversify talent required to meet significant long-term demand for commercial airplane pilots. - U.S. News Announces the 2023-2024 Best Travel Rewards Programs
U.S. News analyzed travel rewards programs in two categories: Best Hotel Rewards Programs and Best Airline Rewards Programs. The rankings consider highly coveted factors by travelers, including the ease of earning free flights or stays, property and flight availability, and additional benefits such as complimentary checked bags, discounted room rates and elite member perks. - JW Marriott Dallas Arts District Debuts in Thriving Arts District
Located within walkable blocks from the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Crow Museum of Asian Art, Meyerson Symphony Center, Moody Performance Hall, and the Winspear Opera House, the first JW Marriott hotel in Dallas is in one of the best cultural epicenters in the South. - United Becomes First U.S. Airline to Add Braille to Aircraft Cabin Interiors
In addition to adding Braille, United is working with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and other disability advocacy groups to explore the use of other tactile navigational aids throughout the cabin such as raised letters, numbers, and arrows. - Gaylord Hotels' Iconic ICE! Event Returns for 2023 Christmas Season
More than 2 million pounds of ice at each of the brand's five resorts transform into colorful, larger-than-life, story-driven holiday showplaces featuring characters and scenes from beloved Christmas classics. It is all part of the brand's So. Much. Christmas. extravaganza, featuring dozens of holiday activities, entertainment, unique dining experiences, and more. - Choice Hotels International Releases First "Choice Privileges State of the American Traveler Survey" in Partnership with Harris Poll, Uncovering How People Want to Travel This Summer and Beyond
The survey finds consumers are prioritizing experiences and exploring the U.S. and want to spend less than $200/night on lodging. - Holland America Line Launches Onboard Credit Offer for AARP Members
AARP members can book a Holland America Line cruise using their travel advisor or directly with the cruise line to receive the onboard credit that can be put toward shore excursions, spa services, beverages, specialty dining, gift shop purchases, and more. - Jerry Seinfeld, the Longest Running Headliner in Caesars Palace History, Returns for Six Performances in 2024 at The Colosseum
Tickets will go on sale to the public Friday, July 28 at 10 a.m. PT. There are also limited tickets still available for Seinfeld's final performances in 2023 on Friday, July 28 and Saturday, July 29.
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Can't-Miss Earnings
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APDS (activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) syndrome) is a rare and progressive primary immunodeficiency
Joenja® is a targeted treatment of APDS for adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older
Joenja® is expected to launch in the US in early April
Pharming will host a conference call for investors and analysts on March 27 at 14:00 CEST/08:00 EST
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharming Group N.V. ("Pharming" or "the Company") (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM/Nasdaq: PHAR) announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Joenja® (leniolisib) for the treatment of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) syndrome (APDS) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older. Joenja®, an oral, selective PI3Kδ inhibitor, is the first and only treatment approved in the US for APDS, a rare and progressive primary immunodeficiency. The FDA evaluated the Joenja® application for APDS under Priority Review, which is granted to therapies that have the potential to provide significant improvements in the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of serious conditions. Joenja® is expected to launch in the US in early April and will be available for shipment in mid-April.
Dr. Eveline Wu, MD, MSCR, Division Chief, Paediatric Rheumatology & Associate Professor of Paediatric Rheumatology and Allergy/Immunology at The University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said:
"The FDA approval of Joenja® is an exciting moment for the APDS community and offers to transform the treatment pathway for patients and families affected by this rare disease. This approval means that they will, for the first time, have access to an approved treatment, which has the potential to change the standard of care for the patient population suffering from APDS."
Vicki Modell, co-founder of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation, an international, non-profit, organization dedicated to helping individuals and family members affected by primary immunodeficiency disorders, commented:
"The approval of Pharming's Joenja® is an important step toward making a difference in the lives of individuals living with APDS who experience severe, life-altering and progressive symptoms. The FDA approval of a treatment option for one of the more than 450 primary immunodeficiencies is also a key moment for the broader primary immunodeficiency community. The Jeffrey Modell Foundation's mission of hope, advocacy and action is dedicated to early diagnosis, genetic sequencing, treatments and ultimately, future cures for primary immunodeficiencies."
Sijmen de Vries, Chief Executive Officer of Pharming, commented:
"This FDA approval of Joenja® is an important milestone for people living with APDS who will now have access to the first approved treatment option specifically for this debilitating disease. Until now, management of APDS has relied on the treatment of the diverse symptoms associated with APDS. We are grateful to the patients, caregivers, and physicians who participated in the clinical trials who have made today's approval a reality. I would also like to thank the Pharming and the Novartis teams who have supported the development of Joenja® and can, therefore, be justifiably proud of this FDA approval. Today also marks a landmark event for Pharming and demonstrates our commitment to transforming the lives of patients who suffer from rare diseases. The approval and near-term launch of Joenja®, our second commercial product, brings us closer to our goal of becoming a leading global rare disease company dedicated to patient communities with unmet medical needs."
APDS is a rare primary immunodeficiency that was first characterized in 2013 and is currently estimated to affect 1 to 2 people per million. It is caused by genetic variants in either one of two identified genes, known as PIK3CD or PIK3R1, which are vital to the normal development and function of immune cells in the body. While people with APDS may suffer from a wide variety of symptoms, the most common are frequent and severe infections of the ears, sinuses, and upper and lower respiratory tracts. Infections usually begin in infancy. People with APDS are susceptible to swollen lymph nodes or an enlarged spleen (splenomegaly), as well as autoimmunity and inflammatory symptoms. People with APDS may also be at higher risk for cancers like lymphoma.
The FDA evaluated the New Drug Application (NDA) for Joenja® under priority review and has approved the drug based on findings from a multinational, triple-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized Phase II/III clinical trial, which evaluated efficacy and safety in 31 patients diagnosed with APDS aged 12 years and older. Also submitted as part of the application were data from a long-term, open-label extension clinical trial in which 38 patients received Joenja® for a median of two years.
Results from the 12-week randomized, placebo-controlled study in 31 patients with APDS aged 12 years and older demonstrated clinical efficacy of Joenja® 70mg twice daily over placebo, and was significant in the co-primary endpoints which evaluated improvement in lymphoproliferation as measured by the reduction in lymph node size and increase in naïve B cells, reflecting the impact on immune dysregulation and normalization of immunophenotype in these patients, respectively. The adjusted mean change (95% CI) between Joenja® and placebo for lymph node size was -0.25 (–0.38,-0.12; P=0.0006; N=26) and for percentage of naïve B cells was 37.30 (24.06, 50.54; P=0.0002; N=13). The most common adverse reactions in the clinical trial (incidence >10%) were headache, sinusitis, and atopic dermatitis.
With the approval of Joenja®, as a treatment for a rare pediatric disease, the FDA granted Pharming a priority review voucher ("PRV"). Pursuant to the terms of Pharming's 2019 exclusive license agreement with Novartis for leniolisib, Novartis has the right to purchase the PRV from Pharming for a small minority share of the value of the PRV. Pursuant to the agreement, Pharming will make milestone payments to Novartis and another party for the approval and first commercial sale for APDS totaling $10.5 million and we agreed to make certain additional milestone payments to Novartis in an aggregate amount of up to $190 million upon the achievement of certain leniolisib sales milestones. We also agreed to make tiered royalty payments to Novartis, calculated as low double-digit to high-teen double-digit percentage of net sales of leniolisib.
For more information regarding APDS, please visit AllAboutAPDS.com. Pharming, in collaboration with Invitae Corporation, facilitates access to no charge genetic testing and counseling in the US and Canada through NavigateAPDS.com. For more information regarding Pharming and their dedication to the rare disease community, please visit www.Pharming.com.
The Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for leniolisib with the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) is currently under review. Pharming expects that CHMP will issue its opinion on the MAA in the second half of 2023.
US Important Safety Information for Joenja® (leniolisib)
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Joenja® (leniolisib) is a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) syndrome (APDS) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Verify pregnancy status in females of reproductive potential prior to initiating treatment with Joenja®.
Joenja® may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Advise patients of the potential risk to a fetus and to use highly effective methods of contraception during treatment with Joenja® and for 1 week after the last dose of Joenja®.
Live, attenuated vaccinations may be less effective if administered during Joenja® treatment.
Use of Joenja® in patients with moderate to severe hepatic impairment is not recommended. There is no recommended dosage for patients weighing less than 45 kg.
The most common adverse reactions (incidence >10%) seen in clinical trials were headache, sinusitis, and atopic dermatitis.
Seven (33%) patients receiving Joenja® developed an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) between 500 and 1500 cells/microL. No patients developed an ANC <500 cells/microL and there were no reports of infection associated with neutropenia.
About Activated Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase δ Syndrome (APDS)
APDS is a rare primary immunodeficiency that was first characterized in 2013. APDS is caused by variants in either one of two identified genes known as PIK3CD or PIK3R1, which are vital to the development and function of immune cells in the body. Variants of these genes lead to hyperactivity of the PI3Kδ (phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta) pathway, which causes immune cells to fail to mature and function properly, leading to immunodeficiency and dysregulation.1,2,3 APDS is characterized by a variety of symptoms, including severe, recurrent sinopulmonary infections, lymphoproliferation, autoimmunity, and enteropathy.4,5 Because these symptoms can be associated with a variety of conditions, including other primary immunodeficiencies, it has been reported that people with APDS are frequently misdiagnosed and suffer a median 7-year diagnostic delay.6 As APDS is a progressive disease, this delay may lead to an accumulation of damage over time, including permanent lung damage and lymphoma.4-7 A definitive diagnosis can be made through genetic testing. APDS affects approximately 1 to 2 people per million worldwide.
About Joenja® (leniolisib)
Joenja® (leniolisib) is an oral small molecule phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kẟ) inhibitor approved in the US as the first and only targeted treatment of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) syndrome (APDS) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older. Joenja® inhibits the production of phosphatidylinositol-3-4-5-trisphosphate, which serves as an important cellular messenger and regulates a multitude of cell functions such as proliferation, differentiation, cytokine production, cell survival, angiogenesis, and metabolism. Results from a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase II/III clinical trial demonstrated clinical efficacy of Joenja® in the co-primary endpoints; demonstrating statistically significant impact on immune dysregulation and normalization of immunophenotype within these patients, and interim open label extension data has supported the safety and tolerability of long-term Joenja® administration.8 Leniolisib is currently under regulatory review by the European Medicines Agency, with plans to pursue further regulatory approvals in the UK, Canada, Australia and Japan. Leniolisib is also being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial in children aged 4 to 11 with APDS, with a further trial planned in children aged 1 to 6 years with APDS. For information about Joenja®, visit: Joenja.com
About Pharming Group N.V.
Pharming Group N.V. (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM/Nasdaq: PHAR) is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare, debilitating, and life-threatening diseases. Pharming is commercializing and developing an innovative portfolio of protein replacement therapies and precision medicines, including small molecules, biologics, and gene therapies that are in early to late-stage development. Pharming is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands, and has employees around the globe who serve patients in over 30 markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
For more information, visit www.pharming.com and find us on LinkedIn.
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South Utah Avenue road closure
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - The gas line work on S Utah Avenue has been extended due to unforeseen issues. Intermountain Gas will temporarily close the roadway on Monday, July 24. Motorists should expect detours and traffic delays.
S Utah Avenue will be closed from its intersection with Pancheri Drive north to Pioneer Road. Access to all area businesses will remain open.
The roadway will be reopened Monday evening, barring more unforeseen issues.
Intermountain Gas began replacing the gas line with a larger capacity line and relocating it under the Pancheri Bridge earlier this summer to accommodate development in the area. The work was momentarily paused during the Independence Day holiday so the roadway could be reopened to accommodate high traffic volumes during the busy holiday.
Please reduce speeds, obey posted traffic control signage, and watch for construction crews throughout the work zone.
For questions or concerns about this project, contact Intermountain Gas at 1-800-548-3679.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s first major war of the internet age has also sparked a war of technology as both sides vie for the advantage with their drones and satellite communications.
While the two sides have kept pace with one another thus far, Ukraine’s minister in charge of technology told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that he was confident his country had the motivation and abilities to out-innovate Russia in the end.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, said unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, electronic warfare, satellite communications and other technologies had been a fundamental part of the war with Russia that began more than a year ago.
“Technologies allow traditional and modern artillery to be more accurate, and they help save the lives of our soldiers,” he said.
“When you have ‘eyes’ over you, you can make more effective decisions about managing your troops.”
He acknowledged that Russia was also aware of the importance of technology on the battlefield, and was actively developing and improving its own.
“Every day, there are new UAVs on the battlefield from our side and from Russia’s side,” Fedorov said. “We see what kind of drones they have. We receive, disassemble and study them.”
He said the government was planning investments in new technology projects to encourage further competition and innovation.
“In this technology war we will surely win,” he said. “Even if fewer than 50-60% of supported projects will give some result, it can be decisive on the battlefield.”
In recent weeks, anticipation of a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive this spring has risen. Fedorov said it was impossible to imagine any efficient operations without technologies on the battlefield.
Ukraine has not mounted a major operation to liberate occupied territories since it retook the city of Kherson and part of the surrounding province last November. However, the frequency of reported drone attacks in Russia has increased.
Over the past months, a spate of drone strikes has targeted areas in southern and western Russia, reflecting the growing reach of the Ukrainian military. After each strike, Russian authorities blamed Ukraine, but Ukrainian official stopped short of openly claiming responsibility. Instead, they emphasized the right to attack any target in response to the Russian aggression.
Fedorov said the effect of Ukraine’s drone warfare could be seen in Russia’s actions, noting that Russia has now started moving armored equipment further from the front line.
“There have been certain events that have changed the situation, but we continue to scale this useful experience,” he said, but refused to be drawn on the details.
Commenting on the battle for the city of Bakhmut, the longest of the war so far, Fedorov said that the “use of technologies is invaluable in such situations.”
“When you have limited artillery resources, weapons, ammunition, and strike drones, you need to be as accurate as possible,” he said. This accuracy can be achieved in particular by drones.
However, with a front line thousands of kilometers long, the heavy weapons and armored equipment traditional for warfare remained essential, Fedorov said. Technology could help Ukraine locate potential targets, but the army could not hit them all because it lacked the necessary artillery and ammunition, he added.
The delivery of promised aid from partner countries remained “critical,” said the minister in charge of technologies.
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Gay couple says man screamed at them and their children on train trip
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - A couple is speaking out after a verbal attack on a train.
The couple said not only were they attacked for being a couple, the man also screamed at their children.
What was supposed to be a fun family trip turned into a nightmare last Tuesday afternoon for Robbie Pierce, his husband Neal Broverman and their children.
The couple was hours into an Amtrak train journey from Los Angeles to the Bay Area when suddenly another passenger came up to the couple and began screaming at their children.
“The first thing he said was, ‘Remember what I told you. Marriage is between a man and a woman, and these people stole you. They’re not your parents, they’re pedophiles,’” Pierce said.
The couple said they were both shocked and horrified.
Broverman said he immediately jumped up to separate the raging man from his kids.
“When you’re a parent and your family or kids feel threatened, or you feel that they’re threatened, you become kind of fearless,” he said.
Unaware if the man had some type of weapon, Pierce said he took his children to a different train car. The kids, he said, were visibly shaken.
“They were both just sobbing, just tears all down their faces, and my son was kind of just frozen. My daughter was yelling, ‘Why is this happening?’” Pierce said.
When the train stopped in San Jose, Amtrak employees told the unidentified man that he had to leave.
It was a request he refused, until Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies were called in for backup.
“He had been yelling, ‘I’ll die before I get off this train. You’ll have to kill me to get me out of here,’” Pierce said.
The couple said while this isn’t the first time they’ve experienced discrimination in public, this instance was the most extreme.
“These children have already had so much trauma. Like, they’ve been through the foster system,” Pierce said.
Despite the attack, the couple said they’re determined to keep living their lives as normal, speaking out for those who can’t always speak out for themselves.
“They want us to be afraid. And so, as scary as it is, we can’t let that win. We’re just not going to let them drive us out of the public discourse,” Pierce said.
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New Joslin Field screening device hopes to improve travelers’ experiences
The machine takes visual slices through the bag at multiple angles using CT technology
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — While it may be a behind-the-scenes process, it used to take a whole lot longer for checked luggage to be screened at the Twin Falls Regional Airport. That is, until Friday.
“We have the latest and greatest screening technology for checked baggage installed here, which is good news for our officers because they no longer have to open every single bag,” said Andrew Coose, the federal security director for the T.S.A.
The new process allows for bags to go through a CT scanner, allowing officers to see every part of the bag at once.
“They can now be assured that their bags will be screened to the highest possible security levels,” said Coose.
How does it work? The machine takes visual slices through the bag at multiple angles using CT technology.
The images are then run through an algorithm that identifies densities of potentially dangerous items, such as explosives. If something in a bag is identified, the bag is stopped and all other bags continue through the conveyor belt without incident.
“This type of technology is just going to make for more efficiencies. Bags will flow quicker, we’ll get them out to the plane,” said Bill Carberry, the airport manager at TWF.
Carberry says that, as the area continues to grow, an increasing need for more efficient technology will present itself. “It’s really going to help us and our passengers long term,” he said.
How is the airport paying for it? A federal program through the Department of Homeland Security. “They wanted to make sure that this technology was available at airports from all the way to the size of JFK and Los Angeles, down to Twin Falls,” said Coose.
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Venezuelan comedian Angelo Colina is on a mission to make Spanish-language material mainstream in the U.S. comedy scene. In the past, Latinx comedians with non-English routines have largely been relegated to restaurants, bars and other spaces where Spanish already dominates. But Colina, 28, is part of a new generation of performers working to change that, one show at a time.
Standup comedy has long wrestled with American identity, and Black, Asian and Latinx comedians have remixed conversations about race and representation with an edge. Some of the nation's biggest names in standup comedy – Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Gabriel Iglesias and Cristela Alonzo — come from Chicano or Mexican-American backgrounds. But the most popular American routines are almost exclusively performed and commercially successful in English.
On a recent Sunday evening, a young, diverse audience filed into a Washington, D.C., club called Room 808 to see Gente Funny (People Funny) – the Spanish-language circuit Colina recently created. During his set, Colina asked people in the audience where they're from. A young guy sitting in the back raised his hand. "I'm from Bolivia, my friend's Cuban!"
"Bolivia y Cuba?" Colina replied in Spanish.
"I'm white as f***k," the Cuban friend said in English.
"No, you're not," Colina smirked. "Pero a los cubanos les encanta pensar que lo son." (But Cubans love thinking that they are)
The crowd erupted into laughter, as Colina continued to shake his head.
In interactions like these, Colina's performances poke and prod at the construction of Latinx and Hispanic identity in the United States, without subtitles. Framing and satirizing that identity is inevitably complicated because it encompasses such a wide range of races, countries, languages and cultural backgrounds. Spanish itself is an colonial language imposed throughout Latin America, where people still speak a variety of indigenous languages. But Colina says for Latinx performers, it can still feel like their identities need to check a certain box or rely on particular tropes.
"But I'm not only an immigrant, and I'm not only Venezuelan, and I'm not only a guy with an accent," he says.
Hispanic people comprise the biggest minority population in the country and Spanish is the most widely spoken non-English language in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau. But Colina says even as more films, TV shows and standup routines incorporate Spanish into their dialogue, it can often feel like the language is used as a decorative and superficial device.
"Because it's a café con leche or it's a chancla, and we're just so much more than that," he explains. "Our voices are different, and we speak differently, and we have a different sense of humor."
Coming to America
Colina first realized his sense of humor could lead to a career when he was studying filmmaking in Venezuela. A professor told him he was bad at writing dramas but good at making people laugh, so he began writing sketches and jokes. He left his hometown of Maracaibo to move to Bogota, Colombia for two years before eventually immigrating to the U.S. in 2018. It was while he was living in Utah that he performed standup for the first time: a three-minute set in English. Language barriers – and mistranslations – became central to his story.
"My mom doesn't speak English, and my entire set was talking to [her] about stuff I did in her bedroom with girls," he says. "She was just clapping, and everyone in the room was dying laughing because they knew she didn't know. And she was just happy to see me doing well."
Colina kept performing and sharing clips of his sets online, and he eventually connected with Venezuelan comedian Andrés Sereno, who invited him to do his first Spanish set in New York City. It went so well that Colina moved to the city not long after. But when they didn't find many opportunities to perform Spanish routines in clubs, he and Sereno created their own circuit called Español Please. Those shows are designed to connect first, second and third generation Latinos — and also dig into the experience of being bicultural and bilingual. It led to an invitation for the group to be part of the 2021 New York Comedy Festival.
By performing in Spanish, Colina says he didn't have to change his voice or justify how he sounds. First with Español Please and now with Gente Funny, he's providing a stage for other Latinx comedians to also share their material in Spanish.
Latinx representation pushes forward
"I think for a long time, there was this perception that in order to be a Latino comedian, you needed to be a comedian that fit the paradigm of what a Latino was for people that weren't," says Venezuelan American comedian and TV writer Joanna Hausmann, who's been making bilingual content for more than 10 years. "I really think there was this sense for a while that bilingual comedy was just not mainstream and there wasn't enough of an audience," says Hausmann.
But the rise of YouTube and social media video uploads changed everything, says Hausmann. Latinx-focused, bilingual content was no longer seen as niche. Soon, her own sketches and rants about immigration, identity and culture were drawing hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
On the larger pop culture stage, there's also the Bad Bunny phenomenon: a Puerto Rican singer who refused to "crossover" and make music in English for the larger pop market and still became one of the most acclaimed and successful superstars in the world. Colina and Hausmann both say there's a palpable new enthusiasm for Spanish as the main language of expression, from both inside and outside the culture. Cuban Dominican comedian Marcello Hernandez brought jokes in Spanglish to Saturday Night Live, and the second season of Los Espookys, from Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres and Fred Armisen, just received a Peabody Award.
The shift in the pop culture politics of Spanish is happening as the demographic makeup of Latino communities in the U.S. is also changing. From 2010 to 2019, Venezuelans, Guatemalans and Hondurans became the fastest-growing groups within the Hispanic demographic category. That shift is diversifying what Latinx communities look like, how they express themselves and how they connect with one another.
For Colina, with both his circuits and his solo headliner tour, "Little Alone" (a purposeful mistranslation of the word "solito"), the point is to foster a space where almost everyone in the audience speaks and understands English but is choosing to speak Spanish and tell jokes from that distinct point of view, with its specific sense of humor. As non-Spanish speakers find their way, Colina's attempts at translating the set into English becomes a punchline — one where only the bilingual members of the audience are in on the joke.
"I think that's our biggest flex as immigrants and as bilinguals," Colina says. "We get to decide how to dictate [the conversation] now."
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Three Olympic medals were stolen from a home in Southern California, authorities said.
According to Orange County Sheriff's Office, the medals were being stored inside a safe that was stolen from a home in Laguna Hills.
The medals belonged to a member of the U.S. Women's volleyball team, the sheriff's office said. The name of the volleyball player was not released.
The medals included a gold medal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a silver from the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze from the 2016 Rio Games.
"Orange County Sheriff’s investigators are following all leads to identify the suspect(s) responsible for the burglary," the sheriff's office stated.
No arrests have been made.
According to CNN, the gold medal from Tokyo is made from gold-plated pure silver. It reportedly only contains about 6 grams of gold.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict on multiple grounds, including an apparent case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors.
In court papers filed Monday, Depp’s lawyers dispute arguments from Heard’s team that the jury’s verdict was nonsensical and unfounded. They also say that the Heard team’s complaints about the juror’s identity are irrelevant.
Last month, a civil jury in Fairfax awarded $10.35 million to Depp after they found he was defamed by Heard when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence.
The jury also awarded $2 million to Heard on her counterclaim that she was defamed by one of Depp’s attorneys after he called her allegations a hoax.
Heard’s lawyers filed motions earlier this month asking the judge to toss out the verdicts on a variety of legal theories.
On Monday, Depp’s lawyers filed their response. They argue that there was nothing inconsistent in the fact that the jury awarded judgments in favor of both Depp and Heard. They said the jury verdict form allowed jurors to be very specific about which statements were libelous, and that the verdict makes sense when you look at the specific statements cited by the jury.
As for the confusion over the juror’s identity, Depp’s lawyers say it’s too late for Heard’s team to object. According to court papers, a summons went out to a 77-year-old man. But the man who responded in his place was his 52-year-old son, who has the same name and lives at the same address.
Depp’s lawyers argue that if Heard’s team had concerns, they should have spoken up at the time because it was apparent that the man who served was not 77 years old, even though court paperwork described him as such.
Judge Penney Azcarate has not yet indicated if she plans to hold a hearing to hear arguments on the motions to set aside the verdict.
The verdict in Depp’s favor in Virginia came about two years after a similar trial in the United Kingdom in which Depp sued a British tabloid after he was described as a “wife beater.” The judge in that case ruled in the newspaper’s favor in 2020 after finding that Heard was telling the truth in her descriptions of abuse.
Jurors in the Virginia case were not told that the judge in the British case had ruled against Depp.
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed sale of IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA) to Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE: RBA). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of IAA will receive only $10.00 in cash and 0.5804 shares of Ritchie for each share of IAA that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the consideration undervalues the Company.
If you believe that this transaction undervalues the Company and/or if you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-iaa/ to learn more.
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When Kathleen Aukstikalnis was expecting her first baby, she turned to a common prenatal test that a lot of her friends had gotten done during their pregnancies.
The simple blood test looks at DNA that's floating freely in a pregnant person's bloodstream. It searches for bits released by cells in the placenta, which should have the same genetic make-up as the fetus.
Over the last decade, this kind of genetic test has become the go-to method for screening pregnancies for chromosomal abnormalities like Down syndrome, and it's reduced the number of invasive amniocentesis procedures dramatically. Aukstikalnis hoped the test would provide peace of mind, and was also excited that the test would reveal her baby's sex.
"That's really all that I was expecting," she says. "I didn't know that you could find out something about yourself from it."
But she did find out something about herself. In fact, this test sent her on a medical odyssey, one that shows the promise – and challenges – of blood tests that can potentially zero in on DNA released by cancer cells.
A cancer moonshot
An expectant mother's bloodstream doesn't just contain bits of free-floating DNA associated with the fetus. It's also chock full of DNA released by her own cells. And if some of those cells are malignant, that can affect the test results – acting as a kind of unasked-for cancer screening.
A blood test that can screen for multiple cancers at once by looking at DNA has been something that researchers have been working towards for years. It's currently a major focus of President Biden's Cancer Moonshot research initiative.
"Imagine a simple blood test during an annual physical that could detect cancer early, when the chances of a cure are best," Biden said recently, adding that the National Cancer Institute is planning a large clinical trial to explore this approach.
One such cancer screening test is even commercially available – but no medical association recommends this kind of testing and no such tests have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
That's because although there's some data suggesting that certain blood tests that target free DNA might be very good at detecting cancer, there's no definitive studies showing that using them for screening will actually improve people's health outcomes, says Lori Minasian, deputy director for the division of cancer prevention at the National Cancer Institute.
"Do we really understand that in all of these different cancers at the earliest stages, they're releasing this DNA in a way that is reproducible, that we can measure and understand that it's early or late?" asks Minasian. "There's so much we don't know about this. We need to do the trials so we can get the information."
'I wasn't thinking about myself'
In the meantime, pregnant people like Aukstikalnis can be blindsided by information that they never expected as they seek out a test that they thought would just tell them something about the pregnancy.
After she'd gotten blood drawn and sent it off for testing of the free-floating DNA in her blood, a nurse called and said there'd been some kind of error and the test hadn't produced reportable results. So Aukstikalnis went in and had her blood drawn again.
"It ended up being the same kind of scenario," she says.
Her nurse-midwife said she'd never had a patient who got this kind of inconclusive result, and recommended a consultation with a genetic counselor to figure out what might be going on.
"I wasn't thinking anything about myself, really, at all," recalls Aukstikalnis. "I was more worried about the baby."
She and her husband, Andrew, talked with the counselor, who told her that the oddities seen in her blood sample were so rare, no one knew for sure what might be causing them. Physicians had observed, though, that pregnant people who got these kinds of test results sometimes later were diagnosed with benign or malignant tumors.
"So that was really difficult to wrap my head around," says Aukstikalnis.
A genetic needle in a DNA haystack
Doctors already have some experience with looking for the DNA of cancer cells in the blood, because they occasionally do so for patients who are known to have advanced cancer. In those cases, these tests help to make decisions about how to best treat these patients.
It isn't hard to detect malignant DNA in these patients, because their bodies usually have a lot of cancerous cells that are shedding DNA, explains Colin Pritchard, professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Washington.
But catching cancers early with a blood test? That's another story.
"Early detection is so much harder. It's really a beast," says Pritchard, adding that trying to spot DNA released into the blood by a small number of cancerous cells is a needle-in-the-haystack problem.
To him, it seemed like an unlikely way to screen for cancer. But recent technological advances have made him reconsider.
"I went from being a huge skeptic," says Pritchard, "to being like, 'Well, okay, this is a viable approach and this could work.'"
The trouble is, "we don't know who should be tested," he adds. "How old should you be? Should you only be tested if you have a family history of cancer?"
And if the screening test indicates the possible presence of a malignancy, what kind of follow-up testing needs to be done? Insurance companies may balk at paying for expensive tests to hunt for cancers that might not even exist, based on the results of a new-fangled screening strategy that hasn't been proven cost-effective.
All this uncertainty is what hit Aukstikalnis and her spouse when they spoke with the genetic counselor. The counselor suggested that they might consider enrolling in a clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health that was seeking people who had gotten these ambiguous test results when seeking information about their pregnancies.
The trial, called IDENTIFY, was designed to figure out the full range of what these results might mean, so that doctors in the future would have a better sense of what to tell their patients.
Each participant in the trial would get an all-expense-paid trip to the NIH's clinical center, the biggest research hospital in the world, for a wide array of diagnostic tests including a full-body MRI scan, which is safe to do during pregnancy.
"It was kind of like a no-brainer for me that we were going to go with NIH and see what they could find out about it," says Aukstikalnis, "and go from there."
What to do with these results
Not everyone facing that choice made that decision. After all, most of the people getting these inconclusive prenatal test results are young, apparently healthy, and pregnant, notes Amy Turriff, a genetic counselor at the NIH.
"I think to the average person, if you have cancer, you don't feel well, you have some lump, bump, some sort of scary symptom," says Turriff, "and that's just not the experience of the people being referred to us."
Some people have declined to participate in the study because they've gotten the idea from their doctor, or even a cancer specialist, that the test results most likely don't mean anything.
Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, says that she and her colleagues faced that kind of skepticism when they started the IDENTIFY study.
"Everyone thought we were a little bit crazy in the beginning," recalls Bianchi, who says the general attitude was that "there's no way these healthy women are going to have cancer."
But that's not what their trial's results suggest so far, says Bianchi, who hopes to publish interim findings from the study, which is still enrolling participants, in 2024.
"Of the ones who have been enrolled and have had the full workup, over half of them do have a tumor," says Bianchi. "So this is not a trivial finding. Our take home message is, this really needs to be taken seriously."
The researchers have found a variety of malignancies. "What we've found most commonly is lymphoma. But we found extremely rare cancers as well, like 1-in-a-million type of cancers," says Bianchi. One woman had a cancerous mass in her abdomen the size of a grapefruit.
These findings are similar to those of a new study out of the Netherlands, which followed up 48 pregnant women who had suspicious results from one of the cell-free DNA prenatal tests. Eighteen of the women turned out to have malignancies, most often lymphomas.
An overwhelming experience
When Aukstikalnis and her spouse went to the NIH clinical center in July of 2021, to get their slew of tests, they hadn't expected to hear the results right away. And she still didn't really think the tests would find that she was sick.
But at the end of the day, a team of doctors sat them down and said that it looked like she likely had lymphoma. The news came as a shock.
"Hearing that news that you have cancer, it's hard to describe. It's just such, like, an overwhelming experience," she says. "And then you're also pregnant at the same time. Your emotions are kind of all over the place. It was definitely really difficult."
The NIH team helped get her set up with caregivers in her home state, and a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.
She started chemotherapy even before her baby was born--something that can be done completely safely--and got a lot of help from family and friends, plus online support communities for pregnant women with cancer such as Hope for Two.
In November of last year, her family welcomed a baby girl named McKenna.
"Everything went really smoothly with delivery and she was perfectly normal, she is perfectly healthy," says Aukstikalnis. "That was always something I was nervous about, was it the right decision to get treatment while I was pregnant, you know, could it still end up causing issues? And it didn't. She is doing really well."
Unfortunately, even though Aukstikalnis had what appeared to be a clear scan after the first-line treatment that often puts people in remission, a subsequent scan showed that the lymphoma had likely returned.
She ultimately underwent a stem cell transplant this autumn that required a 26-day hospital stay, during which she wasn't able to see her husband or daughter except over twice-daily video chats.
Now that she's finally home with her family, she's trying to take it easy while her immune system slowly recovers.
"It's like being a newborn baby, all over again," she says. "It's going to take a long time, but I've made it this far, so I know that we can get there."
She hopes that her participation in the IDENTIFY study will help other women who face uncertain test results that might mean cancer.
"I'm incredibly grateful that I found out when I did and then found out I could get treatment at an early stage," she says. "Even though things have been really difficult, I would also say there have been a lot of positive experiences. It really shifted my focus to the things that matter most."
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Philadelphia Phillies (4-9, fourth in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (5-7, fourth in the NL Central)
Cincinnati; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Taijuan Walker (0-0); Reds: Connor Overton (0-0)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Phillies -149, Reds +127; over/under is 9 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies aim to stop a three-game slide with a win against the Cincinnati Reds.
Cincinnati has a 4-2 record in home games and a 5-7 record overall. The Reds are 2-1 in games when they hit two or more home runs.
Philadelphia has a 4-9 record overall and a 1-6 record in road games. The Phillies are 2-1 in games when they scored at least five runs.
Friday's game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.
TOP PERFORMERS:
LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 4-6, .000 batting average, 4.91 ERA, outscored by five runs
Phillies: 4-6, .000 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored by one run
INJURIES: Reds: Joey Votto: 10-Day IL (bicep/shoulder), Tony Santillan: 15-Day IL (back), Justin Dunn: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tejay Antone: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lucas Sims: 15-Day IL (back), Luke Weaver: 15-Day IL (forearm), Vladimir Gutierrez: 60-Day IL (elbow)
Phillies: Darick Hall: 10-Day IL (thumb), Noah Song: 15-Day IL (back), Cristopher Sanchez: 15-Day IL (left tricep), Bryce Harper: 10-Day IL (elbow), Rafael Marchan: 60-Day IL (hand), Nick Nelson: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Ranger Suarez: 15-Day IL (elbow), Rhys Hoskins: 60-Day IL (acl)
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LAPD arrested 122 people in connection with follow-home robberies in past year
The crime trend involves suspects following their victims home from restaurants or shopping malls and robbing them, police said.
A task force created by the Los Angeles Police Department to address the follow-home robbery crime trend plaguing the region has made 122 arrests, authorities said Thursday.
The LAPD's Follow Home Task Force (FHTF), which consists of 16 detectives, identified 328 of the robberies from November 2021 through Dec. 1. The arrests included five for murder, nine for attempted murder, 88 for robbery, and various other charges.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office added gun enhancements to the violent armed robberies. Within a year, police say they've seen a 77% decrease in follow-home robberies, the LAPD said.
LOS ANGELES FOLLOW-HOME ROBBERY SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON DAYS EARLIER
"Last year in November, prior to the FHTF, there were a total of 39 incidents," authorities said. "In addition, during the last quarter of 2021 there were 91 incidents. This past quarter, there have been 33 incidents, which is a 64% reduction."
Follow-home robberies became a crime trend in 2021. A suspect or group of suspects typically follow a victim home or to a secluded area from somewhere else and rob them of their expensive watches or jewelry.
Most of the robberies occurred within the Hollywood or Wilshire areas of Los Angeles.
One suspect, Matthew Adams, 18, allegedly attacked two University of California, Los Angeles students outside a residence, robbing them of two expensive watches and an iPhone totaling over $145,000, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.
In another robbery, a pair of armed follow-home robbers were caught on video beating and pistol-whipping a victim outside his downtown Los Angeles home. The victim was driving his Lamborghini home from dinner in Hollywood just before the incident.
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In April, the LAPD said it had identified at least 17 gangs that staged robberies using spotters to target victims wearing high-end watches or driving expensive cars.
In December, there has been one reported follow-home robbery in Los Angeles, the LAPD said.
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The 79-year-old Antonio Inoki was well-known for his bout against boxing legend Muhammad Ali and ties to North Korea.
Antonio Inoki, known for his outsized chin and trademark tie and red scarf worn throughout the year, won a seat in the upper house of Japan's parliament in 1989
Antonio Inoki, a Japanese professional wrestling star turned politician, died on Saturday, aged 79, according to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a company he founded.
Inoki was well-known for his bout against boxing legend Muhammad Ali as well as for his ties to North Korea.
"New Japan Pro-Wrestling is deeply saddened at the passing of our founder, Antonio Inoki," the company said on Twitter.
According to the Japanese public broadcaster NHK, he died of heart failure.
Atsushi Onita, another pro wrestler turned politician, paid his tribute on Twitter saying, "Thank you, Inoki-san. The supreme father of pro wrestling."
The flamboyant Inoki made global headlines in 1976 for his mixed martial arts match against Ali — called "the bout of the century."
Inoki, known for his outsized chin and trademark tie and red scarf worn throughout the year, won a seat in the upper house of Japan's parliament in 1989.
The following year he traveled to Iraq during the Gulf War and negotiated the release of Japanese hostages.
The former wrestler also built close personal ties to North Korea and traveled there many times to resolve the issue of the Japanese citizens kidnapped during the Cold War by the reclusive nation.
In 1995, he organized a wrestling extravaganza in Pyongyang for more than 100,000 spectators. Japanese officials dismissed his trips as Tokyo had banned travel to North Korea.
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Percentages: FG .448, FT .738.
3-Point Goals: 6-17, .353 (Harding 2-2, Smith 2-6, Augustin 1-2, Harris 1-2, Nelson 0-1, Rasas 0-1, Gambrell 0-3).
Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 5 (Augustin, Harris, Rasas, Rutty, Smith).
Turnovers: 14 (Nelson 4, Douglas 3, Rasas 3, Rutty 3, Smith).
Steals: 11 (Nelson 3, Rasas 3, Augustin 2, Smith 2, Douglas).
Technical Fouls: None.
Percentages: FG .368, FT .769.
3-Point Goals: 4-23, .174 (Henry 2-10, Granger 1-1, Mortle 1-3, Carter 0-1, Farooq 0-1, Walker 0-1, Barnes 0-6).
Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 2 (Farooq, Walker).
Turnovers: 18 (Barnes 4, Farooq 3, Mortle 3, Walker 3, Henry 2, Nicholas 2, Craig).
Steals: 4 (Mortle 3, Walker).
Technical Fouls: None.
A_7,371 (8,100).
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‘Hocus Pocus 2′ is one week away
Published: Sep. 22, 2022 at 10:18 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(Gray News) - We’re just about one week away from the release of “Hocus Pocus 2.”
The highly anticipated sequel begins streaming on Disney+ on Sept. 30, just in time for Halloween season.
In the original 1993 cult classic, three witch sisters were woken up from a 300-year sleep in Salem, Massachusetts, by the lighting of the black flame candle.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy return in the sequel as the Sanderson sisters, brought back again when two young girls light the candle.
Grab your friends next weekend and get ready to kick off spooky season!
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NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s asset transfers and other operations will be supervised by an independent monitor, a Manhattan judge ruled Thursday, while the judge presides over an upcoming trial in a $250 million lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general that could cripple the company’s operations.
New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled in favor of a request by Attorney General Letitia James to impose supervisory conditions on former president Donald Trump’s international real estate, golf and hospitality firm, which is based in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Under Engoron’s ruling, the company and the Trump family are barred from transferring or selling assets without giving two weeks’ notice to the court. The company must also pay for the monitor, whom Engoron will approve, and that person will oversee attempts to transfer assets and will screen any future reports of Trump’s net worth to financial and insurance institutions.
“This court finds that the appointment of an independent monitor is the most prudent and narrowly tailored mechanism to ensure there is no further fraud or illegality … pending the final disposition of this action,” the judge wrote.
Trump, as well as three of his adult children who have been executives at the company, were sued by James for their alleged misrepresentation of the value of Trump’s personal wealth. Tactics, according to the lawsuit, included toying with the value of properties and ground leases and presenting them to banks, lenders and insurance companies in annually prepared Statements of Financial Condition.
James said in a recent court filing that since the lawsuit was filed in late September, the company has “continued using practices they knew to be improper or fraudulent.”
Trump lawyer Chris Kise said in a statement that the corporate officials involved in transactions “were fully capable of negotiating complex agreements.”
The court order “effectively seizes control of the financial affairs of a highly successful private corporate empire based on nothing more than gross exaggeration of standard valuation differences common in complex commercial real estate financing transactions,” Kise said.
Attorneys with the attorney general’s office said Trump registered a new corporate entity called Trump Organization II, incorporated in Delaware, on the same day the lawsuit was announced — Sept. 21. Investigators think it was an attempt to skirt possible future restrictions on the Trump Organization’s business activities that the attorney general is seeking as relief in the case.
In an Oct. 13 filing, Assistant Attorney General Kevin Wallace argued that the Trump Organization “now appears to be taking steps to restructure its business to avoid existing responsibilities under New York law.”
The monitor must supervise the company’s preparation of any financial condition reports that are used in the future to satisfy requirements with lenders. Many large loans require updated financial reports to maintain the terms of a deal. The Trump Organization owes one to Deutsche Bank for its outstanding Trump International Chicago loan, according to the attorney general.
The Trump Organization is on trial in a separate criminal case in Manhattan over an alleged 15-year tax fraud scheme involving compensation to high-ranking managers such as luxury cars and pricey apartments. In that proceeding, the organization’s longtime comptroller Jeffrey McConney had begun testifying this week but the trial was paused until Monday after McConney tested positive for the coronavirus.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting the compensation case, is also still investigating whether to bring a criminal case against Trump for the allegedly fraudulent asset valuation practices.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Damien Martinez ran for 137 yards and two touchdowns in No. 25 Oregon State's 31-7 win over Arizona State on Saturday.
The Beavers (8-3, 5-3 Pac-12) won for just the second time at ASU since 1972; they were 1-19 on the road against the Sun Devils going into the game.
The Sun Devils (3-8, 2-6) played their final home game of the season, falling to 2-6 under interim coach Shaun Aguano, who replaced Herm Edwards on Sept. 20.
The Beavers dominated, especially in the second half. They had 28 first downs to Arizona State's 13.
Oregon State quarterback Ben Gulbrandson threw a touchdown pass and was 15 of 21 for 188 yards passing. His 8-yard touchdown run on a quarterback draw on third-and goal made it 28-7 Oregon State with 10 seconds left in the third quarter.
Arizona State went 67 yards in seven plays, keyed by Xazavian Valladay’s 39-yard run. Valladay ran 11 yards 1:53 to play in the first half to make it 7-7. Valladay finished with 109 yards in 13 carries.
But Gulbrandson connected with tight end Jack Velling for a 21-yard touchdown with 1:06 to go in the first half to put Oregon State ahead 14-7. The 75-yard drive took 45 seconds and four plays, two of them to a wide-open Velling.
Martinez ran for a 12-yard touchdown to cap a 10-play drive to start the second half for Oregon State.
Gulbranson has thrown for 1,005 yards and eight TDs with one interception and two rushing touchdowns since replacing injured starter Chance Nolan (neck) for the Beavers’ last six games.
Trent Bourguet, who came out of last week’s loss at Washington State with a leg injury, started for the Sun Devils and was 20 of 32 for 122 yards. He ran eight times for 26 yards.
THE TAKEAWAY
Oregon State: The Beavers, already bowl-eligible, won as a ranked team for the first time since 2012. They'll likely stay in the poll for next week’s rivalry game in Corvallis.
Arizona State: One game left, then the search for a new coach likely begins.
UP NEXT
Oregon State: Hosts No. 12 Oregon on Saturday.
Arizona State: Plays at Arizona on Friday.
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LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – A hazardous material found on the playground at a park in Massachusetts Sunday has been identified as muriatic acid.
After two children reported having burn-like injuries, crews were called to the park in Longmeadow. They found a “suspicious substance” on three slides at the playground, the fire department said.
During the investigation, it was discovered that the pump room in the basement of the pool building had been broken into. Two of the fences were climbed over and a ventilation shaft was torn off. The suspects had gotten into the pool room through the ventilation shaft, investigators said.
The pool room contained the acidic chemicals that were poured onto the slides.
Muriatic acid is a diluted solution of hydrochloric acid. New England Disposal Technologies, a hazardous product collection center, describes muriatic acid as a “powerful and dangerous cleaner.”
“Extremely corrosive, this cleaning product should be the last you reach for,” the group said.
Hydrochloric acid can cause severe chemical burns when it comes in contact with skin, or blindness if it gets in your eyes. The vapors let off by the acid can also be dangerous or even fatal to inhale.
“It’s very concerning. … It’s a playground. Kids are there. We play baseball games, there’s a little Mr. Potato Head over there, so it’s kids all around there. It’s scary,” said Longmeadow parent Mike Wing.
The person or people responsible have not been identified, but officials believe the suspects would have acid burns on their hands and arms, and their clothing might be damaged from the contact with the chemical.
A specialty contractor will clean the play space and other materials, the town said. The playground area remained fenced off Sunday out of caution.
The Longmeadow Police Department asks witnesses to contact the department’s tip line at 413-565-4199. They’re also asking people who live in the area to check their security cameras for anything suspicious.
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SHANGRAO, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that it plans to release its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before the open of U.S. markets on Friday, August 26, 2022.
JinkoSolar's management will host an earnings conference call on Friday, August 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Beijing / Hong Kong the same day).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin and provide the passcode to join the call.
A telephone replay of the call will be available 2 hours after the conclusion of the conference call through 23:59 U.S. Eastern Time, September 2, 2022. The dial-in details for the replay are as follows:
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of JinkoSolar's website at http://www.jinkosolar.com.
About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 40.0 GW for mono wafers, 40.0 GW for solar cells, and 50.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2022.
JinkoSolar has 12 productions facilities globally, 21 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, UAE, and Denmark, and global sales teams in mainland China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, as of March 31, 2022.
To find out more, please see: www.jinkosolar.com
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WHITESTOWN, Ind. — A missing 27-year-old father from Indianapolis and his three young children were possibly seen Sunday night at a Cracker Barrel in Whitestown, Indiana according to law enforcement officials.
Kyle Moorman was reported missing Sunday afternoon by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, who said that the 27-year-old and three children under 6 years old had last been seen on Wednesday in a 2009 black 4-door Saab. Law enforcement are now tracking a lead that the family may have been in Whitestown on Sunday night.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday that an employee at the Cracker Barrel on Crane Drive in Whitestown thought she recognized the missing persons. A sheriff’s deputy went and reviewed video from the restaurant and “believe they found persons matching the descriptions in video from that evening.”
The only other information included by the Boone County Sheriff’s Office was that all information and recordings were turned over to the IMPD Missing Persons unit. IMPD will now review the video.
The three children reported missing along with Moorman were Kyle Moorman II, 5, Kyannah Holland, 2, and Kyran Holland, 1, pictured below. For a full description of the missing children and father, click here.
According to the members of his family, Moorman took the kids, all pictured below, fishing on Wednesday. The family had been searching along the White River in downtown Indianapolis, an area they said is one of Moorman’s regular fishing spots.
Kyle Moorman and his 3 children Kyle Moorman
According to a flyer from a non-profit missing persons foundation, 5-year-old Kyle Moorman II has asthma and was not traveling with any of his medication. In the Sunday missing persons report, IMPD said at least one of the children may be in need of medical care.
Moorman’s mother, Natasha Hayes, and other family members said Sunday that Moorman is close with his siblings and family in general and that he is in contact with them most days.
“This is not like him,” she said. “He would not let us worry like that, not when he’s got all three of the babies. My grandson has to take medicine, he has a chronic cough with asthma.”
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Six Dallas-area legal associations launch one-of-a-kind online job platform
DALLAS, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Dallas-area legal associations with diverse membership have joined forces to create the Dallas Legal Equity and Diversity (LEAD) job board, an online career platform that focuses on diversity and inclusion in the workplace specific to the legal industry.
The first-of-its-kind project came to fruition with the help of the Dallas Women Lawyers Association (DWLA), the South Asian Bar Association of Dallas, the Dallas LGBT Bar Association, the J.L. Turner Legal Association, the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association, and the Dallas Asian American Bar Association.
For video/sound of DWLA representatives speaking about the job board, click here.
"We believe there is a need on both ends, for hiring partners and potential candidates alike," said McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. shareholder and DWLA board member Jennifer Ryback. "Our priority in establishing this platform is to make a positive impact on the quality and quantity of career opportunities open to diverse attorney candidates in the North Texas legal market."
The board is a resource for lawyers diverse in gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation seeking employment opportunities as in-house counsel, government lawyers, and private-practice attorneys across North Texas.
"Developing DEI initiatives that actually create change – real, tangible change – is always the challenge. But that's what we've attempted to do here," said Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. partner and DWLA President Marisa O'Sullivan. "This job board allows in-house legal departments and law firms to find and attract a diverse pool of candidates, which is essential to any successful business. As the leaders of these diverse bar organizations, it's our duty to continue to push for equality and I'm so proud that we've worked together to do that with LEAD."
Although all visitors can see the posted jobs, only members of associations supporting Dallas LEAD can apply. To become a member of the participating organizations, click here. Current members can gain access by entering an organization-specific code provided by their Dallas LEAD Association.
"It is inspiring to see leaders of diverse bar associations come together to collaborate on this important program that promotes our shared goal — the professional growth of our diverse membership," said Ogletree Deakins attorney and DAABA President-Elect Janet Smith.
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Leniolisib was well tolerated and significant improvement over placebo was notable in the co-primary endpoints, reflecting a favorable impact on patients' immune dysregulation and deficiency
The peer-reviewed publication heightens international understanding of APDS, a rare and recently characterized immunodeficiency
LEIDEN, Netherlands, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharming Group N.V. ("Pharming" or "the Company") (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM) (Nasdaq: PHAR) announces today that the positive results of a Phase 3 clinical trial of the investigational drug leniolisib, an oral, selective phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) inhibitor, in adult and adolescent patients with activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta syndrome (APDS), a rare primary immunodeficiency, have been published in Blood,1 the peer-reviewed international medical journal of the American Society of Hematology. Data from this study was previously announced on February 2, 2022.
The paper, entitled 'Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Trial of PI3Kδ Inhibitor Leniolisib for Activated PI3Kδ Syndrome', outlined results from the multinational, triple-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial, which enrolled 31 patients with APDS aged 12 years or older. Patients were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive 70 mg leniolisib or placebo twice daily for 12 weeks. Improvement over placebo was significant in the co-primary endpoints which evaluated reduction in lymph node size and increase in naïve B cells, reflecting the impact on immune dysregulation and correction of immunodeficiency in these patients, respectively. The adjusted mean change (95% CI) between leniolisib and placebo for lymph node size was -0.25 (-0.38, -0.12; P=0.0006; N=26) and for percentage of naïve B cells was 37.30 (24.06, 50.54; P=0.0002; N=13). Leniolisib was well tolerated, and fewer patients receiving leniolisib reported study treatment-related adverse events (mostly grades 1-2) compared to those receiving placebo (23.8% vs 30.0%).
Vicki Modell, co-founder of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation, an international, non-profit, organization dedicated to helping individuals and family members affected by primary immunodeficiency disorders, commented:
"Pharming continues to provide significant support for the immunodeficiency community. The Jeffrey Modell Foundation is dedicated to early diagnosis and finding meaningful treatments for primary immunodeficiency, and we are acutely aware of the challenges faced by people with APDS. The publication of study results in this patient population in such a distinguished and widely read journal advances these goals."
Anurag Relan, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Pharming, commented:
"As we continue to seek a better understanding of APDS as a recently characterized rare disease, we remain committed to sharing our findings with researchers and doctors around the world. With this commitment in mind, we are pleased the results of this Phase III clinical trial in leniolisib have been published in the flagship journal of the American Society of Hematology.
The APDS patient population, and their families, have lived with unmet needs and without targeted therapies, and the publishing of this study is an integral step in improving the patient journey for this community. We are proud to share these results which demonstrated leniolisib to be a well-tolerated, targeted therapy for APDS. We thank all of our study participants and investigators for their efforts and the essential role they played in the development of leniolisib."
About Activated Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase δ Syndrome (APDS)
APDS is a rare primary immunodeficiency that affects approximately 1 to 2 people per million. APDS is caused by variants in either of two genes, PIK3CD or PIK3R1, that regulate maturation of white blood cells. Variants of these genes lead to hyperactivity of the PI3Kδ (phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta) pathway.2,3 Balanced signaling in the PI3Kδ pathway is essential for physiological immune function. When this pathway is hyperactive, immune cells fail to mature and function properly, leading to immunodeficiency and dysregulation.2,4 APDS is characterized by severe, recurrent sinopulmonary infections, lymphoproliferation, autoimmunity, and enteropathy.5,6 Because these symptoms can be associated with a variety of conditions, including other primary immunodeficiencies, people with APDS are frequently misdiagnosed and suffer a median 7-year diagnostic delay.7 As APDS is a progressive disease, this delay may lead to an accumulation of damage over time, including permanent lung damage and lymphoma.5-8 The only way to definitively diagnose this condition is through genetic testing.
About Leniolisib
Leniolisib is a small-molecule inhibitor of the delta isoform of the 110 kDa catalytic subunit of class IA PI3K. PI3Kδ is expressed predominately in hematopoietic cells and is essential to normal immune system function through conversion of phosphatidylinositol-4-5-trisphosphate (PIP2) to phosphatidylinositol-3-4-5-trisphosphate (PIP3). Leniolisib inhibits the production of PIP3 and PIP3 serves as an important cellular messenger activating AKT (via PDK1) and regulates a multitude of cell functions such as proliferation, differentiation, cytokine production, cell survival, angiogenesis, and metabolism. Unlike PI3Kα and PI3Kβ, which are ubiquitously expressed, PI3Kẟ and PI3Kγ are expressed primarily in cells of hematopoietic origin. The central role of PI3Kẟ in regulating numerous cellular functions of the adaptive immune system (B-cells and, to a lesser extent, T cells) as well as the innate immune system (neutrophils, mast cells, and macrophages) strongly indicates that PI3Kẟ is a valid and potentially effective therapeutic target for immune diseases such as APDS. To date, leniolisib has been well tolerated during both the Phase 1 first-in-human trial in healthy subjects and the Phase II/III registration-enabling study in patients with APDS.
About Pharming Group N.V.
Pharming Group N.V. (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM) (Nasdaq: PHAR) is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare, debilitating, and life-threatening diseases. Pharming is commercializing and developing an innovative portfolio of protein replacement therapies and precision medicines, including small molecules, biologics, and gene therapies that are in early to late-stage development. Pharming is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands, and has employees around the globe who serve patients in over 30 markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
For more information, visit www.pharming.com and find us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance, or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "aim", "ambition", ''anticipate'', ''believe'', ''could'', ''estimate'', ''expect'', ''goals'', ''intend'', ''may'', "milestones", ''objectives'', ''outlook'', ''plan'', ''probably'', ''project'', ''risks'', "schedule", ''seek'', ''should'', ''target'', ''will'' and similar terms and phrases. Examples of forward-looking statements may include statements with respect to timing and progress of Pharming's preclinical studies and clinical trials of its product candidates, Pharming's clinical and commercial prospects, and Pharming's expectations regarding its projected working capital requirements and cash resources, which statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not limited to the scope, progress and expansion of Pharming's clinical trials and ramifications for the cost thereof; and clinical, scientific, regulatory and technical developments. In light of these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that are described in Pharming's 2021 Annual Report and the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the events and circumstances discussed in such forward-looking statements may not occur, and Pharming's actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied thereby. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are based on information available to Pharming as of the date of this release. Pharming does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any.
References
- Rao VK, et al. Blood. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2022018546.
- Lucas CL, et al. Nat Immunol. 2014;15:88-97.
- Elkaim E, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016;138(1):210-218.
- Nunes-Santos C, Uzel G, Rosenzweig SD. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019;143(5):1676-1687.
- Coulter TI, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017;139(2):597-606.
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- Jamee M, et al. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2019;May 21.
- Condliffe AM, Chandra A. Front Immunol. 2018;9:338.
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Pharming Group, Leiden, The Netherlands
Michael Levitan, VP Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
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LifeSpring Life Sciences Communication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leon Melens
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No deal reached on Hollywood actors contract, strike vote set for Thursday
LOS ANGELES - The union representing film and television actors says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming services and its leadership will vote on whether to strike later Thursday.
The Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said early Thursday that its decision on whether to join already striking screenwriters will be considered by leadership at a meeting later Thursday.
If the actors go on strike, it will be the first time since 1960 that actors and writers picket film and television productions.
The actors' guild released a statement early Thursday announcing that its deadline for negotiations to conclude had ended without a contract. The statement came hours after this year's Emmy nominations, recognizing the best work on television, were announced.
"The companies have refused to meaningfully engage on some topics and on others completely stonewalled us. Until they do negotiate in good faith, we cannot begin to reach a deal," said Fran Drescher, the star of "The Nanny" who is now the actors' guild president.
RELATED: Hollywood writers' strike begins, halting tv and film production
The group representing the studios, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, said it was disappointed by the failure to reach a deal.
"This is the Union’s choice, not ours. In doing so, it has dismissed our offer of historic pay and residual increases, substantially higher caps on pension and health contributions, audition protections, shortened series option periods, a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses, and more," the AMPTP said in a statement.
It added that instead of continuing to negotiate, "SAG-AFTRA has put us on a course that will deepen the financial hardship for thousands who depend on the industry for their livelihoods."
If the actors strike, they will formally join screenwriters on the picket lines outside studios and filming locations in a bid to get better terms from studios and streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. The actors’ guild has previously authorized a strike by a nearly 98% margin.
Members of the Writers Guild of America have been on strike since early May, slowing the production of film and television series on both coasts and in production centers like Atlanta.
Issues in negotiations include the unregulated use of artificial intelligence and the effects on residual pay brought on by the streaming ecosystem that has emerged in recent years.
Actors have joined writers on picket lines for weeks in solidarity. An actors' strike would prevent performers from working on sets or promoting their projects.
Whether the cast of Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" attends Thursday's London premiere hangs in the balance of whether the actors strike.
Attending a photo event on Wednesday, star Matt Damon said that while everyone was hoping a strike could be averted, many actors need a fair contract to survive.
"We ought to protect the people who are kind of on the margins," Damon told The Associated Press. "And 26,000 bucks a year is what you have to make to get your health insurance. And there are a lot of people whose residual payments are what carry them across that threshold. And if those residual payments dry up, so does their health care. And that’s absolutely unacceptable. We can’t have that. So, we got to figure out something that is fair."
The looming strike has cast a shadow over the upcoming 75th Emmys. Nominations were announced Wednesday, and the strike was on the mind of many nominees.
"People are standing up and saying, ‘This doesn’t really work, and people need to be paid fairly,’" Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain, who was nominated for her first Emmy Award on Wednesday for playing Tammy Wynette in "George & Tammy," told the AP. "It is very clear that there are certain streamers that have really kind of changed the way we work and the way that we have worked, and the contracts really haven’t caught up to the innovation that’s happened."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities in Missouri are investigating what led to one person being fatally shot and five others being wounded outside a Kansas City bar over the weekend.
According to the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department and Missouri State Highway Patrol, the shooting happened in Westport around 11 p.m. Sunday.
MSHP spokesperson Bill Lowe said a large disturbance began inside Westport Ale House and spilled outside where multiple shots rang out.
At that point in time, three off-duty KCPD officers who were working at the ale house returned fire.
It is unknown if anyone was struck by the officers' fire.
Authorities say the five victims are in stable condition.
Lowe said there was no indication there is a remaining threat to the public.
Broadway and surrounding roads in the area were closed overnight but reopened several hours later.
While "enhanced security/screenings," including closing roads and the use of metal detectors, are used in Westport on Fridays and Saturdays, the Westport Regional Business League says that is not the case on Sundays due to the typical size of the crowds.
Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas responded to news of the shooting in a statement via Twitter.
With multiple police officers and security guards present, we still saw a shoot out on the streets of our city. The easy access to guns and the total lack of safeguards in our state to keep people from carrying them almost anywhere continues to put our people at risk each day.
— Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) July 11, 2022
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BRUSSELS (AP) — At the conclusion of their previous Council of Europe summit, the 46 member states solemnly declared they would “bear witness to unprecedented pan-European unity.”
Fast-forward 18 years, to the day, on Tuesday, and the same institution, Europe’s pre-eminent human rights organization, faces a massive war on its own continent, forcing it to gather as many of its leaders as possible in Reykjavik, Iceland, to deal with the epochal crisis in Ukraine, one of its member states.
Perhaps more heed should have been paid to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s ominous warning at the 2005 summit in Warsaw that “Russia was, is and will be a major European nation.”
Neither Lavrov, nor any Russian government official, will be flying to Europe’s far-flung island nation, since the Council expelled Russia over its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The two-day summit will seek to reinforce a sense of common purpose and the defense of Ukraine stands out like a beacon.
The Strasbourg-based Council of Europe doesn’t have the same high-stakes profile as, for example, the European Union but since its inception in 1949 it has been a guardian, with fluctuating success, of human rights, democracy and the rule of law on the continent. Rarely has the need been higher than in today’s world.
Considering the plight at home and the rumblings about an imminent counteroffensive, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy might not make the long trip to the island just south of the Arctic Circle.
He will find plenty willing to do the talking for him.
“I will very strongly support the creation of a dedicated tribunal to bring Russia’s crime of aggression to trial,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who will join the likes of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and dozens of other leaders. They will seek to add to the military and economic aid that many European nations have already sent to Kyiv.
During the two days of speeches, roundtables and diplomatic networking, the leaders will focus on legal issues.
The Council wants to make sure that Russia can be held accountable for what it sees as a plethora of crimes committed during the invasion. The summit will seek to create a register of all the damage already caused by Russian forces so Moscow can be held liable for compensation to the victims later.
“It will be a first step, but a very good step towards Russian compensation so far for Ukraine,” von der Leyen said.
The Council is hoping that the United States, which has observer status at the summit, will also back that initiative.
It is not as if this is the only legal challenge Moscow faces. In March, the International Criminal Court said it had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. Another official has also been indicted.
Since the start of the war, the Russians have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. Thousands of children have been seized from schools and orphanages during Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
The summit now wants to increase help in identifying and locating those children and beef up efforts to bring them home.
Not that the whole Council of Europe is working in unison or doesn’t have its own internal strife.
Only last week, the troops of two Council members, Armenia and Azerbaijan, exchanged artillery fire along their tense border, leaving at least one soldier dead and several others wounded. The latest bout of escalation between the longtime adversaries threatened to derail attempts at peace talks.
And some Council members, like Hungary and Serbia, still have a soft spot for Russia.
Serbia would send the lowest-level delegation possible, declared President Aleksandar Vucic, saying if Ukraine’s territorial integrity was so central to the summit, that should equally apply to Serbia, whose former province of Kosovo declared independence.
“I won’t go. It is a farce,” he said.
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St. Ann's School welcomes students back to campus for the 2022-2023 school year.
St. Ann's first opened it's doors to as a school in 1950.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The New York Yankees tweaked their starting lineup for Game 4 of the AL Division Series on Sunday night, benching shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa and starting Aaron Hicks in left field as they try to keep their season alive.
Rookie Oswaldo Cabrera, who started the first three games of the series in left, replaced Kiner-Falefa at shortstop.
Cleveland leads the best-of-five series 2-1. Game 5, if necessary, would be Monday night at Yankee Stadium.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the decision to sit Kiner-Falefa was mostly driven by him not playing with his usual confidence. The 27-year-old Kiner-Falefa committed an error in Game 1 and has looked shaky on routine plays.
“I feel that in some big pressure spots throughout the season he has made big-time plays,” Boone said. “So he’s always answered the bell really well after a mistake. This time I feel like it snowballed a little bit on him in this series, so that’s kind of going into this.”
Cabrera, who was brought up as a middle infielder, let Myles Straw’s bloop in the ninth inning hop past him and turn into a double in Game 3 as the Guardians overcame a two-run deficit to win 6-5.
New York lost for the first time in 168 postseason games when leading by multiple runs in the ninth inning.
Hicks has not played in the postseason. He went hitless in his final 14 at-bats of the regular season.
Hicks will bat ninth and he gives Boone some needed experience. He has played in 28 postseason games, batting .223 with two homers and 12 RBIs.
Guardians manager Terry Francona didn’t make any changes, using the same lineup in Game 4 as Game 3.
If the Yankees force a Game 5, New York will start Jameson Taillon against Cleveland’s Aaron Civale.
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A legend among muscle cars is set to go under the hammer for the first time. The 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE known as the “Black Ghost” will appear at Mecum’s sale at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis running May 12-20.
The car was originally owned by Godfrey Qualls and was passed to his son Gregory in 2015. It has officially been part of the National Historic Vehicle Register since 2020. Gregory Qualls has now decided to part ways with the car.
The Challenger R/T SE is special in its own right, due to a one-of-one specification with a gator skin-style vinyl roof, a white tail stripe, and 426 Hemi V-8 under the hood. However, what really makes it stand out is its original owner.
Qualls, Sr. was a Detroit police officer by day and mysterious street drag racer by night. He would show up to local Detroit haunts like Woodward Avenue and Telegraph Road, win a street race, and then disappear for weeks or months at a time, a habit that earned the car its nickname.
Qualls, who was also a Purple Heart-awarded military veteran, finally parked his Dodge in 1975 and kept it hidden for decades, as his attention turned to more important things, like helping to raise his young family. Qualls finally introduced the car and the stories behind it to his son in 2014. Qualls passed away a year later, though not before handing over the keys and paperwork to his son.
No price estimate has been given but a figure approaching seven figures would not be surprising.
“When you have the combination of a Purple Heart-awarded military veteran and a unique ’70 Challenger with the mythical street racing of a clandestine Detroit cop, the muscle car, drag racing, and Mopar enthusiasts take notice,” Frank Mecum, Mecum’s vice president of consignments, said in a statement.
Anyone who misses out on a successful bid for the original Black Ghost may still be able to snap up a modern tribute. The modern car is one of the Last Call special editions Dodge is rolling out for the 2023 model year to mark the end of the road for the current Challenger and Charger muscle cars. A total of 300 examples will be made, all in the same black exterior and with a gator skin-style roof vinyl to match the original.
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Women in Criminal Justice: COVID nudged MHP trooper Tierney Wienholz toward law enforcement
Note to readers: This story is part of an occasional series of profiles on women working in the criminal justice system in Cascade County.
Tierney Wienholz has been a Montana Highway Patrol trooper for a year. She loves seeing Montana through a windshield and meeting new people every day, even if it means giving them a ticket.
But law enforcement wasn’t her first career path.
Wienholz, 25, grew up in Great Falls in a family with five brothers and a sister. She graduated from Montana State University in December 2019 with a degree in education. Even then, she wasn’t 100% sure that she wanted to teach for the rest of her life.
There were no job openings after Wienholz’s student teaching ended, so she had to wait until the following fall.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and all the public schools turned to an online format that Wienholz didn’t care for.
Wienholz had always been attracted to law and thought about going back to school for a law degree. She even worked at the Cascade County Attorney’s Office as a paralegal the summer before she graduated.
“I was always super interested in (law enforcement),” Wienholz said. “I have family members in law enforcement, and I was like, ‘Well this is kind of a perfect time to try something else out that I probably wouldn’t do later in life.’”
Wienholz started as a detention officer at the Cascade County Detention Center. Looking back on it, she said she could have skipped that step because she had a good support system that believed in her.
“Working in the jail is an eye-opening experience. I think anybody who works in that environment will tell you that,” Wienholz said. “Once I was there, I kind of figured if I am strong enough to do this and be in this environment, I can do anything.”
It’s a life-altering change from being a teacher to working in law enforcement, but Wienholz said there was never an “a-ha moment” where she suddenly changed her mind. It was something she had to grow into. Now that she has done the job for a while, she knows it’s where she’s supposed to be.
Wienholz reflected on the differences as a woman between teaching and law enforcement.
“I think the one interesting thing about being a female in the teaching environment is nobody really doubts that you’re going to be capable of being a good teacher because you’re a woman,” she said. “There’s not a single person that’s like, ‘Oh she’s a woman, can she be a teacher?’”
In law enforcement, however, there are outsiders looking in who question a woman’s ability to do the job simply because they’re a woman.
Wienholz said she’s heard other parents talking to her parents about her job, saying, “I hope she gets a desk job soon so she doesn’t have to be out on the road for so long.”
However, her coworkers and the people close to her have all been supportive. Wienholz just got engaged, and she said her success is, in part, due to that support.
“As a female officer, I think one of the most important decisions is who you choose to spend the rest of your life with,” she said, adding that she’s heard of female officers who have quit because their spouse didn’t want them to do the job, especially after they have children.
Wienholz and her fiancé were together during her journey to becoming a law enforcement officer, and his job as a firefighter gives him an understanding of what she does.
She looked at other agencies, but Wienholz said she chose MHP because it gets her out on the road, and she had reservations about policing the town she grew up in, where it seems like everyone knows everyone else. With MHP, she can leave work at work. It also gives her the opportunity to work beyond Great Falls and branch out in her career.
“I appreciate being held accountable and being held to a high standard because at the end of the day in law enforcement, you want to be the very best person that you can be,” Wienholz said. “If you’re going to hold other people to a high standard, you would also hope that you’re also being held to a very high standard.”
Wienholz feels fortunate that in her experience, the men she works with are not stereotypically “macho” and don’t get a lot of ego involved in their interactions. She said she feels like their relationships have a lot of give and take, allowing her to teach her male coworkers as well as learn from them.
She got way more pushback as a woman working in the jail, Wienholz said, but out on the road, she said she has gotten the same level of respect as her male counterparts.
“I think that that’s something to be said about our community as a whole,” she said. “I don’t run into many people, if any, that are questioning my position because I’m a female…Here in Montana and here in our community…people are very respectful.”
Wienholz said all the law enforcement agencies and other first responders she works with are like one big family that works well together and is there to support each other.
The only change she’d make? The paperwork, she said with a laugh.
“One thing that would be so nice in this job is if would all have a secretary or somebody with us because there’s so much paperwork,” she said.
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PHOENIX — Dan Snyder’s future in the NFL as owner of the Washington Commanders remains in standby mode while his peers gathered at a posh resort for the league’s annual meetings and waited for news on the potential sale of the team.
“I think he’s put the team up for sale. I believe that something is close to happening,” New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said. “I don’t know that for sure. We’ll wait and see what happens.”
Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos recently joined groups led by Josh Harris and Tilman Fertitta to bid on purchasing the Commanders. Once Snyder accepts an offer, he must submit the bidder’s name to the NFL for approval. That hasn’t happened yet, a person told the AP.
Last fall, with multiple investigations ongoing into the team’s workplace culture, finances and Snyder himself, he and wife Tanya hired a firm to “consider possible transactions.” Tanya continues to represent the team at league events.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has said there’s “merit to remove” Snyder as owner of the Commanders. That would take an unprecedented vote of 24 of the other 31 team owners to happen.
Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that NFL owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team, a person told the AP. Two owners said they were angered by Snyder’s demand for indemnification but told the AP that they want to let the sale process play out before taking any action.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Snyder’s situation has changed their relationship.
“I think that it’s a little more formal, but I think it’s that way because of the various issues that are involved here,” Jones said. “It’s not ‘lovey-dovey,’ but it’s not really strained in any way.”
Snyder and the team are still under investigation by former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who was retained by the league to look into various aspects of the organization stemming from a congressional review into workplace misconduct that also included a referral to the Federal Trade Commission for potential business improprieties.
A spokesperson declined to comment when asked if Snyder had refused to speak with White, saying it’s a confidential matter between the club and the league.
Snyder is facing other civil suits and investigations.
The Attorney General for the District of Columbia filed two suits in civil court against the Commanders late last year: one for a scheme to cheat fans out of ticket money and another naming Snyder, Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league, saying they colluded to deceive fans about an investigation into the team’s workplace culture that ended with a $10 million fine and no written report. The Commanders settled with the state of Maryland, agreeing to return security deposits to former season ticket holders and pay a $250,000 penalty.
An investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, launched in October 2021 and including testimony from Snyder, Goodell and many others, said the team fostered a toxic workplace culture.
Other news out of Monday’s meetings included:
LIFE-SAVING COALITION
The NFL has launched The Smart Heart Sports Coalition, a collaboration among various organizations advocating to adopt evidence-based policies that will prevent fatal outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest among high school students.
“The NFL has a history of stepping up on challenging issues,” league executive Anna Isaacson said. “Damar Hamlin’s life was saved. We want to save more lives.”
The coalition includes the NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS, NHL, NCAA, the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Korey Stringer Institute, National Athletic Trainers’ Association and Damar Hamlin’s Chasing M’s Foundation.
League executive Jeff Miller said it’s critical for schools to have policies in place to deliver CPR effectively and have immediate access to AEDs.
“If a school has an emergency-action plan in place, if they have somebody trained in CPR and they have access to an AED, a lot of the most tragic situations which unfortunately happen may be prevented.”
FUTURE HOSTS
League executive Peter O’Reilly said a vote on host cities for the Super Bowl in 2026 and the NFL draft in 2025 won’t take place this week. O’Reilly said it’s likely to be on the agenda for the May meetings.
Las Vegas hosts the Super Bowl next year and New Orleans will host the following one. Kansas City hosts the NFL draft next month and Detroit will host next year.
PRO BOWL GAMES
O’Reilly said the reimagined Pro Bowl with a week of activities and competition capped by flag football is here to stay. He said 100% of players surveyed favor the new format. ___
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St. Michael’s High School President Tom Coughlan will leave his position at the end of the year after serving 17 months as leader of the private, Lasallian Catholic school.
Coughlan submitted his resignation last week, effective at the end of 2022, the school's Board of Trustees announced Monday.
Coughlan, who has spent nearly his entire career in Catholic education, said he is returning to his hometown of Sonoma, Calif., to attend to family matters and start a new career path.
"I'm excited to go back to California, and because of the circumstances, I have to, but I really enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity of living here. So, it's bittersweet." Coughlan said.
He said he plans to go into a leadership position in the nonprofit sector but is still not quite sure where his career will take him.
"I'm just exploring some opportunities," he said.
Coughlan will be the second leader of a Santa Fe high school to depart by year's end. Santa Fe High School Principal Renee Salazar-Garcia will leave the district in November “to pursue new opportunities.”
The St. Michael's Board of Trustees now has until Dec. 31 to find an interim president to lead the school for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year. The board plans to work with the Lasallian Education Corp. — a nonprofit that provides oversight for Lasallian schools — to find a new permanent president.
Lasallian schools follow practices established in the late 17th century by St. John Baptist de La Salle, who founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
"Tom and his family are, and remain, a part of our greater Lasallian family," the school stated in an announcement. "The Board of Trustees is grateful for his dedication to our school and wishes Tom and his family success in reestablishing themselves in California, and is also excited about the prospect of hiring the next innovator to continue St. Mike’s 163-year tradition as an educational leader in New Mexico."
Since taking over as president of St. Michael’s High School in July 2021, Coughlan helped launch the school's Chromebook program, putting laptops in the hands of every student in the school, and helped create the Brother Donald Mouton scholarship program, giving low-income students the chance to attend the school tuition-free. Students who come from families that are at 130 percent or below the federal poverty level can qualify.
"This year is the first year that every student has been provided a Chromebook. So, as a school, we're moving closer to align with 21st century education," Coughlan said.
St. Michael's has about 450 students in grades 7-12.
The scholarship program was named after the former president of the College of Santa Fe, Brother Donald Mouton, who died in April 2021.
"It's named after him to honor him and his commitment to Lasallian education in Santa Fe," Coughlan said.
Coughlan also helped ensure the school's pay remained competitive when public school teachers throughout the state were given raises, and he helped begin assessing and maintaining the school's facilities, among other initiatives.
"I just want to express my gratitude for this opportunity to have served the school in this community," Coughlan said. "I have so much of a greater appreciation for what the school means to the people."
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Frustrated by college diversity initiatives he says are “fomenting radical and toxic divisions,” Texas state Rep. Carl Tepper set out to put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education.
The freshman Republican lawmaker filed a bill to ban such offices. Three months later, he filed a new version of the legislation doing the same thing. The difference? Tepper switched the wording to align with a new model bill developed by the Manhattan Institute and Goldwater Institute, a pair of conservative think tanks based in New York and Arizona, respectively.
Republican lawmakers in at least a dozen states have proposed more than 30 bills this year targeting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education, an Associated Press analysis found using the bill-tracking software Plural. The measures have become the latest flashpoint in a cultural battle involving race, ethnicity and gender that has been amplified by prominent Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, potential rivals for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
Many of the proposals root in one of a half-dozen conservative or libertarian organizations offering recommendations for limiting consideration of diversity, equity and inclusion in employment decisions, training and student admissions. Some measures mirror the model bills nearly exactly. Others copy key definitions or phrases while adapting the concepts to their particular states.
“There’s a tremendous appetite on the right to deal with this issue,” said Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which in February added its own model bill to the swelling ranks of proposals.
The bills are an outgrowth of recent Republican attempts to limit critical race theory, a viewpoint that racism is historically systemic in the nation’s institutions and continues today to maintain the dominance of white people in society. Christopher Rufo, who now is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, helped propel conservative outrage in 2020 against what he has described as critical-race-theory concepts infiltrating governments and educational institutions.
Trump responded by issuing an order in September 2020 banning training involving “divisive concepts” about race for government employees and contractors. Similar wording began cropping up in state-level legislation the following year.
Florida’s so-called “Stop WOKE” law, which DeSantis signed last year, is among the most prominent measures. It bars businesses, colleges and K-12 schools from giving training on certain racial concepts, such as the theory that people of a particular race are inherently racist, privileged or oppressed. Courts have currently blocked the law’s enforcement in colleges, universities and businesses.
DeSantis has continued to press the issue. He proposed legislation this year to ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices as part of a broader agenda to reshape higher education. He also appointed Rufo and other conservatives to the New College of Florida’s oversight board, which then abolished the liberal arts college’s office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
“DeSantis has been so vocal about the changes he wants to make in universities that it has probably spurred activity in other states,” said Jenna Robinson, president of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, a conservative nonprofit based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
On their face, diversity, equity and inclusion may seem uncontentious. Higher education institutions, along with many businesses, have devoted resources to inclusivity for years.
“DEI is woven into the fabric of good universities,” said Karma Chavez, chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and co-chair of the College of Liberal Arts diversity committee at the University of Texas.
Campus DEI offices often spearhead services tailored to students of various races, genders, sexual orientations, cultures and abilities. Some college administrators also consider diversity and equity when admitting students, providing scholarships or deciding which faculty to hire and promote. Applicants may be asked not only for resumes and references, but also for statements about how they would advance DEI efforts.
Tepper contends DEI initiatives are “ideologically driven” on a “Marxist foundation.” Republican lawmakers in other states have used similar arguments.
During a recent Missouri House debate, Republican Rep. Doug Richey put forth a series of budget amendments prohibiting state funding for DEI initiatives in government agencies and higher education. He asserted the offices espouse “racist policies” and “Marxist ideology that is trying to strip away from us the concepts of the nuclear family, of merit, of character and of being judged by what you are capable of.”
Provisions blocking spending on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts also have been added to budget bills in Kansas and Texas. Separate bills banning spending for DEI offices in higher education have been proposed in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, Utah and West Virginia, though some of those already have failed.
Other bills, such as in Ohio and South Carolina, would allow such offices but ban mandatory DEI training and forbid administrators from requesting DEI statements from staff and students.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration warned state entities in February not to use DEI factors in employment decisions. That prompted the state’s largest university systems to pause such practices and led students at the University of Texas to organize in defense of DEI efforts.
“It feels like an attack on my identity,” said Sameeha Rizvi, a university senior who said she has benefitted from DEI initiatives as a Muslim woman of color with a disability. “It is exceptionally hurtful and tiring to see this very hateful rhetoric being employed by legislators.”
The American Association of University Professors, which has about 45,000 members nationwide, said the bills mischaracterize DEI initiatives.
“They’re dog whistling that DEI initiatives are something sinister and subversive that people should be afraid of, and that’s not true at all,” association President Irene Mulvey said.
The Martin Center and Goldwater Institute released model legislation last year describing mandatory DEI statements from students and staff as a prohibited “political test.” Lawmakers in Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas all filed bills this year using the suggested wording.
Cicero Action, an advocacy group based in Austin, Texas, and the newly formed Do No Harm organization, based in Richmond, Virginia, also have provided guidance to state lawmakers drafting bills against diversity, equity and inclusion requirements in higher education. Similar bills in Missouri and Tennessee both follow Do No Harm’s outline of barring mandatory DEI instruction for medical students and health care providers.
University of Missouri medical students have lobbied against the legislation, asserting it could jeopardize the school’s accreditation and prevent doctors from learning about unique circumstances affecting the health of people from various ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds.
“We’re not just hurting ourselves, we’re hurting patients if these bills get passed,” medical student Jay Devineni said.
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Continued Strong Growth for Leading Canadian HVAC Company
ST. CATHARINES, ON, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Right Time Group of Companies ("Right Time" or the "Company") announced today the acquisition of Waterloo-based Dunn Heating ClimateCare, which now operates as Dunn Heating and Air Conditioning. Established in 1973, Dunn Heating and Air Conditioning delivers residential heating, cooling, air quality, and hot water services to homeowners in the Tri-Cities area of Southern Ontario, encompassing Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge. Management, including former owner Rick Dunn, and company employees will join the Right Time team and continue to serve their customers and community. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Dunn Heating and Air Conditioning is the 16th acquisition completed by Right Time as it continues to execute its growth strategy. "We are excited to welcome the Dunn team to the Right Time family," said Right Time CEO Craig Goettler. "Rick has built a great business in the Tri-Cities and Right Time will continue to deliver the exceptional service Dunn Heating and Air Conditioning has provided to its valued customers."
"Over the past fifty years we have built a strong business centered around great customer service," said Mr. Dunn. "As I considered the next stage for the business, Right Time was a natural choice. They have a great track record of integrating strong local companies and taking them to the next level."
Right Time is continuously looking to add new residential HVAC and home services locations to its existing network in Canada. Interested owners are encouraged to contact Curtis Budgell at the coordinates below or visit the website to request more information.
Right Time is majority-owned by Gryphon Investors, a leading middle-market private equity firm.
About Right Time
Right Time is the leading Canadian independent heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning ("HVAC") contractor focused on the residential market. Right Time now operates out of 23 locations in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia with over 1000 employees, and provides preventative maintenance programs, repairs, and replacements of household HVAC units. For more information, please visit www.right-time.ca.
About Gryphon Investors
Gryphon Investors (www.gryphoninvestors.com) is a leading private equity firm focused on profitably growing and competitively enhancing middle-market companies in partnership with experienced management. As of December 31, 2021, the firm has over $9 billion of assets under management. Gryphon prioritizes investment opportunities where it can form strong partnerships with owners and executives to build leading companies, utilizing Gryphon's capital, specialized professional resources, and operational expertise.
Contact:
Curtis Budgell, Vice President, Corporate Development
Right Time Group of Companies
curtis.budgell@right-time.ca
204-296-8420
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PARIS (AP) — The Olympics is on track to be back in business with millions of visitors coming to Paris for the 2024 Games.
The French capital has the expert experience to stage the event and welcome guests for the first Olympics of the post-pandemic era.
That should be a relief after a chaotic lead-in to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and uncertainty from postponing the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 with no guarantee it would eventually happen one year later. It did, but in almost entirely empty venues.
Organizers, athletes and fans preparing for competitions in Paris — and regional French cities like Lille and Marseille, plus the far-away surfing venue of Tahiti in the South Pacific — can be confident the show will go on.
Here’s a look at what we can expect from the 2024 Paris Olympics:
About 10 million tickets were made available for the Paris Olympics with 329 medal events in 32 different sports spread across 18 different days of competition.
Close to 7 million have already been sold with one year to go before the opening ceremony on July 26.
The system for selling tickets has been streamlined through the organizing committee’s own online sales point and a new hospitality program run by American company On Location.
Organizers are directly selling about 8 million tickets with the promise that 1 million will be available for all sports priced at 24 euros ($26), and many more costing 50 euros ($55) or less.
Would-be buyers had to register for the chance to be allocated tickets in the first two sales phases but the current wave is first-come, first-served for events in cities outside Paris.
That could mean seeing arguably France’s two biggest stars: top NBA draft pick Victor Wembanyama in Lille and soccer great Kylian Mbappé in Marseille and Nice.
Lille, about three hours northeast of Paris, will stage all the group games in basketball at its soccer stadium. The cheapest seats at 50 euros ($55) remain for women’s games but expect now to pay 120-200 euros ($133-$221) to see a men’s game.
Mbappé wants to play for France as one of its three overage players in what is an under-23 tournament for men, and seats for 30 euros ($33) were available this week for its two scheduled group games in Marseille. The first is on July 24 when Olympic events start two days ahead of the opening ceremony. Expect to pay at least 50 euros ($55) to see France in Nice on July 27.
Soccer games will also be played in Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes and Saint-Etienne as well as in Paris, at the Parc des Princes.
Those city authorities have an allocation of tickets among the remaining 2 million of the 10 million that also includes the hospitality program, plus the “Olympic Family” — national sponsors of Paris and global sponsors of the IOC, broadcast rights holders and sports bodies.
Hospitality prices start at 85 euros ($94) and run to 11,000 euros ($12,200) for a prime spot by the River Seine to see the athletes sail by in the opening ceremony.
With general tickets to that riverside ceremony already sold out, “the only way to attend these events will be through the official hospitality program,” On Location said this week. That’s also the case for sailing races in Marseille.
Also sold out are hospitality tickets at iconic venues for judo — staged next to the Eiffel Tower in a temporary venue and featuring one of France’s greatest modern athletes, Teddy Riner — and equestrian in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
Paris touted its large and diverse accommodation options — everything from campsites along the River Seine to some of the world’s most famous luxury hotels — when it was bidding for the Olympics, boasting that it has “more than sufficient accommodation” to host France’s first Summer Games in a century and millions of visitors.
The Paris region has France’s greatest concentration of hotel accommodation, its 160,000 rooms making up one-quarter of the country’s total of 640,000. Nearly 90% of Paris region hotels are classed two stars or above. Adding rented accommodation, campsites and other options, the Paris tourism office says the region has a total of 261,800 rooms for the Olympics, which is considerably more than it had in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the pandemic ebbed, Paris once again became a top tourist destination. Visitor numbers so far this year are now very close to their pre-pandemic levels.
The city’s tourism office predicts that up to 15.9 million people could visit the Paris region during the July-September period that includes the Olympics and Paralympic Games.
That would be busier than Paris has been used to since the pandemic but not ridiculously so. The tourism office expects the region will still have rooms available, predicting occupancy rates of between 56% and 76%. That would be either a little bit less or somewhat more than the 61% occupancy at the same period in 2019.
“There is not going to be an accommodation crisis. There shouldn’t be people arriving and saying, ‘My God, we can’t find a place to stay in Paris,’” said Pierre Rabadan, City Hall’s vice mayor for Olympic planning.
Many Parisians leave for summer vacations in July or August and officials expect the same to happen next year, further helping to make space.
Some Parisians are hoping to make a mint by renting out their homes. On Airbnb, many hundreds of dollars per night are being asked for apartments. In the 11th district of Paris, a 1-bedroom apartment with two beds that was asking for 99 euros ($110) per night for four people this summer from July 26 to Aug. 2 is asking 877 euros ($972) per night for the same period during the Olympics.
The Olympics and Paris’ transport network upon which the 2024 Games are relying have an intertwined history dating back over a century. The city’s first Metro service, Line 1 from Porte Maillot in the west to Porte de Vincennes in the east, was opened during the 1900 Paris Olympics as part of the World Exhibition that the French capital hosted that year.
Next year, public transport is again expected to play a starring role. Organizers are counting on spectators to rely overwhelmingly on the Paris region’s dense network of Metro lines, suburban trains, buses and other transport to help the Olympics reach its target of halving its carbon footprint compared to previous editions.
Some of the transport promises that organizers made have fallen by the wayside.
They shelved a pledge that ticketed spectators would travel on public transport for free to competition sites in Paris and beyond, opting instead to save themselves an estimated 44.7 million euros ($50 million).
An express train they said would whisk visitors from Paris’ main international airport, Charles de Gaulle, to the center of the city in 20 minutes is not now slated to open before 2027.
Another line under construction, Metro 17, that organizers said would transport athletes in 30 minutes from the airport to their accommodation in Paris’ northern outskirts also won’t be ready, with a first stretch not now scheduled to open before 2026.
But a newly extended Metro service, Line 14, from Paris’ second major airport, Orly, to an Olympic hub in the northern outskirts that includes the athletes village, main stadium and an aquatics center remains on schedule to open a month before the Olympics.
Transport operators are gearing up to carry between 600,000 to 800,000 Olympic visitors per day, “it’s like being in a permanent rush hour,” said Transport Minister Clement Beaune.
Paris’ regional transport operator is promising extra trains as well as shuttle buses where needed, including for people with disabilities, for the 31 competition venues in the French capital and its surrounds.
“It’s a major challenge. We’ve never had an operation like this,” Beaune said. “We will be ready.”
Paris is also using the Olympics to further its progress as an increasingly bike-friendly city, adding more lanes to its cycle network. City Hall says there will be at least 3,000 more bikes for hire and spaces to park 10,000 bikes close to venues.
World record heat has been a global theme in July 2023 and the European summer does not figure to cool down next year.
Measures to control extreme heat were not much on the minds of Paris officials when bidding for the Olympics in 2017. They are now.
“Obviously since the candidacy, we have worked a lot on these subjects,” organizing committee CEO Etienne Thobois said this month, “because we now realize that it’s becoming a near certainty that we will have high temperatures in the summer of 2024 in Paris.”
Thobois said organizers must be “very, very vigilant” to find a balance between compensating for the heat felt by athletes and workers against the need to control the games’ carbon footprint.
Air-conditioning was not planned in the design of the $1.1 billion athletes village being built in Saint-Denis, though that is not unusual for a city in central or northern Europe.
Paris temperatures have peaked at 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit) this July and often rose to 30 degrees C (86 degrees F).
When similar temperatures hit the first week of the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, the actual heat index on the field of play was higher.
On the tennis court in Tokyo, the temperatures felt like 37 degrees C (99 degrees F) and heatstroke forced Paula Badosa to retire from her women’s singles quarterfinal match and leave the arena in a wheelchair.
Asked last week about a Parisian heatwave, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach noted “we have some very good experience with our heat mitigation measures in Tokyo where we were already facing these problems.”
For Tokyo, the IOC pressed World Athletics to move the marathons out of the city and seek cooler early mornings in coastal Sapporo.
The Paris marathons will start and finish in the city and take runners on uphill sections toward historic Versailles.
Students of the history of France, Paris and sports itself can feast on the places the Olympics will take them.
While the marathons will head to Versailles, equestrian events will actually be held in the grand grounds of the royal palace where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived and the victors of World War I led by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson gathered in 1919 and redrew many borders on the global map.
Place de la Concorde, where both Louis and Marie Antoinette were beheaded, will stage the Olympic debut of breakdancing, and other urban youth sports skateboarding, BMX freestyle and 3-on-3 basketball.
One hundred years after hosting track and field plus other sports at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Colombes Stadium in the northwest suburbs will this time stage field hockey.
Colombes is one of two 2024 Olympic venues to have staged soccer’s biggest game, the men’s World Cup final. Its turn was in 1938, while Stade de France saw the host nation triumph in 1998. Stade de France will stage track and field, rugby sevens and the Aug. 11 closing ceremony.
The Eiffel Tower will dominate the opening ceremony on July 26 as thousands of athletes are carried on fleets of boats along the Seine river toward the city’s defining landmark.
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What to expect at Apple's 'far out' iPhone 14 event
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Apple is expected to debut its iPhone 14 lineup at the company's annual September keynote event on Wednesday.
The product event, which has been teased with a "far out" tagline, will take place at Apple's Cupertino, California, headquarters and will be livestreamed on Apple's website and social media channels.
This year's invitation featured a night sky with a constellation of stars forming the Apple logo, leading some to speculate there will be major camera upgrades on iPhones to allow for better nighttime or long-distance photography. But in typical Apple fashion, the tech giant was sparse on details as it builds up excitement and urges customers to tune in on the big day.
The event will kick off at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and CNN Business will carry live coverage of it. Here is a look at what to expect from CEO Tim Cook and his team.
The star of the show
As it has done every year for about a decade, Apple is widely expected to unveil its latest iPhone at the September keynote.
Apple is expected to go big with the iPhone 14 — literally. It's rumored that it will debut a 6.7-inch phone that's not a Pro model, meaning it will have the bigger screen size but without the higher price tag. The rumor mill also suggests that Apple might ditch its cheaper, mini-sized iPhone in the 14 lineup so that they don't compete with iPhone SE sales.
Forecasts point to the latest Pro model being slightly slimmer, and the much-disliked notch around the front-facing camera system to be absent in the new iPhone models.
Apple watchers are also getting excited about a potential major camera quality upgrade with the iPhone 14 — possibly one that can shoot 8K video. If this happens, it could be among the biggest changes to the iPhone's camera quality to date.
How Apple will price the iPhone 14 is already shaping up to be a test, as broader economic conditions for both the tech sector and consumers have entered choppy waters. A handful of analysts have already forecast slight price hikes for the latest-and-greatest iPhone model. "My expectation is that Apple will probably have to nudge prices up," Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research firm CCS Insight, told CNN Business ahead of the event.
Currently, the regular, non-mini iPhone 13 starts at $799, the iPhone 13 Pro starts at $999 and the iPhone 13 Pro Max starts at $1,099. Some analysts are predicting a $100 price hike on at least the higher-end Pro and Pro Max models. But given the strain consumers are facing, he thinks Apple will also do "everything they can to make that as minimal as possible." This could mean offering attractive trade-in bonuses, payment installment plans, and other offers.
Despite rising inflation and other economic headwinds, Cook said in the company's most recent earnings call that there has been "no obvious evidence" of macroeconomic impact on iPhone sales yet. This doesn't mean the tech giant is immune to a worsening economic climate. It reported a nearly 11% decline in profits during the three months ending in June, compared to the same period a year ago. This event also comes amid supply chain hiccups linked to China's zero-Covid policy.
Finally, there has been some chatter that Apple could remove the iPhone's Lightning port in new models and opt for a design with charging via wireless MagSafe. There have also been rumors that some US models may launch without a physical SIM slot, as Apple moves towards an eSIM-only design.
Apple Watches, iOS 16 release date, and more
New Apple Watch models are expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, including a higher-end offering. An official release date for iOS 16, the much-hyped latest update that will let users personalize their iPhone lock screens (like Android does) and features a revamped iMessage, is also expected to be announced.
What not to expect
With the new iPhone expected to take center stage, many analysts don't expect Apple to release new iPads or Mac computers until October. Of course, the rumor mill can always be wrong about these things. Apple is also unlikely to debut its previously rumored and much-anticipated AR headset on Wednesday.
Despite rival Samsung's love affair with foldable devices, Apple is still not expected to unveil such an iPhone this fall.
CNN Business will carry live coverage of Cook's big production, so tune in here as the world's most valuable tech company finally puts all rumors to rest and reveals some of its latest gadgets on the cusp of the busy holiday shopping season.
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The number of electric vehicles on New England roads is growing. But people driving EVs don’t have many charging options in New Hampshire.
A bill introduced in the state Senate would create a committee to study how the state could help fund the development of more charging infrastructure. But legislators are split on the issue.
Though the Senate passed the bill, the House’s Science, Technology and Energy committee was split along party lines – with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. The bill will come before the full House without a recommendation on whether it should pass.
Senate Republican Tim Lang is the primary sponsor of the bill, which would modernize the language around electric vehicle charging in New Hampshire law and direct the Public Utilities Commission to make determinations about how EV charging rates should be designed, in addition to creating the study committee.
Lang told the House committee he introduced the bill because he was concerned about tourism, as more drivers in Massachusetts buy EVs, but don’t see enough places in New Hampshire to charge them.
But, he said, he wants to make sure costs don’t fall to all Granite Staters.
“My biggest concern is I don't want to move forward if it's going to cost every ratepayer more money. I want to find another solution,” said Lang. “And what that solution is may be a surcharge. It may be finding federal dollars, it may be a private partner relationship. I don't know what that looks like.”
New Hampshire has access to about $4 million from a legal settlement with car maker Volkswagen and $17 million in federal funding to help build chargers. The bill also suggests the study committee consider things like the meals and rooms tax and property tax exemptions.
Utility companies like Eversource and Unitil have filed plans with the Public Utilities Commission to help build out charging infrastructure.
The original bill did not include the creation of a study committee, but instead directed the Public Utilities Commission to allow electric utility companies to recover costs from ratepayers for helping to construct public EV charging stations.
Sam Evans-Brown, the executive director of the advocacy group Clean Energy New Hampshire, told lawmakers the state needs to get ready for more EV drivers. But, he said, once things get rolling, charging stations won’t be hard to build.
“Once we reach a level where there are quite a lot of EVs on the road, there will be a business model that will make it so that chargers can be built profitably by private actors. There just aren't enough EVs on the road yet for that to be the case,” he said. “If you build it, they will come. They are coming. We have to build it.”
Opponents of the bill said they were concerned about the cost of charging infrastructure being put on all ratepayers. Some also said the Legislature already had too many study committees and didn’t need another.
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Sheriff: Wife of suspected Texas gunman has been arrested
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A day after the man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in a Texas shooting was arrested, the sheriff says his wife has also been taken into custody.
Divimara Lamar Nava, 53, wife of suspect Francisco Oropeza, was in custody in connection with the Friday night shooting, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson.
Nava had previously denied knowledge of Oropeza’s whereabouts, Henderson said, but authorities believe she hid him in the home near Conroe where he was arrested Tuesday.
Lamar Nava was arrested early Wednesday and was being held in the Montgomery County jail on a felony charge of hindering the apprehension or prosecution of a known felon, according to online jail records. The records do not list a bond for her and indicate she was arrested by state police at a home in Conroe.
A four-day manhunt for Oropeza ended Tuesday when authorities, acting on a tip, said they found the suspect hiding underneath a pile of laundry in the closet of a house.
Oropeza, 38, was captured without incident near the community of Conroe, north of Houston and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from his home in the rural town of Cleveland. That’s where authorities say he went next door and shot his neighbors with an AR-style rifle shortly before midnight Friday.
Oropeza had been shooting rounds on his property and the attack occurred after neighbors asked him to go farther away because the gunfire was keeping a baby awake, according to police.
Oropeza will be charged with five counts of murder, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said. Bond was set at $5 million.
“They can rest easy now, because he is behind bars,” Capers said of the families of the victims. “He will live out his life behind bars for killing those five.”
The arrest ends what had become a widening dragnet that had grown to more than 250 people from multiple jurisdictions and had seen $80,000 in reward money offered. As recently as Tuesday morning, the FBI said that Oropeza “could be anywhere,” underlining how investigators for days struggled to get a sense of his whereabouts and candidly acknowledged they had no leads.
The tip that finally ended the chase came at 5:15 p.m., and a little more than an hour later, Oropeza was in custody, said FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul. The alleged shooter is a Mexican national who has been deported four times between 2009 and 2016, according to U.S. immigration officials
Connor Hagan, an FBI spokesman, said they would not disclose the identity of the person who called in the tip — one of more than 200 tips he says investigators received. Authorities did not say who owned the house, whether Oropeza knew them or if anyone else was inside when he was found.
They also would not say whether friends or family had helped Oropeza evade capture, or where he had been since fleeing the scene in Cleveland, which authorities previously said was likely on foot.
Hagan said the three agencies that went in to arrest Oropeza were the U.S. Marshals, Texas Department of Public Safety and US Border Patrol’s BORTAC team.
Drones and scent-tracking dogs had been used during the widening manhunt, which included combing a heavily wooded forest a few miles from the scene. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott offered a $50,000 reward as the search dragged late into the weekend, while others offered an additional $30,000 in reward money.
Capers said that prior to Friday’s shooting deputies had been called to the suspect’s house at least one other time previously over shooting rounds in his yard.
All of the victims were from Honduras. Wilson Garcia, who survived the shooting, said friends and family in the home tried to hide and shield themselves and children after Oropeza walked up to the home and began firing, killing his wife first at the front door.
The victims were identified as Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9.
A government official in Honduras said the remains of four of the victims would be repatriated. Velásquez Alvarado will be buried in the United States at the request of her sister and her husband, said Wilson Paz, general director of Honduras’ migrant protection service.
Osmán Velásquez, Diana’s father, said Tuesday that his daughter had recently gotten residency and had traveled to the United States without documents eight years ago with the help of a sister, who was already living there.
“Her sister convinced me to let her take my daughter. She told me the United States is a country of opportunities and that’s true,” he said. “But I never imagined it was just for this.”
In offering the reward, Abbott called the victims “illegal immigrants,” a partially false statement that his office walked back and apologized for Monday after drawing wide backlash over drawing attention to their immigration status. Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said they had since learned that one of the victims may have been in the country legally.
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Merchant reported from Washington. Associated Press reporters Jake Bleiberg in Dallas, Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, and Marlon González in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, contributed to this report.
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Voters in two districts have a chance to decide control of Congress this fall. They're inundated with ads and speeches. Yet interviews in those districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania found many voters not necessarily thinking through the issues as their parties would prefer.
Some Democrats voiced concerns about crime and inflation — issues Republicans highlight. Abortion rights supporters are motivated by a Supreme Court ruling — but so are abortion opponents. Republicans prepared to vote even as some talked of a successor to former President Trump, or criticized the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
NPR's Morning Edition visited these two districts because each has a hotly contested House seat — and is in a state with a close Senate race.
The Senate candidates are all distinctive: In Pennsylvania, a former small-city mayor and lieutenant governor (John Fetterman) faces a TV host (Mehmet Oz); in Ohio, a writer and venture capitalist (J.D. Vance) contends against an old-style Rust Belt Democrat (Tim Ryan).
For the House, Ohio's 13th District features a state legislator (Democrat Emilia Sykes) against a former campaign staffer and former Miss Ohio (Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert). In Pennsylvania's 17th District, a business owner (Republican Jeremy Shaffer) faces an Iraq war veteran and lawyer (Democrat Chris Deluzio).
Our focus was less on the candidates than the people they would represent. We interviewed more than 40 people, ranging from local politicians to voters found door to door. We asked open-ended questions: What concerns do you have about your community and your country?
You can hear many of their answers at the audio links above — and find four key insights below.
The economy is the center of conversation
Many Democrats would like this election to center on preserving democracy — and for some voters, it's top of mind.
Richard Kramer of Akron said he'd been watching coverage of the Jan. 6th hearings on MSNBC, and found it "so very frightening that we came so close to losing it all."
But other issues felt more immediate to many. In a community center in West Akron, several members of a senior citizens' dance class said they were concerned about shootings on urban streets and inflation.
"A bucket of chitlins," said Margaret Bush, "used to be $8.99 ... Now they're $24.99."
Several in the room plan to vote for Democrats — but their concerns reflected issues Republicans have campaigned on.
Beaver, Penn., is prosperous: Unlike many smaller cities, the downtown stores are mostly occupied, and stunning historic homes line a park overlooking the Ohio River.
But at the downtown grocery, owner Mark Ondrusek said the numbers no longer add up for him: "My labor is up 30 to 40% versus four years ago. The cost of everything–utilities, electric, gas–every vendor is tacking fuel charges onto the bills."
Ondrusek, who leans politically right, plans to vote for Oz for Senate even while dismissing him with faint praise as "a politician" who "means well."
These two districts are complex
It's easy to stereotype both Pennsylvania and Ohio: demographically, both are older and whiter than the country as a whole and can seem to reflect an earlier time in America. Republicans have a slight advantage because they draw more support from older and white voters.
Yet the districts we chose reflected some diversity.
Beaver Falls, Penn., recently elected Kenya Johns its first Black mayor. Akron is trying to make up for its population loss by welcoming immigrants and refugees.
Akron's newcomers build on the foundations laid by immigrants who came before. A former Italian center in Akron, built in the 1930s, when European migrants were drawn to Akron's rubber plants, is now called the Royal Palace: refugees from Bhutan have turned it into a South Asian-style wedding hall.
Diversity may affect the election in various ways. In Akron, Hsa Win is a refugee from Southeast Asia — one of the Karen people who have settled there in some numbers.
"I became a U.S. citizen in 2019 and also voted for the first time in the 2020 elections," he told us. "I have already planned for this Nov. 8: I'm going to take two friends."
Diversity also stirs some anxiety. Deborah Lewis said she was concerned about the loss of free speech — and when asked how that might be reflected in her daily life, she said it was difficult for Christians born in the U.S. to communicate with immigrants from other backgrounds without feeling "restricted."
We also met people struggling to collaborate regardless of party, background or belief. Elected officials in both places seemed determined to avoid partisan remarks — especially officials in smaller cities, where their work demands that they get along with neighbors who disagree. Some local officials welcomed us to town but declined to talk politics at all.
Party lines and district lines mean a lot
Our interviews revealed signs of what millions of dollars worth of campaigning has and has not accomplished. Many people have heard or seen campaign ads. Several people have seen the candidates in person. Some voters are deeply conversant with issues.
But most seemed to have little idea who was running, especially for the House. Many seem likely to cast ballots along party lines. Even better-informed voters seem to feel compelled to vote this way.
In Beaver Falls, Joline Atkins says she likes her party's Congressional candidate, but "I would be voting Democrat anyway. ... I would love to be able to say I'm voting for the person, but there's just too much at stake. I can't do that." Atkins thinks of climate change and abortion, among other issues.
Because many people vote along party lines, it matters where the House district lines are drawn.
Pennsylvania's 17th has long been a swing district — mixing the Pittsburgh suburbs in Allegheny County with more conservative rural areas. Ohio's 13th has long been a Democratic stronghold, but redistricting for this year's election reshaped the district and made it a toss-up.
Some Republicans don't want Trump to run again
Few voters seemed inclined to make the election about Donald Trump, but the former president is on their minds. While Trump still has many devoted supporters, it's common to hear frustration or impatience.
In Barberton, Ohio, Republican city council member Thomas Heitic suggested he'd like a president who's under 70.
"The Constitution says you have to be 35 for president," he said. "It doesn't say 35 times two."
Asked about Trump's attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat, Heitic recalled an instance in his own career when he lost an election.
"I didn't blame anybody," he said. "I didn't look at the Board of Elections and demand a recount. I looked at myself and said, 'How can I do better the next run?' "
Outside Hartville, Ohio, a woman who asked that we use only her first name, Glenda, said she first became a Republican during "the election when Trump came on board. And I'm not saying I like Trump. I don't like what's happening in our country right now."
She voted twice for Trump, but "after Jan. 6th, I just don't trust him ... I never dreamed in a million years he would do something like that ... I won't vote for him again."
She nonetheless remains a Republican — and says she will vote for Republicans in this fall's election, which could return Congress to the control of Trump's party.
The audio for this story was produced by Lisa Weiner and edited by Ally Schweitzer.
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During Mike Elias’ four-plus years leading the Orioles’ baseball operations department, he has never traded for an established major leaguer, only traded Baltimore’s away.
But a trade seeing a major leaguer head back to Baltimore in return for a current Orioles player would present a challenge at this late stage of their rebuilding process, the team’s executive vice president and general manager acknowledged Tuesday at the winter meetings. With Baltimore’s front office working to maximize the team’s immediate playoff odds for the first time during Elias’ tenure, he said it would be difficult to simultaneously hurt and boost those chances by trading any of Baltimore’s major leaguers for another club’s, even if it meant achieving the Orioles’ top desire of improving their rotation.
“We’ve brainstormed stuff with other teams where it’s a major leaguer-for-major leaguer trade,” Elias said. “Obviously, nothing’s happened yet, but we’re definitely open to that. I think it makes it a little bit harder in our situation because our goal this year is to increase our odds of making it into the playoffs, and if we’re taking guys off of our major league team, it kind of bites into that. But we’ve definitely entertained those types of discussions when it comes to importing starting pitchers.”
There is a large gap between entertaining and executing such a possibility, and Elias noted Monday the difficulty in two sides coming to an agreement on the evenness of a suggested deal. The Orioles undoubtedly have major league players who would be of interest to other organizations. Outfielder Anthony Santander has been floated in rumors for several years and for now stands to be the Orioles’ highest-paid position player in his third of four years of arbitration, coming off a season in which he led all switch-hitters in home runs. Asked by MLB Network at last month’s GM meetings about the possibility of trading Santander, Elias said the Orioles “see no real strategy in moving him.”
“But obviously, we do our jobs and we listen to people,” he said.
The Orioles also have a collection of intriguing relievers, with Dillon Tate the only one in the group who has reached arbitration. Center fielder Cedric Mullins would draw significant interest if made available, but Baltimore would much prefer to build around him.
Elias’ use of “liftoff” after he traded away first baseman Trey Mancini and closer Jorge López at last year’s trade deadline became tangled with him saying Baltimore would try to make significant additions and increase payroll this offseason, perhaps setting external sights higher than he intended. But he largely meant that the club’s moves going forward would improve its major league outlook and not take away from that.
In that sense, it’s far more likely that any trade the Orioles make sees them pull from their top-ranked farm system. With the starting pitching market continually proving to be pricey, Baltimore might better serve its internal payroll desires by trading from its deep stock of prospects for a controllable starter. Elias said Monday “a major league acquisition via trade is a wide-open possibility.”
“We have the farm system to do it,” Elias said. “Doesn’t mean we want to lose those guys or give them away, but I think we have the capital to trade for basically anyone who’s on the market. Just whether or not we’re gonna want to meet the acquisition cost of some of these players versus the alternatives in free agency, so we’re going to be simultaneously looking at free-agent and trading pursuits when it comes to the rotation.”
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BOUNTIFUL, Utah, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KwikClick, Inc. (OTCQB: KWIK) ("the Company or "KWIK"), an industry-first, free, multi-purpose service platform that utilizes KWIK's intellectual properties to pay "waves" of commissions and other incentives to anyone willing to make a product recommendation through social media provides first-ever revenue guidance for its fiscal year 2023.
Dr. Fred W. Cooper, Ph.D. and KWIK founder said, " The company projects doing $40 million in revenues for 2023. But after completing our initial integration with Shopify, which facilitates over $200 million Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) annually, planned integrations with WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento, we believe the company is now on an even steeper trajectory and positioned to deliver up to $100 million in revenues by the end of the year. Also, through our intellectual properties, cutting-edge technology, and relationships with many leading E-Commerce companies worldwide, accordingly as deals accrue, guidance may be revised to reflect the value inherent to those new relationships."
KWIK is revolutionizing how affiliate and influencer marketing works by offering a place for everyone, including companies, to earn money, save money, and benefit from our innovative platform. Moreover, the patent-protected KWIK platform provides value to all parties in the sales channel. For brands, it can help create an unlimited number of brand ambassadors, who, through a single KWIK-generated link, can represent their brand to multiple influencers in a single click. Then, those influencers can share with their spheres of influence and so on.
Dr. Cooper added, "the progression of KWIK from development to the commercial stage has been quick and rewarding. Our first-ever publicly disseminated revenue guidance is a product of the work completed, initiatives in the queue, and the response, interest, and adoption by the largest E-commerce platforms in the world, which, combined, make the trillion-dollar GMV market opportunity more than a target, they put it into KWIK's revenue-generating crosshairs."
For more information about KWIKClick, Inc., please visit our website at KWIK.com
About KWIKClick Inc.
KWIKClick is a social software platform developed to connect sellers with buyers (participants) while merging the benefits of social media marketing with the intense power of individual affiliate marketing typically associated only with network marketing organizations. The free account has the potential to turn all social media activity into a product solicitation on behalf of sellers in an unobtrusive manner. Furthermore, the app allows participants to be compensated for all sales resulting from referring any product or service they wish to promote actively or passively as they correspond socially, through mobile devices, or online. Visit us at kwik.com
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ELBERTA — Gilmore Township officials want to review township zoning before allowing certain types of developments to move forward.
Trustees agreed at a Jan. 25 meeting to a six-month pause on developments under one section of Gilmore’s zoning rules. Ronald Beyette, who led the meeting in township Supervisor Carl Noffsinger’s absence, said an increase in housing projects within Benzie County called for a closer look at township zoning rules.
The moratorium, which could be extended for another six months, blocks any permit or variance applications, applications for special use land permits, rezoning requests and site plan reviews under Section 9 of township zoning.
Gilmore Township officials previously asked the township’s attorney to review those zoning rules and master plan, Beyette said.
“And in doing that, he said there was some ambiguous language in that, and that he suggested we do this moratorium to give us some more time to clarify some of those things,” he said.
Shortly before the meeting, Graceland Fruit applied to build a housing development on property it owns near its Forrester Road plant, documents show. The application, which also lists Habitat for Humanity of Benzie County as an applicant, calls for building up to 51 manufactured homes over two phases, starting with 27 in what it calls a mobile/manufactured home park.
The fruit processing company and nonprofit want to partner on a workforce housing project on land the company owns at Forrester and Grace roads, as previously reported.
Groundwater there contains elevated iron, manganese and arsenic levels from the company’s past practice of spraying fruit processing wastewater on a nearby field, although company board President Jonathan Ball previously said there are options for providing clean drinking water to the development.
Neighbors’ concerns
Township residents and landowners previously cited both the contamination and concerns over the project’s density.
Beyette said several commenters pointed to the township’s 5-acre minimum lot size.
“Residents of the township, they are concerned and the board has to listen to them,” he said. “You just can’t dismiss it if someone has a concern. You need to look into those things.”
Tina Langley, who lives about a half-mile from the proposed development, said she was among those at the meeting with concerns about site contamination and rural preservation. She agreed Benzie County needs workforce housing, but supported the moratorium so the township can examine its zoning before making any decisions.
“I think what the six months will do is definitely get some questions answered – or get at least room for further discussion,” she said.
Ball in an email declined to comment on the moratorium, as did Glen Tracy, Habitat for Humanity of Benzie County’s board of directors president.
Current zoning rules wouldn’t allow what the company and nonprofit propose to build, said Josh Mills, the township’s zoning administrator. Mobile or manufactured home parks are allowed but can’t exceed the underlying zoning’s housing density limits without a planned unit development.
The just-passed moratorium would block a planned unit development, and even that section of zoning doesn’t include a density formula, Mills said. It’s one argument for passing that moratorium, since it gives township officials time to come up with density limits for special use permits.
Other projects
Meanwhile, Habitat for Humanity and a host of other organizations are working on various workforce housing projects around Benzie County.
HomeStretch Nonprofit Housing wants to build up to 32 townhomes in Weldon Township, said Executive Director Jon Stimson. The first phase would build out half as many, and they’re all planned for the southwest corner of Lindy and Weldon roads. He’s seeking $800,000 in Michigan State Housing Development Authority grants.
Crystal Mountain, a nearby resort, is helping with the project, Stimson said.
“I would say that a portion, but not the majority, is for the resort,” he said. “It’s really for the Thompsonville and Copemish communities and businesses in those communities.”
Stimson said he’s still working on getting the necessary zoning approved, and hopes to break ground in spring 2024. He’ll also seek a tax break from the township.
Once built, half of the apartments would be for people earning up to 60 or 80 percent area median income, while the rest would be for renters earning up to 100 percent area median income, Stimson said. Those currently range from $42,420 to $70,700 for a household of three, according to MSDHA.
They’ll be designed like townhomes that HomeStretch just finished in Honor, Stimson said. Building them out of prefabricated components put together on site cuts down on lead times required for manufactured housing, and the buildings have super-insulated envelopes and cross-laminated timber floors.
The eight, two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bathroom apartments in Honor are almost full, Stimson said. That includes two with project-based housing vouchers for people making 30 percent area median income or less, Stimson said — up to $21,210, according to MSHDA. Two more are for people making up to 60 percent area median income, while the remaining four are for those making up to 80 percent.
These apartments stand at the corner of Main and Henry streets, where a long-vacant building that had housed an art gallery and studio once stood, as previously reported. The Benzie County Land Bank Authority demolished the building in 2015 after buying it in a tax foreclosure sale.
Land Bank
Benzie County Treasurer Michelle Thompson, who heads the land bank authority, said she’s seeking out hundreds of thousands more in blight elimination grants. Funds from the state will help clear properties that can be redeveloped into housing.
That’s one possibility for two lots in Thompsonville where the land bank wants to clear blight there, Thompson said. Habitat for Humanity of Benzie County, already building three homes in the village, indicated interest in the two lots. Clearing blighted structures can address various issues, such as health or environmental concerns, she said. They also can help developers realize the underlying land’s potential.
“Once you clean the canvas, they go, ‘Oh, I could see this happening here,’ so then it kind of helps the market for that lot to be repurposed,” she said.
Club to townhomes
The land bank authority also will help HomeStretch with another project, this one in Frankfort, Thompson said. She’s planning on using some of the funds the authority gets for blight elimination to demolish the former Lions Club.
Stimson said he’s planning more townhomes there at the corner of Lake and Main streets, 12 at first and possibly 12 more in a second phase. He’s working with a neighboring property owner to buy their land.
Architectural plans call for differing color schemes, a wraparound porch and door embellishments to make the structure more appealing, Stimson said. Three would be for those making up to 60 percent area median income, with the rest for those making up to 80 percent.
Plans are to break ground in early July, but first HomeStretch needs another $290,000 to build the first phase. Benzie County already chipped in $500,000 from its American Rescue Plan Act money, and MSDHA granted $600,000 from its Missing Middle Housing Program.
More attainable housing is planned for Frankfort under a different model, one offering homes for sale at less than market rate.
Land Trust
The Frankfort Area Community Land Trust plans to break ground on two new houses in May and eventually build two more, said Jay White, the land trust’s president. These three-bedroom, two-bathroom houses would sell for 75 percent of their appraised value and stay below market rate in perpetuity.
That’s thanks to an 89-year renewable lease that homeowners would sign and pay, White said — the added cost to them is small, he noted. It adds some restrictions to renovations they can do to the home and requires them to notify the land trust when they sell.
“The real key for the nonprofit to own the land is to make sure that home stays in the workforce housing inventory in the community ... so it couldn’t be sold to the second home market, even the primary market, if the income levels don’t align,” he said.
Homes also couldn’t be used for short-term rentals, he added.
Homeowners would get 25 percent of the home’s equity when they sell it, with 75 percent going to the land trust, White said. That would fund future housing builds, while whatever the homeowner paid on the mortgage’s principal would go back to them.
Frankfort Area Community Land Trust bought the property for these houses in September and has them cleared for construction, White said. Groundbreaking is expected in May on the first two, and he wants to partner with a revived construction trades program at Benzie Central and Frankfort high schools to build the fourth house.
Missing middle
The need for “missing middle” housing — falling somewhere between $175,000 to $250,000, according to a market study cited by the land trust — is nothing new, but it’s become especially acute, White said. He’s a real estate agent whose daughter took over after he retired.
“It’s very hard to find a home in our community for our missing middle-incomers,” he said. “We’re going to end up in Bear Lake or Kaleva or, you know, as far away as Mesick to find homes that they can afford to purchase, and they’re going to drive 25 to 30 miles back to work every day.”
Mills, who’s also Frankfort’s superintendent, is aware of the situation and called himself a housing advocate. He knows workforce housing projects are complex and oftentimes require the kind of partnerships happening in Frankfort.
Gilmore Township is different, both in its zoning and its desire to preserve its rural character, Mills said.
“But I’m really hoping that the community has an exceptional dialogue on what we need to do as a community to be in a better position to encourage and promote workforce housing,” he said.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
02-03-05-06-07-09-13-15-16-19-22-23
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SAN ANTONIO — When it comes to fighting hunger, illness and fear, advocate Susana Segura is the tip of the spear in a hard-fought battle.
She is armed with ramen noodles, tuna and peanut butter, single serving bags of chips, sweet breads and bottled water.
Her super power is her ability to deeply listen to the unmet needs of people who are mostly forgotten.
The people who take refuge under bridges and in easements and wooded lots in west San Antonio all know her and when they see her pull up in a car heavy-laden with supplies, many of them emerge from their makeshift camps quietly and humbly.
Segura usually makes her rounds, checking on her neighbors on Sundays, but with the threat of bitter cold barreling into town, she has been out every day, warning the die-hards that hard, freezing days are coming by late Thursday.
Backed up by a network of mostly anonymous angels, Segura has been distributing carloads of blankets, coats and socks. Handing out new socks to the shivering, she tells them socks with small holes cut in the right place can be make-shift gloves. She scours her supplies, asking each person what they need the most.
In a cold parking lot Wednesday, she sized up a man already wearing several layers of clothing. "Do you need another layer, a t-shirt?" she asks before handing the man a freshly laundered, brightly colored shirt and then tells him he needs to add another layer of pants as well.
"This should fit you and you could put them under or over, either one," Segura said, adding pants to the food and water she has already provided.
When the man expressed sincere thanks, Segura gave him a small blanket as well, telling him it would be the perfect size to wrap his head and preserve a little more warmth.
Segura said anyone can be a mutual aid provider.
"You can focus on the neighborhood immediately surrounding you. I can almost guarantee if you drive slow enough, that you will see little bundles of cardboard where people camp or where people hide their things," Segura said, adding "The closer you can get to your home and to affect your neighbors and help them, the better it is for everybody."
Listing the things that provide the most comfort during the bitter cold, Segura said: hand warmers, tarps and socks.
In the damp, Segura said anything that can be used to keep the weather off a person is helpful.
"People cover up with cardboard and they know how to cope but these temperatures are not typical," Segura said.
Segura said sometimes offering to make a phone call is all someone needs to find relief.
"Sometimes they don't have a phone, but they do have somebody that they could call, so you could offer to make that phone call for them," Segura said.
Segura said it is difficult for people with few resources to find accessible help.
"There are a lot of people in the community who are isolated from the larger agencies or who may not know that they are there, so they are not able to travel to those locations," Segura said.
In addition to providing aid, Segura is a powerful writer, sharing compelling stories about her adventures on her website.
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Next-generation solution improves patient experience, outcomes tracking, and practice revenues for EMR users
PHOENIX, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WebPT, the leading rehab therapy platform for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth, today announces the release of the Keet Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) Dashboard and enhanced integrations with the WebPT and Insight EMRs. Users now can take advantage of enhanced real-time integration with the Keet platform, including its new RTM capabilities. These new workflows will enable rehab therapists to improve the patient experience, better track patient outcomes, and increase practice revenues that leverage RTM billing codes.
"When we acquired Keet Health earlier this year, we committed to continuing Keet's laser focus on extraordinary digital-health innovation," said Ashley Glover, CEO at WebPT. "We also wanted to make it easier for WebPT EMR and Insight EMR users to access the benefits of Keet without duplicating work. As a result, practices now can take advantage of seamless integrations between our EMR products and Keet's expanded functionality—and get even more value from their investments in our platforms."
Specifically, WebPT has expanded solutions and functionality for Keet Health, Insight EMR, and WebPT EMR users through the following integrations and new offerings:
- The new Keet RTM Dashboard presents new patient engagement opportunities and tracks a patient's progress and the therapist's remote monitoring time, allowing the clinic to confidently bill for the four new RTM CPT codes that apply to outpatient therapy.
- Keet Health now offers WebPT EMR users a near real-time integration. The connection, which has been available for Insight EMR users, includes three solutions—Keet Engage, Keet Outcomes, and the new Keet RTM Dashboard—and ensures that they are easy to use for clinicians and patients.
In addition to enabling new revenue streams, digital RTM support can also accelerate patient recovery by remotely ensuring patients comply with their plans of care. "An important and timely addition to the digital health needs of every clinic is remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM)," said Troy Bage, PT, DPT, Chief Operating Officer at Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy. "Not only can RTM technology support better communication with your patients, but it also can help improve patient adherence and outcomes."
"WebPT remains passionately focused on improving experiences and outcomes for providers and patients," said Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer at WebPT. "Adding new Keet integrations to the WebPT EMR delivers on our commitment to help rehab therapists save time on documentation and administrative processes. This allows them to do what they do best: treat patients."
To learn more about WebPT products and integrations, visit webpt.com.
WebPT is the leading rehab therapy platform for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth. WebPT's product suite provides a robust end-to-end solution covering the entire rehab therapy business cycle, including the tools and knowledge necessary to maximize performance, revenue, and patient outcomes. With a 99% retention rate and an uptime rate in excess of 99.9% across its entire platform, WebPT is the most-trusted and most-reliable solution in the industry, regardless of practice setting, specialty, or size. Learn more at webpt.com.
Keet Health, a WebPT company, improves the digital experience and clinical outcomes for patients treated by outpatient rehab, orthopedic, and hospital-based practices. Comprising three solutions, the Keet platform features Engage, for patient communication, education, and progress tracking; Outcomes, for performance benchmarking and value-based program participation; and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) Dashboard, for billing RTM-based CPT codes. Keet drives better outcomes—for patients and for practices. Learn more at keethealth.com.
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Experience Montana like never before as you travel across the Big Sky state after dark
HELENA, Mont., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Montana's stunning natural beauty is a draw for adventurers and nature enthusiasts alike. Yet, amidst this picturesque wonderland lies a hidden gem few have discovered - Montana's Trail to the Stars. This captivating initiative invites stargazers and explorers to immerse themselves in the wonders of the night sky through its unique dark sky sanctuaries.
Montana's Trail to the Stars celebrates the state's commitment to preserving its exceptional night skies and promoting astronomy tourism. As one of the few places left in the world with minimal light pollution, Montana offers unparalleled opportunities to witness the celestial wonders above. Scattered across Montana's picturesque Central and Eastern landscapes, the stops on the 'Trail to the Stars' provide havens for both professional and amateur astronomers to observe and study the stars in their full splendor.
Visitors to Montana's Trail to the Stars will have the chance to embark on a captivating journey, exploring locations throughout the state. Stargazing sites range from large RV parks to bare-bones recreation areas, but they all share a sense of remoteness. From Glacier National Park, known for its awe-inspiring vistas, to the remote Bob Marshall Wilderness, a designated International Dark Sky Sanctuary, Montana offers diverse locations that provide exceptional stargazing opportunities. Sightseers can even download a 'Trail to the Stars' map to plan their route before a trip.
In collaboration with renowned astronomers and astrophotographers, the trail offers a range of educational programs and stargazing events at select locations, ensuring visitors gain a deeper understanding of the night sky's mysteries. This year, the Carter County Museum will also host 'Dinosaurs & Dark Skies' on July 20, as part of their eleventh annual Dino Shindig. Participants will have the chance to learn about constellations, witness meteor showers, and even capture breathtaking images of distant galaxies. Dinosaurs & Dark Skies invites visitors to Medicine Rocks State Park (Montana's first International Dark Sky Sanctuary) for a night of stargazing and fossil phosphorescence. Additionally, Medicine Rocks State Park will host its second 'Summer Solstice' event of the summer on August 16.
"Montana's Trail to the Stars is a gateway to the wonders of the universe," said Scott Osterman, Director of the Montana Department of Commerce. "Our dark skies and the communities in between offer an unparalleled opportunity to connect with the cosmos, inspire awe and foster a sense of wonder. We invite all astronomy enthusiasts, from novice stargazers to seasoned astronomers, to embark on this extraordinary journey and witness the beauty of Montana's star-filled skies."
For more information and to plan your 'Trail to the Stars' adventure, please visit www.montanatrailtothestars.com.
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Visit Montana markets Montana's spectacular unspoiled nature, vibrant and charming small towns, breathtaking experiences and relaxing hospitality. For more information, visit VISITMT.COM.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial lawyer and counselor Jason Elster, and Paul McGrady, a nationally recognized trademark and domain name authority and author of three books published by Lexis/Nexis, are now helping clients establish, protect, and grow their brands through their new law firm, Elster & McGrady LLC (E&M). The firm is a Chicago-based boutique focusing on Brands, Domain Names/ICANN, Social Media, and related Litigation, and it offers maximum flexibility to its corporate clients in billing arrangements, including a strong preference for monthly flat and project-based fees.
E&M's mission is simple: to provide top-quality legal services with concierge-level attention. Elster and McGrady offer clients an experience informed by over 34 years of collective practice in BigLaw, including partnerships at Greenberg Traurig, Winston & Strawn, and Taft. They achieve this by leveraging leading-edge technology and Great Lakes-inspired common sense. E&M can assist clients in any industry, and both nationally and internationally, with strategy and execution of brand management and enforcement.
E&M also rewrites law firm culture, putting utmost importance on the well-being of its attorneys, paralegals, and staff. As McGrady explained, "We could not be more excited about this project. We intend to ensure that client satisfaction and quality of life for our professionals go hand in hand rather than being in competition with each other. We don't intend to evaluate our employees based on how many billable hours they can cram into a year, but rather based on the quality of their work, the value each brings to the clients they serve, and the supporting relationships they build within the firm. I can think of no better person to take this journey with than Jason Elster."
"Our goal is to support our clients throughout their brand ecosystem, from creating and protecting their marks to preventing and resolving commercial disputes involving their reputations and technology," said Jason Elster. "This is an incredible opportunity to practice law with one of the sharpest minds and kindest hearts I know. Paul and I synergize on every level, and I am excited to offer clients practical and creative solutions on our new platform."
The firm opens today, and E&M expects to move into its office space in Chicago's trendy North Center neighborhood in March. "We know many are moving away from in-person interactions in offices, but our firm is going to be built on a tight-knit group who believe we can have it all – great clients, great friendships, the highest level of quality and service, and even some fun. Where better than Chicago, and where better than North Center?" said McGrady.
Learn more about Elster & McGrady and their services at www.elstermcgrady.com.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Florida's District 14, a seat held by Democrat Kathy Castor since 2007, now includes parts of St. Petersburg — including downtown St. Pete, south St. Pete and areas east of Interstate 275 and U.S. 19.
Her Republican challenger, James Judge, is a political newcomer and U.S. Coast Guard veteran.
10 Tampa Bay asked for your questions for the candidates and took them directly to Castor and Judge. You can watch the interviews below.
10 Tampa Bay interview with Kathy Castor
Q: What is your stance on Ukraine? (Question from viewer)
Castor: God bless the brave people of Ukraine and their outstanding president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and I strongly support their supplying Ukrainians with the tools they need to repel Putin and his horrendous aggression, unprovoked aggression and I strongly supported the aid packages. And have worked here locally to help Ukrainian families relocate here, one case reuniting a mother with her daughter who works here at Community Tampa Bay.
Q: Under what conditions would you support direct American military action to support Ukraine against Russia?
Castor: No, I would not support troops or direct military action but I do appreciate that President Biden has led the effort to galvanize the Europeans in opposition to Putin's war of aggression.
Q: How do you plan to address climate changes? (Question from viewer)
Castor: The Inflation Reduction Act we just passed is the most historic investment in clean energy and resilience in the history of America. It's the most forward-reaching climate law in the world. I chair the House Select Committee on the climate crisis, so I was asked by my colleagues to lead the effort. It goes back to the fact that I grew up here in Florida, I’m an environmental attorney and I have experience on environmental policy.
Q: A 55% American majority opposes phasing out the production of new gasoline cars and trucks by 2035, while 43% are in favor. Where do you stand on this specific issue?
Castor: Well Ford and GM, our American manufacturers are phasing out gas-powered vehicles because it is one way to solve the climate crisis. The transportation sector is the most polluting sector, even more than the power sector so it's also a competition issue, global competition issue. We want to develop the solutions here in America.
Q: Do you think non educators should be choosing what is being taught or do you support teachers choosing what, when and how to teach? (Question from viewer)
Castor: Yes, I trust educators, but it's important for parents to have a role and a voice in their children's education. What I don’t like is politicians injecting themselves into what is education, professional educators and the way they review materials, a lot goes into those decisions but it should be a collaborative process but in the end, it's very important to teach the basics, reading, writing, and history.
Q: How about gun control and laws of obtaining them? I'm a gun owner and wondered what their thoughts are on it for future reference. (Question from viewer)
Castor: When you look at the epidemic of gun violence across the country and across the state of Florida, it's obvious we need common sense solutions. I support the bi-partisan background checks law to ensure that firearms do not fall in the hands of folks who shouldn't have them- criminals, abusers, terrorists. In fact, this Congress, we passed the first gun-safety legislation in over 20 years, the bi-partisan Safer Communities Act.
Q: If China takes military action to control Taiwan, what American response would you support? What would you unconditionally oppose?
Castor: Again, I don't see a direct role for the United States troops but it is very important at this moment in history for the United States of America to support democracies across the globe. China is playing a very dangerous game. We've seen them take over Hong Kong. Now, they're threatening Taiwan, had military operations in the neighborhood. It's very important for us to provide the consultation, military partnerships, the ISR- intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. It's interesting, a lot of the new military leaders have shifted a focus to the Pacific rim because of China's aggression.
Q: What are three Congressional actions that you would support to control the flow of immigrants seeking to enter the southern U.S. border?
Castor: We've got to have a more secure border and I've voted for millions and millions of dollars for border security. There are a lot of new tools available where you can use drones and overflights in contact with folks on the ground to make sure that they're, that anyone trying to cross illegally is dispatched and not allowed to enter the United States. We also have a broken immigration system. If you are legally seeking entry through asylum or through a family connection, there needs to be a better way for you to reach, to apply while you're outside the country and have your papers reviewed before you show up unannounced. It's also very important especially in the Western hemisphere to encourage economic development among the countries where people are fleeing poverty and abuse. That's a longer-term challenge but we must do that.
10 Tampa Bay interview with James Judge (R)
Q: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? (Question from viewer)
Judge: We have enough time for this question? (laughs) No, but there are some caveats. What I'll explain is, look, I don't know what happened in the 2020 election but I do know, like every election, there's cheating in every election, unfortunately. Was it enough to overturn the race? I don't believe so and I'll give you my reasoning for believing that. I make phone calls to people every single day for the campaign purpose and when I talk to one out of three Republican women who tell me they couldn't vote for President Trump because he was too vulgar, too aggressive, and too brash, I think when you lose that much of your base, the election wasn't stolen.
He should have won in such a landslide based on policy and where the economy was that you know, and I'll upset a lot of Republicans by saying it, but the reason President Trump is not president is because of President Trump. And, did 80% of the media coverage for four years, was it against him? That should have played a bigger role. It's surprising he got as many votes as he did. He had a lot of negative publicity towards him for four straight years. I think that had he changed his tone, if he would have been a little bit more professional, not as disrespectful, and stayed off of Twitter and just carried himself a little more presidential, I think he would still be president and he wouldn't be in this situation.
Q: What is your stance on Ukraine? (Question from viewer)
Judge: Alright, so having been to Ukraine several times this year, got to help with an organization, help with some rescues of some babies, really cool to be involved with that and it was also because we were rescuing Americans that had been held captive by Russian forces. Here's my take on it. If we had strong leadership in Washington, if we had good foreign policies, I don't think that Russia would have invaded Ukraine. I think in the world right now there's a leadership vacuum and when you don't have strong leadership where there are consequences for doing stupid things like shooting rockets and missiles at civilian buildings and we hold those people accountable should they do something stupid like that if it would have been a different leader in the office, I think that we wouldn't have that circumstance happening right now.
Q: Under what conditions would you support direct American military action to support Ukraine against Russia?
Judge: I think that one, I would like to speak to our military leadership before I really answer that question and say OK, we need to do this, we need to that. I'd like to get a briefing and understand where they feel on things and what they think our readiness capabilities are. I think Russia has demonstrated they're a lot weaker than we thought. I think the proxy war that is currently going on has actually weakened Russia substantially.
Q: Do you support women's right to choose what happens to her body? (Question from viewer)
Judge: So, this question is one that has been asked a lot this campaign and it's so much more complicated than pro-life, pro-choice. The Christian in me believes that all life is precious. The pragmatic person that loves the law in me wants to have a definition of life that would be consistent across the board. At the federal government level, I could give you an easy answer and say this is a decision that should be passed down to the states and leave it at that. I don't know that we need to have the federal government involved. I'd rather see all 50 states working to come up with the best possible solution and maybe that's where we go.
In terms of, from a pragmatic standpoint, if we could get Democrats and Republicans to agree on at least from a legal standpoint on when life begins because right now we don't have one. I don't drink but if I did drink, if I was to have three beers here, get in the car, drive and rear-end a woman who's on her way to the abortion clinic, in the state of Florida and that baby was to die, the state would pick up the charges against me and charge me with DUI manslaughter. It wouldn't even be up to the woman. The state of Florida, that's the way they would do it. How do we have a law that is fair and balanced on all sides? I think that maybe there's a definition, where we have like a heartbeat law where when there's a heartbeat. We judge a death by a heartbeat. Why not judge a life by a heartbeat?
Q: What are one-two actions that you would support to control the flow of immigrants coming across the southern border?
Judge: Immediately this is a foreign policy issue all day long. One, we have to start enforcing law. We should beef up border security. We should finish the wall. That's the immediate thing. Secure the southern border. Operation Vigilant Sentry has been enacted. It is the United States government's emergency operations plan for if and when there is a mass migration from the Caribbean, in this case Cuba and Haiti. In Mariel, during the boatlift, there was 125,000 Cuban immigrants that came over. This year, we've seen 230,000 Cuban immigrants. It's the largest Cuban exodus in world history. We've seen a 400% increase in Haitian interdictions. There is a crisis happening with migration to the United States. It's because this administration said come on in, just come on it, no issues, whatsoever.
Now what differentiates me from a lot of Republicans out there is that, I actually would like to fix immigration, and Democrats for that matter, I'm frustrated with most of Washington if you can't tell. It's not just the Democrats. I'm also frustrated at a lot of Republicans. A lot of them like to fundraise on these issues. The grossest thing I've learned about this process is it's all about money and most of them don't really care about fixing the issues. It's like if we've got issues with immigration, we can fundraise off of that. That's terrible. We're talking about human beings here, a lot of times human beings that are fleeing countries that have socialism and other issues going on so one secure the border, enforce the law because we should be a nation of laws and if we're going to have the laws, they should be enforced. If not, we should have new legislation and change the laws.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes"), is an alternative asset manager and, since 2017, has raised four funds dedicated to Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). As the market leader in monetizing TRAs, Parallaxes is dedicated to increasing the visibility and transparency of TRAs which remain an often overlooked and misunderstood asset class. In the vein of creating greater visibility into the TRA ecosystem, Parallaxes is pleased to highlight a notable development in the market as Ranger Energy Services Inc. ("Ranger Energy") previously terminated its TRA.
Ranger Energy disclosed that it issued 376,185 shares of Class A common stock (worth approximately $4 million at the time of the announcement) to TRA holders to terminate its TRA. The Ranger Energy TRA provided for the payment of 85% of the net cash savings realized from certain tax attributes, including savings from (i) increases in tax basis resulting from exchanges of subsidiary units for common stock and (ii) certain payments made under the TRA.
Parallaxes views TRAs, including the Ranger Energy TRA, as a valuable tool to reduce certain moral hazard problems and informational asymmetry inherent in a company's public offering. TRAs help ensure that pre-IPO owners are economically aligned with new public shareholders and incentivize pre-IPO owners to pursue an IPO structure that provides the company with ongoing tax benefits. Parallaxes anticipates enhanced awareness and understanding of TRAs will drive increased market adoption.
Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). Parallaxes offers private equity sponsors, co-investors and management team members solutions to achieve liquidity, diversification and optionality from their TRAs. Parallaxes was founded in 2017 and is comprised of experienced investment professionals from leading private equity and growth equity firms. To learn more, please visit www.plxcap.com
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Listen up. I’m making my annual foray into fantasy by solving the Miami Dolphins again in 10 simple steps.
Forget I said two years ago to keep the young offensive line intact and watch it develop. Remember I said to replace as many as possible last year.
Forget I said to chase quarterback Nick Foles in 2019. Remember I said to get Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson in previous years.
The easy groundwork has been done this offseason with the Dolphins creating cap space, writing big checks and making players happy. That’s the easy part. Now comes the harder decisions what to do with that cap space and how to improve this team. Let’s go:
1. Let Vic Fangio pick two inside linebackers. People ask if the Dolphins will land a whale in free agency. They already have. Fangio is a star. Change is coming, too. The Dolphins were a 4-3, big blitzing and big press-coverage defense the past four years. Fangio’s 3-4 system doesn’t blitz much and plays more zone than man-to-man. What’s needed? A couple of inside linebackers for starters. He had stars like Patrick Willis in San Francisco and Roquan Smith in Chicago. Smaller names like Josey Jewell and Alexander Johnson were his inside linebackers in Denver. But consider: Jewell ranked fifth and Johnson ninth among linebackers, according to Pro Football Focus, when Denver had the third-best scoring defense in 2021. Free agency is full of relatively inexpensive linebackers. Cincinnati’s Germaine Pratt and the Los Angeles Chargers’ Drue Tanquill fit that bill. But Fangio knows what he wants. Let him pick them.
2. Buy a right tackle to compete and the best swing tackle available. Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion concerns add to the consequence of this decision. You can hope right tackle Austin Jackson improves a lot. You can’t trust it. You can hope star left tackle Terron Armstead plays more than the two-thirds of the snaps of last year. You can’t trust he will considering he’s missed more snaps in four of the previous seven seasons. The easy out is saying to buy San Francisco’s Mike McGlinchey or Atlanta’s Kaley McGary for $16 million a year. But even fantasy money has limits. An NFL scout pointed to low-paid veterans who grade out well like Las Vegas’s Jermaine Eleumunor or Arizona’s Kevin Beacham. Eleumunor also has been a career swing tackle, as has Denver’s Cameron Fleming. There are some good, budget-conscious answers. That doesn’t solve left guard. Liam Eichenberg, year three, is the hope.
3. Get the right backup quarterback since he’s the second-most important player on the roster. Teddy Bridgewater had some odd injuries last year but there might not be a better talent for this role. Andy Dalton? Gardner Minshew? Former Dolphin Jacoby Brissett had a good year in Cleveland. This is coach Mike McDaniel’s call, and like last year it’s a decision that could decide the season.
4. Spend pennies on running backs. The Shananan/McDaniel System doesn’t demand you spend big here — well, it didn’t until San Francisco traded for Christian McCaffery last season. There’s really no reason to spend big after Josh Jacobs, Tony Pollard and Saquon Barkley were given franchise tags from their teams. Bringing back Raheem Mostert makes sense considering he was productive last year (891 yards, 4.9 yards a carry in 2022) and won’t break the bank. You need someone else and there’s James Robinson, who can run and was a good receiving back in 2020 and 2021 for Jacksonville before being traded to the New York Jets last year.
5. How to fix the tight end? Maybe you don’t. Maybe McDaniel showed what the thought of the position last year. That fits more in the San Francisco idea, where a talent like George Kittle isn’t featured like Kansas City’s Travis Kelce. The top tight end on the free-agent market, Dalton Schultz, is similar to Kittle as a good receiver and 14th-ranked run blocker at the position last year, according to PFF (Kittle was 11th). But does McDaniel value the position at the $15 million salary Daulton will get? Maybe the option is pairing an above-average blocker and below-average receiver in Durham Smythe with an above-average receiver and below-average blocker like Cincinnati free-agent Hayden Hurst.
6. Help the poor special teams. They had a return-man rotation no one explained last year. Do you solve that with free agent Braxton Berrios, the former New York Jet and Miami Hurricane, to return punts and kickoffs? Jason Sanders is another question. His contract has an easy out for the team this offseason. He has an 82.9 percent field-goal average for his career and is 17-26 on field goals over 50 yards. Three free-agent kickers made over 90 percent last year. Matt Gay made 93.3 percent last year in Los Angeles. Brett Maher made 90.6 in Dallas and nine of 11 over 50 yards. You’d have to factor the stadiums in gauging all this, but it seems time to move on.
7. To keep or trade draft picks? I’d keep them loose, considering the Dolphins are all-in this year. But let’s be practical, too. The Los Angeles Rams’ cornerback Jalen Ramsey is available. Philadelphia’s Darius Slay is shopping around for a new deal and set the market for a possible Eagles re-signing. Cornerback is a deep position this draft. Does Fangio value such big man-to-man covers? Doesn’t seem like it. Also, do you get a young player and use the saved money elsewhere or get a high-priced veteran? Much of it depends on what Fangio values.
8. More passes to the post-game family area! The Dolphins, as I’ve written for years, are first class everywhere but on the field. A players’ union poll of team services agreed. The Dolphins ranked second in the league in the survey of everything from food services to training facilities. The only semi-blip was a C-plus grade in the treatment of families because, “they only give a limited number of passes to the postgame area, which players with lager families feel is very restrictive.”
9. Now that Tua is learning to fall better through jiu-jitsu (and, yes, that’s important), instruct him on taking fewer hits. People cheered when he lowered his head into Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Devin Bush last season after returning from his first concussion hiatus. The franchise has too much invested him to play like that. A quarterback controls how he is hit (or not) out of the pocket for the most part. In the pocket, there’s more learning to do. He tends to hold onto the ball in hopes of making a play rather than throwing it away and living for another down. That’s an issue Nick Saban talked about at Alabama.
10. Throw Dolphins fans a bone and have another game wearing throwback jerseys. I don’t care about this. I’m not 14. And look how I dress. But for as much as they’ve put up with the past two decades, give the fans this much. Please.
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Dog owner charged with animal cruelty after his dogs found shot to death
FERRUM, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - Virginia authorities say an owner of two missing dogs has been arrested after they were found shot to death.
According to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, 58-year-old Terry Eugene Michel was arrested and charged with killing the dogs.
He is facing two counts of felony animal cruelty, one count of filing a false police report and two summons for improper disposal of a companion animal.
WDBJ reports that Michel initially said his black labs, named Colby and Caleb, were stolen on Feb. 7 by two men who lured them into their car at an area park.
The Franklin County Humane Society Planned Pethood and Adoption Center said community members joined them in offering a reward to help find the dogs.
However, on Tuesday the sheriff’s office said deputies and animal control were called regarding a resident finding the bodies of two dogs on the side of the road.
Authorities identified the animals as Colby and Caleb. They said they were “appalled” and called their death “senseless.”
An autopsy performed at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech revealed the dogs died of gunshot wounds.
According to the sheriff’s office, Michel’s original report about his black labs being stolen at the park was unfounded. Investigators said the dogs were never at the park on that day.
Investigators have not yet established a motive for the dogs’ deaths.
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Steven Wang, M.D., will be the Director of Dermatologic Oncology and Dermatologic Surgery for Hoag Family Cancer Institute
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is proud to announce that Steven Wang, M.D., a renowned, board-certified dermatologist and fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon, has joined the Hoag Family Cancer Institute as the Director of Dermatologic Oncology and Dermatologic Surgery as part of the Melanoma & Complex Skin Cancer Program.
Dr. Wang joins Hoag after spending 16 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as the Head of Dermatology Section and Director of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology. Dr. Wang has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and academic textbooks, written five books and has lectured extensively throughout the world on the topics of skin cancer detection, treatment and prevention.
To improve diagnoses, the Melanoma & Complex Skin Cancer Program under Dr. Wang will begin offering new, cutting-edge technologies funded by Hoag's active philanthropic community to detect melanoma and other skin cancers at early stages while avoiding unnecessary skin biopsies. To achieve optimal treatment outcomes, Dr. Wang will use noninvasive screening modalities, helping to avoid unnecessary biopsies. He is also an experienced Mohs surgeon with a unique expertise in providing the whole spectrum of care to patients.
"Dr. Wang combines clinical expertise with a researcher's intellectual curiosity, making him a perfect fit for Hoag's culture of innovation," said Robert T. Braithwaite, Hoag president and CEO. "He is also a compassionate physician. He listens to his patients and works with them through their fears and concerns."
Melanoma is the fifth most common – and the most deadly – form of cancer, and it hits California particularly hard, with an estimated 10,260 estimated new cases projected in 2022 alone. Dr. Wang said he is excited to combine clinical research and advanced technologies to help Orange County residents prevent and treat skin cancer.
"Hoag is known for bridging the worlds between an academic research facility and a community hospital. It is a place where doctors can provide the most innovative and advanced care while listening to each patient as an individual," he said. "I am excited to join the team."
Dr. Wang attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed his medical internship and fellowship training in melanoma at NYU School of Medicine and his residency in dermatology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. In 2005, Dr. Wang trained under world-renowned Mohs surgeon Dr. Leonard H. Goldberg in Houston.
Dr. Wang has held several academic appointments within Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and serves as the president of the Photodermatology Society and chair of The Skin Cancer Foundation's Photobiology Committee. He is also an active member of several other professional organizations including the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery, and Cutaneous Oncology. For more information about the Melanoma & Complex Skin Cancer Program and Dr. Wang, please contact Hoag Family Cancer Institute at 949-7-CANCER.
ABOUT HOAG
Hoag is a nonprofit, regional health care delivery system in Orange County, California. Delivering world-class, comprehensive, personalized care, Hoag consists of 1,800 top physicians, 15 urgent care facilities, 10 health & wellness centers, and two award-winning hospitals. Hoag offers a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes six institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women's health, and orthopedics through Hoag's affiliate, Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and four ambulatory surgical centers. Hoag is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County by U.S. News & World Report and the only OC hospital ranked in the Top 10 in California, as well as a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). For more information, visit hoag.org.
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TAIPEI, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allion Labs, a renowned technology testing and certification company, is proud to announce its new designation as an Authorized Vendor Test Lab (AVL) for OpenSync® certification. Through this strategic partnership Allion and Plume® will provide Allion customers efficient integration for rapid deployment of Plume's innovative cloud-based platform for connected home services – expediting time to market.
Plume Design, Inc., a global leader in intelligent Wi-Fi and smart home services, has chosen Allion as a Plume-trusted partner to expand Plume's certification program. Allion's extensive experience in testing and validating cutting-edge technologies, coupled with Allion's state-of-the-art facilities and expert engineers, make Allion an ideal fit for the rigorous requirements of OpenSync certification.
As an AVL for OpenSync certification, Allion will provide comprehensive testing services to manufacturers seeking OpenSync certification for their Wi-Fi systems and connected devices. By leveraging their advanced testing methodologies and industry-leading equipment, Allion is committed to ensuring that Plume-certified products meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and interoperability.
"Allion is thrilled to be appointed as an AVL for OpenSync certification," said Robert Yao, President of Allion-USA." This partnership highlights our commitment to delivering exceptional testing and certification services to the technology industry. By working closely with Plume, we will play a key role in ensuring the success and seamless integration of their intelligent Wi-Fi and smart home services."
OpenSync certification offers manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their products in the market by showcasing their compatibility with Plume's innovative platform. Certified products will benefit from the industry-leading features of the Plume cloud, such as AI-driven optimization, advanced cybersecurity, and personalized home services. This collaboration between Allion and Plume will empower manufacturers to create connected home solutions that deliver delightful user experiences.
"By partnering with Allion, we are confident that we have found a reliable and capable AVL to support our certification program," said Alain Shen, Director of Business Development - OpenSync. " Allion's proven track record in testing and certification, combined with their expertise in emerging technologies, makes them an ideal partner as we continue to grow and expand our ecosystem of Plume-certified products."
Manufacturers interested in OpenSync certification can now access Allion's specialized testing services to ensure their products meet Plume's stringent requirements for certification. With Allion's state-of-the-art laboratories and dedicated engineers, manufacturers can accelerate their time to market and gain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving connected home industry.
About Allion
Allion is a leading technology testing and certification company dedicated to enabling digital innovation. With more than 30 years of experience, Allion provides comprehensive testing, validation, and consulting services to ensure the quality, performance, and interoperability of various technology products. Allion's extensive expertise covers a wide range of domains, including wireless communication, IoT, automotive, audio and video, and more. For more information, visit www.allion.com.
About OpenSync:
Deployed widely by leading CSPs globally, OpenSync is a hardware- and cloud-agnostic, open-source software defined networking framework that enables the curation, delivery, management, support, and operation of residential and small business services at scale. OpenSync creates a secure, open, and unified services and data ecosystem with over 2.5 billion devices managed to date. In addition to native deployment, OpenSync can be implemented over RDK and OpenWRT. With OpenSync, CPE and device ecosystem partners gain detailed performance analytics, broad visibility, and extensive insights.
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Celtics vs. Heat Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - Eastern Conference Finals Game 3
Published: May. 21, 2023 at 1:54 PM CDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
The Boston Celtics are 4-point favorites heading into Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat at FTX Arena on Sunday, starting at 8:30 PM ET on TNT. The Heat lead the series 2-0.
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Celtics vs. Heat Game Info & Odds
- Date: Sunday, May 21, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: FTX Arena
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Celtics vs. Heat Score Prediction
- Prediction: Celtics 113 - Heat 111
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Spread & Total Prediction for Celtics vs. Heat
- Pick ATS: Heat (+ 4)
- Pick OU:
Over (214)
- The Celtics sport a 44-35-3 ATS record this season as opposed to the 30-48-4 mark from the Heat.
- When the spread is set as 4 or more this season, Boston (26-29-2) covers a lower percentage of those games when it is the favorite (45.6%) than Miami (7-8) does as the underdog (46.7%).
- When it comes to eclipsing the over/under in 2022-23, Boston does it more often (52.4% of the time) than Miami (48.8%).
- As a moneyline favorite this year, the Celtics are 53-21, a better record than the Heat have recorded (8-16) as moneyline underdogs.
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Celtics Performance Insights
- Things are clicking for Boston, which is scoring 117.9 points per game (fourth-best in NBA) and giving up 111.4 points per contest (fourth-best).
- So far this season, the Celtics rank seventh in the league in assists, putting up 26.7 per game.
- The Celtics sport a 37.6% three-point percentage this season (sixth-ranked in NBA), but they've really shined by draining 16 threes per contest (second-best).
- In terms of shot breakdown, Boston has taken 52% two-pointers (accounting for 62% of the team's buckets) and 48% from beyond the arc (38%).
Heat Performance Insights
- Offensively Miami is the worst squad in the league (109.5 points per game). However on defense it is second-best (109.8 points conceded per game).
- With 23.8 assists per game, the Heat are 25th in the league.
- Beyond the arc, the Heat are 16th in the NBA in 3-pointers made per game (12). They are fourth-worst in 3-point percentage at 34.4%.
- In 2022-23, Miami has attempted 40.8% percent of its shots from beyond the arc, and 59.2% percent from inside it. In terms of makes, 30.5% of Miami's buckets have been 3-pointers, and 69.5% have been 2-pointers.
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ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel fuel on tribal land along Puget Sound.
No injuries were reported. It wasn’t clear what caused either derailment.
The derailment in Washington occurred on a berm along Padilla Bay, on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes. Most of 5,000 gallons (nearly 19,000 liters) of spilled diesel fuel leaked on the land side of the berm rather than toward the water, according to the state Ecology Department.
Officials said there were no indications the spill reached the water or affected any wildlife.
Responders placed a boom along the shoreline as a precaution and removed the remaining fuel from two locomotives that derailed. Four tank cars remained upright.
The derailment in western Arizona, near the state’s border with California and Nevada, involved a train carrying corn syrup. A spokeswoman for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, Anita Mortensen, said that she was not aware of any spills or leaks.
BNSF spokeswoman Lena Kent said an estimated eight cars derailed in Arizona and were blocking the main track. The cause of the derailment was under investigation, and it was not immediately known when the track will reopen.
The derailments came amid heightened attention to rail safety nationwide following a fiery derailment last month in Ohio and a string of derailments since then that have been grabbing headlines, including ones in Michigan, Alabama and other states.
The U.S. averages about three train derailments per day, according to federal data, but relatively few create disasters.
Last month, a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, igniting a fire and causing hundreds of people to be evacuated.
Officials seeking to avoid an uncontrolled blast intentionally released and burned toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke high into the sky. That left people questioning the potential health impacts even as authorities maintained they were doing their best to protect people.
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GAINESVILLE — Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s push to move the annual Florida game from Jacksonville and onto campus continues to generate attention and conversation.
The schools released a joint statement Monday of game week, calling the annual game “an important tradition” while noting “both programs are focused on our current seasons.”
What the future holds remains in question.
The current contract runs through 2023, with an option to extend it two years and continue to host a rivalry contested in Jacksonville since 1933. The Gators (4-3, 1-3 SEC) and top-ranked Bulldogs (7-0, 4-0) meet at 3:30 Saturday in TIAA Bank Field.
“A lot of history and tradition there,” Florida coach Billy Napier said.
Smart, a former Georgia player, bemoans the inability to host recruits at the game, though this year recruits at least can attend the game. A game in Athens or Gainesville has the potential to be each program’s biggest recruiting weekend.
The Bulldogs’ coach reiterated his wishes at July’s SEC Media Day. Last week, though, Smart said he recognizes the value of playing in Jacksonville.
Each athletic department is guaranteed $1.25 million and splits ticket revenue, pushing the total haul to around $2.9 million per school. The city of Jacksonville pays for team travel and ultimately experiences an economic impact of around $35 million.
“I enjoy the pageantry of going down there. I enjoyed playing there as a player, I enjoy tradition,” Smart said. “When it comes down to it, there’s a very, very basic element of everything comes back to, No. 1, money. And No. 2, recruiting. I firmly believe that we’ll be able to sign better players by having it as a home-and-home because we’ll have more opportunities to get them to campus.
“But there’s a financial factor. With having the game there, and being able to make more money for the university.”
A Gators’ home game currently generates around $3 million.
Whatever happens, neither Florida nor Georgia is in a rush to discuss next steps.
“Typically both schools begin conversations regarding future games in the series as the last contracted game nears,” the statement said. “When those discussions take place, we will consider a multitude of factors, including tradition, finances, future SEC scheduling models with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma (in 2025), and what is best for both schools’ football programs overall.”
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osgators.
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- The Corporation recorded revenues of $4.6 million in Q1 2022, a 65% increase from Q1 2021, and a 28% increase from Q4 2021
- Record revenue in medical cannabis of over $2.6 million in Q1 2022, a 470% increase from the prior year and 32% increase from Q4 2021
- Gross profit before fair value adjustments grew to $2.1 million, up 96% from Q1 2021, driven primarily by its 75% gross margin medical cannabis business, compared to 49% in Q4 2021.
- In Q1 2022, Europe (the UK and Germany) represented 53% of all medical cannabis revenue, compared to 10% in Q1 2021.
- The net change in cash and cash equivalents of -$3.3 million, compared to -$8.6 million in Q1 2022, ending Q1 2022 with $5.1 million in cash
TORONTO, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Khiron Life Sciences Corp. ("Khiron" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: KHRN) (OTCQX: KHRNF) (Frankfurt: A2JMZC), a global leader in medical cannabis throughout Latin America and Europe, announced today its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, reporting record revenue in the medical cannabis business. These filings are available for review on the Corporation's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com. All financial information in this press release is reported in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated.
Summary of Key Financial Results:
Q1 2022 operating highlights and subsequent events:
- Khiron's unique patient-focused medical cannabis segment posted 7th quarter of consecutive revenue growth in Q1 2022, and now represents 57% of the Corporation´s revenue and 92% of its total gross profits. In the month of March 2022, Khiron had surpassed $1 million in monthly revenues in medical cannabis alone.
- Khiron's unique business model is already beginning to yield positive financial results during Q1 2022. ILANS SAS (Khiron's health service business in Colombia) has been instrumental in driving higher gross margin medical cannabis and clinical services.
- Both Khiron's European expansion and continued growth in Colombia, is driving the medical cannabis segment growth in Q1 2022. In Q1 2022, Khiron surpassed $1 million in medical cannabis revenues in the United Kingdom.
- In Colombia, Khiron continues to be a market leader in medical cannabis with its unique vertically integrated approach and leverage of insurance coverage on its clinics. Over 82% of sales were sold through insurance coverage, and over 84% of the sales were sold to returning patients, who are now purchasing up to 1.8 bottles per month.
- At the end of Q1 2022, the Corporation had $37.6 million in total assets (excluding goodwill), with more than $9.4 million in land and buildings, high-quality medical cannabis inventory of $8.1 million, healthy Accounts Receivables with credit-worthy clients in Colombia and Europe of $4.4 million and $0.8 million in financial debt.
- The Corporation's cash used in operating activities for Q1 2022 was $2.8 million, compared to -$8.2 million in Q1 2021 and approximately -$5.4 million in Q4 2021, resulting in net cash of $5.1 million at the end of Q1 2022. This is a result of actively managing the working capital cycle, improving collection times for the Corporation´s Accounts Receivable, and extending payment terms on its Accounts Payables while reducing overall general and administrative costs and increasing its high gross margin medical cannabis business.
Management commentary:
Alvaro Torres, Khiron CEO and Director, comments, "Khiron is the top-selling medical cannabis brand in Latin America and one of the top-selling brands in the United Kingdom. Our unique approach will continue to generate double-digit revenue and gross profits quarter over quarter in markets poised to become significant in the coming years. Our focus is to leverage the infrastructure we have built to continue driving sales in our target markets while maintaining discipline in our expenses so we can achieve profitability in the near future, and then continue to look for more growth opportunities in Latin America and Europe."
Mr. Torres added, "The results of Q1 2022 continue to showcase the success of Khiron's global expansion and the Corporation's unique "patient-first" strategy.
Webcast Details:
Khiron invites individual and institutional investors, as well as advisors and analysts, to attend the Corporation's First Quarter 2022 Conference Call, followed by a Q&A session.
DATE: Tuesday, May 31th, 2022
TIME: 10:00am ET
PRESENTERS: Alvaro Torres, Khiron Chief Executive Officer and Director, Swapan Kakumanu, Khiron Chief Financial Officer, and Franziska Katterbach, President of Khiron Europe.
FORMAT: Live 45 minute presentation & Q&A session
REGISTER LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VVgAryILSl-W9at7iftkCQ
About Khiron Life Sciences Corp.
Khiron is a leading vertically integrated international medical cannabis corporation with core operations in Latin America and Europe. Leveraging medical health clinics and proprietary telemedicine platforms, Khiron combines a patient-oriented approach, physician education programs, scientific, product innovation, and cannabis operations expertise to drive prescriptions and brand loyalty with patients worldwide. The Corporation has a sales presence in Colombia, Peru, Germany, United Kingdom, and Brazil and is positioned to commence sales in Mexico. The Corporation is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alvaro Torres, together with an experienced and diverse executive team and board of directors.
Visit Khiron online at https://investors.khiron.ca.
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/khiron-life-sciences-corp/
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
This press release includes references to Adjusted EBITDA, which is a financial measure that does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net loss before tax as reported under IFRS and adding back share-based compensation expense, transaction fees, unrealized gain on changes in fair value of biological assets, depreciation and non-recurring items. Adjusted EBITDA provides an indication of the results generated by the Corporation's principal business activities prior to how these activities and assets are financed (including mark-to-market movements of the warrant value), depreciated and amortized or how the results are taxed in various jurisdictions, impairment of property, plant, and equipment, impairment of intangible assets, changes in fair value of inventory, unrealized changes in fair value of biological assets, prior to the effect of foreign exchange, other income and expenses, and non-cash share-based payment expense. The term Adjusted EBITDA does not have any standardized meaning and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. The Corporation believes Adjusted EBITDA not only provides management with comparable financial data for internal financial analysis but also provides meaningful supplemental information to investors. In particular, management believes that this financial measure can provide information useful to its shareholders in understanding the performance of the Corporation and may assist in the evaluation of its business relative to that of its peers. Investors are cautioned that this non-IFRS measure should not be considered in isolation or construed as an alternative to the measurements of performance calculated in accordance with IFRS as, given the non-standardized meaning, it may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. Existing Adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily predictive of the Corporation's future performance or the Adjusted EBITDA of the Corporation as at any future date.
Calculation and Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA
The following table provides a reconciliation of net loss to Adjusted EBITDA.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. All information contained herein that is not historical in nature constitutes forward-looking information. Forward-looking information contained in this news release include, without limitation, statements pertaining to the Corporation's business plans and goals, including its goal of achieving profitability in the near future and improving revenue collections, reducing cash outflows, and leveraging the Corporation's assets to generate more working capital. Forward-looking information and statements contained in this news release reflect management's current beliefs and is based on information currently available and on assumptions that management believes to be reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, assumptions regarding the future regulatory developments and economic conditions, the Corporation's ability to continue its growth and reduce costs.
Although management believes that its expectations and assumptions to be reasonable, forward-looking information is always subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of management, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the following: risks relating to general economic conditions and capital markets; risks relating to the availability of financing on satisfactory terms; risks relating to the COVID-19 pandemic or other health crises; risks relating to regulatory, legislative, competitive and political conditions; as well as those other risk factors discussed in Khiron's most recent annual information form which is available on Khiron's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
As a result of the foregoing and other risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained in this press release. Readers are further cautioned that the foregoing risks and uncertainties is not exhaustive, and there may be other risks and uncertainties, presently unknown to management of the Corporation, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements contained in this press release. The forward-looking information contained in this press release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Khiron disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information disclosed herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.
McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back.” The “new” song is set to be released later this year, he said.
Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC radio. “He could separate them with AI, he’d tell the machine ‘That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar’.”
“So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on,” he added. “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.”
McCartney didn’t identify the name of the demo, but the BBC and others said it was likely to be an unfinished 1978 love song by Lennon called “Now and Then.” The demo was included on a cassette labeled “For Paul” that McCartney had received from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, the BBC reported.
McCartney described AI technology as “kind of scary but exciting,” adding: “We will just have to see where that leads.”
The same technology enabled McCartney to “duet” virtually with Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, on “I’ve Got a Feeling” last year at Glastonbury Festival.
The singer-songwriter is set to open an exhibition later this month at the National Portrait Gallery in London featuring previously unseen photographs that he took during the early days of the Beatles at the start of “Beatlemania,” when the band rose to worldwide fame.
The exhibition, titled “Eyes of the Storm,” showcases more than 250 photos McCartney took on his camera between 1963 and 1964 — including portraits of Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Lennon, as well as Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
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This story has been corrected to show that the title of McCartney’s photo exhibition is “Eyes of the Storm,” not “Eye of the Storm.”
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