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ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP), a leading global consumer products company, is scheduled to release its third quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call at 8:30a.m. ET that day to discuss its financial results.
Call Information
To access the live webcast, visit https://ir.tupperwarebrands.com. To listen to the conference call via telephone, dial (888) 550-5326 and enter conference ID number 4436100 when prompted. Participants outside the U.S. who are not able to access the webcast should dial (646) 960-0829 and enter the conference ID number provided above.
Replay
A replay of the conference call will be available at https://ir.tupperwarebrands.com approximately two hours after the live call has ended. An audio replay of the conference call will be available via telephone starting at 11:30am ET on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, through 11:30am ET on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. To listen to the recorded conference call via telephone, dial (800) 770-2030 and enter the conference ID provided above. Outside the U.S., dial (647) 362-9199 and enter the conference ID number provided above.
About Tupperware Brands Corporation
Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP) is a leading global consumer products company that designs innovative, functional and environmentally responsible products that people love and trust. Founded in 1946, Tupperware's signature container created the modern food storage category that revolutionized the way the world stores, serves and prepares food. Today, this iconic brand has more than 8,500 functional design and utility patents for solution-oriented kitchen and home products. With a purpose to nurture a better future, Tupperware® products are an alternative to single-use items. The company distributes its products into nearly 70 countries, primarily through independent representatives around the world. For more information, visit Tupperwarebrands.com or follow Tupperware on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Investors: Douglas M. Lane, CFA, douglaslane@tupperware.com (321) 503-9640
Media: Cameron Klaus, cameronklaus@tupperware.com, (407) 371-9784
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A shooting gallery is just one of the activities you can do at the New York State Trappers and Sportsman Show. The show has plenty of fur, lures for baiting animals, and of course traps, but they also have live demonstrations to establish best practices. Charles Pitcher is a young Trapper from Westford, New York.
"They have a big setup and they have like ok here’s going to be a fox demo, or they have coyote demos and they show you how to like plant the trap and how to cover it up."
David Leibig, the Executive Director of the New York State Trappers Association says the demonstrations give novice and professional trappers a chance to perfect their skills.
"There’s somebody that has a specialty, and they share their secrets to make you a better trapper."
There’s everything from crafts to serious trapping items, and it’s not just the older crowd that’s getting 'caught up' in the activity.
"Trapping is the only one the median age is lowering. Hunters are getting older and older, and trappers get lower, and I put that towards our youth trapper’s camp."
This show helps educate the public about what trapping is all about, and why it’s important, and that message is getting through to young trappers like Charles Pitcher.
"Trapping is just trying to downsize the population so other animals can live better."
Don Hillman is the Region 6 Director of the New York State Trappers Association. He explains how wild animals will live better if they’re properly maintained.
"By controlling the animal populations we can reduce the amount of disease in the animals."
There is a misconception that trapping is cruel, but the traps are simply meant to hold the animal in place without hurting it, and many trappers like David Leibigare are selective about the animals they do catch.
"If I find a young female Bobcat I’ll let it go because that’s seed to produce more animals. It makes a healthy population."
Admission to the Trappers Convention & Sportsman Show is $10 per person. Service members and those 16 under get in for free. The event is Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
For more information contact Bill Swagler: NYSTAconvention@gmail.com
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, June 26, the 177th day of 2022. There are 188 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 26, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
On this date:
In 1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I landed in St. Nazaire.
In 1925, Charles Chaplin’s classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premiered at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
In 1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee. Elvis Presley performed his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush went back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of “compelling evidence” Iraq had plotted to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush.
In 1996, the Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling (ROHL’-ing), was published in the United Kingdom (it was later released in the United States under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”).
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed.
In 2013, in deciding its first cases on the issue, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans and also cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California.
In 2020, after protesters in Washington, D.C., attempted to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect monuments, memorials and statues. Texas and Florida reversed course and clamped down on bars as the daily number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the U.S. surged to an all-time high of 40,000.
Ten years ago: Sen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP Senate primary in Utah, handily turning back a challenge from tea party-backed Dan Liljenquist (lihl-IHN’-kwihst). Essayist, author and filmmaker Nora Ephron, 71, died in New York.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump welcomed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (nah-REN’-drah MOH’-dee) to the White House as the two leaders heralded an increasingly close strategic partnership. The Supreme Court said Trump could forge ahead with a limited version of his ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries. Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup with a resounding romp against software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA. Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook capped his historic season at the NBA’s inaugural awards show, winning the 2016-17 Most Valuable Player award.
One year ago: Fire and smoke from inside the remains of a collapsed 12-story condominium tower near Miami hampered search efforts. Former President Donald Trump returned to a rally stage in Ohio for his first campaign-style event since leaving the White House; he reprised his election grievances and baseless claims of fraud. The Celebrity Edge became the first cruise ship to leave a U.S. port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill; the number of passengers was limited to 40 percent capacity as the ship left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with virtually all of them vaccinated against COVID-19.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician-film composer Dave Grusin is 88. Actor Josef Sommer is 88. Singer Billy Davis Jr. is 84. Rock singer Georgie Fame is 79. Actor Clive Francis is 76. R&B singer Brenda Holloway is 76. Actor Michael Paul Chan is 72. Actor Robert Davi is 71. Singer-musician Mick Jones is 67. Actor Gedde Watanabe (GEH’-dee wah-tah-NAH’-bee) is 67. Rock singer Chris Isaak is 66. Rock singer Patty Smyth is 65. Singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) is 63. U.S. Bicycling Hall of Famer Greg LeMond is 61. Country musician Eddie Perez (The Mavericks) is 54. Rock musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) is 53. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is 52. Actor Sean Hayes is 52. Actor Matt Letscher is 52. Actor Chris O’Donnell is 52. Actor Nick Offerman is 52. Actor Rebecca Budig is 49. Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter is 48. Contemporary Christian musician Jeff Frankenstein (Newsboys) is 48. Country singer Gretchen Wilson is 48. Rock musician Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon) is 43. Pop-rock singer-musician Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic) is 43. Actor-musician Jason Schwartzman is 42. Actor Aubrey Plaza is 38. Actor-singer Jennette McCurdy is 30. Actor-singer Ariana Grande is 29.
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Good Wednesday afternoon everyone. Here is your Storm Team 11 forecast for the week ahead.
Rest Of Today: Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Light winds.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Patchy fog late. Lows in the mid-50s. Light winds.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds.
Thursday Night: Clear. Lows in the mid-50s. Light winds.
Friday: Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid-80s. Light winds.
Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid-80s.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid-80s.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Monday Night: Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
Tuesday: Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
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Data from RAGNAR, the largest tumor-agnostic study reported for a targeted therapy and the first to evaluate FGFR-driven malignancies, featured in oral presentation at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting
CHICAGO, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced initial results from the pivotal Phase 2 RAGNAR study evaluating the investigational use of BALVERSA® (erdafitinib), a fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) kinase inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors with prespecified FGFR alterations. At a planned interim analysis (IA), responses were observed across a variety of FGFR-driven solid tumors for patients who had exhausted standard treatment options prior to being treated with BALVERSA®.1 These results will be featured in an oral presentation (Abstract #3007) today at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
RAGNAR (NCT04083976) is a Phase 2 clinical study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BALVERSA® in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors and prespecified FGFR gene alterations, regardless of tumor location or histology (tumor-agnostic). The IA was based on 178 patients with 32 distinct solid tumor histologies.1 Patients in the study were prospectively identified by local molecular testing or central next-generation sequencing (NGS); the most common tumor types were cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) (n=31), high-grade glioma (tumor of the brain or spinal cord) (n=29), breast cancer (n=14), pancreatic cancer (n=13) and squamous non-small cell lung cancer (n=11).1 The study also included tumors that occur less frequently in the real world such as salivary gland and parathyroid carcinomas (rare endocrine malignancies), as well as tumors of unknown primary origin.1 Study participants were heavily pretreated, with 74.7 percent (n=133) having received two or more prior lines of therapy.1
The primary endpoint of the RAGNAR study is the overall response rate (ORR) as assessed by an independent review committee (IRC). At the IA data cutoff, IRC assessed an ORR of 29.2 percent (95 percent confidence interval [CI], 22.7-36.5) and a disease control rate (DCR) of 72.5 percent (95 percent CI, 65.3-78.9) for the overall tumor-agnostic patient population.1 Investigators observed responses in 14 distinct tumor types. This included responses in hard-to-treat malignancies such as salivary gland cancer (100 percent ORR; treated n=5, responders n=5), pancreatic cancer (31 percent ORR; treated n=13, responders n=4) and glioblastoma (21 percent ORR; treated n=29, responders=6).1 Investigators also observed an overall 7.1-month median duration of response (DOR) (95 percent CI, 5.5-9.3)1. At the data cutoff, 51.1 percent (n=24) of patients who had responded to treatment continued to show a response.1 The primary analysis for all patients treated in this RAGNAR cohort, known as the broad panel cohort, is anticipated later this year.
The safety profile of BALVERSA® observed in RAGNAR was consistent with the known safety profile of BALVERSA® in metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC). Across tumor types, 44.9 percent of patients experienced adverse events of grade three or above.1 Adverse events were manageable with supportive care and treatment interruptions or reductions, when necessary.1 The discontinuation rate due to drug-related adverse events was 7.3 percent.1
"Diagnostic advances in the identification of FGFR gene alterations have opened the door to targeted, tumor-agnostic treatment approaches for patients," said Yohann Loriot, M.D., Ph.D., Institut Gustave Roussy and University of Paris-Saclay, and principal study investigator.‡ "Results from the RAGNAR study show that, through the targeted inhibition of FGFR receptors, we may be able to tailor treatment for patients with advanced FGFR-driven cancers, regardless of tumor location or histology."
In 2019, BALVERSA® was granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a targeted therapy for adult patients with locally advanced or mUC with susceptible FGFR2 or FGFR3 alterations and who have progressed during or following at least one line of prior platinum-containing chemotherapy, including within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant platinum-containing chemotherapy.2
"Janssen is committed to advancing precision medicine approaches for the treatment of patients with biomarker-driven cancers, an area of clear unmet need," said Kiran Patel, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development, Solid Tumors, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "RAGNAR, Janssen's first tumor-agnostic study, demonstrates our commitment to understand the biology of disease, identify new treatment pathways and improve patient outcomes. We look forward to progressing the development of BALVERSA for these patients and sharing additional updates on this program in the future."
About FGFR Alterations
Fibroblast growth factor receptors are a family of receptor tyrosine kinases that help cells grow, survive and multiply; FGFRs play a key role in several biological processes including tissue repair, inflammatory response and metabolism.3,4,5 Fusions or mutations in the genes that control FGFR (known as FGFR1–4 alterations) may lead to the development and progression of certain cancers by increasing tumor cell growth and survival.4 Patients with advanced, FGFR-driven solid tumors who have exhausted standard treatment options typically face a poor prognosis.
About the RAGNAR Study
RAGNAR (NCT04083976) is a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of BALVERSA® in patients with advanced solid tumors, regardless of cancer type or tumor location (tumor-agnostic), driven by FGFR1–4 alterations. Patients in the trial have progressed on or after at least one line of systemic therapy and have no alternative standard treatment options. Following screening by local molecular testing or central NGS, patients are enrolled in four separate cohorts: a broad panel cohort of patients with pathogenic FGFR mutations or gene fusions (tumor histologies evaluated include but are not limited to cholangiocarcinoma [bile duct cancer], high- and low-grade glioma [a tumor type occurring in the brain or spinal cord], breast, pancreatic, squamous and non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal, endometrial, esophageal, salivary gland, ovarian, duodenal [cancer occurring in the first part of the small intestine], thyroid and cancer of unknown primary origin); an exploratory cohort of patients with other FGFR mutations; a cholangiocarcinoma expansion cohort; and a pediatric cohort of patients ages 6 to 17 with FGFR alterations.1
The primary endpoint of RAGNAR is IRC-assessed ORR. Key secondary endpoints include investigator-assessed ORR, DOR, DCR, clinical benefit rate, progression free survival, overall survival and incidence and severity of adverse events.
About BALVERSA®
BALVERSA® (erdafitinib) is a once-daily, oral FGFR kinase inhibitor that is approved by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or mUC that has susceptible FGFR3 or FGFR2 genetic alterations and has progressed during or following at least one line of platinum-containing chemotherapy, including within 12 months of neoadjuvant or adjuvant platinum-containing chemotherapy. Patients are selected for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for BALVERSA®. Information on FDA-approved tests for the detection of FGFR genetic alterations in urothelial cancer is available at: http://www.fda.gov/CompanionDiagnostics. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.2,6
In addition to RAGNAR, BALVERSA® is being studied in clinical trials including the Phase 3 THOR (NCT03390504) study evaluating BALVERSA® versus standard of care, consisting of chemotherapy (docetaxel or vinflunine) or anti-PD-1 agent pembrolizumab, in participants with advanced urothelial cancer and selected FGFR aberrations with disease progression following one or two prior lines of therapy; and the randomized Phase 2 THOR-2 (NCT04172675) study examining BALVERSA® versus investigator choice of intravesical chemotherapy in participants who received Bacillus Calmette-Guérin and recurred with high risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.7,8
In 2008, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV entered into an exclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Astex Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize BALVERSA®.
For more information, visit www.BALVERSA.com.
BALVERSA® IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Warnings and Precautions
Ocular Disorders – BALVERSA® can cause ocular disorders, including central serous retinopathy/retinal pigment epithelial detachment (CSR/RPED) resulting in visual field defect.
CSR/RPED was reported in 25% of patients treated with BALVERSA®, with a median time to first onset of 50 days. Grade 3 CSR/RPED, involving central field of vision, was reported in 3% of patients. CSR/RPED resolved in 13% of patients and was ongoing in 13% of patients at the study cutoff. CSR/RPED led to dose interruptions and reductions in 9% and 14% of patients, respectively, and 3% of patients discontinued BALVERSA®. Dry eye symptoms occurred in 28% of patients during treatment with BALVERSA® and were Grade 3 in 6% of patients. All patients should receive dry eye prophylaxis with ocular demulcents as needed.
Perform monthly ophthalmological examinations during the first 4 months of treatment and every 3 months afterwards, and urgently at any time for visual symptoms. Ophthalmological examination should include assessment of visual acuity, slit lamp examination, fundoscopy, and optical coherence tomography. Withhold BALVERSA® when CSR occurs and permanently discontinue if it does not resolve within 4 weeks or if Grade 4 in severity. For ocular adverse reactions, follow the dose modification guidelines [see Dosage and Administration (2.3)].
Hyperphosphatemia and Soft Tissue Mineralization – BALVERSA® can cause hyperphosphatemia leading to soft tissue mineralization, cutaneous calcinosis, non-uremic calciphylaxis and vascular calcification. Increases in phosphate levels are a pharmacodynamic effect of BALVERSA® [see Pharmacodynamics (12.2)]. Hyperphosphatemia was reported as adverse reaction in 76% of patients treated with BALVERSA®. The median onset time for any grade event of hyperphosphatemia was 20 days (range: 8–116) after initiating BALVERSA®. Thirty-two percent of patients received phosphate binders during treatment with BALVERSA®. Cutaneous calcinosis, non-uremic calciphylaxis and vascular calcification have been observed in 0.3% of patients treated with BALVERSA®.
Monitor for hyperphosphatemia throughout treatment. In all patients, restrict phosphate intake to 600-800 mg daily. If serum phosphate is above 7.0 mg/dL, consider adding an oral phosphate binder until serum phosphate level returns to <5.5 mg/dL. Withhold, dose reduce, or permanently discontinue BALVERSA® based on duration and severity of hyperphosphatemia [see Dosage and Administration (2.3), Table 2: Dose Modifications for Adverse Reactions].
Embryo-fetal Toxicity – Based on the mechanism of action and findings in animal reproduction studies, BALVERSA® can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. In a rat embryo-fetal toxicity study, erdafitinib was embryotoxic and teratogenic at exposures less than the human exposures at all doses studied. Advise pregnant women of the potential risk to the fetus. Advise female patients of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with BALVERSA® and for one month after the last dose. Advise male patients with female partners of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with BALVERSA® and for one month after the last dose [see Use in Specific Populations (8.1, 8.3) and Clinical Pharmacology (12.1)].
Most common adverse reactions including laboratory abnormalities ≥20%:
Phosphate increased (76%), stomatitis (56%), fatigue (54%), creatinine increased (52%), diarrhea (47%), dry mouth (45%), onycholysis (41%), alanine aminotransferase increased (41%), alkaline phosphatase increased (41%), sodium decreased (40%), decreased appetite (38%), albumin decreased (37%), dysgeusia (37%), hemoglobin decreased (35%), dry skin (34%), aspartate aminotransferase increased (30%), magnesium decreased (30%), dry eye (28%), alopecia (26%), palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome (26%), constipation (28%), phosphate decreased (24%), abdominal pain (23%), calcium increased (22%), nausea (21%), and musculoskeletal pain (20%). The most common Grade 3 or greater adverse reactions (>1%) were stomatitis (9%), nail dystrophy*, palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome (6%), paronychia (3%), nail disorder*, keratitis†, onycholysis* (10%), and hyperphosphatemia.
*Included within onycholysis. †Included within dry eye.
- An adverse reaction with a fatal outcome in 1% of patients was acute myocardial infarction.
- Serious adverse reactions occurred in 41% of patients, including eye disorders (10%).
- Permanent discontinuation due to an adverse reaction occurred in 13% of patients. The most frequent reasons for permanent discontinuation included eye disorders (6%).
- Dosage interruptions occurred in 68% of patients. The most frequent adverse reactions requiring dosage interruption included hyperphosphatemia (24%), stomatitis (17%), eye disorders (17%), and palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome (8%).
- Dose reductions occurred in 53% of patients. The most frequent adverse reactions for dose reductions included eye disorders (23%), stomatitis (15%), hyperphosphatemia (7%), palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome (7%), paronychia (7%), and nail dystrophy (6%).
Drug Interactions
- Moderate CYP2C9 or strong CYP3A4 Inhibitors: Consider alternative agents or monitor closely for adverse reactions. (7.1)
- Strong CYP2C9 or CYP3A4 inducers: Avoid concomitant use with BALVERSA®. (7.1)
- Moderate CYP2C9 or CYP3A4 inducers: Increase BALVERSA® dose up to 9 mg. (7.1)
- Serum phosphate level-altering agents: Avoid concomitant use with agents that can alter serum phosphate levels before the initial dose modification period. (2.3, 7.1)
- CYP3A4 substrates: Avoid concomitant use with sensitive CYP3A4 substrates with narrow therapeutic indices. (7.2)
- OCT2 substrates: Consider alternative agents or consider reducing the dose of OCT2 substrates based on tolerability. (7.2)
- P-gp substrates: Separate BALVERSA® administration by at least 6 hours before or after administration of P-gp substrates with narrow therapeutic indices. (7.2)
Use in Specific Populations
Lactation – Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions from erdafitinib in a breastfed child, advise lactating women not to breastfeed during treatment with BALVERSA® and for one month following the last dose.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for BALVERSA®.
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism, & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at @JanssenGlobal and @JanssenUS. Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Janssen Biotech, Inc. and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV are part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
‡Dr. Loriot has served as a consultant to Janssen; he has not been paid for any media work.
Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding product development and the potential benefits and treatment impact of BALVERSA® (erdafitinib). The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., or any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2022, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
1 Loriot et al. Tumor agnostic efficacy and safety of erdafitinib in patients (pts) with advanced solid tumors with prespecified fibroblast growth factor receptor alterations (FGFRalt) in RAGNAR: interim analysis (IA) results. ASCO 2022.
2 BALVERSA Prescribing Information.
3 Xie Y, Su N, Yang J, et al. FGF/FGFR signaling in health and disease. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2020;5(1):181.
4 Katoh M. Fibroblast growth factor receptors as treatment targets in clinical oncology. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2019;16(2):105-122.
5 Helsten et al. The FGFR Landscape in Cancer: Analysis of 4,853 Tumors by Next-Generation Sequencing. Clin Cancer Res. 2015;22(1):259-267.
6 U.S. Food & Drug Administration. FDA grants accelerated approval to erdafitinib for metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-drugs/fda-grants-accelerated-approval-erdafitinib-metastatic-urothelial-carcinoma. Accessed June 2022.
7 Clinicaltrials.gov. A Study of Erdafitinib Compared With Vinflunine or Docetaxel or Pembrolizumab in Participants With Advanced Urothelial Cancer and Selected Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR) Gene Aberrations. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03390504. Accessed June 2022.
8 Clinicaltrials.gov. A Study of Erdafitinib Versus Investigator Choice of Intravesical Chemotherapy in Participants Who Received Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and Recurred With High Risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC). https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04172675?term=NCT04172675&draw=2&rank=1. Accessed June 2022.
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FinVolution Subsidiary AdaKami Cooperates with PT Bank Seabank Indonesia to propel growth in Indonesia
Published: Jul. 27, 2023 at 3:00 AM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
SHANGHAI, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group ("FinVolution," or the "Company") (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech platform, today announced that its Indonesian financial application, AdaKami, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with PT Bank Seabank Indonesia ("SeaBank"), a digital bank dedicated to bettering the lives of consumers and small businesses in the region with technology. Under the terms of the agreement, SeaBank will provide AdaKami with a funding facility of approximately 300 billion Rupiah (US$20.0 million) to enhance AdaKami's integrated API services for direct transactions, expanding FinVolution's international service offerings and advancing the Company's mission of connecting underserved borrowers with financial institutions.
Building upon FinVolution's cutting-edge technologies and extensive experience in the region, AdaKami's various partnerships with leading Indonesian banks have flourished, boosting the platform's service efficiency and user connectivity while also promoting financial inclusion in the region. AdaKami's latest strategic collaboration with SeaBank will enable customers to seamlessly conduct real-time funding transactions through API, supplying individuals and small businesses with direct access to fintech solutions that contribute to Indonesian economic development.
Mr. Tiezheng Li, President and Chief Executive Officer of FinVolution Group, commented, "Driven by our Local Focus, Global Outlook strategy, FinVolution is proud to support Indonesia's economic growth through technology. AdaKami's partnership with SeaBank will empower underserved customers throughout the country with faster, simpler and more direct banking services. With FinVolution's commitment to financial inclusion firmly in mind, we will continue to invent and deploy creative technologies, expanding our customer base and elevating user experience while improving efficiency across our operations. We are confident that as we forge new partnerships and deliver enhanced financial solutions to more customers, we will replicate our domestic success in international markets, propelling the rapid growth of the fintech industry in Southeast Asia and beyond."
About FinVolution Group
FinVolution Group is a leading fintech platform in China and internationally connecting underserved borrowers with financial institutions. Established in 2007, the Company is a pioneer in China's online consumer finance industry and has developed innovative technologies and has accumulated in-depth experience in the core areas of credit risk assessment, fraud detection, big data and artificial intelligence. The Company's platform, empowered by proprietary cutting-edge technologies, features a highly automated loan transaction process, which enables a superior user experience. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had over 164.5 million cumulative registered users.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.finvgroup.com.
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Close to a half-million workers are ready to strike on a single day as Britain faces an escalation of industrial action across a number of sectors.
Unions representing civil servants, teachers, university staff, and train drivers have said their members will walk out on Feb. 1 as part of demands for higher pay to cope with the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
About 450,000 workers have a mandate to strike, according to Bloomberg calculations. If all the union members took up their right, the day's industrial action would come close to matching every walkout throughout the whole of November.
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The Office for National Statistics said this week that 467,000 working days were lost to strikes in November -- itself a 10-year high.
Nearly 100,000 civil servants said last week they would strike on Feb. 1 as part of a dispute over pay, disrupting various corners of the UK public sector, including driving tests, passport applications, and welfare payments. Unions representing other workers have subsequently picked the same day for their own industrial action.
Labor groups are also planning widespread protests on the day, rallying against government plans to impose minimum service levels during strikes.
With little sign of a steep pay rise in sight, unions appear to be coordinating more of their industrial action. Nurses and ambulance workers will strike on Feb. 6, the first time the National Health Service will have faced simultaneous walkouts by both sets of workers.
UK wages are rising at an almost unprecedented rate, but most of the money is going to workers in the private sector.
Average earnings, excluding bonuses, rose 6.4 percent in the three months through November compared with a year ago, the Office for National Statistics estimates. That’s the biggest increase since records began in 2001, excluding the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Labor shortages have given workers unprecedented bargaining power. The pressure is most acute in the private sector, where wages rose 7.2 percent. In the public sector, they increased just 3.3 percent, well below the current 10.5 percent inflation rate.
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Militant tensions on rise in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's military warned Thursday of potential clashes with the country's powerful paramilitary force, which it said deployed troops in the capital of Khartoum and other cities.
Tensions between the military and the paramilitary, known as Rapid Support Forces or RSF, have escalated in recent months, forcing a delay in the signing of an internationally backed deal with political parties to revive the country's democratic transition.
In a statement, the military said the buildup of the RSF in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country was done without "the approval of, or coordination with" the armed forces' leadership and presents a clear "violation of the law."
The paramilitary has also deployed troops in northern Sudan, along the border with Egypt, with local media reporting that the RSF attempted to build a military base there. Also, videos circulating on social media Thursday show what appear to be RSF-armed vehicles being transported into Khartoum, further to the south.
In response to the escalation, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum advised American citizens on Thursday against traveling to northern Sudan. Also, U.S. government staff have been prohibited from venturing beyond the capital's metropolitan area until April 20, it said.
N. Korea launch draws special scrutiny
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Thursday conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in a month, possibly testing a new more mobile, harder-to-detect missile for the first time, its neighbors said, as it extends its provocative run of weapons tests.
Japan briefly urged residents on a northern island to take shelter in an indication of its vigilance over North Korea's evolving missile threats.
The missile was launched on a high angle from near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and fell in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan after a 620-mile flight, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staffs said in a statement.
It described its range as medium or longer. The U.S. National Security Council called it a long-range missile and Japan's government said it likely had an intercontinental range.
South Korea's military believes North Korea launched a new type of ballistic missile, possibly using solid fuel, a defense official said under the condition of anonymity because of office rules.
If the launch involved a solid-fuel ICBM, it would be the North's first test of such a weapon. North Korea's known ICBMs all use liquid propellants that must be fueled before launches. But the fuel in a solid-propellant weapon is already loaded, allowing it to be moved easier and fired faster.
Relations restored by Bahrain, Qatar
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Gulf nations of Bahrain and Qatar agreed to restore diplomatic relations late Wednesday.
Bahrain had been the last holdout of four Arab nations that imposed a boycott on Qatar in 2017. They were angered by Qatar's support for Islamist groups that rose to power in some countries after the 2011 Arab Spring protests, which the other autocratic nations viewed as terrorist organizations.
The boycott was lifted at the start of 2021, and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have restored ties with Qatar since then, with top leaders paying official visits in recent months.
Bahrain and Qatar each issued official statements announcing the decision to restore relations after a meeting between their delegations at the headquarters of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-nation bloc of which both are members, in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
The four nations had severed all ties to Qatar, and at the height of the crisis there was even talk in local media of digging a trench along the 54-mile border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and filling it with nuclear waste.
Saudis, Syrians move toward closer ties
BEIRUT -- Syria and Saudi Arabia said Thursday they were moving toward reopening embassies and resuming flights between the two countries for the first time in more than a decade.
The joint statement followed a visit by Syria's top diplomat to the kingdom, the first since Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria in 2012.
Syria was widely shunned by Arab governments over Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on protesters in a 2011 uprising that descended into civil war. The breakdown in relations culminated with Syria being ousted from the Arab League.
However, in recent years, as Assad consolidated control over most of the country, Syria's neighbors have begun to take steps toward rapprochement. The overtures picked up pace since the major Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and the Chinese-brokered reestablishment of ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which had backed opposing sides in the Syrian conflict.
Saudi Arabia is hosting the next Arab League summit in May, when Syria's membership is widely expected to be on the table. Some members, mainly Qatar, have opposed Damascus' return to the organization.
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Brandi McNease is a 20-year food service employee and member of Chipotle United. She lives in Sidney.
As a food service worker-turned-union organizer, this Labor Day is especially important to me. It will mark the end of a whirlwind summer that showed me the power of collective action, and how many good people are suffering because they are told they deserve it. This Labor Day marks the turning of the tide.
In June, crew at the Chipotle Mexican Grill in Augusta filed to form the first union in the company. Chipotle has since shut the store down, laid everyone off and blacklisted us from working at other Chipotle locations.
When it closed our store the day we were set to schedule our union election, it claimed it was “unable to adequately staff this remote restaurant.” This “remote” restaurant happens to be in one of the largest shopping centers in the state. And despite its claims that it couldn’t hire enough staff to keep it open, Chipotle was able to hire an additional 15 people to fill our roster before it shut down the restaurant. Something didn’t add up.
Across the country, corporations like Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and Amy’s Kitchen are silencing their workers as well. Companies have fired union organizers, closed stores, and threatened workers — well-worn union-busting tactics meant to serve as a warning to other workers looking to organize. This is why Congress must pass legislation like the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO Act) that will give workers a fighting chance to collectively bargain without fear of retaliation.
I’ve been in food service for 20 years from crew to management and I know the skills required to be successful at these jobs. Workers must be organized, have good time management skills, and be able to shift gears at a moment’s notice. Hourly workers often use their customer service skills to stay calm and collected while they face the wrath of dissatisfied customers. They know how to use creative problem solving to adjust for short staffing.
Food service requires physical stamina and a “sense of urgency” because the expectation is that you will hustle your entire shift. Running around is required when you are short-staffed, so injuries such as cuts and burns as well as physical wear and tear are common. I’ve torn my meniscus, developed carpal tunnel syndrome, and I’ve burned myself badly enough to need medical attention more than once. Restaurant work can be dangerous, especially when we don’t have time to slow down and be careful.
Restaurant workers in general are sometimes forced to use broken and dangerous equipment, which can cause serious injuries or fires, because the cost of replacement labor is so high. Workers safety becomes a numbers game and we are often powerless to keep ourselves safe.
To add insult to injury, restaurant work is among the five lowest-paid professions in the U.S., paying an average of just $26,000 a year. The restaurant industry employs 10 percent of working Americans and one study found that nearly half of their families receive public assistance. Low wages are a major reason why workers are leaving the industry in record numbers. Chipotle reported a record 194 percent staff turnover last year. At the same time, the company also raked in $653 million in profits in 2021 and spent nearly $100 million on stock buybacks in the third quarter. It’s clear the company can afford to improve conditions for workers at its restaurants.
They called us essential and it’s time we are treated as such. No more Americans should be working poor and breaking our bodies down while corporations post record profits. We will organize, unionize, and make our voices heard. We pledge to keep fighting until every worker is respected, treated well, and compensated fairly. Happy Labor Day, friends. Our work has just begun.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana’s capital city have arrested two people for a mass shooting that left 12 others wounded at a nightclub in January.
Two 19-year-olds, Nikeal Franklin and Jy’Shaun Jackson, were arrested Friday, the Baton Rouge Police Department said. Franklin was charged with 12 counts of attempted first-degree murder while Jackson was charged with 12 counts of principal to attempted first-degree murder.
On Jan. 22, shots rang out around 1:30 a.m. in the Dior Bar & Lounge in Baton Rouge. A dozen people were injured, and most sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Three victims were initially listed in critical condition, but their conditions later improved.
Police said they believe the shooting was not a random act of violence and that it was “targeted.” Sgt. L’Jean McKneely Jr., a police spokesman, told The Associated Press in the days following the shooting that investigators believed the shooting was targeted at one partygoer and that bystanders were hurt in the process.
Before the shooting, the nightclub had advertised a Southern University and Louisiana State University-themed party as the two schools kicked off new semesters. Spokespeople for both LSU and Southern University told The Advocate that the event at the club that evening in Baton Rouge was not affiliated with either school.
In a social media post Friday, police said the investigation was ongoing and did not release any details beyond an announcement of the arrests.
Although the number of homicides in Baton Rouge decreased last year from 2021, Louisiana’s capital city has been plagued by gun violence. In October, an early-morning shooting near Southern University’s campus in Baton Rouge left nine people injured.
The Baton Rouge shooting occurred just hours after a gunman killed 11 people and wounded nine others at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On the brink of hitting the nation's legal borrowing limit on Thursday, the government is resorting to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default.
Sounds ominous, right?
But -- take a breath -- the phrase technically refers to a bunch of accounting workarounds. Yes, accounting.
Because the debt cap limits the issuance of government bonds — a way the U.S. borrows money — these workarounds shift money among accounts and should keep the government open through at least June, according to a letter last week by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
In theory, President Joe Biden and Congress are supposed to use that additional time to work out an agreement to raise the nation's legal $31.38 trillion debt ceiling. These talks often grow heated and go down to the wire, with major economic damage in the balance. But there have been roughly 80 deals to raise or suspend the borrowing cap since the 1960s.
What could be worrisome is not the existence of extraordinary measures, but what happens if they are exhausted this summer without a deal in place. Economists have warned that could lead to a global financial crisis.
So far, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Biden are playing what could be a dangerous game of chicken with the world’s largest economy in the middle.
Some questions and answers on the situation:
WHAT ARE “EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES”?
Yellen’s Friday letter listed two measures that will begin this month in order to prevent the government from defaulting.
First, the government will temporarily suspend payments to the retirement, disability and health benefit funds for federal employees. Second, it will suspend the reinvestment of maturing government bonds in the retirement savings accounts of government workers.
By suspending the payments, the government can reduce the amount of outstanding debt. That enables the Treasury Department to keep financing government operations, according to Yellen’s letter.
WHAT ALLOWS TREASURY TO USE THESE MEASURES?
No dispute there. Congress has given Treasury the authority to do so.
Because these are retirement accounts, no one is harmed by the government equivalent of an IOU. The funds are made whole after a debt ceiling increase or suspension becomes law. It’s not necessarily the measures that can harm the economy but rather the doubts among consumers and businesses about whether lawmakers will increase the borrowing cap.
HOW BIG ARE THESE RETIREMENT FUNDS?
There were $986 billion in net assets of the civil service and federal employees retirement funds at he end of fiscal 2021, according to a report by the Office of Personnel Management. The required government contributions to the funds are large enough to rely on these extraordinary measures for roughly five months.
HOW COMMON IS THIS?
“Treasury Secretaries in every Administration over recent decades have used these extraordinary measures when necessary,” Yellen wrote in her letter.
The measures were first deployed in 1985 and have been used at least 16 times since then, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
WHY DO WE HAVE A DEBT LIMIT?
Before World War I, Congress needed to approve each bond issuance. The debt limit was created as a workaround to finance the war effort without needing a constant series of votes.
Since then, a tool created to make it easier for the government to function has become a source of dysfunction, stoking partisan warfare and creating economic risk as the debt has increased in size over the past 20 years.
HOW RISKY IS THE BRINKMANSHIP THIS TIME?
It looks alarming -- and it’s not clear how Biden, McCarthy and the Democratic Senate will find common ground. A default could cause millions of job losses, a deep recession that would reverberate globally and, ironically, higher interest rates that would make it harder to manage the federal debt.
McCarthy said Tuesday that talks should begin immediately on the potential spending cuts that Republicans are seeking in exchange for raising the debt limit, even though the Biden administration has equated that demand to holding the U.S. economy hostage.
“Who wants to put the nation in some type of threat at the last minute of the debt ceiling?” McCarthy said. “Nobody wants to do that. That’s why we’re asking, ’Let’s change our behavior now. Let’s sit down.”
The Biden administration wants the borrowing cap increased without any preconditions. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday ruled out holding talks with McCarthy.
DO DEBT LIMIT SHOWDOWNS HELP REDUCE GOVERNMENT DEBT?
Not so much.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that annual budget deficits will grow from roughly $1 trillion to more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
The imbalance over the coming years increasingly reflects government expenses for programs such as Medicare and Social Security that are outstripping tax revenue. That suggests the government would need severe cuts to spending, major tax hikes or some combination of those options.
In 2011 when Barack Obama was president and Biden was vice president, there was a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit by $900 billion in return for $917 billion worth of automatic spending cuts over 10 years.
But the debt reduction never fully materialized.
After Donald Trump became president in 2017, Republican lawmakers fueled further debt increases by passing deficit-financed tax cuts. Debt accelerated even more with the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which caused massive government borrowing in order to pull the U.S. out of a deep recession.
The CBO last year estimated that the U.S. debt would exceed $40 trillion in 2032.
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AP writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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The name change, which honors the first Black principal (Vincent Reed) and Black teacher (Edna Jackson) in school history, was approved in December and became official in March.
“It’s very special,” Rosario said. “I feel better known as Jackson-Reed. Having a clean new start and it’s amazing being a part of it and bringing that name up a little bit.”
Rosario was key to the Tigers adding to their trophy collection. He homered, doubled and hit a bases-clearing triple against the Penguins (17-4-1).
The Tigers (22-9) also got strong starting pitching from Georgetown commit Kai Leckszas, who worked four hitless innings against and struck out seven. Leckszas also homered in the second inning en route to winning MVP honors.
The title was the first under Coach Henry Martinez, who took over in August after four years on the staffs of the school’s baseball and basketball programs. Martinez is a former player for the Tigers.
Although Martinez said he will still hold his time as a Tiger close, the magnitude of the victory was not lost.
“I’m sad that we’re losing the curly ‘W’,” Martinez said. “But it means a lot for the community. … Putting intention and exposing a lot of things that were taking place, it means a lot for us to win our first championship as the Jackson-Reed Tigers.”
After fighting through adversity early in the season — including eight straight non-conference losses — the next step for Jackson-Reed is the D.C. State Athletic Association tournament. The Tigers have made it to four consecutive DCSAA title games but have won the tournament just once, in 2018.
“We’ve got all the talent and skill to be able to do the same thing in that [tournament],” Leckszas said.
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Thirty years ago, a generation of ballparks was born in downtown Baltimore. Last month, the top executives for both the Orioles and the state of Maryland visited an Atlanta suburb to get a brainstorming glimpse at what might be the next.
On his 51st day in office, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore took his first visit out of state, accompanying Orioles CEO and Chairman John Angelos on a tour of Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. The ballpark, which opened in 2017 within an entertainment district known as The Battery, has been viewed by many as a prototype for the future of baseball stadiums.
It attracted 10 million visitors in 2022, according to the Braves, and has offices, apartments, hotels, bars, restaurants and a concert venue on the same grounds as the MLB park. As the Orioles — soon to be flush with funds from the state to improve Camden Yards — mull ways to renovate the ballpark and its surrounding area in the coming years, The Battery could provide inspiration.
The Orioles played their home opener Friday in front of a hopeful crowd, fielding what many expect to be their best team in years. They’ll do so, however, with uncertainty looming over the club: The team’s lease with the state, which owns Oriole Park, expires at the end of this year.
That lease binds the club to Baltimore, and while it’s immensely unlikely the team would actually relocate, a long-term agreement is still an essential order of business. The sides have negotiated for years and as the eleventh hour approaches, Angelos and Moore have assured fans that a long-term lease will soon be finalized. Once it is, the Maryland Stadium Authority will be able to improve the ballpark with up to $600 million in public funds approved by the state last year.
The core tenet of a would-be lease — that is, the terms and conditions of the Orioles remaining at Camden Yards — is not what has prolonged the negotiation process, Angelos told reporters in February. Instead, focus has been on other details, including the specifics of creating a commercial real estate development in the Camden Yards complex that attracts visitors year-round.
“That’s gonna be a huge step forward for the next iteration of Camden Yards,” Angelos said.
Less than three weeks after those comments, Angelos embraced Moore in Atlanta as the two visited The Battery, searching for ideas to bring back to Baltimore.
The Battery has been applauded, but its economic value is debatable
There are bars and restaurants near many pro venues, but the Atlanta development has been heralded as a class of its own.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told The Associated Press in 2017, when Truist Park opened, that it would be a “watershed” event for baseball. He compared its influence to how Camden Yards launched decades of traditional, downtown ballparks in the 1990s.
“There has never been something this massive around a baseball stadium, and it’s really an amazing accomplishment,” Manfred said of The Battery.
After playing just 20 years at Turner Field, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics and located in downtown Atlanta, the Braves left for suburban Cobb County in 2017. In key ways, their model is incongruent with Camden Yards: The venue is 10 miles from downtown Atlanta and is not easily accessible by public transit.
The Orioles declined an interview request for this article, but Angelos has said Atlanta is the “best example” of a year-round development. In a joint statement this year, the Orioles, Moore and the stadium authority said they looked forward to “re-imagining Camden Yards to deliver a live-work-play theme.”
“The idea is to start thinking out loud about what the area surrounding the Orioles complex can look like,” new stadium authority Chair Craig Thompson said in March. “The Battery area and Braves stadium is looked at and admired by some as a model.”
The footprints in Baltimore and Atlanta are comparable in size. The Battery is nearly 80 acres (the main campus, including the ballpark, is 57 acres) and the stadium authority-owned Camden Yards complex is 85 acres. Of course, half of that land is occupied by the stadiums. M&T Bank Stadium is 20 acres, Oriole Park is 21 acres and Camden Station is 27 acres, per property records. The remaining 17 acres include several parking lots.
The Battery, although criticized for being generic, has mostly been applauded from a fan standpoint. Speaking with reporters in February, Moore praised the development’s walkability.
With a 4,000-person concert venue, two hotels, shops, a Topgolf and movie theater, in addition to restaurants, it attracts visitors even on nongame days.
The economic benefit it has provided Cobb County is a subject for debate, however. Economists almost always warn against using public money for stadium subsidies and although the Braves spent over $1 billion on Truist Park and The Battery, Cobb County still contributed more than $300 million.
The decision was unpopular enough locally that the county commissioner who orchestrated the deal and billed it as a “home run for Cobb County” lost his next election in a landslide, in large part because of the sizable public contribution to the stadium.
Kennesaw State University economist J.C. Bradbury, a Cobb County resident, published a report in 2022 describing the deal as more of a “routine pop fly” than a “home run.” He found that the development has not produced an economic benefit to the county at all but, instead, has cost residents $15 million a year.
“Cobb’s experience with Truist Park has been similar to most other stadium projects, which fail to generate large economic benefits to host communities,” Bradbury wrote, describing the result as “economic impotence.”
He also said the bulk of the revenue produced in The Battery comes from the stadium itself, not from the mixed-use development surrounding it.
Shortly after Bradbury’s report, Braves Chairman Terry McGuirk commissioned another economist, Smith College’s Andrew Zimbalist, to publish a report. Zimbalist rejected Bradbury’s findings and said the ballpark has, in fact, produced a positive economic benefit.
Zimbalist told The Baltimore Sun, though, that even though he’s found The Battery to be “an economic success in Cobb County, Georgia,” that has no bearing on how a similar concept might work in Baltimore.
Bradbury and Zimbalist have clashed, but one thing they — and other economists who study stadiums — agree on, however, is that the significant public contribution toward the stadiums in Baltimore will not benefit the state’s taxpayers in the long run. Large stadium subsidies essentially never do, economists have found.
Maryland has set aside $1.2 billion for improvements to Oriole Park and M&T Bank Stadium, which is one of the larger stadium subsidies in history.
“[This] appears to be one of the worst financial deals in recent memory,” Zimbalist said.
Bradbury has repeatedly studied the downsides of publicly funding stadiums, which remains a common practice nationally. He calls it a “curious example of persistent government failure.”
Regardless of the economic benefit to the public, the stadium authority is expected to have $600 million to renovate Oriole Park and the surrounding area (the three-person Board of Public Works, which includes Moore, has to sign off on any plans).
A substantial portion of that money will be used to update 31-year-old Oriole Park. Removing seats and creating gathering spaces is one likely change. But some of those dollars could help turn the area around the ballpark into a lively district, akin to the one in Cobb County.
Camden Yards meets the next generation
The vision of Oriole Park was always to create an active environment in the middle of the city. Janet Marie Smith, who helped design the park in the early 1990s, recently described it as “an anchor in downtown Baltimore.”
“The original goal in putting Oriole Park at Camden Yards downtown was to populate the urban core, take advantage of existing infrastructure and use the millions of fans who came to baseball games to populate the restaurants, the hotel rooms, the aquarium, the science center, all of the things that had become real attractions in downtown Baltimore,” said Smith, who has also worked on ballpark projects with the Braves, Boston Red Sox and, currently, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Larry Lucchino was the president of the Orioles during the construction of Oriole Park. In a recent interview, he noted the influence of Camden Yards: “I would think that the people who are at Truist Park would go to Camden Yards,” he said.
Michael Friedman, a lecturer in the kinesiology department at the University of Maryland, College Park, is writing a book called “Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption.” At a mallpark — a portmanteau of a shopping mall, theme park and ballpark — visitors don’t just watch a baseball game, they’re entertained in myriad ways.
“Camden Yards is kind of that first mallpark, whereas Truist Park is the model going forward,” Friedman said. At Oriole Park, entertainment is largely contained within the stadium’s gates; at Truist Park, the activity spills outside and surrounds the park.
Other stadiums have recently moved in this direction. The Ballpark Village, a partnership between the Cardinals and The Cordish Cos. opened in 2014 in downtown St. Louis. The Cordish Cos. built a similar concept in Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers, in 2018.
Lucchino was president of the San Diego Padres and Red Sox and oversaw their stadium construction and renovation projects. He said ballpark districts are “in general, a positive thing,” but “it’s got to be well-planned and authentic.”
“You just gotta be a little careful when you’re looking for ideas in other places,” he said.
With the Horseshoe Casino, Topgolf, the National Aquarium and newly refurbished CFG Bank Arena, plus the Paramount concert venue under construction near the Baltimore stadiums, the bones of an entertainment district are present. Adding urban infill in the form of more bars and restaurants could boost the district.
Angelos has said it will take several years to create the desired “live-work-play” environment that he and the stadium authority envision. It’s unknown specifically how the area will be developed, but Moore told reporters a priority is to “make sure that there’s economic energy that’s taking place around the ballpark.”
Friedman, the “Mallparks” author, said that Camden Yards is a “major piece” in making Baltimore’s downtown “vibrant” again. However, he also cited the importance of the state being careful regarding the finances of the project. Historically speaking, “there’s been a tendency for the profits to be privatized and the risk to be socialized,” he said.
“This [$1.2 billion] is not going to fix downtown Baltimore,” Friedman said. “It isn’t the panacea. But done right, it could be part of the solution.”
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SHENZHEN, China, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ANYX, a user-driven brand, recently announced the launch of its brand during the Vaper Expo UK 2022. The company today announces the release of the world's first dual-mode closed pod system, ANYX PRO, which is aimed to exceed consumers' expectations with its unique and innovative design as well as a superior user experience.
ANYX PRO showcases its exquisite look and impressive performance
Industry professionals and experienced vapers were impressed by ANYX PRO's refined appearance and comfortable touch. The combination of a metal-based body and the flowing light that flickers at a constant frequency when users inhale the vapor complements the product's ergonomic design with fantastic colors and a delicate feel.
Dual mode vape creates a flavorful experience
As the world's first true dual-mode closed pod system, ANYX PRO is equipped with the MCU intelligent temperature control chip and supports the Restricted Direct-Lung (RDL) mode, delivering an instant but notably different experience, depending on the chosen mode: the strong and dense taste of Turbo mode, alongside the delicate and soft experience of Normal mode. ANYX PRO is designed to satisfy the diverse preferences of vapers, promising a richer taste experience.
SENSIT Coil technology restores the richness
The leveraging of SENSIT Coil technology and the selection of premium quality cotton composite materials combine to assure the rapid delivery of the e-juice as well as the stability and precision in the control of the liquid flow, addressing user expectations of feeling their mouth fill with the vapor instantly. In addition, the technology prevents e-juice leakage and composition changes caused by the volatilization of e-juice.
Coil-e-liquid separation structure ensures fresh sensation of flavor
To deal with the aging of atomizers that can degrade the user experience, ANYX PRO adopts a coil-e-liquid separation structure, which prevents the flavor change caused by the prolonged contact between the coil used for e-juice storage and the atomized liquid. When in use, the product not only guarantees the fresh flavor delivered by the vaporizer, but also effectively avoids the leakage of atomized liquid.
Child lock designed for peace of mind and enhanced safety
In a move to maximize safety and reliability, ANYX PRO comes with the child lock feature to prevent minors from handling and using the product.
10 new flavors bring endless surprises
With a focus on user preferences, ANYX launches 10 new flavors. Before the launch of ANYX PRO, ANYX invited experienced vapers and industry professionals to join in the ANYX community flavor testing parties. The lineup of innovative flavors, all of which are enhanced by the MCU intelligent temperature control chip and SENSIT Coil technology, received positive feedback from test participants.
The new flavors provide users with more choices and an ultimate taste experience, while demonstrating ANYX's capabilities at innovation.
Explore opportunities in various application scenarios to enhance capabilities in sales and marketing
In line with the goal of meeting user expectations for localized services, ANYX implements a vertical agency model with a focus on enhanced operations. The brand names only one national partner in each country and values each partner's engagement and motivation. ANYX supports partners in operating independently and providing them with the necessary resources so that they may unlock their potential and build a sales network and operations model best suited for their local market.
ANYX helps its partners in converting online traffic into in-store visits and purchases by rapidly growing brand awareness among vapers worldwide through numerous methods. Partners can boost their sales and operations as the brand expands its footprint in both the online and offline worlds.
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(NewsNation) — “Ghosting” has made its way into the workforce, and employers are not happy.
The concept itself isn’t new. In the dating world, the term “ghosting” has long been used to describe a romantic suitor who abruptly cuts off contact and communication with the other party, usually out of nowhere. But in 2019, a survey from Indeed found that 83% of employers had experienced applicants disappearing before their start date. And 69% said work-related ghosting, in general, started two years prior to that.
COVID-19 has caused the job market to continuously shift, and many experts say it’s the employees who now hold the upper hand in job negotiations.
“The incidence of so-called ghosting — of accepting offers and then saying that they’ll start and not showing up — is at a record high,” Jonas Prising, chairman and CEO of staffing agency ManpowerGroup Inc. told the Wall Street Journal.
Manufacturing, restaurant, airline, and cleaning jobs are reportedly seeing a surge of job seekers accepting positions and then disappearing right before starting.
NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield spoke with Rob Bralow, the owner of BLVD Wine Bar in New York City, who has been ghosted several times by potential applicants.
Bralow says 90% of the applicants he’s reviewed didn’t even show up for their interview.
“Getting an interview is not really a difficult proposition. The real issue is once you’ve got the interview, to decide to go. And if they’re not willing to go do that, then there’s really no next step. And it doesn’t really matter what I’m hiring for. It’s not specifically for servers, it’s not specifically for dishwashers, or chefs. It’s all the way up to management. And it’s fascinating.”
WSJ reports that the rise in no-shows “could be just an expression of job seekers having a lot more confidence in their ability to find a job,” according to Nick Bunker, an economist at Indeed.
“Banfield” spoke to a a panel of Gen Z job-seekers for their insight.
“I definitely think it’s a common stereotype (laziness) that is given to a lot of Gen Z,” Lillian Zhang, a recent graduate, said. “But I don’t think it’s true. There’s something much deeper than that, I feel. There are so many options for students, and Gen Z, to choose from, that I think when it comes to seeing all of these options presented in front of them, some of them might get too overwhelmed.”
Zhang also says people her age are prioritizing different things like mental wellness, good company culture, paid time off, and being treated fairly.
Zayne Violet, who has been ghosted by an employer, also spoke out on the matter.
Violet says she, personally, would never ghost an employer, but she can understand why her generation would.
“I do think that it is, in part, constantly having a phone in front of our face. That’s what we were raised on. And I do believe that it creates a little bit of a discrepancy in wanting to be confrontational and wanting to do things in person. It’s very uncomfortable, because it’s easier to be forthright with the screen in between you, rather than being directly in front of another person,” Violet said.
It may look like carelessness or laziness or disinterest, but Clinical Psychologist Dr. John Duffy says that younger people are simply more discerning about their needs in the workplace.
“The pandemic has only exacerbated that, where they realize, ‘Oh, we don’t have to work the number of hours that our parents worked at their early jobs in order to be efficient,” Dr. Duffy said on “Banfield.”
Duffy also said that there is an anxiety more prevalent in younger people that needs to be overcome “in order to just get them in the space where they learn how competent and resilient they actually are.”
Therapist Darby Fox says it’s not a surprise that mental health awareness ranks high for younger people when it comes to a priority.
“We’ve created an environment where it’s OK to say I have anxiety, or I could be depressed. And so I think that’s a really important, if you will, outcome of COVID, a positive outcome,” Fox said.
Deutsche Bank has warned its members of a “major recession” coming to the United States soon amid rising interest rates and inflation hitting consumers hard across the United States.
Is Gen Z ready for a recession? An all-star panel of career experts also joined NewsNation’s “Banfield” to offer insight.
“I think there’s a ‘kid in the candy store’ sort of confidence that job-seekers get, and they aren’t always making good decisions,” Julie Bauke, a chief career strategist for The Bauke Group, said.
Paul McDonald, the senior executive director for Robert Half, says that there might be too many choices for job-seekers in this market.
Hiring gains have been strikingly consistent in the face of the worst inflation in four decades, with employers adding at least 400,000 jobs for 12 straight months.
McDonald also said it’s not just Gen-Z acting this way, either. It goes through all generations.
“So with all those openings, the confidence is too high. And they’re making choices right off the bat to try and find a job, get a job. They’re all enthusiastic without doing enough research, without looking for connections, if it’s a good cultural fit for them. And, you know, looking at the job description, Am I really a good fit?”
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NYRA suspends Baffert 1 year; eligible to return in January
(AP) – The New York Racing Association suspended trainer Bob Baffert for one year Thursday for repeated medication violations.
A panel credited Baffert for time served from an initial suspension that makes the two-time Triple Crown-winner eligible to saddle horses in New York again Jan. 26. The final decision marks the end of a protracted back and forth about Baffert’s status in the state that began in May 2021.
“This was an impartial and deliberative process that has resulted in a lengthy suspension of the sport’s most prominent trainer,” NYRA President and CEO Dave O’Rourke said in a statement. “However, this is not simply about Bob Baffert or any one individual but about protecting the integrity of the sport here in New York. Today’s decision advances that goal.”
The ban is shorter than the two years Churchill Downs sidelined Baffert after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for a substance that is not allowed on race day. Retired New York State Supreme Court Justice O. Peter Sherwood, who was serving as the NYRA hearing officer, previously recommended a two-year suspension.
Baffert’s camp asked for a stay of the NYRA suspension that was immediately denied. A message seeking comment from Baffert or his attorney was not immediately returned.
The panel’s decision cannot be appealed through NYRA’s process, which was developed last year after Baffert successfully sued in federal court to get his initial suspension in the state of New York lifted. Baffert is also fighting in federal court against the Churchill Downs ban that made him ineligible to run horses in the Derby in 2022 and ‘23.
Under the terms of the suspension agreed to by the panel made up of Saratoga attorney John J. Carusone, New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association executive director Will Alempijevic and New York Race Track Chaplaincy of America leader the Rev. Humberto Chavez, Baffert would be able to be a part of the Belmont Stakes next year.
The panel in its 14-page ruling disagreed with Sherwood over the matter of Baffert “doping” his horses, saying, “The drugs for which use Baffert was cited in three jurisdictions are allowed and commonly used but are nevertheless performance enhancing in the sense that they may suppress injuries and may allow the horse to perform at a normal level in spite of the injury if they are found to be at a level above the allowable threshold.”
Medina Spirit tested positive for the corticosteroid betamethasone, which is not allowed in Kentucky on race day, and was later disqualified. The colt finished third in the Preakness two weeks after the Derby.
Medina Spirit collapsed and died in December in California. An exam found no definitive cause of death.
Baffert-trained Cruel Intention, Eclair, Charlatan, Gamine and Merneith also tested positive for a substance not allowed at that level on race day. Those violations occurred in California, Arkansas or Kentucky; none happened in New York.
Baffert, 69, is a Hall of Fame trainer who has become the face of the sport. He won the Triple Crown twice: in 2015 with American Pharoah and in 2018 with Justify.
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Former President Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance suffered two devastating blows after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won their primaries Tuesday despite rejecting Trump’s entreaties to reverse his 2020 election loss.
It’s a huge warning sign for the way Republican voters view the former president’s crusade to punish those who were not willing to overturn the will of the voters in 2020.
Voters also demonstrated an openness to embracing scandal-plagued candidates — depending on the candidate, and the scandal.
Here are some takeaways from Tuesday’s primary elections in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota:
TRUMP’S BIGGEST PRIMARY DEFEAT
Trump had hoped to turn Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp into an example of the danger in defying him. Instead, Kemp on Tuesday became an example of how Republican incumbents might not have as much to fear from Trump as the former president would like.
Kemp cruised past former U.S. Sen. David Perdue in the Republican primary. The victory came a year and a half after Kemp rejected Trump’s demands to help overturn the presidential election by declaring Trump the winner in Georgia instead of Joe Biden, who actually won.
Perdue’s campaign fixated on Trump’s lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, but Kemp won by flexing the power of his office. To rally the base, he signed laws allowing most Georgians to carry guns without a permit and banning most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. He also announced an investment by Hyundai in a new plant in the state to make batteries for electric vehicles.
Now Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their 2018 gubernatorial clash. Unlike Trump in 2020, Perdue accepted his defeat Tuesday night, even seeming to brush aside some supporters who took up a chant suggesting there was fraud.
“I’m sorry, but what we’re going to do right now is make sure Stacey Abrams is not governor of this state,” Perdue said.
DANGER OF ELECTION DENIAL
The Georgia governor’s race wasn’t the only Trump grudge match that backfired on the former president. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who personally rejected Trump’s call to “find” enough votes to declare him the winner in Georgia, defeated his Trump-backed primary challenger as well.
Trump recruited U.S. Rep. Jody Hice from a safe congressional seat to face Raffensperger in the Republican primary, but Hice lost. Trump endorsed primary challengers to the insurance commissioner and attorney general, and they, too, lost.
It’s clear the former president’s harping on 2020 simply did not speak to Republican voters in Georgia, the country’s newest battleground state.
“Georgia underscores one of Trump’s big problems if/when he runs again,” Brendan Buck, a former spokesperson for onetime House Speaker Paul Ryan, tweeted Tuesday. “He, of course, won’t be able to let go of the 2020 nonsense, and nobody wants to hear his whining about it anymore.”
Trump has scored some primary victories with election deniers — most significantly last week in Pennsylvania, when Republican voters there chose his preferred gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who said he wouldn’t have certified Biden’s 2020 win of the state.
But multiple Republicans have made clear they’re eyeing 2024 presidential bids, including Pence and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. And they have distanced themselves in ways large and small from Trump’s election allegations. Elections are usually about the future, and by the time the 2024 GOP primary rolls around, November 2020 will be ancient history.
DECLINING POWER OF SCANDAL
Trump did notch some wins Tuesday. They came with baggage, but that didn’t seem to stop them.
Former football great Herschel Walker, Trump’s pick for U.S. Senate in Georgia, dominated his Republican challengers. Party leaders had first shied away from him because of his checkered history.
Walker, in his autobiography, admits struggling with mental illness. His ex-wife said that during their marriage he held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. He claimed to have founded a chicken processing company employing hundreds but reported only eight workers when applying for a loan during the coronavirus pandemic. He lied about founding a charity to help veterans get aid with mental health.
But eventually even Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell ended up embracing Walker as the party’s best chance to oust Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock. The bet is that voters won’t care as much about scandals in post-Trump America.
That theory certainly got a boost Tuesday in Texas. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted in 2015 on securities fraud charges and is still awaiting trial. He’s under investigation for corruption by the FBI and by the state bar of Texas for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Yet he easily won his primary against Land Commissioner George P. Bush, powered by his ability to use his office to cater to conservative causes by, for example, investigating the parents of transgender children.
Back in Georgia, firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won her Republican primary, shrugging off challengers who complained Greene was giving the party a bad name by engaging in Holocaust denial and other headline-grabbing, bombastic behavior.
Trump set the model in 2016, and his followers are perfecting it — never let a scandal get in the way of winning an election.
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A GAME OF INCHES
The marquee Democratic matchup of the night — in Texas’ 28th Congressional District, between progressive Jessica Cisneros and centrist Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the last abortion rights opponents in the Democratic caucus — was too early to call Wednesday.
The two candidates were separated by the thinnest margin of votes in a rematch two months after they were forced into a runoff. It drove home two realities: Elections are a game of inches, and even a victory won’t resolve the great left versus center divide in the Democratic Party.
After the collapse of much of Biden’s agenda in Congress, progressives have gotten a boost in recent primaries. Their candidate, Summer Lee, narrowly won the primary in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District last week. In Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, centrist Rep. Kurt Schrader was trailing a progressive challenger after their primary last week; the results were delayed by ballot counting problems.
Also Tuesday, Rep. Lucy McBath handily defeated Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux in the Democratic primary in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in the Atlanta suburbs. While neither has embraced the left wing of the party, Bourdeaux was better known as a moderate than McBath.
Still, the left lost a key congressional primary in the Cleveland area just a few weeks ago. They had an awful track record in 2020. And some Democrats worry — and Republicans hope — that leftist wins in places like Oregon’s 5th or Texas’ 28th will make it harder for the party to hold those relatively moderate districts, especially in what’s looking like a dismal fall for Democrats.
Sometimes, though, races are so close that there’s eventually a winner but no resolution to the political debate they embody. Progressives can note Cisneros improved her margin after losing to Cuellar in 2020. Centrists can point to how the incumbent kept it close even amid the party’s fury about a possible end to the right to abortion.
After Texas, the struggle between the Democrats’ left and centrist wings seems poised to go on.
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A new restaurant in Portland’s Sunnyside neighborhood wants to become your regular drinking buddy.
Old Pal, founded by Jeremy Larter (formerly of Ken’s Artisan Pizza and DOC) and Emily Bixler (owner of jewelry and sculpture line Boet), began operating in late July at 3350 SE Morrison St.
That location previously housed Hobnob Grille, which closed this past winter after a 13-year run. The owner sold the space Feb. 21—coincidentally the same day it opened in 2009—announcing on Facebook that he had been suffering from long COVID after contracting the virus in October 2020, which made running the business a challenge.
“I reopened us this year in hopes that I would be able to work on my health condition and get the Hobnob hobnobbing again simultaneously,” the post stated. “As it turned out, I was doing both poorly.”
The decision was made to focus on personal well-being, and the Hobnob owner teased that the incoming restaurateur had decades of experience in hospitality. Now we know who that is.
Larter, who also owns the catering company Field Day Feasts & Gatherings, graduated from culinary school at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I., and worked alongside chefs along the East Coast before moving to Oregon in 2001. He decided to make Portland his home, and took on nearly every role he could in the restaurant industry, including server, bartender and kitchen manager.
The move to caterer happened in 2013, when Field Day was founded with a focus on seasonally driven dishes. Now, Larter is using that experience to launch his own brick-and-mortar. Old Pal’s menus also shift throughout the year, depending on what’s in season—but you can always expect a handful of vegetable-heavy plates and plenty of tiny, tinned fish.
The flavors of late summer can currently be found in a stone fruit and pickled blueberry burrata; heirloom tomato gazpacho; and risotto with lobster mushroom, sweet corn and smoked onion. Offerings from the sea include smoked oyster with a crème fraîche dip, wild mackerel, sardines and a daily oyster happy hour, where the bivalves go for two bucks each from 4 to 6 pm.
Drink options range from beer to wine to cocktails—yes, you can even order the restaurant’s eponymous drink thought to be invented in the 1920s made with rye, Campari, and Dolin Dry vermouth.
Old Pal is open 4-10 pm Sunday-Monday and Thursday and 4-11 pm Friday-Saturday.
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Wagner Group leader chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has rarely been out of the headlines since the short-lived rebellion he led his troops on in Russia last month. Now, images have been released showing the private military company leader donning a series of disguises.
The stories of Prigozhin’s life and his disguises feel like something straight out of a novel. Particularly, out of a novel written by Brad Thor. He has a new spy thriller out called “Deadfall,” in which a Russian Mercenary unit goes rogue during the war in Ukraine.
Thor joins Lisa Mullins to discuss his latest book, the perplexing Wagner Group leader and the wider conflict taking place in Ukraine.
Brad Thor is the author of “Deadfall.” (Jeremy Cowart)
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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From Stormtracker 19 Meteorologist Matt Schaefer:
It was a cold morning across the Coulee Region with temps dropping into the low to mid 30s, cold enough for patchy frost to form where the wind was light enough to allow moisture to settle close to the ground.
La Crosse is about one week past the average date for spring's latest freeze, but of course it can happen later in May. Lows dropped well below freezing in typically cool spots in Monroe and Jackson counties with lows in the low to mid 20s.
From that cold start, temps warmed all the way up to the low to mid 60s. La Crosse warmed close to the date's average high of 67. Along with these more typical temps, the wind was light and we saw some sunshine!
It was another dry day for the Mississippi River, and river levels continued to slowly drop. At La Crosse, the river remains in the moderate flood category, but is expected to drop back into... READ MORE
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MJ Melendez Player Prop Bets: Royals vs. White Sox - May 10
Published: May. 10, 2023 at 4:24 PM CDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
On Wednesday, MJ Melendez (batting .289 in his past 10 games) and the Kansas City Royals face the Chicago White Sox, whose starting pitcher will be Lance Lynn. First pitch is at 7:40 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-3) against the White Sox.
MJ Melendez Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Lance Lynn
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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MJ Melendez At The Plate
- Melendez is hitting .211 with seven doubles, a triple, four home runs and 13 walks.
- Melendez has gotten a hit in 19 of 33 games this year (57.6%), including six multi-hit games (18.2%).
- He has gone deep in 12.1% of his games this year, and 2.9% of his trips to the dish.
- In 24.2% of his games this year, Melendez has tallied at least one RBI. In five of those games (15.2%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 11 games this season (33.3%), including three multi-run games (9.1%).
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MJ Melendez Home/Away Batting Splits
White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The White Sox pitching staff is first in the league with a collective 10.2 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The White Sox have a 5.60 team ERA that ranks 29th among all league pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to surrender 60 total home runs at a clip of 1.6 per game (second-most in the league).
- The White Sox will send Lynn (1-4) to make his eighth start of the season. He is 1-4 with a 6.86 ERA and 50 strikeouts through 39 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Friday, the righty went 6 2/3 innings against the Cincinnati Reds, giving up four earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 35-year-old's 6.86 ERA ranks 74th, 1.525 WHIP ranks 67th, and 11.4 K/9 ranks sixth.
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FedEx said Thursday it is shuttering storefronts and corporate offices while putting off new hires in a belt-tightening drive brought on by drop-off in its global package delivery business.
The company based in Memphis, Tennessee, warned it will likely miss Wall Street’s profit target for its fiscal first quarter that ended Aug. 31. And it said it expects business conditions to further weaken in the current quarter amid weaker global volume.
Its stock fell more than 16% in after-hours trading following the announcement.
“Global volumes declined as macroeconomic trends significantly worsened later in the quarter, both internationally and in the U.S.,” FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said in a statement. “We are swiftly addressing these headwinds, but given the speed at which conditions shifted, first-quarter results are below our expectations.”
The company’s FedEx Express business was particularly hurt by challenges in Europe and weaker economic trends in Asia, which led to a roughly $500 million revenue shortfall for the segment. FedEx Ground revenue, meanwhile, came in about $300 million below the company’s forecasts.
High operating expenses were also a drag on the company’s results, FedEx said.
In response, it said it will cut costs by closing over 90 FedEx Office locations and five corporate offices, deferring new hires and operating fewer flights.
The company scrapped its forecast for its earnings in its current fiscal year that it had issued less than three months ago.
For the three months ended Aug. 31, FedEx now projects adjusted earnings per share of $3.44 and $23.2 billion in revenue. That’s below analysts’ consensus forecast of $5.14 adjusted earnings per share and $23.6 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Subramaniam noted that he remains confident FedEx will achieve its fiscal year 2025 financial targets.
For the current quarter, which ends in November, FedEx expects revenue to range between $23.5 billion and $24 billion, and adjusted earnings per share of at least $2.75. Wall Street analysts had expected adjusted earnings per share of $5.48 and $24.86 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
The company still plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its common stock in fiscal 2023. It expects to buy back $1 billion of its common stock during the second quarter.
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BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First National Bankers Bank (FNBB), a leading provider of correspondent banking services in the southeastern United States announces its recent partnership with Aptys Solutions. FNBB serves more than 600 financial institutions with leading edge services designed to foster the growth and success of community banks in their markets. Aptys Solutions is the leading provider of cloud-based, end-to-end, digital payment solutions to over 5,000 financial institutions including faster payments, mobile P2P, wire, ACH, and check.
FNBB was looking for a strategic payments technology partner that could offer advanced payments solutions to meet its strategic goals to enhance their service offerings to its respondent bank customers. Aptys' multi-channel payments platform, PayLOGICS, was selected to further develop key functionalities including image cash letter, check adjustments and returns, and faster payments solutions.
PayLOGICS digital payment solutions will enhance its service offerings by enabling access to faster payments systems. Once implemented, PayLOGICS will power FNBB's ability to provide its respondent banks with settlement, liquidity management and funding agent services for The Clearing House Real Time Payment System, and The Federal Reserve Bank FedNow Instant Payments Service, when released.
The FNBB Faster Payments Service will set community financial institutions (FI) up for success in the rapidly expanding digital payments space by supporting multiple participation options from both private and Federal Reserve operated faster payment networks while offering liquidity management and around the clock transaction settlement posting. Integrated into FNBB's real-time correspondent system, NetLink, the functionality of PayLOGICS' will streamline the needed funding agent elements of these faster payments solutions, enabling community FIs access to RTP and the FedNow Service.
"The partnership with Aptys is an integral part of our strategy to enhance our image cash letter exchange service plus assisting our customers with their faster payment initiatives. PayLOGICS' automated liquidity management system will open the door for our shareholders and clients, regardless of size, to be able to work with FNBB as a settlement partner," said Pax Mogenson, President and CEO of FNBB.
Streamlining reconciliation and settlement across multiple payment channels is just one benefit of the PayLOGICS platform. Aptys provides versatile methods of payment creation offering customization for FNBB's clients. Additionally, it makes it easier to track and research payments, offering enhanced regulatory compliance and unprecedented customer support and expertise. As Aptys and FNBB collaborate on faster payments, this initial project will provide new capabilities to all participants by maintaining an online payment archive with consolidated payment data that is searchable via web-browser.
PayLOGICS' automates the management and funding of real-time transactions and it can provide a module for the funding agent and customer FI's to manage and reconcile the transactional data. "Real-time payments are the way things are going for the future of payment services," said Naseer Nasim, CEO of Aptys Solutions. "Providing comprehensive real-time payments solutions as a service fits right into our desire to empower digital transformation and offer technology solution differentiation for any financial institution."
About First National Bankers Bank
First National Bankers Bank (FNBB), the banking subsidiary of First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc., serves the correspondent banking needs of more than 600 community financial institutions across the southeastern United States. FNBB is committed to providing high-quality, innovative, and reliable correspondent services to help community financial institutions build efficiencies, grow their customer relationships, minimize risk and comply with regulations. FNBB, chartered in 1984, has offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, Lake Mary Florida, Ridgeland, Mississippi, Shreveport, Louisiana and Memphis, Tennessee.
About Aptys Solutions
Aptys Solutions is the leading provider of electronic payment processing software for financial institutions. Aptys' payments platform processes nearly a billion ACH, check, and wire transactions annually for over 5,000 community banks and credit unions nationwide. By providing financial institutions with a unified electronic payments platform, the company helps financial institutions offer differentiating payment products that increase efficiencies, reduce friction, manage compliance, and reduce risk. Aptys Solutions is dedicated to driving faster payments, streamlining operations, and creating revenue for correspondents and their customers. For more information, visit www.aptyssolutions.com.
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ROANOKE, Va. – It appears that Jamey Chadwell will be the next head football coach for the Liberty Flames football program. Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated was the first to report the news early Sunday morning.
Liberty is finalizing the deal to hire Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell, sources tell @SINow.
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 4, 2022
Chadwell's deal is 5+ years at $4M a year. Team meeting called for later this morning. Chadwell has gone 39-22 at Coastal in 4 seasons with a conference title.
Early reports indicate the deal will have the Chanticleers coach racking in close to $4 Million dollars per year.
In his four seasons leading Coastal Carolina, Chadwell held a record of 39-22, earning a conference title. The team loss to Troy Saturday in the Sun Belt Conference Championship. He also guided the Chanticleers to their only two bowl trips in 2020 and 2021.
The Chadwell hiring news comes a week after Hugh Freeze accepted the Auburn job after taking the Flames program to new heights.
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Open Measurement SDK Goes 'Cross Screen' Providing Consistent Video Advertising Measurement Everywhere
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced today that its Open Measurement SDK (OM SDK) will be made available on Connected TV (CTV) starting in Q3. One of the most widely adopted solutions from Tech Lab, OM SDK gives advertisers flexibility and choice in the verification solutions from their preferred providers by making it easier for publishers to integrate one SDK and enable ad verification with all verification vendors. Currently, OM SDK is available for iOS, Android, and web browsers. The CTV expansion will bring consistent video viewability measurement signals to CTV platforms.
By releasing OM SDK for CTV to support impression and viewability measurement, specifically on tvOS and Android TV, IAB Tech Lab is continuing its mission to develop products that bring consistency and transparency to the industry and help to streamline the transition of ad dollars from linear TV to CTV. The new SDK includes the standardized Open Measurement signals buyers have become accustomed to, such as screen and ad geometry, obstruction measurement, viewable impressions, and quartile measurement. Specifically, it adds new signals relevant to CTV viewability measurement, including signaling if the TV is off as well as last user activity within an app, to determine that the user is watching and the ad is playing on TV.
"Buyers need consistent and standardized cross screen viewability measurement to feel confident that their ads are being seen," said Shailley Singh, SVP, Product, IAB Tech Lab. "With the growth of CTV, it was a critical next step to develop Open Measurement SDK for supporting CTV specific viewability signals in an established and standardized manner. The tvOS and Android TV SDKs are the first two platforms, and we plan to continuously add more CTV devices and platforms in the near future."
"OM SDK has dramatically reduced fragmentation by standardizing measurement across mobile apps and web video, but with the growth of CTV, it's become critical to ensure measurement for this platform is also consistent and standardized," said Joe Barone, Managing Partner, Brand Safety Americas at GroupM. "By expanding OM SDK to CTV, IAB Tech Lab is eliminating a key obstacle to continued growth in streaming investment."
OM SDK will be one of many solutions discussed during IAB Tech Lab Summit: Transcend on June 9th. It will be available to download in Q3 from IAB Tech Lab Tools portal https://tools.iabtechlab.com. To sign up for our dedicated webinar and learn more about Open Measurement SDK, please visit https://iabtechlab.com/event/open-measurement-enters-ctv/.
Established in 2014, the IAB Technology Laboratory (Tech Lab) is a non-profit consortium that engages a member community globally to develop foundational technology and standards that enable growth and trust in the digital media ecosystem. Comprised of digital publishers, ad technology firms, agencies, marketers, and other member companies, IAB Tech Lab focuses on solutions for brand safety and ad fraud; identity, data, and consumer privacy; ad experiences and measurement; and programmatic effectiveness. Its work includes the OpenRTB real-time bidding protocol, ads.txt anti-fraud specification, Open Measurement SDK for viewability and verification, VAST video specification, and Project Rearc initiative for privacy-centric addressability. Board members/companies are listed at https://iabtechlab.com/about-the-iab-tech-lab/tech-lab-leadership/. For more information, please visit https://iabtechlab.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bank stocks tumbled on worries about what’s next to break, following the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. But many other stocks rose Monday on hopes the bloodletting will force the Federal Reserve to take it easier on the hikes to interest rates that are shaking Wall Street and the economy. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% after clawing back most of an early drop of 1.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3% and the Nasdaq rose 0.4%. Treasury yields plunged as investors scrambled for safety and expectations built for the Fed to ease up on rate hikes.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank stocks tumbled Monday on worries about what’s next to break, following the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. But many other stocks rose on hopes the bloodletting will force the Federal Reserve to take it easier on the hikes to interest rates that are shaking Wall Street and the economy.
The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in late trading after charging back from an early drop of 1.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 83 points, or 0.3%, at 31,993, as of 3;05 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 1.1% higher.
The sharpest drops were again coming from banks and other financial companies. Investors are worried that a relentless rise in interest rates meant to get inflation under control are approaching a tipping point and may be cracking the banking system.
The U.S. government announced a plan late Sunday meant to shore up the banking industry following the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank since Friday.
The most pressure is on the regional banks a couple steps below in size of the massive, “too-big-to-fail” banks that helped take down the economy in 2007 and 2008. Shares of First Republic Bank fell 50.8%, even after the bank said Sunday it had strengthened its finances with cash from the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase.
Huge banks, which have been repeatedly stress-tested by regulators following the 2008 financial crisis, weren’t down as much. JPMorgan Chase fell 0.9%, and Bank of America dropped 3.9%.
“So far, it seems that the potential problem banks are few, and importantly do not extend to the so-called systemically important banks,” analysts at ING said.
The broader market flipped from losses to gains as expectations built that all the furor will mean the Fed won’t reaccelerate its rate hikes, as it had been threatening to do. Such a move could give the economy and banking system more breathing space, but it could also give inflation more oxygen. Rate cuts also often act like steroids for the stock market.
Some investors are calling for the Fed to make cuts to interest rates soon to stanch the bleeding. The wider expectation, though, is that the Fed will likely pause or at least hold off on accelerating its rate hikes at its next meeting later this month.
That would be a sharp turnaround from expectations just a week ago, when many traders were forecasting the Fed would later this month hike its key overnight interest rate by 0.50 percentage points. That would put a tighter squeeze on markets and the economy after the Fed had just downshifted last month to an increase of 0.25 points from earlier hikes of 0.50 and 0.75 points.
The fear was that stubbornly high inflation would force the Fed to get even tougher, and investors were bracing for the Fed to keep hiking at least a couple more times after that.
Now, “depending on reactions in financial markets and eventual fallout on the overall economy, we wouldn’t rule out that the hiking cycle could even be over and that the next move by Fed officials may be lower not higher,” said Kevin Cummins, chief U.S. economist at NatWest.
Higher interest rates can drag down inflation by slowing the economy, but they raise the risk of a recession later on. They also hit prices for stocks, as well as bonds already sitting in investors’ portfolios.
That latter effect is one of the reasons for Silicon Valley Bank’s troubles. The Fed began hiking interest rates almost exactly a year ago, and its fastest flurry in decades has brought its key overnight rate to a range of 4.50% to 4.75%. That’s up from virtually zero.
That has hurt the investment portfolios of banks, which often park their cash in Treasurys because they’re considered among the safest investments on Earth.
Rising rates and other moves to reverse the Fed’s tremendous support for the economy during the pandemic have been effectively draining cash from the system, something Wall Street calls “liquidity.”
“Restoring liquidity in the banking system is easier than restoring confidence, and today it is clearly about the latter,” said Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial.
At one point during the morning, a measure of fear among stock investors on Wall Street touched its highest level since October before falling back. That helped the price of gold to climb, as investors looked for things that seemed safe. It rose $49.30 to settle at $1,961.50 per ounce.
Prices for Treasurys also shot higher on both demand for something safe and expectations for an easier Fed. That in turn sent their yields lower, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury plunged to 3.53% from 3.70% late Friday. That’s a major move for the bond market.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, had an even more breath-taking drop. It fell to 4.05% from 4.59% Friday.
Stock markets were mixed in Asia, but the losses deepened as trading headed westward through Europe. Germany’s DAX lost 3% as bank stocks across the continent sank.
In London, the government arranged the sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK Ltd., the California bank’s British arm, for the nominal sum of one British pound, or roughly $1.20.
Before trading began in Asia, the U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients will be protected and have access to their funds and announced steps designed to protect the bank’s customers and prevent more bank runs.
Regulators on Friday closed Silicon Valley Bank as investors withdrew billions of dollars from the bank in a matter of hours, marking the second-largest U.S. bank failure behind the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual. They also announced Sunday that New York-based Signature Bank was being seized after it became the third-largest bank to fail in U.S. history.
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AP Business Writers David McHugh, Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.
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October serves as Eat Better, Eat Together month to encourage people to share more meals together.
Chef Lauren Van Liew, Food Network Chopped Champion, joined us Friday on “Life.Style.Live!” to share her meal-time inspiration.
For more information, visit TipsOnTV.com.
THIS SEGEMENT IS SPONSORED BY SOUTHERN PEANUT GROWERS, AND ZATARAIN’S.
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The 84 Lumber Recruitment Call Center will be open on National Hire a Veteran Day
July 25 – from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. EST
EIGHTY FOUR, Pa., July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 84 Lumber, the nation's largest privately held building materials supplier, is proud to take part in National Hire a Veteran Day, which will be observed on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
84 Lumber is hosting a special Recruitment Call Center event, adding a personal touch for potential associates to ask questions and learn about opportunities throughout the 84 Lumber network without having to travel to a specific location. Callers can speak to 84 Lumber associates from a variety of backgrounds.
The Call Center will be open on Tuesday, July 25 – National Hire a Veteran Day – from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. EST. Call 724-228-1885 to speak to a live recruiter.
"At 84 Lumber, veterans play a significant role in the company's success. Their leadership, discipline, and commitment to excellence are qualities that align with 84 Lumber's culture and values," said 84 Lumber Owner & CEO Maggie Hardy.
"When someone retires from the military, they're typically used to a very structured, hard-working environment where they can grow and move up the ranks. That's why veterans tend to thrive at 84 Lumber and become some of our most successful associates," said Hardy. "On the other hand, 84 Lumber absolutely benefits from the hard-working values that our military has learned. These traits aren't always easy to come by, and we sure do appreciate those who have them."
Veteran Phil Dollman: Finding a Like-Minded Career and Purpose at 84 Lumber
Before joining 84 Lumber last June as a Recruiting Talent Acquisition Specialist, veteran Phil Dollman was unsure of what his next career move would be. Upon leaving his six years of active duty in the United States Air Force (USAF) Security Forces, followed by 18 years as a police officer, he had a tough time finding a job that offered the same structure and comfort level as he had in the military and police department.
"Finding a stable career path that gives veterans like me the same structure as we had in the military was important," said Dollman. "When you're used to having a clear rank structure of leaders who are required to do their job in a professional manner, transitioning to a civilian job that has poor or inconsistent leadership can be a tough adjustment, and opportunities seemed sparse."
During his time at USAF, Dollman, who retired as an E-5 staff sergeant, provided law enforcement and security services to military personnel and resources vital to national security; he was frequently in charge of a post, fire team, or some other group of airmen charged with an important duty related to the security of national defense. His attention to detail, duty, and high standards are what attracted him to 84 Lumber after his follow-up stint as a police officer, as he felt the company respected this experience.
"People who have honorably separated from the military have shown that during that period of their lives, they were held to a high standard as they performed their duties," said Dollman. "I have found 84 Lumber to be a no-nonsense company. 84 Lumber puts heavy value on being a team player who is reliable and doesn't make excuses."
"I get along with other field recruiters who also have a military background, and we find we bring our personal values to our job," said Dollman. "And as a recruiter, I frequently speak with and hire veterans. There is usually a familiarity when we speak because of similar shared experiences."
Why Veterans Thrive at 84 Lumber
Dollman found his way to 84 Lumber after discovering a family member worked for the company, and after more than a year in his role, he is happy he did. He says the qualities that he gained through his military experience, such as teamwork, reliability, ownership, and leading by example, are qualities that have helped him succeed at 84 Lumber and why he encourages others to join the company.
For those veterans in a similar situation to Dollman who may be seeking a new career, he highly suggests 84 Lumber. "As service members transition from military life whether through separation or retirement, many of us seek new careers to apply our skills in the civilian world," said Dollman. "If you can carry the intangibles learned in the military over to the company, you will likely excel quickly."
National Hire a Veteran Day – Tuesday, July 25, 2023 – aims to inspire employers to recruit and hire veterans by recognizing the unique skills and values that former soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen bring to the workforce.
No experience or degree is needed to join 84 Lumber. The company offers top-of-the-line training and development programs, so associates are prepared to move up quickly and become leaders at the company. To apply, visit 84lumber.com/careers.
Since 84 Lumber was founded almost 70 years ago, the company has had a strong commitment to US military members. It offers a year-round 10 percent discount for all military personnel, purple wounded warrior parking spots at all stores nationwide, and hosts an annual "Operation Appreciation" month every May to show special appreciation to the military. 84 Lumber associates who are veterans or active-duty members are given an extra paid day off to use on a veteran-related holiday, such as Veteran's Day or Memorial Day, each year. Each associate nationwide also is given a custom Operation Appreciation t-shirt. To learn more visit www.84Lumber.com or Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
ABOUT 84 LUMBER
Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, 84 Lumber Company is the nation's largest privately held supplier of building materials, manufactured components, and industry-leading services for single- and multi-family residences and commercial buildings. The company operates 310 facilities which include stores, component manufacturing plants, custom door shops, and engineered wood product centers in more than 35 states. 84 Lumber also offers turnkey installation services for a variety of products, including framing, insulation, siding, windows, roofing, decking, and drywall. A certified national women's business enterprise owned by Maggie Hardy, 84 Lumber was named one of America's Largest Private Companies by Forbes and also made the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Companies in 2022. For more information, visit 84lumber.com or join us at Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
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Kentucky forward Ugonna Onyenso enters transfer portal
Published: Apr. 5, 2023 at 1:18 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) - Kentucky forward Ugonna Onyenso has decided to enter the transfer portal, according to multiple reports.
The Nigerian native averaged 2.5 PPG & 2.6 RPG in 16 games this past season.
The story was first reported by The Athletic.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Crews battled a two-alarm grass fire in the Little Beach area early Thursday morning, Gearhart Fire Department said.
The fire department said they were dispatched at 2:39 a.m. to the approximately 20-foot by 50-foot fire they found traveling to a tree line.
A second alarm was called due to how fast the fire was growing, the size and distance crews had to travel, GFD said.
After further assessment, crews determined the fire grew to an estimated 50 feet by 400 feet.
GFD noted they were able to access the fire by making a fire trail to carry equipment down to the scene. Crews said they also had to remove trees and Scotch Broom for safe turnaround and fire escape routes, should the fire grow out of control.
By 5:20 a.m., GFD said the fire was under control — adding the Oregon Department of Forestry will assist to ensure the fire is completely out.
Gearhart Fire said the cause was identified as an unattended debris burn near the shoreline earlier that night. Officials remind the public that debris, pile and driftwood burning is prohibited.
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The Museum of Broadway Also Releases Teaser Video and
Announces Charity Partnership With Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, tickets for the Museum of Broadway go on sale exclusively through Audience Rewards, with tickets going on sale to the public on June 21st at 10am EST. Fans who have signed up through the Museum of Broadway's website will have early access to purchase their tickets on June 17th. These timed tickets start at $39, and a portion of every ticket sold will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Tickets can be purchased starting June 21st at https://www.themuseumofbroadway.com/tickets.
The Museum also released the following video, giving fans a sneak peek at what they can expect to see when the Museum opens this fall: https://vimeo.com/719984238/cf41d3cbde
Co-founders Julie Boardman and Diane Nicoletti tease that The Museum of Broadway will include exhibits and immersive experiences featuring The Ziegfeld Follies, Oklahoma!, The Wiz, Ain't Misbehavin', and Rent, among many more yet to be announced. Overall, the Museum will highlight more than 500 individual productions from the 1700s-present.
High resolution renderings of the Museum featured in the video can be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fit2e1u0c38b0zu/AABUsEvnF9pZ6xqtOlv6ja7Ja?dl=0
In addition to artists previously announced in May, the Museum will also feature work from Emmy Award winning illustrator I. Javier Ameijeiras (Rent Live!), neon artist Dani B, Tony Award nominated dancer Robert Fairchild (An American in Paris, former NYCB principal), Drama Desk Award winning scenic designer David Korins (Hamilton, Beetlejuice), choreographer Julio Monge (West Side Story), and dancer Tanairi Vazquez (West Side Story, Hamilton). A full list of the artists featured in the Museum can be found here: https://www.themuseumofbroadway.com/artists.
As previously announced, the team of expert curators for The Museum of Broadway is headed by Ben West (Resident Historian and Curator, Timeline & Special Exhibits) and also includes Jennifer Ashley Tepper (Curator, Historical Buildings), John Kenrick (Curator, Game Changer History), Faye Armon-Troncoso (Set Decorator & Props Supervisor, Making of a Broadway Show), Lisa Zinni (Costume & Props Curator), and Michael McDonald (Historical Assets Manager).
The Museum of Broadway is founded in collaboration with Playbill, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, Goodspeed Musicals, Creative Goods, and Concord Theatricals.
For more information on The Museum of Broadway please visit: https://www.themuseumofbroadway.com and follow @museumofbroadway on all social channels.
The Museum of Broadway is founded by entrepreneur and 2-time Tony Award-winning producer, Julie Boardman, and founder of award-winning experiential agency Rubik Marketing, Diane Nicoletti. Elie Landau serves as the Museum's general manager. Currently under construction, the Museum is slated to open November 15, 2022 at 145 West 45th Street.
The Museum of Broadway is an immersive and interactive theatrical experience devoted to musicals, plays, and the people who make them. Featuring the work of dozens of designers, artists, and theatre historians, this one-of-a-kind Museum takes visitors on a journey along the timeline of Broadway, from its birth to present day, where the past, present, and future of Broadway come together like never before!
Guests will travel through a visual history of Broadway, highlighting groundbreaking moments in a series of exhibits that showcase – and show off – dazzling costumes, props, renderings, rare photos, videos, and more. Along the way, guests will learn more about the pivotal shows or "game changers" that transformed the landscape of Broadway - the moments that pushed creative boundaries, challenged social norms, and paved the way for those who would follow.
The Museum will also celebrate the behind-the-scenes of this dazzling American art form with a special exhibit, "The Making of a Broadway Show," which will honor the community of brilliantly talented professionals – both onstage and off – who bring Broadway plays and musicals to life every night.
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Black History Month has been around since 1926, and except for the first two years, each year features a different theme.
Last year’s theme was Black Health and Wellness. The year before, the theme was The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.
This year’s theme: Black Resistance.
Groups celebrating Black History Month are including this year’s theme as part of their commemorations. For instance, the Library of Congress has curated a display that explores how African Americans have resisted historical and ongoing oppression from America’s earliest days until now. The curation includes photos, prints, rare books and other artifacts.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is hosting an array of events, programs and tours honoring Black Resistance, it said.
Join our museum throughout #BlackHistoryMonth for an array of events, programs and tours honoring Black Resistance & the African American experience, including a Community Day celebrating the 25th anniversary of @TheLionKing (tickets now available)!
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— Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) January 30, 2023
“By resisting, African Americans continue to mobilize resources and shape social movements to create a space for Black Americans to thrive. We invite everyone to join us in exploring the histories of Black freedom movements—from slavery and abolition to other ongoing struggles for civil and human rights,” the museum said.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History said Black Resistance has helped African Americans dismantle Jim Crow laws, end slavery and segregation and increase political representation.
“African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores,” the Association for the Study of African American Life and History said. “These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction.”
For more on this year’s theme and to see past themes, click here.
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Balenciaga’s new ‘destroyed’ sneakers cost $1,850
(CNN) - Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga launched its new Paris sneaker this week, and images of the shoes have people talking.
The high-top sneakers look old, tattered and dirty – and they cost nearly $2,000.
Balenciaga said just 100 pairs of the “extra destroyed” limited-edition sneakers will be available, with a price tag of $1,850.
The non-limited edition Paris sneakers, a slightly less-destroyed version, are available on the Balenciaga website and cost between $500 and $700, depending on the specific style.
In a press release, Balenciaga said the photos “suggest that Paris sneakers are meant to be worn for a lifetime.”
Social media is having a field day over the sneakers, with one Twitter user writing, “Balenciaga is really charging people $1850 for the pair of torn up converse that my ma begged me to throw out when I was in high school.”
Another wrote, “If you bought the $1,850 Balenciaga sneaker that looks like it was run over by a lawnmower please seek help but also please reach out to me because I would like to understand where your mind was at in that moment.”
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Greece: Baby’s body found in dam; mother arrested
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her baby daughter in northern Greece. The 11-month-old girl’s body was found in the Aliakmonas Dam which is used for farm irrigation. The suspect is facing murder charges. Police said the woman had previously received psychiatric treatment and the baby’s disappearance was reported by relatives. She was last seen with the child on New Year’s Eve and told police she had left her daughter at the viewing area of the dam which is located 18 kilometers (11 miles) from her home.
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CHICAGO — A 12-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head on the city’s Lower West Side.
The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 1800 block of West 21st Place. Police said the boy was outside with an adult family member when two unknown offenders approached them and began firing shots, then fled on foot.
The boy was shot in the right temple and transported to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
No one is in custody. Area Three Detectives are investigating.
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NEW YORK (AP) — David Shriver, Jamir Watkins and Adrian Baldwin Jr. scored 11 points apiece to help lead top-seed VCU over eight-seed Davidson on Thursday in a 71-53 victory in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
Watkins added six rebounds and three blocks for the Rams (25-7). Shriver was 3 for 6 from beyond the arc. The Rams picked up their sixth straight victory.
Grant Huffman had 10 points and five assists for the Wildcats (16-16). David Skogman also scored 10 points for Davidson. Sam Mennenga had nine points and eight rebounds.
VCU took the lead with 13:23 left in the first half and did not relinquish it. Baldwin led his team in scoring with eight points in the first half to help put them up 37-28 at the break. VCU extended its lead to 54-39 during the second half, fueled by a 7-0 scoring run.
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'Cautious consumers': Americans are becoming 'reluctant' to make larger purchases, new report shows
As retail sales took a bit of a breather in December, so did the credit cards.
U.S. consumers' outstanding credit grew by $11.56 billion to end the year, according to Federal Reserve data released Tuesday. It's the lowest monthly gain since January 2021 and well below economists' expectations of $25 billion.
For much of 2022, consumer debt levels grew at record rates as pandemic-induced pent-up demand ran up against a period of rampant inflation.
However, as the year drew to a close — and the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to combat inflation — that bullish spending activity was curtailed.
"Long story short, we're seeing a more cautious consumer," Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst with Bankrate, told CNN.
"Consumer spending certainly isn't falling off a cliff, but we are seeing ample evidence that Americans are becoming more reluctant to make certain purchases, especially larger expenses and acquiring physical goods," he said. "Services spending has been more robust, perhaps still owing to pent-up demand that stacked up during the pandemic for things like traveling and dining out."
Revolving credit balances, which is mostly credit cards, grew by 7.3% in December, according to Tuesday's report. That's the lowest month-on-month increase since the summer of 2021, Rossman noted.
Still, those balances growing in a month when spending was down likely shows the toll taken by higher interest rates, Rossman said.
The average credit card charges a record-high 19.95%, Rossman said, citing Bankrate data that also showed that 46% of card holders are carrying a balance from month to month. That's up from 39% a year before.
"Even if spending may be tailing off a bit, high inflation and higher interest rates are making balances harder to pay off," he said. "More people are putting necessities on credit cards and financing these expenses over time."
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Ten Additional Category Winners Announced
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2022 were announced tonight during the 75th Annual DGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for Everything Everywhere All at Once. In a special announcement, the Guild's First-Time Feature Director Award was renamed in honor of the late DGA President Michael Apted.
Judd Apatow hosted the ceremony for the fourth time before a capacity audience of more than 800 guests. Presenters included (in alphabetical order): Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Bateman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Billy Eichner, Regina Hall, Stephanie Hsu, Anna Kendrick, Stan Lathan, James Marsden, Rev. Ed Milkovich, Kumail Nanjiani, Jim Nantz, Mike Newell, Aubrey Plaza, Christina Ricci, Denis Villeneuve, and Chloé Zhao.
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM FOR 2022:
DANIEL KWAN & DANIEL SCHEINERT
Everything Everywhere All at Once
(A24)
MICHAEL APTED AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR FOR 2022:
CHARLOTTE WELLS
Aftersun
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OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES FOR 2022:
SAM LEVINSON
Euphoria, "Stand Still Like the Hummingbird"
(HBO)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES FOR 2022:
BILL HADER
Barry, "710N"
(HBO)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES FOR 2022:
HELEN SHAVER
Station Eleven, "Who's There?"
(HBO Max).
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING FOR 2022:
LIZ PATRICK
Saturday Night Live, "Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow"
(NBC)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS FOR 2022:
GLENN WEISS
The 75th Annual Tony Awards
(CBS)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY SERIES FOR 2022:
BEN SIMMS
Running Wild with Bear Grylls, "Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica"
(National Geographic Channel)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS FOR 2022:
ANNE RENTON
Best Foot Forward, "Halloween"
(Apple TV+)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMMERCIALS FOR 2022:
KIM GEHRIG
(Somesuch, Inc.)
Accessibility, Apple — Apple (Direct)
Run Baby Run, iPhone — Apple (Direct)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY FOR 2022:
SARA DOSA
Fire of Love
(National Geographic)
Cadillac is the Official Automotive Sponsor of the 75th Annual DGA Awards.
About the DGA:
In the eight decades since its founding in 1936, the DGA has fought for the economic and creative rights of its members; protected their ability to financially benefit from the reuse of their work; established strong pension and health plans; and established jurisdiction in new technologies and distribution platforms. Today we represent more than 19,000 directors and members of the directorial team working in film, television, commercials, new media and other audiovisual media.
Directors Guild of America 7900 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 310-289-5333 www.dga.org
Lesli Linka Glatter, President • Russell Hollander, National Executive Director
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Overnight Traffic Control at Highway 25 and Highway 156 roundabout set for Tuesday
SAN BENITO COUNTY, Calif. (KION-TV)- Caltrans will have overnight traffic control at the Highway 25 and Highway 156 intersection starting on Tuesday June 13 at 7 p.m.
The traffic control will be in place until Wednesday June 14 at 5 a.m. Caltrans said that both lanes of Highway 156 will be routed onto the newly paved lanes with the existing lanes being grinded out and then fully reconstructed.
Caltrans will have flaggers in place and will assist drivers with one-way traffic control. Drivers can expect delays for up to 15 minutes.
Highway 25 will maintain the same alignment until the next stage of the project begins. The closure will allow temporary striping with a traffic shift as workers continue with the next phase of construction.
Speed limits throughout the construction zone continue to be reduced to 35 mph for the safety of construction crews and the traveling public.
Caltrans said the roundabout project will reduce the number and severity of collisions at the intersection of State Routes 25 and 156 where the previous signalized intersection experienced a pattern of broadside and rear end collisions. The project is expected to be completed by Spring 2024.
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SEATTLE — SEATTLE (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 25 points and the Indiana Fever used a 17-0 run in the second half to beat the Seattle Storm 80-68 on Thursday night.
NaLyssa Smith had 12 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana (5-7). Emma Cannon and Erica Wheeler each scored 10 points, and rookie Aliyah Boston had nine points and 11 rebounds.
WNBA scoring leader Jewell Loyd was held to 19 points on 5-of-21 shooting for Seattle (3-9). Ezi Magbegor added 18 points and Ivana Dojkic had 11. The Storm made just 22 of 74 field goals, with 11 coming from 3-point range.
Seattle led 59-58 with 4:11 left in the third quarter but didn't score again until Jordan Horston's layup with 3:48 remaining in the fourth. The Storm went 0 for 21 during the 10-minute drought, including 15 straight misses in the fourth.
Mitchell scored 12 points in the first half and Smith had 10 points and 10 rebounds as Indiana led 48-44. Mitchell made a 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left in the third quarter to extend the lead to 67-59 after a 9-0 run.
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The new 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander costs $1,250 more than the smaller 2023 Toyota Highlander three-row SUV, based on the latest pricing guide from Toyota. Updates to the 2024 Highlander haven’t been disclosed, but the larger, roomier, and better equipped Grand Highlander new for this year makes for a relative value in the growing Highlander family.
But that value exists only on mid- and top-trim levels. The Grand Highlander is sold only in XLE, Limited, and Platinum trims, with a starting price of $44,465, including a $1,395 destination fee, for the XLE with front-wheel drive. Toyota casts a wider net on the standard Highlander with L, LE, and XSE trims slotting below XLE, Limited, and Platinum. The base 2023 Toyota Highlander L costs $37,815, but the similarly equipped XLE is $43,215.
Those aren’t the only differences between the Highlander and the Grand Highlander, which measures 6.5 inches longer, 2.3 inches wider, and 2.0 inches taller. With its slab sides, boxy fenders, and vertical front fascia, the Grand Highlander looks more like Toyota’s truck family than the smaller Highlander’s family hauling Sienna minivan.
Both models share a base 265-hp 2.4-liter turbo-4 with an 8-speed automatic sending power to the front wheels or all four wheels, while a 243-hp 2.5-liter inline-4 hybrid model can get up to 36 mpg combined.
The Grand Highlander adds a third option with the Hybrid Max powertrain the pairs the 2.4-liter turbo-4 with two motors supplementing power to the front and rear axle via a 6-speed automatic transmission and a mechanical driveshaft. Making 362 hp and 400 lb-ft, it gives the Grand Highlander some muscle lacking in other Highlanders, and still returns 27 mpg combined.
All-wheel drive adds $1,400 on the regular Highlander and $1,600 on the Grand Highlander.
The 2024 Grand Highlander XLE comes well equipped with a 12.3-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a wireless phone charger, synthetic leather upholstery, power front seats that are heated, seven USB ports, a power tailgate, and 18-inch alloy wheels. It’s also loaded with safety features and driver-assist tech, including automatic emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, and blind-spot monitors.
The Grand Highlander Limited costs $48,255 and adds 20-inch alloy wheels, power folding side mirrors, leather upholstery, heated and cooled front seats, heated second-row seats, and a heated steering wheel.
The top Platinum grade includes AWD for $54,940. For about $5,000 more than the Limited AWD, it comes with Lexus-like conveniences, including cooled second-row seats, a panoramic sunroof, a head-up display, a surround-view camera system, a rearview mirror camera, and hands-free driving in traffic jam situations.
Opting for the Grand Highlander Hybrid powertrain adds $1,600 to the XLE and the Limited AWD; it can’t be had with Platinum trim.
The Grand Highlander Hybrid Max comes only with AWD and on Limited ($55,435) and Platinum ($59,520).
The 2024 Grand Highlander is on sale now.
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Here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch
After Finland joined NATO, neighboring Sweden still faces some hurdles — namely Turkey and Hungary — before it can become a member.
Russia — at the helm of the U.N. Security Council presidency — holds a council meeting about alleged weapons exports violations on Monday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is due to visit Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Both have pitched their vision for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, while fostering relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Orthodox Easter is on Sunday.
Later this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to visit Brazil and the United Nations in New York.
What happened last week
Secret U.S. military documents including on Ukraine appeared on social media, setting off hurried efforts in Washington to determine the source of the leak and potential fallout. An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN the country has already changed some of its military plans because of the leak.
Finland became a new member of NATO as assurance in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This expands the Western military alliance up to the Finnish-Russian border that stretches more than 800 miles.
A Russian court charged U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich with espionage, which The Wall Street Journal and the White House have strongly denied. This could be Russia's first jailing of an American journalist on spying charges since Soviet times. Leaders of both parties in the U.S. Senate issued a rare joint statement condemning the "wrongful detention" of Gershkovich and demanding his release.
Thirty-one children reunited with their families in Ukraine after an operation to bring them home from Russia and Russian-occupied territory, according to Save Ukraine, the humanitarian group that helped organized the operation. Ukraine and the International Criminal Court accuse the Kremlin of war crimes for taking away Ukrainian children during the war.
A Russian official wanted by the ICC addressed the U.N. Security Council about Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the invasion, in one of Russia's first moves at the helm this month of the council's presidency. Diplomats from the U.S. and some other countries walked out when the official, Maria Lvova-Belova, started to speak by video.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beijing and said he's counting on Chinese leader Xi Jinping to "bring Russia to its senses" over Ukraine. Xi reiterated his call for peace talks while also mentioning security concerns of all parties.
President Zelenskyy visited Poland, whose government has provided Ukraine with four MiG fighter jets and pledged more.
The number of Ukrainian refugees across Europe surpassed 8 million, and more than 5 million are displaced inside their country, after little more than a year since Russia's large-scale invasion, the U.N. refugee agency says.
A number of religious observances took place: While the larger Orthodox Churches celebrated Palm Sunday, Ukraine's Roman Catholic and Protestant minority communities marked Easter, with Pope Francis calling to pray for Ukrainians and Russians, refugees and other groups. Earlier, Ukrainian Jews gathered for Passover. And Zelenskyy — Ukraine's first Jewish president — joined Ukrainian Muslim soldiers for an iftar dinner after their daily fast during Ramadan, Islam's holy month, which ends next week.
In-depth
On the State of Ukraine podcast: Ukraine is asking Western allies for modern aircraft to fight Russian forces. NPR looks at some of the many vintage helicopters in Ukraine's fleet.
How the U.S. intelligence leaks impact the Ukrainian government and its war strategy.
The Pentagon and Justice Department investigate as secret military documents appear online.
Top-secret Pentagon documents on Ukraine war appear on social media.
Ukraine's elderly often remain behind; here's how they've survived a year of war.
Finland joins NATO over Russia's objection.
In Kharkiv, a widower tries to repair his bombed apartment building.
The EU is trying to sanction diamonds from Russia.
Journalist Evan Gershkovich's colleague speaks on his arrest in Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China: What it means.
Russia detains woman in connection with bombing that killed military blogger.
White House applies more pressure on those helping Russia evade sanctions.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See our report on its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
You can read past recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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The Senate passes a gun control bill and sends it to the House. The Supreme Court strikes down New York's law restricting concealed carrying of guns. A recap of Thursday's House Jan. 6 hearing.
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The Senate passes a gun control bill and sends it to the House. The Supreme Court strikes down New York's law restricting concealed carrying of guns. A recap of Thursday's House Jan. 6 hearing.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s a “Strike Girl Summer.”
So read a picket sign as the sidewalks of Hollywood and midtown Manhattan teemed with actors on Day 1 of their strike, protesting alongside the writers who have been at it since May.
Together, the two guilds have ground the entertainment industry to a halt. On both coasts, though, there was a buoyant mood in the air as picket lines were reinvigorated by the support of some of the 65,000 actors who comprise SAG-AFTRA (98% of members voted to approve a strike back in June). This is Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in six decades, and the first dual strike since 1960, reigniting the fervor against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers just as a historic heat wave hits Southern California.
Outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, throngs of protesters chanted: “Fists up, curtains down, LA is a union town.” Food trucks flanking organizers’ tents served churros, boba tea and cold lemonade to protesters baking in the midday heat that reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit (36.7 Celsius).
But the oppressive sun didn’t dampen the mood. Demonstrators spritzed each other with water and danced to reggaeton music as passersby in cars honked in support of signs like: “Honk if your boss is overpaid.”
Parents on the picket line hoisted their children over their shoulders and pushed toddlers in strollers, high-fiving one another with signs that reflected defiant lyrics from Olivia Rodrigo’s new single, “Vampire,” and were packing “Big Strike Energy.”
“The jig is up,” said Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA and once the titular star of “The Nanny” at SAG’s press conference Thursday. “The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, A.I. If we don’t stand tall right now, we’re all going to be in trouble.”
The infusion of SAG members’ support was noted by comedian and writer Adam Conover, a member of SAG and WGA who serves on the latter’s negotiating committee.
“If you are gaining momentum like we are 70-odd days into a strike, you are going to win,” Conover said. “You know, the companies’ strategy with the writers guild when we go on strike is to starve us out and wait, not even talk to us for months because they expect us to bleed support. Yet, look at this — our picket lines are more full than ever and now have another union on strike with us.”
SAG and WGA last went on simultaneous strikes more than six decades ago.
“What we won in 1960 was our health and pension plans, and the existence of residuals,” Conover said. Now, executives “are facing the fact that not only are they getting no new scripts, they cannot shoot anything until they come back and make a fair deal, not with one union but with both unions.”
Zora Bikangaga, also a member of both guilds, called Friday’s picket “invigorating,” and a testament to how the issues writers are facing are “pervasive across the entire industry.”
While the industry’s business model has undergone major changes in the decades since the last strike, actors say their rates and contracts haven’t evolved to match inflation and other changes.
“They use the gig economy as a way to say, ‘This is how you can be more independent,’ when in fact what it does is diminish the value and strength of organized labor,” said actor Ron Song, who appeared on Amazon Freevee’s “Jury Duty,” which was nominated this week for four Emmys.
Former co-stars and acquaintances alike reunited at demonstrations. Some hadn’t seen each other since the coronavirus pandemic started more than three years ago.
The first full day of the dual strike was marked by high energy — joy and unity mixed with anger and frustration.
For actor Stacey Travis, who has actively been involved in SAG-AFTRA for years, the decision to strike was not taken lightly.
“It feels extraordinary and it feels sad,” she said of the moment. “It’s very difficult on everyone, so we’ve always taken it incredibly seriously. So it’s only when we’re backed up against the wall and we have no options that we find ourselves here.”
“It’s all of it for me,” said actor Peter Carellini about the reason for striking. “It’s A.I. It’s residuals. It’s the fact that Bob Chapek, Bob Iger, David Zaslav are making untold millions in bonuses while writers and actors are going to the Emmys with negative bank accounts.”
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Amber Alert for California boy canceled
Published: Dec. 31, 2022 at 12:19 PM EST|Updated: 48 minutes ago
(Gray News) - Authorities in California canceled an Amber Alert Friday.
Police had issued the alert Friday for a 4-year-old boy believed abducted.
The California Highway Patrol said on Twitter that the subject had been located. No other details were available.
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Last month Americans received about 4.2 billion robocalls, 140 million a day. That's less than in August, but the reasons aren't what you'd hoped. There are only 30 days in September.
"September has a holiday with Labor Day and August doesn't. So that's another 3% of robocalls since robo-callers take those days off."
Alex Quilici, CEO of the robocall blocking app YouMail, tells me the type of calls going out changes during the year. Right now?
"We're starting to see student loan fraud ramp up because of the $10,000 forgiveness, so they're pretending to need the information to make that happen. We're seeing a lot of debt reduction calls that are problematic and I think the worst one right now, in my opinion, are the utility scams. These scammers are calling people up saying you're going to be disconnected in the next half hour if you don't pay $200-$300 right away."
Instead of instructing the victims to send a check to the utility company, the scammer pressures them to buy a gift card, often while staying on the phone as they drive to the store, and then gives the scammer the numbers over the phone.
But Quilici tells me, he sees signs that bad robocalls could someday go the way of bad spam emails that don't bother us as much anymore.
"We're seeing technology improve it. We're seeing consumers use third-party apps to block calls so they don't have to make those decisions. We're seeing consumers not calling numbers back automatically without doing research."
Remember, don't engage with a scammer or spammer. If someone doesn't pick up when you first say hello, hang up. And while you might get some enjoyment out of telling them off, it only shows other spammers that you're number is in service.
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The city of Frederick and the owners of its newest baseball team announced on Monday that they will hold a fan submission contest to name the club. Mayor Michael O’Connor doesn’t plan to make any suggestions himself.
“I am most interested in the name on the front of the jerseys,” O’Connor said. “Frederick is what matters to me. I could come up with a thousand lousy ideas, but just the fact that it’s going to be in Frederick is what excites me.”
Two years after the Keys lost their official ties to the Orioles after a three-decade partnership, Frederick is still hopeful for the return of an affiliated minor league organization. But in 2023, the city will be one of few in the country featuring multiple professional baseball teams, with the Keys, now a member of the Major League Baseball Draft League, being joined by a to-be-named member of the independent Atlantic League.
Both O’Connor and Greg Baroni, the CEO of Attain Sports and Entertainment — which owns both the Keys and the Atlantic League team, as well as the Orioles’ Double-A affiliate in Bowie — said the city’s return to affiliated status could take three to five years, likely requiring a ballpark to replace the 33-year-old Harry Grove Stadium, which will host both Frederick teams in 2023, and one of MLB’s 30 franchises to have an opening. After the canceled 2020 minor league season, MLB limited each organization to four full-season affiliates, with the Orioles losing the Keys, their High-A affiliate for 31 years, and retaining clubs in Salisbury, Aberdeen, Bowie and Norfolk, Virginia.
The Keys had a relatively soft landing compared to most of the more than 40 minor league teams that lost their MLB ties, joining a handful of others to form the Draft League, which features a mix of amateurs and young players who recently completed their college eligibility. But the move led to a reduction in the number of games hosted in Frederick. By adding a team in the Atlantic League — which features more experienced players than the Draft League and has often been a test site for new MLB rules — the city will have more games than when it was affiliated with the Orioles.s, with Andrew Klein, who will serve as the general manager of both Frederick teams, noted that will allow for more community engagement.
The team-naming contest is perhaps the strongest example yet. Those interested can submit ideas online until Jan. 27, with a group of finalists announced on Feb. 6 ahead of a voting process. The fan with the winning submission will receive a team jersey, the chance to throw out a first pitch and two season tickets, and all others who offer a suggestion will be put into a drawing for two more.
Chuck Domino, announced Monday as Attain’s senior vice president of baseball operations, said one of his first acts in pursuit of a name for Frederick’s Atlantic League team was contacting Brandiose. He had previously worked with the branding company to name several minor league teams, including the Richmond Flying Squirrels, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Hartford Yard Goats and Rocket City Trash Pandas.
“This is where the fun of minor league baseball comes into play,” Domino said. “Now, you hear those names, probably some of you are scratching your heads and saying, ‘Oh no.’ I can tell you, you have to have thick skin when you go through this process.
“There’s gonna be some crazy names that get entered into the contest. We will keep an open mind to all of them.”
Domino, who has four decades of experience in professional baseball, said those teams saw increases in attendance, received honors for their logos and had improved marketability after the rebranding experiences. The Keys led their league in attendance in 2019, their final affiliated season, and Klein said the team averaged only nine fewer fans per game in the Draft League in 2022.
“We certainly were not excited to hear that Major League Baseball was contracting,” O’Connor said. “While we always believed that Frederick was the best location for a minor league baseball team that Major League Baseball had — I think it was proven by attendance — we understand that attendance wasn’t the metric that they were using. When they made the commitment to put a Draft League team in Frederick, what that told me was Major League Baseball is still interested in us, and we’re definitely still interested in minor league baseball.
“This is just one more step in that to demonstrate that we’re a great community that will support baseball.”
The city recognizes a new ballpark is needed to meet MLB’s standards and is deciding where to construct one, with O’Connor saying, “I don’t think we can upgrade the existing stadium.” Instead, a determination is being made as to whether to build a new facility at the current site or elsewhere. Baroni referenced a bill passed last year that approved the Maryland Stadium Authority to issue up to $200 million “to fund the development and/or renovations of sports entertainment facilities across the state including minor league ballparks where renovations will be necessary in order to maintain affiliations with major league teams and continue to play in our state.”
“Everything takes longer than I wish it did,” O’Connor said. “But you just have to go through each step.”
Baroni echoed that point, repeatedly calling the process of bringing an affiliated team back to Frederick a “journey” and referring to the addition of an Atlantic League team as part of that. He joked he would have a “bias” toward the team having an orange and black color scheme, matching the Orioles, but acknowledged that will largely be dictated by the chosen name. He also wasn’t shy about his desire to have Frederick again host one of Baltimore’s affiliates, though he was clear it wouldn’t come at the expense of the one Attain already owns.
The same day it was announced that Frederick would be joining the Atlantic League in November, the Baysox announced a 10-year lease to continue playing at Bowie’s Prince George’s Stadium. Baroni said he hopes to help that community maintain its affiliated status in the same way he plans to work to regain that of Frederick.
“I will say that I do have targets,” Baroni said. “It’s just not Bowie.”
He was noncommittal on how long the Keys and the Atlantic League team might co-exist in Frederick, saying, “For us, it’s let’s see how it goes.” Klein noted that the Atlantic League team’s first manager, Mark Minicozzi, led one of the league’s two teams in Lexington, Kentucky, last year, and the ballpark and clubhouse staffs will also be prepared for the logistical challenges that might come out of having two teams share the stadium. He believes the community will embrace it, too.
“There are always going to be a couple of fans who are diehard Orioles or [Washington] Nationals or whoever it may be, and therefore not having that affiliation is going to mean something to them,” Klein said. “But at the end of the day, we’re giving them the best baseball that we’re able to provide at this moment, and we’re working towards getting back to the affiliated ball.”
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BISMARCK, N.D., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc.'s (NYSE: MDU) board of directors today declared a quarterly dividend on the company's common stock of 21.75 cents per share, unchanged from the previous quarter.
The dividend is payable July 1 to stockholders of record June 9, 2022.
About MDU Resources
MDU Resources Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats indices, is Building a Strong America® by providing essential products and services through its regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses. For more information about MDU Resources, visit www.mdu.com or contact the Investor Relations Department at investor@mduresources.com.
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Event to be webcast online at: http://investors.sunpower.com/events.cfm
RICHMOND, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWR) will discuss its third quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, November 8 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call can be accessed live by registering at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI45f40baae7fb4eb19531e810dd5b7edb.
The results are scheduled to be released at 8:05 a.m. ET. The live audio webcast and supplemental financial information will be available on SunPower's investor website at http://investors.sunpower.com/events.cfm.
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SunPower is a leading solar and energy services provider in North America. SunPower offers the only solar + storage solution designed and warranted by one company that gives customers control over electricity consumption and resiliency during power outages while providing cost savings. For more information, visit www.sunpower.com.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota State Fair will get a new general manager with Jerry Hammer's announcement that he's stepping down after 26 years in the job.
Hammer told the Minneapolis Star Tribune it's “a gift” to have had the job for such a long time. The 68-year-old Hammer started his career as a temporary employee in the fair greenhouses.
Hammer saw the fair through the difficulty of the coronavirus pandemic, which shut it down in 2020 and depressed crowds in 2021. Hammer said this year's bounce-back left the fair in its best cash position ever.
Hammer said two accomplishments are likely to keep the fair healthy in coming years. One was establishing a separate Minnesota State Fair Foundation 20 years ago. The other was getting its own bonding authority to make it easier to maintain the fair's sprawling grounds and buildings.
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Leading Light Wind would supply New York with up to 2,100 MW of clean energy—enough to power up to 800,000 homes annually
Proposal represents up to $13.3 billion in economic benefits for New York, including critical offshore wind infrastructure and supply chain investments
Leading Light Wind announces labor Memorandum of Understanding, Community Benefits Program, to accelerate a just energy transition across the Empire State
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Leading Light Wind, the only American-led offshore wind development in the New York Bight, submitted its bid for an offshore wind power contract to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). New York's third competitive offshore wind solicitation includes a nation-leading $500 million investment in offshore wind ports, manufacturing, and supply chain infrastructure. Leading Light Wind proposes delivering up to 2,100 megawatts (MW) of clean energy to the state—advancing public health, climate action, environmental justice, and economic and workforce development across New York.
Leading Light Wind is a bold vision for New York that will deliver enough clean, reliable energy to power the equivalent of up to 800,000 New York homes every year and offset nearly 2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in its first year of operation. The proposed project will support tens of thousands of family-sustaining jobs over its operational life and represents up to $13.3 billion in economic benefits for New York, including critical offshore wind infrastructure and supply chain investments. These benefits and investments will be an essential part of New York State reaching its nation-leading climate and energy goals outlined in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Leading Light Wind is a partnership between lead developer Invenergy and New York-based co-developer energyRe.
"Leading Light Wind is charting a course for New York's clean energy future, one that is led by American innovation," said Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO at Invenergy. "As the only American-led offshore wind project in the New York Bight, Leading Light Wind has an unmatched commitment to advancing a domestic offshore wind industry that secures American competitiveness in the global market, delivers a just energy transition, and builds new opportunities for New Yorkers."
"Leading Light Wind is ready to bring our decades of expertise and experience to the fight for a resilient future," said Miguel Prado, CEO of energyRe. "Offshore wind is critical to reaching New York's bold climate and clean energy goals and can accelerate a family-sustaining green economy across the state. Leading Light Wind is uniquely positioned to realize New York's domestic leadership in offshore wind—and deliver on the promise of cleaner air and a healthier future for our communities."
"We are pleased to offer a unique and differentiated supply chain investment plan that will deliver economic benefits from Western New York to the Capital Region to New York City," said Joshua Weinstein, Vice President and Head of Offshore Development for Invenergy. "We're creating next-generation jobs through an innovation and operations base at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard and marshaling port development at the Arthur Kill Terminal on Staten Island. In addition, we're offering an energy storage solution to provide grid resilience and align our project with New York's energy storage goals."
Notably, Leading Light Wind signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) to ensure the project is built by New York union construction workers. The MOU covers all aspects of construction – from supply chain and port construction to offshore construction. The MOU and the team's experience building renewable power projects ensures that Leading Light Wind is best positioned to create an American-led offshore wind union workforce.
In addition to the supply chain investments, Leading Light Wind is focused on an equitable offshore wind industry in New York and will establish a community benefits program with up to $300 million in funding for driving stakeholder-directed community empowerment, building of an inclusive workforce, accelerating the offshore wind supply chain, and pioneering innovative and collaborative environmental research. Initial partnerships with community-based organizations and institutions include the Waterfront Alliance, the Albert C. Wiltshire Employment Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, CUNY Offshore Wind Advisory Network, CUNY College of Staten Island, Gotham Whale, the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (the Waterfront Pathways Program and newly proposed Lift All Boats fund to support small businesses).
Leading Light Wind also recognizes that meaningful stakeholder engagement is central to every area of NYSERDA's offshore wind program. As a committed industry partner, Leading Light Wind will build upon NYSERDA's efforts and center multifaceted stakeholder engagement throughout every stage of the project. Leading Light Wind is engaging with critical marine and fisheries stakeholders to ensure a burgeoning offshore wind industry can thrive alongside existing marine economies and resources.
Leading Light Wind builds upon Invenergy and energyRe's partnership in New York, including the development of Clean Path New York – a landmark clean energy infrastructure project combining a new 175-mile state-of-the-art 1,300 MW HVDC underground transmission line with more than 3,800 MW of new wind and solar power in New York.
"Responsible offshore wind development can address environmental justice and protections thoughtfully and intentionally as our region commits to the transition to clean energy. Waterfront Alliance's partnership with Leading Light Wind will enable us to move into the next phase of community visioning to refurbish a waterfront parcel in Staten Island. The transformation of this site into a safe, accessible open space furthers the 2021 New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan and promotes a more sustainable, city-wide relationship with our harbor," said Cortney Koenig Worrall, President and CEO, Waterfront Alliance. "The project has also committed to designing port facilities to adhere to Waterfront Alliance's rigorous WEDG standards for coastal design. This commitment ensures that Waterfront Alliance can verify the resilience, ecological, and public access benefits in communities where waterfront operations take place. We are especially excited about Leading Light Wind's proposed revitalization of Dry Dock 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for maritime uses to service the offshore wind industry."
"This transformative investment in Dry Dock 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard would result in new industrial facilities and maritime infrastructure to service our city's growing offshore wind sector," said Lindsay Greene, President and CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. "By leveraging the Navy Yard's culture of innovation, and its proven track record of economic development, this project will help realize economic growth for innovative companies and diverse entrepreneurs both at the Yard and citywide. Moreover, Leading Light Wind's commitment to partnering with the Albert C. Wiltshire Employment Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on offshore wind industry recruitment, administration, skills development and trainings, and wrap-around services means this project would bring good, high-paying jobs to our surrounding communities. Boosting local employment opportunities, while also advancing the development of clean energy, is critical to creating a more equitable, sustainable city for all."
"The CUNY Offshore Wind Advisory Network, comprised of Kingsborough Community College, LaGuardia Community College, New York City College of Technology, and the College of Staten Island, are excited to work with best-in-class offshore wind industry partners such as Leading Light Wind," said Christine Zagari-LoPorto, Associate Dean, Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Kingsborough Community College. "Leading Light Wind's support of our Bridges to Offshore Wind Program will help ensure that the diverse student body at CUNY is able to not only learn about the exciting, well-paying career opportunities in the nascent offshore wind industry, but also obtain the training and skill development necessary to access jobs in this critical sector."
"CUNY College of Staten Island has been a mainstay of this community for over 60 years. We have a diverse, vibrant community that has a distinct opportunity to make a difference to advance the clean energy transition. The partnership with Leading Light Wind will help CUNY College of Staten Island scale our renewable energy and technology innovation programs, as well as incorporate offshore wind education into existing programs. We are building the future of the energy infrastructure, technology, and offshore wind workforce – essential investments for the entire state," said Michael E. Steiper, Provost, College of Staten Island, CUNY.
"Gotham Whale is a source of education, advocacy, and science dedicated to improving the health of New York's marine environment – so we are thrilled to be named a Leading Light Wind community partner because they have thoughtfully and meticulously shown their commitment to including marine stakeholders in their project," said Paul L. Sieswerda, Director, Gotham Whale. "This partnership allows Gotham Whale to increase our funding of ongoing marine mammal data collection, citizen science efforts, and youth education programs. The Leading Light Wind team has the expertise necessary to ensure an environmentally responsible project that fosters collaboration and the continued success of all ocean users."
"The Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation is working to establish sustainability as an integral part of every child's K-12 learning experience. A key part of building a sustainable future is helping today's youth understand what that looks like and how they can be part of it," said Tara Stafford Ocansey, Executive Director, Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation. "Partnering with Leading Light Wind will allow us to bring experiential environmental programming, teacher trainings, and internship opportunities to local Title 1 middle and high schools. This critical work builds upon NYSERDA's existing Offshore Wind Youth Action program, showcasing how climate change and environmental justice issues need to be centered in our sustainability education."
Leading Light Wind is an American-led offshore wind project that will bring locally sourced, renewable energy to the East Coast. Developed by Invenergy and New York-based energyRe, we believe in empowering the communities where we live and work. Leading Light Wind will build on our track record of impactful community engagement and innovation in sustainable American infrastructure to advance public health, create good-paying jobs, and support our local supply chain. Learn more at leadinglightwind.com.
Invenergy drives innovation in energy. Invenergy and its affiliated companies develop, own, and operate large-scale renewable and other clean energy generation and storage facilities in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Invenergy's home office is located in Chicago, and it has regional development offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Japan, Poland, and Scotland.
Invenergy and its affiliated companies have successfully developed more than 30,000 megawatts of projects that are in operation, construction, or contracted, including wind, solar, transmission infrastructure and natural gas power generation and advanced energy storage projects. Learn about Invenergy at Invenergy.com.
energyRe, LLC is a leading independent clean energy company focused on solving complex challenges and providing clean energy solutions in utility-scale offshore and onshore wind and solar generation, energy storage, transmission, and distributed generation. energyRe's founding investors include principals of Related Companies, one of the nation's most prominent privately-owned real estate firms and one of the country's largest creators and preservationists of affordable housing. energyRe is led by an experienced executive management team and is guided by the values of community engagement, government partnership, and a demonstrated commitment to sustainability. energyRe has offices in New York, Houston, Indianapolis, and Charleston. For more information about energyRe, visit www.energyre.com.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democratic governor of New Mexico, about Friday's meeting with President Biden regarding the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democratic governor of New Mexico, about Friday's meeting with President Biden regarding the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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ABSECON — Chipotle Mexican Grill is planning to open a restaurant in the city next year, a spokesperson for the chain said.
The restaurant will be located in a new retail center on the White Horse Pike between New Road and Michigan Avenue, according to public records.
Further details about the restaurant were not available Monday, spokesperson Annie Gradinger said.
The Mexican franchise has opened several restaurants in the area over the past decade. It has locations in Hamilton Township, Somers Point, Egg Harbor Township and Middle Township.
In its first quarter this year, the company reported $291.6 million in earnings and $2.37 billion in revenue.
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Countries not doing enough to avoid 'catastrophic global warming': UN
According to a report from the United Nations, the current efforts being made worldwide to combat climate change are insufficient to prevent catastrophic global warming.
Current emissions pledges would see temperatures rise between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees above pre-industrial levels, far above the targeted 1.5 degrees agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
RELATED: Majority of Americans want more action on climate change, poll finds
"The science is clear and so are our climate goals under the Paris Agreement. We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world," said Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change.
If the world exceeds the 1.5C temperature limit, experts say it could trigger multiple "tipping points," like increased extreme weather events, the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the thawing of permafrost.
A caution sign is posted at the Castaic Lake reservoir in Los Angeles County on October 4, 2022 in Castaic, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The report comes ahead of the COP27 summit in November, where countries will gather to discuss new climate change measures.
Last year, during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, only 24 out of 193 nations submitted updated plans t fight climate change to the UN.
In another report, the UN revealed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs in 2021.
"[The report] has underlined, once again, the enormous challenge – and the vital necessity – of urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent global temperatures from rising even further in the future," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
238 AM CST Wed Feb 8 2023
...The National Weather Service in Fort Worth TX has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in Texas...
White Rock Creek Near White Rock Creek At Greenville Ave
affecting Dallas County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/fwd.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING TO THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...White Rock Creek Near White Rock Creek At Greenville Ave.
* WHEN...Through this morning.
* IMPACTS...At 84 feet, Minor flooding will occur near the creek.
Bike paths downstream of the gage will be flooded. Water approches
ball fields at Emmett Conrad High School.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 2:15 AM CST Wednesday the stage was 84.7 feet.
- Flood stage is 84 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 86
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(The Hill) – Ivana Trump has died at 73, according to her ex-husband, former President Trump.
“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” the ex-president said in a statement posted on Truth Social on Thursday.
“She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life,” he said.
The mother of the former commander in chief’s three eldest children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — the Czech Republic-born Ivana married the then-New York real estate developer in 1977.
In his statement, Trump called the couple’s children his ex-wife’s “pride and joy.”
“She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her,” Trump said. “Rest in peace, Ivana!” the 76-year-old former president wrote.
While the pair’s contentious divorce played out in the 1990s in the New York tabloids, the Trumps both described their relationship as friendly in recent years.
“He is my best supporter,” Ivana Trump said in 2016, when the former “Celebrity Apprentice” host had launched his White House bid.
“I think he would be a great president,” she said at the time.
Trump penned a book about motherhood, “Raising Trump,” in 2017.
In an interview to promote the book, she advised keeping kids “busy, busy, busy.”
“Because if you keep your kids busy, they have no time to get in trouble,” she said.
In a widely reported statement from the Trump family about the matriarch’s death, Ivana was called “a survivor.”
“She fled from communism and embraced this country. She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination,” the statement said.
“She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren.”
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Lake Worth Beach bar set to hold annual back-to-school supply drive
A Palm Beach County bar is stepping up to help families and teachers prepare for the start of school.
Harry's Banana Farm in Lake Worth Beach is hosting its annual Christmas in July school supply drive.
This is a tradition that's taken place for the last six years, collecting thousands of supplies every year.
Workers at the bar are now starting a nonprofit called "Harry's Helping Hands of Lake Worth" to maximize the bar's philanthropic efforts for local schools.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Back to School
"The need is greater every year and especially this year with the rising cost of school supplies," Laurie Steele of Harry's Banana Farm said. "Many families are having a very hard time meeting the needs of students and a lot of times these teachers are pulling money out of their own pocket to buy supplies, so these supplies that we provide them help them in many ways both personally and professionally."
Steele outlined why they created the nonprofit.
"What we found is a lot of organizations didn't really want to give to us because of the fact we are a bar, but now that we are a full-on 501c3 nonprofit, we feel we will be able to extend our reach even further and we are very happy to be doing that," Steele said.
The supply drive kicks off Saturday at 3 p.m. with a raffle, silent auction, food truck and jello shots for the adults.
The logo for Harry's Helping Hands was created by local fiberglass artist Dan Meyers, who also created the bar's logo and banana on the roof of the bar.
Last year the event raised more than $4,500 in cash donations.
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Current emissions regulations are focused on what comes out of vehicle tailpipes, but a new study claims more than half of road-vehicle particulate emissions—fine particles that can pollute surrounding air and water—comes from other sources.
Conducted by Imperial College London, the study (via Green Car Congress) estimates that in 2021 52% of all particle emissions came from tires and brakes. Globally, 6.6 million tons of tire-wear particles alone are emitted annually, and in London alone 2.6 million vehicles emit almost 10,000 tons of tire particles annually, according to the study.
Of the particles emitted, 82% find their way into water and 18% become airborne. Those airborne particles can be inhaled directly in some cases, but the study also highlights the potential for particles from tires to accumulate in the food chain.
Based on these findings, researchers argue that tire-particle emissions need to be addressed in a manner similar to exhaust emissions. They propose standardized methods of measuring tire emissions and their potential level of toxicity, further studies to gather more information on the environmental and health effects of tire emissions, as well as rules limiting the amount of harmful compounds in new tires.
Researchers also call for further study of tire degradation and ways to minimize it, such as reducing vehicle weight, setting more stringent wear-resistance standards, and potentially onboard tire dust collection, similar to an invention seen back in 2020.
This is not the first study to sound the alarm bell on tire particulates. Research results from an independent firm published in 2020 claim that particulate emissions from tire wear is higher than that from tailpipes. A 2021 study pegged microplastics—plastic particles that can be shed by tires as well as other sources like clothing and plastic bottles—as a serious global issue.
Rubber tires inevitably wear out, shedding particles as they do, and no obvious solution for increasing longevity has emerged. Goodyear has proposed the idea of regenerating tires, but that doesn’t address the waste aspect from wear. Manufacturers are also looking at sustainable materials, but this is mainly to reduce the environmental impact of making tires, not using them.
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AIQ Recognized in Best Data Strategy by a Marketer for work with News Corp and in Best Data Technology categories
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions that deliver actionable insight from customer data, today announced that it was named a Finalist in two categories of the 2022 AdExchanger Awards. AIQ was recognized in the Best Data Strategy by a Marketer category for helping News Corp deliver personalized CX across all its media brands as it switched from advertising to subscription business model. The AIQ CX Hub was also selected in the Best Data Technology category.
"With third-party cookies going away, we needed to make a strategic shift from advertising to subscription revenue model, and doing that successfully required a solid first-party data strategy to deliver personalized customer experience across media units, while driving costs down," said Esfand Pourmand, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Product at News Corp. "Working with ActionIQ allowed business teams to discover and orchestrate global audiences at scale and execute cross-brand use cases, including cross-sell, retention, winback and personalized offers. Not only did we succeed in moving to the subscription model, we also unlocked many new revenue opportunities."
"We are thrilled to be named a finalist in not one, but two Data categories of the 2022 AdExchanger Awards, both for our technology and for bringing value to News Corp," said Leah Pope, Chief Marketing Officer of AIQ. "Many of the best known names in the media and publishing industry are our customers. With the deprecation of third-party cookies, having a solid first-party data strategy is an imperative to business success both for media companies and those in other industries, and we are proud to be their key partner in activating customer data and powering personalized, impactful customer experiences."
The AIQ CX Hub pulls together fragmented customer insights and puts impactful CX in motion. It's a collection of powerful and fully configurable modular solutions that gives all enterprise teams direct but controlled self-service access to customer data to create audiences and orchestrate customer experiences at scale.
The AIQ CX Hub comprises four modular solutions — customer data platform (CDP), Audience Center, Journey Management and Real-Time CX — designed to help brands give business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data, while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. The AIQ CX Hub flexibly integrates with any data source or channel, and gives organizations the freedom to purchase a CDP from AIQ or use their own in-house solution.
The AdExchanger Awards program is focused on celebrating excellence in digital marketing and advertising. Award winners will be announced at the AdExchanger Awards Gala which will take place October 17, 2022 in New York during Programmatic I/O.
The full list of 2022 Award Finalists can be found here.
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
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Person sought, $4K reward offered in Baltimore laundromat shooting
20-year-old man shot multiple times inside Waverly laundromat
20-year-old man shot multiple times inside Waverly laundromat
20-year-old man shot multiple times inside Waverly laundromat
Baltimore police are investigating a shooting inside a laundromat Friday morning in Waverly.
City police said a 20-year-old man is critically injured after someone shot him multiple times inside the Sudsville Laundromat in the 3000 block of Greenmount Avenue.
Police said officers arrived and found the victim outside, not far away, on East 30th Street. Paramedics took him to a hospital, where he was immediately taken into surgery.
Police and Metro Crime Stoppers released a picture of a person who they said they are trying to identify.
Metro Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $4,000 for information. Anyone with information is asked to call 866-7LOCKUP.
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LINCOLN, Neb., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameritas has announced the launch of the Pooled Employer Plan (PEP), now available on Ameritas' flexible retirement plan platform. PEPs allow unrelated companies or organizations (adopting employers) to band together and garner the purchasing power that currently eludes many hardworking business owners.
Ameritas, whose history managing pooled plan arrangements spans more than 20 years, will serve as the recordkeeper, with TRG Fiduciary Services serving as the pooled plan provider. LeafHouse Financial, a discretionary investment manager with deep expertise in the retirement industry, will act as the plan 3(38) investment fiduciary, using their proprietary technology to select, evaluate and monitor investments. Charles Schwab Trust Bank will serve as directed trustee.
The 2019 Setting Up Every Community for Retirement (SECURE) Act allowed for the creation of PEPs in 2021. Prior to the act, businesses were only able to join under a multiple employer plan requiring certain commonality.
"PEPs pave the way for Ameritas to help the lifeblood of our communities—small business and local organizations. They can offer a competitive retirement plan to their employees, helping them achieve financial security and overall wellness. Every U.S. worker deserves the chance to save for a dignified retirement. We're a leader in establishing and growing multiple employer plans and pooled employer plans, and now we have one of our own. Our PEP gives small and mid-size businesses and organizations the opportunity to establish a retirement plan with more ease and alleviates those common roadblocks that cause resistance toward sponsoring a plan," said Jim Kais, executive vice president of retirement plans for Ameritas. "Plan sponsors will now have a viable solution that reduces costs, lessens administrative burdens, and most of all, minimizes financial and legal risk."
"What's great about the new pooled employer plan from Ameritas is that both specialist advisors and generalist financial professionals can grow their practice while streamlining administration. And with our flexible platform and managed account options, financial professionals can satisfy varying investment appetites and offer personalized plans," added Scott Holechek, Ameritas institutional sales leader and pooled employer plan thought leader.
For more information about the Ameritas Pooled Employer Plan here.
About Ameritas®
Ameritas is a marketing name for Ameritas Mutual Holding Company and its affiliated subsidiary companies, including Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York. Founded in 1887, Ameritas offers a wide range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, vision and hearing care insurance; and retirement plans. For more information, visit ameritas.com.
About Charles Schwab Trust Bank
Charles Schwab Trust Bank, Member FDIC, is a subsidiary of the Charles Schwab Corporation, and provides trust, custody and deposit products and services to employee benefit plans. Investment products are not insured by FDIC or any other type of deposit insurance; are not deposits or other obligations of, and are not guaranteed by Charles Schwab Trust Bank or any of its affiliates; and involve investment risks, including possible loss of principal invested.
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WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — A fourth person was confirmed dead and three people remained unaccounted for Sunday, two days after a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory shook a small town in Pennsylvania.
West Reading Borough Chief of Police Wayne Holben confirmed the body of a fourth victim was found under debris early Sunday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia.
Holben asked for continued prayers from the community and vowed that rescuers and officials “will not rest until every single person affected by this tragedy has been accounted for” from the blast that occurred just before 5 p.m. Friday.
Rescue crews have been using heat imaging equipment and dogs to search for possible survivors after the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building. Crews were now using heavy equipment to methodically and carefully pull debris from the site, Holben said.
Borough Fire Chief Chad Moyer said Saturday night that the chance of finding survivors was “decreasing rapidly” due to the explosion's force and the amount of time that had passed. Mayor Samantha Kaag said officials were “still hopeful to at least get some answers and get some recoveries so that people have that reassurance and that closure.”
“We're just trying to hold out as much hope as we can to get the right answers, to get quality answers, to get information to those that are affected and then let it go over to the investigation,” Kaag said.
Officials said they had no update on the condition of a woman pulled alive from the rubble early Saturday. Kaag said she had apparently been on the second floor and was found in a “hopeful circumstance,” calling out to rescuers despite her injuries after a dog located her.
Officials also reported no updates on the conditions of those taken to hospitals. Reading Hospital said it received 10 patients and transferred two to other facilities, while two others were admitted in good and fair condition respectively and the others had been discharged.
R.M. Palmer said in a statement Saturday afternoon that everyone at the company was “devastated" and it was reaching out to employees and their families through first responders and disaster recovery organizations because its communication systems were down.
Kaag, a volunteer firefighter herself, said rescue crews had been working 12- to 16-hour shifts and were so dedicated to continuing the search that “you have to pull them away at this point" to swap out and get some rest.
Gov. Josh Shapiro visited the site Saturday and vowed support from the state.
Kaag said some residents have reported damage to windows from the blast, and she asked people to “take a walk around your house” and report any damage.
State and local fire investigators are continuing to examine the scene to try to determine the cause of the blast.
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- Endo, Vault Health, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) and Men's Health Network (MHN) join forces to launch Healthy Now: A Men's Health Coalition™ to encourage men to make all aspects of their health—physical, mental and sexual—a priority
- New national survey underscores the need for and importance of the education and access to resources provided by this new program
- VisitHealthyNow.com offers information on physical, mental and sexual health issues and access to a free virtual consultation through Vault Health
DUBLIN, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent survey of 1,517 U.S. men ages 18-80 commissioned by Men's Health magazine publisher Hearst media company found that less than half of men surveyed rated their physical (40%), mental (42%) and sexual (35%) health as excellent or very good.1 Lack of knowledge around sexual and mental health was particularly significant. Over half of all men surveyed reported they didn't know about ways to improve their overall mental health (54%).1 Of the sexually active men (n=1,331) surveyed, over half (53%) stated they didn't know about how to improve their sexual health. To address this public health gap, Endo International plc (NASDAQ: ENDP), in partnership with Vault Health, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) and Men's Health Network (MHN), launched Healthy Now: A Men's Health Coalition™, which encourages men to make their physical, sexual and mental health a priority through awareness and access to resources.
The Healthy Now website, www.VisitHealthyNow.com, provides educational information about men's health conditions, guidance on how men should take care of themselves as they age and access to a free virtual consultation through Vault Health's secure portal—all from the privacy and comfort of their home.
The Healthy Now partners believe that providing health education and access to a healthcare provider is one solution to motivating men to prioritize their health. The Hearst survey supports that notion: 73% of all surveyed men wanted access to information on medical conditions that might affect them, and of the surveyed men who tried telemedicine in the last two years (n=788), 50% preferred the convenience of a virtual appointment to an in-person doctor's office visit.1 Additionally, while most men surveyed had health insurance (89%),1 high healthcare-related costs or lack of coverage have led to approximately two-thirds of men ages 18-34 (69%) and half of men ages 35 and older (51%) to take actions that could potentially negatively impact their health, including ignoring symptoms they hope will go away and postponing or cancelling/skipping a doctor appointment.1
"The tendency among men to ignore symptoms due to healthcare costs could leave them vulnerable to illnesses later in life or a worsening of chronic conditions," said Ravi Tayi, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for Endo. "Endo strives to be a force for good, and through Healthy Now, we want to help change these concerning statistics by encouraging men to take charge of their own health."
Free Virtual Consultation
At www.VisitHealthyNow.com, men can sign up for a free 15-minute virtual consultation through Vault Health's secure portal. During the consultation, a Vault Health representative can provide an initial health evaluation and help determine if a follow-up appointment with a healthcare provider is needed.
The initial 15-minute appointment is completely free for men, regardless of their healthcare insurance status. Following the free consultation, Vault Health will help determine the appropriate next steps and can help explore options for payment/reimbursement if they continue care through Vault Health.
"The COVID-19 pandemic increased many men's apprehension about going to a doctor's office or an urgent care center. By offering them a free initial virtual consultation through Healthy Now, we hope to bridge this gap," said Alex Pastuszak, MD, PhD, President of Clinical Care and Chief Clinical Officer at Vault Health. "We believe the convenience of a virtual appointment, in the privacy and comfort of their own home, will help men take that first step in getting the help they need."
Additional Survey Results
Among men surveyed who have been sexually active (n=1,331):
- More than half (69%) said they were open to advice on ways to have a healthier and better sex life.1
- More than one-quarter (27%) would rather "get a root canal" than talk about a sexual health issue.1
- While two-thirds (66%) said it was important to regularly do a "below-the-belt" self-exam, 47% said they didn't have a clue how to do one.1
- More than one-third (39%) reported they have experienced a sexual health issue or problem.1
- Of those men who reported they experienced a sexual health issue (n=514), only 51% discussed such "below-the-belt" issues with any medical professional (e.g., urologist, therapist/counselor or any other doctor or medical professional), and only 44% discussed with their spouse/partner.1
Misperceptions about mental health still exist among all surveyed men, but there is willingness to seek help:
- While more than one-third said that only individuals with serious mental/emotional health issues that prevent them from functioning should seek therapy (33%) and issues like depression and anxiety are something you have to control on your own (39%), nearly two-thirds (64%) were open to seeing a therapist if they experienced emotional issues.1
- Men may also need more support from their loved ones. Nearly half (46%) reported that they only sometimes (28%), rarely (13%) or never (5%) receive mental and emotional support they need from family or friends.1
The Hearst survey of 1,517 men ages 18-80 captured feedback about their perspectives on health maintenance, doctor visits and their physical, sexual and mental well-being. The survey was conducted online in March 2022 by Research Solutions, Inc.
"We know from research that physical, mental and sexual health are all connected. A physical ailment, for example, can affect your mental health, and a mental health issue can lead to problems with sexual health," said Salvatore Giorgianni, PharmD, Senior Science Advisor at Men's Health Network. "Through Healthy Now, we're educating men that it's vital to take care of all three."
"Most men don't recognize that below-the-belt issues may be a barometer for their overall health and a sign of other health problems" said Mohit Khera, MD, President-elect of SMSNA. "Working with our industry and advocacy partners, we want to offer men a trusted resource for information that addresses their health concerns, including their sexual and reproductive health."
About Healthy Now: A Men's Health Coalition™
Healthy Now is committed to making access to care available to all men. We recognize that access to healthcare can be challenging for some men, and they may feel stress and even fear about seeking help for physical, mental and sexual health concerns. A free initial 15-minute virtual consultation may help men determine the appropriate next steps for their health. The free consultation will be offered through the end of December 2022 in the U.S. only.
For additional information—including the ability to book a free virtual consultation—go to VisitHealthyNow.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation including, but not limited to, the statements by Drs. Tayi, Pastuszak, Giorgianni and Khera, as well as other statements regarding the Healthy Now initiative. Statements including words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "will," "may," "look forward," "intend," "future," "potential" or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Endo's current expectations of future events based on existing trends and information and represent Endo's judgment only as of the date of this press release. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from current expectations based on a number of factors affecting Endo's businesses including, among other things, the outcome of our strategic review, contingency planning and any potential restructuring; the timing, impact or results of any pending or future litigation, investigations, proceedings or claims, including opioid, tax and antitrust related matters; and the impact of competition including loss of exclusivity and generic competition. The reader is cautioned not to rely on any forward-looking statements and Endo expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required by law. Additional information concerning risk factors, including those referenced above, can be found in press releases issued by Endo, as well as Endo's public periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with securities regulators in Canada, including the discussion under the heading "Risk Factors" in Endo's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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1. Hearst Media Survey. 1,517 U.S. adult men ages 18-80 regarding men's healthcare concerns. Conducted March 2022.
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Water main break in northeast Rochester
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 1:06 AM CDT|Updated: 17 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Rochester Public Utilities is tending to a water main break off 18th Ave and 48th Street NW. As of 12:30 a.m. Wednesday those living just south of 48th Street were without water. RPU turned off the water to fix the leak.
Crews on the scene say the water main will be repaired in a couple hours. A backhoe was at the location working to fix the problem, so if you were awoken by loud machinery Wednesday morning, this is what was going on.
Water could be seen shooting up from 48th Street NW around 11 p.m. Tuesday. That’s when crews were alerted to the scene. The intersection is blocked off as they work to mend the break.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – A portion of the main freeway that runs through the southern Arizona desert and links the state's two largest cities remains closed outside Tucson on Wednesday morning, a day after a deadly crash caused a hazardous material leak and forced evacuations nearby.
Residents within a half mile (800 meters) of the crash on Interstate 10 southeast of downtown Tucson were ordered to leave, and those within 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) were told to shelter in place after liquid nitric acid was determined to be leaking from the truck tractor pulling a box trailer, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said. The acid sent up eerie yellow and red plumes over the asphalt roadway that runs through dry land scattered with scrub brush.
A 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) shelter-in-place order was lifted Tuesday night, but officials reinstated it early Wednesday morning, saying more nitric acid was released as crews tried to remove the load and later expanded the perimeter. Area residents were told to turn off heaters and air conditioning systems that bring in outside air. The area would be monitored to assess the need for possible changes to these orders, officials said, noting that those who evacuated should expect to be displaced until midday.
The weather temporarily impeded hazardous material recovery and mitigation efforts overnight. But officials said Wednesday morning that the material had been removed from the truck, and crews were using dirt to keep more nitric acid from being released.
The driver of the truck was killed, the department said, but few other details were released.
The agency warned motorists in the Tucson area should anticipate impacts on their Wednesday morning commute in and around I-10.
“This will be an extended closure,” it said in a tweet Tuesday evening.
The University of Arizona Tech Park was among the areas evacuated. Some schoolchildren in Rita Ranch were among those who sheltered in place, the Arizona Daily Star reported. Officials canceled classes at several nearby schools on Wednesday.
A high school that was ordered closed, a mobile home park for older adults and an RV resort are located less than a mile from the accident site. Calls left for managers at the Trails West Active Adult Community and Voyager RV Resort & Hotel seeking information about whether people had been affected were not immediately returned on Wednesday. The interstate around the hazardous material spill remained closed in both directions at midday.
Nitric acid is used to make ammonium nitrate for fertilizers and in the manufacture of plastics and dyes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website says nitric acid is a highly corrosive, colorless liquid with yellow or red fumes and can cause an acrid smell.
It says exposure to nitric acid can irritate the eyes, skin and mucous membranes. Depending on how long someone is exposed to the material, and how much, it also can cause delayed pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, bronchitis and dental erosion.
Pima County's health department and poison control center on Wednesday recommended that anyone who may have been in contact with the gas for more than 15 minutes get a medical evaluation if they develop respiratory difficulties like wheezing or shortness of breath. They said symptoms could be delayed up to 24 hours after exposure.
Health officials said it is possible that some people living within a mile of the accident may have been exposed to the material for more than 15 minutes if the building where they were sheltering in place was using an air conditioner or heater pulling in air from the outside. But they said that people who simply drove through or past the accident and chemical plume should not have been affected.
This hazardous crash comes as Ohio residents continue to raise concerns about the release of toxic chemicals on board a freight train that derailed Feb. 3 and left 50 cars in a fiery, mangled mess. There were no injuries but officials later ordered the evacuation of the immediate area. Residents are worried about the potential health impacts from the wreckage.
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Video shows suspected DUI driver barreling into children’s center on New Year’s Eve
KEARNS, Utah (KSL) – Shocking surveillance video captured the moment a suspected drunk driver crashed a car into a children’s center in Utah.
The crash took place at the Kearns Early Childhood Head Start program building on New Year’s Eve.
After the vehicle comes to a stop, three people, a woman and two men, are seen exiting the car, seemingly unharmed.
Unified Police Sgt. Melody Cutler said the car barreled through a parking lot and into the cinderblock wall of the building.
“Watching that video, it is frightening to think of what could have happened,” she said. “And the speed that that person was traveling at… this could have been tragic.”
The impact of the crash goes well beyond the building itself. The early childhood center serves infants to 3-year-olds, and families experiencing poverty.
Janell Cerva, the chief impact and strategy officer for Utah Community Action, a group that runs Head Start programs in multiple Utah counties, said all of the services at the center are closed.
The families who rely on bringing their children to the location for childcare, meals and other resources will have to figure something else now.
“It’s already challenging coming out of the holidays, and obviously, this just makes it more difficult,” Cerva said. “Especially when you’re really kind of on the margin and just barely getting by. It really is a tough time.”
Cutler said police were able to track down the suspected driver the night of the crash with the help of a K-9 officer. She said 21-year-old Iris DeLeon Gutierrez was arrested for an investigation of driving under the influence.
Cutler said police are still looking for the two men.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXA XL Insurance announced the appointment of Brian O'Neill as head of AXA XL's Crime and Crisis Management business, part of AXA XL Professional insurance division, in North America. Mr. O'Neill steps into the role held by Greg Bangs, who has announced his retirement.
In his new role, Mr. O'Neill will be responsible for developing core underwriting strategies and product profitability for AXA XL's Crime and Crisis Management business, including Security Risk coverages such as Kidnap and Ransom insurance, in North America.
According to AXA XL Chief Underwriting Officer for Professional Tony Giacco, "We're pleased to attract such seasoned industry talent. With more than 30 years of Fidelity and Crime underwriting experience, Brian is a valuable addition to the team. Our clients will appreciate his knowledge and expertise in addressing their concerns about embezzlement, fraud, bribery, and other commercial and financial institution crimes."
Mr. O'Neill joins AXA XL from Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, where as Head of Fidelity and Crime, he was responsible for the company's entry and growth into the Fidelity marketplace. Prior to his tenure with Berkshire Hathaway, he spent more than 15 years with AIG, where he served as Senior Fidelity Officer, managing the company's Public, Private and Financial Institution Fidelity business in the United States and Canada.
Commenting on Mr. Bangs retirement, Mr. Giacco added: "We're grateful to Greg for delivering eight years of hard work, product development and impressive growth. Under his leadership, we built out our standalone crime insurance business in the U.S. from the ground up and developed new products to address emerging risks like social engineering to help our clients protect their business assets."
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SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — Wendy Holdener had a lengthy wait for her first slalom victory. The Swiss skier made it two out of two on Sunday.
And this time she didn’t have to share top spot.
Holdener improved on her second position after the opening run to triumph in Sestriere, finishing 0.47 seconds ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States and 0.70 ahead of first-run leader Petra Vlhová, who is still looking for her first win of the season.
The 29-year-old Holdener was the surprise joint winner in Killington, Vermont, last month along with Anna Swenn Larsson. It was Holdener’s first slalom victory after finishing on the podium 30 times for the unwanted record of most World Cup podium finishes without a win in the discipline.
Holdener moved joint top of the slalom standings with Shiffrin, who won the two season-opening slalom races. She also moved into second overall, 19 points behind Shiffrin and 26 ahead of Vlhová.
The 27-year-old Vlhová won the slalom title last season — as well as Olympic gold — but finished second in the overall standings to Shiffrin. Vlhová won the overall title the previous year.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Four European countries that border Russia will take regional steps this month to limit people from Russia from entering Europe’s visa-free zone by land because they “are increasingly concerned about the substantial and growing influx of Russian citizens.”
“We believe that this is becoming a serious threat to our public security and to the overall shared Schengen area,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Thursday. “There are people coming with the aim of undermining the security of our countries.”
Poland and the three Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have agreed on a common regional approach with the “political will and firm intention to introduce national temporary measures for Russian citizens holding EU visas.”
Such measures should take effect in each of the four countries by Sept. 19.
“We emphasize that this is not an outright entry ban and commonly agreed legitimate exceptions will remain,” Kallas said, adding exceptions include dissidents, humanitarian cases, family members and holders of residence permits, among others.
“Travel to the European Union is a privilege, not a human right,” Kallas said, adding it was “unacceptable that citizens of the aggressor state are able to freely travel in the EU, whilst at the same time people in Ukraine are being tortured and murdered.”
In Poland, one of the staunchest supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion, the government said the goal was to “prevent direct threats to the public order and security.”
Kallas added that most visas issued to Russians were given before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Estonia and Latvia border the Russian mainland, while Lithuania and Poland share borders with Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
At a European Union summit last month, the bloc’s 27 members were divided over whether to slap a broad visa ban on Russian citizens, torn between a desire to ramp up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and concerns about punishing ordinary Russians who may not even support his war on Ukraine.
The EU already tightened visa restrictions on Russian officials and businesspeople in May, but Poland and the Baltic countries have called for a broader ban on tourists. Germany and France are leading a push to tighten visa restrictions on Russians rather than impose an outright ban.
“What we have seen in the last couple of weeks and months is that number of border crossings by Russian citizens holding Schengen visas has dramatically increased,” said Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics during a news conference after a meeting of Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers in Lithuania on Wednesday. “This is becoming also a public security issue. This is … an issue of a moral and political nature.”
The EU already has banned air travel from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. But Russians can still travel by land to Estonia and apparently are then taking flights to other European destinations.
The four countries are EU members and part of Europe’s travel zone — known as the “Schengen area” — where people and goods move freely between these countries without border checks.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — J.T. Realmuto hit an RBI single that capped a three-run rally in the eighth inning off NL ERA leader Sandy Alcantara, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 4-3 Wednesday night for their seventh straight win.
Kyle Schwarber had three hits and drove in two runs as the Phillies won for the 12th time in 13 games. They are 41-19 since June 1, vaulting them into second place in the wild-card race.
“We feel like we’re in the game no matter what until the final out is recorded,” Schwarber said. “That’s a good pitcher out there. We showed we’re capable of doing things like that. We’re never out of a ballgame.”
JJ Bleday singled, doubled, tripled and drove in a run for Miami, which has lost nine of 11.
Alcantara (10-5), a leading candidate for the NL Cy Young Award, began the day with a 1.88 ERA. He had allowed only two hits and held a 3-1 lead before the Phillies tagged him for six hits in the eighth.
“It was a little shocking,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
Jean Segura led off the inning with a swinging bunt that just stayed fair, not even reaching third base, for an infield hit. After Bryson Stott’s solid single, Brandon Marsh twice pulled the bat back while attempting to bunt before driving an 0-2 pitch for an RBI single to pull Philadelphia within a run.
After a lengthy mound visit, Schwarber tied it by hitting the next pitch for an RBI single, putting runners on first and third with no outs.
With the crowd of 23,021 in an uproar, Rhys Hoskins hit a broken-bat liner that was caught by shortstop Miguel Rojas, who doubled off Marsh at third. Alec Bohm followed with a single as Schwarber barely beat the throw to third by right fielder Bryan De La Cruz.
Realmuto lined the next pitch for a tiebreaking single to left, finishing Alcantara.
“Exciting,” Realmuto said. “A lot of fun for us.”
Alcantara struck out four in 7 2-3 innings. He entered leading the NL in innings and complete games, and is trying to become the first player in the Marlins’ 30-year history to win the Cy Young. His ERA rose to 2.01.
The right-hander thinks he might have been tipping his pitches when the Phillies connected for those four straight hits in the eighth and said he plans to spend time watching video of that inning on Thursday.
“I don’t know what happened,” Alcantara said. “I was throwing strikes, my best pitches. They got me tonight.”
It’s why he was confused with the results, thinking he might have been giving a way a tell.
“I believe too much in my stuff, and I know what I got,” he said.
Seranthony Dominguez pitched a perfect ninth, striking out two, for his eighth save. Andrew Bellatti (3-3) got the victory despite giving up a run in the eighth.
Noah Syndergaard allowed two runs on six hits in six innings in his second start with the Phillies after being acquired from the Los Angeles Angels at the trade deadline last week. He struck out four and walked two.
“Definitely one to build on,” Syndergaard said.
Jacob Stallings’ two-out single in the second gave Miami a 1-0 lead. The Marlins tacked on another in the fourth on Charles Leblanc’s bloop single to short right field over the drawn-in Phillies infield after Bleday’s leadoff triple. Bleday’s double off the wall in right in the eighth made it 3-1.
Schwarber had an RBI double in the sixth.
BASERUNNING BLUNDER
After singling to start the game, Joey Wendle got doubled off at first base when he misread Miguel Rojas’ liner to the outfield and went all the way past second base and couldn’t get back to first in time after right fielder Nick Castellanos made a good running catch.
ON-BASE LEBLANC
Leblanc extended his on-base streak to start his career to 10 consecutive games with a second-inning single. He is batting .455 during the stretch.
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Phillies RHP Kyle Gibson (7-4, 4.36) opposes Marlins RHP Edward Cabrera (2-1, 2.61) in the finale of the three-game set on Thursday afternoon.
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The US House majority is in play next year after a weak GOP midterm showing and recent court ruling
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Rep. David Schweikert used to win his wealthy, suburban Phoenix congressional district by nearly 30 points. Then Donald Trump was elected president, and his victories started shrinking.
Schweikert, who won his last election by just 3,200 votes, is now among the top 2024 targets for Democrats, who sense better-than-expected odds of retaking the House majority they lost last year.
After an anemic showing in the midterms, Republicans have virtually no cushion in their quest to retain control of the House, which was made all the more complicated by a surprise U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that will likely bring two new safely Democratic districts. Democrats need to pick up just five seats to control the House.
Republicans are counting on a strong showing from incumbents like Schweikert, one of 18 GOP lawmakers representing districts that supported Democrat Joe Biden for president in 2020. Many are in upscale suburbs like Scottsdale that lean conservative but have rejected Trump and the party he now dominates.
In contrast, only five Democrats represent districts that Trump won.
“I’ve been Republican since JFK,” said Roy Ross, a 74-year-old retired oil company manager who registered as an independent when he moved to Schweikert’s district from Tennessee two years ago. “But the last two elections, I just said, ‘I can’t do that.’”
Still, he said, “I can’t say that I’m hearing a lot from Democrats, either.”
Schweikert’s fate in Arizona, and that of the GOP’s House majority, will come down to the decisions of voters like Ross.
Other factors make for a volatile 2024 House landscape and point to terrain much more favorable to Democrats than what they faced in last year’s midterms.
Trump is the early front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, which could drive up turnout among his critics and force vulnerable Republicans to take uncomfortable positions. And abortion, which helped power Democratic victories in the midterms, remains salient a year after the conservative majority on the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
Democrats are already targeting key Republicans over abortion and looking to tie them to GOP figures like Trump who are unpopular with swing voters.
“Between overturning state-level protections for reproductive freedoms to prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthiest few and big corporations, vulnerable Republicans are signing their own pink slips ahead of next November’s election,” said Courtney Rice, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Republicans see plenty of reasons for optimism. Looking to expand the playing field beyond the 18 districts that voted for Biden, Republicans are targeting 37 other districts where they believe a Democratic incumbent is vulnerable.
Two Democrats from swing districts — Reps. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan and Katie Porter in California — are leaving their House seats to run for the Senate, improving the odds for Republicans who won’t have to run against an incumbent. Biden’s lackluster popularity could be a drain on his party, and prices for gas, food and housing remain high.
“Democrats are reminding voters why they took away the Democrats’ gavels in the first place – extreme, unreasonable, and out of touch,” said Rep. Richard Hudson, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP’s House race arm. “Republicans are on offense, recruiting dynamic candidates and out-raising the Democrats, putting us in position to grow our majority.”
After Trump’s 2016 election, Schweikert’s district started trending toward the center as some voters who historically backed Republicans reluctantly voted for Democrats or left their ballots blank. Redistricting ahead of the 2022 midterms accelerated the trend.
Schweikert eked out a victory of less than 1 percentage point last year against a relatively unknown rival who got minimal support from national Democrats. Neither party will be ignoring the district this time around. Democrats have already started attacking Schweikert over abortion.
The race has attracted interest from a crowded field of Democrats, with no obvious front-runner.
Schweikert has walked a fine line, managing to avoid associating too closely with Trump without jeopardizing his path to the GOP nomination. On abortion, he says he opposes it but believes it should be left to the states.
“The parties have changed,” Schweikert said, describing the district’s shifting voting patterns between conversations with doctors, entrepreneurs and a physicist at a neighborhood parade in Arcadia, one of Phoenix’s most prestigious enclaves. “These people want me to fixate on their prosperity and not the eccentricities of the virus, the last election, those sorts of things.”
The U.S. Supreme Court found last month that Alabama’s congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act, a ruling that will require the state to create a second majority-Black district that strategists in both parties believe will be safely Democratic. Thanks to the ruling, a similar process is likely to play out in Louisiana, giving Democrats another safe seat.
In New York, Democrats are hopeful an ongoing lawsuit will allow them to draw new boundaries that tilt in their favor.
But Republicans have the advantage in North Carolina, where conservatives recently took the majority of the state Supreme Court and are expected to draw new maps that favor the GOP. The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed the court’s power to get involved.
Control of the House will largely come down to staunchly red or blue states that won’t get much attention from presidential campaigns.
More than half of the 18 Republican-held districts that Biden won are in New York and California, two states that defied the midterm Democratic successes in much of the rest of the country. Most of the rest are scattered around the West — two in Arizona and one each in New Mexico and Oregon.
Strategists who work on House races believe several factors were behind Democrats’ struggles in New York and California, states they usually dominate. They say voters there were uniquely drawn to Republican messaging targeting crime and homelessness and, as residents of states staunchly supportive of abortion rights, were less swayed by fears of losing access. Republicans still see crime and homelessness as potent issues, along with immigration.
“There are two public policy issues that look as though they could dominate next year’s election, abortion and immigration,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who now teaches politics at three California universities. “Both of the parties are not only vulnerable on one of those issues but don’t appear to have any clue as to how to deal with them.”
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Pelosi holds open option of another term as House Dem leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — With control of the House still hanging in the balance, Speaker Nancy Pelosi stayed mum Sunday on her future plans but said congressional colleagues are urging her to seek another term as Democratic leader following a strong showing in the midterm elections.
Appearing in Sunday news shows, Pelosi said Democrats are “still alive” in their fight to win the chamber and that she will make a decision on whether to run for House leadership in the next couple weeks.
“People are campaigning and that’s a beautiful thing. And I’m not asking anyone for anything,” she said, referring to House Democratic leadership elections set for Nov. 30. “My members are asking me to consider doing that. But, again, let’s just get through the (midterm) election.”
“A great deal is at stake, because we will be in a presidential election,” Pelosi said.
Over the weekend, Democrats clinched control of the Senate following Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada. But in the House, a majority remains unsettled with neither party having yet reached the 218 seats needed to control the 435-member chamber. As of Sunday, Republicans had 211 seats compared with 204 for the Democrats, with 20 races still to be called by The Associated Press.
Some races can take days or even weeks to call.
Pelosi, D-Calif., declined to predict whether her party will retain control of the House, saying she was “disappointed” with four Democratic losses in New York, including by Congressional Campaign Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney, which ultimately could make the difference.
“Nonetheless, we still think we have a chance to win this,” she said. “Nobody would have ever expected that we would be this close. Well, we expected it.”
On the GOP side, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is seeking to become House speaker if his party prevails, but the disappointing showing in the midterms has created turmoil for leaders and calls for a new direction. Former President Donald Trump’s effect on the 2022 races is also being hotly debated as he prepares to announce another run.
Pelosi on Sunday said she believed that President Joe Biden should run for a second term, citing his legislative accomplishments such as the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act as well as the creation of millions of jobs under his watch.
“He has been a great president and he has a great record to run on,” she said.
The 82-year-old Pelosi, who has led Democrats in the House since 2003 and is the first female speaker, had struck a deal with House members to serve for two more terms as leader — or four years — after Democrats won control of the chamber in 2018. But she hasn’t announced her plans, nor have her top two deputies, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. There has been some pressure from younger House members to pass the torch to new leaders.
Pelosi’s decision also comes after her husband was attacked late last month in the couple’s San Francisco home, suffering a skull fracture and other injuries. The intruder, 42-year-old David DePape, demanded “Where is Nancy?” before striking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. She was in Washington at the time.
Pelosi said Sunday that her husband’s recovery will be a “long haul, but he’s doing well,” though the trauma of the attack was “intensified” by Republicans’ “ridiculous, disrespectful attitude.” Top Republicans, including Trump, had downplayed the attack and spread misinformation about it.
“It wasn’t just the attack. It was the Republican reaction to it, which was disgraceful,” she said.
Pelosi said her decision on whether to run again for House leadership will be “about family” but “also my colleagues,” citing a need to move forward “in a very unified way” going into a new Congress and the 2024 campaign season. She stressed the opportunities for Democrats that lie ahead.
“Who would have thought two months ago that this red wave would turn into a little tiny trickle, if that at all?” she said. “But we never believed that. We believed.”
“There are all kinds of ways to exert influence,” Pelosi added. “Speaker has awesome power, but I will always have influence.”
Pelosi spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC’s “This Week.”
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Former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady announced on Instagram Friday that he and wife Gisele Bundchen have “finalized” their divorce after 13 years of marriage.
“We arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together,” Brady wrote. “We are blessed with beautiful and wonderful children who will continue to be the center of our world in every way. We will continue to work together as parents to always ensure they receive the love and attention they deserve.”
Several media outlets reported earlier this month that the seemingly picture-perfect power couple had hired divorce lawyers.
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Rumors had swirled over the past few months about a possible rift between the pair following Brady’s decision to return to the NFL. The two allegedly have not been living together for months. Speculation grew during Brady’s 11-day absence from training camp with the Buccaneers.
In a recent interview with Elle Magazine, the Brazilian model said she had her concerns with football: “This is a very violent sport. But ultimately, I feel that everybody has to make a decision that works for [them]. He needs to follow his joy, too.”
The split ends 13 years of perhaps the highest-profile celebrity marriage in the entertainment world, at least among news consumers in the 617.
In her own statement, Bundchen expressed gratitude for their marriage.
“The decision to end a marriage is never easy but we have grown apart and while it is, of course, difficult to go through something like this, I feel blessed for the time we had together and only wish the best for Tom always,” she wrote.
Brady and Bundchen met through a friend in 2006, not long after Bundchen had gotten out of a relationship with longtime boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio, according to a Vanity Fair article published in 2009.
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“I knew right way — the first time I saw him. ... We sat and talked for three hours,” Bundchen said of the first time she met Brady. “I had to go home for Christmas, but I didn’t want to leave. You know that feeling of, like, you can’t get enough? From the first day we met, we’ve never spent one day without speaking to each other.”
Two and a half months into their relationship, Brady got the news that his former girlfriend, actress and model Bridget Moynahan, was pregnant. Bundchen opened up about the experience in her 2018 memoir, “Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.”
“Two months into our relationship, Tom told me that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. The very next day, the news was everywhere and I felt my world had been turned upside down,” Bundchen wrote.
Brady and Moynahan welcomed their son, Jack, that August.
“Jack, my bonus child, has been a huge gift and blessing in my life,” Bundchen wrote in her memoir, adding that she and Brady made the decision to start their family shortly after Jack’s birth. “We decided to start our family sooner rather than later.”
Brady proposed to Bundchen in January 2009.
“He made up this whole story [about] how my apartment was flooding, and I ran over to fix the situation,” Bundchen told Vogue in a “73 Questions” video segment. “When I got there, the whole apartment had candles and rose petals everywhere, and then he went down on his knees to propose, and I’m like, ‘Get up!’”
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(Brady had recently had surgery and three staph infections.)
“He’s like, ‘I gotta go on my knees,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no, no! Get up, please!’” Bundchen told Vogue.
A month later, the pair tied the knot in Santa Monica, Calif.
“We planned it in like 10 days, and it was perfect,” Brady told GQ. “We went back to the house and I barbecued aged New York strips. We had champagne, a cake, some ice cream. It was a great night.”
Brady and Bündchen welcomed their son, Benjamin, in December 2009.
“Two months later, when football season was over, Tom, Benny, and I moved out to Los Angeles, where Jack was living, so we could all be with Jack more regularly. But by the early summer, our family was back in Boston in time for training camp,” Bündchen wrote in her memoir.
Brady and Bündchen threw a second wedding in Costa Rica that following April, according to GQ.
The Brady-Bündchen bunch grew again when their second child together, Vivian, was born.
“That chapter of my life was replaced by the needs of a growing family,” Bündchen wrote in her memoir, talking about how modeling had to take a backseat. “With the arrival of Benny and Vivi, I found out quickly that being a mother was a lot more work than modeling. . . . Tom’s schedule during football season is so demanding that I take on most of the family responsibilities.”
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In the wake of “Deflategate,” the NFL controversy revolving around accusations that Brady ordered the deflating of footballs in the AFC Championship Game in January 2015, sources reported “tension” between Brady and Bündchen, which Brady addressed in a radio interview.
“We’re in a great place, I’ll just say that,’” Brady said. “I’m a lucky man, very blessed with support from my family. . . . I’ve been very blessed to have an incredible relationship with my life partner and I don’t think anything will ever get in the way of that.”
The glitzy couple turned more than a few heads at the 2018 Met Gala with their deliciously bold fashion choices, and then the following year, Bündchen packed on the support for Brady after he and the Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game. Brady was on his way to his ninth Super Bowl.
“I first want to say hi to my wife, I love you so much,” Brady said during a postgame interview.
In February 2019, Brady and Bundchen posted tributes to each other in celebration of their 10th wedding anniversary.
“Ten years ago, I didn’t realize how much I could love you and the family we created together,” Brady wrote in a caption with a throwback wedding photo. “My heart is so full and I am so blessed! I know our journey has not been easy, but the challenges we have overcome have made our bond stronger and our love grow deeper. Thank you for loving me, for supporting my dreams, and for nurturing our family in the way that only you could. You are my rock, my love and my light! I love you and I love our family!”
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“There is nothing that I love more in this world than you and our family,” Bundchen wrote.
In April 2020, Brady revealed in a candid interview with Howard Stern that he and Bundchen were having marriage issues, which is why he skipped voluntary workouts with the Patriots in 2018 and 2019. He said Bundchen wasn’t happy that he was focused on football all year while she took care of the family. Brady revealed they sought marriage counseling, and that Bundchen wrote him a letter with her concerns that he kept in his drawer.
“I had to check myself,” Brady said.
Brady in February 2021 won his seventh Super Bowl, and his first with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Bundchen was quick to post her support for her husband on Instagram.
“Congratulations my love! Over the years I have seen you overcome so much adversity, physically and emotionally,” she wrote. “I can for sure say you are the most dedicated, focused and mentally tough person I have ever met.”
That October, Brady revealed on an episode of his “Let’s Go” podcast that his successful career had led to some tough conversations in his marriage.
“I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now, and I think there’s things that she wants to accomplish,” Brady said. “You know, she hasn’t worked as much in the last 10, 12 years, just raising our family and kind of committing to being in a life in Boston and then moving to Florida.”
Then earlier this year, Brady announced his retirement after 20 years with the Patriots and two seasons with the Bucs.
“To my wife, Gisele, and my children, Jack, Benny and Vivi. You are my inspiration. Our family is my greatest achievement,” Brady wrote in an Instagram post. “I always came off the field and home to the most loving and supportive wife who has done EVERYTHING for our family to allow me to focus on my career. Her selflessness allowed me to reach new heights professionally, and I am beyond words what you mean to me and our family. Te amo amor da minha vida.”
Six weeks later, Brady changed his mind: The quarterback said his time wasn’t up and he’d return to the NFL.
“Here we go again! Let’s go lovvvey! Let’s go Bucs!” Bündchen commented at the time.
After Brady’s 11-day absence from training camp in August, sources told Us magazine and other outlets there was “tension” between Brady and Bundchen. During the Buccaneers’ season opener against the Dallas Cowboys, Bundchen tweeted in support of her husband, but many noticed she was absent from the game.
Then earlier this month, reports came out that both Bundchen and Brady hired divorce lawyers.
Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report. Jeremiah Manion of the Globe Staff contributed.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe. Katie McInerney can be reached at katie.mcinerney@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @k8tmac. Brittany Bowker can be reached at brittany.bowker@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @brittbowker and on Instagram @brittbowker.
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JLL's Future of Work Survey shows that while hybrid work is here to stay, the office remains critical to business operations
CHICAGO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses continue to evolve their workplaces to best meet the needs of their employees, JLL's (NYSE: JLL) global Future of Work Survey finds that 72% of decision makers believe the office is critical to doing business. The research shows that over the next several years companies anticipate hybrid work to become the dominant model and will be looking across their real estate portfolios to re-think their office spaces, invest in new technology and prioritize sustainability.
"The next three years will prove to be an inflection point for real estate as businesses plot their future path and rethink the purpose of their portfolio," said Dr. Marie Puybaraud, Global Head of Research, JLL Work Dynamics. "The changes accelerated by the pandemic represent an opportunity to pause, think about a long-term real estate strategy and how it aligns with future business priorities."
Rethinking the office layout to accommodate hybrid working in the long-term
The mass adoption of hybrid work will have a lasting impact, with 77% of CRE leaders agreeing that offering remote or hybrid working will be critical to attracting and retaining talent in the future. As the trend toward dynamic working will continue, successfully operationalizing hybrid working will be the most important strategic priority for commercial real estate (CRE) executives over the next three years. This includes exploring flexible space options, with 43% of companies planning to accelerate investment in flexible space between now and 2025, and 51% saying they will lease flexible space through a third-party provider.
"As the office finds a new purpose post-pandemic as a destination for collaboration in employees' hybrid workstyles, occupiers will need to continue increasing their investments in creative spaces," said Cynthia Kantor, Chief Client Value & Growth Officer, JLL Work Dynamics. "Enhancing socialization, especially among a large, often geographically dispersed, workforce will be critical to future talent strategies, as the office accelerates its role as the innovation hub of the work ecosystem."
Forty-five percent of organizations consider collaboration to be one of the primary purposes of office space and 73% have planned or are planning to make all office spaces open and collaborative, with no dedicated desk spaces. Many companies are also investing in spaces that support new workforce priorities around health and wellbeing.
Environmental and social aspirations will shape future portfolio transformation
As organizations face ever increasing pressure to deliver clear outcomes in the race to net zero and create social value through real estate, 77% say investing in quality space is a priority. With green strategies having a direct impact on real estate decisions, 74% say they are likely to pay a premium for green credentials; further, more than half of occupiers (56%) plan to do so by 2025.
However, stakeholder aspirations are not solely environmental, with nearly 8 out of 10 companies saying their employees expect their workplaces to have a positive impact on society. This means increasing investment in social considerations will be equally as important as funding environmental objectives. With diversity, inclusion and wellbeing now falling high on the corporate agenda, companies are underpinning these objectives with further investment and resources. Seventy-nine percent of respondents agree that their organizations are acting today to make the workplace more inclusive and diverse for all employees.
Investing in technology investments to boost workplace performance and productivity
Technology and data will be critical foundations in the future of successful real estate operations, but the gap that needs to be filled is immense. Only 13% of CRE executives say they are collecting data on an ongoing or real-time basis using advanced analytics. With the transformative power of technology to shape the dynamic workplace, companies are focused on ramping up investments in intelligent solutions to unlock new opportunities for boosting workforce performance and productivity.
The research finds a clear roadmap for CRE technology shaped around 15 anchor technologies, including workplace apps, remote working technology and virtual reality.1 As organizations plan future investments, CRE leaders are focused on key strategic areas like sustainability and employee wellbeing. By 2025, most companies (78%) plan to have incorporated over ten of the anchor technologies in their operations, and 40% plan to incorporate all 15.
Real estate needs are becoming more sophisticated and complex
To respond to the complex range of future of work challenges, CRE leaders will focus more on harnessing specialist skills to achieve their strategic objectives. Seventy-five percent of leading CRE functions anticipate greater reliance on external partners, with the two top areas for outsourcing growth expected to be health and wellbeing services (44%) and sustainability strategy (44%). Further, as technology becomes a crucial platform to boost performance levels on all fronts, 43% say they will need more outsourcing support for CRE technology solutions over the next three years.
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JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. JLL shapes the future of real estate for a better world by using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $19.4 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 102,000 as of June 30, 2022. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday.
The latest survey found that moderate or severe drought covers about 49% of the state, nearly 17% of the state is free of drought or a condition described as abnormally dry. The remainder is still abnormally dry.
“Clearly the amount of water that’s fallen this year has greatly alleviated the drought,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It has not ended the drought completely but we’re in a very different place than we were a year ago.”
California’s latest drought began in 2020 and no relief appeared in sight heading into this winter.
Three months ago virtually all of California was in drought, including at extreme and exceptional levels. Water agencies serving millions of people, agriculture and industry were told to expect only a fraction of requested allocations.
The turnabout began with a series of atmospheric rivers that pounded the state from late December through mid-January, building a huge Sierra Nevada snowpack, causing flooding, toppling trees and smashing the coast with extreme surf.
Water authorities began boosting allocations and, after a few largely dry weeks, powerful storms with arctic air returned in February, creating epic vistas of white-capped mountains while shutting down highways and ski resorts and burying communities in enough snow to collapse roofs.
The monitor shows three regions have received the most benefit from copious precipitation, including snowfall measured in feet rather than inches.
The central Sierra and foothills are now free of drought or abnormal dryness for the first time since January 2020, the monitor said. The central coast from Monterey Bay to Los Angeles County is also now drought-free, along with two counties on the far north coast.
“The rain has improved California soil moisture and streamflow levels, while the snow has increased mountain snowpack to much above-normal levels,” the monitor said. “Most California reservoirs have refilled with water levels near or above average, but groundwater levels remain low and may take months to recover.”
As of Thursday, the water content of the Sierra snowpack, which provides about a third of California’s water, was 170% of the historical average on April 1, when it is normally at its peak, according to the state Department of Water Resources.
Department officials plan to conduct a Sierra snow measurement on Friday and hold a briefing on how the remaining month of California’s traditional snow season will impact the state’s water supplies.
Swain said the snowpack could become the largest ever observed in parts of California. The outlook calls for a continuing wet pattern, particularly for northern parts of the state, and more feet of snow, he said.
“If we can get through the rest of the season without anymore roof collapses or snowmelt floods it will be quite a boon,” Swain said.
The snowpack potentially could face threats such as early heatwaves or, as some forecast models have hinted, a warm atmospheric river that could cause melting and flooding. Swain said California is expected to remain cold and the likelihood of the atmospheric river is very low.
“I think that snowpack is going to take well through the summer to melt and … some shaded patches might still be there next autumn,” he said.
While reservoirs have been filling from shockingly low levels, recovery has not been uniform as demonstrated by the state’s two largest water storage facilities. Lake Oroville, 65 miles (105 kilometers) north of Sacramento, is at 73% of capacity, 116% of average to date. Another 90 miles (145 kilometers) north, Lake Shasta is only 60% full, 84% of average to date.
Swain said he expects Shasta to get good inflows during snowmelt season because the snowpack there is slightly above average although not exceptional.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a joint project of the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged after officials say he intentionally ran over a man in the parking lot of a Bucks County, Pennsylvania McDonald's.
Daniel Stephen Dietrich, 45, of Palmyra, is charged with criminal homicide, accidents involving death or personal injury and other crimes in the February 5 incident.
According to investigators, Dietrich and Jason Smith, 47, of Levittown, had been involved in an earlier incident on the road about a mile before they arrived at the McDonald's in the 7700 block of Bristol Pike in Levittown.
Once they arrived, surveillance video captured the two attempting to block each other in the parking lot before Smith got out of his car with a hammer.
Dietrich then hits Smith and runs over him, investigators said. He never slowed down and continued to drive out of the parking lot.
Dietrich was arraigned Friday and was sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility where he is being held without bail.
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The clock is now ticking for San Francisco to open up new overdose prevention facilities before San Francisco's only operating safe consumption site, the Tenderloin Center, closes in December.
But details for the replacement facilities are scant, and that has many health and harm reduction advocates on edge about what will happen to the hundreds of people who every day use the center after it shutters.
“I spoke with the Mayor’s office yesterday and there is no plan,” to open up a new location for safe consumption by the time the Tenderloin Center closes, said Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes part of the Tenderloin neighborhood. “They claim they are looking for locations, but they do not have a timeline. It’s increasingly clear that barring some kind of shift, they will not have something open by the time the Tenderloin Center closes.”
Newsom punts on harm reduction bill to curb fentanyl, meth overdose deaths
On average, about 400 people visit the Tenderloin Center every day, according to city data. There, people can use drugs in a supervised setting where staff monitor and reverse overdoses, pick up clean drug supplies to cut down on infection and sharing, and get access to voluntary treatment and housing options.
At least 266 overdoses have been reversed using naloxone at the Tenderloin Center since it opened in January, and no one has died from an overdose on-site. The vast majority of people come to access basic hygiene services like showers, laundry and hot meals.
More than 451 people have died of overdose death in San Francisco so far in 2022, with the majority involving methamphetamine and fentanyl, a potent opioid that began appearing more commonly in the local illicit drug supply around 2018.
State and federal law prohibit safe consumption sites from operating. This summer, Governor Gavin Newsom voted a state bill that would have authorized the model for San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland, three of the hardest-hit cities in the state for opioid-related deaths.
A new San Francisco program called Scope aims to provide people with tools to know what compounds are in their drugs before they use them.
Due to widespread evidence from the more than 200 supervised consumption sites that operate globally, where no one has died from an overdose, other parts of the U.S., including New York and Rhode Island, have moved ahead with the model as one component of overdose prevention.
Last week, Preston put forward a non-binding resolution urging Mayor London Breed to open a replacement facility that can continue providing services to “ensure no gap in services for the hundreds of residents who rely on the Center every day,” he said.
The resolution calls on the Mayor to publicly share plans to continue services offered at the Tenderloin Center or keep the facility open until a new supervised consumption site can open.
But a gap in overdose prevention services for when the Tenderloin Center closes is not certain, and city officials stress they working to prevent it.
In September, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) released a four-part plan on how it aims to reduce overdose deaths, which remain at epidemic levels in San Francisco.
The number of overdose deaths in San Francisco declined by 11% to 625 in 2021 compared to 2020, but the rates of overdose death in The City remain at epidemic levels.
A key component of the plan is to open up multiple “wellness hubs” in different neighborhoods where people can access a range of health and overdose prevention services, including safe consumption.
SFDPH told the Examiner it is still planning to open the first wellness hub by the end of the year. But they have not yet secured a location or opening date for the first wellness hub. SFDPH declined to comment on Preston’s resolution.
“While the City is actively engaged in the initial planning stages, the process is iterative and dynamic. The goal of wellness hubs is to provide people who use drugs with a range of services to keep themselves healthy and safe. These hubs are vital to our efforts to curb overdose deaths,” an SFDPH spokesperson said in a written statement to the Examiner.
“Specific services at each location will be determined by size, location and community needs. We are working on how best to include services such as naloxone distribution and administration, testing of drugs for fentanyl, HIV testing, wound care, and access to treatment for substance use disorder,” the department said.
The Mayor’s office did not provide an update when asked if a new supervised consumption site will be available by the time the Tenderloin Center closes, or when the first wellness hub could open.
“We are continuing to work with the federal government on options. We don’t have an update to offer today but the office is continuing to explore,” said Noel Sanchez, a spokesperson for Mayor Breed.
With less than two months from the closing date for the Tenderloin Center, Preston said he is concerned about whether plans will formulate in time, given the work that's ahead.
The plan comes as San Francisco continues to grapple with an overdose epidemic that has taken more than 391 lives in San Francisco since January 2022.
“Time is running out,” said Preston. “The City did an important thing by opening this center and it would be unconscionable to close it without replacement services up and running in a new nearby location. We remain eager to partner with the Mayor and SFDPH to support a new site to continue saving lives and build on the success of the Tenderloin Center.”
The Tenderloin Center opened in January 2022 as part of Mayor Breed’s Emergency Declaration for the Tenderloin neighborhood, which aimed to reduce overdoses, outdoor drug use and dealing, and tent encampments. The emergency order allowed the city to bypass certain regulations and open up the Tenderloin Center rapidly.
About six months after it opened, however, Mayor Breed announced that The City would not renew the lease for the site and that it would be closing by the end of the year.
Neighbors and local businesses complained about the Tenderloin Center being located in such a highly visible spot directly off of Civic Center BART station in United Nations Plaza. Critics also argued it didn’t connect enough drug users to treatment.
About 1,500 people have been connected to shelter or housing through the Tenderloin Center, according to The City’s data dashboard on the local emergency initiative. About 300 have been linked to behavioral health and drug treatment programs, and about 570 have received help signing up for Medi-Cal.
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EU, US edging toward trade spat when both want unity instead
By RAF CASERT
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States are treading precariously close to a major trans-Atlantic trade dispute at a time when the two Western giants want to show unity in the face of challenges from Russia and China. EU trade ministers are insisting they would be forced to respond if Washington stuck to all the terms of its Inflation Reduction Act, which is favorable to local companies through subsidies. The EU says it will unfairly discriminate against its firms that want to compete for contracts.
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Study reveals key findings on workforce mobility from more than 2,100 frontline employees
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cara Collective, a leader in poverty alleviation, is proud to announce the release of a national study on upward mobility for frontline employees: Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want. The study was led by Cara Collective's expansion arm, Cara Plus, thanks to analysis from McKinsey & Company and with support from Walmart.
Bridging the Advancement Gap is one of the largest national studies on frontline worker upward mobility. More than 2,100 frontline employees and 300 employers of various sizes, industries, and geographies were surveyed around topics including what frontline workers care most and least about with career advancement, employer misconceptions around opportunities for mobility, and how the COVID pandemic impacted frontline worker priorities, among others.
Key findings include insights on the priorities of frontline worker advancement such as opportunity for growth and better alignment of pay and skills. The study also shows stark differences between what resources frontline employees believe are available versus what their employers report, while also offering strategic, concrete actions employers can take.
"When we started exploring how to strengthen frontline worker upward mobility, we knew we had to start with frontline workers themselves," said Sara Wasserteil, Managing Director of Expansion & Integration at Cara Collective. "Lifting up their experiences and priorities – and juxtaposing those alongside what employers perceive is happening in the workplace – provides a starting point for how we can close the advancement gap for frontline workers, and strengthen equity when it comes to who does and doesn't advance in the workplace."
In addition to drawing out trends from frontline workers across diverse industries and demographics, the report also uplifts themes from populations that have historically been given limited access to economic opportunity and mobility. This includes employees without a four-year degree, those who have been justice system-involved, and those who have been impacted by homelessness or recovery. The findings will illuminate how employers can better advance into these often-untapped talent pools.
"What we found when we looked at these populations, is that they are highly motivated to advance in their careers, and yet often have fewer opportunities to get ahead," added Wasserteil. "If employers are willing to rethink who they hire and how they invest in them, they can unlock a highly motivated workforce ready to stay and grow in their firms. For example, as evidenced by this study, individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system advanced at a greater rate than any other demographic – across race and gender."
The study furthers the work of Cara Plus' inclusive employment portfolio, which helps corporations drive actionable change to hire and cultivate talent that has been historically sidelined from economic opportunity. The work leverages parent-organization Cara Collective's 30-year history connecting untapped talent to more than 13,000 jobs at 70% same-firm, one-year retention rates.
Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want can be read in its entirety at www.caracollective.org/frontline.
As an entity of Cara Collective, Cara Plus engages companies and nonprofits across the nation to build, launch, and grow workforce solutions so that people experiencing poverty can find and keep quality employment. Since our launch, Cara Plus has worked with more than 20 companies and 50 nonprofits in 24 states to adopt and adapt our methodology and create more inclusive employment pathways around the country. To learn more, please visit www.caraplus.org.
Cara Collective seeks to fuel a courageous national movement to eradicate relational and financial poverty. Through our four entities – Cara, Cleanslate, Cara Connects, and Cara Plus – we engage job seekers, employers, and other organizations across the country to break the cycle of poverty through the power and purpose of employment. Since 1991, we've helped more than 8,000 people get placed into more than 13,000 jobs and get started on their path to real and lasting success. To learn more, please visit www.caracollective.org.
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“ Avatar: The Way of Water ” didn’t make quite as big of a splash as many assumed it would, but James Cameron’s big budget spectacle still helped breathe life into the box office this weekend. The sequel earned $134 million from North American theaters and $300.5 million internationally for a $434.5 million global debut, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
It tied with “The Batman” as the fourth highest domestic debut of the year, behind “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ( $187.4 million in May ), “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” ( $181 million in November ) and “Thor: Love and Thunder” ($144.2 million in July).
Expectations were enormous for “Avatar 2,” which carried a reported price tag of over $350 million, the pressure of following up the highest grossing film of all time (thanks in part to various re-releases) over a decade later and the daunting task of propping up an exhibition business that’s still far from normal. Everything “Avatar” is oversized, though: the Na’vi characters, the runtime (a staggering three hours and 12 minutes), the technical advancements and the release strategy from 20th Century Studios and The Walt Disney Co.
Going into the weekend many were expecting a domestic debut of at least $150 million. Some even said $175 or higher, but tracking has also not been as reliable a metric during the pandemic.
Disney saw early that “The Way of Water” was going to be a different kind of beast when they looked at pre-sales. For a normal, spoiler-heavy movie like many Marvel offerings, post-opening weekend sales are usually around 5%. For “The Way of Water,” they were at 20%. In other words, the company knew that tracking was overinflated.
“We’ve got a terrific movie that is playing across all demographics and (has) terrific word of mouth,” said Tony Chambers, the Walt Disney Co.’s executive vice president for theatrical distribution. “We’ve got the screens and we’ve got a clear run. This isn’t about the opening day or the opening weekend. This is about the entire run.”
The film began its international rollout on Wednesday and debuted in North America on Thursday evening. Domestically, “Avatar: The Way of Water” was released in 4,202 theaters on over 12,000 screens, 400 of which were IMAX 3D. The studio and filmmakers bet big on the draw, and higher prices, of the 3D format and premium large screens.
By the end of Friday, “Avatar: The Way of Water” had already earned $53 million in the U.S. and Canada and $180.1 million globally, aided by a China release — the first major Hollywood release in the country since “Minions: The Rise of Gru” in August. It blows “Avatar’s” $26.7 million first day in 2009 out of the water, though that didn’t include Thursday previews.
An estimated 66% of the $435 million opening weekend revenue came from worldwide 3D ticket sales.
Travis Reid, CEO at 3D company RealD, set a “new benchmark for the current 3D marketplace.”
Over $48.8 million of the global total came from IMAX screens alone (1,543 in 80 markets), the company’s second biggest weekend.
“As excited as we are about these early results, we anticipate a long and successful run for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’” said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, in a statement.
As with many ambitious Cameron projects, from “Titanic” to the first “Avatar,” nerves were high for the costly sequel, one of the most expensive of all time, which began production five years ago. It faced repeated delays and weathered The Walt Disney Co’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019. It’s also one of four “Avatar” sequels Cameron had in mind. Filming on the third movie, which shot simultaneously with “The Way of Water,” is done, with an expected release in December 2024.
In the 13 years since the first film, “Avatar” has also been the butt of jokes for the perception that the biggest movie of all time, one that has made nearly $3 billion, has left a relatively minor footprint in the culture. But even so, critics have largely been on board with “The Way of Water,” not just for the visuals but also for improving on the story of the first. It holds a 78% positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The question of whether “Avatar 2” will earn enough is a complicated one with varied answers. Is it enough for exhibitors, who’ve had several significant hits this year, including “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Black Panther 2” and “Doctor Strange 2,” but are still hurting? Is it enough to justify starting production on fourth and fifth movies? Is it enough for the business as a whole, which is looking at a domestic year-end total in the $8 billion range, as opposed to a pre-pandemic normal of $11 billion?
But like the critics shouting “never doubt James Cameron,” the studio and analysts are singing a similar tune.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” has the benefit of a holiday corridor that is, relatively speaking, lacking in major blockbuster-style movies. Next week sees the debut of Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” and the family-friendly “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” but there are no comparable blockbusters until “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in February. The hope is that audiences will continue seeking “Avatar 2” out for weeks and months to come, similar to the first movie.
“Historically James Cameron’s movies are about the long haul, not the opening weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “’Avatar’ is going to develop its box office over time. It’s about where it will end up months from now.”
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore, with Wednesday through Sunday in parentheses. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” $134 million.
2. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” $5.4 million.
3. “Violent Night,” $5 million.
4. “Strange World,” $2.2 million.
5. “The Menu,” $1.7 million.
6. “Devotion,” $825,000.
7. “The Fabelmans,” $750,000.
8. “Black Adam,” $500,000.
9. “I Heard the Bells,” $308,893.
10. “Empire of Light,” $235,000.
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San Antonio brewery claims gold at Great American Beer Festival
The San Antonio beer community represented at the Great American Beer Festival and one brewery brought home gold. The annual competition was held Oct. 6-8 in Denver, Colorado. Texas brought home 22 medals overall, three of which came from the Alamo City.
Roadmap Brewing took gold international-style pilsner with Alright, Alright, Alright. Mad Pecker Brewing claimed silver with Bitter Soul in the extra special bitter category, and Freetail Brewing brought home bronze for the Bowie Bock in the international dark lager category.
Johnson City claimed the most medals in the Hill Country. Pecan Street claimed two medals, gold for the Rye Lager and bronze German altbier with Road Devil Amber. Old 290 Brewery in Johnson City snagged bronze in the wood- and barrel-aged beer category with the Hell Raiser Bourbon Barrel Brown.
More golds for the Hill Country craft beer community were won by Alstadt in Fredericksberg with the Alstadt Lager in the Munich-style lager category and the top golden or blonde ale with Fireman's #4 by Blanco's Real Ale Brewing.
Austin's beer community snagged six medals overall, two golds from Lazarus Brewing with the Black Pearl in the herb and spice beer category, and in the German-style pilsner category with Industry by the Austin Beer Garden Brewing. Two silvers for Meanwhile Brewing in the American-style strong pale alec category with Secret Beach and Austin Beer Garden Brewing in honey beer with The Beeginning (not a typo!). Jester King and Pinthouse Pizza brought home bronze with Atrial Rubicite in Belgian fruit beer and Fresh Hop Training Bines in fresh hop beer respectively.
North Texas showed up with a spread of medals. The gold American amber lager was won with Sonidero by Windmills, which is located in the Colony. Carrollton's 3 Nations Brewing won silver in chocolate beer with Devour Imperial Milk Stout: Mexican Chocolate. First of His Name was crowned bronze robust porter, brewed in Weatherford by Edgewise Eight Brewing.
Dallas won two medals, silver in juicy or hazy India Pale Ale with IPO IPA from White Rock Alehouse & Brewery and bronze non-alcholic beer with Nada IPA by Community Beer. Fort Worth claimed bronze American fruit beer with Raspberry Fields from Maple Branch Craft Brewery.
Houston grabbed silver in light lager with Heights Light Lager by New Magnolia Brewing.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
346 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of northwest Texas,
including the following areas, Bailey, Cochran and Hockley.
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of northwest Texas, including the following
counties, Lynn, Terry and Yoakum.
* WHEN...Until 530 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 346 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is
ongoing in Brownfield. Up to 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Brownfield is the most likely place to experience minor
flooding.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Brownfield, Denver City, Tahoka, Plains, O'donnell, Tokio,
Locketville, New Moore, Bronco, Meadow, New Home and Wellman.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will add Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to its Microsoft suite of business tools and programs.
In a news release, Microsoft said its new AI feature, referred to as Copilot, will be built off of “the power of large language models (LLMs) with business data and the Microsoft 365 apps, to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills.”
Microsoft also said that users can decide what to keep, modify, or discard when using the feature, saying that with the new tools, users can be “more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook and more collaborative in Teams.”
The latest Copilot feature will be available to use through Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Power Platform, and Business Chat.
“Copilot combines the power of large language models with your data and apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet,” Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Modern Work and Business Applications Jared Spataro said in a statement.
“By grounding in your business content and context, Copilot delivers results that are relevant and actionable. It’s enterprise-ready, built on Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to security, compliance, privacy and responsible AI. Copilot marks a new era of computing that will fundamentally transform the way we work.”
The announcement comes as the company announced earlier this year that its new premium messaging service, Teams Premium, will be powered by Open AI’s ChatGPT messaging service.
Microsoft also announced that it will invest billions of dollars in OpenAI in part of a third phase of a partnership between the two companies as the latest investment follows previous ones both tech companies made in 2019 and 2021 and extends the partnership across the two companies.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a free tool that launched in November that automatically generates human-like responses to users’ queries in a way that is more advanced than previous technology.
The new innovative technology has raised the concerns of many parents and educators recently, with some saying that students may have used ChatGPT to cheat on assignments, resulting in school districts such as New York City and Seattle banning the device tool.
OpenAI announced on Wednesday plans to release a new AI tool called the GPT-4, saying that the new technology tool is a large multimodal model, meaning that images and text prompts can be used to generate content.
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NATCHITOCHES, La. (KLFY) — Two Louisiana parents have been arrested after two children were allegedly found tied to their beds, according to police.
The Natchitoches Police Department said that around 1:15 p.m. Friday, officers received reports of possible child endangerment. Officers were told that a “concerned citizen” visited the residence and found two juveniles tied to their beds.
The person who found the children freed them and called the police, NPD said.
Michelle Benjamin, 28, and James Grant, 39, both of Natchitoches, were found at the home and taken into custody, NPD said.
Benjamin and Grant have been charged with two counts each of cruelty to a juvenile, domestic abuse battery with child endangerment and false imprisonment. They were placed in the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center.
NPD also said the Department of Children and Family Services was notified and the children were placed in their care.
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Mother charged in son’s death after SUV found at NJ beach
HORSHAM, Pa. (AP) — A mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 11-year-old son in southeastern Pennsylvania and is awaiting extradition from New Jersey, where she was arrested after her SUV was found in the surf on a beach at the Jersey shore.
Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, of Horsham, is charged in Montgomery County with first- and third-degree murder as well as possession of an instrument of crime in the death of Matthew Whitehead, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Prosecutors said the boy’s father found the door to the master bedroom in the couple’s home locked Tuesday morning and his wife and their SUV missing. He then found their son unresponsive in the bed, where he had gone to sleep with his mother. Police were called and declared the boy dead.
An autopsy Wednesday concluded the boy’s death was due to strangulation and the manner of death was homicide.
Prosecutors allege DiRienzo-Whitehead killed her son after he went to sleep at about 9:30 p.m. Monday and then drove the family SUV about 120 miles south to Cape May, New Jersey, where she drove the vehicle “into the ocean just off Beach Avenue.”
After the vehicle was no longer operable, she walked to Wildwood Crest, a Cape May borough, where she was taken into custody by Wildwood Crest police and interviewed by Montgomery County detectives and Horsham police, prosecutors said.
Authorities allege in a criminal complaint that DiRienzo-Whitehead told investigators her son had been upset and “crying off and on all day” over the family’s financial difficulties and that she strangled him so he would not have “to grow up with these struggles.”
DiRienzo-Whitehead is being held in Cape May County and will be extradited back to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania for arraignment on the charges, prosecutors said Wednesday. Court documents don’t list an attorney representing her and a message could not be left at a number listed in her name.
A neighbor, Ed Smith, told WFMZ-TV that the boy’s death was “very tragic” and the case was “surprising.”
“Very nice people. Good neighbors,” he told the station. Smith and his wife, Diane, said they have known the boy’s mother for more than four decades.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (the "Company") - (TSX: ITH) (NYSE: THM) today announced that it has filed its unaudited second quarter Financial Statements and associated Management Discussion and Analysis and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three- and six-month period ended June 30, 2022.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had working capital of US$6.1 million.
Shareholders can obtain copies of the Company's unaudited second quarter Financial Statements and associated Management Discussion and Analysis and Form 10-Q on SEDAR at: www.sedar.com, EDGAR at www.sec.gov and on the Company's website at: www.ithmines.com. The Company will also provide hard copies of these documents, free of charge, to shareholders who request a copy directly from the Company.
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. has a 100% interest in its Livengood Gold Project located along the paved Elliott Highway, 70 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska.
On behalf of
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
(signed) Karl L. Hanneman
Chief Executive Officer
This news release is not, and is not to be construed in any way as, an offer to buy or sell securities in the United States.
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The 17 key findings from the executive summary of the Jan. 6 committee’s report
Washington — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol voted Monday to adopt the final report of its probe, which includes 17 takeaways related to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power.
The committee released a 161-page executive summary of its findings as the clock runs out for lawmakers to complete their work before Republicans take control of the House. The full version, along with transcripts and other source material, is expected to be released later this week.
The panel also voted to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department, recommending charges against Trump and two allies.
The committee’s findings do not fault the intelligence community or law enforcement for the security failures of Jan. 6, something Republicans are likely to criticize. The summary doesn’t reveal much new information, but wraps up much of what the committee has already laid out in public hearings.
Here is what the committee says it has established over the course of the year-and-a-half-long investigation:
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On the night of the 2020 election and in the weeks after, the committee says Trump “purposely disseminated false allegations of fraud related to the 2020 presidential election in order to aid his effort to overturn the election and for purposes of soliciting contributions.” The committee says those false claims “provoked his supporters to violence on January 6th.”
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Despite “knowing” that he and his supporters lost dozens of election-related lawsuits and encouragement from his own advisers to concede, Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, the committee notes. “Rather than honor his constitutional obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,’ President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome,” the committee says.
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The committee says Trump “corruptly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes during Congress’ joint session on January 6th,” despite “knowing that such an action would be illegal.”
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The committee also asserts Trump “sought to corrupt the U.S. Department of Justice” by trying to enlist DOJ officials to “make purposely false statements and thereby aid his effort to overturn the election effort.” Trump then “offered the position of Acting Attorney General to Jeff Clark knowing Clark intended to disseminate false information.”
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Trump “unlawfully pressured state officials and legislators to change the results of the election in their states,” the summary continues.
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Trump also “oversaw an effort to obtain and transmit false electoral certificates to Congress and the National Archives,” the summary adds.
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Trump “pressured members of Congress to object to valid slates of electors from several states,” the summary says.
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The committee alleges Trump “purposely verified false information filed in federal court.”
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Based on false allegations of a stolen election, Trump “summoned” his supporters to Washington for Jan. 6, instructing them to “take back” their country, even though some of his supporters were armed, the committee says.
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“Knowing that a violent attack on the Capitol was underway and knowing that his words would incite further violence, Donald Trump purposely sent a social media message publicly condemning Vice President Pence at 2:24 p.m. on January 6th,” the summary continues.
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The committee asserts Trump knew violence was underway at the Capitol and “refused repeated requests over a multiple hour period that he instruct his violent supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol, and instead watched the violent attack unfold on television,” which “perpetuated violence at the Capitol and obstructed Congress’s proceeding to count electoral votes.”
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The committee claims Trump took all of these actions “in support of a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.”
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The committee also claims the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies did “successfully detect the planning for potential violence on January 6th,” and shared the information within the executive branch.
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Intelligence gathered did not suggest that Antifa or other left-wing groups would have violent counter-demonstrations, and they were not involved to “any material extent” in the attack, the committee notes.
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The summary also asserts that the intelligence community and law enforcement did not know the full extent of the “ongoing planning by President Trump, John Eastman, Rudolph Giuliani and their associates to overturn the certified election results.” The summary also claims the intelligence community and law enforcement did not “anticipate the provocation President Trump would offer in the crowd in his Ellipse speech.”
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The summary says Jan. 6 would have been “far worse” without the bravery of hundreds of U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan police officers, and says Capitol Police leadership “did not anticipate the scale of the violence that would ensure.”
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Finally, the summary says Trump “had the authority and responsibility to direct deployment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia, but never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other day.” The committee also said they “found no evidence that the Pentagon delayed the timing of deployment of the National Guard.”
Republicans are likely to criticize the report’s findings, and have instead focused on how law enforcement and congressional leadership could have better prepared for the assault. GOP lawmakers have already been critical of the committee for not focusing energy on how to prevent another such attack.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said Republicans will look into the work of the committee when the GOP takes control of the House in January. McCarthy has said Republicans will launch their own investigation to determine “why the Capitol complex was not secure” on Jan. 6.
Trump has maintained he did nothing wrong on Jan. 6, and has repeatedly called the committee’s investigation a “witch hunt.”
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WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack subpoenaed the Secret Service on Friday night for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6, 2021.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement that the committee is seeking "the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”
The subpoenas come hours after the nine-member panel received a closed briefing from the watchdog for Department of Homeland Security. The committee had originally sought the electronic records in mid-January and made an official request in March for all communications received or sent from DHS employees between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 “as part of a device-replacement program.” The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog's finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Donald Trump's actions during the insurrection.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 panel, told the Associated Press on Friday that the committee is taking a deeper look at whether records may have been lost. “There have been some conflicting positions on the matter,” the Mississippi lawmaker said.
The private briefing was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss it.
The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every respect — whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts.”
He said the Secret Service had started to reset its mobile devices to factory settings in January 2021 “as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration.” In that process, some data was lost.
The inspector general has first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, “after the migration was well under way,” Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general’s office.
The Senate Homeland committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, is also expecting a briefing from the inspector general about the letter, according to a person familiar with the committee’s discussions who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
The Jan. 6 committee has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the dramatic testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled what she heard about former President Donald Trump’s actions the day of the insurrection.
Hutchinson recalled being told about a confrontation between Trump and his Secret Service detail as he angrily demanded to be driven to the Capitol, where his supporters would later breach the building. She also recalled overhearing Trump telling security officials to remove magnetometers for his rally on the Ellipse even though some of his supporters were armed.
Some details of that account were quickly disputed by those agents. Robert Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
With evidence still emerging, the House Jan. 6 committee on Friday officials scheduled its next hearing to take place Thursday in primetime. The 8 p.m. hearing, which is the eighth in a series that began in early June, will take a deeper look into the three-hour-plus stretch when Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
It will be the first hearing in prime time since June 9, the first on the committee's findings. It was viewed by 20 million people.
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Anne Hathaway's latest head-turning look would totally be featured in Runway magazine.
For one, the actress had another real-life Devil Wears Prada moment after being spotted in a fabulous outfit while attending a press event in New York City. During her Oct. 12 outing, Anne made a style statement in chic workwear attire.
The Princess Diaries star dressed in a black-and-white oversized blazer by Christopher John Rogers that featured a bold triangular pattern. She paired the eye-catching coat with a collared white Valentino minidress, sheer brown pantyhose from Wolford and coordinating Isabel Marant knee-high boots. All in all, the A-lister's ensemble was giving Andy Sachs vibes.
And that wasn't Anne's only swoon-worthy outfit of the day. While attending the Armageddon Time screening at the New York Film Festival, she dazzled from head-to-toe in a silver beaded Valentino design.
In recent years, the 39-year-old has taken a fun and fierce approach to fashion. Last month she told Vogue why she wasn't holding back with her wardrobe anymore.
"When I was a younger actress, a lot of the things I did were based in fear, wanting to do something right, and now I don't mind doing things wrong," she told the magazine. "I don't think I'll fall apart, and the stakes don't feel so high."
She added, "So I'm dressing with a lot more gratitude, and a lot more joy."
Keep scrolling to see all of her stylish moments over the years, including her most recent workwear look.
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ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Patrick Industries Inc. (PATK) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $30.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Elkhart, Indiana-based company said it had profit of $1.35.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.13 per share.
The building products manufacturer posted revenue of $900.1 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $831.5 million.
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Some of the most life-saving medications remain out of reach for far too many working families and seniors. We must empower consumers, plans, providers and pharmacies to make informed, cost-effective and clinically appropriate decisions.
As Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, I recently joined Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) in releasing a bipartisan framework for legislative solutions to modernize and enhance federal prescription drug programs, with the goal of reducing drug costs for patients and taxpayers.
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Medicare and Medicaid are not living up to their potential of delivering affordable prescription drugs. This is due in large part to the complex and murky arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers, health insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers that have evolved within this system. Federal policy has not kept pace.
Simply put, we must shed light on these practices so Idahoans and all consumers can make more informed decisions about their prescription spending and these programs can operate more efficiently for patients and taxpayers.
The problems
The legislative framework I worked to develop with Chairman Wyden outlines four key challenges facing federal prescription drug programs:
- Misaligned incentives that drive up prices and costs — The current system incentivizes higher drug prices resulting in higher costs for consumers. For example, higher drug list prices often result in higher compensation for intermediaries, and PBMs are paid these price-based fees both by health plans and the manufacturers with which they negotiate.
- Insufficient transparency that distorts the market — Policymakers and researchers lack an adequate view of this pricing network. But, even more importantly, Americans need clear information for making prescription drug and health coverage decisions.
- Hurdles to pharmacy access — Many independent and regional pharmacies, which are a key part of care in communities across our country, have struggled and been forced to shut their doors leading to gaps for patients.
- Behind-the scenes practices that impede competition and increase costs — Reports have identified a range of practices that appear to drive up out-of-pocket costs for seniors that ultimately increase taxpayer spending. This includes overpayment for certain generic prescriptions that should have more competitive pricing for seniors and the Medicare program.
The start of the solutions
The legislative framework we put forward identifies potential policy solutions that will address these challenges, including:
- Delinking PBM compensation from drug prices to align incentives for lower costs;
- Enhancing PBM accountability to health plan clients to drive cost-cutting competition and produce better choices for beneficiaries;
- Ensuring discounts negotiated by PBMs produce meaningful savings for seniors;
- Addressing and mitigating practices that unfairly inflate the prices patients and government programs pay for prescription drugs;
- Modernizing Medicare’s “Any Willing Pharmacy” requirements to improve options and access for seniors; and
- Increasing transparency to foster a better understanding of how financial flows across the prescription drug supply chain impact government health care programs.
In weighing and developing policy solutions, my priority is always the patient. A few major points regularly raised by Idahoans — transparency, incentives and out-of-pocket costs — drive my efforts to enact solutions. We need to identify avenues for lowering out-of-pocket costs, increasing competition and promoting access to life-saving innovation — and we need to do so in a fiscally responsible manner.
Throughout this process of further refining these and other solutions, I am pressing for policies that make life-saving prescriptions more affordable, and pressing back against policies that add complication and expense without benefitting Idahoans.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a simple way to create a pre-established distance boundary for a pet dog in any location," said an inventor, from Providence Village, Texas, "so I invented the UNLEASH. My design ensures that a dog owner has control of their pet and it eliminates the potential tripping hazards and wrapping associated with using a leash."
The patent-pending invention provides a mobile local territorial control system for use when walking a pet dog. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using a traditional leash or electric fence. As a result, it increases control, convenience and safety. It also provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a portable and adjustable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for pet dog owners.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-283, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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On the heels of a lethal capturing in Uvalde, the U.S. Supreme Court dominated Thursday that folks have a constitutional proper to hold handguns for self-defense.
The choice, which struck down a New York gun regulation proscribing hid carry of handguns, may have broad implications in states and cities with strict gun legal guidelines. But it received’t impression gun regulation in Texas, which has way more lenient guidelines.
Texans 21 and older can openly carry handguns without a license or training if they don’t seem to be legally prevented from doing so by the state. The permitless carry regulation handed in 2021, a part of GOP lawmakers’ efforts to loosen gun restrictions in latest legislative periods.
The century-old New York regulation that was overturned stated residents must show “a proper cause” to hold a handgun for self-defense in public. In a 6-3 ruling, the nation’s highest courtroom stated the New York regulation violated the Second Amendment. That choice will make it considerably more durable for states or the federal authorities to impose gun restrictions, at the same time as Congress is on the verge of discovering a uncommon compromise on gun laws within the aftermath of the Uvalde capturing.
“The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote within the majority opinion.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer raised the necessity for gun regulation within the face of the risks of firearms. He pointed to the scourge of gun violence within the nation, together with the capturing in Uvalde final month that killed 19 schoolchildren and two educators.
“The Amendment allows States to take account of the serious problems posed by gun violence that I have just described. I fear that the Court’s interpretation ignores these significant dangers and leaves States without the ability to address them,” Breyer wrote, an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Gun rights advocates in Texas and past celebrated the ruling.
“For Texans, the direct impact is not as great but it does lock down our rights as law abiding citizens to carry with a license outside our homes no matter who is running the government (state or federal),” Andi Turner, legislative director of the Texas State Rifle Association, stated in an e-mail to supporters.
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa referred to as the ruling “tone-deaf” and stated the celebration would proceed pushing for gun management laws. Hinojosa has been asking Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers to carry a particular legislative session over gun regulation because the capturing in Uvalde.
Meanwhile, a month after the capturing in Uvalde, a bipartisan gun invoice backed by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is on a fast track by means of Congress. If enacted, it could be the primary main laws on gun security since 1994.
The laws consists of state grants to incentivize pink flag legal guidelines, permitting judges to briefly seize firearms from people who find themselves deemed harmful. Texas likely won’t adopt that provision.
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A run-of-the-mill pizza delivery turned violent for a Domino's employee Saturday night suddenly facing down the barrel of a loaded firearm, police said.
The delivery driver showed up to the Saugerties home, located in the heart New York's Hudson Valley, around 10:20 p.m. for an order drop-off. Instead of the usual straight forward handoff of pizza for payment, there was confusion over the order.
Police said 45-year-old Ralph Carpino told the employee he hadn't order any pizza to the home on Josephs Drive. What caused the man to escalate and pull a semi-automatic handgun on the driver was not clear.
But police said further investigation of the incident revealed someone else at the home, a family member of the 45-year-old, had in fact ordered a pizza that night.
Carpino was arrested at the home and booked on charges of menacing and possession of a weapon. He was released on a desk appearance ticket, authorities said. Attorney information for the man was not immediately known.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 9, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
1257 PM CDT Sun Apr 9 2023
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Texas...
Ayish Bayou Near San Augustine affecting Sabine and San Augustine
Counties.
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Ayish Bayou Near San Augustine.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- There is no current observed data.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall to 7.7 feet Friday
morning.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister said Tuesday that Russia’s war in Ukraine is a “turning point” in the course of Europe, stressing that any type of outcome that could embolden aggression by other nations on the continent must be avoided.
“The battle of Ukraine is not just another event on the international scene. It is a turning point in the course of Europe,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
“We owe it today to Ukraine to avert any type of fait accompli which could be imitated tomorrow by new potential trouble-makers,” he said.
Mitsotakis noted he was referring to “the constant aggressive behavior of Turkey,” with which relations have shown increasing strain over the past two years. Although both NATO members, the two countries have decades-old disputes over a series of issues, including territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
Recent quarrels have focused on Greek islands off Turkey’s coast, with Ankara accusing Athens of maintaining a military presence there in violation of treaties. Greece counters it is acting according to international law and is defending its islands in the face of Turkish hostility.
“One thing is certain, we do not need new revisionism and the revival of imperial fantasies,” Mitsotakis said. “And another thing is also certain, Greece will not tolerate any questioning of its national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The Greek prime minister said his country was “keeping our doors shut to threats, keeping our windows open to peaceful contacts. Disputes between nations are resolved based on international law, not through bullying.”
Last Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece of violating its airspace — something which Greece frequently accuses Turkey of doing to its own airspace, and denies violating Turkey’s.
“We don’t have an issue like ‘let’s go to war with Greece, let’s make war.’ But Greece is not standing by their promises,” Erdogan said after Friday prayers, accusing Greece of having violated Turkish airspace 147 times.
“Of course, if you’re going to violate our airspace like this, then what falls on us? My air force will give you the necessary visuals. That’s what our air force is doing,” Erdogan said, adding that “our armed forces are doing their duty and if these airspace violations continue after this, we will continue to do our duty in the same way.”
The Turkish president said the leaders of many NATO countries had tried to reconcile him and Mitsotakis. Erdogan said that “we are not thinking that right now,” but would see what happens in the future and evaluate it then.
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