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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s health minister kicked off a marijuana giveaway Friday, handing out the first 100 seedlings of a planned distribution of 1 million plants a day after the country legalized cultivation and possession of the drug.
Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who has been the driving force behind legalization, presided over the giveaway at a fair and exhibition held in the northeastern province of Buriram, a stronghold of his Bhumjai Thai party.
Anutin has touted growing marijuana, also called cannabis, as a way to increase farmers’ incomes.
His party draws heavily on the support of low-income farmers in the largely agricultural northeast. He was cheered by a crowd of thousands as he gave a speech taking credit for legalizing marijuana, which he said would bring financial benefits to “individual growers, community farmers (and) entrepreneurs.”
His party said more than 350,000 households have already registered as cannabis growers.
Officials said the 1 million plants will be distributed nationwide through the Agriculture Department’s regional offices over the next six months to promote marijuana cultivation.
The government insists that officially, only medical marijuana has been legalized. Despite that, there are no plans for serious monitoring of small-scale cultivation and sales, so at least in the privacy of one’s home there appears to be no reason to believe a person can get into trouble for recreational smoking.
Officials have warned, however, that smoking in public will be frowned upon and subject to possible fines. Regulations are expected to be issued for marijuana similar to those for cigarettes and alcohol, such as minimum age requirements for purchasing and restricting driving under the influence. | https://www.krqe.com/health/plant-giveaway-promotes-thailands-medical-marijuana-sector/ | 2022-06-11 12:44:09 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/health/plant-giveaway-promotes-thailands-medical-marijuana-sector/ |
NEW YORK, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body's immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species of bacteria.
New research from NYU Grossman School of Medicine shows that bacterial blooms of the gut bacterium Ruminococcus blautia gnavus occurred at the same time as disease flare-ups in five of 16 women with lupus of diverse racial backgrounds studied over a four-year period. Systemic lupus erythematosus involves damaging inflammation, especially in the kidneys, but also in joints, skin, and blood vessels. Four of these study patients with R. gnavus blooms had severe cases of the most common and kidney-specific form of the disease, lupus nephritis, while one had a severe example of lupus involving inflammation in multiple joints.
Publishing in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases online June 27, the team's analysis of these lupus patients' gut bacterial blooms identified 34 genes that already had established links to the bacterium's growth in people with inflammation. While the specific causes of lupus, which affects as many as 1.5 million Americans, remain unknown, many experts suspect that bacterial imbalances trigger inherited genetic factors responsible for the disease.
This study also investigated how tightly these patients' immune system antibodies bonded to structures in the bacterial wall, much like they would an invading virus. These antibodies showed a strong affinity to specific bacterial lipoglycan molecules that are known triggers of inflammation. These lipoglycans were found to be common in R. gnavus strains in lupus patients but not in healthy people. Antibodies are a major cause of the body damage in this disease, and this diagnostic antibody response, the researchers say, highlights the important role played by R. gnavus in the autoimmune disease.
"Our findings provide the strongest evidence to date that silent growths of Ruminococcus blautia gnavus are tied to active serious renal disease in lupus patients," said study lead investigator Doua Azzouz, PhD.
"Interestingly, our study also established this common bacterial link among a racially diverse group of females with varying forms of lupus," said Azzouz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Health. Lupus is more common in women than in men, and the disease affects more Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians than Whites.
"Our goal is to use our growing understanding of the biological pathways that underpin the disease to develop new treatments that prevent or treat flares for all forms of lupus," said study senior investigator and immunologist Gregg Silverman, MD.
"Such future treatments for lupus, especially lupus nephritis, could potentially decrease the use of drugs designed to dampen the immune system and instead promote the use of less-toxic antibacterial agents, probiotics or dietary regimens that prevent imbalances such as Ruminococcal blooms in the local gut bacterial population, or microbiome," said Silverman, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Professor of Internal Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology at NYU Langone Health.
Previous research by Silverman's team showed that R. gnavus blooms weaken the gut wall barrier, prompting bacterial leakages that in turn trigger inflammatory and overactive immune responses.
Silverman, who also serves as associate director of rheumatology at NYU Langone, says the team plans to extend the current research to more patients at other medical centers. The team also has plans for further experiments in mouse models of lupus to see how R. gnavus colonization triggers lupus and whether in mice bred to develop lupus-like symptoms R. gnavus blooms speed up or otherwise affect the severity of flares and inflammation.
The researchers say they also want to conduct experiments on various lipoglycan molecules from different R. gnavus strains to see if any particular part of the molecular structure is key to triggering inflammation or if other lipoglycans also prompt an immune response tied to lupus or other diseases of the gut, including Crohn's.
For the study, researchers used stool and blood samples from lupus patients being treated at NYU Langone. All study participants were being closely monitored for disease flare-ups. Test results were compared with those of 22 female volunteers of similar age and racial background who did not have lupus and were otherwise healthy.
As an autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus can lead to widespread inflammation and long-term tissue damage in affected organs. According to researchers, about half of patients develop lupus nephritis, of whom one-quarter are likely to experience end-stage renal disease that may require regular blood dialysis and even kidney transplantation.
Funding support for the study was provided by National Institute of Health grants UL1TR000038, P30CA016087, R01AR42455, P50AR070591, and HHSN272201400019C. Additional funding support was provided by the Lupus Research Alliance, the Judith and Stewart Colton Autoimmunity Center at NYU Langone, and the P. Robert Majumder Charitable Trust.
Besides Silverman, other NYU Langone researchers involved in this study are Ze Chen, Peter Izmirly, Lea Ann Chen, Zhi Li, Chongda Zhang, Adriana Heguy, Davis Mieles, Kate Trujillo, Alejandro Pironti, Gregory Putzel, David Fenyo, and Jill Buyon. Other study co-investigators are Dominik Schwudke and Nicolas Gisch, at the Leibniz Lung Center in Borstel, Germany; and Alexander Alekseyenko at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
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Denver-based IMO will benefit from the security, scalability and resources that Integrity partnership provides as it works to serve the complex financial needs of more Americans
DALLAS, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrity Marketing Group, LLC ("Integrity"), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Annuity Agents Alliance, an insurance marketing organization based in Denver, Colorado. As part of the acquisition, Anthony Owen, President of Annuity Agents Alliance, will become a Managing Partner in Integrity. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and is subject to carrier consent.
Since 2006, Annuity Agents Alliance has supported a growing network of agents offering annuities and life insurance. The firm specializes in marketing, sales process and case design to help agents build thriving, sustainable businesses that serve the increasingly complex financial needs of American families. Today, Annuity Agents Alliance is comprised of more than 250 agents and advisors who produce more than $550 million in annual paid premium.
"With their strong growth trajectory and impressive track record, there is no question that Anthony and his team at Annuity Agents Alliance understand how to best provide annuities and life insurance products to the Americans who need them," said Bryan W. Adams, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrity. "Integrity offers companies like Annuity Agents Alliance an ideal solution for the next phase of growth. Anthony can focus on what he does best while feeling secure in the roadmap for the future of the firm and its employees. Additionally, his agent partners gain access to technology and resources that will improve their business and ultimately help them serve more consumers. By working together, both Integrity and Annuity Agents Alliance will achieve greater success. We couldn't be more excited to bring Anthony's experience and passion for service into the Integrity family."
"As our company grows, I want to keep my focus on the core competencies that differentiate us," said Anthony Owen, President of Annuity Agents Alliance. "Integrity provides the systems that allow us to offload administrative tasks and spend more of our time on the areas where we can best support our agent partners. The industry continues to become more complex — providing our agent partners with Integrity's beneficial technology, product development and customer support will help them grow faster and stronger. We're also excited to integrate the additional financial services and insurance products Integrity offers to help our agents build a comprehensive business. An Integrity partnership is an amazing opportunity for Annuity Agents Alliance to scale and serve our customers in new ways, and we look forward to an incredibly bright future."
Annuity Agents Alliance can diversify its product offerings and capitalize on new opportunities by incorporating Integrity's platform of proprietary technology and resources into its already successful processes. The Integrity platform stimulates growth by providing agents with real-time quoting and enrollment systems, and innovative product development fueled by insightful data and analytics. In addition, Annuity Agents Alliance can concentrate valuable time on core competencies by accessing Integrity's expanded suite of shared business services. It includes areas such as Technology & Innovation, People & Culture, finance, legal and compliance, as well as marketing guidance from a national advertising and marketing agency.
Anthony Owen will help Integrity fulfill its mission to transform the insurance and financial service industries by adding his deep life insurance and annuities expertise to Integrity's rapidly growing partner network. A forward-thinking collective of industry icons and legends, Integrity's partner companies collaborate to innovate and optimize insurance and financial processes. By strategizing on best practices and solutions, this elite group of peers helps millions of Americans plan for the good days ahead.
The benefits of Integrity partnership are further bolstered by the Integrity Employee Ownership Plan, which offers Annuity Agents Alliance employees meaningful company ownership.
For more information about Annuity Agents Alliance's decision to partner with Integrity, view a video at www.integritymarketing.com/AnnuityAgentsAlliance.
About Integrity Marketing Group
Integrity, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of innovative solutions for wealth management and retirement planning. Through its partner network, Integrity helps millions of Americans protect their life, health and wealth with a commitment to meet them wherever they are — in person, over the phone and online. Integrity's cutting-edge technology helps streamline the insurance and financial planning experience for all stakeholders. In addition, Integrity develops products with carrier partners and markets them through its distribution network of agencies, brokerages and RIAs throughout the nation. Integrity's nearly 6,000 employees work with more than 450,000 agents and advisors who serve over 10 million clients annually. In 2022, Integrity will help carriers place more than $12 billion in new sales and oversee more than $20 billion of assets under management and advisement through its RIA and broker-dealer platforms. For more information, visit www.integritymarketing.com.
About Annuity Agents Alliance
Annuity Agents Alliance, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is an innovative financial marketing organization that focuses on the core competencies of helping independent agents and advisors build life and annuity businesses through marketing, sales process and case design. Annuity Agents Alliance has developed multiple proprietary marketing systems, including Safe Money Radio, proprietary illustration and case design software, and duplicatable and highly productive sales processes. Through the distribution of its marketing and sales systems, Annuity Agents Alliance serves thousands of Americans while supporting more than 250 agent and advisor partners who produce over $550 million in paid premium annually. For more information, visit www.annuityagentsalliance.com.
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KEENE, N.H. — KEENE, N.H. — North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT) on Friday reported earnings of $9.5 million in its fiscal second quarter.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pan American Energy, S.L., Argentine Branch (the "Issuer"), a branch of Pan American Energy, S.L., a Spanish limited liability company ("Pan American," and together with the Issuer, "we" or "our"), today announced it has commenced an offer to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") any and all of its outstanding 5.000% Senior Notes due 2023 (the "Existing Notes") for its New Notes, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum (the "Exchange Offer Memorandum"), dated June 29, 2022, and the related Eligibility Letter (as defined below) (together, the "Exchange Offer Documents"). Pan American will provide a full and unconditional guarantee in the form of a debt recognition obligation (the "Guarantee") in respect of the New Notes. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Exchange Offer Documents.
The following table sets forth certain material terms of the Exchange Offer:
(1) Per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of the Existing Notes validly tendered and accepted for exchange at or prior to the Expiration Date (as defined herein) (such New Notes, the "Exchange Consideration"). The Exchange Consideration does not include the Accrued Interest (as defined herein), which shall be paid in cash together with the Exchange Consideration.
(2) The Existing Notes are currently listed and traded on the Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A. (the "BYMA") through the Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires (the "BCBA") acting in accordance with the authority delegated by the BYMA to the BCBA and traded on the Mercado Abierto Electrónico S.A.
(3) To be issued in registered, global form and represented by one or more Regulation S Global Notes deposited with a common depositary for Euroclear Bank SA/NV ("Euroclear") and Clearstream Banking, S.A. ("Clearstream").
The main purpose of the Exchange Offer is to provide Eligible Holders (as defined herein) with the opportunity to remain invested in the Issuer's debt securities by exchanging their Existing Notes for New Notes. The terms of the New Notes will be substantially identical to the terms of the Existing Notes, except primarily that the New Notes will provide an extended maturity and an increase in the rate at which interest will accrue. Regardless of the results of the Exchange Offer, the Existing Notes will mature on November 15, 2023, at which time the Issuer will fully repay any outstanding Existing Notes not tendered in the Exchange Offer, unless repurchased, redeemed or exchanged prior to maturity. Participation in the Exchange Offer is voluntary and there is no minimum or maximum tender amount for the Exchange Offer.
The tender of Existing Notes by an Eligible Holder pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum and the acceptance thereof by the Issuer will constitute an agreement between such Eligible Holder and the Issuer in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Documents. The Existing Notes exchanged in the Exchange Offer will be cancelled.
To be eligible to receive the Exchange Consideration, Eligible Holders must validly tender their Existing Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on July 15, 2022, unless extended by the Issuer in its sole discretion (such date and time, as may be extended, the "Expiration Date"). The deadlines set by any intermediary or relevant clearing system may be earlier than this deadline. Tenders of Existing Notes may not be withdrawn or revoked, unless required by applicable law. No alternative, conditional or contingent tenders will be accepted.
In addition to the Exchange Consideration, on the Settlement Date (as defined herein), Eligible Holders will be entitled to receive payment of accrued and unpaid interest from and including the interest payment date on November 15, 2021 to, but not including, the Settlement Date (rounded down to the nearest cent) paid in cash with respect to Existing Notes accepted for exchange (the "Accrued Interest"). Interest will cease to accrue on the Settlement Date for all Existing Notes accepted in the Exchange Offer. Tenders will be accepted and Accrued Interest will be paid through The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"). The delivery of New Notes will be made through Euroclear and Clearstream. Under no circumstances will any interest be payable because of any delay in the transmission of the Exchange Consideration or the Accrued Interest to Eligible Holders by DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream or any other clearing system.
Eligible Holders of the Existing Notes who are Argentine Entity Offerees or Non-Cooperating Jurisdiction Offerees may be subject to certain tax withholdings resulting from the exchange of their Existing Notes. See "The Exchange Offer—Additional Amounts" in the Exchange Offer Memorandum.
The Issuer expects to deliver the New Notes and Accrued Interest on July 21, 2022 in respect of Existing Notes which have been accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer, which is the fourth business day after the Expiration Date (such date, as may be extended, the "Settlement Date").
To review the Exchange Offer Memorandum and participate in the Exchange Offer you must electronically submit an eligibility letter through the Eligibility Letter website (https://projects.morrowsodali.com/PanamericanenergyEligibility) (the "Eligibility Letter") certifying that you are an Eligible Holder. An "Eligible Holder" is a beneficial owner of Existing Notes that certifies that it is a person outside the United States (as defined in Rule 902 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")) who is: (A) not a "U.S. person" (as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act); and (B)(i) each person who is shown in the records of DTC as a holder of the Existing Notes (also referred to as "Direct Participants"); (ii) any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee or intermediary who holds Existing Notes; or (iii) each beneficial owner of Existing Notes holding the Existing Notes, directly or indirectly, in accounts in the name of a Direct Participant or other nominee or intermediary acting on the beneficial owner's behalf.
The New Notes and the Guarantee have not been registered under the Securities Act. The New Notes are being offered for exchange only outside the United States to persons other than "U.S. persons" (as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act) and who are not acquiring New Notes for the account or benefit of a U.S. person, in offshore transactions in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.
For a description of the terms of the New Notes, see the Exchange Offer Documents.
The New Notes will constitute non-convertible negotiable obligations (obligaciones negociables) under Argentine Negotiable Obligations Law No. 23,576, as amended and supplemented (the "Negotiable Obligations Law"), will be entitled to the benefits set forth therein and subject to the procedural requirements established therein, and will be issued and placed in accordance with such law, Law No. 26,831, as amended and supplemented, including Law No. 27,440, as amended and supplemented, General Resolution No. 622/2013 issued by the Comisión Nacional de Valores (the "CNV") as amended and supplemented (the "CNV Rules"), and any other Argentine applicable laws and regulations.
The Issuer is registered as a frequent issuer (emisor frecuente) with the CNV, under Register No. 12, authorized by Dispositions No. DI-2020-34-APN-GE of the CNV dated July 3, 2020, No. DI-2020-42-APN-GE#CNV of the CNV dated September 4, 2020, No. DI-2021-9-APN-GE#CNV of the CNV dated March 29, 2021 and No. DI-2022-14-APN-GE#CNV of the CNV dated May 5, 2022 (together, the "Dispositions"). The Issuer has registered with the CNV a U.S.$3,000,000,000 (or the equivalent amount in other currencies or units of value) Argentine frequent issuer prospectus dated May 6, 2022. The New Notes will be offered in Argentina by means of an Argentine exchange prospectus supplement (suplemento de prospecto y canje) in the Spanish language, in accordance with the CNV Rules, containing substantially the same information as the Exchange Offer Memorandum, other than with respect to certain information required under the CNV's frequent issuer regime provided in General Resolution No.746/2018 of the CNV and the CNV Rules (the "Frequent Issuer Regime"). The CNV's authorizations mean only that the information requirements of the CNV have been satisfied. The CNV has not rendered any opinion in respect of the accuracy of the information contained in the Exchange Offer Memorandum or the Argentine exchange prospectus supplement. In making a decision to participate in the Exchange Offer, Eligible Holders must rely on their own review and examination of the Issuer. The Exchange Offer Memorandum is not intended for Eligible Holders in Argentina.
Eligible Holders in Argentina are urged to read, must follow the procedures set forth in, and must rely exclusively on, the Argentine exchange prospectus supplement.
The public offering of the New Notes in Argentina is included in the authorization that the CNV granted to the Issuer to issue notes under the Frequent Issuer Regime, in accordance with Section VIII, Chapter V, Title II of the CNV Rules. Neither the Exchange Offer Memorandum nor the Argentine exchange prospectus supplement have been previously reviewed or approved by the CNV. The Issuer will file the final documentation related the New Notes with the CNV within five Argentine business days of the Expiration Date, in accordance with Article 74, Section VIII, Title II, Chapter V of the CNV Rules.
The Exchange Offer is subject to certain conditions, as more fully described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, which may be asserted or waived by the Issuer in full or in part in its sole discretion. The Issuer reserves the right to, subject to applicable law, amend or terminate the Exchange Offer at any time and to not accept for exchange any Existing Notes tendered under the Exchange Offer. The Issuer will give you notice of any amendments or termination if required by applicable law.
Subject to market conditions and in its sole discretion, the Issuer may, in the future, make an offering of debt securities that will be fungible with the New Notes. However, no assurance can be provided that any such offering will be made.
None of the Issuer, Pan American, the Dealer Managers, the Argentine Dealer Managers, the trustee for the Existing Notes, the trustee for the New Notes or the Information and Exchange Agent makes any recommendation as to whether or not Eligible Holders of Existing Notes should participate in the Exchange Offer.
To reimburse the time and cost of processing the tender of Existing Notes in the Exchange Offer, the Issuer will pay a processing fee to brokers acting on behalf of certain Eligible Holders. This processing fee will be payable to brokers only with respect to individual tenders of up to U.S.$250,000 aggregate principal amount of Existing Notes per each Eligible Holder and will be in an amount equal to 0.25% of the principal amount of such tendered Existing Notes that are accepted for exchange. See "The Exchange Offer—Processing Fee" in the Exchange Offer Memorandum for more information regarding eligibility requirements and the process brokers must follow to obtain the processing fee.
Eligible Holders tendering Existing Notes in Argentina through participants in Caja de Valores S.A. ("Caja de Valores") must also comply with the applicable procedures of, and deadlines specified by, Caja de Valores in connection with a tender of Existing Notes. Caja de Valores is a Direct Participant in DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream.
Neither the delivery of the Exchange Offer Memorandum nor any offer of New Notes made thereunder will, under any circumstances, imply that there has been no change in our affairs or that the information set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum is correct as of any date subsequent to the date of the Exchange Offer Memorandum.
This press release is qualified in its entirety by the Exchange Offer Documents. This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or an invitation to participate in the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to the Exchange Offer Documents, copies of which will be delivered to holders of the Existing Notes, and which set forth the complete terms and conditions of the Exchange Offer. Eligible Holders are urged to read the Exchange Offer Documents carefully before making any decision with respect to their Existing Notes. The Exchange Offer is not being made to, nor will the Issuer accept exchanges of Existing Notes from holders in any jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to make such an offer.
Morrow Sodali International LLC is acting as the information and exchange agent (the "Information and Exchange Agent") for the Exchange Offer. Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. and Banco Santander, S.A. are acting as dealer managers (the "Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer outside of Argentina. Banco Itaú Argentina S.A. and Banco Santander Argentina S.A. are acting as dealer managers (the "Argentine Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer in Argentina.
For further information about the terms of the Exchange Offer, please contact the Dealer Managers at their addresses and telephone numbers set forth below. Questions relating to the terms of the Exchange Offer by Eligible Holders in Argentina should be directed to the Argentine Dealer Managers. Questions concerning tender procedures and requests for additional copies of this Exchange Offer Memorandum should be directed to the Information and Exchange Agent at its email address and telephone numbers set forth below or by accessing the Eligibility Letter website (https://projects.morrowsodali.com/PanamericanenergyEligibility).
DEALER MANAGERS
INFORMATION AND EXCHANGE AGENT
E-mail: panamericanenergy@investor.morrowsodali.com
About Pan American
Pan American is a leading integrated energy company with upstream and downstream operations in Argentina, as well as upstream operations in Bolivia and Mexico. We are engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas, the refining of crude oil and the distribution and marketing of refined products. We are also engaged in oil and gas services and power generation including renewable energy projects in Argentina and Brazil.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding the performance of our business, financial results, liquidity and capital resources, contingencies and other non-historical statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "believes," "expects," "potential," "continues," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "approximately," "predicts," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "anticipates" or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These statements should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this press release and in the Exchange Offer Documents. Neither the Issuer nor Pan American undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
Investor Relations
Contact:
Pan American Energy, S.L., Argentine Branch.
Av. Leandro N. Alem 1180 (C1001AAT)
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(+5411) 4310-4100
https://www.pan-energy.com/
Contact: Michael Truscelli
Phone: +1 203 609 4910
Email: panamericanenergy@investor.morrowsodali.com
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- ev.energy will expand its reach in North America and Europe, create a pathway to connect millions of vehicles, chargers and drivers to their Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and enable Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) services
- The funding round was led by National Grid Partners with support from Aviva Ventures, WEX Venture Capital, InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), as well as existing investors Energy Impact Partners, Future Energy Ventures and ArcTern Ventures
LONDON and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ev.energy, the leading electric vehicle (EV) managed charging software platform, today announced its $33M Series B raise, bringing total funded capital to $46M. The funding round was led by National Grid Partners (NGP) with support from Aviva Ventures, WEX Venture Capital and InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). The round also saw continued support from existing investors Energy Impact Partners (EIP), Future Energy Ventures (FEV) and ArcTern Ventures. ev.energy seamlessly connects electric vehicles to grid networks to make charging simpler, greener and cheaper for drivers. Their end-to-end platform intelligently manages charging for more than 120,000 EVs daily by charging vehicles at grid-friendly times.
The company's software platform has become the cornerstone of vehicle-grid integration globally, with a growing partner list that includes industry leaders such as National Grid, Volkswagen Group, Maxeon and Siemens. This latest funding round provides a pathway for ev.energy to access an additional 400 million energy customers by utilizing their shareholders' energy retail, fleet, vehicle and insurance networks.
Nick Woolley, the CEO of ev.energy, remarked, "In the next few years, total EV demand in most developed countries will surpass the energy output of even the largest power plants – for example, the behemoth Palo Verde Generating Station in the US. As more EVs come online, optimized charging and load maintenance will remain critical tools for ensuring grid stability. By being able to shape and control EV load, ev.energy can both benefit the grid and help drivers to charge using the greenest and cheapest energy."
Since 2018, ev.energy has been on a mission to develop smart, cloud-based platforms that optimize EV charging, providing drivers with a greener, cheaper and simpler charge. Today, more than 120,000 EV drivers across North America and the UK are part of ev.energy's Virtual Power Plant (VPP). In 2021, ev.energy launched its commercial trading demand response platform to help fortify grid resilience, while slashing carbon emissions at scale. 2023 has been a year of growth and innovation for ev.energy, which extended its VPP to include Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) solutions, introduced its fleet management platform 'Pando' and evolved into the solar market with a solar home charging function, ev.energy SOLAR.
This funding round will enable ev.energy to expand its global operations while building on its rapid and sustained growth across North America and the UK. Since 2018, ev.energy has won over 30 national, regional and municipal utility contracts while forging partnerships with charging brands and auto original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like the Volkswagen Group. ev.energy's central position of moving, storing and discharging energy provides megawatts of flexible capacity and has helped utilities around North America and Europe tackle extreme weather conditions – from summer heat waves to winter cold snaps – with seasonal demand-response programs.
Bobby Kandaswamy, Senior Director of Pathfinding & Incubation Investments at National Grid Partners, commented, "ev.energy has benefited from years of sustainable growth, product innovation and steady leadership. This has enabled it to close a significant funding round despite a turbulent economic climate. ev.energy's approach to providing a convenient, compelling experience for drivers to charge at home and on the road during grid-friendly times is essential for grid operators. Combined with its V2G services, ev.energy positions utilities like National Grid as an accelerant to the clean energy transition." As part of NGP's investment, Kandaswamy has joined the ev.energy board of directors.
Matthias Dill, CEO and Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners, commented, "Partnering with energy utilities isn't easy, but ev.energy has a compelling value proposition that can be quickly deployed. ev.energy is one of the most successful startup companies we've ever invested in when it comes to partnering with energy utilities and has enabled numerous partners to roll-out smart-charging programs."
Alongside access to energy companies, investment from Aviva Ventures, WEX Venture Capital and InMotion Ventures has the potential to connect the ev.energy platform directly to millions of vehicles.
Mike Smeed, Managing Director at InMotion Ventures commented, "ev.energy is an exciting team at the forefront of the clean energy transition. Their market-leading technology, impressive list of partners, and ambitious roadmap are key reasons we participated in this latest round. We look forward to seeing the opportunities that will arise from ev.energy scaling up their operations."
ev.energy will use these relationships to co-create services that leverage vehicle data, deliver smart charging and in the future realize the full potential of bi-directional charging. WEX Venture Capital's investment will support the expansion of ev.energy's solution to bring managed charging to fleet vehicles.
"This announcement is a significant milestone in ev.energy's mission to support the electrification and decarbonization of transport and energy," Nick Woolley commented. "Every person at ev.energy wakes up each day wanting to play our part, and we're delighted to get this vote of confidence to help expand our mission."
Beyond its work to enable a cleaner, more resilient grid, ev.energy's B Corp certification has demonstrated its commitment to delivering broader social and environmental change. ev.energy has been a carbon-negative business for the past two years – with an estimated saving of 762 tons of carbon in 2022 alone.
For more information about ev.energy's EV smart charging capabilities visit https://www.ev.energy/
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About ev.energy
ev.energy is a Certified B Corporation® with a mission to make EV charging greener, cheaper, and smarter for utilities and their customers. Its end-to-end software platform wirelessly connects to a range of electric vehicles and chargers to intelligently manage EV charging while working with utilities to put cash back in customers' wallets for charging at grid-friendly times. With a global base of utility, vehicle OEM and EVSE partners, ev.energy manages more than 120,000 EVs on its platform each day. Learn more at https://ev.energy/business.
About National Grid Partners
National Grid Partners (NGP) is the venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid plc, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. NGP invests for strategic and financial impact and leads companywide disruptive innovation efforts. The organization provides a multi-functional approach to building startups, including innovation (new business creation), pathfinding and incubation, corporate venture capital, business development and venture acceleration. We also convene the NextGrid Alliance (www.ngalliance.energy), a network of senior executives from more than 100 worldwide utility companies. NGP is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in Boston, London, and New York. Visit ngpartners.com or follow us at www.twitter.com/@ngpartners_ and www.linkedin.com/showcase/national-grid-partners.
About InMotion Ventures
InMotion Ventures is the investment arm of JLR, and a core component of the business' Open Innovation strategy. The fund invests in startups from Seed to Series B across electrification, connectivity, sustainability, industry 4.0 and digital services. Notable past investments include Lyft (exited in 2019), Ascend Elements, Circulor, Envisics, and Bumper. To find out more about InMotion Ventures: https://www.inmotionventures.com/
About WEX Venture Capital
WEX Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of WEX (NYSE: WEX) with an authorization of $100 million in capital focused on identifying and helping advance next-generation technology and companies focused on the energy transition. Investment areas of focus include fleet electrification, the electric vehicle (EV) charging ecosystem, energy management and optimization, and adjacent technology. WEX Venture Capital offers portfolio companies the potential to benefit from the breadth of WEX's global fleet business and expertise, while guiding WEX fleet customers as they navigate the expected global EV transition. For more information, please visit https://vc.wexinc.com.
About ArcTern Ventures
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm obsessed with helping solve the climate crisis and rethinking sustainability. ArcTern, based in Toronto with offices in Oslo and San Francisco, invests globally in breakthrough technology companies solving climate change and sustainability - we call it #earthtech. The fund was founded on the premise that accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy will disrupt all industries and present an unprecedented opportunity for outsized financial returns. Solving our planet's biggest problems will lead to big rewards—for companies, their investors, and of course, Mother Earth. https://www.arcternventures.com/
About Energy Impact Partners
Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP) is a global investment firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world's most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $3 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure – and has a team of over 80 professionals based in its offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Palm Beach, London, Cologne, and Oslo. For more information on EIP, please visit www.energyimpactpartners.com.
About Future Energy Ventures
Future Energy Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm investing in the energy transition. Set up in 2016, it invests in digital and digitally-enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to shape the future energy landscape with a strong focus on decarbonization. Typically focusing on digital, scalable and asset-light companies raising Series A and B funding, Future Energy Ventures seeks to transform the traditional energy value chain towards net zero while capitalizing on the investment opportunities presented by the transition to a fully renewable energy future. For more information, visit www.fev.vc
About Aviva Ventures
Aviva Ventures was set up in 2016 with an initial £100m investment, as part of Aviva's commitment to innovation. The fund focuses on investments where Aviva can develop a strategic relationship. Investment themes include customer wellbeing, mobility, sustainability, and the opportunities created by new technology developments like Artificial Intelligence: www.aviva.com
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They say you never forget your first. In this case, my first is a hypercar and it’s a doozy. It boasts an 8.0-liter engine with 16 cylinders and four turbochargers, a price tag of more than four million dollars, and a top speed of 273 mph. Yep, my first hypercar drive is in the 2022 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport.
The Super Sport fits in the middle of the Chiron range, though there is nothing middle-of-the-road about it. With more power than the base Chiron, it’s faster, but it doesn’t have the bonkers top speed of the Super Sport 300+, which reached 304.8 mph. The Pur Sport is the Bugatti for dynamic handling, and this Super Sport functions more as a grand touring car. You know, a 1,578-hp GT. Sounds perfect for a relaxing drive up the coast.
Approaching the car I’m pretty anxious. I don’t have the kind of insurance that will cover me if I $#%* up this beautiful car. The long tail means it will take up 10 more inches of linear space in collectors’ palatial garages than the standard Chiron, but it maintains the same width, height, and wheelbase. There is plenty of carbon fiber here, and I cannot get over the rear end. I love the split rear window, sleek wing, and stacked quad tailpipes.
The familiar horse collar Bugatti grille up front is flanked by jeweled LED headlights with large intakes below. Above the front fenders sit attractive air vents that consist of nine holes on each side in sets of three. They harken back to the EB110 Super Sport, but also provide high-speed stability as the car approaches 250 mph.
I’m surprised the Super Sport doesn’t have millionaire doors—you know, the kind that open upward. It’s easy to get in to, no climbing over a wide door sill is necessary, and once in my rear fits snuggly into a well-bolstered, if lightly cushioned, seat.
The cabin is pretty sparse, especially considering the price. It lacks high-tech screens and gee-gaw features. Instead, four configurable digital dials stacked vertically on the dash display either HVAC controls or driving data like max power used, g-forces, and the like. A small shifter sits below. The flat-bottom steering wheel has audio controls and a few buttons to access information in the gauge cluster. More importantly, this is where the drive modes are located, as well as the start button.
I take a deep breath and push that button. Immediately, a rumble fills the cabin like nothing I’ve ever heard, and heads turn to see what is making that glorious noise. It is I, queen of everything, about to embark on the luckiest two hours of my life.
Any delusions of wringing this thing out are put to rest as soon as I pull out into traffic. It’s 3:00 pm in Los Angeles and I’m in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Pacific Coast Highway. Remarkably, this hypercar isn’t begging me to go, well, hyperspeed. It’s perfectly happy toddling along with the flow of traffic, be it 20 mph or 55 mph. I feel an occasionally thunk as the 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox shifts into first gear when rolling to a stop, but I never feel like the car is begging me to rip around a Toyota Corolla, middle finger extended yelling, “I’m in a Bugatti, suckers!”
Not that I would ever perform any overly aggressive moves with all these cars around. Driving a Bugatti in traffic means keeping your senses on high alert. I leave a good six feet in front of me at stop lights and I’m constantly looking at other drivers, admonishing them to stay in their lanes. At one point a motorcycle rips by me on the shoulder, cell phone out and livestreaming to the Tok Tiks or whatever the kids are using today. I hope it was worth it, buddy, because you gave me a bit of a scare.
The Chiron Super Sport has three drive modes. I stick with EB, the Bugatti equivalent of Normal mode, but there is also an Autobahn mode that lowers the front end and sharpens everything for high-speed cruising, plus a Handling mode that is best left to folks driving on a track with lots of insurance.
Even in EB mode, the suspension feels impressively stiff, enough that I wonder how bone-shattering a Pur Sport would be. In the Super Sport I can feel every pebble and find myself avoiding even the smallest imperfection on the road.
The Super Sport doesn’t have any advanced driver aids like adaptive cruise control or active lane control and, frankly, I’m fine with that. I want to drive this car, not be subject to the whims of some computer. However, I do wish for blind-spot monitors as the visibility is limited.
After 45 minutes or so of cruising in traffic, my babysitter, er, Bugatti representative tells me to turn off PCH and onto a curvy road. There is still a lot of rush hour traffic, but it gives me the chance to put the hammer down a few times and experience all 1,180 lb-ft of torque.
Holy shit is all I have to say. I’ve been in plenty of high-torque electric vehicles and this is a completely different experience. It takes a hot second for the turbos to spool up, but then the Chiron Super Sport roars to life, leaving behind its pussycat GT demeanor and transforming into a mean feral tomcat that’s just escaped the death needle at the pound. Seemingly endless amounts of power rushes to the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, 355/25ZR21 in the rear, 285/30ZR20 in front. I immediately start to scream/laugh as my tummy does flip flops and my mind tells me what an idiot I am. I am pinned in a Bugatti, and I am ruler of it all!
The Chiron Super Sport weighs in at a heavy 4,400 lb or so, but with the mighty W-16 rearward of the cabin putting all that power down to all four wheels, it hardly matters. Bugatti says the Super Sport can rocket from 0 to 62 mph in 2.4 seconds, hit 124 mph in 5.8 seconds, go to 186 mph in 12.1 seconds, and reach all the way up to 249 mph in 28.6 seconds. It tops out at 273 mph.
I’m quickly approaching a BMW X5, so I hit the pedal to engage the large carbon-ceramic brakes and the car slows confidently. I’m not sure of my top speed, but I can tell you that when I hit the brakes and look down the speedometer says 85 mph and I’m in second gear. Close to the limit of the car? Uh, no, but three or four seconds of thrills are better than no thrills at all.
I get to maintain a bit of speed around some sweepers and find the steering to be nicely weighted and accurate. I don’t expect to make any mid-corner corrections and I’m right. That might change when on a track, but, alas, that is not for me to find out. It’s time to head back down PCH and give the Bugatti back.
Round-trip my drive is about 50 miles and I am so giddy I forget to check my fuel economy. However, the EPA gives the Bugatti an efficiency rating of 8 mpg city, 11 highway, 9 combined. My quick little adventure likely burned six or seven gallons of fuel. Further, the Chiron Super Sport runs on 93 octane, which isn’t available in California or many parts of the country. The Bugatti team had to use specially purchased 101 octane for my joyride. Of course, when you’re buying a car that starts at $3.825 million, you’re likely not worried about gas prices, amirite?
My tester’s options cost twice as much as my house and include a $222,500 paint job, a $62,000 glass roof, $12,500 for the comfort seats—they don’t have much padding but are surprisingly comfy—and $2,500 for something called Hidden Delights. I don’t know what they are. They were, apparently, very well hidden.
All told you’re looking at $4,301,450 for the 2022 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport. While I certainly didn’t get to experience the car’s peak performance, I feel lucky that my first hypercar experience delivered a little bit of mayhem at the behest of my right foot. Very lucky indeed.
—Emme Hall
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U.S. consumer inflation expectations in the short and long term increased in early November, while sentiment retreated to a four-month low amid rising borrowing costs.
Consumers expect prices will climb at an annual rate of 3% over the next five to 10 years, up from 2.9% in October and the highest in five months, the University of Michigan's preliminary November survey showed Friday. The survey forecast costs rising 5.1% over the next year, compared with last month's 5%.
The sentiment index dropped to 54.7, worse than all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey, from 59.9 in October.
"Continued uncertainty over inflation expectations suggests that such entrenchment in the future is still possible," Joanne Hsu, director of the survey, said in a statement.
The data was collected Oct. 26-Nov. 9, before a key government measure of inflation showed that consumer price growth cooled in October by more than forecast.
The report shows "markets may have been premature to cheer inflation's demise after October's soft CPI print," economist Anna Wong wrote in a note for Bloomberg Economics. "Inflation expectations remain toward the upper end of the Fed's comfort zone, keeping alive the risk that expectations could unmoor. The Fed is far from abandoning its fight against inflation."
As consumers feel the pinch of high interest rates and persistent inflation, buying conditions for durable goods slumped after surging the prior month.
The current conditions gauge decreased to 57.8 from 65.6. A measure of expectations fell to 52.7 this month from 56.2 in October.
The report showed that nearly half of consumers said inflation was eroding their living standards, leading many from lower- and middle-income families to change their spending habits.
"Higher-income consumers, whose outlooks were darkened by continued turbulence in stock and housing markets, will likely pull back their spending going forward," Hsu said. "With overall sentiment remaining low, these factors highlight the risk of recession in the quarters ahead." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/nov/12/us-inflation-expectations-on-rise/ | 2022-11-12 08:43:12 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/nov/12/us-inflation-expectations-on-rise/ |
‘Guardian angel’ finds 5-year-old girl with autism wading in waist-deep marsh water
PLYMOUTH, Mass. - A man who waded through waist-deep marsh water to save a missing 5-year-old girl with autism is "going viral" in Massachusetts for all the right reasons.
Police in Plymouth, Massachusetts, said Jake Manna, who’s not from Plymouth, was installing solar panels Wednesday when he heard that people in the neighborhood were looking for a missing child with autism. Manna stopped his work to help in the search.
Manna walked down a rural trail and spotted a diaper and T-shirt in a stream. Police said he "panicked" and ran down the stream to a marsh, where he found the missing child wading in waist-deep water. He called out to her, but she didn’t listen and continued walking farther into the marsh.
From there, he got in the marsh and "put her over his shoulder" to get her to safety.
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"Jake is not from Plymouth and doesn't know the area. If he didn't pick that path and see the missing clothing, we hate to think about what the outcome would have been," the police department said on Facebook.
Vinnie Roth, the officer who responded to the original missing child call, said the girl "had a guardian angel" with her that day — "and his name was Jake."
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"He is the nicest, most unassuming man that one could meet," police said. "He also has great hair!"
The town’s police chief honored Manna with a certificate and command coin as a thanks for saving the child. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/jake-manna-plymouth-massachusetts-missing-girl-autism | 2022-07-15 19:24:47 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/jake-manna-plymouth-massachusetts-missing-girl-autism |
Report: Mother, daughter dismember and attempt to burn, grill grandmother’s body
LANDOVER, Md. (Gray News) – A woman and daughter in Maryland have been charged in the death and dismemberment of the woman’s mother and daughter’s grandmother.
According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, 44-year-old Candace Craig and her daughter, 19-year-old Salia Hardy, were arrested Friday.
Officers responded to a Landover home in the afternoon for a welfare check after someone called 911 saying they had not heard from 71-year-old Margaret Craig for several days.
Officers said they were greeted at the door by Candace Craig, who allowed the officers to search the home for Margaret Craig.
When officers entered the basement, they said they immediately smelled the odor of a decomposing body and called additional units to investigate. A report from WTOP said three separate bags of remains were found by officers.
An official with the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office said a chainsaw was used in the dismemberment, followed by burning parts of the body on a grill and in a bonfire to dispose of it, according to WTOP.
“To say it’s disturbing is an understatement. It’s horrifying,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said in a statement posted to Twitter.
According to investigators, the evidence along with witness interviews suggest Candace Craig murdered her mother on May 23. They said she appears to have been helped by her daughter the next day in an attempt to dispose of Margaret Craig’s remains.
Candace Craig has been charged with first and second-degree murder. Hardy has been charged with accessory after the fact. Authorities said both are currently in custody.
Officials said they are expecting to confirm the victim’s identity and cause of death in the case while they continue their investigation.
Anyone with further information has been asked to call detectives at 310-516-2512 or Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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130 FPUS55 KREV 151031
ZFPREV
Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
331 AM PDT Wed Mar 15 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-160300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
331 AM PDT Wed Mar 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 35 to 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows
12 to 22. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 36 to 41. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 16 to 26. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 37 to 42. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows
21 to 31.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Highs 38 to
43. Lows 23 to 33.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers likely. Highs 36 to 41.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows
20 to 30.
.MONDAY...Chance of snow showers in the morning, then heavy snow
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs 34 to 39.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Heavy snow showers likely. Lows 22 to 32.
.TUESDAY...Brisk. Heavy snow showers likely in the morning, then
heavy snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 32 to 42.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-160300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
331 AM PDT Wed Mar 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
41 to 51. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 16 to 26. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 43 to 53. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 18 to 28. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 45 to 55. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 23 to 33.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Breezy. Showers likely. Highs 46 to
56. Lows 28 to 38.
$$
CAZ071-160300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
331 AM PDT Wed Mar 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
37 to 47. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 13 to 23. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 41 to 51. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 16 to 26. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 42 to 52. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows 23 to 33.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Highs 44 to 54.
Lows 25 to 35.
.TUESDAY...Breezy, showers. Highs 40 to 50.
$$
CAZ073-160300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
331 AM PDT Wed Mar 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers.
Highs 32 to 42. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph
in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 15. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 32 to 42. Northwest winds around 10 mph
in the morning becoming light.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 7 to 17. Light winds becoming southwest around
10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 33 to 43.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows
12 to 22.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs
34 to 44.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers. Lows 15 to 25. Highs 34 to 44.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 20. Highs 32 to 42.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Heavy showers likely. Lows 14 to 24.
.TUESDAY...Breezy. Snow showers likely in the morning, then heavy
snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 31 to 41.
$$
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Western allies have sent the country 65 billion euros ($70 billion) in military aid to help thwart Russia’s full-scale invasion, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday, and with no peace negotiations on the horizon the alliance is gearing up to send more.
“We cannot allow Russia to continue to chip away at European security,” Stoltenberg told a news conference in Brussels, adding “there are no signs that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is preparing for peace. He is preparing for more war.”
NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday “will discuss how we can step up our support, including by continuing to strengthen Ukraine’s armed forces,” Stoltenberg said. “Our support is for the long-haul.”
Analysts suspect Putin plans to dig in and hold out against a possible Ukraine counteroffensive in the coming months, hoping that the West’s costly support for Kyiv will unravel.
Putin’s invasion in February 2022 backfired in key respects. It led NATO to deploy more troops and weapons into the territories of its members in Eastern Europe and persuaded Sweden and Finland to scrap their neutrality and seek NATO membership.
Finland will formally join the alliance on Tuesday, Stoltenberg said.
The war has also bound together more tightly foreign leaders viewed by Putin as adversaries.
In a fresh example of the closer ties that Ukraine is forging, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to head to Warsaw on Wednesday for a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Polish authorities announced the visit Monday in an unusually early disclosure of the Ukrainian leader’s travel plans.
Against a backdrop of fears among Russia’s other neighbors about the Kremlin’s ambitions, the leaders of Germany, Romania and Moldova were due Monday to look at ways of shoring up defenses along NATO’s eastern flank.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was meeting in Bucharest with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and Moldovan President Maia Sandu. Their talks were expected to focus on security, the economy and energy supply.
Meanwhile, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, arrived in Kyiv on Monday on an unannounced visit. He traveled with a business delegation that included the head of Germany’s main industry lobby group, the Federation of German Industries.
Habeck said the trip was meant to send a clear signal “that we believe they will be victorious, that they will be rebuilt, that there is an interest on Europe’s part not just to support them in an emergency, but in Ukraine being an economically strong partner in the future.”
Zelenskyy and Habeck visited the village of Yahidne — 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Kyiv. Zelenskyy stopped at the Yahidne secondary school, in whose basement Russian occupiers forcibly kept 367 Ukrainian civilians for 27 days in March of last year. Eleven people died in the dark, crowded basement.
Possible sabotage and assassinations behind the front lines continued. A Moscow-appointed official was seriously injured when his car exploded in the Russia-controlled southern city of Melitopol early Monday, according to the Moscow-appointed regional administration. Maxim Zubarev, the former head of the village of Antonovka, was hospitalized in grave condition.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where much of the fighting has taken place in recent months, six civilians were killed in a Russian rocket strike on the town of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
Four more civilians were killed in the northern Chernihiv region when their vehicles hit land mines, underscoring the perils of living in the war zone. The head of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on Monday visited Chernihiv city, where parts of the historic center were damaged during a siege by Russian forces in late February of last year.
“Intentional destruction of cultural heritage is a crime,” Azoulay said after visiting a former movie theater that was partially destroyed.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said a spell of cold weather has worsened the civilians’ plight.
“Freezing temperatures and snow make life unbearable for civilians. They have to survive in damp basements without power and communications and can only occasionally get out to warm themselves around a campfire,” Kyrylenko said in televised remarks.
“The Russians never run out of ammunition, equipment and personnel whom they use as cannon fodder to keep trying to storm cities.”
In other developments:
—Russia transferred to Ukraine 12 prisoners, including five seriously injured Ukrainian soldiers, officials said. Some had fought in Bakhmut, the biggest focus of the war in recent months and the scene of some of its bloodiest battles. On March 24, Ukraine had turned over five seriously hurt Russian prisoners. Such transfers are a rare example of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia.
—International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi will visit Kaliningrad, Russia, on Wednesday as part of his efforts to ensure the protection of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power plant, IAEA spokesman Fredrik Dahl said. Grossi will meet Russian officials as a follow-up to his visit last week to the Zaporizhzhia station, whose six reactors are shut down.
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Associated Press Writer Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, and Mstyslav Chernov in Chernihiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report. ___
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Britney Spears is not done letting Sir Elton John know how thankful she is to be part of their new collab, “Hold Me Closer.” The pop star sent Sir Elton a “fabulous” gift to celebrate the song’s release, and he finally got in the mail.
“Thank you @britneyspears for the fabulous rocket salt and pepper shakers!!” the British legend tweeted on Friday alongside a photo of the chrome rocket-shaped shakers. “David [Furnish] and I love them.” He also added two red heart and rocket emojis.
Sir Elton’s gift arrived shortly before Billboard announced the collab has rocketed to the #6 spot on the Hot 100. This marks his 29th song, and Britney’s 14th, to enter the top 10.
It also should be noted the collaboration is Britney’s first top 10 offering in almost a decade. Her last, “Scream & Shout” with will.i.am, peaked at number three in February 2013.
“Hold Me Closer” was streamed 11.1 million times and sold 48,000 downloads in its first week. Its impressive sales allows the hit to top Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart.
Sir Elton previously told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe he is “really happy for Britney” and explained how much the collaboration means to him. “This is someone who has been through hell, who needed some love in her life, a lot of love from a lot of people, and she’s getting it,” the singer expressed, adding he always knew Britney could sing even though some fans doubted she still could.
Sir Elton con, “What I was worried about is if she would be so nervous because she hadn’t done it for a while, but she came through it with flying colors.”
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta said Friday that it’s organizing a referendum on a new constitution for June 18, a key step towards a return to constitutional rule and a new presidential election expected next year in the West African country.
The referendum, in which voters can choose to either accept or reject a draft already contested by political opponents, was due to have taken place in March, but was postponed.
The announcement of the new date was made on national television by the government spokesman, Minister Abdoulaye Maiga. The draft constitution released by the junta in March of this year would considerably strengthen the power of the president. The head of state, rather than the government “determines the policy of the nation,” appoints the prime minister and ministers, and has the right to terminate their functions, according to the proposal.
Armed movements who fought for independence for Mali’s north but agreed to a peace deal in 2015 say the draft constitution wouldn’t take into account the provisions of the peace agreement. Mali has been ruled by a military junta since a 2020 coup against an elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. It has faced destabilizing attacks by armed extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group since 2013.
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Today's show is all about the theatre! First up, ADAM BRIETZKE and NATALIE BOTKINS are the only two actors in Talking Horse Productions' 'Brilliant Traces', opening this Friday and running for two weekends in Columbia. And then, SARAH SICHT and TROY DONEHUE invite area youths to become one of 'Theo's Thespians' at Capital City Productions in Jefferson City. "Anything you can think of with theatre, these kids will at least get their feet wet." (3:40) June 15, 2022 | https://www.kbia.org/september-2021-august-2022/2022-06-15/paul-pepper-talking-horse-prod-opens-brilliant-traces-ccp-hosts-theos-thespians | 2022-06-15 14:03:06 | 0 | https://www.kbia.org/september-2021-august-2022/2022-06-15/paul-pepper-talking-horse-prod-opens-brilliant-traces-ccp-hosts-theos-thespians |
Republicans pop off over Hunter Biden's rejected plea deal: 'Justice is coming'
Judge Maryellen Noreika declined to accept Hunter Biden's plea deal
Republicans celebrated Wednesday after Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart during a dramatic courtroom moment, and lawmakers declared that "justice is coming" for the president’s son.
He had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge during a court appearance in Wilmington, Delaware.
But Judge Maryellen Noreika did not accept the plea agreement, questioning the constitutionality of the deal, specifically the diversion clause and the immunity Hunter Biden would receive.
Prosecutors also clashed with Hunter Biden’s lawyer about potential future charges as they confirmed he is still under federal investigation.
HUNTER BIDEN PLEADS ‘NOT GUILTY’ AS PLEA DEAL FALLS APART DURING DELAWARE COURT APPEARANCE
Judge Noreika said the diversion agreement, which meant the government wouldn’t charge Hunter Biden with a more serious gun charge if he pleaded to the tax charges, might be unconstitutional. That would mean the entire plea deal would be unconstitutional, meaning Hunter Biden would not be getting the immunity he sought.
"Mr. Biden, I know you want to get this over with, and I’m sorry," Noreika said. "But I need to get more information to do justice as I’m required to do."
HUNTER BIDEN AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY TO FEDERAL TAX CHARGES
Republicans who have sought to tie Hunter Biden’s actions to his father delighted in the move, with Oversight Committee Chair James Comer declaring the judge "did the right thing by refusing to rubber-stamp Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal."
"But let’s be clear: Hunter’s sweetheart plea deal belongs in the trash," Comer, R-Ky., said. "Last week, we heard from two credible IRS whistleblowers about the Department of Justice’s politicization and misconduct in the Biden criminal investigation. Today, the Department of Justice revealed Hunter Biden is under investigation for being a foreign agent."
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also celebrated the move, saying, "You never know what is going to happen in a typical day in D.C.
"If they throw the plea deal out, they’ll have to reposition and decide if they’re going to go to trial or how they’re going to proceed.
"If I were you, go home tonight, get yourself a big old bowl of popcorn and a big old glass of ice tea … and it’s going to be a long night."
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had a message directly for Hunter Biden on "America’s Newsroom."
"If you are watching this right now, you are not above the law and justice is coming for you today," said Mace, who also hinted at future oversight from Republicans in Congress.
"We have a lot of questions at this point, but it looks like he’s being investigated, and we want to know why."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre delivered a statement at the beginning of her daily briefing.
"Hunter Biden is a private citizen, and this was a personal matter for him. As we have said, the president, the first lady, they love their son. And they support him as he continues to rebuild his life," Jean-Pierre said. "This case was handled independently, as all of you know, by the Justice Department under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former president, President Trump.
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"So for anything further, as you know, and we've been very consistent from here, I'd refer you to the Department of Justice and to Hunter's representatives who is his legal team, obviously, who can address any of your questions."
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DeLorean Motors Reimagined Debuts Alpha5 at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeLorean Motors Reimagined's Alpha5 took the stage today during the 71st Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the world's premier celebration of the automobile.
The stylish coupe is an extension of DeLorean, one of the world's most iconic brands, and was inspired by the DNA of its famous predecessors, the DMC-12 and DMC-24.
Crafted in partnership with Italdesign, the all-electric, 2+2 vehicle maintains the signature gullwing doors, classic rear louvers and three-layered taillights. The design process also included the utilization of uncovered archives and representations of automotive design over the last 40 years to develop three generational concept vehicles that precede the Alpha5. The generational vehicles include the Alpha2 roadster representing 1996, Alpha3 luxury sedan representing 2006 and the Alpha4 SUV powered by hydrogen representing 2013.
"Our goal was to bridge the gap between the past and the future, so we produced extensions of the DMC-12 that would have been icons in their time to create the next generation of vehicles, starting with the Alpha5," said Joost de Vries, chief executive officer of DeLorean Motors Reimagined.
In addition to unveiling the Alpha5, DeLorean Motors Reimagined showcased the three concept cars at Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance.
The Alpha5 provides 60 mph in 2.99 seconds and a projected top speed of 155 mph. The all-wheel-drive vehicle offers an exceptional driving experience with multi-mode adaptive suspension, dynamic handling and an estimated 300-mile range with a 100kWH battery.
Sleek lines, large wheels and slim lights carry on the rebellious nature of the iconic brand.
The vehicle's interior design and high-performance technology are human-centered and create an environment that engages the driver and the passion for the drive, including enhancing the driver's connection with loved ones.
"As one of the premier events in the world, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is an important steppingstone in the future of DeLorean Motors Reimagined, and we are grateful to be a part of this year's event to showcase the Alpha5 and its predecessors," added Troy Beetz, chief marketing officer of DeLorean Motors Reimagined.
The Alpha5 is expected to hit the road in 2024. Details on how to purchase will be announced soon. For more information, visit delorean.com/reserve.
In addition to the company's partnership with Italdesign, the support of Cambridge Audio, NFTIQ, Genesis Marketing, Michelin, Mattel, MotorTrend, artist Kelcey Fisher and Uli's Gelato were instrumental in the journey to Pebble Beach.
About DeLorean Motors Reimagined
DeLorean Motors Reimagined is a new energy mobility brand with historical roots in rebellious iconic design. After four generations of evolution, DeLorean embarked on its future and unveiled an electric vehicle in 2022, the Alpha5. Its vehicles and their technology create an environment that engages the driver and the passion for the drive, redefining what luxury means. Learn more about the company, advancements, and vehicles at delorean.com.
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Wyoming Harriers Compete in Big Idaho Meet
The Bob Firman Invitational Cross Country meet is a huge regional event that has athletes from 19 states and 147 schools competing. Natrona County and Star Valley sent a contingent to the meet in Eagle, Idaho and Rawlins sent their star distance runner Ryann Smith. Now Smith competed in the Girl's Elite Division and took 13th out of 143 runners with a time of 18.56.7. She placed 5th at last year's 3A Wyoming State Cross Country Meet. Natrona's Ally Wheeler placed 24th in 19.21 and her teammates Ashley Gross and Nichole Clark placed 31st and 32nd respectively, running in 19.25 and 19.25.5.
In the girl's Division 1, Section 1, Madison Antonino of Jackson finished 2nd in that group with a time of 18.45.2 and took 5th overall in this race. Her teammate Abbie Murphy was 14th in the section in 20.16.7 and finished 35th overall.
In the boys Elite 5K, Natrona's Jackson Dutcher took 22nd place out of 179 runners in 15.15. Colby Jenks of Jackson was 46th in 16.19. He competed for Big Piney last season and was the state 2A champion in the 800 and 1600-meter runs. In the Division 1 race, Star Valley's Jase Burton took 15th in his section and 20th overall with a clocking of 16.35.5.
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- The boutique coffee chain will usher in the fall season with a variety of flavorful drinks highlighted by a fan favorite – the Pumpkin Blondie -
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Rock Coffee Bar, a national boutique coffee chain, will celebrate the fall season with its new lineup of drinks that will be available from September 1 – October 31st in all its more than 100 Black Rock Coffee Bar stores across seven states, including OR, WA, AZ, CA, ID, CO and TX.
Highlighting its fall menu is Black Rock's Pumpkin Blondie (served hot, iced or blended), which combines a pumpkin pie flavor with an iteration of ingredients found in Black Rock Coffee Bar's signature drink, the Caramel Blondie.
Rounding out the fall 2022 drink menu is the Salted Caramel Chai, Candied Cranberry FUEL and the Caramel Apple Smoothie. With this menu, the fast-growing coffee chain aims to provide its customers with a variety of flavorful drinks to choose from.
- Pumpkin Blondie – To get into the spirit of the season, the Pumpkin Blondie is a twist to Black Rock's all-time favorite drink, the Caramel Blondie. The Pumpkin Blondie is made with hints of caramel, white chocolate and pumpkin. For a finishing touch, it is topped with cinnamon + nutmeg. The Pumpkin Blondie can be served hot, iced or blended. The Pumpkin Blondie can also be prepared as a shake without the coffee.
- Salted Caramel Chai – The Salted Caramel Chai combines chai, milk and salted caramel topped with a caramel drizzle. It can be served hot, iced or blended. Its blended version features a refreshing ice cream base mixed with a delicious, salted caramel flavor.
- Candied Cranberry FUEL – The iced Candied Cranberry FUEL features Black Rock's popular energy drink brand, FUEL fused with almond and pomegranate and a splash of cranberry juice on top.
- Caramel Apple Smoothie – Black Rock's Caramel Apple Smoothie features an ice cream and green apple base mixed with caramel, ice, and whipped cream. Topping off the perfect smoothie is a yummy drizzle of caramel on top.
Each drink price will vary depending on modifications to the original receipt including alternative milks, additional flavors or additional shots.
Guided by its three principles - coffee, community and connection, the popular coffee chain was founded in Oregon and is known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful Fuel® energy drinks. Its mission is to be a positive force in the communities it serves. The boutique coffee chain was named the Fastest Growing Private Company in Oregon and SW Washington in 2021 by the Portland Business Journal. Most recently, Inc. Magazine ranked Black Rock Coffee Bar No. 837th on its 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
Black Rock Coffee Bar is a national boutique coffee shop that is known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful blended energy drinks. Founded as a family owned and operated business in Oregon in 2008, Black Rock Coffee Bar has grown to more than 100 retail locations in seven states. The Black Rock culture emphasizes personal and professional growth for each Black Rock employee and ensuring that they provide compassionate customer service towards each person who experiences the store.
For more information, visit https://br.coffee/
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Dibba’s 12 lead Abilene Christian over Arlington Baptist
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ABILENE, Texas — Led by Ali Abdou Dibba’s 12 points, the Abilene Christian Wildcats defeated the Arlington Baptist Patriots 88-42 on Saturday. The Wildcats improved to 5-4 with the win and the Patriots fell to 0-2. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/03/dibbas-12-lead-abilene-christian-over-arlington-baptist/ | 2022-12-04 02:04:29 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/03/dibbas-12-lead-abilene-christian-over-arlington-baptist/ |
‘Laverne & Shirley’ actor Cindy Williams dies at 75
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the popular sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her family said Monday.
Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released through family spokeswoman Liza Cranis.
“The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed,” the statement said. “Knowing and loving her has been our joy and privilege. She was one of a kind, beautiful, generous and possessed a brilliant sense of humor and a glittering spirit that everyone loved.”
Williams also starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 film “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.
But she was by far best known for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Happy Days” spinoff that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 that in its prime was among the most popular shows on TV.
Williams played the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s more libertine Laverne on the show about a pair of roommates that worked at a Milwaukee bottling factory in the 1950s and 60s.
Marshall, whose brother, Garry Marshall, co-created the series, died in 2018.
“Laverne & Shirley” was known almost as much for its opening theme as the show itself. Williams’ and Marshall’s chant of “schlemiel, schlimazel” as they skipped together became a cultural phenomenon and oft-invoked piece of nostalgia.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Desmond Bane scored 25 points, Ja Morant had 24 and the Memphis Grizzlies won their 11th straight game to match the franchise record, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-114 on Wednesday night.
“(Adams) has been doing what he’s been doing all season . . . manning the boards,” Morant said. “He got us the win.”
Darius Garland led Cleveland with 24 points, Caris LeVert had 23, and Evan Mobley added 18 points and 15 rebounds. Cleveland played without scoring leader Donovan Mitchell because of a strained left groin.
Memphis (31-13) tied the franchise record set last season during roughly the same time of year (Dec. 26, 2021, to Jan. 13, 2022). The Grizzlies also scored 115 points or more points for the 11th straight game.
The Grizzlies led by seven at the half, but the Cavaliers remained close throughout the third quarter and grabbed the lead, at 91-89, in the closing seconds on a 3-pointer by Lamar Stevens.
In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies built a quick six-point lead after a 3-pointer from Bane, but the Cavs responded with a 9-0 run. It remained close throughout the game’s final seven minutes.
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: Cleveland is 13-4 this season when Jarrett Allen has a double-double.
Grizzlies: Ja Morant went to the locker room late in the first quarter after taking a blow to the back of the neck on a drive to the rim. He returned to the bench a few minutes later and re-entered the game in the second quarter.
UP NEXT
Cavaliers: Host Golden State on Friday night.
Grizzlies: At Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.
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Universal Studios Hollywood performer rushed to hospital after accident during live show
Published: Jan. 24, 2023 at 12:48 PM CST|Updated: 18 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - A performer at Universal Studios Hollywood was rushed to the hospital after an accident during a live show Monday afternoon.
It was a shocking ending to the famed Waterworld show.
According to guests watching the show, the performer was on one of the towers and jumped into the water on fire, which is a normal part of the act.
But something went wrong.
Several staff members jumped in to pull the performer, who was unconscious, out of the water.
He was taken to the hospital, and his condition is currently unknown.
Officials are still trying to determine what happened. Universal says it is reviewing details surrounding the event.
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CINCINNATI, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) will report second-quarter 2022 operating results before Nasdaq trading begins on Friday, Aug. 5.
The second-quarter earnings conference call with the company's senior management team will take place at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Scripps will offer a live webcast of the conference call. To access the webcast, visit http://ir.scripps.com/. The webcast link can be found on that page under "upcoming events."
To access the conference call by telephone, dial (844) 867-6169 (U.S.) or (409) 207-6975 (international) and give the access code 1864935 approximately five minutes before the start of the call. Investors and analysts will need the name of the call ("Scripps earnings call") to be granted access. The public is granted access to the conference call on a listen-only basis.
A replay line will be open from 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Aug. 5 until midnight Sept. 7. The domestic number to access the replay is (866) 207-1041 and the international number is (402) 970-0847. The access code for both numbers is 4808441.
A replay of the conference call will be archived and available online for an extended period of time following the call. To access the audio replay, visit http://ir.scripps.com/ approximately four hours after the call, and the link can be found on that page under "audio/video links."
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation's largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation's largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, "Give light and the people will find their own way."
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Benny Snell Jr. kept waiting for his first carry of the season.
When he finally got the chance, in Week 12 during prime time, Snell showed everyone what he could do.
He ran for 62 yards, scored the go-ahead touchdown with 9:55 left and then watched as his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates fended off a last-minute comeback bid to beat the Indianapolis Colts 24-17 on Monday night.
“We go to any guy wearing a helmet,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “He was on the punt team coming in and sometimes you bet battlefield promoted.”
The Steelers (4-7) didn’t have much of a choice after Najee Harris limped off the field in the first half. Harris was ruled out with an abdominal injury, and Snell took over.
He carried 12 times, produced his highest rushing total since an 84-yard game on Dec. 21, 2020, and with the Steelers trailing 17-16 and hundreds or thousands of Terrible Towels waving on third-and-goal, Snell found an open lane to the end zone. Kenny Pickett threw to George Pickens for the 2-point conversion to make it 24-17.
Pittsburgh’s eighth straight win in this lopsided series allowed the Steelers to match San Francisco for the most Monday night victories in league history (52). The 49ers had edged in front last week when they beat Arizona in Mexico City.
Matt Ryan drove the Colts (4-7-1) into position to score, but Indy let a minute run off the clock in a span of three plays in Steelers territory, finally using its first timeout on fourth down with 30 seconds remaining. Ryan then threw incomplete to Parris Campbell on fourth-and-3 from the Steelers 26 and Indy fell to 1-2 under interim coach Jeff Saturday.
“I thought we had plenty of time,” said Saturday, who never coached at the pro or college level before owner Jim Irsay hired him to replace Frank Reich. “We had plenty of timeouts, so I wasn’t too concerned. This wasn’t a press for time, we just didn’t make enough plays.”
It was the Colts’ first home Monday night game since September 2015 and the first half was a complete dud.
Pittsburgh drove into Indy territory on all five possessions and produced three field goals and Harris’ 6-yard TD run to take a 16-3 lead. Colts players jogged to the locker room to a chorus of boos.
But when rookie Dallis Flowers returned the opening kickoff of the second half 90 yards, the atmosphere changed.
Four plays later, Jonathan Taylor scored on a 2-yard run to cut the deficit to 16-10. The Colts drove to the Steelers 1-yard line on their next possession, but Ryan and Taylor botched a handoff and Pittsburgh recovered.
Indy then forced a three-and-out and Ryan threw a 6-yard TD pass to Michael Pittman to give the Colts a 17-16 lead late in the third quarter.
It didn’t last long. Snell, who played in college at nearby Kentucky, answered with the short TD run.
“He has an edge, he runs angry,” said Pickett, Pittsburgh’s rookie QB who finished 20 of 28 for 174 yards and no turnovers. “I love the juice he brings. He’s a detailed guy who does his job very well.”
INJURY UPDATE
Tomlin said he was uncertain about Harris’ diagnosis. Harris had 10 carries for 35 yards before departing. Cornerback Levi Wallace also left the game late with an undisclosed injury.
“We respect any decisions made around medical, but I don’t know where the decision came from,” Tomlin said about Wallace’s departure.
Indy lost Pro Bowl cornerback Kenny Moore II with an injured shin. His replacement, Tony Brown, was defending Pickens on the 2-point conversion.
STAT PACK
Steelers: Pickett joined Terry Bradshaw and Bubby Brister as the only rookies to start for the Steelers on a Monday night. … Pickens caught three passes for 57 yards and Diontae Johnson had five receptions for 49 yards. … The Steelers had 18 total yards in the third quarter.
Colts: Ryan threw for 199 yards with a touchdown and an interception after going 5 of 13 with 36 yards and compiling a 14.6 rating in the first half. … Taylor ran 20 times for 86 yards and scored in his third straight game. … Indy had zero total yards in the first quarter.
MENTAL HEALTH PUSH
Irsay used the nationally televised game to highlight his mental health awareness campaign, Kicking the Stigma. Before the game, Irsay announced $1.4 million had been allotted to nearly two dozen nonprofit and charitable organizations, primarily in Indiana.
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Steelers: Visit Atlanta on Sunday.
Colts: At Dallas on Sunday night.
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Kentucky’s COVID-19 positivity rate now 12.42%
9,761 new cases reported in latest weekly update
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – The state’s weekly COVID-19 report shows Kentucky’s positivity rate is now 12.42%.
According to the report, there were 9,761 new cases and 59 new deaths. The total number of people who have now died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic is 16,004.
There are 299 people in the hospital from the virus with 34 in the ICU and 17 on a ventilator.
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Study led by experts at Cincinnati Children's is first to report success at generating all cell types contained in murine bone marrow from embryonic stem cells
CINCINNATI, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In an important proof-of-concept study in the field of xenotransplantation, experts at Cincinnati Children's have demonstrated that embryos from interspecies chimeras can be used as bioreactors to produce bone marrow cells needed for transplant procedures to treat leukemias and other blood disorders.
Details were published Sept. 30, 2022, in the journal eLife.
Chimeras are made when resident cells of the host embryo (in this case, a rat) are combined with donor embryonic stem cells from another animal (in this case, a mouse). As the modified embryo grows, it can produce significant numbers of donor-derived cell types (in this case, all the cell types normally found in mouse bone marrow). Such cells can then be harvested for use in research and eventually cell therapies.
Vlad Kalinichenko, MD, PhD, a developmental biologist with the Center for Lung Regenerative Medicine at Cincinnati Children's, led an eight-member team that worked for five years to reach this milestone.
"This technology is not ready for use in humans," Kalinichenko says. "When this technology ultimately is refined for use in humans, which likely will take several years at least, it will be possible to use this method to generate any type of cells, tissues or organs in a patient-specific manner for regenerative medicine or organ transplantation."
This work is part of a wider race across many fields of medicine to find ways to increase limited supplies of transplantable organs and tissues for people in need. Nationally, more than 100,000 people are waiting for donated hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers and other organs.
Beyond existing supplies of cadaver-donated organs, and some organ gifts from living donors, scientists at Cincinnati Children's and other centers have made many strides at growing miniature organs from scratch (called organoids). But so far, those efforts have not generated tissues in large enough quantity for transplantation.
Bone marrow is the vital substance within our bones that produces blood cells. When this system is damaged, people can develop various forms of leukemia—a common type of cancer—and a variety of other rare conditions. Efforts have been made to grow bone marrow in a dish, but to date, none have successfully generated all the cell types contained in natural bone marrow.
The idea of xenotransplantation—the use of animal tissues for human transplantation—has been studied for decades. Earlier this year, a gene-modified heart from a pig helped a 57-year-old man in Maryland live for two months after his own heart failed.
Kalinichenko and colleagues are exploring a form of embryonic xenotransplantation called blastocyst complementation. Essentially, the team collected a small supply of embryonic stem cells from a mouse, which could be amplified in cell culture and gene-edited if needed to remove harmful mutations, then injected them into rat embryos at the blastocyst stage. These mouse-rat chimeric embryos than acted like living bioreactors that helped the mouse cells to differentiate into hematopoietic bone marrow stem cells more rapidly than they would normally do within the mouse or the rat.
Once the team harvested the mouse bone marrow cells, they analyzed them in several ways using much of the most advanced technology in biological research. The meticulous work revealed that the majority of the collected hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells were in fact of mouse origin, rather than endogenous rat cells. Also, the embryonic bioreactors produced all types of bone marrow cells—a crucial milestone for any future human use of this approach.
However, more work needs to be done to perfect this technology before considering any human use. Much like other chimera projects using mice and rats to generate stem cells for other organ types, the Cincinnati Children's team detected signs of the bone marrow cells migrating to other areas, such as the brain and other organs. For xenotransplantation to be safe, host embryos need to be genetically modified in such ways that the transplanted cells or tissues will stay where they are intended to be.
The researchers say there are several more questions to answer regarding this potential method of cell production. They are working on ways to prevent cell migration to multiple organs, and they are exploring how to work with larger animals, such as pigs or sheep, to determine whether these animals can serve as larger-scale sources of transplantable bone marrow.
Cincinnati Children's co-authors also included: Bingqiang Wen, Guolun Wang, Enhong Li, Olena A. Kolesnichenko, Zhaowei Tu, Senad Divanovic, and Tanya V. Kalin.
Funding sources for this study include grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL141174, HL149631, HL152973, and HL158659).
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Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university.
Huggins’ Cleveland-based attorney, David A. Campbell, wrote to the university Friday that Huggins “never signed a resignation letter and never communicated a resignation to anyone at WVU,” according to the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday.
The letter threatens a lawsuit if Huggins isn’t reinstated. Huggins’ demands were first reported by West Virginia network MetroNews.
Huggins was charged with driving under the influence in Pittsburgh on June 16. A breath test determined Huggins’ blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. His resignation was announced by the university the following night. A week later, assistant coach Josh Eilert was promoted to interim head coach for the 2023-24 season.
Campbell’s letter said the university announced Huggins’ resignation “based on a text message from Coach Huggins’ wife” to Steve Uryasz, West Virginia’s deputy athletic director.
The university responded to Campbell in a letter Saturday that read, in part: “We are frankly confused by the allegations within the letter.”
WVU said Huggins met with his players and members of the basketball staff on June 17 “to announce that he would no longer be coaching the team.” It said Huggins “clearly” communicated his resignation and retirement in writing and that “both parties have reasonably relied on that resignation and retirement notification in a number of ways since then.”
The university provided The AP with a copy of a notice sent by Huggins’ wife, June, that same day. It read: “Please accept this correspondence as my formal notice of resignation as WVU Head Basketball Coach and as notice of my retirement from West Virginia University, effective immediately.”
The notice was sent from an email address associated with June Huggins, with a signature indicating it was sent via iPhone. It was sent to Uryasz’s email address and did not appear to be a text message, as Campbell claimed.
West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker responded an hour later by writing, “We accept your resignation and wish you the best in retirement. We appreciate your many years of dedication to WVU.”
Less than an hour after that, the university released two statements. One announced Huggins’ resignation.
The other was titled “A Message from Bob Huggins to the WVU Community” and began, “Today, I have submitted a letter to President Gordon Gee and Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker informing them of my resignation and intention to retire as head men’s basketball coach at West Virginia University effective immediately.”
The resignation was announced a month after the university gave Huggins a three-game suspension for using an anti-gay slur while also denigrating Catholics during a radio interview.
Several of Huggins’ players have already entered the transfer portal, and some have found new teams.
Campbell said Huggins’ contract required the coach to send a notice in writing by registered or certified mail to the athletic director and university general counsel.
Despite the threat of a lawsuit, Campbell’s letter said Huggins “does not desire litigation. Rather, he is simply looking for the correction of a clear breach of his employment agreement with WVU.”
The 69-year-old Huggins was the third-winningest coach all-time in Division I with 935 victories, trailing only Mike Krzyzewski of Duke (1,202) and Jim Boeheim of Syracuse (1,015), both of whom are retired.
Unlike the others, Huggins did not win a national title. He took Cincinnati to the Final Four in 1992 and West Virginia in 2010. Huggins entered the Basketball Hall of Fame last September. In 41 seasons, his teams went to 25 NCAA Tournaments and finished ranked in the AP top 10 seven times. The Mountaineers made 11 NCAA Tournament appearances under Huggins.
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How to Watch Men's ATP Challenger Salzburg, Austria Men Singles 2023 Today: Live Stream and More - July 14
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 2:45 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
No. 169-ranked Elias Ymer will take on Juan Manuel Cerundolo (No. 111), one of four matches in the ATP Challenger Salzburg, Austria Men Singles 2023 quarterfinals in Salzburg, Austria today. All the tennis action will be streaming live.
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- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Salzburg, Austria Men Singles 2023
- Round: Quarterfinals
- Date: July 14
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- Venue: Salzburg Tennis Club
- Location: Salzburg, Austria
- Court Surface: Clay
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- The 21-year-old Cerundolo is 10-11 this year, and still looking for his first tournament win.
- The 27-year-old Ymer, who is still looking for his first tournament victory of 2023, is 13-13 this year.
- Cerundolo has played 21 matches so far this year (across all court surfaces), and 21.6 games per match.
- In his 19 matches on clay this year, Cerundolo has played an average of 21.6 games.
- So far this year, Cerundolo has won 68.5% of his service games and 23.4% of his return games.
- Ymer is averaging 23.7 games per match in his 26 matches played this year across all court surfaces, with a 49.0% game winning percentage.
- In 14 matches on clay surfaces this year, Ymer averages 22.9 games per match and 9.7 games per set with a 49.8% game winning percentage.
- Ymer has a 71.9% service game winning percentage on all surfaces (110 service games won out of 153) and a 26.7% return game winning percentage (40 return games won out of 150).
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ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Atlanta announced Friday they're offering a $30,000 reward in their hunt for the killer of a sheriff's deputy found shot inside his wrecked car.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in statement the cash would be awarded for information leading to an arrest in the slaying of 24-year-old James Thomas.
Police found Thomas' damaged car in the middle of an Atlanta road after a passerby called 911 at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers found Thomas in the driver's seat, dead from a single gunshot.
Investigators hope the cash reward will help encourage witnesses or others with information to come forward.
Authorities say Thomas was off duty when he was killed. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat called Thomas “an outstanding young man” who had been recruited by the sheriff’s office from the Milledgeville Police Department less than a year ago.
Atlanta police Maj. Pete Malecki said the driver of a van contacted police hours after the shooting to report a collision with Thomas' car.
The driver told police he saw Thomas' car “driving erratically” in the middle of the street before the vehicles struck while trying to pass each other, Malecki said. He said the driver reported hearing a sound like gunfire.
“Right now, we do not know if the shooter was a pedestrian on foot or if he was perhaps in another vehicle," Malecki told reporters Thursday. He said investigators don't believe the van driver was involved in the shooting. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/30K-reward-offered-in-hunt-for-Georgia-deputy-s-17685533.php | 2022-12-30 17:59:14 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/30K-reward-offered-in-hunt-for-Georgia-deputy-s-17685533.php |
Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code.
The death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab, has triggered daring displays of defiance, in the face of beatings and possible arrest.
Many Iranians, particularly the young, have come to see Amini’s death as part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-handed policing of dissent and the morality police’s increasingly violent treatment of young women.
Here’s a look at what sparked the protests and where they might lead.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN IRAN?
In street protests, some women tore off their mandatory headscarves, demonstratively twirling them in the air. Videos online showed two women throwing their hijabs into a bonfire. Another woman is seen cutting off her hair in a show of protest.
At some of the demonstrations, protesters clashed with police and thick clouds of tear gas were seen rising in the capital, Tehran. Protesters were also chased and beaten with clubs by the motorcycle-riding Basij.
The Basij, volunteers in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, have violently suppressed protests in the past, including over water rights and the country’s cratering economy.
Yet some demonstrators still chant “death to the dictator,” targeting both Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran’s theocracy, despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and even the possibility of a death sentence.
WHAT CAUSED THE PROTESTS IN IRAN?
Iran’s morality police arrested Amini on Sept. 13 in Tehran, where she was visiting from her hometown in the country’s western Kurdish region. She collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Police detained her over wearing her hijab too loosely. Iran requires women to wear the headscarf in a way that completely covers their hair when in public. Only Afghanistan under Taliban rule now actively enforces a similar law. Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia has dialed back its enforcement over recent years.
The police deny Amini was mistreated and say she died of a heart attack. President Ebrahim Raisi, who will speak at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, has promised an investigation.
Amini’s family says she had no history of heart trouble and that they were prevented from seeing her body before she was buried. The demonstrations erupted after her funeral in the Kurdish city of Saqez on Saturday, and quickly spread to other parts of the country, including Tehran.
HOW ARE WOMEN TREATED IN IRAN?
Iranian women have full access to education, work outside the home and hold public office. But they are required to dress modestly in public, which includes wearing the hijab as well as long, loose-fitting robes. Unmarried men and women are barred from mingling.
The rules, which date back to the days after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, are enforced by the morality police. The force, officially known as the Guidance Patrol, is stationed across public areas. It is made up of men as well as women.
Enforcement was eased under former President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate who at one point accused the morality police of being overly aggressive. In 2017, the head of the force said it would no longer arrest women for violating the dress code.
But under Raisi, a hard-liner elected last year, agents of the morality police appear to have been unleashed. The U.N. human rights office says young women have been slapped in the face, beaten with batons and shoved into police vehicles in recent months.
HOW HAS IRAN RESPONDED TO THE PROTESTS?
Iranian leaders have vowed to investigate the circumstances of Amini’s death while accusing unnamed foreign countries and exiled opposition groups of seizing on it as a pretext to foment unrest. That’s been a common pattern during protests in recent years.
Iran’s ruling clerics view the United States as a threat to the Islamic Republic and believe the adoption of Western customs undermines society. Khamenei himself has seized on so-called “color” protests in Europe and elsewhere as foreign interventions — and not as people demonstrating for more rights.
Tensions have been especially high since then-President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and imposed crippling sanctions. The Biden administration has been working with European allies for the last two years to revive the accord. The negotiations appear deadlocked, as nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb if it chooses to build one. The Islamic Republic insists its program is peaceful.
The governor of Tehran said Wednesday that authorities arrested three foreign nationals at protests in the capital, without elaborating. Iranian security forces have arrested at least 25 people, and the governor of the Kurdistan province says three people have been killed by armed groups in unrest linked to the protests, without elaborating.
Activists and human rights groups have blamed Iranian security forces for killing protesters in other demonstrations, like those over gasoline prices in 2019.
COULD THE PROTESTS BRING DOWN IRAN’S GOVERNMENT?
Iran’s ruling clerics have weathered several waves of protests going back decades, eventually quashing them with brute force.
The most serious challenge to the clerics’ rule was the Green Movement that emerged after the country’s disputed presidential election in 2009 and called for far-reaching reforms; millions of Iranians took to the streets.
Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown, with the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij militia opening fire on protesters and launching waves of arrests. Opposition leaders were placed under house arrest.
Among those killed was Neda Agha Soltan, a 27-year-old woman who became an icon of the protest movement after she was shot and bled to death in a video seen by millions on social media.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas – Multiple restaurants have set up shop and opened their doors across San Angelo in the month of August 2022.
Cold Smoke
College-focused coffee house Cold Smoke was the first to welcome San Angelo customers this month on August 1st according to a post on the company’s social media page. This coffee shop sells a variety of special drinks, seasonal drinks, flavored tea, perfect food for studying, and of course coffee.
This cozy cafe is a great spot to grab some caffeine, a snack, and study for the semester ahead!
Cold Smoke is open Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jason’s Deli
Jason’s Deli opened on August 4th in a strip mall at 1819 Knickerbocker Rd in the former home of Korona’s Formal Wear. Jason’s Deli serves soups, salads, spuds, muffulettas, pasta, sandwiches, and more.
This family-owned and community-focused restaurant were one of the first to remove artificial trans fats from its foods. Since 2005, Jason’s Deli has worked to eliminate artificial colors and flavors, dyes, processed MSG, and high-fructose corn syrup from their food. According to Jason’s Deli, they serve food to customers at 250 delis across 28 states.
Jason’s Deli is open Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
IDK, WTV Food Truck Park
The IDK, WTV Food Truck Park created by those at Fatty’s Grill held its grand opening on August 13th. IDK, WTV is a great place to catch some of your favorite food trucks throughout the week and play games with the family!
This food truck park sits on 1.7 acres of land at 1602 S. Oake St. with a goal to help unite food truck/trailer owners in the community. With the space at the location, Fatty’s Grill can have at least six food trucks on the property.
Fatty’s Grill is open Tuesday through Friday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Smoothie King
Smoothie King also opened its doors in the same strip mall as Jason’s Deli on August 18th.
This smoothie chain helps each guest meet their health and fitness goals by carefully choosing their ingredients like whole non-GMO fruits and organic veggies. There are also no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives in Smoothie Kings items.
Smoothie King also serves coffee and espresso blends to help get an extra kick when you are feeling low on energy.
Smoothie King is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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WASHINGTON — The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down the constitutional right to abortion has unleashed a wave of threats against officials and others and increased the likelihood of extremist violence, an internal government report says.
Violence could come from either side of the abortion issue or from other types of extremists seeking to exploit tensions, according to a memo directed to local government agencies from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
It's an added element to what is already a volatile environment in the U.S., where authorities have warned repeatedly over the past two years that the threat posed by domestic extremists, such as the gunman who committed the racist attack over the weekend in Buffalo, has surpassed the danger from abroad.
The memo, dated May 13 and obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, seeks to differentiate between illegal activity and the intense but legal outpouring of protests that are all but guaranteed when the Supreme Court issues its ruling at the end of its term this summer, regardless of the outcome.
“DHS is committed to protecting Americans’ freedom of speech and other civil rights and civil liberties, including the right to peacefully protest," the agency said in a written response to questions about the memo.
Those protests could turn violent. The memo warns that people “across a broad range of various ... ideologies are attempting to justify and inspire attacks against abortion-related targets and ideological opponents at lawful protests.”
Violence associated with the abortion debate would not be unprecedented nor would it necessarily be confined to one side or the other, the memo says.
Opponents of abortion have carried out at least 10 killings as well as dozens of arson and bomb attacks against medical facilities in their long campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade.
DHS said there is also a potential for violence from the other side, citing recent damage to buildings used by abortion opponents in Wisconsin and Oregon.
"Historically, violent acts related to this issue were primarily committed by abortion-related violent extremists that opposed abortion rights," it said. “Going forward, grievances related to restricting abortion access could fuel violence by pro-choice abortion-related violent extremists and other" (domestic violent extremists).
In the Wisconsin incident, it noted, the building was set on fire and the perpetrators left graffiti that said “If abortions aren’t safe (then) you aren’t either.”
The leak of the opinion this month, authorities prompted a “significant increase” in threats through social media of Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and other public officials as well as clergy and health care providers, the memo said.
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TRAFFIC ALERT: Crews to work on I-555, traffic pattern changes
Published: Jun. 6, 2022 at 9:05 PM CDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Those who frequent I-555 in Jonesboro need to be prepared, as there will be some changes.
Starting Wednesday, June 8, ArDOT crews will shift southbound traffic onto the northbound section of the road. There will be one lane in each direction separated by a concrete barrier wall.
The work will extend from Southwest Drive to Dan Avenue.
According to ArDOT, drivers will enter and exit the northbound lane using the newly constructed median ramps.
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Significant Milestone Brings Sustainable Transportation of Lifesaving Organs One Step Closer
EVERETT, Wash., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- magniX, the company powering the electric aviation revolution, today announced that Tier 1 Engineering, specialists in the design and development of electric aircraft, achieved a successful first flight of an all-electric Robinson 44 helicopter with a magniX electric propulsion unit (EPU). The helicopter flew on Saturday, June 4 at 8:00 am Pacific Time for over three minutes at Los Alamitos Army Airfield, California.
Tier 1 is developing the all-electric Robinson R44 for Lung Biotechnology PBC, a biotech company on a mission to address the severe shortage of transplantable organs in the U.S. Tier 1 Engineering integrated its battery system and the magniX EPU on the helicopter, and has started its flight testing program.
"magniX has been powering all-electric aircraft since December of 2019, and this flight represents another first for the company as we have now electrified a rotary aircraft," said Nuno Taborda, magniX's CEO. "This landmark event demonstrates yet again magniX's commitment to lead the electrification of aviation by designing and delivering industry-leading products through smart innovation and customer centricity. This is a significant achievement that will lead to the sustainable delivery of life saving organs."
Tier 1 Engineering is currently working with the FAA Aircraft Certification Office in Los Angeles on the e-R44 project to obtain a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC). Lung Biotechnology PBC plans to acquire a fleet of aircraft to fly transplant organs.
"This historic flight, of an all-electric helicopter with a certifiable electric engine, was an important step towards obtaining aircraft certification. We are excited to expand the flight tests to greater distances and demonstrate safe, reliable all-electric flight," said Glen Dromgoole, President of Tier 1 Engineering.
Headquartered in Everett WA, magniX is dedicated to enabling an era of clean and affordable commercial air travel with all-electric propulsion. magniX offers a range of revolutionary solutions including all-electric motors – which produce zero emissions and increased efficiency for various aviation applications. For more information, please visit www.magnix.aero.
Tier 1 Engineering, is an innovative design and development company, serving the aviation industry, based in Southern California. In 2015, Tier 1 Engineering developed one of the world's largest battery-powered helicopters, a modified Robinson R44 helicopter. The 2500lb aircraft achieved its first flight in 2016 and currently holds four Guinness World Record titles including, firsts in electric flight, farthest distance and longest duration.
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Biden attends memorial Mass to mark 8 years since son Beau’s death from brain cancer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau, by attending a memorial Mass and visiting his gravesite.
Biden, his wife, Jill, and other family members prayed for Beau Biden during the Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, the Roman Catholic church where the president worships during weekends at his home near Wilmington, Delaware.
Afterward, the family visited Beau Biden’s gravesite in the church cemetery. The first lady carried a bouquet of flowers. The president later traveled to Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle for his annual tradition of paying his respects and laying flowers.
Beau Biden was 46 when he died of brain cancer in 2015. His father was vice president.
The eldest of Biden’s three children, Beau Biden served two terms as Delaware attorney general before declaring a run for governor. Many saw in him the same aspirations that brought his father to the White House. In fact, Joe Biden often says his son is the one who should have been president — not him.
Beau Biden also served in Delaware’s Army National Guard, including a deployment to Iraq, where the president says he was exposed to toxic gases from pits where the military burned waste. Biden has linked his son’s cancer to his exposure to burn pits.
Beau Biden is the son of Joe Biden and his late first wife, Neilia, who was killed in a 1972 car crash that gravely injured Beau and younger brother Hunter and killed their baby sister.
Beau Biden’s daughter, Natalie, graduated from high school on Sunday, with her grandparents in the audience. She will attend her father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, in the fall.
While Tuesday’s remembrance of Beau Biden was private, the president publicly mourned his son on Monday during a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington.
For Biden, his son’s death and the annual holiday honoring Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving the United States in uniform are inextricably linked.
He told the audience that Tuesday “marks eight years since we lost our son Beau.”
“As it is for so many of you, the pain of his loss is with us every day, but particularly sharp on Memorial Day. It’s still clear,” Biden said Monday. “Tomorrow is his anniversary. But so is the pride Jill and I feel in his service, as if I can still hear him saying, ‘Dad -- it’s my duty, Dad. It’s my duty.’ Duty.”
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This story has been corrected to show Arlington National Cemetery is in Arlington, Virginia, not in Washington.
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Updated September 20, 2022 at 9:21 AM ET
Exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing at least 3,000 residents and causing the collapse of the island's electricity system, the U.S. territory is again facing the aftermath of a massive storm for which it is not fully prepared.
In the wake of Fiona, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans were again without electricity. The island's governor, Pedro Pierluisi, has described the outages, massive flooding and landslides there as "catastrophic."
The response to Fiona could be telling. The Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria was widely seen as wholly inadequate, and the infrastructure on the island is still far from resilient enough to absorb any new shocks. But federal officials have learned lessons from the Maria response and are already showing signs of putting them into effect. While some see progress in the response to Fiona, others say there is still a long way to go.
Ahead of Fiona, FEMA had more supplies in place
Anne Bink, the associate administrator of the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, says the agency is much better situated to respond to Fiona than it was for Maria.
Five years ago, there was only a single FEMA warehouse with supplies on the entire island. Now there are four, she says.
"We have 10 times the food, 10 times the water that we had when Maria struck and made landfall in Puerto Rico," Bink says. "And we also have triple the generation support, the temporary power support."
Last week, she says, the agency pre-deployed "hundreds" of federal response personnel to the island in anticipation of Fiona's landfall. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell also traveled to the island to meet with officials, she says.
But funding for Puerto Rico has come slowly. In 2020, three years after Maria, the Trump administration announced $9.6 billion to rebuild the island's electrical grid destroyed by Maria.
"That work is ongoing and is speeding up," Bink says, adding that FEMA has been "laser focused" on resiliency — hardening the systems against natural disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
The island's infrastructure still poses huge challenges
But simply putting vulnerable systems back to the way they were before they collapsed is not enough, says Craig Fugate, who served as FEMA administrator under President Barack Obama.
"You had emergency repairs after Maria just to get it back on," he says. "Then you had the permanent work. And there had been a lot done to harden transmission lines, but it wasn't complete."
Even so, with Fiona, "you've already seen bridges are being washed away that had been rebuilt after Maria," he says. "If we built infrastructure back after Maria that got wiped out in this storm, we didn't build it back the right way."
Carmen Yulín Cruz experienced that frustration firsthand as mayor of Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, when Maria, a Category 4 storm, hit the island on Sept. 20, 2017.
She says there was a lot of talk, but not much action.
"For the reconstruction, [it] was lip service," Cruz says. "Almost every week, [we'd hear] X number of millions of dollars for this, X number of millions of dollars for that. But the execution ... was nonexistent."
Cruz thinks renewable sources of energy — particularly solar — that feed into isolated microgrids are the way for Puerto Rico to protect itself from future natural disasters. If one part of the grid goes down, it doesn't take everything else with it. It's admittedly a long way off, but the island has undertaken a plan to switch to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
In the shorter term, redundancy at key facilities is one way to be ready for tropical storms and earthquakes, says Brad Gair, an emergency response expert with Witt O'Brien's, a consultancy specializing in risk assessment and management.
"Over the weekend when the power went out at critical facilities, particularly hospitals, [they went] on backup generators that I'm sure they either had themselves or FEMA purchased for them" since Maria, he says. "Ultimately, getting redundancies in place, resilient [electricity] generation ... would be the solution."
During Maria, confusion was everywhere
But getting humanitarian resources to the people on the ground who can help is also vitally important, especially in the near term, says Anaís Delilah Roque Antonetty, who was a shelter manager in Puerto Rico after Maria.
She says there was a lot of confusion at all levels of government.
"Many shelters were not really prepared to receive the amount of people that they were expecting," says Roque, who is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ohio State University.
"So, logistically speaking, it was something from top to bottom," she says, adding that all levels of government "played a big role in [the] mismanagement."
Speaking with NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday, Yarimar Bonilla, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, blamed the FEMA bureaucracy for the slow recovery from Maria.
FEMA funds, she says, were "overly policed."
"They're always slow, but they were [even more so] when it came to Puerto Rico," she says. "They were held back, they were extremely vetted."
"And so we know that there were still people under blue tarps or people who were never able to really fully repair their homes," Bonilla says.
The tone set by leaders can be crucial
FEMA's response to Hurricane Maria was widely criticized, particularly given the tone set by then-President Donald Trump, who tangled with the territory's officials, denied that thousands died from the storm and insisted the federal response was "incredibly successful." He only released funds to rebuild the island just weeks before the 2020 election.
As much as the lack of coordination, the seriousness with which government officials are seen to take the situation matters, says Reggie Ferreira, program director of the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy at Tulane University's School of Social Work.
It's especially important that "political figures come out and stress their support and actually deliver with their support," he says.
"Look at Hurricane Sandy," Ferreira says. "If you see how [then-New Jersey Gov. Chris] Christie was in the foreground, President [Barack] Obama was in the foreground. Tone is important."
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BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jasper Health has announced that its digital solution for oncology care management will be offered as a pilot program through the Evernorth Digital Health Formulary. Through this pilot program, Jasper Health will provide people living with cancer and their care teams access to digital, personalized oncology care management support, including psychosocial coaching, medication management, and symptom tracking.
"We are excited to collaborate with Evernorth, a company that prioritizes whole-patient care. With technology-powered, data-driven, and personalized support, this new collaboration drives oncology care into a future state to improve experiences, outcomes, and costs." said Adam Pellegrini, CEO, and Co-Founder of Jasper Health. "This program can demonstrate the power of hybrid care and coaching to transform oncology with improved outcomes and costs."
Jasper Health's platform has over 16,000 members who have proven that personalized information and psychosocial support through clinically-led, empathetic coaching produces results. Sixty-eight percent of members reported a reduction in stress and anxiety, 78% reported better medication adherence, and 93% found it easier to track and remember appointments.
With safe and rapid bi-directional data capabilities through FHIR data standards (with support for other data standards), Jasper Health provides seamless integration and data-sharing to support patients, care teams, and clinicians. The platform also integrates biometric data from wearables such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, and the FDA-approved and award-winning BioIntelliSense patch to track vital measurements. This data, together with Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), reveals a never-before-seen view of the oncology patient outside of the office or hospital setting.
This whole-patient view coupled with clinical best practices empowers both a patient's own care teams and the Jasper Cancer Care Coaching team to better support members in care navigation, financial and community support, mental health, nutrition, and activity across the entire cancer journey. Member satisfaction with Jasper Coaching is 100%, confirming that people affected by cancer need, and deserve support.
The oncology space is changing. While innovators like CMS are beginning to structure care and reimbursement around patient-centric models, Jasper Health and our partners are at the vanguard of this movement - passionately nurturing a data-driven, patient-centric approach as we help those through their oncology care management journey and beyond.
Jasper Health is a digital guiding and navigation experience that improves the lives of individuals affected by cancer and their caregivers. This support spans from diagnosis through remission, to palliative and end-of-life care. Its end-to-end oncology platform provides psychosocial support while enabling connected care with the broader healthcare system. Our team includes seasoned leaders with decades of experience in digital health, clinical care, data science, and consumer engagement. Founded at Redesign Health, a company that powers innovation in healthcare, we believe that powerful technology and passionate people can relieve some of the stress of organizing care. For more information, visit http://www.hellojasper.com.
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morgan.spies@hellojasper.com
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Police: 8 people, including girl, wounded in 2 DC shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
There were no fatalities in the two shootings, which police said could be related because they occurred in the same area of the city in a short time frame.
About 10 p.m. police responded to reports of shots fired on Lebaum Street and found seven men who suffered gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening, Assistant Chief of Patrol Services South Andre Wright said in a news conference at the scene.
Most of the victims took themselves to hospitals, Wright said.
“There was some chaos, obviously, because of the number of victims and the loved ones,” he said.
While officers were on Lebaum Street, police received a report of a shooting on 2nd Street, where they found a 12-year-old girl who had suffered “a gunshot wound to her lower extremities,” Wright said, adding that the injury was not life-threatening.
Police were looking for a car described by witnesses on Lebaum Street as a black sedan, possibly a Mercedes, from which shooters “drove through the block and indiscriminately fired upon” people.
The two shootings were believed to be connected due to the proximity of the scenes and the close times of the shootings, Wright said, although a possible motive was not immediately known.
“It’s a beautiful night. There were folks who were hanging out here and there were folks who were moving about on the 2nd Street scene,” Wright said. “And for some reason you have some people who think that it was okay to fire a firearm at multiple individuals at two different scenes. And we’re not going to let that stand.”
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Washington state man pleads guilty in Jan. 6 insurrection
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection has pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
Jeffrey Grace, 64, entered the plea on Monday and had three other charges dropped as part of a plea agreement, KGW-TV reported.
Grace could face up to six months in prison for the misdemeanor crime when he is scheduled for sentencing in August.
Grace’s son, Jeremy Grace, pleaded guilty to the same charge and had three others dropped last year and was sentenced to 21 days in prison and supervised release.
Court records say both went to Washington, D.C., in January 2021 to attend a rally in support of then-President Donald Trump. They traveled and stayed at a hotel with a member of the Proud Boys identified as “Travis” in court documents.
The three men attended a gathering of the Proud Boys on Jan. 5, prosecutors said in court documents.
On Jan. 6, the father and son joined with a large group of far-right extremist group Proud Boys at the Washington Monument before walking toward the U.S. Capitol Building, according to federal investigators.
Federal prosecutors shared photos and video with the court showing both Jeff and Jeremy Grace near the front line of protesters who pushed past law enforcement protecting the Capitol. Both also appeared in selfie photos inside and outside the Capitol Building during the insurrection, according to prosecutors.
About 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes in the riot that temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and left dozens of police officers injured.
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Extreme weather takes a toll on Christmas tree supply, shop now
The U.S. endured record weather over the past year with drought, floods, heatwaves and blizzards. Christmas tree farms took a hit. Will you notice it at the tree lot this year?
‘Tis the season to deck the halls. Millions of Americans flocked to Christmas tree farms and retailer lots to pick out their holiday centerpiece over the weekend. There were plenty of trees, but what about the cost and tree choices?
Prices are rising country-wide as the weather has recently taken a toll on Christmas trees.
This summer was the third-warmest on record for the U.S., and major producer states Oregon and Washington suffered from floods and heat.
SUMMER 2022 FINISHES AS THIRD-WARMEST SEASON EVER WITH RECORDS SET ACROSS COUNTRY
"The trees we planted in the summer took a pretty hard hit because their roots hadn’t grown enough to deal with that hot heat we had," Christmas tree farmer and retailer Glenn Bustard told FOX Weather. "I think it was more of the heat than lack of water. But the big trees, they were fine."
After 59% of the northeast reported "abnormally dry" conditions and another 24% in drought in August, the Lansdale, Pennsylvania farm lost 10% of the newly planted trees. Hurricane Ian soaked the area in October, but the rain only relieved the bigger trees.
CHRISTMAS TREES IN HIGH DEMAND AS MEGADROUGHT LEADS TO LIMITED SUPPLY
But farmers say it's not just one year of extreme weather that impacts tree production. A 3 to 15-foot Christmas tree takes 8 to 12 years to grow.
Bustard plants his trees when they are 3 years old, which means each is susceptible to weather extremes for 5 to 9 years.
"For Christmas tree growers, for the life of that tree, we have to worry about every year of weather," Lucas Dull, co-owner of Dulls Tree Farm in Indiana, told FOX Weather. "And one year of drought or heavy rains and flooding can affect several years worth of Christmas trees."
So farms are still recovering from the record wet autumn in Seattle in 2021, which followed a deadly heat wave. Hanford, Washington hit 120 degrees setting an all-time state record.
120 DEGREES FROM HISTORIC JUNE HEAT WAVE CONFIRMED AS WASHINGTON STATEWIDE HEAT RECORD
The top Christmas tree-producing states, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, all experienced prolonged weather extremes in just the last 12 months:
- Oregon
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin
- Washington
"The last couple years, the supply has been tight depending on what area of the country you are in," said Dull. "However, there has always ended up being enough trees for people, but sometimes people may have to choose a different size or species than they are used to."
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Prices are up across the country, according to the Real Christmas Tree Board. And after surveying Christmas tree sellers from coast to coast, the board feels that some aren’t even covering their costs. Inflation, especially on transportation, has skyrocketed.
"They told us they would be increasing their wholesale prices between 5 and 15%," Marsha Gray, executive director of the Real Christmas Tree Board. "But that may be more moderate than actually their input costs."
A shopper at Bustard’s Christmas Trees said he spent less than he expected to pay for a tree in Pennsylvania. But his son in California shelled out quite a bit more.
Currently, 99% of the Golden State is under moderate drought, 85% under severe drought and over 40% under extreme drought, according to NOAA. The West spent the last 22 years in the worst drought in 1,200 years, a megadrought.
"It’s outrageous. For some of the trees, it’s about $300, and the 3-foot, 4-foot about $100," Leon Padilla said about his son’s tree shopping. "He was thinking about coming out here with a truck picking up some of these trees, and doing transport."
Nature is hard on trees even before we factor in weather extremes.
Only about half of all seedlings in plantations make it to a Christmas tree stand. For every tree harvested, farmers must plant 1 to 3 seedlings, says the National Christmas Tree Association.
TIPS TO SAFELY GET YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE HOME
The business of Christmas
In 2021, the country spent a collective $984 million on about 21.6 million holiday trees, according to the American Christmas Tree Association. The almost 15,000 Christmas tree farms employ about 100,000 people full-time. Almost 350 million trees currently cover about 350,000 acres.
If you don’t have a tree yet, don’t delay. One tree retailer sold 60% of their trees the weekend after Thanksgiving. Pickings will be slim the closer we get to Christmas. | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/extreme-weather-impact-christmas-tree-choice | 2022-11-29 04:19:27 | 1 | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/extreme-weather-impact-christmas-tree-choice |
HONOLULU, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA), parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. ("Hawaiian"), plans to report its fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. An investor conference call is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EST (11:30 a.m. HST) that day.
The call will be open to all interested investors through a live audio webcast accessible in the Investor Relations section of Hawaiian's website at HawaiianAirlines.com. For those who are not able to listen to the live webcast, the call will be archived for 90 days on Hawaiian's website.
About Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian® has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past 18 years (2004-2021) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation and consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler and TripAdvisor have placed Hawaiian among the top of all domestic airlines serving Hawaiʻi. In 2022, the carrier topped Travel + Leisure's 2022 World's Best list as the No. 1 U.S. airline and was named Hawaiʻi's best employer by Forbes.
Now in its 94th year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawaiʻi's biggest and longest-serving airline. Hawaiian offers approximately 130 daily flights within the Hawaiian Islands, daily nonstop flights between Hawaiʻi and 15 U.S. gateway cities – more than any other airline – as well as service connecting Honolulu and American Samoa, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Tahiti.
The airline is committed to connecting people with aloha by offering complimentary meals for all guests on transpacific routes and the convenience of no change fees on Main Cabin and Premium Cabin seats. HawaiianMiles members also enjoy flexibility with miles that never expire. As Hawai'i's hometown airline, Hawaiian encourages guests to Travel Pono and experience the islands safely and respectfully.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com. Follow Hawaiian's Twitter updates (@HawaiianAir), become a fan on Facebook (Hawaiian Airlines), and follow us on Instagram (hawaiianairlines). For career postings and updates, follow Hawaiian's LinkedIn page.
For media inquiries, please visit Hawaiian Airlines' online newsroom.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-2-3-9
(seven, two, three, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-2-3-9
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Christopher Eubanks 2023 Truist Atlanta Open Odds
Christopher Eubanks will open action in the Truist Atlanta Open versus Andres Martin (in the round of 32). In his most recent match he was defeated by Daniil Medvedev in the quarterfinals after a strong performance at the Wimbledon. Eubanks' odds are the third-best among the field at +500 to win this tournament at Atlantic Station.
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Eubanks at the 2023 Truist Atlanta Open
- Next Round: Round of 32
- Tournament Dates: July 21-30
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Eubanks' Next Match
In his opening match at the Truist Atlanta Open, Eubanks will face Martin on Tuesday, July 25 at 11:00 AM ET in the round of 32.
Eubanks has current moneyline odds of -1400 to win his next matchup versus Martin. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Christopher Eubanks Grand Slam Odds
- US Open odds to win: +3300
- Truist Atlanta Open odds to win: +500
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Eubanks Stats
- Eubanks was defeated in his most recent match, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 versus Medvedev in the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon on July 12, 2023.
- Eubanks is 33-15 over the past year, with one tournament win.
- Eubanks is 19-10 on hard courts over the past year.
- Through 48 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Eubanks has played 29.1 games per match. He won 51.6% of them.
- On hard courts, Eubanks has played 29 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 27.5 games per match while winning 51.2% of games.
- Eubanks, over the past year, has won 84.3% of his service games and 16.6% of his return games.
- Eubanks has won 16.6% of his return games on hard courts over the past year. Meanwhile, he has claimed 82.8% of his service games during that timeframe.
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Joel Embiid NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: 76ers vs. Celtics - May 14
Joel Embiid and his Philadelphia 76ers teammates face the Boston Celtics in the 2023 NBA Playoffs, at 3:30 PM ET on Sunday.
If you'd like to make predictions on Embiid's performance, we dive into his available prop bets, using stats and trends, below.
Joel Embiid Prop Bets vs. the Celtics
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Joel Embiid Insights vs. the Celtics
- Embiid has taken 20.1 shots per game this season and made 11.0 per game, which account for 19.3% and 21.8%, respectively, of his team's total.
- This season, he's accounted for 6.4% of his team's three-pointers made, averaging 1.0 per game.
- Embiid's 76ers average 99.8 possessions per game, which ranks 26th among NBA teams, while the Celtics have a middling offense in terms of tempo, ranking 16th with 101.9 possessions per contest.
- On defense, the Celtics have allowed 111.4 points per game, which is fourth-best in the league.
- The Celtics are the 18th-ranked squad in the league, allowing 44.0 rebounds per game.
- The Celtics give up 23.1 assists per game, second-ranked in the league.
- The Celtics allow 11.6 made 3-pointers per game, fifth-ranked in the league.
Joel Embiid vs. the Celtics
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LONDON, UK — Editor's note: The above video is from a similar climate-related protest in May 2022 when activists smeared ice cream over Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting.
The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of tomato soup over the oil painting, one of the Dutch artist’s most iconic works. The two protesters also glued themselves to the gallery wall.
The soup splashed across the glass covering the painting and its gilded frame. The gallery said “there is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.” It was cleaned and returned to its place in the gallery on Friday afternoon.
The work is one of several versions of “Sunflowers” that Van Gogh painted in the late 1880s.
London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
“Specialist officers have now un-glued them and they have been taken into custody to a central London police station,” the force said in a statement.
A group of protesters from the same group later gathered at police headquarters and sprayed yellow paint over the rotating “New Scotland Yard” sign in front of it. Several also glued themselves to the road, blocking traffic. Police said 24 people were arrested.
Just Stop Oil has drawn attention, and criticism, for targeting artworks in museums. In July, Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” in the National Gallery.
Activists have also blocked bridges and intersections across London during two weeks of protests.
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Fox News and 2020 election lies set to face jury come Monday
NEW YORK (AP) — Starting Monday in a courtroom in Delaware, Fox News executives and stars will have to answer for their role in spreading doubt about the 2020 presidential election and creating the gaping wound that remains in America’s democracy.
Jurors hearing the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems must answer a specific question: Did Fox defame the voting machine company by airing bogus stories alleging that the election was rigged against then-President Donald Trump, even as many at the network privately doubted the false claims being pushed by Trump and his allies?
Yet the broader context looms large. The trial will test press freedom and the reputation of conservatives’ favorite news source. It will also illuminate the flow of misinformation that helped spark the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and continues to fuel Trump’s hopes to regain power in 2024.
Fox News stars Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and founder Rupert Murdoch are among the people expected to testify over the next few weeks.
Barring a last-minute settlement, opening statements are scheduled for Monday.
“This is Christmas Eve for defamation scholars,” said RonNell Andersen Jones, a University of Utah law professor.
If the trial were a sporting event, Fox News would be taking the field on a losing streak, with key players injured and having just alienated the referee. Pretrial court rulings and embarrassing revelations about its biggest names have Fox on its heels.
Court papers released over the past two months show Fox executives, producers and personalities privately disbelieved Trump’s claims of a fraudulent election. But Dominion says Fox News was afraid of alienating its audience with the truth, particularly after many viewers were angered by the network’s decision to declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner in Arizona on election night in November 2020.
Some rulings by the presiding judge, Eric Davis, have eased Dominion’s path. In a summary judgment, Davis said it was “CRYSTAL clear” that fraud allegations against the company were false. That means trial time won’t have to be spent disproving them at a time when millions of Republicans continue to doubt the 2020 results.
Davis said it also is clear that Dominion’s reputation was damaged, but it will be up a jury to decide whether Fox acted with “actual malice” — the legal standard — and, if so, what that’s worth financially.
Fox witnesses will likely testify that they thought the allegations against Dominion were newsworthy, but Davis made it clear that’s not a defense against defamation — and he will make sure the jury knows that.
New York law protects news outlets from defamation for expressions of opinion. But Davis methodically went through 20 different times on Fox when allegations against Dominion were discussed, ruling that all of them were fully or partly considered statements of fact, and fair game for a potential libel finding.
“A lawsuit is a little bit like hitting a home run,” said Cary Coglianese, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “You have to go through all of the bases to get there.” The judge’s rulings “basically give Dominion a spot at third base, and all they have to do is come home to win it.”
Both Fox and Dominion are incorporated in Delaware, though Fox News is headquartered in New York and Dominion is based in Denver.
Fox angered Davis this past week when the judge said the network’s lawyers delayed producing evidence and were not forthcoming in revealing Murdoch’s role at Fox News.
It’s not clear whether that will affect the trial. But it’s generally not wise to have a judge wonder at the outset of a trial whether your side is telling the truth, particularly when truth is the central point of the case, Jones said.
The suit essentially comes down to whether Dominion can prove Fox acted with actual malice by putting something on the air knowing that it knew was false or acting with a “reckless disregard” for whether it was true.
Dominion can point to many examples where Fox figures didn’t believe the charges being made by Trump allies such as Sidney Powell and Rudolph Giuliani. But Fox says many of those disbelievers were not in a position to decide when to air those allegations.
“We think it’s essential for them to connect those dots,” Fox lawyer Erin Murphy said.
The jury will determine whether a powerful figure like Murdoch — who testified in a deposition that he didn’t believe the election-fraud charges — had the influence to keep the accusations off the air.
“Credibility is always important in any trial in any case. But it’s going to be really important in this case,” said Jane Kirtley, director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and the Law at the University of Minnesota.
Kirtley is concerned that the suit may eventually advance to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could use it as a pretext to weaken the actual malice standard that was set in a 1964 decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. That, she feels, would be disastrous for journalists.
Dominion’s lawsuit is being closely watched by another voting-technology company with a separate but similar case against Fox News. Florida-based Smartmatic has looked to some rulings and evidence in the Dominion case to try to enhance its own $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit in New York. The Smartmatic case isn’t yet ready for trial but has survived Fox News’ effort to get it tossed out.
Many experts are surprised Fox and Dominion have not reached an out-of-court settlement, though they can at any time. There’s presumably a wide financial gulf. In court papers, Fox contends the $1.6 billion damages claim is a wild overestimate.
Dominion’s motivation may also be to inflict maximum embarrassment on Fox with the peek into the network’s internal communications following the election. Text messages from January 2021 revealed Carlson telling a friend that he passionately hated Trump and couldn’t wait to move on.
Dominion may also seek an apology.
How Fox viewers are reacting is an open question. Fox has placed a near-total ban on discussing the lawsuit on its TV network or website.
“The real potential danger is if Fox viewers get the sense that they’ve been lied to. There’s a real downside there,” said Charlie Sykes, founder of the Bulwark website and an MSNBC contributor.
There’s little indication that the case has changed Fox’s editorial direction or cut into its viewership. Fox has embraced Trump once again in recent weeks following the former president’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, and Carlson presented an alternate history of Capitol riot, based on tapes given to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Just because Fox hasn’t discussed the Dominion lawsuit on the air doesn’t mean its fans are unaware of it, said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative watchdog Media Research Center.
“There’s a certain amount of tribal reaction to this,” Graham said. “When all of the other networks are thrilling to revealing text messages and emails, they see this as the latest attempt by the liberal media to undermine Fox News. There’s going to be a rally-around-Rupert effect.”
The trial is expected to last into late May.
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report.
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Dykes opens things up at TCU since replacing Patterson
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - TCU senior linebacker Dee Winters and his teammates certainly weren’t used to the sometimes carnival-like atmosphere during spring practice with fans around the field watching their every move.
"It was pretty abnormal," Winters said. "Three years without it, so it was kind of different."
New Horned Frogs coach Sonny Dykes got an inside look at the program while working in an off-field role for Gary Patterson in 2017. All of Patterson’s practices were pretty much limited to essential personnel only.
Dykes has opened things up.
"I got over here in ’17 and I was just like, `Wow, this is a great place, Fort Worth’s a great town. All the stuff is here that you need to be able to build a great football program.’ And obviously coach Patterson had done that," Dykes said. "It was a little bit of eye-opener for me, just having been over here and then, kind of the circumstances worked the way that they did, and here I now. It’s been a interesting journey."
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Dykes went 30-18 the past four seasons at SMU, the most successful stretch for the Mustangs in three decades since being the only program shut down by the NCAA’s so-called death penalty.
Patterson’s school-record 181 wins over 21 seasons include the Rose Bowl in an undefeated 2010 season. But the Frogs are 23-24 since making the Big 12 championship game in 2017. They split their final four games after Patterson and the school mutually agreed Oct. 31 to immediately part ways, and finished 5-7.
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"TCU is about winning championships," Dykes said. "I want to coach in this kind of environment where there has been that level of success and there’s that level of expectations as well."
QB COMPETITION
Max Duggan and Chandler Morris went into fall camp competing to be the starting quarterback. Duggan started 29 games the past three seasons, and Morris started twice last year while Duggan was dealing with a fractured bone in his foot.
"You’re not going to have a season without some adversity," said Duggan, adding his frustration was more about another losing season for TCU than his injury.
Morris threw for 461 yards and two touchdowns in his first start against Baylor. His 531 total yards were the second-most in school history, but he got hurt in the next game.
1 vs. 1
Two of fastest and most skilled players on TCU’s team wear the same number, and go against each other in practice.
No. 1 on offense is junior receiver Quentin Johnston. Senior cornerback Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson is No. 1 on the defensive side.
"Kind of leaving the friendship at the door, and between them two lines kind of just battle out to the end," said Johnston, who averaged 19.9 yards per catch last season and scored six TDs. "At the end of day, it helps both of us, it makes both of us better."
Tomlinson is the nephew of NFL Hall of Fame running back and former TCU standout LaDainian Tomlinson, but the All-Big 12 defensive back is making a name for himself.
"I’ve always known what I was going to do, growing up with the confidence that I have and the chip that I carry," Tre’ Tomlinson said. "My uncle, he is outstanding. ... Personally, I have to live up to myself first. That’s how I go about it. I think of myself as that great someone too."
TCU’s defensive front may look different, but new coordinator Joe Gillespie’s schemes generally use five secondary players like Patterson did.
The Frogs have added two transfer defensive backs who could make an immediate impact, Mark Perry had 72 tackles and three interceptions last season at Colorado, while Josh Newton had 48 tackles and eight pass breakups for Louisiana-Monroe.
Perry’s first game for the Frogs will be on the road against his old team. TCU has a Friday night opener at Colorado on Sept. 2.
THE SCHEDULE
TCU closes its non-conference schedule Sept. 24 with Dykes returning to SMU. The 100th Iron Skillet rivalry game last year in Fort Worth had a chaotic postgame scene when some Mustangs players tried to plant their school flag on TCU’s midfield logo. The Big 12 opener is Oct. 1 against ninth-ranked Oklahoma before five conference games on the road, including at No. 10 Baylor and No. 12 Oklahoma State. | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/tcu-horned-frogs-season-preview | 2022-08-19 21:54:50 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/tcu-horned-frogs-season-preview |
Knox County man facing host of charges following police chase
KNOX COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - One Southeastern Kentucky man is behind bars on a host of charges following two incidents late last week.
On Friday, Knox County Sheriff Mike Smith received information that a wanted fugitive from another case was driving on U.S. 25E near Barbourville.
When Smith saw the car and tried to stop it, the driver took off. Other deputies and a Kentucky State Police trooper joined the chase which ended in the Boone Height community when the suspect, later identified as Sandy Rice, 41, of Barbourville, jumped out of the car and tried to take off on foot. He was arrested a short time later.
The sheriff’s office had already been looking for Rice for a previous trespassing complaint and to serve him on an indictment warrant.
He is charged with several counts of wanton endangerment, several counts of assault, including some on police and other first responders, reckless driving, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, public intoxication and other charges.
Rice is being held in the Knox County Detention Center on a $20,000 cash bond. He is expected to appear in court on June 1st.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading luxury brokerage in Fort Worth — Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty — is offering a fall bumper crop of exceptional listings. From a bustling office at 4828 Camp Bowie Boulevard, along the famous brick-paved section of the beloved street, the brokerage's agents represent the city's finest homes for sale. Below is just a sampling.
6901 Sanctuary Lane: In gated Mira Vista, this five-bedroom, French-style stunner features an indoor putting green, theater, fitness room, pool house, two laundry rooms, saltwater pool, outdoor fireplace and outdoor kitchen. It is represented by Jessica Garland and Justin Hammond for $4,825,000.
1301 Throckmorton Street #2703: In a sleek downtown high-rise with panoramic views, this 4,073-square-foot home in the Omni Residences building offers two bedrooms and two and a half baths, plus state-of-the-art building amenities and concierge service. It is represented by Adrianne Holland for $3,750,000.
1233 Shady Oaks Lane: High over the Shady Oaks Country Club golf course and with sweeping views of Fort Worth, this three-level home in Westover Hills features exceptionally tall windows, an architectural staircase of steel and wood, a travertine-sheathed wall with a see-through fireplace between living and dining areas and an owner's suite with fireplace and spa bath. It is represented by Ben Frederick for $3,500,000.
2301 Stadium Drive: On 1.2 acres on a quiet cul-de-sac, this 1940s Mediterranean-style stunner offers multiple living areas, four fireplaces, a library, an alfresco entertaining area with a bar and fireplace, a heated pool, pool house and tennis-sports court. Built on a series of bluffs with beautiful views, it is represented by Gage Bane for $3,290,000.
2924 Harlanwood Drive: In the Tanglewood neighborhood, this architectural home mixes sleek design with honest materials. It features an airy living room with a color-changing electric fireplace, a first-floor main suite and an upstairs loft area. Outside, it offers a heated pool, spa and fire pit. It is represented by Mike Garza for $2,500,000.
All of these properties — and many more — can be explored at briggsfreeman.com. Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty is the leading luxury brokerage in North Texas. Founded in 1960, today its nearly 400 agents serve clients across the region, based in offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Southlake, Lakewood and The North, in Plano. The brokerage specializes in the sale of luxury homes, high-rises, ranches, land and commercial properties and is part of the $204 billion Sotheby's International Realty network of 25,000 agents in 1,000 offices in 80-plus countries and territories.
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Pilot project will gain insights on spam rejection performance and customer experience
SEATTLE, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks® (NASDAQ: RNWK), a leader in AI-powered digital media software and services, today announced a pilot program with Vodafone Germany to launch a new service called Vodafone CallProtect. Vodafone CallProtect will warn Vodafone Germany customers of potential fraudulent, scam, or spam-type calls. The technology behind CallProtect is RealNetworks' KONTXT®, an AI-based anti-spam solution for messaging and voice calls, which includes the KONTXT Reputation Service database.
The benefit of RealNetworks technology is the offering of a rich feature set for anti-fraud protection for both voice calls and messaging. Clients of KONTXT decide which modules are activated for data analysis and customer protection. The Vodafone CallProtect pilot project will use the KONTXT Android SDK for call enrichment and the KONTXT Reputation Service for number lookups. The KONTXT Reputation Service database contains known spam numbers provided from leading spam database providers. The Reputation Service is also capable of MSISDN risk rating based on the latest AI/ML technology.
Vodafone CallProtect will be integrated into the Vodafone Secure Net service for Android. Vodafone Secure Net is a mobile network-based security product that helps protect Vodafone customers' mobile devices. When connected to the Vodafone mobile network in Germany, it automatically blocks harmful sites and quickly protects against viruses before they can cause harm. Secure Net users will be able to activate and deactivate the service. Once activated, all incoming calls will be matched against a database to verify if the calling number is a known spam or scam number. If a positive match is detected, an informational message is displayed on the user's phone allowing them to reject the call.
"Global fraudulent call activities increased substantially since the outbreak of the pandemic, which led to the launch of this initiative," said Mathias Grünwald, Director Sales at RealNetworks. "We are excited about Vodafone's decision to partner with RealNetworks to take advantage of our leading anti-fraud solution KONTXT to protect their customers".
CallProtect will be provided for free to existing Vodafone Secure Net users in Germany. The pilot project will be active for six months starting from the launch of the CallProtect service. The goal of the pilot is to gain insights about user acceptance and assess the performance of the service.
About RealNetworks' KONTXT
Building on a rich history of digital media expertise and innovation, RealNetworks® has created a new generation of products that employ best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance and secure our daily lives. KONTXT® (kontxt.com) is an industry-leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform for categorizing and blocking spam and fraudulent text messages, images, and voice calls, to help carriers build customer loyalty and drive new revenue through text message classification and antispam. For more information, visit: realnetworks.com.
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One of the best sports debate shows around is coming to an end.
Fox Sports 1’s Undisputed show, where Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe argue the day’s hot topic, is over as we know it, as Sharpe looks to move on. The move comes after FS1 and Sharpe reached a buyout agreement that lets him walk away from Undisputed and take his Club Shay Shay Podcast with him too.
The podcast started over two years ago amid the pandemic and has become a weekly destination for sports and Hollywood elite to chop it up with the 3-time Super Bowl Champ, as he currently boasts more than one million subscribers on its YouTube channel.
In an exclusive with the New York Post, Sharpe will reportedly remain the show’s cohost through the NBA Finals, with his final appearance to come shortly after, though an exact date hasn’t been revealed.
Sharpe and Bayless have been hosting Undisputed since the show’s inception in 2016. It was Bayless’ first venture since leaving ESPN, where he famously hosted First Take alongside Stephen A. Smith for nearly 10 years.
It’s unclear who will replace Sharpe, but Bayless will be tied to FS1 for the next few years, as he just signed a four-year, $32 million contract extension with the company in 2021.
The debates between the two have always been lively. Still, some animosity might have been left over after Bayless’ controversial tweet after Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field in January.
“No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome … which suddenly seems so irrelevant,” Bayless tweeted at the time.
Sharpe notably didn’t show up to film the show the morning after the insensitive tweet. But when he did return, he ripped into Bayless for his stance.
Plus, just weeks earlier, Sharpe took offense when Bayless took personal shots at his NFL career accolades during a Tom Brady debate.
“Every time I call something into question, you think it means I’m jealous,” Sharpe retorted as he got so angry, he ripped his glasses off. “I did what I did. You make it seem like I was a bum. I’m in the f-king Hall of Fame. I got three Super Bowls.”
There’s been no clue as to why Sharpe’s exactly leaving the show, but Twitter has its theories. See reactions to the news below.
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DISQO's single-source CX intelligence platform enables brands to
benchmark full-funnel campaign effectiveness
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Customer experience (CX) intelligence platform DISQO today released its "Brand and Outcomes Lift Industry Benchmarks" report, the first industry-wide normative data on the full-funnel effectiveness of ad campaigns. Advertisers can use these new benchmarks to assess relative campaign effectiveness across fourteen unique metrics and four advertising categories.
DISQO's new normative benchmarks improve upon legacy measurements in such key areas as:
- Metric depth: DISQO's Brand and Outcomes Lift benchmarks go beyond brand lift metrics to explore full-funnel outcomes like site visitation, search, and e-commerce
- Temporal recency: Only campaigns from first quarter 2021 and beyond are included, maximizing the relevance of comparisons to contemporary competitive ads
- Cross-platform breadth: Coverage across platforms, devices, and channels - including new formats such as CTV
"DISQO's Brand and Outcomes Lift products are fueled by our 100% proprietary audience, who opt in to share both what they think and what they do online. This enables our clients to assess attitudinal shifts and digital behavioral impacts post ad exposure across a wide range of platforms, so they can confidently assign attribution to their campaigns," said Yannis Pavlidis, VP, Data Science and Analytics, DISQO. "As use of our ad measurement capabilities continues to scale, our normative benchmarks will be an indispensable tool for brands and agencies looking to continually improve their ad effectiveness."
Other normative datasets in the industry benchmark top-of-funnel brand metrics, such as awareness and favorability. In contrast, DISQO's fully-consented ad measurement lets marketers understand the full customer experience with advertising. It measures both top-of-funnel brand metrics and bottom-of-funnel behavioral outcomes post-ad exposure. These outcomes include site visitation, search activity, and add-to-cart e-commerce actions. DISQO's ad measurement captures lift after ad exposure across mobile, retail, and social platforms. Because of these capabilities, the new normative benchmark report provides the first and only clear view of advertising effectiveness – from brand to outcomes – across a wide range of platforms.
With DISQO's benchmarks, advertisers gain the ability to connect lift for traditional brand metrics with lift in behavioral outcome, improve their understanding of what drives their customers' loyalty and purchase behaviors, and benchmark their campaigns against other advertisers in their category and beyond.
DISQO's inaugural normative benchmarks cover:
- The consumables, goods, services, and vehicles categories, as well as overall benchmarks for brand and outcomes lift, regardless of category;
- Eight brand lift benchmarks including unaided awareness, aided awareness, familiarity, ad awareness, tagline association, favorability, consideration, and purchase intent; and
- Six outcomes lift benchmarks including category search, category site visitation, category e-commerce, branded search, branded site visitation and branded e-commerce.
In this first report, goods advertising (high-consideration products like furniture and electronics) drove the greatest brand lift. Consumables advertising (CPG and other low-consideration products) were most effective creating brand lift and raising persuasion metrics. Auto advertising led the way driving consumers to visit category sites, at almost 2 points higher than other categories.
The full report, "Brand and Outcomes Lift Industry Benchmarks," is available for download here. Quarterly updates to the benchmarks report will be available on the DISQO site and accessible directly in DISQO's Brand and Outcomes Lift products.
Methodology
The normative benchmarks presented in this report are based on campaigns measured by DISQO's Brand and Outcomes Lift products. The dataset includes all campaigns that were completed and measured between March 2021 and September 2022 based on the median incremental point lift by overall and by category.
About DISQO
DISQO is the CX intelligence platform for understanding every customer experience. Businesses trust DISQO to power better decisions for every customer, touchpoint, and outcome. DISQO's insights, agile testing and advertising measurement products are powered by millions of consumers on the industry's largest opt-in consumer data platform. DISQO is recognized in Deloitte's Fast 500 and is a Top 100 Next Gen Workplace. Follow @DISQO on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Beyoncé has won a record number of Grammys, has become one of the best-selling musical artists in the world and is on a sold-out, record-breaking world tour.
But Queen Bey, as she’s known to her legions of fans, is now credited with the most unlikely of achievements, according to one economic expert who says she is partially to blame for Sweden's stubbornly high inflation.
The superstar’s ongoing Renaissance world tour kicked off at the National Arena in Stockholm on May 10 and 11, with fans flying in from the United States and elsewhere in the world to see it, partly because of lower prices and partly out of sheer excitement.
And the resulting surge in hotel prices and other costs paid by fans is partly why Sweden's inflation figure only decreased by a less-than-expected 0.2% in May, according to Michael Grahn, chief economist in Sweden for Denmark’s Danske Bank. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/beyonce-shows-blamed-for-fueling-inflation-in-sweden/3278473/ | 2023-06-16 14:13:03 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/beyonce-shows-blamed-for-fueling-inflation-in-sweden/3278473/ |
Stars vs. Avalanche Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - March 4
The Colorado Avalanche (34-20-5) bring a four-game road winning streak into a matchup against the Dallas Stars (33-16-13) on Saturday, March 4 at 3:30 PM ET on ABC, ESPN+, TVAS, SportsNet, and SN1.
During the last 10 contests for the Stars, their offense has put up 27 goals while their defense has allowed 25 (they have a 4-3-3 record in those games). In 33 power-play opportunities during that span, they have capitalized with five goals (15.2% conversion rate).
Here's our prediction for who will secure the victory in Saturday's game.
Stars vs. Avalanche Predictions for Saturday
Our computer model for this contest expects a final score of Stars 4, Avalanche 2.
- Moneyline Pick: Stars (-110)
- Total Pick: Over (5.5)
- Computer Predicted Spread: Stars (-1.3)
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Stars Splits and Trends
- The Stars are 5-13-18 in overtime games as part of a 33-16-13 overall record.
- Dallas has 20 points (5-5-10) in the 20 games it has played that were decided by one goal.
- The nine times this season the Stars ended a game with just one goal, they went 1-6-2 (four points).
- Dallas has scored two goals in 13 games this season (5-2-6 record, 16 points).
- The Stars have scored at least three goals 38 times, and are 27-6-5 in those games (to record 59 points).
- In the 18 games when Dallas has recorded a lone power-play goal, it registered 24 points after finishing 9-3-6.
- In the 33 games when it outshot its opponent, Dallas is 19-9-5 (43 points).
- The Stars have been outshot by opponents 25 times, and went 10-7-8 (28 points).
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Stars vs. Avalanche Game Time and TV Channel
- When: Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ABC, ESPN+, TVAS, SportsNet, and SN1
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- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
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From the beginning politics has always been a contact sport with competing interests attempting to achieve power over each other. A friend recently said to me he has never seen it so bad as it is today.
The friend appears to be in his 50s, so he missed the divisions caused by the Vietnam War, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the racial riots of the ’60s and ’70s and he may have not studied divisions that led to the Civil War.
Those of us longing for a more civil approach than today’s political warfare should watch a speech given by Ronald Reagan at a dinner at Boston College honoring then-Speaker of the House Thomas “Tip” O’Neill. It was March 17, 1986, St. Patrick’s Day.
Reagan invoked his and O’Neill’s Irish ancestry, but he did more than that. Reagan spoke of a man he respected and even admired in spite of their political differences. As has been frequently noted, they often worked out those differences over drinks at the White House.
Reagan began his remarks as usual with a joke: “I’ve always known that Tip was behind me, even if it was only at the State of the Union Address. As I made each proposal, I could hear Tip whispering to (Vice President) George Bush ‘no way, forget it, fat chance.'” (loud laughter and applause)
There is a kindness in Reagan on display at the event, even when he was kidding and especially when he kidded O’Neill.
Reagan used self-deprecating humor about his age as he did to great success in his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale: “(Tip) said since it was March 17 it was only fitting that someone drop by who had actually known St. Patrick.”
Noting the two had been kidding each other for some time, Reagan said he hoped that would continue for years to come. Then he said something unheard of in today’s political discourse:
“A little kidding is after all a sign of affection, the sort of thing that friends do to each other. And, Mr. Speaker, I’m grateful you have permitted me in the past, and I hope in the future, that singular honor, the honor of calling you my friend.”
Can anyone hear Donald Trump or any other candidate for or in public office saying things like that in 2023?
Reagan went on to make an important point that seems to have been lost between then and now:
“I think the fact of our friendship is testimony to the political system we’re part of and the country we live in, a country that permits two not so shy and not so retiring Irishmen to have it out on the issues, rather than have it out on each other, or their countrymen.”
Reagan said he “saluted” O’Neill “for his years of dedication and devotion to the country.” He said he had been a “vital and forceful part of America’s political tradition, a tradition that he has truly enriched.”
If you are a Republican, you might read these words, watch the entire address and think that’s all well and good, but have you ever heard a modern Democrat say anything comparable about a Republican, except perhaps at their funeral?
That’s not the point. Kindness and praise for one’s political opponent can affect others, especially voters. As Abraham Lincoln said about the South: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
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(The Hill) — Two million people fled America’s largest cities from 2020 to 2022, new research shows, signaling that a retreat from urban centers to suburbs, exurbs and smaller cities in the early months of the pandemic has hardened into an enduring and potentially worrisome trend.
More than 1.2 million people left the nation’s large urban counties between July 2020 and July 2021, according to a report published this month by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan public policy organization. Another 860,000 people departed between July 2021 and July 2022.
Only a fresh influx of immigrants saved big cities from dramatic population declines. Even with the immigrants, 17 of the nation’s 25 largest counties suffered population losses between April 2020 and July 2022, according to census data tabulated by The Hill.
“The metros, as a group, lost population for the first time since at least 1990, and probably for decades before that,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
The historic exodus, combined with chronic office vacancies and surging crime, pose profound and potentially existential challenges to America’s great cities.
For big-city leaders, the nightmare scenario would be a gradual unraveling of the social fabric that made big cities attractive places to live and work in the new millennium, and a return to the urban decay of preceding decades, an era of high crime, spiraling poverty and inadequate schools in many large cities.
In some ways, the recent exodus echoes the decades-long flight of prosperous families from cities to suburbs that began after World War II, which hobbled many cities into the 1990s. In those years, some urban downtowns felt depopulated. Today, many city centers feel just as empty, especially on Mondays and Fridays, the peak days for virtual work.
In 10 of the largest U.S. cities, half of all offices sit empty, according to weekly data from Kastle Systems, a company that manages office-access security.
Remote work has transformed the nation’s downtowns, and not in a good way.
“It’s the offices that are empty,” said Chris Fowler, associate professor of geography and demography at Pennsylvania State University.
“And what that does is, it brings down the number of people who are there during the day, and who are eating there in the evenings. Vibrant social spaces are healthy, and when we pull people and money out of those places, they don’t do as well.”
The virtual work exodus comes at a time when urban crime rates are rising, invoking memories of a much worse urban crime problem in the last millennium.
Big-city homicides rose by two-fifths between 2019 and 2022, from 6,406 to 9,138, according to data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a professional organization of police executives.
New York recorded 438 homicides in 2022, up from 319 in 2019. That is a dramatic increase, but both numbers pale next to the 2,262 homicides the city logged in 1990.
To Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the parallels between today’s remote-work boom and the urban exodus of earlier decades “are maybe stronger than a lot of people would like to admit. It’s as if the speed limits had doubled. People can live twice as far out.”
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a slow exodus of Americans from big cities, a trend driven not only by remote work but also by soaring urban housing costs and the perennial search for space.
According to the Economic Innovation Group analysis, large urban counties have lost residents in steadily growing numbers each year since 2013, a trend that coincided with the nation’s recovery from the Great Recession.
In 2019, the year before COVID, large counties lost more than 450,000 people to domestic migration, Americans moving within the United States. The pandemic pushed the annual exodus to 1.2 million in 2021.
Before the pandemic, two other demographic forces combined to cancel out the annual exodus. One is natural population change, the surplus of births over deaths. The other is immigration.
The urban population crisis hit when the pandemic descended. Between 2020 and 2021, almost no one immigrated, and deaths outnumbered births. Because of COVID-19, “we had the lowest natural population growth in over 100 years,” Frey said.
In 2022, COVID-19 deaths eased, and immigration resumed. Together, those positives more or less canceled out the losses from urban flight.
Yet, most of America’s big cities remain less populous now than they were at the pandemic’s start.
Los Angeles County lost nearly 300,000 people, or 3 percent of its population, between April 2020 and July 2022, Census data show.
Cook County, encompassing Chicago and suburbs, lost 166,000 people in that span, about 3 percent of its population.
Kings County, N.Y., better known as Brooklyn, lost nearly 150,000 residents, 5 percent of its citizenry.
New York County, or Manhattan, lost nearly 100,000 residents, a 6-percent hit.
“It’s not big cities in general. It’s a very small number of extremely large cities,” Fowler said. “What you see is that migration is moving down the urban hierarchy,” from larger cities to smaller ones.
Many urbanites are fleeing big cities in search of space. More than that, though, they are seeking less expensive space.
An average one-bedroom apartment now costs upwards of $2,000 in monthly rent in 14 of the nation’s 100 largest cities, by one recent analysis: $3,550 a month in New York, $3,000 in San Francisco, $2,370 in Los Angeles and $2,300 in Washington, D.C.
Fowler ascribes some blame for rising rents to real estate investment trusts, companies that buy up properties in hot markets and raise rents according to sophisticated algorithms, pushing lower-income renters out of the market.
Buying a big-city home, in the current market, may seem even more daunting than renting one. One recent analysis rated only two of the 50 largest U.S. cities, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, as affordable for first-time buyers.
The remote-work era allows many Americans to leave expensive homes in cities for cheaper ones in suburbs and smaller cities. Demographers say the revolution is only beginning.
One large-scale survey, published last year, found that 19 million Americans planned to move because of remote work, vastly outnumbering the 4 million Americans who had already moved.
“The offices are empty because people don’t need to come to the office,” said Adam Ozimek, chief economist at the Economic Innovation Group. “And if you don’t need to come into the office, you don’t need to live in that labor market.”
The challenge for city leaders, urban experts say, is to adapt to remote work: by converting empty offices to affordable housing, by managing public safety in struggling neighborhoods, and by working with public schools to preserve tax-funded education as a viable option for urban parents.
“Policy has a role to play here,” Ozimek said. “The last thing you want is politicians and local policymakers who just assume everything is going to work out.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/2-million-people-fled-americas-big-cities-from-2020-to-2022-but-why/ | 2023-04-12 14:24:29 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/2-million-people-fled-americas-big-cities-from-2020-to-2022-but-why/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first hurricane of the season formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Sunday and rapidly gained power ahead of an expected strike along a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns.
Hurricane Agatha could make landfall at close to major hurricane force on Monday in the area near Puerto Escondido and Puerto Angel in the southern state of Oaxaca — a region that includes the laid-back tourist resorts of Huatulco, Mazunte and Zipolite.
Around midday Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said the recently formed hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph) and it was centered about 195 miles (315 kilometers) west-southwest of Puerto Angel. It was heading to the north at 2 mph (4 kph).
A hurricane warning was in effect between the port of Salina Cruz and the Lagunas de Chacahua.
The civil defense office in Oaxaca said the hurricane’s outer bands were already hitting the coast. The office published photos of fishermen hauling their boats up on beaches to protect them from the storm.
The government’s Mexican Turtle Center — a former slaughterhouse turned conservation center in Mazunte — announced it was closed to visitors until further notice because of the hurricane.
The Hurricane Center warned of dangerous costal flooding, as well as large and destructive waves near where Agatha makes landfall and destructive waves.
The storm was expected to bring 10 to 16 inches (250 to 400 millimeters) of rain to parts of Oaxaca state — with isolated maximums of 20 inches (500 millimeters) — posing the threat of flash flooding and mudslides.
Because the storm’s current path would carry it over the narrow waist of Mexico’s isthmus, the center said there was a chance the storm’s remnants could reemerge over the Gulf of Mexico.
In northern Guatemala, a woman and her six children died Saturday when a landslide hit their home, but the accident did not appear to be related to Agatha. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/1st-of-2022-hurricane-agatha-heads-for-mexico-tourist-towns/ | 2022-05-29 21:12:01 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/1st-of-2022-hurricane-agatha-heads-for-mexico-tourist-towns/ |
On this day in history, Feb. 4, 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches 'The Facebook'
Mark Zuckerberg was a college kid when he co-developed the social media platform
"Facebook" is arguably one of the most recognizable names of the 21st century.
The popular social media site is known as a place to share photos, post on your "wall" and ultimately update your friends and family about what you’re up to lately.
Mark Zuckerberg, born in White Plains, New York, is best known as a creator of Facebook — with the story of his success one of trial, error and ultimately success.
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On this day in history, Feb. 4, 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches what was then known as The Facebook.
Zuckerberg’s path to Facebook started in 2003 with an online program called Facemash, of which he was primary developer.
The concept revolved around the notion that students could judge the attractiveness of fellow college students who were using the program, according to Britannica.
The site was considered initially successful — with 450 students joining right off the bat.
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Facemash violated a university policy, however — and was shut down after just two days, as Britannica noted.
Zuckerberg noted the fast success of Facemash and decided to launch a different site for Harvard students, called The Facebook, in February 2004.
This intriguing site was different — allowing students to post photos and information about themselves, such as their class schedules, according to Britannica.
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The popularity increased — and the site was soon expanded to include students at Yale and Stanford.
Within the first four months of the site's going live, more than 250,000 students were on The Facebook — spanning over 34 schools, according to Britannica.
By the end of 2004, The Facebook had over one million users — and Zuckerberg had dropped out of Harvard to run the business.
Continued success came when the platform introduced a tagging feature and unlimited photo uploads — and lowered the sign-up age to 13.
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Facebook was also able to monetize its app early on by allowing companies to buy advertisement space within the site.
Over the years, Facebook — based in Menlo Park, California — has faced backlash for a lack of privacy and for selling users’ data, according to History.com.
The story of Facebook's founding and its early and complicated road to success was turned into a movie in 2010 starring actor Jesse Eisenberg and featuring Justin Timberlake — called "The Social Network."
(At the 83rd Academy Awards, the film received eight nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Eisenberg — and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.)
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Zuckerberg’s technology company Facebook, Inc. today owns multiple companies such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and more.
In October 2021, Facebook, Inc. announced that its parent company name would change to Meta Platforms — alluding to a virtual reality experience for users on their platforms, according to Britannica. | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-feb-4-2004-harvard-student-mark-zuckerberg-launches-the-facebook | 2023-02-04 07:11:18 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-feb-4-2004-harvard-student-mark-zuckerberg-launches-the-facebook |
Week 6 Ohio high school football scores for Stark County area
The second half of the high school football season kicks off in Stark County tonight. To help get ready for Week 6 of the season, check out the following before returning later for scoring updates:
- Our look back at the top players, coaches, teams and moments of the first half of the season.
- A breakdown of this week's games.
- Area stat leaders through five weeks.
- Who we picked to win.
- The FridayNightOhio power poll, the Associated Press state poll and the OHSAA computer ratings heading into this week.
Tonight's Stark County-area high school football schedule
All games kickoff at 7 p.m.
Green at GlenOak
Hoover at McKinley
Lake at Jackson
Louisville at Perry
Fitch at Massillon
Triway at Canton South
Fairless at CVCA
Manchester at Tuslaw
Northwest at Orrville
Alliance at Salem
Carrollton at Marlington
Minerva at West Branch
Newcomerstown at East Canton
Strasburg at Malvern
Sandy Valley at Indian Valley
Tusky Valley at Ridgewood
St. Thomas Aquinas at Rootstown
Saturday's high school football schedule
Central Catholic at Lutheran East, noon
Federal League football standings
- Lake ........... 1-0 ... 5-0
- Hoover ...... 1-0 ... 4-1
- Green ........ 1-1 ... 3-2
- Jackson ..... 1-1 ... 3-2
- Perry .......... 1-1 ... 3-2
- McKinley .. 1-1 ... 1-4
- GlenOak ... 0-2 ... 1-4
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Stark County independents/others standings
- Massillon .................. 4-1
- Central Catholic ..... 2-3
- Louisville ................... 1-4
- St. Thomas Aquinas 0-5
PAC-7 football standings
- Fairless ............ 2-0 ... 5-0
- CVCA ............... 2-0 ... 4-1
- Canton South 1-1 ... 3-2
- Northwest ...... 1-1 ... 3-2
- Triway .............. 1-1 ... 3-2
- Orrville ............ 1-1 ... 2-3
- Tuslaw .............. 0-2 ... 2-3
- Manchester .... 0-2 ... 0-5
Eastern Buckeye Conference football standings
- Alliance ............ 0-0 ... 4-1
- Carrollton ........ 0-0 ... 4-1
- Salem ................ 0-0 ... 4-1
- West Branch ... 0-0 ... 4-1
- Minerva ............ 0-0 ... 0-4
- Marlington ...... 0-0 ... 0-5
Inter-Valley Conference football standings
- Malvern ................ 0-0 ... 4-1
- Newcomerstown 0-0 ... 3-2
- East Canton ......... 0-0 ... 2-3
- Tusc. Cent. Cath. 0-0 ... 2-3
- Buckeye Trail ....... 0-0 ... 0-5
- Strasburg .............. 0-0 ... 0-5
- Garaway ................. 0-0 ... 5-0
- Ridgewood ........... 0-0 ... 4-1
- Indian Valley ......... 0-0 ... 3-2
- Sandy Valley ......... 0-0 ... 2-3
- Claymont ............... 0-0 ... 2-3
- Tusky Valley .......... 0-0 ... 1-4
Looking back on Weeks 1-5 of high school football
Miss any of our earlier coverage this season, here it is:
Ohio High School Football:Stark County high school football scoreboard, box scores, standings — see what happened in Week 5
Ohio High School Football:Stark County high school football scoreboard, box scores — see what happened in Week 4
Ohio High School Football:Stark County high school football scoreboard, box scores — see what happened in Week 3
Ohio High School Football:Stark County high school football scoreboard, box scores — see what happened in Week 2
Ohio High School Football:High school football scoreboard, box scores, story links — see what happened in Week 1
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NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams eliminated No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 in the U.S. Open’s second round Wednesday night to ensure that the 23-time Grand Slam champion will play at least one more singles match at what she’s hinted will be the last tournament of her illustrious career.
The 40-year-old Williams was again buoyed by a loud crowd at a full Arthur Ashe Stadium, just as she was in the first round two days earlier.
She hit serves at up to 119 mph, stayed with Kontaveit during lengthy exchanges of big swings from the baselines and conjured up some of her trademark brilliance when it was needed most.
After pulling out a tight first set, then faltering a bit in the second, Williams headed to the locker room for a bit of a break before the third.
Something had to give, someone had to blink.
When they resumed, it was Williams who lifted her level and emerged as the better player.
Just as she’s done, so many times on so many stages, with so much at stake.
The six-time champion at Flushing Meadows will play Friday for a spot in the fourth round. Her opponent will be Ajla Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old Australian. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/serena-williams-wins-again-at-us-open-beating-no-2-seed-kontaveit/ | 2022-09-01 02:50:13 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/serena-williams-wins-again-at-us-open-beating-no-2-seed-kontaveit/ |
INDIANAPOLIS, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter for the mirikizumab biologic license application (BLA) for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). In the letter, the FDA cited issues related to the proposed manufacturing of mirikizumab, with no concerns about the clinical data package, safety, or label for the medicine.
"We remain confident in mirikizumab's pivotal Phase 3 clinical data and its potential to help people with ulcerative colitis," said Patrik Jonsson, Lilly executive vice president, president of Lilly Immunology and Lilly USA, and chief customer officer. "We are working diligently with the FDA and hope to launch mirikizumab in the U.S. as soon as possible."
Lilly recently received approval for mirikizumab as a first-in-class treatment for adults with moderately to severely active UC in Japan. In addition, the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion for mirikizumab as a first-in-class treatment for adults with moderately to severely active UC who have had an inadequate response with, lost response to, or were intolerant to either conventional therapy or a biologic treatment. Regulatory decisions are anticipated in additional markets around the world in 2023.
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The big idea
If companies allowed more of their employees to permanently work from home, businesses would gravitate toward city centers, while people would primarily live in the periphery, resulting in less traffic congestion and falling real estate prices downtown.
Those are our main findings from a model we created to forecast pandemic-driven changes in Los Angeles. Many of these changes were beginning to happen back in the spring of 2020, when we began this research. We wanted to build a model that could show the effects of more widespread telecommuting over a long period of time post-pandemic.
Our model is like an artificial world – think Sim City – in which virtual people choose where to live and where to work. Virtual companies provide jobs to workers, while virtual real estate developers provide offices, warehouses and housing, setting prices that match supply with demand.
Using pre-pandemic information about where people lived and worked as well as their commutes, we built the model of the Los Angeles metropolitan area with economist Matt Delventhal. The model also uses pre-pandemic data on commercial and residential real estate prices.
From 2012 to 2016, fewer than 4% of workers telecommuted in the Los Angeles metro area, according to our calculations from the American Community Survey. Today that figure is nearly 40%. Based on estimates that about a third of workers in Los Angeles have jobs that could be done remotely, our model predicts three important long-term effects if telecommuting at around this level becomes permanent:
- Residents would increasingly move from city neighborhoods to the suburbs, while companies would gravitate to the center.
- Average residential and commercial real estate prices would fall in central city locations, while housing prices in the suburbs would increase.
- Traffic congestion would ease everywhere and commuting time would drop.
Why it matters
The pandemic’s arrival in early 2020 upended daily life for millions of American workers and the businesses that employ them.
Working at home, uncommon before the pandemic, became a necessity, which led employers and workers to realize that telecommuting is pleasant and productive. This resulted in large migrations of people who became untethered from their employers.
In Los Angeles, increased telecommuting led workers to relocate to the suburbs, driving up real estate prices. Our model takes this a step further and assumes these changes will become entrenched.
This prediction may be coming true. NPR recently reported that since 2020, homebuyers relocating from cities have been driving lower-income renters out of the suburbs.
This suggests our model can be a valuable tool to help business leaders, economists, policymakers and others make informed decisions as they try to make sense of the pandemic’s far-reaching economic impacts on their cities.
What still isn’t known
Any model is a simplification of reality. In our model, all the workers and employers are identical. However, the real-life responses of different types of workers and businesses to increased telecommuting may vary.
Another important unknown is the ongoing effect of telecommuting on productivity. During the pandemic, employers and workers have not reported substantial productivity losses – if anything, workers have reported being a little more productive at home.
At the same time, productivity often benefits from opportunities to build and sustain professional networks. These networks may weaken as more people spend more time telecommuting.
What’s next
We continue to observe and study how the rise in telecommuting may affect city centers. For example, barbershops, restaurants and other businesses that have long concentrated in traditional business districts may find they need to follow a large exodus of residents to suburbs or smaller cities to survive.
However, not every worker or business can relocate. Our newest paper models the distribution of jobs and residents across 4,502 U.S. locations and explores well-being and income gaps emerging between those who can telework and those who can’t.
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PRESTON, Md., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PSB Holding Corp. (OTCQX: PSBP), parent company of Provident State Bank, Inc., announced the board of directors declared an annual common stock dividend of $0.20 per share payable on December 1, 2022 to shareholders of record on November 14, 2022.
PSB Holding Corp. is the holding company of Provident State Bank, Inc., a full service financial institution serving the eastern shore of Maryland since 1904. Provident State Bank, Inc. has ten locations in Preston, Federalsburg, Ridgely, Denton, Easton-Elliot Road, Easton-Harrison Street, Secretary, Cambridge, Salisbury and Lewes, DE. For more information on PSB Holding Corp. and Provident State Bank, Inc., visit www.providentstatebank.com.
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US sending $725 million more in military aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will send Ukraine a new $725 million package of weapons and other military assistance, the White House said Friday, as the U.S. added to a flurry of aid announcements from European allies this week.
The announcement comes on the heels of meetings at NATO, where defense leaders from Europe and around the world pledged weapons and air defense systems to Ukraine as Russia heightened its bombardment of Kyiv and other regions.
Officials said there are no major new weapons in the U.S. package. Instead, the U.S. aid is largely aimed at restocking thousands of rounds of ammunition for the weapons systems Ukraine has been successfully using in its counteroffensive against Russia, as the war stretches into its eighth month.
The new package includes rounds for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, a critical weapon that has improved Ukraine’s ability to strike ammunition depots, bridges and other key targets that erode Russia’s ability to resupply troops. The U.S. has already sent 20 HIMARS to Ukraine, and has promised 18 more that would be delivered in the coming years.
The aid announcement caps a string of commitments from allies this week. One after another in the last two days, countries large and small detailed new contributions to Ukraine’s fight, underscoring the persistent fears among European nations that they could be Moscow’s next target.
“Russia’s latest assaults have only deepened the determination of the Ukrainian people and further united countries of goodwill from every region on Earth,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a meeting of defense leaders this week. “Our resolve and steadiness of purpose has only been strengthened.”
A senior defense official told reporters at the Pentagon that Ukraine’s immediate needs continue to be additional air defenses. The official said that, for example, Russia fired more than 80 missiles at Ukrainian targets during one recent 24-hour period, and Ukrainian air defenses were able to intercept about half of them.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. assessment of the war, said that the intercepts use a lot ammunition because its likely Ukrainians fired more than one round at each incoming missile.
The British government said last week it would provide missiles for advanced NASAM anti-aircraft systems that the Pentagon plans to send to Ukraine. Britain also is sending hundreds of drones and 18 howitzer artillery guns. Germany has sent the first of four promised IRIS-T air defense systems, France pledged more artillery, anti-aircraft systems and missiles, the Netherlands said it would send missiles, and Canada is planning to send winter equipment, drone cameras and satellite communications.
Russia has intensified its attacks, hitting the Kyiv region with kamikaze drones and firing missiles elsewhere at civilian targets, including a hospital, a kindergarten and other buildings in the town of Nikopol, across the river from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The strikes have been described as Russian payback for the bombing of a strategic bridge linking Russia with annexed Crimea. Kremlin war hawks have urged Putin to escalate the bombing campaign even more to punish Ukraine for Saturday’s truck bomb attack on the landmark Kerch Bridge. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The surge in Russian attacks also represents an urgent effort by Moscow to regain its footing as Ukraine’s fierce counteroffensive has taken back towns and territory that Russia had overrun in the earlier days of the war.
Since the war began on Feb. 24, the U.S. has committed more than than $17.5 billion in weapons and other equipment.
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May 4 Ceremony in Washington D.C. will Honor Rare Disease Innovators, Advocates, and Partners as Part of NORD's 40th Anniversary Celebration
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD®) Founder and past President Abbey S. Meyers, PhD, former U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington State, New York Yankees centerfielder Bernie Williams, and pioneer clinical geneticist, Dr. Ada Hamosh, headline a group of rare disease champions who will be honored for their outstanding contributions to the rare disease community at NORD's 2023 Rare Impact Awards (RIA).
This year's Rare Impact Awards — set for Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 6 p.m. ET at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC — will punctuate NORD's 40th Anniversary Celebration by recognizing six unique individuals, a forward-thinking and DEI-focused patient advocacy group and six industry innovators for their FDA-approved treatments. Each of the honorees have made significant and unique contributions that have helped advance rare disease care, advocacy and research in recent years of NORD's 40-year history. Tickets and registration for the Rare Impact Awards and 40th Anniversary Celebration are available at rareimpact.org.
Meyers founded NORD in 1983 after working with other rare disease patient advocates to prompt Congress to pass the landmark Orphan Drug Act – the world's first legislation incentivizing drug development for rare diseases. Her actions sparked a movement that NORD continues to steward today by serving as an unwavering partner and a steadfast presence in helping rare disease patients feel seen, heard, supported and connected.
Beutler, whose daughter was born with a rare condition known as bilateral renal agenesis, has used her platform both while in Congress and now as a private citizen — to influence and help direct funding to support research and treatments for rare diseases.
Williams is known in the rare disease community as a voice, advocate, and champion for patients and families who are impacted by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis — a rare condition that took the life of his father in 2001.
Hamosh, MD, MPH, FACMG, serves as Professor of Pediatric Genetics and Clinical Director of Department of Genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Scientific Director of Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM). Her transformative work includes the co-development of PhenoDB, a web-based tool for the collection, storage and analysis of standardized phenotype and genotype data for use in the Centers for Mendelian Genomic project, and GeneMatcher, a website that connects clinicians and researchers who share an interest in the same gene.
Other distinguished honorees include:
- Shannon Killebrew, of Statesboro, Ga., rare disease patient, advocate and founder of Shannon's Hope for House Calls and Home Medical Care, a national advocacy group for homebound patients;
- Phillip Maderia, of West Newbury, Mass., founder of NORD's signature Running for Rare program, which has raised over $2M since inception by partnering with more than 300 runners and rare community patients and caregivers to participate in designated running events that raise money and awareness for NORD, including the TCS New York City Marathon and iconic Boston Marathon.
- Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation, a Charlottesville, Va., nonprofit that raises awareness, educates the public, drives research, and provides support for those affected by cavernous malformation — with the Abbey S. Meyers Leadership Award. The Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation was founded by Connie Lee, a mother who learned in 2000 that her infant daughter had the rare condition. Through its work — and Lee's tireless advocacy, it has developed a network of Centers of Excellence to enable clinical trials for the condition.
"Forty years ago, a courageous group of rare disease advocates came together to create NORD and ignite a movement that is working to improve lives for the 25 million Americans who live with rare diseases" said Peter L. Saltonstall, President and CEO, NORD. "This year's winners of the Rare Impact Awards reflect the pioneering spirit of our founders — each of them using their passion and talent to achieve the vision of a world where every person with a rare disease can lead their best lives."
Industry Innovators
In addition to the individual honorees, the 2023 Rare Impact Awards will honor industry innovators that have created treatments to improve the lives of rare disease patients. This year's Industry Innovator Award winners include:
- bluebird bio for Skysona®
In September 2022, FDA granted Accelerated Approval to SKYSONA®, a gene therapy, to slow the progression of neurologic dysfunction in boys 4-17 years of age with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD), a rare, progressive, neurodegenerative disease.
- CSL Behring for Hemgenix®
In November 2022, FDA approved Hemgenix®, developed by CSL Behring, the first and only gene therapy for eligible adults living with hemophilia B, a rare, genetic bleeding disorder.
- Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals for Terlivaz®
FDA approved Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' Terlivaz® in September 2022, as the first product to improve kidney function in adults with hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) who experience rapid reduction in kidney function. HRS is a form of impaired kidney function that occurs in individuals with advanced liver disease. In addition to orphan drug designation, Terlivaz® was awarded priority review and fast track status.
- Marinus Pharmaceuticals for Ztalmy®
In March 2022, FDA approved Ztalmy®, developed by Marinus Pharmaceuticals, as a treatment for seizures associated with CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD), a rare developmental epileptic encephalopathy caused by pathogenic variants in the CDKL5 gene. This is the first treatment for CDD and the first specifically for CDD-related seizures.
- Novartis for Vijoice®
In April 2022, FDA granted Accelerated Approval to Vijoice®, developed by Novartis, for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients two years of age and older with severe manifestations of PIK3CA-Related Overgrowth Spectrum (PROS) who require systemic therapy. PROS is a group of genetic disorders leading to overgrowth of various body parts and blood vessel abnormalities due to mutations in the PIK3CA gene involved in making a protein that helps regulate cell growth, division and survival. Vijoice® is the first FDA-approved treatment for PROS, which affects an estimated 14 people per million.
- Sanofi for Xenpozyme™
Xenpozyme™, developed by Sanofi, was approved in August 2022 for pediatric and adult patients with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) to treat symptoms that are not related to the central nervous system. ASMD is a rare progressive genetic disorder that results from a deficiency of an enzyme required to break down a fatty substance called sphingomyelin that accumulates in various tissues of the body. Patients with ASMD have enlarged abdomens that can cause pain, vomiting, feeding difficulties, as well as an abnormal liver and blood tests.
Tickets and registration for the Rare Impact Awards and 40th Anniversary Celebration are available at rareimpact.org. Early booking is encouraged, as space is limited for this highly anticipated event. Additionally, tickets to the May 6th NORD Living Rare, Living Stronger patient and family forum are available at livingrare.org. This family-focused educational event is designed to help guide patients, caregivers and loved ones live their best life with a rare disease.
About the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
With a 40-year history of advancing care, treatments and policy, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is the leading and longest-standing patient advocacy group for the more than 25 million Americans living with a rare disease. NORD, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is dedicated to individuals with rare diseases and the organizations that serve them. NORD, along with its more than 330 patient organization members, is committed to improving the health and well-being of people with rare diseases by driving advances in care, research and policy. For more information, please visit https://rarediseases.org/.
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CLARK COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) – A multi-vehicle crash that caused injuries occurred early Sunday morning.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Springfield Post, at least 3 people were injured on I-70 eastbound near Limestone Street from a multi-vehicle crash that happened around 3:30 a.m. Three people were taken from the scene to a local hospital by CareFlight.
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EarthSafe Chemical Alternatives, a leading provider of safer, more sustainable industrial cleaning and disinfection solutions, introduces America to Aquatabs, the world's number one water purification product for emergency preparation and recreation
BRAINTREE, Mass., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the last three decades, Aquatabs® has been the leading water disinfection product used by international relief organizations and aid agencies in developing countries with no access to clean drinking water and emergency water treatment during natural disasters. Now EarthSafe®, a company known for pioneering innovative cleaning and disinfecting solutions to solve the world's biggest challenges, brings Aquatabs Water Purification Tablets to the United States.
"Our job is help protect public health," said Steve Wilson, EarthSafe CEO. "Every year, communities are devastated by floods, fires, earthquakes, and hurricanes. One of the most crucial necessities in almost any emergency is drinking water. Plus, with summer travel and outdoor activities in full swing, Aquatabs ensures safe drinking water is available whenever and wherever it's needed."
With hurricane season predicted to be higher-than-normal this year, EarthSafe created an Aquatabs Emergency Kit for retailers located in the Gulf and Atlantic Coast states to help communities prepare for oncoming storms. Providers of emergency supplies are also incorporating Aquatabs into go-bags for survivalist groups.
Aquatabs kills 99.99% of microorganisms, viruses, and bacteria to prevent cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and other water borne diseases. The pre-measured tablets rapidly disinfect small or large quantities of water in just 30 minutes after mixing. Aquatabs are used in a range of critical scenarios including water supplies on ships and aircraft, military patrol packs, and even general-purpose disinfection for field hospitals. In agriculture and food production, Aquatabs are used to remove pathogenic microorganisms, such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli (E. coli), as well as fungi, mold, and trace pesticides to ensure produce is safe for consumption.
Beyond large-scale applications, the individually packaged tablets are designed to be highly portable for travel as well as outdoor activities like backpacking, hiking, camping, boating, and RVs. Aquatabs are iodine free, and dissolve clear for great tasting drinking water in only half an hour. Other water purification products often take twice as long, can be cumbersome, costly, or less effective at killing microorganisms. With a five-year shelf life, Aquatabs is the ideal water purifier for adventurers and serious preppers alike.
Rich Prinz, EarthSafeGlobal Vice President of Sales said, "The aim is to provide low-cost water disinfection, whether for recreational activities or disaster response."
Aquatabs is available through distribution partners, at big-box and convenience stores, outdoor and sporting goods retailers, as well as online. To learn more about Aquatabs, contact EarthSafe at info@earthsafeca.com.
EarthSafe Chemical Alternatives® was founded in 2014 by pioneering serial entrepreneur RJ Valentine and are known as a foremost provider of safer, more sustainable cleaning solutions. In 2016, the company introduced the EvaClean® Infection Prevention System, which leverages advanced electrostatic sprayer technologies and safer chemistries. In 2022, EarthSafe launched a complementary line of industrial-strength cleaning and water purification solutions that also incorporate safer chemistries and smarter technologies. EarthSafe's team is considered a leading authority on healthier approaches to cleaning and disinfection in environmental hygiene and industrial hygiene across all market sectors. Learn more at www.earthsafeca.com.
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CONWAY, Ark. (AP) _ Home BancShares Inc. (HOMB) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $115.7 million.
The bank, based in Conway, Arkansas, said it had earnings of 57 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 53 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 54 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $329.6 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $272.3 million, which topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $260.7 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $305.3 million, or $1.57 per share. Revenue was reported as $933.8 million.
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Thieves steal $1,300 reindeer from photos with Santa mall display, police say
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (Gray News) – Police in Arizona are looking for two people who stole an expensive, life-sized stuffed reindeer from a Christmas display at a mall.
According to the Flagstaff Police Department, the pair entered the Flagstaff Mall on Nov. 27 and headed for the Christmas display, where kids could get their photo taken with Santa Claus.
Police said the pair stole the reindeer, which is valued at $1,364. Surveillance video caught them loading the stuffed animal into the trunk of their car and driving off.
The police department said the suspects are wanted for questioning related to the theft that “reduced levels of Christmas cheer around Flagstaff.”
Anyone with further information has been urged to contact Flagstaff police at 928-774-1414.
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Police: 2 infants found dead in Cleveland neighborhood
Published: May. 21, 2023 at 11:46 AM EDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Two infants were found dead in Cleveland, Ohio, WOIO reports.
Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia with the Cleveland Police Department says police found the infants Saturday around 7:20 p.m. in the Buckeye Shaker Square neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
“The Cleveland Police Homicide Unit investigates all cases of child fatalities,” Ciaccia said.
Police did not say if the babies appeared to have suffered any injuries prior to their deaths.
Their deaths remain under investigation.
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BEIJING (AP) — The overarching theme emerging from China’s ongoing Communist Party congress is one of continuity, not change.
The weeklong meeting, which opened Sunday, is expected to reappoint Xi Jinping as leader, reaffirm a commitment to his policies for the next five years and possibly elevate his status even further as one of the most powerful leaders in China’s modern history.
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This is not an inflection point for the party. That happened 10 years ago when it named Xi as leader, though it wasn’t evident at the time.
Since then, Xi has reoriented China both domestically and internationally. The military has staked claims to disputed territory while diplomats have become more assertive, saying China won’t be bullied by the U.S. and others.
Xi has brought back stronger state control over the economy and society, expanding censorship and arrest to stifle dissent. An unprecedented crackdown on corruption has brought down hundreds of senior officials, including some potential political rivals.
All of that is here to stay — that was the message from a 1-hour-and-45-minute party report that Xi delivered to the opening session on Sunday.
Willy Lam, a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation think tank, noted the report described a “Chinese-style modernization” that must conform to socialist values.
“China will stick to its own road,” the Hong Kong-based Lam said. “It will not borrow any measures or governance style from foreign countries.”
NO GDP
China on Monday abruptly canceled the announcement of third-quarter economic growth figures due out Tuesday.
No specific reason was given. The GDP report was likely to conflict with the confident tone of the party congress by showing the economy grew by as little as 3% in the latest quarter, barely half the official 5.5% target.
The economy is struggling under the weight of severe COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Xi’s government, a sharp real estate slowdown and the fallout from the war in Ukraine.
A woman who answered the phone in the press office of the National Bureau of Statistics said only that the postponement was due to “work arrangements.”
ELEVATING XI
Xi has already swept away competitors and consolidated power. The question is whether he will gain even more power — and how.
Practically, he has placed himself in charge of the military, foreign policy, the economy and most other matters through a series of party working groups that he heads.
Symbolically, his ideology, known as Xi Jinping Thought, was enshrined in the party congress at the previous congress in 2017.
Another amendment to the constitution is on the agenda for this week’s congress. No details have been divulged, but analysts say it could further raise his status in the party.
THE NEW LEADERS
It is customary for the party to unveil its top leadership for the next five years the day after the congress closes, with the small group named to the Politburo Standing Committee identified for the first time when they parade out on stage.
Xi is widely expected to be at the top, getting a third five-year term. That would dispense with an unwritten agreement for party leaders to step down after two terms.
The others named to the Standing Committee, which currently has seven members, could offer clues to Xi’s future and the direction of policy.
He is expected to stack the committee with loyalists. Analysts wonder whether China’s economic slump will force him to temper his enthusiasm for a state-run economy and include supporters of a more market-oriented approach.
No obvious successor was picked for the current Standing Committee in 2017, signaling that Xi was eyeing a third term. Doing so again would suggest he plans an even longer stay.
WAIT FOR THE WEEKEND
With most of this week’s sessions behind closed doors, none of this is likely to be known until the weekend. Any amendment to the constitution would typically be announced at the closing session on Saturday, and the new leadership paraded out on Sunday.
ZERO-COVID BLUES
Many Chinese are weary of pandemic restrictions that have disrupted their lives and the economy. For them, the more immediate question is whether there will be any easing after the party congress.
The answer is probably not immediately, and when changes do come, they will most likely be gradual.
The Communist Party is always eager to portray the country in a positive light during the congress and avoid any societal disruptions — and a major COVID-19 outbreak would be one.
But party officials are expected to remain cautious about opening up even after the congress, as it is uncertain how widely COVID-19 will spread when travel and other restrictions are eased.
Plus there’s always another major event to worry about. As a follow-up to the party congress, China’s legislature will meet next year, probably in March. Many Chinese are preparing to hunker down at least until after that.
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Hamilton Wingo trial Lawyers Paul Wingo, Ray T. Khirallah, Jr. recognized by Texas Super Lawyers for personal injury litigation expertise
DALLAS, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texas Super Lawyers legal guide has again recognized Hamilton Wingo law firm partner Chris Hamilton among the Top 100 attorneys in Dallas-Fort Worth. In addition, the prestigious listing has honored firm partners Paul Wingo and Ray T. Khirallah, Jr. for their work with plaintiffs in personal injury disputes.
This is the second year that Mr. Hamilton has been listed among the Top 100 in DFW and the 13th year to earn either Super Lawyers or Super Lawyers Rising Stars honors.
Thomson Reuters researchers compile the annual Super Lawyers list based on a rigorous selection process that starts with peer nominations, followed by independent research and vetting by a blue-ribbon panel. The process is designed to recognize the top 5 percent of attorneys in the state. The full listing appears in the October issue of Texas Monthly and the Texas edition of Super Lawyers magazine.
"We have a reputation for taking cases to trial and fighting for our clients," said Mr. Hamilton. "We are proud of our work, and we are grateful that our peers recognize that work."
Mr. Hamilton's legal peers consistently name him among the best in his profession, leading to additional honors such as inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America legal guide. Most recently, he was co-lead counsel with Mr. Khirallah on a trial team that secured a record $7.37 billion negligence verdict against Charter Spectrum.
Mr. Wingo's work has resulted in hundreds of millions in recoveries for clients. He has earned Super Lawyers recognition since 2020 and companion honors in Texas Rising Stars since 2015. Other legal industry honors include Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Khirallah is a veteran litigator who has secured numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements in personal injury-related cases. Along with the 2022 Texas Super Lawyers recognition, his peers have honored his work in the Best Lawyers in America.
The trial lawyers at Hamilton Wingo, LLP, are devoted to representing individuals in high-stakes, complex litigation on a contingent fee basis. They have obtained billions in verdicts and settlements for clients. For more information, visit hamiltonwingo.com/.
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LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Afrobeats superstar, recording artist, producer, and philanthropist, Davido announced his ARE WE AFRICAN YET? (A.W.A.Y) Festival, a one-day music festival and cultural experience taking place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on November 18, 2022. The Festival was conceived to promote and foster cultural exportation and collaboration between Africa and the world. Davido's level of collaboration with U.S based artists over the years has positioned him as a unique bridge between Africa and the world, a mantle that he has carried proudly.
The demand for African music, fashion and culture worldwide has restored a sense of pride to Africans everywhere with most yearning for a deeper connection with home, Davido reflectingly asks 'Are we African Yet?', are we willing to claim our heritage and our culture. The A.W.A.Y Festival is an opportunity that urges the African diaspora and non-Africans around the world to find and celebrate each other roots and experience African culture like never before.
Afrobeats music is currently one of the fastest growing music genre, gaining global recognition and some of Africa's finest artists will grace the stage alongside some of the hottest stars stateside, with headline performances by DAVIDO, KIZZ DANIEL, PHEELZ, LOJAY, VICTONY, OXLADE, BNXN, FOCALISTIC, AND MORE.
Tickets for the first ever A.W.A.Y Festival will go on sale beginning Friday, September 23, 2022 at Ticketmaster.com
"Growing up, we were often made to feel unworthy as Africans, so many of us didn't want to claim where we were from and in some cases denied our heritage. That's not the case anymore, we are proud Africans, and we want to invite people to enjoy our culture – our music, food and art. That's what The A.W.A.Y Festival is all about," said, A.W.A.Y Festival Founder, Davido.
ARE WE AFRICAN YET?'s mission is to unite communities, promote collaboration and celebrate the diversity and magic of African music and culture. It is an opportunity to build coalition between Africa and the world. Through the power of music, A.W.A.Y seeks to celebrate our shared parallels in culture, dance, clothing and provide an opportunity to empower everyone to build pride and claim their heritage proudly.
2022 has been a busy year for Afrobeat's icon Davido. The American born, Nigerian raised superstar saw his music streaming surpass +2 Billion and his social media footprint exceed +50M, making him the most followed Afrobeat's artist in the world. In April 2022, Davido released new projects including the multi-million streaming Stand Strong ft. Sunday Service Choir, the first single off his highly anticipated forthcoming album and his collaboration with FIFA on their 2022 World Cup Soundtrack "Hayya Hayya (Better Together)". Davido recently finished performing his sold-out, We Rise By Lifting Others World Tour.
Davido (born David Adedeji Adeleke) has cemented his position as a global force within the music scene, capped off by several milestones for the platinum artist including his second sold out show at London's O2 Arena and the release of his third studio album, 2020's A Better Time, the critically acclaimed follow up to his 1.2 billion streaming 2019 release, A Good Time. Released at the end of 2020, A Better Time debuted on Billboards 200 album chart garnering over 560 million streams and producing certified hits High featuring Adekunle Gold, Holy Ground Ft. Nicki Minaj and Shopping Spree ft. Chris Brown & Young Thug. Shopping Spree marked Davido's 10th entry on Billboard's World Digital Song Chart, it was highlighted by millions of video views and attracted the praise of Rolling Stone, HighSnobiety and Complex. In addition to both fan and critical acclaim, Davido's U.S. visibility continue to soar with thrilling national television appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel Live and magazine covers of Billboard, Flaunt, Dazed, L'Officiel to name a few. Davido has also been recognized with Billboard Music Award, BET Award, as well as several Grammy Nominations.
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Wastewater surveillance becomes more targeted in search for poliovirus, monkeypox and COVID
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, health officials closely monitored sewage samples for signs of the virus to track where it could be circulating. Now, that technique is being used to detect other infectious diseases: polio and monkeypox.
Some disease detectives in the United States are narrowing their wastewater surveillance efforts to zero in on specific buildings and identify hot spots for a growing list of diseases.
"Some wastewater surveillance is done at the community level, and some is done at the building level, which is a little bit better nuanced in terms of trying to target messaging," said Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
"For example, in some of our jurisdictions, they'll monitor a large hotel or a prison setting," she said. "If it pops up there, you can target messaging directly to that building."
A building-level approach to wastewater surveillance is underway at all 11 hospitals within the NYC Health + Hospitals integrated health care system in New York City.
The system launched a surveillance program in February to test sewage for coronavirus and flu viruses in wastewater from its hospitals, and the program expanded in August to include testing for polio and monkeypox, according to a company announcement.
"With the increase in rapid tests and the decline of federal funding for the Covid response this spring, wastewater testing was an affordable, easy way for us to track the presence of COVID in the community without needing patients to take a test," Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said in the announcement. "Now, with the arrival of monkeypox and polio in New York City, we have a system in place to test for those viruses and use that data to inform our response."
'A good secondary backup'
The health system's surveillance program was successful at identifying Covid-19 and flu viruses in wastewater at its NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst hospital up to two weeks before viral infections were identified clinically among patients at the hospital, said Leopolda Silvera, global health deputy at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst.
Using the wastewater testing data, "we've been able to tell about 10 to 14 days prior to when we're going to see an onset of having our patients show up sick," Silvera said.
"People are shedding the virus when they use the bathroom," she said. "So if we're testing our wastewater, then we can tell whether or not there's an uptick in virus in the community at that given point. And then it ends up showing when people start presenting symptoms 10 to 14 days later."
Silvera described the wastewater surveillance data as giving clinicians a warning signal of a potential increase or decrease in disease, which can help inform efforts toward preventing or treating illness and surging staff and supplies to meet needs.
With the ongoing global monkeypox outbreak and a recent detection of poliovirus in New York City sewage samples, Silvera said that it was "natural" for the NYC Health + Hospitals wastewater surveillance program to evolve to include testing for those viruses.
"If we can get direct testing from our patients, like our COVID testing, that is our primary way of being able to treat and know what's going on with our patient population," she said. "But having our wastewater surveillance, that's a good secondary backup for us to know what's going on in our community and for us to be able to plan accordingly."
Searching for understanding in sewage
Wastewater surveillance involves testing sewage to determine whether feces and other types of human waste in untreated sewage contain genetic material from viruses or bacteria that can make people sick. That material, either RNA or DNA, can be detected in wastewater -- but it does not indicate whether the pathogen is infectious in the water itself.
"We're really focused on understanding what is the burden of disease and how much disease is in the community with these measurements," said Marlene Wolfe, an assistant professor of environmental health at Emory University and co-principal investigator for WastewaterSCAN, a national wastewater surveillance initiative.
"Wastewater surveillance, the reason it works so well is because everyone in the community is contributing their sample to the sewer system daily," she said. "For some places, that might be most of the population of the county is contributing to that one plant, and for some places, it might be that even in just one city, there are several plants that are covering different parts of the population."
Then, of course, there could be surveillance at the building level, such as in a hospital.
Sampling wastewater at different levels within a community can range from "the treatment plant being the highest level down to an individual building," Wolfe said. "There's also kind of an in-between level, which is within the sewer network."
Wastewater surveillance dates to the 1940s, when researchers used it to find carriers of the bacteria that cause typhoid fever or to detect polio.
Since then, wastewater surveillance has been used to help with tracking infectious diseases on a global scale — but the technique was far from mainstream before COVID-19 emerged. This coronavirus is the first respiratory virus tracked with wastewater, Wolfe said.
In response to the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Wastewater Surveillance System in September 2020. Local public health departments use it to submit their wastewater testing data to CDC. The system analyzes that data and reports the results back to the health departments for use in their COVID-19 response.
A survey of 194 local public health agency leaders, published by the Rockefeller Foundation in April, found that although 38% have monitored wastewater for the virus that causes Covid-19 at some point during the pandemic, only 21% reported that they are likely to monitor their wastewater after the pandemic wanes.
"That survey from Rockefeller was really well done, but the surveys mostly were completed prior to the omicron surge. That surge was a time when we anecdotally saw a significant increase in interest from public health departments using the information and the media and the public showing interest in the data as a trustworthy source," Wolfe said.
She hopes wastewater surveillance can continue to be utilized as a public health tool.
The WastewaterSCAN initiative, based at Stanford University and completely separate from the CDC's system, launched in November 2020 to scan sewage samples for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since then, the program has expanded to monitor more sewage plants and track more pathogens.
As of last week, the initiative — which involves a partnership between universities, nonprofits and the research company Verily — monitors 48 treatment plants across 16 states for the coronavirus and its BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, as well as monkeypox, influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus.
When new threats emerge, it is "relatively easy" to use wastewater samples from the initiative to immediately test for whatever that threat might be, Wolfe said.
"That's what we were just recently able to do for monkeypox, which was really exciting because we were able to roll it out very quickly, and we saw in a number of places, including Atlanta, that we had monkeypox DNA detectable in the wastewater from the time we started monitoring, which was pretty early in the outbreak," she said. "That's the advantage of having this kind of population-level network that allows us to speak to the overall trends in infectious disease outbreaks."
'If you don't look for something, you're not going to see it'
Wastewater surveillance has proved to be useful at a time when it's been critical to monitor for pathogens that are not typically seen in the United States, such as polio and monkeypox, said Dr. Daniel Rhoads, co-chair of the College of American Pathologists Microbiology Committee.
Clinically, in the United States, "we stopped testing for polio because polio was gone. We never tested for monkeypox because it's a zoonotic disease to an endemic area within Africa, so we didn't even need to concern ourselves with it on a day to day," said Rhoads, who is also a pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Yet wastewater surveillance "opens our eyes collectively — medicine, public health and society — and makes us realize that if you don't look for something, you're not going to see it," Rhoads said.
"With surveillance in general — and maybe wastewater surveillance specifically — I expect there's going to be more meta-genomic analysis of wastewater where people aren't looking for a specific pathogen. They're just looking to see what's in there and is there anything surprising in there. And so, we as a society should not be too surprised that there are pathogens out there that we haven't recognized," he said. "Hopefully, this type of surveillance will enlighten us, and then we can develop tools to help at an individual level to diagnose and eventually treat these emerging diseases caused by these pathogens." | https://www.wmur.com/article/wastewater-surveillance-poliovirus-monkeypox-coronavirus/41083318 | 2022-09-05 17:20:20 | 1 | https://www.wmur.com/article/wastewater-surveillance-poliovirus-monkeypox-coronavirus/41083318 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes surged in February to the fastest pace in six months as homebuyers seized on a modest drop in mortgage rates. The nation’s median price also edged lower, its first annual drop since 2012.
Existing home sales jumped 14.5% last month from January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.58 million, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. That’s the strongest sales pace since September and it’s higher than the 4.2 million economists were expecting, according to FactSet.
The surge in sales — the biggest on records going back to 1999 — ended a 12-month slide that knocked the nation’s housing market into its deepest slump in nearly a decade and left sales in January at the slowest pace in more than a dozen years.
Still, sales sank 22.6% last month from February last year, a sign many would-be homebuyers remain priced out of the market following years of price increases and sharply higher mortgage rates than a year ago.
The average long-term rate on a 30-year mortgage reached a two-decade high of 7.08% in the fall. Rates eased in December and January, and slipped to just above 6% in early February.
“Conscious of changing mortgage rates, homebuyers are taking advantage of any rate declines,” said Lawrence Yun, the NAR’s chief economist. “Moreover, we’re seeing stronger sales gains in areas where home prices are decreasing and the local economies are adding jobs.”
The national median home price slipped 0.2% from February last year to $363,000, marking the first annual decline in 13 years, the NAR said.
Yun has forecast that U.S. home prices will fall 2% this year, but acknowledged they could just as easily end up falling or rising 5%, depending on what happens with mortgage rates.
“Home sales I think have already bottomed out; little unclear on the prices,” he said.
The slight dip in prices is a good sign for buyers as the spring homebuying season ramps up, though affordability remains a formidable hurdle after years of soaring home values. The median U.S. home price is still up roughly 45% since February 2019, according to FactSet.
First-time buyers accounted for 27% of the homes sold in last month, down from 31% in January.
“Anything under 30% is not good news,” Yun said.
Elevated mortgage rates, which can add hundreds of a dollars a month in costs for homebuyers, on top of already high home prices, have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines.
The average rate on a 30-year home loan slipped to 6.60% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year ago, the rate averaged 4.16%.
Stronger-than-expected reports on the economy this year have fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve may have to keep pushing up its key borrowing rate to tame inflation as soon as Wednesday, when the central bank is due to wrap up its latest policy meeting.
Investor expectations for future inflation, global demand for U.S. Treasurys and what the Fed does with interest rates can influence mortgage rates. Many economists expect at least three more increases before the end of the year, though some have dialed those expectations back due to the recently developing banking crisis.
While there are more homes on the market than last year, the supply remains near historic lows, which is helping prop up home prices. The inventory of homes for sale was unchanged from January but rose 15.3% from February last year. Some 980,000 homes were on the market by the end of the month. That amounts to a 2.6-month supply at the current sales pace. In a more balanced market between buyers and sellers, there is a 5- to 6-month supply.
One plus for homebuyers: Properties are staying on the market nearly twice as long as a year ago. On average, homes sold in 34 days of hitting the market in February. That’s up from 33 days in January and 18 days in February last year. Still, 57% of homes sold in February were on the market for less than a month, the NAR said. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/us-home-sales-surged-in-february-as-mortgage-rates-dipped/ | 2023-03-22 11:37:33 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/us-home-sales-surged-in-february-as-mortgage-rates-dipped/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Ford closed New York Fashion Week on Wednesday with Madonna on his front row and a runway full of big hair, disco cowgirls and sequins for miles.
Love was clearly on his mind, and dancing all night.
On a reflective runway worthy of all that shine, to a soundtrack of “Addicted to Love,” “The Look of Love,” “Pure/Honey” and “Take on Me,” Ford’s models were more than a little ready to party ‘70s and ’80s style on his downtown catwalk.
He rolled out embellished sets of tiny velvet shorts and matching jackets of bright red and blue adorned with flowers, leaves and butterflies, some with a touch of cowboy fringe. Other models walked in sporty short-shorts of silver and gold, and low-slung trousers and skirts in silver and mint, tiny and sheer bralettes peaking out.
He put multicolored applique of hearts and stars on some of his looks, and several of his models wore low-heeled, dance-all-night boots above the knee in purple and gold. One walked in a killer pastel purple tracksuit with a midriff jacket and wide-legged pants.
And there was an after-party of skimpy black lingerie paired with multicolored sequin jackets.
Madonna was joined by her daughter, Lourdes Leon, Chris Rock, Erykah Badu, Nicole Richie, Katie Holmes, Frances Tiafoe, Ciara and more.
Ford routinely mixes the sexes on his runway, as he did this time around. There was a bright pink suit for one of his men worn tone-on-tone with a tie and lighter shade of dress shirt. Thonged women got leather jackets, all in black, as did a man in short lace boxers emblazoned with Ford’s eponymous brand name. Another of his men walked in a watery white dinner jacket.
Ford switched moods and slowed it down for his finale with Freddie Mercury’s “Time,” sending out sexy metallic sequined gowns in copper, and two-tone green and blue, on Bella and Gigi Hadid, respectively. There were other long sequined gowns, some with high slits and cut outs, in purple and sea green, and a sparkly bride holding an equally bedazzled bouquet.
His Studio 54 girls rocked huge hoop sequined earrings to match their sparkle as Mercury sang: “We’ve got to build this world together or we’ll have no more future at all, because time, it waits for nobody.”
Was the end a Ford lament? A sentimental lookback? A processing of the pandemic, politics and where the immediate future is going?
The designer offered soft white couches to his guests, but no show notes, letting Mercury’s words linger: “You don’t need me to tell you what’s gone wrong. You know what’s going on. And it seems to me we’ve not cared enough or confided in each other at all. It seems like we’ve all got our backs against the wall.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/ap-tom-ford-closes-fashion-week-with-big-hair-miles-of-sparkle/ | 2022-09-16 01:57:30 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/ap-tom-ford-closes-fashion-week-with-big-hair-miles-of-sparkle/ |
In this Washington Post Live conversation from Dec. 7, 2021, Billy Porter discusses his memoir, “Unprotected,” and opens up about his journey from the poverty of Pittsburgh to becoming the Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning singer, actor and producer he is today.
In this Washington Post Live conversation from Dec. 7, 2021, Billy Porter discusses his memoir, “Unprotected,” and opens up about his journey from the poverty of Pittsburgh to becoming the Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning singer, actor and producer he is today.
In this Washington Post Live conversation from July 7, Waithe and Rajani discuss Hillman Grad, the production company Waithe founded in 2015 to serve as a pipeline for marginalized storytellers; the shows “Master of None” and “The Chi,” which put Waithe on the map; and what it takes to make Hollywood more equitable. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/capehart/billy-porters-unstoppable-journey/ | 2022-09-06 10:20:22 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/capehart/billy-porters-unstoppable-journey/ |
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. ("TETRA" or the "Company") (NYSE:TTI) today announced second quarter 2022 financial results and lithium and bromine brine sampling results from the recently completed exploratory well.
Second quarter 2022 revenue of $141 million increased 8% from the first quarter of 2022 and 38% from the second quarter of 2021. Net income before discontinued operations was $1.8 million, inclusive of $4.9 million of non-recurring charges and expenses. This compares to net income before discontinued operations of $7.7 million in the first quarter of 2022, inclusive of $564,000 of non-recurring credits, net of charges. Net income per share from continuing operations was $0.01 in the second quarter compared to a net income per share from continuing operations in the first quarter of $0.06. Adjusted net income per share from continuing operations was $0.05 compared to $0.06 in the first quarter of 2022 and to a loss of $0.02 in the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter was $18.7 million, compared to $20.5 million in the first quarter of 2022 and to $13.0 million in the second quarter of 2021. The second quarter of 2022 included a $1.3 million unfavorable impact as a result of a European supplier declaring force majeure and being unable to provide a key raw material to our European industrial chemicals operations as a result of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. The supplier has since resumed supplying TETRA, but currently at reduced volumes. Additionally, the second quarter included unrealized losses on investments of $0.7 million. Excluding the impact of the aforementioned items, Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2022 would have been $20.7 million.
Cash flow from operating activities was $17.9 million in the second quarter of 2022 compared to $5.9 million in the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations was $6.4 million.
In the first quarter of 2022, the Company completed the drilling and sampling of an exploratory well on TETRA's Arkansas leased acreage under which it owns certain mineral rights and secured fluid samples from multiple zones of interest within the Smackover Formation for the purpose of validating the historical mineral concentrations. An analysis of those samples by two independent laboratories showed higher concentration levels of lithium and bromine compared to the average concentrations for each mineral used in the Company's previously reported exploration targets. The third-party laboratory results showed an average concentration of 473 mg/liter of lithium, which are 67% higher than the average used in the exploration target, and 5,350 mg/liter for bromine, which are 8% higher than the average used in the exploration target.
TETRA had previously announced in 2021 the completion of a 2021 Exploration Target Assessment, a geological introduction technical report on its bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent project in southern Arkansas. The assessment included conceptual exploration targets of 2.54 million to 8.58 million tons of bromine and 85,000 to 286,000 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent within the Smackover Formation reservoir. The potential quantity and grade of the exploration targets are conceptual in nature, and there has been insufficient exploration to estimate a mineral resource. The purpose of completing the exploratory well was to obtain the fluid sample analysis and retain an independent geological consulting firm to analyze these results and determine whether there is sufficient information to prepare a mineral resource geological model and estimation on the Smackover Formation bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent underlying the TETRA acreage. TETRA is expected to receive this independent report in the third quarter of 2022.
Brady Murphy, TETRA President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We continue to deliver strong results in what we believe are the early stages of a longer term up cycle for the oil and gas sector, while continuing to make significant progress on our low carbon energy opportunities. Despite unprecedented inflation challenges for fuel, labor and equipment in the U.S. and the Russia/Ukraine war impacting our European supply chain, we delivered results in-line with our internal expectations.
"Water & Flowback Services revenue of $66 million improved $28 million (75%) year-on-year. Income before taxes in the second quarter was $1.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA of $9.9 million improved by $7.9 million (397%) year-on-year. The second quarter revenue for our United States land business was the highest since the third quarter of 2019, despite significantly fewer active frac fleets. Water & Flowback Services Adjusted EBITDA margins were 15.1%, hitting our full-year targets earlier than expected, as our technology, integration and digitalization investments continue to gain traction while price increases continue to modestly stay ahead of inflation. While U.S. market growth is limited by availability of additional frac fleets, we continue to gain market share with broad customer acceptance of our integrated water management business model, leading water recycling capabilities and delivering the best in-class sand management services with the recently patented TETRA SandStormTM advanced cyclone technology. We added four new recycling projects during the second quarter and saw record recycling volumes in the Permian Basin - recycling 571 million gallons, up 62% from a year ago and 17% from the first quarter of 2022. Integrated water management projects increased from 55 projects in the first quarter of 2022 to 62 projects with 36 different customers in the second quarter of 2022. We continue to see strong utilization and higher pricing for the TETRA Sandstorm technology, and at the end of the second quarter we were awarded our largest scope of work yet for a super major operator in the Delaware Basin and Eagleford shale play. During the second quarter we also introduced our new automated drill out technology for a large independent producer in the Appalachian Basin. This new technology is expected to reduce well site personnel by more than 30%, reduce rig up/down time by approximately 40%, and reduce HSE exposure – making a meaningful impact to our customer's well economics.
"Completion Fluids & Products second quarter 2022 revenue of $75 million increased year-on-year by 16% and increased from the first quarter of 2022 by 2% as the seasonal uplift for our Northern European industrial chemicals operations was partially offset by lower Gulf of Mexico and international fluid sales as the first quarter benefited from sales pulling in from the second quarter. Income before taxes for the quarter was $15.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margins were 23.7% for the quarter, down from the first quarter and down year-on-year due to revenue mix and some inflationary costs on our European industrial chemicals business. In the second quarter our TETRA Advanced Displacement System (TADS) was awarded the 2021 E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation for the Drilling Fluids/Stimulation category. Also, during the second quarter we received a large order for calcium chloride from an international lithium producer who will treat their brine with the material as a part of their lithium extraction process. This is expected to represent a new market opportunity for TETRA's industrial chemicals business as lithium production ramps up across the globe.
"Our low carbon energy businesses and opportunities continue to make meaningful progress. As noted above, we received independent third-party laboratory results of lithium and bromine concentration from our brine fluid sample. We expect to receive a resource report in the third quarter that will quantify our estimated lithium and bromine resources on our leased acreage. We have engaged an engineering firm to begin work on a front-end engineering and design study (FEED). We also expect to soon begin work on a preliminary economic assessment (PEA). With the growing demand for bromine for deep water projects and for zinc bromide electrolytes for long-duration battery storage, our bromine needs are expected to expand beyond our current long-term agreement. We anticipate that producing our own bromine from our acreage may be more cost-effective than our current sources, creating an opportunity for margin enhancement in addition to significant incremental revenue. Sales of our high purity zinc bromine solution, TETRA PureFlow® to Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. ("Eos") increased significantly during the second quarter compared to the first quarter of 2022. As Eos continues to add to its backlog and expand its production capacity, we expect shipments to further increase in the second half of 2022.
"We continue to make significant progress on our base business, introduce technology and digitalization, evolve our low carbon opportunities and find new markets for our existing products, which collectively contribute to a broader earnings base and higher growth market opportunities – setting the stage for significant shareholder value creation."
This press release includes the following financial measures that are not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP"): Adjusted income (loss) per share from continuing operations, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA Margin (Adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue) on consolidated and segment basis, Adjusted income/(loss) from continuing operations, adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations, and net debt. Please see Schedules E through H for reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
Second Quarter Results and Highlights
A summary of key financial metrics for the second quarter are as follows:
Completion Fluids & Products second quarter 2022 revenue of $75 million increased 2% from the first quarter of 2022 due to the seasonal increase for our Northern Europe industrial chemicals business, partially offset by lower activity in the Gulf of Mexico and international markets as sales were previously moved into the first quarter of 2022. Completion Fluids & Products income before taxes was $15.3 million in the second quarter (20.4% of revenue) compared to $19.3 million (26.4% of revenue) in the first quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITDA of $17.7 million, which included a $0.8 million mark-to-market loss from TETRA's equity holding in Standard Lithium and a $0.6 million unrealized gain from TETRA's investment in CarbonFree, decreased $1.4 million sequentially. Completion Fluids & Products adjusted EBITDA margins were 23.7% in the second quarter compared to 26.1% in the first quarter of 2022. Excluding the unrealized gains and losses from investments for both periods, adjusted EBITDA margins decreased sequentially by 210 basis points. Second quarter margins were negatively impacted by inflationary pressures as we are seeing increased pricing for raw materials and our Northern Europe industrial business was impacted by $1.3 million from a force majeure declaration from a key raw materials supplier, resulting in lower production levels and under absorption at our Kokkola, Finland plant.
Water & Flowback Services revenue was $66 million in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 16% from the first quarter of 2022. Income before taxes was $1.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA of $9.9 million (15.1% of revenue) increased 21% sequentially and was up by a factor of five from the second quarter of 2021 due to increased activity in the North America onshore business combined with ongoing pricing improvements. Adjusted EBITDA margins improved 60 basis points from the first quarter of 2022 to 15.1% as we continue to see some pricing improvements to help offset inflationary pressures. We expect the third-quarter Adjusted EBITDA margins to further improve reflecting continued better pricing, stronger activity levels and the commencement of operations of two early production facilities in Argentina.
Free Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
Cash from operating activities was $17.9 million in the second quarter and adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations was $6.4 million. Liquidity at the end of the second quarter was $103 million, the highest since 2019 and improved $8 million from the first quarter of 2022 driven by positive free cash flow and availability under our ABL facility. Liquidity is defined as unrestricted cash plus availability under our revolving credit facilities. At the end of the second quarter, unrestricted cash was $36 million and availability under our credit agreements was $67 million. Long-term debt, with a September 2025 maturity, was $153 million, while net debt was $117 million. TETRA's net leverage ratio continued to improve and was 1.8X at the end of the second quarter of 2022.
Non-recurring Charges and Expenses
Non-recurring charges and expenses are reflected on Schedule E and include $2.3 million of non-cash impairment and other charges, $0.6 million of costs associated with the exploratory brine well, $1.5 million of cumulative adjustments to long-term incentives and appreciation right expenses, and $0.6 million of transaction and other expenses. The $1.3 million of under absorption from our Kokkola plant and the $0.7 million of unrealized losses are included in both our reported and adjusted earnings.
Conference Call
TETRA will host a conference call to discuss these results tomorrow, August 2, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The phone number for the call is 1-888-347-5303. The conference call will also be available by live audio webcast and may be accessed through the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.tetratec.com/events-and-webcasts. A replay of the conference call will be available at 1-877-344-7529 conference number 2427423, for one week following the conference call and the archived webcast will be available through the Company's website for thirty days following the conference call.
Investor Contact
For further information: Elijio Serrano, CFO, TETRA Technologies, Inc., The Woodlands, Texas, Phone: (281) 367-1983, www.tetratec.com
Financial Statements, Schedules and Non-GAAP Reconciliation Schedules (Unaudited)
Schedule A: Consolidated Income Statement
Schedule B: Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
Schedule C: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Schedule D: Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Schedule E: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Adjusted Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations
Schedule F: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA
Schedule G: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Net Debt
Schedule H: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to Adjusted Free Cash Flow From Continuing Operations
Schedule I: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to Net Leverage Ratio
Company Overview
TETRA Technologies, Inc. is an industrial and oil & gas products and services company operating on six continents focused on bromine-based completion fluids, calcium chloride, water management solutions, frac flowback and production well testing services. Calcium chloride is used in the oil and gas industry, and also has broad industrial applications to the agricultural, road, food and beverage, and lithium production markets. TETRA is evolving its business model by expanding into the low carbon energy markets with its chemistry expertise, key mineral acreage and global infrastructure. Recently announced initiatives include commercialization of TETRA PureFlow® an ultra-pure zinc bromide for stationary batteries and energy storage; advancing an innovative carbon capture utilization and storage technology with CarbonFree to capture CO2 and mineralize emissions to make commercial, carbon-negative chemicals; and development of TETRA's lithium and bromine mineral acreage to meet the growing demand for oil and gas products and energy storage. Visit the Company's website at www.tetratec.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes certain statements that are deemed to be forward-looking statements. Generally, the use of words such as "may," "see," "expectation," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "projects," "anticipate," "believe," "assume," "could," "should," "plans," "targets" or similar expressions that convey the uncertainty of future events, activities, expectations or outcomes identify forward-looking statements that the Company intends to be included within the safe harbor protections provided by the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning economic and operating conditions that are outside of our control, including statements concerning recovery of the oil and gas industry; customer delays for international completion fluids related to global shipping and logistics issues; potential revenue associated with prospective energy storage projects or our pending carbon capture partnership; exploration targets of lithium and bromine, the potential extraction of lithium and bromine from the leased acreage, the economic viability thereof, the demand for such resources, and the timing and costs of such activities; the ability to obtain an inferred resource report and preliminary economic assessment regarding our lithium and bromine acreage; projections concerning the Company's business activities, financial guidance, estimated earnings, earnings per share, and statements regarding the Company's beliefs, expectations, plans, goals, future events and performance, and other statements that are not purely historical. With respect to the Company's disclosures of exploration targets, including bromine and lithium carbonate equivalent concentrations, it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a mineral resource. The exploration targets expressed should not be misrepresented or misconstrued as an estimate of a mineral resource or mineral reserve. It is possible that the exploration target quantity and grade could change as our exploration activities are completed and evaluated. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performances or results and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that could affect actual results are described in the section titled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K, as well as other risks identified from time to time in its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Schedule D: Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to financial results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, this press release may include the following non-GAAP financial measures for the Company: adjusted income (loss) per share from continuing operations; consolidated and segment adjusted EBITDA; segment adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue ("Adjusted EBITDA margin"); adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations, adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations; net debt, and net leverage ratio. The following schedules provide reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures. The non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, as more fully discussed in the Company's financial statements and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Management believes that the exclusion of the special charges from the historical results of operations enables management to evaluate more effectively the Company's operations over the prior periods and to identify operating trends that could be obscured by the excluded items.
Adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations is defined as the Company's income (loss) before noncontrolling interests and discontinued operations, excluding certain special or other charges (or credits), and including noncontrolling interest attributable to continued operations. Adjusted income (loss) from continuing operations is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.
Adjusted earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations is defined as the Company's diluted earnings (loss) per share excluding certain special or other charges (or credits), discontinued operations and noncontrolling interest attributable to discontinued operations. Adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.
Adjusted EBITDA (and adjusted EBITDA as a percent of revenue) is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, impairments and certain non-cash charges, non-recurring adjustments and discontinued operations. Adjusted EBITDA (and adjusted EBITDA margin) is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess the financial performance of the Company's assets, without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis and to assess the Company's ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures.
Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations is defined as cash from operations less discontinued operations EBITDA and discontinued operations capital expenditures, less capital expenditures net of sales proceeds and cost of equipment sold, less payments on financing lease obligations and including cash distributions to TETRA from CSI Compressco and cash from other investments. Management uses this supplemental financial measure to:
- assess the Company's ability to retire debt;
- evaluate the capacity of the Company to further invest and grow; and
- to measure the performance of the Company as compared to its peer group.
Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations do not necessarily imply residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures, as they exclude cash requirements for debt service or other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted.
Net debt is defined as the sum of the carrying value of long-term and short-term debt on its consolidated balance sheet, less cash, excluding restricted cash on the balance sheet. Management views net debt as a measure of TETRA's ability to reduce debt, add to cash balances, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and fund investing and financing activities.
Net leverage ratio is defined as debt excluding financing fees & discount on term loan and including letters of credit and guarantees, less cash divided by trailing twelve months adjusted EBITDA for credit facilities. Adjusted EBITDA for credit facilities consists of adjusted EBITDA described above, plus equity compensation expense, less non-cash (gain) loss on sale of investments, (gain) loss on sales of assets and excluding certain special or other charges (or credits). Management primarily uses this metric to assess TETRA's ability to borrow, reduce debt, add to cash balances, pay distributions, and fund investing and financing activities.
Schedule G: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of Net Debt (Unaudited)
The following reconciliation of net debt is presented as a supplement to financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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Maria Bakalova wants to make you feel something
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it comes to acting, Maria Bakalova considers herself to be a person of extremes.
“Cinema is supposed to be provoking. It’s not supposed to be, I think, something that is somewhere in the middle,” the Oscar-nominated actor said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
If a movie doesn’t make you feel something, she said, “what was really the point?”
Bakalova both stars in her latest project, “The Honeymoon,” and worked as a producer, something she said she hopes to do more of in the future.
“The more I grow up, the more I want to spend time behind the camera,” she said, citing a need for more women to direct and write.
“The Honeymoon,” now available to rent on streaming, is a comedy replete with extremes.
The drug-and-toilet-humor-filled comedy may seem like a long way off from her initial dream of acting in the kinds of films made in the avant-garde Dogme 95 movement, led by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The Bulgarian actress was so captivated by Danish cinema that she convinced her parents to take her to Copenhagen in an effort to get whatever job she could at von Trier’s production company.
But she realized different genres can achieve similar ends after her breakout role in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” a project she praised for its ability to effect change.
“It’s a social experiment that can show people’s true colors. And at the end of the day, that should be the most important part because art can influence people,” she said.
Although her role in “Borat” opened her up to the potential and importance of a variety of genres, Bakalova said she still believes actors should be discerning about what parts they accept.
“Don’t be too picky,” she cautioned, but said actors have a responsibility to select roles that are “worthy of your attention and people’s attention because you’re not doing this art just for yourself.” She believes the secret to longevity in Hollywood is to never settle into one genre or character.
When she thinks back on her time making “Borat,” Bakalova said the infamous hotel room scene with Rudy Giuliani felt like the most precarious of Sacha Baron Cohen’s antics, calling it a “scary situation.”
“I absolutely had no way to communicate with Sacha,” she recalled. “I didn’t know what was going to happen.”
Bakalova, who had never acted in an English-language film prior to “Borat,” had a busy year in 2022. In addition to “The Honeymoon,” she starred in “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and Judd Apatow’s “The Bubble.” She will make her Marvel debut in 2023 with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.”
Aside from acting, one of Bakalova’s goals at some point is to meet fellow flutist Lizzo.
“If I just ever have a chance to be next to her, at least look at her, that’s going to be the best day of my life,” she said.
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CLEVELAND and BOSTON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPE Partners ("MPE" or "Morgenthaler Private Equity"), along with portfolio company Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. ("MSHS") announced the acquisition of Pacific Power Group, LLC ("PPG" or the "Company"). PPG is an industry leading provider of products, parts, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul ("MRO") services for marine, energy, commercial, and industrial equipment.
MPE and MSHS partnered in the transaction with members of PPG's management team, led by Bill Mossey. David Santamaria, CEO of MSHS, said, "For over 30 years, PPG and MSHS have strived to be their clients' trusted partners and recognized for their customer-centered mindset and a deep commitment to a set of common core values. PPG and MSHS are extremely complementary companies with similar ways of working."
Joe Machado, Partner at MPE, added, "We are thrilled to bring together PPG and MSHS to accelerate the growth opportunities of the merged businesses. The combination expands each company's technical talent base, geographic footprint, product offerings, MRO service capabilities, and end-markets to better serve customers."
Bill Mossey, President of PPG, noted, "I am especially excited about how the scale of these firms together enables expanded recruiting and training, which allows us to broaden our technical services. Through an expanded investment in this area, we will strive to become more capable and have greater capacity to solve our customers' challenges and allow them to focus more on their businesses."
Forbright Bank and City National Bank of Florida provided financing to support the transaction. BakerHostetler served as legal advisor to MPE. Cascadia Capital acted as the investment banking advisor to Pacific Power Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About Pacific Power Group
Headquartered in Vancouver, WA, PPG is an industry leading provider of products, parts, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul ("MRO") services for marine, energy, commercial and industrial equipment. For more information, please visit www.pacificpowergroup.com.
About Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc.
Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, MSHS is a leading independent, third-party MRO services provider for marine and power generation applications. For more information, please visit www.mshs.com.
About MPE Partners
MPE Partners ("MPE" or "Morgenthaler Private Equity") seeks to be the preferred partner for entrepreneur- and family-owned companies. Based in Cleveland, OH, and Boston, MA, MPE invests in profitable, lower middle market companies with transaction values up to $250 million. MPE has two primary target investment areas: high-value manufacturing and commercial & industrial services. For more information, please visit www.mpepartners.com.
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Navajo Nation to receive federal aid for severe flood damage
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is set receive federal emergency aid to help repair damage caused by severe flooding during a series of storms earlier this year.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday granted a disaster declaration for the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., which extends across Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. Biden said storms on Jan. 14-17 had affected many Navajo communities.
The funds will help with emergency repairs and may also be used for other mitigation efforts.
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Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dog toy trademark dispute
Published: Jun. 8, 2023 at 10:14 AM MDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
(CNN) - The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing in on a poop joke.
It sided with Jack Daniel’s unanimously in its dispute with VIP Products over a dog toy the distiller says violates its trademark.
The whiskey maker can now revive its lawsuit against the toy maker.
The real bottle says “Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey.”
The dog toy parodies that with “Bad Spaniels The Old No. 2 On Your Tennessee Carpet.”
It’s not that the justices missed the joke, but they say the toy doesn’t have free speech protections because commercial products have to follow trademark law.
The ruling overturns an appeals court decision.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University junior golfer Jackson Davenport shot 2-under-par on Monday and is now tied for fifth place at 5-under-par after 36 holes of competition at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational at Isleworth Golf and Country Club in Windermere, Florida.
Davenport, a native of Austin, Texas, recovered after a tough start on Monday to shoot 5-under-par on the final 16 holes. He is two shots behind fourth place and five shots off the lead.
Freshman Kaleb Wilson shot 1-under-par on Monday after posting a round of 72 on Sunday. His 1-under-par score after 36 holes has him sitting tied for 13th place.
In Monday’s second round, junior Will Stakel was 2-over-par, senior Trent Tipton was 5-over-par and sophomore Todd Duncan posted an 83. Sophomore Max Green is competing as an individual and recorded an 81 on Monday.
For the second day in a row, the Mountaineers posted a 292 score and sit in eighth place in the 15-team field, one shot ahead of UCF and South Carolina. WVU is three shots behind No. 24 Arizona for seventh place.
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MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, the Ouachita Parish Police Jury announced that the administrative offices are moving to 100 Bry Street in Monroe, La. on October 24, 2022. According to officials, the Ouachita Parish Police Jury will be closed to the public starting October 24, 2022, and will reopen approximately October 27, 2022.
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury’s post office mailing address will remain as P.O. Box 3007 in Monroe, La. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/ouachita-parish-police-jurys-administrative-offices-moving-to-new-location/ | 2022-10-18 22:30:52 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/ouachita-parish-police-jurys-administrative-offices-moving-to-new-location/ |
The stress of entrepreneurship can weigh heavy on small business owners, from maintaining financial stability to managing employees. Amy Hirt, Clinical Supervisor in Eskenazi Health’s Crisis Intervention unit, gave several mental health awareness tips for entrepreneurs on this week’s “Running Your Business Day to Day” segment.
She said some warning signs include things that range from the inability to keep emotions in check to difficulty getting out of bed. She encouraged small business owners to remember that bosses are humans, too, with emotional and mental needs. Several support options include online mental health platforms, body movement, and giving permission to care for themselves.
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Updated January 27, 2023 at 2:31 PM ET
Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home last year.
The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him with the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of view of the camera and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.
Pelosi, apparently unconscious, can be seen lying face down on the floor in his pajama top and underwear. Officials later said he woke up in a pool of his own blood.
The release comes after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associated Press, sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office had refused to make the exhibits available to journalists.
A state court judge Wednesday ruled there was no reason to keep the video secret.
The evidence includes portions of Paul Pelosi's 911 call on Oct. 28, as well as video images from Capitol police surveillance cameras, a body camera worn by one of the two police officers who arrived at the house and a nearly 18-minute audio recording from DePape's interview with police.
The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass-panel door, leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. He set all the items down and pulled out a hammer, pausing to put on gloves, and used it to smash the door glass so he could step through an opening.
DePape has pleaded not guilty in ongoing state and federal cases. He is being held in jail without bail. He faces charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official.
The San Francisco public defender's office, which is representing DePape, 43, said they planned to issue a statement later Friday.
Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats in the two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
During the Jan. 6 attack, rioters chanted menacingly for the speaker as they rampaged through the halls trying to halt certification of Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election. One man was convicted this week of eight criminal counts after he put his feet on a desk in Pelosi's office and left a note to her punctuated with a sexist expletive.
Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple's home when DePape allegedly broke in. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington at the time and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members.
Her husband of nearly 60 years later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove that covered his wounds.
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told reporters her husband's well-being was paramount and she did not know if she would view the video once it was released.
"I don't even know if I will see that," she said. "I mean, it would be a very hard thing to see an assault on my husband's life, but I don't know."
San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes' body-camera video begins with officers approaching the brick home and rapping on the door. It takes about 20 seconds for the door to open and during that time, the officers discuss whether they have the right house.
When the door opens, Paul Pelosi says, "Hi, guys, how are you?"
Both men are facing the officers at the door. Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a flashlight shows DePape holding the handle of a hammer with his right hand and clutching Pelosi's right hand, which is gripping around the hammer head, with his left hand. The struggle is not apparent in the first few seconds.
"What's going on, man?" the officer asks.
"Everything's good," DePape replies.
"Drop the hammer," the officer says.
DePape says no and begins to pull it from Pelosi's grip. Pelosi says, "Hey, hey."
DePape wins control of the hammer and winds up with his right and delivers a vicious overhand blow as Pelosi disappears out of view and officers rush in. The officers called for backup as they struggled with DePape and Pelosi was lying on the ground.
In an interview with San Francisco Police Lt. Carla Hurley after he was taken into custody, DePape said he didn't regret the attack even though it was not on Nancy Pelosi, his intended target. DePape told Hurley he was going after Nancy Pelosi for lying to the American public and that he planned to hold her hostage for her crimes. He believed the discredited conspiracy that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump.
"Day in, day out, the person who was on the TV lying every day was Pelosi," he said.
He said he planned to hold her hostage and would "break her kneecaps" if she lied.
He said he was surprised to find Paul Pelosi in the house. DePape said he planned to tie Paul Pelosi up so he could get some sleep, because carrying a heavy backpack to the home had tired him out.
When Hurley asked why DePape did not leave when he realized Nancy Pelosi wasn't home and the police were on the way, he compared himself to the Founding Fathers.
"They fought the British, they fought the tyranny. They didn't just (expletive) surrender to it. And when I left my house, I went to go fight tyranny, I did not leave to go surrender," he said.
The U.S. Capitol Police investigated nearly 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
Public officials across the U.S., from local school board members to election workers, have also endured harassment and intimidation.
This month, a former Republican candidate for a state House seat in New Mexico was arrested in a series of shootings targeting the homes or offices of elected Democratic officials and a Kansas man was convicted of threatening a GOP congressman.
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LEWISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A state trooper and a suspect were killed Saturday in a shootout in central Pennsylvania, hours after the suspect seriously wounded another trooper, state police said.
Police in Juniata County said a man engaged troopers at about 12:45 p.m. near the Lewistown barracks and shot one trooper, who was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Authorities found the man shortly before 3 p.m. in Walker Township, about 21 miles (33 km) east of Lewistown. The shooter and a trooper were then killed during the resulting shootout, state police said in a news release.
The name of the trooper and the suspect who died and the name and condition of the wounded trooper were not immediately available.
Officials said Saturday evening there was no threat to the public.
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DULUTH — The Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey program, in conjunction with the NCHC, released its complete 2023-24 schedule on Tuesday, featuring 17 regular season home games at Amsoil Arena.
The Bulldogs will play four of their first five games of the season at home in October against CCHA opponents, starting with Michigan Tech in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame game on Oct. 7 to open the regular season.
UMD plays Minnesota and North Dakota on back-to-back weekends, with the Gophers visiting on Saturday, Nov. 4 (after a Nov. 3 game in Minneapolis) and the Fighting Hawks coming to Amsoil Arena to open NCHC play Nov. 10-11.
Seven of UMD’s first 11 games in October and November are at Amsoil Arena while six of the Bulldogs' final 10 games of the regular season are on the road, including trips to North Dakota and Colorado College on back-to-back weekends at the end of February and start of March.
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- Cornell played the Bulldogs in Duluth for the first time in 2022-23. Now UMD will make its first trip to play the Big Red in Ithaca, New York.
- The Holiday Face-Off at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee will be UMD’s first holiday tournament since playing in Dartmouth’s Ledyard Bank Classic and Arizona State’s Desert Hockey Classic in back-to-back seasons in Dec. 2017 and Dec. 2018.
- The one NCHC team that won’t visit UMD in 2023-24 is Western Michigan. The Bulldogs will not travel to Denver for NCHC play in 2023-14.
The full schedule can be found below:
2022-23 UMD men’s hockey schedule
(home games in ALL CAPS)
October
7 — MICHIGAN TECH (U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game)
13-14 — NORTHERN MICHIGAN
20 — at Bemidji State
21 — BEMIDJI STATE
27-28 — at Cornell
November
3 — at Minnesota
4 — MINNESOTA
10-11 — NORTH DAKOTA
17-18 — at St. Cloud State
December
1-2 — OMAHA
8-9 — at Miami
28-29 — Holiday Face-Off in Milwaukee (vs. Wisconsin, Northeastern and Air Force)
January
12-13 — COLORADO COLLEGE
19-20 — at Western Michigan
26-27 — MIAMI
February
2-3 — at Omaha
16-17 — DENVER
23-24 — at North Dakota
March
1-2 — at Colorado College
8-9 — ST. CLOUD STATE
15-17 — NCHC best-of-three quarterfinal series
23-24 — NCHC Frozen Faceoff (Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul)
29-30 — NCAA Regionals (Maryland Heights, Mo.; Providence, R.I.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Springfield, Mass.)
April
11-13 — NCAA Frozen Four (Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul)
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvy Ladies, a nationally recognized non-profit organization supporting free financial education for women, including a national free financial helpline, is pleased to announce its new Get Career Savvy series.
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CMR volleyball finishes third at state tournament
BOZEMAN – The C.M. Russell High volleyball team earned hardware for the fourth year in a row Saturday, finishing third as the Class AA state tournament concluded at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse.
The Rustlers fell in four sets to eventual champion Billings Senior in an early elimination game Saturday, taking the first set before the Broncs took a 21-25, 25-20, 25-16, 25-21 victory.
Senior, which lost to Billings West in the undefeated semifinal Friday in three sets, rallied to beat the Bears twice in the title round by scores of 25-21, 26-24, 25-19 and 25-23, 26-24, 21-25, 23-25, 18-16.
Lexi Thornton paced the Rustlers offensively in the loss to the Broncs Saturday, spiking a match-high 19 kills while Ella Cochran downed 12. Setter Norah Allen put up 43 assists for CMR, while Avarey Stuff notched a contest-best 33 digs on top of two service aces.
The Rustlers lost in five sets to Senior in the quarterfinals Thursday night before rebounding for two wins to reach the third-place game, including a five-set victory over Bozeman Gallatin Friday evening.
CMR, state champs last season, also finished second in 2020 and third in 2019 under head coach Patrick Hiller.
Piper Jette led champion Senior with 31 kills over its two title-round wins against West, including 17 in the decisive contest. Setter Rylee Kogolshak dished out 89 assists over the pair of victories for the Broncs while Leela Ormsby had an impressive 22 blocks over the two matches.
It was the first state title for Senior since 2014.
Billings Senior def. CMR 21-25, 25-20, 25-16, 25-21 (CMR third)
CMR – Aces 5 (Avarey Stuff 2); Kills 49 (Lexi Thornton 19, Ella Cochran 12); Assists 47 (Norah Allen 43); Blocks 5 (Abby Carpenter 3, Sophie Madsen 2); Digs 73 (Stuff 33).
Senior – Aces 8 (Rylee Kogolshak 3, Leela Ormsby 2); Kills 49 (Ormsby 12, Piper Jette 11, Maddie Swanson 8); Assists 43 (Kogolshak 42); Blocks 12 (Ormsby 6, Swanson 5, Jette 3); Digs 61 (Ava Thompson 19, Jette 13, Izzy Ping 8).
Billings Senior def. Billings West 25-21, 26-24, 25-19 (First championship game)
Senior – Aces 3 (Ella Kincaid 2, Addy Wichman); Kills 43 (Piper Jette 14, Leela Ormsby 7, Maddie Swanson 7); Assists 36 (Rylee Kogolshak 34); Blocks 12 (Ormsby 7, Piper Jette 5, Kogolshak 4); Digs 65 (Kincaid 15, Jette 14, Ava Thompson 12).
West – Aces 0; Kills 43 (Sydney Pierce 19, Kourtney Grossman 9, Brooklyn Pierce 9); Assists 38 (Addie Allen 36); Blocks 7 (B. Pierce 3); Digs 56 (Austin Long 19, Grossman 10, Allen 9).
Billings Senior def. Billings West 25-23, 26-24, 21-25, 23-25, 18-16 (Second championship game)
Senior – Aces 5 (Ella Kincaid 2); Kills 62 (Piper Jette 17, Izzy Ping 14, Leela Ormsby 13); Assists 57 (Rylee Kogolshak 55); Blocks 21 (Ormsby 15, Kogolshak 7, Jette 4, Kincaid 4); Digs 120 (Ava Thompson 27, Kogolshak 23, Kincaid 23).
West – Aces 6 (Sadie Meier 3); Kills 60 (Sydney Pierce 26, Kourtney Grossman 14, Alysa Keller 10); Assists 53 (Addie Allen 49); Blocks 5 (S. Pierce 3); Digs 115 (Austin Long 31, Alysa Keller, Grossman 20). | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/sports/2022/11/13/cmr-volleyball-finishes-third-at-state-tournament/69643825007/ | 2022-11-13 04:42:55 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/sports/2022/11/13/cmr-volleyball-finishes-third-at-state-tournament/69643825007/ |
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. ("First High-School Education Group" or "the Company") (NYSE: FHS) for violations of the federal securities laws.
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GARY, Ind. (AP) — After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green suggested she appreciated “serving alongside my peers.”
“Not my peers,” she quickly corrected. “I misspoke.”
Green isn’t their congressional colleague yet, but her slip might not be all that premature.
Democrats have represented this industrial, union-friendly corner of northwest Indiana in Congress for nearly a century. But Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan’s reelection bid is in question as the party faces headwinds around the U.S. this year, buffeted by President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings and high inflation.
The contours of this district, encompassing Gary, have been redrawn to be slightly more friendly to Republicans. Green, meanwhile, offers a compelling biography that includes 20-plus years of Air Force service. She’s still active in the Indiana Air National Guard.
The GOP hopes Green will be at the forefront of a more diverse party in Washington. If elected, she would be the only Black Republican woman serving in the House — and just the second Black Republican woman in history elected to the chamber.
Republicans say they’re breaking party records for diversity, with 80 women who are House incumbents or candidates on midterm ballots nationwide. The GOP also has 28 Black nominees, 33 Hispanic Americans, 13 Asian Americans and three American Indians running, according to the National Republican Campaign Committee, the party’s House campaign arm.
And, of the 74 districts the committee is targeting for victory, 24 GOP candidates are military veterans. In all, 125 Republican House incumbents and challengers say they have military experience, compared to 61 Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center.
“I’m grateful that that’s a demographic that, when you look at polling, everything works,” Green, who was stationed in Iraq as a captain and identifies as both Black and Asian, said of her embodying backgrounds her party has prioritized.
But she added, “If I was who I was without any thoughtful leadership or character attached to it, I would not be effective in this role.”
Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer says that, when he became head of the National Republican Campaign Committee in 2018, he sought to empower members of Congress to recruit strong candidates in their states.
“The goal is not so much to diversify, as we wanted to identify candidates from communities (where) we want Republicans represented,” Emmer said.
Even as the GOP attempts to diversify its field of candidates, the party’s base is still overwhelmingly white. AP VoteCast, a survey of the national electorate, shows that 86% of Donald Trump ‘s voters in the 2020 presidential election were white, compared to 63% of Joe Biden’s voters. Nineteen percent of Biden voters were Black, while just 2% of Trump voters nationwide were.
In Indiana, the percentages of Black voter support for each were the same, 19% to 2% in favor of Biden.
This year’s national slate for House Democrats is also far more diverse. Incumbents and challengers include 175 women, 97 Black nominees, 50 Hispanic nominees, 18 who are Asian or Pacific Islander and at least seven who are American Indian, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says.
Democrats also accuse some prominent Republicans of promoting racism, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and others talking up the “ great replacement theory.”
Emmer balks at such criticism, saying Democrats want “to talk about anything but the issues that matter most.”
He predicts victory for Jennifer-Ruth Green in Indiana, despite the district being Democratic since 1931. It elected Mrvan for the first time in 2020, and backed Biden by nearly 9 percentage points.
Though the new maps make the district slightly more Republican, a Green win would nonetheless be an early sign of a strong election night for the GOP.
Even Green supporters aren’t sure that’ll happen, however. While she was knocking on doors last weekend in Munster, near Indiana’s border with Illinois, Susan and Bart Cashman spotted her and hurried over to chat. They’re both Green supporters but cautioned that the area remains deeply blue.
“It’s Lake County, so, we don’t know,” Susan Cashman said.
Their county includes Gary, where nearly 80% of residents are Black. The city, known as the hometown of Michael Jackson and his family, saw unemployment spike in the 1970s with the closing of many area steel mills. It has experienced rising violent crime more recently.
Green won a crowded Republican House primary as a Trump supporter and is a frequent Fox News guest. She said her campaign can keep the race with Mrvan tight by capturing 20% support from Black voters.
“We’ll have the opportunity to tell people, ‘Hey, this is where we are. Is it producing good opportunity for you?'” she said of her pitch to Black voters. “‘Or do you want something different?’”
Former Utah Rep. Mia Love was elected in 2014 as the House’s first Black Republican woman but lost four years later. The chamber now has just two Black Republican men, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds and Owens, who attended the Gary roundtable with Green.
“What Jennifer represents are American values,” Owens said of the possibility of Green becoming the GOP’s second Black female House member. “I think that actually really overcomes all the other stuff.”
Darquia and Gordon Biffle co-own Big Daddy’s barbeque in Gary and hosted the recent roundtable. They said inflation has increased the price of a case of fries from $17 to as high as $29.
“Even all the help we got, that all got flushed down the toilet as we tried to keep our workers,” Gordon Biffle said of previous, Democrat-championed COVID-19 federal aid. “Whether it’s Democrat or Republican, we’ve got to side with the people that’s going to help us.”
Former Indiana state lawmaker Charlie Brown, a Democrat from Gary, noted that Green doesn’t mention party affiliation on many of her campaign materials, which he said may “fool” some Black voters into supporting her without knowing she’s a Republican.
Green’s bumper stickers and yard signs feature military-looking star insignia and don’t list party. Her fliers promise “battle-proven leadership,” middle-class tax cuts and protections for Social Security and Medicare without mentioning the GOP.
Mrvan’s yard signs are emblazoned with “Democrat,” and he has been endorsed by area unions. During the United Steel Workers convention this summer, he pointed to outside conservative political groups spending big to oppose him in the district and said, “I’m under attack because I stand for working men and women.”
“Any person can give a great speech for five minutes,” Mrvan said. “It’s in your deeds, it’s in what you accomplish, is what matters.”
Mrvan rallied Monday in Gary with House Majority Whip James Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, has also visited the district.
Former state lawmaker Brown said the best way to prevent the seat from flipping is boosting Democratic turnout, but it’s “pretty obvious that the Democratic machine even has some concerns for Mrvan” especially given ”this factor involving an African-American female Republican.”
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota higher education officials are deeply worried about losing students and revenue in 2024 when neighboring Minnesota makes public college and university tuition free for thousands of residents.
Officials estimate around 15,000 to 20,000 Minnesota students a year will use the free North Star Promise program, and North Dakota education officials are projecting an $8.4 million loss in combined tuition and fees in the first year alone, under one scenario.
Roughly 1,400 Minnesota students attending North Dakota colleges and universities might be eligible for the new program.
“This has catastrophic implications,” said David Cook, North Dakota State University’s president, at a recent State Board of Higher Education meeting. “This is a very serious situation for us.”
Minnesota students make up close to half the student body at North Dakota State in Fargo, their No. 1 out-of-state pick in their first year. They accounted for nearly 40% of the first-year students at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton in fall 2021.
“Probably half of our football team comes from Minnesota, so that’s kind of a big deal to us,” College of Science President Rod Flanigan said.
North Star Promise will cover undergraduate tuition and fees at Minnesota’s public post-secondary schools for students whose family income is below $80,000 after they’ve tapped other sources of financial aid. It will take effect in fall 2024.
Kari Rod, 38, of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, said North Star Promise will help her go back to college and finish her degree without taking on more student loans, and encourage her 13-year-old stepson to enroll in-state after high school.
“Our family had seriously considered moving” so the teen could take advantage of a program that covers college tuition for students who graduate from public schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rod said. But after Minnesota’s program passed, they decided to stay.
The program also “opens up the world of possibilities” for her 5-year-old’s future, Rod said.
According to the Campaign for Free College Tuition, a national nonprofit, more than half the states now offer some kind of free college tuition, often with the word “Promise” in their program names. Seven set few eligibility limits.
Many others, like Minnesota, have income limits, have merit requirements, or are limited to specific schools or majors. The group says making higher education affordable for everyone is imperative to a workforce with the skills needed for the U.S. to compete in the global marketplace.
Democratic state Sen. Tim Mathern said he is drafting a bill similar to Minnesota’s program but for North Dakotans. He acknowledged the headwinds Democrats face in North Dakota’s Republican-supermajority Legislature.
“I don’t think we should decry what Minnesota has done,” Mathern said. “We should be spending our time being creative about what our abilities are.”
North Dakota education officials estimate it would cost over $17.2 million annually to pay tuition and fees for all students eligible for federal Pell Grants, amounting to about 4,300 students at five schools.
Minnesota’s move hasn’t sparked the same fears in other neighboring states. University of Wisconsin officials are expanding a free tuition program that started at its flagship Madison campus to 12 more schools this fall.
The presidents of North Dakota State and the University of North Dakota are leading a group to address the potential impacts of Minnesota’s free tuition on their schools, which are already recruiting students for fall 2024.
Lawmakers also plan to explore the implications through an interim legislative panel ahead of the next session in 2025.
“When we have all these alternate (education) delivery methods, and we have a traditional student base that is shrinking, and we have workforce issues — all of these things are creating an issue that’s bigger than a one-state response,” said Republican Rep. Mark Sanford, who chairs the panel.
Republican House Majority Leader Mike Lefor said he doesn’t want to “rush into a decision” on responding.
“We can’t just be reacting to different situations from different states,” Lefor told reporters. “We have to have good, solid policy going forward.”
North Dakota’s Legislature this year froze tuition statewide for all students for the next two years, a move meant to be competitive with neighboring states, including Minnesota.
Lawmakers need to respond while acknowledging that campus programs will still draw out-of-state students, said North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott.
“I’m confident we can avoid catastrophe,” he said.
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NEW YORK, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Playstudios, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYPS).
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