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Camden, No. 2 in the NJ.com Top 20, came out and dominated from start to finish in a 90-54 win over Bishop Gorman (NV) at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Wednesday accused Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) of hypocrisy for refusing to negotiate with House Republicans on raising the debt limit, even though the Democratic leader saw the debt limit as “leverage” to negotiate spending increases with former President Trump.
“It is right, appropriate, and entirely normal that our need to raise the debt limit would be paired with negotiations regarding Democrats’ runaway printing and spending,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, referring to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats passed without a single Republican vote in the last Congress.
McConnell said Democrats, including Schumer, are “trying to rewrite history and pretend that Republican demands for negotiation are unusual but that, of course, is just false.”
He noted that in 2017, Schumer and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “said that the debt ceiling gave Democrats ‘leverage’ in broader talks.”
“As The New York Times explained back in 2017, then-Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leader ‘began formulating a plan to apply pressure, jettisoning the idea of backing a straightforward or clean debt limit as a way to gain muscle in the coming negotiations,’” McConnell said.
McConnell then quoted Schumer’s argument at the time that the debt ceiling “gives another ample opportunity for bipartisanship, not for one party jamming its choices down the throats of another.”
The Senate Republican leader delivered his remarks on the floor a few hours before Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was scheduled to meet with President Biden at the White House Wednesday afternoon, where the two leaders are expected to discuss the debt limit.
Schumer has urged Biden not to negotiate with McCarthy over attaching Republican-favored fiscal reforms to legislation to raise the debt limit unless House Republicans first introduce and pass a package of proposed spending caps through the lower chamber, where Republicans have a slim majority.
McConnell called out that position as inconsistent with the stance Schumer adopted after the 2018 midterm election, when Democrats captured the House. Schumer later negotiated a two-year budget deal with Trump and Senate Republicans that increased discretionary spending by $320 million and also raised the debt limit.
“I trust Democrats will be consistent with their past positions and the White House will waste no time beginning the customary negotiations with the majority over in the House,” he said. “The president of the United States does not get to walk away from the table.”
McConnell made his comments a few days after 24 Senate Republicans signed a letter to Biden stating their “outright opposition to a debt-ceiling hike without real structural spending reform that reduces deficit spending and brings fiscal sanity back to Washington.”
Asked last week whether he would be open to negotiating a deal on budget caps linked to raising the debt limit, Schumer told reporters: “I’m not going to negotiate in public.”
“Obviously, again we want to make sure that we negotiate a budget that’s good for the average working family. We did that in the omnibus bill. We were very pleased with the outcome there and hopefully it can be done again without brinksmanship, but I’m not going to get into specifics,” he said after the weekly Democratic lunch. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-accuses-schumer-of-hypocrisy-on-debt-limit/ | 2023-02-01 19:01:45 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-accuses-schumer-of-hypocrisy-on-debt-limit/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG)– Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson took a trip down memory lane, visiting the trailer park in Walls, Mississippi, where he spent his teenage years.
Bob Turner, the owner of the Lakeview Trailer Park, posted pictures on his Facebook page of Johnson with Walls alderman and former wrestling manager Bruno Lauer, also known as “Downtown Bruno.”
Johnson said Lauer took him in when he was just 15 and helped him start his wrestling career in Memphis.
“They talk a lot, and Bruno’s helping with the show,” Turner said.”The Rock includes him in a lot of things.”
Johnson is in Memphis right now working on his NBC sitcom “Young Rock.’ Recently Johnson introduced his crew to Lauer.
Johnson said when he had no place to go, Lauer let him live with him when he was 15 and again at 24. He said his sitcom is based on some of their crazy antics.
Turner said Johnson spent about 30 minutes at the Lakeview Trailer Park taking pictures of his old digs.
“I would love to meet him,” Turner said. “I was busy that day and couldn’t have gotten there even if I wanted to.”
Other fans have had some encounters with the superstar during the filming of his show.
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THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Democrats are increasingly concerned that Florida, once the nation’s premier swing state, may slip away this fall and beyond as emboldened Republicans capitalize on divisive cultural issues and demographic shifts in crucial contests for governor and the U.S. Senate.
The anxiety was apparent last week during a golf cart parade of Democrats featuring Senate candidate Val Demings at The Villages, a retirement community just north of the Interstate 4 corridor. Once a politically mixed part of the state where elections were often decided, some Democrats now say they feel increasingly isolated.
“I am terrified,” said 77-year-old Sue Sullivan, lamenting the state’s rightward shift. “There are very few Democrats around here.”
In an interview, Demings, a congresswoman and former Orlando police chief challenging Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, conceded that her party’s midterm message isn’t resonating as she had hoped.
“We have to do a better job of telling our stories and clearly demonstrating who’s truly on the side of people who have to go to work every day,” she said.
The frustration is the culmination of nearly a decade of Republican inroads in Florida, where candidates have honed deeply conservative social and economic messages to build something of a coalition that includes rural voters and Latinos, particularly Cuban Americans. Donald Trump’s win here in 2016 signaled the evolution after the state twice backed Barack Obama. And while he lost the White House in 2020, Trump carried Florida by more than 3 percentage points, a remarkable margin in a state where elections were regularly decided by less than a percentage point.
President Joe Biden will visit the state Nov. 1, exactly one week before Election Day, to rally Democrats. Demings said she’s had two conversations with the president about campaigning together, but she could not confirm any joint appearances. And Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for governor, said he would attend a private fundraiser with Biden on the day of the rally, but he wasn’t sure whether they would appear together in public.
“If we could squeeze in a little public airtime, that’d be a wonderful thing I would welcome,” Crist said in an interview.
Still, the GOP is bullish that it can keep notching victories, even in longtime Democratic strongholds. Some Republicans are optimistic the party could carry Miami-Dade County, a once unthinkable prospect that would virtually eliminate the Democrats’ path to victory in statewide contests, including presidential elections.
And in southwest Florida’s Lee County, a major Republican stronghold, not even a devastating hurricane appears to have dented the GOP’s momentum. In fact, Republicans and Democrats privately agree that Hurricane Ian, which left more than 100 dead, may have helped Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis broaden his appeal. On Monday, he’ll participate in a debate against Crist in which he’ll likely highlight his stewardship of the state during a searing crisis.
But the 44-year-old Republican governor has spent much of his first term focused on sensitive social issues. He’s signed new laws new laws banning abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest, along with blocking critical race theory and LGBTQ issues from many Florida schools. He has also stripped millions of dollars from a major league baseball team that spoke out against gun violence and led efforts to eliminate Disney’s special tax status for condemning his so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
On the eve of the hurricane, DeSantis shipped dozens of Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard to call attention to illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Crist, a former congressman and onetime governor himself, acknowledged some voters “dig” DeSantis’ focus on cultural issues, “but most Floridians are good, decent people.” He noted that at least one Hispanic radio host has compared DeSantis to former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
“Customarily, when you come out of a primary, people will move to the middle. He’s clearly not doing that, to say the least,” Crist said of his Republican rival.
But to the horror of many Democrats, DeSantis could become the first Floridian to win a governor’s race by more than 1 point since 2006. That kind of showing might lift Rubio in the U.S. Senate election while helping the GOP win as many as 20 of the state’s 28 U.S. House seats.
Should DeSantis win big as expected, his allies believe he would have the political capital to launch a successful presidential campaign in 2024 — whether Trump runs or not.
“It’s shocking and it’s scary,” state Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz said about DeSantis’ repeated willingness to use the power of his office to attack political rivals, whether individual opponents or iconic corporations like Disney.
DeSantis, who declined an interview request, has found success by bucking the conventional wisdom before.
He beat Democrat Andrew Gillum four years ago by 32,436 votes out of more than 8.2 million cast, a margin so narrow that it required a recount.
But in the four years since then, Republicans have erased a voter registration advantage that Florida Democrats had guarded for decades. When registration closed for the 2018 election, Democrats enjoyed a 263,269-vote advantage. As of Sept. 30, Republicans had a lead of 292,533 voters — a swing of nearly 556,000 registered voters over DeSantis’ first term.
“We’re no longer a swing state. We’re actually annihilating the Democrats,” said Florida GOP Chairman Joe Gruters, a leading DeSantis ally.
And while he says his party has focused on traditional kitchen-table issues, such as gas prices and inflation, Gruters leaned into cultural fights — especially the Florida GOP’s opposition to sexual education and LGBTQ issues in elementary schools — that have defined DeSantis’ tenure.
“I don’t want anyone else teaching my kids about the birds and the bees and gender fluidity issues,” Gruters said.
Strategists in both parties believe Florida’s political shift is due to multiple factors, but there is general agreement that Republicans have benefited from an influx of new voters since DeSantis emerged as the leader of the GOP resistance to the pandemic-related public health measures.
Every day on average over the year between 2020 and 2021, 667 more people moved into the state than moved away, according to U.S. Census estimates.
Part of the Republican shift can also be attributed people living in rural areas of north Florida, remnants of the deep South, changing their registration to reflect their voting patterns. Many people registered as Democrats because generations before them did, but the so-called Dixiecrats still voted solidly Republican.
But that alone does not explain the Democrats’ challenge this fall.
Democrats are particularly concerned about the trend in Miami-Dade County, home to 1.5 million Hispanics of voting age and a Democratic stronghold for the past 20 years, where the GOP made significant gains in the last presidential election. In two weeks, the region could turn red.
“We have seen so many Hispanics flock to the Republican party here in Miami-Dade County,” Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez said at an event with other party leaders last week. “I’m going to make a prediction right now: We are going to win Miami-Dade County come Nov. 8.”
Meanwhile in southwest Florida, thousands of Republican voters are literally picking up pieces of their shattered homes and vehicles in the wake of Hurricane Ian, which left more than 100 people dead and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage.
Mangled boats and massive chunks of concrete docks still litter the coastline in Fort Myers, the county seat of Lee County, one of the nation’s most Republican-leaning counties. Thousands of homes were destroyed and several schools remain closed nearly a month after the Category 4 hurricane made landfall.
Still, Matt Caldwell, the county property appraiser and a member of the state GOP, was confident about his party’s political prospects.
“Most of the people, 90% of the people who live in the county are more or less back to life at this point,” he said as he toured a Fort Myers marina covered by twisted metal and crumpled yachts.
Caldwell praised the Republican governor for being a regular presence during cleanup efforts, suggesting that voters across the political spectrum will reward him on Election Day.
DeSantis himself was upbeat as he delivered a storm update not far away in Punta Gorda over the weekend. The governor referenced the upcoming election, but focused his remarks on relief efforts.
“We’ve had success with bridges and all these other things partially because we have the community rallying together,” DeSantis said. “Everyone’s rowing in the same direction. It makes a difference.”
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Gomez Licon reported from Miami and Farrington reported from Tallahassee.
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Several knives confiscated from mom, son before flight, TSA says
Published: Jul. 20, 2023 at 11:40 AM EDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
(CNN) - On Monday, authorities at Boston Logan International Airport confiscated multiple knives from a mother and son traveling to Salt Lake City, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The pair turned the knives over to Massachusetts State Police and were allowed to continue their trip. No charges were filed.
Passengers can pack knives in checked luggage, but the only knives permitted in carry-on bags are plastic or round-bladed butter knives.
Monday’s incident comes on the heels of another incident in May at Logan International.
A traveler tried to bring a ninja knife set through security in a carry-on.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Christian Pulisic is on track to play for the United States in its World Cup round of 16 match against the Netherlands on Saturday,
Pulisic left Tuesday’s final group stage match against Iran at halftime after bruising his pelvic bone in a collision with the goalkeeper while scoring in the 38th minute. The Americans won 1-0 to advance.
“It looks pretty good, but we’ll have to see him today on the pitch to get confirmation of that,” U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said before Friday’s training session.
Pulisic, a 24-year-old winger, was taken to a hospital after halftime and then returned to the team hotel in time for the postgame celebration. Pulisic said Thursday he was feeling better and planned to train that night.
Forward Josh Sargent left the Iran match in the 77th minute, three minutes after injuring his right ankle in a challenge by Majid Hosseini.
“He’s another one we’re going to test in training. Let’s see where he’s at,” Berhalter said of Sargent. “With Christian we’re hopeful, I think with him a little less so. … At this stage, it’s go time. If you can push through it, you do. So I’m sure he’ll have that mindset.”
Haji Wright and Jesús Ferreira are the other strikers on the U.S. roster. Sargent started against Wales and Iran, and Wright against England.
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Broadens set of digital engagement tools for wealth management firms
NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To provide financial advisors with an innovative holistic view into all aspects of an investor's financial journey, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), today announced a strategic partnership with open finance leader MX to utilize the company's financial data aggregation and personalized financial management automation solutions. This is another example of providing wealth management firms with value-driving, differentiating point solutions to optimize advisor productivity and insights for client growth and transformation.
This solution will provide financial advisors with a 360° customer view and enable Broadridge to enhance its enterprise expertise, deliver personalized financial insights at scale and strengthen data governance with MX's secure money management platform and automated financial health insights. As a result, financial advisors will have complete access to actionable information across their clients' assets and liabilities, better equipping them to provide relevant recommendations for long-term financial success.
"Investors today have an unprecedented level of control over their assets, but the current market environment has reminded us that it is still beneficial to have access to the personal touch of an advisor. Through this strategic partnership with MX, we are ensuring that the advisor's touch is not just personal, but also timely and driven by intelligence and data," said Mike Alexander, President of Wealth Management at Broadridge. "By combining Broadridge's expertise in investment data with MX's deep understanding of frictionless money experiences, our financial advisor clients will now have access to a new comprehensive offering that provides a more personal and holistic view to financial planning."
MX is building the largest open finance ecosystem to help people improve their financial lives. With MX, organizations like Broadridge can securely access and act on the world's financial data through trusted connections and state-of-the-art data enhancements. This is part of a broader set of digital engagement tools available on Broadridge's Wealth Platform, an open, component-based ecosystem with a flexible, scalable platform powered by an aggregated data layer. The Broadridge Wealth Platform is designed to help firms drive innovation, perform more effectively at scale and deliver a digital, modernized client and advisor experience.
"Our integration with Broadridge demonstrates our shared commitment to power the open finance economy by empowering financial institutions and the investment community, with data driven insights," said Don Parker, Executive Vice President of Partnerships, MX. "MX makes data accessible and actionable, and our partnership with Broadridge will help advisors and investors build a stronger, more modern data infrastructure."
The MX tools that are being integrated and embedded in Broadridge's Data Aggregation solution will provide advisors with a robust suite of financial wellness capabilities that are easy-to-use digital tools to provide insight into a client's everyday financial life.
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.
For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.
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GOP senator on White nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’ — but later tries to clarify
Nicky Robertson, CNN
In an interview with a local Alabama radio station, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville was asked if he believes White nationalists should be allowed in the military. He responded, “I call them Americans.”
Tuberville is now attempting to clarify his comments, arguing that Trump Republicans in the military are being unfairly characterized as White nationalists.
The radio station WBHM published a transcript of the interview with Tuberville where he was asked, “Do you believe they should allow White nationalists in the military?”
The senator responded, “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans. What happened after January the sixth—and I was here on January the sixth—we were attacked on the Senate floor. Saying all these people that came into the Capitol were extremists, they were against the country. There was a lot of people. There were probably a hundred of them that came in, broke windows and broke doors that should have been locked up. That’s not how we do it in America.”
Tuberville later attempted to clarify his response, telling CNN on Thursday that “Democrats” say MAGA Republicans are White nationalists, and MAGA Republicans should not be characterized that way.
“Here’s the problem, Democrats portray all MAGA Republicans as White nationalists, that’s not true, we got a lot of great people in the military that are MAGAs, that’s what I was talking about ” he said.
Later, talking to a group of reporters, Tuberville said that he “looks at” White nationalism as being equated with Trump Republicans, because “that’s what we’re called all the time.”
“I look at a White nationalist as a, as a Trump Republican. That’s what we’re called all the time, a MAGA person, that’s what I’m just that. Well, I agree that we should not be characterizing Trump supporters as White nationalists,” the Alabama Republican said.
This comes as Tuberville has continued to put a hold on confirming military nominees over his anger at a Pentagon post-Roe policy that allows members of the military paid leave if they need to travel in order to have an abortion.
For weeks, Senate Democrats have criticized the effort by Tuberville and top defense officials have said that it is harming US national security as key senior positions are not permanently filled.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Tuberville to denounce White nationalism as “un-American,” and stop his hold on military nominations.
“Senator Tuberville, needs to do two things. He needs to come out and state clearly and unequivocally that White nationalism is un-American and he needs to drop his destructive holds on hundreds of our senior military leaders. This farse is endangering our national security, putting the lives of men and women who have served our country for decades in real trouble, and it needs to end,” Schumer said.
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Firearm detections increased by 10.3%, while rate of firearms detected per million passengers is down
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers intercepted 1,508 firearms at airport security checkpoints during the first quarter of 2023, which ended March 31, averaging 16.8 firearms caught per day. More than 93% of the firearms were loaded.
The number of firearm catches during the first quarter represents a 10.3% increase over the same period in 2022; however, the number of passengers from 2022 to 2023 has also increased. In the first quarter of 2022, TSA officers stopped 1,367 firearms at airport security checkpoints, which averaged 15.2 firearm catches per day. More than 86% of those firearms were loaded.
During the first quarter of 2023, Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) screened over 191 million passengers, compared to about 158 million passengers in the first quarter of 2022, representing an increase of 20.4%. The rate of passengers with firearms during the most recent quarter was 7.9 firearms per one million passengers, decreasing slightly from the same period in 2022, when the rate of discovery was 8.6 firearms per one million passengers.
"Firearms at TSA security checkpoints present an unacceptable safety and security risk to other passengers and I am deeply concerned that the majority of these firearms our TSOs catch are loaded," said TSA Administrator David Pekoske. "If you carry a firearm to the checkpoint, our TSOs will see it and there will be significant penalties, to include federal penalties and additional screening, which may prolong the security screening process. You may still travel with a firearm – it just must be properly packed in your checked baggage and you must declare it to the airline."
Firearm possession laws vary by state and local government, but firearms are prohibited in carry-on bags, at TSA security checkpoints and on board aircraft, even if a passenger has a concealed carry permit.
When passengers bring firearms to the TSA security checkpoint, TSA suspends their TSA PreCheck® eligibility for five years, which includes current TSA PreCheck members. Additionally, TSA may conduct additional screening for those passengers to ensure no other threats are present. Late last year, TSA increased the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation to $14,950. Passengers with firearms found in a carry-on bag at a TSA checkpoint are also subject to applicable city or state laws at that airport that may include citation or arrest.
Passengers may travel with a firearm if they properly pack the firearm in checked baggage and declare it with the airline at check-in. Airlines may have additional requirements for traveling with firearms and ammunition, so travelers must also contact their airline regarding firearm and ammunition carriage policies prior to arriving at the airport.
To view the complete list of penalties, go to TSA.gov.
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Tropical Storm Bret moves west in Atlantic, with possible hurricane threat to Caribbean islands
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) at 11 p.m. Monday as it moved west across the Atlantic at 18 mph (30 kph). Forecasters expect it to strengthen over the next two days, reaching Category 1 hurricane strength of 74 mph (120 kph) by Wednesday night as it nears the Lesser Antilles. Because of wind shear, the storm is not expected to strengthen into a Category 2 storm.
Bret is forecast to move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday and Friday and unleash flooding, heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surge and waves, the center said. It is then expected to weaken slowly while still in the eastern Caribbean region, although the center warned that its forecast “remains a low confidence prediction.”
“Everyone in the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands should closely monitor updates to the forecast for this system and have their hurricane plan in place,” the center said.
The National Hurricane Center said there’s a possibility Bret could turn north or continue west into the Caribbean and threaten the Dominican Republic, Haiti and other islands.
“There continues to be larger than usual uncertainty,” the center said of the storm’s forecasted path.
Almost a century has gone by since a storm last strengthened into a hurricane in the tropical Atlantic in June, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University. The last such storm recorded was Trinidad in 1933, he tweeted.
Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the 2023 season, formed earlier this month. It petered out after two days, never threatening landfall. Previously, a subtropical storm formed in the Atlantic Basin in January.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast 12 to 17 named storms for this year’s hurricane season. It said between five and nine of those storms could become hurricanes, including up to four major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher.
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Then-U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham with her mother, Sonja Lujan, before the pandemic. The governor has been unable to see her mother, who lives in an assisted living facility in Albuquerque, during the pandemic.
The mother of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham died Sunday of natural causes, the Governor's Office announced Monday.
Sonja Lujan was 82, according to a news release.
In a statement, the governor paid tribute to her mother, calling her a role model — particularly as she cared for Lujan Grisham's disabled sister, Kimberly, who died at age 21.
“My mother was truly one of a kind," Lujan Grisham said. "Like so many caring and devoted mothers, she became a dedicated advocate for my sister Kimberly and children with disabilities across the country simply because there was no other choice.
"She worked to right every wrong and fought for the best standard of care, refusing to back down when she knew there was more that could be done," Lujan Grisham added. "Her tenacity and determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges has inspired me every single day of my adult life. She taught me to fight hard — to make sure no one is left behind, that no family is lacking the support they need and deserve."
Sonja Lujan also is survived by a son, Gregory Lujan.
Lujan Grisham often cited her mother as an inspiration for her own career and would often speak of her inability to visit with her during the COVID-19 pandemic when her mother was living in an assisted living facility in Albuquerque.
The Senate Republican Caucus issued a news statement offering its condolences to the governor as she mourns her mother.
Robert Nott has covered education and youth issues for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He is assigned to The New Mexican's city desk where he covers a general assignment beat.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras President Xiomara Castro announced Tuesday that her government will seek to establish diplomatic relations with China, which would imply severing relations with Taiwan. The switch would leave Taiwan recognized by only 13 countries as China spends billions to win recognition for its “One China” policy.
Castro said on her Twitter account that she instructed Honduran Foreign Affairs Minister Eduardo Reina to start negotiations with China and that her intention is to “expand frontiers freely in concert with the nations of the world.”
Castro said during her presidential campaign in 2021 that she would look for ties with China if elected, but once in power, her government backtracked on those comments. In January 2022, the foreign affairs minister told The Associated Press that Honduras would continue strengthening ties with Taiwan and that establishing a diplomatic relationship with China was not a priority for Castro.
Reina, the foreign affairs minister, had said the government weighed up the benefits that Honduras had received from a good relationship with Taiwan and decided that there was no reason to change at that moment.
In Taipei, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had “expressed serious concerns to the Honduran government. Our country has made it clear to Honduras many times that Taiwan is a sincere and reliable cooperative partner to our allies. Honduras is requested to consider carefully and not fall into China’s trap or make wrong decisions that damage the long-term friendship between Taiwan and Honduras.”
Taiwanese media reported that the Foreign Ministry had summoned Honduras’ Ambassador Harold Burgos for discussions. Burgos told reporters he is currently awaiting orders from his government.
At a daily briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Beijing welcomed the statement from Honduras.
“The fact that 181 countries in the world have established diplomatic relations with China on the basis of the one-China principle fully proves that establishing diplomatic relations with China is a correct choice in line with the general trend of historical development and the trend of the times,” Wang said.
China claims self-ruled, democratic Taiwan is part of its territory, to be brought under its control by force if necessary, and refuses most contacts with countries that maintain formal ties with Taiwan, and threatens retaliation against countries merely for increasing contacts.
China expelled Lithuania’s ambassador, downgraded diplomatic ties and blocked trade with the Baltic country of 2.7 million people after it boosted relations with Taipei in October 2021. Lithuania has since closed its embassy in Beijing and opened a trade office in Taiwan.
It’s not clear what made Honduras’ government change its mind. However, China, which is building a massive dam in Honduras, generally uses trade and investment as incentives for switching ties, as it has done successfully with Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua and, most recently, South Pacific nations including the Solomon Islands.
Taiwan supplies its dwindling number of formal diplomatic partners with agricultural experts, vocational training programs and other forms of economic aid.
However, budgetary restraints imposed by the democratically elected legislature prevent it from splashing out on sports stadiums, conference halls and government buildings as China does.
China’s multi-billion dollar “Belt and Road” initiative has also offered developing nations ports, railways, power plants and other infrastructure, funded by loans provided at market rates.
The loss of Honduras would leave Taiwan with formal diplomatic ties just 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City. In Latin America, it also has relations with Belize and Paraguay, with most of its remaining partners being small, poor island nations in the Caribbean and South Pacific.
Taiwan’s sole remaining African ally is Eswanti, formerly known as Swaziland, whose Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini visited Taiwan this month and expressed support for the island’s re-admission to the United Nations and its agencies.
Honduras would become the ninth diplomatic ally that Taipei has lost to Beijing since pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen first took office in May 2016. She is due to step down next year at the end of her second term.
Despite China’s campaign of isolation, Taiwan retains robust informal ties with more than 100 other countries, most importantly the U.S.
Earlier this month, Micronesian President David Panuelo accused China of “political warfare” in a letter to other national leaders and discussed switching diplomatic allegiance from China to Taiwan in exchange for $50 million to recharge the tiny Pacific island nation’s trust fund.
Panuelo said China had been spying on Micronesia, offering bribes and acting in a threatening manner in an effort to ensure that if it goes to war with Taiwan, Micronesia would be aligned with China, or at least abstain from taking sides.
Panuelo said Micronesia would also receive an annual $15 million assistance package and Taiwan would take over various projects that China had begun, including a national convention center, two state government complexes, and two gymnasiums.
China denied the allegations, calling them a “smear.”
China’s diplomatic offensive has begun raising concerns in the U.S. as its rivalry with Beijing rivalry sharpens.
China won over former Taiwanese Pacific allies Kiribati and the Solomon Islands in 2019, signing a security pact with the latter that would permit Chinese navy ships and security forces to maintain a presence in the country. The move drew concern from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, as well as opposition politicians within the country.
Alarmed by such Chinese gains, the Biden administration is proposing to spend billions to keep three Pacific countries in the U.S. orbit.
President Joe Biden’s proposed federal budget released on Thursday includes more than $7.1 billion in funding for the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. The money is included in the $63.1 billion request for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The money, to be paid out over 20 years, would extend agreements with the three states under which the U.S. provides them with essential services and economic support in exchange for military basing rights and other preferential treatment. Those deals were due to expire later this year and next, and U.S. officials say China has been trying to exploit extension negotiations for its own advantage.
The White House said the payments are part of its strategy to “out-compete China” and strengthen America’s alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/honduras-will-seek-to-establish-diplomatic-ties-with-china/ | 2023-03-15 15:50:55 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/honduras-will-seek-to-establish-diplomatic-ties-with-china/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Soldiers from Myanmar's military government raided a village in the country's central region, killing 19 villagers including four children and burning their bodies, independent media and a resident said Friday.
The killings on Wednesday in Nyaung Pin Thar village in Bago region’s Htantabin township may have been in retaliation for an attack by resistance forces opposed to army rule.
Radio Free Asia, a U.S.- funded news service, quoted a member of the locally formed People’s Defense Force as saying the killings occurred after fighting the same day between the army and his group and its allies from the Karen National Liberation Army, an ethnic rebel group that operates in the area. He said the resistance forces killed 20 soldiers and captured three officers.
A farmer from the village told The Associated Press that he lost his wife, 7-year-old daughter and nine other relatives in the raid by about 10 soldiers.
The farmer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared arrest, said he had been working in the fields and did not return on Wednesday after he was informed soldiers had entered the village, so he did not witness the killings.
When he returned the next day, his family members were gone and he found bodies, charred beyond recognition, in two spots in the small village.
“They kill people as easily as killing a chicken or bird. At least they should have released the children, who don’t understand anything, on humanitarian grounds,” the farmer said.
He said 19 people had been killed, and it appeared they had been shot in the head before their bodies were burned using gasoline and diesel fuel taken from a store in the village. He said the soldiers also took beer and alcoholic drinks which they consumed.
Reports of the killings, along with what were said to be photos and videos of the remains of the victims, also appeared in independent Myanmar media and social media on Friday, the same day a human rights monitoring group released a report charging that Myanmar’s military is deliberately carrying out atrocities, including beheadings, to instill terror in those fighting the army and in a public already dismayed by the military’s barbarity.
The rights group, Myanmar Witness, singled out an army unit nicknamed the Ogre Column for its brutality in the central region of Sagaing, which is considered part of Myanmar’s traditional heartland.
Sagaing is a stronghold of armed resistance to the ruling military, which seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The army’s takeover triggered mass nonviolent protests which were suppressed with lethal force, triggering armed resistance around the country.
Myanmar Witness said its investigation of eight incidents between late February and early April found that at least 33 villagers were killed, 12 of whom were beheaded and two dismembered by the Ogre Column and other units.
Most of the beheaded victims were left on grotesque display.
“In a number of these cases the individuals were killed and then beheaded. As the beheadings serve no functional purpose, they represent a dramatic and horrific warning to those resisting military rule,” the report said.
It said the Ogre Column is part of the army’s 99th Light Infantry Division.
A leader of the local defense force who cremated the bodies of two beheaded boys killed by the Ogre Column in April told The Associated Press then that it "is harsher in killing than other groups of soldiers.”
The report says the 99th Light Infantry Division, based in Sagaing’s neighboring Mandalay region, and the No. 8 Military Training School in Sagaing’s Shwebo township have been repeatedly blamed by villagers for most of the killings.
Myanmar Witness said the 99th Light Infantry Division has a history of violence, with allegations of involvement in a brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign in the western state of Rakhine that prompted more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighboring Bangladesh for safety.
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“The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China” by James M. Zimmerman (PublicAffairs)
A little-known piece of history is resurfacing 100 years after the luxurious Peking Express train was attacked by bandits in the middle of the night and hundreds of passengers, including dozens of foreigners, were taken hostage and marched across the Chinese countryside.
James M. Zimmerman's “The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China” takes mountains of research and boils it down to a digestible telling of the 1923 train derailment that, despite having considerable political and personal consequences, had been largely forgotten. Aided by pictures and quotes — some directly from the bandits, hostages and other players involved in the so-called Lincheng Outrage — the lawyer takes on a surprisingly engaging voice as a historical author, cutting between people and scenes like a movie.
Drawing heavily from firsthand accounts and news coverage from the time, the whole tone has a slight air of an early 20th-century radio report so that you can almost hear a transatlantic accent in the words.
The sourcing also provides quirky eccentricities to illuminate the various folks at play throughout the story: Hostage Lucy Aldrich is an overweight, hard-of-hearing spinster who doesn’t take grief from the bandits, even bossing them around from time to time; Russky is a well-traveled, vodka-drinking bandit who can belt out a Chinese or Russian folk song at a moment's notice and brighten the spirits of both the hostages and his fellow bandits.
Those details — with a touch of the racism, sexism and ageism for a well-rounded view of the time — become vital to keeping the characters straight and the story interesting, as well as understanding people's motives.
And “The Peking Express” is friendly for popping in and out. While it reads well chronologically, you can also pick a section of personal import and have enough context that you won’t be lost. There’s a detailed index, maps and even a character list for easy reference.
Tasked with balancing dry geopolitics and tricky negotiations with the human experience and emotion that make it important and impactful, Zimmerman is mostly — but not entirely — successful.
Slow moments dot “The Peking Express.” But the bits that drag are balanced by shocks of emotion cycling through camaraderie, disgust, elation and many more as the complex situation brings together totally disparate lives.
If you like historically accurate retellings of niche events, you’ll be pleased. If nonfiction isn’t normally your thing, this may not be magical or exciting enough to keep you locked in, but if you’re willing to go along for the ride you’ll find transportive moments and highlights of intrigue.
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Attorneys appeal Alex Murdaugh’s convictions, life sentence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh on Thursday filed a notice to appeal his convictions for the murder of his wife and son along with his life sentence.
The trial in rural South Carolina lasted six weeks and included more than 75 witnesses, but culminated in a jury taking less than three hours to find the 54-year-old Murdaugh guilty last week.
Murdaugh called 911 on the evening of June 7, 2021, saying he found his son and wife dead when he returned home from a one-hour visit with his mother, who has dementia.
Authorities said Paul Murdaugh, 22, was shot twice with a shotgun, each round loaded with different sized shot, while Maggie Murdaugh, 52, was struck with four or five bullets from a rifle. A crime scene report suggested that both victims were shot in the head after initially being wounded near dog kennels on the Murdaughs’ sprawling rural property.
Prosecutors took more than a year to charge the disgraced lawyer with murder but decided not to pursue the death penalty. Murdaugh, who is also charged with about 100 counts of financial and other crimes, adamantly denied any involvement in the killings.
Murdaugh could have received as little as 30 years behind bars, but the judge gave him the maximum: two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
After the trial, some jurors said that the key piece of evidence in finding the lawyer guilty was a video on his son Paul’s cellphone that was shot minutes before the killings at the kennels near where the bodies were found. Murdaugh’s testimony only cemented what they were already thinking — that he easily lied, and could turn on and off his tears at will, jurors said.
Attorney Dick Harpootlian filed Murdaugh’s appeal to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.
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The company promotes IP protection, striking a balance between technology innovation and adoption
SHENZHEN, China, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, one of the world's largest patent holders, Huawei, announced royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi, and IoT patent license programs.
"Huawei is willing to share cutting-edge innovations in the form of patents with the world," said the company's Chief Legal Officer, Song Liuping, who added, "These will support the common, sustainable development of industries globally."
His remarks were made at Huawei's annual flagship event on innovation and intellectual property protection in Shenzhen, which this year was titled "Bridging Horizons of Innovations: Sharing IP, Driving Innovation".
Over the past 20 years, Huawei has been a major contributor to mainstream ICT standards, such as cellular, Wi-Fi and multimedia codecs.
The event featured sharing sessions by experts from diverse areas, covering technologies applicable at home, on the go, and at work. These include leading research on 5.5G, audio and video technologies, ten-size adjustable aperture in mobile phones, a general obstacle detection network that helps cars identify abnormal objects outside the white list of general obstacles, and algorithms that can enable intelligent production scheduling and optimization.
Huawei is committed to licensing its standard essential patents (SEPs) on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) principles. The event also saw Huawei announcing royalty rates for 4G and 5G handsets, Wi-Fi 6 devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) products, all areas where Huawei is a top SEP owner. The rate caps for 4G and 5G handsets are US$1.5 per unit and US$2.5 per unit, respectively. Huawei's royalty rate for Wi-Fi 6 consumer devices, meanwhile, is US$0.5 per unit. For IoT, the rate for IoT-Centric devices is one percent of the net selling price, capped at US$0.75, while the rate for IoT-Enhanced devices ranges from US$0.3 to US$1 per unit.
Alan Fan, Vice President and Head of the Intellectual Property Rights Department at Huawei, iterated that a positive cycle where innovators are protected, rewarded, and encouraged is key to sustainable innovation.
"Huawei takes a balanced approach to patent licensing. We believe reasonable royalty rates will incentivize both the creation and adoption of innovations." he said.
To date, Huawei has entered into almost 200 bi-lateral patent licenses, according to Fan. In addition, over 350 companies have obtained licenses to Huawei's patents through patent pools. Under these licenses, Huawei's total past royalty payment is about three times its total royalty collection, and its 2022 licensing revenue amounted to US$560 million.
While addressing the event remotely, Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, said Huawei has been a key player in the collaborative process of supporting cost-effective, inclusive innovation of scale.
"As we continue to tackle global challenges and work towards rescuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), conducive policies and frameworks are essential to help innovations ecosystems flourish." Lamanauskas added.
The company's cumulative R&D investment over the past ten years totaled CNY977.3 billion. In 2022, its R&D expenditure stood at CNY161.5 billion, or 25.1% of its revenue. The 2022 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard put Huawei No. 4 worldwide.
Huawei has entered into patent licenses with both leading tech industry players such as Samsung and Oppo, and top automakers including Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Porsche, Subaru, Renault, Lamborghini, and Bentley.
It is also an active advocate and supporter of major global open source industry organizations, according to Fan.
Huawei's official licensing website was also launched at the event. This website offers details about the company's bilateral licensing programs ranging from mobile handsets to Wi-Fi and cellular IoT.
"Intellectual property is the great engine of cooperation in technology. It advances technology for everyone to enjoy." said Randall R. Rader, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
To learn more about Huawei's licensing programs and rates, visit Huawei's official licensing website here: https://www.huawei.com/en/ipr
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Daniel P. Johnson, IUPUI
(THE CONVERSATION) Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away.
Within these “micro-urban heat islands,” communities can experience heat wave conditions well before officials declare a heat emergency.
I use Earth-observing satellites and population data to map these hot spots, often on projects with NASA. Satellites like the Landsat program have become crucial for pinpointing urban risks so cities can prepare for and respond to extreme heat, a top weather-related killer.
Among the many things we’ve been able to track with increasingly detailed satellite data is that the hottest neighborhoods are typically low-income and often have predominantly Black or Hispanic residents.
Two types of urban heat, both dangerous
The urban heat island effect was first described in 1818, over 200 years ago, in “The Climate of London” by Luke Howard, an early pioneer of meteorology.
There are two distinct types of urban heat island: the atmospheric urban heat island and the surface urban heat island. They are measured in different ways.
The atmospheric urban heat island, the phenomenon described by Howard, is simply the warmer air in urban areas relative to cooler air in outlying locations.
The surface urban heat island is the result of surfaces made up of heat-absorbing materials, such as asphalt, concrete and metal. Such materials are highly effective absorbers of heat energy from the Sun, and their surfaces warm rapidly and in turn emit the absorbed energy. You can feel the heat when you touch them.
The surface urban heat island directly contributes to the atmospheric urban heat island and is usually most intense on sunny days. Urbanization also contributes to the heat island effect through deforestation and the removal of other vegetation that would provide some cooling.
Where communities faces the highest heat
With rising global temperatures increasing the likelihood of dangerous heat waves, cities need to know which neighborhoods are at high risk. Excessive heat can lead to dehydration, heat exhaustion, heat stroke and even death with prolonged exposure, and the most at-risk residents often lack financial resources to adapt.
Satellite instruments can identify communities vulnerable to extreme heat because they can measure and map the surface urban heat island in high detail.
For example, industrial and commercial zones are frequently among the hottest areas in cities. They typically have fewer trees to cool the air and more pavement and buildings to retain and radiate heat.
Certain residential layouts are also more prone to higher surface temperatures than others. These neighborhoods usually have minimal vegetation, and homes are built close together, with more roads and sidewalks and little green space. Often, especially in northern climates, homes in these neighborhoods were built with materials such as brick that retain heat to keep occupants warmer in the winter. Communities with many apartment buildings and stores surrounded by parking lots are also at high risk.
My research has found that on warm summer days, low-income communities of color can experience extreme heat conditions that are often more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 C) warmer than surrounding areas. Other research has found similar differences among neighborhoods and stark racial and economic disparities when it comes to heat exposure.
One recent study found that the poorest areas were significantly hotter than the richest in 76% of urban U.S. counties. It also found that neighborhoods with large Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were in significantly hotter areas in 71% of counties, and that that difference remained even when adjusting for income. These areas tend to have less vegetation and a higher density of homes.
Another study looked at communities that had once been redlined, a discriminatory practice banks used in the early to mid-20th century to deny loans in racial and ethnic minority communities. Nationally, these formerly redlined neighborhoods were 4.6 F (2.6 C) warmer than nonredlined areas.
50 years of Landsat
Several satellite systems can now measure the surface urban heat island, but the Landsat program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, provides decades of continuous, comparable data in the detail necessary to examine variations within a city. That continuity helps scientists measure the impact of changes and track how development patterns change a neighborhood’s heat profile.
The first Landsat satellite was launched on July 23, 1972, with a sensor that collected data in green, red and near-infrared wavelengths that made it useful for mapping vegetation. Beginning with Landsat 4, launched in July 1982, scientists could map and measure thermal characteristics of Earth’s surface. Today, Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 are operating, and a 10th is being developed.
How cities can use this data to help
There are numerous ways cities can use this data to help residents combat extreme heat.
In Indianapolis, local government and faith-based organizations have used extreme heat vulnerability indices, which use indicators of heat-health risk and past heat waves to highlight high-risk communities. Knowing which communities are likely to be at the highest risk allows them to guide outreach to the most vulnerable people both before and during periods of elevated temperatures.
New York’s “Cool Neighborhoods NYC” program includes strategically planting trees and vegetation to increase shade and evapotranspiration, which cools the surrounding area. It also discusses painting roofs and pavement light colors to reflect solar energy and educating at-risk communities about heat risk and ways they can get help.
As the climate continues to warm and affect urban health, the Landsat satellites’ sensors are among our best tools for monitoring the thermal variations of the urban heat island. Such work also serves as one of the best examples of employing satellite-based measurements to monitor and implement response to public health threats.
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ANDOVER, Mass., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that members of the management team will present at the upcoming Canaccord Genuity 43rd Annual Growth Conference at the InterContinental Boston Hotel. Management is scheduled to present on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Event: Canaccord Genuity 43rd Annual Growth Conference
Date: Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m. ET
A live and archived webcast of the fireside chat will be available on the "Investors" section of the TransMedics website at https://investors.transmedics.com/.
About TransMedics Group, Inc.
TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure.
Investor Contact:
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Orthopedic Surgeon Makes History by setting a Guinness World Record.
GRAPEVINE, Texas, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alisina Shahi, MD, PhD got a leg up on his competition at the American Association for Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) 2022 Annual Meeting, and earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Shahi from Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ, assembled all 30 bones of the human leg in 78 seconds, beating out 112 other challengers.
The record was sponsored by OrthAlign Inc., a California-based medical device and technology company, which set up a booth at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, at AAHKS on November 4 and 5. The company donated $25 per attempt to Operation Walk, an all-volunteer medical humanitarian organization that provides joint replacement surgeries at no cost for those in need in the U.S. and around the world.
"No bones about it—we had a lot of fun with this competition, and we were able to donate a total of $5,000 to a great cause," says Eric Timko, Chairman and CEO of OrthAlign, Inc.
Shahi was presented with a ceremonial plaque by the official Guinness Book of World Records judge to acknowledge his accomplishment and place in history.
"This was a lot of fun and was a win-win situation. We got to show off our skills and raise money for a good cause. I sure hope my record stands!" says Shahi.
OrthAlign, Inc., is a privately held U.S.-based medical device company that provides orthopedic surgeons with advanced precision computer-assisted technologies designed to deliver healthier and more pain-free lifestyles to joint replacement patients. For more information regarding OrthAlign, please visit www.orthalign.com.
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403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain, mild with highs in the mid 50s. Light winds, becoming
south 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of rain showers overnight. Very windy with lows in the mid
30s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph, increasing to 30 to 40 mph with
gusts up to 60 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and snow showers.
Very windy. Near steady temperatures in the mid 30s. West winds
25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder with lows in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds around 10 mph, becoming light.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ002-092215-
Orleans-
Including the city of Medina
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain, mild with highs ranging from the upper 40s along the
Lake Ontario shore to the lower 50s inland. Light winds, becoming
south 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of showers overnight. Very windy with lows in the upper 30s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming southwest and increasing to 25 to
35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning, then a
chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Windy, colder with
near steady temperatures in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 50 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in
the evening, then a chance of snow showers overnight. Colder with
lows in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph
in the evening, becoming northwest. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ011-092215-
Genesee-
Including the city of Batavia
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain, breezy, mild with highs in the lower 50s. Light
winds, becoming south 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of showers overnight. Very windy with lows in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph, becoming west 25 to 35 mph with gusts
up to 60 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow showers.
Windy and much colder with near steady temperatures in the mid 30s.
West winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder with lows in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ085-092215-
Southern Erie-
Including the cities of Orchard Park and Springville
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...A chance of rain early, then rain. Windy, mild with highs
ranging from the lower 50s on the hilltops to the mid 50s across the
lower elevations. Southeast winds 10 mph or less, becoming south and
increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely in the evening, then rain and snow
showers likely overnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Very windy
with lows ranging from the lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s
across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph,
increasing to 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and rain showers.
Very windy. Near steady temperatures ranging from the lower 30s on
the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower elevations. West winds
25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder with lows ranging from the lower 20s inland to the
mid 20s along the Lake Erie shore. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds around 10 mph, becoming light. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ012-092215-
Wyoming-
Including the city of Warsaw
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...A chance of rain early, then rain. Windy, mild with highs
in the lower 50s. South winds 10 mph or less, increasing to 20 to
30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely in the evening, then rain and snow
showers likely overnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Very windy
with lows in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming
west and increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and rain showers.
Very windy and much colder with near steady temperatures ranging
from the lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower
elevations. West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph,
diminishing to 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder with lows in the lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 30.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ019-092215-
Chautauqua-
Including the city of Jamestown
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain likely early, then rain. Very windy and mild with
highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming south
and increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of rain and snow showers overnight. Very windy with lows in
the lower 30s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph, increasing to 30 to
40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and rain showers.
Very windy. Near steady temperatures ranging from the lower 30s on
the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower elevations. West winds
25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph, diminishing to 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely in the evening,
then a chance of snow showers overnight. Lows in the lower 20s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ020-092215-
Cattaraugus-
Including the city of Olean
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...A chance of rain early, then rain. Windy, mild with highs
in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south and
increasing to 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers likely in the evening, then a chance of rain
and snow showers overnight. Windy with lows in the lower 30s.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, becoming west.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow and rain showers.
Windy and much colder with near steady temperatures ranging from the
lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower
elevations. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph,
diminishing to 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Colder with lows in the lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ021-092215-
Allegany-
Including the city of Wellsville
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...A chance of rain early, then rain with a chance of freezing
rain early. Rain from late morning on. Breezy, mild with highs
around 50. Southeast winds 10 mph or less, becoming south and
increasing to 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the evening,
then a chance of rain and snow showers overnight. Windy with lows
ranging from the lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s across the
lower elevations. South winds 20 to 30 mph, becoming west with gusts
up to 50 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow showers.
Windy, colder with near steady temperatures ranging from the lower
30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower elevations. West
winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in the morning,
diminishing to 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder with lows in the lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the lower 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ013-092215-
Livingston-
Including the city of Geneseo
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain, windy, mild with highs in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south and increasing to 20 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Windy with lows in the upper 30s. South winds 20 to 30 mph, becoming
west with gusts up to 50 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Windy, colder with near steady temperatures ranging from
the mid 30s on the hilltops to the upper 30s across the lower
elevations. West winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in the
morning, diminishing to 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
evening, then a chance of snow showers overnight. Colder with lows
in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west 10 mph or less. Chance
of snow 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 40s.
$$
NYZ014-092215-
Ontario-
Including the city of Canandaigua
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
.TODAY...Rain with a chance of freezing rain early. Rain from late
morning on. Windy, mild with highs around 50. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south and increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts up
to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Windy with lows ranging from the lower 30s on the hilltops to the
upper 30s across the lower elevations. South winds 20 to 30 mph,
becoming west with gusts up to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Windy, colder with near steady temperatures ranging from
the mid 30s on the hilltops to the upper 30s across the lower
elevations. West winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in the
morning. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
evening, then snow showers likely overnight. Colder with lows
ranging from the lower 20s on the hilltops to the mid 20s across the
lower elevations. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ003-092215-
Monroe-
Including the city of Rochester
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain, mild with highs in the lower 50s. Light winds,
becoming south 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Very
windy with lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming
west and increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the morning, then a
chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Windy, colder with
near steady temperatures in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 45 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
evening, then a chance of snow showers overnight. Colder with lows
in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ004-092215-
Wayne-
Including the city of Newark
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
.TODAY...Rain. Highs in the upper 40s. Light winds, becoming south
15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of showers overnight. Windy with lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming west and increasing to 20 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Windy.
Near steady temperatures in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 45 mph in the morning. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
evening, then a chance of snow showers overnight. Lows in the mid
20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
northwest. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ005-092215-
Northern Cayuga-
Including the city of Fair Haven
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
.TODAY...Rain likely early. Rain from late morning on. Highs in the
upper 40s. Light winds, becoming south 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening, then a
chance of showers overnight. Windy with lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming southwest and increasing to 20 to
30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Windy. Near
steady temperatures in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to 30 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph in the morning, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...A chance of snow and rain showers in the evening,
then snow showers likely overnight. Lows in the mid 20s. West winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 40s.
$$
NYZ006-092215-
Oswego-
Including the city of Oswego
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
.TODAY...A chance of rain early. Rain from late morning on. Highs in
the mid 40s. Light winds, becoming southeast 15 to 20 mph. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers. Windy and not as cold with lows ranging
from the lower 30s on the Tug Hill to the upper 30s across the lower
elevations. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest and
increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Accumulation ranging from
little or nothing across the lower elevations to 2 to 4 inches on
the Tug Hill. Windy. Near steady temperatures ranging from the lower
30s on the Tug Hill to the upper 30s across the lower elevations.
West winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph in the morning.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Snow showers likely with a chance of rain
showers in the evening, then a chance of snow showers overnight.
Lows ranging from 15 to 20 on the Tug Hill to the mid 20s across the
lower elevations. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs ranging from the
mid 20s on the Tug Hill to around 30 across the lower elevations.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west. Chance of snow
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely with a chance of snow showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
$$
NYZ007-092215-
Jefferson-
Including the city of Watertown
403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EST
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Rain from late morning on. Windy with highs in the mid 40s.
Light winds, becoming southeast 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers. Very windy with lows ranging from the lower
30s on the Tug Hill to the mid 30s across the lower elevations.
South winds 15 to 30 mph, becoming southwest and increasing to 30 to
40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain and snow showers likely in the morning, then a chance
of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Snow accumulation ranging
from little or nothing across the lower elevations to 2 to 4 inches
on the Tug Hill. Very windy. Near steady temperatures ranging from
the lower 30s on the Tug Hill to the mid 30s across the lower
elevations. Southwest winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph,
becoming west and diminishing to 15 to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Much colder with lows 15 to 20. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs ranging from the mid 20s on the Tug
Hill to the upper 20s across the lower elevations. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming light.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows 20 to 25.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the lower 40s.
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403 AM EST Thu Feb 9 2023
.TODAY...Rain from late morning on. Windy with highs in the lower
40s. Light winds, becoming south 20 to 30 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers in the evening, then rain and snow showers
overnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows ranging from the
lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid 30s across the lower
elevations. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph,
becoming southwest. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow and rain showers likely in the morning, then snow
showers likely with a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Snow
accumulation ranging from an inch or less across the lower
elevations to 2 to 4 inches across the higher terrain. Near steady
temperatures ranging from the lower 30s on the hilltops to the mid
30s across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph, becoming west. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Much colder with lows 15 to 20. West winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs ranging from the mid 20s
on the hilltops to the upper 20s across the lower elevations.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming light. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mainly clear. Lows 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely with a chance of snow showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
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By MARC LEVY and GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
Trump made bold endorsements in backing celebrity heart surgeon Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and U.S. Rep. Ted Budd in North Carolina. The once little-known Budd is now in a strong position to win the Republican nomination, but Oz is locked in a tight primary against a former hedge fund CEO and a community activist. The primaries follow a resounding win in Ohio’s May 3 contest by Trump’s Senate candidate, JD Vance.
On the Democratic side, Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman revealed Sunday that he had suffered a stroke but was on his way to a “full recovery.”
Pennsylvania, Oregon and Idaho are holding primaries for governor on Tuesday. In Idaho, Republican Brad Little is fighting back a challenge from his lieutenant governor, a Trump-backed conservative who issued executive orders banning mask mandates during the height of the pandemic when Little was out of state on business.
In Congress, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn is trying to survive a Republican primary in North Carolina after a turbulent first term in office.
What to watch in Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho and Oregon:
PENNSYLVANIA
The race for retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s seat has been dominated by a huge primary field that has been particularly contested on the GOP side.
But on Sunday, the focus was on the Democrats as Fetterman announced he was recovering from a stroke. The 52-year-old said he went to the hospital on Friday after not feeling well and would remain for a while for observation. He vowed to press forward despite the health setback, saying, “Our campaign isn’t slowing down one bit, and we are still on track to win this primary on Tuesday.”
Fetterman has led in polls and fundraising in a four-person field that includes U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta.
For Republicans, the race looked for much of the campaign like a two-man contest between the Trump-endorsed Oz, best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show, and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
But several prominent conservative groups have gotten involved in the race’s final days, backing lesser-known conservative activist Kathy Barnette as an alternative. A recent Fox News poll shows she is surging, just trailing Oz and McCormick.
In the governor’s race, some Republicans are wringing their hands over the prospect that a far-right candidate, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, could emerge as the winner in the crowded field. They fear Mastriano, who has promoted Trump’s lies of widespread election fraud in the 2020 election, is unelectable in November and likely to squander an opportunity to replace Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who is prevented by term limit laws from running again.
On the Democratic side, the state’s two-term attorney general, Josh Shapiro, is unchallenged in his gubernatorial bid.
NORTH CAROLINA
Trump is trying to sway races for U.S. Senate and House in a state he won twice, but narrowly.
Trump endorsed Budd for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Richard Burr, surprising many at last year’s state GOP convention. Budd’s top competitors in the 11-way primary are former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, who had actively sought Trump’s support, and former Gov. Pat McCrory, who is considered a moderate in the race but is best known nationally for signing a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people in 2016 that cost the state billions.
On the Democratic side, Cheri Beasley, the former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, has appeared to clear her 11-person field of significant rivals. She would be North Carolina’s first Black U.S. senator if she wins in November.
In congressional races, Trump’s endorsement of Cawthorn in the 11th District didn’t stop establishment figures from opposing the 26-year-old first-term congressman.
Unforced political and personal errors by Cawthorn — a speaker at the “Stop the Steal” rally before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — have made him vulnerable in an eight-candidate GOP primary. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed state legislator Chuck Edwards in the race.
In two Democratic-leaning districts, Democrats are holding robust primaries for the nominations to succeed the retiring Rep. David Price in the 4th District and Rep. G.K. Butterfield in the 1st District. Former “American Idol” star Clay Aiken is among the Democratic candidates running for Price’s seat.
In the open 13th District, considered a toss-up in November, the Republican field includes Bo Hines, a former college football player endorsed by Trump.
Tuesday’s primary may not be the final word for would-be nominees: First-place candidates must get more than 30% of the vote to avoid a July 26 runoff.
KENTUCKY
U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, the chair of the House Budget Committee and the only Democrat in Kentucky’s congressional delegation, is retiring, opening up his seat for the first time in 16 years.
On the Democratic side, state Sen. Morgan McGarvey and state Rep. Attica Scott are playing up their progressive credentials in the Louisville-area 3rd District. Despite their underdog status, several Republicans are also running for the seat, which Yarmuth won in 2006 by ousting a veteran GOP congresswoman.
The Louisville mayor’s race is also getting outsize interest this year after someone fired on one of the candidates while he was in his campaign office. Democrat Craig Greenberg escaped with a bullet hole in his sweater in the Feb. 14 shooting, and a local social justice activist was charged with attempted murder.
Greenberg is one of eight candidates running in the Democratic primary. A Republican hasn’t held the mayor’s office in Kentucky’s largest city in several decades.
OREGON
In liberal Oregon, the primary for governor is shaping up as a test between the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party at a time of widespread frustration in the state over the COVID-19 pandemic, the homeless crisis, a lack of affordable housing and growing gun violence.
The two leading Democratic candidates are Tina Kotek, a staunch liberal and former speaker of the state House, versus Tobias Read, the state treasurer who has positioned himself as a moderate.
In the Democratic-leaning 5th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader — a moderate endorsed by President Joe Biden — is trying to fight off a primary challenge from progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner.
The state’s new 6th District has drawn national buzz as one of the most expensive Democratic congressional primaries this year. It has attracted 16 candidates, including Democratic newcomer Carrick Flynn, who is backed by a cryptocurrency kingpin.
In the Democratic-leaning 4th District, eight Democrats are vying for the nomination to replace U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, who is retiring after 35 years in office.
IDAHO
Little, the Republican governor, is trying to survive a primary challenge from his lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin, a far-right conservative who has been backed by Trump.
The relationship between Little and McGeachin has been fraught. On two occasions when Little went out of state last year, McGeachin claimed to be in charge and issued executive orders to block COVID-19 mandates. Little, who had never tried to implement any pandemic-related mandates, rescinded both orders when he returned.
In February, McGeachin delivered a taped speech at a white nationalist gathering in Florida. She later said that she was taking an opportunity to speak about Trump’s “America First” agenda and that the “media wants us to play a guilt-by-association game.”
The establishment and far-right factions of the Republican Party are also vying for control in other races in the state.
In the attorney general’s race, five-term incumbent Lawrence Wasden is facing a primary challenge from former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador, a tea party favorite. In the secretary of state’s race, establishment-backed Phil McGrane is going up against state Sen. Mary Souza and far-right state Rep. Dorothy Moon, both of whom have spread the lie that Trump won the 2020 election.
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Robertson reported from Raleigh, N.C. Associated Press writers Sara Cline in Portland, Ore.; Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho; and Bruce Schreiner in Frankfort, Ky., contributed to this report.
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Some future versions of the Lucid Air and Gravity SUV may make their impressive range claims with U.S.-made batteries.
On Tuesday, Lucid Group and Panasonic Energy Co. confirmed a multi-year agreement that will keep Lucid supplied as it ramps up the rest of the Lucid Air lineup in 2023 and starts production of the Gravity SUV in 2024.
The Panasonic supply headed to Lucid will include lithium-ion cells from a facility in Japan, plus future production from the company’s upcoming plant in De Soto, Kansas, which has been claimed to be the largest battery plant in the world.
Lucid already uses cells from LG Chem in some versions of the Air, including the Grand Touring, while it’s used cells from Samsung SDI in its initial Dream Edition versions of the Air. A press release issued by Panasonic Energy and Lucid says that Panasonic batteries will be supplied for Lucid’s “full vehicle line-up,” so it’s unclear which versions might retain cells from those existing suppliers, or whether they might be funneled toward another project—like energy storage products, for instance.
Having U.S.-made battery cells in its vehicles may help Lucid, as it produces more lower-priced vehicles, to qualify for the revamped federal EV tax credit, called the Clean Vehicle Credit, and specifically its new U.S. sourcing requirements. The new credit only applies to cars that cost $55,000 or less, or to SUVs, vans, or pickups that cost $80,000 or less.
Nothing has yet been said about Gravity pricing, but currently, the Air lineup isn’t even close to that. The base Air Pure costs $88,900 today, including the $1,500 destination fee, and it’s hard to imagine the Gravity emerging with a lower price. But later this decade Lucid does intend to bring its efficiency-leading tech to more affordable models.
The Lucid Air, which remains the longest-range EV on the market, is produced in Casa Grande, Arizona, and the Gravity SUV is due to be produced there as well as part of a plant expansion. Panasonic is a longtime Tesla supplier, and the Kansas plant will reportedly also provide much of its output to Tesla. Canoo is another smaller-scale U.S. EV maker that’s confirmed the use of Panasonic cells, likely from the Kansas plant.
A change of cells for Lucid Air production might not be anything the buyer even notices. As a startup, Lucid’s Atieva group supplied battery packs for Formula E racing and has maintained a deep knowledge base of available cell types, chemistries, and thermal factors.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – The Girl Scouts are recognizing a former scout who now heads a local organization dedicated to ending racism and empowering women.
The Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways honored Carole Coppens, Executive Director of the YWCA of Binghamton and Broome County, at its annual Women of Distinction breakfast Tuesday morning at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Binghamton.
Coppens has lead the YWCA since June, 2000, shepherding the organization from the brink of bankruptcy to a thriving and expanding non-profit that addresses the needs of women and their children.
The YW offers temporary and permanent supportive housing to homeless women and their families, runs an early childhood education center and provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings through ENCOREplus.
The YW recently expanded its housing to serve domestic violence survivors.
Coppens says the organization has come a long way in her 22 years and she has no plans to retire.
“I have no interest in stopping. Why? It’s getting good. It’s fun, it’s great. At least the first 10 years of my work, always a big pit in my stomach because I didn’t know from one day to the next if we could meet payroll.”
The YWCA recently added a Mission Impact Director focused on racism to the staff.
The Women of Distinction event raises money for Gold Award Girl Scout scholarships. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/girl-scouts-honor-ywca-director-carole-coppens/ | 2022-09-27 19:50:56 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/girl-scouts-honor-ywca-director-carole-coppens/ |
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Joe Musgrove walked onto the dais in an olive green suit, with his family on the left side of the room and a small contingent of Padres to his right, including teammates Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth, as well as manager Bob Melvin and pitching coach Ruben Niebla.
The big right-hander from suburban El Cajon had dreamed as a boy about playing for his hometown Padres, which came true when they obtained him in a three-team trade in January 2021.
He already has etched his name into franchise lore by throwing the first no-hitter in Padres history, in just his second start. Now he has a new $100 million, five-year contract that starts next year after it was finalized on Monday.
At one point this summer, it looked as if a deal wasn’t going to get done and that Musgrove might hit the free agent market. But talks intensified after Musgrove made his first career All-Star Game.
“It’s something both sides were very confident in,” Musgrove said. “I really got the feel that they wanted me here. I think everybody knew that I wanted to be here."
Musgrove, 29, said he felt it was important to be with the Padres during their perceived window to win a World Series, especially to continue to play with superstars Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr.
“Five years, you look at the window that we have to win here,” Musgrove said. “I don’t know that it was necessarily anything other than getting the right agreement that felt fair money-wise and time-wise for both sides. Being a part of a team with Manny and Tati for five years felt very important for me.”
Musgrove played at Grossmont High. He threw the first no-hitter in franchise history at Texas on April 9, 2021. It was the team’s 8,206th regular-season game.
He grew up a Padres fan and his family once had season tickets. He idolized Jake Peavy, who won the NL Cy Young Award with the Padres in 2007, and wears No. 44 in Peavy’s honor. When he was 18, he got a tattoo of a baseball with the Padres’ logo in it, along with his last name and the year he was born.
“I’m definitely excited to be here for more than just two years,” he said. “There’s some records out there that are going to be hard to accomplish in two years. To put myself in the record books as a Padre would be pretty cool. I’ve got some work to do. With five years, I’ve got to get to it right away.”
Musgrove said there’s “a little bit of fear coming back here and pitching in front of all the people I know and my hometown. That added fear is a sense of motivation as well. It’s a little bit of extra drive.”
Musgrove is 8-4 with a 2.65 ERA this season, with 114 strikeouts and just 27 walks in 18 starts. In seven big league seasons with Houston, Pittsburgh and San Diego, he’s 48-51 with a 3.82 ERA. He earned the win for the Astros in Game 5 of the 2017 World Series.
“It feels like he’s been here his whole career and he’s exceeded our expectations,” Padres general manager A.J. Preller said. “I think that’s a big reason why we’re here today.”
Musgrove has an $8,625,000 salary and was on track to be eligible for free agency after the World Series.
He gets $20 million annually from 2023-27, a full no-trade provision through 2026 and in the final year of the deal gets a limited no-trade provision allowing him to block a trade to 13 teams. However, that provision would have significance only if Musgrove has been traded before then — if he remains with the Padres, he would have the right to veto trades starting midway through the 2026 season as a 10-year veteran who has been with his team for at least five seasons.
In addition, Musgrove gets a hotel suite on road trips.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Aliyah Boston had 16 points and 13 rebounds and Zia Cooke added 18 points to lift No. 1 South Carolina to an 81-56 victory over No. 17 Maryland on Friday night.
Abby Meyers scored 21 points to lead Maryland (1-1), but aside from her ability to score from the midrange and beyond the arc, the undersized Terrapins had a tough time offensively. Perhaps no stat summed up this game better than the Gamecocks’ 11-0 advantage in blocked shots.
South Carolina was playing its first of four consecutive road games, and this win makes it almost certain that a Nov. 20 clash at Stanford will be a 1 vs. 2 matchup.
Maryland packed its defense into the paint to deal with the 6-foot-4 Boston, and the Terps were down just six at halftime, 32-26. The margin was still in single digits in the third before South Carolina (2-0) went on an 11-1 run to lead 56-39.
Kamilla Cardoso, the Gamecocks’ 6-7 reserve, scored a pair of baskets during that run, sandwiched around a 3-pointer by Cooke. Cardoso finished with 13 points.
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: The Gamecocks showed good patience on the road — at times Maryland was practically daring them to shoot from the perimeter instead of working the ball inside. South Carolina did make enough 3-pointers (eight) to make the Terps pay for leaving shooters open.
Maryland: The Terps played a scrappy game, forcing 20 turnovers, and this was an encouraging performance without Miller in the first half. Meyers, a star at Princeton last season, is one of a handful of transfers Maryland brought in as part of a roster makeover. She scored 14 of the team’s first 17 points to help the Terps keep it close for a while.
MILESTONE
Boston tied Tiffany Mitchell for the program record with her 103rd consecutive start.
UP NEXT
South Carolina: The Gamecocks return closer to home when they play at Clemson on Thursday night.
Maryland: The Terps host Fordham on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden is heading to Game 4 of the World Series this week in her hometown of Philadelphia as her team, the Phillies, battles the Houston Astros.
The White House said Monday she would attend Tuesday's game, during which Major League Baseball will honor those affected by cancer. The series is tied right now at 1-1, and Game 3 is being played Monday night in Philadelphia.
President Joe Biden has made ending cancer "as we know it" a major effort of his administration. He hopes to cut U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer. Experts say the objective is attainable — with adequate investments.
On Friday during a speech in Philadelphia, the president showed off his Phillies socks to the crowd and got a big round of applause, and he noted he needed to make the speech brief because he knew Game 1 was on. He also often jokes about his wife, “a Philly girl,” and her allegiances to the teams there.
"Like every Philly fan, she's convinced she knows more about everything in sports than anybody else," Biden quipped last month as he hosted the 2021 World Series winners, the Atlanta Braves.
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WILKES-BARRE — A Drums man who admitted to sexually assaulting a woman while she slept was sentenced to state prison.
Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Vough sentenced Joseph Robert McNelis, 54, to two-to-four years in state prison on charges of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault followed by three years probation. McNelis pled guilty to the charges June 14.
McNelis was charged by state police at Hazleton in March 2021 on allegations he assaulted the woman inside a home in Hazle Township. She claimed she woke up to McNelis sexually assaulting her on Oct. 5, 2020, according to court records.
The woman did not report the offense until Feb. 14.
McNelis is required to lifetime registration of his address as a sexual offender under the state’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1575353/butler-township-man-sentenced-for-sexually-assaulting-woman | 2022-09-19 20:22:22 | 0 | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1575353/butler-township-man-sentenced-for-sexually-assaulting-woman |
Locker #505 Fashion Show fundraising event this Sunday
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This Sunday, Locker #505 is hosting a fashion show fundraising event to support their efforts to ensure local students have good clothing.
The fashion show is from 3-5 p.m. this Sunday. Doors open at 2 p.m. at the Sheraton in Uptown Albuquerque. There will also be a silent auction, appetizers, a dessert bar and more.
Executive director Kim Kerschen stopped by Wednesday morning to talk with Gabe Salazar about what’s happening this weekend.
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Fall handbags show eye-catching style, classic features and attention grabbing textures
Practicality and variety reign across the board for Fall 2022 handbags. Eye-catching styles in utilitarian shapes, ranging from the tote to a more elevated iteration of the backpack, continue to be strong players in this category. Contemporary tweaks to vintage classics are also emerging trends – think classic flap bag with modern, braided trim.
And the sartorial excitement doesn’t stop there. Attention-grabbing textures like suede, shearling or woven varieties are viable choices this season. With the options out there this season, there is surely something that will catch your eye.
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Intertwined Two Tone Pave Hoops by Alexis Bittar, $225 at Monkees of the West End
Intricately designed jewelry in gold and diamonds is the ideal complement to the earthiness of this season’s leather goods.
Babylon Bag in Cognac Suede by Sancia, $400 at Muse Shoe Studio
The classic saddle bag, with a nod to this season’s equestrian trend, is updated with modern detailing such as updated gold hardware and mixed textures.
Woven Cane Clutch in White by Serpui, $445 at Monkees of the West End
Don’t put away your woven bags just yet … this style (in this case, classic cane) will easily transition from summer to fall.
Otis Tote in Golden Valley Tan by Hammit, $495 at Monkees of the West End
The steadfast tote gets a makeover when plush suede is combined with calf in a golden, tan hue.
Gold Link Chain Necklace, $40 at Monkees of the West End
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WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Renovated tennis courts, space for pickleball and improvements to walkways are coming to an Ypsilanti Township park thanks to a federal grant from the National Park Service meant to protect outdoor spaces at the local level.
The township’s Community Center Park, off East Clark Road across from the Green Oaks Golf Course, will benefit from $189,150 in funding from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn.
The money will help the township update tennis courts which have fallen into disrepair, as well as put in some pickleball courts and a rain garden, said Ypsilanti Township Residential Services Director Mike Hoffmeister.
The funds, along with a matching amount contributed by the township, will also help with work on accessible walkways and landscaping in the park, with the construction likely taking place in 2023, Hoffmeister said.
“The Community Center Park in Ypsilanti Township has long been a place where family and friends have come together to enjoy the great outdoors,” Dingell, who represents the area in Washington, said in a statement. “With this federal funding, we will ensure our neighbors have access to renovated amenities and opportunities to take part in an array of recreational activities.”
The National Park Service has directed more than 40,000 similar grants to states and local communities since 1965, according to Dingell’s office. The money in the fund comes from investments of earnings from offshore oil and gas leases, which are then funneled to recreation and conservation areas across the country.
The township park is already home to a $500,000 skate park opened in 2020 with funding from a pair of national foundations and the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission.
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The planned improvements to the park will complement that facility, as well as the current baseball diamonds, according to township Supervisor Brenda Stumbo.
“Investing in recreation increases opportunities for communities to come together and celebrate the parks and outdoors as we are coming out of the pandemic,” she said in a statement, thanking Dingell and the township’s federal representatives.
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Judge enters not guilty plea for suspect in stabbing deaths of 4 college students in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the stage for a trial in which he could potentially face the death penalty.
The Nov. 13, 2022, killings stunned the rural community of Moscow, Idaho, and prompted many students to leave campus early, switching to remote learning for the remainder of the semester.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested late last year and charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with with the slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus.
Kohberger declined to enter pleas in Latah County District Court, with his defense attorney Anne Taylor telling the judge that they were going to “stand silent” at this time. In response, 2nd District Judge John Judge entered not guilty pleas on Kohberger’s behalf.
Kohberger also declined to waive his right to a speedy trial, so the judge scheduled it to begin Oct. 2. It’s still possible that the trial, expected to last six weeks, could be delayed or moved to a different location.
Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University when the University of Idaho students were killed, but prosecutors have not released any information about how they believe he may have chosen the victims or whether he had met any of them previously.
Police released few details about the investigation until after Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in eastern Pennsylvania early Dec. 30, 2022. Court documents detailed how police pieced together DNA evidence, cellphone data and surveillance video that they say links Kohberger to the slayings.
Investigators said traces of DNA found on a knife sheath inside the home where the students were killed matches Kohberger, and that a cellphone belonging to Kohberger was near the victims’ home on a dozen occasions prior to the killings. A white sedan allegedly matching one owned by Kohberger was caught on surveillance footage repeatedly cruising past the rental home around the time of the killings.
Kernodle, Chapin, Mogen and Goncalves were friends and members of the university’s Greek system, and the three women lived together in the rental home just across the street from campus. Chapin — Kernodle’s boyfriend — was there visiting on the night of the attack.
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson now has 60 days to inform the court whether he will seek the death penalty in the case.
The small courtroom was packed for the arraignment, with some members of the news media and other onlookers lining up outside three hours before the proceeding was set to begin, Boise television station KTVB reported. Family members of Goncalves were among those who attended, one of them weeping as the charges were read.
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AI-powered company brings home its fourth Comparably recognition this year
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forethought, the human-centered AI platform, today announced it received a Comparably Award for Best Work-Life Balance. This marks the fourth Comparably recognition of 2022, following honors for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Outlook and Best Places to Work in the Bay Area.
Forethought grounds its principles for work-life balance in believing that flexibility and trust are foundational to its corporate culture. Forethought ensures its employees' benefits and ways of working reflect its core values. Recently, the company added a 401(k) match, a Compassionate Leave Policy, and a partnership with Cocoon, an industry-leading leave management platform.
"We strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work, which may look different for each of us," said Rachel Robinson, Vice President of People at Forethought. "We flourish when we can both enjoy our work and be present in those moments of life that bring us joy."
Comparably awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rate their employer on a series of more than 50 structured and comprehensive workplace questions in nearly 20 core culture categories, including Compensation, Leadership, Professional Development, Work-Life Balance, Perks and Benefits, and more.
"The positive sentiments we received throughout the year regarding Forethought led them to this well-deserved recognition for Best Work-Life Balance," said Comparably CEO Jason Nazar. "This award is a testament to the value they place on their employees' well-being."
There are no fees or costs associated with participating in Comparably's yearly survey, nor is a nomination required. To see the full list of award-winning companies and to learn more about the methodology used to determine winners, visit Comparably's blog.
Launched in 2018, Forethought is a leading AI company providing customer service solutions that enable companies to scale efficiently and transform the customer experience. Forethought's products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing human-centered AI at each stage of the customer support journey, resolving common cases instantly, enriching and prioritizing tickets, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge — all from one platform.
Comparably is a leading workplace culture site and corporate brand reputation platform with over 15 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 companies. With the most comprehensive data on large and SMB organizations in nearly 20 workplace categories — based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location and education — it is one of the most used SaaS platforms for employer branding and a trusted third-party employee review site for workplace culture and compensation. For more information on Comparably's studies and annual Best Places to Work Awards, visit Comparably News.
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Inside the movement to remake America’s city streets
The automobile has been a fixture of urban life for more than a century.
Then came the coronavirus pandemic. Congested streets turned into pedestrian safe havens.
Now many want to make those changes permanent — but it won’t happen without a fight.
Golden Gate Park is pretty serene, as far as battlefields go.
On a recent, unusually sunny afternoon, the emerald of this city’s green space was alive with people moving about its main thoroughfare. Cyclists buzzed past roller skaters, who shimmied around joggers, who lapped the many pedestrians.
One runner paused to play a roadside piano. A father and son rallied on a ping pong table. Dogs abounded. The one constituency not present: cars.
For some, this fact explained the peace. For others, it signaled defeat.
Despite its bucolic environs, Golden Gate Park has emerged as one of the most high-profile fronts in a heated pandemic-era fight to redefine city streets, one that takes aim at a century-old status quo and challenges the unquestioned dominance of automobiles.
A ribbon of pavement on the park’s main drag hints at the reimagining afoot: Long known as John F. Kennedy Drive, the stretch is now called JFK Promenade, 1.5 miles of auto-free oasis in the state that birthed American car culture. Banning cars in this part of the park became one of the city’s most contentious political disputes last year.
Similar debates have played out in cities across the United States, as people push to parlay pandemic initiatives into permanent change. The coronavirus forced Americans to rethink foundational parts of society, from work to school to housing. Now, with emergency declarations expiring, they’re considering the shifts that should and shouldn’t last.
Over the last year alone, major U.S. cities doubled-down on plans to restrict driving on main streets. Municipalities from Michigan to Washington, D.C., banned right turns at red lights. Voters earmarked billions for public transit projects. Officials unveiled hundreds of miles of new bike lanes. New York City proposed a new tax on motorists, and California relaxed jaywalking restrictions and freed up land once reserved for parking spaces.
Taken together, experts and activists say, these developments amount to a watershed moment in the debate over who has the right to huge swaths of public space.
“They are extraordinary and historic because they defy the status quo assumptions that have been predominating for the last one hundred years,” said Peter Norton, a historian and the author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.” “It illustrates that the car-first mentality does not automatically win every time.”
But a reliance on cars for work and life is ingrained in the DNA of most American environments, and there has been vigorous pushback. Newly proposed bike lanes have become politically explosive and cities have struggled to formalize once-popular streeteries. Business owners worry that fewer parking spaces means fewer customers. Some warn of gentrification, others of gridlock.
With traffic returning to pre-virus levels — and bringing with it an alarming rise in pedestrian deaths — the future of America’s streets still hangs in the balance.
In San Francisco, the no-car contingent dominated at the polls in November, heralding JFK Promenade’s perpetuity in the post-pandemic era. But the battle over who has the right to the city’s streets is far from settled.
Dede Wilsey, a socialite and philanthropist, helped bankroll the campaign to bring cars back to JFK and is frustrated the closure has made it harder to reach the park’s renowned museums, especially the de Young, an institution she helped build with a massive fundraising effort.
“This isn’t over,” she said, “not by a long shot.”
There have been skirmishes over cars in Golden Gate Park for nearly as long as there have been cars. The park, opened in 1870, was designed for visitors on foot or horseback, and park leaders fought hard to keep early automobiles out.
In 1907, a fed-up commissioner proposed arming special policemen with shotguns to “shoot the tires of automobiles” that sped through the park, according to a San Francisco Chronicle account.
Similar conflicts were unfolding across the country. At a time when the fastest vehicle on most roads was galloping, cars were intruders.
Newspapers reported on the new machines as if they were a scourge, blaming drivers for increasing traffic deaths and comparing their cars to the Grim Reaper. Courts held drivers responsible for collisions, ruling in case after case that pedestrians had the right to cross the street where they pleased and had no legal obligation to look left or right, Norton said.
By the 1920s, the bad press was piling up and the auto industry was facing an existential threat. Cities were considering severe restrictions on cars, including installing devices that would limit vehicle speeds to 25 mph. The Engineering News-Record, an industry trade publication, called for “a radical revision of our conception of what a city street is for.”
Auto interest groups mobilized an elaborate publicity campaign, Norton said, and “organized to redirect the blame for traffic fatalities and injuries away from the driver.”
To shame pedestrians into compliance, they coined a new term, using the contemporary slang for fool: “jaywalker.”
In Los Angeles, the local automobile club and a Studebaker salesman persuaded the city to adopt new traffic laws that limited where pedestrians could walk and gave priority to motorists. This codified the modern jaywalking offense and set an example the country would soon follow. Soon after, then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened a committee to craft a model traffic law.
The “radical revision” was in full swing, Norton said, “and it was a remarkably successful effort.”
Nearly a century later, the coronavirus ground American life to a halt — and offered an opportunity for another radical revision.
Stay-at-home orders and the remote work boom changed the country’s streets suddenly and profoundly, emptying them of cars as traffic plummeted to unprecedented levels. At the same time, biking boomed.
The concept of “slow streets” — limiting traffic or vehicle speed on a roadway — was popular in planning circles before the pandemic, but it went mainstream in 2020, as programs spread across the country.
Local leaders enacted a flurry of changes, turning their communities into living laboratories. Researchers at the University of North Carolina counted more than 200 full or partial street closures during the pandemic’s first two years, from a few blocks in downtown Temecula, Calif., to over 20 miles in Burlington, Vt.
Some cities swapped parking spots for outdoor dining tables and curbside pickup areas. With indoor gatherings deemed dangerous, streets became centers of community when many were desperate for connection.
This period “gave people a taste for how it would be to have streets that are slower and safer,” said Daniel Rodríguez, the director of University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies.
Oakland was among the first cities to announce major changes, rolling out a plan to close miles of streets to through traffic just a month after its first shelter-in-place order, becoming a national leader in the push to reform city streets.
“The city planner’s job is to try to describe this future state where we’re all safer,” said Warren Logan, a former Oakland policy director who was an architect of the effort. “It’s hard to imagine that future. It is much easier to show people what that looks and feels like by just doing it. What covid did is give a bunch of cities this short and amazing window.”
In Kansas City, Mo., where the temporary program has since expired, high-schoolers played volleyball on barricaded streets. In Queens, a couple was married on one of the borough’s “open streets,” and regular Zumba classes are still held on the closed strip.
The changes were especially widespread in California, but just like in other corners of the country, they quickly became polarizing.
In Oakland, the ambitious plan to transform 74 miles of streets into mostly car-free thoroughfares quickly hit a roadblock. Some communities complained officials were moving too quickly. Residents in poorer neighborhoods said city leaders were foisting the program onto blocks with more pressing concerns.
“Covid was the right moment for the cities and the activists that were thinking about this to take a step forward, and sometimes they tripped,” Rodríguez said.
Oakland leaders acknowledged the program’s shortcomings and scaled back their original plan to just 21 miles of slow streets, opting instead to funnel resources into creating safer access to “essential places,” like grocery stores and virus testing sites.
But as the pandemic wore on, the mixed reception and extra upkeep needed to maintain the closures led to the program’s demise. Last month, however, Oakland announced it was reviving a toned-down version of its slow streets.
“It’s a genie in the bottle situation,” said Logan, who left city government in 2021 and now works at a consulting firm. “You can’t put it back.”
A few miles north, in Berkeley, newly-proposed bike lanes on an idyllic strip of the city’s north side have divided residents and led to a torrent of acerbic fliers, heated meetings and more combat metaphors.
“Are bicycles really more important than small businesses in popular shopping and social districts?” asked a sign posted on several local storefronts along Hopkins Street.
Donna DeDiemar, a 74-year-old Berkeley resident who organized a group of neighbors to oppose the project, said those on both sides of the issue share the same environmental and safety concerns. They just disagree on the solution.
Her coalition argues that replacing parking spaces with bike lanes will make life harder for the area’s many seniors. But the advocates she refers to as “the bike lobby” employ a “take-no-prisoners approach,” DeDiemar said, and are not receptive to those concerns.
Berkeley’s leaders have said they want to be “a model bicycle-friendly city” and the council has already approved a new mile-long two-way cycle track down one part of Hopkins, home to a string of beloved small businesses. It is now deciding how much farther it will go.
“We’re Berkeley for God’s sake,” said DeDiemar, who has lived in the neighborhood for 45 years. “We’re all liberals and progressives, so to be attacked as if you are the source of the problem is not going down well for people.”
In San Francisco, where the future of two major streets was on the ballot in November, the car-free constituency won decisively. More than 60 percent of voters approved a measure permanently banning cars from part of JFK Drive, while a similar number rejected a competing initiative that would have allowed cars to return to stretches of Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway, another popular city roadway that was partially closed at the onset of the pandemic.
Jodie Medeiros, executive director of Walk San Francisco, said San Franciscans’ changing view of streets has been “a silver lining of the pandemic.”
The election should embolden local leaders to “keep going and not take their — I hate to say it — foot off the gas,” Medeiros said, as she walked along JFK Promenade one warm winter day. “This should be a really clear mandate that this is what our city wants.”
But for Wilsey, the philanthropist, the transformed Golden Gate Park is evidence that “the pendulum has just swung way over.”
“The fact is, roads were built for cars, they weren’t built for bicycles,” she said. “I believe bikers or walkers deserve to have a safe place, but what we have now is the exclusion of the cars to the good of the bikers or the walkers. I don’t see why we can’t have a compromise that’s good for everyone.”
Medeiros and other advocates insist the closures are a compromise — vehicles are still permitted on many of the park’s roadways and in an underground parking garage. They also say they share critics’ concerns about equitable park access.
Nonetheless, the activists believe benefits ultimately outweigh inconveniences to drivers and museumgoers. They point to people like Joseph Tartakovsky, who grew up in the neighborhood next to the park and still lives there with his family. Before the pandemic, they weren’t big bikers, but when he spotted Medeiros on JFK Promenade on a recent afternoon, he steered his e-bike over to gush about how the strip had changed his life.
“We’ve shifted all of our transportation within the city to bike,” said Tartakovsky, a lawyer. “And it’s infinitely better for us. We’re outside, no worries about parking, the kids on the back of a bike never say, ‘Are we there yet?’”
He’s met neighbors and seen his block near one of the city’s newly permanent slow streets change for the better. It’s now more kid-friendly and less congested, he said.
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Aura's Index aims to raise awareness of the level of digital crime risk among Americans and the financial impact it has across ages, races, genders, and lifestyles
BOSTON, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aura, the leader in intelligent safety for consumers, today released its inaugural Digital Crime Index, an assessment that examines the security risks that accompany the connected lives of Americans. From cons, scams, breaches and predators, the proprietary research assessed the online behavior of 1,000+ Americans, quantifying risk factors and examining the devastating financial losses that follow.
Aura designed the Digital Crime Index to analyze key factors that further explore which populations are more or less at risk of experiencing digital crimes. Assessments included:
- Specific risky activities
- Experiences with digital crimes
- Activity susceptibility (number of devices, accounts, etc.)
Findings shed light on the alarming discrepancies across ages, races, genders and lifestyles. While the Digital Crime Index data clearly showed most Americans are concerned about a multitude of digital crimes, deeper analysis of the data confirms that all Americans should feel an extreme sense of urgency to protect themselves and their families online.
"There's no question that technology has enabled incredible progress in society and in our individual lives, but by oversharing online and over-trusting our digital interactions we're putting ourselves and our families at extreme risk," said Aura founder & CEO Hari Ravichandran. "In fact, the Index shows that 60% of Americans have already reported being victim to at least one online crime and that number is growing every day. It's never been more critical to consider the actions you should take to proactively protect yourself and your loved ones online, so you don't lose the things you care about."
While all Americans are at risk, there are a few populations that are the most susceptible, including women, parents, veterans/active-duty military, Black Americans and Gen-Z. The data shows:
- Parents carry a bigger financial toll from being a victim of a digital crime, particularly compared to non-parents - seeing 15x more loss. It may be from having multiple internet users and on average 3 more devices in their home compared to most Americans.
- Though men statistically have more violent crimes committed against them*, Aura found women are at a higher risk of a digital crime and stand to lose 6x more financially
- Gen-Z scores at a significant risk of digital crime compared to other generations surveyed, which rank at a high risk
- Black Americans are 5x more likely than white Americans to be at severe risk of a digital crime
- 1 in 2 Veterans and active-duty service members who have experienced digital crime have been victims of more than one type of digital crime
In one intelligent solution, Aura gives Americans and their families proactive protection for their assets, identity, family, and tech.
This survey was conducted October 18-28, 2022 by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel® – a division of Ipsos. This poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,009 general population adults aged 18+. More details on the survey and methodology are available for download HERE. For additional resources and information on Aura's online safety app, visit aura.com and check us out on social; Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
About Aura
Aura, the leader in intelligent safety solutions, provides all-in-one digital protection for consumers. We understand that the online safety needs of each individual are unique and require a personalized solution. By bringing together security, privacy and parental controls on an intelligent platform, Aura makes adaptive and proactive digital safety accessible to everyone. Visit www.aura.com.
*US Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization - 2021, https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv21.pdf
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATRenew Inc. ("ATRenew" or the "Company") (NYSE: RERE), a leading technology-driven pre-owned consumer electronics transactions and services platform in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Total net revenues grew by 29.2% to RMB2,536.0 million (US$356.5 million) from RMB1,962.3 million in the third quarter of 2021.
- Loss from operations was RMB110.0 million (US$15.5 million), compared to RMB150.5 million in the third quarter of 2021. Adjusted income from operations (non-GAAP)[1] was RMB10.8 million (US$1.5 million) compared to adjusted loss from operations of RMB28.5 million in the third quarter of 2021.
- Total Gross Merchandise Volume ("GMV[2]") increased by 14.5% to RMB9.5 billion from RMB8.3 billion in the third quarter of 2021. GMV for product sales increased by 31.6% to RMB2.5 billion from RMB1.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021. GMV for online marketplaces increased by 9.4% to RMB7.0 billion from RMB6.4 billion in the third quarter of 2021.
- Number of consumer products transacted[3] increased by 5.1% to 8.3 million from 7.9 million in the third quarter of 2021.
Mr. Kerry Xuefeng Chen, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of ATRenew, commented, "In the third quarter of 2022, our topline growth exceeded 29%, with revenue reaching the high end of our guidance at RMB2,536 million. This was the result of our market penetration strategy of approaching primary supply sources, as well as the strong brand effect of AHS Recycle and the refinement of our city-level service integration strategy. In addition, we placed a firm focus on delivering high-quality service to our users, continuously optimizing our user experience and offering new product categories. Through our 1,804 offline stores across the country, we fortify our competitive moat of fulfillment capabilities. We continued to invest in automated quality inspection capabilities, achieving breakthroughs in both quality inspection efficiency and production capacity. Meanwhile, our second regional automated operation center was officially put into use in Southern China in October. Looking to the long-term development of the circular economy, we are well-positioned to meet the needs of an ever-wider range of users, thanks to our safe, convenient, and efficient recycling, transaction, and value-added services."
Mr. Rex Chen, Chief Financial Officer of ATRenew, added, "In the third quarter, we navigated the challenges brought about by the COVID resurgence while maintaining our commitment to our long-term growth strategy. As we achieved a record high in total net revenues, we strove to further improve cost efficiency and optimize capital allocation. As a result, we achieved gratifying results in terms of profitability, reaching a non-GAAP operating income of nearly RMB10.8 million. We also kept a healthy cash inflow from operating activities, something which we have achieved for three consecutive quarters, consolidating the foundation for our company's stable development going forward. With more sophisticated automated quality inspection technology, we are confident in our ability to maintain profitability and a healthy cash flow, and create sustainable value for our users, our society, and our shareholders."
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
REVENUE
Total net revenues increased by 29.2% to RMB2,536.0 million (US$356.5 million) from RMB1,962.3 million in the same period of 2021.
- Net product revenues increased by 33.7% to RMB2,225.7 million (US$312.9 million) from RMB1,665.0 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in the sourcing volume and the corresponding sales of pre-owned consumer electronics through Paipai Marketplace, PJT Marketplace and the Company's offline channels.
- Net service revenues increased by 4.4% to RMB310.3 million (US$43.6 million) from RMB297.3 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to increases in transaction volume and monetization capability of PJT Marketplace.
OPERATING COSTS AND EXPENSES
Operating costs and expenses increased by 25.4% to RMB2,663.9 million (US$374.5 million) from RMB2,123.5 million in the same period of 2021.
- Merchandise costs increased by 33.8% to RMB1,932.2 million (US$271.6 million) from RMB1,443.9 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to the growth in product sales.
- Fulfillment expenses increased by 1.4% to RMB277.1 million (US$39.0 million) from RMB273.4 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to (i) an increase in personnel cost in connection with the Company's growing business; and (ii) an increase in expenses in relation to the upgrade of technology server, which were partially offset by a decrease in operation center related expenses as the Company optimized its strategy for its city-level operation stations.
- Selling and marketing expenses increased by 14.0% to RMB340.8 million (US$47.9 million) from RMB299.0 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to (i) an increase in personnel cost in connection with the Company's growing business; and (ii) an increase in marketing expenses related to business development.
- General and administrative expenses increased by 51.4% to RMB63.6 million (US$8.9 million) from RMB42.0 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to (i) an increase in personnel cost in connection with the Company's growing business, (ii) an increase in office related expenses, and (iii) an increase in professional service fees.
- Technology and content expenses decreased by 23.2% to RMB50.1 million (US$7.0 million) from RMB65.2 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the changes in personnel cost in relation to the Company's adjustment to its spending in research and development.
LOSS FROM OPERATIONS
Loss from operations was RMB110.0 million (US$15.5 million), compared to RMB150.5 million in the third quarter of 2021.
Adjusted income from operations (non-GAAP)[1], excluding amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions and recognition of share-based compensation expense resulting from options and restricted stock units granted to employees, was RMB10.8 million (US$1.5 million), compared to adjusted loss from operations of RMB28.5 million in the third quarter of 2021.
NET LOSS
Net loss was RMB30.1 million (US$4.2 million), compared to RMB121.7 million in the third quarter of 2021. Adjusted net income (non-GAAP)[1] was RMB77.4 million (US$10.9 million), compared to adjusted net loss of RMB22.5 million in the third quarter of 2021.
The management of the Company noted that the Company`s market capitalization has been lower than its net assets and is closely monitoring the possibility of the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets.
BASIC AND DILUTED NET LOSS PER ORDINARY SHARE
Basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share were RMB0.19 (US$0.03), compared to RMB0.75 in the same period of 2021.
Adjusted basic and diluted net income per ordinary share (non-GAAP)[1] were RMB0.48 (US$0.07) and RMB0.46 (US$0.06), compared to negative RMB0.14 in the same period of 2021.
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, RESTRICTED CASH, SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS AND FUNDS RECEIVABLE FROM THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS
Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments and funds receivable from third party payment service providers increased to RMB2,672.7 million (US$375.7 million) as of September 30, 2022 from RMB2,421.9 million as of December 31, 2021.
Business Outlook
For the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company currently expects its total revenues to be between RMB2,930.0 million and RMB3,030.0 million. This forecast only reflects the Company's current and preliminary views on the market and operational conditions, which are subject to change.
Environment, Social, and Governance
During the third quarter of 2022, ATRenew received an Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") risk rating score of 17.6/100 from Morningstar Sustainalytics (the lower the score, the better), assessing ATRenew to be at "Low Risk" of experiencing industry-specific material ESG factors. The Company was ranked fourth in the Online and Direct Marketing Retail sector. Importantly, ATRenew attained "Negligible" ratings for its data privacy and security, business ethics, and environmental and social impact of products and services, all of which are key components of the assessment of material industry-specific ESG risks. Sustainalytics' evaluation identifies ATRenew's strong management performance across a comprehensive range of ESG metrics, demonstrating the Company's industry-leading position in ESG-related policies, programs, and initiatives. Morningstar Sustainalytics is a leading ESG research, ratings and data firm that supports investors around the world with the development and implementation of responsible investment strategies.
Recent Development
On December 28, 2021, ATRenew announced a share repurchase program, effective immediately, to repurchase up to US$100 million of its shares over a twelve-month period. During the third quarter 2022, the Company repurchased 530,018 American depositary shares ("ADSs") in the open market at an average price of US$2.76 per ADS, with a total cash consideration of US$1.5 million. As at the end of the third quarter 2022, the Company repurchased a total of 8,165,669 ADSs for approximately US$33.0 million under its share repurchase program.
Conference Call Information
The Company's management will hold a conference call on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 07:00 A.M. Eastern Time (or 08:00 P.M. Beijing Time on the same day) to discuss the financial results. Listeners may access the call by dialing the following numbers:
The replay will be accessible through November 29, 2022 by dialing the following numbers:
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will also be available at the Company's investor relations website at ir.atrenew.com.
About ATRenew Inc.
Headquartered in Shanghai, ATRenew Inc. operates a leading technology-driven pre-owned consumer electronics transactions and services platform in China under the brand ATRenew. Since its inception in 2011, ATRenew has been on a mission to give a second life to all idle goods, addressing the environmental impact of pre-owned consumer electronics by facilitating recycling and trade-in services, and distributing the devices to prolong their lifecycle. ATRenew's open platform integrates C2B, B2B, and B2C capabilities to empower its online and offline services. Through its end-to-end coverage of the entire value chain and its proprietary inspection, grading, and pricing technologies, ATRenew sets the standard for China's pre-owned consumer electronics industry.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to U.S. dollars are made at a rate of RMB7.1135 to US$1.00, the exchange rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as of September 30, 2022.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company also uses certain non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating its business. For example, the Company uses adjusted (loss) income from operations, adjusted net (loss) income and adjusted net (loss) income per ordinary share as supplemental measures to review and assess its financial and operating performance. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted (loss) income from operations is loss from operations excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses and amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions. Adjusted net (loss) income is net loss excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses, amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions and tax effects of amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions. Adjusted net (loss) income per ordinary share is adjusted net (loss) income attributable to ordinary shareholders divided by weighted average number of shares used in calculating net loss per ordinary share.
The Company presents non-GAAP financial measures because they are used by the Company's management to evaluate the Company's financial and operating performance and formulate business plans. The Company believes that adjusted (loss) income from operations and adjusted net (loss) income help identify underlying trends in the Company's business that could otherwise be distorted by the effect of certain expenses that are included in loss from operations and net loss. The Company also believes that the use of non-GAAP financial measures facilitates investors' assessment of the Company's operating performance. The Company believes that adjusted (loss) income from operations and adjusted net (loss) income provide useful information about the Company's operating results, enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company's management in its financial and operational decision making.
The non-GAAP financial measures are not defined under U.S. GAAP and are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools. One of the key limitations of using non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not reflect all items of income and expense that affect the Company's operations. Share-based compensation expenses, amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions and tax effects of amortization of intangible assets and deferred cost resulting from assets and business acquisitions have been and may continue to be incurred in the Company's business and is not reflected in the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures. Further, the non-GAAP measures may differ from the non-GAAP measures used by other companies, including peer companies, potentially limiting the comparability of their financial results to the Company's. In light of the foregoing limitations, the non-GAAP financial measures for the period should not be considered in isolation from or as an alternative to loss from operations, net loss, and net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders per share, or other financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The Company compensates for these limitations by reconciling the non-GAAP financial measures to the nearest U.S. GAAP performance measures, which should be considered when evaluating the Company's performance. For reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, please see the section of the accompanying tables titled, "Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results."
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "likely to" and similar statements. Among other things, quotations in this announcement, contain forward-looking statements. ATRenew may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about ATRenew's beliefs, plans and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: ATRenew's strategies; ATRenew's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; ATRenew's ability to maintain its relationship with major strategic investors; its ability to provide facilitate pre-owned consumer electronics transactions and provide relevant services; its ability to maintain and enhance the recognition and reputation of its brand; general economic and business conditions globally and in China and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in ATRenew's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and ATRenew does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Investor Relations Contact
In China:
ATRenew Inc.
Investor Relations
Email: ir@atrenew.com
In the United States:
ICR LLC.
Email: atrenew@icrinc.com
Tel: +1-212-537-0461
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One affordable tool can make any flower arrangement look pro-level
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Wazakura Mini Ikebana 4-Piece Flower Holder Set
- Syndicate Sales Pillow Floral Cage
- Virtune Luxe Infinity White Vase
This time of year, beautiful blooms abound in farmer’s markets, florists and grocery stores. It’s tempting to simply drop a bouquet into a vase and call it good, but florists rely on a simple tool to elevate any bouquet to centerpiece status: a floral frog. These affordable, easy-to-use tools let you arrange flowers with precision, holding stems in place for a stunning arrangement that lasts.
What is a flower frog?
Flower frogs come in two varieties. Some feature a lattice of holes that rests atop a vase to give stems stability. Others, known as pin frogs, sit at the bottom of a vase and use metal pins to hold stems upright. Both can be used to arrange flowers into a more purposeful arrangement or to help floppy stems stand up straight.
Pin frogs are particularly good at helping arrangements last longer because they help flowers take in more water. They’re also more eco-friendly than floral foam because they can be washed and reused.
Another advantage to flower frogs is their ability to transform just about anything that can hold water into a vase. Teacups, small dishes, ceramic bowls and more can all serve as vases with a pin frog securing your blooms at the bottom.
Best flower frogs
Wazakura Mini Ikebana 4-Piece Flower Holder Set
These petite pin frogs, measuring less than an inch across, are suitable for bud vases or for displaying individual flowers. The Japanese-made set includes two each of sturdy square and round pin frogs.
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Syndicate Sales Pillow Floral Cage
Larger arrangements will look spectacular with this flower frog. Place the 6-inch tool atop your vase, then slip flower stems through its honeycomb openings for perfect spacing and improved stability.
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Georgetown Pottery Small Round Ikebana Flower Vase
This beautiful vase takes the guesswork out of arranging flowers on a pin frog thanks to its built-in metal pins. The ikebana-style porcelain vases are individually handmade and glazed in Maine.
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Justdolife Flower Frogs 3-Pack
These three round pin frogs feature stainless steel pins and range in size from 0.9 inches to 2.36 inches. The large sizes have rubberized bases to prevent scratching or chipping vases.
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Best flower vases
Virtune Luxe Infinity White Vase
Unusually shaped vases such as this one are easy to arrange in thanks to flower frogs. Its infinity symbol shape provides two compartments for flowers, and it’s available in four trendy matte shades.
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D’vine Dev Black Ceramic Flower Vase
Made from matte black ceramic, this 10-inch-tall vase has a 3.1-inch opening that’s roomy enough to drop in a pin frog. Its elegant, minimalist design features a heavy base for a sturdy arrangement.
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Royal Imports Rectangular Gold Ceramic Vase
A few flower frogs placed along the bottom of this vase will transform it into a show-stopping centerpiece. The rectangular vase measures 12 inches long and has a textured metallic gold finish.
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Lenox French Perle Ice Blue Fluted Vase
Even though this beautiful stoneware vase is only 8 inches tall, it can beautifully show off longer stems if you pair it with a pin frog. It features a classical fluted shape and raised bead pattern.
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IMSE's professional development training will help the non-profit train more teachers in the Science of Reading, and increase access to reading intervention for dyslexic students
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. and WASHINGTON, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IMSE, an education pioneer and the leading provider of Structured Literacy Professional Development and Classroom Programs, today announced a strategic partnership with Dyslexic Edge to train its tutors in Orton-Gillingham, which follows the Science of Reading. The non-profit, located in Northern Virginia, provides Orton-Gillingham-based reading tutoring and STEM enrichment to elementary-aged students in Title I schools in the Washington, DC area. The organization, which currently has 20 trained tutors, will send its first cohort of elementary school teachers to be trained by IMSE in late spring and early summer 2023.
To date, Dyslexic Edge has served over 100 students between the first and fifth grades in the DC area; currently, it serves 38 students between its after-school and tutoring programs. Krista Gauthier, founder and executive director, will be the first to go through IMSE training. She wants to exponentially increase the number of tutors who are trained in the OG approach, and intends to launch after-school programs that use IMSE's curriculum in fall 2023.
"IMSE has so much to offer our organization. Our missions truly dovetail as we both are on a mission to increase access to systematic reading instruction for students," said Gauthier. "The teacher training aspect is so important; it's a lightbulb moment for them. IMSE will help us to make our efforts more scalable as teachers become hungry for training that will help all children learn how to read."
Tutoring at Dyslexic Edge consists of two 90-minute after-school sessions a week – divided between lessons on reading intervention and STEM sessions that may focus on coding, building rockets, units on space, and even flight simulation. Since it can often take years and even private testing to get an official diagnosis, Gauthier, whose own daughter was not diagnosed with dyslexia until fifth grade, has ensured that students do not need to have an official diagnosis of dyslexia in order to qualify for the program.
"Those who don't gain access to resources to overcome disabilities like dyslexia may falter in school," added Gauthier. "So many of these kids have a superpower in STEM subjects but struggle with learning how to read. We want to help students reach their full potential, not only to help them read fluently but also to play on their existing strengths to get there."
"We are thrilled to partner with Krista and her team at Dyslexic Edge to give more teachers the tools and training to boost reading proficiency with the students who need it the most, and remove one more obstacle to getting there," said Jeanne Jeup, co-founder and CEO, IMSE.
About IMSE
IMSE is an education pioneer and the leading provider of Structured Literacy solutions that leverage the best of Orton-Gillingham and the Science of Learning to empower teachers from day one. Since 1996, IMSE has pioneered the use of Orton-Gillingham and Structured Literacy in general education, and remains at the forefront of research-based reading programs that are personalized, yet applicable to classroom teaching. IMSE's unmatched training and classroom programs deliver measurable growth for all students, enabling equity in literacy learning. And, as educators, the IMSE team understands the needs of teachers, schools, and districts, delivering a practical approach to teaching reading and empowering teachers that has helped millions of students across the country. For more information on IMSE, visit https://imse.com/.
About Dyslexic Edge
Dyslexic Edge is a non-profit leading a movement to develop future STEM leaders by building confidence in students with dyslexia and equipping educators to help them learn. By combining evidence-based language instruction with STEM enrichment, we set the standard for how students with dyslexia should be educated and inspired. Learn more at https://www.sdsquared.org/who-we-are.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
229 PM EDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Broome and
southern Chenango Counties through 315 PM EDT...
At 229 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Sanitaria Springs, or 11 miles northeast of Binghamton, moving east
at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Sanford, Coventry, Greene, Bainbridge, Afton, Harpursville, Sanitaria
Springs, Nineveh, Chenango Valley State Park and Port Crane.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 88 between 3 and 8.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 4213 7586 4235 7583 4237 7541 4209 7544
TIME...MOT...LOC 1829Z 268DEG 14KT 4219 7573
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Chemung, southwestern Tioga and northwestern Bradford Counties
through 315 PM EDT...
At 230 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Wellsburg, or near Elmira, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
Chemung, Elmira, Southport, Waverly, Ridgebury, South Waverly,
Wellsburg, West Elmira, Lockwood and Lowman.
Interstate 86/Route 17 between 56 and 60.
LAT...LON 4192 7685 4209 7686 4215 7650 4192 7655
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 268DEG 14KT 4201 7676
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tevian Jones scored 21 points, Dee Barnes added 20 and Southern Utah defeated UT Arlington 86-76 on Thursday night.
Jones made two 3-pointers and all nine of his free throws for the Thunderbirds (19-9, 11-4 Western Athletic Conference). Barnes hit 7 of 10 shots, including all four of his 3-point tries, and grabbed six rebounds. Drake Allen finished with 17 points and eight assists.
Aaron Johnson-Cash and Marion Humphrey both scored 17 to lead the Mavericks (10-18, 5-10). Johnson-Cash had four assists and Humphrey handed out five. Kyron Gibson tallied 13 points, four assists and three steals.
NEXT UP
Both teams play on Saturday. Southern Utah visits Sam Houston, while UT Arlington hosts Utah Tech.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — As a prominent 10-meter diver, Diego Balleza is used to wearing small swimsuits that show off his body. Now, desperate because of a lack of financial resources ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics, the Mexican is making a leap to a different platform in which he also wears few clothes: OnlyFans.
Balleza is one of several Mexican athletes who have been affected by a dispute between World Aquatics and Ana Guevara, the head of Mexico’s national sports commission that, since January, has stopped providing monthly payments for aquatics athletes. World Aquatics suspended the president of the Mexican federation, Kiril Todorov, and appointed a commission to take charge while new elections were held.
Todorov was suspended for the failure of the Mexican Swimming Federation to comply with the governing body’s good governance standards. But Guevara refused to recognize the commission even though the Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed the change.
Guevara, a runner who won a silver medal in the 400-meter race at the 2004 Athens Olympics, cut the allowance to all aquatics athletes. So they are now trying to find ways to support themselves.
Balleza, who was fourth in synchronized diving on the 10-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympics, chose to join OnlyFans, a site where content creators upload images and videos, some of them explicit.
“It occurred to me to open it because you are always looking for a way to make income. I support my house and my mother, and I have bills to pay, and you can upload whatever you want in there, it’s a valid content,” Balleza said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I am happy that the people who are in my page have been very good and respectful, I hope they continue like this.”
Balleza charges a monthly fee of $15 to access his content but offers quarterly packages for $40.50. As of Monday, he had uploaded 136 images, 26 videos, and had more than 14,000 interactions with fans.
With the money he gets from that website, the 28-year-old diver seeks to replace the little more than 30,000 pesos (about $1,708) that he received as a government scholarship.
“The money I now receive (from OnlyFans) is very volatile, but it has served me well so far,” he said.
Balleza said that in addition to OnlyFans, the government of the state of Nuevo León, where he lives and trains, supported him and he has also received money from the private sector, although he did not elaborate on the amounts he received.
But Balleza is not alone in his struggle for economic resources. His partner on the 10-meter platform in Tokyo, Kevin Berlin, chose another route to continue his preparations for Paris. Berlin, with help from his relatives, created a coffee brand called “Olimpiada Café,” or Olympic Coffee.
“At first we thought we would only sell it to family and friends, but then it started to go viral, and it reached more people,” Berlin told the AP. “You have to see the positive in things. Thanks to all the problems I had, we created a business that is doing well and perhaps it will be useful for the future. In sports you don’t know if an injury ends your career quickly.”
Berlin and Balleza will compete together in July at the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, seeking to give Mexico spots for the Paris Olympics.
To travel to Japan, World Aquatics provided them with plane tickets, although apparently not all athletes got them because high diver Jonathan Paredes requested help on Twitter to get a ticket to Japan and Aeroméxico eventually provided it.
“This situation is a bit tedious because in the end you are not 100% focused on what you have to do. But nothing is impossible, we already have flights and logistics for the world championships. Now we have to train hard and go a get those Olympic spots,” Balleza said.
In addition to Balleza and Berlin, the artistic swimming team was forced to sell swimsuits and towels on social media.
“There are 14 of us in the team so we need a lot of money to travel, but it all adds up. The swimsuits gave us an opportunity, but our parents still support us, there are donations, and, in the end, everything adds up in the fight for us to go to the Olympic Games,” said Jessica Sobrino, a member of the team who came up with the idea of sell those items.
The artistic team recently won a legal battle and a judge ordered Guevara to restore the scholarships. But the director of the national commission said that is not a permanent measure.
The issue has even been discussed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who said he would try to see how to help the competitors.
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Prophix Honored as a Cloud Disruptor for its Corporate Performance Management Solution
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prophix Software, a global leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software, today announced it has received a 2022 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing by the Business Intelligence Group. The Stratus Awards honor the companies, products and people offering unique solutions that take advantage of cloud technologies. Prophix was recognized as a Cloud Disruptor for its role in enabling the digital transformation of the Office of Finance with its cloud-based CPM platform and was the only vendor honored for its CPM solution.
Prophix's CPM software helps finance teams at mid-market organizations improve profitability and minimize risk by automating their budgeting, forecasting, reporting and consolidation-to-close processes for better decision making. By automating these essential yet time-consuming processes through a cloud-based technology platform, finance teams are relieved from mundane tasks and can focus on what matters most — applying strategic insights to uncover business opportunities and gain competitive advantage.
"Finance departments are central to an organization's strategic planning and decision-making process. This became especially evident during the pandemic when CFOs were forced to make quick, often reactive decisions to steer their companies through a time of business uncertainty," said Alok Ajmera, president and CEO, Prophix. "Prophix's cloud-based CPM allows finance teams to successfully manage their businesses by leveraging scenario planning based on real-time data across all departments and functions, giving them the kind of 'if/then' agility they need for better and more proactive decision making. We are honored to be acknowledged for our cloud technology prowess and named a Cloud Disruptor in the 2022 Stratus Awards."
"Prophix is at the forefront of the cloud helping to drive practical innovations in the cloud," said Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer of Business Intelligence Group. "The cloud is now part of the fabric of society and we are thrilled that our volunteer judges were able to help promote all of these innovative services, organizations and executives."
To empower mid-market companies to achieve their goals, Prophix provides an integrated, cloud-based platform to the Office of Finance; one that delivers planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and consolidation solutions. With Prophix, finance leaders improve profitability and minimize risk and put the focus back on what matters most – uncovering business opportunities. Prophix supports the future with AI innovations that adapt to meet the strategic realities of more than 2,600 active customers, globally, who rely on Prophix to deliver tangible business outcomes and transform the way they work. For more information, visit www.prophix.com.
The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry and business award programs, business executives—those with experience and knowledge—judge the programs. The organization's proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.
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You could pay even more for heating this winter: here’s why
(CNN) - You’re probably going to be spending more money to heat your home this winter.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting about a 6% increase in the number of days heating is needed.
According to the Energy Information Administration, nearly half of houses nationwide use natural gas for heat, and natural gas customers can expect an average cost of about $200 for the season.
About 40% of houses use electric heating, so electricity bills this winter could rise more than $100.
And Americans who use propane for heat will see a rise in prices of $80 this winter.
Experts say heating a home with oil, which includes less than 5% of homes nationwide, will be the most expensive. Costs are projected to jump $1,200.
Experts say if the winter turns out to be colder than expected, those costs for heating could rise even more.
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Expert advice if you’re considering a buy now, pay later plan for your wedding
Average wedding costs $30,000, according to The Knot
(InvestigateTV) — The buy now, pay later (BNPL) lending market is estimated to have grown by 2,400% since 2019, according to Statista, with consumers using the method to purchase everything from household necessities to weddings.
Ronita Choudhuri-Wade, a personal loans expert with NerdWallet, explained that BNPL can help you break up large purchases into bite-sized chunks that are paid for over four to six weeks.
Choudhuri-Wade said BNPL has its pros and cons. While it can help make a large payment more manageable, oftentimes these plans are at 0% interest and can impact your credit score.
“However, buy now, pay later is often so convenient that you can easily overspend, and you can go over budget,” she noted. “And some of the providers do have fees if you are looking at a longer repayment period.”
Choudhuri-Wade said she had seen instances in people using the buy now, pay later method to buy their wedding dress and jewelry for their big day. Some venues and caterers also offer BNPL as an option.
“If you’re managing your money correctly, if you’re sticking to your budget and you have comfortable cash flow, that buy now, pay later is not a bad option,” Choudhuri-Wade explained. “But if you are able to afford your wedding only because of buy now, pay later payment plans, you might want to consider alternatives.”
NerdWallet suggested several options for financing your nuptials instead of BNPL:
- Ask for a no interest loan from family members, if possible
- Take out a personal loan that you can pay back over a two-year term
- Open a 0% APR credit card if you can pay off the costs during the promotional term
- If you do use a credit card, make sure to use one that allows you to earn points or miles
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China said Wednesday it has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces, in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The move comes despite the growing economic and humanitarian repercussions of the bloody 16 month-old air, sea and ground assault.
China claims to be neutral in the conflict, but has accused the U.S. and its allies of provoking Russia and has maintained robust economic, diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow. The exercise involves more than 10 ships and 30-plus aircraft, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
The ministry and Xinhua gave no details, but the exercises are believed to be set for parts of the Sea of Japan in coming days.
China has reliably backed Russia in opposing U.S. condemnation of the Ukraine invasion in international forums, but says it won’t provide arms to either side in the war.
The Defense Ministry said in a news release Wednesday that Chinese ships had linked up with their Russian counterparts at noon. Those included the guided missile destroyers Qiqihar and Guiyang, the guided missile frigates Zaozhuang and Rizhao and the supply ship Taihu. The Chinese ships carried four helicopters, the report said.
Russian participants included the frigates Gromkiy and Otlichnyy, which have been hosting visitors for a week in the financial hub of Shanghai, China’s largest city and biggest port.
A pair of Russian navy ships are visiting China as the countries reaffirm their military ties amid the war in Ukraine.
The joint drills focus on ship-to-ship communications, maneuvering in formation and maritime search and rescue, according to Chinese reports.
The visit follows a meeting in Beijing between China’s defense minister and the head of Russia’s navy, the first formal military talks between the friendly neighbors since a short-lived mutiny by the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
China has reassured Russia of its continued support since the uprising. Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu told Russian Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov that China hoped for increased exchanges, joint exercises and other forms of cooperation to help defense ties “reach a new level,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said.
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Delivers record net income for a third straight quarter
Achieves record coking coal realizations and gross coking coal margins
Announces a quarterly dividend of $118.7 million, or $6.00 per share
ST. LOUIS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arch Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ARCH) today reported net income of $407.6 million, or $19.30 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2022, compared with net income of $27.9 million, or $1.66 per diluted share, in the prior-year period. Arch had adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization, accretion on asset retirement obligations (ARO), and non-operating expenses ("adjusted EBITDA") [1] of $460.0 million in the second quarter of 2022, which included a $1.9 million non-cash mark-to-market loss associated with its coal-hedging activities. This compares to $66.5 million of adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2021, which included an $8.8 million non-cash mark-to-market loss associated with its coal-hedging activities. Revenues totaled $1,133.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, versus $450.4 million in the prior-year quarter.
In the second quarter of 2022, Arch made significant progress on numerous strategic priorities and objectives:
- Delivered record net income for the third straight quarter
- Achieved record coking coal realizations and gross coking coal margins
- Reduced total indebtedness by $135.8 million, or 42.1 percent, resulting in a net positive cash position of $94.9 million
- Reached the targeted funding level of $130.0 million – inclusive of a July payment of $30 million – for its recently established thermal mine reclamation fund
- Deployed $280.7 million for dividends and convertible securities settlements under its recently relaunched capital return program, and
- Declared a third quarter cash dividend of $118.7 million, or $6.00 per share, even with a $137.8 million build in the company's receivables balance associated with a substantial increase in high-priced seaborne shipments in the quarter's second half
"During the second quarter, the Arch team delivered another strong financial performance – with record net income, record coking coal realizations and record coking coal margins – despite continuing rail service challenges and isolated geologic issues in our core metallurgical segment," said Paul A. Lang, Arch's CEO and president. "In addition, Arch deployed a total of $280.7 million under its recently relaunched capital return program; further fortified the balance sheet via the repayment of $135.8 million of indebtedness; and contributed $90 million to the thermal mine reclamation fund – inclusive of a July payment – that increased total funding to $130.0 million, or 100 percent of the target level. In short, we are delivering on our clear, consistent and actionable plan for value creation by continuing to strengthen our financial position and reward our stockholders."
"Based on the continuing strength in Arch's operating performance and in keeping with the company's recently adopted capital return formula, the board has declared a total quarterly dividend of $118.7 million, or $6.00 per share, which is equivalent to 50 percent of Arch's second quarter discretionary cash flow," Lang added. "We view this substantial dividend, in conjunction with the $8.11 per share dividend paid in the second quarter, as a clear indication of the board's ongoing confidence in the company's future outlook, and as compelling evidence of Arch's significant and expanding cash-generating capabilities."
Capital Allocation Model
In February 2022, Arch announced a new capital allocation model that includes the return to stockholders of 50 percent of the prior quarter's discretionary cash flow – defined as cash flow from operating activities minus capital expenditures and contributions to the thermal mine reclamation fund – via a variable quarterly cash dividend in conjunction with a fixed quarterly cash dividend. The company plans to retain the remaining discretionary cash flow from the prior quarter for use in share buybacks, the repurchase of potentially dilutive securities, special dividends, and/or capital preservation.
Arch generated $268.2 million in cash flow from operating activities in the second quarter, despite a $137.8 million build in the company's receivables balance associated with a substantial increase in high-priced seaborne shipments in the quarter's second half. The second quarter dividend payment of $6.00 per share – which includes a fixed component of $0.25 per share and a variable component of $5.75 per share – is payable on September 15, 2022 to stockholders of record on August 31, 2022.
While the board is still evaluating the optimal use of the discretionary cash flow remaining after the announced cash dividend payment, it views share buybacks as an effective means of returning capital to stockholders and views Arch stock as an attractive investment option.
The Arch board recently increased the company's authorization under its share repurchase program to $500.0 million.
Financial and Liquidity Update
Arch ended the second quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $281.9 million and total liquidity of $349.7 million. As indicated, Arch repaid $135.8 million of its outstanding indebtedness during the second quarter, reducing its total debt outstanding to just $187.0 million and resulting in a net positive cash position of $94.9 million at quarter-end.
"We are pleased to deliver on our commitment to returning our discretionary cash flow to stockholders, even as we take steps to further fortify our balance sheet, fully fund our thermal mine reclamation fund, and simplify our capital structure via the settlement of a significant percentage of our convertible notes," said Matthew C. Giljum, Arch's chief financial officer. "Through these carefully structured efforts, we believe we are driving significant value for our stockholders while at the same time reducing the overall risk profile of the company and ensuring we have the financial flexibility to manage through future market downturns."
Since the beginning of 2022, Arch has deployed approximately $403.2 million under its capital return program (inclusive of the just-announced third quarter dividend); reduced its total debt by an aggregate of $417.5 million, or approximately 70%; and used a total of $110.0 million to complete the cash pre-funding of its thermal mine reclamation fund.
Operational Update
"The Arch team generated strong margins in both our core metallurgical and legacy thermal segments during the second quarter despite ongoing rail service disruptions, mounting inflationary pressures, and isolated geologic issues in our coking coal portfolio," said John T. Drexler, Arch's chief operating officer. "Even with localized, tougher-than-expected cutting conditions in the second panel at Leer South, the metallurgical segment continued to build coking coal inventories during the quarter. With 1.1 million tons of high-value coking coal in our mine and port stockpiles at quarter-end and the expectation of much-improved geologic conditions at Leer South beginning in late August, we fully expect to capitalize on still-strong market conditions as rail service recovers."
Despite higher-than-anticipated unit costs related to localized geologic issues, higher sales-sensitive costs associated with a higher average selling price, and inflationary pressures on materials and supplies, the metallurgical segment generated record margins during the second quarter. Arch expects coking coal shipments to increase modestly in the third quarter when compared to second quarter levels, reflecting gradually improving but still hampered rail and logistical service levels, but has adjusted down full-year volume guidance to reflect ongoing challenges.
Despite a sequential stepdown in shipments during the second quarter, which is typically the weakest shipping period of the year in the Powder River Basin, as well as modest margin erosion, Arch's legacy thermal segment again generated robust amounts of cash.
Strategic Plan for Legacy Thermal Assets
During the second quarter, Arch continued to deliver on its dual objectives of driving forward with an accelerated reclamation plan at its legacy thermal operations, while simultaneously harvesting cash from these assets. During the quarter, the legacy thermal segment delivered $93.3 million in segment-level adjusted EBITDA while expending just $4.6 million in capital. Over the past 23 quarters, Arch's thermal operations have contributed just under $1.1 billion in segment-level adjusted EBITDA, while expending just $118.6 million in capital.
Since the beginning of 2021, Arch has reduced the asset retirement obligation at its Powder River Basin operations by more than 20 percent to $151.2 million at June 30, 2022. As previously discussed, Arch has also created a thermal mine reclamation fund that it is using to pre-fund and defease the long-term mine closure and reclamation obligations of its Powder River Basin operations. Inclusive of a $60 million contribution to this fund in the second quarter and an incremental $30 million contribution earlier this month, the company has now reached its targeted funding level of $130 million, matching the asset retirement obligation at the Black Thunder mine. Arch expects future contributions to this fund to total $3 million to $5 million per quarter – consistent with projected future accretion related to its asset retirement obligation at Black Thunder – potentially offset by creditable reclamation work completed during any given period.
"Since establishing our thermal mine reclamation fund in the fourth quarter of 2021, we have moved quickly to build the fund's balance to the targeted level of $130 million," Giljum said. "In doing so, we have set the stage for strong, continued cash generation from these assets even as we move forward with winding them down over an extended timeframe in a careful and responsible manner."
Market Update
While global metallurgical coal markets have softened considerably in recent weeks, coking coal prices remain at exceptionally strong levels in historic terms. Arch's primary product, High-Vol A coking coal, is currently being assessed at $249 per metric ton on the U.S. East Coast. The principal driver behind the recent erosion in coking coal market dynamics, Arch believes, is slowing economic growth across most of the world, which is having the predictable knock-on effect on global steel markets. For the first six months of 2022, global hot metal production is down approximately 5.5 percent.
However, Arch sees other market dynamics that are acting to support global coking coal markets at present. The first of these is still-weak coking coal production and shipping levels globally. Coking coal exports out of Australia – traditionally the source of more than 50 percent of seaborne coking coal supply – continue to undershoot already weak 2021 levels, with export volumes down approximately 5 million tons, or roughly 7 percent, year-to-date. Additionally, the war in Ukraine threatens to trim Russian coking coal export levels, particularly once the EU's ban on Russian coal imports take effect in a few weeks' time. Elsewhere, U.S. and Canadian export levels are up only modestly year-to-date, despite exceptionally strong pricing levels through the year's first half.
Another potential support mechanism for the global coking coal market is a still strong international thermal market. The price for thermal coal in Australia is currently around $415 per metric ton, and the thermal price in northern Europe stands at approximately $390 per metric ton. As a result of that nearly unprecedented negative spread between metallurgical and thermal prices, Arch recently sold a vessel of its High-Vol B coking coal to a European thermal customer for delivery in the fourth quarter, at a price significantly above the U.S. East Coast metallurgical marks, and is actively exploring other such opportunities.
In addition, Arch continues to capitalize on exceptionally strong international thermal market conditions directly through the export of thermal volumes from its West Elk and – to a lesser extent – Black Thunder mines. While rail service remains a significant barrier to moving additional volumes to energy-short international customers, Arch still anticipates shipping an incremental 600,000 tons of West Elk coal and nearly 500,000 tons of Black Thunder coal into international markets in the second half of 2022, at exceptional price levels.
Looking Ahead
"With our greatly upgraded coking coal portfolio, Arch is exceptionally well-positioned to capitalize on still-constructive coking coal market dynamics, both in the near and longer term, while continuing to harvest robust amounts of cash from our increasingly de-risked legacy thermal segment," said Lang. "Even with rail-related volume constraints, inflation-driven cost pressures, and lower-than-anticipated productivity rates, we expect to generate significant amounts of discretionary cash flow in the year's second half, and to return this cash flow to stockholders according to the clearly articulated tenets of our recently established capital return formula."
"Looking ahead, we fully expect our world-class metallurgical asset base, premium High-Vol A product slate, highly fortified financial position, top-tier marketing and logistics expertise, and industry-leading ESG performance to continue to differentiate Arch from its competitors and to drive exceptional value for our stakeholders."
Note: The company is unable to present a quantitative reconciliation of its forward-looking non-GAAP Segment cash cost per ton sold financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures without unreasonable efforts due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting and quantifying with reasonable accuracy significant items required for the reconciliation. The most directly comparable GAAP measure, GAAP cost of sales, is not accessible without unreasonable efforts on a forward-looking basis. The reconciling items include transportation costs, which are a component of GAAP cost of sales. Management is unable to predict without unreasonable efforts transportation costs due to uncertainty as to the end market and FOB point for uncommitted sales volumes and the final shipping point for export shipments. In addition, the impact of hedging activity related to commodity purchases that do not receive hedge accounting and idle and administrative costs that are not included in a reportable segment are additional reconciling items for Segment cash cost per ton sold. Management is unable to predict without unreasonable efforts the impact of hedging activity related to commodity purchases that do not receive hedge accounting due to fluctuations in commodity prices, which are difficult to forecast due to their inherent volatility. These amounts have historically varied and may continue to vary significantly from quarter to quarter and material changes to these items could have a significant effect on our future GAAP results. Idle and administrative costs that are not included in a reportable segment are expected to be between $10 million and $20 million in 2022.
Arch Resources is a premier producer of high-quality metallurgical products for the global steel industry. The company operates large, modern and highly efficient mines that consistently set the industry standard for both mine safety and environmental stewardship. Arch Resources from time to time utilizes its website – www.archrsc.com – as a channel of distribution for material company information. To learn more about us and our premium metallurgical products, go to www.archrsc.com.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended - that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and future plans, and often contain words such as "should," "could," "appears," "estimates," "projects," "targets," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "may," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "strives," "will" or variations of such words or similar words. Actual results or outcomes may vary significantly, and adversely, from those anticipated due to many factors, including: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; changes in coal prices, which may be caused by numerous factors beyond our control, including changes in the domestic and foreign supply of and demand for coal and the domestic and foreign demand for steel and electricity; volatile economic and market conditions; operating risks beyond our control, including risks related to mining conditions, mining, processing and plant equipment failures or maintenance problems; weather and natural disasters; the unavailability of raw materials, equipment or other critical supplies, mining accidents, and other inherent risks of coal mining that are beyond our control; loss of availability, reliability and cost-effectiveness of transportation facilities and fluctuations in transportation costs; inflationary pressures and availability and price of mining and other industrial supplies; the effects of foreign and domestic trade policies, actions or disputes on the level of trade among the countries and regions in which we operate, the competitiveness of our exports, or our ability to export; competition, both within our industry and with producers of competing energy sources, including the effects from any current or future legislation or regulations designed to support, promote or mandate renewable energy sources; alternative steel production technologies that may reduce demand for our coal; the loss of key personnel or the failure to attract additional qualified personnel and the availability of skilled employees and other workforce factors; our ability to secure new coal supply arrangements or to renew existing coal supply arrangements; the loss of, or significant reduction in, purchases by our largest customers; disruptions in the supply of coal from third parties; risks related to our international growth; our relationships with, and other conditions affecting our customers and our ability to collect payments from our customers; the availability and cost of surety bonds, including potential collateral requirements; additional demands for credit support by third parties and decisions by banks, surety bond providers, or other counterparties to reduce or eliminate their exposure to the coal industry; inaccuracies in our estimates of our coal reserves; defects in title or the loss of a leasehold interest; losses as a result of certain marketing and asset optimization strategies; cyber-attacks or other security breaches that disrupt our operations, or that result in the unauthorized release of proprietary, confidential or personally identifiable information; our ability to acquire or develop coal reserves in an economically feasible manner; our ability to comply with the restrictions imposed by our term loan debt facility and other financing arrangements; our ability to service our outstanding indebtedness and raise funds necessary to repurchase our convertible notes for cash following a fundamental change or to pay any cash amounts due upon conversion; existing and future legislation and regulations affecting both our coal mining operations and our customers' coal usage; governmental policies and taxes, including those aimed at reducing emissions of elements such as mercury, sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter or greenhouse gases; increased pressure from political and regulatory authorities, along with environmental and climate change activist groups, and lending and investment policies adopted by financial institutions and insurance companies to address concerns about the environmental impacts of coal combustion; increased attention to environmental, social or governance matters; our ability to obtain and renew various permits necessary for our mining operations; risks related to regulatory agencies ordering certain of our mines to be temporarily or permanently closed under certain circumstances; risks related to extensive environmental regulations that impose significant costs on our mining operations, and could result in litigation or material liabilities; the accuracy of our estimates of reclamation and other mine closure obligations; the existence of hazardous substances or other environmental contamination on property owned or used by us; risks related to tax legislation and our ability to use net operating losses and certain tax credits; and our ability to pay base or variable dividends in accordance with our announced capital return program. All forward-looking statements in this press release, as well as all other written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in this section and elsewhere in this press release. These factors are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to vary significantly, and adversely, from those anticipated at the time such statements were first made. These risks and uncertainties, as well as other risks of which we are not aware or which we currently do not believe to be material, may cause our actual future results and outcomes to be materially, and adversely, different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. For these reasons, readers should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements were made, and we do not undertake, and expressly disclaim, any duty to update our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by the federal securities laws. For a description of some of the risks and uncertainties that may affect our future results, you should see the risk factors described from time to time in the reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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BOSTON — Massachusetts sports fans raced to their cellphones Friday to begin placing bets as the state allowed online sports wagering just days ahead of tip-off of the NCAA Tournament next week.
The start of online sports gambling came a little over a month after the state began allowing in-person sports betting at the state’s three casinos — Encore Boston Harbor in Boston, Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville, and MGM Springfield in Springfield.
Lawmakers estimate that sports betting could generate about $60 million in annual tax revenue and $70 million to $80 million in initial licensing fees, which must be renewed every five years. The law includes a 15% tax on in-person wagering and 20% tax on mobile wagering.
People must be 21 or older to bet.
At the headquarters of Boston-based sports betting company DraftKings, workers have been gearing up for the kickoff of online sports wagering in the state.
The company was already taking bets in more than 20 states where sports wagering is legal, but the prospect of serving fans of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, New England Patriots and the surging Boston Bruins is an added thrill, according to company president and co-founder Matt Kalish.
The company is also thrilled that the launch came just before the start of the NCAA basketball tournaments, he said.
“The most common way people jump into the product is usually for some big sports event. It might be the Super Bowl or something upcoming like March Madness,” he said. “So we’re launching in Massachusetts just in time for what should be an amazing tournament.”
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 ruled that banning sports betting was unconstitutional.
Former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill legalizing sports betting. Baker, who is not president of the NCAA, argued that residents were traveling to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York and Connecticut to wager.
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Hurricane Ian nears Cuba on path to strike Florida as Cat 4
HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian was growing stronger as it barreled toward Cuba on a track to hit Florida’s west coast as a major hurricane as early as Wednesday.
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As of Monday, Tampa and St. Petersburg appeared to be the among the most likely targets for their first direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921.
“Please treat this storm seriously. It’s the real deal. This is not a drill,” Hillsborough County Emergency Management Director Timothy Dudley said at a news conference on storm preparations in Tampa.
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A gunman who opened fire in an enlistment office in a Siberian city and gravely wounded the military commandant, saying, “We will all go home now.”
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Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after he revealed highly classified U.S. surveillance programs to capture communications and data from around the world.
A decree signed Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin listed Snowden as one of 75 foreign citizens listed as being granted Russian citizenship. After fleeing the U.S. in 2013, Snowden was granted permanent Russian residency in 2020 and said at the time that he planned to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
Ties between Washington and Moscow are already at their lowest point in decades following Putin's decision to launch what the Kremlin has dubbed a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
While Snowden, 39, is considered by supporters to be a righteous whistleblower who wanted to protect American civil liberties, U.S. intelligence officials have accused him of putting U.S. personnel at risk and damaging national security. He currently faces charges in the United States that could result in decades in prison.
“Our position has not changed,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday. “Mr. Snowden should return to the United States where he should face justice as any other American citizen would.”
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail
PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate.
He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life story: a stint as an Army paratrooper cut short by a training accident, followed by marriage, college and an Ivy League law degree.
The clerkship was one more rung up from a hardscrabble beginning. But rather than fitting in, Rhodes came across as angry and aggrieved.
He railed to colleagues about how the Patriot Act, which gave the government greater surveillance powers after the Sept. 11 attacks, would erase civil liberties. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney as a fascist for supporting the Bush administration’s use of “enemy combatant” status to indefinitely detain prisoners.
“He saw this titanic struggle between people like him who wanted individual liberty and the government that would try to take away that liberty,” said Matt Parry, who worked with Rhodes as a clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Justice Mike Ryan.
Stocks fall on recession fears; Dow slips into bear market
The Dow Jones Industrial Average became the last of the major U.S. stock indexes to fall into what’s known as a bear market Monday as the market deepened its slump amid growing fears of a global recession.
The blue chip index fell 1.1%, while the S&P 500 closed 1% lower and the Nasdaq dropped 0.6% as the indexes extended their losing streak to a fifth day.
The British pound dropped to an all-time low against the dollar and investors continued to dump British government bonds in displeasure over a sweeping tax cut plan announced in London last week.
Markets in Europe closed mostly lower. The head of the European Central Bank warned that the economic outlook “is darkening” as high energy and food prices pushed up by the war in Ukraine sap consumer spending power. France, the EU’s second-biggest economy, forecast a substantial slowdown in economic growth next year.
In the U.S., stock indexes have been losing ground, coming off their fifth weekly loss in six weeks.
NASA spacecraft closes in on asteroid for head-on collision
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft closed in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
The galactic grand slam was set to occur at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit.
Telescopes around the world and in space were poised to capture the spectacle. Though the impact should be immediately obvious — with Dart’s radio signal abruptly ceasing — it will be days or even weeks to determine how much the asteroid’s path was changed.
The $325 million mission is the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space.
“No, this is not a movie plot,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tweeted earlier in the day. ”We’ve all seen it on movies like ‘Armageddon,’ but the real-life stakes are high,” he said in a prerecorded video.
17 dead, 24 wounded in school shooting in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said.
The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.
Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same school, and said he was wearing a black t-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols.” No details about his motives have been released.
The government of Udmurtia said 17 people, including 11 children, were killed in the shooting. According to Russia's Investigative Committee, 24 other people, including 22 children, were wounded in the attack.
The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said the gunman, who he said was registered as a patient at a psychiatric facility, killed himself after the attack.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The fugitive defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard" who orchestrated a huge bribery scheme involving dozens of U.S. Navy officials, has requested asylum in Venezuela, a law enforcement official said Monday, nearly a week after he was captured in the South American country.
Leonard Glenn Francis slipped away from house arrest in San Diego on Sept. 4, only weeks before he was to be sentenced. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak to the press about the closed proceedings, did not provide any additional details about the Malaysian businessman's moves. By law the Venezuelan government must consider the asylum request.
Francis owned Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd. or GDMA, that supplied food, water and fuel to vessels for decades. He has acknowledged overbilling the U.S. Navy by $35 million with the help of dozens of U.S. naval officers whom he plied with prostitutes, Kobe beef, cigars and other bribes so they would direct their ships to ports Francis controlled in the Pacific in Southeast Asia.
Francis, known for his wide girth and big personality, pleaded guilty in 2015 and faced up to 25 years in prison. While awaiting sentencing, he was given home confinement in San Diego to receive medical care as he cooperated with the prosecution, which led to the convictions of 33 of 34 defendants.
U.S. and Venezuelan officials said that Francis cut off his ankle monitor, fled to Mexico and then made his way to Cuba before turning up in Venezuela. He was arrested there Tuesday before he boarded a flight at the Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas. Venezuelan officials have said he intended to reach Russia.
Chief: Man shot by Chicago police infiltrated SWAT training
CHICAGO (AP) — A man climbed five stories of a fire escape to infiltrate a Chicago police facility Monday while officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police, the chief said.
Police Superintendent David Brown said the suspect was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening. One officer was taken to the hospital with a sprained ankle.
Brown said the suspect was seen on video leaving the facility and then returning to infiltrate it. He asked where to go to retrieve personal property at the facility on in Homan Square on Chicago's West Side. Then he came back to the building and climbed the fire escape to the fifth floor, where a door had been propped open for ventilation because there are no windows on that floor.
Brown said it has not been determined if the man went to the building to retrieve property, saying that the man had an extensive record. It wasn't immediately clear if property taken from the man was stored in the building.
He had no other information about the man, other than to say he was a resident of Waukegan, a suburb about 42 miles north of Chicago.
How a party of neo-fascist roots won big in Italy
ROME (AP) — The Brothers of Italy party, which won the most votes in Italy’s national election, has its roots in the post-World War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement.
Keeping the movement's most potent symbol, the tricolor flame, Giorgia Meloni has taken Brothers of Italy from a fringe far-right group to Italy's biggest party.
A century after Benito Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome, which brought the fascist dictator to power, Meloni is poised to lead Italy's first far-right-led government since World War II and Italy's first woman premier.
HOW DID POST-FASCISM BEGIN IN ITALY?
The Italian Social Movement, or MSI, was founded in 1946 by Giorgio Almirante, a chief of staff in Mussolini’s last government. It drew fascist sympathizers and officials into its ranks following Italy’s role in the war, when it was allied with the Nazis and then liberated by the Allies. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-6-04-p-m-edt/article_384a4094-1dbf-50d0-90ce-fe6ec9b6a479.html | 2022-09-26 23:48:20 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-6-04-p-m-edt/article_384a4094-1dbf-50d0-90ce-fe6ec9b6a479.html |
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church leaders of decades of coverups.
The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, schools and congregations had more than one abuser at the same time — including St. Mark Parish in Catonsville, which had 11 abusers living and working there between 1964 and 2004. One deacon admitted to molesting over 100 children. Another priest was allowed to feign hepatitis treatment and make other excuses to avoid facing abuse allegations.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office released the findings of their yearslong investigation during Holy Week — considered the most sacred time of year in Christianity ahead of Easter Sunday — and said the number of victims is likely far higher. The report was redacted to protect confidential grand jury materials, meaning the identities of some accused clergy were removed.
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“The staggering pervasiveness of the abuse itself underscores the culpability of the Church hierarchy,” the report said. “The sheer number of abusers and victims, the depravity of the abusers’ conduct, and the frequency with which known abusers were given the opportunity to continue preying upon children are astonishing.”
Disclosure of the redacted findings marks a significant development in an ongoing legal battle over their release and adds to growing evidence from parishes across the country as numerous similar revelations have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years.
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, in a statement posted online, apologized to the victims and said the report “details a reprehensible time in the history of this Archdiocese, a time that will not be covered up, ignored or forgotten.”
“It is difficult for most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually occurred,” Lori said. “For victim-survivors everywhere, they know the hard truth: These evil acts did occur.”
Also on Wednesday, the state legislature passed a bill to end a statute of limitations on abuse-related civil lawsuits, sending it to Gov. Wes Moore, who has said he supports it. The Baltimore archdiocese says it has paid more than $13.2 million for care and compensation for 301 abuse victims since the 1980s, including $6.8 million toward 105 voluntary settlements.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, who took office in January, said the investigation shows "pervasive, pernicious and persistent abuse.” State investigators began their work in 2019; they reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents dating back to the 1940s and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses.
ABUSE RECALLED AS A ‘LIFE SENTENCE’
Victims said the report was a long-overdue public reckoning with shameful accusations the church has been facing for decades.
Jean Hargadon Wehner said she was abused in Baltimore as a teen by A. Joseph Maskell, a priest who served as her Catholic high school’s counselor and chaplain. She said she reported her abuse to church officials in the early ’90s, when her memories of the trauma finally surfaced about two decades after she was repeatedly raped.
“I expected them to do the right thing in 1992,” she told reporters Wednesday. “I’m still angry.”
Maskell abused at least 39 victims, according to the report. He denied the allegations before his death in 2001 and was never criminally charged. The Associated Press typically doesn’t name victims of abuse, but Wehner has spoken publicly to draw attention to the issue.
Kurt Rupprecht, who also experienced abuse as a child, said he was in his late 40s when he pieced together his traumatic memories. He said the realization brought him some relief because it explained decades of self-destructive behavior and mental health challenges, but also left him overwhelmed with anger and disbelief.
Rupprecht said his abuser was assigned to the Diocese of Wilmington, which covers some counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
“We’re here to speak the truth and never stop,” he said after the news conference. “We deal with this every day. It is our life sentence.”
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, noted the report lists more names of abusers than have been released publicly by archdiocese officials. The organization called on the archbishop to explain the discrepancies.
Other investigations involving the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, which both include parts of Maryland, are ongoing.
ARCHDIOCESE TOOK STEPS TO PROTECT THE ACCUSED
The Baltimore report says church leaders were focused on keeping abuse hidden, not on protecting victims or stopping abuse. In some situations, victims ended up reporting abuse to priests who were abusive themselves. And when law enforcement did become aware of abuse allegations, police and prosecutors were often deferential and “uninterested in probing what church leaders knew and when,” according to the report.
The nearly 500-page document includes numerous instances of leaders taking steps to protect accused clergy, including allowing them to retire with financial support rather than be ousted, letting them remain in the ministry and failing to report alleged abuse to law enforcement.
In 1964, for instance, Father Laurence Brett admitted to sexually abusing a teenager at a Catholic university in Connecticut.
He was sent to New Mexico under the guise of hepatitis treatment and then to Sacramento, where another teenage boy reported being abused by Brett, the report said. He was later assigned to Baltimore, where he served as chaplain at a Catholic high school for boys and abused over 20 victims.
After several students accused him of abuse in 1973, Brett was allowed to resign, saying he had to care for a sick aunt. School officials didn’t report the abuse to authorities and dozens more victims later came forward. He never faced criminal charges and died in 2010.
The report largely focuses on the years before 2002, when an investigation by the Boston Globe into abuse and coverup in the Archdiocese of Boston led to an explosion of revelations nationwide. The nation’s Catholic bishops, for the first time, then agreed on reforms including a lifetime ban from ministry for any priest who commits even a single incident of abuse. While new national policies significantly improved the internal handling of reported abuse in the Baltimore archdiocese after 2002, significant flaws remained, according to the report.
Only one person has been indicted through the investigation: Neil Adleberg, 74, who was arrested last year and charged with rape and other counts. The case remains ongoing. Officials said he coached wrestling at a Catholic high school in the ’70s, then returned to the role for the 2014-2015 school year. The alleged abuse occurred in 2013 and 2014 but the victim was not a student of the school, officials said.
COURT TO CONSIDER RELEASING MORE NAMES IN THE FUTURE
Lawyers for the state asked a court for permission to release the report and a Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled last month that a redacted version should be made public. The court ordered the removal the names and titles of 37 people accused of wrongdoing — whose names came out during confidential grand jury proceedings — but will consider releasing a more complete version in the future.
Lawmakers' passage of a bill to end the state’s statute of limitations Wednesday came after similar proposals failed in recent years. Currently, victims of child sex abuse in Maryland can’t sue after they turn 38. The bill would eliminate the age limit and allow for retroactive lawsuits.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has long faced scrutiny over its handling of abuse allegations.
In 2002, Cardinal William Keeler, who served as Baltimore archbishop for nearly two decades, released a list of 57 priests accused of sexual abuse, earning himself a reputation for transparency at a time when the nationwide scope of wrongdoing remained largely unexposed. That changed, however, when a Pennsylvania grand jury accused Keeler of covering up sexual abuse allegations while serving as bishop of Harrisburg in the 1980s.
Associated Press reporter Stefanie Dazio contributed to this report from Los Angeles. Peter Smith contributed from Pittsburgh. Witte reported from Annapolis and Brumfield reported from Silver Spring.
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By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writers
Billionaire Elon Musk is already floating major changes for Twitter — and faces major hurdles as he begins his first week as owner of the social-media platform.
Twitter’s new owner fired the company’s board of directors and made himself the board’s sole member, according to a company filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk later said on Twitter that the new board setup is “temporary,” but he didn’t provide any details.
He’s also testing the waters on asking users to pay for verification. A venture capitalist working with Musk tweeted a poll asking how much users would be willing to pay for the blue check mark that Twitter has historically used to verify higher-profile accounts so other users know it’s really them.
Musk, whose account is verified, replied, “Interesting.”
Critics have derided the mark, often granted to celebrities, politicians, business leaders and journalists, as an elite status symbol.
But Twitter also uses the blue check mark to verify activists and people who suddenly find themselves in the news, as well as little-known journalists at small publications around the globe, as an extra tool to curb misinformation coming from accounts that are impersonating people.
“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted Sunday in response to a user who asked for help getting verified.
On Friday, meanwhile, billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said he and his Kingdom Holding Company rolled over a combined $1.89 billion in existing Twitter shares, making them the company’s largest shareholder after Musk. The news raised concerns among some lawmakers, including Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut.
Murphy tweeted that he is requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to investigate the national security implications of the kingdom’s investment in Twitter
“We should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting U.S. politics, are now the second-largest owner of a major social media platform,” Murphy tweeted. “There is a clear national security issue at stake and CFIUS should do a review.”
Having taken ownership of the social media service, Musk has invited a group of tech-world friends and investors to help guide the San Francisco-based company’s transformation, which is likely to include a shakeup of its staff. Musk last week fired CEO Parag Agrawal and other top executives.
There’s been uncertainty about if and when he could begin larger-scale layoffs.
“I do think there will be a lot of layoffs,” said Matthew Faulkner, an assistant finance professor at San Jose State University. Faulkner noted the need for cost-cutting after Musk bought Twitter for a premium and the platform’s longtime struggles trying to turn a profit. But Musk might also want as quickly as possible to weed out employees who don’t believe in his mission so that those who stay feel more secure.
“You don’t want to have frantically scared employees working for you,” Faulkner said. “That doesn’t motivate people.”
Those who have revealed they are helping Musk include Sriram Krishnan, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which pledged back in the spring to chip in to Musk’s plan to buy the company and take it private.
Krishnan, who is also a former Twitter product executive, said in a tweet that it is “a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen.”
Jason Calacanis, the venture capitalist who tweeted the poll about whether users would pay for verification, said over the weekend he is “hanging out at Twitter a bit and simply trying to be as helpful as possible during the transition.”
Calacanis said the team already “has a very comprehensive plan to reduce the number of (and visibility of) bots, spammers, & bad actors on the platform.” And in the Twitter poll, he asked if users would pay between $5 and $15 monthly to “be verified & get a blue check mark” on Twitter. Twitter is currently free for most users because it depends on advertising for its revenue.
Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion in April but it wasn’t until Thursday evening that he finally closed the deal, after his attempts to back out of it led to a protracted legal fight with the company. Musk’s lawyers are now asking the Delaware Chancery Court to throw out the case, according to a court filing made public Monday. The two sides were supposed to go to trial in November if they didn’t close the deal by the end of last week.
Musk has made a number of pronouncements since early this year about how to fix Twitter, and it remains unclear which proposals he will prioritize.
He has promised to cut back some of Twitter’s content restrictions to promote free speech, but said Friday that no major decisions on content or reinstating of banned accounts will be made until a “content moderation council” with diverse viewpoints is put in place. He later qualified that remark, tweeting “anyone suspended for minor & dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail.”
The head of a cryptocurrency exchange that invested $500 million in Musk’s Twitter takeover said he had a number of reasons for supporting the deal, including the possibility Musk would transition Twitter into a company supporting cryptocurrency and the concept known as Web3, which many cryptocurrency enthusiasts envision as the next generation of the internet.
“We want to make sure that crypto has a seat at the table when it comes to free speech,” Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao told CNBC on Monday. “And there are more tactical things, like we want to help bring Twitter into Web3 when they’re ready.”
He said cryptocurrency could be useful for solving some of Musk’s immediate challenges, such as the plan to charge a premium membership fee for more users.
“That can be done very easily, globally, by using cryptocurrency as a means of payment,” he said.
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Associated Press Writer Randall Chase contributed to this story.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologist who is often referred to as “Putin's brain” was killed when her car exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday.
The Investigative Committee branch for the Moscow region said the Saturday night blast was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina.
The 29-year-old was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept ideology and a vehement supporter of Russia's sending of troops into Ukraine.
Dugina expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad.
“Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said on Sunday, using the familiar form of her name.
The explosion took place as Dugina was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with her father. Some Russian media reports cited witnesses as saying the vehicle belonged to her father and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another car.
No suspects were immediately identified. But Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic that is a focus of Russia's fighting in Ukraine, blamed it on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin." | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Daughter-of-Putin-s-brain-ideologist-killed-in-17387655.php | 2022-08-21 09:14:45 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Daughter-of-Putin-s-brain-ideologist-killed-in-17387655.php |
In this file photo from Aug. 25, from left, U.S. Air Force Col. Blaine Baker, 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW) commander, Col. Patrick Brady-Lee, 97th AMW vice commander and Chief Master Sgt. Cesar Flores, 97th AMW command chief, ride through Altus Air Force Base during the 23rd Annual Cattle Drive. Leadership participates in the cattle drive every year show support for the community of Altus and continue over 23 years of tradition.
Efforts from Airmen across Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma paid off Oct. 26, 2022, when Air Education and Training Command announced AAFB as a finalist for the 2023 Commander in Chief Installation Excellence Award.
If AAFB wins the award, they will receive $1.25 million to spend on the improvement of the base through new services, exceptional facilities, and continuing to make quality of life even better for Airmen and their families. As well as a trophy, an “installation excellence” flag, and a congratulatory letter from President Joe Biden.
The CINC IEA recognizes “the outstanding efforts of the people who operate and maintain Department of Defense installations and who have done the best with their resources to support the mission.”
The award encourages an atmosphere of innovation to enhance base-level services, facilities and quality-of-life. Installations compete in areas such as: force development, operations & readiness, logistics, facilities, security forces, contracting, energy & environmental, communications & information, public affairs, safety, services, and surgeon general.
In the last year, Airmen and civilians on base worked together to create an environment they are proud of through innovation, improving services and facilities, and forging better quality of life.
“We wouldn’t have gotten here without the incredible efforts and innovations of our Airmen and their unmatched drive for mission success,” said Col. Blaine Baker, 97th Air Mobility Wing commander. “We have a world class team here at the 97th Air Mobility Wing, which is only strengthened by our premier partnership with the Altus community.”
In September, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Chief of Staff of the Air Force awarded AAFB with the Community Partnership Award at the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference for all the positive work done towards housing, childcare, and a novel recycling program for the city.
Those accomplishments propelled AAFB to be one of two finalists for the CINC IEA, along with the renovation of the Hangar 97 dining facility, the wing innovation center, and L. Mendel Rivers Elementary school.
The group who put the initial award package together focused on the vision of Baker to portray AAFB as “the little engine that could.”
“Even if we lost track or lost focus, we went back to ‘the little engine that could.’” said Tech Sgt. Shannell Gray, 97th Healthcare Operations Squadron NCO in charge. “How we, as a small base, still make big changes. That’s how we set Altus apart from other bases.” | https://www.swoknews.com/the-little-engine-that-could-aafb-nominated-for-af-level-award/article_87d7a2b3-4d08-5b00-bfb6-525c2be96677.html | 2022-12-29 12:50:36 | 0 | https://www.swoknews.com/the-little-engine-that-could-aafb-nominated-for-af-level-award/article_87d7a2b3-4d08-5b00-bfb6-525c2be96677.html |
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Envision, one of the nation's largest employers of and service providers for people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI), has announced a partnership with BRAVO VICTOR, an international research organization headquartered in London and Washington, D.C. BRAVO VICTOR's mission is to accelerate research and explore innovations to prevent, reduce or reverse visual impairment and related conditions and disabilities in order to help veterans and other people to live well with these impairments. The Envision Research Institute, a division of Envision, also believes that through applied research, removing functional barriers for people with blindness or low vision is possible.
"We are very excited about this new partnership with BRAVO VICTOR. Their track record on research and innovation, as well as the work they have done to help veterans, is a great fit with the work we have been doing at the Gigi & Carl Allen Envision Research Institute," said Michael Monteferrante, President and CEO of Envision.
The Envision Research Institute and BRAVO VICTOR are positioned to further the understanding of vision loss and rehabilitation and conduct meaningful research that can positively impact lives. Visual impairment can have a profound impact on a person's ability to function in daily life, with impairment ranging from mild to severe, including total blindness. Age-related diseases can cause vision loss later in life, leading to decreased independence, isolation and depression.
"The partnership between BRAVO VICTOR and Envision is important," stated Prof. Renata Gomes, Chief Scientific Officer of BRAVO VICTOR, "It is clear to me that the combined strengths, knowledge and expertise of the two teams gives us the opportunity to augment and amplify our combined research work internationally and to make great strides in our mission to seek better outcomes for those living with sight loss."
About Envision: Envision promotes advocacy and independence for those who are blind or low vision. Founded in 1933, Envision is one of the largest employers of individuals with vision loss in the nation. Headquartered in Wichita, Kan., Envision's mission is to improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind or visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education and research. For more information, visit www.envisionus.com.
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Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton insisted he will not be silenced by offseason rules that prohibit drivers from speaking out on political issues.
Hamilton said Wednesday he will continue to use his global platform to promote his wide-ranging interests, which include social justice and race, human rights and protection of the LBGTQ community.
The FIA in December updated its International Sporting Code to require prior written permission for drivers to make or display ”political, religious and personal statements or comments” during race weekends. The FIA is the governing body for Formula One.
The crackdown on free speech has been condemned by most drivers but Hamilton only weighed in for the first time Wednesday, when Mercedes revealed its 2023 car.
Hamilton said the FIA crackdown ”doesn’t surprise me” but he quickly dismissed it when he learned about it over the offseason.
”Nothing will stop me from speaking on the things that I feel that I’m passionate about and issues there are,” Hamilton said. ”I feel the sport does have a responsibility, still, always, to speak out as a means to create awareness on important topics, particularly as we are traveling to all these different places, so nothing changes.”
Asked if he was prepared to be penalized by the FIA for violating the new rule, Hamilton said ”it would be silly to say I would want to take extra penalty points” but remained steadfast in that he won’t be silenced.
”I’m still going to be speaking on my end,” Hamilton said. ”We still have this platform. There’s a lot of things we need to tackle.”
Most of the drivers have spoken out against the new rule and most recently by F1 boss Stefano Domenicali, who recently told The Guardian newspaper the series would not be imposing any sort of gag. Domenicali said he expected the FIA to soon clarify its position.
Hamilton is the most vocal driver in F1 and remains the same change agent 17 years into his career as when he became the first Black winner in F1 in 2008. The British racer is now 38 years old, the winningest driver in series history and is tied with Michael Schumacher with a record seven titles.
Hamilton remains the only Black driver at the most elite level of motorsports.
Hamilton often speaks out while racing in countries with questionable human rights records, or when an issue arises in which he feels his voice can lend support, which would be banned under the new FIA rule.
Hamilton last year sparred with the FIA over its crackdown of drivers wearing jewelry in the car and mocked the rule by arriving at a news conference wearing three watches, eight rings and multiple necklaces. Hamilton and the FIA had a protracted back-and-forth over the jewelry ban in which he received an extension on a deadline to remove some piercings; the two sides eventually came to an agreement.
Hamilton’s teammate George Russell is a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, which represents F1 drivers, and shared the criticism of the FIA’s attempt to limit drivers’ speech.
”I think it’s totally unnecessary in the sport and in the world we live at the moment. Naturally, we are obviously seeking clarification and I trust it will be resolved,” Russell said Wednesday.
He added: ”We’re not going to limit our views or our thoughts because of some silly regulation. We’re all here to have free speech and share whatever views we may have.”
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INDIANA, Pa., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&T Bank (NASDAQ: STBA) announced it earned the 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, issued by Energage. The employer recognition program recognizes organizations across the country that have built exceptional workplace cultures. Winners of the Top Workplaces USA list are chosen based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous, research-based employee engagement survey.
"We are honored to receive this award as it reflects our commitment to make people our purpose," said Chris McComish, chief executive officer. "Our employees build the foundation for S&T's ability to exceed customers' expectations and embody our purpose of building the future together through people-forward banking."
S&T Bank is consistently recognized for its exceptional company culture and dedication to its employees and communities. Past recognitions from Energage include the 2022 Pittsburgh Top Workplaces award and the 2022 Top Workplaces for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) award.
"At S&T Bank, we know it takes talented and engaged employees to build a great organization and we are committed to promoting a culture that fosters collaboration and inclusion so that we can win as one team," commented Susie Nicholson, chief human resources officer.
To view the list of 2023 winners, visit topworkplaces.com/award/top-workplaces-usa/.
About S&T Bancorp, Inc. and S&T Bank
S&T Bancorp, Inc. is a $9.1 billion bank holding company that is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania and trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol STBA. Its principal subsidiary, S&T Bank, was established in 1902 and operates in Pennsylvania and Ohio. S&T Bank was recently named by Forbes as a 2022 Best-in-State Bank. S&T Bank also received the highest ranking in customer satisfaction for retail banking in the Pennsylvania region by J.D. Power in 2022. For more information visit stbancorp.com or stbank.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Employees say retirement benefits are highly important when deciding whether or not to leave an employer. Yet employers are missing key opportunities to tell them about their offerings, TIAA survey finds.
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the more than 30% of U.S. employees who say they are considering a job switch this year, benefits programs are often a crucial factor.
TIAA's 2022 Employee Retention Survey shows a substantial majority (82%) of employees say their benefits—specifically their retirement benefits (77%)—are highly important in deciding whether they will change jobs.
The survey also reveals a majority (68%) of employees are seeking better information about their retirement savings plans from their employer. Employees also say more educational resources and communications clarifying benefits can help build trust. Workers who trust their employer place an even higher importance on benefits when making career decisions. Other key survey findings include:
- Just 16% of employees say they received information about their current retirement plan before being hired.
- Less than half (42%) say their benefits were communicated when they first started their job.
- Just over half (54%) say they received information during open enrollment.
- Only one-third of employers say they communicate about their benefits plans before hiring an employee.
"We know that retirement benefits can be a significant difference-maker for employees when they're considering career choices, yet employers are missing critical opportunities to communicate about them," said Raymond J. Bellucci, head of Recordkeeping Solutions at TIAA. "Regularly providing education and information about retirement benefits can enhance retention and recruitment strategies, build stronger employee-employer relationships and boost employees' retirement preparedness."
Many employers see their current offerings as a valuable asset for attracting and retaining employees and note that they feel a high degree of responsibility for their employees' retirement preparedness (54%) and financial wellness (46%). Employers who report feeling more responsible are more likely to see their benefits as a recruiting advantage, think their employees are satisfied with their benefits, and are more likely to provide in-plan options for Guaranteed Lifetime Income in retirement.
However, employees aren't seeing their employers' efforts to improve their finances. Since the beginning of the pandemic, most employees have recognized their employers' increased focus on health and safety (64%), but just one-third noted a heightened focus on their financial wellness. A majority (68%) of employees also say they would like their employer's help developing a retirement strategy. This number increases among employees ages 30-39; 78% reported they would like guidance on how much to save each year for retirement.
Employers will likely continue to face recruitment and retention challenges as employees navigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and an unpredictable labor market. Communicating regularly about all benefits, especially retirement benefits, and providing employees with additional financial wellness resources can support recruitment and retention efforts and improve retirement outcomes.
To see the survey's executive summary, click here.
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In clinical proceedings paper, neurologists detail diagnosis challenges and the burden of living with the rare neurodevelopmental disorder
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clinical Neurological Society of America released a new expert-led clinical proceedings paper, "Rett Syndrome: A Devastating Neurodevelopmental Disorder." FDA approval of the first medication for Rett syndrome elevates the need for further education and innovation, the paper's authors explain.
The paper, authored by four neurologists, highlights the syndrome's clinical and genetic features, barriers to timely diagnosis and challenges facing patients and families. The paper also calls for earlier recognition and diagnosis of Rett syndrome, which can help parents identify the right providers, support groups and resources to help their child. In addition to treating patients with the newly approved medication, called trofinetide, clinicians may recommend that families focus on socialization, communication skills and physical activities to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.
Paper Authors
Jeffrey Neul, MD, PhD (clinical proceedings chair)
J. Richard Gunderman, MD
Laura Lehman, MD, MPH
Alan K. Percy, MD
About Rett Syndrome
Rett syndrome affects an estimated one in 10,000 females globally, causing intellectual impairment, gait abnormalities, repetitive hand movements, and loss of spoken language and fine motor skills. It is the second most common cause of intellectual disability after Down syndrome.
No cure is currently available, so treatment often focuses on relieving symptoms. But a new drug recently approved by the FDA and two new gene therapy programs provide some hope for people with Rett syndrome and their families.
Many families receive a Rett syndrome diagnosis only years after symptoms first emerge. Most pediatricians and family physicians do not have experience with Rett syndrome, the paper explains, and many mistake Rett syndrome symptoms for autism. Others take a "wait-and-see" approach.
Rett syndrome disrupts all aspects of daily life, including eating, hygiene and medical care. Parents must keep up with their child's constant needs. Treatment and care are generally quite expensive, and families may be forced to pay out of pocket, depending on their insurance coverage. A 2015 study found that the divorce rate among couples with a daughter with Rett syndrome was 9% higher than the rate of the general population, the paper notes.
STATEMENT FROM JEFFERY NEUL, MD, PHD, CHAIR FOR CLINICAL PROCEEDINGS, CLINICAL NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: "Long-awaited medical innovation is changing what the future could look like for Rett syndrome patients and their families. Physicians are eager for continued innovation but also for widespread education so that more providers know what this disease looks like and how to advise families who are dealing with it."
Learn more by reading "Rett Syndrome: A Devastating Neurodevelopmental Disorder."
The Clinical Neurological Society of America, a non-profit 501(c)(6), is a nationwide organization of neurology clinicians with a mission to improve clinical practice and patient care through education.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump in impeachment trials. He excoriated his fellow senators who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. He even scolded New York Rep. George Santos for his audacity in grabbing a prominent seat at the State of the Union address after admitting to fabricating much of his biography.
After four years in Washington, Republican Mitt Romney has established himself as a rare senator willing to publicly rebuke members of his own party.
But the Utah senator’s outspoken stances, along with his willingness to work with Democrats, have angered some Republicans in the deep-red state he represents and led them to cast about for someone to try to dethrone him a primary race next year.
The 75-year-old said that he hasn’t made a decision on whether to run for reelection in 2024 and doesn’t expect to until the start of summer.
“I’m sort of keeping my mind open,” Romney said in an interview. “There’s no particular hurry. I’m doing what I would do if I’m running with staffing and resources, so it’s not like I have to make a formal announcement.”
His decision about whether to run again comes as Trump is making his third campaign for the White House, presenting Romney an opportunity to continue to serve as a chief foil to the former president.
But that could also sustain the backlash Romney has faced for serving as a check on Trump, including being heckled at the airport, narrowly avoiding censure by the state GOP and becoming an insult that other Republicans use to slam their rivals as suspect: “A Mitt Romney Republican.”
Romney said he didn’t know if the prospect of Trump becoming the Republican presidential nominee was something that would spur him to run for reelection or stay out. But he said it was among the things he would be weighing, along with personal considerations regarding his wife, Ann Romney, and family, and his goals for what he wants to accomplish in the Senate.
“We’ll look and see what happens in the rest of the Republican landscape and the national landscape, the presidential race and the other Senate races,” he said. “There is just a lot of elements that I will ultimately take into account. But I haven’t begun that process yet.”
Romney has earned a reputation for bipartisanship, from his role helping broker a sweeping 2021 infrastructure law with Democrats to his being one of only three Republicans to vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. He helped negotiate legislation to protect same-sex marriages in December by demanding language ensuring that the rights of religious institutions would not be affected. And he joined 14 other Republican senators in supporting a sweeping gun control measure last summer in the wake of mass shootings.
“I didn’t come to the Senate to just fight and lose,” Romney said. “I came to actually fight and win. And I fell in with a group of Republicans and some Democrats who felt the same way and wanted to work together on issues of significance for the country and for our respective states.”
But what garnered Romney heavy booing two years ago and a near censure from the Utah GOP was his vote in 2020 that made him the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president of his own party in an impeachment trial. Romney voted to convict Trump on House charges that he had abused his power by urging the president of Ukraine to investigate then-candidate Biden. He voted to acquit on a separate charge that Trump had obstructed the impeachment investigation.
Romney did it again in the weeks after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, becoming one of seven Republicans to vote to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection.
Stan Lockhart, a former chair of the Utah Republican Party, said that while Romney’s votes in the impeachment trials drew a “huge negative outpouring,” he thinks that, nearly two years later, some of the support for Trump has softened and the hostility has “mellowed.”
“I think there are people today that were not big fans of Mitt Romney after that impeachment vote who like him better today,” Lockhart said.
Romney said he doesn’t have a measure of whether the backlash has eased, but said he was following an oath he took “to apply impartial justice.”
“People elect you and then you follow your conscience,” he said. “It would be sad if people who got elected to office tried to calculate their decisions based upon how popular it was at home. They have to do what they feel is absolutely right and then live with the consequences of that.”
No GOP challenger has stepped forward to run against Romney, but several prominent Utah Republicans are seen as potential candidates and at least one major conservative group is looking at spending in the race.
The anti-tax group Club For Growth, which used the phrase “Mitt Romney Republican” in attack ads in 2022, said the Utah Senate race is one where its political super PAC could likely get involved, throwing heft behind a conservative challenger.
“Even if he stays, I think there’s a desire among conservatives to have a real choice in Utah,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “If somebody steps forward and is a credible candidate, we would definitely take a look at that.”
Former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who gained the national spotlight leading the House Oversight committee through aggressive investigations of Hillary Clinton, said he is considering a campaign.
“I do think about it. It’s not something I’m working on,” Chaffetz said in an interview. “It’s something I don’t think I need to decide right now and consequently I haven’t.”
He declined to say whether he thinks Romney is vulnerable but said, “I don’t think anybody should ever assume that they will continue to be there in perpetuity.”
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, a Republican and staunch Trump ally, is among those seen as a potential challenger. Reyes’ longtime political consultant Alan Crooks told the AP last year that Reyes was getting pressure to run and was well-positioned but wouldn’t say if he would launch a campaign.
The Western state allows candidates to secure a spot on the primary election ballot by collecting voter signatures — something a well-funded or popular candidate can generally do with ease — or by winning the support of 4,000 conservative-leaning delegates at the state GOP party convention.
Romney is unlikely to win the support of delegates — he didn’t in 2018 — and the impeachment votes made it worse.
“Trump is still very popular among the base,” Utah GOP Chair Carson Jorgensen said. “Many Republicans felt it was a waste of time and taxpayer dollars to vote for impeachment.”
In a primary election, where a larger pool of more moderate and independent Republicans cast ballots, the race is seen as Romney’s to lose.
Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, had long been among the most popular figures in Utah by the time he moved to the state after his unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign.
A Brigham Young University graduate, Romney was brought on to help the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, turning the games that had been overshadowed by a bribery scandal into a successful showcase for the small Western state. As the Republican presidential nominee a decade later, he became the most visible member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a faith to which more than half of Utah residents belong.
The church’s culture of decorum made the state a place where Trump, with his brazen personality and comments about women and people of color, initially received a chilly reception, losing the state’s 2016 caucuses.
Romney that year delivered a scathing speech against Trump, deeming him a “fraud” who was unfit to be president, but later warmed to him and accepted his endorsement during his Senate campaign.
Kirk Jowers, the former chairman and general counsel of Romney’s leadership PACs who remains in touch with Romney, said he has positioned himself at the center of much of what goes on in Washington and probably feels “that he has an incredibly important role to play in our state’s and our country’s and his party’s affairs.”
“I think it would be incredibly difficult for him to walk away from that role as things stand right now,” Jowers said.
Romney said he found it “fun” to get things passed in Washington but said he doesn’t “understand someone who just wants to stay in the Senate.”
“I had a life before I came here, and I’ll have a life after I go,” Romney said. “And I came to actually do things and I’ve been part of a group that allowed me to do that.”
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Only in America, it seems, can border patrol agents be cleared of breaking any laws but still be punished, while those entering the country illegally mostly escape punishment.
President Biden, then-press secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas all rushed to judgment when they saw a video of Texas Border Patrol agents last September herding Haitians attempting to enter the country without authorization.
Biden had threatened the agents, saying they would "pay" for their actions. They have paid in lost time on the job, the smearing of their characters, and probably an end to their careers. It is the administration that should pay. One hopes the agents will find a lawyer who sues them for slander.
In a 511-page report (only the government requires so many words to explain the obvious), Customs and Border Protection said the agents did not whip the migrants, who managed to get across the border anyway, but added they are still guilty of "unprofessional conduct," including using "unnecessary force on Haitians."
Apparently some of the agents used bad language while trying to turn the people back. Shocking, I know. Were they supposed to say: "Would you pretty please turn around and go back to your country?"
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined other Republicans in calling on President Biden and others to apologize to the four agents they falsely accused. Good luck with that. Being a high government official means never having to say you're sorry. Paxton said instead of being punished, the agents "should be rewarded."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to do the job the Biden administration has so far refused to do by sending migrants who cross into his state back to an established crossing point where they can be processed. The administration opposes the move and is suing Texas to try and stop it.
Yes, I understand that immigration is the constitutional responsibility of the federal government, but what's a governor to do when his state is being overrun by migrants, some of whom they say are destroying private property and committing other crimes, including rape and murder?
In Richmond, Va., two men in the country illegally were arrested prior to what authorities say was a plot to conduct an act of terrorism on July 4. Someone heard something and said something, preventing what might have been a tragedy had the men been able to proceed with their alleged plot. One of the men reportedly had been deported twice before.
If Republicans achieve a majority in the House and Senate in the November election, their top priority must be securing the border and restoring a legal process for those seeking to enter the country. President Biden is likely to veto any legislation passed by Republicans to achieve that goal, but if there are enough Republicans in Congress, his veto can be overridden.
It isn't just those breaking our laws to get here that is a continuing problem, but also the large amounts of the deadly drug fentanyl coming in.
Fentanyl ranks No. 1 on the list of biggest killers of 18- to 45-year-olds in the United States. And it is about the number of desperate people promised a better life by the cartels and human traffickers who have died on their dangerous journey.
All the administration has said is "don't come," which is like telling a child not to raid the cookie jar. Secretary Mayorkas has repeatedly made the ludicrous claim that the border is closed. He should be impeached for lying and not enforcing the law, or maybe bring back the ancient whiplash form of punishment and apply it to high government officials. Just kidding.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE: BMA; BYMA: BMA) ("Banco Macro" or "BMA" or the "Bank") announced today its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 ("1Q22"). All figures are in Argentine pesos (Ps.) and have been restated in terms of the measuring unit current at the end of the reporting period. As of 1Q20, the Bank began reporting results applying Hyperinflation Accounting, in accordance with IFRS IAS 29 as established by the Central Bank. For ease of comparison, figures of previous quarters of 2021 have been restated applying IAS 29 to reflect the accumulated effect of the inflation adjustment for each period through March 31, 2022.
Summary
- The Bank's net income totaled Ps.6 billion in 1Q22. This result was 51% lower than the result posted in 4Q21 but 77% higher than the result registered in 1Q21. In 1Q22, the annualized return on average equity ("ROAE") and the annualized return on average assets ("ROAA") were 9% and 2.2%, respectively. Total comprehensive income was Ps.5.4 billion, 56% lower than in 4Q21 but 26% higher than a year ago.
- In 1Q22 Operating Income (after G&A and personnel expenses) totaled Ps.36.6 billion, 41% or Ps.10.6 billion higher than in 4Q21 and 24% or Ps.7.2 billion higher than the same period of last year.
- In 1Q22, Banco Macro's financing to the private sector decreased 8% or Ps.33.3 billion quarter over quarter ("QoQ") totaling Ps.371.8 billion and decreased 8% or Ps.30.5 billion year over year ("YoY").
- In 1Q22, Banco Macro's total deposits decreased 1% or Ps.5.9 billion QoQ, totaling Ps.677.5billion and representing 79% of the Bank's total liabilities. Private sector deposits decreased 3% or Ps.19.2 billion QoQ.
- Banco Macro continued showing a strong solvency ratio, with an excess capital of Ps.236.6 billion, 38.5% regulatory capital ratio – Basel III and 33.7% Tier 1 Ratio. In addition, the Bank's liquid assets remained at an adequate level, reaching 93% of its total deposits in 1Q22.
- In 1Q22, the Bank's non-performing to total financing ratio was 1.64% and the coverage ratio reached 163.2%.
1Q22 Earnings Release Conference Call
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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Bucks vs. Bulls: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - April 5
Zach LaVine and the Chicago Bulls (38-41) go up against the Milwaukee Bucks (57-22) at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The contest will tip off at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN, BSWI, and NBCS-CHI.
You can take a look at odds, spreads, over/unders and more across multiple sportsbooks for the Bucks vs. Bulls matchup in this article.
Bucks vs. Bulls Game Info
- Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN, BSWI, and NBCS-CHI
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue: Fiserv Forum
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Bucks vs. Bulls Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Here's a look at the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup available at different sportsbooks.
Bucks vs. Bulls Betting Trends
- The Bucks outscore opponents by 4.1 points per game (scoring 117.3 points per game to rank sixth in the league while giving up 113.2 per contest to rank 14th in the NBA) and have a +324 scoring differential overall.
- The Bulls' +94 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 1.2 points per game) is a result of putting up 113.5 points per game (18th in NBA) while giving up 112.3 per outing (seventh in league).
- These teams average a combined 230.8 points per game, 0.3 more points than this matchup's over/under.
- These teams surrender a combined 225.5 points per game, five fewer points than this contest's over/under.
- Milwaukee has covered 43 times in 79 games with a spread this season.
- Chicago is 39-39-1 ATS this season.
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were higher Wednesday after reports on key measures of China manufacturing showed a strong recovery after anti-virus controls were lifted late last year.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 3.3% and Shanghai gained 0.9%.
Purchasing managers’ indexes issued by a business magazine, Caixin, and the official China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing showed gains in production, exports and new orders.
Business activity is recovering after the ruling Communist Party ended stringent anti-virus restrictions in early December. That followed a slump in activity that dragged last year’s economic growth to 3%, its second-lowest level since at least the 1970s.
That was good news in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng gained more than 700 points to 20,486.79.
Hong Kong's own outlook has improved as it also has relaxed pandemic precautions. The territory's chief executive, John Lee, announced Tuesday t hat masks will no longer be required both outdoors and indoors, but some high-risk areas including hospitals and elderly homes can still require their use.
The Shanghai Composite added 28 points to 3,308.53. South Korean markets were closed for a national holiday.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 picked up 0.3% to 27,523.17. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.1% to 7,263.10.
Wall Street closed out a frigid February with more losses on Tuesday. The S&P 500 lost 0.3%, locking in a loss of 2.6% for the month and closing at 3,970.15. The Dow fell 0.7% to 32,656.70 while the Nasdaq edged 0.1% lower to 11,455.54. Both also sank over the month.
Investors are keeping an eye on the last of the earnings reports for this season. Several big-name retailers are still on the schedule for this week.
“The consumer and inflation are in focus over the next few days. After last week’s drubbing among retail stocks, the worst since June last year, some upbeat earnings results from Target should buoy the group,” said Brian Overby, senior market strategist at Ally, while warning that more volatility may be in store later this week.
After a strong start to the year driven by hopes inflation is abating, Wall Street shifted into reverse in February. A stream of data showed inflation and the overall economy are remaining more resilient than expected. That’s forced investors to raise their forecasts for how high the Federal Reserve will take interest rates and how long it will keep them there.
High rates can drive down inflation, but they also raise the risk of a recession down the line because they hurt the economy. They also drag on prices for stocks and other investments.
Heightened expectations for rates sent yields jumping in the bond market Tuesday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury held steady at 3.92%. It helps set rates for mortgages and other loans that shape the economy’s health, and still near its highest level since November. The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for Fed action, ticked up to 4.81% from 4.78%. It’s near its highest level since 2007.
Reports on the economy released Tuesday showed some slight cracks. One said that confidence among U.S. consumers fell in February. Another said that manufacturing in the Chicago region weakened by more than expected.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude added 48 cents to $77.53 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international pricing standard, rose $0.52 to $83.97 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched up to $136.37 Japanese yen from $136.20 yen. The euro rose to $1.0596 from $1.0583. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/asian-shares-oil-advance-on-strong-china-factory-17812380.php | 2023-03-01 06:59:49 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/asian-shares-oil-advance-on-strong-china-factory-17812380.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — A worldwide swoon for financial markets is carrying over to Wall Street, and stocks are slipping further. The S&P 500 was 0.5% lower in early trading Wednesday, a day after dropping 1.1% as the U.S. government creeps closer to a possibly disastrous default on its debt. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq composite also fell. Other markets around the world were hit even harder as discouraging figures piled up on the economy. Kohl’s jumped 15% after reporting a surprise profit for its latest quarter, helped in part by momentum at its Sephora beauty shops.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
U.S. markets followed global stock markets lower early Wednesday as the U.S. government crept closer to a catastrophic debt default.
Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined more than 0.3%.
The longstanding Washington debate over the size and scope of the federal government now has just days to be resolved, with the Treasury Department saying the government risks running out of cash to pay its bills next week. Negotiators are expected to convene Wednesday for another round of talks as frustration mounts.
The political standoff is tipping the country closer to a crisis, roiling financial markets and threatening the global economy. Anxious retirees and social service groups are among those making default contingency plans.
Failure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, now at $31 trillion, would risk a potentially chaotic federal default, almost certain to inflict economic turmoil at home and abroad.
Republicans in Washington are pressing for cuts in aid to the poor and other spending in exchange for agreeing to raise the amount the government can borrow. President Joe Biden has proposed a mix of cuts and higher taxes on the richest Americans, which Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has rejected.
Without an agreement, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the government will run out of cash to pay bills around June 1.
Market prices of Treasury debt that is due to be paid around the date of a possible default have fallen due to uncertainty about payment.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, or the difference between the market price and the payout at maturity, continued to tick down, falling to 3.67% from 3.70% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury slipped to 4.28% from 4.33%.
Investors already were worried about slowing global economic growth following interest rate hikes in the United States, Europe and Asia to rein in surging inflation. Three high-profile bank failures in the U.S. and one in Switzerland have also kept them on edge.
Manufacturing and other areas of the U.S. economy are struggling under the weight of higher rates.
At midday in Europe, London’s FTSE 100 and The CAC 40 in Paris both retreated 1.7%, while the DAX in Frankfurt lost 1.6%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.3% to 3,204.74 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo fell 0.9% to 30,682.68. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 1.6% to 19,115.93.
The Kospi in Seoul ended unchanged at 2,567.45 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost 0.6% to 7,213.80.
India’s Sensex declined 0.2% to 61,844.60. New Zealand and Bangkok gained while Singapore and Jakarta declined.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.18 to $74.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract advanced 86 cents on Tuesday to $72.91. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil, gained $1.11 to $77.95 per barrel in London. It added 85 cents the previous session to $76.84.
The dollar fell to 138.37 yen from Tuesday's 138.48 yen. The euro gained slightly to $1.0778 from $1.0776.
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index fell 1.1% on Tuesday. The Dow dropped 0.7% and the Nasdaq composite lost 1.3%.
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McDonald reported from Beijing; Ott reported from Silver Spring, Md.
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The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for exactly 75 years. But it's no ordinary clock.
It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.
On Tuesday, the clock was set at 90 seconds until midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity. From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight.
The clock isn't designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the Bulletin.
The decision to move the clock 10 seconds forward this year is largely due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation, the Bulletin said in a news release. The continuing threats posed by the climate crisis, as well as the breakdown of norms and institutions needed to reduce risks associated with biological threats like Covid-19, also played a role.
"We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality," Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin, said in the release. "It's a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government, its NATO allies and Ukraine have a multitude of channels for dialogue; we urge leaders to explore all of them to their fullest ability to turn back the Clock."
What is the Doomsday Clock?
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was a group of atomic scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Originally, it was conceived to measure nuclear threats, but in 2007 the Bulletin made the decision to include climate change in its calculations.
Over the last three-quarters of a century, the clock's time has changed according to how close the scientists believe the human race is to total destruction. Some years the time changes, and some years it doesn't.
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the experts on the Bulletin's Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 11 Nobel laureates.
Although the clock has been an effective wake-up call when it comes to reminding people about the cascading crises the planet is facing, some have questioned the 75-year-old clock's usefulness.
"It's an imperfect metaphor," Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor in the earth and environmental science department at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNN in 2022, highlighting that the clock's framing combines different types of risk that have different characteristics and occur in different timescales. Still, he adds it "remains an important rhetorical device that reminds us, year after year, of the tenuousness of our current existence on this planet."
Every model has constraints, Eryn MacDonald, analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Security Program, told CNN in 2022, adding that the Bulletin has made thoughtful decisions each year on how to get the people's attention about existential threats and the required action.
"While I wish we could go back to talking about minutes to midnight instead of seconds, unfortunately that no longer reflects reality," she said.
What happens if the clock reaches midnight?
The clock has never reached midnight, and Bronson hopes it never will.
"When the clock is at midnight, that means there's been some sort of nuclear exchange or catastrophic climate change that's wiped out humanity," she said. "We never really want to get there and we won't know it when we do."
How accurate is the clock?
The clock's time isn't meant to measure threats, but rather to spark conversation and encourage public engagement in scientific topics like climate change and nuclear disarmament.
If the clock is able to do that, then Bronson views it as a success.
When a new time is set on the clock, people listen, she said. At the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, UK, in 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson cited the Doomsday Clock when talking about the climate crisis the world is facing, Bronson noted.
Bronson said she hopes people will discuss whether they agree with the Bulletin's decision and have fruitful talks about what the driving forces of the change are.
Moving the clock back with bold, concrete actions is still possible. In fact, the hand moved the farthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 minutes before the hour — in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush's administration signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Soviet Union. In 2016, the clock was at three minutes before midnight as a result of the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord.
What can an individual do to turn back time on the clock?
"We at the Bulletin believe that because humans created these threats, we can reduce them," Bronson said. "But doing so is not easy, nor has it ever been. And it requires serious work and global engagement at all levels of society."
Don't underestimate the power of talking about these important issues with your peers, Bronson said.
"You might not feel it because you're not doing anything, but we know that public engagement moves (a) leader to do things," she said.
To make a positive impact on climate change, look at your daily habits and see if there are small changes you can make in your life such as how often you walk versus drive and how your home is heated, Bronson explained.
Eating seasonally and locally, reducing food waste, and recycling properly are other ways to help mitigate, or deal with the effects of, the climate crisis.
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ANTIOCH, Calif. (KRON) — The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office released a report Friday on the 2021 in-custody death of 33-year-old Arturo Gomez in Antioch. Prosecutors concluded that Antioch Police Department officers who physically restrained Gomez committed no wrongdoing and will not face charges.
The report was publicly released as part of a county protocol for incidents when civilians are shot or die during an encounter with law enforcement. The District Attorney’s Office conducts its own independent investigation into law enforcement fatal incidents.
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Letters to the Editor: Steve Garvey is an ideal Republican to run for senator. That isn’t a compliment
To the editor: Considering the dumbing down of America in our current political climate, I shouldn’t be surprised that former Dodger great Steve Garvey may run for U.S. senator from California as a Republican.
After all, Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) remains in Congress, Herschel Walker came perilously close to becoming a senator from Georgia, and Donald Trump remains the solid front-runner for the Republican nomination for president.
So what if Garvey has a few peccadilloes in his past? It seems that unsavoriness is now almost a prerequisite in running for office. Remarkably, Trump’s criminal investigations seem to make him ever more appealing to many voters. More alarming still is that few seem to care.
Garvey could be a shoo-in in this environment.
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To the editor: So Garvey is still around and now, at age 74, he wants to dip his glove into politics with a focus on quality-of-life issues, such as the cost of living and public safety?
Haven’t we already seen what can happen when we elect celebrities to office, or even those people who just want to be elected to become celebrities, especially in their 70s?
As a Republican, I can’t see how Garvey could possibly win an election in California.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the availability of a draft guidance aimed at increasing the amount of safety information the agency has about the dietary supplement marketplace by providing the industry an opportunity to submit late new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications.
The FDA wants consumers who use dietary supplements to know that today's draft guidance, if finalized, will advise the dietary supplement industry that the agency intends to exercise enforcement discretion, for a limited time and in limited circumstances, to encourage manufacturers and distributors to correct any past failures to submit a required NDI notification. By providing industry with an opportunity to correct past failures to submit required safety information, the FDA can gain more safety information about the dietary supplement marketplace and better protect public health.
"We remain committed to a flexible framework for dietary supplements that ensures the safety of these products for consumers," said Cara Welch, Ph.D., director of the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs in the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). "The resulting notifications the agency receives through this period of enforcement discretion will help increase the amount of safety information we have about NDI-containing dietary supplements in the marketplace."
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) requires manufacturers and distributors who wish to market a dietary supplement containing an NDI to notify the FDA before marketing, unless a legal exception applies. The notification must contain the safety information that a manufacturer relied upon to conclude the dietary supplement containing the NDI is reasonably expected to be safe. The NDI notification process is the FDA's only chance to evaluate the safety of a dietary supplement before it becomes available to consumers. For dietary supplements that do not contain an NDI, the law does not require manufacturers to submit safety information to the FDA before marketing. The FDA is aware that in the more than 27 years since the requirement was established, some dietary supplement firms have marketed products for which a premarket NDI notification was required, but never submitted.
The enforcement discretion policy proposed in this draft guidance relates solely to the failure to submit an NDI notification. For example, it would not extend to NDI-containing dietary supplements that are adulterated for safety reasons or that violate any other regulatory requirements that pertain to dietary supplements. This temporary policy also should help facilitate enforcement actions against those that remain out of compliance with the NDI notification requirements after the enforcement discretion period ends.
In a February 2019 statement about new efforts to strengthen the regulation of dietary supplements through modernization and reform, the FDA emphasized the need to ensure that our regulatory framework is flexible yet comprehensive enough to effectively evaluate product safety, while promoting innovation. The FDA also stated that fostering the submission of NDI notifications would be key to this effort. This draft guidance is a critical first step toward encouraging those submissions.
If the draft guidance is finalized without change, the enforcement discretion period to submit a late notification would start when the guidance is published, would last 180 days, and would apply only to products on the market when the Federal Register notice announcing the draft guidance was published. Along with this draft guidance, the FDA is also developing a new submission type through the CFSAN Online Submission Module to provide a dedicated pathway for stakeholders to electronically submit their late notifications.
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Following court intervention, state regulators have finally acted after more than a decade on an application for an air-pollution permit for an oil and gas wastewater management facility north of Parachute, but now activist groups say the new permit allows for too much pollution.
WildEarth Guardians has filed a petition, and the Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Valley Citizens Alliance have filed a second one, with the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the adequacy of the pollution controls required by the permit issued by the state Air Pollution Control Division for the facility north of Parachute.
The facility includes dozens of tanks, five storage ponds, a water evaporation system and equipment for burning off pollutants. WildEarth Guardians says the new permit authorizes the release of hundreds of tons of volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants per year, primarily through evaporation.
Williams Production RMT had filed in 2009 for a “Title V” major source operating permit for the facility, now owned by Terra Energy Partners. In September, 9th Judicial District Court Judge Anne Norrdin ruled that the state violated state law by failing to approve or deny the permit application within 18 months of its filing.
While declining to set a firm deadline, Norrdin ordered the state to act “without additional delay” on the permit, ruling in a lawsuit brought by WildEarth Guardians. While the state had suggested it might need until as long as next April to act, it issued the permit Oct. 1, an accelerated timeline made possible in part by the EPA not objecting to it.
In its petition to the EPA, however, WildEarth Guardians argues that the state failed to properly regulate air pollution from evaporation ponds at the facility. The state improperly characterized the emissions as “fugitive,” which allows Terra Energy Partners to avoid more stringent permitting requirements, Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians said in an email.
According to the petition, under pertinent Clean Air Act regulations, fugitive emissions are defined as “emissions which could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening.” WildEarth Guardians says that floating covers and gas collection systems can be used to collect emissions from waste ponds, pass them through a stack or functionally equivalent opening, and control emissions.
According to its petition, the state defends its permit decision based on the fact that the holding pond system was determined to be a fugitive emissions source under the original construction permit, the system isn’t being modified, and no new federal or state standards require covers for wastewater ponds.
“This rationale does not comport with applicable requirements under the Clean Air Act,” the petition says.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Valley Citizens Alliance argue in part that the state permit assumes, without adequate justification, that flares will destroy 95% of pollution from the storage tanks, but doesn’t require testing of the flares to ensure that.
“Making sure industry and state agencies are following air quality regulations through tests and inspections is not just a paperwork exercise,” Leslie Robinson, chair of the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance, said in a news release. “The health of our community, our air, and our water is at stake.”
The EPA is reviewing the petitions and is required to respond to them. EPA spokeswoman Sara Loiacono said that if the EPA response grants any of the issues raised in the petition, that might require the state to put any changes to the permit out for more public notice and comment and an additional EPA review period.
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McDonald’s said Monday that it has started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people, making it the latest major Western corporation to exit Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February.
The fast food giant pointed to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, saying holding on to its business in Russia “is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald’s values.”
The Chicago-based company announced in early March that it was temporarily closing its stores in Russia but would continue to pay employees. On Monday, it said it would seek to have a Russian buyer hire those workers and pay them until the sale closes. It did not identify a prospective buyer.
CEO Chris Kempczinski said the “dedication and loyalty to McDonald’s” of employees and hundreds of Russian suppliers made it a difficult decision to leave.
“However, we have a commitment to our global community and must remain steadfast in our values,” Kempczinski said in a statement, “and our commitment to our values means that we can no longer keep the arches shining there.”
As it tries to sell its restaurants, McDonald’s said it plans to start removing golden arches and other symbols and signs with the company’s name. It said it will keep its trademarks in Russia.
The first McDonald’s in Russia opened in the middle of Moscow more than three decades ago, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a powerful symbol of the easing of Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.
McDonald’s was the first American fast food restaurant to open in the Soviet Union, which would collapse in 1991. McDonald’s decision to leave comes as other American food and beverage giants including Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Starbucks have paused or closed operations in Russia in the face of Western sanctions.
Corporations from British energy giants Shell and BP to French carmaker Renault have pulled out of Russia, taking a hit to their bottom lines as they seek to sell their holdings there. Other companies have stayed at least partially, with some facing blowback.
McDonald’s said it expects to record a charge against earnings of between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion over leaving Russia.
Its restaurants in Ukraine are closed, but the company said it is continuing to pay full salaries for its employees there.
McDonald’s has more than 39,000 locations across more than 100 countries. Most are owned by franchisees — only about 5% are owned and operated by the company.
McDonald’s said exiting Russia will not change its forecast of adding a net 1,300 restaurants this year, which will contribute about 1.5% to companywide sales growth.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (AP) — President Joe Biden came before the television cameras Friday to celebrate yet another month of healthy job growth and low unemployment and the fastest pace of hiring in four decades under his watch.
“The job market,” the president declared, “is the strongest it’s been since just after World War II.”
Yet just as it often does, the subject soon turned to the rampant inflation that has emerged as the economic issue most on Americans’ minds and a leading reason for Biden’s sunken public approval ratings.
Voters have made clear in surveys that their attention is focused much more on soaring gasoline and food prices than on the plentiful availability of jobs. A year-long acceleration of prices in the aftermath of the pandemic recession — to the highest levels in four decades — has left many Americans struggling with the cost of necessities and dissatisfied with the overall economy.
On Friday, that dynamic left Biden promising to fix the economy to try to shore up public confidence and his flagging poll numbers.
“There’s no denying prices, particularly around gasoline and food, are real problems,” the president said in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he is spending the weekend. “I understand that families who are struggling probably don’t care why prices rose. They just want to bring them down.”
It was a stark illustration of the shifting political and economic landscape Biden and Democrats in Congress face as midterm elections loom. For decades, as inflation remained tame, job growth and unemployment tended to be the top economic metrics by which voters judged presidents. But now, Biden faces a new era in which, for most Americans, chronically high inflation has eclipsed a consistently strong job market.
The shift shows how the seemingly timeless truths of American politics can become reshaped by the lived-in realities of voters in which old priorities fade and new fears emerge.
At just 3.6%, the unemployment rate is near a half-century low, and on Friday the government reported that employers added 390,000 more jobs in May — roughly double the pre-pandemic pace. Businesses advertised more than 11 million open jobs in April, down only slightly from a record high in March.
Yet Americans are gloomy about the economic outlook and Biden’s record. Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research conducted in mid-May.
One reason for the disconnect is that people perceive inflation and job gains in very different ways, Felicia Wong, president of the liberal Roosevelt Institute, said during a webinar this week.
“People attribute better jobs and higher wages to their own individualized actions,” said Wong, who served on the Biden-Harris transition team. “ ‘I did a good job. I got a raise.’ I don’t think that most people think about a strong labor market enabled by and driven by policy choices. In contrast, people definitely blame someone else when gas prices go up, when food prices go up.”
Higher inflation, partly stemming from supply chain snarls and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is causing hardships for millions of Americans, particularly lower-income and Black and Hispanic households, which spend a disproportionate share of their income on gas, rent and food.
Wages have been rising, but not as fast as prices, thereby eroding most Americans’ spending power. As a result, more people say they’re struggling to pay their weekly bills, according to the Census Bureau’s most recent Household Pulse Survey.
Even with a solid job market, 16 million more households over the past year said they found it “somewhat” or “very” difficult to pay their expenses, the survey found in early May. More households say they’re getting by with credit cards, spending down their savings or borrowing from others.
The financial strain has grown even as the survey showed a 78% decline in households relying on unemployment benefits — a sign that job growth has been insufficient to offset the problems caused by inflation.
Fear of inflation began to build more than a year ago, according to surveys of the likely electorate by the Republican polling firm Echelon Insights. Biden and White House aides initially downplayed the risk that their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package could spark higher inflation. They focused instead on the muscular job growth that followed the government spending.
Patrick Ruffini, a partner at Echelon Insights, said that high inflation has caused more voters to favor reductions in government spending and greater oil and gas production — policies favored by Republican lawmakers. Even if inflation falls from current levels, Biden would still likely face the same kind of hostile midterm environment his predecessors endured in 2014 and 2018. At the same time, his past claims that inflation would fade have hurt his credibility.
“For a long time, the Biden administration was not even seeming to acknowledge the problem,” Ruffini said.
The president has repeatedly called inflation a “top priority.” Yet he’s also said that the responsibility for reducing it rests first and foremost with the Federal Reserve. That messaging may work with economists, Ruffini suggested, but voters want to see “political leadership.”
It’s very different from what Biden and his economic team expected when they took office in January 2021. Back then, vaccines weren’t yet being rolled out. And the main worry among Biden and economic officials, such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, was that the economy would grind through another slow jobs recovery, similar to what occurred after the 2008 Great Recession. It took more than six years from the start of that downturn to recover all the lost jobs.
“We want to get something economists call ‘full employment,’ ” Biden said at a Cleveland community college in May 2021. “Instead of workers competing with each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employees to compete with each other to attract work.”
The administration achieved that goal. After 22 million jobs were shed in just early 2020, the height of the pandemic, the economy has recovered all but 800,000. It took two years — rather than six — for employment to essentially rebound.
Biden’s pandemic relief package contributed to that outcome, economists say. It sharply boosted demand through a round of $1,400 stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits and $300-a-month child tax credit payments for most parents.
But that level of spending also fueled inflation, as even some economists who have served in Democratic administrations — including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and President Barack Obama’s top adviser, Jason Furman — warned that it might.
Consumer prices jumped 8.3% in April compared with a year earlier, down slightly from March but still near the worst in 40 years. Gas prices have skyrocketed 44% in the past year and are still rising. Groceries are 11% more expensive.
Ben Harris, the assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy, said Thursday on the Roosevelt Institute webinar that it is “frustrating” for the Biden administration because the alternative, without their financial aid package, would likely have been much worse: Slower job growth and more economic pain for families.
“We can’t observe the counterfactual, but the counterfactual is really ugly,” Harris said. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/bidens-challenge-inflation-overshadows-robust-job-gains/ | 2022-06-04 00:15:23 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/bidens-challenge-inflation-overshadows-robust-job-gains/ |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Freddie Freeman singled three times and drove in two runs, Julio Urías pitched five shutout innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory.
Trea Turner doubled and had an RBI for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who opened a 10-day, 10-game road trip.
The Phillies continued to struggle without slugger Bryce Harper, who missed his fifth straight game after having a platelet-rich plasma injection in his injured right elbow on Sunday.
“It’s different,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Philadelphia’s offense. “You’re talking about an MVP that’s not in the lineup. (But) we’re not going to feel sorry for those guys. I’m sure he’s going to be in there at some point in time soon. So we’re not apologizing for Bryce Harper not being in the lineup.”
Philadelphia lost for the fourth time in the last five and avoided its third shutout defeat over that stretch when J.T. Realmuto hit an RBI double with two outs in the ninth after Kyle Schwarber doubled just in front of Realmuto.
“Maybe it gets them going,” Philadelphia manager Joe Girardi said.
The RBI snapped a 21-inning scoreless skid for the Phillies, who have totaled just four runs in four games since returning home Tuesday after winning five of seven on a West Coast trip.
Girardi acknowledged that pitchers might pitch more aggressively to hitters without Harper waiting to bat but didn’t think the Phillies were putting extra pressure on themselves without their two-time MVP.
“Every at-bat when you’re in the big leagues is a big at-bat,” he said.
Asked when Harper might be back, Girardi said, “We’ll see about tomorrow.”
The Dodgers got on the board in the first on Justin Turner’s RBI groundout off Ranger Suarez (4-2) and made it 3-0 in the second on Freeman’s two-out, two-run single to center just past the glove of Suarez.
“Do everything you possibly can to get those guys in,” Freeman said.
Suarez lasted just three innings, allowing three runs on five hits with five strikeouts and two walks.
“Just not throwing strikes and they waited him out,” Girardi said.
Urías (3-3) gave up two hits and struck out five with no walks. Craig Kimbrel came on with two outs and Realmuto on second in the ninth. After a bunt single by Johan Camargo, Kimbrel struck out Odúbel Herrera to halt Philadelphia’s rally attempt for his eighth save in as many tries.
“We played a really good baseball game,” Roberts said.
Schwarber had a pair of doubles for the Phillies, whose bats have taken a complete turn since the last time they met the Dodgers a week ago. The Phillies couldn’t complete a four-game sweep at Los Angeles without Harper in the lineup on Sunday, but accumulated 33 runs on 45 hits, including 20 for extra bases, while taking three of four from the Dodgers from May 12-15.
STILL SITTING
Harper originally was projected to return to the lineup against San Diego on Tuesday or Wednesday, but soreness in his right throwing elbow following the injection has persisted and kept him on the bench. He has been playing exclusively at designated hitter since injuring his arm on a throw from right field last month. He last played the field at Miami on April 16.
Harper is batting .305 with nine homers and 27 RBIs in 34 games.
STILL STREAKING
Turner extended his hitting streak to 12 consecutive games with a fifth-inning double. He is batting .364 with five doubles, a homer and eight RBIs during the streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Phillies: OF Mickey Moniak (broken right hand) began a rehab assignment at Single-A Clearwater on Friday. Moniak doubled and tripled in three at-bats in the first game of a doubleheader.
UP NEXT
RHP Aaron Nola (1-4, 3.64) takes the mound for Philadelphia in the second game of the three-game set Saturday night. RHP Mitch White (1-0, 4.82) will be the opener for the Dodgers.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and simple way to cover the bathtub faucet, knobs and other hard surfaces to protect users against accidental bumps, slips and scrapes," said an inventor, from Sun City, Calif., "so I invented the TUB GLOVES. My design would provide temporary protection and could help to prevent more serious injuries."
The invention provides a new set of safety accessories for bathtubs. In doing so, it protects against the hard or sharp edges of a faucet, knobs/handles and tub edge. As a result, it helps to prevent injuries caused by bumps and falls and it enhances safety and comfort. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Sacramento sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SBT-112, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) released its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report today, outlining the company's progress in 2022 toward building a more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive business across its corporate functions and portfolio of brands including Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta. The report reflects how the company is accelerating positive social and community impact, highlights its approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and shares progress toward its 2025 Commitments to "Create For All, With All."
"As a global company that reaches millions of people around the world, we have an incredible opportunity – and a great deal of responsibility – to drive positive change by working with our partners to create a more sustainable business and a more equitable industry," said Bob Martin, Gap Inc. Interim CEO and Executive Chair of the Board.
Gap Inc.'s ESG strategy is aligned to the pillars of Empowering Women, Enabling Opportunity, and Enriching Communities. Over the last year, Gap Inc. received the U.S. Department of State's 'ACE' Award in the Responsible Business Operations category for promoting human rights in its supply chain, ranked on the CDP 'A' List for Water Security, was named on the CDP Climate Supplier Engagement Leaderboard, and was included in the S&P Global Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the tenth year in a row.
Other highlights from the report include:
- Exceeding the 2022 goal by empowering over 2.4 million people to improve their access to clean water and sanitation through the USAID Gap Inc. Women + Water Alliance (since 2017)
- Over 15,000 youth have participated in Old Navy's This Way ONward program (since 2007) which fuels the next generation of leaders with the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the workplace. The program now accounts for 4% of all Old Navy entry-level employees.
- Additionally, the company increased women in STEM positions from 24% to 28% and achieved modest gains in representation of people of color across its U.S. based employee population.
To view the full ESG Report, click here. For in-depth information about the company's efforts to be a force for good for people and the planet, please visit gapinc.com/sustainability.
The report covers Gap Inc.'s global operations for fiscal 2022, which ended on January 28, 2023, unless otherwise noted. Our ESG Report and strategy are guided by Gap Inc.'s Material Topics (defined by our latest assessment completed in March 2023). We follow several ESG standards and prepared the report in reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and in alignment with the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Gap Inc. is committed to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Global Compact (UNGC) Ten Principles; this report serves as our Communication on Progress.
About Gap Inc.
Gap Inc., a collection of purpose-led lifestyle brands, is the largest American specialty apparel company offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands. The company uses omni-channel capabilities to bridge the digital world and physical stores to further enhance its shopping experience. Gap Inc. is guided by its purpose, Inclusive, by Design, and takes pride in creating products and experiences its customers love while doing right by its employees, communities, and planet. Gap Inc. products are available for purchase worldwide through company-operated stores, franchise stores, and e-commerce sites. Fiscal year 2022 net sales were $15.6 billion. For more information, please visit www.gapinc.com.
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The 18-year-old suspected of targeting and fatally shooting 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, wrote in what are believed to be his online journals that he learned how to illegally modify his rifle by watching YouTube videos.
The suspect appeared to link to the videos in Discord chat logs, and the videos were still available on YouTube as of Thursday evening — five days after the shooting.
Some of the videos appear to violate YouTube’s community guidelines banning videos that show how to install gun accessories like high-capacity magazines.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With record-high temperatures across the state this year, Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) announced households eligible for the Texas Homeowner Assistance Program (TXHAF) can now apply for help paying past due and future utility payments. Additionally, income-qualifying households will have more time to stabilize their finances with future mortgage payments through the program.
"The State of Texas continues working to ensure all Texans have the opportunity to lead healthy and successful lives in our state, and through the Texas Homeowner Assistance Program, we are helping keep families in their homes, the lights on, and the water running," said Governor Abbott. "Thank you to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs for working tirelessly to support Texans who have experienced financial restraints in recent years. I encourage Texans who qualify for assistance to apply for this program to receive help with past due and future utility payments."
Each household can receive up to $65,000 in total assistance, provided in the form of a grant. To be eligible, homeowners must meet the following criteria:
- Experienced a qualified financial hardship due to the pandemic after January 21, 2020, such as lost income or increased expenses
- Are behind on one or more payments: mortgage loans, property taxes, property insurance, homeowner/condo association fees, and/or utility bills
- Have a household income at or below 100% Area Median Income (AMI) or 100% of the median income for the United States, whichever is greater
- Own and occupy a home in Texas as a primary residence
Since its launch in March, TXHAF has disbursed more than $175M and assisted more than 18,000 unique households. Full program details, an eligibility screener, program dashboard, online application and more are available at TexasHomeownerAssistance.com. For questions, TXHAF has toll-free call center available Mon.- Fri., 8 a.m.- 6 p.m. by calling 833-651-3874. Help is available in multiple languages.
TXHAF can cover the past-due balance and up to three months of future payments for electricity, natural gas, propane, water and wastewater utility services, up to a maximum of $10,000. In addition to the overall TXHAF eligibility criteria, households must have a past-due utility bill dated within the last 45 days and must own and occupy the residence at the address listed on the past-due utility bill.
Qualifying households can apply for utility bill assistance regardless of whether or not they apply for mortgage relief or property charge help. If approved, payments will be made directly to the utility vendor on the applicant's behalf in the form of one lump sum. The $10,000 maximum utility assistance is included in the $65,000 per household cap.
Households with no income or a debt-to-income ratio greater than 55% who are unable to continue making monthly mortgage payments can now qualify for mortgage reinstatement plus up to three months of future payments, up to the household maximum of $65,000.
"We recognize many variables can affect one's ability to keep up with home-related expenses. By adding utility bill assistance and future mortgage payments, we can give them time to seek out housing counseling or legal aid services, work with their loan servicer to modify their loan terms, or even find ways to bolster their income." Bobby Wilkinson, Executive Director of TDHCA said. "It allows us to better meet people's unique needs."
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is committed to expanding fair housing choice and opportunities for Texans through the administration and funding of affordable housing and homeownership opportunities, weatherization, and community-based services with the help of for-profits, nonprofits, and local governments. For more information about fair housing, funding opportunities, or services in your area, please visit www.tdhca.state.tx.us or the Learn about Fair Housing in Texas page.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A New Mexico high school coach who exchanged sexually explicit photos with teenage girls, has taken a plea deal. Pecos High School basketball coach Joshua Rico initially denied the allegations, that he sent and received nude photos of at least four girls between 14 and 16 years old.
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DENVER (KDVR) — A rescue mission for a musician and his son has turned into a recovery mission after the pair went missing while kayaking in Arkansas, according to the band’s Twitter.
Chuck Morris of the band Lotus and his son Charley went kayaking on Beaver Lake in Arkansas on March 16 and haven’t been seen since. The family, from Kansas City, was in Arkansas for a spring break vacation.
The band said that a K-9 team has found a probable location on the lake, but the recovery efforts might take some time due to the water temperature, weather and the depth of the lake. Sonar is also being used as part of the search.
“It’s just something you never expect to hear,” said bandmate Luke Miller. “We all hope for the best, but it didn’t work out.”
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office said the kayaking trip started around 11 a.m. on March 16. Chuck and Charley were supposed to return around 2 p.m., but when it got to 4 p.m. with no sign of them, police were called and began searching.
Two kayaks and a coat were found in the water.
Lotus is a jam, electronica house band formed out of Philadelphia and Denver. Chuck was a percussionist for Lotus and had just finished a five-week tour with the band.
According to the band’s website, their next tour date was set for March 31 in Florida. The band has not said whether they plan to cancel or reschedule the date.
While crews continue to look for the father and son, Lotus said they plan to celebrate Chuck and Charley’s lives.
“When I do think about him, it just breaks me up,” said Miller. “We’ll still be playing in his honor. He wouldn’t want us to stop.”
“While we are deeply grieving, we plan to celebrate Chuck and Charley’s lives, our memories with them, and what they meant to so many people,” said Lotus on Twitter.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help support the family’s financial needs.
“My hope is that my boys are safe and at peace. I feel the prayers and I feel the love from afar. I’m so appreciative of the love and the light that I saw and I see in my husband and son is seen by people across the world,” said mom and wife Jennifer Thompson to Nexstar’s KNWA. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/lotus-band-member-son-still-missing-after-kayaking-in-arkansas/ | 2023-03-22 17:15:36 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/lotus-band-member-son-still-missing-after-kayaking-in-arkansas/ |
Most people know something is wrong in the world but cannot really figure out what. The reason for the current panic among western elites is that the Ukraine project isn’t going as planned. Instead of Russia being bled on the battlefield, it is Ukraine and the West that bleed. Instead of the Russian economy crashing resulting in Putin’s replacement by a Davos-compatible leader, it is the West’s economy that is crashing. Instead of Russia being isolated, it is the West that is being increasingly isolated. Nothing is working, and to top it all off, Europe has given the Russians the means and motive to destroy the European economy by partly shutting down its industry. Without Russian resources, there is no European industry, and without industry, there are no taxes for paying for unemployment benefits, pensions, all the refugees, and pretty much everything else which holds European societies together. The Russians now have the ability to engineer an uncontrolled crash in Europe which is not what Davos planned. An uncontrolled crash might see Davos’ heads roll, literally, and that is causing fear and panic in elite circles. The only solution for them is to move on with World War 3 and hope for the best. Fun times ahead!
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FELIKS BANEL
KIRO Newsradio’s Feliks Banel wins Northwest Regional Emmy
Jun 5, 2023, 10:36 AM
KIRO Newsradio’s Feliks Banel brought home another big award, winning an Emmy for his historical coverage with the Seattle Channel.
Banel, a long-time contributor to KIRO Newsradio with his local history segment ‘All Over the Map,’ is also a freelance producer at the Seattle Channel where he worked on “In Search of the Missing Sand Point Aviators.”
More from Feliks Banel: Gold Mines, Old Forts and other Northwest history mapped by Oregon man
Feliks won the 2023 Northwest Regional Emmy in the category of Human Interest – Short Form Content. He was also nominated for his work on CityStream: Daybreak Star Programs Powwows and New Connections.
You can watch the award-winning story above or read Feliks’ write-up on the topic here.
Lettuce all enjoy dressing up for this big event with @ChrisCashman! https://t.co/vMwbKRrILQ
— Feliks Banel (@FeliksBanel) June 3, 2023
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New Scottish law makes menstrual products free for all
LONDON (AP) — A law has taken effect in Scotland to ensure menstrual products are available free of charge to anyone who needs them.
The Scottish government said it became the first in the world to legally protect the right to access free period products when its Period Products Act came into force Monday.
Under the new law, schools, colleges and universities as well as local government bodies must make a range of period products available for free in their bathrooms. The Scottish government already invested millions of pounds since 2017 to fund free period products in educational institutions, but the law makes it a legal requirement.
A mobile phone app also helps people find the nearest place — such as the local library or community center — where they can pick up period products.
“Providing access to free period products is fundamental to equality and dignity, and removes the financial barriers to accessing them,” Scottish Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison said.
“This is more important than ever at a time when people are making difficult choices due to the cost of living crisis and we never want anyone to be in a position where they cannot access period products,” she added.
The bill, which was passed unanimously in 2020, was introduced by Scottish Parliament lawmaker Monica Lennon, who had campaigned against “period poverty” — when someone who needs sanitary products can’t afford them.
The Scottish government said its move was world-leading, with countries including South Korea and New Zealand taking similar approaches.
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BERGEN, Norway, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BerGenBio ASA (OSE: BGBIO), a clinical-stage biopharma-ceutical company developing novel, selective AXL kinase inhibitors for severe unmet medical needs, and Oslo University Hospital announced today that the first patient has been included in a study of BerGenBio's oral, highly selective AXL inhibitor, bemcentinib, as part of the EU-SolidAct trial in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
The EU-SolidAct trial (European DisCoVeRy for Solidarity: An Adaptive Pandemic and Emerging Infection Platform Trial) is part of EU-RESPONSE, a pan-European research project designed to investigate treatment options for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases.
Bemcentinib was selected by an international group of experts to be studied in the EU-SolidAct platform in up to 500 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a Phase 2b, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
Martin Olin, Chief Executive Officer of BerGenBio, commented: "COVID-19 infections and hospital admissions continues to evolve with new variants and the expected fall/winter season impact. There is a need to identify new effective therapies for hospitalized patients and bemcentinib represents a promising treatment modality for this patient population through its unique mechanism of action, blocking viral entry, stimulating the innate immune system and promoting lung tissue repair. Importantly, bemcentinib enhances the Type I interferon response, causing these cytokines to activate immune cells to fight the infection regardless of spike protein or mutation. Based on the results of our Phase 2a studies and learnings throughout the pandemic, we are eager to further study the effectiveness of bemcentinib in COVID-19 and are delighted to now have randomized the first patient in the EU-SolidAct platform."
The EU-SolidAct platform trial includes 68 clinical sites in 8 countries and is sponsored by Oslo University Hospital, Norway, in collaboration with the Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), France, and the not-for-profit intergovernmental organization European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN).
Professor Marius Trøseid, Oslo University Hospital, Chief Investigator of the EU-SolidAct trial, commented: "As new subvariants continue to evolve, it is critical to have greater treatment options in order to reduce hospital stays and halt disease progression. We're pleased to be partnering with BerGenBio in the initiation of this trial, as we look to enroll up to 500 hospitalized COVID-19 patients."
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For the EU-SolidAct:
Marius Trøseid, Chief Investigator of the EU-SolidAct trial, Senior Consultant and Professor, Oslo University Hospital
+4792440240, marius.troseid@medisin.uio.no
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Martin Olin CEO, BerGenBio ASA
ir@bergenbio.com
Rune Skeie, CFO, BerGenBio ASA
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Investor Relations / Media Relations
Graham Morrell
Graham.morrell@bergenbio.com
+1 781 686 9600
About BerGenBio ASA
BerGenBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative drugs targeting AXL as a potential cornerstone of therapy for aggressive diseases, including cancer and severe respiratory infections. The Company is focused on its proprietary lead candidate, bemcentinib, a potentially first-in-class selective AXL inhibitor in development for STK11 mutated NSCLC and COVID-19.
BerGenBio is based in Bergen, Norway, with a subsidiary in Oxford, UK. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker: BGBIO). For more information, visit www.bergenbio.com.
About Oslo University Hospital
Oslo University Hospital is a highly specialized hospital in charge of extensive national, regional and local hospital assignments. As Scandinavia's largest hospital, we carry out more than 1.2 million patient treatments each year. Oslo University Hospital is responsible for approximately 50 percent of all medical and health care research conducted at Norwegian hospitals. We have a leading role in the development of research and innovation, as well as the development of tomorrow's healthcare, precision medicine and treatment.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Franklin Financial Services Corporation (NASDAQ: FRAF), the bank holding company of F&M Trust (the Bank), reported consolidated earnings of $4.6 million ($1.05 per diluted share) for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022, compared to $5.9 million ($1.31 per diluted share) for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021, and $3.6 million ($.80 per diluted share) for the second quarter of 2022. Year-to-date consolidated 2022 net income was $11.2 million ($2.52 per diluted share) compared to $16.0 million ($3.60 per diluted share) for the same nine-month period in 2021. Net income for both the third quarter of 2021 and the year-to-date period of 2021 was enhanced by a gain on the sale of the Bank's prior headquarters building, and net income for the year-to-date period of 2021 was enhanced by a reversal of $1.9 million in the provision for loan losses.
A summary of operating results for the third quarter of 2022 and year-to-date 2022 are as follows:
- Net interest income was $14.1 million for the third quarter of 2022 compared to $11.6 million for the third quarter of 2021. The third quarter of 2021 included $1.2 million of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) interest and fees compared to $0 for the third quarter of 2022. Year-to-date, net interest income was $37.0 million (including $388 thousand of PPP interest and fees) compared to $33.3 million for the same period in 2021 (including $2.5 million of PPP interest and fees). The net interest margin increased to 3.28% for the third quarter of 2022 from 2.89% for the same quarter of the prior year. On a year-to-date comparison, the net interest margin was 2.96% for the first nine months of 2022 compared to 2.91% in 2021. The yield on earning assets increased in the third quarter 2022 versus 2021 comparison (up 0.44%) and year-over-year (up 0.06%). The year-to-date cost of interest-bearing deposits was 0.17% compared to 0.16% for 2021 while the cost of total deposits was 0.14% and 0.13% respectively in 2022 and 2021.
- Earning assets for the third quarter of 2022 averaged $1.7 billion compared to $1.6 billion for the same period in 2021, and year-to-date average earnings assets increased 9% from $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion. Year-to-date the average balance of interest-earning cash increased $72.2 million, and the investment portfolio increased $50.4 million. The average balance of the loan portfolio increased $16 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to 2021. The growth in the year-to-date average balance of the loan portfolio was negatively affected by a decrease of $22.0 million in the average balance of PPP loans over the comparative periods. The average balance of deposits for the year increased $173.2 million over the same period in 2021 with every deposit category increasing except for time deposits which decreased by 19.4% over the period.
- There was no provision for loan loss expense for the third quarter and year-to-date periods of 2022. In 2021, the provision for loan loss expense was $0 for the third quarter and a reversal of $1.9 million for the first nine months of 2021. During 2020, the allowance for loan loss was increased through the provision expense due to increased economic uncertainty stemming from the pandemic. As these risks lessened in 2021, loans reserves were released via a reversal in the provision for loan loss. Based on loan growth in 2022 and stable credit quality indicators it was determined no additional provision expense was needed during the first nine months of the year. The allowance for loan loss ratio was 1.43% of gross loans as of September 30, 2022, compared to 1.51% at December 31, 2021.
- Noninterest income totaled $3.7 million for the third quarter of 2022 compared to $6.2 million in the third quarter of 2021, a decline of $2.5 million (40.7%). This change was due primarily to a $346 thousand decrease on the gain on sale of mortgages and a one-time $1.8 million gain on the sale of the Bank's prior headquarters building in the third quarter of 2021. Year-to-date, noninterest income decreased $3.3 million (21.9%) to $11.6 million compared to $14.9 million the prior year. The change was primarily from a decrease of $1.2 million in the gains on sale of mortgages and the previously mentioned gain on the sale of the Bank's prior headquarters building.
- Noninterest expense for the third quarter of 2022 was $12.2 million compared to $11.0 million for the third quarter of 2021, an increase of 11.1%. Year-to-date, noninterest expense was $35.5 million compared to $31.3 million in 2021, an increase of 13.5%. The categories contributing to this increase were: salaries and benefits ($2.6 million), data processing ($687 thousand), net occupancy ($402 thousand) and other expense ($492 thousand). Salaries and benefits increased primarily in employee compensation due to higher staffing levels, incentive compensation and health insurance costs. The increase in data processing is related to the implementation of a Customer Relationship Management system, while net occupancy increased from expenses for new leased space for community offices. Other expenses increased due to a reversal of $636 thousand off-balance sheet liability during the second quarter of 2021.
Total assets at September 30, 2022 were $1.847 billion compared to $1.774 billion at December 31, 2021. Significant balance sheet changes since December 31, 2021, include:
- Short-term interest-earning deposits in other banks increased $21.2 million. The amortized cost basis of the investment portfolio increased $31.3 million; however, the fair value of the portfolio decreased by $37.8 million due to higher market interest rates during the nine-month period.
- The net loan portfolio increased $50.0 million during 2022 over the year-end 2021 balance. The largest increase occurred in the commercial real estate portfolio ($48.6 million) which was partially offset by a decrease of $11.1 million in non-real estate commercial loans. The Bank held $205 thousand in PPP loans at September 30, 2022, a decrease of $7.6 million since year-end 2021, and all PPP fees have been recognized.
- Deposits increased $120.6 million (7.6%) over year-end 2021, with all deposit products showing an increase except time deposits. Interest-bearing checking accounts showed the largest increase ($80.7 million – 15.8%), primarily in commercial and municipal accounts.
- Shareholders' equity decreased $48.9 million since the end of 2021. Retained earnings increased $11.2 million, net of $4.3 million in dividend payments. Accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) decreased by $54.6 million as the fair value of the investment portfolio declined during the year due to higher market interest rates. At September 30, 2022, the book value of the Corporation's common stock was $24.60 per share and the tangible book value was $22.55 per share. In December 2021, an open market repurchase plan was approved to repurchase 150,000 shares over a one-year period and 85,343 shares have been repurchased under the plan as of September 30, 2022. The Bank is considered to be well-capitalized under the regulatory guidance as of September 30, 2022.
"We are pleased to see the growth in both loans outstanding and our net interest margin (NIM) during the third quarter, that resulted in an increase in net income when looking at linked quarters. Deposit balances continued to grow, though we do expect to see the growth in deposits level off or even contract slightly," said Tim Henry, President and CEO. "As we move forward, we will be focused on our interest rate strategies to protect and enhance NIM as we expect to see deposit rates increase over the next four quarters. We are also focused on the effect that higher market interest rates are having on the accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) component of our balance sheet. Higher market interest rates have produced a negative AOCI balance which affects book capital. While the negative AOCI does not impact our regulatory capital measurements, and the Bank remains well capitalized under regulatory standards, we continue to monitor this position."
Henry continued, "The third quarter of 2022 was also noteworthy as the company completed its move to a new headquarters in Chambersburg and went live with Salesforce, both of which should bring about enhanced communication between team members to the ultimate benefit of our customers and shareholders."
On October 13, 2022, the Board of Directors of Franklin Financial Services Corporation declared a $0.32 per share regular quarterly cash dividend for the fourth quarter of 2022. This compares to a $0.32 per share regular cash dividend for the third quarter of 2022. The regular quarterly cash dividend for the fourth quarter of 2022 will be paid on November 28, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 2, 2022.
Additional information on the Corporation is available on our website at: www.franklinfin.com/Presentations.
Franklin Financial is the largest independent, locally owned and operated bank holding company headquartered in Franklin County with assets of more than $1.8 billion. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, F&M Trust, has twenty-two community banking locations in Franklin, Cumberland, Fulton and Huntingdon Counties PA, and Washington County MD. Franklin Financial stock is trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol FRAF. Please visit our website for more information, www.franklinfin.com.
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Spurs will play their first game in well over a month when they travel to Brentford on Tuesday (AEDT).
Antonio Conte's side sits fourth in the Premier League and are into the Champions League round of 16, with Milan its opponent.
Winger Kulusevski feels Spurs will return an even better side following the hiatus.
"I expect better results than the first six months of the season," Kulusevski said. "I think we can do better and we've been working, so now it's just time to show what we've been doing.
"I think we have a lot of quality players that still can make more. We have very good players and you saw that in the World Cup. Almost every player did very well.
"So I think that we would just have to stay healthy and then play like we can."
Kulusevski has six goal involvements from nine appearances this season, having been sidelined due to injury.
While a number of Kulusevki's team-mates have spent the last month or so battling it out in Qatar, Sweden's failure to qualify for the tournament means the former Juventus man has remained with Spurs.
Harry Kane was one of those at the World Cup, missing a crucial late penalty for England as they crashed out against France in the quarter-finals.
Kulusevski is looking forward to linking back up with the prolific striker Kane as Spurs look for their first silverware since winning the Carabo Cup in 2008.
"He's [Kane] had a nice break, so it was very good to see him and I can't wait to play with him," Kulusevski said.
Kulusevski says former Chelsea boss Conte, known for being a hard taskmaster, has ensured those players not at the World Cup have been rigorously put through their paces.
"He's good. He doesn't care about anything," Kulusevski added. "It doesn't matter if it's dark or if it's raining, you [have] just got to do the work and that's how it's supposed to be.
"I think that we worked a lot on pressing and I think it's important that we get better.
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How to Watch the Brewers vs. Phillies Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 18
J.T. Realmuto and the Philadelphia Phillies will square off against Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday at 6:40 PM ET, in the first game of a three-game series.
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- Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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Brewers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Brewers have hit 101 homers this season, which ranks 21st in the league.
- Milwaukee ranks 26th in MLB with a team slugging percentage of just .378 this season.
- The Brewers rank 26th in MLB with a team batting average of just .231.
- Milwaukee ranks 25th in the majors with 392 total runs scored this season.
- The Brewers have the 23rd-ranked on-base percentage in MLB this season (.312).
- The Brewers rank just 26th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 9.2 whiffs per contest.
- Milwaukee has an 8.4 K/9 rate this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 21st in the majors.
- Milwaukee has pitched to a 4.00 ERA this season, which ranks 12th in baseball.
- The Brewers have a combined 1.246 WHIP as a pitching staff, seventh-lowest in MLB.
Brewers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Julio Teheran (2-3) will take the mound for the Brewers, his ninth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, July 3, when he threw six innings, giving up six earned runs while allowing nine hits against the Chicago Cubs.
- In eight starts this season, he's earned a quality start in four of them.
- Teheran has eight starts in a row of five innings or more.
- In eight appearances this season, he has finished two without allowing an earned run.
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An Ingear to be developed for a future Suzuki electric vehicle
TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inmotive has signed a joint development agreement with Suzuki to develop an Ingear™ 2-speed EV transmission for a future Suzuki electric vehicle.
"This partnership with Suzuki exemplifies the value that the Ingear two-speed transmission can bring to electric vehicles, including cost, range, performance and efficiency improvements," said Paul Bottero, CEO, Inmotive. "Jointly developing our technology for a future Suzuki vehicle is a big step toward commercialization and realizing Inmotive's vision of accelerating the global evolution to affordable zero-emission mobility."
The Ingear is the world's most efficient 2-speed transmission designed specifically for EVs. Through its compact and simple design, the Ingear can improve electric vehicle cost, range and efficiency. An Ingear can extend EV range by up to 15% and improve acceleration by up to 15%. Its patented geometry ensures a smooth and quiet ride.
Inmotive is the Canadian based inventor of the Ingear, an ultra-efficient multi-speed powertrain technology for a wide range of applications. The Ingear extends electric vehicle range at very low additional cost and weight, while providing continuous torque during smooth shifts. Its highly reliable design also increases torque, acceleration, gradeability and top speed and is protected with 18 patents issued and 17 patents pending. Inmotive is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Europe and China. More information is available at www.inmotive.com.
Suzuki, which has the company motto "Develop products of superior value by focusing on the customer," currently offers products in three mobility categories — automobiles, motorcycles, and outboard motors. The company aims to remain indispensable to people by staying closely attuned to lives and providing mobility.
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RANT to a grocery store in Greenwood for not having shopping carts available. Many shoppers were following people returning to their cars to snag a cart. An employee said the reason for the shortage was theft of carts. That may be the reason, but is not an excuse for not purchasing more carts.
RAVE to the Queen Anne office of the Department of Licensing, which made my driver’s license renewal quick, efficient and polite. I put a lot more time on the parking meter than I needed!
RANT to the customer ahead of me at the pharmacy who appeared to be denigrating the cashier’s religion. The religious beliefs of others are none of your business!
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A district judge Monday sentenced a 19-year-old Lincoln man to 20 to 25 years in prison for his role in the sex trafficking of a teenage girl.
Allesandro Mendez, who already is serving a prison sentence on an attempted second-degree assault and weapons charge, pleaded guilty to attempted sex trafficking of a minor as part of a plea agreement.
On Monday, Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid called Mendez's history of assaults to try to get what he wants troubling.
"Certainly Mr. Mendez is part of a larger sex-trafficking enterprise involving multiple co-defendants," Reid also told District Judge Darla Ideus.
Last week, Ideus sentenced one of his co-defendants, Luis Vasquez-Chiquirin, to 28 to 38 years for his role in the enterprise. A second, Troy Springer, is set for sentencing next week and a third, Jose Rivas, next month.
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Reid said Mendez's 15-year-old victim described Mendez as the "muscle" of the group.
According to Lincoln police, the investigation began in November 2020 into the sex trafficking of underage teenagers out of an apartment near North 56th and Holdrege streets.
A 15-year-old girl, who was riding in an SUV with Mendez and two other men in December 2020, later told investigators she had met Mendez randomly at a gas station, he brought her to the apartment, to Grand Island and elsewhere, where men paid Mendez to have sex with her.
Police found videos on Mendez's phone of the girl performing sex acts with adult men, along with text conversations where Mendez negotiated payments for it.
Defense attorney Trevin Preble asked the judge to consider that Mendez was only 16, "essentially a child, when these offenses occurred." And he said the attempted assault charge was connected to the sex-trafficking.
On the other side, Reid asked for a significant sentence, considering the teen was subjected to a number of assaults as a result of Mendez's actions.
"I realize that he is young. However, the level of criminality that he has already engaged in is really concerning to the state," he said.
Ideus said Mendez's adult criminal history is short, but filled with violence.
"It looks to me, sir, like you victimize people that you know, you victimize people you have not known for very long, you victimize people who you may not know at all. And of course from this case it is clear to me you victimize vulnerable children that you happen upon at a gas station," the judge said.
She said Mendez's decisions were consistently violent and hurt other people and the only way to protect the community from him was to incarcerate him.
Mendez will have to serve 10 years before he's eligible for parole.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-described-as-muscle-for-sex-trafficking-group-gets-prison-time/article_194a4704-896a-538a-8478-4e31896a8959.html | 2023-01-10 00:09:11 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-described-as-muscle-for-sex-trafficking-group-gets-prison-time/article_194a4704-896a-538a-8478-4e31896a8959.html |
Winners of its last 20 home openers, Boise State finally gets to play on The Blue on Saturday. The Broncos take on UT Martin (1-1) at 2 p.m. The game will air on FS1.
Here are five thoughts before the game:
1. If I was a Boise State coach, I’d be on my knees thanking someone or something for all the debacles around college football last week. Holy cow.
Getting players rearing to go play an FCS team isn’t always the easiest task — especially at Boise State, where the Broncos have played just four such games in the last dozen years. But it would be tough to overlook a Meridian Pop Warner team after the upset spree of last weekend.
You know about the big ones: Appalachian State beating Texas A&M, Marshall knocking off Notre Dame and Georgia Southern literally getting Scott Frost fired at Nebraska.
But even in the Mountain West, Colorado State lost to Middle Tennessee State, Nevada fell to a school most of the country had never heard of (Incarnate Word) and last year’s conference champion, Utah State, fell by four touchdowns to Weber State.
Boise State could have spent an entire meeting playing those games on repeat. Watch Incarnate Word highlights for a half hour and UT Martin might seem like the ‘85 Bears.
2. I’m very curious to see what Boise State’s offense looks like on Saturday.
Through two games, the Broncos offense has been about as flashy as a 2004 Honda Civic weeks past its last wash.
Offensive coordinator Tim Plough hasn’t shown much to spark excitement so far. Boise State is averaging 24 points, 177 passing yards and has converted less than 30% on third downs.
Quarterback Hank Bachmeier was better against New Mexico, but he’s still not playing to his potential. The Broncos’ receivers have struggled to get separation. The offensive line has endured some rough drives. And starting running back George Holani has looked off all year.
The whole unit is two steps behind where many figured it would be at. Which leads us to Saturday. Some coaches don’t love to show a ton against FCS schools, but with the early season defenses, I’d guess Boise State might throw out everything but the kitchen sink.
What better time to try things out than a home opener during a buy game?
3. The more I hear about all the “new” things Boise State and Athletic Director Jeramiah Dickey are rolling out, the more I wonder what on Earth Boise State was doing for the last decade.
Dickey is, by all accounts, doing a remarkable job less than two years into the job. With fundraising. With communication. With getting Boise State up to speed with everyone else in the country.
Like this: The Broncos have posted a few times about having digital tickets this season. That was surprising to me. I thought every sports team had gone to digital ticketing at least five years ago.
The fact that Boise State is adding so many local breweries and new food options is a win-win for everyone involved. The fact that none of that happened until 2022 is mind boggling.
But, again, props to Dickey and his team for bringing the Broncos into this decade.
4. Boise State is about the exact opposite as I expected.
I thought the unit would be carried by the secondary and hampered by the front. So far, the defensive line and linebackers have been wrecking balls. Against New Mexico, the Broncos had six sacks and a dozen tackles for loss.
The secondary has at times looked outmatched. Oregon State gunslinger Chance Nolan threw for almost 300 yards against Boise State two weeks ago but the BSU secondary played better against the Lobos.
This week will be a good test for the Broncos’ DBs. UT Martin is one of the better passing teams Boise State will face this year. Skyhawks’ quarterback Dresser Winn is throwing for over 330 yards a game and they have a 6-foot-3 receiver named Colton Dowell who has over three times as many receiving yards as anyone on BSU.
5. For those making their way to Albertsons Stadium, make sure you take a second to find No. 2 in blue.
Freshman running back Ashton Jeanty looks like one of those “freshman” who just got out of the military. Jeanty is 205 pounds of Texas steel, a marvel that has been the bright spot of Boise State’s offense.
Only quarterback Taylen Green has more rushing yards than Jeanty’s 88 and the freshman running back leads Boise State with eight catches for 79 yards.
Head coach Andy Avalos doesn’t let freshmen speak with the media, but I’d guess Jeanty will still be a fan favorite in no time.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three races among Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation have taken shape as some of the closer contests in the country this year as voters decide whether to shift majority control in the U.S. House from Democrats to Republicans.
Pennsylvania’s delegation has been redistricted twice in recent years — first because of a court challenge and again as a result of the 2020 census — and the state has lost one seat in Congress this year because of its anemic population growth.
Democratic U.S. Reps. Matt Cartwright in the Scranton area and Susan Wild in the Lehigh Valley both find themselves in rematches with Republican candidates they narrowly beat two years ago.
A third competitive seat, just north of Pittsburgh, consists largely of the voters who elected Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb to Congress for the past couple terms. It became vacant for this year’s election when Lamb chose not to seek reelection in what was an ultimately failed attempt to get his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.
Pennsylvania polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
As is happening across the country, Pennsylvania’s competitive congressional races have Democrats emphasizing support for abortion rights and Republicans reminding voters how inflation and other economic problems are affecting their lives.
In northeastern Pennsylvania, Republicans hope conservative activist and former Trump administration official Jim Bognet will reverse his 3.6 percentage point loss to Cartwright in 2020. A flip of that seat in a region where the GOP has been making gains in recent years would resonate in Washington, given President Joe Biden spent his early childhood in Scranton.
“It’s a referendum on Biden,” Bognet campaign manager Joe Desilets said. “Especially because Cartwright is so close to him.”
Cartwright’s campaign director, Kunal Atit, calls Cartwright “the only Democrat who could hold this district,” with “cross-party appeal that has been demonstrated time and again through actual election results.”
Wild’s quest for a third term has her facing off against former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller, head of a manufacturing business. Wild, a former Allentown city lawyer, edged Scheller by 3.7 percentage points two years ago. Redistricting added GOP-friendly Carbon County to the map.
Wild’s campaign argues Scheller has cut her U.S. workforce and sent jobs overseas, while Scheller blames Wild’s support for spending bills under Biden for voters’ economic problems.
The third competitive district, in the suburbs north of Pittsburgh and encompassing all of Beaver County, pits election lawyer Chris Deluzio, a Democrat, against Republican businessperson and former Ross Township Commissioner Jeremy Shaffer, a Republican who lost a 2018 state Senate race.
Shaffer said he would position himself in Congress as “a pragmatic, common sense problem solver” and wants term limits and nonpartisan redistricting policies. Deluzio’s campaign biography notes his involvement in the effort to establish a faculty union at the University of Pittsburgh last year.
“The union way of life is a huge thing here in western Pennsylvania,” Deluzio campaign manager Matt Koos said. “And there’s no doubt that the Dobbs decision has put abortion access at the front of voters’ minds.”
Elsewhere in the state, two Republican incumbents face no opposition this fall: Reps. Guy Reschenthaler south of Pittsburgh and John Joyce in a sprawling district that runs from Gettysburg to Johnstown.
In Pittsburgh, Democrats are concerned about potential voter confusion because the Republican running against Democratic state Rep. Summer Lee is named Mike Doyle, the same name as the city’s longtime Democratic congressman, who is retiring at the end of the year.
The version of the state’s congressional district map that was drawn after the 2010 census had been particularly friendly to Republicans, producing a durable 13-5 GOP majority until it was thrown out by the state’s Democratic-majority Supreme Court in 2018. Since then, the delegation has been evenly split between the two parties.
After the Republican-controlled Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf deadlocked on talks to produce new districts using 2020 census numbers, the state Supreme Court in a 4-3 vote in February chose a map that had been proposed by a group of Democratic Party-aligned voters who had sued in 2021. | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-power-balance-in-congress-on-ballot-for-pennsylvania-voters/ | 2022-11-08 17:20:09 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-power-balance-in-congress-on-ballot-for-pennsylvania-voters/ |
North Korea confirms ICBM test, warns of more powerful steps
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity against its rivals, as it threatened additional powerful steps in response to the planned military training between the United States and South Korea.
Saturday’s ICBM test, the North’s first missile test since Jan. 1, signals it is using its rivals’ drills as a chance to expand its nuclear capability to enhance its leverage in future dealings with the United States. An expert says North Korea may seek to hold regular operational exercises involving its ICBMs.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said its launch of the existing Hwasong-15 ICBM was organized “suddenly” without prior notice at the direct order of leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday at dawn.
KCNA said the launch was designed to verify the weapon’s reliability and the combat readiness of the country’s nuclear force. It said the missile was fired at a high angle and reached a maximum altitude of about 5,770 kilometers (3,585 miles), flying a distance of about 990 kilometers (615 miles) before accurately hitting a pre-set area in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The steep-angle launch was apparently aimed at avoiding neighboring countries. The flight details reported by North Korea, which roughly matched the launch details previously assessed by its neighbors, show the weapon is theoretically capable of reaching the mainland U.S. if fired at a standard trajectory.
The Hwasong-15 launch demonstrated the North’s “powerful physical nuclear deterrent” and its efforts to “turn its capacity of fatal nuclear counterattack on the hostile forces” into an extremely strong one that cannot be countered, KCNA said.
Whether North Korea has a functioning nuclear-tipped ICBM is still a source of outside debate, as some experts say the North hasn’t mastered a technology to protect warheads from the severe conditions of atmospheric reentry. The North has claimed to have acquired such a reentry vehicle technology.
The Hwasong-15 is one of North Korea’s three existing ICBMs, all of which use liquid propellants that require pre-launch injections and cannot remain fueled for prolonged periods. The North is pushing to build a solid-fueled ICBM, which would be more mobile and harder-to-detect before its launch.
“Kim Jong Un has likely determined that the technical reliability of the country’s liquid propellant ICBM force has been sufficiently tested and evaluated to now allow for regular operational exercises of this kind,” said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The North’s launch came a day after it vowed an “unprecedentedly” strong response over a series of military drills that Seoul and Washington plan in coming weeks.
In a separate statement Sunday, Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of Kim Jong Un, accused South Korea and the United States of “openly showing their dangerous greed and attempt to gain the military upper hand and predominant position in the Korean Peninsula.”
“I warn that we will watch every movement of the enemy and take corresponding and very powerful and overwhelming counteraction against its every move hostile to us,” Kim Yo Jong said.
North Korea has steadfastly slammed regular South Korea-U.S. military trainings as an invasion rehearsal though the allies say their exercises are defensive in nature. Some analysts say North Korea often uses South Korea-U.S. drills as a pretext to test and modernize its weapons arsenals, which it believes is essential to win sanctions relief and other concessions from the United States.
“By now, we know that any action taken by the U.S. and South Korea — however justified from the vantage point of defense and deterrence against (North Korea’s) reckless behavior — will be construed and protested as an act of hostility by North Korea,” said Soo Kim, a security analyst at the California-based RAND Corporation. “There will always be fodder for (Kim Jong Un’s) weapons provocations.”
“With nuclear weapons in tow and having mastered the art of coercion and bullying, Kim does not need ‘self-defense.’ But pitting the U.S. and South Korea as the aggressors allows Kim to justify his weapons development,” Soo Kim said.
U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the U.S. will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the American homeland and South Korea and Japan. South Korea’s presidential National Security Council said it will seek to strengthen its “overwhelming response posture” against potential North Korean aggression based on the solid military alliance with the United States.
South Korean and U.S. military officials plan to hold a table-top exercise this week to hone a joint response to a potential use of nuclear weapons by North Korea. The allies are also to conduct another joint computer simulated exercise and field trainings in March.
North Korea is coming off a record year in weapons demonstrations with more than 70 ballistic missiles fired, including nuclear-capable weapons. North Korea has said many of those weapons tests were a warning over U.S.-South Korean military drills. Last year, it also passed a law that allows it to use nuclear weapons preemptively in a broad range of scenarios.
Kim Jong Un entered 2023 with a call for an “exponential increase” of the country’s nuclear warheads, mass production of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons targeting South Korea and the development of more advanced ICBMs targeting the U.S.
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Two people were arrested and two others are on the run after an early morning gas station robbery Monday, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to Kangaroo Express gas station located at 10030 County Road 44 in Leesburg around 4:14 a.m. after receiving a 911 call from the business.
According to a news release, the caller described being robbed by four thieves wearing ski masks.
The robbers made off with a large amount of cigarettes and left the scene in a white Chevrolet Malibu, deputies said.
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The vehicle was later located by Leesburg police, deputies said.
Officers were able to locate two men hiding in a carport near the vehicle who matched the description of two of the thieves in the robbery, according to the release.
Leesburg police arrested the two individuals on trespassing charges and they were booked into the Lake County jail, deputies said. Investigators have not released the identities of the two people arrested.
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Acne scar treatments
Acne is a common skin affliction in people of all ages, particularly teenagers. Even after a bout of acne has cleared up, it can leave scars behind on the skin.
While acne scarring might hurt your self-confidence, most acne scars fade on their own over time. In more severe cases, acne scars can be permanent. However, there are several over-the-counter and prescribed treatments you can try to reduce the appearance of acne scars.
Types of acne scars
Acne occurs when the skin’s pores clog with dead skin cells, bacteria and oil. The clogging results in inflammation around the skin’s hair follicles, leading to raised whiteheads or blackheads on the skin.
The strain of this inflammation on the cells around the pores can lead to scarring as the skin tries to heal from the lesions. Scarring can appear anywhere that acne occurs on the body which is usually the face, chest and upper back.
There are three main types of acne scars:
- Skin discoloration
- Indentations
- Raised tissue
How long does it take for acne scars to fade?
The size and severity of the scar dictate how quickly it fades or whether it will be permanent. Discoloration, for example, often fades on its own over time. Other scarring, such as indentation, is more likely to be permanent and requires intervention to reduce its appearance.
Acne scars that fade on their own usually disappear within a few months. Others can fade slowly with medical or cosmetic intervention over months or years.
How to reduce the appearance of acne scars
The best method for removing acne scars depends on the:
- Color and type of your skin
- The severity of the acne scars
- Type of acne scars
- Placement of acne scars
Some methods are not suitable for sensitive skin, for example. Other methods are suitable for facial acne scars but may not be ideal for scars on the chest or back.
It’s best to check with a licensed dermatologist before trying new treatments for acne scars. If you’re applying a new over-the-counter method, conduct a small patch test on your skin first to check for irritation or other negative side effects.
Skin care products
You’ll find plenty of acne scar serums on the market, but their effectiveness depends on their ingredients. Look out for skin care products that contain:
- Alpha hydroxy acids
- Lactic acid
- Retinol
- Salicylic acid
Most of these ingredients work by removing dead skin cells, reducing discoloration and exfoliating the skin to reduce the appearance of acne scars. You’ll find them in skin care products such as acne cleansers, exfoliating serum, moisturizing creams and at-home peels.
Skin fillers
Plumping the skin around indentation scars reduces the severity of the depression on the skin’s surface, thereby minimizing their appearance.
Cosmetic filler treatments that inject collagen or fat into the skin’s surface can achieve this effect and make the indentations less noticeable. However, this result isn’t permanent, so it requires regular injections.
Microneedling
Microneedling is a cosmetic treatment that stimulates collagen production in the skin. The aesthetician numbs the area before rolling a device with small needles over the scarred skin. The idea is that the needles stimulate collagen which plumps the skin and reduces the appearance of acne scars.
Microneedling is an accessible cosmetic treatment and there is little to no risk of side effects such as skin pigmentation. It’s suitable for all skin types and colors, but you will need regular treatments over several months to see results.
Corticosteroid injections
Medical professionals sometimes prescribe steroid injections to treat acne scars. This method is typically used for raised scars as it softens the hard tissue and flattens the scar. You’ll typically need a series of injections over a few months to complete this treatment.
Dermabrasion
Dermabrasion is one of the most effective methods for removing scars but it’s also one of the harshest treatment options. It is not suitable for highly sensitive skin and can result in scarring and pigmentation.
The treatment is usually performed by a doctor or dermatologist. Using a special mechanical device, the doctor brushes the top layer of skin off. This method can remove acne scars completely, particularly raised scars or shallow depressions.
If you have mild scarring, the same effect is achievable with an at-home microdermabrasion kit. This milder form of treatment is also more suitable for sensitive skin.
Laser treatment
Lasers are used for lots of cosmetic treatments including hair removal and the treatment of skin pigmentation. When it comes to removing acne scars, the light from the laser pulses over the skin, removing skin cells and encouraging collagen production. The result is a smoother skin surface and reduced discoloration from acne scars.
One benefit of laser treatment is that, unlike other resurfacing treatments such as chemical peels, the laser targets only the acne scars rather than the full face. It also heals much faster than other resurfacing methods.
However, laser treatment is typically unsuitable for darker skin tones because it can result in pigmented patches.
Chemical peels
Chemical peels work in a similar way to dermabrasions. The object is to remove the top layer of skin to reduce the appearance of indentation scars. However, instead of a device, chemical peels use a strong acid on the skin.
There are several options for chemical peels. You can use mild or moderate chemical peels and repeat the treatments if needed. Deep chemical peels can only be applied once, but they provide the most noticeable results.
Chemical peels are effective but they can result in pigmentation if used on darker skin tones.
Surgical removal
In extreme cases, your doctor may recommend a minor surgical procedure to remove large scars. According to the Mayo Clinic, the procedure is known as punch excision. It involves cutting raised scars away from the skin and putting stitches in their place. Sometimes, a skin graft is used to cover the wound and provide a smoother texture once the skin heals after the surgery.
What you need to remove acne scars
Differin Gel Acne Scar Spot Treatment
This spot treatment gel is designed for one application per day after facial cleansing. It contains ingredients such as bakuchiol and peptides to speed up the cell renewal process and create a firmer, more even skin texture.
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Cerave Resurfacing Retinol Serum
This Cerave serum is applied all over the face before moisturizing. The retinol in the serum reduces the pigmentation of acne scars and minimizes pores, resulting in smoother skin with continued use.
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Murad InvisiScar Resurfacing Treatment
From a trusted name in skin care, this treatment diminishes scars in just eight weeks. It works well on old scars, too.
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Truly Scar-Prevention Star Acne Patches
Stop acne scars before they start with these star-shaped patches flecked with tea tree oil. Not only do they look great, but they also help to eliminate the blemish while protecting the skin as it heals.
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The latest addition to Kerrygold's portfolio offers three new varieties - Chive & Onion, Sundried Tomato & Basil, and Bell Pepper & Garden Herbs flavors, all made with Kerrygold's beloved pure Irish grass-fed butter
EVANSTON, Ill., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kerrygold, an international brand of Ornua, introduces new Kerrygold Butter Blends, a savory range of flavored butters for tasty snacking or the perfect finish to any dish. Rolling onto store shelves across the U.S. now with national distribution expected by September, Kerrygold's new Butter Blends innovation is the natural next step for the No. 1 imported butter brand in the U.S. Famous for quality of taste and flavor, Kerrygold's Butter Blends have already earned the prestigious 2023 PEOPLE Food Award.
The brand's rich and creamy line of butters are made with milk from Irish grass-fed cows and slow churned for a smooth finish. Free from artificial flavors or preservatives, the new butter blends offerings are made with milk rich in naturally occurring beta carotene, which is present in the lush green Irish grass that Kerrygold cows enjoy year-round. That gives Kerrygold butter its robust, natural, golden color and creamy texture.
"The Butter Blends assortment is a delicious new addition to Kerrygold's existing butter portfolio," said Alexandra Vinci, Brand Manager at Kerrygold. "With the rising popularity of homemade compound butters all over social media, and as the No. 1 imported butter brand, we're excited to bring consumers our Irish take and expertise on the growing culinary trend."
The varieties contain three distinct flavors:
- Chive & Onion: Winner of the 2023 PEOPLE Food Awards, the distinct herby flavors of chive, onion, and parsley combined with Kerrygold's original pure Irish Grass-fed butter result in a savory and unforgettable butter blend. Kerrygold Chive & Onion Butter Blend is perfect for topping steaks or finishing veggies and sides.
- Sundried Tomato & Basil: Dried tomatoes, basil, oregano, thyme, onions, and garlic come together with our pure Irish Grass-fed butter to complete this fragrant and fresh butter blend. This combination is aromatic and spiced, paying homage to beloved Italian flavors. Kerrygold Sundried Tomato & Basil Butter Blend is perfect for upgrading your crostini and bringing a premium touch to any sandwich or grilled cheese in a pinch.
- Bell Pepper & Garden Herbs: Kerrygold's pure Irish Grass-fed butter blended with paprika, oregano, basil, onions, garlic and bell pepper make this a peppery addition to any meal. Kerrygold Bell Pepper & Garden Herbs Butter Blend is perfect for enhancing a pasta primavera or popping spicy popcorn.
The Butter Blends line stays true to the Kerrygold tradition of producing flavorful, creamy, and all-natural dairy products, hailing straight from 14,000 small Irish family farms that provide premium-quality milk for Kerrygold products. Kerrygold farmers are members of local milk cooperatives, owned by the farmers themselves, and these co-ops help preserve family farming traditions that have been passed on for generations.
Kerrygold Butter Blends are available at Kroger, Harris Teeter and Whole Foods, with Publix to come in July and national distribution in September. Check out select stores found at kerrygoldusa.com/store-locator. For a full list of Kerrygold products and more information, please visit kerrygoldusa.com.
About Kerrygold USA
Kerrygold was established in 1962 as a premium brand, befitting the rich quality of grass-fed Irish milk. Kerrygold initially launched as a single product brand and is now regarded as Ireland's most successful food brand, reaching 1 billion in annual sales in 2019. Since its creation, Kerrygold has been synonymous with quality, and today, Kerrygold has a special place in the hearts of consumers all over the world.
Kerrygold dairy farmers are committed to the co-operative ideal; working together to produce only the very best grass-fed dairy products. Kerrygold cows graze freely on the fields of 14,000 small family farms; each one using unique dairy farming traditions passed down through generations of family. It is this grass-fed milk that delivers the rich tasting, higher quality dairy products that Kerrygold is famous for.
Today, consumers all over the world enjoy the unique taste of Irish grass-fed dairy. Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter is the number two butter brand in the USA and Kerrygold Dubliner Irish Cheese is the number one specialty cheese.
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Anthony J. Biago Sr., 84, of Mountain Top, passed into eternal life on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Plains Twp.
His loving wife is Barbara E. Killiri Biago. They would have celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary Oct. 8.
Born Feb. 24, 1938, in Exeter, Anthony was the son of the late Albert and Rose Bianco Biago. Because his parents only spoke Italian, he didn’t learn English until attending grammar school. As a young boy, he shined shoes on weekends in the local taverns of Exeter, and during the days sold American Legion raffle tickets. He attended the former Exeter High School, where in 9th grade, he was elected class president.
Instead of going to work in the local coal mines like his father, Anthony enlisted in the United States Army, honorably serving his country for 4½ years during the Cold War Era, attaining the rank of Specialist 4th Grade, and spending nearly three years in Europe.
Following his military service, he attended the former Wilkes-Barre Business College, and took evening classes at King’s College, all while working as a bookkeeper for Raker Paint Factory.
He and his wife relocated to New Jersey in 1960, and, in 1966, enrolled at Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey, attaining his associate’s degree in Business Management. He then attended Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., attaining his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting with minors in English and psychology, and was awarded the Key Award for Activism. At Rutgers, he was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi Professional and Business Fraternity, serving as its social director and chapter president.
While the family resided in New Jersey, Anthony worked as an assistant to the plant manager for Harris Steel; as an interplant operations manager for Federal Pacific Electric; and as a systems analyst and, later, as divisional comptroller for Tujax Industries in New York City, with whom he worked with the electrical construction of the World Trade Center.
Eventually, Anthony took a great risk and bought his own company, an established wholesale food company called Porter Foods, servicing the greater New Jersey area with specialty food products and snacks. He grew the company by establishing its own packaging system, and under their patented label “Snack Shoppe” which packaged varieties of nuts. After eight years, he sold Porter foods and took on the job of adjunct professor at
Middlesex County College, teaching business courses for two years.
After that, he became Financial Vice President and Comptroller for Elizabeth Iron Works, eventually leaving there to purchase a long-established real estate brokerage business, Ace Brokers. He and his wife both became licensed brokers and salespersons in New Jersey, growing the business during their 6-year tenure, and most notably becoming involved in the building of townhomes in Linden. It was through this venture that he became appointed to the Cranford Zoning Board for three years.
In 1988, Anthony and Barbara returned to Pennsylvania, purchasing 70 acres of land in Mountain Top. Moving there shortly thereafter, in 1996, he subdivided the land, establishing what is now known as Summit Meadow Estates. In 1999, he went on to become property manager for the Scranton Center, working there for 11 years while overseeing the development of his pride and joy, Summit Meadow Estates.
In 2004, he and his son formed a joint venture, purchasing land in Hazleton and building the “Jennkrist Townhomes” — a development named after his two cherished granddaughters, Jenna and Krista. After a life of entrepreneurial success, Anthony retired in 2009.
A devout Catholic, Anthony was a member of St. Jude Parish, Mountain Top. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus, Council 6440, Mountain Top, serving as its past Grand Knight, and was the recipient of the prestigious Star Council award. He was a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus, Bishop William J. Hafey Assembly 925, Wilkes-Barre, serving as its past Faithful Navigator and past District Deputy. He also served as a past supreme delegate for the Knights of Columbus International Supreme Convention.
Anthony was a Boy Scout as a young boy, attaining the rank of First-Class Explorer Scout. Sharing his love of the Boy Scouts with his son, he served as a committeeman and supporter of Boy Scout Troop 75, Cranford, New Jersey.
Anthony enjoyed traveling with his wife and family, and especially enjoyed the many cruises he and Barbara went on over the years — they were fortunate to see the world! He reveled in the simple pleasures of life as well, such as going out to dinner, attending the local church picnics, and working around his property. Above all, his greatest love in life was for his family — the love and devotion he had for his family will be his greatest legacy.
In addition to his parents, Albert and Rose, Anthony was preceded in death by his newborn son, Joseph Anthony Biago; and his infant sister, Rose Marie Biago.
In addition to his wife, Barbara, Anthony is survived by his loving daughter, Denise Biago, Ashley and Ron Antoniewicz, Linden, New Jersey; his loving son, Anthony J. Biago Jr., Kingston, and Lizz Santioni, Old Forge; his two beloved granddaughters, Jenna Biago and her fiancé, David Vitelli; and Krista Biago, both of whom he was deeply proud of, most especially of their accomplishments in education; his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Carol (Frank) Grabowski, Shavertown; Dorothy (Joseph) Kauczka, Eynon; Anthony Killiri, Summerville, South Carolina; John Killiri, Lomita, California; David (Irene) Killiri, Allentown; and Peter Killiri, West Pittston; as well as his nieces, nephews and friends.
The Biago family wishes to extend their sincere gratitude to the doctors, nurses, and staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center for all their help during Anthony’s stay there. They wish to also extend their deepest gratitude to his in-home caregivers, Deborah and Dave, for their care to ensure his comfort at home.
Relatives and Friends are respectfully invited to attend Anthony’s viewing which will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Jude Parish, 420 S. Mountain Boulevard, Mountain Top. A Mass of Christian Burial will commence at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Joseph J. Evanko, his pastor, officiating. At the conclusion of the funeral Mass, the rite of committal will be offered, followed by military honors to be accorded by the United States Army.
Entombment will take place in the near future once construction of the family mausoleum is completed.
Funeral Arrangements for the Biago family have been entrusted to the care of Wroblewski Funeral Home Inc., 1442 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort.
For information or to send Anthony’s family a message of condolence, you may visit the funeral home’s website, www.wroblewskifuneralhome.com, or Facebook page.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Anthony’s memory to the Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301, or to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, 1025 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1066, Washington, DC 20005. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/anthony-j-biago-sr/article_e729dcc1-8903-588a-bd83-2eed59abd44c.html | 2022-07-03 03:15:01 | 0 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/anthony-j-biago-sr/article_e729dcc1-8903-588a-bd83-2eed59abd44c.html |
BRUSSELS (AP) — A knife-wielding man who wounded three people at a major underground railway station in the Belgian capital Brussels has been charged with attempted murder in an attack that wasn’t considered to be terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Social media posts on Monday evening showed video of police with their guns pointed at a man at Schuman station, while images pictured another man wrapped in a foil blanket as he was attended to by paramedics. One victim’s wounds were said to be “life-threatening.”
The station is directly under the headquarters of the European Union’s two main institutions.
Brussels prosecutors said that the 30-year-old suspect, who wasn’t identified, had been charged with attempted murder and carrying a makeshift weapon. He is also expected to undergo a psychological evaluation soon.
“The suspect’s motive is not yet known, but at this stage nothing indicates that it was an extremist/terrorist motive,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said the man, whose name wasn’t provided, wasn’t previously known to police.
Earlier Tuesday, prosecutors said that the three victims had been discharged from hospitalization, but in an update they later said that a 25-year-old man was still receiving treatment. A 47-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man were only slightly wounded and have gone home.
Fears of attacks in Belgium remain high in the public mind seven years after twin suicide bombings at an underground metro station near the site of Monday’s stabbings, and at the main Brussels airport killed 32 people and wounded hundreds. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-belgian-prosecutors-see-no-terror-motive-in-knife-attack/ | 2023-02-01 01:51:11 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-belgian-prosecutors-see-no-terror-motive-in-knife-attack/ |
– Key Opinion Leaders to Review Highlights from Updated Phase 1 Data to be Presented at ASH 2022 at Company Sponsored Event on Monday, December 12 at 8:30 AM ET –
NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced it will host a webcast to discuss the updated results from the Phase 1 open-label, dose-escalation study evaluating selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2022 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The webcast will feature updates from Dr. Haris Ali, Associate Professor, MPN Section Leader for Leukemia Division, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dr. Srdan Verstovsek, Director of Clinical Research for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Drs. Ali and Verstovsek will discuss the updated data on selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib as well as the current treatment landscape and unmet medical need in treating patients with myelofibrosis, respectively. The event will be held on Monday, December 12, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. CT).
To access the event, the live audio webcast and slides will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor section of the Company's website, http://investors.karyopharm.com/events-presentations. An archived webcast will be available on the Company's website following the event.
Details for Karyopharm's presence at ASH 2022 are as follows:
Poster Presentations, Online Publication and Industry Theater
Title: A Phase 1, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study of Selinexor Plus Ruxolitinib in Patients with Treatment-Naïve Myelofibrosis
Presenter: Dr. Ali, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Abstract #: 1734
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Session: 634. Myeloproliferative Syndromes: Clinical and Epidemiological: Poster I
Date and Time: Saturday, December 10, 2022, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
Title: Once Weekly Selinexor, Carfilzomib and Dexamethasone (XKd) in Triple Class Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Presenter: Dr. Schiller, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Abstract #: 4516
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Session: 652. Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Dyscrasias: Clinical and Epidemiological: Poster III
Date and Time: Monday, December 12, 2022, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Online Publication
Title: Real-World Safety and Effectiveness of Selinexor-Based Regimens in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma and Dialysis-Dependent Renal Impairment
Presenter: Dr. Niblock, Karyopharm Therapeutics
Abstract #: 5773
Session Type: Online publication
Date and Time: Available in the November supplemental issue of Blood
Industry Theater
Title: Investigating Nuclear Transport Inhibition in Myelofibrosis (MF) and Myelodysplastic Neoplasms (MDS)
Presenter: Dr. Rangwala, Karyopharm Therapeutics
Session Type: Industry Theater
Location: Hall J – Theater 5
Date and Time: Sunday, December 11, 2022, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT
Please note, the industry theater is not an official event of the 64th ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition. This event is not sponsored or endorsed by ASH and it is not CME-accredited.
About XPOVIO® (selinexor)
XPOVIO is a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor and the first of Karyopharm's Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compounds to be approved for the treatment of cancer. XPOVIO functions by selectively binding to and inhibiting the nuclear export protein XPO1. XPOVIO is approved in the U.S. and marketed by Karyopharm in multiple oncology indications, including: (i) in combination with Velcade® (bortezomib) and dexamethasone (XVd) in patients with multiple myeloma after at least one prior therapy; (ii) in combination with dexamethasone in patients with heavily pre-treated multiple myeloma; and (iii) in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least two lines of systemic therapy. XPOVIO (also known as NEXPOVIO® in certain countries) has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including but not limited to the European Union, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Canada, Israel and Taiwan. XPOVIO and NEXPOVIO is marketed by Karyopharm's partners, Antengene, Menarini, Neopharm and FORUS in China, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Israel and Canada.
Please refer to the local Prescribing Information for full details.
Selinexor is also being investigated in several other mid- and late-stage clinical trials across multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in endometrial cancer and myelofibrosis.
For more information about Karyopharm's products or clinical trials, please contact the Medical Information department at:
Tel: +1 (888) 209-9326
Email: medicalinformation@karyopharm.com
SELECT IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Warnings and Precautions
- Thrombocytopenia: Monitor platelet counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and supportive care.
- Neutropenia: Monitor neutrophil counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and granulocyte colony‐stimulating factors.
- Gastrointestinal Toxicity: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and weight loss may occur. Provide antiemetic prophylaxis. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction, antiemetics, and supportive care.
- Hyponatremia: Monitor serum sodium levels throughout treatment. Correct for concurrent hyperglycemia and high serum paraprotein levels. Manage with dose interruption, reduction, or discontinuation, and supportive care.
- Serious Infection: Monitor for infection and treat promptly.
- Neurological Toxicity: Advise patients to refrain from driving and engaging in hazardous occupations or activities until neurological toxicity resolves. Optimize hydration status and concomitant medications to avoid dizziness or mental status changes.
- Embryo‐Fetal Toxicity: Can cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential and males with a female partner of reproductive potential, of the potential risk to a fetus and use of effective contraception.
- Cataract: Cataracts may develop or progress. Treatment of cataracts usually requires surgical removal of the cataract.
Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive XVd are fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, diarrhea, peripheral neuropathy, upper respiratory tract infection, decreased weight, cataract and vomiting. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, hypophosphatemia, anemia, hyponatremia and neutropenia. In the BOSTON trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 6% of patients within 30 days of last treatment. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 52% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 19%.
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive Xd are thrombocytopenia, fatigue, nausea, anemia, decreased appetite, decreased weight, diarrhea, vomiting, hyponatremia, neutropenia, leukopenia, constipation, dyspnea and upper respiratory tract infection. In the STORM trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 9% of patients. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 58% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 27%.
- The most common adverse reactions (incidence ≥20%) in patients with DLBCL, excluding laboratory abnormalities, are fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, appetite decrease, weight decrease, constipation, vomiting, and pyrexia. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥15%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, neutropenia, anemia, and hyponatremia. In the SADAL trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 3.7% of patients within 30 days, and 5% of patients within 60 days of last treatment; the most frequent fatal adverse reactions was infection (4.5% of patients). Serious adverse reactions occurred in 46% of patients; the most frequent serious adverse reaction was infection (21% of patients). Discontinuation due to adverse reactions occurred in 17% of patients.
Use In Specific Populations
Lactation: Advise not to breastfeed.
For additional product information, including full prescribing information, please visit www.XPOVIO.com.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. at 1‐888‐209‐9326 or FDA at 1‐800‐FDA‐1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
About Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been an industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®) and China. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding Karyopharm's the ability of selinexor or eltanexor to treat patients with multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis, myelodysplastic syndromes, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, solid tumors and other diseases and expectations related to future clinical development and potential regulatory submissions of selinexor or eltanexor. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Karyopharm's control, that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Karyopharm's current expectations. For example, there can be no guarantee that Karyopharm will successfully commercialize XPOVIO or that any of Karyopharm's drug candidates, including selinexor and eltanexor, will successfully complete necessary clinical development phases or that development of any of Karyopharm's drug candidates will continue. Further, there can be no guarantee that any positive developments in the development or commercialization of Karyopharm's drug candidate portfolio will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other factors, including the following: the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt Karyopharm's business more severely than it currently anticipates, including by negatively impacting sales of XPOVIO, interrupting or delaying research and development efforts, impacting the ability to procure sufficient supply for the development and commercialization of selinexor or other product candidates, delaying ongoing or planned clinical trials, impeding the execution of business plans, planned regulatory milestones and timelines, or inconveniencing patients; the adoption of XPOVIO in the commercial marketplace, the timing and costs involved in commercializing XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; the ability to obtain and retain regulatory approval of XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; Karyopharm's results of clinical trials and preclinical studies, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies, including with respect to the need for additional clinical studies; the ability of Karyopharm or its third party collaborators or successors in interest to fully perform their respective obligations under the applicable agreement and the potential future financial implications of such agreement; Karyopharm's ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; development or regulatory approval of drug candidates by Karyopharm's competitors for products or product candidates in which Karyopharm is currently commercializing or developing; and Karyopharm's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any of its products or product candidates. These and other risks are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Karyopharm's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 3, 2022, and in other filings that Karyopharm may make with the SEC in the future. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Karyopharm expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO® are registered trademarks of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. Any other trademarks referred to in this release are the property of their respective owners.
This meeting is NOT an official program of the ASH annual meeting.
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