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Abe Hamadeh just proved (again) why he's not ready to be AG
Opinion: Abe Hamadeh's (now-dismissed) lawsuit challenging his election loss demonstrates why he has no business being Arizona's attorney general.
To no one’s surprise – well, almost no one’s surprise – Abe Hamadeh’s lawsuit contesting the election has been tossed out of court.
As the judge explained in his ruling on Tuesday, you have to actually have official results before you can challenge them.
One might suppose that a candidate seeking to become the state’s next attorney general might know that.
You would expect an attorney who wants to be state’s top law officer − even one as lightly experienced as the Class of 2016 law school graduate − to know that, wouldn’t you?
A recount is coming. Hamadeh wouldn't wait
Hamadeh won the Republican primary, defeating experienced prosecutors, veteran attorneys and even a former state Supreme Court justice. He won, not because he knows his way around the law but because he knew how to snag Donald Trump's endorsement -- the only qualification that mattered to Republican primary voters.
Then he lost to Democrat Kris Mayes. The razor-thin margin -- just 510 votes -- will trigger an automatic recount after the state certifies the election next week.
Not content to wait, he and the RNC went charging into court last week, asking a judge to block the state from declaring Mayes the winner – or, in the alternative, to just declare him the winner.
As close as it gets:Why attorney general race is one of tightest in Arizona history
In a nutshell, Hamadeh claims that Maricopa County’s printer problems, along with “a combination of illegal votes for Mayes and thwarted votes for him” cost him the race.
Yet nowhere in his lawsuit does he back that up with any evidence.
Regardless, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner summarily tossed the lawsuit on Tuesday, pointing out that ARS 16-673 says election challenges can only be filed in the five days after the election is certified.
In other words, next week.
“Plaintiffs argue that the result of the election is now known, and the declaration of results is just a ministerial act,” Warner wrote. “But an election contest is a statutory remedy, and the Court is required to follow the statutes’ requirements.”
You’d think that someone seeking to be attorney general of the state would know that.
Wouldn’t you?
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.
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Transactions address certain near-term maturities and provide $400 million in additional financing
HUDSON, Ohio, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in automating, digitizing and transforming the way people bank and shop, today announced the company has completed the previously announced transactions with certain key financial stakeholders to refinance certain debt with near-term maturities and provide the company with $400 million in new capital. These transactions include the completion of its previously announced exchange offer and consent solicitation with respect to its outstanding 8.50% Senior Notes due 2024 and the completion of its previously announced exchange offers and consent solicitations with respect to its outstanding 9.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and Diebold Nixdorf Dutch Holding B.V.'s 9.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2025. Additional information about the transactions can be found in the current reports on Form 8-K previously filed by the company with the SEC and available on Diebold Nixdorf's Investor Relations website.
Octavio Marquez, Diebold Nixdorf president and chief executive officer, said: "Our company is excited to move into 2023 having reached this important milestone, which provides us with the capital to help normalize our operations, meet supplier commitments, execute on our operating model and make strategic investments in the business to further strengthen our global market position. We are grateful for the support we've received from our lenders and noteholders throughout this process, which we believe confirms the financial community's confidence in our business. We are operating with a leaner, more agile company that remains fully focused on helping our banking and retail customers gain efficiencies in their operations while creating positive consumer experiences."
Evercore Group L.L.C. is serving as financial advisor to Diebold Nixdorf on the debt refinancing, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is serving as legal counsel to Diebold Nixdorf.
About Diebold Nixdorf
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) automates, digitizes and transforms the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world's top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.
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- the overall impact of the global supply chain complexities on the company and its business, including delays in sourcing key components as well as longer transport times, especially for container ships and U.S. trucking, given the company's reliance on suppliers, subcontractors and availability of raw materials and other components;
- our ability to successfully convert our backlog into sales, including our ability to overcome supply chain and liquidity challenges;
- the ultimate impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies, including further adverse effects to the company's supply chain, maintenance of increased order backlog, and the effects of any COVID-19 related cancellations;
- the company's ability to successfully meet its cost-reduction goals and continue to achieve benefits from its cost-reduction initiatives and other strategic initiatives, such as the current $150m+ cost savings plan;
- the success of the company's new products, including its DN Series line and EASY family of retail checkout solutions, and electronic vehicle charging service business;
- the impact of a cybersecurity breach or operational failure on the company's business;
- the company's ability to generate sufficient cash to service its debt or to comply with the covenants contained in the agreements governing its debt and, if applicable, to successfully refinance its debt in the future;
- the company's ability to attract, retain and motivate key employees;
- the company's reliance on suppliers, subcontractors and availability of raw materials and other components;
- changes in the company's intention to further repatriate cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments residing in international tax jurisdictions, which could negatively impact foreign and domestic taxes;
- the company's success in divesting, reorganizing or exiting non-core and/or non-accretive businesses and its ability to successfully manage acquisitions, divestitures, and alliances;
- the ultimate outcome of the appraisal proceedings initiated in connection with the implementation of the Domination and Profit Loss Transfer Agreement with the former Diebold Nixdorf AG (which was dismissed in the company's favor at the lower court level in May 2022) and the merger/squeeze-out;
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William Shakespeare’s friends and close collaborators succeeded at publishing his works in a huge book — the First Folio — 400 years ago, . The Bard had been dead for nearly a decade, and without the Folio, we likely wouldn’t know about 18 of his plays — histories like “Julius Caesar,” tragedies like “Macbeth” and comedies like “Twelfth Night.”
Only 235 copies of the First Folio are known to have survived — making them some of the most valuable books in the world. One of them is now on sale at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair — where it may go for millions of dollars; The last one at auction sold for nearly $10 million, beating expectations.
The famous “Droeshout portrait” of Shakespeare from the First Folio. (Courtesy: Folger Shakespeare Library)
The Folger Shakespeare Library won’t be competing to acquire the book. Thanks to a buying spree that founders Henry and Emily Folger made over a century ago, the library already owns 82 copies.
“I think obsession is a good word,” says Greg Prickman, Folger’s director of collections. “There were points in the Folger’s collecting where in correspondence there’s this sense of, ‘Well, maybe we should slow down. Maybe that’s enough.’ And Henry Folger said at one point, each copy has a reason for its existence.”
So the Folgers kept at it, and today the research library they founded houses the largest Shakespeare collection in the world. It opened in 1932 in Washington, D.C. across the street from the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress’ Jefferson building.
Each First Folio has its own history. Prickman showed Here & Now’s Scott Tong a particularly large edition that was almost thrown out.
“This particular copy was discovered in the 19th century on a shelf in essentially a building associated with an English country house, where somebody was cleaning it out and came upon it and tossed it down to the person that was there with them and said, ‘This one’s nothing. It’s only old poetry.’”
Turning over the pages, Prickman explained that the book had gotten changed and “sophisticated” over time — a process where damaged leaves would be grafted with others to complete the volume. Imagine a patchwork skin like Frankenstein’s creature.
Greg Prickman, the Folger Library’s Director of Collections, pages through Henry Folger’s favorite First Folio. (Scott Tong/Here & Now)
“[Book] dealers had what they called morgues, where they had damaged copies of books, where they could supply leaves to perfect and sophisticate other copies that they could then market as complete,” Prickman says. So really, when you get down to that sort of leaf by leaf examination of these copies, almost all of them have been manipulated, changed, improved over many, many years.”
The edition we saw — Henry Folger’s favorite — will be featured in an upcoming, permanent display at the library, set to open to the public on Nov. 17.
The library plans to exhibit all 82 copies in a renovated underground space, “purpose built with both appropriate climate, but also the ability to control light in a way that we really didn’t have before,” says Ruth Taylor Kidd, Folger’s chief financial officer overseeing the construction.
The project has been 13 years in the making, and is open to everyone, free of charge.
“We’ve added elevators, we’ve eliminated barriers, and we really made the space accessible to all audiences in a way that it wasn’t before,” says Taylor Kidd. “That’s absolutely the point, is to eliminate the intimidation and to make sure that everyone knows that they’re welcome here.”
The First Folio’s many words would have been assembled backwards, by hand from tiny metal pieces. (Scott Tong/Here & Now)
For his part, Prickman hopes that displaying all 82 copies of the First Folio will prompt visitors to consider how Shakespeare’s words have been passed down through the years and the new meanings they might take on.
“I want people to be asking questions and to be looking around and discovering something that they’re understanding in a new way,” says Prickman. “I want families to come in. And for a kid to be running through that space and taking it in, discovering the images that are going to be on the walls, the way that we’re going to sort of envelop you in this collection and the things that we have here”
James Perkins Mastromarino and produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Gabe Bullard. Katherine Swartz also adapted it for the web.
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Baby Reports Free for Mother's Day
CONCORD, Mass., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lorestry, by Alea Diagnostics (Alea), is offering a free mother's day card and gift subscription to the companion baby reports feature (value $199.99) in celebration of mothers around the world. Complimentary lifetime codes to baby reports are offered with email sign up.
Alea, a company that enables child development monitoring by parents using the Lorestry app and companion baby reports, has been raising public awareness of the importance of post pandemic baby and child development monitoring, the troubling rise of maternal-child health deserts, and rising rates of autism, developmental delays, and learning disabilities.
The Lorestry baby reports feature is available in the U.S. and 38 countries for $179.99/month as an in-app purchase in the App store. The lifetime subscription is available from the company for $199.99. For mother's day, Lorestry wants every mother in the world to be a storyteller.
Lorestry engages parents as health historians, storytellers, and collaborative partners for real-time observational data gathering. The company provides parents with their own data set that they can share with providers and early education teams.
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When Phyllis Glink took a job at the Irving Harris Foundation 26 years ago, “we were by far the biggest funders in early childhood because there weren’t that many of us,” she recalls.
A group of maybe a dozen foundations interested in early-childhood issues would sometimes gather informally to talk about their work.
A lot has changed since then. Glink now leads the Irving Harris Foundation, which, while still giving millions of dollars in early-childhood grants each year, is no longer the biggest donor on the scene. The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative counts nearly 60 national, state, and local foundations as members.
While grantmakers have historically put more resources into elementary and secondary education than early childhood, support for the youngest learners is on the rise. From 2006 to 2013, foundations over all gave at least $4.6 billion to support early-childhood education, according to data from Candid. From 2014 to 2021, that sum grew to $7.1 billion.
As more donors have contributed, they’ve found new ways to link arms and help more people.
Grantmakers now support the child-care and educator workforce through the Early Educator Investment Collaborative and home-based child-care providers through Home Grown. Collaboratives, including Blue Meridian and Pediatrics Supporting Parents, have zeroed in on well-child appointments in the pediatrician’s office as a key moment to support healthy social and emotional development. Dozens of foundations have pooled their resources through organizations such as Alliance for Early Success and the First Five Years Fund, advocacy groups working to get more government funding at the state and federal levels.
This coming together is part of a larger trend. Research from the Bridgespan Group found that the pace of establishing pooled grantmaking funds of all kinds has accelerated in recent years, and their giving potential could be exponentially greater. A 2021 survey of 97 pooled funds estimated their grantmaking totaled $2 billion to $3 billion in 2020. Collectively, they estimated that they could distribute up to $15 billion a year with minimal growth in current staffing.
One of the reasons there has been so much collaboration among early-childhood donors? The size of the challenge is massive, says Shannon Rudisill, executive director of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, which operates a pooled fund to support grassroots groups that advocate for more quality education and care for all youngsters.
“In this country, we have chosen not to prioritize or invest in this. We don’t have paid family leave for people when they have babies. We don’t have economic supports for families when they’re young. We don’t have adequate child care when it’s time to go to work,” Rudisill says. “We are woefully undercommitted to a public system of support for young kids and families.”
For that reason, she says, “what any one funder can do is going to have some limits.”
Working together might range from multimillion-dollar grantmaking efforts and pooled funds to less structured arrangements where funders come together to learn.
The eight foundations involved in the Early Educator Investment Collaborative, for example, are working to reimagine the system of teacher qualifications and preparation in a way that supports and builds on its existing diversity. The early-education work force is predominantly female and disproportionately women of color. The average hourly wage is just $14.
The collaborative has funded research that examines how systemic racism in the United States has influenced early-childhood education policy, with a particular focus on improving workforce stability and educator pay.
It has also made seven grants totaling $11.3 million to colleges and universities, with a focus on those that serve marginalized populations or that partner with two-year community colleges, to help them strengthen programs that prepare early-childhood teachers. Among other things, grantees are revising curricula to offer certificates in multiple languages and trying skills assessments focused on observing educators’ competency in the classroom as opposed to only using proficiency tests.
“When you do an individual grant, you have to pick one aspect of that big problem and address it. But collectively, if we can get six to eight institutions of higher education to be successful in developing these kinds of programs, that begins to have an influence on the field of higher education and the early-childhood world,” says Jessie Rasmussen, president of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, a member of Early Educator Investment Collaborative. “That’s the beauty of coming together.”
A couple of groups of donors have set their sights on the pediatrician’s office as a key place to connect with nearly every child.
Pediatrics Supporting Parents — made up of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Einhorn Collaborative, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Overdeck Family Foundation, and the Perigee Fund — aims to nurture children’s social and emotional development by improving the quality of the doctor’s appointments over the first three years of a child’s life.
The group, founded in 2017, spent three years identifying a set of successful practices — such as providing ongoing physician training and helping build parents’ confidence through feedback that affirms positive interactions with their child.
The foundations created a donor-advised fund for joint grant making that will apply the common practices in several regions. They’ve also written policy papers detailing how Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program — which provide health insurance for nearly half of children under age 3 — could finance care that’s more supportive of a child’s development.
One effort the collaborative supports, the HealthySteps program — part of the nonprofit Zero to Three — which places early-childhood-development specialists in pediatric primary care practices. The specialists join routine appointments to help answer parents’ questions, conduct developmental and mental health screenings, and help tell families about other resources. The goal is to ensure that young children reach important early developmental and social-emotional milestones.
HealthySteps got its start 26 years ago when New York philanthropist Bernard Levy gave $25,000 to Zero to Three. The program was tried in a few locations around the country. But while parents and pediatricians said they loved it, and external evaluations offered evidence of the program’s positive impact on early learning and development, the idea did not attract government funding.
Now interest in helping parents and others in the first three years of a child’s life has begun to accelerate and the program is gaining support. As a result of a major cash infusion from the donor collaborative Blue Meridian, which is made up of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Duke Endowment, and others, the program has been able to expand significantly in recent years.
In 2018, Blue Meridian gave $39 million to HealthySteps. And earlier this year the collaborative, which now counts MacKenzie Scott and the Valhalla and Zoom foundations among its members, announced an additional $46.5 million investment to expand the program’s reach over the next five years.
Today, HealthySteps reaches more than 300,000 babies and young children in 200-plus pediatric offices in 25 states. Matthew Melmed, who leads Zero to Three, says the program is on track to serve 1 million babies a year by 2032.
There are many places where grantmakers can help improve the lives of young children, says Glink, of the Irving Harris Foundation. Whether their point of entry is through health care, workforce development, direct service, or state education policy, wherever foundations put their resources, she says, they should know who is working beside them so that they can collaborate effectively.
Changing the systems that support kids, she says, requires “figuring out how to knit and weave what we’re doing together.”
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina's capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide.
At its heyday in the 1960s, more than 1,500 parishioners filled every seat at Zion. But membership at the historic church — a crucial meeting point for many during the Civil Rights Movement — dwindled over recent decades.
The trend has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which infected and killed Black Americans at a disproportionate rate. Zion's attendance dropped from 300 parishioners before the outbreak to 125 now.
Founded in 1865 — the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated — Zion still has a choir capable of beautiful singing, but it too has shrunk by more than half. The stomping of feet and the call-and-response of the leader and congregation have subsided from what they were before the pandemic.
"It saddens my heart," said Calvernetta Williams, who has worshipped at Zion for 40 years. "What I really say to myself is, 'Lord, the pastor has a lot of outreach to do, and so do we … because it'll never be the same."
Zion's shrinking attendance is in line with a recent Pew Research Center survey; it found a significant attendance drop among Black Protestants that is unmatched by any other major religious group. The number of Black Protestants who say they attend services monthly has fallen from 61% in 2019 to 46% now, said Pew, and they are the only group in which more than half (54%) attend services virtually.
Zion broadcasts services online, produces digital content and is active on social media. But the Rev. M. Andrew Davis said his church's virtual experience can't match in-person interactions, including the smiles of children, and how sometimes older congregants share testimonials about how God healed them.
Davis' sermon on a recent Sunday was titled: "Trust during times of trouble." He recalled the pandemic as one the most challenging times in his church's history – and offered words of hope.
"We may not ever go back to the way it was, but we can do better," Davis told parishioners.
Black Americans — two-thirds of whom are Protestant — attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often, surveys show. But patterns of worship are shifting across generations: younger Black adults attend church less often than their elders, and those who attend are less likely to do so in a predominantly Black congregation.
"It's imperative that we get our young people back," said Donnie Mack, a deacon at Zion. "As we say in old churches — if you don't see any young people, if you don't hear any babies crying, then, you're at a dying church."
Several Black church leaders said it's proved difficult to convince members to return for in-person worship. They note that many congregants are older, have inadequate access to health care, and hesitate to return to church for fear of catching a contagious illness.
Additionally, many Black working people had jobs deemed essential and were less able to work from home during the pandemic, raising concerns about exposing others in their often crowded households to the virus.
"The pandemic exasperated that," said the Rev. Quardricos Driskell, pastor at Beulah Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Attendance at his 160-year-old church dropped from a peak of more than 200 people who met in two Sunday services in the early 2000s, to less than half that at a single service.
"We're lucky if we have 100 on any given Sunday," Driskell said.
Despite the attendance drop, academics, pastors and parishioners agree that churches remain fundamental to Black communities, providing refuge and hope, especially during times of challenge.
"No pillar of the African American community has been more central to its history, identity, and social justice vision than the 'Black Church,'" Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in 'The Black Church,' his companion volume to the PBS series.
Although there's broad respect for the historical role of Black churches, including their crucial role fighting for racial equality, polls show that there's also a perception among Black Americans that they have lost influence in recent decades.
"It still functions in the same way: It's a source of hope for people who cannot hold on to political promises, they can't necessarily go to the law and get the things that we need and give them the safety that we need," said Tamura Lomax, professor of religious studies at Michigan State University who specializes in the Black church.
But attendance had been dwindling — even before the pandemic and the 2020 protests over racial justice — because the way people connected to the church had changed, Lomax said.
During the pandemic, Black pastors used their influence to encourage vaccinations from the pulpit, while hosting testing clinics and vaccination events in church buildings.
"It has impacted our community pretty substantially," said the Rev. Hewitt Clifton Sawyers at West Harpeth Primitive Baptist Church in Franklin, Tennessee. Attendance at the church dropped from about 150 people before COVID to about 80 now. "The people are just really, really afraid to come back."
Although in-person numbers dropped, some Black Protestant churches have grown if one counts a rise in virtual attendance.
The Rev. Eldren D. Morrison of Shaw Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Georgia's Cobb County, said in-person attendance plunged by half — from 400 to about 200 — since the virus outbreak. But the pandemic helped pastors like him rethink how to connect with their congregation.
"It's teaching us that we're not necessarily looking for numbers, but we're looking for engagement," Morrison said. "Whether that's virtual, or whether that's people in pews or whether it's through some type of ministry involvement throughout the community, people are involved with the church and are growing their faith. And that's what the mission is in the end anyway."
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Top Player Prop Bets for Celtics vs. Hawks NBA Playoffs Game 4 on April 23, 2023
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Celtics vs. Hawks Game Info
- Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023
- Time: 7:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, BSSE, and NBCS-BOS
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: State Farm Arena
NBA Props Today: Boston Celtics
Jayson Tatum Props
- The 29.5 points prop total set for Tatum on Sunday is 0.6 fewer points than his season scoring average (30.1).
- Tatum has averaged 0.7 fewer rebounds per game (8.8) than his prop bet total in Sunday's game (9.5).
- Tatum has averaged 4.6 assists per game, 0.1 more than Sunday's assist over/under (4.5).
- Tatum has averaged 3.2 made three-pointers per game, 0.3 less than his over/under in Sunday's game (3.5).
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Jaylen Brown Props
- Sunday's over/under for Jaylen Brown is 25.5. That's 1.1 less than his season average.
- He has averaged 6.9 rebounds per game, 0.4 higher than his prop bet on Sunday.
- Brown picks up 3.5 assists per game, equal to his prop bet on Sunday.
- He makes 2.4 three-pointers per game, 0.1 less than his prop bet total on Sunday (2.5).
Derrick White Props
- Derrick White is averaging 12.4 points in the 2022-23 season, 3.1 lower than Sunday's over/under.
- White has grabbed 3.6 boards per game, which is less than his prop bet for Sunday's game (4.5).
- White's assist average -- 3.9 -- is 0.6 lower than Sunday's over/under (4.5).
- White, at 1.8 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.7 less than his over/under on Sunday.
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Trae Young Props
- Young is averaging 26.2 points in the 2022-23 season, 0.7 higher than Sunday's over/under.
- Young has collected three boards per game, which is less than his prop bet for Sunday's game (3.5).
- Young averages 10.2 assists, 1.7 more than his over/under for Sunday.
- Young averages 2.1 made three-pointers, 0.6 more than his over/under on Sunday.
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Dejounte Murray Props
- Sunday's points prop bet for Dejounte Murray is 21.5 points. That's 1.0 more than his season average of 20.5.
- Murray's per-game rebound average -- 5.3 -- is 0.2 fewer than his prop bet over/under in Sunday's game (5.5).
- Murray has averaged 6.1 assists per game this year, 0.6 more than his prop bet for Sunday (5.5).
- Murray's 1.8 made three-pointers per game is 0.3 more than his over/under in Sunday's game (1.5).
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New, free dog run opens in Queens
NEW YORK - In late June NYC Parks unveiled a brand-new dog run at Travers Park in Jackson Heights -- it's the first of its kind, free, and open to everyone.
"We are 'paw'sitively excited. I'm going to try and get every pun in here," said Regina Fojas, the Treasurer of the Canine Social Club. "We are so, so happy, and we're so grateful to our council member and the other dog affinity groups in the area that have been working on this for a while."
Queens Councilman Shekar Krishnan says during the pandemic there was a huge uptick in dog ownership in the community.
"Every dog is connected to a human being, to a family, to a child, a parent, a senior," adds Krishnan. "We have seen how much our furry friends restore us, make us happy, and are crucial for our mental health and for our well-being. Having a space--a dog run for our community is restorative--both for dog owners as it is for dogs."
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8,000 acres burning in the Everglades
Thousands of acres are burning to the west in the Everglades, but many neighbors in Southern Palm Beach County saw the impact of the fire for hours on Thursday.
Melory Johnson said while walking her dog the bright evening sky is completely different from hours ago.
"We came outside this morning and all I could smell was fire. The sky is a bit hazy and brown this morning. I actually thought it might be rain clouds," she said.
Johnson said she went for a jog Thursday morning and the conditions only got worse and worse.
"So, just running this morning there was just ashes, falling ash. It wasn’t great because every time I inhaled, I was inhaling ash," she said. "I could breathe but it was enough, I noticed it. You could clearly see I had ash on my shirt I had, as on my cap."
The Florida Forestry Service said there are three fires totaling more than 8,000 acres burning in the everglades, west of Sawgrass Expressway.
The fire started Wednesday from lightning, and they’re monitoring the flames from the air and on the ground.
Sal Damico said he and his wife noticed a heavy fog this morning.
"A lot of fog, very foggy. We live on a lake so behind the lake was all foggy," he said.
Living in Florida for over 20 years he’s taking this in stride.
"It’s not that uncommon," he said.
The Florida Forestry Service said they're monitoring those winds for any shift. The flames are in a remote area far from any homes.
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Nashville school shooter planned attack for months, police say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As students across Nashville walked out of class on Monday to protest gun violence at the Tennessee Capitol following a school shooting last week, police said the person who killed six people, including three 9-year-old children, had been planning the massacre for months.
Police have not established a motive for the shootings at The Covenant School, a small Christian elementary school where the 28-year-old shooter was once a student, according to a Monday news release from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
Both Nashville police and FBI agents continue to review writings left behind by Audrey Hale, both in Hale's vehicle and home, police said.
"It is known that Hale considered the actions of other mass murderers," police said.
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The three children who were killed in the shooting were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The three adults were Katherine Koonce, 60, the head of the school, custodian Mike Hill, 61, and 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak.
Hale fired 152 rounds during the attack before being killed by police. That included 126 rifle rounds and 26 nine-millimeter rounds, according to police.
Outside the state Capitol on Monday, thousands rallied in a call for gun reform, many of them students from Nashville-area schools who walked out of their classes en masse.
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The crowd echoed chants such as "thoughts and prayers are not enough" and sang along to songs like "All You Need is Love" – adding to it, "and action!" At one point, they sat for a moment of silence, raising posters above their heads that read, "Thoughts and prayers are useless to dead children," "Book bags not body bags," and "2nd graders over 2nd amendment." Some students wore orange shooting-target stickers on their shirts.
Vivian Carlson, a senior at Hume-Fogg High School nearby in downtown Nashville, helped organize her school’s walkout. She told the crowd that her biggest fear last week, when the shooting unfolded, should have been "missing the bus or my stepmom scolding me for not cleaning the cat litter box." Instead, she said she was missing English class Monday because politicians are "protecting old laws for a new society."
Carlson, like many others who addressed the crowd, called for changes to Tennessee's gun laws, including a ban on assault weapons, tougher background checks and a "red flag" law.
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Red flag laws generally allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate weapons from people whose statements or behavior are deemed to make them a danger to themselves or others.
"To my fellow students, we cannot let this pressure and fire escape us," Carlson said. "Feel the fear as you walk into school and let it inspire you to fight for change. And please, if there is one thing you can do, I beg you to vote."
Tennessee's Republican governor and supermajority Republican legislature have moved to loosen gun laws in recent years. The same day as the Covenant shooting a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 — just two years after a new law set the age at 21.
The protests spilled into the Capitol as lawmakers went into session, as they did last Thursday. Some students sat outside the House speaker’s office in the legislative building Monday, as well.
RELATED: Nashville school shooting: Suspect who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled campus, police say
As thousands swarmed the Capitol, Gov. Bill Lee and state lawmakers held a press conference nearby to unveil legislative proposals that would add more funding for school resource officers and mental health resources.
The proposals included $140 million to place an armed security guard at every public school, as well as $27 million to enhance public and private school security. Lee is also proposing adding $30 million to expand the state’s homeland security network that will work with both public and private schools.
The governor’s proposals must now clear the Legislature as lawmakers are in their final weeks of the session.
Notably absent from Lee’s announcement were any calls to tighten the state’s access to guns. As he stood surrounded by top Republican leaders, Lee said he believed that people who are a threat to themselves should not have access to weapons, but also stated that any law designed to address those concerns shouldn’t impede 2nd Amendment rights.
RELATED: Nashville shooting: Hundreds protest at Tennessee Capitol demanding gun control
He called on the Legislature to find the appropriate solution. Yet that call to action may be short-lived after Sen. Todd Gardenhire, who chairs the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters that he has no plans to consider any new gun-related bills this session.
"We all agree that we should all find something that we agree upon," Lee said. "I think we can do that and I think we should do that."
Lee added that he had not talked to Gardenhire about his stance on halting new gun legislation.
An AP investigation last year found that most U.S. state barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens. It’s a trend experts blame on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them even as shootings and gun deaths soar.
Police have said Hale was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed "emotional disorder." However, authorities haven’t disclosed a link between that care and the shooting. Police also said Hale was not on their radar before the attack.
Social media accounts and other sources indicate that the shooter identified as a man and might have recently begun using the first name Aiden. Police have said Hale "was assigned female at birth" but used masculine pronouns on a social media profile.
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Green Bay Packers vs. Miami Dolphins odds: NFL Week 16 point spread, moneyline, over/under
The Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins play on Sunday in a game on the NFL Week 16 schedule.
What do the odds say about the game?
The Dolphins are a 4.5-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook.
The Dolphins are -210 on the moneyline in the game.
The Packers are +180.
The over/under for the game is set at 46.5 points.
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The Packers are coming off an NFL Week 15 game against the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football.
The Dolphins lost to the Buffalo Bills, 32-29.
These teams did not play each other last season.
The NFL Week 16 game is scheduled to kick off at 11 a.m. MST Sunday and can be seen on Fox.
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EXTON, Pa., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, announces that the Company's Board of Directors has approved a second-quarter 2023 dividend of $0.19 per share. The dividend will be paid on May 3, 2023, to shareholders of record as of April 26, 2023.
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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative, high-quality injectable solutions and services. As a trusted partner to established and emerging drug developers, West helps ensure the safe, effective containment and delivery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines for patients. With 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, West helps support our customers by delivering approximately 47 billion components and devices each year.
2023 marks West's 100-year milestone of innovation and the critical role it continues to play in healthcare and the patient experience. Headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, West in its fiscal year 2022 generated $2.89 billion in net sales. West is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WST) and is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. For more information, visit www.westpharma.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – It has long been understood that big city living can come with a hefty price tag. Even some of the smallest apartments in New York City, for example, can set you back hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a month. If you’re planning to move to a big city near you, you’ll need to make sure your paycheck can afford it.
Renters in the nation’s largest cities are paying an average of $1,759 a month, according to Realtor.com’s September Rental Report. That’s down about $20 from July when the median rate peaked.
Depending on how much money you earn each month, that rent may not be staggering. But in some of the nation’s largest cities, the rent is higher (sometimes much higher), adding to the already staggering costs of living in many of them.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as many financial advisers, recommend following a financial plan in which your rent-to-income ratio is less than 30%. Meaning if you make $100 a month, only about $33 should be spent on your housing costs.
Using that ratio, financial technology company SmartAsset calculated how much renters living in the nation’s 25 largest cities need to earn to afford both one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments on average.
To determine the average annual income necessary to afford the median rent rates of both sizes of apartments, SmartAsset used a rent-to-income ratio of 28%, slightly below the HUD’s recommendation. Cities were then ranked based on how much renters would need to earn to afford an average two-bedroom apartment.
Unsurprisingly, SmartAsset found cities in California require renters to earn among the highest income levels to afford apartments. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose, where the rent for either one or both of the apartment options reviewed was greater than $3,000 a month, renters would need to earn six-figure incomes to match the 28% ratio.
The same is true for five of the other cities ranking among the top 10 — though they, for the most part, have rents below $3,000 — a six-figure income was found to be necessary to meet the recommended ratio.
Below are the five cities with the highest income thresholds necessary to afford the average rent, as well as the income need for one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments:
Among the more affordable cities, renters in four could afford average apartments with an income of less than $50,000, according to SmartAsset. Those cities are Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; Detroit; and El Paso, Texas.
Here are the five most affordable cities for renters, based on SmartAsset’s review:
These rankings also align with data from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, which offers insights into how much you need to make to afford to live in your city, county, or state based on typical expenses like food, housing, taxes, and more.
Based on the findings from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, a single adult living in the five cities with the more expensive rent listed above needs to earn a wage of more than $21 an hour. San Francisco has the highest rate at $25.55. Among the five cheaper cities, a single adult needs a living wage of between about $14 and $16 — Detroit has the highest living wage among these cities at $16.20.
There is hope for renters across the U.S. though. According to Realtor.com, the average rents for one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and studio apartments are starting to cool down. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/can-you-afford-to-be-a-renter-in-these-cities-heres-what-a-new-report-says/ | 2022-10-29 16:01:37 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/can-you-afford-to-be-a-renter-in-these-cities-heres-what-a-new-report-says/ |
By JAN M. OLSEN
Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western nations Thursday to provide more money to help Ukraine’s military keep fighting nearly 5½ months after Russia invaded its neighbor.
“The sooner we stop Russia, the sooner we can feel safe,” Zelenskyy said while addressing defense leaders at a Denmark conference aimed at strengthening financing for weapons, training and demining work in his country.
“We need armaments, munitions for our defense,” he added, speaking via a live link from Ukraine.
The conference in Copenhagen is a follow-up to an April meeting at a U.S. air base in Germany that established the U.S.-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which coordinates international military support for Ukraine.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who attended the conference in Denmark’s capital, told journalists that acquiring more fighter planes is the country’s priority right now.
“In the first stage, we need fighters. After that, demining,” Reznikov said.
Denmark is co-hosting the daylong conference in Copenhagen with Britain and Ukraine. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the goal of the event was securing “concrete steps.”
He announced that Britain says it will send more multiple launch rocket systems and guided missiles to Ukraine to help it resist Russia’s invasion.
The new weapons, whose number wasn’t specified, come on top of several rocket-launch systems given by Britain to Ukraine earlier this year. Ukrainian troops have been trained in Britain to use them.
“Our continued support sends a very clear message, Britain and the international community remain opposed to this illegal war and will stand shoulder-to-shoulder, providing defensive military aid to Ukraine to help them defend against Putin’s invasion,” Wallace said.
Before the conference started, the Danish government said it would give Ukraine an extra 820 million kroner ($113 million), which would bring Denmark’s total contribution to the war effort to more than 3 billion kroner ($413 million). Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called it “a huge donation.”
Part of the money would pay for 130 Danish troops to help train Ukrainian forces in Britain over the coming months.
“We will not let you down,” Frederiksen said as she opened the conference.
Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said there was still unwavering Western support for Ukraine.
“There still is a very strong support to help Ukraine, also on the long run. It is decisive for Ukraine to be able to defend itself against the Russian attack,” Arild Gram said.
The Kyiv School of Economics released a report Wednesday assessing the cost of war damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure at more than $110 billion. The report said 304 bridges and more than 900 health care facilities were either destroyed or damaged.
___ Jill Lawless in London, and James Brooks in Copenhagen, contributed to this report.
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident may be to blame.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian also rejected accusations that China had not fully cooperated with investigators, saying it welcomed a science-based probe but rejected any political manipulation.
He also reiterated calls for an investigation into “highly suspicious laboratories such as Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina” in the United States where China has suggested, without evidence, that the U.S. was developing the coronavirus as a bioweapon.
“The lab leak theory is totally a lie concocted by anti-China forces for political purposes, which has nothing to do with science,” Zhao said at a daily briefing.
“We always supported and participated in science-based global virus tracing, but we firmly opposed any forms of political manipulation,” he said, repeating China’s long-standing explanation for delaying or rejecting further investigations into the virus’s origins.
Zhao said China has made major contributions toward virus tracing, sharing the most data and research results.
That “fully reflects China’s open, transparent and responsible attitude, as well as its support for the work of the WHO and the advisory group,” he said.
The WHO’s stance in a report released Thursday is a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins. It comes after many critics accused WHO of being too quick to dismiss or underplay a lab-leak theory that put Chinese officials on the defensive.
Following a tightly controlled visit to China last year, the WHO concluded that it was “extremely unlikely” the coronavirus might have spread to humans from a lab in the city of Wuhan. Many scientists suspect the coronavirus jumped from bats to people, possibly via another animal.
However, in the Thursday report, WHO’s expert group said “key pieces of data” to explain how the pandemic began were still missing. The scientists said the group would “remain open to any and all scientific evidence that becomes available in the future to allow for comprehensive testing of all reasonable hypotheses.”
Identifying a disease’s source in animals typically takes years. It took more than a decade for scientists to pinpoint the species of bats that were the natural reservoir for SARS, a relative of COVID-19.
The expert group also noted that since lab accidents in the past have triggered some outbreaks, the theory could not be discounted. They said China has not presented any studies to WHO that assessed the possibility of the coronavirus resulting from a laboratory leak.
The new report is indicative of a more confrontational relationship between China’s authoritarian Communist leadership and the WHO, which had initially been accused of being overly deferential to Beijing, particularly by the former U.S. Trump administration.
The coronavirus has killed more than 6.3 million people worldwide, forced dozens of countries into lockdown and upended the world economy. It was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and was initially linked to a traditional market where wild animals were sold for food.
China was accused of responding slowly and covering up the extent of the outbreak, before it locked down the entire city of Wuhan and surrounding areas in the first of a series of draconian measures labeled “zero-COVID” which continue today as much of the rest of the world is opening up again.
Last month, the WHO called “zero-COVID” unsustainable, pointing to increased knowledge of the virus and the cost to the economy and civil rights. China rejected the criticism as “irresponsible.”
China was also accused of leading a disinformation campaign, suggesting the virus was detected elsewhere before the Wuhan outbreak and putting forward other theories aimed at diverting attention from China.
Investigations by The Associated Press found that some top WHO insiders were frustrated by China during the initial outbreak even as WHO heaped praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping. They were also upset over how China sought to clamp down on research into the origins of COVID-19.
Zhao appeared to imply that China would reject any criticisms or suspicions of it.
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HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The fascination with Brian Harman at the British Open has little to do with his golf so far. It’s rare in Britain to hear tales of hunting turkey, learning to skin a deer at age 8 and packing wild game in the freezer for his family to eat.
One tabloid called him “Brian the Butcher.” Another headline screamed, “I Shoot to Thrill.”
Harman’s only concern is bagging the biggest trophy of his career, and he stayed on target Saturday by overcoming an early wobble with a remarkably steady hand.
His 8-foot par putt on the last hole at Royal Liverpool gave him a 2-under 69 and allowed him to keep his five-shot lead, leaving him 18 holes away from becoming a major champion.
“I’ve thought about winning majors for my whole entire life,” Harman said. “It’s the whole reason I work as hard as I do and why I practice as much as I do and why I sacrifice as much as I do. Tomorrow if that’s going to come to fruition for me, it has to be all about the golf. It has to be execution and just staying in the moment.”
He said he is most proud of making the FedEx Cup playoffs each of his 12 years on the PGA Tour, where he has two wins in 335 tournaments.
Sunday could change all that.
His lead remained five shots. Only the contenders changed on a wet day at the British Open.
Cameron Young, the runner-up at St. Andrews a year ago, showed superb touch from a pot bunker in front of the 18th green that set up a tap-in birdie for a 66 and put him in the final pairing with Harman on Sunday.
“I feel like he’s not someone to back down,” Young said.
Equally daunting is the sight of Jon Rahm, finally getting rewarded with a 63 that he capped off just as Harman was starting. It was the lowest round by two shots ever recorded in an Open at Royal Liverpool, hosting the oldest championship for the 13th time.
“That’s the best round I’ve played on a links course,” Rahm said.
When it was pointed out that his idol, Seve Ballesteros, never shot 63 in a major, Rahm quickly replied, “I’d rather win three times and never shoot 63.”
At least Rahm has a chance, which looked unlikely when he began the third round in the rain and wind and was 12 shots out of the lead.
Harman was at 12-under 201 and he has history on his side. Jean Van de Velde is the last player to lose a five-shot lead in the final round of a major. That was in Carnoustie in 1999 and featured one of the most dumbfounding triple bogeys ever on the 72nd hole of a major.
Harman, the gritty little lefty from Georgia, is not prone to such blunders. He has made the five-shot margin feel larger where he’s been hitting the golf ball — on the grass, not in the pot bunkers — and he rarely has been out of position.
Harman was paired with Tommy Fleetwood, the local star who grew up some 45 minutes up the Lancashire coast in Southport and had a throaty English gallery on his side. They were roaring when Harman bogeyed the opening hole and then went long of the fourth green for another bogey. His five-shot lead suddenly was down to two shots.
And then it wasn’t.
“I got off to a rough start, but I stayed the ship,” Harman said. “I hit a bunch of good ones coming down the stretch. … I was out there trying to hit every shot the best I could, and I did an OK job with that.”
Harman points to two key shots during his round. One was a 3-wood into the par-5 fifth green and a beautiful lag from 70 feet that set up an easy and much-needed birdie. The other was on No. 7, when he was in the rough, hit out 50 yards short of the flag, pitched to 6 feet and made the par putt.
“I had sort of righted the ship, and then I hit a loose one off 7 tee box and was able to make par to keep me from going backwards again,” he said.
The day was a big disappointment for so many others, starting with Rory McIlroy.
He opened with three birdies in five holes — he had birdie chances of 10 and 12 feet on the other two holes — and looked primed to post the kind of score Rahm did earlier. But he didn’t make birdie the rest of the way, and the finish was particularly painful. McIlroy missed birdie chances from 8, 12 and 10 feet.
He chose not to speak to the media for the second time this week, heading straight to the putting green. McIlroy shot 69 and was nine shots behind, his hopes all but over of ending his nine-year drought in the majors.
Fleetwood rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 2 and then didn’t make a birdie the rest of the day. He had to settle for a 71, leaving him in the group at 5-under 208 — seven shots out of the lead — with Jason Day (69), Viktor Hovland (66), Sepp Straka (70) and Antoine Rozner (67).
Young was the biggest threat late. He missed two birdie putts from inside 7 feet, which didn’t bother him because he felt they were good putts and the greens can be deceptive. Nothing really bothered him except for being five shots behind, and there wasn’t much he could do about that.
“With the lead he has right now, it’s not necessarily going to be up to me tomorrow,” Young said. “It’s just really time for me to focus on myself and see where that gets me.”
So the hunter is now the hunted, and Harman is OK with that. He leads the field in putting. He is among the top 10 in driving accuracy, and those are two keys to playing this links. He also has the experience of a 54-hole lead in a major. That was the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills, the lead was only one shot, and Harman recalls thinking too much about it.
Now he makes it sound simple.
“I had 36 holes. Now I have 18 holes,” he said.
Nothing short of a silver claret jug is on the line, one trophy that doesn’t go in the freezer.
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TOKYO, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society for Information Display (SID), the world's largest electronic display society, has awarded Sony Corporation, Sony PCL Inc., and Sony Innovation Studios Inc., the "Display Application of the Year" award for their "Crystal LED Virtual Production System Solution." This is being awarded in recognition of the display's innovative and outstanding application, and its great impact on the market in 2021.
The awarded "Crystal LED Virtual Production System Solution" is a new content creation solution that enhances the freedom of expression for creators. This is enabled by the "in-camera VFX" method, which combines the Sony's large LED display "Crystal LED B-series" and their digital cinema camera "VENICE," alongside a camera tracking system and real-time engine.
A virtual background such as 3DCG (three-dimensional computer graphics) is displayed on the Crystal LED B-series display, which has features supported such as high resolution, high brightness, and wide color gamut. This enables video production that combines CG and live-action in real time without post-processing such as composition. The combination of the Crystal LED and VENICE delivers high-quality color reproduction and gradation expression, resulting in reduced editing work and high-quality content. Furthermore, the point cloud software "Atom View" – Sony Innovation Studios award winning and patented technology – scans existing places and objects and converts them into 3DCG models. This makes it possible to create photorealistic virtual backgrounds, as if the subjects were really there.
In Japan, Sony PCL began demonstration experiments of Virtual Production technology in 2020, and is now actively providing the solution. Sony PCL has already achieved results in various content production businesses such as commercials, movies, and music videos. Sony PCL will continue to provide cutting-edge production technology and creative work, including Virtual Production at the "Kiyosumi Shirakawa BASE," a new studio which was newly established in February this year.
"The SID Display Industry Awards recognize the best display products or applications introduced to the market during the previous calendar year," noted Wei Chen, SID's Display Industry Awards Committee Chairman. "We are proud to award Sony Corporation, Sony PCL Inc., and Sony Innovation Studios Inc. a 2022 Display Application of the Year honor for its Crystal LED virtual production system solution. We commend the company's ongoing commitment to innovation and to helping shape the future of display performance and solutions."
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The Display Industry Awards are the display industry's most prestigious honor, given annually since 1995 by the Society for Information Display to recognize the best display products or applications introduced to the market during the previous calendar year. There are three award categories: Display of the Year, Display Application of the Year, and Display Component of the Year.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vial, a next-generation CRO, site network and technology platform, recently announced the planned launch of an Ophthalmology CRO. As part of the planned launch, Vial has established an Ophthalmology Scientific Board in order to get feedback from PIs and leaders in the field before the CRO launch. Vial is pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Holekamp of the Pepose Vision Institute was brought on as an advisor. Dr. Holekamp joins the founding member, Dr. Arshad Khanani, on the Ophthalmology SAB.
Dr. Holekamp currently serves as the Director of Retina Services at the Pepose Vision Institute in St. Louis, MO. Prior to her role there, she was a Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Holekamp received her Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Alpha Omega Alpha.
Throughout her career, Dr. Holekamp has been the principal investigator or sub-investigator for 35+ ophthalmic trials. The trials she has participated in include some of the most prevalent indications in retina, including age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular occlusion, and diabetic retinopathy.
"The world of Ophthalmology research is constantly evolving and I believe that Vial can be a major contributor to accelerating that progress. I look forward to advising the Vial team on their Ophthalmology CRO in order to solve many of the challenges I've seen first-hand as a PI," said Dr. Holekamp on her new position.
Vial's next-generation CRO is working to reimagine clinical trials. Through a technology platform and operations playbook, Vial has built "The CRO Built for Sponsors" that promises faster execution and higher quality trial outcomes. After launching in Dermatology, the Vial CRO has worked with Ophthalmic sponsors (posterior and anterior) to refine the next-gen CRO model with strong traction in Dermatology to the nuances of Ophthalmology.
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About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human disease. Vial has executed on that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (live in Dermatology CRO, with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister said Friday that European Union drug regulators may authorize the use of vaccines that are each effective against two variants of the coronavirus.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he expected the European Medicines Agency to meet Sept. 1 to consider a vaccine that would provide protection against the original virus and the omicron variant, also known as BA.1.
The EU agency would likely meet again on Sept. 27 to review a combined vaccine against the original virus and the BA.5 variant that is responsible for the latest global surge in COVID-19 cases, Lauterbach said.
Germany has procured sufficient amounts of both vaccines and would be able to start rolling them out a day after they received authorization, he said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that combination vaccines, known as “bivalent” or “multivalent” shots, will allow boosters to retain the proven benefits of original coronavirus vaccines while providing additional protection against new variants.
Such an approach is used with flu shots, which are adjusted each year depending on the variants that are circulating and can protect against four influenza strains.
Lauterbach, a trained epidemiologist, said the potential for the coronavirus to keep mutating remained high.
“There are still very many variants that could develop,” he said, noting the large number of infections worldwide, including among people with weakened immune systems that allow the virus to persist for months.
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Giants 23, Patriots 21: Three takeaways from the Pats preseason opener
FOXBORO – If you wanted to get a sneak peek of the 2022 Patriots, Thursday night’s preseason opener wasn’t a great place to start.
The team’s first exhibition game, against the New York Giants, saw most of the Patriots projected starters stay on the sidelines. Instead of Mac Jones, the Gillette Stadium crowd saw Brian Hoyer start and Bailey Zappe finish this contest.
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On offense, veteran wide receivers Jakobi Meyers, DeVante Parker, Kendrick Bourne and Nelson Agholor sat out. The same went for tight ends Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith. At running back, Damien Harris and Rhamondre Stevenson never got on the field. The same went for offensive linemen Trent Brown, Isaiah Wynn, Michael Onwenu and David Andrews.
The only projected offensive starter to see the field was rookie Cole Strange. The Patriots' first-round pick started at left guard and played the first two series, with Hoyer, before his night ended.
On defense, it was similar. We didn’t see cornerbacks Jalen Mills, Jonathan Jones or safeties Devin McCourty, Kyle Dugger or Adrian Phillips in the secondary. There was no sign of Matthew Judon or Ja’Whaun Bentley at linebacker. Defensive linemen Davon Godchaux, Lawrence Guy, Deatrich Wise and Christian Barmore had the night off as well.
Instead, Patriots rookies, backups and roster bubble players took the lead en route to the Patriots' 24-21 loss to the Giants on Thursday night. Here are three takeaways.
Matt Patricia and Joe Judge both call offensive plays
When it comes to who will replace Josh McDaniels, there’s two ways to look at the Patriots preseason opener.
At this point, Matt Patricia is clearly the leader in the clubhouse. Perhaps, he’ll be the guy calling in plays to Mac Jones. Of course, he could also be competing with Joe Judge for the job.
Both scenarios are plausible as both Patricia and Judge called offensive plays in the preseason opener.
“We did this game,” Belichick said when asked about the two coaches calling plays.” We did a lot of things in this game that are going to be beneficial in the long run, whether it was on the coaching staff, playing time, players that played and so forth. That's all part of the process.”
Patricia, the former Patriots defensive coordinator and Detroit Lions head coach, could be seen on the sideline with a headset and play sheet as soon as the Patriots offense took the field Thursday night. Although he stood next to quarterbacks coach Judge, who also had a headset and play sheet, it appeared that Patricia was the man calling the plays into Hoyer, who started the game.
This isn’t surprising since we’ve seen Patricia call most of the Patriots offensive plays this summer. Judge has had his hand in the play calling, but mainly during 7-on-7 drills when Patricia is coaching the offensive linemen. When full-team drills started, it was often Patricia calling plays. Bill Belichick has also called plays at times this offseason as well.
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After the first series, Hoyer checked in with Patricia and Jones on the sideline. Then, the quarterbacks sat around Judge, who went over plays. At the same time, Patricia had the offensive linemen huddled around him looking at his tablet. Prior to the Patriots second drive, Hoyer checked in with Patricia and Judge before taking the field. Following the Patriots’ first scoring drive, Patricia met with the quarterbacks.
Of course, things with the Patriots are never that easy. After Hoyer came out of the game, and Bailey Zappe took the field, Judge appeared to be the Patriots play caller. Judge, the Patriots former special teams coach and Giants head coach, called offensive plays for the rest of the night.
To make it more confusing, Belichick also checked in and talked with Patriots quarterbacks on Thursday night. It all sounds confusing, but it’s clear that the Patriots offense has three main voices with Patricia, Judge and Belichick.
“Yeah, don't worry about that. We'll work it out,” Belichick said when asked who will call plays in the regular season. “We're going through a process. Just like everything else on this team.”
Rookie Tyquan Thornton starts quickly
Rookie receiver Tyquan Thornton nearly made the game’s first big catch on Thursday. He settled for the game’s first touchdown.
During the Patriots' second drive, Thornton beat Giants cornerback Aaron Robinson off the line of scrimmage. The speed was evident, but Hoyer’s deep throw was late and forced Thornton to slow down. That allowed Robinson to catch up and get the pass breakup. Hoyer made amends on the next play, at 3:04 of the first, hitting Kristian Wilkerson for a 33-yard gain.
The Patriots made their way downfield where Thornton finished off the drive. With three seconds left in the first, Hoyer rolled to the right and hit Thornton for a 2-yard touchdown.
Hoyer started and played the first two series. He finished going 5-of-8 for 59 yards with a touchdown. Zappe took over at 13:13 of the second quarter. Things didn’t always run smoothly. Tackle Justin Herron was flagged for two false starts in the first half.
Zappe started slow before coming on in the second half. The rookie opened up the third quarter with a nice scoring drive. He hit Tre Nixon for gains of 36 and 32 yards before Kevin Harris finished the drive with a 3-yard rushing touchdown at 11:00 of the third quarter. With 4:56, Zappe threw his first touchdown, hitting Lil'Jordan Humphrey for a 20-yard touchdown.
“We prepared all week for multiple pressures that the Giants were going to give us, and that was one of the occasions that we practiced for. It came to fruition,” Zappe said. “We were able to score a touchdown, and he made a great play, and the O-line blocked really well and was able to let me get the ball off, and it was an overall good play.”
Zappe finished19 of 32 for 205 yards with a touchdown and interception. Kristian Wilkerson led the Patriots with eight receptions for 99 yards.
Multiple veterans stand out on defense
The Patriots defense saw multiple veterans start and play on Thursday night.
Malcolm Butler and Terrance Mitchell started at outside cornerback. Mack Wilson and Raekwon McMillan started at linebacker while Henry Anderson started on the defensive line.
Butler and Mitchell are clearly behind Mills and Jones on the cornerback depth chart, but they did play ahead of rookie Jack Jones and cornerbacks Joejuan Williams and Shaun Wade on Thursday. The veterans played three defensive series and their night ended with a highlight.
At 13:35, Mitchell punched the ball out of receiver Collin Johnson’s arms. It was an excellent forced fumble for the veteran cornerback. Butler recovered the fumble to give the Patriots offense the ball back.
“I just try to play the game until it’s over, until the whistle,” said Mitchell. “Anytime somebody has the ball, it’s a chance to get it.”
Wilson (five tackles), McMillan and linebacker Anfernee Jennings also had some nice moments. All three linebackers got hits on Giants starter Daniel Jones. Wilson’s speed was evident while Jennings has had a solid training camp.
Jennings drew the start over Josh Uche. Uche, however, notched the game’s first sack at 13:50 of the first quarter. Rookie Sam Roberts initially got to Daniel Jones first and Uche finished the play. Roberts, the team’s sixth-round pick, showed up multiple times on Thursday night. He also drew a hold in the second quarter. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2022/08/12/takeaways-patriots-nfl-preseason-game-vs-ny-giants/10304943002/ | 2022-08-12 11:12:41 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2022/08/12/takeaways-patriots-nfl-preseason-game-vs-ny-giants/10304943002/ |
Payton Gendron is accused of gunning down 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.
But while his family members don’t seem to be suffering under any delusion of his innocence, that doesn’t mean they aren’t suffering from any other delusions.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s understandable that the first instinct of a suspected criminal’s family members might be to speak out in their relative’s defense—blood is blood, after all—but there are certain crimes that are so heinous and monstrous that any perceived defense of the perpetrator could be perceived as cruel and disgusting. In this case, it actually gives a little insight into just what kind of family could spawn and raise such evil.
Two of Grendon’s extended family members shared with the New York Post their theory about what led to the 18-year-old’s alleged shooting spree. Y’all want to take a guess at what the excuse might be? Maybe video games? Violent movies and TV shows? Rap music?
How about COVID-19?
Couldn’t be, right?
The idea that the coronavirus pandemic had anything to do with why a suspected white supremacist would target a Black neighborhood for a mass shooting is unconscionably ridiculous to a point where it’s not possible anyone could think this was a plausible excuse, amirite?
“I have no idea how he could have gotten caught up in this. I blame it on COVID,’’ Sandra Komoroff, a cousin of Gendron’s mother, told the Post. “He was very paranoid about getting COVID, extremely paranoid, to the point that—his friends were saying—he would wear the hazmat suit.”
I. Blame. COVID.
Imagine the degree of indifference to Black death it would take to even think such a thing let alone say it out loud. And this wasn’t just an instance where Komoroff spoke without thinking. On the contrary, she seems to have put a lot of thought into this excuse.
From the Post:
”And then he got COVID just a few weeks ago. … He went to family functions with a respirator mask on. He totally wasn’t going to get COVID — and then he got COVID.
“They were vaxxed to the max,” she said of the family. “I don’t know if it was a bad case, I just know he caught it.”
She added that Gendron had “bought into the fear of COVID.
“That’s the only way to say it. And when you’re home all day on the internet, you’re missing out on human contact,” Sandra said. “There’s a lot of emotions and a lot of body language you’re not getting [as] when you see their face.”
So, to recap: Gendron got infected with COVID-19, which he had already “bought into the fear of,” and he suffered through quarantine—just like billions of people around the world—and that caused him to morph into a racist mass killer? Got it.
Sandra’s husband, Dave Komoroff, suggested his wife’s “theory” was perfectly reasonable.
“In theory, (COVID) could have affected what they call the lizard brain—the part of the brain that controls aggression,” he said. “I can’t say it’s impossible, but maybe that would happen one out of so many millions of times.”
As for Gendron and his alleged white supremacist manifesto, the Komoroffs appear to be dumbfounded as to where he could have picked up such an ideology.
“I don’t understand the racist thing, because my family is the farthest thing from racist,” Sandra Komoroff added. “I’ve never heard a racist comment from him, from his parents. It’s almost like he just snapped. Something in him broke.”
OK, first of all, this is coming from a woman who is apparently so racially insensitive that she came up with COVID-19 as an excuse for a white teen allegedly targeting and killing 10 Black people and wounding numerous others. So, if she and her husband are any example, then no, this family does not appear to be “the farthest thing from racist.”
Dave Komoroff, of course, appeared to blame Gendron’s internet activity for his “sudden” racism.
“I don’t know where he went online—the dark web, or wherever—but apparently he got into some nasty stuff,” he said. “He’s smart enough to get into dangerous stuff online, which maybe the average person wouldn’t know how to get into. I mean, I’m trying to figure it out myself.”
To be sure, Gendron isn’t some cyber genius who cracked the KKK code and found websites “the average person” isn’t smart enough to access.
The friends of Gendron’s family aren’t much better.
“You try your best as a parent. Something went wrong,” Jerry Kozlowski, a friend of Gendron’s parents said. “Parents miss stuff. You try as a parent the best you can. I’m sure they did. I’m grasping what happened to this young man. Why? What possesses you to go out and buy a device that is going to do that to people?”
Cathy Kozlowski, Jerry’s wife, expressed a similar sentiment about Gendron’s parents.
“Pam and Paul and the boys—I can’t imagine what that family is going through right now,” Cathy Kozlowski said referring to Gendron’s parents by their first names along with their other sons. “For Paul to face going back to work, for Pam to face going back to work, for the boys to face going to school, it’s not going to happen, at least right away. Maybe they’ll have to move somewhere else, because they’re going to get nothing but hate.”
Ten Black people were mercilessly killed leaving behind grieving families, but the Gendron’s family and their friends are somehow worried about what the suspected murderer’s parents are going through right now. The fact that it doesn’t even occur to them how insensitive they’re being says a lot.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Welcome Wren Alexander Stephens, the fourth child of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.
The baby was born June 19 via surrogate. The couple announced his arrival Wednesday on Instagram.
“We want to say thank you for this incredible gift you have given us, Alexandra,” they wrote of their surrogate. “And we are so happy to tell the world he is here, with a name forever connected to you.”
Teigen, the “Cravings” cookbook author, and Legend, the EGOT winner, added: “Our hearts, and our home, are officially full.”
The 37-year-old Teigen gave birth Jan. 13 to a girl, Esti. She and Legend, 44, have two older children, 7-year-old Luna and 5-year-old Miles. She got the chance to be pregnant for a time alongside their surrogate, describing the joy of getting to know her.
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Catch a Rina Sawayama show in the next few months, and you might be greeted with scaffolding, draped mesh, and a desolate atmosphere that lends itself to a construction site or a boxing ring. Through an onstage portrait of dilapidation, Sawayama wants to upend the expectations for a pop concert.
Before, a Sawayama concert might have had flashing lights and an imposing platform that foregrounded the pop star. Now, the British-Japanese pop singer presents a redesigned show that retains pop tropes but also experiments with minimalist and mutable elements.
“Here are pop fans who are coming to see my show. What can I give to them that still satisfies that pop but also is slightly different and is memorable?” Sawayama said in a Zoom interview with the Globe.
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“Hold the Girl: Reloaded” is the second tour for Sawayama’s sophomore album, “Hold the Girl,” released in September. She kicks it off with a date at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art on June 9. A moving follow-up to her genre-bending, iconoclastic 2020 debut “Sawayama” — a favorite of Elton John’s — “Hold the Girl” explores queer identity, the re-evaluation of childhood trauma, and immigrant parent-child relationships. Like her debut, the album contains multiple genres, this time ranging from country to stadium rock.
The album did well on the UK charts, and Sawayama did a flurry of press interviews. But commercial success was conflicting for the 32-year-old artist, as she found herself rigorously tracking her ascent and prioritizing her achievements over her artistic values.
“It actually made me feel upset because this was such an important album, and I had commercialized it,” Sawayama said.
Sawayama, who lives in London, gained fame during the pandemic — a peculiar time to rise to musical stardom. Amid global strife, “weirdly my dreams were coming true,” Sawayama said. Yet the realization of her ambitions felt precarious.
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“When something that you wanted to happen literally your whole life starts coming true, you pour everything into it because you’re scared that you’re gonna lose it,” Sawayama said.
So the first album tour and second album promotion happened in quick succession. With “Hold the Girl,” she says she relinquished creative control and was unable to fully focus on executing her music videos or her tour the way she wanted. After a particularly disillusioning trip to Los Angeles in March where she was “talking about how great I am” in meetings, Sawayama took a two-month break to reflect.
The revamped tour is a result of that creative reset. The performances are constructed to avoid being “too self-absorbed” and to convey a specific story and emotional arc, she said. Sawayama describes the show as “theatrical” with the narrative and flux of a play.
She is working with Amy and William Bowerman, a married couple and cofounders of music direction company WFB Live, for the tour. William acts as music director through WFB Live, and Amy is Sawayama’s creative director, separate from the company.
The show, which will be organized into four acts, will have a plot and dancers who are “more like cast members,” Amy Bowerman said. Sawayama will play a character who is “an exaggerated version of herself.”
Audiences who saw her on the earlier tour can expect new costumes and choreography. The biggest visual difference is that in lieu of a platform with a ring of lights, there will be a cube in the center of the stage. The structure will be adaptable and can go from being opaque to empty, with different colors and props to transform it into a symbolic space (for example, a boxing ring) that reflects each song. Fans who are familiar with the album’s concepts of safety and self-evolution will recognize the structure’s meaning.
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“It’s Rina’s home base. It’s where she comes back to. It’s a safe place,” Amy Bowerman said.
The show will also be musically unconventional to reflect Sawayama’s “very intelligent pop music,” William Bowerman said. “It’s not been about making things bigger and louder and grander. It’s actually sometimes been, how little can we do at this moment?”
This stripped-down mode allows Sawayama to fully communicate the album’s themes. According to Amy Bowerman, storytelling begets intimacy.
“Everything around Rina during the show has become a vehicle to be really open, really personal, really confessional,” Amy Bowerman said.
The storytelling component is crucial for Sawayama, who sees the tour as a way to more accurately communicate the significance of her second album. Despite the amount of press she did for “Hold the Girl,” Sawayama said she was unable to express what she meant about its personal nature.
“I don’t think I really got across the pure, real emotion behind this record and how much it really affected me privately,” Sawayama said. “I think I was trying to cram that into a pop show.”
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With her upcoming tour, Sawayama wants to take away, simply, “creative fulfillment.” That personal happiness may transfer to whoever’s watching.
“I want the audience to feel a certain way and then to be able to go away feeling really good,” she said.
RINA SAWAYAMA
At Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams. June 9 at 8 p.m. $45. massmoca.org/event/rina-sawayama
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Sacramento-area homeless teen finds a home in football
Football, family and faith helped a Sacramento teen in his journey to find a home.
Tito Mavae,18, experienced homelessness for years, and it kept the high school football player off the gridiron.
That is until the Capital Christian community stepped in and gave Mavae a place to call home and a chance to play in an upcoming championship football game.
When Mavae steps onto a football field, he is at home, something he's never had before.
"I'm at peace," he said. " There's nothing bothering me and I can do what I love."
At 6'2" and 300 lbs, Mavae loves football. Capital Christian football coach Saul Patu said Mavae is fast.
"When you're a football player and good with your hands and move fast on your feet, he's in high demand," Patu said.
When Patu first met Mavae last year, the teen was ineligible to play in the state.
"Part of the challenge: He was homeless," Patu said. "We didn't realize what was going on until we dug in."
Mavae said he wanted to make things better for himself.
"I decided to leave," Mavae said.
At age 14, Mavae left his family in Oakland where he was living with 20 other people in a small house.
"One little house, hard to provide food for others," he said. "I had to sleep on the floor and that's what drives me to keep going."
Mavae struggled for years. He was lost while looking for a permanent home and eventually dropped out of school altogether.
"I just feel most places weren't the fit for me and I was still trying to look for a place to really call home and find out where my dreams would work," Mavae said.
Last year at a family gathering, Mavae found the courage to share his despair and his dreams with his uncle from Sacramento.
"He said to me, ''Hey uncle, I have a lot of potential,' but he kinda said it secretly like no one believed," said Lemcio Vaea.
Vaea and his wife, Lesi, believed in Mavae.
Even though they already had 11 children of their own, they found the room in their home and their hearts for their nephew.
"I promised him I don't how we are going to do this but we will stop at nothing, man," Vaea said.
They found the Capital Christian community and the Rise as One program, where private donations help students like Mavae succeed in school and sports.
The path to get to Capital Christian wasn't easy. It was Mavae's fourth school in four years in three different states. He said he lost track of the number of couches he slept on before finding his home at the Sacramento-area high school.
Flash forward to today: The teenager who once experienced homelessness has another dream to fulfill on his journey. He said he wants to help his five siblings he left behind.
"My dream is to take care of my family and do whatever it takes to provide," Mavae said. "Maybe one day we will live together as one."
Mavae said his place on the football field will hopefully help his family score their own home.
Coach Patu said some colleges have already reached out for possible scholarships. Capital Christian plays Vanden Saturday in the Sac Joaquin sections championship at 1 p.m. at Sac City College. | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-area-homeless-teen-finds-a-home-in-football/42063917 | 2022-11-25 06:19:40 | 0 | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-area-homeless-teen-finds-a-home-in-football/42063917 |
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Virginia Retirement System reported a 0.6% return, net of fees, on its investment portfolio for fiscal year 2022, ending the year with approximately $101.2 billion.
"We registered a positive return by following VRS' long-term strategy of diversification while taking advantage of strong private markets," Chief Investment Officer Ronald D. Schmitz said. "Although the return was muted compared to last year's banner 27.5%, the VRS total fund outperformed passively managed stock and bond indices by over 10%. In addition, we exceeded the assumed rate of return for the three-, five- and 10-year periods."
"VRS remains in a solid position to support our current and future retirees while maintaining stable contribution rates for our employers," said VRS Board Chair A. Scott Andrews. "Our investment professionals are bound by a risk-controlled approach, typically contributing about 0.5% of average added value annually over the long term. In a year scarred by inflation, war, supply chain issues and other disruptions, the VRS investment staff achieved a remarkable 6% of added value above the benchmark, which translates to hundreds of millions toward the bottom line of the VRS trust fund."
During fiscal year 2022, the major asset classes performed as follows:
- Public equity program returned -14.8%
- Fixed income program returned -10.6%
- Credit strategies program returned 1.5%
- Real assets program returned 21.7%
- Private equity program returned 27.4%
- Private investment partnerships 17.0%
- Multi-asset public strategies -4.7%
The portfolio included approximately $29.9 billion in public equity, $12.9 billion in fixed income, $14.5 billion in credit strategies, $15.1 billion in real assets, $19.0 billion in private equity, $2.6 billion in private investment partnerships and $3.6 billion in public strategies portfolio, as of June 30, 2022.
For more information about VRS' investment strategy, visit varetire.org/investments.
The Virginia Retirement System, an independent state agency based in Richmond, delivers retirement and other benefits to covered Virginia public sector employees through sound financial stewardship and superior customer service. VRS ranks as the 17th largest public or private pension fund in the U.S. and the 46th largest in the world, serving more than 750,000 active and inactive members, retirees and beneficiaries. Members include public school teachers, political subdivision employees (cities, towns, special authorities and commissions), state agency employees, public college and university personnel, state police, Virginia law officers and the judiciary. Approximately 835 employers participate in VRS.
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MIAMI — Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on either eye.
Antonio, who's been legally blind for much of his 14 years, can see again.
The teen was born with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic condition that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes. But his skin improved when he joined a clinical trial to test the world’s first topical gene therapy. That gave Sabater an idea: What if it could be adapted for Antonio's eyes?
This insight not only helped Antonio, it also opened the door to similar therapies that could potentially treat millions of people with other eye diseases, including common ones.
Antonio’s mom, Yunielkys “Yuni” Carvajal, teared up thinking about what Sabater did for her son.
“He’s been there through everything,” she said in Spanish during a visit to the University of Miami Health System’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. “He’s not only a good doctor but such a good human being and provided us with hope. He never gave up.”
The family came to the U.S. from Cuba in 2012 on a special visa allowing Antonio to get treatment for his condition, which affects around 3,000 people worldwide. He had surgeries to remove scar tissue from his eyes, but it grew back. Antonio's vision kept getting worse, eventually deteriorating so much that he didn't feel safe walking around.
Sabater had no answers then, and tried to reassure the boy: "I'll find a solution. I just need some time. I’m working on it.”
"'Yeah, I know you’re going to do it,’” Sabater recalled Antonio saying. “That gave me the energy to continue.”
At one point, Carvajal told Sabater about the experimental gene therapy gel for Antonio's skin lesions. He contacted drugmaker Krystal Biotech to see if it could be reformulated for the boy's eyes.
Suma Krishnan, co-founder and president of research and development for the Pittsburgh-based company, said the idea made sense and “it didn’t hurt to try it."
Antonio's condition is caused by mutations in a gene that helps produce a protein called collagen 7, which holds together both skin and corneas. The treatment, called Vyjuvek, uses an inactivated herpes simplex virus to deliver working copies of that gene. The eyedrops use the same liquid as the skin version, just without the added gel.
After two years, which included testing the drug in mice, the team got “compassionate use” approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and permission from university and hospital review boards. Last August, Antonio had surgery on his right eye, after which Sabater started treating him with the eyedrops.
Krishnan said they were cautious, frequently watching to see that it was safe.
Antonio's eye recovered from the surgery, the scarring didn't return and there was significant improvement each month, Sabater said. Doctors recently measured the vision in Antoni's right eye at a near-perfect 20/25.
This year, Sabater began treating Antonio's left eye, which had even more scar tissue. That one is also steadily improving, measuring close to 20/50, which Sabater said “is pretty good vision.”
Antonio comes to the eye institute for checkups almost weekly and gets the drops once a month. During visits, Antonio must wear protective clothing covering his arms, hands, legs and feet. Like other kids with the condition — who are sometimes called “butterfly children” — his skin is so fragile that even a touch can wound him.
Antonio still uses the skin gel, which was approved by the FDA in May and can also be used off-label on eyes. It doesn’t modify DNA, so it’s not a one-time treatment like many gene therapies.
Sabater, director of the Corneal Innovation Lab at the eye institute, said gene therapy eyedrops could potentially be used for other diseases by changing the gene delivered by the virus. For example, a different gene could be used to treat Fuchs’ dystrophy, which affects 18 million people in the U.S. and accounts for about half the nation's corneal transplants.
The prospect of treating more conditions this way is “exciting," said Dr. Aimee Payne, a dermatology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who isn't involved in the research. The approach "delivers gene therapy that really addresses the root cause of disease.”
With his vision restored, Antonio has enjoyed a typical teen pastime he's wanted to do for quite a while: playing video games with his friends. And he finally feels safe walking around.
Sabater said the two-year journey seeking government and hospital approvals “was worth it. Just for Antonio, it was worth it ... but also because it opens the space to treat other patients in the future.”
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Ungar reported from Louisville, Kentucky. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/gene-therapy-eyedrops-restored-sight/507-a47858bf-8aaf-4fb5-b90a-8759b31872c2 | 2023-07-24 13:17:04 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/gene-therapy-eyedrops-restored-sight/507-a47858bf-8aaf-4fb5-b90a-8759b31872c2 |
NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE) between April 2, 2020 and January 5, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 22, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Fate securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) the Janssen Collaboration Agreement was less sustainable than Fate had represented to investors; (2) accordingly, certain of the clinical programs, milestone payments, and royalty payments associated with the Janssen Collaboration Agreement could not be relied upon as future revenue sources; (3) as a result, Fate had overstated the impact of the Janssen Collaboration Agreement's on Fate's long-term clinical and commercial profitability; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the truth emerged, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Lt. Gov. Patrick campaigns for Land Commissioner candidate Buckingham
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and District 24 Texas Senator Dawn Patrick, MD stopped briefly in Wichita Falls Wednesday afternoon at the Wichita Falls Regional Airport.
Lt. Gov. Patrick is supporting Sen. Buckingham in her campaign for Texas Land Commissioner.
A few dozen supporters were there to hear them speak and ask a few questions.
Topics such as border security, the federal government and the power grid were discussed.
"We have really done a close look at human trafficking and increasing the penalties for that, trying to get that shut down, because that's truly the modern-day slavery. It's shocking how common it is and how prevalent it is," said Buckingham.
She has a conservative voting record on issues such as a state income tax, funding for flood mitigation projects and election integrity.
Buckingham added, "We're here today because Wichita, y'all are important to us, this part of Texas is important to us. We're very clear that rural Texas, in my opinion, is like the Texas spirit.
Sen. Buckingham has been endorsed by Donald Trump, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/2022/05/11/senator-buckingham-makes-campaign-stop-wichita-falls/9736954002/ | 2022-05-12 05:02:56 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/2022/05/11/senator-buckingham-makes-campaign-stop-wichita-falls/9736954002/ |
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual announced today the Tampa-area advisors who have been named to the Forbes 2022 "Best-In-State Financial Security Professionals" list. With over 270 Northwestern Mutual advisors recognized in total, six of them are in the greater Tampa area.
The Forbes list recognizes the nation's top-performing financial advisors who provide holistic financial planning, focusing on risk mitigation, wealth management and a personal planning experience. Honorees are selected using a broad set of criteria that includes production and premiums, assets under management, client retention rates and exhibition of best practices.
The Best-In-State Financial Security Professionals ranking follows the recognition of more than 120 Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management advisors on Forbes' "Best-In-State Wealth Advisors" list and 10 advisors on Barron's "Top 1,200 Financial Advisors" ranking. Leading industry publications including Financial Planning, Financial Advisor, ThinkAdvisor and InvestmentNews consistently rank Northwestern Mutual Investment Services as a top independent broker-dealer by total revenue.
The Tampa-area Northwestern Mutual advisors recognized as 2022 Best-In-State Financial Security Professional Ranking 2022 are:
About Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 165 years. Through a holistic planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what's most important. With more than $560 billion in combined company and client assets, $34 billion in revenues, and $2.1 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to nearly five million people with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, and brokerage and advisory services. Northwestern Mutual ranked 97 on the 2022 FORTUNE 500 and was recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2022.
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM), Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (investment brokerage services), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (investment advisory and services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. Only those representatives with "Advisor" in their title or who otherwise disclose their status as an advisor of NMWMC are credentialed as NMWMC representatives to provide investment advisory services.
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Five years ago, Sara Hauman moved from San Francisco to Portland for a job: chef at the Pearl District wine bar Arden. At the time, she had a registered LLC—an idea for a rainy day. “It’s always been in my head—I was just waiting for the right moment,” Hauman says.
Creatively, she’s always felt boxed in by the restaurant industry. Instead of using the media buzz of her 2021 Top Chef appearance to open a restaurant, she’s found new freedom in owning her own business, Tiny Fish Co., which launched nationwide in January. “It might look a little crazy,” she says, “but I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”
Boquerones, vinegar-pickled anchovies (“they turn anchovy haters into anchovy lovers”), were her original muse, but sourcing difficulties and a tedious production process steered her toward other underused sea life. Currently, Tiny Fish offers tinned rockfish, mussels, geoduck clams, and octopus—all pulled from the Pacific. | https://www.wweek.com/culture/2022/07/13/sara-hauman-is-the-best-top-chef-turned-tinned-fish-entrepreneur/ | 2022-07-13 13:03:53 | 0 | https://www.wweek.com/culture/2022/07/13/sara-hauman-is-the-best-top-chef-turned-tinned-fish-entrepreneur/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The outcome in a string of closely matched California U.S. House races that could play into control of the chamber remained unsettled Friday, as millions of ballots remained uncounted in the nation’s most populous state.
More than a dozen races in the state remained in play, though only a handful were seen as tight enough to go either way. It takes 218 seats to control the House. Republicans had locked down 211 for far, with Democrats claiming 200.
It could take days, or even weeks, to determine who gets the gavel next year.
Should Democrats fail to protect their slim majority, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield would be in line to replace Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.
In California, the primary battlegrounds are Orange County — a suburban expanse southeast of Los Angeles that was once a GOP stronghold but has become increasingly diverse and Democratic — and the Central Valley, an inland stretch sometimes called the nation’s salad bowl for its agricultural production.
One of the tightest races matched Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, a star of the party’s progressive wing, against Republican Scott Baugh, a former legislator, in an Orange County district about equally divided between Democrats and Republicans.
Returns showed Porter expanding her narrow lead to 4,555 votes, or 51.2% to 48.8% for Baugh. Earlier, Porter’s edge had been about 3,000 votes.
In another close contest in a Democratic-leaning district north of Los Angeles, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia saw his comfortable edge over Democratic challenger Christy Smith dip slightly. His margin remained at 12 points, 56% to 44%.
Democrats have long dominated California’s congressional delegation, which is dropping to 52 seats next year, from 53 seats, because its population growth has stalled, though it remains the largest delegation in Congress.
In the current term, Republicans hold only 11 of the 53 seats in the strongly Democratic state.
With counting incomplete, Republicans claimed six races so far and were leading in six others.
Democrats tallied wins in 30 seats and were leading in 10 other contests. In two of those races, only Democrats were on the ballot, meaning the party will hold control of those seats.
But much uncertainty remained. As of Thursday, nearly 5 million ballots remained uncounted statewide.
East of Los Angeles, Republican Rep. Ken Calvert regained the lead after trailing Democrat Will Rollins. With about half the votes counted, Calvert held a 1-point edge. Calvert, first elected in 1992, is the longest serving Republican in the California congressional delegation.
In the Central Valley’s 22nd District, where about half the votes have been counted, an update showed Democrat Rudy Salas cutting into the lead held by Republican Rep. David Valadao, who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump. The two are divided by 5 points, after Valadao earlier had a more than 8-point advantage.
In a competitive district anchored in San Diego County, Democratic Rep. Mike Levin saw his edge grow slightly against Republican businessman Brian Maryott. Levin holds a 4-point margin, with about two-thirds of the votes tallied.
President Joe Biden was in the district in the campaign’s closing days in hopes of boosting Levin’s chances.
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MERCED COUNTY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Westervelt Ecological Services (WES) has received state and federal approval of the Piedra Azul Conservation Bank (PACB) located near Los Banos, California. The 2,418 acre bank conserves high-quality habitat for a variety of San Joaquin Valley species. The highly-anticipated project will provide compensatory mitigation credits to assist purchasers in meeting US fish and State and Federal Endangered Species Act permit requirements. While credits are available now, a majority of the California tiger salamander upland, San Joaquin kit fox, and Swainson's hawk foraging habitat credits have been allocated to permitted infrastructure projects.
PACB preserves critical rangeland habitat that supports California tiger salamanders, California red-legged frogs, San Joaquin Kit foxes, Swainson's Hawks, and burrowing owls, along with a number of other non-listed species that have similar habitat requirements. "WES is proud to partner with the Grissom family to conserve such a large, functioning ecosystem for a broad suite of native species," says WES Western Region Director, Hal Holland.
Environmental regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, must approve a conservation bank in the State of California before credits can be sold. Conservation banks provide enhanced environmental benefit over smaller, piece-meal mitigation and retain inherent biological, financial and legal assurances to ensure ecological project success. Economic advantages recognized by public and private sector developers include economies of scale, reduced permitting time and costs, and severance of liability.
To learn more about the site and the credits available, contact Amanda Dwyer at (925) 783-9924 or email adwyer@westervelt.com.
About Westervelt Ecological Services: Providing conservation on a landscape scale is the mission of Westervelt Ecological Services. A division of The Westervelt Company, a 137 year-old land stewardship company based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Ecological Services offers mitigation banking solutions for developers and businesses who need to mitigate impacts to wetlands or species across the country. To learn more visit www.wesmitigation.com.
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Mama June's new relationship is messing with her daughter's marriage.
June's daughter Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird and her husband Josh Efird discuss June's latest shenanigans and how it's negatively impacting their relationship in this exclusive clip from the June 10 episode of Mama June: Road to Redemption.
"Did you see that s--t about Mama?" Pumpkin asks Josh. The "s--t" Pumpkin is referring to is the news that June is dating a mysterious 24-year-old.
Not only that, Pumpkin speculates that June stranded her own daughter, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, to rush home to her new boy toy.
"Now she's living over there with some 24-year-old guy," Pumpkin says. "Damn, you can't just sit f--kin' down for a minute?"
Josh feigns shock as his wife complains about her mother, which probably isn't the best approach. "I'm shocked," Josh jests. "I mean, never seen it coming. Did you?"
Pumpkin isn't in a joking mood, responding "What a smart ass, shut up."
Jokes aside, Pumpkin and Josh reveal that June's constant headline-making ways have taken a real toll on their union. In a confessional, Pumpkin admits "Over the last couple of years, Mama has been a lot of me and Josh's marriage problems."
However, the young couple says they're doing their best to make positive strides.
"We're trying to put our marriage at the very top priority," Pumpkin says, "and our biggest thing in order to do that is letting Josh be able to walk away when either Mama is being talked about or physically here."
If it's any consolation, June's relationship with the 24-year-old didn't last, and on March 23 she married 34-year-old Justin Stroud in a courthouse ceremony in Georgia on June and Justin's sixth anniversary.
Mama June: Road To Redemption airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on WE tv. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1333937/mama-june-causes-pumpkin-and-josh-marital-strife-in-this-road-to-redemption-sneak-peek?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-06-08 23:20:01 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1333937/mama-june-causes-pumpkin-and-josh-marital-strife-in-this-road-to-redemption-sneak-peek?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories |
ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man and woman face fines of $500 each after they took a raccoon to a pet store to shop for food and a store worker ratted them out, authorities said.
A state Department of Environmental Conservation police officer got an urgent call from the Erie County Department of Health about a potentially rabid raccoon on June 2, the department said in a news release.
The health department said a couple had brought a raccoon to a pet store for food and supplies and a store employee contacted authorities. Raccoons are considered dangerous wild animals because they are known to carry and transmit the deadly rabies virus.
The officer used store surveillance video, a store-issued rewards card and license plate information to locate the couple in the town of Attica in western New York, the department said. The owners turned the raccoon over and were each charged with unlawfully possessing a wild animal, which is subject to $500 fine, authorities said.
The raccoon that was confiscated from the couple was euthanized and tested for rabies — a test that can only be performed on an animal after it has died. The test was negative, the DEC said. | https://www.localsyr.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/pair-face-fines-after-taking-raccoon-into-pet-store/ | 2022-06-23 20:57:57 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/pair-face-fines-after-taking-raccoon-into-pet-store/ |
Ellen Maureen Gorman McCarty of Hood River, Ore., passed away on March 18, 2023, at the age of 62 after a long struggle with cancer.
Ellen was born in Everett, Wash., on Dec. 10, 1960, to the proud parents of Gordon Gorman (deceased) and Esther Gorman (deceased). She is survived by her five siblings, Cindy Pruiett, Brian Gorman, Sandy Wright, Terry Smith and Carol Witt.
Ellen was a 1979 graduate of Hood River Valley High School and enjoyed getting together with her schoolmates as much as possible. She attended Mount Hood Community College, where she met Keith McCarty, and they were married on Nov. 14, 1981, at the Hood River Church of the Nazarene. Ellen is survived by her children Malerie Ray and her husband Casey, Nathan McCarty and his wife Skye and their children Del and Vera, and her daughter Taylor McCarty.
Ellen received her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University. Ellen enjoyed spending time with her family members, writing, traveling, sewing, gardening, and crocheting hats. Ellen’s hats have traveled the world with those she has met during her travels.
Ellen was a sensitive, shy, compassionate woman, especially towards those less fortunate or ill and would give up her coat to someone in need. Ellen volunteered at the Hood River warming shelter and during her last few years made hats for women with ovarian cancer. Ellen enjoyed making people smile.
Please consider donating to the Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon and Southwest Washington in her honor. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/obituaries/obituary-ellen-mccarty/article_571aee0a-c833-11ed-9446-dfcce58e4e57.html | 2023-03-21 22:33:40 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/obituaries/obituary-ellen-mccarty/article_571aee0a-c833-11ed-9446-dfcce58e4e57.html |
UTICA, N.Y. -- Mohawk Valley Health System has launched a new four-year, Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) Residency Program.
The program has been granted accreditation status for 16 residents in total (four per year), with the first four residents to begin on July 1.
“Our new OB/GYN residency training program will have a tremendous positive effect on the Mohawk Valley region. This academic program, along with our well-rounded OB/GYN team, ensures that we will continue to deliver babies with the highest level of care and commitment in our area," OB/GYN Residency Program Director, Mark Martens said.
An OB/GYN residency program for this area will bring board-certified specialty expertise to our region, increasing the number of physicians who already specialize in women's health in our area, to 16 which is double. | https://www.wktv.com/news/mvhs-launches-new-obgyn-residency-program/article_38d43984-b31a-11ed-94ce-ff45db2cfbbd.html | 2023-02-23 02:26:09 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/mvhs-launches-new-obgyn-residency-program/article_38d43984-b31a-11ed-94ce-ff45db2cfbbd.html |
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A security camera video obtained by police showed the suspect rummaging through the vehicle, authorities said. | https://richmond.com/scarlett/article_8c15211a-e0c4-530d-8461-7ebf42e0a396.html | 2023-01-28 11:50:55 | 1 | https://richmond.com/scarlett/article_8c15211a-e0c4-530d-8461-7ebf42e0a396.html |
Business Connect API allows Reputation customers to make updates to business information in the Apple ecosystem
SAN RAMON, Calif., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Reputation, a global leader in reputation experience management, today announced an integration with Apple Business Connect, a new, free tool that allows businesses of all sizes to claim their location place cards and customize the way key information appears to more than a billion Apple users across Apple Maps, Messages, Wallet, Siri and other apps. Reputation will have the ability to deliver accurate, up-to-date information at scale, allowing Reputation customers the ability to seamlessly engage with Apple users.
"Reputation has always been committed to making it easy for our customers to update their business listings wherever consumers engage with their brand, which is why we are excited to announce the Apple Business Connect API integration. As a result of this valuable integration, location-based businesses have a better chance of meeting their customers where they are across Apple apps, such as Apple Maps, Messages, Wallet, and Siri, and enabling a better customer experience," said Joe Fuca, CEO of Reputation.
With Apple Business Connect, Reputation customers will now be able to share key business information in the Maps place card in a more robust and efficient manner. Reputation customers can also add actions for users to take directly from the Maps place card, like click to call and click for directions.
"We created Business Connect to provide Apple users around the world with the most accurate information for places to eat, shop, travel, and more," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Services." Apple Business Connect gives every business owner the tools they need to connect with customers more directly, and take more control over the way billions of people see and engage with their products and services every day."
Apple Business Connect API is available immediately to Reputation customers. For more information, please visit Reputation.com.
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The 2023 Kia Sorento Hybrid enters the new model with what Kia calls an “optimized” trim-level lineup that gives the crossover SUV a roughly $2,500 price bump.
That “optimization” included the discontinuation of the base Sorento Hybrid S trim level, which started at $35,345 (with destination) for 2022. That leaves the front-wheel-drive EX as the base model for 2023, and it costs $37,886 including destination.
That price represents a $2,541 premium over the 2022 Sorento Hybrid S, as well as a $1,141 increase over the 2022 EX front-wheel-drive model. Adding all-wheel drive to the EX adds $1,800 to the price for 2023.
Kia is also adding a new range-topping SX-P trim level for 2023, which starts at $43,685 with destination. It adds 17-inch alloy wheels, a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, perforated leather seats, a Bose audio system, and more driver aids, among other equipment.
The Sorento Hybrid is mechanically unchanged, still using a 1.6-liter turbo-4 engine and 6-speed automatic transmission with a single electric motor. Output is 227 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque, with EPA-rated fuel economy of 37 mpg combined (39 mpg city, 35 mpg highway) with front-wheel drive and 36 mpg combined (33 mpg city, 34 mpg highway) with AWD.
This is effectively the third model year of the Sorento Hybrid. Initially for 2021 it was front-wheel-drive only, and we found it to be a pleasant-driving model that outdoes the Toyota Highlander Hybrid in many respects—although we were surprised it didn’t attempt to catch onto the magic of the wildly successful Kia Telluride.
The 2022 model year brought all-wheel drive plus a plug-in hybrid version with an EPA-rated 32 miles of electric range.
The pricing and model changes might help provide a little more differentiation from the Sportage Hybrid introduced for 2023. Kia is also introducing a Sportage plug-in hybrid.
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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. (AP) — Coyotes surrounded a person walking their dog north of Boston over the weekend but were apparently scared off by police cruisers that arrived to help, authorities said.
Police in Swampscott received a call around 9:30 p.m. Saturday from the dog walker, who said that they were surrounded and that the coyotes were “not backing down,” police said in a Facebook post.
Officers counted at least nine coyotes. They retreated after the arrival of cruisers with their lights flashing.
Police escorted the dog walker and their pet to their home with no additional danger.
Police also posted tips from the Humane Society for how to deal with bold coyotes, urging residents to be aware of their surroundings when walking their dogs, especially in the evening, when coyotes are most active.
Police also recommended that people bring noisemakers, squirt guns or pepper spray with them to scare coyotes away. | https://who13.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-pack-of-coyotes-surrounds-dog-walker-in-massachusetts/ | 2022-10-17 19:00:37 | 1 | https://who13.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-pack-of-coyotes-surrounds-dog-walker-in-massachusetts/ |
Massive e-commerce company Shein is being accused in a new lawsuit of violating the federal anti-racketeering act, RICO, by copying independent designers' works.
Three artists — Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron — allege Shein made exact copies of their work without their knowledge, behavior that is part of a larger pattern of unethical business practices, including decimating the environment, fostering unsafe working conditions and avoiding paying taxes.
"Shein has grown rich by committing individual infringements over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering, which shows no sign of abating," their lawyers allege in a complaint filed Tuesday in a federal district court in California.
Shein did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Perry is a designer and illustrator based in Massachusetts, and made a copyrighted graphic design with the stylized words "make it fun" on a pink background. Shein began selling it as wall art. Perry then contacted the company through its site and Shein offered to pay her $500, which she refused, the complaint says.
The company reached out to her the following year asking her if she would like to contribute to a capsule collection for aspiring artists, and offered her "what sounded like significant money to be made," the complaint says.
"How dare you contact me after my artwork has been stolen and the hard time I was put through with the people at Shein to resolve it," Perry replied. "This email disgusts me. Shein and [its sister company] Romwe have stolen artwork from both myself and many of my hardworking friends and colleagues."
The lawsuit also accuses Shein of stealing a floral blanket design by Perry.
Shein also allegedly stole one of Baron's designs, an embroidered name tag-style patch that says, "Hello I'm Trying My Best" and Martinez's design of a pair of overalls with orange daisies on them.
Baron is the founder of Retrograde Supply Co., which sells stickers and patches, while Martinez is the owner and CEO of Miracle Eye, a Los Angeles-based clothing company that she operates with her mother and aunt.
The RICO, or Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, statute was enacted in 1970 to eliminate "the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating in interstate commerce," the Department of Justice says.
Racketeering is an umbrella term for crimes committed in business dealings, such as murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery and extortion.
The designers have suffered "substantial damage to [their businesses] in the form of diversion of trade, loss of profits, and a diminishment in the value" of their products and reputations, the complaint says.
Shein Distribution Corp., Roadget and Zoetop are named as defendants in the suit.
Shein Distribution is based in Delaware. Roadget and Zoetop, based in Singapore and Hong Kong, respectively, own Shein's worldwide trademarks, and own and operate its mobile apps and websites.
The lawyers say Shein's business model intentionally make it hard to pin down a defendant, as the company is a "decentralized constellation of entities, designed to improperly avoid liability."
Shein has faced several accusations of stealing designs in the past few years, including a crochet sweater, an enamel pin and earrings. But it can be difficult to settle lawsuits in the fashion industry because companies cannot copyright "useful things, at least not in their entirety," Julie Zerbo, a lawyer and fashion blogger, told NPR in 2021.
Clothing is deemed a utility item, and therefore does not have as many protections, she said.
As a result, lawyers can be hesitant to take on these types of cases, because "most lawyers would have accepted any minimal sum as compensation due to uncertainty about how to properly seek more appropriate remedies," the complaint says.
Jeff Gluck, an attorney representing the designers in Tuesday's lawsuit, said their law firm is currently fighting similar cases, which led to Perry, Martinez and Baron reaching out.
"We hope for a successful outcome that will have a positive impact on the global art and design communities that have long been at odds with Shein and the endless infringement allegations," he said.
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TUCKER, Ga. and BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation, a member-owned cooperative, and Harbert Management Corporation ("HMC"), an investment management firm, today announced that Oglethorpe Power has entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire two generating units at Washington County Power, a four-unit 660-megawatt combustion turbine generation and transmission facility located in Sandersville, Georgia, from Gulf Pacific Power, LLC, an investment fund managed by HMC.
Oglethorpe Power is acquiring two of the facility's four GE combustion turbine units. The facility entered commercial operation in 2003. The two acquired units will add approximately 330 megawatts of natural gas-fired capacity to Oglethorpe Power's diverse generation portfolio. The units are permitted for dual-fuel capability and in the future could be modified by Oglethorpe Power to run on either natural gas or diesel fuel, adding to the company's year-round resiliency and winter reliability.
The acquisition is subject to Oglethorpe Power Board and member approvals, as well as other customary conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close by the end of 2022. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"Our members have evolving and expanding power supply needs, and this acquisition of an established peaking facility in Georgia will enable us to continue to meet their power and reliability requirements in an affordable, environmentally responsible and safe manner," said Oglethorpe Power executive vice president and chief financial officer Elizabeth B. Higgins.
Upon closing, this will be Oglethorpe Power's sixth acquisition of natural gas-fired generation in Georgia over the last 13 years, totaling more than 3,000 megawatts.
Oglethorpe Power is one of the nation's largest power supply cooperatives with more than $16 billion in assets serving 38 Electric Membership Corporations which, collectively, provide electricity to approximately 4.4 million Georgia residents. A proponent of conscientious energy development and use, Oglethorpe Power balances reliable and affordable energy with environmental responsibility and has an outstanding record of regulatory compliance. Its diverse energy portfolio includes natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric and coal generating plants with a combined capacity of more than 8,300 megawatts. Oglethorpe Power was established in 1974 and is owned by its 38 Member Systems. Its headquarters are in Tucker, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. For more information, visit www.opc.com.
Harbert Management Corporation ("HMC") is a privately owned alternative asset management firm formed in 1993 to sponsor alternative asset investment funds. HMC has approximately $8.4 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management as of September 30, 2022. HMC serves foundations and endowments, fund of funds, pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, family offices, and high net worth individuals across multiple asset classes. Investment strategies include European and U.S. real estate, seniors housing, growth capital, credit solutions, infrastructure, and absolute return funds. For additional information about HMC, visit www.harbert.net.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration released a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope that supporters say could boost U.S. energy security but that climate activists decry as a “carbon bomb.”
The move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president’s pledges to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy sources.
ConocoPhillips Alaska had proposed five drilling sites as part of its Willow project, and the approach listed as the preferred alternative by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the report calls for up to three drill sites initially. Even as the land agency released its report, the U.S. Interior Department said in a separate statement that it has “substantial concerns” about the project and the report’s preferred alternative, “including direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and impacts to wildlife and Alaska Native subsistence.”
The Bureau of Land Management, which falls under the Interior Department, also said in the report that identifying a preferred alternative “does not constitute a commitment or decision” and notes it could select a different alternative in the final decision.
Opponents have raised concerns about the impacts of oil development on wildlife, such as caribou, and efforts to address climate change.
The project is in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a vast region roughly the size of Indiana on Alaska’s resource-rich North Slope. ConocoPhillips Alaska says the project, at its peak, could produce an estimated 180,000 barrels of oil a day.
The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Alaska Native corporation, and the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope joined the North Slope Borough in praising the proposed alternative and calling on the administration to move ahead on the project. In a joint statement, they said advancing the project “is critical for domestic energy independence, job security for Alaskans and the right of Alaska Natives to choose their own path.”
Other Alaska Native groups have expressed concerns.
Leaders of the Native Village of Nuiqsut and city of Nuiqsut in a recent letter said they do not feel like the Bureau of Land Management is listening. The community is about 36 miles (58 kilometers) from the Willow project, in a remote region of Alaska’s far north.
The Bureau of Land Management’s “engagement with us is consistently focused on how to allow projects to go forward; how to permit the continuous expansion and concentration of oil and gas activity on our traditional lands,” Native Village of Nuiqsut President Eunice Brower and City of Nuiqsut Mayor Rosemary Ahtuangaruak wrote in a letter dated last week.
ConocoPhillips has estimated the project would create as many as 2,000 jobs during construction and 300 permanent jobs and generate between $8 billion and $17 billion in federal, state and local revenue in an area more than 600 miles (965 kilometers) from Anchorage.
Erec Isaacson, the president of ConocoPhillips Alaska, said in a statement the company believes the project will “benefit local communities and enhance American energy security while producing oil in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.” He said the review process “should be concluded without delay.”
The members of Alaska’s congressional delegation — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat — all said they welcomed Wednesday’s environmental review and urged the administration to allow the project to move forward.
The project would bring miles of roads and hundreds of miles of pipeline to the area, disrupt animal migration patterns and erode habitat if it goes forward, said Earthjustice, an environmental group.
Jeremy Lieb, an attorney with the group, said Willow is currently the largest proposed oil project in the U.S. He said it is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy.” President Joe Biden campaigned on pledges to end new drilling on public lands and has set an ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
Biden “will be remembered for what he did to tackle the climate crisis, and as things stand today, it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb,” Lieb said.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who fought the Willow project as a member of Congress, has the final decision on whether to approve it, although top White House climate officials are likely to be involved. Haaland has multiple options, including outright approval or rejection or a middle ground that allows some drilling but blocks other development. A final decision is expected no sooner than early March.
Federal agencies have within the last week made two major decisions around resources in Alaska. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it was reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest.
And on Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it was exercising its so-called veto authority under the federal Clean Water Act to block plans for a proposed copper and gold mine in a mineral-rich area of southwest Alaska because of concerns about its environmental impact on a rich Alaska aquatic ecosystem that supports the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
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In a news release, Governor Gavin Newsom called the state of emergency an “effective and necessary tool that we utilized to protect our state.”
“With the operational preparedness that we’ve built up and the measures that we’ll continue to employ moving forward, California is ready to phase out this tool,” he said.
Senior officials in Newsom’s administration say the end of the emergency order will not mean the end of the threat from COVID-19, or the end of California’s ability to fight it. But it will mark a new chapter in state government’s response to the pandemic, which has taken the lives of more than 95,000 residents since early 2020, when it began circulating in California.
Officials say the end of the emergency order is largely a legal and technical milestone which will likely not make a noticeable difference in the lives of Californians. Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said the state’s response to the pandemic has left it prepared for “whatever comes next.”
“As we move into this next phase, the infrastructure and processes we’ve invested in and built up will provide us the tools to manage any ups and downs in the future,” Ghaly said in a statement. “While the threat of this virus is still real, our preparedness and collective work have helped turn this once crisis emergency into a manageable situation.”
Officials also point out many earlier emergency provisions related to the pandemic have already sunset. Of 596 total provisions stemming from more than 70 pandemic-related emergency orders, the administration says only 27 remain active.
Newsom wants to terminate the rest of them at the end of February 2023. But senior officials say that deadline could be extended if hospitals become overwhelmed this winter or if a new variant begins spreading that overcomes immunity from previous infections or the latest booster vaccines.
The governor is asking state lawmakers to codify two remaining provisions of the emergency order to allow nurses to distribute COVID-19 treatments such as the medication Paxlovid, and more laboratory workers to process COVID-19 tests.
The officials say the state has built up the necessary infrastructure to continue to respond to COVID-19 and other potential pandemics, including hospitals’ ability to quickly staff up during surges or other times of need.
Newsom proclaimed the state of emergency on March 4, 2020, with an order that gave his administration more power and flexibility to fight the pandemic. He has since issued more executive actions under the emergency order.
California’s drawn-out state of emergency has at times ignited political tensions. Two Republican lawmakers sued the governor, saying he overstepped his authority during the pandemic, though state courts eventually sided with Newsom. Other attempts by GOP lawmakers to end the pandemic state of emergency legislatively were rejected.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you missed Willie Nelson’s birthday yesterday, don’t sweat it. He’s got another one today.
Nelson, one of the most revered and prolific artists in country music, is currently celebrating his 90th birthday with an all-star concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, where he’s sharing the bill with artists such as George Strait, Roseanne Cash, Chris Stapleton, The Chicks and Sheryl Crow, among dozens of other acts.
Appropriately enough, the concert was billed as a two-day event — just like Nelson’s own birthday.
Nelson, who was born just north of Waco in the small town of Abbott, Texas, entered the world on April 29, 1933. But as he’s explained in the past, he observes his birthday on the 30th, too.
Why? As Nelson once said during his SiriusXM radio show in 2018, it’s because he was born quite late at night — and apparently too late for the county clerk to record his birth.
“I was born before midnight on the 29th but it didn’t get registered in the county courthouse until the next day, the 30th,” Nelson said. “So, it went out officially as the 30th. So I just do both days.”
Nelson, now over six decades into his recording career, released his most recent album, “I Don’t Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard,” in March. He’s also among this year’s nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; the official inductees of the Class of 2023 will be announced in May. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/willie-nelsons-birthday-was-yesterday-but-its-also-today-heres-why/ | 2023-04-30 16:32:05 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/willie-nelsons-birthday-was-yesterday-but-its-also-today-heres-why/ |
Shares Will Begin Trading on a Split-Adjusted Basis on November 23, 2022
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperCom (NASDAQ: SPCB), a global provider of secured solutions for the e-Government, IoT, and Cybersecurity sectors, announced today that its Board of Directors and Stockholders has approved a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of its ordinary shares. SuperCom's ordinary shares will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis at commencement of trading on November 23, 2022. The ordinary shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol 'SPCB'.
"We are pleased to announce this reverse stock split as we believe it is in the best interest of our shareholders and will help position SuperCom to attract fundamental institutional investors as we continue on our growth trajectory. The perceived overhang of trading below certain Nasdaq trading price thresholds has been a hindrance in our ability to attract larger investors, and we are happy to move forward clear of this hurdle," stated Ordan Trabelsi, President and CEO of SuperCom.
"The reverse stock split changes the price per share and number of shares outstanding, but has no effect on the operations of our company nor our overall size and growth potential. It is however key in maintaining our Nasdaq listing and our ability to meet certain funds' investment criteria. We are excited to move forward stronger in conjunction with our significant recent progress reflected also through our numerous new project wins such as the $33 million national EM project in Romania, as well as our over 100% revenue growth and return to being EBITDA positive in our reported third quarter 2022 financial results," concluded Ordan.
At the commencement of trading on November 23, every ten shares of the Company's issued and outstanding ordinary shares will be automatically converted into one issued and outstanding ordinary share, and the par value per share of ordinary shares will be multiplied by ten(10).
Stockholders holding shares through a brokerage account will have their shares automatically adjusted to reflect the 1-for-10 reverse stock split and do not need to take any action in connection with the reverse stock split. It is not necessary for stockholders holding shares in certificated form to exchange their existing stock certificates for new stock certificates of the Company in connection with the reverse stock split, although stockholders may do so if they wish.
The reverse stock split will affect all stockholders uniformly and will not alter any stockholder's percentage interest in SuperCom's equity, except to the extent that the reverse stock split would result in a stockholder owning a fractional share. No fractional shares will be issued in connection with the reverse stock split. Any fractional share of a stockholder resulting from the reverse stock split will be rounded up to the nearest whole ordinary share. The reverse stock split will reduce the number of SuperCom's outstanding shares from 41,980,101 shares to approximately 4,198,010 shares. Proportional adjustments will be made to the number of ordinary shares issuable upon exercise or conversion of SuperCom's outstanding equity awards, warrants or other convertible securities, as well as the applicable exercise or conversion price. Stockholders whose shares are held in brokerage accounts should direct any questions concerning the reverse stock split to their broker. All stockholders of record, holding their shares in certificated form, may direct questions to the Company's transfer agent, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, at 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219.
About SuperCom
Since 1988, SuperCom has been a global provider of traditional and digital identity solutions, providing advanced safety, identification and security solutions to governments and organizations, both private and public, throughout the world. Through its proprietary e-government platforms and innovative solutions for traditional and biometrics enrollment, personalization, issuance and border control services, SuperCom has inspired governments and national agencies to design and issue secure Multi-ID documents and robust digital identity solutions to its citizens and visitors. SuperCom offers a unique all-in-one field-proven RFID & mobile technology and product suite, accompanied by advanced complementary services for various industries including healthcare and homecare, security and safety, community public safety, law enforcement, electronic monitoring, livestock monitoring, and building and access automation. For more information, visit www.supercom.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding 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. Statements preceded or followed by or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "projects", "estimates", "plans", and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will", "should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical or current facts. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the statements made. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding business and economic trends, the anticipated effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on travel and physical locations, the levels of consumer, business and economic confidence generally, the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and severity of such outbreak, the pace of recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak, the effect on our supply chain, our ability to implement cost containment and business recovery strategies and resulting anticipated impact of such outbreak on our business, financial condition and results of operations, the adverse effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on our business or the market price of our ordinary shares, and other risks and uncertainties described in the forward looking statements and in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 4, 2022, our reports on Form 6-K filed from time to time with the SEC and our other filings with the SEC. Except as required by law, we not undertake any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
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Explosion in downtown Tokyo building injures 4
TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a building in Tokyo’s Shimbashi commercial district on Monday shattered windows and spewed smoke, injuring four people, department officials said.
Tokyo Fire Department said the explosion occurred at an eatery on the second floor of an eight-story building, injuring two people inside and two pedestrians who were hit by shards of glass.
Fire department officials said the four injured were all conscious but further details were unknown. NHK national television said three of them were seriously injured.
An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.
No other information was yet available.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jordan Dingle's 33 points led Pennsylvania over Columbia 84-55 on Saturday night.
Dingle was 11 of 17 shooting, including 7 for 9 from distance, and went 4 for 5 from the line for the Quakers (9-8, 2-1 Ivy). Jonah Charles scored 14 points, shooting 5 for 5, including 4 for 4 from beyond the arc. Nick Spinoso shot 4 of 7 from the field to finish with nine points.
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The Lions (6-12, 1-2) were led in scoring by Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa, who finished with 13 points and two steals. Blair Thompson added nine points for Columbia. Jake Tavroff also recorded eight points.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Player Prop Bets: Thunder vs. Timberwolves - April 14
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- Gilgeous-Alexander's opponents, the Timberwolves, have one of the fastest offensive tempos, ranking seventh, averaging 104 possessions per game, while his Thunder average 104.7 per game, fifth-highest among NBA teams.
- On defense, the Timberwolves have conceded 115.8 points per game, which is 18th-best in the NBA.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
410 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Warren
and northern Washington Counties through 445 PM EDT...
At 410 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Eagle Point Campground, or 13 miles north of Warrensburg, moving east
at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Hague, Rogers Rock Campground, Eagle Point Campground, Scaroon Manor
Public Campground, Chestertown, Huletts Landing, Putnam, Wright,
Chipman Point, Starbuckville, Putnam Station, Pottersville, Snody
Dock, Sabbath Day Point, South Horicon, Adirondack, Riverbank,
Chipmans Point, Ottenburgs Ramp and North Bolton.
This includes Interstate 87 between exits 24 and 26.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
east central New York.
LAT...LON 4377 7335 4364 7343 4362 7342 4359 7343
4357 7339 4362 7337 4363 7330 4358 7330
4357 7327 4356 7325 4358 7383 4376 7388
4381 7338
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 260DEG 34KT 4371 7373
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A man has died after being shot by a police officer responding to a report of a domestic dispute at a home in northern Illinois.
Officers heard a disturbance and entered the home Thursday night where they exchanged shots with the man, Rockford police said.
The man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The Winnebago-Boone County Integrity Task Force is investigating the officer’s use of force, police said.
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WASHINGTON - Something in the Water music festival is moving to Washington D.C., after making its debut in Virginia Beach in 2019.
Event organizer, Pharrell Williams, posted on Twitter a video teasing to the festival taking place this year.
2022 @sitw pic.twitter.com/q6liTKeDYP
— Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) April 25, 2022
Musician Pusha T, friend of fellow Hampton Roads native and festival founder Pharrell Williams, announced on Showtime's "Desus and Mero" that the festival will move to Washington, D.C., earlier this month.
Tuesday afternoon, D.C.'s mayor made the formal announcement that the festival will be held in the city this year. The festival will take place on June 17-19,2022, commemorating Juneteenth.
According to a release, artists such as 6LACK, Adekunle Gold, Ashanti & Ja Rule,Ashe, Baby Tate, Baird, BIA, Blxst, Calvin Harris, Chloe x Halle, and more are set to perform with more artists to be announced soon.
It was confirmed in Oct. 2021 that the festival would not return to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront this year.
In a letter sent to Virginia Beach City Manager Patrick Duhaney, Williams states that the city has been run by "toxic energy" for far too long. Williams' letter was in response to Duhaney's letter that expressed his disappointment of learning that SITW 2022 may not happen.
In response, Pharrell wrote how he wishes Virginia Beach leaders had the same energy when his relative, Donovon Lynch, was fatally shot by a Virginia Beach officer on March 26, as they do for losing the festival.
Despite moving to D.C., SITW still wants Hampton Roads residents to attend. This year the festival is offering a bus service from Virginia Beach to D.C. A one-way bus ride is priced at $50 and a round way ticket is $95.
Passes to this year's festival goes on sale on April 30 at 10 a.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SandRidge Energy, Inc. (the "Company" or "SandRidge") (NYSE: SD) today announced financial and operational results for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022.
Recent Highlights
- Generated Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $53.7 million in the second quarter compared to $39.4 million in the prior quarter
- Second quarter net income was $48.5 million, or $1.32 per basic share. Adjusted net income(1) was $48.9 million, or $1.33 per basic share.
- Second quarter 2022 production of 17.8 MBoed was consistent with first quarter 2022, despite no new completion activity
- Successfully drilled the first two wells of its previously announced 2022 capital development program during the second quarter with completions and first production commencing during the third quarter
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company returned 29 wells to production in the first half of 2022 that were previously curtailed due to the 2020 commodity price downturn. The Company has returned a total of 158 wells to production since the beginning of 2021
- Second quarter adjusted G&A(1) of $1.8 million, or $1.09 per Boe, compared to $2.2 million, or $1.35 per Boe in the prior quarter
- Updated 2022 operational and capital expenditure guidance to include the addition of three new wells to the Company's drilling and completion program in addition to expanded well reactivation activity
- The Company had no open hedge positions as of June 30, 2022
Financial Results & Update
Profitability & Realized Pricing
For the three-months ended June 30, 2022, the Company reported net income of $48.5 million, or $1.32 per basic share, and net cash provided by operating activities of $47.0 million. After adjusting for certain items, the Company's adjusted net income(1) amounted to $48.9 million, or $1.33 per basic share, adjusted operating cash flow(1) totaled $53.3 million and adjusted EBITDA(1) was $53.7 million for the quarter. The Company defines and reconciles adjusted net income, adjusted operating cash flow, adjusted EBITDA, and other non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States ("GAAP") measure in supporting tables at the conclusion of this press release.
Second quarter realized oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids prices, before the impact of derivatives,(2) were $109.06, $5.30 and $35.96, respectively, compared to $92.35, $3.84 and $33.73 in the prior quarter.
Operating Costs
During the second quarter of 2022, lease operating expense ("LOE") was $9.5 million or $5.87 per Boe compared to $10.9 million, or $6.76 per Boe in the prior quarter.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, general and administrative expense ("G&A") was $2.2 million, or $1.34 per Boe compared to $2.5 million, or $1.57 per Boe for the three months ended March 31, 2022. Adjusted G&A(1) was $1.8 million, or $1.09 per Boe during the second quarter of 2022 compared to $2.2 million, or $1.35 per Boe during the first quarter of 2022.
Operational Results & Update
Production
Production totaled 1,620 MBoe (17.8 MBoed, 12.8% oil, 33.4% NGLs and 53.8% natural gas) for the three-months ended June 30, 2022 compared to 1,606 MBoe (17.8 MBoed, 13.3% oil, 32.8% NGLs, and 53.9% natural gas) in the first quarter. This consistent quarter-over-quarter production profile was a result of the Company's ongoing well reactivation program. The first of the Company's planned 2022 completions are being turned to production during the third quarter.
2022 Development Program
During the second quarter, SandRidge successfully drilled the first two wells of its previously announced 2022 capital development program with completions and first production commencing during the third quarter. The third well is currently in the drilling phase. The Company announced an increase to its planned 2022 drilling and completion activity from nine wells to twelve wells.
Well Reactivation & Rod Pump Conversion Program
During the second quarter of 2022, the Company continued returning wells to production that were previously curtailed due to the commodity price downturn in the first half of 2020 and, in many cases, improving their production potential through capital improvements. Improved commodity pricing resulting in high rates of return, along with low execution risk, support the Company's belief that these projects represent a superior use of capital. During the second quarter of 2022, the Company brought 19 wells back online, bringing the total for the first half of 2022 to 29 and the total since the beginning of 2021 to 158. Throughout 2022, SandRidge currently expects to return approximately 54 wells to production and complete approximately 36 artificial lift conversions. The Company continues to evaluate its inventory of such projects.
Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG")
SandRidge maintains its Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") commitment, to include no routine flaring of produced natural gas. The Company continues to explore the technical and commercial viability of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration ("CCUS") across its owned and operated assets through its partnership with the University of Oklahoma.
Recently announced Operational and Capital Expenditure Guidance
As a result of current and expected commodity prices enhancing project returns, the Company now plans to spend $40-$50 million in drilling and completions ("D&C") capital and $16-$20 million in non-D&C capital for well reactivations and rod pump conversions. Total production for 2022 is projected to be 5.9-7.1 MMBoe, representing an approximately 5% increase at the midpoint vs. its prior production guidance. In addition to the benefit of added production this year, increased activity in the second half of 2022 is expected to contribute an approximately 13% uplift in 2023 volumes. The table below outlines changes to the Company's full year 2022 guidance in further detail.
Liquidity and Capital Structure
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $205.2 million of cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash. The Company has no outstanding term or revolving debt obligations.
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 10:00 am CT. To join the live conference call, please dial 877-407-8293 (U.S. and Canada) or 201-689-8349 (international) ten to fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled call time. Participants can also click here for instant telephone access to the event. The link will become active approximately fifteen minutes prior to the start of the conference call.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available via SandRidge's website, investors.sandridgeenergy.com, under Presentation & Events. The webcast will be archived for replay on the Company's website for 30 days.
Contact Information
Investor Relations
SandRidge Energy, Inc.
1 E. Sheridan Ave. Suite 500
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
investors@sandridgeenergy.com
About SandRidge Energy, Inc.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SD) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, and acquisition of oil and gas properties. Its primary area of operations is the Mid-Continent region in Oklahoma and Kansas. Further information can be found at sandridgeenergy.com.
-Tables to Follow-
Operational and Financial Statistics
Information regarding the Company's production, pricing, costs and earnings is presented below:
Capital Expenditures
The table below presents actual results of the Company's capital expenditures for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Capitalization
The Company's capital structure as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 is presented below:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not alternatives to GAAP measures, and you should not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Below is additional disclosure regarding each of the non-GAAP measures used in this press release, including reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP measure.
Reconciliation of Cash Provided by Operating Activities to Adjusted Operating Cash Flow
The Company defines Adjusted operating cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities before changes in operating assets and liabilities as shown in the following table. Adjusted Operating cash flow is a supplemental financial measure used by the Company's management and by securities analysts, investors, lenders, rating agencies and others who follow the industry as an indicator of the Company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities and to service or incur additional debt. The Company also uses this measure because operating cash flow relates to the timing of cash receipts and disbursements that the Company may not control and may not relate to the period in which the operating activities occurred. Further, Adjusted operating cash flow allows the Company to compare its operating performance and return on capital with those of other companies without regard to financing methods and capital structure. This measure should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net cash provided by operating activities prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
The Company defines EBITDA as net income (loss) before income tax (benefit) expense, interest expense, depreciation and amortization - other and depreciation and depletion - oil and natural gas. Adjusted EBITDA, as presented herein, is EBITDA excluding items that management believes affect the comparability of operating results such as items whose timing and/or amount cannot be reasonably estimated or are non-recurring, as shown in the following tables.
Adjusted EBITDA is presented because management believes it provides useful additional information used by the Company's management and by securities analysts, investors, lenders, ratings agencies and others who follow the industry for analysis of the Company's financial and operating performance on a recurring basis and the Company's ability to internally fund exploration and development and to service or incur additional debt. In addition, management believes that adjusted EBITDA is widely used by professional research analysts and others in the valuation, comparison and investment recommendations of companies in the oil and gas industry. The Company's adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
Reconciliation of Cash Provided by Operating Activities to Adjusted EBITDA
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders to Adjusted Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders
The Company defines adjusted net income (loss) as net income (loss) excluding items that management believes affect the comparability of operating results and are typically excluded from published estimates by the investment community, including items whose timing and/or amount cannot be reasonably estimated or are non-recurring, as shown in the following tables.
Management uses the supplemental measure of adjusted net income (loss) as an indicator of the Company's operational trends and performance relative to other oil and natural gas companies and believes it is more comparable to earnings estimates provided by securities analysts. Adjusted net income (loss) is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for net income (loss) available to common stockholders.
Reconciliation of G&A to Adjusted G&A
The Company reports and provides guidance on Adjusted G&A per Boe because it believes this measure is commonly used by management, analysts and investors as an indicator of cost management and operating efficiency on a comparable basis from period to period and to compare and make investment recommendations of companies in the oil and gas industry. This non-GAAP measure allows for the analysis of general and administrative spend without regard to stock-based compensation programs and other non-recurring cash items, if any, which can vary significantly between companies. Adjusted G&A per Boe is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for general and administrative expense per Boe. Therefore, the Company's Adjusted G&A per Boe may not be comparable to other companies' similarly titled measures.
The Company defines adjusted G&A as general and administrative expense adjusted for certain non-cash stock-based compensation and other non-recurring items, if any, as shown in the following tables:
Cautionary Note to Investors - This press release includes "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. These forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance and reflect SandRidge's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events and operating performance. The forward-looking statements include projections and estimates of the Company's corporate strategies, future operations, development plans and appraisal programs, drilling inventory and locations, estimated oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids production, price realizations and differentials, hedging program, projected operating, general and administrative and other costs, projected capital expenditures, tax rates, efficiency and cost reduction initiative outcomes, liquidity and capital structure and the Company's unaudited proved developed PV-10 reserve value of its Mid-Continent assets. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and assumptions and analyses made by us in light of our experience and our perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors we believe are appropriate under the circumstances. However, whether actual results and developments will conform with our expectations and predictions is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the volatility of oil and natural gas prices, our success in discovering, estimating, developing and replacing oil and natural gas reserves, actual decline curves and the actual effect of adding compression to natural gas wells, the availability and terms of capital, the ability of counterparties to transactions with us to meet their obligations, our timely execution of hedge transactions, credit conditions of global capital markets, changes in economic conditions, the amount and timing of future development costs, the availability and demand for alternative energy sources, regulatory changes, including those related to carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. We refer you to the discussion of risk factors in Part I, Item 1A - "Risk Factors" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K and 10-K/A and in comparable "Risk Factor" sections of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed after such form 10-K. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. The actual results or developments anticipated may not be realized or, even if substantially realized, they may not have the expected consequences to or effects on our Company or our business or operations. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SD) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, and acquisition of oil and gas properties. Its primary areas of operation are the Mid-Continent in Oklahoma and Kansas. Further information can be found at www.sandridgeenergy.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The traditional broadcast television season doesn’t end until later this month, but that hasn’t stopped CBS from declaring victory.
CBS issued a statement on Tuesday saying it would end the 2021-22 season as the most-watched television network in prime-time for the 14th straight time, and 19th time out of the past 20, according to figures provided by the Nielsen company.
The early victory dance coincided with CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, announcing its earnings on Tuesday. Although CBS’ lead over second-place NBC (6.35 million to 6.25 million) isn’t large, there was no pushback from NBC. Fox is currently third and ABC fourth.
CBS said that “NCIS” will end the season as the most-watched television drama for the 12th time in 13 years. “Young Sheldon” is the most popular comedy.
“A winning streak of this scale is quite unprecedented in the history of media, linear or digital,” said Radha Subramanyam, CBS’ chief research and analytics officer.
NBC, which aired the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics this season, said it will finish first among the advertiser-friendly demographic of 18-to-49-year-old viewers.
CBS won last week in prime time, averaging 4.4 million viewers. ABC had 3.3 million, NBC had 2.8 million, Fox had 2 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo averaged 910,000.
Fox News Channel was the most popular cable network in prime time, averaging 2.29 million viewers. TNT had 2.13 million, ESPN had 1.55 million, MSNBC had 1.14 million and HGTV had 1.03 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.2 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.6 million.
For the week of April 25-May 1, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “FBI,” CBS, 7.56 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.53 million.
3. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.91 million.
4. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 6.57 million.
5. “FBI: International,” CBS, 6.1 million.
6. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.823 million.
7. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.815 million.
8. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.72 million.
9. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.44 million.
10. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5.36 million.
11. “NCIS: Los Angeles” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 5.21 million.
12. “NCIS: Los Angeles” (Sunday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 5.19 million.
13. “911,” Fox, 5.08 million.
14. “This is Us,” NBC, 4.93 million.
15. “Law & Order: SVU,” NBC, 4.89 million.
16. “Magnum, P.I., CBS, 4.81 million.
17. “United States of Al,” CBS, 4.62 million.
18. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 4.58 million.
19. “NFL Draft, Round 1,” ESPN, 4.44 million.
20. “The Price is Right,” CBS, 4.37 million. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/cbs-declares-television-season-victory-with-weeks-to-go/ | 2022-05-04 10:31:57 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/cbs-declares-television-season-victory-with-weeks-to-go/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow has postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for this week because of stark differences in approach and tensions over Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the decision to put off the talks that were scheduled to start Tuesday in Cairo was made at the political level. The postponement marked another low point in badly strained U.S.-Russian relations and raised concerns about the future of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact between the two powers.
"We faced a situation when our U.S. colleagues not just demonstrated their reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way,” Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow.
Ryabkov claimed the U.S. wanted to focus solely on resuming inspections under the New START treaty and stonewalled Moscow's request to also discuss specifics related to the weapons count under the strategic arms reduction pact.
This week’s meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission established under the treaty would have been the first in more than a year. The timing of the talks was intended to show that Russia and the U.S. remain committed to arms control and keeping lines of communication open despite soaring tensions over Ukraine.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that Moscow had decided to unilaterally postpone the Cairo talks and would propose new dates.
“The United States is ready to reschedule at the earliest possible date as resuming inspections is a priority for sustaining the treaty as an instrument of stability,” the State Department said.
Russia has protested the deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine. Ryabkov said the situation in Ukraine contributed to Moscow's decision to delay the talks.
“Naturally, the events unfolding inside and around Ukraine in this case impact that,” he said. “Arms control and the dialogue in this sphere can't be immune to what is happening around, and the bigger picture, which is quite complicated and largely disquieting, has played a role."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened during the military operation in Ukraine to use “all means available” to protect his country and its territory. Western officials have denounced the statements as irresponsible.
Ryabkov denied that Russia only has reaffirmed its nuclear doctrine and rejected Washington's criticism of the Russian position as “speculation.”
The deputy minister said he knows nothing about a dedicated U.S.-Russian channel intended to defuse tensions over Ukraine but noted that Moscow has made its red lines clear in contacts with Washington.
“We have repeatedly sent signals to the Americans that their course for an escalation and deeper involvement in the conflict is fraught with grave consequences and the risks have been rising,” he said.
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the treaty was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
In August, Russia declared a temporary halt on U.S. inspections, charging that visa restrictions, sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the U.S. and its allies, and other obstacles made it difficult for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites, giving the U.S. “unilateral advantages.”
At the same time, Moscow said that it “highly values” New START and held the door open for resuming inspections in the future.
While Russia and the U.S. have suspended mutual inspections under New START since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moscow’s move raised new uncertainty about the pact’s future.
Ryabkov said there was mutual agreement over the temporary halt on inspections and emphasized the pact’s importance.
“We adhere to the treaty. It's an important instrument strengthening our security and we hope that the U.S. treats it accordingly,” he said.
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'Functional unemployment' climbs for Black workers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American workforce expanded from July to August, but many of those workers found they were unable to secure a full-time job that paid a living wage, according to an analysis by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP).
In its monthly True Rate of Unemployment (TRU) for August, LISEP reported that 22.5% of American workers are now classified as "functionally unemployed," defined as the jobless, plus those seeking but unable to secure full-time employment, even if they want to work full-time and/or cannot earn above the poverty line after adjusting for inflation. This is an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the July TRU.
TRU's sister metric, TRU Out of the Population (TRU OOP) – a measure of those who are functionally unemployed out of the entire population, not just active workforce participants – remained unchanged, which, when coupled with a rising TRU, indicates more workers are joining or returning to the labor force.
"It is a net positive that previously discouraged workers are rejoining the workforce, but unfortunately, their return to the workforce is, in many cases, not a return to full-time, living-wage employment," said LISEP founder and chair Gene Ludwig. "The challenge for policymakers is to continue to encourage positive growth in employment opportunities, but do so in a manner that provides for growth in living-wage jobs for every American who wants one."
Demographically, Black workers saw the biggest jump in TRU, increasing by 0.6 percentage points, from 25.8% to 26.4%. This, with the Black TRU OOP climbing by 0.7 percentage points, indicates that a larger percentage of Black workers are classified as functionally unemployed. Hispanic workers saw no change in the TRU, holding steady at 26.3%, with White workers tracking the overall TRU and increasing by 0.2 percentage points, to 20.7%. Male TRU increased a full percentage point, from 17.5% to 18.5%, while women dropped a half percentage point, from 27.5% to 27.0%.
Living-wage job opportunities continue to be an issue for workers with only a high school diploma, with the TRU for this group jumping 2.5 percentage points, from 24.5% to 27.0%. Likewise, those without a high school degree saw their TRU increase, from 47.3% to 47.6%. TRU for workers with some college (but no college degree) dropped, from 25.6% to 23.7%, but an analysis of the TRU OOP for this group indicates the decline is likely due to discouraged workers in this cohort leaving the workforce.
"We know the cost of living continues to be an issue for low- and middle-income Americans, as inflation continues to erode the ability of these workers to maintain even a basic standard of living. So in that respect, I'm somewhat relieved there wasn't a bigger increase in the overall TRU," Ludwig said. "But at the same time, we are witnessing an alarming decline in the opportunities for some minority workers to earn a living wage, which is undoubtedly a reason for concern. The bottom line: we can do better."
LISEP issued the white paper "Measuring Better: Development of 'True Rate of Unemployment' Data as the Basis for Social and Economic Policy'' upon announcing the new statistical measure in October 2020. The paper and methodology can be viewed here. LISEP issues TRU one to two weeks following the release of the BLS unemployment report, which occurs on the first Friday of each month. The TRU rate and supporting data are available on the LISEP website at https://www.lisep.org/tru.
The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) was created in 2019 by Ludwig and his wife, Dr. Carol Ludwig. The mission of LISEP is to improve the economic well-being of middle- and lower-income Americans through research and education. LISEP's original economic research includes new indicators for unemployment, earnings, and cost of living. These metrics aim to provide policymakers and the public with a more transparent view of the economic situation of all Americans, particularly low- and middle-income households, compared with misleading headline statistics.
In addition to his role as LISEP chair, Gene Ludwig is founder of the Promontory family of companies and Canapi LLC, a financial technology venture fund. He is the founder and CEO of Ludwig Regulatory Group (LRG), which advises financial firms on critical matters. Ludwig is the former vice chairman and senior control officer of Bankers Trust New York Corp. and served as the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency from 1993 to 1998. He is also author of the book The Vanishing American Dream, which investigates the economic challenges facing low- and middle-income Americans. On Twitter: @geneludwig.
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And the Oscar goes to: Here are the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards
The multiverse-skipping sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led nominations to the 95th Academy Awards as Hollywood heaped honors on big-screen spectacles like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” a year after a streaming service won best picture for the first time.
Nominations were announced Tuesday from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams.
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” landed a leading 11 nominations on Tuesday, including nods for Michelle Yeoh and comeback kid Ke Huy Quan.
Here's a look at the nominees:
Best picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front"
"Avatar: The Way of Water"
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Tár”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Triangle of Sadness”
“Women Talking”
Best actress
Ana de Armas, “Blonde”
Cate Blanchett, “Tár”
Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best actor
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Austin Butler, “Elvis”
Bill Nighy, “Living”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
Best supporting actress
Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Hong Chau, “The Whale”
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best supporting actor
Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”
Brendan Gleeson, “Banshees on Inisherin”
Barry Keoghan, “Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best original score
Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”
Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Son Lux, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
John Williams, “The Fabelmans”
Original screenplay
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“The Fabelmans”
“Tár”
“Triangle of Sadness”
International film
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
“Close” (Belgium)
“EO” (Poland)
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)
Best animated film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“The Sea Beast”
“Turning Red”
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The unfortunate discovery of the body of former White House sous chef Tafari Campbell, confirmed his death Monday.
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Tafari Campbell, 45, was best known as one of the chefs who brewed White House honey ale beer while President Barack Obama was in office. This brew was memorable as he used honey from Michelle Obama’s famous South Lawn garden and left an impression on everyone. After their terms, the Obama’s decided to hireChef Campbell after they left the White House. The Obama’s shared in a statement:
“Tafari was a beloved part of our family. When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House — creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together. In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter. That’s why, when we were getting ready to leave the White House, we asked Tafari to stay with us, and he generously agreed. He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone. Today we join everyone who knew and loved Tafari — especially his wife Sherise and their twin boys, Xavier and Savin — in grieving the loss of a truly wonderful man.”
Campbell is a Dumfries, Virginia native and “was visiting Martha’s Vineyard at the time of his passing. President and Mrs. Obama were not present at the residence at the time of the accident” shared by Massachusetts police. The search for him began after authorities received reports of a missing paddle boarder on Sunday.
Campbell’s body was found shortly after 10 a.m., recovered from the Edgartown Great Pond by Massachusetts State Police divers. The divers made the recovery after the Campbell’s body was located by Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers “deploying side-scan sonar from a boat.” Police also said Campbell was found “approximately 100 feet from shore at a depth of about eight feet.
Tafari Campbell is survived by his wife Sherise and their twin boys Xavier and Savin.
source: chicago.suntimes.com
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House Republicans on Thursday passed their first government funding bill, overcoming an initial hurdle in Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) attempts to wrangle the GOP conference to approve all 12 appropriations bills amid intense pressure from conservatives to lower spending levels.
The bill — which allocates funding for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and related agencies — passed in a 219-211 vote. Two Republicans — Reps. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) and Ken Buck (Colo.) — voted with every Democrat against the measure.
The package now heads to the Senate, where it is dead on arrival. Senate appropriators are marking up their spending bills at levels different from the House GOP measures, setting the scene for a chamber vs. chamber showdown in the fall.
Lawmakers have until Sept. 30 to send President Biden legislation to fund the government or risk a shutdown.
In an effort to appease conservatives, House GOP appropriations marked up their spending bills at fiscal 2022 levels, below the caps set in the debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and McCarthy. The Senate, on the other hand, is considering its appropriations measures at levels in line with the debt limit agreement.
Republicans have also pursued amendments Democrats have blasted as “poison pills” in the military construction bill and the other 12 annual funding bills, including policies targeting the Biden administration’s orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as restricting abortion access.
While Republican leaders saw success Thursday in mustering enough support to pass the Milcon-VA bill, they were also forced to punt consideration of another appropriations bill amid internal divisions over spending and a controversial provision.
The chamber was scheduled to vote on funding legislation for agriculture, rural development and the Food and Drug Administration this week, but party leaders scrapped those plans Thursday afternoon as disagreements continued to plague the measure’s passage.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced on the floor Thursday that the final votes this week would be in the afternoon.
Conservatives are pushing for steeper funding cuts in the legislation, and moderates are opposed to a provision that would nullify a Biden administration rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be sold in retail pharmacies and by mail with prescriptions from a certified health care provider.
On the Milcon-VA bill, GOP negotiators proposed more than $317 billion in funding, which includes increases for the VA above current levels. The bill also calls for more than $130 billion for veterans’ medical care and a boost for Department of Defense military construction projects.
In a statement earlier this week, the White House said it appreciates the $121 billion in funding that appropriators proposed for VA medical care. The Biden administration said the funding would help support its priorities to end veteran homelessness and expand access to mental health care, among other measures.
But the administration did not hold back its criticism of policies in the bill it said would prevent VA medical centers from being able to perform abortions or “provide hormone therapies for the purpose of gender-affirming care.”
Other measures the White House criticized include sections Democrats say would prevent the VA from displaying LGBTQ pride flags and language that would limit administration efforts to advance equity and diversity.
Republicans are expected to ramp up efforts to pass the remaining funding bills when they return from recess in September. But the House faces a serious time crunch, with the chamber scheduled to have just 12 legislative days on the calendar before a shutdown deadline at the end of September.
Scalise suggested Tuesday that bicameral negotiations could take place over the long August recess, but negotiators haven’t signaled any bipartisan talks are scheduled to happen before lawmakers are set to come back.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on Tuesday that the Four Corners — the top leaders of both chambers’ respective appropriations committees — haven’t recently had formal talks, but her “goal is to have conferences.”
She told reporters she’s hopeful the Senate will begin bringing its appropriations bills to the floor “at the very first week in September.”
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2 teens in custody after officer dragged by car, police say
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) - Two Ohio teenagers are in police custody after an incident that put an officer in the hospital.
Police said two special duty officers were in the parking lot of a bingo hall in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday when an altercation involving two teenagers and a car started.
“Something occurred in the parking lot, where two suspects were in a car. At that time, the passenger got out,” said Melanie Amato, a police spokesperson. “We’re still trying to figure out why they were there.”
Moments after the altercation, an officer and one teenager were dragged by a car.
Police said the driver of the vehicle sped off, but the other officer on scene drew his weapon and shot at the car, hitting the driver. The car continued out of the parking lot and hit another car.
The officer who was dragged was taken to the hospital, where he is in stable condition.
Both teens involved in the incident were also taken to the hospital and are in stable condition, according to police.
Police are calling the teens suspects, but it’s unclear what they are suspected of having done.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
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General Daily Insight for June 1, 2022
Chaotic emotions might have us bouncing around like ping-pong balls today. The Moon stirs up our feelings as she forms three potent angles in sentimental Cancer. First, she'll square expansive Jupiter in Aries, setting the stage for something larger-than-life, but an easy sextile to Venus a couple of hours later should lighten the mood. Despite that calming influence, a final lunar square, this time to belligerent Mars in Aries at 1:31 pm EDT, could make it all too easy to lose our cool.
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Aries
March 21-April 19
It's easy to let your feelings get the better of you today. The Moon gets caught in a traffic jam with warrior Mars in your sign, which could cause you to blow up or get ticked off at the slightest provocation. That's never a good thing, but now you need to be extra careful that you don't direct your anger or harshness at any undeserving souls! They likely won't forget any mistreatment, and you'll have to make up for it down the line.
Taurus
April 20-May 20
Words can be weapons, but you might not realize just how dangerous they are until it's too late. You've probably got a lot to say, thanks to the Moon visiting your communication sector, but that takes on a dangerous layer when the Moon squares aggressive Mars in your subconscious sector. Watch out for potentially saying things that you didn't even know you felt! Think carefully before you speak in order to avoid accidentally saying something that shocks everyone -- yourself included.
Gemini
May 21-June 20
There's a tug-o-war between responsibilities and pleasure right now, and you probably need to pick a side. With the Moon in your busy 2nd house, you're focused on making today as productive as possible. That said, a lunar lock-up with action planet Mars in your social 11th house could make you the hottest commodity where other people are concerned. Unfortunately, you'll likely be too busy to be able to enjoy anyone else's company, but that doesn't mean they'll stop trying to get your attention.
Cancer
June 21-July 22
The demands on your time and energy might be a bit more than you're willing to give today. The Moon is gliding through your sign, which can make you feel a little more sensitive than normal. While she's here, she will square off against hot-headed Mars in your professional sector, highlighting whatever responsibilities you may have. A supervisor or other VIP might demand more effort than you've currently got at your disposal, so conserve your energy as much as possible.
Leo
July 23-August 22
Keeping tabs on yourself might seem more difficult than usual, like you've spread yourself too thin for the day. With the Moon in your subconscious realm, you're rather checked out of the real world. On the other hand, a lunar square with Mars in your high-minded 9th house could require you to put your best foot forward, even when you hardly have your feet on the ground. Tread carefully so you don't wind up walking all the way out on an unstable ledge!
Virgo
August 23-September 22
Tension could cast a shadow over any current fun plans you have with your friends -- no matter how much you want to hit the town together. The Moon in your 11th House of Community and Luck is tripping over confrontational Mars in your no-nonsense 8th house. You may feel forced to deal with hot-button issues when you'd rather engage in nothing but light-hearted pleasures. Unfortunately, you probably can't sweep this under the rug, so just put on a brave face and forge ahead.
Libra
September 23-October 22
You can aim as high as you like today, but someone else might not like that! You're primed to prove yourself as the Moon visits your reputation sector, putting all eyes on you, but a rough square between the Moon and argumentative Mars in your partnership house could bring a particular naysayer out of the woodwork. Don't let anyone's negative behavior get to you! If you need to put up a wall for your own well-being, then so be it.
Scorpio
October 23-November 21
You're in no mood to acknowledge any limitations on yourself! Even so, the unfortunate truth is that there are still limitations which you'll have to accept and deal with today. You're happy to fly free and easy while the Moon visits your boundless 9th house, but you'll be brought firmly back to earth once she squares Mars in your 6th House of Work and Routine. Plenty of things will probably require your attention here and now, so your adventures may need to wait.
Sagittarius
November 22-December 21
There's a strange mix of energies today, and it could have you pinging back and forth between the spotlight and the shadows at a moment's notice. You're probably prone to keeping your cards close to your chest as the Moon moves through your intimate 8th house, but the urge to act out could strike when the Moon squares Mars in your creative 5th house. You don't have to choose one approach or the other! Let yourself dabble in either option as you please.
Capricorn
December 22-January 19
It's undeniable that your emotions can burn bright today, but whether they're putting off a pleasant heat or a raging fire is another matter entirely. There is a harsh square between the Moon in your partnership sector and red-hot Mars in your 4th House of Feelings and Family. With that in mind, it'll be only too easy to react strongly to someone else -- especially if they push your buttons. Take space for yourself or else you could blow a fuse!
Aquarius
January 20-February 18
You can accomplish as much as you like today! That is, until something throws you completely off course. You're in the mood to perform at top capacity as the Moon moves through your 6th House of Work and Routine, but that responsible urge gets up-ended when the Moon squares Mars in your busy-body 3rd house, adding countless things to your schedule -- whether you have time for them or not. Expect some distractions to force you to take a detour or two today.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
Today might be all fun and games until you wind up regretting a happy-go-lucky attitude! You're in the mood to enjoy yourself, thanks to the Moon moving through your expressive 5th house, but that could be thrown off when Luna runs into fierce Mars in your income sector. Remember that indulgences come at a price, and you'll have to earn it, one way or another! Check off any important tasks early in the day so that your responsibilities don't get in the way of play. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-06012022-20220601-ffisqrharzhazhthdwazqhbvfi-story.html | 2022-06-01 07:35:01 | 0 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-06012022-20220601-ffisqrharzhazhthdwazqhbvfi-story.html |
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HARRISBURG, Ill., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearwave Fiber will begin building the company's state-of-the art, all-fiber Internet network in Lansing, KS. This latest expansion marks the company's first network presence in Kansas and underscores its goal to bring the most advanced and fastest Internet available to more than 500,000 homes and businesses across the United States by 2027.
Clearwave Fiber's Vice President of Kansas, Stormy Supiran, stressed the importance of the company's investment to consumers and the broader local community. "We are committed to providing underserved communities with the high-speed connectivity that is essential for families, businesses, and local economies; without these essential services, many of the communities we are targeting may struggle to survive," said Supiran. "We are excited to extend services to Lansing, and we look forward to becoming long-term partners to the community."
Clearwave Fiber partnered with the City of Lansing to deliver ultra-fast broadband service to residents through the use of Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. "We are pleased to partner with Clearwave Fiber to provide our citizens with the reliability and speed that an al-fiber internet connection will provide. This is truly an investment into the future of our community," said Lansing City Administrator, Tim Vandall.
Featuring gigabit download and upload speeds, Clearwave Fiber will bring ten times more speed to consumer doorsteps at a time when fast, reliable Internet is becoming increasingly critical to modern households. "More and more, we see households where multiple bandwidth-intensive activities occur simultaneously and many consumers' Internet connections just aren't up to the task," said Clearwave Fiber's Midwest President, Byron Cantrall. "The Clearwave Fiber network solves that problem."
For many consumers, Internet touches every facet of daily life. Remote work, telehealth, and virtual learning all require robust, reliable connections. A 2021 study by Deloitte indicated that 55% of U.S. households include one or more remote workers, and 43% include at least one household member attending virtual classes.
Clearwave Fiber is slated to being construction this month. For more information, visit clearwave.com/home.
Clearwave Fiber is an Internet service provider based in Savannah, GA that operates a more than 2,000 route-mile fiber network serving cities across the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. Delivering advanced telecommunications solutions with an emphasis on exceptional customer care and community engagement, they provide fiber to business, enterprise, and residential customers in more than 90 municipalities in Illinois and Kansas.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyer says he's been told of NY indictment, making Trump 1st former US president charged with a crime.
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- Designation based on business operations, waste, water, and energy practices
- CAE Healthcare will hold the title of Certified Green Business Partner until 2025
SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CAE Healthcare today announced it was named a Certified Green Business Partner by Sarasota County, Florida, where CAE Healthcare's U.S. headquarters are based. The green designation is awarded to businesses that operate in an environmentally responsible manner as determined by a rigorous assessment.
"We are honored to be named a Certified Green Business Partner by our local government, reinforcing our commitment to sustainability," said Jeff Evans, Interim President, CAE Healthcare. "Reducing our environmental impact is important to our customers and integral to future generations. This is just one step on that journey, as we will continue to identify and implement sustainable practices throughout the workplace."
To be certified as a green business partner, businesses must verify conservation practices in four areas: business operations, solid waste management, water conservation and energy consumption. In addition to CAE completing an extensive application, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences conducted an assessment. The school recognized CAE Healthcare's recycling initiatives, company policies and the use of energy-conserving equipment. CAE Healthcare will hold the designation until 2025.
CAE began its corporate social responsibility journey six years ago, with a focus on ethics and integrity; community and environment; people and safety; and innovation and customer experience. CAE achieved carbon neutrality in 2020, becoming the first Canadian aerospace company to reach that goal. CAE strives to be a sustainability leader, working with industry partners to reduce emissions and adopt waste-reducing measures.
About CAE Healthcare
CAE Healthcare offers integrated education and training solutions to healthcare students and clinical professionals across the professional life cycle, allowing them to develop practical experience in simulated environments before treating patients. CAE Healthcare's full spectrum of simulation solutions includes surgical and imaging simulation, curriculum, the CAE LearningSpace audiovisual and centre management platform and highly realistic adult, pediatric and baby patient simulators. Today, hospitals, medical schools, nursing schools, defence forces and societies in more than 80 countries use our training solutions to make healthcare safer. cae.com/healthcare
About CAE
At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We're investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we'll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.
Read our FY22 Annual Activity and Corporate Social Responsibility Report
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California movie producer gets 5 years in prostitution case
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A California movie producer was sentenced in New York City to the maximum five years in prison Thursday after he admitted operating a high-end prostitution service for seven years, providing women to wealthy clients for up to $15,000 and organizing sex parties in the U.S. and abroad.
Dillon Jordan, of Lake Arrowhead, California, was sentenced in Manhattan. U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan said he would have imposed a longer prison sentence if he had the authority to do so, citing the permanent physical and emotional scars the women sustained.
Jordan pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count and five years was the maximum sentence available.
Prosecutors said Jordan operated the business from 2010 to 2017 through a purported party and event planning company and his actual movie production company.
They said in a presentence submission that Jordan tried to parlay his prostitution business to produce legitimate movies, since several investors and well-known producers were also clients of his prostitution ring. At least one client invested $250,000 in Jordan’s movie projects, they said.
Jordan is listed among dozens of producers on films including the 2018 film “The Kindergarten Teacher,” which featured Maggie Gyllenhaal, and the 2019 movie “The Kid,” which starred Ethan Hawke.
At sentencing, Jordan apologized to the victims.
One victim who spoke during the two-hour hearing said she nearly died a decade ago when Jordan invited her to a party and then fed her a mix of drugs that left her permanently brain damaged.
“I never wanted to prostitute my body,” she said, pausing to collect herself before urging the maximum sentence.
The judge said prison was appropriate for a man who operated a prostitution ring that earned him at least $1.4 million.
“To be sure, this was an illegal operation that Dillon Jordan ran and one that caused real harm to real women. And, as we saw today, permanent harm,” Cronan said.
Prosecutors said Jordan was released from a prison in Cuba in 2010 after serving eight years for sex crimes there, and he immediately began linking wealthy individuals he knew with high-end prostitutes, charging between $3,000 and $15,000 per encounter. The government said he pocketed about 40% of the fee.
They said he once boasted that 75 women worked for him, including some he sent abroad to a madam in the United Kingdom.
In a presentence submission, defense lawyers wrote that Jordan entered the sex industry after a “horrific childhood that was replete with physical, sexual, and psychological abuse” but left the prostitution business in 2017 and established himself in the film business before becoming a home design consultant.
They said he was not a traditional pimp, but rather was paid fees to organize parties with adult sex workers or to arrange large events, or to book women to attend bachelor parties and adult-themed shows.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, May 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces that it has entered into an agreement with Bayer AG (Bayer) to supply Illuccix® (TLX591-CDx, kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide injection)[1] for the Phase III ARASTEP study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05794906). This global study is investigating the efficacy of Bayer's androgen receptor inhibitor (ARi) darolutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) versus ADT alone in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, in patients with high-risk biochemical recurrence who have no evidence of metastatic disease by conventional imaging and a positive PSMA-PET/CT[2] at baseline.
The study will enrol up to 750 patients across various sites such as in Europe, Japan and the United States. The more sensitive PSMA imaging may identify prostate cancer lesions not detectable by conventional imaging such as computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and bone scans.
Telix Chief Medical Officer, Dr Colin Hayward stated, "We are pleased to supply Bayer and a number of clinical sites in this important study, reflective of Telix's unique commitment to delivering advanced prostate cancer imaging globally. The use of PSMA-PET/CT in this setting is illustrative of the potential for this imaging modality to move beyond diagnosis to a disease management tool."
About Bayer AG
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to driving sustainable development and generating a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2022, the Group employed around 101,000 people and had sales of 50.7 billion euros. R&D expenses before special items amounted to 6.2 billion euros. For more information, go to www.bayer.com.
BAYER, the Bayer Cross and NUBEQA are registered trademarks of Bayer.
About darolutamide
Darolutamide is an oral ARi with a distinct chemical structure that binds to the receptor with high affinity and exhibits strong antagonistic activity, thereby inhibiting the receptor function and the growth of prostate cancer cells.
The product is approved under the brand name Nubeqa™ in more than 80 countries around the world for the treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). It is also approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in a number of markets including the U.S., Japan, China and the EU. The compound is also being investigated in further studies across various stages of prostate cancer.
Darolutamide is developed jointly by Bayer and Orion Corporation, a globally operating Finnish pharmaceutical company.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in the United States, Europe (Belgium and Switzerland), and Japan. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that aims to address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX).
Visit www.telixpharma.com for further information about Telix, including details of the latest share price, announcements made to the ASX, investor and analyst presentations, news releases, event details and other publications that may be of interest. You can also follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
About Illuccix®
Telix's lead product, Illuccix® (gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as 68Ga PSMA-11) injection), has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[3] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA),[4] and by Health Canada.[5] Telix is also progressing a marketing authorisation application for this investigational candidate in the United Kingdom and the European Union.[6]
Telix Investor Relations
Ms. Kyahn Williamson
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Email: kyahn.williamson@telixpharma.com
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Except as required by applicable laws or regulations, Telix does not undertake to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements. Past performance cannot be relied on as a guide to future performance. Readers should read this announcement together with our material risks, as disclosed in our most recently filed reports with the ASX and on our website.
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BOSTON (AP) — There was a time when the narrative surrounding Jaylen Brown was that he was a redundant player on a Celtics team shaping its identity around budding superstar Jayson Tatum.
Though he was a recent All-Star on a team packed with young, homegrown talent, Brown was considered by outsiders to be a potential trade chip Boston could use to adjust a roster that didn’t get past the conference finals during his first five seasons.
Cries to jettison the third overall pick of the 2016 draft only grew louder after a tepid 18-21 start to this season under new coach Ime Udoka that had veteran Marcus Smart calling out the Celtics’ young stars.
Six months and a run to the NBA Finals later, Mr. Expendable is suddenly Mr. Indispensable as the Celtics pursue their 18th championship.
“It’s hard for me to reflect on moments when I’m in the heart of the storm,” Brown said. “But everything, all the adversity, all the ups and downs and negative things, indirectly and directly, has helped build me to where I’m at.”
Brown is averaging a team-best 22.7 points and 7.3 rebounds through the first three games of the Finals. He delivered probably his best performance of the playoffs — 27 points, nine rebounds and five assists — as Boston beat the Golden State Warriors 116-100 in Game 3 to take a 2-1 series lead.
His 17-point first quarter set the tone for Boston’s attack, but Udoka said Brown’s game has evolved on both ends.
“The versatility he gives us on the defensive end, is what it is. I think that goes trickle-down with Marcus and our bigs as well as our big wings,” Udoka said. “We’re asking (for) more communication, more recognition, and he is one of the guys that’s improved throughout the season as far as that.”
While Brown has been locked in during the playoffs, Tatum said he and Brown knew there were questions about whether they could coexist after the team’s slow start. He said they’ve figured out how to meld their their skillsets and personalities.
“I think all of those things helped, from saying that we need to split the group up, get rid of somebody or me and JB can’t play together,” Tatum said after Boston beat Miami to win the Eastern Conference title. “That fueled us to figure it out and not run from it. … That we trust in each other and we had to be better.”
Under the tutelage of Udoka and his staff, both players have learned to play off their teammates more.
Tatum has steered away from his past tendencies of relying on isolation and jump shots. Instead, he’s using the double teams he draws to shuffle the ball to Brown and others to share the scoring load.
Brown, too, has morphed his game. Against Golden State in particular, he’s been slashing inside, finding mismatches and picking his spots against the Warriors’ small lineups.
Smart said the aggression of Brown and Tatum has become contagious.
“They’re very adamant about what they want, what they’re going to do with the ball, with making decisions and making reads,” Smart said. “They’ve grown and matured in that aspect. They knew in order for us to reach our full potential that they were going to have to take that step. They took the challenge, and they’re showing it and it’s proven right now.”
Brown has also been a steadying voice, reminding his teammates to block out distractions such as Golden State’s Draymond Green’s attempts to rattle the Celtics with his physical play.
On Jan. 31, at the start of Boston’s late-season turnaround, Brown tweeted, “The energy is about to shift.” Given his recent performance, his words are looking less cryptic and more prophetic.
And Brown has shown more appreciation for his journey to Finals stardom.
“I feel like I haven’t always been put in the best position to be the best version of myself, and that’s aided me into getting better and to working harder,” Brown said. “Everything that I’ve learned and acquired here directly or indirectly has helped me, and I think it’s going to help me going forward. If I would have to reflect, I’m just grateful for each and every experience that you go through because it just makes you who you are.”
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College freshman Dieunerst Collin's road to internet meme fame started with a confused side-eye at a Popeyes in New Jersey.
It was a decade ago, and the then 9-year-old was in line waiting for a family pack of chicken, biscuits and fries at the fast-food chain in Irvington. A stranger pulled out his phone and started recording Collin, comparing him to Lil TerRio, a boy who was famous on social media at the time for his dance moves.
Collin, holding a Popeyes lemonade cup, gave the man a sideways glance, wondering why he had a camera in his face. The stranger later posted a clip on Vine, the video-sharing app, where it went viral and became widely used as a GIF to express unease or bewilderment, along with captions such as "When your teacher catches you cheating on a test."
A decade later, Collin is a freshman on the football team at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, and he's come full circle. Popeyes signed the 18-year-old this month for a sponsorship that will use his name, image and likeness on billboards and other advertisements for the fast-food restaurant.
He's finally cashing in his six seconds of internet fame -- although his family was not thrilled about it at first.
"When it happened, we didn't want to be in the spotlight. And just having that out there, people were coming to my dad and saying, 'Hey, we've seen your kid on this,' trying to make a joke of it. My dad didn't like it for his kids to be joked on," Collin told CNN. "But now, the fact that I switched it into a blessing, he likes it."
Collin is cashing in on a NCAA policy that allows college athletes to earn sponsorship money
A name, image and likeness deal -- commonly referred to as an NIL -- allows college athletes to receive compensation from brand partnerships that use their name, image or likeness for marketing and promotional content. The deals stem from an NCAA policy change in 2021 that allows student-athletes to profit from sponsorship opportunities.
Popeyes announced the deal this month after a social media campaign by Collin and his fans. To kick off the partnership, the fast-food chain posted an Instagram video of Collin narrating his unlikely tale.
"This is where our story started," he says in the video with the viral image of him at Popeyes in the background. "The moment that made us a meme. We didn't ask for it. We didn't understand it. But don't worry little man, we didn't let it stop us. Because the more we grew, the tougher we got. We learned to lean in. We turned the attention into motivation and the motivation into championships. This is where our story started and now it's where a new one begins."
The first Popeyes billboard featuring Collin went up last weekend in his hometown of East Orange, New Jersey. It features the viral image and a new photo of the adult Collin mimicking his 9-year-old expression with a larger Popeyes drink in his hand.
"Fans should keep an eye out for other fun content to come," Popeyes said in a statement. "From memes to dreams, Dieunerst and Popeyes will grace social media feeds once again."
The partnership started with a call on social media
The new partnership is the result of yet another social media moment.
On January 8, Collin posted a throwback of his viral photo on Twitter and Instagram and urged his followers to help him get Popeyes' attention for an NIL deal. His fans rallied and tagged Popeyes in posts supporting Collin.
"Collin Dieunerst is now a freshman offensive lineman at Division II Lake Erie College and if this guy doesn't have an NIL deal by tomorrow, the Louisiana kitchen needs to clean house on upper management," one man tweeted.
Even other fast-food restaurants joined the push.
"Popeyes do it for the Vine," Buffalo Wild Wings tweeted, referring to the now-defunct video platform. "Let's chat over lunch," rival KFC tweeted in a message tagging Collin.
Within a few hours, Collin said, Popeyes sent him a private message and a company representative called him with an offer. A few days later, Popeyes announced the partnership on social media. "Proud to welcome Dieunerst Collin to the fam," it said.
Collin said he's excited about the new partnership, and hopes it ends with him getting his own meal at Popeyes -- like rapper Travis Scott and other celebrities have with fast-food chains like McDonald's. Until then, he's happy to promote his favorite fast-food chain, where his go-to meal is a chicken sandwich, fries, a biscuit and, yes, a lemonade.
He was stunned that people from all over the country supported his effort.
"A lot can happen with the power of the internet behind you," Collin said. "I can't believe I can say I'm officially sponsored by Popeyes. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the good word!"
He hopes to play pro football after college
Collin declined to discuss the financial aspects of his Popeyes deal.
Louis Moore, associate professor of sports history at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, said it's unusual for a national brand to sign a relatively unknown athlete to an NIL deal.
"Traditionally, male athletes have to be very popular before they get a national brand endorsement. But they're popular because of their success on the field, not because of a meme," Moore said.
"Linking up with Collin shows that there is a change in this thinking. Popularity does not have to be based on athletic success anymore. Because of social media, young athletes can come into college already having a brand, which can be attractive to companies."
Such NIL deals mean more economic opportunities for college athletes, he said.
Collin, a communications major at Lake Erie College, hopes to play professional football before becoming a sports analyst. He never imagined the Vine clip would bring him fame -- and a brand partnership -- a decade later.
In fact, his family tried to get the video removed from the internet, he said.
"I just never thought it would get that big," he said. "I just thought people will move on and forget about the meme. When I talk to my father, he actually gets really emotional because he never expected this (success) for me."
The meme has grown on him and his family. Collin said his dad plans to put up his Popeyes' "Memes to "Dreams" poster in his barbershop so he can share his son's story with customers.
Does Collin use his meme on his friends? Not so much. Most times, he prefers to send emojis.
"I've used it less than 10 times," he said. "I'm not a big fan of using it, because it's me -- but sometimes I'll send it just to be funny."
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4 Air Force cadets may not graduate due to vaccine refusal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials.
It’s the only military academy, so far, where cadets may face such penalties. The Army and Navy said that as of now, none of their seniors are being prevented from graduating at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., or the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, due to vaccine refusals. The graduations are in about two weeks.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last year made the COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for service members, including those at the military academies, saying the vaccine is critical to maintaining military readiness and the health of the force.
Military leaders have argued that troops for decades have been required to get as many as 17 vaccines in order to maintain the health of the force, particularly those deploying overseas. Students arriving at the military academies get a regimen of shots on their first day — such as measles, mumps and Rubella - if they aren’t already vaccinated. And they routinely get regular flu shots in the fall.
Members of Congress, the military and the public have questioned if the exemption reviews by the military services have been fair. And there have been multiple lawsuits filed against the mandate, mainly centering on the fact that very few service members have been granted religious exemptions from the shots.
Until the COVID-19 vaccine, very few military members sought religious exemptions to any vaccines.
Lt. Col. Brian Maguire, Air Force Academy spokesman said that while vaccination status may hinder the four seniors’ graduation, “there are still two weeks until graduation, so their status could change as the cadets weigh their options.”
According to Maguire, the four cadets — who are not named — have been informed of the potential consequences, and have met with the academy’s superintendent. In addition to those four, there are two juniors, one sophomore and six freshmen at the academy who have also refused the vaccine.
The military academies for years have required students under certain circumstances to repay tuition costs if they leave during their junior or senior year. Often those involve students with disciplinary issues or similar problems. The costs can be as much as $200,000, or more, and any final decision on repayment is made by the service secretary.
West Point said that there are no members of the Class of 2022 who have refused to get the vaccine.
Across the military, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have discharged nearly 4,000 active duty service members for refusing the vaccine. According to recent data released by the services, more than 2,100 Marines, 900 sailors, 500 Army soldiers and 360 airmen have been thrown out of the military, and at least 50 were discharged during entry level training, before they moved into active duty service.
Those who flatly refuse the vaccine without seeking an exemption are still being discharged. But the courts have stalled additional discharges of service members who sought religious exemptions.
Last month, a federal judge in Texas barred the Navy from taking action for now against sailors who have objected to being vaccinated on religious grounds.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor had, in January, issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Navy from disciplining or discharging 35 sailors who sued over the Navy’s vaccine policy while their case played out. In April, O’Connor agreed the case could go forward as a class action lawsuit and issued a preliminary injunction covering about 4,000 sailors who have objected on religious grounds to being vaccinated.
Also last month, a federal judge in Ohio granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Air Force from disciplining a dozen officers and some additional airmen and reservists who were seeking religious exemptions. The officers, mostly from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in February after their exemption requests were denied.
According to the military, as many as 20,000 service members have asked for religious exemptions. Thousands have been denied.
As of recent data, the Air Force has approved 73 religious exemptions, the Marine Corps has approved seven, and the Army has approved eight. Prior to the injunction, the Navy conditionally approved one reservist and 26 active duty requests for religious exemptions, and 10 requests from members of the Individual Ready Reserve. The IRR approvals mean that those sailors don’t have to be vaccinated until they are actually called to serve.
About 99% of the active duty Navy and 98% of the Air Force, Marine Corps and Army have gotten at least one shot.
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Southeast Texas is now at high risk for potential wildfire activity amid limited moisture and high temperatures the past couple weeks.
According to a news release from the Texas A&M Forest Service, the region has experienced a persistent lack of rain and high temperatures during that time frame, despite a cold front that recently came through. That’s resulted in dried up forest fuels and the number wildfire ignitions increasing.
As of Wednesday, areas forecast to be under “critically dry” status include the northern edge of Jefferson County, all of Hardin, Jasper, Angelina, Newton and Tyler counties, and nearly all of Orange County, per the release.
“These dry conditions are now being amplified by gusty winds and low relative humidity values in place from the cold font moving through this week,” the release said.
The Texas A&M Forest Service asked that residents consider the following safety tips:
1. Notify authorities as soon as you see smoke or fire so responders can arrive on scene as soon as possible
2. Avoid burning on dry windy days
3. Avoid activities with open flames or sparks
4. If mowing or shredding, avoid contact with rocks or metal objects that could create a spark
For more information, visit bit.ly/TexasFirePotentialUpdate.
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RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lingerfelt, a Richmond, Virginia-based commercial real estate investment firm, announced today the sale of a portfolio of office buildings for approximately $118.95 million. The portfolio included 11 office buildings located in and around Innsbrook in Henrico County, Virginia. The portfolio totaled 723,103 square feet and was approximately 82% leased at the time of sale. Charlottesville, Virginia-based Seminole Trail purchased the portfolio for a 6.3% cap rate, or approximately $165/SF.
In 2020, Lingerfelt began the process of rezoning five of the 11 properties to the urban mixed-use (UMU) designation in accordance with Henrico County's comprehensive plan of densification and mixed-use development within Innsbrook. In November of 2021, Lingerfelt received unanimous approval to build 1,375 multifamily units within existing parking areas of five office buildings. According to Lingerfelt, Seminole Trail intends to move forward with the multifamily development in due course.
"Lingerfelt's history with Innsbrook dates back to the late 1980s as one of the original developers within the park," said Brian Witthoefft, Managing Director at Lingerfelt. "Innsbrook has certainly evolved over the decades and the long-term outlook is exciting. Henrico's vision is finally coming to fruition as Innsbrook recently welcomed new full-time residents at the new Innslake Place Apartments in 2020. And there are over a thousand new apartments being delivered in the next 6 months and more in the pipeline. Given Lingerfelt's history in Innsbrook and Henrico County, we had an obligation to advance the county's initiative by establishing these multifamily entitlements, thereby setting up the opportunity for more future successful development within the park."
"Lingerfelt's contributions to Innsbrook, in both physically built space and as a visionary in planning for Innsbrook's future, has been instrumental to its growth and evolution into a mixed-use community," says Jane DuFrane, Senior Vice President - Market Leader at Highwoods Properties, Inc. and President of the Innsbrook Owner's Association. "They have played a vital role along with Highwoods and the Innsbrook Owner's Association in laying the ground work for future development in Innsbrook for years to come."
Lingerfelt and its investors will continue to own 8 properties in Innsbrook totaling 240,000 square feet of office and flex warehouse buildings. Witthoefft will continue to sit on Innsbrook's Board of Directors and on its Architecture Review Committee which oversees new development in Innsbrook.
The company continues to expand its operations and is rebranding to "Lingerfelt", corresponding with its evolving investment strategy and corporate restructuring. And while Lingerfelt is strategically divesting parts of its current real estate portfolio, it is very active in the industrial and multifamily sectors. The company has over $775 million of projects around the region which are currently under construction or breaking ground in 2023.
Lingerfelt is under construction on nearly one million square feet of industrial facilities in Chesterfield County, which include 801 Port Walthall (242,000 SF), 1701 Bermuda (188,000 SF), and Ashton Logistics Center (526,000 SF). The company is breaking ground next year on additional industrial developments in Caroline County and Chesterfield County, which include Carmel Church Business Park (325,000 SF), and Ashton Creek Distribution Center (174,000 SF). Lingerfelt is also under contract to purchase additional land throughout the region, including in Henrico County and Prince George County, to develop 2.5 million square feet of industrial facilities beginning in 2024.
Lingerfelt has also announced several multifamily developments projected to break ground in 2023, including a 390-unit project called Silas, which is adjacent to Brightpoint Community College in Chesterfield, Virginia.
Lingerfelt is a vertically integrated real estate investment and asset management company investing and developing throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Together with its predecessors, Lingerfelt has maintained a reputation of quality and excellence in the commercial real estate industry dating back to 1957. Lingerfelt and its partners have built, acquired, and managed over 25 million square feet of commercial real estate valued at approximately $3 billion across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. To learn more, visit www.lingerfelt.co.
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Services help ensure researchers submit a complete budget application that accounts for all necessary research support and avoids post-award financial shortfalls
COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advarra, the market leader in regulatory review solutions, clinical research technology for sites and sponsors, and research quality and compliance consulting services, announced today the launch of new dedicated support services for researchers and institutions applying for research grant funding.
Including a complete, customized grant budget that considers all necessary study resources will help researchers avoid financial and operational surprises in later study conduct. Key offerings include a thorough estimate development process for grant applications, supported by a new dedicated request form and a checklist document outlining elements commonly forgotten in grant application budgets, as well as streamlined expert internal processes to provide timely budget estimates for grant applications. Additionally, Advarra offers special pricing considerations for research funded by federal grants.
"Even though more and more funding agencies are requiring single IRB (sIRB) review of multisite studies, many researchers either forget to include this line item or assume their institution can serve as sIRB," said Frank Conte, Vice President of Institutional Partnerships at Advarra. "Not all institutional IRBs can or are willing to do that. Plus, there are many other tasks and services that investigators don't consider when they're submitting the application – then down the road they have to reconfigure the study structure because they forgot to budget for something."
Grant funding is a critical part of many research programs, both at academic institutions and other research organizations. Federal agencies, like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), require sIRB oversight of the multisite studies they fund or oversee. Other non-governmental funding organizations have established similar policies, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made clear its support of such requirements via 2006 published guidance.
"Research organizations, especially sites and institutions, are incredibly under-resourced right now," said Robann Cunningham, Chief Commercial Officer at Advarra. "We hope these tools help research professionals make the most of the resources they do have and prevent future shortfalls that could easily be avoided with a little extra planning."
To learn more about Advarra's support for research grant applicants, visit https://info.advarra.com/grant-gaq.
Advarra advances the way clinical research is conducted: bringing life sciences companies, CROs, research sites, investigators, and academia together at the intersection of safety, technology, and collaboration. With trusted review solutions, innovative technologies, experienced consultants, and deep-seated connections across the industry, Advarra provides integrated solutions that safeguard trial participants, empower clinical sites, ensure compliance, and optimize research performance. Advarra is advancing clinical trials to make them safer, smarter, and faster. For more information, visit advarra.com.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A deal reached Thursday between freight rail companies and their workers has ensured that commuter rail systems that also would have been affected can serve customers unimpeded.
That’s good news for commuters on the Virginia Railway Express outside the nation’s capital, which will continue the free rides it’s been offering the entire month of September to lure back riders lost during the pandemic.
Regular riders had been making contingency plans — most of which involved driving on the region’s notoriously clogged highways because there are few mass-transit alternatives for many customers of the VRE, which serves residents of the area’s far-flung suburbs.
At the Crystal City station on the VRE, commuter Thomas Good of Woodbridge said he’s been enjoying the free September rides on a service that runs toward the pricey side — a one-day pass costs nearly $25 on the longest rides. He said he likely would have been forced to drive if a strike occurred, but was ready to adapt to whatever evolved.
“Flexibility has been the word” in recent years, he said. “I think we can figure it out.”
VRE is one of many commuter rail systems that could have been forced to shut down on Friday had freight workers gone on strike because it does not own its own tracks and relies on the freight rails.
VRE CEO Rich Dalton said word of the last-minute deal announced Thursday morning by President Joe Biden “is most welcome and should allow the Virginia Railway Express to serve commuters in the commonwealth without interruption.”
Some commuter lines would have been affected; others would not. It depended largely on whether the commuter line owns its own tracks or uses tracks owned by the freight companies.
The largest commuter rail systems, all in metropolitan New York, would not have been affected, but the Metra system in Chicago said before the deal was announced that it was expecting disruptions on at least four of its 11 lines.
Commuter rail services in the the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas would have also been affected by a strike. The Sounder system in the Seattle area would have been forced to shutter. About 5,000 people ride Sounder trains each day — down from about 20,000 before the pandemic. In greater Minneapolis, transit agencies had planned to offer bus service to replace commuter rail service that would be forced to suspend on the smaller Northstar service.
The Association of American Railroads, which represents the freight rail industry, estimated that half the commuter rail systems in the country depend at least in part on tracks owned by the affected freight railroads.
John Cline, director of government relations for the Commuter Rail Coalition, an industry trade group, said there are 36 commuter rail lines in the U.S., and the impact on each would have ranged from “potentially catastrophic” to negligible. And there was little the commuter systems could do but wait to see how it played out.
“We’re kind of like innocent bystanders,” he said.
VRE spokeswoman Karen Finucan Clarkson said preliminary data for September shows average daily ridership approaching 10,000 one-way trips during the free-ride promotion. That’s almost double the average ridership of 5,125 trips in August, but still well below the pre-pandemic ridership of more than 18,000 trips.
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Associated Press writers Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; Gene Johnson in Seattle; Roger Schneider in Chicago; Olga Rodriguez in San Francisco and Doug Glass in Minneapolis contributed to this report. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-freight-rail-strike-could-knock-out-commuter-service-too/ | 2022-09-15 21:41:10 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-freight-rail-strike-could-knock-out-commuter-service-too/ |
Braves vs. Cardinals: Odds, spread, over/under - April 4
Paul Goldschmidt and the St. Louis Cardinals (2-2) host Austin Riley and the Atlanta Braves (3-1) in an early-season matchup at Busch Stadium on Tuesday, April 4, with a start time of 7:45 PM ET.
The favored Cardinals have -140 moneyline odds against the underdog Braves, who are listed at +115. The over/under is 10 runs for the matchup (with -105 odds on the over and -115 odds on the under).
Braves vs. Cardinals Time and TV Channel
- Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
- Time: 7:45 PM ET
- TV: BSMW
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Venue: Busch Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Steven Matz - STL (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs Dylan Dodd - ATL (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
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Braves vs. Cardinals Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Braves vs. Cardinals Betting Trends and Insights
- Last season, the Cardinals were favored 99 times and won 65, or 65.7%, of those games.
- Last season, the Cardinals won 49 of their 74 games, or 66.2%, when favored by at least -140 on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 58.3% chance of a victory for St. Louis.
- The Cardinals hit 98 homers at home last season (1.2 per game).
- St. Louis averaged three extra-base hits per game while slugging .421 in home contests.
- The Braves won in 13, or 37.1%, of the 35 contests they were named as odds-on underdogs in last year.
- Last season, the Braves came away with a win two times in 10 chances when named as an underdog of at least +115 or longer on the moneyline.
- Atlanta averaged 1.5 homers per game when playing on the road last season (118 total in road contests).
- The Braves slugged .435 with 3.5 extra-base hits per game on the road.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A man whose attorney said he fatally shot a Tulsa police sergeant and wounded another because he feared for his life during a traffic stop was convicted of murder Friday.
A Tulsa County jury deliberated about three hours before convicting David Anthony Ware, 34, in the death of Sgt. Craig Johnson and wounding of Officer Aurash Zarkeshan. Ware faces a possible death sentence when that phase of the trial begins Monday.
In closing arguments, Ware’s attorney, Kevin Adams, again showed jurors a still photograph taken from a police video in which Johnson is seen kicking Ware during the traffic stop early on June 29, 2020. Adams argued that Ware feared for his life because the officers beat, kicked, pepper-sprayed and shot him with a stun gun.
With those actions, police “stop being a law enforcement officer and become a lawbreaker,” Adams told jurors.
However, prosecutor Kevin Gray told jurors that Ware brought the violence on himself by refusing to comply with officers’ instructions and resisting.
“He deprived Sgt. Johnson of his unalienable right to life,” Gray told the jury.
Gray had told jurors during opening statements that Zarkeshan pulled Ware over about 3 a.m. after he saw him run a stop sign and take a wide turn into another lane of traffic. Ware then failed to produce a driver’s license or proof of insurance when Zarkeshan asked him to provide those documents, Gray said.
Zarkeshan testified that he had not watched video of the shooting because “I don’t want to see myself or my friend be shot.”
Adams told jurors during closing arguments, “You guys have done something that most members of the Tulsa Police Department haven’t: You watched the video.”
Matthew Hall was convicted of being an accessory to a felony for driving Ware from the scene after the shooting. | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/jury-finds-man-guilty-of-murder-in-shooting-of-tulsa-police/ | 2022-04-23 15:37:40 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/jury-finds-man-guilty-of-murder-in-shooting-of-tulsa-police/ |
Green Bay hosts NFL Draft 2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Green Bay will host the 2025 NFL Draft, the NFL announced Monday, May 22.
The draft, presented by Bud Light, will take place in Green Bay, inside and around iconic Lambeau Field and Titletown.
"The Draft has become our biggest offseason event hosted in different cities and spectacular locations across the country, and we are excited to work with the Packers and Discover Green Bay to bring the 2025 NFL Draft to Green Bay and iconic Lambeau field," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "With the help of numerous local partners on the ground, our prospects and fans will be treated to an incredible week-long experience that shows off the city of Green Bay and the state of Wisconsin."
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As part of the week-long event, Green Bay will host a slate of Draft activities including a variety of community events and the NFL Draft Experience – the league's interactive football theme park. Draft Experience will provide fans a free opportunity to take part in participatory games, enjoy interactive exhibits, musical performances, autograph sessions and photo opportunities with the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
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"This is an incredible day for the Packers, Greater Green Bay and the entire state of Wisconsin as we are excited and honored to be selected to host the 2025 NFL Draft," said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy "The Packers have a rich and proud history that goes back to the early days of the NFL and are the only community owned team. That connection to our League's heritage combined with the great passion Packers fans will bring will make the Draft a memorable event for those in attendance and NFL fans watching around the world." | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/green-bay-hosts-nfl-draft-2025 | 2023-05-23 01:11:01 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/green-bay-hosts-nfl-draft-2025 |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves did an abrupt about-face Sunday on an issue for which Democrats have been sharply criticizing him this election year, saying for the first time that he wants the state to allow a full year of Medicaid coverage to women after they give birth.
Reeves said on social media that if the Republican-controlled state House and Senate send him a bill to allow a year of postpartum Medicaid coverage, “I will sign it into law.”
Reeves said he is willing to do so “as part of our new pro-life agenda.” He said more babies will be born because the U.S. Supreme Court upended abortion rights nationwide last year with a case that originated in Mississippi.
“I believe that to be a beautiful thing,” Reeves wrote. “I also believe that added stress will be felt by more Mississippi moms. We have to love them. We have to support them.”
As governor since January 2020 and during two previous terms as lieutenant governor, Reeves has resisted efforts to expand the scope of Medicaid and other government programs. He has not publicly changed his opposition to a broader expansion of Medicaid coverage to working people with low-wage jobs that don’t provide private insurance. Mississippi is one of 11 states that have not approved that broader expansion.
Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have extended postpartum Medicaid coverage to a full year.
Physicians in the Mississippi State Medical Association and businesses leaders in the Mississippi Economic Council have endorsed a full year of postpartum Medicaid coverage, saying it could improve health outcomes in a state with a high rate of maternal mortality.
Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the U.S., and about 60% of births in Mississippi are to women covered by Medicaid. The state usually allows two months of postpartum Medicaid coverage.
Since the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020, Mississippi has allowed a full year of postpartum coverage, although many patients have said the state did little to let them know the coverage remained after the usual two months.
The national public health emergency is set to expire in May. The deadline, combined with the Mississippi election season, has intensified debate over postpartum coverage.
Brandon Presley, a state utility regulator now running for governor as a Democrat, said Thursday on Twitter that Reeves “doesn’t have the guts to push postpartum care for mothers.”
“You would think ‘His Majesty’ would be able to persuade the Legislature to do the right thing,” Presley wrote. “Unlike @tatereeves, I don’t think I know more than doctors.”
The two Democratic leaders in the Mississippi Legislature — Sen. Derrick Simmons of Greenville and Rep. Robert Johnson of Natchez — criticized Reeves in a joint statement Sunday
“Saying he’ll sign this bill if it comes to him is simply a last-ditch effort to save face on an issue that the vast majority of Mississippians support,” Simmons and Johnson said of the governor. “It is not courageous; it is craven political theater.”
The Mississippi Senate on Feb. 7 passed a bill to allow a full year of postpartum Medicaid coverage, as it has in previous years. House Speaker Philip Gunn, a Republican, has not said whether the House will consider that bill. The other Senate bills in recent years have died in the House because of Gunn’s opposition.
Reeves, who often refers to himself as a “numbers guy,” expressed skepticism Sunday as he staked out his new position on longer postpartum Medicaid coverage.
“The debate surrounding the future of those benefits has been fierce,” Reeves wrote. “And, to be perfectly honest, I haven’t been swayed by the data that is, at best, incomplete and, at worst, often misconstrued and mischaracterized by the ‘more government benefits no matter the cost’ crowd.”
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More than 100 classified Trump docs recovered during Mar-a-Lago search earlier this year
Video above: FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump's estate
The National Archives recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence with the Trump legal team.
The numbers make clear the large volume of secret government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, well before FBI officials returned there with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and removed an additional 11 sets of classified records. The warrant also reveals an FBI investigation into the potential unlawful retention of the records as well as obstruction of justice.
The figures on documents were included in a May 10 letter in which acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall told a lawyer for Trump, Evan Corcoran, that the Biden administration would not be honoring the former president's claims of executive privilege over the documents.
Corcoran had weeks earlier requested additional time to review the materials in the boxes before the Archives turned them over to the FBI so that he could to determine if some were subject to executive privilege and therefore exempt from disclosure, according to the letter.
The letter was made public Tuesday on the website of the National Archives and Records Administration. It was earlier released Monday night on a website launched by John Solomon, who was appointed by Trump in June to be one of his designated representatives to the Archives and who is a Trump ally and conservative journalist.
The archivist's letter says the Justice Department had found "no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former President against an incumbent President to prevent the latter" from obtaining from the Archives presidential records that belong to the federal government and that are needed for current government business. As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
The Archives had asked the Justice Department to investigate after saying that it had located classified material among the 15 boxes of records it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago that it said should have been turned over by Trump at the end of his White House tenure.
In the letter, archivist Wall writes that in those boxes, the Archives had identified items marked as classified at the top secret level as well as information about special access programs.
It says the records included 100 documents with classified markings, "comprising more than 700 pages" and cites an excerpt from separate correspondence from the Justice Department's National Security Division saying that "access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation" but also for an "assessment of the potential damage" resulting from the ways in which the documents were transported and stored.
Corcoran did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the letter.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report. | https://www.koat.com/article/more-than-100-classified-trump-docs-recovered-during-mar-a-lago-search-earlier-this-year/40969914 | 2022-08-23 22:42:58 | 1 | https://www.koat.com/article/more-than-100-classified-trump-docs-recovered-during-mar-a-lago-search-earlier-this-year/40969914 |
A fire broke out at the state landfill in Old Town late Monday night.
The Old Town Fire Department says a neighbor reported the blaze around 8 pm and that crews were there for four-and-a-half hours.
The company that runs Juniper Ridge Landfill, Casella Waste Systems, then took over the response with heavy machinery.
Firefighters from Alton, Hudson and Bradley helped provide water for the response.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire, but heavy wind may have played a role in spreading it. | https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-05-16/crews-respond-to-fire-at-juniper-ridge-landfill-late-monday-night | 2023-05-16 12:49:54 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-05-16/crews-respond-to-fire-at-juniper-ridge-landfill-late-monday-night |
Communications company to expand into Union City
UNION CITY, Tenn. — Ritter Communications is funding an expansion into Union City.
A news release says that the Mid-South exclusive telecommunications provider is putting $1.5 million into brining its telecom services and advanced cloud solutions to the area.
“Ritter Communications understands high-quality telecom service is a necessity for businesses, schools and other organizations to be successful in their day-to-day operations,” said Ritter Communications CEO Alan Morse. “We are bringing not only high-quality services and solutions to the community of Union City but with greater accessibility to help meet all of our customers’ private and commercial needs.”
The release says they will be the first to bring XGS-PON technology to the area.
“The services Ritter Communications is bringing to Union City will help our community keep and grow existing businesses and attract new enterprises,” said Lindsay Frilling, Obion County Chamber of Commerce CEO. “We’re grateful for Ritter Communications investment in our community and future. We expect great things to come because of their investment and support.”
You can read the full news release here.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It’s been a rainy week, and overall just a rainy year.
2023 has had the wettest start to a year since 1882 and there’s one community that feels the impact daily.
According to Jarrod Hardke, most of our rice and soybean farmers are in decent shape despite the consistent rain so far this year.
Hardke serves as the Rice Extension Agronomist for The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
"The majority that you talk to you right now feel like [farmers are] in very good shape for this point in the season," he said. "Everybody noticed that it had got a lot colder all of a sudden and turned wet, A lot of the crops that emerged, were not looking very good. We needed this return of warm weather to get everything back growing and moving in the right direction.”
He said that the back and forth between getting rain and drying out very rapidly has allowed about a 20% planting progress ahead of the five-year average.
However, Harke said that interestingly enough, that rain has also created other problems.
When you suddenly go from wet to extremely dry with the high winds that we've had, the rice or beans that are in the ground are then getting trapped under a dry crust layer and have trouble getting out.
This is why they are actually looking towards having more rain, as crazy as that sounds.
"You can't talk to any farmer that doesn't watch the weather in the morning and at night and has five different weather apps on their phone and can quote exactly what time it's supposed to show up," he said. "What the weather is going to do has an impact all season long for every activity."
Hardke said that Arkansas produces roughly 50% of the rice grown in the United States. The state also grows over 3 million acres annually of soybean and other main-row crops like corn and cotton.
He added that a better agriculture year and growing season leads to better production and better quality rice, but it doesn’t always translate to lower costs on the shelves.
Hardke said that as we move towards the planting and harvest season, he'd encourage everyone to be cautious on the road when you see large equipment moving along roads so that you and those farmers can get where they need to be safely. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/weather/record-rain-impacts-arkansas-farmers/91-d74d018f-7cfd-4ae1-8846-e7f7ede5ff31 | 2023-05-13 22:28:32 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/weather/record-rain-impacts-arkansas-farmers/91-d74d018f-7cfd-4ae1-8846-e7f7ede5ff31 |
Actor Ezra Miller pleaded guilty Friday to a charge stemming from a break-in and theft of alcohol at a neighbor's home in Vermont, one of a string of arrests and reports of erratic behavior last year that stretched from Hawaii to New England.
Miller, who appeared in several “Justice League” movies and stars in the upcoming film “The Flash," agreed that by entering the plea and abiding by the conditions, they would avoid a three-month jail sentence for a misdemeanor charge of unlawful trespass, a $500 fine and a court fee, a year of probation, and conditions including continued mental health treatment.
Two other charges were dropped, including a felony burglary count that could have carried a sentence of 25 years in prison, but Vermont Superior Court Judge Kerry Ann McDonald-Cady told Miller the felony charge could be refiled if they fail to abide by the details of probation.
During the nearly 30-minute hearing in Bennington, Miller, 30, answered the judge's questions but declined to make a statement. However, after the hearing, Miller's attorney, Lisa Shelkrot, sent a statement on the actor's behalf.
“Ezra would like to thank the court and the community for their trust and patience throughout this process, and would once again like to acknowledge the love and support they have received from their family and friends, who continue to be a vital presence in their ongoing mental health,” the statement said.
Miller pleaded not guilty in October to stealing liquor from a neighbor’s home in Vermont. State police responded to a burglary complaint in Stamford on May 1 and found that several bottles of alcohol had been taken while the homeowner was away.
The homeowner said he had been friends with Miller for about 18 years and bought the home a year and half ago in Stamford, where Miller also had a home, according to the police affidavit. Miller was charged after police consulted surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses.
Miller was arrested twice last year in Hawaii, including for disorderly conduct and harassment at a karaoke bar. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/ezra-miller-gets-fine-probation-home-break-in/507-3f1c275f-4544-45b0-9690-cbdf8e4f9d2c | 2023-01-13 18:04:11 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/ezra-miller-gets-fine-probation-home-break-in/507-3f1c275f-4544-45b0-9690-cbdf8e4f9d2c |
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Lana Ruvolo Grasser, National Institutes of Health and Rachelle Stammen, Emory University
(THE CONVERSATION) A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the first to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21% of voters in favor. Yet globally, including in the United States, there is concern about whether animal research is ethical.
We are scientists who support ethical animal research that reduces suffering of humans and animals alike by helping researchers discover the causes of disease and how to treat it. One of us is a neuroscientist who studies behavioral treatments and medications for people with post-traumatic stress disorder – treatments made possible by research with dogs and rodents. The other is a veterinarian who cares for laboratory animals in research studies and trains researchers on how to interact with their subjects.
We both place high importance on ensuring that animal research is conducted ethically and humanely. But what counts as “ethical” animal research in the first place?
The 4 R’s of animal research
There is no single standard definition of ethical animal research. However, it broadly means the humane care of research animals – from their acquisition and housing to the study experience itself.
Federal research agencies follow guiding principles in evaluating the use and care of animals in research. One is that the research must increase knowledge and, either directly or indirectly, have the potential to benefit the health and welfare of humans and other animals. Another is that only the minimum number of animals required to obtain valid results should be included. Researchers must use procedures that minimize pain and distress and maximize the animals’ welfare. They are also asked to consider whether they could use nonanimal alternatives instead, such as mathematical models or computer simulations.
These principles are summarized by the “3 R’s” of animal research: reduction, refinement and replacement. The 3 R’s encourage scientists to develop new techniques that allow them to replace animals with appropriate alternatives.
Since these guidelines were first disseminated in the early 1960s, new tools have helped to significantly decrease animal research. In fact, since 1985, the number of animals in research has been reduced by half.
A fourth “R” was formalized in the late 1990s: rehabilitation, referring to care for animals after their role in research is complete.
These guidelines are designed to ensure that researchers and regulators consider the costs and benefits of using animals in research, focused on the good it could provide for many more animals and humans. These guidelines also ensure protection of a group – animals – that cannot consent to its own participation in research. There are a number of human groups that cannot consent to research, either, such as infants and young children, but for whom regulated research is still permitted, so that they can gain the potential benefits from discoveries.
Enforcing ethics
Specific guidelines for ethical animal research are typically established by national governments. Independent organizations also provide research standards.
In the U.S., the Animal Welfare Act protects all warmblooded animals except rats, mice and birds bred for research. Rats, mice and birds are protected – along with fish, reptiles and all other vertebrates – by the Public Health Service Policy.
Each institution that conducts animal research has an entity called the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, or IACUC. The IACUC is composed of veterinarians, scientists, nonscientists and members of the public. Before researchers are allowed to start their studies, the IACUC reviews their research protocols to ensure they follow national standards. The IACUC also oversees studies after approval to continually enforce ethical research practices and animal care. It, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, accreditation agencies and funding entities, may conduct unannounced inspections.
Laboratories that violate standards may be fined, forced to stop their studies, excluded from research funding, ordered to cease and desist, and have their licenses suspended or revoked. Allegations of misconduct are also investigated by the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.
Above and beyond the basic national standards for humane treatment, research institutions across 47 countries, including the U.S., may seek voluntary accreditation by a nonprofit called the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, or AAALAC International. AAALAC accreditation recognizes the maintenance of high standards of animal care and use. It can also help recruit scientists to accredited institutes, promote scientific validity and demonstrate accountability.
Principles in practice
So what impact do these guidelines actually have on research and animals?
First, they have made sure that scientists create protocols that describe the purpose of their research and why animals are necessary to answer a meaningful question that could benefit health or medical care. While computer models and cell cultures can play an important role in some research, others studies, like those on Alzheimer’s disease, need animal models to better capture the complexities of living organisms. The protocol must outline how animals will be housed and cared for, and who will care for and work with the animals, to ensure that they are trained to treat animals humanely.
During continual study oversight, inspectors look for whether animals are provided with housing specifically designed for their species’ behavioral and social needs. For example, mice are given nesting materials to create a comfortable environment for living and raising pups. When animals don’t have environmental stimulation, it can alter their brain function – harming not only the animal, but also the science.
Monitoring agencies also consider animals’ distress. If something is known to be painful in humans, it is assumed to be painful in animals as well. Sedation, painkillers or anesthesia must be provided when animals experience more than momentary or slight pain.
For some research that requires assessing organs and tissues, such as the study of heart disease, animals must be euthanized. Veterinary professionals perform or oversee the euthanasia process. Methods must be in compliance with guidelines from the American Veterinary Medical Association, which requires rapid and painless techniques in distress-free conditions.
Fortunately, following their time in research, some animals can be adopted into loving homes, and others may be retired to havens and sanctuaries equipped with veterinary care, nutrition and enrichment.
Continuing the conversation
Animal research benefits both humans and animals. Numerous medical advances exist because they were initially studied in animals – from treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative disease to new techniques for surgery, organ transplants and noninvasive imaging and diagnostics.
These advances also benefit zoo animals, wildlife and endangered species. Animal research has allowed for the eradication of certain diseases in cattle, for example, leading not only to reduced farm cattle deaths and human famine, but also to improved health for wild cattle. Health care advances for pets – including cancer treatments, effective vaccines, nutritional prescription diets and flea and tick treatments – are also available thanks to animal research.
People who work with animals in research have attempted to increase public awareness of research standards and the positive effects animal research has had on daily life. However, some have faced harassment and violence from anti-animal research activists. Some of our own colleagues have received death threats.
Those who work in animal research share a deep appreciation for the creatures who make this work possible. For future strides in biomedical care to be possible, we believe that research using animals must be protected, and that animal health and safety must always remain the top priority.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/what-is-ethical-animal-research-a-scientist-and-veterinarian-explain-190876. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/What-is-ethical-animal-research-A-scientist-and-17606086.php | 2022-11-23 14:39:07 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/What-is-ethical-animal-research-A-scientist-and-17606086.php |
WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – The Whitney Point Girls Lacrosse team held on to a small lead in Monday’s Class D semifinal win over Windsor 14-12.
The Eagles expanded an early lead late in the first half to take control of the game early.
Whitney Point advances to face Owego in the championship game on Wednesday.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Katherine Schweit, creator of the FBI's active shooter program after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about the law enforcement response in Uvalde.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Katherine Schweit, creator of the FBI's active shooter program after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about the law enforcement response in Uvalde.
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Lions head coach Dan Campbell said this week that the team views 2023 as a redshirt year for third-round pick Hendon Hooker because the quarterback is coming off of a torn ACL and Hooker said on Saturday that it’s difficult for him to take things slowly.
Hooker explained that he wants “to do things that I can’t really do right now, in terms of just speeding my feet up and putting a lot of pressure on that left leg and trying to change directions” and that he’s trying to just take things one day at a time while finding other ways to improve until he’s cleared for full physical activity.
“Entering this first year is the same motto, same mentality I’ve had all my life, let’s get better every day,” Hooker said, via Eric Woodyard of ESPN.com. “You’ll never stay the same; you either get better or you get worse, and I don’t wanna have any decline in my game so I’m continuing to work my tail off , day-to-day, mental reps, taking reps behind the quarterbacks that are in and just playing the game in my mind until I can actually get out there, but I’m still preparing and I’m hungry. I’m ready to compete.”
While Hooker is recovering, Jared Goff will be playing quarterback for the Lions and the veteran’s play will have a lot to do with when and if Hooker is actually in position to compete for playing time in Detroit. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/hendon-hooker-im-working-my-tail-off-taking-mental-reps | 2023-07-01 09:54:12 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/hendon-hooker-im-working-my-tail-off-taking-mental-reps |
Three players headed to Alabama and three to Auburn headline the Alabama Sports Writers Association 2022 Super All-State baseball team.
The group of 10 includes the ASWA’s Mr. Baseball, Riley Quick, and the Gatorade Alabama Player of the Year, Drew Nelson.
RELATED: Meet the 2022 All-State Baseball Team
The Super All-State team is designed to include the best high school baseball players in the state for the 2022 season regardless of position, classification or grade.
This year’s group includes eight seniors and two juniors. Quick and Phil Campbell’s Mason Swinney are the only repeat selections from 2021.
Here is the 2022 Super All-State Team:
Riley Quick, Hewitt-Trussville
Class: Senior
Position: P/IF
College: Alabama signee
Awards: Mr. Baseball, Class 7A Pitcher and Player of the Year.
Statistics: Quick went 13-1 this season with a 0.92 ERA in leading the Huskies to the Class 7A championship series. He pitched 82.2 innings and also picked up a save. He threw nine complete games, including six shutouts. Opponents hit .142 against him. He struck out 130 batters and walked just 37. He averaged more than 10 strikeouts a game and allowed 11 earned runs in 15 total games pitched.
RELATED: Hewitt-Trussville pitcher named Mr. Baseball
Elliott Bray, Hartselle
Class: Senior
Position: Pitcher/OF
College: Auburn signee
Awards: Class 6A Pitcher and Player of the Year.
Statistics: Bray hit .421 with 29 RBIs and 28 runs scored. On the mound, the right-hander was 10-0 with a 0.96 ERA. He struck out 117 batters in 80 innings.
Drew Nelson, Pike Liberal Arts
Class: Senior
Position: P/OF
College: Auburn signee
Awards: Gatorade Alabama Player of the Year. AISA Pitcher and Player of the year.
Statistics: Nelson compiled a 9-2 record on the mound with a 1.00 ERA, striking out 106 batters while allowing just 18 hits in 49 innings pitched. He fired a two-hitter with 15 strikeouts in a 6-1 win over Glenwood High that clinched the state title. He threw nine complete games, including six shutouts. Opponents hit .142 against him. He struck out 130 batters and walked just 37. He averaged more than 10 strikeouts a game and allowed 11 earned runs in 15 total games pitched.
Alex Wade, Madison Academy
Class: Senior
Position: OF
College: Auburn signee
Awards: Class 5A Player of the Year.
Statistics: Wade hit .511 with 60 RBIs and 51 runs scored in 133 at-bats. He had 10 homers and 18 doubles and also stole 23 of 26 bases.
Zane Stokes, Mobile Christian
Class: Senior
Position: IF
College: Coastal South signee
Awards: Class 4A Player of the Year.
Statistics: Stokes hit .457 for the Leopards with 10 homers, 36 RBIs and 35 runs scored. He also had 14 doubles. Stokes had 42 hits in 92 at-bats. He will play baseball at Coastal South.
Jack Hayes, Piedmont
Class: Junior
Position: P/C/IF
College: Uncommitted
Awards: Class 3A Player of the Year.
Statistics: Hayes hit .472 with 64 RBIs in 123 at-bats for the state runner-up Bulldogs. On the mound, he was 8-0 with a 1.08 ERA.
Coleman Mizell, Hartselle
Class: Junior
Position: OF
College: Alabama commit
Awards: Class 6A Hitter of the Year.
Statistics: Mizell hit .504 with 10 homers, 18 doubles and 56 RBIs for the 6A champs.
Josh Bowerman, Mars Hill Bible
Class: Senior
Position: P/IF
College: UNA signee
Awards: Class 2A Player of the Year.
Statistics: Bowerman hit .417 for Mars Hill with 47 RBIs and 40 runs scored. On the mound, he was 10-1 with a 1.39 ERA and 86 strikeouts.
Mason Swinney, Phil Campbell
Class: Senior
Position: P/IF
College: Alabama signee
Awards: Class 3A Hitter of the Year.
Statistics: Swinney hit .463 with 52 RBIs and 50 runs scored in 108 at-bats. He was successful on 15 of 16 stolen base attempts. On the mound, he was 4-2 with a 2.39 ERA.
John Malone, Bayshore Christian
Class: Junior
Position: P/IF
College: Samford commit
Awards: Class 1A Player of the Year.
Statistics: He hit .495 with 43 RBIs and 52 runs scored for the Eagles. On the mound, he was 10-1-1 with a 1.93 ERA and 79 strikeouts. | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/06/meet-the-10-best-high-school-baseball-players-in-alabama-for-the-2022-season.html | 2022-06-13 13:37:29 | 1 | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/06/meet-the-10-best-high-school-baseball-players-in-alabama-for-the-2022-season.html |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
2-3-0-6
(two, three, zero, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
2-3-0-6
(two, three, zero, six) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17346885.php | 2022-08-03 00:56:14 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17346885.php |
KARAMAY, China, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from GLOBAL TIMES ONLINE:
The first "Hello, Silk Road" International Conference on Internet Communication was held on July 23 in Karamay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Over 200 guests, including experts and scholars from more than 20 countries, Chinese and foreign journalists, and online influencers gathered together to envision future cooperation between China and countries along the Belt and Road in the field of international communication.
Wang Jianxin, director of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee in Xinjiang, sincerely invited Chinese and foreign journalists and online influencers to visit Xinjiang, discover a beautiful Xinjiang and tell stories of people-to-people connectivity along the Silk Road well.
Mederbek Shermetaliev, head of the Kabar News Agency of Kyrgyzstan, said Central Asian countries enjoy a bright prospect of development thanks to BRI cooperation. The media should extensively convey information about the aims and objectives of building high-level strategic partnerships between China and Central Asian countries to the general public in a way which is easy to understand.
"We need to stay focused and engage in in-depth exchanges to promote cooperation and win-win results," Argentine Ambassador to China Sabino Vaca Narvaja said in a video speech.
Chen Kai, mayor of Karamay, noted that the city will contribute to the realization of the dream of integration of diverse cultures in the world, the dream of connecting the world and making progress together under the BRI, and the great dream of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
During a roundtable discussion on international communication & value shaping and cultural envoys & common prosperity, the guests shared their views on international communication and other topics.
Zhang Weiwei, director of the China Institute of Fudan University, pointed out that compared to traditional media, the threshold of participating in international communication has been lowered today and thanks to cultural diversity, good stories are told everywhere.
The first "Hello, Silk Road" International Conference on Internet Communication was co-hosted by the information office of the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the government of Karamay and Global Times Online, and supported by the Special Fund for Positive Online Communication of the China Internet Development Foundation.
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(NEXSTAR) – A “coronal hole” in the sun’s atmosphere could trigger a geomagnetic storm, the effects of which may be felt on Earth on Wednesday, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
In an image of the sun shared with Nexstar, the disturbance on the sun’s surface is visible in the bottom right quadrant. There’s another, more defined spot on the sun’s left side.
These coronal holes “appear dark because they are cooler, less dense regions than the surrounding plasma and are regions of open, unipolar magnetic fields,” NOAA explains. “This open, magnetic field line structure allows the solar wind to escape more readily into space, resulting in streams of relatively fast solar wind.”
While some headlines make the occurrence sound like a doomsday-inducing hole in the sun, Rob Steenburgh of NOAA’s Space Weather Forecast office told Nexstar, “They happen all the time and are no cause for alarm.”
This type of disturbance can lead to mild or even moderate geomagnetic storms, Steenburgh said. A minor geomagnetic storm may cause weak fluctuations in the power grid, impact satellite operations on spacecraft, and make aurora displays in the sky visible at high latitudes, like in parts of Michigan and Maine.
Strong geomagnetic storms can cause power blackouts, radio issues and problems with satellite navigation – but that’s nothing like what we’re expecting to see Wednesday.
There are no active warnings related to space weather. | https://www.koin.com/news/geomagnetic-storm-caused-by-a-coronal-hole-on-the-sun-possible-how-it-will-impact-earth/ | 2022-08-03 22:38:58 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/geomagnetic-storm-caused-by-a-coronal-hole-on-the-sun-possible-how-it-will-impact-earth/ |
Popular car auction website Bring a Trailer never fails to impress with the variety of vehicles that show up in its listings.
Take for example this Acura ARX-05 DPi race car, which at the time of publication has a bid of $175,000 and eight days left to go in its sale.
First spotted by Jalopnik, the listing was posted by Honda’s own Honda Performance Development motorsports division. It’s for the no. 10 Acura ARX-05 DPi built and raced by Wayne Taylor Racing in the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship season.
The car was completed in late 2021 and entered in 10 races during the 2022 season. It managed wins at races held at Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, and Road America, which led to it taking second in the Teams’ Championship, behind the no. 60 Acura ARX-05 fielded by Meyer Shank Racing. The listing says the car has run 11,000 miles.
Power comes from a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 paired with a 6-speed sequential transmission from Xtrac. The chassis is an Oreca design and features a double-wishbone pushrod suspension, electronically assisted rack-and-pinion steering, an air-jack system, and a brake package consisting of Brembo 6-piston calipers and AP Racing carbon-ceramic rotors. Staggered Rotiform 18-inch forged-aluminum wheels are wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport P2L tires.
A chassis tag mounted to the carbon-fiber tub lists this ARX-05 as chassis number seven.
The availability of a top-level race car in almost complete form represents a rare opportunity for collectors. The buyer won’t be able to compete with it in future seasons of the SportsCar Championship, though.
The DPi class will be replaced next year by the return of the GTP class as the premier class of the SportsCar Championship. The GTP class will be eligible for both the new LMDh race cars and the existing LMH cars. Acura will be present, competing with a new ARX-06 LMDh race car.
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Bryant, as First Entrepreneur in Residence at Clark Atlanta University's School of Business, commits to
supporting aspiring HBCU entrepreneurs
ATLANTA, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clark Atlanta University's (CAU) School of Business hosted its first Entrepreneur Scholar-in-Residence, John Hope Bryant for a fireside chat in partnership with PNC Bank. The event marked the launch of PNC's National Center for Entrepreneurship. Bryant's new post aims to help CAU serve as an incubator for developing the next generation of leaders at the Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Bryant is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of Operation HOPE, the nation's largest non-profit dedicated to financial literacy.
During his residency at CAU, Bryant will lead an ongoing speaker series on a range of topics such as managing financial risk, negotiating deals, and the importance of FICO scores, among others. He is also a member of CAU's Board of Trustees.
Bryant's remarks included a historical review of The Freedman's Bank and various HOPE programs including Financial Literacy for All (FL4A) and One Million Black Businesses (1MBB). He asserts that Black entrepreneurs hold the key to transforming communities through ownership and improved financial wellness. The event was a celebration of the shared commitment to advancing Black entrepreneurship and brought together nearly 100 students, alumni, business experts and community leaders. PNC has been a HOPE strategic partner for nearly a decade. To view event images, click HERE.
"When you are sitting in history it doesn't feel like it, this is one of those moments. Today, the right partners are at the table," Bryant said. "We are at an inflection point that I call the 'Third Reconstruction' and I look forward to engaging both PNC and CAU's extraordinary students in a conversation about how they can change the world through entrepreneurship. By better understanding capitalism and learning the language of money, they will be equipped to shape the future of America."
"For three decades, John Hope Bryant has been on the frontlines with a message of 'Silver Rights.' He is an experienced and successful businessman who has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping others build generational wealth," said Dr. Silvanus Udoka, Interim Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs, CAU. "We are confident that Mr. Bryant's leadership, in partnership with PNC, will resonate with CAU students and unleash the power of entrepreneurship."
According to the US Small Business Administration, minority businesses account for more than 50% of the 2 million new businesses started in the United States in the past 10 years. Despite that growth, minority-business ownership represents only 18 percent of total U.S. businesses, and the businesses face huge disparities when it comes to access to capital, contracting opportunities and other entrepreneurial development.
About Operation HOPE, Inc.
Since 1992, Operation HOPE has been moving America from civil rights to "silver rights" with the mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the underserved—disrupting poverty for millions of low and moderate-income youth and adults across the nation. Through its community uplift model, HOPE Inside, which received the 2016 Innovator of the Year recognition by American Banker magazine, Operation HOPE has served more than 4 million individuals and directed more than $3.2 billion in economic activity into disenfranchised communities—turning check-cashing customers into banking customers, renters into homeowners, small business dreamers into small business owners, minimum wage workers into living wage consumers, and uncertain disaster victims into financially empowered disaster survivors. Operation HOPE recently received its eighth consecutive 4-star charity rating for fiscal management and commitment to transparency and accountability from the prestigious non-profit evaluator, Charity Navigator. For more information: OperationHOPE.org. Join the conversation on social media at @operationhope.
About Clark Atlanta University
Established in 1988 by the historic consolidation of Atlanta University (1865) and Clark College (1869), Clark Atlanta University continues a 150-year legacy rooted in African American tradition and focused on the future. Through global innovation, educational experiences, and high-value engagement, CAU cultivates lifted lives that transform the world. To learn more about Clark Atlanta University, visit www.cau.edu.
Contact:
Lalohni Campbell, for Operation HOPE
la@persemediagroup.com
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NEW YORK, Aug 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc.
Shareholders who purchased shares of KRBP during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
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A KFC employee in St. Louis has been hospitalized after a customer shot him because he was upset that the restaurant had run out of corn, police said.
The shooting happened Monday evening in the city's Central West End neighborhood.
Investigators said the man tried to place an order in the restaurant's drive-thru lane. He became upset and threatened employees when he was told the business was out of corn, police said.
The man had a handgun when he drove up to the drive-thru window. A 25-year-old employee who went outside to talk to the driver returned to the restaurant and said he had been shot, police said.
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The driver fled and had not been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.
The victim was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday aired drone footage of Israeli ships in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting the tension at the center of U.S.-mediated maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel.
The footage was aired as the U.S. energy envoy, Amos Hochstein, was landing in Beirut to mediate ongoing talks between Lebanon and Israel over their sea borders. Lebanon claims the Karish gas field is disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, whereas Israel says it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in a statement Friday said Hochstein will inform Lebanon of Israel’s response to Lebanon’s June proposal, adding that he was optimistic about reaching an agreement soon.
There was no immediate response to the video from Israel.
The footage aired on the Iran-backed party and militia’s Al-Manar television, showed barges from reconnaissance drones over the Karish gas field and their coordinates. It ended with footage of a rocket with the words “within range” in Arabic and Hebrew.
The Israeli military earlier this month shot down three Hezbollah unarmed drones flying over Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati criticized Hezbollah, saying the move could pose risks to the country.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an interview last week said that the militant group can locate and strike Karish and any other Israeli gas field.
Following his last visit in June, Hochstein told U.S.-funded Al-Hurra television that the Lebanese government took “a very strong step forward” by presenting a more united approach, and anticipated that there could be progress to reach a settlement.
The two countries, which have been officially at war since Israel’s creation in 1948, both claim some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon hopes to exploit offshore gas reserves as it grapples with the worst economic crisis in its modern history. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/hezbollah-airs-video-of-israeli-barges-in-disputed-gas-field/ | 2022-07-31 18:39:44 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/hezbollah-airs-video-of-israeli-barges-in-disputed-gas-field/ |
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Leveraging SBA, Business Forward’s National Small Business Digital Alliance and Amazon’s digital business tools, BINW will provide growth-enabled business resources and educational workshops as part of a Small Business Digital Accelerator Program to help advance equitable and inclusive growth in Washington State.
The program will support small businesses and entrepreneurs across Washington who are interested in becoming online sellers or looking to optimize e-commerce. The program is targeting 50 small businesses to participate.
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Businesses who have an established product and are ready to engage will get the most out of the training.
Live weekly sessions will be held virtually starting on Aug. 18. A live virtual session recap will be available on Wednesdays starting Aug. 24 from 10-11:30 a.m.
Businesses that attend all six weeks of virtual training will be eligible to apply for the Holiday Shopping Opportunities Program.
In partnership with Amazon, BINW will select five to 15 businesses to sell at live pop-up vending events throughout Puget Sound during the 2022 Holiday Shopping Season. In addition to selling products in-person, selected businesses will be promoted through Amazon, BINW, and other partners’ digital channels in anticipation of Small Business Saturday.
Visit businessimpactnw.org/small-business-digital-accelerator-program to register and learn more. | https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/08/binw-sba-and-amazon-announce-effort-to-help-local-small-businesses/ | 2022-08-13 02:51:24 | 1 | https://nwasianweekly.com/2022/08/binw-sba-and-amazon-announce-effort-to-help-local-small-businesses/ |
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