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"DJ CASSIDY'S PASS THE MIC LIVE!" TOUR KICKS OFF AT THE PRUDENTIAL CENTER IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY ON FRIDAY, MAY 12TH WITH PERFORMANCES BY ASHANTI, FABOLOUS, JA RULE, LIL KIM, MA$E, NE-YO, ROBIN THICKE, 112 AND SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS
DJ CASSIDY DEBUTS "PASS THE MIC LIVE!" WITH TAKEOVER OF "MOTHER'S DAY GOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL" TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH
LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DJ Cassidy will take his highly lauded primetime television series "Pass The Mic" on tour in 2023 in partnership with Black Promoters Collective. "DJ Cassidy's Pass the Mic Live!" Tour kicks off on Friday, May 12th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, with an epic lineup including Ashanti, Fabolous, Ja Rule, Lil Kim, Ma$e, Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke, 112, and a slew of exciting surprise guests. The debut "Pass The Mic Live!" show, a takeover of the annual "Mother's Day Good Music Festival," will be the first in a series of one-night-only events taking place throughout the year, each with its own unique roster of superstar performers.
Before offering to the general public, "DJ Cassidy Pass the Mic Live!" tickets will be on presale to American Express® card members from Tuesday, March 7th at 10:00am EST through Thursday, March 9th at 11:59pm EST. Tickets will be available to the general public on Friday, March 10th at 10:00am EST. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
"I am overwhelmed with excitement and emotion as I announce the first in a series of one-night-only "Pass The Mic Live!" events," says DJ Cassidy. "Transforming a show that began in my living room into a live arena concert is simply surreal. I am so honored to be uniting yet another iconic list of my musical heroes, this time live on stage, and I am so grateful for the Black Promoters Collective, whose grand vision, foresight, and experience, is my guiding light."
"DJ Cassidy is a shining light in pop culture, and we are honored to partner with him on what is sure to be one of the most epic tours of the year," says Black Promoters Collective President CEO, Shelby Joyner.
Over the past two years, DJ Cassidy transformed how we experience music with "Pass The Mic." By celebrating and uniting his musical heroes, DJ Cassidy changed how we interact with our favorite artists and favorite songs through a game changing, culturally moving format. The groundbreaking series "Pass The Mic" went from viral sensation to televised primetime series on BET and featured a monumental collection of prolific artists throughout. Within ten episodes, Cassidy passed the mic to 220 legendary superstars, including Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Nile Rodgers, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Kool & The Gang, Charlie Wilson, Hall & Oates, New Edition, Boyz II Men, Teddy Riley, Keith Sweat, TLC, En Vogue, SWV, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa, Missy Elliott, Ice Cube, Method Man, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, Nelly, Fat Joe, Sean Paul, Shaggy, and too many others to name. To date, the series has garnered more than 800 million impressions, 100 million views, 5 million likes, 2 million shares, and 3 million unique television viewers.
Renowned for his unmatched ability to rally icons and legends alike, DJ Cassidy curated a musical experience like no other with "Pass The Mic," as Cassidy's musical heroes, spanning five decades, performed their most iconic songs. Now, the modern-day maestro will recreate the experience with a series of highly anticipated live concerts that will surely make history!
About DJ Cassidy
DJ Cassidy's career is the culmination of a lifetime of deejaying around the world, observing people react, and making people move. He tours the world twelve months a year, electrifying party people with an infectious showmanship, a crowd-commanding voice, and a musical palette so broad, he relates to everyone within his reach, uniting dance floors around the globe. DJ Cassidy has been at the nexus of culture for well over half his living years as the definitive deejay of music impresarios, entertainment moguls, fashion icons, nightlife innovators, and world leaders. When President Obama wanted a deejay for both of his Inaugurations and fiftieth birthday at the White House, there's only one person he called. When Jay Z and Beyonce hosted their wedding at their New York City apartment, there's only one person they called. When Oprah Winfrey opened her school on New Year's Eve in South Africa, there's only one person she called. When Sean "Puffy" Combs and Jennifer Lopez celebrated their 50th birthdays, there's only one person they called. And when Justin Timberlake, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Naomi Campbell, Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabbana, The Kardashians, and the most transformative brands and nightlife institutions around the globe seek a maestro like no other, they all call on DJ Cassidy, recognizing his unique ability to unite everyone, everywhere, through the spirit of celebration. For more information, visit http://www.djcassidy.com.
About Black Promoters Collective
The Black Promoters Collective (BPC) is a coalition of six of the nation's top independent concert promotion and event production companies. As a 100% Black-owned business, its mission is to be the world's leading producer and provider of culturally relevant live entertainment experiences. For more information, visit http://www.blackpromoterscollective.com.
About SJ Presents
SJ Presents Inc. has over 20 years of experience in the world of music and entertainment, concert production, and event/partnership marketing. SJ Presents is birthed from a brand that has produced and promoted sold-out concerts for legendary greats and fan favorites like Erykah Badu, H.E.R., Usher, Charlie Wilson, Fantasia, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Chaka Khan, Tyrese, Earth, Wind and Fire, New Edition, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and comedians Martin Lawrence, Monique, Tracy Morgan and Cedric the Entertainer. SJ Presents has worked alongside leading New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut venues, including Madison Square Garden, The Beacon Theater, Barclays Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Prudential Center, and The Bushnell Theater. SJ Presents builds and leverages complete 360-integrated marketing and promotional campaigns and makes it known that they are not only a concert production and promotion company, but a lifestyle entertainment brand. For more information, visit http://www.sjpresentsinc.com.
About Mother's Day Good Music Festival
Mother's Day Good Music Festival is an annual Mother's Day concert celebration produced by SJ Presents and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The inaugural festival took place in 2016 and has garnered much success bringing some of the most iconic R&B and soul acts to the tri-state area for this phenomenal celebration of life, culture, and love. Previous line-ups have included H.E.R., Charlie Wilson, Boyz II Men, Ashanti, Joe, Monica, Avant, Donell Jones, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Anthony Hamilton, Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Kem, Erykah Badu, and more. For more information, visit http://www.sjpresentsinc.com or @sjpresents.
Black Promoters Collective Contact:
TreMedia, Tresa Sanders @ tresa@tre-media.net
DJ Cassidy Contact:
JPLA Media, Juliana Plotkin @ julaina@jplamedia.com
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Henrik Lundqvist is the headliner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s goaltender-heavy class of 2023, which also includes Stanley Cup champions Tom Barrasso and Mike Vernon.
Selection committee chairman Mike Gartner announced the seven-person class. Former NHL forward Pierre Turgeon and Canadian women’s hockey star Caroline Oullette were the other players, while Cup-winning coach Ken Hitchcock and late executive Pierre Lacroix were picked to be inducted in the builder category.
Lundqvist, elected in his first year of eligibility, backstopped Sweden to an Olympic gold medal in 2006 and led the New York Rangers to the playoffs in 11 of 12 years. That included a trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 2014 and two Eastern Conference Final appearances.
A seventh-round pick in the 2000 draft, Lundqvist ranks fifth on the NHL career victories list with 459. He won 61 more in the playoffs before halting his hockey career in 2020 because of a heart condition.
Barrasso won the Cup with Pittsburgh back to back in 1991 and ’92. Vernon won it with Calgary in 1989 and with Detroit in 1997. Each got in after lengthy waits.
The wait continues for point-a-game Russian winger Alexander Mogilny and goaltender Curtis Joseph, who is just five victories behind Lundqvist on the NHL career list.
The induction ceremony is Nov. 13 in Toronto. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nhl/news/henrik-lundqvist-headlines-hockey-hall-of-fames-goalie-heavy-class-of-2023 | 2023-07-01 22:15:52 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nhl/news/henrik-lundqvist-headlines-hockey-hall-of-fames-goalie-heavy-class-of-2023 |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man during an operation Tuesday evening in the occupied West Bank, raising to five the number of Palestinians killed in less than 24 hours of fighting. A female Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in a car ramming.
It was one of the bloodiest days in months of violence in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and came during a recent spurt of fighting in the wake of a Jerusalem bombing that killed two Israelis last week.
The army said it shot the Palestinian man in the town of al-Mughayir as he tried to hurl a firebomb toward them. It said a crowd of Palestinians was throwing stones at soldiers who were delivering orders to demolish illegally built buildings. The town is located in an area of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control, where Palestinians say it is nearly impossible to receive building permits.
Amateur video taken from the scene showed a group of youths running away from the sound of gunfire. One of them then stumbled to the ground, before his friends picked him up and evacuated him. Local officials identified him as Raed Naasan, 21, and said that he had been set to soon join the Palestinian police force.
Earlier on Tuesday, a Palestinian man rammed his car into a female Israeli soldier in what the army said was an intentional attack, seriously injuring her, before he was shot dead.
Security camera footage showed the vehicle turning around and slowing in front of the woman, before accelerating and running her over. She was thrown into the air as the driver sped away.
Police chased the driver and shot him. The man, identified as Rani Abu Ali, 45, from the West Bank town of Beitunia, was pronounced dead at a Jerusalem hospital.
The violence began overnight near the city of Hebron.
The Israeli army said clashes erupted after two army vehicles got stuck due to mechanical issues. It said soldiers opened fire after Palestinians hurled rocks and explosives and Palestinian gunmen also opened fire.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mufid Khalil, 44, was killed and at least eight other people were wounded by Israeli fire.
In a separate incident, two brothers were killed by Israeli fire during clashes with troops near the village of Kafr Ein, west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank, early Tuesday. The Palestinian news agency Wafa identified them as Jawad and Dhafr Rimawi, ages 22 and 21.
The Israeli military said troops operating in the village came under attack from suspects throwing rocks and firebombs, and soldiers responded with live fire.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been surging for months amid nightly Israeli raids in the West Bank, prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis that killed 19 people in the spring.
More than 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, making it the deadliest year since 2006. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting Israeli army incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
At least 31 people have died in Arab attacks in Israel and the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office.
In a new report, the army described a fragile situation in the West Bank as a new, hard-line Israeli government prepares to take office. The army said it has mobilized thousands of troops and arrested some 2,500 Palestinians and confiscated around 250 weapons since March.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-4-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-fire-in-occupied-west-bank/ | 2022-11-29 23:07:11 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-4-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-fire-in-occupied-west-bank/ |
WASHINGTON , July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During a ceremony at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires on Thursday, July 27, Argentina became the 28th country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Daniel Filmus, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, signed on behalf of Argentina.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Marc Stanley, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, were also in attendance.
The Artemis Accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA's Artemis program.
"As the United States and Argentina mark two centuries of diplomatic relations this year, we know our partnership over the next century will be deepened by discoveries made together in space," said Administrator Bill Nelson. "Along with our fellow Artemis Accords signatories, the United States and Argentina are setting a standard for 21st century exploration and use of space. As we explore together, we will explore peacefully, safely, and transparently."
NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, established the Artemis Accords in 2020 together with seven other founding member nations.
"We are convinced that the Artemis Accords constitute a contribution to the development of space activities with peaceful purposes at a global level and that they will increase international cooperation with Argentina," said Filmus.
The Artemis Accords reinforce and implement key obligations in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. They also reinforce the commitment by the United States and signatory nations to the Registration Convention, the Rescue and Return Agreement, as well as best practices and norms of responsible behavior that NASA and its partners have supported, including the public release of scientific data.
"It is very important we take this step as it is key that we move forward in the field of space development. We are convinced that it must be a state policy," said President Fernández. "We have done a lot to retain our scientists, we have always been interested in science and technology, we believe that this is the way to go."
Additional countries will sign the Artemis Accords in the months and years ahead, as NASA continues to work with its international partners to establish a safe, peaceful, and prosperous future in space. Working with both new and existing partners will add new energy and capabilities to ensure the entire world can benefit from our journey of exploration and discovery.
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Alabama Power Company says it is proceeding on budget and on schedule with a new gas-fired power unit that was a major part of a $1.1 billion expansion approved by the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2020.
The company said it is about 70% complete with construction of a combined-cycle gas unit at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant in Mobile County, which is slated to begin operating next year.
The new combined-cycle unit at Plant Barry was the largest new construction item in the expansion plan. Alabama Power also purchased another natural gas plant in central Alabama and purchased the rights to power generated at another gas plant to have more electricity available in reserve for its peak usage times, which are cold winter mornings.
The company provided the update during an informal hearing on Tuesday at the Alabama Public Service Commission. Company representatives provided information on the costs of environmental compliance and some rates that are charged to customers. The PSC hosts such informal meetings each December to discuss the upcoming year’s projections in lieu of formal rate cases or hearings required by many other state utility commissions.
Environmental and some consumer groups opposed the expansion, arguing it was “excessive and costly,” and that the large investment in natural gas would make Alabama Power vulnerable to rate increases if natural gas prices went up.
Alabama Power says the new unit is on track to begin delivering power by November 2023 and when complete will be one of the most efficient gas power units in the country.
“When completed, Plant Barry Unit 8 has the potential to be one of the most efficient natural gas combined cycle plants in the country, generating around 726 megawatts of electricity,” Alabama Power media relations manager Alyson Tucker said by email. “With this new technology, each megawatt generated by Plant Barry Unit 8 would use nearly half the CO2 of other [coal] units.”
No new rate increases were announced Tuesday, but the company had already announced three separate rate increases in the past six months, adding up to about $22.81 extra per month for a typical residential customer in 2023. The company cited increased fuel costs, inflation, and depreciation of assets as drivers for the rate increases.
Combine-cycle power plants have both gas and steam turbines to maximize efficiency. These plants capture heat from the exhaust of the gas combustion part of the unit to heat water and generate steam to create more electricity. Multiple online sources say combined-cycle plants can be as much as 50% more efficient than traditional gas units.
At the meeting, the company also discussed plans to retire the coal-fired Unit 5 at Plant Barry and to convert Unit 4 from coal to natural gas by 2028. Once those projects are complete, Plant Barry will no longer use coal, but run entirely on natural gas and combined-cycle units. | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/12/alabama-power-on-schedule-with-1-billion-expansion.html | 2022-12-15 13:25:37 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/12/alabama-power-on-schedule-with-1-billion-expansion.html |
VANDLING, Pa. — Have you ever visited a mushroom farm? If you haven't, it's fascinating! We visited 3rd Kingdom Mushrooms in Vandling, PA. It is like sci-fi meets family farming!
The Linsenbigler family led by George and Jennifer own and operate 3rd Kingdom Mushrooms. Their farm is indoors and quite amazing. George, a mycologist (one who studies the world of fungi), shared the process of mushroom growing from spore to harvest and took us on a tour of their farm.
Jackie Lewandoski also spoke with Jennifer about the many varieties 3rd Kingdom Mushroom produces and great ways to use them in your favorite dishes.
3rd Kingdom Mushrooms are available at Fuller's Overlook Farms. | https://www.wnep.com/article/life/home-garden/home-backyard/home-and-backyard-3rd-kingdom-mushroom-farm-gourmet-mushrooms-jackie-lewandoski/523-a9770fd5-41dd-4262-83aa-fea92e9ca9a9 | 2023-03-18 15:01:00 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/life/home-garden/home-backyard/home-and-backyard-3rd-kingdom-mushroom-farm-gourmet-mushrooms-jackie-lewandoski/523-a9770fd5-41dd-4262-83aa-fea92e9ca9a9 |
HSINCHU, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services ("OSAT"), today reported its unaudited consolidated revenue for the month of May 2022. All U.S. dollar figures cited in this press release are based on the exchange rate of NT$28.99 to US$1.00 as of May 31, 2022.
Revenue for the month of May 2022 was NT$2,396.7 million or US$82.7 million, an increase of 2.5% compared to May 2021 and an increase of 2.2% compared to April 2022. The Company noted its record May revenue was the result of a combination of sustained demand and favorable dynamics in its memory products and DDIC businesses.
About ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.:
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS) (https://www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS is known for its track record of excellence and history of innovation. The Company provides end-to-end assembly and test services to leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries serving virtually all end markets worldwide.
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MARQUETTE, Mich. and LANSING, Mich., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peninsula Fiber Network, LLC (PFN), a leading provider of fiber optic-based telecommunications and Next Generation 911 services throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota announces the addition of Tammy Smith as its Grants & Funding Manager.
In anticipation of this important addition, PFN's Vice President of Government Affairs stated, "Tammy's vast experience in grants and funding will allow PFN to engage in federal and state broadband funding opportunities that enhance our robust network. Her critical thinking, attention to detail, and vast industry knowledge is a valuable asset to our growing company and for our customers in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. We are pleased that she has joined the PFN team."
Tammy brings to PFN over 20 years' experience working with government, academic, and non-profit organizations across various industries. She is a certified grant management specialist, an expert in federal grants, and contributing author to the Grants Management Body of Knowledge (GMBoK) Guide published by NGMA.
A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tammy lives in Bath with her husband, Thomas. In their free time they enjoy being with their children and family, and love to be outdoors. You will often find them at the horse barn, roller rink, or exploring Michigan's waters and wildlife with their fishing poles, kayaks, and cameras.
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Kelly Proudfit
Sales Support Specialist
Peninsula Fiber Network, LLC (PFN)
(906) 232-1003
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa Mayor Jane Castor announced a long-range climate change action plan on Friday.
The plan outlines more than 140 initiatives for city buildings, infrastructure and energy use for the city.
Castor says climate change is real and must be planned for.
“It really is reaching the stages of being critical, so we have to ensure that our buildings, our roads, our infrastructure are all designed with sustainability in mind,” Castor said.
Whit Remer is the city’s Sustainability and Resilience Officer. He says climate change in this area is measurable.
“The St. Pete tide gauge has shown about 8 inches of sea level rise already since 1940. So, sea level rise is already here. Now, our projections show between two and eight feet of sea level rise by 2100,” said Remer.
He says the city must plan for that sea level rise going forward.
“If you’re a city planner or someone who builds infrastructure in the city, that’s a very big difference. In the state of Florida, that’s a monumental difference. So, we have a lot of challenges ahead of designing in a way that we are not over spending, over designing, but we are doing so in a way that is keeping up with the best science that is available to us. We’re going to see pumps, we are going to see houses, we’re going to see infrastructure that is ultimately going to be built higher. We are going to have to get used to some of this flooding if we are going to continue to live on the coast,” Remer added. | https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/tampa-mayor-announces-climate-change-action-plan/ | 2023-06-16 23:30:07 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/tampa-mayor-announces-climate-change-action-plan/ |
This Philly-area elementary school saw test scores plummet. Now it’s putting all its resources toward catching up.
“It’s difficult to articulate and quantify the misses that occurred,” the principal said, and “what that means in a child’s development, over the course of those really impressionable years."
Surrounded by the names of 522 Neidig Elementary School students, color-coded based on their scores on district benchmark tests, Krissy Wainwright presented a game plan.
“You’re doing fluency,” Wainwright, who coaches fellow teachers at the K-5 Bucks County school, confirmed with one third-grade instructor. Then she continued around the room: “You’re doing phonics. You’re doing book clubs.”
The list of assignments reflected the varying needs of the school’s students, who would be split into groups each day for targeted help with reading.
But it also reflected the degree to which schools are searching — without much of a guidebook — for the best approach to get kids back on track even three years after the start of the pandemic disruptions.
“It’s difficult to articulate and quantify the misses that occurred,” Neidig principal Scott Godshalk said, and “what that means in a child’s development, over the course of those really impressionable years.”
Like schools nationally, Neidig has seen student achievement suffer since the pandemic — with some of the steepest drops in test scores in the Philadelphia region. The elementary school fell from scoring nearly 60% proficient on the math portion of the Pennsylvania System of State Assessments in 2019 to less than 31% in 2022. Reading scores also showed a sharp decline, from more than 63% proficient in 2019 to just under 40% in 2022.
School officials aren’t sure why their students dropped more than many of their peers, although schools that started with lower proficiency rates also didn’t have as far to drop. Neidig, like other elementary schools in the Quakertown Community School District, returned students in person five days a week by October 2020, earlier than some others.
Yet school was still far from normal: Students left by 2 p.m., nearly two hours early, because buses needed to accommodate social distancing. Others continued learning from home, with teachers split between the students sharing the room and those on computer screens. And staffing shortages plagued Neidig long after students were back in classrooms, with disruptions continuing throughout last year as Godshalk struggled to cover classes.
What he and the Neidig staff are facing now is a task confronting schools more broadly: filling in the gaps, while trying not to fall behind on this year’s learning.
“What we’re asking them, with the standards at each grade level, is to make more than a year’s worth of growth in one year,” Godshalk said.
In schools around the region, teachers are “feeling the pressure” from administrators to boost test scores, said Nicole Carl, director of the Urban Teaching Residency master’s program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
Student teachers Carl works with in Philadelphia have been directed to ensure students are logging on to online remedial programs for certain numbers of hours, she said, while schools with reading and math specialists — like Neidig — have been providing targeted instruction.
What approach a school takes depends on the community, their level of resources, and what their children need, Carl said: “I don’t think that any school knows yet what’s going to work.”
Godshalk says he’s lucky to have the resources he does. Neidig’s staffing levels are better this year. And in addition to Wainwright, who also serves as a reading specialist, and another instructional coach who doubles as a math specialist, Neidig has a reading specialist through the federal Title 1 program, based on its poverty rate; 44% of students are economically disadvantaged.
Those specialists — and the school’s teachers — have been dissecting scores to determine where students have fallen behind.
The PSSAs, which are administered to third through eighth graders across Pennsylvania, tell schools whether kids are meeting state standards. But they don’t reveal the underlying issues: Did a child get a reading question wrong because they don’t understand setting, theme, character? Or because they couldn’t decipher the words?
For that level of insight, Neidig, like other schools, uses internal assessments — in the case of reading, a test known as DIBELS. The school tested students in the fall and, with that baseline, set goals for the end of the year: for instance, that 66% of third graders would be able to read 114 words per minute. When the year began, just over half of the grade was able to read 70 words per minute.
Midyear testing found that just under half were now able to read 105 words per minute — a shifted goalpost from the fall. But some students “didn’t quite make that jump we wanted them to make,” Wainwright said. “We don’t want to wait anymore.”
Neidig already had been incorporating more phonics at older-than-usual grade levels — a recognition that children had missed some foundational reading instruction during the pandemic. But by January, testing showed enough third graders to fill a classroom were still struggling with it, warranting more targeted instruction.
In a meeting earlier this month reviewing the scores, Wainwright planned with teachers to break those students into their own group during the school’s “What I Need” time, a daily 30-minute block reserved for extra help with already-introduced information, rather than new material.
She also suggested other strategies, like embedding routines for reading instruction into other classes and introducing older students to the concept of “heart words,” an approach the school’s K-2 teachers were already using: Rather than memorizing every irregular word, students could learn irregular prefixes and suffixes, allowing them to decode more words.
“I know that might be holding back our fluency,” Wainwright told teachers. (She was referring to the ability to read accurately, with proper phrasing and emphasis — “all of the things that go together to make your reading understandable.”)
She next walked fourth-grade teachers through their grade’s results — “They were so far behind, the growth they’re making isn’t up to grade level,” observed one teacher, JoAnn Klee — while they viewed individual students’ scores, exclaiming at signs of progress: “He definitely grew. He increased 40 words per minute.”
Teachers say the year has been marked by continued readjustment to the classroom experience. “Everything was computers and games,” Colleen Vasquez, a third-grade teacher, said of virtual learning. She said the stamina involved in putting “pen to paper” and diving “deep into something you’re learning — it’s so hard for them.”
So, before students can make gains, teachers say they have to start where they are. During a fourth-grade English class, teacher Lori Zuber circled the room as students in small groups read a passage from Love That Dog, a book by Sharon Creech, and tried to answer how Jack, the protagonist, had been brave.
A teacher of 26 years, Zuber said students are having a harder than usual time with “the productive struggle” and working through questions independently. She’s adjusted to give added help — creating graphic organizers with more explicit prompts, like “Jack was generous when” rather than “How has Jack changed?”
Students in her classes need to be able to read for comprehension, but some are struggling with phonics, Zuber said.
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu has announced his government’s plan to pay $10 a month to poor households to ease the growing hardship caused by the scrapping of subsidies on gasoline.
In a letter to the Nigerian Senate, which was read during Thursday’s sitting, Tinubu said 12 million households will benefit from the handout for a period of six months. The government plans to fund it through an $800 million World Bank loan for which Tinubu is seeking legislators’ approval.
“It is expected that the program will stimulate economic activities in the informal sector and improve nutrition, health, education, and human capital development of beneficiaries’ households,” he said of the social welfare initiative.
Meanwhile, Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security and directed the release of grains to households.
Dele Alake, his spokesman, said that “as with most emergencies, there are immediate, medium- and long-term interventions and solutions. In the immediate term, we intend to deploy some savings from the fuel subsidy removal into the agricultural sector focusing on revamping the sector.”
The president scrapped the gasoline subsidy on his first day in office at the end of May, ending a decades-long program that made gasoline affordable for many but which authorities said was expensive and economically unsustainable. The subsidies cost the government an estimated $10 billion in 2022.
He said his government would use the money usually budgeted for subsidies in other vital projects. However, the end of the subsidy program more than doubled the price of gasoline, resulting in severe hardship for citizens already battling high inflation of 22.4% and where at least 63% of the more than 210 million population face “multidimensional poverty,” according to the national statistics agency.
Tinubu said the planned $10 monthly handout would have “a multiplier effect” on about 60 million individuals, though some Nigerians criticized it as inadequate and unsustainable.
In Kano state, the economic hub of northern Nigeria, traders said the country’s cost of living crisis had crashed their returns as sales dwindled and the commodity prices went up.
The cost of transportation has also increased by more than 100% in Kano city since May when the subsidy was scrapped, residents said, as is the case across most parts of Nigeria where most of the residents rely on public transport.
“We don’t sell anything anymore, so how do you expect me to be feeding my family?” asked Yusuf Ibrahim, who sells clothes in the city. “The government is not doing what we elected them to do.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/ap-nigerian-leader-plans-10-monthly-handout-to-poor-households-after-gas-subsidy-ends/ | 2023-07-14 19:15:38 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/ap-nigerian-leader-plans-10-monthly-handout-to-poor-households-after-gas-subsidy-ends/ |
Videos reveal animals kept in awful conditions at popular sanctuary, activists say
(CNN) – Animal lovers are shocked and horrified to discover that a popular sanctuary was not the model home for its animals that people thought.
On social media and on its website, the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation looked like what every animal sanctuary should be: full of happy and well-fed animals playfully enjoying themselves in wide, open areas.
However, according to animal rights activists, a Mexican animal protection group and Mexican authorities, these idyllic images were far from reality.
The animal sanctuary became so popular that even celebrities like Katy Perry, Paris Hilton and the Kardashians visited the site in Mexico City’s south side and posted selfies on social media. A former Mexican president was also among the guests.
But videos of the real conditions the animals endured, recorded by former employees and animal protection groups, shocked and horrified many when they first surfaced earlier this summer.
Some of the footage shows a sick lion lying motionless on the ground, another lion biting its own tail because it was apparently too hungry, and severely emaciated exotic animals, seemingly too weak to run or play.
The Mexican Association of Zoos, Breeders and Aquariums reported that the animals received no medical care and not enough food, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ernesto Zazueta, president of the organization, said the conditions of the animals were very poor.
“You could see their bones, some had scabies, some are missing an eye, another an ear, another the tail. They have eaten themselves,” he said.
Eduardo Serio is the man behind the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation.
For years, “Papa Bear,” as he called himself, was very public about his work at the sanctuary, sharing it widely on social media.
His success was such that the Mexican government agency in charge of animal protection would send confiscated animals to Serio’s sanctuary.
CNN’s calls and messages to Serio received no response, but they said his attorney told them he is not currently doing any interviews.
On his foundation’s Instagram account, Serio said that the sanctuary depended on private donors and that donations considerably decreased at the beginning of the pandemic.
“We lost 70% of our donations,” Serio said. “When people lost their jobs, they had to cut any gifts. Those horrible videos that they took are definitely true. But as I was telling you, I am not a zoo, I do not hold pure, precious, beautiful animals, like works of art in a museum. No. I dedicate myself to rescuing all kinds of animals.”
Serio’s attorney, Salvador Padilla Estrada, has filed a motion seeking to prevent his client’s arrest. He said that Serio is someone whose only goal was protecting abandoned animals, some of which were already in bad shape when they were taken in by the foundation.
“What happened was that ... due to the situation of the pandemic, donations dropped, and as a consequence, they tried to adjust with good quality food, but that did not arrive with the same frequency, which does not mean that they were not fed,” Estrada said. “All was done under the care of a veterinarian who tried to meet the needs of the animals.”
In early July, heavily armed Mexico City police in tactical assault gear raided the Black Jaguar-White Tiger animal sanctuary.
The more than 200 lions, tigers, jaguars and other exotic animals at the site were sent to zoos and animal shelters around Mexico where animal protection groups hope they will be properly fed and taken care of.
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Captain Compassion returns for National Bullying Prevention Month to help families and school communities take action against bullying behavior
SEATTLE, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Committee for Children is launching its fifth annual Captain Compassion campaign during National Bullying Prevention Month to teach kids how to prevent bullying in all forms, with a special emphasis on behavior motivated by racial bias. Developed by Committee for Children in 2018, Captain Compassion is an anti-bullying superhero who teaches upstanders how to recognize, report, and refuse bullying through a series of engaging, age-appropriate comic strips.
One out of five students report being bullied during the school year. In 2019, of the students who reported being bullied, race was the most frequently reported characteristic referred to by hate-related words. To help address this issue, this year's Captain Compassion comics focus on a school community that's struggling with the social-emotional effects of racially motivated bullying. With the help of Captain Compassion and her trusty sidekick Kid Kinder®, the entire school community learns how to stand up against bullying to create safe, welcoming, and inclusive environments where children of all backgrounds can thrive.
"If we allow our children to experience bullying but ignore its effects, we're not setting them up for success," says developmental psychologist and Committee for Children VP of Education, Research, and Impact Tia Kim, Ph.D. "Effective bullying prevention requires a community-led approach to create safe environments where children can learn how to identify and report maltreatment. When there's action from an upstander—someone who intervenes on behalf of a person who's being bullied—it can reduce bullying by more than 50 percent."
Drawn from Committee for Children's decades of work in the field of bullying prevention, the Captain Compassion campaign presents free, award-winning comics that provide families, teachers, and caregivers with powerful, research-backed tips to empower their children and communities to stand up to bullying. The Captain Compassion site also includes resources like a Secret Decoder Wheel puzzle for kids, informative videos, downloadable posters, and more.
"For more than 40 years, Committee for Children has been dedicated to keeping children safe from all forms of violence and abuse, including bullying," says CEO Andrea Lovanhill. "With an increase in racially motivated bullying, as well as hate targeting LGBTQ+ youth this past year, it has never been more important to teach our children that they have a voice and the power to stand up for themselves and others."
To learn more about Captain Compassion and bullying prevention, visit CaptainCompassion.org each week this October to read brand-new comics and solve the Secret Decoder Wheel puzzle with the children in your life.
To learn more about social-emotional learning and Committee for Children, visit cfcchildren.org.
Committee for Children is a global nonprofit that has championed the safety and well-being of children through bullying prevention, child protection, and social-emotional learning (SEL) for more than 40
years. With a history of action and influence, we're known as a leader in social-emotional education and a force in advocacy, research, and innovation in the field. We take a comprehensive approach to SEL, promoting social-emotional well-being from birth to early adulthood—supporting not just classrooms, but entire communities. As our programs transform the lives of more than 24.4 million children per year, we rise to meet societal challenges to ensure children everywhere can thrive. Learn more at cfchildren.org.
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Netflix has an extensive library of movies. As each week brings more to the service, it becomes an effort to sift through the best of the bunch.
To save you time, we've listed the highlights of the new movies below, as well as CNET's full list of best movie originals on Netflix.
What's new this week (Nov. 21 to 27)
Note: The movie descriptions below are from Netflix press releases and occasionally IMDb.
Tuesday
- Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would (2022): Standup special. "Emmy-winning comedian Trevor Noah talks learning German, speaking ill of the dead, judging people in horror movies and ordering Indian food in Scotland."
Wednesday
- Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022): Family movie. "After inheriting a farm at Christmastime, a widowed father makes a bumpy adjustment to village life -- while his kids hatch a plan to stay there forever."
- Lesson Plan (2022): Action/adventure. "After a teacher dies, his best friend -- a former cop -- takes a job at the school where he worked to confront the gang he thinks was responsible."
- Taco Chronicles: Cross the Border (2022): Docuseries. "Many of the most popular taco styles have long, rich, little-known histories. Explore some of them in this eye-opening, mouth-watering food adventure."
- The Swimmers (2022): Drama. "From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use."
- Who's a Good Boy? (2022): Teen movie. "Chema has a mission: to date Claudia, the attractive new girl at his school, and lose his virginity. Can he fulfill his dream before graduating?"
Thursday
- Southpaw (2015): Drama/thriller. "When tragedy strikes, former boxing star Billy "The Great" Hope is forced to start over. But does he still have what it takes to be a champion?"
- The Last Dolphin King (2022): Documentary. "This documentary traces the career of renowned Spanish dolphin trainer José Luis Barbero and the events leading up to his shocking death in 2015."
- The Noel Diary (2022): Romance. "Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts -- and hearts?"
Friday
- Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022): Documentary. "Stories from survivors frame this documentary detailing the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein."
Read more: The Best TV Shows on Netflix
The full list of best Netflix original movies
At time of writing, these films all score at least 70 on Metacritic.
Sci-fi
The Platform (2019)
From Netflix's impressive stash of international films comes Spanish sci-fi horror The Platform. Its high-concept story centers on a tower that delivers food to people on each of its many levels via a platform. Those at the top snag the best and most abundant spread, which is devoured as the platform lowers down the levels. Social commentary rings throughout this dystopian thriller, which takes shocking, occasionally gruesome turns all the way to the bottom.
Drama
The Wonder (2022)
This psychological period drama from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio opens its storybook in the most surprising of ways. Asking you to believe in the power of storytelling, The Wonder centers on an English nurse (Florence Pugh) who's tasked with watching a young girl in 1862 rural Ireland -- a girl who appears not to have eaten for months. Nurse Wright gets to the bottom of what's going on, while discovering the benefits of her own storytelling. The Wonder can be slow going and owes a lot to Pugh's simmering performance, but it holds you until the gripping end.
Passing (2021)
Rebecca Hall makes her directorial debut in magnificent fashion with her adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing. It tells the story of two light-skinned Black women, one of whom chooses to "pass" as white. Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga embody the duality at the heart of this delicate story, shot in black and white. Gracefully handled, Passing is a tender portrait revealing powerful psychological depths.
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)
Andrew Garfield takes the spotlight for this biographical musical drama about Jonathan Larson, the late composer behind Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom! The movie, helmed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his directorial debut, follows Larson's career and the time pressure he feels to leave a lasting impression. With joy-inducing music, a meaningful narrative about the creative process and a passionate performance from Garfield as Larson, Tick, Tick... Boom! is a graceful and feel-good tribute.
The Dig (2021)
This fine British drama excavates a whole lot of buried treasure with a distinguished cast in Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn. It's based on the true events around the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, yielding a priceless trove of Anglo-Saxon artifacts hidden in a burial ship. Romantic, intellectual and moving, The Dig is a full sweep of elegance.
The Boys in the Band (2020)
The Boys in the Band sets a new stage for an ensemble cast who all performed the classic play-by-the-same-name's 2018 Broadway revival. Among them, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer. The movie brings new perspectives to a birthday party celebrated by a group of gay men in 1968 New York City. The party takes an unexpected turn when a visitor from the host's past calls in. With a cast that knows how to play off each other and compelling themes such as self-loathing and internalized homophobia, The Boys in the Band is a thought-provoking, engaging drama.
Mank (2020)
A black-and-white David Fincher tale about the unsung screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz who helped Orson Welles write Citizen Kane. Step back into Old Hollywood, with beautiful cinematography and take in the behind-the-scenes of how studio systems functioned in a different time. Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried are among the exceptional cast of this biographical drama filled with the lightness and darkness of its hero's life.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
An Aaron Sorkin drama based on a true story? The Trial of the Chicago 7 lives up to its pedigree, following the real-life trial of a group of anti-Vietnam War protestors charged with conspiracy to incite riots. With a stellar ensemble cast, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is both topical and full of compelling theatrical energy.
High Flying Bird (2019)
This sports drama from 2019 marked the second occasion director Steven Soderbergh used an iPhone to shoot a feature film (the first was 2018's Unsane). High Flying Bird tells the story of a sports agent facing the ax unless he pulls off a company-saving plan in 72 hours. Capturing the high tensions of professional sports through a unique shooting style, High Flying Bird is a fascinating piece put together with expert direction, editing and performances.
Marriage Story (2019)
A movie about divorce might not sound like the best viewing experience, but Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story is a journey you'll want to take. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver give two of the best performances of their careers as Nicole and Charlie, a couple who embark on the emotionally and logistically complicated legal processes involved in prying a partnership apart. Painted with an emotional complexity that includes poignantly funny moments along with the painful ones, this is happy-sad at its best.
The Two Popes (2019)
Set primarily in Vatican City, this biographical drama follows Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal. It's as fascinating as it sounds. The Two Popes carves up a slice of real-life drama with a first-class two-hander featuring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins.
Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuaron's semi-autobiographical snapshot of the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City tells a small story with staggering prowess. Let Cuaron steer you through the ups and downs of a live-in housekeeper of a middle-class family. His lens captures intricately beautiful scenes in an album that quietly envelopes you with wonder and grace.
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
This Italian film has the seal of approval from Bong Joon-ho, so let's listen to the Oscar-winning director of Parasite and add it to this list. Written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, Happy as Lazzaro is set in the '70s on a tobacco farm, where good-hearted young peasant Lazzaro dutifully works. When a nobleman convinces him to help him fake his own kidnapping, a story of friendship, innocence and social commentary unfolds. A gorgeously shot, cinematic fairytale.
Sunday's Illness (2018)
This elegant Spanish film will steep you in its rich imagery and phenomenally good performances from its two leads. Susi Sánchez and Bárbara Lennie star as Anabel and Chiara respectively, an estranged mother and daughter who reunite for reasons that aren't as clear as they first seem. The precision of the filmmaking here is worthy of soaking up for those who are partial to deliberately paced meditations on pain, love and loss. Masterful.
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career best performance in The Kindergarten Teacher, a drama about, yep, a kindergarten teacher. Lisa is dissatisfied with her own life, which leads her to make some questionable decisions regarding one of her young students. When Jimmy exhibits child prodigy levels of poetry writing talent, Lisa may or may not take credit for it. The Kindergarten Teacher's slightly disturbing character study might leave you feeling conflicted, but there's no question about Gyllenhaal's mesmerizing performance.
Mudbound (2017)
Mudbound gives you a historical look at class struggle through the lens of a Black veteran and a white veteran who both still have one foot stuck in World War II. Dealing with PTSD and racism in the Mississippi Delta, with a cast that includes Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell, Mudbound's tempest will rivet you to the spot.
Romance
The Half of It (2020)
This YA movie tells the story of Ellie Chu, a shy Asian American discovering her sexuality in the remote town of Squahamish. A straight-A yet friendless student who has a side-hustle writing papers for her classmates, Ellie helps footballer Paul Munsky write a love letter to Aster Flores. But it turns out Aster is perfect for Ellie instead. A story of self-acceptance told with a delicate touch, The Half of It is a joy.
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
The Incredible Jessica James introduces a delightfully self-possessed main character played by an equally delightful Jessica Williams. The confident and independent Jessica James goes on a blind date where she ends up talking about nothing but her ex. A fresh take on the breakup movie with an empowering lead, this is an easy hit for an entertaining night in.
Animation
The Sea Beast (2022)
The Sea Beast joins Netflix's collection of stellar family-friendly animated adventures. A young girl named Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator) stows away on the ship of sea monster hunter Captain Crow (Jared Harris), becoming wrapped up in a thrilling journey through uncharted waters. Bringing originality to the high seas and swashbuckling characters, The Sea Beast is a must-watch chapter of enchanting fantasy.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
One of the best family movies on Netflix. From some of the same people who made Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse comes this adventure to save the world involving Mom, Dad, the kids and their slobbery, bug-eyed dog. But amid the robot apocalypse, led by Olivia Colman's sinister Siri, really The Mitchells vs. the Machines is about a strained relationship between movie-loving daughter Katie and her technophobe father. The technology-inept parent gags are rife, the colors frenetic and the character growth moving. A near-perfect package with the timeless message that embracing your weirdness is a superpower.
I Lost My Body (2019)
This award-winning French film begins with a severed hand escaping a refrigerator in a laboratory and embarking on a Paris-wide search for the rest of its body. What an opening! With a few flashbacks and elegant animation, this strange, satisfying story delves into loss, both physical and emotional, in the most poetic of ways.
Action/Adventure
Okja (2017)
2017's Okja comes from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho -- which should be incentive enough to watch it. Part cheeky dark comedy, part surreal environmental thriller, Okja follows a young South Korean farmer girl whose pet pal is a genetically enhanced super-pig. But Okja is the target of a big corporation that wants her delicious flesh. With an English supporting cast including the likes of Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, Okja sucks you in with its sweetness before showing you a distressing close-up of the meat industry.
Thriller
The Stranger (2022)
Inspired by a true story, this crime drama out of Australia is an effectively unsettling -- and grim -- psychological thriller. Sean Harris stars as a man suspected of the abduction and murder of a teenager. Joel Edgerton plays an undercover cop tasked with drawing out the truth via an unlikely friendship.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
A psychological thriller that dives deep into the surreal. I'm Thinking of Ending Things definitely won't be for everyone, but it connects you to the frustrations of the young woman (Jessie Buckley) at its heart, who grapples with breaking off her seven-week-relationship with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons). While it overstays its welcome a little, I'm Thinking of Ending Things always keeps you on your toes, with atmospheric cinematography and strong performances from Toni Collette and David Thewlis as Jake's fairly odd parents. Fans of director-writer Charlie Kaufman will be pleased.
The Call (2020)
Two movies named The Call came out in 2020. Watch the South Korean one, a time travel thriller revolving around, yep, a phone call. Twenty-eight-year-old Seo-yeon finds a phone buried in a closet in her childhood home. It rings -- and the caller, it turns out, is living in the same house 20 years earlier. Twists right up to the final moment, plus a wild cat-and-mouse chase that alters the past and present make this a must-watch.
Calibre (2018)
This taut thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands is far from an idyllic getaway. Prepare for a full-on nerve-wringing nightmare that its protagonists are desperate to wake up from. Vaughn and Marcus set out on a lads' weekend hunting trip, but after a night of drinking, they find themselves facing events they never could have planned for. Calibre lives up to its name, delivering a slick package of grim, gripping drama. Let the full force of this one wallop you.
First They Killed My Father (2017)
The fifth film on Angelina Jolie's directing CV turned out to be her best. Based on Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung's memoir, the biographical thriller recounts the horrors Ung suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge. With an empathetic lens framing a shocking story from the perspective of a child, First They Killed My Father is a unique war movie made with control and finesse.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
If you've had a bad day, this might be the movie for you. When the police refuse to help with a robbery, nursing assistant Ruth and her weird neighbor Tony take matters into their own hands. I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore spots the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, before escalating its story into dark places with even darker humor. With a touch of Coen Brothers' flair, its perfectly packed 96 minutes will leave you surprisingly emotional.
Crime/War
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Spike Lee's fierce war drama follows a group of aging Vietnam War veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their squad leader -- as well as buried treasure. With a frenzied energy coursing through it, Da 5 Bloods gives you a look at the Vietnam War through Black experiences, delivering an all-too-timely critique of racism and warfare.
The Irishman (2019)
Spanning the lives of its mobsters over multiple decades, The Irishman pulls off a 3-and-a-half-hour crime saga. But don't worry -- you can break up this tour de force if you need to. Always clever and entertaining, with Martin Scorsese favorites Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci commanding the screen, The Irishman creeps up on you, offering a haunting look at aging mobsters and the havoc they wreak.
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Director Cary Joji Fukunaga gives you a sobering look at the life of a boy who becomes a child soldier in a West African country embroiled in civil war. Idris Elba stars as the ruthless Commandant along with the astonishing Abraham Attah as the young Agu. A confronting yet quietly hopeful snapshot of war from a human perspective, Beasts of No Nation needs to be on your radar if it isn't already.
Comedy
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
The title of this comedy-drama might sound familiar, but its focus is an unconventional tale. The Forty-Year-Old Version follows Radha, a playwright and teacher who finds herself drawn to the forgotten passion of her youth: rapping. Inspired by writer, director and star Radha Blank's real life, this beautiful diary of a struggling artist will inspire and hit home, with relatable themes of failure and unfulfilled potential.
Paddleton (2019)
Tennis-playing buddies Michael (Mark Duplass) and Andy (Ray Romano) receive devastating news: Michael has terminal stomach cancer. Struggling to let go of his dying friend, Andy joins Michael's road trip in search of medication to end things before they get too painful. Folding comedy into melancholy, Paddleton eases the touching friendship at its core into deftly-affecting places.
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Eddie Murphy returned from his acting break with a glorious performance as Rudy Ray Moore, a comedian who played a character called Dolemite in stand-up routines and blaxploitation films from the '70s. Dolemite Is My Name follows Moore from his job at a record store to the big screen. Tracking Moore's rise to fame and its bizarre and enthralling turns, Dolemite Is My Name does justice to both Moore's and Murphy's talents.
Private Life (2018)
Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn starring in a comedy-drama with something to say about modern marriage? Private Life is a unique and relatable slice of a New York middle-age couple's struggles with different avenues to have a child. But because Hahn and Giamatti are in it, it sparkles with wit and charm. Add Kayli Carter to the mix as Sadie, a college dropout, and you have another layer to this compelling movie about the unpredictability of heading into a new stage of life.
Win It All (2017)
Jake Johnson co-writes this comedy from prolific indie director Joe Swanberg (he was behind the Netflix anthology TV series Easy as well). Win It All follows Eddie, a gambling addict who agrees to stash a duffel bag of cash for a local thug heading to prison. Making one of many questionable decisions, Eddie dips into the funds. If you're a fan of simple, grounded storytelling with a focus on character, Win It All is a delight that brings out Johnson's humor and charisma.
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories is a bittersweet comedy-drama told through Noah Baumbach's grounded lens. The titular stories concern dysfunctional adult siblings, played by Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, trying to live in the shadow of their father. An effervescent cast, including Dustin Hoffman, play these intelligent, albeit miserable, characters as they weave their poignant tales.
Tramps (2016)
This indie gem might have flown under the radar, so if you're looking for a modern romcom overflowing with charm, definitely give Tramps a watch. Callum Turner and Grace Van Patten star as Danny and Ellie, a sincere good kid and a streetwise girl who attempt to carry out a shady deal for a little cash. Tightly scripted and deftly avoiding hackneyed territory, Tramps will effortlessly win your heart.
Horror
Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
Vampires vs. the Bronx is a unique comedy-horror in more ways than one. Set in the New York borough of the Bronx, it follows young Miguel Martinez, a big-hearted kid helping to raise money for his struggling local bodega. But it's not just new designer clothing stores threatening to move in: Creepy pale residents with a taste for blood are eating up people and their properties. A commentary on gentrification with goofy charm, twists and thrills, Vampires vs. the Bronx is a fresh, entertaining spin on the genre.
His House (2020)
His House is a horror flick that, yep, hits close to home. Revealing its supernatural evils through a harrowing human story, it follows Bol and Rial, a refugee couple from Sudan, who struggle to adapt to their new life in an English town. Don't expect straightforward jump scares -- His House plays into the psychological specters of the past, adding even more corridors of torment. A heartrending, powerful piece.
Cam (2018)
This smart psychological horror is partially drawn from co-writer Isa Mazzei's experiences as a camgirl (or webcam model). Yet Cam is no documentary, following Alice Ackerman, a young camgirl who one day discovers an exact replica of herself has taken over her show. This unique thriller flashing red with the threat of technology is an excellent feature to hit play on.
1922 (2017)
One of the more successful Stephen King adaptations, this horror drama based on the novella 1922 is a slow burn with a mesmerizing performance at its core. Thomas Jane, who you'll also know from Boogie Nights and 2004's The Punisher, gives one of his career best performances as the ever proud Wilfred James, a farmer who makes the totally wise decision to murder his wife with the help of their teenage son. The consequences are harrowing on multiple levels (if you don't like rats, you really won't like rats after this).
Gerald's Game (2017)
If you were mesmerized by The Haunting of Hill House, then Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King novel Gerald's Game is a must-watch. A couple goes on holiday at an isolated lake house, where one thing leads to another... and Carla Gugino's Jessie ends up handcuffed to the bed with no visible escape. Gugino puts in an immense performance, packing out the enclosed bedroom setting. Expect narratively and emotionally satisfying conclusions, with melancholy-suffused horror that surges into quiet triumph for its haunted characters.
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The Power of the Dog (2021)
More than a decade after her previous film, Bright Star, extraordinary filmmaker Jane Campion has unfolded the director's chair again to oversee The Power of the Dog. She ended up winning an Oscar, so it was a good move. The Western centers on Phil Burbank, a domineering rancher who uses the power of toxic masculinity to have his way, mocking his brother for falling in love. The Power of the Dog is a mesmeric exercise in the subtle shifts of emotion and power in relationships. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are immense, helping to bring Campion's masterful vision to life.
News of the World (2020)
Paul Greengrass (Jason Bourne) directs Tom Hanks in this moving Western. Civil War veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd discovers a young girl years after she was captured by Native Americans as a baby. While helping return her to her family, he does his usual job of traveling to towns and reading newspapers for a small fee. Don't expect high-octane action: This road movie is fueled by character development and the beautiful views. Still, you'll want to settle in for a comforting ride with pure sympathetic Hanks at the steering wheel.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Coen Brothers kick up the western dust with an anthology film that gives you six vignettes all set on the American frontier. One of them is about the titular Buster Scruggs, a chipper singing cowboy who casually sets off a shoot-up in a cantina. But there's a dark twist that keeps you on your toes. Sewing the rest of its stories together with a constant black humor, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Coen Brothers winner. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/netflix-the-46-absolute-best-movies-to-watch-this-weekend/ | 2022-11-23 00:11:15 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/netflix-the-46-absolute-best-movies-to-watch-this-weekend/ |
Vatican: Pope spends 2nd night ‘serenely’ in hospital
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis spent his second night in a Rome hospital “serenely” as he receives antibiotics intravenously to treat bronchitis, the Vatican said Friday.
A Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information wasn’t a formal Holy See statement, indicated there would be an update on the pope’s hospitalization later in the day.
The 86-year-old pontiff was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic on Wednesday after he returned to his Vatican residence following his customary weekly public audience in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican reported he had experienced difficult breathing in the previous days.
A Vatican spokesman, citing hospital medical staff, provided the precise diagnosis Thursday night, saying that Francis has bronchitis, contracted through an infection, and that the antibiotic treatment had resulted in a “marked” improvement in his health.
The hospitalization came four days before Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week.
Due to a chronic knee problem, Francis had already largely stopped celebrating Mass at major Catholic Church holy days but had continued to preside at the ceremonies and deliver homilies.
The Vatican hasn’t said when Francis would be released from the hospital. But in a statement late Thursday, it said that based on how Francis’ recovery was going, “he could be discharged in the next days.”
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said Friday that Francis might be discharged Saturday and would thus be able to preside over — but not celebrate — Holy Week ceremonies.
“On the basis of the information I have, he’ll leave Gemelli tomorrow, so he’ll be able to preside over all the Holy Week rituals,” Italian news agency Adnkronos quoted the cardinal as saying.
Re, who at age 89 is dean of the College of Cardinals, did not say if his information came from the Vatican or the hospital,
Whether doctors clear Francis to preside over or even attend the many Holy Week observances was unclear. The appointments include a stamina-taxing late night Way of the Cross procession marked by prayers on Good Friday at the Colosseum in Rome and Easter Mass on April 9, which is traditionally followed by a long papal speech delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
During Wednesday’s hour-long public audience, Francis at times appeared visibly in pain when he moved about and was helped by aides.
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The household staple is now called Kraft Mac & Cheese, which is "meant to reflect the way fans organically talk about the brand," the company announced Wednesday. Packaging featuring the new name will hit shelves in August.
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Along with the shortened name, shoppers will notice the box receiving a subtle makeover that includes a refreshed logo, typography and single-hue blue that "amplifies the brand's most recognizable asset - the noodle smile."
Kraft said the new name and box are part of an effort to rebrand its mac & cheese as "comfort food." That distinction helps it differentiate from healthier products eating up shelf space. Goodles, for example, is a Gal Gadot-backed startup that sells boxed macaroni and cheese with more protein and fiber at a higher price. Banza and Annie's also make similar products that market themselves as more wholesome than Kraft's version.
SEE ALSO: Kraft debuts Mac & Cheese flavored ice cream
Kraft's mac & cheese affordability has also taken a hit recently. Dozens of its products got price hikes in recent months, including a 3.5% increase on a pack of EZ Mac and a 20% price hike for a 7.25-ounce dish of Kraft Big Bowl Macaroni and Cheese.
Strong demand, supply constraints and uncertainty increased input costs for Kraft, the company said in a letter to suppliers, adding that the "upward trend in packaging, transportation, ingredients and labor costs persists, reaching levels not seen in decades." Those higher costs led to the company's decision to raise prices.
Kraft Heinz Co. stock is up about 1% for the year.
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Horatio Alger Association names 13 outstanding individuals to its Member Class of 2023, each of whom has overcome adversity to achieve professional and personal success.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education, announced that Michele Kang, owner of the Washington Spirit, and founder and CEO of Cognosante, has been selected for membership in this prestigious organization. Ms. Kang joins 12 other exceptional business, civic and cultural leaders from across North America in receiving 2023 honors. For 76 years, the Horatio Alger Award has been annually bestowed upon esteemed individuals who have succeeded despite facing adversities, and who have remained committed to education and charitable efforts in their communities.
Ms. Kang is an American businesswoman, investor and philanthropist. Born and raised in South Korea, Ms. Kang came to the United States as a student to pursue her American dream. She has spent her career building businesses that challenged the status quo and has leveraged her successes to help others achieve their own American dreams. Ms. Kang's parents, who were both educators, instilled in her a lifelong passion for learning and hard work. She pursued a college degree in business at a time when the world of business was male dominated. Not only was Ms. Kang the only woman admitted to her business college, but she ended her first year as the number one ranked student in the class. Setting her eyes on even greater challenges, Ms. Kang decided to leave Korea to attend the top-rated economics department at the University of Chicago. At the time, the idea of a young, unmarried woman going alone to a foreign country was virtually unprecedented. But through tireless work to overcome language and cultural barriers – and juggling multiple jobs to support herself financially – she earned a bachelor's degree from Chicago and a master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management.
Ms. Kang began her career as a management consultant advising companies across a diverse set of industries but always with an emphasis on using emerging technology to lead innovation and growth. She eventually joined Ernst and Young as a Partner and then was hired by Northrop Grumman, the American aerospace and defense technology company, as a senior executive. She headed its Information Technology Health Solutions division for four years. Under Ms. Kang's leadership, the business grew fourfold while increasing profits every year in that highly competitive industry. She achieved these profits and managed thousands of employees all while fighting her own battle with breast cancer. Thankfully, she has been cancer-free for almost 20 years.
In 2008, moving literally from the corporate boardroom to the empty room above her garage, Ms. Kang founded her own company, Cognosante, to help transform the American healthcare system. In just a few short years – and during the Great Recession – her company grew rapidly and emerged as a trusted provider of innovative technology solutions for key federal and state health agencies. Cognosante is a three-time Great Place to Work certified company, a designation awarded to the company because of the innovative and inclusive culture Ms. Kang has built.
In 2022, Ms. Kang became the first woman of color to own a National Women's Soccer League team: the 2021 League champions, the Washington Spirit. In addition to building a premier team, she took on this role with a firm commitment to help move the League forward, by ensuring parity in infrastructure, sponsorship and media, as well as diversity among League owners. Ms. Kang has become a leading global advocate to create a level playing field between men and women in soccer, starting with equal pay.
"Ms. Kang is a visionary who has exceeded every personal and professional obstacle faced," said Terrence J. Giroux, executive director, Horatio Alger Association. "She has used her education and knowledge to build a successful business that has improved the lives of veterans and their families, a cause that is important to both her and the Association. We hold many of the same values and it is an honor to induct Ms. Kang as a Member."
To build on her transformational work in both IT and women's sports, Ms. Kang invests in early-stage companies that challenge the conventional wisdom. She established Cognosante Ventures to fuel and mentor digital health companies that will profoundly change the way patients experience healthcare. Ms. Kang also supports women-led sports startups including Just Women's Sports, the leading media platform dedicated exclusively to women's sports.
Ms. Kang is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion — and she is focused on expanding opportunity to all by providing meaningful careers to those who are too often excluded from corporate America. Cognosante offers various internship and scholarship programs designed exclusively for HBCU students, first-generation college students and women in STEM. One of Cognosante's wholly owned subsidiaries hires Americans with disabilities exclusively offering employment with full benefits. Ms. Kang's commitment to these principles has led to several awards for Cognosante for its outstanding hiring and retention practices.
In gratitude for the U.S. soldiers who helped defend her home country during the Korean War, Ms. Kang stands with American Veterans. She has been a proud supporter of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and The Chosin Few, which is a member organization of Veterans, spouses and lineal descendants of one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. She also supports organizations that aim to eradicate homelessness among women Veterans and find employment for wounded Veterans and their caretakers.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to share my experience challenging the status quo with new ideas and making a real difference in our society," shared Ms. Kang. "I was able to turn my passion for helping veterans and others who face adversities into a fulfilling career, and I look forward to teaching Scholars how they, too, can stay true to their dreams and achieve success."
Since 1984, the Association has awarded annual need-based scholarships to high school students who have displayed dedication to pursuing higher education despite significant obstacles throughout their lives. The Association also aims to educate young people about the endless opportunities available by the free-enterprise system through commitment, honesty, and diligence. The scholarships are made possible through the Association thanks to the generosity of its Members, who will have collectively provided more than $245 million to 35,000 students by 2023.
"Each year, it is our utmost honor to present outstanding leaders who have displayed extraordinary perseverance in overcoming challenges with the Horatio Alger Award," said James F. Dicke II, chairman, Horatio Alger Association and 2015 Horatio Alger Award recipient. "Each of these incredible leaders has also shared their success with others, giving generously to important causes and communities in need. The 2023 awardees exemplify the Association's mission and are proof that the American Dream is within reach for all who seek it."
Ms. Kang and the Member Class of 2023 will be formally inducted into the Association during the Horatio Alger Award Induction Ceremonies in Washington, D.C. from March 30 through April 1, 2023. The three-day event is an annual ceremony to honor both the achievements of Members and National Scholars, who will have multiple opportunities to meet, interact and exchange stories of perseverance.
For more information about Horatio Alger Association and its Member Class of 2023, please visit www.horatioalger.org and follow the organization on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans:
Founded in 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. is dedicated to the simple but powerful belief that hard work, honesty and determination can conquer all obstacles. The Association honors the achievements of outstanding leaders who have accomplished remarkable successes in spite of adversity by bestowing upon them the Horatio Alger Award and inducting them as lifetime Members. Horatio Alger Members support promising young people with the resources and confidence needed to overcome adversity in pursuit of their dreams through higher education. Through the generosity of its Members and friends, in 2022, the Association awarded more than $18 million in undergraduate and graduate need-based scholarships to over 1,800 students across the United States and Canada, and provided college support and mentoring services to its Scholars. By the 40th anniversary of the Association's scholarship program in 2024, more than $247 million will be awarded in undergraduate, graduate, military veteran and career and technical education scholarships to more than 37,000 deserving students. For more information, please visit www.horatioalger.org.
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The conservative media was in uproar last week over speculation that the federal government planned to ban gas cooking stoves and possibly seize them. It escalated into something much larger online.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), today announced its offer to purchase (the "Offer") for cash an aggregate principal amount of up to $286.231 million (the "Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount") of its 9.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Notes") at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the settlement date, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated August 11, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase").
The Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 9, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company (the "Expiration Time"). Subject to the Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount of $286.231 million, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to the Expiration Time and accepted by the Company, holders of Notes will receive $1,000 in cash (the "Offer Price"), plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the settlement date. Tendered Notes may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to the Expiration Time, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company. The settlement date is currently expected to be the fifth business day following the Expiration Time.
If the aggregate principal amount of the Notes tendered in the Offer exceeds the Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount of $286.231 million, the Company will purchase Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount on a pro rata basis (subject to the applicable procedures of The Depository Trust Company), with adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Trustee (as defined below).
The Notes are governed by an indenture, dated as of August 1, 2019 (as amended to the date hereof, the "Indenture"), by and among the Company, the Guarantors party thereto and TMI Trust Company, as trustee (the "Trustee"). Under the terms of the Indenture, the Company is obligated to offer to purchase for cash an aggregate principal amount of up to the Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount of its outstanding Notes at the Offer Price. The Offer is being made to satisfy this requirement.
The Excess Cash Flow Offer Amount is equal to 50% of the Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company and certain of its subsidiaries for the Excess Cash Flow Period (as defined in the Indenture), minus the mandatory prepayment offer amount under the excess cash flow offer provisions of the Term Loan Facility (as defined in the Indenture). In this regard, the Company has commenced a concurrent offer of prepayment equal to approximately $482.673 million in aggregate principal amount of outstanding indebtedness under the Term Loan Facility. The Offer and the concurrent offer under the Term Loan Facility are not conditioned on one another.
None of the Company, its board of directors (or any committee thereof), TMI Trust Company, the depositary for the Offer, or the Trustee or their respective affiliates is making any recommendation as to whether or not holders should tender all or any portion of their Notes in the Offer.
This announcement is not an offer to purchase or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell any securities. The Offer is being made solely by the Offer to Purchase. The Offer is not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction.
CITGO Holding, Inc. ("CITGO Holding" or the "Company") is the direct parent of CITGO Petroleum Corporation ("CITGO"). CITGO Holding is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PDV Holding, Inc. ("PDV Holding"), a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. ("PDVSA" or "ultimate parent"), which is a Venezuelan corporation 100% owned and controlled by the Government of Venezuela.
CITGO manufactures or refines and markets transportation fuels as well as petrochemicals, other industrial products and lubricants. We own and operate three large-scale, highly complex petroleum refineries with a total rated crude oil refining capacity of approximately 769,000 barrels per day, located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Corpus Christi, Texas and Lemont, Illinois. Our refining operations are supported by an extensive distribution network, which provides reliable access to our refined product end-markets. We own 35 active refined product terminals with a total storage capacity of 18.3 million barrels and have equity ownership of an additional 3.5 million barrels of refined product storage capacity through our joint ownership of an additional eight terminals, spread across 22 states. We own or have an equity interest in four additional terminals, consisting of approximately 1 million barrels of refined storage capacity, which are currently inactive or only utilized to store feedstocks used in refining operations. We also have access to more than 140 third-party terminals through exchange, terminaling and similar arrangements. Our retail network consists of approximately 4,300 independently owned and operated CITGO-branded retail outlets located east of the Rocky Mountains. We and our predecessors have had a recognized brand presence in the U.S. for over 100 years.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - LUXXFOLIO Holdings Inc. (the "Company" or "LUXXFOLIO") (CSE: LUXX) (OTCQB: LUXFF) (Frankfurt/Berlin: LUH), the Company took another strategic step to optimize its operations. LUXXFOLIO recently closed the sale of 100 Petahash, or approximately 970 cryptocurrency mining machines (the "Miners"). As part of the sale, the Miners will continue to be hosted by LUXXFOLIO under a two-year immersion hosting agreement. The sale reduces the Company's debt by approximately USD$3,200,000, allows the Company to continue to mine bitcoin on the overclocked Petahash of the Miners placed in immersion, and provides the Company with steady revenues via hosting fees. The sale of the Miners is part of LUXXFOLIO's commitment to continue to optimize its business in the face of current market pressures.
"These strategic decisions we have made in light of current market conditions puts us in a stronger position to navigate going forward." stated Ken MacLean, President of LUXXFOLIO. "We are entering a new segment of the mining industry by utilizing immersion technology to gain greater efficiencies from our current generation of miners. "
Kien Tran, COO of LUXXFOLIO, stated: "Our long-term outlook on bitcoin is bullish, and we believe our decisions provide us the best opportunity to participate in the Bitcoin mining industry and secure a slice of the world's largest and most secure decentralized monetary network. We are deleveraging and locking in a mix of steady revenues while still maintaining exposure to mining."
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LUXXFOLIO Holdings Inc. is a publicly traded, vertically integrated digital asset company based in Canada. It operates an industrial scale cryptocurrency mining facility in the United States powered predominately by renewable energy with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and generation of digital assets. LUXXFOLIO provides a liquid alternative for exposure to digital assets for the broader capital markets.
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DENVER, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced that it has been selected by the Department of State to provide the Bureau of Medical Services (MED) with a platform for effective data management and data-driven decision-making. This competitively awarded BPA contract is worth $99.6 million over five years.
Palantir software will be used by MED to establish a new enterprise data management platform for the department, titled Project Axiom. With MED's mission to advance the health, safety, and readiness of State Department personnel, Axiom will provide the Bureau with a common operational picture to better protect the diplomatic workforce and their families through data-informed decision-making. More specifically, the platform will help improve the Bureau's ability to react swiftly to global crises by enabling workflows related to emergency management and preparedness, mission tracking and logistics, aviation operations, and medical support.
As part of the Department of State's broader digital modernization efforts, this project will provide MED with a new set of tools and capabilities to safeguard and promote the health and well-being of America's diplomatic community. Axiom is at the core of a digital transition to enhance the delivery of proactive and efficient medical support to chief of mission personnel following a crisis, natural, or man-made disaster. This health-focused, enterprise-wide data integration and analytics platform will enable Bureau and Department leadership to make rapid decisions that reduce risk to mission and safeguard and promote the health and well-being of America's diplomatic community.
"America's diplomatic workforce is one of the first lines of engagement between the U.S. and the rest of the world, and ensuring their safety and health is paramount to advancing international relations. We're honored to bring Palantir's proven software to the State Department to better understand and proactively manage operations that help protect these individuals and their families abroad," said Akash Jain, President, Palantir USG.
This new contract builds on Palantir's ongoing work with the State Department in the area of global health and medicine.
"We are proud to expand our partnership with the State Department and support this critical mission to safeguard our diplomatic workforce," said Mahtab Emdadi, State Department Lead at Palantir. "We look forward to continuing to work alongside the Department to further their goals of data-driven diplomacy through the use of innovative technologies."
Palantir first began working with the State Department in 2017, supporting HIV/AIDS analysis for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy.
About Palantir Technologies Inc.
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Medical services plane crash in western Nevada kills 5 on board, officials say
By Rebekah Riess, CNN
Five people on board a medical services airplane died Friday night after the aircraft crashed in western Nevada, officials said.
The pilot, the flight’s nurse and paramedic along with a patient and a patient’s family member were killed when the airplane crashed near Stagecoach, Nevada, according to Care Flight, a service provided through REMSA Health.
“We are heartbroken to report that we have now received confirmation from Central Lyon County Fire Department that none of the five people on board survived,” the organization said in a statement on Facebook. “We are in the process of notifying their family members.”
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department and the Central Lyon Fire Department are coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board to determine the cause of the crash, according to Care Flight.
Authorities in Lyon County — which encompasses Stagecoach — received multiple calls of a possible aircraft crash around 9:15 p.m Friday. First responders from Lyon and Douglas counties responded and located the airplane at around 11:15 p.m.
The crash is under investigation by the county’s sheriff’s department.
REMSA Health is currently in what it called a “passive stand down” for all flights across the company, adding that it intends to work with international operations to determine when services may return.
Stagecoach is about 25 miles southeast of Reno.
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- Live Conference Call and Webcast at 4:30 PM ET -
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: EIGR), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies for hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and other serious diseases, today announced that it will host a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:30 PM ET to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results and provide a business update.
The live and replayed webcast of the call will be available through the company's website at www.eigerbio.com. To participate in the live call by phone, please register in advance at https://register.vevent.com/register/BIfd526d893fcb47fc96359096e28232bb to receive the dial-in number and unique passcode to access the call. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Eiger
Eiger is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies for hepatitis delta virus (HDV) and other serious rare diseases. The Eiger HDV platform includes two first-in-class therapies in Phase 3 that target critical host processes involved in viral replication. All five Eiger rare disease programs have been granted FDA breakthrough therapy designation.
For additional information about Eiger and its clinical programs, please visit www.eigerbio.com.
Investors:
Sylvia Wheeler
Wheelhouse Life Science Advisors
swheeler@wheelhouselsa.com
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SVP, Corporate Affairs
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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Zacatecas Silver Corp. ("Zacatecas" or the "Company") (TSXV: ZAC) (OTC: ZCTSF) (Frankfurt: 7TV) is pleased to provide a summary of its 2022 progress on its gold and silver projects, both located in Mexico.
Esperanza Gold Project Highlights:
- Completion of an initial Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") at the Esperanza Gold Project outlining a high grade oxide gold deposit with significant exploration potential.
- Pre-Feasibility Study ("PFS") now underway to support high margin, high grade, low capex and low cost production aspects of the Esperanza Gold Project.
- Multiple community programs continue to function and grow, including projects relating to health, education, and environment.
Zacatecas Silver Project Highlights:
- In early 2022, the Company filed a National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report to support its initial MRE on the Panuco Vein located within the Zacatecas Silver Project.
- After filing the MRE, the Company reported multiple high grade silver intercepts from drilling in an area north of the resource, named Panuco North, and in an area of the property named El Cristo, which is an extension of the prolific Veta Grande Silver Vein on the Zacatecas Silver Property.
Zacatecas has had a very active 2022 at the Company's silver project (Zacatecas Silver Project, Zacatecas, Mexico), the gold project (Esperanza Gold Project, Morelos, Mexico) and corporately. The targets met and exceeded this year set the Company up for a transformative 2023.
The Esperanza Gold Project is an advanced stage, attractive low cost, low capital intensity and low technical risk growth project located in Morelos state, Mexico. The Company announced a MRE at Esperanza consisting of a Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate of 30.5 million tonnes at 0.97 g/t AuEq for 956 thousand ounces AuEq and an Inferred Mineral Resource estimate of 8.7 million tonnes at 0.98 g/t AuEq for 277 thousand ounces AuEq. (see news release dated November 16, 2022).
This high grade oxide gold resource is the foundation for a PFS now underway to support the high margin, high-grade, low capex and low cost production aspects of the Esperanza Gold Project. Palaris Ltd. ("Palaris") is engaged to lead a PFS of the Esperanza Gold Project in Mexico.
Palaris is an established mining consultancy that provides bespoke services to mineral exploration and mining companies worldwide, including pre-feasibility, feasibility, and optimisation studies, life-of-mine engineering services, project management services and mine finance advisory services. Palaris have completed over 3000 projects in over 40 countries, which encompass most deposit types, mining scenarios and commodities.
As part of the PFS study, metallurgical testwork is currently being conducted by SGS (Lakefield, Canada) focusing on comminution, coarse ore bottle roll, and column simulated heap leach tests. It is expected that the PFS will be completed and published in the first half of 2023.
The Zacatecas Silver Project is located in Zacatecas state, Mexico, within the highly prospective Fresnillo silver belt, which has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The Company holds 7,826 hectares (19,338 acres) of ground that is highly prospective for low-sulphidation and intermediate-sulphidation silver base metal mineralization and potentially low-sulphidation gold-dominant mineralization. On January 31, 2022, Zacatecas filed a Mineral Resource Estimate at the Panuco Deposit consisting of 2.7 million tonnes at 187 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) (171 g/t silver (Ag) and 0.17 g/t gold (Au)) for 16.4 million ounces AgEq (15 million ounces silver and 15,000 ounces gold) (see news release dated December 14, 2021).
Outside of the resource area, multiple high grade holes have been reported by Zacatecas, primarily from Panuco North (north of the main Panuco Deposit) and from El Cristo (the extension of the prolific Veta Grande Vein). Access agreements with private land-owners, local communities and the municipality are in place for Panuco and El Cristo.
At Panuco North, the focus of the drilling to date has been along the south-eastern portion of the vein where high grade silver mineralization has been intercepted near surface over widths of up to 6.8 m downhole and a strike length of least 500 m. While most holes targeted mineralization within 50 m of surface, several deeper holes intercepted mineralization at down-hole depths of up to 150 m (approximately 120 m vertical) including 2.17 m @ 823 g/t AqEq (798 g/t Ag and 0.34 g/t Au) in hole Pan 2021-009. Mineralization remains open along strike and down dip in all directions.
El Cristo is the NW strike extension of the prolific and well known Veta Grande vein system onto the Zacatecas Silver property, with most of this extension still untested by drilling. Drilling by Zacatecas, to date, has outlined high-grade silver-base metal mineralization over 1.5 strike kilometres of previously undrilled vein systems across a 750-meter-wide corridor. Mineralization remains open to depth and along strike to the south-east. 2022 El Cristo results include:
The Company completed 28 shallow angled diamond drill holes at El Cristo for a total of 2,815 meters.
Going forward, the Company intends to continue the expansion of the Panuco Deposit (notably focussing on Panuco North) while also testing the largely untested El Cristo along strike and at depth.
In 2022, the Company raised $19.15 million concurrent with its acquisition of Esperanza from Alamos Gold (a transaction during which Alamos Gold became the largest shareholder of Zacatecas). This private placement financing was announced on February 28, 2022 as a $15 million private placement and then, due to strong demand, was upsized to $18 million on March 4, 2022. On April 12, 2022, the financing closed, on an oversubscribed basis, for total gross proceeds of $19,151,521 pursuant to the issuance of 17,410,474 subscription receipts (each a "Subscription Receipt") at $1.10 per Subscription Receipt.
The Company also appointed two new directors in 2022, Dr. Luis Chavez and Ms. Nancy LaCouvee, who provide valuable experience as the Company continues to advance the gold and silver mineral projects.
Dr. Chavez has over 35 years of experience in the global mining industry. He is the Senior Vice President, Mexico, Alamos Gold and has served in that capacity since 2015, when he held a similar position with AuRico Gold since 2007. Previously, Dr. Chavez served as Energy and Mines Director, Coahuila State from 2001 to 2006, and was also General Director of the Mexican Geological Survey from 1994 to 2000. Dr. Chavez is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Mines and former President of the Mexican Mining Association (1996).
Ms. La Couvee is currently Corporate Secretary for K92 Mining Inc., and is a governance professional with comprehensive senior level experience in the public and private resource sectors. Ms. La Couvee is strongly attuned to corporate governance and statutory compliance frameworks and has significant mining industry experience with a wide range of corporate and financial transactions. Ms. La Couvee is a Member of Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC) and the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada (CGI).
The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Chris Wilson, B.Sc. (Hons), PhD, FAusIMM (CP), FSEG, Chief Operating Officer of Zacatecas. Dr. Wilson is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
Zacatecas has two key projects. The Esperanza Gold Project in Morelos State, Mexico and the Zacatecas Silver Project in Zacatecas State, Mexico.
Esperanza is an advanced stage, attractive low-cost, low-capital-intensity and low-technical-risk growth project located in Morelos state, Mexico. Alamos has progressed the project through advanced engineering, including metallurgical work, while also focusing on stakeholder engagement, including building community relations. Zacatecas announced a Mineral Resource Estimate at Esperanza consisting of a Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate of 30.5 million tonnes at 0.97 g/t AuEq for 956 thousand ounces AuEq and an Inferred Mineral Resource estimate of 8.7 million tonnes at 0.98 g/t AuEq for 277 thousand ounces AuEq.
The Zacatecas Silver Project is located in Zacatecas state, Mexico, within the highly prospective Fresnillo silver belt, which has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The company holds 7,826 hectares (19,338 acres) of ground that is highly prospective for low-sulphidation and intermediate-sulphidation silver base metal mineralization and potentially low-sulphidation gold-dominant mineralization. Zacatecas reported a Mineral Resource Estimate at the Panuco Deposit consisting of 2.7 million tonnes at 187 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) (171 g/t silver (Ag) and 0.17 g/t gold (Au)) for 16.4 million ounces AgEq (15 million ounces silver and 15,000 ounces gold) (See news release dated December 14, 2021).
The property is 25 kilometres (km) southeast of MAG Silver Corp.'s Juanicipio Mine and Fresnillo PLC's Fresnillo Mine. The Property shares common boundaries with Pan American Silver Corp. claims and El Orito, which is owned by Endeavour Silver.
On behalf of the Company
Bryan Slusarchuk
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. Zacatecas cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which are beyond their respective control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Zacatecas' limited operating history, its proposed exploration and development activities on its Esperanza Gold Project and Zacatecas Silver Project and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. A Pre-Feasibility Study has commenced for the Esperanza Gold Project which will provide further information as to economic projections and assumptions related to the project, however there are currently no assurances that the project will be economically viable nor assurances that necessary financing, permitting, and metal prices will exist to enable development. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Zacatecas does not undertake to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Alexander City Chick-fil-A employees surprised with scholarships
Published: Apr. 10, 2023 at 11:21 AM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (WBRC) - Five members of the Alexander City Chick-fil-A team got a surprise bigger than anything you can receive in your combo Wednesday.
The five employees were awarded the Chick-fil-A Remarkable Futures Scholarship.
Owner and Operator Lois Ann Murphree surprised the winners and their families when presenting the scholarships.
Each took home $2,500 to use at a college or university of their choice to further their education.
All profits from Chick-fil-A’s 8 ounce sauce bottles go toward these scholarships.
Since 1973, $162 million in scholarships has been given out.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until February 6, 2023 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against NeoGenomics, Inc. (NasdaqCM: NEO), if they purchased the Company's securities between February 27, 2020 and April 26, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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About the Lawsuit
NeoGenomics and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On March 28, 2022, the Company disclosed that its CEO was stepping down effective immediately, that it expected 1Q2022 revenue and EBITDA below the low end of its prior guidance, and that it had withdrawn its 2022 annual financial guidance. On this news, shares of NeoGenomics fell $5.30 per share, or 29.8%. Then, on April 27, 2022, the Company disclosed its 1Q2022 financial results confirming revenue and EBITDA below its prior guidance, among other things, that the market "was moving towards larger, more comprehensive panels" and that the Company was "seeing bigger and bigger panels coming from…emerging companies . . . where we have not kept up." On this news, shares of NeoGenomics fell $0.41 per share, or 3.8%.
The case is Goldenberg v. NeoGenomics, Inc., No. 22-cv-10314.
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Emergency maintenance in the San Clemente area will close portions of the track until further notice
ORANGE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency, which manages the Amtrak® Pacific Surfliner® service, has temporarily suspended service south of Irvine until further notice for emergency track repairs.
Consultations with geologists, geotechnical engineers, and surveyors revealed that there may be a safety concern along a portion of track in the San Clemente area. The LOSSAN Agency made the decision to immediately stop service to ensure passenger and crew safety.
During the closure, the San Clemente Pier and San Juan Capistrano stations will remain closed while the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), who owns that portion of the track, conducts emergency maintenance to stabilize the right-of-way.
"Passenger and crew safety is our top priority, and we are doing our best to minimize disruptions to travelers to and from San Diego," said Jason Jewell, Interim Managing Director of the LOSSAN Agency. "We are working with our partners to restore service between Oceanside and San Diego as well as set up bus bridges between Irvine and Oceanside as quickly as possible."
Updated schedules and passenger information will be provided on the Pacific Surfliner website (PacificSurfliner.com/alerts) and Twitter (@PacSurfliners) as they become available.
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The Pacific Surfliner travels along a 351-mile coastal route through San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties, serving 29 stations. It is the busiest state-supported intercity passenger rail route in the United States. To learn more and plan a trip, visit pacificsurfliner.com.
The Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency is a joint powers authority composed of rail owners, operators and planning agencies along the entire LOSSAN rail corridor. In addition to working to improve passenger rail ridership, revenue, on- time performance, operational flexibility, and safety, the LOSSAN Agency assumed management responsibility for the Pacific Surfliner service in July 2015, following the execution of an interagency transfer agreement with the state of California. The Orange County Transportation Authority provides all necessary administrative support for the LOSSAN Agency and its Board. For more information, visit Lossan.org.
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New Members Spotlight Broad Base of Applications for Open Source Enterprise Blockchain Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced eight new members to kick off Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF). The new members include CasperLabs, Banque de France, Central Bank of Nigeria, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada and DSR Corporation. This line-up underscores the increasingly diverse range of enterprise blockchain applications and technologies in the Hyperledger ecosystem.
A speaker from new member Banque de France will be on stage this morning for a key panel on "The CBDC Journey: Research, Live Deployments, and Policy Considerations." Other keynotes on tap today include:
- The Evolution of Ireland's Blockchain Ecosystem - Lory Kehoe, Head of EMEA Market Operations, Coinbase & Founder and Advisory Board Member, Blockchain Ireland
- The Metaverse Continuum Creates a Defining Moment for Blockchain Leaders - Melanie Cutlan, Managing Director, Metaverse Technology Capabilities Lead, Accenture
- Blockchain in Action at Allianz, DTCC and Fujitsu - Bob Crozier, Allianz Technology; Rob Palatnick, DTCC; and Christopher Pilling, Fujitsu; Moderated by Csilla Zsigri, BTP
Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.
"As we will see on stage here at Hyperledger Global Forum, the technology and market landscape for open source enterprise blockchain just continues to get more robust," said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. "Hyperledger technologies are playing an outsized role in reshaping existing markets and creating new ones. Our newest members are bringing a diversity of innovation into the Hyperledger community, accelerating the development of open, decentralized technologies that will be the infrastructure for many generations of new services and applications."
Hyperledger Foundation allows organizations to create enterprise-grade, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by offering enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries and tools. General members joining the community are BCW Group, CasperLabs, DSR Corporation and Realto Group.
Hyperledger Foundation supports a premier global open source blockchain community that values the contributions and participation from various entities. As such, pre-approved non-profits, open source projects and government entities can join Hyperledger Foundation at no cost as associate members. Associate members joining this month include Banque de France, Central Bank of Nigeria, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada and International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).
New member quotes:
BCW Group
"BCW is committed to the success of our clients as they navigate their Web3 transformation. Across many industries, the application of hybrid public/private blockchain architectures leveraging Hyperledger Fabric is pivotal to adopting blockchain technology for enterprises," said Jeffrey Tchui, Partner, Head of BCW Consulting at BCW Group. "We look forward to collaborating with fellow Hyperledger Foundation members to build key partnerships and find innovative new use cases for Hyperledger Fabric and other Hyperledger technologies."
CasperLabs
"We are joining Hyperledger Foundation because we are committed to advancing blockchain interoperability to support enterprise operations," said Medha Parlikar, co-founder & CTO, CasperLabs. "We've already found great success working with IBM to demonstrate the first atomic cross-chain swap of fungible tokens between an instance of a Hyperledger Fabric permissioned network and the Casper Blockchain at Davos 2022. In a few months, CasperLabs will be ready with an enterprise-grade production solution for cross-chain transactions."
DSR Corporation
"Our membership in both the Linux and Hyperledger Foundations is an exciting development for DSR and our decentralized systems division as we've been working in the space for over six years," said Alexander Shcherbakov, Decentralized Systems Business Unit Manager, DSR Corporation. "This is a tremendous opportunity to bring our nearly 25 years of software development experience to the growing number of companies leveraging the Hyperledger Foundation's ecosystem. DSR is eager to make our contribution to both communities as an official member."
Realto Group
"We are excited and honored to join the Hyperledger community of DLT innovators and enterprises," said Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO of Realto Group. "As a tokenization and Web3 technology provider in the global real estate industry, we have taken a leadership role in helping shape and transform the way real estate investing and capital raising is currently being done. And we look forward to collaborating with the Hyperledger community to advance blockchain education and adoption."
About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)
Hyperledger Global Forum is the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It is a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The event is open to everyone involved or interested in using, developing or learning more about Hyperledger's open source enterprise blockchain technologies. Attendees will hear directly from those who are actively developing and deploying Hyperledger technologies as well as technology and business leaders who are shaping the future of enterprise blockchain. They will also have the chance to talk directly with Hyperledger project maintainers and the Technical Steering Committee, collaborate with other organizations on ideas that will directly impact the future of Hyperledger Foundation, and promote their work among the communities.
Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (Gold), AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), Corsha (Silver), Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute (Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), European Blockchain Association (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (Community Partner), Kerala Blockchain Academy (Community Partner), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Forkast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus (Media Partner).
About Hyperledger Foundation
Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non member organizations, individual contributors and software developers building enterprise-grade platforms, libraries, tools and solutions for multi-party systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. Organizations join Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness around their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing, technology and beyond. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation's projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V, and more, are critical to the world's infrastructure. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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Emily Fisher
Linux Foundation/Hyperledger
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) announced that it has imposed an interim suspension of the CFP® certification against Jason Cooke, which is effective as of August 5, 2022.
On July 11, 2022, CFP Board filed a Motion for Interim Suspension Order pursuant to Article 2.1.a.1 of CFP Board's Procedural Rules requesting the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) issue an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Cooke. On April 28, 2022, Mr. Cooke was arrested and charged with five counts of felony dealing in child pornography in the Kent County (Delaware) Court of Common Pleas (Case No. 2204014557). His firm terminated him as a consequence of those charges, and press reports described the charges. A Hearing Panel of the DEC reviewed the matter on August 4, 2022, and then granted the Motion and issued the Interim Suspension Order on August 5, 2022, after determining that CFP Board Counsel demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Cooke's conduct poses a significant threat to the public or significantly impinges upon the reputation of the profession or the CFP® certification marks. Under the Interim Suspension Order, the right of Mr. Cooke to use the CFP® marks is suspended pending CFP Board's completed investigation and possible further disciplinary proceedings.
An interim suspension is a suspension of a CFP® professional's certification and trademark license during the pendency of proceedings. A Respondent subject to an Interim Suspension Order must not use the CFP® certification marks or state or suggest that Respondent is a CFP® professional while the Interim Suspension Order is in effect. An Interim Suspension Order is a temporary sanction and does not preclude CFP Board from imposing a final sanction. An Interim Suspension Order will remain in place until the DEC or, if an appeal is filed, CFP Board's Appeals Commission, issues a final order. CFP Board Counsel may vacate an Interim Suspension Order if a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline is vacated or reversed or if Respondent provides sufficient evidence indicating that Respondent was not the subject of a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline. A Hearing Panel of the DEC may issue an Order to vacate an Interim Suspension Order upon a successful Petition to Vacate an Interim Suspension Order by Respondent.
The basis for this decision also may be found on CFP Board's website at CFP.net/verify. At that website, CFP Board provides the public with:
- The ability to check on any individual's CFP Board disciplinary history and CFP® certification status.
- Links to other sources of information about CFP® professionals that may be more recent or that may contain information that has not led to CFP Board discipline and does not appear on CFP Board's website. This information may include customer disputes, disciplinary actions taken by a regulator or employer, certain criminal matters and certain financial matters (such as bankruptcy proceedings and unpaid judgments or liens).
- Links to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s (FINRA's) BrokerCheck and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure databases for individuals who are subject to FINRA or SEC oversight.
As part of their certification, CFP® professionals make a commitment to CFP Board to abide by CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct (Code and Standards) or its predecessor, the Standards of Professional Conduct (Standards), which included the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Rules of Conduct and Financial Planning Practice Standards. CFP Board's Procedural Rules set forth the process for investigating matters and imposing sanctions where violations have been found.
CFP Board enforces its ethical standards by investigating alleged violations and, where there is probable cause to believe there are grounds for sanction, presents a Complaint containing the alleged violations to CFP Board's DEC. The DEC meets at least six times a year to review any matter in which CFP Board has alleged that a CFP® professional has violated the Code and Standards or its predecessor Standards. The DEC functions in accordance with the Procedural Rules and reviews all matters on a case-by-case basis, considering the details specific to an individual case. If the DEC determines there are grounds for sanction, then it may impose a sanction. DEC orders may be appealed by a CFP® professional or CFP Board pursuant to the Procedural Rules.
In certain circumstances, such as when a CFP® professional is in default due to failure to acknowledge receipt of a Notice of Investigation or file an Answer, CFP Board staff must deliver an Administrative Order of Suspension, Temporary Bar, Revocation or Permanent Bar. Administrative Orders also are subject to appeal.
More information on CFP Board's enforcement process can be found at CFP.net/ethics/enforcement.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by nearly 93,000 people in the United States.
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SD Gov. Kristi Noem weighs response to ethics complaints
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Gov. Kristi Noem may have engaged in misconduct by intervening in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license isn’t likely the last word on the matter. But exactly how much more comes out on the episode may be up to the Republican governor herself.
The state’s Government Accountability Board appears to be letting Noem decide whether to defend herself in a public hearing or simply accept an “appropriate action” that the board hasn’t detailed. It presents Noem with a choice: Stick to her defense that she has done nothing wrong and fight the allegations in a public hearing or let the matter quietly die while accepting the board’s action.
How Noem handles the matter may not dent her prospects for reelection this year in a race where she’s heavily favored to win a second term. But it may be important down the road for a politician who has methodically positioned herself to move up in national politics, including for a potential 2024 presidential run.
So far, Noem has chosen to fight — at least in the public sphere. Her reelection campaign spokesman, Ian Fury, lashed out at the board after it moved against her Monday, calling the board’s action “illegal” and portraying the complaints against her as the work of an embittered political enemy. They were filed last year by Jason Ravnsborg, the former Republican attorney general, as he faced pressure from Noem to resign after he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car in 2020.
But neither her office nor her campaign has answered questions on whether she will fight the allegations through a contested case hearing before the board, which was created in 2017 and has never handled a case like Noem’s. Such a proceeding would allow the board’s three retired judges to publicly scrutinize how she took a hands-on role in a state agency while it was evaluating her daughter’s application for an appraiser’s license.
As first reported by The Associated Press, Noem held a meeting in July 2020 that included her daughter, Kassidy Peters, and key decision-makers in Peters’ licensure just days after the agency had moved to deny a license. After the meeting, Peters got another opportunity to demonstrate she could meet federal standards and was ultimately awarded the license.
By accepting the board’s action, Noem could avoid a public hearing over an episode that has drawn condemnation from government ethics experts, her political rivals and even some Republican lawmakers. Ravnsborg has said that it was concern from lawmakers that prompted him to send the complaint to the board.
“We’ll have to wait until the governor’s office makes a decision,” said Gene Kean, who was appointed to the Government Accountability Board after serving more than two decades as a state circuit court judge and chairing the state Judges Association. “That’s sort of a linchpin in this thing.”
But giving up the fight also could have political fallout for Noem, said Alex Conant, a GOP strategist who previously worked as the communications director for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“If she doesn’t have a good explanation or is unable to pivot, it could be something that follows her,” Conant said.
The board hasn’t publicly said what action it may take against the governor. Its options in state law allow for a reprimand, a directive to do community service or coursework, as well as other “informal” resolutions that the governor would have to agree to. Statutes don’t describe what the community service or “coursework” might be.
John Pelissero, a scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said it’s “unusual” for an ethics board not to publicly announce the action it takes against an accused official.
“It lacks transparency if they do not announce the level of accountability,” he said. “That has the potential to undermine the public’s confidence in the accountability board and in state government generally.”
Meanwhile, the ethics board took another action Monday that holds the potential of not just a finding of ethical misconduct, but illegality. The board asked the state’s attorney general to investigate Noem’s practice of flying on state airplanes to gatherings hosted by political groups like the Republican Jewish Coalition and the National Rifle Association. State law bars the aircraft from being used for anything other than state business, though Noem has said she was acting as an ambassador for the state.
Noem’s gubernatorial challenger, Democratic state Rep. Jamie Smith, pounced on the issue Tuesday and called for Attorney General Mark Vargo to recuse himself and appoint a special prosecutor.
Vargo played a prominent role in the conflict between Noem and Ravnsborg earlier this year by leading the impeachment prosecution against Ravnsborg in the Senate over his actions and accounting of the 2020 crash that killed a pedestrian. After senators convicted Ravnsborg on charges including one that alleged he misled investigators, and removed him from office, Noem — who had pressed for impeachment — named Vargo as interim attorney general.
Vargo said this week he hadn’t made the decision on whether to recuse himself from the state airplanes probe, even as he issued a statement saying any investigation would remain confidential.
Pelissero, the ethics expert, agreed, saying that there was already a perception of a clear conflict of interest. And David Cleveland, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in legal ethics, referred to rules of professional conduct that ban lawyers from cases where they have a conflict of interest or stand to gain personally.
Even some Republican lawmakers said Vargo should recuse himself.
“I personally think it’s only appropriate for him to immediately recuse himself and appoint a special counsel,” said Republican Rep. Scott Odenback. “So that there’s a continued faith and trust in the process that you are held accountable no matter who you are.”
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New Rays documentary features fight to bring baseball to Tampa Bay area
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - There are high hopes for a new season for the Tampa Bay Rays. It’s the 25th season for a baseball team that was born of a long drama of lies and political intrigue that stretched across the country.
One example: The governor of Illinois stopped the clock in that state’s legislature and strong-armed lawmakers to approve money that halted the move of the Chicago White Sox to St. Petersburg.
"That was one of the most compelling parts of our documentary," said Paul Grove, the president and CEO of WEDU, the Tampa Bay area’s PBS station.
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The documentary is called "Rise Of The Rays: A Devil of a Story."
Grove covered the Tampa Bay area’s quest for baseball when he was a local television journalist, and he always believed the story had the makings of a documentary.
He enlisted the services of producer/director Eric Davis, who grew up in Brandon and watched the Rays growing up. Davis was presented with a list of possible titles for the film.
"The Devil of a Story was just so perfect because when we began it was the Devil Rays, and there's a lot of Devil in these details," he said.
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They are the details of the many major league teams that seemed to be heading for the Tampa Bay area – either by moving from other cities or through expansion. There was also another detail: It was unclear just what city was trying to get a team.
"Because it was Tampa vs. St. Petersburg for some time, they were both battling to get the team," said Grove.
The documentary introduces viewers to a mild-mannered assistant city manager in St. Petersburg who became the power player for chasing down a team. Frank Morsani, known now as a philanthropist, was then the would-be owner of a team.
The documentary features interviews with Morsani where he reveals details and emotions that weren’t at the surface in those days.
The producer said when many years pass, people often open up more about what happened. Several important figures did for this film, including Morsani, former St. Petersburg Mayor Bob Ulrich and Jack Critchfield, who was a top corporate leader who became an important player in the pursuit of a team.
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The documentary chronicles the controversial decision to build the Florida Suncoast Dome, that would eventually become Tropicana Field. Grove and Davis say they wanted the film to interest both long-term residents and new arrivals to the area.
"They think this is Champa Bay, and we're winning all these titles in every sport, but really there was a huge struggle to bring baseball here," said Grove. "There was a huge struggle to bring baseball here, seven failures that's extraordinary how many time's baseball said no to this community."
Former Rays owner Vince Naimoli is portrayed as the hard-nosed businessman who became the closer, securing the expansion franchise after threatening lawsuits.
The documentary is a roller coaster that rolls from the earliest days of spring training in this area to the present moment where, in their 25th season, it’s still unclear if the team will remain in St. Petersburg or move to Tampa.
"You can fight with your brother, and then you make up and, hey you're good buddies now, but the competition is still here," smiles Davis, knowing that unfolding events in could provide a sequel to this baseball saga that seems never ending.
The new documentary, "Rise of the Rays: A Devil of a Story," debuts Thursday, March 30 at 9 p.m. on WEDU PBS. It is scheduled to air again on Sunday April 2 at 6 p.m.
It’s also streaming on www.WEDU.org/rays. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-rays-documentary-features-fight-to-bring-baseball-to-tampa-bay-area | 2023-03-31 00:58:20 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-rays-documentary-features-fight-to-bring-baseball-to-tampa-bay-area |
“Heart-Shaped Bruise” by Etta Marcus (Polydor)
Etta Marcus hates being called a sad girl. Her major label debut, “Heart-Shaped Bruise,” features its share of pain and loss, but the singer-songwriter comes out swinging from the opening track, “Nosebleed,” singing “I’m the b**** that broke your nose.”
The violence of the line, like the record title itself, is a metaphorical reference to the artist’s own interior struggles, and a jarring command to lean forward and listen.
On “Heart Shaped Bruise,” Marcus makes good use of the new set of musical tools at her disposal. Her sound is now more complex and expansive, incorporating new elements such as horns and strings to ratchet up the emotional intensity.
Marcus produced the new EP with her guitarist, Josh Scarbrow. Despite the increased complexity the recording keeps her strengths front and center — her voice remains a strong and versatile vehicle for her lyrical dexterity.
The production pays loving attention to the many sounds that guitars can make. Marcus is a devoted fan of David Bowie, and though she never sounds like him, her skill at building complicated songs around a simple scaffolding of rhythm guitar evokes Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” era.
While her earlier self-released music placed Marcus squarely in the DIY singer-songwriter camp, “Heart-Shaped Bruise” is both more accessible and harder to pin to a specific genre. The more uptempo sound is a blend of pop with well-chosen moments of subtle country and jazz elements.
The interplay of horns and acoustic guitar on “Smile for the Camera,” for example, give the single a strong 1980s vibe, and here the mix of uptempo sound and biting dark humor evokes complaint-rock bands of the era such as The Smiths.
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CHICAGO (WGN) — Adam Rosa, an urban planner who picked up metal detecting as a hobby during the pandemic, was searching for buried treasure in a Chicago Park when he stumbled across a peculiar patch of dirt that caught his eye.
“[I] just decided to dig it this time, and an inch or two down, saw the outline of a gold ring,” Rosa said.
Rosa brought the ring home and cleaned it. After further inspection, he noticed a name inscribed on the piece of jewelry.
“It was a fairly unique name. It took a while to find anything online,” Rosa said. “But I did find a person who matched the name, who lived in Chicago at one point.”
Ten miles away, Kimmy Half was working at Material Possessions, a high-end jewelry shop in Winnetka, not knowing a piece from her past had been uncovered.
But the ring came back — 30 years after it went missing — when Half met Rosa for the first time.
“The story of the object is more powerful than the object itself,” Rosa said. “Being able to trace that story back and return it to somebody, who obviously it means something to … is worth more than anything.”
Half’s father, a retired Chicago dentist, would spend his spare time taking the extra gold used for tooth fillings to make rings for his children and grandchildren. Then one unlucky day, the ring Half’s father made for her slipped off at a park.
“One time when I was there,” Half said, reminiscing back to the time she lost the ring. “I didn’t notice it right away, and I went back and tried to find it — and couldn’t find it — so I just kind of gave up on it.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/chicago-treasure-hunter-finds-returns-lost-ring-with-unique-name-to-owner-30-years-later/ | 2022-11-22 18:50:26 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/chicago-treasure-hunter-finds-returns-lost-ring-with-unique-name-to-owner-30-years-later/ |
SAINT JOSEPH, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs front office has a lot to balance in the next decade.
With all of the Chiefs’ success on the field, there are also some important benchmarks the Chiefs need to do surrounding the organization.
With their Jackson County Sports Complex lease partner, the Kansas City Royals, looking to build a new stadium outside of the complex, many have wondered what the Chiefs will do when the Royals move.
Chiefs president Mark Donovan said the club will make renovating Arrowhead Stadium a priority above all.
“If everything plays out the way we think it’s gonna play out, our preference for us is to upgrade and renovate the stadium that arrived and make GEHA Field even better,” Donovan said.
There are three options for Arrowhead: renovate, build a new stadium on-site or build a new stadium somewhere else.
But it will take “significant financial investment” to keep Arrowhead structurally sound.
“There are certain days when you get that phone call, it’s like, ‘Hey, we just found this. Might be an issue, right?'” Donovan said.
“And when you’re talking about a core sample of cement that was poured in 1970, those issues are, they could be significant, and they could factor into the decision.”
“So headed towards doing what we want to do, making good progress towards that,” Donovan added. “Still a lot of work to do and still a lot of due diligence to do as it relates to the Royals and their decision.”
Donovan also said the Chiefs plan to be ready for an April sales tax vote when Jackson County voters could decide whether they want to extend the 3/8ths cent sales tax that currently goes to improvements for Kauffman Stadium and GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs must balance all this along with renovating Arrowhead to be compliant for the 2026 World Cup.
“It’s gonna be a challenge, and it’s gonna be a 3- or 4-year challenge as we roll this out,” Donovan said.
“But we’ve got a good plan. We’ve got good options. We’ve got some areas we can pivot. We’re working with FIFA very closely and obviously a great local organizing committee. They’re well aware of the challenges that come with that. But I think the more we’ve looked at it, the less I think there’s ways to really take too much advantage of it because of the timing.”
And Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt has put a little pressure on Donovan and his team to make everything work.
Donovan said Hunt told him this:
“We need to host the World Cup because of what it is and what it can do for this region. We need to make sure that every single Chiefs fan has the exact same experience in ’24, ’25, ’26, and ’27. So figure it out.”
“It’s going to be a challenge to get there, but that’s, that’s how we’re approaching it,” Donovan said.
It’s an approach that the whole city must undertake to provide a quality experience for the 2026 World Cup. | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/chiefs-mark-donovan-talks-world-cup-arrowhead-reno-royals-move/ | 2023-07-21 19:51:47 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/chiefs-mark-donovan-talks-world-cup-arrowhead-reno-royals-move/ |
Amazon Prime members can now get unlimited monthly prescriptions for $5.
The company rolled RxPass on Tuesday for Prime members.
"RxPass is a benefit for Prime members that gives subscribers access to the most common generic medications for a flat fee of $5 a month," Amazon states on its website.
The medications treat various conditions including allergies, breast cancer, diabetes, muscle pain and seizures.
Click here to see the full list of medications
There are some restrictions. People on Medicare or Medicaid cannot sign up for RxPass, the company says. It's also not available in California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. However, Amazon Pharmacy is still available in all of those states. It offers some generic drugs for as little as $1 per month.
Amazon says the $5 charge will be billed at the beginning of each month. Customers can cancel the subscription service at any time. The company notes that the service will also end if a user cancels their Prime membership. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/amazon-launches-5-a-month-unlimited-prescription-service | 2023-01-24 21:31:19 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/amazon-launches-5-a-month-unlimited-prescription-service |
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — U.S. and European Union envoys met with Serbia’s president on Thursday as they pressed ahead with efforts to defuse Serbian tensions with Kosovo after a meeting last week in Brussels ended with no agreement on a dispute between the former Balkan war foes.
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo soared late last month when Kosovo’s government declared that Serb-issued identity documents and vehicle license plates would no longer be valid in Kosovo’s territory, just as Kosovo-issued ones are not valid in Serbia.
Serbia does not recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence, and still considers the territory as its own.
U.S. envoy Gabriel Escobar and the EU’s Miroslav Lajcak both said after the meeting with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic that efforts to resolve the disputed issue will continue. They offered no other details.
Escobar and Lajcak came to Belgrade from Kosovo, where they met Wednesday with Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti and on Thursday with the Kosovo Serb leaders.
“Tough and long meeting just now with President Vucic,” Escobar was quoted on the U.S. embassy’s Twitter account. “We appreciate the president’s commitment to peace and stability.”
Lajcak described the discussion as “difficult but responsible.”
Kurti has said he was acting with reciprocity to the measures from Serbia with his move on license plates and documents. But Kosovo Serbs have responded furiously, blocking roads in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo. Belgrade accused Kosovo of pressuring minority Serbs, who largely reject Kosovo-issued documents defying its statehood.
The incident has fueled fears of more unrest in the Balkans amid the uncertainties caused by the war in Ukraine and Russia’s close ties with Serbia. Kosovo has postponed the decision implementation until Sept. 1 as Washington and Brussels step up diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.
Kosovo’s independence has been recognized by Washington and most EU countries, while Serbia has relied on support from Moscow and China for its bid to retain the former province. Belgrade lost control over Kosovo in 1999 after NATO bombed the country to stop its brutal crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatist rebels.
Vucic said on Instagram that “we had no easy talks.” He added that “we will not give up our vital national and state interests, primarily the interests of our people, your security.”
For the past several years, the EU has mediated negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia to normalize relations, seeking to move forward their efforts to join the European Union.
NATO peacekeepers have stepped up their presence in northern Kosovo in response to the increased tensions. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-us-eu-envoys-meet-with-serbian-president-on-kosovo/ | 2022-08-26 16:57:57 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-us-eu-envoys-meet-with-serbian-president-on-kosovo/ |
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott lingers a little longer after practice at training camp with family, friends and even fans these days, seemingly more comfortable with everything that accompanies being the star running back of the Dallas Cowboys.
His time in that role could be running short and might end next offseason if Elliott can’t regain the form that led to NFL rushing titles in two of his first three seasons.
Elliott is comfortable with that reality, too.
“I think it is a big season. But I think you can’t look too far down the road,” Elliott said. “I don’t think there’s really a reason to look that far down the road. I think if I handle my business every day, then I will be in a pretty good situation at the end of the season.”
The $90 million, six-year extension Elliott signed to end a long holdout in 2019 will have four years remaining after this season. But this is the last year of guaranteed money, which increases the chance of a cost-cutting move under the salary cap.
Elliott had the lowest per-carry average of his career (4.0 yards) in 2020, followed by his worst per-game average (59 yards) last season, including just 31 yards in a wild-card loss to San Francisco for the NFC East champions.
The criticism started growing before that, when he actually had a productive 2019 season with 1,357 yards and 12 touchdowns but the Cowboys missed the playoffs.
Ever since, Elliott has faced questions of whether the wear and tear of his first three years, when he twice surpassed 300 carries, had robbed him of the explosiveness that marked his rookie year — his only All-Pro season.
Suffice it to say there were plenty of people questioning the $90 million contract, and plenty will say “I told you so” if Elliott doesn’t get past the $50 million in guarantees.
From Elliott’s point of view, last season was plagued by a partially torn ligament in his right knee, which he chose to play through. But it’s not like he’s expecting the way he feels in training camp in California to last very long into the season.
“Definitely frustrating certain parts of the year, but it’s football,” Elliott said. “Today might be the only day everyone is going to be 100% from here on out. Just trying to do everything I can off the field to make sure that I’m preserving my health and ready for Sundays.”
Owner and general manager Jerry Jones took aim at two former Cowboys, receiver Amari Cooper and defensive end Randy Gregory, when saying that availability played a role in which big-money players were still around and which weren’t.
Cooper was unvaccinated and missed two games because of COVID-19 last season, while Gregory dealt with injuries in addition to four suspensions that kept him out for all of two seasons and most of a third. Cooper was traded to Cleveland to save money under the cap, and Gregory signed with Denver after initially agreeing to a deal with Dallas.
Numbers aside, Elliott has been the model of availability since his six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations in 2017, his second year. The former Ohio State standout has missed one game because of injury in six seasons.
“Zeke Elliott is one of our rocks on this team,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “He’s a keystone player. You see all the extra work that he puts in pre-practice, post-practice. He overcame a lot to play (last year), and I think that speaks volumes about him and you need those type of individuals to win championships.”
Elliott said his offseason focus was strengthening the muscles around the injured knee, and he acknowledged concern with tightness before the knee improved in time for offseason practices. He decided against surgery.
The injury affected his explosiveness, and Elliott believes he can get it back.
“It definitely helped kind of getting that confidence back because it’s tough being injured and kind of feeling yourself lose a step,” Elliott said. “It definitely helped kind of get back to moving the speed that I was used to and just bringing that confidence back to myself, back in my body, back in my mind that I could make those cuts.”
A healthy Elliott won’t stop questions about getting backup running back Tony Pollard more touches. That chorus has grown for three years. Offensive coordinator Kellen Moore hears it and agrees with it — to a point.
“I don’t think the Tony thing has anything to do with the Zeke component,” Moore said. “I think we’re really excited about Zeke getting what he needs and what we take advantage of with Zeke, and then Tony is going to be an awesome piece.”
NOTES: RB Aaron Shampklin returned to practice after a COVID-19 absence, and LB Leighton Vander Esch also was back after missing a couple of days for personal reasons. … TEs Jeremy Sprinkle (Achilles) and rookie Jake Ferguson (hamstring) are close to a return, McCarthy said.
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Former president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday and is seeking $475 million in punitive damages, a move that escalates his conflict with U.S. news organizations that have critically reported on his career.
Trump has a history of being highly litigious against critics in the media, though these legal challenges have had little success. In 2020, his campaign separately sued The Washington Post and the New York Times for libel over opinion pieces that linked the campaign to Russian electoral interference. (The suit against the Times was dismissed, while the legal challenge against The Post is still pending.) Trump’s campaign also filed a libel suit against CNN over an op-ed in 2020, which was later dismissed.
Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University, who reviewed the latest suit, said she sees “no legal path forward” for Trump.
“I see no false statements of fact that were made with actual malice,” she said, adding that an “enormous amount” of the CNN comments described as defamatory in the lawsuit appeared to be opinions.
In the suit, Trump’s lawyers cite numerous clips and articles from CNN, including a 2019 interview with the singer Linda Ronstadt, who compared aspects of his presidency to Nazi rule in Germany. The attorneys argued that Ronstadt “is a singer, not a historian,” and called the interview a “pretext to repeat CNN’s message under the guise of real ‘reporting.’”
As a public figure, Trump needs to meet a higher standard to prove that CNN defamed him. His lawyers must show that CNN made false remarks about Trump that were presented as fact, and that the network had knowledge of the false remarks or a reckless disregard for the truth, a standard that historically has been very difficult to reach, Levinson said.
(Two Supreme Court justices, including Trump appointee Neil M. Gorsuch, have previously suggested that the standard needs review.)
Trump’s lawyers argue in the suit that CNN labeled Trump in ways that are “neither hyperbolic nor opinion,” and that the channel acted with “real animosity” to cause him “true harm.”
Lawyers representing the former president did not immediately return requests for comment Monday evening. A representative from CNN declined to comment on the suit.
Levinson said the most probable outcome of Trump’s legal challenge is that it would be thrown out once CNN filed a motion to dismiss the suit. If the case goes to trial, both sides would be able to request evidence from each other to discuss the degree of truth behind CNN’s statements. That ultimately could be disadvantageous for Trump, she said, particularly if the statements are found to be true.
“I think it’s really about trying to chill speech against the former president,” she said. “It’s a warning shot to media outlets that he intends to make good on threats of suing for defamation. And for some outlets, that could ultimately put them out of business.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/10/04/donald-trump-sues-cnn-defamation-lawsuit/ | 2022-10-04 07:53:32 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/10/04/donald-trump-sues-cnn-defamation-lawsuit/ |
PROVIDENCE — Governor Daniel J. McKee began a full four-year term on Tuesday, standing on stage next to his late father’s office chair and thanking his 94-year-old “celebrity mom,” who starred in his campaign ads.
As you might have seen in my TV commercials this past year, family is very important to me,” McKee said. “And I’m glad to have them here with me today.”
Before giving his speech, McKee began with moment of silence for former governor Lincoln C. Almond, who died on Monday night.
During his speech, McKee identified three goals. “First: Raising incomes for Rhode Islanders in all 39 cities and towns,” he said. “And when I say raising incomes, I mean investing in all of us and ensuring Rhode Islanders have the skills to get good-paying jobs.”
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Secondly, McKee called for “raising education outcomes for our children to reach Massachusetts levels by 2030,” saying, “We must be all-in on improving education because that is the key to the long-term economic future of our state.”
McKee also called for “creating a healthier Rhode Island where we reduce chronic illness and improve health outcomes.”
McKee held his inauguration ceremony inside the Rhode Island Convention Center, breaking with the tradition of the governor giving the inaugural speech outside the State House because of the “extremely cold weather that we usually experience on Inauguration Day in early January,” a spokesman has said. At noontime, it was raining and 45 degrees in Providence.
Advocates for the homeless stood outside the Convention Center, calling for McKee to do more to house Rhode Islanders.
“We have a terrible housing crisis,” said Sister Mary Pendergast of the Sisters of Mercy. “Warming shelters are not enough. Get people off the streets now. Yes, it’s an emergency. But long-term, build us houses.”
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Terri Wright, an organizer at Direct Action for Rights and Equality, said it was insulting for McKee to move the inauguration indoors when so many people are still living outdoors. “The governor needs to push the people’s agenda and get folks housed because not only are there folks forced to live outdoors, but there are evictions happening right now,” she said.
McKee, a Democrat, won a full four-year term in the Nov. 8 election, beating Republican Ashley Kalus, 57.9 percent to 38.9 percent. A former lieutenant governor, he took office in March 2021 when former governor Gina M. Raimondo became US commerce secretary.
“When I gave my last inauguration speech, Rhode Island was facing a very different set of challenges stemming from a once-in-a-generation public health crisis,” McKee said. “Challenges like we’ve never seen before. I stood before you and made a commitment that, together, we would get shots in arms, get Rhode Islanders back to work, get teachers and students fully back in the classroom, and get our economy moving again.”
McKee ticked off accomplishments during his tenure.
“We’re bringing offshore wind to East Providence,” he said. “We’re building a new State Health Lab in Providence. We’re investing in our world-class fisheries in Galilee. We opened a new education center in Woonsocket. We’re making crucial investments in Quonset. We’re delivering historic tax relief to families.”
And now, he said, the state we must continue the momentum.
“Rhode Island, this is our time,” McKee said. “This is our moment. It’s our turn. And I need your help to make sure we make the most of it. Each and every Rhode Islander has a role to play in this next chapter — and as governor, I’m asking you to do the work with us.”
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He called for Rhode Islanders to “join the team.”
“It’s like my Dad would say: ‘Success is there for you — all you have to do is earn it,’” McKee said. “I believe my Dad was right. So let’s work hard, earn that success, and see the best in Rhode Island’s future. Let’s stay focused — not on what divides us, but what makes us stronger and what brings Rhode Islanders together.”
The governor’s daughter, Kara McKee, who appeared on NBC’s “The Voice,” sang “America the Beautiful” during the inauguration ceremony.
Kara McKee sings "America the Beautiful" at her father's inauguration pic.twitter.com/NtKQtLmM0Z
— Edward Fitzpatrick (@FitzProv) January 3, 2023
During her inauguration speech, Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, a Democrat, noted she is the first Latina and the first Black woman elected as Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor. “But I promise you that I will not be the last.”
Matos, who was born in the Dominican Republican and became the Providence City Council president, said, “I cannot ever repay the debt I hold to this state, which has given me so many opportunities. But I will use every second of the next four years to try. And I promise I will be our state’s biggest cheerlander here at home, and away. There is a lot of work to do.”
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Product demonstrations of its newest innovation to its tool assortment are set for Booth 1501
SPARKS, Md., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescent Tools to bring exciting innovation in key product categories to the showroom floor at the 2022 STAFDA conference in San Diego, California from Sunday, October 30 to Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
The Crescent team will have a wide range of its latest tools available to view, including Pocket Knives, Circular Saw Blades, Bolt Biter Impact Nut Extractor and Drivers and the newly-unveiled Shockforce G2 Measuring Tapes.
"This year's product line-up is sure to impress," said Kevin Burnet, Senior Product Manager at Crescent Tools. "Our team of experts ensures each tool is equipped with the forward-thinking details that tool users ask for. For example, the Nite Eye markings of the Shockforce G2 Tape Measure and our Pocket Knives' Low Profile design demonstrate exactly how Crescent Tools is leading the way with meaningful innovation for our end users."
In the booth, attendees can experience live demonstrations of the new Shockforce G2 measuring tape, saw blades and visit our Crescent Tools Road Show Hauler to learn more about the full range of Crescent Tools.
To see all of Crescent's innovative products, visit Booth 1501 for a tour through each demo station. For more information, visit www.crescenttool.com.
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Crescent is a premier brand from Apex Tool Group, one of the largest hand tool manufacturers in the world. The product line includes Crescent® adjustable wrenches, mechanics hand tools, and power tool accessories, Crescent Wiss® snips, scissors, shears, knives and trade tools, Crescent Lufkin® measuring tapes, rules, wheels and chalk reels, Crescent Nicholson® files and saws, Crescent H.K. Porter® heavy-duty cutting products, and Crescent JOBOX® on-site, flammable liquid and truck storage products. Visit www.crescenttools.com
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Fellow Democrats urge Biden to withhold $320 million in military aid to Egypt over rights abuses
Jul 28, 2023, 10:00 AM | Updated: 10:50 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine senior Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the Biden administration Friday to withhold part of the United States’ annual military aid to Egypt for a third consecutive year, calling it important to keep up the pressure on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on human rights abuses.
More than 20 leading U.S. and international rights groups and think tanks separately made the same appeal, arguing that the U.S. practice of holding back some aid was leading el-Sissi to make “limited, albeit insufficient ” rights improvements in Egypt.
About a quarter of a $1.3 billion appropriation is at issue.
The request may be especially tough this year for President Joe Biden, who is focusing on keeping countries around the world, including Egypt, aligned behind Ukraine as it battles Russia’s globally destabilizing invasion. Neither the State Department nor the Egyptian Embassy in Washington immediately responded to requests for comment Friday.
The letters, addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, serve as an opening round in Democratic lawmakers’ annual battle to trim aid funding as a way to pressure el-Sissi’s government to curb rights abuses.
The State Department’s annual human rights report has repeatedly faulted Egypt, even as an important strategic ally in the region, for extrajudicial killings and torture, detention of thousands of writers, reporters, advocates and other political prisoners, suppression of news media and other abuses.
The Washington Post, citing secret U.S. documents leaked online by a Massachusetts Air National Guard member, reported in April that U.S. officials had talked Egypt out of secretly providing rockets to Russia. Egypt agreed instead to provide the United States with artillery rounds for transfer for Ukraine, the Post reported, citing another leaked document.
Congress in recent years has made the U.S. payment of roughly $300 million of U.S. military aid contingent on Egypt’s government showing progress on rights, although the State Department can partially override that, on national security grounds.
While shared U.S.-Egyptian security objectives make it important for the U.S. to continue supporting Egypt’s military in general, the senators argued, “we can continue to support these objectives while enforcing the law to withhold $320 million in military aid to Egypt due to a lack of necessary progress on human rights.”
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut led the letter. Richard Blumenthal, also of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin of Maryland, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Tom Carper of Delaware also signed.
“As the administration’s decision to withhold a portion of Egypt’s $1.3 billion appropriation for each of the last two years demonstrates, the bilateral security relationship can be effectively sustained at a reduced level of assistance while upholding our values,” the senators wrote.
The administration is expected to make a decision on the matter next month, although the legal deadline is Sept. 30.
Egypt’s jailing and silencing of critics have drawn international condemnation and are points of friction between the North African country and the West. That includes the United States, the Egyptian military’s most generous supporter.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, PEN International and other rights groups and think tanks in the other letter Friday credited the Biden administration’s financial pressure with helping persuade Egypt to free more than 1,000 political detainees. At the same time, rights advocates say, Egypt has detained nearly 5,000 others, and renewed pretrial detentions of thousands more. | https://mynorthwest.com/3914419/fellow-democrats-urge-biden-to-withhold-320-million-in-military-aid-to-egypt-over-rights-abuses/ | 2023-07-28 19:34:07 | 0 | https://mynorthwest.com/3914419/fellow-democrats-urge-biden-to-withhold-320-million-in-military-aid-to-egypt-over-rights-abuses/ |
Baby shot in Milwaukee overnight
2-year-old boy is expected to survive
Baby shot in Milwaukee overnight
2-year-old boy is expected to survive
AHEAD AND WEATHERWATCH 12. WELL, RIGHT NOW WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS FROM OVERNIGHT. A MILWAUKEE BABY WAS SHOT. MILWAUKEE POLICE SAY THE TWO YEAR OLD IS EXPECTED TO SURVIVE. THIS HAPPENED NEAR 26TH. AND HADLEY JUST BEFORE 4:00 THIS
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Baby shot in Milwaukee overnight
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A 2-year-old boy was shot in Milwaukee early Sunday morning.A 40-year-old woman is in custody.Milwaukee police to responded to the scene around 3:55 a.m. near 26th and Hadley.
MILWAUKEE —
A 2-year-old boy was shot in Milwaukee early Sunday morning.
A 40-year-old woman is in custody.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Voters here will decide Nov. 8 whether they want to move to nonpartisan elections in a city where the Democratic Party strongly dominates.
The resort would follow other local shore towns like Ventnor, Margate, Longport and Ocean City in holding nonpartisan elections in May, with candidates running as individuals with no indication of party affiliation.
There are pros and cons to the move, said John Froonjian, executive director of the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.
“Nonpartisan elections can seem appealing, especially these days when the two parties are always in conflict and the country seems so polarized,” Froonjian said. “On a municipal level you can make the argument that ideology takes a back seat to the government’s ability to provide services. There’s not a Democratic or Republican way to pick up the trash.”
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Nonpartisan elections eliminate the need for primary elections, Froonjian said, where candidates on the more extreme ends of the spectrum often get the nomination, rather than more moderate candidates.
But there are negatives to giving up the partisan approach, Froonjian said.
“The flip side is that the primaries act as a filter to weed out candidates that are clearly not qualified,” he said.
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Without a primary contest, sometimes factors not related to a candidate’s qualifications determine the outcome.
“Often a nonpartisan election becomes a personality contest, or the one with the most name recognition triumphs,” Froonjian said.
And turnout can be extremely low, because it is an extra election held out of synch with primaries and general elections.
According to a report in the New Jersey Globe, only 16.6% of all voters in the 11 municipalities with May 10 municipal elections voted this year.
In Newark, only 11.1% of voters participated to determine the race for mayor and four ward council seats, according to the Globe.
That’s about the turnout rate for primary elections, where only the most active voters participate. Atlantic County’s turnout in the June primary was just 11%, and the statewide turnout 12%, compared with 39% for Atlantic County and 40% for state in the 2021 general election, which included the gubernatorial race and was a low turnout for a general election historically.
In 2020 the general election, which included the presidential and congressional races, saw about a 70% turnout rate in both the county and state.
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“Taking it out of the general election makes it really a small-scale election, more akin to a school board election than the general,” Froonjian said. “In lower turnout, weird things can happen. It doesn’t take a lot of votes either way to swing an election.”
Turnout doesn’t have to be low in nonpartisan towns, however.
In Ocean City, 4,274 votes were cast in May in the municipal election that included a mayoral race. That means about 44% of the 9,633 registered voters in Ocean City participated.
Supporters of the change in Atlantic City, including four of nine City Council members, say the goal is to make it easier for ordinary people to get involved in government, compared to the situation now with partisan elections. Currently the Democratic municipal committee determines which candidates to support, and critics say that favors connected people too much.
Opponents, including Mayor Marty Small Sr. and the other five council members, say it adds the cost of another election to the city budget, and will result in lower turnout for both nonpartisan elections and for primary and general elections for county, state and federal offices.
Those opposed also caution that the Democratic Party has done a good job of making sure diverse candidates are supported, and a nonpartisan system would risk losing that diversity.
Partisan elections also allow local candidates to run on the “party line” or under well-known national and state candidates, Froonjian said.
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Sometimes a well-known local candidate can even help county and state candidates with low name recognition, he said.
“It helps both ways up and down (the ballot),” Froonjian said.
Partisan elections also allow voters to easily identify which candidate is most in line with their thinking, Froonjian said.
“Especially at the local level, voters may not have the time or inclination to research candidates on their own or explore what positions they hold,” Froonjian said. “It’s a shortcut for people to endorse the party they prefer without having to get in the weeds of political positions.”
And nonpartisan elections don’t eliminate polarization and party participation, he said.
“It can become nonpartisan in name only, or they break into factions or cliques based on local issues,” Froonjian said. “Candidates even run as a team.”
If approved on Election Day, the change is likely to benefit Republicans and a faction of Democrats who are pushing back against the Small administration, Froonjian said.
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Small’s supporters recently wrested control of the municipal Democratic Committee from political operative and Small political enemy Craig Callaway, a former council president who went to prison on bribery charge in the 2000s.
Callaway helped collect hundreds of the more than 2,000 signatures the group compiled to get the question on the ballot.
“Generally what happens in (places) dominated by one-party rule, the opposition party never gets any traction but rifts develop within the majority party and factions develop,” Froonjian said. “The opposition party poses no real threat, but factions within the dominant party do.”
There is only so much power to go around, and only so many positions to award, so those left out become opponents.
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
SAN DIEGO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Mission Valley at 5658 Mission Center Road, located in Friars Mission Center. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in 45 minutes or less.
The store is locally owned by Terra and Nye Arzo.
"We are looking forward to providing Mission Valley with top-notch customer service and repair assistance," said Terra Arzo. "Now, more than ever, people are reliant on their tech to keep them connected and we're eager to bring a convenient, affordable option to the area."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve more people in San Diego with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
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5658 Mission Center Rd Suite 304, San Diego, CA 92108
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Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — A French manufacturer says it will restart the fiberglass furnace at a Georgia plant it purchased in 2019, investing $28 million and hiring 400 new workers.
Saint-Gobain said Wednesday that its ADFORS unit would expand the plant it bought for $17.5 million in Dublin, Georgia.
A Latvian company, Valmiera Glass, spent $110 million on the plant in two phases that were finished in 2018, but went bankrupt in 2019 and laid off 350 workers. Saint-Gobain bought the plant during Valmiera's bankruptcy proceeding.
The plant makes glass fibers that are used for insulation, heat protection and other uses. Saint-Gobain said restarting the furnace will allow it to double North American production of glass fiber.
Marie Gordon, a spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Economic Development, said the state would pay for job training for workers, but did not provide a value of the aid.
Saint-Gobain could claim various tax breaks, including an income tax credit allowing it to annually deduct $4,000 per job from state income taxes, up to $8 million over five years, as long as workers make at least $30,628 a year. If Saint-Gobain does not earn enough to owe that much in taxes, the state would give it personal income taxes from worker paychecks to make up the rest. The company could also get local property tax breaks. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/French-fiberglass-maker-hiring-400-in-28M-17165281.php | 2022-05-11 17:19:46 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/French-fiberglass-maker-hiring-400-in-28M-17165281.php |
ABILENE, Texas, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Financial Bank, N.A. Board of Directors elected Mike Parker as Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer. Parker brings more than 15 years of compliance experience to First Financial, including his most recent post as a director of compliance governance with USAA Federal Savings Bank. The announcement was made by Randy Roewe, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, First Financial Bankshares, Inc.
"Mike's extensive background and experience and successful record of developing compliance programs at some of the nation's largest financial institutions will make him an invaluable asset to our company," Roewe said. "His experience will be critical to the continued evolvement of the bank's compliance management program as the regulatory landscape changes and First Financial Bank continues to grow."
Parker, who has worked with USAA since March 2020, has also held positions with Capital One and Ocwen Financial Corporation in compliance and audit director roles. He also provided support to community banks on compliance matters with Capco. Parker began his banking career in 2005 as an examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he specialized in compliance.
A native of western New York, Parker earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds the Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) designation.
First Financial Bank, N.A. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Financial Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIN). Headquartered in Abilene, Texas, First Financial Bankshares is a financial holding company that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, First Financial Bank, N.A., operates multiple banking regions with 79 locations in Texas, including Abilene, Acton, Albany, Aledo, Alvarado, Beaumont, Boyd, Bridgeport, Brock, Bryan, Burleson, College Station, Cisco, Cleburne, Clyde, Conroe, Cut and Shoot, Decatur, Eastland, El Campo, Fort Worth, Fulshear, Glen Rose, Granbury, Grapevine, Hereford, Huntsville, Lumberton, Keller, Kingwood, Magnolia, Mauriceville, Merkel, Midlothian, Mineral Wells, Montgomery, Moran, New Waverly, Newton, Odessa, Orange, Palacios, Port Arthur, Ranger, Rising Star, Roby, San Angelo, Southlake, Spring, Stephenville, Sweetwater, Tomball, Trent, Trophy Club, Vidor, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Willis, and Willow Park. The Company also operates First Financial Trust & Asset Management Company, N.A., with ten locations and First Technology Services, Inc., a technology operating company. The Company is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the trading symbol FFIN. For more information about First Financial, please visit our website at http://www.ffin.com.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A blast caused by a gas leak early Monday seriously injured two people and destroyed several homes under construction in a suburb of Canada’s capital, officials said.
Emergency responders pulled two people from the wreckage in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans and brought them to a hospital where they were in serious but stable condition, Reid Purdy of the Ottawa Paramedic Service said.
Three additional people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Another five people were assessed at the scene and released. It was not immediately clear if the victims were residents or construction workers.
The explosion occurred about 6:18 a.m. local time and affected four homes under construction, Ottawa deputy fire chief David Matschke said. The Ottawa fire service said earlier that the explosion was caused by a gas leak.
Police were working with the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office to investigate the blast, Amy Bond of the Ottawa Police Service said.
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Reaffirms Full-Year 2022 Guidance
NEW YORK, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thorne HealthTech, Inc. ("Thorne HealthTech" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: THRN), a leader in developing personalized, innovative solutions to help people live healthier, longer lives, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Highlights:
- Net sales grew 22.9% to $54.7 million, with direct-to-consumer ("DTC") sales growth of 33.0%
- Gross profit grew 29.6% to $30.1 million; gross margin increased 285 basis points to 55.1%
- Net income attributable to common stockholders of $5.0 million; adjusted EBITDA of $8.7 million
- Diluted earnings per share of $0.09; adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.12
- Full-year 2022 guidance reaffirmed for projected net sales of $240 million to $250 million; adjusted EBITDA of $30 million to $35 million; and adjusted EPS of $0.28 to $0.30
"Our solid first quarter performance was driven by robust growth across sales channels," said Paul Jacobson, Thorne HealthTech's chairman and CEO. "More health professionals, sports organizations, and individuals are becoming aware of the science-backed solutions we offer that help optimize performance and inform personalized decisions that can lead to a longer, healthier life. With the recent launch of our healthy aging campaign, positive results from the OneDraw blood collection device study and upcoming product launches, we are strengthening our position in each of our end markets."
As of March 31, 2022, the Company's number of active subscriptions grew 57.0% to approximately 265,000, compared to approximately 168,000 as of March 31, 2021. The Company continued to experience high customer retention, recurring purchases, and low customer acquisition costs. For each of the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company's annual life-time value ("LTV") to customer acquisition cost ("CAC") ratio was 6.2x.
Important disclosures about, and reconciliations of, non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share ("EPS") are provided in the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section of this press release.
Financial Position
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had $31.4 million in cash, and it had $2.3 million of debt outstanding, inclusive of $0.8 million attributable to finance lease liabilities.
On April 8, 2022, the Company entered into a new loan agreement that provides a $15.0 million revolving line of credit (the "Line of Credit"). Outstanding borrowings under the Line of Credit are subject to interest at a rate equal to the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index rate, plus 1.50 percentage points, and is subject to an unused commitment fee of 0.2% per year due quarterly until the expiration of the loan agreement on March 31, 2027. There are no outstanding borrowings under the Line of Credit as of the date of this news release.
The Company's financial guidance assumes the following:
- Foreign exchange rates, the effects of which are currently not significant, will remain in effect throughout the year
- Net sales attributable to the acquisition of Nutrativa are expected to contribute to between 1% and 2% of projected net sales growth for the year
- Marketing costs are expected to be between 16% and 18% of net sales; these costs are expected to be lower in the first quarter compared to the second through fourth quarters of the year due to the anticipated timing of certain brand campaigns which have typically resulted in incremental net sales both during and after such campaigns
- For adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share, guidance also assumes (i) an estimated full-year adjusted tax rate of 10% and (ii) diluted weighted-average shares outstanding of 62.0 million as of December 31, 2022
In addition, while the Company expects that (i) advanced purchases of necessary raw materials for its products are sufficient to meet anticipated demand for the full-year and (ii) remaining costs for the construction of its new manufacturing and distribution facility in South Carolina will approximate forecasted amounts, the Company's guidance also assumes that existing global supply chain and inflation conditions do not further deteriorate.
Webcast and Conference Call Details
The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 8 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Time) to discuss its first quarter 2022 financial results. A live webcast of the call can be accessed by logging onto the investors section of the Thorne HealthTech website at https://investors.thornehealthtech.com. A replay will be available on the same website after the call.
In addition, the conference call can be accessed over the phone by dialing +1 844 200 6205 for U.S. callers, or +1 929 526 1599 for international callers, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start time. An audio replay will be available for 7 days following the call. To access the replay, dial +1 866 813 9403 (U.S.) or +44 204 525 0658 (International). The access code for the live call and replay is 237057.
About Thorne HealthTech
Thorne HealthTech is a leader in developing personalized, innovative solutions to help people life healthier, longer lives. Thorne HealthTech is a science-driven wellness company that is utilizing testing and data to create improved product efficacy and deliver personalized solutions to consumers, health professionals and corporations. Thorne HealthTech's unique, vertically integrated brands, Thorne and Onegevity, provide insights and personalized data, products, and services that help individuals take a proactive and actionable approach to improve and maintain their health over a lifetime.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this news release, including, without limitation, statements regarding the conditions of our industry, our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy, development plans, expected research and development costs, regulatory strategy, product and service development, sales and marketing activities, international expansion efforts, timing and likelihood of success, as well as plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "guidance," "may," "will," "should," "would," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "could," "intend," "target," "project," "contemplate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding financial guidance, market opportunity, ability to penetrate the market, expanded product offerings and expectations for growth. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about our business, the industry in which we operate and financial trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, and these forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or development. These forward-looking statements are current only as of the date of this news release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions described in the section titled "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in Thorne HealthTech's filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 16, 2022 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which we plan to file on or about May 12, 2022, and other SEC filings, copies of which are available free of charge on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events or otherwise.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To provide investors with additional information regarding its financial results, the Company has provided certain financial measures that are not recognized under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") in this press release, including: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"), EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share.
The Company calculates EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, as net income or loss excluding depreciation and amortization, interest expense and income taxes. The Company calculates adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, by further excluding non-cash items for stock-based compensation expenses, change in fair value of warrant liability, loss on Drawbridge step acquisition, loss on Drawbridge transaction, guarantee fees and income or loss from equity in unconsolidated affiliates. Adjusted EBITDA margin represents Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. The Company calculates adjusted net income, a non-GAAP financial measure, as net income or loss excluding (i) stock-based compensation expenses, change in fair value of warrant liability, loss on Drawbridge step acquisition, loss on Drawbridge transaction, guarantee fees and income or loss from equity in unconsolidated affiliates and (ii) utilizing an adjusted provision for income taxes based on the Company's estimate of applicable statutory rates.
EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share should be viewed as measures of operating performance that are supplements to, and not substitutes for, operating income or loss, net income or loss and other GAAP measures of income and loss. The Company has included EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share in this press release because they are key measures used by the Company's management to evaluate and compare the Company's financial and operational performance over multiple periods, identifying trends affecting the Company's business, formulating business plans and making strategic decisions. In particular, the exclusion of certain expenses or income in calculating adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income facilitates operating performance comparability across reporting periods by removing the effect of non-cash expenses and certain non-recurring variable charges. In addition, the Company believes that providing each of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income, together with a reconciliation of net income or loss to each such measure, helps investors make comparisons between Thorne HealthTech and other companies that may have different capital structures, different tax rates and different forms of employee compensation. Each of EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share has inherent limitations because of the excluded items, and may not be directly comparable to similarly titled metrics used by other companies.
The Company has not reconciled the forward-looking adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance included in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP measures because this cannot be done without unreasonable effort due to the variability and low visibility with respect to certain costs, the most significant of which are incentive compensation (including stock-based compensation), certain fair value measurements, acquisition transactions and integration, tax items and others that may arise during the year, each of which are potential adjustments to future earnings. The Company expects the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable, and a potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.
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JOHANNESBURG — Members of the Southern African Development Community military mission in Mozambique are being investigated after a video circulated on social media showing them throwing bodies on a pile of burning rubble, officials said Tuesday.
The insurgency in Mozambique has been blamed for more than 3,000 deaths since 2017, with more than 800,000 people displaced and more than 1 million in need of food aid, according to the U.N. World Food Program.
The video shows unidentified members of the mission burning a pile of rubble including furniture and utensils and throwing one body on it while another body lay on the burning trash.
At least one soldier wearing a military uniform with a South African flag is seen holding his rifle in one hand and filming the incident on a cell phone with the other.
The incident is believed to have taken place in November last year.
The spokesman for the South African National Defense Force, Brig. Gen. Mokoena Mahapa, described the incident as a “despicable act,” saying it was against the law of armed conflict and that the mission’s force commander is investigating.
“The SANDF does not condone in any way the acts committed in the video and those who are found guilty of such acts will be brought to book,” Mahapa said.
He said South African soldiers on the mission are part of a combined force and fall under the mission’s command and control.
“South Africa only supports their mission logistically,” Mahapa said.
About 600 South African soldiers have been in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado region since October 2021 as part of the regional force of about 1,000 troops which also includes Angola, Botswana, Tanzania, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/video-shows-soldiers-tossing-bodies-on-fire-in-mozambique/2023/01/10/7bf6bcd0-90ee-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html | 2023-01-10 15:22:47 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/video-shows-soldiers-tossing-bodies-on-fire-in-mozambique/2023/01/10/7bf6bcd0-90ee-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html |
A small town Iowa police chief has been indicted on federal charges that he abused his position to purchase more than two dozen machine guns.
Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 46, and Robert Williams, 46, were both charged with making false statements to the ATF about whether the police department wanted to buy the machine guns. Adair, a town of fewer than 800 people, is located 55 miles (88.51 kilometers) west of Des Moines
“Brad Wendt is charged with exploiting his position as chief of police to unlawfully obtain and sell guns for his own personal profit," FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel said in a statement Thursday.
Court documents say Wendt bought 10 machine guns for the police department and later sold several of them at a profit.
Prosecutors say he also acquired 13 other machine guns for his gun store by falsely stating to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives that the police department wanted a demonstration of each of them. Wendt also allegedly helped Williams buy 10 machine guns for his business that holds a federal firearms license by making similar statements.
The two men are also accused of holding public machine gun shooting events where people paid for the chance to shoot one of the fully automatic weapons.
Prosecutors said they believe Wendt and Williams were trying to stockpile the guns to sell later. They say that altogether Wendt tried to purchase or demonstrate 90 machine guns for the Adair Police Department since 2018.
Wendt's attorney didn't immediately respond to a message Thursday.
Williams' attorney, Dean Stowers, said in a statement “It is unfortunate that the government brought these charges against Mr. Williams without sitting down to candidly review all the circumstances and the law.”
Stowers said the ATF approved all of Williams' gun purchases based on Wendt's letters, and he hadn't resold any of them.
Adair City Attorney Clint Fichter said Wendt remains the police chief at this point because the city had no advance notice of the charges before they were announced Thursday.
Wendt could face up to 10 years in prison if he is convicted while Williams faces up to five years in prison. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Prosecutors-say-Iowa-police-chief-lied-to-buy-17657306.php | 2022-12-15 22:34:19 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Prosecutors-say-Iowa-police-chief-lied-to-buy-17657306.php |
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. (KTVI) – A Missouri teen lost her battle to stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, three weeks before she was supposed to graduate the eighth grade.
The family of 14-year-old Kaitlyn Atrip said they were shocked the teen was not honored at Crystal City Junior High’s graduation ceremony on May 18 after her passing.
“Kaitlyn should have been there,” said Kaitlyn’s mom, Lindsey Patton. “I made a promise to her before she passed away that I wouldn’t let anyone forget her.”
The family attended the ceremony to support Kaitlyn’s cousin and friends, who also graduated. Patton said she did not hear her daughter’s name mentioned at all during the ceremony.
“I was expecting them to honor her with a moment of silence, a picture of her, a reserved seat, something in her honor, something to acknowledge the fact that she had been a student here for over seven years,” she said.
Patton said a counselor made yellow ribbons for students to wear, but the school did not acknowledge their meaning during the ceremony. She also said the school did not have a diploma for Kaitlyn. The family and her friends decided to honor Kaitlyn themselves, using chalk outside the school.
“We decided we would come up and honor her ourselves and write some chalk messages to her,” Patton said.
The messages read, “Congratulations, Katilyn. We’re proud of you. You did it.” Patton said the superintendent came to the school while they were writing the messages, and police were called.
“The superintendent came to the school and scolded us for not having permission to write with chalk the messages to Kaitlyn,” Patton said.
She said the next morning before a storm came, the school power-washed their messages off and took down the balloons they had set out for Kaitlyn.
“You can’t wash away her memory. You can make us wash off this chalk, but you can’t just wash her away like that,” Patton said.
On Friday, students stood in solidarity and wrote chalk messages to Kaitlyn outside the school, in the same spot family and friends had done the night before.
A student shared a video of the school superintendent saying, “You are insubordinate. We are worried about your safety. If you’re not going to go back in, then we have your names, and I’m going to call your parents. You’re going to go home. You’re going to be suspended, and we will have a meeting about this.”
A student can be heard saying their parent was nearby. The superintendent then said, “OK, take her home.”
When the student claimed the parent would not be complying either, the superintendent is then heard saying, “Well, that’s when the police will arrest you for trespassing. I suspend you, and you come back, you will be under trespassing.”
“I’m trying to be nice here about this,” the superintendent then said.
Katy Lewis, a local business owner, wanted to do something to let Kaitlyn’s family know the community cares.
“We had signs here, and our signs had pictures of Kate. And we had it say, ‘We will not forget you, Kate,'” said Lewis, the owner of Vivian James American Beauty, a salon where Kaitlyn was a customer.
“That’s not what our town is about,” Lewis said. “We will never let anyone go that way.”
She gathered local businesses who put up signs and balloons and let anyone write chalk messages to Kaitlyn outside their small businesses.
Now, the Patton family said they are fighting to make sure no other family feels this way.
“I don’t want anyone to go through that or fight policies, or whatever their reason was for leaving Kaitlyn out of the graduation,” Patton said.
Crystal City School Superintendent Matt Holdinghausen declined an interview Monday. He sent the following statement:
“Recently, one of our families in the community lost their child. Our students and staff have lost a friend and a caring individual who will never be forgotten. The loss of a child is always a tragedy and can never be measured and our thoughts and prayers are with the family. Our school community retains counselors on staff to be of assistance to any student that would like to talk and grieve. Our teachers and staff are also here to support all those that are hurting because of the loss of their friend. May our community be encouraged to support each other and the family during this time.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/teen-who-died-of-cancer-not-honored-at-junior-high-graduation-family-says/ | 2022-05-24 14:26:15 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/teen-who-died-of-cancer-not-honored-at-junior-high-graduation-family-says/ |
Patricia Field, ‘Sex and the City’ designer on Carrie’s iconic looks, a must-have fashion item
NEW YORK (AP) — Costume designer Patricia Field has never liked fashion rules.
The woman who famously combined a tutu with spiky heels on Sarah Jessica Parker in “Sex and the City,” and made a plaid bucket hat cool on Lily Collins in “Emily in Paris” has a way of making high fashion feel accessible to the masses. She explains how she does it in the new documentary, “Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field,” which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The film is directed by Michael Selditch, who also directed the CNN docu-series ”American Style” in 2019. While interviewing Field for that series, he found a bold character with a unique, unconventional style of mixing color and patterns and designer looks with street wear. While at first Field resisted the idea of a documentary crew following her around, she finally relented and says she’s pleased with the result.
The Emmy-winning Field, 81, was behind the inventive outfits on “Ugly Betty” and is known for styling films as well, including “The Devil Wears Prada,” which earned her an Oscar nod. The Associated Press sat down with Field and Selditch recently to talk about her process, that tutu, and which item everyone should have in their closet.
Answers have been shortened for brevity and clarity.
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AP: How did you get Pat to agree to this documentary?
SELDITCH: I said to her, “You know, anybody can make a documentary on you. We can always find people to sit down and talk about working with you and say wonderful things and throw in archival footage. But that’s not exactly the documentary I want to make. I want to watch your process. I want to see you shop. I want to see you working with actors. I want to really make it verite and watch you work and get inside your head and be a fly on the wall.” And I said, “If we don’t do it now, when are you going to do it?”
AP: What is a typical costume fitting like for you?
FIELD: There’s a person and then there’s a character. But behind that character is the person, and it’s really important that they feel good because that is, in my mind, my responsibility. It’s not about dictating to actors what’s good and what’s not good. It’s about giving them choices and, of course, getting to know them. Once you get to know them, it becomes a little bit more automatic. Like Sarah Jessica Parker, I know her. I worked with her before. I know her taste. It’s about the relationship and making sure that the actor in front of that camera is comfortable, positive and ready to go.
AP: Your costumes on “Sex and The City” helped make designer brands feel more attainable by mixing high fashion accessories with basic off-the-rack clothes. Was that intentional?
FIELD: Let’s talk about mixing high and low. I think that you can’t just wear high or you can’t just wear low. People say, “orange and red don’t go together.” Well, they go together in a fruit bowl! (smiles) It’s nature. And what’s wrong with it? So I go by this little philosophy of mine and I tend to not get distracted by mores or rules or whatever comes across. It’s just my expression and if I feel good about it and the actor does, then it’s fine.
AP: The white tutu and gold “Carrie’” necklace have become iconic items. Do you know when you’re putting something like that on an actor that it’s going to hit?
FIELD: I don’t always have that same formula of knowing beforehand what it’s going to be. But I have my taste. It’s not haphazard for me, and I guess it’s my formula and I guess it works for me. It’s very important. Dressing someone, man or woman, it’s a two way street. They’re in the clothes, they need to be happy. I offer the clothes, I have to be satisfied. It’s always best to establish a positive relationship and when the actor trusts you, you’re home free.
SELDITCH: One of the things I really love and admire about Pat is that she goes with her gut in her work and in her life. And I think that what you’re looking at there, like the tutu, it’s just in her gut, it felt right to her. Other people might be like, “Why?” But to her it felt right. And it turned out to be. And her gut isn’t ordinary or obvious. It’s fun and crazy and exciting. And that’s one of the things that people respond to in Pat’s work.
FIELD: I think the tutu industry will thank me. (laughs) I can’t stop seeing tutus! Years go by and there’s always tutus on the rack. I saw this (skirt) in the showroom, and I pulled it out of a basket on the floor and I immediately thought of Sarah Jessica because she’s ballet trained and she’s also fashion. She’ll understand this. She’s not going to treat this with a pair of ballet slippers. She’s going to put on a pair of spiky heels and have this little thing. And I said, “Darren (showrunner Darren Star) if it’s a hit — and I think it will be — that tutu will be classic through time.”
AP: You worked with Molly Rogers on “ SATC” and now she’s the costumer for “And Just Like That…” Do you think she’s been consistent with the style on the new show?
FIELD: I think she’s great. She has experience. I’ve worked with Molly for many years. I met her in my shop on 8th Street and I hired her and we’ve been together ever since, doing different projects. It’s a very long and loving relationship. There is definitely a consistency. But at the same time, it wouldn’t be as good if she just tried to copy me. She is creative. She has her own way of looking at it. I think they’re doing a great job. I would probably be very disappointed if they weren’t.
AP: What’s an accessory you think everyone should have?
FIELD: I like a belt because the belt defines the waist and you know, all this like loose, shapeless clothing– I don’t find it very exciting. So I’m definitely a belt girl.
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Why these flights made unscheduled loops in the sky
By Marnie Hunter and David Williams, CNN
A most welcome flight diversion. That’s a rarity for commercial airline passengers, but it’s what travelers on at least two flights got this week when their planes looped around to give everyone a good view of the northern lights.
Also known as the aurora borealis, the natural phenomenon is something travelers often make pricey trips to high latitudes just to witness.
Those on easyJet flight 1806 from Reykjavik to Manchester and Finnair flight 488 from Kuusamo to Helsinki all got a light show for the price of their airfare. Flight tracking sites show both planes made small loops mid-flight.
“Many thanks to the Captain of Finnair flight AY488 from KAO to HEL tonight for making an unscheduled 360 up in the air so all passengers can enjoy the magic,” Kirsi Komi tweeted Sunday.
CNN reached out to Finnair but did not immediately receive a response.
On Monday, the pilot on easyJet flight 1806 also made a loop to showcase the colorful lights.
Ross Sticka was flying to Manchester with his wife, brother and sister-in-law and was able to take pictures out the window.
He told CNN that they had heard that people on a previous flight had seen the aurora borealis, so they held magazines up near the window to block the cabin lights in hopes of catching a glimpse.
He said the easyJet crew were amazing and switched out the lights so everyone could see.
His group was lucky because they were on the left side of the plane, he said, so they “got lots of photos before they did the 360.”
“Everyone was so excited as many hadn’t seen them before. We [were] lucky to see them twice on our trip to Iceland. Amazing experience.”
Airline ‘delighted’ to offer a light show
Adam Groves tweeted “big thanks” to the easyJet pilot “who did a 360 fly by mid flight to make sure all passengers could see the incredible Northern Lights.”
EasyJet was “delighted” to do it, the airline said in a statement to CNN.
The captain “was able to perform a controlled manoeuvre in order to allow passengers to witness an amazing display from the air of one of nature’s greatest sights, the Aurora Borealis,” easyJet’s statement said.
They offered photo ops not to be missed. “Too bad I did not have proper camera,” tweeted Finnair passenger Tuomo Järvinen.
Still, it was not bad for a free show:
New insight into the aurora borealis was published in 2021. Authors of a study proved that the “most brilliant auroras are produced by powerful electromagnetic waves during geomagnetic storms.”
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology companies led stocks modestly higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Wednesday, as the market clawed back some of its losses from a big sell-off a day earlier.
The rally, which was losing steam into the final hour of trading, came after a wobbly start for stocks, the latest turbulence for the market as traders brace for more earnings reports from major U.S. companies this week.
The S&P 500 was up 0.4% as of 3:13 p.m. Eastern after easing back from a 1.6% gain. The Nasdaq rose 0.2% after having been up 1.7% earlier in the afternoon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 186 points, or 0.5%, to 33,417.
It has been a volatile week for major indexes, which rallied to a strong finish late Monday only to slump on Tuesday.
Technology stocks have been the key driver through most of the week’s ups and downs. Many of the companies in the sector have pricey stock values that tend to push the market up or down with more force.
Big Tech companies had some of the biggest gains on Wednesday. Software giant Microsoft rose 5.5% after reporting strong profits for its most recent quarter. Payments processing giant Visa jumped 6.6% after reporting a surge in profits fueled by a large jump in spending on the company’s namesake credit and debit card network.
Big communications companies are also reporting their latest results. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, fell 4%, after posting its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2020.
Facebook parent, Meta Platforms, is on deck to report its results later Wednesday. Social media company Twitter and iPhone maker Apple will report their results on Thursday.
Investors were also focused on earnings from industrial companies and various retailers. Boeing slumped 9.3% after it reported a loss that was far worse than Wall Street expected. Chipotle rose 2.5% after reporting solid financial results.
Internet retail giant Amazon will report its results on Thursday.
The latest round of earnings comes amid lingering concerns about rising inflation and plans from central banks to raise interest rates in order to temper the impact of higher costs on businesses and consumers. Investors are closely watching to see how companies have fared amid supply chain problems and higher costs while assessing how consumers are dealing with higher prices for everything from food to clothing and gas.
“Everyone is dealing with this sort of whack-a-mole of risks that seems to be getting bigger as days and months go by,” said Katie Nixon, chief investment officer for Northern Trust Wealth Management.
The U.S. Federal Reserve is set to aggressively hike rates as it steps up its fight against inflation. The chair of the Fed has indicated the central bank may hike short-term interest rates by double the usual amount at upcoming meetings, starting next week. It has already raised its key overnight rate once, the first such increase since 2018.
Bond yields have generally been rising throughout the year as investors prepare for higher rates. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.82% from 2.77% late Tuesday.
Wall Street remains focused on inflation’s path forward amid lingering threats from Russia’s war against Ukraine and the virus pandemic.
“We just keep moving more areas of uncertainty onto the pile of uncertainties,” Nixon said.
Natural gas prices surged as much as 24% over the last day in Europe and the euro weakened after Russia said it would cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. Natural gas and oil prices had already been rising as the pandemic eased and demand increased, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine has added to price increases. Crude oil and and natural gas prices have jumped so far in 2022 and that has made gasoline and heating more expensive for consumers.
Strict lockdown measures in China have also added to concerns about slowing economic growth because of damage to the world’s second-largest economy. The flow of industrial goods has been disrupted by the suspension of access to Shanghai, home of the world’s busiest port, and other industrial cities including Changchun and Jilin in northeast China.
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Veiga reported from Los Angeles.
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InfStones and Oracle work together to deliver a robust, secure, and scalable Web3 infrastructure development platform for enterprise customers
DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InfStones and Oracle today announced that they are collaborating on integrating InfStones' leading blockchain development platform with Oracle Cloud Infra-structure (OCI) to accelerate Web3 development. This collaboration will help deliver important insights that drive the evolution, development, and adoption of Web3 applications worldwide.
InfStones endorses a global multi-cloud strategy to serve the needs of its rapidly growing portfolio of Enterprise customers. The new combination of InfStones platforms running on OCI delivers on the price performance, scalability, and security needs of enterprise customers and provides additional options for customers building and developing next-generation blockchain applications.
"Our goal at InfStones is to reduce barriers to entry for new companies looking to incorporate blockchain technology into their stack," stated Dr. Zhen Wu Shi, CEO, InfStones. "Partnering with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers enterprise customers a robust infrastructure across OCI's multiple regions worldwide. We were also extremely impressed with the dedicated technical support provided by the OCI team and their support for our growth strategy."
"The power of the InfStones platform and Oracle's next-generation cloud infra-structure provides our joint customers with an extremely performant, reliable, and secure platform for developing decentralized Web3 applications," said Chris Gandolfo, Senior Vice President of Cloud Venture, Oracle. "Working with cutting-edge leaders in blockchain infrastructure like InfStones allows us to provide a robust solution for our enterprise customers as they increasingly look to Web3 development to solve the next-generation of IT problems. InfStones can provide complementary capabilities to OCI customers by leveraging the InfStones platform API gateway service for faster and more scalable API access to Ethereum, IBC, Polkadot, and many other blockchain ecosystems."
Oracle will work with InfStones to bring their enterprise blockchain customers to more verticals and builders across the Web3 development ecosystem.
InfStones is an advanced, enterprise-grade Platform as a Service (PaaS) blockchain infrastructure provider trusted by the top blockchain companies in the world. InfStones' AI-based infrastructure provides people around the world with a rugged, powerful node management platform alongside an easy-to-use API. With over 10,000 nodes supported on more than 60 blockchains, InfStones gives developers all the control they need - reliability, speed, efficiency, security, and scalability - for cross-chain DeFi, NFT, GameFi, and decentralized application development. InfStones is trusted by the biggest blockchain companies in the world including Binance, Coinlist, BitGo, OKX, Chainlink, Polygon, Harmony, and Kucoin, among a hundred other customers. The company is dedicated to developing the next evolution of a better world through limitless Web3 innovation.
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SAN DIEGO, California -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of border enforcement since the beginning of COVID-19.
The video featured above is from a previous report when Border Patrol was bracing for an influx of crossings with Title 42 extended in May.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in Washington that enforcement must end immediately for families and single adults, saying it violates federal rule-making procedures.
However, his ruling conflicts with another in May by a federal judge in Louisiana that asylum restrictions remain in place.
If Sullivan's ruling stands, it would upend border enforcement. Migrants have been expelled from the United States more than 2.4 million times since the regulation took effect in March 2020, denying migrants rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The regulation was authorized under Title 42 of a broader law covering public health.
The rule has been unevenly enforced by nationality, falling mostly on migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - in addition to Mexicans - because Mexico allows them to stay within its borders. Last month, Mexico began accepting Venezuelans who are expelled from the United States under Title 42, causing a sharp drop in Venezuelans seeking asylum at the U.S. border.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of asylum-seeking migrants. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said Sullivan's decision renders the Louisiana ruling moot.
"This is an enormous victory for desperate asylum seekers who have been barred from even getting a hearing because of the misuse of public laws," Gelernt said. "This ruling hopefully puts an end to this horrendous period in U.S. history in which we abandoned our solemn commitment to provide refuge to those facing persecution."
The Homeland Security Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Florida is trying to eradicate the giant African land snail — again. The invasive snail carries a disease-causing parasite.(NOTE: Story aired on ATC on July, 7, 2022.)
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Skateboarding is more than just a way of life for Reese Nelson, it’s all she’s ever known.
The 10-year-old Canadian can’t remember when she first started skating or when she first dropped into a halfpipe, it’s just been omnipresent.
Given that, it’s no surprise she has caught the attention of skateboarding great Tony Hawk.
Nelson, from Calgary, Alberta, will be competing in the women’s vert and the best trick events at the upcoming X-Games. Skating in the women’s vert is especially important for Nelson, because that event hasn’t been held at the X-Games since 2010, three years before she was born.
“It’s really exciting,” Nelson told The Canadian Press from Carlsbad, California. “I’m excited for everybody to see what women can do on vert.”
Hawk, who has become a mentor and coach for Nelson, created his Vert Alert event in 2021 to try and promote the sport that made him an internationally renowned star. He made sure his tour has men’s and women’s events to help re-establish vert skateboarding for women.
“They’re not seeing the bigger picture or looking further beyond like specific events,” Hawk said about the omission of women’s vert from other competitions. “There is a thriving skate scene of women that do skate vert. A lot of them also skate park and vert but now there are a select few that are focusing strictly on vert and thriving.”
Nelson is one of them.
She placed third in the women’s vert final this year at Vert Alert and won the women’s best trick event to clinch a spot at the X-Games in Ventura, California, on July 21-23.
Winning at Vert Alert also introduced Nelson to Hawk. She said she didn’t understand what a big deal he is in the skateboarding world at first.
“Not until the first time we went out and everybody went crazy about him being there,” Nelson said with a laugh. “I mean, it’s just normal for me, because we skate together a lot. When we do skate together, he has helped me on a lot of tricks.”
Hawk said that it’s been a pleasure coaching Nelson, who is very determined when she wants to nail a trick.
“She knows what she wants, she knows what she wants to do, and there is no compromise,” said Hawk with a chuckle.
Getting coached by Hawk is a big deal to Nelson’s parents as well.
“It’s so great to watch Reese doing what she loves,” said her mother, Lindsey Bedier. “She’s this happy 10-year-old who just happens to be super motivated and in love with skateboarding and I think her life is strange and crazy but for her, it’s just normal. These are her spaces. It’s very strange for us, but very normal for her.”
Hawk said that Nelson is a natural on a board and has immediately fit into the world of competitive skateboarding. He’s impressed with how far she has come in the past two years.
“In terms of difficulty factor, she’s on par with some of the best,” said Hawk. “It’s not a great surprise to me (that she’s qualified for the X-Games), but I’m super proud of her.
“I just hope that she doesn’t feel too much pressure about it. I hope she enjoys the ride and the opportunity as opposed to feeling like she has to perform to her utmost.”
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Twenty-Fifth Consecutive Period of Record Revenue
TUCSON, Ariz., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AudioEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEYE), an industry-leading SaaS accessibility platform delivering website accessibility compliance to businesses of all sizes, reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
"AudioEye had a great first quarter of 2022, with revenues continuing to accelerate from Q4 2021 due to both organic growth and the acquisition of the Bureau of Internet Accessibility in March 2022. We are pleased to report revenue exceeded the guidance range provided," said AudioEye CEO David Moradi.
First Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- Total revenue increased approximately 19% to a record $6.9M from $5.8M in the same prior year period.
- Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of March 31, 2022, increased 22% to $28.1M from $23.0M as of March 31, 2021.
- Gross profit increased to a record $5.2M (75.2% of total revenue) from $4.4M (76.6% of total revenue) in the same prior year period. The increase in gross profit was primarily due to continued recurring revenue growth and continued improvement in automation in product offerings.
- Total operating expenses increased 22% to $8.8M from $7.2M in the same prior year period. The increase in operating expenses was due primarily to increases in sales and marketing and research and development as the Company continues to build a best-in-class product offering.
- Net loss available to common stockholders was $3.6M, or $(0.32) per share, compared to $2.8M, or $(0.27) per share, in the same prior year period. The greater net loss was primarily due to the increase in operating expenses discussed above.
- Non-GAAP net loss in Q1 2022 was $1.4M, or $(0.12) per share, compared to $0.7M, or $(0.07) per share in the same prior year period. The non-GAAP net loss and EPS performance reflects adjustments primarily for stock-based compensation expense, litigation expense and acquisition-related costs.
- On March 31, 2022, the Company had $12.0M in cash, compared to $19.0M on December 31, 2021. The decrease in cash was primarily driven by the $5 million initial payment made for the acquisition of Bureau of Internet Accessibility ("BOIA"), litigation expense and other general operating expenses.
Other Updates
- On March 9, 2022, the Company acquired the Bureau of Internet Accessibility, a leading automated testing platform combined with a seamless guide for website owners and developers to fix accessibility issues at the source.
- In January 2022, AudioEye appointed David Moradi as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Moradi had served as Interim CEO of AudioEye for the prior 18 months.
- Customer count was 74,000 as of March 31, 2022, compared to 68,000 as of March 31, 2021. The customer count decreased from December 31, 2021, due to an ongoing negotiation with a digital agency upgrading from a basic tier to a more advanced offering. Excluding the impact from this digital agency, the Company's customer count grew sequentially.
- AudioEye released the first-of-its-kind white paper for the accessibility industry titled "Building for Digital Accessibility at Scale," outlining the state of accessibility and the company's innovative approach to closing the web accessibility gap.
Financial Outlook
The Company expects revenue to be between $7.4 and $7.6 million in the second quarter of 2022, representing 25% year-over-year growth at the midpoint.
Conference Call Information
AudioEye management will hold a conference call today, May 5, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss these results, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time)
U.S. dial-in number: 877-545-0320
International number: 973-528-0002
Access code: 278583
Please call the conference telephone number 5-10 minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization. If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact MZ Group at 561-489-5315.
The conference call will also be webcast live and available for replay, which will be accessible via the investor relations section of the company's website. The audio recording will remain available via the investor relations section of the company's website for 90 days.
A telephonic replay of the conference call will also be available after 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on the same day through May 19, 2022.
Toll-free replay number: 877-481-4010
International replay number: 919-882-2331
Replay passcode: 45396
About AudioEye
AudioEye is an industry-leading digital accessibility platform delivering ADA and WCAG compliance at scale. By combining easy-to-use technology and subject matter expertise, AudioEye helps companies and content creators solve every aspect of web accessibility - from finding and resolving issues to navigating legal compliance, to ongoing monitoring and upkeep. Trusted by the FCC, ADP, SSA, Samsung, and others, AudioEye delivers automated remediations and continuous monitoring for accessibility issues without making fundamental changes to website architecture, source code, or browser-based tools. Join us on our mission to eradicate barriers to digital access, visit www.audioeye.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements in this press release about AudioEye's expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, prospects, financial condition, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as "believe", "anticipate", "should", "confident", "intend", "plan", "will", "expects", "estimates", "projects", "positioned", "strategy", "outlook" and similar words. You should read the statements that contain these types of words carefully. Such forward-looking statements contained herein include, but are not limited to, statements regarding anticipated contributions from new sales channels, long-term growth prospects, opportunities in the digital accessibility industry, our revenue and ARR guidance, and our expectation of investments in marketing and sales. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from what is expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements, including the variability of AudioEye's revenue and financial performance; risks associated with our new platform, sales channels and BOIA offerings; product development and technological changes; the acceptance of AudioEye's products in the marketplace by existing and potential future customers; competition; inherent uncertainties and costs associated with litigation; general economic conditions; and uncertainties regarding the impact on our business and the overall economy from the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. These and other risks are described more fully in AudioEye's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including AudioEye's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 11, 2022, and in subsequent filings with the SEC. There may be events in the future that AudioEye is not able to predict accurately or over which AudioEye has no control. Forward-looking statements reflect management's view as of the date of this press release, and AudioEye urges you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. AudioEye does not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements to reflect events or uncertainties after the date hereof. Due to rounding, numbers presented throughout this document may not add up precisely to the totals provided and percentages may not precisely reflect the absolute figures.
About Key Operating Metrics
We consider annual recurring revenue ("ARR") as a key operating metric and a key indicator of our overall business. We also use ARR as (i) one of the primary methods for planning and forecasting overall expectations and for evaluating, on at least a quarterly and annual basis, actual results against such expectations; and (ii) as a performance metric for certain executive stock-based compensation awards.
We manage customers through two primary channels, Enterprise and Partner and Marketplace. Enterprise channel consists of our larger customers and organizations, including those with non-platform custom websites, who generally engage directly with AudioEye sales personnel for custom pricing and solutions. This channel also includes federal, state and local government agencies. The Partner and Marketplace channel consists of our CMS partners, platform & agency partners, authorized resellers and our marketplace. This channel serves small and medium sized businesses who are on a partner or reseller's web-hosting platform or who purchase an AudioEye solution from our marketplace.
We define ARR as the sum of (i) for our Enterprise channel, the total of the average annual recurring fee amount under each active paid contract at the date of determination, plus (ii) for our Partner and Marketplace channel, the recognized monthly fee amount for all paying customers at the date of determination, in each case, assuming no changes to the subscription, multiplied by 12 months. This determination includes both annual and monthly contracts for recurring products. Some of our contracts are cancelable, which may impact future ARR. ARR excludes revenue from our PDF remediation services business, Mobile App report business and other report delivery services.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
From time to time, we review adjusted financial measures that assist us in comparing our operating performance consistently over time, as such measures remove the impact of certain items, as applicable, such as our capital structure (primarily interest charges), items outside the control of the management team (taxes), and expenses that do not relate to our core operations, including acquisition and litigation-related expenses and other costs that are expected to be non-recurring. In order to provide investors with greater insight and allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the information used in our financial and operational decision-making, the Company has supplemented the financial statements presented on a GAAP basis in this press release with the following non-GAAP financial measures: Non-GAAP earnings (loss) and Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share.
These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of Company results as reported under GAAP. The Company compensates for such limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using non-GAAP financial measures only as supplemental data. We also provide a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures used. Investors are encouraged to carefully review this reconciliation. In addition, because these non-GAAP measures are not measures of financial performance under GAAP and are susceptible to varying calculations, these measures, as defined by us, may differ from and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
We define: (i) Non-GAAP earnings (loss) as net income (loss), plus interest expense, plus stock-based compensation expense, plus certain litigation expense, plus certain acquisition expense, plus loss on impairment of long-lived assets, and plus loss on disposal of property and equipment; and (ii) Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share as net income (loss) per diluted common share, plus interest expense, plus stock-based compensation expense, plus certain litigation expense, plus certain acquisition expense, plus loss on impairment of long-lived assets, and plus loss on disposal of property and equipment, each on a per share basis. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share would include incremental shares in the share count that are considered anti-dilutive in a GAAP net loss position. However, no incremental shares apply when there is a Non-GAAP loss per diluted share, as is the case for the periods presented in this press release.
Non-GAAP earnings (loss) and Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share are used to facilitate a comparison of our operating performance on a consistent basis from period to period and provide for a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business than GAAP measures alone. All of the items adjusted in the Non-GAAP earnings (loss) to net loss and the related per share calculations are either recurring non-cash items, or items that management does not consider in assessing our on-going operating performance. In the case of the non-cash items, such as stock-based compensation expense, management believes that investors may find it useful to assess our comparative operating performance because the measures without such items are expected to be less susceptible to variances in actual performance resulting from expenses that do not relate to our core operations and are more reflective of other factors that affect operating performance. In the case of items that do not relate to our core operations, management believes that investors may find it useful to assess our operating performance if the measures are presented without these items because their financial impact does not reflect ongoing operating performance.
Non-GAAP earnings (loss) is not a measure of liquidity under GAAP, or otherwise, and is not an alternative to cash flow from continuing operating activities, despite the advantages regarding the use and analysis of these measures as mentioned above. Non-GAAP earnings (loss) and Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share, as disclosed in this press release, have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider these measures in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP; nor are these measures intended to be measures of liquidity or free cash flow for our discretionary use.
To properly and prudently evaluate our business, we encourage readers to review the GAAP financial statements included in this press release, and not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. Reconciliations of Non-GAAP earnings (loss) to net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP-based measure, as well as Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per diluted share to net loss per diluted share, the most directly comparable GAAP-based measure, are included in this press release. We strongly urge readers to review these reconciliations, along with the consolidated financial statements included in this press release.
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AudioEye, Inc.
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(NEXSTAR) – The BA.2 subvariant of omicron is driving another increase in COVID-19 cases in the United States. The number of new cases being reported every day is up 61% over the past two weeks, according to data analysis by the New York Times.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks community transmission county-by-county. Its most recent map shows more U.S. counties moving into the “high” transmission category, seen in red on the map below.
“High” transmission is defined as a county reporting more than 100 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over the past week, or reporting a higher than 10% test positivity rate. About half of all U.S. counties – 49.57% to be exact – are in the “high” category, according to the CDC.
The CDC map shows community transmission is currently highest along the coasts, as well as in the upper Midwest – though there are pockets of red in every state.
The agency also tracks the severity of the pandemic by looking at hospital admissions and the number of hospital beds used by COVID-19 patients. The map below shows hospitals in the Northeast are seeing the most COVID patients.
Hospitalizations are considered a “lagging indicator” of coronavirus spread. Hospital admissions tend to spike about 10 to 14 days after we see a spike in new cases.
We can get an earlier idea of how much virus is spreading in our communities by doing wastewater surveillance. The coronavirus can be detected in wastewater even if people aren’t going to testing sites or reporting their cases to the local health authority.
But not every city and county does wastewater surveillance. The CDC has current data from about 700 places around the country. Check if your city is showing a spike on the CDC’s website.
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EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) — Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells, Spain’s second city now relies upon a labyrinth-like mesh of green, blue and purple pipes inside an industrial plant to keep it from going thirsty amid a prolonged drought.
Water is pumped from two kilometers (1.2 miles) into the Mediterranean Sea to where the Llobregat desalination plant sits on an isolated stretch of beach. After journeying through several cleaning and filtering systems it reaches its final stop: the twisting and turning multi-colored channels that squeeze every drop of water free of its salt.
Barely used after being built in 2009, Europe’s largest desalination plant for drinking water is running at full throttle to help the greater Barcelona area and some five million people adapt to the impact of climate change, which has contributed to the drying up of southern Europe’s fresh water reserves through heat waves and drought.
In April 2021, before the drought, rivers provided 63% of Barcelona’s drinking water, wells provided 34% and desalination just 3%. Two years later desalination makes up 33% of Barcelona’s drinking water, while wells provide 23% and its shrinking rivers just 19%, according to Barcelona’s municipal water company.
With the reservoirs fed by Catalonia’s northern river basins at just 25% capacity, limits have been placed on the amount of water available for agriculture, industry and some municipal uses. But authorities have not had to take drastic action like during the 2006-2008 drought when tanker vessels shipped in drinking water.
“We knew that sooner or later a drought would come,” Carlos Miguel, plant manager, told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the Llobregat plant.
“As long as the drought continues the plant will keep running. That is clear.”
While the building of the Llobregat plant is the result of authorities heeding warnings from climate experts and planning ahead, it comes at high economic and environmental costs.
In the desalination process at the Llobregat plant, for every 0.45 liters of fresh water, around 0.55 liters of extremely salty brine is produced as waste. The reverse osmosis process, where high pressure forces seawater through membranes which separates the salt, also requires a lot of energy that doesn’t yet come entirely from renewable energy sources.
The Mediterranean region is heating up at a faster rate than many other areas of the globe, leading to a record-hot 2022 in Spain and a widespread drought that is hurting agriculture. The lack of water is particularly acute in northeast Catalonia, whose water agency forecasts that its water resources will shrink by 18% before 2050.
Water authorities predict that the Barcelona area is heading for an official “drought emergency”, which will imply tighter restrictions, by September.
“We forecast that for the rest of May rainfall will be above average, but that does not make up for 32 months of drought,” Samuel Reyes, head of the Catalan Water Agency, said recently.
Desalination has formed a key part of Spain’s water policy for over half a century. The island of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands archipelago installed Europe’s first desalination plant back in 1964, and the industry has kept growing in the southern European country prone to long, dry summers. The development and spread of the reverse osmosis technique in the 1980s and 90s, along with reduced costs, led to its buildout across many areas of mainland Spain.
Spain is now fourth in the world for its desalination capacity, about 5% of the global total, behind Saudi Arabia, the United States and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Spanish Association of Desalination and Water Re-utilization. Desalination capacity has steadily gone up worldwide in the past decade, with the technology seeing a bigger uptick in Europe and Africa.
Spain has some 800 desalination plants that can produce 5 million cubic liters a day of water for drinking, agriculture, and industry. If that were dedicated solely for human consumption, it would quench the thirst of 34 million people — over 70% of Spain’s population.
As part of a 2.2-billion euro ($2.4-billion) drought response package, Spain’s national government said this week that it was setting aside 220 million euros ($238 million) to expand another desalination plant north of Barcelona, plus another 200 million euros ($216 million) for a plant on Spain’s southern coast. It also pledged to spend 224 million euros ($242 million) on improving water purification systems in southern Spain.
This small miracle of scientific innovation, however, includes even more costs.
According to the public company that runs the Llobregat plant, a thousand liters of desalinated water costs 0.70 euros to produce, compared to 0.20 euros for the same quantity of water pulled from the Llobregat river and purified for drinking. That means a heavier tax burden and, possibly, higher water bills.
Xavier Sánchez-Vila, professor of civil engineering and groundwater expert for the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, said that while desalination plants like the one in Barcelona have provided a lifeline in a time of crisis, authorities should continue to diversify their strategies and focus on improving water purification and reuse.
“Of course, with climate change we know that droughts are going to be more frequent and therefore there is this need (for desalination),” he said. “But in economic terms, I am not completely sure whether it makes sense to keep building them. A few more maybe, but knowing that these are a really expensive solution.”
Instead, Sánchez-Vila applauds the boost in Barcelona’s use of treated sewage water in a separate treatment plant sitting next to the Llobregat desalination facility. This treated water that is reintroduced upstream and then available to be pulled back into the city’s supply now accounts for 25% of Barcelona’s water.
The more pressing problem for the planet is the energy-intensive processes involved in desalination.
Spain generated 42% of its electricity from renewable energy sources in 2022 and it hopes to reach 50% this year, but it still uses large amounts of planet-warming natural gas. The electricity generated by the solar panels on the Llobregat plant goes into the electrical grid, not directly to the site’s operations.
Julio Barea, water expert for Greenpeace in Spain, insists that desalination is not a panacea.
Barea cited the steady increase of water use in Spain over past decades to support two of the country’s economic pillars: agriculture and tourism. Some 80% of Spain’s water goes to agriculture, Greenpeace calculates, while coastal areas including Barcelona are huge tourist magnets, many offering hotels with swimming pools that need filling. Soon-to-be implemented water restrictions in Catalonia will prohibit the filling of private pools, while hotels will still be able to fill theirs.
And then there is the impact of dumping the brine waste product into the sea, where its super salty load can hurt the ecosystem.
“(Authorities) have to provide drinking water for people, but desalination plants have an impact because they are essentially water factories that need a lot of energy,“ Barea said. “It should be a last resource, and we should ask ourselves how we have gotten into this situation.”
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Gayle interviews international stars and friends on hot topics and past performances while interacting live with his audience
NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Iconic international cricket star Chris Gayle has partnered with Group 33 to create a new talk show with global reach. The Chris Gayle Universe show will pair one of the most celebrated cricketers with a music, movie, and sports stars from around the world.
Gayle welcomes some of his popular friends to The Chris Gayle Universe, a space to discuss hot topics and relive some of the sport's most iconic performances. The program will be driven by one-on-one conversations with Gayle and his guests.
Widely regarded as one of the game's best strikers in the sport, Gayle holds multiple records across all formats of the game. A two time world Cup winning player Gayle is opening this new chapter of his career by engaging with his long serving supporters.
"This show fulfills my desire to interact with my supporters directly, "Gayle said. "This is a great opportunity to control when and how I interact with my fans and guests. This is my chance to thank the people who have supported me throughout my career, gain some new fans and also take people behind the curtain of life. This show will also have never before told stories and gives viewers a chance to meet me and some of their personal heroes."
The Chris Gayle Universe is a partnership between Chris Gayle, New York based media company Group 33 and strategy company M Style Marketing. Group 33 known for its award-winning series TdUp Golf with Twitch that paired celebrities playing golf with golf pros and legends for a virtual / simulator golf series.
"We look forward to working with Chris to bring this engaging show to his fans as well providing great content. Chris is beloved through the cricket world and his guests extend beyond sports into famed entertainers, musicians and celebrities. With his constant travels, the Chris Gayle Universe will take viewers around the world to new sights and places" Rob Striar Group 33 Chief Executive Officer.
Gayle has selected a star-studded list of guests from sport, entertainment and media for the first ten weeks of the show.
The Chris Gayle Universe will be announcing its broadcast platform and sponsorship partners shortly.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A bill to let Danish offshore wind energy developer Orsted keep tax credits that it otherwise would have to return to New Jersey ratepayers was approved by the slimmest of margins in the state Legislature Friday afternoon and went to the desk of Gov. Phil Murphy, a strong supporter of offshore wind farms.
The measure initially failed to gather enough support in the Senate but won one additional vote in a subsequent try — just enough to pass it.
The bill to allow Orsted to keep federal tax credits was designed to help counter what lawmakers termed lingering economic effects on the developer from the COVID-19 pandemic and elevated inflation.
It applies to Orsted’s first project in New Jersey, Ocean Wind I, which aims to generate enough electricity to power 500,000 homes.
The New Jersey legislation highlighted a sharp partisan divide over offshore wind projects, with Republicans mostly opposing them as harmful to the environment, marine life and the fishing and tourism industries, and Democrats supporting them as crucial to moving away from the burning of fossil fuels that is contributing to a warming climate.
“When Orsted received approval to build Ocean Wind 1, they agreed to apply for and return to ratepayers any federal tax incentives that might become available to offset the higher costs that ratepayers are paying today for the development of wind energy,” said Sen. Edward Durr, a Republican. “Despite the deal they signed, Orsted is realizing that wind farm projects don’t make economic sense without major government subsidies, so now they’re looking for a huge handout at the expense of New Jersey utility customers. We shouldn’t give it to them.”
Amendments added to the bill earlier this week require Orsted to post a $200 million guarantee with the state and prepare a report on the financial viability, possible environmental impacts and likelihood of finishing the project on time.
Orsted estimates the value of the credit would be 20 cents per month, or $2.40 per year per ratepayer, but did not estimate the company’s total anticipated benefit. Durr put it at up to $1 billion.
The federal 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is “designed to further spur investment in the American clean energy economy in the face of continuing macroeconomic challenges,” according to the bill, which was sponsored by Sen. Bob Smith, a Democrat from Middlesex County.
Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald, a Democrat, said the wind farms will create jobs for skilled trades workers and would not be as visible as many people fear, being located 15 miles (24 kilometers) offshore.
Republican Assemblyman Erik Peterson rejected that assertion, saying the wind turbines “are as high as the casinos in Atlantic City, and you can see the casinos in Atlantic City from Beach Haven, which is 15 miles away.”
“You can see them all day long,” he said. “You will see these wind turbines out in the ocean as you sit in your chair on the beach. We live in a state where people complain about dunes blocking their views.”
Democratic Assemblyman John McKeon said the sight of distant windmills 15 miles away won’t harm tourism, citing “the tens of thousands of cars on the Parkway and the Turnpike as we speak” that are headed to the Jersey Shore for the holiday weekend. He said those vacationers will continue to come to the shore with or without wind turbines on the horizon.
Republican Assemblywoman Victoria Flynn said if Orsted’s project were really a good deal, it would not require additional financial incentives.
“The mere fact that this measure is in front of us demonstrates that the project is not financially viable,” she said.
Earlier this week, the state’s Ratepayer Advocate warned lawmakers against approving the bill, saying it will increase costs for electricity customers while further enriching Orsted.
David Pringle of Clean Water Action praised the bill.
“This bill puts offshore wind on a fairer playing field with the nuke and fossil fuel industries, which we keep throwing billions at,” he said.
Orsted is the only company that would benefit from the bill, which applies to the first of two offshore wind projects Orsted plans for the waters off New Jersey. A third approved project, Atlantic Shores, is a joint venture between EDF Renewables North America and Shell New Energies US, but does not qualify under the state bill.
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On Tuesday at 3 p.m., Former President Donald Trump will be arraigned in front of a judge on 37 federal charges. He was federally indicted last week on 37 counts, the majority of which are alleged violations of the Espionage Act.
He is accused of obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information and of storing classified documents at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.
In the run up to the arraignment, Trump has called the Justice Department special counsel who filed the case, calling Jack Smith “deranged” and repeated without any evidence his claims that he was the target of a political persecution.
Trump’s Tuesday afternoon appearance in Miami will mark the second time since April facing a judge on criminal charges.
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LONDON – American and British boxing officials are among the leaders of a breakaway group launched Thursday with the aim of saving boxing's place at the Olympics.
The new federation, to be called World Boxing, is a rival to the 77-year-old International Boxing Association, which has been suspended from organizing the sport at the Olympics amid longstanding concerns about fair judging and the IBA's ties to Russia.
“Amateur, Olympic-style boxing was facing elimination from the Olympic Games," said USA Boxing president Tyson Lee, who is on the interim board of the new organization. "I can speak for the United States and many other national federations. We have a vested interest in maintaining a pathway to the Olympic movement and somewhere along the line that turned out to not be a priority for IBA.”
World Boxing will be based in Switzerland and have a board consisting of athletes and officials, including Lee and GB Boxing chief executive Matthew Holt. Lauren Price of Britain, a gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. of the United States are on the board as athlete representatives.
Elections for a president and a new board are planned for November.
“This is about the future of the sport," Holt said. "Our status on the Olympic program is on life support and we, as an organization, need to breathe new life into it. We want to operate in the best interests of the boxers."
A standoff between the IBA and the International Olympic Committee meant boxing was left off the initial program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Boxing is part of next year's Paris Olympics, but it will be organized by the IOC.
The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 after years of concerns about its finances, governance and claims that fights at the 2016 Olympics were manipulated. Current IBA president Umar Kremlev took over in 2020, bringing financial backing from Russian state gas company Gazprom.
The IOC wants Russians to compete as neutral athletes in Olympic sports following the invasion of Ukraine, but Kremlev's IBA has allowed them to fight at the world championships with national flags and anthems, drawing another rebuke from the IOC.
The United States and Britain were among more than 10 countries that announced boycotts of the recent women's world championships and upcoming men's world championships because of Russia's position and wider concerns about the IBA. Kremlev said officials who backed a boycott were “worse than hyenas and jackals.”
World Boxing interim secretary general Simon Toulson said the new organization was operating with a budget of 900,000 euros ($994,000) this year, without naming any specific funding sources. That's a small fraction of the resources at the IBA, which offers up to $200,000 for gold medalists at the traditionally amateur men's world championships and $100,000 at the women's world championships.
The new organization says it is reaching out to national boxing bodies around the world but is not taking on members yet. None of the national bodies whose members are involved have quit the IBA, they said.
Toulson added that “we’ve had no contact with the IOC regarding the setting up of this organization” but hoped to soon. The IOC told The Associated Press in a statement that it “takes note of the latest developments.”
The World Boxing board also includes Dutch official Boris van der Vorst, who challenged Kremlev for the IBA presidency last year but was barred from the vote for “prohibited collaboration” in his campaign. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that it had been wrong to bar him, but no new vote was held.
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(NEXSTAR) – Tax season is upon us again, with less than 80 days until tax returns are due. If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, that means you still have time to take advantage of some commonly overlooked credits and deductions.
As the IRS explains, deductions will reduce the amount of your income before you determine the taxes you owe, and credits can cut the amount of taxes you owe or increase your refund.
While deductions and credits can be helpful, they don’t always have a large impact on your refund (which is expected to be smaller this year).
“There’s no silver bullet,” Mark Steber, chief tax information officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, tells Nexstar. Deductions and credits may result in a couple extra hundred dollars in your pocket, but not thousands.
Deductions
Self-employment
If you’re self-employed, there are a handful of deductions you can take advantage of, Steber says. For example, if you drive for a rideshare company, you can deduct not only the mileage put on your car but expenses for registering it, servicing, oil changes, gas, and tire maintenance.
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If you work from home, you may also be able to deduct certain expenses, according to the IRS.
Medical and dental expenses
You can deduct medical or dental expenses you paid for yourself, your spouse, and your dependents if the amount of your total medical expenses exceeds 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, the IRS reports.
Teachers’ expenses
If you’re a teacher, you can deduct up to $250 on any unreimbursed expenses for classroom materials like books, supplies, computers, or other equipment used in your classroom.
Education
There are roughly a dozen tax breaks related to education, according to Steber. One of the most common is a deduction for the amount of interest you’ve paid on your student loans. According to the IRS, you can deduct up to $2,500.
Credits
Earned Income Tax Credit
According to IRS data, one in five taxpayers overlook this credit every year, Steber says. EITC is aimed at low- to moderate-income workers that meet multiple qualifications.
Education
While there are roughly a dozen tax breaks related to education (including those mentioned above), Steber highlights two: the American Opportunity Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit. You can determine if you qualify for either on the IRS’s website.
Adoption
Qualified adoption expenses may make you eligible for a tax credit and an exclusion from income for employer-provided adoption assistance. According to the IRS, expenses include reasonable and necessary adoption fees; court costs and attorney fees; travel expenses; and other expenses directly related to adopting an eligible child. More details can be found here.
Electric vehicle owners
If you purchased a qualifying electric vehicle in 2022 or 2023, the new version of the EV tax credit maxes out at $7,500. Vehicles bought before 2022 can still be claimed under the old credit if you file an amended tax return for the year of purchase.
Don’t qualify for any of these tax breaks? All hope isn’t lost. Steber recommends checking credits and deductions from your state, calling them “a cornucopia of opportunity.” Your state may offer enhanced earned income credit, or other localized tax breaks that could benefit you.
“The tax code is big, it’s complicated,” Steber says. “There’s some downside to that, it makes taxes hard. The upside is there’s a variety of tax benefits, none of which are a magic bullet to add $5,000 to your tax return, but there’s a lot of $500, smaller bullets in there that can add up both at one time or over time to a significant tax benefit and a significant reduction in your overall tax lifetime liability.”
The tax filing deadline falls on April 18 this year for two reasons: April 15 is on a Saturday, and the District of Columbia’s Emancipation Day holiday falls on April 17, the IRS announced last week.
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(The Hill) — The class of 2023 has walked the stage for the last time.
As millions of students and their families celebrate, universities have as usual brought in some huge names to bid farewell to their graduates, ranging from Hollywood to the White House, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving the first West Point commencement speech by a woman.
Here are some of the best quotes from this year’s commencement addresses:
President Joe Biden at the Air Force Academy
President Joe Biden speaks Thursday during the 2023 United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“When people around the world see a United States gray tail flying overhead, or the stars and stripes on your shoulders, they know what that means no matter where you go: freedom, opportunity, possibilities, hope.”
“When I was graduating from high school 300 years ago, I applied to the Naval Academy. And I was picked by the senator — there’s two ways senators can pick. You can pick individually, or they can name 10 people and let the academy choose. And I was a relatively good football player, so I had a shot.”
“And I remember the day that a guy name Steve Dunning, from my class, was also nominated. We drove up. It was about 7:00 in the morning. We were going to drive down to Annapolis. And I had just heard the night before: They had a halfback named Joe Bellino, won the Heisman Trophy, and a quarterback named Roger Staubach. I went to Delaware.” June 1
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) at Colorado College
“America cannot remain a free nation if we abandon the truth. So as you go out to change the world, resolve that you will stand in truth.” May 28
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) at George Mason University
“As you close this chapter of your lives and start to write the next, you will have choices ahead of you, some easy and some that will rock you to your core. Will you blaze new paths? Will you stand strong in the face of criticism and adversity? Will you inspire friends, family, community, nation in the world around you to be better than before? Will you create the new, accelerate the next, grow the needed? Will you be a builder?” May 18
Oprah Winfrey at Tennessee State University
Oprah Winfrey delivers the commencement address during the Tennessee State University graduation ceremony in Nashville. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
“Life is always talking to us and this is what I do know. When you tap into what it’s trying to tell you, when you get yourself quiet enough to listen, I mean really listen, you can distill the still small voice, which is always representing the truth of you from the voice of the world.” May 6
Tom Hanks at Harvard University
Actor Tom Hanks examines a ball as part of a spoof during Harvard University commencement exercises on the school’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. Hanks was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts during the ceremonies. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
“Now, without having done a lick of work, without having spent any time in class, without once walking into that library, in order to have anything to do with the graduating class of Harvard, its faculty, or its distinguished alumni, I make a damn good living playing someone who did.”
“For every graduating class, there is a choice to be made. It’s the same option for all grown-ups who have to decide to be one of three types of Americans: those who embrace liberty and freedom for all, those who won’t, or those who are indifferent. Only the first do the work of creating a more perfect union. A nation indivisible. The others get in the way.” May 25
Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger at Carnegie Mellon University
“As we embark on the next phase of this wonderful journey of life, you are the superheroes who will embrace these superpowers as the basis for innovations we cannot even begin to imagine yet. Join me in shaping them as a force for good, improving the lives of every single human on the planet through the magic of silicon and digitization. When technology is a force for good, it truly is magic.” May 14
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) at Bard College
“It is our hope that you will go into the world, and that with head and heart and ready hands, you will get yourself ready for service. The village has been preparing you. The village has been helping to build the boat. But as you set sail, as you leave this place, don’t forget about the people who helped to get you ready.” May 27
NCAA President and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) at Bentley University
“Every hand will come with surprises and disappointment. Yours will, too. Who will play that hand with you? It’s one of the biggest and most important choices of all that you will make.” May 20
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Rice University
“The world is malleable and we are the ones with the power to transform it but only, but only, if we are willing to take the chance. Hoping for more is not naive. Don’t let anyone tell you that. It is brave. We choose to hope. We aren’t ignorant of all the obstacles in our way. We are simply choosing to say, ‘I know the road ahead will be long so I better start the walking’ because hope is action.” May 6
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Naval Academy
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin delivers remarks during the U.S. Naval Academy Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony in Annapolis, Md. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“But the American flag, atop a U.S. Navy ship, has long been a symbol of hope for a more free and secure world. So graduates, you will deploy forward, you will travel the globe to defend our democracy, and you will learn that the lifeblood of the rules-based international order is actually sea water.” May 26
‘NBC Nightly News’ anchor Lester Holt at Villanova University
“Sometimes we just need your reasoning, your sober thinking, thoughts born of learning and real experience that elevate our problem-solving. And know that not everything requires an instant, immediate response. Take a chance. Learn to pause, to be silent, to pick your moment based on knowledge and full understanding. Foster inform debate.” May 19
Vice President Harris at the United States Military Academy at West Point
Vice President Harris arrives to deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s 141st Commencement Exercises in New London, Conn. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn)
“And let us also be clear: The power of America’s military not only rests on our technology, our weaponry, our hardware. It rests on the character and the resolve of our people. America has no greater resource, no greater strategic asset than the men and women who wear our uniform. Our soldiers are the best trained and most prepared in the world; the most effective, most cohesive, and most lethal warriors in the world. And as officers, you are about to be granted one of the greatest privileges and most sacred duties that our nation can bestow: to lead American service members.” May 27
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) at Oral Roberts University
“And I want to let you in on something. There’s going to be storms in your life. There’s going to be challenges and we have the ability to choose how we respond to those storms. God doesn’t call us to lean on a shovel and pray for a hole. He wants us to get to work.” May 6 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/oh-the-places-they-went-top-quotes-from-this-years-commencement-addresses/ | 2023-06-06 17:26:15 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/oh-the-places-they-went-top-quotes-from-this-years-commencement-addresses/ |
POTOMAC, Md., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Curbio, Inc., the leading fix now, pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents, has been named a finalist in Maryland Tech Council's (MTC) 2023 ICON Awards in the Technology Company of the Year category. The award is part of the MTC's annual Industry Awards Celebration, an event honoring individuals and companies in the life sciences, technology, and government contracting industries that have made a significant impact in their respective fields.
Curbio is a groundbreaking PropTech company that has set out to transform the way that real estate agents and their clients get listings ready for market. Powered by technology, Curbio streamlines the pre-listing home improvement process from start to finish, allowing the company to complete pre-listing home improvement projects of any size quickly and reliably. With Curbio, realtors and their clients can update homes to sell for more, without the hassle of traditional home improvement.
"Curbio is excited to be selected as a finalist for Technology Company of the Year by the MTC. This has been a big year for Curbio as we continue to grow- expanding into new markets and launching new technologies like the Curbio mobile app to help realtors win listings and sell them for top dollar. We are honored to be recognized for our work as we continue to set the new standard in pre-sale home improvement," said Olivia Mariani, Chief Marketing Officer at Curbio.
The winners of the MTC's 2023 ICON Awards will be announced live on April 27th at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Learn more about the event on MTC's website.
For more information on Curbio, visit www.Curbio.com.
About Curbio
Curbio is on a mission to help real estate agents fix and update homes before they go on the market, so they sell quickly and for the best price, with zero payment due until closing. Founded in 2017, Curbio has quickly become the largest national home improvement company dedicated to pre-listing repairs, updates, and renovations. Curbio has modernized home improvement with an easy-to-use app that accelerates project timelines by 50%, while removing the delays, uncertainties and other frustrations that have plagued home improvement for decades. Their rapid time to listing, coupled with a turn-key approach and project ROI expertise, has made Curbio the most trusted fix first, pay-at-closing home improvement partner to thousands of realtors and brokerages nationwide, including eXp realty, RE/MAX, HomeServices of America, Long & Foster, @properties and many more.
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The Ravens are field goal favorites over the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of their game Sunday night in Baltimore, according to Las Vegas sportsbooks.
The Ravens (10-5), who clinched a playoff berth Saturday with a win over the Atlanta Falcons and a loss by the New England Patriots, are favored by 3 1/2 points in their New Year’s Day meeting. The Steelers (7-8) rallied late to beat the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday, their fourth win in the past five weeks, and keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
The Ravens edged Pittsburgh at Acrisure Stadium in Week 14, 16-14, in a game notable for its quarterback absences. Lamar Jackson missed the game with a knee injury suffered the week before, and still has not returned to practice. The Steelers played most of the game without rookie starter Kenny Pickett, who entered concussion protocol in the first quarter.
If the betting line holds, the Ravens would be home favorites against Pittsburgh for the third straight year. They lost as three-point favorites in 2021 and as four-point home favorites in 2020. The Ravens are just 1-5-1 against the spread this season at M&T Bank Stadium.
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The Steelers lead the all-time series 32-25, their record bolstered by series sweeps in 2020 and 2021. The Ravens swept Pittsburgh in 2019.
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Updated May 21, 2022 at 10:13 PM ET
Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn't have a siren system to warn people about hazardous weather.
The town of 4,200 turned to cleanup Saturday, a day after a tornado with 140 mph winds pummeled Gaylord, killing two people, injuring more than 40 and shocking residents who are more familiar with snowstorms than spring windstorms.
A utility reported much progress in restoring electricity, though thousands still lacked power. Some roads remained clogged with downed poles and other wreckage.
"We have a lot of debris to clear," said state police Lt. Derrick Carroll.
Two people in their 70s who lived at the Nottingham Forest mobile home park died, state police said. It was among the first sites hit by the tornado, which was rated an EF3 by the National Weather Service on a scale of 0-5.
"There have been trailers picked up and turned over on top of each other. Just a very large debris field," said Chris Martin, Otsego County fire chief. Martin said crews used heavy equipment to conduct a secondary search of the area.
He said there's "probably 95% destruction in there."
Gaylord, about 230 miles northwest of Detroit, is a popular destination for skiers and snowmobilers in the winter and golfers in the summer. It doesn't have tornado sirens, though anyone with a mobile phone got a "code red" warning from the weather service about 10 minutes before the tornado hit, Carroll said.
Video posted online showed a dark funnel cloud approaching as anxious drivers looked on or slowly drove away on area roads.
"Everyone in Michigan is going to wrap our arms around those families and everyone who is working together to recover here," Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist said during a visit.
Betty Wisniewski, 87, avoided injury even though the tornado significantly damaged her house, said son Steve Wisniewski, who lives next door.
"Luckily she was OK — rosary in hand," he said from a ladder while attaching plastic to his windows. "She was praying. Pretty amazing."
Gaylord Police Chief Frank Claeys said the immediate moments after the tornado were tough for first responders.
"We were searching in places where we knew the occupants. We were calling them out by name," Claeys said. "It's a lot more personal when our officers know the people who live in those homes."
John Boris of the weather service post in Gaylord said the tornado passed through the community in about three minutes but was on the ground in the region for 26 minutes — a "fairly long" time.
"We don't get a whole lot of tornadoes," said Boris, a science and operations officer. "In the state of Michigan, in general, we typically average about 15 or so (a year) and more of those are downstate than they are up to the north. It's pretty unusual."
Indeed, the last notable windstorm was in 1998 when 100 mph straight-line winds raked Gaylord.
Boris said warm, 80-degree air earlier Friday and strong winds moving east across Lake Michigan were key conditions producing the tornado.
A link to climate change probably doesn't fit, he said.
"It's very difficult to attribute something very specific like this to a large-scale signal like that," Boris said. "If we had these more frequently, that may be a signal."
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whether or not Boston catches the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference standings, the Celtics will have reason to feel confident if the teams meet in the playoffs for a second straight season.
Jayson Tatum scored 40 points, Jaylen Brown added 30 and the Celtics steamrolled the NBA-leading Bucks 140-99 on Thursday night. The Celtics (53-24) shot 22 of 43 from 3-point range and moved within two games of the Bucks (55-22).
“It does matter,” Brown said about the possibility of earning the No. 1 seed. “We want to finish out the season strong and see what happens.”
Boston won the season series with the Bucks 2-1, which would give the Celtics the tiebreaker if both teams finish with the same record. Boston beat the Bucks in seven games in last season’s East semifinals.
The Celtics trounced the Bucks 139-118 in Boston on Christmas Day and lost 131-125 in overtime on Feb. 14. The Celtics didn’t play Brown, Tatum, Marcus Smart or Al Horford in that overtime loss.
Boston’s players downplayed the notion that their lopsided victory would send any sort of message to the Bucks in case they meet again in the postseason. They noted the Bucks were playing for a second straight night and shot just 37.6%, well below their norms.
“This don’t really mean much,” Brown said. “If we play them again, we’ve got to be ready to take their best shot.”
The Bucks didn’t provide anything close to their best shot Thursday.
“We know what the deal is,” said Giannis Antetokounmpo, who led the Bucks with 24 points. “If you’re not focused and you don’t play hard, they are going to kick our (butt). Simple as that. There is no level of concern. It’s a fact. If we play the same way, we’ll have the same outcome. We’ve got to have some pride.”
Milwaukee took a hit on the floor as well as in the standings. Bucks forward Khris Middleton left midway through the third quarter after taking an elbow to the face from Brown, who was called for charging. Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said after the game that Middleton got “three or four stitches” on his upper lip.
Boston built a 114-74 lead through three periods, causing most of the starters for both teams to sit out the entire fourth quarter.
The Bucks were playing one night after a 149-136 victory at Indiana in which they shot a season-high 62.4% from the floor with Jrue Holiday scoring 51 points and Antetokounmpo having 38 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists. This marked the first time an NBA team had one player score at least 50 points and another have a triple-double with at least 35 points in the same game.
Milwaukee found the going quite a bit tougher Thursday.
Antetokounmpo shot just 11 of 27, including 0 for 5 from 3-point range. Holiday started his night by sinking a 3-pointer, but went 1 of 7 the rest of the way and finished with just six points.
After the first 8½ minutes of the game featured nine lead changes and five ties, the Celtics seized control by going on a 29-9 over the last seven-plus minutes. Boston capped that spurt by scoring 13 straight points.
Boston didn’t let up the rest of the night as the Celtics shot 56% and bounced back from a 130-111 loss at Washington two nights earlier.
“We responded well from the jump,” Tatum said. “That’s all that I wanted and we wanted as a team, regardless of if we won or not, just to respond and play better than we did last game.”
TIP-INS
Celtics: Boston outscored Milwaukee 41-21 in the second period and matched its highest second-quarter point total of the season. … Payton Pritchard didn’t play due to left heel pain.
Bucks: Milwaukee’s Thanasis Antetokounmpo was ejected with 1:25 left for head-butting Boston’s Blake Griffin. The head-butting came after Griffin committed a flagrant-1 foul against Antetokounmpo. … This matched the Bucks’ most lopsided loss of the season. They fell 142-101 at Memphis on Dec. 15.
UP NEXT
Celtics: Host the Utah Jazz on Friday.
Bucks: Host the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday. ___
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities of the southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul said Saturday that eight people died and 19 others were missing after a winter storm swept through the region.
Gov. Eduardo Leite said that one of those killed was a 4-month-old baby, who died before rescuers were able to get there. Fatalities were registered in seven cities.
“This first moment, since Thursday night until now, is especially to protect human lives, support and rescue people,” Leite said at a news conference on Saturday with other authorities.
Two ministers from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government traveled to the state to show support and arrange investments for Rio Grande do Sul and cities facing a critical situation. They will also go to neighboring Santa Catarina state, which was also hit by the floods.
Firefighters performed 2,400 rescues across the 35 cities at Rio Grande do Sul hit by the tropical storm.
Several roads were still blocked in Rio Grande do Sul, flights to the state’s main cities were canceled throughout Friday and electricity was out across state.
According to Leite, state agents are inspecting the damaged roads and bridges to see if any access can be reestablished to the most affected areas.
Mayors of cities that were affected said twice as much rain fell in 24 hours than would normally be expected for the entire month of June.
The mayor of Maquine said on his social media channels that precipitation in his city surpassed 29.4 centimeters (about 11 inches) in one day.
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW LEE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its allies hit back at Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday, slapping sanctions on more than 1,000 people and companies including arms supply networks, as Moscow and the West escalated an already heated conflict fraught with potential nuclear implications.
U.S. officials said they would support any effort by Ukraine to retake the annexed territories by force, setting the stage for further hostilities. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his country would make an “accelerated” bid to join NATO, a plan not endorsed by the U.S. or other allies that could add fuel to the fire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia is incorporating four Ukrainian cities and areas was not unexpected following referendums this week that the West had denounced as shams. And the U.S. and Western allies had previewed what their reaction would be.
But the developments dramatically increased tensions to a point not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago during the Cold War.
“Make no mistake: These actions have no legitimacy,” President Joe Biden said in a statement shortly after Putin’s vow to defend the newly annexed portions of Ukraine as if they were Russia’s sovereign territory. Biden had spoken out against the annexation plans last week at the U.N. General Assembly, where a vast majority of other members also voiced support for respecting the territorial integrity of all nations.
While the Biden administration has identified the sources of Russia’s weapons and battlefield high-tech as a priority, many of Friday’s other sanctions were in line with penalties already enacted on thousands of Russian individuals and companies, and may have comparatively little impact on the war effort. The administration hopes they will serve to further undermine support for Putin’s invasion among Russia’s elite.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and its European allies are rushing to complete agreement on a measure they hope will do more to damage Russia’s economy: a cap on Russia’s maritime oil exports that would undermine the prices Putin can demand for his country’s oil globally.
For now, Biden said the new U.S. financial penalties, similar to those coming from like-minded countries, will impose severe costs on people and companies “that provide political or economic support to illegal attempts to change the status of Ukrainian territory.” The sanctions will apply to countries, people or firms that support or do business with Russia-backed authorities in the newly annexed areas.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, echoing Biden, said the U.S. “unequivocally rejects Russia’s fraudulent attempt to change Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. … This is a clear violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.”
“No one is fooled by what Moscow has done,” Blinken told reporters at a joint news conference with Canada’s visiting foreign minister. “The entire process around these sham referenda was a complete farce. This territory is and will remain Ukraine, and Ukraine has every right to defend its land, to defend its people and to take back the territory that Russia has seized from it.”
This suggests the U.S. will support the Ukrainians with weapons and ammunition to help them with military action to retake the annexed areas. The U.S. has warned Ukraine in the past not to use American weapons against Russian territory.
Blinken also spoke out against Putin’s nuclear threats..
“This kind of loose talk about nuclear weapons is the height of irresponsibility, and it’s something that we take very seriously,” he said. “To date” he said, the U.S. has not seen that “Russia is actually doing anything that suggests they are contemplating the use of nuclear weapons.”
“I can just tell you that we plan against every possible scenario, including this one.”
As for a broader guarantee of protection, Ukraine has sought NATO membership for years but has not yet been admitted due to concerns about its domestic governance. As a result of Russia’s invasion, Finland and Sweden have applied for fast-track admission into the alliance.
The White House said national security adviser Jake Sullivan had spoken with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to highlight the U.S. and NATO’s “firm commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Earlier, following Putin’s announcement, the White House along with the State, Treasury and Commerce departments had announced the new sanctions in a series of coordinated statements. The sanctions expand on what have been escalating penalties against Russia and its proxies since the invasion began on Feb. 24.
Treasury designated hundreds of members of Russia’s parliament, leaders of the country’s financial and military infrastructure and suppliers for sanctions designations that include asset freezes and bans on Americans doing business with them. The Commerce Department added 57 companies to its list of export control violators, and the State Department added more than 900 people to its visa ban list, making them ineligible for travel to the United States.
Since the start of the invasion, the U.S. and European nations have imposed significant financial penalties on Russia, its leadership and wealthy oligarchs tied to Putin. The allies have gone after the central bank reserves that underpin the Russian economy and have severed many Russian banks from a vital global financial network called SWIFT.
The war is having a devastating impact on the global economy and has contributed to massive disruptions to supplies of energy and food throughout the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development this week said the global economy is set to lose $2.8 trillion in output in 2023 because of the conflict.
Putin appears undeterred. He warned that Russia would never give up the absorbed regions —the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions— and would protect them as part of its sovereign territory.
Both houses of the Russian parliament will meet next week to approve the treaties for the regions to join Russia.
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AP writer Ellen Knickmeyer contributed.
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Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire"), has announced Will Rideout as Chief Revenue Officer to take the company into its next generation of growth, following announcement of a large capital investment from Polaris Growth Partners.
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge Factor, Inc. ("Amplifire"), the leading adaptive eLearning and content creation platform leveraging advances in brain science, and owner of the Healthcare Alliance, a consortium of over 20 world-renowned health systems in the United States; has announced Will Rideout as chief revenue officer to take the company into its next generation of growth. This decision follows the company's recent announcement of a large investment from Polaris Growth Fund ("PGF"), a technology-focused private investment firm with over two decades of investing experience. Rideout previously helped drive a leading healthcare services company to explosive growth and a public offering, one of Polaris's early investments.
"Will is a rare find. He is among a small group of people who have taken a company from a quarter of our size to ten times our size. His passion for people is contagious and his knowledge around systematically building a growth engine will help us to achieve our goal of having a major impact in high stakes human performance," said Bob Burgin, CEO and founder of the Healthcare Alliance.
Rideout joins Amplifire at a period for accelerated growth and development and will be responsible for leading the company's revenue growth strategy and execution. His expertise in growth operations and extensive background in health IT sales will complement the rapid, ongoing expansion of the Healthcare Alliance, a collaborative ecosystem where the world's leading health systems co-develop both clinical and non-clinical solutions shown to meaningfully improve patient outcomes, reduce training time and costs, and increase revenue generating activities. The Alliance's subject matter experts develop courses to rapidly onboard and train healthcare professionals, setting a new standard for quality management solutions. These courses are used in top hospitals nationally and are delivered via the Amplifire eLearning platform, powered by brain science.
"What this small group of people at Amplifire have built is one of the most interesting and high-impact companies I have ever encountered. Their partnerships with clients and members have created something really special. Now, with the backing of Polaris, we are generating a growth engine around their work. I am so impressed with the people and what they have accomplished. It is a real honor to join them in this mission," said Rideout of his new role.
Amplifire is a next-generation knowledge engineering platform that has facilitated more than three billion learner interactions and has become the industry standard in high-stakes workforce training for critical professionals. The Amplifire platform uses advances in cognitive and learning science to assess learner knowledge, create a personalized learning pathway, identify, and remediate confidently held misinformation — instances where a learner is certain that they are correct but are wrong — and drive successful outcomes. The platform's adaptive algorithm guides millions of learners to mastery across healthcare, government, military, food service, corporate, and education segments, providing unique learner analytics that offer valuable learner insights. Most notably, Amplifire has ignited a collaboration of esteemed health systems — the Healthcare Alliance — to reduce infection rates by 79%, correct dangerous misinformation, and shave hours from EHR training time.
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Which KidKraft playset is best?
KidKraft, a maker of wooden toys and furniture, says its products are “Made for Make-Believe.” Kids like to have a place to explore, play and learn, and KidKraft offers a number of playsets to keep them busy while sparking their imaginations.
If you are looking for a design-inspired, consumer-led and kid-approved playset, check out the KidKraft Majestic Mansion Dollhouse. This tall, wood dollhouse has four levels and eight rooms — big enough for the biggest imaginations. It comes with 34 movable pieces of furniture and accessories so your kids can redecorate over and over again.
What to know before you buy a KidKraft playset
KidKraft playsets are built to provide years of use. You can count on their products to be sturdier and better made than most of the competition.
Size
KidKraft playsets can get quite large, so figure out what your space limitations are before you go shopping.
Theme
KidKraft started by building dollhouses and has since offered themed playsets of many different types: kitchens, fire stations, horse stables, space shuttles, pirate ships and even your child’s own mini-city.
To learn even more about KidKraft playsets, take a look at the full KidKraft playset buying guide from BestReviews.
What to look for in a quality KidKraft playset
Number of pieces
The more pieces a KidKraft playset has, the more room the child’s imagination has to roam. Some playsets have tracks made up of individual pieces that easily attach to one another. This customizability allows children to experiment with configurations.
Movement
Kids like to push, pull, press and turn things. It’s all a part of young children exploring their world. Look for doors that swing open, drawers that pull and knobs that turn. Check to see that they are kid-sized, easy for small hands to grasp and have no rough or sharp edges.
Light and sound
Some KidKraft playsets have battery-operated lights and sounds. KidKraft’s kitchen playset, for example, has a stove with burners that glow orange and make sizzling sounds, and a refrigerator that mimics what you’d see and hear when using a real refrigerator’s water and ice dispensers.
How much you can expect to spend on a KidKraft playset
Most KidKraft playsets cost between $100 and $200. Bigger and more intricate playsets run as high as $300, and smaller and simpler playsets cost from $50 to $100.
KidKraft playset FAQ
How long will it take to assemble a KidKraft playset?
A. You can put together the simple ones by yourself in less than an hour. For larger, more detailed KidKraft playsets, plan on spending an hour or two with a friend helping. Generally speaking, the first time you take on a DIY project, allow for twice the “average” time the instructions say it will take to assemble. Make sure you keep the instructions.
What is the difference between a playset and a playhouse?
A. Although the terms sometimes are used interchangeably, a playset is usually open on one side so children can move dolls, furniture and toys around. A playset might be the size of a dollhouse, or it might feature toy appliances or other everyday objects scaled down to kid size. Playhouses usually are an enclosed space designed for children to enter and exit.
What’s the best KidKraft playset to buy?
Top KidKraft playset
KidKraft Majestic Mansion Dollhouse
What you need to know: This 52-by-14-by 53-inch wood dollhouse has four levels and eight rooms, including a nursery in the attic.
What you’ll love: This 4.5-foot-tall dollhouse is big enough for the biggest imaginations and accommodates dolls up to 12 inches tall. At 56 pounds, it is sturdily constructed with garage doors that open and close and an elevator that goes up and down between the second and third floors. This KidKraft playset comes with 34 movable pieces of furniture and accessories.
What you should consider: Assembling this playset is time-consuming and it takes up a lot of floor space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top KidKraft playset for the money
KidKraft Metropolis Wooden Train Set and Table
What you need to know: Your child can build an entire city with this 100-piece playset.
What you’ll love: It includes a bulldozer, barge with shipping containers, a double-decker bridge and a working crane to move things around. Everything you need for a city is included: people, buildings, signs, cars, a train, an airplane, a helicopter and more. The built-in trundle drawer keeps all the pieces stored in one space. The design of this KidKraft playset is compatible with all major toy train brands, including Thomas & Friends.
What you should consider: Users report that the assembly instructions are difficult to follow. Plan on getting some help if you are not a DIYer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
KidKraft Ultimate Corner Wooden Play Kitchen
What you need to know: This is a highly realistic, kid-sized, high-end kitchen that fits nicely in the corner of a play area.
What you’ll love: The refrigerator, oven, microwave, dishwasher and washing machine all have doors that open. Its knobs, buttons and handles are easy for small hands to grip. It has a lot of working lights and sounds for a multisensory experience. Burners light up, glow orange and make frying sounds. The water dispenser in the refrigerator door lights up and makes splashing sounds. The lights and sounds are powered by nine LR44 batteries, which are included.
What you should consider: The manufacturer says this product can easily take up to three hours to assemble, so ask a friend to help.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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DENVER, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanta Residential today announced that the firm closed on approximately 20 acres on two adjacent land sites in Jacksonville, Florida to develop a built-for-rent community. The community, called Avendale at Westgate, marks Avanta's first project in Florida.
The single-family rental community will consist of 157 two and three-bedroom luxury townhomes with an average square footage of 1,516. Community amenities will include a leasing center, clubhouse, and resort-style pool, and will offer connectivity to an adjacent city park with a playground, soccer fields, and open areas.
"We are thrilled to expand our footprint in Florida," said Terence Johnson, Senior Vice President of Development. "The location of Avendale at Westgate is ideal, with its proximity to national retailers as well as major employers."
Avendale at Westgate is located in a rapidly growing area of Jacksonville just south of Beach Boulevard and only 3.5 miles from St. Johns Town Center, a large retail and dining destination featuring numerous national retailers including Apple, Nordstrom, Target, TopGolf and Publix Grocery store. Major employers located near Avendale at Westgate include Johnson and Johnson, CEVA Logistics, St. Vincent's healthcare, Web.com and Deutsche bank.
Avanta, headquartered in Denver, was formed in 2020 to respond to the increasingly popular purpose-built single-family rental industry. Avanta is continuing to add to its already experienced team to execute on its development pipeline.
Avanta plans to deliver homes at Avendale at Westgate in 2023.
Avanta is setting the standard in the build-for-rent communities' industry. Avanta was created out of the deep experience of Hunt Companies Inc., a diversified, family-owned holding company with more than $8.5 billion in completed real estate developments, including the development of over 70,000 single-family rental homes across the United States, 50,000 of which are still own and operated today. Avanta is committed to developing thoughtful, well-designed, amenity-rich single-family homes for lease throughout the U.S. Avanta is active in Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Colorado and is expanding its footprint. For more information, www.avantaresidential.com.
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Updated July 19, 2022 at 11:30 AM ET
On the wall outside the director's fifth-floor suite at ATF headquarters hang photographs of the men who have led the agency. The final photo dates to 2015, when the last Senate-confirmed boss left office. Now, seven years later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finally has a new confirmed director: Steve Dettelbach.
The former U.S. attorney steps into the ATF job at a critical time.
"Crime is rising. Firearms crime is rising. Mass shootings are rising. Domestic extremism and the sort of undercurrents of violence and domestic extremist actions is rising," Dettelbach said in an interview with NPR.
"These are all public safety threats. Those are all things that are in the wheelhouse of ATF to address. And I hope to be able to to work with the ATF and the other partners to address them and try and make things better."
A series of mass shootings that killed 38 people over two months — at a school, a grocery store and an Independence Day parade — has shocked the nation and put pressure on the federal government to act.
"Look, I'd be naive to say that those things aren't going to to continue to happen," Dettelbach said when asked if there would be more shootings like those in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y. "It's horrible. It's jarring. I hope people never get used to it."
Dettelbach was also adamant that despite the steady drumbeat of mass shootings, "it is not acceptable to accept firearms violence is part of our national narrative. It's just not."
"It's not part of the way that people in our country want to raise their families. It's not part of the way that the people who own firearms want to live," he said. "It's not part of the American way. We are not going to accept it."
ATF and others in law enforcement owe it to the survivors and victims to do everything in their power to deal with the problem of gun violence, Dettelbach said, pointing out that gun violence isn't just mass shootings. There's a steady drumbeat of shootings that almost never make the news but that kill more than 100 people every day, he said. And the government has a duty to help and to protect all of those people as well.
"So to say that the pressure is on is an understatement," he said. "But the pressure is on because it's our job in law enforcement to help people be safer. Can we always succeed? No. But to give up trying, that's not going to happen at ATF. I know that."
Working to drive down gun violence and make the public feel safer
There's no one particular thing driving the recent violence, Dettelbach said. Instead, it's a combination of things, and the mix varies in different parts of the country.
That means that the strategies to combat it have to be tailored in order to succeed and since ATF is a small agency, with around 5,000 employees total,
it will need to work with state and local partners to succeed. And that may mean helping solve cold homicides in one part of the country and focusing on violent gun cases or gun trafficking in another.
"I think what I would say is we have to be open to new ideas and creative ways of trying to work together to to fight this problem," Dettelbach said.
Driving down violent crime is a goal of law enforcement writ large, as well as the Biden White House, which has put a lot of stock in getting a Senate-confirmed ATF director in place.
President Biden sees the confirmation of an ATF director as an important piece of the administration's response to the surge in gun violence. His first pick for the post failed to win confirmation due to fierce opposition from gun rights groups. A long list of nominees put forward in recent years by Republicans and Democrats have faced a similar fate. Dettelbach managed to squeak through the Senate with bipartisan support.
Now that he's in the job, Dettelbach says he wants to serve as an advocate for ATF, to ensure it gets the support and resources its needs. But he also will work to make sure that it gets the respect he says it deserves, and that the public knows and values of the agency's work.
"ATF was crucial in running the trace that helped catch the Highland Park shooter just two weeks ago," Dettelbach said about the Independence Day shooting in Illinois. "People need to know that. People need to know that that wasn't easy."
His job is to "remind people of the facts so that ATF men and women who are out there risking their lives can be working with the public, who understand what they're doing to help the public be safe," he said.
That also involves trying boost morale at an agency that has faced years of instability.
Both tasks are challenging in the best of times, let alone in the middle of what the president calls an epidemic of gun violence.
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The Portland Winterhawks got three goals from James Stefan and had chances to hang with the Kamloops Blazers on Friday.
But Kamloops won 6-4 as goalie Dylan Ernst came up big several times, and his Blazers pulled away during a decisive stretch to take Game 1 of the Western Hockey League second-round playoff series at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops, British Columbia.
A one-goal game got away from the visitors when Kamloops scored in the final seconds of the second period and followed with two goals early in the third period. Two late power-play goals from the Winterhawks closed the final gap to two goals.
Game 2 is at 7 p.m. Saturday at Kamloops. The series shifts to Portland for games Wednesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 20. Both start at 7 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Stefan scored a rebound effort to tie the score 1-1 9:50 into the first period. He redirected a Marek Alscher shot to pull Portland within 3-2 at 17:04 of the second period and added a power-play goal with seconds left in the game.
Jakub Demek scored twice for Kamloops, including a goal with 24 seconds left in the second period that made it 4-2 Blazers.
Matthew Seminoff powered out from behind the goal and out-waited Portland goalie Jan Spunar to make it 5-2 at 1:03 of the third. Logan Stankoven made it 6-2 with a power-play goal 4:26 into the third. That came seconds after Ernst saved a short-handed breakaway chance for Portland’s Gabe Klassen, essentially sealing the result.
Alscher, Robbie Fromm-Delrme and Kyle Chyzowski each had two assists and Marcus Nguyen scored a power-play goal late for Portland.
Hawks goalie Jan Spunar was strong against an early push from the Blazers, and was a big reason Portland was within one late in the second period. Spunar finished with 32 saves. Ernst made 28 stops for Kamloops. Portland was 2 for 5 on the power play. Kamloops was 1 for 2.
Portland vs. Kamloops schedule
Game 1: Kamloops, 6, Portland 4
Game 2 at Kamloops, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15
Game 3 at Portland, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19
Game 4 at Portland, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20
Game 5 at Kamloops, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22
Game 6 at Portland, 7 p.m. Monday, April 24
Game 7 at Kamloops, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26.
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Family of Oakland men who drowned saving nephew hope to send bodies to Guatemala
OAKLAND, Calif. - The family and friends of the three immigrant men who drowned while rescuing a nephew from the delta in Sacramento are hoping to send their bodies back to their native Guatemala.
Wendy Rivas of Oakland started a GoFundMe for her father Edwin "Guistillo" Rivas, 57, and his friends, Edwin Perez, 22, and Danilo Gutiérrez, 40.
She is hoping to raise $15,000 for each man.
In observance of Guatemalan culture, Rivas' family his hosting a nightly gathering at his Oakland home for nine days to honor him and his two friends.
"My dad is a hero and now I see how much the people love him," Rivas said of her father. She described him as a leader many immigrant communities of Oakland, his home of the last 36 years. Wendy said her father never refused anyone who asked him for help.
She struggles with what happened and considered her father a strong swimmer. She said he's pulled people out from the river to safety before. She said she's found some semblance of peace now that her father's body has been recovered.
All the men lived in Oakland, working jobs in construction.
Friend William Ramos told KTVU that the men and other families vacationed together near Brannan Island every Fourth of July for camping and family fun.
The trio had been fishing Sunday near the Three Mile Slough Bridge in Sacramento County, when they saw Rivas' 8-year-old nephew struggling in the water.
They and two others jumped into the river and pulled the boy to safety, officials said. The boy had been wading into the water and got pulled away, and he wasn't wearing a life jacket.
But only two men were able to get out of the water.
Rivas, Perez and Gutiérrez never surfaced.
Their bodies were recovered from the delta on Tuesday evening, according to the Rio Vista Fire Department.
Their friend, Juan Cabrera, told KCRA3 all of them had tried to save the boy, but the strong winds and current were too much in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta system.
"Far too many lives have been lost in our waterways and in the lakes and rivers of Northern California over the past few weeks," the Rio Vista Fire Department said. "The currents of the Sacramento River and its tributaries are strong and unpredictable."
One of his former co-workers Kris Hoffman said Gutiérrez was a "beautiful spirit and fearless." The two worked construction jobs together and Gutiérrez was an excellent painter, Hoffman said.
"Everything he did, he did with an eye and a finesse and a great work ethic," Hoffman said.
She said it will be hard to work at the same site where he painted a vibrantly colored home and not think of him.
Friends and family referred to the trio as the ‘Three Amigos’. They enjoyed fishing trips, and both playing and watching soccer together. Each of the men leaves families behind.
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Large U.S. banks reported massive earnings Friday, signaling that the biggest institutions largely shrugged off the banking crisis stemming from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the nation, posted $12.6 billion in first-quarter profits, a whopping 52 percent increase from the same period last year.
Wells Fargo’s quarterly profits rose 32 percent year-over-year. Citigroup reported a 23 percent annual increase in profit, while PNC Financial Services’ profits rose around 18 percent. All of the big banks surpassed investors’ profit expectations.
While the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes contributed to SVB’s failure — the bank loaded up on long-term treasury bonds that plummeted in value after rates rose — they’re helping the largest lenders.
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JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, three of the four largest U.S. banks, credited the surprisingly strong profits to spiking interest income. Higher interest rates enabled banks to charge more for loans.
The banks added that their exposure to commercial real estate is relatively low. Analysts fear that small and midsize lenders — which hold most of those mortgages — could soon suffer from a wave of defaults as remote and hybrid work drives down the value of office buildings.
Bank filings reveal deposit data
Big banks had been expected to show deposit drops following last month’s bank runs and an influx of deposits into money market funds and other low-risk investments.
But JPMorgan actually saw its deposits rise from $2.34 trillion to $2.38 trillion in the first quarter. PNC’s deposits grew slightly, Citigroup’s deposits remained flat and Wells Fargo’s deposits fell 2 percent.
Commercial bank deposits fell by around $310 billion around the time of SVB’s collapse before recovering slightly in the final month of March, according to Federal Reserve data.
That prompted concerns that more banks could go under.
Analysts pointed to $620 billion in unrealized losses on long-term investments in the banking system that would make it harder for banks to survive a surge in withdrawals.
SVB’s failure prompted wealthy individuals and businesses to pull their money from midsize lenders, which faced the biggest threat of a bank run. They transferred their cash to the largest institutions that are seen as too big to fail.
Still feeling pinched: Here’s where Americans are pulling back their spending as inflation takes a toll
“By definition, these are somewhat flighty deposits because they just came into us. So it’s prudent and appropriate for us to assume that they won’t be particularly stable,” JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum said on an earnings call Friday.
The rush of withdrawals slowed after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hinted that regulators would take action to protect all uninsured deposits if other midsize banks went under, like they did with SVB.
Big banks last month banded together to give $30 billion in deposits to San Francisco’s First Republic Bank, which swiftly lost around $70 billion in deposits following the SVB collapse. The move was meant to restore confidence in the regional lender and the banking system more broadly.
First Republic will report its earnings on April 24. The bank had been expected to reveal its balance sheet this week.
Bank executives expressed confidence in regional banks Friday, noting that SVB faced a unique bank run from its client base dominated by tech firms and venture capitalists.
“Our franchise, and those of many other banks, operate with a broader business model and more diversified funding sources,” Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf said on an earnings call.
Banks confirm lending slowdown
Big bank executives said Friday that they plan to pull back on lending and set aside more cash in case their existing loans go bad.
Analysts have expressed concern that if bank lending slows to a crawl, a credit crunch could ravage the U.S. economy that relies on financing to grow and add jobs.
“I wouldn’t use the word credit crunch,” JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said on an earnings call Friday. “I just look at it as a kind of a thumb on the scale. It just makes the financing conditions a little bit tighter and increases the odds of a recession.”
Commercial lending by U.S. banks declined by nearly $105 billion in the final two weeks of March, the largest drop on record.
Boom times for some: JPMorgan Chase profits jump 52% amid banking turmoil
There’s no shortage of signs that a recession is looming.
Retail sales fell 1 percent in March as spending at a broad range of retail categories dropped. When adjusting for inflation, retail sales fell 2 percent over the last year, meaning consumers are buying fewer items.
Wholesale inflation fell 0.5 percent last month. That’s a sign that price hikes are finally coming to an end but also a warning that demand is falling rapidly.
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Sunday's results
Regina 6 Calgary 2
Winnipeg 6 Portland 3
Tuesday's results
Swift Current 3 Medicine Hat 1
Portland 5 Prince Albert 3
Brandon 4 Seattle 2
Edmonton 3 Moose Jaw 2
Prince George 3 Kelowna 0
Wednesday's results
Portland at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Portland at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Prince George at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Portland at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m.
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As part of our Father's Day series, Morning Edition profiles Jorge Mata, an immigrant father who moved his two toddlers to the U.S. after seeing increasing violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Arrow Reports $12.0 million in Q2 Net Income, Loan Growth of $108 Million
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 6:56 AM CDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
GLENS FALLS, N.Y., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrow Financial Corporation (NasdaqGS® – AROW) announced financial results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022. Net income for the second quarter of 2022 was $12.0 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.75.
Loan growth was strong in the second quarter of 2022, with gross loans increasing by $108 million. Excluding Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, which decreased by $17 million, loans grew by $125 million in the quarter.
"Arrow had a strong second quarter with total loan balances at June 30, 2022 reaching a record high," said Arrow President and CEO Thomas J. Murphy. "I commend the Arrow Team for their outstanding efforts and strong work ethic. While economic challenges are expected this year, I am confident in our direction as a Company and our ability to deliver strong results for our shareholders, our customers and our communities."
For the second quarter of 2022, net income was $12.0 million compared to $13.3 million for the second quarter of 2021. The year-over-year decline in second quarter net income was primarily due to:
- An increase in the provision expense for credit losses to $905 thousand for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $263 thousand in the second quarter of 2021.
- Net gain on sale of loans was lower by $615 thousand when comparing year-over-year quarters.
- A decrease of $2.6 million in income earned on PPP loans included as part of net interest income in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of 2021.
Second Quarter Highlights
Earnings:
- Net income was $12.0 million.
- Net interest margin was 3.02%.
- Return on average assets (ROA) was 1.20%.
- Return on average equity (ROE) was 13.44%.
- Diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $0.75 for the second quarter.
- Second-quarter revenue was consistent to the prior-year comparative quarter.
- Net charge-offs for the second quarter of 2022 were $476 thousand as compared to $93 thousand for the comparable 2021 quarter.
Balance Sheet:
- Total assets were $4.0 billion as of June 30, 2022.
- Total loans were $2.8 billion as of June 30, 2022, a record high for Arrow.
- Total deposits were $3.5 billion as of June 30, 2022.
- Loans to deposits ratio as of June 30, 2022 was 80.2%
Additional Items:
- $17 million of PPP loans were forgiven in the second quarter of 2022.
- $1.5 million of PPP loans remained outstanding as of June 30, 2022.
- Book value per share was $22.25, up by 1.1% over the prior-year level.
- Nonperforming assets of $10.0 million at June 30, 2022 represented 0.25% of period-end assets, up from 0.20% at June 30, 2021.
- A core system upgrade is scheduled for the third quarter of 2022, with the first customer communications expected in early August.
Income Statement
- Net Interest Income: Net interest income for the second quarter was $29.0 million, up 2.4% from $28.4 million in the comparable quarter of 2021. Interest and fees on loans were $26.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of 0.4% from $27.0 million for the quarter ending June 30, 2021. Interest and fees related to PPP loans, included in the $26.9 million total, were $439 thousand in the second quarter of 2022, a decrease from $3.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. Interest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was $1.6 million, an increase of $0.2 million, or 16.5%, from $1.3 million in expense for the comparable quarter ending June 30, 2021.
- Net Interest Margin: Net interest margin was 3.02% for the quarter, compared to 3.08% for the second quarter of 2021. The decrease in net interest margin from the prior year was primarily due to the decrease in the amount of PPP loan interest and related fees recognized in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to the comparable quarter of 2021. Net interest margin, excluding PPP income, increased from the comparable prior year quarter from 2.86% to 2.98% The cost of interest-bearing liabilities increased slightly primarily due to the repricing of municipal deposits.
- Provision for Credit Losses: For the second quarter of 2022, the provision for credit losses was $905 thousand compared to $263 thousand in provision expense in the second quarter of 2021. The key drivers for the increase were strong loan growth and a slight deterioration in forecasted economic conditions in the second quarter of 2022.
- Noninterest Income: Noninterest income for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $7.7 million, compared to $8.5 million in the comparable 2021 quarter. Income from fiduciary activities for the three months ended June 30, 2022, decreased by $72 thousand over the comparable quarter of 2021. Fees and other services to customers increased $131 thousand over the comparable quarter of 2021. Gain on sales of loans decreased $615 thousand from the second quarter of 2021 as a result of a strategic decision to retain more newly originated real estate loans. Other operating income decreased $132 thousand from the comparable quarter of 2021 due to a variety of factors, including, among others, a $99 thousand loss on the disposal of a building.
- Noninterest Expense: Noninterest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was $20.3 million, an increase from $19.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. The largest component of noninterest expense was salaries and benefits paid to our employees, which totaled $11.7 million for the second quarter of 2022. The expense for estimated credit losses on off-balance sheet credit exposures included in other expenses was $110 thousand.
- Provision for Income Taxes: The provision for income taxes was $3.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $4.2 million for the same quarter of 2021.
Balance Sheet
- Total Assets: Total assets were $4.0 billion at June 30, 2022 an increase of $95.0 million, or 2.4%, compared to June 30, 2021 and a decrease of $165.2 million, or 4.0%, compared to March 31, 2022.
- Investments: Total investments were $766.9 million as of June 30, 2022 an increase of $122.5 million, or 19.0%, compared to June 30, 2021 and a decrease of $14.1 million, or 1.8%, compared to March 31, 2022.
- Loans: Total loans were $2.8 billion as of June 30, 2022. Loan growth for the second quarter of 2022 was $107.5 million and increased $200.7 million, or 7.6%, from June 30, 2021. In the second quarter, total outstanding commercial loans increased $8.0 million, or 1.0%. PPP loans, which are included in the commercial portfolio, decreased $17.2 million in the second quarter as a result of the continued loan forgiveness processed by the Small Business Administration. The consumer loan portfolio grew by $54.5 million, or 5.6% in the second quarter, primarily within the indirect automobile lending program. Total outstanding residential real estate loans increased $45.1 million, or 4.7%, for the second quarter of 2022.
- Allowance for Credit Losses: The allowance for credit losses was $28.1 million on June 30, 2022, which represented 0.99% of loans outstanding, as compared to 1.02% at June 30, 2021. Asset quality remained solid at June 30, 2022. Net loan losses, expressed as an annualized percentage of average loans outstanding, were 0.07% for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022, as compared to 0.01% for the three-month period ended June 30, 2021. Nonperforming assets of $10.0 million at June 30, 2022 represented 0.25% of period-end assets, compared to 0.20% at June 30, 2021.
- Deposits: At June 30, 2022, deposit balances were $3.5 billion. Deposits decreased in the second quarter of 2022 by $169.7 million and increased by $107.6 million, or 3.1%, from the prior-year level. Municipal deposits decreased $112.1 million in the second quarter and increased $4.8 million, or 0.6% from June 30, 2021. Non-municipal deposits decreased $57.6 million for the quarter and increased $102.8 million, or 4.0%, from June 30, 2021. Noninterest-bearing deposits represented 23.3% of total deposits at June 30, 2022, compared to 22.2% of total deposits at June 30, 2021. At June 30, 2022, total time deposits were $169.5 million, a decrease of $57.0 million, or 25.2%, compared to the prior year.
- Capital: Total stockholders' equity was $356.5 million on June 30, 2022, up $3.5 million, or 1.0%, from June 30, 2021. Arrow's regulatory capital ratios remained strong in the second quarter of 2022. As of June 30, 2022, Arrow's Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio was 13.14% and Total Risk-Based Capital Ratio was 14.93%. The capital ratios of Arrow and both its subsidiary banks, Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company and Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company, continued to exceed the "well capitalized" regulatory standards.
Additional Commentary
- Cash and Stock Dividends: On June 15, 2022, Arrow distributed a cash dividend of $0.27 per share. The cash dividend was 7% higher than the cash dividend paid by Arrow in the second quarter of 2021 due to a one cent increase in the cash dividend rate and after adjusting for the 3% stock dividend distributed on September 24, 2021.
- Industry Recognition: In the second quarter of 2022, both of Arrow's banking subsidiaries once again earned BauerFinancial, Inc. 5-Star Exceptional Performance Bank ratings.
About Arrow
Arrow Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Glens Falls, New York, serving the financial needs of northeastern New York. Arrow is the parent of Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company and Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company. Other subsidiaries include Upstate Agency, LLC and North Country Investment Advisers, Inc.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation
In addition to presenting information in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), this news release contains financial information determined by methods other than GAAP (non-GAAP). Some measures used in this release, which are commonly utilized by financial institutions, have not been specifically exempted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and may constitute "non-GAAP financial measures" within the meaning of the SEC's rules. These non-GAAP financial measures include: tangible equity, return on tangible equity, tax-equivalent adjustment and related net interest income, tax-equivalent, and the efficiency ratio. Management believes that the non-GAAP financial measures disclosed by Arrow are useful in evaluating Arrow's performance and that such information should be considered as supplemental in nature and not as a substitute for, or superior to, the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures may differ from similar measures presented by other companies. See the reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures in the section "Selected Quarterly Information."
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Additions of Maryland and Virginia allow FINN to serve suburbs of Washington D.C. and beyond with flexible car subscriptions that cover everything but fuel
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FINN, the leading car subscription platform in the U.S. and Europe, today announced that it is expanding its territories of service to include Maryland and Virginia. FINN is already available in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., where it is finding rapid adoption from car shoppers who value FINN's convenience, flexibility and affordability.
FINN offers a one-stop shopping experience, with the company's flat monthly price covering the cost of the vehicle, insurance, roadside assistance and more. The only expense not covered under FINN's monthly fee is the cost of gas or electricity to fuel the vehicle. A car can be ordered on FINN's website in just five minutes.
"We are thrilled to bring FINN's car subscription service to customers in Maryland and Virginia," said Max-Josef Meier, co-founder and CEO of FINN. "We look forward to providing our new customers with the same leading standard of service that has made us the preferred car subscription service."
FINN offers a wide range of vehicles as part of their fleet offerings, including Tesla, Nissan, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and Jeep. Thirty percent of its fleet is electric vehicles (EVs). The vehicles are always new to low mileage, with offerings from compact to oversized sedans and SUVs. Subscriptions start at just $549 per month.
FINN is a car subscription platform united by its purpose to make mobility fun and sustainable by providing a flexible, fun and sustainable way to choose the car that best fits its customers' lifestyles. The established car subscription provider offers complete transparency in pricing, as well as comprehensive insurance, maintenance and 24/7 customer and roadside support. What is more, the company facilitates the transition to drive electric vehicles, and compensates the CO2 for every mile driven for all its cars. FINN makes driving a car as easy as purchasing shoes online: with just a few clicks, customers can subscribe to a car that will be delivered straight to their door in just a few days or weeks.
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UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the first world conference on water in over 45 years on Wednesday to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without clean water and basic sanitation.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the opening session that water is “humanity’s lifeblood” and a human right, but the world is draining it “through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use and evaporating it through global heating.”
In a challenge to all nations and the broader international community, he said the three-day conference must represent “a quantum leap” in recognition of the vital importance of water and the need for action to ensure its sustainable use.
Guterres called for “game-changing commitments” toward U.N. goals, including ensuring that all people have access to drinking water and sanitation by 2030.
The U.N. World Water Development Report, issued on the eve of the conference, says 26% of the world’s population — 2 billion people — don’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% — 3.6 billion people — lack access to basic sanitation. U.N. research also shows that almost half the world’s people will suffer severe water stress by 2030.
The U,N. secretary-general called for major investments in water and sanitation systems and efforts to address climate change, stressing that “climate action and a sustainable water future are two sides of the same coin.”
According to conference organizers, such commitments will be the key outcome of the conference. Already, more than 500 commitments have been registered from governments, U.N. agencies, business leaders and civil society, they say.
Just before the conference opened, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced a new commitment from the Biden administration, of $49 billion to be put toward “equitable, climate-resilient water and sanitation investments at home and around the world.”
She said the new U.S. funding “will help create jobs, prevent conflicts, safeguard public health, reduce the risk of famine and hunger, and enable us to respond to climate change and natural disasters.”
But the U.S. envoy stressed the need for global cooperation and urged the U.N. Security Council to take up the issue of water scarcity, which exacerbates conflicts and disrupts peace and security.
The U.N. Water Conference is co-hosted by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon. There are 171 countries, including over 100 ministers, on the speakers list.
Rahmon said Tajikistan has abundant drinking water, although 1,000 of its 14,000 glaciers have completely melted in the last few decades. Noting that the last U.N. water conference was held in 1977 in Argentina, he proposed holding the next one in Tajikistan in 2028 to monitor implementation of the commitments being made during the current meeting.
Willem-Alexander stressed that over the next three days “we went to get the water wheel spinning” and ensure that the alarming state of the world’s water resources is given a high place on global agendas.
“Water security is one of the defining concerns of our time and it will determine our collective sustainable future,” the Dutch king said. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/un-chief-urges-game-changing-commitments-on-clean-water/ | 2023-03-23 01:33:51 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/un-chief-urges-game-changing-commitments-on-clean-water/ |
By STAN CHOE
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling on Wall Street Monday ahead of a week full of potentially market-moving events, from decisions on interest rates around the world to earnings reports from the biggest U.S. companies.
The S&P 500 was 0.9% lower in morning trading, giving back some of its gains from last week when it reached its highest level since early December. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 104 points, or 0.3%, at 33,873, as of 10:48 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.7% lower.
Markets have been veering recently on worries that the economy and corporate profits may be set for a steep drop-off, along with competing hopes that cooling inflation will get the Federal Reserve to take it easier on interest rates.
The central bank’s next decision on rates is coming Wednesday, and most investors expect it to announce an increase of just 0.25 percentage points. That would be the smallest increase in nearly a year, following a spate of hikes of 0.75 points and then a 0.50-point increase, and it would mean less added pressure on the economy.
Higher rates intentionally slow the economy by making it more expensive to buy a house or anything else on credit, while also dragging down on prices for investments.
The big question is whether Fed Chair Jerome Powell afterward will give markets what they want to hear — hints that rate hikes will end soon and rate cuts may even be possible late this year — or stick to the Fed’s mantra that it plans to keep rates higher for longer, even if a modest recession hits.
Central banks for Europe and for the United Kingdom are also set to announce their latest increases for rates this week.
Beyond interest rates, more than 100 companies in the S&P 500 are scheduled this week to report how much profit they made in the last three months of 2022. Among them are tech heavyweights Apple, Amazon, and Google’s parent company. Because these companies are three of the four biggest on Wall Street by market value, their stock movements carry much more sway on the S&P 500 than others.
The only other stock that rivals them in size, Microsoft, shook Wall Street last week when it gave forecasts for upcoming results that raised worries about a slowdown in corporate spending on tech.
Companies generally look to be on track to report slightly weaker profit for the end of 2022 than expected, according to a BofA Global Research report. That’s an indication that the strong January enjoyed by the S&P 500 so far is more about improving sentiment on Wall Street than about better fundamentals, strategist Savita Subramanian wrote.
Strategists at Morgan Stanley led by Michael Wilson warn tougher times may be ahead.
“The reality is that earnings are proving to be even worse than feared based on the data, especially as it relates to margins,” they wrote in a report. “Secondly, investors seem to have forgotten the cardinal rule of ‘Don’t Fight the Fed’. Perhaps this week will serve as a reminder.”
Later this week, the U.S. government will also give its latest monthly update on the job market. Hiring has remained remarkably resilient across the broad economy, even as housing and other corners weaken sharply under the weight of all the Fed’s rate hikes from last year.
Some big tech companies have announced high-profile layoffs after acknowledging they misread their boom coming out of the pandemic. But job cuts may be starting to spread to other areas of the economy. Hasbro and 3M last week announced layoffs.
All told, economists expect Friday’s report to show that U.S. employers added 187,500 more jobs than they cut during January. That would be a slowdown from December’s hiring of 223,000.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.53% from 3.51% late Friday. The two-year yield, which tends to move more on expectations of Fed actions, rose to 4.27% from 4.20%.
In stock markets overseas, reports that holiday travel during last week’s Lunar New Year festivities was nearly back to normal raised expectations that China’s economy may regain momentum faster than anticipated after it relaxed pandemic restrictions late last year.
Stocks in Shanghai gained 0.1% in their first trading session after a weeklong break.
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AP Business Writers Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed.
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Chicago Red Stars' Mallory Pugh Surprises Winner with Honor
ROSWELL, Ga., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 37th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Riley Jackson of Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Ga. is the 2021-22 Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Jackson won the prestigious award for her accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Girls Soccer Players of the Year who have combined for 17 gold medals and nine National Championships
Chicago Red Stars forward Mallory Pugh virtually surprised Jackson with the news, while her family, coaches and teammates showed up with the trophy at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Jackson as the nation's best high school girls soccer player. The Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others to evaluate candidates, selected Jackson from nearly half a million other student-athletes who play girls soccer nationwide.
Competition for the national award was fierce. Jackson topped the list of state winners in girls soccer who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 22 First Team All-State selections, 7 returning state Gatorade Players of the Year and 38 who are committed to play at Division I colleges/universities.
"Riley Jackson is that rare player who can influence the outcome of the game without showing up on the scoresheet," said J.R. Eskilson, a national soccer analyst for Prepsoccer.com. "She's one of the best passers in high school soccer, identifying through-ball channels that few players can envision, and she has the skill to put those passes into tight windows. She also has the elegance on the ball to make everything look effortless, but there is so much sophistication in how she approaches the game. That's what really makes her great. What's more, she's a wall defensively, and dictates where the game is played on the pitch with her challenges and instincts for stepping in front of passes. Jackson had one of the best seasons in high school soccer history by making her teammates better, and that's part of what makes her worthy of being the Gatorade National Player of the Year."
The 5-foot-8 sophomore midfielder scored 14 goals and passed for 18 assists this past season, leading the Titans (19-2-1) to the Class AAAAA state semifinals. Jackson missed the high school postseason while she was leading the U.S. Soccer Under-17 Women's National Team to the championship at the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament. Jackson was the Golden Ball winner, awarded to the tournament's best player. Also the Class AAAAA State Player of the Year, she concluded her sophomore year with 36 goals and 48 assists in her prep soccer career.
Jackson has volunteered locally as a youth soccer instructor and camp coach and she's also a USSF certified, paid soccer referee.
Jackson has maintained a weighted 4.26 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her junior year of high school this fall.
"Riley Jackson is now a part of an elite alumni group of past Gatorade Players of the Year, including athletic icons such as Peyton Manning and Abby Wambach," said Gatorade Senior Vice President and General Manager Brett O'Brien. "She has proven why her name belongs on the trophy and we have no doubt Riley will go on to accomplish great things in and out of sport like so many POY winners before her."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
Gatorade has a long-standing history of serving athlete communities and understands how sports instill valuable lifelong skills on and off the field. Since the program's inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners and educators. Previous winners include a distinguished list of athletes, such as Peyton Manning, Abby Wambach, Jayson Tatum, Elena Delle Donne and many other sports icons.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
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New classified records found in Trump storage unit
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Representatives of former President Donald Trump alerted the FBI that they found another set of potentially sensitive documents in a storage facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News.
There were two documents with classified markings inside a sealed box, adding to the more than 300 documents with classified markings that were found this year at Trump’s properties. The documents have been turned over to the FBI.
The revelation is the first indication classified materials might have been held or might be at Trump properties.
The searches by Trump representatives were conducted around Thanksgiving at three other locations — the former president’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump Tower in New York and in a storage facility at Mar-a-Lago in Florida — according to The Washington Post, which first reported the story.
It comes at a time of growing legal peril for the former president.
The FBI seized 33 boxes of records on Aug. 8 during the execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, including records that were supposed to be in the hands of the National Archives.
Last month, the Justice Department appointed special counsel Jack Smith to oversee the growing probe into those documents.
Trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say his alleged mishandling of the records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands.
“The disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply cannot be accepted from anyone,” said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “No one is above the law.” | https://www.wsgw.com/new-classified-records-found-in-trump-storage-unit/ | 2022-12-08 03:04:14 | 0 | https://www.wsgw.com/new-classified-records-found-in-trump-storage-unit/ |
DALLAS — The mother of two teens fatally shot in 2008 in the Dallas area told jurors Thursday that her ex-husband, who is on trial for the killings after evading arrest for over 12 years, was abusive and controlling during their marriage.
Said, 65, is charged with capital murder, accused of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008. Yaser Said has entered a not guilty plea. Said, who had worked as a taxi driver, faces an automatic life sentence if convicted.
The sisters were found shot to death in a taxi parked near a hotel in the Dallas suburb of Irving. On Wednesday, jurors heard a 911 call Sarah Said made from a cell phone, telling the operator that her father shot her and she was dying.
A former police detective testified Thursday that the taxi the girls were found in had been lent to Yaser Said.
A week before the sisters were killed, they and their mother left their home in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville and went to Oklahoma to get away from Said. Both sisters’ boyfriends also joined the three.
Prosecutor Lauren Black said in opening statements that the sisters had become “very scared for their lives,” and the decision to leave was made after Said “put a gun to Amina’s head and threatened to kill her,” the prosecutor said.
Owens, who spoke softly and often hesitantly on the stand, testified that Said eventually convinced her to return to Texas. “I didn’t think anything would happen,” she testified.
Black said during opening statements that Said was “obsessed with possession and control.” Owens testified that when she married Said, she was 15 and he was 29. The evening the girls’ were killed, Said wanted to take just the two sisters to a restaurant.
In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Said said he was not happy with his kids’ “dating activity” but denied killing his daughters. Defense attorney Joseph Patton said in opening statements that the evidence would not support a conviction and that police were too quick to focus on Said.
Black said Sarah Said was shot nine times and Amina Said was shot twice.
In a Dec. 21, 2007, email that was brought into evidence, Amina Said told one of her teachers that she and her sister planned to run away. She wrote that she and her sister didn’t want to live by the culture of their father, who was born in Egypt, nor did they want arranged marriages, as he planned. Her father, she wrote, had “made our lives a nightmare.”
“He will, without any drama nor doubt, kill us,” the email read.
Yaser Said, who had been sought on a capital murder warrant since the slayings, was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list. He was finally arrested in August 2020 in Justin, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. His son, Islam Said, and his brother, Yassim Said, were subsequently convicted of helping him evade arrest. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mom-of-2-slain-teens-testifies-at-ex-husbands-texas-trial/2022/08/04/d6b7ac9e-1437-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html | 2022-08-04 22:06:43 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mom-of-2-slain-teens-testifies-at-ex-husbands-texas-trial/2022/08/04/d6b7ac9e-1437-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html |
1.7 tons of beef product recalled due to possible E. coli contamination
(Gray News) - About 1.7 tons of beef product distributed in nine states has been recalled due to a possible E. coli contamination.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reported that Elkhorn Valley Packing has recalled about 3,436 pounds of their boneless beef chuck product.
It is reported the beef product may be contaminated with the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O103.
The affected product was packed on Feb. 16 and was distributed in corrugated boxes of various weights with the label, “Elkhorn Valley Pride Angus Beef 61226 BEEF CHUCK 2PC BNLS; Packed on 2/16/23.” A full list of the serial numbers and box count numbers can be found on the FSIS website.
The product was distributed to a number of establishments, including retail locations and wholesale locations such as hotels, restaurants and institutions. The product was shipped to locations in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service stated there have been no confirmed reports of consumers experiencing adverse reactions from eating the product.
According to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, people can begin to feel ill about two to eight days after consuming the infected product. Symptoms include diarrhea and vomiting and, in some cases, it can lead to more serious infection.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service advised customers and distribution sites to immediately stop using the product and throw it away or return it.
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State and Boston police responding to a shooting shut down parts of Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester earlier today as they searched for a suspect.
The shooting occurred at the intersection of Gallivan and Dorchester Avenue, according to Massachusetts State Police.
Gallivan has been reopened after the initial search, State Police said in a tweet just before 1:30 p.m..
No victim has been found. The search for a shooter remains ongoing, according to police.
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MSP and @bostonpolice units are on scene of a shots fired call, Gallivan Blvd. at Dorchester Ave. in Boston. Gallivan Blvd. is shut down at multiple locations, including intersections with Dorchester Ave. and Washington Street, to facilitate the ongoing search for the suspect.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but willful ignorance makes for stupid beliefs.
The letter writer implies that Mark Kelly's campaign war chest exists because of Chuck Schumer and therefore Kelly is Schumer's lap dog. Had the writer checked, he would know that almost all of Kelly's campaign funds come from individual members of the Arizona electorate. Kelly did receive about $154,000 from Democratic aligned PACs, but none of those were controlled by Schumer. Extrapolating that sum to 53 million and then attributing it to Schumer suggests magical thinking on the writer's part.
Clearly, investigating facts and critical thinking are not part of the writer's repertoire. He just wants to malign a Democrat who has dedicated his exemplary life to public service and he doesn't need facts or logical conclusions to make his point. His beliefs are all that matter to him and when he can't find facts that reinforce his beliefs, he hypothesizes falsehoods that do.
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Former police officer pleads guilty to taking guns, money from evidence room
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A former police officer in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to stealing guns and money from an evidence room.
WCSC reports that 47-year-old Wade Franklin Rollings’ charges include misconduct in office and grand larceny.
According to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Rollings also pleaded guilty to breach of trust with fraudulent intent in an unrelated case.
Authorities said the 47-year-old was an evidence custodian with the Summerville Police Department in December 2020 when he reported that $7,439 was missing from an evidence room safe.
The solicitor’s office said an internal investigation revealed that Rollings entered false information into a case management system to make it appear as though another employee had authorized the release of the funds.
Government documents stated that Rollings was being interviewed by other Summerville police employees about the lost money when he was shown a system log.
“When Rollings was provided with this new information, his demeanor quickly changed,” the documents said. “He put his head down and stated, ‘OK, I need to tell you something.’”
According to the solicitor’s office, Rollings made a full confession. He was fired and charged with misconduct in office.
Authorities said a follow-up investigation into the evidence room revealed that Rollings also had taken several firearms and sold them at nearby pawn shops.
Additionally, while awaiting trial, Rollings reportedly worked for an agricultural retailer in Berkeley County. According to court documents, he set up fake merchandise returns, generating refunds from the store to customers who did not exist, and stole around $2,500.
“Although these were his first offenses, crimes committed by police officers undermine the judicial system by eroding public confidence,” Sean Thornton, with the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, said. “Therefore, prison time was appropriate in this situation.”
Officials said Rollings was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI -- A head-on crash with a freeway support column left two people dead in St. Clair Shores Saturday morning, police said.
At about 2:55 a.m. Oct. 1, Michigan State Police troopers were dispatched to the area of the eastbound I-94 freeway near Stephens Road in St. Clair Shores for a reported vehicle crash.
A Ford F-150 truck was heading eastbound on I-94 when the driver began gradually leaving the roadway to the right, police said.
The truck was driven up a roadside embankment before it hit the Stephens Road overpass support column head-on, police said.
The vehicle caught fire soon after, as two occupants were trapped inside, police said. Both occupants were pronounced dead when troopers arrived at the scene.
Further information about the victims, including their names, has not yet been released by police.
An investigation into this crash is still underway, police said. It is still unknown what caused the driver to leave the roadway.
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India probes bribery allegations that a regulator helped switch test samples of possibly toxic cough syrup
The World Health Organization has linked the cough syrup to child deaths in Gambia
Indian authorities have launched an inquiry into an allegation that a local pharmaceutical regulator, in return for a bribe, helped switch samples of cough syrups that the World Health Organization (WHO) had linked to the deaths of children in Gambia before the samples were tested at an Indian laboratory, according to two government officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.
In an April 29 letter to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Haryana state reviewed by Reuters, a lawyer named Yashpal accused the state's drug controller, Manmohan Taneja, of taking a bribe of $605,419 from local manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals to help it switch the samples before an Indian government laboratory tested them. Maiden's factory is based in Haryana state.
Reuters was unable to independently establish that any bribes were paid.
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Taneja did not respond to phone calls, messages or emails seeking comment. Maiden did not respond to requests for comment. The WHO said it had no knowledge of the allegation.
Yashpal – who like some Indians uses only one name – did not say in the letter where he got the information, or provide evidence for his claim about the syrups made by Maiden.
Contacted by Reuters, the lawyer said he had learned about the alleged bribe in the Maiden case from at least two individuals in India's pharmaceutical industry, including one within Maiden, but declined to identify any of them for fear of retribution.
"I just want the matter formally investigated," said the 38-year-old, adding that he was waiting to be asked to submit an affidavit that would trigger such a probe.
He said he has never represented any pharmaceutical companies or worked on cases involving compensation claims in his five-year career, but had started looking into Taneja last year after a pharma industry friend alerted him to another case of alleged corruption. After the Gambia deaths became public, Yashpal said he started investigating more closely and spoke with about 40 sources across Haryana, during which he learned of the alleged Maiden bribe.
The director general of the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau, Shatrujeet Kapur, told Reuters that Yashpal's complaint would be taken forward by the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) for health in Haryana, the state's top health bureaucrat. Kapur did not specify what further steps that would involve.
The Additional Chief Secretary, G. Anupama, said in a text message, "Enquiry is underway" and directed Reuters to the health minister for Haryana state, Anil Vij, for further details. Vij did not respond to requests for comment.
Yashpal's complaint was first reported by Hindi daily Haribhoomi on May 17. The inquiry by local officials into his allegations has not been previously reported.
Haryana, located near New Delhi, has major industrial clusters and its administration said in 2019 it wanted to "transform Haryana into a hub" within India's $41 billion pharmaceutical industry. Haryana has been ruled by the same party since 2014. Its chief minister and health minister, to whom Yashpal also sent his complaint, did not respond to requests for comment.
Naresh Kumar Goyal, the founder of Maiden Pharmaceuticals, told Reuters in December his company did nothing wrong in the production of the cough syrup. In February, an Indian court sentenced Goyal and another Maiden executive to two-and-half years in jail for quality violations in drugs sold to Vietnam a decade ago. It gave them a month to appeal. Reuters could not determine the status of that case.
Indian authorities carried out tests on the Maiden syrups late last year after the WHO linked them to the deaths of at least 70 children in the African country, most under 5 years old, from acute kidney injury between June and October.
Tests of samples of the syrup carried out earlier with help from the WHO had confirmed the presence of lethal toxins - ethylene glycol (EG) and diethylene glycol (DEG), used in car brake fluid - sparking a global hunt for contaminated medicines. The agency has said it has full confidence in the test results from two independent laboratories.
However, India's federal drugs regulator said in December its own tests found no toxins in the syrups. Its factory inspectors did earlier find that batches of medicine may have been incorrectly labelled, according to a notice it sent to Maiden seen by Reuters. It has not made clear how, in light of that, it can be sure it tested the correct batch. It did not respond to a request for comment.
Yashpal also sent his complaint to the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said and documents seen by Reuters show. The prime minister's office did not respond to requests for comment.
The bribery allegation was one of about half a dozen claims of corruption by Yashpal against Taneja in the letter. Yashpal alleged Taneja had taken bribes to approve products and issue drug licences since 2021. He did not provide any evidence.
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"I want an investigation done by someone outside the health department because Taneja himself is a senior health official," the lawyer said. "It is a question of India's reputation."
On May 10, Taneja's deputy Lalit Kumar Goel asked Yashpal to come to the regulator's office "with all relevant documents" to discuss the inquiry, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
Yashpal told Reuters he did not comply, because he did not feel comfortable bringing such details to the deputy of someone he had accused of corruption. Goel did not respond to a request for comment.
Gambia said earlier this month it had hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action after its own government-backed investigation found contaminated medicines from India were "very likely" to have caused the deaths of children last year, the justice minister told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON — Powerball's jackpot ascended closer to half a billion dollars after remaining winless for weeks.
Monday's prize is $480 million — $242.2 million if the winner chooses the more popular cash option. The winning Powerball numbers for Monday were 19-30-36-46-60 with the Powerball 25 and Power Play 3.
Players must match all five numbers and the Powerball to win the grand prize. The odds of that happening are slim with less than 1 in 292 million.
Despite the narrow odds of winning the grand prize, the shot at becoming a millionaire isn't out of the question. After Saturday's drawing, a couple people woke up as millionaires after two tickets matched the five numbers. The winning million-dollar tickets were bought in Texas and Ohio.
If there isn't a grand prize winner on Monday night, players will get another chance at the ever-growing prize on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
On Friday, two players won the $494 million Mega Millions, after matching all five numbers and the Mega ball. It was the second largest Mega Millions prize this year.
However, it was this summer's near-record $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot that sent Americans in a lottery frenzy in July until a winner in Illinois took home the grand prize. Two people came forward last month to claim that prize, but they chose to stay anonymous.
Powerball still holds the world record for largest jackpot with a whopping $1.586 billion prize won in 2016. That prize was shared by winners in Tennessee, Florida and California.
Powerball's current $480 million jackpot would need to remain winless for a while before it reached any record status.
Here's a look at the biggest U.S. jackpots ever, according to the Associated Press:
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
- $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)
- $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland) | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lottery/powerball-jackpot-480-million-dollars-winning-numbers/507-caa7b19a-262d-4cdb-88b7-70aec09f0c56 | 2022-10-18 03:44:29 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lottery/powerball-jackpot-480-million-dollars-winning-numbers/507-caa7b19a-262d-4cdb-88b7-70aec09f0c56 |
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