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The 2022 Emmys truly saves the best for last.
During the live telecast on Sept. 12, event organizers surprised audience members when Selma Blair graced the stage inside the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles to present the final award of the night.
"I am so, so honored. Thank you," Selma shared while holding back tears after receiving a standing ovation from the star-studded audience. "I am honored to be here this evening to present the final award for Outstanding Drama Series."
While the cast and crew of Succession deserves a congratulations for taking home the final award of the evening, Selma's unexpected appearance was certainly a moment for viewers both at home and in person.
The Legally Blonde star was previously diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018. But as she continues to raise awareness about a disease that impacts the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves, Selma has also used her platform to inspire.
On Sept. 10, Selma announced she will be competing on season 31 of Dancing With the Stars this fall, alongside partner Sasha Farber.
"I'm so happy, so invigorated by this," she told E! News. "This is a new chapter of growing my stamina and really healing. Not just healing, but finding strength and support."
Selma also said she joined the show to inspire others with disabilities and prove that you can accomplish your dreams and goals.
"Kindness and visibility is so important, to explore, be curious and expose people to differences of speech or movement," she explained. "It's for everyone at home that it resonates with."
Spoiler alert: It's going to be hard not to root for this talented contestant.
To see more 2022 Emmys red carpet moments, keep scrolling. And mark your calendars for a new season of Dancing With the Stars, airing Sept. 19 on Disney+.
(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
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By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears, has died. He had just turned 102.
Lord died Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
“He had a good death and died peacefully of old age,” she told The Associated Press.
Sterling Lord, who started his own agency in 1952 and later merged with rival Literistic to form Sterling Lord Literistic Inc., was a failed magazine publisher who became, almost surely, the longest-serving agent in the book business. He stayed with the company he founded until he was nearly 100 — and then decided to launch a new one.
He was well-spoken and athletic, a most able negotiator who dressed in tweed and avoided most vices. But he was alert to new trends and an early ambassador for a revolutionary cultural movement: the Beats. With rare persistence, he endured the initial unwillingness of publishers to take on Kerouac’s unorthodox narrative and was later the longtime agent for poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, novelist Ken Kesey and poet and City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
His full roster of clients produced works about sports, politics, murder and the travails of illustrated animals.
Thanks to his friendship with Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, Lord helped launch Stan and Jan Berenstain’s multimillion-selling books about an anthropomorphic bear family. He negotiated terms between McGinniss and accused killer Jeffrey MacDonald, later convicted, for the true crime classic “Fatal Vision.” He found a publisher for Nicholas Pileggi’s mob story “Wiseguy” and helped arrange the deal for its celebrated film adaptation, “Goodfellas.”
In the early 1960s, Viking had asked Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and most famous novel. Kerouac declined, but Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
He represented former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame and worked often with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an editor with Doubleday and Viking. Some of the great sports books of the 20th century, from “North Dallas Forty” to “Secretariat,” were written by his clients.
“A number of things about this business have really caught me and made it a compelling interest,” Lord told the AP in 2013. “First, I’m interested in good writing. Second, I am interested in new and good ideas. And third, I’ve been able to meet some extraordinarily interesting people.”
Lord would also speak proudly of a project he declined: Lyndon Johnson’s memoir. Representatives for the former president informed Lord in the late 1960s that Johnson wanted $1 million for the book and that Lord should accept less than his usual commission for the honor of working with him. Lord turned them down, much to their surprise and anger.
Johnson’s “The Vantage Point,” ultimately published in 1971, was dismissed by critics as bland and uninformative. Lord instead found a deal for “Quotations from Chairman LBJ,” a bestselling parody.
Lord was married four times, and had one child, Rebecca.
Books and tennis were lifelong passions for Lord, born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1920. It began when his mother would read to him after dinner; he went on to edit his high school newspaper and work as a sports stringer around the same time for the Des Moines Register. He also became a tennis star at Grinnell College, and later a good enough player to compete against Don Budge, among others.
His upbringing, he would later write, was the kind of “pleasant, orderly” world “the Beats were trampling on in the fifties and sixties.”
After serving in the Army Air Force during World War II, Lord co-owned the Germany-based magazine Weekend, which soon folded. Back in the U.S., he served as an editor at True and Cosmopolitan, from which he was fired, before founding the Sterling Lord Literary Agency. Lord had met many agents during his magazine years and believed they failed to understand that the American public was becoming more urban and sophisticated. He also prided himself on his sympathy for writers who lived far more wildly than he did.
His first marriage, he would acknowledge, helped inspire him to go into business for himself.
“Frankly, I didn’t want to deal with the situation at home,” he told the Des Moines Register in 2015.
Lord had quick success by selling film rights to two popular sports books, Rocky Graziano’s “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and Jimmy Piersall’s “Fear Strikes Out.” But Lord’s “On the Road” quest would prove bumpier.
In his 2013 memoir “Lord of Publishing,” Lord remembered first meeting Kerouac in 1952. Kerouac already had completed a conventional novel, “The Town and the City,” but had no agent and surely needed one for his next book: “On the Road” was typed, as Lord was among the first to know, “on a 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper.”
Lord believed that Kerouac had “a fresh, distinctive voice that should be heard.” But the industry was not in the mood. Even younger editors who may have related to Kerouac’s jazzy celebration of youth and personal freedom turned him down. One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I think, a good one.”
By 1955, Kerouac was ready to give up — but Lord was not. The agent eventually sold excerpts to The Paris Review and the periodical New World Writing. An editor from Viking Press contacted Lord, offering an advance of $900. Lord held out for $1,000. In 1957, the book was released, The New York Times raved and “On the Road” soon entered the American canon.
But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Fame magnified a drinking problem that killed him by 1969. Lord even recruited a doctor who unsuccessfully attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.”
Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, “the sunlight filtering through the trees, the leaves brown after losing their fall colors.”
Lord oversaw Kerouac’s numerous posthumous releases even as he battled the author’s family for control of the estate. After years of failed attempts, a filmed version of “On the Road” was released in 2012. But Lord had little involvement in the project, directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart. He didn’t bother to attend a special screening, citing mixed early reviews, and didn’t show up for a private party for the film.
“I decided to go home,” he told the AP in 2013.
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Florida sheriff sued for ‘Wheel of Fugitive’ defamation
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Florida sheriff who posts weekly “Wheel of Fugitive” videos on social media. David Gays says he wasn’t a fugitive when his name and image appeared several times in 2021 on the sheriff’s posts inspired by the long-running TV game show “Wheel of Fortune.” Gay’s lawsuit filed last week says he lost a job and suffered emotional distress as a result. The lawsuit seeks more than $50,000 in damages. It was filed last week in state court in Brevard County, along Florida’s Space Coast. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office on Monday didn’t respond to an emailed inquiry seeking comment.
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Alabama seeing hundreds of new COVID-19 cases every day
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Alabama seeing hundreds of new COVID-19 cases every day
State health leaders in Alabama reported hundreds of new COVID-19 cases.According to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health, there were 5,807 new cases of COVID-19 in Alabama this week.In addition, there were 30 new deaths reported, and the positivity rate is up slightly to 9.9%.ADPH shows a total of 1,555,092 cases since the pandemic began in 2020.A total of 20,682 deaths were reported.The health department also showed 6.6 million vaccines have been administered to patients.
State health leaders in Alabama reported hundreds of new COVID-19 cases.
According to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health, there were 5,807 new cases of COVID-19 in Alabama this week.
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In addition, there were 30 new deaths reported, and the positivity rate is up slightly to 9.9%.
ADPH shows a total of 1,555,092 cases since the pandemic began in 2020.
A total of 20,682 deaths were reported.
The health department also showed 6.6 million vaccines have been administered to patients.
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HOUSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: VTOL), the global leader in innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions, will present at the 2022 Jefferies Industrials Conference on Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
Bristow's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Whalen is scheduled to present on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET and participate in investor meetings throughout the day.
The accompanying investor presentation will be available on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, on the investor section of Bristow's website at www.bristowgroup.com.
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Bristow Group Inc. is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions. Bristow primarily provides aviation services to a broad base of major integrated, national and independent energy companies. Bristow provides commercial search and rescue (SAR) services in several countries and public sector SAR services in the United Kingdom (U.K.) on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. Additionally, the Company also offers fixed wing transportation and other aviation related solutions.
Bristow currently has customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Dutch Caribbean, Guyana, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad, the U.K. and the U.S. To learn more, visit our website at www.bristowgroup.com.
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SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Summerland Key man was arrested on Tuesday after deputies said he stole his roommate’s bird and left it injured at a bus stop in the Florida Keys.
According to a post on the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Justin David “Redbeard” Peters, 40, was accused of stealing the $1,800 bird on June 13. The victim, a 37-year-old woman, told police that she instructed Peters to leave the bird, Piper, alone and that he did not have permission to remove it from its cage and leave the house.
The sheriff’s office said a witness reported seeing a man at a bus stop near his business. The man disappeared, leaving a parrot on the bench in his place. People at a nearby restaurant and gas station also reportedly saw the man, later identified as Peters, with the same “agitated” red bird.
Deputies said Piper was returned to its owner and taken to the vet to get checked out. The parrot reportedly multiple broken bones, a dislocated hip and blunt force trauma to one side of its body, among other injuries.
Peters was taken to jail and charged with grand theft and animal cruelty.
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Parents in Pelham concerned after volunteer youth coach arrest
PELHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Parents and other officials are speaking out after a former volunteer youth coach in Pelham was arrested on charges related to child pornography.
Since this happened, parents in Pelham have been voicing their concerns.
One parent said city leaders have a responsibility to protect the children in their programs and throughout the district.
“Immediate countermeasures should be taken to ensure the safety of our children is the number one priority,” said parent Taylor Cox.
The Pelham Police Department said individuals are not allowed to volunteer unless they have gone through a background check, which Hutto passed.
Cox reached out to the Pelham Parks and Rec Director Brian Cooper with a few suggestions on moving forward.
“No coaches alone with children, always must have two adults present, implement a buddy system,” Cox said. “No child alone without a buddy with them and encourage parents to be at all activities to watch their children when possible.”
The City of Pelham released a statement saying: “Pelham Parks & Recreation follows all its policies and procedures related to volunteer coaches. Individuals are not allowed to volunteer unless they have gone through a background check. These include national and state criminal history checks. Pelham Parks & Recreation coaches are also required to complete the Coach Safely program.”
Hutto is currently being held in the Shelby County Jail and his bond is set at $300,000.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prosecutors requested a 10-year prison sentence Friday for a dissident Belarusian journalist who was arrested after a warplane forced down a commercial airliner he was taking to Lithuania.
Raman Pratasevich is on trial in Belarus on charges of organizing unrest and plotting to seize power. Pratasevich ran a Telegram messaging app channel that was widely used by participants in mass protests against the disputed August 2020 election that gave authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office.
The protests, which lasted for months, were longest and largest demonstration of opposition to Lukashenko since he took power in 1994. Belarusian authorities responded to the demonstrations with a brutal crackdown that saw more than 35,000 people arrested, thousands beaten by police and dozens of media outlets and nongovernmental organizations shut.
Pratasevich lived in exile at the time, but he and his girlfriend were arrested in May 2021 when their Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was ordered to land in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. Belarusian authorities said there was a bomb threat but later said no explosives were found on board.
Western countries condemned the flight diversion as tantamount to hijacking and imposed strong sanctions against Lukashenko and Belarus.
Pratasevich subsequently made several confessional appearances on state television that critics claimed were done under duress. He was later released from custody and put under house arrest.
His girlfriend, a Russian citizen, was sentenced to six years in prison in May 2022.
Pratasevich appeared healthy at his trial on Friday. Two founders of the Telegram channel Nexta are also being tried in absentia.
Separately, the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna reported Friday that a court had rejected the appeal of the group's founder, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, who was sentenced in March to 10 years in prison on a conviction of financing groups that promoted public disorder.
Viasna says nearly 1,500 people have been put behind bars in Belarus in connection with opposition activities.
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READING, Pa. - The Reading Royals are partnering with several pediatric cancer-based organizations for tonight's game.
Fans can purchase tickets for one of the three organizations.
They include Elle's Angels Foundation, Lauren's Foundation Link, and Laney's Legacy.
Five-dollars from each ticket purchased will go towards supporting that organization.
Tonight is also the team's "Star Wars" night.
Fans are encouraged to dress up as their favorite characters from the series.
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LOS ANGELES — Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.
Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent David Shaul told The Associated Press on Friday. No cause was given.
After putting her career on hold for years to raise her children, Fletcher was in her early 40s and little known when chosen for the role opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film by director Milos Forman, who had admired her work the year before in director Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us." At the time, she didn't know that many other prominent stars, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had turned it down.
"I was the last person cast," she recalled in a 2004 interview. "It wasn't until we were halfway through shooting that I realized the part had been offered to other actresses who didn't want to appear so horrible on the screen."
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" went on to become the first film since 1934′s "It Happened One Night" to win best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and best screenplay.
Clutching her Oscar at the 1976 ceremony, Fletcher told the audience, "It looks as though you all hated me."
She then addressed her deaf parents in Birmingham, Alabama, talking and using sign language: "I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true."
A moment of silence was followed by thunderous applause.
Later that night, Forman made the wry comment to Fletcher and her co-star, Jack Nicholson: "Now we all will make tremendous flops."
In the short run, at least, he was right.
Forman next directed "Hair," the movie version of the hit Broadway musical that failed to capture the appeal of the stage version. Nicholson directed and starred in "Goin' South," generally regarded as one of his worst films. Fletcher signed on for "Exorcist II: The Heretic," a misconceived sequel to the landmark original.
Far more than her male peers, Fletcher was hampered by her age in finding major roles in Hollywood. Still, she worked continuously for most of the rest of her life. Her post-"Cuckoo's Nest" films included "Mama Dracula," "Dead Kids" and "The Boy Who Could Fly."
She was nominated for Emmys for her guest roles on the TV series "Joan of Arcadia" and "Picket Fences," and had a recurring role as Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." She played the mother of musical duo Carpenters in 1989's "The Karen Carpenter Story."
Fletcher's career was also hampered by her height. At 5-feet-10, she would often be dismissed from an audition immediately because she was taller than her leading man.
Fletcher had moved to Los Angeles to launch her acting career soon after graduating from North Carolina State University.
Working as a doctor's receptionist by day and studying at night with noted actor and teacher Jeff Corey, she began getting one-day jobs on such TV series as "Wagon Train," "77 Sunset Strip" and "The Untouchables."
Fletcher married producer Jerry Bick in the early 1960s and gave birth to two sons in quick succession. She decided to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother and didn't work for 11 years.
"I made the choice to stop working, but I didn't see it as a choice," she said in the 2004 interview. "I felt compelled to stay at home."
She divorced Bick in 1977 and he died in 2004.
In "Cuckoo's Nest," based on the novel Ken Kesey wrote while taking part in an experimental LSD program, Nicholson's character, R.P. McMurphy, is a swaggering, small-time criminal who feigns insanity to get transferred from prison to a mental institution where he won't have to work so hard.
Once institutionalized, McMurphy discovers his mental ward is run by Fletcher's cold, imposing Nurse Mildred Ratched, who keeps her patients tightly under her thumb. As the two clash, McMurphy all but takes over the ward with his bravado, leading to stiff punishment from Ratched and the institution, where she restores order.
The character was so memorable she would become the basis for a Netflix series, "Ratched," 45 years later.
Estelle Louise Fletcher was born the second of four children on July 22, 1934, in Birmingham. Her mother was born deaf and her father was a traveling Episcopal minister who lost his hearing when struck by lightning at age 4.
"It was like having parents who are immigrants who don't speak your language," she said in 1982.
The Fletcher children were helped by their aunt, with whom they lived in Bryant, Texas, for a year. She taught them reading, writing and speaking, as well as how to sing and dance.
It was those latter studies that convinced Fletcher she wanted to act. She was further inspired, she once said, when she saw the movie "Lady in the Dark" with Ginger Rogers.
That and other films, Fletcher said, taught her "your dream could become real life if you wanted it bad enough."
"I knew from the movies," she would say, "that I wouldn't have to stay in Birmingham and be like everyone else."
Fletcher's death was first reported by Deadline.
She is survived by her two sons, John and Andrew Bick.
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CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Thursday, February 2, 2023
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Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely early this morning,
then chance of rain and snow late this morning. Chance of rain
and snow showers this afternoon. Snow level 3500 feet rising to
4000 feet this afternoon. Snow accumulation of 3 to 4 inches.
Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Breezy. South winds 15 to
25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening. Snow level 4000 feet in the evening. Lows
in the lower to mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain and snow
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Snow level 4000 feet
lowering to 3500 feet after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid
30s. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph until
well after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and snow showers. Snow level 3500 feet. Highs in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to
mid 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers in the
morning, then slight chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
to mid 20s. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
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Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow this morning.
Slight chance of snow showers early this afternoon. Slight chance
of rain showers this afternoon. Snow level 3300 feet rising to
4000 feet this afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
Breezy. In the shasta valley, south winds 25 to 35 mph.
Elsewhere, south winds 25 to 35 mph decreasing to 15 to 25 mph
this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Breezy. Winds
southeast winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Snow level 4000 feet.
Lows in the mid 30s. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph shifting to the southwest 10 to 15 mph well
after midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain and snow showers likely in the afternoon. Snow
level 3500 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph shifting to the west late in the afternoon. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to
mid 40s. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Not as cool. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance
of rain and snow showers. Lows around 30. Highs in the mid 40s to
mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
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329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
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snow late this morning. Chance of rain and snow showers this
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times early this morning. Snow
level 3200 feet. Snow accumulation of 2 to 3 inches at lower
elevations and 3 to 5 inches above 4000 feet. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph decreasing to
10 to 15 mph late this afternoon. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast well after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level
4500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the south 15 to 20 mph
late in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers in the evening, then rain
and snow showers likely after midnight. Snow level 4000 feet.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts
up to 35 mph until well after midnight. Chance of precipitation
near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and snow showers likely in the morning, then rain
and snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level 3500 feet rising to
4000 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance
of rain and snow showers. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs
in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows 15 to 25.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
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Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely this morning, then chance of
rain and snow showers this afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet this
afternoon. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Windy. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph. Gusts up
to 45 mph this morning. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level
4500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Windy. South winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Snow level 4500 feet
lowering to 4000 feet after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to
lower 30s. Windy. South winds 20 to 30 mph becoming southwest
10 to 20 mph well after midnight. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in
the evening. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow
showers in the evening, then slight chance of snow showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
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Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON ABOVE
3000 FEET...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow this morning,
then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow showers
this afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Breezy. South
winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. Breezy. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph shifting to the south 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
40 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers
in the evening, then rain and snow showers likely after midnight.
Snow level 4500 feet lowering to 4000 feet after midnight. Lows
around 30. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph
until well after midnight. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then snow showers likely in the afternoon. Highs around 40.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers
after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
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Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
329 AM PST Fri Feb 3 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow this morning. Chance of
rain showers early this afternoon. Slight chance of snow showers
this afternoon. Snow level 4400 feet this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph well after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain and snow
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers. Snow
level 4600 feet lowering to 4000 feet after midnight. Lows around
30. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers in the morning,
then snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s. Breezy. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the west
10 to 15 mph late in the afternoon. Chance of snow 80 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 20s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Not
as cool. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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Last living prosecutor of Nuremberg trials to receive Congressional Gold Medal
Benjamin Ferencz, the last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, is receiving the Congressional Gold Medal.
The Delray Beach resident is 102 years old. After he graduated from Harvard University, Ferencz fought in a U.S. Army artillery unit during World War II. He earned several medals and participated in battles that included D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. He was asked to collect evidence of Nazi war crimes.
After the war, he was appointed chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, when he secured the conviction of 22 former Nazi SS officials for their direct roles in the systematic murder of more than a million Jews. He was there when Nazi concentration campers were liberated.
In the years since, he has dedicated his life to promote peace around the world.
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., introduced a bipartisan bill to award Ferencz the Congressional Gold Medal. The honor is Congress' highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions by individuals or institutions.
Representatives Lois Frankel (D-FL-21), Joe Wilson (R-SC-02), Jim McGovern (D-MA-02), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL-12) were joined by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to announce that their bipartisan bill was included in the Fiscal Year 2023 spending package. It’s expected to pass this week and be signed by President Biden on Friday.
In 2021, he told WPTV, "The Germans were very methodical, they kept a record of which unit killed how many people in which time. The mistake they made, I found the record.”
Palm Beach County commissioners honored Ferencz in 2021, declaring November 5 as "Benjamin Ferencz Law Not War Day." A street was named in his honor at Canyon District Park in west Boynton Beach.
He said the horrors of war traumatized him, but he will never give up for future generations.
"I am touched by the fact that I'm not speaking only to myself, I'm speaking for all people who realize when they hear it that the guy is right," Ferencz said.
In 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis awarded the governor's medal of freedom to Ferencz.
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MARIETTA, Ohio (WCMH) — Two people died Tuesday morning after a plane leaving Columbus crashed into the parking lot of a Marietta, Ohio car dealership, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
An eyewitness video shows large, dark plumes of smoke and a large fire at the dealership. You can see that video in the player below.
OSHP confirmed that a pilot and a passenger on the aircraft died when it crashed into the Pioneer Buick GMC dealership parking lot in Marietta at 7:15 a.m. The agency later identified the victims as:
- Timothy F. Gifford, 49, of Orient
- Eric S. Seevers, 45, of West Virginia
Gifford was a Columbus firefighter who retired in May, according to a spokesperson with the Columbus Division of Fire.
OSHP did not say which of the occupants was piloting the plane, and Federal Aviation Administration records indicate that both men had commercial pilot licenses. OSHP did add that no one on the ground was hurt.
“I just hustled in here real quick to see what was going on just to see how bad it was,” said Rod Taylor, the general manager of the dealership. Taylor told NBC4 that the dealership doesn’t open until 8 a.m. and that only one person was in the building at that time. Taylor said he was on the other side of the building.
He heard the explosion and the fireball but other than that fortunately it happened earlier,” said Taylor.
The FAA confirmed that the aircraft was a twin-engine Beechcraft BE9L, a small plane that can seat up to 10 people. The federal agency said the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating as well.
Taylor confirmed the crash resulted in 12 cars being damaged, with eight to the point of beyond repair. He said the vehicles are replaceable but the people are not.
“Feel blessed that none of my people got injured that’s for certain but like I said I feel bad for the pilot and co-pilot, or pilot and passenger, whatever it was, you know, their families. It’s a tragic day,” Taylor said.
A spokesperson with John Glenn International Airport confirmed that the plane took off from CMH at 6:39 a.m. A FlightAware tracker indicated the destination of the plane was the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
OSHP in southeast Ohio said the crash affected traffic on State Route 7 between Interstate 77 and Browns Road. The City of Marietta’s official Facebook page said that SR 7 reopened as of 9 a.m.
Marietta is right along the Ohio River on the border between Ohio and West Virginia. View the plane’s flight path before it crashed in Marietta in the RadarBox record below:
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DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A chemical plant in the Houston area caught fire Friday, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston.
Officers received a service call just after 3 p.m. Friday to help divert traffic around the plant, Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman Thomas Gilliland said. The city of Deer Park said in an advisory that there was no shelter-in-place order for residents.
Shell is conducting their own air quality monitoring but the city has yet to receive an update, said Kaitlyn Bluejacket, a spokesperson for the city of Deer Park. She said they have been advised by Shell that there is no need at the time to shelter in place, but that the city would update residents if that becomes the case.
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Fire crews from the plant and nearby plants are responding, as well as the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office, who is leading the response, Gilliland said.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a tweet his agency was responding to calls about “some type of explosion.”
Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia said in a statement that his office has been assured that the situation is "under control" and that all employees have been accounted. Garcia urged people to avoid the area but said there is no shelter-in-place currently in effect.
The cause of the fire remains unknown and under investigation by the Harris County Fire Marshal, according to Garcia.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality officials said in a statement that they are responding to the industrial fire and have deployed air monitoring assets from the Houston, Beaumont and Austin offices to support local response.
Shell officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Zach Mosca and Miguel Manalang scored 14 points apiece to lead Bergen Tech to a 53-37 victory over Lakeland.
Michael Staninets scored eight points for Bergen Tech (2-11), who jumped out to a 20-16 advantage at halftime and held an eight-point lead by the end of the third quarter. Bergen Tech used a 21-13 run in the fourth quarter to take control of the game.
Noah Pagan scored 17 points for Lakeland (5-8).
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From Storm Team 5…
More clouds come in tonight and there may even be a few sprinkles, or at most, a light rain shower in far southern sections. Green Bay and the valley should stay dry.
The low is 53 degrees with light and variable winds.
Tomorrow will be another great day with a brief rain chance. Mostly sunny in the morning and more afternoon clouds.
In the late afternoon and evening, a few hit/miss showers may form, but many will avoid rain. Highs increase to the middle 70s.
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COHASETTE, Mass. (WWLP) – The husband of missing 39-year-old mother Ana Walshe was arrested, authorities announced Sunday.
46-year-old Brian Walshe was arrested and charged with misleading a police investigation.
According to the Cohasset Police Department, Ana Walshe was last seen at her home shortly after midnight on Jan. 1. Cohasset lies roughly 20 miles southeast of Boston.
Friends say she’s a wife and a mother to three young boys.
Friends of Walshe said she was supposed to catch a flight Sunday from Boston Logan International Airport to Washington, D.C., where she works, according to WBTS. A LinkedIn profile that appears to belong to Walshe states that she works for Tishman Speyer.
Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley confirmed during a news conference Friday morning that she did not board a flight from Logan Airport.
Ana Walshe was reported missing Wednesday by her husband and her employer.
Police were back at the Walshe residence Sunday morning.
The Cohasset Police Department said Saturday, “The ground search will not resume unless police develop new information that so warrants it.”
Walshe is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, 115 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, and an olive complexion. Police say it is believed that she speaks with an Eastern European accent.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact the Cohasset Police Department, Detective Harrison Schmidt, at (781) 383-1055 extension 6108 or email hschmidt@cohassetpolice.com.
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RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LBC Credit Partners ("LBC"), one of the leading providers of financing solutions to middle market companies, provided senior secured credit facilities to Hidden Harbor Capital Partners ("Hidden Harbor") to support the acquisition of Machinery Services Corp. and Rapid Pump & Meter Services Co., Inc. ("MSC&RPM").
LBC served as Agent and Sole Lead Arranger for the senior secured credit facilities.
MSC&RPM is a leading Northeast facility services provider that focuses on pump, motor, and other repair services for water, wastewater, and other industrial applications. Based in Paterson, New Jersey, MSC&RPM offers comprehensive services to fulfill facility and project requirements for its customers and is fully dedicated to delivering 100% customer satisfaction.
Hidden Harbor manages approximately $700 million of committed capital and brings large-scale, private equity experience and resources to the lower-middle market with a focus on value-oriented, operationally- intensive situations. Hidden Harbor's principals are investor operators who have both extensive transaction and operating experience. As one team, Hidden Harbor partners and works hand-in-hand with its portfolio companies to drive business success.
LBC Credit Partners provides middle market and lower middle market financing solutions supporting sponsored and non-sponsored transactions throughout the U.S. across a broad range of industries. With over $3.4 billion of capital commitments, we have provided in excess of $9.5 billion to over 303 issuers throughout our 17-year history.* In December 2021, CIFC acquired LBC Credit Partners, expanding its alternative global credit platform into the private credit market. With the acquisition, CIFC currently manages over $40 billion in assets and employs more than 190 professionals in the U.S. and Europe.* To learn more, visit www.cifc.com or www.lbccredit.com.
LBC Offices: Philadelphia area (HQ), Chicago
LBC Originations Offices: Atlanta, Cleveland, Los Angeles
*Information as of September 30, 2022.
LBC Credit Partners
555 East Lancaster Avenue, Suite 450
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Tel 215-972-8900
Fax 215-567-0138
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Updated February 16, 2023 at 3:34 PM ET
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is receiving treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed hospital, his office announced Thursday. His chief of staff said Fetterman checked himself in Wednesday night.
"While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks," chief of staff Adam Jentleson said in a statement.
Fetterman was evaluated Monday by a doctor, who on Wednesday recommended inpatient care, according to the statement. He is receiving treatment "on a voluntary basis."
The Pennsylvania Democrat defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz in a closely watched Senate race in November, securing a key Democratic pickup in the chamber.
Fetterman had a stroke in May of last year, which sidelined him from the midterm campaign for two months, and soon after he had a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted to treat an irregular heart rhythm.
Fetterman was hospitalized again last week after feeling light-headed at a Democratic Senate retreat. But after testing and observation, doctors ruled out the possibility of another stroke.
His wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, posted on Twitter Thursday asking for privacy during this "difficult time for our family."
"After what he's been through in the past year, there's probably no one who wanted to talk about his own health less than John," she said. "I'm so proud of him for asking for help and getting the care he needs."
After what he’s been through in the past year, there’s probably no one who wanted to talk about his own health less than John. I’m so proud of him for asking for help and getting the care he needs. pic.twitter.com/SfuwWTSUcG
— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 16, 2023
It is generally rare for sitting officials to acknowledge receiving treatment for mental health conditions. One relatively recent example, though, is Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., who shared her experience with depression in her 30s in a 2019 floor speech in support of legislation to expand mental health care access.
It is more common, though, for lawmakers to speak about family members' depression or mental health.
If you or someone you know is in an emotional crisis, dial the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting 9-8-8.
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New report points to homicide rate declines in U.S. cities after pandemic-era spike
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homicides are declining in a cross-section of American cities, though their numbers remain higher than before the coronavirus pandemic took hold, according to a new report analyzing data from 30 U.S. cities.
Homicides on average dropped 9.4% during the first half of 2023 as compared to the same period last year, the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice found in a report released this week.
The numbers remained about 24% higher than they were in 2019, and motor vehicle thefts were up sharply in the analyzed cities.
“We’re seeing a continuing decline in homicides, but most cities are not back to levels that prevailed prior to the pandemic,” said Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and co-author of the report.
The report is based on crime data posed online by police departments in 37 cities of varying sizes around the country. Several of the nation’s largest cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, are represented, but researchers didn’t have immediate access to data for others, like Houston and San Diego. Of the cities that did post crime data online, 30 included homicide numbers and 20 of those showed declines.
While the analysis doesn’t capture the entire country, it’s another piece of evidence that U.S. crime rates overall are trending downward after a historic jump during the pandemic, said Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and consultant at AH Datalytics who wasn’t involved in producing the report. He maintains a crime database of murder rates in about 100 cities and has made similar findings.
“It’s been a widespread decline. It’s not everywhere, but it’s been widespread enough that it’s not simple randomness,” he said.
The homicide declines come after an increase in 2020 of 29%, according to FBI data. It was largest one-year jump since the agency’s record-keeping began, though still below historic highs of the 1990s.
That increase came during the COVID-19 pandemic, which created huge social disruption and upended support systems. The rise in crime defied easy explanation, though experts pointed to several possible factors, including unprecedented pressures of the pandemic on both citizens and the police, gun violence, social unrest after high-profile incidents of police violence and deep economic turmoil.
FBI crime data, typically the country’s most comprehensive, has pointed to violent crime rates beginning to level out in 2021, but the agency’s most recent data was incomplete. Nearly 40% of agencies, including big cities like New York, Los Angeles and Miami, didn’t send in their data for 2021 due to an overhaul in the FBI reporting system.
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CINCINNATI, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc., a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted clearance for the company's new Curian® Shiga Toxin assay. This assay joins Curian HpSA® and Curian Campy as Meridian expands its Curian diagnostic platform to maintain leadership in the gastrointestinal disease testing market.
Foodborne illness is a severe global public health problem that causes 48 million people to get sick yearly and 128,000 hospitalizations from common bacterial agents like Campylobacter and E. coli.1 Meridian is expanding its foodborne immunofluorescent testing capabilities beyond Campylobacter by adding Shiga toxin to the Curian platform. Speedy diagnosis is essential with patients suspected of having a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection because the use of antibiotics for treatment can increase Shiga toxin release, leading to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a potentially life-threatening complication.
The Curian Shiga Toxin assay is designed for use with the Curian analyzer. The new assay is a rapid, qualitative, fluorescent immunoassay for the simultaneous detection and differentiation of Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1) and Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) in a single test device. It is intended for use with cultures derived from human stool specimens to aid in diagnosing diseases caused by Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections, including non-O157 strains.
The immunofluorescent technology of the Curian platform provides an objective, rapid Shiga toxin result with an unmatched clinical sensitivity of 100% (Stx1), 100% (Stx2), and specificity of 99.4% (Stx1), 99.5% (Stx2) in prospective samples. Curian Shiga Toxin features a lower limit of detection than traditional rapid immunoassay testing. Combined with LIS connectivity, the Curian solution helps to eliminate subjectivity by reducing user variability related to interpreting and reporting visually based lateral flow test results.
"We are excited to continue the expansion of the Curian platform with this highly sensitive and specific assay. Curian now features the broadest menu of GI tests on an immunoassay analyzer," said Tony Serafini-Lamanna, President of Meridian Bioscience Diagnostics. "Curian Shiga Toxin has a market-leading three-step sample prep workflow and produces fast, objective results that can help laboratorians and clinicians provide an objective Shiga toxin diagnosis to get patients on the correct treatment and back on the road to wellness."
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Meridian is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic and life science products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy, and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. Through discovery and development, we provide critical life science raw materials used in immunological and molecular tests for human, animal, plant, and environmental applications. Through diagnosis, we provide diagnostic solutions in areas including gastrointestinal and upper respiratory infections and blood lead level testing. We build relationships and provide solutions to hospitals, reference laboratories, research centers, veterinary testing centers, physician offices, diagnostics manufacturers, and biotech companies in more than 70 countries around the world. Meridian is a privately held company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Meridian's website address is www.meridianbioscience.com.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Country Music Association Awards opened with Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Reba McEntire playing tribute to the late country queen Loretta Lynn.
The superstar trio performed a medley of Lynn's hits including "You Ain't Woman Enough," "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'" and "Coal Miner's Daughter" as images of Lynn were projected behind them and audience members sang along.
Lainey Wilson was the leading nominee at Wednesday's show and Alan Jackson will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. Wilson earned nominations in six categories, including female vocalist and album and song of the year.
Jordan Davis' "Buy Dirt" won the night's first honor, for song of the year. The song featured CMA Awards host Luke Bryan, who Davis called to the stage to hug.
Luke Combs won album of the year for "Growin' Up," while Brothers Osborne won vocal duo of the year and Old Dominion won the trophy for vocal group.
Chris Stapleton won male vocalist of the year, his sixth win in the category. Bryan, Luke Combs, Eric Church and Morgan Wallen were also nominated.
"All the guys in this category deserve this award," Stapleton said.
He dedicated the honor to his 12-year-old daughter, who's birthday was Wednesday.
Bryan co-hosted the show at Bridgestone Arena along with NFL great Peyton Manning.
Joining country's biggest stars for the evening were Katy Perry and actors Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon, who are playing Tammy Wynette and George Jones in an upcoming Showtime limited series.
Perry took the stage and performed "Where We Started" with Thomas Rhett during the show.
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MOSCOW (AP) — More than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession, a Russian court has set the start date of the criminal trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for July 1.
The Phoenix Mercury star was also ordered to remain in custody for the duration of her criminal trial. She could face 10 years in prison if convicted on charges of large-scale transportation of drugs. Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in the U.S., acquittals can be overturned.
On Monday, the court in the Moscow suburb of Khimki extended Griner’s detention for another six months after she appeared for a preliminary hearing held behind closed doors. Photos obtained by the AP showed her appearing in handcuffs. Griner had previously been ordered to remain in pretrial detention until July 2.
Griner’s detention and trial come at an extraordinarily low point in Moscow-Washington relations. She was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport less than a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, which aggravated already-high tensions with sweeping sanctions by the United States and Russia’s denunciation of U.S. weapon supplies to Ukraine.
Amid the tensions, Griner’s supporters had taken a low profile in hopes of a quiet resolution, until May, when the State Department reclassified her as wrongfully detained and shifted oversight of her case to its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs — effectively the U.S. government’s chief negotiator.
That move has drawn additional attention to Griner’s case, with supporters encouraging a prisoner swap like the one in April that brought home Marine veteran Trevor Reed in exchange for a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy.
Russian news media have repeatedly raised speculation that she could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “The Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence on conviction of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the discrepancy between Griner’s case — she allegedly was found in possession of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil — and Bout’s global dealings in deadly weapons could make such a swap unpalatable to the U.S.
Others have suggested that she could be traded in tandem with Paul Whelan, a former Marine and security director serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction that the United States has repeatedly described as a set-up.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, asked Sunday on CNN whether a joint swap of Griner and Whelan for Bout was being considered, sidestepped the question.
“As a general proposition … I have got no higher priority than making sure that Americans who are being illegally detained in one way or another around the world come home,” he said. But “I can’t comment in any detail on what we’re doing, except to say this is an absolute priority.”
Any swap would apparently require Griner to first be convicted and sentenced, then apply for a presidential pardon, Maria Yarmush, a lawyer specializing in international civil affairs, told Kremlin-funded TV channel RT.
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Based on overall reviews from some of the developers and marketers using the platform as of January 2023, 88% of them would recommend Storyblok
LINZ, Austria, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Storyblok, the content management system (CMS) category leader that empowers both developers and marketing teams to create better content experiences across all digital channels, today announced it is named a Customers' Choice in the March 2023 Gartner Peer Insights "Voice of the Customer": Web Content Management. Storyblok is the only vendor named a Customers' Choice in the report, with 88% of customers willing to recommend it.
Customer reviews have a huge impact on helping companies make smart decisions about which software to purchase. In a global survey of 200 business leaders who purchase software for their 500+ employee companies, Storyblok found that only 1% said customer reviews are of low importance when choosing software.
In fact, 75% regretted buying software without reading enough customer reviews first. 26% spend one month researching software, and 56% read more than 20 customer reviews before purchasing it. All of that research pays off because 94% said customer reviews match their experience using software all the time or most of the time.
As part of its efforts to continue providing an excellent customer experience, Storyblok recently introduced an extended enterprise support offering, a Bring Your Own Cloud hosting option (supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform), and an ROI calculator to help businesses see the economic impact that's possible with modernized content management.
"Focusing on the needs of our customers is at the heart of everything we do at Storyblok. We believe being recognized as the only vendor that's a Customers' Choice is a massive honor, but it's also a responsibility we take very seriously. We're committed to making sure our customers feel this way about us for many years to come," said Dominik Angerer, Co-Founder and CEO of Storyblok.
Storyblok's high customer satisfaction ratings have led to 150,000+ developers and marketers using the CMS to build more than 190,000 projects. Leading brands like Oatly (built 16 global websites in 2 months), Mindvalley (cut development time by 50%), and Claro (created personalized experiences for 70 million customers) continue to succeed with Storyblok.
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Leading brands such as Adidas, T-Mobile, Oatly, Deliveroo, and 150,000+ other developers and marketers use Storyblok to create better content experiences that are faster, more secure, and built to scale.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin is not offering any apologies for the move he made last weekend at Pocono that caused Kyle Larson to hit the wall and let Hamlin sail on to victory.
Truth be told, it’s what NASCAR was hoping to see more of when it established the system that divides races into three stages, rewards drivers with points for doing well in those stages and allows them to accrue playoff points, Hamlin said.
“That is what it was geared to do — give us the sense of urgency to ramp up and that regular season performance matters to get to the final four with a shot,” he said at Richmond Raceway. “The system is doing what it was designed to do.”
Hamlin also has changed, he said, after getting spun several times while leading.
“If you have one person willing to be aggressive and one person not, aggressive will win every time,” he said.
Larson, who said things are “fine” between he and Hamlin after they exchanged text messages Friday night, agreed that the point system encourages the aggressive approach Hamlin took, but added that it “makes the guys on the receiving end more mad as well just because of what’s at stake and what’s taken.”
Larson said four or five restart battles with Kyle Busch at World Wide Technology Raceway in June showed how cleanly he tries to race other drivers.
“I respect Kyle and that’s why I raced him with respect at Gateway, and I respect Denny every bit as much, if not more, or I did,” he said.
“I tend to blow things over pretty quickly,” Larson said. “This time, I probably have let it linger on my attitude a little bit this week just because it’s happened more often with him than any other driver in my career and also a win was taken.”
Larson won the first Richmond race this season in April.
POINTS RACE
William Byron has dropped 30 points behind Martin Truex Jr. in the points race with five races remaining before the playoffs begin. The regular season champion gets a 15-point bonus, but Byron doesn’t expect to make any changes to the way he’s racing while trying to secure that top spot and bonus.
“It’s really important but we can’t get too focused on the result of the regular season points,” he said. “We obviously want those points, but our process has been like it is to this point, and if we start focusing on that carrot out in front of us too much, it’s going to get us off-track.”
CHASING SPEED
Chase Elliott said Richmond is “such a weird place” where his car never feels good, but he was pleased to make the second round of qualifying. He’ll start fourth.
“Any position you can gain is good ahead of 10th,” Elliott said. “I also know this is a place where you can qualify really good and be really bad.”
Elliott missed six races with an injury and another while serving a suspension. He hasn’t won yet and likely will need to win to make the playoffs. He’s 21st in points.
“There’s a few guys that I feel like have been consistently good at this track and the rest of us are kind of hit or miss,” Elliott said. “Hopefully we can hit it tomorrow and just put together a solid day, try to get some stage points and just get up in the mix.”
HEAT CHECK
The temperature was near 100 degrees when the cars went out for qualifying, and the heat index made it feel even hotter. It’s expected to be about 90 on Sunday.
“There’s less grip and more emphasis on tire management,” Brad Keselowski said. “It will be a different race here than it was in the spring, for sure.”
Truex and Larson are the betting favorites Sunday, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Islam Makhachev defied a rowdy crowd and a sustained challenge from Alexander Volkanovski on Sunday to cement his supremacy in the UFC lightweight division in a grueling fight in Perth, Western Australia.
In the main event of UFC 284, Makhachev defended his 155-pound belt with an unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) to prevail in a five-round slugfest.
The 31-year-old also claimed the title of best pound-for-pound fighter from featherweight champion Australian Volkanovski, who saw his 22-win streak ended.
“People will call me not just ‘champ’, but ‘best fighter in the world’. I’m very happy,” said the Russian who was jeered throughout the fight by a sold-out 13,000 crowd at RAC Arena.
“I landed many good punches but he’s strong and a real champion. He was the best fighter in the world...not now.”
Makhachev (24 wins, one loss) had to fend off a furious challenge from the 34-year-old Volkanovski but his grappling and wrestling prowess proved enough.
Volkanovski, a former concreter and rugby league player, impressed as he moved up a division. He landed several blows and dominated for stretches of the contest but fell in his second defeat from 27 fights.
“It was a winnable fight. I’m very harsh on myself,” said Volkanovski, who hopes for a rematch with Makhachev after suffering his first UFC defeat. “I’m still proud of myself and proved people wrong but I expected to win and could have capitalized on things earlier (in the fight). Maybe I held back just a little bit until the last round.”
Considered the greatest UFC featherweight of all time, Volkanovski faced the toughest challenge of his career against an opponent four inches taller and 15 pounds heavier.
Volkanovski, who made his ring walk to the classic Australian song ‘Down Under’, needed to rely on his formidable striking and speed to produce an upset.
Both fighters felt each other out initially amid a febrile atmosphere before Volkanovski went on the attack as they traded blows.
But Makhachev got on top with his favored grappling and tried to choke out Volkanovski but was unable to.
Volkanovski, who holds the nickname ‘The Great’, survived a big left from his opponent in the second round before clawing back into the fight as it went the distance.
During a frenetic finish, willed on by giddy fans, a bloodied Volkanovski made his move and a big right-handed blow gave him one last chance, but Makhachev held firm to ultimately prevail.
Among the other bouts on the main card, Mexico’s Yair Rodriguez choked out American Josh Emmett to become the interim featherweight champion.
“I’ve been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid,” said Rodriguez before holding up his championship belt.
The 30-year-old, who earned the submission in the second round, will take on Volkanovski at a later date.
New Zealander Justin Tafa knocked out American Parker Porter in the first round of the heavyweight fight after landing a right uppercut.
In the welterweight division, hometown Perth hero Jack Della Maddalena defeated Jamaican Randy Brown by submission.
It was the first UFC event staged in Australia since the COVID-19 pandemic with the country enduring strict border controls for most of 2020 and 2021.
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reduce the number of French troops in Africa under a “new security partnership” with the concerned nations and to roll out more ambitious economic policies, in a bid to boost France’s waning influence in the continent.
Macron called for opening a “new era” in a speech at the Elysee presidential palace, ahead of an ambitious trip on Wednesday to Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and Congo.
He said France must move away from interfering in parts of Africa that it once ruled as a colonial power, saying the continent is no longer its “back yard.”
“There’s another path,” he said: “Addressing African countries as partners with whom we share interests and balanced, reciprocal, accountable responsibilities.”
He promised a “new security partnership” with reduced numbers of French troops on the continent.
Macron said French military bases won’t be closed, but will be transformed based on needs expressed by African partners.
“Our model must not be anymore military bases like those we have now,” he said. “Tomorrow, our (military) presence will go through bases, schools, academies, which will be jointly managed” by French and African staff.
“And I say it very clearly: France’s role is not to fix all problems in Africa,” he added.
Monday’s speech came at a time when France’s influence on the continent is facing its biggest challenges in decades. Growing anti-French sentiment has led to street protests in several West and North African countries.
In addition, historical economic ties that France had with the region are under pressure from the growing commercial presence of Russia, China and Turkey.
Macron acknowledged that Africa now is a “field of competition” and urged French businesses to “wake up” and get involved in the fight.
In the past year, French troops had to withdraw from Mali, which turned instead to private Russian military contractors of the Wagner group, and most recently from Burkina Faso, which also appears to increasingly look towards Moscow.
Macron denounced Wagner as “criminal mercenaries” whose role is to “protect faltering and putschist regimes.” He accused them of “predating” on natural resources and “committing violence against (local) populations” including rapes.
Last year, Macron announced the formal end of the so-called Barkhane military force after France withdrew its troops from Mali. French operations to help fight Islamic extremists in the Sahel region are now focusing mostly on Niger and Chad, where the country still has about 3,000 troops.
In Burkina Faso, Boubacari Dicko, the emir — or traditional chief — of the northern city of Djibo near the Malian border, said a renewed relationship between France and African countries could be based on a win-win partnership.
“Change is good” and “necessary” because French policies in recent years have been criticized for failing to restore security in the region, he said, adding: “The French army was here, but that didn’t prevent the jihadists from entering the country and expanding in the country every day.”
Macron, 45, is the first French president born after the end of colonial era. He has previously sought to extend France’s cooperation with English-speaking countries, such as Ghana and Kenya, and increase French investments in Africa’s private sector.
During this week’s tour, he will also visit Portuguese-speaking Angola, with an aim to develop links especially in agriculture and food industry, and energy, including oil and gas.
Yet Macron’s trip to central Africa already faces questions.
Some opposition activists in Gabon have denounced his visit, which they perceive as offering support to President Ali Bongo Ondimba — whose family has ruled since the 1960s — ahead of a presidential election later this year.
Similar questions have been raised in Congo, which faces a December presidential election.
Macron’s office said all French officials will remain neutral regarding these elections.
The Elysee stressed that Macron is traveling to Gabon mainly to attend a major climate-related summit on the preservation of forests.
He will also seek to show France’s commitment to improving economic and cultural relations with two French-speaking countries — neighbors Republic of Congo and Congo — through talks with authorities as well as with ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs, artists and activists, according to the Elysee.
Macron denounced Monday the offensive in east Congo by the M23 rebel group linked with neighboring Rwanda as an “unacceptable regression.” Fighting intensified in recent days, with “terrible consequences” for the population, Macron said. “The unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Congo cannot be called into question,” he said.
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Results in top half of guidance range for 7th consecutive year
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) reported fourth quarter 2022 earnings per share of 51 cents on an as-reported and adjusted basis (non-GAAP). For the full year, the company reported 2022 earnings per share of $5.37 on an as-reported basis and $6.42 on an adjusted basis.
"We finished 2022 strong and delivered meaningful outcomes for our key stakeholders," said Drew Marsh, Entergy chairman and chief executive officer. "We have laid out a clear path that will deliver exceptional customer value including clean energy and resilience."
Business highlights included the following:
The PUCT approved E-TX's request to construct Orange County Advanced Power Station.
E-LA filed its Entergy Future Ready resilience plan with the LPSC seeking approval for the first five years of the ten-year accelerated resilience and hardening plan.
The LPSC approved E-LA's Hurricane Ida storm recovery and securitization financing.
E-AR and the U.S. General Services Administration signed the federal government's first MOU with a utility to provide regionally-sourced nuclear and renewable energy.
River Bend Station began its 22nd refueling outage after a 675-day continuous run, the longest in the plant's history.
The APSC approved E-AR's annual FRP.
EEI awarded Entergy its Emergency Response Award for its mutual assistance efforts in supporting Hurricane Ian restoration.
Entergy was named to a Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the 21st consecutive year.
Newsweek named Entergy as one of America's most responsible companies and one of America's greatest workplaces for diversity.
Consolidated results
For fourth quarter 2022, the company reported earnings of $106 million, or 51 cents per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $107 million, or 51 cents per share, on an adjusted basis. This compared to fourth quarter 2021 earnings of $259 million, or $1.28 per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $155 million, or 76 cents per share, on an adjusted basis.
For full year 2022, the company reported earnings of $1,103 million, or $5.37 per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $1,320 million, or $6.42 per share, on an adjusted basis. This compared to 2021 earnings of $1,118 million, or $5.54 per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $1,215 million, or $6.02 per share, on an adjusted basis.
Summary discussions by business follow. Additional details, including information on OCF by business, are provided in Appendix A. An analysis of quarterly and full year variances by business is provided in Appendix B.
Business segment results
Utility
For full year 2022, the Utility business reported earnings attributable to Entergy Corporation of $1,407 million, or $6.84 per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $1,686 million, or $8.20 per share, on an adjusted basis. This compared to full year 2021 earnings of $1,490 million, or $7.38 per share, on an as-reported basis, and earnings of $1,464 million, or $7.25 per share, on an adjusted basis. There were several drivers for the year's results.
2022 results include a regulatory charge of $(551 million) ($(413 million) after tax) that SERI recorded to increase a regulatory liability to reflect the effects of a partial settlement agreement and offer of settlement related to pending proceedings before the FERC (this item was considered an adjustment and excluded from adjusted earnings).
Also in 2022, as a result of receiving approvals for storm cost recovery and issuance of securitized debt at E-LA and E-TX, the companies recorded the following:
carrying costs on storm expenditures not previously recorded (the equity portion of carrying costs related to prior years was considered an adjustment and excluded from adjusted earnings),
a reduction in other income to account for LURC's 1 percent beneficial interest in the trust established as part of E-LA's securitization (considered an adjustment and excluded from adjusted earnings),
a reduction in income tax expense as a result of securitization (considered an adjustment and excluded from adjusted earnings), and
amounts reserved to share benefits of securitization with customers (considered an adjustment and excluded from adjusted earnings).
Other drivers for the year included:
the net effect of regulatory actions across the operating companies;
higher retail sales volume including the impacts of weather;
various regulatory provisions;
higher operating expenses including other O&M, depreciation expense, and taxes other than income taxes;
higher income from intercompany preferred investments (offset at P&O and largely earnings neutral for the consolidated result);
higher interest expense; and
higher effective income tax rate.
On a per share basis, 2022 results reflected higher diluted average number of common shares outstanding.
Appendix C contains additional details on Utility operating and financial measures.
Parent & Other
For full year 2022, Parent & Other reported a loss attributable to Entergy Corporation of $(366 million), or $(1.78) per share, on an as-reported and an adjusted basis. This compared to a full year 2021 loss of $(249 million), or $(1.23) per share, on an as-reported basis, and a loss of $(248 million), or $(1.23) per share, on an adjusted basis.
Drivers for the full year included higher interest on intercompany preferred investments (offset at Utility and largely earnings neutral for the consolidated result), an increase in charitable contributions, and higher interest expense.
On a per share basis, 2022 results reflected higher diluted average number of common shares outstanding.
Entergy Wholesale Commodities
For full year 2022, EWC reported earnings attributable to Entergy Corporation of $63 million, or 31 cents per share, on an as-reported basis. This compared to full year 2021 loss attributable to Entergy Corporation of $(123 million), or (61) cents per share, on an as-reported basis. The primary drivers for the year were due to the shutdown and sale of EWC's nuclear plants.
Specific variances included lower asset write-offs and impairments, and lower operating expenses including other O&M, decommissioning expense, depreciation expense, and nuclear refueling outage expense. These drivers were partially offset by lower revenue, lower earnings on NDTs, and income tax items.
Appendix D contains additional details on EWC operating and financial measures, including reconciliation for non-GAAP EWC adjusted EBITDA.
Earnings per share guidance
Entergy initiated its 2023 adjusted EPS guidance range of $6.55 to $6.85. See webcast presentation for additional details.
The company has provided 2023 earnings guidance with regard to the non-GAAP measure of Entergy adjusted EPS. This measure excludes from the corresponding GAAP financial measure the effect of adjustments as described below under "Non-GAAP financial measures." The company has not provided a reconciliation of such non-GAAP guidance to guidance presented on a GAAP basis because it cannot predict and quantify with a reasonable degree of confidence all of the adjustments that may occur during the period. Potential adjustments include the exclusion of regulatory charges related to outstanding regulatory complaints and significant income tax positions.
Earnings teleconference
A teleconference will be held at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, February 16, 2023, to discuss Entergy's quarterly earnings announcement and the company's financial performance. The teleconference and a replay of the teleconference may be accessed by visiting Entergy's website at www.entergy.com. For participants who would like to participate via telephone, please register at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI859dfe14dbd944c695a4ea640f532291 to receive the dial-in number along with a unique PIN that is required to access the call (the registration link can also be found on Entergy's website). The webcast presentation is also being posted to Entergy's website concurrent with this news release.
Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, powers life for 3 million customers through its operating companies across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy is creating a cleaner, more resilient energy future for everyone with our diverse power generation portfolio, including increasingly carbon-free energy sources. With roots in the Gulf South region for more than a century, Entergy is a recognized leader in corporate citizenship, delivering more than $100 million in economic benefits to local communities through philanthropy and advocacy efforts annually over the last several years. Our approximately 12,000 employees are dedicated to powering life today and for future generations.
Entergy Corporation's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Chicago under the symbol "ETR".
Details regarding Entergy's results of operations, regulatory proceedings, and other matters are available in this earnings release, a copy of which will be filed with the SEC, and the webcast presentation. Both documents are available on Entergy's Investor Relations website at www.entergy.com/investors.
Entergy maintains a web page as part of its Investor Relations website, entitled Regulatory and Other Information, which provides investors with key updates on certain regulatory proceedings and important milestones on the execution of its strategy. While some of this information may be considered material information, investors should not rely exclusively on this page for all relevant company information.
For definitions of certain operating measures, as well as GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures and abbreviations and acronyms used in the earnings release materials, see Appendix F.
Non-GAAP financial measures
This news release contains non-GAAP financial measures, which are generally numerical measures of a company's performance, financial position, or cash flows that either exclude or include amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Entergy has provided quantitative reconciliations within this news release of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.
Entergy reports earnings using the non-GAAP measure of Entergy adjusted earnings, which excludes the effect of certain "adjustments." In 2022, that included the removal of the Entergy Wholesale Commodities segment in light of the company's exit from the merchant power business. Beginning in 2023, as a result of the successful exit from the merchant power business, Entergy Wholesale Commodities will no longer be a reportable segment and any remaining financial activity from that business will no longer be adjusted in its entirety from Entergy's results (individual items could be considered for adjustment if they meet the criteria). Adjustments are unusual or non-recurring items or events or other items or events that management believes do not reflect the ongoing business of Entergy, such as the results of the EWC segment, significant tax items, and other items such as certain costs, expenses, or other specified items. In addition to reporting GAAP consolidated earnings on a per share basis, Entergy reports its adjusted earnings on a per share basis. These per share measures represent the applicable earnings amount divided by the diluted average number of common shares outstanding for the period.
Management uses the non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted earnings and adjusted earnings per share for, among other things, financial planning and analysis; reporting financial results to the board of directors, employees, stockholders, analysts, and investors; and internal evaluation of financial performance. Entergy believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors in evaluating the ongoing results of Entergy's business, comparing period to period results, and comparing Entergy's financial performance to the financial performance of other companies in the utility sector.
Other non-GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA; adjusted ROE; adjusted ROE, excluding affiliate preferred; gross liquidity; net liquidity; net liquidity, including storm escrows; debt to capital, excluding securitization debt; net debt to net capital, excluding securitization debt; parent debt to total debt, excluding securitization debt; FFO to debt, excluding securitization debt; and FFO to debt, excluding securitization debt, return of unprotected excess ADIT, and severance and retention payments associated with exit of EWC, are measures Entergy uses internally for management and board discussions and to gauge the overall strength of its business. Entergy believes the above data provides useful information to investors in evaluating Entergy's ongoing financial results and flexibility, and assists investors in comparing Entergy's credit and liquidity to the credit and liquidity of others in the utility sector. In addition, ROE is included on both an adjusted and an as-reported basis. Metrics defined as "adjusted" (other than EWC's adjusted EBITDA) exclude the effect of adjustments as defined above. EWC's adjusted EBITDA represents EWC's earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation and amortization, and also excludes decommissioning expense.
These non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of Entergy's operations that, when viewed with Entergy's GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliations to corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting Entergy's business. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be used to the exclusion of GAAP financial measures. Investors are strongly encouraged to review Entergy's consolidated financial statements and publicly filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure. Although certain of these measures are intended to assist investors in comparing Entergy's performance to other companies in the utility sector, non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized; therefore, it might not be possible to compare these financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names.
In this news release, and from time to time, Entergy Corporation makes certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding Entergy's 2023 earnings guidance; current financial and operational outlooks; industrial load growth outlooks; statements regarding its climate transition and resilience plans, goals, beliefs, or expectations; and other statements of Entergy's plans, beliefs, or expectations included in this news release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this news release. Except to the extent required by the federal securities laws, Entergy undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements, including (a) those factors discussed elsewhere in this news release and in Entergy's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Entergy's other reports and filings made under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (b) uncertainties associated with (1) rate proceedings, formula rate plans, and other cost recovery mechanisms, including the risk that costs may not be recoverable to the extent or on the timeline anticipated by the utilities and (2) implementation of the ratemaking effects of changes in law; (c) uncertainties associated with (1) realizing the benefits of its resilience plan, including impacts of the frequency and intensity of future storms and storm paths, as well as the pace of project completion and (2) efforts to remediate the effects of major storms and recover related restoration costs; (d) risks associated with operating nuclear facilities, including plant relicensing, operating, and regulatory costs and risks; (e) changes in decommissioning trust fund values or earnings or in the timing or cost of decommissioning Entergy's nuclear plant sites; (f) legislative and regulatory actions and risks and uncertainties associated with claims or litigation by or against Entergy and its subsidiaries; (g) risks and uncertainties associated with executing on business strategies, including strategic transactions that Entergy or its subsidiaries may undertake and the risk that any such transaction may not be completed as and when expected and the risk that the anticipated benefits of the transaction may not be realized; (h) impacts from terrorist attacks, geopolitical conflicts, cybersecurity threats, data security breaches, or other attempts to disrupt Entergy's business or operations, and/or other catastrophic events; (i) the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Entergy and its customers; and (j) effects on Entergy or its customers of (1) changes in federal, state, or local laws and regulations and other governmental actions or policies, including changes in monetary, fiscal, tax, environmental, or energy policies; (2) the effects of changes in commodity markets, capital markets, or economic conditions; and (3) the effects of technological change, including the costs, pace of development, and commercialization of new and emerging technologies.
Fourth quarter 2022 earnings release appendices and financial statements
Appendices
A: Consolidated results and adjustments B: Earnings variance analysis C: Utility operating and financial measures D: EWC operating and financial measures E: Consolidated financial measures F: Definitions and abbreviations and acronyms G: Other GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations
Financial statements
Consolidating balance sheets Consolidating income statements Consolidated cash flow statements
A: Consolidated results and adjustments Appendix A-1 provides a comparative summary of consolidated earnings, including a reconciliation of as-reported earnings (GAAP) to adjusted earnings (non-GAAP).
See Appendix B for detailed earnings variance analysis.
Appendix A-2 and Appendix A-3 detail adjustments by business. Adjustments are included in as-reported earnings consistent with GAAP but are excluded from adjusted earnings. As a result, adjusted earnings is considered a non-GAAP measure.
Appendix A-4 provides a comparative summary of OCF by business.
OCF increased quarter-over-quarter due primarily to:
higher receipts from Utility customers,
lower non-capital storm restoration spending,
receipt of E-NO's storm securitization proceeds, and
lower income tax payments (variances from income tax payments differ by business).
The increase was partially offset by:
higher pension contributions,
higher fuel and purchased power payments at the Utility,
higher other O&M at the Utility, and
the shutdown of EWC nuclear plants.
Cash flow from affiliate preferred investment dividend activity contributed to the Utility and Parent & Other variances but was neutral for the consolidated result.
OCF increased year-over-year due primarily to:
higher receipts from Utility customers,
lower non-capital storm restoration spending,
receipt of E-NO's storm securitization proceeds, and
lower income tax payments (variances from income tax payments differ by business).
The increase was partially offset by:
higher fuel and purchased power payments at the Utility,
higher other O&M at the Utility,
higher pension contributions, and
the shutdown of EWC nuclear plants.
Cash flow from affiliate preferred investment dividend activity contributed to the Utility and Parent & Other variances but was neutral for the consolidated result.
B: Earnings variance analysis Appendix B-1 and Appendix B-2 provide details of current quarter and full year 2022 versus 2021 as-reported and adjusted earnings per share variances for Utility, Parent & Other, and EWC.
C: Utility operating and financial measures Appendix C provides comparative summaries of Utility operating and financial measures.
On a weather-adjusted basis for fourth quarter 2022, retail sales increased 0.3 percent. Residential sales were (2.6) percent lower and commercial sales increased 2.4 percent. Industrial sales increased 1.1 percent due to continued growth from new/expansion customers and lower sales in 2021 as a result of Hurricane Ida, partially offset by facility shutdowns and outages.
On a weather-adjusted basis for full year 2022, retail sales increased 3.4 percent. Residential sales were (0.2) percent lower and commercial sales increased 4.6 percent. Industrial sales volume increased 5.3 percent reflecting an increase in demand from new/expansion projects (primarily in the chemicals, transportation, and paper industries), higher demand from cogeneration customers, and lower sales in 2021 as a result of Hurricane Ida.
D: EWC operating and financial measures Appendix D-1 provides a comparative summary of EWC operating and financial measures.
Appendix D-2 provides a comparative summary of EWC adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP).
E: Consolidated financial measures Appendix E provides comparative financial measures. Financial measures in this table include those calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, as well as those that are considered non-GAAP financial measures.
F: Definitions and abbreviations and acronyms Appendix F-1 provides definitions of certain operating measures, as well as GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures.
Appendix F-2 explains abbreviations and acronyms used in the quarterly earnings materials.
G: Other GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations Appendix G-1, Appendix G-2, and Appendix G-3 provide reconciliations of various non-GAAP financial measures disclosed in this news release to their most comparable GAAP measure.
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IRVING, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) today announced that its board of directors has appointed company veteran Kris Moldovan as its next chief financial officer, effective Aug. 1. Moldovan assumes the CFO role from Jim Burke, who, as previously announced, will transition to chief executive officer on Aug. 1. Moldovan's appointment marks the completion of Vistra's search process.
"With a unique combination of deep industry expertise, company knowledge, and financial acumen, Kris is the right leader to be our next CFO," said Burke, Vistra's president and incoming CEO. "For more than a decade, Kris has been instrumental to our finance team and has played a key role in the design and execution of our capital allocation strategy, having managed several critical transactions, including our green perpetual preferred equity offering. Importantly, Kris is a thoughtful and well-respected leader with a consistent track record of strong performance and positive engagement with key external stakeholders. The board and I are excited to partner with Kris and look forward to his continued contributions to Vistra."
In his new role, Moldovan will continue to report to Burke and will assume broad responsibility for the company's accounting, risk, internal audit, treasury, tax, planning, investor activities, and other various functions.
"It is an exciting time to be a part of Vistra and I am humbled to be named CFO. In all the years I've been with the company, I don't believe it has ever been better positioned for success than it is now," said Moldovan. "I am looking forward to working with Jim, the board, the finance team, and the rest of the Vistra organization to execute on our strategic imperatives, including Vistra's clean energy transformation, and create value for all our stakeholders."
Moldovan, 50, has been with Vistra and its predecessor companies since 2006 and, for the past five years, has served as senior vice president and treasurer, where he is responsible for all treasury-related activities, including financing activities and assuring availability of liquidity and cash resources, among other responsibilities. From 2010 to 2017, he was the company's assistant treasurer. Moldovan originally joined the company as senior counsel, where much of his work focused on finance and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the company, he was an attorney for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP in Dallas and for Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon in Chicago, where he gained extensive experience in M&A, finance, and general corporate advisory.
Moldovan holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Illinois, a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law, and a graduate finance certificate from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. Serving approximately 4 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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Man charged with rape after woman found naked walking down roadway
Deputies arrested an Ulm-area man on August 11 after a woman reported that he had raped her.
Joseph James Friese, 39, is charged with sexual intercourse without consent, the Montana statute for rape.
The following comes directly from charging documents. The defendant is considered innocent until proven guilty.
Just after midnight on August 11, Cascade County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to the area of Old Ulm Frontage Road and Big Sky Place between Ulm and Cascade. Dispatch had reported that a vehicle was driving up and down the roadway playing loud music.
Deputies contacted the driver, who said he got lost trying to find his way back to his friend's house. The friend was later identified as Friese.
As deputies remained with the man, he reportedly became agitated and worried about a woman who was at Friese's residence. Deputies transported the man to Friese's house to perform a welfare check on the woman.
As deputies responded, they located the woman walking on the roadway with no clothing and wrapped in a bedsheet.
The woman told deputies that she was at Friese's residence when he forced her to drink a drink and then asked her to have sex. She said after consuming the drink, she recalled nothing until she "came to" naked except for a bedsheet. She said at that time, she felt as if she'd had sex. She said at no time did she want to have sex with Friese.
Friese's friend reported that he was away from the residence for about an hour and that Friese had chased him away from the property.
When investigators executed a search warrant, they found the woman's clothing.
Detectives interviewed Friese, who said the woman had been intoxicated and the two had engaged in consensual sex. He said when he left the residence at midnight, the woman was clothed and using his sheet as a blanket.
Friese has prior convictions for drug charges, theft and evidence tampering. A $50,000 bond was requested in the case.
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Sterling bids farewell to City, edges closer to Chelsea
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Raheem Sterling is edging closer to a move to Chelsea as he bids farewell to Manchester City. Sterling is on the cusp of completing a transfer of around $60 million to City’s Premier League rival. He has reportedly flown out to Los Angeles to join up with Chelsea on its preseason tour and put pen to paper on a five-year deal. The England attacking midfielder posted an emotional message on social media confirming the end of his seven-year stint at City. Sterling helped City to win four league titles and scored 131 goals in 339 games across all competitions.
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BEIJING (AP) — Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region.
Some shopping malls in the megacity of Chongqing have been ordered closed for most of the day to reduce electricity demand, state broadcaster CCTV said, limiting opening hours to 4 to 9 p.m.
The drought and heat have wilted crops and caused rivers including the giant Yangtze to shrink, disrupting cargo traffic and reducing power supply from hydroelectric dams at a time of soaring demand for air conditioning. State media say the government will try to protect the autumn grain harvest, which is 75% of China’s annual total, by shooting chemicals into clouds to try to generate rain.
The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting this fall at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be given a third five-year term as party leader.
There was no public announcement of the extension of power rationing in Sichuan province into a second week, but it was detailed in a company statement and a government notice to companies that was reported by Chinese news outlets.
The “tense situation” of power supplies in Sichuan province “has further intensified,” Tencent News said Monday in a report that included a photo of the government notice.
LIER Chemical Co. said in an announcement through the stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen that its facilities in the cities of Jinyang and Guang’an in Sichuan received an order extending power rationing through Thursday.
Factories in Sichuan that make processor chips, solar panels, auto components and other industrial goods were required to shut down or reduce activity last week to conserve power for homes as air conditioning demand surged in temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Air conditioning, elevators and lights were shut off in offices and shopping malls.
In Shanghai, a factory and shipping hub on China’s east coast, Tesla Ltd. and a major state-owned automaker suspended production last week due to disruption in supplies of components from Sichuan, the Shanghai city government said.
Sichuan, with 94 million people, is especially hard-hit because it gets 80% of its power from hydroelectric dams. Other provinces rely more on coal-fired power, which isn’t affected.
Economists say if Sichuan reopens relatively soon, the national impact should be limited because the province accounts for only 4% of China’s industrial output.
The Chinese government says this summer is China’s hottest and driest since it began keeping temperature and rainfall records in 1961. Temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the past week and longer.
Brush fires in outlying areas of Chongqing, which borders Sichuan, are the latest scourge resulting from the heat and drought.
More than 1,500 residents had been moved to shelters, while around 5,000 civilian and military personnel had been mobilized to put out the blazes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
Helicopters have been sent to drop water on the fires, supporting crews on the ground who have in the past been left to their own resources.
In 2019, a wildfire in the mountains of Sichuan province killed 30 firefighters and volunteers.
No deaths have yet been reported as a result of the heat wave, Xinhua said, although that could not be independently verified.
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Instead of going in the trash or, perhaps, a compost heap, a new study proposes that used coffee grounds could help feed biodiesel-producing algae.
Published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, the study was first spotted by New Atlas, which noted that coffee grounds can already be turned into biofuel—no algae necessary. But it’s more complex process than producing fuel from algae, which is also nothing new.
In this process, algae is grown on an inert material such as polyurethane foam or nylon, feeding on nutrients added to the water, and producing oil as a byproduct. That oil can then be turned into fuel.
Researchers at the United Kingdom’s Aston University experimented with using coffee grounds as both the growth medium and nutrient for Chlorella vulgaris algae. After some tinkering with the process, they found the coffee-fed algae generated “enhanced biodiesel that produces minimal emissions and good engine performance, and meets U.S. and European specifications,” per the study.
While this remains purely experimental, it’s a novel example of how this year’s energy pinch, caused in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could be a boon for new biofuels investment. It’s surely spurring more attention to the sector. Chevron broke ground last week on a biorefinery expansion in Germany. That site uses feedstocks, and including the carbon dioxide to produce it, says it could cut greenhouse gas emissions between 40% and 93% compared to fossil diesel. BP also is betting big on biofuels with the purchase last month of Archaea Energy, which makes biogas that can be used interchangeably with natural gas.
Internal-combustion vehicles will remain in the fleets for decades and need fuel, and at times it appears that regulators aren’t focused enough on retiring them. Low-emission biofuels could help fill the gap.
A wide range of sources are being tested—beef-fast biodiesel from Cargill at Love’s, for instance. Fast-food fryer fat has shown a second life in biodiesel.
While several studies have suggested that corn-based ethanol is worse for global warming than gasoline, studies regarding well-to-wheels emissions of biodiesel have pointed in a more positive direction, indicating research like this is worth pursuing—provided it works hand-in-hand with new-vehicle policy.
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Cardiovascular data presented at EuroPCR 2022 demonstrates successful device performance during a TAVR procedure with no complications.
CAESAREA, Israel, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Filterlex Medical Ltd., a cardiovascular medical device startup, announced today results from a first-in-human (FIH) study demonstrating the safety, feasibility, and performance of the CAPTIS device. CAPTIS is a next-generation, full-body embolic protection device that reduces risk of stroke and other complications during left-heart procedures when embolic particles are released into the bloodstream.
Study data was presented at EuroPCR 2022 conference by Prof. Ran Kornowski, Director of the Cardiology Center at Rabin Medical Center in Israel.
The trial was a prospective, single-arm study involving 20 patients who underwent a successful Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure while using the CAPTIS embolic protection device.
Key outcomes:
- 100% technical device performance success. The CAPTIS device was successfully deployed and retrieved in all patients, and the TAVR procedure was performed with no interference.
- There were no device related complications.
- No patients experienced cerebrovascular events (objectively examined by an independent neurologist).
The easily-deployed CAPTIS device is securely positioned in the aorta, protecting its surface, while facilitating a seamless TAVR procedure, without additional arterial access.
Prof. Haim Danenberg, Head of Interventional Cardiology at Wolfson Medical Center and the study principal investigator said, "Safe and effective brain protection in percutaneous heart procedures is a true unmet need - I am very impressed with the promising CAPTIS technology. Filterlex has developed an innovative solution that protects TAVR patients' brain and kidneys."
Prof. Ran Kornowski added, "I'm excited about the successful results in the FIH study and look forward to being part of future CAPTIS research."
Sigal Eli, Filterlex Medical Co-founder and CEO added: "We are extremely encouraged by the study and will continue to build robust clinical evidence around the CAPTIS embolic protection device to support its use in TAVR."
About Filterlex
Filterlex Medical Ltd. is a cardiovascular medical device startup developing CAPTIS®, a full-body embolic protection device. In 2016, Filterlex joined Alon MedTech Ventures incubator, owned by Dr. Shimon Eckhouse, a leading entrepreneur and investor. The company's founders have vast clinical knowledge and extensive experience in medical device development, commercialization, and marketing. For more information: www.filterlex.com.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 881076.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Hurry! Hurry!
Russell Wilson is reprising Peyton Manning’s signature demand in Denver.
“We’ve got a championship-caliber football team,” the Broncos’ new quarterback declared Wednesday after what he termed a “great first day” at training camp with his new teammates, coaches and playbook.
“Now it’s time to just show up and prove it, go out and do it.”
Wilson isn’t interested in patiently engineering a turnaround for a franchise that hasn’t reached the playoffs since Manning recited his final “Hurry! Hurry!” call in Super Bowl 50 more than six years ago.
Echoing high expectations expressed by safety Justin Simmons and receiver Courtland Sutton a day earlier, Wilson insisted the Broncos are ready to compete for a Lombardi Trophy.
He cited the team’s mixture of youth and experience, speed and skill. And he had particular praise for the Broncos’ work ethic after so many of his teammates gave up their last vestiges of summer vacation to gather with him at his estate last week in San Diego to refine routes ahead of training camp.
“Jerry Jeudy was in our QB meeting for an hour just for fun, just to listen and study and understand it all,” Wilson added. “So, it’s a credit to him and his work ethic. When your best players put that kind of work it, that just raises everybody else.”
The Broncos haven’t had a winning record since 2016. General manager George Paton said he welcomes the buzz that surrounds his team following the hiring of rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett, the acquisition of Wilson from the Seahawks for a package of picks and players — and the pending $4.65 billion purchase of the franchise by Walmart heir Rob Walton, which the league’s owners are expected to approve Aug. 9.
“We know expectations are higher than they’ve ever been here. We’re not blind to that. We embrace expectations,” Paton said. “But we have a long way to go.
“We haven’t won here in five, six years. We won seven games last year. We’re 0-0 now. The work starts now, a lot of work to be done. I know we’re going to embrace the process, and I look forward to the journey with Coach Hackett, with this team, and everyone involved.”
As far as Wilson is concerned, he sees no reason why that trek can’t reach State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., where Super Bowl LVII will be held in February.
Though Paton won’t go that far just yet, he touted the team’s core and trajectory.
“Anytime you get a franchise quarterback, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, like Russell Wilson, it’s going to accelerate anything that you’re doing,” Paton said. “It wouldn’t have done any good to bring Russell in here if we didn’t have a foundation in place.”
One thing Wilson apparently isn’t in a hurry to do is sign a contract extension. He has two years left on his deal that pays him $19 million this upcoming season and $22 million next year. Wilson’s new deal is expected to top $250 million over five years, but Paton demurred when asked for a timeline.
“We all want Russell here a long time,” Paton said. “Out of respect for his team and our team, we’re going to keep it in-house any discussions we may or may not have … at the right time, we’ll get a deal done.”
Last week, Kyler Murray agreed to a deal with the Cardinals that adds five years and up to $230.5 million in new money, and Baltimore QB Lamar Jackson appears in line for a mega-deal.
“I don’t really worry about those guys and what they’re doing. It’s awesome for them,” Wilson said. “But it has nothing really to do with me. I’m excited to be here, I know that. I know I want to be here for a long, long time, hopefully the rest of my career.”
Briefly: Denver signed tackle Cam Fleming after tackle Tom Compton needed a back operation that landed him on the PUP list Wednesday. Fleming played in five games for Denver last season. ... The Broncos waived outside linebacker Kadofi Wright.
Arnie Stapleton is an Associated Press writer.
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2 US Army veterans deported to Mexico sworn in as US citizens
SAN DIEGO (AP) — After fighting in Afghanistan, former U.S. Army soldier Mauricio Hernandez Mata returned home with post-traumatic stress, which he says eventually led to getting in trouble with the law and being deported to Mexico — a country he had not lived in since he was a boy.
On Wednesday, he and another deported veteran were sworn in as U.S. citizens at a special naturalization ceremony in San Diego.
The two veterans were among 65 who have been allowed back into the United States over the past year as part of a growing effort by the Biden administration called the Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiative to make amends with immigrants who served in the U.S. military only to wind up deported.
Hundreds of U.S. military veterans, including some who were charged with crimes such as drunk driving or theft, have been deported over the years in what immigration advocates and others have called an unfair punishment to those who took up arms in the name of the United States. Many are still struggling to find legal help to return, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
“After my deportation, yeah, I never thought this day would come,” said Hernandez, 41, dressed in a black suit and tie after being presented his U.S. citizenship certificate. “It’s definitely been a long road. I’m glad that we were given a second chance as anybody that is either American-born or fought for America should have.”
Leonel Contreras, 63, who joined the U.S. Army at the age of 17 and served for a year in 1976, also was sworn in at the ceremony.
“I feel very blessed,” said Contreras, who was allowed back into the United States about four months ago. “I feel very happy to be back on American soil.”
Both men spent the past decade living in the border city of Tijuana.
Contreras was whisked away by U.S. immigration authorities who detained him at the barbershop where he worked in National City, south of San Diego. His life forever changed.
He continued to work in Tijuana as a barber and found work because of his English at call centers helping answer questions from customers of U.S. companies. But it was not easy.
During that time his two sons grew up, and he now is a grandfather. With his U.S. citizenship in hand, he said he is not looking back.
“I just want to go to all the places I’ve dreamed of seeing, like the Grand Canyon and possibly Mount Rushmore,” he said.
Hernandez said his deportation came after unspecified “irreverent actions and mistakes I made due to my PTSD.” He declined to give more details. But he said after he was allowed back into the country a year ago, he was determined to get his U.S. citizenship to be able to go to the grocery store and not feel “terrified” of being picked up and sent back to Mexico.
His 7-year-old daughter hugged him after he was sworn in amid cheers from a crowd that included more than a dozen veterans from various branches. Then he turned and kissed his wife.
“I’ve always been an American, the difference is now I’m an American citizen and I have all the rights that any American-born citizen has,” Hernandez said. “And it was important to me to have those rights just to prove the point, the point being that anybody that’s willing to lay down their life, their sanity, and give everything that they hold dear for American freedom should be eventually at one point in their lives considered a U.S. citizen.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Amazon has become the latest U.S. technology company to announce major job cuts after hiring “rapidly over the last several years” in the face of the COVID pandemic.
In a message shared with employees Wednesday, CEO Andy Jassy confirmed Amazon plans to “eliminate just over 18,000 roles.” Several areas of the business will be impacted, he noted, but most cuts will happen at Amazon Stores, including Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go, and in its People, Experience, and Technology organization.
It’s the largest set of layoffs in the Seattle-based company’s history, although just a fraction of its 1.5 million global workforce.
“[We] are deeply aware that these role eliminations are difficult for people, and we don’t take these decisions lightly or underestimate how much they might affect the lives of those who are impacted,” he wrote. “We are working to support those who are affected and are providing packages that include a separation payment, transitional health insurance benefits, and external job placement support.”
According to Jassy, the announcement wasn’t expected to be released this early but was done so after an Amazon teammate reportedly leaked the information. Amazon employees impacted by these job cuts will be informed as early as January 18.
“Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult economies in the past, and we will continue to do so,” Jassy said. “These changes will help us pursue our long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure.”
In November, Jassy told staff that layoffs were coming due to the economic landscape and the company’s rapid hiring in the last several years. Wednesday’s announcement included earlier job cuts that had not been numbered. The company had also offered voluntary buyouts and has been cutting costs in other areas of its sprawling business.
Business software maker Salesforce also announced job cuts Wednesday. The company plans to lay off about 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce.
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Family gets justice 30 years after man was murdered in Australia
By Juli McDonald
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BOSTON (WBZ) — After more than 30 years of holding onto hope and fighting for answers in the 1988 death of Scott Johnson, his American family was in Australian court, finally facing convicted killer Scott White at his sentencing.
Their hearts are forever broken by what was taken from them – yet also filled with gratitude for investigators who finally saw this through.
“They’re miracle workers. They had almost no evidence to work with and they figured out how to solve it,” said brother Steve Johnson of Cambridge.
Johnson’s death was originally dismissed by police as a suicide. But decades later, new investigators took a fresh look at Johnson’s death – and others like it.
“The coroner in that inquest determined two of them were murders and the other was probably a murder committed by gay hate gangs who would come to these places where gay men would meet,” Steve explained.
The violent murder took the life of a brilliant 27-year-old mathematician. His life so full of promise. Scott’s brother still talks to him running the streets of Cambridge – just as the two did so many years ago.
“Scott was easily the kindest, gentlest person I’ve ever known. At the same time being the most brilliant and the most modest,” Steve remembered, proudly.
White, who admitted to pushing Johnson off a cliff, was sentenced to at least 8 years in prison.
“We’ll never have closure,” Steve said. “We’ll always be thinking of Scott. He’ll always be with us.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a nearly $4 billion sale of advanced tanks, other combat vehicles and a large amount of assorted weaponry to NATO ally Poland at a time of heightened security concerns because of the war in neighboring Ukraine.
The State Department said it had given the OK for Poland to purchase 116 M1A1 Abrams Battle Tanks and other equipment, including tens of thousands of rounds of various ammunition, worth approximately $3.75 billion.
At the same time, the department said it had also approved a $1.5 billion sale of Chinook helicopters to treaty ally South Korea.
The department said both sales were in support of U.S. national security interests and would not alter the basic military balance in either region, which are facing threats from Russia and North Korea.
The Abrams tank purchase by Poland “will support the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a NATO ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe,” the department said in a statement.
It added that the tanks and other equipment would “improve Poland’s capability to meet current and future threats by providing a credible force that is capable of deterring adversaries and participating in NATO operations.”
The sale of the Chinook helicopters to South Korea will improve Seoul’s “capability to meet current and future threats by strengthening its army heavy lift capability,” the department said in a separate statement.
The choppers “will allow (South Korea) to conduct missions in support of bilateral operational plans which include, but are not limited to, medical evacuation, search and rescue, parachute drops, and disaster relief,” it said.
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The producers of the Tony Awards have set June 11 for the show that celebrates the best of Broadway and are setting it in a new location — more than a hundred blocks north of New York City’s theater district.
The telecast will be broadcast live from the lush and elegant United Palace, a 3,400-seat venue in uptown Washington Heights that is Manhattan’s fourth-largest theater. It opened in 1930 and hosts concerts, movie premieres and events.
“We are excited to bring the Tony Awards to the historic United Palace for the first time,” said Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, and Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League. “We look forward to ushering in a new golden age for the show from this majestic, golden age theater.”
The awards eligibility cut-off date is April 27 and nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards will be announced May 2. The telecast will be shown on CBS and stream live on Paramount+.
For many years, the awards show has aired from the 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, or if not available, from the 2,900-seat Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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China's navy has significant advantages over its US rival. In this image, the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey refuels at sea on October 11, 2018.
China's navy has significant advantages over its US rival. In this image, the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey refuels at sea on October 11, 2018.
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Members of the Chinese navy stand on the deck of a navy ship at a military port on May 18, 2022, in Zhoushan, China.
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A Great Wall 236 submarine of the PLA Navy, participates in a naval parade on April 23, 2019.
China's navy has significant advantages over its US rival, including a bigger fleet and greater shipbuilding capacity, as Beijing seeks to project its power across the oceans, the head of the United States Navy said Tuesday.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said China "consistently attempts to violate the maritime sovereignty and economic well-being of other nations including our allies in the South China Sea and elsewhere."
"They got a larger fleet now so they're deploying that fleet globally," he said, adding that Washington must upgrade the US fleet in response.
"We do need a larger Navy, we do need more ships in the future, more modern ships in the future, in particular that can meet that threat," he said.
China's People's Liberation Army Navy could be fielding up to 400 ships in the coming years, the Navy secretary said -- up from about 340 now.
Meanwhile, the US fleet sits at under 300 ships.
According to the US Navy's Navigation Plan 2022 released last summer, the Pentagon's goal is to have 350 manned ships by 2045 -- still well short of the projection for China's fleet.
Before that target is met, however, the US fleet is expected to shrink as older vessels are retired, according to a November report from the US Congressional Budget Office.
Del Toro's claims
Del Toro said Tuesday that US naval shipyards can't match the output of Chinese ones. As with fleet size, it's about numbers.
"They have 13 shipyards, in some cases their shipyard has more capacity -- one shipyard has more capacity than all of our shipyards combined. That presents a real threat," he claimed.
Del Toro did not give a breakdown of those shipyards, but Chinese and Western reports say China has six major and two smaller shipyards building naval vessels.
In the US, seven shipyards produce large and deep draft ships for the US Navy and Coast Guard, according to an October report from Brent Sadler at the Center for National Defense.
But no matter the number of shipyards, they need workers, and Del Toro says China has a numerical advantage there, largely because it is free of the restrictions, regulations and economic pressures that affect labor in the US.
One big US problem is finding skilled labor, he said.
"[W]hen you have unemployment at less than 4%, it makes it a real challenge whether you're trying to find workers for a restaurant or you're trying to find workers for a shipyard," the Navy leader said.
He also said China can do things the US can't.
"They're a communist country, they don't have rules by which they abide by," he said.
"They use slave labor in building their ships, right -- that's not the way we should do business ever, but that's what we're up against so it does present a significant advantage," he claimed.
CNN has reached out to China's Foreign Ministry for reaction to Del Toro's allegations.
US advantages
Del Toro did not supply specifics to support the slave labor allegation, and analysts expressed doubt that Beijing would resort to such a tactic.
"China has a very large pool of available manpower and it wouldn't really make sense to use slave labor in a high-tech sector vital to their national security," said Blake Herzinger, a nonresident fellow and Indo-Pacific defense policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
Herzinger said comments like that from the Navy chief are indicative of a pattern where US attention is put in the wrong place -- to the detriment of US abilities.
"This seems unfortunately common, that Navy leadership throws stones at real or imagined faults in Chinese shipbuilding rather than reckoning with US failures over two decades to conceptualize, design and build ships for its own navy," Herzinger said.
According to a US Congressional Research Service report from November, the US Navy has taken steps to address the gap with China, including assigning more of its fleet to the Pacific and using newer and more capable ships in Pacific roles.
And Del Toro said Tuesday that the US retains one big advantage over China -- "our people."
"In many ways our shipbuilders are better shipbuilders, that's why we have a more modern, more capable, more lethal Navy than they do," he said.
US military personnel are better on their feet, too, Del Toro contended.
"They script their people to fight, we actually train our people to think," he said.
"There's a fundamental difference in how we train our Marines and our sailors and our soldiers and our airmen and our Space Force in this country that gives us an inherent advantage over anything the Chinese can put up."
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- Clinically relevant doses of C21 increase blood flow in humans
- Systemic blood pressure was unaffected, and no side effects were observed
- The forearm blood flow method is a robust technique for early clinical concept testing
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ) ("Vicore"), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing medicines stimulating the angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R), today announces that intra-arterial administration of C21 results in a significant dose-dependent increase in local blood flow.
Forearm blood flow was measured by plethysmography* in healthy volunteers after intra-arterial infusion of small increasing doses of C211 leading to local blood concentrations of C21 similar to those reached with oral C21 treatment. In the injected arm, blood flow increased by 63% (p=0.026), without reducing systemic blood pressure or causing other side effects.
Vasodilation by angiotensin II type 2 receptor agonists (ATRAGs) is mediated by nitric oxide (NO) released from the endothelium, and the observed effects show that this can be achieved in man with clinically relevant doses of C21.
"A clinical effect on endothelium-derived NO is very interesting for targeting endothelial dysfunction," says Jan Nilsson, Professor in Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Lund University.
Impaired NO release is the hallmark of endothelial dysfunction, an important driver of vascular diseases including pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), pulmonary hypertension associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), preeclampsia (PE), as well as diseases of aging such heart and kidney disease – areas with huge unmet medical needs.
"The effect of ATRAGs on blood vessels is important for PAH and IPF, and for the other indications that we are targeting with the new molecules in development, like preeclampsia and cardiorenal diseases. Studying human forearm blood flow is a simple and robust technique for early clinical concept testing and dose finding" says Carl-Johan Dalsgaard, CEO of Vicore,
About angiotensin II typ 2 receptor agonists (ATRAGs)
The AT2R is part of the body's regeneration and repair system and is suggested to be involved in several diseases connected to ageing and cell senescence, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, chronic kidney disease, heart failure as well as cognitive disorders. Stimulating AT2R has been shown to be effective in combatting disease in numerous models, and clinical validation is well advanced in chronic lung disease. Stimulating AT2R also dilates small diseased resistance vessels in animals and in humans, resulting in locally increased blood flow. Vicore is developing C21 for rare lung diseases and have a series of new ATRAGs in development for other indications, the first of which (C106) is in clinical phase 1.
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Carl-Johan Dalsgaard, CEO
Phone: +46 70 975 98 63
E-mail: carl-johan.dalsgaard@vicorepharma.com
This information was submitted for publication on September 22, 2022 at 08:00 CET.
* A plethysmograph is an instrument for measuring changes in volume within an organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains).
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Annexus, the nation's leading independent developer of financial and insurance products, is proud to sponsor the Annexus Pro-Am tournament at the WM Phoenix Open for the 11th consecutive year. The highly anticipated Annexus Pro-Am takes place on Wed., Feb. 8, during the week-long WM Phoenix Open, which runs Feb. 6-12.
"The Annexus Pro-Am is one of the most exciting events during the WM Phoenix Open, and we are honored to sponsor it for another year," says Annexus CEO Ron Shurts. "It's fun, popular, and another great opportunity to give back to our community."
The WM Phoenix Open and its host, The Thunderbirds, have raised more than $176 million in their 87-year history. Funds are distributed to Arizona-based charities through the Thunderbirds Charities.
"The Thunderbirds have been incredible hosts of the WM Phoenix Open, growing it into the most-attended golf event in the world," Ron says. "They do so much to help the community; because of them, the money raised through the WM Phoenix Open continues to do life-changing work."
Dubbed "The People's Open" due to its laid-back atmosphere and multitude of events catering to golfers and non-golfers alike, the WM Phoenix Open is one of the most attended sporting events in the world, with a $450 million economic impact on the Phoenix community. The 2023 roster of players includes the number one ranked golfer in the world, Rory McIlroy, as well as Collin Morikawa, Tony Finau, Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood, Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and Sam Burns.
Celebrities who will be playing in the Annexus Pro-Am include: Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time; Emmitt Smith, the NFL's all-time leading rusher; Albert Pujols, one of the greatest baseball players of all time; Larry Fitzgerald Jr., the Arizona Cardinals all-time leading receiver; Jerome Bettis, an NFL Hall-of-Famer; and J.J. Watt, NFL defensive star—with more to come.
"It's going to be great to be back on the course for another Annexus Pro-Am," says Ron. "We're excited to keep this tradition alive for the 11th year in a row, and we intend to continue our commitment to Arizona and our community. Phoenix is our home."
About Annexus
Annexus designs solutions to help Americans grow and protect their retirement savings. For over a decade, Annexus has developed market-leading fixed indexed annuities and indexed universal life insurance products. Annexus has forged relationships with many of the industry's leading insurance carriers and the world's largest investment banks. Find out more about Annexus and its products.
About the WM Phoenix Open
The 2023 WM Phoenix Open will take place Feb. 6-12 at TPC Scottsdale. "The People's Open" has been named the Tournament of the Year by the PGA TOUR four times to acknowledge the tournament's legendary status as one the most unique events in golf. The 2023 edition will mark the 88th playing of the event (one of the five oldest events on the PGA TOUR) and the 14th with WM as the title sponsor. For more information, visit WMPhoenixOpen.com.
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SHANGHAI, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Disneyland reopened its gate this morning, welcoming guests of all ages back to this place full of happiness, adventure and thrills.
The long-anticipated reopening of Shanghai Disneyland invites guests to once again immerse themselves in signature Disney storytelling and adventures. To give new and returning guests a warm Disney welcome, the resort's leadership and Cast Members lined up at the iconic Mickey Floral and along Mickey Avenue as the park's gates reopened.
From the moment they step into the theme park, guests are sure to encounter Disney magic at each turn and in every corner of the resort. From thrilling signature attractions and immersive live entertainment to beloved Disney characters and gourmet food and beverage offerings, guests can now create unforgettable memories with their loved ones once again.
To commemorate the special moment, many guests put their passion for Disney on full display by donning special, eye-catching outfits during their return.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was advice that Mitch McConnell had offered to Joe Biden once already: To resolve the debt-limit standoff, he needed to strike a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — and McCarthy alone. But after a first meeting of the top four congressional leaders with the president in early May, the Senate minority leader felt the need to reemphasize his counsel.
After returning from the White House that day, McConnell called the president to privately urge him to “shrink the room” – meaning no direct involvement in the talks for himself, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
That, McConnell stressed to Biden, was the only way to avert a potentially economy-rattling default.
A week later, Biden and McCarthy essentially adopted that path, tapping a handful of trusted emissaries to negotiate a deal that would lift the debt limit. It was a turning point in an impasse that until then, seemed intractable.
Having lived through the debacle of a 2011 debt-limit fight, Biden would not entertain any concessions for a task that he viewed as Congress’ fundamental responsibility. But McCarthy, prodded by conservatives insisting on sweeping changes to federal spending, was intent on using the nation’s borrowing authority as leverage even if it edged the U.S. closer to default.
The scramble that ensued showed how two of the most powerful figures in Washington — who share a belief in the power of personal relationships, despite not having much of one between themselves — jointly staved off an unprecedented default that could have ravaged the economy and held unknown political consequences. It’s a tale of an underestimated House speaker determined to defy expectations that he couldn’t address a complex debt-limit fight, and a president who tuned out the noise from his own party to ensure a default would not happen on his watch.
But it was also a standoff largely instigated by Republicans who argued they needed to use the debt limit threat as a cudgel to rein in federal spending. And even with a resounding 314-117 House vote, the episode is testing the durability of McCarthy’s speakership and his ability to tame a restive hard-right flank.
“HOW YOU FINISH”
McCarthy, now emboldened, is unfazed.
He reflected back on his election as speaker after the House passed the debt-limit package, referring to his long battle to claim the gavel in January. “Every question you gave me (was), what could we survive, what could we even do? I told you then, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”
This account of the weeks-long saga of how Washington defused the debt-limit crisis is based on interviews with lawmakers, senior White House officials and top congressional aides, some who requested anonymity to discuss details of private negotiations.
Perhaps most critical to clearing the blockades were Biden and McCarthy’s five negotiators who came to the discussions armed with policy gravitas and empowered by their principals. Particularly comforting to Republicans was the presence of presidential counselor Steve Ricchetti, who speaks on behalf of Biden like no one else, and Shalanda Young, now the director of the Office and Management and Budget, who cut her teeth as a beloved senior congressional aide managing the complex annual appropriations process.
Young and Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, one of McCarthy’s negotiators, grew so close that they checked in each morning by phone as they did their respective day care dropoffs. Meanwhile, she and the other GOP negotiator, Rep. Garret Graves, who represents the south central part of Louisiana where Young hails from, ribbed each other over who had the better gumbo recipe and squeezed in debt-limit talks during a White House celebration for the national champion Louisiana State University women’s basketball team.
The five negotiators — Graves, McHenry, Ricchetti, Young and legislative affairs director Louisa Terrell — met daily in a stately office on the first floor of the Capitol, under frescoes painted by the 19th century muralist Constantino Brumidi. Inside, they would home in with seriousness on priorities and red lines to figure out how they could reach a deal.
THE PAUSE BUTTON AND A ‘REGRESSIVE’ OFFER
By May 19, the negotiations were getting shaky.
Republicans were losing patience as the White House didn’t appear to be budging on curbing federal spending. For the GOP, anything short of that was a nonstarter.
During a morning meeting that Friday, White House officials pushed McHenry and Graves to put a formal offer on the table, but by that point, the frustrated Republicans decided to take it all public.
Republicans told reporters the talks had momentarily stopped. Graves, in a ball cap and blue button-up shirt that looked more apt for a fishing trip than high-stakes dealmaking, said as he walked briskly through the Capitol: “We decided to press pause because it’s just not productive,”
“We were not going to play games here,” Graves recounted later of his and McHenry’s frustrations.
The friction wasn’t about to ease. When the negotiations reconvened that night, McHenry and Graves put forward a fresh proposal to administration officials: It not only revived more of the rejected provisions in the GOP’s debt-limit bill, but also included the House Republicans’ border-security bill for good measure.
One White House official called the offer “regressive.”
The White House went public with its own frustrations as the negotiations seemed to be going awry, first with a lengthy statement from communications director Ben LaBolt and then from Biden himself at a news conference in Hiroshima, Japan, where he was attending a summit of the world’s leading democracies.
“Now it’s time for the other side to move their extreme positions,” the president said. “Because much of what they’ve already proposed is simply, quite frankly, unacceptable.”
OPTIMISM, LATE NIGHTS AND GUMMY WORMS
Even as the public rhetoric sharpened, there were signs that the talks were starting to take a better turn.
As Biden left Japan, he called McCarthy from Air Force One, and the speaker emerged appearing more optimistic than he had in days. Sustained by coffee, gummy worms and burritos, the negotiators worked grueling hours, mostly at the Capitol but once at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where they noshed on Call Your Mother bagel sandwiches sent over by Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff.
One session lasted until 2:30 a.m. Graves, at another time, showed reporters an app on his phone that tracked his sleep, which showed he was averaging three hours a night during the final stretch.
Still, McCarthy sent lawmakers home over the Memorial Day weekend, which McHenry said helped.
“The tone of the White House negotiators became much more serious and much more grounded in the realities they were going to have to accept,” McHenry said.
SELLING THE DEAL
By May 27, Biden and McCarthy announced a deal in principle, and now had to sell the agreement in earnest.
The night before the vote, McCarthy gathered House Republicans in the basement of the Capitol, wheeled in pizza and walked lawmakers through the bill, while daring the Freedom Caucus members to use the same confrontational language they used at a news conference earlier in the day. By the time the meeting ended, it was clear McCarthy had subdued the revolt.
Meanwhile, the White House had work of its own to mollify rank-and-file Democrats.
Biden and McCarthy were a study in contrasting styles. The speaker chatted about the debt-limit talks at every turn throughout the negotiations to frame the debate on his terms; the president stayed silent by design, leery of fouling anything up before the deal was finalized.
Even as the deal was coming together, Biden had been privately trying to assuage his party’s concerns. After the Congressional Progressive Caucus publicly eviscerated the few details that they knew of, particularly about toughening requirements for federal safety-net programs, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., got a call that night.
It was Biden. He assured her that his negotiators were working hard to minimize Republican-drafted changes to programs that offer food stamps and cash assistance.
“I do believe that had we not done that, this would have been much worse than what I heard,” Jayapal said.
After the deal was finalized, through phone calls and virtual briefings, White House officials answered questions, explained the agreement’s intricacies and fielded complaints from lawmakers about their communications strategy. As of Thursday, senior White House officials had called more than 130 lawmakers personally.
Biden himself got on the phone. On one call, he spoke with Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., the leader of the center-left New Democrats Coalition, and thanked her for the group’s efforts to ensure the deal would pass.
“I appreciate that he knows this institution so well, and that he understands what it takes to deliver these votes to get us across the line and to uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America,” Kuster said. “We all took an oath.”
Late Wednesday night, as the House voted its approval with significant bipartisan support, Biden watched from the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, where he had traveled to for a commencement address at the Air Force Academy. On the phone with Biden throughout were Ricchetti and Terrell, who were listening in from the West Wing with other legislative aides, munching on more pizza.
In a statement after the vote, Biden sounded thankful — and relieved.
“Tonight, the House took a critical step forward to prevent a first-ever default and protect our country’s hard-earned and historic economic recovery,” he said. “This budget agreement is a bipartisan compromise. Neither side got everything it wanted. That’s the responsibility of governing.”
Then the Senate labored toward its own vote.
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What to Know
- Gambling giant MGM Resorts International says it did nothing wrong in its dealings with a New York City man who accuses it of preying on his gambling addiction with repeated cash bonuses intended to keep him gambling.
- MGM says Sam Antar is a twice-jailed “fraudster” who repeatedly victimized friends, relatives and strangers, calling the lawsuit “his latest scheme.”
- MGM, which owns Atlantic City's Borgata casino, wants a federal judge to dismiss Antar’s lawsuit and refer the mater to arbitration, which it says is required by the terms of service to which he agreed when he opened an online gambling account.
Gambling giant MGM Resorts International says it did nothing wrong in its dealings with a New York City man who accuses it of preying on his gambling addiction with repeated cash bonuses intended to keep him gambling.
In court papers, MGM says Sam Antar, a twice-jailed “fraudster” who repeatedly victimized friends, relatives and strangers, is engaging in “his latest scheme” by falsely accusing MGM of wrongdoing.
MGM is asking a federal judge to dismiss Antar's lawsuit and refer the matter to arbitration, which it says is required by the terms of service to which Antar agreed when he opened an online gambling account with the company.
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The company also denies it violated any New Jersey laws.
“Sam Antar is a convicted felon and repeat fraudster who has pled guilty to defrauding numerous individuals out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in false stock investment schemes,” MGM wrote in its June 9 response to Antar's litigation, filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. “Rather than accept accountability for his own actions, Antar blames BetMGM for his crimes, falsely claiming that BetMGM preyed upon his alleged gambling addiction.”
The company did not respond to requests for comment beyond what is contained in its court filing.
Business
Antar is the nephew of Eddie Antar, who founded the Crazy Eddie electronics stores in the 1970s and 1980s. Eddie Antar defrauded investors out of more than $74 million, and died in 2016.
In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme. He was convicted and jailed last year on theft by deception charges involving nearly $350,000. In April, he admitted committing federal securities fraud for bilking investors including friends stemming from that same case, and was ordered in May to pay restitution.
“I would like to publicly apologize to all the people I hurt,” he said in an interview Wednesday.
His initial lawsuit, filed last September, accused MGM of plying him with bonus cash to dissuade him from reporting to New Jersey gambling regulators numerous instances in which he was gambling online and was disconnected from the system — often when he had a winning hand.
His revised lawsuit, filed in May, drops those allegations and focuses on what his lawyer Matthew Litt calls “what's really important here to society as a whole: the enticement by the casino of a person who was showing signs of being a problem gambler.”
Antar, who has homes in New York and in Long Branch, New Jersey, gambled $30 million over 100,000 bets during nine months in 2019, according to his lawsuit, which does not specify how much he actually lost. Litt would not estimate those losses, although a previous lawyer in Antar's case said they totaled “easily hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
In its response, MGM says it did not create or worsen a gambling problem in Antar or anyone else.
“To be sure, BetMGM takes problem gambling seriously, and has numerous options for persons to self-exclude or limit their play, as well as resources for assistance," the company wrote. "However, New Jersey law does not include a common law duty to protect problem gamblers from their actions.
“Despite a heightened sensitivity to problem gaming, New Jersey courts have repeatedly held that casinos have no common law duty to prevent alleged ‘compulsive gamblers’ from gambling,” MGM wrote.
The latest version of Antar's lawsuit makes some of the same claims that were raised — and rejected by a judge — in another person's lawsuit targeting Atlantic City casinos. In 2008, a federal judge ruled against New York gambler Arelia Taveras who sued seven casinos that she said had a duty to stop her from gambling. She lost nearly $1 million over two years, including dayslong gambling binges.
“She spent money on the bona fide chance that she might win more money,” U.S. District Court Judge Renee Bumb wrote in a 2008 ruling. “In short, she gambled. The mere fact that defendants profited from her misfortune, while lamentable, does not establish a cognizable claim in the law.”
MGM cites that case among its numerous defenses to Antar's litigation.
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RIVER EDGE, N.J., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Riverside Oral Surgery and Oral Surgery Group are proud to announce the formation of a strategic partnership that will result in the preeminent surgeon-lead full-scope oral and maxillofacial surgical specialty platform in the Northeast. The partnership, backed by MedEquity Capital, RF Investment Partners, and Kian Capital, is dedicated to building the region's first OMS-only specialty platform where a premium is placed on surgeon autonomy, independent practice identity, and clinical excellence.
President and Founder, Dr. Jason M. Auerbach says "Given the consolidation we have been seeing in the specialty, it was important for us to form a platform that maintains quality care and preserves the independence and integrity of the specialty with likeminded surgeons. We found exactly that at Oral Surgery Group and could not be more excited to work together to raise the bar for quality of care across the region."
Founded in 2007 by Dr. Jason M. Auerbach, with a vision to redefine and cultivate the optimal patient experience…each and every time, Riverside Oral Surgery, The Official Oral Surgeons of the NJ Devils and voted NJBIZ' Best Places to Work 2022, has grown to 10 locations with 14 surgeons across Northern and Central New Jersey.
Established in 1948 and proudly serving Middlesex and the surrounding counties for over 75 years, The Oral Surgery Group is currently lead by Dr. Philip Engel and Dr. Richard Stern. The Oral Surgery Group has an unwavering commitment to clinical excellence and education and is renowned for its expertise in complex surgical procedures and cutting-edge technology.
We are all excited to be working together to bring our shared resources to our patients.
Dr. Stern adds "We are excited to announce an alliance of the two leading oral surgery practices in the region. This partnership with ROS will lead to a larger platform, enabling us to maintain our autonomy while providing a superior patient experience and continuity of care. Our combined experience and expertise will allow us to provide an even broader range of oral surgery services while maintaining our individual practice identities and cultures ."
The two groups will come together to form an expanded network of 13 locations, 20 surgeons, and a comprehensive portfolio of surgical services and sub-specialty level care provided by fellowship trained, board-certified clinicians, allowing us to offer a comprehensive and diverse approach to oral health care. Our partnership will create an unparalleled patient experience while maintaining our independence.
We believe that our combined resources and experience will be a great asset to patients throughout the Northeast who will now have expanded access to the highest quality of care in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
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MADRID (AP) — A new Spanish law requiring an explicit expression of consent in sexual relations won't take effect just yet, after the country's Senate on Tuesday demanded a minor change in wording in the law’s preamble and sent it back to parliament.
The legislation, popularly known as the “Only yes means yes” law, was set to pass in the Senate, but a small party won support for its demand for a change. That could delay the law by several months.
The legislation, long championed by Spain's Socialist-led coalition government, has its roots in the outcry over a gang rape that shocked the country during the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016.
Initially, a court found the five men accused in the case known as “La Manada” (The Pack) guilty of sexual abuse, but not rape, because the unconscious victim wasn’t proven to have objected to what was happening.
Under the new law, silence or passivity won’t be considered as indicating consensual sex, which will require an explicit expression of agreement from the partners.
Lawmakers from the conservative Popular Party, which is the main opposition party, and the far-right Vox party, were against the legislation.
The initial sentences in the San Fermin case prompted widespread protests across the country and calls for Spain to join other countries in Europe in legally defining rape as sex without consent.
Spain’s Supreme Court later overruled two lower courts and sentenced the five defendants to 15 years in prison for rape.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have determined there was nothing suspicious about a tour of two Capitol office buildings that a House Republican gave to about 15 people the day before Jan. 6, 2021, when rioting supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol.
The House committee investigating the 2021 insurrection examined whether rioters had been involved in reconnaissance and surveillance before the attack, and Democrats suggested some Republican members may have helped them. But there has been no public evidence of that.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, was simply showing his constituents around, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger in a letter sent Monday.
Manger’s letter to Rep. Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, came a few weeks after the House committee investigating the insurrection had asked Loudermilk for more information about the tour it said he led the day before the attack.
Police reviewed surveillance video showing Loudermilk leading a tour of about 15 people in the Rayburn and Cannon House office buildings, Manger said.
Republicans on the House Administration Committee — Loudermilk is a member — had previously said they reviewed security footage from Jan. 5 and said there were “no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on.”
But Reps. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the chairman and vice-chairwoman of the separate Jan. 6 committee contended last month that their review of the evidence “directly contradicts that denial.”
Loudermilk has said the Jan. 5 tour was with a constituent family and took place in the House office buildings and not inside the Capitol building. He and Davis had called on Capitol Police in May to release surveillance video.
The Capitol complex includes 20 buildings and facilities, including House and Senate offices. Underground tunnels connect most of the buildings to the Capitol.
“At no time did the group appear in any tunnels that would have led them to the U.S. Capitol,” Manger wrote in the letter.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., a Jan. 6 committee member, said Tuesday the panel would still like to hear Loudermilk’s testimony and would like to show the video referenced by the Davis letter to let the public decide.
“What Republicans said last year was false — that there were no tours, no MAGA hats — that was patently false.”
Capitol Police say the tour was thoroughly examined and there was nothing suspicious about it.
“There is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,” Manger said. “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.”
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- Two papers, published in The Lancet and Nature, indicate that treatment with oral raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) with a proven safety profile, may be efficacious against SARS-CoV-2 clinically relevant variants.
- Raloxifene was identified as a potential COVID-19 treatment by Exscalate4CoV consortium,
a multidisciplinary European center of excellence created with the aim to fighting coronavirus by combining the best supercomputing resources and artificial intelligence with state of the art experimental facilities up through clinical validation. - New digital open tools for researches are now being developed with the support of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking to further accelerate the drug discovery process.
MILAN, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dompé farmaceutici S.p.A ("Dompé") today announced positive results from two studies demonstrating that treatment with oral raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) with a proven safety profile, may be effective against SARS-CoV-2, including its clinically relevant variants. The two studies were conducted in collaboration with the Italian National Institute for the Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani" in Rome and other important clinical and preclinical research groups highly committed to COVID-19 research. "The clinical results on raloxifene published on Lancet's eClinical Medicine[1] show a significant virological impact in term of negative nasopharyngeal swab at day 7 in COVID-19 patients treated at home with raloxifene compared to standard of care. This randomized clinical trial confirm the in vitro data published in Nature's Cell Death and Disease[2], on the efficacy of Raloxifene on cellular lines experimentally infected by SARS-CoV-2" said Emanuele Nicastri, author of both studies and Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, where Italy's very first Covid-19 patients were hospitalized.
Raloxifene was identified by the Exscalate4CoV[3] (E4C) project, a group composed of 30 public and private institutions from seven countries and funded by EU Commission's in the frame of its Horizon 2020 Framework Programme[4], aimed at fighting Coronavirus with the latest European supercomputing resources and experimental facilities. Results were driven by the use of Exscalate, Dompé's supercomputing platform which leveraged a database of 500 billion molecules to find those capable of targeting clinically relevant coronavirus variants. Due to its processing capacity of more than 3 million molecules per second, Exscalate is currently the most powerful intelligent supercomputing drug design platform. This processing power allowed the E4C researchers to rapidly select and repurpose a generic molecule with known efficacy and tolerability to make it available to the global community. As raloxifene is a generic molecule already tested and approved for the treatment of osteoporosis, this was a not for profit effort aimed at providing a globally available low cost treatment.
The first study on raloxifene, published in The Lancet's eClinical Medicine, demonstrated that after seven days of treatment, patients taking raloxifene showed an improvement in symptoms compared to patients receiving placebo (please refer to www.clinicaltrials.gov for additional clinical trial details). The second study, published in Cell Death and Disease), indicates raloxifene as a potential agent to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 caused by the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants. Mechanistic studies[5] confirmed the significant affinity of raloxifene for the Spike protein, as predicted by in silico studies. Researchers concluded that raloxifene is efficacious against the main SARS-CoV-2 variants and could represent a useful addition to the therapeutic arm for the management of Covid-19.
"Supercomputing is already demonstrating its potential for finding new solutions at previously unprecedented speeds in many domains, including medicine. I am very pleased that the Commission has supported the Exscalate4Cov consortium to discover promising treatments for COVID-19, and we now look forward to seeing the results of the consortium's successor LIGATE project[6], which is developing a new drug discovery platform with the support of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking" commented Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).
"All of us at Dompé are incredibly proud of our contribution to the identification of new solutions to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on patients, healthcare systems, and their communities" said Marcello Allegretti, Chief Scientific Officer at Dompé. "The huge power of our unique supercomputing platform has been a gamechanger, but we want to thank all patients and researchers around the world who participated in these two studies. These results show the importance of combining pharmacological knowledge and breakthrough technologies as AI tools, to exploit the potential of repurposed drugs, and to elevate understanding of yet to be revealed mechanisms of action to address critically unmet medical needs".
About Raloxifene
Raloxifene is currently on the market for the treatment of osteoporosis and is well-tolerated with a known safety profile. The compound is a marketed drug and has been approved by the EMA for clinical use.
About Dompé
Dompé is a private, rapidly scaling international biopharmaceutical company founded in Milan, Italy, with a 130-year legacy of medical innovation. The R&D department of the company is leveraging EXSCALATE, a structure-based virtual screening platform developed in-house and presently one of the most powerful supercomputing and artificial intelligence platforms. Today, Dompé employs more than 800 employees worldwide and maintains a U.S. commercial operations hub in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as an R&D presence in Boston.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release refers to certain information that may not coincide with expected future results. Dompé firmly believes in the soundness and reasonableness of the concepts expressed. However, some of the information is subject to a certain degree of indetermination in relation to its research and development activities and the necessary verifications to be performed by regulatory bodies. Therefore, as of today, Dompé cannot guarantee that the expected results will be consistent with the information provided above.
[1] A phase 2 randomized, double-blinded, placebocontrolled, multicenter trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of raloxifene for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00180-8/fulltext
[2] "Characterization of raloxifene as a potential pharmacological agent against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants" in Nature Cell Death and Disease (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-04961-z).
[3] The Exscalate4Cov (www.exscalate4cov.eu) consortium, supported by the the EU's Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation, was coordinated by Dompé farmaceutici, and composed by 18 member institutions from seven European countries: Politecnico di Milano (Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering), Consorzio Interuniversitario CINECA(Supercomputing Innovation and Applications), Università degli Studi di Milano (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences), International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), KU Leuven, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Università Federico II di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Department of Applied Physics), Associazione Big Data, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani and Chelonia Applied Science. Part of E4C League were: ENI, SAS, Alfasigma, CFEL Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, MMV Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Esteve Pharmaceutical, University of Basel Biozentrum, University of Basel Innovation Office, University of Basel Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, D-wave, Pierre fabre, Greenpharma, University of Sheffield - Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience – SITraN, Dassault Systemes- Biovia, Institute of Food Science Research, CECAM Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire, Nanome, Esteco, IT4Innovation, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Faculty of Physics, Institut Cochin.
[4] EXaSCale smArt pLatform Against paThogEns for Corona Virus / Grant agreement ID: 101003551 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101003551
[5] "Repurposing the estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection" in Nature Cell Death & Differentiation journal (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-021-00844-6) and "Characterization of raloxifene as a potential pharmacological agent against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants" in Nature Cell Death and Disease (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-04961-z).
[6] https://www.ligateproject.eu/
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Evergy, Inc. (EVRG) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $122.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company said it had profit of 53 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 58 cents per share.
The electric utility posted revenue of $1.22 billion in the period.
Evergy expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.43 to $3.63 per share.
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While enthusiastically announcing plans to expand the College Football Playoff, those in charge of the postseason system downplayed the revenue windfall that will come with tripling the number of participants and declined to speculate about whether a new format will tap the breaks on conference realignment.
Instead, they stuck to a strict script, touting how many more athletes will get to play games with national championship implications and how many more fans will get to root for playoff contenders.
“It will be a new day for college football,” Mississippi State President Mark Keenum said late last week after the announcement billed as “historic.”
No doubt.
Expanding the College Football Playoff from four to 12 teams will fundamentally change the sport on the field and off — for better or worse.
More regular-season games will have playoff implications, but the biggest games will no longer have winner-take-all tension.
The new format will break up a conference caste system fortified by the four-team model, but it won’t stop the growing gap between haves and have nots.
More teams will play in the championship tournament and bowl games that are suffering from player apathy will be replaced by playoff games.
But a larger field probably won’t increase the number of teams that have a realistic chance of winning the whole thing.
How soon expansion will come is still to be determined. As soon as 2024, but no later than 2026.
"Overall, it’s a day for celebration," CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said.
Maybe.
The Game of the Century, that in-season matchup of highly ranked teams with seemingly everything on the line, has gone from being a staple of college football to an endangered species. The 12-team playoff will now make it extinct and redefine what it means to play an important regular-season game.
Let's use last year's Ohio State-Michigan game as an example. The Wolverines not only broke a long losing streak in the rivalry, but they eliminated the Buckeyes from both Big Ten and playoff contention.
Under a 12-team playoff, that game is for seeding and a first-round bye.
The flip side is that under the new format, any team that enters the final month of the season with a chance to win its conference is a playoff contender.
Think back to last Thanksgiving Day weekend, with Ohio State-Michigan and Oklahoma-Oklahoma State basically playing elimination games and Alabama facing Auburn with playoff hopes in peril.
That was pretty great.
Now what if Wisconsin-Minnesota, Michigan State-Penn State, Oregon-Oregon State and three different Atlantic Coast Conference games involving Clemson, Wake Forest and North Carolina State also had playoff implications?
For some fans, that sounds even better. For others, those teams are just watering down the field.
“What motivated the presidents and me as well was that we need to have an opportunity for more participation of teams in our nation’s national championship tournament,” Keenum said. "And having only four teams, we felt like that’s not fair to our student-athletes from a participation standpoint.”
Yes, it's all about the student-athletes, who now will likely need to play 16 games — maybe even 17 — to win a national championship.
Combine that with what could very well be a $2 billion yearly payout to the major conferences for the media rights to the new playoff, and it is yet another step toward players being paid.
“We are just getting started on this, but I will tell you that the management committee and the board starting last fall were having significant conversations about some way to provide some benefits for the players,” Hancock said. “We don’t know what those will be yet. We just started on the path for this.”
The new format will take out some of the subjectivity over how the field is selected. The selection committee that currently chooses the so-called four best teams isn't going away. But six spots in the 12-team field will be reserved for the best (as chosen by the selection committee) conference champions. There will be no distinction between the 10 FBS conferences. At least not officially.
“It is a merit-based format that recognizes the value of conference championships while simultaneously allowing at-large access for six deserving teams,” American Athletic Association Commissioner Mike Aresco said.
The Power Five and Group of Five monikers also appear to be going the way of the dinosaurs. But make no mistake, the power and the wealth in college football will continue to consolidate.
Massive TV deals for the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference are allowing the Super Two to separate from the rest of the Power Five as that revenue is converted into competitive advantages.
The new playoff format and the access it provides could help keep the Pac-12, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference alive, but there still isn't a school in those leagues that wouldn't jump to the Big Ten or SEC given the opportunity.
“I don’t know how this plays into the whole landscape of college athletics,” said Keenum, who heads the group of university leaders that oversees the playoff.
There is hope among some that increased playoff access could boost parity on the field as more schools are able to use playoff appearances to lure recruits.
That could help in the margins, but whether it closes the bigger-than-ever talent gap between a small number of elite teams such as Alabama and Georgia and the rest is iffy at best.
Early-round playoff games, some played on campus, should be far more entertaining than traditional marquee bowl games, which are now routinely skipped by top players prioritizing NFL draft preparation.
The entire postseason should be better, but the blowouts that have plagued the four-team playoff are still likely to happen, just in later rounds. And an expanded format only increases the chances of one of the super teams winning the title.
The College Football Playoff is getting bigger. Whether it is getting better is a matter for personal preference.
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BEIJING (AP) — The European Union’s climate chief on Monday expressed concern over the expansion of China’s coal industry, with the building of new coal-fired plants.
At a conference in Beijing, Frans Timmermans said that while China is forging ahead with plans to expand its use of renewable resources such as wind and solar energy, the country has also been constructing an ever-growing number of coal-fired plants in the past few years.
“And that seems to be in a contradiction and it is in contradiction,” said Timmermans. “But at the same time, I do understand the anxiety caused by potential blackouts.”
China is the world’s biggest and fastest-growing producer of renewable energy. It aims to turn one-third of its total power supply renewable by 2025.
As more cities are experiencing sweltering temperatures this summer, the country may face power shortages and challenges to electricity grids, similar to what happened last year. At the same time, water shortages have led to reductions in hydropower generation.
China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua attended the conference and presented a commemorative plate to Timmermans, who is on a two-day visit to China for the EU-China High-level Environment and Climate Dialogue.
Official plans called for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons last year, at least the third consecutive year of growth.
Although China is one of the biggest investors in wind and solar, anxious leaders called for more coal-fired power after economic growth plunged and shortages caused blackouts and factory shutdowns. Russia’s attack on Ukraine added to the anxiety that foreign oil and coal supplies might be disrupted.
China is the top producer and consumer of coal. Global trends hinge on what Beijing does.
The Communist Party has rejected binding emissions commitments, citing its economic development needs. Beijing has avoided joining governments that promised to phase out the use of coal-fired power.
China has said carbon emissions will peak by 2030 and the country will become carbon neutral by 2060 by planting trees and through other offsets.
Some European and American officials have called on China to adopt more ambitious targets. China accounts for 26.1% of global emissions, more than double the U.S. share of 12.8%.
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STAMFORD, Conn. — Longtime chairman and CEO of WWE Vince McMahon announced Friday he will retire.
In June, it was announced that McMahon had "voluntarily stepped back" from his corporate role amid an investigation by the World Wrestling Entertainment board of directors into alleged misconduct.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that McMahon paid more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct from multiple former employees, a sum far greater than previously known.
WWE did not share whether the internal investigation had been completed, or release any new details on Friday.
McMahon took over the organization from his father in the 1980s and transformed it into a national sensation, with massive events like WrestleMania and breakout stars like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and John Cena.
“As I approach 77 years old, I feel it’s time for me to retire as Chairman and CEO of WWE. Throughout the years, it’s been a privilege to help WWE bring you joy, inspire you, thrill you, surprise you, and always entertain you," McMahon said in a statement. "I would like to thank my family for mightily contributing to our success, and I would also like to thank all of our past and present Superstars and employees for their dedication and passion for our brand."
McMahon's daughter Stephanie McMahon was named interim CEO and chairwoman after her father stepped back in June. Following Vince McMahon's announcement, the company said Stephanie and WWE President Nick Khan will serve as co-CEOs moving forward.
WWE also announced earlier Friday that Stephanie's husband, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, is returning to his executive role with the company. He left after suffering a heart attack last year.
Vince McMahon remains the majority shareholder in WWE and said he "will continue to support WWE in any way I can."
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BALLERUP, Denmark, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiqTech International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIQT), a clean technology company that manufactures and markets highly specialized filtration products and systems, today announced the appointment of Fei Chen as President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), with a start date on or before November 1, 2022. Effective as of her start date, Ms. Chen will also be appointed a member of the Company's Board of Directors.
Alexander Buehler, a member of LiqTech's Board and currently Interim CEO since March 2022, will resign as Interim CEO when Ms. Chen starts her employment but will continue to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. The Board extends its heartfelt appreciation to Alex for stepping in as Interim CEO when needed and for the important contributions he has made in such a short time.
Ms. Chen brings more than 20 years of management experience and a demonstrated track record of success across a variety of global industrial companies, with an emphasis on water treatment, chemicals, and clean energy technologies. After heading global R&D for Topsoe A/S, a world leader in catalysts and energy-efficient clean technologies, Ms. Chen was most recently Senior Vice President, Global Commercials (clean fuels and chemicals technology) for Topsoe A/S. Prior to Topsoe, Ms. Chen was the Innovation Platform Director for Grundfos A/S, the leading global company in the development, manufacturing and distribution of water and liquid pumps, where she was responsible for establishing Grundfos' water treatment division.
Ms. Chen has also held management positions with Novozymes A/S, FOSS Analytical China, Lattec I/S, Coloplast A/S, and the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark. She is currently a member of the Board at Liquid Wind AB and Jiangsu JiTRI-Topsoe Clean Energy Research and Development Co. Ltd., China, and she was previously a Member of the Board for Brunata International A/S and Enaqua.
"Fei brings to LiqTech a strong combination of developing and commercializing technology businesses, with an established track record in driving profitable revenue growth," commented Mark Vernon, Chairman of the Board of Directors. "We look forward to leveraging her wide business experience in water treatment and clean energy technologies as LiqTech advances to its next stage of commercial development."
Ms. Chen earned a Ph.D. in Polymer Materials from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and she holds a Master of Biochemical Engineering degree and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University in China. Ms. Chen is a Danish citizen and is fluent in Danish, English and Mandarin.
Ms. Chen commented, "I am excited about coming to LiqTech at this important stage of the Company's development and am grateful for the Board's strong support. My wide experience in technology businesses should enable us to quickly position the company for profitable growth. I look forward to working with the capable and dedicated people of LiqTech to achieve our goals."
ABOUT LIQTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
LiqTech International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a clean technology company that provides state-of-the-art ceramic silicon carbide filtration technologies for gas and liquid purification. LiqTech's silicon carbide membranes are designed to be used in the most challenging water purification applications and its silicon carbide filters are used to control diesel exhaust soot emissions. Using nanotechnology, LiqTech develops products using its proprietary silicon carbide technology, resulting in a wide range of component membranes, membrane systems and filters for both microfiltration and ultrafiltration applications. By incorporating LiqTech's SiC liquid membrane technology with the Company's extensive systems design experience and capabilities, LiqTech offers unique, turnkey solutions for the most difficult water purification applications.
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Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday honored 18 people killed in two California mass shootings, saying “we have to be there” with the communities that have been forever scarred by gun violence.
“Our prayers are with the people of Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, and after yet another spree of gun violence in America,” he said at a Lunar New Year reception at the White House.
Eleven people were killed at a Southern California ballroom dance hall late Saturday and seven others died Monday at two mushroom farms in the northern part of the state.
Biden said he had spoken with Brandon Tsay, 26, who was at a second dance hall a few miles from the scene of the tragedy in Monterey Park when the same gunman entered, brandishing his weapon. Tsay disarmed the gunman, who then fled.
He praised Tsay’s courage, calling him a “genuine hero.”
“Brandon said he thought he was going to die, but then he thought about the people inside,” Biden said, asking the largely Asian American audience to ponder what could have happened had Tsay fled himself.
“I think sometimes we underestimate incredible acts of courage,” the president said. “Someone has a semiautomatic pistol aimed at you and you think about others. That’s pretty profound, pretty profound.”
The shootings were carried out during celebrations of the arrival of the Lunar New Year, one of the most important Asian holidays, and sent fear through Asian American communities already dealing with increased violence directed at them, some of it due to misinformation about the coronavirus.
Authorities said Huu Can Tran opened fire late Saturday on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Nine people also were wounded. Tran, 72, was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Days later, farmworker Chunli Zhao, 66, opened fire at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay on Monday, killing seven current and former co-workers, police said.
The White House had scheduled its Lunar New Year celebration before the shootings.
Both communities “will be affected by what they saw and what they lost for the rest of their lives,” Biden said, referring to the trauma inflicted and the need for treatment. “And as a nation, we have to be there with them. We have to be there with them. We don’t have a choice.”
He led the gathering in a moment of silence in honor of the victims.
Biden had ordered American flags on federal facilities lowered to half-staff through sunset Thursday out of respect for the Monterey Park victims. He said Thursday that he has been in touch with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He also sent Vice President Kamala Harris, a native of the state, to Monterey Park on Wednesday to offer condolences on behalf of the government.
Biden had been in California on Jan. 19, just two days before the dance studio shooting, to survey flood damage along the state’s central coast following days of heavy rains. He spoke with Tsay earlier this week.
“Thank you for taking such incredible action in the face of danger,” Biden told Tsay in a brief video of the conversation that the White House shared Thursday on Twitter. “I don’t think you understand how much you’ve done for so many people who are never even going to know you.”
Tsay replied that he was still processing what had happened.
“For you to call, that’s just so comforting to me,” Tsay told the president.
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GREAT FALLS — Great Falls resident Megan Niklasen is getting some recognition for a photo she took of Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park.
The photo won first place in Wild Montana's 14th annual photo contest.
Additionally, Helena resident Kevin League won second place for his photo of the Big Belt Mountains.
"I think the coolest thing about it, when I got to the lake it was beautiful but then I walked around the lake off to the side. When I got over there that's really where the view was awesome," Niklasen said as she recalled the day she hiked to Iceberg Lake
On October 1, 2022 Megan Niklasen finally accomplished her goal of hiking to the lake.
"That is the fifth time I had been to Glacier (National Park) last summer. I wanted to do it the prior two times but the trail was closed for bear activity," Niklasen said.
What makes the photo even more impressive is that she took it on her cellphone.
"All my hiking pictures I just take on my phone. I've really thought about getting a camera because I love to take pictures and I thought it would be good for wildlife but I also don't like hiking with a lot of weight," said Niklasen.
"We've been running this contest since 2009 to connect people to Montana's wild places," said Keely Kiewiet, Wild Montana digital communications manager.
The organization has existed since 1958 ultimately to promote conservation.
"This year, more than 400 people submitted over 1,700 photos which is about three times as many photos as last year," Kiewiet said.
She said the reflection in Niklasen's photo is what made it stand out.
Niklasen hopes to hike to Iceberg Lake again.
"I definitely think that I will hike this trail again this summer. Every time I go to the park, it looks different," said Niklasen.
The top 20 photos in the contest, including Niklasen's, will be put on display at Benefis Health System in Great Falls.
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The Cleveland Guardians and Boston Red Sox find themselves in similar spots with the trade deadline looming.
Both are within striking distance of an American League postseason spot. Both also benefit from the expanded playoffs, which adds a third wild card team to each league.
Yet, each club is hovering around the .500 mark and hasn’t really established much traction of late.
The Guardians gained some momentum with their 8-3 win on Tuesday and will look to maintain it Wednesday when the teams meet for the third contest of their four-game series.
Right-hander Cal Quantrill (7-5, 3.75 ERA) starts for Cleveland while the Red Sox will turn to righty Nathan Eovaldi (4-3, 4.30).
There’s a sense of urgency for both squads to realistically stay in the race.
The Red Sox have lost four of five since the All-Star Break, and the Guardians are 3-3.
The Aug. 2 deadline creates some anxious moments for players who possibly could be dealt.
Cleveland manager Terry Francona tries to be as honest as he can with his players who are part of trade speculation.
“If I feel like if somebody is feeling it, and if I know something isn’t going to happen, I’d tell ’em,” Francona said during his pregame radio segment on Tuesday. “What I don’t want to ever do is perjure myself and lie. But the guys are pretty good about it now because they’re so used to seeing stuff with social media. They’ve kind of come up through that. For guys like my age, it would probably throw me a little bit. But they’re kind of used to it.”
From the Red Sox perspective, players like outfielder Alex Verdugo are stressing they’re still very much in the postseason picture, even with the club’s struggles.
“We’re still (close) in the wild card, I believe,” Verdugo told reporters. “Hey, boys, let’s go. Let’s start now.”
For the Red Sox to make a serious push, they’ll need to get healthy.
Designated hitter J.D. Martinez played for the first time since the All-Star Break on Tuesday, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and being hit by a pitch.
For Quantrill, this will be his second start of the season against Boston. On June 24, the right-hander gave up two runs in five innings in a no-decision.
In his career, Quantrill is 0-1 with a 4.00 ERA in three starts against the Red Sox.
Eovaldi has gone 3-2 with a 3.47 ERA in his career against the Guardians, but he hasn’t beaten them in a while. The last time the 32-year-old won against Cleveland was on Aug. 13, 2015.
Getting on track is a more pressing concern for Eovaldi, who has struggled since returning from the injured list. In his last start, the veteran was tagged for nine runs in 2 2/3 innings.
Eovaldi went on the injured list on June 9 with lower-back inflammation. In two starts since being reinstated, he has yielded 12 earned runs in seven innings.
Quantrill, 27, will be appearing in his 100th MLB game, and he’s won three straight starts. For July, he is 3-1 with a 3.86 ERA.
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Combat holiday travel cost with expert savings tips
Holiday travelers plan to spend $1,500 on average this season
Published: Nov. 10, 2022 at 3:43 PM CST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
InvestigateTV - A new study by NerdWallet shows people are expecting to spend around $1,500 on holiday travel this year and 66% plan to put that travel expense on a credit card.
Sally French, a travel expert with NerdWallet, shared several strategies to combat the cost this season:
- Book your travel on less busy travel days: Domestic airfare for Thanksgiving travel is 17% cheaper if you wait until Monday to fly home versus Sunday.
- Begin saving now for holiday trips
- Make a plan to pay off travel debt if you plan to finance it with a credit card
- Use travel credit cards and rewards points to your advantage
The same study shared ways consumers are planning to trim travel expenses. They include:
- Driving instead of flying
- Staying with friends and family instead of hotels
- Using carry-on luggage to avoid baggage fees
You can read the full study for more cost saving tips.
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MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade, wrapping up a trial in which he defended himself with bizarre legal theories and erratic outbursts.
It took the jury a little over three hours to find Darrell Brooks guilty of all 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He faces a mandatory life sentence on each homicide count.
Brooks, dressed in a suit and tie, silently rested his head on folded hands as the verdicts were read. His subdued demeanor was a stark departure from previous days of the trial, when his sometimes-outrageous behavior drew rebukes from the judge.
Brooks drove his Ford Escape into the Christmas parade in Waukesha in suburban Milwaukee on Nov. 21 moments after fleeing a domestic disturbance with his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors said.
Six people were killed, including 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, who was marching in the parade with his baseball team, and three members of the Dancing Grannies, a group of grandmothers that dances in parades. Scores of others were hurt, some severely.
The incident deeply scarred the community of 70,000 people about 16 miles (25 kilometers) west of Milwaukee. Community members built memorials to the dead and held vigils. The anger was still evident Wednesday; someone in the gallery yelled “burn in hell" as the verdicts were read. Vehicles passing the courthouse honked their horns in celebration, WITI-TV reported.
Judge Jennifer Dorow scheduled a hearing for Monday to set a sentencing date. Victims and their families are expected to make statements then.
Brooks pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease earlier this year but withdrew the plea before his trial began with no explanation.
Days before the trial started, he dismissed his public defenders, electing to represent himself despite overwhelming evidence against him. Police officers and paradegoers testified they saw Brooks behind the wheel of the SUV. District Attorney Susan Opper presented several photos of Brooks driving the vehicle to the jury.
Brooks' main defense theory appeared to be that he was a sovereign citizen, echoing a conspiracy theory that every person is a nation and isn't subject to government restrictions. He refused to recognize the court's jurisdiction over him, refused to answer to his own name, launched into meandering cross-examinations, and muttered under his breath that the trial wasn't fair.
He got into daily arguments with the judge that often devolved into shouting matches. At one point he glared at Dorow so intensely she had to take a recess because she said she was scared of him.
Multiple times, she moved him into another courtroom where he could watch the proceedings via video and she could mute his microphone when he became disruptive.
One day, after he was moved to the other room, he stripped off his shirt and sat bare-chested on his table with his back to the camera. On another day, he built a barricade out of his boxes of legal documents and hid behind it. On yet another, he held up a Bible so no one could see his face on camera and tossed his copy of the jury instructions into the garbage.
Opper told jurors during her closing arguments Tuesday that Brooks' refusal to stop once he entered the parade route shows he intended kill people.
Dorow allowed Brooks back into the main courtroom to deliver his closing to jurors face to face. In a rambling, repetitive speech, he tried to raise doubts about whether the SUV's throttle malfunctioned and whether the driver simply panicked. He lamented how he hasn't been able to see his children since he was arrested and insisted he's not a murderer.
Opper countered during her rebuttal that a Wisconsin State Patrol vehicle inspector testified earlier that the SUV was in good working order. She warned jurors that Brooks was just trying to play on their sympathy.
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WEST LAFAYETTE –
For the first time in a month, Purdue will take the court tonight without the No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll affixed to the program.
The Boilermakers dropped from No. 1 to No. 3 this week after losing to Rutgers at Mackey Arena last week, but they salvaged the week with crucial road wins over then-No. 24 Ohio State and Penn State to remain at the top of the Big Ten (they enter the night tied for first place in the conference standings with Michigan State, with both teams at 4-1; the Spartans face Illinois later tonight and then Purdue on Monday in East Lansing).
Tonight, Purdue plays at Mackey Arena for the only time in a stretch of five games, taking on Nebraska. The Boilers beat the Cornhuskers in Lincoln in December, winning 65-62 in overtime despite letting a 14-point lead slip away in the second half. Nebraska got off to a good start to the season and is far friskier than it was in the first few years of coach Fred Hoiberg’s tenure, but the Cornhuskers are still just 2-4 in league play, sitting in 12th place in the conference standings, and are coming off a 76-50 home defeat at the hand of Illinois.
The first time these teams met, the keys were 3-point shooting (or lack thereof from Purdue) and Nebraska’s offensive rebounding. The Boilermakers went just 7 for 29 from long distance in that game, including 3 for 17 in the second half and overtime and were only able to hold on because of an excellent defensive performance which held Nebraska to 32% shooting. Even that defensive effort was somewhat wasted because the ‘Huskers grabbed 19 offensive rebounds as Purdue struggled to box out on some of the long 3s Nebraska attempted. The Cornhuskers’ struggling offense scored just nine second-chance points, but the Boilers can’t expect a repeat performance tonight and will have to do a better job of cleaning the glass. They have done so most of the year, ranking among the nation's leaders in average rebound margin while center Zach Edey leads the country in rebounding at 13.2 per contest.
Edey had 17 rebounds the last time these teams met, but he was held to just 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in that contest as Nebraska draped two, three and sometimes even four defenders all over him. That strategy worked because the Boilermakers missed so many open 3s and coach Matt Painter insisted the Cornhuskers will try it again, noting "that's what they do." The solution for the Boilers is to hit some outside shots; Fletcher Loyer, who is 7 for 13 from long range in the last two games, could help on that front after going 2 for 10 in the first meeting.
In addition to the Big Ten standings ramifications, the Boilermakers are on the cusp of some history: a win tonight would be the 1,900th in program history, making them just the 11th team to accomplish that feat. For Painter, it would be his 400th victory as Purdue coach.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The eyebrow-raising name of Swastika Mountain, located outside Cottage Grove in Lane County, will soon be changed.
The Oregon Geographic Names Board confirmed Wednesday that the mountain’s name, which refers to a symbol the German Nazi Party used to identify itself or the Southeast Asian symbol of good luck or spirituality, will be changed.
A final decision on its new name will come on Dec. 6.
So far, two name change proposals have been submitted to the Oregon Geographic Names Board for the mountain.
One came from Joyce McClain and the other came from David Lewis.
McClain suggests the summit be renamed to Umpqua Mountain and Lewis suggests Mount Halo.
The mountain is more than 4,000 feet tall and is located in the Umpqua National Forest. In her proposal, McClain included an email from Jeremy Johnson, the cultural resources program manager for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, where he voiced his support for the suggested name change.
Lewis’ proposed name Mount Halo refers to Chief Halito, leader of the Yoncalla Kalapuya tribe, whose name was commonly shortened to Chief Halo.
All U.S. states are in the process of renaming many geographic features after Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland asked them to change the names of features that include words considered derogatory toward Native Americans.
Secretarial Order 3404 formally identifies the term “s—-” as derogatory and, according to a list from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic names, there are 18 locations in Washington, 53 locations in Oregon, and two locations in both Oregon and Idaho that include the term in their name.
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NEW YORK — Micron, one of the world’s largest microchip manufacturers, is expected to open a semiconductor plant in New York, promising a $100 billion investment and a plant that could bring 50,000 jobs to the state, the Senate’s top Democrat says.
Companies like Micron manufacture the diminutive chips that power everything from smartphones to computers to automobiles. The bill was aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness against China and avoiding another chip shortage like the one that derailed the auto and tech industries during the pandemic.
Schumer confirmed to The Associated Press that Micron plans to bring its plant to the White Pine Commerce Park in Clay, New York, near Syracuse, after speaking with the company’s leaders.
“Chips are essential to our economy, and if we were to lose the ability to manufacture chips here in the United States, it would be a severe, both economic security and national security risk,” Schumer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “This will be the most advanced memory chip manufacturing facility in the United States and probably the world. And, and it’s located in a place that will really benefit from it.”
The company plans to invest $100 billion over the next 20 years, with the first investment of $20 billion planned by the end of the decade, Schumer said. The deal is also expected to bring more than 9,000 jobs to Micron and officials believe it could also bring close to 40,000 other ancillary jobs to the region, from suppliers to contractors, Schumer said.
Micron – based in Boise, Idaho – has several chip manufacturing plants around the world, including in Singapore and Taiwan. The company announced in September that it would invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown of Boise that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.
“This is like a 21st century Erie Canal,” Schumer said of the New York plant. “And just as the original Erie Canal did centuries ago, this will help cement the growth of our economy for decades to come, not only in upstate New York, but in the country, since these chips are so vital to so many of our cutting edge industries.”
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LARKSPUR, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Neill Vintners & Distillers, one of the fastest-growing wineries in California, announces today its B Corp Certification, which distinguishes companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. This certification comes less than a year after O'Neill earned Wine Institute's Green Medal Leader Award in 2021.
O'Neill has excelled in meeting each standard as a leader in social and environmental preservation and joins over 5,000 companies across 80 countries and 155 industries in earning B Corp status. "Receiving B Corp certification is a testament to our team's persistent focus on continuous improvement to lead positive change in the industry. This is a profound achievement for a company of our size in an industry so closely connected to people and the planet," says Founder and CEO Jeff O'Neill. "We are honored to receive this distinction and become part of the B Corp community."
O'Neill is the 10th largest wine company in the US and now the largest B Corp Certified winery in North America. Caine Thompson, Sustainability Lead for O'Neill Vintners & Distillers notes, "B Corp Certification was a natural progression for O'Neill, who has been striving for environmental and social responsibility since its founding in 2004."
The announcement signifies a major milestone for O'Neill and its efforts to lead the beverage industry in sustainability, transparency, and social stewardship. Some of the company's initiatives include The O'Neill Sustainable Grower Certification Program, over 33,000 square feet of solar panels, BioFiltro® BIDA wastewater program, and the Charles Woodson & O'Neill Family Scholarships.
O'Neill Vintners & Distillers received a score of 98.3/200 on the B Impact Assessment and joins a global group of companies, including 25 wineries, that meet high standards across five areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers.
About O'Neill Vintners & Distillers
O'Neill Vintners & Distillers was founded in 2004 by industry veteran and entrepreneur Jeff O'Neill. The vertically integrated winery is one of the fastest-growing premium wine and spirits companies in California with a reputation for producing premium-quality wines & spirits and it is known for leadership in sustainability practices. O'Neill received the Green Medal Leader Award in 2021 by the Wine Institute and was awarded B Corp Certification in 2022. The company's national brands portfolio includes Line 39, Robert Hall Winery, Harken, Day Owl Rosé, Game Box, Rabble Wines, BrandyLab, and Charles Woodson's Intercept Wines. For more information, please visit www.ONeillWine.com.
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When the NFL schedule makers started to dig in after the Super Bowl on putting together the complex puzzle of a 272-game schedule, Tom Brady had just retired, Russell Wilson was in Seattle and the free-agent frenzy hadn't even started.
After sifting through more than 100,000 schedules out of a possibility of more than one quadrillion possibilities, the final schedule that the NFL released on Thursday had Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Wilson and his new team in Denver getting prime-time television windows in Week 1.
The Bucs were given the opening Sunday night spot against the Dallas Cowboys, while Wilson's debut for the Broncos will come against his former Seahawks team in Seattle in the opening Monday night game.
“In the old days, building this thing by hand, we might have been in Week 8 or 9 by the time we got Russell Wilson moving to Denver,” NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning Mike North said. “Maybe we could have adjusted one or two things, but maybe not a wholesale stop and restart. Now thanks to the the way the technology enables us to attack this process, we could stop, take a break, re-evaluate and talk to our partners, talk to our bosses and start all over again and within a couple of days we had a whole new path and a whole new plan that would maximize each of those Denver games, each one of those Tampa Bay games.
"We probably weren't going to do that before those quarterbacks moved.”
While changes in free agency and the draft are always a factor the schedule makers have to deal with, this year’s retirement switch by Brady and new homes for Wilson and Deshaun Watson were higher-profile ones that had a large impact on the schedule.
The Broncos and Bucs were among the 13 teams that got the maximum five prime-time windows, along with Super Bowl participants the Rams and Bengals, and other big-draw teams such as Buffalo, Dallas, Kansas City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New England and the Chargers.
North said other deals such as Tyreek Hill’s trade from Kansas City to Miami also played a role in the schedule with the Dolphins’ game against Pittsburgh 50 years after they beat the Steelers in the AFC title game in their perfect season solidifying its spot as a Sunday night game in Week 7.
What once was done by hand on a cork board by one NFL executive is now handled by a cloud of computers provided by Amazon that can run through all sorts of permutations each night before the league picks the one schedule it believes optimizes as best as possible fairness to both teams and network TV partners.
The league tries to balance which networks get the most high-profile games. A Bills-Chiefs playoff rematch was given to CBS; a matchup between Brady and Patrick Mahomes will be played on Sunday night for NBC; an NFC championship game rematch between the Rams and 49ers goes to ESPN on Monday night; Amazon gets flashy quarterbacks Mahomes and Justin Herbert for the first game of its new exclusive Thursday night package; and Fox gets what could be the final game between Brady and Aaron Rodgers for its doubleheader package.
The computers also have to sift through about 26,000 “rules” put in place to deal with stadium conflicts, international travel before and after the five games played in England, Mexico and Germany and trying to spread out the “pain” of schedule inequities like long road trips or the amount of games played against teams coming off byes.
“It’s, you know, a miracle, frankly, that we ever got one done by hand,” North said. “The software, the hardware, the technology, the search engine, the AWS cloud computers, they allow us to look at an awful lot more options. We still would have landed on one then hopefully that we would have been proud of. But it’s a very different process and we really couldn’t do it without the technology that’s available to us.”
There were a few quirks to the schedule such as the Bengals playing all three road division games in prime time and the Patriots playing four straight prime-time games. North said the issue with Cincinnati was the league wanted them to play in prime time against Miami and Buffalo and those were at home, leading to the other games going on the road.
The Patriots and Bills were both slotted early into the Thanksgiving schedule with New England playing Minnesota at night. With two of the six teams playing on Thanksgiving typically playing the next Thursday night as well, the NFL opted for a Patriots-Bills game.
The Patriots also requested back-to-back games out West, and the NFL slotted the Arizona and Las Vegas games the following two weeks and picked those for prime time.
Another quirk: The New York Jets open their season with games all against the AFC North: home vs. Baltimore, at Cleveland, home vs. Cincinnati and at Pittsburgh. The only other teams to open a season against an entire division since the league's expansion to 32 teams were New Orleans in 2004 and the Giants in 2002 — both vs. the NFC West.
This year's schedule has a few new wrinkles from a tripleheader on Christmas Day to a staggered Monday night doubleheader in Week 2 with a Tennessee-Buffalo game starting at 7:15 p.m. ET on ESPN and a Minnesota-Philadelphia game starting at 8:30 p.m. on ABC.
This is a change from previous years when ESPN aired a Week 1 doubleheader with the games being played back to back with the second game starting at 10:20 p.m. ET
“We’ll learn a little something from this year,” North said. “We’ll see what the fans tell us. And then next year, when we’ve got three such opportunities to have ESPN and ABC side by side, we might try three different ways.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the growing trend away from static creator royalties, Magic Eden, the leading cross-chain NFT platform, today announced that it would be introducing a Creator Monetization Hackathon with up to $1M investment to support the development of pro-NFT royalties and alternative monetization tools on Solana.
As a platform committed to equally serving both collectors and creators, Magic Eden is ready to offer resourcing that will allow creators to contend with a rapidly changing market. With the $1M Creator Monetization Hackathon, Magic Eden will be fostering the creation of new creator business models as well as collaborating with partners to develop tools that support a sustainable creator ecosystem.
Magic Eden CEO and Co-Founder Jack Lu commented on today's news: "We've recently experienced seismic shifts in the NFT ecosystem. The movement away from creator royalties has been an unfortunate trend, but one that seems inevitable given that royalties are not enforceable at the protocol level. It is a trend that we are hoping can be reversed long-term. To accelerate new innovations on creator business models and royalty protecting tools, we are running a $1M Hackathon with the community to develop new creator royalties tools that will protect and support creators. We believe this initiative will help us continue to champion a creator-centric business. Our hope is that this is a temporary circumstance and that royalties return as a consistently viable business model in the future."
For NFT creators, the potential to receive regular royalties from future sales has attracted thousands of talented creatives to enter the web3 space. Since royalties are not enforceable on the blockchain, and, in practice, are only payable at the discretion of the platform and collector, users are increasingly opting to purchase NFTs on platforms that allow them to bypass royalty fees. Effective today, Magic Eden will also be enabling optional royalties on their platform and allowing NFT buyers to opt into full, half, or no royalties. The Creator Monetization Hackathon will help reduce the business impact felt during this transition to an optional creator royalty model and will also incubate tools that will protect royalty revenue and explore new models of monetization.
It is evident that creators need alternative monetization tools and the second part of the Creator Monetization Hackathon will help cover the initial costs of experimentation for creators. In lieu of royalties, creators at this time can explore holding a portion of their supply to introduce back to the market later or set up their own liquidity pools. Top projects can also be able to explore ancillary revenue streams with Boots, a protocol that allows users to customize trait/skins-based SFTs (semi-fungible tokens) for their existing NFTs. Creators who have a compelling monetization model or are exploring royalty protection tools will be able to apply to the hackathon for grant money and investment support.
For more information on the Creator Monetization Hackathon, please visit Magic Eden's Twitter: @MagicEden.
About Magic Eden
Magic Eden is the leading cross-chain NFT platform driving the next billion users to Web3. Led by former crypto, tech, and hospitality leaders, Magic Eden is building a user-friendly platform powered by market-leading user products. Magic Eden brings dynamic cultural moments onto the blockchain, empowering users across thousands of digital communities to create, discover and collect unique NFTs. For more information, please visit www.magiceden.io.
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Winner Alissa Millett of Soulteria debuts inspirational, yet functional home workspace for her growing small business
DENVER, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Xero, the global small business platform, today unveiled the results of the "Xero Beautiful Business" Contest, which launched earlier this year and called for small businesses to enter to win a $15,000 office refresh designed by celebrated stylist and interior designer Estee Stanley. Xero received a multitude of entries and awarded Alissa Millett, CEO of sustainable swimwear company Soulteria, the prize. After a design consultation with Stanley and a two-month redecorating process, the highly-anticipated space has been revealed.
As told through her compelling submission, Millett poured her life savings into launching Soulteria, but had minimal funds left to finish out her home office space. Through a combination of thrifting and upcycling, Millett pieced together a passable workspace, but it ultimately lacked style and function.
"This gift from Xero and Estee Stanley could not have come at a better time," said Millett. "We have been working hard to expand Soulteria, and this makeover validates all of that effort and more. And to partner with a global company whose values so closely align with ours, and whose sole focus is empowering small businesses of all kinds, makes it that much sweeter."
Following a virtual design consultation to understand Millett's design aesthetic and functional needs, Stanley created a design board inspired by the work Soulteria does for young women, the community, and the planet. Stanley's design incorporated earthy and natural tones with bold, modern accents, resulting in a space that sparks both creativity and productivity.
"I was thrilled to partner with Xero on this project to transform a deserving small business owner's office. As a small business owner myself, I understand the importance of creating a workspace that is beautiful, yet practical," said Stanley. "It was a joy to work with Alissa throughout this process and hope the redesign provides inspiration to the Soulteria team for years to come."
As a global small business platform, Xero's mission is to make lives better for small businesses and their communities. "Our goal for this contest was to help a small business and inject some positivity after facing a number of challenging years," said Ben Richmond, US Country Manager at Xero. "It's been a pleasure to team up with Estee to help propel Alissa and her company's important work forward."
For more details on Souleria's stunning transformation, visit the Xero blog.
Xero is a global small business platform with 3.3 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also provides access to financial services, and an ecosystem of more than 1,000 connected apps and more than 300 connections to banks and other financial institutions. Through Xero's open platform, small businesses can connect to a range of solutions that help them run their business and manage their finances. For three consecutive years (2020-2022) Xero was included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. In 2021, Xero was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), powered by the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment. Xero has been named as a FIFA Women's Football partner under FIFA's new commercial structure.
For over 20 years as a celebrated fashion stylist, Estee Stanley created some of the most stylish looks in Hollywood and around the world, counting A-List fashion icons as her clients. In recent years, Estee has become as well known for her interiors, having designed homes for Patrick Dempsey, Chris Evans, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Timberlake and wife Jessica Biel, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Estee's work in the commercial space includes chef Ludo Lefebvre's Petit Trois restaurant and Estee's own family-friendly restaurant Au Fudge. In 2020, Estee founded The Eye, a first-of-its-kind agency that is disrupting the traditional business model within the interior design and architecture industries. Founded in 2020, The Eye recognizes the opportunity for rising voices of interior designers and architects to build strong brands around their expanding profiles and manage them as individual talent.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Every few generations, Hong Kong transforms itself, evolving from a swampy fishing village to 19th century colonial port, to capitalist outpost and factory after China’s 1949 revolution, to 21st century financial center.
As the former British colony marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China, reeling from pandemic curbs that devastated business and a crackdown on its pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong leaders say it is time to transform again. They say the city should become a leader in technology that relies more on its ties with nearby Chinese factory cities than on global trade.
Chief Executive-elect John Lee’s government is under pressure to generate new sources of economic growth, looking beyond COVID outbreaks and anti-virus controls that have devastated tourism and business and uncertainty about the legal climate after a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.
In April, during his election campaign, Lee promised to “start a new chapter” for the city better known as one of Asia’s busiest ports and biggest stock markets and “strengthen its competitiveness” in technology and innovation as well as trade and finance.
Lee gave no details but pointed to the Greater Bay Area, a Chinese government initiative to link Hong Kong with neighboring mainland cities including the technology and finance hub of Shenzhen and the manufacturing powerhouses of Dongguan and Foshan.
“There are great opportunities in the Greater Bay Area that haven’t been realized yet,” said David Graham, executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. “It is a big opportunity for Hong Kong, and it will be very hard to replicate in other cities like Singapore or Dubai.”
Adding to the urgency for Lee to roll out a long-term strategy, executives frustrated with Hong Kong’s travel controls are leaving the city, business groups say. Some companies are moving for good to Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai or other business centers.
“Hong Kong’s strength as a global connector has been greatly reduced,” said Joseph Armas, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Executives have left for cities where “travel is feasible.”
Armas appealed to Lee for a “concrete roadmap” to revive Hong Kong, which remains, together with mainland China and Taiwan, one of the few places that still requires inbound travelers to serve mandatory quarantines.
For Michael Chan, who manages a fashion goods manufacturing business, the restrictions have extended what used to be one-week trips to factories in Bangladesh or China to a month or two, since it makes no sense to spend weeks in quarantine for a short work trip.
Chan has considered temporarily relocating to Singapore, whose controls are much less strict.
“When I meet government officials, I often have to meet them face to face and talk about things,” said Chan, a veteran of multiple quarantines. “It’s not like in the U.S. where I can just use Zoom for a video call.”
Hong Kong lost nearly 90,000 of its 7.5 million population in 2021, according to government figures. More than 100,000 people left in February and March of this year, during the city’s worst COVID wave.
The angst over Hong Kong’s travel controls “presents an opportunity for others to dip into our talent pool,” said Sally Wong, CEO of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.
Activists and foreign governments complain the ruling Communist Party is chipping away at the 50 years of autonomy Beijing promised after 1997. The freedoms afforded to Hong Kong and its leeway for self-governance had helped it keep its status as a center for Asian headquarters of global companies even as rent and other costs soared to record levels and levels of inequality grew ever wider.
Hong Kong still has a skilled workforce, an efficient port and a Western-style legal system considered to be impartial and reliable.
But its status as a global hub for trade and business center is waning.
One in 20 companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong plan to move their global or regional headquarters out of Hong Kong, the chamber reported in January. It said half were uncertain about whether to go.
Some businesses are watching to see how law enforcement and the free flow of information and people that are crucial to commerce and finance might change. Two out of five companies surveyed said they worry they will lose free internet access, vital for a trading center that relies on the flow of information.
“There is a perception that foreign businesses are less welcome,” the report said. “More than half our respondents feel the government is ‘unconcerned’ or ‘dismissive’ about business concerns.”
Until now, Hong Kong has been largely free of the censorship on the mainland, where internet barriers known as the “Great Firewall” are used by the ruling party to block China’s public from seeing foreign websites run by news outfits, governments and human rights activists. But the territory’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, was shut down during the crackdown and its publisher, Jimmy Lai, sentenced to prison.
Kurt Tong, a former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong who is managing partner of The Asia Group, a consulting firm, said that so far the city’s national security law, though used to stifle dissent, has not had much impact on business and finance.
But the effect of the law and Beijing’s overhaul of the territory’s political system bear watching, he said.
“People who care about the Hong Kong financial system need to think about that,” Tong said.
Hong Kong thrived as the trade gateway to China for decades, but it was eclipsed as the world’s busiest container port in 2000 by facilities in the Chinese mainland. Two decades later, with cargo volume barely 10% above its 2000 level, Hong Kong’s port ranks 8th in the world. Shanghai, Shenzhen and three other Chinese ports are bigger.
Hong Kong’s stock market, once Asia’s biggest outside Japan, also has grown steadily but has slipped behind regional rivals.
Companies traded in Hong Kong have a total market value of $5.4 trillion, compared with $8.2 trillion for the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Companies on China’s second exchange in Shenzhen are worth $6.2 trillion, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.
Tong is among those who believe Hong Kong’s recent setbacks are only temporary.
“The current status is that Hong Kong is a very significant global center, one of the most important in the world, and it plays a unique and critical role in linking the Chinese economy with the rest of the global economy and channeling finance in both directions,” said Tong.
The city is meanwhile nurturing its role as a center for innovation, setting up research centers that have helped incubate dozens of start-up companies.
A vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Rocky S. Tuan, pointed to medical and biotechnology research as one of the city’s less well-known strengths. Writing in the newspaper South China Morning Post, he said “Hong Kong offers access to capital, expertise, global regulatory recognition of its clinical trial data and a network of world-class universities.”
That could lend the city an edge over regional rivals.
“Other cities in the region, notably Singapore, perhaps will be more of an Asia hub or Southeast Asia hub,” said Tommy Wu of Oxford Economics. “Hong Kong’s business will be mainly focused on Greater China.”
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Kevin Harvick will know if 2023 is final season by Daytona
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kevin Harvick will know if 2023 will be his final NASCAR season before he goes to Daytona in February. The 2014 Cup champion says he doesn’t have a clear answer right now about his future. Harvick says he isn’t going to start the season not knowing what direction he’s going. Harvick says he has a lot to evaluate and it could go either way. Gene Haas said in October that Harvick indicated he didn’t plan to drive after his contract expires at the end of the 2023 season. Harvick’s team would like him to sign an extension. Harvick turns 48 on Dec. 8.
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PARIS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dizal reported the promising safety and pharmacokinetic data from the global Phase I study of DZD1516 in patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer (HER2+ MBC) who relapsed from multiple prior treatments at the 2022 European Society for Medical Oncology Annual Meeting.
Nearly 60% of patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer develop brain metastasis and the prognosis is extremely poor. DZD1516 is an oral, full blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrant selective HER2 inhibitor for the treatment of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
The Phase I study is enrolling HER2+ MBC patients who relapsed from or were intolerant to the standard of care (SoC). The primary objective is to evaluate the safety of DZD1516 and to define maximum tolerated dose (MTD). As of February 20, 2022, DZD1516 was explored in 22 HER2+ MBC patients from the USA and China, among whom nearly 70% had CNS metastases at baseline. Key findings are as follows:
- DZD1516 was well tolerated at doses ≤ 250 mg, and in consistent with its high selectivity, no wild-type EGFR-related AEs have been reported. Thus, 250 mg was defined as MTD.
- In patients, mean Kpuu,CSF was 2.1 for DZD1516 across the dose range, indicating full penetration of DZD1516 through human BBB.
- 18 patients had completed ≥ 1 post treatment RECIST assessment. With a median of 7 lines of prior systemic treatment (86% treated with HER2 TKI), the best antitumor efficacy in intracranial, extracranial and overall lesions was stable disease.
"Patients with HER2 positive breast cancer and brain metastasis have poor outcomes due to the limited therapies," said Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, CEO of Dizal, "Based on these promising findings, we will further explore the potential of DZD1516 as a new treatment option for this underserved patient population."
About 1516
DZD1516 is designed as an oral, potent, reversible, highly selective, and full blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrant HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), with more than 300-fold selectivity for HER2 compared to wild-type EGFR. It is well tolerated at doses ≤ 250 mg, twice daily. And in consistent with its high selectivity, no wild-type EGFR-related AEs have been reported. In patients, mean Kpuu,CSF is 2.1 for DZD1516 across the dose range, indicating full penetration of DZD1516 through human BBB.
About Dizal
Dizal is a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the discovery and development of differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. Deep-rooted in translational science and molecular design, it has established an internationally competitive portfolio of five clinical-stage assets with two leading assets in global pivotal studies.
About ESMO
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading professional organization for medical oncology. With more than 25,000 members representing oncology professionals from over 160 countries worldwide, ESMO is the society of reference for oncology education and information. Found in 1975, ESMO's core mission is to improve the quality of cancer care, from prevention and diagnosis all the way to palliative care and patient follow-up. And it is to promote equal access to optimal cancer care for all patients. The 2022 annual ESMO Congress will be held in Paris, France, online and offline from 9-13 September. The congress presents the latest scientific developments in basic, translational and clinical cancer research and contextualizes new findings for practical implementation in everyday patient care.
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This news release may contain certain forward-looking statements that are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties. The words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", and "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to Dizal, are intended to identify certain forward-looking statements. Dizal does not intend to update these forward-looking statements regularly.
These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections, and understandings of the management of Dizal with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond Dizal's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, Dizal's competitive environment, and political, economic, legal, and social conditions.
Dizal, the Directors, and the employees of Dizal assume (a) no obligation to correct or update the forward-looking statements contained on this site; and (b) no liability in the event that any of the forward-looking statements does not materialize or turn out to be incorrect.
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LIMOURS, France (AP) — Ukraine's defense minister said Wednesday that Ukrainian lives will be saved by a sophisticated air-defense radar that France is supplying and which is powerful enough to spot incoming missiles and exploding drones in the skies over all of Ukraine's capital and its surrounding region.
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The minister, Oleksii Reznikov, was so enthusiastic about what he called Ukraine's new “electronic eyes” that he quickly coined a nickname for the Ground Master 200 radar — the “Grand Master."
Speaking through an interpreter at a handover ceremony for the radar with his French counterpart, Reznikov described the French-made GM200 as a "very effective” improvement for Ukraine's network of about 300 different types of air-defense radars.
Thales, the manufacturer, says the radar detects and tracks rockets, artillery and mortar shells, missiles, aircraft, drones and other threats.
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“Because of your support, Ukrainian lives will be saved,” the minister said at the ceremony in Limours, where Thales makes the equipment.
“This radar will be the cherry on the cake," he added. “That's why it will be called ‘Grand Master.’"
The French defense minister, Sebastien Lecornu, said the GM200's range of 250 kilometers (155 miles) would enable it to watch the skies over Kyiv and the Ukrainian capital's surrounding region, although it wasn't clear whether that's where Ukrainian forces intend to deploy it.
The radar is transportable on a truck. Thales says it can be deployed in 15 minutes and be moved to another location in 10 minutes, making it a harder target to hit.
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The minister was gifted a small model of the radar at the ceremony and brandished it with a big grin above his head.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — The 127th annual Boston Marathon took place April 17, 2023, as runners from across the world took part and tested their mettle on the concrete.
West Texas was represented in the race, as "The Gym" owner, Jeromy Speciale, not only competed in the marathon, but finished it in two hours and 58 minutes.
"What I take away from the most is that I was just able to accomplish something that just exceeded expectations. I never really would have thought of getting a sub three [hour] marathon, [that] would just be an absolute dream," Speciale said.
Originally, Speciale never put much thought into trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon. His primary exercise routine is centered around CrossFit, it is also the foundation on which his gym is built upon. CrossFit focuses on high-intensity interval workouts.
But, he decided to make a change and try something different. His focus began to shift once he changed his mindset and embraced the support around him.
"I've been real big on having a really positive mindset, just thinking about the thoughts that are in your minds and that we all overthink about and really changing those into fuel that you can accomplish things. But also seeing my family, my coach, to see them all at mile 23 when it was pouring down rain and knowing that I just had a little bit more to give and a little bit longer of race, that was huge to keep me going," Speciale said.
With the marathon in the rearview mirror and a little more than seven months left in 2023, both he and his wife look forward to expanding the social environment they have instilled in their gym when it first opened 11 years ago.
"We will continue to do that, to enjoy our workouts, to lift one another up, keep it a social environment where we hang out with each other outside of the space. We will just try to do the same thing we've been doing for 11 years," Speciale said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will bring U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system.
It’s something lawmakers and advocates have been seeking for years. For many Americans, it’s frustrating that beyond having to pay sometimes hefty tax bills, they also have to shell out additional money for tax preparation programs or preparers because of an increasingly complex U.S. tax system.
“It’s definitely something we should do, and when the IRS is adequately resourced, it’s something that will happen,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a June Senate Finance Committee hearing.
And now that the IRS is set to receive nearly $80 billion through the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” the agency has the means to develop new systems to help Americans pay their taxes. The legislation passed Congress on Friday.
Several hurdles stand in the way. Even in a best-case scenario, it will likely take years to get a new, free system up and running. There’s also pushback from commercial tax preparation companies, which question whether Americans want the IRS to prepare their taxes.
Perhaps this biggest hurdle is an agreement between the IRS and some commercial tax preparation companies, known as the Free File Alliance, which prevents the federal agency from creating its own free tax return filing system. In short, the IRS agreed not create its own filing system if companies would instead provide free services to taxpayers making $73,000 or less.
This program, though, has been marred with controversy, with commercial firms misrepresenting their services and low taxpayer participation rates.
The Government Accountability Office in April reported that while 70% of taxpayers were eligible for services through the Free File Alliance, only 3% of taxpayers actually use the service. The watchdog recommended the IRS find new free filing options before the Alliance expires in October 2023.
With the funding in the bill, the IRS has an opportunity to create a new system.
Included is a provision that allots $15 million to the IRS to make plans for a free direct e-file tax return system. Those plans would have to be developed within nine months and would include cost estimates for creating and administering a system. They would also require public input.
There are also legislative attempts to move this effort along.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in July resubmitted a bill called the Tax Filing Simplification Act that would require the IRS to create its own free online tax filing service and move away from its partnership with private online tax preparation companies.
“I’ve been pushing for a free tax filing system for years, and now the IRS is on the verge of having significant funding to modernize its IT systems, which means it’s time to develop simplified filing tools laid out in my Tax Filing Simplification Act,” Warren told The Associated Press.
“Americans spend too much time and money to file their taxes, and the IRS should adopt these proposals to help millions of Americans file taxes and claim refunds.”
At her Finance Committee appearance, Yellen called for a new system.
“There’s no reason in the world that a modern economy shouldn’t have a system that makes it easy for such a large group of taxpayers to file their returns,” she said.
Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said “if the IRS moves forward with a free product, it could save lower-income families the money they used to give to H&R Block or TurboTax.”
“Tax prep companies are notorious for tricking tax filers into paying for services they should be getting for free,” Williamson said, “so an IRS free file service would be a very welcome step that would save Americans money.”
In 2019, ProPublica wrote about Intuit’s TurboTax and H&R Block Inc.’s efforts to mislead taxpayers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified. And in May, New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $141 million settlement with Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc., which had to pay restitution to some taxpayers.
Intuit withdrew from the Alliance in July 2021, stating in a blog post that the company could provide its benefits without the Free File Alliance’s limitations. H&R Block withdrew from the partnership in 2020.
“Most Americans don’t want the tax collector to also serve as the tax preparer,” said Derrick L. Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit.
“The IRS already has a core mission that it needs to focus on, and creating a new system would cost billions of taxpayer dollars and jeopardize the financial freedom of millions more,” he said. A spokesperson for H&R Block did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
Ideas for what a government run free-file program might look like are already being studied.
Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth economist, has examined systems in other countries in which taxpayers don’t have to enter much data on their electronic forms because the government has already done so.
“The IRS has tremendous amounts of information on wages and dividends,” he said, adding that a government-supported tax filing system “could be a wonderful thing.”
Such systems are used in Germany, Japan and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries that collaborate to develop policies that promote economic growth.
“As a taxpayer, there could be a great benefit to pre-population,” he said. “Filing taxes is enormously time-consuming. Given all the information the IRS has on taxpayers, they could simply send you a completed return.”
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PITTSBURGH, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --"We wanted to create a quick and easy means of establishing a set distance boundary for a pet dog," said one of two inventors, from Fort Mill, S.C., "so we invented the R E-LEASH. Our design would eliminate the common pulling and tripping hazards associated with traditional leashes."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved way to keep a dog within a preset distance of the owner. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using a traditional leash. As a result, it increases safety and control and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features an effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for pet dog owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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Jill Scott is one of the most respected songstresses of her era and has the fanbase, her beloved “Village,” to prove it. The Philadelphia star just announced a new tour to celebrate the anniversary of her debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?, and fans on Twitter are showing her lots of appreciation.
Jill Scott took to social media to announce her upcoming world tour, which hits the road next year. In the video, Scott, apparently moved by the support from fans, says she’ll do her best to come to any city where fans are requesting to see her perform while sharing details of how those same fans can get early access.
From Scott’s Twitter:
Thank you so much. We are going back on the road with the 23rd anniversary “Who Is Jill Scott?” tour.
I’m giving you early access to tickets beginning today at noon EST. Just click http://missjillscott.com and enter the password VILLAGE to get early access to tickets.
Scott’s debut album was released in the summer of 2000 and was part of a resurgence in R&B and soul music for a new generation of music lovers. The album featured the hit track “A Long Walk” and “The Way” among other standout tracks featuring the expert vocals of Scott along with production from the likes of DJ Jazzy Jeff, Dre Harris, James Poyser, and more.
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EXETER TWP., Pa. - Allan Gonzalez said just over a week ago, his father-in-law yelled out to him, saying it was raining and that tubes started coming down the Antietam Creek from a nearby construction project. They eventually hit a bridge on his property, which is just off of North Bingaman Street in Exeter Township.
"They were hitting the bridge so hard I just told my father-in-law, 'Hey, let's back off for a second,' cause it's getting dangerous," said Gonzalez.
That's when the water started to rise.
"Eventually, it started coming down and it got into the pool house and the shed. Started moving cars up here, knocking things around," Gonzalez said.
Their bridge is now damaged. Items that got wet now sit outside. Gonzalez said his car was carried downstream by the water.
"Now we're just stuck cleaning," said Gonzalez.
Someone voluntarily made a makeshift bridge his family can use to cross in the meantime. Gonzalez said they keep their cars on the other side of the river now, closer to the road.
"We had a company that was willing to start on this bridge in the next two weeks. We had it all in motion, so hopefully they can come in and tell us that we're okay to go or hopefully help us find another option to build a bridge," said Gonzalez.
He said it is not safe to cross in the state it is in.
"Nobody wants to give us a hand with the bridge. Every time we try to do it ourselves or try to hire a company to put a bridge in, it's either the township giving us problems, or you can't build it this way, or you can't build it that way," said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said the bridge is the only way in and out of their property. The family would need it in place in the event any first responders needed to get vehicles across.
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LONDON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Full results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 have been released today (7 June), and the USA had a hugely successful competition with 314 medals overall, including 1 Best in Show, 4 Platinum and 9 Gold.
Now in its 19th year, the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) is the world's largest and most influential wine competition, with unrivaled global reach. Judged by top wine experts from around the globe, DWWA is trusted internationally for its rigorous judging process.
As part of this process almost 250 expert judges, including 41 Masters of Wine and 13 Master Sommeliers, evaluated 18,244 wines from 54 countries at DWWA 2022, making it a record year for wines tasted.
California was the big winner for the USA at the 2022 awards with all Gold, Platinum and Best in Show medals awarded to wines from the Golden State, including a Best in Show win for Clos du Val, Hirondelle Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Stags Leap District, California 2019. From the promising 2019 vintage, the judges commented: "The Stags Leap District of Napa has been a consistent performer down the years in DWWA: its intrinsically complex flavors often win our judges' approval."
Famed Napa Valley reds in particular saw success with all four Platinum medals awarded to wines from Rutherford, Los Carneros and Oak Knoll District AVAs.
California's cool-climate regions also triumphed with Gold medals awarded to Edna Valley and Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noirs and Russian River Valley and Petaluma Gap Chardonnays. Nine Gold medals were awarded in total, including Amador County's first-ever Gold for Ana Diogo-Draper, Touriga Nacional 2020 and a Value Gold (up to £14.99) for Chronic Cellars, Sir Real Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 from Paso Robles.
A further 97 Silver medals were awarded with Oregon and Washington State making the list, as well as Missouri for Stony Hill Winery's 2019 Norton - the official grape variety of the state.
Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair, Ronan Sayburn MS, commented: "DWWA is the most widely accepted and the most prestigious wine awards in the world, and I think that that's because of the very rigorous process it goes through for awarding the best wines.
"These wines have been through a lot of hands, a lot of palates so to speak, to get to that level where it's got a sticker on it – whether that's a Bronze, a Silver, a Gold, Platinum or Best in Show. A lot of people who work in the wine business, that know a lot about wine, taste these and really give them a thumbs up through many different levels, so if it gets to the point that it's a Platinum or Best in Show, it really is the best of the best."
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German special forces arrested 25 suspected far-right extremists on Wednesday over a plot to overthrow the government. Officials say suspects include people influenced by the Reichsbürger or "Reich Citizens" movement, which believes that Germany's modern democratic government is not legitimate.
Once derided as crackpots, the Reichsbürger conspiracy has increasingly become a source of concern for authorities. The head of Germany's domestic intelligence service said the movement has grown in the last year and presents a "high level of danger".
Katja Hoyer is a German historian and author of the book Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871 to 1918. Though she says it is not a cohesive movement, Hoyer sees a new level of what she calls "professionalism" in the movement's workings.
"It is increasingly organized in terms of getting hold of weapons, in terms of networking with influential people, getting hold of funds," Hoyer said.
Hoyer spoke with NPR about the kinds of people involved in the movement, why it's found a foothold in the country and its ties to the American far-right and conspiracy theorists.
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On the people who make up the movement
One of the more dangerous elements of this [movement] is that they're not angry young men with shaved heads and black boots who go out, march and look like your [stereotypical] idea of a neo-Nazi. A lot of the people that were arrested are judges, lawyers, teachers – what you deem respectable, middle-class citizens. And that makes this movement somewhat invisible. So they've evolved, I would say, into a much, much more socially diverse movement from what people considered to be neo-Nazis in the 1990s.
On connections to American far right and conspiracy theorist groups like QAnon
Germany is, in fact, the second-largest community for [QAnon] online. So in terms of the amount of people subscribing to QAnon channels on Telegram and other social media channels Germany is quite prolific in that respect, which is surprising to many people. It combines this idea that the state isn't legitimate with a pre-existing conspiracy theory that you see with QAnon. This kind of idea that there's a worldwide pedophile ring that uses American military bases as its local infrastructure applies to Germany in their minds because of the pre-existing structures that are still there from the occupation period. And so many people followed Trump and Trumpism in particular, and so believed that Trump would finally come and liberate Germany from foreign occupation. And he was the savior figure in many ways, as he is with the union movement in the United States.
On why the far right has been able to find traction in Germany once more
It's easy to forget now in the kind of media coverage created by the arrest that they are, in fact, still relatively small amounts of people that we're talking about here. The reason I think why it's still a sizable movement – those conspiracy circles – is because many communities in Germany feel somewhat disenfranchised. There's a long history, as there is in the US, of skepticism towards centralized government where you have a federal state that has a lot of kind of local history and a lot of local suspicion toward centralized government in the capital. And I think that's a residual thing that always exists, and it breaks out at times of crisis like we are currently experiencing.
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WILKES BARRE, Pa., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crunch Franchise today announced the upcoming December 2022 opening of Crunch Wilkes Barre, a $4 million, 28,000-square-foot fitness facility, with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in the Northeastern region of Pennsylvania. Crunch Wilkes Barre will be located at 101 Wyoming Valley Mall #900.
Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, Crunch Wilkes Barre will offer top-quality cardio equipment and strength training equipment, a functional training area with indoor turf, group fitness and cycling studios, a personal training studio, 3D-body scanners, saunas, HydroMassage® chairs, tanning beds, Infrared wellness pods, an outdoor functional training area, Kids Crunch, and more. Crunch Wilkes Barre is owned by fitness industry veteran Chad Smith.
"We are excited to bring the Crunch brand to the Wyoming Valley Mall in the Northeastern region," said owner Chad Smith. "Crunch is for everyone, from the first-time gym-goer to the seasoned athlete. Add in our high-energy environment and affordable memberships and we have options to meet everyone's goals and budget!"
Prospective members can now visit https://bit.ly/Crunch500WilkesBarre or call (570) 931-8800 to reserve memberships at discounted rates beginning at $10.99 per month. Founding members can receive a pre-sale rate with complimentary enrollment and one month free, in addition to free t-shirts, discounts on small group and personal training, and more.
Crunch is known for its innovative group fitness programming and will offer a wide range of classes every week, including BodyWeb with TRX®, Zumba®, Cardio Tai Box, Yoga Body Sculpt and Fat Burning Pilates. Members looking for additional guidance or motivation can utilize the HIITZone™, a proprietary high-intensity interval group training program.
Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of 'No Judgments.' Crunch serves a fitness community for all kinds of people, with all types of goals, exercising all different ways; working it out at the same place together. Today, we are renowned for creating one-of-a-kind group fitness classes and unique programming for our wildly diverse members. Headquartered in New York City, Crunch serves over 2 million members with over 410 gyms worldwide in 32 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Spain, Cost Rica, Australia, and will soon be open in Portugal. Crunch is rapidly expanding across the U.S. and around the globe.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Particle, the integrated IoT Platform-as-a-Service, has announced the launch of its new B Series hardware solutions to help companies move from prototype to production as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. The expansion follows the launch of Particle's Supply Secure hardware portfolio, a new proactive program that updates and replaces legacy hardware with assured inventory that supply chain teams can confidently deliver to enterprise customers. Particle's B Series family of devices provides product teams with everything they need to get started and deploy at scale, allowing engineers and developers to instead focus on innovative, customer-facing, value-add product development under one IoT Platform-as-a-Service.
The path to custom cellular IoT is riddled with complexities that must account for carrier relationships, hardware certifications, connectivity diagnostics, connectivity management services, device-to-network integration and more. Particle's B Series provides easy-to-deploy-and-configure cellular solutions — including the Boron developer board and B SoM — to not only overcome these product development hurdles but also simplify the otherwise complex IoT journey faced when bringing products from exploration to scale. Now, businesses can bring cellular connected products to market as quickly as possible on a single platform with all the necessary tools, resources, and software they need available out-of-the-box.
"Ready-to-connect hardware solutions over the past decade have presented an either/or equation: they're either easy-to-use and cheap development kits with software tools and resources designed only for non-scalable hobbyist projects, or they're heavy-duty modules and gateways that lack the support to explore IoT and develop proofs-of-concept,' said Adam Warmington, Sr. Product Manager of Devices . "Particle's B Series hardware solutions give product managers, engineers or developers everything they need to evolve with their company's IoT journey."
"The Particle B Series devices worked perfectly with our smaller infrastructure because it was a low-power-consuming device and could better serve our unique power constraints, enabling us to meet the price point our customers needed to deploy at scale," said Stephen Conley, President and CEO at Scientific Aviation. "The Particle edge-to-cloud platform took care of all the IoT infrastructure for us, allowing us to focus on the thing that matters the most: our products. Now, Scientific Aviation has scaled to monitor and manage our systems worldwide from a simple and easy-to-use interface."
Pre-orders for B Series components are currently open and shipping is estimated to begin in
mid-October 2022.
For more information on Particle and its integrated IoT platform-as-a-service solutions, please
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About Particle
Particle provides an integrated IoT Platform-as-a-Service that helps businesses connect, manage, and deploy software applications to connected devices, from edge to cloud and back. Particle powers IoT products from hundreds of businesses — from fast-growing start-ups to Fortune 100 companies — and is used by more than 240,000 developers for IoT product development. Our expertise goes beyond world-class technology, enabling next-generation business intelligence, insights, and expert customer support to make sure IoT projects succeed — so you can build the business of tomorrow, today.
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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Boo Buie scored 26 points, Chase Audige had 15 and Northwestern beat No. 1 Purdue 64-58 on Sunday.
Led by its experienced backcourt, Northwestern (18-7, 9-5 Big Ten) added a signature win to its bid for the school's second NCAA Tournament appearance. The Wildcats got their first win in 19 games against the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
Zach Edey had 24 points and eight rebounds for Purdue (23-3, 12-3), which had won 11 in a row against Northwestern. Braden Smith finished with 10 points on 1-for-7 shooting.
Edey’s hook shot lifted Purdue to a 55-47 lead with 3:52 to go. But Northwestern closed the game with a 17-3 run.
Audige scored 10 points in the dazzling finish. He gave the Wildcats the lead for good when he made a 3-pointer after an Edey turnover.
Brooks Barnhizer had a fast-break layup and Buie made two foul shots in the final minute to help Northwestern hold on. When it was over, the raucous student section stormed the court to celebrate with the team.
Purdue shot just 28.6% (6 for 21) from the field in the second half. It also committed 13 of its 16 turnovers in the final 20 minutes.
Ethan Morton and Mason Gillis each made a 3-pointer to help Purdue open a 26-16 lead with 9:19 left in the first half. But Buie converted a driving layup in the final seconds, trimming the Boilermakers' lead to 37-30 at the break.
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Thousands of farmers in China have started to grow a remarkable new version of rice, one that realizes an old scientific dream. It's a perennial form of the grain, which doesn't have to be planted anew each season, but emerges year after year from long-lived roots in the soil just as many wild grasses do.
Researchers at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, worked for more than two decades to create this rice, and have now revealed details of their success in the journal Nature Sustainability. Their perennial rice, they report, requires much less labor, dramatically reducing a farmer's costs while producing about the same amount of grain. Its long-lived roots may deliver big environmental benefits, too, although scientists need more data to confirm that.
"This is a really big deal. This is a change in the way that we think about agriculture," says Erik Sacks, a plant geneticist at the University of Illinois who collaborated with the Chinese scientists and co-authored the new study.
Some scientists, including Sacks, are hoping that this version of rice is a foretaste of future perennial crops that will transform agricultural landscapes, preserving vulnerable soil and enriching natural ecosystems. Other scientists are skeptical that this success can be replicated in other major crops such as wheat or corn.
Shilai Zhang, one of the leaders of the Yunnan University research group, wrote in an email to NPR that Chinese researchers first tried to create a perennial version of rice in the 1970s, but failed. They achieved a crucial breakthrough in 1996 by cross-pollinating a conventional rice variety with a relative of rice that grows wild in Africa, and is perennial. The resulting embryo wouldn't normally survive, but scientists used a laboratory technique called tissue culture to grow a new, hybrid rice plant from it. This plant had permanent living roots, like its African parent, but could also be cross-bred with standard cultivated rice.
Zhang and his colleagues grew thousands of offspring from this hybridization, trying to find a variety that was perennial, yet also delivered bountiful harvests of top-quality rice. "We failed again and again," Zhang wrote. Local farmers thought that they were only planting weeds, rather than true rice.
In 2018, however, the researchers finally had a perennial variety in hand that passed muster, and they released it to farmers in China. Other varieties went on the market two years later. They appear to be catching on. According to the researchers, about 11,000 small farms planted perennial rice in 2020, on a total area of roughly 9000 acres. A year later, the number of farms willing to try the new varieties had quadrupled, and the planted area jumped to 38,000 acres.
According to Zhang, many farmers are attracted to perennial rice because it takes less work. In some rice-growing areas of China, he wrote, "young people are moving away, and the rest of the rice producers are old." Perennial rice allows them to avoid the hard work, and the cost, of planting seed and transplanting seedlings into paddies each year. The Yunnan University researchers say that this cuts the cost of raising a crop roughly in half during the years when farmers don't have to plant it.
The new rice doesn't keep producing a bountiful harvest forever, though. In field trials, yields dropped off after four years of production, which included eight growing seasons. At that point, farmers need to replant.
Perennial rice still accounts for a vanishingly small portion of China's total harvest. According to Zhang, it's too early to estimate how widely it could spread. In theory, at least, it could thrive across the tropics. It is best adapted to places with plenty of water, such as irrigated lowland paddies, and it can't survive freezing winters.
Perennial rice could have the biggest environmental payoff, however, on hillsides which lack irrigation, and where rain can wash away exposed soil. Permanent living roots in the soil could preserve that valuable soil. The current versions of perennial rice aren't adapted to such conditions, but Zhang says his research group is working on varieties that could thrive there. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines tried to create perennial rice for upland, drought-prone areas in the 1990s, but shelved the program due to slow progress and lack of funding.
For some researchers, including Sacks, the Chinese rice varieties are a sign that it's possible to create perennial alternatives to today's major crops. Wheat, rice and corn, which have to be replanted each year, have nourished humanity for centuries, but growing them takes a heavy toll on the environment. Farmers generally clear their fields for planting by tilling the soil, which degrades it and exposes it to water and wind erosion.
The Land Institute, a nonprofit group in Salina, Kansas, has led the push for perennial crops. It provided financial support for research on perennial rice at Yunnan University, and has been promoting a perennial relative of wheat, which it has named Kernza.
Some other crop experts, such as Kenneth Cassman at the University of Nebraska, are skeptical that there's broad potential for perennial crops. In an email, Cassman argued that rice is a special case. Growing it in many parts of the world involves a lot of hand labor, so eliminating the work of planting is more valuable than it would be for other crops. In addition, even traditional rice is able to grow a second, smaller crop after being harvested, so it's not a huge genetic leap to achieve true perenniality.
A large Chinese company called BGI Genomics has thrown its weight behind perennial rice, promoting it in an online video. The company has announced field trials of the new rice in Uganda, in cooperation with that country's Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man on Arizona’s death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
The 5-4 decision, in an opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said John Montenegro Cruz should get a new penalty phase of his trial where it is made clear to jurors that he is ineligible for parole if he is sentenced to life in prison, instead of death.
The case is important not only for Cruz, but also for other Arizona death row inmates whose juries received similar misinformation. Arizona currently has approximately 100 people on its death row. It was not clear how many of those might be eligible for a new sentencing hearing.
Cruz had argued that the jury should have been informed he would be ineligible for parole if spared from death and given a life sentence. A judge rejected that request and the state said Cruz failed to make the precise requests he needed to under Supreme Court precedent.
At least one juror has said that had she known that a “life sentence without parole” was an alternative to death, she “would have voted for that option.”
Cruz was convicted of the 2003 murder of a Tucson police officer, Patrick Hardesty. Hardesty and another officer were investigating a hit-and-run accident that led them to Cruz, who attempted to flee and shot Hardesty five times.
A 1994 Supreme Court case, Simmons v. South Carolina, says that in certain death penalty cases, jurors must be told that choosing a life sentence means life without the possibility of parole. That’s required when prosecutors argue that the defendant will pose a threat to society in the future.
Arizona courts refused to apply the decision. In a 2016 case, Lynch v. Arizona, the Supreme Court told Arizona directly that it needed to comply with Simmons. Cruz says Arizona has continued to defy the high court.
The case is Cruz v. Arizona, 21-846.
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NEW YORK, June 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Austria bestowed one of its highest honors on American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris. The Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria was presented today to Harris during the AJC Board of Governors meeting.
"Throughout his life, David Harris has made it his goal to prevent and combat all forms of antisemitism. In doing so, he also had a major influence on Austrian activities in the fight against antisemitism, BDS, and terrorist groups like Hezbollah, and in support of Israel," said Austrian Member of Parliament Martin Engelberg, who, together with Austrian Consul General Helene Steinhaeusl, presented the award on behalf of Austria President Alexander van der Bellen.
"David has made a significant contribution to Austria being today one of Israel's closest friends in Europe and one of the leading nations in the fight against antisemitism — and being recognized internationally for these efforts, especially in the United States and Israel."
Harris, the son of Holocaust survivors, "has spent his life promoting international understanding and coming to terms with the crimes of the Shoah, especially the dialogue with postwar Austria and the often difficult confrontation with its role in the Nazi era," Engelberg said.
He noted that Harris's father was a Jew from Austria "who was able to save himself from persecution by the Nazi regime" by fleeing initially to France, "While his father, until his death in 1998, never managed to be reconciled with Austria, David was able to recognize the steps taken to come to terms with what is happening in today's Austria, and to send a clear signal by accepting Austrian citizenship."
"I grew up in a home that had strongly negative feelings about Austria. My father personally experienced Austria's betrayal of the Jews before, during, and even after the war," said Harris. "But in recent years, I've seen a welcome turnaround in Austria's outlook towards its own history and, notably, regarding Israel, largely triggered by Sebastian Kurz in his role as foreign minister, then as chancellor. That gave me new confidence in Austria, a willingness to accept the citizenship offered to me, and, today, a sense of gratitude for this meaningful award presented by my dear friend, Martin Engelberg."
Past recipients of the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold include Kofi Annan, Willy Brandt, Stuart Eizenstat, Anna Freud, and Simon Wiesenthal.
David Harris is the most decorated Jewish organizational leader in American history, having been honored nearly 25 times by foreign governments.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Startup World Cup is back in Silicon Valley! The Silicon Valley Regional Competition is scheduled for August 3rd, 2023, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Startup World Cup is looking for the best and the brightest startups to apply to compete. The selected Top 15 applicants will present on stage on August 3rd. The winner of this event will join the 50+ other global finalists at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale series, in which they will have the opportunity to win a $1,000,000 investment prize in San Francisco on December 1st, 2023.
Startups apply here: https://www.startupworldcup.io/silicon-valley-app-2023
The application deadline is July 1! Do not miss your chance!
For more details on the Silicon Valley Regional event: https://www.startupworldcup.io/silicon-valley-regional. Check out the 2022 Silicon Valley Highlights Video.
Register for the event here.
Here are the Judges and Speakers confirmed to attend:
- Bill Reichert (Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures)
- Jihong Kim (Managing Director at Samsung Ventures)
- Ullas Naik (Founder at Streamlined Ventures)
- Gwen Edwards (Managing Director at Golden Seeds)
- Eric Rosenblum (Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures)
- Ashmeet Sidana (Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital)
- And others!
The Silicon Valley Regional Competition is part of the Startup World Cup global competition, with regional events in 50+ cities around the world, including thousands of entrepreneurs and hundreds of investors. The mission of Startup World Cup is to highlight the best technology startups around the world, and to connect those startups into the global innovation ecosystem.
Entrepreneurs who are not in the Silicon Valley region should check out regional competitions in their part of the world and the Series of Grand Finale events here: https://www.startupworldcup.io/grand-finale.
Worldwide Regional Competitions: https://www.startupworldcup.io/
About Pegasus Tech Ventures
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with $2 Billion in assets under management. Pegasus offers intellectual and financial capital to emerging technology companies around the world. In addition to offering institutional investors a top-tier venture capital investment approach, Pegasus also offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for large, global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. For more information about Pegasus, please check out https://www.pegasustechventures.com.
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When sportswear meets haute couture, what will happen?
WILMINGTON, Del., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American female cycling brand Jelenew announced a new joint series with French haute couture master Stéphane Rolland. This is the first cross-field cooperation between Sports Technology and Haute Couture, aiming to promote the perfect integration of "functionalism and 3D structure aesthetics", promote the upgrading of sports brands to aesthetic taste and functional structure shaping, and provide cycling enthusiasts a different kind of fashion vitality, and meet its diverse scene shuttle needs.
Jelenew x Stéphane Rolland collection includes three sets of cycling pants-dress new look with a sense of avant-garde. The series is based on the joint cycling pants created by Jelenew and Stéphane Rolland and applies the art of couture to sportswear. It combines the new structure, new technology, and classic fashion art and brings new vitality to professional cycling pants. It subverts the previous impression of "masculine women's cycling clothing" and opens up a new world of "haute couture women's cycling clothing."
The collection draws inspiration from the golden age of the 17th century in Spain to create a cycling dress look with feminine avant-garde. Each is a fusion of cycling pants and dresses. Based on its professional cycling pants, Jelenew takes the "Goddess of Victory" in the Louvre as its muse and draws inspiration from the Spanish 17th-century noble knight pants to create haute couture cycling pants with a sense of pioneering.
Stéphane Rolland reinterprets Eastern and Western artworks with clothing from the perspective of a master artist. Such as paintings of Goya and Velasquez, the summer palace of the last Chinese Empress, and Chinese fans showing different but classic dress designs.
In this collection, the two parties have always adhered to the attitude of paying attention to structuralism and tailoring. The iconic structure of both parties is supplemented by three-dimensional couture tailoring. Elements and dramatic lines combine with luxurious embroidery to create an impeccable and exclusive effect that gives professional cycling pants the attributes of an haute couture dress.
Among them, the application of the new technology of silicone broderie is also a highlight. The three-dimensional embroidery created by this technology expresses the beauty of layers, but the tentacles are soft and comfortable. It shows the love of women that Jelenew and Stéphane Rolland have.
Stéphane Rolland is one of the very few Couturiers in the world to perpetuate the unique Savoir-Faire of the French Haute Couture. Stéphane dressed the Cinema as well as the Theater, and for five consecutive years, he became an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival. His costumes for the play Amadeus got him two nominations at the French Molière Awards in Paris. In 2007, Stéphane Rolland opened the doors to his Maison de Haute Couture, dubbed by the Fédération de la Couture and the Ministry of Industry. He describes himself as an orientalist who plays with minimalism and preciousness. Each gown is a sculpture carved in gazar or crepe. His unique creations are worn nowadays by the most demanding women and celebrities from all over the world. By Stéphane Rolland's adolescence, his fascination for architecture and modern art will shape his style, a style that will come to be his worldwide recognized signature.
Jelenew shares the same product philosophy as haute couture: born for women and helping women. The definition of "haute couture" announced by La Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) emphasizes professionalism and innovation, in line with Jelenew's extremely focused and innovative attitude.
As a pioneering challenger in the professional cycling apparel industry, Jelenew defines the brand as a digitally native sports technology company (DNAB) that transcends the traditional design principles of sports apparel. Since its inception, Jelenew has focused on solving clothing and equipment problems in professional cycling for women. It is committed to providing women with cycling products that perfectly integrate "sport functionalism, comfort, and three-dimensional structural aesthetics."
Jelenew creative director Di Liu is the former core member of Chanel Haute Couture and has established his industry research team and product development team in Paris, France. He follows the revolutionary spirit of Chanel. Di Liu took the lead in introducing high tailoring skills into the design of professional cycling pants according to the different physiological structures of men and women and the differentiated needs in the riding process. And he developed the Jelenew 1+1 model outer padded cycling pans: 1 pair of tight-fitting leggings and one detachable outer padded shorts. The cycling pants subvert the built-in pad structure of traditional cycling pants and are the first professional cycling pants in the world that truly created for women.
This collaboration breaks the barriers between technological sportswear and artistic aesthetics. It also shows the infinite possibilities of creation in the cycling industry and interprets the multi-faceted nature of Jelenew professional cycling pants.
It is reported that Jelenew x Stéphane Rolland will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, and Jelenew's official website will also be released simultaneously.
About JELENEW
Jelenew is an American avant-garde cycling brand born for women. It creates the first cycling pants truly made for women in the world. It brings the groundbreaking combination of "Haute Couture and Sportswear" and carefully designs each product with "luxury moulage technique" to provide a more refined sports experience and promote a healthy lifestyle for cyclists to enjoy elegant and stylish suburban cycling.
About Stéphane Rolland
Stéphane Rolland is one of the very few Couturiers in the world to perpetuate the unique Savoir-Faire of the French Haute Couture.
He describes himself as an orientalist who plays with minimalism and preciousness. Each gown is a sculpture, carved in gazar or crepe. His unique creations are worn nowadays by the most demanding women and celebrities from all over the world.
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SAN ANTONIO — Could downtown San Antonio soon be horse carriage-less?
That's the goal of a new proposition spearheaded by two members of City Council who say animal cruelty and harm to the environment justify the change they're touting.
On Monday, Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez called for the ban via a Council Consideration Request. This isn't the first attempt by city leaders on the matter.
Manny Pelaez of District 8, Adriana Rocha Garcia of District 4 and Ana Sandoval of District 7 also gave signatures of support.
The proposal calls for officials to devise a plan to phase out the practice, which is popular with tourists and frequenters of the heart of the city.
>Read the Council Consideration Request below.
"San Antonio can set the pace for the rest of the country," said Marty Irby, executive director of Animal Wellness Action, which advocates for animals.
Irby, a former eight-time world champion equestrian, is pushing for bans of this kind in all major cities across America. Chicago banned the practice two years ago, and Irby says Cincinnati could be next.
"I'm a lifelong horseman, so I know a lot about the biomechanics and the biology of horses, and they're really not suited to walk around on asphalt every day... it's very hard on their hooves, their feet and their legs," he said. "It's an archaic form of transportation, (suitable for) if you're out in a rural area or driving down a country road or something like that, or even racing harness horses at a harness track. We're not opposed to the use of carriages, we just don't think it's appropriate in a major city."
>Read Animal Wellness Action's fact sheet on the dangers of horse-drawn carriages below.
Council members cite hard labor during extreme weather, a lack of pasture access, and environmental impacts like idling cars and slowed traffic caused by the carriages as motivation for their proposal.
"The biggest pushback is jobs, because people are talking about the fact that they're carriage drivers or they're caretakers of the horses," said Irby. "So what we want to see is these carriages actually replaced with electric carriages. We're not trying to put these people out of business."
'Residents love to use us'
Stephanie Garcia, who manages 30 workers and 23 horses under Yellow Rose and H.R.H. Carriage, says tight regulations ensure the horses are treated properly.
"They get better treatment than most humans," said Garcia. "This (ban proposal) was dropped on our toes with no warning whatsoever."
December 1 kicks off the busiest time of year for Garcia's business.
"We do get people from all over the world come and visit us. It's locals too. Residents love to use us. Christmastime, especially, they like to bring their grandkids, their kids just to go out and see the lights," she explained. "The Alamo is a big attraction for San Antonio, but I would say we are one of the second attractions."
After reading the proposal, Garcia said the reasonings listed simply aren't true.
"We're highly regulated by the city, by Chapter 33 of the ordinance. Part of that is we're not allowed to work when the temperatures above 95," she explained. "These horses are treated like royalty. My horses have a chiropractor, a dentist, they have specialist vets. They're inspected three times a year... they are rotated out daily, so they go into a pasture every day."
When asked her thoughts about replacing the horses with electric carriages, Garcia said it won't provide the same magical experience customers want.
Garcia and her employees welcome conversations about their operations, and state that city leaders haven't yet approached them to discuss why a horse-drawn carriage ban is necessary.
"Who's gonna care for the horses at the end of the day? If this business isn't here to pay for everything and to care for them like we are, there's a good strong possibility these horses may have to be euthanized," said Garcia.
City officials say a press conference is planned for next week where council members will go into further detail about their proposal.
Meanwhile, the Cavalry Group started a petition to keep the horses downtown.
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Medford OR
704 PM PDT Tue Aug 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central
Siskiyou County through 745 PM PDT...
At 703 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Yreka, moving northwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and
may lead to localized flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Yreka and Klamath River and the McKinney Fire.
This includes the following highways...
Highway 3 in California between mile markers 36 and 49.
Highway 96 in California between mile markers 75 and 97.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4166 12261 4160 12277 4185 12305 4197 12272
TIME...MOT...LOC 0203Z 153DEG 7KT 4175 12278
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Refuel With Chocolate Milk
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Refuel Her Greatness – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title IX" is the theme of the 54th Annual Butter Sculpture at the New York State Fair. This year's butter sculpture, sponsored by Wegmans, spotlights female athletes and how today's athletes refuel with chocolate milk.
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The butter sculpture features a progression of female athletes ranging in age from a child skier to a high school-aged gymnast to a college lacrosse player to an adult runner. A chocolate milk bottle serves as the centerpiece, reinforcing the role chocolate milk plays in helping female athletes recover, refuel, and rebuild for what comes next.
Participating in today's unveiling, U.S. Olympic Athlete and professional runner Elle St. Pierre said, "As a professional athlete and a dairy farmer, I am proud to produce a product—chocolate milk—that I know helps athletes refuel and recover after a tough workout or competition." St. Pierre went on to say, "To be able to celebrate Title IX in this way, I am reminded of all the opportunities this ruling made available for female athletes like myself – it's powerful."
"Who would have thought that when Title IX was passed back in 1972, that we would be standing here 50 years later acknowledging the strides that women have made in sports," said Gabriella Taylor, New York State Dairy Ambassador. "As a dairy farmer, I am proud to represent New York's 3,500 dairy farmers as we celebrate how many athletes refuel their bodies with chocolate milk."
Richard A. Ball, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Commissioner said, "The Butter Sculpture is an iconic, long-time tradition of the Great New York State Fair that shines the spotlight on our dairy community, while also conveying an important message in its theme that's important to New York. I'm thrilled to be back at the Fair for the unveiling of this year's Butter Sculpture and encourage fairgoers to come see it for themselves; and while they're at it, to enjoy all things dairy in the Dairy Products Building—from our ice-cold 25 cent milk to ice cream and cheese."
"Wegmans is proud to sponsor this year's Butter Sculpture, which is such an integral part of the New York State Fair," said Evelyn Ingram, Director of Community Relations at Wegmans Food Markets. "We are delighted to once again be a participant in this long-standing tradition."
This is the first time in 16 years, since 2006, that color is featured in the butter sculpture. The sculpture was constructed over a 10-day period by artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, using more than 800 pounds of butter from O-AT-KA Milk Products in Western New York. This year's sculpture also celebrates another anniversary. It is the 20th consecutive year Victor and Pelton have created the butter sculpture at the New York State Fair.
Along with viewing the butter sculpture and enjoying some delicious dairy products, fairgoers can visit the "Reset Yourself with Dairy" photo experience in the Dairy Products Building to discover how dairy and its simple nutrition help you take flight! Snap a photo with beautiful milk wings, scan the QR code on our giant milk carton, and receive some great recipes to help "Reset Yourself with Dairy."
After the Fair, the sculpture will be deconstructed, with assistance from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners, and transported to Noblehurst Farms in Linwood, N.Y., where it will be recycled in a methane digester to create renewable energy.
Visit americandairy.com/nystatefair for more New York State Fair-related information.
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The Nation's Weather for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
The storm that began to spread clouds and rain into the
Northeast on Halloween is forecast to depart the area
today. While the air behind the storm is not all that cool,
some cooler air will push into the Southeast as sunshine
returns. Farther west, warmth and sunshine will generally be
the rule from the Southwest to the Plains and Mississippi
Valley. An exception will be a batch of clouds and soaking
rain along the Texas coast as a storm forms along a stalled
front. Meanwhile, a strong push of colder air will bring
low-elevation rain and mountain snow from Washington and
Oregon to Idaho, Northern California and northwestern
Montana. Colder air and mountain snow will reach farther to
the southwest over the West at midweek. In the tropics, Lisa
in the Caribbean will head toward Central America.
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DAILY EXTREMES
National High Monday 92 at Punta Gorda, FL
National Low Monday 9 at Gothic, CO
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The two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreen Co., announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids, and a lawyer said Walmart, a third pharmacy behemoth, is in discussions for a deal.
The prospective settlements are part of a shift in the legal landscape surrounding the opioid epidemic. Instead of suspense over whether companies in the drug industry would be held to account through trials or settlements, the big question is now how their money will be used and whether it will make a difference in fighting a crisis that has only intensified.
The deals, if completed, would end thousands of lawsuits in which governments claimed pharmacies filled prescriptions they should have flagged as inappropriate. With settlements already proposed or finalized between some of the biggest drugmakers and distribution companies, the recent developments could be the among the last multibillion-dollar settlements to be announced.
They also would bring the total value of all settlements to more than $50 billion, with most of it required to be used by state and local governments to combat opioids, which have been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the last two decades.
“It’s one more culprit of the overdose crisis that is having to pay their dues,” said Courtney Gary-Allen, organizing director of the Maine Recovery Advocacy Project. “Average Americans have been paying it for a long time.”
Gary-Allen, who is a member of a council that will help determine how Maine uses its opioid settlement funds, said more money to address the problem will help. In her state, she said, the needs include more beds for medical detox and for treatment.
Neither Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS nor Deerfield, Illinois-based Walgreens is admitting wrongdoing.
Under the tentative plans, CVS would pay $4.9 billion to local governments and about $130 million to Native American tribes over a decade. Walgreens would pay $4.8 billion to governments and $155 million to tribes over 15 years. The exact amount depends on how many governments join the deals.
Both noted they have been addressing the crisis through such measures as starting educational programs and installing safe disposal units for drugs in stores and police departments. And both said the settlements would allow them to help while staying focused on their business.
“We are pleased to resolve these longstanding claims and putting them behind us is in the best interest of all parties, as well as our customers, colleagues and shareholders,” Thomas Moriarty, CVS chief policy officer and general counsel, said in a statement.
Walgreens said in a statement: “As one of the largest pharmacy chains in the nation, we remain committed to being a part of the solution, and this settlement framework will allow us to keep our focus on the health and wellbeing of our customers and patients, while making positive contributions to address the opioid crisis,” Walgreens said in a statement.
Paul Geller, a lawyer for governments in the lawsuits, said talks with Walmart continue. Walmart representatives would not comment Wednesday.
“These agreements will be the first resolutions reached with pharmacy chains and will equip communities across the country with the much-needed tools to fight back against this epidemic and bring about tangible, positive change,” lawyers for local governments said in a statement. “In addition to payments totaling billions of dollars, these companies have committed to making significant improvements to their dispensing practices to help reduce addiction moving forward.”
If these settlements are completed, they would leave mostly smaller drug industry players as defendants in lawsuits. Just this week, a group of mostly regional pharmacy chains sent to a judge, who is overseeing federal litigation, information about claims they face, a possible precursor to scheduling trials or mediating settlements involving some of those firms.
“One by one, we are holding every player in the addiction industry accountable for the millions of lives lost or devastated by the opioid epidemic,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. “The companies that helped to create and fuel this crisis must commit to changing their businesses practices, and to providing the resources needed for treatment, prevention and recovery.”
Most of the nation’s opioid overdose deaths initially involved prescription drugs. As governments, doctors and companies took steps to make them harder to abuse and obtain, people addicted to them increasingly switched to heroin, which proved more deadly.
In recent years, opioid deaths have soared to record levels around 80,000 a year. Most of those deaths involve illicitly produced version of the powerful lab-made drug fentanyl, which is appearing throughout the U.S. supply of illegal drugs.
Only a handful of opioid settlements have had bigger dollar figures than the CVS plan. Distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson this year finalized a combined settlement worth $21 billion, and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson finalized a $5 billion deal.
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and members of the Sackler family who own the company have a proposed settlement that would involve up to $6 billion in cash, plus the value of the company, which would be turned into a new entity with its profits used to combat the epidemic. That plan has been put on hold by a court.
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New Signature Aromatherapy Fragrance Inspired by the Amalfi Coast is Available across all 82 Woodhouse Spas Locations
DENVER, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodhouse Spa, a leading, luxury franchise concept centered upon health, wellness, and self-care, announced today the launch of its limited edition signature fragrance called Revive, inspired by the invigorating scenery and scents of the Amalfi Coast. The Woodhouse Revive signature fragrance collection includes an Aromatherapy Essential Oil Blend and Room Spray that is available for consumers to purchase in-store to enhance their spa experience at home. Guests can learn more about Woodhouse's Revive fragrance on the website.
Woodhouse's Revive fragrance integrates Woodhouse Spa's mission to transform self-care into mood-care and is specifically designed to uplift the body to create a relaxing environment that Woodhouse Spa has provided guests for more than 20 years. The new Woodhouse Signature scent marries notes of sun-kissed Italian citrus with hints of fresh eucalyptus, sweet rosemary and the clean, restorative breezes of the Mediterranean Sea. Woodhouse Revive awakens all of the senses, offering a powerfully restorative experience designed to enhance overall wellbeing through promoting a calm, tranquil and refreshing mood.
"We're thrilled to reveal our new signature fragrance for summer that we designed specifically to bring the scent of the Amalfi Coast to guests in the comfort of their own home," said Woodhouse Spa's Vice President of Brand and Marketing, Sarah Moore. "Our new limited edition fragrance is ideal for our guests looking to create the perfect summer staycation filled with relaxation and rejuvenation. This new aromatherapy fragrance is a testament to the incredible power of scent, with the goal of uplifting our guests' moods beyond their time at the spa and infusing everyday moments with a sense of peace and joy."
Arriving just in time for summer, the Woodhouse Revive Signature Fragrance collection in both Essential Oil Blend and Room Spray is available for purchase for $28 at Woodhouse Spa locations nationwide for a limited time, while supplies last. For more information about Woodhouse Spas, please visit www.woodhousespas.com and to find the nearest location, visit https://locations.woodhousespas.com/.
About Woodhouse Spa: Founded in Victoria, Texas in 2001, Woodhouse provides each guest with a tranquil, transformational environment that's both memorable and healthful. From beginning to end, dedicated spa teams ensure that each visit enhances the guest's well-being. With more than 82 spas across the country, guests of Woodhouse are guaranteed the same high-quality signature services and luxurious experiences regardless of location. For more information, please visit www.woodhousespas.com.
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Trump hush money case: The merits and the politics
Prosecution of former President Donald Trump for alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels might be far from an open-and-shut case.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has not yet brought charges against Mr. Trump, and the parameters of such a legal proceeding are not yet clear. But Mr. Trump’s weekend social media claim that he expects to be arrested this week, and his appeal for supporters to “protest,” has raised the specter of an unprecedented and unpredictable national political future.
Why We Wrote This
The looming indictment of a former U.S. president would set off an unprecedented national political drama. The legal complexity of the Manhattan hush money case further complicates the unpredictable path ahead.
Some experts question whether the Manhattan case is strong enough to justify the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president. Others say the alleged crime could have swung the narrow outcome of the 2016 election.
Either way, prosecutors don’t coordinate indictments based on importance, says Paul Schiff Berman, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law.
Nor do they typically bring prosecutions they think they can’t win. Given that, the best course of action now may be for the legal proceedings in Manhattan to simply proceed.
“The bottom line is, we should not rush to judgment on whether this is a good or bad prosecution. That is what trials are for,” says Professor Berman.
Prosecution of former President Donald Trump for alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels might be far from an open-and-shut case.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has not yet brought charges against Mr. Trump, and the parameters of such a legal proceeding and facts involved are not yet clear. But Mr. Trump’s weekend social media claim that he expects to be arrested this week, and his appeal for supporters to “protest,” has reinforced a sense in Washington that the looming indictment of a former U.S. chief executive would mark a leap into an unprecedented and unpredictable national political future.
Some experts question whether the Manhattan case is strong enough to justify the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president. It is relatively complex, and prosecutors may have to rely on an untested legal theory to raise the charges to the level of a felony.
Why We Wrote This
The looming indictment of a former U.S. president would set off an unprecedented national political drama. The legal complexity of the Manhattan hush money case further complicates the unpredictable path ahead.
The Georgia investigation into whether Mr. Trump tried to illegally influence the state’s presidential vote, and federal special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the former president’s possible incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, are all potentially more serious than a hush money case.
But others say the Manhattan case represents serious legal trouble, with Mr. Trump potentially caught in a lie about paying Ms. Daniels to keep her mouth shut at a moment in history when her revelations could have swung the narrow outcome of the 2016 election.
Either way, prosecutors don’t coordinate indictments based on importance, says Paul Schiff Berman, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law.
Nor do they typically bring prosecutions they think they can’t win. Given that, the best course of action now may be for the legal proceedings in Manhattan to simply proceed.
“The bottom line is, we should not rush to judgment on whether this is a good or bad prosecution. That is what trials are for,” says Professor Berman.
Partisan tensions
If nothing else, Mr. Trump’s social media broadside against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his all-caps call for supporters to “PROTEST” and “TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” offered a preview of the heated political discourse likely to follow any Trump indictment.
Many of Mr. Trump’s political allies rallied to his side, saying the alleged impending arrest was an outrage that would only make it more likely he would return to the White House following the 2024 election. Three House Republican committee chairs, including Judiciary chair Jim Jordan, dispatched a joint letter to Mr. Bragg demanding he hand over documents, communications, and testimony bearing on his Trump investigations.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival to Mr. Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, weighed in on Monday, broadly condemning Mr. Bragg for “pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office.”
At the same time, Governor DeSantis did repeat the allegations against Mr. Trump. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” he said at a state college appearance. “I can’t speak to that.”
On Monday Mr. Trump’s legal team was also active on another potential legal problem. His lawyers filed a motion in a Georgia court seeking to quash the final report of a special grand jury that investigated whether he and his allies interfered in the counting of the state’s 2020 election results. The motion also asked that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis be disqualified from the case.
There is very little chance that Mr. Trump’s attacks will sway district attorneys, including Mr. Bragg or Ms. Willis, to drop charges they would otherwise proceed with, says Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
The former president has very little influence over whether he will be indicted or not, says Professor Jacobs. His strategy is ultimately a political one, in which he is trying to leverage his unprecedented situation as a former president in legal trouble to rally support for his 2024 presidential campaign.
“It is about turning lemons into lemonade,” says Professor Jacobs.
Specifics of the case
Mr. Trump and his allies have attacked the prosecutors who are investigating him and the processes they are using, but they have been quieter about the allegations involved.
The Manhattan case stems from an incident just prior to the 2016 election. Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, made a $130,000 payment to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen said the money was intended to buy Ms. Daniels’ silence.
Mr. Trump has denied the alleged affair.
Over the course of 2017, the Trump Organization reimbursed Mr. Cohen for his $130,000 expense, concealing the payments as money for a legal retainer that did not exist, according to court documents from a legal case against Mr. Cohen. In 2018, Mr. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, false statements, and campaign finance violations.
The Manhattan case against Mr. Trump is likely to charge him or his organization with falsifying business records of the $130,000 to Mr. Cohen. In order to boost this to the level of a felony, prosecutors would need to show that this falsification was done with the intention of committing a second crime – such as the concealment of a campaign finance violation. If the payment was made for political purposes, then it was a donation to the Trump for President campaign – but was never recorded as such.
This aspect of the case has given some legal analysts pause. This combination of charges to produce a possible felony is largely untested, tweeted David French, a New York Times columnist and former writer for the National Review, over the weekend.
“‘Untested’ legal theories should not be used to prosecute anyone, including former presidents,” tweeted Mr. French.
In addition, for Mr. Trump to be culpable, he would have had to be directly involved in a misrepresentation of the payment to Mr. Cohen, and he would have had to do so for the purpose of another crime, says David Shapiro, a former FBI agent, financial crimes specialist, and law professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The former president could simply argue that he was unaware of what underlings were doing in his name.
“Mr. Trump is not a bookkeeper,” he says.
Based on what is currently known, Mr. Bragg’s decision to bring the case is difficult to understand, says Professor Shapiro, especially years after the fact. But Mr. Bragg has been under a lot of pressure to indict the former president.
“You know how everyone is concerned that ‘Mr. Trump isn’t above the law?’ .... Mr. Trump is not beneath the law either,” says Professor Shapiro. “Treat him like you would any citizen.”
An ‘unprecedented’ deflection
But to call the legal approach to the Manhattan hush money case “unprecedented” is an attempted deflection, says Caroline Fredrickson, a visiting professor at Georgetown Law and a former president of the progressive legal organization the American Constitution Society.
It is a way of not speaking to the merits of the case, or suggesting that the merits of the case are irrelevant, she says.
Candidates for public office are not supposed to engage in making payments and then concealing them. If prosecutors do not go forward with charges they will be signaling that other politicians can get away with this kind of illegality, according to Prof. Fredrickson.
“The fact [Mr. Trump] has been able to put this off for so long is a testament to how skilled he is at manipulating the legal regime rather than a testament of the strength of the charges against him,” she says.
Given the political wrangling over the hush money case it is easy to forget the simple story of its basic allegation: a presidential candidate had an affair, paid $130,000 to keep it from becoming public in the stretch run of the race, and then manipulated evidence to cover his tracks.
Furthermore, this outline is unlikely to have any effect on the 30% to 35% of Republicans who are his firm Trump supporters, says Prof. Jacobs at the Hubert Humphrey School. The allegation itself is insufficient to knock the former president out of the running. It is entirely possible he could win the White House again while under indictment, or even after a conviction.
“It is shocking. It’s not even possible to talk about precedent because it is so unheard of,” says Prof. Jacobs.
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Program highlights New Orleans as an incubator of teacher education rooted in the city's history of educational reform.
NEW ORLEANS and NEW YORK, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) at Tulane University (TU) is currently accepting applications for its new online Master of Education (M.Ed) degree program with classes beginning this fall. The program was developed in partnership with Noodle, the country's fastest growing online learning network.
"Tulane SoPA is excited to offer this new master's degree, bringing our expertise, and a New Orleans perspective, to key areas of educational leadership and educational technology," said Suri Duitch, Ph.D, Dean and Vice President for Academic Innovation at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement.
Designed to help future education leaders improve the equitability and inclusivity of teaching practices within their communities, this program embraces New Orleans as a learning laboratory of different approaches and outcomes. This program offers bespoke real-world relevant courses and applied learning opportunities. The modality of the M.Ed program empowers students who are currently teaching or working in other capacities to earn their degrees while remaining in the workforce.
"The addition of the Master of Education degree to the university's catalog delivers on Tulane SoPA's long-held promise to work in service with and for our larger community," said Kelly McClure, Ed.D, Director of PreK-12 Education Programs and Professor of Practice. "Our education programs now extend beyond classrooms to school, district, state, private, and non-profit organizations that are dedicated to ensuring accessibility, quality, and life-changing results for all learners."
"The M.Ed program intentionally seeks applicants with unconventional backgrounds, by removing barriers to entry such as GRE/GMAT, TESOL, and professional prerequisites. The school is committed to this approach by offering scholarships and financial aid," said Robin Forman, Ph.D, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
The online M.Ed expands upon TU's existing portfolio of online degrees offered in collaboration with Noodle. This portfolio includes the Doctor of Public Health in Leadership, Advocacy and Equity, the Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences, the Master of Health Administration, the Master of Public Health in Disaster Management, the Master of Science in Public Health in Industrial Hygiene, the Master of Science in Computer Science, the Master of Social Work and the Doctorate of Social Work.
"We are excited to support the School of Professional Advancement at Tulane University in adding a unique online Master of Education degree to their growing online portfolio," said Noodle Chief Program Officer Stephen Green. "New Orleans' history as an incubator for educational reform and innovation is the heart and foundation of the Master's degree and we are honored to be a part of bringing it to the world."
Learn more about the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement online M.Ed degree program. The program is currently accepting applications for its inaugural Spring 2024 cohort.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge issued a warrant Thursday for an eyewitness to the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle for failing to appear to testify at the trial of the man charged in the slaying, and in his absence a police detective testified on the reluctance of witnesses that has marked the case.
Evan “Rimpau” MacKenzie, a close friend of Hussle’s who was a pallbearer at his funeral and was standing next to him when he was shot, has repeatedly ignored subpoenas ordering him to appear and testify for the prosecution, resulting in Judge H. Clay Jacke II issuing the bench warrant with $500,000 bail.
“Mr. Mackenzie, did he express a reluctance to testify?” Aaron Jansen, attorney for defendant Eric Holder, asked Los Angeles police Detective Cedric Washington, who answered that MacKenzie had said as much in phone conversations.
The taboo against “snitching” has pervaded every part of the trial of Holder, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2019 death of Hussle and with attempted murder because two bystanders were struck with gunfire.
It was a conversation between Holder and Hussle on the subject — in which Hussle told Holder there were rumors of “paperwork” suggesting he’d been talking to authorities — that prosecutors peg as Holder’s motive for returning minutes later to gun Hussle down.
The shooting took place in a predominately Black South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men and most of the witnesses grew up, and where mistrust of police and courts runs deep. Even Hussle’s friends and fans, and people hit by Holder’s gunfire, have been reluctant to talk in the public venue.
“I don’t know nothing, don’t see nothing,” Kerry Lathan, who was wounded in the shooting, said on the stand last week, refusing to identify himself in surveillance video that was played for jurors. He then declined to identify Holder as the shooter.
“You don’t want to testify about what happened?” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney asked him.
“That’s right,” Lathan replied.
On Thursday, Jansen sought to pin the hesitancy on Holder and Hussle’s ties to the Rollin’ 60s street gang.
“Typically in gang cases is there a reluctance to testify?” Jansen asked.
“I wouldn’t limit it to gang cases,” Washington replied.
“I’m asking about gang cases,” Jansen said.
“I do believe it is common, yes,” Washington said.
Jansen continued, “Several witnesses in this case have said they did not want to come to court, and they felt that their families would be in danger, right?”
Washington conceded that there were.
In follow-up questions from prosecutors, Washington downplayed the gang aspect.
“I’ve investigated many cases that are outside of the scope of gang cases. I’ve found that a majority of people are reluctant to come to court or talk to law enforcement,” Washington said. “Everybody seems to think that from coming to court, they are going to be subject to retaliation.”
“Has there been any threat to any witness in this case that accused them of snitching?” McKinney asked. “Do you know of any harm that came to anyone in this case for being a witness or talking to police?”
Washington said no to both questions, acknowledging there was a threat made last week by an anonymous caller to Bryannita Nicholson, who testified for the prosecution that she had acted as Holder’s unwitting getaway driver.
Nicholson, who was given immunity in exchange for her testimony, had her identity kept secret when she testified before a grand jury in 2019.
Last week, after her identity was revealed but before she took the stand, she received the phone call.
“A male voice was heard saying something to the effect that ‘You had Nipsey Hussle killed,’” Washington said. “Bryannita hung up.”
McKinney emphasized that the threat was not about her testifying, but about her role in Hussle’s death.
Nicholson was given extra security, and was escorted through a special entrance for her two days of testimony this week, in which she appeared to speak freely and confidently, showing no reluctance.
Others have been far more hesitant and tight-lipped on the stand, though several eyewitnesses have identified Holder as the shooter, making it unlikely the absence and silence of other witnesses will do much damage to a powerful prosecution case.
The defense has acknowledged that Holder shot Hussle, but says there was no premeditation and he is not guilty of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors have just one more witness before they rest their case, and the jury could have it soon.
“Unless Rimpau gets picked up,” McKinney said after court.
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