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- Simcere will receive a $15 million upfront payment, and up to $492 million in development and commercial milestone payments considering successful achievements in several indications, with an important part as sales milestones, as well as up to low double-digit tiered royalties based upon future global sales
- Under the agreement, Almirall will be granted an exclusive right to develop and commercialise SIM0278 for all indications outside of the Greater China region
- SIM0278 is an interleukin 2 mutant fusion protein (IL-2 mu-Fc) that selectively activates regulatory T cells. As an IND ready subcutaneous injection , it can be developed to potentially treat various autoimmune diseases
NANJING, China, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simcere Pharmaceutical Group (2096.HK), an innovation and R&D-driven pharmaceutical company, and Almirall S.A. (BME: ALM), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on skin health; announced today that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for Simcere's IL-2 mutant fusion protein (IL-2 mu-Fc) autoimmune drug candidate, SIM0278.
Under the agreement, Almirall will be granted an exclusive right to develop and commercialise SIM0278 for all indications outside of the Greater China region (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). Simcere will retain all rights to develop and commercialise SIM0278 within Greater China.
Within the terms of the agreement, Simcere will receive a $15 million upfront payment, and up to $492 million in development and commercial milestone payments considering successful achievements in several indications, with an important part as sales milestones, as well as up to low double-digit tiered royalties based upon future global sales.
"We are very excited to have reached a collaborative agreement with Almirall for the development of SIM0278. This innovative IL-2 mutein is one important molecule of our immune-rebalancing strategy for autoimmune diseases." Said Renhong Tang, Ph.D., Co-CEO of Simcere, "SIM0278 is one of the key molecules developed based on Simcere's in-house protein engineering platform. This partnership also marks a milestone of Simcere's globalization effort. We look forward to closely working with Almirall to demonstrate the clinical value of SIM0278.
"At Almirall, we always look for new opportunities to strengthen our R&D pipeline. That is why we are very pleased to close this new development and commercialisation agreement with Simcere," stated Karl Ziegelbauer, Ph.D., Almirall's Chief Scientific Officer. "SIM0278 has great potential to treat a broad spectrum of immunological diseases, and we expect that its development will allow us to reinforce our biologic pipeline and our leading position in Medical Dermatology.
About SIM0278
SIM0278 is an interleukin 2 mutant fusion protein (IL-2 mu-Fc) that activates regulatory T cells developed in-house by utilizing Simcere's protein engineering platform. This IND ready subcutaneous injection will potentially be developed to treat various autoimmune diseases. SIM0278 exhibits improved PK profile and selective activation of Treg cells with no activation of effector T cells or NK cells to restore immune balance which has been demonstrated in multiple preclinical disease models.
About Simcere
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited (2096.HK) is an innovation and R&D-driven pharmaceutical company. The company focuses on three therapeutic areas, oncology, central nervous system and autoimmune diseases, with a forward-looking vision toward disease areas that may have significant clinical needs in the future, aiming to achieve the mission of "providing today's patients with medicines of the future." Leveraging its R&D capability and commercialization excellence, Simcere has built a market-leading product portfolio in China. Its vigorous in-house R&D efforts and extensive R&D collaborations have made it a strategic cooperation partner with world leading innovative companies and research institutes.www.Simcere.com
About Almirall
Almirall is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on skin health. We collaborate with scientists and healthcare professionals to address patient's needs through science to improve their lives. Our Noble Purpose is at the core of our work: "Transform the patients' world by helping them realize their hopes and dreams for a healthy life". We invest in differentiated and ground-breaking medical dermatology products to bring our innovative solutions to patients in need.
The company, founded in 1943 and headquartered in Barcelona, is publicly traded on the Spanish Stock Exchange (ticker: ALM). Throughout its 79-year history, Almirall has retained a strong focus on the needs of patients. Currently, Almirall has a direct presence in 21 countries and strategic agreements in over 70.
For more information, please visit almirall.com
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MLB Props Today: Kansas City Royals
Bobby Witt Jr. Props
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- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +170)
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- He has a .251/.294/.423 slash line so far this season.
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- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +135)
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- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
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- Salvador Perez has 76 hits with 14 doubles, 15 home runs and 12 walks. He has driven in 40 runs.
- He has a .248/.289/.440 slash line on the year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence shot to the highest level in two years this month as inflationary pressures eased and the American economy continued to show resilience in the face of dramatically higher interest rates.
The Conference Board, a business research group, said its consumer confidence index rose to 117 in July from a revised 110.1 in June. The gauge beat the 110.5 that economists had expected and was the highest since July 2021.
The index measures both Americans’ assessment of current economic conditions and their outlook for the next six months. Both improved in July. The future expectations index rose to 88.3 in July, clearing the recession threshold of 80 recorded in June.
Economists closely monitor Americans’ spirits because consumer spending accounts for around 70% of U.S. economic activity. The Conference Board index fell more or less steadily from mid-2021 to mid-2022 as surging prices ate into household budgets.
But confidence has come back, in fits and starts, over the past year as inflation eased in the face of 10 interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Fed policymakers are expected to raise their benchmark rate again Wednesday to the highest level in 22 years.
The U.S. economy — the world’s largest — has proved surprisingly resilient in the face of sharply higher borrowing costs. Employers are adding a strong 278,000 jobs a month so far this year; and at 3.6% in June, the unemployment rate is not far off a half-century low.
Tumbling inflation and sturdy hiring have raised hopes the Fed just might pull off a so-called soft landing — slowing the economy just enough to tame inflation without tipping the United States into recession.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden helped pack presents for children and encouraged holiday cheer as the White House marked the 75th anniversary of Toys for Tots at an event hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
The event at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in northern Virginia is part of Jill Biden's Joining Forces initiative, which offers support and resources to families of military members and veterans, as well as their caregivers and survivors. Helping the first couple sort through presents were spouses of Pentagon leaders and local children of servicemembers.
“Military kids like you give our country so much,” Jill Biden said, after a young child read a passage from the Dr. Seuss classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
She added: “You support your parents through moves and deployments and you sometimes help take care of the family members who came home with maybe illnesses or injuries. And you help out neighbors when they need it, just like you’re going to do today.”
Through the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, Marines and volunteers have sent out 627 million toys to more than 281 million children since 1947, according to the White House. Joe Biden noted that last year, the initiative collected 22 million toys for 8 million children, “giving Santa a run for his money."
“But unlike Santa, you don't wear big red suits, you don't travel the world in just one night. Instead, you wear dress blues and army greens,” the president continued. “You stand watch around the world every single night.”
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Which HP Envy printer is best?
You might be surprised to learn that printers are still a valuable gadget to have in your home. Even though most things have shifted to the paperless internet, many people still have a printer in a small home office.
Not all things can be paperless. There are times when you must print out an invitation, calendar or a spreadsheet. To decorate your home, you might also want to hang up some family photos — easily done with a photo printer.
But if you want a gadget that can handle images and text, the HP Envy Inspire 7955e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer is an excellent choice.
What to know before you buy an HP Envy printer
Document printing vs. photo printing
One of the most important considerations in choosing a printer comes down to what you’ll primarily use it for. There are certain printers that excel in photo reproduction, while others are better suited for office documents.
- Laser printers use dry toner and electrostatically charged dots. Because of their high accuracy in producing text, they are best used as document printers. They can, however, print color images, but it’s not as high quality as inkjet printers.
- Inkjet printers use liquid to produce the required image by spraying tiny drops of ink on the page. However, some HP printers use thermal inkjet technology, which applies a dry, wax-based pigment onto the page. The superior image quality and vibrant colors are best suited for printing photos or detailed graphics.
Multiple device connections
Printers no longer require a cable from the device to the computer. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections let you pair the gadget with multiple devices for quick printing. While you can still use a cable with your computer, Bluetooth enables the printing of photos and documents directly from mobile devices. There is no need to email the attachments to a computer first.
Consider an HP-plus subscription
It’s no secret that the price per gallon of printer ink makes it one of the most expensive liquids on the planet. So naturally, if you can save up to 50% on ink costs, it’s a good deal. In addition, an HP-plus subscription includes six months of automatic ordering when your ink gets low and it gets delivered at your door.
What to look for in a quality HP Envy printer
Automatic feeder tray
Nobody has time to manually put in every sheet of paper when scanning or copying. That’s why a good-quality HP Envy has an automatic document feeder tray at the top that does it for you. Just place your paper stack on the tray and watch it carefully load into the device, get scanned and pop out underneath.
Two-sided and borderless printing
A function that few users know is available is two-sided printing. This lets you half your paper consumption by printing two pages on both sides of one paper. Not only does it reduce waste, but it’s easier to handle fewer pages than a stack of one-sided papers.
Additional functions
Depending on the model, many Envy printers have additional functions that come in handy for a home office. Scanning photos or documents are made easy with a flatbed scanner, and you can quickly scan multiple documents with the automatic feeder. The same function lets you make document copies and some models let you fax, too.
How much you can expect to spend on an HP Envy printer
The average price of an HP Envy printer depends on the additional functions. An entry level monochrome printer costs $100-$150, while a wireless color printer costs $200-$400. The average price of ink also varies depending on the model. A black ink cartridge costs $15-$40, while the tri-color cartridges cost $25-$45.
HP Envy printer FAQ
What does “self-healing Wi-Fi” mean on an Envy printer?
A. Printers can be notoriously fickle with network connections. Many HP Envy printers have a feature called “self-healing” connections. This means that the printer can automatically detect and resolve connectivity issues without you having to intervene.
Does Envy Inspire work with Chromebooks?
A. Yes, it does and the HP Envy Inspire is actually the first printer certified as “Works With Chromebook.” This means the printer meets Chromebook’s compatibility standards so that you can easily connect to it and print without any hassles.
What’s the best HP Envy printer to buy?
Top HP Envy printer
HP Envy Inspire 7955e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer
What you need to know: This printer is an excellent choice if you need a multi-function gadget that can print, scan and copy with ease.
What you’ll love: Not only does it come with six months of Instant Ink through HP-plus, but it has a separate tray for photo paper. It can also automatically turn over pages for double-sided printing, connects to multiple devices and has a customizable touchscreen.
What you should consider: Some of the premium features on the HP Smart app are only available with a monthly HP-plus subscription.
Where to buy: Sold by HP and Amazon
Top HP Envy printer for the money
HP Envy 6055e All-in-One Wireless Color Printer
What you need to know: An affordable printer that is perfect for work documents and the occasional color presentation.
What you’ll love: Unlike most other printers, this one automatically goes into a single-cartridge mode when you run out of color ink. It can connect to devices through Bluetooth, USB and Wi-Fi, and can print 10 black-and-white pages per minute.
What you should consider: It comes with a free, six-month subscription to HP-plus, but you must manually cancel it to prevent being automatically billed for it.
Where to buy: Sold by HP and Amazon
Worth checking out
HP Envy 6455e All-in-One Wireless Color Printer
What you need to know: Printing from multiple devices including cloud services such as DropBox or Google Drive is only a button press away.
What you’ll love: It features a 35-page auto document feeder which makes scanning easier, is capable of automatic two-sided printing and has a contextual control panel that lights up when you need it. The inkjet printer can produce 10 black-and-white pages per minute and supports glossy photo paper in addition to regular paper and envelopes.
What you should consider: Some users have indicated that it can be relatively complex to set up the printer and connect it to a Wi-Fi network.
Where to buy: Sold by HP and Amazon
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — The jury says it has reached a verdict in Johnny Depp's $50 million libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who testified that Depp physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions.
The jury also has reached a verdict regarding a $100 million counterclaim Heard filed against Depp.
Heard said she was defamed when Depp's lawyer called her abuse allegations a hoax.
The verdicts are expected to be read inside the Virginia court at 3 p.m. ET.
The seven-person civil jury has to come to a unanimous decision to reach a verdict.
Depp accused Heard of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse."
Testimony during the six-week trial has focused on the alleged abuse Heard suffered from.
Debate on social media has focused on whether Heard lied about her experience.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism.
Barbara Cooper was forced out as as head of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education after Ivey expressed concern over the distribution of the book to state-run pre-kindergartens. Ivey spokesperson Gina Maiola identified the book as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition. Maiola said she understands that the books have been removed from the state classrooms.
"The education of Alabama's children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission. Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners," Ivey said in a statement.
Ivey's statement comes as conservative politicians have made a rallying cry out of decrying so-called "woke" teachings, with schools sometimes emerging as a flashpoint over diversity training and parents' rights.
The governor's office said Ivey first asked Cooper to "send a memo to disavow this book and to immediately discontinue its use." Ivey's office did not say how Cooper responded but that the governor made the decision to replace Cooper and accepted her resignation. Cooper could not immediately be reached for comment.
The book is a guide for early childhood educators. It is not a curriculum taught to children.
The governor's office, in a press release, cited two examples from the book — one discussing white privilege and that "the United States is built on systemic and structural racism" and another that Ivey's office claimed teaches LGBTQ+ inclusion to 4-year-olds. Those sections, according to a copy of the 881-page book obtained by The Associated Press, discuss combating bias and making sure that all children feel welcome.
"Early childhood programs also serve and welcome families that represent many compositions. Children from all families (e.g., single parent, grandparent-led, foster, LGBTQIA+) need to hear and see messages that promote equality, dignity, and worth," the book states.
The section on structural racism states that "systemic and structural racism ... has permeated every institution and system through policies and practices that position people of color in oppressive, repressive, and menial positions. The early education system is not immune to these forces." It says preschool is one place where children "begin to see how they are represented in society" and that the classroom should be a place of "affirmation and healing."
NAEYC is a national accrediting board that works to provide high-quality education materials and resources for young children. In an emailed response to The Associated Press, the group did not address Ivey's statements but said the book is a research-based resource for educators.
"For nearly four decades, and in partnership with hundreds of thousands of families and educators, Developmentally Appropriate Practice has served as the foundation for high-quality early childhood education across all states and communities. While not a curriculum, it is a responsive, educator-developed, educator-informed, and research-based resource that has been honed over multiple generations to support teachers in helping all children thrive and reach their full potential," the statement read.
Cooper is a member of the NAEYC board. In a previously published statement on the organization's website about the latest edition of the book, Cooper said that book teaches, "applicable skills for teaching through developmentally appropriate practices that build brains during the critical first five years of life."
Alabama's First Class voluntary pre-kindergarten programs operates more than 1,400 classrooms across the state. The program has won high ratings from the National Institute for Early Education Research.
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HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Museum of Art will celebrate POW! Comic Drawings from the Permanent Collection with a closing reception at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, which will be the final day to view the exhibit. Admission to this 4th Tuesday Tour Series event is free.
POW! Comic Drawings from the Permanent Collection features original comic book art, comic strips, and sequential drawings created by some of America’s most noted comic artists, such as Bob Kane, Ernie Chan and Neil Adams, from the Huntington Museum of Art’s Michael Reynolds Collection of American Popular Culture.
Refreshments, an art activity for children, and an art project that families can take home and make together, while supplies last, also will be offered at the 4th Tuesday Tour Series. Those attending are welcome to wear costumes.
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(NEXSTAR) – A program proposed by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week would change how service industry employees and employers report taxable tips.
The Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) is designed to leverage income and other information gleaned from employer devices and to replace three current tip reporting programs in the process.
“The proposed SITCA program is designed to take advantage of advancements in point-of-sale, time and attendance systems, and electronic payment settlement methods to improve tip reporting compliance,” according to the IRS. “The proposed program would also decrease taxpayer and IRS administrative burdens and provide more transparency and certainty to taxpayers.”
The program would make sure employers were following reporting rules by using “actual annual tip revenue and charge tip data from an employer’s point-of-sale system,” according to the IRS. There would be an allowance in place in case of any changes in tipping norms from one year to the next.
Employers would have to submit an annual report at the end of the calendar year, which the IRS says would reduce the need for compliance reviews.
The IRS also had this guidance for employers:
- Participating employers receive protection from liability under the rules that define tips as part of an employee’s pay for calendar years in which they remain compliant with program requirements.
- Participating employers have flexibility to implement employee tip reporting policies that are best suited for their employees and their business model in accordance with the section of the tax law that requires employees to report tips to their employers.
The IRS says that the new program would not affect the gaming industry, which has its own compliance rules.
According to current IRS rules, an employee must report any tips made in a single month, whether in cash or gifts, if the value is more than $20. “Employees must report tips to the employer by the 10th of the month after the month the tips are received,” according to the IRS.
The three programs currently governing tip reporting compliance in the service industry are:
- Tip Rate Determination Agreement (TRDA)
- Tip Reporting Alternative Commitment (TRAC)
- Employer designed TRAC (EmTRAC)
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ROME (AP) — Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said. She was 95.
The agent, Paola Comin, didn’t provide details. But Lollobrigida had surgery in September to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall. She returned home and said she had quickly resumed walking.
A drawn portrait of the diva graced a 1954 cover of Time magazine, which likened her to a “goddess” in an article about Italian movie-making. More than a half-century later, Lollobrigida still turned heads with her brown, curly hair and statuesque figure, and preferred to be called an actress instead of a the gender-neutral term actor.
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II, as the country began to promote on the big screen a stereotypical concept of Mediterranean beauty as buxom and brunette.
Besides “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” which won Lollobrigida Italy’s top movie award, a David di Donatello, as best actress in 1969.
In Italy, she worked with some of the country’s top directors following the war, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica.
Two of her more popular films at home were Comencini’s “Pane Amore e Fantasia” (“Bread, Love and Dreams”Fantasy) in 1953, and the sequel a year later, “Pane Amore e Gelosia” (“Bread, Love and Jealousy”). Her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy’s leading men on the screen.
Lollobrigida also was an accomplished sculptor, painter and photographer, and eventually essentially dropped film for the fine arts. With her camera, she roamed the world from what was then the Soviet Union to Australia. In 1974, Fidel Castro hosted her as a guest in Cuba for 12 days as she worked on a photo reportage.
Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, a picturesque hill town near Rome, where her father was a furniture maker. Lollobrigida began her career in beauty contests, posing for the covers of magazines and brief appearances in minor films. Producer Mario Costa plucked her from the streets of Rome to appear on the big screen.
Eccentric mogul Howard Hughes eventually brought Lollobrigida to the United States, where she performed with some of Hollywood’s leading men of the 1950s and 60s, including Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.
Over the years, her co-stars also included Europe’s most dashing male stars of the era, among them Louis Jourdan, Fernando Rey, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Alec Guinness.
While Lollobrigida played some dramatic roles, her sex symbol image defined her career, and her most popular characters were in lighthearted comedies such as the “Bread, Love” trilogy.
With lush eyelashes and thick, brown curls framing her face, Lollobrigida started a hairstyle rage in the 1950s known as the “poodle cut.” Gossip columnists commented on alleged rivalries between her and Sophia Loren, another Italian film star celebrated for her physical beauty,
In middle age, Lollobrigida’s romance with a man 34 years her junior, Javier Rigau, from Barcelona, Spain, kept gossip pages buzzing for years.
“I have always had a weakness for younger men because they are generous and have no complexes,” the actress told Spain’s “Hola” magazine. After more than 20 years of dating, in 2006, the then-79-year-old Lollabrigida announced that she would Rigau, but the wedding never happened.
Her first marriage, to Milko Skofic, a Yugoslavia-born doctor, ended in divorce in 1971.
In the last years of her life, Lollobrigida’s name more frequently appeared in articles by journalists covering Rome’s courts, not the glamour scene, as legal battles were waged over whether she had the mental competence to tend to her finances.
On her website, Lollobrigida recalled how her family lost its house during the bombings of World War II and went to live in Rome. She studied sculpture and painting at a high school dedicated to the arts, while her two sisters worked as movie threater ushers to allow her to continue her studies. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-report-film-legend-gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-age-95/ | 2023-01-16 15:18:48 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-report-film-legend-gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-age-95/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelly Nugent was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wright National Flood Insurance Company.
Nugent has more than 30 years of flood insurance experience. She quickly advanced through the ranks of customer service, underwriting, marketing representative and national sales manager. Most recently, she had worked as one of Wright Flood's vice presidents of sales and marketing, leading both inside and outside sales departments as well as the company's in-house agency and corporate communications.
Wright Flood is an insurance company that provides federal and excess flood insurance on home and business properties. It is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.
"Kelly has been a key part of our success, and we were thrilled to promote her to this important position of Senior Vice President," said Wright Flood President Patty Templeton-Jones. "Kelly has a wealth of experience with Wright Flood, and we're excited about her new role here. She joined the company more than 30 years ago and it has been my pleasure to work with Kelly for a vast majority of that time. She has played a key role during our growth as a company, and I look forward to watching her continued success in the years to come."
Nugent earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida and also attended the University of Virginia Darden School of Executive Management. She holds a Florida Property & Casualty Insurance License.
About Wright National Flood Insurance Company
Wright Flood, the largest provider of federal flood insurance in the nation, also offers its ResiFlood program as a suite of admitted and surplus line private and excess flood programs in as many as 42 states. With leading industry specialization and rated A (Excellent) by AM Best, Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation, and providing service customers deserve. Wright Flood enjoys a strong reputation for excellence with FEMA and participates on industry councils and advisory boards in Washington, D.C., to strengthen the flood program that serves 5.6 million flood policyholders. Agents and consumers may visit us at www.wrightflood.com and www.wrightfloodadvice.org. To find an agent, call (866) 373-5663.
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SEATTLE, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndio, the leading Workplace Equity Platform, today announced that board director and strategic advisor, Orlando Ashford, is joining its Board of Directors. Ashford brings decades of global experience as a people leader and human resources executive to Syndio's Board, and will play a critical role in its mission to build expert-backed technology that helps companies measure, achieve and sustain workplace equity.
Over the course of his 29-year career, Ashford's played critical leadership and strategic roles in executive management, talent management, organizational development, change management and corporate human resources. For six years, Ashford served as president of Holland America Line, leading the award-winning cruise line's brand and business, including oversight of the company's sales and marketing, revenue management, deployment and itinerary planning, public relations, hotel operations and strategy. Ashford was widely credited in the industry for re-energizing the brand, innovating the guest experience and transforming the corporate culture to embrace inclusion, diversity and creativity.
"Orlando's executive experience and deep understanding of talent management will be critical as Syndio continues developing its Workplace Equity Platform to meet the needs of the C-Suite and the ever-evolving dynamics around ESG," said Maria Colacurcio, Syndio CEO. "We welcome his voice, tremendous insight, and passion for the people and human resources industry to Syndio's board of directors."
Previous to Holland America Line, Ashford was president of the Talent Business Segment for Mercer, the global consulting leader in talent, health, retirement and investments. He also served as senior vice president, chief human resources and communications officer of Mercer's parent company, Marsh & McLennan Companies. Ashford also has held several other leadership roles during the course of his career, including group director of human resources for 90 countries in Eurasia and Africa for the Coca-Cola Company. Previously he was vice president of global human resources strategy and organizational development for Motorola Inc., where he helped modernize the human resources function for the global tech leader.
"Equity in the workplace is fundamental to achieving success as a modern business, but it's not easy," said Orlando Ashford. "Syndio's efforts to modernize this work through technology and products that help companies identify root causes and tangible action to close pay and opportunity gaps are the tools we need to bring long-lasting equity and diversity to the workplace. I'm honored to join the board and look forward to helping Syndio further its mission."
"In today's market, it's critical that companies prove they're equitable in the fight to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds," said Fern Mandelbaum, Syndio Board Member and Managing Director of Emerson Collective, an early investor in Syndio. "Few understand those dynamics and the strategies needed for success better than Orlando Ashford, his expertise will be a welcome addition to Syndio's board."
Currently, Ashford serves as Board Chairman for Perrigo Company and also serves on the boards of directors for Amerant Bank, Azamara Cruises, Array Technologies, Inc., Hershey Entertainment & Resorts and ClubCorp (Invited, Inc). He also served on the Board of ITT, Inc from 2012 to 2022. In addition, Ashford volunteers on the board of Streetwise Partners and in 2022 he joined the Orange Bowl Committee of South Florida. Ashford holds a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Industrial Technology from Purdue University.
Syndio provides technology and expert guidance that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain all facets of workplace equity. Over 200 companies, including 10% of the Fortune 200 and 30% of Fortune's Most Admired Companies, rely on Syndio's platform to close pay and opportunity gaps, mitigate legal risk, and turn DE&I goals into tangible results. Together, we are showing the world how to build resilient, open workplaces by ensuring every employee is valued based on who they are and what they contribute to their company's success.
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On Thursday, the House Jan. 6 committee holds its fifth public hearing investigating the pressure campaign by Trump administration officials to get the Justice Department to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Tara Simon
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Too Faced Cosmetics, Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
Tara Simon is a visionary strategic leader and brand builder with deep experience in prestige beauty and makeup, including consumer-focused brand development and management, sales and marketing, merchandising and emerging brands. Since joining Too Faced in August of 2020, she has demonstrated exceptional leadership in creating a global strategic framework to take Too Faced into the future while executing a winning strategy today. Simon is known for her collaborative, inclusive leadership style and strong business acumen within the areas of consumer-focused brand development and management. | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/tara-simon | 2022-11-18 20:14:27 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/tara-simon |
Brewers vs. Reds: Odds, spread, over/under - July 15
The Cincinnati Reds (50-42) will lean on Spencer Steer when they host Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers (50-42) at Great American Ball Park on Saturday, July 15. The first pitch will be thrown at 7:10 PM ET.
The Reds are -125 moneyline favorites for this matchup with the Brewers (+105). The over/under is 9 runs for the matchup.
Brewers vs. Reds Time and TV Channel
- Date: Saturday, July 15, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: BSOH
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Venue: Great American Ball Park
- Probable Pitchers: Andrew Abbott - CIN (4-1, 2.38 ERA) vs Freddy Peralta - MIL (5-7, 4.60 ERA)
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Brewers vs. Reds Betting Trends and Insights
- The Reds have been favorites in 22 games this season and won 15 (68.2%) of those contests.
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -125 or shorter, the Reds have gone 8-4 (66.7%).
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 55.6% chance of a victory for Cincinnati.
- The Reds won all of the three games they played as a moneyline favorite over their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups (all had set totals), Cincinnati combined with its opponents to go over the total five times.
- The Brewers have been underdogs in 42 games this season and have come away with the win 21 times (50%) in those contests.
- This season, the Brewers have been victorious 15 times in 31 chances when named as an underdog of at least +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Brewers have played as underdogs in three of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents have failed to hit the over three times.
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BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The John Hancock Closed-End Funds listed in the table below announced earnings1 for the three months ended July 31, 2022. The same data for the comparable three-month period ended July 31, 2021 is also available below.
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Amounts distributed by the Funds may vary from the earnings shown above and will be announced in separate press releases. Up-to-date distribution rate information is available on John Hancock Investment Management's web site at www.jhinvestments.com by clicking on "Closed-End Funds" under the "Daily Prices" tab.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined by the United States securities laws. You should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on forward-looking statements because they are subject to uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Fund's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
An investor should consider a Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing.
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Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, our leading capabilities in public and private markets are strengthened by an investment footprint that spans 18 geographies. We complement these capabilities by providing access to a network of unaffiliated asset managers from around the world. We're committed to investing responsibly across our businesses. We develop innovative global frameworks for sustainable investing, collaboratively engage with companies in our securities portfolios, and maintain a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets, and we believe in supporting financial well-being through our workplace retirement plans. Today, plan sponsors around the world rely on our retirement plan administration and investment expertise to help their employees plan for, save for, and live a better retirement. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulifeim.com.
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Ryyan Alshebl fled Syria’s civil war for Germany without knowing a word of German. Eight years on, he’s not only fluent but also the recently elected mayor of Ostelsheim, a small town in the southwest.
“German society is ready to break new ground,” Alshebl, 29, told NBC News in a phone call this month.
But his victory was far from “a matter of course” in the town of about 2,500 people. The country struggles with small, but regular neo-Nazi gatherings as well as a surge in popularity of the Alternative for Germany party and other far-right political groups.
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Biden to sign gay marriage bill at White House ceremony
President Joe Biden is inviting thousands to celebrate at the White House on Tuesday as he signs into law gay marriage legislation before a bipartisan crowd that reflects growing acceptance of same-sex unions.
Lawmakers from both parties will be there, as will first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. The White House promised musical performances but was trying to maintain suspense about the headliners.
The triumphant mood will play out against the backdrop of a right-wing backlash over gender issues, which has alarmed gay and transgender people and their advocates.
Among the attendees will be the owner of Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado where five people were killed in a shooting last month, and two survivors of the attack. The suspect has been charged with hate crimes.
Plaintiffs from lawsuits that originally helped secure the nationwide right to gay marriage are also expected to be there, according to the White House.
The new law is intended to safeguard gay marriages if the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses Obergefell v. Hodges, its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex unions nationwide. The new law also protects interracial marriages. In 1967, the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia struck down laws in 16 states barring interracial marriage.
"Congress has restored a measure of security to millions of marriages and families," Biden said in a statement when the legislation passed last week. "They have also provided hope and dignity to millions of young people across this country who can grow up knowing that their government will recognize and respect the families they build."
The signing will mark the culmination of a monthslong bipartisan effort sparked by the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion available across the country.
In a concurring opinion in the case that overturned Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested revisiting other decisions, including the legalization of gay marriage, generating fear that more civil rights could be imperiled by the court’s conservative majority.
Lawmakers crafted a compromise that was intended to assuage conservative concerns about religious liberty, such as ensuring churches could still refuse to perform gay marriages.
In addition, states will not be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But they will be required to recognize marriages conducted elsewhere in the country.
A majority of Republicans in Congress still voted against the legislation. However, enough supported it to sidestep a filibuster in the Senate and ensure its passage.
"Together, we showed that it’s possible for Democrats and Republicans to come together to safeguard our most fundamental rights," Biden said.
Tuesday's ceremony will mark another chapter in Biden's legacy on gay rights.
He memorably — and unexpectedly — endorsed same-sex unions in a television interview in 2012, when he was vice president. Days later, President Barack Obama announced that he also supported gay marriage.
Attendees will be given a card commemorating Biden's comments from his 2012 interview.
"What this is all about is a simple proposition: Who do you love?" Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press" a decade ago. "Who do you love and will you be loyal to the person you love? And that is what people are finding out is what all marriages at their root are about."
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Tech giant Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday evening that it discovered a group of Chinese hackers had broken into some of its customers' email systems to gather intelligence.
The company began investigating unusual activity within a few weeks of the initial attack, though the culprits were able to repeatedly manipulate credentials to access accounts.
According to the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, one federal government agency first detected unusual activity on its Microsoft 365 email cloud environment last month, and immediately reported the activity to Microsoft and CISA.
CISA did not identify the government agency in question in a blog post published on Wednesday concerning the breach.
The hackers, which Microsoft identified as China-based actors from a group it calls Storm-0558, were able to break in and steal some data from the accounts, according to CISA's blog post. However, the data that was taken was unclassified, according to CISA.
It's unclear how many U.S. government agencies were targets, and what exactly was stolen. However, Microsoft says the attack is now contained.
The breach reveals the ongoing challenge of keeping sophisticated actors out of systems. Microsoft describes the hackers as "well-resourced" and "focused on espionage."
However, this is not the first time Microsoft has been the target of this kind of breach. The U.S. government is putting pressure on companies to hold high security standards.
"Last month, U.S. government safeguards identified an intrusion in Microsoft's cloud security, which affected unclassified systems. Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," wrote Adam Hodge, the acting senior director for press at the White House's National Security Council, in a statement. "We continue to hold the procurement providers of the U.S. Government to a high security threshold."
The spy game
These kinds of hacks are, unfortunately, a common part of the spy game — a game of breaches and patches, protection and response between the U.S. and its adversaries.
The goal is to limit the number of vulnerabilities available for adversaries to exploit, as well as the time hackers are able to lurk inside systems without being detected. Additionally, it's especially important for agencies to protect more sensitive information outside of online email systems. That goes especially for organizations that are attractive targets to spies, from U.S. government agencies to critical infrastructure companies, defense contractors and others.
In this case, CISA confirms that it is Microsoft's responsibility to patch the vulnerability and enhance security for authentication procedures, to prevent hackers from mimicking authorized users.
Even so, CISA advises organizations to be on high alert for suspicious activity, given the recent breach. In an advisory, the agency outlines procedures for enhanced monitoring and logging as well as how to contact Microsoft if suspicious activity is detected.
"Critical infrastructure organizations are strongly urged to implement the logging recommendations in this advisory to enhance their cybersecurity posture and position themselves to detect similar malicious activity," wrote CISA.
Asma Khalid contributed to this story
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- Record fiscal year 2022 revenue of $1.34 billion and Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $305 million, representing an increase of 12% and 17% from fiscal 2021, respectively
- Fourth quarter 2022 Revenue of $352.5 million, representing an increase of 14% year-over-year, and Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $73 million
- Operating cash flow of $46 million and cash on balance sheet of $163 million
NEW YORK, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf" or the "Company"), a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis, today reported its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022. All financial information is reported in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and is provided in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.
Boris Jordan, Executive Chairman of Curaleaf, commented, "2022 was another record year for Curaleaf that further solidified our leadership position in the industry. In the fourth quarter, we delivered sales growth of 14% to $352.5 million , with an adjusted gross margin1 of 47% and adjusted EBITDA margin of 21%. For the year, we grew revenue by 12% to $1.34 billion , with an adjusted gross margin of 50% and adjusted EBITDA margin of 23%. We generated $46 million in operating cash flow and ended the year with $163 million in cash on our balance sheet. We have a strong cash position and will continue to invest in the right opportunities for growth domestically and abroad. I am pleased that we took the necessary actions in Q4 and early Q1 to reduce expenses and streamline the organization, positioning us for years of profitable growth to come."
Matt Darin, Chief Executive Officer of Curaleaf, stated, "Curaleaf accomplished a great deal last year; we launched 171 new products, introduced three new brands, opened 28 new stores, completed six acquisitions, expanded our European presence with the German market, converted to GAAP accounting, and built out the management team with high caliber talent. Further, we sold over $600 million of our own brands through our own stores, which speaks to the strength of our retail business as a key competitive advantage – our gross margins are strong, we have an unrivaled geographically diverse footprint, and are constantly improving the cannabis customer experience. We are excited about, and well positioned for the future."
Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net Revenue of $352.5 million, a 14% increase year-over-year, and 4% increase quarter-over-quarter
- Gross profit of $78.1 million and gross margin of 22%
- Adjusted gross profit net of add-backs of $165.4 million, adjusted gross margin of 47% inclusive of a 240 basis point impact from an expense reclassification into cost of goods sold
- Net loss attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. of $260.3 million or net loss per share $0.36
- Adjusted net loss attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc.(1) of $162 million or net loss per share(1) of $0.23.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $73M or 21% of revenue, excluding non-cash goodwill impairments and inventory write-downs totaling $225 million
- Cash position at quarter end totaled $163M
Full Year 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenue of $1.336 billion, a 12% increase year-over-year
- Gross profit of $579 million and gross margin of 43%
- Adjusted gross profit(1) net of add-backs of $671.9 million, a 18% increase year-over-year
- Adjusted gross margin(1) of 50.3% inclusive of a 60bp impact from an expense reclassification into cost of goods sold
- Operating cash flow of $46 million
- Net loss attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. of $370 million or net loss per share of $0.52
- Adjusted net loss(1) attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. of $252 million or net loss per share(1) of $0.35
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $305 million or 23% of revenue, excluding non-cash goodwill impairments and inventory write-downs of $225 million
Fourth Quarter and FY 2022 Financial Highlights (Unaudited)
($ thousands)
Fourth Quarter 2022 Operational Highlights
- Added eight net new retail dispensaries including four in Nevada, three in Florida, and two in Arizona.
- Completed the acquisition of Tryke Companies, a vertically integrated MSO operating in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
- Launched Find, a flower brand meeting the trend of the economizing consumer with high quality cannabis flower at an accessible price point.
- Unveiled the national rebrand and ongoing expansion of Grassroots premium flower brand and launched Grassroots Diamond Infused Pre-Rolls.
- Began adult-use sales at Bordentown Township, New Jersey location, the Company's third location to sell adult-use cannabis in the Garden State.
Full Year 2022 Operational Highlights
- Opened 28 locations across key strategic markets, including Arizona, Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
- Introduced 171 products to market in 2022, with three new brand launches throughout the year.
- Completed the acquisition of Bloom Dispensaries in Arizona.
- Completed majority stake acquisition of Germany's Four20 Pharma.
Post Fourth Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Announced cost reduction plan and discontinued operations in California, Colorado and Oregon as a part of Curaleaf's continued effort to streamline its business.
- Reduced payroll hours by 10% coupled with other expense reductions across the organization resulting in over $60 million of annual gross run rate expense savings, above the previously anticipated savings of $40 million.
- Continued to strategically expand its retail footprint in Florida, opening five additional stores. As of May 1, 2023, Curaleaf retail operations totaled 152 nationwide.
- Gained approval to sell to adult-use customers at its Stamford, Connecticut location in January immediately following the opening of adult-use sales, and at its Hartford, Connecticut location in March.
- Completed the acquisition of Deseret Wellness, providing three dispensaries in Utah.
Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2022
Revenue
($ thousands)
Total revenue was a record $352.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, an increase of 4% from $339.7 million in the third quarter of 2022 and 14% from $308.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. The Company's year-over-year revenue growth primarily reflects continued organic growth driven by new retail store openings and the significant focus on research and development, resulting in the introduction of 171 products in 2022 and three new brand launches.
Retail revenue was $277.5 million, compared with $259.7 million in the third quarter of 2022, and up 23% from $225.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Retail revenue represented 79% of total revenue. Curaleaf's year-over-year retail revenue growth was supported by 28 new stores added in 2022, and the further expansion of adult-use cannabis around the country.
Wholesale revenue was $73.8 million, a decrease of 6% from the third quarter of 2022 and represented 21% of total revenue. Wholesale revenue declined 10% year-over-year due to price compression, a proactive reduction of wholesale accounts in California, and an intentional reduction of low profit raw material sales.
Net Income / (Loss)
($ thousands)
Net loss attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. was $260.3 million, compared with a net loss of $51.4 million in the third quarter of 2022 and $73.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. The year-over-year degradation in net loss was mainly due to $225 million of non-cash goodwill impairments and inventory write-downs primarily associated with the state exits of CA, CO, and OR.
Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2022
Revenue (Audited)
($ thousands)
Total revenue for the year ended 2022 was a record $1,336 million, an increase of 12% from $1,196 million for the year ended 2021.
Retail revenue was $1,015 million for the year ended 2022, an increase of 18% from $860 million for the year ended 2021. The increase in retail revenue was primarily driven by organic growth from new store openings, expansion of cultivation and production capacity, and new product introductions. In 2022, Curaleaf launched the brands Endless Coast, Find, and Plant Precision, targeting a variety of price points and product need states.
Wholesale revenue was $316 million, a decrease of 5% from $333 million for the year ended 2021. The decline in wholesale revenue was primarily due to price compression, a reduction of wholesale accounts in California, and an intentional reduction of low profit raw material sales.
Net Income / (Loss) (Audited)
($ thousands)
Net loss, attributable to Curaleaf Holdings, Inc., for the year ended 2022 was $370 million, compared with a net loss of $206 million for the year ended 2021. The $164 million degradation in net loss in 2022 was primarily due to the $225 million non-cash goodwill impairment and inventory write-downs associated with the CA, CO, and OR state exits, as well as increased SG&A expenses
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
As of December 31, 2022, the Company had $163 million of cash and $623 million of outstanding debt net of unamortized debt discounts.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, Curaleaf invested $39 million, net in capital expenditures, focused on cultivation, processing, and selective retail expansion in strategic markets. For the year ended 2022, Curaleaf invested $138 million, net in capital expenditures.
Shares Outstanding
For the fourth quarter of 2022 and 2021, the Company's weighted average subordinate voting shares outstanding amounted to 715,796,271 and 707,450,310 shares, respectively.
For the years ended December 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021, the Company's weighted average subordinate voting shares outstanding amounted to 711,159,444 and 698,759,274 shares, respectively.
As of December 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021 Company's issued and outstanding subordinate voting shares plus multiple voting shares amounted to 717,490,830 and 708,340,434 shares, respectively.
2021 and 2022 Restatement Update
As previously disclosed, the 2022 full year results include restated revenue amounts for the first, second, and third quarters of 2022 as compared with what was previously reported, and the reduction of aggregate revenue for the full 2022 fiscal year is 0.5%. Similarly, 2021 full year results were also restated, and the reduction of aggregate revenue for the year was 1.1% of revenue. Details of the full audited financial statements can be found in the tables of this release.
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call and audio webcast for investors and analysts on Monday, May 1, 2023 at 5:00 P.M. ET to discuss Q4 and 2022 earnings results. The call can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2926 in the U.S., internationally 1-412-317-6300, or from Canada 1-416-639-5883. The conference ID # is 7713604.
A replay of the conference call can be accessed at 1-877-344-7529, or internationally 1-412-317-0088, or from Canada 1-855-669-9658 using the replay ID # 1100731.
A webcast of the call can be accessed on the investor relations section of the Curaleaf website at ir.curaleaf.com. The teleconference will be available for replay starting at approximately 7:00 P.M. ET on May 1, 2023, and will end at 11:59 P.M. ET on May 8, 2023.
Non-GAAP Financial and Performance Measures
Curaleaf reports its financial results in accordance with GAAP and uses a number of financial measures and ratios when assessing its results and measuring overall performance. Some of these financial measures and ratios are not calculated in accordance with GAAP. Curaleaf refers to certain Non-GAAP financial measures and ratios such as "Adjusted Gross Profit", "Adjusted Gross Margin", "Adjusted Net Loss", "Adjusted Net Loss Per Share", "Adjusted EBITDA", and "Adjusted EBITDA Margin". These measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. The Company defines "Adjusted Gross Profit" as Gross Profit net of cost of goods sold and related other add-backs. "Adjusted Gross Margin" is defined by Curaleaf as gross profit net of add-backs divided by total revenues. "Adjusted Net Loss" is defined by Curaleaf as Net Loss less other add-backs. "Adjusted Net Loss per Share" is defined by Curaleaf as Adjusted Net Loss divided by the weighted average shares outstanding. "Adjusted EBITDA" is defined by Curaleaf as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization less share-based compensation expense and other add-backs related to business development, acquisition, financing and reorganization costs. "Adjusted EBITDA Margin" is defined by Curaleaf as Adjusted EBITDA divided by total revenue. Curaleaf considers these measures to be an important indicator of the financial strength and performance of our business. We believe the adjusted results presented provide relevant and useful information for investors because they clarify our actual operating performance, make it easier to compare our results with those of other companies and allow investors to review performance in the same way as our management. Since these measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they should not be considered in isolation of, or as a substitute for, our reported results as indicators of our performance, and they may not be comparable to similarly named measures from other companies. The tables below provide reconciliations of Non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
Gross profit was $78.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with $161.8 million in the third quarter of 2022. Adjusted gross profit net of add-backs for the fourth quarter was $165.4 million compared with $166.1 million in the third quarter of 2022. Adjusted gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 46.9%, a decrease of 200 basis points compared with the third quarter of 2022. The decrease in gross margin was due to a full year allocation of $8.5 million of expenses reclassified into cost of goods sold which reduced adjusted gross margin by 240 basis points, and geographic mix; partially offset by increased operational efficiencies and the addition of higher margin Tryke, and improved international gross margins helped by the addition of Four 20 Pharma.
Adjusted EBITDA was $73.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, a decrease of 4% from $76.4 million in the third quarter of 2022 and an increase of 16% from $63.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 20.8%, a decrease of 170 basis points from 22.5% in the prior quarter and an increase of 20 basis points from 20.5% in the fourth quarter of 2021. The sequential decrease in Adjusted EBITDA primarily reflects lower gross profit margin driven by geographic mix and pricing pressure in certain markets, coupled with expense deleverage driven by additional headcount associated with Tryke, Four 20 Pharma, and new store openings.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended 2022 was $305.4 million, an increase of 17% from $261.8 million in 2021. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 22.9%, an increase of 100 basis points from 21.9% in the prior year. The increases in Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin primarily reflect higher revenue and higher gross margin partially offset by higher SG&A expense related to increased headcount in support of new store openings and acquisitions, and marketing in support of new product rollouts.
About Curaleaf Holdings
Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to improve lives by providing clarity around cannabis and confidence around consumption. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. In the United States, Curaleaf currently operates in 19 states with 152 dispensaries, and employs nearly 5,500 team members. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Curaleaf is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CURA and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol CURLF. For more information, please visit https://ir.curaleaf.com.
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Contact Information
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This press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based on management's current beliefs, expectations or assumptions regarding the future of the business, plans and strategies, operational results and other future conditions of the Company. In addition, the Company may make or approve certain statements in future filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities, in press releases, or in oral or written presentations by representatives of the Company that are not statements of historical fact and may also constitute forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, made by the Company that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements preceded by, followed by or that include words such as "assumptions", "assumes", "guidance", "outlook", "may", "will", "would", "could", "should", "believes", "estimates", "projects", "potential", "expects", "plans", "intends", "anticipates", "targeted", "continues", "forecasts", "designed", "goal", or the negative of those words or other similar or comparable words. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing, disclosure in this press release as well as statements regarding the Company's objectives, plans and goals, including expectations regarding benefits of recent or future acquisitions, restructuring and cost-reduction efforts of the Company, the results and effect of the Company's review of its accounting entries and practices and the anticipated impact of the financial statements restatements on the Company, as well as future operating results and economic performance are forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as at the date they are made and are based on information currently available and on the then current expectations.
Holders of securities of the Company are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but instead are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time they were provided or made and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, as applicable, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties related to: the impact of any restatement of financial statements of the Company or other actions that may be taken or required as a result of such reviews, including the reaction to any such restatement by Curaleaf's shareholders, the possibility that the ongoing review may identify further errors, which may be material, in the Company's accounting, any potential inquiry by Canadian and/or U.S. securities regulatory authorities with respect to the review of the Audit Committee, the risks of litigation and of governmental investigations or proceedings arising out of or related to any accounting irregularities or any restatement of the financial statements of the Company, including the direct and indirect costs of such investigations and restatement, and additional information arising from the Company's continuing analysis and review of its historical recognition of revenue and its prior financial statements and the performance of additional work in this regard; 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Changing The Narrative of Racial Disparities in Healthcare with GNetX™ Sequence Multivitamins
CLEVELAND, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Greg Hall, a practicing physician for over twenty-five years in Cleveland, Ohio, has seen firsthand the racial disparities in healthcare. He is now changing the narrative of racial inequality in healthcare with GNetX™ Sequence Multivitamins. "I've spent most of my career discussing and complaining about health disparities; it was time to do something," says Dr. Hall, "and addressing nutritional deficiencies seemed like a great place to start."
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 25, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Eureka CA
903 AM PST Tue Nov 22 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY
MORNING THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Large unexpected waves along the coast.
* WHERE...Coastal Del Norte, Northern Humboldt Coast and
Southwestern Humboldt Counties.
* WHEN...From Thursday morning through late Thursday night.. .
* IMPACTS...Large, unexpected waves can sweep across the beach
without warning, sweeping people into the sea from rocks,
jetties, and beaches. These waves can also move large objects
such as logs, crushing anyone caught underneath.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Don't be fooled by an ocean that looks calm. There can be
30 minutes of small waves before a sneaker wave strikes. Avoid
rocks and jetties. Avoid steep beaches. Stay much farther back
from the water and never turn your back on the ocean.
* WHERE...Mendocino Coast County.
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LA COLOMA, Cuba (AP) — Soldiers fix roofs and raise power poles under a blazing sun, while teachers salvage wet school books and residents cook over wood fires in La Coloma, a fishing and industrial town on Cuba’s coast that took the brunt of Hurricane Ian.
Ten days after the storm left still unquantified devastation across western Cuba, and knocked out the power grid nationwide, many Cubans are still without electricity, water or basic goods. The destruction from Ian has piled onto the hardship of people who had already been suffering through scarcity and shortages in recent years.
“The ceiling was damaged, the mattress got wet,” said homemaker Yaneysi Polier, who looked scared as she stirred a pot with pressed ham and lard cooking over coals on the floor of the patio of her house. Her still-wet mattress was in the sun drying.
“The refrigerator was found in the mud by our neighbor’s house. We set up something to sleep on. The water was up to our chests,” she said.
Only 15% of western Pinar del Río province has electricity and no one has their power back in La Coloma, a town of some 7,000 people 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Havana.
Repeated blackouts on Cuba’s already fragile electric grid were among the causes of the island’s largest social protests in decades in July 2021. Thousands of people, weary of power failures and shortages of goods exacerbated by the pandemic and U.S. sanctions, turned out in cities across the island to vent their anger and some also lashed out at the government. Hundreds were arrested and prosecuted, prompting harsh criticism of the administration of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
The recent arrival of Ian caused three deaths and in Pinar del Rio province damaged 63,000 homes, thousands of which were destroyed. Cuba had a deficit of about 800,000 houses even before the hurricane struck.
La Coloma is home to the state Industrial Fishing Combine, which processes 40% of the lobster caught on the island, most of which is exported. It also processes bonito and snapper fish, and residents say it was high season when Ian struck. Twelve fishing boats were damaged, some sunk.
Maribel Rodríguez is staying in an emergency shelter in a primary school along with her pregnant daughter-in-law, who is about to give birth. She said they will name the baby Ian.
“This hurricane took everything from me,” Rodríguez said. “My house was not good, but it had many things of value — a refrigerator, a television, living room furniture, beds and kitchenware — and I had earned those with my sacrifice. This is very painful.”
Both Rodríguez and her son work in the fishing plant complex and they worry about it shutting down in the middle of lobster season.
“Here, the only place to work is the combine and I have been there for many years. You have to make a living,” she said.
Ian hit Cuba with winds of more than 125 mph (200 kph) on Sept. 27. It not only affected Pinar de Rio, but also the provinces of Artemisa, Mayabeque and Havana More than 30,000 people were evacuated ahead of the hurricane’s arrival.
Besides the damage to houses, the power infrastructure and industry, the Ministry of Agriculture estimated that Ian damaged 8,583 hectares (21,210 acres) of crops in the three provinces, especially bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, corn, rice and tomatoes.
Cuba’s gross domestic product fell 11% in 2020 amid the pandemic and only rose 2% in 2021. Tourism has not recovered from the COVID-19 travel paralysis and U.S. sanctions pressing for political change in the island continue to squeeze its economy. Authorities expect the damage from Ian to further batter the economy.
Along with La Coloma, one of the hardest hit municipalities was nearby San Luis, a region that produces some of the best tobacco in the world.
Tobacco grower Hiroshi Robaina, looking at his devastated drying houses and seedbeds, thinks that this year he will have to plant his fields with beans.
“I doubt very much there can be any tobacco production this year because there is no infrastructure,” he said. “The damage to the nurseries was monstrous.”
Robaina, whose plantation is so important it has its own brand, said, “A miracle has to happen.”
He said at least 100 small tobacco farmers suffered losses of 100% and called for the government to subsidize reconstruction. Pinar del Río contributes 80% of the tobacco that Cuba produces.
“Tobacco, although it is not something that is going to save the Cuban economy, is an export item,” said Ricardo Torres, a Cuban economist and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at American University in Washington. “In Cuba, with what little there is, what is lost is very bad news.”
“This is a country that at this time does not have resources,” Torres said.
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New Research and Insights Provide an In-depth Analysis of Macro Digital Behaviors Trends Within the LGBTQIA+ Community
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pride Code, My Code's digital media platform for engaging LGBTQIA+ audiences, today released its 2023 LGBTQIA+ Consumer Fact Pack. The research report conducted by My Code's Intelligence Center provides key insights and data to arm marketers and brands with culturally nuanced insights allowing for enhanced understanding, deeper connection, and authentic enrichment of the lives of LGBTQIA+ audiences. This year's report tracks macro trends with a focus on digital behaviors, including a look into the future of consumer engagement through Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences.
"Through this research, we're amplifying the voices of an often misunderstood and underrepresented community," said Gerry Ramirez, VP, Partnership Development at My Code. "By shining a light on the media consumption behaviors and preferences of the LGBTQIA+ community, we're aiming to create a guide on how brands can authentically connect with these audiences."
When it comes to diversity in media, LGBTQIA+ audiences are justified in expecting more when they see themselves depicted in the media and advertising. Not only does a rich cross-section of diversity encompass this community, but so does a long history of misguided stereotypes and discrimination that fuel the ostracism that the community faces today. This research can help brands infuse more authenticity and cultural relevance and leave behind the harmful, conventionalized characterizations of LGBTQIA+ community members.
Top recommendations and key findings from the LGBTQIA+ Consumer Fact Pack for brands and marketers to keep in mind include:
- Emphasis On Openly LGBTQIA+ - It is important to remember that not everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community is comfortable with openly identifying themselves, meaning that your brand is likely advertising to a wider audience than any media plan can account for.
- Say "No" To Tropes - The LGBTQIA+ community wants and deserves to not see depictions of people like them reduced to stereotypes that perpetuate social inequality. They want to see people like themselves included in advertising in normal, everyday situations.
- You Don't Know What You Don't Know - When addressing this larger-than-estimated, richly diverse community, your brand needs to acknowledge that it is addressing people that do and do not publicly identify as LGBTQIA+, and to take the initiative to be inclusive, avoid tropes, and convey support.
- Cultural Relevance Starts From Within - Operating from a culturally informed and aligned space will unlock more relevant and relatable advertising that will leave LGBTQIA+ audiences feeling understood and more motivated to go further in the consumer journey.
- Commit To Championing The LGBTQIA+ Community - Commitment means using your brand's influence and platform to acknowledge and support this community's desire to be seen and treated as equals. Commitment does not mean waiting for the right time to speak up or offer up platitudes in passing. Your brand's commitment should be an evergreen priority to remain transparent and challenge the stereotype- and trope-laden status quo.
The 2023 LGBTQIA+ Consumer Code Fact Pack can be viewed in full here.
About My Code
My Code is the leading media company representing the multicultural landscape of America by amplifying, supporting and funding diverse publishers, creators and producers. My Code was formed following the expansion of H Code, a 2x Inc. 5000-ranked company founded in 2015, into additional demographics beyond Hispanic consumers. The company's diverse team of marketers, sellers, researchers, and storytellers specializes in an ever-growing selection of Cultural and Affinity Codes including: A Code, B Code, W Code and Pride Code. My Code helps companies of all sizes reach millions of Hispanic, Black, AANHPI, multicultural female and LGBTQIA+ consumers with unmatched authenticity. As a minority-dominant organization, its team is dedicated to the economic empowerment of the diverse communities and audiences they represent. In 2022, the company acquired Impremedia (the leading Hispanic news publisher) and Veranda Entertainment (which distributes Spanish-language film and television content across CTV platforms) and continues to expand its portfolio to better serve brands and advertisers. For more information about My Code and its brands, please visit https://mycodemedia.com/.
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FHP: 3 taken to the hospital after wrong-way crash on I-75, DUI investigation underway
PALMETTO, Fla. - A wrong-way driver caused a crash on I-75 just south of 69th Street in Manatee County early Monday morning, troopers said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a 23-year-old Palm Harbor man was driving a BMW sedan north in the southbound lanes of the major highway around 1:18 a.m.
READ: 'Endangerment to everyone': Troopers urge safe driving after major I-75 crashes over the weekend
According to officials, a 70-year-old Port Charlotte man was driving a Chevrolet SUV south (the right way) with a 69-year-old woman when the 23-year-old crashed into the SUV.
Troopers say both drivers and the passenger suffered injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital.
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WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from President Jen Judson of the National Press Club and Gil Klein of the National Press Club Journalism Institute on the selection of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Data Journalist Josh Renaud as the 2022 Domestic John Aubuchon Award Honoree.
"Josh Renaud has produced a strong body of journalistic work over his career but the Board of Governors of the National Press Club, along with our Press Freedom Team and the board of the National Press Club Journalism Institute were particularly impressed with Josh's recent journalism involving a vulnerability he uncovered on a website belonging to the State of Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. That vulnerability had left the Social Security numbers of public educators exposed and Josh's diligence led to the security flaw being corrected. For this work Josh received the Horace Mann Friend of Education Award from the Missouri National Education Association. But his watchdog reporting also elicited scorn and threats from Missouri Governor Mike Parson.
"Parson announced a criminal investigation into Renaud's work and called his public service reporting 'a hack' and accused the Post-Dispatch of having a vendetta against him. While it has become a deeply regrettable national trend for some public officials to attack the press, this seemed to us a particularly egregious example as the Missouri governor was calling for Renaud to be punished before an official investigation had even taken place. We further note that Renaud alerted Missouri public education officials to the security flaw in advance of story publication and agreed to hold the story until officials had time to fix it.
"Eventually the County Prosecutor announced he would not file charges. But Governor Parson has continued to refer to the Post-Dispatch investigation as a 'hack' and offered no apology. Of the whole ordeal, Renaud states: 'The Governor used his executive powers to persecute me, a journalist who exercised his First Amendment rights. Whatever his motivation, it was just plain wrong. We cannot allow public officials to attack journalists as a way to distract the public from their failings or as a way to score political points.'
"We were particularly interested in recognizing Josh because he is part of an important and growing direction that public service of journalism is taking in this country. As a developer and a data journalist, Josh and other entrepreneurial journalists like him are pioneering how to use technology to highlight and expose government failings. And as we are finding in response, more and more government officials are using threats to try to intimidate journalists away from this important watchdog role. But this essential journalism must continue, and it must continue all over the country."
The John Aubuchon Award is named for a past Press Club President who had a keen interest in issues of press freedom. The Club announces one Domestic honoree and one International honoree each year. The 2022 International Aubuchon honoree, announced last week, is Indian Journalist Rana Ayyub. The Awards are formally presented at the Fourth Estate Gala, held at the National Press Club in the fall.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. With 3,000 members representing nearly every major news organization, the Club is a leading voice for press freedom in the U.S. and worldwide.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire civic engagement.
Bill McCarren, 202-662-7534 for the National Press Club
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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascent Resources, LLC (together with its subsidiaries, "Ascent" or the "Company") announced today that it has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with an undisclosed seller to acquire all of its assets in the Utica Shale in Ohio for a total purchase price of $270 million, subject to customary closing purchase price adjustments. Ascent intends to fund the transaction with a combination of cash on hand and borrowings under its revolving credit facility ("Credit Facility"). The Company has also entered into an amended and restated credit agreement with a syndicate of banks to extend the maturity of the Credit Facility to June 2027 while increasing the borrowing base and elected commitment amount to $3.0 billion and $2.0 billion, respectively. The Credit Facility will be governed by the lessor of the borrowing base and the elected commitment amount.
The acquisition expands Ascent's asset base in the Ohio Utica Shale play by ~26,800 net acres and increases net production by approximately 60 mmcfe/d. The Company already holds working interests in a material portion of the acquired production and, as such, is very familiar with the acquired acreage. In addition, the acquisition comes with a substantial inventory of identified drilling locations in both the Utica and Marcellus which we expect to add high margin cash flow in the future. The acquisition requires no incremental overhead or external financing and is immediately accretive to Adjusted Free Cash Flow and corporate returns. Consistent with past practice, the Company has hedged a significant portion of the expected production from the asset to capture the strong economics and returns offered in the current market.
Jeff Fisher, Ascent's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are excited to announce these strategic transactions as they highlight both our operational and financial execution. Through the acquisition we have added high quality acreage and production in the core of the Utica Shale at an attractive valuation, while also picking up prospective locations in the Marcellus. This transaction is immediately accretive to our financial metrics and returns while adding high-quality undeveloped inventory to our portfolio. The extension and increase of our credit facility provides the business with additional access to capital to execute on our long-term returns based strategy."
About Ascent Resources:
Ascent is one of the largest private producers of natural gas in the United States and is focused on acquiring, developing, producing, and operating natural gas and oil properties located in the Utica Shale in southern Ohio. With a continued focus on good corporate citizenship, Ascent is committed to delivering low-cost clean-burning energy to our country and the world, while reducing environmental impacts. For more information, visit www.ascentresources.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the transaction. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in this press release. These statements are made as of the date of this press release and Ascent undertakes no duty or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Contact:
Chris Benton
Director – Finance and Investor Relations
405-252-7850
chris.benton@ascentresources.com
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Donald Trump’s lawyers dismissed as a “storage dispute” the former president’s retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home, urging a judge Monday to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
The Trump team referred to the documents that were seized as “purported ‘classified records,’” saying the Justice Department had not proven that the materials taken by the FBI during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago were classified or remain so now.
The lawyers also asserted there is no evidence that any of the records were disclosed to anyone and argued that Trump, as a former president, had an “unfettered right of access” to presidential documents.
“This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided,” they wrote. “In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.”
The 21-page filing underscores the significant factual and legal disagreements between lawyers for Trump and the U.S. government as the Justice Department looks to move forward with its criminal investigation into the retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago and into the potential obstruction of that probe.
Department lawyers in their own filings have rejected the idea that the documents, many of them classified at the top-secret level, belonged to Trump or that Mar-a-Lago was a permissible place to store them.
Setting the stage for possible further delays to the investigation, the Trump team also said it opposed the candidates the Justice Department proposed for an independent arbiter who is to be tasked with reviewing the documents seized during the FBI’s search. The Justice Department has not yet weighed in on the two candidates submitted by Trump lawyers.
The investigation hit a roadblock last week when U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted the Trump team’s request for the appointment of the arbiter, also known as a special master, and prohibited for now the department from examining the documents for investigative purposes.
The Justice Department has asked the judge to lift that hold and said it would contest her ruling to a federal appeals court. The department said its investigation risked being harmed beyond repair if that order remained in place, noting that confusion about its scope had already led the intelligence community to pause a separate national security risk assessment.
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The City Planning Commission has agreed to a plan that would convert residentially-zoned lots in the 2100 block of Northwest Arlington to commercial use.
The recommendation, which would need approval from the City Council before being implemented, would give lots at 2122 and 2124 NW Arlington C-1 Local Commercial District zoning, the most restrictive of commercial zoning categories. It would match the zoning already held by two lots between those two and North Sheridan Road, as well as lots to the north and south.
City planner Kameron Good said the tracts are north of Arby’s at North Sheridan Road and West Gore Boulevard, on the east side of the vacant site also behind that restaurant.
The proposal made by applicant Mike McKee doesn’t contain a specific use; Good said the proposal is for a “blind site plan,” meaning one with no specific use. Because of the tract’s proximity to a stable residential neighborhood, any specific commercial use would require a binding site plan, so that proposed use would have to come back to the commission and council for approval.
“This is just to rezone it to make it (all four tracts) all commercial,” Good said, adding that not only would a binding site plan be necessary, builders also would follow requirements to build an opaque fence and plant vegetative screening.
Commissioner Deborah Jones, a former city planner, objected to the proposal, saying it is “speculative zoning” intended to enhance the land value. Jones said the adjacent empty tract was to have been the site of a new Braum’s and that proposal — since dropped — prompted strong opposition from nearby residents.
“We had a substantial protest over that,” she said.
Jones said the commission also should be mindful of plans the City Council made months ago for a corridor analysis of Lawton’s arterials, to help show potential development.
“We ought to wait until we know more,” she said.
Commissioner John Jones, a local developer and real estate agent, said the property really isn’t deep enough for commercial development, predicting building enough parking “will be a problem.” | https://www.swoknews.com/news/lawton-planning-commission-agrees-to-plan-to-rezone-residential-lots-near-sheridan-road/article_633e5964-d441-5b20-af13-36a8376f8c66.html | 2023-04-23 14:33:30 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/news/lawton-planning-commission-agrees-to-plan-to-rezone-residential-lots-near-sheridan-road/article_633e5964-d441-5b20-af13-36a8376f8c66.html |
BEND, Oregon — Three people are dead after a suspect opened fire at a Bend shopping center.
According to Bend Police, a man carrying an assault-style rifle started shooting in the parking lot of the Forum Shopping Center around 7 p.m. Sunday night. That’s off Highway 20 near NE 27th Street.
In a press briefing late Sunday night, a Bend Police spokesperson said the gunman came from a residential area behind the shopping center.
He allegedly started shooting near the Big Lots store, then went into the west entrance of the Safeway.
Bend Police say the suspect shot and killed someone at the front of the grocery store then continued firing through the store, killing an additional person toward the back of the store.
A third person was found dead in the store, police believe that person to be the shooter.
Investigators recovered an AR-15 style assault rifle and a shotgun near the suspect.
Initial reports show that Bend Police officers did not fire any shots at the scene.
It’s not clear how many others were injured.
A spokeswoman with St. Charles Hospital told KTVZ they received two patients just before 8:30 p.m. One was dead on arrival, the second patient was reported to be in good condition.
The hospital was placed on lockout.
Bend police say they investigated reports that there was a second shooter, and additional shooting scenes, but say they've found no evidence of any other shootings in the city Sunday night.
Safeway shopper Josh Caba talked with KTVZ about the terrifying shopping experience.
The Bend resident said his wife had stayed in the car, as she was not feeling well, while he went shopping with their four children.
“About 10 minutes later, we started heading to the front. Then we heard I don’t know how many shots out front – six or seven. I immediately turned to my children and said, ‘Run!’ People were screaming, it was a horrifying experience.”
Worried about his wife, as it turned out, “by the grace and provision of God,” when he and three of their kids burst through the big black exit doors by the produce department, his wife had driven around back and "was sitting in the car, saying ‘Get in the car! Get in the car!’”
Caba said he went back in and found their fourth child, rushing her out of the store and to the car as well. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/three-dead-following-shooting-at-safeway-store-in-bend/283-fc08eecb-dd3d-4463-ac31-024899f91233 | 2022-08-29 13:22:19 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/three-dead-following-shooting-at-safeway-store-in-bend/283-fc08eecb-dd3d-4463-ac31-024899f91233 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
3-7-1
(three, seven, one)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17281764.php | 2022-07-03 02:58:03 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17281764.php |
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Vermilion Energy Inc. ("Vermilion", "We", "Our", "Us" or the "Company") (TSX: VET) (NYSE: VET) is pleased to report operating and condensed financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, a 33% dividend increase and our Return of Capital Framework.
The unaudited interim financial statements and management discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 will be available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, and on Vermilion's website at www.vermilionenergy.com.
Highlights
- Q2 2022 fund flows from operations ("FFO")(1) was $453 million ($2.75/basic share)(2) and free cash flow ("FCF")(3) was $340 million ($2.07/basic share)(4), an increase of 16% and 12%, respectively from the prior quarter. The increases were primarily due to higher commodity prices. Cash flow from operating activities was $530 million in Q2 2022, including the impact from asset retirement obligations settled and changes in non-cash operating working capital.
- Pro forma Q2 2022 FFO and FCF incorporating the incremental 36.5% ownership in Corrib was $536 million ($3.26/basic share) and $422 million ($2.56/basic share), respectively. As a reminder, all FCF from the Corrib acquisition accrues to Vermilion as at January 1, 2022 and will be netted off the approximate $600 million purchase price at the time of closing which we expect to occur in Q4 2022.
- With clear line of sight to achieving our next mid-cycle(5) debt target, we are pleased to outline our formal return of capital framework. We intend to return an increasing amount of capital to shareholders as debt levels decrease using a debt grid to guide near-term Return of Capital allocation decisions.
- In conjunction with our Q2 2022 release, we announced a 33% increase to our Q3 2022 quarterly cash dividend to $0.08 CDN per share which equates to an annual dividend of $0.32 CDN per share, or approximately $53 million. Dividends will remain a key component of our return of capital framework as we seek to provide shareholders with a resilient and increasing base dividend; however, we will limit the annual cash dividend to approximately 10% of our mid-cycle FFO.
- Based on our Return of Capital Allocation Grid, recent commodity strip(6) and internal estimates, we anticipate returning up to 25% of FCF in 2H 2022 and up to 50% - 75% of FCF in 2023. We will consider various options to return capital; including share buybacks, regular and special dividends and a potential substantial issuer bid. Based on our review of a number of valuation data points, we expect the majority of the incremental capital return to be in the form of share buybacks initially.
- In early July 2022, we announced the approval of a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") for the purchase of up to 16,076,666 common shares, representing approximately 10% of Vermilion's public float as at June 22, 2022. To date, we have repurchased 1.25 million common shares for $35 million.
- Net earnings were $363 million in Q2 2022, an increase of 28% from the prior quarter due to higher commodity prices and net hedging gains.
- Cash flow used in investing activities totaled $613 million in the second quarter including exploration and development ("E&D") capital expenditures(7) of $113 million and acquisition capital of $522 million.
- The Leucrotta acquisition closed on May 31, 2022 and the assets have been successfully integrated into Vermilion. We are now focused on completing the 6-well Montney pad that was drilled in Q2 2022. The Mica asset significantly increases the depth and quality of our North American inventory and is expected to add multiple decades of development that will enhance FCF to the business.
- Long-term debt in Q2 2022 was $1.5 billion and net debt(8) was $1.6 billion, resulting in our net debt to trailing FFO ratio decreasing to 1.1 times(9) compared to 1.2 times in the prior quarter.
- Production in Q2 2022 averaged 84,868 boe/d(10) a decrease of 2% from the previous quarter, primarily due to planned and unplanned downtime.
- Production from our North American operations averaged 58,027 boe/d(10) in Q2 2022, an increase of 3% from the prior quarter primarily due to the Leucrotta acquisition, which closed on May 31, 2022.
- Production from our International operations averaged 26,840 boe/d(10) in Q2 2022, a decrease of 9% from the prior quarter primarily due to natural decline, offshore drilling delays and unplanned downtime in Australia.
- As a result of forest fire related downtime in France, offshore drilling delays in Australia, combined with inflationary pressure, we are increasing our 2022 capital budget by $50 million to $550 million. Annual production guidance, excluding the Corrib acquisition volumes, remains unchanged at 86,000 to 88,000 boe/d. Our exit rate forecast of 95,000 to 100,000 boe/d, including the Corrib acquisitions volumes, also remains unchanged.
- We released the annual update to our online sustainability report in July 2022. Notable highlights include the decrease in our Scope 1 emission intensity to .018 tCO2e per throughput operated boe, in line with our target to reduce our 2019 baseline of .019 tCO2e per throughput operated boe by 15% to 20% by 2025, and coverage of our Corrib Biodiversity Action Plan achievements.
Message to Shareholders
Global commodity prices continued to strengthen through the second quarter, driving another quarter of record fund flows from operations ("FFO") and free cash flow ("FCF") for Vermilion. FFO was $453 million (cash flows from operating activities of $530 million), representing a 16% increase over the prior quarter. Exploration and development ("E&D") capital expenditures were $113 million in Q2 2022, resulting in quarterly FCF of $340 million. Free cash flow in Q2 2022 was used to partially fund the Leucrotta acquisition which closed on May 31, 2022. The remainder of the Leucrotta purchase price was funded with debt which resulted in a slight increase in Q2 2022 net debt to $1.6 billion; however, with the increase in FFO our net debt to trailing FFO ratio decreased to 1.1x.
We have successfully integrated the Leucrotta assets and assembled a Mica asset team which is now focused on completing the 6-well Montney pad that was drilled in Q2 2022. We are excited to have these assets in our portfolio and look forward to scaling up development in the years ahead. The Mica asset significantly increases the depth and quality of our North American inventory and is expected to add multiple decades of development and enhance FCF to the business.
Closing of the Corrib acquisition continues to progress as we move closer to obtaining all remaining partner and government approvals. We expect the transaction to close in the fourth quarter with an estimated closing cash payment in the range of $100 to $150 million after adjusting for the FCF accrued throughout the year. Pro forma Q2 2022 FFO and FCF incorporating the incremental 36.5% ownership in Corrib was $536 million and $422 million, respectively.
We remain on track to achieve our next debt target of $1.2 billion by the end of 2022, and with this clear line of sight we are pleased to outline our formal return of capital framework which will see an increasing proportion of FCF returned to shareholders as debt levels decrease. Over the past two years we have been focused on balancing debt reduction and portfolio enhancement, all with the goal of maximizing value and the return of capital to our shareholders over the long term. Vermilion is in a very strong position from both an asset base and financial perspective. We announced two strategic acquisitions over the past year, funded with free cash flow, and will have reduced debt by approximately $1 billion, relative to Q2 2020 debt levels, by the end of this year(1). While we will continue to keep a close eye on debt and reduce it even further to ensure we maintain a strong balance sheet through all commodity cycles, we are now in a position to increase our return of capital to shareholders. We are confident that our globally diversified asset base combined with our disciplined approach to capital allocation will generate value for our shareholders over the long-term. Further details on our return of capital framework is outlined below.
Return of Capital
Vermilion declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 CDN per share in Q2 2022 which was paid on July 15, 2022. With two strong quarters now behind us and a clear line of sight to achieving our next mid-cycle(2) debt target of $1.2 billion, we are now in a position to return a greater proportion of free cash flow to our shareholders. Vermilion has a long history of returning capital to its shareholders primarily through dividends. Dividends will remain a key component of our return of capital framework as we seek to provide shareholders with a resilient and increasing base dividend; however, we will limit the annual cash dividend outlay to approximately 10% of our mid-cycle FFO. In conjunction with our Q2 2022 release, we announced a 33% increase to our Q3 2022 quarterly cash dividend to $0.08 CDN per share which equates to an annual dividend of $0.32 CDN per share or approximately $53 million based on the current number of shares outstanding. At this dividend per share level, we have significant capacity to increase the base dividend and plan to provide ratable increases over time.
In addition to strengthening our balance sheet, Vermilion has made other structural improvements to its business by increasing our International production weighting through European natural gas exposure while also enhancing our North American inventory with a high quality long-life Montney asset. These structural improvements, combined with the strong fundamental outlook for global commodities will further underpin our ability to return capital to shareholders. The amount of FCF available for return of capital will increase as debt levels decrease based on the illustrative grid outlined below. This grid is not intended to be prescriptive quarter-to-quarter but will be used as a tool to guide near-term Return of Capital allocation decisions while taking into account other capital requirements such as further debt reduction, asset retirement obligations and acquisitions.
Based on our Return of Capital Allocation Grid, recent commodity strip(3) and internal estimates, we anticipate returning up to 25% of FCF in 2H 2022 and up to 50% - 75% of FCF in 2023 while reducing debt to a target of $850 million by the end of 2023, which implies an undrawn $1.6 billion credit facility. We will consider various options to return capital; including share buybacks, regular and special dividends and a potential substantial issuer bid. Based on a number of datapoints reviewed, we expect the majority of the incremental capital return to be in the form of share buybacks initially. In early July 2022, we announced the approval of a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") for the purchase of up to 16,076,666 common shares, representing approximately 10% of Vermilion's public float as at June 22, 2022. To date, we have repurchased 1.25 million common shares for $35 million. We look forward to providing continued updates on our return of capital initiatives through the second half of this year and throughout 2023 as we carefully weigh capital allocation decisions against various uses of excess free cash flow with a view of acting in the long-term interests of shareholders.
Q2 2022 Operations Review
North America
Production from our North American operations averaged 58,027 boe/d(4) in Q2 2022, an increase of 3% from the prior quarter primarily due to the Leucrotta acquisition which closed on May 31, 2022. Drilling and completion activity in west-central Alberta and south-east Saskatchewan was limited during the second quarter due to spring breakup. During the second quarter, we completed one (1.0 net) well and brought on production one (0.6 net) condensate-rich Mannville natural gas well in west-central Alberta, and we drilled one (1.0 net) well and completed two (2.0 net) wells in south-east Saskatchewan. Following the announcement of the Leucrotta acquisition in late March 2022, we assembled our Mica asset team and focused on integrating the assets and working closely with the Leucrotta team in drilling the first six (6.0 net) well Montney pad. Drilling was successfully completed during the second quarter and the team is now focused on completion activities. While we remain optimistic that an agreement on natural resource activity reviews will be reached between the BC Government and the Blueberry River First Nations in due course, our team has a plan to continue drilling on the Alberta side of the Mica property in 2023 should we see further delays in permit approvals.
In the United States, we drilled four (3.8 net) wells of our planned six (5.8 net) operated Turner wells and completed two (2.0 net) wells during the second quarter. Three (2.8 net) wells are two-mile lateral wells which are significantly more economic than one-mile laterals. One (1.0 net) well was brought on production during the second quarter while the remaining wells will be completed and brought on production during the third quarter. In addition, one (0.4 net) two-mile non-operated Turner well is planned for drilling in Q4 2022.
International
Production from our International operations averaged 26,840 boe/d(4) in Q2 2022, a decrease of 9% from the prior quarter primarily due to natural decline and offshore drilling delays in Australia. In Australia, the drilling of our two-well program was delayed by approximately one month due to unexpected maintenance and repairs on the third-party contracted rig. Drilling commenced late in the second quarter and is expected to finish in early September with production to start shortly thereafter. In Europe, much of our activity during the second quarter was focused on preparing for our 2H 2022 drilling campaign which will include two (1.1 net) wells in Netherlands, three (3.0 net) wells in Hungary and two (2.0 net wells) in Croatia.
Outlook and Guidance Update
Our Q3 2022 capital program is well underway as we finish up the drilling program in Australia, complete and tie in the remaining Turner wells in the US, execute our south-east Saskatchewan drilling program and complete the 6-well Montney pad at Mica. In Europe, we are making final preparations for an active drilling campaign to commence in the third quarter and continue through the fourth quarter. Early in the third quarter, a forest fire near our Cazaux field in southern France resulted in approximately 1,500 bbl/d of production being temporarily shut-in which will impact Q3 production in France.
Our Q3 2022 production will include a full quarter contribution from the Leucrotta acquisition and new production from the US and south-east Saskatchewan drilling programs; however, these volumes will be partially offset by the Australia drilling delay and fire related downtime in France. Taking all this into account, we expect Q3 2022 production to be in-line with Q2 2022.
As a result of forest fire related downtime in France, offshore drilling delays in Australia, combined with inflationary pressure, we are increasing our 2022 capital budget by $50 million to $550 million. We are maintaining our annual production guidance of 86,000 to 88,000 boe/d, excluding the Corrib acquisition volumes. We plan to update our production guidance once we have greater certainty on timing of the Corrib close. Our exit rate forecast of 95,000 to 100,000 boe/d, including Corrib acquisition volumes, remains unchanged.
Commodity Hedging
Vermilion hedges to manage commodity price exposures and increase the stability of our cash flows. In aggregate, as of August 9, 2022, we have 36% of our expected net-of-royalty production hedged for the remainder of 2022. With respect to individual commodity products, we have hedged 64% of our European natural gas production, 20% of our oil production, and 41% of our North American natural gas volumes for the remainder of 2022, respectively. Please refer to the Hedging section of our website under Invest With Us for further details using the following link:
https://www.vermilionenergy.com/invest-with-us/hedging.cfm.
Board of Directors
Vermilion recently announced the appointment of Mr. Myron Stadnyk to our Board of Directors. Mr. Stadnyk brings over 35 years of business and industry knowledge, with extensive experience in senior leadership, cost management, operational effectiveness, governance, health, safety, and environment. He most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of ARC Resources Ltd. where he led ARC's transformation from a royalty trust to a top-tier Montney producer demonstrating outstanding strategic leadership. Prior to ARC, Mr. Stadnyk worked at a major oil and gas company in both domestic and international operations. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Crescent Point Energy Corp., Prairie Sky Royalty Ltd. and the University of Saskatchewan Engineering Trust.
Mr. Stadnyk holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta and served as a Governor for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers for over 10 years.
Non-GAAP and Other Specified Financial Measures
This earnings release and other materials release by Vermilion includes financial measures that are not standardized, specified, defined, or determined under IFRS and are therefore considered non-GAAP or other specified financial measures and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. These financial measures include:
Fund flows from operations (FFO): A total of segments measure most directly comparable to net earnings. FFO is comprised of sales excluding royalties, transportation, operating, G&A, corporate income tax, PRRT, interest expense, realized loss on derivatives, realized foreign exchange gain (loss), and realized other income. The measure is used to assess the contribution of each business unit to Vermilion's ability to generate income necessary to pay dividends, repay debt, fund asset retirement obligations and make capital investments.
Free cash flow (FCF): A non-GAAP financial measure most directly comparable to cash flows from operating activities. FCF is comprised of fund flows from operations less drilling and development costs and exploration and evaluation costs. The measure is used to determine the funding available for investing and financing activities including payment of dividends, repayment of long-term debt, reallocation into existing business units and deployment into new ventures.
2023+ FFO and FCF: A forward-looking total of segments measure and a forward-looking non-GAAP measure; the equivalent historical measures FFO and FCF have been disclosed above.
Capital expenditures: A non-GAAP financial measure that is calculated as the sum of drilling and development costs and exploration and evaluation costs from the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and is most directly comparable to cash flows used in investing activities. We consider capital expenditures to be a useful measure of our investment in our existing asset base. Capital expenditures are also referred to as E&D capital.
Net debt: A capital management measure in accordance with IAS 1 "Presentation of Financial Statements" that is most directly comparable to long-term debt. Net debt is comprised of long-term debt (excluding unrealized foreign exchange on swapped USD borrowings) plus adjusted working, capital and represents Vermilion's net financing obligations after adjusting for the timing of working capital fluctuations.
Net debt to four quarter trailing fund flows from operations: A supplementary financial measure that is calculated as net debt (capital measure) over the FFO (total of segments measure) from the preceding four quarters. The measure is used to assess the ability to repay debt.
Adjusted working capital: A non-GAAP financial measure defined as current assets less current liabilities, excluding current derivatives and current lease liabilities. The measure is used to calculate net debt, a capital measure disclosed above.
Payout and payout % of FFO: A non-GAAP financial measure and non-GAAP ratio respectively most directly comparable to dividends declared. Payout is comprised of dividends declared plus drilling and development costs, exploration and evaluation costs, and asset retirement obligations settled. The measure is used to assess the amount of cash distributed back to shareholders and reinvested in the business for maintaining production and organic growth. The reconciliation of the measure to primary financial statement measure can be found below. Management uses payout and payout as a percentage of FFO (also referred to as the payout or sustainability ratio).
Dividends % of FFO: A supplementary financial measure that is calculated as dividends declared divided by FFO (total of segments measure). The measure is used by management as a metric to assess the cash distributed to shareholders.
Operating netback: Is a non-GAAP financial measure most comparable to primary financial measure net earnings and is calculated as sales less royalties, operating expense, transportation costs, PRRT, and realized hedging gains and losses presented on a per unit basis. Management assesses operating netback as a measure of the profitability and efficiency of our field operations.
Fund flows from operations per boe: A supplementary financial measure that is calculated as FFO (total of segments measure) by boe production. Fund flows from operations per boe is used by management to assess the profitability of our business units and Vermilion as a whole.
Management's Discussion and Analysis and Consolidated Financial Statements
To view Vermilion's Management's Discussion and Analysis and Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, please refer to SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or Vermilion's website at https://www.vermilionenergy.com/invest-with-us/reports-filings.cfm.
About Vermilion
Vermilion is an international energy producer that seeks to create value through the acquisition, exploration, development and optimization of producing assets in North America, Europe and Australia. Our business model emphasizes free cash flow generation and returning capital to investors when economically warranted, augmented by value-adding acquisitions. Vermilion's operations are focused on the exploitation of light oil and liquids-rich natural gas conventional resource plays in North America and the exploration and development of conventional natural gas and oil opportunities in Europe and Australia.
Vermilion's priorities are health and safety, the environment, and profitability, in that order. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the public and those who work with us, and the protection of our natural surroundings. We have been recognized by leading ESG rating agencies for our transparency on and management of key environmental, social and governance issues. In addition, we emphasize strategic community investment in each of our operating areas.
Employees and directors hold approximately 4% of our outstanding shares and are committed to delivering long-term value for all stakeholders. Vermilion trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VET.
Disclaimer
Certain statements included or incorporated by reference in this document may constitute forward-looking statements or financial outlooks under applicable securities legislation. Such forward-looking statements or information typically contain statements with words such as "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "plan", "intend", "estimate", "propose", or similar words suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward looking statements or information in this document may include, but are not limited to: capital expenditures and Vermilion's ability to fund such expenditures; Vermilion's additional debt capacity providing it with additional working capital; the flexibility of Vermilion's capital program and operations; business strategies and objectives; operational and financial performance; sustainability (Environment, Social, and Governance or ESG) data and performance; estimated volumes of reserves and resources; petroleum and natural gas sales; future production levels and the timing thereof, including Vermilion's 2022 guidance, and rates of average annual production growth; the effect of changes in crude oil and natural gas prices, changes in exchange rates and significant declines in production or sales volumes due to unforeseen circumstances; the effect of possible changes in critical accounting estimates; statements regarding the growth and size of Vermilion's future project inventory, and the wells expected to be drilled in 2022; exploration and development plans and the timing thereof; Vermilion's ability to reduce its debt; statements regarding Vermilion's hedging program, its plans to add to its hedging positions, and the anticipated impact of Vermilion's hedging program on project economics and free cash flows; the potential financial impact of climate-related risks; acquisition and disposition plans and the timing thereof; operating and other expenses, including the payment and amount of future dividends; royalty and income tax rates and Vermilion's expectations regarding future taxes and taxability; and the timing of regulatory proceedings and approvals.
Such forward looking statements or information are based on a number of assumptions, all or any of which may prove to be incorrect. In addition to any other assumptions identified in this document, assumptions have been made regarding, among other things: the ability of Vermilion to obtain equipment, services and supplies in a timely manner to carry out its activities in Canada and internationally; the ability of Vermilion to market crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas successfully to current and new customers; the timing and costs of pipeline and storage facility construction and expansion and the ability to secure adequate product transportation; the timely receipt of required regulatory approvals; the ability of Vermilion to obtain financing on acceptable terms; foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates; future crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas prices; and management's expectations relating to the timing and results of exploration and development activities.
Although Vermilion believes that the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements or information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward looking statements because Vermilion can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Financial outlooks are provided for the purpose of understanding Vermilion's financial position and business objectives, and the information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward looking statements or information are based on current expectations, estimates, and projections that involve a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by Vermilion and described in the forward looking statements or information. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the ability of management to execute its business plan; the risks of the oil and gas industry, both domestically and internationally, such as operational risks in exploring for, developing and producing crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas; risks and uncertainties involving geology of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas deposits; risks inherent in Vermilion's marketing operations, including credit risk; the uncertainty of reserves estimates and reserves life and estimates of resources and associated expenditures; the uncertainty of estimates and projections relating to production and associated expenditures; potential delays or changes in plans with respect to exploration or development projects; Vermilion's ability to enter into or renew leases on acceptable terms; fluctuations in crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas prices, foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates; health, safety, and environmental risks; uncertainties as to the availability and cost of financing; the ability of Vermilion to add production and reserves through exploration and development activities; the possibility that government policies or laws may change or governmental approvals may be delayed or withheld; uncertainty and current evolutions with relation to sustainability/ESG reporting methodologies; uncertainty in amounts and timing of royalty payments; risks associated with existing and potential future law suits and regulatory actions against Vermilion; and other risks and uncertainties described elsewhere in this document or in Vermilion's other filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
The forward looking statements or information contained in this document are made as of the date hereof and Vermilion undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, unless required by applicable securities laws.
This document contains metrics commonly used in the oil and gas industry. These oil and gas metrics do not have any standardized meaning or standard methods of calculation and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies where similar terminology is used and should therefore not be used to make comparisons. Natural gas volumes have been converted on the basis of six thousand cubic feet of natural gas to one barrel of oil equivalent. Barrels of oil equivalent (boe) may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation. A boe conversion ratio of six thousand cubic feet to one barrel of oil is based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and does not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead.
This document may contain references to sustainability/ESG data and performance that reflect metrics and concepts that are commonly used in such frameworks as the Global Reporting Initiative, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and the Value Reporting Foundation (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board). Vermilion has used best efforts to align with the most commonly accepted methodologies for ESG reporting, including with respect to climate data and information on potential future risks and opportunities, in order to provide a fuller context for our current and future operations. However, these methodologies are not yet standardized, are frequently based on calculation factors that change over time, and continue to evolve rapidly. Readers are particularly cautioned to evaluate the underlying definitions and measures used by other companies, as these may not be comparable to Vermilion's. While Vermilion will continue to monitor and adapt its reporting accordingly, the Company is not under any duty to update or revise the related sustainability/ESG data or statements except as required by applicable securities laws.
Financial data contained within this document are reported in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise stated.
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AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
May 20, 2022 Updated: May 20, 2022 12:46 a.m.
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1of 12 A woman uses a plastic Kalashnikov rifle to shoot balls at a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a street attraction in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
2of 12 A Ukrainian serviceman patrols during a reconnaissance mission in a recently retaken village on the outskirts of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Mstyslav Chernov/AP Show More Show Less
3of 12 Relatives react next to the body of Pankratov Oleksandr, 49, a Ukrainian military servicemen who was killed in Donetsk province, during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
4of 12 Ukrainian serviceman Anton pets a cat in a basement previously used by Russian soldiers as a temporary base in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, east Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less
5of 12 Oksana Balandina, 23, is carried by her husband Viktor at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, May 13, 2022. Oksana lost both legs and 4 fingers on her left arm when a shell sticking in the ground near her house exploded on March 27. "There was explosion. Just after that I felt my legs like falling into emptiness. I was trying to look around and saw that there were no legs anymore - only bones, flesh and blood". Emilio Morenatti/AP Show More Show Less
6of 12 Bodies of dead Russian soldiers lay on the floor during an identification process in Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Bernat Armangue/AP Show More Show Less
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May 13-May 19, 2022
As Russian attacks continued across Ukraine this week, dominating the news, the 75th international film festival at Cannes began and Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Liverpool won the English FA Cup final soccer match against Chelsea and the Hockey World Championships began in Finland.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by Nicosia photographer Petros Karadjias.
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Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande, a dangerous border-crossing attempt in an area where the river level had risen by more than 2 feet in a single day.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials discovered the victims near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday, following days of heavy rains. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered three, according to a CBP statement. It is one of the deadliest drownings on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent history.
The river, which was a little more than 3 feet (90 centimeters) deep at the start of the week, reached more than 5 feet (1.5 meters) on Thursday, and the water was flowing five times faster than usual, according to the National Weather Service.
The CBP said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody.
CBP did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on rescue and search operations. Local agencies in Texas that were involved have not responded to requests for information.
Among the bodies recovered from the river by Mexican authorities was a man and a pregnant woman, although their nationalities were unknown, said Francisco Contreras, a member of Civil Protection in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. No details were released about the third body found.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. Eagle Pass is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of San Antonio.
Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens of the Del Rio sector said that despite dangerous currents from recent rainfall, Border Patrol agents in the sector continue to encounter groups as large as 100 or 200 people trying to cross the Rio Grande each day.
“In an effort to prevent further loss of life, we are asking everyone to please avoid crossing illegally,” Owens said in a statement.
Among the reasons the area has become popular for migrants in recent years is that it is not as strongly controlled by cartels and is perceived to be somewhat safer, said Stephanie Leutert, director of Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the University of Texas’ Center for International Security and Law.
“It might be a different price. It might be seen as safer. It might keep you out of cities that are notoriously dangerous,” Leutert said. “Those cities (in the Del Rio sector) definitely have had a reputation as being safer than say, Nueva Laredo.”
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them families with young children. About six of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua. The region also has been a popular crossing point for migrants from Haiti, thousands of whom have been stuck in border towns since 2016, when the Obama administration abruptly halted a policy that initially allowed them in on humanitarian grounds.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
“There are places when the water levels are down where you could wade across, but when the river is up it’s extremely dangerous, especially if you’re carrying kids or trying to help someone who is not a strong swimmer,” Leutert said.
In a news release last month, CBP said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
This year is on track to break last year’s record for the most deaths on the U.S.-Mexico border since 2014, when the U.N. International Organization for Migration began keeping record. The organization has tallied more than 4,000 deaths on the border since 2014, based on news reports and other sources, including 728 last year and 412 during the first seven months of this year, often from dehydration or drowning. June was the fourth-deadliest month on record, with 138 fatalities.
The Border Patrol has not released official tallies since 2020.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest documented tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
“The whole journey speaks to the desperation of people,” Leutert said. “They know that crossing the river is dangerous. They know that hiking through ranchland is dangerous. They know that crossing Mexico as a foreigner is dangerous. But they’re willing to do this because what they’re leaving behind is, to them, a worse possibility than facing risk and trying for a better opportunity in the U.S.”
Some of the busiest crossings on the border — including Eagle Pass and Yuma, Arizona — were relatively quiet two years ago and now largely draw migrants from outside Mexico and Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Mexico has agreed to take migrants from the ‘Northern Triangle’ countries, as well as its own nationals, if they are expelled from the United States under Title 42, the pandemic rule in effect since March 2020 that denies rights to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
People from other countries are likely to be released into the United States on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court because the U.S. has difficulty flying them home due to costs, strained diplomatic relations or other considerations. In the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, only one of every four stops in July were processed under the pandemic rule, compared to about half across the rest of the border, according to government figures.
Venezuelans were by far the most common nationality encountered by Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector in July, accounting for 14,120 of 49,563 stops, or nearly three in 10. They were followed by Cubans, who were stopped 10,275 times, and then by Mexicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Colombians, in that order.
As more people crossed into South Texas in the 2010s, Brooks County became a death trap for many migrants who tried walking around a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in the town of Falfurrias, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of the border. Smugglers dropped them off before the checkpoint and made arrangements to pick them up on the other side, but some perished on the way from dehydration.
The Baboquivari Mountains in Arizona and ranches in Texas’ Brooks County still draw Border Patrol agents and grief-stricken families hoping to rescue migrants or, if not, find corpses, but the deceptively strong currents around the Texas towns of Eagle Pass and Del Rio have become increasingly dangerous as the area has become one of the most popular spots to enter the United States illegally.
Not all victims are migrants. In April this year, the body of a Texas guardsman was recovered from the Rio Grande. He had jumped in to try to help a migrant who was struggling in the water.
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Spagat reported from San Diego and Murphy reported from Oklahoma City. Associated Press writers Terry Wallace in Dallas and Fabiola Sanchez in Mexico City contributed. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-border-patrol-9-migrants-found-dead-in-rio-grande-at-texas/ | 2022-09-23 01:32:13 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-border-patrol-9-migrants-found-dead-in-rio-grande-at-texas/ |
Peak alert issued for today
Published 2:58 pm Thursday, July 27, 2023
Austin Utilities has issued a Peak Alert through 8 p.m. for today.
AU is asking customers to reduce energy usage during that time. The peak alert will end when today’s heat advisory ends at 8 p.m. | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/07/peak-alert-issued-for-today/ | 2023-07-27 20:34:41 | 1 | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/07/peak-alert-issued-for-today/ |
Former New Mexico priest charged with sexual coercion of minor in text messages
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former Catholic priest with a lengthy career at parishes across New Mexico has been arrested on criminal charges of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity through text messages, federal law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI field office in Albuquerque said that Daniel Balizan of Springer, New Mexico, was arrested in connection with a grand jury indictment.
A redacted copy of the indictment accuses 61-year-old Balizan of knowingly attempting to coerce an unnamed minor into sexual activity in August and September 2012 in Santa Fe County.
The charges carry a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison upon conviction and up to a lifetime behind bars.
It was unclear whether Balizan had a legal representative. An initial court appearance was scheduled for Friday.
A timeline of Balizan’s church assignments from investigators show that he served at Santa Maria de la Paz Parish, starting in June 2012. Previous assignments include parishes in Raton, Albuquerque, Clovis, Chama and Socorro.
In a statement, the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe said it received abuse allegations against Balizan in 2022 and promptly reported the information to authorities, leading to Balizan’s removal from service.
The diocese last year reached a $121.5 million agreement to settle nearly 400 claims made by people who say they were abused by Roman Catholic clergy.
In New Mexico, about 74 priests have been deemed “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting children while assigned to parishes and schools by the archdiocese, which covers central and northern New Mexico.
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The multi-year partnership aims to drive game discovery and retention for web2 titles while fueling the growth of web3
CHICAGO, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tiv, a loyalty platform dedicated to the gaming community, announced today it has teamed up with Fenix Games, a leading games publisher founded by gaming and Wall Street veterans, to further its commitment to helping gamers discover and play new titles and provide publishers and studios tools to reach and engage gamers. Tiv will become a core infrastructure partner of Fenix Games, promoting the publisher's upcoming titles across its platform.
Introducing new games and experiences in the coming months, Fenix Games will leverage its expertise to build and scale licensed and original IP games reaching hundreds of millions of gamers worldwide. The team brings decades of deep operating experience managing hit franchises like Madden, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, The Sims, and Plants vs. Zombies.
"Publishers, studios, and brands need fresh, innovative ways to acquire and engage gamers — we believe Tiv is that solution," said Chris Ko, Co-Founder and CEO of Fenix Games. "Together, we're developing new methods to build communities both online and offline to fuel a more open, trusted experience that makes games better for even greater participation."
With more than 500,000 gaming titles available globally in 2023, Tiv ("Time Is Valuable") focuses on improving playtime, understanding gaming behavior, and reaching gamers when they are deciding to play. Tiv users can earn rewards for playing featured games on their platform, track their gaming activity across titles, and compete with friends on custom leaderboards. Integrated with Xbox, Steam, and PlayStation, Tiv sees more than 66,000 games played on its platform each month and already drives 70%+ attributable lifts in player acquisition and retention for games of all sizes (both free and premium).
"Gaming's most valuable currency is player attention, and the market for it has never been more competitive than it is today," said Jed Strong, CEO of Tiv. "Fenix Games recognizes our value of how we directly tackle helping publishers and studios better engage and monetize their users to build loyalty and retention."
Gaming is the No. 1 form of entertainment in the United States, with video game spending reaching nearly $57 billion in 2022. More than 215 million Americans play video games regularly, averaging 13 hours played each week.
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Wednesday's results
Moose Jaw 6 Edmonton 3
Winnipeg 8 Calgary 2
Prince George 7 Kelowna 2
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 7 Calgary 6
Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 0
Brandon 4 Edmonton 1
Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 0
Kamloops 5 Saskatoon 2
Everett 2 Spokane 1
Seattle 6 Red Deer 1
Prince George 9 Kelowna 2
Vancouver 2 Victoria 1 (OT)
Portland 6 Tri-City 3
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Regina 8 Moose Jaw 4
Prince Albert 4 Swift Current 1
Brandon 3 Calgary 2
Seattle 3 Portland 0
Medicine Hat 3 Lethbridge 2 (SO)
Winnipeg 7 Edmonton 1
Red Deer 2 Tri-City 1 (SO)
Everett 2 Spokane 1 (SO)
Victoria 6 Vancouver 2
Kamloops 5 Prince George 4
Saskatoon 4 Kelowna 2
Tuesday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the state's top election official, accused a fellow Republican at a debate Monday of lying and spreading misinformation about former President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election. U.S. Rep. Jody Hice shot back that Raffensperger did not adequately investigate the election results and was acting like a Democrat with his attacks.
Hice, who is endorsed by Trump, is challenging Raffensperger in the May 24 Republican primary for secretary of state and continues to cast doubt on Georgia's 2020 presidential election results despite a lack of evidence of widespread fraud or tampering.
“This past election was an absolute disaster under the leadership of Brad Raffensperger," said Hice, calling Raffensperger “the worst secretary of state perhaps in our nation.”
“Election security must be protected, and Brad Raffensperger let that ball majorly fall,” he said.
Hice cited ballot drop boxes and the mailing of absentee ballot request forms in the 2020 election as openings for fraud.
Raffensperger said the request forms were intended to ensure Republican voters had equal access to absentee voting. Investigators knocked down multiple rumors after the 2020 election, but Hice persisted in spreading them, he said. Hice has maintained that an accurate count of the vote would show a Trump victory.
“Jody Hice is lying," Raffensperger said. "If you look at the election of 2020, what happened at the end of the day is that 28,000 Georgians skipped the presidential race, and yet they voted down ballot in other races.”
Multiple tallies of Georgia’s 5 million votes cast for president, including one done by hand, showed Democrat Joe Biden with a narrow victory in the state. Raffensperger has insisted that Georgia’s election was accurate and secure. Officials in other states and federal investigators, including Trump’s own attorney general, have said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 contest.
In the weeks after the vote, Raffensperger refused to bend to pressure from Trump to overturn Biden’s victory, making him a top target of the former president's ire.
Hice — Raffensperger's leading Republican challenger — supported a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia and other states and voted against his Electoral College victory.
He said Monday he would not have certified the election results without “proper investigation.”
Raffensperger is also facing two other Republican challengers, former Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle and former county Probate and Magistrate Judge T.J. Hudson. They also criticized Raffensperger’s handling of the 2020 election during the debate Monday. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Georgia-Republicans-spar-over-Trump-s-false-17142149.php | 2022-05-02 19:31:20 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Georgia-Republicans-spar-over-Trump-s-false-17142149.php |
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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | French Open
In the French Open semifinals on Friday, Carlos Alcaraz meets Novak Djokovic.
In this Semifinal match, Alcaraz is the favorite (-200) against Djokovic (+165) .
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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic Match Information
- Tournament: The French Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Friday, June 9
- TV Channel: Tennis Channel
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Carlos Alcaraz has a 66.7% chance to win.
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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Novak Djokovic Trends and Insights
- By beating No. 5-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 on Tuesday, Alcaraz advanced to the semifinals.
- Djokovic took down Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals on Tuesday.
- Alcaraz has played 24.6 games per match in his 65 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types).
- In his 31 matches on clay over the past 12 months, Alcaraz has played an average of 22.4 games.
- Djokovic is averaging 25.6 games per match in his 55 matches played in the past year across all court surfaces, winning 60.6% of those games.
- On clay, Djokovic has played 13 matches and averaged 27.4 games per match and 9.9 games per set.
- On May 7, 2022, Alcaraz and Djokovic matched up in the Mutua Madrid Open semifinals. Alcaraz came out on top 6-7, 7-5, 7-6.
- Alcaraz and Djokovic have faced off in three total sets, with Alcaraz taking two of them and Djokovic one.
- Alcaraz has the upper hand in 38 total games against Djokovic, taking 20 of them.
- In one head-to-head match, Alcaraz and Djokovic are averaging 38 games and three sets per match.
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ tops the box office with $134 million debut
Posted/updated on: December 19, 2022 at 7:18 amAvatar: The Way of Water made a splash in theaters this weekend, opening with an estimated $134 million domestically -- impressive, but below the predicted $150 million-dollar debut. Still, it tied The Batman for the fifth-largest domestic opening this year. Add to that overseas revenues and Avatar: The Way of Water earned $442 million globally in just one weekend.
Violent Night held on to second place this weekend, earning an estimated $5.6 million. The action comedy has earned $35 million over three weeks and $55 million worldwide.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which held the top spot for the past five weeks, fell to third place with an estimated $5.4 million weekend. That brings its North American tally to $419 million and $786 million globally.
Strange World landed in fourth place with an estimated $2.2 million, bringing its four-week total to $33.8 million and $57 million worldwide.
Rounding out the top five was The Menu with an estimated $1.7 million, raising its totals to $32.1 million domestically and $61.3 million worldwide.
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Lawton Police Department is asking for tips to help solve homicide.
Published: Nov. 17, 2022 at 6:43 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) -The Lawton Police Department is asking the public for tips to help solve their latest homicide.
34 year-old Louis Lipscomb was killed on the morning of November 5th, at the Aces and Eights bar in Lawton.
He was a father of 3, a husband, and a brother. LPD said they have no new information on this case and ask anyone with information to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at 580-581-3272.
Lipscomb’s family is raising money to help pay for funeral costs, if you would like to donate you can click on the link below.
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‘Twin Peaks’ composer Angelo Badalamenti dies at 85
(AP) - Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He was 85.
He died of natural causes on Sunday, his family said in a statement.
Born in Brooklyn in March 1937 to a fish market owner father with a musical background (a percussionist in Sicily), Badalamenti grew up listening to Italian opera with his family, started piano lessons at age 8 and went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. During the summers he would play piano at resorts in the Catskills for the Borscht Belt acts.
After college he taught middle school. He composed a Christmas carol for his students that ended up on PBS and essentially launched his career in entertainment, where he wrote songs for Nina Simone (“Another Spring”) and Nancy Wilson (“Face It Girl, It’s Over”). He also wrote songs for films like “Gordon’s War” and “Law and Disorder” but his big break came in 1986 when, through a series of industry connections starting with unit manager Peter Runfolo, he was asked to help Isabella Rossellini sing “Blue Velvet” for Lynch’s iconic film.
“They were shooting down in North Carolina, and so they flew me down to meet with Isabella and to see what I could do. When I got there, we went into a little room with just Isabella and me and a piano. I worked with her for two or three hours straight until we got a good take on a small recorder,” he said in an interview with Culture.org. “David was shooting the last scene. We brought him the cassette tape. He put on his earphones and right away said, “That’s the ticket! This is peachy keen!” I had to ask the line producer what peachy keen meant.”
He also ended up writing the song “Mysteries of Love” and found Julee Cruise, who died earlier this year, to sing it, starting a long collaboration between the trio that would extend to Lynch’s seminal series “Twin Peaks.”
“David felt that the music of ‘Twin Peaks’ would have to cover a lot of ground, a wide range of moods: sadness, passion, ecstasy, love, tenderness, and violence. He wanted the music to be dark and abstract,” he said. “He asked me for music that would tear the hearts out of people.”
Badalamenti worked with other directors too, including Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke!), Danny Boyle (”The Beach”) Paul Schrader (“The Comfort of Strangers”) and Walter Salles (“Dark Water”). He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.” But it’s his work with Lynch that hovers above them all, which would include “The Straight Story,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.”
“He’s got this musical soul, and melodies are always floating around inside,” Lynch told People Magazine in 1990. “I feel the mood of a scene in the music, and one thing helps the other, and they both just start climbing.”
Badalamenti also got to exercise his acting chops in a memorable scene in “Mulholland Drive” where he plays a gangster who is very particular about his espresso.
When it came to how he approached his scores, he said he was always at the service of the director’s vision.
“Sometimes you want the music to go along with what’s happening on screen. Other times I love the idea of the music going against what’s happening – that’s often a cooler way to do things,” he told NME in 2011.
“I always have one major question for a director when I compose a soundtrack: what do you want your audience to feel? Do you want to scare the s—t out of them? Squirm in their seat? Feel beautiful? And how they answer that question gives me cues to work on. I translate their words into music.”
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology.
The figures were released Thursday as Ford rolled out a new way of reporting financial results. The new business structure separates electric vehicles, the profitable internal combustion and commercial vehicle operations into three operating units.
Company officials said the electric vehicle unit, called “Ford Model e,” will be profitable before taxes by late 2026 with an 8% pretax profit margin. But they wouldn’t say exactly when it’s expected to start making money.
Chief Financial Officer John Lawler said Model e should be viewed as a startup company within Ford.
“As everyone knows, EV startups lose money while they invest in capability, develop knowledge, build (sales) volume and gain (market) share,” he said.
Model e, he said, is working on second- and even third-generation electric vehicles. It currently offers three EVs for sale in the U.S.: the Mustang Mach E SUV, the F-150 Lightning pickup and an electric Transit commercial van.
The new corporate reporting system, Lawler said, is designed to give investors more transparency than the old system of reporting results by geographic regions. The automaker calculated earnings for each of the three units during the past two calendar years.
Model e had pretax losses of $900 million in 2021 and $2.1 billion last year, and it is expected to lose $3 billion this year. In the past two years Ford has announced it would build four new battery factories and a new vehicle assembly plant as well as spending heavily to acquire raw materials to build electric vehicles.
By the end of this year, the company based in Dearborn, Michigan, expects to be building electric vehicles at a rate of 600,000 per year, reaching a rate of 2 million per year by the end of 2026.
Ford Blue, the unit that sells internal combustion and gas-electric hybrid vehicles, made just over $10 billion before taxes during the last two years. Ford Pro, the commercial vehicle unit, made $5.9 billion during those years, the company said.
For this year, Ford expects Ford Blue to post a $7 billion pretax profit, modestly better than last year. Ford Pro is expected to earn $6 billion before taxes, nearly double its earnings last year, Lawler said.
Ford was to present the new structure, announced last March, to analysts and investors on Thursday. Other business units include corporate, Ford Credit and Ford Next, a new business incubator. Shares of Ford rose 1.8% in Thursday morning trading ahead of the presentation.
Lawler said the company is changing the way it does business, not just doing an accounting exercise.
“After 120 years, we’ve essentially re-founded Ford,” he said. “We’re embracing technology and competitive disruption in our industry, fundamentally changing how we’re thinking, how we’re making decisions, and how we’re running the company.” | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ford-says-ev-unit-losing-billions-should-be-seen-as-startup/ | 2023-03-23 16:07:28 | 0 | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ford-says-ev-unit-losing-billions-should-be-seen-as-startup/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer testified Wednesday that he witnessed a man attack the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer inside the couple's home.
The suspect, David DePape, broke into the Pelosis' San Francisco home on Oct. 28, seeking to kidnap the speaker — who was out of town — and instead beat her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, authorities said. The violence sent shockwaves through the political world.
DePape, wearing an orange jumpsuit during a preliminary hearing in state court, has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges, including attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse. He remains held without bail.
Prosecutors presented the hammer that was allegedly used in the assault during Wednesday's proceedings, which were attended by Christine Pelosi, one of the Pelosis’ five adult children.
The district attorney's office also played audio of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call to San Francisco police in the courtroom and showed video footage — less than a minute long — of the attack that was captured on body cameras. The 911 dispatcher has been widely credited with sending two officers to the couple’s home despite limited information.
In November, Nancy Pelosi said she will step down as the Democrats' leader after 20 years as the party's head. Paul Pelosi, her husband of nearly 60 years, drew a standing ovation earlier this month when the couple attended the Kennedy Center Honors — his first public appearance since the assault. Christine Pelosi, a Democratic operative and attorney, is considered to be a potential successor when the speaker retires, though she has never held elected office.
DePape (dih-PAP’) told police he was on a “suicide mission” and had plans to target other California and federal politicians, court documents say. Authorities have said he was drawn to conspiracy theories.
DePape allegedly smashed his way into the Pelosis' home, confronted Paul Pelosi, who was sleeping in boxer shorts and a pajama top, and demanded to know where “Nancy” was.
DePape allegedly then told Paul Pelosi that if Nancy Pelosi told him the "'truth', he would let her go and if she 'lied,’ he was going to break her kneecaps, ” the criminal complaint alleges.
Paul Pelosi was eventually able to call 911 to summon San Francisco police. Officers arrived two minutes later to see the two men struggling over a hammer, and then DePape struck Pelosi at least once before being tackled by officers.
San Francisco Police Officer Kyle Cagney on Wednesday testified that he saw both men holding the hammer when the door opened. DePape did not follow the officers' commands to drop the weapon and instead lunged at Paul Pelosi and swung the hammer at him, Cagney said.
Paul Pelosi was knocked unconscious and woke up in a pool of his own blood. He later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands.
Speaker Pelosi was in Washington at the time and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members. Threats against lawmakers and elections officials have been at all-time highs since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, and authorities have issued warnings about rising extremism in the U.S.
One of the judges in DePape's state case, Judge Loretta “Lori” Giorgi, disclosed last month that she had worked with Christine Pelosi in the San Francisco city attorney’s office in the 1990s but they had not interacted in years. Although neither side officially objected to Giorgi, the case was transferred to a new judge — which is common practice — for the preliminary hearing. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Paul-Pelosi-attack-Police-officer-says-he-saw-it-17654013.php | 2022-12-14 19:05:23 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Paul-Pelosi-attack-Police-officer-says-he-saw-it-17654013.php |
As newspapers cut staff, even close, or attempt to accomplish more with less, expect more corruption and less transparency in government.
No watchdogs means less oversight and affords politicians more opportunities to engage in subterfuge.
In Trenton, where people count murders as a way to determine public safety, leaders play a new game — do not respond to inquiries about shootings and certainly never offer such info unless events produce homicide. If they don’t ask, then say nothing that could damage perceptions of Trenton being less murderous, and less violent.
This MidJersey News report published on November 26.
“Police, TEMS and Trenton Fire Department were dispatched to the are (sic) of Oakland Street and Hoffman Avenue for a shooting. It was reported that the person was taken to the Trauma Center at Captial Health Regional Medical Center by private vehicle. EMS was canceled since the patient was already transported and the Trenton Shooting Response Team responded for the investigation.
No further details are available at this time. MidJersey.news did reach out to Trenton officials for official information about the shooting but has not recived a reply as of Saturday afternoon.”
No fault of the news outlet as the reporter worked with few facts.
A person shot but no identity, no time, no gender, no nothing. And, of course, no response from city officials.
Peterson’s Breaking News reported a spate of Sunday morning shootings.
“Three shootings sent police scrambling from one scene to the next,” blared a website report.
Chestnut Ave and Mott Street — one male with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest; a second male shot at Chestnut Street and Elmer Street; at Morris Ave. and Franklin Street a male suffered a gunshot wound to his arm just after 2:00 a.m.
All former Trenton residents, especially those who left Chambersburg and flighted to Hamilton , should rejoice. You exiled ahead of the guns, bullets, trash and corrupt politicians.
Three people shot in just several hours seems newsworthy. Trenton residents, even outsiders, have a right to know about violence and crime that occurs here.
Despite this administration’s best efforts to hide crime, most residents know that Trenton ranks as a dangerous place, made even more scary by city officials who attempt to distort truth.
A time existed when residents pressed for government transparency but those days have disappeared. It’s all smoke and mirrors atop dogs and ponies.
White lies and Black untruths lurk as part of this disturbing attempt to make city residents believe that less murder means less violence.
Police dispense a plethora of information when they make an arrest of prostitutes or criminals and confiscate guns or drugs.
Shootings deliver flimsy reports or none at all. Being shot sounds better than being shot dead but let’s not underplay the physical, emotional and psychological damage produced by a bullet fired into human flesh or a knife plunged into stomach, back or chest.
One understands that police and politicians want people to believe that their initiatives improve public safety. Police forces are notorious for the practice of downgrading crimes to lesser offenses to make crime statistics look better.
Still, even with cooked books, Trenton appears on “Most Dangerous Cities” lists regularly as leaders fail to understand that safe communities rely on education and employment to impact crime.
Sure, in the safer city enclaves, life ranks as uneventful regarding crime. Residents in more challenged areas get home before darkness falls, lock doors and stay put.
Of course, most people desire safe streets but most prefer truth over distortion. If the patient (Trenton) has cancer then only an honest diagnosis can set in motion initiatives to improve this city’s condition.
Trenton shows a cancer connected to violence and a reluctance for transparency. Without the latter, good government has a short shelf life.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Find him on Twitter @LAParker6 or email him at LAParker@Trentonian.com.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- U.S. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary after voting to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 riot. He is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to lose a reelection bid.
Rice, a five-term congressman, was defeated Tuesday by state Rep. Russell Fry, who was endorsed by Trump.
Rice attracted a half-dozen GOP challengers after his vote to impeach Trump. All have cited the vote as a mark of disloyalty to the former president and Rice's constituents in the 7th Congressional District, which heavily supported Trump in his two campaigns.
Rice's district includes the tourist hot spot of Myrtle Beach and a number of inland, rural areas.
But in another South Carolina House race, incumbent Republican Rep. Nancy Mace prevailed in her primary despite Trump recruiting someone to try to unseat her. Mace defeated former state lawmaker Katie Arrington even though she had drawn Trump's ire for criticizing his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Mace had sought to make amends for angering Trump, filming a video in New York this year outside Trump Tower to remind her constituents that she was one of the former president's "earliest supporters."
Besides criticizing Trump for the Jan. 6 riot, Mace went against the former president's wishes by voting to certify President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election and hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the riot.
Trump had been supporting Mace's opponent, former state Rep. Katie Arrington, who won the GOP nomination for the seat in 2018 by defeating incumbent Mark Sanford.
NEVADA RACES
In Nevada, Democratic Rep. Dina Titus is being opposed by a progressive, while Republican Rep. Mark Amodei drew a challenge from a son of one of the state's most famous sports figures.
Amy Vilela, has been endorsed by Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, a progressive activist who scored a primary upset in 2020 against a 20-year Democratic incumbent.
Titus, the dean of Nevada's congressional delegation, has served six House terms and chairs a transportation subcommittee.
Danny Tarkanian, son of famed University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, is trying to knock off the six-term incumbent in the rural northern district that no Democrat has won in its 40 years.
Amodei won a special election for the seat in 2011 after Dean Heller was appointed to fill an unexpired Senate term. A member of the House Appropriations Committee, Amodei has easily turned back previous primary challenges in the past.
Republicans in Nevada were deciding Tuesday between a candidate with a political pedigree and Trump's backing and a political newcomer as their choice to try to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. They were also choosing a nominee to challenge Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak.
The primary race was originally expected to be a cakewalk for Adam Laxalt, Nevada's former attorney general who attracted support from Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Yet in the final weeks before Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary, Laxalt faced a surprisingly spirited challenge from Sam Brown, a retired Army captain and Purple Heart recipient.
COMEBACK TRY IN MAINE
In Maine, a former congressman wants his old seat back in Maine, but he must first hold off a challenge from a fellow Republican in the largely rural, politically mixed district.
Bruce Poliquin represented Maine's 2nd Congressional District from 2015-19 until losing to Democratic Rep. Jared Golden. Golden's victory over Poliquin was the first congressional election decided by ranked-choice voting in U.S. history.
This year, Poliquin is hoping to win a rematch over Golden in one of the most closely watched races of the 2022 midterms. He staved off a challenge from Liz Caruso, the first selectwoman of the tiny town of Caratunk, in Tuesday's primary.
SPECIAL ELECTION IN TEXAS
In Texas, Republican Mayra Flores won a special primary election being held to serve the remaining months of former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela's term.
Flores won the GOP nomination for the seat in March. Her win may foreshadow broader Republican gains, especially with Hispanic voters in South Texas and beyond.
The presumption had been that greater Hispanic turnout would benefit Democrats, but South Texas has emerged as a key battleground after Trump saw swings in his favor in 2020 in Hispanic and largely rural, working class counties near the border.
The gains have left Republicans believing they have a chance to make those inroads permanent and have caused Democratic infighting over the best approach to counter the Republican enthusiasm. Flores raised 16 times the amount logged by her closest Democratic competitor, Dan Sanchez.
Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez switched from a neighboring district because of redistricting to run for Vela's seat and is the party's nominee for November.
Information for this article was contributed by Meg Kinnard, Scott Sonner, Paul Weber, Patrick Whittle, Michelle L. Price and Ken Ritter of The Associated Press, by Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times and by Annie Linskey, Sam Spence and Scott Clement of The Washington Post. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/15/impeachment-backer-loses-vote/ | 2022-06-15 10:59:03 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/15/impeachment-backer-loses-vote/ |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company said its first-quarter profits soared along with the paper value of its investment portfolio — giving the thousands of shareholders who will fill an arena Saturday to listen to the billionaire and several other top executives at the conglomerate answer questions for hours some good news to start the day.
“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Chloe Lin, who traveled from Singapore to attend the meeting for the first time and learn from Buffett and his longtime investing partner Charlie Munger.
Berkshire’s shareholders meeting always attracts throngs of people who admire the two investors and want to hear whatever wisdom they have to offer about recent events and life lessons. And with both men in their 90s this year, some in the crowd feel the urgency to attend now while both men are still here.
“Charlie Munger is 99. I just wanted to see him in person. It’s on my bucket list,” Wu said. “I have to attend while I can.”
Berkshire Hathaway said Saturday morning that it made $35.5 billion, or $24,377 per Class A share, in the first quarter. That’s more than 6 times last year’s $5.58 billion, or $3,784 per share.
But Buffett has long cautioned that those bottom line figures can be misleading for Berkshire because the wide swings in the value of its investments — most of which it rarely sells — distort the profits. In this quarter, Berkshire sold only $1.7 billion of stocks while recording a $27.4 billion paper investment gain. Part of this year’s investment gains included a $2.4 billion boost related to Berkshire’s planned acquisition of the majority of the Pilot Travel Centers truck stop company’s shares in January.
Buffett says Berkshire’s operating earnings that exclude investments are a better measure of the company’s performance. By that measure, Berkshire’s operating earnings grew nearly 13% to $8.065 billion, up from $7.16 billion a year ago.
The three analysts surveyed by FactSet expected Berkshire to report operating earnings of $5,370.91 per Class A share
This year’s first quarter was relatively quiet compared to a year ago when Buffett revealed that he had gone on a $51 billion spending spree at the start of last year, snapping up stocks like Occidental Petroleum, Chevron and HP. Buffett’s buying slowed through the rest of last year with the exception of a number of additional Occidental purchases.
At the end of this year’s first quarter, Berkshire held $130.616 billion cash, up from $128.585 billion at the end of last year. But Berkshire did spend $4.4 billion during the quarter to repurchase its own shares.
The quarterly report didn’t reveal any big new stock investments this year. But most of Berkshire’s eclectic mix of companies performed well despite the fears about the possibility of a looming recession.
Berkshire’s insurance unit, which includes Geico and a number of large reinsurers, recorded a $911 million operating profit, up from $167 million last year, driven by a rebound in Geico’s results. Geico benefitted from charging higher premiums and a reduction in advertising spending and claims.
But Berkshire BNSF railroad and its large utility unit did report lower profits. BNSF earned $1.25 billion, down from $1.37 billion, as the number of shipments it handled dropped 10% after it lost a big customer and imports slowed at the West Coast ports. The utility division added $416 million, down from last year’s $775 million.
Besides, those major businesses, Berkshire owns an eclectic assortment of dozens of other businesses, including a number of retail and manufacturing firms such as See’s Candy and Precision Castparts.
Berkshire again faces pressure from activist investors urging the company to do more to catalog its climate change risks in a companywide report. Shareholders were expected to brush that measure and all the other shareholder proposals aside Saturday afternoon because Buffett and the board oppose them, and Buffett controls more than 30% of the vote.
But even as they resist detailing climate risks, a number of Berkshire’s subsidiaries are working to reduce their carbon emissions, including its railroad and utilities. The company’s Clayton Homes unit is showing off a new home design this year that will meet strict energy efficiency standards from the Department of Energy and come pre-equipped for solar power to be added later.
William Jenkins, Clayton’s director of environment and sustainability, said by next year, all the more than 60,000 homes Clayton builds each year will meet that standard, helping make the homes that are built in a factory before being placed on site more affordable by saving homeowners an average of $73 a month on their utility bills.
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Axsome Therapeutics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AXSM during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: December 30, 2019 to April 22, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Axsome's chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07, the Company's medicine for the acute treatment of migraine, and its manufacturing process; (ii) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 New Drug Application ("NDA") on its initially represented timeline; (iii) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (iv) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) between November 9, 2021 and May 6, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important November 14, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Palantir securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Palantir class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8711 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 14, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Palantir's investments in marketable securities were having a significant negative impact on the Company's earnings per share ("EPS") results; (2) Palantir overstated the sustainability of its government segment's growth and revenues; (3) Palantir was experiencing a significant slowdown in revenue growth, particularly among its government customers, despite ongoing global conflicts and market disruptions; (4) as a result of all the foregoing, Palantir was likely to miss consensus estimates for its first quarter 2022 ("Q1") EPS and second quarter 2022 ("Q2") sales outlook; and (5) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Hollywood Casino project stumped by supply chain and inflation
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Hollywood Casino was the first casino in the capitol city to announce it would be moving its riverboat casino from the Mississippi River onto land. That was back in August of 2021. They expected construction to be complete earlier this year, but several setbacks pushed their completion date starting with the river’s water levels which prevented them from sinking their pilings for the casino.
“And also, the supply chain, it’s absolutely horrible right now. They’re having a hard time getting steel, they’re having a hard time getting basic supplies,” said Chairman of the state’s Gaming Control Board, Ronnie Johns.
Johns tells us on top of the supply chain issues, the price of building materials got more expensive due to inflation. Hollywood had originally projected it would cost $60 million to get the job done. That figure looks to be more like $100 million by the time everything is complete.
“Look, the price of steel is up 25%, inflation alone is at over 9% over the last year. And so, everything is just a lot more expensive than it was say a year ago,” said Johns.
But thankfully labor hasn’t been an issue.
“Not to my knowledge they’ve not, but the good thing about this project is that they have not had to close the existing riverboat casino unlike the horseshoe here in Lake Charles which was severely damaged by Hurricane Laura two years ago,” Johns added.
But perhaps the biggest concern Hollywood and other casinos have is the effect inflation will have on their potential customers.
“We’re already seeing it in some of the gaming markets here in Louisiana. So yes, it’s something that the market is watching very closely. I’ve had conversations with multiple casinos across the state. Everybody’s concerned about it, particularly those that draw from out of state,” Johns continued.
The new projection for when all of this will be ready for you now looks to be the 2nd quarter of 2023. Every day this thing isn’t finished is money they’re missing out on. So, the sooner they get it done, is a win for them and closer to a chance for you to win too.
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Lawsuit targets voting restrictions put on felons
A lawsuit has been filed against Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state elections officials by those who have been disqualified from voting in Virginia because of their criminal records. The state automatically takes away voting rights for convicted felons unless the governor restores the ability.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the group Protect Democracy on behalf of three Virginia residents with felony convictions and the nonprofit organization Bridging the Gap, which helps formerly incarcerated people. The lawsuit says the state is breaking an 1870 federal law that established the terms of Virginia's readmission to representation in Congress after the Civil War.
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DEAD ZONE: Unusually dry weather this spring has reduced the size of the so-called "dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay. Dead zones, also called “hypoxic areas,” are spots in bodies of water that don’t have enough oxygen to sustain life. They’re often caused by pollution washed into waterways by storm drainage. This summer’s dead zone is predicted to be 33% smaller than the average taken between 1985 and 2022.
“While the dead zone has been trending down over time, the primary driver behind the prediction of a smaller dead zone this summer is the amount of rainfall from January through May,” said Joseph Wood, Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Virginia senior scientist.
With river flows from rainfall in the watershed at 20% less than the historic average during the spring season, the estuary’s summer dead zone is expected to be one of the smallest on record, according to a notice from the Chesapeake Bay program.
BY THE NUMBERS
$1.3 million
Additional revenue made by hotels during April's Something in the Water festival in Virginia Beach compared to the 2019 event, according to data company STR Global.
$80,000
Amount that a gun buyback event approved by the Richmond City Council will cost. The city plans to use American Rescue Plan Act dollars to fund the program, part of an effort to curb gun violence.
ODDS AND ENDS
WATER: A hazardous chemical also detected in the Roanoke River has been found in Smith Mountain Lake. Tests by the Virginia Department of Health found GenX, a chemical used in the manufacturing of various consumer products, in lake water. Last year, the Western Virginia Water Authority identified ProChem, an industrial water management company, as the source of contamination from its Elliston location on the banks of the Roanoke River’s south fork.
GRAVES: Keith Edward Norvell, 58, of Amherst, has been indicted on 17 felony counts of obtaining money by false pretenses in connection with his previous employment with the Amherst Cemetery Association. Police said he was arrested in June after the department was notified about "possible fraudulent sales of headstones and burial plots."
THEY SAID IT
"I don’t know where we go from here. I have told my conferees to go home. They told their conferees to go home.”
— Del. Barry Knight, R-Virginia Beach, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, after state budget talks broke down last week.
"The equations describe how the particles move and collide with each other. So we implemented those formulas and assumed that the drones move like those particles."
— Marcela Izquierdo Poza, a math and physics major at Randolph College in Lynchburg, about a study into the usage of drones to deliver goods to customers. The kinetic theory of gases formula was used to calculate potential delivery collisions.
IN THE NEWS
Officer killed is honored at service
About 500 people, including many in uniform, on Monday attended the funeral of Wintergreen police Officer Mark Christopher “Chris” Wagner II, who was killed while responding to a call June 16.
"So what we’ve heard this morning is that Chris was a light. He was a bright light. Son to a loving father, whose life was taken far too soon. Every corner of the commonwealth, fellow brothers and sisters in law enforcement have come here knowing that it could have been them who we were memorializing today,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin said during the service.
Wagner, 31, was responding to an emergency call about a man assaulting two others in a home when he encountered Daniel Barmak, 23, of Towson, Maryland. Barmak grabbed his department firearm and opened fire, police said.
Barmak is charged with capital murder, two felony counts of malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
PLANES: Flights into Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport were diverted Tuesday because of a technical issue, the latest in a series of issues impacting airlines last week.
The Federal Aviation Administration briefly paused operations at Washington, D.C.-area airports Sunday evening due to a problem with the communications system at a major air traffic control facility.
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-- Award recognizes 40th anniversary of groundbreaking first cloning of AAV plasmid --
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced that R. Jude Samulski, Ph.D., AskBio President, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, received the inaugural European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) Founders Award in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the recent ESGCT 29th Congress.
The Founders Award honors Dr. Samulski's contribution to the development of engineered recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors, which began 40 years ago with the cloning and rescue of infectious AAV from a recombinant plasmid.1 This work laid the foundation for subsequent developments of rAAV vectors capable of expressing foreign sequences, thereby enabling the use of AAV-based vectors for the delivery of various therapeutic genes into mammalian cells. The AAV inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequences are an essential component of every AAV therapeutic drug. This and other breakthroughs made by Dr. Samulski have since contributed to three rAAV-based gene therapies becoming available for patients and many more in various stages of development.
"ESGCT created the Founders Award this year to mark the Society's 30th anniversary," said Professor Hildegard Büning, ESGCT Board President. "The award highlights benchmark milestones in gene and cell therapy. The Founders Award 2022 recognizes the first cloning of an AAV plasmid, which Dr. Samulski and his team accomplished in 1982. That tremendous breakthrough helped make gene therapy a reality and remains at the core of the field today, making this milestone a natural choice for this inaugural honor."
Dr. Samulski has worked with AAV for 40 years, and for 25 years he was director of the University of North Carolina Gene Therapy Center. Dr. Samulski is a former member of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), a committee tasked with assisting the FDA with gene therapy clinical trial approvals in the U.S. He also frequently serves as a gene therapy consultant to the FDA. In 2008, Dr. Samulski was recognized by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) with the inaugural Outstanding Achievement Award. He was also invited by Pope Francis to the Vatican in recognition of his work in the treatment of Canavan disease. Dr. Samulski has played an integral role in advancing gene therapies into human clinical trials for hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, giant axonal neuropathy, Pompe disease, congestive heart failure and others. He is the inventor of nearly 500 patented technologies related to AAV technology.
"I'm overwhelmed with this acknowledgment and humbled by the thought that ESGCT has considered my early research to represent such a prestigious milestone for the society," said Dr. Samulski. "I'm grateful to receive the ESGCT Founders Award during these exciting times for gene therapy and honored to be the first scientist to receive this recognition."
"Jude developed the foundational technology for making AAV-based gene therapy vectors and self-complementary AAV vectors," said Sheila Mikhail, CEO and Co-Founder of AskBio. "His groundbreaking work 40 years ago remains central to our industry's advances in gene therapy and to the development of AskBio's clinical stage pipeline. This tremendous honor reflects Jude's unmatched contribution to the science of gene therapy."
Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG acquired in 2020, is a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to developing life-saving medicines and changing lives. The company maintains a portfolio of clinical programs across a range of neuromuscular, central nervous system, cardiovascular and metabolic disease indications with a clinical-stage pipeline that includes therapeutics for Pompe disease, Parkinson's disease, and congestive heart failure. AskBio's gene therapy platform includes Pro10™, an industry-leading proprietary cell line manufacturing process, and an extensive capsid and promoter library. With global headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and European headquarters in Edinburgh, UK, the company has generated hundreds of proprietary capsids and promoters, several of which have entered clinical testing. Founded in 2001 and an early innovator in the gene therapy field, the company holds more than 750 patents in areas such as AAV production and chimeric and self-complementary capsids. Learn more at www.askbio.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
1 Samulski RJ, Berns KI, Tan M, Muzyczka N. Cloning of adeno-associated virus into pBR322: rescue of intact virus from the recombinant plasmid in human cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1982;79(6):2077-2081. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.6.2077
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy financial industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the finance industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion Extend Free Weekly Credit Reports in the U.S. Through 2023
The full-year extension will help U.S. consumers manage their financial health during a period of rising inflation and continued economic uncertainty. - Bank of America Study Finds 84% of Employers Now Say Offering Financial Wellness Tools Helps Increase Employee Retention
The report also explored the impact of the current economic and inflationary environment on employees' financial wellness, revealing that 62% of employees are stressed about their finances. - Deloitte US Announces $1.5 Billion Social Impact Investment to Foster a More Equitable Society
The ten-year commitment will focus on education and workforce development, financial inclusion, and health equity. - PNC Bank Transforms Digital Mortgage Application Process
Through PNC's enhanced mortgage application platform, customers now are able to digitally apply for a mortgage and import bank or payroll information directly into their application simply by providing their necessary credentials — decreasing the amount of time it takes to locate necessary documents. - U.S. Workers Share Salary Expectations and Priorities in Today's Job Market
"As long as job openings outnumber job seekers, workers will have more leverage to negotiate for what they want," said Robert Half senior executive director Paul McDonald. "Staying on top of compensation levels is a critical first step to recruiting and retaining top talent — and preparing for potential market fluctuations." - Black Entrepreneurs Backed by Northwestern Mutual Drive Innovation and Improved Outcomes Across Industries
Northwestern Mutual, in partnership with gener8tor, announced the addition of five dynamic tech startups to its Black Founder Accelerator, an initiative launched to provide targeted resources and financing to promising Black entrepreneurs. - Food, Nutrition and Health Investor Coalition Launches to Invest $2.5 Billion in Startups Improving Hunger and Health Outcomes through Food
The FNHIC includes agtech, food tech, nutrition, healthcare, biotech, pharma, and generalist firms, as well as innovators and executives supporting the development of innovative new technologies that will increase access to high-quality, affordable, nutritious foods and deliver positive health outcomes. - Penta Launches As The World's First Comprehensive Stakeholder Solutions Firm
Penta will work with clients to define, inform, and strengthen decision-making and understanding between business leaders and their stakeholders. - Seven in Ten Hispanic Small Businesses Optimistic About Future, Despite Headwinds The study of more than 600+ Hispanic small businesses around the country reinforced that in times of global economic distress, HSBs encounter disproportionate barriers in accessing and maintaining the capital and resources needed to run and scale a business.
- Mortgage Delinquencies Near Record Low in August; Foreclosure Starts Up 15% from July, Still More Than 40% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels
Black Knight data shows improvement was broad based, with the number of borrowers a single payment past due falling by 4% and those 90 or more days delinquent down 4.5%.
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Anne Heche estate battle: Son Homer Laffoon files new accusations against James Tupper amid 'personal attacks'
Anne Heche died in August at the age of 53, and Heche's 20-year-old son has been fighting for legal authority over her estate
Anne Heche's son, Homer Laffoon, filed court documents in Los Angeles claiming her ex partner, James Tupper, has made "personal attacks" ahead of an initial court hearing at which Laffoon will seek to establish himself executor of her estate.
Heche died Aug. 11 of "inhalation and thermal injuries" following a car collision in Mar Vista, California, the week before. Her manner of death was listed as an accident in a report released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
Shortly after her death, Homer, her 20-year-old son from her marriage with Coley Laffoon, petitioned to be named administrator of her estate, which still has an unknown value and will need to undergo forensic accounting to establish its worth.
In the new objection documents, Homer, defined as the "petitioner," attempted to meet with Tupper prior to the upcoming Oct. 11 hearing "in order to avoid what can be best characterized as unfounded personal attacks on Petitioner and frivolous legal claims."
Fox News Digital has reached out to representatives for Laffoon and Tupper for comment.
Laffoon claims multiple attempts were made to confirm with Tupper, who Anne dated for 11 years, if there were any objections to his petition for letters of special administration filings, which needed "immediate attention" following Heche's sudden death. Laffoon was appointed petitioner, which expires on the hearing date.
"Despite multiple requests, Mr. Tupper and his legal counsel were not willing to disclose or discuss the basis for Mr. Tupper’s objections," the documents said.
ANNE HECHE MEMOIR ‘CALL ME ANNE’ GETS JANUARY RELEASE, LATE ACTRESS DEDICATES BOOK 'TO HER CHILDREN'
Tupper, who also has a 13-year-old son Atlas with Heche, claims an email sent by Heche in 2011 is her "will." Hweverm, the document states "the email does not qualify as either a holographic will or formal witnessed will.
"The email presented to the Court as Decedent’s ‘will’ by Mr. Tupper fails to meet the requirements for a valid holographic will because the signature and material provisions are not in the handwriting of the Decedent."
Probate codes require two formal witnesses to sign or acknowledge the will. "Here, the email is unsigned and has no subscribing witnesses," the document said. "As such, the email does not qualify as a formal witnessed will."
The legal form went on to suggest "it was not uncommon" for Heche to send emails when "she was faced with uncertainty," and detailed a similar event when she was diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020.
"This document, which fails to qualify as a will on the same basis as the email attached to the Objection, makes no reference whatsoever to Mr. Tupper, which is not surprising given their acrimonious breakup in 2018," the document stated.
ANNE HECHE'S SON PAYS TRIBUTE AFTER MOTHER'S DEATH: HOPEFULLY MY MOM IS FREE FROM PAIN'
Laffoon disputed Tupper's claim that he had no contact with his half-brother prior to his mother's death.
"Petitioner has done his best under the circumstances to maintain contact with his brother since the death of their mother but, as the custodial parent of Atlas, Mr. Tupper’s aggressive and manipulative actions toward Petitioner have made it difficult for Petitioner to interact with Atlas regularly," the papers said.
"If necessary, several disinterested parties can testify to Mr. Tupper becoming irrationally aggressive and threatening since the Decedent’s accident and the institution of the probate proceedings (which should not have been viewed as an adversarial filing). Additionally, it is evident to Petitioner that Mr. Tupper is reviewing Atlas’ text messages and responding to Petitioner under the guise of being Atlas.
"These actions and tactics on the part of Mr. Tupper make it exceptionally difficult for Petitioner to maintain a close and private relationship with his brother."
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As a "gesture of good faith, and in the spirit of compromise" Homer is willing to "post bond in the amount of $20,000 and deposit all liquid assets of the Estate in blocked accounts, subject to withdrawal only."
Heche was taken off life support Aug. 14 after being declared brain-dead following a car collision the week before.
She suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury" and remained "in a coma" under medical care at the Grossman Burn Center in West Hills for the opportunity to donate her organs through the OneLegacy Foundation.
"It has long been her choice to donate her organs, and she's being kept on life support to determine if any are viable," her representative, Holly Baird, confirmed to Fox News Digital at the time.
"I loved her and I miss her and I’m always going to," ex-husband Coley Laffoon said in a video posted to Instagram. The former couple was married from 2001 to 2009. "Homer is OK. He’s grieving, of course. It’s rough, it’s really rough as probably anybody can imagine. But he’s surrounded by family, and he’s strong and he’s going to be OK.
"Anne is probably – I’d like to think she is free from pain and enjoying or experiencing whatever’s next in her journey," Laffoon added. "She came in hot, and she had a lot to say."
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She was cremated, and her ashes will be placed in a mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Homer said he and his brother, Atlas, "are convinced our mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it's beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers."
Heche found small-screen success on soap operas in the 1980s and portrayed twins on "Another World," which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar, one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers, today announced its global facilities are powered with 51.3% clean energy. JinkoSolar was the first solar company moving quickly on green initiatives and passing the 50% renewable-powered mark in 2022 and now is working toward 60% by the end of 2023. This achievement includes its 12 manufacturing factories in four countries — including China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the United States, which run on a mix of hydro, solar, and wind energy it has developed or purchased.
The achievement is the culmination of a furious effort over the past three years that involved financing, building, or locating new renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, and hydro generation, near the company's factories. JinkoSolar's onsite rooftop solar installations at its factories in various areas offset the energy that they are using and directly contribute to the progress. Equipped with energy storage systems, power from the solar array on JinkoSolar's factory rooftop can be stored in on-site batteries to help reduce costs from peak power consumption periods. In addition to its own operations green powered, JinkoSolar also convinced its suppliers and partners in its supply chain to sign a pledge to get to 100% renewable energy for the portion of their business relating to JinkoSolar's products.
The bigger scale of its capacity, the more difficult to be closer to its 100% goal. Over the past years, the company has grown and increased production at an average rate of 40-50% each year, the highest almost double the capacity of 2022 compared to 2021. JinkoSolar has taken great effort on track towards the RE100 goal, for example, has been busy locating and signing power purchase agreements (PPAs) with renewable energy providers, now three facilities of Chuxiong, Leshan, Penang, have already run on 100% green power entirely, and the rest is on the ways towards the goal. Looking into the future, the hardest part was for those factories located with no suitable green energy source nearby, to find renewable energy sources enough to serve the power needs of operations and match the high speed of power-hungry capacity expansion.
"After years of hard work we're proud to have reached this significant milestone," said Dany Qian, VP of JinkoSolar, "it is proving the business case that well-managed companies can reduce the greenhouse gases that are causing the climate crisis while simultaneously reducing their energy costs. Now that renewable energies are more mainstream and the cost of the energy is far lower, ecological responsibility can be good business" she added.
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Industry Leading Laser Practice Joins With AMP's Leading Aesthetic Platform
ARDMORE, Pa., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced MedAesthetic Partners (AMP) proudly welcomes the Main Line Center for Laser Surgery into its growing family. AMP will work hand in hand with this world-renown Pennsylvania practice as it continues its expansion, growing with the best and brightest.
"We are thrilled to welcome the Main Line Center for Laser Surgery to our team," shares Nicole Chiaramonte, AMP CEO. "Medical Director Eric Bernstein, MD, is among the world's leading laser medicine and surgery experts and has been an industry pioneer for over 20 years. His personal approach to patients and trailblazing experience in advancing technologies make him an ideal AMP partner."
The Main Line Center for Laser Surgery ethos puts patients first, delivering state-of-the-art laser and energy-based device treatments, injectable and skincare in the most professional, friendly and safe environment while advancing these technologies. Dr. Bernstein is widely regarded as a global authority on laser medicine and laser technology, and has dedicated his career not only to individualized patient care, but to sharing his expert knowledge by training hundreds of physicians. The Main Line Center for Laser Surgery is among the first in the United States and the World to gain access to the latest technologies.
AMP's desire to partner with the nation's top aesthetic practices, coupled with Dr. Bernstein's outcomes and philosophy that people come first, led directly to the Main Line Center joining the AMP team. The AMP platform implements proven strategies which will support Main Line Center for Laser Surgery's growth trajectory, helping the team reach new heights.
"The Main Line Center puts people first and is excited about the future under Advanced Medaesthetic Partners," says Dr. Bernstein. "We admire the industry leading team at the helm of AMP and their business approach and keen eye for growth are a wonderful fit for our practice. Our mission is to safely and effectively treat patients and share our outcomes advancing the health and wellbeing of patients. With AMP's growth platform, the sky's the limit."
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HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian gunman on Monday shot and killed an Israeli motorist in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in a fresh wave of fighting that showed no signs of slowing.
The killing occurred a day after two Israelis were killed by a Palestinian gunman in the northern West Bank, triggering a rampage in which Israeli settlers torched dozens of cars and homes in a Palestinian town. It was the worst such violence in decades.
The Israeli army said Monday’s attackers opened fire at an Israeli car near the Palestinian city of Jericho, hitting the motorist.
The assailants, traveling in one vehicle, then drove further and fired again, the army said. The attackers set their own vehicle afire and fled, setting off a manhunt.
The 27-year-old Israeli motorist was transferred from the scene to Hadassah Medical Center, where he later died of his injuries, according to a statement by hospital spokeswoman Hadar Elboim. The man was not immediately identified.
Earlier, Israel sent hundreds more troops to the northern West Bank to restore calm after Sunday’s violence.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the most right-wing in Israel’s history, came under criticism for its failure to halt a surge in violence and for sending what some saw as mixed messages. As Netanyahu appealed for calm, a member of his ruling coalition praised the rampage as deterrence against Palestinian attacks.
The Israeli army also came under criticism for its failure to move quickly to stop the rioting, the worst such violence in decades.
“The government needs to decide what it is,” veteran columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper. “Is it resolved to enforce law and order on Arabs and Jews alike? Or is it a fig leaf for the hilltop youth, who do as they please in the territories? That same question also applies to the army, which has thus far failed to deal effectively with either Palestinian terrorism or Jewish terrorism.”
The events also underscored the limitations of the traditional U.S. approach to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Washington has been trying to prevent escalation while staying away from the politically costly task of pushing for a resolution of the core disputes.
As the violence raged in the West Bank, such an attempt at conflict management was taking place Sunday in Jordan, with the U.S. bringing together Israeli and Palestinian officials to work out a plan for de-escalation.
Sunday’s events kicked off when a Palestinian gunman shot and killed brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, ages 21 and 19, from the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha, in a shooting ambush in the Palestinian town of Hawara in the northern West Bank. The gunman fled and remained on the loose late Monday. The brothers were buried in Jerusalem.
Following the shooting, groups of settlers rampaged along the main thoroughfare in Hawara, which is used by both Palestinians and Israeli settlers. In one video, a crowd of settlers stood in prayer as they stared at a building in flames.
Late Sunday, a 37-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli fire, two Palestinians were shot and wounded and another was beaten with an iron bar, Palestinian health officials said. Some 95 Palestinians were being treated for tear gas inhalation, according to medics.
On Monday morning, the Hawara thoroughfare was lined with rows of burned-out cars and smoke-blackened buildings. Normally bustling shops remained shuttered. Palestinian media said some 30 homes and cars were torched.
Sultan Farouk Abu Sris, a shop owner in Hawara, said he briefly went outside and saw scores of settlers setting containers and a home on fire. “It’s destruction. They came bearing hatred,” he said.
At the scene of the shooting, Defense Minister Yoav Galant told reporters that Israel “cannot allow a situation in which citizens take the law into their hands,” but stopped short of outright condemning the violence.
Shahar Glick, a reporter for Israel’s army radio station who was in Hawara, said security forces blocked the roads into town, but were caught off guard when 200 to 300 settlers entered on foot.
He said only a handful of police and soldiers were there, even after activists had publicized the march on social media. The West Bank is home to a number of hard-line settlements — several of them in the immediate vicinity of Hawara — whose residents frequently vandalize Palestinian land and property.
Some police, he said, even wished the protesters well, telling them to “take care of themselves.”
“For the journalists, It was clear to us from the outset, as we walked behind them, that this incident was developing,” Glick said. “It took a long time for the security forces to understand.”
Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman, said the army deployed hundreds of additional troops to the area with the aim of de-escalation. Two battalions were sent late Sunday and two more on Monday, with several hundred soldiers each. The situation remained quiet late Monday.
Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne said eight Israelis were detained in connection with Sunday’s rioting, and that six had already been released.
Speaking at a settlement outpost reoccupied by Jewish settlers after Sunday’s shooting, the firebrand Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power party, called for a “real war on terrorism” and legalizing the outpost, which troops were once again clearing.
“We must crush our enemies,” he said. As for the settler violence, he added: “I understand the hard feelings, but this isn’t the way, we can’t take the law into our hands.”
Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog urged settlers not to engage in vigilante actions. Merav Michaeli of the opposition Labor Party condemned the rampage as “a pogrom by armed militias” of West Bank settlers.
In the ruling coalition, some fanned the flames.
Tzvika Foghel, a lawmaker from Ben-Gvir’s party, said the rampage would help deter Palestinian attacks. “I see the result in a very good light,” he told Army Radio when asked about what the interviewer referred to as a pogrom.
Sunday’s violence has drawn condemnation from the international community. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the shooting attack and the rampage “underscore the imperative to immediately de-escalate tensions in words and deeds.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he held the Israeli government responsible for what he called “the terrorist acts carried out by settlers under the protection of the occupation forces tonight.”
The Palestinians claim the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — for a future state. Some 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israel’s settlements as illegal and obstacles to peace.
So far this year, 62 Palestinians, about half of them affiliated with armed groups, have been killed by Israeli troops and civilians. In the same period, 14 Israelis, all but one of them civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks.
Last year was the deadliest for the Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since 2004, according to figures by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in those areas, Some 30 people on the Israeli side were killed in Palestinian attacks.
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If Dallas had a comfort food spot, this landmark deli would be it. Hungry, tired, anxious? Slide into a booth and dive into the extensive menu that offers everything from pancakes to patty melts, pastrami sandwiches to matzo ball soup. They bake breads, pastries and bagels in-house, all of which are available at the counter to take home. Service is always quick, although they don't mind if you linger. There are four restaurants across North Texas now collectively pulling in 4.5 stars from more than 5,000 reviews. It's legend. | https://www.dallasobserver.com/best-of/2022/food-and-drink/best-deli-14862009 | 2022-09-22 02:21:58 | 0 | https://www.dallasobserver.com/best-of/2022/food-and-drink/best-deli-14862009 |
Lubbock teen sentenced to 30 years for May 2021 drive-by shooting
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lubbock Judge Douglas Freitag sentenced a teen to 30 years in prison Tuesday for a deadly drive-by shooting of a 69-year-old man back in May 2021.
19-year-old Jamez Sanchez pled guilty in the 140th District Court Wednesday, July 5. He pled guilty to aggravated assault with a motor vehicle causing serious bodily injury. Sanchez must serve half his sentence before he’s eligible for parole.
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On May 9, 2021, officers were called to reports of shots fired near North Quaker and Clovid Rd. That’s where investigators found at least three homes with gunshot damage. The next day, Willard Justice Jr., 69, was found dead inside his home after a check welfare call in connection to the shooting.
A second suspect, 22-year-old Leo Conteras, was also charged in the shooting and is awaiting trial.
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Plea deal for Ex-Trump adviser accused of unwanted advances
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump has taken a plea deal to resolve allegations he made unwanted sexual advances to a GOP donor at a Las Vegas event.
Corey Lewandowski entered into a plea agreement earlier this month involving a charge of misdemeanor battery, according to online Clark County records.
While he does not admit to any wrongdoing, Lewandowski will undergo eight hours of impulse control counseling and 50 hours of community service.
His attorneys say he will fulfill all those conditions and the case will be dismissed.
Trump donor Trashelle Odom publicly alleged Lewandowski repeatedly touched her without her permission, made lewd comments and stalked her.
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"The future of the internet is in the hands of developers and it's our job to create products to support them to build it" Wix CEO at Wix DevCon 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, today completed the first ever Wix DevCon 2022, which consisted of Wix expert-led presentations and various product announcements, all of which were built by developers for developers. The new tools are focused on the expansion of the Wix product suite providing more control and customization for professional web developers.
"Over the last 12 years we have worked hard on building Wix to be a more robust platform with many solutions to better support developers. Now, we're committed to opening Wix's business building blocks to further enable web professionals to create custom, robust online experiences using code," said Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder and CEO of Wix. "I'm proud of how far the platform has come and the opportunity to showcase our latest developments at Wix DevCon 2022 and we will continue to innovate and support developers as they trailblaze the future of web creation."
"Web development is at the core of Wix, evolving from solely a no-code platform supporting self-creators, to today, introducing our next phase to meet the needs of developers as they embark on their web development journeys," said Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo at Wix Code. "Developers are building longer and more complex projects than ever before, making it imperative for them to have more customizable and collaborative experiences. This is why we're not just rolling out new features, we are changing our infrastructure to be congruent with the future of web development. The best part is that we're just getting started; we'll continue to open and expand the platform to further accelerate more powerful digital solutions."
Wix Blocks, enables professional designers and developers to create an application with the ease of drag and drop and then package it as a full application with the power of the Velo code, collections and back-end code in one powerful solution. The visual design workspace provides a high-velocity ecosystem enabling users to build their own highly-customizable and reusable applications and widgets across sites built on Wix and Editor X. Developers and designers can work concurrently and collaboratively on the same project without strong dependencies on each other, through the separation of business logic and UX/UI. This enables complete optimization of web development and management for both developers and designers. For example, when an application is built the designer can create different versions of UX and UI with the same business logic to be used across various sites, eliminating duplicative efforts and significantly increasing their workflow capabilities.
Wix is redefining eCommerce with a new open platform that provides developers the freedom to engineer custom eCommerce experiences for any business need at a higher velocity. The platform provides the flexibility to build scalable, online businesses whether working with a business that provides a service, appointment booking, event tickets, or products. By opening the first set of eCommerce APIs, users can integrate any catalog of sellable items to Wix and build any business on top of it, add additional fees to the checkout and order functionality, introduce their own logic and 3rd party integrations for discount rules and shipping options at checkout.
Wix is opening a Velo integration with Git and Github, extending Velo from single developer use to teams. Currently available on Editor X, the Git integration enables developers to create and manage sites as a team, use any integrated development environment (IDE), integrate with CI / CD workflows and incorporate automated testing and verification tools. The Wix Git integration allows developers to work within a more stable and standard environment and provides more transparency to better mitigate problems.
For more information on Wix DevCon 2022 visit https://www.wixdevcon.com/.
Wix is a leading platform to create, manage and grow a digital presence. What began as a website builder in 2006 is now a complete platform providing users with enterprise-grade performance, security, and a reliable infrastructure. Offering a wide range of commerce and business solutions, advanced SEO and marketing tools, Wix enables users to have full ownership of their brand, their data and their relationships with their customers. With a focus on continuous innovation and delivery of new features and products, anyone can build a powerful digital presence to fulfill their dreams on Wix.
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LA CROSSE, Wisc. (WXOW) - The Blugolds have won 83 consecutive MVC games, and they hope to make that 84 as they face off with Central Tuesday night.
Central ended the 1st half on a 5-0 scoring run, although it only cut the Blugold lead to 15. Aquinas roared ahead in the second half to claim the 75-47 victory.
Aquinas freshman Sammy Davis was playing in her first game on the floor her brothers dominated for years. She kept the family tradition going, leading her team in scoring with 22. Senior Autumn Passehl added 17 for the Blugolds, while Brittney Mislivecek paced the Riverhawks with 21.
Aquinas will look to extend the winning streak again Friday, January 20 as they welcome Tomah. Central will hit the road for their next contest, Thursday, January 19 at Onalaska. | https://www.wxow.com/sports/mvc-girls-basketball-aquinas-looks-to-extend-conference-win-streak/article_74b2b29a-96e2-11ed-9ab5-7b8307ed14a2.html | 2023-01-18 05:27:55 | 0 | https://www.wxow.com/sports/mvc-girls-basketball-aquinas-looks-to-extend-conference-win-streak/article_74b2b29a-96e2-11ed-9ab5-7b8307ed14a2.html |
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced a $381 million Multifamily Social DUS® REMIC under its Fannie Mae Guaranteed Multifamily Structures (Fannie Mae GeMS™) program on June 23, 2022. FNA 2022-M1S marks the sixth Fannie Mae GeMS issuance of 2022.
"The M1S is our first social GeMS of 2022 and the third in GeMS history," said Dan Dresser, Senior Vice President, Multifamily Capital Markets and Pricing, Fannie Mae. "We were thankful that investors were able to focus on the deal given the macro environment and rate volatility and appreciate the support to our affordable housing efforts."
The M1S issuance aligns with Fannie Mae's Sustainable Bond Framework, which governs Fannie Mae's commitment to adhering to international standards in its issuance of green, social, and sustainable bonds. In 2020, Fannie Mae received a second party opinion on its Sustainable Bond Framework from independent third-party Sustainalytics. The framework builds on Fannie Mae's 32-year history of supporting multifamily affordable housing, 10-year history of multifamily green financing, and its expansion into single-family green MBS issuance in 2020.
"The collateral backing the M1S reflects the social criteria in our Sustainable Bond Framework, in support of affordable housing," said Lisa Bozzelli, Senior Director, Multifamily Capital Markets, Fannie Mae. "Through these properties, we are able to support over 1,000 units affordable to households earning 50% of area median income (AMI), over 680 units affordable to households earning 60% of AMI and over 1,000 pads in affordable manufactured housing communities."
All classes of FNA 2022-M1S are guaranteed by Fannie Mae with respect to the full and timely payment of interest and principal. The structure details for the multi-tranche offering can be found in the table below:
* The spread on FNA 2022-M1S was priced using the SOFR swap curve
For additional information, please refer to the Fannie Mae GeMS REMIC Term Sheet (FNA 2022-M1S) available on the Fannie Mae GeMS Archive page.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
04-09-22-23-30
(four, nine, twenty-two, twenty-three, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
04-09-22-23-30
(four, nine, twenty-two, twenty-three, thirty)
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U.S.-based researcher and EMS Healthcare collaborate to conduct commercial clinical trials through a network of mobile research sites.
DURHAM, N.C., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Community research provider EmVenio Research today announced its international expansion with the launch of research operations in the United Kingdom. In collaboration with EMS Healthcare, the U.K.'s largest mobile clinical research partner, they will – together – operate a range of commercial clinical trials in 10 mobile sites identified by EMS, across England, Wales and Scotland. The expansion into the U.K. allows EmVenio to garner a wider demographic of research participants and diversify its clinical trial offerings, based on the needs of pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations, as well as having a positive impact on health outcomes in Britain.
"People living in underserved communities often have limited time and access to participate in life-saving clinical trials, often leaving a gap of representation in research studies," said Keith Henthorne, CEO of EmVenio. "EMS believes that when it comes to health, 'no hand should be out of reach,' and they have proven experience of delivering care and conducting research in the heart of communities, removing barriers and accelerating trials, all of which align with EmVenio's goal to operate clinical trials among residents who would otherwise face challenges to participate. With EMS' support, EmVenio is now able to expand its footprint across the U.K. and increase the diversity of clinical trial participation to more accurately reflect the population."
With the use of EMS Healthcare's mobile units, EmVenio can reach people across various communities, from rural to urban, each with different needs and demographics that sponsors seek in studies. The network of sites will be placed strategically throughout England, Wales and Scotland in the center of communities, allowing research to be conducted with more flexibility, efficiency and accessibility, particularly for participants who may face transportation or mobility barriers.
"We're delighted to be partnering with EmVenio on this exciting development for clinical trials in the U.K.," said Keith Austin, CEO of EMS Healthcare. "A recent independent review of commercial clinical trials by Lord James O'Shaughnessy acknowledged the crucial role of mobile clinics in delivering trials with more diverse participation. We believe this initiative will attract more pharmaceutical sponsors to carry out trials, which will have a significant impact on both the U.K. economy and the health of our population."
A total of 10 potential mobile site locations have been identified across the U.K., each to be supported by a dedicated local workforce. EmVenio will be responsible for full clinical oversight, with principal and sub-investigators, team leaders and deputies in post. The organization will also oversee clinical trial operations and data management.
EmVenio currently operates research in 10 mobile community research sites across the United States, supporting a variety of indications that help to address community-specific health trends and current needs.
About EmVenio Research
EmVenio Research provides rapid and scalable mobile community research site solutions to better reach and recruit diverse, underserved and high-risk communities. EmVenio Research's global network of skilled clinicians, principal investigators and state-of-the-art mobile community research sites enable us to provide robust clinical research services via home visits, on-site support at medical facilities, virtual visits and mobile sites. Visit emvenio.com to learn more.
About EMS Healthcare
EMS Healthcare is based at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire and is the U.K.'s largest mobile clinical research partner. We also work alongside over 50 NHS Trusts, Health Boards and private providers in delivering mobile capacity that eases the burden on hospitals. Together, we reduce patient waiting times, tackle health inequalities and supply the NHS with extra lab capacity to support life-changing research. Find out more www.ems-healthcare.com.
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(WSYR-TV) — Just about everything that has made Greek Fest one of Central New York’s biggest and most popular festivals is back in action after a two-year break due to the pandemic. That means a weekend of souvlaki, gyros, spanakopita, and much more.
The Greek Fest is also featuring lots of new Greek wines that are available due to an explosion in tourism. Though the festival organizers are suffering from global supply chain issues, they’re still bringing new post-pandemic products to the table. The festival will offer wine tastings, church tours, new dance routines, and a boutique.
“We’re just excited to have everybody back and see everybody in person. It’s been a long couple years,” says Greek Fest organizer Sophia Meskos. “As much as we love to share our culture and heritage, we also need to share it. It is a huge fundraiser for us.”
The 49th Annual St. Sophia’s Greek Cultural Festival kicked off on Thursday, June 9th, and runs until Sunday, June 12th. The event is free to attend with free parking and shuttle services available. For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com. | https://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/greek-fest-set-for-this-weekend-after-a-two-year-hiatus/ | 2022-06-10 17:01:37 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/greek-fest-set-for-this-weekend-after-a-two-year-hiatus/ |
The series is produced by LaLiga North America in partnership with Black Arrow FC and Debuted May 19 on Andscape's YouTube Channel and subsequently on ESPN+
NEW YORK, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LaLiga North America announced on May 19 the release of "Black Stars of LaLiga," a series celebrating the proud cultural backgrounds and upbringings of three of the league's rising stars: Yunus Musah of Valencia CF, Alexander Isak of Real Sociedad, and Iñaki Williams of Athletic Club.
Each 15-20 minute episode takes fans through the player's upbringings and journeys through various parts of Spain. As they immerse themselves in each region and experience the clubs that mean so much to their local communities, they learn about the diverse people and players who comprise both.
The series was produced by LaLiga North America, the league's joint venture with Relevent Sports in the United States, Canada and Mexico, in partnership with Black Arrow FC, a brand that focuses on the intersection of soccer and Black culture.
"Black Stars of LaLiga" debuted on Andscape YouTube Channel, Thursday, May 19 with Yunus Musah's story: Citizen of the World. Alexander Isak's The Swedish Eritrean Footballer will premiere on Tuesday, May 24, and the series will conclude with Iñaki Williams' A Long Journey, New Beginnings on Thursday May 26. All episodes will subsequently be made available on ESPN+ in a content section curated by Andscape, ESPN's multi-media platform dedicated to embracing and sharing the full range of Black culture and identity. Complementary short-form content will also be available across ESPN and LaLiga platforms.
"LaLiga is one of the most diverse sports leagues in the world, home to players from 62 different nationalities that are followed around the world," said Boris Gartner, CEO of LaLiga North America. "It's important for us to tell the stories of stars like Yunus, Alexander and Iñaki as we celebrate their lives and achievements while elevating their voices to inspire the next generation of LaLiga players."
"Andscape is thrilled to join forces with LaLiga North America to bring these stories to life," said Raina Kelley, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Andscape. "Reflecting the light from these Black stars is exactly what we seek to do every day and across all our platforms. And these are the kinds of content that needs to be seen and felt to truly understand the importance of diversity."
"Yunus, Alexander and Iñaki not only represent three of LaLiga's rising stars, but continue the long tradition and history of Black players showcasing their talents in Spain's premier division," said Adrian Segovia, Head of Content and Distribution of LaLiga North America.
Each coming from different parts of the world representing multiple regions, cultures and backgrounds, Musah (19 years old), Isak (22) and Williams (27) are cementing themselves as part of the long and storied history and legacy of Black players in LaLiga which includes Samuel Eto'o, Patrick Kluivert, Jozy Altidore, Clarence Seedorf, Frederic Kanoute and Yaya Toure, among others.
Yunus Musah – Citizen of the World
Born in the United States to Ghanaian parents, Musah grew up in Italy and England before joining Valencia CF in 2019. In this episode, Musah recalls his global upbringing and how it made him the person, and footballer, he is today. The polyglot also discusses his decision to commit to the United States National Team over Ghana, Italy and England.
Alexander Isak – The Swedish Eritrean Footballer
Set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay in Spain's Basque Country, Real Sociedad is a reflection of the people, culture and history of the city while serving as a unifying institution to the community. One of the club's young stars is Alexander Isak. Born in Sweden to Eritrean parents, the 22-year-old reflects on his heritage, growing up in Sweden and moving to Spain as a teenager when he signed with Los Txuri-Urdin in 2019.
Iñaki Williams – A Long Journey, New Beginnings
Iñaki Williams wouldn't be where he is today if it wasn't for his parents. In search of a better life for their family, they left Ghana and endured a harrowing journey through the African desert in an attempt to get to Spain. Eventually settling in Bilbao, Iñaki and younger brother, Nico, were born in the Basque Country, making them eligible to play for Athletic Club—a dream, honor and privilege for the Williams' brothers, especially given the sacrifices their parents made decades prior.
"Black Stars of LaLiga" is the second premium series developed by LaLiga North America for ESPN+ as part of its efforts to create relevant content for LaLiga fans in the United States. Its in-house production studio, LaLiga North America Studios, also creates 25+ digital shows every week in English and Spanish featuring local talent and telling stories of the competition, its clubs and players in a way that connects with local fans.
About LaLiga North America
LaLiga North America is a joint venture between LaLiga and Relevent Sports Group, which serves as the exclusive representation of LaLiga in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America for all business and development activities. The operation manages the TV/media rights and commercial agreements on behalf of the league and supports the its growth in the region through consumer-related activities including content development, events and activations, marketing agreements, development of youth academies and coaches, exhibition matches, and plans to have an official LaLiga Santander match played in the U.S.
About Black Arrow FC
Black Arrow (FC) is the first platform in the world that focuses on the intersection of soccer and black culture. Powered by authenticity and driven by creativity, we employ soccer as our medium to tell impactful stories and create cultural experiences. Our projects harness the influence of black culture to elevate the perception of soccer in America, allowing us to galvanize the game in urban areas and social circles where it never existed before. We give black soccer players and fans – for the first time in sports media – an opportunity to tell our own stories and craft our own narratives within the world's biggest sport. Founded in Oakland, California – Black Arrow is also committed to introducing and bringing the game of soccer to the African American community in the United States, while internationally, utilizing our shared love of the beautiful game to (re) connect the African diaspora.
About Andscape
Andscape is a Black media platform dedicated to creating, highlighting, and uplifting the diverse stories of Black identity. Magnified by the power and reach of ESPN and The Walt Disney Company, the Andscape umbrella includes an editorial division, book publishing arm, film and television division, and music publishing group – each united by the shared mission of illuminating the culture and experience of Blackness. Founded in 2022, Andscape is a reimagination, expansion and diversification of The Undefeated's former platform.
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WATCH LIVE: Former Vice President Pence to speak in Florence
Published: Jul. 20, 2022 at 6:52 PM EDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
FLORENCE, S.C. (WIS) -
Former Vice President Mike Pence will be speaking in Florence tonight.
Pence is scheduled to speak at the Florence Baptist Temple beginning at 7 p.m.
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1970s cold case remains open after investigators exhume wrong body at cemetery
HAMDEN, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - Police in Connecticut are looking to use DNA to crack a nearly 50-year-old cold case. But they first need to recover the victim’s body after digging up the wrong one.
The East Haven Police Department said the issue is the case goes back decades, and the Hamden cemetery records aren’t that great with many unmarked graves.
“We’re going off of basically a handwritten drawing of the cemetery and of the plots. What we’re finding is that there are a large number of unmarked graves, and there is a number of people who weren’t necessarily documented when they were buried,” said East Haven Police Chief Joseph Murgo.
WFSB reports the grass is high inside the old cemetery, and some of the tombstones date back centuries.
In August 1975, police said a woman was strangled with her body found in a ditch where a Carmax dealership is currently located.
“Throughout the years, several generations of detectives investigated the case, but we were never able to identify her. We were never able to lock in on a definite suspect,” Murgo said.
Investigators said they discovered “Jane Doe” was buried in Hamden’s State Street Cemetery. With advances in DNA testing, they’re hoping to crack the case but finding her has been difficult.
“The State Street Cemetery has been abandoned for many years; it has come under fire for keeping really inaccurate records. So, that’s a challenge we’re facing,” Murgo said.
Authorities said they know the woman’s remains are in a specific area, but the casket exhumed on Wednesday contained the remains of a man and not their “Jane Doe.”
However, investigators said they’re not about to give up.
“Forty-seven years is a long time to wonder what happened to your loved one, and there is somebody out there that wants some sense of closure. It’s our hope that we’re able to bring that sense of closure to our victim’s family,” Murgo said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Three children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a school in the Nashville neighborhood of Green Hills on Monday morning.
The Nashville Fire Department said the shooting happened at The Covenant School, a private Christian school with an enrollment of about 200 students from preschool to sixth grade. It was initially reported as an “active shooter” incident.
The fire department said medics were treating “multiple patients,” and the total number of people injured was not immediately clear.
Three children and two adults who were brought to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds died from their injuries, the hospital confirmed to Nexstar’s WKRN.
Nashville police reported that officers “engaged” the shooter, who is dead. It was not immediately clear whether the shooter was one of the two adults confirmed dead.
The ages of the victims were also not immediately released.
A reunification area was established at the nearby Woodmont Baptist Church for parents to meet their children who attend The Covenant School, the fire department said. Some students could be seen walking to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to the nearby church.
The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. The school is located in the affluent Green Hill neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, situated close to the cities top universities and home to the famed Bluebird Café – a beloved spot for musicians and song writers.
The grade school has 33 teachers, the website said. The school’s website features the motto “Shepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood.”
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Frenkie de Jong has declared he has no intention of leaving Barcelona amid continued links with Manchester United.
The 25-year-old midfielder was heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford in the off-season but it never materialized despite the best efforts of United's Dutch manager Erik ten Hag to convince him.
The situation was complicated by De Jong's contractual situation with financially embattled Barcelona, turning it into a drawn-out saga, fueling talk United could move for him again at the end of this season.
But De Jong has made clear that he has no intention to depart Camp Nou, where he is contracted until 2026.
"I was calm because I knew I wanted to stay at Barca and I haven't changed my mind," De Jong told RAC1.
"I had always dreamed of playing for Barcelona and I want to succeed at Barca. Right now I'm calm and I want to continue at Barca."
De Jong, who joined Barcelona from Ajax in 2019, added that he had plenty left to achieve with the Catalans.
"I've never won LaLiga," he said. "It's my fourth year here and it's the time I've been closer. But there is still a long way to go.
"It is our main goal and we will give everything to achieve it."
De Jong has made 18 starts with four appearances off the bench in Barcelona's 24 LaLiga games this term, ensuring he has been a key part of their success, sitting nine points clear with 14 games to play.
"The four-midfielder system benefits me, but beyond that, this year I'm playing more at the base of midfield, where I feel more comfortable," he said.
"And then, I have more freedom to move, to drive and overcome lines. Busquets helps me a lot because he transmits a lot of calmness. He's very confident with the ball and defensively he's much better than people think." | https://www.beinsports.com/us/soccer/video/de-jong-declares-i-want-to-continue-at-barc-2/2052457 | 2023-03-10 15:28:57 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/us/soccer/video/de-jong-declares-i-want-to-continue-at-barc-2/2052457 |
Freeze-dried blueberries recalled due to possible high level of lead
Published: Jul. 20, 2022 at 8:16 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - A nationwide recall has been announced for some pouches of Natierra organic freeze-dried blueberries because they could contain too much lead.
The recall is for 1.2-ounce pouches that are labeled best used by December 2024 or January 2025. The pouches could have been purchased in stores or online.
Customers can check the lot number on the bottom right of the pouch to see if it has been recalled.
Lead poisoning is especially dangerous to children. It can lead to learning disorders, developmental defects and long-term health problems.
The company is offering refunds for the recalled products.
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100 YEARS AGO
June 4, 1923: Today is alumni day at the Illinois State Normal University, and scores of graduates of other years will return to meet their classmates of yore. Of the class of 1873, the best known in Illinois is probably Dr. Edmund J. James, on account of his long connection with the University of Illinois as president of that institution. He now lives a few miles east of Los Angeles.
75 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1948: A new state-approved sewage disposal system will be in operation at Camp Heffernan on Lake Bloomington when Boy Scout campers come next week. The system is the first entirely sanitary system at the Lake. Two tanks collect drainage from kitchens, toilets and the shower house.
50 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1973: Bloomington firefighters voted 5-1 against a new contract proposal offered by the city. Neither side would reveal terms of the proposal. A representative of the firefighters' union would only say that the "contract as a whole was turned down 5 to 1."
25 YEARS AGO
June 6, 1998: Tempa Bevington, a former engineer at General Motors who moved to Danvers in retirement, pinched pennies during her life and left an estate of roughly $450,000 after her death in 1996. About half was left to residents of Danvers Township, who can now use it to take adult education classes. Guardian Darwin Stubblefield said Bevington particularly felt it was vital that women be educated so they could take care of themselves financially.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nothing seems to slow down 82-year-old Marvin Anderson, especially when it comes to talking about his neighborhood.
“My family community ties go back to 1903,” he said.
However, those ties were once nearly severed by a multi-lane strip of asphalt.
“It was a decision that destroyed lives, wiped out dreams,” Anderson said. “It interrupted the American dream.”
The Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota is now a neighborhood divided.
Decades ago, urban planners building Interstate 94 forewent a more northerly route which would have taken out fewer homes, and decided to split in half the historic African American community of Rondo.
The decision took out hundreds of homes and businesses, including the home belonging to Marvin Anderson’s grandmother and the one that belonged to his parents.
“My father and so many other mothers and fathers in Rondo were devastated by the decision,” he said.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, between the 1950s and 1970s, more than 475,000 homes were destroyed and more than one million people displaced during the construction of tens of thousands of miles of interstate highways.
The vast majority of those homes belonged to people in communities of color, mainly in Black neighborhoods.
Like in other cities around the country, the decision about where the interstates would be built came down to race and the so-called “urban renewal” efforts during that time, according to Keith Baker, executive director of ReConnect Rondo.
“It was 700 homes and 300 businesses,” Baker said. “If we really think about what the lost generational wealth is, if those homes were here today, the value would be $157 million.”
As the name implies, ReConnect Rondo is a nonprofit working to reconnect the highway-divided neighborhood.
“Can we actually create a structure that not only physically connects that community, but also emotionally connects the community?” Baker asked.
Their idea is to build a land bridge, similar to ones found in Denver, Dallas and Seattle.
As demonstrated in an animation shown by ReConnect Rondo, the land bridge would essentially create a structure that sits over the highway, allowing homes, businesses and parks to be built above it.
“We were even successful enough to get $6.2 million from the state legislature for pre-development,” Baker said.
Now, there is a potential boost for Rondo and other interstate-divided communities across the country.
To try and address what happened during the construction of the interstate system, the U.S. Department of Transportation is offering up $1 billion to begin the process of improving those affected communities and helping them reconnect.
“I think that's a tremendous starting place,” Baker said. “It allows for communities that aren't as far as Rondo, to kind of begin to think through the planning process, but it also allows for organizations like Rondo to take now our project to another phase.”
For Marvin Anderson, championing that effort is personal.
At a plaza that celebrates historic Rondo, all that is left of his parents’ and their neighbors’ homes are a few slabs of their old streets. They were placed there as a reminder of what once was, but it’s what could be that remains Anderson’s focus.
“I'm thinking about creating a generation of new young people that can think beyond the limitations of that freeway,” he said.
It is in the hopes that their community, like others, might become whole once more. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/interstate-divided-neighborhoods-look-to-be-made-whole-with-federal-funding | 2022-07-27 19:35:49 | 1 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/interstate-divided-neighborhoods-look-to-be-made-whole-with-federal-funding |
MINNEAPOLIS, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
If you purchased boxed or case-ready Beef processed from Fed Cattle, from January 1, 2015, through May 25, 2023, for business use in commercial food preparation in the United States, excluding ground beef made exclusively from culled cows, a class action settlement may affect your rights.
A Settlement has been reached in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs with Defendants JBS USA Food Company, Swift Beef Company, JBS Packerland, Inc. and JBS S.A., and all their predecessors; successors; assigns; affiliates; and any and all past, present, and future parents, owners, subsidiaries, divisions, and departments (collectively "JBS" or "Settling Defendants"). This Settlement only applies to JBS and does not dismiss claims against other Defendants in the case entitled In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litigation (Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiff Action), Case No. 22-md-3031 (D. Minn.). The Settlement requires JBS to pay $25,000,000. There will be no payments to the Settlement Class at this time. You will be notified later of an opportunity to file a claim. Before any money is paid, the Court will hold a hearing to decide whether to approve the Settlement.
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota authorized this notice. This Court-ordered notice may affect your rights. Please read this notice carefully.
WHO IS INCLUDED?
For settlement purposes, members of the Settlement Class are defined as all persons and entities who during the Settlement Class Period indirectly purchased for business use in commercial food preparation in the United States, from any of the Defendants or their respective subsidiaries and affiliates, boxed or case-ready Beef processed from Fed Cattle, excluding ground beef made exclusively from culled cows from January 1, 2015, to May 25, 2023.
All Settlement Class members are members of the nationwide class. Only Settlement Class members in the following jurisdictions are eligible to potentially recover money from the settlement funds: Arkansas, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and/or any state where a commercial indirect purchaser claim is permissible.
If you are not sure if you are included, you can get more information, including a detailed notice, at www.BeefCommercialCase.com or by calling toll-free 1-888-570-3771.
WHAT IS THIS LAWSUIT ABOUT?
Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs allege that Defendants and their co-conspirators conspired to limit the supply, and fix the prices, of Beef sold to members of the Settlement Class in the United States from at least January 1, 2015, with the intent and expected result of increasing prices of Beef products in the United States, in violation of federal antitrust laws and various state antitrust, consumer protection and unfair trade practices, and unjust enrichment laws. The Court did not decide which side was right, but both sides agreed to the Settlement to resolve the case. The case is still proceeding on behalf of Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants who may be subject to separate settlements, judgments, or class certification orders.
WHAT DOES THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDE?
If the Settlement is approved, JBS will pay $25,000,000 to resolve all Settlement Class members' claims against JBS for the Released Claims (as defined in the Settlement Agreement). In addition to this monetary benefit, JBS has also agreed to provide specified cooperation in Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs' continued prosecution of the litigation. The Settlement Agreement is on the Settlement Website at www.BeefCommercialCase.com.
No money will be distributed at this time. Settlement Class Counsel will continue to pursue the lawsuit against the other Defendants. Settlement Class Counsel may request that the Court award attorneys' fees and permit the reimbursement of certain litigation costs and expenses. Settlement Class Counsel will also seek permission to set aside up to seven percent of the Settlement Fund for future litigation expenses to be used in the continuing lawsuit against the non-settling Defendants and will seek service awards for the class representative. When Settlement Class Counsel's motion for fees, costs, expenses, and service awards is filed, it will be available on the Settlement Website at www.BeefCommercialCase.com. All Settlement funds that remain after payment of the Court-ordered attorneys' fees, costs, expenses, and service awards will be distributed at the conclusion of the lawsuit or as ordered by the Court. You will be notified later, when there is an opportunity to make a claim to receive a payment.
Settlement Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys' fees based on their services in this litigation, not to exceed one third of the Settlement Fund net of any expense reimbursement and class representative service awards. Settlement Class Counsel will ask to be reimbursed for certain expenses already incurred on behalf of the Settlement Class in an amount up to $1 million and will also seek permission to set aside up to seven percent of the gross Settlement Fund for future litigation expenses to be used in the continuing lawsuits against the non-settling Defendants. Settlement Class Counsel will also seek service awards of up to $15,000 for each class representative. Any payment to the attorneys or class representative will be subject to Court approval, and the Court may award less than the requested amount. The attorneys' fees, costs, expenses, and service awards that the Court orders, plus the costs to administer the Settlement, will come out of the Settlement Fund. Settlement Class Counsel may seek additional attorneys' fees, costs, expenses, and service awards from any other settlements or recoveries obtained in the future. When Settlement Class Counsel's motion for fees, costs, expenses, and service awards is filed, it will be available at www.BeefCommercialCase.com. The motion will be posted on the website at least 14 days before the deadline for objecting, commenting on, or excluding yourself from the Settlement. You will have an opportunity to comment on this request. All Settlement funds that remain after payment of the Court-ordered attorneys' fees, costs, expenses, and service awards will be distributed at the conclusion of the lawsuit or as ordered by the Court. You will be notified later, if and when there is an opportunity to make a claim to receive a payment.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND OPTIONS?
You do not need to take any action to remain a member of the Settlement Class and be bound by the Settlement Agreement. As a Settlement Class member, you may be able to participate in (or exclude yourself from) any future settlements or judgments obtained by Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants in the case.
If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement Agreement, you must exclude yourself. Your exclusion request must be postmarked by August 14, 2023, or you will not be able to sue or to continue suing the JBS Released Parties for the Released Claims (as defined in the Settlement Agreement). If you exclude yourself, you cannot get money from the Settlement. If you do not exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you may object to the Settlement. Your objection must be postmarked by August 14, 2023. The detailed notice explains how to exclude yourself or object. Details may also be found on the FAQs page of the Settlement website at www.BeefCommercialCase.com.
While this Settlement is only with JBS at this time, the Settlement Class includes purchasers of Beef products (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) from Fed Cattle (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) from any of the Defendants or their co-conspirators. If you are a member of the Settlement Class and do not exclude yourself, you may be eligible to participate in (or exclude yourself from) any additional settlements which may arise with any other Defendants in the case.
The Court will hold a hearing in this case In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litigation (Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiff Action), Case No. 22-md-3031 (D. Minn.) on November 21, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. via video conference, to consider whether to approve the Settlement Agreement. You may ask to speak at the hearing, but you do not have to.
This notice is a summary only. You can find more details about the Settlement at www.BeefCommercialCase.com or by calling toll-free 1-888-570-3771. Do not contact the Court.
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Robotec.ai joins Open 3D Foundation, releases gems to extend Open 3D Engine for robotics simulation
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) today announced increased adoption in the robotics industry, which is collectively looking to Open 3D Engine (O3DE) for robotic simulations because of its modularity and core functions across content creation, physics and sensor simulations.
Robotec.ai, a software leader that develops solutions for autonomous, connected cars, is joining O3DF in its pursuit to build an open source future for robotic simulation. Robotec.ai joins more than 20 other O3DF members and represents the growing number of companies using O3DE for a variety of use cases, from gaming and robotics to film and high-fidelity simulations, among others. O3DF saw massive growth over the last 12 months with more than 500 active online participants, nearly 200 authors of code and almost eight million changes to lines. This represents the increasingly diverse O3DE community and use cases.
The modular O3DE architecture is made possible through Gems, plug-ins that enable users to customize and extend the engine's capabilities to address their unique applications, including games, simulations and many other 3D use cases. Robotec.ai has created two Gems to extend the engine's capabilities for robotics simulations.
The O3DE ROS2 Gem, created in collaboration with AWS Game Tech and Open Robotics, integrates O3DE with the Robotics Operating System (ROS), which is being used in NASA's VIPER mission to the moon. You can also learn more about the O3DE ROS2 Gem in this blog, and see it in action in these demos: fruit-picking robots simulation and robot vacuum simulation.
The O3DE RGL Gem powers high-performance Lidar simulation. You can read more about the O3DE RGL Gem in this blog.
"Traditional and commercial simulation engines are often insufficient for the complexity and scale of modern robotics applications," said Royal O'Brien, General Manager of Digital Media and Games at the Linux Foundation & Executive Director of the Open 3D Foundation. "Integrated with the modern Robotic Operating System (ROS), O3DE can be used in robotics applications without the need for wrappers or bridges and will accelerate robotic development and innovation. Robotec.ai is a clear leader advancing this work, and we are excited about their O3DE contributions."
As an O3DF member, Robotec.ai will continue to contribute to the advancement of O3DE through code contributions, bug fixes and feedback on new features. The company will also participate in new O3DE projects, joint research initiatives and the development and documenting of best practices. Robotec.ai will be an O3DE advocate by recommending the engine to customers and partners, driving adoption and standardization across the industry, and collaborating on training and tools that improve Robtec.ai products and customer experiences.
"Robotec.ai is fully embracing O3DE as the future simulation engine for robotics. Our O3DF membership represents this belief and our commitment to O3DE development and collaboration," said Adam Dąbrowski, VP of Robotics and Simulation, Robotec.ai. "Joining the Open 3D Foundation can help Robotec.ai stay at the forefront of the 3D content creation and distribution industry and gain valuable access to resources and support that drives growth and innovation."
For more information about Robotec.ai's work with O3DE, please listen to our discussion with Adam Dąbrowski in this episode of Tales from the 3rd Dimension. A panel on O3DE for robotics simulations will be hosted and live in the coming weeks.
About the Open 3D Engine
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is the flagship project managed by the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF). The open-source project is a modular, cross-platform 3D engine built to power anything from AAA games to cinema-quality 3D worlds to high-fidelity simulations. The code is hosted on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. To learn more, please visit o3de.org and get involved and connect with the community on Discord.com/invite/o3de and GitHub.com/o3de.
About the Open 3D Foundation
Established in July 2021, the mission of the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) is to make an open-source, fully-featured, high-fidelity, real-time 3D engine for building games and simulations, available to every industry. The Open 3D Foundation is home to the O3D Engine project. To learn more, please visit o3d.foundation.
About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including “Goodfellas,” died Friday. He was 79.
Sirico died at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said his manager, Bob McGowen. There was no immediate information on the cause of death.
A statement from Sirico’s family confirmed the death of Gennaro Anthony “Tony” Sirico “with great sadness, but with incredible pride, love and a whole lot of fond memories.”
McGowan, who represented Sirico for more than two decades, recalled him as “loyal and giving,” with a strong philanthropic streak. That included helping ex-soldiers’ causes, which hit home for the Army veteran, his manager said.
Steven Van Zandt, who played opposite Sirico as fellow mobster Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos,” saluted him on Twitter as “legendary.”
“A larger than life character on and off screen. Gonna miss you a lot my friend,” the actor and musician said.
Michael Imperioli, who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos,” called Sirico his “dear friend, colleague and partner in crime.”
“Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i’ve ever known,” Imperioli said on Instagram.
Sirico was unconcerned about being cast in a string of bad guy roles, McGowan said, most prominently that of Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri in the 1999-2007 run of the acclaimed HBO drama starring James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano. (Gandolfini died in 2013 at age 51).
“He didn’t mind playing a mob guy, but he wouldn’t play an informant,” or as Sirico put it, a “snitch,” McGowan said.
Sirico, born July 29, 1942, in New York City, grew up in the Flatbush and Bensonhurst neighborhoods where he said “every guy was trying to prove himself. You either had to have a tattoo or a bullet hole.”
“I had both,” he told the Los Angeles Times in a 1990 interview, calling himself ”unstable” during that period of his life. He was arrested repeatedly for criminal offenses, he said, and was in prison twice. In his last stint behind bars, in the 1970s, he saw a performance by a group of ex-convicts and caught the acting bug.
“I watched ’em and I thought, ‘I can do that.’ I knew I wasn’t bad looking. And I knew I had the (guts) to stand up and (bull) people,” he told the Times. “You get a lot of practice in prison. I used to stand up in front of these cold-blooded murderers and kidnapers — and make ’em laugh.”
Sirico also was cast outside the gangster mold, playing police officers in the films “Dead Presidents” and “Deconstructing Harry.” Among his other credits were Woody Allen films including “Bullets over Broadway” and “Mighty Aphrodite,” and appearances on TV series including “Miami Vice” and voice roles on “Family Guy” and “American Dad!”
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Giotto release maintains technological leadership of the Opus IVS diagnostic platform
DETROIT, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Opus IVS™, the pioneering global leader in diagnostics, ADAS calibration, programming, and on-demand remote expert support, is revolutionizing the landscape of safe and complex vehicle repair. Today, Opus IVS proudly announces the launch of Giotto software's latest iteration - release 21.2, seamlessly integrated into the DriveSafe and DrivePro Remote Unlimited products.
The newly enhanced Giotto release sets an unprecedented benchmark, offering comprehensive support for MY23 vehicles, along with strides forward in Ford ADAS, Toyota, GM, and VAG capabilities, encompassing a wide array of new models and cutting-edge ADAS systems.
Users Experiencing the Power of Enhanced Coverage
The latest content update brings the entire MY23 range of Toyota/Lexus/Scion within reach, complemented by additional model support for the Audi e-Tron GT. Furthermore, Opus IVS introduces features such as sensor auto detection speed and network test communications on CAN-29 bit modules for VW/Audi. Ford content enhancements include the F-250/350, 6.7L MY23 support and the Lane Change Warning system test for the X1 chassis. Additionally, the Porsche 992 now benefits from 3.8L support, and all Land Rover vehicles offers integration of Active Commands for DoIP.
"This is not just an ordinary update; it's our most significant leap forward to date. We derive our priorities directly from real-world insights, ensuring our customers receive unparalleled vehicle coverage for collision and mechanical repairs. By providing full model year 23 coverage, we place ourselves as the sole provider in the industry of this level of content in a diagnostic platform. This cutting-edge content is seamlessly integrated with CCC One, maximizing efficiency in the collision repair environment. You have the freedom to choose the scanning method that best suits your repair needs, whether it's OEM scanning or leveraging our exceptional multi-brand capabilities. This is a testament to our unwavering commitment to deliver the utmost value and high-tech solutions to the vehicle repair industry," said Jay Horak, CTO of Opus IVS.
Opus IVS continues to lead the way in innovation, empowering repair technicians with state-of-the-art technology that drives the industry forward. Discover the power of Giotto release 21.2 today and unlock a world of possibilities for safe, complex vehicle repair.
Opus IVS is the Intelligent Vehicle Support division of Opus Group, formed through the merging of industry-leading companies DrewTech, Autologic, Farsight, BlueLink and AutoEnginuity to develop innovative automotive solutions for more than 55,000 repair shops and dealerships worldwide, giving them the confidence to get the most complex vehicles back on the road safely and efficiently. Opus IVS develops industry-leading OEM endorsed diagnostic technology with over 60 patents pending related to remote flash programming, pre- and post-repair scanning, remote technical support, ADAS calibrations and vehicle network technology. The Opus IVS remote technical support connects the shop with 100+ brand-specific Dealer Master Technicians to help interpret trouble codes, review OEM service procedures and provide diagnostic assistance directly through the tool. Opus IVS is a division of Opus Group, which has over 2,800 employees, 35 offices globally and connects to 35M vehicles per year for OBD testing.
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SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Police Department is still searching for Abel Gallegos, who is accused of murdering a 16-year-old in December of 2021.
Crime Stoppers shared a release, saying that Gallegos shot Jeremiah Guenther near the 750 block of Cincinnati Avenue, not far from Woodlawn Lake.
Police said on Dec. 14, Guenther was with a group of friends at a convenience story on Cincinnati Avenue. Gallegos reportedly drove up in a dark gray Ford Focus and later began arguing with the group.
During the argument, Gallegos pulled out a gun, and the victim, with his friends, got into their cars and drove away, police said.
In January, KENS 5 spoke to victim's mother. She said that her son was there with his brother. She said Guenther was not involved in that fight and was in the car the entire time.
The suspect began shooting at the cars, and Guenther, who was a passenger in one of the vehicles, was shot in the head. After being taken to a nearby hospital, he was declared brain dead, and he passed away.
The family decided to donate the teen's organs, which saved the life of a 16-year-old girl.
A warrant has been issued for Gallegos who also has outstanding warrants for Unlawful Carry of a Handgun and Possession of Controlled Substance. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information which leads to an arrest. You can call them at 210-224-STOP. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-police-crime-stoppers-jeremiah-guenther-victim-shooting-december-2021/273-49ecc8e1-6793-449a-bd4a-f74d6994a0ad | 2022-11-11 22:16:41 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-police-crime-stoppers-jeremiah-guenther-victim-shooting-december-2021/273-49ecc8e1-6793-449a-bd4a-f74d6994a0ad |
Matt Alberico joins Dario to help manage expanding growth opportunities after successfully driving customer growth at Amazon Care, Cigna and Aetna
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) (the "Company"), a leader in the global digital therapeutics (DTx) market, announced today the hire of seasoned industry sales leader Matt Alberico as Senior Vice President of Growth to help the Company capitalize on its rapidly growing opportunities across multiple market segments.
Mr. Alberico joins Dario after leading national channel sales and partnerships for Amazon Care. In prior roles, he held sales and account management leadership roles for both Cigna and Aetna. In his new role at Dario, Matt brings valuable sales strategy experience in rapid-growth environments and a deep understanding of the market landscape and buyer needs.
"Matt brings the skills necessary to help Dario capitalize on the strong demand in the market and the deep network connections to accelerate the growth of our leading multi-chronic digital health solution. I'm excited for Matt to join at this juncture in our growth, as we recently signed our 100th contract and the market demand for integrated solutions continues to grow. His experience will be extremely valuable to position Dario for long-term success," said Rick Anderson, President, Dario.
"I'm thrilled to join Dario and help scale our sales efforts and exceed goals for growth as we secure our leadership position in the market. Dario's multi-chronic solution is answering the great demand for more integrated, more personalized solutions, and I look forward to working with the team to help drive momentum and growth in our business across all of our channels," said Matt Alberico, SVP Growth, Dario.
In addition, Dario announced that on January 23, 2023, Mr. Alberico was granted a non-qualified stock option award to purchase 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock, as well as an additional non-qualified performance-based stock option award to purchase an additional 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) outside of the Company's existing equity compensation plans. These options were granted as an inducement material to Mr. Alberico becoming an employee of the Company, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The options have an exercise price per share equal to $5.97, which was the closing price of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market on January 23, 2023. The time-based option vests over a three year period and is subject to a one year cliff beginning on January 23, 2023, subject to his continued employment by the Company on the applicable vesting date. The performance-based option vests in two equal installments upon the Company's attainment for each fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 through December 31, 2024, of specified business to business revenues recognized by the Company, subject in each case to his continued employment by the Company on the applicable vesting date.
About DarioHealth Corp.
DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) is a leading digital therapeutics (DTx) company revolutionizing how people with chronic conditions manage their health through a user-centric multi-chronic condition platform. Our platform and suite of solutions deliver personalized and dynamic interventions driven by data analytics and one-on-one coaching for diabetes, hypertension, weight management, musculoskeletal pain, and behavioral health.
Our user-centric platform offers people continuous and customized care for health, disrupting the traditional episodic approach to healthcare. This approach empowers people to holistically adapt their lifestyles for sustainable behavior change, driving exceptional user satisfaction, retention, and results. Making the right thing to do the easy thing to do.
Dario provides its highly user rated solutions globally to health plans and other payors, self-insured employers, providers of care and directly to consumers. To learn more about DarioHealth and its digital health solutions, or for more information, visit http://dariohealth.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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WUXI, China, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BioCity Biopharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel and highly differentiated, modality-independent therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune disorders, today announced the initiation of a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of its novel, oral endothelin A (ETA)-receptor selective antagonist, SC0062, with the enrollment of two patients with IgA nephropathy(IgAN)in China(NCT05687890). This multi-center study will assess the safety and preliminary efficacy of SC0062 relative to placebo in patients with chronic kidney disease with albuminuria.
The initiation of the Phase 2 trial follows the successful completion of a Phase 1, first-in-human (FIH) trial for SC0062 in healthy volunteers. Clinical data from the FIH study demonstrated a favorable safety profile of SC0062 without reports of the adverse effect of edema in subjects who had received treatment with different doses of SC0062. Currently SC0062 is in Phase 2 clinical development for IgAN and DKD (diabetic kidney disease). Data from the ongoing randomized phase 2 trial are expected in 2024.
Dr. Yong Jiang Hei, Co-CEO of BioCity, stated that ETA receptor antagonists have emerged as a promising therapeutic approach in the field of CKD, and SC0062 is designed with high selectivity for ETA receptors with the objective of ensuring efficacy while avoiding the potential safety risks associated with other molecules in the same class. Biocity Biopharma intends to expedite the ongoing Phase 2 clinical trial of SC0062 in order to generate the data necessary to allow informed decision-making on further development of SC0062.
About BioCity
Founded in December 2017，BioCity is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel and highly differentiated, modality-independent therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune disorders including chronic kidney diseases (CKD). The company has established a pipeline of more than 10 innovative drug candidates including small molecules, monoclonal and bispecific antibodies as well as antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Currently Biocity Biopharma has 6 oncology projects in Phase 1 development, including agents targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) pathway via a WEE1 and an ATR inhibitor, and agents targeting the immune system with a T cell engager (CD3XEGFR BsAb), an immune checkpoint inhibitor (TIM-3 mAb), and a T cell activator (4-1BB mAb). A FIH study for the novel CDH3-targeting ADC has been initiated with patient enrollment expected in the beginning of the 2H of 2023. In addition, an endothelin A(ETA)-receptor selective antagonist designed for CKD has entered phase 2 development.
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LEXINGTON, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington honored the class of 2023 during a commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 16.
Three hundred and six cadets graduated this week, and just over half of them have been commissioned into the armed services.
Major General Cedric T. Wins, the superintendent of VMI, acknowledged that the class of 2023 went through some unique challenges to reach their graduation day. The class came to VMI at the end of 2019 and had to spend a large part of their time at the school in virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Class of 2023 also dealt with tragedy early in their academic life One of the cadets, Jamison Clark, died in November of the class’s first year. Clark was honored at commencement with a brick effigy, which his classmates also brought to other important ceremonies during their time at VMI.
Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin made the keynote address, asking the graduates how they would answer an essential question — “who am I?”
“You live by a code that incorporates words like integrity, character, respect, and stands against prejudice, hate and oppression, that honors our great country, commonwealth, Corps, family, and friends,” Youngkin said. “Class of 2023, when you ask yourself ‘Who am I?’ Stand tall, and answer confidently because you are a VMI Graduate, and you will inspire the world.”
After this speech, Youngkin was presented with a saber from Cameron Cavanaugh, the President of Class ’23.
This is not the first time the school and the governor have crossed paths — VMI cadets marched at Youngkin’s inauguration ceremony in January 2022.
While all the graduating cadets were honored during Tuesday’s ceremony, two graduates recieved special honors. Samuel H. Wolfe, the class valedictorian, received the First Jackson-Hope Medal for highest attainment in scholarship and the Society of the Cincinnati Medal, for efficiency of service and excellence of character.
The Second Jackson-Hope Medal for second highest attainment in scholarship went to electrical and computer engineering major Philip M. Argauer. | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-military-institute-honors-over-300-cadets-in-commencement-ceremony/ | 2023-05-17 23:11:18 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-military-institute-honors-over-300-cadets-in-commencement-ceremony/ |
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022.
The automaker announced Friday that it plans to build more of the Mustang Mach-E, the Bronco Sport SUV and Maverick small pickup, the F-150 Lightning electric pickup, and the Transit and E-Transit gas and electric full-size vans.
To help increase production, Ford last year said it would add a third shift and 1,100 jobs at its full-size van plant in Claycomo, Missouri, near Kansas City, and another 3,200 jobs related to building the F-150 Lightning which is made in Dearborn, Michigan.
Ford will also hire an unspecified number of new workers this year at plants in Cuautitlan and Hermosillo, Mexico, where the Mach-E, Maverick and Bronco Sport are made, according to spokesman Said Deep. Production line speeds will increase shortly to raise output, with more workers coming later, he said.
For more than two years, U.S. auto sales have been depressed largely due to a shortage of computer chips during the coronavirus pandemic. But the chip shortage is easing and automakers like Ford are starting to increase production and build supplies on dealer lots.
Overall in the U.S., auto sales fell almost 8% last year to just under 14 million, with Ford’s dropping just over 2%, according to Autodata Corp. But in February, overall industry sales rose 9.5% over the same month a year ago, according to LMC Automotive, which sees sales increasing to 15 million this year. Ford sales were up almost 22% in February.
“The industry is on its track back,” said Jeff Schuster, executive vice president of automotive for LMC and Global Data.
Shares of Ford closed Friday up 4.2%, getting a boost after the production announcement was made.
At crosstown rival General Motors, full-size pickup truck inventory rebounded enough that it will shut down a factory in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, for two weeks starting March 27 to control it.
Ford suspended production of the F-150 Lightning in February after a battery caught fire during a pre-delivery quality check. Deep said the battery issue has been resolved and production will resume March 13 to an annual rate of 150,000.
Mach-E production will rise to an annual rate of 210,000 by year’s end, while the company plans to boost Bronco Sport and Maverick production by 80,000 vehicles this year. Transit and E-Transit production will rise by 38,000 this year.
Sales are up so far this year for all the models that will see production increases.
The production jumps are good news for consumers, who have had long wait times for some more popular models and have been forced to pay high prices due to strong demand and short supplies.
J.D. Power reported that the average U.S. new vehicle sold for $46,229 last month, a record for the month of February.
But as the chip shortage eases and automakers can produce more this year, Schuster said there should be some easing of prices even on hot-selling models.
“I would expect some relief on the pricing front,” he said, adding that sticker prices could come down or automakers could offer discounts.
But he said prices will remain high and aren’t expected to return to pre-pandemic levels. | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ford-to-raise-production-as-us-auto-sales-start-to-recover/ | 2023-03-04 15:16:45 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ford-to-raise-production-as-us-auto-sales-start-to-recover/ |
MARICOPA — Arf-anage Dog Rescue in Maricopa needs help from the community to keep from shutting down.
The dog rescue houses more than 100 dogs coming from Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Many are waiting to find their forever home, according to founder Cathy Rowe.
"When I was a kid, people would say that I have a way with animals that nobody else could touch, so I just have always loved animals," she says. "I started fostering for a rescue and from there it just blossomed into [me] starting my own rescue."
Arf-anage Dog Rescue started in North Phoenix nearly a decade ago, then briefly in Queen Creek, and eventually ending up in Maricopa.
Recently, one of the landowners wants their half of the property, which amounts to $120,000, leaving Arf-anage Dog Rescue with two options: sell the ranch, or pay it off.
So far, a little more than $10,000 has been raised.
If it can't be paid, Rowe says they would probably send the dogs to a county shelter.
"They would probably be euthanized." Rowe states. "We just want to keep our dog here and give them a life they deserve."
A GoFundMe is set-up where people can donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-dog-ranch | https://www.abc15.com/news/uplifting-arizona/arizona-dog-rescue-shelter-in-need-of-rescuing-itself | 2022-04-30 05:04:48 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/uplifting-arizona/arizona-dog-rescue-shelter-in-need-of-rescuing-itself |
The Biden administration proposed new standards Tuesday that could make it more difficult to classify millions of workers as independent contractors and deny them minimum wage and benefits.
The U.S. Department of Labor rule, which could take months to take effect, would replace a scrapped Trump-era standard that had lowered the bar for classifying employees as contractors, workers who are not covered by federal minimum wage laws and are not entitled to benefits including health insurance and paid sick days.
The reaction in markets for major gig companies was immediate. Shares of the ride-hailing company Lyft fell 12% while rival Uber tumbled about 10%, although both companies dismissed the significance of the new proposal and its potential to affect their business.
In one key change, employers are required to consider whether the work provided is an integral part of their business. That could affect app-based companies that rely almost entirely on freelance workers to provide their services. The Trump-era rule had narrowed that criteria to whether the work in part of an integrated unit of production, and gave more weight to other considerations such as the worker’s opportunity to make a profit or loss.
The new rule directs employers to consider six criteria for determining whether a worker is an employee or a contractor, without predetermining whether one outweighs the other. The criteria also include the degree of control by the employer, whether the work requires special skills, the degree of permanence of the relationship between worker and employer and the investment a worker makes, such as car payments.
The rule, however, does not carry the same weight as a law passed by Congress or state legislatures, nor does it specify whether any specific company or industry should reclassify their workers. Rather, it offers an interpretation of who should qualify for protections under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
The rule could bolster labor advocates seeking to challenge worker classification in courts, or state lawmakers seeking to pass stricter laws for designating workers as contractors, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
“It creates a base from which to work and it discourages predatory companies that want to lower their costs by denying basic rights to their employees,” said Campos-Medina.
Still, there is room for interpretation since some companies might meet one set of criteria for contractor designation, but not others.
“I don’t think it will stop the debate,” Campos-Medina said. “The only thing the federal rule does is it creates a basic standard for evaluation.”
The Labor Department said misclassifying workers as independent contractors denies those workers protections under federal labor standards, promotes wage theft, allows certain employers to gain an unfair advantage over businesses, and hurts the economy.
“While independent contractors have an important role in our economy, we have seen in many cases that employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors, particularly among our nation’s most vulnerable workers,” said Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh in a prepared statement.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said the proposal would constitute a major change for workers and employers from previous years.
“A classification to employees would essentially throw the business model upside down and cause some major structural changes if this holds,” Ives wrote.
But both Uber and Lyft dismissed the potential impact of the new rule.
“Today’s proposed rule takes a measured approach, essentially returning us to the Obama era, during which our industry grew exponentially” CR Wooters, head of federal affairs at Uber, said in a statement.
In a blog post, Lyft said the company had expected this change since the start of the Biden administration.
“Importantly this rule: Does not reclassify Lyft drivers as employees. Does not force Lyft to change our business model,” the company said.
The new rule is subject to a 45-day period ending Nov. 28 during which stakeholders can submit comments, and may not take effect for months.
Gig economy giants have weathered past attempts in the U.S. to require their drivers to be classified as employees.
In 2020, California voters overwhelmingly approved a proposition to exempt drivers for app-based companies from a state law requiring them to be designated as employees. Uber, Lyft and other companies had spent $200 million campaigning in favor of the proposition. However, a judge struck down the ballot measure as unconstitutional last year, setting up a legal fight that could end up in the California Supreme Court.
App-based companies have long argued that their workers want the flexibility to set their own hours as contract workers.
Beyond gig workers, the new law has the potential to change the circumstances of millions of custodians, truck drivers, waiters, construction workers and others, according to the Labor Department.
Workers themselves are divided over the debate. In California, for example, hundreds of port truck drivers seeking to preserve their independent contractor status shut down operations in the Port of Oakland last summer to protest the state’s gig workers law. But other truckers have successfully fought to force their companies to classify them as employees with full benefits. | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-labor-proposal-could-upend-rules-for-gig-workers-companies/ | 2022-10-11 21:19:14 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-labor-proposal-could-upend-rules-for-gig-workers-companies/ |
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Jarell Skinner-Roy, University of Michigan
(THE CONVERSATION) When a video emerged of a 20-year-old Black student being arrested at Winston-Salem State University on Dec. 14, 2022, after she got into a verbal argument with her professor, it brought renewed attention to the often controversial role of campus police. Here, Jarell Skinner-Roy, a University of Michigan doctoral student who is examining how students of color view police and surveillance on college and university campuses, breaks down the significance of the episode at the historically Black college in North Carolina.
What does this video prove?
For me, this is additional evidence of how colleges and universities often function as an extension of what some scholars refer to as the “carceral state.” That includes penal institutions, but it also involves people’s views on when law enforcement should get involved in disputes and altercations.
A wide body of research has already found that people of color are disproportionately affected by the carceral state. My preliminary research is beginning to show that this also holds true in higher education.
To me, this incident is also an example of how colleges and universities weaponize police against students. In this case, a university staff member – who was not involved in the dispute – decided to call campus law enforcement on this Black student. Other students in the video can be heard saying that the student did not start the argument.
Elwood L. Robinson, the chancellor at Winston-Salem State University, denied that this incident is a case of police being weaponized against students. In the video, the student is shown being handcuffed by police as she questions why police were called.
In my view, there were other more productive and safer ways to handle this verbal disagreement between a professor and a student. Yet, in this case, university officials have defended the decision to call campus police.
“In accordance with law enforcement procedures, our officer’s first priority is to assess the situation and provide every opportunity for a positive resolution,” Robinson said. “As situations escalate, their responsibility is to ensure the safety of the students, faculty and staff members that are present.”
The chancellor denied that the incident was a case of police being weaponized.
“We understand that the weaponization of police is a prevalent problem in our community,” Robinson said. “However, that is not what happened in this incident.”
Why is this problematic?
When colleges and universities are so intimately tied with the carceral state through their partnerships with police departments as well as their own law enforcement agencies, punishment will always take precedence over safety. In this case, this student is now facing criminal charges for misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
This theme of prioritizing punishment over safety directly aligns with the preliminary findings of my ongoing research on campus policing with the Campus Abolition Research Lab at the University of Michigan. In interviews I did with 40 students in focus groups earlier in 2022, one preliminary finding is students of color often report having had negative experiences with campus police. They also report being unfairly monitored and reprimanded and therefore do not feel safe around them.
Is this a one-time thing or systemic and widespread?
I believe it’s important not to see these incidents as unfortunate yet isolated cases. In reality, there have been many documented incidents of colleges and universities weaponizing police against their students. Some recent and notable examples include a Georgia State University officer removing two Black students from their classroom for being tardy earlier this year, several campus police officers at Barnard College restraining a Black student who was trying to enter the campus library, and a Yale police officer holding at Black student at gunpoint who was just walking home from the library in 2015.
Furthermore, there have been many tragic incidents of campus law enforcement killing students on campus, including at Cal State San Bernardino in 2012 and Georgia Tech in 2017.
Colleges and universities have a long tradition of weaponizing police or even soldiers against their students, especially as a means of quelling student protests, as was the case in the deadly shootings at Kent State University and Jackson State University in 1970.
What can colleges do?
First, I believe institutions must examine their current policies and practices regarding campus safety, policing, surveillance and student discipline through an abolitionist view, which envisions other ways to repair harms instead of relying on police or penal institutions.
Relatedly, the experiences and voices of students — especially racially marginalized students — must be heard and prioritized in this review of campus safety policies and practices. Students from all over the country have demanded reforms to policing on campus, such as reallocating resources away from campus police departments or having campus police not be armed. If institutional leaders were serious about making changes, they would make sure to hear and learn from those who are most affected by these policies.
Lastly, I believe higher education must begin to redirect funding for campus police toward other programs and services that keep students healthy and safe, such as mental health services or organizations that push for alternatives to police and prisons.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/video-of-college-student-arrest-raises-questions-about-use-of-police-on-campus-196699. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Video-of-college-student-arrest-raises-questions-17658453.php | 2022-12-16 14:13:29 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Video-of-college-student-arrest-raises-questions-17658453.php |
Man stung more than 250 times in bee attack: ‘Never experienced anything like this’
FLORENCE, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - An Arizona man says he was attacked by killer bees last week while he was out with his dog.
KPHO reports that John Fischer, 60, was sent to the hospital after hundreds of bees swarmed him and his dog while they were out in his neighborhood over the weekend.
Fischer said doctors told him he was stung by killer bees.
“I have never experienced anything like this. I had been stung many times before but nothing where it was more than 10 or 15 stings,” Fischer said.
The 60-year-old said he opened a bag containing the clothes he wore that day after the attack and at least 30 bees came out of them.
He ran over the bag in his wheelchair as an act of revenge.
According to Fischer, the attack happened when he was with his dog riding his wheelchair exercise bike that allows him to pedal with his hands after he lost one of his legs to an infection about eight years ago.
That evening, he said he thought he felt a fly and swatted it away, but it didn’t stop there.
“Next thing I know, there were bees all over me and all over the dog,” Fischer said. “I tried to get across the street, but I couldn’t see because they were going towards my eyes, and they’re all over my face.”
Fischer said he decided to release his dog from the wheelchair, but it ended up tipping over.
“I crawled my way for a period of time to try to get far away from where they were, but they just followed me,” he said.
Surveillance video from that night showed Fischer on the ground trying to use his shirt as a shield over his head against the bees.
The bees weren’t visible from the camera, but they could be seen flying near the lens.
Moments later, first responders showed up. When they approached Fischer, they ran back after the bees started to attack them.
Fire crews then hosed down Fischer while he was on the ground. He was later moved to a stretcher and hosed again before being taken to the hospital.
Fischer said he changed clothes and was given morphine before having the stingers removed.
“They said I had over 250 [stingers],” Fischer said.
First responders reportedly told him there were about 1,000 bees involved in the attack with a couple thousand found in the area.
Fischer was released from the hospital and is currently recovering with bee stings on his arms, eyes, mouth, ears, legs and back.
He said he also has scrapes on his knee and elbows from crawling on the sidewalk.
According to Fischer, his dog was stung more than 50 times and was taken to an animal hospital before being released.
“He’s sick. We’re trying to get him to drink. He is very sore and pretty lethargic,” Fischer said.
The Arizona resident said the attack could have been worse if his daughter was with him as she is allergic to bees and would’ve likely died.
He said he is grateful to the Florence Fire Department for their quick response and appreciated his neighbors who helped search for his dog.
Fischer reminded the community to be extra careful when walking outside and to be observant of nests.
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358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
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to 108 in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ254-132100-
Inland Willacy-
Including the city of Raymondville
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index
values up to 107.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ354-132100-
Coastal Willacy-
Including the city of Port Mansfield
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the upper
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the
upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph, diminishing to 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Hazy with highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Highs in the
lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ248-132100-
Zapata-
Including the city of Zapata
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, hot with highs around 103. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the upper
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, breezy, hot with highs around 101.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, hot with highs around 100.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index
values up to 108.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy, hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy. Hazy, hot. Highs
around 100. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ249-132100-
Jim Hogg-
Including the city of Hebbronville
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, hot with highs around 100. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the upper
90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ250-132100-
Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index values up
to 106.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing
to around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ353-132100-
Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing
to around 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Heat index values up to 107.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the lower 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ251-132100-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the mid
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy with highs in the mid 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index
values up to 109.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat
index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows in the lower 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ351-132100-
Coastal Kenedy-
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the upper
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the lower
90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows in the
upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy with highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Heat index
values up to 106.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Highs in the
lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ454-132100-
Willacy Island-
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs around 90.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows around 80.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy with highs around 90. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows around 80.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Hazy with highs around 90. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ451-132100-
Kenedy Island-
358 AM CDT Mon Jun 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the upper 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy, breezy with lows around 80.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Hazy, breezy with highs in the upper
80s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Hazy with lows around 80.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Hazy with highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hazy. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hazy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly sunny. Hazy. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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AUSTIN, Texas — It was an early morning leaving Plano. And a late night returning there.
A group of about 40 mothers and fathers from across Collin County made the 440-mile round trip to Austin on Monday.
They were hoping for productive conversations about gun laws in Texas, nine days after eight people were killed and another seven were injured when a 33-year-old man armed with multiple guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition opened fire at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
It’s a mall where they all shop.
“It’s just in our backyard now,” said Kelly Karthik.
“How many more people have to die before they listen?” asked Ann Bacchus, who helped organize the trip.
They wore orange t-shirts with the title of their new group, Collin County Parents Against Gun Violence, and set up in a conference room in the capitol extension.
Democrats like state Rep. Victoria Neave Criado of Dallas, state Rep. Salman Bhojani of Hurst, and state Rep. Rhetta Bowers of Dallas were eager to take meetings.
They shared in the parents’ frustration.
“That’s not the type of Texas we want or deserve,” Neave Criado told them.
Lawmakers from Houston and San Antonio stopped by too.
The Collin County families said they wanted clarity on where lawmakers stand on five priorities: raising the age to purchase from 18 to 21, instituting universal background checks with no loopholes, enhancing safe storage laws, passing extreme risk protection orders and creating a three-day waiting period between the purchase of and delivery of a gun.
Every Democrat said they agreed with those priorities.
So, the moms and dads saved their most passionate pleas for their Republican representatives.
“We feel unsafe. We feel scared. We feel angry. We’re frustrated,” Bacchus told state Rep. Jeff Leach, whose district includes Allen.
“When it comes to solutions, I want to be at the table and lock arms with you to pass measures that actually work,” he said.
But, he disagreed with the priorities the group – which included many of his own constituents – put forward.
“Show me the law we could have passed in this building that would have prevented what happened in Allen last Saturday,” Leach told them.
He told them he would not apologize for being a “fierce” supporter of the Second Amendment and that he believed owning a gun was a God-given right that the government is meant to protect.
But, he also said he believes laws could be passed to stop mass shootings from happeningm, like ensuring discharges from the military for mental health reasons appear in background checks.
The group stopped by Republican state Rep. Matt Shaheen’s office and spent a few minutes face-to-face with him before walking to what they thought would be their final meeting of the day with the state senator who represents them.
They were about 10 minutes late to a 4:30 p.m. meeting at state Sen. Angela Paxton’s office.
Paxton’s staff told them they were a larger than expected crowd, so they moved them to a hallway around the corner.
As the group waited, state Rep. Mihaela Plesa, a Democrat from Plano, stopped by.
She had sent her chief of staff to meet with the group earlier in the day because she was in Collin County attending one of the victim’s funerals.
“He should have never been able to legally acquire an arsenal of weapons and go in and commit a hate crime in our county,” Plesa said about the suspect in Allen.
They applauded. And then they kept waiting.
Paxton’s staff told them the senator had been ready to meet with them at 4:30 p.m., but by 4:40 p.m. had moved to the Senate floor to vote and could not leave.
The group waited, but had a bus to catch at 5:3 p.m.
So they left without seeing their senator.
“It’s depressing,” said Maury Marcus who lives in Plano. “I feel that there’s a partisan divide and the pro-gun faction has the upper hand.”
As she was leaving the Capitol rotunda, frustration was visible on Rekha Shenoy’s face.
"I don’t feel good, but I don’t want to give up. So that’s one thing I’m not doing - I’m not giving up," Shenoy said.
The mass shooting in Allen was only the latest in Texas.
Nineteen children and two teachers died at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde.
Twenty-three people died at an El Paso Wal-Mart in August of 2019.
Weeks later, seven people died when a man went on a shooting spree in Midland and Odessa.
This week marks the fifth anniversary of eight students and two teachers being shot and killed at Santa Fe High School.
And in 2017, 26 people died in a church in Sutherland Springs. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/collin-county-texas-parents-lobby-lawmakers-tighter-gun-laws/287-10df5799-a638-45e6-8ff7-969745e879bc | 2023-05-16 05:04:42 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/collin-county-texas-parents-lobby-lawmakers-tighter-gun-laws/287-10df5799-a638-45e6-8ff7-969745e879bc |
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia sheriff on Monday announced the resignations of top jail staff amid an investigation into the death of a man in a bedbug-infested cell in the jail's psychiatric wing.
Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat said in a news release that the three members of his executive team had more than 65 years of collective experience in law enforcement and running a jail. That kind of experience can be invaluable but can also cause “complacency, stagnation & settling for the status quo,” the release said.
“It’s clear to me that it’s time, past time, to clean house,” Labat said, adding that he decided changes were necessary after reviewing preliminary evidence in the internal investigation into the September death of Lashawn Thompson, 35.
Photos from Thompson’s filthy cell spread across social media last week and prompted widespread outrage, including from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, which tweeted, “the word inhumane doesn’t suffice in describing the way #LashawnThompson’s life was disregarded and degraded in a Fulton County jail.”
At a meeting over the weekend, Labat asked for and received the resignations of the chief jailer, assistant chief jailer and assistant chief jailer in the criminal investigative division, the release said.
A lawyer for Thompson's family last week said jail staff did nothing to address Thompson's deteriorating health in the weeks before his death, and he called for a criminal investigation. Thompson was arrested June 12 on a misdemeanor battery charge and was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he died three months later.
Attorney Michael Harper called the conditions at the jail “deplorable,” holding up photos of a dirty, trash-strewn cell that he said was “not fit for a diseased animal.” Photos released by Harper show Thompson's body covered in bugs. The medical examiner's report lists the cause of death as “undetermined” but notes a “severe bed bug infestation.”
Nationally known civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump announced Monday that he had been hired to join Harper in representing Thompson's family.
“It is completely unacceptable to force inmates to live in appalling conditions where they are subjected to insects, grime, and infections. No one should be treated that way. Lashawn and his family deserve full justice for this inhumane treatment," Crump said in a news release.
The investigations into Thompson’s death — an internal investigation and one by the Atlanta Police Department, which responded after Thompson died — are still underway, the release said. Once they’re done, the results will be turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for review.
“The final investigative report will not ease the family’s grief or bring their loved one back, but it is my hope and expectation that it provides a full, accurate and transparent account of the facts surrounding Mr. Thompson’s death so that it provides all of the answers they are seeking and deserve,” Labat said.
In addition to staffing changes, the sheriff's office said it is reviewing legal options to change medical vendors, looking to contract with a provider that can “effectively, consistently and compassionately deliver the best standard of care.”
The sheriff's office said it also spent $500,000 on emergency measures in September to address the infestation of “bed bugs, lice and other vermin." Additionally, 673 detainees are currently housed in other jails at an average cost of $47,000 a day, and the sheriff's office continues to try to transfer other detainees out of the jail to further ease crowding, the release said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/top-jail-staff-forced-out-after-man-s-death-at-17902642.php | 2023-04-17 22:20:55 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/top-jail-staff-forced-out-after-man-s-death-at-17902642.php |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
04-15-26-41-45-50, Extra Shot: 25
(four, fifteen, twenty-six, forty-one, forty-five, fifty; Extra Shot: twenty-five)
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A developer’s plan to build a three-story storage facility nearly double the size of a Publix store, tucked between two residential neighborhoods in the heart of Winter Springs, has riled residents and leaders of this Seminole County city, with one commissioner calling it an “abomination.”
Residents filled a Winter Springs commission meeting earlier this month to protest the proposed structure.
A day later, Mayor Kevin McCann pleaded with Seminole commissioners to reject the project, saying a storage facility of that size and so close to new homes would harm his community.
“It’s right in the heart of our city,” McCann said at the Jan. 10 county meeting. “It would be astronomically damaging to our community. … And it goes right up in front of brand-new, single-family homes. It would be devastating for all these new families who have all moved in.”
The mostly wooded 5 acres sits within an enclave of unincorporated Seminole County east of Tuskawilla Road at the Avery Lake Drive intersection.
Anna Ondick, a Winter Park resident whose family has owned the land for more than half a century, said it was the former site of a slaughterhouse and later a meat processing facility, a relic of the county’s agricultural past. The property has sat vacant since the early 2000s.
Over the years, Ondick has received offers from buyers to purchase the acreage and build storage units. She’s also had an offer to develop it into an assisted living facility and nursing home.
“For me [a storage facility] would be a positive for that area,” she said Thursday. “I would think that with that many homes and that many apartments there, it would be very convenient for the residents. As long as it’s a nice structure, and it fits in with the community.”
Last March, David Axel, of Axel Real Estate in Oviedo, submitted a preliminary application to Seminole to build Tuskawilla Storage. Plans show the building would be about 116,000 square feet and not higher than 35 feet. It would have 75 storage bays, a locking gate and open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The land is currently zoned by the county to allow a warehouse or a self-storage facility.
The application is still under review by staff. A public meeting before Seminole’s planning and zoning board or the county commission for approval had not yet been scheduled this week.
Rebecca Hammock, Seminole’s director of development services, said her staff has been working with the developer during the application process to ensure that the storage facility would be compatible with the surrounding area.
Winter Springs Commissioner Cade Resnick said there are other areas of the city more suitable for a storage facility. He would rather see a development at the site that would draw residents.
“It could look beautiful, but it’s not the right location for a storage facility,” he said. “It would be better to have an entertainment venue, where people could go to restaurants, maybe a breakfast facility.”
He added that Winter Springs — a city made up of mostly homes — has long struggled with attracting shops, restaurants and other commercial development.
“We need more destinations for our residents,” Resnick said. “More places for them to go within our city.”
Winter Springs Deputy Mayor Rob Elliott agreed, saying that a storage facility would not fit near the Avery Park and Tuskawilla Crossings residential neighborhoods.
“It is an abomination,” Elliott said of the plans at the Jan. 9 Winter Springs meeting. “It’s in no way compatible with the folks who live around there or with our community in general in this location.”
He proposed the city purchasing the property.
“We’ll put a library there,” he said. “We’ll put something there that really fits the community and benefits the community.”
Winter Springs could not annex the county enclave unless those property owners agreed. And Ondick said she’s not interested in making her land part of Winter Springs.
City officials acknowledged that ultimately the decision about a new storage facility is up to county leaders to decide.
Even so, nearby resident Karen Myer told city commissioners that a storage facility of that size is not “the proper place” for her area.
“It would devalue the residential properties in our community,” she said.
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Thirty-eight percent of US Adults have decreased the amount of impulse spending this year, as compared to 14% in 2022 and 16% in 2021
LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Impulse buying is down in 2023, according to an annual survey commissioned by Slickdeals, the only shopping platform powered by millions of avid shoppers sharing and discovering the most up-to-date online deals and coupons.
Commissioned by Slickdeals and conducted by OnePoll, the study of 2,000 American impulse shoppers found that 38% have decreased the amount of impulse spending this year, as compared to 14% in 2022 and 16% in 2021.
The number of impulse purchases per month also saw a dip this year, with the average respondent making just six impulse purchases per month. That number is down from twelve purchases per month both in 2022 and 2021 and nine per month in 2020.
Respondents are also spending less overall on impulse purchases. The average person is only spending $151 impulsively per month, which is down from previous years ($314 in 2022, $276 in 2021 and $183 in 2020).
Seven in ten have saved money as a result of holding back on their impulse shopping habits, an increase from what was reported in previous studies (58% in 2022).
Seventy-seven percent have been conscientious about their budget this year because of inflation — 39% said they spend more impulsively on necessities than luxuries (19%). The most common impulse shopping categories this year are clothing (55%), food and groceries (50%), and household items (42%).
A third (35%) said some of their impulse buys were done to escape the feeling of FOMO, a steep decrease from 2022, where 67% made purchases to be part of the "in" crowd.
"With shoppers stating that they are more likely to make impulse purchases on necessities than luxuries, while simultaneously reporting a decrease in impulse spending, we may be seeing a shift in how consumers define an impulse purchase," said Vitaly Pecharsky, head of deals for Slickdeals. "Shopping opportunistically when there's a sale on something you need like toilet paper or pantry snacks can ultimately save you money in the long run."
Results found that 36% of respondents admit most of their purchases were impulsive, compared to 73% in 2022.
And while 48% said they shop the most from their phones (up from 33% in 2022), only 43% are more likely to spend impulsively while shopping from bed — a sharp decrease from 71% last year.
While 32% in 2022 reported they would only make impulsive purchases if an item was on sale, 58% this year would make the same claim. Over half (53%) always or often look for deals or coupons before making a purchase.
Pecharsky added, "Budgeting for impulse purchases may seem counterintuitive, but by shopping when there's a sale on something that you need, you are spending less on items that you likely would have purchased anyway. By tapping into a community like the one at Slickdeals, shoppers can ensure they're getting the best products at the best prices."
9 COMMON IMPULSE BUYS OF 2023
Clothing - 55%
Food/groceries - 50%
Household items - 42%
Shoes - 32%
Takeout - 23%
Books - 21%
Toys - 20%
Technology - 19%
Coffee - 18%
To learn more about the survey, visit here.
About Slickdeals
Slickdeals is the only shopping platform powered by a volunteer army of 12 million avid shoppers helping other shoppers find, evaluate and share the most up-to-date online deals and coupons from all the top retailers. Through community powered shopping, Slickdeals has saved shoppers $10 billion by providing a forum for deal discovery and shopping discussion; as well as shopping tools such as its free Android or iOS app and its browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Slickdeals regularly ranks as one of the top ten most visited shopping sites in the U.S. per Similarweb.
Survey methodology
This random double-opt-in survey of 2,000 American impulse shoppers was commissioned by Slickdeals between May 9 and May 13, 2023. It was conducted by market research company OnePoll, whose team members are members of the Market Research Society and have corporate membership to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR)
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Fresh n Faded put on a day full of free games, food, and Easter egg hunting for the holiday.
Team Outreach Lima hosted their third annual Easter egg hunt in downtown Lima Sunday afternoon. Around 4,000 eggs were outside for kids in two different age groups to collect. After the hunt, they had a photo booth, egg toss, balloon pop, DJ, and more free candy and food.
Organizers say it took a lot of work to coordinate the event but they're committed to putting good back into their community.
"The kids love it, I mean any event that we come together and we put together along with Tiffany and our DJ Lou, it's always a hit," said Leandre Johnson, the owner of Fresh n Faded.
"This year, Easter feels like three weeks early so we had to pull together. It took us about a month to get this all together but we made it successful for the community of Lima and we will continue to put on for the community of Lima," said Quincy Peoples, the director of Team Outreach Lima.
During the hunt, several kids found eggs with tickets to get free toys or cash prizes. | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/fresh-n-faded-hosts-3rd-annual-egg-hunt/article_58c142d2-d723-11ed-96dc-83d021001f91.html | 2023-04-10 08:36:18 | 1 | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/fresh-n-faded-hosts-3rd-annual-egg-hunt/article_58c142d2-d723-11ed-96dc-83d021001f91.html |
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality, today announced that it will report third quarter 2022 financial results after the market close on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial results that day at 5:00 p.m. ET.
IAS Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 5:00 p.m. ET
Live Call: Register here
Live Webcast and Replay: https://investors.integralads.com/
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com.
Investor Contact:
Jonathan Schaffer / Lauren Hartman
ir@integralads.com
Media Contact:
press@integralads.com
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