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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) today announced the redemption on Nov. 1, 2022, of $1,500,000,000 of Depositary Shares (CUSIP: 693475857) (the "Depositary Shares") representing interests in PNC's Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series P (the "Series P Preferred Stock"). Each Depositary Share represents a 1/4,000th interest in a share of the Series P Preferred Stock. All 60,000,000 Depositary Shares currently outstanding will be redeemed.
The Depositary Shares will be redeemed at a redemption price of $25.00 per Depositary Share plus declared and unpaid dividends of $0.43763 per Depositary Share, representing the dividend for the period from Aug. 1, 2022 to, but excluding, Nov. 1, 2022.
The Depositary Shares are held through the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") and will be redeemed in accordance with the procedures of DTC. Payment to DTC will be made by Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the Depositary, in accordance with the Deposit Agreement governing the Depositary Shares. The address for Computershare Trust Company, N.A. is 462 South 4th Street, Suite 1600, Louisville, KY 40202.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the United States, organized around its customers and communities for strong relationships and local delivery of retail and business banking including a full range of lending products; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management. For information about PNC, visit www.pnc.com.
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Padres, Juan Soto reach $23M deal, avoid arbitration
Posted/updated on: January 14, 2023 at 12:23 amByJEFF PASSAN
Outfielder Juan Soto and the San Diego Padres agreed Friday on a one-year, $23 million contract to avoid arbitration, sources told ESPN, the richest deal on a day when nearly 200 players settled on their salaries for the 2023 season.
The arbitration process allows players with more than three years of major league service time to negotiate their salaries with teams for the upcoming season using a comparable-based system. In cases where the sides cannot come to terms on a deal by the Friday deadline, they exchange numbers that they then take into an arbitration hearing, where a three-person panel listens to a case and chooses a side. Occasionally, players and teams will agree on a contract to avoid a hearing.
Nearly 40 arbitration-eligible players remained unsigned after Friday — some of them among the game’s best, including Milwaukee right-hander Corbin Burnes, Atlanta left-hander Max Fried, Toronto shortstop Bo Bichette, Houston outfielder Kyle Tucker, New York Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil and Seattle outfielder Teoscar Hernández.
The Tampa Bay Rays, who had 14 players eligible, settled with only half and plan to take on cases against infielder Yandy Diaz, left-hander Jeffrey Springs, first baseman Harold Ramirez and relievers Pete Fairbanks, Colin Poche, Ryan Thompson and Jason Adam. As Saturday dawned, five New York Yankees players remained unsigned, as did three from the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels.
Soto, 24, is in his third year of arbitration, as he was one of a handful of so-called Super 2s — players who qualify after two-plus seasons in the major leagues — and previously made $8.5 million and $17.1 million in the system. With one more turn through arbitration remaining, Soto has a good chance to pass Shohei Ohtani, who agreed to a $30 million deal this winter, for the largest-ever salary for an arbitration-eligible player.
Ohtani, 28, is set to reach free agency after the 2023 season and could demand the first $500 million-plus deal in baseball history. Soto, who turned down a 14-year, $440 million contract from the Washington Nationals before they traded him to San Diego before the July deadline, can reach free agency following the 2024 season and could find himself in the same financial neighborhood.
Others who reaped large paydays with deals finalized Friday included:
Mets first baseman Pete Alonso at $14.5 million;
Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at $14.5 million;
Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias at $14.25 million;
Padres closer Josh Hader at $14.1 million, a record for a relief pitcher;
Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins at $12 million;
Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ at $10.85 million;
Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff at $10.8 million;
Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito at $10.4 million;
Cleveland Guardians right-hander Shane Bieber at $10.01 million;
St. Louis Cardinals left-hander Jordan Montgomery at $10 million. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1194046 | 2023-01-14 07:37:22 | 0 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1194046 |
MIAMI, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- If your life insurance claim was denied, don't panic. While it's certainly not an ideal situation to be in, there are steps you can take to try and rectify the situation. Our life insurance lawyers at the Law Offices of Jason Turchin have handled hundreds of life insurance claim denials and disputes throughout the US.
First, review the denial letter that was sent to you by your life insurance company. This will give you a good indication of why your claim has been denied and help guide further actions. Life insurance claim denials are usually because for a variety of reasons such as failure to disclose information, a lapse in the policy or policy exclusions on pre-existing conditions. Sometimes the life insurance company gets competing claims and is not sure who to pay, or the rightful beneficiary previously passed away and the family wants to claim the benefit.
Once you have identified why your claim has been denied, there are several steps you can take. You may be able to appeal the decision or hire a lawyer to represent you in court. If your claim was denied due to an oversight on behalf of the life insurance company, it is possible that they will rectify their mistake and pay out the benefit once it has been brought to their attention. Often, the life insurance company will maintain their denial or may delay the case indefinitely and you may require an attorney to help fight for your rights.
Having a life insurance lawyer on your side may be extremely beneficial when dealing with claims that have been denied. Our experienced team of life insurance attorneys at the Law Offices of Jason Turchin are here to help you fight for your rightful benefit. We can fight for what you deserve and provide advice and guidance throughout the process so don't hesitate to reach out for assistance!
The life insurance lawyers at the Law Offices of Jason Turchin have handled hundreds of life insurance claims. Jason Turchin has handled more than 6,500 accident, injury and insurance cases throughout the US. The firm generally handles life insurance cases on a contingency basis. Jason is a published author and member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum list, and Super Lawyers list.
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Robert Clary, last of the ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96
By LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96.
Clary died during the night Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, niece Brenda Hancock said Thursday.
“He never let those horrors defeat him,” Hancock said of Clary’s wartime experiences as a youth. “He never let them take the joy out of his life. He tried to spread that joy to others through his singing and his dancing and his painting.”
When he recounted his life to students, he told them, “Don’t ever hate,” Hancock said. “He didn’t let hate overcome the beauty in this world.”
“Hogan’s Heroes,” in which Allied soldiers in a POW camp bested their clownish German army captors with espionage schemes, played the war strictly for laughs during its 1965-71 run. The 5-foot-1 Clary sported a beret and a sardonic smile as Cpl. Louis LeBeau.
Clary was the last surviving original star of the sitcom that included Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon as the prisoners. Werner Klemperer and John Banner, who played their captors, both were European Jews who fled Nazi persecution before the war.
Clary began his career as a nightclub singer and appeared on stage in musicals including “Irma La Douce” and “Cabaret.” After “Hogan’s Heroes,” Clary’s TV work included the soap operas “The Young and the Restless,” “Days of Our Lives” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
He considered musical theater the highlight of his career. “I loved to go to the theater at quarter of eight, put the stage makeup on and entertain,” he said in a 2014 interview.
He remained publicly silent about his wartime experience until 1980 when, Clary said, he was provoked to speak out by those who denied or diminished the orchestrated effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.
A documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. The forearms of concentration camp prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers, with A5714 to be Clary’s lifelong mark.
“They write books and articles in magazines denying the Holocaust, making a mockery of the 6 million Jews — including a million and a half children — who died in the gas chambers and ovens,” he told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview.
Twelve of his immediate family members, his parents and 10 siblings, were killed under the Nazis, Clary wrote in a biography posted on his website.
In 1997, he was among dozens of Holocaust survivors whose portraits and stories were included in “The Triumphant Spirit,” a book by photographer Nick Del Calzo.
“I beg the next generation not to do what people have done for centuries — hate others because of their skin, shape of their eyes, or religious preference,” Clary said in an interview at the time.
Retired from acting, Clary remained in good health and busy with his family, friends and his painting.
The actor, born Robert Widerman in Paris in March 1926, was the youngest of 14 children. He was 16 when he and most of his family were taken by the Nazis.
In the documentary, Clary recalled a happy childhood until he and his family was forced from their Paris apartment and put into a crowded cattle car that carried them to concentration camps.
“Nobody knew where we were going,” Clary said. “We were not human beings anymore.”
After 31 months in captivity in several concentration camps, he was liberated from the Buchenwald death camp by American troops. His youth and ability to work kept him alive, Clary said.
Returning to Paris, where he was reunited with two older sisters who had avoided the death camps, Clary worked as a singer and recorded songs that became popular in America.
After coming to the United States in 1949, he moved from club dates and recording to Broadway musicals, including “New Faces of 1952,” and then to movies. He appeared in films including 1952’s “Thief of Damascus,” “A New Kind of Love” in 1963 and “The Hindenburg” in 1975.
He didn’t feel uneasy about the comedy on “Hogan’s Heroes” despite the tragedy of his family’s devastating war experience.
“It was completely different. I know they (POWs) had a terrible life, but compared to concentration camps and gas chambers it was like a holiday.”
Clary married Natalie Cantor, the daughter of singer-actor Eddie Cantor, in 1965. She died in 1997. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/17/robert-clary-last-of-the-hogans-heroes-stars-dies-at-96/ | 2022-11-17 19:44:40 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/17/robert-clary-last-of-the-hogans-heroes-stars-dies-at-96/ |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas man is facing federal charges for allegedly bilking dozens of Ohio residents out of millions of dollars in a sports betting Ponzi scheme.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Ohio announced that 49-year-old Matthew Turnipseede was indicted Thursday on multiple counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud.
Turnipseede defrauded roughly 72 investors of over $8.5 million between 2015 and 2021, according to the indictment.
An investigation by FBI agents in Cleveland show he promised investments would follow a sophisticated algorithm to make sports wagers and rake in double-digit returns. He claimed his payment would just be a percentage of profits. Turnipseede is accused of going so far as to email victims fake financial statements showing gains.
Authorities say in reality Turnipseede was using investment dollars to keep up his businesses, pay earlier investors and fulfill personal expenses.
Online court records did not show an attorney listed for Turnipseede. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Las-Vegas-man-indicted-in-Ponzi-betting-scheme-17368359.php | 2022-08-12 01:17:38 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Las-Vegas-man-indicted-in-Ponzi-betting-scheme-17368359.php |
Oxygen on missing sub expected to run out in several hours
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International search teams are in a race against time as they try to locate the missing deep-sea submersible in the North Atlantic with five people on board. As the search enters a critical stage with the oxygen on board likely to soon run out, we ask an expert in Oceanography how much hope there still is to find those onboard alive. | https://www.dw.com/en/oxygen-on-missing-sub-expected-to-run-out-in-several-hours/video-65997605 | 2023-06-22 11:55:51 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/oxygen-on-missing-sub-expected-to-run-out-in-several-hours/video-65997605 |
It takes months' worth of planning for José Hernandez's parents to visit him in immigration detention.
The drive takes four hours and neither of his parents can drive. His father also needs permission to take time off work. But the biggest uncertainty has been whether the detention center will allow visitors at all.
"The inconsistency with the visitation guidelines has made it more difficult for my parents to see me," said Hernandez, who is currently held in a facility in Bakersfield, Calif.
Hernandez was convicted of assault in 2018 in California. While in prison he furthered his education and completed firefighter training, his lawyer says. But when he was released in 2021, he didn't get to go home — he was sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Mesa Verde Processing Center.
Hernandez was born in Mexico and was brought to the U.S. as a child. He has a green card, but deportation is still a possibility.
"I just want the chance to see my family and give them a hug before worse comes to worst: I have to leave the country I've called home for 29 years," he told NPR.
Individuals held in immigration detention were barred from visits with relatives and friends for more than two years during the pandemic — far longer than federal prisons. In May, ICE lifted the ban, but immigrant advocates and people in detention centers argue that social visits have not been fully nor consistently reinstated.
There's a range of reasons why people are detained in ICE facilities. Some migrants are detained by Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officers after arriving at the U.S. border without proper paperwork. Others are arrested by ICE agents, often following a criminal conviction. Many are detained for more than a year while they await their fate in immigration court.
For Hernandez, his felony conviction falls under a category of crimes that can subject even green card holders to automatic deportation, according to his lawyer.
As of Nov. 14, 52 out of 113 ICE sites were listed as yellow or red status, meaning their COVID response includes temporarily restricting in-person visits.
An ICE spokesperson told NPR that health protocols are based on several factors, including the number of quarantine units, medical isolation rates, hospitalizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 community risk standards.
Immigrant advocates argue COVID restrictions aren't being implemented in good faith
Individual facilities also have the discretion to employ additional protective measures at any time to prevent the spread of COVID. But advocates for immigrants have raised concerns about the authority given to individual detention centers, most of which are run by private and for-profit companies, and whether judgments to restrict visitation access are made in good faith.
Earlier this month, 140 immigrant advocacy organizations asked the Biden administration to intervene and urge ICE facilities to offer in-person visits regardless of a facility's COVID status. They also said video calls for people in ICE detention should be free of charge.
"Even without visitation, the pandemic was still erupting inside detention centers," Laura Duarte Bateman, the communications manager for the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, told NPR.
"We're tired of COVID being used as an excuse to not reinstate visitation," she added.
COVID-19 outbreaks have been a concern in ICE facilities throughout the pandemic and the agency has been under fire over the reported lack of soap, face masks and social distancing in some detention centers.
As of Nov. 7, nearly 30,000 individuals were held in ICE facilities and roughly 600 of them were in isolation or monitoring for testing positive for COVID.
According to ICE data, there have been several facilities in recent weeks that have implemented strict COVID restrictions despite reporting only a single case of the virus.
Hernandez said he understands that health and safety is a priority, but said that should not justify limiting visitation, which is crucial for the emotional and mental health of people detained.
"We're not in good hands," he said. "At the same time, we're deprived of visits with our loved ones, it's not right."
ICE says it offers several other forms of communication between detained people and their loved ones, including physical letters and video and phone calls.
The agency's policy states that virtual options should especially be ensured when social visits are restricted. But Duarte Bateman said that is often not the case because video calls can be costly. Hernandez says it costs $3.15 for 15 minutes. ICE didn't respond to questions from NPR about the cost of video calls.
Lack of access to in-person visits can also hinder immigration advocates from monitoring human rights violations, Duarte Bateman said. People in detention centers worry that phone calls and handwritten letters are being closely monitored by ICE officers and could lead to retaliation, she added.
Hernandez's mother, María Hernandez, told NPR that she was initially elated when ICE lifted its restrictions on social visits. But that excitement quickly dissolved when she realized reuniting would be more complicated than she anticipated.
"I want to see my son before the end of the year, I don't know how I'll do it. But I really hope me, his dad and him can all be together soon," she said.
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TORONTO and KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Robert Herjavec, CEO of Cyderes and co-star of the hit Emmy award-winning show Shark Tank, today announced half year financial performance for the newly formed cyber defense and response powerhouse that resulted from the award-winning merger of managed services providers Herjavec Group and Fishtech Group.
"Merging two great security companies was a big task unto itself, but I am thrilled to say we have met the challenge and then some," said Herjavec. "Not only is our merger well ahead of schedule but we have added an additional 270 people since we announced the deal. And most importantly, we have exceeded our financial performance and our technology integration for the benefit of our clients."
Key growth statistics for Cyderes for the first half of 2022:
- 63% growth in managed services, MDR and XDR revenues
- Continued profitability
- EBITDA results that exceeded target by over 100%
"I am also happy for the recognition given to us by SC Media in announcing our recent merger as the 'Deal of the Year,'" added Herjavec. "I truly believe this is one of those rare cases where the merged entity is greater than the sum of its pieces."
Never happy to rest on its results, and laurels, Cyderes is also announcing new executive leadership to continue its growth:
- Anthony Aurigemma, appointed Chief Revenue Officer, is a senior executive with more than 20 years' experience in technology sales, business development, strategic alliance, and services. As former Vice President of Security Sales at IBM, Anthony managed a large global sales organization, responsible for more than $2 billion in annual revenue.
- Sarah Redford, appointed Chief People Officer, is a human resources executive with 20+ years' experience across technology and consulting. Her areas of expertise include talent strategy, mergers & acquisitions, executive coaching, performance management and organizational effectiveness. Sarah oversees the company's People strategy.
- Carrie Kelly, appointed Chief Marketing Officer, brings 20+ years' experience building brands and developing category leadership for billion-dollar businesses and startups. Carrie was most recently CMO at Critical Start where she oversaw global marketing strategy and operations. Previously she has held leadership roles at Cisco Systems and CA Technologies.
The company has merged two world-class managed services organizations in over six locations across the globe – from Toronto to Kansas City, Bangalore and London. Cyderes, which stands for "cyber defense and response," uses its proprietary, cloud-first technology platform called CNAP (Cloud Native Analytics Platform) to help enterprises tackle complex cyber attacks, offering comprehensive solutions in managed security, identity and access management, and professional services.
"I am incredibly proud of our team and the work that has taken place in the past six months – from combining multiple ticket systems to one platform, to integrated dashboards, centralized threat reports that benefit our clients tremendously, and all our background work in automation and operations – built on our proprietary CNAP intelligence platform and industry leading SOAR platform (Siemplify)," said Herjavec. "Our team is now well over 800 people, serving our global client base and making it safer to do business online."
In order to continue this work and build out the company's future roadmap, Herjavec also announced the promotion of a new, senior leader for Cyderes' global Managed Services team:
- Tim MalcomVetter, promoted to Senior Vice President, Managed Services, ran the engineering teams that built the Cyderes CNAP platform into an industry-leading tool. He well understands complex, global environments from his many years at Walmart where he worked to assess the company's security across five continents with more than two million associates and 200 million unique weekly customers.
As enterprises acquire ever-increasing security platforms (ex. Google, Microsoft, Splunk, Crowdstrike, CyberArk, SailPoint, Okta), the need for focused companies, such as Cyderes, to manage those disparate technologies and provide assurance becomes even greater. Security as a Service (SECaaS) is quickly becoming the desired outcome as cyber threats grow at unprecedented rates. Cyderes is in fact a market leader when it comes to the rapidly growing identity & access management (IAM) space, combining managed services around SIEM and identity platforms in addition to a full suite of IAM solutions.
As the #1 MSSP in the world (Cyber Defense Magazine's 2021 Top MSSPs List), Cyderes is a global cybersecurity powerhouse offering comprehensive solutions in managed security, identity and access management, and professional services for the modern enterprise. Cyderes provides the people, processes, and technology to manage risk, and detect and respond to any threats – in ways that are better, faster, more cost-effective, and more scalable than traditional in-house solutions. Cyderes has six security operations centers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles police officers shot by a wanted parolee have been released from the hospital and a third is in stable condition, police said Friday.
The officers, all members of a K-9 dog-handling unit, were wounded Wednesday in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood near downtown. Two were released on Thursday, a police statement said.
The gunman, Jonathan Magana, 32, was found dead more than two hours after the shooting. The coroner’s office will determine whether he died by suicide or was shot by police during the confrontation.
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, plainclothes officers from a drug enforcement detail were looking for Magana, who was on parole after being released last year after serving time for robbery, according to police. He also was a suspect in an extortion incident, law enforcement said.
Officers spotted Magana walking, but then lost sight of him. They called in uniformed officers to help surround an area and asked K-9 officers to assist in searching it, the police statement said.
One dog alerted officers to the downstairs room of what appeared to be a converted multiunit living space that was under construction.
Officers surrounded the unit and called on Magana to surrender. When he didn’t, they fired a chemical gas. Magana then opened fire, hitting three officers, who were pulled to a safe location as other officers shot back, according to police. The wounded officers were taken to a nearby hospital in ambulances.
With the area surrounded, SWAT teams were called in and robots were sent in to keep an eye on the suspect. One, equipped with a video camera, went into the room and found Magana, who wasn’t moving.
He was later declared dead at the scene.
Police said they found two semi-automatic handguns — one of them an unregistered “ghost gun” — and a loaded high-capacity magazine. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/2-la-police-officers-shot-by-parolee-released-from-hospital/ | 2023-03-13 02:15:24 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/2-la-police-officers-shot-by-parolee-released-from-hospital/ |
Evvy is announcing the expansion of its platform, developed alongside the world's leading experts, which now offers end-to-end care including physician-reviewed results and personalized prescription treatment programs, in addition to its groundbreaking Vaginal Health Test.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaginal discomfort is one of the leading reasons women seek healthcare advice, and over 90% of these cases can be attributed to imbalances in the vaginal microbiome. Yet current standards for vaginal health testing and care don't take into account the entire vaginal microbiome. Instead, vaginal healthcare is underpinned by overly simplistic methods like microscopy and brute-force antibiotics.
Evvy, a female-founded startup on a mission to close the gender health gap, launched the Evvy Vaginal Health Test, the first and only at-home metagenomics-based vaginal microbiome test in 2021 to finally provide women and their providers access to this overlooked but critical biomarker.
Today, Evvy is announcing the expansion of its platform, which now offers end-to-end care, including physician-reviewed results and personalized prescription treatment programs, in addition to its groundbreaking Vaginal Health Test. Developed alongside the world's leading experts, Evvy's platform is now the first and only vaginal healthcare service to bring together state-of-the-art testing, precision prescription treatments, and dedicated coaching to give women and people with vaginas the care they deserve.
"The status quo in vaginal health is simply unacceptable given how prevalent these conditions are and how significantly they impact our quality of life," said Priyanka Jain, CEO and Co-Founder of Evvy, "That's why we decided to leverage our first-of-its-kind data platform and scientific advisory board to develop a new standard of care that women and people with vaginas can access from the comfort of their own home."
Evvy's expanded and innovative platform is designed on three principles:
- Not one-size-fits-all — Evvy provides personalized care: Evvy's precision care platform takes into account the whole patient — from comprehensive test results to your health history — to provide each individual with exactly the right treatment program.
- Not just another antibiotic — Evvy takes an integrative approach: Evvy's treatment programs include both targeted prescription medication and research-backed supplements to ensure that we don't just fight the disruptive microbes — but regrow the protective ones that help prevent future infections.
- Not alone — Evvy cares for patients every step of the way: Evvy's treatment programs go beyond just treatment and include science-backed education, community, and 1 1 health coaching.
"As an OB GYN, I know how frustrating it is for both patients and clinicians to lack access to effective testing and treatments," said Dr. Rebecca Nelken, OB/GYN and Founding Physician at Evvy. "Evvy's new care platform is revolutionary, and I am thrilled that patients across the country will finally have access to the best in class testing, holistic treatments, and empathetic support they deserve."
Over the past year, Evvy ran an IRB-approved study to evaluate the efficacy of their new care platform. The study showed that 83% of participants who went through the care platform moved from dysbiosis to a protective microbiome, and 100% reported an improvement in symptoms. Results also showed that the care platform left patients feeling supported, empowered, and in control when dealing with their vaginal health 100% of participants felt like they had access to the right care and resources with Evvy. You can read more about the results from our study in their newly released white paper here.
Users can access clinical care with Evvy after taking an Evvy Vaginal Health Test, depending on their results and health history. An Evvy-affiliated provider reviews the patient's results, and if they're eligible, develops a 2-month personalized treatment program, which may include prescription medication and research-backed supplements. Every patient receives treatments designed with exactly the right ingredients for them, shipped directly and discreetly from a partner pharmacy. All treatment programs also include 2 calls with a certified health coach to provide empathetic support throughout the experience.
The Evvy Vaginal Health Test is currently available in all 50 US states, and the new care platform is available in 39 US states (with plans to expand to all 50 states this year).
ABOUT EVVY
Evvy is on a mission to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked female biomarkers, starting with the vaginal microbiome. In 2021, Evvy launched the first and only at-home vaginal microbiome test to use metagenomic sequencing to tell you what's up down there, why it matters, and what you can do about it. Insights from their test led to the expansion of Evvy's innovative vaginal health platform, which now brings together state-of-the-art testing, precision care, and proactive tracking to give women and people with vaginas the healthcare they deserve. Through this platform, Evvy is building the real-world datasets necessary to transform our understanding of complex health conditions in the female body.
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Worsening Expectations Weighed on Favorable View of the Present Situation
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® decreased in February for the second consecutive month. The Index now stands at 102.9 (1985=100), down from 106.0 in January (a downward revision). The Present Situation Index—based on consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions—increased to 152.8 (1985=100) from 151.1 last month. The Expectations Index—based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—fell further to 69.7 (1985=100) from a downwardly revised 76.0 in January. Notably, the Expectations Index has now fallen well below 80—the level which often signals a recession within the next year. It has been below this level for 11 of the last 12 months.
"Consumer confidence declined again in February. The decrease reflected large drops in confidence for households aged 35 to 54 and for households earning $35,000 or more," said Ataman Ozyildirim, Senior Director, Economics at The Conference Board.
"While consumers' view of current business conditions worsened in February, the Present Situation Index still ticked up slightly based on a more favorable view of the availability of jobs. In fact, the proportion of consumers saying jobs are 'plentiful' climbed to 52.0 percent—back to levels seen in the spring of last year. However, the outlook appears considerably more pessimistic when looking ahead. Expectations for where jobs, incomes, and business conditions are headed over the next six months all fell sharply in February."
"And, while 12-month inflation expectations improved—falling to 6.3 percent from 6.7 percent last month—consumers may be showing early signs of pulling back spending in the face of high prices and rising interest rates. Fewer consumers are planning to purchase homes or autos and they also appear to be scaling back plans to buy major appliances. Vacation intentions also declined in February."
Present Situation
Consumers' assessment of current business conditions worsened in February.
- 17.8% of consumers said business conditions were "good," down from 19.9%.
- 17.7% said business conditions were "bad," down from 19.0%.
Consumers' appraisal of the labor market was more favorable.
- 52.0% of consumers said jobs were "plentiful," up from 48.1%.
- 10.5% of consumers said jobs were "hard to get," down from 11.1%.
Expectations Six Months Hence
Consumers became more pessimistic about the short-term business conditions outlook in February.
- 14.2% of consumers expect business conditions to improve, down from 18.4%.
- Meanwhile, 21.9% expect business conditions to worsen, down from 22.6%.
Consumers were less upbeat about the short-term labor market outlook.
- 14.5% of consumers expect more jobs to be available, down from 17.7%.
- Yet, 20.3% anticipate fewer jobs, down from 21.4%.
Consumers' short-term income prospects became considerably less upbeat.
- 13.4% of consumers expect their incomes to increase, down from 17.4% last month.
- 11.6% expect their incomes will decrease, down from 13.4% last month.
The monthly Consumer Confidence Survey®, based on an online sample, is conducted for The Conference Board by Toluna, a technology company that delivers real-time consumer insights and market research through its innovative technology, expertise, and panel of over 36 million consumers. The cutoff date for the preliminary results was February 22.
Source: February 2023 Consumer Confidence Survey®
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Stars can be glimpsed in such unexpected places.
Chonkasaurus was at rest on a pile of rotting river pylons and rusty chains along the Chicago River just below Division Street early last weekend when Joey Santore and Al Scorch captured their image on video.
"Look at the size of that effing thing," Joey Santore announced, and he didn't say effing.
"Oh my God, it's a massive turtle. Is that a snapper? He's a snapper, " Al Scorch added, civic pride suffusing his voice. "It's a Chicago River snapper!"
The video they posted on YouTube, in which they dub the snapper Chonkosaurus, has reached hundreds of thousands of viewers, including me, who have shortened the turtle's name to Chonk. There's even merch — T-shirts and sweatshirts — emblazoned with Chonk's sturdy frame.
The turtle looks broad and strong, as if embodying the spirit of the concrete city that booms above their river perch. Snapping turtles can weigh up to 75 pounds, and Chonk's steady girth seems to be part of what has endeared them to so many.
Think of Chonk as being in rhyme with Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago":
"Stormy, husky, brawling,
Turtle of the Big Shoulders."
Put a Chicago Bears jersey on Chonk, and they could be a middle linebacker.
In times beset with much dispiriting news, there's something encouraging in Chonk's robust appearance on a bed of rusted chains. The Chicago River was an industrial dumping ground for decades; it caught on fire several times. Fires, you may recall, have an especially harrowing history in Chicago.
But 70% of the water in the river now comes directly from wastewater treatment plants. Officials still don't recommend you take a river swim. But Margaret Frisbie of Friends of the Chicago River, who organize groups to pick up litter and help look after wildlife, says the river is the cleanest today that it's been in 150 years.
Joey Santore tweeted when he posted his video of Chonk, "Great to see this beast thriving here on what was once such a toxic river, but is slowly getting cleaned up and restored."
If you ever despair about the possibility of progress, you might want to think of Chonk the Snapper, flopped out and sunning on a berth of greenish, old pylons as boats pull past, and the city rises around them. A river, once described as "a wave of poo," is now healthy enough to be a home.
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Actor Julian Sands died while hiking on California mountain, authorities confirm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and ‘90s including “A Room With a View” and “Leaving Las Vegas,” was found dead on a Southern California mountain five months after he disappeared while hiking, authorities said Tuesday.
An investigation confirmed that it was Sands whose remains hikers found Saturday in wilderness near Mount Baldy, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. The 65-year-old actor was an avid and experienced hiker who lived in Los Angeles and was reported missing Jan. 13 after setting out on the peak that rises more than 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) east of the city. Crews aided by drones and helicopters had searched for him several times, but, severely hampered by wintry conditions that lasted through spring, no sign of him was found until the civilian hikers came upon him.
The chances of Sands being discovered alive had long since diminished to nearly nothing, but the Sheriff’s Department, which conducted an official search the day before he was found, emphasized that the case remained active.
An autopsy has been conducted, but further test results are needed before the cause of death can be determined, authorities said.
Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.
After studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Sands embarked on a career in stage and film, playing small parts in films including “Oxford Blues” and “The Killing Fields.” He landed the starring role of George Emerson, who falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch while on holiday in Tuscany, in the 1985 British romance, “A Room With a View.”
The film from director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for best film, and was nominated for eight Oscars, winning three.
In the wake of its success, Sands moved to the United States to pursue a career in Hollywood.
He played the title role in the 1989 horror fantasy “Warlock” and its sequel. In the 1990 horror comedy “Arachnophobia,” with Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, Sands played an entomologist specializing in spiders.
The following year he appeared in director David Cronenberg’s surreal adaptation of the William Burroughs novel “Naked Lunch” in 1991.
In 1993, Sands starred in the thriller “Boxing Helena,” a movie that drew major media attention during production when Madonna and Kim Basinger each accepted the title role before backing out. The part would go to “Twin Peaks” actor Sherilyn Fenn. The film flopped.
Author Anne Rice championed Sands to play the titular Lestat in the much-hyped 1994 Hollywood adaptation of her novel “Interview With the Vampire,” but the role would go to Tom Cruise.
In 1995′s “Leaving Las Vegas,” Sands played an abusive Latvian pimp alongside Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film was nominated for four Oscars, with Cage winning best actor.
Sands touted his love of the outdoors in a 2020 interview with the Guardian, saying he was happiest when “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning” and that his biggest dream was scaling “a remote peak in the high Himalayas, such as Makalu.”
The actor said in the interview that in the early 1990s, he was caught in an “atrocious” storm in the Andes and was lucky to survive when three others near his party didn’t.
After “Leaving Las Vegas,” the quality of the films Sands was cast in, and the size of his roles, began declining. He worked steadily, appearing in director Wim Wenders’ “The Million Dollar Hotel” and director Dario Argento’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
He also appeared as a guest star or in recurring roles on TV series including “24,” “Medici,” “Smallville,” “Dexter,” “Gotham” and “Elementary.” His final film was 2022′s “The Ghosts of Monday.”
Sands was born in Yorkshire, the middle child of five brothers raised by a single mother. He had three children of his own.
He had been married since 1990 to journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, with whom he had two adult daughters, Imogen Morley Sands and Natalya Morley Sands. His eldest child was son Henry Sands, whom he had with his first wife, journalist Sarah Harvey.
A few days before he was found, Sands’ family issued a statement saying, “We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer.”
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This story has been corrected to state that hikers found remains on Saturday, not Sunday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests, local reports said.
Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said Taraneh Alidoosti, the 38-year-old star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” was released on bail. Her mother, Nadere Hakimelahi, had earlier said she would be released in a post on Instagram.
After her release from the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran on Wednesday, Alidoosti posed with flowers among her friends. No further details have been released about her case.
Alidoosti was among several Iranian celebrities to express support for the nationwide protests and criticize the authorities’ violent clampdown on dissent. She had posted at least three messages in support of the protests on Instagram before her account was disabled.
One message had expressed solidarity with the first man to be executed on charges linked to the protests, which were triggered by the death of a woman in police custody and have escalated into widespread calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling clerics.
The protests mark one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic Republic since it was established after the 1979 revolution. Security forces have used live ammunition, bird shot, tear gas and batons to disperse protesters, according to rights groups.
Mohsen Shekari was executed Dec. 9 after being charged by an Iranian court with blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the country’s security forces with a machete. A week later, Iran executed a second prisoner, Majidreza Rahnavard, by public hanging. He had been accused of stabbing two members of the paramilitary Basij militia, which is leading the crackdown.
Activists say at least a dozen people have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings over charges linked to the protests.
″His name was Mohsen Shekari,” Alidoosti wrote on an account with some 8 million followers before her arrest. “Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity.”
At least 516 protesters have been killed and over 19,000 people have been arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has closely monitored the unrest. Iranian authorities have not provided an official count of those killed or detained.
Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, two other famous Iranian actresses, were arrested in November for expressing solidarity with protesters on social media. Voria Ghafouri, an Iranian soccer star, was also arrested that month for ’’insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing against the government.” All three have been released.
The protests began in mid-September, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code. Women have played a leading role in the protests, with many publicly stripping off the compulsory Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab.
The protesters say they are fed up after decades of political and social repression. One of the main slogans has been “Death to the dictator,” referring to Iran’s 83-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has held the country’s highest office for more than three decades.
Iranian officials blame the protests on the U.S. and other foreign powers. State-linked media have highlighted attacks on security forces, while authorities have imposed heavy restrictions on coverage of the demonstrations, including periodically cutting off internet access.
Khamenei, who has said little about the protests, spoke about Islamic dress on Wednesday in a meeting with women, saying the hijab is necessary but that those who do not “completely observe” the practice “should not be accused of being non-religious or against the revolution.”
Even before the protests, many Iranian women wore the headscarf loosely, and authorities sometimes eased off on enforcing it, particulary during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate who governed from 2013 to 2021. His successor, the hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi, had moved to tighten the restrictions.
Alidoosti had previously criticised the Iranian government and its police force before this year’s protests.
In June 2020, she was given a suspended five-month prison sentence after she criticized the police on Twitter in 2018 for assaulting a woman who had removed her headscarf.
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A man charged with setting a fire at Las Casa Sena earlier this week concealed his true identity from law enforcement during his arrest, Santa Fe police said Thursday.
According to an amended criminal complaint, the alleged arsonist — whose real name is Oryan Yazzie — had a Social Security card belonging to Joseph Duran in his possession when he was accused of breaking into the complex and setting fire to La Casa Sena's storage room.
Yazzie is now awaiting trial in First District Court, where state prosecutors filed a motion for pretrial detention Thursday. He is facing a new concealing identity charge in addition to previous charges of arson, burglary and criminal damage to property.
The amended criminal complaint says Yazzie, 40, is suspected of breaking into La Casa Sena through a second-story window around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Once inside, it says, he entered a storage room and set three piles of clothes on fire. He then broke the storage room window to get back onto the complex's roof.
At that point, the complaint says, hotel maintenance employee Sergio Ruiz, who happened to be in the Sena Plaza parking lot, heard Yazzie break the second-story window and saw him on the roof.
Ruiz grabbed an ax from his car and began yelling at Yazzie, court documents say. He told Yazzie to remain on the roof until police arrived or he would kill him. Police then came and helped Yazzie down from the roof.
Capt. Jimmy St. James of the state Fire Marshal's Office said Yazzie told police he was under the influence of methamphetamines when he broke into La Casa Sena.
Yazzie told police that, prior to his arrest, he had been running away from a group of approximately 20 unidentified people, according to the amended criminal complaint. Yazzie claimed members of the cartel were after him because he had information on their international drug trade, and that he set fire to La Casa Sena to get law enforcement's attention because he didn't have a cell phone.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — As Hurricane Ian approached last week, Jane Compton and her husband — who lost their home and possessions to the storm — found sanctuary at their Baptist church, huddling with fellow parishioners through wind, rain and worry.
They prayed for the gusts to subside and for God to keep them from harm as the hurricane made landfall last Wednesday. Floodwaters swept under the pews, driving the congregation to the pulpit and further testing their faith. The intensifying storm ripped the church’s steeple away, leaving a large gap in the roof. The parishioners shuddered.
“Good Lord, please protect us,” Compton prayed, with her husband, Del, at her side.
She compared the deluge to the biblical story Noah’s Ark, saying they had no idea when the water would stop rising. When it did, there were hallelujahs.
With the storm now passed and its devastation abounding, churches across hard-hit Southwest Florida are providing a steadying force in the lives of those plunged into chaos and grief. Heartache, frustration and uncertainty now swirl in sanctuaries amid sermons about perseverance and holding on to one’s faith.
“We believe this was a blessing in disguise,” said the Rev. Robert Kasten, the Comptons’ pastor at Southwest Baptist Church, a congregation of several hundred in one of the most devastated neighborhoods of Fort Myers.
Also being tested are many of the nearly quarter million Catholics in the Diocese of Venice, which encompasses 10 counties from just south of Tampa Bay to the Everglades that bore the brunt of the hurricane. Bishop Frank Dewane has been visiting as many of the diocese’s five dozen parishes and 15 schools as possible.
“A lot of people just wanted to talk about, ‘Why is there this much suffering?’” Dewane said of parishioners he met as he celebrated weekend Mass in a church in an inundated North Port neighborhood and in the parish hall of a storm-damaged Sarasota church. “We have to go on; we’re a people of hope.”
Priests walked a fine line between holding Mass to provide comfort and not endangering older parishioners in areas with widespread lack of running water and electricity and flooded roadways. Dewane said one rescued man had kept asking about his wife, not realizing she had drowned in the storm.
Around Kasten’s church, nearby mobile home parks where many of his parishioners lived became submerged. About a fourth of his congregation suffered major damage to their dwellings, with many like the Comptons losing nearly everything. The church’s sanctuary has become temporary quarters for nearly a dozen of the newly homeless.
Most were handling things well, until the realities of tragedy hit.
“When they saw pictures, they just burst into tears,” Kasten said.
“Just the shock of knowing and seeing what you knew happened, it overwhelmed them. But they are just praising the Lord how he protected us, kept us safe,” he said.
Barbara Wasko, a retiree who is now sleeping on a lounge chair in the sanctuary, said she has faith the community will rebuild.
“We will get by,” she said. “We will make it.”
Hurricane Ian’s fury — 150 mph (241 kph) winds and deluges of water — killed dozens of people and stranded countless in what for many communities has been their worst calamity in generations.
Rhonda Mitchell, who lives near the Baptist church, said all she had left was her faith in God.
“We don’t know what He is going to do,” she said, her belongings splayed to dry outside her mobile home as an empty U-Haul truck waited to be loaded.
“I just lost my whole life,” she said, beginning to sob. “I’m still here but I just lost everything I own. … I’m just trying to figure things out.”
At badly damaged Catholic churches and schools, reconstruction work is already underway. But Dewane said his priority is to “meet people where they are” and ensure the Catholic community can help overall relief efforts.
That ranges from finding shelter for teachers whose homes were leveled even as many schools are re-opening this week to helping counsel elderly neighbors. The diocese is working with Catholic Charities to set up distribution centers for donations as well as supplies provided by FEMA.
But many successful efforts are grassroots. When a group of nuns in small Wauchula, an inland town, lost power, they decided to just empty out their freezers of meat and other perishables, and invite the entire neighborhood for a barbeque. The fire blazing, hundreds of people lined up and started adding what they had in their own rapidly warming fridges.
“We’re doing as well as we can,” Dewane said. “I think we can only be the Lord’s instruments.”
The Rev. Charles Cannon, pastor at St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, sermonized about the temporariness of the community’s losses. While much was lost, he said, not all is gone.
“People think they have lost everything, but you haven’t lost everything if you haven’t lost yourself and the people you love,” Cannon said after Sunday services that were held outside amid the fallen boughs of once-majestic oaks.
Cannon pointed out that the debris that left church grounds looking like an ugly, unearthly place can be cleaned.
“Most of the work has been to get the people feeling safe again,” he said, “Almost everybody has been without power. All of them without water. Trying hard to get them feeling comfortable again.”
Down the street, about 50 parishioners at the Assembly of God Bethlehem Ministry gathered to share in their hardships. They recounted how they had no electricity, no drinkable running water and, in many cases, were left with damaged homes.
“But God has kept them safe,” said Victoria Araujo, a parishioner and occasional Sunday school teacher.
“Some people lost a lot of things … We need to pray for the people who lost more than us,” said the Rev. Ailton da Silva, whose congregants are mostly immigrant families from Brazil.
The storm has truly tested his community’s resiliency, he said, adding that “I think people will think about faith, family and God.”
Five years ago, Hurricane Irma swept through the region, causing extensive damage to his church. Repairs were still ongoing when Ian hit. The church fared much better this time.
In the end, “it’s just a building,” da Silva said. “The church is us.”
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Dell’Orto reported from Minneapolis.
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PHOENIX — What should have been a fun night out for Katherine Rasta turned into a living nightmare. Now she’s sharing her story in hopes that no other rideshare passenger is ever sexually assaulted.
It was another hot weekend night on June 26, 2021, when Rasta met some friends. At the end of the evening, she ordered a Lyft car to give her a ride home.
“I honestly didn’t think twice about it,” Rasta recalled.
That’s when the nightmare began. When she first entered the car, she knew something was off; the driver was staring at her in the rearview mirror. A few minutes later, he started to make sexual advances toward her.
“He began to ask me weird questions like, ‘do you party?’" she said. “When I said no, surprisingly, he said he wanted to get a hotel room with me, smoke crystal meth and have sex.”
Unable to exit the vehicle, Rasta said the driver then sexually assaulted her. Afterward, he took her phone and copied her phone number. She says he told her if she said anything, he knew where she lived and where her friends lived.
On Wednesday, lawyers from Rasta and 16 other Lyft drivers and passengers filed 17 lawsuits against the rideshare company, alleging Lyft did not do enough to protect drivers and passengers.
“Lyft fails to consistently make an alert if the driver diverts substantially from the correct route or fails to reach the destination,” said Tracey Cowan, an attorney with Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, who represent the 17 plaintiffs. “Either of which can be a sign of a physical or sexual attack."
Peiffer Wolf didn’t disclose what monetary awards or specific policy changes they are seeking in their lawsuit, only to say in a statement:
“No amount of money will make this right or undo the assaults that occurred.”
Lyft responded to the lawsuits by releasing a statement of its own:
“We’re committed to helping keep drivers and riders safe. While safety incidents on our platform are incredibly rare, we realize that even one is too many. Our goal is to make every Lyft ride as safe as possible, and we will continue to take action and invest in technology, policies, and partnerships to do so.”
“Nobody should go through the trauma that still haunts me today,” Rasta said.
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Priscilla Presley nearly lost both of her children in less than two weeks. Days before Lisa Marie Presley died of cardiac arrest, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia had a frightening near-death experience.
The Them Guns musician tells People that the incident occurred when he was visiting a California animal sanctuary with his mom. While there, a 2,000-pound camel, who had previously been abused in a circus, suddenly turned on him while he was feeding it.
"When I ran out of food, it bit me by the hand and lifted me up almost off my feet," he says. "It then dropped me on the ground and pounced. While it was pouncing on me, it literally got my whole head in its mouth and bit me."
Navarone explains that sanctuary workers were unable to get the camel off of him due to its weight, but says that a dog did come to the rescue.
"The dog knew something was wrong and was freaking out and going at its face," he says. "That's what got the camel off."
Navarone later arrived at the hospital with "blood all over" him, and ended up having to get 34 staples in his head.
"The photos that he sent me didn't look real," Navarone's bandmate, Kyle Hamood, tells the outlet. "I thought that he was starring in a horror movie photoshoot or something."
As for how Priscilla fared while watching the scary scene unfold, Navarone says his mom was "freaking out" and felt "traumatized" by the experience.
"I mean, I was happy I survived before [Lisa Marie's death], but now it's like, thank God I survived," he says. "My mom would've lost two kids in two weeks."
In a separate interview with the outlet, Navarone revealed that he wasn't all that close to his half-sister in the years leading up to her death. However, he did attend her memorial at Graceland and thanked fans afterward, saying he was "truly grateful" for their support.
While the musician appears to have a close relationship with him mom -- he told the outlet that he plans to travel with her to Brazil this year -- the same can't be said for Lisa Marie. In fact, a source told ET that Lisa Marie and Priscilla's relationship was always up and down, especially in her final years.
"Lisa Marie was struggling, and it definitely put a strain on her relationship with her mother," the source said. "They did not have a healthy or close relationship and it was very complicated. Lisa Marie always felt Priscilla was trying to have control over her."
Following Lisa Marie's death, her rep confirmed to ET that Graceland, the former home of her father, Elvis Presley, would go to her three daughters: 33-year-old Riley, and 14-year-old twins Harper and Finley.
It later came to light that Riley and her late brother, Benjamin, were named co-trustees of Lisa Marie's trust in 2016. However, Priscilla is contesting "the authenticity and validity" of Riley's appointment, claiming that "there are many issues surrounding" it.
Amid the legal challenge, Joel Weinshanker, a Managing Partner at Elvis Presley Enterprises, spoke out in favor of Riley maintaining her trustee role in the wake of Lisa Marie's death.
"We just want to think about what Lisa would've wanted and that's what's best for Elvis. She never had a doubt in her mind that that's Riley," he said during an appearance on SiriusXM's Elvis Radio. "There's no question on anyone's mind [because] Lisa had spoken [about] it, there's numerous amounts of written information, she had talked to so many of her friends about it. There was never a question, and anybody who's speaking differently isn't looking out for Elvis, isn't looking out for Lisa, certainly isn't looking out for Riley."
Then, in a statement to ET, Priscilla addressed the situation.
"I loved Elvis very much as he loved me. Lisa is a result of our love," Priscilla said. "For anyone to think anything differently would be a travesty of the family legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life."
"There is an individual that bought their way into the family enterprise that is trying to speak on behalf of our family. This person is not a representative of Elvis or our family," she added, without sharing whom she was referring to. "Please allow us the time we need to work together and sort this out. Please ignore 'the noise.' As I have always been there for Elvis' legacy, our family and the fans, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love."
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TORONTO (AP) — Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 44 points, carrying the Philadelphia 76ers without Joel Embiid to a 112-90 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.
Embiid sat out because of a sore right knee. A five-time All Star and the reigning NBA scoring champion, Embiid is averaging 27.6 points and 10 rebounds in five games.
They didn’t miss him and didn’t even need much from James Harden because of Maxey, who made his first 10 shots, seven of them from long range, and didn’t miss until a 3-pointer rimmed out with 8 minutes left in the third quarter. He shot 15 for 20 overall, going a career-best 9 for 12 from outside.
De’Anthony Melton and Tobias Harris each scored 13 points and Harden had 11 as the 76ers led from wire-to-wire and won for the second time in six games, splitting a pair north of the border against their Atlantic Division rivals.
Pascal Siakam had 26 points and 10 rebounds, O.G. Anunoby scored 19 points and Scottie Barnes had 13 for the Raptors, who lost for the first time in three home games. Toronto’s 90 points were a season low.
Raptors All Star guard Fred VanVleet shot 0 for 11, going 0 for 8 from 3-point range. VanVleet scored one point.
Maxey had a team-high eight rebounds and four assists. He shot 5 for 6 at the free throw line.
He was 5 for 5 in the first, starting the quarter with four straight 3-pointers and ending it with a buzzer-beating shot to give the 76ers a 28-26 lead. Philadelphia made 7 of 14 from long range in the first.
Maxey made five more shots in the second, two of them from distance, and Harden scored eight points to give the visitors a 65-48 lead at the half. The Sixers shot 15 for 24 in the second.
Anunoby cut it to 70-64 with a steal and dunk with 4:09 left in the third but Maxey replied with four points as Philadelphia took an 81-70 lead to the fourth.
TIP-INS
76ers: Melton started with Embiid out. … After shooting 25 for 44 in the first half, Philadelphia shot 6 for 20 in the third quarter. … Maxey’s previous career high was 39, set against Denver on Jan. 9, 2021.
Raptors: Toronto made 10 turnovers in the first half, leading to 18 points for the 76ers. The Raptors didn’t make a first-half turnover in Wednesday’s 119-109 win over Philadelphia, and had nine in the game. They had 17 Friday. … Toronto didn’t score a bench point in the first half. … F Otto Porter Jr. (personal reasons) was not available.
UP NEXT
76ers: Visit Chicago on Saturday night.
Raptors: Host Atlanta on Monday night.
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Back for the 31st year, the Commemorative Air Force AirSho will take place Saturday and Sunday at Midland International Airport. A strong community event, the crew at the CAF hangar invite any and everyone out for two days full of loud noises, exciting sights and educational activities.
Patrons can expect a Pearl Harbor reenactment with pyrotechnics by “Tora, Tora, Tora,” the longest running AirSho act celebrating 50 years. Other performances include the P-40 Warhawk fighter plane from World War II, the B-25 Devil Dog bomber, formation demonstrations by the High Sky Wing, the “Hot Streak II” jet truck, Mike Gallaway in an Extra 300 high-performance aerobatic airplane and Aaron Taylor in his Super Stearman biplane. After the show, some planes will offer rides for a fee.
Some other attractions of note include the new Chevron STEM Zone (located in the Kids Korral), which offers seven stations of interactive learning in relation to science, technology, engineering and math. There will also be a TradeSho, CarSho & Shine, food, vendors, inflatables for little ones and more.
Tickets + Parking
- $5 general admission, adults and kids 6+, buy tickets at www.airsho.org
- Kids 5 and under free
- Upgrade to seating and shade in Flight Line Chalet for $25/person
- VIP parking $25/car
- CarSho & Shine parking $25/car
- General admission parking $10/car, note: please bring in cash, supporting the Boy Scouts
Schedule
Note: times subject to change
Gates open for volunteers – 8 a.m.
Gates open to public – 9 a.m.
Worship service in the CAF Chapel – 10 a.m. (Sunday only)
Bomber and fighter ramps, static displays close – 11 a.m.
Flying begins – 11:15 a.m.
Presentation of colors –11:45 a.m.
Opening remarks – 11:50 a.m.
National anthem, flying continues – 12 p.m.
Flying finishes – 3:30 p.m.
Vendors, concessions, TradeSho close – 4 p.m. | https://www.mrt.com/things_to_do/article/Going-to-the-AIRSHO-Here-s-what-you-need-to-17413181.php | 2022-09-07 20:34:39 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/things_to_do/article/Going-to-the-AIRSHO-Here-s-what-you-need-to-17413181.php |
NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Kohl's between October 20, 2020 and May 19, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until November 1, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Kohl's Corporation issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Kohl's new strategic framework to "drive top-line growth," "expand operating margin," and become "the most trusted retailer of choice for the active and casual lifestyle" (the "Strategic Plan") was not well tailored to achieving the Company's stated goals; (ii) the defendants had likewise overstated the Company's success in executing its Strategic Plan; (iii) Kohl's had deficient disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting, and corporate governance mechanisms; (iv) as a result, the Company's board of directors was able to and did withhold material information from shareholders about the state of Kohl's in the lead-up to the Company's annual meeting; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Kohl's financial condition and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. ET
PARIS, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS), a leading developer and provider of 5G/4G chips and modules, will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, during pre-market hours. Following the announcement, Sequans' management will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET.
Conference Call Details
A live and archived webcast of the call will be available from the Investor Relations section of the Sequans website at www.sequans.com/investors/webcasts-and-presentations. An audio replay of the conference call will be available until August 16, 2022, by dialing toll-free 1-844-512-2921 in the U.S., or + 1-412-317-6671 from outside the U.S., using the following access code: 13730885.
Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a leading developer and provider of 5G and 4G chips and modules for IoT devices. For 5G/4G massive IoT applications, Sequans provides a comprehensive product portfolio based on its flagship Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT and Calliope Cat 1 chip platforms, featuring industry-leading low power consumption, a large set of integrated functionalities, and global deployment capability. For 5G/4G broadband and critical IoT applications, Sequans offers a product portfolio based on its Cassiopeia 4G Cat 4/Cat 6 and high-end Taurus 5G chip platforms, optimized for low-cost residential, enterprise, and industrial applications. Founded in 2003, Sequans is based in Paris, France, with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Finland, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Visit Sequans online at www.sequans.com; www.facebook.com/sequans; www.twitter.com/sequans.
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Anita Campbell said always wanted a job that would make a difference. That's why over 20 years ago, she joined a construction team with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).
"I love being hands-on. I love having the experience of knowledge and improving things," Campbell said.
She started the job knowing that, sometimes, her team's safety could be at risk.
"Every day, you never know what you're going to face," she said. "And you always have to keep your head on a swivel out here, because anything can change in the blink of a second."
On May 2, 2022, her life did change in a matter of seconds.
While on the job in a work zone in Henrico County, she said a driver sped through a nearby stop sign, hitting her at about 35 mph.
"I've been hit several times, but last year I was physically hit and went over the top of a vehicle on Staples Mill Road. Went over top of the hood of the car, coming back off the driver door, coming back to the asphalt," Campbell said.
Her legs and back were badly injured. It took her about six months to recover.
"It messes with you physically and mentally because I was told that I couldn't do certain things, because I might potentially paralyze myself from the waist down or neck down," she said. "It changed my life — big."
Over the years, Campbell said she knew VDOT workers were often at higher risk of being injured or even killed by drivers while in work zones.
What happened to her, while frightening, didn't come as a surprise.
"Actually, the first day on the job with VDOT, I watched the lady that was flagging traffic for a private contractor get hit by an 18-wheeler. She is no longer here. We have lost several people, throughout the years, that I know personally," Campbell said. "Throughout the district and the Commonwealth of Virginia, we've lost several lives and I'm just one of the fortunate ones who's able to sit here today and talk to you about it."
Her desire to help others by fixing Virginia's roadways, she says, brought her back to work the next day.
"Watching that play out before my eyes, I had to push through. I had to make a judgment call for myself. Was this really something that I wanted to subject myself to? And at the end of the day, it was. Because I knew that I could go out there and make a difference, and I try to be as safe as I can and keep my work zone as safe as I can when we're out in the field working," Campbell said.
The same year Campbell was hit, 22 people died in work-zone related crashes across the Commonwealth.
"When we look at the numbers like that, 22 fatalities is a horrible number, but that is not just the road workers," said Ken Slat, a communications manager for VDOT's Staunton district. "In fact, it might surprise a lot of people to know that a majority, a strong majority, about 80% typically of the fatalities that we see in work zone crashes, are actually the motorists and passengers."
Slat said distracted driving and speeding are leading causes of work zone-related accidents.
As part of National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week, VDOT is encouraging drivers to be more cognizant of work zones and understand the consequences of not doing so.
In Virginia, drivers speeding in dedicated work zones when workers are present, and work is in progress, can face a fine of up to $500.
VDOT crews should have signage and amber lights warning drivers of upcoming work zones. Campbell said crews typically have "escape routes" planned in case of emergency, but still, she's urging drivers to be more careful.
"Pay attention, slow down, move over. Because it could be one of your family members. You never know," she said. "We want to return home to our families, just like everyone else."
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PHOENIX, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 20th, 2022, Rise Invest acquired the apartment community known as Lofts on 3rd located at 1401 N 3rd Street in Phoenix, AZ.
Lofts on 3rd was recently renovated in 2019 and consists of 14 1x1 units, 14 2x2, units (twelve of which are loft style), and one penthouse unit. The property is located just north of I-10, near the heart of downtown Phoenix and is just a 5-10 minute walk from Roosevelt Row, which has blossomed into one of the Phoenix MSA's best nightlife districts. Much like the rest of the Phoenix MSA, this area has received significant investment in housing in order to keep pace with demand and support the growing economy.
Lofts on 3rd has seen significant revitalization in recent years. 100% of the units have been renovated with modern finishes and in-unit washers/dryers — in addition to significant improvements addressing amenities, deferred maintenance, and curb appeal. The property stands to benefit even further from enhanced property management and leasing.
The acquisition is a 1031 exchange of an asset that Rise Invest sold recently in combination with additional 1031 funds from another Rise Invest investor.
"This deal has everything you want at a time like this," says Drew Breneman, Rise Invest's Founder & CEO. "The going-in cap rate is phenomenal, and we will be cash-flowing on day 1 without needing to capture any loss-to-lease. We're now up to 5 properties and 190 total units in the Phoenix MSA after having stepped into the market late last year and have come far in scaling our portfolio outside of Chicago and Minneapolis. We're very excited about this asset and continuing to invest in Phoenix."
"It is rare to acquire a stabilized asset in downtown Phoenix at such an attractive basis. With the help of our partners, we are confident that this will provide investors healthy cashflow while also being positioned in one of the most desirable areas in a rapidly growing market," says Evan Dillon, 27, VP of Investments.
"So much of our time is spent surveying the market and identifying the most favorable investment opportunities, and we have a lot of conviction that our acquisition and strategy for Lofts on 3rd will be successful. We're eager to continue building our reputation within the greater Phoenix market, and we think this deal is an excellent opportunity to showcase just that," says Sam Markin, 26, Investment Associate.
Learn more about Lofts On 3rd on our website at: https://www.riseinvest.com/portfolio/lofts-on-3rd
Rise Invest is a private real estate investment management firm specializing in the multifamily property sector. Rise Invest employs a deliberate investment approach, leveraging data analytics and proprietary technology to generate superior risk-adjusted returns for investors.
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Sunday's results
Lethbridge 4 Calgary 1
Tri-City 7 Vancouver 3
Tuesday's results
Moose Jaw 3 Saskatoon 1
Medicine Hat 5 Prince George 2
Wednesday's results
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Lethbridge at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Portland, 6 p.m.
Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Brandon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Winnipeg, 5:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 4:05 p.m.
Monday's games
Spokane at Portland, 12 a.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17726852.php | 2023-01-19 03:01:16 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17726852.php |
By Afsheen Shamsi
As a South Asian American Muslim woman who cares deeply about issues of equity and justice, I have been very engaged in a lot of progressive spaces for some time now. I am truly grateful for all my friends and allies in these spaces who have been a part of our collective journey to advance social justice.
But the reality is, while progressive spaces can be a safe haven for people of color, they can also be riddled with implicit bias. The hard thing about implicit bias is that it is so subtle that sometimes it is difficult to recognize. It took me a long time to understand in some spaces that I was experiencing implicit bias. These instances are also tricky to navigate because in progressive spaces you are supposed to be among allies and friends.
Over the last several years, many progressive spaces have realized the importance of diversity. But it’s not enough to simply include people from diverse backgrounds. Organizations need to foster a sense of belonging. That also means figuring out how to address implicit bias in a productive way.
Being inclusive — with a focus on belonging — means inviting people of color to take on leadership roles and creating a space for their voices to be heard on matters of importance. It means recognizing a great idea when it is shared by a person of color — instead of waiting til 10 minutes later when the same idea is repeated by a white colleague in a slightly different way.
It means not cutting off people of color mid-sentence. It means presenting thoughts or ideas without criticizing or challenging the thoughts or ideas of people of color. And it means recognizing that people of color are highly qualified and have a lot to offer.
My understanding of implicit bias became clearer when I read Stanford scholar Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt’s book, “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do.” This thought-provoking, research-based book helped me not only understand that I was experiencing implicit bias but also made me aware of my own biases. Because of the messages that society bombards us with, we all live and struggle with our own biases.
Most people in progressive spaces may not be aware of their biases, so they aren’t necessarily “the bad guys.” Often, they aren’t even aware of the harm their actions cause. But it’s crucial to name these biases and address them in a healthy, understanding way.
Unfortunately, this can often go awry. For example, when a friend of mine called out a colleague’s implicit bias, she was marginalized. And in the past, when I once tried to raise implicit bias that I had experienced with an ally in a progressive space, I was immediately met with a listing of the social justice credentials of the person in question suggesting that they couldn’t possibly be capable of harboring any biases.
So how can we move forward? I’ve found that it rarely helps to call out someone’s implicit bias in a public setting. Because we all struggle with our own biases, it’s often not helpful to publicly embarrass or humiliate someone who is indeed an ally in our collective struggle for a more just world. Often, a personal one-on-one non-confrontational conversation is the best approach.
That being said, on some occasions, someone’s especially egregious behavior may deserve to be called out publicly.
It’s also important to support those who have been met with implicit bias. Recently, one friend who was struggling in a progressive space said to me, “I am not qualified.” I told her, “It’s not you,” and then proceeded to list all the ways she is so very qualified.
Recently, when I experienced implicit bias in a progressive space, I shared my experiences with my supervisor. She not only affirmed my experiences but also offered her support, helpful advice and resources. Union Theological Seminary, where I work, has a deep commitment to issues of equity and inclusion, as is evidenced by the work of our Justice, Equity, and Inclusion (JEI) Committee.
This year, I also attended Rockwood Leadership Institute’s The Art of Leadership training program for leaders of color, where I acquired some tools that helped me to effectively address the implicit-bias situation I was experiencing — while maintaining that important relationship in that progressive space.
As we all come together to advance equity and justice, of my allies and friends in the progressive space, I would ask you to notice the ways you interact with your BIPOC colleagues in the spaces you are in together and determine ways to make those spaces truly inclusive focused on a culture of belonging for all.
To my BIPOC colleagues and friends, I would share that you are qualified and very much deserve to be in the leadership spaces you are in today. Invest in your own leadership to acquire any tools you may need to advance in your own leadership journeys.
Afsheen A. Shamsi lives in Princeton and wrote this in her personal capacity and not as the representative of any organization. She is the vice president of communications & marketing at Union Theological Seminary and serves on the boards of Emgage and the ACLU-NJ. She presently serves on and is the former co-chair of the South Asian American Caucus of the NJ Democratic State Committee.
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Warriors' Steve Kerr applauds Giants' Gabe Kapler for national anthem protests after Uvalde tragedy
Kapler previously protested the national anthem in 2020
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr applauded San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler on Sunday for his decision to protest the national anthem in the wake of the Texas school shooting, adding that he believes it’s important for everyone "to express their frustrations."
Kerr was asked about Kapler’s decision on Sunday and expressed his support of any "peaceful protest."
"I always support any form of peaceful protest. That’s what our country is founded on," he said. "I think it’s great that he is making his own statement. I think everyone has to do it their own way, and that's the way Gabe chose and I applaud him for it."
He continued: "I think it’s important for everybody to express their frustration, their disgust, their anger, whatever it is in any way that they deem fitting. I support everybody’s right to demand better from our country."
MLB MANAGERS DISCUSS GABE KAPLER NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTEST AFTER UVALDE SHOOTING
Kapler said Friday he will no longer stand with his team for the national anthem until he "feels better about the direction of our country" in the wake of the Texas school shooting on Tuesday that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
"I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel better about the direction of our country," he told reporters before Friday’s game. "That’ll be the step. I don’t expect it to move the needle necessarily. It’s just something I feel strongly enough about to take that step."
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The decision drew a strong response from White Sox manager Tony La Russa, who stated that protesting the anthem was an insult to the men and women who died and served in the U.S. military.
"You need to understand what the veterans think when they hear the anthem or see the flag. And the cost they paid and their families. And if you truly understand that, I think it’s impossible not to salute the flag and listen to the anthem."
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Others in the league have backed Kapler’s decision.
He previously protested the national anthem in 2020, when he joined several of his players in taking a knee to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
Fox News’ David Aaro contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/warriors-steve-kerr-giants-gabe-kapler-national-anthem-protests-uvlade | 2022-05-30 18:24:46 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/warriors-steve-kerr-giants-gabe-kapler-national-anthem-protests-uvlade |
DALLAS (AP) — Joe Pavelski became the oldest player ever with a four-goal game in the NHL playoffs, and did it in his return two weeks after going into concussion protocol.
And that still wasn’t enough for the Dallas Stars.
“Epic. Epic. Ashamed we wasted it and didn’t win,” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. “That’s on our group because, you know, he more than do his part. He tried to drag us to a win.”
The 38-year-old Pavelski scored all four of their goals, including two in the third period to force overtime, before the Stars lost 5-4 to Seattle in Game 1 of their second-round series on Tuesday night.
“It’s just Joe. I’m not surprised. I should be, everybody should be,” DeBoer said. “He’s the oldest guy on the sheet of ice tonight and he’s by far the best player on either team. But that’s just Joe.”
Pavelski wasn’t on the ice when Yanni Gourde scored an unassisted goal 12:17 into overtime. The veteran center was only able to look up in disbelief from the bench when the game ended.
After taking a big hit and banging his head hard on the ice in the opener of the first-round series against Minnesota on April 17, Pavelski missed the last five games of that series. He was set for a return in Game 7 against the Wild, but that wasn’t needed when the Stars wrapped up that series in six games.
“I think over the last few days there’s definitely a sense of clarity that kind of came back and I felt confident,” Pavelski said.
Only 2 1/2 minutes into his first game back, he scored on his first shot — a 25-foot wrister to put the Stars ahead 1-0. He scored on a pass from Mason Marchment, while Max Domi got the secondary assist.
“It was exciting to be back. First lap in warmups, I felt a little shot of adrenaline right there. I was excited,” Pavelski said. “Starting the game was just as much fun. We battled all night. It was a good game, and we were right there. It’s a tough loss.”
About 10 minutes after his first goal, with Seattle even at 1-1, Pavelski scored again from about the same distance with a redirect of Thomas Harley’s shot. The Kraken then scored three goals in a 68-second span to take a 4-2 lead.
Pavelski notched his second career postseason hat trick midway through the third period when he knocked in a rebound after captain Jamie Benn’s shot. He got the tying fourth goal with 6 1/2 minutes left in regulation, when he swatted a puck into the net out of mid-air after Jani Hakanpaa’s shot ricocheted off the stick of Adam Larsson into the air toward the crease.
The four goals extended Pavelski’s record for U.S.-born players to 68 career playoff goals.
At 38 years, 295 days old, Pavelski surpassed Maurice Richard’s four-goal game at 35 years, 245 days in Game 1 of the 1957 Stanley Cup Final. Pavelski also matched the franchise record for most goals in a playoff game — Denis Gurianov had four in 2020.
It was also Pavelski’s 170th career postseason game. He is one of only five players to play that many without winning a Stanley Cup.
The Stars became only the fourth team to lose a playoff game when having a player score at least four goals. They were the first since the New York Islanders lost to the Capitals in 1993.
Pavelski was on the ice for the game’s opening shift, though he wasn’t immediately inserted back on the top line. He was with Marchment and Domi, like he was when he went through a full practice Monday.
Tyler Seguin, who scored four power-play goals in the six-game series against Minnesota, stayed on the top line with Jason Robertson and NHL playoff scoring leader Roope Hintz. Seguin had moved up to that line after the 38-year-old Pavelski got hurt.
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America's Favorite Diner serves up craveable holideals through December 16 including 10,000 complimentary grand slams each day for Denny's Rewards Members
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diner bells ring, bacon smells, pancakes and fresh eggs. Oh how yum it is to enjoy your favorite meal on Denny's! This season, the company is celebrating the most wonderful time of the year by turning the holidays into holideals, making it that much sweeter to be a Denny's Rewards Member by giving the gift of 10,000 free Grand Slams each day through Friday, December 16. To spark even more joy, America's Favorite Diner will also surprise Rewards Members with mouthwatering perks and offers like free buttermilk pancake stacks, free soft drinks, free delivery and more, deposited right into their digital offers wallet.
"The holidays are all about giving. To show our appreciation for our fans the Denny's way, not only are we giving 120,000 Denny's Rewards Members the chance to redeem a Grand Slam on us, but we are spreading extra delicious holiday cheer with unexpected perks, freebies and deals," said Denny's President John Dillon. "During a year that has had more than its fair share of ups and downs, it's important that we are giving back to our guests the best way we know how, while furthering our commitment to remain America's value destination."
Denny's signature breakfast entree, the Grand Slam, features two fluffy buttermilk pancakes, two bacon strips, two sausage links and two eggs. The complimentary Grand Slams are gifted to Rewards Members at random and only available for 24 hours. For a chance to receive one of the 120,000 grand slams and additional diner deals, guests must become a Rewards Member by creating an account through dennys.com or downloading the Denny's App. Daily deals will automatically populate in Denny's Rewards accounts during the promotion period.
The 12 Days of Holideals promotion encapsulates a year of America's Diner providing great food and great value. From launching influencer inspired meals to debuting an All Day Diner Deals menu, Denny's has doubled down on serving up craveable new ways for guests to enjoy delicious and affordable dining experiences.
For more information about Denny's or to find a location near you, please visit www.dennys.com.
Price and participation may vary. Minimum purchase required, contact store for details. Additional restrictions apply.
Denny's is a Spartanburg-based family dining restaurant that was founded nearly 70 years ago for one purpose: We love to feed people. That purpose has led us to become a restaurant brand that guests worldwide rely on for delicious value and craveable contemporary meals across breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night. Every day, we welcome guests to dine whenever and however they prefer, whether it's at our brick-and-mortar locations, via Denny's on Demand – the first delivery platform in the family dining segment, or at The Meltdown and The Burger Den, our two virtual restaurants. Our longstanding commitment to supporting our local communities is brought to life with our Mobile Relief Diner that delivers hot meals to our neighbors during times of disaster.
Denny's is one of the largest franchised full-service restaurant brands in the world, based on number of restaurants. As of September 29, 2022, Denny's had 1,613 franchised, licensed and company restaurants, which includes 153 restaurants in Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
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NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company.
Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that first day sales for the Harry’s tell-all memoir topped 1.4 million copies, a record pace for non-fiction from a company that also publishes Barack and Michelle Obama, whose “Becoming” needed a week to reach 1.4 million when it was released in 2018.
The sales figures for “Spare” include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
“‘Spare’ is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words,” Gina Centrello, President and Publisher of the Random House Group, said in a statement.
“Looking at these extraordinary first day sales, readers clearly agree, ‘Spare’ is a book that demands to be read, and it is a book we are proud to publish.”
One of the most highly anticipated memoirs in recent times, “Spare” is Harry’s highly personal and intimate account of his life in the royal family and his relationship with the American actor Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.
Michelle Obama’s memoir has since sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, its sales holding up over time in part because of highly favorable reviews. The verdict is mixed so far for “Spare.”
New York Times critic Alexandra Jacob called the book, and its author, “all over the map — emotionally as well as physically,” at times “frank and funny” and at other times consumed by Harry’s anger at the British press. In The Washington Post, Louis Bayard found “Spare” to be “good-natured, rancorous, humorous, self-righteous, self-deprecating, long-winded. And every so often, bewildering.” | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-prince-harrys-memoir-opens-at-a-record-setting-sales-pace/ | 2023-01-12 13:50:41 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-prince-harrys-memoir-opens-at-a-record-setting-sales-pace/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say crushing temperatures that blanketed Europe last summer may have led to more than 61,000 heat-related deaths, highlighting the need for governments to address the health impacts of global warming.
In their study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers examined official mortality figures from 35 European countries and found a marked increase in deaths between late May and early September last year compared with the average recorded over a 30-year period.
The increase in heat-related deaths was higher among older people, women and in Mediterranean countries, they found. But the data also indicated that measures taken in France since a deadly heatwave two decades ago may have helped prevent deaths there last year.
“In the pattern of summer mean temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2022, we don’t see borders,” said co-author Joan Ballester of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. The highest temperatures were recorded across a swath of the southwestern Europe, from Spain to France and Italy.
“But when we look at the heat related mortality, we start to see borders,” Ballester told The Associated Press. While France had 73 heat-related deaths per million inhabitants last summer, Spain’s rate was 237 and Italy’s was 295, the study found.
“Possibly France drew lessons from the experience of 2003,” he said.
France’s warning system includes public announcements with advice on how to stay cool and encouraging people to drink water and avoid alcohol.
Not all of the heat-related deaths calculated across Europe last summer were linked to climate change. Some would have occurred even if summer temperatures had stayed in line with the long-term average. But there is no doubt that the intense heat in 2022 — which saw numerous European records tumble — led to higher mortality rates, as other studies on heat deaths have also shown.
The authors calculated that there were over 25,000 more heat-related deaths last summer than the average from 2015 to 2021.
Without appropriate prevention measures, “we would expect a heat-related mortality burden of 68,116 deaths on average every summer by the year 2030,” the authors said. They forecast that figure would rise to over 94,000 by 2040 and more than 120,000 by mid-century.
Governments in Spain and Germany recently announced new measures to address the effects of hot weather on their populations. In Switzerland, a group of seniors is citing the danger posed to older women by intense heat in a court case seeking to force the the government to take tougher climate action.
One difficulty for researchers is that heat-related deaths are often happening in people with pre-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, said Matthias an der Heiden of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute, who was not involved in the study. This means that heat is not the underlying cause of deaths and therefore not recorded in the cause of deaths statistics. This can cloak the significant impact that heat has on vulnerable people, with up to 30% more deaths in certain age groups during periods of hot weather.
“The problem is going to get more acute due to climate change and medical systems need to adjust to that,” he said.
An der Heiden also noted that the Nature study estimated almost double the number of heat deaths in Germany last year than his institute. While the discrepancy can be explained by the different threshold values for heat used, it indicates the need for a more detailed description of heat-related mortality that distinguishes between moderate and intensive heat, he said.
According to co-author Ballester, the impact of heat depends greatly on the overall health of the population, particularly with regard to heart and lung disease.
Other measures, already being implemented in countries such as France, include raising awareness about the dangers of high temperatures and identifying individuals who need special attention during heatwaves, he said.
“These are cheap, cost effective measures,” said Ballester.
He dismissed the suggestion that rising temperatures around the globe could, on balance, be beneficial due to fewer deaths during the winter months, noting the manifold risks posed to human civilization by rapid climatic change.
“In my opinion and the opinion of all the climate scientists, the less the climate is modified, the better,” said Ballester. “That’s why it’s so important that we start, as soon as possible, mitigating climate change and reducing vulnerability.”
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- REZLIDHIA™ U.S. FDA approval and commercial launch for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML with susceptible IDH1 mutation
- Preliminary fourth quarter 2022 Total Revenue of approximately $51.3 million which includes TAVALISSE® preliminary net product sales of approximately $21.9 million and REZLIDHIA preliminary net product sales of approximately $0.9 million
- Continued global expansion of TAVALISSE in ITP with Japan PMDA approval for partner Kissei
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) today provided a business update including preliminary total revenue for the fourth quarter, ongoing activity from the commercial portfolio, including TAVALISSE® (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) tablets and REZLIDHIA™ (olutasidenib) capsules, and upcoming catalysts for 2023.
"2022 was a transformative year for Rigel. We expanded our commercial hematology-oncology portfolio with the FDA approval and commercial launch of REZLIDHIA during December, and fourth quarter TAVALISSE net product sales reached a new high," said Raul Rodriguez, Rigel's president and CEO. "As we look ahead to 2023, we are executing on the commercial launch of REZLIDHIA to bring this important new therapy to patients in need. We continue to drive growth for TAVALISSE ITP sales in the U.S., while working with our partners to expand its global reach. We remain committed to building our hematology-oncology franchise and advancing our pipeline programs."
Commercial and Preliminary Financial Update
In the fourth quarter of 2022, a total of 2,417 bottles of TAVALISSE were sold in the U.S., 2,196 of which were shipped directly to patients and clinics, representing the highest daily bottles shipped to patients and clinics in a quarter since launch. While Rigel is still determining final results for the fourth quarter of 2022, it expects to report net product sales of TAVALISSE of $21.9 million for the fourth quarter compared to $17.6 million for the same period of 2021.
REZLIDHIA became commercially available in the U.S. on December 22, 2022. In the fourth quarter of 2022, a total of 64 bottles of REZLIDHIA were sold in the U.S. to fill initial orders from our distributors, 2 of which were shipped to patients and clinics. While Rigel is still determining final results for the fourth quarter of 2022, it expects to report net product sales of REZLIDHIA of $0.9 million for the fourth quarter.
Contract revenues for the fourth quarter of 2022 are expected to be approximately $28.5 million, consisting of $26.5 million in contract revenue from collaborations and $2.0 million in government contract revenue. Contract revenue from collaborations includes a $20.0 million milestone earned from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Kissei) upon Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) approval of TAVALISSE for the treatment of chronic ITP, $5.7 million in non-cash revenue from its collaboration agreement with Medison Pharma Trading AG, $0.6 million in royalty revenue from Grifols, and $0.2 million in revenue related to its license agreements with Eli Lilly and Grifols.
For the fourth quarter of 2022, Rigel expects to report total revenue of approximately $51.3 million.
For the fourth quarter of 2022, Rigel expects its cost of product sales to include a 15% royalty on its REZLIDHIA net product sales.
The company expects to report cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments as of December 31, 2022, of approximately $58.2 million compared to $125.0 million as of December 31, 2021. Additionally, Rigel expects to receive the $20.0 million milestone payment from Kissei during the first quarter of 2023.
The above information is preliminary, has not been audited, and is subject to change upon the audit of the company's financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022. Rigel expects to provide complete fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results in March 2023.
Q4 Business Update
- REZLIDHIA was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test. REZLIDHIA is now available in the U.S. by prescription and the commercial launch is underway.
- Rigel's partner Kissei announced Japan's PMDA approval of TAVALISSE for the treatment of chronic ITP. During the fourth quarter, Rigel expects to recognize a $20.0 million regulatory milestone earned from Kissei in connection with the approval. The payment is expected during the first quarter of 2023.
- The first patients have been dosed in Rigel's open-label, Phase 1b clinical trial of R2891, an investigational, potent, and selective IRAK1/4 inhibitor, in patients with lower-risk myeloid dysplastic syndrome (LR-MDS) who are refractory/resistant to prior therapies. The primary endpoint for this trial is safety with key secondary endpoints including preliminary efficacy and evaluation of pharmacokinetic properties. Rigel will also collect key biomarker data to further characterize R289's mechanism of action in LR-MDS.
- R552, an investigational, potent, and selective RIPK1 inhibitor, is advancing with Rigel's partner Eli Lilly. The initial Phase 2a study in approximately 100 patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is anticipated to begin in the first half of 2023 and will involve global recruitment. RIPK1 is implicated in a broad range of inflammatory cellular processes and plays a key role in tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signaling, especially in the induction of pro-inflammatory necroptosis. The Phase 2a study analysis is expected by the end of 2024.
- Data was published in Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, which summarizes the results of an investigational Phase 1 clinical trial of fostamatinib, Rigel's oral spleen tyrosine kinase, for the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD). Highlights included an impressive overall response rate of 77% for fostamatinib in steroid-refractory cGvHD patients with 70% of responses lasting >1 year and a manageable safety profile in the post-transplant setting.
About ITP
In patients with ITP (immune thrombocytopenia), the immune system attacks and destroys the body's own blood platelets, which play an active role in blood clotting and healing. Common symptoms of ITP are excessive bruising and bleeding. People suffering with chronic ITP may live with an increased risk of severe bleeding events that can result in serious medical complications or even death. Current therapies for ITP include steroids, blood platelet production boosters (TPO-RAs), and splenectomy. However, not all patients respond to existing therapies. As a result, there remains a significant medical need for additional treatment options for patients with ITP.
About AML
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow that affects myeloid cells, which normally develop into various types of mature blood cells. AML occurs primarily in adults and accounts for about 1 percent of all adult cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that in the United States alone, there will be about 20,050 new cases, most in adults, in 2022.2
Relapsed AML affects about half of all patients who, following treatment and remission, experience a return of leukemia cells in the bone marrow.3 Refractory AML, which affects between 10 and 40 percent of newly diagnosed patients, occurs when a patient fails to achieve remission even after intensive treatment.4 Quality of life declines for patients with each successive line of treatment for AML, and well-tolerated treatments in relapsed or refractory disease remain an unmet need.
About REZLIDHIA™
INDICATION
REZLIDHIA is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNING: DIFFERENTIATION SYNDROME
Differentiation syndrome, which can be fatal, can occur with REZLIDHIA treatment. Symptoms may include dyspnea, pulmonary infiltrates/pleuropericardial effusion, kidney injury, hypotension, fever, and weight gain. If differentiation syndrome is suspected, withhold REZLIDHIA and initiate treatment with corticosteroids and hemodynamic monitoring until symptom resolution.
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Differentiation Syndrome
REZLIDHIA can cause differentiation syndrome. In the clinical trial of REZLIDHIA in patients with relapsed or refractory AML, differentiation syndrome occurred in 16% of patients, with grade 3 or 4 differentiation syndrome occurring in 8% of patients treated, and fatalities in 1% of patients. Differentiation syndrome is associated with rapid proliferation and differentiation of myeloid cells and may be life-threatening or fatal. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome in patients treated with REZLIDHIA included leukocytosis, dyspnea, pulmonary infiltrates/pleuropericardial effusion, kidney injury, fever, edema, pyrexia, and weight gain. Of the 25 patients who experienced differentiation syndrome, 19 (76%) recovered after treatment or after dose interruption of REZLIDHIA. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 1 day and up to 18 months after REZLIDHIA initiation and has been observed with or without concomitant leukocytosis.
If differentiation syndrome is suspected, temporarily withhold REZLIDHIA and initiate systemic corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone 10 mg IV every 12 hours) for a minimum of 3 days and until resolution of signs and symptoms. If concomitant leukocytosis is observed, initiate treatment with hydroxyurea, as clinically indicated. Taper corticosteroids and hydroxyurea after resolution of symptoms. Differentiation syndrome may recur with premature discontinuation of corticosteroids and/or hydroxyurea treatment. Institute supportive measures and hemodynamic monitoring until improvement; withhold dose of REZLIDHIA and consider dose reduction based on recurrence.
Hepatotoxicity
REZLIDHIA can cause hepatotoxicity, presenting as increased alanine aminotransferase (ALT), increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST), increased blood alkaline phosphatase, and/or elevated bilirubin. Of 153 patients with relapsed or refractory AML who received REZLIDHIA, hepatotoxicity occurred in 23% of patients; 13% experienced grade 3 or 4 hepatotoxicity. One patient treated with REZLIDHIA in combination with azacitidine in the clinical trial, a combination for which REZLIDHIA is not indicated, died from complications of drug-induced liver injury. The median time to onset of hepatotoxicity in patients with relapsed or refractory AML treated with REZLIDHIA was 1.2 months (range: 1 day to 17.5 months) after REZLIDHIA initiation, and the median time to resolution was 12 days (range: 1 day to 17 months). The most common hepatotoxicities were elevations of ALT, AST, blood alkaline phosphatase, and blood bilirubin.
Monitor patients frequently for clinical symptoms of hepatic dysfunction such as fatigue, anorexia, right upper abdominal discomfort, dark urine, or jaundice. Obtain baseline liver function tests prior to initiation of REZLIDHIA, at least once weekly for the first two months, once every other week for the third month, once in the fourth month, and once every other month for the duration of therapy. If hepatic dysfunction occurs, withhold, reduce, or permanently discontinue REZLIDHIA based on recurrence/severity.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
The most common (≥20%) adverse reactions, including laboratory abnormalities, were aspartate aminotransferase increased, alanine aminotransferase increased, potassium decreased, sodium decreased, alkaline phosphatase increased, nausea, creatinine increased, fatigue/malaise, arthralgia, constipation, lymphocytes increased, bilirubin increased, leukocytosis, uric acid increased, dyspnea, pyrexia, rash, lipase increased, mucositis, diarrhea and transaminitis.
DRUG INTERACTIONS
- Avoid concomitant use of REZLIDHIA with strong or moderate CYP3A inducers.
- Avoid concomitant use of REZLIDHIA with sensitive CYP3A substrates unless otherwise instructed in the substrates prescribing information. If concomitant use is unavoidable, monitor patients for loss of therapeutic effect of these drugs.
LACTATION
Advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with REZLIDHIA and for 2 weeks after the last dose.
GERIATRIC USE
No overall differences in effectiveness were observed between patients 65 years and older and younger patients. Compared to patients younger than 65 years of age, an increase in incidence of hepatotoxicity and hypertension was observed in patients ≥65 years of age.
HEPATIC IMPAIRMENT
In patients with mild or moderate hepatic impairment, closely monitor for increased probability of differentiation syndrome.
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About TAVALISSE®
Indication
TAVALISSE (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) tablets is indicated for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment.
Important Safety Information
Warnings and Precautions
- Hypertension can occur with TAVALISSE treatment. Patients with pre-existing hypertension may be more susceptible to the hypertensive effects. Monitor blood pressure every 2 weeks until stable, then monthly, and adjust or initiate antihypertensive therapy for blood pressure control maintenance during therapy. If increased blood pressure persists, TAVALISSE interruption, reduction, or discontinuation may be required.
- Elevated liver function tests (LFTs), mainly ALT and AST, can occur with TAVALISSE. Monitor LFTs monthly during treatment. If ALT or AST increase to ≥3 x upper limit of normal, manage hepatotoxicity using TAVALISSE interruption, reduction, or discontinuation.
- Diarrhea occurred in 31% of patients and severe diarrhea occurred in 1% of patients treated with TAVALISSE. Monitor patients for the development of diarrhea and manage using supportive care measures early after the onset of symptoms. If diarrhea becomes severe (≥Grade 3), interrupt, reduce dose or discontinue TAVALISSE.
- Neutropenia occurred in 6% of patients treated with TAVALISSE; febrile neutropenia occurred in 1% of patients. Monitor the ANC monthly and for infection during treatment. Manage toxicity with TAVALISSE interruption, reduction, or discontinuation.
- TAVALISSE can cause fetal harm when administered to pregnant women. Advise pregnant women the potential risk to a fetus. Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment and for at least 1 month after the last dose. Verify pregnancy status prior to initiating TAVALISSE. It is unknown if TAVALISSE or its metabolite is present in human milk. Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions in a breastfed child, advise a lactating woman not to breastfeed during TAVALISSE treatment and for at least 1 month after the last dose.
Drug Interactions
- Concomitant use of TAVALISSE with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors increases exposure to the major active metabolite of TAVALISSE (R406), which may increase the risk of adverse reactions. Monitor for toxicities that may require a reduction in TAVALISSE dose.
- It is not recommended to use TAVALISSE with strong CYP3A4 inducers, as concomitant use reduces exposure to R406.
- Concomitant use of TAVALISSE may increase concentrations of some CYP3A4 substrate drugs and may require a dose reduction of the CYP3A4 substrate drug.
- Concomitant use of TAVALISSE may increase concentrations of BCRP substrate drugs (eg, rosuvastatin) and P-Glycoprotein (P-gp) substrate drugs (eg, digoxin), which may require a dose reduction of the BCRP and P-gp substrate drug.
Adverse Reactions
- Serious adverse drug reactions in the ITP double-blind studies were febrile neutropenia, diarrhea, pneumonia, and hypertensive crisis, which occurred in 1% of TAVALISSE patients. In addition, severe adverse reactions occurred including dyspnea and hypertension (both 2%), neutropenia, arthralgia, chest pain, diarrhea, dizziness, nephrolithiasis, pain in extremity, toothache, syncope, and hypoxia (all 1%).
- Common adverse reactions (≥5% and more common than placebo) from FIT-1 and FIT-2 included: diarrhea, hypertension, nausea, dizziness, ALT and AST increased, respiratory infection, rash, abdominal pain, fatigue, chest pain, and neutropenia.
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TAVALISSE and TAVLESSE are registered trademarks of Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
About Rigel
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of patients with hematologic disorders, cancer, and rare immune diseases. Founded in 1996, Rigel is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information on Rigel, the Company's marketed products and pipeline of potential products, visit www.rigel.com.
- R289 is an investigational compound not approved by the FDA
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- Thol F, Schlenk RF, Heuser M, Ganser A. How I treat refractory and early relapsed acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 2015 Jul 16;126(3):319-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2014-10-551911
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, expected commercial and financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, Rigel's ability to earn and receive milestone payments, expectations related to the potential and market opportunity of olutasidenib as therapeutics for R/R AML and other conditions, and expectations related to Japan's PMDA approval of TAVALISSE for the treatment of chronic ITP, the progress of Phase 1b clinical trial of R289 for the treatment of lower-risk myeloid dysplastic syndrome, the advancement of Phase 2a clinical trial of R552 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and the results of Phase 1 clinical trial of fostamatinib for the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease. Any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "plan", "potential", "may", "expects", "will" and similar expressions in reference to future periods. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based on Rigel's current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions, and hence they inherently involve significant risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, uncertainties related to the completion of operational and financial closing procedures, audit adjustments and other developments that may arise that would require adjustments to the preliminary commercial and financial results included in this press release; risks and uncertainties associated with the commercialization and marketing of TAVALISSE or REZLIDHIA; risks that the FDA, European Medicines Agency, PMDA or other regulatory authorities may make adverse decisions regarding fostamatinib or olutasidenib; risks that clinical trials may not be predictive of real-world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; risks that fostamatinib or olutasidenib may have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuses; the availability of resources to develop Rigel's product candidates; market competition; as well as other risks detailed from time to time in Rigel's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 and subsequent filings. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Rigel does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, and expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein, except as required by law.
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MORGANTOWN, WV (WBOY) — Since 2012, researchers at West Virginia University have been studying the soil in areas where the red spruce tree once grew.
In order to successfully restore the species within the state, those planting the seedlings must do so in the areas where a red spruce tree will grow. By testing soils, researchers can determine the potential success of the red spruce species in one particular area, and then they determine how likely it would be for the species to survive there in the present and future.
According to officials, West Virginia has only a small portion of the red spruce trees that it used to have back in the late 1800s. Logging, wildfires and disease have swept away 90% of the species in our state.
The collective research on the soils maps out the areas in relation to how successful each section would be in restoring the red spruce species. Officials said that one end goal of this research is to map out the whole Appalachian region within the state by the likely success of red spruce restoration according to the soil.
Jim Thompson talks about the properties of the red spruce tree and its soil
The red spruce tree and its soil, according to WVU Plant and Soil Sciences Professor Jim Thompson, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by trapping carbon, and the organic matter within the soil acts like a sponge, so the water retention of the red spruce tree’s soil helps to prevent flooding.
“I think that the carbon sequestration and the increased water holding capacity may be the most important in terms of having the wide-ranging effects on many people, but certainly the restoration of those ecosystems for the plant and animal species. They are very unique ecosystems, and so they support those more rare plant and animal species, and so ecologically, they’re important,” Thompson said.
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Red spruce trees are being planted, but with limited resources, like manpower and funding. Thompson said that in order for the restoration efforts to be successful, the saplings must be planted in areas where the soil shows that the red spruce trees were once successful. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/red-spruce-forest-restoration-research-continues-wv-ecosystem-to-benefit/ | 2022-08-11 22:04:00 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/red-spruce-forest-restoration-research-continues-wv-ecosystem-to-benefit/ |
Americans 3, Chiefs 0
First Period
1. Tri-City, McMillan 13 (unassisted) 4:45.
2. Tri-City, Lajoie 5 (Peters, Cardona) 16:03.
Penalties — Crampton Spo (roughing) 2:04; Cardona Tc (embellishment) 6:34; Weinstein Spo (slashing) 6:34; Crampton Spo (slashing) 19:21.
Second Period
No Scoring.
Penalties — Brinson Spo, McMillan Tc (misconduct, 10-minute misconduct) 5:26; Brinson Spo, McMillan Tc (roughing) 5:26; Weinstein Spo (hooking) 5:55; Friedt-Mohr Tc (interference) 8:54; Mechura Tc (inter. on goaltender) 11:29; Gudelj Spo, Dragicevic Tc (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 14:39; Lemonnier Tc (hooking) 18:50.
Third Period
3. Tri-City, Gavin 17 (Ernst) 19:21 (en).
Penalties — Luypen Tc (tripping) 14:13.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Spokane: Cowan (L, ). Tri-City: Suchanek (W, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Spokane: 0-4; Tri-City: 0-3.
Referees — Stephen Campbell, Connor McCracken. Linesmen — Anthony Guzzo, Rance Hughes.
Attendance — 5,323 at Tri-City. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-spokane-tri-city-17793435.php | 2023-02-19 06:39:16 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-spokane-tri-city-17793435.php |
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ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Hundreds of people protested in Paraguay’s capital for the second straight day Tuesday alleging that this weekend’s presidential elections were marred by fraud, a claim that President-elect Santiago Peña, electoral authorities and international observers dismissed.
Paraguayo Cubas, a far-right populist outsider with the National Crusade Party who came in third in Sunday’s presidential contest with 23% of the vote, called for the demonstrations Monday after he received a larger share of the vote than expected on the back of a strong anti-establishment message.
The protests mean Paraguay has become the latest country in the Americas to have a populist candidate call on his supporters to protest the results of an election, alleging fraud without presenting any firm evidence to back up the claims.
“We’re here requesting an audit of all the records,” said Francisco Soteras, who was a candidate for the lower house of Congress under Cubas' party and joined the protesters Tuesday evening. “We’re already seeing some signs of fraud in this regard. If there is 10% of fraud, we’re requesting a redo of the elections.”
Peña easily won Sunday’s election with 43% of the vote, a result that shocked analysts who had expected a close race with Efraín Alegre, the second place candidate who represented a coalition of parties that had been described as the best chance in recent history for the opposition to snatch power from the Colorado Party. In the end though, it wasn’t even close as Alegre got 27% of the vote.
Despite the lopsided results, Paraguay woke up with roadblocks in numerous points across the country Tuesday, largely set up by Cubas supporters.
“This is what the people feel today: discontent, rejection and a bitter feeling that their will was suppressed and the true president of the republic was robbed from them,” said Cristian Delgado, another legislative candidate for Cubas' party who joined the demonstrations Tuesday.
Peña called on the government to assure “free transit” in Paraguay’s streets.
“Unfortunately, today many people were unable to reach their places of work, many people arrived late to their workplaces,” Peña said Tuesday as he dismissed fraud accusations.
The Organization of American States, which deployed an electoral observation mission for the vote, said Tuesday that “there is no reason to doubt the results” of the election.”
Cubas supporters clashed with police on Monday night outside Paraguay’s electoral court in the capital of Asunción. Some 70 people were detained, prosecutor Fatima Capurro said.
The Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday it would investigate the incidents but that didn’t seem to intimidate the protesters who waved Paraguayan flags outside the electoral court later that day.
Alegre, the candidate for the Pact for a New Paraguay who came in second, called on Monday for a manual count of votes and an international audit of the country’s electronic voting system. Alegre had conceded shortly after Sunday’s vote and didn’t denounce fraud, although he changed his tune after protests were launched.
Cubas, who openly admires El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his hardline stance against crime, said he would be traveling to Asunción to lead the protests.
“It’s impossible, from my modest point of view, for a weary population to have given victory to these drug traffickers,” he said in a television interview.
Analysts immediately drew parallels to what happened in Brazil last year when supporters of then-President Jair Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat in October elections and his supporters launched protests, which included roadblocks. His supporters later stormed top government buildings to dispute the outcome of the election in a move that recalled the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
“He’s following Bolsonaro’s playbook by calling for demonstrations,” said Leandro Lima, a senior political risk analyst at Control Risks, a consultancy.
At the same time though, there is a key difference in that Cubas doesn’t enjoy the support from police and military officers like Bolsonaro did. “This lack of a military component is something that makes the Paraguay case less complex to handle,” Lima said.
The way in which Alegre followed Cubas’ lead on the fraud claims shows how the populist politician will be an important voice in Paraguayan politics despite coming in third in the elections.
That growth in Cubas' influence comes at a time when there is a “regional trend of an anti-establishment populist discourse against traditional politics and institutions,” Lima said.
In neighboring Argentina, for example, an anti-establishment right-wing populist politician, Javier Milei, is also strengthening and is seen among the favorite candidates ahead of the October presidential election. —————-
Politi reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/paraguay-populist-candidate-fires-up-protesters-18074931.php | 2023-05-03 02:07:15 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/paraguay-populist-candidate-fires-up-protesters-18074931.php |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Residents across Northwest Louisiana and around the region continue to suffer as outages and dangerous heat continue, and one Shreveport organization is looking for a new way to help.
ReForm Shreveport created a new crowdsourced power outage map to help citizens report their power status. Shreveport residents can report if the power is on or off at their home and the data is displayed on a live Power Outage Map.
“With this tool, neighbors can stay connected about what’s going on in their neighborhood,” said Luke Lee, owner of Fusiform Design Workshop and architect of the ReForm Shreveport Power Outage Map. “More than anything, it’s about ensuring that people know what’s going on around them.”
The organization says they wanted to provide a community-generated map that is easier to use than the SWEPCO outage map and pinpoint specific areas of need. Some community members recently took to Reddit to voice their confusion on how to navigate and understand SWEPCO’s map.
ReForm Shreveport also created a Water Outage Map after Winter Storm Uri caused widespread damage in 2021. The map, utilized by the City of Shreveport, was designed to help officials target repair efforts.
“This voluntary data collection underscores that communication with citizens in a crisis is paramount and that effective dialogue is a two-way street,” said ReForm Shreveport co-founder LeVette Fuller. “People need to know that their voices are heard, and needs can be communicated up the chain to decision makers and organizers looking to prioritize their response.”
As of 10:45 a.m. Monday, the SWEPCO outage map shows over 123,800 customers are still without power. Crews are working diligently to restore power to the area, but SWEPCO estimates that some areas may not be operational until Saturday. | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/community-organization-creates-crowdsourced-power-outage-map-for-shreveport-residents/ | 2023-06-19 20:21:43 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/community-organization-creates-crowdsourced-power-outage-map-for-shreveport-residents/ |
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TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of North Central and Northeast Washington,
including the following counties, in North Central Washington,
Okanogan. In Northeast Washington, Ferry.
* WHEN...From Noon PDT today through late tonight.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff from slow moving showers and
thunderstorms may result in flooding of creeks, streams, and other
low-lying and flood-prone locations including burn scars. Rock
slides or mud slides will be possible.
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WALLINGFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man faces assault and other charges after police say he swung a hatchet at other motorists during a road-rage incident.
The 33-year-old West Haven resident was arrested Saturday after police were called to a flea market in Wallingford.
According to Wallingford police, the man was backing into traffic on South Turnpike Road when another motorist honked his horn.
The West Haven man stopped his car and pulled the horn-honking driver from his vehicle. He then went into the trunk of his own car, retrieved the hatchet and began swinging it at people, including one man who tried to disarm him, according to police.
He eventually dropped the hatchet after police arrived.
He is due in court on September 9 to face charges including assault, breach of peach, reckless endangerment and the illegal possession of a weapon in a vehicle. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Man-accused-of-swinging-hatchet-in-road-rage-17341539.php | 2022-07-31 20:04:00 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Man-accused-of-swinging-hatchet-in-road-rage-17341539.php |
Supreme Court hears case on limits of state courts to intervene in Congressional map drawing
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The U.S. Supreme Court is considering Moore v. Harper. It’s a case out of North Carolina that centers around a state supreme court stepping in on partisan gerrymandering of congressional maps.
The Republican-controlled state legislature in North Carolina is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule its state court’s decision to toss the maps it deemed unfair, and replace them with a temporary map.
The lawmakers’ opponents say the argument presented at the court may have sweeping ramifications on laws regulating federal elections. The rationale North Carolina’s state legislature is using could set a new precedent according to legal experts. A precedent where state legislatures could enjoy near complete state-level power to regulate federal elections. They argue that’s what the U.S. Constitution grants with its elections clause.
That clause states, “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;”
During Wednesday’s arguments, justices questioned the potential ramifications.
Justice Elena Kagan said, “This is a theory with big consequences.”
Kagan was speaking to David Thompson, the lawyer presenting the case for North Carolina’s legislature.
“If the legislature engages in the most extreme forms of gerrymandering, there is no state constitutional remedy for that,” Kagan said. “This is a proposal that gets rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country.”
Thompson responded, “Our position is the checks and balances do apply, but they come from the federal constitution and the panoply of federal laws like the Voting Rights Act and other statutes.”
Justice Clarence Thomas questioned lawyers for those who say the North Carolina Supreme Court was right to strike down the congressional maps.
Thomas said, “What is the source of the authority for the state of North Carolina Supreme Court to be involved in a federal election?”
Neal Katyal, one of the lawyers presenting the case for the respondents, said, “the North Carolina court is interpreting the election clause’s powers, and the question is whether or not they have misread it or not.”
George Washington University law professor Paul Schiff Berman said the Supreme Court would need to set a new precedent to rule in North Carolina’s favor. He said, “it would be just a tremendous upending of our general constitutional structure, our democratic system, and hundreds of years of precedent for the Supreme Court.”
The court is expected to hand down its ruling by summer of 2023.
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AI may help shorten workouts to 20 minutes and still unlock 'fountain of youth'
Artificial intelligence could hold the key to "the fountain of youth" for America’s aging population, as AI-powered fitness equipment stakes a bigger claim in the world of health, according to the CEO of a high-tech gym franchise.
When COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept Americans from public spaces, including gyms, people flocked to innovative ways to stay in shape, including downloading apps such as FitnessAI, which generates personalized workouts using AI, or buying personal expensive AI-powered equipment.
The Exercise Coach, which has fitness studios across the country and overseas in Japan, has risen in popularity since 2020 by the tune of 125%, according to the company’s CEO Brian Cygan. The fitness group had 80 studios in March 2020 compared to 180 locations as of May, Cygan told Fox News Digital.
"The fitness industry will always be spawning new and interesting ways for younger, intrinsically motivated individuals to exercise," Cygan told Fox News Digital, explaining that he "only see[s] things accelerating" with The Exercise Coach in the future.
"I do think that we are on the cusp of changing the way people think about and optimize aging though with AI guided, coach-led strength training."
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FILE-Woman lifting weights (Photo by Zoran Milich/Getty Images)
The gyms use equipment from a company called Exerbotics, which Cygan described as "a line of smart strength training machines that super-powers our coaching efforts." The equipment allows Exercise Coach trainers to measure the whole-body strength levels of gym members, and then provide them "ability-matched strength training workouts that are ideally suited for them."
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"Exerbotics smart resistance and bio-feedback change resistance levels in real-time to accommodate where an exerciser's muscles are stronger or weaker," Cygan said. "For example, more resistance is encountered during the lengthening (eccentric) phase of a movement."
"This eccentric overload is impractical for most people with standard weights, yet research demonstrated it is an amplifier of strength development," he continued. "When resistance levels are precisely dosed and users are guided by on-screen feedback, they work at higher effort levels and apply the most effective stimulus for improvement possible."
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FILE-A person lifts weights at a gym. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Cygan highlighted that the AI-powered machines are able to outperform human trainers, specifically how they can measure "force output and calculating strength, tracking performance in real-time, instant calculations related to progress analysis and conversion of performance data into a recommended effort for next time." The machines, however, are unable to "care about people’s goals, obstacles, pain points, need for support," like human coaches.
What is also notable about the workouts: They last 20 minutes per session.
"Gone are the days of a one-hour workout several days a week," Cygan said. "A plethora of research and our internal data indicate that people can experience maximal strength training results from just two 20-minute workouts per week. Any more than that is not only a waste of time but will be counterproductive when someone is working at optimal levels of intensity."
The fitness CEO said that the shorter workout times appeal to people with hectic schedules, but that the regimens and technology are suited for people of all ages and fitness levels. The Exercise Coach has "intentionally aimed" their brand at aging Americans.
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"The problem we have in this country isn't helping athletes get 1% stronger," Cygan said. "It's tackling the quality of life issues and health care burden that we are facing as a nation due to the tsunami of aging Americans that is underway."
Citing AARP and U.S. Census Bureau data, Cygan said that by 2030, the U.S. for the first time will have more 65-and-older residents than children. He said personalized strength training can "revolutionize the health and vitality" for aging Americans, who are expected to live longer than previous aging generations.
"It could be the population health fountain of youth if properly leveraged," he said. "This is why we created technology that maximizes effectiveness, motivation, and data-driven guidance. Through our technology, we coach millions of ideal strength training sessions per year across America and even in Japan."
Cygan said the business plans to only grow larger, explaining he hopes to continue partnering "with insurers and medical institutions to have the greatest impact on aging in America."
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Artificial intelligence is currently a hot debate in the nation’s capital and America at large, as tech leaders in Silicon Valley race to build more powerful AI systems following the release of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT last year. Tech leaders and others who support the technology’s rise argue it will be another tool for Americans and businesses to prosper, while critics say the tech could lead to the downfall of humanity.
Cygan said that he believes The Exercise Coach’s "target demographics are rightly concerned about what generative AI means for the future of human society," but that his company is using AI "to do the things that are impossible for human coaches to do" which makes "our human coaches even better."
"AI and science have brought strength training into the 21st century," he said.
"However, our research and experience indicate that the encouragement and guidance of a friendly, knowledgeable human will never go out of vogue," he added. "In fact, we see that while many companies are reducing their human footprint, consumers appreciate more than ever when real people care about them as a person and what they are trying to achieve." | https://www.fox29.com/news/ai-may-help-shorten-workouts-to-20-minutes-and-still-unlock-fountain-of-youth | 2023-05-09 13:12:43 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/ai-may-help-shorten-workouts-to-20-minutes-and-still-unlock-fountain-of-youth |
NEW YORK, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ: SHC): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering ("IPO") conducted on or around November 20, 2020; (ii) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering ("SPO") conducted on or around March 18, 2021; and/or (iii) between November 20, 2020 and September 19, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 27, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Sotera Health securities 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 Sotera Health class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=11454 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 March 27, 2023. 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 litigate 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, and in connection with the IPO and the SPO, Sotera Health made false and misleading representations concerning its emissions control systems and exposure to liability from lawsuits for the Company's failure to limit harmful Ethylene Oxide ("EtO") emissions. The Company represented that it had "a proactive [environmental, health and safety] program and a culture of safety and quality." In addition, Sotera Health stated that it employed adequate and effective safeguards to control EtO emissions. Moreover, Sotera Health and its executives vehemently denied allegations that the Company's EtO emissions from its sterilization facilities caused cancer and other severe health issues in people living in the communities near those facilities.
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STOCKHOLM, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Securitas today announces that it has been granted the required regulatory approvals for the acquisition of Stanley Security which was announced on December 8, 2021. The transaction is expected to be completed around July 22, 2022.
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Investors: Micaela Sjökvist, VP Investor Relations; +46 76 116 7443, micaela.sjokvist@securitas.com
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By MARINA VILLENEUVE
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge ordered Friday that the state’s congressional and state Senate primaries be delayed until Aug. 23 to provide enough time to replace district maps that were ruled unconstitutional this week.
State Judge Patrick McAllister moved the primaries back from their original date of June 28. He said the independent expert he tasked with helping him craft new maps, special master Jonathan Cervas, will finish drawing districts by May 20.
New York is set to separately hold gubernatorial and state Assembly primaries in June, unless lawmakers or Gov. Kathy Hochul decide to delay. New York once held congressional and state office primaries on separate dates, but lawmakers in 2019 consolidated them to save money, increase voter turnout and make the process less confusing for the public.
On Wednesday, New York’s highest court rejected new congressional and state senate maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats. The majority decision largely agreed with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
The ruling also dashed Democrats’ national redistricting hopes, which leaned heavily on their ability to gerrymander New York state to maximize the number of seats they could win in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A state board of elections spokesperson said Thursday the state had asked the U.S. Justice Department if a federal court might need to review any change to the date of the primary. The spokesperson said Friday they were still looking into whether a review will be required.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Wallbox N.V. ("Wallbox" or the "Company") (NYSE: WBX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Wallbox and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On November 9, 2022, Wallbox issued a press release announcing its third quarter 2022 financial results. Among other items, Wallbox reported that "automotive capacity constraints are delaying EV deliveries, which in-turn has a near-term effect on our European and home charging businesses."
On this news, Wallbox's stock price fell $0.74 per share, or 12.5%, to close at $5.18 per share on November 9, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Suspected drunken driver plows Porsche into home, police say
BOULDER, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - Boulder police said don’t drink and drive - or your expensive car just might end up inside a house.
That was the scene that greeted officers early Saturday morning.
“We were called to the 3500 block of 4th Street in North Boulder for a report of a crash,” police wrote in a social media post on the incident. “This was what we saw when we arrived. A Porsche SUV struck the house, and the vehicle was partially inside the home. The SUV was upside down with the driver still inside.”
The man who was driving was no worse for the wear after he was helped out of the vehicle - but the home itself was another story.
“Incredibly, there were no major injuries as a result of this crash,” police said.
Once the 42-year-old driver was medically cleared, officers took him into custody on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, careless driving and texting while driving, authorities said.
“Given the big game tonight, we think this a good time to remind everyone to please celebrate responsibly and never drink and drive if you’re impaired. It’s not worth the risk of hurting yourself or those around you,” police said.
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When scientists consider the possibility of a major storm hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast, they say the ramifications could be devastating — especially for the city of New Orleans. If a Category 5 hurricane were to strike Louisiana, tens of thousands of lives could be lost. Hear how state and federal officials are working to prevent that scenario.
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Mississippi State football’s growing transfer portal list added two new names Monday afternoon when redshirt freshmen offensive linemen Jackson Cannon and Lucas Taylor each announced over social media they would be leaving the program.
Cannon, from Forsyth, Georgia, was a former three-star in MSU’s 2022 class. Taylor, another former three-star from Mobile, Alabama, was the Bulldogs’ top-rated lineman in the 2022 class (No. 464 nationally) by 247sports.
Neither played last season and will have four years of eligibility going forward.
Cannon and Taylor became the 16th and 17th addition to the portal from MSU’s program since the beginning of December, joining: OL Reed Buys (South Alabama), WR Rara Thomas (Georgia), RB Ke’Travion Hargrove (Memphis), RB Dillon Johnson (Washington), WR Christian Ford (Appalachian State), QB Daniel Greek (Tarleton State), OL Carson Williams (uncommitted), P Archer Trafford (uncommitted), OL Gabe Cavazos (Southern Miss), S Dylan Lawrence (Southern Miss), QB Braedyn Locke (Wisconsin), QB Sawyer Robinson (Baylor), DL Jevon Banks (Kansas State), WR Marquez Dortch (uncommitted) and CB William Hardrick (uncommitted).
The Bulldogs have also added seven players from the portal during that span, including: DB Khamauri Rogers (Miami FL), P Andrew Osteen (UCF), DB Ray’Darious Jones (LSU), DB Christopher Keys (Indiana), DB Kobi Albert (Kentucky), QB Mike Wright (Vanderbilt) and WR Freddie Roberson (Eastern Washington).
The Bulldogs open the 2023 season, the first under head coach Zach Arnett, on Sept. 2 against Southeastern Louisiana at Davis Wade Stadium.
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As Leading RPA Provider, Robocorp Secures Award for Driving Enterprise Digital Transformation
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Robocorp, the leading Gen2 robotic process automation (RPA) provider, today announced they have won Intellyx's 2022 Digital Innovator Award. The award honors vendors that support enterprise digital transformation and shines a light on Robocorp's innovations and success in the automation space.
"We're excited to receive the 2022 Digital Innovator Award," says Robocorp CEO and Founder, Antti Karjalainen. "Our innovative open-source Gen2RPA platform brings digital workers to life for organizations of all sizes that are seeking to use automation to quickly improve both internal and external processes. From manufacturing to fintech, our digital workers are now being used across the globe by finance, IT, and HR teams to rapidly handle large business processes and workloads."
Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, established the Digital Innovator Awards in 2021 to put a spotlight on vendors worth watching. With their focus on enterprise digital transformation, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace and looks to honor the trailblazing vendors and firms leading the way.
"At Intellyx, we get dozens of PR pitches each day from a wide range of vendors," said Jason Bloomberg, President of Intellyx. "We will only set up briefings with the most disruptive and innovative firms in their space. That's why it made sense for us to call out the companies that made the cut."
Robocorp has been granted this award due to their work throughout Intellyx's rigorous briefing selection process, ultimately delivering a successful briefing. Robocorp was also included in the inaugural list of digital innovators in 2021.
For more details on the award and to see other winning vendors in this group, visit the 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator awards page.
ABOUT ROBOCORP
Robocorp empowers businesses and teams to work smarter by shattering previous boundaries of RPA and intelligent automation. The company makes it easy, affordable and fast to build software robots and automate manual tasks with first-class, open-source process automation tools. It also provides a robust, secure orchestration and execution platform to allow customers to run both cloud-based and self-managed robotic automations with consumption based pricing. Robocorp is backed by Benchmark, Canvas Ventures, Slow Ventures, FirstMinute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Haystack and angels. Robocorp is headquartered in San Francisco with our primary offices being online. Learn more at https://robocorp.com/.
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DALLAS, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As previously announced, Vertical Capital Income Fund (NYSE: VCIF) paid a monthly distribution of $0.0721 per share to all shareholders of record as of June 17, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "Plan").
As a general matter, the amount of the Fund's distributable income depends on the aggregate gains and losses realized by the Fund during the entire year. Distributions may consist of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital but the character of these distributions cannot be determined until after the end of the Fund's fiscal year. However, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the terms of the Plan, the Fund may be required to indicate the source of each distribution to its shareholders. The following table sets forth the estimated sources of the current distribution, and the cumulative distributions paid during the 2022 fiscal year to date from the sources indicated in the table. All amounts are expressed on a per share basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
(1) You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Distribution Policy.
(2) The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this 19(a) Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
(3) The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income."
The Plan will be subject to periodic review by the Board, and the Board may amend the terms of the Plan including amending the annual rate of payment or may terminate the Plan at any time without prior notice to the Fund's shareholders. The Fund's distribution rate may be affected by numerous factors, including changes in realized and projected market returns, Fund performance, and other factors. There can be no assurance that an unanticipated change in market conditions or other unforeseen factors will not result in a change in the Fund's distribution rate at a future time. The amendment or termination of the Plan could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares. The public health crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak may exacerbate other pre-existing political, social and economic risks to which the Fund is exposed. The duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and its effects cannot be determined with certainty. In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and an exemptive order received by the Fund from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fund will provide its shareholders of record on each distribution date with a 19(a) Notice and issue an accompanying press release disclosing the sources of its distribution payment when a distribution includes anything other than net investment income.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in 19(a) Notices are only estimates and are not provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during its full fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes. Information on the Fund's 19(a) Notices, if any, can be found at www.vcif.us. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
Shares of closed-end funds often trade at a discount from their net asset value. The market price of Fund shares may vary from net asset value based on factors affecting the supply and demand for shares, such as Fund distribution rates relative to similar investments, investors' expectations for future distribution changes, the clarity of the Fund's investment strategy and future return expectations, and investors' confidence in the underlying markets in which the Fund invests. Fund shares are subject to investment risk, including possible loss of principal invested. No Fund is a complete investment program and you may lose money investing in a Fund. An investment in the Fund may not be appropriate for all investors. Before investing, prospective investors should consider carefully the Fund's investment objective, risks, charges and expenses. For further details, please visit Vertical Capital Income Fund's website at vcif.us.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business and financial outlook of Vertical Capital Income Fund that are based on the Fund's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections and are not guarantees of future performance. There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on any such statements. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
About Vertical Capital Income Fund
Vertical Capital Income Fund (VCIF) is an NYSE-listed closed-end fund that seeks monthly income by investing primarily in performing non-agency residential whole loans secured by real estate. As a secondary strategy the Fund aims to provide total return by acquiring performing residential loans at a discount to the unpaid principal balance (UPB). VCIF realizes capital gains as loans are paid off before maturity. For more information visit VCIF.us and connect with the Fund on Twitter.
About Oakline Advisors, LLC
Oakline Advisors, LLC is the adviser to Vertical Capital Income Fund. Founded in 2013, Oakline Advisors, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that specializes in the residential whole loan market. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dallas, TX-based Behringer. Since its inception in 1989, Behringer, together with its affiliates, has raised equity of more than $6 billion in assets through public and private fund structures. For more information about Oakline and Behringer please visit their respective websites at oaklineadvisors.com and behringerinvestments.com.
Fund shares are identified by CUSIP 92535C104
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvana Water Sciences Corp. ("Nirvana"), an innovative wellness and functional beverage company, is pleased to announce a further investment of $2.625 million by Flagstaff International, Inc. and other current investors.
This investment will fuel the growth of Nirvana's new functional spring waters and seltzers in traditional retail as well as support a new joint venture with Inspire Health Alliance, LLC, a pioneering health care service network with more than 1,500 physicians and surgeons across the U.S.
The joint venture will offer a line of a dietary supplements aimed at boosting and protecting lean muscle mass at a time when consumers need it most. The three-ounce Nirvana Super™ Pro shots are infused with three grams of myHMB® Clear, Nirvana's exclusive multi-patented water-soluble HMB muscle wellness ingredient, as well as other proprietary ingredients.
"Extensive research supports the significant health and wellness benefits of HMB. We believe the Nirvana Super™ Pro products with HMB will give our physicians another tool to help achieve better outcomes," said Rick Salas, co-owner of Flagstaff International, Inc. and a managing partner of Inspire Health Alliance. "My partner, John Kang, and I were early investors in Nirvana and the company is now really hitting its stride. We believe the time is right for this additional investment and the joint venture with Inspire Health Alliance."
Naji Abumrad, M.D., F.A.C.S., professor of surgery at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, and chairman of Nirvana's Scientific Advisory Board, is a world-renowned scientist and expert on systemic muscle inflammation and muscle wasting. Dr. Abumrad says, "When the body goes through trauma, like that experienced from surgery, it turns to the muscles to retrieve amino acids to rebuild. As a result, most patients experience muscle atrophy or sarcopenia at some level after surgery, which is one of the primary reasons why we started to study this issue in great depth over three decades ago. What we found was that supplementing with HMB can actually reverse muscle atrophy."
David Vanderveen, Nirvana's CEO, added, "We couldn't be more excited to partner with Inspire Health Alliance to help its physician network promote muscle wellness with our Nirvana Super™ Pro dietary supplement shots. This goes to the heart of what we do at Nirvana. We help people transform their bodies at a cellular level to live stronger, longer and more active lives."
To learn more, please visit www.feelsuper.pro
About Nirvana Water Sciences Corp.
Nirvana is an innovative wellness company that helps people transform their bodies at a cellular level and live stronger, longer and active lives. Its core line of products consists of lightly-flavored pure mountain spring waters, seltzers, shots and supplements infused with science-backed ingredients, including the unique super-ingredient, myHMB® Clear, a water-soluble form of HMB (βeta-hydroxy βeta-methylbutyrate), clinically supported to reduce muscle soreness, boost muscle recovery time, and support lean muscle mass production.
Learn more about our science, sourcing, sustainability, SKUs and success stories at www.feelsuper.com.
About Inspire Health Alliance, LLC
Inspire Health Alliance, LLC is a health care services company that partners with physicians and other health care providers to improve patient outcomes, lower costs and reduce risks via innovative care models and technology solutions.
To learn more, visit www.inspirehealthalliance.com.
Contact
Cathy Bergman I Director of Communications
Nirvana Water Sciences Corp.
Office 212.664.8949 l Cell 819.681.9643 l cathy@nirvanawatersciences.com
Andrew Meehan l President
Meehan Business Advisers for Inspire Health Alliance LLC
Cell 949.285.0759 l ameehan@meehanba.com
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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, the firm will distribute thousands of free turkeys throughout the State of Florida where it conducts business. As an offering for client appreciation, the firm's staff will personally distribute truckloads of turkeys at five of their office locations.
The Pendas Law Firm continues its tradition of giving back to the community. The firm will distribute the turkeys to families in need, in Miami, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando. Listed below are the event dates and locations:
- Friday, Nov. 18, 8:30 am - 10:30 am, Kiwanis of Little Havana, 1400 SW 1st Street, Miami, FL 33135
- Sunday, Nov. 20, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, 4244 Evans Avenue, Fort Myers, FL 33901
- Monday, Nov. 21, 8:30 am - 10:30 am, 3250 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32207
- Monday, Nov. 21, 8:30 am - 10:30 am, 816 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd., Tampa, FL 33603
- Tuesday, Nov. 22, 8:30 am - 10:30 am, 625 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32803
"Many families throughout Florida are facing difficulties this year. We're continuing our Annual Turkey Giveaway, with a feeling that the need is now greater than ever. It makes a really big impact for people and it gives us great joy to give," said attorney Lou Pendas, owner of the firm.
Any families in need are welcomed to stop by the firm locations and receive free turkeys. However, the distribution is on a first come, first serve basis and is estimated to be limited to the times listed, or until the supply lasts. This is the 14th year in a row that the firm has provided its Annual Turkey Giveaway in Florida.
With 100 employees dedicated to offering extraordinary client service, The Pendas Law Firm is one of Florida's most prominent personal injury firms with offices located in Orlando, Daytona Beach, Ocala, Tampa, Bradenton, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The firm delivers real solutions with personal injury cases, car accidents, slip & falls, medical malpractice, property damage, product liability, premises liability, insurance claims, wrongful death and whistleblower claims.
For more info: http://www.pendaslaw.com
MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Feltman
407-920-2373 / sfeltman@pendaslaw.com
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Firms enhance business growth, reduce risk, increase efficiency, and reduce addressable costs by up to an estimated 25%
NEW YORK, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) announced the launch of a trading solution that enables clients to achieve increased straight-through processing and efficiency, better trading decisions and client insights, improved controls, and reduced risk. The new solution will enable clients of Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions to achieve greater agility and faster time to market, improved scalability, and reduced fragmentation of interfaces and tech costs.
The new Broadridge offering is built with a standard foundational integration solution across its front, middle and back-office capabilities for trade processing, which leverages an enterprise integration layer and common data model that can be used across the Broadridge product portfolio as well as with third party applications.
"Broadridge's new solution marks a significant evolution in trading technology infrastructure," said Justin Llewellyn-Jones, Broadridge Head of Capital Market Product Strategy. "Currently, firms have several front, middle, and back-office systems that are typically integrated using numerous point-to-point connections each with their own data model, creating fragmentation and complexity. By using our unique ability to look across front, middle, and back as a whole, we are helping our clients solve pain points through trade lifecycle simplification. By utilizing our pre-integrated offering to simplify across the trade lifecycle, firms can simultaneously reduce risk, increase efficiency, enhance business growth and reduce costs by an estimated 20–30% in key areas."
Capital Markets firms face a challenging environment, with economic and geopolitical uncertainty. In addition, regulatory pressures will continue with the shift towards shortened settlement cycles. As a result, it is critical for firms to focus on simplification and innovation across the trade lifecycle to reduce risk and cost of change, while enabling greater business agility. Broadridge's integrated front, middle, and back offering enables these benefits through features such as a common data model, normalized data sources, business insights for the front-office using post-trade data, integrated reporting, a global, multi-asset middle office and a single point of trade capture and management.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with more than $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.
For more information about us and what we can do for you, please visit www.broadridge.com.
Broadridge Contacts:
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Ahead with Alpha™ integrates whole-person primary care with obesity medicine for proven results
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care platform built for accessible, personalized healthcare, announced today the launch of Ahead with Alpha™ for its employer clients. Ahead with Alpha™ is a weight management program that supports sustained weight loss through the lens of whole-person primary care. This comprehensive approach combines the proven cost-saving benefits of primary care with rapidly-evolving innovations and therapies in obesity medicine.
Trendy prescription GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic are highly effective at supporting weight loss—and costly. Payors are evaluating the ROI of these new drugs against their high prices. There are still unanswered questions about their real-world effectiveness: how long should a patient take them, adherence, and their long-term health outcomes. With research still underway, employers are seeking solutions that can demonstrate value and ROI with credible results, in a quickly-shifting landscape.
Ahead with Alpha™ offers employers an evidence-based weight management solution that addresses ROI through whole-person primary care. Patients with obesity are ideal candidates since they often manage multiple chronic illnesses; with Ahead with Alpha™, they gain access to dedicated, trained primary care providers to manage metabolic and non-metabolic conditions that are costly if treated separately. Ahead with Alpha™ treats and screens for these unique health needs by combining weight loss support alongside high-quality care for more than 100 other medical conditions.
"About 20% of patients we treat for weight management have PCOS, a common condition that affects hormonal and metabolic health," says Dr. Mary Jacobson, Chief Medical Officer at Hello Alpha. "We can and do prescribe GLP-1s when appropriate, but not all patients are candidates for those medications and other therapies may be the preferred approach. We treat the whole person. A trusting patient-provider relationship developed through whole-person care helps patients adhere to their weight care plans and reinforces that health is not just a number on a scale," Dr. Jacobson adds. "We treat mental health concerns like binge-eating disorder or anxiety, whether they're caused by the social stigma of obesity or contributed to a patient's weight gain. Our routine mental health screenings also help monitor patients for any potential adverse effects. This is particularly important given recent concerns from EU regulators about depression and suicidal ideation that may accompany GLP-1 medications."
In addition to comprehensive and preventive care, members in the Ahead with Alpha™ program receive proven weight loss support like medication management, nutrition counseling with a registered dietitian, and progress tracking. Ahead with Alpha™ includes migrating patients that have successfully lost weight into a lower cost maintenance program.
"We have successfully treated over 50,000 patients with excess weight and, on average, they've experienced a sustained 15% reduction in BMI after 10+ months in the program. Through that we've developed expertise in prior authorization, step therapy and formulary management," says Gloria Lau, Hello Alpha's co-founder and CEO. "Health can't be measured in just one metric, as many point solutions claim. These fragmented solutions that focus on only one aspect of health are creating point solution fatigue and skepticism. Employers are questioning if these siloed programs deliver real ROI," Lau says. "Obesity has a high propensity of comorbidities, and to truly contain cost, patients need to be treated holistically. Whole-person primary care is the answer."
For businesses and employers, Ahead with Alpha™ is a bridge between the high demand for GLP-1s and the need to contain costs. By implementing Ahead with Alpha™, employers can support their teams' whole health, including physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
To learn more about Hello Alpha or Ahead with Alpha™, please visit https://helloalpha.com/enterprise.
ABOUT HELLO ALPHA
Hello Alpha is a virtual primary care platform that specializes in inclusive, expert care for all by bridging the gaps in women's health. Through technology and a specially-trained team of primary care providers (PCPs), Hello Alpha delivers whole-person care and expands healthcare accessibility. Hello Alpha's approach to weight management balances lifestyle changes with new medication to deliver strong, sustained clinical outcomes in a cost-effective manner. Every patient partners with a dedicated PCP who provides personalized, preventive care and evidence-based treatment at every visit. Our platform eliminates the most common barriers to healthcare with asynchronous telehealth visits that empower patients to get care at any time without appointments, travel, or waiting rooms. Founded in 2017, Hello Alpha provides patient care nationwide at a demonstrably lower cost. Hello Alpha serves patients directly and through their employers.
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Following her breast cancer diagnosis, Katie Couric throws support behind cancer screening bill
The bill is spearheaded by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Following her breast cancer diagnosis this summer, journalist Katie Couric has turned to advocacy on Capitol Hill as she joined lawmakers Tuesday to support a bill to make cancer screenings more widely available nationwide.
“No woman should have to forgo lifesaving screening because insurance doesn’t cover it,” she told a crowd of listeners as she stood shoulder to shoulder with Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The lawmakers are championing a bipartisan bill called the ‘Find it Early Act.’ The legislation promises to cut costs by ensuring that all health insurance plans cover screenings and diagnostic mammograms plus breast ultrasounds and MRI’s with no cost sharing.
“99% of women who receive an early breast cancer diagnosis survive it,” said DeLauro, who is also a cancer survivor. She stressed early detection is key to saving lives. DeLauro believes that even with a divided Congress next year the bill will pass.
“We are not governing from the extremes, but we are addressing a serious health problem that women face. It is not a partisan issue. And so, I believe that we can and we will come together around this. And it doesn’t make a difference of who chairs the committee or who doesn’t chair the committee. It is about working together to get something done. There are some issues in which we can’t do that, but I believe when it comes to women’s health and the issue of survival and breast cancer and early detection, that that’s understood because early detection is true of all cancers,” said DeLauro.
Couric added, “I also think that most members of Congress probably know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. This is the ultimate bipartisan issue. Breast cancer doesn’t spare anyone. And, doesn’t spare people because they’re in a particular political party.”
Couric said when she did a colonoscopy on the Today show back in 2000, it resulted in a 20% increase in colonoscopies.
She added the issue of expanded cancer screenings is also a racial justice issue. The American Cancer Society reports that around 224,080 new cancer cases and 73,680 cancer deaths are expected to occur among Black people in 2022. Furthermore, it reports black people have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate for most cancers of any racial/ethnic group in the United States. It reports “black women are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, despite lower incidence of the disease.”
JoAnn Pushkin, executive director of DenseBreast-info, Inc, said it is harder for doctors to diagnose breast cancer in people with dense breasts. She had to undergo multiple screenings before her cancer was discovered.
“I’m a breast cancer survivor with dense breasts, and my cancer was missed an estimated five years in a row hidden on dense tissue. And so, the day I find out I have breast cancer, I also find out I have dense breasts. And that’s why it’s been missed five years in a row. And so, women with dense breasts need to be able to access additional screening after their mammogram. That dramatically increases cancer detection over mammograms alone. A lot of times people don’t even go to the doctor because they’re scared,” she said.
Pushkin noted that additional screenings can result in higher healthcare costs.
“I mean, to be told that you have dense breasts or are at high risk and need additional screening and then not be able to afford it because it strains the family budget is an awful choice to put a woman in” she said. “...They may delay screening or put off year after year screening that would find that cancer. We can’t find it early if we don’t look for it with adequate tools.”
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CHICAGO — An Basketball Hall of Famer is opening a new restaurant in the Chicagoland area this summer.
In fact, Shaquille O’Neal’s business is already open.
“Big Chicken,” which was created by the three-time NBA champion and former MVP started serving customers at their new location in Rosemont at 9437 West Higgins Road on Tuesday.
The first 34 customers in the new restaurant received free “Big Chicken” sandwiches for a year, with a limit of one sandwich per week.
The restaurant serves a number of chicken dishes besides sandwiches including tenders, popcorn chicken, along with Mac N’ Cheese. Big Chicken is also advertising a new “Spicy Chicken Stanwich” that will feature Chicago-based Stan’s Donuts maple glazed donut as the bun with Nashville hot chicken along with the restaurant’s signature sauce.
Started in 2018 by O’Neal, JRS Hospitality, and Authentic Brands Group, there are stand-alone locations in Houston, Las Vegas, Seattle, Gilbert, Arizona, and Dayton, Ohio. “Big Chicken” is also located in New York’s UBS Arena, Moody Center in Austin, Mullett Arena at Arizona State, Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Kansas City International Airport, and three Carnival Cruise ships. | https://wgntv.com/news/northwest-suburbs/shaqs-newest-restaurant-opening-location-in-chicagoland/ | 2023-07-11 20:29:49 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/northwest-suburbs/shaqs-newest-restaurant-opening-location-in-chicagoland/ |
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative medicines to treat a broad range of diseases driven by chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration, today announced the appointment of Dr. Margit M. Janát-Amsbury, MD, Ph.D. as the company's Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Janát-Amsbury is an experienced leader of cross-functional early development teams in oncology. With 20+ years of experience in academic and industry settings, she has guided numerous oncology assets through Phase 1/2 development and has extensive experience in translational research focused on drug delivery and disease modeling.
"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Janát-Amsbury to our team. Her significant expertise in successfully driving clinical development of oncology drug candidates will prove invaluable to the company as we continue to advance the development of our lead compound, HT-6184, for treating diseases driven by chronic inflammation" said Dr. David J. Bearss, President and Chief Executive Officer of Halia Therapeutics.
"I am honored to join Halia Therapeutics and work alongside this accomplished multi-disciplinary team of scientists and innovators. The company's unique approach of targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome to resolve chronic inflammation has enormous potential within multiple therapeutic areas. I look forward to contributing to the company's mission and developing Halia's pipeline. " said Dr. Margit M. Janát-Amsbury.
Prior to joining Halia Therapeutics as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janát-Amsbury served as an Executive Medical Director in Early Oncology Development at Amgen and was also the Product Team Lead for Amgen's prostate portfolio. Before joining Amgen, she oversaw the development of multiple small molecules at Tolero Pharmaceuticals, which Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma acquired in 2017. Dr. Janát-Amsbury has held faculty appointments with the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, as well as the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Utah, where she also served as Co-Director of the Center for Nanomedicine. Dr. Janát-Amsbury received her MD and Ph.D. from the Albertus Magnus University in Cologne, Germany.
Activation of NLRP3 triggers the release of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18 and induces a lytic cell death process called pyroptosis. These processes lead to chronic inflammation. Halia's therapeutic inhibition of NLRP3 prevents the formation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and promotes its disassembly once formed, thereby inhibiting the production and release of IL-1β and IL-18. Persistent activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome is thought to drive the onset and progression of many conditions, including fibrotic, dermatological, and rheumatological diseases. Significant neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis are also driven by NLRP3 activation.
Halia Therapeutics is discovering and developing a pipeline of novel therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with chronic inflammatory disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, with its lead programs targeting NEK7 and LRRK2. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more info, visit www.haliatherapeutics.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90, lived through — and sang about — decades of advancements for women's social movements, achievements now endangered.
A mother multiple times over by the end of her teens, she gave voice to those who had historically had little control over childbirth and their own sexuality. Some of her songs reflected the lives of many rural women and mothers, lamenting their invisible labor and the repressive and gendered roles that kept them tied to a singular identity.
For some of those working in reproductive health care today in her home state of Kentucky, Lynn’s music proves all too relevant. Lynn, who sang about birth control after Roe v. Wade became a landmark legal decision protecting abortion rights, died only months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 case, creating a massive shift in reproductive rights across the country. In November, Kentucky voters will decide whether to eliminate the right to abortion in the state’s constitution.
Kate Collins, 34, was not of the generation who heard “The Pill” or “One’s on the Way” when they first played on the radio, but Lynn's voice provided a soundtrack to her childhood. In addition to growing up in a home where classic country music was part of the lexicon, Collins grew up in a family that talked about abortion and birth control, which led her to start volunteering as an escort at a clinic in Kentucky. But it wasn’t until high school that she began to put together the context of what Lynn was singing about.
“She talks about being able to wear the clothes she wants,” Collins, who now volunteers as a case manager on the Kentucky Health Justice Network's abortion resources hotline, said of 1975's “The Pill.” “Because of my access to birth control, I could go out to bars with my friends and wear miniskirts. And that was not something I ever had to think twice about until the lyric finally hit me.”
“The Pill,” written by Lorene Allen, Don McHan and T.D. Bayless, was recorded prior to the Roe v. Wade decision, but Lynn held onto the song for years before she felt fans were ready to listen.
“When we released it, the people loved it. I mean the women loved it,” she wrote in her 1976 autobiography, “A Coal Miner’s Daughter." “But the men who run the radio stations were scared to death. It’s like a challenge to the men’s way of thinking.”
Men in country music were singing about abortion, premarital sex and divorce in the '60s and '70s with little or no blowback, but it was rare that a woman could sing about wanting to enjoy sex with her husband without the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy, as Lynn did.
“It is, in fact, not about anything other than control of women and their pleasure, or anyone who can get pregnant and their pleasure,” Collins said.
Lynn was frank about her experiences giving birth so young, being mentally unprepared and not physically ready. She wrote that she couldn’t afford to stay overnight after the birth of her second child, so she went back home to wash diapers and draw water from the well 24 hours after delivery. She experienced miscarriages, nearly dying because she had no money to go to the doctor. And still she kept on getting pregnant, giving birth to six children.
She wrote that she couldn’t even sign her own consent form to have a caesarean section because she was still a minor and her husband, Oliver Lynn — known as “Dolittle or ”Mooney" — was out on a logging job and unreachable.
“I love my kids but I wish they had the pill when I first married,” she wrote. “I didn’t get to enjoy the first four kids; I had ’em so fast. I was too busy trying to feed ’em and put clothes on ’em.”
She said birth control was as a way for women to protect themselves: “The feelin’ good comes easy now/Since I’ve got the pill/It’s gettin’ dark it’s roostin’ time/Tonight’s too good to be real/Oh, but daddy don’t you worry none/’Cause mama’s got the pill,” she sang.
And she did not mince words about her feelings about abortion.
“That’s also why I won’t ever say anything against the abortion laws they made easier a few years ago,” she wrote in the 1976 memoir.
“Personally, I think you should prevent unwanted pregnancy rather than get an abortion. I don’t think I could have an abortion. It would be wrong for me," she added. "But I’m thinking of all the poor girls who get pregnant when they don’t want to be, and how they should have a choice instead of leaving it up to some politician or doctor who don’t have to raise the baby. I believe they should be able to have an abortion.”
As Collins sees it, Lynn was explaining — in her own way — the idea of bodily autonomy. Collins also sees a connection between the rollback of abortion rights to the attacks on gender-affirming care for transgender people.
More than 45 years after Lynn sang about the pill, in Kentucky and in many other states, clinics are barred from providing abortions. While self-managed abortions using prescription medication are safe and very effective, Collins worries about desperation sinking in for those seeking help and the collateral damage of people with dangerous pregnancies or miscarriages.
“It is really easy to feel like you’re flipping the discography back and now we’re going to go from ‘The Pill’ to ‘One’s on the Way,’” she said.
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Top Celtics vs. Hawks Players to Watch - NBA Playoffs Game 6
The Boston Celtics (57-25) and the Atlanta Hawks (41-41) are set to meet on Thursday at State Farm Arena, with a tip-off time of 8:30 PM ET. When these two squads hit the court, Jayson Tatum is one of the players to watch.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to look out for in this matchup, which you can watch on Bally Sports with a seven-day free trial to Fubo!
How to Watch Celtics vs. Hawks
- Game Day: Thursday, April 27
- Game Time: 8:30 PM ET
- Arena: State Farm Arena
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Celtics' Last Game
The Hawks defeated the Celtics, 119-117, on Tuesday. Young scored a team-high 38 points for the Hawks, and Jaylen Brown had 35 for the Celtics.
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Hawks' Last Game
Celtics Players to Watch
- Tatum paces his team in both points (30.1) and rebounds (8.8) per contest, and also posts 4.6 assists. At the other end, he averages 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocked shots.
- Brown posts 26.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, shooting 49.1% from the field and 33.5% from downtown with 2.4 made 3-pointers per game.
- Derrick White puts up 12.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.9 assists per contest. Defensively, he averages 0.7 steals and 0.9 blocked shots.
- Malcolm Brogdon is posting 14.9 points, 3.7 assists and 4.2 rebounds per contest.
- Marcus Smart averages a team-high 6.3 assists per contest. He is also putting up 11.5 points and 3.1 rebounds, shooting 41.5% from the floor and 33.6% from downtown with 1.9 made 3-pointers per contest.
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Hawks Players to Watch
- Young is averaging team highs in points (26.2 per game) and assists (10.2). And he is delivering 3 rebounds, making 42.9% of his shots from the field and 33.4% from beyond the arc, with 2.1 triples per contest.
- Clint Capela is the Hawks' top rebounder (11 per game), and he averages 12 points and 0.9 assists. His rebounding average ranks him fifth in the league.
- Onyeka Okongwu is putting up 9.9 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1 assists per contest, making 63.8% of his shots from the floor (sixth in NBA).
- Saddiq Bey is putting up 13.8 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game, making 42.2% of his shots from the field and 36.1% from 3-point range, with 2 triples per game.
- John Collins is putting up 13.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, making 50.8% of his shots from the floor and 29.2% from 3-point range, with 1 triples per contest.
Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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STILLWATER, Okla. — In the much anticipated Regional opener, the Diamond Hogs took down Grand Canyon, 7-1 to get their season back on track. Arkansas has now won its last five opening games of the NCAA Tournament.
The Hogs advance to the winner's bracket of the Stillwater Regional where they will take on either Oklahoma State or Missouri on Saturday.
The Razorback offense wasted no time breaking the ice when Cayden Wallace opened the scoring with a first inning solo home run.
The Hogs were able to chase WAC Pitcher of the Year, Daniel Avitia, after platting four more runs in the second. Brayden Webb and Michael Turner both had RBI singles in the inning.
After the Antelopes cut the deficit to 5-1, Wallace hit second home run of the afternoon. The Arkansas sophomore had three RBI's in the win, the Hogs first six runs all came with two outs.
Turner had three hits and three RBI's on the day. On the mound Connor Noland was terrific allowing just a single run in seven innings of work.
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A play to engineer years of customer data into quick decisions
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail executives are willing to change years of industry practice to adapt to emerging digital ways, and that is why they are listening to Brooklyn Nets player development coach and NBA champion Tiago Splitter talk about using data for faster decisions.
Customer behavior is harder to predict than in the past, so the retail industry is looking into using all the data in their systems to give them flexibility of a pro basketball player to quickly change their client services, store lineup, online offers, and payment methods to keep fickle buyers engaged without resorting to discounts that will eat into their profits.
Data is abundant but engineering is hard. "Together with the inspiration for a new strategic vision for their business, people need an MVP or minimum viable product to get that tangible outcome that will start the change in pace," said Compass UOL's CEO Alexis Rockenbach, who is hosting Splitter's conversation with retailers.
Rockenbach makes a point of using the opportunity to give his clients the confidence to pick their way among hundreds of technologies available to the task, including ecommerce, data analysis, "big data," artificial intelligence, CX or customer experience, DeFi or decentralized finance, instant payments, and many more.
As he surveys his audience from his 6' 11", Splitter agrees. "Players take their time to try new things in the court and data can give them the boost they need to take the first step. The experience applies to basketball, to retail, and to life," he says.
About Compass UOL
Compass UOL is a digital transformation services company. We design and build digital native platforms using cutting-edge technologies to help companies innovate, transform their businesses, and thrive in their industries. We cultivate the best talent, creating opportunities to improve people's lives and focusing on how disruptive technologies can positively impact society.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global logistics service provider J&T Express launches "Together, 4ever" campaign today in celebration of the company's fourth year of delivering excellent customer-centric services in Malaysia.
The theme "Together, 4ever" embodies J&T Express' deep-rooted belief in integrating the interests across stakeholders, business partners, employees and end-consumers to foster greater synergies and develop win-win relationships. This Campaign will run from 15 August to 15 October 2022, and will spread out across five categories of events, each designed specifically to express our gratitude to supportive business partners and consumers. Details of the campaign can be found here.
Charles Hou, Group Vice President of J&T Express, said, "Malaysia was one of our first markets and I'm extremely proud of what we've achieved in the past four years. We've grown from a regional service provider to a network covering 13 countries across the globe and our commitment to local customers has never changed. Moving forward, J&T, together with local partners, will be dedicated to offering more localized and efficient services for our Malaysian and global customers."
Since its launch in Malaysia in August 2018, J&T Express has continuously sought to adapt its offerings to cater to the needs of the local market. From the provision of standard delivery service, the company has since expanded to broader services such as J&T VIP, J&T International Shipping, J&T Next Day Delivery, J&T Express Document and J&T Fresh Delivery.
"As we look back at the past four years, I am heartened at how far we've come. At the same time, I remain hopeful and confident in the logistics and e-commerce growth of Malaysia. At J&T Express, we look forward to contributing as one of Malaysia's most important players." said Yuan Kai Jin, J&T Express Malaysia Sales and Marketing Director.
In addition to the campaign, J&T Express will also be upgrading 30 of its nationwide outlets into Premium Courier Points. Customers can expect to enjoy enhanced service experience which begins with more friendly and comfortable atmosphere at these courier depots. New features include interactive LED billboards, merchandise and a dedicated packaging station.
About J&T Express
J&T Express is a global logistics service provider with leading express delivery businesses in Southeast Asia and China, the largest and fastest-growing market in the world. Founded in 2015, J&T Express' network spans thirteen countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt. Adhering to its "customer-oriented and efficiency-based" mission, J&T Express is committed to providing customers with integrated logistics solutions through intelligent infrastructure and digital logistics network, as part of its global strategy to connect the world with greater efficiency and bring logistical benefits to all.
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MILPITAS, Calif. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was killed in a weekend shooting on a highway in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said Sunday.
The shooting occurred around 7 p.m. Saturday in southbound lanes of Interstate 880 near Milpitas, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The child was taken to a hospital, where she later died, ABC 7 News reported.
The entire highway was closed during the investigation, but some lanes reopened after about an hour.
Authorities were also investigating a separate shooting around 6:30 p.m. Saturday in nearby Fremont, the news station reported. Nobody was hurt in that incident.
Three suspects were later arrested in connection with the Fremont shooting, and a gun was recovered, according to the Santa Cruz Police Department.
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Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3 billion loan to Russia
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Ukraine can go to trial to try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union.
The court rejected an attempt to avoid a trial by a British company acting on Russia's behalf to collect the loans. Ukraine said it borrowed the money while facing the threat of military force and massive illegal economic and political pressure nearly a decade before Russia invaded its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that the ruling was “another decisive victory against the aggressor.”
“The Court has ruled that Ukraine’s defense based on Russia’s threats of aggression will have a full public trial,” he tweeted. “Justice will be ours.”
The case was argued in November 2021, and the court was not asked to consider Russia's invasion of Ukraine three months later.
Ukrainian authorities allege that the corrupt government of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych borrowed the money from Moscow under pressure before he was ousted in protests in February 2014, shortly before Russia illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
After the 2014 Ukraine revolution, the country’s new government refused to repay the debt in December 2015, saying Moscow wouldn't agree to terms already accepted by other international creditors.
The case came to British courts because London-based Law Debenture Trust Corp. had been appointed by Ukraine to represent the interests of bondholders. The company initially won a judgment to avoid trial but Ukraine appealed.
The Supreme Court rejected several of Ukraine's legal arguments, including that its finance minister didn't have authority to enter into the loan agreement and that Ukraine could decline payment as a countermeasure to Russia's aggressions.
The ruling, however, said a court could consider whether the deal was void because of threats or pressure that are illegitimate under English law.
While the court noted that trade sanctions, embargoes and other economic pressures are "normal aspects of statecraft," economic pressures could provide context to prove that Russia's threats to destroy Ukraine caused it to issue the bonds.
“The success of Ukraine’s defense turns on whether Russia’s threatened use of force imposed what English law regards as illegitimate pressure on Ukraine to enter into the trust deed and related contracts,” the court wrote. "That question can only be determined after trial."
Ukraine said that a month before it entered into the deal, Yanukovych told his Lithuanian counterpart that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to have Moscow's banks bankrupt eastern Ukrainian factories if it signed an association agreement with the EU.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the U.K. court recognized the coercion.
“Now, the Kremlin will have to disclose all information about the actions against Ukraine in open court,” Shmyhal said. “Justice will definitely prevail. Russia will definitely answer for all its illegal actions and crimes.”
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Associated Press writer Yuras Karmanau contributed from Tallinn, Estonia. | https://www.wisn.com/article/ukraine-can-try-to-avoid-repaying-3-billion-dollar-loan-to-russia/43327161 | 2023-03-15 18:31:02 | 1 | https://www.wisn.com/article/ukraine-can-try-to-avoid-repaying-3-billion-dollar-loan-to-russia/43327161 |
SWAT called to home in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood
Incident began early Thursday morning
SWAT called to home in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood
Incident began early Thursday morning
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Northwest Bancshares, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2022 Earnings and Quarterly Dividend
Published: Jan. 23, 2023 at 9:00 AM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Bancshares, Inc., (the "Company"), (NasdaqGS: NWBI) announced net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 of $34.6 million, or $0.27 per diluted share. This represents an increase of $4.6 million, or 15.3%, compared to the same quarter last year, when net income was $30.1 million, or $0.24 per diluted share. The annualized returns on average shareholders' equity and average assets for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 were 9.38% and 0.98% compared to 7.65% and 0.82% for the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
The Company also announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share payable on February 14, 2023 to shareholders of record as of February 2, 2023. This is the 113th consecutive quarter in which the Company has paid a cash dividend. Based on the market value of the Company's common stock as of December 31, 2022, this represents an annualized dividend yield of approximately 5.7%.
Louis J. Torchio, President and CEO, added, "We were very pleased with our organic loan growth this quarter of $178.9 million, or 1.7%, spread across all loan categories. In addition, our net interest margin expanded by 15 basis points to 3.57%, and asset quality metrics remain solid. We have also taken additional measures to reduce expenses and improve our efficiency. We recently announced the further optimization of eight offices within our branch network to be completed in April 2023. In-branch activity continues to slow as customers prefer to transact through online and mobile channels. In addition, we have re-aligned our workforce to correspond with our strategic direction as a commercial bank, further streamlining our operations. These efforts generated $4.2 million of severance and restructuring costs in the fourth quarter with an additional $3.2 million expected to be recognized in the first quarter of 2023."
Mr. Torchio continued, "These necessary measures will reduce our overall workforce by approximately 12% and generate approximately $16.0 million in annual operating expense savings beginning in the second quarter of 2023. These operating expense savings are expected to be reinvested in the Company's strategic initiatives during 2023, focused on shifting our balance sheet mix and continuing our journey as a full-service commercial bank. This shift includes further buildout of our core middle market C&I strategy throughout our footprint with full relationship banking, including enhanced treasury management services. In addition, we will further scale small business lending with particular focus on Small Business Administration (SBA) financing and secondary market sales, as well as the recent addition of our new equipment finance team with specialty finance expertise throughout the east coast"
Net interest income increased by $20.4 million, or 21.1%, to $117.0 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, from $96.7 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase in net interest income is due to both the increase in market interest rates and the change in our interest-earning asset mix. Cash in interest-earning deposits was redeployed into higher yielding loans and investments, which, along with higher market interest rates, caused the yield on interest-earning assets to increase to 3.89% for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from 3.05% for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase in yield was partially offset by an increase in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities, which increased to 0.46% for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from 0.26% for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. The net effect of the changes in interest rates and average balances was an increase in the Company's net interest margin to 3.57% for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, from 2.89% for the same quarter last year.
The provision for credit losses increased by $10.9 million, reflecting an expense of $9.0 million for the current quarter ended December 31, 2022 compared to a provision credit of $1.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase was primarily due to growth within our loan portfolio during the current year in conjunction with forecasted economic deterioration reflected in our allowance for credit loss models, including a reduction in home and used vehicle values. The Company continued to experience improvement in asset quality as classified loans decreased by $126.9 million, or 34.9%, to $236.2 million, or 2.2% of total loans, at December 31, 2022, from $363.2 million, or 3.6% of total loans, at December 31, 2021. Total delinquent loans also decreased to $85.9 million, or 0.8% of loans receivable, at December 31, 2022 from $96.9 million, or 1.0% of loans receivable, at December 31, 2021. In addition, the Company experienced net charge-offs during the current quarter of $806,000, or 0.03% on an annualized basis, compared to net charge-offs of $5.6 million, or 0.22% on an annualized basis, during the same quarter last year, for an overall net improvement of $4.8 million.
Noninterest income increased by $816,000, or 3.0%, to $27.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, from $27.0 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase was primarily due to an increase in our other operating income of $1.7 million, or 53.5%, to $4.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from $3.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase was primarily the result of gains from the sale of branch buildings associated with the previously announced branch consolidations and improvements in other fee income. Partially offsetting this increase was a decline in mortgage banking income of $1.6 million, or 77.5%, to $477,000 for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from $2.1 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This decrease reflects the impact of less favorable pricing in the secondary market, due primarily to the volatile interest rate environment, as well as a decrease in mortgage volumes primarily due to higher market interest rates.
Noninterest expense increased by $4.4 million, or 5.1%, to $90.7 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from $86.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This increase was primarily due to an increase in other expenses of $2.8 million, or 210.5%, and an increase in merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses of $1.4 million, or 50.9%. The increase in other expense was primarily due to an increase in our unfunded loan loss reserve associated with the origination of loans with current off-balance sheet exposure. The increase in merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense was a result of severance and fixed asset charges related to the branch optimization and personnel reduction, as previously noted.
The provision for income taxes increased by $1.3 million, or 14.1%, to $10.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 from $9.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 due primarily to an increase in income before taxes in the current quarter.
Net income for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $133.7 million, or $1.05 per diluted share. This represents a decrease of $20.7 million, or 13.4%, compared to the year ended December 31, 2021, when net income was $154.3 million, or $1.21 per diluted share. The annualized returns on average shareholders' equity and average assets for the year ended December 31, 2022 were 8.80% and 0.94% compared to 9.91% and 1.08% for the prior year. This decrease in net income was the result of an increase in provision for credit losses of $29.7 million, primarily as a result of the provision credit in 2021 related to the release of reserves built-up during COVID-19. In addition, noninterest income decreased by $32.0 million, or 22.4%, largely due to the $25.3 million gain recognized on the sale of the insurance business in the second quarter of 2021. Also contributing to the decline in noninterest income was an $11.0 million reduction in mortgage banking income due to the volatile interest rate environment causing unfavorable pricing in the secondary market and a slowdown in mortgage loan activity in general. Partially offsetting these unfavorable variances was an increase in net interest income by $29.4 million, or 7.5%, to $420.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 from $391.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. This increase in net interest income was due primarily to an increase in the yield on interest-earning assets to 3.41% for the year ended December 31, 2022 from 3.18% for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as an increase in the average balance of interest earning assets by $17.6 million. Lastly, noninterest expense decreased by $4.9 million, or 1.4%, to $340.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 from $344.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 despite an increase in merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense of $2.2 million, or 62.7%, related to the branch and personnel optimization expense and an increase in other expenses of $7.3 million related primarily to the buildup of credit loss reserves for unfunded loans with off balance sheet exposure.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Northwest Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Northwest Bank. Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Warren, Pennsylvania, Northwest Bank is a full-service financial institution offering a complete line of business and personal banking products, as well as treasury management solutions and wealth management services. As of December 31, 2022, Northwest operated 142 full-service community banking offices and eight free standing drive-through facilities in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana. The common stock of Northwest Bancshares, Inc. is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market ("NWBI"). Additional information regarding Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Northwest Bank can be accessed on-line at www.northwest.com.
Forward-Looking Statements - This release may contain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition and results of operations of Northwest Bancshares, Inc. including, without limitations, statements relating to the earnings outlook of the Company. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements, include among others, the following possibilities: (1) changes in the interest rate environment; (2) competitive pressure among financial services companies; (3) general economic conditions including inflation and an increase in non-performing loans; (4) changes in legislation or regulatory requirements; (5) difficulties in continuing to improve operating efficiencies; (6) difficulties in the integration of acquired businesses or the ability to complete sales transactions; (7) increased risk associated with commercial real-estate and business loans; and (8) the effect of any pandemic, including COVID-19, war or act of terrorism. Management has no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date of this release.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP)Klay Thompson scored 33 of his 38 points in the first half, Stephen Curry added 23 points, seven rebounds and five assists, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Phoenix Suns 123-112 on Monday night.
Jordan Poole had 20 points and six assists off the bench for the defending champions. Kevon Looney helped the Warriors win their eighth straight home game and 12th of 13 with nine points, 10 rebounds and five assists. Golden State is 29-7 at home but 7-26 on the road.
Devin Booker scored 32 points and Deandre Ayton had 27 points and 12 rebounds for the Suns, who roared back after halftime to make it interesting.
Josh Okogie’s 3 with 4:59 left in the third pulled Phoenix within 85-81 and his putback a minute later made it 87-84 before Curry and Co. came on again.
BUCKS 133, KINGS 124
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Giannis Antetokounmpo had 46 points and 12 rebounds as Milwaukee beat Sacramento.
Khris Middleton scored 31 points and Brook Lopez added 23 for the Bucks, who are on the verge of becoming the first team to clinch a playoff berth this season. They came needing a win and a Miami loss, but the Heat beat Utah.
Domantas Sabonis had 23 points, 17 rebounds and 15 assists for his 10th triple-double of the season for Sacramento.
De’Aaron Fox scored 35 points to lead the Kings, and Kevin Huerter had 17 of his 28 in the fourth quarter.
GRIZZLIES 104, MAVERICKS 88
DALLAS (AP) – Desmond Bane scored 23 points and Memphis won a second consecutive game against Dallas with all three of the teams’ All-Stars out.
Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving sat for Dallas with injuries, and Ja Morant remained away from the Grizzlies because of his issues off the court.
Rookie David Roddy scored 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting for Memphis.
Rookie Jaden Hardy scored 28 points for the Mavericks, who dropped under .500 for the first time since December. Josh Green was the only other Dallas player in double figures with 23.
ROCKETS 111, CELTICS 109
HOUSTON (AP) – Jalen Green scored 28 points and rookie Jabari Smith Jr. added 24 as Houston held off Boston.
The Rockets, who are tied with Detroit for the NBA’s fewest wins with 16, snapped a three-game skid despite allowing the Celtics’ Jaylen Brown to score a season-high 43 points.
Jayson Tatum scored 22 points but missed a potential tying layup at the buzzer for the Celtics.
Kenyon Martin Jr. had 20 points and eight rebounds for Houston.
HEAT 119, JAZZ 115
MIAMI (AP) – Jimmy Butler scored 24 points, Tyler Herro and Gabe Vincent each scored 18 and Miami held off Utah.
Lauri Markkanen scored 38 points for Utah, which got 23 from Simone Fontecchio and 14 from Ochai Agbaji.
Talen Horton-Tucker put Utah on top with a short jumper with 1:16 left, and Herro gave Miami the lead right back on a 3-pointer with 55.3 seconds remaining.
Bam Adebayo added 16 points for Miami.
TIMBERWOLVES 136, HAWKS 115
ATLANTA (AP) – Anthony Edwards scored 32 points in his hometown, Kyle Anderson had his third career triple-double and Minnesota beat Atlanta.
Trae Young finished with 41 points for the Hawks, who dropped to 3-5 under new coach Quin Snyder and have lost four of six. Atlanta went 4 for 22 beyond the arc and handed out 17 assists compared to 39 for Minnesota.
Anderson scored 12 of his 14 points in the third quarter and had 12 assists and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which snapped a two-game skid. Mike Conley had 21 points for the Timberwolves and Jaden McDaniels scored 19.
PISTONS 117, PACERS 97
DETROIT (AP) – James Wiseman had 18 points and 14 rebounds as Detroit ended an 11-game skid by beating Indiana.
The Pistons, who hadn’t won since beating San Antonio 138-131 in double overtime on Feb. 10, led by 31 points in the first half and held off an Indiana surge late in the second quarter and early in the third.
Cory Joseph led Detroit with 22 points, Jalen Duren put up 12 points and 11 rebounds, and Killian Hayes had 10 points and 11 assists.
Jordan Nwora scored 20 points off the bench for Indiana.
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Griezmann thought he had cancelled out Wahbi Khazri's strike when he volleyed home in the eighth minute of stoppage time at Education City Stadium.
However, after the celebrations had died down, referee Michael Conger ruled out Griezmann's goal for an offside infringement.
The Atletico Madrid forward was adjudged to have been offside when firing in from Aurelien Tchouameni's pass, which took a deflection off a Tunisian defender.
However, the French Football Federation (FFF) believe the officials were wrong to disallow the goal as play had already restarted when VAR intervened, which is prohibited.
"We are writing a complaint after Antoine Griezmann's goal was, in our opinion, wrongly disallowed," said a widely released statement from the FFF on Wednesday.
"This complaint has to be filed within 24 hours after the final whistle."
Khazri's superb strike at Education City Stadium ended reigning world champions France's nine-game unbeaten run in the competition stretching back to the 2014 quarter-finals.
However, the result ultimately meant little in the context of Group D as France still went through in top spot and Australia claimed second place with a 1-0 win over Denmark.
Should France be successful with their appeal and the scoreline is changed to 1-1, the final points tallies in Group D will change but not the positions of any of the four sides. | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/news/france-files-complaint-to-fifa-over-disallowe/1997294 | 2022-12-01 23:20:12 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/2022-fifa-world-cup/news/france-files-complaint-to-fifa-over-disallowe/1997294 |
TAMPA, Fla. — Mackenzie Valenza just started her first year in high school.
So, in addition to high school level math, science, english and history the newly minted Sarasota County freshman will also be getting a new level of sexual health education.
She welcomes it.
“I feel like we should talk about safe sex practices and how to make sure before you decide you want to engage in something like this, you’re ready,” she told us recently.
But in Florida, while laws mandating health education include teen dating and disease control, Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone discovered there’s no statewide curriculum for sex education.
As a result, what and how Florida students are taught about sexual and reproductive health in public schools is left to individual school boards to approve policies, school principals to interpret them and instructors who, ultimately, drill it all down for students.
“Sex education in Florida public schools is very inconsistent,” explained Professor Dr. Elissa Barr of the University of North Florida. Dr. Barr has been studying sex eduction policies for more than two decades.
“Because it's not consistent we have kids in our state who are receiving quality sex education and learning the skills and resources and information to really protect themselves and advocate for themselves. Then we have other counties where kids aren't getting that information,” Dr. Barr said.
A map her team created using information provided by Florida’s Department of Education, showed just how mixed sex education curriculums are across Florida with policies meeting one of three categories.
- Comprehensive sex education- includes information about human development, anatomy and reproductive health, contraception, childbirth, STDs, HIV/AIDS.
- Abstinence Plus- emphasizes the benefits of abstinence as the expected standard but also instructs students on making responsible decisions to protect their health, and transmission of diseases along with some discussion about barrier methods.
- Abstinence Only- emphasizes abstinence as the expected standard with limited discussion on other aspects of sexual health.
According to the map, the majority of Florida school districts teach abstinence plus or comprehensive sex education. There are currently (6) school districts in Florida that are funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to offer comprehensive sexual health education. But approximately one-third (20) of school districts in FL still identify as abstinence only school districts.
“I’m as surprised as you,” said Dr. Barr when asked about these district policies.
Studies show abstinence only instruction doesn’t prevent teens from having sex.
A 2019 youth risk behavior study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found by 12 grade, more than half of Florida teens have already engaged in sexual intercourse.
Chlamydia rates among teens in Florida are also four times higher than the national average.
When asked about teen birth rates in Florida, “in counties where they have abstinence only policies, we do see higher teen birth rates,” explained Dr. Barr.
In Escambia County, an abstinence only school district, a 16-year-old’s pregnancy made national headlines this week after a Judge there ruled the teen isn’t “sufficiently mature” for an abortion.
While it’s unclear if the teens attends a public school, in response to questions about the district’s abstinence only curriculum, a district spokesperson responded by email, “we are respectful of parental rights as we follow state guidelines regarding health education.”
For years, Florida advocates have been pushing decision makers to adopt more comprehensive sex education statewide.
“It’s unfair that the quality of sex ed you get depends on where in Florida you are born and raised,” said Amy Weintraub of Progress Florida, a reproductive rights advocacy group.
Add in the state’s new Parental Rights in Education Law, which bans talk of gender identity among some elementary-aged students and any content deemed not age-appropriate, and advocates fear lessons on sexual and reproductive health in Florida will suffer.
“A lot of teachers are really pulling back,” said Takeate King Pang with the Women’s Foundation of Florida.
Last month, the school board in Miami Dade first approved, then rejected, then approved again a new series of sex ed textbooks after a small group of citizens questioned if the middle and high school level books violated the state’s new law.
Alex Serrano, who represents the Miami Dade chapter for County Citizens Defending Freedom, a group largely behind book challenges in school libraries, spoke on behalf of citizens concerned the new textbooks violated the state’s new law.
“Much of the content is not age appropriate, usurps parental rights and is scientifically not inaccurate and not factual,” he told the board at the time,” he said during the school board meeting.
Back in Sarasota County, last month school board members approved this year’s health education curriculum which, for high schoolers will include instruction on avoiding pregnancy, STD’s and the consequences of sexual relationships.
But during the same board meeting, the district’s superintendent told board members about the district’s standard for sex education in schools, “we have chosen abstinence,” said Dr. Brennan Asplen. [A district spokesperson would not elaborate or explain Dr. Asplen’s statement. Instead we were directed to the district’s approved plan.]
Before Mackenzie Valenza gets any high school sex ed, her mom will have to sign a form allowing her to participate. The district adopted opt-in policies a few years ago. If students don’t have a signed form turned in, the default will be for students not to get any sexual health instruction at all at school.
Valenza’s mom called it “tragic,” and her 14-year-old daughter called it “disappointing.”
“High school is meant to prepare you for adulthood. All your teachers will tell you that we’re preparing you for adulthood, we’re preparing you for adulthood. Ok, but are you preparing me for that part of it,” she said. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/sex-ed-across-florida-very-inconsistent-with-some-districts-still-opting-for-abstinence-only-curriculums | 2022-08-20 00:19:43 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/sex-ed-across-florida-very-inconsistent-with-some-districts-still-opting-for-abstinence-only-curriculums |
Which Harry Potter blankets are best?
With the impending arrival of the holiday season, the time to binge-watch Harry Potter with the whole family is almost here. So get ready to kick up your feet, pour some hot cocoa and pumpkin juice and get cozy on the sofa with these soft and warm Harry Potter blankets. Not only are they trendy and fun, but these beautiful blankets will lovingly showcase your true Hogwarts pride for the 20th anniversary of The Wizarding World.
The Harry Potter Micro Raschel Throw Blanket is available in four gorgeous different motifs: the Gryffindor and Hogwarts crests, the Hogwarts Express and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry poster theme.
What to know before you buy a Harry Potter blanket
Harry Potter merchandise
The merchandising line of Harry Potter is incredibly extensive and continues to grow and evolve rapidly. Almost anything you can think of is available in a Harry Potter theme, from books, toys, clothing and decor, to bedding, linens, blankets and cookware — there’s something special for every occasion and fan. For family game nights when you’re looking for extra wizarding fun, these Harry Potter Games are a guaranteed hit.
Harry Potter-themed bedroom
If you’re looking to purchase a Harry Potter blanket as an initial accessory in creating a Harry Potter-themed room, some inspiration for completing the look includes a broomstick, varsity Hogwarts flags, a birdcage and/or owl, a small cauldron for keeping knick-knacks on the bedside table, curtains and bedding that match the color of your preferred Hogwarts house, the Marauder’s Map, some Harry Potter wallpaper, a wand and the Sorting Hat. The list is truly endless; let your magical creativity shine.
Wizarding World
November of 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the worldwide theatrical release of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” As such, it’s a great time to introduce the series to younger fans who haven’t yet had a chance to get to know Harry, Ron and Hermione. For longtime fans of the series, get reacquainted with your favorite trio this month, while enjoying the additional bonus content available at the Wizarding World online, which features guest contributions from cast members and tons of magical surprises.
What to look for in a quality Harry Potter blanket
Harry Potter blankets are available in numerous prints that will satisfy even the biggest Harry Potter fan. Support your Hogwarts house and colors with Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin crest blankets, or snuggle up in various striking Hogwarts castle prints. If you’re going for something a little different, there are blankets with patronuses, blankets with the deathly hallows, blankets with quotes from the books and even throw blankets that illustrate the Marauder’s Map.
Size
The standard size for a throw blanket measures approximately 50 inches by 60 inches, while a queen-size bedspread measures significantly larger at 90 inches by 96 inches at least. This is worth factoring into your decision if you are planning to use your Harry Potter blanket as a coverlet in a bedroom to complete a Harry Potter-themed room. A throw blanket will not fit comfortably as a bedspread. It is meant to be a fun piece of Harry Potter decor to add to existing bedding, or to be used for warmth and coziness when relaxing with a book or movie on those cooler days.
Fabric
Harry Potter throw blankets, wall hangings and bedspreads are often made of polyester, fleece, microfleece, cotton or a combination of materials. It’s worth considering the fabric of the blanket, as it will impact how you use it. A light throw blanket with fringes, for example, would be ideal as a statement wall hanging or rug, but not as suitable for a warm bedspread. On the other hand, if you’re going to use the blanket regularly for lounging and then drape it over the sofa as a decorative throw, you’ll want it to be lightweight rather than too bulky.
How much you can expect to spend on a Harry Potter blanket
A Harry Potter blanket that is made of high-quality material with a detailed print or pattern should cost you anywhere from $20-$40 and up, depending on the size and brand you select.
Harry Potter blanket FAQ
Is my Harry Potter blanket machine-washable?
A. Usually, yes. Most Harry Potter blankets and throws are machine-washable in cold water, either separately or with like colors. Tumble-dry low or lay flat to dry. Always refer to the manufacturer’s laundering instructions for proper care of your new blanket.
Are Harry Potter blankets large enough for adults?
A. Smaller throw blankets are meant more for children or for decorating than keeping an adult warm. Larger throw blankets are perfectly fine for adults. Check the measurements prior to ordering to ensure you’re receiving a blanket big enough for what you need.
What’s the best Harry Potter blanket to buy?
Top Harry Potter blanket
Harry Potter Micro Raschel Throw Blanket
What you need to know: This soft and beautifully printed series of Harry Potter micro throw blankets instantly adds magical coziness to your child’s room for a very reasonable price.
What you’ll love: Available in four enchanting patterns, you can coordinate your new blanket to existing decor seamlessly.
What you should consider: Some reviewers found this blanket a little smaller than expected and felt it was better suited to children than adults.
Where to buy: Amazon
Top Harry Potter blanket for the money
Harry Potter Woven Tapestry Marauder’s Map Throw Blanket
What you need to know: Make Padfoot and Prongs proud with this combination woven blanket and tapestry that can be used as a throw blanket, wall hanging or rug in your bedroom or living room.
What you’ll love: The intricate design work on this gorgeous marauder’s map will keep you entertained while you find all of your favorite magical locations. Mischief managed!
What you should consider: This woven throw isn’t as warm as heavier blankets and may work better as Harry Potter decor than as a heavy blanket.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
Harry Potter Moonrise Hogwarts Blanket
What you need to know: This gorgeous print of Hogwarts with the rising moon is a crowd favorite for its super-soft fleece and striking look.
What you’ll love: This blanket is machine-washable, soft, durable, warm, budget-friendly and looks absolutely fabulous.
What you should consider: This fleece blanket is bigger than most Harry Potter blankets, but isn’t quite large enough to be a queen-size bedspread.
Where to buy: Amazon
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‘The Masked Singer’: Grandmaster Flash reveals Shaquille O’Neal should join show
LOS ANGELES - Grandmaster Flash became the latest celebrity to drop a beat and be unmasked on Season 9 of "The Masked Singer," revealed as Polar Bear.
"We are in the presence of an icon," host Nick Cannon said immediately after the reveal. "A pioneer of a whole culture."
The legendary artist – known for pioneering the genre of hip hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing – told FOX Television Stations that he learned how to be "child-like" while participating on the show.
"It was quite an experience and reminder that it’s okay to get down on the floor and be child-like," Grandmaster Flash shared. "To get down on the floor and just have fun – even if it’s just for an hour – it’s so healing… I’d do it again. I would. Absolutely."
LEFT: Grandmaster Flash in the "New York Night" episode of ‘The Masked Singer. (Credit: Michael Becker/FOX)RIGHT: Shaquille O'Neal speaks onstage during the 2019 NBA Awards in Santa Monica, California. (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Turner Sp
The 65-year-old also revealed he would like to see former professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal compete on the show, pointing to his combined competitive and positive personality.
"He’s an incredible example of being able to flip-flop between the two," Grandmaster Flash continued. "He would be wonderful on the show."
And there’s actually a connection there.
Throughout the series’ past nine seasons, its panelists have continually guessed the iconic basketball star, commonly known as Shaq, as the person underneath the costumes.
Last year, Hummingbird – later revealed as NSYNC band member Chris Kirkpatrick – claimed he got his start with the help of O’Neal and hinted that they dominated the Super Bowl together.
"I got my start with the help of Shaquille O’Neal and formed a patriotic team that felt like family. Together, we dominated the Super Bowl. My career has been a revelation. But I’m only human. I’m so nervous to step on that stage tonight. But here we go! I guess it’s all or nothing," he told the audience.
And, it wouldn’t be the first time an athlete has graced "The Masked Singer" stage.
RELATED: ‘The Masked Singer’: Season 9 contestant Polar Bear drops beat, sent home
Rob Gronkowski, Tony Hawk, Victor Oladipo, Terry Bradshaw, Jordan Mailata, Antonio Brown, Mark Sanchez, Johnny Weir, Tony Hawk and Dwight Howard are just a few of the athletes who have competed on the reality series.
But, could Shaq be next? Only time will tell.
"The Masked Singer" Season 9 airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.
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Conference Call to Be Held at 7:30 A.M. U.S. Eastern Time on November 22, 2022
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), a leading online discount retailer for brands in China ("Vipshop" or the "Company"), today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Total net revenues for the third quarter of 2022 were RMB21.6 billion (US$3.0 billion), as compared with RMB24.9 billion in the prior year period.
- GMV[1] for the third quarter of 2022 was RMB37.6 billion, as compared with RMB40.2 billion in the prior year period.
- Gross profit for the third quarter of 2022 was RMB4.7 billion (US$658.3 million), as compared with RMB4.8 billion in the prior year period.
- Net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 168.4% year over year to RMB1.7 billion (US$237.1 million) from RMB628.4 million in the prior year period.
- Non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders[2] for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 55.0% year over year to RMB1.6 billion (US$224.2 million) from RMB1.0 billion in the prior year period.
- The number of active customers[3] for the third quarter of 2022 was 41.0 million, as compared with 43.9 million in the prior year period.
- Total orders[4] for the third quarter of 2022 were 168.3 million, as compared with 172.9 million in the prior year period.
Mr. Eric Shen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vipshop, stated, "In the third quarter, we demonstrated strong profitability through careful execution of our proven business model. Despite that the topline recovery was held back by macro and pandemic headwinds, our customer trend improved month by month. While adapting to external uncertainties, we focused on pushing ahead with initiatives to reinforce our business strengths for the long run. We continued to enhance our merchandising capabilities, adding more diverse and high-quality brand partners to expand our product offerings and capture the emerging consumer trends, which in turn helped us gain better customer traction. With our technology upgrade, we further enhanced our capabilities to serve both brand partners and customers through digitalized merchant platform and personalized recommendations, respectively. Looking ahead, we are committed to offering exceptional values on a wide array of branded quality products to win new customers and elevate the trust and loyalty of existing ones."
Mr. David Cui, Chief Financial Officer of Vipshop, further commented, "Our revenues for the third quarter were in line with our expectation, with an increasing contribution from active Super VIP customers. Through further optimization of operations, we also achieved meaningful growth in profit and margins on a year-over-year basis. Meanwhile, we continued to steadily execute our share repurchase program, with US$257.6 million of our ADSs[5] being repurchased during the quarter, to preserve shareholder value. We are confident in maintaining quality and sustainable growth in the long term."
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
REVENUES
Total net revenues for the third quarter of 2022 were RMB21.6 billion (US$3.0 billion), as compared with RMB24.9 billion in the prior year period, primarily attributable to soft consumer needs for discretionary categories amid a challenging macro environment with the COVID-19 resurgence in China.
GROSS PROFIT
Gross profit for the third quarter of 2022 was RMB4.7 billion (US$658.3 million), as compared with RMB4.8 billion in the prior year period. Gross margin for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 21.7% from 19.4% in the prior year period.
OPERATING EXPENSES
Total operating expenses for the third quarter of 2022 decreased by 13.9% year over year to RMB3.7 billion (US$514.2 million) from RMB4.2 billion in the prior year period. As a percentage of total net revenues, total operating expenses for the third quarter of 2022 decreased to 16.9% from 17.0% in the prior year period.
- Fulfillment expenses for the third quarter of 2022 were RMB1.6 billion (US$227.5 million), which largely stayed flat as compared with the prior year period. As a percentage of total net revenues, fulfillment expenses for the third quarter of 2022 was 7.5%, as compared with 6.5% in the prior year period.
- Marketing expenses for the third quarter of 2022 decreased by 53.9% year over year to RMB572.4 million (US$80.5 million) from RMB1.2 billion in the prior year period, primarily attributable to more prudent marketing strategy. As a percentage of total net revenues, marketing expenses for the third quarter of 2022 decreased to 2.6% from 5.0% in the prior year period.
- Technology and content expenses for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 7.6% year over year to RMB394.8 million (US$55.5 million) from RMB366.8 million in the prior year period. As a percentage of total net revenues, technology and content expenses for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 1.8% from 1.5% in the prior year period.
- General and administrative expenses for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 5.0% year over year to RMB1.1 billion (US$150.7 million) from RMB1.0 billion in the prior year period. As a percentage of total net revenues, general and administrative expenses for the third quarter of 2022 was 5.0%, as compared with 4.1% in the prior year period.
INCOME FROM OPERATIONS
Income from operations for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 47.6% year over year to RMB1.1 billion (US$159.9 million) from RMB770.8 million in the prior year period. Operating margin for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 5.3% from 3.1% in the prior year period.
Non-GAAP income from operations[6] for the third quarter of 2022, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, increased by 47.6% year over year to RMB1.6 billion (US$219.2 million) from RMB1.1 billion in the prior year period. Non-GAAP operating margin[7] for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 7.2% from 4.2% in the prior year period.
NET INCOME
Net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders for the third quarter of 2022 increased by 168.4% year over year to RMB1.7 billion (US$237.1 million) from RMB628.4 million in the prior year period. Net margin attributable to Vipshop's shareholders for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 7.8% from 2.5% in the prior year period. Net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders per diluted ADS for the third quarter of 2022 increased to RMB2.70 (US$0.38) from RMB0.92 in the prior year period.
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders for the third quarter of 2022, which excluded (i) share-based compensation expenses, (ii) impairment loss of investments, (iii) investment loss(gain) and revaluation of investments excluding dividends, (iv) reconciling items on the share of equity method investments, and (v) tax effects on non-GAAP adjustments, increased by 55.0% year over year to RMB1.6 billion (US$224.2 million) from RMB1.0 billion in the prior year period. Non-GAAP net margin attributable to Vipshop's shareholders[8] for the third quarter of 2022 increased to 7.4% from 4.1% in the prior year period. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders per diluted ADS[9] for the third quarter of 2022 increased to RMB2.56 (US$0.36) from RMB1.50 in the prior year period.
For the quarter ended September 30, 2022, the Company's weighted average number of ADSs used in computing diluted income per ADS was 623,699,624.
BALANCE SHEET AND CASH FLOW
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash of RMB16.2 billion (US$2.3 billion) and short term investments of RMB3.4 billion (US$478.0 million).
For the quarter ended September 30, 2022, net cash generated from operating activities was RMB724.6 million (US$101.9 million), and free cash flow[10], a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, was as follows:
Share Repurchase Program
During the quarter ended September 30, 2022, the Company repurchased US$257.6 million of its ADSs under its current US$1 billion share repurchase program, which is effective through March 2024. As of September 30, 2022, the Company has an un-utilized amount of US$565.3 million under this program.
Business Outlook
For the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company expects its total net revenues to be between RMB30.7 billion and RMB32.4 billion, representing a year-over-year decrease rate of 10% to 5%. These forecasts reflect the Company's current and preliminary view on the market and operational conditions, which is subject to change.
Exchange Rate
The Company's business is primarily conducted in China and the significant majority of revenues generated are denominated in Renminbi. This announcement contains currency conversions of Renminbi amounts into U.S. dollars solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from Renminbi to U.S. dollars are made at a rate of RMB7.1135 to US$1.00, the effective noon buying rate on September 30, 2022 as set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. No representation is made that the Renminbi amounts could have been, or could be, converted, realized or settled into U.S. dollars at that rate on September 30, 2022, or at any other rate.
Conference Call Information
The Company will hold a conference call on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 7:30 am US Eastern Time, 8:30 pm Beijing Time to discuss the financial results.
All participants wishing to join the conference call must pre-register online using the link provided below.
Registration Link: https://register.vevent.com/register/BIed5ad04451d64e4d9a7a23731f0c0488
Once pre-registration has been completed, each participant will receive dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN via email. To join the conference, participants should use the dial-in details followed by the PIN code.
A live webcast of the earnings conference call can be accessed at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/emyjt2e8. An archived webcast will be available at the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.vip.com.
About Vipshop Holdings Limited
Vipshop Holdings Limited is a leading online discount retailer for brands in China. Vipshop offers high quality and popular branded products to consumers throughout China at a significant discount to retail prices. Since it was founded in August 2008, the Company has rapidly built a sizeable and growing base of customers and brand partners. For more information, please visit https://ir.vip.com/ .
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as Vipshop's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Vipshop may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Vipshop's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Vipshop's goals and strategies; Vipshop's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; the expected growth of the online discount retail market in China; Vipshop's ability to attract customers and brand partners and further enhance its brand recognition; Vipshop's expectations regarding needs for and market acceptance of flash sales products and services; competition in the discount retail industry; the potential impact of the COVID-19 to Vipshop's business operations and the economy in China and elsewhere generally; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Vipshop's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Vipshop does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The condensed consolidated financial information is derived from the Company's unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP"), except that comparative consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the period presented and detailed footnote disclosures required by Accounting Standards Codification 270, Interim Reporting ("ASC270"), have been omitted. Vipshop uses non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders, non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders per diluted ADS, non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP operating income margin, non-GAAP net margin attributable to Vipshop's shareholders, and free cash flow, each of which is a non-GAAP financial measure. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders is net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders excluding (i) share-based compensation expenses, (ii) impairment loss of investments, (iii) investment loss(gain) and revaluation of investments excluding dividends, (iv) reconciling items on the share of equity method investments, and (v) tax effects on non-GAAP adjustments. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders per diluted ADS is computed using non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders divided by weighted average number of diluted ADS outstanding for computing diluted earnings per ADS. Non-GAAP income from operations is income from operations excluding share-based compensation expenses. Non-GAAP operating income margin is non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of total net revenues. Non-GAAP net margin attributable to Vipshop's shareholders is non-GAAP net income attributable to Vipshop's shareholders as a percentage of total net revenues. Free cash flow is net cash from operating activities adding back the impact from internet financing activities and less capital expenditures, which include purchase and deposits of property and equipment and land use rights. Impact from internet financing activities added back or deducted from free cash flow contains changes in the balances of financial products, which are primarily consumer financing and supplier financing that the Company provides to customers and suppliers. The Company believes that separate analysis and exclusion of the non-cash impact of (i) share-based compensation, (ii) impairment loss of investments, (iii) investment loss(gain) and revaluation of investments excluding dividends, (iv) reconciling items on the share of equity method investments, and (v) tax effects on non-GAAP adjustments add clarity to the constituent parts of its performance. The Company reviews these non-GAAP financial measures together with GAAP financial measures to obtain a better understanding of its operating performance. It uses these non-GAAP financial measures for planning, forecasting and measuring results against the forecast. The Company believes that non-GAAP financial measures are useful supplemental information for investors and analysts to assess its operating performance without the effect of (i) share-based compensation expenses, (ii) impairment loss of investments, (iii) investment loss(gain) and revaluation of investments excluding dividends, (iv) reconciling items on the share of equity method investments, and (v) tax effects on non-GAAP adjustments. Free cash flow enables the Company to assess liquidity and cash flow, taking into account the impact from internet financing activities and the financial resources needed for the expansion of fulfillment infrastructure, technology platform and Shan Shan Outlets. Share-based compensation expenses have been and will continue to be significant recurring expenses in its business. However, the use of non-GAAP financial measures has material limitations as an analytical tool. One of the limitations of using non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not include all items that impact the Company's net income for the period. In addition, because non-GAAP financial measures are not measured in the same manner by all companies, they may not be comparable to other similar titled measures used by other companies. One of the key limitations of free cash flow is that it does not represent the residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures.
The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Vipshop Holdings Limited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results" at the end of this release.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Bauer was reinstated Thursday by Major League Baseball’s independent arbitrator, allowing the pitcher to resume his career at the start of the 2023 season.
The 31-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers star was given an unprecedented two-season suspension without pay by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on April 29 for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy after a San Diego woman said Bauer beat and sexually abused her last year, an accusation the pitcher denied.
The players’ association filed a grievance on behalf of the former Cy Young Award winner, and a three-person panel headed by independent arbitrator Martin Scheinman started hearing the case on May 23.
Scheinman upheld a 194-game suspension rather than Manfred’s intended 324-game penalty but reinstated Bauer immediately, assigning 50 games to cover part of the lengthy time Bauer was put on administrative leave while MLB investigated during the 2021 season and early this year.
“Can’t wait to see y’all out at a stadium soon!” Bauer wrote on Twitter.
Bauer will lose more than $37 million in salary for the final 144 games of last season and for the first 50 games of next season, through May 23. The lost salary next year is effectively a clawback from part of his administrative leave, when he continued to receive pay.
MLB said Scheinman affirmed that Bauer violated the domestic violence policy.
“While we believe a longer suspension was warranted, MLB will abide by the neutral arbitrator’s decision, which upholds baseball’s longest-ever active player suspension for sexual assault or domestic violence,” MLB said in a statement. “We understand this process was difficult for the witnesses involved and we thank them for their participation.”
While Scheinman issued his award to the parties, a full written decision is not expected until later. The panel included MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem and union assistant general counsel Bob Lenaghan.
“While we are pleased that Mr. Bauer has been reinstated immediately, we disagree that any discipline should have been imposed,” Bauer’s representatives, Jon Fetterolf, Shawn Holley and Rachel Luba, said in a statement. “That said, Mr. Bauer looks forward to his return to the field, where his goal remains to help his team win a World Series.”
The players’ association declined comment on Scheinman’s decision.
Bauer was never charged with a crime. His accuser sought but was denied a restraining order against him, and Los Angeles prosecutors said in February there was insufficient evidence to prove the woman’s accusations beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bauer, who hasn’t played since the allegations surfaced and MLB began investigating, repeatedly has said that everything that happened between him and the woman was consensual.
An email sent after business hours Thursday seeking comment from the woman’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, wasn’t immediately returned.
Bauer sued his accuser in federal court, a move that came less than three months after prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against the pitcher. Bauer named the woman and one of her attorneys, Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah, as defendants in the lawsuit. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been victims of sexual assault.
The lawsuit said that “the damage to Mr. Bauer has been extreme” after the woman alleged that he had choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters last year.
The pitcher has said the two engaged in rough sex at his Pasadena home at her suggestion and followed guidelines they agreed to in advance.
Another woman, from Columbus, Ohio, told The Washington Post that Bauer repeatedly choked her without her consent and sexually assaulted her over the course of a years-long relationship. Bauer, in a statement through his representatives, said their relationship was “casual and wholly consensual.”
The suspension will cost Bauer $37,594,233 from his $102 million, three-year contract: $28,131,868 of his $32 million salary in 2022 and $9,462,365 of his $32 million salary in 2023.
Under Major League Rule 2, Bauer will not count against the Dodgers’ player limits for 14 days, giving the team until Jan. 6 to decide whether to cut ties. If the Dodgers jettison Bauer, they would remain responsible for the roughly $22.6 million he is owed next season and he would be free to sign with any club.
“We have just been informed of the arbitrator’s ruling and will comment as soon as practical,” the Dodgers said in a statement.
The money not paid to Bauer will be reflected on the Dodgers’ luxury tax payroll, cutting the amount of tax they must pay this year and are projected to pay in 2023.
After winning his first Cy Young with the Cincinnati Reds in 2020, Bauer agreed to join his hometown Dodgers. He did not pitch after June 29 in 2021 and finished with an 8-2 record and a 2.59 ERA in 17 appearances.
Bauer was placed on administrative leave on July 2, 2021, under the domestic violence policy, a leave extended 13 times.
Among 15 players previously disciplined under the policy, the longest suspension was a full season and postseason for free agent pitcher Sam Dyson in 2021. None of the players previously disciplined under the policy appear to have challenged the penalty before an arbitrator.
Bauer’s suspension was the longest of any MLB player since pitcher Jenrry Mejia was given a lifetime ban in 2016 for a third violation of the drug agreement. Mejia was reinstated for 2019 and returned in the minor leagues.
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ROUND LED BY 10T HOLDINGS, WITH PARTICIPATION FROM RIPPLE
FOLLOWS FUTUREVERSE'S ROLL-UP OF 11 WEB3 COMPANIES TO CREATE OPEN METAVERSE
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Futureverse, a leading AI and metaverse technology and content company, today announced the close of its $54 million Series A funding round. The round was led by 10T Holdings, LLC ("10T") and included participation from Ripple.
Futureverse was founded to empower developers and users to create and engage with interoperable content and applications previously unavailable within the metaverse. The company's technology platform includes a robust suite of proprietary AI content generation tools designed to enhance the music, objects, characters and animations that make up the metaverse. By rolling up 11 metaverse infrastructure and content companies into one collaborative ecosystem, Futureverse delivers the essential components for constructing any metaverse application, while forming one of the world's largest metaverse communities powered by digital collectibles. Futureverse has also become a leader in an entirely new frontier of AI gaming. In the past year, Futureverse has launched AI-powered consumer game "AI League" in cooperation with FIFA on iOS and Android and has partnered with ABG, IP Rights holders of the Muhammad Ali Enterprises, to release the first AI-powered boxing game, "Muhammad Ali - The Next Legends."
Futureverse will use the proceeds from the funding round to continue developing the company's comprehensive technology, including its Futureverse Platform featuring "Powered By Futureverse" tools and products and The Root Network, a blockchain and suite of protocols with ready-made runtimes for building next-generation metaverse apps, games and experiences. Futureverse's previously announced partnership with Ripple has The Root Network integrated with XRPL and supports the use of XRP as a GAS token as well as the XLS-20 NFT standard.
Metaverse pioneer Aaron McDonald, tech and entertainment investor/operator Shara Senderoff and seasoned technology and information security expert Marco Brondani co-founded Futureverse along with business operator Dan Gillespie.
"The metaverse has the potential to transform the way humans engage and collaborate with one another and improve our experiences across a number of different spheres, including gaming, payments, asset management, and more. In order to reach this potential, the metaverse requires open, scalable, and interoperable infrastructure," said Aaron McDonald and Shara Senderoff, Co-Founders of Futureverse. "Futureverse combines next-level technological infrastructure and AI-driven content to create the open metaverse we all envision. With the help of our tremendous partners 10T and Ripple, we are excited to take the metaverse from an abstract idea to a tangible, accessible, and interactive destination."
Futureverse's Series A funding round continues the company's recent momentum. In April, the company announced a strategic partnership with blue-chip NFT collection Cool Cats, integrating Cool Cats' iconic brand with Futureverse's cutting-edge technology and bringing Cool Cats NFT holders into the Futureverse ecosystem.
In the last year, Futureverse has formed global strategic partnerships with renowned organizations including FIFA, Authentic Brands Group (ABG), Mastercard, Wimbledon, Death Row Records, Wētā Workshop, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant.
"Futureverse has developed an immersive and vertically-integrated metaverse platform that acts as an AI technology provider, metaverse infrastructure builder, layer 1 architect, creative studio, and digital community all-in-one," said Dan Tapiero, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of 10T. "We look forward to supporting Aaron and his experienced team as they continue to achieve significant real-world commercial traction and scale Futureverse's capabilities and offerings."
"We are excited to continue to support the Futureverse vision and celebrate the Root Network's integration with the XRP Ledger. While we're at the earliest stages of what a project like this — and really the larger concept of the metaverse — can achieve, we at Ripple are thrilled to contribute to the foundational infrastructure layer and provide real utility to the end users of the open metaverse," said Monica Long, President of Ripple.
Developers and users interested in joining the Futureverse community can learn more by visiting www.futureverse.com.
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Friday marks the 51st anniversary of Earth Day!
Earth Day is a day, where we should all take time to appreciate our environment such as picking up trash in our neighborhoods
This weekend, there are a few ways you can help keep our community clean.
The first thing you can do is start right in your neighborhood, by walking and picking up trash that you see lying around on the ground.
Keep Lee County Beautiful representatives say that since 2017, they’ve removed close to 210,000 pounds of litter & debris from the road.
They also work to keep our waterways clear.
“We do cleanups and things like that but the reality is we’re trying to educate people to take ownership on themselves. We do these events to showcase what can be done and how but anybody who goes for a nightly walk can be taking part in it every day,” said Trish Fancher with Keep Lee County Beautiful.
Throughout the day, the organization suggests turning off your water, while you brush your teeth or take your showers!
If you’d like to get out and be a part of the community, there are a few cleanups & events happening this weekend.
EVENTS SATURDAY
- WATERWAY ESTATES CLEANUP
- 9 am – 11:30 am
- Corner of Birkdale and Burnham Court, North Fort Myers
- BOWDITCH BEACH CLEANUP
- 9 am – 11 am
- Bowditch Point Park, 50 Estero Blvd, Fort Myers Beach | https://nbc-2.com/news/environment/2022/04/22/earth-day-2022-how-you-can-help-celebrate-in-swfl/ | 2022-04-22 15:32:49 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/environment/2022/04/22/earth-day-2022-how-you-can-help-celebrate-in-swfl/ |
At times, you could hear the faint roar of the Monster Truck Show wafting over from Lumen Field on Saturday night. There would few wafting roars at T-Mobile Park as the game sped by at breakneck speed; just the disturbing sounds of silence that permeated the Mariners’ offense, until finally the Mariners found a way to mobilize their restless faithful in the eighth.
It took the arrival of Cleveland reliever James Karinchak, whom they had verbally harangued into a game-losing homer in the opener, to arouse the dormant fervor. This time with the game again on the line, Karinchak struck out Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodriguez, oblivious to the taunting pitch-clock countdowns from the crowd. This time, Karinchak was the Gravedigger, burying the Mariners’ last, best — and only — chance.
The Mariners fell quickly (two hours and four minutes) and quietly (a mere three hits), a 2-0 loss that was disproportionately alarming, as is the custom at this juncture.
It is the time of year when far too much meaning is derived from results, both good and bad. Call it Small Sample Size Theater or Overreaction Drama. And yet three games into the season, far too soon to draw conclusions but not too early to warrant apprehension, many of the nagging concerns over this heralded Mariners season are peaking out into the light of day.
A near-capacity crowd of 44,250, drawn by the Julio Rodriguez bobblehead giveaway, watched an absolutely tepid offensive performance — a (very) early trend. And that was after a disturbing start to the day for the Mariners when Robbie Ray was placed on the injured list with a flexor strain, an almost immediate validation of the lingering worry that last year’s run of good health from Seattle’s starters was an aberration.
So now the pitching depth, billed as a strength, will be tested with Chris Flexen moving into the rotation. And the Mariners have done nothing yet to quell the notion that they didn’t do enough in the offseason to boost their offense.
It’s beyond absurd to make any definitive statements to that regard after three games. But it doesn’t help that the two big additions to the lineup, Teoscar Hernandez and Kolten Wong, are a combined 1 for -21. The team batting average is .183. Even in their lone win, the Mariners were shut out for eight of the nine innings; if not for Ty France’s homer off the rattled Karinchak, that game might still be going on.
Scott Servais has been around long enough to know that things can turn around on a dime when at-bats are so few that averages can rise by a hundred points with one good game. But he acknowledged the hitters might be pressing a bit, yearning for that breakout moment.
“There were some pitches they typically get in play hard, and they aren’t doing that,’’ he said. “But the biggest thing we talk about all the time is swing at the right pitches. You’ve got to control the strike zone and really understand what we’re trying to do.
“Each guy’s a little bit different. But as long as we swing at the right pitches, we’ll be fine. It’s when you get out of that, and you start chasing the hits, that you get into trouble. But we have a long ways to go. That’s the way offense goes in this league. It goes up, it goes down, you get hot, you cool off, you run into some tough pitching. We’ve got to come back at them tomorrow.”
The combination of the pitch clock, the absence of much offense to provide stressful moments, and Cleveland starter Aaron Civale locked into a rhythm, led to another torrid-paced game — just two hours and 14 minutes. One by-product of the newly implemented clock is that it’s hard to get a pitcher out of a groove like Civale was in; he needed just 80 pitches to go seven scoreless innings.
Mariners’ starter Logan Gilbert, who was outstanding in his own right — his only mistake over six innings was knocked into the bleachers by Josh Naylor — lamented the loss of Ray.
“Yeah, I feel for him,’’ he said. “It’s tough, especially at this point in the season. Robbie’s the best guy out there. Honestly, he’s helped me a ton. I look up to him a lot. So just hoping, praying for quick recovery and all that stuff. But I know the team is going to find a way to pull together and we’ll have him back later in the year when the games really matter.”
To make them truly matter later, of course, it would help not to spin into the kind of poor start that has plagued the Mariners the past two seasons. Two years ago, when they missed a playoff berth on the final day, they were still under .500 on June 17. Last year, they were 21-29 on June 1 and 29-39 on June 19 before winning 22 of their next 25 games. It’s unwise, however, to rely upon a 14-game win streak every year.
Saturday’s game was set up for Rodriguez to be the hero. That would have been the storybook script, anyway. His bobblehead was already drawing a $100 asking price on eBay — not that many of the 20,000 who got one of the coveted souvenirs were going to let it out of their grasp. Rodriguez singled his first two times up, but grounded into a double play in the sixth, and went down swinging in the eighth with Karinchak in a monster jam: two aboard and Julio representing the go-ahead run.
A home run would have given the Mariners a lead and prompted a roar that no doubt would have been heard at Lumen over the trucks. But there was no joy at T-Mobile; the mighty Julio struck out.
All it will take is one loud game to quell this line of inquiry into the Mariners. But right now, the volume of their offensive silence is rising. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/its-hard-not-to-overreact-when-the-mariners-are-playing-into-fans-fears/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-04-02 06:29:23 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/its-hard-not-to-overreact-when-the-mariners-are-playing-into-fans-fears/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
The Labor Department reports Friday on job growth in the month of May. Many employers say they're still hiring, but they're not as desperate for workers as they were at this time last year.
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The Labor Department reports Friday on job growth in the month of May. Many employers say they're still hiring, but they're not as desperate for workers as they were at this time last year.
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NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — Right now, several places in North Dakota say they’re not getting their mail.
That’s because the United States Postal Service has stopped delivering in areas across five states, including North Dakota.
20 postal service operations came to a halt due to weather here, and some still haven’t reopened.
USPS closed nearly 200 facilities and suspended deliveries due to the recent blizzard.
Major cities like Minot, Bismarck, Williston, and Dickinson have continued operations.
But more rural cities like Havana, Selfridge, and Zeeland are still closed, even though the weather has cleared up.
“It does feel like an excuse a little bit. I mean today I’m wearing a hoodie, it feels nice today in comparison to what we’ve seen before. When we look up online, we did the ‘stay informed’ signed up to see what we’re supposed to be getting, and that is what it states, that they’ve shut down our route due to weather. And so, I came in here to pick up the mail. The teller said that there was no mail to be picked up,” said Joshua Hernandez, a Minot resident.
Officials from the post office say if you don’t clear snow and ice from sidewalks, mailboxes, or paths leading to your home, letter carriers may skip your home.
USPS declined an interview with KX News but told us the facilities that are closed will be back up and running once the weather permits. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/usps-mail-suspensions-across-north-dakota/ | 2022-12-29 01:43:16 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/usps-mail-suspensions-across-north-dakota/ |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A Beckley man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly abusing a three-year-old at a Kanawha County daycare.
According to the West Virginia State Police (WVSP), the incident happened at the Discovery Kingdom Day Care in Kanawha County. Troopers said they were called there after being informed by the staff about a child abuse incident.
The WVSP said 21-year-old Caleb Staunton, of Beckley, was arrested after an investigation showed that he physically abused the three-year-old.
Staunton was charged with child abuse, according to the WVSP.
The WVSP did not say what Staunton’s connection to the daycare was. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/kanawha-county-wv/man-arrested-after-child-abuse-incident-at-kanawha-county-daycare/ | 2023-05-19 03:08:12 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/kanawha-county-wv/man-arrested-after-child-abuse-incident-at-kanawha-county-daycare/ |
Scenes from a troubling recent Post report out of China: Nearly 100 people waiting in line at 3 a.m. outside a funeral home in the eastern province of Shandong. Scalpers selling slots for cremation in Shanghai, jacking up the price as though they were concert tickets. A Beijing funeral home that constructed an extra parking lot last month, with more than 100 cars visible in a satellite image.
These snapshots confirmed what most people already suspected — that China’s hasty exit from its “zero covid” policy has caused massive suffering and death — a fact China finally acknowledged on Saturday after intense international pressure. Until that point, Chinese officials had reported just 37 covid deaths since Dec. 7, when all testing, quarantine and lockdown measures were lifted. Suddenly that number has soared to 59,938.
Dishonesty about the true breadth of the pandemic in China constitutes a threat to public health worldwide. Scientists need to know whether transmission patterns have changed, new variants have emerged or the incidence of long covid has increased. Epidemiologists must be able to assess whether the world should prepare for a new global outbreak. And the people of China deserve to know the true scale of the calamity descending on their country.
Reliable coronavirus data is hard to come by in many parts of the world. But when it comes to undercounting, China has been in a class by itself. For three full years, right up to the day it ended zero covid, China had reported just over 5,200 covid deaths, an absurdly low number even considering the harsh measures instituted to keep the virus in check.
With no reliable information coming from the government, outside epidemiologists, public health experts, journalists and others stepped in, parsing through anecdotal accounts, online postings, statistical modeling and satellite images. Reports of overwhelmed hospitals and overflowing funeral homes circulated on the internet and in the international media. The World Health Organization called on Beijing to release more detailed information, warning that the way China categorized cause of death “will very much underestimate the true death toll associated with covid.”
Until now, China has counted only fatalities in which a scan showed lung damage caused by the virus — meaning if covid were merely a contributing factor, the death wasn’t counted, in defiance of WHO guidelines. With Saturday’s announcement, China acceded to the criticism and said the revised figure included 54,435 people who had covid but died of other underlying illnesses.
But even the acknowledgment of nearly 60,000 covid-related deaths should be considered an undercount. Notably, those deaths were reported from hospitals and did not include people who died at home. Some researchers estimated that China was already seeing 9,000 deaths a day during December.
From the beginning of the pandemic, the Chinese government has relied on secrecy, obfuscation, intimidation and fabrication to draw a veil over the origins of the virus as well as its contagion and death toll. In early 2020, it concealed the person-to-person transmissibility of the virus for more than 20 days, admitting it only when it was obvious. Once China acknowledged covid was indeed contagious, it introduced its zero-covid policy, in which people were forced to quarantine and take daily tests. Patients were forcibly removed from their homes to government-run covid centers. People who had been exposed sometimes had their doors welded shut. Buildings, and sometimes entire cities, were locked down, with residents forbidden to leave their homes.
These measures, the government said, kept the disease in check and the death rate low, proving the superiority of its repressive political system. While refrigerated trailers for the dead lined streets around New York hospitals beginning in the spring of 2020, no such scenes played out in China.
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But zero covid could not go on indefinitely. When the economy stalled and public frustration erupted, China abruptly dropped it. The turnabout left a populace especially vulnerable to the virus — with little previous exposure and protected by locally made vaccines that are based on the original virus rather than the omicron subvariants that are now dominant. They are markedly less effective than the mRNA vaccines developed in the West.
As expected, disease exploded. China’s refusal to acknowledge what was obvious to the world led to an outpouring of criticism and dire forecasts.
A global health research institute based at the University of Washington in Seattle predicted the Chinese death toll could be “well over 1 million during 2023.” Worse, the British health data firm Airfinity predicted 1.7 million people will die across China just by the end of April.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese will be traveling for the Lunar New Year that begins Jan. 22, raising the likelihood that they will carry the disease to rural areas that are far less prepared to deal with it. Yet the Chinese announcement on Saturday asserted that “the national emergency peak has passed.”
Given China’s policy of concealment, there is little reason for anyone to believe this. Distrust of Chinese pronouncements has already led 20 countries, including the United States, to impose new requirements on Chinese travelers, including negative coronavirus tests. Chinese officials have called the measures discriminatory. But there is good cause for the world to be wary.
The international community should keep the pressure on Chinese officials to come clean about the real scale of the current crisis and allow independent outsiders access to make their own assessments. What China and the world need in a pandemic is truth and transparency all the time, not just when it is no longer possible to lie. The release of the new figures on Saturday was a start, but only just a start. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/16/china-covid-death-toll/ | 2023-01-16 14:58:16 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/16/china-covid-death-toll/ |
A look at the District 33 Senate race
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - With the June election a week away, races are heating up as candidates vie for public office.
District 33 consists of Mandan, Beulah, Hazen, Riverdale, Washburn, and everything in between. In other words, it’s coal country. And the state Senate race here is one of the most closely watched in North Dakota.
Senator Jessica Bell, an environmental manager for North American Coal from Beulah, has represented coal country since the 2013 Legislative Session.
”I was the one who made sure that we had comprehensive legislation, we passed over 20 pieces of legislation that were helpful in not only the sale of Coal Creek Station, but also for all of our other facilities within coal country,” said Bell.
But Keith Boehm, a businessman from Mandan, thinks there’s more a Senator for District 33 should address.
”I hear from some ag leaders in the area that they don’t get as much support as they would like,” said Boehm.
With nearly forty years working in coal and agriculture, and as the operator of a small business, Mr. Boehm thinks his unique experience will represent the district well.
”I would introduce a more conservative fiscal policy, I would protect families and education. Since I’m in ag, engaged in ag overall, I would fully support that,” said Boehm.
Senator Bell hopes to build on her work from the past decade.
”So, public education is number one. I also want to see through our reliability and resiliency standards that we’ve been working on for a decade. And for tax relief, I chair the tax committee and I’m really, really excited to use some of the surplus for direct tax relief for our citizens,” said Bell.
She sees her experience as vital to the district’s success in the Legislature.
”We don’t have a lot of returning leadership in the Legislature, and I think that that level of experience, that ten years, is really going to be valuable. Because we’ll be able to be at the table when really big decisions are being made,” said Senator Jessica Bell.
Mr. Boehm, on the other hand, believes his experience is invaluable.
”I am a voice of ag, I am a voice of small business, and I’m a voice of energy,” said Keith Boehm.
June 14th is the primary election for Legislative races. The winner of this contest is placed on the ballot for the general election. There are no Democrats running for the District 33 Senate seat.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The W-Foundation (Wook Lee, Chairman of the W-Foundation), official partner of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), successfully held the 1st Conference of Global Climate Action Fund at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul, Korea from August 22 to 24, ahead of the upcoming COP 27, which is being held in Egypt November of this year.
The Conference's view is that despite concerted global efforts by institutions and governments to promote innovations that can help address and mitigate climate change, many promising technologies and ideas remain stalled in development due to barriers in finance, policy and management resources.
The mission of the global alliance for Global Climate Action Fund (GCAF) is to identify and support promising climate action technologies and ideas globally. By bringing to the table a close-knit community of cross-disciplinary practitioners and experts in finance, policy and management, the Conference is well positioned to help promising climate technology projects overcome these barriers in a spirit of radical collaboration.
Over 6 widely attended sessions covering ESG, Finance, Action, Technology, Innovation and Transportation, this year's inaugural conference highlighted the global private sector's leadership and participation in high-impact initiatives for Net-Zero. The Conference of Global Climate Action Fund will be an annual event. While the inaugural conference was held in Korea, where the W-Foundation is headquartered, the venue for next year's event will be decided in Egypt at COP 27.
Along with the UNFCCC and representatives of governments and institutions, global leaders from leading companies around the world such as S&P Global, YIDO, GroupM, Loreal, Deutsche Bank, Schneider Electric, Schlumberger, Borealis Group, SBS, Techstars, CGI, Globe Telecom, Oriental Brewery (AB InBev Family) participated in the Conference. These companies and organizations agreed to join in alliance with the Global Climate Action Fund over coming years to identify and support innovative climate technologies and ideas.
The W-Foundation Chairman Wook Lee highlighted that, "It was a privilege to bring together the leaders and experts of global companies that are leading the private sector's efforts to address and mitigate climate change. We look forward to working closely with these alliance partners to identify and help promising technologies and ideas overcome barriers and find ways to achieve scale and relevance in the market. We believe this will be critical to our path to getting to Net-Zero."
W-Foundation (Official partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012. W-Foundation is committed to leading and enabling a broad-based public support for nature conservation, climate change mitigation and immediate relief for refugees impacted by climate change and natural disasters. W-Foundation partners with like-minded individuals, corporations and organizations around the world to build and sustain a broad-based movement to making a difference for our shared future.
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Cesar Azpilicueta says he would not swap any of his Chelsea trophies for a World Cup title with Spain.
Azpilicueta has lifted nine trophies with Chelsea since signing for them in 2012, and the Blues' Club World Cup win in February this year means the defender has won every club prize possible with the London outfit.
In contrast, the 33-year-old is yet to taste glory with his international side, having made his debut after their World Cup triumph in 2010 and the European Championship successes of 2008 and 2012.
Spain have not returned to a final since that 2012 victory, but Azpilicueta revealed he would not trade any of his club titles for a World Cup win, telling reporters: "Why would I swap any trophies?
"I want to get another one, this one [the World Cup] if I can.
"I made my debut for Spain against Uruguay here in Qatar, in Doha, in 2013, so it would be a good story for me to win the World Cup here.
"We have a brilliant opportunity. We have an amazing group, we can play our football and after that, it’s a tournament where you cannot make any mistakes.
"You have to start well and small details make the difference.
"We will try our best and, of course, I’d love to add this trophy to my cabinet."
Spain get their World Cup campaign underway against Costa Rica on Wednesday, before going on to face Germany and Japan in Group E. | https://www.beinsports.com/us/world-cup-qatar-2022/video/azpilicueta-i-would-not-swap-any-chelsea-tr-2/1989515 | 2022-11-19 21:31:25 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/us/world-cup-qatar-2022/video/azpilicueta-i-would-not-swap-any-chelsea-tr-2/1989515 |
- PTAB finds "reasonable likelihood" Motif will prevail in challenge of key Impossible patent
- Second setback for Impossible in effort to secure monopoly on use of heme in plant-based foods
BOSTON, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a highly-anticipated ruling by its Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Friday it would institute inter partes review (IPR) of Patent 9,943,096 B2 claimed by Impossible Foods. The ruling commences an administrative trial, expected to take about a year, on the validity of one of Impossible Foods' most important patents.
Motif FoodWorks petitioned for review of the patent after Impossible sued Motif in federal court last year, alleging patent infringement in using heme to create plant-based meat substitutes.
In the PTAB's ruling on Friday, Administrative Patent Judge Donna M. Praiss wrote that Motif "has demonstrated a reasonable likelihood of prevailing with respect to at least one claim of the '096 patent, and we institute inter partes review of all claims and all grounds asserted in the petition."
The Impossible patent now under review – titled "Methods and Compositions for Affecting the Flavor and Aroma Profile of Consumables" – seeks to "better replicate the aromas and flavors of meat, particularly during and/or after cooking," according to filings at the Patent and Trademark Office.
"We are pleased with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to institute inter partes review (IPR) for Patent 9,943,096 B2, finding that Motif has shown a reasonable likelihood we will prevail," said Michael Leonard, CEO of Motif FoodWorks. "Statistics show the PTAB invalidates one or more claims in 80 percent of the patents that reach a final decision in IPR, so we look forward to seeing this process play out."
"This is not just a victory for Motif – it's a victory for consumers," added Leonard. "For us, this whole process is about protecting innovation and consumer choice in plant-based foods."
Friday's ruling marks Impossible's second significant setback in its effort to secure a monopoly on using heme – a naturally occurring protein – to flavor plant-based meat substitutes. Late last year, the European Patent Office revoked an EU patent held by Impossible. Meanwhile, its lawsuit against Motif is still pending in federal district court in Delaware.
Motif and Impossible both use heme proteins in plant-based meat alternatives. Impossible's heme protein is identical to soy leghemoglobin, a protein found in nodules attached to the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants like soy. Motif's heme protein, HEMAMI™, is identical to bovine myoglobin, which is found in the muscle tissue of cows.
Motif argues that these ingredients, which have been used to develop the taste and smell of meat and meat alternatives in food products for decades, are not patentable by Impossible. Indeed, Motif argues that the ingredients that Impossible claims to have discovered have existed and been sold in everyday food products for decades and that the claims are a legally and factually baseless attempt to stifle innovation and limit consumer choice.
"Impossible is wasting resources, creativity, and opportunities through a failing litigation strategy," Leonard said. "The company seems more concerned with securing monopoly power over a protein than with growing this sector."
"Since our founding in 2018, Motif has reinvented plant-based meat, making it better tasting, more nutritious and sustainable," added Leonard. "Impossible is determined to stop that innovation – hurting consumers, our industry and, ultimately, our planet. We will continue to fight Impossible's aggressive actions to limit competition and are gratified that the PTAB found merit in our position."
About Motif FoodWorks
Motif FoodWorks is creating the next generation of food. We are a food technology company developing breakthrough ingredients that unleash the promise of plant-based foods and transform the eating experience – from first bite to lasting impact. With food as our passion and innovation coded into our DNA, we are driven by the science of more. More taste. More texture. More choices for consumers. That is why our work has gone beyond the lab. We have taken it all the way to the plate with products grown from the universal experience of what great food should be: tantalizing, satiating, and nourishing. Our ecosystem of ingredients and finished products are designed for people of all habits and beliefs and with the health of our planet always in mind. Because at Motif, we believe the food of the future should set you free. For more information, visit www.madewithmotif.com.
Media contact: Julia Dacri, jdacri@motiffoodworks.com
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Whether you are looking for a few last-minute gifts or a treat for yourself, there are still many great gifts to be found. We browsed Amazon for great gifts and found an awesome drone, a top-selling espresso machine and much more.
Our list of the best Amazon gifts of the day includes many items that will arrive in time to wrap and place under the Christmas tree. So as you prepare for the fast-approaching holidays, spend a little time this weekend shopping and saving with our latest gifts roundup.
Best gifts to shop on Amazon
Sony A80J 77-Inch Bravia XR OLED TV
With impressive sound, remarkable image quality and speedy smart technology, Sony’s Bravia XR TV takes home entertainment to the next level. The huge 77-inch screen adds to the lifelike quality of your favorite shows, movies and sports, which you can find via built-in Alexa.
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Nebula Cosmos Max 4K Projector
The Cosmos Max Projector will turn any room into a home theater thanks to its ability to produce a huge display in 4K resolution. While it’s great for showing old videos, it’s also compatible with top streaming apps for endless entertainment possibilities.
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DJI FPV First-Person View Drone Combo
If you’re looking for an awe-inspiring present for the drone enthusiast in your life, you can’t go wrong with a DJI drone. This model offers an outstanding 4K camera that takes amazing photos. It’s fun to fly, too.
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It’s difficult to decide what’s best about the Apple iMac, the immersive 5K Retina display? The awesome memory? Maybe the speedy performance? You don’t have to decide, because this model offers it all, along with a practical 27-inch screen.
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WASHINGTON — On the brink of hitting the nation's legal borrowing limit on Thursday, the government is resorting to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default.
Sounds ominous, right?
But -- take a breath -- the phrase technically refers to a bunch of accounting workarounds. Yes, accounting.
Because the debt cap limits the issuance of government bonds — a way the U.S. borrows money — these workarounds shift money among accounts and should keep the government open through at least June, according to a letter last week by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
In theory, President Joe Biden and Congress are supposed to use that additional time to work out an agreement to raise the nation's legal $31.38 trillion debt ceiling. These talks often grow heated and go down to the wire, with major economic damage in the balance. But there have been roughly 80 deals to raise or suspend the borrowing cap since the 1960s.
What could be worrisome is not the existence of extraordinary measures, but what happens if they are exhausted this summer without a deal in place. Economists have warned that could lead to a global financial crisis.
So far, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Biden are playing what could be a dangerous game of chicken with the world’s largest economy in the middle.
Some questions and answers on the situation:
WHAT ARE “EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES”?
Yellen’s Friday letter listed two measures that will begin this month in order to prevent the government from defaulting.
First, the government will temporarily suspend payments to the retirement, disability and health benefit funds for federal employees. Second, it will suspend the reinvestment of maturing government bonds in the retirement savings accounts of government workers.
By suspending the payments, the government can reduce the amount of outstanding debt. That enables the Treasury Department to keep financing government operations, according to Yellen’s letter.
WHAT ALLOWS TREASURY TO USE THESE MEASURES?
No dispute there. Congress has given Treasury the authority to do so.
Because these are retirement accounts, no one is harmed by the government equivalent of an IOU. The funds are made whole after a debt ceiling increase or suspension becomes law. It’s not necessarily the measures that can harm the economy but rather the doubts among consumers and businesses about whether lawmakers will increase the borrowing cap.
HOW BIG ARE THESE RETIREMENT FUNDS?
There were $986 billion in net assets of the civil service and federal employees retirement funds at he end of fiscal 2021, according to a report by the Office of Personnel Management. The required government contributions to the funds are large enough to rely on these extraordinary measures for roughly five months.
HOW COMMON IS THIS?
“Treasury Secretaries in every Administration over recent decades have used these extraordinary measures when necessary,” Yellen wrote in her letter.
The measures were first deployed in 1985 and have been used at least 16 times since then, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
WHY DO WE HAVE A DEBT LIMIT?
Before World War I, Congress needed to approve each bond issuance. The debt limit was created as a workaround to finance the war effort without needing a constant series of votes.
Since then, a tool created to make it easier for the government to function has become a source of dysfunction, stoking partisan warfare and creating economic risk as the debt has increased in size over the past 20 years.
HOW RISKY IS THE BRINKMANSHIP THIS TIME?
It looks alarming -- and it’s not clear how Biden, McCarthy and the Democratic Senate will find common ground. A default could cause millions of job losses, a deep recession that would reverberate globally and, ironically, higher interest rates that would make it harder to manage the federal debt.
McCarthy said Tuesday that talks should begin immediately on the potential spending cuts that Republicans are seeking in exchange for raising the debt limit, even though the Biden administration has equated that demand to holding the U.S. economy hostage.
“Who wants to put the nation in some type of threat at the last minute of the debt ceiling?” McCarthy said. “Nobody wants to do that. That’s why we’re asking, ’Let’s change our behavior now. Let’s sit down.”
The Biden administration wants the borrowing cap increased without any preconditions. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday ruled out holding talks with McCarthy.
DO DEBT LIMIT SHOWDOWNS HELP REDUCE GOVERNMENT DEBT?
Not so much.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that annual budget deficits will grow from roughly $1 trillion to more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
The imbalance over the coming years increasingly reflects government expenses for programs such as Medicare and Social Security that are outstripping tax revenue. That suggests the government would need severe cuts to spending, major tax hikes or some combination of those options.
In 2011 when Barack Obama was president and Biden was vice president, there was a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit by $900 billion in return for $917 billion worth of automatic spending cuts over 10 years.
But the debt reduction never fully materialized.
After Donald Trump became president in 2017, Republican lawmakers fueled further debt increases by passing deficit-financed tax cuts. Debt accelerated even more with the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which caused massive government borrowing in order to pull the U.S. out of a deep recession.
The CBO last year estimated that the U.S. debt would exceed $40 trillion in 2032.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One of the spectators with the best vantage point for the Wells Fargo Championship was a snake that was greeted by competitor Rickie Fowler.
While making his way through the competition at Quail Hollow, Fowler hit a ball into a water hazard during the third round of the tournament on Saturday.
As he went to retrieve his ball, Fowler spotted a snake in the rock-lined area near the water. Once he saw the snake, he did the entirely sane act of lifting up the reptile with his golf club.
The snake was not so friendly, though, and slithered off back into the penalty area.
Earlier this month, North Carolina wildlife officials warned that warmer temperatures will spur an increase in snake sightings.
It's unclear which snake Fowler encountered on Saturday, but the Carolinas are home to six species of venomous snakes, including copperheads, cottonmouths, and three types of rattlesnakes.
This isn't the first time Fowler has had a meeting with wildlife during a PGA event. During the 2017 Zurich Classic, Fowler tapped an alligator that was sitting close to the course. The alligator scurried off into the water after the contact.
Fowler finished the Wells Fargo Championship tied for 14th place by shooting 8 under par, 11 strokes behind winner Wyndham Clark.
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Senate Judiciary chair says ‘everything is on the table’ in response to Clarence Thomas revelations
By Aileen Graef, CNN
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin said Sunday that “everything is on the table” as the panel scrutinizes new ethics concerns around Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
“The bottom line is this: Everything is on the table. Day after day, week after week, more and more disclosures about Justice Thomas — we cannot ignore them,” the Illinois Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
“The thing we’re going to do first, obviously, is to gather the evidence, the information that we need to draw our conclusions. I’m not ruling out anything,” he added.
ProPublica reported recently that, for years, Thomas has accepted lavish trips and gifts from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, which have gone mostly unreported on the justice’s financial disclosures. Crow also purchased several real estate properties, including the home where Thomas’ mother lives, from the Thomas family and paid boarding school tuition for Thomas’ grandnephew, according to ProPublica.
The extent to which these transactions and hospitality should have been reported by Thomas has been the subject of debate among judicial ethics experts, who have noted that a recently closed loophole for certain “personal hospitality” may have covered some of the luxury trips.
Thomas has said he followed the advice of others in deciding what required disclosure and, in a statement last month, noted that that Crow did not have business before the court.
But Durbin said Sunday the recent revelations “just embarrasses me” as he called on Chief Justice John Roberts to impose a code of conduct on the court. Roberts previously declined Durbin’s request to voluntarily testify in a hearing on Supreme Court ethics.
“I must respectfully decline your invitation,” Roberts wrote in a letter to Durbin, which was released by a spokesperson for the high court. “Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.”
The debate over Supreme Court ethics was the subject of a Senate Judiciary hearing last week that featured testimony from a law professor, legal advocates and two former judges. Some Republican lawmakers said they want to see more transparency around the court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices.
Durbin maintained Sunday that “this is the Roberts court, and history is going to judge him by the decision he makes on this.”
“He has the power to make the difference.”
Feinstein’s absence remains a ‘challenge’
Durbin made clear Sunday that he hasn’t reached “any conclusion” on pursuing subpoenas in relation to
Supreme Court ethics issues, but he acknowledged that the absence of Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein of California would pose a challenge to the committee “if we go down that path.”
“Right now, with her absence, it’s a 10-to-10 Committee, and the majority is not there, and a proxy vote doesn’t count in this circumstance,” Durbin said.
Feinstein, 89, has been away from the Senate since March as she recovers at home in California from shingles. Her absence has prevented the committee from advancing certain judicial nominees of President Joe Biden and several House Democrats have called on her to resign as a result.
In a statement last week, Feinstein pushed back on those claims, saying that the Senate continues to “swiftly” confirm “highly qualified individuals to the federal judiciary.” She indicated in the statement that she still plans to return but did not say when that would happen.
“She’s gone through an awful lot. She lost her husband last year, and she’s had some real medical issues that are problematic for her at her age at this point,” Durbin said. “I hope she returns, and I hope it’s this week. We need her. It is a challenge in the Senate Judiciary Committee to do our business.”
The situation, he added, is “complicated.”
“I hope she does what’s best for her and her family and the state of California and makes a decision soon as to whether she’s coming back,” Durbin said.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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‘Poor, broke, busted and disgusted’: Pastor berates congregation for not getting him luxury gift
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – A pastor went viral online after a video was posted of him chastising his congregation for not getting him a luxury gift.
The Rev. Carlton Funderburke of the Church at the Well in Kansas City was recorded telling his churchgoers how upset he was that they had not bought him a Movado watch, which typically costs several hundred dollars.
The video shared on TikTok shows Funderburke describing his congregation on Aug. 7 as “poor, broke, busted and disgusted.”
He asked them, “I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I’m not worth your St. John Knits? Y’all can’t afford it no how. I ain’t worth y’all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?”
The video has accumulated more than 590,000 views.
“You can buy a Movado watch in Sam’s. And y’all know I asked for one last year, here it is the whole way in August, I still ain’t got it,” he said.
Funderburke posted a video apologizing for his comments, saying they do not reflect his view of people nor what is in his heart.
“No context could erase the words I used. I apologize to all who have been hurt, angered or in any way damaged by my words,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — From one MVP to another — take that!
Aaron Judge robbed Shohei Ohtani of a home run with a spectacular catch Wednesday night, leaping above the center-field fence at Yankee Stadium to keep the ball in play with his glove before snatching it in his bare hand on the way down.
“If I was a good outfielder I would have caught in on the first try,” Judge cracked, drawing laughs. “A juggling act there, but we made the play. It’s tough kind of timing those ones up.”
With one out in the top of the first inning, Ohtani sent a high fly to deep center against New York Yankees rookie pitcher Jhony Brito. The 6-foot-7 Judge went back to the wall and jumped, a little to the right of the 408-foot sign in front of Monument Park.
The ball hit the heel of Judge’s glove well above the fence and caromed back toward the warning track. As he landed on his feet, Judge stuck out his right hand and made the grab — a snapshot play headed for the highlight reels in this three-game series between the Angels and Yankees featuring several of baseball’s biggest stars.
“I don’t know how that ball didn’t get out,” said Los Angeles slugger Mike Trout.
Judge paused a moment and smiled wide as he tossed the ball in.
“I was just trying to scratch and claw and bring that back into the park,” he said. “Doesn’t happen too often with a guy like that. We got lucky on that one.”
To top it off, Judge launched a two-run shot into the left-center bullpen in the bottom of the first off Angels starter Griffin Canning for his sixth homer this season. The slugger hit 62 last year, breaking the American League record.
Judge also prevented the go-ahead run from scoring with a diving catch in right-center in the eighth, and the Yankees won 3-2 in 10 innings on Gleyber Torres’ sacrifice fly.
“He’s a game changer on both sides of the ball. That’s why he’s an MVP. Should have more than one if you want my honest opinion on that one,” said Angels manager Phil Nevin, a former Yankees coach. “Love him, but not so much right now.”
In the series opener Tuesday night, Ohtani hit a two-run homer into the Yankees’ bullpen in right-center in the first inning, sending the Angels on their way to a 5-2 victory.
It was the fourth career home run at Yankee Stadium for Ohtani, the two-way superstar who won the 2021 AL MVP award before finishing runner-up to Judge last year.
“You want to play against the best,” Judge said. “That’s what it’s all about.”
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XI'AN, China, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bon Natural Life Limited (Nasdaq: BON) ("BON" or the "Company"), one of the leading bio-ingredient solutions providers in the natural, health and personal care industries, today announced that it has launched a new cruciferous vegetable based probiotic powder drink that could potentially inhibit the proliferation of Helicobacter pylori and help regulate the digestive system. The powder drink is the first proprietary product of BON's cruciferous vegetable based health supplement series.
"We believe that the successful rollout of this new powder drink will provide an additional growth driver for BON and capitalize the increasing awareness and consumption of multifunctional probiotics both during and post COVID-19 pandemic. We are confident that the new nutraceutical series will enable us to enter into a whole new era of growth." Commented Mr. Yongwei Hu, CEO and Chairman of BON, "H. pylori infection has become a major global health problem. According to the research by Hooi and etc.[1], approximately 55.8% of the Chinese population were infected with H. pylori in 2017, which provides BON with a huge market potential for our broccoli sprout based probiotic powder drink. According to Euromonitor[2], the market size of probiotics increased by 173.9% from US$7.3 billion (approximately 48.6 billion yuan) in 2015 to about US$12.7 billion (approximately 85 billion yuan) in 2020 in China, with a compound growth rate of 11.83% in China. China has become the third largest probiotics consumption country after the U.S. and Italy in2017."
By formulating three different kinds of patented probiotics with sulforaphane, a chemical compound extracted from broccoli, and fucoidan, a compound extracted from seaweed, BON is able to leverage its innovative technology to develop a product with potential anti-pylori effect. Additionally, this powder drink could also regulate and improve one's overall microbiome and digestive health.
About Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)
H. pylori is a bacterial pathogen that infects over 50 percent of the world population. It has been identified as a Group I carcinogen by the World Health Organization[3]. As a result of the H. pylori infection, infected patients develop a range of pathologies including gastric cancer, peptic ulcer disease, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. The eradication rate of (H. pylori has been decreasing, mainly due to high resistance of H. pylori to antibiotics which are commonly used in standard treatment.
About Bon Natural Life Limited
The Company focuses on the manufacturing of personal care ingredients, such as plant extracted fragrance compounds for perfume and fragrance manufacturers, natural health supplements such as powder drinks and bioactive food ingredient products mostly used as food additives and nutritional supplements by their customers. For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.bnlus.com.
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Woman with unrestrained baby in passenger seat tries to ram patrol car, deputies say
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) – A mother from Virginia is facing multiple charges after officials said she tried to ram into the back of a deputy’s patrol car with her unrestrained baby in the passenger seat.
According to the Daviess County Sheriff’s Office, 29-year-old Katie Bowes was arrested early Sunday morning in Kentucky.
The sheriff’s office said Bowes was driving very close behind a deputy, swerving through all lanes of the road. The deputy said he believed Bowes was trying to ram into the back of his vehicle.
Other deputies then tried to pull Bowes over, but she wouldn’t stop the car, leading to a chase, authorities said. Eventually, when she did stop, officials said they found a 9-month-old child in the passenger seat, unrestrained in a car seat.
Officials said they also found meth, a needle and open alcohol containers in Bowes’ car.
Bowes was taken into custody and faces 14 charges, including evading police, terroristic threatening and resisting arrest.
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IKEA is one of the largest furniture retailers in the world and a leader in a booming global furniture market. The market hit an estimated value of over $490 billion last year.
The IKEA brand in particular is known for its pretty affordable products, but there are a lot of unseen costs that go into supplying cheap, mass-produced wooden furniture to major retailers — namely costs from how and where that wood gets harvested.
Eastern Europe and Russia offer a huge supply of high-quality and high-value woods like spruce and beech, and countries like Ukraine and Romania are home to huge old-growth forests. Old growth forests are well sought after but also some of the most important to protect. They’re particularly crucial for biodiversity, and old trees absorb carbon dioxide at higher rates than younger ones.
Now, estimates vary, but one environmental watchdog group determined more than half of IKEA’s wood supply comes from that region. To be clear, IKEA is far from the only major furniture supplier here, but it is arguably the biggest: The company alone is the largest individual consumer of wood in the world and doubled its consumption in the last decade.
IKEA has said before that “under no circumstances” would they accept wood that doesn’t meet their sustainability requirements. They've also taken action against problematic suppliers before.
To balance the growing global demand for wood with conservation of these crucial forests, the EU and national governments have established massive protected areas, and quotas limiting how much of a certain wood gets harvested.
These protections, by the way, apply to both public and private land. That’s important to note because IKEA itself is the largest private landowner in Romania. It owns about 83,000 acres — that’s almost 63,000 football fields-worth of land. It made this massive purchase back in 2015, buying from the previous owner, the Harvard Endowment Fund.
But despite the legal limits and forest management, the woods of Eastern Europe are vanishing much faster than they should be, and it’s only ramping up.
Maps form Global Forest Watch show the total tree cover loss in Ukraine, Russia and Romania over the past two decades.
Part of this is due to deforestation, legally or otherwise. In 2018, for example, the Romanian government licensed about 18.5 million cubic meters of wood to be harvested, but instead, about 38.6 million was taken — more than twice the legal limit.
"It's also a breakdown of the sort of European laws meant to deal with this," said David Gehl, manager for traceability and technologies at the Environmental Investigation Agency. "Romania designated quite large amounts of its forest as protected areas. They never created the implementing regulations to actually implement those laws."
So, how is this happening right under regulators’ noses?
The problems often start early in the supply chain. For example, loggers can use false documentation to hide the amount or quality of the wood they’re harvesting. Sometimes it’s as simple as submitting unclear or misleading photos to the local government’s tracking system, obscuring how much wood is really being harvested. Then, the illegal wood is taken to a log depot, where it often gets mixed in with legal wood.
Enforcing rules on the ground becomes next to impossible thanks to what the press has dubbed the so-called “Timber Mafia,” which is a group well-ingrained in local communities.
"There's many excellent Romanian news reports and investigative reports about this, and many interviews, for example, with police officers who are just admitting very clearly on camera that they cannot touch these people," Gehl said.
Standing up to illegal loggers is dangerous work. Like other hotspots for illegal logging in the world, a number of forest managers, rangers, activists and journalists have been attacked or even killed throughout Eastern Europe and Russia. In Romania alone, at least six forest rangers have been killed in recent years, with 650 incidents of people being beaten, shot at or attacked in relation to illegal logging.
So how can furniture retailers ensure the wood they’re using was safely and legally sourced?
Furnishers often rely on something called the Forest Stewardship Certification, or FSC, to vet the sourcing for wood products. Third-party companies can be hired to conduct an audit along the supply chain — from the log depots to sawmills and more. They can award an FSC certification if the work there seems legit.
But critics have pointed out some central flaws to the audit process and warned FSC certifications may be giving a false sense of security.
"There's this kind of conflict of interest because IKEA is paying directly for an FSC certificate," said Tara Ganesh, head of investigations at Earthsight. "So this does not create much incentive for these auditors to independently look for problems because, in effect, these auditing companies within Russia are all competing for business from companies like IKEA."
"So we've talked to some certifying bodies that have said, you know, 'I was commissioned by this company. I spent three days in the forest. I gave them this list of 20 things that they would need to change to get their certification,'" Gehl said. "They said, 'Thank you very much,' and three days later, they got their certification from a different company."
There have been a number of separate investigations throughout Eastern Europe which found illegal timber processing at partners with IKEA, all of which were FSC-certified.
The U.K. watchdog group Earthsight published two reports showing illegal wood from forests in Ukraine and Russia has been widely used in popular IKEA furniture lines.
"It was a combination of looking at shipment records and undercover work calls to the suppliers concerned to try to get admissions from them about various practices and their links to IKEA," Ganesh said. "It was also in both cases in Ukraine and in Russia. There's actually a lot of information that's available publicly, which is fantastic. But also then begs the question that if we could find it, why did it take IKEA so long to find that, or FSC, for that matter?"
IKEA’s response was to defend its reliance on FSC certifications. The company insisted it was improving its system of “due diligence” checks. Newsy reached out to IKEA and the Forest Stewardship Council for a response on this but didn’t hear back.
"I think IKEA is doing perhaps more than any other large wood processor in the world," Gehl said. "The problem is that the status quo, the bar of the status quo, is so low that even though they're doing better than that status quo, that's still very far from what is necessary to make sure that they're not getting illegal wood."
It’s hard to know where to start with a system like this: the danger for those working on the ground, the corruption along supply chains, the documented abuse of the FSC labels. What these problems really come down to is a lack of enforcement.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali state media and residents say the extremist group al-Shabab killed at least 20 people and burned seven vehicles transporting food in the Hiran region Saturday morning, and the government’s drought envoy called it “devastating” for communities in the grip of a severe drought.
Residents said the attack was in retaliation for a local mobilization against the al-Qaida-affiliated group that holds significant parts of central and southern Somalia. The extremist group’s presence complicates an already challenging response to the drought that has killed thousands of people. Some areas are on the brink of famine.
Drought envoy Abdirahman Abdishakur noted that al-Shabab also had blown up wells for water in Hiran in recent days.
“The victims were drivers and passengers transporting food supplies from Beletweyne to Mahas and a total of seven trucks carrying food and vehicles used by the passengers were set ablaze,” resident Hassan Abdulle told The Associated Press by phone.
The attack came a day after government forces destroyed landmines that al-Shabab had planted on the busy road connecting Beletweyne and Mataban with the intent to target travelers.
Al-Shabab confirmed the attack and claimed to have killed 20 locally mobilized militia members.
The Somali government has condemned the “barbaric” attack and reiterated its support for local mobilization against the extremist group. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-al-shabab-extremists-kill-at-least-20-travelers-in-somalia/ | 2022-09-04 02:07:30 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-al-shabab-extremists-kill-at-least-20-travelers-in-somalia/ |
After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?
The Supreme Court has issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade. Here are some questions and answers about what the Thursday decision does and does not do:
WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON GUNS?
The Supreme Court said that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. That's important because about half a dozen states have conditioned getting a license to carry a gun in public on the person demonstrating an actual need — sometimes called "good cause" or "proper cause" — to carry the weapon. That limits who can carry a weapon in those states.
In its decision, the Supreme Court struck down New York's "proper cause" requirement, but other states' laws are expected to face quick challenges. About one-quarter of the U.S. population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling.
The last time the court issued major gun decisions was in 2008 and 2010. In those decisions the justices established a nationwide right to keep a gun for self-defense in a person's home. The question for the court this time was just about carrying a gun outside the home.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court's majority opinion that the right extended outside the home as well: "Nothing in the Second Amendment's text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms."
HOW DID THE JUSTICES RULE?
The gun ruling split the court 6-3, with the court's conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent. In addition to Thomas, the majority opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The court's three liberals who dissented are justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
ARE NEW YORKERS NOW FREE TO CARRY A GUN IN PUBLIC?
Not exactly. The justices didn't touch other parts of New York's gun law, so other requirements to get a license remain. The court made it clear that the state can continue to make people apply for a license to carry a handgun, and can put limitations on who qualifies for a permit and where a weapon can be carried. In the future, however, New Yorkers will no longer be required to give a specific reason why they want to be able to carry a gun in public.
The decision also doesn't take effect immediately and state lawmakers said Thursday that they were planning to overhaul the licensing rules this summer. They have yet to detail their plans. Some options under discussion include requiring firearms training and a clean criminal record. The state might also prohibit handguns from being carried in certain places, like near schools or on public transit.
In addition, the decision does not address the law that recently passed in New York in response to the Buffalo grocery store massacre that among things, banned anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle.
WHAT OTHER STATES ARE LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED?
A handful of states have laws similar to New York's. The Biden administration has counted California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island as all having laws similar to New York's. Connecticut and Delaware are also sometimes mentioned as states with similar laws.
WHAT CAN STATES DO TO REGULATE GUNS AFTER THE DECISION?
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, noted the limits of the decision. States can still require people to get a license to carry a gun, Kavanaugh wrote, and condition that license on "fingerprinting, a background check, a mental health records check, and training in firearms handling and in laws regarding the use of force, among other possible requirements." Gun control groups said states could revisit and perhaps increase those requirements. States can also say those with a license to carry a gun must not do so openly but must conceal their weapon.
Justice Samuel Alito noted that the decision said "nothing about who may lawfully possess a firearm or the requirements that must be met to buy a gun." States have long prohibited felons and the mentally ill from possessing weapons, for example. The decision also said nothing "about the kinds of weapons that people may possess," Alito noted, so states might also try to limit the availability of specific weapons.
The justices also suggested that states can prohibit the carrying of guns altogether in certain "sensitive places." A previous Supreme Court decision mentioned schools and government buildings as being places where guns could be off limits. Thomas said that the historical record shows legislative assemblies, polling places and courthouses could also be sensitive places. Thomas said courts can "use analogies to those historical regulations of 'sensitive places' to determine that modern regulations prohibiting the carry of firearms in new and analogous sensitive places are constitutionally permissible."
HOW DO COURTS ASSESS GUN RESTRICTIONS GOING FORWARD?
The court made it harder to justify gun restrictions, although it's hard to know what the new test the court announced will mean for any specific regulation.
Thomas wrote that the nation's appeals courts have been applying an incorrect standard for assessing whether such laws are impermissible. Courts have generally taken a two-step approach, first looking at the constitutional text and history to see whether a regulation comes under the Second Amendment and then, if it does, looking at the government's justification for the restriction.
"Despite the popularity of this two-step approach, it is one step too many," Thomas wrote.
From now on, Thomas wrote, courts can uphold regulations only if the government can prove that they fall within traditionally accepted limits.
Among state and local restrictions already being challenged in federal court are bans on the sale of certain semi-automatic weapons, called assault rifles by opponents, and large-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as minimum age requirements to buy semi-automatic firearms.
WHAT OTHER BIG RULINGS ARE IN THE WORKS?
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the guns case back in November and a decision had been expected before the court begins its summer recess. The court has nine more opinions to issue before it goes on break and plans to release more Friday. Still waiting is a major abortion decision.
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Associated Press editor David Caruso contributed to this report from New York. | https://www.kcra.com/article/after-supreme-court-gun-decision-whats-next/40400654 | 2022-06-24 05:15:49 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/after-supreme-court-gun-decision-whats-next/40400654 |
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