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Which inspection camera is best?
Inspection cameras are useful for all kinds of things. You can check pipes for clogs, examine hard-to-reach spots in your car and even check out the back of your teeth to find a piece of stuck food. And they’re relatively affordable, too.
The best inspection camera is the Teslong 16.4-Feet Dual Lens Inspection Camera. It has a wide view range and a large 5-inch screen. Plus, it has seven adjustable LEDs, so you never have to struggle to see in dark spaces.
What to know before you buy an inspection camera
Inspection camera connection types
Inspection cameras connect to screens in one of three ways.
- Built-in cameras have a large display as part of the control panel, making them easy to use. These screens are usually 4-5 inches measured diagonally.
- USB cameras connect to a laptop. Since you have to drag a small laptop around to use them, they can be somewhat frustrating to use.
- Wi-Fi cameras connect to your phone, tablet or computer through a wireless connection so you can use the screen as a monitor. Double-check that your prospective camera is compatible with your device — some require certain operating systems.
Cable
Always check the width and length of the cable to the inspection camera before purchasing.
- Width: Inspection cameras have varying widths, between two-tenths of an inch up to 1.5 inches. Many are one-third of an inch.
- Length: Cable length is highly varied. Some are as short as 3 feet, while others can be 50 feet or longer. The longer the cable, the harder it is to control. Don’t buy a longer cable than necessary, as this can become cumbersome.
What to look for in a quality inspection camera
Camera resolution
Inspection cameras have different resolutions, just like any other camera. You’ll see a range of resolutions between 480p-1080p with some up to 1440p. Keep in mind that inspection cameras with lower resolution require less storage space.
LED control
Inspection cameras usually have LEDs on the tip, so you can see objects even in the dark. The best ones allow you to control the brightness.
Battery life
Most inspection cameras use rechargeable batteries, making them very portable. Some last as little as 10 minutes, while others last as long as 10 hours. Manufacturers measure battery life in various ways; some use milliampere-hours, while others just list in standard hours and minutes. Check the user reviews to see how long your prospective camera lasts in real-world conditions.
How much you can expect to spend on an inspection camera
Inspection cameras typically cost $20-$500. Budget-friendly cameras for one-off occasions cost less than $50. Residential cameras cost up to $250. Commercial-grade cameras usually cost between $200-$500.
Inspection camera FAQ
How can I tell if an inspection camera is waterproof?
A. Look for the ingress protection (IP or IPX) rating. This rating is an independently attributed number that relates to how good the water- and dust-proof the camera is. Most inspection cameras have an IP67 rating, which means you can submerge them in water that’s 3 feet deep or less for up to an hour.
Is it safe to use inspection cameras on people?
A. Generally, no. Some people use inspection cameras to scope out their backs or see the back of their teeth, but you should never use them any further than this. It is never safe to use an inspection camera inside the human body for any reason.
Can I use inspection cameras to get a close-up view of wildlife?
A. Yes, but you shouldn’t use them in a disruptive manner. For example, it’s okay to set up a bird or bat house and set up an inspection camera to keep an eye on the prospective nest. However, poking into an established nest or hive of some kind is not safe.
What’s the best inspection camera to buy?
Top inspection camera
Teslong 16.4-Feet Dual Lens Inspection Camera
What you need to know: It’s an excellent all-around inspection camera.
What you’ll love: The dual-lens system is made of a front- and a side-facing camera that creates a 140-degree viewing angle. The cable is waterproof for up to an hour in 3 feet of water. The handle has a spacious 5-inch screen.
What you should consider: The cable doesn’t rotate, so it can take some wiggling to get it in the right spot. A few consumers had issues focusing on the object.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top inspection camera for the money
Depstech 11.5-Feet Wireless Inspection Camera
What you need to know: This short inspection camera is perfect for occasional needs.
What you’ll love: The camera has an adjustable resolution and saves videos directly to your phone. The cable is waterproof, and the tip has six adjustable LEDs. It comes in black and blue.
What you should consider: The battery only lasts for about 15 minutes tops. Also, you have to connect your phone directly to the device’s Wi-Fi signal to have the videos transferred to your phone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Teslong 50-Feet Dual Lens Sewer Inspection Camera
What you need to know: If you need to inspect several hard-to-reach areas, this inspection camera has an ultra-long cable.
What you’ll love: The dual-camera system and 1.5x zoom function allow you to get set up quickly, giving you more time to check out whatever it is you’re scoping. Both the 4.5-inch display and the cable are waterproof. It also comes with a 32-gigabyte MicroSD card.
What you should consider: A few purchasers reported the LED lights were far too dim. Some said they had to put the camera within 3 inches of an object in order to see it clearly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The sister of a St. Louis man who died while hiking in the Badlands of South Dakota said Friday that he was camping as part of a trip to celebrate graduating from college and got lost trying to find his way back to his car.
The Pennington County Sheriff's Office tweeted that 22-year-old Maxwell Right collapsed on an unmarked trail in Badlands National Park on Wednesday. He and a friend who was traveling with him had run out of water, according to the tweet. Temperatures in the Badlands had been approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) during the first half of the week.
Right's sister, Lucille, said that the National Park Service told the family that her brother died surrounded by rangers. Authorities have not identified his friend, who the sheriff's office said was flown to a Rapid City hospital and placed under observation for exposure and dehydration.
The sheriff's office said in its tweet that the unmarked trail has been featured in a social media challenge. Lucille Right said her brother and his friend weren't taking part in any social media challenge, saying they were on a larger trip to celebrate Maxwell graduating from Missouri S&T and had planned to visit Mt. Rushmore on Wednesday evening.
Pennington County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Helene Duhamel referred questions Friday to the National Park Service. Messages left at the park's Badlands offices weren't immediately returned. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sister-Hiker-who-died-in-Badlands-was-on-17323578.php | 2022-07-22 23:01:26 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sister-Hiker-who-died-in-Badlands-was-on-17323578.php |
Ryan Reynolds went from joy to despair, and punch-the-air ecstasy to desolation.
The unlikely new love of his life — Welsh soccer club Wrexham — put the movie star on an emotional roller coaster Sunday in a thrill-a-minute FA Cup match that had an ending not quite in the script.
Wrexham, the fifth-tier team bought by Reynolds and fellow Hollywood actor Rob McElhenney for $2.5 million in November 2020 on the recommendation of one of their writers, conceded in the fifth minute of stoppage time to draw 3-3 with Sheffield United.
Reynolds and one of his daughters flew in for the fourth-round match at the atmospheric Racecourse Ground in north Wales, about 28 miles south of Liverpool, and went through a whole range of emotions as the goals poured in at either end.
He’s getting used to it by now.
“I’m now so much in love with this sport that I actually hate it,” Reynolds, a Canadian-born actor best known for starring in the “Deadpool” movies, told the BBC before the match.
“Each match I’m pacing around like a caged lion.”
With 71 places between the teams in English soccer’s pyramid, Wrexham came close to a big upset to add to a long line in its history. The team beat then-English champion Arsenal in the third round in 1992 and also reached the quarterfinals in the 1996-97 season, when it was in the third tier.
This was the biggest occasion since Reynolds and McElhenney, an American actor and director who was the creator of TV show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” took over.
Fans serenaded Reynolds, who was in one of the directors’ boxes and was standing for most of the game, with a chant of “There’s only one Ryan Reynolds” near the end of the match – when Wrexham was 3-2 ahead and looked like completing a win against an opponent that was down to 10 men at that point.
Reynolds was seen walking across the field and to the locker room after the final whistle to speak to the players.
And he has a sequel to look forward to: Wrexham and Sheffield United will meet in a replay next month. Wrexham beat another second-tier team, Coventry, in the previous round.
The new Hollywood owners are using Wrexham for a behind-the-scenes TV series called “Welcome To Wrexham,” which is on Disney+.
Reynolds said he hopes to lead Wrexham into the Premier League.
“The plan is now, and has always been, the Premier League,” Reynolds said. “I can’t really put a date on that. But if it’s theoretically possible to go from fifth division to Premier League, why wouldn’t we do it?”
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The Palm Beach County-based sugarcane company, whose South Florida farms are home to more than 1,250 barn owls that provide natural pest defense and eliminate synthetic pesticides, celebrates International Owl Awareness Day with its expansion from 850 nesting boxes to more than 2,000.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Crystals Corporation celebrates International Owl Awareness Day by announcing a major expansion to its barn owl box network – already the largest in the world – to naturally protect its South Florida farms and promote biodiversity.
The barn owl program, in which sturdy nesting boxes are constructed on 10-foot platforms to provide habitat for native barn owls, is an innovative example of Florida Crystals' regenerative farming practices that are helping in its mission to promote biodiversity and reduce synthetic chemicals on its farms in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). Florida Crystals is expanding the network from 850 nesting boxes to 2,035.
"Barn owls naturally migrate to our farming area each year from September to April," said Diego Luzuriaga, Florida Crystals' Vice President of Research and Development. "We are happy to welcome them. We give them a safe place to live, and they provide us with natural, biological pest control. It's an ideal partnership."
Florida Crystals was an early adopter of the barn owl program. The company partnered with University of Florida researcher Dr. Richard Raid in 1994 and provided his first grant and farmland to establish the barn owl program in the EAA. Wooden boxes were constructed, which attracted barn owls to nest, who in return protected the farms from rodents that damaged the cane. The wooden boxes were effective for a time but could not withstand the weather and elements. In 2016, Florida Crystals' Research and Development team reinvigorated the program, replacing all of the boxes with a sturdier composite material and a modern design with a perch. The new boxes were installed first to protect Florida Crystals' organic farm, the largest in Florida and the only organic sugarcane farm in the United States. The improved design proved highly effective, tolerating Florida's weather and insect pressure, and provided a safer habitat for the owls. Florida Crystals quickly expanded the new design across its 194,500 acres of farmland, which directly resulted in the elimination of rodenticide by 2020.
"This is an incredibly important program, especially for Florida Crystals, as an organic farmer," said Luzuriaga. "Three of our regenerative agriculture priority goals are to protect our soils, upcycle our byproducts and promote biodiversity on our farms. This type of low-impact farming, where we are integrating nature into our practices, is the future of sustainable farming."
Luzuriaga's team conducts censuses every September and March to evaluate the barn owl population and to research trends. In March 2022, the population had risen to an incredible 1,254 birds with 98 eggs left to hatch, up from 831 owls and 134 eggs in 2021. Each box normally houses four to seven owls – two adults and up to five owlets.
"Each census, at the start and end of the migration period, provides learnings that inform the continuous improvement of our program," said Luzuriaga.
As they collect the population data, the team evaluates the boxes, which are georeferenced and tagged with a unique ID number, for improvements. As a result of the most recent census, Florida Crystals is testing new pole designs to prevent boxes from leaning as well as assessing cleaning and maintenance best practices. In addition to the two full census measurements, Florida Crystals is now also assessing owl occupancy throughout the year in a smaller number of boxes to understand population dynamics.
The barn owl network is one innovative practice that is helping Florida Crystals in its goal to be the most sustainable sugarcane company in the U.S.
The Florida Crystals® consumer brand – the only brand of organic baking sugars made from sugarcane sustainably grown in the U.S. – is also marking International Owl Awareness Day, announcing the launch of a new "spokesowl." Barn owl mascot "Ollie" will give consumers a bird's-eye view of each step of the organic raw cane sugar crafting process, from farm to package. Read more here.
Florida Crystals Corporation is a fully integrated cane sugar company. Florida Crystals farms sugarcane, rice and vegetables on 194,500 acres in Palm Beach County, Florida, where it also owns two sugar mills, a sugar refinery, a packaging and distribution center, Florida's only rice mill and the largest renewable power plant of its kind in North America, which uses sugarcane fiber to generate eco-friendly energy that powers its sugar operations. Florida Crystals is Florida's largest organic farmer and the only producer of certified organic sugar that is grown and milled in the U.S. Its subsidiary, ASR Group, jointly owned with Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, is the world's largest cane sugar refining and marketing company. Florida Crystals, Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative and ASR Group own Tellus Products, which makes single-use, compostable tableware and foodservice products from sugarcane and other plant fibers. Florida Crystals is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. Learn more at
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The 2023 Audi Q4 E-Tron gives the German luxury brand an all-electric entry in the popular compact crossover segment, making EV Audis accessible at prices of $50,000 and up. The brand’s large E-Tron SUVs and E-Tron GT sedan started at more than $70,000 and $105,000 respectively, and have sold in relatively modest numbers, so this is Audi’s chance to break out of the EV niche.
As with the larger E-Tron SUV, the Q4 E-Tron line offers two body styles: a conventional SUV shape, and a Sportback model with a more steeply raked tailgate. Comparing all-wheel-drive versions of the two, the sleeker Q4 Sportback 50 E-Tron has a slightly higher EPA-rated range of 242 miles, versus 236 miles for the more upright Q4 50 E-Tron quattro. The highest range comes from the Q4 40 E-Tron model with rear-wheel drive only, at 265 miles.
The Q4 line went on sale in late July for a very truncated 2022 model year—fewer than 2,000 are likely to be sold—but a larger selection of 2023 models offered with multiple powertrains will reach dealers starting in October.
We tested an Audi Q4 Sportback 50 E-Tron, the all-wheel-drive fastback version, over 90 miles of suburban corridors and hilly mountain roads outside San Diego. We think it’ll serve Audi well as a lower-priced EV that’s otherwise right in line with the rest of the Audi range. But we have to note that other compact EV crossovers offer more range from smaller batteries.
In our drive, I found the Q4 e-tron doesn’t offer the explosive acceleration of a Tesla Model Y, though its user interface is more traditional than the Tesla’s everything-on-the-center-screen approach. Its road feel and suspension tuning is more sure-footed than those of the Genesis GV60, but it lacks that car’s ability to charge at rates of 300 kw or more when the battery is largely depleted. It’s also looking more space-efficient than the Mercedes EQB, although that comparison will have to wait until we can have them both side by side.
Familiar Audi appearance, inside and out
The standard Q4 E-Tron is instantly identifiable as a utility vehicle, with a longer third side window and a more upright tailgate. The Q4 Sportback E-Tron, on the other hand, has a triangular side window and a much more raked tailgate, giving it a tall fastback shape—and, due to peculiarities of EPA rules around measuring interior volumes, slightly more rear cargo space. Depending on trim and powertrain, wheels are 19 or 20 inches—and even still they don’t look all that huge on this tall utility vehicle.
Tastes will vary, but we found the standard E-Tron a more harmonious design in the classic Audi SUV vein. The Q4 Sportback, on the other hand, seemed too tall and thick through the middle for its fastback shape. It’s no sleek Audi A7 hatchback, that’s for sure. And the window in its tailgate is split into two pieces, similar to that of a Prius hatchback, visible through the rearview mirror with a bar running between them—and through the middle of your rearward vision.
Inside, the Q4 is wall-to-wall standard Audi. The digital instrument cluster, 11.6-inch center touchscreen display, and ‘MMI3’ graphics and interface should all be familiar to drivers of other current Audis. Interiors come in black, brown, and beige, with an optional wood dash overlay and the usual array of brushed silver switchgear set in glossy piano-black surfaces.
From inside, except perhaps for the small sliding drive selector, you might never know the Q4 is powered by a battery and electric motors. Overall, the design is…well, very Audi.
Rear- or all-wheel drive
All versions of the Q4 are fitted with an 82-kwh battery under the cabin floor, powering a single rear 148-kw (201-horsepower) motor in the 40 model and front and rear motors of 69 and 148 kw (94 and 201 hp) respectively.
Built on the VW Group’s MEB architecture for battery-electric vehicles, first seen in North America under the Volkswagen ID.4, the Q4 uses MacPherson struts at the front and a multi-link suspension for the driven rear wheels. It’s also the first Audi sold in North America for what’s likely at least two decades to use drum brakes, though only at the rear. With regeneration providing a substantial portion of the braking, Audi notes they’re better suited to infrequent use—as well as less expensive.
Drivers can choose among five “Drive Select” modes: Efficiency, Comfort, Auto, Dynamic, and Individual. We didn’t find the Dynamic mode as punchy and swift as we’d hoped, though the Efficiency mode clearly affected acceleration and made the Q4 slower and less responsive. In the end, we opted to do most of our test driving in Auto.
Audi executives uniformly said that while the Q4 may be a battery-electric car, its customers expect a similar driving experience and controls that mimic those of a gasoline or diesel car. Drivers who leave the Q4 in the standard “D” drive setting can use left and right paddles to increase or decrease regeneration through three settings, with 0 being the default and 3 the strongest. The “B” mode effectively locks the car in the highest 3 setting, somewhat boosting regeneration down to about 3 mph.
One-pedal: ‘not our philosophy’
But there’s no one-pedal driving mode and—like its VW Group sibling Porsche—Audi has no intention of providing one.
“That’s not our philosophy,” said Anthony Garbis, Audi’s senior manager of product planning, who pushed back against the idea that one-pedal driving was a benefit, suggesting it ran the risk of making passengers nauseous when used by an inexperienced driver. (There’s also no front trunk.)
On the road, we found the steering predictable, with ratios that varied from the center to the most extreme turns, and power assist that varied with speed (more at low speeds for parking, less at highway speeds to keep the car stable). Handling and roadholding were adequate but seemed slightly numb, perhaps reflecting that with curb weights of 4,650 to 4,900 pounds, no Q4 is particularly light. The turning circle of 37.7 feet (AWD) is about average for a compact crossover.
Even given its hefty 82-kwh battery, the performance of our Q4 Sportback 50 E-Tron test car was adequate but hardly blazing. Asked about the possibility of a punchier Q4, Garbis smiled and said, “There’s always room for more power.” We look forward to future higher-performance models, perhaps a Q4 E-Tron RS?
Roomy cabin
Visually and dimensionally, the Q4 E-Trons are compact crossovers. But taking advantage of the EV skateboard architecture, with the wheels pushed out to the corners of the car and very short overhangs, the cabin offers a surprising amount of room. Audi said the distance from the pedals to the rear seat back is almost as large as that of the much larger Q7 SUV.
Indeed, two 6-foot reporters were able to sit behind each other, and drivers who pull their seats forward create a remarkably large opening for rear passengers. While it’s a five-passenger vehicle, we’d note that most passengers who ride in the center of the 40-20-40 split rear seat will be rubbing shoulders with their seatmates.
For drivers and front passengers, the haptic switches and overall layout takes a bit of learning. It all works fine once you understand the different functions, but more than once we changed something we didn’t intend to by accidentally brushing a surface.
The ride is smooth and Audi has done a remarkable job of quieting the cabin, even for an EV. Tire noise from the 19- or 20-inch wheels is thankfully low, and whine from the motors or power electronics is largely suppressed. At speed, the loudest noise was wind whistling over the door mirrors.
Cargo volumes with the rear seat up are 24.8 cubic feet for the Q4 E-Tron and 26.1 cu ft for the Q4 Sportback. With the rear seat folded, the SUV comes in at 53.1 cu ft vs 54.4 for the Sportback. While it’s counterintuitive that the Sportback, with its steeply raked tailgate, would offer more cargo space, Garbis explained that the tailgate of the Sportback is bowed out slightly at the rear, and its inner molding is hollowed out. Under EPA test standards, cargo isn’t stacked to the roof, so that sloping roofline doesn’t matter. But, he added, if you need to carry a large, square appliance box, get the standard Q4 E-Tron rather than the Sportback.
It’s also worth noting the load bay floor can sit at two different levels, or be folded in half and slotted at an angle to provide a barrier that divides the load bay—and potentially keeps your groceries or other goods from sliding all over the full cargo compartment.
Array of models and options
While the Q4 E-Tron standard SUV can be ordered with the 40 (rear-wheel drive) or 50 (AWD) powertrains, the Q4 Sportback E-Tron is only offered in all-wheel-drive form. Including the mandatory delivery fee of $1,195, those three models start at roughly $50,000, $55,000, and $58,000 respectively. The base trim level is called Premium, and a panoramic sunroof and power tailgate are included on it.
The Premium Plus level adds adaptive cruise control with active lane control, plus other electronic driver safety systems; a Sonos premium audio system with 10 speakers; traffic-sign recognition; and various other features. On AWD models, a top level of Prestige ($8,100) adds matrix-design LED headlights; programmable front and rear light patterns; augmented reality on a head-up display; and a headlight-washing system.
Neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has rated the Q4 E-Trons for safety as yet. But Audi said it expects the Q4 to earn a 5-star rating from NHTSA and be designated a Top Safety Pick by IIHS.
120- and 240-volt charging cord
With EPA efficiency ratings of 97 to 112 MPGe, the Q4 E-Tron lineup is only average in using its energy parsimoniously. Testing the drive modes through a mix of climbing and descending, plus suburban traffic among malls and gated communities, we logged 2.9 miles per kwh over our 90 miles of driving.
A portable charging cord with swappable pigtails for 120-volt and 240-volt plugs is provided with every car, and can charge at up to 9.6 kilowatts on the higher power. Audi offers a garage wallbox charging station capable of charging at up to 11.5 kw. Under optimal circumstances, the 150-kw CCS fast-charging system can recharge the battery from 5% to 80% capacity in as little as 36 minutes.
Every Q4 E-Tron buyer receives 250 kwh of free charging at Electrify America DC fast-charging sites across the United States. Audi is also working with QMerit to provide customers with assessments of what it may take to install a charging station at their particular residence.
Although the related VW ID.4 is made for the U.S. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Q4 is only made in Zwickau, Germany—which likely means that in 2023 it will continue to be ineligible for the $7,500 EV tax credit.
NOTE: While our test car was a 2022 model, the specifications, ratings, and prices in this review apply to 2023 models of the Audi Q4 E-Tron lineup. There are no mechanical differences between the two years, and only a small number of equipment changes—which have been reflected in the descriptions above.
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Audi provided lodging and meals to enable Green Car Reports to bring you this first-person drive report.
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SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Capewell, a global leader in custom-engineered survivability and aerial delivery solutions, announced that Erin Macaluso has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer.
As Capewell's Chief Financial Officer, Macaluso will report to Lane Wiggers, Capewell's Chief Executive Officer, and be accountable for developing, managing, and executing against the company's overall financial goals. She will also be responsible for daily oversight of financial and accounting operations across all Capewell locations in the United States and Europe, including strategic planning, revenue forecasting, financial compliance and documentation, and investment activity.
"Capewell could not be more excited with Erin's addition to the leadership team as our new CFO," commented Wiggers. "Erin has exceptional financial acumen and manufacturing expertise and is exactly the right leader at the right time on Capewell's growth trajectory."
Erin Macaluso is an accomplished finance professional with over two decades of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) specifically for the defense and aerospace sectors. FP&A includes planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytical activities that support a company's major business decisions and overall financial health.
Macaluso began her career in public accounting at one of the top 20 accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Since then, Macaluso has worked in a variety accounting and finance capacities of increasing responsibility, including her most recent role as Director of Finance at Pursuit Aerospace (formerly Paradigm Precision), a global manufacturer of complex aircraft engine components for both commercial and military use. During her time at Pursuit Aerospace, Macaluso was responsible for implementing a comprehensive reporting system to capture key metrics and trending data across the global organization that did not previously exist. This was instrumental in streamlining the organization's ability to quantify the financial impact of process improvements across the company. She was also responsible for reporting ongoing performance gains to the executive team.
Prior to that, Macaluso spent more than 15 years in the financial management department at Pratt & Whitney, a global leader in propulsion systems used in some of the most advanced commercial and military aircraft in the world. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, the company competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, and has been awarded several large contracts with the Department of Defense over the years.
"After nearly two decades at companies that make equipment for commercial and military aircraft, I'm excited to join the Capewell team and become part of a company with a rich history in aerial delivery and survivability solutions that keep service men and women around the world safe. I look forward to collaborating with the rest of Capewell team to support its mission and drive continued growth well into the future," said Erin.
"Erin is a rare breed, an unbelievable financial talent while simultaneously being a leader of incredible character. She's contributed decades of financial leadership at global organizations that manufacture complex, mission-critical products for military aircraft around the world. This experience is an invaluable asset to our organization, and we are thrilled to have her on our team," said Thomas Weidley, Capewell's Chief Operating Officer.
Erin holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Management, both from the University of Connecticut. She is also a Certified Public Accountant.
About Capewell
Founded in 1881, Capewell is a leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor survivability and aerial delivery products and services for the defense community. With locations in the United States and Europe, Capewell supplies the Department of Defense, Allies, and Partners around the world with the most innovative, most effective custom-engineered solutions capable of withstanding today's dangerous operating environments. The company also offers training and doctrine development as part of its mission to save lives and increase success. Capewell maintains strong relationships with large government prime contractors and is a vital part of the global supply chain.
To learn more, visit www.capewell.com.
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A sheriff's office in South Florida is investigating after authorities say a deputy unintentionally discharged a firearm inside a charter school there on Monday.
The incident occurred inside the school resource officer's office at the Treasure Coast Classical Academy in Stuart, Florida, according to officials.
There were no injuries.
According to the sheriff's office, the deputy was not suspended as the investigation continued.
Treasure Coast Classical Academy teaches grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The school currently has around 1,000 students enrolled.
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EASTBOURNE, England (AP) — As “What A Feeling” boomed around Devonshire Park, Serena Williams strode onto center court at Eastbourne to a standing ovation for her first competitive tennis match in nearly a year.
Around 90 minutes later, fans were on their feet again, celebrating a comeback win for the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion at the Wimbledon warmup event on England’s south coast.
Williams partnered Ons Jabeur to victory over Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova in the first round of the women’s doubles on Tuesday. Williams and Jabeur recovered from losing the first set 6-2 to win the second 6-3 and then the match tiebreaker 13-11 on their third match point.
“I caught some fire behind me,” the 40-year-old Williams said. “I needed that. It was good.”
The win means Williams will have at least one more competitive match before playing singles at Wimbledon as a wild-card entry. Main-draw play at the All England Club starts Monday.
It was at the grass-court Slam where Williams was last seen in competitive action in 2021. She was playing in the first round when she lost her footing and her right leg buckled, leading to Williams retiring from the match.
With no competitive activity since then, she is ranked No. 1,204 in singles and wasn’t among the seeded players announced by Wimbledon on Tuesday. Few will want to face her when the draw is made Friday.
“I love tennis and I love playing otherwise I wouldn’t be here but I also love what I do off the court,” Williams said.
Williams — sporting three black patches on her right cheek — made a slow start to the match alongside Jabeur that marked her third appearance at Eastbourne, having previously played in the singles event in 1998 and 2011.
She served first — her opening serve was timed at 90 mph (145 kph) and earned the first point after Sorribes Tormo’s reply sailed long — and held to 30.
Williams struggled at times in the first set, and was exasperated after she was unable to get low enough to a shot by Sorribes Tormo. It took 25 minutes before Williams hit a winner as her smash flew into the North Stand, ensuring one spectator was able to leave with a souvenir.
Williams’ agility improved noticeably in the second set, though there were audible gasps from the crowd when she slipped rushing into the net.
She set up a set point with a backhand winner from the baseline and took the match to a tiebreaker with a 102 mph ace.
Williams showed desire to dive to her right to make a volley which could not be returned that set up one of the three match points. The win was clinched when Sorribes Tormo miscued a volley.
“It was so fun to play with Ons,” Williams said in an interview on the court. “It was great. We had a lot of fun and our opponents played amazing. We were happy to stay in there.”
In the singles, there was a big shock when top-seeded Paula Badosa lost 6-4, 6-3 to Jodie Burrage, a British wild card. Third-seeded Maria Sakkari was also eliminated, beaten by Anhelina Kalinina 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. Fourth-seeded Karolina Pliskova, last year’s Wimbledon finalist, was defeated by Katie Boulter of Britain, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.
There were wins in the second round for defending champion Jelena Ostapenko and Beatriz Haddad Maia, who has won back-to-back grass-court events in Nottingham and Birmingham over the last two weeks.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - LUXXFOLIO Holdings Inc. (the "Company" or "LUXXFOLIO", which includes references to its subsidiaries) (CSE: LUXX) (OTCQB: LUXFF) (Frankfurt/Berlin: LUH), provides the following update regarding its business environment and operations.
The Bitcoin mining industry faces intense pressure. The market price for bitcoin has plummeted while hash rate reached new highs. The result is lower revenues for each coin mined. At the same time, electricity prices are increasing, further eroding profitability. To date, LUXXFOLIO has reduced its debt and moved to lower-cost immersive mining, but remains unprofitable.
Following a detailed review of the current operations and market conditions, the Company has decided to seek strategic alternatives for its 15MW Bitcoin mining facility in New Mexico. In the absence of finding a partner or purchaser for the mining operation, the Company will consider all options including idling or a permanent shutdown of operations.
Kelly Klatik and David Gens resigned from LUXXFOLIO's Board effective November 1, 2022. The Company thanks each of them for their service. As a result, LUXXFOLIO's Board presently consists of two directors. While reviewing strategic alternatives, the Company intends to seek qualified candidates to appoint as additional Board members.
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After about 50 Venezuelan migrants arrived unexpectedly on Martha's Vineyard last week, there's been a lot of talk about who brought them there. Republican governors shipped them and other migrants around the country on planes and buses. Those migrants are part of a broader shift that's happening at the southern border, a shift that has big implications for the entire U.S. NPR's Joel Rose and Marisa Penaloza recently traveled to South Texas, and they're here to tell us about what they learned - good to have you both here.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: Hi.
MARISA PENALOZA, BYLINE: Thank you.
SHAPIRO: Joel, what is this shift at the border, and how does it connect to the buses and planes full of migrants?
ROSE: These migrants are coming from all over the hemisphere, increasingly from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. And where they're crossing is changing, too. A remote stretch of south Texas has become one of the busiest sections of the entire border around the border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass, Texas. In many cases, it's these migrants who are then being bussed to New York and Washington, D.C., and Chicago. And we also know that some of these migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard after crossing the border around Eagle Pass because they say so in their lawsuit against Florida officials.
SHAPIRO: All right, well, the two of you went there. You spent time in one of these remote stretches of border near Eagle Pass. Marisa, take us there. What'd you find?
PENALOZA: Sure. So this story begins on a ranch outside Eagle Pass, a border town a little more than two hours from San Antonio. Often, migrants cross here in groups, sometimes hundreds at a time, or sometimes it's just a few families together. So it's pretty unusual when we see migrants crossing alone.
JOSE ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
LUIS VALDERRAMA: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: That is how we meet Jose Albornos (ph) under the blistering sun of South Texas, all alone, dripping wet and muddy on the U.S. side of the river.
VALDERRAMA: (Speaking Spanish).
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: We're on the land of Luis Valderrama. He's a rancher, owns a few hundred acres just outside Eagle Pass. Valderrama is showing us where other migrants cut holes in his fences when suddenly Jose Albornos just appears in the middle of a dirt road.
PENALOZA: Valderrama's a former Border Patrol agent. This is not his first encounter with migrants. He has a gun on his belt. Still, he's cautious approaching this guy traveling alone, who's just turned up on his land with a big bulge under his shirt.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
VALDERRAMA: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: "What's under your shirt," Valderrama asks. It's a good question. For all he knows, it could be anything - drugs, weapons. Valderrama asks if he's carrying a gun or a knife.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: "Don't be scared," Albornos says. He lifts his black T-shirt and pulls out a plastic garbage bag. Inside, he has a smaller bag holding his passport, a change of clothes and a smartphone.
(SOUNDBITE OF GATE CLINKING)
ROSE: Valderrama unlocks the gate. Albornos is still breathing heavily after crossing the river. He's not young or skinny like a lot of the migrants we've seen. He stops in the shade to catch his breath.
PENALOZA: (Speaking Spanish).
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: "Why did he pick Eagle Pass," I ask. Albornos says he heard from other migrants that the journey through Coahuila, Mexico, is safer, less policed. So he just followed in their footsteps, using his smartphone to map out the route as he went.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: My trip was planned by Google, he says, not me. Many of the migrants who wind up on buses or planes to the north now pass through this remote stretch on the Rio Grande. We spoke to dozens of migrants who told us they're choosing to cross here because they've heard from other migrants that the journey is relatively safe.
ROSE: This new wave of migrants is coming largely from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. That's significant because these migrants generally cannot be expelled under the pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42. And instead, immigration authorities are releasing them into the U.S., where they can seek asylum.
PENALOZA: This summer, the area around Eagle Pass became the busiest spot on the entire border. Immigrant advocates here had never seen anything like this before, so they had to improvise.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: When migrants are released from U.S. custody in Eagle Pass, they come here to a nonprofit called Mission: Border Hope. It's turned an old warehouse on the outskirts of town into a bustling waystation for migrants.
VALERIA WHEELER: Our main purpose is to help them continue their journey.
PENALOZA: Valeria Wheeler is the executive director. She says the group moved into this space back in April after their contacts at the Border Patrol urged them to.
WHEELER: Actually, this place was built because of the anticipation that they had. They told us, Valeria, you will need a bigger place. There's going to be a lot of more people.
ROSE: The Border Patrol was right. Mission: Border Hope is now serving about 500 migrants a day or more. When we are there, many of them are either charging their smartphones or talking into them, trying to sort out their travel plans or get money from friends and relatives to pay for their tickets.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: The majority of these migrants are young men. But some are older. There are a few families here, too.
DANNY VELASCO: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: Danny Velasco (ph) and his wife, Kimberly Gonzalez (ph), are traveling with their two young kids, ages 3 and 10 months. The parents have degrees in business and were working at a car dealership in Venezuela. But they say the economy there has collapsed, and they could barely afford to feed their kids.
KIMBERLY GONZALEZ: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: Gonzalez says people they knew told him Eagle Pass was a safe place to cross. Still, she says the journey was dangerous. They had to cross the jungle in Panama and avoid drug cartels in Mexico. When they finally got to the Rio Grande, the river was high. It took them four tries to cross.
VELASCO: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: Velasco says he sometimes feels guilty for putting his children through this. They never asked if they wanted to come, he says, even though we are doing it for them. Then it's time for the family to get on the bus to San Antonio and on from there to Los Angeles.
PENALOZA: Some of the migrants who come through Eagle Pass wind up on buses to New York and Chicago and Washington paid for by the state of Texas. Very few of them stay at the border for more than a day or two. We spoke with about a dozen residents in downtown Eagle Pass, and most of them feel sympathy for migrants.
ROSE: That includes Gerardo "Jerry" Morales. He's a county commissioner, also owns a local business in Eagle Pass, the Piedras Negras Tortilla Factory. Morales says he'd like to hire some of the migrants if he could.
JERRY MORALES: We've been short-staffed for the past three years, and people in the U.S. don't want to work. And so I see business owners, you know, kind of leaning, man, what's going on? What's broken with our system that we can't get people to work right now? Yet you have this people coming in that want to work.
ROSE: But not everyone around Eagle Pass is happy about this new shift in migration. Many ranchers and pecan farmers outside of town don't like it because often the migrants are crossing on their land. That's why we went to visit rancher Luis Valderrama at his cattle ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.
(SOUNDBITE OF ENGINE SPUTTERING)
PENALOZA: Valderrama drove us around his ranch on his ATV. He raises cattle here on 350 acres covered in carrizo cane and blooming purple bushes called cenizo. As the sun is coming down, he takes us to a spot on the banks of the river where big groups of migrants have crossed.
VALDERRAMA: The aliens are walking out. It looks like they're changing here. We see water bottles, clothing, shoes.
ROSE: Valderrama says some of his cows have died after eating trash left behind by migrants. And that's not the only thing that bothers him. A few weeks ago, the Texas State Guard put in a brand-new fence here with razor wire across the top.
VALDERRAMA: I was happy with the idea of a fence because it would keep my cows from getting out even further. But they've already started cutting this fence. You know, that hole is big enough for a little calf to get through.
ROSE: So this fence has been here, like, three weeks.
VALDERRAMA: Three weeks, yeah.
ROSE: When did you notice the hole?
VALDERRAMA: Second day.
ROSE: Valderrama spent 24 years with the Border Patrol, and he does not like what he's seeing today. Valderrama thinks the Biden administration is sending the wrong message by releasing so many migrants into the interior. He thinks that's just encouraging more people to cross illegally.
VALDERRAMA: If the immigrants knew that you weren't going to be released, they would - and they were going to go to a detention camp and wait for a hearing and they'd be in a camp for six months to a year, they would stop coming.
PENALOZA: But Valderrama has some sympathy for migrants, too. He tells us that his mother was born in Mexico and he's got dual citizenship.
VALDERRAMA: I see why they're coming over. If the doors are open, the welcome flag is up. If I was from that side, I'd do the same thing.
PENALOZA: It's just then that our conversation is interrupted when we come across Jose Albornos, the migrant who's still dripping wet from crossing the river and breathing heavily.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
ROSE: Albornos explains that he's been walking since 3 in the morning, trying to avoid trouble from drug cartels or Mexican police.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: "Migrants like me," he says, "are just walking dollar signs. You have to pay everyone for everything along the way." Albornos says he brought $2,000 on the trip and spent all of it.
ROSE: Albornos says he had a job in Venezuela, but he wasn't making enough to support his family. So he left his wife and three daughters back home. And at age 40, he's trying to start over in the U.S.
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: "I understand that the U.S. is helping Venezuelans," he says, "by allowing us to come in and work here so we can help our families there."
ALBORNOS: (Speaking Spanish).
PENALOZA: "It's better to say I tried and failed than not to try," he says. "If I didn't try, I would regret it forever."
(SOUNDBITE OF ENGINE SPUTTERING)
ROSE: We talked to Albornos for about 20 minutes. Then we all climbed into Valderrama's ATV and drive up the hill toward the main highway. Valderrama takes out his phone and speed dials the Border Patrol.
CAMERAS: Border Patrol - Cameras (ph).
VALDERRAMA: Hey, Cameras. This is Luis Valderrama.
CAMERAS: Sir.
VALDERRAMA: Hey. I bumped into a Venezuelan down there by the river. I'm going to drop him off at the front gate.
ROSE: A few minutes later, a Border Patrol agent pulls up in a pickup truck. He asks Albornos a few questions. Then Albornos climbs in.
(SOUNDBITE OF TRUCK DOOR SLAMMING)
ROSE: And the truck pulls away.
PENALOZA: Jose Albornos texted us last week. He's in Montana, where he's already lined up a job in construction. I think I'll stay here for a good, long time, he said. Marisa Penaloza.
ROSE: And Joel Rose, NPR News, Eagle Pass, Texas.
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LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian authorities have rearrested eight Croatians Tuesday, preventing them from leaving the country after a court dropped child trafficking charges against them a day earlier.
“I can confirm that they have been rearrested on the instructions of NPA (the National Prosecutions Authority). I am not sure of the charges though,” immigration spokesman Namati Nshinka told The Associated Press.
Zambian officials prevented the eight Croatians — four couples — from boarding a flight to leave the southern African country. On Monday a court dismissed child trafficking charges against them following applications by their lawyers. They had earlier pleaded not guilty.
The charges alleged that on December 7, last year, the four couples acted together to traffic the children. The young children were from neighboring Congo and the couples said they adopted the children through a lawyer.
The eight include Zoran Subosic, 52, a guitarist in a well-known band Hladno Pivo, or Cold Beer, and Immovic Subosic, 41, an administrator, according to Croatian media. Others include Damir Magic, 44, an electrical technician, Nadic Magic, 45, a technician, Ladislav Persic, 42, a medical doctor, Aleksandra Persic, 43, a hair salon attendant, Noah Kraljevic, 40, a program director and Ivona Kraljevic, 36, a dog handler.
In Croatia, that country’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the four couples were told to leave Zambia within 48 hours.
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.
“I’M BACK!” Trump posted on the site weeks after his personal account was reactivated. Trump, who is running his third campaign for the White House, also shared an old video clip in which he said: “Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business.”
He posted the same clip on YouTube, which announced Friday that it, too, was welcoming him back.
Facebook parent Meta had said in January that it would be restoring Trump ’s personal account in the coming weeks, ending the suspension it imposed in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, when Trump's supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the peaceful transition of power.
His access was restored to Facebook and Instagram on Feb. 9, the company confirmed.
“The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s vice president of global affairs, wrote at the time.
The company also said it would be adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules, even if they are political candidates or world leaders.
Facebook, the world’s largest social media site, had been both a publicly tool and a crucial source of fundraising revenue for both of Trump's previous campaigns.
YouTube, in a tweet, announced earlier Friday that, “Starting today, the Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content.”
“We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,” they wrote.
Twitter also reinstated Trump's account last year after Elon Musk took over the company, but the former president has thus far chosen not to tweet.
Instead, he has been posting frequently on his own Truth Social site, which he launched after the suspensions.
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Highland Park shooting suspect to appear in court nearly a month after parade massacre
WAUKEGAN, Ill. - The accused gunman in the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting is expected to appear in court Wednesday morning for his arraignment.
County authorities in Waukegan said 21-year-old Robert Crimo III will appear in person for his arraignment on 117 counts of murder, attempted murder and firearms violations.
Crimo was indicted by a grand jury for the Fourth of July parade shooting that killed seven people and wounded at least 30 others in Highland Park. Authorities said Crimo confessed after he was arrested while driving in North Chicago hours after the mass shooting.
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Police have video evidence of Crimo in the Highland Park area. They said he climbed onto the roof of a store and fired more than 80 rounds at the crowd.
Crimo confessed to have been planning the attack for weeks, police said.
He allegedly told investigators that he drove to Madison, Wisconsin, with thoughts of doing more harm.
The wounded ranged in age from 8 to 88. The Highland Park community is still trying to recover and remains in mourning for the victims.
There are special restrictions in place at the Lake County courthouse for Wednesday's hearing.
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Apaches get new chance to argue mine will harm sacred sites in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — An Apache group battling a foreign mining firm that wants to build one of the largest copper mines in the United States on what tribal members say is sacred land will get a new chance to make its point Tuesday when a full federal appeals court panel takes another look at the case.
The panel of 11 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning at a Pasadena, California, courthouse to review the appeal by Apache Stronghold to save Oak Flat, a site east of Phoenix the group considers sacred.
“This isn’t just about Oak Flat, but about all cases involving American Indian sacred site litigation,” said Luke Goodrich, the attorney who will be arguing for Apache Stronghold. Goodrich is vice president and senior counsel at the nonprofit legal institution Becket Law, which takes up cases involving religious freedom.
Apache Stronghold sued the U.S. government under the 30-year-old Religious Freedom Restoration Act, saying that its plans to transfer the Oak Flat land to the mining firm through a land swap would place an undue burden on tribal members seeking to practice their religion.
A smaller 9th Circuit panel previously ruled 2-1 that the federal government could give the Oak Flat land to Resolution Copper for a mining project that would swallow the site, ending Apache religious practices there. The court later agreed to let a larger panel rehear the case.
A final decision was not expected Tuesday, and it could be several months before one is issued, Goodrich said.
Apache Stronghold members traveled from Arizona for the hearing, stopping at cities along the way to draw attention to the case. They gathered Monday at a community arts center in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
Called Chi’chil Bildagoteel, Oak Flat is dotted with ancient oak groves and traditional plants the Apaches consider essential to their religion.
An environmental impact survey for the project has been pulled back while the U.S. Department of Agriculture has consulted for months with Native American tribes and others about their concerns over Oak Flat. The environmental analysis will have to be republished before a swap of the Tonto National Forest land can go forward.
The land transfer was a last-minute provision included in a must-pass defense bill in 2014. The swap would give the mining company 3.75 square miles (9.71 square kilometers) of national forest land in exchange for eight parcels it owns in other parts of Arizona.
“We respect the legal process and are closely following this case,” Resolution Copper, a joint venture of global mining firms Rio Tinto and BHP, said in a statement on the eve of the hearing. “At the same time, we believe that settled precedent supports the district court’s rejection of Apache Stronghold’s claims.”
“There is significant local support for the Resolution Copper project, and we will continue our efforts to understand and address any concerns that have been raised,” the statement said.
It added that the project has the potential to supply enough copper to meet up to one quarter of U.S. demand, adding up to $1 billion a year to Arizona’s economy and creating thousands of local jobs.
The Poor People’s Campaign, environmental groups and the National Congress of American Indians are among many groups backing Apache Stronghold’s fight.
The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic has filed a “friend of the court” brief in the case. Stephanie Barclay, director of Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative, will participate in oral arguments.
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Gabe Hunterton to Join Team as President of Vinco
Lisa King and Rod Vanderbilt Remain on Board of Directors
Brian Hart and Jesse Law Join Board as Independent Directors
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vinco Ventures, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBIG) ("Vinco Ventures," "Vinco," or the "Company"), a digital media and content technologies holding company, today announced that a settlement agreement was reached on September 28, 2022, in the Company's litigation in the State of Nevada. Pursuant to the agreement, Ross Miller is named CEO of Vinco, to run the Company under the oversight of the Board of Directors. Also, the Company has appointed Gabe Hunterton as President of Vinco.
Lisa King and Rod Vanderbilt remain on Board of Directors. They will be joined by two new independent directors, Brian Hart and Jesse Law, filling two of three vacant director seats following the resignations of John Colucci, Michael Distasio, and Elliot Goldstein.
As part of the settlement of the litigation, John Colucci, former Co-CEO and Independent Director, and Philip Jones, former CFO, have resigned from their positions at the Company eliminating all ties with Vinco Ventures, effective immediately.
"With the settlement agreement, and litigation behind us, Vinco's leadership team is aggressively working together towards the completion of our quarterly filings as well as working closely with the Zash and ZVV management teams to work towards completion of the combination of these companies as soon as possible," said Ross Miller, CEO of Vinco. "We are laser-focused on providing transparency and creating value for our shareholders, as well as upcoming business initiatives. We have the platforms, technologies, and human capital in place – now, it is time to execute."
"It is my great pleasure to welcome Ross, Gabe, Jesse and Brian to the Vinco team. Each bring extensive experience and expertise that will aid the Companies execution as well as its growth. The Vinco team and Board are excited to get back to business and look ahead to Vinco's next chapter," added Roderick Vanderbilt, Chairman of the Board.
Ross Miller currently serves as a County Commissioner for Clark County, Nevada District C. Miller previously served as Deputy DA, a criminal prosecutor for Clark County for major criminal offenses. He was elected as the youngest Secretary of State in history for the State of Nevada and served for eight years. He has previously served as CEO and President of BKB Global, a wholly owned combat sports entertainment company of DirecTV, and as SVP and General Counsel of Paragon Gaming, a Nevada corporation focused on managing casino resorts. Paragon Gaming is an internationally recognized developer and operator of world class gaming destinations. His leadership is nationally recognized, as he was named a "Top 10 Rising Political Star" by the Washington Post, was selected as one of "24 Rising Stars in American Governance" by the Aspen Institute and was awarded a Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership. He obtained his BA from Stanford University and holds dual JD and MBA degrees from Loyola Marymount University.
Gabe Hunterton is an experienced leader with extensive history in multiple spaces including gaming and gaming technology. His most recent position was President of City of Dreams Macau a flagship casino property of Melco Corporation. Hunterton was Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Galaxy Macau one of the largest casinos in the world. He also served as Chief Operations Officer of StarWorld a wholly owned subsidiary of Galaxy Entertainment Group LTD. He was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Senior Vice President of Casino Operations for MGM Macau. At times in his career he had over 10,000 employees reporting to him. His gaming industry experiences ranges from Dealer to Chief Operating Officer having overseen two of the largest and most profitable gaming resorts in the world. He has also consulted with companies on technology integration, license valuation, asset valuation, and RFP development for new gaming resort markets. He has extensive experience in online gaming and technology. Gabe has a BA in Economics from Yale University.
Brian Hart has over 25 years of experience in technology, communications, and policy, and is a founding partner of Hart Communications. He has served as senior staff for a federal agency, three U.S. senators, publicly traded companies, and global consulting firms. He also served on the board of directors of a privately held EMC testing and equipment company in Austin, Texas that is now a part of ESCO Technologies. Hart was a presidential appointee as the director of the Office of Media Relations for the Federal Communications Commission and was communications director for Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri directing all strategic communications and public relations for the senator, the Senate Rules Committee, as well as the presidential swearing in and inaugural address. He reorganized and led the Washington, DC office for H&R Block. While at Ketchum and Hill & Knowlton he consulted for Fortune 100 clients including HP, FedEx, IBM, Enron, and Verizon on public relations, crisis communications, restructuring, and government and public affairs.
Jesse Law is an accomplished senior executive with 17 years of professional experience, including 14 years of experience in banking and finance and 13 years in bipartisan political and public policy operations. During his career, Mr. Law has developed expertise in strategic management, corporate operations, staff development, and high-level stakeholder relations, including working with senior executives of Fortune 100 companies, senior administration officials, members of the United States Congress, and senior foreign diplomats. In addition, Mr. Law is adept at building coalitions of diverse interests and coaching them towards mutually-acceptable solutions in high-stakes domestic and international negotiations that have resulted in achieving exemplary success of key strategic organizational goals.
About Vinco Ventures
Vinco Ventures (Nasdaq: BBIG) is focused on the development of digital media and content technologies. Vinco Ventures' consolidated subsidiary, ZVV Media Partners, LLC, a joint venture of Vinco Ventures and ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corporation, has an 80% ownership interest in Lomotif Private Limited. Vinco Ventures owns a 100% ownership interest in AdRizer, LLC.
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LEWES, Del., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- toolant® launches new Four Spiral Step Drill Bits series, which improve the drilling efficiency by 4X than normal straight flute step drill bits. When drilling holes of varying sizes, step drills will make your work easier and quicker. You might feel it easy to burr out the drill bits only after a few holes. This is because of the chip removal. For many years, there were only straight and up to 3 spiral flutes. toolant now brings new solutions to the market with its Four Spiral Design Series Step Drill Bits.
Four Spiral Flutes Lead Drilling to the Next Level
The most common use of step drills is drilling through a household plumbing pipe. Drilling a big-sized hole using an impact driver is not an easy job. You might be stuck in the metal for bigger steps, walking when you start drilling. With four cutting edges, the step drill bits guarantee a faster and smoother cutting. Compared to the straight or 3 spiral flutes, the spiral groove significantly improves chip removal. Chips will result in significant heat buildup and cause the drill to burn out and you will get stuck. toolant® Four Spiral Flutes design provides a better solution. This is what toolant's customer says about his experience. "Cutting metal is like a hot knife cutting through butter."
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toolant® also launched a whole product line covering the most commonly used coating and base material.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Hanger Inc. (HNGR) on Wednesday reported a loss of $8 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Austin, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 21 cents. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 15 cents per share.
The orthotic and prosthetic company posted revenue of $261.3 million in the period.
Hanger expects full-year revenue in the range of $1.19 billion to $1.22 billion.
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CHICAGO — Morning sun Wednesday with increasing clouds. Slight late day rain chance. Winds: SW 5-10. High: 74,
Full forecast details and more at the WGN Weather Center blog
Mostly cloudy tonight with 20% chance of scattered rain. Winds: SW 0-5. Low: 55.
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Your next Uber Eats food delivery could come from a robot.
Serve Robotics announced it's expanding its partnership with Uber Eats. The new deal will mean up to 2,000 of Serve Robotics' autonomous sidewalk robots will be used to make deliveries for Uber Eats.
The initial partnership in 2022 included more than 200 restaurants in Los Angeles. Serve Robotics says the latest deal allows for expansion of the robots in other cities across the U.S.
“This partnership is a major step towards mass commercialization of robotics for autonomous delivery, and it is a testament to the success of our partnership," said Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics.
SEE MORE: Here's what's changing on your Uber app
Uber has been increasing its use of autonomous technology.
In May, the company announced it was scaling up its use of Waymo's autonomous vehicles for its ridesharing and delivery networks.
Waymo has reportedly expanded its operating territory in Phoenix, and now covers 180 square miles.
“Fully autonomous driving is quickly becoming part of everyday life, and we’re excited to bring Waymo's incredible technology to the Uber platform," said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber.
Waymo's vehicles are not foolproof. Scripps News Phoenix has reported on at least two crashes involving the vehicles.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — On Sunday, New England plays Miami’s Dolphins.
Before that, the Patriots will take on Miami’s heat.
High temperatures are forecast to be in the mid-60s to mid-70s around Foxborough, Massachusetts, for the next few days — and the way Patriots coach Bill Belichick sees it, those might not be the best atmospheric conditions to prepare his team for the steaminess that awaits them in South Florida on Sunday when New England and Miami kick off the regular season.
So the Patriots are flying south Tuesday, practicing this week in Palm Beach County, an hour or so from the Dolphins’ facilities. High temperatures there this week will reach the low 90s each day, and the forecast for game day calls for more of the same — low 90s, lots of humidity, and with regard to Belichick’s preferred sideline apparel choice, hoodies might not be the ideal selection.
“They better SPF up,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said.
Sunscreen — likely of the high SPF variety — will surely be packed among all the gear the Patriots will be bringing south for the trip. It’s not a totally foreign concept for New England to take its game-week show on the road; the Patriots spent a week in Las Vegas last month before facing the Raiders there in a preseason game.
“I think there are a combination of factors, but in the end it all looks like it’s set up fairly well here,” Belichick said. “So, make the travel on Tuesday instead of on Saturday. We’ll already be down there. We’ll be able to just focus on the Dolphins.”
In recent years, even for a perennial winner such as the Patriots, trips to the Sunshine State — where summer doesn’t end just because pumpkin spice everything has hit stores — haven’t always gone to New England’s liking, and weather may have been a factor in some of those outcomes.
New England is 3-8 in its past 11 regular-season games played in Florida, including losses by double-digit margins twice — a 97-degree day at Jacksonville in 2018, and an 89-degree day at Miami Gardens in 2014.
“It’s going to be great for guys to get acclimated to that heat,” Patriots defensive lineman Davon Godchaux, a former Dolphins player — who knows how different the conditions are in South Florida — told reporters in Foxborough last week. “It’s either going to be a hot one down there or it’s going to be raining.”
Perhaps both. Forecasters also say it’s better than 50-50 that rain falls Sunday.
“I don’t think myself nor Coach Belichick — I don’t want to speak for him — but I think that’s just a component that he’s trying to help his team get prepared for that game, but it’s not the entirety of it,” McDaniel said. “I feel very lucky, almost overly lucky, that I get to work on my tan all the time. I’m sure there’s a lot of players and coaches for the Patriots (who’ll) be excited to, you know, bronze up a little bit before the TV regular season starts. I know that for a fact that if you don’t put sunscreen on you will get bronzed.”
JENKINS REMEMBERED
The Dolphins were holding their in-stadium celebration of the life of Jason Jenkins on Monday. Jenkins spent nearly 14 years with the Dolphins and eventually became the team’s senior vice president of communications. He died unexpectedly on Aug. 27 at the age of 47.
Jenkins is survived by his wife, Liz, and their three children. His passing is still very difficult for McDaniel to process.
“You just try to lean on the people that you love and care about, and try to really lean on each other as a team and put your best foot forward,” McDaniel said. “But that feeling doesn’t go away.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for the second state visit of his administration, the White House announced on Tuesday.
Yoon will be joined by first lady Kim Keon Hee.
A state dinner will be held on April 26.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the event would celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance between the United States and South Korea, which she called "critical to advancing peace, stability, and prosperity for our two countries, the Indo-Pacific, and around the world.”
Biden's first state visit was held for French President Emmanuel Macron in December.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The vote of approval was overwhelming.
On Monday, the Texas House passed a bill that would decriminalize and allow for the manufacturing and distribution of fentanyl testing strips. Currently, the testing strips are classified as drug paraphernalia and possession is a Class C misdemeanor.
House Bill 362 is authored by Reps. Dr. Tom Oliverson, James Talarico, Donna Howard, Sheryl Col, and Terri Leo-Wilson.
A fentanyl testing strip is a form of drug testing technology that can detect the presence of fentanyl in other drug samples. They are low-cost, and health officials say the test strips could help prevent accidental overdoses or poisonings.
Among those in attendance to watch the results of the bill was a mother from New Braunfels whose son died from fentanyl. Lawmakers took a moment to welcome her.
"Libby Edwards Pender, mother of Joseph John Salem, is here in the gallery … If the test strips were lawfully available in our state, her son, John, would still be alive today and with us," said Rep. Oliverson. "Ma'am, we're sorry your loss and we are committed to passing this bill to make sure nobody else shares his fate. We thank you, and God bless you for being here today."
Moments after the House vote, Rep. Talarico provided KVUE with this statement:
"Texas is in the grips of a deadly fentanyl epidemic. Life-saving test strips cost $1 and can tell you if a pill is laced with fentanyl. But Texas won't let you buy them.
"We need every tool available to keep Texans safe. That's why I'm proud to be part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who passed a bill today to legalize fentanyl strips. This bill will save lives."
On the local level, Travis County Judge Andy Brown has also pushed for the legalization of fentanyl testing strips. In May 2022, Judge Brown declared a public health emergency in Travis County in response to a spike in drug overdose deaths. Many of the deaths were attributed to fentanyl.
HB 362 now goes to the Senate.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gypsum Association (GA) has translated two code referenced publications into French and Spanish. GA-216-2021 Application and Finishing of Gypsum Panel Products is referenced in the International Building Code as an appropriate standard for the application and installation of gypsum boards and panels. Another code referenced specification, GA-253-2021 Application of Gypsum Sheathing, is essential when installing the increasingly popular exterior glass mat gypsum substrate.
GA-216 Application and Finishing of Gypsum Panel Products is colloquially known as the "Drywall Hanger's Bible." This document provides detailed information on hanging interior gypsum panels of every type and under a wide variety of circumstances commonly encountered in the field. Where other GA publications provide greater detail or clarity on the issue, GA-216 directs readers to those publications, many of which are free to the public. Offered as a complimentary download, GA-253-2021 describes the minimum requirements for application of gypsum sheathing for use as a substrate as well as appropriate methods of handling and storage. Useful tables include one listing minimum fastener lengths and one devoted to shear values.
Growing the number of technical publications available in languages other than English is a goal of the Association, which represents gypsum panel manufacturers in the United States and Canada. "The Gypsum Association makes a concerted effort to offer these documents in French and Spanish to serve important constituencies across North America," said Executive Director Stephen Meima, APR, LEED Green Assoc. All GA publications are available through the Association's bookstore at www.gypsum.org.
The Gypsum Association is in its 92nd year of service as the technical, promotion, and information center of the gypsum industry. Representing companies located throughout the United States and Canada, the Association is based in Silver Spring, MD.
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Special counsel asks for December trial in Trump docs case
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The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday to delay the trial of former President Donald Trump and his aide, Walt Nauta, on federal charges related to their handling of classified documents.
The trial had initially been scheduled for Aug. 14, but a prosecutor for Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a Friday evening filing that it could take up to 60 days before defense attorneys obtain the necessary security clearances to view certain evidence in the case. The office suggested the judge order a Dec. 11 trial.
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately reply to a request for comment. In the filing, Jay Bratt, a prosecutor for the special counsel’s office, wrote that Trump’s defense attorneys do not oppose postponing the trial, but will likely have “objections to the government’s proposed dates.”
Trump was arraigned in Miami, Florida on June 13, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Trump and his co-defendant, Nauta, were released on bond with a special condition ordered by a judge calling for prosecutors to provide a list of witnesses with whom Trump could not discuss the case.
Bratt wrote in a separate filing Friday that a list of those witnesses — described during the arraignment as a subset of the overall list — had been delivered to Trump. A footnote in the filing indicates 84 names are on the list.
Bratt is asking for the list to be sealed, noting that Trump’s attorneys object to the special condition and list. Trump attorney Todd Blanche voiced his objection to federal judge Jonathan Goodman at Trump’s arraignment.
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A seemingly relentless series of severe storms, likely with deadly tornadoes, are forecast to rip across parts of America’s Midwest and South over the next couple weeks, especially Friday, meteorologists said.
An unusual weather pattern has set in, last week triggering the devastating tornado that hit Rolling Fork, Mississippi, and meteorologists fear this Friday will be one of the worst days, with much more to come. The National Weather Service said 16.8 million people live in the highest risk zone, and more than 66 million people overall should be on alert Friday.
“It’s pretty darn clear that somebody is going to take it on the nose on Friday,” said Northern Illinois meteorology professor and tornado expert and chaser Victor Gensini. “It’s just a matter of where and exactly when.”
The weather service is cautioning a large area of the country – including parts of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, West Virginia, Georgia and Kansas – to be alert for intense thunderstorms, tornadoes and other damaging winds. Big cities in the highest danger area include Memphis, St. Louis, Des Moines and Little Rock.
Gensini fears Friday’s onslaught will be deadly.
The storms are expected to start Friday afternoon and go overnight, which is particularly dangerous because people can’t see them coming and often won’t seek shelter, weather service Storm Prediction Center warning coordination meteorologist Matt Elliott said Wednesday.
“The storms will be moving very quickly,” Elliott said. “So you won’t have a lot of time to react to warnings as well. So now’s the time to start preparing.”
Though all the ingredients are there for dangerous storms, it’s possible they may not combine precisely enough to pose the threat that meteorologists are warning about, Elliott and others said.
Another batch of severe storms, powered by a “firehose” of unstable waves in the atmosphere that keep flowing from the cold west and combine with moist air from the east, could hit next Tuesday and the next few days after that, said Walker Ashley, another meteorology professor at Northern Illinois and Gensini’s storm-chasing partner.
“You could see these things coming days in advance,” Ashley said. They will be “continual punches, one, two, three, four.”
The weather service is already forecasting another batch of intense storms next Tuesday in the same general area as Friday with fairly high confidence, Elliott said.
At least the first 10 days of April will be rough, said Accuweather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham.
The current persistent pattern of storm ingredients reminds Gensini of the April 2011 tornado onslaught that killed 363 people in six states, hitting Alabama hardest. That was one of the largest, deadliest and most destructive tornado outbreaks in American history, the weather service said.
Even before Friday, “it’s been the most active we’ve seen in several years” starting around last November, with a large number of winter storms through this year, Elliott said. The deadly storms that hit Rolling Fork were part of that pattern.
Buckingham and the other meteorologists said current conditions come along only once every few years to create the potential for a train of supercells, which spawn the worst of the tornadoes and damaging hail.
Central to this is a fast-moving rollercoaster-like jet stream, the shifting river of air that moves weather systems, such as storms, from west to east. On the west side of the jet stream is extreme cold air and to the east, parked off Florida and Caribbean, is a very warm and dry high-pressure system.
“When you kind of combine the two it kind makes those hairs on the back of your neck stand up,” Buckingham said. “The ingredients are here. They’re primed towards the extreme end of things.”
Add to that the Gulf of Mexico, which provides moisture heat and energy for storms, is roughly 2 to 5 degrees (1 to 1.5 degrees Celsius) warmer than average or more, meteorologists said — “on fire,” as Ashley put it.
“The additional warmth and humidity really get these thunderstorms firing up,” Buckingham said.
The worst weather will be “underneath the clashing” of hot and cold air, a battleground of sort, Gensini said. Friday’s lunchtime forecast at Storm Lake, Iowa, is around 67 degrees (19 degrees Celsius) but just 140 miles (225 kilometers) to the northwest, Brookings, South Dakota is forecast to be barely above freezing.
“The greater the temperature gradient, the stronger the storm systems are,” Gensini said.
The winds twirling at opposite directions on the west and east of the jet stream battleground add to the problem, the meteorologists said.
Ashley said current conditions are mostly random weather variability, though he said the hotter Gulf of Mexico and human-caused climate change may have made a small contribution.
“These events have always occurred,” Ashley said. “The question is are we turning the knob a little bit by contributing more moisture, more heat, more instability?”
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Offset is giving fans more looks at his adorable baby boy! On Tuesday, the rapper took to his Instagram page to share two photos of him holding Wave, his 7-month-old son with Cardi B.
"BIG WAVE 🌊," the Migos member captioned the post, which showed him cradling Wave to his chest. The baby isn't as iced out as his father, who sports several chains with a pink and white v-neck sweater, but he is irresistibly cute in a light blue Mickey Mouse onesie and matching cap.
Cardi and Offset welcomed the baby boy in September. Although the "Up" rapper gave fans a tiny peek at the couple's second child back in March, it wasn't until April that they finally revealed his face and full name.
On April 14, Cardi shared two photos showing her son sitting in a comfy rocker and dressed to the nines in a baby blue puffer jacket, a matching beanie and white kicks. The baby shined in more ways than one, thanks to an iced-out chain with a pendant that appears to show a smiling blue shark riding a diamond-encrusted wave.
Offset revealed the baby's full name -- which is Wave Set Cephus -- in an accompanying photo post, showing Wave seemingly getting a bath with his aforementioned chain. The baby boy also appears to have one of his ears pierced.
Cardi made her grand return to the Met Gala on Monday, marking the first time the rapper has attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit since 2019.
The "WAP" emcee arrived in a stunning Versace look that had her covered head-to-toe in shimmering gold. The elaborate ensemble featured golden embellishments across the entire gown, as well as interwoven lengths of gold chains that made up her necklace and adorned her arms.
Cardi's striking look took the Gilded Age theme up several notches, and made her look, quite literally, like a gilded goddess.
See more of her Met Gala look in the video ahead.
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Clancy Carroll has been Milwaukee’s sonic historian for the past quarter century. He documented the local punk and postpunk scenes of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s through a series of albums on his Splunge Communications label, including the History in 3 Chords compilation and the lost album by the Haskels, the scene’s flagship band.
However, Carroll’s involvement in music began as a musician. This month he roars back with a new band, their self-titled album released on Splunge. For Combustor, he regroups with pair of old friends from the Starship, Milwaukee’s early ‘80s Downtown punk hub: bassist Bobbie Mitchell from the second version of The Haskels and drummer Marc Graves, who subbed for several shows in The Haskels 2.0. Mitchell and Graves were also both members at different times in one of Carroll’s bands, The Dominoes. Also heard on four tracks is another old Starship comrade, bassist Johnny Washday; on one track, Kevn Kinney sings backup.
“Bobby and I have been talking about doing something for years,” Carroll says. “But we were trying to do a good job raising families—adulting. Right now, adulting sucks. I’m at a point where I remember that music was the main thing I wanted to do.”
Lots of history is encoded in Combustor’s lineup and is audible on the album. “Bent” and “Rails” reflect back on ‘70s hard rock with expressive guitar playing rising from a steady, driving beat. “Katie Dropped an F Bomb” is punk pure and simple. The harshly astringent tones of “Accelerate” point to the industrial of Ministry. “One More Siren” suggests funk influences with lyrics delivered in near-rap cadences. Mitchell’s pace-setting bass on “Supercool” may remind longtime Milwaukee music fans of another Starship band, the guitar-less trio called Oil Tasters.
And there is one song that dates from that era, “Tightrope,” a punk-on-the-metal-edge number first heard in Carroll’s c. 1980 band The Ones.
Combustor was ready to roll when the pandemic shut down the world. “We started rehearsing acoustically at the end of 2019 and moved into a rehearsal space the week COVID hit. That put everything on full stop,” Carroll recalls. By 2022 Carroll and Graves were ready to begin recording but—with Mitchell still hesitant about COVID—several tracks were laid with Johnny Washday filling in on bass. The album was coproduced by Paul Kneevers who added keyboards to several tracks, including the partly synth-powered “Week of Suck (AKA The Squeez).” “I’m a very accommodating player,” Mitchell says of his role. “I try to figure out what would help a song. I think Clancy’s songs show curiosity and empathy for what’s actually happening in our world.”
“I’m definitely more focused on craft,” Carroll says, comparing his new songs to the numbers he wrote in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “I’m focused more on melody and finding twists and hooks. My lyrics include a good dose of end-times—“Accelerate” is about falling off the edge of a cliff. The last half decade has been difficult for many people, emotionally. But I’m trying to convey some positives.”
Although everyone in Combustor is in his 60s, they’re not dad rock or yacht rock or any other cul de sac where musicians go to die. “Our motives are more pure than when we were in our 20s,” Carroll remarks. Going for gold, the brass ring, the label signing, none of that really matters, albeit if one of their songs clicks somewhere … “You never know? What about a European festival tour?” Carroll asks.
Combustor’s album is available on LP, CD, Bandcamp and Spotify. Their debut and album release show is scheduled for May 20 at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn with The Swivels opening.
"Supercool" by Combustor | https://shepherdexpress.com/music/local-music/combustors-combustible-rock/ | 2023-05-16 22:08:11 | 1 | https://shepherdexpress.com/music/local-music/combustors-combustible-rock/ |
Stock market today: Asian markets extend losses after Wall Street drifts lower
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Thursday after Wall Street drifted downward following a rally that sent it roaring 16% higher for the year so far.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 3% on heavy selling of Chinese banks shares after Goldman Sachs downgraded them citing concerns about the slowing economy and lenders’ exposures to debt. Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 1.7%. U.S. futures declined and oil prices were mixed.
Share prices had soared recently amid signs the U.S. economy is stronger than had been feared, fending off recession so far despite high interest rates. Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting released Wednesday showed that some central bank officials wanted to raise rates in mid-June, though in the end they voted unanimously to keep rates steady.
The threat of further rate hikes has been weighing on investor sentiment. The next focus for the U.S. will be jobs data due out on Friday.
Markets are also watching for updates on tensions between the U.S. and China as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen heads to Beijing for several days of meetings.
The Hang Seng shed 587 points to 18,522.43 while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.5% to 3,205.97. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gave up more than 600 points to 32,729.96.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.3% to 7,160.70 and the Kospi in Seoul lost 0.7% to 2,560.14. India’s Sensex opened marginally higher while shares fell in Taiwan and Bangkok.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.2% to 4,446.82, edging down from its highest level since April 2022. The Dow fell 0.4% to 34,288.64 and the Nasdaq gave back 0.2% to 13,791.65.
A report on Wednesday showed growth for U.S. factory orders held steady in May, though economists expected to see an acceleration.
On Wall Street, shares of UPS fell 2.1% as the company tries to reach a deal with the Teamsters union representing about 340,000 of its workers. Their current contract expires at the end of the month, and Teamsters members last month voted in favor of a strike authorization.
Companies that do a lot of business in the China region were also weak. Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts, which get significant chunks of revenue from Macau, both fell at least 4.6%.
On the winning side was Meta Platforms. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp looks poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter. It rose 1.9%, adding to a stellar year where it’s already soared 144.6%.
Hope is rising that inflation is cooling enough to get the Federal Reserve to soon stop its hikes to rates, which undercut inflation by slowing the entire economy. Much of Wall Street expects the Fed to raise rates later this month and perhaps once more later this year, as the Fed has been hinting.
That could leave the U.S. stock market stuck in a holding pattern as everyone waits to see if a long-predicted recession does happen or not. The upcoming earnings reporting season could offer some clues, with companies telling investors how much profit they earned during the spring.
Yields were mixed in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.93% from 3.86% Monday, when bond trading ended early ahead of the Independence Day holiday. The 10-year yield helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, held steady at 4.94%.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude oil shed 14 cents to $71.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Wednesday it gained $2 a gallon to $71.69 a barrel.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, gave up 28 cents to $76.37 a barrel.
The dollar fell to 144.17 Japanese yen from 144.64 yen. The euro dropped to $1.0839 from $1.0857.
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AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed.
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DALLAS — LGBTQ+ organizations and notable figures across the country are sending love and honor for victims of the deadly shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night. The community is mourning five people that were killed and at least 25 others that were injured.
That's in addition to Sunday being Transgender Day of Remembrance which honors the memory of trans people that were killed in anti-trans violence.
On its Facebook page, Club Q called the shooting a “hate attack.” Investigators were still determining a motive and whether to prosecute it as a hate crime, said El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen.
Cece Cox, the CEO Dallas' Resource Center, called the mass killing a sign of hate and ignorance.
“We’re in a climate in Texas as well as across the country that is hostile to LGBTQ people," she said. “This sort of hateful actions and words based out of ignorance and fear is something that could be overcome if people would decide to learn a little bit.”
“Once again where our spaces were infiltrated by people who mean us harm," said Lee Daugherty, who owns Alexandre's, an LGBTQ restaurant and bar in Dallas' Oak Lawn neighborhood. “These social media sites that are letting unhinged comments go unchallenged will lead to violence."
In Colorado, police credit two people at Club Q for taking down the attacker. Daugherty doesn’t believe much more can be done for security.
“What are you going to have at your door? A plated [guard], with a long rifle? What kind of business are you going to run at that point?," he said.
Cox said Texas lawmakers have already filed 20 anti-LGBTQ bills for the next legislative session scheduled to start after the first of the year.
Groups in North Texas have released multiple statements in response to the shooting.
“I think we would all benefit if we would become more educated. People are saying a lot of things that aren’t true, particularly saying them about the transgender community," she said. “I know that this community is strong, and we will endure, and we will pull together but it still feels awful.”
New Church Dallas
In a statement to WFAA, the senior pastor of New Church Dallas said the congregation is grieving for the victims and their loved ones. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Jo Hudson, said the church is calling for an end to gun violence and "hateful rhetoric" they say is directed to "LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and women."
"We call upon the elected leaders of our states and nation to change our gun laws so that the people we love, our family members and friends may live long and healthy lives," said Rev. Hudson. "And now, let us continue in our grief those we lost last evening."
Dallas Pride
The Dallas Pride organization released a statement on social media in regards to the shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance.
The organization said in the statement, "... we send love to our friends at Club Q and everywhere who just want a safe place to belong. Our hearts are broken."
Texas International Productions
Texas International Productions is home to what many call the best drag shows in Dallas.
The company shared a statement about the shooting to their social media, sending condolences to victims' loved ones. They also say the LGBTQ+ community will grow stronger from it.
"Allies will turn into advocates as they stand by our side in the face of hatred," they wrote online. "This doesn’t have to happen again. Love will always win."
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WNBA star Brittney Griner went to play overseas in Russia and was arrested and detained for allegedly having an illegal substance. After a long scary incarceration the US was able to get her back in a prisoner swap.
You would think that would be enough for Brittney Griner to never play overseas again in her life. However Brittney Griner held her first press conference today and she said that she would play overseas again for only one reason.
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner shared that she won’t play overseas again unless it’s for the Olympics after being held in Russian custody.
“I’m never going overseas to play again unless it’s to represent my country,” “The whole reason a lot of us go over is the pay gap … to support our families, to support ourselves. So I don’t knock any player that wants to go overseas.”
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POKROVSK – Echoing down the corridors of eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital are the loud cries of tiny Veronika.
Born nearly two months prematurely weighing 1.5 kilograms (3 pounds, 4 ounces), the infant receives oxygen through a nasal tube to help her breathe while ultraviolet lamps inside an incubator treat her jaundice.
Dr. Tetiana Myroshnychenko carefully connects the tubes that allow Veronika to feed on her mother’s stored breast milk and ease her hunger.
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, three hospitals in government-controlled areas of the country’s war-torn Donetsk region had facilities to care for premature babies. One was hit by a Russian airstrike and the other had to close as a result of the fighting ‒ leaving only the maternity hospital in the coal mining town of Pokrovsk still operating.
Myroshnychenko, the site’s only remaining neonatologist, now lives at the hospital. Her 3-year-old son divides the week between staying at the facility and with his father, a coal miner, at home.
The doctor explains why it’s now impossible to leave: Even when the air-raid sirens sound, the babies in the hospital's above-ground incubation ward cannot be disconnected from their lifesaving machines.
“If I carry Veronika to the shelter, that would take five minutes. But for her, those five minutes could be critical,” Myroshnychenko says.
Hospital officials say the proportion of births occurring prematurely or with complications has roughly doubled this year compared to previous times, blaming stress and rapidly worsening living standards for taking a toll on the pregnant women still left in the area.
Russia and Moscow-backed separatists now occupy just over half the Donetsk region, which is similar in size to Sicily or Massachusetts. Pokrovsk is still in a Ukrainian government-controlled area 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the front lines.
Inside the hospital's maternity wards, talk of the war is discouraged.
“Everything that happens outside this building of course concerns us, but we don’t talk about it,” Myroshnychenko said. “Their main concern right now is the baby.”
Although fighting in the Dontesk region started back in 2014, when Russia-backed separatists began battling the government and taking over parts of the region, new mothers are only now being kept in the hospital for longer periods because there's little opportunity for them to receive care once they have been discharged.
Among them is 23-year-old Inna Kyslychenko, from Pokrovsk. Rocking her 2-day-old daughter Yesenia, she was considering joining the region’s massive evacuation westward to safer areas in Ukraine when she leaves the hospital. Many essential services in government-held areas of Donetsk — heat, electricity, water supplies — have been damaged by Russian bombardment, leaving living conditions that are only expected to worsen as the winter grows near.
“I fear for the little lives, not only for ours, but for all the children, for all of Ukraine,” Kyslychenko said.
More than 12 million people in Ukraine have fled their homes due to the war, according to U.N. relief agencies. About half have been displaced within Ukraine and the rest have moved to other European countries.
Moving the maternity hospital out of Pokrovsk, however, is not an option.
“If the hospital was relocated, the patients would still have to remain here,” said chief physician Dr. Ivan Tsyganok, who kept working even when the town was being hit by Russian rocket fire.
“Delivering babies is not something that can be stopped or rescheduled,” he noted.
The nearest existing maternity facility is in Ukraine's neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region, a 3 1/2 hour drive along secondary roads, a journey considered too risky for women in late-term pregnancy.
Last week, 24-year-old Andrii Dobrelia and his wife Maryna, 27, reached the hospital from a nearby village. Looking anxious, they talked little as doctors carried out a series of tests and then led Maryna to the operating room for a C-section. Tsyganok and his colleagues hurriedly changed their clothes and prepared for the procedure.
Twenty minutes later, the cries of a newborn baby boy, Timur, could be heard. After an examination, Timur was taken to meet his father in an adjoining room.
Almost afraid to breathe, Andrii Dobrelia tenderly kissed Timur’s head and whispered to him. As the newborn calmed down on his father’s chest, tears came to Andrii’s eyes.
As the war reaches the six-month mark, Tsyganok and his colleagues says they have a more hopeful reason to stay.
“These children we are bringing into the world will be the future of Ukraine,” says Tsyganok. “I think their lives will be different to ours. They will live outside war.” ___ Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/21/on-ukraines-front-line-a-fight-to-save-premature-babies/ | 2022-08-21 09:01:19 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/21/on-ukraines-front-line-a-fight-to-save-premature-babies/ |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating after a woman reported she had been driven into a Providence, Rhode Island, river by someone she met on a dating app.
According to a police report obtained by Nexstar’s WPRI, the incident happened at a boat launch along the Seekonk River Sunday evening.
The woman told officers she had been on a date with a man she’d met three months ago on the dating app “Plenty of Fish.”
The two were inside the car at the boat launch when the man allegedly became angry with the woman, according to police. The woman claimed he told her, “I’m done with this, you have been playing me.”
Police said the man then accelerated and crashed the car into the water with both of them inside.
The woman quickly opened the passenger side door and swam to shore, according to the police report. She then ran down the street and found a resident who called the police.
Police said the woman wasn’t sure whether the man got out of the car because she was primarily focused on getting to safety.
The woman did not appear to be seriously injured but was transported to Rhode Island Hospital to be evaluated.
The man was nowhere to be found, according to police, though officers noticed some wet footprints walking away from the boat launch.
The woman described the man as Black with short hair and a beard. She said he was wearing a black hoodie, dark blue jeans and white sneakers. Police haven’t yet said whether or not they are looking for the man. | https://www.wane.com/news/police-woman-reportedly-driven-into-rhode-island-river-by-man-she-met-on-dating-app/ | 2022-09-27 04:48:26 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/police-woman-reportedly-driven-into-rhode-island-river-by-man-she-met-on-dating-app/ |
(NewsNation) — It has been nearly two weeks since Hurricane Ian made landfall, ravishing Southwest Florida communities and causing massive damage across the state.
According to local reports, cars are among the countless items residents in those areas are learning they have to replace, as Carfax estimates more than 300,000 vehicles were potentially damaged due to flooding.
Yet despite a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, officials are warning of a scam: dealerships trying to sell faulty vehicles to the vulnerable.
“Historically, we see a majority of those vehicles end up back on the road,” Emilie Voss, the director of public relations at Carfax, told NewsNation’s “Rush Hour” on Monday.
Voss went on to say potential car buyers should look out no matter where they live, as there’s a chance these cars from Florida will be shipped across the country.
“A lot of times with these flood cars, these unscrupulous sellers, they buy them, they fix them up. They make them look cosmetically great, and they might even run great the day that you buy them, but they will have issues down the road,” Voss said.
Attorneys general in both Illinois and Georgia have sounded the alarm after Hurricane Ian, warning used car consumers to look out for water marks or a musty odor.
“Obviously, look under your walls and see if there’s any marks,” Dusty Cox, who is a mechanic, told “Rush Hour” on Monday.
Cox also says to be wary of possible “title washing,” which would cover up a car’s damage history.
“It’s very difficult to tell. I mean, if they want to cover it up, they’re good at covering it up. Sometimes, it’ll take years before you’ll even know if you have a problem,” Dusty said.
An attorney general in Pennsylvania announced the arrest of 19 people in a title washing scheme just last week.
Officials warn the scam is not new, but with a shortage of both new and used cars right now, cam artists may be further motivated to sell these flood-damaged cars. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/hurricane-ian-scam-alert-waterlogged-cars-for-sale/ | 2022-10-11 15:56:23 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/hurricane-ian-scam-alert-waterlogged-cars-for-sale/ |
On the Market: Convertible Stable in Fitler Square
This low-slung, high-ceilinged building, built in 1915 as a stable, currently houses an architectural firm — and you might want to hire that firm to transform the stable into the home you’ve always wanted.
Have you been looking for a space to turn into the home of your dreams?
Here it is: this Fitler Square converted stable house for sale.
Actually, it’s premature to call this a “house for sale,” because this low-slung building, built as a stable in 1915, currently houses the architectural firm of Mark B. Thompson Associates (MBTA), which moved into it in 2006.
How utterly convenient! You can buy this property without having to shop around for an architect to redesign it for you, for it already comes with one.
And if you look at the sort of office the firm put inside this stable, it should be quite clear that MBTA should be up to the task of making a very attractive and comfortable home out of this vast, high-ceilinged space.
“Our practice concerns people — and their habitat,” the firm’s vision statement begins. And look what a warm work habitat the firm turned this single large space into through its liberal use of wood trim, walls and accents.
Then they opened up its roof with skylights to allow lots of natural light to pour into the space from above.
You can also see that you could fit two floors under that 14-foot-high roof (with just a little digging; the storage room under the upstairs office sits a few steps down from the rest of the main floor). That would allow you to create a cozy and intimate primary bedroom suite (along with secondary bedrooms) on the upper floor while leaving part of the space open in order to create an awe-inspiring great room and dining room.
With more than 2,500 square feet of space on the main floor, you have the interior volume needed to create a house with up to twice that total floor space — though no doubt you won’t want to cover the main floor with another one completely.
This structure also offers potential on the outside. Because it has an equally expansive roof, you could cover part or all of it with a deck. Then you, your family, and your guests could enjoy the nice view of the interior of the block you would get from it.
There’s even more good news: You can do all of this without having to worry about either zoning variances or trekking to the Historical Commission for approvals. This Fitler Square converted stable house for sale lies outside the Rittenhouse-Fitler Historic District, is not itself historically certified, and its lot has RSA-5 zoning.
But while it’s not part of the historic district, it’s very much part of the neighborhood. It sits just a little more than one block south of Fitler Square itself, which means that on any Saturday, you can just pop over to The Food Trust’s Fitler Square Farmers Market for fresh-from-the-farm produce (including really local produce from a West Parkside neighborhood farm), Brazilian baked goods, and more. You’ll also find a supermarket and eateries at the Grays Ferry Triangle two blocks away, and you can also walk from here to Farm to City’s bigger farmers’ market on Rittenhouse Square.
And speaking of walking, this place is also a four-block stroll from Schuylkill River Park. Or you can reach it even faster on your bike, then cross the bridge over the CSX railroad tracks that connects the park to the Schuylkill River Trail — which you can also walk on, of course.
So, you can see this onetime stable just off Fitler Square has a load of potential — and an architect who can help you realize it.
THE FINE PRINT
BEDS: None
BATHS: 1 full, 1 half
SQUARE FEET: Not available
SALE PRICE: $2,250,000
502-08 S. 24th St., Philadelphia, PA 19103 [Laurie Phillips | BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors]
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A statue of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken without her consent and subsequently used in several major medical breakthroughs, will be built in her hometown in Roanoke, Va.
The statue will replace a monument of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. City officials voted to remove the monument after its vandalization during the height of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Trish White-Boyd, Roanoke's vice-mayor, and the Harrison Museum of African American Culture started fundraising for a public history project to replace the monument.
The Roanoke Hidden Histories initiative raised $183,877, which will be used to cover the cost of the statue and a virtual reality documentary about the town's history.
"This beautiful woman was born Aug. 1, 1920, right here in Roanoke, Virginia," White-Boyd said at a press conference on Monday, where Lacks' family members were also present. "And we want to honor her, and to celebrate her."
After Lacks died from cervical cancer at John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, a gynecologist named Dr. Howard Jones collected her cancerous cells without her consent. Jones, who also collected cells from his other cancer patients, noticed a remarkable difference: While other cells would die, Lacks' continued to double every 20 to 24 hours.
Lacks' cells — often referred to as HeLa cells — continue to play an integral role in medical research — and in saving countless lives — from cancer to polio, and most recently in the development of COVID-19 vaccines. But Lacks' contribution had gone unrecognized for decades.
"Having reviewed our interactions with Henrietta Lacks and with the Lacks family over more than 50 years, we found that Johns Hopkins could have – and should have – done more to inform and work with members of Henrietta Lacks' family out of respect for them, their privacy and their personal interests," John Hopkins Medicine wrote on its website.
The Lacks family most recently filed a lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a multibillion-dollar biotech company, over its nonconsensual use of Lacks' cells.
"Today, in Roanoke, Virginia, at Lacks Plaza, we acknowledge that she was not only significant, she was literate and she was as relevant as any historic figure in the world today," attorney Ben Crump, representing the Lacks family, said at the press conference.
Artist Bryce Cobbs, another Roanoke native who is involved in the project, debuted a preliminary sketch of the statue at Monday's press conference. The statue is scheduled to be completed in October 2023, in the renamed Henrietta Lacks Plaza, previously known as Lee Plaza.
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Ex-CFO says Trump kids raised pay after learning of scheme
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer has testified that Eric Trump hiked his pay by $200,000 after an internal audit spurred by Trump’s 2016 election found that he had been scheming to dodge taxes on lavish corporate perks. The raises boosted Allen Weisselberg’s annual pay to $1.14 million. He says he used the extra cash to pick up the tab for things Trump and the company had previously been paying. He says it included rent on a Manhattan apartment, Mercedes-Benz cars for him and his wife, his grandchildren’s private school tuition and more. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/18/ex-cfo-says-trump-kids-raised-pay-after-learning-of-scheme-2/ | 2022-11-18 22:27:35 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/18/ex-cfo-says-trump-kids-raised-pay-after-learning-of-scheme-2/ |
Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office expands insurance coverage
SANTA FE, N.M. — The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office said Thursday they will cover five years of flood insurance protection for eligible New Mexicans.
The office is making this possible through a partnership with the National Flood Insurance Program. They say this will allow property owners, renters and businesses to receive protection with premiums paid by the office.
Flood insurance is available for eligible San Miguel and Mora counties residents impacted by New Mexico’s largest wildfire. Anyone with flooding concerns outside of those counties may be eligible for flood insurance on a case-by-case basis.
If you have questions, contact your claims navigator or call the Claims Office helpline at 505-995-7133. More info is also on the Claims Office’s website and Facebook page.
As a part of the continuing response to the historic wildfire, New Mexico’s attorney general and New Mexico Legal Aid are also hosting a free legal clinic Friday in Las Vegas. Click here for more info.
Last month, New Mexico’s congressional delegation also laid out some areas of possible financial need for victims and economic development in affected areas.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A truck drove off a Dutch dike and slammed into a neighborhood barbecue in a village Saturday evening, and police said two people were confirmed killed and multiple people were injured.
Police were trying to determine why the truck left the road in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland just south of Rotterdam and careered down the side of a dike.
They said in a statement said that the driver, a 46-year-old man from Spain, was arrested as part of the investigation and taken to a police station.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. “For the time being, we are keeping all scenarios about the facts open,” the police statement said.
Photos of the scene showed bunting hanging between trees and chairs scattered around trestle tables.
Police worked into the night around the truck before a crane and a tow truck hauled it back onto the road.
Local Mayor Charlie Aptroot visited the scene Saturday night.
“My condolences go out to the victims, their families, eyewitnesses and first responders,” he said in a statement.
He added that he had spoken to many of the people at the scene and expressed “appreciation for the way in which people are there for each other.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-dutch-media-truck-drives-off-road-at-least-3-killed/ | 2022-08-28 18:15:52 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-dutch-media-truck-drives-off-road-at-least-3-killed/ |
Aaron Judge's record-setting home run ball auction ends Saturday
ARLINGTON, Texas - The auction for New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's 62nd home run ball comes to an end this Saturday.
The current bid for the ball, which broke Roger Maris' American League record for homers in a season, sits at $1.2 million, according to Goldin Auctions.
So far 5 people have bid on the ball and more are expected before the final sale.
The auction ends on Saturday, December 17 at 9 p.m. central time.
Judge hit his record-breaking homer off Rangers pitcher Jesus Tinoco at Globe Life Field on Oct. 4.
Cory Youmans, from Dallas, was the lucky fan who caught the ball.
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Youmans will provide a Letter of Provenance to verify he was actually the person who caught the ball.
The ball is stamped with the Rangers' 50th Anniversary logo and marked with a black C and the number 13.
The markings placed on the ball ahead of the game to verify the actual piece of history.
For comparison, Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball sold for $3 million in 1998. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/aaron-judges-record-setting-home-run-ball-auction-ends-saturday | 2022-12-13 23:35:02 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/aaron-judges-record-setting-home-run-ball-auction-ends-saturday |
Hospital beds are filling up with children, health officials say
Published: Oct. 21, 2022 at 10:06 AM EDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
(CNN) - The number of hospitalized children has hit a high not seen in nearly three years.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, roughly 75% of pediatric hospital beds in the U.S. are filled.
About 2/3 of available beds were filled on an average day during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health officials said they’ve seen high levels of RSV, a respiratory virus, in children’s hospitals.
Although the number of children with COVID-19 has decreased recently, it still plays a factor.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said close to
900 children were hospitalized with the virus last week.
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HALETHORPE, Md. (AP) — Kentucky Derby winner Mage was installed as the 8-5 morning line favorite for the Preakness at the post position draw Monday.
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He’s the only horse in the field of eight set to take part in the second race of the Triple Crown two weeks after running in the Derby. It's the first Preakness since 1969 with just one Derby horse.
Mage will face seven fresh horses in an attempt to keep open the possibility of the first Triple Crown winner since Justify in 2018. He drew the No. 3 post for the 1 3/16-mile, $1.65 million race.
Mage won the Derby at odds of 15-1 as one of 18 horses in the race. Five were scratched for various reasons the week of, including favorite Forte hours before when Kentucky officials had questions about a bruised foot.
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The Preakness field includes National Treasure, who was not eligible for the Derby because trainer Bob Baffert is serving a two-year suspension from Churchill Downs. Medina Spirit, who failed a postrace drug test in 2021 to prompt the suspension, was Baffert's last horse in the Preakness, which he has won a record-tying seven times.
Gustavo Delgado, Mage's trainer from Venezuela, won his first U.S. Triple Crown race. Jockey Javier Castellano is set to ride the colt again after winning the Derby for the first time in his 16th try.
Gustavo Delgado Jr., his father's assistant, said Mage has shown “all the right signs” to make it possible to go to the Preakness.
“Everything after the race has been the way we want it to pursue this race,” he said. “So far, so good.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party.
The company said Tuesday it has introduced technology that examines the would-be renter’s history on Airbnb, how far they live from the home they want to rent, whether they’re renting for a weekday or weekend, and other factors.
Airbnb said the screening system that it is rolling out for listings in the United States and Canada has been tested since last October in parts of Australia, where it produced a 35% drop in unauthorized parties.
The San Francisco-based company said the technology is designed to prevent a customer’s request for reservation from ever reaching the host of the property involved. Airbnb said people blocked from renting an entire home might be able to book a single room because the host is more likely to be around.
Airbnb has been under growing pressure to clamp down on parties since 2019, when a Halloween house party in a San Francisco suburb ended with five people dead in a shooting.
The following year, Airbnb announced a worldwide party ban at its listings and banned people under 25 from renting an entire house near their home unless they had a record of positive reviews on the site. The party ban was initially cast as a temporary health measure during the pandemic but was made permanent in June. | https://www.wane.com/news/top-picks/airbnb-is-rolling-out-new-screening-tools-to-stop-parties/ | 2022-08-16 23:05:23 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/top-picks/airbnb-is-rolling-out-new-screening-tools-to-stop-parties/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Daktronics, Inc..
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin charged Wednesday that Western intelligence agencies have helped Ukraine carry out acts of sabotage, as he urged his officials to mount a stronger response.
Putin spoke during a call with members of his Security Council that focused on efforts to shore up control of the four Ukrainian provinces that Russia claimed as part of its territory in September — a move that was rejected by most of the world as an illegal annexation.
“There are reasons to believe that the capabilities of third countries, Western special services, have been involved in preparation of acts of sabotage and terror attacks,” Putin said, without elaboration and without providing any evidence.
He noted that the four provinces have faced Ukrainian shelling and acts of sabotage aimed at scaring the local population, adding that the authorities must act “harshly and effectively to ensure control over the situation.”
Several Moscow-appointed officials in the newly incorporated provinces have been killed and wounded in a slew of bombings and other attacks.
Putin urged officials to strengthen efforts to fully integrate the four regions into Russia and protect local residents from Ukrainian attacks.
“They must see and feel that all our great country stands behind them and we will do everything to protect them,” Putin said in televised remarks at the meeting.
When Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, he charged that Russia’s “special military operation” was intended to “demilitarize” Ukraine, block its potential accession to NATO and protect the country’s Russian speakers – the rhetoric Ukraine and its allies have described as a cover for an unprovoked act of aggression.
After failing to capture Kyiv in the initial weeks of the fighting, Russia has focused its military efforts on gaining control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of the Donbas that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces.
The Russian military captured the province of Kherson and part of the province of Zaporizhzhia in the south early during the conflict, but withdrew from the city of Kherson and nearby areas on the western bank of the Dnieper River in November under the brunt of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Speaking during a separate Kremlin meeting where he received credentials from foreign ambassadors, including the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Lynne M. Tracy, Putin charged that Washington’s support for mass protests in Kyiv that ousted Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly president in 2014 lay at the roots of the current conflict.
“The relations between Russia and the United States, which directly impact global stability and security, are in a deep crisis,” he said. “It’s rooted in principally different approaches to shaping the modern world order.” | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/putin-west-helped-ukraine-mount-acts-of-sabotage/ | 2023-04-05 18:03:42 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/putin-west-helped-ukraine-mount-acts-of-sabotage/ |
'Hey America, I'm coming for you': What Love Island US narrator Iain Sterling has in store
Over in the United Kingdom, the voice of comedian Iain Stirling is a summer staple.
His Scottish accent is a signal that the hit dating show “Love Island” is back on television for several weeks of near-daily episodes in which young, thin, able-bodied Europeans date each other in a Spanish villa while being filmed every minute of the day.
While the series is well into its eighth season overseas (and streaming in the U.S. on Hulu), the show’s U.S. iteration will also return this month — with a couple of changes.
“Love Island” USA, which previously aired six days per week on CBS, will now stream almost nightly on Peacock starting July 19 with a new batch of islanders who mostly hail from the States. It will look and sound a little different, with two new stars at the helm: Actress Sarah Hyland will host, and Stirling will do the voiceover narration for the first time.
This means Stirling will remotely write and narrate both shows, which film and air almost in real time, simultaneously.
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Who narrates ‘Love Island?’
Iain Stirling, 34, is practically synonymous with “Love Island” UK, having lent his voice to all eight seasons that have aired since 2015. This will be his first time voicing an overseas show.
Even before “Love Island” USA has begun filming, the BAFTA-winning comedian — who is married to the host of the UK show, Laura Whitmore — realized that some of the jokes and phrases that are the bread and butter of the British show won’t translate for American viewers.
“I think the hardest thing will be the language,” Stirling told The Arizona Republic. “I don't even know what you call it if someone mugs someone off. I don't even know what you'd say. What do you call that in America when a boy is mugging you off?”
For those don't know, “mug off” means to make someone look stupid through deception or mistreatment, especially in a romantic relationship.
Here’s what else Stirling had to say about joining “Love Island” USA and his thoughts on how Season 8 of “Love Island” UK is going.
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How Iain Stirling will juggle 'Love Island' USA and UK
Question: You’re an incredible narrator, and I enjoy listening to you every single day on "Love Island" UK. And now, with two shows, we’ll be listening to you for 12 hours or so each week.
Answer: The people that are into "Love Island," they're in for a long haul. I'm getting paid, and even I'm like, "This is a lot of 'Love Island,'" but it's great, right?
Q: You must be incredibly busy. I'm afraid of asking what your schedule is like. How are you going to make recording for both shows work with your life?
A: It's a bit wild, and I'm very fortunate because the people at Peacock are sort of, like, very aware of how full-on it is, and they've done everything to make it possible that I can do this and sort of do things like, you know, sleep and see my family and eat, things like that.
Everything's in LA for the American show, apart from the writing team.
We've basically got two huts next to each other, and me and Mark (Busk-Cowley) will write the British one. And then the second we finish recording that, we go into the American room — I was going to say office, but that makes it sound too good — and go inside the American box. We'll help those guys write what they've written so far and sort of let them know things we would and wouldn't say.
And also we learn stuff, like Americans don't know what grafting is! I found this out today.
(Grafting means wooing or flirting with someone to get them to like you.)
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Why voicing 'Love Island' USA is different from the British show
Q: Your quips and jokes are so specifically British. Will you need to study up on American geography and culture?
A: I think — and I'm sure Americans do know this — but literally, like, half of our news feed is American news, American politics. If you go to the politics section of the BBC website, half of it will be U.S. politics.
Culturally, I think, we're sort of all right. All the TV shows, I sort of get. The sports, I don't understand. I don't get that. Basketball is cool. But why is soccer not the best sport? It's mad; it's the best game. It's so good.
I think the hardest thing will be the language in terms of, like, I don't even know what you call it if someone mugs someone off. I don't even know what you'd say. What do you call that in America when a boy is mugging you off? What would you say? I wouldn’t know.
Q: He makes me look like a fool?
A: That’s nowhere near as good, is it?
(Phrases) like ‘mugged off’ weren’t a thing before "Love Island." So hopefully America will get to invent, sort of, their own vernacular and come up with our own little phrases and make it feel unique to them, do you know what I mean? I would love to get an American (version of) … mugged off, et cetera. So we’ll see how it goes.
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There's no shortage of drama to narrate
Q: Do you ever get stumped on what to say, or do the islanders truly provide all the material you could possibly need?
A: Generally speaking, we’re OK. But yeah, there are definitely days, especially if a couple’s been together from the very beginning, they've not really had much happen, like they've been pretty solid.
Like, take Gemma and Luca (on the UK show). Well, that's actually not a great example because Luca works in a fish market, so it's, like, believe me: I could do that all day.
But, you know, like a couple that's not really gone through any struggles and they’ve been together since week one, and you get to, like, week six and you're like, "I have run out of ways of saying, "Here are these two people" in a funny way.
Generally speaking, there’s always something going on. There's always something happening that makes it, you know, vaguely humorous.
'Love Island' USA cast is 'mad good looking'
Q: Have you had a chance to look at the U.S. cast?
A: I’ve literally seen pictures. I always try to not see anything because I basically only want to know about the people what's being said on the TV show because that's the only thing I can make jokes about.
I have noticed they are mad good looking. Like the British one, they're really good looking. But this is, like, insane.
Islanders who cause drama make 'Love Island' narrating easier
Q: Do you tend to have a favorite islander? Or do you like all of them equally?
A: I think everyone brings different stuff and also there's different reasons to love them, do you know what I mean? So there's people I love as a person who watches the show, like, I think someone's really adorable or cool or funny.
And then there's people I love as the narrator because they cause drama. Or, I don't know, they work in a fish market, for example, and then you're like, "Oh, these people are great because they make my job so much easier."
("Love Island" UK contestant Luca Bish sells fish for a living, and Stirling has no shortage of puns about this on Season 8.)
So I've got, sort of, two hearts, kind of like the fan — I'm such a big fan of the show — and then I'm (also) the guy that does the voiceover who's like, "We need jokes today." Some people just are funny, and you think, "Yeah, that was easy." And others it’s more difficult.
Q: I’m glad you haven’t revealed any spoilers, because I think in the U.S. we are maybe two weeks behind on UK episodes.
A: Oh my god. Well, how far behind are you? Has Joe Biden gone in yet?
Q: I missed that. I can’t believe that hasn’t been spoiled for us!
The trick to doing voiceovers for American viewers: 'Talk a little slower'
Q: So you’ve done more than 300 episodes of "Love Island" UK. Do you feel like you’re ready for this new frontier? Do you need anything else to prep for this new U.S. season?
A: I just need to talk a little bit slower, that's all. I've been practicing talking slower. I don't think my accent is hard to understand. Some of the islanders, like the Welsh people and the people from Essex, stuff like that, they're really hard. I don't think I'm as hard to understand as them.
I'm really trying to give my best with clarity, slow things down, make America work a little less hard to understand me, basically. Other than that, I'm raring to go.
Q: I can’t wait for U.S. viewers to learn more about Iain Stirling.
A: Hey, America: I'm coming for you.
How to watch Season 4 of 'Love Island' USA
"Love Island" USA Season 4 streams on Peacock beginning 6 p.m. MST on Tuesday, July 19.
The show will air new episodes at 6 p.m. MST Tuesdays-Sundays; Saturday episodes will be recaps that include unaired clips.
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Updated February 1, 2023 at 10:11 AM ET
It's been exactly 20 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board: commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, David Brown and payload specialist Ilan Ramon of Israel.
Their mission — the 28th flight for Columbia, which became NASA's first shuttle to fly in space some two decades earlier — was focused on research on physical, life and space sciences. The crew spent their 16 days in space conducting some 80 experiments before preparing to return to Florida's Kennedy Space Center on the morning of Feb. 1, 2003.
Instead, the shuttle broke apart over northeast Texas, near Dallas, shortly after reentering Earth's atmosphere and minutes before it was due to land.
Temperature and tire pressure readings from the left side of the shuttle vanished, Mission Control lost contact with the crew and Texas residents saw streaks of smoke in the sky as debris began falling to the ground.
Pam Melroy, NASA's deputy administrator and an astronaut who helped lead part of the Columbia investigation, told Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep that she remembers that day: She was in Florida getting ready to greet the crew.
"The space shuttle is coming back through the Earth's atmosphere at Mach 25, and so it's going to arrive within a second of when it's predicted," she recalled. "And so it was a moment where we all looked around and said, 'How could this be happening? The space shuttle isn't here.' And that's when we realized it wasn't coming back."
An investigation blamed physical and cultural problems
Over the next few weeks, NASA recovered thousands of pieces of debris, including the crew members' remains, across parts of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
And an investigation board released a report later that year detailing the physical and cultural problems behind the disaster.
A piece of foam insulation had broken off the shuttle's propellant tank and hit the edge of its left wing just over a minute into its Jan. 16 launch, which was captured on camera. But the exact location and extent of the damage was not clearly visible to engineers, and NASA management reportedly did not address their concerns during the shuttle's time in space because they believed little could be done about it.
The report found that a hole on the left wing allowed atmospheric gasses to enter the shuttle during its reentry, which caused it to overheat and break apart. It said there were things NASA could have done, like having the crew repair the wing damage or rescuing them from the shuttle.
It also blamed "cultural traits and organizational practices" for minimizing safety issues over the years, as well as low funding and strict scheduling. Investigators called on NASA to be more proactive in its efforts and replace the shuttle with a new system, as well as for more government support.
Melroy says Columbia was top of mind when she commanded a mission to the International Space Station in 2007, especially because she had been part of the 2003 investigation, looking at crew training, equipment and procedures.
"I was very focused on doing everything in my power to use that learning to protect the crew in case of a mishap," she said. "And I think all commanders feel that way, but I know it was very much on my mind throughout the whole mission to use that knowledge and ensure that the crew was as safe as possible. Fortunately, I didn't have to."
NASA suspended space shuttle flights for two years after the Columbia tragedy and went on to retire the space shuttle program altogether in 2011.
NASA says lessons from the past shape its future goals
Melroy says the Columbia disaster had a substantial impact on NASA, as did two other major disasters: the Apollo 1, which caught fire during a pre-launch test in 1967, and the Challenger, which exploded seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986. She thinks the agency "evolved more" after each of those incidents.
"If people died for this knowledge, we're going to learn from it," she said. "And I think that was the first step. But beyond that, the key lesson that we learned from Columbia was around schedule pressure but also around organizational silence — making sure that voices are heard inside the agency that have concerns about safety and making sure that those concerns get elevated to the right decision-makers."
NASA holds an annual Day of Remembrance to honor astronauts who died in the line of duty. This year's had a special focus on the Columbia anniversary, as Houston Public Media reported.
Evelyn Husband Thompson, the wife of Columbia's commander, spoke on behalf of family members, according to HPM.
"In the past twenty years, the Columbia families have had celebrations, and sorrow, and life experiences," she said. "One of us became a parent, and some of us are now grandparents."
NASA is now preparing for a new era of spaceflight, hoping its Artemis mission will put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
Will lessons learned from tragedies like Columbia play a role in those efforts?
"Absolutely," Melroy says. "We are very proud of the lessons that we've learned and we're incorporating them now."
The audio for this story was produced by Ziad Buchh and Mansee Khurana, and edited by Jan Johnson.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia on charges including conspiring to overthrow the government.
Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures are being tried in their absence in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. They also face charges of creating and leading an extremist group, inciting hatred and harming national security.
All five left Belarus following the unprecedented mass protests that erupted in 2020 after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko secured his sixth term in office in a disputed election. The opposition and the West have denounced the vote as rigged.
The demonstrations that followed were the largest and the most sustained since Lukashenko assumed office in 1994. He has run the country with an iron fist ever since. His government unleashed a brutal crackdown against the protesters, detaining more than 35,000 and beating thousands. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/belarus-sentences-exiled-opposition-leader-to-15-17822059.php | 2023-03-06 12:46:21 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/belarus-sentences-exiled-opposition-leader-to-15-17822059.php |
Alpha Announces First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Published: May. 8, 2023 at 6:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Reports first quarter net income of $270.8 million, or $17.01 per diluted share
Posts Adjusted EBITDA of $354.4 million for the quarter
Continues executing on robust buyback program by returning approximately $200 million to shareholders year-to-date as of May 4, 2023, with roughly $485 million in board authorization remaining
Increases quarterly dividend to $0.50 from $0.44 per share
BRISTOL, Tenn., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (NYSE: AMR), a leading U.S. supplier of metallurgical products for the steel industry, today reported financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2023.
"Coming off an exceptional and record-setting year in 2022, we set high expectations for Alpha in 2023, and our first quarter performance is a solid foundation on which we can continue building throughout the rest of the year," said Andy Eidson, Alpha's chief executive officer. "In addition to strong operational performance across the portfolio, we are progressing well on our capital investment projects. We also continue to execute on our share repurchase program, working through the current authorization in place; with approximately $200 million spent on buybacks year to date, we have now cumulatively spent approximately $715 million on repurchases, with another roughly $485 million in remaining authorization available to spend."
The company's annual meeting of stockholders was held on May 3, 2023. Shareholders re-elected all members of Alpha's board of directors who stood for re-election. The complete voting results from our annual meeting will be filed on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Financial Performance
Alpha reported net income of $270.8 million, or $17.01 per diluted share, for the first quarter 2023. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the company had net income of $220.7 million, or $13.37 per diluted share.
For the first quarter, total Adjusted EBITDA was $354.4 million, compared to $247.9 million in the fourth quarter 2022.
Coal Revenues
Coal Sales Realization(1)
First quarter net realized pricing for the Met segment was $208.93 per ton and net realization in the All Other category was $109.36.
The table below provides a breakdown of our Met segment coal sold in the first quarter by pricing mechanism.
Cost of Coal Sales
Alpha's Met segment cost of coal sales improved to an average of $110.56 per ton in the first quarter, compared to $112.97 per ton in the fourth quarter of 2022. Cost of coal sales for the All Other category decreased to $74.69 per ton in the first quarter, down from a cost of $80.76 per ton in the fourth quarter 2022.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Cash provided by operating activities in the first quarter decreased to $177.4 million as compared to $185.0 million in the fourth quarter 2022. The first quarter operating cash flows were negatively impacted by an increase of $133.8 million of working capital. The primary drivers were higher accounts receivable and inventory balances with a partially offsetting reduction in short-term deposits. Capital expenditures for the first quarter 2023 were $74.2 million compared to $61.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2022.
As of March 31, 2023, the company had total liquidity of $315.6 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $222.5 million and $93.1 million of unused availability under the ABL. The future available capacity under the ABL is subject to inventory and accounts receivable collateral requirements and the maintenance of certain financial ratios. As of March 31, 2023, the company had no borrowings and $61.9 million in letters of credit outstanding under the ABL. Total long-term debt, including the current portion of long-term debt as of March 31, 2023, was $11.9 million and consists primarily of equipment financing obligations.
Dividend Program
On May 3, 2023, Alpha's board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.50 per share, increased from the prior quarter's dividend of $0.44 per share, which will become payable on July 5, 2023 for holders of record as of June 15, 2023.
Any decision to pay future cash dividends will be made by the board and depend on Alpha's future earnings and financial condition and other relevant factors.
Share Repurchase Program
As previously announced, Alpha's board of directors authorized a share repurchase program allowing for the expenditure of up to $1.2 billion for the repurchase of the company's common stock. As of May 4, 2023, the company has acquired approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock at a cost of approximately $715 million. The number of common stock shares outstanding as of May 4, 2023 was 14,452,474, not including the potentially dilutive effect of unexercised warrant shares or unvested equity awards.
The timing and amount of share repurchases will continue to be determined by the company's management based on its evaluation of market conditions, the trading price of the stock, applicable legal requirements, compliance with the provisions of the company's debt agreements, and other factors.
2023 Guidance Adjustment and Performance Update
Alpha is reducing tax rate guidance for the full year 2023. The new tax rate guidance range for the year is 12% to 17%, down from the prior range of 15% to 20%.
As of April 27, 2023, Alpha has committed and priced approximately 51% of its metallurgical coal within the Met segment at an average price of $203.86 per ton and 75% of thermal coal in the Met segment at an average expected price of $108.77 per ton. In the All Other category the company is 100% committed and priced at an average price of $88.74 per ton.
Conference Call
The company plans to hold a conference call regarding its first quarter 2023 results on May 8, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The conference call will be available live on the investor section of the company's website at https://alphametresources.com/investors. Analysts who would like to participate in the conference call should dial 877-407-0832 (domestic toll-free) or 201-689-8433 (international) approximately 15 minutes prior to start time.
About Alpha Metallurgical Resources
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE: AMR) is a Tennessee-based mining company with operations across Virginia and West Virginia. With customers across the globe, high-quality reserves and significant port capacity, Alpha reliably supplies metallurgical products to the steel industry. For more information, visit www.AlphaMetResources.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Alpha's expectations and beliefs concerning future events and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. These factors are difficult to predict accurately and may be beyond Alpha's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release or elsewhere speak only as of the date made. New uncertainties and risks arise from time to time, and it is impossible for Alpha to predict these events or how they may affect Alpha. Except as required by law, Alpha has no duty to, and does not intend to, update or revise the forward-looking statements in this news release or elsewhere after the date this release is issued. In light of these risks and uncertainties, investors should keep in mind that results, events or developments discussed in any forward-looking statement made in this news release may not occur.
The discussion below contains "non-GAAP financial measures." These are financial measures that either exclude or include amounts that are not excluded or included in the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("U.S. GAAP" or "GAAP"). Specifically, we make use of the non-GAAP financial measures "Adjusted EBITDA," "non-GAAP coal revenues," "non-GAAP cost of coal sales," "non-GAAP coal margin," and "Adjusted cost of produced coal sold." We use Adjusted EBITDA to measure the operating performance of our segments and allocate resources to the segments. Adjusted EBITDA does not purport to be an alternative to net income (loss) as a measure of operating performance or any other measure of operating results or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. We use non-GAAP coal revenues to present coal revenues generated, excluding freight and handling fulfillment revenues. Non-GAAP coal sales realization per ton for our operations is calculated as non-GAAP coal revenues divided by tons sold. We use non-GAAP cost of coal sales to adjust cost of coal sales to remove freight and handling costs, depreciation, depletion and amortization - production (excluding the depreciation, depletion and amortization related to selling, general and administrative functions), accretion on asset retirement obligations, amortization of acquired intangibles, net, and idled and closed mine costs. Non-GAAP cost of coal sales per ton for our operations is calculated as non-GAAP cost of coal sales divided by tons sold. Non-GAAP coal margin per ton for our coal operations is calculated as non-GAAP coal sales realization per ton for our coal operations less non-GAAP cost of coal sales per ton for our coal operations. We also use Adjusted cost of produced coal sold to distinguish the cost of captive produced coal from the effects of purchased coal. The presentation of these measures should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.
Management uses non-GAAP financial measures to supplement GAAP results to provide a more complete understanding of the factors and trends affecting the business than GAAP results alone. The definition of these non-GAAP measures may be changed periodically by management to adjust for significant items important to an understanding of operating trends and to adjust for items that may not reflect the trend of future results by excluding transactions that are not indicative of our core operating performance. Furthermore, analogous measures are used by industry analysts to evaluate the Company's operating performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the presentations of these measures may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies and can differ significantly from company to company depending on long-term strategic decisions regarding capital structure, the tax jurisdictions in which companies operate, and capital investments.
Included below are reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets that sum to the total of the same such amounts shown in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
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(The Conversation) – The Food and Drug Administration took 130 enforcement actions against counterfeit medication rings from 2016 through 2021, according to my new study published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Such actions might involve arrests, confiscation of products or counterfeit rings being dissolved.
These counterfeiting operations involved tens of millions of pills, more than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of active ingredient powder that could be turned into pills in the U.S. and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. Unfortunately, with over 11,000 rogue pharmacy sites selling drugs on the internet, these actions barely scratch the surface.
The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations conducts and coordinates criminal investigations into manufacturers and individuals violating federal drug laws. The agency maintains a database with links to press releases for their enforcement actions. Overall, in 64.6% of cases in that five-year period, the counterfeit products were sold over the internet, and in 84.6% of the enforcement actions taken, the products were obtained without a prescription.
Many of the counterfeit drugs were for controlled substances like opioids such as oxycodone and hydromorphone and stimulants such as those commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, as well as benzodiazepines, which are used for anxiety and sleep. China, India, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia were the most common countries supplying U.S. consumers with counterfeit drugs.
Why it matters
The World Health Organization states that approximately 11% of medications sold in developing countries are counterfeit, resulting in 144,000 additional deaths annually from imitation antibiotics and anti-malarial drugs alone. My previous study also documented 500 childhood deaths attributed to diethylene glycol – a common additive in antifreeze – being added to knockoff cough suppressants as a sweetener.
In addition, from November 2021 to February 2022, counterfeit versions of drugs used for chronic conditions – such as the transplant medication tacrolimus, sold under the brand name Limustin, and the anticoagulant rivaroxaban, or Xeralto – were found on Mexican pharmacy shelves.
In the U.S., the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013 secures the medication supply through a national electronic track-and-trace system that allows a specific medication to be followed from the manufacturer to the pharmacy. While the medications in licensed U.S. pharmacies are secure, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 19 million people in America obtained prescription medications that are likely counterfeit through non-U.S. licensed internet pharmacies or while traveling abroad. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy found that 96% of the 11,688 internet pharmacies they analyzed did not comply with U.S. federal or state laws. Of these, 62% did not reveal their physical location and 87% were affiliated with “rogue networks of internet drug outlets.”
The FDA offers some guidance to help consumers determine whether an online product is legitimate.
Opioids, benzodiazepines and stimulants are highly addictive and dangerous when taken inappropriately or when used together. While these counterfeit medications may look legitimate, the active ingredients that are supposed to be in these controlled substances are frequently replaced with more dangerous alternatives like fentanyl. Four in 10 counterfeit opioid pills containing fentanyl harbor a potentially lethal dosage.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. confiscated 9.5 million counterfeit pills from April 2020 to April 2021 – more than the previous two years combined. This is a likely driver of the 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. over that time.
Rogue online pharmacies frequently use social media platforms to reach potential customers. This suggests that more needs to be done by online platforms like social media, online forums and search engines to identify and stop illegitimate sellers of prescription drugs online.
People buying controlled substances over the internet are usually trying to circumvent physician control over the medication or the quantities they can receive. However, most people accessing noncontrolled substance counterfeit medications are simply trying to buy them at an affordable price. These trends make clear that the U.S. needs a long-term strategy to lower the cost of prescription medications to diminish demand for counterfeit medications, though there are some money-saving strategies that can be used in the short term. | https://phl17.com/nmw/dangerous-counterfeit-drugs-are-putting-millions-of-us-consumers-at-risk-according-to-a-new-study/ | 2022-05-30 16:54:29 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/dangerous-counterfeit-drugs-are-putting-millions-of-us-consumers-at-risk-according-to-a-new-study/ |
SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin holds a slim lead after the first run of Tuesday’s giant slalom and is in position for a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory.
Shiffrin currently shares the women’s record of 82 wins with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn.
Shiffrin is 0.13 seconds ahead of world champion Lara Gut-Behrami and 0.27 ahead of home favorite and former overall champion Federica Brignone at the Kronplatz resort in San Vigilio.
Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin’s usual rival, was 1.01 back, with Olympic champion Sara Hector nearly two seconds behind.
The second run starts at 1:30 p.m.
If she does win, Shiffrin will then need only three more victories to match Ingemark Stenmark’s overall mark — between men and women — of 86 victories. Stenmark competed in the 1970s and 80s.
Vonn retired four years ago when injuries cut her career short.
Mike Day, the head coach of Shiffrin’s personal team, set the course for the first run. Mauro Pini, Vlhova’s coach, will set the second run.
Shiffrin appeared to make a tactical decision to hold back slightly on the hardest part of a slope that is named Erta, which translates as “steep,” featuring a 61% gradient. Then she accelerated on the flatter lower section and appeared satisfied upon seeing her result, pumping her first slightly.
“There’s some spots where I was skiing very strong but not always taking on the speed,” Shiffrin said. “But I felt very, very good on the start. So just taking that skiing and being a bit more aggressive on the rest of the course.
“It was also smart after downhill, super-G to just get the timing back a bit,” Shiffrin added. “I just tried to move really quick and (make) good, clean turns.”
This is Shiffrin’s fifth opportunity to break the record after matching Vonn’s mark in Kranjksa Gora, Slovenia, earlier this month. She finished second to Vlhova in a slalom, her best event, in Flachau, Austria, then missed the podium in three straight speed races in nearby Cortina d’Ampezzo last weekend.
Gut-Behrami came down immediately after Shiffrin and took a similar cautious approach on the steeps. The Swiss skier’s last GS win came in November in Killington, Vermont. She claimed the gold medal in the event at the 2021 world championships in Cortina.
The first run was held in flat light with snow falling.
Valerie Grenier, the Canadian who claimed her first World Cup win this month, stood fourth, 0.76 behind, and American skier Paula Moltzan was fifth, 0.84 behind.
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(NEXSTAR) – Starbucks might be taking its bathrooms private again.
The coffee chain, which opened its café bathrooms to the non-purchasing public after a high-profile incident in 2018, could soon be walking back its restroom policy in order to maintain a “safe environment” for patrons and staff, CEO Howard Schultz said.
Schultz hinted at the policy change Thursday, in an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook D.C. policy forum.
“There is an issue of just safety in our stores, in terms of people coming in, who use our stores as a public bathroom, and we have to provide a … safe environment for our people and our customers,” Schultz said during a conversation with The Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Schultz broached the topic during a discussion regarding mental health, which he claimed to be the “No. 1 issues” that Starbucks is dealing with “as a company.”
“[The] mental health crisis in this country is severe, acute and getting worse,” Schultz said.
When asked by Ross Sorkin how the company plans to “deal” with the issue, Schultz responded by saying Starbucks needs to train its employees and “harden” its stores.
“I don’t know if we can keep our bathrooms open,” he said.
Starbucks had previously announced its open-bathroom policy in the wake of a 2018 incident at a Philadelphia location, where two Black men were arrested while waiting to meet with a business acquaintance in the store. One of the men had previously asked to use the restroom but was denied, the Associated Press reported at the time.
Starbucks previously had no fixed policy on bathroom access, Schultz said in the wake of the arrests, and decisions were ultimately up to individual stores.
After the incident, Schultz himself said Starbucks bathrooms would be open to all, as would the café areas, regardless of whether someone makes a purchase or not.
“We don’t want to become a public bathroom,” said Schultz, “but we’re going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key.”
Starbucks also included the directive in its “third place” policy, which aimed to position its cafes as welcoming spaces for the public, so long as visitors use the spaces lawfully and respectfully.
On Thursday, however, Schultz appeared to express uncertainty that Starbucks would be able to provide safe spaces for the public, especially during what he feels is a worsening mental-health crisis in the country.
“Again, Starbucks is trying to solve a problem and face a problem that is the government’s responsibility,” Schultz said. “And when I think about the issues that we, our business is facing and the challenge that our people are facing, almost every, every question you ask is a question about what the government’s responsibility is, and what I realize more and more, the government is no longer gonna solve any of these problems.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/starbucks-might-restrict-public-access-to-bathrooms-ceo-suggests/ | 2022-06-10 19:46:50 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/starbucks-might-restrict-public-access-to-bathrooms-ceo-suggests/ |
Five-time All-Star Giancarlo Stanton will miss four to six weeks after an MRI revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain, according to the Athletic.
Stanton was placed on the 10-day injured list Sunday and the Yankees recalled top prospect Oswald Peraza in a corresponding roster move. But, the MRI showed that manager Aaron Boone will be without one of his top players for more than 10 days.
“He worked very hard to try and avoid these things,” Boone said Sunday about the slugger’s injuries. “But, unfortunately it’s something that’s happened with him.”
The injury occurred while Stanton was decelerating after hitting a double in Saturday’s win over the Minnesota Twins, according to Boone.
Stanton missing time due to injuries has become as common theme for the former MVP.
In 2019, the slugger played just 18 regular-season games while dealing with a myriad of injuries. Lower body injuries have plagued the 6-6 outfielder while he has been in pinstripes, as he missed games with a hamstring injury in 2020 and a quad strain in 2021.
Last season, Stanton missed 29 games due to left Achilles tendinitis. He also missed time last season with an ankle injury. He missed 52 total games last season.
Outfielders Willie Calhoun, Franchy Cordero and Aaron Hicks could see more opportunities with Stanton sidelined for at least a month.
Before going down with the hamstring injury, Stanton was slashing .269/.296/.558 with four homers and 11 RBI in 13 games.
BREWER SENT DOWN
The Yankees outrighted right-hander Colten Brewer off the Major League roster and onto the roster of Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The righty appeared in three games with the team, recording a 4.32 ERA in 8.1 innings pitched.
Brewer was acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for cash considerations in March. Brewer spent the majority of last season with Triple-A Omaha of the Kansas City Royals organization, going 1-1 with one save and a 4.76 ERA over 36 relief appearances.
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CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Jin Young Ko overcam a four-shot deficit to win the Founders Cup for the third time in five years, getting the victory on the first playoff hole Sunday when defending champion Minjee Lee three-putted for bogey.
In winning for the 15th time on the LPGA Tour and the second time this year, Ko shot a final round-best 5-under 67 in tough, windy conditions. The 27-year-old South Korean forced the playoff making a clutch downhill birdie from roughly 15 feet on No. 18 to tie for the lead.
Ko joins Lilia Vu as the only players with multiple wins on tour this year, earning $450,000 from the $3 million purse.
The players went back to the par 4 No. 18 at the Upper Montclair Country Club for the playoff. Both players hit the green with their second shots with Lee being about 15 feet away and closer than Ko, who had a winding putt from right to left.
Ko snuggled her birdie attempt to tap-in range and Lee went for the win, but putted it six feet past the hole, missing the par saver to the right. Ko tapped in and then ran over and hugged her caddie, David Brooker.
Lee gave away what would have been here ninth win on tour by squandering a three-shot 54-hole lead early and then blowing a two-shot lead with three holes to play with a bogey at No. 16 and the Ko’s late birdie.
Lee shot a final-round 1-under 71 and finished the 72-hole event at 13-under 275.
Ko is the only player to repeat in this event, winning in 2019 and 2021. No event was held in 2020 because of COVID-19. Her three titles are the most by any winner in the event’s 12-year history.
Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa, who won the AIG Women’s Open last year, finished third at 10 under, a shot ahead of South Korean rookie Hae Ran Ryu in the event that honors the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour.
Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand, Aditi Ashok of India and American Angel Yin shared fifth place at 7-under — a shot ahead of Nasa Hataoka of Japan.
Lee started the round with a three-shot lead over Yin and Ashok with Ko in a group four off the lead. Ko closed the gap to two shots with birdies at Nos. 3 and 4, and and Lee handed the other two shots back when she hit a “fat” iron at the par 3 No. 6 into the water for a double bogey.
That created a brief three-way tie for the lead with Yin at 10-under. Yin had started the day three shots off the lead and got to 10-under with a birdie at No. 2.
Ko briefly took the lead with a birdie at No. 7 and Lee answered from 10 feet minutes. Ko took at 1-shot with a birdie at the par-5 12th, but Lee opened a two-shot edge with birdies at 11, 12 and 15.
Lee opened the door for Ko with a bogey at No. 16 after missing the fairway and Ko walked in with a deft downhill birdie putt at No. 18.
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After completing the latest round of coaching hires this week, the NFL won’t look much different on the sidelines in 2023.
DeMeco Ryans was the lone Black candidate to land one of the five openings, which means the 32-team league remains stuck at just three Black coaches heading toward a new season for the fifth year in a row.
The NFL also maintained the status quo with six minority head coaches, which includes Miami’s Mike McDaniel, who has a Black father and identifies as multiracial.
It remains a stubbornly low number in a league where nearly 57% of the players are Black and more that 69% are minorities, according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
“It’s certainly discouraging,” said Richard Lapchick, who heads the institute. ”I have no doubt the league is trying to make a push to strengthen its policies … but the record is the record.”
Three Black candidates stand out after all openings from the recently completed season were filled.
— Steve Wilks took over as Carolina’s interim coach when Matt Rhule was fired and nearly guided to the Panthers to the playoffs. That wasn’t enough to land the full-time job, which went to Frank Reich, a white coach who was fired in the midst of this past season by the Colts. Wilks, who was dumped by Arizona after just one season in his previous head coaching opportunity, is now San Francisco’s defensive coordinator.
— Former Miami head coach Brian Flores was among the candidates for the Cardinals’ job after the firing of Kliff Kingsbury. But Flores pulled himself out of the mix, instead accepting an offer as Minnesota’s defensive coordinator because “it was a great chance for growing.” It’s not clear if he would have gotten the Arizona job, which instead went to Philadelphia defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.
— Kansas City offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who is annually touted as one of the top Black head coaching candidates, was passed over again — even after the Chiefs won their second Super Bowl title in four years. This time, it was even more striking because both coordinators for the team they beat in the big game wound up with head coaching jobs. Philadelphia offensive coordinator Shane Steichen was tapped by the Indianapolis Colts.
While introducing Gannon at a media event Thursday, Arizona’s new general manager, Monti Ossenfort, insisted the team considered a diverse group of candidates.
“It was important for us to cast a wide net and interview a diverse group of people — not only from a race standpoint but also experience,” he said. “Ultimately, we had to come up with the fit that we felt was the best for the Arizona Cardinals. That led us to Jonathan.”
Ryans became the third straight Black head coach hired by the Houston Texans, but there’s a big caveat to that seeming sign of progress. Their last two coaches — David Culley and Lovie Smith — were both dismissed after only one season.
The other opening was in Denver, where the Broncos went with former New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.
Over the last five hiring cycles, a total of 33 non-interim jobs opened up around the league. Just five of those went to Black coaches — three of them hired by the Texans.
That group also included Flores, who took over the Dolphins heading into the 2019 season — and was fired just three years later despite two straight winning marks. He has since sued the NFL for discrimination.
The only other Black coach hired during that timeframe was Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles, who took over last March after Bruce Arians unexpectedly retired. Bowles is set to return for his second season with the Bucs despite a disappointing 2022 campaign.
With Ryans, Bowles and longtime Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin set to guide teams next season, the NFL remains at just three Black head coaches — the same number it had at the beginning of the last four seasons.
“To go up and go down, that’s normal,” Lapchick said. “But it’s stagnated at a low point for way too long.”
Despite efforts by the NFL to provide more exposure to minority candidates, the owners and front offices seem stubbornly resistant to giving Black coaches a chance.
In fact, the league seems to be going backward — or, at best, stuck in neutral.
“The hiring process in the NFL is like many other industries in that who you know seems to play an important role in who gets hired as a head coach,” said Devon Goss, an assistant professor of sociology at Oxford College of Emory University in suburban Atlanta.
“When so many people in leadership positions across the league are white, they are going to disproportionately socialize, network, and therefore hire other white people,” she said. “Additionally, as a society, many of the qualities that we associate with leadership, especially in sports, are tied to whiteness, making white coaches appear to be better candidates.”
It’s a far cry from the 2006 season, when the NFL seemingly had a huge breakthrough. There were seven Black head coaches that year, and two of them met in the Super Bowl for the first time ever.
When Tony Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts defeated Smith’s Chicago Bears in the title game, minority coaches appeared to be the biggest winners. No one could deny that Black coaches could do the job as well as their white counterparts.
Tomlin took over the Steelers the following season, and went on to lead them to a Super Bowl title, but the league has yet to surpass its high-water mark of seven Black head coaches.
By 2013, there were only three Black coaches a the start of the season. The number climbed back to seven in 2017 and remained at that level to start the following year.
Then, five Black coaches were let go during or after the 2018 season: Cleveland’s Hue Jackson, Bowles of the New York Jets, Denver’s Vance Joseph, Cincinnati’s Marvin Lewis, and Wilks by the Cardinals.
With Flores being the only new Black coach hired for the 2019 season, the overall number dropped to three.
It’s been there ever since, not counting interim coaches.
The Rooney Rule, which is supposed to ensure Black coaches at least get an opportunity to interview for open jobs, has largely been a flop. Many minority candidates have received what appear to be nothing more than token interviews, designed to check off a box rather than providing a real shot at a job.
“The Rooney Rule, while well intentioned, has not been effective,” said Vince Benigni, a communications professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. “Courtesy interviews of black candidates are anything but. Black candidates — usually successful coordinators — who interview and don’t receive jobs become skeptical of the process because positions are offered to less qualified coaches.”
Art Shell of the Raiders became the first Black head coach in the NFL’s modern era in 1989. He remains one of just 21 Black coaches who’ve held a top job on a non-interim basis.
Tampa Bay is the lone team that’s had four Black head coaches, with Bowles preceded by Dungy (1996-2001), Raheem Morris (2009-11) and Smith (2014-15).
Only two other teams — Houston and the Raiders (who twice gave Shell the job) — have hired Black head coaches three times.
Thirteen teams, roughly 40% of the league’s franchises, have never had a Black non-interim coach: Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Carolina, Dallas, Jacksonville, the Los Angeles Rams, New England, New Orleans, the New York Giants, Seattle, Tennessee and Washington.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, speaking last week ahead of the Super Bowl, insisted the league is making progress in providing more access to minority candidates, though he added “we always look to see how we can do better.”
He touted an “accelerator program” for introducing teams to a more diverse pool of candidates. He said that initiative led to the Titans hiring the first Black general manager in team history, Ran Carthon.
“We had a number of other programs that we’ve put in that I think are going to produce long-term results,” Goodell added. “Now we all want short-term results, but it’s important to have it be sustainable for the future, and we believe diversity makes us stronger.”
Maybe so, but most teams seem determined to keep things white on the sideline.
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Paul Newberry is a national sports writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org
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AP Sports Writer David Brandt in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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State regulators approve interim electric rate hike for MDU customers
Published: Jul. 21, 2022 at 7:26 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - State regulators have approved a temporary electric rate hike for Montana-Dakota Utilities customers. This comes as the group considers a larger, permanent increase.
Back in May, MDU had filed for 12.3% increase in rates.
That means an average residential customer would see their monthly bill increase by about $14.94.
The Public service commission of North Dakota approved a 6.3% hike which means an average residential customer would see their bill go up by $5.09 every month.
MDU hasn’t had a rate increase in five years. State law says the company is entitled it. The public will have time to comment on the permanent increase, but those hearings haven’t been scheduled yet.
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Which Naruto toys are best?
Naruto is one of the most popular anime ever created, and many fans are eager to show their love for Naruto with clothing, toys and collectibles. If you, or someone you know, is a fan of the show, you’ve likely wondered which Naruto toy is best.
There are numerous Naruto toys that you can buy online, and by comparing the most popular ones, you’ll be equipped to pick one that’s right for you.
What is Naruto about?
“Naruto” is a cartoon based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. The original Naruto anime focuses on Naruto, his friends Sasuke and Sakura and his sensei Kakashi. In the “Naruto: Shippuden” series, we follow a teenage Naruto as he attempts to find his comrade Sasuke and learns to control the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox that lives inside him.
Naruto is known to be hot-headed and unlikely to follow orders, and the Nine-Tailed Fox that was sealed away inside him makes him the target of ridicule by those in his village. Naruto’s ultimate goal is to become the leader of his village and gain the approval of those he grew up around.
Overall, the Naruto series is known for its emphasis on teamwork, believing in yourself and working hard to achieve your dreams.
Is Naruto appropriate for children?
In the United States, most episodes of Naruto are rated either TV-PG or TV-14. In general, the series is perfectly fine for children of most ages to watch. Still, there are a few things worth being aware of, such as the show’s implied nudity when Naruto uses his “Sexy Jutsu” — an ability that turns him into a nude woman, partially concealed by clouds of smoke.
Another thing that some parents may not be a fan of in the “Naruto: Shippuden” series are the numerous scenes in which characters inflict self-harm, either to use an ability or for the sake of honor. The violence in Naruto is generally pretty tame, but there is undoubtedly more blood and death in the “Naruto: Shippuden” series than the original “Naruto” series.
What kinds of Naruto toys are there?
Due to Naruto’s immense popularity, there is a wide variety of Naruto toys available. The most popular Naruto toys amongst children tend to be the Naruto plush toys and posable action figures, as they give children a chance to act out their favorite scenes and create their own. Adult fans tend to gravitate toward detailed collectible statues and figurines. If you’re a Funko POP! collector, there are several Naruto-themed Funkos that are worth your attention as well.
Best Naruto toys to buy online
Best Naruto plush toy
Naruto Shippuden Kakashi Eight-Inch Plush
This plush toy features everyone’s favorite sensei, Kakashi. The large stuffed toy is well-made and has a string on the back of Kakashi’s head that you can use to hang him up if you’d like. The doll’s expression captures Kakashi’s personality quite well, and he is even holding a plush kunai knife. The only notable complaint with this toy is that it features his Sharingan eye, but the headband is glued on so you can’t expose it.
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Best Naruto action figure
Gaara Naruto Shippuden Action Figure
Gaara is a longtime fan-favorite character that viewers were first introduced to in the original Naruto series. This action figure features Gaara using one of his most popular jutsu. The toy also has posable arms and legs that make it perfect for pretend play.
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Anime Heroes 15cm Sasuke Uchiha Action Figure
This detailed Sasuke Uchiha action figure manages to add fully-posable arms and legs without sacrificing build quality. This figure includes multiple interchangeable hands that simulate Sasuke’s jutsu and even comes with his most popular jutsu, the Chidori.
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Best Naruto collectible figure
Banpresto Naruto Shippuden Vibration Stars-Uchiha Sasuke-II
This collectible figure showcases everyone’s favorite anti-hero, Itachi, getting ready to use his sword. The figure is praised by users to be quite detailed..
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If you’re looking to get the most bang for your buck, you can’t go wrong with this six-piece figurine set. The set includes Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru and Gaara in impressive detail. The paint job on these figures may not be as nice as some of the others, but they are surprisingly realistic at less than $30 for six figures.
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Best Naruto Funko POP!
Naruto Sage of the Six Paths Funko POP!
This Funko toy features Naruto in his most powerful form. The bright color scheme really makes the figure stand out, and the flames behind Naruto will add extra flair to your display. As with any Funko Pop purchased online, there is a small risk that the box may arrive damaged, but other than that, this is a top-notch Funko for any serious collector.
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Besides Zabuza, Orochimaru is one of the first villains we meet in the Naruto series, and this Funko Pop certainly does his menacing character justice. This Funko stands nearly four inches tall and features his trademark sword and snakes. Even without a mouth, the figure does an excellent job of conveying Orochimaru’s sinister expression. The only minor complaints buyers had with this figure are a few paint errors, but there’s nothing particularly distracting about them.
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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus.
The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day.
“They were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something,” the lawyer, Michael Rose, told the newspaper.
“No one helped them with travel arrangements or gave them any money,” said Rose, based in Summerville, South Carolina. “One had to get to California, one to Alaska. One’s estranged from home and living out of his truck, according to an email I received describing his situation.”
Rose said two of the seven cadets had no homes to return to.
The cadets’ names have not been released. Rose said academy officials were “particularly mean-spirited” and could have waited until pending lawsuits challenging the military’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement were concluded.
In one of those lawsuits, Rose is representing more than 30 plaintiffs, including military personnel and service academy cadets, in litigation pending in federal court in South Carolina. Several of the cadets are from the Coast Guard Academy.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last year made the COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for service members, including those at the military academies, saying the vaccine is critical to maintaining military readiness and the health of the force.
At least 98% of all active duty military members are either fully or partially vaccinated, according to the military branches. To date, about 5,700 service members have been discharged from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps for refusing to get vaccinated.
Earlier this year, three cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who refused the vaccine were not commissioned as military officers but were allowed to graduate with bachelor’s degrees, while the other military academies said all their cadets were in compliance with the vaccine mandate.
A Coast Guard Academy spokesman, David Santos, said the seven cadets there were found to be in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for disobeying a superior officer and failing to obey an order or regulation. The cadets requested religious exemptions that were denied by school officials, he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought out deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski on Wednesday during remarks at a hunger conference, saying “Where’s Jackie?" The White House press secretary later said the congresswoman had been “top of mind” for the president at the time.
Karine Jean-Pierre did not acknowledge that Biden had misspoken during his remarks at the White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health when he looked around the room for Walorski, the Indiana congresswoman who died in an August car crash.
Biden, in his remarks. praised bipartisan lawmakers who worked on addressing childhood hunger, including Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Mike Braun, Sen. Cory Booker and Walorski, who was seen as a leader on the issue before her death.
"Representative — Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she wasn’t going to be here — to help make this a reality,” Biden said.
Jean-Pierre faced repeated questioning during Wednesday's White House press briefing about Biden's flub, saying more than a dozen times that Walorski was "top of mind" for the president, who plans to meet with the congresswoman’s family at an event Friday when he signs a bill renaming a Veterans Affairs clinic in Indiana after her. She declined to say Biden had erred, nor did she issue an apology to the late lawmaker’s family.
“My answer is certainly not going to change," she told reporters. "All of you may have views on how I'm answering it, but I'm answering the question to the way that he saw it and to the way that we see it.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/White-House-Late-congresswoman-top-of-mind-in-17473522.php | 2022-09-28 21:11:39 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/White-House-Late-congresswoman-top-of-mind-in-17473522.php |
Full cold moon 2022: When you can see it across America
Get ready, Earthlings! December's full moon will shine bright Wednesday.
The "cold moon" will be at its fullest just after 11 p.m. EST, and you'll have a little bit more time to gaze at it since daylight saving time ended last month. The event is also known as the "long night moon" or the "moon before yule."
What is a cold moon?
The full moon takes a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to the low sun. According to NASA, the moon will be above the horizon longer than at other times of the year.
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FILE - Cold moon rises at sunset behind Monte Prena mountain in Gran Sasso National Park in Italy, on Dec. 19, 2021. (Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
According to NASA, the cold moon gets its name because December is the month when it really starts to get cold, although our coldest average temperatures are in January.
WHEN IS THE COLDEST TIME OF YEAR?
"The long night moon gets its name because the full moon in December occurs near the solstice, which has the longest night of the year," NASA said.
Europeans call the December full moon the "moon before yule," named after Yule, an old northern European winter festival that is now associated with Christmas.
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DECEMBER ASTRONOMY EVENTS: BEST METEOR SHOWER OF 2022, BRIGHT MARS AND FULL COLD MOON
Mars will make a comeback, of sorts, on Thursday when it will be at its closest point to Earth in two years. However, close is all relative when talking about the vastness of space. Mars will still be 38.6 million miles away at its closest approach.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For most of the six decades that monkeypox has been known to affect people, it was not known as a disease that spreads through sex. Now that has changed.
The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus, and it’s been designated a global emergency. So far, officials say, all evidence indicates that the disease has spread mainly through networks of men who have sex with men.
“It clearly is spreading as an STI (sexually transmitted infection) at this point,” said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
To protect the people at highest risk while trying to contain the spread, public health agencies are focusing their attention on those men — and attacking the virus based on how it’s behaving now.
On Wednesday, the head of the World Health Organization advised men at risk for monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners “for the moment.”
But this is a complicated outbreak that may shift in how it spreads and which population groups are most affected. There is also debate about whether monkeypox should be called a sexually transmitted disease, with some critics complaining that the term creates a stigma and could be used to vilify gay and bisexual men.
Monkeypox can spread in nonsexual ways too, and it’s not enough to use condoms or other typical measures for stopping STDs, Inglesby and other experts say.
Here’s what we know.
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING AN STD?
A sexually transmitted disease is commonly defined as one that mainly spreads through sexual contact. But some STDs can be spread in other ways, too. HIV can spread through shared needles. Syphilis can spread through kissing. A common, parasite-caused sexual infection called trichomoniasis has been found to spread through the sharing of damp, moist objects like sponges or towels.
Monkeypox has not usually spread easily among people, and experts are still trying to understand exactly how it moves from person to person. In Africa, where small outbreaks have been common for years, people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals.
But in May, cases began emerging in Europe, the United States and elsewhere that showed a clear pattern of infection through intimate contact with an infected person, like many other sexually transmitted diseases.
The public health workers who respond to outbreaks play a large role how they are framed. Much of the work on monkeypox has been done by professionals who operate sexual health clinics or specialize in STDs.
Indeed, the U.S. government’s response needs to be led by people with that expertise, said David C. Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors.
“The STD field has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in these areas developed over decades fighting various outbreaks and diseases affecting the very communities … we’re seeing monkeypox taking a toll on today,” Harvey said in a statement.
WHO IS GETTING MONKEYPOX?
WHO officials said last week that 99% of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98% involved men who have sex with men. Experts suspect that monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were ignited by sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain.
The statistics are the same for cases reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As in Europe, cases have emerged in other groups too, including at least 13 people who were female at birth and at least two children.
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study of hundreds of monkeypox infections in 16 countries. It found that the suspected means of transmission in 95% of the cases was sexual close contact, as reported by doctors. The researchers noted that it was impossible to confirm sexual transmission.
That idea seemed to be further supported by the finding that most of the men had lesions in the genital or anal areas or in the mouth — areas of sexual contact, the researchers said.
WHY IS THERE A DEBATE ABOUT CALLING IT AN STD?
While there is broad agreement among health officials that monkeypox is being transmitted during sexual encounters, some experts debate whether it should be called an STD. They worry that the term unfairly stigmatizes and that it could undermine efforts to identify infections and tame the outbreak.
When a disease is defined as a sexually transmitted infection that mainly affects men who have sex with men, many people may begin to think of it as “a gay disease” that poses no risk to them, said Jason Farley, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
That’s what happened in the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, which contributed to the spread of HIV to other groups. Farley said.
“We learn nothing from our history,” said Farley, who is gay.
The WHO recommendation that at-risk men limit their sexual partners is sensible public health advice, he said. But it also amplifies “the message that this is a gay disease,” he said.
“This is the fine line between having a public health approach that focuses on the epidemiology of now, compared to the likelihood of the continued emergence of new cases in” the general community, he said.
“Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection,” he said. “It is an infection that can be transmitted with sexual contact.”
WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT TRANSMISSION?
Some researchers have found evidence of the monkeypox virus in semen. A study in Spain found monkeypox virus DNA in the semen of some infected men, as well as in saliva and other body fluids. But the study didn’t answer whether the virus actually has spread through semen.
Sorting that out could affect the understanding of not only how men spread the infection, but also how long they might be contagious. Evidence of some other viruses — like Ebola and Zika — has been found in the semen of some men months after they were thought to be fully recovered.
Meanwhile, scientists believe the primary route of transmission during the current outbreak has been skin-to-skin contact during sexual encounters with someone who has symptoms. In that respect, it’s similar to herpes, some experts noted.
The virus also may spread through saliva and respiratory droplets during prolonged, face-to-face contact, such as during kissing and cuddling — a kind of spread that can occur outside of sex.
Researchers are exploring how often, and in what situations, that kind of spread might happen, said Christopher Mores, a professor of global health at George Washington University.
“We would do ourselves a disservice to try and exclude anything from the realm of possibility at this point,” he said.
Officials also say people can catch monkeypox from touching items that previously touched an infected person’s rash or body fluids, such as towels or bedsheets. That is thought to explain the infections of the U.S. children.
WHY ARE THESE DETAILS IMPORTANT?
It’s important to understand exactly how monkeypox spreads in order to give people the information they need to protect themselves, health officials say.
That said, health officials believe those who are currently at the highest risk are gay or bisexual men who have sex with multiple partners. That understanding has shaped much of the work to contain the outbreak, including prioritization of the supply of vaccines and treatments.
The government has been shipping a monkeypox vaccine, but the supply is limited. So far it’s only been recommended as a post-exposure treatment or for people who have had multiple sex partners in the past two weeks in a place where monkeypox cases have been reported.
The vaccine is new, and officials are trying to gather data on exactly how well it works.
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Associated Press Writer Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX, OTCQB: INXDF) ("INX"), a FINRA registered broker-dealer offering registered security tokens and a trading platform for digital assets, officially made public today its proactive self-regulatory measure to fully segregate customer funds, reinforcing its commitment to the highest standards of customer protection in the rapidly growing world of digital asset trading. While INX has been segregating customer assets for years following well-established practices in the regulated trading industry, the company is making clear that it put in place legal segregation of customer funds for the trading of digital assets, making them bankruptcy remote and further demonstrating INX's dedication to providing a secure and transparent environment for its valued clients.
While stringent regulations exist for the custody of customer assets in traditional markets, the digital asset landscape currently lacks similar standardized practices. "The absence of specific regulations targeting digital assets should not deter us from applying common sense and best practices by leveraging existing regulations from the traditional capital markets," said Keren Avidar, Global General Counsel at INX.
Recognizing the importance of customer protection, INX has taken proactive steps to address this gap by utilizing the expertise of the legal team at Foley & Lardner LLP, which specializes in digital assets, customer asset segregation rules, and U.S. bankruptcy law. Working with its legal, custody, and bank partners, INX has extended the protections already in place at the INX broker-dealer to customer funds held for trading digital assets by utilizing customer protection practices similar to those under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) customer asset segregation model.
"We believe that safeguarding our clients' assets is of utmost importance, especially for digital assets markets where standardized regulatory practices are yet to be fully established and where INX intends to be the model for other industry participants and intermediaries," said Renata Szkoda, CFO of INX. "By adopting the CFTC model for the protection of customer funds and engaging with the foremost experts in this area, we are providing our clients with an unparalleled level of assurance and protection while also solidifying INX as the standard-setting leader in the industry."
Additionally, as part of its commitment to maintaining the highest level of customer protection, INX has implemented a robust segregation calculation model. The platform securely holds client assets, including popular digital commodities such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, offering enhanced security and peace of mind to its valued clientele. The daily calculation model adopted by INX adheres to the standards set by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), ensuring that customer funds are accurately accounted for and segregated in specifically designated accounts at the end of each and every trading day.
The segregation of customer funds goes beyond merely separating accounts; it also entails proper customer disclosure as well as having adequate funds to cover liabilities, ensuring the utmost financial security for INX investors. As a responsible industry participant, INX acknowledges its obligation to protect client funds and cover any potential liabilities that may arise.
To reinforce this commitment, INX requires all custodians and banking partners to sign a segregation acknowledgment letter, underscoring that the funds held by INX are client funds and not the property of the company. This acknowledgment solidifies the understanding between INX and its custody and banking partners, affirming INX's role as a trusted business partner.
For more information about INX and its novel trading and capital-raising financial instruments for enterprises and companies worldwide, visit https://www.inx.co/.
About INX:
INX provides a regulated trading platform for digital securities and cryptocurrencies. With the combination of traditional markets expertise and a disruptive fintech approach, INX provides state-of-the-art solutions to modern financial problems. INX is led by an experienced and dedicated team of business, finance, and technology veterans with the shared vision of redefining the world of capital markets via blockchain technology and innovative regulatory approach.
About The INX Digital Company, Inc. INX is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which we raised US$84 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, INX's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When the waves wash trash onto the beaches of front-line South Korean islands, Kang Dong Wan can often be found hunting for what he calls his “treasure” — rubbish from North Korea that provides a peek into a place that’s shut down to most outsiders.
“This can be very important material because we can learn what products are manufactured in North Korea and what goods people use there,” Kang, 48, a professor at South Korea’s Dong-A University, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
He was forced to turn to the delicate information-gathering method because COVID-19 has made it much harder for outsiders to find out what’s going on inside North Korea, one of the world’s most cloistered nations even without pandemic border closures.
The variety, amount and increasing sophistication of the trash, he believes, confirms North Korean state media reports that leader Kim Jong Un is pushing for the production of various kinds of consumer goods and a bigger industrial design sector to meet the demands of his people and improve their livelihoods.
Kim, despite his authoritarian rule, cannot ignore the tastes of consumers who now buy products at capitalist-style markets because the country’s socialist public rationing system is broken and its economic woes have worsened during the pandemic.
“Current North Korean residents are a generation of people who’ve come to realize what the market and economy are. Kim can’t win their support if he only suppresses and controls them while sticking to a nuclear development program,” Kang said. “He needs to show there are some changes in his era.”
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kang regularly visited Chinese border towns to meet North Koreans staying there. He also bought North Korean products and photographed North Korean villages across the river border. He can’t go there anymore, however, because China’s anti-virus restrictions limit foreign travelers.
Since September 2020, Kang has visited five South Korean border islands off the country’s west coast and collected about 2,000 pieces of North Korean trash including snack bags, juice pouches, candy wrappers and drink bottles.
Kang said he was amazed to see dozens of different kinds of colorful packaging materials, each for certain products like seasonings, ice cream bars, snack cakes and milk and yogurt products. Many carry a variety of graphic elements, cartoon characters and lettering fonts. Some still can seem out of date by Western standards and are apparent copycats of South Korean and Japanese designs.
Kang recently published a book based on his work titled “Picking up North Korean Trash on the Five West Sea Islands.” He said he’s now also started to scour eastern South Korean front-line beaches.
Other experts study the diversity of goods and packaging designs in North Korea through state media broadcasts and publications, but Kang’s trash collection allows a more thorough analysis, said Ahn Kyung-su, head of DPRKHEALTH.ORG, a website focusing on health issues in North Korea.
Kang’s work also opens up a fascinating window into North Korea.
Ingredient information on some juice pouches, for instance, shows North Korea uses tree leaves as a sugar substitute. Kang suspects that’s because of a lack of sugar and sugar-processing equipment.
He said the discovery of more than 30 kinds of artificial flavor enhancer packets could mean that North Korean households cannot afford more expensive natural ingredients like meat and fish to cook Korean soups and stews. Many South Koreans have stopped using them at home over health concerns.
Plastic bags for detergents have phrases like “the friend of housewives” or “accommodating women.” Because the assumption is that only women do such work, it could be a reflection of the low status of women in male-dominated North Korean society.
Some wrappers display extremely exaggerated claims. One says that a walnut-flavored snack cake is a better source of protein than meat. Another says that collagen ice cream makes children grow taller and enhances skin elasticity. And yet another claims that a snack cake made with a certain kind of microalgae prevents diabetes, heart disease and aging.
Kang has been unable to verify the quality of former contents inside his trash.
North Korean snacks and cookies have generally become much softer and tastier in recent years, though their quality still lags behind that of South Korea’s internationally competitive products, according to Jeon Young-sun, a research professor at Seoul’s Konkuk University.
Noh Hyun-jeong, a North Korean defector, said she was “ecstatic” about the South Korean bread and cakes that she ate after her arrival here in 2007. She said the confectionaries and candies she had in the North were often bitter and “as hard as a rock.”
Kang Mi-Jin, another defector who runs a company analyzing North Korea’s economy, said that when she had South Koreans try new North Korean cookies and candies in blind taste tests, they thought they were South Korean. But Ahn, the website head, said the North Korean cookie he obtained in 2019 was “tasteless.”
Kang said his trash collection is an attempt to better understand the North Korean people and study how to bridge the gap between the divided Koreas in the event of future unification.
In 2019, Kang said he was denied entry at Shanghai’s airport, apparently because of his earlier, mostly unauthorized work along the China-North Korea border. During a previous period of inter-Korean detente that ended in 2008, Kang said he visited North Korea more than 10 times but could only buy limited goods that didn’t help him understand the country.
Picking up trash on the islands, about 4-20 kilometers (2.5-12 miles) from North Korean territory, is a tough job. He most often visits Yeonpyeong, an island shelled by North Korea in an attack that killed four South Koreans in 2010.
On some trips, South Korean marines quizzed Kang because residents who saw him collecting trash thought he was doing something suspicious. He was sometimes stranded when ferry services were canceled because of bad weather. Kang said he occasionally cried in frustration on the beach when he failed to find North Korean trash or received calls from acquaintances jeering or doubting his work.
“But I was heartened after collecting more and more trash … and I determined that I must find out how many goods are in a country where we can’t go and what we can find from that trash,” Kang said. “When the wind blew and the waves ran high, something always washed ashore and I was so happy because I could find something new.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed Thursday to reopen diplomatic missions in their respective capitals and in additional cities, Iran's semiofficial news agency said.
ISNA reported the foreign ministers reached the agreement in Beijing.
The deal calls for studying the prospects of resuming flights between the two nations and facilitating the visa process for the citizens of both countries. Saudi Arabia and Iran are long-time regional rivals, but have moved toward reconciliation as part of a deal brokered by China last month.
There was no immediate official confirmation of the ISNA report.
The agreement represents a new step toward reconciliation after seven years of tension, and lowers the chance of armed conflict between the Mideast rivals – both directly and in proxy conflicts around the region.
The deal was brokered by Beijing. It represents a major diplomatic victory for the Chinese as Gulf Arab states perceive the United States slowly withdrawing from the wider Middle East. It also comes as diplomats have been trying to end a long war in Yemen, a conflict in which both Iran and Saudi Arabia are deeply entrenched.
On Thursday morning, Saudi Arabia's state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV showed Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian shaking hands and sitting side by side. Iran's state TV said the two ministers met to discuss the details of reopening embassies.
It was the first formal meeting of senior diplomats from the two nations since 2016, when the kingdom broke ties with Iran after protesters invaded Saudi diplomatic posts there. Saudi Arabia had executed a prominent Shiite cleric with 46 others days earlier, triggering the demonstrations.
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8 Project SEARCH students celebrate graduation and new jobs Monday
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - A group of College Station ISD students spent the past nine months working inside the Baylor Scott and White College Station hospital. The eight graduates are part of Project SEARCH, working to assist people living with disabilities as they transition to adulthood.
Hospital staff, friends and family gathered Monday for a ceremony to honor the graduates and celebrate their next steps.
Kenyatta Davis is a Project SEARCH graduate who will get to stay with his new coworkers.
“I’ve changed so much and it was all because of the people that I worked with,” he said.
Davis started working in the kitchen at the hospital. He has been hire to help in the kitchen line and deliver food to patients. While he has grown to love the gig, Davis said he started out pretty nervous.
“When I first got there I I felt overwhelmed because there was a lot of places and I am not good with directions. So, I followed a lot of people so that way I can better understand where certain things are in certain places and after I got the hang of it, after I followed a few people, I started going on my own without having people to follow,” he said.
Beth Sherry, the Project SEARCH instructor based at BSW, said this is exactly why the hospital was such a good fit for the district program.
“I truly don’t think that we could have a better location to have this program because every single person here just has the biggest heart and they are so kind,” she said. “When the interns are coming back, and their coworkers are coming back, and talking about how well they get along and how good those relationships are, it really just kind of drives home that we are doing what we should be doing and that it’s working.”
Project SEARCH is looking for other businesses in the area to give feedback on hiring people with disabilities. This includes information on barriers for those hesitant to hire people with disabilities and positive feedback from those who already employ people with disabilities.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) released today its 2022 Global Leadership Monitor, the second annual survey tracking threats to organizational health—and senior leaders' preparedness to face them.
The Global Leadership Monitor surveyed 514 CEOs and board leaders, as well as 511 C-suite leaders and 565 next-generation Leaders (senior talent who sit one or two levels below the C-suite) across 46 countries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.
In the analysis of responses, three inter-related threats rise to the top: uncertain economic growth, geopolitical instability, and talent/skill shortages.
Coming off the back of a challenging labor market, 72% of leaders cited the availability of key talent/skills among the top five most pressing threats (from a list of 20 threats) to organizational health over the next 12-18 months (up 13 percentage points since 2021). Uncertain economic growth and geopolitical instability were the next two most frequently cited threats, the latter rising seven places in the ranking.
These three top threats all rank among the issues that leaders say their organizations are least prepared to face.
"Our research makes clear the profound level of geopolitical and economic uncertainty with which global business leaders are dealing in the current operating environment," said RRA chief executive officer Constantine Alexandrakis. "These conditions are not expected to change any time soon, making it pivotal to have leadership in place that can navigate choppy waters effectively and inspire trust and confidence enterprise wide."
Other global themes and findings from the survey include:
- Half of leaders say their leadership teams are unprepared to face economic uncertainty. Those leadership teams that are well prepared are differentiated by their approach to digital and sustainability.
- Consumers/customers remain the top stakeholder group over the next five years, while employees have climbed in importance. Ranked second, ahead of investors, the gap between employees and consumers as key stakeholders has narrowed by 18 percentage points.
- While the great attrition risk experienced in 2021 has abated somewhat, fifty-six percent of next-generation leaders are still willing to make a move to another employer for the right opportunity. Importantly more than two-thirds are not confident in the leadership succession plans at their organization. "Career recalculation" is the key issue and organizations must focus on providing growth and development to retain their next-gen leaders.
To access the report, visit: https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/insights/global-leadership-monitor
Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates administers The Global Leadership Monitor, an annual survey of executives and non-executive directors, which tracks key threats to organizational health and leadership preparedness to face them, as well as indicators of confidence in leadership, and leaders' engagement and career aspirations.
In March 2022, we surveyed 1,590 business leaders, who represent 46 countries in Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe, Middle East and Oceania.
All data has been weighted by GDP to create a more representative lens on share of business contribution from each market. Next-Generation executives are defined as those who are at an executive role level below the CEO and C-suite leaders.
Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) is a global leadership advisory firm. Our 500+ consultants in 47 offices work with public, private, and nonprofit organizations across all industries and regions. We help our clients build teams of transformational leaders who can meet today's challenges and anticipate the digital, economic, and political trends that are reshaping the global business environment. From helping boards with their structure, culture, and effectiveness, to identifying, assessing, and defining the best leadership for organizations, our teams bring their decades of expertise to help clients address their most complex leadership issues. We exist to improve the way the world is led.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media briefing on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. EST to share early results from the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) technology demonstration.
Audio of the call will stream live on the agency's website.
The LOFTID demonstration took place Nov. 10. About one hour after launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, the LOFTID inflatable heat shield deployed and began its demonstration. As LOFTID inflated, the Centaur upper stage rocket spun up and released the heat shield, which then began its intense re-entry journey through Earth's atmosphere. LOFTID splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at about 7 a.m.
The inflatable heat shield technology tested by LOFTID could improve landing capability on worlds with atmospheres, allowing the landing of heavier payloads and safe touchdown at higher altitudes than are currently accessible. The technology has potential applications for missions to Mars, Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, and return of large payloads from low-Earth orbit.
Full study of LOFTID's performance is expected to take about a year.
The team will share initial results of the demonstration during the call. The briefing participants are:
- Trudy Kortes, director of Technology Demonstrations, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Joe Del Corso, LOFTID project manager, NASA's Langley Research Center
- John DiNonno, LOFTID chief engineer, NASA Langley
- Greg Swanson, LOFTID instrumentation lead, NASA's Ames Research Center
Media will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists. To participate, media must RSVP at least two hours prior to the virtual event to Roxana Bardan at: roxana.bardan@nasa.gov.
The LOFTID project is managed and funded through NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions program, part of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate. The project is led by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in partnership with ULA and with contributions from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, managed the launch service.
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College Station restaurant sees growth as Labor Day hits
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) -After nearly two years of suffering due to COVID-19, one local restaurant is thriving after a busy summer.
Labor Day not only marks the unofficial end of summer, but it also signifies the end of the summer travel season. The summer of 2022 led Urban Table to record sales.
Opening in April of 2019, the restaurant started with long waits and full tables. The community was excited to have a restaurant that offered an American flare by Chef Tai.
But COVID-19 hit the restaurant industry hard in 2020. Bar Manager, Joseph Garcia, told KBTX regular customers stopped coming by and their businesses overall started to slow down like so many others.
“I mean back when the pandemic started I know so much changed,” said Garcia. “I was here for the back end of the pandemic and even then I’ve realized how far past that stage we are now. So, I just can’t imagine going back to that place where we were wondering what’s next for Urban Table.”
Garcia said Urban Table is busy year round due to local customers coming back for more, but summer months seemed to be a highlight of their yearly business numbers.
When Labor Day comes around, Garcia said they often look back on the summer and compare it to past years.
“Compared to last year, I mean we didn’t have the half the crowd we do on this year’s Labor Day. It just shows you how we are moving forward. All of our staff is so grateful for our customers and it’s really great to see everyone’s faces,” Garcia said.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "This idea came to me in a dream," said an inventor from Louisville, Ky., "The STORYTIME NIGHT LIGHT can help children feel bonded to a parent when away because mom or dad can still read the bedtime story to the child."
The patent-pending invention provides comfort for children who are fearful of the dark or who are missing their parent. It can entertain and soothes a child at night, naptime, or quiet time. The night light is easily transportable to be used in the baby's nursery or bedroom, or when at grandma's house, the babysitter, a hotel, etc. It's child-friendly design may help children to be more cooperative at bedtime and relieves parents of the task of reading the same story over and over.
The original design was submitted to the Nashville sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NAM-193, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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By AARON MORRISON
AP National Writer
Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which begin nationwide on Friday, typically include a mix of politics, faith and community service.
For this year’s observance, the 37th since its federal recognition in 1986, a descendant of King hopes to spur progress by helping more Americans personalize the ongoing struggle for racial equity and harmony. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon, said people must move beyond platitudes and deepen their own commitments to the needed progress.
“We need to change our thinking,” said King, who is CEO of The King Center in Atlanta.
Under the theme “It Starts With Me,” the center launched its slate of Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday with youth and adult summits to educate the public on ways to transform unjust systems in the U.S.
The summits were streamed online and are available for replay on the center’s social media accounts.
“It seems like we’re going through these cycles, because we’re trying to approach everything with the same mindset that all of this (racial inequity) was created,” King told The Associated Press.
“Change can be very small,” she said, “but transformation means that now we changed the character, form, and nature of something. That’s something we have not seen yet.”
Other King holiday weekend events include a statue unveiling in Boston, a symposium on police brutality in Akron, Ohio, and community service projects in many U.S. cities. The holiday kicks off another year of advocacy on a racial justice agenda — from police reforms and strengthening voting rights to solutions on economic and educational disparities — that has been stymied by culture wars and partisan gridlock in Washington and nationwide.
Residents of Selma, Alabama, which played a central role in King’s legacy, woke up to extensive damage Friday from a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes across the South. The city became a flashpoint of the civil rights movement when state troopers viciously attacked Black people who marched nonviolently for voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
King wasn’t present for the march known as “Bloody Sunday,” but he joined a subsequent procession that successfully crossed the bridge toward the Capitol in Montgomery. The Pettus Bridge was unscathed by Thursday’s storm.
On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden is due to speak at a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historic Atlanta house of worship where King preached from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The church is pastored by the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who recently won election to a full term as Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.
And on Monday, the federal observance of the King holiday, commemorations continue in Atlanta, as well as in the nation’s capital and beyond.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will hold his annual King holiday events in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday.
Sharpton announced Friday that Biden will deliver the keynote address at his breakfast gala in Washington. Martin Luther King III is expected to attend the event with his wife, Drum Major Institute President Arndrea Waters King, who will be honored alongside former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Monday afternoon in New York City, Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network, is scheduled to convene more than 30 prominent state and local elected officials for a public policy forum at the House of Justice, his organization’s headquarters in Harlem.
In the decades since its establishment, the King holiday has become an opportunity for elected officials and candidates seeking office to establish their civil rights and social justice credentials. Bernice King said partisanship among politicians has been a major obstacle to legislative solutions on civil rights.
Overcoming that is “going to require elevating to a place where your loyalty is to humanity, not to party,” she said.
“If we don’t find humane ways to create policies and implement practices out of those policies, we’re going to continue in this vicious cycle of a downward spiral towards destruction and chaos.”
Outside of establishment politics, many King holiday weekend events are opportunities for Americans to give back, reflect on the civil rights icon’s legacy or deal locally with racial discrimination in their own communities.
A massive monument to Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be dedicated Friday in Boston, where the leader first met his wife, Coretta Scott King. In the early 1950s, he was a doctoral student in theology at Boston University and she was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.
The $10 million sculpture called “The Embrace” consisting of four intertwined arms was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when King Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It was designed by Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group and was selected out of 126 proposals.
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of EmbraceBoston, the organization behind the memorial, noted the significance of the sculpture’s placement at the Boston Common, America’s oldest public park and a high traffic area with millions of city residents and visitors walking its paths every year.
“I think Boston has this reputation of being this city of heroes and abolitionists, like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass, simultaneously with this reputation of not being friendly and in some cases being described as racist. So there’s this tension between these two images of Boston. Having the memorial there is part of our intention to transform our city’s perspective.”
In Akron, Ohio, the family of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed after police officers shot at him 46 times as he fled last July, will hold a symposium on public safety and mental health with local civil rights leaders on Saturday. Walker’s case received widespread attention from activists, including from the King family.
And for the seventh year, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will mark a post-King holiday National Day of Racial Healing. On Tuesday, communities nationwide are scheduled to hold town halls to continue dialog on healing that the foundation says is needed to achieve racial equity.
“Regardless of who you are, there’s a journey of healing that everyone must consider,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the Kellogg Foundation. “We’ve all been impacted by racism.”
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Associated Press writer Mark Pratt in Boston contributed to this report. Aaron Morrison is a New York City-based member of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison.
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LINCOLN, Neb. - After an exciting first day of action, the remaining five Big Ten schools get to show off their stuff on Saturday, as the Michigan State Spartans, and others, compete in day two of the Big Five Meet.
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The Spartans, like many others in the Big Ten, come into the weekend with plenty of rest. MSU was originally scheduled to compete last Friday against Illinois, but their meet was postponed. Sparty’s last bit of competition saw them fall to Iowa two weeks ago, which put an end to a four-meet win streak for the Green and White. Michigan State enters Saturday ranked 19th in the NCAA, and third in the Big Ten behind Michigan and Ohio State.
Saturday is expected to be the busier day of competition, with a few other top programs in action. Along with the Spartans, Ohio State, Rutgers, Minnesota and Nebraska are set to take to beam, mat and bars.
The Buckeyes lead the conference with a 4-1 record, with their 10-1 overall record placing them No. 13 in the country. Minnesota is tied for third in the B1G with Iowa, and is 18th in the national polls, with Rutgers and host Nebraska sitting at the bottom of the conference, both winless in the Big Ten action.
NCAA Women’s Gymnastics
Big Five Meet (Day 2)
When: Saturday, February 25
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Where: Bob Devaney Sports Center (Lincoln, Neb.)
Channel: Big Ten Network
Stream: FuboTV (Free Trial), Sling, DirecTV Stream
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SEATTLE (AP) — After voting down a bill last month to keep drug possession illegal and boost services for people struggling with addiction, Washington lawmakers are entering a special legislative session to find a compromise before a temporary law keeping the possession of small amounts of drugs outlawed expires.
If a new law is not passed, Washington would become the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to decriminalize possession of personal-use amounts of drugs, even as widely available and cheap fentanyl worsens an opioid crisis defined by open drug use and soaring overdose deaths.
Here’s what to know about the crisis.
HOW WE GOT HERE
The Washington Supreme Court in 2021 struck down a state law making drug possession a felony. It was unconstitutional, the court said, because it did not require prosecutors to prove that someone knowingly had the drugs. Washington was the only state in the country without that requirement.
In response, lawmakers passed a temporary measure giving themselves two years to build a long-term policy.
WHAT THE LAW SAYS NOW
That temporary measure made intentional drug possession a misdemeanor and required police to refer offenders to evaluation or treatment for their first two offenses. There was no obvious way, however, for officers to track how many times someone had been referred, and availability of treatment remained inadequate.
WHEN DOES IT EXPIRE?
July 1, 2023.
WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS YEAR’S SESSION
As this year’s session ended late last month, Senate Bill 5536 — billed as a compromise — was voted down in the Democratic-controlled House, 55-43.
WHAT THAT BILL SAID
The law would have done the following:
— Increased potential penalties for drug possession, making it a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, rather than a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days.
— Eliminated the requirement that police refer a person for treatment rather than prosecution for the first two offenses. Officers could then arrest someone for a first offense, while also encouraging police and prosecutors to divert cases.
— Allowed judges to impose jail time for people who refuse treatment or repeatedly fail to comply.
— Made clear that public health workers could not be prosecuted for giving out drug paraphernalia, such as clean glass tubes for smoking fentanyl.
— Included funding for drug crisis centers; a pilot program for access to clean drug paraphernalia and other services; and more access to withdrawal medication in jails and prisons.
WHAT’S THE CURRENT CONFLICT?
Many liberal Democrats have objected to criminalizing drugs, while conservative Democrats and Republicans insisted on a threat of jail to provide incentive for people to enter treatment.
Democrat and Republican lawmakers agree on the need to increase services, but Republicans felt the bill didn’t provide enough accountability for offenders and would preempt local bans on drug paraphernalia, among other things.
WHAT ARE LAWMAKERS DOING?
The special legislative session beginning Tuesday gives lawmakers another chance to reach an agreement.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — A St. Louis-area family did a double take when they saw a black bear in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico this past weekend.
“We had been out on the beach, swimming, boogie boarding for a few hours,” said Karen Pierson.
She and her family were vacationing in Destin, Florida, when they saw the bear Sunday.
“I’m looking at the bear, and I know my girls are behind me, and I’m like, ‘Yes, that is a real bear,’” Pierson said.
She said the bear swam within approximately 100 feet of the family as they swam away to create some distance. No one was harmed.
Dan Zarlenga, the St. Louis regional media specialist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, said giving an American black bear some space was exactly the right thing to do.
“Give it enough space,” Zarlenga said. “Don’t try to get too close to it.”
He said bears are native to Florida. It’s unknown how the bear made its way to the beach in Destin.
Zarlenga does encourage anyone living in an area where a bear has been spotted to make sure they don’t feed the bear. He said feeding bears can lead them to become more aggressive.
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Key pillar supports Sapphire's portfolio companies along their growth journey and accelerates their go-to-market efforts.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapphire Ventures, a leading global investment firm that partners with visionary management teams and venture funds to scale companies of consequence, today announced that Karan Singh has joined the firm as a partner and head of Sapphire's new Revenue Excellence function, an expanded function of the Portfolio Growth team. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Karan will be responsible for providing strategic GTM advisory services to Sapphire portfolio companies to help scale their revenue engines.
Sapphire's new Revenue Excellence function will supply the firm's portfolio companies with support and guidance as they pursue their growth journeys. Through partnership with leaders in sales, marketing, customer success and revenue operations, this function will become a hub of knowledge and best practices for revenue leaders as they navigate the various phases of growth.
"At Sapphire, we aim to provide our portfolio companies with the most meaningful and impactful guidance at the right time, across their entire revenue engine. We want to meet our companies where their needs are, so we can help them succeed," said Karan. "Revenue Excellence will anchor on three key pillars that will unlock the growth potential of our portfolio and pipeline companies: strategic advisory, thought leadership and community development. We will lead with specialized experience and advisory for our portfolio of companies, which we will supplement with a curated community of experts within and outside of the Sapphire portfolio. This will be surrounded by relevant, forward-looking thought-leadership content and collateral that the broader community can benefit from."
"We believe Karan's addition to Sapphire completes the Portfolio Growth platform and unlocks our ability to provide the best go-to-market support for our portfolio," said Rami Branitzky, partner at Sapphire and head of Portfolio Growth. "Over the years, we've built strong relationships with corporate buyers, go-to-market channel providers and top notch revenue leaders. We feel the addition of the Revenue Excellence practice will allow us to provide much-needed knowledge and best practices for our companies as they quickly grow and scale."
Sapphire's Revenue Excellence function will rely on an approach that partners its experience with its portfolio of companies' learnings through scale to develop and disseminate the most actionable and relevant advice possible. Because there isn't one perfect revenue organization, we believe the answer lies in the collective insights of Sapphire's portfolio companies, which the new function will harness and share.
Karan joins Sapphire from Procore, where he served as a revenue operations and strategy leader. Prior to Procore, he was in a similar role at Cloudera and he has advised a number of SaaS companies on all things go-to-market. His strengths include developing GTM strategy, architecting data-driven organizations, creating best-in-class technology infrastructure to scale and developing operating processes that increase revenue productivity through hyper-growth.
"Ask any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you growth is hard. It's even harder now that the prevailing mantra isn't 'growth at all costs.' The companies that manage to beat the odds, scale and grow their business significantly are rewarded by the marketplace," said Sapphire Partner Rajeev Dham. "We know Karan will be an ideal fit for the job at hand. He's a great listener and can work with a variety of GTM leaders in a consultative manner, understanding their needs and solving them."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A combination of new election laws and congressional redistricting has made it harder for Black communities in Florida to organize and vote, activists say.
Florida, which concludes its primary elections on Tuesday, is among various Republican-led states that have passed laws since the 2020 election that place new restrictions on voters — as well as on third-party groups that play a big role in registering racial minorities in Florida.
Ben Frazier and his small civil rights organization, the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, recently spent an afternoon in the city helping a group of older Black voters update their voter registration.
That way, Frazier said, there are no issues when they go to vote.
"We don't want your voter registration form to be thrown out for any reason," he said. "They are doing a lot of different things to suppress the Black vote in this city and in this state."
Last year, Republican lawmakers in Florida passed Senate Bill 90, a sweeping law requiring people to apply to vote by mail more often. It also set new limits on drop boxes. And this year, legislators passed Senate Bill 524, which creates new and harsher penalties for voter registration organizations for things like turning in forms late.
And notably, Frazier said, the latter law created a new policing unit focused on voting crimes.
"I think all of that has a chilling effect. People are afraid of the police," he said. "We know that this is one of many attempts to suppress the Black vote."
On Thursday, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this new policing unit is charging 20 people with voting illegally in 2020. He said those individuals had felony convictions that prevent them from getting their voting rights back. Several details were not made public at the time, though, including that some of those charged have told the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald that they weren't told they couldn't vote. Their races were also not disclosed.
DeSantis said in a press conference that the charges and the investigation carried out by the new agency mark the beginning of the state getting serious about combating alleged voter fraud.
"Before we proposed this [unit] there were just examples of this stuff seeming to fall through the cracks," he said. "So this is just the opening salvo, this is not the sum total of 2020." Experts have found voter fraud to be exceedingly rare.
Black activists say the reaction to the 2020 election from Republicans leaders in the state is part of a larger effort to diminish Black voting power.
Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled that SB 90, in particular, is part of the state's long and "grotesque" history of racial discrimination. Soon after the ruling, an appeals court ordered that the law stay in place while legal challenges worked their way through the courts. The Justice Department in recent days agreed that the law is intentionally discriminatory.
Driving change in Duval County
Reginald Gundy, the pastor at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, says all these new rules in Florida feel deeply personal.
Gundy has spent a lot of his time registering voters in communities of color — mostly Black voters — in North Florida. Since 2018, Gundy estimates he's registered more than 80,000 people in Duval County alone, which is the county encompassing Jacksonville.
Gundy also works to get the vote out, making sure that the people his group registers actually go to the polls during elections.
"If they don't go to polls, we would be like, 'Hey, look you are registered to vote, you haven't voted, you need to go vote,' " he said. "We can't tell people who to vote for, but we've been very good at that. So, as a result of that it has brought about a change in Duval County."
In 2020, Joe Biden won Duval County. It was the first time in decades a Democratic presidential nominee won there.
Gundy says this change is not something that went unnoticed by Republican leaders in Florida. In fact, he thinks it's why DeSantis recently redrew the state's congressional lines in a way that cut the number of opportunity districts for Black voters in half.
Before redistricting, the state had four seats where Black voters had enough votes to elect the candidate of their choice. Now the state only has two seats like this. One of those lost seats included Black communities in Jacksonville.
"The way they have reconfigured — redrawn the district in Duval County — has taken away the right for Blacks to vote and have a representative in Congress," Gundy said. "We will have a congressional leader without proper representation for who we are."
Gundy says Black voting power and organizational power is the weakest it's been in decades.
"It's sad and we've got to figure out how to fix it," he said.
In a statement, DeSantis' office said his redistricting decision had nothing to do with politics. A spokesperson said the governor's priority was to "make sure that the congressional maps would be constitutional and withstand anticipated legal challenges."
The argument DeSantis made to the state legislature when he vetoed their maps and submitted his own is that he thought the majority-minority district that included Jacksonville is unconstitutional. In a letter to lawmakers, he said the district wasn't compact and "didn't conform to usual political or geographic boundaries." He argued the district was written to favor one race over another, which DeSantis said violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Michael Sampson II, with the Jacksonville Community Action Committee, says he does not buy that DeSantis — who's thought to be considering a presidential run — didn't make a political calculation here.
"It's a clear choice to dilute the Black voting power, the Black political power in D.C., especially as the governor is planning his run for president," he said.
Sampson adds that what is happening in Florida amounts to a "white blacklash" reacting to a summer of civil rights protest following the murder of George Floyd.
Christina Kittle with Florida For All agrees.
"There's been just a clear attack on organizers and protesters within the Black community, especially since 2020," she said. "When there are clear attacks like that it does make it difficult for us to move. But I don't think ... it hasn't stopped us. We are still out there doing the work. I see other people are too. It's just more difficult."
Meanwhile the state has big elections on the horizon this fall. DeSantis is up for reelection. And Rep. Val Demings is vying to oust Sen. Marco Rubio. If she wins the uphill battle, Demings would be the state's first Black U.S. senator.
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Louisiana deputy dies after suspect rams vehicle, sheriff says
THIBODAUX, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - A Louisiana deputy died after a fleeing suspect rammed his marked vehicle, according to Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre. The suspect is in custody.
The deputy who died was identified as 44-year-old Detective Sgt. Nicholas Pepper, WVUE reports.
“Nick epitomized all that is honored and revered in a peace officer,” Webre said. “The tremendous outpouring of love and gratitude from the community is truly appreciated. I ask that you continue to keep Sgt. Nick Pepper and his family, as well as our sheriff’s office family, in your thoughts and prayers.”
The incident occurred just before 4 a.m. Sunday on Louisiana Highway 1 near Kleinpeter Road in Thibodaux. Authorities said Lafourche Parish deputies responded to a call to assist Houma Police officers, who were pursuing a suspect for an alleged traffic violation into Lafourche.
At some point during the high-speed pursuit, the suspect stopped and spoke to officers, who were attempting to negotiate, according to the initial investigation by the Louisiana State Police. Investigators say the suspect then accelerated and struck Pepper’s vehicle, which was stopped nearby.
Pepper was taken to the hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
According to the sheriff’s office, Pepper served with its investigations division for more than 15 years and as a member of law enforcement for nearly 24 years. He is survived by his wife and three children.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect was in custody, but it has not released the person’s name nor detailed the charges the person was booked with. Louisiana State Police said the suspect was being treated for “moderate injuries” at a hospital.
“We are all processing and grieving this horrific and tragic death of one or our own,” said Webre in a statement. “We are with the family, providing them with support and prayers at this unbelievably difficult time. We ask for the community’s love, prayers and support as well.”
The statement said the Louisiana State Police have assumed control of the crash and criminal investigation.
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Jack "Hydroplane" Deloplaine, a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and two-time Super Bowl champion has died. He was 68.Video above: A look back at the Steelers' early yearsThe Steelers Alumni office confirmed Deloplaine's death to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 Wednesday. A Pottstown native, Deloplaine's was drafted from Salem College (now University) in West Virginia. He spent four seasons in the NFL, winning two Super Bowl rings with the Black and Gold. He also spent time with the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins (Commanders).Deloplaine's got the nickname "Hydroplane" during the 1976 preseason for his ability to run the football well in the rain. "We are saddened by the news and send the best to his family and friends," Salem's Athletic Director Alexander Joseph said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately confirmed. Funeral arrangements have not been publicly released.
Jack "Hydroplane" Deloplaine, a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and two-time Super Bowl champion has died. He was 68.
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The Steelers Alumni office confirmed Deloplaine's death to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 Wednesday.
A Pottstown native, Deloplaine's was drafted from Salem College (now University) in West Virginia. He spent four seasons in the NFL, winning two Super Bowl rings with the Black and Gold. He also spent time with the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins (Commanders).
Deloplaine's got the nickname "Hydroplane" during the 1976 preseason for his ability to run the football well in the rain.
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Jack "Hydroplane" Deloplaine #35 of the Pittsburgh Steelers runs with the football against the New England Patriots during a game at Three Rivers Stadium on September 26, 1976 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"We are saddened by the news and send the best to his family and friends," Salem's Athletic Director Alexander Joseph said in a statement.
A cause of death was not immediately confirmed.
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By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The fire emoji was a common sight in tweets about the new corporate thriller “Fair Play,” which debuted Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.
The movie follows two ambitious analysts at a cutthroat hedge fund, played by “Bridgerton’s” Phoebe Dynevor and “Solo’s” Alden Ehrenreich, who are also in a passionate and secret relationship. Several steamy scenes had some declaring the return of the erotic thriller.
Film historian Karina Longworth, whose podcast “You Must Remember This” recently delved into the erotic thriller moment of the 1980s, tweeted that “It does for the 2020s what ‘Fatal Attraction’ did for the late 80s.”
Chloe Domont, who wrote and directed the film, said she didn’t set out to make an erotic thriller, per se.
But “I did set out to make a thriller about gender power dynamics within a relationship that happens to be highly sexual,” Domont told The Associated Press on Saturday in Park City. “I think the execution of that intention ended up flipping the erotic thriller genre on its head.”
Dynevor, in only her second film role, said that when she read Domont’s script, she saw herself and a lot of women she knows in her character, Emily, who seems to be the sole female at the company. She’s made even more aware of this when she gets promoted over Ehrenreich’s Luke.
“How she navigates work life in a very male-dominated industry and how she navigates her relationship and, you know, in many ways has to make herself smaller in order to make other people feel comfortable, I could relate to that,” Dynevor said.
Ehrenreich’s character comes from a more privileged background than Emily. He’s Ivy League-educated and expects a certain amount of success. But he also rolls his eyes at the casual misogyny of his co-workers and, at least at first, is supportive of Emily’s ascent.
“I think he’s a little at remove from the rest of the office. He’s not quite in that boy’s club,” Ehrenreich said.
“One of the things that I really liked about the movie that I think sometimes is lacking from stories that take on issues like this is understanding the background and the system and the culture that all of that is taking place in,” he continued. “It’s not on one individual being a good person or a bad person. We’re all highly influenced by our environment and the ambitions that we have within that environment.”
The film has already stirred up a gender debate among those who have seen it as Domont makes sure to never go the cliche route with her characters. Audience sympathies may even shift between Luke and Emily from scene to scene. Dynevor was firmly on Emily’s side in reading the script and during filming, but when she watched the finished product, something changed.
“I kind of saw it more as him and her being a culprit of the society and a victim of the society, as opposed to, like anyone was a baddie or a goodie,” she said.
“Fair Play,” which is up for acquisition at the festival, is Domont’s directorial debut on the large screen. But high-finance drama is not new for her: She’s helmed episodes of Showtime’s “Billions” too.
“My interest in that world starts from, you know, ‘Wall Street’ and ‘Working Girl’ and like those movies,” Domont said. “But for me it’s the stakes. You have high stakes, you have drama.”
“You make money one day, you lose money the next day. … You’re either living on a high high and you think you’re the (expletive), or the next day you think you’re a worthless piece of (expletive),” Domont added. “What that does to a person, the fluctuating between those highs and lows, I relate to that in the film industry. … I related to what that environment does to a person.”
Serbia plays New York in the film, which came together rather quickly, but the three key players made sure to carve out time to establish an authentic intimacy between Ehrenreich and Dynevor.
“We did a few days of rehearsal that I thought were really valuable, and it’s so rare you get to do that,” Ehrenreich said. “It makes such a huge, huge difference, especially in a movie like this, if two people have been together and so much of the movie is their relationship and the details of that.”
That involved improvisations of Emily’s first day at the office and the first time Luke tells her he loves her.
“It really felt like it really kind of locked something in,” Ehrenreich said. “That’s a magical thing that is worth fighting for on almost every movie, especially any movie that deals with, you know, a relationship of any kind.”
They also worked with an intimacy coordinator to stage the sex scenes.
“Chloe is such a phenomenal director and was always pushing us to go farther and farther, which was such a thrill as an actor,” Dynevor said. “And we both felt really safe to do so.”
The Sundance Film Festival runs through Jan. 29.
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GENEVA (AP) — Marijuana use will remain banned at sports events after the World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday resisted calls to change its status on the list of prohibited substances.
The agency was asked to review the status of THC — the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — after the case of United States sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who did not go to the Tokyo Olympics last year. She served a one-month ban after testing positive at the national trials meet where she won the 100 meters. The sprinter said she had smoked marijuana as a way of coping with her mother’s death.
In a separate decision, the opiate tramadol will now be banned when athletes are competing from January 2024, the WADA executive committee decided at a meeting in Sydney, Australia.
Athletes who use cannabis were consulted by WADA-appointed experts whose conclusions included that it was “against the spirit of sport,” the agency said.
Positive tests for THC at races and events, though not in training, can therefore continue to trigger bans as short as one month.
The debate “is not straightforward,” WADA director general Olivier Niggli acknowledged Friday.
“WADA is also mindful that the few requests for THC’s removal from the Prohibited List are not supported by the experts’ thorough review,” he said. “We are also conscious that the laws of many countries — as well as broad international regulatory laws and policies — support maintaining cannabis on the List at this time.”
WADA also noted the high threshold level to register a positive test for THC which is “consistent with a significantly impaired athlete or a frequent user.”
Tramadol has been an issue in cycling which outlawed its use at races starting in 2019.
After the Tour de France in July, Nairo Quintana was disqualified from sixth place when two samples showed traces of the synthetic painkiller. He was not banned and is challenging his disqualification at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“Tramadol abuse, with its dose-dependent risks of physical dependence, opiate addiction and overdoses in the general population, is of concern and has led to it being a controlled drug in many countries,” WADA said.
The in-competition ban will be enforced in January 2024 giving time to educate athletes and team doctors and “address the safe use of tramadol for clinical purposes,” WADA said.
The International Cycling Union’s medical rules state “commonly reported adverse side effects of tramadol are dizziness, drowsiness and loss of attention, which are incompatible with competitive cycling and endanger other competitors.”
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Official: California deputy killed during traffic stop
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Thursday while trying to stop a car and the suspect was later killed, authorities said.
The Riverside County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a vehicle just before 2 p.m. in the city east of Los Angeles, the Sheriff’s Department said in a Facebook post. The motorcycle deputy, later identified by the department as Isaiah Cordero, was shot at some point during the traffic stop and later died at the hospital.
Jurupa Valley Mayor Chris Barajas said without elaborating on the details that “the suspect has been apprehended and is deceased.”
“Our community is devastated by the loss of one of our sheriff’s deputies,” Barajas wrote in a Facebook post. “Our thoughts are with the officer’s family and all the law enforcement community.”
Several hours after the shooting, dozens of motorcycle officers and patrol cars escorted a hearse as it transported the deputy’s flag-draped casket from the hospital to the county coroner’s office.
Cordero was “a ray of sunshine” and “a person who was dedicated to protecting others,” a statement from the Riverside Sheriff’s Association said.
“Deputy Cordero put on his uniform daily to make a difference in his community and keep families safe,” the statement said. “Deputy Cordero’s death leaves a tremendous hole in the hearts of so many people who had the chance to know him personally.”
The Sheriff’s Department posted on Twitter around 2:45 p.m. that the agency was investigating a shooting in Jurupa Valley and asked people to avoid the area. It was not immediately clear what prompted the original traffic stop.
Authorities said the deputy was shot when he tried to stop a pickup truck in a residential neighborhood across the street from an elementary school, according to multiple TV news reports.
The driver then led police on a high-speed chase along several freeways. The chase, which was followed live on TV, ended on Interstate 15 in Norco, a few miles south of Jurupa Valley, when a sheriff’s armored truck rammed the fleeing pickup and pinned it on an embankment.
TV reports showed bullet holes in the windshield.
The city of Jurupa Valley contracts with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for its policing services.
Jurupa Valley is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.
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Yes, Dubuque Senior looked relaxed while edging Marion, but no autographs please after its 3-1 victory at Dubuque Senior High on June 23 in Iowa softball action.
In recent action on June 16, Dubuque Senior faced off against Davenport North and Marion took on Cedar Rapids CR Kennedy on June 10 at Cedar Rapids John F Kennedy High School.
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Treatment with TIBSOVO resulted in durable remissions, including complete response in nearly 40% of patients, and an acceptable safety profile
Servier plans to submit a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
BOSTON, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Servier, a leader in oncology committed to bringing the promise of tomorrow to the patients we serve, today announced updated data from the Phase 1 trial of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib tablets) as monotherapy for patients with isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1)-mutated relapsed or refractory (R/R) myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The results presented today at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2023 Annual Congress in Frankfurt, Germany demonstrate that the efficacy and safety profile of TIBSOVO may provide an important new treatment option for MDS patients within this molecularly defined subset.
The Phase 1, open-label study included an evaluation of the safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of TIBSOVO in patients with IDH1-mutated R/R MDS. The primary endpoint was complete remission (CR) plus partial remission (PR) rate and key secondary endpoints included duration of CR plus PR, duration of transfusion independence, and time to transfusion independence.
In the efficacy analysis set (n=18), a complete remission (CR) rate of 38.9% and overall response rate (ORR) of 83.3% were documented in patients treated with TIBSOVO. In addition, the median time to CR was 1.87 months (range: 1.0, 5.6). At the time of data cutoff, the median duration of CR had not been reached (range: 1.9, 80.8*) and the median overall survival was 35.7 months (range: 3.7*, 88.7*).
"We are pleased to share these updated efficacy results that demonstrate durable remissions and an acceptable safety profile in patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS at this year's EHA Congress," said Susan Pandya, M.D., Vice President Clinical Development and Head of Cancer Metabolism Global Development Oncology & Immuno-Oncology, Servier. "These data add to the growing body of evidence behind targeted IDH inhibition, and we look forward to taking the next steps with regulatory authorities to potentially expand the use of TIBSOVO in the United States to include the treatment of IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS."
Additionally, of the nine patients who were transfusion dependent with red blood cells or platelets at baseline, 66.7% (n=6) became independent of transfusions during any ≥56-day post-baseline period. Further, of the nine patients who were transfusion independent with red blood cells or platelets at baseline, 77.8% (n=7) maintained transfusion independence during any ≥56-day post-baseline period.
"Patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS currently have no targeted therapy options, and outcomes are generally poor for those who experience disease progression after treatment with standard care," said Courtney D. DiNardo, M.D., MSCE, Associate Professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and investigator on the study. "This updated analysis demonstrates that TIBSOVO has the potential to improve outcomes in the treatment of IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS and reinforces the importance of molecular analysis to ensure we're harnessing the potential benefit of targeted therapies."
Overall, treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) were consistent with the known safety profile of TIBSOVO. Among 19 patients included in the safety analysis set, TRAEs occurred in eight (42.1%) patients, including a grade 1 QTc interval increase in one (5.3%) patient, grade 3 fatigue in one patient, and grade 3 hyponatremia in one patient, none of which led to discontinuation with treatment.
In 2019, the U.S. FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for TIBSOVO (ivosidenib) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic syndromes with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test. Servier plans to submit a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) based on these results to the U.S. FDA for TIBSOVO in adult patients with R/R IDH1-mutated myelodysplastic syndromes.
TIBSOVO is currently approved in the U.S. as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with IDH1-mutant relapsed or refractory AML and in monotherapy or in combination with azacitidine for adults with newly diagnosed IDH1-mutant AML who are ≥75 years old or who have comorbidities that preclude the use of intensive induction chemotherapy. TIBSOVO was recently approved by the European Commission as a targeted therapy in two indications: in combination with azacitidine for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) R132 mutation who are not eligible to receive standard induction chemotherapy; as well as in monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an IDH1 R132 mutation who were previously treated by at least one prior line of systemic therapy. TIBSOVO has also been approved in the U.S. and Australia for patients with previously treated IDH1-mutated cholangiocarcinoma. TIBSOVO is also approved in China[i] for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML who have a susceptible IDH1 mutation. Servier has granted CStone a co-exclusive license for the development and an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of TIBSOVO in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore.
* Denotes a censored observation.
About the Study
In the Phase 1 dose-escalation and expansion study evaluating TIBSOVO in adults with advanced hematologic malignancies with IDH1 mutations, the clinical activity, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of TIBSOVO in adult patients with relapsed or refractory MDS with a susceptible IDH1 mutation is being assessed. (NCT03503409)
About Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
MDS comprises a diverse group of bone marrow disorders in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature or become healthy blood cells. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society estimates that more than 20,000 people are diagnosed with MDS in the U.S. each year. Failure of the bone marrow to produce mature healthy cells is a gradual process, and reduced blood cell and/or reduced platelet counts may be accompanied by the loss of the body's ability to fight infections and control bleeding. For roughly 30 percent of the patients diagnosed with MDS, this bone marrow failure will progress to AML1. Chemotherapy, supportive therapy, stem cell transplant, growth factors, and similar approaches are used to treat MDS.
About Servier in Oncology
Servier is a global leader in oncology focused on delivering meaningful therapeutic progress for the patients it serves. Governed by a non-profit foundation, Servier approaches innovation with a long-term vision, free of influence from investors and outside pressure to chase short-term monetary targets.
As a leader in oncology, Servier has significantly accelerated its investment in difficult and hard-to-tread cancers, with more than 50% of its research and development dedicated to delivering significant advances in areas of high unmet need throughout oncology with the potential to change the lives of the patients it serves. Within these areas, Servier is the leader in mutant IDH inhibition, with the first ever mutant IDH inhibitor approved in the U.S. and the European Union, and the company continues to drive the science behind targeted mutant IDH inhibition throughout its pipeline.
Servier's commitment to therapeutic progress guides its collaboration strategy. While many companies across the industry are scaling back investments, Servier is actively building alliances, completing acquisitions, conducting licensing deals and entering new partnerships that can help to accelerate access to therapies for patients in need. With the company's commercial expertise, global reach, scientific expertise and commitment to clinical excellence, Servier is dedicated to bringing the promise of tomorrow to the patients it serves.
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TIBSOVO IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION AND INDICATION FOR U.S. PATIENTS
INDICATIONS
TIBSOVO is an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) inhibitor indicated for patients with a susceptible IDH1 mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test with:
Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- In combination with azacitidine or as monotherapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML in adults 75 years or older, or who have comorbidities that preclude the use of intensive induction chemotherapy
Relapsed or Refractory AML
- For the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML
Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma
- For the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma who have been previously treated
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Differentiation Syndrome in AML: In the combination study AG120-C-009, 15% (11/71) of patients with newly diagnosed AML treated with TIBSOVO plus azacitidine experienced differentiation syndrome. 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 TIBSOVO included noninfectious leukocytosis, peripheral edema, pyrexia, dyspnea, pleural effusion, hypotension, hypoxia, pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, pericardial effusion, rash, fluid overload, tumor lysis syndrome, and creatinine increased. Of the 11 patients with newly diagnosed AML who experienced differentiation syndrome with TIBSOVO plus azacitidine, 8 (73%) recovered. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 3 days after start of therapy and during the first month on treatment.
In the monotherapy clinical trial AG120-C-001, 25% (7/28) of patients with newly diagnosed AML and 19% (34/179) of patients with relapsed or refractory AML treated with TIBSOVO experienced differentiation syndrome. Of the 7 patients with newly diagnosed AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 6 (86%) patients recovered. Of the 34 patients with relapsed or refractory AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 27 (79%) patients recovered after treatment or after dose interruption of TIBSOVO. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 1 day and up to 3 months after TIBSOVO initiation and has been observed with or without concomitant leukocytosis.
If differentiation syndrome is suspected, initiate dexamethasone 10 mg IV every 12 hours (or an equivalent dose of an alternative oral or IV corticosteroid) and hemodynamic monitoring until improvement. If concomitant noninfectious leukocytosis is observed, initiate treatment with hydroxyurea or leukapheresis, as clinically indicated. Taper corticosteroids and hydroxyurea after resolution of symptoms and administer corticosteroids for a minimum of 3 days. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome may recur with premature discontinuation of corticosteroid and/or hydroxyurea treatment. If severe signs and/or symptoms persist for more than 48 hours after initiation of corticosteroids, interrupt TIBSOVO until signs and symptoms are no longer severe.
QTc Interval Prolongation: Patients treated with TIBSOVO can develop QT (QTc) prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias. Concomitant use of TIBSOVO with drugs known to prolong the QTc interval (e.g., anti-arrhythmic medicines, fluoroquinolones, triazole anti–fungals, 5–HT3 receptor antagonists) and CYP3A4 inhibitors may increase the risk of QTc interval prolongation. Conduct monitoring of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and electrolytes. In patients with congenital long QTc syndrome, congestive heart failure, or electrolyte abnormalities, or in those who are taking medications known to prolong the QTc interval, more frequent monitoring may be necessary.
Interrupt TIBSOVO if QTc increases to greater than 480 msec and less than 500 msec. Interrupt and reduce TIBSOVO if QTc increases to greater than 500 msec. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO in patients who develop QTc interval prolongation with signs or symptoms of life-threatening arrhythmia.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Guillain-Barré syndrome can develop in patients treated with TIBSOVO. Monitor patients taking TIBSOVO for onset of new signs or symptoms of motor and/or sensory neuropathy such as unilateral or bilateral weakness, sensory alterations, paresthesias, or difficulty breathing. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO in patients who are diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
- In patients with AML, the most common adverse reactions including laboratory abnormalities (≥25%) are leukocytes decreased, diarrhea, hemoglobin decreased, platelets decreased, glucose increased, fatigue, alkaline phosphatase increased, edema, potassium decreased, nausea, vomiting, phosphate decreased, decreased appetite, sodium decreased, leukocytosis, magnesium decreased, aspartate aminotransferase increased, arthralgia, dyspnea, uric acid increased, abdominal pain, creatinine increased, mucositis, rash, electrocardiogram QT prolonged, differentiation syndrome, calcium decreased, neutrophils decreased, and myalgia
- In patients with cholangiocarcinoma, the most common adverse reactions (≥15%) are fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, decreased appetite, ascites, vomiting, anemia, and rash. The most common laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) in patients with cholangiocarcinoma are hemoglobin decreased, aspartate aminotransferase increased, and bilirubin increased
DRUG INTERACTIONS
Strong or Moderate CYP3A4 Inhibitors: Reduce TIBSOVO dose with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors. Monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
Strong CYP3A4 Inducers: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO.
Sensitive CYP3A4 Substrates: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO.
QTc Prolonging Drugs: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO. If co-administration is unavoidable, monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
LACTATION
Because many drugs are excreted in human milk and because of the potential for adverse reactions in breastfed children, advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with TIBSOVO and for 1 month after the last dose.
Please see Full Prescribing Information, including BOXED WARNING for AML patients
1 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Research Funded by LLS. Available at: https://www.lls.org/research/myelodysplastic-syndrome-mds-research-funded-lls
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Black advocates are calling on Democrats to deliver on promises they made to Black voters on the midterm campaign trail if they want to keep their support for the 2024 presidential election.
While midterm outreach included figures like Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison traveling through battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia to meet with Black voters, advocates are concerned that Democratic enthusiasm to engage with the key voting bloc could diminish until the next election cycle ramps up.
“What we consistently see as it relates largely to political parties is that the outreach, the engagement, the investment in Black voters — who are the strongest constituency in the Democratic Party — comes too late to have any real kind of impact,” said Alicia Garza, principal of Black to the Future Action Fund.
Last week’s election brought a wave of relief for Democrats, who managed to win control of the Senate with 50 seats to Republicans’ 49. They have a chance to win one more seat if Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) wins reelection in a December runoff against GOP candidate Hershel Walker.
“Our communities already expect that once the races are called, nobody’s going to be texting us, nobody’s going to be calling us and nobody’s going to be concerned about what it is we want,” said Garza. “But the priorities that we know don’t end on Election Day are the priorities that we hear from Black voters regularly.”
Leading up to the election, Black voters and organizations identified topics like inflation and the economy, job security and housing, and white supremacy and white nationalism as some of their top concerns.
Keturah Herron, a former ACLU policy strategist and newly elected representative to the Kentucky House of Representatives, pointed out these topics, along with racial justice concerns and overturning of Roe v. Wade, pushed Black voters to the polls and encouraged them to mobilize their family and friends in what they saw as a life-or-death election.
But Herron saw this happen because she was on the ground in these communities — something not all candidates or elected officials take the time to do, she said.
“I think we have to do a better job of being in the community, educating the community and listening to the concerns of the community,” said Herron. “I believe that what is important is really that bottom up approach: listening for what the community wants and needs.”
But even as Black voters have been vocal about their concerns, many — especially young voters — feel leaders aren’t listening to them.
“We need to be looking at Black young people who are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the party structure,” said Garza. It’s these voters who are already threatening not to vote and even going so far as to say they don’t identify with the party at all.
“As an organizer, I can tell you, when people feel disillusioned or people feel marginalized, they can either be brought into the fold or they can become dangerous,” said Garza.
But voters can also fight back against this, said Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the Advancement Project.
“Too often, what happens with our elections is that people vote and then they move on and don’t still engage after that, and people who are elected, don’t engage [voters] afterwards,” said Dianis.
“It’s a stark problem, especially for Black voters feeling like they’re being taken advantage of because nobody talks to them in between [elections],” she added.
But this could be easily addressed through better communication, advocates say.
Instead of leaders sitting on daytime news shows, Dianis said, they have to meet voters on the platforms they frequent — and it has to be a conversation between voters and leaders.
“Too often in this country, we elect people on Election Day and we think our job is done,” she said. “But actually our job is 365 days a year of holding the people that we elect accountable.”
That means emailing and calling leaders’ offices and making sure they know voters continue to stay engaged, she said. Leaders then need to respond with education and making sure voters have all the information they need, including where politicians stand on issues most important to constituents, she added.
Meanwhile, Garza said, the party also needs to back candidates that are doing “deep engagement with Black communities,” including moving money and fundraising on their behalf.
If Democrats want to maintain Black voters’ support, especially for the 2024 presidential election, they also need to increase engagement efforts with Black communities in rural areas, speak with Black men more and solidify the support of Black women.
The party also must take time to connect with local officials and grassroots organizations, said Herron. This not only builds trust between the national party and voters, but it will give officials at the federal level insight into the biggest concerns of their constituents.
Lastly, the advocates say, Democrats need to stop believing Black voters are “in the bag.” This narrative leaves many feeling frustrated, taken for granted and less likely to vote.
In order for that not to happen, said Herron, the party could lay out what has been done specifically for Black and brown communities.
“It shows where the work still needs to be done, but it also gives people hope that their voices have been heard and that change has happened,” she said. “We’ve been disenfranchised and oppressed for so long and so it’s going to be a long road, but I believe that if we continue to do this work on a consistent basis, we will see the results that work.” | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/advocates-push-democrats-to-prioritize-black-community-ahead-of-2024/ | 2022-11-15 00:34:00 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/advocates-push-democrats-to-prioritize-black-community-ahead-of-2024/ |
A Japanese telescope captured images and video of a flying blue whirlpool shape over Hawaii on Jan. 18.
"The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera captured a mysterious flying spiral over Maunakea, Hawaii" which "seems to be related to the SpaceX company's launch of a new satellite," the Subaru Telescope tweeted on Jan. 19.
The telescope is mounted atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii, and is operated by The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
In the video, the object starts as a small white sphere flying through the night sky. It then widens into a spiral as it travels before fading into a ring shape and disappearing.
According to the telescope's YouTube channel, a livestream viewer first noticed the event and brought it to staff's attention. The livestream is jointly run by the telescope and Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper company.
SpaceX launched a global-positioning satellite into medium orbit at 7:24 a.m. that same day from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch used a Falcon 9 rocket.
This isn't the first time a SpaceX launch has created a mysterious swirl in the night sky. One was spotted above New Zealand in June on the same day as a Falcon 9 launch from the same Florida location. After another launch in April, the Subaru Telescope captured a similar image above Hawaii.
Space communities online have suggested that the spirals — and other formations, like the "space jellyfish" — occur when rockets vent their leftover fuel. The gas is expelled at a higher pressure than the atmosphere. It is then illuminated by sunlight, creating the shapes we see from down below.
SpaceX and the Subaru Telescope did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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As a member, Ampere Computing will help drive open source collaboration and development in the Cloud Hypervisor community.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Hypervisor Project, a leading virtual machine monitor (VMM) for running modern cloud workloads, is excited to welcome Ampere Computing as a member. The Linux Foundation and the founding members of the Cloud Hypervisor Project would like to welcome Ampere Computing and look forward to working with them to foster an environment of open source collaboration.
Since 2021, the Cloud Hypervisor Project, under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, has had broad support across industries – including both from CPU manufacturers as well as public cloud operators. The Cloud Hypervisor project is designed for supporting modern workloads both on the Edge as well as on the Cloud. As the Linux Foundation continues to standardize key components of the software stack for managing and orchestrating modern workloads, Cloud Hypervisor will continue to play an important role.
"Our contributions in the Cloud Hypervisor project will expand our commitment and initiatives in open source development. We look forward to collaborating with the other members to further advance virtualization technologies," said Mauri Whalen, Senior VP of Firmware and Software at Ampere Computing.
"As a major platform vendor, Ampere Computing's input on the evolution of Cloud Hypervisor will be super valuable," said K. Y. Srinivasan, Advisory Board Member from Microsoft.
Cloud Hypervisor welcomes organizations and contributors from around the world to help drive the innovation and adoption of cutting-edge VMMs for cloud-based workloads. To learn more about the Cloud Hypervisor Project, including how to get involved, please visit www.cloudhypervisor.org.
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Genie's Leadership in the Aerials Industry, Combined with Acculon's Considerable Experience with Battery Technologies, Will Help Accelerate the Move Toward Cleaner, Greener, Electric Jobsites
BOTHELL, Wash., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genie and Terex Corporation are excited to announce that Terex is making a Series A investment in Acculon Energy, a Columbus, Ohio-based engineering and connectivity company focused on developing the next generation of electrification solutions for non-automotive equipment applications.
Since its founding more than 55 years ago, Genie, which is owned by Terex, has been a leader in developing, growing and evolving the aerials industry. Acculon, through its founders, has 13 years of experience operating at the forefront of advanced battery technology solutions. By partnering with Acculon, Genie is reinforcing its role as a leader in the electrification of the industry — now and into the future.
"For decades, Genie has been a leader in developing and refining industry-specific technologies to electrify aerial equipment. Now, as the global construction industry gears up to get to the next level of emissions reduction, Genie is excited to be teaming with Acculon," said Simon Meester, Genie President. "Together, we will continue leading the charge toward a greener and cleaner future, while maintaining the focus on the quality, reliability and performance for which Genie is known."
Acculon's team has significant experience not only in the research and development of advanced battery technologies, but in artificial intelligence and cloud-connected products as well. The company also has important capabilities in certifying battery-enabled systems. This partnership with Genie and Acculon will build on Genie's position as an industry leader in the electrification of the aerials industry, accelerating the progress on current and future development projects.
"We are excited to partner with Genie and Terex, whose names are synonymous with quality and safety. Our partnership will accelerate the delivery of next-generation electrification solutions for Genie equipment and the people who count on that equipment every day," said Acculon's President Andrew Thomas.
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Since 1966, Genie has been the leading name in the aerials industry. With offices, team members and manufacturing facilities around the globe, Genie lifts and telehandlers can be found enhancing safety and improving productivity on jobsites worldwide. Genie's ongoing leadership in aerial lifts and material handlers is built on our ability to consistently deliver superior quality for our customers. At Genie, we achieve this quality not by chance, but by design. For more information on Genie products and services, visit www.genielift.com.
About Acculon Energy
Acculon Energy is a Columbus, Ohio, systems engineering firm specializing in energy storage and cloud-connected solutions. The company leverages its expertise and experience in energy storage, artificial intelligence, and Internet-of-Things to accelerate and de-risk the transition to next-generation electrification solutions. Acculon is uniquely prepared to design, prototype, and provide commercialization services that enable OEM customer programs to go further, faster, and safer. For more information, please visit the Acculon website at www.acculonenergy.com.
About Terex
Terex is a global manufacturer of materials processing machinery and aerial work platforms. We design, build and support products used in construction, maintenance, manufacturing, energy, recycling, minerals and materials management applications. Certain Terex products and solutions enable customers to reduce their environmental impact including electric and hybrid offerings that deliver quiet and emission-free performance, products that support renewable energy, and products that aid in the recovery of useful materials from various types of waste. Our products are manufactured in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia and sold worldwide. We engage with customers through all stages of the product life cycle, from initial specification and financing to parts and service support.
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Raleigh police fired 30 rounds at suspect accused of throwing Molotov cocktails, fecal matter at cop cars
Reuel Rodriguez Nunez, 37, was transported to a hospital following the incident but succumbed to his injuries
Raleigh, North Carolina, police officers fired 30 rounds during a chaotic May 7 incident in which a now-deceased suspect threw fecal matter and Molotov cocktails at police vehicles and officers, authorities said in a preliminary report released Friday.
Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez, 37, was transported to a hospital following the incident but succumbed to his injuries.
Rodriguez-Nunez drove into a Raleigh Police Department (RPD) parking lot around 1 p.m. on May 7 and threw what detectives believed to be fecal matter and urine at the station's main entrance. He then thew Molotov cocktails at two police vehicles, setting them on fire.
Rodriguez-Nunez proceeded to place cups filled with liquid around the parking lot and "then sat in the rear area of his van with the rear van door open," the preliminary report states.
Lieutenant M.F. Schabel arrived at the scene at about 1:18 p.m. and contacted dispatch to send the Raleigh Fire Department to the police station due to a police vehicle on fire. As Schabel approached Rodriguez-Nunez, the suspect threw liquid at the officer's vehicle, followed by a Molotov cocktail. Schabel remained in the vehicle but reversed away from Rodriguez-Nunez.
Three other officers then responded to the scene upon Schabel's request. Officer B.A. Beausoleil repeatedly told Rodriguez-Nunez, "Do not do it," "Don’t do any more," "Don’t do it," and "Don’t do it, bro."
Schabel moved his vehicle out of the parking lot and then approached Rodriguez-Nunez on foot in an apparent effort to deescalate the situation and notified dispatch that the suspect had a knife in his pocket.
"What’s going on, man?" Schabel asked Rodriguez-Nunez as he approached the suspect.
"Today... is my day... to... move on," Rodriguez-Nunez said before throwing another Molotov cocktail at officers, according to the report.
Four officers then began to approach the suspect and gave him repeated commands to stop and take his hand out of his pocket. As they approached, Rodriguez-Nunez lit another Molotov cocktail and threw it in the direction of Officer P.W. Coates, at which point all four officers fired their weapons, totaling about 30 rounds, the report states.
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Officers carried Rodriguez-Nunez away from the burning vehicles and attempted life-saving procedures until EMS arrived and transported the suspect to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, as FOX 8 first reproted.
Detectives later determined that Rodriguez-Nunez's physical description and vehicle matched that of a suspect wanted for attempting to set fire to gas pumps at a convenience store on Capital Boulevard on May 6, according to the report.
Rodriguez-Nunez's brother told WRAL that the 37-year-old had recently been released from jail and had a history of mental health issues.
A GoFundMe for Rodriguez-Nunez describes him as "loving and caring."
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"We are all devastated by the sudden loss of our brother, Reuel Rodriguez. He passed away on May 7th, 2022. Our family was not prepared for this, and during this challenging time, we ask families and friends to help give our brother a memorable goodbye," a description for the fundraiser reads. "Reuel Rodriguez was known as a funny and caring person. He is going to be missed. Thank you all in advance."
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is investigating the shooting and will submit its findings to the Wake County District Attorney for review. RPD detectives and the RPD Office of Professional Standards are also conducting separate investigations into the incident. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/raleigh-police-30-rounds-suspect-molotov-cocktails | 2022-05-14 15:33:17 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/raleigh-police-30-rounds-suspect-molotov-cocktails |
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
8-3-2-8, Fireball: 9
(eight, three, two, eight; Fireball: nine)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
8-3-2-8, Fireball: 9
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed the widest ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades Saturday.
The bill is a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.
"I was there 30 years ago the last time this nation passed meaningful gun safety laws, and I'm here today to sign the most significant law passed since then," Biden said before signing the bill.
The Democratic-led chamber approved the election-year legislation on a mostly party-line 234-193 vote, capping a spurt of action prompted by voters' revulsion over last month’s mass shootings in New York and Texas. The Senate approved the measure late Thursday by a bipartisan 65-33 margin.
Every House Democrat and 14 Republicans — six of whom won't be in Congress next year — voted for the measure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., underscored its significance to her party by taking the unusual step of presiding over the vote and announcing the result from the podium, to huzzahs from rank-and-file Democrats on the chamber's floor.
Biden said the bill doesn't include all of the measures he wanted, but would help prevent gun violence and aid survivors.
"Today, we say more than enough," he said Saturday. "This time, when it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, we are doing something consequential."
Among Republicans backing the legislation was Rep. Liz Cheney of gun-friendly Wyoming, who has broken sharply with her party's leaders and is helping lead the House investigation into last year's Capitol insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. In a statement, she said that “as a mother and a constitutional conservative," she believed the bill would curb violence and enhance safety, adding: “Nothing in the bill restricts the rights of responsible gun owners. Period."
Impossible to ignore was the juxtaposition of the week’s gun votes with a pair of jarring Supreme Court decisions on two of the nation’s most incendiary culture war issues. The justices on Thursday struck down a New York law that has restricted peoples’ ability to carry concealed weapons, and Friday it overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the protection for abortion that case had ensured for a half-century.
The bill, crafted by senators from both parties, would incrementally toughen requirements for young people to buy guns, deny firearms from more domestic abusers and help local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous. Most of its $13 billion cost would go to bolster mental health programs and for schools, which have been targeted in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida and many other infamous massacres.
It omits far tougher restrictions Democrats have long championed like a ban on assault-type weapons and background checks for all gun transactions, but is the most impactful firearms violence measure Congress has approved since enacting a now-expired assault weapons ban in 1993.
The legislation was a direct result of the slaying of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, exactly one month ago, and the killing of 10 Black shoppers days earlier in Buffalo, New York. Lawmakers returned from their districts after those shootings saying constituents were demanding congressional action, a vehemence many felt could not be ignored.
“This gives our community the sorely needed hope that we have been crying out for, for years and years and years,” Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., whose 17-year-old son was shot dead in 2012 by a man complaining his music was too loud, told supporters outside the Capitol. “Understand and know that this bill does not answer all of our prayers, but this is hope.”
Speaking haltingly, Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., said he was backing the bill for his father, shot to death 30 years ago to the day, the 58 people killed in a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas “and so many other Americans who are victims and survivors of gun violence."
For conservatives who dominate the House GOP, it came down to the Constitution's Second Amendment right for people to have firearms, a protection key for many voters who own guns. “Today they're coming after our Second Amendment liberties, and who knows what it will be tomorrow,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee's top Republican, said of Democrats.
Pelosi said with Thursday's gun ruling by the justices, “the Trump-McConnell court is implicitly endorsing the tragedy of mass shootings and daily gun deaths plaguing our nation.” That was a reference to the balance-tipping three conservative justices appointed by Trump and confirmed by a Senate that was run by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
But House Republicans used the gun debate to praise both court decisions. “What a great day for the babies, and as the speaker described it, the Trump-McConnell Supreme Court,” said Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis.
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., said the firearms decision has “electrified the country and left radicals seething — the Constitution means what it says.”
In the Senate, every Democrat and 15 Republicans backed the compromise. Just two of those GOP senators face reelection next year.
But overall, fewer than one-third of GOP senators and just 1-in-15 House Republicans supported the measure. That means the fate of future congressional action on guns seems dubious, even as the GOP is expected to win House and possibly Senate control in the November elections.
McConnell kept careful tabs on the negotiations that produced the bill and voted for it, partly in hopes it would attract moderate suburban voters whose support the GOP will need in its November bid for Senate control. In contrast, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and other GOP leaders of the more conservative House opposed it.
The legislation was opposed by firearms groups like the National Rifle Association. But groups backing gun curbs like Brady and Everytown for Gun Safety weren't the only ones backing it. Support also came from the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
The talks that produced the bill were led by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
Under the compromise, background checks for gun buyers age 18 to 20 will now include an examination of their local juvenile records. The accused shooters in Uvalde and Buffalo were both 18.
People convicted of domestic abuse who are current or former romantic partners of the victim — not simply spouses or people who lived or had children with the person they abused — will be prohibited from acquiring firearms. That closes the so-called “boyfriend loophole."
There will be money to help states enforce “red flag" laws that help authorities temporarily take guns from people considered threatening and for other states' violence prevention programs. More people who sell weapons would have to become federally licensed gun dealers and need to conduct background checks.
Penalties for gun trafficking are strengthened, billions of dollars are provided for behavioral health clinics and school mental health programs and there's money for school safety initiatives, though not for personnel to use a “dangerous weapon."
Val Lick contributed to this report. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-sign-gun-violence-bill-congress/507-1a6de230-5030-494b-a384-a15ea8c6da33 | 2022-06-25 14:05:55 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-sign-gun-violence-bill-congress/507-1a6de230-5030-494b-a384-a15ea8c6da33 |
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eaglestone Holdings, a leading specialty infrastructure contractor in the Northeast, has announced the appointment of Jason Richards as Chief Executive Officer. Jason has a proven track record, with over thirty years' experience in the infrastructure services sector. Most recently, Jason served as President and COO of Albireo Energy, a large independent provider of building automation services doing business in over forty-five countries. Jason assumed the role as part of an executive transition, with Andru Coren, Eaglestone's former CEO, becoming Executive Chairman of the Board as a strategic partner.
As an officer of Albireo Energy for almost seven years, Jason was responsible for the strategic growth and operations of the business. Prior to Albireo, Jason had many successful roles in leading companies such as Sodexo, a family of MEPS businesses owned by PPL, Siemens and Honeywell. Jason is a mechanical and licensed professional engineer with a deep expertise in mechanical, building controls and energy service solutions to leading general contractors and direct owners.
Eaglestone is comprised of a dynamic force of over ten leading MEPS/FP contractors including The Pace Companies, PJ Mechanical and Commonwealth Electrical Technologies, among others, that collectively provide turnkey services for infrastructure, commercial and residential projects in the Northeast, with a further focus on energy efficiency services through its NYEE division. Eaglestone's collective companies have record backlogs and pipelines, and a long-standing history of providing breadth, sophistication and successful performance to its customers.
"Four years ago, with the partnership of Aterian Investment Partners, my idea became a reality. Since then, our family of companies has grown in size, in breadth of services, in sophistication and in market share. I cannot adequately convey the level of gratitude that I feel for everyone that has been instrumental in getting us to where we are today. I am confidently turning over the position of leadership to Eaglestone's new CEO, Jason Richards, in shepherding Eaglestone and our family of companies to new heights," stated Andru Coren.
"I am excited to be working with the Aterian and Eaglestone teams", said Jason Richards. "They have built a solid foundation and I look forward to leading and growing the future of the company."
"We are thrilled to back Andru's vision of creating the leading MEPS player in the New York area and beyond to serve its customers, including an unmatched service offering to its long-standing customers" said Michael Fieldstone, Partner and Co-Founder of Aterian Investment Partners. "Jason's track record in leading infrastructure service businesses with a deep understanding of building automation systems and energy efficiency opportunities will ensure effective execution of the long-term strategy for Eaglestone and its underlying companies," Fieldstone stated.
About Eaglestone Holdings
Eaglestone Holdings is a leading specialty infrastructure contractor and energy efficiency services provider in the Northeast, centered around the NYC metro area. Eaglestone is comprised of the "best in class" MEP/FP sub-contractors that are collectively able to provide turnkey services for a diverse array of commercial, residential, and government infrastructure projects. Eaglestone includes leading companies with decades of experience such as The Pace Companies, PJ Mechanical and Commonwealth Electrical Technologies, which perform mechanical, fire protection, plumbing, and electrical services and New York Energy & Environmental (NYEE) providing solar and energy conservation services. www.eaglestoneny.com
About Aterian Investment Partners
Aterian Investment Partners is a private equity firm that invests in industry-leading, middle market businesses. In collaboration with management, Aterian supports investments throughout an organization, from people to processes, equipment, technology, and social governance, among others. With offices in New York and Florida, Aterian has raised cumulative equity commitments of more than $1.5 billion since its founding in 2009. www.aterianpartners.com
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court handed the thrift store chain Savers Value Village a unanimous win Thursday in a long-running legal fight with Attorney General Bob Ferguson, finding that its marketing practices constitute protected free speech.
The attorney general’s office began investigating the company eight years ago and, after Savers Value Village declined to pay millions of dollars to settle the investigation, Ferguson sued.
The state alleged that the thrift chain — which is based in Bellevue, Washington, and operates 316 stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia — had created an impression that it was a nonprofit or charitable organization and that purchases at its stores directly benefited charities.
In reality, it’s a for-profit company that pays charitable organizations for donations, but it does not provide the charities a direct cut of retail sales. The justices ruled 9-0 Thursday that the company’s marketing practices were protected by the U.S. Constitution.
While commercial speech is given less protection than other messages under the First Amendment, Savers Value Village’s marketing was so wrapped up in promoting the charities it worked with that it was entitled to full protection, Justice Mary Yu wrote for the court.
Rich Medway, the company’s general counsel and chief compliance officer, said Thursday the state offered no evidence that Savers Value Village intended to deceive the public or that any consumer was harmed by its marketing practices.
Two of the major charities it works with in Washington — Northwest Center, which supports people with disabilities, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound — had urged the attorney general’s office to drop the case and filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the thrift chain’s behalf.
Savers Value Village paid $580 million to charitable partners globally in the last five years and kept 3.2 billion pounds of goods out of landfills, according to Medway.
“It’s hard to understand, with a business model like ours that is so positive … why the attorney general decided to pursue this for eight years,” he said. “It’s a model that should be celebrated.”
Savers Value Village did agree to register as a commercial fundraiser at the attorney general’s insistence, after previously being told by the secretary of state’s office that it did not need to. By 2015 it also posted signs in its stores disclosing its status as a for-profit commercial fundraiser and had employees make periodic in-store announcements to that effect.
In an emailed statement, Ferguson said his office was disappointed in the ruling and noted the court never disputed that the company’s marketing misled customers.
“We are proud that our investigation led Value Village to change its marketing practices and more clearly disclose that it is a for-profit company,” Ferguson said.
The lawsuit wasn’t the first time the thrift chain’s marketing practices had been challenged. In 2015, it reached a settlement with Minnesota’s attorney general in which it agreed to overhaul its donation and disclosure practices. It also paid $1.8 million to six Minnesota charities to compensate them for lost income during that case.
Fourteen states, including Minnesota, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Washington’s behalf, arguing that authorities must be able to protect consumers from deceptive marketing practices because public trust is crucial to to the work charities do.
“The practice of for-profit companies masquerading as charities is therefore a significant threat to the public and the charitable sector,” they wrote. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-court-rejects-deception-charges-against-savers-value-village/ | 2023-02-24 16:09:28 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/ap-court-rejects-deception-charges-against-savers-value-village/ |
PHOENIX — Phoenix Fire Department says multiple people have burn injuries after a house fire Friday morning.
Crews were called to the area of Cave Creek Road and Sweetwater Avenue around 9 a.m. for a house fire.
Video from the scene showed flames billowing from a home in the area with the fire extending to multiple vehicles.
Crews were reportedly met with dangerous conditions, including multiple surrounding structures on fire, downed power lines, and exploding propane tanks.
Officials say multiple people were treated for second-degree burns.
Several animals are unaccounted for after the blaze, according to crews at the scene.
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Wind and solar power are sometimes dinged for not producing electricity 24 hours a day, but one of the most abundant minerals on the planet, iron, could be key to changing that.
CEO Mateo Jaramillo spoke with The Associated Press about progress toward achieving this vision. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: Why do you consider batteries a climate solution?
A: When I left divinity school in 2004 I made a sector bet and figured at some point, society will want effective energy storage. I grew up in Salinas, California, which is an agricultural town, and my parents worked for the farmer community. I’ve seen how many enjoy the benefits of traditional energy, but only some communities carry the burdens. I was compelled to figure a way to make a difference and felt that innovation was needed.
Q: Lithium ion batteries have some limitations and can only pump out power for four hours max. Why are iron-air batteries a good choice?
A: Lithium ion is an established, accepted technology being deployed at great volumes. But there isn’t a clear alternative on the market yet. We’re doing something different, storing energy for 100 hours at dramatically lower costs, to solve a multi-day storage problem as opposed to single-digit hours. Multi-day storage does not crowd out something like lithium ion, they complement each other very nicely. We see this over and over and over again in the modeling we do: Our lowest cost, most reliable, most decarbonized system has multiple types of energy storage.
Q: How much iron will you need?
A: About 2 billion tons of iron are mined globally every year — we would be in the single digital percentage of that total. Iron is available pretty much wherever you want to find it, there are massive deposits on every continent.
Q: Why did you choose West Virginia for the battery manufacturing facility?
A: The Mississippi River and Ohio River are essential for moving several million tons of material in a cost effective way. There are rail lines and a highway system nearby, so from a logistics perspective, it is a compelling site. Many people in the area also had great experience working in industrial environments given the community’s history of producing steel, iron, and mining.
Q: How did you build trust with the local community?
A: Being transparent and committed to the region. We held a meeting at the local community center and a few hundred people came by. We had team members there just to say hello, answer questions, and to start to talk. There is excitement about the new jobs and work that is happening very actively. Early next year we will start to turn on the factory, so this is not a long wait and see process, this is moving immediately.
Q: Are batteries necessary for the U.S. to achieve net zero emissions?
A: The right kinds of energy are a core part of net zero, but there is no panacea or silver bullet. A lot of work over the next 20-30 years is needed across all industries that touch the power sector. It’s not just technology, much less one company, showing up and saying, “We’ve got the whole thing fixed.” It’s going to take everybody.
Q: Have you had any moments of doubt since Form Energy was founded in 2017?
A: Whenever you embark on a deep technical challenge, you never know if the universe works the way you hope it does. There were moments of uncertainty, but very few, if any, moments of doubt. I was sure we had characterized the problem correctly, and that there was a big market need, and the solution would show up at the right time. It’s been a fairly linear pathway, which speaks volumes to the capabilities of our technical team.
Q: What does Form Energy need to accomplish for you to feel that the company’s mission has been achieved?
A: We won’t begin talking about our achievements until we are delivering to customers successfully because that’s what distinguishes a venture from a business. Right now we are a well-funded venture and have raised more than $800 million in venture capital funding. A business requires producing and selling to customers for value, so we won’t do that until close to the end of 2024. That’s when we can say, what else? Where do we go from here?
But to me, that’s the very beginning of what we hope to accomplish. The goal is to have a big impact for a very, very long time by building a category-defining company that positively impacts the economy and people who rely on electricity.
Q: What would you say to someone that is anxious about climate change?
A: I am a techno optimist, but there are a lot of good approaches in policy and business pointing to the solutions we need. Everybody has a role to play and all voices have to be part of technology, policy, and individual actions.
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits recently retaken, devastated city
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the recently retaken city of Izium on Wednesday, greeting soldiers and thanking them for their efforts in retaking the area, as the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall building.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Ukraine pressed forward in a sweeping counteroffensive that has reclaimed vast swaths of territory in the country’s northeastern Kharkiv region in a matter of days.
Much of Izium has been devastated. Apartment buildings are blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes. The entire center of one residential building had collapsed, a gaping hole and piles of rubble where homes used to be.
“The view is very shocking but it is not shocking for me,” Zelenskyy said in brief comments to the press, “because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … so the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
Bucha is a neighborhood near Kyiv where the bodies of civilians, many of them bearing signs of torture, were found dumped in the streets, in mass graves and in yards after Russian forces withdrew hastily in March.
Prosecutors say they have found six bodies bearing traces of torture in recently retaken villages in the Kharkiv region. They announced the creation of investigative teams.
“We have a terrible picture of what the occupiers did, particularly in the Kharkiv region. Such cities as Balakliia, Izium are standing in the same row as Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin,” said Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.
The head of the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office, Oleksandr Filchakov, said bodies were found in Hrakove and Zaliznyche villages, around 60 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Kharkiv.
He said investigators were also learning of residents being killed and buried by Russian troops in another retaken town, Balakliia.
On the northern outskirts of Izium, the remains of Russian tanks and vehicles lie shattered along the road.
“Our soldiers are here. That’s a very important thing. It supports people,” Zelenskyy said. “I see how people meet them, in what a sensitive moment. It means that with our army, the life comes back.”
Ukrainian troops have recently carried out a dramatic counteroffensive that has allowed them to recapture large swaths of territory around Kharkiv and inflict a stunning blow on Moscow’s military prestige.
Following those gains, a new front line has started to emerge in the war, a Washington-based think tank said Wednesday.
The Institute for the Study of War said the Oskil River appeared to be becoming the new front line in the area after Kyiv’s significant gains in recent days.
The Oskil River flows south and largely represents the eastern edge of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
“Ukrainian forces are continuing localized ground assaults to threaten Russian positions behind the Oskil River,” the institute said.
“Russian troops are unlikely to be strong enough to prevent further Ukrainian advances along the entire Oskil River because they do not appear to be receiving reinforcements, and Ukrainian troops will likely be able to exploit this weakness to resume the counter-offensive across the Oskil if they choose, “it added.
The counter-offensive has also left more weapons in Ukrainian hands.
Russian forces likely left behind dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy weaponry as they fled Ukraine’s advance in the east of the country, a Ukrainian think tank said Wednesday.
The Center for Defense Strategies said one single Russian unit that was around Izium left behind 39 T-80 tanks and 35 infantry fighting vehicles, known by the acronym BMP. Another unit left behind 47 tanks and 27 armored vehicles.
The center said Russian forces tried to destroy some of the abandoned vehicles through artillery strikes as they fell back. Typically, armed forces destroy equipment left behind so their opponent can’t use it.
However, the chaos of the Russian withdrawal apparently saw them leave untouched ammunition and weapons behind.
In other areas, Russia has continued its attacks over the past day, causing the death toll to keep rising in the war that has now dragged on for more than seven months.
Russian shelling of seven Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours killed at least seven civilians and wounded 22 more, Ukraine’s presidential office reported on Wednesday morning.
Two people were killed and three injured after Russia attacked Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles overnight, said regional Gov. Vitaliy Kim. An educational institution, infrastructure objects and residential buildings were damaged. Settlements near the frontline in Mykolaiv region remain under constant fire.
The Nikopol area, which is across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was shelled three times during the night, but no injuries were immediately reported, said regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko. Nikopol city itself was shelled two times, which left almost 3,000 families without electricity. Reznichenko said the electricity has been partially restored.
In the Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces have retaken more than 300 cities and villages, the process of demining is underway; three people have been injured over the past 24 hours.
In the neighbouring Luhansk region, where some of the Russian troops retreated from the Kharkiv region, mobile internet has been shut down, according to the region’s governor Serhiy Haidai, and intense shelling of Ukrainian forces continues.
The fighting continued in the Donetsk region as well. Avdiivka, Bakhmut and Kramatorsk have come under a barrage of shelling, which killed five civilians and wounded 16 more.
“Every night in Donbas is restless. The civilians should leave the region. It’s a matter of life and death,” Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
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Jon Gambrell in Kyiv contributed.
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Area sheriff to push lawmakers to change early release law
Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade expressed his displeasure with the state's new inmate early release law.
It went into effect Jan. 31 and allows qualified inmates to be released from the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) under supervision.
In a statement released Wednesday, Sheriff Wade mentioned a situation in his county, where an inmate was released by mistake.
He plans to work with Alabama Sheriffs Association to get the law change during the next legislative session.
Statement from Sheriff Wade:
"During the 2022 Regular Session, the Legislature enacted laws that weakened the safety of our communities. The premature release of inmates from the Department of Corrections has placed every community in Alabama in danger.
From the list of inmates released into Calhoun County, the first person had been incarcerated for robbery first degree, a Class A felony — the same class as murder. Further research found this individual was released by the Department of Corrections (DOC) in error because Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office had outstanding warrants on him, which were verified to be in the DOC system. The individual was released anyway. Several days later, this inmate was re-arrested, placed in the Calhoun County Jail, drug screened and tested positive for methamphetamines and cocaine. This inmate will spend an average of two years in the Calhoun County Jail before he returns to the state prison system.
This law effectively shifts these inmates from the state prisons back into the communities where they offended and eventually on the financial backs of county government. The attempt to lower inmate populations in Alabama prisons and avoid fixing the humanitarian issues and dangerous conditions for the inmates and the faithful corrections officers manning their posts puts our citizens in danger and places a hardship on county government.
As the sheriff of Calhoun County, it is the responsibility of my office to protect our citizens from criminal activity. This includes dangerous criminals being allowed back on the streets from early release.
As a board member of the Alabama Sheriffs Association, I pledge to work with our Association in helping our state leaders in this next legislative session to hopefully make changes to the existing law." | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/area-sheriff-to-push-lawmakers-to-change-early-release-law/42807614 | 2023-02-09 06:02:53 | 0 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/area-sheriff-to-push-lawmakers-to-change-early-release-law/42807614 |
(The Hill) – Despite some fears voiced by customers online, Apple will not be mass-deleting user photos from its devices near the end of the month.
The tech giant recently announced that it will be doing away with its My Photo Stream service on July 26, but that doesn’t mean photos are going away anytime soon.
The My Photo Stream service uploads users’ most recent 1,000 photos to iCloud automatically, for free, enabling access to them on any of a customer’s Apple devices for 30 days after they’re taken.
The service already stopped automatically uploading photos on June 26, exactly 30 days before the planned shut down.
With that going away, users can no longer — as easily — take photos on their iPhone and access them on their iPad, for example. But those photos are still accessible on the device they were taken.
“The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices, so as long as you have the device with your originals, you won’t lose any photos as part of this process,” Apple says on its support page.
Users should move the photos they still want all-device access to into iCloud Photos. Everything else will only be automatically accessible on the device where it originated.
Apple offered a guide for users to maintain their desired access. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/no-photos-wont-be-permanently-deleted-from-your-iphone-later-this-month/ | 2023-07-11 17:34:37 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/no-photos-wont-be-permanently-deleted-from-your-iphone-later-this-month/ |
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