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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- moomoo, the one-stop digitalized financial services platform, is excited to announce the introduction of 24-hour US trading in Singapore and Australia, enabling investors to trade over 100 selected US stocks and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) 24 hours a day, five days a week.
This move, a first in both Singapore market and Australia market, marks a significant extension of the global technology platform's capabilities and opens up new opportunities for investors who want to trade outside of regular US trading hours, which inconveniently coincide with late nights for APAC investors.
Moomoo is committed to becoming an influential global financial services platform, now provides digitalized investment services in the US, Singapore, and Australia. In the US, moomoo offers investors a 16-hour trading window. And this February, the sister brand of moomoo, became the first and only platform to offer 24/5 US trading in Hong Kong market.
Since its launch in 2018, moomoo has been supporting 16-hour US trading on every trading day, including 6.5 hours of regular trading hours and 9.5 hours of pre-market and post-market trading (pre-market: 4:00 AM-9:30 AM EST; post-market: 4:00 PM-8:00 PM EST). The newly offered round-the-clock US trading, also known as 24/5 US trading, will enable keen investors to trade selected US stocks and ETFs at a time that is convenient for them, during the overnight trading session, in addition to the regular, pre-market, and after-market trading sessions.
With the introduction of this new feature, moomoo users now have access to trading hours that cover the entire day, from 10 AM Monday to 10 AM Saturday (AEST) and from 8 AM Monday to 8 AM Saturday (SGT). This means that investors in both Singapore and Australia will be able to trade a list of more than 100 US stocks and ETFs, both day and night. This groundbreaking initiative by moomoo will offer investors greater flexibility to trade based on market-moving events that happen outside of regular trading hours.
"As a leading tech-driven investment platform committed to delivering holistic investment solutions to make investing easier and not alone, we will continue tailoring our products and services to suit the market's evolving needs. Offering keen investors to trade on US market round-the-clock is definitely a game-changing breakthrough to capture investment opportunities on any occasion," says Gavin Chia, Managing Director of moomoo Singapore.
"Moomoo has access to market makers that provide live prices 24 hours a day, five days a week. So, you can take advantage of market moves during Australian hours and while the US is asleep. You get instant trade confirmation, without the need to wait 24 hours to see whether you have dealt or not," explains moomoo Australia Chief Market Strategist Matt Wilson.
"Investors love stocks they are familiar with and that's why it's important to have access to some of the world's most well-known brands like Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Tesla, Disney, Microsoft and Nvidia, as an example. These stocks are powerhouses driving the global economy, so why not invest in them?" Wilson says.
As at the end of Q1 2023, moomoo and its sister brand provide digitalized investment services for over 20 million investors worldwide. The extended trading hours allow moomoo users greater access to the US market, which is critical for those looking to diversify their portfolios and capture potential opportunities for growth, without having to incur stock switching fees.
24/5 trading for selected US stocks and ETFs is now available on Moomoo Singapore and Moomoo Australia now. For more information on moomoo's 24/5 US trading, visit the website at www.moomoo.com/sg and www.moomoo.com/au
*Please note, currently 24/5 trading of US stocks is only available on the moomoo platform in Singapore and Australia. It is not available on the platform within the United States.
About moomoo
Moomoo is a next-generation one-stop digitalized financial services platform powered by Moomoo Technologies Inc., a fintech company based in Palo Alto, California.
Moomoo integrates trading, market data, and social networking with advanced features, such as AI-powered analytics and anomaly detection functions. It supports free online account-opening and provides access to trade stocks and ETFs in multiple global markets such as the United States, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and Australia. Moomoo and its brand affiliates also offer rich investor education content and an interactive online community with over 20 million users in more than 200 countries and regions globally.
For more information, please visit moomoo's official website at www.moomoo.com or contact moomoo public relation team via pr@moomoo.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A man who allegedly tried to hit a Moody police officer with a stolen car earlier this week has now been caught.
Brian Keith Beasley, 50, was arrested Wednesday after being found in Trussville by U.S. Marshals. Moody Police Chief Thomas Hunt said Beasley has been charged with attempted murder and is now in the St. Clair County Jail.
Hunt said that at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday, officers were chasing after Beasley after he had reportedly stolen a truck. As he was fleeing the scene, Beasley’s car became stuck in mud. Hunt said that when an officer approached the car, Beasley was able to free the car and tried to run over the officer, who dove out of the way into safety.
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There’s a long list of delicious, healthy, shelf-stable dehydrated snacks, and making them at home is both rewarding and economical. Unlike some homemade snack recipes and food preservation methods, dehydrating food doesn’t require a ton of equipment, experience, or effort. All you’ll need are the ingredients, a few simple tools, and a capable dehydrator. As you continue to work with new recipes, you’ll be able to use what you’ve learned to make new and interesting snacks, both sweet and savory.
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How do dehydrators work?
They’re exceedingly simple. A weak heating element, fan, and on/off switch are the only major components found in the most affordable dehydrators. Premium models offer adjustable thermostats and timers. Ultimately, though, they all work by heating air lightly and circulating it throughout the unit.
How to prepare food for dehydrating
Use fresh ingredients
The more flavor your fruits, vegetables, and meats have to start with, the better your results will be. This goes for the base ingredient as well as seasoning. Using fresh herbs such as rosemary and fresh-cracked black pepper goes a long way toward imparting the subtle flavors that dried seasoning tend to lose after a few months.
Make sure everything’s clean
First, wash all vegetables using either water with a touch of vinegar or a specialty vegetable wash. Washing both store-bought and homegrown vegetables is one of the most important steps in preventing foodborne illness, and it also prevents off-flavors from residual dirt and other substances. After washing, make sure the surface of all the food is as dry as possible.
Cut the food into uniform slices
Cutting every piece to the same size, especially the same thickness, ensures it all dehydrates at the same rate. Otherwise, some of your end products will be crispy and perfectly preserved, while some might still be overly chewy and won’t last nearly as long in storage. A thickness of one-quarter-inch is a good starting point for most types of food. A quality chef’s knife makes this task easy. In case you’re working with a large amount of food, some food processors have slicing blades that can make short work of bulk produce.
Consider blanching tough vegetables
It isn’t strictly necessary, but veggies such as broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots take a considerable amount of time to dry and will lose a good deal of their original color. To reduce the time needed and prevent discoloration, boil especially fibrous or tough raw produce for two minutes in lightly salted water.
Season the food, but don’t go overboard
Remember that water makes up a large percentage of most raw food’s weight. As you dehydrate, the food gets smaller and loses most of its water. The major effect of this is that a little bit of seasoning goes a long way. This is especially true of salt. Make sure to taste the food while seasoning.
Aside from flavorful herbs and salt, consider adding some citric acid to the mix if you’re drying fruits, such as apples, that oxidize and turn brown when exposed to oxygen. You can find pure, food-grade citric acid cheaply and mix it with water, or just use diluted lemon juice if you’re OK with adding a bit of citrus flavor.
Load the dehydrator
Make sure to leave space between each piece of food to allow for enough airflow to encourage efficient and consistent drying.
Turn the dehydrator on
This part’s easy. Turn the dehydrator on. If the temperature is adjustable, set it to 130 degrees for most foods. Be careful of setting a timer, as your best bet is to monitor the food manually. Using the built-in timer can turn the unit off too easily, causing an unnecessary delay.
Monitor the food for dryness
Most foods take around four to 12 hours to dehydrate completely. Check the progress every hour or two, looking for food that’s completely dry to the touch. As long as your temperature stays around 135 degrees or less, you can’t over-dehydrate. If you run the dehydrator too hot or make meat jerky at a safe temperature, it’s possible to scorch the food.
Why is dehydrated food so great?
It’s healthy
Unlike boiled, baked, or fried food, dehydrated food never gets hot enough to destroy the flavors and nutrients inside it. Whether it’s dried apples or carrots, your end product retains much of the deliciousness and nutrition it had the day you dried it.
It’s fun
Aside from the simple health factor, dehydrated snacks and preserved produce are fun to make. You can devise your own recipes for dried fruit and vegetables that are far more interesting than store-bought snacks.
It’s useful
Preserving food is another great reason to dehydrate it. For example, if your garden produces more fresh vegetables than you can eat in time, a dehydrator can help you save them for later. Since dehydrators use minimal electricity, and storing properly dehydrated food requires no energy whatsoever, dehydration is the most efficient way to preserve perishable foods.
It’s easy
Dehydrating food is also remarkably simpler than other preservation methods, such as canning. All you need to do is prep the food, put it in the dehydrator, turn it on, and check it once in a while.
Similarly, using dehydrated food is as easy as can be. To rehydrate fresh vegetables, all you need to do is soak them in water for a while. If you’re making soup, you don’t even have to do that, since you can just toss them in the pot.
It’s cost-effective
A capable dehydrator won’t cost a fortune. The fruits, vegetables, meats, and seasoning used to make delicious recipes will be even less expensive. Plus, this straightforward and versatile helps to save your hard-earned money by reducing waste and nearly eliminating the need for costly, unhealthy store-bought snacks.
Dehydrated food FAQ
Is dehydrated food safe?
A. As long as the produce is thoroughly washed and meat is prepared at the right temperature, dehydrated food is extremely unlikely to cause food-borne illness. It’s also not likely to mold or develop off-flavors in the long term, as long as it’s properly dried.
How do you make meat jerky safely in a dehydrator?
A. Due to the potential for hosting harmful pathogens, meat must be dehydrated at a temperature above 145 degrees. The safest bet is to preheat the dehydrator to that temperature or higher. It’s recommended to set the thermostat to 155 degrees or higher. It’s also a good idea to preheat your dehydrator when making meat jerky. And don’t mix meat with fruits or vegetables in the same session.
Remember: If your dehydrator can’t reliably reach 145 degrees, you can’t use it to make meat jerky.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals sent utility man Whit Merrifield to the Blue Jays just minutes before Tuesday’s trade deadline, even though the two-time All-Star was unvaccinated against COVID-19 and had to miss Kansas City’s trip to Toronto last month.
It’s unclear whether Merrifield, who has primarily played second base but is capable of playing anywhere in the outfield and across the infield, has received or is planning to get the shot required of all players traveling to Canada.
Merrifield drew the ire of Royals fans when, prior to their trip to Toronto, he said: “Something happens and I happen to get on a team that has a chance to go play in Canada in the postseason, maybe that changes.”
Many in Kansas City took that to mean he wouldn’t get vaccinated for his last-place team but would be open to it for a contender.
Roughly three weeks later, Merrifield has been placed in precisely that situation.
“I like Whit. I like him as a player. I like him as a person,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said before their game against the White Sox in Chicago. “But I also realize that it’s not a shock. This conversation started a long time ago.
“Realizing that this day would come most likely at some point kind of prepares you,” Matheny said, “but definitely, you care about all these guys as people, know their families and know their stories.”
In exchange, the Royals received speedy outfielder Samad Taylor and right-hander Max Castillo, both of whom could help their big league team as soon as this season. The 24-year-old Taylor is hitting .258 with nine homers and 23 stolen bases in 70 games for Triple-A Buffalo while the 23-year-old Castillo has a 3.05 ERA in nine appearances for Toronto.
The 33-year-old Merrifield was hitting .240 with 30 extra-base hits and 15 stolen bases in 95 games this season. But he’s proven to be dependable, playing every game for Kansas City each of the past three seasons, and he’s twice led the league in hits, led the league in stolen bases three times and had an AL-leading 42 doubles last season.
Merrifield is making $7 million this season and is due $2.75 million next season along with a $4 million bonus for spending fewer than 110 days on the injured list in 2022. He has an $18 million mutual option for 2024 with a $500,000 buyout.
Toronto, which began Tuesday with a three-game lead over Tampa Bay for the AL’s top wild card, was missing outfielder George Springer in the lineup for the third time in the last four games against the Rays due to a right elbow injury.
Blue Jays interim manager John Schneider said Springer will be re-evaluated Wednesday.
“He’s going to do some stuff on the field today and then kind of revisit it,” Schneider said, “but it’s not anything concrete right now. You definitely want to put him in a spot to be good, have success and help us, so we’re hopeful that everything goes good. We hope it’s not anything crazy where it’s going to hinder him and his performance and us.”
It was a busy day for the Blue Jays, who got relievers Anthony Bass and Zach Pop along with a player to be named later from Miami for shortstop prospect Jordan Groshans; received right-hander Mitch White and infielder Alex DeJesus from the Dodgers for right-hander Nick Frasso and left-hander Moises Brito; sent right-hander Jeremy Beasley to Pittsburgh for cash; recalled left-hander Matt Gage from Buffalo; and designated left-hander Anthony Banda for assignment.
Bass is 2-3 with 1.41 ERA in 45 games for Miami while Pop is 2-0 with a 3.60 ERA over 18 outings.
“Two guys that throw hard,” Schneider said. “Anything to kind of compliment what we have is awesome.”
The Royals were less busy than many expected ahead of the deadline, though they did swing a late trade with the Padres by sending backup catcher Cam Gallagher to San Diego for minor league outfielder Brent Rooker.
Gallagher played in just 18 games for Kansas City this season, ceding the backup job to Salvador Perez to rising prospect MJ Melendez. The 27-year-old Rooker was hitting .272 with 19 homers in 61 games for Triple-A El Paso this season.
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* WHEN…From 7 AM to 9 PM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS…Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday sidestepped a case against Google that might have allowed more lawsuits against social media companies.
The justices' decision returns to a lower court the case of a family of an American college student who was killed in an Islamic State terrorist attack in Paris. The family wants to sue Google for YouTube videos they said helped attract IS recruits and radicalize them. Google owns YouTube.
Google claims immunity from the lawsuit under a 1996 law that generally shields social media company for content posted by others. Lower courts agreed with Google.
The justices had agreed to consider whether the legal shield is too broad. But in arguments in February, several sounded reluctant to weigh in now.
In an unsigned opinion Thursday, the court wrote that it was declining to address the law at issue.
The outcome is, at least for now, a victory for the tech industry, which predicted havoc on the internet if Google lost. But the high court remains free to take up the issue in a later case.
The court also ruled in a separate lawsuit involving Google, Twitter and Facebook, heard on the same day in February, that seeks to hold them liable for a terrorist attack in a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people.
A lower court allowed the suit to proceed under a law against aiding and abetting terrorism.
The justices' unanimously ruled that case could not go forward. | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/05/18/supreme-court-sidesteps-challenge-to-internet-companies-broad-protections-from-lawsuits/ | 2023-05-18 16:42:44 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/05/18/supreme-court-sidesteps-challenge-to-internet-companies-broad-protections-from-lawsuits/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: FBI wants to question member of Massachusetts Air National Guard in leak of classified documents.
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During Amber Heard’s testimony Tuesday in the Johnny Depp defamation case, surveillance footage was entered into evidence of Heard escorting actor James Franco into their penthouse less than a week after the “Aquaman” star filed for a restraining order against Depp.
Depp is suing Heard in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers said he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name. The trial is now in its fifth week.
In the video, the actress appears to stay close to Franco in the elevator.
On Tuesday, Heard testified that she forgot when the visit happened. Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, showed the surveillance footage.
CCTV video shown of James Franco getting in the elevator with #AmberHeard the night after the fight at the penthouse when police were called. #JohnnyDepp pic.twitter.com/jBm3GwdbWL
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) May 17, 2022
The encounter took place May 22, 2016, five days before Heard filed for a restraining order on May 27, 2016.
Heard has claimed that Depp flew into jealous rages about Franco. Franco had co-starred with Heard in the past, and according to Depp, he had a reputation.
Also Tuesday, Heard was pressed on the truthfulness of Heard’s accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.
Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, questioned Heard about incidents in which she said she was assaulted by Depp.
Depp, on the other hand, says he was the victim, and that he lost the tip of his middle finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.
Vasquez questioned why Heard never sought medical attention, even though she said her feet were cut by broken glass and she was bleeding after the attack.
“You’re the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, isn’t that right, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez asked.
“I didn’t assault Johnny in Australia. I didn’t assault Johnny ever,” Heard responded.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The popularity of secondhand electronic devices is steadily growing and B-Stock Solutions is proud to announce key strategic partnerships designed to ensure that the highest quality secondhand devices are made available to its customers and ultimately to the end-consumer.
B-Stock is the world's largest B2B recommerce marketplace. Billions of returned and overstock items are resold every year on B-Stock, thanks to its unparalleled liquidity, streamlined processes, and vast recommerce expertise and insights. The world's leading brands and retailers trust B-Stock in their recommerce operations, resulting in superior financial outcomes, material gains in velocity and efficiency, and furthering the industry's sustainability efforts.
B-Stock has recently partnered with Blackbelt Defence, FutureDial, The Item Compatibility Engine (ICE), NSYS, Phoenix Innovations, Phonecheck, and Securaze. These partners are industry leaders in triage and data clearing services for consumer electronics, computing, and mobile devices.
"This is just another way that B-Stock provides value to our customers. By bringing partners like these to the table, B-Stock users have an advantage in the marketplace and increase their access to product," said B-Stock CEO Marcus Shen.
By teaming up with these experts, B-Stock provides buyers and sellers access to improved inventory processing capabilities through best-in-class solutions, competitive rates, and streamlined onboarding. Services include but are not limited to:
- Certified erasure and diagnostics solutions for phones, tablets, and computers.
- Cutting-edge robotics hardware and services to assist and automate processing functions.
- Device intelligence and tracking solutions.
"At B-Stock, we are dedicated to providing the most reliable and efficient solution for managing excess inventory. We're excited to be working with the best in the industry to bring our customers the highest level of expertise and service," said B-Stock VP Mobility Sean Cleland.
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As the world's largest B2B recommerce marketplace for surplus merchandise, B-Stock has a well established presence in the secondary market. From the top-ten U.S. retailers to entrepreneurs looking to fill their shelves, businesses around the world use our platform to sell and buy returned and unsold inventory. B-Stock gives buyers a simple way to acquire great merchandise while helping sellers improve operational efficiency, recovery rates, and cycle time.
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Beltrami Co. Board Looks Into Hiring Lobbyist for Jail Project Funding
The Beltrami County Board of Commissioners is working on figuring out the details for the jail project.
Along with specifics such as location and size, a major part of the project is how it will be funded. Based on data from the public comment survey held in 2022, the board is trying to consider options that do not involve raising prices for property owners.
Currently, there is no official decision on how the project will be funded. One option that the public and commissioners showed possible interest in was to implement a local option sales tax. But this would require a recommendation from the state legislature.
At a Young Professionals Network meeting held on Wednesday, county treasurer/auditor JoDee Treat talked about what the board discussed during their latest meeting.
“They decided to look into hiring a lobbyist,” explained Treat. “So we’re going to go for – request for proposals and look at what a lobbyist can offer us as far as getting our story out to the people that actually would make the decisions.”
If recommended by the Minnesota legislature, the county would then hold a vote for the citizens to approve whether or not to implement a local option sales tax.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islam’s holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations.
Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, on Sunday tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch parliament and stomped on the pages. Police looked on but did not intervene.
“It is about freedom of expression and I think that should be possible in the Netherlands,” Wagensveld said in a video posted on the site of Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
The Turkish foreign ministry said in its statement that it condemned the “vile attack,” which it said was proof of Islamophobia, discrimination and xenophobia in Europe. The ministry told the Dutch ambassador they expected concrete precautions to prevent and not permit similar demonstrations in the future, and that authorities take action against Wagensveld.
“It is about freedom of expression and I think that should be possible in the Netherlands,” Wagensveld said in a video posted on the site of Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
Relations between Turkey and the Netherlands were shattered in 2017 when Dutch authorities barred Turkish officials from campaigning for a referendum among the Turkish diaspora there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upped the ante by comparing the Dutch to Nazis, and ambassadors were withdrawn.
On Saturday, a far-right anti-Islam activist burned the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. Turkey strongly condemned the act and Sweden for allowing the demonstration, with Erdogan declaring Sweden shouldn’t expect Turkey’s support for its NATO bid. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkey-condemns-quran-protest-in-the-netherlands/ | 2023-01-25 07:25:35 | 0 | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-turkey-condemns-quran-protest-in-the-netherlands/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police fired live rounds, tear gas and stun grenades in widespread Jerusalem street confrontations with Palestinians who threw stones, firecrackers and firebombs. It was the fiercest unrest in the contested city in months.
Tensions in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem have been soaring since a suspected Palestinian assailant shot and killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp earlier this week. Movement in and out of Shuafat, a neglected Jerusalem slum, has been restricted as troops search for the shooter.
The overnight street violence appeared to have subsided by Thursday morning, as tens of thousands of Jews were flocking to Jerusalem to celebrate the week-long Sukkot holiday, surging into east Jerusalem’s Old City, often a focal point for tensions.
The confrontations between Israeli troops and Palestinians erupted in more than a dozen neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and areas surrounding it.
Police said they arrested 23 Palestinians throughout disturbances on Wednesday, half of them minors. Police said masked protesters threw firebombs, stones and fireworks at officers. Video footage released by Israeli police showed a street littered with burning debris and trash bins set alight.
Police said in some cases officers used live fire against the protesters. There was no immediate report of injuries.
The police manhunt has further disrupted the lives of residents of Shuafat, an area that has long seen neglect at the hands of Israeli authorities. Police initially closed Shuafat’s entry and exit points and while they have since reopened, officers are stopping every car moving in and out of the city, triggering snarling traffic jams and disrupting the residents’ daily routine.
In response, shops, businesses and schools across east Jerusalem closed Wednesday in protest of the police measures and in solidarity with Shuafat.
The uptick in violence in the flashpoint city comes amid soaring tensions in the West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out nightly raids since the spring in what it says is an attempt to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed, making this year the deadliest since 2015. Israel says most of those killed were militants, but local youth protesting the incursions and other civilians have also been killed.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and later annexed that part of the city. It considers the entire city its eternal, undivided capital. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state, with Jerusalem’s eastern flank as capital. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-israeli-police-palestinians-clash-in-east-jerusalem/ | 2022-10-13 15:13:05 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-israeli-police-palestinians-clash-in-east-jerusalem/ |
DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It’s a week of camp, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) style, for dozens of kids in Lackawanna County.
Marching and chanting could be heard across Marywood University’s Campus in Dunmore.
After two years off, due to COVID, Camp Cadet hosted by Pennsylvania State Police Troop R is back in action.
Wednesday, a state police helicopter landed on the softball field and the cadets got to learn all about it. The goal of the program is to give kids ages 12 to 15 a front-row seat to the diverse criminal justice system and how it works.
“We try to teach them everything they need to help further their lives. Punctuality, being on time for everything, following different types of steps, and regulations. It’s a fun camp. We do scuba diving, they have their pt every morning,” explained Trooper Robert Urban, Camp Director, and Community Services Officer, PSP Troop R.
Local troopers, police officers, and volunteers make the week-long camp happen. More than 60 cadets from all different backgrounds are taking part.
“My dad is in the law enforcement, and I always wanted to be like him,” said Eva Kaszuba of Archbald.
Eva Kaszuba says she’s enjoying meeting new people and training like a state trooper.
“I’ve made a lot of new friends, been beating a lot of the boys in running and swimming, just all-around fun, doing cool things,”Kaszuba added.
Irelyn Roberts plans to pursue a future in the military and law enforcement.
“When I get older I want to go into the Coast Guard, go to Florida State University, and then join the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit,” stated Irelyn Roberts of Dingman’s Ferry.
Roberts says her time spent at camp has encouraged her to dream big.
“It makes me feel better knowing that more people want to do this and can relate to stuff with me,” added Roberts.
Pennsylvania State Police Troop R serves Lackawanna, Wayne Susquehanna, and Pike counties.
To learn more about enrolling in next summer’s free Camp Cadet, head to the Troop R Camp Cadet website. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-law-enforcement/ | 2022-07-21 03:28:37 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-law-enforcement/ |
Princeton's been the surprise of the men's March Madness basketball tournament thanks, in large part, to senior forward and economics major Tosan Evbuomwan.
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LONDON (AP) — The U.K. economy grew sluggishly during the first three months of the year as double-digit inflation curbed consumer spending and labor unrest curtailed output in industries ranging from transportation to healthcare and education.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased 0.1% in the first quarter compared with the previous three months, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. The figure matched the growth rate during the fourth quarter of last year and was in line with economic forecasts.
The figures come a day after the Bank of England approved a 12th consecutive interest rate increase as it struggles to curb inflation that has remained at around 10% since July. The bank also upgraded its economic outlook, saying the “underlying picture is more positive” than it was earlier this year.
“Let’s be clear, whilst the Bank of England may believe the U.K. economy will now avoid the predicted recession entirely, the country is not in good health,” said Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, a U.K.-based investment platform.
“Rising prices, rising interest rates and strike action have created a cocktail that’s pretty unpalatable.”
On a monthly basis, the picture was even more grim. Output fell 0.3% from the previous month in March.
The British economy has been hard hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with stubbornly high inflation triggering a wave of strikes by workers who have seen their wages eroded by rising prices. The U.K. inflation rate was 10.1% in March, compared with 5% in the U.S. and 6.9% in the countries sharing the euro.
Those strikes contributed to quarterly declines in output from the transportation, public administration, healthcare and education sectors, the ONS said.
Overall output from the service sector, which accounts for about 80% of the U.K. economy, rose 0.1%.
One optimistic note came from manufacturing and other productive industries, where output grew 0.1% following no growth in the previous quarter and five consecutive quarters of decline before that.
Construction output increased 0.7%, rising for a sixth straight quarter.
While inflation is expected to fall rapidly in the coming months as last year’s big increases in energy and food prices drop out of the annual calculation, some economists are beginning to raise concerns about the steep rise in interest rates.
Higher rates increase borrowing costs for business and consumers, which tends to curb spending and control inflation. But that also slows economic growth.
Central bankers have struggled to balance those competing pressures amid efforts to slow price increases without slamming the brakes on economies that are still recovering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
“There’s still no recession, but with the full drag from higher interest rates yet to be felt, it is too soon to sound the all-clear,” said Ruth Gregory, deputy chief UK economist at Capital Economics, after the figures were released. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/uk-economy-grows-sluggishly-in-1st-quarter-as-double-digit-inflation-curbs-consumers-spending/ | 2023-05-13 03:56:13 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/uk-economy-grows-sluggishly-in-1st-quarter-as-double-digit-inflation-curbs-consumers-spending/ |
'Real Housewives' cast member pleads guilty to telemarketing fraud
Jennifer Shah, a cast member on the "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding hundreds of victims, including some elderly, in a years-long telemarketing scheme.
Shah, a polarizing member of the "Real Housewives" franchise, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. According to a plea agreement, federal sentencing guidelines range from 135 months to 168 months, or 11 to 14 years, in prison. The guidelines are only advisory, and the judge could depart from them when he sentences her later this year.
"I knew this was wrong, I know many people were harmed, and I am so sorry," Shah told the judge.
As part of a plea agreement, Shah will pay $6.5 million in forfeiture and up to $9.5 million in restitution.
"Jennifer Shah was a key participant in a nationwide scheme that targeted elderly, vulnerable victims. These victims were sold false promises of financial security but instead Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it," US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement Monday. "This Office is committed to rooting out these schemes whatever form they take."
Shah was arrested in 2021 while Bravo was filming the second season of the reality TV series, with episodes of the show featuring Shah and her castmates speculating -- and sparring -- over her culpability. Shah had, at the time episodes aired, consistently professed her innocence, going as far as to state in a tagline for show promos that, "the only thing I'm guilty of is being Shah-mazing."
Her guilty plea comes as she was set to go to trial in federal court in Manhattan.
Prosecutors said since 2012 Shah and others sold so-called "business services" to the alleged victims, including website design services to some elderly individuals who didn't own computers. Shah and others also identified and sold as "leads" the names of individuals who, prosecutors allege, they knew would be defrauded by others involved in the alleged scheme. Prosecutors said Shah oversaw a sales floor personally and supervised the salespeople who lied directly to the victims of the scheme.
Shah sought to hide her role in the fraud by using encrypted messaging apps, placing companies in the name of family and others, and setting up an offshore bank account and business operations in Kosovo, according to court filings and prosecutors. Shah also underreported her income on tax returns for several years by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Prosecutors said Shah spent the proceeds from the fraud on her extravagant lifestyle, as portrayed in the reality show.
Sentencing in the case is scheduled for November 28. | https://www.kcra.com/article/jen-shah-real-housewives-cast-member-pleads-guilty-to-telemarketing-fraud/40577197 | 2022-07-11 19:13:01 | 0 | https://www.kcra.com/article/jen-shah-real-housewives-cast-member-pleads-guilty-to-telemarketing-fraud/40577197 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Senior diplomats from Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran wrapped up two days of talks in Moscow on Tuesday, part of the Kremlin’s efforts to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments.
The Russian and Turkish foreign ministries issued terse readouts, saying diplomats discussed preparations for a planned meeting of the four countries’ foreign ministers. Moscow described the consultations as “frank and direct,” and Ankara said they were held in a “transparent and clear manner,” while offering no details.
The talks in Moscow were held as U.N.-mediated negotiations aimed at reaching a political solution to Syria’s conflict have stalled.
Russia has waged a military campaign in Syria since September 2015, teaming up with Iran to allow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government to fight armed opposition groups and reclaim control over most of the country. While the bulk of the Russian military has been busy fighting in Ukraine, Moscow has maintained its military foothold in Syria and kept warplanes and troops at its bases there.
The Kremlin has also made persistent efforts to help Syria rebuild fractured ties with other countries in the region, including neighboring Turkey, which has backed armed opposition to Assad throughout the 12-year conflict. In December, Moscow hosted a surprise meeting of the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers, the first such encounter since Syria’s uprising-turned-civil-war began in 2011.
Greeting the participants of the four-way talks on Tuesday, Lavrov urged Syrian and Turkish diplomats to show “flexibility and constructive attitude,” and abandon the “confrontational rhetoric and past offenses.” He added that the process of normalization will take time, emphasizing the importance to “find for common ground to reach a balance of interests and avoid preconditions” and promising that Moscow and Tehran will help create conditions for further talks.
Ayman Sousan, Syria’s deputy foreign minister who attended the talks in Moscow, thanked Russia and Iran for their help in “confronting terrorism” in remarks carried by the state news agency SANA. Sousan blasted other countries that “took advantage of the situation created by this war to illegally send their forces to Syria” and supported “terrorist groups.”
Turkey has backed armed opposition groups in Syria that have sought to overthrow Assad’s government during the civil war, which has killed nearly 500,000 people and displaced half of the country’s prewar population. Turkey has de facto control over large swathes of northwestern Syria, and Sousan emphasized that the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syrian territory is a prerequisite for a normalization of ties.
But even as Turkey has supported Syrian opposition fighters in the north, Ankara and Damascus are equally dismayed over the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria’s northeast. Turkey-backed opposition fighters have clashed with the SDF in the past, accusing them of being an arm of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The PKK has for decades waged an insurgency within Turkey.
Assad’s government has cast the SDF as a secessionist force that has been pilfering the country’s wealth while controlling Syria’s major oil fields.
The efforts toward a Turkish-Syrian reconciliation come as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under intense pressure at home to send Syrian refugees back amid a steep economic downturn and an increasing anti-refugee sentiment. He faces presidential and parliamentary elections in May.
The reconciliation efforts between Syria and Turkey topped the agenda for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talks with Assad when he visited Moscow last month.
After the catastrophic earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey in February, international sympathy appeared to have sped up the regional rapprochement. Some have called for dialogue with Syria and for bringing the country back to the 22-member Arab League, more than a decade after its membership was suspended over the crackdown in the early months of the uprising.
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Abby Sewell in Beirut and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/moscow-hosts-talks-aimed-at-syria-turkey-rapprochement/ | 2023-04-05 01:47:56 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/moscow-hosts-talks-aimed-at-syria-turkey-rapprochement/ |
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Active listings will grow 15.0% year-over-year as the inventory recovery accelerates in 2H 2022; higher home sales prices (+6.6%) and mortgage rates (to 5.5%) add to affordability issues
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As rising inflation and mortgage rates bring U.S. housing demand back from the 2021 frenzy, Realtor.com®'s newly-updated 2022 forecast predicts inventory will grow double-digits over 2021 and offer buyers a better-than-expected chance to find a home. Home sales will hit the second-highest level in 15 years, trailing only the 2021 pace, as rising incomes combined with higher housing costs continue to present a mixed bag of affordability issues.
The updated forecast anticipates a summer break from a feverish pace of home sales that will provide space for active listings to grow at a faster year-over-year pace than originally projected (+15.0% vs. +0.3%). Combined with returning seasonality and builders ramping up production, these trends could lead to a refresh of the housing market by as early as this fall.
"Financial conditions have shifted in a big way since the end of 2021 and the housing market is adjusting accordingly. As Americans grapple with higher prices for everyday expenses while today's buyers face housing costs that are up 50% from a year ago, recent home sales data shows some are taking a step back from the market," said Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com®. "Our updated 2022 forecast anticipates that demand will continue decelerating through the summer, providing breathing room for the inventory recovery to accelerate. As a result, this fall could be an opportune time to find a home – for both first-time and repeat buyers alike. Still, preparation will be key throughout 2022, as it continues to be a seller's market and asking prices remain high. For buyers who choose to wait until later in the year, take that time to assess your budget so you're set up with a strong financial footing whenever you're ready to move forward."
Realtor.com® 2022 Housing Forecast – Mid-Year Update
While Americans have faced a whirlwind of changes so far this year, a changing economic landscape is the biggest driver of updates to Realtor.com®'s 2022 housing forecast. Inflation has made a more significant and long-standing impact on real estate markets than was anticipated six months ago, and is reflected in trends like rapidly-climbing mortgage rates. Combined with record-high home listing prices and rents, home shoppers are feeling the strain on their budgets. As a result, buyer demand has been softening this Spring from its early 2022 surge.
Higher costs will continue to challenge 2022 buyers, as mortgage rates have already far surpassed Realtor.com®'s earlier prediction of 3.6% and home sale price growth year-over-year is expected to more than double its originally-forecasted pace (+6.6% vs. 2.9%). At the same time, Realtor.com®'s updated projection for year-end 2022 mortgage rates (5.5%) anticipates that rates have largely adjusted for the bulk of expected 2022 Fed hikes.
The rapid shifts in the economic landscape have some silver linings when it comes to housing affordability. With the unemployment rate near 50-year lows, employers are feeling the pressure to compete for talent, driving wage growth upwards from earlier year-over-year predictions (+3.8% vs. +3.3%). The competitive labor market may also give some buyers more negotiating power on workplace flexibility, creating more opportunities to relocate to relatively affordable housing markets. In fact, data from the first quarter of 2022 showed that 40.5% of Realtor.com® home shoppers viewed listings located outside of their current state, up from 33.4% in 2020.
Overall, the updated 2022 forecast reflects a housing market that is charting a path toward more sustainability, relative to the past two years of ups and downs. Home sales are still projected to hit a near record-high pace in 2022 despite trailing 2021 levels (-6.7%) and their original forecast (+6.6%), while the projected homeownership rate will hold roughly steady (65.6% vs. 65.8%). For many Americans, housing affordability will remain a significant obstacle as demand continues to outmatch supply, although by a smaller margin than in recent years. Buyers struggling with higher housing costs can find resources via sites like Realtor.com®, including its down payment assistance tool.
About Realtor.com®
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Thursday:
5-5-3
(five, five, three)
10-12-17-18-37
(ten, twelve, seventeen, eighteen, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $115,000
02-06-08-10-30-39
(two, six, eight, ten, thirty, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $596,000
4-3-3
(four, three, three)
3-4-3
(three, four, three)
0-3-8-1
(zero, three, eight, one)
2-8-0-4
(two, eight, zero, four)
10-23-30-32-39
(ten, twenty-three, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
6-5-8
(six, five, eight)
0-3-1
(zero, three, one)
6-9-5-8
(six, nine, five, eight)
1st:9 Winning Spirit-2nd:6 Whirl Win-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:46.69
(1st: 9 Winning Spirit, 2nd: 6 Whirl Win, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 46.69)
Estimated jackpot: $67,000
05-20-23-32-39
(five, twenty, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $542,000
08-16-23-27-28
(eight, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $20,000
5-2-7
(five, two, seven)
4-7-4
(four, seven, four)
15-22-27-28-31
(fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-one)
5-5-9, WB: 7
(five, five, nine; WB: seven)
3-9-1, WB: 9
(three, nine, one; WB: nine)
5-0-0-3, WB: 2
(five, zero, zero, three; WB: two)
7-8-4-8, WB: 6
(seven, eight, four, eight; WB: six)
2-5-9
(two, five, nine)
3-3-2
(three, three, two)
8-6-1-6
(eight, six, one, six)
4-4-9-9
(four, four, nine, nine)
9-8
(nine, eight)
3-0
(three, zero)
5-5-0
(five, five, zero)
5-8-2
(five, eight, two)
7-8-0-6
(seven, eight, zero, six)
3-9-8-0
(three, nine, eight, zero)
2-1-6-4-7
(two, one, six, four, seven)
8-3-9-2-5
(eight, three, nine, two, five)
0-8, Fireball: 7
(zero, eight; Fireball: seven)
1-8, Fireball: 3
(one, eight; Fireball: three)
2-0-6, Fireball: 7
(two, zero, six; Fireball: seven)
1-1-8, Fireball: 3
(one, one, eight; Fireball: three)
1-6-4-0, Fireball: 7
(one, six, four, zero; Fireball: seven)
5-5-3-1, Fireball: 3
(five, five, three, one; Fireball: three)
5-5-3-0-9, Fireball: 7
(five, five, three, zero, nine; Fireball: seven)
3-4-5-9-2, Fireball: 3
(three, four, five, nine, two; Fireball: three)
8-8-0
(eight, eight, zero)
8-4-0
(eight, four, zero)
1-6-8-6
(one, six, eight, six)
8-8-5-0
(eight, eight, five, zero)
1-5-8-3-7
(one, five, eight, three, seven)
4-0-2-6-4
(four, zero, two, six, four)
01-23-26-36-44
(one, twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty-six, forty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $21,000
9-6-0
(nine, six, zero)
2-5-0
(two, five, zero)
7-6-5-6
(seven, six, five, six)
5-7-5-8
(five, seven, five, eight)
03-11-15-18-26
(three, eleven, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-six)
02-09-15-18-22-32, Extra Shot: 11
(two, nine, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-two, thirty-two; Extra Shot: eleven)
Estimated jackpot: $6,350,000
02-21-27-39-41
(two, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
01-16-20-32-40
(one, sixteen, twenty, thirty-two, forty)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
01-03-04-05-16-17-19-25-36-39-42-43-45-46-47-49-59-71-75-78, BE: 5
(one, three, four, five, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-six, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-three, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty-nine, seventy-one, seventy-five, seventy-eight; BE: five)
4-0-0, SB: 4
(four, zero, zero; SB: four)
1-4-5, SB: 1
(one, four, five; SB: one)
8-5-8-1, SB: 4
(eight, five, eight, one; SB: four)
6-9-1-5, SB: 1
(six, nine, one, five; SB: one)
4-0-0
(four, zero, zero)
8-5-8-1
(eight, five, eight, one)
4-0-8
(four, zero, eight)
9-1-2
(nine, one, two)
10-18-23-35, Cash Ball: 6
(ten, eighteen, twenty-three, thirty-five; Cash Ball: six)
6-0-6
(six, zero, six)
9-9-0
(nine, nine, zero)
7-5-6-3
(seven, five, six, three)
2-9-4-3
(two, nine, four, three)
AC-4C-2D-6D-5S
(AC, 4C, 2D, 6D, 5S)
09-11-13-33-34, Bonus: 39
(nine, eleven, thirteen, thirty-three, thirty-four; Bonus: thirty-nine)
9-5-9
(nine, five, nine)
4-7-6
(four, seven, six)
0-5-6-3
(zero, five, six, three)
9-0-7-5
(nine, zero, seven, five)
6-7-5-6-0
(six, seven, five, six, zero)
5-1-0-4-4
(five, one, zero, four, four)
03-07-22-26-31
(three, seven, twenty-two, twenty-six, thirty-one)
6-2-0-6
(six, two, zero, six)
0-7-8-1
(zero, seven, eight, one)
07-13-25-27-35
(seven, thirteen, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty-five)
KS-10C-4H-5S-8S
(KS, 10C, 4H, 5S, 8S)
5-0-0
(five, zero, zero)
1-9-0-6
(one, nine, zero, six)
6-4-4
(six, four, four)
3-1-9-3
(three, one, nine, three)
19-23-32-34-36
(nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
01-06-07-15-17-25-27-29-35-37-44-45-55-58-61-62-63-67-69-72-77-80
(one, six, seven, fifteen, seventeen, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty-five, thirty-seven, forty-four, forty-five, fifty-five, fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-two, seventy-seven, eighty)
0-7-3
(zero, seven, three)
01-11-26-29-30
(one, eleven, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $50,000
9-8-7
(nine, eight, seven)
7-7-1
(seven, seven, one)
7-6-4-8
(seven, six, four, eight)
5-8-7-3
(five, eight, seven, three)
06-11-15-22-33
(six, eleven, fifteen, twenty-two, thirty-three)
14-20-25-29, Bonus: 11
(fourteen, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-nine; Bonus: eleven)
Estimated jackpot: $8,200
Month: 1, Day: 22, Year: 37
(Month: one; Day: twenty-two; Year: thirty-seven)
9-6-7
(nine, six, seven)
11-15-26-28-29
(eleven, fifteen, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine)
16-18-25-33-36-39
(sixteen, eighteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-six, thirty-nine)
05-15-18-26-29-37
(five, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-seven)
6-9-9, Fireball: 1
(six, nine, nine; Fireball: one)
7-5-6-6, Fireball: 1
(seven, five, six, six; Fireball: one)
10-13-24-32-37, Xtra: 3
(ten, thirteen, twenty-four, thirty-two, thirty-seven; Xtra: three)
7-2-6, Fireball: 8
(seven, two, six; Fireball: eight)
2-6-0-5, Fireball: 8
(two, six, zero, five; Fireball: eight)
6-8-4
(six, eight, four)
2-2-2-4
(two, two, two, four)
03-33-34-35-36
(three, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six)
5-6-7
(five, six, seven)
2-6-7-0
(two, six, seven, zero)
7-8-8
(seven, eight, eight)
7-4-8-8
(seven, four, eight, eight)
05-11-16-24-34
(five, eleven, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-four)
01-06-07-08-13-23-29-31-37-40-42-43-46-50-53-55-67-75-79-80
(one, six, seven, eight, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty-one, thirty-seven, forty, forty-two, forty-three, forty-six, fifty, fifty-three, fifty-five, sixty-seven, seventy-five, seventy-nine, eighty)
9-0-1, Lucky Sum: 10
(nine, zero, one; Lucky Sum: ten)
1-2-2-7, Lucky Sum: 12
(one, two, two, seven; Lucky Sum: twelve)
6-1-4
(six, one, four)
8-5-7
(eight, five, seven)
2-2-8-5
(two, two, eight, five)
5-9-4-2
(five, nine, four, two)
8-2-6-6-9
(eight, two, six, six, nine)
7-6-1-7-3
(seven, six, one, seven, three)
02-11-17-32-36
(two, eleven, seventeen, thirty-two, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $120,000
01-05-07-09-19
(one, five, seven, nine, nineteen)
8-0-3
(eight, zero, three)
03-08-10-14-19-24-28-30
(three, eight, ten, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
2-8-8-3
(two, eight, eight, three)
3-2-9-7
(three, two, nine, seven)
3-3-1-0
(three, three, one, zero)
07-12-23-29-32
(seven, twelve, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $475,000
06-17-30-32-46-48
(six, seventeen, thirty, thirty-two, forty-six, forty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $590,000
9-3, Wild: 4
(nine, three; Wild: four)
4-1, Wild:
(four, one; Wild: zero)
6-2-4, Wild: 4
(six, two, four; Wild: four)
4-4-5, Wild:
(four, four, five; Wild: zero)
9-3-2-3, Wild: 4
(nine, three, two, three; Wild: four)
3-5-0-7, Wild:
(three, five, zero, seven; Wild: zero)
5-1-9-5-1, Wild: 4
(five, one, nine, five, one; Wild: four)
8-5-9-6-1, Wild:
(eight, five, nine, six, one; Wild: zero)
11-13-17-23-28
(eleven, thirteen, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $12,000
3-5-7-1
(three, five, seven, one)
9-6-9-1
(nine, six, nine, one)
02-03-17-22-25, Extra: 8
(two, three, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-five; Extra: eight)
Estimated jackpot: $22,000
01-04-07-29-35, Power-Up: 2
(one, four, seven, twenty-nine, thirty-five; Power, Up: two)
9-4-8, FB: 8
(nine, four, eight; FB: eight)
6-4-6, FB:
(six, four, six; FB: zero)
4-0-0-1, FB: 8
(four, zero, zero, one; FB: eight)
8-0-7-3, FB:
(eight, zero, seven, three; FB: zero)
6-4-8, Wild: 1
(six, four, eight; Wild: one)
1-7-0, Wild: 9
(one, seven, zero; Wild: nine)
0-8-5, Wild:
(zero, eight, five; Wild: zero)
2-6-4-5, Wild: 5
(two, six, four, five; Wild: five)
5-1-6-9, Wild: 2
(five, one, six, nine; Wild: two)
7-6-0-9, Wild: 1
(seven, six, zero, nine; Wild: one)
02-03-06-07-08-09-10-11-13-15-18-20
(two, three, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, eighteen, twenty)
03-05-09-10-14-15-17-18-19-20-21-23
(three, five, nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three)
03-06-07-09-10-12-15-16-18-20-23-24
(three, six, seven, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-four)
3-2-6-0, FIREBALL: 4
(three, two, six, zero; FIREBALL: four)
9-8-2-5, FIREBALL: 2
(nine, eight, two, five; FIREBALL: two)
7-8-8-8, FIREBALL: 7
(seven, eight, eight, eight; FIREBALL: seven)
0-3-5, FIREBALL: 3
(zero, three, five; FIREBALL: three)
8-4-1, FIREBALL: 6
(eight, four, one; FIREBALL: six)
5-4-5, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, five; FIREBALL: three)
09-17-26-27-32
(nine, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-two)
7-7-6, FB: 9
(seven, seven, six; FB: nine)
5-7-5, FB: 4
(five, seven, five; FB: four)
0-2-2-2, FB: 5
(zero, two, two, two; FB: five)
1-0-8-8, FB: 6
(one, zero, eight, eight; FB: six)
03-12-18-19-22-24
(three, twelve, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four)
7-7-7
(seven, seven, seven)
9-4-5-1
(nine, four, five, one)
01-04-07-11-13-14-15-16-19-21-22
(one, four, seven, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two)
01-03-04-07-08-09-10-14-17-18-19
(one, three, four, seven, eight, nine, ten, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen)
5-7-1
(five, seven, one)
5-5-5-7
(five, five, five, seven)
01-11-25-33-35-38, Doubler: N
(one, eleven, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-eight; Doubler: N)
16-20-26-29-30
(sixteen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $10,000
0-2-5
(zero, two, five)
0-0-1-2
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ATLANTA (AP) — Waiting for just the right moment to launch his game-winning shot was no problem for Trae Young. He says he has been envisioning similar shots since he was a kid.
Young waited patiently for Mikal Bridges to fly past him before sinking a buzzer-beating jumper over the reach of Spencer Dinwiddie to lift Atlanta to a 129-127 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, a few hours before the Hawks announced they hired Quin Snyder as their coach.
The Hawks took their final possession with 7.3 seconds remaining after Cam Johnson’s 3-pointer tied the game at 127 with 7.8 seconds remaining. Young hit his pull-up 12-foot jumper as Dinwiddie tried in vain to block the shot from behind.
“I’ve been counting down those seconds since I was 5 years old, 6 years old,” Young said. “That’s nothing new.”
Young finished with 34 points for the Hawks, who recovered after blowing an 18-point lead to overcome four Nets scorers with at least 20 points.
Atlanta, No. 8 in the East, won its second consecutive game under interim coach Joe Prunty after Nate McMillan was fired Tuesday. General manager Landry Fields announced Sunday night Snyder had been hired to replace McMillan. The team scheduled a news conference for Monday to introduce Snyder.
Johnson had 27 points for Brooklyn. Mikal Bridges scored 24 for the Nets, who have lost four of five. Cam Thomas added 22 points and Dinwiddie had 20.
The Nets began the day fifth in the Eastern Conference, only a half-game ahead of the New York Knicks. Coach Jacque Vaughn is trying to find a new winning mix after the team traded Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
“You can’t feel sorry for yourself,” Vaughn said. “What we have to do is continue to stay together and believe we can get it done.”
Dorian Finney-Smith’s 3 for Brooklyn with 48 seconds remaining cut Atlanta’s lead to 127-124.
Both wins under Prunty have come against teams above the Hawks in the conference.
“It’s great,” said Dejounte Murray, who scored 28 points. “Like I continue to tell the players, we have no control over what the front office does. We’re going to continue to work and try to build as many wins as we can.”
Bogdan Bogdanovic added 22 for Atlanta. Bogdanovic’s three 3-pointers early in the second quarter helped Atlanta take a 50-32 lead. Thomas had 11 points in the period, helping the Nets trim the Hawks’ lead to 64-57 at halftime.
Brooklyn kept its momentum to open the second half, taking a 78-73 lead. Onyeka Okongwu scored the final four points of the third period as Atlanta took a 97-94 advantage into the final period.
“We would not give up in the second half even though we were down by double digits,” Vaughn said.
STICKING WITH THE STARTERS
Vaughn stuck with his starters after the first five combined for only 34 points as the team set a season scoring low in an ugly 131-87 loss at Chicago on Friday night.
Before the game, Vaughn said he’s looking for consistency and a balance of offense and defense. He said Finney-Smith, who had only two points against the Bulls, is “one of our best defenders we have on the team.”
“It’s pretty tough to take him out of the lineup when there’s other offensive guys he’s covering sins up for,” Vaughn said of Finney-Smith.
TALKING ABOUT PRACTICE
When asked how many practices he has had with the team since the All-Star break, Vaughn referred to the blowout loss to the Bulls as “a scrimmage with referees.”
TIP-INS
Nets: C Nic Claxton, from the University of Georgia, had four steals, three blocked shots and 11 rebounds. … G Ben Simmons (left knee soreness) missed his second consecutive game.
Hawks: F John Collins returned with 12 points after missing one game while on concussion protocol. Collins was questionable with lower back tightness and cleared to start after pregame warmups, but his minutes were restricted. Collins logged almost 26 minutes, which Prunty acknowledged was more than planned.
UP NEXT
Nets: Host Milwaukee on Tuesday night.
Hawks: Host Washington on Tuesday night.
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Spirit of Christmas of Chippewa County provides gifts to children during the holidays
Published: Nov. 14, 2022 at 8:58 AM CST|Updated: moments ago
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) - A Chippewa County non-profit aims to make sure children have presents to unwarp during the holiday season.
The Spirit of Christmas of Chippewa County gifts kids within the county new books, toys clothes, hygiene products, and more.
Anyone can submit an application and the only requirement is that you live in Chippewa County.
The goal is to provide children in need with some holiday joy.
Applications are open through November 25th.
An online application can be found at thespirirtofchristmas.com or in person at the Chippewa County Courthouse in room 304.
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There are certain things you can expect from an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU. A small floor plan (300 square feet is not unusual). A bedroom and a bathroom. Lots of skylights to bring in the sun and open up the interior.
An accessory dwelling unit might be used as a guesthouse for friends and family, an office for working remotely, a music room, pool house or gym.
But for lawyer Navine Karim and his wife, Samantha, who is a designer, the 600-square-foot unit behind their Mid-Wilshire home is a multifunctional dwelling that incorporates all of these things.
"It's a little like Tetris," says Samantha, who worked with Los Angeles-based architect Barrett Cooke of Arterberry Cooke to design a two-story dwelling complete with dining nook, kitchen, laundry and multipurpose room. "We kept moving things around until it worked."
The unit, which was built over 10 months in 2020 for $186,000, also provides flexibility as the couple looks to the future.
"I can see us moving into the ADU and renting out our main house," Samantha says. "I love the idea of us living part of the year in the ADU and the other part somewhere else. I also see one of our kids living there. Our adult children may not be able to afford to live in Los Angeles."
Ten years ago, the family — which includes sons Rahmi, 17, and Amaan, 15 — moved here from Park La Brea Apartments when they found a fixer-upper in a neighborhood of single-family houses near public transportation.
"We had been looking for something in the neighborhood for three years, but everything was too expensive," Samantha says.
The 1922 house, which had a damaged roof, had little curb appeal. "It had sat empty for a year and fell out of escrow three times," Navine recalls, adding that they had to commit to buying the house as-is. "We had to waive the inspection contingency."
The couple hired Cooke, whose goal was to streamline the property. "It was a nothing house," Cooke says of the remodel. "We stripped it and kept it linear with simple lines and smooth stucco."
When the couple reached out to her again, along with Chris Williams Construction, to help them transform the garage into an accessory dwelling unit, they asked her to design something that would adhere to the footprint of the garage and complement the clean lines of the modern house.
To help preserve the yard, the Karims opted to go up instead of out. "One story would have been cheaper," Samantha says, "but it would have eaten up the yard. We enjoy being outdoors and use the outdoor space a lot. Being outdoors is everything."
"The desire to go two stories, and the requirements to maintain the roof heights, started to dictate what the shape of the structure would be," Cooke explains. "The second floor is cantilevered toward the pool so it looks like two overlapping boxes."
Sitting on the first floor of the unit with its north-facing sliding glass door overlooking the pool, it's easy to imagine guests never wanting to leave the cozy guesthouse.
"We are pretty popular," Samantha says with a smile. "We met in Uganda and have lived all over. We have visitors every month from all over the world. That's why we added the washer and dryer — because we wanted people to visit. We just had a family of five from Kenya stay with us for 10 days. Friends from Colorado are arriving this week, guests from Germany the following week. People love to come to L.A."
Cooke designed the structure to be compartmentalized in a way that makes multipurpose living flexible in a small space: The ground floor features a tiny banquette for meals, a full kitchen and a stackable washer and dryer, a bathroom and living space. Simple concrete floors allow a smooth transition from the pool and easy indoor-outdoor access for guests and Mona the dog.
The clean lines, colorful blue kitchen cabinets by Omar Avalos and a fun pop-out window seat that doubles as a bed suit the sunny disposition of the poolside unit.
Because the ceilings are low, Cooke added open beams to give the interiors more depth. "It's a trick to make it look like there is more height," she says.
Up the spiral staircase to the second floor, there is a formal office for Navine, room for a drum set and guitars, a twin bed that lifts up to provide storage, and a queen-size Murphy bed that can accommodate guests when the bed is down or make space for a weight bench and dumbbells when the bed is upright. "I had never been able to work from home," Navine says, citing his long commute to his office in Venice. "I needed a place where I could work, but I also needed the separation." Two slim closets on each side of the bed offer storage for travelers, and a windowless wall on the south side of the accessory dwelling unit provides privacy for guests.
The project has prompted Samantha, who is originally from England, to think a lot about density in Los Angeles.
"I am a big fan of gentle human-scale density for our city and have been volunteering with the housing advocacy group Livable Communities Initiative," she says. "Los Angeles is unusual when you fly over it. It's flat and spread out. It's absurd that we have all this land zoned for single families. It doesn't seem fair that I'm allowed to build my ADU but we're not able to build affordable housing. We need to make it easier to build multifamily housing above local businesses on commercial streets." (In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved two new laws that allow underutilized and vacant commercial buildings to be converted into affordable housing.)
Today the unit, which is close to the main house and a covered porch, creates a welcoming compound for the family and their friends.
"It's such a cool multipurpose space," Samantha says. "It has one of everything. We even attached a movie screen to the outside of the ADU so we can watch movies in the backyard. We use it for so many different things. What's that saying? 'If you build it, they will come.'" | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/nov/12/multifunctional-and-mighty/ | 2022-11-12 08:41:28 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/nov/12/multifunctional-and-mighty/ |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Sanmina Corp. (SANM) on Monday reported profit of $64.7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the San Jose, California-based company said it had net income of $1.08. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were $1.50 per share.
The electronics manufacturing services company posted revenue of $2.2 billion in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $256.1 million, or $4.06 per share. Revenue was reported as $7.89 billion.
For the current quarter ending in December, Sanmina expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.41 to $1.51.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $2.1 billion to $2.2 billion for the fiscal first quarter.
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WASHINGTON, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Rust Consulting, Inc. about the Court-approved Fair Fund in the civil action, SEC v. K & L International Enterprises, Inc., Lawrence A. Powalisz, Enzyme Environmental Solutions, Inc. and Jared E. Hochstedler, No. 6:09-cv-1638-GAP-LHP.
If you purchased or acquired shares of Enzyme Environmental Solutions, Inc. (stock symbol: EESO), Cross Atlantic Commodities, Inc. (stock symbol: CXAC), Revenge Designs, Inc. (stock symbol: RVGD), and International Power, Ltd. (stock symbol: IPWG or IPWGE) (the "Securities") on certain trading days defined for each of the Securities from September 1, 2007 through July 31, 2009 (the "Relevant Period"), you may be eligible for recovery from the K & L Fair Fund.
What this case is about
This case involves the Defendants' violations of the registration provisions of the federal securities laws from approximately September 2007 through July 2009. The SEC's complaint alleged that Defendants entered into a series of convertible promissory notes with several issuers in a scheme to evade the securities registration requirements. Over the course of seven months, from May through September 2010, the Court entered final judgments against all seven Defendants. Four of the Defendants collectively paid $3,165,755.31 of the disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and penalties the Court ordered.
On February 7, 2023, the Court granted the SEC's motion to establish a Fair Fund and to appoint Miller Kaplan Arase, LLP, as Tax Administrator for the Fair Fund. The Fair Fund was established to distribute the collected funds to investors who were harmed by the Defendants' violations.
On March 21, 2023, Rust Consulting, Inc. was appointed as Distribution Agent to administer the Fair Fund distribution.
On April 4, 2023, the Court granted the SEC's motion to approve the Distribution Plan for the Fair Fund.
Who is Potentially Eligible for Compensation
To be eligible to file a claim from the Fair Fund, you must satisfy the following criteria: 1) You must have purchased or acquired shares of Enzyme Environmental Solutions, Inc., Cross Atlantic Commodities, Inc., Revenge Designs, Inc., or International Power, Ltd. on certain trading dates between September 1, 2007 and July 31, 2009 defined for each of the Securities; 2) You must have suffered a loss on approved transactions, that meet the definition of "Recognized Loss" in the Distribution Plan; and 3) You are not an Excluded Party as defined in the Distribution Plan.
How to File a Claim
You can obtain a Claim Form by visiting www.SECvKandLFairFund.com or by contacting Rust Consulting, Inc. at info@SECvKandLFairFund.com. You can file your claim online at www.SECvKandLFairFund.com or submit a Claim Form, by mail, to K & L Fair Fund, c/o Rust Consulting, Inc., Distribution Agent – 2599, Faribault, MN 55021-9599. All Claim Forms are due by September 30, 2023:
For More Information
Copies of the Plan, Plan Notice, and Claim Form are available at www.SECvKandLFairFund.com. You may also call 1 (833) 915-0952 or email the Distribution Agent at info@SECvKandLFairFund.com.
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US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.
“White-nose syndrome is decimating cave-dwelling bat species like the northern long-eared bat at unprecedented rates,” said Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The agency is “deeply committed to working with partners on a balanced approach that reduces the impacts of disease and protects the survivors to recover northern long-eared bat populations,” she said.
First documented in the U.S. in 2006, the disease has infected 12 types of bats and killed millions. The northern long-eared bat is among the hardest hit, with estimated declines of 97% or higher in affected populations. The bat is found in 37 eastern and north-central states, plus Washington, D.C., and much of Canada.
Named for white, fuzzy spots that appear on infected bats, white-nose syndrome attacks bats’ wings, muzzles and ears when they hibernate in caves and abandoned mines.
It causes them to wake early from hibernation and to sometimes fly outside. They can burn up their winter fat stores and eventually starve.
The disease has spread across nearly 80% of the geographical range where northern long-eared bats live and is expected to cover it all by 2025.
Another species ravaged by the fungus is the tricolored bat, which the government proposed to classify as endangered in September.
Bats are believed to give U.S. agriculture an annual boost of $3 billion by gobbling pests and pollinating some plants.
The Fish and Wildlife Service designated the northern long-eared bat as threatened in 2015. With its situation increasingly dire, the agency proposed an endangered listing in March and considered public comments before deciding to proceed. The reclassification takes effect Jan. 30, 2023.
In many cases, the service identifies “critical habitat” areas considered particularly important for the survival of an endangered species. Officials decided against doing so for the northern long-eared bat because habitat loss isn’t the primary reason for its decline, spokeswoman Georgia Parham said. Calling attention to their winter hibernation spots could make things worse, she added.
Recovery efforts will focus on wooded areas where the bats roost in summer — usually alone or in small groups, nestling beneath bark or in tree cavities and crevices. Emerging at dusk, they feed on moths, beetles and other insects.
Under the Endangered Species Act, federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service to be sure projects that they fund or authorize — such as timber harvests, prescribed fires and highway construction — will not jeopardize a listed species’ existence.
For nonfederal landowners, actions that could result in unintentional kills could be allowed but will require permits.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said that it will also work with wind energy companies to reduce the likelihood that bats will strike turbines. These collisions are currently a threat in roughly half of the northern long-eared bat’s range, an area likely to grow as wind energy development expands.
The service has approved nearly two dozen plans allowing wind energy and forestry projects to proceed after steps were taken to make them more bat-friendly, said Karen Herrington, Midwest regional coordinator for threatened and endangered species.
Operators can limit the danger by curtailing blade rotation during bats’ migration season and when winds are low.
Research continues for methods to fight white-nose syndrome, including development of a vaccine. The service has distributed more than $46 million for the campaign, which involves around 150 agencies, private organizations and Native American tribes.
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A Hot Springs man arrested Wednesday evening is accused of beating his stepfather so severely he lapsed into unconsciousness shortly after the arrival of Garland County sheriff's deputies.
Charles Joseph Henderson, 33, was taken into custody at his residence shortly after 6:30 p.m. and charged with second-degree domestic battery, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Henderson remained in custody Thursday on zero bond and is set to appear today in Garland County District Court. According to court records, he lists no prior felony history but was previously convicted in 2018 of misdemeanor third-degree assault and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Cpl. Matthew Cogburn responded to the Old Brundage Road residence around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday regarding a disturbance in progress and found Henderson sitting on the front porch.
Cogburn noted Henderson had a small cut over his eye and, before the deputy had time to ask him any questions, Henderson said, "I couldn't stop hitting him," the affidavit states
When asked who he meant, Henderson reportedly stated "my stepdad." Sgt. Greg Kellar arrived to assist as Cogburn went inside to check on the victim, who was found in a back bedroom.
The man was lying on the bed and reportedly had bruising and swelling to his face and a laceration to his right ear. Cogburn asked him what happened and he said Henderson was "being belligerent" and "yelling at everyone in the house."
He said he tried to stop Henderson, but then he attacked him, according to authorities. He said Henderson held him down on the floor and continually punched him about his head, neck and face.
Cogburn noted the victim's breathing appeared to be labored and he was having trouble speaking, the affidavit states. LifeNet arrived a short time later and by that point the victim was unconscious. "Due to the severity of his injuries," he was transported to the emergency room at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs.
After the victim was transported, Henderson was taken into custody While Cogburn was walking him to his unit, Henderson reportedly stated, "He never hit me. I go wild sometimes."
Cogburn noted Henderson was also taken to the hospital for treatment of an injury to his right hand before being taken to the jail.
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Updated June 11, 2023 at 11:05 PM ET
The 76th Tony Awards wrapped up at the United Palace Sunday night. Below is the list of major 2023 Tony Award nominees with winners marked in bold. The complete list of winners is here.
Best Musical
Winner: Kimberly Akimbo
& Juliet
New York, New York
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Best Play
Winner: Leopoldstadt
Ain't No Mo'
Between Riverside and Crazy
Cost of Living
Fat Ham
Best Revival of a Musical
Winner: Parade
Camelot
Into the WoodsSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Revival of a Play
Winner: Topdog/Underdog
A Doll's House
The Piano Lesson
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Best Leading Actress of a Musical
Winner: Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetSara Bareilles, Into the WoodsLorna Courtney, & Juliet
Micaela Diamond, Parade
Best Leading Actress of a Play
Winner: Jodie Comer, Prima Facie
Jessica Chastain, A Doll's House
Jessica Hecht, Summer, 1976
Audra McDonald, Ohio State Murders
Best Leading Actor of a Musical
Winner: J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot
Christian Borle, Some Like It Hot
Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetBrian D'Arcy James, Into the WoodsBen Platt, Parade
Colton Ryan, New York, New York
Best Leading Actor of a Play
Winner: Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topdog/Underdog
Corey Hawkins, Topdog/Underdog
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy
Wendell Pierce, Death of a Salesman
Best Featured Actress of a Musical
Winner: Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo
Julia Lester, Into the WoodsRuthie Ann Miles, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetNaTasha Yvette Williams, Some Like It Hot
Betsy Wolfe, & Juliet
Best Featured Actress of a Play
Winner: Miriam Silverman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Nikki Crawford, Fat HamCrystal Lucas-Perry, Ain't No Mo'
Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living
Kara Young, Cost of Living
Best Featured Actor of a Musical
Winner: Alex Newell, Shucked
Kevin Cahoon, Shucked
Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo
Kevin Del Aguila, Some Like It Hot
Jordan Donica, Camelot
Best Featured Actor of a Play
Winner: Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt
Jordan E. Cooper, Ain't No Mo'
Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
Arian Moayed, A Doll's House
David Zayas, Cost of Living
Best Direction of a Musical
Winner: Michael Arden, Parade
Lear deBessonet, Into the WoodsCasey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
Jack O'Brien, Shucked
Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo
Best Direction of a Play
Winner: Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt
Saheem Ali, Fat HamJo Bonney, Cost of Living
Jamie Lloyd, A Doll's House
Stevie Walker-Webb, Ain't No Mo
Max Webster, Life of Pi
Best Book of a Musical
Winner: David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo
David West Read, & Juliet
Robert Horn, Shucked
Matthew López and Amber Ruffin, Some Like It Hot
David Thompson and Sharon Washington, New York, New York
Best Original Score
Winner: Kimberly Akimbo, music by Jeanine Tesori; lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
Almost Famous, music by Tom Kitt; lyrics by Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt
KPOP, music and lyrics: Helen Park and Max Vernon
Shucked, music and lyrics: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally
Some Like It Hot, music: Marc Shaiman; lyrics: Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman
Best Choreography
Winner: Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
Steven Hoggett, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetSusan Stroman, New York, New York
Jennifer Weber, KPOPJennifer Weber, & Juliet
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DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera needed only one at-bat on Saturday to deliver his long-awaited 3,000th career hit, quickly reaching the mark as the Detroit Tigers routed the Colorado Rockies 13-0 in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.
Cabrera became the 33rd player in major league history and first Venezuelan-born player to achieve the feat when he grounded a first-inning single into right field. The hit came against fellow Venezuelan Antonio Senzatela and set off rousing cheers and chants at Comerica Park.
Cabrera added a bases-loaded, two-run single in the sixth, then was pulled for a pinch-runner and drew another huge ovation as he trotted off with 3,001 hits.
The 39-year-old Cabrera became just the seventh player with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits. He joined an exclusive club with Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez.
He’s the seventh Latino player reach the 3,000 mark. Pujols was the previous player to reach the mark, doing it in 2018.
Cabrera is the third player to get his 3,000th hit in a Tigers uniform, joining Ty Cobb and Al Kaline.
After getting his 2,999th career hit on Wednesday, he went 0 for 3 on Thursday. The Rockies-Tigers game scheduled for Friday night was rained out, putting history on hold for another day.
Cabrera fouled off the first pitch he saw and took a ball from Antonio Senzatela before his milestone swing.
He raised his right arm while heading to first base as right fielder Randal Grichuk retrieved the ball. The Comerica Park crowd of 37,566 roared and Rockies shortstop José Iglesias, who played with Cabrera on the Tigers, raced over to give his former teammate a big hug.
His current teammates then came streaming from the dugout to congratulate him before he went behind home plate to embrace his mother, wife, son and daughter on the field.
Cabrera scored three batters later on rookie Spencer Torkelson’s three-run homer as Detroit jumped to a 4-0 lead. Pinch-runner Eric Haase replaced Cabrera after his two-run single in the sixth.
Tigers starter Tarik Skubal (1-1) allowed five hits and struck out six in six innings. The two players who batted in front of Cabrera, Robbie Grossman and Austin Meadows, combined for five hits, five runs scored and three RBIs. Harold Castro added four hits and scored two runs.
Senzatela (1-1) gave up five runs on 10 hits in five innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Detroit SS Javier Báez (right thumb soreness) took batting practice Saturday and could be activated from the 10-day injured list on Sunday. “We’re kind of aiming for tomorrow if today goes well,” manager A.J. Hinch said.
ROSTER MOVES
The Tigers placed OF Victor Reyes (left quad strain) on the 10-day IL and recalled OF Derek Hill from Triple-A Toledo. … Tigers OF Daz Cameron will be recalled from Toledo and serve as the 29th man in the doubleheader prior to the second game. He’ll start in right field. RHP Julian Fernandez will be the Rockies’ 29th man in Game 2 after a recall from the Albuquerque Isotopes.
UP NEXT
Rockies: LHP Austin Gomber (0-1, 7.00 ERA) will start Game 2 of the doubleheader. Gomber gave up five runs (four earned) in 4 1/3 innings against the Chicago Cubs in his last outing on Sunday.
Tigers: RHP Beau Brieske (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will make his major-league debut in the nightcap. The 24-year-old right-hander has pitched two games for Triple-A Toledo this season, allowing five runs over 10 innings.
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Dear Amy: I work for a small spa. Over the last eight years my family and the owners’ family have become friends.
We have young children who play together.
The business owner recently confided that he and his wife have been breaking the law by not paying employees an hourly minimum wage, in addition to time booked with clients.
This has been happening for several years, and I am legally owed $9,000 to $10,000 of back pay.
Although the owners made everything legit, they have made no mention of paying me this owed money.
The other employees are not aware that they are also owed money.
I spoke with a lawyer and although by law the money is owed to me, I will have to take the business to court – or try to settle.
I am so torn. I feel betrayed by my boss/ friend but sort of obligated to tell my coworkers. They are owed money, too.
I’m not sure I can even remain friends or work for this company anymore.
I have caught them lying to other employees.
Should I ask my bosses/friends for the cash?
Should I inform the other employees?
– Rubs Me Wrong!
Dear Wrong: You should pursue the back pay owed to you, following your lawyer’s advice (a letter from the lawyer might inspire the business owners to avoid court and offer you a fair settlement).
You should assume that your friendship is over and proactively look for a position at a different business, in case you decide to part company.
In terms of notifying the other employees, the letter from your lawyer to the spa owners might include a sentence strongly suggesting that they take steps to restore back pay to all of their employees. Your lawyer might decide to contact the other employees independently, gathering a few more clients and billable hours along the way.
The business owners should assume that all of the employees will find out about this. The spa’s own lawyer will advise them on how to settle, deal with any penalties, and continue to stay in business, legitimately.
Dear Amy: Fifty-two years ago, my sister shared a secret with me on the condition that I tell no one.
She has five children, two with her first husband and three children with three different men (conceived while she was still married to her first husband).
I’m experiencing guilt about holding this secret and feel my adult nieces and nephews have a basic right to know their truth.
Her fear of being disowned by her children once they know the truth keeps her quiet. Plus, she sees no reason to upset so many families.
Is it her secret to keep from her five adult children?
The letters I read in your column make it clear that eventually, with the prevalence of DNA testing, it’s only a matter of time until this is revealed.
Is it my secret to tell?
Your thoughts?
– Not my Secret?
Dear Not: Knowing a secret doesn’t make it “yours.” So this secret is not yours to share.
Yes, your sister’s adult children do have the right to know their DNA heritage. Your sister is the person who should tell them.
She can either tell them herself and have a hope of controlling the narrative, or she can wait until the inevitable DNA search reveals the truth.
Keep in mind that if ANY of the three affected siblings (or their children) register on a DNA site, they could become connected with other DNA relatives out there (unknown half-siblings or their children, for instance) and could start the process of unraveling this very tangled web.
You might be helpful to your sister if you offer to talk this through with her and assure her that you will offer her continued emotional support.
Dear Amy: “To Tell or Not” wondered whether to tell her future husband about her previous sexual abuse history.
I did not work through my abuse history until after the death of my abuser, several years into my marriage and after the birth of my child.
I finally got the nerve to tell my husband by writing a letter outlining what had happened. His response? “I always knew there was something wrong with you.”
I was stunned. He never said anything supportive.
That was the beginning of the end of our marriage.
Had I known he would have thought I was “defective,” I probably would have never married him.
– Learned too Late
Dear Learned: I’m so sorry. Thank you for offering your perspective.
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
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(WPHL) – A Pennsylvania man was charged Monday with drugging and killing his own mother.
Sean Rivera, 28, of Falls Township in suburban Philadelphia, was arrested on allegations that he killed his 72-year-old mother, Carol J. Clark, by putting fentanyl in her iced tea, shooting her, and then leaving her body in a shed.
According to Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub’s office, police on Sunday afternoon received a report of a verbal domestic dispute between two brothers over the whereabouts of their mother.
According to Weintraub, Rivera called his brother, Adam Clark-Valle, Sunday morning to let him know their mother had died after an illness. Clark-Valle, who lived in New York at the time, drove to Rivera’s home to mourn. When Clark-Valle arrived, he asked Rivera where their mother was, but Rivera did not give an answer.
Then, at one point, Rivera told his brother that their mother had had a heart attack and was in a local hospital, which Clark-Valle checked but found no record of her being there.
Clark-Valle called the police, and the Falls Township Police Department put out an alert, asking the public to help them find Clark.
During a search of Rivera’s home and vehicle, detectives found two guns, a Home Depot receipt, a padlock, an empty padlock package, and a set of bolt cutters.
According to police, on Saturday night, Rivera put “diluted fentanyl” in his mother’s iced tea. Between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., while his mother was “in a conscious but lethargic state,” he put her in her own car and drove her to a shed in Philadelphia, police said.
Then he used bolt cutters to cut off the padlocks on the shed, took his mother inside, and shot her “approximately five times,” police said. He then closed the doors to the shed, locked them with the padlocks he had bought, and left, they said.
After Rivera was apprehended, police opened the shed with a key he still had on him.
Rivera was charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping to facilitate a felony, kidnaping to inflict terror or injury, aggravated assault, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of an instrument of crime, possession of a weapon, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, and recklessly endangering another person.
No potential motive was given.
Rivera was being held without bail at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/pennsylvania-man-charged-with-drugging-killing-his-72-year-old-mother/ | 2023-04-12 17:41:38 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/pennsylvania-man-charged-with-drugging-killing-his-72-year-old-mother/ |
Jordan, Grassley demand docs on Venezuelan parole program, slam ‘flagrant violation’ of federal law
They say the program violates the 'case-by-case' authority for humanitarian parole.
FIRST ON FOX: The top Republicans on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are calling for more information from the Biden administration on a recently announced program that would allow tens of thousands of Venezuelans to enter the U.S. using humanitarian parole – calling it a "flagrant violation" of federal law.
"The Department of Homeland Security’s newly created categorical parole program for Venezuelan nationals is yet another misguided immigration policy of the Biden Administration and flagrant violation of immigration law," Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republicans on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, say in a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
DHS announced the program as part of a new cooperation agreement with Mexico. The parole program provides a legal pathway for Venezuelan nationals to enter the U.S. Capped at just 24,000, the agency said the humanitarian parole program requires Venezuelans to have a supporter in the U.S. to provide financial and other support, pass biometric and other security screenings, and complete public health requirements, including vaccinations. It's similar to a program announced earlier in the year for eligible Ukrainians.
Nationals would be ineligible for the program if they have previously been deported, have crossed into the U.S. or into Mexico illegally, or have residence or refugee status in a country other than Venezuela. DHS said the program will be stopped if Mexico stops accepting Venezuelan returns.
FEDERAL COURT DELAYS END OF TITLE 42 BORDER POLICY UNTIL DECEMBER AMID FEARS OF MIGRANT SURGE
"These actions make clear that there is a lawful and orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States, and lawful entry is the only way," Mayorkas said in a statement. "Those who attempt to cross the southern border of the United States illegally will be returned to Mexico and will be ineligible for this process in the future. Those who follow the lawful process will have the opportunity to travel safely to the United States and become eligible to work here."
The parole program was coupled with an announcement that Title 42 expulsions at the border would now be expanded to Venezuelan nationals crossing illegally – however since then a federal judge has ordered Title 42 expulsions be halted next month.
The Republican lawmakers say the program "ignores congressional intent and departs from how past administrations have exercised case-by-case parole authority."
"Even worse, it does nothing to secure the southern border or prevent the continued and unprecedented surge of aliens across that border," they write.
The objections to the parole program tap into long-standing concerns from Republicans and immigration hawks about the use of the parole authority. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) states that parole is to be used on a "case-by-case" basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit – yet it has been used to parole massive amounts of migrants, both across the southern border and in special cases such as the entry of Ukrainian and Afghan evacuees in the last year.
The lawmakers say any effort to carve out a program using parole is an abuse of the "case-by-case" authority granted to the administration by Congress.
"You have described this new program as a ‘new lawful pathway created’ for Venezuelan nationals to enter and live in the United States," they say. "The Secretary of DHS cannot legally ‘create’ any such ‘pathway’ and your assertion otherwise is just another example of how the Biden administration displays contempt for enforcing federal immigration law as set by Congress."
They also cite a DHS staff briefing in which the 24,000 cap was said to only be an "initial commitment" and that the number could be revisited for a potential increase, while also saying that DHS officials have provided few details on who could sponsor parolees and how nationals would be vetted.
MAYORKAS MAINTAINS DHS HAS PLAN FOR TITLE 42'S END, DESPITE FEARS OF A NEW MIGRANT WAVE AT BORDER
Specifically, the lawmakers say the sponsor system could mean that illegal immigrants whose removal had been deferred or temporary immigrants could be eligible to be a "supporter" for additional Venezuelan migrants.
"In addition to making a mockery of federal immigration law, this policy raises obvious questions about what happens to a parolee whose supporter is no longer in the country," they say.
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The lawmakers are seeking the statutory authority used to create the program, as well as documents related to the program. The Republicans also want monthly updates on the number of Venezuelans encountered at the border and expelled under Title 42, and a breakdown of those granted parole into the U.S. under the new parole program.
They have also provided DHS a lengthy list of questions as to the workings of the program, including how it validates Venezuelan passports, eligibility for sponsorship and the agreement with Mexico on returning Venezuelans to Mexico under Title 42.
DHS has linked the new process with a drop in attempts to cross the border illegally, with crossings dropping from 1,100 a day on average before the announcement to around 300 a day. So far more than 6,800 Venezuelans have been approved to travel to the U.S. under the new program, and nearly 500 have arrived in the U.S. legally.
Mayorkas last week told lawmakers that there is a plan in place to deal with the end of Title 42 next month that includes more resources, speedier processing and the use of other removal methods – amid growing concern that the ending of the expulsions could lead to an additional surge at the border on top of high numbers Border Patrol agents are already seeing. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-grassley-seek-docs-venezuelan-parole-program-slam-flagrant-violation-federal-law | 2022-11-22 17:58:01 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-grassley-seek-docs-venezuelan-parole-program-slam-flagrant-violation-federal-law |
(The Hill) — A Rhode Island woman who for five years used stolen patient information from the veterans’ hospital where she worked to pretend to be a former Marine with cancer and rake in more than $280,000 was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six years in prison.
A U.S. District Court in Providence also ordered Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 32, to pay full restitution for the $284,796.82 in falsely collected benefits, charitable contributions and donations.
Cavanaugh, who never served in the U.S. military, pretended to be a Purple Heart- and Bronze Star-decorated Marine Corps veteran, claiming to have been wounded by an IED in Iraq and to have developed cancer from burn pits and other service-related activity. She attended public events in full uniform, wearing a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star she purchased and allowing herself to be introduced to friends, charities, businesses and organizations she then exploited or defrauded, according to court documents.
She was finally exposed early last year when a charity she applied to for funds checked her background.
Cavanaugh was charged in March 2022 and pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, using a forged military discharge certificate and fraudulently using military medals to obtain money, property or other tangible benefits.
Court documents describe Cavanaugh’s actions as “among the more reprehensible seen in this District from a fraud defendant,” for deceiving veterans, veterans’ organizations and charities, friends and co-workers in a “methodical and calculated manner.”
“Sarah Cavanaugh’s conduct in the course of her scheme is nothing short of appalling,” U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha said in a statement. “By brazenly laying claim to the honor, service, and sacrifice of real veterans, this defendant preyed on the charity and decency of others for her own shameless financial gain.”
While Cavanaugh did not serve in the military, she did work as a licensed social worker for the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Rhode Island Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence. While there, she used the documents, medical records and personal information of an actual veteran with cancer to create forged documents and records in her name.
Those fraudulent papers said she had been honorably discharged and had cancer, allowing her to collect more than $225,000 from the Wounded Warrior Project and thousands more from eight other charities.
Combined, the dollars funded Cavanaugh’s travel to retreats, in-home care, gym memberships, physical therapy, paying an electric bill, and provided donated gift cards for use for groceries and other essentials, according to the Department of Justice.
She also gained months of paid leave from two federal employee benefit programs.
What’s more, Cavanaugh assumed leadership roles in the veteran community, joining the Veterans of Foreign Wars and securing a spot in an arts program at the University of Southern California meant for veterans known as CreatiVets.
Cavanaugh’s defense had sought a two-year sentence, but instead, she was sentenced to 70 months in prison with three years of federal supervised release after. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/woman-gets-6-years-after-posing-as-decorated-injured-marine-for-benefits-doj/ | 2023-03-15 20:20:32 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/woman-gets-6-years-after-posing-as-decorated-injured-marine-for-benefits-doj/ |
James Patterson donates to PEN America, Howard University
NEW YORK (AP) — Howard University, PEN America and Scholastic Book Clubs are among the latest recipients of donations from James Patterson, the bestselling author who has given over $100 million to literary and literacy programs. On Tuesday, Patterson announced $5.3 million in cash awards. They include $2 million to PEN to support the organization’s fight for free expression worldwide; $2 million to Scholastic for the classroom project “The United States of Readers” and $1.3 million total to Howard University for 12 James Patterson Writer Education Scholarships and to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for 14 fellowships, given to 11 fiction writers and three poets. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/27/james-patterson-donates-to-pen-america-howard-university/ | 2022-09-27 14:35:09 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/27/james-patterson-donates-to-pen-america-howard-university/ |
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Federal police said Friday that human remains found in Brazil’s remote Amazon have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips, who went missing almost two weeks ago along with a Brazilian Indigenous expert in a case that drew world attention.
Additional remains found at the site near the city of Atalaia do Norte have not yet been identified but are expected to belong to Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, 41. The pair were last seen June 5 on their boat on the Itaquai river, near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia.
“The confirmation (of Phillips’ remains) was made based on dental examinations and anthropological forensics,” Federal Police said in a statement. “Work is ongoing for a complete identification of the remains so we can determine the cause of death, and also the dynamics of the crime and the hiding of the bodies.”
The remains were found Wednesday after fisherman Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, nicknamed Pelado, confessed he killed Phillips, 57, and Pereira, and led police to the site were the remains were found. He told officers he used a firearm to commit the crime.
Police also arrested Pelado’s brother, fisherman Oseney da Costa de Oliveira.
The remains had arrived in the capital city of Brasilia on Thursday for forensics to work.
The area where Phillips and Pereira went missing has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers, and government agents.
Federal police said others may have participated in the crime but that organized criminal groups did not appear to be involved.
UNIVAJA, the local Indigenous association for whom Pereira was working, criticized that conclusion. It said in a statement the investigation had not considered the existence of a criminal organization financing illegal fishing and poaching in the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory.
“That was why Bruno Pereira became one of the main targets of this criminal group, as well as other UNIVAJA members who received death threats,” the statement said.
President Jair Bolsonaro, a frequent critic of journalists and Indigenous experts, has drawn criticism that the government didn’t get involved fast enough. Earlier, he criticized Phillips in an interview, saying without evidence that locals in the area where he went missing didn’t like him and that he should have been more careful in the region.
His main adversary in October’s election, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said in a statement that the killings “are directly related to the dismantling of public policies of protection to Indigenous peoples. ”It is also related to the current administration’s stimulus to violence,” said da Silva, who leads in opinion polls.
The efforts to find the pair were started by Indigenous peoples in the region.
Indigenous people who were with Pereira and Phillips have said that Pelado brandished a rifle at them on the day before the pair disappeared.
Official search teams concentrated their efforts around a spot in the Itaquai river where a tarp from the boat used by the missing men was found. Authorities began scouring the area and discovered a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged underwater Sunday.
Authorities have said a main line of the police investigation into the disappearances has pointed to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in the Javari Valley reserve, which is Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory.
Pereira, who previously led the local bureau of the federal Indigenous agency, known as FUNAI, took part in several operations against illegal fishing. In such operations, as a rule the fishing gear is seized or destroyed, while the fishermen are fined and briefly detained. Only the Indigenous can legally fish in their territories.
While some police, the mayor and others in the region link the pair’s disappearances to the “fish mafia,” federal police have not ruled out other lines of investigation, such as drug trafficking.
The case has put a global magnifying glass on violence in the Amazon.
Earlier on Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Phillips and Pereira were “murdered for supporting conservation of the rainforest and native peoples there.”
“We call for accountability and justice — we must collectively strengthen efforts to protect environmental defenders and journalists,” Price said.
Protests calling for justice for Phillips and Pereira are scheduled to take place in several Brazilian cities over the weekend. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/brazil-police-remains-found-those-of-british-journalist/ | 2022-06-18 19:16:05 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/brazil-police-remains-found-those-of-british-journalist/ |
(The Hill) – Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said in a new interview that the “anti-vaxxer attitude” of some Americans risks causing non-COVID virus outbreaks in the U.S.
“I’m concerned the acceleration of an anti-vaxxer attitude in certain segments of the population…might spill over into that kind of a negative attitude towards childhood vaccinations,” Fauci told The Financial Times in an interview published Sunday.
“If you fall back on vaccines against common vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, that’s where you wind up getting avoidable and unnecessary outbreaks.,” Fauci added.
Fauci, who announced last month that he will step down from his positions in the Biden administration in December, said political division is one factor driving anti-vaxxer sentiment, noting how some states have not promoted COVID-19 vaccination and Congress has failed to advance billions of dollars in funding.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report in July showing that vaccination among children declined more during the COVID-19 pandemic than at any time in the past 30 years.
Fauci’s remark comes after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) declared a state of emergency last week due to the spread of polio through wastewater, spurring the state to ramp up vaccinations against the virus.
The U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccination rate amongst adults is still at 67 percent, according to CDC data, but is well below other countries.
Fauci also said in an interview with Bloomberg Law earlier this month that the U.S. should prepare for a bad flu season. | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/fauci-fears-anti-vaxxer-attitude-could-cause-outbreaks-of-non-covid-diseases/ | 2022-09-22 21:03:59 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/fauci-fears-anti-vaxxer-attitude-could-cause-outbreaks-of-non-covid-diseases/ |
(NEXSTAR) — As COVID-19 sub-variants continued sweeping across the U.S., new research suggests your body might not be the only place hosting the coronavirus. Yikes!
Researchers studied two animal coronoviruses’ ability to survive on various meats, including salmon, pork, chicken and beef during both refrigeration and freezing for one month, according to the data published by the American Society for Microbiology’s journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Scientists say the viruses — which were used as surrogates in place of COVID-19, as they are all similar — had greater survival on beef and pork. Chicken and salmon, they write, had greater reductions.
While the main mode of transmission of COVID-19 is widely known to be respiratory, the researchers note previous data shows coronaviruses can survive on even non frozen foods, like produce, and possibly infect someone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says food/food packaging transmission is unlikely, though the researchers write they believe more data is needed.
So how would COVID-19 end up in meat?
Researchers write that living conditions in markets and slaughterhouses, in addition to meat processing plants, that may transfer particles to meat, poultry and seafood during animal slaughter, processing, storage and transport.”
The study’s authors say their data needs more backing but that they hope their findings will emphasize the need for more safety measures in food production and packaging. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/is-covid-19-living-in-your-freezer/ | 2022-07-17 16:36:53 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/is-covid-19-living-in-your-freezer/ |
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Derrick Bass (right) poses with his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass, who started Depot Dog in 1989. "We had a pretty good life. We never really hurt for anything," Derrick says. "I wanted to keep it in the family and carry on the tradition."
John J. Watkins, The Times
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. "This is a well-known iconic destination in the Indiana Dunes, somewhere people visit when they come to Northwest Indiana," he says. "I'm proud to carry that legacy on."
John J. Watkins, The Times
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
For more than three decades, beachgoers have had a ritual while visiting West Beach, the biggest and most popular beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
People in search of some surf and sand along the Lake Michigan lakeshore make a point of stopping by Depot Dogs, the landmark rail-themed hot dog joint with the caboose at the border of Porter and Gary's Miller neighborhood.
The outdoor counter-serve restaurant screams summer vacation, with its picnic benches, wooden decks, flowers, birdhouses and bright red-and-yellow umbrellas to shield diners with a cooling shade.
Former steelworker Russell and Pamela Bass started Depot Dog in 1989, with its season running from April until around October or November. Depot Dog quickly became a regular stop for many families headed to the Indiana Dunes who relished its Chicago dogs, Maxwell Street Polish and other sausages that come automatically with a scoop of fries fresh out of the fryer.
"My wife and I worked very hard to build that business," Russell said. "We were there eight to 10 hours a day seven days a week with our nose to the grindstone. We made good food and served it in a timely fashion so people can get back to their jobs."
The restaurant in the red caboose at 5016 Melton Road in Portage has been passed on to the next generation. Their son Derrick and his wife, Amy, are now running the iconic pit stop.
"A lot of our clientele comes from the Miller area, and a lot is tourism, especially from Chicago, Illinois and other parts of the country," Derrick said. "People come either before or after they go to the beaches at the Indiana Dunes."
Depot Dog serves only Vienna Beef products, including hot dogs with a casing with a snap when you bite into it. It was inducted into the Vienna Beef Hall of Fame in 2010.
"The food comes out hot and fresh," Derrick said. "It's all freshly prepared. Nothing is pulled from freezers where it's sitting for days or weeks."
The next-generation ownership agreed to keep the hot dog stand the way it has been for the past 33 years. They have been looking to maintain its feel and charm while adding a few menu items, such as a Razo-Do deep-fried Polish, a Ditka Polish and the Sha-Zam Ditka Polish, which stretches 8 inches long and weighs a third of a pound.
Derrick Bass had been living in Noblesville working a job in health care when his father told him he planned to retire. He came back up to learn inventory, payroll, scheduling, filling out taxes and running a business. He took the reins last year and just embarked on his second season.
"As long as the weather is good, we're successful," he said. "I enjoy it. You're your own boss. There's camaraderie with the employees. You're close with the customers. They ask how your parents are doing, say they're legendary, remember them and share feel-good stories. We're starting new relationships."
Bass grew up working in the restaurant, which was originally called West Beach Depot Dogs but changed its name after a year. It was the only listing in the phone book for West Beach, and 20 to 30 people called a day to ask if the beach was open.
"I worked at the Bethlehem Steel mill when I started it in Miller during the 1980s," Russell said. "It was desperate times. People working in the mill were getting laid off. I had a mortgage and responsibility. I didn't know if I wanted to stick with the mill."
He located the hot dog joint near the then-National Lakeshore to capitalize off the traffic and put it in a caboose at a time when they were being phased out.
"I thought it was pretty unique," he said. "It was an attraction."
He got advice on how to run the business from legendary hot dog king Chuck Wheeler, whose Chuck Wheeler's Vienna Beef remains a popular draw at Village Mall in Gary long after many of the other storefronts have become vacant. He listened to Wheeler's recommendations about quality, freshness and only serving Vienna Beef with the skin on.
Derrick helped out around Depot Dog when he was a kid. The business was his bus stop when he was in elementary and middle school. He got dropped off after school and hung out in the back with his sister, who would draw in coloring books.
They would play around, building forts out of bread trays stacked in the woods behind the caboose. He once went with a friend to retrieve a dollar under the wooden patio, braving the spiders, bugs and dank darkness for more than an hour. They found about $80 in change.
"We had a pretty good life. We never really hurt for anything," he said. "I wanted to keep it in the family and carry on the tradition."
So he moved back home to Northwest Indiana to take over.
"I didn't want to see it sold to another individual or conglomerate who would turn it into something my family didn't create," he said. "I didn't want them to level that corner and turn it into something else. You see Luke Gas Stations popping up everywhere in the community. If something like that came in, it would be pretty heartbreaking."
He was to carry on the legacy.
"That legacy makes me very proud and makes me feel good inside. This is a well-known iconic destination in the Indiana Dunes, somewhere people visit when they come to Northwest Indiana. I'm proud to carry that legacy on."
Depot Dog has drawn customers from Poland, England, Australia and all over the country, especially since the Indiana Dunes became a national park. A family with an RV rolled in this week from Arizona.
"The national park draws more than 3 million people a year. It's always meant a lot of traffic," Derrick said. The people come to us. It takes care of itself. We just want to be successful for another 33 years."
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Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
Derrick Bass (right) poses with his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass, who started Depot Dog in 1989. "We had a pretty good life. We never really hurt for anything," Derrick says. "I wanted to keep it in the family and carry on the tradition."
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. "This is a well-known iconic destination in the Indiana Dunes, somewhere people visit when they come to Northwest Indiana," he says. "I'm proud to carry that legacy on."
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
Derrick Bass has taken over Depot Dog from his parents, Russell and Pamela Bass. The hot dog joint with a caboose where people eat outside on benches is a staple of the summer for anyone visiting West Beach in the Indiana Dunes National Park. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/next-generation-takes-reins-at-landmark-depot-dog-a-longtime-favorite-for-beachgoers/article_9b0ac01e-eb82-11ed-aef5-4b369ee140a4.html | 2023-05-06 14:47:14 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/next-generation-takes-reins-at-landmark-depot-dog-a-longtime-favorite-for-beachgoers/article_9b0ac01e-eb82-11ed-aef5-4b369ee140a4.html |
‘Jackass’ star Bam Margera charged with punching brother
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — “Jackass” star Bam Margera punched his brother in the face during an altercation at their home in the Philadelphia suburbs, then took off on foot, Pennsylvania State Police said Monday in announcing criminal charges.
An arrest warrant was issued for Margera, 43, and police said they were looking for him.
State police said they were called to the Chester County home in response to a reported domestic disturbance shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday. Margera’s brother, Jesse Margera, told police that Bam Margera had pounded on and kicked his locked bedroom door that morning, and punched him in the eye, nose and ear during a later confrontation in the kitchen, according to court documents.
Jesse Margera said he’d also found a threatening handwritten note signed “Bam,” a police affidavit said.
Margera, who also starred in the MTV reality series “Viva La Bam,” fled the property on foot through dense woods before troopers got there, the affidavit said.
Bam Margera is charged with simple assault, harassment, and four counts of terroristic threats. Court documents did not list an attorney for Margera.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Danielle Maness has squeezed the hands of hundreds of anxious patients lying on tables in the procedure room, now empty. She's recorded countless vital signs and delivered scores of snacks to the recovery area, now silent.
Peering into each darkened room at West Virginia 's only abortion clinic, the chief nurse wondered whether she'd ever treat patients here for abortion care again.
“It literally just sickens me, and we don’t know what their futures hold for them,” Maness said of the residents who rely on the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia. “It’s the kind of heartbreak that’s difficult to put into words. There are all these ‘what- ifs.’”
The waiting room should have been filling up with patients on two days last week, when the clinic reserves all slots for abortion appointments. But since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade days earlier and ruled that states can ban abortion, the clinic was forced to suspend the procedures because of an 1800s-era state law banning them. The ACLU of West Virginia filed a lawsuit on behalf of the clinic, asking that the law be declared unenforceable so staff can immediately resume abortions. Other states are in various stages of legal limbo.
Nationwide, workers at clinics that shuttered abortion services are feeling fear and stress as they try to pick up the pieces and chart a path forward. At the West Virginia center, the days following the historic court ruling brought on a different kind of grief for staff as their new reality set in, one Maness said will linger long after the initial trauma of the decision.
The conversations with frantic patients that first day play on an inescapable loop in her head.
“I don’t think any of us can block it out,” she said. “It’s constantly on our minds.”
Like many clinics that perform abortions, the facility did not offer the procedure daily. Several days of the week are dedicated to routine gynecological care — cervical exams, cancer screenings — mostly for low-income patients on Medicaid with nowhere else to go. The resolve to continue that work has buoyed employees.
Immediately after the decision's release, Maness was one of a few staff members tasked with calling patients to cancel abortion appointments. On the other end of the line, she'd never before heard people speak with such fear.
The entire staff found themselves in crisis mode for days, though they and others across the country expected the ruling for months. “You think you think you’re prepared for the moment, but you’re never really prepared until it’s a reality,” executive director Katie Quiñonez said.
She watched her staff break down and sob. Some called patients or answered phones. Workers who had the day off showed up, some still in pajamas, to relieve colleagues and offer support. Quiñonez encouraged all to take breaks, often managing the phones herself.
She'll forever remember that Friday as one of the worst days of her life. Over the weekend, she shut off her phone, lay under a weighted blanket on her couch, ate junk food and watched television. It was the only way she could escape and cope.
When she and her staff returned to work, she held off on filling the vacant slots from canceled abortion appointments. Some patients still needed other services, but she wanted to let workers catch their breath. She told them to come in late if needed. Clinic rooms remained largely empty, dark and quiet.
But still, the phones rang.
Beth Fiddler sat at her desk behind the clinic’s glass reception window in the waiting room. She had no patients to check in, no Medicaid data to scan into charts, no informative packets to hand out.
Instead, she found herself answering the same questions again and again, referring callers to a hotline or website to help them find the nearest out-of-state abortion provider.
“You guys are going to close up soon, right?” No, the clinic will be open to provide other services.
“Can I get Plan B - the ‘morning after’ pill? What about an IUD, or other birth control?” I'll help you make an appointment.
“You're sure I can't make an abortion appointment? Isn't there a loophole, an exception?" There are no abortion services at this clinic.
Some callers were in denial. Some remained stoic, others cried. A few responded with hostility, insisting Fiddler was wrong. She tried to be polite, empathetic — but the conversations take a toll.
“It frustrates me," she said. "I’m already stressed out and upset. I understand wanting to find a way, but there’s no way.”
As one of the first workers patients see, Fiddler takes pride in making people feel welcome and safe. Having to turn them away and simply refer them to a website is gutting, she said.
“As helpless as I feel about it, I can’t imagine how they must be feeling,” she said.
Outside the clinic, it's quiet, too. There's no buzz of patients arriving in the parking lot to be escorted by volunteers in pink vests. The only cars belong to staffers and a security guard. Across the street, a lot owned by an anti-abortion organization is vacant except for a large white cross.
A regular protestor, a pastor with a “Jesus Loves You” sign, prayed outside a few early mornings, but the usual crowd pleading with patients to reconsider is gone. Some cars slow as they pass. Workers recognize some as protestors' vehicles, and they imagine the clinic is being watched — to make sure patients aren't arriving for abortions.
Director Quiñonez said she knows the next steps will be challenging, with a long road for workers to recover from pain.
"Our staff need space and time to process this very traumatic loss,” she said. “And all of the secondary trauma that we’re experiencing from all of the patients.”
Simply being at work is hard, but the employees are dedicated to helping patients.
“We came in Monday and I was kind of like, ‘OK, what do I do now?’” said Kaylen Barker, who handles the clinic's public messaging. “It's somber to come back here and realize we're not going to be able to do the lifesaving care that people need and that we're going to have to refer them to websites. That’s the best thing we can do right now.”
Barker came to the clinic as a patient during a breast cancer scare 12 years ago. She got care when she had no other options. She knew she wanted to work at this place that helped save her, so she applied until she was finally hired. Knowing she can help others like her keeps her going, whether abortions are scheduled or not: “People deserve to receive healthcare in a welcoming space, without bias or judgement.”
So Quiñonez and her staff focus on keeping the clinic open. Abortion services account for 40% of clinic revenue, leaving a gap that could mean layoffs — but Quiñonez is determined to avoid that.
She's encouraging residents to transfer their gynecological care to the clinic, and she plans to offer new services. The clinic recently added gender-affirming hormone therapy services, along with HIV prevention and treatment. She hopes more programs will follow.
And donations are flooding into the clinic's abortion fund. Before this year, the fund's balance never exceeded $50,000. In one weekend after the ruling, they raised $75,000. Staff will use the money to help send people out of state for abortions.
“Yes, we are tired, we are devastated, we are angry,” Quiñonez said. "But this is far from over. I want to reassure people that regardless of how hopeless and dark it feels right now, this isn’t the end.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/After-abortion-ruling-clinic-staff-grapple-with-17282076.php | 2022-07-03 13:37:18 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/After-abortion-ruling-clinic-staff-grapple-with-17282076.php |
Annual Golf Tournament that Supports Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Will Celebrate Legacy of Beloved Mother Angela Knight.
WESTMINSTER, Colo., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For 19 years, the Knight family of Westminster, Colorado has supported the mission of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), by hosting their annual Jumping Jack events each June. Angela and Darrell Knight, along with friends, family, and what seems like the entire community of Westminster, Colorado have fought to end Duchenne since their son Jack was a young boy. This year Jumping Jack will bring the community together again for "The Final Round" on Monday, June 20 to raise awareness for Duchenne, and to celebrate the life of Angela Knight.
In 2020, Angela Knight lost her battle with melanoma. She had a gift of crafting community and was a source of laughter, light, and love to everyone. PPMD was Angela Knight's passion. She put her heart and soul into everything she did in support of her son Jack and countless other individuals living with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.
"Angela was an amazingly kind individual and deeply missed by all who knew her, but leaves behind a legacy of strength, love, and a commitment to living each day to the fullest," says Darrell Knight.
The Knight family, along with a team of local volunteers, have created a mainstay event that connects people all over the state of Colorado to raise awareness for PPMD. Jumping Jack started in 2004 as an annual golf tournament and quickly blossomed into a full day of fundraising activities, including a wine tasting, dinner, and silent auction, raising over $750,000 for PPMD since its inception.
Founded in 1994 by a group of parents and grandparents, and led by Founding President and CEO Pat Furlong, PPMD is the largest, most comprehensive nonprofit organization in the United States focused on ending Duchenne, a genetic disorder characterized by the progressive loss of muscle. Duchenne is a multi-systemic condition, affecting many parts of the body, which results in deterioration of the skeletal, heart, and lung muscles.
"For almost 20 years, the Knight Family has created something truly special, defining what it means to bring people together. Angela was an inspiration to the community, with her passion and drive to raise awareness for the fight to end Duchenne. Angela always found a way to make it happen. Her energy and uplifting spirit are at the heartbeat of this community. Although we miss her dearly, she leaves an unforgettable impact," said Pat Furlong, Founding President & CEO of PPMD.
The Jumping Jack Golf Tournament is a unique opportunity to enjoy a top-notch golf experience on an absolutely beautiful course. There will be something fun for everyone, golfers and non-golfers to take part in and enjoy. Carrabba's Italian Grill will provide a delicious lunch and dinner. Novice wine drinkers to connoisseurs will enjoy the wide array of great wines that Ron's Liquors at Costco will present.
It's not too late to join the fun, raise funds for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, and celebrate Angela's legacy. Register to join us for dinner and be a part of Jumping Jack Golf Tournament - The Final Round on June 20, 2022 at Legacy Ridge Golf Course. For more about Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, visit www.ParentProjectMD.org.
ABOUT PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY:
Duchenne is a fatal genetic disorder that slowly robs people of their muscle strength. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) fights every single battle necessary to end Duchenne.
We demand optimal care standards and ensure every family has access to expert healthcare providers, cutting edge treatments, and a community of support. We invest deeply in treatments for this generation of Duchenne patients and in research that will benefit future generations. Our advocacy efforts have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and won five FDA approvals.
Everything we do—and everything we have done since our founding in 1994—helps those with Duchenne live longer, stronger lives. We will not rest until we end Duchenne for every single person affected by the disease. Join our fight against Duchenne at EndDuchenne.org. Follow PPMD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Wayfair is holding a huge “5 Days of Deals Sale” with discounts on all the summer essentials you need to outfit your backyard.
The sale, which runs until 8:59am EST on Wednesday, August 2, is offering deals up to 70% off on outdoor items for the home.
Grills are reduced up to 30% off and patio furniture has been marked down up to 55% off. Wayfair has also dropped the price on popular fire pits by as much as 40% off.
Especially for the “5 Days of Deals Sale,” Wayfair is also giving free shipping on all online orders.
Here’s a look at some of the top discounts on backyard must-haves from Wayfair’s “5 Day of Deals Sale.”
Patio Furniture
- Knopf 4-Person Outdoor Seating Group for $260, instead of $400
- Angelos Rectangular 8-Person Outdoor Dining Set for $430, instead of $620
- Brice Swivel Wicker Outdoor Lounge Chair (Set of 2) for $480, instead of $590
Grills
- Blackstone 2-Burner Portable Liquid Propane Gas Grill for $160, instead of $213
- Royal Gourmet-CC Series Charcoal Barrel Grill with Offset Smoker for $230, instead of $330
- Weber Spirit E-330 Liquid Propane Grill for $729, instead of $879 (free assembly included)
Fire Pits
- Austin Steel Wood Burning Fire Pit for $115, instead of $193
- Cayden 25″ H x 30″ W Steel Propane Gas Fire Pit Table for $237, instead of $350
- Jahidul 24″ H x 36″ W Steel Wood Burning Outdoor Fire Pit for $199, instead of $359
Shop for even more savings on outdoor gear for you backyard during Wayfair’s “5 Day of Deals Sale.”
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MIAMI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycle Shoe Project is launching their school fundraiser initiative. Touted as a Zero Cost/Zero Calorie fundraiser, this is an ideal way for schools and organizations to raise money for their schools. Eliminating the burden of selling wrapping paper, chocolates, boost-a-thons, etc – this school fundraiser idea allows schools to raise money while simply cleaning out your closet.
Recycle Shoe Project collects gently worn shoes of all kinds. Those shoes are then offered to micro businesses in developing countries to be revived to provide affordable footwear in places otherwise not available. Recycle Shoe Project pays 50¢ for every pair of shoes recycled. Large, lightweight shipping boxes are provided, prepaid shipping labels are sent, and FedEx pick-ups are arranged. This turnkey fundraiser has immeasurable social and economic effects and has raised $1000's for non-profits and schools in the state of Florida.
Recycle Shoe Project is a social enterprise that assists organizations, non-profits and youth groups by collecting gently worn shoes of all kinds. To bring awareness to the underprivileged and to reduce our carbon footprint, Recycle Shoe Project will give 50¢ for every pound of shoes recycled to their partners. Any charity, organization, youth group or individual will benefit from participation.
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The Oscars: The moment when Hollywood's most famous and glamorous gather to accept awards and show off their couture.
"Everybody looks great," remarked host Jimmy Kimmel, walking around the stage a few weeks ago, looking at all the famous faces.
"When I look around this room, I can't help but wonder: Is Ozempic right for me?"
There was some scattered laughter, but it seemed like maybe the joke hit a little too close to home. After all, Ozempic has been called "the worst-kept secret in Hollywood."
"The worst-kept secret in Hollywood"
In the last several months, Ozempic has exploded onto the scene, with everyone from Elon Musk to Chelsea Handler talking about taking versions of the drug.
"My doctor ... just hands it out to anybody," comedian Chelsea Handler said on a podcast.
But Ozempic's rise to superstardom status was not something most people predicted. In fact, the drug was created by Novo Nordisk to help diabetes patients control their blood sugar.
But the drug's side effect of rapid weight loss quickly stole headlines and made Ozempic a very hot commodity. So hot, it caused some problems for the people it was originally intended to help.
"I was willing to try anything"
Five years ago, ShantaQuilette Develle Carter-Williams had a health crisis. She had a stroke at age 39 and temporarily lost the use of her left side.
Carter-Williams is a stand-up comedian, writer and producer in Los Angeles and she couldn't work at all after her stroke.
"I was eating and gaining weight and I was just really concerned that if I do continue to keep this weight on, the possibilities of having another stroke are very high."
Her doctor suggested she try Ozempic to bring down her blood sugar and also help her lose weight and avoid another stroke.
"I had never heard of Ozempic," she recalls. "But, you know, I was willing to try anything."
"You actually forget to eat"
Ozempic and a similar drug, Wegovy, are weekly shots you give yourself that cause the body to produce insulin. Insulin lowers blood sugar, slows digestion and makes people feel full. Carter-Williams tried it and was amazed.
"You are not hungry," she says. "Like, I actually have to set timers to make sure that I do eat, because otherwise you actually forget to eat."
Carter-Williams' weight started to drop right away and her cholesterol and blood sugar levels started coming down. She and her doctor were thrilled. But almost as soon as she started seeing results, she ran into trouble.
"I was going to renew my dosage and they were like, 'Oh, we don't have it.'"
Carter-Williams started calling all over, but the only pharmacy she could find that had any in stock wouldn't take her insurance (this is reportedly a common issue with the drug). So instead of costing her $25 a month, the Ozempic prescription was going to cost $1,600 a month.
That was when Carter-Williams realized Ozempic was having a major moment.
"It was so popular," she recalls. "It was all over social media." Carter-Williams could not afford the high price, so she reluctantly went off of the drug. The weight she had lost came back and her blood sugar and cholesterol started climbing.
"That was hard," says Carter-Williams. "I mean, I wasn't using it to try and fit into my Oscar dress. I really needed it for my health. But I went a while without getting it."
Ozempic's popularity has a price
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez is a gastroenterologist in LA. He knew of Ozempic for diabetes treatment, but up until about a year ago had never heard of it being used for weight loss.
"I actually first heard about this use for Ozempic from a patient of mine who wanted me to prescribe it," he says.
Since that moment, Rodriguez has been asked to write prescriptions for the drug almost every week.
It is legal for doctors to prescribe a drug like Ozempic for an unofficial use, but Rodriguez sees Ozempic's popularity as a problem, especially since it can be really hard to find in a lot of places and insurance often won't cover it, meaning only people who can afford to pay $1,600 a month can get it.
"I won't prescribe it for weight loss," he says. "Using it in any other way restricts and harms the people that really benefit from it, which are the diabetics."
Rodriguez points out that Wegovy, another Novo Nordisk drug, has the same active ingredient as Ozempic and is FDA-approved for weight loss. Still, he says, it is meant for people who are in a life-threatening situation and he won't prescribe it in other cases.
Psst ... need some Ozempic?
This is especially true because any lost weight reportedly comes right back if you don't take Ozempic every week. That means people who start a prescription typically don't stop taking it, even when they reach the weight they want.
Also, since supplies have been low in some places, people have started paying exorbitant prices and going to extremes to get it, such as traveling to Canada and Mexico.
That wild demand has also sparked a whole new crop of businesses.
A bunch of telehealth companies have cropped up that offer pricey monthly subscriptions to weight loss services, which include access to Ozempic or a similar drug (though the drug is usually paid for separately).
One such service, Sequence, charges subscribers $100 a month. It was just purchased by Weight Watchers for more than $100 million, a sign that the multibillion-dollar weight loss industry is also getting in on the Ozempic game.
Side effects include ...?
Rodriguez says another concern he has revolves around health issues. He points out that Ozempic is a pretty new drug. The known side effects, such as extreme nausea, dehydration and headaches, might not be the whole story.
Rodriguez points to fen-phen, a wildly popular weight loss drug from the 1990s. "When fen-phen was available, almost everybody was on it," he recalls. "And one of the 'phens' is basically methamphetamine, which is speed."
Fen-phen caused long-term health effects for some users, including serious heart problems.
Still, Rodriguez says for diabetic patients, Ozempic is truly a very promising drug.
"It really is life-changing"
With the help of her doctor, Carter-Williams eventually managed to lock down a reliable supply of Ozempic, covered by insurance. And she saw what the fuss was about.
In the last 6 months, she has lost more than 60 pounds.
"I can tell that my body is operating differently," she says. "My blood pressure is better, my cholesterol is better. It really is life-changing."
Carter-Williams says people have noticed her weight loss and often ask her what her secret is. And when she tells them it's Ozempic? "They're like, 'Oh my God, I've been trying to get that!'" she says, laughing. "'Can you tell me how you got it?'"
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LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronnie C. Wright, social media influencer and founder of THE BOAT Sports Podcasting Network through Amblacks Media finalized a brand promotional deal with WOW Lip Balm, in Beverly Hills.
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CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Monday, January 23, 2023
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Eastern Sierra Slopes-
Including Aspendell and Whitney Portal
1156 PM PST Mon Jan 23 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 15 to 25. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Not as cold. Highs 30 to 40. North winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 18 to 28. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 29 to 39. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 25. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 41. Lows 28 to
33.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 43 to 48.
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15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 31. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 33 to 43. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 19 to 29. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 42.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the upper
20s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 41 to 47. Lows 28 to
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 32. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 52. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 34. North winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 52. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
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.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 53. Lows
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1156 PM PST Mon Jan 23 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 30 in the mountains...
around 42 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 44 to 47 in the mountains...around 69 at
Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
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around 43 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
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69 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
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42 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
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mountains...around 67 at Furnace Creek. Lows around 34 in the
mountains...40 to 43 at Furnace Creek.
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34 in the mountains...41 to 44 at Furnace Creek. Highs around
50 in the mountains...64 to 67 at Furnace Creek.
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1156 PM PST Mon Jan 23 2023
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around Yucca Valley...around 35 near Joshua Tree. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
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Twentynine Palms...56 to 59 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Lows 39 to 42 in Twentynine Palms...around 38 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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Twentynine Palms...around 60 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Lows around 40 in Twentynine Palms...around 37 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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STUTTGART, Germany, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From June 28th to 30th, the largest and most professional battery industry exhibition in Europe, Battery Show Europe 2022 was held at the Stuttgart Exhibition Center in Germany. With a new VI image, ONGOAL brought its battery homogenization solutions and anode and cathode material solutions to the event.
ONGOAL 's marketing director Jo Huang told reporter that "ONGOAL is looking forward to taking the show as an opportunity to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions with partners and customers in the lithium battery industry. We can help in the transformation and upgrading of lithium battery materials procession and electrode homogenization with leading equipment and solutions in pursuit of a sustainable development of the new energy industry."
One-Stop Solution for Anode and Cathode Materials
At Battery Show Europe 2022, ONGOAL brought a one-stop solution for anode and cathode materials procession, including unpacking & feeding, pneumatic conveying, metering & batching, crushing & coating, screening & demagnetization, mixing, packaging, control systems and intelligent control system, etc.
- One-stop full-process service from design planning, construction guidance, to essential equipment manufacturing and after-sales service
- Rich experience in delivering projects for renowned customers and intensive know-how of leveraging the lithium battery industry supply chain
- Equipment in line with the trend of large-scale production, such as the ribbon mixer with capacity up to 30m³
- Can provide a highly repeatable standardized process to deliver an intelligent and green production line of anode and cathode materials
Equipment and Solutions for Battery Slurry Mixing
In the field of battery homogenization, double-planetary slurry mixer, circulating high-efficiency slurry mixer and continuous double screw mixer are the three mainstream pulping processes at present. ONGOAL has been continuously increasing investment in R&D in state-of-the-art slurry mixing equipment. At present, its products matrix includes double-planetary mixers, high-efficiency slurry mixer and double-screw continuous mixer. It is one of the few in the industry that masters all three generations equipment.
In addition to stand-alone equipment, ONGOAL also provides intelligent homogenization production lines. The system is specially designed for battery slurry production, including raw material (powder & solvent) storage, metering, conveying, stirring and dispersion and slurry conveying. For enterprises at different development levels, we can provide bespoke mixing equipment and process design to meet the needs of customers of different scales.
Though the first time to participate in an international show, ONGOAL has attracted the attention of many domestic and foreign battery manufacturers for its advantages of one-stop solution.
About ONGOAL
ONGOAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. is a system integrated service provider focusing on the field of material handling automation. We continue to expand our product portfolio to provide customers with engineering, equipment accessories, automatic control software and system and technical services.
ONGOAL offers scientific research, design, production, sales and software development services related to material handling automation solutions, such as material feeding and storage, automatic feeding, pneumatic conveying, metering and batching, mixing and stirring, and intelligent control software. ONGOAL 's products and systems are widely used in new energy battery homogenization, battery material procession, fine chemicals, food and medicine, rubber and plastics and other industries. It is a trustworthy material handling expert around you.
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Odin’s Lair hosting first-ever axe-throwing tournament
Published: Jul. 6, 2023 at 4:43 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - If you have an axe to grind with your competition, you’ll want to head to NOTO.
Odin’s Lair is hosting its first-ever axe-throwing tournament. Owner Buddy Haynes shared details of the event on Eye on NE Kansas.
The Top City Axe Throwing Classic will be held July 16. Practice will open at noon, with the tournament getting underway at 1 p.m.
It will be held at Odin’s Lair, 921 N. Kansas Ave. It’s a $50 buy-in for the double elimination event. To register, call 785-214-3798 or visit Odin’s Lair.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a fresh round of mediation talks aimed at restructuring more than $8 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company as it struggles to recover from Hurricane Fiona.
In addition, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain allowed a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances to go to court to determine how much money bondholders should receive as they seek to recover their investments.
The board warned earlier that any expenses linked to debt repayment would be passed along to the power company’s 1.47 million clients.
The board also was ordered to file a debt-restructuring plan for the island’s Electric Power Authority by Dec. 1, with a confirmation hearing scheduled for mid-2023.
The board praised the ruling in a brief statement, saying it is calculated to get major disputed legal issues resolved in the shortest possible time: “Simultaneous litigation and mediation facilitates resolutions for all constituencies.”
The ruling comes as more than 311,000 customers remain without power more than 10 days after Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico’s southwest tip as a Category 1 storm, sparking an island-wide blackout. Several hospitals also remain connected to generators.
“It is totally unacceptable,” said Manuel Calderón Cerame, spokesman for the main opposition Popular Democratic Party.
Fuel disruptions have forced grocery stores, gas stations and other businesses to temporarily close as the demand for diesel to feed generators grows. Hundreds of schools also remain shuttered.
Government officials have vowed to try and restore power to 91% of clients by Friday as they push to restructure the power company’s debt.
In early March, Pierluisi had announced that his administration was scrapping a proposed debt restructuring deal because it was not favorable to the island’s economy or the power company’s clients.
Then on Sept. 16, officials announced that mediation talks had failed. In response, a bondholder group that holds or insures 65% of the power company’s debt sought to have the bankruptcy case dismissed and a receiver appointed.
On Wednesday, the judge denied their request.
A spokesman for the bondholder group did not immediately return a message for comment.
The power company holds the largest debt of any of Puerto Rico’s government agencies, and it is one of two agencies whose debt has not yet been restructured more than five years after the U.S. territory filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention TuSimple Holdings Inc. ("TuSimple") (NASDAQ: TSP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with TuSimple's April 15, 2021 initial public offering; and/or (b) that purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in TuSimple, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against TuSimple includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) TuSimple's commitment to safety was significantly overstated and defendants concealed fundamental problems with the Company's technology; (ii) TuSimple was rushing the testing of its autonomous driving technology in order to deliver driverless trucks to the market ahead of its more safety-conscious competitors; (iii) there was a corporate culture within TuSimple that suppressed or ignored safety concerns in favor of unrealistically ambitious testing and delivery schedules; (iv) the aforementioned conduct made accidents involving the Company's autonomous driving technology more likely; (v) the aforementioned conduct invited enhanced regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The community of Searcy is on high alert after police responded to multiple shootings Tuesday night, one of which was fatal.
The Searcy Police Department responded to a shooting at the McDonald's on East Race Street at approximately 8:30 p.m., which is where two men were shooting at one another.
As a result of the gunfire, police said that both men were transported to the hospital where they later died as a result.
"It was two males that were in a dispute," Searcy Police Chief Hernandez said. "There was some gunfire, and as a result of that gunfire both of the males passed away."
The Dogwood Manor and The Ridge apartment complexes also experienced shootings in an unrelated incident to the McDonald's shooting.
"It was very scary to come home to this, Dogwood Manor resident Markay Brock said.
Police said that a small white passenger car was witnessed leaving the scene of both apartment complexes, which leads authorities to believe the shootings are related.
"Both apartment complexes, eyewitnesses said a small white passenger car had left the scene as soon as the shooting was done," Hernandez said. "Which is why we're saying that those two are related."
Brock said she's lived at the Dogwood Manor apartments for a couple of years and hasn't felt unsafe until now.
"I was at work last night," Brock said. "When I came home, there just seemed to be mass confusion."
Bullets ricochetted off cars and hit apartment windows, but police said no injuries were reported.
"[My] whole back windshield was just shattered out," Brock said.
Brock's apartment was also hit with bullets.
"When I want to take off my shoes and set them by the front door is when I noticed a little hard piece of plastic," Brock said. "It was a little piece of my window blind that was broken off and on the floor."
A similar situation also happened over at The Ridge apartments. Police said shots were fired at both apartments within 30 minutes of each other.
Hernandez said this isn't common for the City of Searcy.
"We don't typically see homicides in Searcy, there are few and far between," Hernandez said. "We're thankful for that, but to start out the first three days of the year with one that's not how we wanted to start it."
In addition to finding those responsible for the apartment shootings, he's also asking people to stop spreading misinformation online.
"As long as he's loose, and sure there's a danger, but it's not like, what's probably being spun on social media that he's going door to door just shooting random people," Hernandez said.
Police are searching for 26-year-old Aaron Warren in reference to the apartment shootings. He's not a suspect, but authorities said they'd like to speak with him to get more information.
The Searcy Police Department is also asking the public for help and encourages anyone who may have information to contact the Searcy Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division at (501) 279-1038.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A culture that puts family first and a legacy of tenacious leaders - these are some of the responses we got from the Latin* and Hispanic communities in Sacramento when we asked, "What does it mean to be Latin or Hispanic to you?"
This year's theme for National Hispanic Heritage Month, also known as National Latinx Heritage Month, is "Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation." The theme reinforces the need to ensure diverse voices and perspectives are welcomed in decision-making processes, thereby helping to build stronger communities and a stronger country, according to the National Council of Hispanic Employment Program Managers. In honor of National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, ABC10 highlighted people of Hispanic and Latin American descent.
LUIS BÁEZ, Puerto Rican
Luis Báez is from Puerto Rico and identifies as Latinx. Báez described being Latinx as being part of the future in the economic and political sphere of the U.S. One thing he said he would love for others to know is that there is more to Puerto Rican culture than simply reggaeton -- dive into the music scene and explore bomba and plena, too!
ANA BOLAÑOS, Nicaragua
Ana Bolaños is from Managua, Nicaragua. Bolaños says being a Latina means working harder to position oneself in the community and socio-economically, which is challenging. Bolaños describes Nicaragua as a small country but says despite being one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, it is very rich in culture including its food and natural resources.
DAVID RAMSES, Honduras
Davis Ramses is from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Ramses believes warmth is what makes his community special and one of the many reasons he is proud to be Latino. As for what he loves about his country, he immediately dotes over baleadas, a traditional Honduran dish -- and he says pairing it with black coffee is a must!
PATRICIA PARRA, El Salvador
Patricia Parra is from El Salvador. Being part of a strong lineage of people who are dedicated, hard-working, intellectual, and influential is what being Latina means to Parra. What she loves about El Salvador and her culture is the music — cumbia was the first genre she learned to dance — as well as the tropical landscape and food including pupusas, a popular Salvadoran dish.
DAVID CONTTO, Peru
David Contto was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He is proud to be bilingual and says speaking Spanish has allowed him to learn about and connect with people from Latin America. Contto pays tribute to his Peruvian background for teaching him the importance of embracing various cultures and people.
GRACIELA ASCARRUNZ, Argentina
Graciela Ascarrunz is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is proud to be Hispanic and part of a culture that is family-oriented not only with blood relatives but with people across the Latin community. Ascarrunz wants people to know that Argentinian music is more than just tangos - there are milongas, boleros, and cumbias too!
ZHEYLA HENRIKSEN, Ecuador
Zheyla Henriksen has lived in the United States for over 40 years. A writer, researcher and poet, she shares her Ecuadoran culture with her children and grandchildren via her passion for dancing. It's her way of passing on a much loved part of her life to the next generation of her family.
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Liliana Ferrer is the Consul General of Mexico, in Sacramento. She is proud of the people, traditions and culture that shaped her life, as well as the impact they have on everyday life for all Californians.
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- Through collaborations with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and Yale University, UCB seeks to further understand the economic and clinical impacts of undertreating seizure clusters and explore drivers of better outcomes
- The impact of seizure clusters on patient and caregiver quality of life is an understudied area of epilepsy research
- The goal of the collaborations is to positively impact patients with unmet needs in uncontrolled epilepsy, including patients in need of rescue therapy
ATLANTA, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UCB today announced three collaborations aimed at examining the impact of seizure clusters on patient and caregiver quality of life. The collaborations with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, the Wisconsin Health Information Organization (WHIO), and Yale University will uncover and leverage the power of education and real-world evidence (RWE) to address this research gap, expand awareness, and enact positive change in the health outcomes of individuals with seizure clusters.
Seizure clusters are episodes of increased seizure activity, during which two or more seizures occur within a 24-hour period. It is estimated that more than 150,000 people in the U.S. with uncontrolled epilepsy also experience seizure clusters. Due to their unpredictable nature, these disruptive events can leave those living with epilepsy feeling anxious, worried, frustrated, or isolated – further fueling a decline in mental health for this patient population.
"Our real-world evidence and educational collaborations with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and Yale University illustrate our desire to meaningfully contribute to how physicians, patients, and the overall care system think about and treat seizure clusters. This includes how we frame and account for the value of treatments within the healthcare ecosystem," said Brad Chapman, Head, U.S. Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes at UCB. "We know that rescue medications that allow adults and adolescents to get back to their daily activities quickly is especially important, whether it's in the classroom or in day-to-day life, and we are committed to delivering solutions that further this ambition."
The project with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital focuses on improving the lived epilepsy patient experience by developing resources designed specifically for patients and caregivers that address the importance of the proper use of rescue medications outside the hospital. This "Ask the Experts" project seeks to combat identified gaps in patient and caregiver education and information as it relates to epilepsy and more specifically seizure clusters through the development of an educational resource and a video.
"We know most seizure clusters happen at home or during other daily activities; treating seizure clusters where and when they happen is critical for better patient outcomes," said Dr. James Wheless, BScPharm, MD, FAAP, FAAN, FAES, Co-Director of the Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. "As school starts and with COVID-19 still a medical concern, it's of the utmost importance that we prepare students to successfully start their school year with a seizure action plan and appropriate rescue medications so they can prepare their teachers and school nurses to act when the cluster starts."
The collaboration with WHIO aims to understand the economic and clinical impact of undertreating seizure clusters and to explore drivers of better outcomes. This project will analyze retrospective claims at a state level to examine prescribing trends, healthcare utilization, costs, access barriers, and disease prevalence.
Dr. George Morris, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAES, epileptologist in the Milwaukee-area, and valued partner in the WHIO Project, explains, "Epilepsy's impact on a person's health and their quality of life is significantly affected by seizure clusters. The health risk from aspiration and terrifying experience of the patient, family, and friends is unique to epilepsy. This project uses a unique data source to see the comprehensive effects across nearly all Wisconsin patients. We are excited to know what factors may help reduce seizure clusters to inform providers and patients about best practices."
The Yale University Project, Reduction of Seizures through Education and Support (ROSES), aims to increase understanding of seizure cluster management, to contribute new insights to clinical management and patient-centric care, and improve overall epilepsy quality care. Specifically, this study is designed to assess the impact of seizure rescue medications, treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization, clinic quality improvement tools (i.e., Seizure Action Plans), and the patient/caregiver experience.
About Epilepsy1-4
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder of the brain. It is the fourth most common neurological condition worldwide and affects approximately 65 million people. In the U.S. more than 3.4 million people have epilepsy. Anyone can develop epilepsy; it occurs across all ages, races and genders, and is defined as one or more unprovoked seizures with a risk of further seizures.
About Seizure Clusters5-10
Of the one third of patients living with uncontrolled epilepsy, it is estimated that more than 150,000 people in the U.S. with refractory epilepsy also experience seizure clusters. Seizure clusters are broadly defined as acute episodes of consecutive seizures that occur within a short period of time with a patient regaining consciousness during the interictal period. These clusters are also distinguishable from a person's typical seizure pattern. Other names for seizure clusters include acute-repetitive seizures (ARS), serial seizures, crescendo seizures, and seizure flurries, which highlight the repetitive nature of the seizures. Seizure clusters are a form of seizure emergency that can evolve into prolonged seizures or status epilepticus.
About UCB in Epilepsy
UCB has a rich heritage in epilepsy with over 20 years of experience in the research and development of anti-epileptic drugs. As a company with a long-term commitment to epilepsy research, our goal is to address unmet medical needs. Our scientists are proud to contribute to advances in the understanding of epilepsy and its treatment. We partner and create super-networks with world-leading scientists and clinicians in academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and other organizations who share our goals. At UCB, we are inspired by patients, and driven by science in our commitment to support patients with epilepsy.
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On Jan. 5 I was carrying woodstove ashes outside to be emptied, and almost stepped on a garter snake. The 45-degree temperature had enticed the reptile above ground. But the day was cooling and it wasn’t moving, in danger of freezing.
I scooped the snake up with a shovel and laid it in some leaves on the bare ground in the lilacs. An hour later it was gone, hopefully snuggled back into the earth where it belonged.
It’s been an unusual winter. Mild stretches of weather punctuated by snow storms.
Feb. 19, was another warm, pleasant day in the mid 50’s. Sitting behind the garage enjoying the sunshine, I swear I heard a frog chirp twice. Then all was quiet again. The amphibian must have fallen back to sleep.
Our small pond is sheltered from the wind by a copse of small trees. If the sun is shining it can be quite mild there. I once saw two painted turtles sunning themselves on a log when the thermometer on the house read 39 degrees.
In spring when the frogs start singing again the cheery sound almost makes having dealt with the long winter worth it. But I’ve stood outside at night and listened to their chorus while popcorn-size snowflakes were falling.
Mom loved frogs. In her old age after her husband died, she started collecting replicas of them.
Unfortunately, her golden years were dimmed with dementia and hoarding frogs became a fetish. Her house was full of them in all shapes and sizes. Some were doing things frogs would never do; wearing straw hats, pushing wheelbarrows or ballet dancing.
But it was something we could do with her when visiting. We’d go to antique stores and hunt for frogs.
Thirteen years ago, in late March, Mom was moved into an assisted living facility. She took a menagerie of her favorite glass and metal amphibians with her.
When she died before sunrise a year and a half later, my wife and three sisters frogged the dining room and lounge area. Beside every breakfast plate they placed a miniature frog, as a goodbye gift from Mona. Last time I left the building there was still a frog sitting on the book shelf.
We inherited three small frogs that sit in our kitchen and breezeway, and two toads rest in my writing room. I have another frog woven from straw in the garage. And there is a larger pewter frog down in the Stone Circle building. I can’t look at any of them without remembering my mother.
I didn’t write this month’s poem for Mom, but when I perform it at Stone Circle I like to dedicate it to her. It’s my favorite type of poem, one that works on multiple age levels.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Fresh off a commanding reelection victory in one of the nation’s premier swing states, Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she will remain focused on her post and not growing speculation she could mount a future presidential run.
In an interview with The Associated Press just over a week after winning a second term, Whitmer insisted she’s “never had interest in going to D.C.” and said she’ll “be here for four more years.”
Whitmer didn’t explicitly rule out running for president at some point in the future. She’s also planning to travel to Washington in coming weeks to discuss her state’s priorities. But the governor also said of trying to tamp down questions about whether she will mount a 2024 bid, “It’s just a practical decision. I just won reelection. This is the job that I want.”
“My whole focus is on the state of Michigan,” Whitmer said Thursday.
A rising star in her party, the 51-year-old Whitmer has proven she can win tough races in one of the states that’s been among the most decisive in deciding the presidency since 2016. Whitmer has been frequently mentioned as a future White House candidate, especially if President Joe Biden opts not to seek a second term.
The governor said she’d been approached in the past about running for Congress, or other federal offices, but said “anyone who’s familiar with my career” knows that “I’ve never been interested in going to DC. I love state government.”
Biden turns 80 on Sunday and has said he plans to run for reelection, though he has not yet formally announced a bid. Former President Donald Trump kicked off his third campaign for the White House with a speech at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday.
Michigan has had “an outsized role in national elections and a voice and I think that’s a good thing,” Whitmer said. She didn’t watch Trump’s announcement, and while Biden called her after the election, he simply congratulated her briefly and didn’t touch on other topics, Whitmer said.
“What I have said is, President Biden says he’s going to run again. If he runs again, he’s got my support,” she said. “That’s it.”
Whitmer beat Republican Tudor Dixon, who had been endorsed by Trump, by a comfortable 11 points in last week’s midterm election. Biden only won the state by about 3 percentage points two years ago.
Michigan voters also approved a referendum amending the state constitution to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Democrats won majorities in both chambers of Michigan Legislature, giving the party full control of the body for the first time since 1984. Whitmer said she’d work with state lawmakers to codify same-sex marriage rights statewide, and to fully rescind a 1931 law banning abortion that the midterm referendum sought to invalidate.
“We need to clean old laws off the books,” she said, adding of the 1931 law, “It doesn’t have effect right now. But we don’t want it to ever threaten to come back alive.”
Whitmer called Michigan a safe haven for abortion and said patients have been coming to have the procedure from neighboring red states, including Ohio and Indiana. The governor said her state’s defense of abortion rights could even attract new residents. That’s especially important after Michigan lost a congressional seat this cycle because its population, while growing, did not keep pace with other booming places.
“There are a lot of businesses in states that are anti-choice — that have extreme laws on the books — that have vowed not to continue to invest there. They should move to Michigan,” Whitmer said. “As should every young person who’s graduated from school.”
Four people accused of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 — when she became a national face of restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus — pleaded guilty or were convicted by a federal jury. Three others connected to the scheme were convicted in state court in October.
Whitmer said the threat against her was downplayed relative to the arrest last summer of someone near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home and “perhaps gender plays into that.”
The suspect in that case “turned himself in and it was covered as an assassination plot,” she said. “In Michigan, we had over a dozen people, training for months, staking out my cottage, running drills on how to shoot me. And it was covered as a kidnapping plot.”
“It’s striking when you think about how many people were involved, how many months it occurred and all the lengths to which they took to execute their plan, and how big it was treated,” Whitmer said. “Is it ‘cause I’m a woman? Is it ’cause I’m a Democrat? I don’t know. But it’s different and it’s not right.”
During the midterm race, Dixon had championed Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election being marred by widespread fraud that did not occur.
Whitmer noted Thursday that Dixon called her to concede after the election, which was “important” and “gracious of her.” But she also said some Republican lawmakers had attended the same kind of rallies protesting the 2020 election results and COVID restrictions that those involved in her kidnapping plot did.
“And yet I’ve still got to get a budget done. I’ve still got to negotiate,” she said. “So there’s no room for my feelings to get involved.”
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Weissert reported from Washington.
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SFW Capital-Backed RDI's Acquisition of Fastec Adds Technology
Expertise, Broader Product Line, and New Market Access
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RDI Technologies, Inc. ("RDI"), a global provider of vision-based vibration analysis solutions, today announced it has completed the purchase of privately-held Fastec Imaging Corporation ("Fastec"), a leading global supplier of digital scientific high-speed imaging systems. RDI's acquisition of Fastec adds new customers, talent, and intellectual property, and it enables RDI to accelerate its product development initiatives. The transaction follow's SFW Capital Partners' ("SFW") strategic investment in RDI in February 2022. SFW is supporting the RDI management team in its execution of various growth initiatives, including building out its management team, enhancing its sales and marketing capabilities, expanding its product offering, and pursuing strategic add-on acquisitions.
"Our Motion Amplification® solutions, strengthened by Fastec's high-speed expertise and technologies, will give customers the ability to see more and do more than traditional technology allows," said Dr. Jeff Hay, CEO of RDI Technologies. "As we continue to invest in building the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of vision-based vibration analysis solutions, we look forward to creating new opportunities and driving innovation with Fastec."
"We are excited to join the RDI team in delivering even greater value to our customers, partners and the high-speed camera market," said Charles Mrdjenovich, President, and CTO of Fastec Imaging, who will remain a senior technology executive in the combined company. "Fastec's unique high-speed expertise and technologies combined with RDI's scale and market leading Motion Amplification® solutions will unlock growth potential and accelerate time to market, empowering large and small enterprise customers with world-class visualization technologies."
Non-contact high-speed cameras can measure and analyze motion and detail not captured by the human eye for deeper insight into process characteristics, material strength and durability, and component visualization. The high-speed scientific camera market is expected to grow by double-digits annually, according to recent studies.
Fastec's team will join RDI and its technology will integrate into RDI's product roadmap, while continuing to offer Fastec's high-speed cameras to the Manufacturing, Condition Monitoring, Science and Engineering, and Mining markets. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Diego, Fastec Imaging high-speed camera solutions complement RDI's suite of Motion Amplification® solutions, helping customers increase asset visibility, drive efficiency, and capture more comprehensive data for faster decision making.
RDI Technologies is pioneering the camera as the sensor of the future because visualization is faster, safer, and makes the complex, simpler. The company's proprietary technology platform powered by Motion Amplification® enables users to see and measure motion that is impossible to see with the human eye and could previously only be measured by contacting sensors. RDI's customers include some of the largest companies in the world, among them are Google, Nissan, Duke Energy, Newmont, and Chevron.
Fastec Imaging is a U.S. manufacturer of digital high-speed imaging systems. The company specializes in uniquely portable and affordable high-speed camera systems, including handheld, point-and-shoot systems, compact PC-controlled cameras, and long duration record systems. Fastec cameras are used in many applications, including engineering, industrial manufacturing, packaging, medical and academic research, microfluidics, biomechanics, military range testing, sports performance, and broadcast entertainment.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is pleased to announce the additions of Survivor Fire & Safety Equipment and Total Fire & Safety Equipment, collectively "Survivor Fire," to the Pye-Barker family of companies. Both Survivor Fire and Total Fire provide full-service fire and safety systems throughout New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Pye-Barker continues its aggressive acquisition strategy and over the last few months has made several acquisitions in the area. Pye-Barker is now one of the leading fire and safety companies in the Northeast.
Survivor Fire & Safety Equipment is a full-service company specializing in design, installation and inspection for fire and safety systems including fire extinguishers, fire suppression systems, fire sprinklers and security systems. With over 30 years in the industry, Survivor is known for its expertise, customer care and 24/7 emergency service.
Along with Survivor, Pye-Barker also acquires Total Fire & Safety Equipment, a sister company to Survivor. Total Fire provides kitchen fire suppression, emergency lighting, fire extinguishers, fire alarms, fire sprinklers, monitoring, and fire department services.
"Our company was built on a culture that invests in our people. Properly trained and supported technicians provide unparalleled customer service," said James Newell, CEO of Survivor Fire & Safety. "I know Pye-Barker holds these same values. I'm proud to have them continue our legacy."
Pye-Barker takes a pragmatic approach to identifying new acquisition opportunities, choosing to pursue add-ons that best align with the company's culture and values. "Survivor Fire & Safety not only aligns with our cultural views, but they also have a reputation for maintaining a highly skilled workforce that is dedicated to customer service excellence," said Bart Proctor, CEO of Pye-Barker. "We're excited to add their experienced team to the Pye-Barker family."
Survivor Fire & Safety and Total Fire & Safety will continue to be operated by their highly experienced teams.
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, founded in 1946, is a leader in fire protection and life safety, with over 135 locations and 4,100 team members. It is a full-service company offering all the necessary specialties including portable extinguishers, restaurant fire suppression, special hazard systems, fire sprinklers, fire alarms, and security. Pye-Barker invests heavily in providing the best-in-class training for its team while offering industry competitive benefits and is rapidly expanding its national footprint.
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United Airlines reported fourth-quarter profit and revenue higher than Wall Street expectations and gave a bullish 2023 forecast that assumes people will keep traveling despite inflation and concern about the economy.
After the market closed Tuesday, United said it earned $843 million in the quarter.
The Chicago-based airline said it is seeing strong demand for flights extending into into the new year, which will help the company cover expected increases in labor costs as it negotiates new union contracts.
The report from United comes on the heels of upbeat comments by its closest rivals, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines.
Officials with all three carriers say that consumers are still booking travel despite concern about the economy — tech companies in particular have been laying off workers — and high inflation.
Airline tickets are contributing to inflation. In December, they cost 28.5% more than a year earlier, according to government figures. Those higher fares are due to strong demand and a limited number of flights as airlines continue to rebuild operations that were slashed after the pandemic devastated air travel.
Most major airlines say they are fully staffed now, although they are still catching up on training thousands of new workers, including pilots.
United said its profit worked out to $2.46 per share after excluding certain items. That beat Wall Street’s mean forecast of $2.11 per share in adjusted profit, according to a survey by FactSet. Revenue was $12.4 billion.
For the first quarter, United is projecting profit of 50 cents to $1 per share, which would exceed the analysts’ forecast of 31 cents per share. United said it will earn $10 to $12 per share for all of 2023, which would handily beat Wall Street’s expectation of $6.84.
Company officials were scheduled to hold a call with analysts on Wednesday.
Delta reported last week that it made $828 million in the fourth quarter, but it gave a disappointing outlook for first-quarter profit because, it said, it included the potential cost of a new contract with pilots that — if ratified in the weeks ahead — would be retroactive to Jan. 1.
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NEW YORK (AP)Scott Rolen could become just the 18th third baseman elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, the fewest of any position.
”It stems from an original prejudice that third base is not important defensively,” John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian, said Monday. ”I think Brooks Robinson changed that perception. So that just as relief pitchers for the longest time were regarded as failed starters rather than as a new position in the changing game, third basemen were regarded as washouts.”
A seven-time All-Star who retired after the 2012 season, Rolen is among the top contenders on the 28-player ballot considered by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in a vote announced Tuesday night. He received just 10.2% in his first ballot appearance in 2018 and climbed to 52.9% in 2021 and 63.2% last year, when he fell 47 votes shy of the needed 75%.
The leading vote-getters are first baseman Todd Helton at 79.8%, Rolen at 79.2% and reliever Billy Wagner at 73.2%, according to Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker, which included 183 public plus anonymous ballots as of Monday afternoon among an estimated total of 396.
When David Ortiz was elected last year, his final figure of 79.8% was down from 83.1% of public ballots ahead of the announcement. Barry Bonds declined from 76.8% of public ballots before the announcement to 66% and Roger Clemens from 75.4% to 65.2%, so it is possible no one will be elected by the BBWAA for the second time in three years. This could become the first three-year span with only one player voted in by the writers since annual voting started in 1966.
Anyone voted in would be inducted at Cooperstown on July 23 along with Fred McGriff, elected last month by the contemporary baseball era committee.
There are 84 pitchers in the Hal l (including nine who were primarily relievers), 27 right fielders, 26 each among first basemen and shortstops, 24 center fielders, 23 left fielders, 20 second basemen, 19 catchers and 17 third basemen. There also are three players who were primarily designated hitters, a position that didn’t exist until 1973.
Among players since the expansion era started in 1961, the only third basemen elected by the BBWAA have been Robinson (1983), Mike Schmidt (1995), George Brett (1999), Paul Molitor (2004), Wade Boggs (2005) and Chipper Jones (2018). Ron Santo was inducted in 2012 following a veterans committee vote.
”It’s a very difficult position to play because you need to be very quick and the great third basemen have to be able to hit,” former Commissioner Fay Vincent said. ”And when you think about it, after Brooks Robinson and Mike Schmidt the number falls off pretty quickly.”
Rolen had a .281 batting average with 316 homers and 1,287 RBIs for Philadelphia (1996-2002), St. Louis (2002-07), Toronto (2008-09) and Cincinnati (2009-12). He was a unanimous pick as the 1997 NL Rookie of the Year, hit .421 as the Cardinals won the 2006 World Series and won eight Gold Gloves.
Helton, a five-time All-Star, batted .316 with 369 homers and 1,406 RBIs with Colorado from 1997-2013. He won the 2000 NL batting title and three Gold Gloves. Helton’s vote percentage rose from 16.5% in 2019 to 52% last year.
Wagner had 422 saves, sixth on the career list, and was a seven-time All-Star in a 16-year career with Houston (1995-2003), Philadelphia (2004-05), the New York Mets (2006-09), Boston (2009) and Atlanta (2010). Wagner’s vote increased from 10.5% in 2016 to 51% last year.
Carlos Beltran, John Lackey and Jered Weaver are among 14 newcomers, the first time writers will evaluate Beltran following his role in the Houston Astros cheating scandal en route to the 2017 World Series title.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Arqit Quantum Inc. (f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp.) ("Arqit" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ARQQ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Arqit and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On April 18, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published a story entitled: "British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say." The Wall Street Journal reported, among other things, that "Arqit has given investors an overly optimistic view of its future revenue and the readiness and workability of its signature encryption system", citing "former employees and other people familiar with the company, and documents viewed." Specifically, "people familiar with the matter said that the bulk of [Arqit's] committed revenue isn't from selling its product and that at its public launch, [Arqit] had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system. Several clients [Arqit] lists—including a number of British government agencies—are simply giving Arqit research grants, nonbinding memorandums of understanding or research agreements that come with no funding, not contracts for its encryption product, they said." The article also reported that "[i]n April 2021, Arqit's chief revenue officer resigned after raising concerns with [Arqit's CEO] that he was overstating contracts and giving unrealistic revenue projections to potential investors".
On this news, Arqit's stock price fell $4.61 per share, or 30.61%, over the following two trading sessions, to close at $10.45 per share on April 19, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from U.S. regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining resistance to treatment.
The Food and Drug Administration status makes the drug eligible for a sped-up approval process, if an ongoing midstage trial shows it’s effective, the company said Tuesday. GSK learned of its status in April and plans to move the vaccine to final-stage testing in 2026, said Giulia Giordano, vaccine development leader for the project.
In 2020, some 82 million people worldwide caught gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that can lead to complications including infertility. While some patients show early symptoms, such as pain or urethral discharge in men or vaginal discharge in women, many cases may be missed even as the disease does long-term damage.
The situation has been exacerbated by gonorrhea’s growing resistance to most antibiotics, and the one that most doctors rely on, ceftriaxone, is now under threat as well. That’s left experts clamoring for a vaccine.
“We’re very concerned that we are staring straight in the face the prospect of untreatable gonorrhea,” said Jeffrey Klausner, who directed sexually transmitted disease prevention and control for the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1998 to 2009.
The threat of gonorrhea, along with other sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and chlamydia, is on the rise around the world. Cases hit a record high in England last year. In the U.S., the rate of reported infections more than doubled between 2009 and 2021.
While older antibiotics like penicillin were once effective, according to the World Health Organization, all gonorrhea strains are now impervious to one or more of the standard drugs. Ceftriaxone, meanwhile, must be taken by injection, and its days may be numbered.
“There is this huge unmet medical need” for better diagnostics and treatment, Giordano said in an interview.
Already, there are signs that ceftriaxone may have its limits. In January, Massachusetts public health officials reported the first U.S. patient infected by a strain showing reduced susceptibility to all recommended gonorrhea therapies.
The same variant had previously been reported in the U.K. and Asia, state health officials said. Although ceftriaxone was able to clear the infections, the state public health commissioner called the new strain a “serious public health concern.”
A vaccine, along with new antibiotics and better diagnostic tests, could help combat gonorrhea, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. People can also protect themselves from infection by using condoms during sex, Klausner said, and evidence suggests that the antibiotic doxycycline can serve as a “morning-after pill” for some infections.
Gonorrhea can target multiple parts of the body, including the throat and rectum. GSK is aiming to develop a vaccine that protects all tissues and organs, Giordano said.
Although GSK is still awaiting data on whether its vaccine works, there’s reason to believe it may be effective, said Klausner, a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Southern California who isn’t involved in its development. The company already has vaccines for meningitis, a disease caused by a related strain of bacteria, and some studies have found that these shots offer a measure of protection against gonorrhea.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- French luxury skincarebrand Clarins has joined forces with beauty expert Kathleen Jennings to officially declare July 16th, National Day of Masking. Commencing each year on July 16th, the holiday will serve as a source of inspiration that celebrates and encourages the act of normalizing self-care by wearing your skincare mask of choice—mark the holiday by sharing your favorite skincare mask and tagging #NationalDayofMasking.
As a former attorney and a mother of three, Texas-based beauty guru Kathleen Jennings has asserted her expertise and know-how within the vast world of beauty and all-things skincare. Having cultivated a loyal online presence and social following, the skincare enthusiast and face mask aficionado has amassed an engaged beauty community. Daily she provides in-depth product reviews, tutorials, and promotions by offering an honest, unfiltered approach to beauty and skincare. Jennings has a unique daily dialogue with her engaged social community, reposting followers who tag HER while wearing beauty products they purchase based on her reviews. To drive home the mission of normalizing self-care and wearing your favorite skincare mask during everyday activities, Jennings, in partnership with Clarins, is proud to announce National Day of Masking.
Jennings' "Holy Grail" beauty product is the Clarins V-Facial Intensive Wrap (better known as the Clarins Depuffing Mask to her online community), praising it's incredible facial depuffing effect. "Whenever I find a product like the Clarins Depuffing Mask, and it actually delivers on its claims, it's like hallelujah! I want to make it a point to share it with the rest of the beauty and skincare world," says Jennings. This award-winning mask is instantly recognizable on social media due to the cream-mousse mask's beard-like appearance which targets key depuffing zones below the eyes and above the neck to combat skin issues brought on by stress, heat, and hormonal changes. This innovative plant-based formula includes Beautyberry & Ginger extracts as well as Horse Chestnut Escin, relieves puffiness and visibly refine facial features, and Lady's Mantle and Alchemilla extracts promote a radiant, even skin tone.
The social media facial de-puffing movement—spearheaded by Jennings—has transformed the Clarins V-Facial Intensive Wrap into a top seller for the brand, and is its #1 seller at Sephora. To celebrate and fulfill Jennings's 2021 birthday wish, Clarins is marking her birthday as #NationalDayofMasking. To engage both the brand and Jennings's social communities, Clarins will be hosting product giveaways on social media and encouraging all to post wearing a skincare mask on July 16th, tagging #NationalDayofMasking. This July 16th, Clarins will offer a 20% discount on all Clarins skincare masks clarinsusa.com and Sephora.com will offer 20% off V-Facial Intensive.
Kathleen Jennings (@kathleenjenningsbeauty) is a former attorney, mother of three, and self-proclaimed skincare fanatic. Kathleen founded the BeautyNow app for booking beauty appointments, assets of which were acquired by Groupon, Inc. in 2016. Today her site KathleenJenningsBeauty.com and social media handles @kathleenjenningsbeauty (Instagram, TikTok) chronicle her devotion to skincare masking (particularly #carpoolmasking) and honest reviews about beauty products and services.
Founded in a professional Parisian beauty institute by Jacques Courtin-Clarins in 1954, Clarins has become the #1 prestige skincare brand in Europe. More than 65 years later, the brand remains family-owned and is distributed in more than 140 countries—offering skincare innovations for face and body, men's, and makeup. With unique expertise in phytochemistry, Clarins Laboratories are considered pioneers in the fields of plant science and technology. The brand values are rooted in an ongoing dialogue with women, abiding respect for nature and people, and commitments to sustainable sourcing, including Le Domaine Clarins—our organic farm and open-air laboratory in the French Alps. Clarins is accelerating its sustainable actions to become a Certified B Corporation by 2023. Currently carbon neutral, the company will further reduce its carbon footprint by 30% and become 100% plastic neutral by using 100% recyclable packaging by 2025. Partners include Pur Projet (more than 525,000 trees planted to date), Plastic Odyssey (a three-year expedition across three continents with 30 stopovers to fight against plastic pollution), and FEED (more than 38 million school meals provided to children in need by the end of 2022).
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PHOENIX, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambert, a public relations, investor relations, and integrated communications agency, has appointed senior communications professional Greg Sexton as a Director in its Phoenix office. Sexton brings more than 25 years of agency experience serving B2B and B2C clients with successful earned, owned and shared media strategies. He will work closely with Lambert's consumer client team and will report to the firm's B2C managing director, Detroit-based Matt Jackson.
"Greg is an accomplished agency professional who spent a decade as a successful reporter and editor in the newsroom business pages, so he's able to see storytelling through a refined editorial lens," Jackson said. "I expect his proven strength and ability to dig for stories that resonate with journalists and consumers alike will foster growth for our clients and our people."
Sexton brings 30 years of combined journalism, editorial, and agency experience at the local, national, and international levels. A storyteller at heart, his work spans media relations, communications strategies, social media, crisis communications, events and grand openings, project launches, speech writing, internal communications, image consultation, and leadership positioning for some of the most influential businesses in the United States.
Sexton held various public relations and account leadership positions with leading marketing, advertising, and public relations agencies. Before that, he was the Editor in Chief at AZ Big Media overseeing six statewide editorial publications and magazines serving audiences in business, economics, tourism, real estate, and trade specialties. Sexton has earned many journalism and public relations awards, including recognitions from the New Mexico Press Association, PRSA Copper Quill and Copper Anvil awards. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from Arizona State University.
"My passion for storytelling, and ability to leverage those stories in highly effective public relations campaigns that drive bottom-line results, is at the core of everything I do," Sexton said. "I am looking forward to my next chapter of growth and success with the Lambert team."
About Lambert
Founded in 1998, Lambert invented the PR and IR integrated agency model with over 20 years of continuous growth attributed to the firm's laser focus on strategic communications and bottom-line results in the achievement of client goals. The award-winning national agency is a top-40 PR and top-15 IR firm with top-5 specialties in automotive and mobility, education, and M&A/private equity, alongside robust practice areas in consumer packaged goods, healthcare and biotech, and tourism and hospitality. The firm's reach spans six major talent hubs, including Grand Rapids, Detroit, New York, St. Louis, Houston, and Phoenix. Lambert is a founding partner of TiiCKER, a shareholder loyalty, marketing, and perks platform, and an equity partner in minority-owned independent marketing agency 9th Wonder. Lambert's Founder and Chairman Jeff Lambert is the global board chair of PROI Worldwide, the world's largest and most diverse partnership of PR firms, and named 2021 Ally of the Year, the top diversity award in public relations issued by Diversity Action Alliance.
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This blossoming relationship sounds like music to our ears.
A source close to Demi Lovato exclusively tells E! News that the "Confident" singer and musician Jutes have been "secretly dating for months now" after teaming up in the industry.
"Demi and Jutes met while working on music together," the insider shares. "Things are going really well and they have a lot in common. They bond over music."
This new relationship comes two years after Demi parted ways from ex-fiancé Max Ehrich. And though the source notes that the pop star "swore off dating for a while," Jutes has "restored her faith" in that department.
"She's definitely smitten," the insider explains, adding that Demi and Jutes "have been spending a lot of time together."
And it appears Demi isn't the only one who feels good about this connection. As the insider added, "Everyone thinks he is really good for her."
The couple recently went public with their relationship, having stepped out for a date in New York City on Aug. 16. At the time, an eyewitness told E! News that the pair "looked extremely happy" while walking hand in hand together.
But let it be known that a budding romance isn't the only new in Demi's life. The insider close to Demi also tells E! that she has "so many projects and new music coming out."
"She's really happy she's back to performing," the insider says. "And feels she's in a good place right now."
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)The Carolina Hurricanes found themselves in a quick hole in a Game 7 against the New York Rangers. Losing key players like Seth Jarvis and goaltender Antti Raanta only made things tougher for any chance of a comeback.
The Hurricanes lost Jarvis to an upper-body injury after he took a jarring first-period hit by New York defenseman Jacob Trouba, then lost Raanta in the second period when he went down after stretching out for a stop and was helped off the ice putting no weight on his right leg.
It was part of a rough all-around Monday night in a 6-2 loss to the Rangers that ended their second-round series in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Afterward, coach Rod Brind’Amour said Raanta’s injury was serious enough he wouldn’t have been able to play had Carolina advanced.
”No chance,” Brind’Amour said. ”He’s going to get checked out tomorrow. That knee would’ve been out probably – I don’t know for sure, but he didn’t look too good walking out of here, or limping out.”
Carolina gave up two power-play goals in the opening 10 minutes of the game to send the Hurricanes into catch-up mode against a Rangers defense anchored by star goaltender Igor Shesterkin. The Jarvis injury came between those two goals, while Raanta’s came with 4:23 left in the second period while the Hurricanes were still within 2-0.
The 33-year-old Raanta – pressed into a lead role when No. 1 goaltender Frederik Andersen suffered a lower-body injury in mid-April – had taken a shove from the Rangers’ Chris Kreider on one side of the crease while making a stop, then skated to his right as the puck headed toward Mika Zibanejad on the other side.
Raanta extended his right leg in a split to make the stop, and almost immediately went forward and landed face down on the ice. He was eventually helped back to the bench with assistance from teammates Vincent Trocheck and Nino Niederreiter before heading into the locker room, not putting any weight on his right leg.
Raanta was ruled out and rookie Pyotr Kochetkov, who came on in Game 2 of the the Hurricanes’ series against Boston when Raanta exited early with an injury, entered. But he quickly gave up a goal to the Rangers’ Ryan Strome for a 3-0 deficit, and ended up surrendering three goals on 12 shots in relief.
Jarvis, a rookie top-line winger, was knocked from the game on Trouba’s high hit near his left shoulder and head with about 12 1/2 minutes left in the first period. The hit sent Jarvis sprawling to the ice and he could only crawl back to the bench.
Jarvis was too wobbly to even sit upright on the bench and needed assistance from teammates to get directed into the locker room.
”He might be on the smaller side, but he’s feisty and he’s got a lot of heart,” defenseman Jaccob Slavin said of the 5-foot-10, 175-pound Jarvis. ”Obviously he’s a big component of our offense. … It shouldn’t change the outcome of the game but we definitely feel when his presence isn’t there.”
Making matters worse, the Hurricanes took a penalty for too many men on the ice while trying to sub for Jarvis, with Kreider converting 14 seconds later with a perfect redirect on a Zibanejad pass.
”That kind of summed it up right there on that shift,” Brind’Amour said. ”That was a tough blow in this game.”
The team soon ruled Jarvis out the rest of the night with what was described only as an upper-body injury.
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SEQUIM, Wash. — Washington State Patrol (WSP) SWAT officers shot and killed a man who was suspected of domestic violence in Sequim early Thursday morning.
Around 2 a.m., authorities responded to a call at a house on Priest Lane in the unincorporated area of Sequim. A woman reported that her boyfriend hit her with an axe. Sequim police officers and Clallam County Sheriff's deputies responded and found the victim with a head injury.
The victim was taken to Olympic Medical Center for treatment. She was released and is expected to survive.
According to authorities, they were searching for the suspect when they heard a gunshot from inside a shop building on the property. The suspect would not come out.
The Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team (OPNET), Sequim Police Department crisis negotiators and WSP SWAT were then called to the scene.
While authorities tried to talk to the suspect, neighboring houses were evacuated and Priest Lane was closed for several hours.
During negotiations, multiple gunshots were fired from inside the shop, in the direction of the officers. The suspect then came out of the shop and fired at WSP SWAT officers, according to authorities. Officers shot back and killed the suspect.
In accordance with Washington State Law, this case is being investigated by the Kitsap County Critical Incident Response Team.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
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The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020.
That day, six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that Trump won Nevada in 2020 and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is digging into the role that these fake electors in key battleground states had in Trump’s attempt to cling to power after his 2020 defeat.
McDonald and DeGraffenreid invoked Fifth Amendment protection hundreds of times in their separate interviews with the Jan. 6 committee, refusing to answer questions about their involvement and the extent to which Trump's top allies had helped in orchestrating the plot.
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Still, the transcripts provide an unprecedented view into the Trump team's coordinated efforts in Nevada to overturn the results of the election — efforts that included direct communication between McDonald and the president himself.
On Nov. 4, 2020, for example, the day after the election, McDonald had a conference call with Trump, his then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Rudy Giuliani and son Eric Trump.
“They want full attack mode,” McDonald later wrote in a text message describing that call. “We're gonna have a war room meeting in about an hour.”
Both McDonald and DeGraffenreid turned over their communications to the Jan. 6 committee related to the fake elector scheme. The FBI also seized McDonald’s cellphone in June as part of an investigation into the scheme.
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Those documents, detailed at length in the transcripts, included text messages, emails and internal memorandums distributed by the national GOP arm; handwritten charts, templates for press releases and the phony certificate itself; and talking points “explaining the rationale for the electors.”
The planning was extensive, the transcripts show, and began as early as four days before the election, when state party officials began discussing whether Nevada’s Republican secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, would sign off on the alternate slate of electors.
DeGraffenreid, in a text conversation with party officials, said Cegavske “might do a lot of things, but sending a slate of Republican electors without them being clearly the winners of the popular vote is not one of them.”
Cegavske ultimately certified President Joe Biden’s victory in Nevada, defending the results as reliable and accurate despite attacks from Trump and others within her own party, which led the Nevada Republican Party to censure her. She later conducted an investigation that found no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud throughout the state.
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Meanwhile, the day before the slate of fake electors met, the transcripts show McDonald grew increasingly frustrated with the RNC’s direction over how to conduct the certificate signing. It appeared that he had gone back and forth with the RNC about logistics of the ceremony: the location, how they would publicize it and what they would say in their speeches.
“RNC essentially put us in a box on what we can say, but doesn’t sound too bad,” Shawn Meehan, one of the fake electors, said in a text to DeGraffenreid.
Meehan also told DeGraffenreid that McDonald wanted a smaller group that would plan the final details over breakfast, and that he is “stressing on the optics.” It was visible to several of the fake electors — that same day, another fake elector had texted DeGraffenreid that McDonald was upset with “mixed messages and direction on publicity for tomorrow.”
“He’s very concerned RNC will cut cord if it looks bad and steal credit if we do well,” Meehan messaged.
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“I know," DeGraffenreid responded. “He’s concerned that we look like foolish crybabies.”
Ultimately, the Nevada Republican Party would press forward, and after more than two months of planning, McDonald, DeGraffenreid and the other fake electors gathered outside the Capitol building in Carson City for a ceremony.
“History made today in Carson City, Nevada,” the state party would write on social media after the ceremony, "as @McDonaldNV leads our electors in casting Nevada’s 6 electoral votes for the winner of Nevada, @realDonaldTrump and @Mike_Pence!”
McDonald did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday evening. A lawyer for DeGraffenreid said he declined to comment.
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The nine-member committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will dissolve when Republicans take over the House next month. The committee on Thursday was expected to release its full report, which they hope will lead to criminal charges against Trump and his key allies.
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(NerdWallet) – Teens looking for summer work may think “side hustles” and social media are the only ways to make money.
“What we hear from a lot of young people is that they’d rather try to start a business than have traditional jobs,” says Ed Grocholski, chief marketing officer of Junior Achievement USA, an organization that helps young people prepare for career success.
It’s easy to see why teens are excited. Social media influencers appear to be cashing in on their images and hobbies, and side hustle culture makes it look more feasible than ever to market and sell a product or service. But what teens might not realize is that early entrepreneurial endeavors usually take time to take off. Put another way, they don’t provide steady pay.
But traditional jobs do, and for teenagers looking to eventually be their own boss online or off, such in-person work can lay beneficial groundwork. Here are some options for working-age teens and what lessons they could learn on the job.
A positive attitude can lead to learning and earning
Restaurants remain a quintessential employer of students on break.
“We have more than 1.9 million teens on payrolls in restaurants,” says Michelle Korsmo, president and chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association.
It’s an excellent training ground for young people, she says. From food safety and customer service to problem-solving and time management, employees who want to be challenged will be.
Korsmo says opportunity or need can arise quickly. That could mean moving from host to server or chef to fill an opening, or volunteering to pick up trash in the parking lot when nobody else will.
“Say ‘yes,’ have a great attitude, be willing to learn,” she says. “It doesn’t take very long before you gain in responsibilities and in ability to make more money.”
That kind of spirited attitude could be the difference between success and failure for the teen later trying to build a following on social media or start a business.
Leaning on others takes the pressure off of just you
While a side hustle can be a solitary experience, businesses that hire teens — like the local pool, car wash or grocery store — bring people together.
Dan Horan manages a Wegmans grocery store in Pittsford, New York. He says the young people who come to work for him get a sense for the scale of the operation.
“It takes 650 people to put this place together every single day,” he says. “There’s a lot of teamwork involved in what we do.”
Horan describes the store’s staff as a support system of workers depending on one another and feeling comfortable to raise their hand for help.
“We’re here for what people have going on inside and outside of work,” he says. “It’s a safe place to go.”
Social interaction is good for development and business
Young workers will find communication in the workplace is an essential and organic experience.
The in-person interaction is more important since the pandemic, Grocholski says. “Being around people, being in a team environment builds an entire skill set that frankly is kind of by the wayside, and is really critical for young people to achieve their potential.”
Aagna Patel, a former Junior Achievement member and now a college student in Texas, went to work as an accounting intern at a manufacturing firm in Houston the summer after her senior year of high school. She saw it as an opportunity to learn from the life experience of her teammates.
Patel’s colleagues ranged in age from 30 to over 60. “You learn from every single person around you, whether that’s just from their experience or their experience with their family and kids, or their actual work career experience,” she says.
The communication skills could come in handy for future customers.
Patel, who would like to be her own boss someday, says you learn how to be a people person and approachable. “I think that’s really important as an entrepreneur because you never know where there is an opportunity.”
Hard work pays off, literally
A regular paycheck can feel like freedom to a teen. Kids who skip the day job and try to start with something not so steady may delay the financial gratification.
Patel says her first paycheck sparked gratitude. “It really reminds you that your parents, or whoever is providing in your household, they really do have to work a lot to bring money to the table and to be able to provide you with all of the things that you have,” she says.
Horan says he sees teen workers figure out how to balance time and money. “We have a lot of kids that want to pick up more hours and get more hours because they’re saving for something that’s important to them.”
Parents can help teens in getting their first paychecks by encouraging them to open a checking account and explore a debit or credit card. It’s never too early to have “the talk.” You know, the one about spending less than you make and avoiding costly credit card interest. It’s a lesson parents can provide teens, along with the reassurance that a traditional summer job now doesn’t mean they can’t monetize their hobby later. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/for-teens-traditional-summer-job-may-work-better-than-side-gig/ | 2023-05-28 17:33:13 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/for-teens-traditional-summer-job-may-work-better-than-side-gig/ |
Reno air crash: Pilot killed while competing in championship
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the cause of a fatal crash involving a plane competing in the Reno Air Races.
Officials with the Reno Air Racing Association said the plane went down Sunday afternoon during the event’s championship round.
The name of the pilot who was killed in the crash hasn’t been released yet.
RELATED: Nevada police say that a plane crashed during air race
National Transportation Safety Board officials said the aircraft involved was an Aero Vodochody L-29.
The crash occurred on the third of six laps during the Jet Gold Race on outer pylon 5, according to race officials.
The remainder of the competition was canceled after the crash, which is being investigated by the NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/reno-air-crash-pilot-killed-while-competing-in-championship | 2022-09-19 18:29:43 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/reno-air-crash-pilot-killed-while-competing-in-championship |
Thousands of travelers were stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a massive storm snarled travel in the U.S. and Canada.
More than 2,800 more flights had already been canceled in the U.S. as of 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware, and problems are likely to continue at least into Wednesday.
Staying calm, and knowing your rights, can go a long way if your flight is canceled, experts say. Here’s some of their advice for dealing with a flight cancellation:
MY FLIGHT WAS CANCELED. WHAT NEXT?
If you still want to get to your destination, most airlines will rebook you for free on the next available flight as long as it has seats, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
If you want to cancel the trip, you are entitled to a full refund, even if you bought non-refundable tickets. You’re also entitled to a refund of any bag fees, seat upgrades or other extras.
Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, stressed that travelers are eligible for a refund, not just vouchers for future travel. If you do take a voucher, make sure you inquire about blackout dates and other restrictions on its use.
WILL I HAVE TO PAY A CHANGE FEE IF I REBOOK MY FLIGHTS?
Major airlines, including Delta, American, Southwest, Air Canada, Alaska, Frontier and Spirit, are waiving change fees during the storm, which gives travelers more flexibility as they shift their plans. But Ebenhoch said travelers should read the fine print carefully. If you book a return flight outside the window that the airline sets, you may have to pay for the difference in fares, for example.
CAN I ASK TO BE BOOKED ON ANOTHER AIRLINE’S FLIGHT?
Yes. Airlines aren’t required to put you on another airline’s flight, but they can, and sometimes do, according to the DOT. Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir.com, recommends researching alternate flights while you’re waiting to talk to an agent. Agents are typically under a lot of pressure when a flight is canceled, so giving them some options helps.
Ebenhoch also suggests looking for alternative airports that are close to your original destination.
IS THE AIRLINE REQUIRED TO GIVE ME A HOTEL ROOM, OR OTHER COMPENSATION?
No. Each airline has its own policies about providing for customers whose flights are canceled, according to the DOT. But many airlines do offer accommodations, so you should check with their staff.
I’M FACING A LONG WAIT TO REBOOK. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
If someone in your traveling party is at a higher level in a frequent flier program, use the number reserved for that level to call the airline, Ebenhoch said. You can also try calling an international help desk for the airline, since those agents have the ability to make changes.
HOW CAN I AVOID THIS IN THE FUTURE?
Ebenhoch said nonstop flights and morning flights are generally the most reliable if you can book them. If you’re worried about making it to the airport in time for a morning flight, he said, consider staying at a hotel connected to the airport the night before. And consider flying outside of busy dates; this year, the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration is expecting big crowds on Dec. 30, for example.
Klee recommends comparing airlines’ policies on the DOT’s service dashboard: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-customer-service-dashboard. He also suggests reserving multiple flights and then canceling the ones you don’t use, as long as the airline will refund your money or convert it into a credit for a future flight. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/flight-canceled-experts-share-some-advice-about-what-to-do-2/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-12-27 14:44:27 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/flight-canceled-experts-share-some-advice-about-what-to-do-2/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of planning to carry out an explosives attack motivated by Islamic extremism, officials said Tuesday.
Federal police said officers arrested the 28-year-old man early Tuesday in the northern city of Hamburg based on a court-issued warrant for suspected terrorism financing offenses.
Investigators say the man is suspected of trying to obtain substances online that would have allowed him to manufacturer an explosive belt “in order to carry out an attack against civilian targets.”
Police say the man was encouraged and supported in his action by his 24-year-old brother, who lives in the southern town of Kempten. German news agency dpa reported that the younger man was also detained.
The brothers, whose names weren’t immediately released, were described by federal police as being motivated by “radical Islamist and jihadist” views.
Authorities said they had no information indicating a concrete target for the planned attack.
Police searched properties in Hamburg and Kempten, seizing large amounts of evidence including chemical substances, officials said. Some 250 officers were involved in the operation.
Germany’s top security official thanked police, saying their actions “have prevented possible Islamist attack plans.”
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the case showed that the danger of Islamic extremism remained high and pledged that German security agencies would continue to take all information about such threats seriously.
“Germany remains a direct target of Islamist terrorist organizations,” she said. “Islamist-motivated lone perpetrators are another significant threat.”
In a separate case, authorities in western Germany said Tuesday that they are investigating a possible extremist motive in an attack at a gym in Duisburg last week. A 26-year-old Syrian was arrested days after the attack, in which four men were seriously wounded and one of them remains in life-threatening condition.
Duesseldorf prosecutors said a review of the suspect’s cellphone indicated that “there may have been an Islamist motive” behind the attack, but declined to elaborate. The man is currently being held on suspicion of attempted murder and other offenses. | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/germany-detains-syrian-suspected-of-planning-islamist-attack/ | 2023-04-25 16:19:06 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/international/ap-international/germany-detains-syrian-suspected-of-planning-islamist-attack/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two people were taken to jail after police say they were driving stolen vehicles and led officers on pursuits in two separate busts on Saturday afternoon.
Officers pursued the first vehicle in the area of Southeast 122nd and Ash Street around 3:30 p.m. The driver was reportedly reckless and took off. Police say they followed from a distance, trying to use intervention techniques.
The vehicle was speeding and narrowly crashed into multiple vehicles before crashing and overturning on Interstate 205 northbound at Sandy Boulevard where it reportedly caught fire.
The driver and passenger were taken to the hospital with injuries. The driver is charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, felony elude and multiple other charges.
Later in the afternoon, a second stolen vehicle was tracked near Interstate 205 and Holgate Boulevard where three people got out of the car and ran from officers. Police say a gun was found nearby that one of them tossed.
The gun had an extended magazine and the serial number was scratched off according to police.
The driver is facing charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, eluding and possibly additional felonies.
Investigators said the suspects were able to start the car using a USB cable after exposing the ignition.
According to the city's Stolen Vehicle Statistics dashboard, more than 11,800 vehicles in the city were reported stolen between January 2022 and this January with 92% of those recovered.
The neighborhood with the most stolen vehicles is Hazelwood followed by Lents and Northwest Portland. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/drivers-stolen-vehicles-arrested-in-east-portland-busts/283-e4c53596-cfc8-4e57-a272-6fbdfbd56e94 | 2023-03-12 07:19:35 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/drivers-stolen-vehicles-arrested-in-east-portland-busts/283-e4c53596-cfc8-4e57-a272-6fbdfbd56e94 |
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BANGKOK (AP) — Government helicopters have attacked a school and village in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people including seven children, a school administrator and an aid worker said Monday.
Civilian casualties often occur in attacks by the military government on pro-democracy insurgents and their allies. However, the number of children killed in the air attack last Friday in Tabayin township in Sagaing region appeared to be the highest since the army seized power in February last year, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The army’s takeover triggered mass nonviolent protests nationwide. The military and police responded with deadly force, resulting in the spread of armed resistance in the cities and countryside. Fighting has been especially fierce in Sagaing, where the military has launched several offensives, in some cases burning villages, which displaced more than half a million people, according to a report issued by UNICEF this month.
Friday’s attack occurred in Let Yet Kone village in Tabayin, also known as Depayin, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) northwest of Mandalay, the country’s second largest city.
School administrator Mar Mar said she was trying to get students to safe hiding places in ground floor classrooms when two of four Mi-35 helicopters hovering north of the village began attacking, firing machine guns and heavier weapons at the school, which is located in the compound of the village’s Buddhist monastery.
Mar Mar works at the school with 20 volunteers who teach 240 students from kindergarten to Grade 8. She has been hiding in the village with her three children since fleeing for safety to avoid the government crackdown after participating last year in a civil disobedience movement against the military takeover. She uses the pseudonym Mar Mar to protect herself and relatives from the military.
She said she had not expected trouble since the aircraft had been over the village before without any incident.
“Since the students had done nothing wrong, I never thought that they would be brutally shot by machine guns,” Mar Mar told The Associated Press by phone on Monday.
By the time she and the students and teachers were able to take shelter in the classrooms, one teacher and a 7-year-old student had already been shot in the neck and head and Mar Mar had to use pieces of clothing to try to stanch the bleeding.
“They kept shooting into the compound from the air for an hour,” Mar Mar said. ”They didn’t stop even for one minute. All we could do at that time was chant Buddhist mantras.”
When the air attack stopped, about 80 soldiers entered the monastery compound, firing their guns at the buildings.
The soldiers then ordered everyone in the compound to come out of the buildings. Mar Mar said she saw about 30 students with wounds on their backs, thighs, faces and other parts of the bodies. Some students had lost limbs.
“The children told me that their friends were dying,” she said. “I also heard a student yelling, ’It hurts so much. I can’t take it anymore. Kill me, please.' This voice still echoes in my ears,” Mar Mar said.
She said at least six students were killed in the school and a 13-year-old boy working at a fishery in a nearby village was also fatally shot. At least six adults were also killed in the air attack in other parts of the village, she said. The bodies of the dead children were taken away by the soldiers.
More than 20 people, including nine wounded children and three teachers, were also taken by the soldiers, she said. Two of those captured were accused of being members of the anti-government People's Defense Force, the armed wing of the resistance to the military.
Security forces also burned down a house in the village, causing residents to flee.
A volunteer in Tabayin assisting displaced people who asked not to be identified because of fear of government reprisals said the bodies of the dead children were cremated by the soldiers in nearby Ye U township.
“I am now telling the international community about this because I want redress for our children,” Mar Mar said. “Instead of humanitarian aid, what we really need is genuine democracy and human rights.”
Myanmar Now, an online news service, and other independent Myanmar media also reported the attack and the students’ deaths.
A day after the attack, the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper reported that security forces had gone to check the village after receiving information that the members of the People's Defense Force were hiding there.
The report said members of the People's Defense Force and their allies from the Kachin Independence Army, an ethnic rebel group, were hiding inside houses and the monastery and started shooting at the security forces, causing deaths and injuries among village residents. It said the injured were taken to hospitals, but did not mention the situation of the students.
According to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which monitors human rights in Myanmar, at least 2,298 civilians have been killed by the security forces since the army seized power last year.
The U.N. has documented 260 attacks on schools and education personnel since the coup, the U.N. Child Rights Committee said in June. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Witnesses-Myanmar-air-attack-kills-13-including-17451902.php | 2022-09-19 17:28:43 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Witnesses-Myanmar-air-attack-kills-13-including-17451902.php |
Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2022 Results And Quarterly Cash Dividend
Published: Jan. 23, 2023 at 8:00 AM CST|Updated: 47 minutes ago
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQX: MCBI), the holding company for Mountain Commerce Bank (the "Bank"), today announced earnings and related data as of and for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2022.
The Company also announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per common share, our ninth consecutive quarterly dividend. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2023 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 6, 2023.
Highlights
The following tables highlight the trends that the Company believes are most relevant to understanding the performance of the Company as of and for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2022. As further detailed in Appendix A and Appendix C to this press release, adjusted results (which are non-GAAP financial measures), reflect adjustments for realized and unrealized investment gains and losses, PPP fee accretion (net of the amortization of PPP deferred loan costs and one-time PPP bonuses), gains and losses from the sale of REO, the provision for (recovery of) loan losses, the provision for (recovery of) unfunded loan commitments, and the impact of a fraudulent wire loss incurred in the second quarter of 2022. See Appendix B to this press release for more information on our tax equivalent net interest margin. All financial information in this press release is unaudited.
Five Quarter Trends
Management Commentary
William E. "Bill" Edwards, III, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented as follows:
"The fourth quarter of 2022 proved to be a challenging quarter, as a significant increase in funding costs put a strain on our net interest margin and earnings. While we are pleased that our yield on taxable loans increased 55 bp from 4.36% in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 4.91% in the fourth quarter of 2022, the rate paid on interest bearing liabilities increased 179 bp from 0.35% to 2.14% over the same periods. As a result, our net interest margin declined from 3.66% in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 3.15% in the same period of 2022. Despite this, our annualized adjusted return on average assets (non-GAAP) remained above 1% at 1.09% for the fourth quarter of 2022, and our annualized adjusted return on average equity (non-GAAP) remained at nearly 15% for the same quarter. We continue to experience very low levels of loan charge-offs and our allowance coverage of nonperforming loans was nearly 10 to 1 at December 31, 2022. From an asset quality perspective, our non-performing assets to total assets remained at historical lows at 0.08% at December 31, 2022, with no properties in real estate owned. Looking forward, we will work hard to remain disciplined on loan pricing, and will continue to prioritize the value of lower cost deposits. While the coming year looks to be challenging because of the projected rate environment and intense competition in our markets, we remain committed to our aim of delivering the strong returns our shareholders have come to expect.
Additionally, we continue to work diligently on several projects located across our markets, including the following:
We are excited to announce that our new 25,000 sf operations center in Gray, TN was completed in January, 2023 and is now being occupied. This is a significant upgrade from our prior 10,000 sf leased space in Johnson City, TN and will support the future growth of the Company for years to come.
The construction of a new 23,000 sf Johnson City combined financial/corporate center is underway with an expected completion date of mid-2024. This location, which has significant I-26 visibility, will be a major upgrade from our existing 3,000 sf branch, and we believe will aid in our efforts to substantially grow our Johnson City and TriCities market share. We estimate this project will cost approximately $19.5 million, of which less than $1 million has been incurred.
We continue to make repairs and improvements to our newest financial center at 9950 Kingston Pike in Knoxville. In addition to providing a much needed additional financial center, we also expect to consolidate approximately 9,000 sf of space that we currently lease into this building. This building is expected to be operational during the third quarter of 2023."
Net Interest Income
Net interest income decreased $0.2 million, or 1.3%, from $11.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021 to $11.5 million for the same period in 2022. The decrease between the periods was primarily the net result of the following factors:
Average interest-earning assets grew $196.3 million, or 15.0%, from $1.312 billion to $1.508 billion, driven primarily by increases in loans.
Average net interest-earning assets declined $49.7 million, or 11.4%, from $434.0 million to $384.4 million, due primarily to a $52.7 million increase in noninterest earning assets including fixed assets and deferred tax assets.
The average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities increased 179 bp from 0.35% to 2.14%, while the average rate earned on interest-earning assets increased 85 bp from 3.90% to 4.75%, resulting in a decrease in tax-equivalent net interest margin from 3.66% to 3.15%.
The Company recognized approximately $13 thousand and $0.6 million of PPP loan origination fees, net of the amortization of deferred PPP loan costs, through net interest income during the three months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. No net PPP loan origination fees remain to be recognized as of December 31, 2022.
Net interest income increased $4.9 million, or 11.3%, from $43.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 to $48.5 million for the same period in 2022. The increase between the periods was primarily the net result of the following factors:
Average interest-earning assets grew $215.3 million, or 18.0%, from $1.194 billion to $1.409 billion, driven by increases in loans and investment securities.
Average net interest-earning assets grew $28.6 million, or 7.7%, from $369.2 million to $397.8 million, funded by increases in noninterest bearing deposits and shareholders' equity and offset by a $32.9 million increase in noninterest earning assets including fixed assets and deferred tax assets.
The average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities increased 58 bp from 0.47% to 1.05%, while the average rate earned on interest-earning assets increased 26 bp from 4.06% to 4.32%, resulting in a decrease in tax-equivalent net interest margin from 3.74% to 3.57%.
The Company recognized approximately $0.3 million and $3.2 million of PPP loan origination fees, net of the amortization of deferred PPP loan costs, through net interest income during the year ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Rate Sensitivity
The Company has the following loans and deposits subject to regular repricing:
The Federal Reserve has increased the Federal Funds interest rate by 425 bp since December 31, 2021. Since that time, the Company has experienced the following impacts on its loan yields and deposit costs:
Provision For Loan Losses
A provision for loan losses of $0.2 million and $2.2 million was recognized for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2022, respectively, primarily as a result of continued loan growth. A provision (recovery) of loan losses of $0.7 million and ($2.6 million) was recognized during the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2021. The Company continues to experience historically low levels of problem assets and charge-offs. The Company will adopt the provisions of Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments as of January 1, 2023. The Company has completed a preliminary estimate of the impact of adoption and does not expect a material adjustment to the Company's Allowance for Loan Losses at December 31, 2022.
Noninterest Income
The following summarizes changes in the Company's noninterest income for the periods indicated:
Noninterest income declined to $0.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 from $0.6 million in the same quarter of 2021. This decrease was due primarily to approximately $0.4 million of realized losses on the sale of investment securities available for sale. The Company conducted a loss trade in December 2022 in which $6.7 million of municipal securities were sold at a $0.4 million loss, with the proceeds reinvested in shorter duration and higher yielding securities. This decline in noninterest income was partially offset by a $0.1 million increase in unrealized gains on equity securities (primarily bank preferred stock) as a result of a decline in interest rates.
Noninterest income declined to $1.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2022 from $2.6 million during the same period of 2021. This decrease was due primarily to approximately $1.1 million of unrealized losses on equity securities (primarily bank preferred stock) during 2022 as a result of an increase in interest rates and not due to credit concerns. Additionally, the Company incurred $0.6 million of realized losses on the sale of investment securities available for sale during 2022, the majority of which resulted from the December 2022 loss trade described above. Gain on sale of loans declined $0.3 million during 2022 due to the rising rate environment which contributed to a decrease in residential mortgage loan volumes. These declines in noninterest income were partially offset by an increase of $0.5 million in distributions from certain of the Company's investments in limited partnerships, which tend to have significant distributions towards the end of their life.
Noninterest Expense
The following summarizes changes in the Company's noninterest expense for the periods indicated:
Noninterest expense increased $1.1 million, or 20.7%, from $5.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 to $6.7 million in the same period of 2022. This increase was primarily due to a $0.5 million, or 15.2%, increase in compensation and benefits, as a result of an increase in employee headcount and incentive compensation expense. Full time equivalent employees increased from 102 at December 31, 2021 to 116 at December 31, 2022, including an increase of 1 new Relationship Manager. The Company has also recognized higher levels of incentive compensation expense with increased levels of growth and profitability. Occupancy expense increased $0.2 million over the same periods due to lease expense on the Company's new Brentwood financial center, as well as additional expenses associated with the Company's new Operations Center and Knoxville (9950 Kingston Pike) financial center. Professional fees have increased $0.1 million over the same periods as the Company has engaged a national firm for its internal audit function and incurred additional audit and advisory expenses in conjunction with its implementation of a required internal control audit and change in accounting for credit loss reserves.
Noninterest expense increased $5.2 million, or 28.2%, from $18.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 to $23.6 million in the same period of 2022. Compensation and benefits increased $2.6 million, or 24.7%, as a result of an increase in employee headcount and incentive compensation expense as described above. Occupancy expenses increased $0.3 million over the same periods due to lease expense on the Company's new Brentwood financial center, as well as additional expenses associated with the Company's new Operations Center and Knoxville (9950 Kingston Pike) financial center. Professional fees have increased $0.4 million over the same periods as the Company has engaged a national firm for its internal audit function and incurred additional audit and advisory expenses in conjunction with its implementation of a required internal control audit and change in accounting for credit loss reserves. Other noninterest expense increased $1.1 million primarily due to a $0.8 million ($0.6 million net of insurance recovery) fraudulent wire loss incurred during the second quarter of 2022 and a $0.3 million increase in the reserve for unfunded commitments.
Income Taxes
The effective tax rates of the Company were as follows for the periods indicated:
The Company's effective tax rate during the three months ended December 31, 2022 increased to 23.24% from 16.30% in the same period of the prior year. The Company's effective tax rate during the three months ended December 31, 2021 was favorably impacted by the receipt of a tax credit on a tax-exempt loan which lowered the Company's tax rate by approximately 3.7%. The Company's marginal tax rate of 26.14% is favorably impacted by certain sources of non-taxable income including bank-owned life insurance (BOLI), tax-free loans, and investments in tax-free municipal securities.
Balance Sheet
Total assets increased $265.1 million, or 19.9%, from $1.335 billion at December 31, 2021 to $1.600 billion at December 31, 2022. The change was primarily driven by the following factors:
Investments available for sale balances decreased $18.5 million, or 11.9%, due primarily to a decline in the fair value as a result of an increase in interest rates.
The following summarizes the composition of the Bank's investment securities available for sale portfolio (at fair value) as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021:
Non-agency MBS/CMO's have an average credit-enhancement of approximately 35% as of December 31, 2022. Municipal securities are generally rated AA or higher.
Loans receivable increased $246.4 million, or 23.0%, from $1.071 billion at December 31, 2021 to $1.317 billion at December 31, 2022. Increases in construction, residential, multi-family, owner-occupied and non-owner occupied commercial and commercial & industrial loan categories offset a $12.8 million reduction in PPP loans.
The following summarizes changes in loan balances over the last five quarters:
Premises and equipment increased $15.7 million, or 91.3%, during the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily due to the following:
Total deposits increased $238.6 million, or 21.5%, from $1.108 billion at December 31, 2021 to $1.346 billion at December 31, 2022. The primary drivers of this increase were a $87.1 million, or 37.2%, increase in NOW and money market balances, and a $94.8 million, or 111.7%, increase in retail time deposits (primarily 18 months maturity or less), as the Company has offered attractive interest rates on certain money market and time deposit products. Wholesale time deposits consist primarily of brokered certificates of deposit with a maximum maturity of three months or less.
The following summarizes changes in deposit balances over the last five quarters:
FHLB borrowings increased $30.0 million from December 31, 2021 and consisted of the following at December 31, 2022:
Total equity decreased $3.8 million, or 3.1%, from $121.1 million at December 31, 2021 to $117.3 million at December 31, 2022. The following summarizes the components of the change in total shareholders' equity and tangible book value per share for the year ended December 31, 2022:
The Company's tangible equity to tangible assets ratio declined to 7.33% at December 31, 2022 from 9.07% at December 31, 2021, primarily as a result of a decline in the value of investments available for sale triggered by the rising rate environment. The Company continues to manage its equity levels through a combination of controlled growth, share repurchases and dividends. The Company and Bank both remain well capitalized at December 31, 2022.
Asset Quality
Non-performing loans to total loans decreased from 0.17% at December 31, 2021 to 0.10% at December 31, 2022. Non-performing assets to total assets decreased from 0.14% at December 31, 2021 to 0.08% at December 31, 2022. Other real estate owned balances remained at $0 at both December 31, 2022 and 2021. Net charge-offs of $89 thousand were recognized during the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $164 thousand during 2021. The allowance for loan losses to total loans was 0.96% at December 31, 2022 compared to 0.98% at December 31, 2021. Coverage of non-performing loans by the allowance for loan losses was nearly 10 to 1 at December 31, 2022.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Statements included in this press release include non-GAAP financial measures and should be read along with the accompanying tables in Appendix A and Appendix C, which provide a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. This press release and the accompanying tables discuss financial measures such as adjusted net income, adjusted diluted earnings per share, adjusted return on average assets, adjusted return on average equity, adjusted net interest margin (tax equivalent), and adjusted efficiency ratio, which are all non-GAAP financial measures. We also present in this press release and the accompanying tables pre-tax, pre-provision earnings, pre-tax, pre-provision return on average assets, and tangible book value per share excluding AOCI, which are also non-GAAP financial measures. We believe that such non-GAAP financial measures are useful because they enhance the ability of investors and management to evaluate and compare the Company's operating results from period to period in a meaningful manner. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as an alternative to any measure of performance calculated pursuant to GAAP, nor are they necessarily comparable to non-GAAP financial measures that may be presented by other companies. Investors should consider the Company's performance and financial condition as reported under GAAP and all other relevant information when assessing the performance or financial condition of the Company. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and investors should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of the Company's results or financial condition as reported under GAAP.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. The words "expect," "intend," "should," "may," "could," "believe," "suspect," "anticipate," "seek," "plan," "estimate" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, but other statements not based on historical fact may also be considered forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that include, without limitation, (i) deterioration in the financial condition of our borrowers, including as a result of persistent inflationary pressures, resulting in significant increases in loan losses and provisions for those losses; (ii) fluctuations or differences in interest rates on loans or deposits from those that we are modeling or anticipating, including as a result of our inability to better match deposit rates with the changes in the short-term rate environment, or that affect the yield curve; (iii) deterioration in the real estate market conditions in our market areas; (iv) the impact of increased competition with other financial institutions, including pricing pressures, and the resulting impact on our results, including as a result of compression to our net interest margin; (v) the deterioration of the economy in our market areas, including the negative impact of inflationary pressures on our customers and their businesses; (vi) the ability to grow and retain low-cost core deposits; (vii) our ability to meet our liquidity needs without having to liquidate investment securities that we own while those securities are in a unrealized loss position as a result of the rising rate environment; (viii) significant downturns in the business of one or more large customers; (ix) effectiveness of our asset management activities in improving, resolving or liquidating lower quality assets; (x) our inability to maintain the historical, long-term growth rate of our loan portfolio; (xi) vaccines' efficacy against the COVID-19 virus, including new variants; (xii) risks of expansion into new geographic or product markets; (xiii) the possibility of increased compliance and operational costs as a result of increased regulatory oversight; (xiv) our inability to comply with regulatory capital requirements, including those resulting from changes to capital calculation methodologies and required capital maintenance levels; (xv) changes in state or Federal regulations, policies, or legislation applicable to banks and other financial service providers, including regulatory or legislative developments arising out of current unsettled conditions in the economy; (xvi) changes in capital levels and loan underwriting, credit review or loss reserve policies associated with economic conditions, examination conclusions, or regulatory developments; (xvii) inadequate allowance for loan losses; (xviii) results of regulatory examinations; (xix) the vulnerability of our network and online banking portals, and the systems of parties with whom we contract, to unauthorized access, computer viruses, phishing schemes, spam attacks, human error, natural disasters, power loss and other security breaches; (xx) the possibility of increased corporate or personal tax rates and the resulting reduction in our and our customers' businesses as a result of any such increases; (xxi) approval of the declaration of any dividend by our Board of Directors; (xxii) loss of key personnel; and (xxiii) adverse results (including costs, fines, reputational harm and/or other negative effects) from current or future obligatory litigation, examinations or other legal and/or regulatory actions. These risks and uncertainties may cause our actual results or performance to be materially different from any future results or performance expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Our future operating results depend on a number of factors which were derived utilizing numerous assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements.
About Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. and Mountain Commerce Bank
Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Mountain Commerce Bank. The Company's shares of common stock trade on the OTCQX under the symbol "MCBI".
Mountain Commerce Bank is a state-chartered financial institution headquartered in Knoxville, TN. The Bank traces its history back over a century and serves Middle and East Tennessee through 6 branches located in Brentwood, Erwin, Johnson City, Knoxville and Unicoi. The Bank focuses on responsive relationship banking of small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, affluent individuals, and those who value the personal service and attention that only a community bank can offer. For further information, please visit us at www.mcb.com.
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Approximately 1.1 million square feet of manufacturing, warehousing and distribution space planned in Queen Creek
PHOENIX, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thompson Thrift Commercial, a wholly-owned company of Indianapolis-based Thompson Thrift, announced today the acquisition of approximately 68 acres of land zoned for industrial development, just west of the southwest corner of Germann Road and Meridian Road in the Phoenix suburb of Queen Creek.
"We are thrilled to grow our presence in the booming Queen Creek area," said Chris Hake, senior vice president, director of the Southwest region of Thompson Thrift. "With a low industrial vacancy of less than 3% in the southeast valley, and strong demand evidenced by national users like Google, Apple, Amazon, Intel, LG and others, we expect strong interest as other industrial users migrate to the submarket."
Located just minutes away from the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport and with easy access to Loop 202 and the soon to be complete State Road 24, the parcel is well-positioned to take advantage of the skilled workforce of Phoenix's Southeast Valley. The new development will be located within a mile of LG's newly announced 1-million-square-foot facility which will generate 2,800 new jobs in the immediate area.
The company plans to begin construction in December on phase I of the project, which will feature approximately 400,000 square feet of new manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution space between five stand-alone buildings. When the project is fully complete, Thompson Thrift Commercial expects to have just under 1.1 million square feet of space between 13 buildings ranging from 62,000 to 110,000 square feet each.
"As we continue to expand our industrial development platform, we are excited to work closely with the town of Queen Creek to deliver another quality project that we believe will be a tremendous addition to this growing and very dynamic employment corridor," said Ashlee Boyd, managing partner, Thompson Thrift Commercial.
Queen Creek is one of the fastest-growing cities in Arizona and has recently emerged as a growing industrial submarket, with strong demand from industries such as electric vehicle manufacturing, distribution, aerospace and defense, and pharmaceutical users. ASU's Polytechnic campus with nearly 10,000 students enrolled in science, engineering, management, technology, and education programs is expected to keep a steady flow of strong talent in the area.
Thompson Thrift Commercial is a full-service real estate development company focused on ground-up commercial and mixed-use development across the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. Since its founding more than 30 years ago, Thompson Thrift has invested more than $3.7 billion into local communities and has become known as a trusted partner committed to developing high-quality, attractive projects.
The company is well-established in Arizona with completed or current projects throughout the Phoenix and Tucson metros. This closing marks the second industrial project for Thompson Thrift Commercial in the southeast valley in the last few months. The Company previously acquired 25 acres of land at the Northwest corner of Elliot and Signal Butte in Mesa for a mixed-use retail and industrial project.
About Thompson Thrift Real Estate Company
Thompson Thrift is an integrated full-service real estate company with offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana, Houston and Phoenix. Three business units drive Thompson Thrift's success—Thompson Thrift Residential which is focused on upscale Class A multifamily communities and luxury leased homes, Thompson Thrift Commercial which is focused on ground-up commercial development, and Thompson Thrift Construction, a full-service construction company. Through these business units, Thompson Thrift is engaged in all aspects of acquisition, development, construction, leasing, and management of quality multifamily, mixed-use, retail, industrial and commercial projects across the country. We are passionate about our customer's success and strive to ensure our projects not only meet the needs of our customers but also the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.thompsonthrift.com
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Jennifer Franklin
Spotlight Marketing Communications
949.427.1385
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 54-year-old man fell to his death while canyoneering alone in Death Valley National Park, according to park services.
On Dec. 3, the man was found on the West Fork route in Mosaic Canyon. He was not reported missing, which means the search did not start in time to save his life, according to a park spokesperson.
“We recommend that anyone going into the backcountry lets someone know their plans. The park doesn’t track the 1.7 million people that visit each year,” said park spokesperson and avid canyoneer Abby Wines.
According to Death Valley, several clues led to the search for the man. A campground host reported a campsite with a tent still in it but no people.
Rangers left a note on the site and returned the following day to pack up the abandoned items and found climbing gear and a package with a name and address in the tent.
The rangers also recalled seeing a vehicle at Mosaic Canyon Trailhead late in the day a couple of days earlier. The rangers ran the plates after they saw the vehicle was still there later on.
The name in the registration matched the name and address on the package found in the tent.
The search and body recovery was conducted by National Park Service, Inyo County SAR, Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake’s VX-31 rescue helicopter, and California Highway Patrol’s H-82 helicopter.
Park rangers and SAR team members noticed that the man’s rope was not long enough to reach the ground on a long rappel. According to Death Valley, he tied a piece of webbing to the end of the rope but he appeared to have made a mistake when disconnecting his rappel device to pass the knot joining the rope and webbing.
Rangers estimate he fell about 30 feet, park services said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — EEUU dice que enviará 31 tanques militares Abrams a Ucrania.
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FULTON, Mo., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westminster College ("College") announced the successful closing of the conversion of its $6,085,000 outstanding (Par Value) Series 2021B Bonds previously issued through the Industrial Development Authority of Callaway County, Missouri ("Authority"), from taxable bonds to tax-exempt bonds on May 4, 2022. The Series 2021B Bonds are one of three series of bonds issued in July 2021 as a combination of tax-exempt and taxable revenue bonds. The Series 2021B Bonds were expected at the time of issuance to convert from taxable bonds to tax-exempt bonds at a future date, and the May 4 conversion closing was the successful completion of that expected step. Similarly, the outstanding Series 2021C Bonds are also expected to convert to tax-exempt bonds at a future date if certain terms and conditions of the taxable revenue bonds are satisfied as well as the bonds comply at the time of conversion with the federal tax code.
The College, located in Fulton, MO, is a nonprofit corporation and operates a private four-year college. Additionally, the College owns and operates the historic America's National Churchill Museum ("Museum"), for which a portion of the proceeds of the Series 2021 Bonds will be used for facility improvements, updates, and renovations.
"We are obviously very pleased with the successful closing of the conversion of our Series 2021B Bonds from taxable bonds to tax-exempt bonds. This conversion will reduce the College's borrowing costs for these specific bonds and was a significant structural and financial component of the overall Series 2021 Bonds transaction previously closed in July 2021 by the College," said Donald P. Lofe, Jr., President and Chief Transformation Officer of the College. Lofe added, "Westminster is, again, most appreciative of the support it received from the Authority, the Callaway County Commission, the Callaway Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Fulton to successfully complete this specific transaction."
The Series 2021 Bonds were previously sold to certain sophisticated investors in July 2021 in a private placement transaction. UMB Bank, n.a., Capital Markets Division, acted as placement agent with respect to the Series 2021 Bonds. Thompson Coburn LLP acted as bond counsel and legal counsel. Gilmore & Bell, PC, acted as the placement agent's counsel in connection with the issuance of the Series 2021 Bonds. Kaufman, Hall and Associates, LLC, advised the College, both before and during the process of the issuance of the Series 2021 Bonds and in connection with the College's capital planning and analysis as well as general strategic planning initiatives. These firms again provided similar support for the closing of this specific conversion transaction. Williams-Keepers, LLP, Certified Public Accountants, provided certain accounting and compilation services to the College in connection with the previous transaction.
About Westminster College: Founded in 1851 and home of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, Westminster College in Fulton, MO, is ranked prestigiously by U.S. News & World Report as the only National Liberal Arts College in Missouri. The institution is in the top 15 percent for graduate earnings and boasts a 98 percent placement rate. Westminster also is a Forbes Best Value College. Westminster focuses on educating and inspiring students to become the world leaders of tomorrow. To find out more about Westminster, please visit the College's website.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1052 AM CDT Fri Aug 19 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
county, Harris.
* WHEN...Until 1145 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or is
imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1051 AM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause
urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 1.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Tomball, Jersey Village, Greater Greenspoint, Aldine,
northwestern Northside / Northline, Willowbrook, Hooks
Airport, Greater Inwood, Fairbanks / Northwest Crossing,
Hidden Valley and Acres Home.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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PRAGUE (AP) — Ukrainians rallied Tuesday in the Czech capital of Prague for the second straight evening to condemn this week’s barrage of Russian missile strikes against cities across Ukraine and to demand more weapons from the West to protect their nation.
The protesters held blue-and-yellow crosses with the names of the cities hit by the Russian missiles.
“Ukraine needs air defenses to be able to prevent the massacres of the civilian population and destruction of our cities,” Anastasiia Sihnaievska told the crowd.
“We are protecting our right to live,” said Sihnaievska, who fled her town of Zhytomyr because of the Russian invasion.
People chanted “Russia’s terrorist!” and “More weapons for Ukraine!”
They unveiled a giant Ukrainian flag and displayed banners that read “Air defense systems for Ukraine,” “We will not forget, We will not forgive,” or “Stop bombing Ukraine.”
“It’s great that Europe supports us but we need more help,” said the 21-year-old Ivanna Mykuliak. A student of physics in Odesa, she came to the Czech Republic to work to help support her family in Ukraine.
Protesters who were not Ukrainian also joined the rally.
“Ukraine is fighting for us,” said Julie Levkova, a Czech who helped organize the protest. “I want to use all possibilities I have here and all my energy to fight for Ukraine in the Czech Republic.”
A similar rally took place in Romania’s capital of Bucharest on Monday.
On Tuesday, the presidents of 10 European nations — Czechia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Montenegro — said the deadly Russian missile strikes this week against civilians in Ukraine “constitute war crimes under international law.“
“On behalf of our states, we demand that Russia immediately stop attacking civilian targets,“ they said in a statement. “We will not cease our efforts to bring to court people responsible of yesterday’s crimes.“
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A man in South Florida shot at the car of two people who drove onto his property after they got lost trying to drop off an Instacart order, police said, leaving the car with bullet holes and a flat tire.
The resident said he fired after the car ran over his foot.
According to a report released by the Davie Police Department, 19-year-old Waldes Thomas Jr. and 18-year-old Diamond Harley Darville were attempting to deliver an Instacart grocery order on the evening of April 15 but were having trouble locating the address of the person who placed the order.
The pair mistakenly pulled their car onto the property of Antonio Caccavale, 43, in Southwest Ranches, a town about 20 miles northwest of Miami.
Caccavale's 12-year-old son approached them, and they said they tried to reverse out of the property and struck a boulder. They told investigators that was when Caccavale then aggressively approached the vehicle and grabbed at the driver's side window.
Thomas began driving the gray Honda Civic away when they heard three gunshots.
Caccavale told investigators that when he saw a vehicle on his property, he asked his son to tell the occupants to leave.
He said he heard his son calling for help and ran to his aid, where Caccavale said the vehicle was driving "erratically" and hitting items on the property, such as boulders and fence posts.
The car reversed, sideswiped him and ran over his right foot, Caccavale said, which was when he drew his Smith & Wesson Shield handgun and fired several shots toward the tires. He told police he wanted to disable the vehicle.
Police said they observed two bullet holes in the car's rear bumper and the rear passenger tire was flat. They said they had no video footage of the shooting.
Darville told NBC6 in South Florida that the duo only realized they'd been fired upon after they drove away.
"I had seen him pull out a gun and that's when I said, 'We got to go, we got to go,' " she said. "I was scared, I'm not going to lie."
Police said in the report that it was unclear if a crime had occurred. "Each party appear justified in their actions based on the circumstances they perceived," police said.
In a statement, Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor called the incident "very disturbing" and said his office requested a full investigation and legal review from the police department. He said the police had not yet sent over their reports and findings.
"Once the police investigation is completed and forwarded to my office, prosecutors will conduct a thorough review of all of the facts presented, the evidence, and the applicable law," Pryor said. "Prosecutors will then make a decision about whether criminal charges should be filed."
The harrowing episode called to mind other recent shootings of people who had mistakenly ended up at the wrong address.
Kaylin Gillis, 20, was killed after she and her friends drove into the wrong driveway in upstate New York and the homeowner opened fire. A Kansas City man shot and injured 16-year-old Ralph Yarl when Yarl went to the incorrect home to pick up his siblings.
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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is being criticized by a victim’s sister and a powerful county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner next month for his conviction in a 2002 killing. The newly elected Democratic governor vowed nearly two weeks ago that she wouldn’t carry out the Arizona Supreme Court’s order to execute Aaron Gunches on April 6, citing a review that she has ordered of death penalty protocols due to Arizona's history of mismanaging executions.
Video in the player above highlights ABC15's previous coverage of this topic.
Hobbs has said executions will not be carried out until Arizonans can be confident the state isn’t violating the law. She maintains that while the court authorized Gunches’ execution, its order doesn’t require the state to carry it out.
Over the last several days, lawyers for Karen Price, whose brother Ted Price was the victim in Gunches’ case, and Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell have told the state’s highest court that Hobbs doesn’t have the legal authority to disregard the order.
In a statement, Karen Price said the relief her family felt when the court scheduled Gunches’ execution was dashed by Hobbs’ announcement.
“Not only has our family been victimized by inmate Gunches and the emotional aftermath of Ted’s murder, we are now being victimized by the governor’s failure to recognize and uphold our constitutional rights to justice and finality,” Price said.
Nicholas Klingerman, an attorney representing Mitchell, said no constitutional violations have been found with the state’s execution protocols and that carrying out execution warrants isn’t optional for the governor.
“Nothing in the Constitution or laws of Arizona or the warrant gives the governor discretion to ignore the warrant and grant what essentially constitutes a temporary reprieve from the death penalty,” Klingerman wrote.
In a filing Wednesday, lawyers for Hobbs advised the court against taking up Price’s appeal, saying the corrections department lacks staff with expertise to carry out an execution and the state isn’t currently prepared to carry out an execution in a constitutionally sound manner.
They said the state doesn’t have a contract right now for a pharmacist to compound the pentobarbital needed for an execution and that corrections officials are unable to find out the identity of the state’s prior compounding pharmacist, who primarily had contact with an official no longer with the department. They also said a top corrections leadership position that’s critical to planning executions remains unfilled.
Corrections Director Ryan Thornell said in a court filing that he was unable to find enough documentation to understand key elements of the execution process and instead has had to piece it together through conversations with employees on what might have occurred in past executions.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said he believes Hobbs, as the state’s chief executive, has the power to put the brakes on executions if she is concerned whether they are going to be carried out humanely and in a constitutionally sound manner. He said he doesn’t believe the courts can force Hobbs to carry out the execution.
“She has the power to make sure that that’s functioning properly,” said Dieter, whose group doesn’t take a position on the death penalty but is critical on how it’s carried out.
Dale Baich, a former federal public defender who teaches death penalty law at Arizona State University, said Hobbs has “discretion for situations like this, where the governor has expressed legitimate concerns because of the problems with the (lethal injection) drugs, the qualifications of the executioners and staffing at the Department of Corrections necessary to carry out executions.”
Mel McDonald, a former U.S. Attorney for Arizona who handled two death row cases as a prosecutor, predicted the state Supreme Court would take up the appeal filed by Price’s sister, saying the dispute presents the court with novel legal issues.
“It raises a lot of questions,” McDonald said of the dispute. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they accept jurisdiction (of the case). Where it goes from there is anyone’s guess.”
Arizona, which currently has 110 prisoners on death row, carried out three executions last year after a nearly eight-year hiatus brought on by criticism that a 2014 execution was botched and because of difficulties obtaining execution drugs.
Since resuming executions, the state was criticized in May for taking too long to insert an IV for lethal injection into a condemned prisoner’s body in and for denying the Arizona Republic newspaper’s request to witness the last three executions.
Gunches was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to murder in the shooting death of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband, near Mesa, Arizona.
Gunches, who isn’t a lawyer, represented himself in November when he asked the Supreme Court to issue his execution warrant so, he said, that justice could be served and the victims could get closure. In Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s last month in office, his office asked the court for a warrant to execute Gunches.
But Gunches then withdrew his request in early January, and newly elected Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes later asked for the execution warrant submitted during Brnovich’s tenure to be withdrawn.
The state Supreme Court rejected Mayes’ request, saying it must grant an execution warrant if certain appellate proceedings have concluded — and that those requirements were met in Gunches’ case.
In yet another reversal, Gunches said in a filing a week ago that he still wants to be executed and asked to be transferred to Texas, where he wrote “the law is still followed and inmates can still get their sentences carried out.”
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The Sports Report: Trayce Thompson makes a splash, helps the Dodgers beat the Rockies
Howdy, I’m your host, Iliana Limón Romero, filling in for Houston Mitchell, who is in on vacation and likely preparing his final MLB All-Star Game ballot. Let’s get right to the news.
From Steve Henson: A Dodgers starting pitcher made a strong case for an All-Star berth for the fourth day in a row.
A journeyman outfielder known primarily as a member of a decorated basketball family struck the key blow.
And an injury-ravaged bullpen wobbled its way through the ninth inning in a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night that marked the Dodgers’ 50th win two games ahead of the season’s halfway point, keeping them on pace for a 100-win season.
On our holiday that celebrates the land of the free, the Dodgers let Freeland reign into the fifth inning. Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland retired the first 13 batters in order before the Dodgers changed the course of the game.
Trayce Thompson, brother of NBA star Klay Thompson and son of former Lakers forward Mychal Thompson, followed Justin Turner’s single and Chris Taylor’s walk with a three-run home run to left field that put the Dodgers ahead 3-1.
Cody Bellinger promptly stroked a ground-rule double, and with two out Mookie Betts scored him with a single. The Dodgers added a fifth run in the seventh inning on Trea Turner’s RBI double.
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Thompson played with the Dodgers in 2016 and 2017, last hitting a home run at Dodger Stadium six years ago nearly to the day, on July 3, 2016, against the Rockies. He blew a kiss to his mother in the stands after touching home plate Monday.
“I’m blessed to be back here,” he said. “I don’t take it for granted.”
The fifth-inning rally made a winner of Julio Urías (7-6), who went six innings for the 10th time this season. He has pitched five or six innings in 15 consecutive starts since lasting only two innings in his first start April 10.
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WNBA
Bill Plaschke writes: From the hell of a Russian penal colony, an American basketball superstar pleas for her freedom.
“As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I might be here forever,” writes Brittney Griner.
From the quiet of Cyrpto.com Arena, Griner’s Phoenix Mercury teammates wonder whether anybody is listening.
“There’s not enough outcry, no, period, there’s not enough outcry,” says forward Brianna Turner.
From where she sits in a concrete converted orphanage in her 137th day as essentially a hostage, an American basketball superstar begs for help.
“On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran,” writes Griner. “It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.”
MORE ON THE WNBA:
— Nneka Ogwumike scores 23, Sparks beat Mercury for third straight win
COLLEGE SPORTS
From Ben Bolch: A Southern California native and veteran of several Big Ten winters, Myles Johnson knows the first words likely uttered by former Pac-12 athletes once their new conference smacks them like a midwinter Lake Michigan breeze.
“Help! Help!”
Johnson, the onetime Rutgers center who spent his final college basketball season at UCLA as a graduate transfer, recently retweeted a meme showing a man in a burly winter coat standing in a subway door pleading for help.
The caption: “UCLA players when they get off the plane in Minnesota in December.”
Yes, it’s going to be brutally cold. It’s also going to be jarring in another way.
Bruins guard Jaylen Clark retweeted a meme of a frightened boy being roused from bed, alongside a caption that read, “USC and UCLA players waking up for their 9 a.m. Big Ten games.”
Beyond the givens of brutal weather and earlier start times that await UCLA and USC upon their 2024 defection to the Big Ten, scores of questions remain. Here are some answers more than two years before the move.
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SOCCER
From Kevin Baxter: Galaxy midfielder Sacha Kljestan had long been among the most thoughtful and outspoken players in MLS, frequently using social media to comment on issues that go beyond soccer.
On Monday, after assisting on the final goal in his team’s 4-0 win over Montreal, Kljestan agreed to appear at a post-game news conference but declined to talk about the match.
Instead, he gave an emotional plea for gun control after another mass shooting which left six dead and at least 30 wounded at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill.
“I’m actually going to keep this really brief and not answer any questions about the game. I’m not joking,” began Kljestan, whose 13-minute appearance off the bench was his first in nearly two months. “I’m sick to my stomach about what’s happened in Illinois today. And I think we need to talk about gun control. You guys can write about the game if you want, but I don’t really give a s—. It’s a sick, vicious cycle that keeps happening over and over and we’re doing nothing about it. And it makes me sick.
“I don’t know, Congress, senators — if anyone sees this — do something. Our kids get shot up and we say thoughts and prayers and it does nothing. And then we talk about it on social media and it does nothing. And then our government does nothing. And then somebody gets shot up again.”
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THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1919 — Suzanne Lenglen beats reigning champion Dorothea Lambert Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7, in the challenge round to win her first women’s singles title at Wimbledon.
1930 — Bill Tilden beats Wilmer Allison 6-3, 9-7, 6-4, to capture his third men’s singles title at Wimbledon.
1947 — Larry Doby becomes the first black to play in the American League. He strikes out as a pinch-hitter for the Cleveland Indians in a 6-5 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1952 — Maureen Connolly wins her first of three straight women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Louise Brough 6-4, 6-3.
1968 — The Philadelphia 76ers trade Wilt Chamberlain, basketball’s greatest offensive player, to the Los Angeles Lakers after they are unable to sign him to a contract.
1968 — Australia’s Rod Laver wins the first open Wimbledon tennis championship, defeating countryman Tony Roche 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Laver becomes the first player since Fred Perry (1934-36) to win the men’s title three straight times.
1975 — Arthur Ashe beats Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon. It’s the first all-American final since 1947. Connors, the defending champion, had not dropped a set in the previous six matches.
1980 — Bjorn Borg of Sweden wins his fifth men’s title at Wimbledon, defeating John McEnroe 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6.
1992 — Andre Agassi beats Goran Ivanisevic 6-7 (8-10), 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the Wimbledon men’s final to win his first Grand Slam title.
1996 — Frankie Fredericks edges Michael Johnson to win the men’s 200 meters at the Bislett Games in Norway, snapping the American world champion’s winning streak of 21 races.
1997 — Martina Hingis, 16, becomes the youngest player to win Wimbledon since 1887. Hingis comes back for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Jana Novotna.
2003 — Serena Williams beats sister Venus 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 for her second straight Wimbledon title. It’s her fifth championship in the past six Grand Slams, each capped by a victory over Venus.
2008 — Venus Williams wins her fifth Wimbledon singles title, beating younger sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 in the final. Defending champion Venus is 5-2 in Wimbledon finals, losing only to Serena in 2002 and ’03.
2009 — Roger Federer wins his record 15th Grand Slam title when he outlasts Andy Roddick for his sixth Wimbledon championship in a marathon match that went to 16-14 in the fifth set.
2012 — Harness racing driver Dave Palone breaks Herve Filion’s North American record for career victories when he pilots Herculotte Hanover to victory in the eighth race at The Meadows in Washington, Pa. The win is the 15,181st of Palone’s 30-year career.
2014 — Petra Kvitova overwhelms Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 in less than an hour to win Wimbledon for the second time.
2015 — The United States wins its third Women’s World Cup title and first since 1999 with a 5-2 victory over Japan behind a first-half hat trick by Carli Lloyd.
And finally
Watch Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw trigger a version of the wave at Dodger Stadium as fans mimic his signature pre-throw motion.
Until next time...
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BEIJING, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese machinery equipment maker Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology (Zoomlion, 000157.SZ) launched a technology exhibition at the Zoomlion Smart Industry City in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province from May 11 to 14, showcasing its technological achievements and results in the field of intelligent manufacturing.
Themed "Technology Salute to the New Era," the event attracted many guests from home and abroad, including over 500 overseas customers from more than 40 countries and regions, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, Singapore, Türkiye, Brazil, the United States, and the Netherlands.
Zoomlion Smart Industrial City's Earthmoving Machinery Smart Park, as the first park to open in the industrial city, is an intelligent manufacturing factory that covers the full process of excavator manufacturing, including material preparation, welding, machining, painting, assembly and commissioning.
During the event, Zoomlion showcased over 500 advanced products and key components at more than ten exhibition areas in its headquarters building, Earthmoving Machinery Smart Park, Aerial Work Machinery Intelligent Manufacturing Park, Concrete Pumping Machinery Park, and Engineering Crane Machinery Park.
In recent years, Zoomlion has continuously deepened its development in overseas markets. In 2022, the company achieved a year-on-year sales growth of over 100 percent in markets of the Belt and Road countries and regions such as Indonesia, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye. In the first quarter of 2023, the company realized 123 percent of year-on-year growth in overseas revenue.
Zhan Chunxin, CEO of Zoomlion holds that Zoomlion will continue to lead the new revolution of technology, reaching new heights and broadening the company's horizons to drive innovation and transformation in the construction machinery industry.
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July 28th Groundbreaking Ceremony Celebrated Innovative Partnership between SDS Supportive Housing Fund,
RMG Housing and Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles
Private capital investment & resident support services
to provide quality Permanent Supportive Housing
LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the clergy and congregation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E) joined SDS Capital Group's Founder & CEO Deborah La Franchi, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles District 8 City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Congressmember Karen Bass, CEO of RMG Housing Tim Roth, Managing Partner of LOGOS Faith Development LLC Pastor Martin C. Porter, and Executive Director of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles (HHCLA) Mark Casanova, for the groundbreaking ceremony of Bethel Manor Apartments, a 53-unit permanent supportive housing (PSH) project to be built using $11.3M in private-sector funding from the SDS Supportive Housing Fund.
The $150M SDS Supportive Housing Fund (SHF or Fund) is a new high-speed, low-cost financing model developed by SDS Capital Group to fund RMG Housing's PSH developments for people experiencing homelessness. The model uses zero taxpayer dollars for land acquisition or construction. The Bethel Manor Apartments site is being ground leased from the Church in a unique partnership that generates revenue for Bethel A.M.E while furthering their mission of serving community members in need.
"We are proud to be the financial partner supporting the construction of this project with Bethel A.M.E," said Deborah La Franchi, Founder & CEO, SDS Capital Group. "This new partnership will provide accessible permanent supportive housing here in Los Angeles for our neighbors who are living on the streets."
The private capital funding model allows for quicker closes and for new construction to be developed at significantly lower costs than most other PSH developments.
"We're excited to be working with Bethel A.M.E., a partner committed to helping individuals experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles," said Tim Roth, CEO of RMG Housing.
The SDS Supportive Housing Fund is on track to finance 30 projects for a total of 1,800 units of permanent supportive housing, mostly in the Los Angeles area. The Fund has financed eight PSH projects to date (seven in Los Angeles and one in the Bay Area) for a combined total of 438 units of PSH.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor is asking for additional federal assistance to respond to wildfires burning across the state’s north, including one that is the second-largest in the state’s history and that officials estimate has destroyed hundreds of homes.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Friday in a letter to President Joe Biden that New Mexico needs more help than is being provided under the president’s recent disaster declaration.
The needed response, including immediate funding for debris removal and “a full range of emergency protective measures,” exceeds the state’s capabilities and the federal government should bear 100% of the costs because one part of the fire was ignited by wind-blown embers from a prescribed burn on the Santa Fe National Forest, the governor said.
That fire has since merged with another blaze and grown to 437 square miles (1,133 square kilometers). The 5-week-old combined fire for a time threatened the small New Mexico city of Las Vegas before being stopped just outside town in the past week. Fire crews continue to work to keep the fire from multiple rural communities.
Officials said Saturday that weather conditions still included unhelpful high temperatures and low humidity, but that less smoke had allowed firefighting aircraft to take to the skies for a second straight day to battle the blaze.
At one point late Saturday afternoon, the fire’s smoke column reached 30,000 feet (9,144 meters), creating the possibility that it could collapse on itself and create swirling winds close to the ground. Fire crews along part of the fire’s western flank were warned of that potential hazard, fire spokesman Mike De Fries said.
Wildfires have broken out this spring across multiple states in the western U.S., including California, Colorado and Arizona. Predictions for the rest of the spring do not bode well for the West, with drought and warmer weather brought on by climate change worsening wildfire danger.
Nationwide, more than 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) have burned so far this year — the most at this point since 2018, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
In Colorado, a fire burning southwest of Colorado Springs grew to 1.5 square miles (3.8 square kilometers) overnight and is 10% contained, officials from the Teller County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday morning.
The blaze, now known as the High Park Fire, broke out Thursday near the former mining town of Cripple Creek. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
By Thursday evening at least 120 people from 40 residences evacuated the area, the Teller County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook.
Officials say the fire could continue to grow as gusts are expected to reach as high as 35 mph (56 kph). Winds are expected to die down around 2 p.m. which could help firefighting efforts.
In New Mexico, the largest wildfire has a 500-mile (805-kilometer)) perimeter, longer than the distance between San Francisco and San Diego, and was just 27% contained. Another fire to the west near Los Alamos has burned 71 square miles (184 square kilometers) and was 23% contained.
Nearly 3,000 firefighters and other personnel are fighting the two fires.
Fire officials said the largest fire has destroyed at least 473 structures, including homes and other buildings. Lujan Grisham’s office on Friday provided an updated estimate that 262 homes had been destroyed but stressed that authorities have been unable to safely enter many burned areas to assess damage.
In other developments, New Mexican House Republican leaders on Friday called for the state to join a federal investigation into the handling of the prescribed burn that started the worst blaze.
“It is our sincerest belief that the people of northern New Mexico deserve an impartial and detailed investigation conducted by parties other than those employed by the federal government,” the GOP lawmakers said in a letter to Lujan Grisham, a Democrat. | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/new-mexico-governor-seeks-more-us-aid-for-wildfire-response/ | 2022-05-15 13:58:13 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/new-mexico-governor-seeks-more-us-aid-for-wildfire-response/ |
Murder charge over self-induced abortion dismissed in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge formally dismissing a murder charge Monday against a 26-year-old woman over a self-induced abortion did not quiet outrage or questions surrounding the case, including why prosecutors ever brought it to a grand jury.
A woman who ends her own pregnancy cannot be charged with a crime under Texas law. Officials in rural Starr County, along the U.S.-Mexico border, have not released details about why they decided to pursue a case against Lizelle Herrera after being contacted by a hospital.
“There should have been no reason for a report to have been made. There should have been no reason for a criminal investigation to take place,” said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director at If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.
News of Herrera’s arrest on Thursday raised alarms for abortion rights advocates, and sparked people to gather in protest outside the jail where she was being held on $500,000 bond. Her March 30 indictment alleges she “intentionally and knowingly” caused the death of “an individual ... by a self-induced abortion” in early January.
Authorities have not described what exactly Herrera allegedly did, and it wasn’t clear if she was accused of giving herself an abortion or assisting in someone else’s self-induced abortion.
An attorney for Herrera, who was released from jail Saturday after posting bond, did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said in a Sunday statement that he would file the motion to dismiss the charge, saying, “it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her.”
But he did not explain why the case was presented to a grand jury, nor did he reply Monday to an email from AP seeking additional information. A woman who answered the phone at his office said Sunday’s statement was “the only thing he’s going to say on the subject” and hung up before identifying herself.
“These were choices that did not have to be made because losing a pregnancy or ending a pregnancy or self-managing an abortion is not a crime in the state of Texas,” Diaz-Tello said.
Texas last year passed a law known as Senate Bill 8, or SB8, that bans abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The law leaves enforcement to private citizens who can sue doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
Another new Texas law prohibits doctors and clinics from prescribing abortion-inducing medications after seven weeks and prohibits the delivery of the pills by mail.
Neither law authorizes any action against the woman who ends her pregnancy, Diaz-Tello said.
“The problem is, though, when you have this heightened situation of suspicion and fear and the chilling effect that this all creates, that is going to make it much more likely that health care providers are going to improperly err on the side of reporting — err on the side of violating their patient’s confidentiality and bringing in law enforcement,” Diaz-Tello said.
Diaz-Tello said actions taken by the hospital and law enforcement in this case could lead women to be fearful of seeking health care after an abortion.
Joanna Grossman, professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in Dallas, said SB8 could be “indirectly playing a lot of roles here.” For one, there has been an increase since SB8 in women going online to get abortion pills, she said.
Also, she said, the law sends a message “that there’s just a war on abortion.”
“It certainly changed access but it’s also I think just changed the whole context in which people evaluate abortion care,” Grossman said.
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Mount Holly city manager to move to Belmont administration
Miles Braswell will soon leave his position as the city manager of Mount Holly to take that role in neighboring Belmont.
Braswell has 22 years of local and state government experience, previously working for the city of Charlotte and Gaston County Schools before joining the Mount Holly administrative staff in 2014. He was promoted to assistant city manager in 2016 and city manager in 2020.
“We are fortunate to have had someone with Miles’ experience to lead the city during his tenure as city manager. The Council and I thank Miles for serving the city of Mount Holly for the past nine years. His dedication to Mount Holly is evident in the leadership of our departments,” Mount Holly Mayor Bryan Hough said in a press release.
Braswell said his time in Mount Holly leadership has been valuable and rewarding.
“It has been an honor to be Mount Holly’s city manager, and I have been fortunate to work with such a great city staff as well as to serve the citizens, the mayor, and City Council,” Braswell said in the release. “I am grateful for my time here and what we have been able to accomplish together.”
Mount Holly City Council will meet in the upcoming days to plan the recruiting process for the vacancy.
The Belmont position opened when former City Manager Adrian Miller left in December to take the job of assistant city manager for the city of Gastonia.
Since Miller’s departure, Barry Webb has served as interim manager for the city of Belmont.
Webb was no stranger to the job when he took it. He served as Belmont city manager from 2000 to 2016.
Braswell beat out approximately 20 other applicants. He starts his new job June 7, with a salary of $181,000.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Miles lead our great team of employees here at the City of Belmont,” Belmont Mayor Charlie Martin said in a release. “Miles has done a lot of great work with the Mayor and City Council in Mount Holly, so we know he will be a great addition to our team, and we look forward to working with him to continue the work we are doing here in Belmont.”
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ROME (AP) — A Sunday parliamentary election will determine who governs next in Italy. But it might take weeks before a coalition government is actually in place to run the major industrial economy and key NATO member.
Opinion polls indicate that voters might elect the first far-right premier of the post-World War II era — and the first woman to lead an Italian government — in the person of Giorgia Meloni.
Given Italy’s fractured political spectrum, no single party stands much chance of winning enough seats to govern alone. Right-wing and right-leaning centrists forged a campaign pact that could propel Meloni into power. The rival center-left bloc failed to secure a similarly broad alliance with left-leaning populists or centrists, which could leave it at a big disadvantage.
WHY HAVE ELECTIONS NOW?
Elections were due in spring 2023, when Parliament’s five-year term was supposed to end. But populist leaders saw their parties’ support steadily slipping both in opinion polls and in various mayoral and gubernatorial races since the last national election in 2018.
In July, 5-Star Movement head Giuseppe Conte, right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi yanked their support for Premier Mario Draghi during a confidence vote. That triggered the premature demise of the wide-ranging coalition government and paved the way for early elections.
Meloni’s meteoric rise in opinion polls made the trio of populist leaders nervous about waiting until spring to face voters. Her far-right Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, won just over 4% in the 2018 election. Polls tab the party as possibly taking as much as 25% on Sunday. Salvini and Berlusconi are now in an electoral alliance with Meloni.
FEWER LAWMAKERS
Many lawmakers won’t be reelected — regardless of their legislative record — simply due to math. Since the last election, a reform has been passed aimed at streamlining Parliament and make its operation less costly to taxpayers. In the upper chamber, the number of senators drops from 315 to 200, while the lower Chamber of Deputies will number 400 instead of 630.
PINBALL POLITICS
Just about everyone agrees Italy’s electoral law is complicated, including lawmakers who created it. Of the total seats, 36% are determined by a first-past-the post system — whoever gets the most votes for a particular district wins. The remaining 64% of the seats get divvied up proportionally, based on candidate lists determined by parties and their alliances.
Lawmakers have likened the proportional part of the electoral system to a game of pinball, particularly in the Chamber of Deputies. Under the “pinball effect,” a candidate who, say, came in first in a specific district could see another candidate who finished second elsewhere suddenly shifted to her or his district, knocking the first-place candidate out of a seat.
Confused? So are many voters. Except for in the first-past-the-post contests, many Italians are essentially voting for alliances and parties, not candidates, and don’t have a direct say in determining their specific representative in the legislature.
WHEN DOES ITALY GET A NEW GOVERNMENT?
All over Europe, governments are grappling with an energy and cost-of-living crisis — mostly triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — that looks set to spiral this winter. But for the next few weeks Mario Draghi’s caretaker government will likely be doing the grappling for Italy.
President Sergio Mattarella, as head of state, will hold consultations of party leaders to figure out which political forces are willing to team up in a coalition. Then Mattarella will ask someone — if opinion polls prove right, likely Meloni — to try to assemble a government with a solid majority in Parliament.
Whoever gets tapped reports back to the president with a proposed Cabinet list, if a coalition is cobbled together. In 2018, Mattarella nixed the selection for economy minister because the proposed appointee had questioned Italy’s continued participation in the group of countries that use Europe’s common currency, the euro.
Sentiment got so tense that the leader of the 5-Star Movement, who was trying to form the coalition, demanded Mattarella’s impeachment. Bickering between the 5-Stars and the right-wing League, the proposed coalition’s junior partner, dragged on, and it took three months before that government was sworn in.
A MATTER OF CONFIDENCE
All new governments must win a mandatory confidence vote in Parliament. The new legislature must hold its first session within 21 days of the election. Thus the incoming Parliament should be in place by mid-October. After it decides its chambers’ presidents, the confidence vote can take place.
HOW LONG DO ITALIAN GOVERMENTS LAST?
In theory, for the full term of Parliament. But post-war governments have generally run out of staying power long before that.
To cite the latest example: since the 2018 election, Italians have had three governments. Two were headed by 5-Star leader Giuseppe Conte, who first teamed up with League leader Matteo Salvini, In Conte II, the Democratic Party of Enrico Letta replaced the League as junior partner.
When Conte’s second government fell in early 2021, Mattarella tapped Draghi to lead a pandemic unity government. That coalition’s unity unraveled, victim to rival agendas among its major partners: the 5-Stars, the Democrats, the League, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
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18-year-old seriously hurt after being hit by car in Manchester
18-year-old seriously hurt after being hit by car in Manchester
AND HOW LONG THEY STICK AROUND COMING UP. ALL RIGHT, MATT, THANK YOU. RIGHT NOW, AN 18 YEAR OLD FROM AUBURN HAS SERIOUS INJURIES AFTER HE WAS HIT BY A CAR WHILE HELPING ANOTHER DRIVER. STATE POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER 1030 LAST NIGHT ON RAY WARWICK DRIVE IN MANCHESTER. TROOPERS SAY JONATHAN GRIFFIN STOPPED TO HELP A DRIVER WHO CRASHED NEAR THE MEDIAN WHEN HE WAS STRUCK. THEY
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18-year-old seriously hurt after being hit by car in Manchester
An 18-year-old has serious injuries after he was hit by a car while helping another driver in Manchester.New Hampshire State Police said it happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on Raymond Wieczorek Drive near the intersection of Roundstone Drive.State police said Jonathan Griffin of Auburn stopped to help a driver who crashed near the median when he was struck.Anyone who may have seen the crash or the events leading up to the crash is asked to contact Trooper First Class Nathaniel Goodwin at Nathaniel.D.Goodwin@dos.nh.gov.
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An 18-year-old has serious injuries after he was hit by a car while helping another driver in Manchester.
New Hampshire State Police said it happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on Raymond Wieczorek Drive near the intersection of Roundstone Drive.
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State police said Jonathan Griffin of Auburn stopped to help a driver who crashed near the median when he was struck.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s annual inflation rate set a record high in June, as the most populous Arab country continues to battle price hikes and a depreciating currency, the Egyptian statistics bureau said Monday.
The annual inflation rate reached 36.8% last month, up from 33.7% recorded in May, according to data released by the state-run Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics.
Prices in Egypt rose across many sectors, from food items and medical services to housing and furniture following the Russia-Ukraine war, which unleashed a wave of inflation across the globe.
In Egypt, food and beverage prices, the main drivers of inflation, rose by 64.9% in June over the same time last year, the data released Monday showed. Grains, meat, poultry, fish, and fruit were among the products with the biggest price spikes.
The inflation rate last month more than doubled compared to June 2022 when it was at 14.7%.
Egypt, a country with over 105 million people, is the world’s largest wheat importer. Most of its imports traditionally come from Ukraine and Russia.
Even before the war, Egyptians suffered price hikes as the government embarked on an ambitious reform program in 2016 designed to reverse longstanding distortions in the country's battered economy.
The program included painful austerity measures, such as slashing subsidies for fuel, water and electricity. In return, the government received multi-billion-dollar bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund. The latest loan was for $3 billion in December.
In recent months, the Central Bank of Egypt has tried to contain inflation, including raising its main interest rate and devaluing the Egyptian pound.
The moves set off an economic shock that hit millions of people who found their savings running low as the cost of living surged. About 30% of Egyptians are poor, according to official figures.
Since the war in Europe, the Egyptian pound has lost over 50% of its value against the dollar, trading Monday at over 30.80 pounds for $1.
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Fifty percent of working mothers served by the job board, community, and upskilling program are ethnically diverse
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2020, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, women accounted for a staggering 11.9 million in lost jobs. The public health and childcare crises put a particular strain on working mothers, many of whom left their roles to act as full-time caregivers, or because their industries were especially impacted by the Coronavirus.
Though these troubling workforce 'trends' have received much more attention in the past two years, organizations like The Mom Project have long-recognized that working mothers face multiple obstacles in terms of economic advancement – from combating professional biases to confronting racial discrimination as moms of color, and much more. Founded in 2016 by Allison Robinson, the company has grown from a jobs platform linking mothers with progressive companies to a full-fledged movement on behalf of working moms, adding critical programs such a RISE, a free upskilling program serving mainly mothers of color, and peer mentorship program RALLY to its offerings.
Today, The Mom Project has reached its biggest milestone yet: as of September 2022, the company has attracted and serves one million moms in search of a better work experience. The company is also launching a new enterprise offering today, TMP Reach, which will provide companies with a vast pool of both highly skilled (94% of TMP talent has a bachelor's degree or higher and 8-12 years of experience) and diverse (50% identify as ethnically diverse) candidates.
Even as the world prepares for an economic slowdown, there continues to be a great demand for talent, and particularly diverse talent, to fill critical open roles. From an employment standpoint, the labor market is still struggling with filling the open positions left vacant by retiring boomers, Covid, the great resignation, the great relocation, the flexible work revolution, the skills transformation and the childcare crisis. There's greater demand for employees than job seekers have interest. This dynamic is exacerbated with knowledge workers, and further so in diverse knowledge workers.
Says Founder and CEO Allison Robinson: "Serving one million mothers marks a wonderful turning point and moment of celebration for The Mom Project. I'm heartened not just by the way that we've grown since 2016, but that we've been able to help working moms weather the storm of the past two years in particular. What's more, as we've expanded our offerings, we're more committed than ever to fighting the biases that we know moms – especially our moms of color – face on a daily basis. That fifty percent of moms on our platform are ethnically diverse is very important to our organization as we continue to upend the status quo and advocate for womens' economic advancement."
Coinciding with this milestone, The Mom Project has also launched a refreshed version of its website, providing not only a fresh look for the brand, but an easier-to-navigate and more accessible platform for mothers looking to join the community, or companies hoping to ally themselves with the organization. Please visit www.themomproject.com for additional details.
The Mom Project is the leading platform for moms to discover their economic potential. Serving over one million moms and 3,000+ companies through its robust suite of hiring, education and retention solutions, The Mom Project is supporting mothers in finding success on their own terms. The Chicago-based company was founded in 2016 by Allison Robinson, who serves as CEO, and has raised $116M in funding to date. Serena Williams joined The Mom Project as a Strategic Advisor in 2020 to further mobilize the mission.
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Reagan Bossard makes track fun. Four gold medals will do that.
The Lodi Immaculate junior won the long, jump, high jump, triple jump and ran a leg of the winning 4x100-meter relay team with Piper Portacio, Sva Muniz and Amarisse Remy at the Non-Public B championships in Franklinville.
“I don’t know if I expected this toddy, but I trained really hard to do this,” Bossard said. “It’s good to be rewarded for that hard work. Honestly, it’s pretty great to be like rewarded after all that training.”
Bossard jumped 16-feet-8-inches in the long jump. She lept 5-0 in the high jump. She opened the day with a 36-8.5 in the triple jump.
“My favorite is triple jump,” Bossard said. “It reminds me of hopscotch.”
Bossard finds the fun in everything.
“Originally, my freshman year I was going to try to play softball,” Bossard said. “Then I thought, track might be good and might be fun. tried it and I loved it. I just keep kept working on it from there.”
As much fun as hopscotching through sand pits and landing on mats can be, there’s nothing quite like winning a realy.
“It’s really great to have like teammates being able to trust them,” Bossard said. “We’ve been practicing for about two weeks just on handoffs and trying to make it so we all get our preferred hand. We’ve been planning it the whole this whole season.”
Bossard saw her plans come together. And made a lasting memory.
“I’m probably going to remember celebrating with my teammates just having fun with them the most,” Bossard said.
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Award-winning Cloud-based AI Surveillance Now Offers Live Monitoring
MIAMI, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cloudastructure announced the company's new global remote guarding service as an additional option for enterprise customers.
The addition is significant. Cloudastructure is the first and only Cloud-based surveillance platform that offers:
- A complete cloud-based infrastructure with VMS
- Superior AI analytics performed in the cloud for greater computational accuracy
- Seamless Remote Guarding software to "Voice Down" perpetrators
- And now a team of guards that can respond to all alerts to threats
Which means the company is the only complete, end-to-end solution.
Cloudastructure went on to announce the new, professionally trained live-monitoring team will be globally-based, rather than working from a centralized location. Because the video surveillance platform is cloud-based, there is no need to access localized hardware or software typically found at a centralized monitoring station.
The diversification of guarding duties overcomes a number of familiar hurdles in the industry. In the event a guard is having bandwidth issues, another can immediately take over. Additionally, every guard can operate within normal, daytime work hours, wherever they are. This ensures they are awake and alert, rather than potentially suffering from the fatigue that comes with working third shift positions.
Cloudastructure noted the service is simply another option for customers that wish to streamline. Cloudastructure will continue to work with guard and monitoring station partners alike that wish to utilize their award-winning Video Management System (VMS) and Remote Guarding software, as well as offer the ability for companies to utilize their own internal security teams for monitoring.
Cloudastructure CEO Rick Bentley commented, "Our new remote guarding team was instrumental in the testing phase of our Remote Guarding platform and they are already proving to be equally effective for customers. We are proud to offer the most decorated, end-to-end cloud-based AI Surveillance platform in the industry, and we will continue to innovate and deliver affordable proactive security to any enterprise business that needs it."
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, with R&D in Silicon Valley, California, Cloudastructure's 21st century award-winning security platform utilizes a scalable cloud-based architecture that features cloud video surveillance with proprietary, state-of-the-art AI/ML analytics, a seamless remote guarding solution, IoT cybersecurity, and smart parking. The combination enables enterprise businesses to achieve proactive, end-to-end security, and pairs that platform with an attractive value proposition that eschews proprietary hardware and offers contract-free, month-to-month pricing and unlimited 24/7 support. With Cloudastructure, companies can achieve unparalleled situational awareness in real time and thereby stop crime as it is happening, while simultaneously achieving up to a 75% lower Total Cost of Ownership than other systems. For more information, visit www.cloudastructure.com.
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