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FRANKLIN PARISH (KTVE/KARD) — On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at Noon, Franklin Parish Schools will be closing due to severe weather
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Among the many ideas that fell under the skeptical gaze of Mose Allison, one that fell closer to home than most was the subject of his own public image. "I always say, 'any single thing you say about Mose Allison is going to be wrong,' " he once mused to NPR's Jazz Profiles. "For a while they were saying, 'Oh, he's a blues piano player.' That's not right." He added: "So any one thing, any attempt to categorize me with a one-liner — you know it's not gonna make it."
Allison died in 2016, at 89. As a singer who exuded homespun charisma, a pianist who favored crisp economy, and a songwriter whose wry inventions inspired everyone from The Who to Diana Krall, he left an irreplaceable legacy. He also left behind a body of songs that beg to be sung, which is where John Chin and Richard Julian come in.
Chin is a jazz pianist born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in LA. Julian is a rootsy singer-songwriter originally from Delaware. They met on the New York club scene, forming a group — Anything Mose! — with Allison's tunes and soulfully laconic delivery in clear focus.
"The songs are so wise," Julian reflects in this episode of Jazz Night in America. "It always feels very centering to sing them."
We'll hear highlights of a set by Anything Mose! and get to know Allison's story, partly in his own words. We'll also join Chin and Julian on a road trip to Mose's home in Hilton Head, S.C., where they're greeted with gracious hospitality (and a few choice stories) by his widow, Audre Allison.
"The spirit of Mose and the legacy of his music, it just lives on," attests Chin. "And we're trying to carry that torch and keep it going."
Musicians:
John Chin, piano; Richard Julian, vocals, guitar; Stacy Dillard, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone; Matt Pavolka, bass; Dan Rieser, drums.
Set List:
All music by Mose Allison
Credits:
Writer and Producer: Alex Ariff; Host: Christian McBride; Concert engineer: Rob Macomber; Project Manager: Suraya Mohamed; Vice President of Visuals and Strategy at NPR Music: Keith Jenkins; Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann and Gabrielle Armand.
Special thanks to Greg Bryant; Audre Allison; Dave Masteller, Kelli Lesch and John Cranford at The Jazz Corner; and Kayonne Riley at WUCF
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- Centinel Spine now has four FDA-approved cervical total disc replacement (TDR) devices for 1-level indications, offering the broadest spectrum of solutions to address surgeon preference and individual patient anatomy.
- Centinel Spine continues its leadership in total disc replacement, becoming the first-and-only company with a portfolio that allows matching the disc to patient anatomy.
- The variety of cervical TDR endplate configurations, coupled with the proven and well-documented prodisc® CORE technology, represents a major advancement in patient care.
- The prodisc technology is the most studied and clinically-proven TDR system in the world, validated by over 540 published papers.
WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centinel Spine®, LLC, a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease through anterior surgical access, today announced the first implantation of its prodisc® C Vivo Cervical Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product. In July, the company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for 1-level indications for prodisc C Vivo, prodisc C SK, and prodisc C Nova. Along with the currently available prodisc C implant, which remains the most studied TDR technology, Centinel Spine now has the broadest offering of cervical TDR solutions in the world to address surgeon preference and individual patient anatomy.
The first prodisc C Vivo procedure was performed in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX by orthopedic spine surgeon Jason Tinley, MD, founder of DFW Center for Spinal Disorders.
"This patient had severe left-sided neck pain radiating into the forearm and thumb and a left C5/6 disc herniation," said Dr. Jason Tinley. "Having the intraoperative options of a convex dome with spikes (prodisc C Vivo) versus a flat endplate component with keel (prodisc C) gave me the modularity to maximize endplate contact and stability, thus decreasing bone removal, risk of heterotopic ossification, subsidence, or implant failure. Ultimately, this allows me to best restore motion while also minimizing risk," Dr. Tinley adds.
Centinel Spine CEO Steve Murray stated, "This is a historic milestone for the company, and we appreciate the support from our surgeon partners. Total disc replacement is one of the fastest growing global segments in all of orthopedics, and we continue innovating in this area to advance patient care. With our recent regulatory achievements, we are now able to offer surgeons a unique range of options to match the disc to patient anatomy."
The prodisc C Vivo system has been in clinical use internationally since 2009 and is currently one of the most frequently implanted TDR devices outside of the U.S. The device has keel-less fixation and combines a unique anatomically-designed superior endplate with lateral spikes to optimize fit and provide immediate fixation. Similar to all prodisc products, the prodisc C Vivo device incorporates prodisc CORE technology, the basis behind the predictable clinical outcomes of the prodisc platform after 30 years and over 225,000 implantations worldwide*.
* Data on file
Centinel Spine®, LLC is a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease through anterior surgical access. The company offers a continuum of trusted, brand-name, motion-preserving and fusion solutions backed by over 30 years of clinical success—providing the most robust and clinically-proven technology platforms in the world for total disc replacement (prodisc®) and Integrated Interbody™ fusion (STALIF®).
Centinel Spine continues to advance its pioneering culture and corporate mission to become a catalyst of change in the spine industry and alter the way spine surgery is perceived. Centinel Spine remains the only company with comprehensive motion-preserving and fusion solutions for both cervical and lumbar anterior column reconstruction.
For more information, please visit the company's website at www.CentinelSpine.com or contact:
Centinel Spine
Varun Gandhi
Chief Financial Officer
900 Airport Road, Suite 3B
West Chester, PA 19380
Phone: 484-887-8871
Email: v.gandhi@centinelspine.com
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Phone: +1.646.677.1839
sean.leous@westwicke.com
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Corbin Carroll Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Phillies - June 15
Published: Jun. 15, 2023 at 2:23 AM MST|Updated: 43 minutes ago
Corbin Carroll -- with a slugging percentage of 1.027 in his past 10 games, including five home runs -- will be in action for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Philadelphia Phillies, with Aaron Nola on the mound, on June 15 at 3:40 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-1) against the Phillies.
Corbin Carroll Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Thursday, June 15, 2023
- Game Time: 3:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Chase Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Phillies Starter: Aaron Nola
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +180)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Corbin Carroll At The Plate
- Carroll leads Arizona in OBP (.401), slugging percentage (.601) and total hits (72) this season.
- He ranks fourth in batting average, 10th in on base percentage, and third in slugging among qualifying hitters in baseball.
- Carroll has picked up a hit in 46 of 63 games this season, with multiple hits 19 times.
- In 13 games this year, he has hit a home run (20.6%, and 5.3% of his trips to the plate).
- Carroll has picked up an RBI in 36.5% of his games this year, with more than one RBI in 14.3% of his games. He has also driven in three or more runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 55.6% of his games this season, with two or more runs scored in 22.2%.
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Corbin Carroll Home/Away Batting Splits
Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Phillies pitching staff ranks seventh in the league.
- The Phillies' 4.48 team ERA ranks 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Phillies pitchers combine to surrender the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (72 total, 1.1 per game).
- Nola (5-5) gets the starting nod for the Phillies in his 15th start of the season. He has a 4.60 ERA in 88 2/3 innings pitched, with 84 strikeouts.
- In his most recent appearance on Saturday, the righty tossed 6 1/3 innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing six earned runs while surrendering seven hits.
- The 30-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.60), 20th in WHIP (1.102), and 36th in K/9 (8.6) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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SAN ANTONIO — Meet this week's All-Star Athlete who's a star on the track field! Segment Sponsor: The UPS Store.
All-Star Athlete: Virginia Allred Stacy High School's Zachary Born | Great Day SA
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ATLANTA, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Southern Company today announced the election of David E. Meador and Lizanne Thomas as independent directors, effective April 1, 2023. Board committee assignments for Meador and Thomas have not yet been determined.
"Dave is a highly regarded strategic thinker with a decades of knowledge of, and experience in handling, the specific issues facing our industry and our company in this evolving energy landscape," said Southern Company chairman, president and CEO Thomas A. Fanning. "Southern Company will further benefit from his deep financial expertise, well-rounded understanding of corporate culture, and passion for making the communities where he lives and serves economically stronger."
Fanning continued, "Lizanne is an accomplished advisor with a firm understanding of corporate governance. The guidance she will provide via her expertise, as well as the insights and learnings gained through years of work with publicly traded companies across a wide spectrum of industries, will benefit Southern Company."
Meador is the recently retired vice chairman and chief administrative officer of Detroit-based DTE Energy. In this role, he was responsible for information technology, procurement, fleet, facilities, corporate communications, as well as the government, corporate and public affairs, and philanthropic giving areas of the business. With over 40 years of experience in the manufacturing and energy sectors, Meador is a recognized expert in finance and accounting, strategy, governance, ESG, mergers and acquisitions, government and community relations, procurement and information technology.
Meador joined DTE Energy in 1997 as vice president and controller. In addition to controller, Meador served as senior vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer where he focused on improving the company's systems and processes. After Meador took on leadership of DTE Energy's supply chain organization, the company became a leader in supporting local businesses and expanding opportunities for woman- and minority-owned businesses.
Prior to joining DTE Energy, he served in a variety of financial and accounting positions at Chrysler Corp. for 14 years and was an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand.
Meador currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amerisure Mutual Insurance and Energy Insurance Mutual and from 2008 to 2017 served on the board of Landauer, Inc. He has been an active board member of prominent economic development groups at the state, regional and city levels, including the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the Detroit Regional Partnership and the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. In addition to focusing DTE Energy's community outreach on jobs, equity and the environment, he co-chaired Detroit's Workforce Development Board with a goal of to connect 100,000 Detroiters with meaningful jobs.
Thomas is of counsel with the global law firm Jones Day, which she joined in 1982 and served as a partner from 1991 to 2022. In addition to ample experience working on mergers and acquisitions, Thomas served as the head of the firm's corporate governance team. Thomas is experienced in shareholder activism, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation and served as Partner-in-Charge of the Firm's Southeast U.S. Region from 2014 through 2022.
Thomas currently serves on the Board of Directors of American Software, Inc. and previously served on the Board of Directors of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., Atlantic Capital Bancshares, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. In 2016, Thomas was named one of the top 100 directors by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
Additionally, Thomas is a Fellow of the American College of Governance Lawyers and is a Trustee of the Georgia Research Alliance. She also is a Trustee of Washington & Lee University and The Woodruff Arts Center. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta and is a former Trustee of Furman University and a former director of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
About Southern Company
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million residential and commercial customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy infrastructure company with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet our customers' and communities' needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture and hiring practices have earned the company national awards and recognition from numerous organizations, including Forbes, The Military Times, DiversityInc, Black Enterprise, J.D. Power, Fortune, Human Rights Campaign and more.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) between May 31, 2019 and July 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Uber securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Uber class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7523 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 17, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Uber had defective disclosure controls and procedures; (2) Uber concealed and/or downplayed the full scope and severity of its prior misconduct, including, among other things, the extent to which it secretly lobbied government officials and politicians to bypass legal and regulatory requirements, as well as knowingly risked the safety of Uber drivers, to fuel the Company's global growth; (3) as a result, Uber's present global footprint and market share is in significant part the byproduct of previously undisclosed, unsustainable, and illegal business practices; (4) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Uber's reputation, as well as subject the Company to a heightened risk of governmental and regulatory scrutiny and enforcement action; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Uber class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7523 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, today announced that the first patient to receive its novel, promising cancer medicine AOH1996 is doing well. The Phase 1 clinical trial testing the safety of a potentially cancer-stopping therapeutic developed by City of Hope in people with reoccurring solid tumors is expected to continue for the next two years. The investigational pill has been effective in preclinical research treating cells derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin and lung cancers.
Linda Malkas, Ph.D., professor in City of Hope's Department of Molecular Diagnostics & Experimental Therapeutics, has been working on the research and subsequent discovery and development of AOH1996 for 20 years. AOH1996 is named after Anna Olivia Healey, a young girl born in 1996 who unfortunately was not able to beat cancer. AOH1996 is exclusively licensed by City of Hope to RLL, LLC, a biotechnology company that Malkas co-founded.
Malkas believed that proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), which plays an essential role in the replication and repair of cells, would be a less toxic cancer therapy that targets mutated cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone. The treatment has been shown in preclinical research to target PCNA and inhibit the growth and spread of a broad range of human cancer cells. The research protocol notes that AOH1996 is not toxic to healthy cells and that treatment with this medicine both pauses cell DNA synthesis and inhibits DNA repair, leading to a type of cell death known as apoptosis in the cancer cells.
"Imagine cancer as the water filling up a bathtub. Left unchecked, the tumors or water will eventually overflow and damage other parts of your home. The treatment my team at City of Hope created is akin to a watchful homeowner who shuts the water off — stopping the spread of tumors to other parts of the metaphorical house — and then drains the tub, eliminating the cancer," said Malkas, co-investigator in the trial and the M.T. & B.A. Ahmadinia Professor in Molecular Oncology.
Vincent Chung, M.D., added, "By targeting PCNA, we are inhibiting the complex machinery to stop cellular growth and proliferation. This is a new way of trying to kill cancer cells or at least to slow it down." He is a research professor in City of Hope's Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research and principal investigator in the clinical trial.
The Phase 1 clinical trial is open at City of Hope Los Angeles. Its objective is to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the investigational pill, AOH1996, and to evaluate the medicine for preliminary efficacy. Eligible patients include adults with solid tumors who have not found standard treatments effective. Participating patients will be asked to take the medication in pill form twice a day.
"Since many patients' cancers become resistant to our standard therapies, we need new therapeutics with new mechanisms of action — for example, non-cross resistant. AOH1996 is just that kind of new therapy," said Daniel Von Hoff, M.D., of the Molecular Medicine Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, part of City of Hope, and an advisor on the study. "Congratulations to Dr. Malkas and the City of Hope team on this new invention."
Malkas said other targeted therapies, like checkpoint inhibitors, that inhibit the growth and spread of cancer have helped innumerable cancer patients, adding that perhaps one day AOH1996 will be a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved inhibitor that could be used in combination with existing therapies to both enhance cancer-killing effects as well as decrease side effects related to lifesaving cancer treatments.
With the infrastructure and support of City of Hope, Malkas was able to commercialize her basic research, moving her promising laboratory discovery into a clinical trial for people who need the therapies of tomorrow today. City of Hope provided structure, experts and even GMP (good manufacturing practice) facilities to manufacture her medicine.
City of Hope is devoted to supporting research and development and has infrastructure that is tailor-made to accelerate innovations from the lab to patients. This system includes everything ranging from funding support to access to counsel from internal and external drug development specialists. City of Hope's R&D apparatus leverages the combination of its fundamental strength in basic science and its patient-care focus as a comprehensive cancer center.
Individuals interested in this clinical trial should review the eligibility requirements at clinicaltrials.gov. If they believe they are eligible, they can call 626-218-1133 or visit City of Hope's clinical trials webpage.
City of Hope's mission is to deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. Founded in 1913, City of Hope has grown into one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S. and one of the leading research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. As an independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, City of Hope brings a uniquely integrated model to patients, spanning cancer care, research and development, academics and training, and innovation initiatives. Research and technology developed at City of Hope has been the basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies. A leader in bone marrow transplantation and immunotherapy, such as CAR T cell therapy, City of Hope's personalized treatment protocols help advance cancer care throughout the world.
With a goal of expanding access to the latest discoveries and leading-edge care to more patients, families and communities, City of Hope's growing national system includes its main Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. City of Hope's affiliated family of organizations includes Translational Genomics Research Institute and AccessHopeTM. For more information about City of Hope, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Trailing 3-0 midway through the second quarter, River Hill football needed a spark. The defense delivered in abundance.
On the first play of Long Reach’s second drive, senior linebacker MBJ Motoni read quarterback Brice Koontz’ eyes and snatched the interception, the first of two for the Hawks on the evening.
River Hill capitalized on Long Reach’s mistakes, defeating the Lightning 16-6, avenging last season’s opening loss.
The Hawks capitalized three plays after Motoni’s interception. Facing a 3rd and 14 from the 30-yard-line, junior quarterback Omar Hassan found senior Matthew Behrmann on the outside. Using his size, Behrmann broke a tackle and sprinted down the sideline for the Hawks’ opening score.
“We’ve been seeing that their cornerbacks have been giving a huge cushion, they’re playing 10 yards off,” Behrmann said. “From last year, they knew that we’d be running a lot and didn’t have a big throwing game. They were playing for the run first and we saw that and took advantage of it.”
Building momentum with a 7-3 advantage, River Hill’s defense wasn’t finished. On Long Reach’s next drive, Hassan jumped in front of a Lightning receiver for the Hawks’ second interception in less than three minutes. With a crease down the sideline, Hassan sprinted behind several blockers for a defensive score.
“We’ve been practicing that route all week during practice, so I knew it was coming from the jump,” Hassan said. “I saw the wide receiver break down, I saw the ball and I took off.”
The interceptions disrupted the momentum of Long Reach’s high-octane passing game and allowed River Hill to build a 10-point advantage at the break.
“We just can’t turn the ball over,” Long Reach coach Jamie Willis said. “That’s the game in a nutshell. The two turnovers changed everything. If we don’t turn it over, we’re good to go. With the turnovers, the defense played well enough for us to win. I think we ran the ball well enough to win, but we got to be better in the pass game. That’s just making the right reads and doing the right things.”
In the ladder stages of the third, Long Reach found some success in the run game spearheaded by freshman Reece Thimote. The Hawks entered the red zone for the first time since the opening quarter.
However, the drive stalled and the Lightning settled for a field goal as junior Rowan Stanley knocked it in from 24 yards out, cutting the deficit to 13-6 with 9:20 remaining.
A one-possession game once again, River Hill’s offense took over with the opportunity to shut the door. In his first game as starting quarterback, Hassan helped guide the offense when it mattered most.
Leaning on their versatile rushing attack, the Hawks executed a 12-play, 57-yard drive that took nearly eight minutes off the clock. A 34-yard connection between Hassan and Behrmann highlighted the drive, which pushed the ball into Long Reach territory.
Eleven of those plays were runs, as Hassan and seniors Ethan Burnett and Eje Okojie helped push the ball upfield. Running behind his experienced offensive line, Hassan picked up a pivotal 4-yard gain that kept River Hill’s drive alive inside of three minutes remaining.
“That was huge, keeping the ball in bounds and moving the chains,” River Hill coach Brian Van Deusen said. “We had a couple of conversions here and there that we needed. A couple of big pass plays to get some yards there. With Long Reach’s high-powered offense they have, we didn’t want to give them the ball back at all.”
With 1:28 remaining, senior kicker Vishaal Gudapati stepped up with an opportunity to ice the game for the Hawks. He knocked through a 27-yarder as he was promptly surrounded by excited teammates, putting the finishing touches on River Hill’s season-opening win. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/sports/cng-ho-sp-long-reach-river-hill-football-9-2-2022-20220903-3arx2gra3fedbfaosxynzowsmm-story.html | 2022-09-03 03:43:37 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/sports/cng-ho-sp-long-reach-river-hill-football-9-2-2022-20220903-3arx2gra3fedbfaosxynzowsmm-story.html |
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Max Miller starred for High Point with 22 points in its 44-40 win over Kittatinny in Wantage.
Brayden Franko added 12 points, including three three-pointers, for High Point, which closed out the game with a 17-15 fourth quarter. Connor Logan led Kittatinny with 15 points.
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CHICAGO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today reported June monthly trading volume statistics across its global business lines and provided guidance for selected revenue per contract/net revenue capture metrics for the second quarter of 2022.
The data sheet "Cboe Global Markets Monthly Volume & RPC/Net Revenue Capture Report" contains an overview of certain June trading statistics and market share by business segment, volume in select index products, and RPC/net capture, which is reported on a one-month lag, across business lines.
June and Second-Quarter 2022 Trading Volume Highlights
U.S. Options
- S&P 500 Index (SPX) options set a new monthly ADV record of 2.3 million contracts, surpassing the previous record of 2.2 million in May 2022. Total volume for the month reached nearly 48 million contracts.
- SPX Weeklys Tuesday- and Thursday-expiring options continued their strong debut, with approximately 5.1 million Tuesdays options and 4.4 million Thursdays options traded in June.
- Cboe opened its new trading floor in Chicago on June 6.
European Equities and Derivatives
- Cboe Europe Equities had an overall market share of 23.5 percent in June, the highest month since August 2018.
- Cboe BIDS Europe, Cboe's European block trading platform, had a 33 percent share of the LIS (large-in-scale) market, making it the largest platform of its type (Source: big xyt).
- Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX) traded 1,872 contracts during June, up from 1,475 during May.
Second-Quarter 2022 RPC/Net Revenue Capture Guidance
The projected RPC/net capture metrics for the second quarter of 2022 are estimated, preliminary and may change. There can be no assurance that our final RPC for the three months ended June 30, 2022, will not differ materially from these projections.
The above represents average revenue per contract (RPC) or net capture based on a three-month rolling average. For Options and Futures, the average RPC represents total net transaction fees recognized for the period divided by total contracts traded during the period for options exchanges: BZX Options, Cboe Options, C2 Options and EDGX Options; futures include contracts traded on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE). For U.S. Equities – On-Exchange, "net capture per 100 touched shares" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments and routing and clearing costs divided by the product of one-hundredth ADV of touched shares on BZX, BYX, EDGX and EDGA and the number of trading days for the period. For U.S. Equities – Off-Exchange, "net capture per 100 touched shares" refers to transaction fees less OMS/EMS costs and clearing costs divided by the product of one-hundredth ADV of touched shares on BIDS Trading and the number of trading days for the period. For Canadian Equities, "net capture per 10,000 touched shares" refers to transaction fees divided by the product of one-ten thousandth ADV of shares for MATCHNow and the number of trading days for the period (does not include NEO). For European Equities, "net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in British pounds divided by the product of ADNV in British pounds of shares matched on Cboe Europe Equities and the number of trading days. For EuroCCP, "Fee per Trade Cleared" refers to clearing fees divided by number of non-interoperable trades cleared and "Net Fee per Settlement" refers to settlement fees less direct costs incurred to settle divided by the number of settlements executed after netting. For Australian Equities, "net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in Australian Dollars divided by the product of ADNV in Australian Dollars of shares matched on Chi-X Australia and the number of trading days. For Japanese Equities, "net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in Japanese Yen divided by the product of ADNV in Japanese Yen of shares matched on Chi-X Japan and the number of trading days. For Global FX, "net capture per one million dollars traded" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments, if any, divided by the Spot and SEF products of one-thousandth of ADNV traded on the Cboe FX markets and the number of trading days, divided by two, which represents the buyer and seller that are both charged on the transaction. Average transaction fees per contract can be affected by various factors, including exchange fee rates, volume-based discounts and transaction mix by contract type and product type.
About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, FX and digital assets, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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LONDON – Before the glory of his coronation weekend, King Charles III visited Parliament Tuesday, to get a reminder that the monarch’s power has limits.
Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, attended a reception for lawmakers, most of whom haven’t been able to snag a ticket to Saturday's coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The royal couple also had the chance to see a 300-year-old gilded coach that ferried the speakers of the House of Commons to coronations and royal weddings.
But not anymore. On Saturday, the carriage will remain in Parliament’s Westminster Hall, where it’s on public display. Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle will walk the few hundred yards (meters) to the abbey for the coronation, clad in full ceremonial dress including lace jabot and cuffs, and preceded by a sergeant-at-arms carrying the ornamental mace from the House chamber.
Hoyle said the presence of the mace “shows, this is the elected House, represented.”
“Constitutionally, it is so important the elected House is represented as we see the monarch being crowned,” he said ahead of Tuesday's royal visit.
While Britain’s elected lawmakers take a back seat during royal events, the monarch faces restrictions in Parliament.
The king can visit Westminster Hall – the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament, remnant of the medieval palace that once stood here – but may not enter the House of Commons. Ever since King Charles I tried to arrest lawmakers in 1642 and ended up deposed, tried and beheaded, the monarch has been barred from the Commons chamber.
The Speaker’s State Coach tells its own story.
Built after the 1689 “Glorious Revolution,” when Parliament asserted its rights over the monarchy, the coach features a mix of royal and parliamentary symbolism. A painted panel on its side shows the monarch being presented with Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, pillars of Britain’s democratic system.
“That is a reminder to the royal family and others: That is what we fought for. That is what we expect," Hoyle said.
While the monarch still formally gives assent to every piece of legislation, Hoyle said he had “never known the monarch to object to what the House of Commons does.”
“I never, ever see that happening.,” he said. “What I see is a grown-up recognition of democracy in this country, that we still have a monarch that plays his part.”
The speaker’s coach – slightly smaller than the Gold State Coach that Charles will use on coronation day – took previous speakers to the coronations of George V, George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. Its last official outing was for Charles’ wedding to Princess Diana in 1981.
It has spent the past decade in a carriage museum in southwest England, and has now returned to Westminster, a reminder of links between Parliament and crown.
Inside the speaker's official residence on the grounds of Parliament is another: the State Bed, where monarchs traditionally slept on the night before their coronations. The last to do so was King George IV in 1821. Hoyle said Charles would be welcome to use it.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chef and humanitarian José Andrés; global human rights and pro-democracy activist Garry Kasparov; social entrepreneur and KIND Snacks Founder Daniel Lubetzky; and Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman have welcomed 20 Ukrainian students into the inaugural cohort of their pro-democracy scholarship program at U.S. colleges and universities. The initiative is designed to foster on-campus alliances in support of democratic values, which the program's co-chairs, all U.S. immigrants, warn are under threat both internationally and at home.
As the war in Ukraine enters a new phase of disruption, in which over 2,600 schools have been damaged and in which Russians are introducing propaganda to educational curricula within occupied territories, Andrés, Kasparov, Lubetzky, and Vindman seek to empower Ukrainian students to continue their educations safely by participating in a funded year-long academic exchange. They also want to equip scholars with resources to educate their peers on the fragility and importance of democracy, and to assist them with developing skills to rebuild their fledgling democracy in Ukraine.
Across over 450 applications to the program, Ukrainian pride, a commitment to defending democracy, and a desire to help rebuild Ukraine were common themes. Among the 20 Ukrainian scholars selected based on need, academic record, and motivation to promote democratic values, ten students are currently attending American universities while another ten reside in Ukraine and will travel to the U.S. with the program. Scholars hail from 15 regions across Ukraine and are pursuing a diversity of majors, spanning film studies to economics.
Andrii Umanskyi, an International Relations major at American University expressed, "Ukrainians persevered through eras of resistance to Soviet oppressions against their democratic yearnings and three tumultuous decades of independence. The result is a complete awareness of the Ukrainian people about the cost they paid for their freedom so far and a determination to defend what is essentially a century and beyond of tireless attempts to establish sovereignty and independence."
Alisa Rotova, a Business major at The New School's Parsons School of Design said, "Ukraine now faces a unique opportunity – a fresh start for rebuilding and redesigning the way our country functions. We can choose to implement new technologies within sustainable development, build innovative systems, and explore never-ending opportunities. I plan to be a part of that."
Students were personally welcomed into the program by co-chairs Andrés, Kasparov, Lubetzky, and Vindman through a Zoom video call on December 8, during which the four leaders thanked students for their bravery and accomplishments.
Led by the Lubetzky Family Foundation (LFF) and Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), in partnership with the International Institute of Education (IIE), student programming will kick off following holiday break, equipping students with resources for organizing pro-democracy events on campus and inviting them to participate in a series of virtual pro-democracy seminars featuring speakers like Cambodian democracy activist Mu Sochua and Sonny Cheung, the first winning representative of Hong Kong's pro-democracy primary election.
For more information or to help scale the Global Democracy Ambassador Scholarship, visit www.lubetzkyfamilyfoundation.org.
In September 2022, global leaders José Andrés, Garry Kasparov, Daniel Lubetzky and Alexander Vindman launched the Global Democracy Ambassador Scholarship to help Ukrainian students continue their studies at US colleges and universities; gain tools to rebuild their fledgling democracy at home; and educate global peers on the fragility and importance of democracy. In addition to supporting Ukrainians whose educations have been negatively impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the program empowers Ukrainian youth to be campus ambassadors for democratic values, which the program's co-chairs, all immigrants to the United States, understand to be under threat globally. Learn more at LubetzkyFamilyFoundation.org.
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Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency.
The national emergency allowed the government to take sweeping steps to respond to the virus and support the country's economic, health and welfare systems. Some of the emergency measures have already been successfully wound-down, while others are still being phased out. The public health emergency — it underpins tough immigration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border — is set to expire on May 11.
Video above: Boston doctor discusses decision to end COVID-19 emergency in May
The White House issued a one-line statement Monday saying Biden had signed the measure behind closed doors, after having publicly opposed the resolution though not to the point of issuing a veto. More than 197 Democrats in the House voted against it when the GOP-controlled chamber passed it in February. Last month, as the measure passed the Senate by a 68-23 vote, Biden let lawmakers know he would sign it.
The administration said once it became clear that Congress was moving to speed up the end of the national emergency it worked to expedite agency preparations for a return to normal procedures. Among the changes: The Department of Housing and Urban Development's COVID-19 mortgage forbearance program is set to end at the end of May, and the Department of Veterans Affairs is now returning to a requirement for in-home visits to determine eligibility for caregiver assistance.
Legislators last year did extend for another two years telehealth flexibilities that were introduced as COVID-19 hit, leading health care systems around the country to regularly deliver care by smartphone or computer.
Video below: Doctor discusses India's surge of new COVID-19 infections
More than 1.13 million people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19 over the last three years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including 1,773 people in the week ending April 5.
Then-President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, and Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency that March. The emergencies have been repeatedly extended by Biden since he took office in January 2021, and he broadened the use of emergency powers after entering the White House. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/biden-ends-covid-national-emergency/43559168 | 2023-04-11 05:07:56 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/biden-ends-covid-national-emergency/43559168 |
It’s a good time to reflect on the things we’re thankful for this week and our fantasy stars should be no exception. So let’s dig into our best bets to score in Week 12 of the NFL season.
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Running Back
KENNETH WALKER, Seahawks
Walker has scored in five of the past six games he’s started in his rookie season, so it’s no surprise he’s a best bet to score this week. He’ll face Las Vegas, our fourth-best matchup for opposing RBs, and he’s bringing -275 odds to find the end zone with him. Having an 87% snap count in Week 10, before hiss bye, Walker will rarely find himself on the sideline, and he’ll get plenty of goal-line work to himself.
JEFF WILSON JR., Dolphins
Wilson didn’t take long to usurp Raheem Mostert as the starter in Miami, and that’s good news for his owners, as Wilson is going up against our absolute best matchup for opposing RBs this week in the Texans. If there’s any question about Wilson’s lead role, it’s been answered in his usage in comparison to Mostert. Wilson played 61% of snaps in their previous game before the bye, while Mostert played just 28%. Wilson is primed to reach the end zone at least once in this matchup.
JAMES CONNER, Cardinals
The Cardinals’ opponent this week, the Chargers, cover the pass well – they’re our 10th-worst matchup for opposing WRs in Week 12. The Chargers are our third-best matchup for opposing RBs this week, so Conner could have little trouble finding lanes to the end zone. He’s scored in the past two games he’s received a full complement of snaps since returning from injury, and Conner played 77% of snaps in Week 11 – only four running backs had more snaps. With -125 odds to score, Conner is close to a lock.
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Wide Receiver
CHRISTIAN KIRK, Jaguars
Kirk has a career-high seven TDs going into Week 12 and he was on a hot streak going into the Week 11 bye, scoring three TDs in the two games prior. Kirk will look to continue his dynamic play against a Ravens team that is our 12th-best matchup for opposing WRs this week and perhaps more importantly, our third-worst matchup for opposing RBs. Expect Jacksonville to lean heavily on Kirk, who is coming off a season high 12 targets in his previous game.
STEFON DIGGS, Bills
It seems a given that we’d find Diggs here once again as the savvy veteran WR is second in receiver TDs to only Davante Adams. Adams has some tough sledding against the Seahawks’ secondary this week, our sixth-worst WR matchup. But Diggs will face our absolute best WR matchup, the Lions. Vegas loves Diggs this week based on the matchup, as they’ve given him the best odds to score (-150) of any WR in Week 12. It’s almost a foregone conclusion that Diggs will cross the goal line.
TEE HIGGINS, Bengals
Ja’Marr Chase is day to day with a hip injury and questionable to start this week, so I’m banking on Tee Higgins to play a major role against the Titans, our fourth-best matchup for opposing WRs in Week 12. Higgins failed to score in Week 11 with Chase sidelined, but he did lead the team with nine catches for 148 yards and would be the No.1 target again this week if Chase can’t go. An important factor in this game is that while the Titans are a top-five wide receiver matchup, they’re a second-worst running back matchup. Even if Chase makes it back, Higgins is still very viable as he’s averaging eight targets a game since Week 2 and enters Week 12 with 120 odds to score.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the It Gets Better Project premiered a new original web-series called Industry, which takes a closer look at LGBTQ+ STEM professionals and the experiences that led them to careers within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Produced in partnership with the Howmet Aerospace Foundation, the series aims to inspire LGBTQ+ youth to consider exciting (and often overlooked) careers in STEM. The trailer and first episode are available to watch now at itgetsbetter.org.
Industry follows five LGBTQ+ professionals in the bioinformatics, immunology, neuropsychology, epidemiology, and engineering industries. Among them are Billy Jacobson, a Google coder whose drag alter ego Anna Lytical is known for her viral educational TikToks; Reiss Reid PhD, a British-Jamaican senior research scientist and t-cell immunologist; and Jiwandeep Kohli, a Doctoral Research Fellow in neuropsychology who is also an accomplished pastry chef and a semi-finalist from Season 4 of the Great American Baking Show.
"The first season of this series highlights five dynamic professionals who are changing the faces we typically see in STEM fields," said Eboni Munn, Director of Brand Marketing, Content and Creative at the It Gets Better Project. "Partnering with the Howmet Aerospace Foundation on this series is especially important to our demographic because it helps young LGBTQ+ people interested in STEM visualize new and exciting career paths to broaden their professional outlooks."
As with all original series from the It Gets Better Project, Industry will be accompanied by a free to access educational guide (EduGuide) to help foster and create opportunities for meaningful conversation around each episode. Industry follows the successful October release of the original series Queer Sex Ed and the Shorty, Telly, and Webby Award winning series Writing Our Own Dictionary, which highlights LGBTQ+ people and what their various labels and identities mean to them in their everyday lives.
Further information about Industry and the It Gets Better Project's work is available at www.itgetsbetter.org.
Launched in 2010 as the result of one of the most successful viral video campaigns in YouTube's history, the It Gets Better Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that strives to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth around the globe. The It Gets Better Project provides critical support and hope to LGBTQ+ youth around the world by leveraging the power of media to reach millions of people each year. Its origins in storytelling and media have expanded to include It Gets Better EDU, which exists to ensure educators and student leaders have access to It Gets Better series plus easy-to-use resources, information, and more wherever learning takes place, and It Gets Better Global, our Global Affiliate Network which can be found in 19 countries and in eight different languages.
The It Gets Better Project received the 2012 Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has been highlighted in a wide range of films and television programs, including a Saturday Night Live sketch in February, 2021. The project has garnered support from President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with numerous celebrities, including Kelly Clarkson, Gabrielle Union, Zachary Quinto, Mj Rodriguez, Josie Totah, and Gigi Gorgeous. More than 760,000 people have taken the It Gets Better pledge to share messages of hope and to speak up against intolerance.
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Wind, storms, even 'a brief tornado' possible across East Tennessee
Stormy weather moving through Knoxville and East Tennessee on Feb. 16 could bring heavy rains, flooding and damaging winds - and "a brief tornado cannot be ruled out," according to the National Weather Service.
A hazardous weather outlook from the NWS Morristown office stated that severe to strong thunderstorms in the evening could produce damaging straight line winds and localized heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding. Wind gusts of 40-50 miles per hour will be possible in the Great Smoky Mountains into Thursday night, the NWS noted.
In case of flooding, drivers should avoid driving into flooded portions of roadways, whether the water could be deeper than expected and damage to the road below wouldn't be visible, the NWS warns.
What to do if there's a tornado warning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Take shelter. If you're in your home, go to the basement or lowest level, especially an interior room without windows.
- If you live in a mobile home, go to a nearby building.
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As CPower Celebrates Record Marginal Carbon Emissions Reduction, Data From the Company's Annual Customer Survey Shows Growing Interest in Sustainability, Distributed Energy Resources
BALTIMORE, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in celebration of Earth Day, CPower Energy Management ("CPower"), the leading, national energy solutions provider, announced its customers avoided more than 280,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2021, equivalent to not burning more than 317,000,000 pounds of coal, through demand response (9,052 metric tons enabled) and energy efficiency (277,488 metric tons measured). Through its partnership with environmental tech non-profit WattTime, CPower is bringing deeper emissions savings insights to customers. This is the second consecutive year that CPower and WattTime partnered to show emissions reductions through demand response and energy efficiency, on the occasion of Earth Day.
CPower customers typically avoid emissions associated with their electricity use in at least two ways, through demand response events that temporarily reduce electricity loads at particular times and energy-efficiency projects that permanently reduce electricity demand. WattTime's marginal emissions data and analysis enable CPower and its customers to better quantify how energy efficiency and demand response translate into avoided emissions on the power grid. WattTime's technology also makes possible a continuous, environmental demand response called Automated Emissions Reduction.
The announcement comes as commercial and industrial businesses nationwide look for ways to drive decarbonization and meet sustainability goals. According to CPower's annual survey of its customers across the US:
- Nearly half (48%) of energy decision-makers consider sustainability a top driver behind their Distributed Energy Resource (DER) strategy.
- A majority (57%) are considering or have implemented facility or organization-wide tracking of carbon emissions to show progress toward their ESG goals.
CPower manages more than 5.3 GW of DER capacity nationally to help its customers unlock sustainability, resiliency, and financial benefits as their energy management needs and strategies evolve. The company serves many of the largest and best-known brands and organizations across big box retail, data centers, commercial real estate, education, manufacturing, production and industrial processing, government and education, among other industries. CPower also helps distributed generation project owners and operators monetize their portfolios to maximize the value of their technology and customers assets.
"As the world rebounds from the pandemic, companies are looking for ways to keep carbon use low. Regardless of market or industry, new policies and market pressures require these organizations to find concrete ways to report on their decarbonization progress. We are proud to enhance our customers' experience by offering these metrics that showcase the benefits of their DERs, while also helping create a cleaner grid," said Mathew Sachs, senior vice president - Strategy and Business Development, CPower.
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CPower Energy Management is a leading, national energy solutions provider guiding customers towards a clean and dependable energy future. We manage more than 5.3 GW of customer capacity across the U.S., forming virtual power plants that are good for the grid and great for the community. CPower maximizes the value of our customers' electricity loads, facility assets and distributed energy resources while delivering flexibility, capacity and other ancillary services to the grid. With more than two decades of experience, we've grown to offer more than 55 local energy programs, partnering with grid operators and utilities to serve more than 12,000 sites, delivering approximately 280,000 metric tons of CO2 reductions in 2021 alone. CPower is based in Baltimore, Maryland and is owned by LS Power, a development, investment and operating company focused on the power and energy infrastructure sector. For more information, visit: www.cpowerenergymanagement.com.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has street in Miami-Dade County named for her
By Shawna Mizelle
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have a street named after her where she was raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Jackson made history last year when she was sworn into the nation’s highest court, becoming the first Black woman to hold a seat on the bench. She was raised in Miami where she attended high school and participated in debate tournaments.
“I hope that this street naming will also serve as a testament to what is possible in this great country,” Jackson said at a ceremony Monday.. “I hope that people who are driving by might have a moment of reflection about what it means that a person from this neighborhood and someone from my background could take what this place has to offer and be well-equipped enough to then go out into the world and do what it takes to not only become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States — but also the first former public defender — and the first associate justice who is from the great state of Florida.”
Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners, sponsored the legislation to name a street after Jackson.
“As a mother, lawyer, public servant and woman of color, the Justice is an inspiration, to say the very least. It is my absolute honor to recognize the Justice and to do so during Women’s History month,” she said in a statement. “It is not just her accomplishments, it is also her character. While most of us will never near any of her accomplishments many of us can certainly relate to her story,” Higgins said of Jackson while giving an emotional recollection of Jackson’s career and life.
The Commissioner also acknowledged Jackson’s parents, who were in attendance at the ceremony, saying they, “Taught the importance of education and hard work but also to love your country even when your country did not love you back.”
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NORTHEAST INDIANA BANCORP, INC. ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2022 EARNINGS
Published: Jul. 18, 2022 at 8:00 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQB: NIDB), the parent company of First Federal Savings Bank, today announced net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $3.4 million, or $2.81 per diluted common share, compared to net income of $3.8 million, or $3.19 per diluted common share for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The current six months earnings equate to an annualized ROA of 1.61% and an annualized ROE of 14.96% compared to an annualized ROA of 1.90% and an annualized ROE of 16.41% for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Net income for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $1.6 million, or $1.33 per diluted common share, compared to net income of $1.9 million, or $1.61 per diluted common share for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021. The current quarter earnings equate to an annualized return on average assets (ROA) of 1.52% and an annualized return on average equity (ROE) of 14.81% compared to an annualized ROA of 1.88% and an annualized ROE of 16.47% for the second quarter June 30, 2021.
The declines in net income are primarily related to a reduction in gain on sale of mortgage loans of $800,000 for the six months ended 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 and a reduction of $414,000 for the current quarter 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Mortgage production slowed in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021 as interest rates increased quickly due to actions taken by the Federal Reserve to mitigate inflation. Partially offsetting this decline was an increase in net interest income of $506,000 for the six months ended 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 and an increase of $233,000 for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of 2021.
Total Assets decreased $4.2 million to $413.4 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $417.7 million at December 31, 2021. This decrease was primarily due to a $12.1 million reduction in the market value of the investment portfolio due to the volatility of interest rates in the first half of 2022. Net loans increased $13.3 million, or 9.7% on an annualized basis to $287.6 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $274.3 million at December 31, 2021. Total deposits increased $15.5 million, or 9.1% on an annualized basis to $357.4 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $341.9 million at December 31, 2021. Stockholder's equity decreased $6.7 million to $42.0 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $48.7 million at December 31, 2021. This decrease was a result of a decline in accumulated other comprehensive income by $9.4 million in the first half of 2022 due to unrealized losses in the investment portfolio. The book value of NIDB's stock was $34.88 per common share and tangible common equity ratio was 10.17% as of June 30, 2022.
Michael S. Zahn, President and CEO, commented, "I am very pleased with our performance in 2022. Our net interest income continues to grow as we maintain a consistent net interest margin with solid loan growth. Our focus on the well-being of our clients and our employees should continue to promote our communities and enhance shareholder value."
Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. is headquartered at 648 N. Jefferson Street, Huntington, Indiana. The company offers a full array of banking and financial brokerage services to its customers through its main office in Huntington and six full-service Indiana offices in Huntington (2), Warsaw (2) and Fort Wayne (2). The Company is traded on the OTC Markets Group, Inc. (www.otcmarkets.com) utilizing the OTCQB platform under the symbol "NIDB". Our web site address is www.firstfedindianabank.
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This guy’s about to be a baseball Bobblehead
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — A summer college baseball team’s mascot, Ace, will be immortalized as a Bobblehead, the team says.
The Lafayette Aviators of the Prospect League will play for a third straight summer at Columbian Park’s Loeb Stadium. Opening Night will be vs. the Chillicothe, Ohio, Paints at 7 p.m. May 31.
The Paints’ mascot is a horse.
Ace? He’s an Aviator, of course.
Soon, General Manager David Krakower says, Ace will also be a Bobblehead. “In our two seasons at the new Loeb Stadium, fans have made multiple requests for an Ace bobblehead,” he said in a statement.
Converse, Indiana-headquartered First Farmers Bank & Trust “were able to make it happen,” the statement added.
A limited number of Ace Bobbleheads will go on sale in June at the online team store.
The first 250 kids at the 1,901-seat stadium during the July 8 against the Champion City, Ohio, Kings can get an Ace Bobblehead of their own to take home at no extra charge. Single-game tickets will go on sale last this spring. | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/this-guys-about-to-be-a-baseball-bobblehead/ | 2023-03-24 03:48:19 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/this-guys-about-to-be-a-baseball-bobblehead/ |
The Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports will showcase the power of the sports community in Los Angeles and beyond
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 21, the Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports at the UCLA Anderson School of Management will host UCLA's first annual Global Sports Business Forum at historic Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. Featuring decision makers at media platforms, sports teams and leagues, and innovators at tech companies and global brands, the day-long forum will focus on the explosion of business opportunities across the sports ecosystem.
The event will explore the innovation and consumer trends that will shape the industry in the coming years, including global fandom, sports betting, brand and entertainment partnerships, NIL (name, image and likeness), and emerging technologies like NFTs and the metaverse.
"UCLA and Los Angeles sit at the heart of the global sports ecosystem," said Jay Tucker ('09), executive director of the Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports. "We're producing this experience to give professionals a sneak peek into emerging business opportunities in sports, and creating a forum that connects members of this very special community."
In addition to traditional presentations, the experience will feature workshops for students and athletes, an exhibition space showcasing early-stage ventures and innovative technologies related to athlete performance, fan experiences, smarter venues and more.
"UCLA Anderson's faculty, board members and alumni have deep ties throughout the sports and entertainment industries," said Eric Johnson, faculty director of the Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports. "Those relationships, as well as our ties to the UCLA Athletics department, will empower us to curate a best-in-class experience that benefits industry professionals and students seeking careers in this space."
Students and athletes will benefit from sessions that explore how social media and brand partnerships have transformed the industry, creating opportunities for influencers, marketers and entrepreneurs. In addition, the Sports Business Forum will feature workshops on financial literacy to help athletes keep and grow their wealth.
Confirmed presenters and speakers include:
- Nana-Yaw Asamoah, Senior Vice President, Partnership Strategy and New Business, National Football League (NFL)
- Nez Balelo, Co-Head, Baseball Division, CAA Sports
- Matt Barnes, former NBA player (14 seasons, winning an NBA Championship in 2017 with the Golden State Warriors) and current ESPN analyst
- Ryan Bishara, (B.A. '11), Executive Vice President, Revenue and Data Strategy, LAFC
- Leo Faría, Director, Esports, Wild Rift, Riot Games
- Julie Haddon, Chief Marketing Officer, National Women's Soccer League
- John Harper, Chief Operating Officer, LA28
- Kay Madati, former Chief Commercial Officer, FIFA
- Christina Norman, Head of Content, Think450, the Innovation Engine of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA)
- Heather Pease, Senior Director, Ticketing and Data Strategy, Angel City FC
- Mitch Richmond, Hall of Fame former NBA player and six-season All-Star with the Los Angeles Lakers
Tickets are now on sale and additional presenters, exhibitors and event partners will be announced in the coming days as the Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports hosts virtual sessions leading up to the main event.
For more information about the Global Sports Business Forum, please contact entertainment.center@anderson.ucla.edu.
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UCLA Anderson's Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports empowers students to launch careers in the industry by delivering cutting-edge research, coursework and programming focused on the future of the media business. The center sits at the epicenter of media and digital technology and provides unparalleled access to the business leaders driving innovation at many of the world's most successful entertainment and sports franchises.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Science in Business Analytics, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think in the Next ethos. Here, some 1,800 students annually are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A prosecutor added felony charges, including attempted sexual assault, Monday against a man accused of attacking Connecticut’s first Muslim state representative after a prayer service, but did not file hate crime allegations demanded by the lawmaker’s supporters.
The case of Andrey Desmond, 30, went before a judge in Hartford Superior Court, where supporters of state Rep. Maryam Khan, including local imams, also gathered.
“It continues to be a mystery to me why the state isn’t bringing bias crimes in this type of incident,” said Farhan Memon, chairman of the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “Having this charged as a bias crime sends a message out to the rest of the population that this is going to be something that’s dealt with seriously.”
Hartford State’s Attorney Sharmese Walcott did not return messages seeking comment about the case and the demand to file hate crime allegations.
During the hearing, Walcott said the additional charges were the result of a review of all evidence gathered by Hartford police, including video footage and “a clear statement by the defendant … that he intended to force sexual contact,” according to audio of the hearing provided by the court system.
“The statement of sexual intent that Andrey Desmond made was in the presence of three children, all under the age of 16,” Wolcott said, adding the children suffered mental trauma.
Desmond was initially charged with misdemeanors, including third-degree assault and unlawful restraint, after the June 28 attack on Khan outside a Hartford arena where the Muslim prayer service was held. Walcott on Monday added felony charges of attempted third-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault, strangulation and risk of injury to children.
Desmond remains detained on $250,000 bail and is scheduled to return to court Aug. 22. His public defender, Michael Wagner, did not return messages. Wagner did not respond to the allegations during the court hearing, according to the audio. He requested copies of supplemental police reports.
Desmond, who has not entered pleas, was brought to the courthouse lockup, but did not appear in the courtroom for the hearing.
Khan, a Democrat who lives in the Hartford suburb of Windsor, has said she and her family were taking photos outside the arena when a man approached and said he “intended to have sexual relations” with one of them, including Khan’s 15-year-old daughter. Her family was marking Eid al-Adha, the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage by Muslims to Mecca.
Desmond then followed them inside and Khan said he started to pursue her in particular, grabbing at her face and shirt and demanding a kiss. He followed her back outside and tried to grab her face again, she said, but became angry when she “dodged him” and slapped her across the face. She said he later held her in a “chokehold” and held up his hand and mimicked having a gun before slamming her into the ground.
“I knew in that moment my body went numb, and I thought I was going to die,” she said at a news conference earlier this month.
Khan said she was diagnosed with a concussion and injured her right arm and shoulder.
The Associated Press doesn’t generally identify people who report attempted sexual assaults unless they publicly identify themselves, as Khan has done.
Desmond was chased down and held by two bystanders until police arrived and arrested him.
Khan did not return an email message seeking comment. Memon said she attended Monday’s court hearing.
She has accused Hartford police of downplaying the assault and called for a federal investigation of the department’s handling of violent crimes, especially against women.
A police spokesman did not return a message Monday.
Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody has expressed his sympathy for Khan and said the department will review its response to the attack.
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Officials in Ohio say cleanup of the site of a derailed freight train that carried toxic chemicals is moving quickly, but some residents worry about the health impacts of the chemicals.
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Bad Bunny breaks Spotify's most streamed album record
“Un verano sin ti” became the most listened to musical production worldwide.
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June 2nd, 2023Bad Bunny's 2022 album, “Un verano sin ti,” is Spotify's most streamed album, Spotify spokesperson Maykol Sánchez recently announced, beating Britain's Ed Sheeran with “Divide.”
This new record for the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter becomes a new milestone and adds to a successful year for his musical career, in which he earned an impressive $88 million in the period ending February 2023, which led to the No. 10 spot on Forbes' list of the 10 highest-paid entertainers in the world.
Bad Bunny is the first artist to be the most listened to on Spotify for three consecutive years (2022, 2021 and 2020).
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“Un verano sin ti,” released in May 2022, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent 13 consecutive weeks at the top spot last year.
The album recently surpassed Ed Sheeran's 2017 "Divide" for the distinction, which incorporates global streaming statistics.
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“The songs included in 'Un verano sin ti' also garnered more than 355 million on-demand streams in the album's first week, making it the largest streaming week for a Latino album,” Forbes noted with data by Billboard.
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Bad Bunny, who headlined Coachella this year, dominated several year-end music charts in 2022 with “Un verano sin ti,” topping the Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and Billboard charts.
The Puerto Rican music star has been praised for bringing Latino music into the mainstream, ranking higher on the commercial charts than artists like Harry Styles, Drake, Taylor Swift and more.
“Bad Bunny’s 2022 U.S. tour required around 35 trucks to transport equipment and crew across the country, before using three planes, including a 747 cargo jet, to transport everything for the Latin American tour,” noted Forbes.
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Expect continued increase in new COVID-19 deaths, CDC says
Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 10:40 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts the number of new COVID-19 deaths will continue to increase over the next month.
In findings publishing Wednesday, the agency forecasts more than 12,000 deaths over the next four weeks. That would take the average number of deaths every single day from 300 to just over 500.
This is the fourth consecutive week public health experts have predicted an increase.
The study found that COVID-19 hospitalizations will continue to remain stable.
According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services, there are currently over 28,000 hospitalized with COVID-19.
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You can find some really intriguing items for sale on Prime Day
July 11 and 12 are the dates for Prime Day 2023. During those two days, you have a chance to buy nearly anything you can think of at a discount. As a matter of fact, Amazon’s selection is so vast, there are a lot of things you can buy that you might not have even known existed. Whether as whimsical as a novelty candle or as helpful as a motion-activated toilet light, a plethora of perplexing products have been on sale during past Prime Days. And if you want to see what oddities you can get this year, there are a number of deals you can take advantage of right now.
Shop this article: Bacon-Patterned Bucket Hat, 3D Simulation Bread-Shaped Pillow and Bob Ross Waffle Maker
Weirdest things that have been on sale for Prime Day
Nearly everyone loves bacon. And it’s important to protect yourself from the damaging rays of the sun. Why not combine these two elements to have a bacon bucket hat? This soft polyester hat is a comfortable, protective conversation starter. When you’re not wearing it, it folds flat for portability.
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70-Hour Beehive Candle 20% OFF
This clever, eco-friendly all-natural beeswax candle looks as enticing as it smells. The hive-shaped design of roped beeswax gives you up to 70 hours of burning time. It comes on a rustic copper-tone base and has a cotton wick. Best of all, while it is burning, it will fill your home with a soft honey scent.
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There is no point to this useless box, which is why it is so much fun. You flick the switch to open it up and a shy tiger filled with attitude immediately closes it. Sometimes. Other times, the creature hesitates. The random action keeps you guessing what will happen next time you flip the switch to open the box.
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Trying to potty train can be a nightmare. However, with this fun frog, you can entice your male child to go in the right place. The super-strong suction cups let you place the urinal at any height on your wall while the removable bowl makes it easy to clean. As an entertaining bonus, there is a spinning target in the middle to help with aim.
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Admittedly, this is pretty freaky. But that’s what you came here for. This one-piece swimsuit is made of polyester and spandex. It features an unnerving closeup of the grinning purple face of Marvel supervillain Thanos. Just snap your fingers and it could be yours. Purchasing is inevitable.
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3D Simulation Bread Shape Pillow 33% OFF
Ever have that dream where you’re eating cotton candy and you wake up to find your pillow is gone? Well, you’re safe with this pillow … unless you dream about bread. This high-quality, skin-friendly baguette pillow has a soft cotton lining. It comes in small, medium and large so you can get the size that is best for you.
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Forget dogs and cats. Chickens are the trending pet right now. Well, maybe not, but some people have them. If you are one of the proud owners, this four-pack of chicken harnesses is for you. It’s made of breathable nylon and can be used for chickens, ducks, geese and more.
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Bob Ross Waffle Maker 10% OFF
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little waffles. If that sounds like your morning mantra, then the Bob Ross waffle maker is for you. This compact appliance makes two sizes of waffles, but both feature the artist’s smiling face. The nonstick surface makes it easy to clean.
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No one “needs” a squirrel puppet. That’s what makes it so important to have. This ridiculously silly toy attaches to the fingers (and thumb) of your hand so you can make a delightfully creepy puppet. It comes with a head, two arms and two legs. But why stop at one? If you get two, the squirrels can interact for twice the fun.
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BOSTON (AP) — The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, Thursday’s 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair webcast on the Annals of Improbable Research magazine’s website.
The winners, honored in 10 categories, also included scientists who found that when people on a blind date are attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize, and researchers who looked at why legal documents can be so utterly baffling, even to lawyers themselves.
Even though the ceremony was prerecorded, it retained much of the fun of the live event usually held at Harvard University.
As has been an Ig Nobel tradition, real Nobel laureates handed out the prizes, using a bit of video trickery: The Nobel laureates handed the prize off screen, while the winners reached out and brought a prize they had been sent and self-assembled into view.
Winners also received a virtually worthless Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill.
Curiosity Ig-nited? Learn more about some of the winners:
GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW
“Science is fun. My sort of a tagline is you’re not doing science if you’re not having fun,” said Frank Fish, a biology professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania who shared the physics Ig Nobel for studying why ducklings follow their mothers in single-file formation.
It’s about energy conservation: The ducklings are drafting, much like stock cars, cyclists and runners do in a race, he said.
“It all has to do with the flow that occurs behind that leading organism and the way that moving in formation can actually be an energetic benefit,” said the appropriately named Fish, whose specialty is studying how animals swim.
He shared the prize with researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, who found that the ducklings actually surfed in their mother’s wake.
THAT SYNCING FEELING
Eliska Prochazkova’s personal experiences inspired her research on dating that earned her and colleagues the cardiology Ig Nobel.
She had no problems finding her apparent perfect match on dating apps, yet she often found there was no spark when they met face-to-face.
So she set people up on blind dates in real social settings, measured their physiological reactions and found that the heart rates of people attracted to each other synchronized.
So is her work evidence of “love at first sight”?
“It really depends, on how you define love,” Prochazkova, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said in an email. “What we found in our research was that people were able to decide whether they want to date their partner very quickly. Within the first two seconds of the date, the participants made a very complex idea about the human sitting in front of them.”
A CRUEL STING
Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado of the University of São Paulo in Brazil won the biology Ig Nobel for studying whether constipation ruins a scorpion’s sex life.
Scorpions can detach a body part to escape a predator — a process called autotomy. But when they lose their tails, they also lose the last portion of the digestive tract, which leads to constipation — and, eventually, death, they wrote in the journal “Integrated Zoology.”
“The long-term decrease in the locomotor performance of autotomized males may impair mate searching,” they wrote.
THAT’S A MOOSE, DUMMY
Magnus Gers won the safety engineering Ig Nobel for making a moose “crash test dummy” for his master’s thesis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which was published by the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute.
Frequent moose vs. vehicle collisions on Sweden’s highways often result in injuries and death to both human and animal, Gers said in an email. Yet automobile makers rarely include animal crashes in their safety testing.
“I believe this is a fascinating and still very unexplored area that deserves all the attention it can get,” he said. “This topic is mystical, life threatening and more relevant than ever.”
CAN YOU SPEAK LEGALESE?
Anyone who has ever read a terms of service agreement knows that legal documents can be downright incomprehensible.
That frustrated Eric Martinez, a graduate student in the brain and cognitive science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who also has a law degree from Harvard.
He, Francis Mollica and Edward Gibson shared the literature Ig Nobel for analyzing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand, research that appeared in the journal “Cognition.”
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It's time for Fantasy Suites! On Monday's episode of The Bachelorette, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia prepared to take the next step with several of their suitors, all of which ET is breaking down in the recap below.
Erich and Gabby picked things right where they left off at Hometowns, and Rachel had a similarly positive start with Aven, all while Tino stewed over the implications of overnights.
Tino was, however, able to reassure Rachel on their date, just as things started to take a turn for the worse for Gabby. First, there was a heartbreaking moment with Johnny, and then a surprise visit from Erich brought all of Gabby's fears to the surface.
Two hours wasn't enough time to get through all the men, and Rachel and Gabby's remaining Fantasy Suite dates -- the former with Zach and the latter with Jason -- will air on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
Keep reading for a recap of part one of Fantasy Suite week on The Bachelorette.
Erich Is 'Obsessed' With Gabby After Their Fantasy Suite
For their daytime date, Gabby and Erich stripped down to their swimsuits and proceeded to jump off increasingly high-up platforms into the water below.
"There’s a possibility I might not be the one for her... but at this point I’m willing to throw myself at her, kind of take a leap of faith, because she is so freaking worth it," Erich told the cameras.
That leap of faith turned out to be literal too, as Erich had to help Gabby through her fear before they jumped off of the highest platform together.
"It makes me feel so loved and that we can do lots of hard things together," Gabby said in a confessional. "Honestly, that’s what I want in my husband."
After their date, which Gabby classified as "easy and natural and so much fun," the pair set off for a romantic dinner, where Erich assured her that his family was "obsessed" with her.
"And I them... I can really see myself as a part of your family," she replied, before opening up about her struggles growing up and her estrangement from her mom. "It’s just complicated and messy. Looking at your family, it’s so nice to see. You guys really are a whole, not parts of a whole."
"I can’t imagine going through what you’ve gone through and you’ve turned out so f**king amazing," Erich said in response. "You’re a beautiful person... I am in love with you, Gabby, and I do not want to leave here without you."
Gabby assured Erich that she really does "see a future" with him, telling him, "I am falling in love with you, I really am."
"I feel like I’m weightless, like the happiest person in the whole world," Gabby told the cameras. "When Erich said that he was in love with me, it felt so right... I want to shed every last wallI can see myself with him forever... For once, I feel like the future is going to be so, so good."
Both Gabby and Erich were still riding that high the morning after their overnight date.
"She is, to me, a person I’m obsessed with," Erich told the cameras, before getting candid about his only remaining fear. "... This is incredibly painful, because what if she’s falling in love with Johnny and Jason as well?"
As for Gabby, she admitted in a confessional, "I am definitely more than falling in love with Erich. I really think I am in love with him." Still, though, she wasn't ready to tell him as much.
"I know how strong those words are and, honestly, I want to be able to just tell one person at the end of this," she said. "I can definitely see it being him, but I know I have to save it for the right moment... I hope that that feeling holds up, but I’m scared that it won’t... What if I have the same exact thing with someone else? Then what?"
Rachel Is on a 'Different Level' With Aven
Rachel and Aven enjoyed a day on a yacht, where the pilot gushed about her date being "the complete package," and revealed that she was eager to share her own feelings with him.
"I do think that Aven could be the one," she told the cameras. "It wasn’t until his Hometown that I knew for sure I was falling in love with him."
Aven, who previously told Rachel that he was falling in love with her, assured her on their nighttime date that he "definitely can" see himself popping the question.
"Last week, that was really kind of the deciding factor for me," he told her. "... I can definitely see a life with you outside all of this... I’m 100 percent ready and feel ready for it, and you’ve made that very easy for me."
After praising Aven for being "open" and "humble," Rachel told him, "I am falling in love with you. I truly mean it."
In a confessional, Rachel said the whole thing felt "too good to be true," adding that she "definitely see myself spending the rest of my life with him."
She felt the same way the next morning, telling the cameras, "I’m on a different level with him right now. I’m running on a high." Aven felt it too, stating in a confessional, "I would love to be engaged to her."
Tino and Rachel Are in Love
While Aven and Rachel were busy having an unforgettable date, Tino was fretting over the pilot's connections with other men. "I can’t imagine her wanting to spend the night with anyone else," he said in a confessional. "... Even just talking about it now makes me want to throw up."
When host Jesse Palmer stopped by to chat with Tino, the general contractor got candid about his fears.
"If I wasn’t so sure that she’s future Mrs. Forever for me, this would be probably an easy week to walk away," Tino told Jesse, before stating in a confessional, "It’s mind boggling to me if she’s not sure at this point. I certainly don’t need to sleep with anyone else. I’m worried that my family being so skeptical could weigh in on her decision."
Tino's less than ideal Hometown was certainly on Rachel's mind, as she told the cameras, "We need to discuss how his family’s really not supportive and how we’re going to move past it."
After the pair enjoyed a horseback ride, hung out on a cliff, and swam together, Tino noticed Rachel was nervous, a fact she admitted to the cameras. "If we don’t find a way to solve the problem, I just don’t think I can move forward," she said.
When they sat down for dinner, Rachel was quick to question, "How are we going to get past this? How is this going to end in an engagement when I know how much your family means to you?"
" They just can’t fathom the situation we’re in," Tino tried to explain. "... They know me and they know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t see you as the future."
As for if his parents would accept an engagement, Tino said, "I see it so clearly with you and I can’t go home without you at this point, so they’re going to have to get on board with that."
"They’re going to love you, because eventually they’re going to see the woman that I see and it’ll be impossible not to," he added. "... I love you, Rachel. I’m in love with you. I love everything I find out about you."
That seemed to assuage Rachel's fears, as she quickly replied, "I love you too. I really do."
"Moving forward with how he feels, hopefully his family will also come around," she said in a confessional. "They better, because I really do see Tino at the end."
Gabby Says Goodbye to Johnny
While Gabby told the cameras that Johnny "gets me in a way that I never ever had a man get me before," and he confirmed that the nurse "is the dopest girl I think I’ve ever hung with," their relationship would never make it into the Fantasy Suite.
The problems started after a romantic sailboat ride, when Gabby started questioning Johnny about his readiness for a serious commitment and engagement.
"I know how I feel about you. I’m so into you. The end result scares me. I also didn’t know I’d be here, on the beach with you, falling in love with you," he said, before admitting of an engagement, "It’s a hard thing to think about."
"I can see myself falling in love with you. I can see me and you being together," Johnny added, "but it’s more so of me bringing 100 percent to the table, and am I ready to bring 100 percent, and if I don’t do I drag you through that?"
Gabby walked away at that point, lamenting to the cameras about how Johnny "seems like he’s not able to commit." When she returned, Johnny confirmed as much.
"You are exactly the person I want to fall in love with and just be my person forever, but I just don’t know if I can get to engagement in the next week or so," Johnny said. "... It scares me. I don’t know if I can bring 100 percent to the table and commit to that end result if I’m not ready."
"It’s obviously hard to hear," Gabby replied. "There’s a part of me that hoped it would be us one way or the other, but I feel like we want two different things. I think if it was a different time for both of us then we could be so, so great."
While the whole thing felt like "a punch in the gut" to Gabby, she took comfort in the relationships she had with her two remaining men.
"Erich and Jason have been able to validate me in a way I didn’t know I could ask for. It is just the feeling of being in love that trumps all," she said in a confessional. "... I didn’t know that I could feel this way in such a short amount of time, but I’m hopeful I can leave here with someone that I want to spend the rest of my life with."
That person may not be Jason, though. At the same time that Gabby was saying goodbye to Johnny, Jason was telling Jesse that, when it comes to an engagement, he's "not quite there yet."
"Right now, I’m just taking it day by day and I want to be as honest and upfront as I can," he said. "... Truthfully, in two weeks it’s hard for me to see that."
The Pressure Gets to Erich
After Gabby's breakup with Johnny, she was delighted to find an anonymous note at her door, and her excitement only increased when she walked up to the meeting spot to find Erich there.
While Erich told Gabby he'd just wanted to see her, he couldn't help but confess some of his concerns while he was there. "I’m sitting here picturing the girl that I’m in love with doing that with somebody else," he told her of Fantasy Suites. "That kind of crushes me... I’m having a really hard time."
Gabby immediately seemed withdrawn after hearing Erich out, and while he insisted he didn't want to put her "on the spot," she still felt that way.
"In the spirit of being honest, we talked about this off-camera. I feel like we were able to have an honest conversation about it in Fantasy Suites," she told him, before giving viewers more details on her and Erich's off-camera conversation.
"Erich expressed to me in the Fantasy Suite that this week feels like I’m cheating, and now I feel like we’re rehashing the conversation and I’m being pressured," she said. "... You’re here knowing that I could have it with somebody else."
"It just doesn’t feel good right now. Why do I always have to defend myself? Why don’t you trust what we have? I feel like he was testing me and that’s not something you do to someone that you love," Gabby added. "Maybe he’s not going to be my guy after all. I’m starting to question it. I’m terrified, because what if I realize that Jason isn’t my guy either?"
The situation made Gabby come to the realization that her "person might not be here."
"It seems like the people that I want to love me never do. It’s just all coming crashing down," she said. "I hope this doesn’t end up in a big, fat dumpster fire, but right now this feels like the end for me."
Part 2 of The Bachelorette's Fantasy Suites week will air Tuesday, Sept. 6 on ABC. Keep up with the historic season by following along with ET's coverage of the series.
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Broadens Screenvision's 'Luxury' Network to More than 2,500 Screens
Brings Marquee Positioning to 7,000 Screens
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Screenvision Media, a national leader in delivering comprehensive advertising and content representation services for top-tier cinema exhibitors, sports venues, e-gaming platforms and other live events and venues, today announced that it has expanded and extended its agreement with CMX Cinemas.
As part of the deal, Screenvision's Cinema Network will add eight CMX CinéBistro locations, including 52 screens. Screenvision now has all CMX CinéBistro locations, which offer an elevated moviegoing experience that features in-theater service, chef-crafted cuisine, curated cocktails and a lounge & bar. The new theaters span major DMAs of Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Tampa (two locations), Miami, Raleigh, Cincinnati and Richmond.
"Adding the full roster of CineBistro theaters broadens our 'luxury' network to more than 2,500 screens, which is a unique and highly targeted opportunity to engage a moviegoing audience seeking premium experiences," said Darryl Schaffer, Chief Partnership Officer, Screenvision Media. "As brands continue flocking back to cinema as a trusted medium, we look forward to making available the highly coveted CineBistro inventory."
Screenvision's expanded agreement with CMX also includes Marquee Position inventory, which is typically reserved for high-profile advertisers featuring cinema-quality creative. Advertisers now have the opportunity to run their creative within Marquee Positioning across 7,000 screens.
"Our existing relationship with Screenvision has proven to deliver highly engaging creative that our audiences appreciate, as well as important and incremental revenue to foster the continued growth of our business," said Patrick Ryan, CEO, CMX Cinemas. "Adding the remainder of our CineBistro locations just made sense – Screenvision has a strong pipeline of advertisers within their luxury network and we felt our full roster of locations would benefit from being included."
Headquartered in New York, N.Y., Screenvision Media is a national leader in delivering comprehensive advertising and content representation services for top-tier cinema exhibitors, sports venues, e-gaming platforms and other live events and venues. The Screenvision Media cinema advertising network comprises 13,700 screens in 2000+ theatre locations across all 50 states and 94% of DMAs nationwide; delivering through more than 150 theatrical circuits, including 7 of the top 10 exhibitor companies.
CMX Cinemas opened its doors in April 2017 at Brickell City Centre, Miami, FL, offering new features to give guests an innovative and VIP movie-going experience. CMX provides state-of-the art technology that can be enjoyed through different types of experiences: CMX CinéBistro, the luxury dine-in and in-seat service; CMX Market, the gourmet grab and go movie experience and CMX Cinemas, the upgraded traditional theatre with classic concessions. It also features the Stone Sports Bar at select theatres, making CMX the one-stop-destination for entertainment. CMX has 31 sites and over 2,000 employees in venues located in Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey, and Virginia. For more information, visit cmxcinemas.com.
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It's not a surprise that Gigi Hadid feels comfortable on a runway.
In an exclusive first look at Gigi's new role as a co-host on season two of Netflix's Next in Fashion, however, she might be a little too comfortable.
"Hey, hey! Nobody booked you to model, dear," Gigi's co-host Tan France tells her as she enters and does a twirl on the catwalk. "You've got an actual job to do."
The supermodel retorts, "Actual job?!"
After the Queer Eye star takes Gigi's hand and guides her into the Next in Fashion work room, Tan tells her, "You're not just here to look gorgeous."
The teaser also shows a separate scene of Gigi posing on the runway in an all-red ensemble, complete with a giant, inhibiting puffy coat.
"Tanny?" she begs. "I'm gonna need some help getting down from here."
You can take the girl out of the world of supermodeling, but you can't take the world of supermodeling out of the girl.
Gigi takes over from season one co-host Alexa Chung on the second season of the design competition series which, according to Netflix, "embraces the fun in fashion."
Next in Fashion features "a group of up-and-coming, incredibly talented designers will compete for the chance to walk away with a prize of $200,000," says the streamer, "and the chance to share their designs with the world."
Though the series marks a new professional venture for the pair, Gigi and Tan's relationship actually goes even further back—as Tan revealed when he announced Gigi was on board for the second season.
"Who would have thought when we met over Facetime 4 years ago that we'd be hosting NEXT IN FASHION TOGETHER!" Tan posted on Instagram last year. "You read that right! The secret's out."
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Top Player Prop Bets for Astros vs. Cubs on May 16, 2023
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BCRX, SOPA, AAWW, SOFI, and ENDP.
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Doug Ducey has a new gig (Hint: He still isn't running for the Senate)
Opinion: Former Gov. Doug Ducey takes a new job, but it isn't the one that Arizona Republicans desperately need him to take (whether they admit it or not).
The Republicans’ likely best hope of recapturing a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona on Tuesday announced his plans …
… To stay far, far away from the toxic waste dump that is the Republican primary.
Instead of vying for a Senate seat next year — instead of playing a key role in which party controls the upper chamber — former Gov. Doug Ducey will head a political action committee to promote free enterprise.
“Fact is, the free enterprise system matters to me — I believe it’s what lifts people out of poverty, provides new generations a shot at the American Dream and paves the way for opportunity for all,” he wrote, in a letter to his supporters obtained by Axios.
Fact also is, he was likely the Republicans’ best chance to reclaim the Senate seat now held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
Ducey probably would've lost the primary
And here, likely, is the most important fact of all.
Ducey probably wouldn’t have made it out of the primary, not in today’s Republican Party that seems to prefer carnival barkers to candidates with a legitimate chance of actually winning races.
Six months ago, Ducey was at the top of national Republicans’ Christmas wish list, widely viewed as the party’s best chance to snatch back the seat held by Sinema.
He’s a traditional conservative Republican who can raise money and understands how to campaign.
He certainly wouldn’t be promoting election conspiracy theories and demanding that supporters of the late Sen. John McCain “get the hell out” of his final campaign appearances.
But he also understands that today’s Republican Party isn’t interested in traditional Republicans who do traditionally Republican things like cutting taxes and promoting economic growth.
He’s medium-well done in a party that craves red meat.
Other Republican moderates won't run
Today’s Republican Party is all about candidates like Kari Lake, who delight in tossing bleeding hunks of the stuff into the water and revel in the resulting feeding frenzy.
The problem is, such candidates don’t tend to fare as well in November. (See: Democratic Sens. Sinema and Mark Kelly, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes.)
What's next for Ducey?He announces a new political role
That GOP primary problem probably played a significant part in Ducey’s decision not to run for the Senate, and he’s not the only one.
Earlier this month, five-term Rep. Mike Gallagher took a pass in Wisconsin, saying he’d stay in the House, where he leads the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Like Ducey in Arizona, this 39-year-old Marine veteran was courted by national Republicans who saw him as their best chance to knock off Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin en route to reclaiming the Senate majority.
But Gallagher, like Ducey, is on the outs with Donald Trump and said earlier this year that he would not support Trump in 2024.
Can anyone save the AZ GOP from itself?
Translation: He would have been flamed in a Republican primary.
So, now it’s back to square one in Wisconsin.
And in Arizona?
No traditional Republican has stepped up to challenge what will almost surely be a Kari Lake campaign. Only Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who like Lake is part of the party’s hard right, has announced he’s running.
About the best the once-Grand Old Party can hope for is for Sinema to run as an independent, bleeding support from Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego and giving the MAGA minority a shot at winning in a three-person race.
As for Ducey, he’ll be focused on Citizens for Free Enterprise, ending any remaining (desperate) speculation that he might come riding in at the last minute to the rescue of the Arizona Republican Party.
As if anybody could save today’s Republican Party from itself.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.
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For the third straight season, the Mansfield Tigers are 2A volleyball state champions.
Mansfield secured its third consecutive state title Saturday in Hot Springs, taking down Lavaca in three sets.
The Tigers took the three sets 25-16, 25-15, 25-16, as head coach Kaylie Pyles helped lead Mansfield to the three-peat they coveted.
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US ally reportedly calls Biden foreign policy in Kosovo 'naive' amid rising tensions with Serbia
Kosovo's prime minister had harsh words for Secretary of State Blinken in recent interview
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced criticism from a close ally as ethnic tensions have once again flared in the Balkans.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti took a shot at Blinken, who had criticized Kosovo's government for "actions it took against the advice of the United States and Kosovo’s European partners," according to a statement from Blinken.
Kurti didn’t shy away, telling The Guardian newspaper in an interview last week, "I think it’s not just unfair and wrong and hurtful but at the same time very naive." He also said the comments were appeasing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Kurti ignored a demand from Blinken to reverse course and refrain from actions that would inflame tensions. The prime minister said Kosovo police will stay in the northern Serb region, a move that the U.S. believes will not help defuse the situation. In response, the U.S. announced that it was canceling Kosovo's participation in upcoming NATO military exercises.
Asked for comment on Kurti's criticism, a State Department spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to Blinken's comments in Norway on Thursday in which he said, "The escalation there and the actions taken there move both Kosovo and Serbia in the wrong direction because the answer that we’re looking for is de-escalation, avoiding any unilateral actions, and returning to this normalization process and the EU-led effort that is what promises both of them a future of integration in the Euro-Atlantic community," Blinken said during his press conference in Oslo.
Blinken said the U.S. will oppose any actions that either country takes that would make EU integration a more distant prospect.
"We’ve been very clear in our concerns about some of the recent actions that were taken. We’ve said that directly to the leaders involved, including Prime Minister Kurti. And we’re looking for both to act responsibly going forward," Blinken added.
French President Emmanuel Macron also waded in and directly blamed Kurti and Kosovo for the confrontation. With its rebuke of ally Kurti, the U.S. has been accused by some in diplomatic circles of taking the side of Vucic, who has been a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
HISTORICAL RUSSIAN ALLY SNUBS PUTIN IN GROWING SHIFT TO EUROPEAN UNION
"I do not think that the latest statements from the United States or France necessarily mean that they are siding with Vucic as much as they are merely critical of the Kurti government's decision to send the mayors to their offices and insist that they have legitimacy to govern, knowing all too well that this is likely to spark tensions," Helena Ivanov, associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
"Generally, I think that the West just wants things to stay calm and will criticize any moves that are likely to spark tensions – thus the critical tone towards Kosovo," Ivanov added.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE PEDDLING ADDS TO FEARS AFTER ELECTION OF UNTESTED PRESIDENT IN EUROPEAN NATION
Facing mounting pressure from the Europeans, the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo met in Moldova to discuss ways of lowering tensions on Thursday. Reuters reported that following her meeting with Vucic, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani accused him of "whining and complaining and ... not telling the truth."
Osmani, however, did offer some hope by saying that Kosovo could hold new elections in the north with Serb participation if they were triggered legally. Vucic left without making comments to the media, according to Reuters.
Violence erupted after ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the north of Kosovo, a predominantly Serb majority enclave of Kosovo, following April elections that were boycotted by Serbian political parties and their supporters. The U.S. urged Kurti not to hold the elections, fearing the outcome would be illegitimate in the eyes of local Serbs. The boycott resulted in an extremely low turnout of 3.5%, leading many in the West to claim the elections were indeed illegitimate.
Serbs attempted to block the ethnic Albanian mayors from entering their offices, and Kosovar police responded by firing tear gas, which escalated tensions. More violence ensued when Serbs clashed with Kosovo police and NATO peacekeeping troops. Serbia, for its part, responded by sending troops to the border with Kosovo and put its armed forces on high alert.
"NATO strongly condemns the unprovoked attacks against KFOR troops in northern Kosovo, which have led to a number of them being injured. Such attacks are totally unacceptable," reads a statement from a NATO spokesperson.
Eleven Italian soldiers and 19 Hungarian troops sustained multiple injuries, "including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices," and three Hungarian soldiers were injured from firearms, according to a Kosovo Force (KFOR) statement.
Kurti also blamed Vucic for stoking tensions and inflaming what he called a "fascist mob" that attacked NATO forces.
US ACCUSED OF RETREATING FROM NATO ALLY ALBANIA AS RUSSIA LOOKS TO GROW REGIONAL INFLUENCE
While 92% of Kosovo is ethnic Albanian, Serbs in the north are still loyal to Belgrade and refuse to accept Kosovo’s 2008 unilateral declaration of independence.
Conflict between Serbia and Kosovo following the 1999 war is unresolved and is a roadblock to their further European integration. Kosovo was a former province of Serbia and was once integrated within the nation of Yugoslavia. NATO led a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, which comprised Serbia and Montenegro, to defend Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians against violence from Belgrade. Nearly a decade later, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and Serbia refuses to recognize their independence.
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The renewed violence is another roadblock in the EU-facilitated process to normalize relations between Serbia and Kosovo, which has been ongoing for years. The EU has made clear that normalizing relations is a necessary and required step for joining the bloc.
"Our message both to Belgrade and to Pristina is that they have to engage in good faith in the EU-facilitated dialogue," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference on Thursday. "That is the only path to peace, but at the same time, NATO has responsibility to ensure stability in Kosovo, and that is reason why we have been there for many years and why we now are increasing our presence in the region."
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Attention procrastinators: Holiday shipping deadlines are quickly approaching. The sooner you order your gifts in 2022, the better, due to the annual surge in delivery volume in November and December. There are a few specific dates to keep in mind if you want your gifts to arrive before Christmas — particularly as Christmas is on a Sunday this year.Here are the dates to keep an eye on.AMAZONAmazon has not released holiday shipping deadlines, saying it will deliver orders through Dec. 24. Through Christmas Eve, Prime members can shop on Amazon for free one-day delivery and free same-day delivery within regular business hours in more than 90 metro areas.Amazon has a page on its site dedicated to helping you find last-minute deals on everything from clothing to tech gifts. Even iPhones are on sale.We checked their deals page and found these for you to get you started on your hunt for the right gift.CLICK HERE TO CHECK ALL LAST-MINUTE AMAZON GIFT IDEAS. UPSFor UPS, the recommended last days to deliver by Dec. 24 delivery are as follows, per the company's website.For Ground, no exact date was given, with the company saying they suggest customers look here for up-to-the-minute details.For three-day select, deliver by Dec. 20. For Second-day Air, deliver by Dec. 21. For Next-day Air, deliver by Dec. 22. USPSBelow are the recommended send-by dates for expected delivery before Dec. 25. These dates apply to the lower 48 states.Ground: Dec. 17First-Class Mail: Dec. 17Priority Mail: Dec. 19Priority Mail Express: Dec. 23 FEDEXBelow are the recommended shipping deadlines to reach someone by Dec. 25, per FedEx.FedEx Ground: Dec. 14FedEx Home Delivery: Dec. 14 FedEx Express Saver: Dec. 20FedEx 3 day Freight: Dec. 20 FedEx 2 day Freight: Dec. 21FedEx 1 day Freight: Dec. 22FedEx Same Day: Dec. 23STILL LOOKING FOR THE LAST-MINUTE GIFT?Still looking for that perfect last-minute gift? With the above dates in mind, why not shop one of these sales now -- and order soon!Good Housekeeping experts share the best holiday gifts for 202250 most popular Christmas gifts of 202245 best white elephant gifts worth fighting for in 2022These skincare gifts have the stamp of approval from multiple product expertsPersonalized gifts that are a meaningful way to show them some holiday loveA robot vacuum mop combo is over $500 off on Amazon this holiday season30 cheap tech gifts under $50 to impress everyone on your shopping listThe best Apple post-Black Friday deals available for holiday shopping
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There are a few specific dates to keep in mind if you want your gifts to arrive before Christmas — particularly as Christmas is on a Sunday this year.
Here are the dates to keep an eye on.
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Amazon has not released holiday shipping deadlines, saying it will deliver orders through Dec. 24. Through Christmas Eve, Prime members can shop on Amazon for free one-day delivery and free same-day delivery within regular business hours in more than 90 metro areas.
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For Ground, no exact date was given, with the company saying they suggest customers look here for up-to-the-minute details.
For three-day select, deliver by Dec. 20. For Second-day Air, deliver by Dec. 21. For Next-day Air, deliver by Dec. 22.
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KIGALI, Rwanda — As Britain plans to send its first group of asylum-seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday amid outcries and legal challenges, some who came to this East African country under earlier arrangements tell The Associated Press the new arrivals can expect a difficult time ahead.
“Sometimes I play football and in the evening I drink because I have nothing to do,” said Faisal, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia who was relocated to Rwanda from Libya in 2019 in the first group of refugees resettled under a deal with the United Nations. “I pray daily to God that I leave this place.”
Giving only his first name out of fear of retaliation, he remains at the Gashora center built to house refugees who had languished in Libya while trying to reach Europe. Gashora is called a transit center, but some like Faisal see nowhere to go.
A British court on Monday refused to stop the government from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda despite arguments by rights advocates that the planned flights would undermine the “basic dignity” of people escaping war and oppression. The U.K. government’s deportation plan has been widely criticized, including by Prince Charles, according to newspaper reports.
Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and still among the least developed despite its focus on modernizing since the country’s 1994 genocide. The migrants who sought better lives in Britain are expected to find fewer chances to pursue their dreams here, even as Rwandan officials describe their country as having a proud history of welcoming those in need.
One of those who has found a foothold is Urubel Tesfaye, a 22-year-old from Ethiopia who is happy he found a part-time job in a bakery in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. But his friends speak of moving on to Canada or the Netherlands.
“They have a disease in the head and cannot settle here,” he said of their determination to move.
Hundreds of people sent previously to Rwanda under the deal with the U.N. have since been resettled in third countries, according to the U.N. refugee agency. But those sent to Rwanda under the deal with Britain must apply for asylum in Rwanda.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame told diplomats in Kigali after the agreement with Britain was signed in April that his country and the U.K. aren’t engaged in buying and selling people, but instead trying to solve a global migration problem.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel said at the time that “access to the U.K.’s asylum system must be based on need, not on the ability to pay people smugglers.”
Rwandan authorities have said the agreement would initially last for five years, with the British government paying 120 million pounds ($158 million) upfront to pay for housing and integrating the asylum-seekers. Britain is expected to pay more as Rwanda accepts more migrants, although the exact number of people the U.K. is expected to send isn’t known.
Those set to arrive under Rwanda’s new agreement with Britain will be housed in shelters around Kigali with features like private rooms, televisions and a swimming pool. At one, the Hope Hostel, a security guard patrols outside, and clocks in the lobby show the times in London and Paris.
“This is not a prison,” manager Bakinahe Ismail said.
But the Gashora center for previous arrivals in a rural area outside the capital offers more basic shared living facilities instead.
“The U.K. government, my message to them is that human beings are human beings. You cannot tell them ‘Go and stay here’ or ‘Go and do this or that.’ No. Because if they feel better in the U.K., then the U.K. is better for them,” said Peter Nyuoni, a refugee from South Sudan.
“There is nothing for me to want to stay here,” he said.
Even those who came straight to Rwanda to escape troubles at home say the country, while peaceful, isn’t easy.
“When you are not employed, you cannot survive here,” said Kelly Nimubona, a refugee from neighboring Burundi. “We cannot afford to eat twice a day. There is no chance to get a job or do vending on the street.” But he described Rwanda as an oasis of order in the region.
Sensitivities around the arrival of the first asylum-seekers from Britain are so high that Rwandan officials are barring media from interviewing the new arrivals.
“Maybe later when they have settled,” said Claude Twishime, spokesman for the ministry of emergency management, which will take charge of their care.
Rwanda is already home to more than 130,000 refugees and migrants from other African nations and countries such as Pakistan, the government has said.
The prospect of taking in more is criticized by some in Rwanda. Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has said the government instead should focus on the internal political and social issues that push some Rwandans to become refugees elsewhere.
For years, human rights groups have accused Rwanda’s government of cracking down on perceived dissent and keeping tight control on many aspects of life, from jailing critics to keeping homeless people off the streets of Kigali. The government denies it.
Such tensions are expected to be just under the surface this month when Rwanda hosts the Commonwealth heads of government summit. Britain will be central there as it continues to face questions about its deal with Rwanda.
Some Rwandans said the local economy isn’t ready to handle the people arriving from Britain.
“Look, many people are unemployed here,” said Rashid Rutazigwa, a mechanic in the capital. He said he didn’t see many opportunities even for people with skills and training.
“But if the government promises to pay salaries to (the migrants), then it will be fine,” he added.
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Though they're expecting a baby together, Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are not rekindling their romance. The same day news broke that the reality star and the NBA player are expecting baby no. 2 via surrogate, a source tells ET that the former couple is not getting back together. The pair already shares a 4-year-old daughter, True.
"The two aren’t together and Khloe will have the baby full time," the source says, before adding that "Khloe wants Tristian in both the kids' lives as much as he wants to be."
The decision to procreate together again came before Khloe learned that Tristan was expecting another child with a woman named Maralee Nichols in December, a rep for the 38-year-old Good American founder confirms to ET.
"We can confirm True will have a sibling who was conceived in November," the rep says. "Khloe is incredibly grateful to the extraordinary surrogate for such a beautiful blessing. We’d like to ask for kindness and privacy so that Khloe can focus on her family."
Meanwhile, the source tells ET that Khloe and Tristan "have long said they wanted True to have a sibling, and Khloe even told her family she’d do it without Tristian if she needed to."
Khloe eventually decided against doing it sans Tristan, as she and the 31-year-old pro athlete "were on good terms they decided to move forward with surrogacy near the end of last year," the source says, adding that it was only after that decision was made that "Tristian was caught cheating."
Tristan's paternity scandal, the latest in several cheating allegations against him, played out on the inaugural season of Hulu's The Kardashians earlier this year.
"I feel incredibly let down," Khloe said in the season 1 finale. "There’s nothing that can be said or done that’ll make me feel better. All of the work, the energy, the conversations, all of those bricks that we were laying down [on] this foundation all for a tornado to go through and everything just be demolished."
Despite the hard times, Khloe revealed on the show that she was glad that she gave it another try with Tristan following his first brush with infidelity.
"Sometimes you do stupid things for your kids, but also you can’t be stupid for your kids for so long," Khloe said. "I will say I’m really proud for how I tried for True and the rest is the rest."
Khloe added, "It’s time to walk away, and I don’t feel guilty about it. I tried so hard."
The baby news comes the month after ET reported that Khloe was dating a private equity investor. The status of the reality star's relationship with the mystery man is currently unclear.
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One person is dead after a semi-truck powered by jet engines crashed while racing two planes at an air show in Battle Creek, Mich., on Saturday afternoon.
The Battle Creek Police Department confirmed the death on Facebook. The crash at the Battle Creek Executive Airport is under investigation.
The Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival's Facebook page said the rest of the day's show had been canceled.
The crash of the Shockwave Jet Truck took place during the show's pyrotechnic portion when planned explosions were going off, but the crash itself appeared to be accidental, according to attendee Michael Mullet.
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Mullet said that as the truck — which is powered by three jet engines mounted on the back — sped down the runway, he saw a small explosion toward the rear of the vehicle shortly before it drove into the flames from one of the pyrotechnic explosions.
Videos shot by Mullet and other witnesses show that by the time the truck emerges from the flames, the truck appears to be skidding before rolling several times.
Mullet said he "didn't see any relation" between the pyrotechnic explosion and the small explosion on the Shockwave. He said he has seen the jet truck in shows several times before, when everything would go off "without a hitch."
Suze Gusching, a spokesperson for the air show, told the Battle Creek Enquirer that the truck driver was "doing his show and going down the runway," then "he passed by the explosion, and his truck had exploded."
According to the air show's schedule, the Shockwave Jet Truck was scheduled to perform Saturday afternoon. The racing team's website advertises it as "the world's only triple engine jet truck," a modified semi equipped with three engines, originally from a U.S. Navy plane, giving it 36,000 horsepower. It can travel at more than 350 miles per hour and frequently races planes at air shows, the website said.
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Affordable school supplies and other budget picks
The school year is coming back around, and there’s no better time to start checking items off of your school supply list than right now. Finding affordable school supplies can be somewhat of a chore, but with an understanding of what supplies you need, you can probably find all your needs at a fair price.
From pens and pencils to planners, notebooks and more, being prepared for the back-to-school season doesn’t have to be stressful or break the bank.
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Picking your school supply essentials
Student age and grade
Perhaps the main factors for your school supply list are the student’s age, grade and classes. For example, glue is an excellent option for elementary and middle school students who are likely to perform arts and crafts. Older students could benefit from tools with more versatility, such as laptops, tablets or other smart devices. Additionally, a student taking specific classes, such as art or dance, may require more specific materials than what you’ll find on a school supplies list.
School supply options for keeping to your budget
Most school supply lists include several different items, all of which students are expected to have. These costs can add up quickly, though there are a few ways to keep to your budget. If you know the student will use certain disposable items, such as crayons, pens, pencils or erasers, for more than just one school year, you can buy them in bulk to save year after year. Otherwise, consider looking for deals on the student’s essentials.
Choosing your student’s essentials
What constitutes “back-to-school essentials” can vary from student to student, and if they’re too old for elementary school supply lists, then it may be up to you to choose. A few agreed-upon essentials are backpacks, pens and pencils, notebooks and binders. However, this can depend on your student’s classes and may include things ranging from cameras to musical instruments and more.
Best back-to-school supplies on a budget
Ticonderoga 30-Pack Of Yellow Pre-Sharpened Graphite No. 2 Pencils
Pencils are a must-have school supply item, no matter the student’s age. These number two pencils fit most peoples’ budgets and write with the standard lightness used in most schools. They include a useful eraser on the end that’s perfect for math, writing, drawing and other subjects.
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Paper Mate InkJoy 100RT Medium Point Ultra Smooth Ink Pens
These pens are super affordable when purchased in bulk and they write very smoothly compared to most other pens. You can buy these pens in either assorted color or black packages, in packs of 12 or 20.
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Crayola 24-Pack of Long Barrel Colored Woodcase Pencils
These colored pencils from Crayola are the industry standard, with colors including red, yellow, blue, white and black, among many others still. They come pre-sharpened and are made from all nontoxic materials.
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Crayola 152-Pack Ultimate Crayon Collection With Assorted Colors
The price of this massive crayon pack is impressive. It also comes with a crayon sharpener and a useful carrying caddy that makes coloring time easy. You can buy this crayon set in a bundle with a pack of twistable crayons for a little bit more money.
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JanSport Student Backpack With 15-Inch Laptop Compartment
This JanSport backpack works great for books and other supplies, and it also has a mesh pocket for holding water bottles and a 15-inch laptop compartment. You can purchase this option in several different colors and styles, each with JanSport’s signature S-curve shoulder straps with adjustable 14.5-inch shoulder drops.
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Fiskars Kids Pointed-Tip 5-Inch Safety Scissors In Random Colors
Scissors are another must-have for preschool and K-8 students, and this particular pair is extremely affordable and made blunt for added safety. They come in a random color, either red, blue, light blue or green. This option also comes with a full lifetime warranty, according to the product description.
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Gorilla Kids Retractable Disappearing Purple Glue Sticks
For students involved in arts and crafts, glue sticks are a necessity. These disappearing purple glue sticks are ideal for visual projects, offering a strong adhesive in both single packs of six-packs.
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Paper Mate 12-Pack Of Large Pink Pearl Classic Pencil Erasers
If a student plans to work in pencil often, another useful tool to keep handy is an eraser. While most pencils include an eraser, these offer a backup solution for when those tiny erasers on your pencil run out.
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PowerMe Black Electric Pencil Sharpener for No. 2 Pencils
If you plan to use a pencil, then you will also require a pencil sharpener. This electric sharpener is battery-powered and offers long-term pencil sharpening. You can buy this electric pencil sharpener in black, blue, green, pink, purple or white.
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Emraw Four-Pack Of 100-Sheet Black-and-White Marble-Style Cover Composition Books
Composition books are a classic lined paper option for use when taking notes or working on assignments. These lined composition books come with four units, and you can purchase them in black and white or assorted colors.
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Blue Sky Academic Year Planner
Academic planners are essential for older kids, and this flexible planner offers weekly and monthly calendar planning. You can buy this planner in 8.5-by-11-inch, 7-by-9-inch or 5-by-8-inch sizes.
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Apple 2022 Fifth-Generation 10.9-Inch Purple iPad Air With Wi-Fi
Tablets aren’t exactly cheap, but with Apple offering more budget options than ever, these can make an excellent alternative to laptops for older students. You can buy the iPad Air with either 64 or 256GB of storage, with Wi-Fi or a Wi-Fi and cellular bundle. It’s also available in purple, blue, pink, space gray and starlight.
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Acer Aspire 5 15.6-Inch Full Display Slim Laptop With AMD Ryzen 5 Processor
The Aspire 5 is a powerful Acer laptop that comes at a fair price, featuring a powerful processor and multiple bundle options for maximizing your purchase. It also includes 8GB of DDR4 RAM for multitasking and up to 11 hours of battery life off the charger.
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(NEXSTAR) — Are you the winner? Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is a huge $1.28 billion, the second largest in history. Winning numbers for the jackpot are: 67, 45, 57, 36 and 13. The Mega ball number is 14. Friday’s Megaplier is 2X.
The top prize hasn’t been claimed since April 15, though there have been several winners of smaller pots. There have been over 28.1 million winning tickets of smaller prizes, including 42 worth at least $1 million. Friday’s $1.28 billion jackpot has a cash value of $747.2 million.
The largest jackpot in Mega Millions history was $1.537 billion and was claimed in 2018 by a single South Carolina winner.
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 each and drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET Tuesdays and Fridays. Mega Millions explains the numbers are drawn by picking five balls from a set of balls numbered 1-70. An additional gold “Mega” ball is then drawn from a set of balls numbered 1-25.
If Friday’s jackpot isn’t claimed, the prize will roll into another to be drawn next week.
Odds of winning the jackpot are steep — among things you’re more likely to do than win the lottery are being killed by a shark, being struck by lightning this year and being struck by lightning in your entire lifetime.
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Electric customers of UniSource Energy Services in Santa Cruz and Mohave counties are facing a 14% bill increase as the sister company to Tucson Electric Power seeks new rates for the first time in seven years.
UniSource’s request, filed Friday with the Arizona Corporation Commission, would boost overall revenues by 10.4% and increase the average monthly bills of typical residential customers by $18.52 when new rates take effect in 2024.
UniSource says its proposed rates would help cover the cost of investments made since 2014, including new substations, transmission and distribution system upgrades, and critical maintenance and improvements for generating resources. The new rates also would reflect higher fuel and energy prices UniSource has paid, the company said.
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“Although we’ve had to pass along higher market energy prices in recent years, I’m proud we’ve been able to hold the line on our own expenses for so long,” said Susan Gray, UniSource’s president and CEO.
UniSource said it limited the average annual growth of its operations and maintenance costs to less than 2.1% between 2015 and 2021, while inflation totaled 2.5%, and peak demand on its energy grid has grown 16% since 2014.
The projected increase would raise the average monthly bill to $148.58, but the impact will vary based on usage, and customers’ total bills also will be affected by changes to pass-through fuel and purchased-power charges, UniSource said.
UniSource is seeking to offer an $18 monthly discount — up from $16 currently — for qualifying low-income customers whose household income does not exceed 200% of the federal poverty level.
The proposed rates also would eliminate transaction fees for most credit card payments and for cash payments made at third-party payment processors, the company said.
UniSource says its proposed rates support investments that will help the company manage long-term energy costs, reduce dependence on purchased power and build a better-balanced energy portfolio.
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Kenan Blackshear had 22 points in Nevada's 85-77 win against Pepperdine on Tuesday.
Blackshear was 7 of 15 shooting, including 2 for 4 from distance, and went 6 for 7 from the line for the Wolf Pack (8-2). Jarod Lucas scored 18 points while going 5 of 10 from the floor, including 2 for 6 from distance, and 6 for 6 from the line. Tyler Powell recorded 10 points and finished 4 of 4 from the field.
Mike Mitchell Jr. led the way for the Waves (5-3) with 18 points. Maxwell Lewis added 18 points for Pepperdine. Houston Mallette also had 15 points.
Lucas scored seven points in the first half and Nevada went into the break trailing 39-37. Blackshear scored 15 points in the second half to help lead Nevada to an eight-point victory.
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Officials removed the last payphone in New York City Monday, marking the end of an era.The final standing coin-operated public telephone in the city was located at 745 Seventh Ave. before workers tore it out of the ground this week.The removal is part of a city initiative called LinkNYC, which began in 2014, to improve digital connectivity for New Yorkers, according to News12 The Bronx.LinkNYC provides free public WiFi by converting old payphones into kiosks that transmit encrypted, gigabit wireless internet coverage. The kiosks are 9.5 feet tall and feature two 55-inch high-definition displays on their sides; Android tablet computers for accessing city maps, directions, and services, and making video calls; two free USB charging stations for smartphones; and a phone allowing free calls to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. They are located throughout the five boroughs. City officials plan to expand the network with the rollout of Link5G this summer.
NEW YORK — Officials removed the last payphone in New York City Monday, marking the end of an era.
The final standing coin-operated public telephone in the city was located at 745 Seventh Ave. before workers tore it out of the ground this week.
The removal is part of a city initiative called LinkNYC, which began in 2014, to improve digital connectivity for New Yorkers, according to News12 The Bronx.
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Workers remove the final New York City payphone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on May 23, 2022.
LinkNYC provides free public WiFi by converting old payphones into kiosks that transmit encrypted, gigabit wireless internet coverage.
The kiosks are 9.5 feet tall and feature two 55-inch high-definition displays on their sides; Android tablet computers for accessing city maps, directions, and services, and making video calls; two free USB charging stations for smartphones; and a phone allowing free calls to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. They are located throughout the five boroughs.
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New York City Council Member Julie Won poses for a photo after workers remove the final New York City payphone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on May 23, 2022.
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Boys Basketball – Shore Sports Network 2022-23 Preview: Class C South
The Shore Conference has expanded from seven divisions to eight for the 2022-23 season and the newest of the division – at least in name – in Class C South. Three of the teams (Jackson Liberty, Monmouth Regional and Ocean) in the newly-formed division competed against one another in the Class C North division in 2021-22 and two others migrated from Class B South. The other team is Shore Regional, which cut its teeth in Class A Central last season.
One thing all six members of Class C North have in common: none of them won a division championship in 2022. Donovan Catholic was the highest finisher in any division with a second-place effort in B South, while Monmouth and Jackson Liberty finished tied for third in a Class C North division paced by perennial Shore Conference power Manasquan.
As if the lack of a returning champion was not enough to make Class C South unpredictable, the three high finishers – Donovan Catholic, Monmouth and Jackson Liberty – all graduated the majority of their contributors from a year ago. That leaves the door open for the rest of the division, especially an experienced Shore-squad and an Ocean team loaded with varsity-proven sophomores. It’s not likely B South will produce a team that goes deep into the Shore Conference Tournament (Shore could be a factor in the NJSIAA Group I Playoffs) but the parity within the division should produce one of the wilder division races in the Shore Conference this winter.
In predicted order of finish
1. Shore
Shore goes from battling the likes of Red Bank Catholic, Rumson-Fair Haven, Holmdel and Raritan last season to entering the 2022-23 as a tentative favorite to win a division championship and it’s not just because the schedule is much easier. The Blue Devils will be as experienced as they have been since winning a Central Jersey Group I sectional championship in 2014-15, with four returning starters and four seniors a part of their starting five.
Alex George is just entering the second half of his varsity career and is already an all-division player around whom Shore can build its team. A senior core will complement George’s game, led returning starting guards Brett Sweeney and Liam Gajewski, as well as another rotation player in Donovan Hughes. Gajewski (22 three-pointers, 82 percent free-throw shooter) and Sweeney (30 three-pointers) are the top shooting options around George and Hughes, while another senior – Richie Studer – provides some size for the guard-heavy lineup.
Last season, a grueling division schedule sharpened Shore for the NJSIAA Group I Tournament and this year, the Blue Devils are hoping to ready themselves for a deep postseason run by first topping their new division. With one of the division’s oldest, most experienced teams, the conditions would seem ideal for Shore to get it done.
Head Coach: Erik Mazur, fifth season
2021-22 Record: 13-14 (2-8, fifth in Class A Central)
Key Losses: Aidan O’Brien, 6-4, Center
Projected Lineup (Returning Starters in Bold)
Alex George, Jr., 6-1, Guard
Brett Sweeney, Sr., 6-1, Guard
Liam Gajewski, Sr., 6-1, Guard
Donovan Hughes, Sr., 5-10, Guard
Richie Studer, Sr., 6-3 - Guard/Forward
Off the Bench
Ben Levy, Sr., 5-10, Guard
Joe Santi, Jr., 6-0, Guard
Gianni Fiumefreddo, Jr., 6-4, Forward
Tyler Jackson, Jr., 5-10, Guard
Brad Alcini, Jr., 5-10, Guard
Bryce Crowe, So., 5-10, Guard
Luca DePaolis, Sr., 5-9, Guard
2. Monmouth
While Shore enters 2022-23 with a senior-laden team looking to strike it rich, Monmouth is coming off a season in which it was hoping for the same thing. The Falcons graduated nine seniors from a team that endured an up-and-down season in 2021-22 and while the division schedule Monmouth faced was not quite as unforgiving as the one Shore had to deal with, it did include two games against Manasquan, so winning the division was not a realistic goal.
With three new starters and a part-time starter in sophomore James Curley moving into the starting five, Monmouth is not an obvious, ready-made division champion, but the Falcons will have plenty going for them heading into the season. Other than the easier division slate, Monmouth’s optimism is based on the return of standout 6-foot-3 wingman Ta’haj Wiggins, who opened his junior season as a fringe starter and ended it as Monmouth’s leading scorer and most electrifying talent thanks to his eye-catching athleticism.
New starters Jake Bauer, T.J. Thomassen and Dan Kikta will fill in the three open starting spots alongside Wiggins and Curley and a pair of underclassmen – freshman Jaylin Reeves and sophomore Kevin Pharo – could make an impact similar to the one Curley made a year ago. The Falcons can ride Wiggins to a degree, but in order to finish a climb to a division title, that supporting cast will have to quickly round into form.
Head Coach: Jeff Sfraga, sixth season
2021-22 Record: 11-13 (6-6, tied third in Class C North)
Key Losses: Kevin Telesford, 6-4, Forward; Aiden Denton, 6-2, Guard; Gerald Wiggins, 6-0, Guard; Nelson Harris-Thomas, 6-4, Center; Brandon Ligon, 5-10, Guard
Projected Lineup (Returning Starters in Bold)
Jake Bauer, Sr., 5-9, Guard
James Curley, So., 5-11, Guard
T.J. Thomassen, Sr., 6-1, Guard/Forward
Ta’haj Wiggins, Sr., 6-3, Forward
Dan Kikta, Jr., 6-2, Forward
Off the Bench
Shane McCauley, Sr., 6-2, Forward
Kevin Pharo, So., 6-3, Forward
Jaylin Reeves, Fr., 5-10, Guard
Kyle Desai, Sr., 6-1, Guard
Ty-Zhon Kelly, Sr., 5-7, Guard
Joe Esposito, Sr., 5-8, Forward
Caelin Szymanski, Sr., 5-10, Guard
3. Ocean
Of all the teams in the new Class C South, the highest ceiling for 2023 may very well belong to Ocean. The Spartans were one of the Shore’s youngest teams a year ago and will remain that way heading into this coming season. The core is comprised of three sophomores in Zayier Dean, Ron Richardson and James Sobieski – all of whom started as freshmen and with Dean leading the way as an all-division selection. Two more sophomores could join them as contributors this year in Noah Ngiyen and Ben Robinson and freshman Aidan Saint Louis will add some impact to the bench.
Brandon Loughlin will be an x-factor for Ocean because he offers to traits that are rare on the Ocean roster: size and senior leadership. The 6-foot-5 senior worked his way into the lineup last season and will be entrusted to handle much of the dirty work in the paint to allow the Dean-Richardson combination to thrive. Junior Keith Allen, meanwhile, is the other starter and will represent a junior class that will begin to make its mark for Ocean this season.
It could very well be that Ocean will need another year to mature into a division-title contender and factor in the postseason, but the current sophomore group has already taken some lumps at the varsity level and made progress over the course of their collective freshman season. Without a clear favorite in Class C South, the young Spartans may be ready to arrive on the Shore Conference scene.
Head Coach: Ryan Pringle, third season
2021-22 Record: 6-18 (2-10, sixth in Class C North)
Key Losses: Justin McMahon, Sr., 6-3, Guard/Forward; Ethan Brawer, 5-10, Guard; Cord Birzin, 6-4, Forward
Projected Lineup (Returning Starters in Bold)
Zayier Dean, So., 5-10, Guard
James Sobieski, So., 5-9, Guard
Keith Allen, Jr. 6-0, Guard
Ron Richardson, So., 6-3, Guard/Forward
Brandon Loughlin, Sr., 6-5, Forward
Off the Bench
Aidan Saint Louis, Fr., 6-2, Guard
Noah Nguyen, So., 5-8, Guard
Ben Robinson, So., 6-0, Guard/Forward
Juelz Mendez, Jr., 6-1, Guard/Forward
Devon Simms, Jr., 6-4, Forward
Lu Salvatore, Jr., 5-9, Guard
Carmen Salvatore, Jr., 5-9, Guard
Liam Yefet, Jr., 6-5, Forward
4. Donovan Catholic
Of all the teams in Class C South this season, Donovan Catholic was the closest to the top of the standings in any division, with the Griffins finishing second in Class B South behind Manchester, then going on to reach the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals thanks to an upset of St. John Vianney. That, however, was with a senior-loaded team in 2021-22, so for the Griffins to make the successful transition to a new division, they will have to hit the ground running with an almost-entirely-new starting lineup.
Seniors Brian Farrell and Pete Farlekas each return with starting experience, although that was limited in 2021-22. In Farrell’s case, an injury sidelined him for most of his junior year, but he returns healthy for his senior season and he showed as a sophomore that he can be an impact player on a nightly basis. Farlekas, meanwhile, will be one of the division’s better interior players and could provide Donovan Catholic with an advantage over its division foes on most nights.
With only two regulars back, Donovan Catholic will turn to senior Dylan Espineli and juniors Jack Malek and Matt Gerrity to fill open spots in the back court. Sophomore Ryan Jacobs and freshmen Kai Pritchard and Emanuel Gerena are potential impact underclassmen, although Jacobs and Gerena will not be ready for the start of the season due to injury, according to coach Mike Kearney. If the Griffins can stem the tide of injuries and inexperience, the division is winnable enough for a championship season, especially with a healthy Farrell leading the way.
Head Coach: Mike Kearney, 25th season
2021-22 Record: 16-9 (10-2, second in Class B South)
Key Losses: Kyree Drake, 5-8, Guard; Jalin Butler, 6-2, Forward; Alex Melon, 6-0, Guard; Dylan Orosz, 6-6, Forward; Vin Coburn, 6-2, Guard; Dan Schwartz, 6-5, Forward; Nunes Bukula, 6-4, Forward
Projected Lineup (Returning starters in bold)
Dylan Espineli, Sr., 5-9, Guard
Jack Malek, Jr., 5-11, Guard
Matt Gerrity, Jr., 6-1, Guard
Brian Farrell, Sr., 6-2, Guard/Forward
Pete Farlekas, Sr., 6-3, Forward
Off the Bench
Ryan Jacobs, So., 6-0, Guard
Nick D’Addetta, Sr., 6-0, Guard
T.J. Johnson Sr., 6-0, Guard
Chris Miranda, Jr., 5-8, Guard
Kai Pritchard, Fr., 6-3, Forward
Kevin Leny, Jr., 5-9, Guard
Todd Lambertson, Jr., 6-2, Forward
Emanuel Gerena, Fr., 5-10, Guard
5. Jackson Liberty
Coming off a program-record 16-win season in 2021-22, Jackson Liberty will try to quickly rebuild the roster after losing four key contributors – including a pair of all-division players – from last year’s squad. After Jackson Liberty’s previous 15-win season in 2018-19, the Lions went into a two-year swoon, the likes of which they will be trying to avoid this time around. The two situations were very different, so coach Don Connor is hopefully that his young team won’t have to toil for too long.
The term “young” applies to Jackson Liberty about as well as any team in the Shore Conference. The Lions will play opening night without a senior on the roster, beginning with a starting five that features two returning contributors from the regular rotation. Dylan Teopaco returns after starting at point guard as a sophomore a year ago, while sophomore Jayson King got significant minutes – at times as a starter – during his freshman campaign. Junior Lukas Latvys will step into a bigger role this season, while Corey Hartnett and juniors Dylan Caldeira and Charlie Callahan look to step in and produce right away.
Jackson Liberty returned more experience in 2019-20 following its Class B South championship season than it does this season, but the 2018-19 team was more reliant on one player (Daniel Sofield) than kast year’s Lions team was. The foundation and competitive expectation remain intact and with a pretty balanced Class C South division, Jackson Liberty might lack for experience but not for hope.
Head Coach: Don Connor, third season
2021-22 Record: 16-11 (6-6, tied third in Class C North)
Key Losses: Phanique Dupree, 6-5, Forward; Dahkareo Pritchett, 6-0, Guard; Channing Williams, 6-1, Forward; Dallas Weisse, 5-11, Guard
Projected Lineup (Returning Starters in Bold)
Dylan Teopaco, Jr., 5-9, Guard
Jayson King, So., 5-11, Guard
Lukas Latvys, Jr., 6-0, Guard
Corey Harnett, So., 6-0, Forward
Dylan Caldeira, Jr., 6-0, Forward
Off the Bench
Charlie Callahan, Jr., 5-11, Guard
Rocco Malangone, So., 5-10
Jesse Renouf, So., 6-2
Kuri Renouf, So., 6-2
Justin Uteg, So., 5-10
Tommy Cito, Jr., 6-0
Stevi Nole, So., 6-2
6. Lakewood
The last two seasons of boys basketball at Lakewood have been a struggle, to say the least. The Piners had trouble fielding a team in the COVID-ravaged 2020 season and while last season was not a while lot better with respect to wins and losses, at least the team was more competitive and did secure a win. Now, Lakewood actually returns most of its starting lineup, as well as head coach L.J. Clark – a longtime assistant under former coach Randy Holmes and also the current head football coach.
With much more stability this season, the Piners should be considerably more competitive. Senior Derrick Marsh leads the crop of returning starters after averaging 14 points per game as a junior, with fellow seniors Jamir Rivera, Keyon Tims and Jayvon Gonzalez playing supporting roles. With 6-foot-4 senior Solomon Brown also coming off the bench, Lakewood boasts more senior experience than most of the teams in its division.
There is still lots of work to be done and challenges around every turn for a rebuilding Lakewood program, but the Piners have much more reason for optimism than they had either of the past two seasons and it should show in the results this season.
Head Coach: L.J. Clark, second season
2021-22 Record: 1-14 (0-12, seventh in Class B South)
Key Losses: Matt Vargas, 5-6, Guard
Projected Lineup (Returning Starters in Bold)
Jayvon Gonzalez, Sr. 6-1, Guard
Derrick Marsh, Sr., 6-2, Guard
ZahMir Anderson, Jr., 5-10, Guard
Jamir Rivera, Sr., 6-4, Forward
Keyon Tims, Sr., 5-10, Forward
Off the Bench
Solomon Brown, Sr., 6-4, Forward
Ramel Anderson, So., 5-9, Guard
Alex Colon, Jr., 6-0, Guard
Class C South Starting Five (with 2021-22 Stats)
Zayier Dean, Ocean (14.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.87 steals)
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Ta’haj Wiggins, Monmouth (12.0 points, 9.9 rebounds, 5.15 blocks)
Derrick Marsh, Lakewood (14 points per game)
Brian Farrell, Donovan Catholic (8.0 points in 2021)
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Ron Richardson, Ocean (9.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists)
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Peyton McDaniel made seven 3-pointers and scored 30 points, Kiki Jefferson added four 3s and 22 points and No. 1 seed James Madison beat second-seeded Texas State 81-51 on Monday for its first Sun Belt Conference Tournament championship.
It was James Madison's first title-game appearance since the 2016-17 team fell to Elon in the Colonial Athletic Association championship. The Dukes (26-7) will play in their first NCAA Tournament since 2016.
McDaniel was 5 of 5 from distance in the first half and Jefferson made another just before the halftime buzzer to give James Madison a 38-28 lead. Jefferson made James Madison 11th 3-pointer in 14 attempts (79%) midway through the fourth for a 76-46 lead.
McDaniel finished 7 of 7 behind the arc to set a career high for makes, Jefferson, the Sun Belt player of the year, went 4 of 5 and James Madison made a season-high 12 in 16 tries.
Kseniia Kozlova added nine points and 10 rebounds for James Madison.
The Dukes scored the opening six points of the game and never trailed. Texas State tied it at 19 before McDaniel made three 3-pointers in 53 seconds. James Madison had two 9-0 runs in the third quarter to pull away.
Da'Nasia Hood, coming off a 30-point, 16-rebound performance in the semifinals, was held to 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting for Texas State (23-9). Taelour Pruitt added 12 points and Kennedy Taylor scored 10.
Texas State had won five straight since a 58-54 loss to James Madison on Feb. 16. The Bobcats were playing in the championship game for the first time since 2018.
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Jerrimy Farmer projected to take Marmaduke mayoral seat
Published: Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:11 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
MARMADUKE, Ark. (KAIT) – Results are showing that Jerrimy Farmer is projected to win the Marmaduke mayor race.
According to Greene County Clerk Phyllis Rhynes, unofficial totals in Tuesday’s runoff election show Farmer leading with 103 votes versus opponent Ronnie Floyd’s 85 votes.
Farmer told Region 8 News he would focus on infrastructure if elected, adding his experience as a city council member gave him a unique perspective on how to help residents.
You can track the latest results in the runoff election by visiting the Vote 2022 page.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent greenhouse gas on record, by far.
The Nord Stream pipeline leaks that were pumping huge volumes of methane into the Baltic Sea and atmosphere could discharge as much as five times as much of the potent greenhouse as was released by the Aliso Canyon disaster, the largest known terrestrial release of methane in U.S. history. It is also the equivalent of one third of Denmark’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions, a Danish official warned Wednesday.
“Whoever ordered this should be prosecuted for war crimes and go to jail,” said Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist. Two scientists looked at the official worst case scenario estimates provided by the Danish government — 778 million cubic meters of gas — for The Associated Press. Jackson and David Hastings, a retired chemical oceanographer in Gainesville, Florida each calculated that would be an equivalent of roughly half a million metric tons of methane. The Aliso Canyon disaster released 90-100,000 metric tons.
Andrew Baxter, a chemical engineer who formerly worked in the offshore oil and gas industry, and is now at the environmental group EDF thought the Danish estimate was likely too high. He had a more conservative estimate. But it was still more than double the Aliso Canyon disaster.
“That’s one thing that is consistent with these estimates,” he said, “It’s catastrophic for the climate.”
Kristoffer Böttzauw, head of the Danish Energy Agency, said emissions from the three leaks on the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines correspond to approximately 32% of annual Danish carbon dioxide emissions. Danish emissions in 2020 were approximately 45 million tonnes of CO2.
Sabotage was suspected to have caused the leaks, and seismologists said Tuesday that explosions rattled the Baltic Sea before they were discovered. Some European officials and energy experts have said Russia is likely to blame since it directly benefits from higher energy prices and economic anxiety across Europe. But others cautioned against pointing fingers until investigators are able to determine what happened.
Methane seen bubbling at the ocean surface was an indication of “a strong upward flow,” according to Paul Balcombe, a member of the engineering faculty at the department of chemical engineering at Imperial College London.
The loss of pressure in the pipe likely meant a large amount of gas was already lost, he said. The impacts of the gas leak are still coming into focus, Balcombe said, but are likely to be significant.
“It would have a very large environmental and climate impact indeed, even if it released a fraction of this,” he said.
Methane is a major contributor to climate change, responsible for a significant share of the climate disruption people are already experiencing. That is because it is 82.5 times more potent than carbon dioxide at absorbing the sun’s heat and warming the Earth.
Böttzauw, told a press conference that the agency expects the gas to be out of the pipes, that run from Russia to Germany, by Sunday.
“We believe that half the gas is out by now of one of the two pipes,” Böttzauw said. “We are talking about a huge spill of several million cubic meters of gas.”
The Danish agency statement added that its calculation was based on information from operators Nord Stream AG and Nord Stream 2 AG about the content of natural gas in the three pipelines that are leaking.
The incidents come as the EU struggles to keep a lid on soaring gas and electricity prices.
“As long as there is gas, it dangerous to be there,” Böttzauw said, declining to say when experts would be able to go down and see the pipes, which he said was made of 12-centimeter (5-inch) thick steel coated with concrete. They lie on the seabed between 70 and 90 meters (230 feet and 295 feet) deep.
The leaks all were in international waters. Two were within the Danish exclusive economic zone while the third is in the Swedish equivalent.
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Real-time engagement creates fan-centric excitement
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Identiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE), global digital security and identification leader in the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced its collaboration with collectID to deliver a near field communication(NFC)-enabled immersive fan experience for German football club 1. FC Köln. The activation leverages Identiv's NFC life-of-garment tags to provide fans with enhanced real-time match day access to exclusive digital content.
Fans of the football club who purchased a special ticket to the recent home match, nicknamed the "Innovation Game," against Italian Club AC Milan were given a team scarf with an embedded NFC tag to customize their own stadium experience. The digitized scarf can take the place of a conventional or mobile ticket, provide entry to the stadium, and also let users access exclusive real-time digital content during a match and receive offers and rewards.
"Not only is the interactive scarf convenient as there is no need to print their ticket or pull out their phone at the entrance, but 1. FC Köln could also make sure fans showed up in the club's traditional team colors, securing their loyal fan base and commanding the home atmosphere," said David Geisser, Co-founder of collectID.
The scarfs allowed fans to receive communication from 1. FC Köln during the game, including them in the real-time action on the pitch. In the second half, fans with a registered scarf were invited to redeem a free pretzel. After the home team scored their first goal, fans received a promotional offer for a free player flock with every purchase of the new season's jersey. "The feedback received from supporters of 1. FC Köln was so positive that there will be similar activations in the future. We look forward to being involved in developing more fan engagement with 1. FC Köln," added Geisser.
For the 1. FC Koln activation, Identiv selected NFC tags featuring the highest security level based on NXP NTAG 424 DNA IC. The unique antenna design, tag conversion, and properteriary encoding schema allow easy integration into wearables and can withstand over 100 rigorous hot and cold wash cycles and heated dryer cycles. Identiv's life-of-garment tags with secure authentication are ideal for anti-counterfeiting and verifying proof of ownership, providing a personalized experience within each interaction and drawing the brand and consumer closer through each unique digital experience.
"We're taking the interactive sporting event experience to the next level of entertainment through digitization, security, and a sustainable approach with less reliance on printed tickets," said Amir Khoshniyati, VP and GM Transponders, Identiv. "When fans scan their NFC-embedded scarf with their smartphone, it gives them access to pre-match video footage of the team's arrival, augmented reality features, and immersive replays, as well as offers and rewards with a goal of personalized data exchange drawing the team and fans closer than ever."
Identiv's innovative IoT-enabling radio frequency identification (RFID) and NFC solutions verify identities and security, and are embedded in billions of everyday objects, including medical devices, packaging, mobile device accessories, books, athletic apparel, wine and spirits, perishables, and pharmaceuticals.
For more information on Identiv's complete end-to-end portfolio, call +1 888.809.8880 or contact transponder_sales@identiv.com.
Identiv, Inc. is a global leader in digitally securing the physical world. Identiv's platform encompasses RFID and NFC, cybersecurity, and the full spectrum of physical access, video, and audio security. Identiv is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC in the U.S. under the symbol "INVE." For more information, visit identiv.com.
collectID, founded and headquartered in Switzerland, solves the problem of counterfeited products and creates a gateway for physical products to the Metaverse/Web3.0 by combining encrypted, smartphone-ready NFC tags with secure NFTs on blockchain. Through this technology the physical product becomes a direct and personalized marketing channel, boosting fan engagement and brand awareness. collectID is working with top international sports teams such as Nashville Predators (NHL), Atlético Mineiro (reigning Brazilian Champion), French Ligue 1 team ESTAC, VfB Stuttgart (German Bundesliga) as well as leading luxury brands like Maison Mollerus. For more information, visit collectid.io/.
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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake like Turkey’s would devastate Southern California. Here’s how
The destruction from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey on Monday is so widespread and intense it is hard to fathom.
But California has experienced quakes of that magnitude and greater — and scientists have spent years developing simulations of how “The Big One” would play out in the Golden State.
Here is a closer look at the risks from the pages of The Times:
Disruptions from a major quake would be serious and long-lasting. Here’s what could happen in Southern California if a large earthquake struck on the San Andreas fault.
Projecting a huge Southern California quake
A quake as strong as magnitude 8.2 is possible on the southern San Andreas fault and would bring disaster to all of Southern California simultaneously, with the fault rupturing from near the Mexican border to Monterey County.
Such an earthquake would cause widespread damage from Palm Springs to San Luis Obispo — and everything in between, experts say.
In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey and a host of other state government agencies and academics published a study called the ShakeOut Scenario that told the story of what could happen if a magnitude 7.8 earthquake returned to Southern California.
You may have heard sirens or gotten alerts as part of the Great California ShakeOut. The event is a good reminder to be prepared for an earthquake.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake would be “so powerful that it causes widespread damage and consequently affects lives and livelihoods of all southern Californians. A catastrophe is a disaster that runs amok when a society is not prepared for the amount of disruption that occurs,” the report said.
Among the impacts, the report found:
- The death toll could be among the worst for a natural disaster in U.S. history: nearly 1,800.
- Los Angeles County could suffer the highest death toll, more than 1,000, followed by Orange County, with more than 350 dead.
- Nearly 50,000 could be injured.
- Main freeways to Las Vegas and Phoenix that cross the San Andreas fault would be destroyed.
- Some 500,000 to 1 million people could be displaced from their homes.
- Southern California could be isolated for some time, with the region surrounded by mountains and earthquake faults.
- Major utilities such as gas, power and cell service would likely be severely compromised.
The milestone comes seven years after the City Council passed the nation’s most sweeping earthquake safety legislation, requiring that more than 14,000 buildings be retrofitted.
What history tells us
The last California seismic event that reached magnitude 7.8 was the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. In Southern California, a magnitude 7.8 quake struck in 1857. (The magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake, which occurred on a much smaller fault in the San Fernando Valley, was 45 times weaker than the so-called Ft. Tejon quake.)
The last two big earthquakes to strike Los Angeles — the 1971 Sylmar quake and 1994 Northridge quake — caused destruction and loss of life. But the worst damage was concentrated in relatively small areas and did not halt daily life across all of Southern California.
Experts have long warned that a significantly larger quake will eventually strike and that the toll will be far greater.
When the Big One hits, will Californians be ready for a lack of modern communication connections? Extended periods without essential utilities such as water and gas? Damage to homes? The mental health effects that often follow disaster?
Risk in Northern California
The San Andreas fault produced the epic 1906 quake that destroyed San Francisco.
But the Hayward fault in the East Bay also poses a major threat, experts say.
A landmark report by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2018 estimates that at least 800 people could be killed and 18,000 more injured in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault centered below Oakland.
Hundreds more could die from fire following a quake along the 52-mile fault. More than 400 fires could ignite, burning the equivalent of 52,000 single-family homes, and a lack of water for firefighters caused by old pipes shattering underground could make matters worse, researchers said.
The Hayward fault is so dangerous because it runs through some of the most heavily populated parts of the Bay Area, spanning the length of the East Bay from the San Pablo Bay through Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward, Fremont and into Milpitas.
For all the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it was centered off the coast in the Pacific Ocean.
Earthquake early warning systems have been part of life in metropolises like Tokyo, Taipei and Mexico City for years.
Building strength
In the Turkey quake, thousands of buildings were reported to have collapsed in a wide area extending from the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Hama to Turkey’s Diyarbakir, more than 200 miles to the northeast. A hospital collapsed in the Mediterranean coastal city of Iskanderoun, according to the Associated Press.
Building standards in California are significantly stronger. Images in Turkey and Syria show countless toppled buildings.
California has been working to improve seismic safety rules for vulnerable buildings.
The ShakeOut scenario focused on unretrofitted brick buildings, brittle concrete buildings and so-called soft-story apartment buildings. Some cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco have been pushing retrofits for these types of structures.
Last year, L.A. announced a major milestone: More than 8,000 seismically vulnerable buildings have been retrofitted across the city at an estimated cost of $1.3 billion. The improvements mark the biggest advance in seismic upgrades in decades but still leave thousands of buildings vulnerable to damage or even collapse in a catastrophic temblor.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASB Financial, Inc. (OTCQX: NASB) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.85 per share, which will be paid on December 30, 2022, to stockholders of record on December 19, 2022.
NASB Financial, Inc. is a unitary thrift holding company for North American Savings Bank, F.S.B. ("NASB"). Since 1927, NASB has been serving the financial needs of customers by providing an array of personal banking and lending products in the Kansas City metro area. Nationwide, NASB offers competitive residential and commercial mortgages with the safety and security of a Federal financial institution.
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The 2023 Travelers Championship Odds & Preview: Emiliano Grillo
The Travelers Championship is in progress, and after the second round Emiliano Grillo is in 10th place at -8.
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Emiliano Grillo Insights
- Grillo has finished better than par six times and carded nine rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 16 rounds.
- He has carded the best score of the day in one of his last 16 rounds, while scoring among the top 10 in four rounds.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Grillo has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round three times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on eight occasions.
- In his past five events, Grillo has finished atop the leaderboard once.
- He has made the cut in three of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five tournaments, Grillo has finished within three shots of the leader once and posted a score better than average twice.
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Travelers Championship Insights and Stats
- In Grillo's past six appearances at this event, he has finished among the top 20 once, and his average finish has been 46th.
- In his past six appearances at this event, he made it to the weekend four times.
- Grillo last played this event in 2022, and he did not make the cut.
- Courses on the Tour in the past year have averaged 7,110 yards, which is longer than the 6,852-yard length for this event.
- Players have recorded an average score of -5 per tournament in the past year on the Tour, with an average par of 71. Events hosted at this course have the same average score relative to par.
- The courses that Grillo has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,336 yards, while TPC River Highlands will be at 6,852 yards this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -5 among finishers, the same as the average at this course.
Grillo's Last Time Out
- Grillo was relatively mediocre on the 10 par-3 holes at the U.S. Open, averaging 3.1 strokes to finish in the 59th percentile of the field.
- His 4.15-stroke average on the 20 par-4 holes at the U.S. Open placed him in the 47th percentile.
- Grillo was better than only 12% of the field at the U.S. Open on par-5 holes, averaging 5.17 strokes per hole compared to the field average of 4.83.
- Grillo carded a birdie or better on four of 10 par-3s at the U.S. Open, better than the field average of 1.6.
- On the 10 par-3s at the U.S. Open, Grillo carded four bogeys or worse (the tournament average was 3.6).
- Grillo recorded fewer birdies or better (two) than the field average of 4.1 on the 20 par-4s at the U.S. Open.
- In that last competition, Grillo carded a bogey or worse on four of 20 par-4s (the field averaged 7.5).
- Grillo ended the U.S. Open with a birdie or better on two of six par-5s, worse than the tournament average, 2.9.
- On the six par-5s at the U.S. Open, Grillo underperformed compared to the tournament average of 1.4 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording two.
Travelers Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: TPC River Highlands
- Location: Cromwell, Connecticut
- Par: 70 / 6,852 yards
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JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in May. Its anticipated sale speaks to the still bullish market for art, antiquities and ancient manuscripts even in a worldwide bear economy.
Sotheby’s is drumming up interest in hopes of enticing institutions and collectors to bite. It has put the price tag at an eye-watering $30 million to $50 million.
On Wednesday, Tel Aviv’s ANU Museum of the Jewish People opened a week-long exhibition of the manuscript, part of a whirlwind worldwide tour of the artifact in the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States before its expected sale, on Wednesday.
“There are three ancient Hebrew Bibles from this period,” said Yosef Ofer, a professor of Bible studies at Israel’s Bar Ilan University: the Codex Sassoon and Aleppo Codex from the 10th century, and the Leningrad Codex, from the early 11th century.
Only the Dead Sea Scrolls and a handful of fragmentary early medieval texts are older, and “an entire Hebrew Bible is relatively rare,” he said.
Starting a few centuries before the Codex Sassoon’s creation, Jewish scholars known as Masoretes started codifying oral traditions of how to properly spell, pronounce, punctuate and chant the words of Judaism’s holiest book. Unlike Torah scrolls, where the Hebrew letters are devoid of vowels and punctuation, these manuscripts contained extensive annotation instructing readers how to recite the words correctly.
Precisely where and when the Codex Sassoon was made remains uncertain. Sharon Liberman Mintz, a senior Judaica specialist at Sotheby’s, said that radiocarbon dating of the parchment gave an estimated date of 880 to 960. The codex’s writing style suggests its creator was an unspecified early 10th-century scribe in Egypt or the Levant.
“It’s like the emergence of the biblical text as we know it today,” Mintz said. “It’s so foundational not only for Judaism, but also for world culture.”
Though it’s certainly ancient and rare, scholars say the Codex Sassoon doesn’t match the pedigree and quality of its contemporary — the Aleppo Codex.
“Any Masoretic scholar in their right mind would take the Aleppo Codex over the Sassoon Codex, without any regret or hesitation,” said Kim Phillips, a Bible expert at the Cambridge University Library. He said the scribal quality was “surprisingly sloppy” compared to its counterpart.
The Aleppo Codex, dated to around 930, has been considered the gold standard of the Masoretic Bibles for around 1,000 years. The Codex Sassoon’s margins contain an annotation from a later scholar who says he checked its text against the Aleppo Codex — referring to the manuscript by the Arabic title a-Taj, “the Crown.”
“The Aleppo Codex is more precise than the Sassoon Codex, there’s no doubt,” Ofer said. “But because it’s missing (a third of its pages), in those parts that are absent, there is great significance to this manuscript.” The Codex Sassoon’s 792 pages make up around 92% of the Hebrew Bible.
These venerable manuscripts were protected and treasured by Syrian Jewish communities for centuries until the 20th century. How the Sassoon Codex survived the ages is an epic in its own right.
A note on the manuscript attest to its owners in centuries past: A man named Khalaf ben Abraham gave it to Isaac ben Ezekiel al-Attar, who gave it to his sons Ezekiel and Maimon.
It later migrated east to the town of Makisin in what’s today northeast Syria, where it was dedicated to a synagogue in the 13th century. Sometime in the following decades, the synagogue was destroyed and the codex entrusted to Salama ibn Abi al-Fakhr until the synagogue was rebuilt.
It never was rebuilt, but the book survived.
Its whereabouts for the next 500 years remain uncertain until it resurfaced in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929, and was bought by a legendary collector of Jewish manuscripts whose name it still bears.
David Solomon Sassoon was a Bombay-born son of an Iraqi Jewish business magnate who filled his London home with a massive collection of Jewish manuscripts.
“His capacity was astounding, both in terms of number but also in terms of what he was able to find,” said Raquel Ukeles, head of collections at Israel’s National Library.
Sassoon roved across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa buying up old books, and by his death in 1942, he had amassed over 1,200 manuscripts.
Sassoon’s estate was broken up after he died and the codex was sold by Sotheby’s in Zurich in 1978 to the British Rail Pension Fund, which had started investing in art several years earlier, for around $320,000.
The pension fund flipped the Codex Sassoon 11 years later for 10 times its hammer price. Jacqui Safra, a banker and art collector, bought it in 1989 for $3.19 million and is now putting it up for auction.
If the target price is realized, the Codex Sassoon could not only eclipse the most expensive Jewish document ever sold — the 2021 sale of the Luzzatto Machzor, a 14th-century prayerbook, for $8.3 million. It also could break the record for the priciest historical document ever sold at public auction. That honor is currently held by a 1787 copy of the U.S. Constitution sold in 2021 for $43 million.
Yoel Finkelman, a former curator of Judaica at Israel’s National Library, said that prices for Judaica manuscripts have skyrocketed in recent years, but Sotheby’s proposed range is “a different league.”
Few institutions, and only a small handful of ultrawealthy collectors, could afford such a price tag. There is precedent, however, of museums joining forces to buy prized manuscripts or philanthropists donating their purchases to libraries and other bodies.
Ukeles said that the National Library managed to purchase seven of Sassoon’s manuscripts when his collection was auctioned off in the 1970s, “but this one got away. And so for us, this is an opportunity to bring this great treasure home.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/sothebys-hopes-to-sell-ancient-hebrew-bible-for-record-30-million/ | 2023-03-22 12:41:31 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/sothebys-hopes-to-sell-ancient-hebrew-bible-for-record-30-million/ |
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Members of the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group gathered in Morocco on Wednesday to discuss the campaign, a reminder of the persistent threat from the extremist group despite the overwhelming preoccupation with Russia’s war on Ukraine.
U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland co-chaired with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita the annual meeting of senior officials from the 8-year-old, 83-member bloc. The group aims to reaffirm their shared determination to continue fighting IS.
Nuland, the third highest-ranking U.S. diplomat, replaced Secretary of State Antony Blinken who tested positive for COVID-19.
IS at the height of its power controlled more than 40,000 square miles (103,600 square kilometers) stretching from Syria to Iraq and ruled over 8 million people. It lost its last patch of territory in eastern Syria in March 2019 following a years-long global fight against the group. Since that time, it has largely gone underground and waged a low-level insurgency, including roadside bombings, assassinations and hit-and-run attacks mostly targeting security forces in Iraq and Syria.
In recent months, the group has exploited economic collapse, lack of governance and growing ethnic tensions in the impoverished region to reverse counter-IS gains. Its attacks in the region included a major assault earlier this year to seize a prison in northeast Syria holding at least 3,000 IS detainees.
The group has claimed several attacks in Israel recently, and an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt on Sunday claimed an attack that targeted a water pumping station east of the Suez Canal, killing at least 11 soldiers. In Afghanistan, IS militants have stepped up attacks on the country’s new rulers, the Taliban, as well as religious and ethnic minorities.
This year’s meeting is taking place to the backdrop of significant other international priorities, including the devastating war in Ukraine, fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and stepping up the fight against climate change.
Moroccan media report that some 80 countries would be represented at the gathering Monday. Delegates will also discuss ways to prevent a resurgence in Iraq and Syria by stabilizing liberated areas and pursuing sustainable solutions for IS detainees and their family members, as well as countering IS networks on the African continent and elsewhere.
The Moroccan government said it hopes the meeting will result in increased international commitment and cooperation in the fight against IS, with a particular focus on Africa and the growing terrorist threat in the Middle East and other countries.
Numerous Moroccans have traveled to Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to join extremist groups in recent years. Morocco has also experienced multiple attacks itself. Five suicide attacks in Casablanca in 2003 killed 33 people. In 2011, an explosion destroyed a cafe in Marrakesh, killing 17 people, most of them foreign tourists. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Ministers-meet-in-Morocco-to-discuss-ongoing-17164685.php | 2022-05-11 14:04:43 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Ministers-meet-in-Morocco-to-discuss-ongoing-17164685.php |
In honor of World Nutella Day, Nutella is giving consumers two brand new ways to enjoy The Original Hazelnut Spread®
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of fan created holiday, World Nutella Day (February 5th), Nutella is officially announcing the debut of two new products: Nutella B-Ready and Nutella Biscuits. Already beloved by thousands across the world, these delicious offerings are the first innovations to come to the U.S. since Nutella &GO!, which debuted in 2012.
Nutella B-Ready
- An irresistible breaktime snack to enjoy anywhere and anytime, Nutella B-Ready is a deliciously light, crispy wafer shell filled with creamy Nutella® and sprinkled with puffed wheat crisps. The easy to enjoy individually wrapped treat is the perfect portable snack and will be available in a 2-count pack (SRP: $1.89), a 6-count pack (SRP: $3.99), and a 36-pack at major club stores later this spring (SRP: $13.99).
Nutella Biscuits
- Perfect to share with those you love as a mid-afternoon snack or an after-dinner treat, Nutella Biscuits are made from a delicious recipe: a golden baked crunchy biscuit, specially crafted to hold a creamy heart filled with the unique taste of Nutella. These delicious cookies will be available in a 20-count resealable bag (SRP: $4.79).
"We are thrilled to be launching Nutella B-Ready and Nutella Biscuits in the U.S., two products that have already received love and accolades across the globe," said Noah Szporn, Senior Vice President of Spreads at Ferrero North America. "In honor of World Nutella Day, a holiday that was created by a fan for our fans, we are excited to double our U.S. portfolio and give our loyal fans two new ways to enjoy their favorite hazelnut spread."
Nutella B-Ready and Nutella Biscuits can be purchased in stores nationwide and online in the cookie and biscuit aisle at major retailers starting this month.
Nutella fans can once again share their love for the brand on Twitter @NutellaUSA and Instagram @Nutella and other social media pages using the hashtag #WorldNutellaDay.
ABOUT WORLD NUTELLA DAY®
Since 2007, World Nutella Day has been about worldwide Nutella fans and their love of the world's favorite hazelnut spread. Spontaneously created in 2007 by American blogger Sara Rosso, who decided to create a celebratory day to inspire and unite the global Nutella community to share their passion for Nutella on social media, World Nutella® Day quickly became a global phenomenon, as fans everywhere shared their love for Nutella.
ABOUT NUTELLA®
Nutella was born in 1964. The unique hazelnut spread that millions of people around the world love, is made with a meticulous selection of high-quality ingredients and an exacting, artisan-inspired production.
Today, the popular hazelnut spread is available in around 160 countries worldwide and has been sold for 58 years.
About Ferrero
The Ferrero Group brings joy to people around the world with beloved treats including Kinder®, Nutella®, Ferrero Rocher® and Tic Tac®. Ferrero Group is one of the world's largest sweet-packaged food companies, with over 35 iconic brands sold in more than 170 countries. More than 35,000 "Ferrerians" are committed to helping people celebrate life's special moments with high-quality products. Commitment to the planet and communities in which we operate are at the heart of Ferrero Group's family culture. Our programs and partnerships ensure our work is environmentally sustainable and beneficial to local communities.
Ferrero entered the North American market in 1969 and has grown to more than 5,100 employees in 15 plants and warehouses, and eight offices in North America across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. It has expanded its presence and portfolio with the addition of iconic brands such as Butterfinger®, CRUNCH®, Keebler®, Famous Amos®, Mother's Cookies®, and other distinctive cookie and chocolate brands. Follow @FerreroNACorp on Twitter and Instagram. www.ferreronorthamerica.com.
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Rain finally comes - but is it enough to really help?
Rain arrived on schedule over the weekend, but by Monday morning had not delivered on the downpours the National Weather Service predicted were possible.
By 10 a.m. Monday Wichita Falls had received 1.73 inches of rain since Saturday. The NWS predicted the city may receive another .75 inch on Monday with smaller chances lingering through Wednesday. That amount is appreciated by most North Texans, but far short of the six to eight inches the weather service had said was possible during the multi-day rain event.
As of Monday, Wichita Falls was 6.7 inches short of average rainfalls for this time of the year and remains in an extreme drought, according to the U.S Drought Monitor.
As of Monday the combined capacity of the city's two primary reservoirs, Arrowhead and Kickapoo, was 71.5 percent. Lake Arrowhead was 74 percent full while Lake Kickapoo had dropped to 64.8 percent of capacity. If the combined capacity of those two lakes drops to 65 percent, water use restrictions will kick in.
Lake Kemp can also be a water resource, but is not counted in the combined capacity. As of Monday, that lake was 58.4 percent full. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/22/rain-finally-comes-but-is-it-enough-to-really-help/65413748007/ | 2022-08-22 21:17:48 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/22/rain-finally-comes-but-is-it-enough-to-really-help/65413748007/ |
The old approach when confronted with borderline manners was to ask the offender something like "were you raised in a barn?" That approach might be too direct for today's world, so Catherine Newman opted instead for an owner's manual for people to take ownership of their lives.
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up guides young people--with words and pictures--toward behaviors and practices that can result in greater organization and happiness. Approval, too.
Catherine is an etiquette columnist as part of her writing career. She joined is in 2020 with the flying-short-course version of her book. | https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2022-12-15/fri-9-am-exchange-exemplar-an-owners-manual-for-all-how-to-be-a-person | 2022-12-15 18:49:26 | 0 | https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2022-12-15/fri-9-am-exchange-exemplar-an-owners-manual-for-all-how-to-be-a-person |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Seth Brown scored on a fielding error by Atlanta third baseman Austin Riley in the ninth inning, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Braves 2-1 on Tuesday night, recording consecutive victories for the second time this season.
Braves reliever Raisel Iglesias (1-2) walked three of the first four Oakland batters in the ninth. Jonah Bride hit a sharp grounder that Riley bobbled. Bride easily beat Riley’s throw to first as Brown scored, giving the A’s their fifth walkoff win of the season and first back-to-back victories since May 5-6 in Kansas City.
Oakland moved to 12-45 with the win in front of 5,116, the 21st time in 30 home games that the attendance has been under 10,000.
Kevin Pillar hit his sixth homer of the season for the NL East-leading Braves.
One day after ending an 11-game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the Braves, Oakland struggled to get much going against Atlanta starter Bryce Elder.
Elder held the A’s without a hit until the fourth, when Ramón Laureano rolled a two-out single into right field.
In the fifth, Oakland strung together three straight singles with one out, tying the game. Shea Langeliers got it going with the A’s second hit of the game and scored on Esteury Ruiz’s single to left.
Elder had five strikeouts and worked around three walks in 7 1/3 innings while lowering his majors-leading ERA to 1.92, among qualifiers.
Pillar, who has homered in his last three starts, led off the third by drilling a 2-1 fastball 344 feet, hitting the cement facade above the padded wall in left and bouncing back onto the field. The veteran outfielder later doubled to nearly the same spot in the fifth. The ball hit on the warning track, bounced up and ricocheted off the wall.
Shintaro Fujinami (2-5) retired the only batter he faced on a foul pop-up to the catcher and earned the win.
A’s starter JP Sears, whose seven no-decisions going into the game were tied for most in the majors, added to that with a solid outing. He allowed one run and four hits in six innings , yet remained winless since Sept. 20, 2022.
WHERE’S BLUE?
The game started with only three umpires, as third base ump Mark Ripperger was late getting out to the field. Ripperger missed only one batter and trotted out to his position after Ronald Acuña Jr. was picked off first base and caught in a rundown.
MOVES
Braves: Selected the contract of RHP AJ Smith-Shawer from Triple-A Gwinnett. … LHP Lucas Luetge was designated for assignment.
UP NEXT
The Athletics have been shut out three times in the last six starts by RHP James Kaprielian (0-5, 8.45), who pitches the series finale Wednesday afternoon. Kaprielian hasn’t won since Oct. 2, 2022, when he beat Seattle in his final start of the season. Atlanta counters with rookie LHP Jared Shuster (1-2, 5.33), who is trying to win back-to-back decisions for the first time.
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It is one of the most beloved movie series of all time, but Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy only scratched the surface of the rich world of Middle-earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien.
And "multiple" new movies set in Middle-earth are in the works, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced on Thursday in an earnings call, after studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy signed a deal with Freemode, a division of Swedish entertainment company Embracer Group, which acquired the movie rights to Tolkien's work in August last year. (Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.)
Warner Bros. will produce the movies together with sister company New Line Cinema and Freemode, "expanding upon the much-loved world and characters of Middle-earth," a statement released by Embracer read.
Currently, New Line and Warner Bros. Animation are in production on an anime movie "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim," a story set 183 years before the events of "The Lord of the Rings," recounting the fate of Helm Hammerhand, a King of Rohan.
Neither the cost of the deal nor the creative team were revealed, although Jackson and his collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens said in a statement to Variety that Warner Bros. and Embracer have kept them "in the loop" and that they "look forward to speaking with them further to hear their vision for the franchise moving forward."
CNN has reached out to Jackson's representatives for comment.
Jackson's original trilogy, released between 2001 and 2003, was widely acclaimed, collecting 17 Academy Awards and generating almost $3 billion at the box office.
Other adaptations of Tolkien's books have since been produced for the big and small screens.
Jackson's "The Hobbit" movie trilogy also generated almost $3 billion in global receipts, while Amazon, which owns the TV rights to "The Lord of the Rings," released its first season of "The Rings of Power" in 2022.
"Twenty years ago, New Line took an unprecedented leap of faith to realize the incredible stories, characters and world of 'The Lord of the Rings' on the big screen," De Luca and Abdy said in a statement.
"But for all the scope and detail lovingly packed into the two trilogies, the vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien remains largely unexplored on film. The opportunity to invite fans deeper into the cinematic world of Middle-earth is an honor," they added. | https://www.albanyherald.com/entertainment/new-lord-of-the-rings-movie-series-in-the-works-at-warner-bros/article_31db3d1c-e87d-55ea-8bea-4a851c4c2602.html | 2023-02-24 14:17:06 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/entertainment/new-lord-of-the-rings-movie-series-in-the-works-at-warner-bros/article_31db3d1c-e87d-55ea-8bea-4a851c4c2602.html |
The Conference Gave a Platform to Companies from Microsoft to AWS, Meta and Companies like TerraZero Technologies Shaping the Future of Interactive, Gamification and Metaverse
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TerraZero Technologies Inc. ("TerraZero" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated Metaverse technology company, recently presented at the Immerse Global Summit in Miami, Florida.
Featuring content from the last year of activations across multiple Metaverse worlds, TerraZero spoke to the impact interactive, experiential and Metaverse technologies have for enterprise businesses looking to engage with their audiences in new ways, particularly through gamification. In a time where many converge blockchain, Metaverse and crypto together in an exclusive way, TerraZero's presentation shed a light on how enterprise businesses can safely activate in the Metaverse in a way that will adhere to their corporate standards across IT and legal.
"It has been fantastic to see our clients embrace the Metaverse in such a robust way," says TerraZero CEO Dan Reitzik. "And then to see so many companies like TerraZero sharing stages with companies like AWS, Microsoft, and schools like NYU and Harvard… It shows mass adoption and incredible thought leadership. So many headlines have called these technologies 'emerging' or 'nascent' this year, but we're seeing the industry come alive in real time. Immerse is the perfect place to learn about how a company can completely transform the way in which they engage with their customers using innovative technologies, and we're happy to lend our experiences to embolden that transformation."
To learn more about TerraZero's products, services, and in-house studio, go online to terrazero.com or reach out directly at hello@terrazero.com.
TerraZero Technologies Inc. ("TerraZero") is a vertically integrated Metaverse development group and leading web3 technology company specializing in helping brands create immersive experiences. The Company's Metaverse-agnostic vision is to develop and implement products and services with scalable commercial applications to flourish engagement across gamified experiences where enterprise- level businesses, Metaverse platforms, and web3 creators can seamlessly bridge and actionably grow their virtual world and the physical world endeavors together as one. TerraZero owns digital real estate for brands to establish presence in existing virtual worlds and can also offer brands their own private worlds to provide offices and services to those interested in the Metaverse. Furthermore, TerraZero acquires, designs, builds, and operates virtual assets and solutions to monetize the Metaverse ecosystem. The Company's businesses are segmented into five (5) divisions which include: (1) Immersive experience creation in existing or private virtual worlds; (2) advertising; (3) data analytics; (4) events and marketing; and (5) infrastructure. TerraZero aims to support the community, foster innovation, and drive adoption. For more information, please visit www.terrazero.com or contact hello@terrazero.com.
This news release includes certain statements and information that may constitute forward-looking information or statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs of management of the Company regarding future events. Generally, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "intends," "expects," or "anticipates," or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events, or results "may," "could," "should," "would," or will "potentially" or "likely" occur. This information and these statements, referred to herein as "forward‐looking statements," are not historical facts and are made as of the date of this news release, which includes without limitation, statements regarding discussions of future plans, estimates, and forecasts and statements as to management's expectations and intentions with respect to, among other things: the Company's intention to develop and drive traffic to its assets and locations within the Metaverse; that establishing an early presence within the Metaverse will provide the Company with new users, branding, and marketing opportunities; events, courses of action, and the potential of the Company's technology and operations, among others, are all forward-looking information.
Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including but not limited to, market and other conditions, business, economic, and capital market conditions; the ability to manage operating expenses, which may adversely affect the Company's financial condition; the ability to remain competitive as other better financed competitors develop and release competitive products; regulatory uncertainties; access to personnel, employees, and consultants; market conditions and the demand and pricing for products and services; the demand and pricing of cryptocurrencies and NFTs; security threats, including a loss/theft of TerraZero's NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and other assets; TerraZero's relationships with its customers and business partners; TerraZero's ability to successfully define, design, and release new products in a timely manner that meet customers' needs; the ability to attract, retain, and motivate qualified personnel; competition in the industry; the impact of technology changes on the products and industry; failure to develop new and innovative products; the ability to successfully maintain and enforce our intellectual property rights and defend third-party claims of infringement of their intellectual property rights; the impact of intellectual property litigation that could materially and adversely affect the business; the ability to manage working capital; and the dependence on key personnel. As a result, TerraZero may not actually achieve its plans, projections, or expectations. In addition, such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including the demand for its products, the ability to develop software successfully, that there will be no regulation or law that will prevent the Company from operating its business, anticipated costs, the ability to secure sufficient capital to complete its business plans, the ability to achieve goals, and the price of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Given these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include failure to obtain regulatory approval, the continued availability of capital and financing, technology failures, failure to obtain any permits required to operate the business, the impact of technology changes on the industry, the impact of COVID-19 or other viruses and diseases on the Company's ability to operate and hire personnel, competition, security threats including stolen NFTs and cryptocurrencies from TerraZero or its customers, consumer sentiment towards TerraZero's products, services and Metaverse technology generally, failure to develop new and innovative products, litigation, increase in operating costs, increase in labor costs, decrease in the price of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, failure of counterparties to perform their contractual obligations, government regulations, loss of key employees and consultants, and general economic, market, or business conditions. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking information. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Additionally, the Company undertakes no obligation to comment on the expectations of or statements made by third parties
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) – If you’ve ever walked out to find a dirt-splotched car after a rainstorm, you can likely sympathize with drivers in parts of the Midwest who may regret spending money on a car wash last weekend.
The weather phenomenon known as mud rain, also called rain dust, happens when wind-borne dust mixes with a storm system that deposits muddy drops – often miles away.
For car owners in Kansas City, the storm system that moved into the Kansas City area last week carried particles from significant dust storms in western Texas.
I sent this out yesterday before the rain arrived. Certainly not the 1st time this has happened but if your wondering why your car that was outside looks like this (my car)…at least maybe you knew it was coming. JL #mowx #kswx #fox4kc https://t.co/iX45ffxeom pic.twitter.com/PWdhR7rPNd
— Fox 4 Weather KC (@fox4wx) February 27, 2023
The storm created a vacuum and carried all of that dust hundreds of miles northeast into the Kansas City metro.
The dust mixed with the rain enough to turn it into mud. The “mud rain” then stuck to vehicles, but it did not rain enough to wash off the mud.
“Dirty rain last night was caused by a dust storm Sunday afternoon in Texas/New Mexico,” Jacob Lanier, of Nexstar’s WDAF, said on Twitter. “That dust in the atmosphere was condensation nuclei for raindrops in the storms that tracked through Oklahoma, Kansas, & Missouri. Water is all evaporated now, so the dust remains.”
While splotchy car paint and windows can be frustrating, another consequence can be respiratory issues as the fine dust contaminates the air we breathe, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-is-mud-rain-and-why-is-it-on-my-car/ | 2023-03-04 17:58:26 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-is-mud-rain-and-why-is-it-on-my-car/ |
Prime Day is a great time to score some of the most sought-after products at significant savings. This year, Prime Day will be on July 11 and 12, and while Amazon sells a nearly infinite variety of products, electronics feature heavily at its yearly midsummer sale. In particular, you’ll find a large number of previously released laptops on sale.
While it’s impossible to accurately predict every single laptop deal we’ll see in July, past events give a good indication of what kinds of products Prime Day 2023 will feature. We’ve included some of our favorites, such as the Apple 2022 MacBook Pro, which we tested and love for its elite performance, durable build and impressive battery life.
We’ve also rounded up the best early deals of Prime Day, so keep your eyes peeled as we approach the big sale.
The deals below were updated on June 22, 2023, at 12 pm EST.
Shop this article: Apple MacBook Pro, Asus Vivobook Pro 15 OLED Laptop, Dell Inspiron 14 Plus Laptop
Best laptops on sale for Prime Day early access
Acer Swift X 14-Inch Creator Laptop 31% OFF
The AMD Ryzen 7 5825U processor with Zen 3 Core Architecture makes this one of the fastest ultrathin laptops and an excellent buy for Prime Day at 31% off. It has an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 and 16GB for smooth gaming, and the 14-inch display offers stunning visuals in high definition.
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Dell Inspiron 16 Laptop 12% OFF
The 16-inch display makes this laptop perfect for those who want to stream HD TV shows and movies, and anyone who needs more screen space to work on office documents such as spreadsheets and slideshows. It has a powerful Intel i7 Core processor, 16GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce MX570 graphics card.
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Apple MacBook Air 2020 20% OFF
Apple MacBook laptops are pricey, but you can get this 2020 MacBook Air right now at a 20% discount. The ultrathin design makes it suitable for traveling, and the battery life can last up to 18 hours. The M1 chip delivers fast performance, and the 13.3-inch retina display offers crisp text and visuals.
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Asus Vivobook Pro 15 OLED Laptop 10% OFF
If you want a lightweight laptop designed for hardcore gaming and streaming HD content, the Vivobook Pro 15 is for you. The OLED display delivers outstanding clarity and rich color, and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card makes it suitable for playing the latest PC games.
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Apple 2022 MacBook Pro 15% OFF
We tested the 2022 MacBook Pro, and we love it for its M2 chip that makes it twice as fast as most MacBook Air laptops. We were also impressed by its battery life, which lasts up to 20 hours on a full charge. Plus, it has an HD FaceTime camera, an advanced cooling system and an integrated studio-quality triple-microphone setup.
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Lenovo ThinkPad L14 15% OFF
The Lenovo ThinkPad L14 is an excellent laptop for those who aren’t overly concerned about premium features. It’s fantastic for business as it boasts 16GB of RAM for efficient multitasking and an Intel i5 processor suitable for running most office software. It also has an anti-glare touch-screen display and supports Wi-Fi E6 technology.
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Dell Inspiron 14 Plus Laptop 18% OFF
This high-end laptop offers powerful performance and is loaded with several neat features, including fast charging, multiple connectivity ports and a full HD webcam for smooth video calling. It has 16GB of RAM, 1TB of internal SSD storage and ComfortView Plus technology that reduces blue light.
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Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop 24% OFF
Hardcore gamers who want a laptop for lag-free and smooth gameplay will love this gaming laptop for its GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card and high-powered Intel i7 processor. It has a 15.6-inch HD display, a 144-hertz refresh rate, an advanced cooling system and a backlit four-zone RGB keyboard.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Clashes between police and supporters of the opposition leader in Senegal left one person dead and several injured, friends of the victim told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko had called on his supporters to follow him in a “freedom caravan” from his hometown of Ziguinchor, in the south and where he is the mayor, to the capital, Dakar — some 750 kilometers (465 miles) away — where a verdict is expected next week on the charges that he is facing.
Sonko is being tried for rape and death threats against a woman working at a massage parlor, and could face up to 10 years in prison. If convicted, he would would be barred from running in next year’s presidential elections.
Sonko did not attend the trial last week and was judged in absentia. He said he is protesting against injustice and will no longer respond to court summons. He and his supporters maintain his legal troubles are part of an effort by President Macky Sall’s government to derail his candidacy in the 2024 elections.
The opposition leader recently received a six-month suspended prison sentence in a defamation case against Minister of Tourism Mame Mbaye Niang, to whom he now owes some $330,000 in compensation.
It’s not clear how Friday’s clashes began, but on Sonko’s Facebook page smoke from tear gas could be seen, as well as a truck blocking the street where the caravan and hundreds of supporters were walking.
Local media reported that several police trucks and security forces were deployed to the area.
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DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Inc. (NYSE American: AINC) ("Ashford" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Ashford plans to issue its earnings release for the third quarter after the market closes on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, and will host a conference call on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. ET. The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (201) 689-8263. A replay of the conference call will be available through Thursday, November 10, 2022, by dialing (412) 317-6671 and entering the confirmation number, 13732688.
The live broadcast of Ashford's quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.ashfordinc.com, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for approximately one year.
Ashford is an alternative asset management company with a portfolio of strategic operating businesses that provides global asset management, investment management and related services to the real estate and hospitality sectors.
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Depeche Mode is mourning the loss of one of its founding members.
The band announced on social media Thursday that keyboardist Andy Fletcher has died.
He was 60.
"We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member, and bandmate Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher," the band said. "Fletch had a true heart of gold and was always there when you needed support, a lively conversation, a good laugh, or a cold pint."
— Depeche Mode (@depechemode) May 26, 2022
The band did not release a cause of death, but according to the Associated Press, Fletcher died from natural causes at his home in the United Kingdom on Thursday.
According to CNN, Depeche Mode was formed in 1980 by Fletcher, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, and Dave Gahan.
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DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Elijah Pepper's 32 points led UC Davis over CSU Northridge 73-62 on Wednesday night, overcoming a 42-point game from Atin Wright of the Matadors.
Pepper also had eight rebounds for the Aggies (15-11, 8-6 Big West Conference). Christian Anigwe scored 15 points and added 10 rebounds. Kane Milling was 4 of 8 shooting, including 3 for 5 from distance, and went 4 for 5 from the line to finish with 15 points.
De'Sean Allen-Eikens added nine points, two steals and three blocks for CSU Northridge (6-20, 3-12).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are warning of dire ramifications for the economy and for national security if Congress fails to pass a bill by the end of July that is designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.
Their appeals have grown increasingly urgent as Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell threaten to block the computer chips legislation, creating a standoff that threatens to derail one of the biggest bipartisan initiatives in Congress. Republicans have tied their cooperation to Democrats not moving forward with a separate package of energy and economic initiatives that GOP lawmakers warn would increase taxes on small businesses and hurt the economy. It's a demand that Democrats dismiss out of hand.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said computer chipmakers are being offered lucrative incentives from other countries such as South Korea, Japan, France, Germany and Singapore to locate plants there. She cited Monday's announcement by STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build a semiconductor factory in France as an example of other countries moving faster than the U.S. on the issue.
“Bottom line is there are very real, very devastating consequences if Congress doesn't do its job in the month of July," Raimondo told The Associated Press.
Those consequences mean not only lost job opportunities for the U.S., but an overdependency on other nations for semiconductors that could become a critical vulnerability because they are so important for products ranging from cars and cellphones to modern weapons systems.
Raimondo was to be part of a closed-door briefing with senators Wednesday to discuss the national security implications of the semiconductor legislation. Set to join her were Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
Raimondo and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in a letter to congressional leaders, said semiconductor companies need to get “concrete in the ground” by this fall to meet increased demand. The Cabinet members said it was their assessment that further delays in passing the legislation will “result in a deficit of semiconductor investment from which we may not be able to recover.”
Both chambers of Congress have passed bills that include about $52 billion in financial support for the U.S. semiconductor industry, but they are struggling to merge the legislation into a final compromise that could gain 60 votes in the Senate, the number needed to overcome procedural hurdles.
McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday suggested the House could just take up the Senate-passed version, which would allow it to move to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law. Or the two chambers could just take up a much narrower bill focused on semiconductor incentives, leaving out provisions on trade and new research priorities.
Both options face major hurdles. A Democratic leadership aide in the House said the Senate bill has too many fundamental problems to get the necessary 218 votes in the House. Meanwhile, senators from both parties are wary of settling for the $52 billion in financial incentives after working for years on other priorities in the bill.
“It's just that there's too many other things that we worked so hard on. Why would we cut that down?" said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. “If it's about being truly competitive, why would we say we just want to be a little competitive."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said he could support legislation just focused on the financial incentives, “but it's got problems with other members of the conference" who are insisting on additional provisions.
Democrats have blown past their goal of reaching agreement on principles of the final bill by the end of June so that staff could prepare text and the two chambers could vote in July. Raimondo said she had been speaking with several Republicans on narrowing differences between the House and Senate before McConnell tweeted about the bill, known by the acronym USICA, for United States Innovation and Competition Act: “Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill."
“Obviously, Senator McConnell's tweet a couple of Friday's ago has slowed down work," Raimondo said.
Still, she said she considers the bill at the “5-yard line" and that negotiators could finish within a week to 10 days if both parties cooperated. She said if lawmakers cannot get the bill completed, “it's not Republicans who win. China wins if this doesn't get passed."
Raimondo is trying to appeal to lawmakers' concerns about how the U.S. depends upon foreign countries, namely Taiwan, for the production of advanced computer chips.
“Look, I mean, I know a lot of these Republicans. They're patriots. They want to do the right thing for America. They're scared that we're so dependent on Taiwan for exactly the kind of chips our military depends on," Raimondo said.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., was one of the Republicans who voted for the Senate's version of the semiconductor legislation. Before he makes a decision on a final compromise bill, he wants to see the price tag of the separate energy and economic package that Democrats are pursuing through a process called reconciliation, which would allow them to pass a bill without any Republican support.
Tillis also isn't buying the warning that lawmakers need to pass a semiconductor bill this month or it may not happen at all.
“This isn't the only vehicle that chips could ride on before the end of the year," Tillis said.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), if they purchased the Company's securities between August 1, 2019 and July 28, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until December 27, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held a hearing on Tuesday focused on the role of the conspiracy theory QAnon and extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
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Norma Hunt, the second wife of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and the only woman to attend every Super Bowl, has died. She was 85.
The Hunt family, which still owns the franchise, announced the passing of the Chiefs’ matriarch in a statement released by the team Sunday night. No cause of death was given.
Norma Hunt was among the few to have attended every Super Bowl when she was present for the Chiefs’ 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 12 in Glendale, Arizona.
Lamar Hunt, one of the founders of the AFL and a force behind its 1970 merger with the NFL, died in 2006.
Norma Hunt had two sons, Clark and Daniel, and was closely linked to the Chiefs franchise through her charitable work. Clark Hunt became the chairman of the franchise after his father’s death and has become a leading voice in NFL ownership.
“Mom was steadfastly devoted to her family and fiercely passionate about her family’s sports teams,” the Hunt family said. “She was by our father Lamar’s side every step of the way — from the merger of the AFL and the NFL to the formation of Major League Soccer, World Championship Tennis, the North American Soccer League, and their founding investment in the Chicago Bulls.
“She was the only person we knew who rivaled his love of sports. The two of them found such joy together, whether at home, or in stadium stands around the world.”
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who knew Norma Hunt for almost four decades, called her “a significant presence in the NFL.”
“Norma’s sense of family extended to the Chiefs’ organization, which she greatly adored,” Goodell said. “Norma was one of the most passionate fans of the Chiefs and the NFL, and understood and enjoyed every aspect of the game. She loved being around the team and referred to the players as ‘real-life superheroes.’ Norma attended every Super Bowl ever played, including the two recent Chiefs’ victories, and was the only woman to do so.”
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who also had grown close to Hunt the past few years, posted on social media: “Mrs. Norma was the best. Glad to be a part of this special organization she helped build. She will be missed!”
The team had yet to announce memorial details Sunday night.
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BEIJING, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diane Wang, Founder, Chairperson & the CEO of the DHGATE Group, has been named the winner of two Sliver Stevie® Awards respectively as "the Best Female Entrepreneur in Asia, Australia, or New Zealand" as well as "the Best Female Entrepreneur in Business Services" category in the 19th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards, and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run worldwide. This year it was complemented by the fourth edition of the Women|Future Conference, a three-day educational and networking event held virtually.
"I felt so honored to be recognized by the Stevie Awards", said Diane Wang, "Having been engaging so many years in the frontline of global trade and Internet industry, a global vision was deeply rooted since the very beginning of our business. And on the way approaching it, 'making global trade accessible' has always been our goal, which reminds me of servicing Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)". As the founder of the DHGATE group, Diane Wang has been exerting her leadership and hard work in building the digitalized platform to lower the barrier for people to start and run a cross-border e-commerce business.
"We are devoted to promoting global trade and supporting entrepreneurial dreams." Diane Wang said. As a pathfinder of global e-commerce, DHgate launched MyyShop, a decentralized one-stop social commerce SaaS platform, aims to help MSMEs, especially entry-level merchants, social influencers, content creators and other type of business owners with social influence build up their social commerce businesses, more importantly, monetize their social influence in a lighter and more convenient way. MyyShop's AI-Powered Analytics Tool helps users stay on top of the most popular trends and discover the trending products among creators and influencers. With a single link URL, MyyShop helps sellers open their online shop within a few minutes so that they can easily personalize and link to other social media platforms. Sellers can also seamlessly and conveniently integrate other online stores into their shops on MyyShop, and manage all businesses through one intuitive, streamlined platform.
Additionally, Diane has been committed to promoting gender equality and women's empowerment agenda, actively advocating digital capabilities and practicable digital skill e-learning and training to empower women, and MSMEs development across international organizations including APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), Business 20 (B20), and BRICS Women's Business Alliance. Her contributions in initiating APEC Women Connect, an APEC-endorsed program since 2016, which aims to empower women, especially young women, to realize entrepreneurship via digital solutions. Besides, Diane takes crucial roles in several international organizations where she is committed to bringing inspiration and power to women in business around the world. She is the Co-chair of B20 Indonesia Women in Business Action Council, Member of BRICS Women's Business Alliance Chinese National Chapter, Member of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and Chair of 50 Cross-border E-Commerce Leaders in China.
About DHGATE
Founded in 2004, DHGATE has become the leading B2B cross-border e-commerce marketplace in China. Through our global operations and offices, including in the USA and UK, we reach millions of people with trusted products and services. As of December 31, 2021, DHGATE served more than 46 million registered buyers from 223 countries and regions by connecting them to over 2.4 million sellers in China and other countries, with over 37 million live listings on the platform annually. For more information, please visit dhgate.com and follow @DHgate.com.
About MyyShop
MyyShop, a cross-border e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) platform launched by DHGATE in 2020, aims to help MSMEs, especially entry-level merchants and individuals with social influence, run their online stores as direct sellers and turn their impact into a good business. Committed to engaging everyone in global trade, MyyShop connects Chinese manufacturing capacity with private domain traffic to lower the barrier of opening and operating a cross-border e-commerce business, with its advantages in smart product recommendation, social commerce shop fast development, cross-border marketing services, and smart logistics. For more information, please visit MyyShop.com, Myyshop.vip and follow @MyyShopOfficial.
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Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
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Montgomery police have charged one man with murder in connection with a fatal shooting March 16.
Laddavious Howard, 33, was arrested Friday and is being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility.
Howard has been charged in connection with the death of Darius Mitchell, 43, which occurred at about 8 p.m., in the 5900 block of Welbourne Place, according to police.
Mitchell was discovered dead at the scene. | https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2023/03/montgomery-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-march-16-killing.html | 2023-03-24 23:00:50 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2023/03/montgomery-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-march-16-killing.html |
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – Robotics teams across the Tri-Cities are preparing for the largest robot rumble in the world.
The VEX Robotics World Championship is happening in Dallas, Texas next week. The competition starts on April 25 and runs through May 4. During that time, teams from across the world will battle their bots for a win, including teams in our region.
From Bluff City, a high school team called Hope Robotics will compete with a team of 2 people, both of which have over 5 years of experience. The Bluff City team is ranked 59th in the world.
Elizabethton high school will also be competing with their team coined ‘Ctrl-C’.
The competition also expands to middle school students who are also fairly represented by our region.
There are three teams from Sullivan East Middle School, one from Happy Valley Middle School, and another team from Morristown, Tennessee. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/local-robotics-teams-competing-on-world-stage/ | 2023-04-19 10:37:19 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/local-robotics-teams-competing-on-world-stage/ |
LEWISTON, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Lewiston Porter Central School District says it, and “approximately 50 other districts” in New York, received a generic bomb threat via email on Tuesday.
The threat was determined to not be credible.
“Unfortunately, there are individuals in our society who continue to send threatening messages to districts across the country,” the school district wrote on Twitter. “In situations like this we will always work with our law enforcement partners to analyze the threat and determine the appropriate level of response.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul took to Twitter to address what she described as “swatting threats.”
“These are hoaxes meant to cause panic,” Hochul wrote. “I want to reassure parents that their children are safe.”
The Governor says New York State is investigating these threats.
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COPENHAGEN. Denmark (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Friday she has taken a drug test “for her own legal protection” after a video was leaked of her dancing and lip-syncing songs at a private party. Marin defended her actions, saying she drank alcohol with friends but did not do any drugs.
A video posted on social media Thursday shows six people at a party dancing and lip-syncing a song, including Marin. Later in the video, the 36-year-old prime minister is on her knees dancing while lip-syncing.
“I have taken a drug test for my own legal protection, the results of which will come in about a week,” Marin told a news conference Friday, according to the Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper.
Speaking in English, Marin, the Nordic country’s youngest-ever prime minister, said she didn’t have any government meetings that weekend and “I had some time off and I spent it with my friends. And I didn’t do anything illegal.”
It was unclear when the party was held.
But the video was posted online after Finland on Wednesday decided to limit the number of visas issued to Russians beginning Sept. 1, amid a rush of Russian tourists bound for Europe. Normally there’s about 1,000 visa application appointments in Russia each day, according to the Finnish government, but that number will soon be limited to 500 a day.
Finland, Estonia and other EU countries bordering Russia have been pushing for an EU-wide ban on Russian tourists, but other EU leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, have dismissed the idea as counterproductive.
Despite bans on air travel from Russia to the European Union, Russians have been able to vacation in western Europe this summer by traveling by land through neighboring countries with tourist visas that are valid throughout Europe’s border-free travel zone.
According to the newspaper, Marin told reporters Friday that “it should be accepted that even decision-makers are dancing, singing and partying” at times. She added “it’s up to the voters (to decide) what they think about it.”
Parliamentary elections in Finland are held every four years and the last one was held in April 2019.
Critics have noted that Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) land border with Russia, faces high electricity prices among other serious fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The country recently dropped its long-neutral stance and asked to join NATO.
Marin has said previously that she will continue to have a personal life despite her job. In July, she attended a popular Finnish rock festival.
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SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Hackers allegedly stole over $8,000 in paychecks following an email hack from an Upstate fire department.
According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Reidville Fire Department located at 3380 Hwy 417 on a report of fraud/payroll theft.
Once deputies arrived on the scene, they spoke with Fire Chief Patrick Evatt.
Evatt told deputies that six members of the fire department failed to receive their direct deposit on Wednesday.
Deputies said they discovered that someone hacked and/or gained remote access to the Assistant Chief’s employee email and gained access to employee direct deposit information and payroll accounts.
The unknown subject(s) then edited the direct deposit information of the six employees resulting in their payroll earnings being deposited into reloadable pre-paid debit cards.
The sheriff’s office said a total of $8,156 was taken from the firemen.
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A CPA firm Greene Finney and Cauley, which manages payroll for the fire department said the IP addresses related to illegal sign-in to the assistant chief’s account were traced back to Nigeria, California and Florida.
The CPA firm has requested reimbursement for the Readvile Area Fire District from the banks connected to the fraudulent activity.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Elise Stefanik wins reelection to U.S. House in New York's 21st Congressional District.
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FreeWire installs first ultrafast Boost Chargers™ in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain, hires European sales team, and announces opening of European headquarters including a Sales & Demonstration Center
NEWARK, Calif., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FreeWire Technologies, the leading provider of battery-integrated electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and energy management solutions, today announced the company's continued international expansion with the official ribbon cutting of FreeWire's European Headquarters happening on April 19th, 2023. This location includes a Sales & Demonstration Center and will serve as a hub for the company's European operations.
FreeWire's European Headquarters will be located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom and will be home to the European team, which will continue to grow throughout 2023. The office space allows room for the company's European operations to scale with demand. FreeWire plans to target the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland, and Benelux region, along with Spain and Italy, in 2023 before expanding to other markets.
"Our expansion in Europe is a milestone FreeWire has reached following a year of major growth. We have increased our headcount by 70% and deployed Boost Chargers in five new countries just in the last 12 months," said James Jean-Louis, European Head of Sales at FreeWire. "FreeWire is well-positioned to tap into the growing European market. We see a major opportunity to offer reliable, flexible, and cost-effective infrastructure that can be deployed quickly to support the rapid increase in demand for ultrafast EV charging in Europe."
FreeWire has already deployed Boost Chargers in the European region in partnership with bp. In mid-February, FreeWire began its partnership with Bauwelinck, a regional car dealership. The first ultrafast battery-integrated charger of the partnership was installed at a dealership in Antwerp and will be open to the public in the coming weeks.
"The installation of the Boost Charger itself was surprisingly simple and quick," said Johan Bauwelinck, CEO of Bauwelinck. "Apart from the much shorter delivery time, the continuous low power consumption, in particular, was appreciated by the local power company."
FreeWire began its partnership with AVIA in The Netherlands earlier this month. The first deployment will be installed at the AVIA Marees gas station in Wieringerwerf. In addition to FreeWire's partnership with AVIA and Bauwelinck, the company has also begun a partnership with Otamar, a regional fuel station operator. The first installation was recently deployed in the Galicia region of Spain. The charger is located at a public fueling station in Vigo and sits along a major highway connecting Spain to Portugal.
"We are excited about this new commercial alliance with FreeWire, deploying for the first time in Spain and from a strategic location on the border with Portugal, a unique ultrafast recharging service that we have never seen before," said Angel Maria Otamendi Busto, CEO of Otamar. "It is versatile and highly scalable, which supports our expansion possibilities."
FreeWire has recently added two employees to the European Sales Team led by European Head of Sales, James Jean-Louis. Olga Wieczerzycka serves as Regional Sales Manager for Spain and Italy, bringing experience from WallBox and EO Charging. Martin Walters recently joined the team as Business Development Manager for the UK and Ireland bringing experience from Tata Motors.
For more information about FreeWire, visit the official website here.
About FreeWire Technologies
FreeWire Technologies was founded in 2014 and is an industry leader in ultra-fast EV charging and energy management solutions solving grid infrastructure constraints and supporting the global transition to electric vehicles. FreeWire's network of battery-integrated Boost Chargers™transform the way energy is distributed and bridge the gap from legacy infrastructure to future technology. FreeWire products are used by Fortune 100 companies, commercial and utility customers, fleets, retail locations, and gas stations across North America and Europe. For more information visit https://freewiretech.com.
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President Biden’s budget proposal includes ambitious measures seeking to bring down health care costs, but the divided government poses a steep challenge to these proposals, and lawmakers have yet to indicate where they’re willing to come together.
Biden’s budget proposes increasing discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by $14.8 billion over 2023, raising taxes on people making more than $400,000 a year to keep Medicaid solvent, making ObamaCare tax premiums permanent and enacting a $35 cap on monthly insulin costs across the commercial market.
Republicans leaders have already stated that a tax increase is a non-starter, and GOP lawmakers have indicated a desire to cut the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax premiums that Biden is seeking to set in stone.
While Republicans have not yet released their own budget plan, which Biden has not hesitated to point out while promoting his proposal, they are expected to call for cuts in health care spending in some areas, such as the ACA and Medicaid. Programs including Medicare and Social Security have been deemed off the table, but lawmakers in the party insist that cuts are necessary to address the national debt.
With the House under GOP control, compromises will have to be made in order for the budget to pass in Congress. Democratic senators seemed optimistic on Thursday that they could come together with their Republican colleagues on a few issues.
Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) said he wasn’t aware of any measures that Republicans had expressed an openness to considering yet, but pointed to the ACA tax credits as one where he felt bipartisanship could occur.
“There’s constituents in every one of our states that benefit from these credits, and when I hear all my colleagues talk about issues that constituents are facing, every one of us is concerned about higher costs in whatever the space may be,” Luján said. “As someone that survived a stroke, I can tell you how important it is to have access to care. It’s life-saving.”
Fellow Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions member Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) signaled a degree of confidence in several issues that he felt both sides could come together on.
“I was pleased to see good solid investments on the technology on the border that can be used to stop fentanyl from coming in and that should be a place where we can work together,” Kaine said. “Some of the child care stuff, we got some good, solid [Republican] votes on that with an omni last year so there may be some possibilities there.”
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he appreciated the effort and the amount of measures that Biden had put into his budget.
“A lot of them I disagree with. On the health care front, we’re going through them, so I don’t have a response for it yet,” said Romney.
When asked which of Biden’s health care proposals he was open to considering, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he wanted to see expansions in health savings accounts (HSA), which were not included in the president’s budget.
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Happy birthday, America! And, damn, you’re kinky.
This week’s show features a ton of calls from the kinky; those who love them, or those who are considering becoming them. Let’s dive in.
A woman and her bestie are no longer speaking to each other. Why? Because she refuses to help change out the caller’s labia piercing jewelry.
A switch woman (she can either be the dom or sub) isn’t into humiliation. But all her partners assume she is or try to push her into it. How can she be clear about this simple hard no?
On the Magnum, it’s Mollena, a.k.a “the Perverted Negress” or “The Kink Doula.” She and Dan talk about how to get started with S&M gradually, how doms have feelings too, and the rookie mistake of assuming your sub is willing to be a 24/7 slave. Until you do some planning and negotiation, you don’t just get a free laundress.
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Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping points” are still likely to be triggered with a lot more looming as the planet heats more after that, a new study said.
An international team of scientists looked at 16 climate tipping points — when a warming side effect is irreversible, self-perpetuating and major — and calculated rough temperature thresholds at which they are triggered. None of them are considered likely at current temperatures, though a few are possible. But with only a few more tenths of a degree of warming from now, at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming since pre-industrial times, four move into the likely range, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science.
The study said slow but irreversible collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, more immediate loss of tropical coral reefs around the globe and thawing of high northern permafrost that releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in now frozen land are four significant tipping points that could be triggered at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, which is three-tenths of a degree (half a degree Fahrenheit) warmer than now. Current policies and actions put Earth on a trajectory for about 2.7 degrees Celsius (4.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times, according to some projections.
“Let’s hope we’re not right,” said study co-author Tim Lenton, an Earth systems scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. “There’s a distinct chance some of these tipping points are going to be unavoidable. And therefore it’s really important we do some more thinking about how we’re going to adapt to the consequences.”
Timing is a key issue for tipping points in two ways: when they become triggered and when they cause harm. And in many cases, such as ice sheet collapses, they could be triggered soon but their impacts even though inevitable take centuries to play out, scientists said. A few, such as the loss of coral reefs, cause more harm in only a decade or two.
“It’s a future generation issue,” said study lead author David Armstrong McKay, a University of Exeter Earth systems scientist. “That ice sheets collapsing is kind of that thousand-year timescale, but it’s still bequeathing an entirely different planet to our descendants.”
The concept of tipping points have been around for more than a decade but this study goes further looking at temperature thresholds for when they may be triggered and what impacts they would have on people and Earth and in the past 15 years or so “the risk levels just keep going up,” Lenton said.
Lenton likes to think of tipping points like someone leaning back on a folding chair.
“When you start tipping over backwards you have in that case a very simple kind of feedback on the forces of gravity operating on propelling you backwards until SPLAT,” Lenton said.
Study co-author Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, likened it to someone lighting a fuse on a bomb “and then the fuse will burn up until the big bang and the big bang may be further down the line.”
While the ice sheets with several meters or yards of potential sea rise can reshape coastline over centuries, Rockstrom said to him the loss of coral reefs is his biggest concern because of the “immediate impacts on human livelihoods.” Hundreds of millions of people, especially poorer tropical area residents, depend on fisheries linked to the coral reefs, McKay said.
With just a few more tenths of a degree new tipping points become more possible and even likely that includes a slow down of northern polar ocean circulation that can ripple into dramatic weather changes especially in Europe, loss of certain areas of Arctic sea ice, glaciers collapsing worldwide and utter failure of the Amazon rain forest.
Some of these tipping points, like the permafrost thaw, add to and accelerate existing warming, but don’t think “it’s game over” if temperatures hit 1.5 degrees of warming, which is quite likely, McKay said.
“Even if we do hit some of those tipping points, it will still lock in really substantial impacts we want to avoid, but it doesn’t trigger some sort of runaway climate change process,” McKay said. “That’s not the case at 1.5 degrees. And that means that how much further warming occurs beyond 1.5 is still mostly within our power to effect.”
That’s a crucial point that these are tipping points for individual regional disasters not the planet as a whole, so it’s bad, but not world ending, said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth, who wasn’t part of the study, but said it was important nuanced research that quantified tipping points better than before.
“Have we really contemplated what happens when you mess with our global and ecological systems to that degree?” said University of Miami climate risk scientist Katharine Mach, who wasn’t part of the study. She said it shows ripples and cascades that are troublesome. “This is a profound reason for concern in a changing climate.”
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Dominican presidential candidate, former treasury minister among 19 caught in corruption investigation
Gonzalo Castillo won 37% of the vote in 2020's presidential election before his arrest in the $347 million embezzlement scheme
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested 19 people in a sweeping corruption case that accuses a well-known former presidential candidate and three former officials of embezzling nearly $350 million and illegal campaign financing.
The arrests are the latest in a string of investigations that officials have launched in the past two years as part of a crackdown on rampant government corruption in the Caribbean country.
Among those detained Saturday night is Gonzalo Castillo, a former public works minister who won 37% of the vote when he ran as presidential candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party in the 2020 general elections won by current President Luis Abinader.
FORMER ALGERIAN PRESIDENT'S BROTHER GETS 12 YEARS FOR CORRUPTION
Also arrested is a former treasury minister, Donald Guerrero; former comptroller general, Daniel Omar Caamaño; and former administrative minister to the presidency, José Ramón Peralta.
Prosecutors said they are accused of paying bribes, laundering assets and illegally financing the previous electoral campaign on an "unprecedented" scale after embezzling $347 million of government funds.
The suspects were charged after authorities launched 40 raids targeting their properties and businesses in the capital of Santo Domingo and beyond.
Hundreds of Castillo supporters gathered Monday outside the Justice Palace to protest his arrest as they waved the party's purple-and-yellow flag and tried to damage the building before police scattered the crowd with tear gas. Meanwhile, officials with the Dominican Liberation Party questioned the impartiality of prosecutors and accused them of only investigating and arresting former government officials and not looking into corruption allegations against Abinader's current administratoin.
"It is clear that behind these actions, there are markedly political and re-election interests," said Charlie Mariotti, the party's secretary general.
Police on Saturday also arrested the former director of the State Sugar Council, Luis Miguel Piccirilo; former director of the National Cadastre, Claudio Silva Peña; and the former directors of Casinos and Gambling, Oscar Chalas Guerrero and Julián Omar Fernández.
FORMER MEXICAN SECURITY CZAR EMBEZZLED UP TO $746M, AUTHORITIES CLAIM
Defense attorneys for the accused could not be immediately reached for comment. The suspects were expected to appear in court Monday.
Last year, authorities arrested Jean Alain Rodríguez, the country’s former attorney general, and other suspects accused of diverting government funds in an unrelated case.
One of Abinader's promises in the 2020 campaign was to appoint an independent attorney general to fight corruption and impunity. He selected Miriam Germán Brito, a former judge held in high regard.
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As talented marketing experts, these women continue to be influential leaders in the channel.
RALEIGH, N.C., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cox Business and RapidScale, a Cox Business company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lisa Majdi, executive director of marketing for Cox Business and Sommer Figone, marketing manager for RapidScale, to its Women of the Channel list for 2022. This esteemed list honors the incredible accomplishments of female leaders in the IT channel. Those named on this annual list come from all corners of the IT channel — including vendors, distributors, and solution providers whose vision, expertise, and contributions make an impact on the industry every day.
By bringing innovative concepts, strategic business planning, and comprehensive channel initiatives to life, these extraordinary women support partners and customers with exceptional leadership. CRN celebrates these women, who are so deserving of recognition, for their constant dedication to channel excellence.
Majdi is responsible for defining, driving, and leading national marketing strategy and programs for key segments, verticals, and sales channels, including enterprise and the indirect and carrier channels.
As Cox Business continues to invest in ancillary businesses, she oversees marketing for other new business ventures including, Trapollo, Hospitality Network, and BlueprintRF. Majdi is a veteran of the telecommunications industry with over 20 years of experience, having worked at Verizon Wireless, BellSouth, and AT&T prior to coming to Cox Business over eight years ago. She has her master's in communications and a certified Six Sigma green belt. She is the recipient of a 2018 TAMI award presented by CTAM, which honors individuals for their leadership in addressing business challenges and creating opportunities for members to achieve greater impact through partnership. She has also been recognized by CRN's 100 People You Should Know in 2019 and Women of the Channel in 2019 and 2020.
Majdi serves as an honorary board member for Georgia Special Olympics, is active in WICT, and is the event committee chair for Alliance for Channel Women.
With 9 years' marketing experience in the channel and cloud space, Figone arms RapidScale's cloud solutions consultants and their channel partners with resources, messaging and training to uncover cloud opportunities and maximize their revenue. With much of her role focused on RapidScale's channel business, she enables the partner community to provide organizations and IT teams with solutions to today's most common IT challenges by leveraging industry-leading managed cloud services. She has extensive experience in digital marketing, graphic design, marketing project management, content management, and branding. Her expertise continues to support the sales organization, helping the team deliver go-to-market strategies and sales resources for the channel community.
Figone is also an active member of the Alliance of Channel Women, where she serves on the events committee, is a member of Cox Business' Women's Employee Resource Group, and is a participant in AchieveUnite's Channel Acceleration Bootcamp (CAB).
"I've been aware of the Women of the Channel list for years, even helping some of my leaders apply back in the day. To be at a point where I'm now the one being recognized is definitely a proud moment!" said Figone. "I'm grateful to be part of the channel – there's a ton to learn every day since we're in such a fast-paced industry. I've found this community to be approachable, supportive, and open to sharing knowledge. It's a great place to be!"
"We are proud to once again recognize the remarkable leaders on this year's Women of the Channel list. Their influence, confidence, and diligence continue to accelerate channel success significantly," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "Their accomplishments will inspire others, and we look forward to witnessing their future contributions to the channel."
CRN's 2022 Women of the Channel list will be featured in the June issue of CRN Magazine and online at http://www.CRN.com/WOTC.
About RapidScale
For IT and business leaders looking to scale, secure, and simplify their IT, RapidScale, a Cox Business Company, is the next-generation managed cloud services provider that aggregates best-in-class cloud technology under a single management portal, enabling IT to accomplish more and providing an exceptional end-user experience. By delivering simple and secure access to company data and applications from anywhere, any time, on any device, RapidScale sets itself apart from other cloud providers through its team of technology experts, award-winning end-user customer support, flexible co-management options, and easy-to-use management portal. For more information on RapidScale, visit http://www.rapidscale.net.
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Cox Communications owns Cox Business and is a facilities-based provider of voice, video, and data solutions for commercial customers. More information about Cox Communications, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is available at http://www.cox.com.
The commercial division of Cox Communications, Cox Business, provides voice, data, and video services for more than 355,000 small and regional businesses nationwide, including health care providers, K−12 and higher education; financial institutions; and federal, state and local government organizations. The organization also serves most of the top-tier wireless and wireline telecommunications carriers in the U.S. through its wholesale division. For more information, please visit http://www.coxbusiness.com.
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Biden pushes US as a crucial ally to African leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making his case to African leaders gathered in Washington that the United States can be a critical catalyst to their growing continent in the years ahead.
Biden on Wednesday is presenting his vision during the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, an effort to narrow a trust gap with Africa that has widened over years of frustration about America’s commitment to the continent. The Biden administration is pitching the U.S. as a reliable and quality partner to help promote fair and democratic elections and push critical health and energy growth.
But this push comes as the United States has fallen well behind China in investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which has become a key battleground in an increasingly fraught competition between the major powers. The White House insists the gathering is more a listening session with African leaders than an effort to counter Beijing’s influence, but Biden’s central foreign policy tenet looms over all: America is in an era-defining battle to prove democracies can out-deliver autocracies.
That message was clear in Wednesday’s events: a Biden speech before business leaders from both continents, a smaller presidential sitdown with some of the continent’s leaders whose countries will hold elections in 2023, and a first lady-hosted White House dinner for all the leaders and their spouses.
The summit is the largest international gathering in Washington since before the start of the pandemic. Roads all around the city center were blocked off, and motorcades zoomed by gridlocked traffic elsewhere, ferrying some of the 49 invited heads of state and other leaders.
Biden has already pledged $55 billion in economic aid to African countries over the next three years, U.S. support for a permanent Group of 20 seat for the African Union, and the appointment of a special representative to implement summit commitments. Administration officials say more is to come.
The continent, whose leaders often feel they’ve been given short shrift by leading economies, remains crucial to global powers because of its rapidly growing population, significant natural resources and a sizable voting bloc in the United Nations. Africa also remains of great strategic importance as the U.S. recalibrates its foreign policy with greater focus on China — what the Biden administration sees as the United States’ most significant economic and military adversary.
All the summit-related activity got a rise out of China. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the U.S. should “respect the will of the African people and take concrete actions to help Africa’s development, instead of unremittingly smearing and attacking other countries,” an apparent reference to China.
Wang said at a briefing Wednesday that it is the “common responsibility of the international community to support Africa’s development.” But he added: “Africa is not an arena for great power confrontation or a target for arbitrary pressure by certain countries or individuals.”
Vice President Kamala Harris opened the summit Tuesday spotlighting Africa’s youthful population — making a case that the continent’s demographics will inevitably lead it to become a key global player in the decades to come. She announced that the administration would invest an additional $100 million to expand the Young African Leaders Initiative.
About 60% of Africa’s population is under 25, and the young population is expected to grow to 80% by 2050.
Conflict on the continent was a primary focus of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meetings on Tuesday with the leaders of Ethiopia, where a fragile peace deal is holding in the country’s restive northern Tigray region, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the eastern region of which is embroiled in violence involving domestic rebel groups and others supported by neighboring Rwanda.
In Blinken’s meeting with Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, the State Department said he warned that cross-border military operations must be coordinated with the U.N. peacekeeping mission there, and urged the immediate implementation of a November ceasefire deal that called for an end to state support for insurgent groups.
With Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Blinken praised the government for steps it has taken to improve humanitarian conditions in Tigray in line with a peace deal signed last month. But he also “urged accelerated implementation of the agreement and access to the conflict areas by international human rights monitors.”
Blinken told Abiy there was an “urgent need” for Eritrean forces to leave Ethiopian territory. Eritrea, which has sent troops to help Ethiopia put down a rebellion in Tigray, is one of only a handful of African nations not been invited to the summit.
Thursday is to be dedicated to high-level discussions among leaders. President Biden will open the day with a session on partnering with the African Union’s strategic vision for the continent.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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Corporate sites across the U.S are releasing toxins into the surrounding land, air, and water on a regular basis—and often unbeknownst to surrounding communities.
After an accidental release from a chemical plant in West Virginia in 1985, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. The act established the EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), which provides citizens with crucial information on the toxins being emitted locally and the names of companies doing the emitting. The TRI has allowed certain states to put emission-curbing legislation in place to safeguard public health, as was the case when Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker in 2019 passed legislation allocating $2.4 billion to climate change resilience.
Stacker analyzed data from the EPA TRI and the U.S. Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey to identify the percentage of each state’s population living in census tracts with toxic release sites, as well as the corporations and facilities responsible for emitting the highest amounts of toxins annually. These results, released in October 2021, reflect the last full year of data, 2020, from the 2020 National Analysis Dataset.
Keep reading to discover where the most toxins are being released in Ohio, what part of your environment they may be polluting, and who is being affected. You can also read the national story here.
Ohio by the numbers
– Population living near toxic release sites: 24.7%
— 25.3% of state’s white population
— 25.2% of state’s Hispanic population
— 17.5% of state’s Black population
— 28.6% of state’s Native American population
— 18.8% of state’s Asian population
— 29.9% of state’s Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander population
– Total number of sites: 1298
Ohio was the sixth-highest toxin-emitting state in 2020, with 90.5 million pounds of total toxic releases. The state’s biggest offender was INEOS Nitriles, which released over 7 million pounds of toxins into the land.
The EPA’s TRI program recognizes 770 chemicals, with any site that manufactures or uses these chemicals at above-average levels qualifying for listing in the TRI. Chemicals described by the TRI as “toxic” are known to cause cancer or other negative health issues, as well as adverse effects on the environment. Facilities report the amounts of chemicals they release annually to the TRI, with the “release” of a chemical meaning that it is “emitted to the air or water, or placed in some type of land disposal.”
The facilities in the TRI are usually quite large and deal in electricity, metals, mining, chemicals, or hazardous waste. However, not all toxic chemicals used by corporations are listed in the TRI, meaning that its inventory of toxin-emitting sites is not exhaustive.
Keep reading to learn which states have the most and least people living near toxic release sites.
States with the most people living near toxic release sites
#1. Wisconsin: 37.3% of population living near toxic release sites
#2. Iowa: 33.5% of population living near toxic release sites
#3. Wyoming: 32.5% of population living near toxic release sites
States with the fewest people living near toxic release sites
#1. Hawaii: 6.5% of population living near toxic release sites
#2. New York: 8.3% of population living near toxic release sites
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Buffalo Wild Wings location closes in Richmond. What's next for the Shockoe Slip space?
The Buffalo Wild Wings location at 1501 E. Cary St. ended its 19-year run earlier this summer.
Posted at 7:58 AM, Aug 15, 2022
and last updated 2022-08-15 07:59:27-04
RICHMOND, Va. -- Amid the bustle of construction outside its front door and on its roof, a longtime sports bar has quietly closed. The Buffalo Wild Wings location at 1501 E. Cary St. ended its 19-year run earlier this summer, franchisee Kevin Donham confirmed, noting that their lease is nearly up and they decided to not renew. Click here to continue reading on Richmond BizSense.
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- Agreement augments Fusion's existing isotope supply as pipeline of clinical stage actinium-based radiopharmaceuticals grows
- Furthers BWXT Medical's position as a global leader in medical isotope supply
HAMILTON, ON, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: FUSN), and BWXT Medical Ltd., a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), today announced that the companies have entered into a preferred partner agreement for the supply of actinium-225. Under the agreement, BWXT Medical will provide predetermined amounts of Fusion's actinium supply needs at volume-based pricing.
Actinium-225 is an alpha-emitting isotope used in targeted alpha therapies (TATs) that combine the isotope with specific tumor-seeking targeting vectors to kill cancer cells while minimizing the impact to healthy tissues. There is growing demand for the isotope but a limited number of suppliers who are currently able to produce meaningful quantities of high purity actinium.
Fusion Chief Executive Officer John Valliant, Ph.D., said, "Fusion's portfolio of clinical-stage targeted alpha therapies is expanding, with three proprietary programs in clinical trials and additional programs advancing under our collaboration with AstraZeneca. Based on emerging clinical data in the literature which show the power of alpha particles over conventional beta emitters, we continue to proactively prioritize access to actinium as a critical component of Fusion's development plans and we are excited to partner with BWXT Medical. As an established global leader in medical isotope manufacturing and supply with proven ability to produce high purity actinium, BWXT Medical has the necessary infrastructure and shipping logistics capabilities to support both clinical and commercial scale manufacturing and distribution of medical isotopes. This agreement increases our existing actinium supply for both current programs as well as future business development opportunities and partnered programs, diversifies our supply chain, and establishes a relationship to collaborate on longer-term commercial production needs."
BWXT Medical President and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Cirtain, Ph. D., said, "Excitement for the potential of targeted alpha therapies to treat cancer is growing, and we have made the necessary investments in infrastructure and intellectual property to help meet the increasing global demand for actinium. BWXT Medical is now producing high-purity non-carrier added actinium-225. Fusion is a leading developer of targeted alpha therapies, and we are pleased to work with them as their clinical programs continue to advance."
Fusion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage oncology company focused on developing next-generation radiopharmaceuticals as precision medicines. Fusion connects alpha particle emitting isotopes to various targeting molecules in order to selectively deliver the alpha emitting payloads to tumors. Fusion's lead program, FPI-1434 targeting insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor, is currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial. The pipeline includes FPI-1966, targeting the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), advancing to a Phase 1 study following the investigational new drug (IND) clearance; and FPI-2059, a small molecule targeting neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1). In addition to a robust proprietary pipeline, Fusion has a collaboration with AstraZeneca to jointly develop novel targeted alpha therapies (TATs) and combination programs between Fusion's TATs and AstraZeneca's DNA Damage Response Inhibitors (DDRis) and immuno-oncology agents. Fusion has also entered into a collaboration with Merck to evaluate FPI-1434 in combination with Merck's KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in patients with solid tumors expressing IGF-1R. Fusion and Hamilton, Ontario-based McMaster University are building a current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility designed to support manufacturing of the Company's growing pipeline of TATs.
BWXT Medical Ltd. manufactures custom radiopharmaceuticals, radiotherapies and medical isotopes in an 80,000-square-foot cGMP manufacturing facility in Ottawa and at the state-of-the-art commercial cyclotron facility within TRIUMF, Canada's particle acceleration centre. BWXT Medical Ltd. is a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT). BWXT is a Fortune 1000 and Defense News Top 100 manufacturing and engineering innovator that provides safe and effective nuclear solutions for global security, clean energy, environmental remediation, nuclear medicine and space exploration. Follow us on Twitter at @BWXT and learn more at www.bwxt.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to the statements regarding Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s (the "Company") future business and financial performance. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "expect," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," "will," and similar expressions are also intended to identify forward-looking statements, as are expressed or implied statements with respect to the Company's potential access to actinium-225. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the following: there can be no guarantees that the Company or its partners will advance any technology relating to actinium-225 to development, to the regulatory process or to commercialization; management's expectations could be affected by unexpected regulatory actions or delays; and uncertainties relating to, or unsuccessful results of, clinical trials, clinical trial timelines and the medical isotopes used therein. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. These and other risks which may impact management's expectations are described in greater detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2022, as filed with the SEC and in any subsequent periodic or current report that the Company files with the SEC. All forward-looking statements reflect the Company's estimates only as of the date of this release (unless another date is indicated) and should not be relied upon as reflecting the Company's views, expectations, or beliefs at any date subsequent to the date of this release. While Fusion may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, even if the Company's estimates change.
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HALLE, Germany (AP) — Bernd Bransch, who captained East Germany at its only World Cup appearance in a symbolic Cold War win over West Germany, has died. He was 77.
Bransch's former club Hallescher FC said in a statement Sunday that he had died on Saturday following “a long, severe illness."
Bransch was East Germany's equivalent of the charismatic West German star Franz Beckenbauer. Both men captained their national teams and both played as a sweeper, sitting deep in defense with space to start counterattacks.
When they met at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, it was Bransch's team that came out the surprise winner, beating West Germany 1-0 with a goal from Jürgen Sparwasser. Both teams qualified from the first group stage, but East Germany was eliminated in the next round while West Germany won the tournament with a 2-1 win over the Netherlands in the final.
Bransch's biggest career success came two years later when he won the Olympic gold medal with East Germany, coming on as a substitute in the 3-1 win over Poland in the final. In those days, the Olympic soccer tournament was strictly for amateurs, though satellite states of the Soviet Union like East Germany tended to dominate with squads of players who were registered as amateur but who played and trained full-time.
Hallescher FC, which was known as HFC Chemie in the East German league during Bransch's playing days, said he retired in 1977 and later served as club president.
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Former President Trump said he plans to plead not guilty but will not make any statement at his arraignment in Miami on Tuesday.
“I’ll just say not guilty,” Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Howie Carr on Monday. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I did nothing wrong. Presidential Records Act, it’s not even a criminal event. There is no criminality here. It’s ridiculous.”
The former president has been charged with 37 counts over his alleged mishandling of classified materials and efforts to block the federal government from retrieving them, according to an indictment unsealed Friday, the first federal charges against a U.S. president.
The indictment accuses Trump of retaining high-level defense information after leaving office, sharing it with individuals who did not have proper security clearances, directing an aide to move boxes of documents to conceal them and suggesting his attorney hide or destroy documents or falsely claim that had turned over all remaining documents in his possession.
Trump left his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey on Monday to head to his arraignment in Miami, where city officials are bracing for protests. Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales said the city is prepared to handle crowd sizes “anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000.”
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John Mara opened the door recently to something other than a new synthetic surface at MetLife Stadium for next season.
Asked by the New York Daily News if the Giants would consult their players about what surface should replace the current Field Classic HD System, the co-owner of the team said that he would.
“The next field in the stadium is the subject of ongoing discussion between the Jets, the stadium and us,” a spokesperson said on Mara’s behalf. “John has heard from the players and other experts about playing surfaces as part of his roles on the player safety and health committee, competition committee and management council. He expects to have conversations with our players as we move along in the process of selecting a new field.”
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We can save him the trouble.
The players want grass.
That may not be true of every player in the Giants’ locker room, but player representative Julian Love admitted that if the entire locker room were polled, the overwhelming majority would vote in favor of a new grass surface.
“I’ve had conversations with (Mara) and he is on board for any changes that need to be made,” Love said after practice Tuesday. “He is gauging our interest of what we like to play on and what the best surfaces are out there. Whatever options are feasible, I know they are going to pursue.”
The issue came to light earlier this month when JC Tretter, the president of the NFL Players Association, named MetLife Stadium as being one of six stadiums in the league with an unacceptable playing surface. Love revealed and MetLife Stadium confirmed that the Giants and Jets will get a new playing surface next season.
Initially, MetLife Stadium said that it was “reviewing proposals from multiple vendors for a new synthetic surface.”
Now, however, Mara says the option of grass is possible.
A little more than two decades ago, Mara pushed hard for a grass surface at Giants Stadium, but the results were disastrous and the team went back to an artificial surface in 2003. That’s the only kind of surface the Giants and Jets have played on since.
Grass surfaces, however, have been successful in other cold-weather cities since then. Green Bay’s Lambeau Field and Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field use a Desso Grassmaster hybrid grass system and also have a heating system beneath the surface. Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Green Bay, Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver, Washington and Chicago are other cold-weather cities with grass surfaces.
“It would be nice to have a heated grass field here, especially when it gets later in the season,” Giants guard Mark Glowinski said. “I know in Green Bay when it gets to be later in the year, it can be snowing there and you look up and it’s melted because they can warm up the field.”
Love said he has talked to a lot of his teammates about what surface they’d prefer next season.
“I would say a majority of guys would prefer grass,” Love said. “It has more give to it. I prefer grass on any field compared to turf, but that’s not to say that there isn’t good turf out there. Whatever the best of the best is, that’s what we want. I know some guys like playing on the newer turf that is out there right now. I prefer grass, but every player is different and I think that’s why it is important that we gauge every guy in the room about this.”
Quarterback Daniel Jones was non-committal.
“Personally I don’t feel a ton of difference,” Jones said. “I know there are statistics and numbers that people smarter than me are looking at. I do think it makes some sense to look into it and see what things say from an injury standpoint. We want to play on what would be the safest and the most preventive surface for guys to play on.”
Jones said he could tell a difference between the Field Turf Classic HD installed at MetLife Stadium and the turf the Giants played on in their Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys.
“The black rubber stuff coming up, they don’t have as much of it on the Dallas field,” Jones said “That’s one difference I noticed. I will think about it more and hopefully have a better opinion about it if they do ask me what I think.”
They should, of course, if he is going to be the quarterback of the future for the Giants.
NJ Advance Media surveyed five players besides Jones and they all said they’d prefer grass. Several of them did, however, compliment the surface at AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys’ home field is covered by Hellas Matrix Turf, which is also used at the Houston Texans’ NRG Stadium and SoFi Stadium, which is the shared home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers.
It was on the Hellas Matrix surface in last season’s Super Bowl that Odell Beckham Jr. suffered the torn ACL in his left leg that has kept him out all season. Beckham, who will make a free-agent visit with the Giants Thursday, is a huge proponent of getting rid of all turf surfaces.
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The Giants, on the other hand, are clearly happy to be getting rid of their current turf.
“Everyone is going to say they want grass,” Giants defensive tackle Justin Ellis said. “I mean grass is better for your knees and joints and all that type of stuff. But I’d be OK with settling for some great turf. I feel like Dallas has some pretty good turf. It felt like guys’ cleats got tangled up less. It almost felt like you were on real grass, but you could tell it was still turf. With our turf, your cleats get stuck pretty easy.”
As Mara noted in his statement, the Giants, Jets and MetLife Stadium all must agree on what the next surface will be, so even a full-roster survey of Giants’ players is hardly a guarantee that their desired surface will be installed at MetLife Stadium next season. The cost of maintaining natural grass is obviously greater than an artificial surface and there is also the challenge of twice as many games because it is a shared home stadium.
The Steelers, however, share their stadium with Pitt and the Eagles share their stadium with Temple.
“It’s tough,” Love said. “We play in the Northeast, we have two teams and we have concerts. It’s not just a football stadium. From a logistics standpoint, I could see how it’s tough. I know they are going to make a decision where all parties are happy.”
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More than a year after OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative settlement over the toll of opioids that was accepted nearly universally by the groups suing the company — including thousands of people injured by the drug — money is still not rolling out.
Parties waiting to finalize the deal are waiting for a court to rule on the legality of a key detail: whether members of the Sackler family who own the company can be protected from lawsuits over OxyContin in exchange for handing over up to $6 billion in cash over time plus the company itself.
This week — days before the one-year anniversary of the April 29, 2022, appeals court arguments on the matter — lawyers told judges that the wait is causing problems.
Lawyers on multiple sides of the case, including those representing Purdue, asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to issue a ruling or provide an update soon, saying the efforts to use the funds to fight the opioid crisis can't begin until the money can start to flow.
While it’s not unusual for an appeals panel to take a year or more from a hearing until it releases a decision, this case was originally fast-tracked by the court. At the hearing last year, there were signs that the three-judge panel might not rule unanimously.
A lawyer for creditors told a U.S. bankruptcy court in another filing this week that the wait is a problem for other reasons. The lawyer, Arik Preis, wrote that as long as the funds aren't distributed, “the vast majority of more than $6 billion that could be put to use to abate the opioid crisis and compensate individual claimants continuing to accrue interest in Sackler accounts.”
While most of Purdue's creditors have signed onto the settlement, the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee is objecting.
With the case stretching out, the legal costs continue to mount, too. Purdue reported in a court filing that as of March 31, it had spent about $900 million on nonrecurring legal fees since it filed for bankruptcy in 2019 as part of an effort to settle its lawsuits.
Purdue's proposed settlement is not the biggest in a series of opioid-related settlements in recent years that totals over $50 billion, but it is large and closely watched because of the blame many have given the company for its role in sparking the crisis with its marketing of OxyContin starting in the 1990s.
The settlement also is the only one so far where some of the money is to go directly to people who lost loved ones or years of their own lives to opioids. About 149,000 individuals made claims and could receive between about $3,500 and $48,000 each from the settlement.
One of them, Lindsey Arrington, does not know how much she'll qualify to be paid. The Everett, Washington, woman whose substance abuse disorder began with OxyContin she used as a teenager, said money would be helpful.
“I'm 12 years into my recovery from addiction and I'm still cleaning up the financial wreckage,” she said.
There were debts, including paying back the Washington state government for assistance she should not have received because her son, now 14, was not living with her at the time.
And some money could help her relationship with him. “I owe it to him to use some of the money to do something for him or with him as a symbolic gesture of the time that we lost, that we could have had together had it not been what I was going through,” she said.
Stephanie Lubinski, one of about two dozen victims who testified at a hearing last year that Sackler family members attended by Zoom, doesn't know how much she might be granted under the settlement either. In the grips of an opioid addiction, her husband, a former Minneapolis firefighter, killed himself in 2020.
Lubinski, who has cancer, hopes to have the settlement in hand while she's alive so she can pass it to her adult children.
“It’s like by keeping it going and going," she said, "we’re replaying all the emotions and suffering.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/frustration-grows-over-wait-on-oxycontin-maker-s-17926502.php | 2023-04-29 04:54:58 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/frustration-grows-over-wait-on-oxycontin-maker-s-17926502.php |
The State Department will start spelling Turkey as "Türkiye" in diplomatic and formal settings.
The name change was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names following a request from the Turkish embassy, State Department spokesperson Ned Price confirmed on Thursday.
The State Department, which handles America's foreign policy, is the latest federal agency to adopt the spelling change.
Price said it will take some time for the department's website and communications to reflect the new spelling. The Board on Geographic Names also gave the department the option to continue to use "Turkey" and "Republic of Turkey" when appropriate. For instance, the previous spelling is allowed in cartographic products because it is more widely understood by the American public.
The name change also comes six months after the United Nations agreed to recognize Türkiye in June.
The current State Department pronunciation will remain unchanged, according to The Associated Press, which first reported the change.
The name change is not only symbolic but a rebranding effort
Turkish people have called their country Türkiye since 1923 when the Ottomon Empire fell and the Turkish Republic was formed.
In 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed for the name by launching a global rebranding campaign. He asked the rest of the world to embrace his country's original name, not the anglicized version.
"Türkiye is the best representation and expression of the Turkish people's culture, civilization and values," he said at the time.
Erdogan's government hopes the rebranding efforts will enhance the country's reputation as an international destination and in turn, bolster its economy.
Some supporters say they wish to dissociate the country's name from the bird — which is largely known in the U.S. for being a popular dish on Thanksgiving as well as being a slang for something that does not work or is foolish.
But others are skeptical of the rebranding, arguing that it is simply a ploy to distract people from the country's long list of problems.
"Turkey is crumbling under possibly the biggest financial crisis since the Second World War. Our two neighbors are at war with each other. There is world food security crisis. And this is the moment we decide to change the country's name?" Turkish foreign policy analyst Yoruk Isik told NPR back in June.
NPR's Peter Kenyon contributed reporting.
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