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CHICAGO, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) CEO, Chris Kempczinski sent the following message to the McDonald's Global System, which also outlines additional leadership team updates.
Digital CV's and headshots for these leaders are embedded within this release.
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As I said at Worldwide Convention in April, there's never been a better time to be part of Brand McDonald's.
McDonald's is now seen as leading in our industry on almost every dimension. Together, we've transformed the McDonald's System and are performing at a high level in almost every market in which we operate.
This transformation has required enormous effort, collaboration, and most importantly, leadership across all three legs of the stool as we have worked to bring our Accelerating the Arches strategy to life.
This has not been easy, nor was our current success a foregone conclusion. In fact, several years ago, the outlook for our business was far less rosy – at least, according to the pundits and analysts. In 2014, global comparable sales and guest counts were declining, new competitors were emerging, and customer and investor expectations were rising for global companies like ours. Remarkably, Wall Street consensus assumed the McDonald's System was in structural decline.
Over the years, however, the McDonald's System has demonstrated a remarkable knack for cultivating the right leaders for the moment, and this was certainly true when Kevin Ozan and Francesca DeBiase were appointed to their roles in March 2015.
Kevin and Francesca are long-time McDonald's veterans, with over forty years of combined System experience and careers that were purpose-built for their positions on our Global Senior Leadership Team. They were well-known and highly respected, and their appointments – Kevin as Chief Financial Officer and Francesca as Global Chief Supply Chain Officer – coincided with the multi-year reinvigoration of our business that has led to our current position of strength.
It is with deep gratitude and respect that I am announcing today that Kevin will be assuming a new position and has been promoted to Senior Executive Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and that Francesca recently shared with me her decision to retire from McDonald's, effective August 31.
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Kevin has been with McDonald's since 1997, when he joined from Ernst & Young. From the moment Kevin stepped foot here, it was clear to everyone who interacted with him that he brought something truly special to our System. His intellect and ability to work across multiple disciplines was only matched by his disarming approach and his belief in the business.
I remember meeting Kevin when I first joined McDonald's. I was struck by his dedication to the System, his low ego, and unflappable judgment. I joked with Kevin that he was the "nicest CFO" I'd ever met, and yet Kevin still set the highest standards for himself and his team.
Kevin leads with an incredible combination of head and heart. He's helped guide our System through so much the last seven years – from onboarding two CEOs, to navigating through COVID, dealing with activist investors and, most recently, our exit from the Russian market. Kevin has seen and done it all.
In this elevated role, which will be effective September 1, Kevin will continue to lead the Strategy team and spearhead several strategic initiatives, while partnering with me and the Senior Leadership Team, and plans to retire from McDonald's by mid-2023.
With this move, Ian Borden, currently President, International and a 30-year System veteran, has been appointed to serve as our next Executive Vice President and CFO, effective September 1.
Ian is well-known for being a values-based leader with a tremendous amount of System knowledge. He first joined our System in Canada in 1994. From there, he went on to serve in roles including as CFO for our Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa region and CFO for Russia and Eastern Europe. He's also had several leadership and P&L roles across our markets and regions.
We often say that our international markets are the growth and idea engine of the System, and in so many ways that is a testament to Ian's leadership and contributions. From ambitious digital deployments to delivery and EOTF, the markets under Ian's leadership have been launching pads for some of our most ambitious and impactful moves over the past decade. Ian consistently puts teamwork at the heart of everything he does. His passion and unfailing commitment to talent development has built a strong succession pipeline across the System.
On our Senior Leadership Team, he has championed and fostered closer and more effective collaboration across our markets to execute our strategy with great success while also navigating unpredictable challenges with agility and purpose. For these reasons, and so many more, this makes Ian an exceptional leader for our Finance organization as our next CFO.
Ian, his wife Yolande, and his two sons – Ethan and Matthew – will be relocating to Chicago and I look forward to benefiting even more from his partnership. We will share an update on our International leadership in mid-July.
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Francesca has been with McDonald's since 1991, and last year celebrated her 30th anniversary – an incredible milestone!
The strength and resiliency of our Supply Chain is a cornerstone of our competitive advantage and a mark of Francesca's leadership. The strategic relationships Francesca has forged throughout the supplier community – based on transparency, inclusion, and trust – have been key to our success in creating a best-in-class Supply Chain that is the envy of our industry, and so many others.
Francesca was one of the earliest leaders in our System to champion progressive and sustainable business solutions, which are now deeply embedded across McDonald's. She has been fiercely passionate about talent development – both within her organization and across the System – and led our Global Women's Leadership Network for many years, stewarding a culture where women have the most opportunity to succeed and grow. Generations to come will undoubtedly benefit from the impact of her leadership.
There's little Francesca has not seen in her McDonald's journey – from trade challenges, to the impacts of climate change, to all manner of disruptions. Even so, the unforeseen impacts of an unprecedented global pandemic further proved the strength and resilience of Francesca's leadership and our entire Supply Chain. While others broke supply, McDonald's did not. That is a truly extraordinary accomplishment. For this, and for so much more, we are grateful.
While Francesca will certainly be missed, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Marion Gross, Chief Supply Chain Officer of North America, has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Global Chief Supply Chain Officer, and will join the Global Senior Leadership Team, effective September 1.
Marion's impressive career at McDonald's has spanned 29 years, but she had already been a part of the System for several years having managed transportation and logistics at HAVI. At McDonald's, she first managed the supply of several national product categories before taking on strategic Supply Chain initiatives across 36 distribution centers. Most recently, Marion has been responsible for executing the strategic direction of McDonald's Supply Chain across the U.S. and Canada.
Marion's embrace of our values is a hallmark of her leadership. Her deep involvement in our communities and constant focus on truly driving our purpose deep within the System stand tall as clear examples that we get better together.
We will share more details on Marion's successor before she formally transitions this fall.
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Finally, Katie Fallon, who has successfully served as McDonald's first-ever Chief Global Impact Officer, recently informed me of her decision to depart McDonald's.
Katie has been a deeply valuable partner to me and so many throughout our System as we've risen to society's growing expectations of business. She has brought critical functions together and forged a collective strategy to drive trust and admiration for McDonald's. While we have benefitted from Katie's strong leadership, I fully support and understand her decision to pursue an opportunity that has fewer travel demands and better aligns with the needs of her young family in Washington D.C.
Katie's last day with us will be July 15, and I am confident that this team, and our System, have the right leaders and plans in place to continue advancing our progress as we deliver on our purpose to feed and foster communities.
While we identify Katie's successor, Kevin will oversee the Global Impact team.
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I feel immense pride in everything the McDonald's System has accomplished over the past several years and am confident that the leaders announced today will help accelerate our momentum.
The McDonald's System is special because our people are special. With ketchup coursing through our veins, McDonald's future has never been brighter.
Chris
ABOUT MCDONALD'S
McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer with more than 39,000 locations in over 100 countries. Approximately 95% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business owners.
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CHICAGO , Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSXV: VENZ) (OTCQB: VENZF) ("Venzee'' or the "Company"), the artificial intelligence platform for product data transfer, announced today that the Company has granted an aggregate of 7,536,430 performance share units ("PSUs") to certain officers, directors, employees and consultants in accordance with the provisions of the Company's Omnibus Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP Plan").
The PSUs will vest subject to the achievement of performance goals as outlined by the Company's Board of Directors and in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange policies. Each PSU will entitle the holder to acquire one common share of the Company.
Regarding the PSU grant, Venzee COO Peter Montross said, "We are grateful to our Board for allowing this significant incentive to be put in place for our dedicated team – a team executing on partner-driven go-to-market plans that will deliver the strong sales and revenue growth we expect."
Further details regarding the Company's LTIP Plan are set out in the management information circular of the Company dated October 27, 2020, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Separately, the Company is announcing an additional tranche of funding through its previously announced convertible debenture. The additional tranche of $102,000 brings the total funding received to date through the debenture to $275,000.
Venzee CEO John Abrams said, "We are very pleased with the continued support from the investment community, who recognizes the power and potential of our AI-driven platform to digitally optimize end-to-end connectivity across retail supply chains."
Venzee (TSXV: VENZ) (OTCQB: VENZF) is the leading artificial intelligence platform for product data transfer used by global brands to speed time to market and create competitive supply chain advantages. Venzee's intelligent platform automates inefficient last-mile retail processes with a frictionless, machine-driven solution for sending and receiving product data.
Venzee believes intelligent supply chain functionality is inevitable and will significantly benefit growers, makers, brands, sellers, regulators, and consumers. Venzee is building the foundation for a future where seamless, accurate, automated data flow simplifies processes, removes friction, and creates value for all those that rely on the myriad of data and information surrounding any product, anywhere.
Venzee unlocks shareholder value by carrying out its mission to create intelligent technology that removes friction from the global supply chain. Its Mesh Connector™ product disrupts and displaces inefficient manual processes in favor of integrated, machine-driven solutions.
To learn more about the Venzee platform, visit venzee.com
Twitter: @usevenzee
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/venzee-inc/
Podcast: https://www.rethinkingsupplychain.com/
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Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement.
The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws.
Neither TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Man walks in on bank robbery, stops suspect with hug
WOODLAND, Calif. (KCRA) - Police say a customer at a California bank convinced a would-be robber to walk away. He didn’t use a weapon or physical restraint to do it – just empathy.
Michael Armus Sr. found himself at the center of a bank robbery while making a deposit about 11 a.m. Monday at a Bank of the West location in Woodland.
“I believe it was meant for me to be here that day,” he said.
The bank is one where Armus knows all the tellers, but instead of greeting him with the usual smiles, this time, he was met with looks of concern.
“I’m always joking around, and it wasn’t no jokes yesterday,” he said.
Armus then noticed a man in the bank who had his face covered with his shirt. Police say that man, later identified as 43-year-old Eduardo Plasencia, had passed a note to one of the tellers, claiming he had a gun, and was robbing the place.
“I seen that the way he was talking, he was getting irritated. He said, ‘I don’t want to hurt anybody,’” Armus said.
But Armus said he also saw something else in Plasencia that made him approach.
“He seemed to be depressed the way he was talking, so… I said, ‘What’s wrong? You don’t have a job?’ He said, ‘There’s nothing in this town for me. I just want to go to prison,’” Armus said.
Armus says he tried to comfort Plasencia and asked if they could step outside.
“So, I took him outside, and I give the man a hug right here at the doors. He started crying,” Armus said. “Then, I stepped away from him, and swoop, here come all the cops – no sirens, just lights everywhere, rifles out, ‘Get on the ground!’”
Video from a bystander shows police clearing out the bank.
“The ladies were all worried. The one teller was saying, ‘No, no, not the one in the black shirt,’” Armus said.
Police arrested Plasencia for attempted robbery. They say he was not armed like he had claimed.
Armus says he’s thinking of visiting Plasencia in jail, adding that he recognized the man as a friend of his daughter from decades ago.
“Love overcomes all things. People don’t realize that. Try to be kind to somebody. It makes a difference,” he said.
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Which adult arm cast cover is best?
Breaking your elbow, arm, wrist or hand can be very painful, and you will likely need to wear a cast for at least a few weeks while your bones heal. Wearing a cast can come with its own problems. For example, casts can’t be exposed to any moisture, which can make showering difficult. That’s why investing in an adult arm cast cover is so important. If you are looking for a functional adult arm cast cover, the Brownmed Seal-Tight Original Cast and Bandage Protector is the top choice.
What to know before you buy an adult arm cast cover
Purpose
Think about what purpose the adult arm cast cover will serve. Any adult wearing a cast can use the cast cover, but the adult arm cast cover could also be used to cover the arms of people with ports, adhesive glucose monitors, stitches, wounds, bandages and PICC lines.
Materials
Most adult arm cast covers are made of either thermoplastic polyurethane or high-quality polyvinyl chloride. Both of these materials are waterproof, which means they’re not porous, so your arm might feel clammy or warm when wearing the cover.
Size
It’s important to take accurate measurements, including the length of your arm and the circumference of your wrist and your bicep, in order to find the right adult arm cast cover size for you.
What to look for in a quality adult arm cast cover
Protection
Adult arm cast covers are typically used to protect the cast during baths or showers. Many people choose to buy two covers, since it is cost effective and helps in case the first cover breaks or punctures. Only some adult arm cast covers are able to protect casts while they are submerged in water. These waterproof covers are fairly expensive, but they are usually used for water sports or swimming.
Diaphragm
The opening of the adult arm cast cover is known as the diaphragm, which will stretch to fit the circumference of your arm. This offers a near-perfect seal that prevents any moisture from seeping inside the cast.
It’s important to find an adult arm cast cover with a well-fitting diaphragm, since ones that are too narrow can be uncomfortable and a loose cover won’t necessarily keep your cast dry.
Shape
There are a few different types of sleeve shapes, including an open-hand sleeve, a mitten sleeve or a nondescript sleeve. Nondescript sleeves include a diaphragm at the bicep and a shapeless sock that covers the remaining arm.
A mitten sleeve features a similar design as a nondescript sleeve but with potholder or mitten hands. An open-hand sleeve features diaphragms at both the bicep and the wrist.
How much you can expect to spend on an adult arm cast cover
Adult arm cast covers can vary in price from about $12-$40, depending on the design and the quality. The most basic adult arm cast covers cost about $12-$20, while midrange adult arm cast covers cost $20-$30 and the high-end adult arm cast covers cost $30-$40.
Adult arm cast cover FAQ
Should you tape up the diaphragm of an adult arm cast cover for additional protection?
A. As long as you buy a well-fitting cover, you don’t need to tape up the diaphragm of the adult arm cast cover for extra protection. If you are taping up the diaphragm because it feels loose, you need to buy a smaller cast cover.
Should you use a child’s arm cast cover instead if you’re petite?
A. Using a child’s arm cast cover is the best choice to make sure you have a snug-fitting diaphragm, according to many customers. That being said, it’s important to look at adult arm cast covers that are available in multiple sizes, since many brands have expanded their sizing to include sizes for petite customers.
Can you repair an adult arm cast cover with a minor puncture rather than buying a new one?
A. It’s not recommended to repair your adult arm cast cover on your own, since there aren’t any effective patch kits out there. Instead, it’s much safer to buy another adult arm cast cover or two. Some manufacturers offer a satisfaction guarantee, so you should contact the manufacturer to see if they will offer a refund or replacement.
What’s the best adult arm cast cover to buy?
Top adult arm cast cover
Brownmed Seal-Tight Original Cast and Bandage Protector
What you need to know: This functional and top-quality adult arm cast cover from Brownmed provides amazing arm coverage at a fairly affordable price.
What you’ll love: This latex-free Brownmed adult arm cast cover works well for those with latex sensitivities and allergies, and it is considerably less expensive than competitors. The adult arm cast cover is also fairly long at 40 inches.
What you should consider: The opening hole on this adult arm cast cover is smaller than you might expect.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top adult arm cast cover for the money
Veskimer Waterproof Arm Cast Cover
What you need to know: Considered the best of the best, this high-quality adult arm cast cover is perfect for regular daily use.
What you’ll love: The waterproof design of this Veskimer adult arm cast cover keeps water entirely out of the cover. The adult arm cast cover is also composed of durable surgical rubber and features a convenient, one-size-fits-all design.
What you should consider: Some customers have problems with shipping.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Sunby Waterproof Arm Cast Cover
What you need to know: This adult arm cast cover is simple to wear and offers a waterproof seal and a secure and snug fit.
What you’ll love: This Sunby adult arm cast cover holds up fairly well to everyday use and is one of the simplest cast covers to keep clean. The adult arm cast cover is also composed of non-latex PVC material and includes a reliable seal that doesn’t dig into your skin.
What you should consider: Some customers say that finding the correct size is difficult.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Boston Celtics swingman Jaylen Brown terminated their associations Tuesday with Donda Sports, the brand management agency owned by the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
Donald and Brown signed deals with Donda Sports earlier this year to represent some of their interests outside of their sports. Both star athletes emphatically dropped the agency owned by Ye, as the music mogul is now known, amid rising international condemnation of his latest round of offensive and antisemitic remarks.
German sportswear giant Adidas also ended its extraordinarily lucrative partnership with Ye on Tuesday.
Donald, the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, signed with Donda Sports last spring after the Rams won the Super Bowl. The seven-time All-Pro and his wife, Erica, denounced West’s “displays of hate and antisemitism” in a statement announcing their decision.
“We felt a responsibility to send a clear message that hateful words and actions have consequences and that we must do better as human beings,” they wrote. “We do not feel our beliefs, voices and actions belong anywhere near a space that misrepresents and oppresses people of any background, ethnicity or race.”
Brown emphatically reversed his own tentative decision Monday to stay with Donda Sports, saying Tuesday that he will “continue to stand strongly against any antisemitism, hate speech, misrepresentation and oppressive rhetoric of any kind.”
Former NFL receiver Antonio Brown was named the president of Donda Sports in February, and he claimed the organization bought a $2 million suite for the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium.
Donald and Jaylen Brown subsequently signed with the amorphous agency, which was supposed to represent the athletes in marketing and branding deals not related to their team contracts. Donda Sports also claimed to be “centered on professional and wellness support” in the announcement of its deal with Antonio Brown.
Donald and Jaylen Brown appear to be the only announced clients of Donda Sports, which has a nonfunctioning website and an Instagram account with over 279,000 followers and no posts.
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Letter to the editor: Get priorities straight
The Repository
A heads-up to our elected officials: It's not guns, abortion or the climate; it's the economy, stupid!
David Kuhlke, North Canton
A heads-up to our elected officials: It's not guns, abortion or the climate; it's the economy, stupid!
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New Operational Analytics Platform Delivers Advanced Security and Digital Operations at Scale with Focus on High Business Risk
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Netenrich, a leading security and operations analytics SaaS company, disrupts legacy security ops with a major shift focused on data, taking an AI-driven approach to security operations. The company introduced its Resolution Intelligence platform to analyze real-time security data to determine which high business impact resources are most vulnerable, at critical risk, and need immediate response.
The Netenrich platform is the first to prioritize and rank the most critical issues and behaviors for immediate investigation. The platform aggregates and correlates security and operations data across networks, clouds, and applications. Data analysis and AI/ML rapidly determine the top actions (ActOns™) to immediately take, scored by risk ranking and data-driven contextual intelligence.
"Any organization that needs to operate at service-provider scale must drive towards business resilience across all their digital operations, without compromise. Service providers (MSSPs, MSPs, GSIs, and others), in addition to building high quality recurring revenues, must also innovate and transform their clients' operational efficiencies. Our Resolution Intelligence platform allows all service providers to achieve both these goals."
— Raju Chekuri, Netenrich CEO
Netenrich is the first to provide service provider scale leveraging Google Chronicle. The platform brings valuable volumes of security data into its ActOn Data LakeTM as well as other data assets for analysis. The purpose-built ops platform applies correlation, rules management and threat analysis to deliver prioritized actionable insights and situational awareness.
"For many MSSPs, plugging into Resolution Intelligence is the fastest and simplest way to build services and transform their business with analytics enabled by Chronicle. The Netenrich platform operationalizes Chronicle around multitenancy to drive scale and equip providers to realize value on day one and add their own IP at any time."
— Jonas Kelley, Head of Americas MSSP Partnerships, at Google Cloud
Unique to the platform and essential to managed service providers is the multi-level multitenant interface that streamlines and automates customer management workflows and enables scale. This is made possible using cloud scale distributed computing offered by the platform's SaaS model.
- Multitenant interface enables analysts to view operations and security status of critical assets across your entire customer base, within a defined group, or by individual customer.
- The platform's unified UI, across all security and digital operations, streamlines rule-building, threat analytics, and tracking across the provider's entire customer base.
"The platform is huge for us. We no longer look at our technology infrastructure from a point solution perspective. Automation and real-time notification are key to actually detecting and responding to problems before systems crash. We're able to divert disruptions better and focus 100% on patient care."
— Bradd Busick, CIO, MultiCare Health
"Our purpose-built platform with years of operational experience, drives resiliency into all digital operations. With a riskops and an operational data analytics approach, we want our partners and clients to transform towards secure digital operations. We are extremely confident that our partners and their customers will reach new levels of operational excellence at scale and speed to keep up with their digital transformation mandates."
— Raju Chekuri, Netenrich CEO
Optimize your Digital Ops for Business Resilience
With the Netenrich platform, security ops becomes proactive using a predict and prevent approach in anticipating risky behaviors, disrupting threats and insuring business resilience. Organizations improve their overall security posture while focusing on business growth.
- Security organizations are no longer overwhelmed with volumes of alerts and false positives.
- Time to investigate and respond shortens.
- The need for additional security experts disappears as the platform uses AI and automation to speed analysis and remove tedious and time-consuming basic tasks.
- Once siloed and fragmented, ops teams and business units consolidate and collaborate across ops.
- Security becomes pervasive across all operations.
Visit Netenrich's Resolution Intelligence and security solutions pages for more information.
See the Resolution Intelligence platform at RSA 2022, June 6 – 9. Theater presentations and demos in the Google Cloud Security Booth (South Expo Hall, #1943).
Hours: Tuesday, 2 PM – 4 PM, Wednesday, 4 PM – 6 PM, Thursday, 10 AM – 12 PM
Additional Resources
- Resolution Intelligence platform overview
- Resolution Intelligence and Google Chronicle overview
- Resolution Intelligence solutions brief
- Resolution Intelligence Analytics to Improve Threat Detection brief
- Resolution Intelligence demo video
To learn more about Netenrich, visit our Resolution Intelligence and security solutions pages.
About Netenrich
Netenrich Resolution Intelligence® lets companies accelerate and scale their digital business to avoid disruption and preempt risk. The secure analytics-as-a-service platform connects IT, cloud, and security operations in real time combining AIOps, automation, and over 10+ years of digital ops expertise. The platform transforms security and ops data into intelligence that organizations can act on before critical issues occur. More than 3,000 customers and managed services providers rely on Netenrich to deliver secure operations at scale and speed. The company is based in San Jose, CA.
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Wheat for Mar. gained 11.25 cents at $7.5250 a bushel; Mar. corn was up 7.75 cents at $6.8250 a bushel, Mar. oats rose 8.25 cents at $3.8625 a bushel; while Jan. soybeans advanced 21 cents at $15.2350 a bushel.
Beef was mixed and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Feb. live cattle fell .88 cent at $1.5672 a pound; Jan. feeder cattle was up .17 cent at $1.7957 a pound; while Feb. lean hogs rose .22 cent at $.7702 a pound. | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/grains-higher-and-livestock-mixed-17744492.php | 2023-01-26 21:19:09 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/grains-higher-and-livestock-mixed-17744492.php |
WHEELING, W.Va., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wheeling, WV based Main Street Financial Services Corp. reported its second quarter year to date financial results on Friday, August 05, 2022.
Main Street Financial Services Corp reported its second quarter year to date financial results on Friday, August 05, 2022.
Year to date Revenue was $10.44 million compared to $10.41 million in 2021.
Year to date Net Income as $2.42 million compared to $2.44 million in 2021.
Total assets came in at $589.9 million in 2022 versus $554.4 million in 2021.
Gross loans totaled $401.7million in 2022 versus $404.3 million in 2021.
Total deposits totaled $513.7million in 2022 versus $477.4 million in 2021.
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Main Street Bank was founded in June 2001, and we are proud that our bank is locally owned and managed. We know that a locally based bank staffed by seasoned banking professionals has a greater understanding of what local people need. Our customers know that the best bankers in the Ohio Valley work at Main Street Bank. We make decisions quickly and respond rapidly to advancements in the banking industry, always remembering that technology can never replace sincere, personal service.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There was already plenty of trouble to talk about when a major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was originally supposed to happen in 2020.
Now the pandemic-postponed conference finally starts Monday as Russia’s war in Ukraine has reanimated fears of nuclear confrontation and cranked up the urgency of trying to reinforce the 50-year-old treaty.
“It is a very, very difficult moment,” said Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Russia’s invasion, accompanied by ominous references to its nuclear arsenal, “is so significant for the treaty and really going to put a lot of pressure on this,” she said. “How governments react to the situation is going to shape future nuclear policy.”
The four-week meeting aims to generate a consensus on next steps, but expectations are low for a substantial — if any — agreement.
Still, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis, prime ministers Fumio Kishida of Japan and Frank Bainimarama of Fiji, and more than a dozen nations’ foreign ministers are among attendees expected from at least 116 countries, according to a U.N. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly before the conference.
In force since 1970, the Nonproliferation Treaty has the widest adherence of any arms control agreement. Some 191 countries have joined.
Nations without nuclear weapons promised not to acquire them, while nuclear-armed Britain, China, France, Russia (then the Soviet Union) and the United States agreed to negotiate toward eliminating their arsenals someday. All endorsed everyone’s right to develop peaceful nuclear energy.
India and Pakistan, which didn’t sign, went on to get the bomb. So did North Korea, which ratified the pact but later announced it was withdrawing. Non-signatory Israel is believed to have a nuclear arsenal but neither confirms nor denies it.
Nonetheless, the Nonproliferation Treaty has been credited with limiting the number of nuclear newcomers (U.S. President John F. Kennedy once foresaw as many as 20 nuclear-armed nations by 1975) and serving as a framework for international cooperation on disarmament.
The total number of nuclear weapons worldwide has shrunk by more than 75% from a mid-1980s peak, largely due to the end of the Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. But experts estimate roughly 13,000 warheads remain worldwide, the vast majority in the U.S. and Russia.
Meetings to assess how the treaty is working are supposed to happen every five years, but the 2020 conference was repeatedly delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Challenges have only grown in the meantime.
When launching the Ukraine war in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen” and emphasized that his country is “one of the most potent nuclear powers.” Days later, Putin ordered Russia’s nuclear forces to be put on higher alert, a move that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called “bone-chilling.”
“The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” he said.
The events in Ukraine create a tricky choice for the upcoming conference, said Patricia Lewis, a former U.N. disarmament research official who is now at the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London.
“On the one hand, in order to support the treaty and what it stands for, governments will have to address Russia’s behavior and threats,” she said. “On the other hand, to do so risks dividing the treaty members.”
Another uncomfortable dynamic: The war has heightened some countries’ apprehensions about not having nuclear weapons, especially since Ukraine once housed but gave up a trove of Soviet nukes.
Conference participants can stress other security strategies or emphasize the costs and dangers of acquiring nuclear weapons, but “it’s important not to be too preachy,” said Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.
“The idea that we can just look other countries in the face and say, ‘You’re better off without the bomb’ — that’s a bit of a hard argument to carry right now categorically,” said O’Hanlon, a senior fellow specializing in defense and security.
Ukraine is hardly the only hot topic.
North Korea appears to have been preparing recently for its first nuclear weapons test since 2017. Talks about reviving the deal meant to keep Iran from developing nukes are in limbo.
The U.S. and Russia have only one remaining treaty curtailing their nuclear weapons and have been developing new technologies. Britain last year raised a self-imposed cap on its stockpile. China says it’s modernizing — or, the U.S. claims, expanding — the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
Daryl Kimball, who heads the nonprofit Arms Control Association in Washington, can’t recall another time when the Nonproliferation Treaty has come up for review with “so many difficulties in so many different areas, and where we have seen such severe tensions between the major players.”
U.S. Ambassador Adam Scheinman, the presidential special representative for nuclear nonproliferation, said Washington hopes for a “balanced” outcome that “sets realistic goals and advances our national and international security interests.”
“You can have no doubt that Russia’s actions will affect the climate at the conference and prospects for an agreed outcome document. Other difficult issues may complicate this, as well. But I’m prepared to be somewhat optimistic,” he said in a telephone briefing.
The Associated Press sent inquiries to Russia’s U.N. mission about Moscow’s goals for the conference. There was no immediate response.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said his country wants to work toward improving global nuclear governance and upholding the international order and will “firmly safeguard the legitimate security and development interests and rights of China and the developing world.”
If the world can’t speak with one voice, disarmament advocates say a strong statement from a large group of countries could send a meaningful message.
In recent years, frustration with the Nonproliferation Treaty catalyzed another pact that outright prohibits nuclear weapons. Ratified by over 60 countries, it took effect last year, though without any nuclear-armed nations on board.
At a recent meeting in Vienna, participating countries condemned “any and all nuclear threats” and inked a lengthy plan that includes considering an international trust fund for people harmed by nuclear weapons.
Fihn, whose Geneva-based group campaigned for the nuclear ban treaty, hopes the vigor in Vienna serves as inspiration — or notice — for countries to make progress at the U.N. conference.
“If you don’t do it here,” she said, “we’re moving on without you elsewhere.”
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STUART, Fla., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stuart Therapeutics, Inc. (Stuart), a clinical stage company developing advanced ophthalmic therapeutics, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark office has issued a Notice of Allowance in each of two patent applications associated with the company's clinical product candidates, including ST-100, Stuart's drug candidate for the treatment of dry eye disease (DED) which recently completed a successful Phase 2 trial. Specifically, the company has secured allowances on the following U.S. patent applications which are exclusively licensed to Stuart Therapeutics by the owner of the applications, Stuart's affiliate Sustain Holdings, LLC:
- U.S. Application No. 16/839,987, which claims compositions of matter comprising Stuart's proprietary Collagen Mimetic Peptide (CMP) compounds, including the ST-100 formulation. The claims of this patent, once issued, are expected to encompass the currently planned commercial version of the company's ST-100 product candidate. This allowed patent application is a continuation of U.S. Patent No. 10,632,168, also exclusively licensed to Stuart, which claims the use of CMP-containing formulations such as ST-100 in treating a variety of ocular diseases, disorders or wounds including dry eye disease and glaucoma.
- U.S. Application No. 17/749,729, also a continuation of U.S. Patent No. 10,632,168, which claims the use of CMP-containing formulations such as ST-100 in treating a variety of ocular diseases, disorders or wounds including cataracts, corneal ulcerations, scleritis, keratoconus and post-operative eye wounds. The company expects to pursue certain of these indications in forthcoming clinical trials.
These allowances are expected to result in the issuance of two new patents within the next 6-8 weeks, upon the completion of certain administrative requirements. The grant of these patents further strengthens Stuart's U.S. and international patent portfolio for its PolyColTM (PolyCol) platform of synthesized CMPs and their use in potentially treating, preventing and/or diagnosing a variety of diseases and disorders in humans and veterinary animals.
"These new patent allowances, combined with previous patent awards in the U.S. and abroad for various methods of use including treating ocular surface disease and glaucoma, means that Stuart's PolyCol CMP platform, and particularly its ST-100 product candidate, has broad and strong intellectual property protection, and will be very important as we continue to develop and ultimately seek approval for commercialization of ST-100 and other CMP drug candidates" said Eric Schlumpf, President & CEO of Stuart.
In pre-clinical animal studies and in human clinical trials, Stuart's PolyCol CMPs have been shown to repair damaged collagen triple helices and restore epithelial and neuronal cells and cellular processes that rely on native collagen as a part of the associated Extracellular Matrix (ECM) for promotion and maintenance of normal cell and tissue structure and function. The company's CMPs are believed to work by reconstituting the collagen triple helix in areas in vivo where it has been disrupted by disease or wounding, thereby causing a recovery of the normal cell signaling and structural roles that collagen plays in tissue homeostasis.
ST-100, Stuart's first drug candidate, has demonstrated in pre-clinical animal testing that it provides rapid repair of damaged corneal epithelial and sub-epithelial tissues in the eye and reduction in the production of pro-inflammatory mediators, coupled with restoration of corneal nerve structures, making it an ideal therapeutic candidate for treating DED and other ocular surface indications. Applied in a drop formulation, ST-100 has also demonstrated that it can lead to rapid improvement in the symptoms and signs of DED in humans, as seen in Stuart's Phase 2 clinical trial. Stuart believes that ST-100 should be broadly applicable to the estimated 30 million sufferers of DED in the United States, working via a direct reparative approach to alleviating painful eye surface damage that is a hallmark of DED.
About Stuart Therapeutics:
Stuart Therapeutics is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of PolyCol, a collagen mimetic peptide therapeutic platform. The company is developing a variety of anterior and posterior segment ophthalmologic applications based on the PolyCol technology.
ST-100 is a candidate therapeutic that is in pre-clinical evaluation and has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in treating, preventing, curing or diagnosing any disease or disorder. Similarly, the statements contained in this Announcement have not been evaluated by the FDA and may be considered "forward-looking statements" under applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or result expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although forward-looking statements contained in this presentation are based upon what management of Stuart Therapeutics believes are reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Stuart Therapeutics undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harjot Saluja, CEO for Reach Mobile, will be a featured speaker this week at MVNO Nation Live 2022, delivering multiple presentations.
The global consumer connectivity space has seen radical transformation and innovation due to MVNOs like Reach Mobile and others disrupting the industry. Reach Mobile was chosen to share its successes and insights to MVNO Nation Live 2022 attendees including details about its successful ReachNEXT offering, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that accelerates and streamlines how companies bring network-based services to market. ReachNEXT offers a one-stop-shop for launching and operating use cases such as MVNO, Fixed Wireless Access, Failover Internet, and IOT with unprecedented simplicity and speed. Clients of ReachNEXT range from emerging lifestyle brands to broadband providers reaching millions of homes.
Details of Saluja's presentations include:
- December 17
Panel - Digitalisation of MVNOs - How to innovate to offer the service your customers truly want?
Committed to providing the best new era mobile service, Harjot Saluja is innovating how companies leverage and monetize networks. As CEO of Reach Mobile, Saluja is a technology pioneer and serial CEO, with more than 15 years of experience in the mobile industry. He holds a patent for wireless network inter-technology handoffs and is a strategic advisor to Wi-Charge, a leader in over-the-air charging technology.
Reach Mobile believes that connecting people and things to network possibilities will ultimately create a better world. With offices in Boston, Bangalore, and Ottawa, Reach Mobile is fueled by a decade of wireless expertise and the innovative spirit of a startup. Reach Mobile is the creator of ReachNEXT, a global SaaS platform that radically simplifies how network-based services are launched and operated. Explore full capabilities at https://www.reachnext.com, and experience the platform in action at www.reachmobile.com.
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Gas stoves in California homes are leaking cancer-causing benzene, researchers found in a new study published on Thursday, though they say more research is needed to understand how many homes have leaks.
In the study, published in Environmental Science and Technology on Thursday, researchers also estimated that over 4 tons of benzene per year are being leaked into the atmosphere from outdoor pipes that deliver the gas to buildings around California — the equivalent to the benzene emissions from nearly 60,000 vehicles. And those emissions are unaccounted for by the state.
The researchers collected samples of gas from 159 homes in different regions of California and measured to see what types of gases were being emitted into homes when stoves were off. They found that all of the samples they tested had hazardous air pollutants, like benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX), all of which can have adverse health effects in humans with chronic exposure or acute exposure in larger amounts.
Of most concern to the researchers was benzene, a known carcinogen that can lead to leukemia and other cancers and blood disorders, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The finding could have major implications for indoor and outdoor air quality in California, which has the second highest level of residential natural gas use in the United States.
“What our science shows is that people in California are exposed to potentially hazardous levels of benzene from the gas that is piped into their homes,” said Drew Michanowicz, a study co-author and senior scientist at PSE Healthy Energy, an energy research and policy institute. “We hope that policymakers will consider this data when they are making policy to ensure current and future policies are health-protective in light of this new research.”
Homes in almost every region in the study — Greater Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento and Fresno — had benzene levels that far exceed the limit determined to be safe by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment. But the region with the highest benzene levels by far was the North San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys.
This finding in particular didn't surprise residents and health care workers in the region who spoke to The Associated Press about the study. That's because many of them experienced the largest-known natural gas leak in the nation in Aliso Canyon in 2015.
Back then, 100,000 tons of methane and other gases, including benzene, leaked from a failed well operated by Southern California Gas Co. It took nearly four months to get the leak under control and resulted in headaches, nausea and nose bleeds.
Dr. Jeffrey Nordella was a physician at an urgent care in the region during this time and remembers being puzzled by the variety of symptoms patients were experiencing. “I didn't have much to offer them,” except to help them try to detox from the exposures, he said.
That was an acute exposure of a large amount of benzene, which is different from chronic exposure to smaller amounts, but "remember what the World Health Organization said: there's no safe level of benzene," he said.
Kyoko Hibino was one of the residents exposed to toxic air pollution as a result of the Aliso Canyon gas leak. After the leak, she started having a persistent cough and nosebleeds and eventually was diagnosed with breast cancer, which has also been linked to benzene exposure. Her cats also started having nosebleeds and one recently passed away from leukemia.
“I'd say let's take this study really seriously and understand how bad (benzene exposure) is,” she said.
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BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, met Wednesday with the head of its military-installed government and called for a halt to all violence on her first mission to the strife-torn country, her office said.
In her talks with Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, Heyzer amplified a recent call by the U.N. Security Council for full respect for human rights and the rule of law, the immediate cessation of all violence, and unfettered humanitarian access to all those in need, her office said in a statement.
State-run MRTV television confirmed the meeting, saying Heyzer and Min Aung Hlaing exchanged views on promoting trust and cooperation between Myanmar and the United Nations. It did not provide any details on the talks in Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw.
Myanmar has been wracked by violent unrest since the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February last year. The army’s takeover prevented Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party from beginning a second term in office.
The takeover was met with massive public opposition, which has since turned into armed resistance that some U.N. experts, including Heyzer’s predecessor, Christine Schraner Burgener, have characterized as civil war. Critics of the military have accused it of carrying out widespread human rights abuses to crush opposition to its rule.
The statement from Heyzer’s office said she called for “immediate and specific de-escalation steps including ending aerial bombing and the burning of civilian houses and infrastructure.”
MRTV reported that Heyzer held a separate meeting with Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin and said he explained current developments in Myanmar and told Heyzer that it was necessary for the United Nations to review its approach in its cooperation with Myanmar. It did not elaborate.
Heyzer's visit follows the military government's recent execution of four political activists, which drew worldwide condemnation. The statement from her office said she “directly urged the Senior General to impose a moratorium on all future executions (and) reiterated the United Nations Secretary-General’s call for the release of all political prisoners.”
It said she also conveyed an Australian government request for the release of Australian economist Sean Turnell, who served as an adviser to Suu Kyi and is being tried with her on a charge of violating Myanmar's Official Secrets Act.
Much of the international community, including Myanmar’s fellow members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, have expressed frustration at the hard line the generals have taken in resisting reform. Myanmar’s military rulers agreed to a five-point ASEAN plan in April 2021 to restore peace and stability to the country, including an immediate halt to violence and a dialogue among all parties. But the military has made little effort to implement the plan.
It was unknown if Heyzer will meet with Suu Kyi, who is being held in prison in Naypyitaw. She has been prosecuted in a string of criminal cases widely seen as politically motivated by the ruling military. The government has refused to allow her to meet with any outsiders, including a special envoy from ASEAN.
Heyzer requested a meeting with Suu Kyi, the statement from her office said.
“I’m deeply concerned about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s health and wellbeing in her current situation, and request that she can return home soon,” it quoted her saying. "I want to have an opportunity to meet with her as soon as possible, both because I care about her personally and I believe she is a critical stakeholder for my dialogue with all parties concerned.”
The National Unity Government, the main opposition organization which views itself as a legitimate government of Myanmar, issued a statement after Heyzer arrived Tuesday, saying her visit must be aimed at ending the military's violence and her talks must reflect the voice of the Myanmar people.
“The special envoy’s visit must be directed at ending the junta’s violence, its weaponization of aid, its persecution of political prisoners, and its impunity. Intensified efforts must also target the multiple junta-induced crises destabilizing the region’s peace and security. Anything short of this would be an appeasement of war criminals,” it said. “Mrs. Heyzer’s consultations must include Myanmar’s ethnic resistance organizations and civil society, and amplify the voices of Myanmar people.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UN-special-envoy-to-Myanmar-urges-immediate-halt-17379571.php | 2022-08-17 18:08:48 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UN-special-envoy-to-Myanmar-urges-immediate-halt-17379571.php |
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge overseeing the remaining case against two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing ordered Monday that the trial be delayed until January in hopes that some additional time will improve prospects for a fair trial.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng had been due to go on trial next week on charges of aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 death of Floyd. But Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ordered Monday that the trial be delayed until Jan. 5.
Cahill denied a defense motion for a change of venue due to the extensive pretrial publicity surrounding the case. But he said media reports and recent events surrounding connected cases have created “a reasonable likelihood of an unfair trial” if it were to begin next week.
Cahill cited the May 18 guilty plea by Thao and Keung’s co-defendant, former Officer Thomas Lane. He also cited the February convictions of Thao, Kueng and Lane on federal charges of violating Floyd’s civil rights.
The judge said those two events and the publicity surrounding them are significant enough to make it difficult for jurors to presume that Thao and Kueng are innocent of the state charges against them. So, he ordered the delay, just shy of seven months, to diminish the effects of that publicity.
Cahill also presided over last year’s trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin, which ended with a second-degree murder conviction and a 22 1/2-year sentence for the white officer who kneeled on the Black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes despite Floyd’s fading pleas of “I can’t breathe.” The killing led to protests worldwide and a national reckoning on racial injustice.
The judge also denied a motion by a coalition of media organizations, including The Associated Press, to reconsider his April decision to prohibit live audiovisual coverage of the proceedings from gavel to gavel. But he said he may reconsider if the Minnesota state court system revises its rules on cameras in the courts by Jan. 4.
Bob Paule, an attorney for Thao, said he thought the decision “was a thoughtful and well-reasoned decision by Judge Cahill.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office is prosecuting the case, said in a statement: “It’s unfortunate for the victims, the witnesses, and community that the opportunity to seek justice has been delayed. The State was ready for trial next week and will be ready next January.”
A message left for Kueng’s attorney was not immediately returned Monday.
The new trial schedule says pretrial motions will be held Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, with jury selection beginning Jan. 9. Questionnaires will be mailed to a new pool of “several hundred” potential jurors around Sept. 1. Opening statements are set for Jan. 30.
In denying a change of venue, Cahill wrote that he is satisfied that a fair and impartial trial can be held in Hennepin County “eventually,” noting that it’s the most populous and diverse county in the state. He said attorneys will get to select jurors from a panel “that will surely exceed 200” after the lengthy questionnaires designed to screen out bias are returned.
Alan Tuerkheimer, a Chicago-based jury consultant, said the reason for the postponement seems like “strange rationale.” He said he doesn’t see how a potential juror’s bias would subside with the passage of time. He said with effective questioning, “jurors with bias can be weeded out today or tomorrow or in early 2023.”
He added that while other events that happen between now and January will consume jurors’ minds, “feelings about these cops will not just vanish over time. As trial approaches in January it will all come back to those who followed this case. For those who haven’t, the passage of time doesn’t matter.”
Mike Brandt, a Minneapolis defense attorney who has been following the case, said although Cahill’s stated reason for the postponement is to dissipate the case’s notoriety, the decision is also likely pragmatic. He said pushing the trial back allows time for Thao and Kueng to be sentenced on their federal convictions first, increasing the likelihood of a plea deal with the state.
“They may not be on the radar, but in my opinion, this enhances the options for a settlement,” Brandt said. He added that once the federal sentences are known, the thinking could be: “If we’re going to be doing this amount of time anyways, and the state agrees to this amount of time, why would we risk going to trial?”
Chauvin has been in prison since his state murder conviction, while Thao, Keung and Lane remain free on bail pending their sentences on federal civil rights convictions. No federal sentencing dates have been set, but defense attorneys said in state court last week that they expect them to be in September. Chauvin pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge, while the other three went to trial.
Cahill’s order said he won’t entertain any potential plea agreements from Thao or Kueng until 15 days after their federal sentencings. They rejected plea deals from prosecutors earlier.
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The company building a controversial wind farm off New Jersey’s coast is suing Cape May County officials for not fulfilling permitting requests and following regulator orders it argues has delayed the project.
Ocean Wind 1, owned by Danish-based energy company Ørsted, contends the county, its clerk and its engineer are prolonging the paperwork needed for easements required by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
The officials also are not yet granting road opening permits for work in Ocean City, the suit alleges.
The lawsuit was filed July 3, in the same week the Biden administration approved the wind farm’s construction about 13 nautical miles southeast of Atlantic City.
The wind farm’s builder names the county’s clerk and engineer, Rita Rothberg and Robert Church, respectively. It also names Kevin Lare, the clerk for the Cape May County Board of Commissioners.
The lawsuit was filed in Cape May County Superior Court by attorney Christine A. Roy, who did not return a request for comment Tuesday.
Ocean Wind 1’s legal teams contend county officials are not following BPU orders.
The county, however, insists the orders’ being placed in the county’s record would have to be a decision by a court, not state regulators, the lawsuit states.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a bill giving a tax break to Danish offshore wind developer Orsted for the first of two energy projects it plans to place in the waters off the Jersey Shore. And he faces pressure from another offshore wind company looking for similar assistance. The governor’s office said he would sign the bill, allowing Orsted to keep federal tax credits that it otherwise would have been required to pass along to New Jersey utility ratepayers. Another offshore wind project, Atlantic Shores, also wants government aid for its own project off the southern New Jersey coast.
Michael Donohue, an attorney representing Cape May County on wind-related matters, denounced the lawsuit Tuesday, saying the company chooses to sue instead of meeting for negotiations.
“Demand letters and lawsuits seem to be the only language Ørsted knows,” Donohue said. “The county is reviewing the latest lawsuit from Ørsted and will respond shortly.”
In November, the BPU authorized the easements across Ocean City, where the company intends to run cable lines underground at Roosevelt Boulevard and Bay Avenue. The line would connect to a new energy hub at the site of the former B.L. England Generating Station, which is in the process of being demolished.
The company filed a similar lawsuit in May over Ocean City not awarding city permits for 12 test pits and two soil borings, part of the wind power project’s plans to bring electricity ashore.
The developer’s lawsuit also cites the county’s failure to award road-opening permits to perform “utility and environmental investigations within portions of 35th Street,” leading to a delay in starting construction.
The scope of that work consists of 23 soil borings, two long-term monitoring wells and 40 test pits from 35th Street and West Avenue in Ocean City to Roosevelt Boulevard and Route 9 in Upper Township, the lawsuit states, adding it would take about three weeks to complete the work.
To limit interference with the summer tourism season, Ocean Wind 1 requested April 13 that the road application be issued within 30 days, allowing the work to be finished no later than May’s end, the lawsuit states.
The county’s neglect to grant the permits has slowed construction, which is planned to begin as early as 2023’s third quarter, the lawsuit states. It’s also having “cascading and adverse” effects on other needed permitting and approvals.
With a wind power project proposed off the beach taking a big step forward this week, Ocean City Mayor Jay Gillian on Thursday criticized the approval process and called offshore energy production “a crazy gamble.”
Plans call for up to 98 wind turbines along the Jersey Shore through the project. Plans are for the first power to be delivered onshore in late 2024.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management endorsed the project formally last week as aligning with President Joe Biden’s broader clean-energy initiatives for the U.S.
Gov. Phil Murphy also signed into law Thursday a bill giving Ørsted a tax break, saying the financial aid ensures offshore wind projects and the jobs they create happen in New Jersey rather than in competing states.
The wind farms have been the subject of heated political debate.
Republicans and officials in several Cape May County communities, most notably Ocean City, have shown opposition to the project. They argue their construction would negatively affect tourism and the local fishing industry.
Other arguments have tied their development to a string of offseason marine mammal deaths in New Jersey and New York, but those theories lack evidence, according to federal officials.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Brock Vradenburg went 2 for 3, including a program-record tying 22nd double, and Michigan State edged Rutgers 6-4 on Thursday in the Big Ten Tournament.
Vradenburg tied Blaise Salter (2014) and Chris McCuiston (2002) for the most doubles in a single season at Michigan State. Vradenburg is hitting .403 this season with 13 home runs and 68 RBIs.
Michigan State closer Wyatt Rush shut down the Rutgers offense over the final 4 2/3 innings. Rush threw 72 pitches, allowing just three hits and striking out four.
Rutgers reliever Jake Marshall got a strikeout to strand runners on second and third in the seventh inning, but the Spartans plated a pair of runs on bases-loaded walks in the eighth to break a tie at 4-all.
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The luxury market and the high-profile brands captured within it face a new generation of shoppers. These buyers are exiting a years-long pandemic and face red hot inflation with an unclear end. They are expected to continue to curb spending on "aspirational" purchases, favoring frugality.
As Forbes reported in May, the personal luxury market has faced a roller coaster of challenges and successes in recent years. The market saw a worldwide high of $307 billion in 2019 sales. It was then hit by an unprecedented pandemic, watching COVID-19 lockdowns and other unforeseen factors cause the sector to plunge an incredible 22% during the pandemic's height in 2020. The year after that, astonishingly, it was back to supporting luxury brands, with most people settling into their work-from-home lives, shopping online while saving on takeaway lunches, and commuting costs associated with office life.
The industry saw a rebound last year, reaching $309 billion, Bain reported. But, as industry leaders look at the longer outlook, that could all have been a fluke.
For Gen Z, faced with a future of student loans, possible sustained inflation, and unattainable purchasing power, for many, amid fast-rising home prices and interest rates that could maintain their highs: The prospect of buying a $700 t-shirt as a sign of success is becoming evermore unlikely.
The luxury sector is worried about these financially stretched Gen Z consumers, and how they will sell those "aspirational" products to them, Reuters reported.
Kenneth Chow, director of consulting firm Oliver Wyman, said, “In the U.S., inflation is a big problem, the focus of many luxury companies…in China, it’s youth unemployment that’s alarming right now.”
Internationally, government data over the summer signaled a concerning outlook, with the unemployment rate among Chinese city dwellers aged 16-24 at an astonishing record 19.9%. And if global sales for luxury brands are affected, that could most certainly mean domestic worries for all international labels.
Claudia D’Arpizio, a partner with Bain, said, “There’s this young group of consumers entering the market that requires a lot of creativity at more affordable prices.”
In 2021, a call held by speakers for the Business of Fashion noted that Gen Z is expected to account for 40 percent of the international luxury goods market by 2035.
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Karl Storz and Photocure to collaborate on commercializing the high-definition system
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Photocure ASA (OSE: PHO), the Bladder Cancer Company, announces the commercial availability of Karl Storz's New Blue Light equipment powered by Saphira™ in the U.S. As part of the rollout, Karl Storz plans to host a Virtual Launch event for the medical community streamed from its El Segundo, California office where Sia Daneshmand M.D. and Kristin Scarpato M.D. M.P.H. will discuss the clinical benefits of using BLC® with Cysview® for NBMIC*, while sharing their perspectives on the advantages that the New Blue Light system provides over the original system for TURBT**. The Virtual Launch event is scheduled to take place on October 13, 2022 at 4:00pm Pacific Time.
"We are pleased to share that Karl Storz has begun filling Obsolescence Protection Program (OPP) orders for customers who purchased New Blue Light system upgrades last year," said Geoff Coy, Vice President and General Manager, North America. "Orders for the new Saphira system appear to be outpacing orders from the past signaling pent up demand for the advanced technology, and we expect to begin filling new account orders in the fourth quarter. Given the strong demand, we continue to believe that BLC is on its way to becoming the standard of care for endoscopic visualization of bladder cancer."
"Uro-oncologists and their staff have expressed a strong desire to have the new Blue Light system at their hospitals, and the upcoming Virtual Launch Event is an opportunity to showcase the system's benefits and broaden awareness of BLC in the market," said Ken Pugh, Head of North America Marketing and Alliance Management. "Accordingly, we are working diligently with our partners to ensure that all customers who want The New Blue Light, have it for all appropriate patients with NMIBC."
Dr. Sia Daneshmand, M.D., is Professor of Urology with Clinical Scholar designation and serves as director of clinical research as well as the urologic oncology (SUO) fellowship director at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
Dr. Kristin Scarpato, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor Department of Urology residency program director and vice chair of education for the Department of Urology, Division of Urologic Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee.
*NMIBC: Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
**TURBT: Transurethral resection of bladder tumor
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About Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer ranks as the 8th most common cancer worldwide – the 5th most common in men – with 1 720 000 prevalent cases (5-year prevalence rate)1a, 573 000 new cases and more than 200 000 deaths in 2020.1b
Approx. 75% of all bladder cancer cases occur in men.1 It has a high recurrence rate with up to 61% in year one and up to 78% over five years.2 Bladder cancer has the highest lifetime treatment costs per patient of all cancers.3
Bladder cancer is a costly, potentially progressive disease for which patients have to undergo multiple cystoscopies due to the high risk of recurrence. There is an urgent need to improve both the diagnosis and the management of bladder cancer for the benefit of patients and healthcare systems alike.
Bladder cancer is classified into two types, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), depending on the depth of invasion in the bladder wall. NMIBC remains in the inner layer of cells lining the bladder. These cancers are the most common (75%) of all BC cases and include the subtypes Ta, carcinoma in situ (CIS) and T1 lesions. In MIBC the cancer has grown into deeper layers of the bladder wall. These cancers, including subtypes T2, T3 and T4, are more likely to spread and are harder to treat.4
1 Globocan. a) 5-year prevalence / b) incidence/mortality by population. Available at: https://gco.iarc.fr/today, accessed [January 2022]
2 Babjuk M, et al. Eur Urol. 2019; 76(5): 639-657
3 Sievert KD et al. World J Urol 2009;27:295–300
4 Bladder Cancer. American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer.html
About Hexvix®/Cysview® (hexaminolevulinate HCl)
Hexvix/Cysview is a drug that preferentially accumulates in cancer cells in the bladder, making them glow bright pink during Blue Light Cystoscopy (BLC®). BLC with Hexvix/Cysview, compared to standard white light cystoscopy alone, improves the detection of tumors and leads to more complete resection, fewer residual tumors, and better management decisions.
Cysview is the tradename in the U.S. and Canada, Hexvix is the tradename in all other markets. Photocure is commercializing Cysview/Hexvix directly in the U.S. and Europe and has strategic partnerships for the commercialization of Hexvix/Cysview in China, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. Please refer to https://photocure.com/partners/our-partners for further information on our commercial partners.
About Photocure ASA
Photocure: The Bladder Cancer Company delivers transformative solutions to improve the lives of bladder cancer patients. Our unique technology, making cancer cells glow bright pink, has led to better health outcomes for patients worldwide. Photocure is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE: PHO). For more information, please visit us at www.photocure.com, www.hexvix.com, www.cysview.com
For further information, please contact:
Dan Schneider
President and CEO
Photocure ASA
Email: ds@photocure.com
Erik Dahl
CFO
Photocure ASA
Tel: +4745055000
Email: ed@photocure.com
David Moskowitz
Vice President, Investor Relations
Photocure ASA
Tel: +1 202 280 0888
Email: david.moskowitz@photocure.com
Media and IR enquiries:
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Corporate Communications (Norway)
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1040 AM EST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 5
inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze. Winds gusting as
high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...In New York, Chemung, Tioga, Broome and Delaware
counties. In Pennsylvania, Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne,
Wyoming, Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Pike counties.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM EST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the evening commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Locally heavy snowfall will mix with
freezing rain and sleet late this afternoon, changing to all
rain overnight. Snowfall amounts will be highest in higher
elevation areas. Much of the Wyoming Valley may only see 1 to 3
inches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission remind motorist to adjust speeds based on
driving conditions as winter weather impacts Pennsylvania
roadways. Visit www.511pa.com for the latest travel, roadways,
and traffic conditions.
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 5
* WHERE...Yates, Seneca, Southern Cayuga, Onondaga, Steuben,
Schuyler, Tompkins and Cortland counties.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will mix with freezing rain and sleet
late this afternoon and evening, changing to all rain
overnight. Snowfall amounts will be highest in higher elevation
areas.
* WHERE...Madison, Southern Oneida, Chenango and Otsego counties.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will mix with and change to freezing
rain and sleet late this afternoon or early this evening, before
changing to all rain overnight. Downslope winds off the
Catskills may diminish snowfall amounts in lower elevation areas
of Otsego and Delaware Counties.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation. Total snow accumulations of 5
to 8 inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze. Winds
gusting as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...Sullivan county.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will be heavy at times, before
changing to a mix of freezing rain, sleet, and snow around
sunset, then changing to rain overnight. Areas of blowing snow
are also likely as winds gust 30 to 35 mph.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST
THURSDAY...
to 8 inches and ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch.
Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...Northern Oneida county.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM EST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will be heavy at times during the
afternoon and evening. Precipitation will change to a mix of
freezing rain, sleet and drizzle tonight. The mixed
precipitation will change back to lake effect snow showers
around daybreak Thursday, continuing through the day.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., July 20,2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation ("M&T") (NYSE: MTB) today reported its results of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
GAAP Results of Operations. Diluted earnings per common share measured in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") were $1.08 in the second quarter of 2022, compared with $3.41 in the year-earlier quarter and $2.62 in the first quarter of 2022. GAAP-basis net income was $218 million in the recent quarter, $458 million in the second quarter of 2021 and $362 million in the first 2022 quarter. GAAP-basis net income in the second quarter of 2022 expressed as an annualized rate of return on average assets and average common shareholders' equity was .42% and 3.21%, respectively, compared with 1.22% and 11.55%, respectively, in the similar 2021 period and .97% and 8.55%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2022. M&T's second quarter 2022 results reflect a full-quarter impact of its April 1, 2022 acquisition of People's United Financial, Inc. ("People's United"). However, the results reflect non-operating merger-related expenses associated with the acquisition of $465 million ($346 million after-tax effect, or $1.94 of diluted earnings per common share) in the recent quarter, compared with $4 million ($3 million after-tax effect, or $.02 of diluted earnings per common share) in the year-earlier quarter and $17 million ($13 million after-tax effect, or $.10 of diluted earnings per share) in the initial quarter of 2022.
The closing of the acquisition of People's United resulted in the issuance of 50.3 million common shares. Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, People's United shareholders received consideration valued at .118 of an M&T common share in exchange for each common share of People's United. Additionally, People's United outstanding preferred stock was converted into shares of Series H preferred stock of M&T (NYSE: MTBPrH). The fair value of assets acquired in the transaction totaled approximately $64.2 billion, including $35.8 billion of loans and leases, while liabilities assumed were approximately $55.5 billion, including $53.0 billion of deposits. The purchase price totaled approximately $8.4 billion (with the price based on M&T's close price of $164.66 per share as of April 1, 2022). The transaction resulted in approximately $3.9 billion of goodwill recorded on M&T's balance sheet. The company anticipates transferring financial records of People's United to M&T's core operating systems by the end of the third quarter.
Darren J. King, Chief Financial Officer, commented on M&T's results, "We were extremely pleased with the second quarter results and our continued momentum following the acquisition of People's United. Higher average earning assets and the benefits from an increased net interest margin helped drive revenue growth, while expenses remained well controlled. Although financial results for the recent quarter reflect significant merger-related expenses, the acquisition has already had a positive impact on M&T's net operating results. In addition, our capital position remains very strong with an estimated Common Equity Tier 1 ratio of 10.9%."
For the first six-months of 2022, diluted earnings per common share were $3.45, compared with $6.73 in the year-earlier period. GAAP-basis net income was $580 million and $905 million in the first half of 2022 and 2021, respectively. Expressed as an annualized rate of return on average assets and average common shareholders' equity, GAAP-basis net income in the six-month period ended June 30, 2022 was .65% and 5.34%, respectively, compared with 1.22% and 11.56%, respectively, in the similar 2021 period.
Supplemental Reporting of Non-GAAP Results of Operations. M&T consistently provides supplemental reporting of its results on a "net operating" or "tangible" basis, from which M&T excludes the after-tax effect of amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets (and the related goodwill and core deposit and other intangible asset balances, net of applicable deferred tax amounts) and expenses associated with merging acquired operations into M&T (when incurred), since such items are considered by management to be "nonoperating" in nature. The amounts of such "nonoperating" expenses are presented in the tables that accompany this release.
Reflected in merger-related expenses in the second quarter of 2022 was a provision for credit losses of $242 million. GAAP requires that acquired loans be recorded at estimated fair value, which includes the use of interest rate and expected credit loss assumptions to forecast estimated cash flows. GAAP also provides that an allowance for credit losses on loans acquired, but not classified as purchased credit deteriorated ("PCD") also be recognized. Accordingly, M&T recorded a $242 million provision related to such loans obtained in the People's United acquisition. Given the requirement to recognize such losses above and beyond the impact of forecasted losses used in determining the fair value of acquired loans, M&T considers that provision to be a merger-related expense. Other merger-related expenses generally consist of professional services and other temporary help fees associated with actual or planned conversions of systems and/or integration of operations, costs related to terminations of existing contractual arrangements to purchase various services, severance and travel costs. Although "net operating income" as defined by M&T is not a GAAP measure, M&T's management believes that this information helps investors understand the effect of acquisition activity in reported results.
Diluted net operating earnings per common share were $3.10 in the second quarter of 2022, compared with $3.45 in the year-earlier quarter and $2.73 in the first quarter of 2022. Net operating income aggregated $578 million in the recent quarter, $463 million in the second quarter of 2021 and $376 million in 2022's first quarter. Expressed as an annualized rate of return on average tangible assets and average tangible common shareholders' equity, net operating income in the second quarter of 2022 was 1.16% and 14.41%, respectively, 1.27% and 16.68%, respectively, in the similar quarter of 2021 and 1.04% and 12.44%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2022.
Diluted net operating earnings per common share in the first six months of 2022 totaled $5.88, compared with $6.84 in the similar 2021 period. Net operating income during the first half of 2022 was $954 million, up from $920 million in the six-month period ended June 30, 2021. Net operating income expressed as an annualized rate of return on average tangible assets and average tangible common shareholders' equity was 1.11% and 13.57%, respectively, in the initial six months of 2022, compared with 1.28% and 16.86%, respectively, in the similar 2021 period.
Taxable-equivalent Net Interest Income. Net interest income expressed on a taxable-equivalent basis totaled $1.42 billion in the recent quarter, compared with $946 million in the second quarter of 2021 and $907 million in the first quarter of 2022. The increase compared with the earlier quarters reflects a higher net interest margin and the impact of earning assets obtained in the acquisition of People's United that totaled approximately $56.6 billion on April 1, 2022. Average earning assets rose to $189.8 billion in the recent quarter, 39% above the $136.9 billion average in the second quarter of 2021 and 37% higher than $138.6 billion in 2022's first quarter. Average loans outstanding were $127.6 billion in the second quarter of 2022, compared with $98.6 billion in the year earlier quarter and $92.2 billion in the first quarter of 2022. Reflecting the impact of rising interest rates, the net interest margin increased to 3.01% in the second quarter of 2022, up from 2.77% in the corresponding quarter of 2021 and 2.65% in the first quarter of 2022.
Provision for Credit Losses/Asset Quality. The provision for credit losses was $302 million in the second quarter of 2022. As already noted, included in that amount was a $242 million provision, recorded in accordance with GAAP, related to loans obtained in the People's United acquisition that were considered non-PCD. GAAP provides that an allowance for credit losses on such loans be recorded beyond the recognition of the fair value of the loans at the acquisition date. In addition to that merger-related provision, M&T recorded a provision for credit losses of $60 million in the recent quarter. A $10 million provision was recorded in the initial quarter of 2022 and a $15 million provision recovery in the second quarter of 2021. Net loan charge-offs were $50 million in the second quarter of 2022, $46 million in the second quarter of 2021 and $7 million in 2022's first quarter. Expressed as an annualized percentage of average loans outstanding, net charge-offs were .16% and .19% in the second quarters of 2022 and 2021, respectively, and .03% in the first quarter of 2022.
Loans classified as nonaccrual totaled $2.63 billion at June 30, 2022, up from $2.24 billion at June 30, 2021 and $2.13 billion at March 31, 2022. The increase in the balance of nonaccrual loans resulted from loans obtained in the acquisition of People's United. Nonaccrual loans as a percentage of total loans declined to 2.05% at the recent quarter-end from 2.31% a year earlier and 2.32% at March 31, 2022. Assets taken in foreclosure of defaulted loans were $29 million at June 30, 2022, $28 million a year earlier and $24 million at March 31, 2022.
Allowance for Credit Losses. M&T regularly performs comprehensive analyses of its loan portfolios and assesses forecasted economic conditions for purposes of determining the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses. As a result of those procedures, the allowance for credit losses totaled $1.82 billion or 1.42% of loans outstanding at June 30, 2022. The acquisition of People's United loans and leases resulted in a $341 million increase in the allowance for credit losses as of April 1, 2022, including $99 million related to PCD loans and $242 million related to non-PCD loans. Including the impact of the acquisition, M&T's allowance for credit losses was $1.81 billion on April 1, 2022, or 1.42% of then outstanding loans. The allowance for credit losses was $1.58 billion or 1.62% of loans outstanding at June 30, 2021 and $1.47 billion or 1.60% at March 31, 2022.
Noninterest Income and Expense. Noninterest income totaled $571 million in the second quarter of 2022, up from $514 million in the year-earlier quarter. People's United-related revenues in the recent quarter added approximately $79 million to noninterest income, including $33 million in service charges on deposit accounts and $14 million in trust income. Excluding People's United-related revenues, the lower level of noninterest income in the most recent quarter as compared with the second quarter of 2021 reflects decreased mortgage banking revenues impacted by M&T's decision to retain recently originated mortgage loans in portfolio rather than sell such loans while still selling select lower-yielding mortgage loans, partially offset by higher trust income and brokerage services income. Noninterest income was $541 million in this year's first quarter. The comparative decline in the recent quarter, excluding People's United-related revenues, was predominantly the result of decreased mortgage banking revenues and receipt of a $30 million distribution resulting from M&T's investment in Bayview Lending Group in 2022's initial quarter, whereas no similar distribution was received in the recent quarter. Those declines were partially offset by higher trust income and increased merchant discount and credit card fees included in other revenues from operations.
Noninterest expense totaled $1.40 billion in the second quarter of 2022, compared with $865 million in the similar quarter of 2021 and $960 million in the first quarter of 2022. Excluding expenses considered to be nonoperating in nature, such as amortization of core deposit and other intangible assets and merger-related expenses, noninterest operating expenses were $1.16 billion in the recent quarter, $859 million in the second quarter of 2021 and $941 million in 2022's first quarter. The most significant factor for the higher level of operating expenses in the recent quarter was the impact of operations obtained in the People's United acquisition.
The efficiency ratio, or noninterest operating expenses divided by the sum of taxable-equivalent net interest income and noninterest income (exclusive of gains and losses from bank investment securities), measures the relationship of operating expenses to revenues. M&T's efficiency ratio was 58.3% in the second quarter of 2022, 58.4% in the year-earlier quarter and 64.9% in the first quarter of 2022. The higher ratio in 2022's first quarter reflects seasonally higher salaries and employee benefits expenses in that quarter.
Balance Sheet. M&T had total assets of $204.0 billion at June 30, 2022, compared with $150.6 billion and $149.9 billion at June 30, 2021 and March 31, 2022, respectively. Loans and leases, net of unearned discount, were $128.5 billion at June 30, 2022, compared with $97.1 billion at June 30, 2021 and $91.8 billion at March 31, 2022. The higher level of loans and leases at the recent quarter-end as compared with the earlier dates noted is largely a reflection of balances associated with the acquisition of People's United. Also reflective of that acquisition, total deposits rose to $170.4 billion at the recent quarter-end, compared with $128.3 billion a year earlier and $126.3 billion at March 31, 2022.
Total shareholders' equity was $25.8 billion or 12.64% of total assets at June 30, 2022, $16.7 billion or 11.10% at June 30, 2021 and $17.9 billion or 11.93% at March 31, 2022. Common shareholders' equity was $23.8 billion, or $135.16 per share, at June 30, 2022, compared with $15.5 billion, or $120.22 per share, a year-earlier and $16.1 billion, or $124.93 per share, at March 31, 2022. Tangible equity per common share was $85.78 at June 30, 2022, $84.47 at June 30, 2021 and $89.33 at March 31, 2022. In the calculation of tangible equity per common share, common shareholders' equity is reduced by the carrying values of goodwill and core deposit and other intangible assets, net of applicable deferred tax balances. M&T estimates that the ratio of Common Equity Tier 1 to risk-weighted assets under regulatory capital rules was approximately 10.9% at June 30, 2022, compared with 11.7% three months earlier and 10.7% at June 30, 2021.
In accordance with its capital plan, M&T repurchased 3,505,946 shares of its common stock during the recent quarter at an average cost per share of $171.14 resulting in a total cost of $600 million.
Conference Call. Investors will have an opportunity to listen to M&T's conference call to discuss second quarter financial results today at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Those wishing to participate in the call may dial (888) 632-3384. International participants, using any applicable international calling codes, may dial (785) 830-1914. Callers should reference M&T Bank Corporation or the conference ID #MTBQ222. The conference call will be webcast live through M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations. A replay of the call will be available through Wednesday July 27, 2022 by calling (800) 925-9346, or (402) 220-5380 for international participants. No conference ID is required. The event will also be archived and available by 3:00 p.m. today on M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations.
About M&T. M&T is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the eastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank. For more information on M&T Bank, visit www.mtb.com.
Upon closing the acquisition of People's United, M&T and The M&T Charitable Foundation launched a series of investments and activities to support communities across New England and New York. Among those efforts was the announcement of the Amplify Fund – a philanthropic investment to drive sustainable impact across the legacy People's United region. The Fund will be deployed over three years to benefit historically under-represented, low- and moderate-income communities using a racial equity and justice lens.
Last month, the company also launched a Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This follows successful initiatives in Buffalo and Harrisburg. The seven-week program is designed to help local multicultural business owners thrive, grow and pursue new ideas by providing guidance and skills to expand and operate their businesses. It will accept as many as 50 entrepreneurs and is part of M&T Bank's mission to build a culturally fluent bank that understands the needs of the communities it serves and provide the resources to address those needs.
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Statements regarding the potential effects of events or factors specific to M&T and/or the financial industry as a whole, as well as national and global events generally, on M&T's business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations may constitute forward-looking statements and are subject to the risk that the actual effects may differ, possibly materially, from what is reflected in those forward-looking statements due to factors and future developments that are uncertain, unpredictable and in many cases beyond M&T's control. As described further below, statements regarding M&T's expectations or predictions regarding the acquisition of People's United are also forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the expected financial results, prospects, targets, goals and outlook.
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Future factors include the impact of the People's United transaction (as described in the next paragraph); the impact of the war in Ukraine; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; economic conditions including inflation and supply chain issues; changes in interest rates, spreads on earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, and interest rate sensitivity; prepayment speeds, loan originations, credit losses and market values on loans, collateral securing loans, and other assets; sources of liquidity; common shares outstanding; common stock price volatility; fair value of and number of stock-based compensation awards to be issued in future periods; the impact of changes in market values on trust-related revenues; legislation or regulations affecting the financial services industry and/or M&T and its subsidiaries individually or collectively, including tax policy; regulatory supervision and oversight, including monetary policy and capital requirements; governmental and public policy changes; the outcome of pending and future litigation and governmental proceedings, including tax-related examinations and other matters; changes in accounting policies or procedures as may be required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, regulatory agencies or legislation; increasing price, product and service competition by competitors, including new entrants; rapid technological developments and changes; the ability to continue to introduce competitive new products and services on a timely, cost-effective basis; the mix of products and services; containing costs and expenses; protection and validity of intellectual property rights; reliance on large customers; technological, implementation and cost/financial risks in large, multi-year contracts; continued availability of financing; financial resources in the amounts, at the times and on the terms required to support M&T and its subsidiaries' future businesses; and material differences in the actual financial results of merger, acquisition and investment activities compared with M&T's initial expectations, including the full realization of anticipated cost savings and revenue enhancements.
In addition, future factors related to the acquisition of People's United include, among others: the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against M&T; the possibility that the anticipated benefits of the transaction will not be realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of the two companies or as a result of the strength of the economy and competitive factors in the areas where M&T does business; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships; M&T's success in executing its business plans and strategies and managing the risks involved in the foregoing; the business, economic and political conditions in the markets in which M&T operates; and other factors that may affect future results of M&T.
Future factors related to the acquisition also include risks, such as, among others: that there could be an adverse effect on M&T's ability to retain customers and retain or hire key personnel and maintain relationships with customers; that integration efforts may be more difficult or time-consuming than anticipated, including in areas such as sales force, cost containment, asset realization, systems integration and other key strategies; that profitability following the combination may be lower than expected including for possible reasons such as lower than expected revenues or higher or unexpected costs, charges or expenses resulting from the transaction; unforeseen risks that may exist; and other factors that may affect future results of M&T.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Herb Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died. He was 101.
The University of Pittsburgh, where Douglas starred on the football and track teams before later serving in various roles for his alma mater, said Douglas died Saturday.
“In every role that he filled, as an aspiring athlete from Hazelwood, as a student-athlete and University trustee and as an esteemed businessman, Olympian and community leader, Herb Douglas excelled,” Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said. “He was both a champion himself and a champion of others, never hesitating to open doors of opportunity and help people pursue their own success.”
Douglas, a Pittsburgh native, was 14 when he met Owens, the American track and field star who won four gold medals in sprints and the long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens spoke at an elementary school near the Hazelwood neighborhood where Douglas grew up.
“I prayed every day to stand on the podium and make the Olympic team,” Douglas said. “When he left, Jesse put his arms around me and told me to get an education.”
He told Douglas: “That’s more than what I did at your age” and encouraged Douglas to go to college. Douglas eventually checked both items — the Olympics and a college education.
Douglas hoped to compete at the 1944 Olympics, which were canceled due to World War II. After starting his college career at Xavier University in New Orleans, a Historically Black College and University, he returned home to Pittsburgh to work at his father’s parking garage.
Douglas eventually enrolled at Pitt in 1945, becoming one of the first African Americans to play football for the Panthers while also starring on the track team. He won four intercollegiate championships in the long jump and another in the 100-yard dash at Pitt and three AAU titles in the long jump. He earned a spot on the 1948 U.S. Olympic team after finishing runner-up to Willie Steele at the Olympic trials.
Douglas’ leap of 24-feet-9 inches (7.545 meters) at the 1948 Olympics in London carried him to bronze behind gold-medalist Steele and silver-medalist Thomas Bruce of Australia.
“As the years went on, I accepted that third place like it was first place,” Douglas told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2021.
Douglas hoped to go into coaching after earning his master’s degree in education from Pitt in 1950 but found few coaching opportunities in his hometown before going into the corporate world.
He worked in sales and marketing, starting at Pabst Brewing Co. He moved to Philadelphia when he joined Schieffelin and Co., which was later acquired by Moet Hennessy. He became a vice president, among the first African Americans at that level, and worked there 30 years.
Douglas maintained close ties with his alma mater throughout his life, establishing the Herb P. Douglas scholarship and serving as a mentor to track star Roger Kingdom, who went on to win gold in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.
“We developed such a bond that I started to call him ‘Daddy Herb,’ ” Kingdom said. “He inspired me in so many ways but gave me two very important directives. First, finish my degree as I promised my mother. Second, he shared his secret for success: ‘Always analyze, organize, initiate and follow through.’”
Douglas was inducted into the inaugural Pitt athletics Hall of Fame class in 2018. The university also is naming the 300-meter indoor track at its planned Victory Heights facility after Douglas.
“His incredible intellect and determination were only surpassed by his personal kindness,” Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke said. “Pitt Athletics is forever indebted to his passion and support.”
Douglas, who remained friendly with Owens, co-founded the non-profit International Athletic Association and created the Jesse Owens Global Award for Peace.
Born March 9, 1922, Douglas’ survivors include his wife Minerva Douglas, daughter Barbara Joy Ralston, daughter-in-law Susan Douglas and four grandchildren.
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WASHINGTON — There is no shortage of amusement parks full of delight from coast to coast. But if you're an enthusiast for coasters and gravity-defying rides - the kind that make your heart skip a beat and leave you breathless with anticipation - finding high-intensity thrills can be challenging without breaking the bank.
A new study by family vacation experts FamilyDestinationsGuide.com has revealed the most affordable amusement parks in America. The study evaluated amusement parks based on ticket prices, restaurant and food costs, attractions, hotels, and transport to determine which ones offer the best bang for your buck.
The study results are based on a family of two adults and two children under nine.
Kings Island Takes The Crown
The results show that Kings Island is the cheapest day out for a family of four compared to other US amusement parks. A family's average daily spend is $368.20. Kings Island had the lowest daily food spend at $26.32 and the lowest average cost for park tickets at $159.96 per day.
For fifty years, Kings Island has served as the ultimate entertainment destination for millions of families in the Midwest who wish to experience all this enchanting amusement park has to offer: exhilarating rides, exceptional live shows and performances, scrumptious food options, and unforgettable Cincinnati events.
Kings Island has gone above and beyond since it opened in 1972 to ensure your family's visit is the most memorable day of the year. As soon as you step foot into this 364-acre amusement park, one thing becomes clear - Kings Island isn't just one of Cincinnati's top attractions. It's a must-see destination.
Silver for Silver Dollar City
Coming in as the second cheapest US amusement park is Silver Dollar City in Missouri, with a combined daily total of $578.01. It had a daily hotel spend of only $93.13, which is 44.8% less than the $168.75 average of all other hotels on the list.
"Erin Wilson, the owner of ChaChingQueen, shares one of her tips to save even more at Silver Dollar City. "After 3 pm, visitors to Silver Dollar City who purchased one-day passes can return for free the next day. It's a nice way to get a few extra hours of fun in."
America's Roller Coast
Cedar Point, Ohio, came third overall with a daily total of $585.27 and had the second-lowest daily ticket price at $179.96 - a whopping $223.69 lower than the average price of all other parks.
Cedar Point, located on the picturesque shores of Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio, is a 364-acre thrill oasis. Known as "America's Roller Coast," with 18 coasters, it boasts one of the world's largest collections. Cedar Point is an American classic - the country's second-oldest amusement park. Trying not to be afraid of heights and adrenaline-pumping rides is a life skill many of us wish we possessed and Cedar Point certainly puts that to the test.
The Happiest Place on Earth
Fourth place goes to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, with a daily total of $603.32. Daily park tickets cost an average of $319.78, and the cost of lunch was $11.73 cheaper than the average price of $57.57.
To save even more money during your Disney World vacation, travel writer Monica Fish from Planner at Heart suggests bringing your own lunches and only visiting the parks with your favorite attractions.
"We took our family to Walt Disney World for the first time last year, and due to the ever-increasing cost of park tickets, our week-long Orlando vacation only included two Disney park days. We took into account everyone's must-do park rides and didn't go to all the Disney parks due to the cost.
"We also saved money by packing lunch, snacks, and drinks and bringing it into the park, which many don't know you can do. In addition, we bought light-up toys and wands at the Dollar Store and brought dress-up costumes and outfits from home versus buying high-priced items within the park to cut down spending even more."
UpgradedPoints recently conducted a study that revealed Space Mountain, the thrilling dark roller coaster, is regarded as the most popular ride at Disney World. So if the Magic Kingdom park is your destination, getting in line for Space Mountain early in the day is recommended.
Movie Magic
Fifth place was given to Universal Studios Orlando with a total daily total of $608.62, ticket spend of $388.56, and an Uber spend of $28.33 lower than the average of $94.29.
Comparing Disney World with Universal Studios is a frequent debate amongst travelers. While Universal Studios does cost more, it's worth noting that the park is home to some of the most well-known film franchises in the world - Harry Potter, Marvel, and Jurassic Park.
Rounding Out The Top Ten
Universal's Islands of Adventure ranks sixth with a daily total of $619.54 and takes the title for the lowest-cost hotel at $65.78 and $102.98 lower than the average cost of all other parks.
Busch Gardens, Tampa, comes in seventh place with a daily total of $628.96, $52.01 lower than the average cost of $682.96. Busch Gardens beat the average price for park tickets, daily hotel stays, water bottles, and daily lunch for a family of four.
Eighth place was awarded to Six Flags, Magic Mountain, which had a daily total of $632.63. Not only did it beat the average price of park tickets by $103.69 and the return cost of an Uber to the hotel, but it also beat the $73.27 average price of water bottles set by all the other parks by $23.31.
Coming in ninth place, Hersheypark had an overall daily spend of $648.65. It beat the average ticket cost by $95.85, the average daily hotel cost by $12.58, and the price of an Uber from the local airport to the hotel by $32.49.
Disneyland Park & Disney California Adventure Park claim the 10th place with an average daily spend of $681.83. These parks also beat the average cost of park tickets, hotel stays, and Uber. It also had a lower-than-average cost of reusable water bottles by $4.60.
"With an inflation rate higher than last year, Americans may be debating whether they can even afford to visit amusement parks this year. Having this report available will no doubt be very useful in helping families to create new cherished memories," comments FamilyDestinationsGuide.com.
"This report displays exciting information, and families should use it to consider what they want from a vacation. For example, park tickets for Disney World Resort cost double that of Kings Island, but they give access to 173 rides (126 more than Kings Island)."
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The county election worker was crossing the street with a locked bag full of ballots when he saw a Jeep Gladiator pickup truck come around the corner. It sped toward him and slammed on the brakes, skidding to a stop just past him. The driver glared.
"Then she leaned out of the car and looked at me and yelled, 'you f***ing traitor!'" he said.
The woman had been following him all day as he drove around collecting ballots from drop-boxes in Coos County, Ore. The man — whom we've agreed not to identify because he said he fears being further targeted — says she would get out and film him, and that she had a gun on her hip.
Things weren't much better over at the county elections office. Local people, apparently juiced up on misinformation related to Donald Trump's false claims about rigged elections, were camped in the hallway day after day.
"Some of them were very mean," says Dede Murphy, the county clerk during this past midterm election. One called her "a wicked woman." Another barked through a bullhorn, "you should be ashamed of yourself."
Even though Trump won 59% of the vote in this county in 2020, Murphy and the other election workers say two years later people were still yelling in their faces about voter fraud.
Some of it seemed ridiculous, but other times it was scary.
Officials set up metal detectors at the entrance to the building, and over about a month, a security guard stopped people from bringing in a total of 20 guns and 60 knives or other weapons.
The worker collecting ballots called 911 four times the day he says he was menaced by the woman in the Jeep.
"I have had somebody following me," he tells a police dispatcher in one call. "She tried to run me off the road."
The roads in this rural Oregon county wind through steep wooded hillsides, logging trucks hurtle past in the other direction. He says the woman tailgated on his bumper, driving erratically, sometimes swerving into the oncoming traffic lane next to him.
"I was terrified," he says. "I was worried that I might not make it off that road."
As the country heads into the next election, NPR obtained contact information for thousands of local election workers and reached out to them. Workers and officials across 22 different states responded and told NPR they've received threats, felt unsafe doing their jobs, feared for the safety of their families, or even their pets.
Their stories show that more than two years after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, not only is Trump's lie that he won the election alive and well in a large chunk of the Republican Party, but the misinformation about voter fraud is endangering the people whose job it is to conduct elections.
"I actually bring a weapon with me every day to work," says Nancy Boren, the director of elections in Columbus, Ga. "We also have security here at this building who, it sounds even crazy to say this, but, walks me to and from my car."
NPR spoke to many election workers who didn't want to use their names for fear of further harassment or threats.
"We have a lot of, you know, just general 'f*** you's, you're trying to rig the election... you oughta be ashamed of yourself,'" says one worker in Georgia.
"They said that they were coming for my family and somebody would have to pay for this," says an official in Virginia.
A looming sense of menace
When threats are made, often they're vague and just add to a looming sense of menace. But sometimes they're more direct.
"The threat was very specific with my name and my home address, and that I had four children and that all four of my children should be killed," says Thomas Liddy, an official with Maricopa County in Arizona who was threatened this past November. The FBI tracked down and arrested the person, who pleaded guilty to a criminal charge and is awaiting a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Another official in a southern state tells NPR she too was targeted during last year's midterms. "The threat was specifically that the following week I would not be alive, my home address was made public online, and then my dog was poisoned." The official says the dog survived, barely.
There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Following the 2020 election, more than 60 lawsuits brought by Trump and his allies were all thrown out of court.
The election officials being targeted say they're just trying to do their jobs. They're Republicans, Democrats and independents — everyone from top state officials to lower-level county workers who handle ballots or even senior citizen volunteers.
2024 could be worse
"Election officials have been under siege," says David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research. "They've been threatened, abused and harassed for nearly three years now and it's getting worse."
The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin in May warning that perceptions of the next presidential race could mobilize individuals to commit violence.
Many election officials say they need more resources to pay for better security and to do outreach to fight misinformation. Some election workers tell NPR they are scared by the threats and harassment and consider quitting their jobs. Others say it hardens their resolve to do the important work of running free and fair elections.
Other recent research backs up what NPR found. A survey from the nonprofit Brennan Center found nearly one in three election workers say they've had to deal with harassment, abuse or threats. And almost half worry about the safety of their colleagues in future elections.
"I am very nervous about next year... the presidential year," says one of the election workers in Coos County. She and her husband, the worker who says he was chased in his car, both work in the local elections office. And they've been dealing with all this while having their first baby. She was nine months pregnant this past midterm election.
"During that time I was scared every time I came into work, being at work, leaving," she says. "And I didn't get to feel safe at home either."
She says the couple was followed home from work. People knocked on their neighbors' doors asking questions about them. They even went through the couple's garbage.
It was a relentless mix of ridiculousness along with things that were more frightening, such as violent-sounding posts on social media, election workers told NPR.
Like others NPR talked to, the couple set up a motion-sensitive flood light and a security camera. And the couple doesn't think the community there in Coos County realizes what they've been going through at the elections office.
Mob mentality
"It felt like we were under attack," the woman says. "Constant phone calls and people coming in and making accusations and yelling at us. ... It felt very much like they were just harassing us, like they were just there to intimidate us."
During her NPR interview, she broke down crying while describing one moment during the midterm election when the sheriff was escorting her past the people camped out in the hallway.
"As the sheriff was leading us outside, people were recording and laughing like, 'that's so funny' that we're so scared that we had to have the sheriff walk us out." She says it was just bafflingly hurtful to be treated that way. "That was just really crazy."
"Absolutely inexcusable that that would happen," says 83-year-old Coos County Commissioner John Sweet. He's a Republican who does not believe in voter fraud conspiracy theories embraced by many in his party. He says it was hard to watch and hear about local people doing all this to county election workers.
"It's a form of ... mob activity," Sweet says. "The mob takes on a personality of its own that's probably different than the prevalent personality of the individual members of the mob."
Sweet says he doesn't think it was unique to his county this past midterm election. "It was a national thing."
Of course the mob at the Capitol building was a highly visible spectacle that's seared into the memories of many Americans.
But when NPR looked around the country it found that people with the same motivations were taking up the fight but in less-visible ways.
And that's happening in Coos County.
Election deniers run for local office
Rod Taylor runs a local surveying supply business and was arrested for a curfew violation on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
"I heeded an admonition from General Michael Flynn to go home and make a difference there," Taylor tells NPR. "So we started a citizens group here in Coos County called Citizens Restoring Liberty and we continue to meet weekly."
The group is worried about supposed voter fraud as well as government regulation of guns, masks, and public schools. Some of its members have run as candidates for local government and school boards. Taylor himself ran for county commissioner.
"You know what, I'm proud to have been there on Jan. 6," Taylor said on a local conservative talk radio show on Oct. 31, 2022, before the midterm election. "It was a peaceable gathering on the 6th ... people were happy, man."
Jan. 6 was, of course, quite violent. Taylor said on the talk show that he went into the Capitol building very briefly, although he says he didn't participate in the violence. He has not faced federal charges related to Jan. 6th.
County officials say members of that Citizens Restoring Liberty group were camped in the hallways of the elections office.
But, despite their concerns about voter fraud, when the votes were counted, Rod Taylor narrowly won — a result he does not dispute. And he is now a Coos County commissioner.
NPR interviewed Taylor at his new county office. He was wearing a gun on his belt, had a Scripture reading of the day on his desk, an American flag and a "Trump Won" sign.
Taylor mentions going to see people who tour the country promoting voter fraud conspiracy theories.
"I believe that there is a vast body of credible evidence ... that the 2020 election was in fact won by Donald Trump and that it was surreptitiously stolen," Taylor says.
In reality, there is no credible evidence of that. In addition to the dozens of lawsuits dismissed for lack of evidence nationally, a suit making vague allegations of voter fraud in Coos County was likewise thrown out by a judge.
NPR asked Taylor if he realized that local election workers in his own county feel threatened and harassed.
"Yeah, of course I'm aware of that," Taylor said. But when asked about whether he feels responsible for getting people stirred up to the point where election workers fear for their safety, he said, "I don't feel responsible for that."
"When you've got a large group of people, it's sometimes like herding cats and you cannot control what individuals do," Taylor said. "Unfortunately, we did have some people who I think engaged election staff in unproductive ways that I would not have advocated for and I still don't condone and that's unfortunate."
Julie Brecke, the new county clerk at the elections office, says she's trying to figure out how to avoid a repeat of last year in the upcoming presidential race.
"My biggest worry is that people aren't going to want to do the job anymore," she says.
Already one election worker has resigned.
"It's an important job and the people that work in this office take it very seriously," says Brecke. "If they're harassed constantly and made to look like villains, then eventually that weighs on people. I don't want to lose good people over harassment based on misinformation."
Threats, or freedom of speech?
For their part, law enforcement officials say it can be difficult to intervene. The election worker who says he was chased while collecting ballots says police told him there was nothing they could do, since no officers saw this person driving erratically.
The county sheriff's department says the incident was investigated, though apparently nothing resulted from that.
The sheriff, Gabe Fabrizio, says there were also complaints from voters who felt harassed or threatened at drop-boxes. But he says nothing rose to the level that law enforcement decided they could do much about.
"We want to make sure that everybody's First Amendment rights, their freedom of speech is protected," says Fabrizio. "So threats we take definitely seriously and we'll go investigate them ... but at the same time you have to balance that off of — people can say whatever they want."
Brecke, the county clerk, says she's been working with the sheriff to improve security of both the office and the election workers ahead of the upcoming presidential election. Election workers say they feel the sheriff is taking the situation seriously and are grateful for the help.
Around the country people are trying to find solutions. Election officials met last month in D.C., to share strategies. Some states are passing laws that, among other things, increase the penalties for threatening election workers while making their home addresses and other personal information private.
The U.S. Department of Justice has set up a special task force to investigate threats to election workers, and a spokesman tells NPR it has received reports of more than 2,000 incidents of hostility, harassment, abuse or threats. The DOJ says most don't meet the threshold of an unlawful threat of violence, but some do, and it has so far charged more than a dozen defendants. More cases are being prosecuted by state and local authorities.
For his part, John Sweet, the Coos County commissioner, thinks it will help that the local lawsuit over election fraud was dismissed as groundless, along with the fact that Fox News settled a defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems over bogus claims of fraud for close to $800 million.
"I hope that has discredited some of the angst about election propriety," Sweet says. "I've experienced it already."
Sweet says he's heard from one of the people who he saw last year in the county building staring through the window to the elections office apparently trying to scare the workers.
"I think he was embarrassed about it," Sweet says. "He apologized — he said, 'I was out of line.'"
Still, the election workers say nobody has apologized to them.
And there was plenty of discord on display at a recent town hall meeting in Coos Bay.
"Transgenderism is a religion and it's attacking the public moral norm that we've had for 200 years," declared one concerned citizen in a Christian-themed T-shirt, amidst groans and head shaking from others in attendance.
Another resident stood up and asked commissioner Rod Taylor not to wear his gun around town. "Can you please carry your gun concealed," asked Dave Crane, "for people like me that would rather not look at it."
The former county clerk, Dede Murphy, had some words for Taylor too.
"I think that you and your group ... have made me a target," Murphy said. "You certainly have told a lot of lies about me and my office, that's for sure."
"I haven't told any lies about you," Taylor responded, speaking over Murphy. "In no way would I ever condone a threat against any person."
But at least one resident was looking for some common ground.
"I don't give a s*** who's wearing a dress and who's packing a gun," said De Dee Peterson. "What I want to see is this community thrive." Peterson said her family has lived in the county for five generations, and she doesn't like seeing her neighbors so divided.
"Even when we disagree, we can sit down in a room like this and talk about it, and not hate," Peterson said. "It's not team red versus team blue, we have to see through the middle."
This story was edited by Robert Little. It was produced by Meg Anderson. Photo editing by Emily Bogle and Virginia Lozano.
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UPDATE: CMR threat a misunderstanding, per GFPD
UPDATE (4:20 p.m.): The potential shooting threat that caused an hours-long lockdown and the cancellation of classes at C.M. Russell High School Wednesday turned out to be a misunderstanding, according to Great Falls police.
According to a late afternoon release, a parent who was dropping their child off at CMR Wednesday morning saw a student put what they believed to be a firearm in their backpack and walk into the school.
After working with the parent and looking at surveillance video, police were able to identify the student in question and others that were potentially involved. After questioning the students, police determined that the object the student placed in their backpack was a "benign object" that could be mistaken for the barrel of a gun, per the release.
The students who were questioned were fully cooperative, have been cleared of any wrongdoing and were released to their parents, GFPD said.
"We are grateful for the parent who reported what they saw. We strongly encourage this kind of diligence; community members should be reassured it is always appropriate to report suspicious activity, that is the only way we can work to ensure safety," GFPD said in a statement.
"In every school across Great Falls, there are children, family members, and friends of GFPD personnel; we understand first-hand how frightening this type of situation can be. We appreciate the community’s patience and cooperation as we worked to ensure the safety of students and staff, and resolve the incident."
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According to the Great Falls Police Department and Great Falls Public Schools, police have instituted safety measures at C.M. Russell High School and neighboring elementary schools due to a potential threat at CMR.
Via Facebook live, GFPD Capt. Doug Otto and GFPS Superintendent Tom Moore said at around 8:10 a.m., school resource officers received information that someone had a gun outside CMR. Otto said no one has thus far been located with a firearm, there have been no shots fired, and no one has been hurt.
Police are currently searching CMR as a precautionary measure.
In a follow-up stream, Moore and Otto informed parents that students from CMR will be transported to the Four Seasons Arena. Parents and guardians must pick their children up there with their IDs.
Due to increased law enforcement at the school and in order to move the children quickly, parents cannot pick their children up from the school, as stated in the Facebook Live.
CMR was in lockdown for several hours, and there were shelters-in-place at North Middle School and Sacajawea, West, Valleyview, and Riverview elementary schools, as well as the Early Learning Family Center at the old Skyline High School building.
In the follow-up livestream, Otto said GFPS made the decision to remove the students from the building to allow the police to continue its investigation. All school activities scheduled for Wednesday will be rescheduled.
Otto asked that parents and students not post speculation about what is happening at the school. He said the only reliable information on the situation will come from GFPD or GFPS. New information can be found on the two agencies' Facebook pages.
CMR is currently surrounded by a heavy police presence, and no one is being allowed in or out of the area.
We will continue to update this story.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California and VANCOUVER, Canada, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - ESSA Pharma Inc. ("ESSA", or the "Company") (NASDAQ: EPIX), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer, today announced that the Company will be presenting at the 2023 Bloom Burton & Co. Healthcare Investor Conference on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
David R. Parkinson, President and Chief Executive Officer of ESSA Pharma; Peter Virsik, ESSA's Chief Operating Officer; and David S. Wood, ESSA's Chief Financial Officer, will host and participate in one-on-one meetings.
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Toronto, Ontario
A live webcast of the Bloom Burton & Co. presentation can be accessed in the Investors/Events & Presentations section of ESSA's website at www.essapharma.com. Following the event, the webcast will be archived on the ESSA website for 90 days.
The Bloom Burton & Co. Healthcare Investor Conference brings together U.S., Canadian and international investors who are interested in the latest developments in the Canadian healthcare sector. Attendees will have an opportunity to obtain corporate updates from the premier Canadian publicly traded and private companies through presentations and private meetings.
ESSA is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel and proprietary therapies for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer. For more information, please visit www.essapharma.com and follow us on Twitter under @ESSAPharma.
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Back before the pandemic, the National Air and Space Museum was one of the most popular museums in the world. It drew 6.2 million visitors in 2018 — behind only the Metropolitan Museum of Art in North America — and remained the fifth most popular on the continent in 2019, despite closing some exhibits for the beginning of an extensive multiyear renovation and rehabilitation. “Millions of visitors can take a toll on a museum space,” says Jeremy Kinney, the museum’s associate director for research and curatorial affairs.
This weekend, visitors will finally see the results of that transformation in eight revamped galleries, including two with themes new to the museum. Some of the jewels of the collection, including the Wright Flyer, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit and the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, are in new, inspiring settings. Swept away were the carpeted hallways and the dusty and boring galleries. And of the 1,240 artifacts on display, the Smithsonian boasts that 55 percent of them have never been on display in this museum before, from the supersonic Northrop T-38 Talon in which trailblazing pilot Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran set eight world records to an X-wing starfighter featured in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” and prosthetic ear tips worn by Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock on “Star Trek.”
If you’re lucky enough to have a timed ticket — more on those below — or are planning a visit soon, here’s what you need to know.
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The exhibits center objects in new and different ways.
While a large number of artifacts are new to the Mall, that’s not the case with some of the most famous. Take the Wright Military Flyer: Built in 1909 and flown that year at Fort Myer in a demonstration for the U.S. Army, it still has its original fabric covering. Bigger and beefier than the famous 1903 Wright Flyer, it was previously displayed hanging from the ceiling. But now, in the Early Flight gallery, it’s down at eye level, just like the better-known Wright brothers plane, which has its own place of pride in a gallery down the hall.
Columbia, the command module for the Apollo 11 mission, was previously in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, “behind Plexiglas,” Kinney says, almost in disbelief. In the Destination Moon gallery, it’s in a central location in a custom-built case that allows visitors to walk around it, examining the damage caused by the heat of reentry, and trying to imagine three people living inside for any period of time. (Make sure to see the video screen behind Columbia, which shows features of the cramped quarters, from the lockers to the seats, and even offers a view of Michael Collins’s famous post-splashdown inscription on one of the instrument panels.)
“Visitors interact with exhibits in different ways,” Kinney says. “Some read all the labels, some want the interactive. We have visitors who have a checklist — they’re coming to see the first airplane. Others are genuinely curious. The space is designed for this — you want to have the artifact, but you also have the story behind it,” so people can put the object in context. The museum is also approaching different groups of visitors, using models or hands-on components for visitors who might have vision or mobility issues, for example.
For Destination Moon, which has some of the Smithsonian’s most prized artifacts, it was a matter of shaping the exhibit for a different, younger audience. “We had an Apollo to the Moon gallery in the old museum, but it needed to be re-contextualized,” Kinney says. “When the museum opened [in 1976], moon landings were a recent memory.” Now, it has been 50 years since a human walked on the moon, and fewer visitors recall where they were when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Sea of Tranquility. There’s more information about the space race and its role in the culture of the time.
There’s also a desire to tell a wider group of stories: Near the main entrance is the WR-3, a racing plane built by Neal Loving, the first Black pilot and double amputee certified to race airplanes. A display in the Thomas W. Haas We All Fly gallery highlights Jerrie Mock, who took up flying as a hobby and became the first woman to fly solo around the world in 1964. Both planes were previously on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly but now have a more prominent position in the nation’s front yard. In Destination Moon, one display addresses “Why only White male astronauts?” by telling visitors about the Mercury 13 — a group of women who passed the same physical tests as NASA astronauts but were never accepted into NASA programs.
Artifacts are essential to telling the museum’s stories, whether it’s the spacesuit that Armstrong wore while hopping around the lunar surface or the stopwatch the Wright brothers used to time their test flights at Kitty Hawk. But looking at objects isn’t going to touch every visitor, especially the younger ones. Air and Space has always had flight simulators and interactive games and stations, but the revamped galleries go far beyond anything seen before.
The most immersive experience is “Walking on Other Worlds” in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery. Visitors walk into the middle of a circular space, more than 25 feet in diameter, surrounded by video screens. Over the course of seven minutes, they’re taken to seven locations throughout the galaxy, including Jupiter’s moon Titan, Mars and the surface of a comet. With almost 360 degrees of visuals, you can swivel around to see details — the remains of the Huygens Probe, which crashed into Titan in 2005, the rocky red outcrops so familiar from the Perseverance Rover’s Instagram feed — while facts appear on the screen, pop-up-video style, talking about the temperature, gravity or surface features. (Methane lakes on Titan? Awesome.) Think of it as virtual reality without the helmet.
Over near the models of Mars rovers, a touch-screen game asks visitors to pilot a rover on missions across the Red Planet’s surface, weighing risks of getting stuck versus the chance of scientific discovery, and investigating whether sites may show evidence of water before the solar clock runs down. Throughout the museum, there are chances to build your own solar system, choose the most important elements of a flying car, or track flights and animal migrations projected onto a 10-foot globe.
There are more “traditional” elements to touch and play with, too, such as pulling levers in the Wright brothers gallery to demonstrate the concept of wing warping or moving joysticks in America By Air to show how flight controls, such as rudders and wing flaps, have changed over the years. One of the most basic — and most compelling — is the Evel Knievel pinball machine in Nation of Speed. Visitors are challenged to “jump” a pinball across a chasm, similar to one of the daredevil’s stunts, but have to play around with the speed of the ball and angle of ramps to successfully land on the other side.
The museum is not just about air or space.
If we’re being honest, some of the galleries feel similar to the old displays. America By Air, for instance, tells the story of passenger air travel, with its display containing Emilio Pucci’s swinging ’60s stewardess fashions and a walk-through Douglas DC-7, which is absolutely dwarfed by the nose of a Boeing 747. But that’s not always the case.
Nation of Speed, one of the new exhibit themes, explores America’s obsession with things that move really fast while making a lot of noise. This was a collaboration between Air and Space and the National Museum of American History, which lent items including racecars driven by Richard Petty and Mario Andretti. Sure, Kinney concedes, each museum could have crafted its own exhibition about the need for speed, but it made more sense to join forces, even if, he says with a smile, “we have the fastest artifacts.”
The gallery prominently centers the story of Air Force Col. John Stapp, whose 632 mph ride in the rocket sled Sonic Wind 1 exposed him to a G-force of 46.2 — the most faced by a human — and made him “the fastest man alive” while researching rapid acceleration and deceleration. Stapp’s experiments help set safety standards for both aircraft and cars.
Kinney says the guiding principle here was, “How can we do an exhibit that’s out of the box?” And it certainly is, compared with the focused tales in the other galleries. Here, the displays wander between racing aircraft, rocket engines, record-setting motorcycles and a case of toys, from a Barbie-sized Corvette to Matchbox planes to a three-foot-high model of a German V-2 rocket, which shows how our desire for machines that go faster, faster, faster is imbued at a young age.
There are some curious inclusions, from a 1980s crash test dummies commercial and bricks from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the taxidermied remains of Gilmore the Flying Lion, the pet of charismatic plane racer Roscoe Turner. (Turner, who broke transcontinental speed records in the 1930s, was sponsored by Gilmore Oil Company, owner of the Red Lion gasoline brand. “It was all about advertising,” Kinney says.) The lion had its own parachute when it flew with Turner — which it did for only nine months, the display says, “until Gilmore grew too big” to fit in the cockpit.
“It’s a temporary exhibit,” Kinney says, but don’t rush: In Air and Space terms, that means it’s going to be around for a decade.
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Not all of the museum’s iconic artifacts are on display.
Whether you grew up visiting the Air and Space Museum frequently or you had your life changed by a seventh-grade field trip, you probably had a favorite thing you’ve seen again and again: the moon rock, Chuck Yeager’s sleek Bell X-1 jet, the walk-through Skylab orbital workshop, the puppet theater telling the story of the first balloon flight over the English Channel.
But with only eight of the 23 exhibition and display areas reopened, there’s just not space to show everything. Some artifacts, like Yeager’s sound-barrier-shattering Glamorous Glennis, have been relocated to Udvar-Hazy during renovations, along with John Glenn’s Friendship 7 capsule and Gemini IV. Many artifacts remain in storage, including the moon rock and Skylab.
Some decisions are more complicated. Charles Lindbergh’s famous Spirit of St. Louis, used on the first transatlantic flight, is awaiting installation in a new gallery, but in the meantime, museum director Chris Browne didn’t want to keep the aircraft off public view, according to spokesperson Alison Mitchell. So if you go up to the second floor and walk past the One World Connected exhibit, you can peer around a corner and, behind velvet ropes, see the shining silver plane.
Getting in might be tougher than you think.
There’s a lot of interest in the renovated museum, and the Smithsonian has turned to free timed entry passes to handle the expected crowds. About 8,000 will be available per day at first, though that could change. This weekend, Friday through Sunday are already full, as is Oct. 22. A limited number of same-day passes will become available online each day at 8:30 a.m.
The museum will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except for Christmas, and passes are required for everyone. Tickets for a new group of dates are released every six weeks; on Sept. 14, the museum opened all dates between Oct. 14 and Nov. 30 for reservations. On Oct. 28, visitors will be able to reserve dates between Dec. 1 and Jan. 14, and then on Dec. 16, reservations become available for dates between Jan. 15 and Feb. 28.
Passes allow admission at the top of the hour between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (for example, you can’t reserve passes for 10:30 a.m.). Visitors should arrive no more than 15 minutes before their admission time, and at busy periods, the museum advises that it may take up to 30 minutes to actually enter. Passes allow entry for up to an hour after the time on the ticket; after that, admission depends on the museum’s capacity.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sitka Gold Corp. ("Sitka" or the "Company") (CSE: SIG) (FSE: 1RF) (OTCQB: SITKF) is pleased to release assay results for the first six holes completed at the Blackjack zone from the Phase II summer portion of the 2022 diamond drill program located at the Company's RC Gold Project ("RC Gold" or the "Project") in the Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt (TGB). 16 diamond drill holes were completed totaling 5,250 metres during the program, with assays still pending for 10 additional holes; 9 from the Blackjack zone and 1 from the MayQu target.
- 146.6 m of 0.90 g/t Au from surface in DDRCCC-22-030, including
33.8 m of 1.42 g/t Au from 2.84 m; - 116.0 m of 0.65 g/t Au from 27.0 m to 143.0 m in DDRCCC-22-029, including 19.0
m of 1.02 g/t Au from 124.00 m;
"The results from the first six holes of our summer drilling program have produced significant gold bearing intervals that demonstrate the consistency of gold mineralization across this expanding zone," stated Cor Coe, P.Geo., CEO and Director of Sitka. "All drill holes were mineralized over their entire length with highly anomalous gold values from surface to depth along with the higher-grade intervals summarised in Table 1. These holes have established higher-grade mineralization associated with a structural zone of late stage and post mineral intrusive dikes over 400 metres in an east west direction and over 450 metres of width to our extensional zone within our main intrusive body in a north-south orientation. These stepout holes demonstrate the potential scale and abundance of the Blackjack Zone and the approximately 2 km x 500 m extensional corridor area in general (see Figure 4). We are eagerly awaiting the results of the remaining holes as we continue to expand on this newly discovered gold prospect within our district-scale, road accessible RC Gold Project."
Table 1 - Analytical Results for DDRCCC-22-026 through DDRCCC-22-031
Drillhole DDRCCC-22-026 was drilled from the same setup as drillhole DDRCCC-22-022 at the south end of current drilling, with a dip of -45 and an azimuth to the southeast at 140 degrees. The hole encountered a mixed sequence of multiphase granitic intrusive and metasedimentary rocks to 234 metres depth before staying in metasedimentary rocks to the end of hole at 374 metres. Sheeted quartz vein mineralization was generally weakly developed with a low density of veining. The southern margin of the encountered intrusive displayed the best development of veining with a 74 metre interval grading 0.35 g/t Au from 157 metres to 231 metres.
Drillholes DDRCCC-22-027 & -028 were drilled on a section 100 metres southwest from discovery hole DDRCCC-21-021 at azimuths of 320 degrees and dips of -55 and -50, respectively. Both holes intersected predominantly metasedimentary rocks, with narrow zones of both mineralized and post-mineralized dikes and sills associated with the development of the strongest structural zones and highest gold grades. Drillhole DDRCCC-22-033 was also drilled on this section encountering similar geology, with assay results still pending.
Drillholes DDRCCC-22-029, -030 & -031 were drilled on a section 100 metres northeast from discovery hole DDRCCC-21-021 at collar azimuths of 320 degrees and dips of -50. Holes -029 & -031 intersected mostly metasedimentary rocks with some mineralized and post-mineral dikes and sills associated with higher sheeted quartz vein density and gold grades. Hole -030 collared and remained in intrusive rock cut by late-mineralization-stage and post-mineral dikes over its entire length. The best grades were associated with a higher density of sheeted quartz veining along the southeastern margin of the intrusive. Drillhole DDRCCC-22-039 was also drilled on this section with assay results still pending.
The second phase of drilling was designed to further expand the Blackjack Zone and provide Sitka geologists with a solid database of drilling data to understand controls on mineralization observed in both intrusive and metasedimentary host rocks while also potentially providing the necessary spatial density to generate an initial resource estimate. Assay results from Phase II drilling along with structural information obtained from oriented drilling, data from detailed core logging, reprocessed Lidar data and interpretation of an airborne magnetic geophysical survey will form the basis for planning of a Phase III drilling program.
Table 2 - Previously released Blackjack Zone Drill Results
On receipt from the drill site, the HQ-sized drill core was systematically logged for geological attributes, photographed and sampled at Sitka's 2022 field camp. Sample lengths as small as 0.3 m were used to isolate features of interest, otherwise a default 2 m downhole sample length was used. Core was cut in half lengthwise along a predetermined line, with one-half (same half, consistently) collected for analysis and one-half stored as a record. Standard reference materials, blanks and duplicate samples were inserted by Sitka personnel at regular intervals into the sample stream. Bagged samples were placed in secure bins to ensure integrity during transport. They were delivered by Sitka personnel or a contract expeditor to ALS Laboratories' preparatory facility in Whitehorse, Yukon, with analyses completed in North Vancouver.
ALS is accredited to ISO 17025:2005 UKAS ref. 4028 for its laboratory analysis. Samples were crushed by ALS to over 70 per cent passing below two millimetres and split using a riffle splitter. One-thousand-gram splits were pulverized to over 85 per cent passing below 75 microns. Gold determinations are by fire assay with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) finish on 50 g subsamples of the prepared pulp (ALS code: Au-ICP-22). Any sample returning over 10 g/t Au was reanalyzed by fire assay with a gravimetric finish on a 50 g subsample (ALS code: Au-GRA21). In addition, a 51-element analysis was performed on a 0.5 g subsample of the prepared pulps by an aqua regia digestion followed by an inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) finish (ALS code: ME-MS41).
The RC Gold Project consists of a 376 square kilometre contiguous district-scale land package located in the newly road accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. It is the largest consolidated land package strategically positioned mid-way between Victoria Gold's Eagle Gold Mine - Yukon's newest gold mine which reached commercial production in the summer of 2020 - and Sabre Gold Mine's Brewery Creek Gold Mine. The RC Gold Project land package comprises five underlying properties, namely, the RC, Bee Bop, Mahtin, Clear Creek, and Barney Ridge properties*. The Company recently identified a large 500 m by 2000 m intrusion related gold system on the Property between the Blackjack, Saddle and Eiger zones and to date has drilled 38 diamond drill holes into this system for a total of approximately 13,000 metres. This has been the main focus of the Company's drill programs at RC Gold in 2020, 2021 and 2022 which have returned several significant gold intercepts. including the discovery hole in the Blackjack zone in the last drill hole from the 2021 drill program, DDRCCC-21-021 ("Hole 21"). Hole 21 intersected 220.1 m of 1.17 g/t gold from surface that included 50.5 m of 2.08 g/t gold. Hole 21 was the westernmost hole drilled in the Saddle-Eiger trend and was drilled under a greater than 500 ppb gold-in-soil anomaly that was previously identified on surface. This gold-in-soil anomaly is part of the larger 2 kilometre by 500 m gold-in-soil anomaly that stretches from the Saddle Zone to the Eiger Zone and is open in all directions. Drilling in 2021 in the Eiger Zone in the easternmost area of the gold-in-soil anomaly has produced numerous significant intersections as demonstrated by Hole 9 which intersected 354 m of 0.41 g/t Au including 72 m of 0.72 g/t Au (see news release dated August 19, 2021).
Sitka Gold inherited a wealth of historical and current data from these properties from work spanning the last 40 years. Recent exploration work and the compilation of historical data have defined several mineralized zones with both bulk tonnage, intrusion-related gold deposit targets and high-grade, vein- and breccia-hosted gold targets. The RC Gold Project also has a common border with Victoria Gold's Clear Creek property at its western boundary and Florin Resources' Florin Gold property at its northern boundary.
*For more detailed information on the underlying properties please visit our website at www.sitkagoldcorp.com.
Exploration on the Property has mainly focused on identifying an intrusion-related gold system ("IRGS"). The property is part of the Tombstone Gold Belt which is the prominent host to IRGS deposits within the Tintina Gold Province in Yukon and Alaska. Notable deposits from the belt include: Fort Knox Mine in Alaska with current Proven and Probable Reserves of 230 million tonnes at 0.3 g/t Au (2.471 million ounces; Sims 2018)(1); Eagle Gold Mine with current Proven and Probable Reserves of 155 million tonnes at a diluted grade of 0.65 g/t Au at the Eagle and Olive deposits (3.261 million ounces; Goodwin et al. 2019)(2); the Brewery Creek deposit with current Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 34.5 million tonnes at 1.03 g/t Au (1.14 million ounces; Cook 2022)(3); the Florin Gold deposit, located adjacent to Sitka's RC Gold project, with a current Inferred Mineral Resource of 170.99 million tonnes grading 0.45 g/t Au (2.47 million ounces; Simpson 2021)(4) and the AurMac Project with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 207.0 million tonnes grading 0.60 grams per tonne gold (3.99 million ounces; Jutras 2022)(5).
Sitka Gold Corp. is a well-funded mineral exploration company headquartered in Canada with approximately $4.0 million in working capital after paying for the 2022 Yukon RC Gold Project drilling costs. The Company is managed by a team of experienced industry professionals and is focused on exploring for economically viable mineral deposits with its primary emphasis on gold, silver and copper mineral properties of merit. Sitka currently has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the RC, Barney Ridge, Clear Creek and OGI properties in the Yukon and the Burro Creek Gold property in Arizona. Sitka owns a 100% interest in its Alpha Gold property in Nevada, its Mahtin Gold property in the Yukon and its Coppermine River project in Nunavut.
Sitka is currently awaiting additional assay results from its recently completed Phase II summer diamond drill program at its RC Gold Project in the Yukon. Up to 1,500 metres of drilling is also currently underway at the Company's Alpha Gold Property in Nevada where a new Carlin-type gold system was recently discovered and where the Company is focused on vectoring towards the high-grade core of this system.
The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Cor Coe, P.Geo., Director and CEO of the Company, and a Qualified Person (QP) as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
SITKA GOLD CORP.
"Donald Penner"
President and Director
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Alberto Ibargüen announced Friday that he was stepping down as the leader of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ending a run as the grantmaker’s president that began in the George W. Bush administration. With about $3 billion in assets, Knight is among the 50 wealthiest foundations.
During his tenure, Ibargüen made his mark in the cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight operated their newspaper empire. In Detroit, Ibargüen helped orchestrate a $370 million foundation effort to keep the city’s finances from cratering. In Miami, he crusaded for the arts, helping the city become an international cultural destination. And as a former newspaper executive who saw the news industry being decimated all around him, Ibargüen made it a top priority at Knight to restore the credibility and viability of journalism in response to the upheaval caused by the internet.
Ibargüen, 79, was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New Jersey. After serving in the Peace Corps and working as a legal-aid lawyer earlier in his career, he climbed the newspaper ranks. He served as publisher of the Miami Herald when it won three coveted Pulitzer Prizes and publisher of the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald in Miami.
Ibargüen’s career in newspapers helped set the way he ran the foundation. He expected his colleagues at Knight to scout out leads like reporters and be the foundation’s eyes and ears on the ground in the communities they serve. Those around him said he embraced the chaos of a newsroom environment and wasn’t afraid to slam the brakes on a project when something juicier presented itself.
“I don’t find it very useful to say, ‘We only do this,” or ‘We only do that,’” he says. “Setting rules up ahead of time never struck me as that creative.”
Ibargüen will depart when Knight finds a replacement. In the meantime, he is still busy trying to put together what he hopes is a mammoth fund to support journalism. Ibargüen isn’t certain how much the fund will gather from other foundations — although he said ”$1 billion is just an ante” for the work that needs to be done. It also is unclear whether the fund will touch on all areas of journalism, including First Amendment issues, technology development, supporting small news outlets, and helping people become more discerning readers and viewers of the news.
Ibargüen says several dozen foundations have said they are interested in joining in. Diversifying Knight’s board in terms of race, gender, and ideological perspective, Ibargüen says, was one of his biggest accomplishments. Upon realizing that a tiny percentage of Knight’s endowment was managed by investing firms owned by people of color, Ibargüen developed a survey of foundations and universities with a goal of diversifying endowment money managers.
At Knight, Ibargüen has managed to remain faithful to the wishes of the Knight brothers, while keeping the foundation’s work at the cutting edge, says John Palfrey, president of the MacArthur Foundation and a trustee on Knight’s board until December.
Ibargüen’s response in Detroit, where the Knights ran the Detroit Free Press, was both in line with the brothers’ commitment to the city but also represented a different kind of involvement in city finances than the Knights had envisioned, suggested Palfrey. Rather than supporting the arts or community programs, the money Knight contributed to the Grand Bargain went to pay the city’s pensioners, traditionally a municipal, not philanthropic, responsibility.
Similarly, Ibargüen showed that he was not bound to the past when he steered Knight away from endowing journalism professorships at universities. But he jumped at the chance to re-establish the practice when doing so was an attempt to promote equity, Palfrey says. The result, the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University, is led by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Ibargüen worked to set up the center after Jones, who oversaw an extensive New York Times look at the legacy of slavery in the United States, the 1619 Project, when she was at first denied tenure at University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, another institution that has received support from Knight. Within weeks of the University of North Carolina decision, Knight, MacArthur, the Ford Foundation, and an anonymous donor provided a total of $20 million for the new center at Howard.
One of the biggest injuries the media revolution has inflicted on the news business is the disconnection people feel between their geography — their city and neighborhood — and the news they consume online, which tends to be national in scope, Ibargüen says. As Knight struggled to support new ways to deliver the news by making grants to outlets across the country, Ibargüen also was obsessed with driving home a single story in his hometown: the arts matter.
“Art bridges language and bridges experience,” he says. “If Gloria Estefan is singing, your toes will tap, I guarantee it. And if Beethoven is playing, your soul soars.” Even more, a city where residents are connected through shared cultural offerings can be an essential part of a strong democracy in which political differences are recognized but not demonized, Ibargüen says.
Franklin Sirmans, who moved to Miami in 2015 to serve as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, says Ibargüen’s strong leadership has been key to making Miami an arts scene.
“He has an incredibly persuasive, beautiful, and poetic way of talking about it. I hate to use Alberto’s own terms so closely, but over the past seven years, I have struggled to find my own words.”
The city has been transformed by the injection of arts fund, and today Miami is “committed to being a place that is open for dialogue,” Sirmans says. “It’s a place that doesn’t shy away from having difficult conversations. Rather, it is a place that is led by art, a place where art is the catalyst for every single thing that we do.”
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U.S. Senate gives final passage to same-sex marriage bill without support from Cruz and Cornyn
WASHINGTON (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn both voted against federal protection for gay and interracial marriage Tuesday, though the full Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support.
The Respect for Marriage Act would require states to recognize all legally performed marriages and would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriages for the purpose of federal benefits as between a man and a woman. It passed the upper chamber on a 61-36 vote, with 12 Republicans joining all Democrats in support.
The bill is largely a safeguard against potential action by the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, which made the Defense of Marriage Act unenforceable and enshrined the right to same-sex marriages across the country. But the bill does not go as far as codifying the landmark Supreme Court decision, which mandated states to perform same-sex marriages.
Texas had a ban on same-sex marriage before the Obergefell decision, and if the bill passed, the state Legislature could still refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses if Obergefell gets overturned. But it would have to recognize marriages from other states.
The U.S. House passed its own version of the Respect for Marriage Act back in July, with all Texas Democrats and Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, voting for the bill. The House needs to vote again on the bill to approve the Senate’s amendments before it goes to President Joe Biden’s desk, which could be as soon as this week.
Cruz and Cornyn objected to the bill, asserting that it infringed on religious liberty by opening a pathway to lawsuits against religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage. But progressive activists said the bill did not go far enough and had considerable concessions for religious groups in order to secure Republican support.
The bill does not require religious organizations to perform same-sex marriages, and religious groups’ tax status will not be impacted by what kinds of marriages they do or don’t officiate. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the most fervent opponents of same-sex marriage legislation in the past, backed the Respect for Marriage Act, citing its protections for religious freedom.
Cruz also rejected the idea that same-sex and interracial marriage was under threat in the first place. Following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade over the summer, LGBTQ rights groups and Democrats pushed for federal legislation in case the high court overturns Obergefell v. Hodges. Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in an opinion in the abortion case that appeared to open a challenge to the Obergefell decision.
Tuesday’s vote was largely procedural as the upper chamber secured enough supportive Republicans for the bill just before the Thanksgiving recess. During a technical vote that essentially sealed the bill’s fate earlier this month, 12 Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the bill. That vote required at least 60 votes — all 50 Democrats and 10 Republicans — for the bill to advance. Cruz and Cornyn voted to freeze the legislation at the time.
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(The Hill) – Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who fiercely defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is gearing up to be the star witness against the former president as the House Jan. 6 committee winds down its public hearings with a detailed look at Trump’s three hours of inaction as the Capitol riot unfolded.
Cipollone has been a reluctant participant in the investigation, rebuffing initial requests for an under-oath interview with the House select committee, which was able to secure his eleventh-hour cooperation only via subpoena.
His marathon deposition on July 8, however, has proven a gold mine for the panel, providing confirmation for some of the core allegations to emerge from the yearlong probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection and Trump’s role in provoking it.
Not only did Cipollone tell investigators that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud were fallacious, but also that the president’s legal team told him repeatedly that the election was lost and he should concede defeat.
Cipollone also verified a White House visit on Dec. 18, 2020, from several prominent figures in the Stop the Steal movement — including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney; Sidney Powell, another conspiracy-minded lawyer; Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser; and Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com — who sought to convince Trump to have the Pentagon seize voting machines in battleground states.
Many of those details had been presented publicly in earlier hearings, including just days earlier when Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, had described Jan. 6 as a chaotic day of tension and infighting at the White House, where Cipollone had scrambled to convince a resentful president to intervene while the Capitol was sacked.
Still, to have Cipollone — a Trump loyalist and the public face of his first impeachment defense — siding with the critics in debunking Trump’s claims of a “stolen” election has been something of a coup for the select committee. It’s an unusual alliance that the panel members have been only happy to forge.
“In general, Pat Cipollone was able to corroborate every major element of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election results in 2020. He was aware of all of it, and he tried to throw up some legal guardrails at different points,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a constitutional lawyer who sits on the select committee.
“It’s a remarkable thing that the lawyer who defended Trump in the first impeachment trial had to try to talk Donald Trump down from the ‘big lie’ and to play defense against this group of outside advisers who really wanted to stage a military coup by having the U.S. military take over election machines.”
Cipollone’s interactions with Democrats weren’t always so welcome.
In 2019 and 2020, when Cipollone fought to defend Trump from charges that he’d abused his powers in dealings with Ukraine, Democrats in Congress railed against the reserved White House counsel, not least for his argument that the administration had no obligation to cooperate with the congressional investigation.
“I don’t know how they can retain their lawyer status, in the comments that they’re making,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at the time.
More than two years later, the Jan. 6 committee had been similarly frustrated with Cipollone’s refusal to participate under oath. In its public pleas for Cipollone’s cooperation, investigators stressed that they saw him as one of the few voices in the White House that day pushing for Trump to take some kind of action.
“Our evidence shows that Mr. Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right — they tried to stop a number of President Trump’s plans for Jan. 6,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the committee, said during a hearing last month. “But we think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally.”
That sentiment grew exponentially following the explosive June 28 testimony from Hutchinson, who relayed Cipollone’s escalating frustration as other officials, notably Meadows, declined to confront Trump while a mob of his supporters stormed violently into the Capitol.
“I remember Pat saying to him something to the effect of, ‘The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark. We need to go down and see the president now,’” Hutchinson said.
When Meadows responded that Trump “doesn’t want to do anything,” Cipollone lost patience, Hutchinson testified.
“Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your effing hands,” Cipollone responded, according to Hutchinson. “This is getting out of control. I’m going down there.”
It was Hutchinson’s remarkable narrative that led the committee to get more aggressive in pursuing Cipollone’s testimony — cooperation they won by issuing him a subpoena shortly after her appearance.
“Without Cassidy Hutchison, I’m not sure if Pat Cipollone would have been in when he was,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), the second of the two Republicans on the nine-member committee. “She was very heroic in what she did. And she’s compelled at least him and other witnesses to come forward.”
Cipollone’s fly-on-the-wall insights will likely be featured in Thursday’s prime-time hearing on Capitol Hill, where the committee is promising to explore the 187 minutes between the start of the Capitol attack and the release of Trump’s message for the mob to stand down.
Cipollone was one of the few to speak directly with Trump that day, allowing him to fill gaps left by Meadows, who turned over his text messages but refused to sit down for a deposition with the panel’s investigators, even under subpoena.
In December, the House voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, though the Justice Department declined to bring charges.
Cipollone told the committee that he pushed back on White House plans to seize voting machines during the Dec. 18, 2020, meeting.
“That’s a terrible idea for the country,” he said. “I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.”
Other witnesses who may be featured in the next hearing include Ivanka Trump, who is said to have spoken with her father at least twice on Jan. 6, according to earlier testimony.
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser Keith Kellogg said Ivanka Trump had characterized Pence as “a good man” after overhearing her father’s angry call with his vice president. And she returned to Trump’s office later that day amid encouragement from other aides, who hoped her close relationship with her father would help her to reach him in a way other staffers couldn’t.
“I think she went back in there because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious,” Kellogg told the committee behind closed doors.
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary, is also reportedly in negotiations with the committee to appear publicly.
In a portion of her videotaped deposition already shown by the committee, she criticized Trump for attacking Pence in a 2:24 p.m. tweet — after the Capitol had already been breached.
“The situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” Matthews told the committee privately.
Yet the featured witness is expected to be Cipollone, who spent a full day with the committee behind closed doors, only a sliver of which has been revealed publicly. Leading the discussion in Thursday’s hearing will be Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Kinzinger, who characterized Cipollone as a crucial figure in the wide-ranging investigation.
“He’s able to corroborate some folks; he’s got kind of unique perspectives. It’s all going to be important,” he said.
“I’m not going to reveal anything from the upcoming hearing because we want to keep that ’til we’re there,” he added. “But … I think his interview was key.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/ex-trump-counsel-gears-up-for-starring-appearance-in-jan-6-hearing/ | 2022-07-18 22:07:34 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/ex-trump-counsel-gears-up-for-starring-appearance-in-jan-6-hearing/ |
ATLANTA, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the start of the New Year just weeks away, the Cox Automotive Industry Insights team offers its expectations for the U.S. automotive market in 2023. By nearly all measures, 2022 was a difficult year for both the industry and the consumer, marked by historically low new-vehicle inventories, high prices, and stubborn inflation chipping away at monthly budgets. A relatively strong jobs market was a tailwind, but all the while, a hawkish Federal Reserve pushed rates higher, essentially riding the brakes as the auto industry struggled to gain momentum.
"This past year was challenging not only to forecast but for the industry to manage," said Cox Automotive Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke. "As we look forward into 2023, we see one set of challenges being replaced by another. We expect the year ahead to be one of transition, as both the consumer and the industry move past the remnants of a global pandemic and set a new course for mid-decade growth."
Guided by recent research, intelligence capabilities powered by DRiVEQ, the largest breadth of first-party data in the automotive ecosystem, and an unmatched team of analysts and experts, Cox Automotive posits 10 trends that will shape the auto business in 2023.
While the risk of recession in 2023 remains, Cox Automotive expects the economy to see at least slowing or very weak growth as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary conditions and consumers continue to wrestle with high interest rates. A job-wrecking recession is a worst-case scenario for the auto industry, but hope for an economic soft landing remains. Either way, a sputtering economy will hold back the auto market in the year ahead.
New-vehicle production challenges are beginning to ebb, and inventory levels are measurably improving. While lingering supply chain and labor challenges will remain, and capacity will not return completely to pre-pandemic levels in the foreseeable future, stronger production levels and softer demand will lead to higher days' supply and, ultimately, more vehicle options for shoppers in 2023.
With new-vehicle inventory levels improving as demand slows, Cox Automotive forecasts 3% year-over-year new-vehicle sales growth in 2023, with the market hitting 14.1 million units. Increasing fleet sales will help the absolute number. A lack of nearly new supply, declining affordability, and a shrinking pool of buyers will challenge the used-vehicle market. Overall retail sales will decline in 2023, adding competitive pressures to the market, especially in used.
The battery-electric vehicle market continues to outpace the overall market in sales, and a new milestone is on the horizon: 1 million EVs sold in the U.S. in 2023. With expanded product availability coming and a fresh round of government-backed incentives to motivate buyers, the Cox Automotive team is forecasting continued good news in the electrified vehicle market.
What the market gives, the market takes: After historic value increases in 2020 and 2021, followed by above-average depreciation for most of 2022, used-vehicle values are likely to see another year of above-normal depreciation, especially in the first half of 2023. Price trends should normalize in the second half of the year as constrained wholesale supply supports used values and used retail prices fall into a normal relationship with new prices.
Elevated retail prices and high auto loan interest rates combined to produce record monthly payments in 2022, levels that increasingly pushed lower income and lower credit quality consumers out of the market. More of the same is expected in 2023, as the automakers increasingly cater to the new-vehicle market with more expensive products for higher-income consumers, leaving less-affluent and subprime buyers struggling to find affordable vehicle payments that satisfy monthly budgets.
With auto loan interest rates hitting 20-year highs, the rise in all-cash deals will continue. More wealthy consumers will buy with cash rather than finance in 2023, placing downward pressure on dealership F&I profits. This change will be felt more acutely in the new-vehicle market and will likely have lingering impacts on industry profit pools and future buying behaviors.
As affordability issues lead more owners to maintain current vehicles, 2023 should see continued strong dynamics in the service lanes, with or without a recession. Fixed operations saw strong revenue growth in 2022 as pricing power and strong demand led to large increases in average ticket size despite total service volumes not yet recovering to 2019 levels. With retail sales expected to be flat or down, fixed operations as a profit center will be more important than ever in 2023.
The shift to eCommerce was accelerated by the pandemic and shows no sign of fading. In the year ahead, Cox Automotive forecasts that half of all vehicle buyers will engage with at least one digital tool during the purchase process. Importantly, fully digital vehicle purchases will continue to be only a small percentage of the business, as most buyers will pursue an omnichannel vehicle buying experience.
A key element of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was the reshaping of EV tax credits in the U.S. Within the new laws are incentives designed to entice fleet operators to consider electrified vehicles in the coming year. Fleets have historically shown slow adoption of EVs, but recent research indicates 66% of fleet buyers are considering EVs, up from 43% in 2021. New incentives and investments in charging infrastructure will likely amplify the trend.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WXIN) – The company behind TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods has agreed to pay $13 million to settle charges that they sold products from 21 recalls, including those recalled due to the risk of infant death.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that The TJX Companies, Inc. agreed to pay the civil penalty for selling and distributing the previously recalled items.
In total, TJX had sold, distributed, or offered approximately 1,200 units of recalled products, the CSPC said.
For more than five years, TJX knowingly sold, offered for sale, and distributed dangerous recalled products through its website and its retail stores. These sales were illegal and put hazardous products into the hands and homes of unsuspecting consumers. Hundreds of inclined sleepers that pose a suffocation risk to infants as well as a wide range of other products that present choking hazards, laceration hazards and fire risks were sold after their recall date, in violation of federal law.
Alexander Hoehn-Saric, CSPC Chair
The products were sold at TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods locations, as well as online. Most of these items had been recalled “due to the risk of infant suffocation and death,” the CPSC said.
Other recalled products included a portable speaker model that posed an explosion hazard, hoverboards linked to 16 reports of burn injuries and knives that broke and caused multiple lacerations requiring stitches.
TJX acknowledged the sale of these items in November 2019 in a joint news release with the CPSC. At the time, TJX said it had become aware of the sale of 19 different products that had been recalled between 2014 and 2019. The company later reported finding additional recalled products for sale during that time.
Alexander Hoehn-Saric, chair of the CPSC, said the $13 million penalty is “near the statutory maximum” that the CPSC agency would have been able to ask for in court. Still, Hoehn-Saric worried the fine would not be enough to deter other companies from avoiding similar mistakes.
“With the market capitalization of the largest retailers calculated in the billions, a penalty of $13 million or even $100 million could easily become a cost of doing businesses,” wrote Hoehn-Saric in a statement issued Tuesday. “In order to best protect the public, I urge Congress to remove or dramatically increase the existing limits on CPSC’s civil penalty authority.”
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HOUSTON and TUPELO, Miss., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE) will release its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings on Monday, January 30, 2023, after the close of the financial markets. It will also hold its earnings webcast on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. CT.
The webcast is live coverage of management's conference call with analysts and can be found by visiting: https://ir.cadencebank.com/events. This will be an interactive session between management and analysts; others may listen to the live broadcast as it happens. The conference call will also be available in archived format at the same address.
Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE) is a leading regional banking franchise with approximately $50 billion in assets and nearly 400 branch locations across the South and Texas. Cadence provides consumers, businesses and corporations with a full range of innovative banking and financial solutions. Services and products include consumer banking, consumer loans, mortgages, home equity lines and loans, credit cards, commercial and business banking, treasury management, specialized lending, asset-based lending, commercial real estate, equipment financing, correspondent banking, SBA lending, foreign exchange, wealth management, investment and trust services, financial planning, retirement plan management, and personal and business insurance. Cadence is committed to a culture of respect, diversity and inclusion in both its workplace and communities. Cadence Bank, Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
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WATCH: Marcus Smart finishes off Nets with lefty finish as shot clock expires originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Erasing a 17-point deficit against the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday was a total team effort for the Boston Celtics.
That includes Marcus Smart, who had his fingerprints all over the 114-107 Boston win. Specifically, the fingerprints of his left hand.
With the Celtics comfortably ahead by 8 with just over a minute remaining, Smart erased any chances of a Nets comeback with an absolute dagger of a teardrop off the backboard as time expired ... with his left hand.
Kyrie Irving appears to break fast for Ramadan during Celtics-Nets game
Smart and Jaylen Brown gazed in amazement at what the newly-crowned Defensive Player of the Year accomplished with his off-hand, the finishing touches of a victory which gave the Celtics a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven series with the Nets.
It wasn't the most effective night from Smart, as he finished with 12 points on 3 of 9 shooting, including 1 of 6 from 3-point range. But when it mattered most, he was able to make a difference in giving Boston a commanding series lead as it shifts to Brooklyn on Saturday for Game 3. Teams that go up 2-0 in a best-of-seven series have gone on to win 92.4 of the time. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/watch-marcus-smart-finishes-off-nets-with-left-hand-finish-as-shot-clock-expires/3655512/ | 2022-04-21 03:41:44 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/watch-marcus-smart-finishes-off-nets-with-left-hand-finish-as-shot-clock-expires/3655512/ |
Tickets on sale Dec.16 for 'From the Fire Tour' show on Aug. 5 at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Company ("HOFV" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: HOFV, HOFVW), the only resort, entertainment and media company centered around the power of professional football, today announces that it will partner with The Pro Football Hall of Fame to bring Zac Brown Band to headline the 2023 Concert for Legends presented by Ford at part of Enshrinement Week powered by Johnson Controls.
The Hall of Fame Village date is a stop on the multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning recording artists' national "From the Fire Tour."
Tickets for the show, scheduled for 8 p.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 5 at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, will go on sale at 10 a.m. ET Friday, Dec. 16, through hofvillage.com
"We are thrilled to partner with the Pro Football Hall of Fame to continue bringing world-class performers like Zac Brown Band to Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium for the Concert for Legends during Enshrinement Week," said HOFV President and CEO Michael Crawford. "This event held in our unique venue during this special time in Canton is another example of the high-caliber entertainment and unique experiences that we're bringing to the Hall of Fame Village as we continue to grow our business as a premier destination for sports and entertainment."
"New fans soon will realize what longtime fans familiar with Zac Brown Band already know: This show will be a terrific fit for Enshrinement Weekend," said Jim Porter, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "The Hall, along with our partners at Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Co., are thrilled to reveal this date as part of the band's national tour announcement. Zac Brown Band stands among the elite performers in the music industry today and bring a high-energy, engaging and entertaining show everywhere they perform."
The new set of dates for Zac Brown Band, produced by Live Nation, arrives on the heels of 2022's "Out in the Middle Tour" and the release of "The Comeback (Deluxe)" album, which features re-recorded tracks with some of music's biggest stars, including Blake Shelton, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Cody Johnson, Jamey Johnson and Ingrid Andress. The "Out in the Middle Tour" saw the band perform at Wrigley Field, Hollywood Bowl, Truist Park and the famed Fenway Park, where they hold the record for most consecutive sold-out shows with 13. Just ahead of their own record-breaking sellout, Zac Brown Band was inducted into the Fenway Music Hall of Fame, joining only Paul McCartney and Billy Joel.
The "From the Fire Tour," which marks the band's 10th North American tour, will continue through November. It will showcase "Zac Brown Band's one-of-a-kind, Southern rock style, serving as an ode to fans and those that have lent a helping hand to pull this country out from the fire of these past few years and helped us all get back on our feet and unify as one," the band said in its release.
The band will perform over 30 shows and will be joined by an incredible group of opening acts on select dates throughout the tour, including Marcus King, Tenille Townes, and King Calaway. The opening act for Concert for Legends date at the Hall of Fame Village in Canton will be announced soon.
"This past year was monumental, and we're thrilled to bring all that momentum with us into 2023 and onto the 'From the Fire Tour,'" Brown said. "We are all like family in this band and having the opportunity to bring our music from city to city is something we never take for granted. We can't wait to be back out on the road with our fans."
Citi is the official card of Zac Brown Band's tour, so Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning at noon Wednesday, Dec. 12 until 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15. through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details, visit CitiEntertainment.com. The "Zamily" Legacy Fan Club Pre-Sale will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, followed by the "Zamily" Fan Club General Pre-Sale at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the VIP Pre-Sale at noon Wednesday and the Spotify Pre-Sale at noon Thursday.
Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: HOFV, HOFVW) is a resort and entertainment company leveraging the power and popularity of professional football and its legendary players in partnership with the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Headquartered in Canton, Ohio, the Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Company is the owner of the Hall of Fame Village powered by Johnson Controls, a multi-use sports, entertainment and media destination centered around the Pro Football Hall of Fame's campus. Additional information on the Company can be found at www.HOFREco.com.
Hall of Fame Village is a multi-use sports, entertainment and media destination centered around the Pro Football Hall of Fame's campus in Canton, Ohio. Owned by the Hall of Fame Resort and Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: HOFV, HOFVW), the Village currently has over $250 million worth of assets under management and is one of the largest ongoing construction projects in Ohio. Phase I of the project entailed the construction of the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, a world-class 20,000 seat, sports and entertainment stadium, and the National Youth Football and Sports Complex. Phase II, currently under construction, added the Constellation Center for Excellence, the Center for Performance, and will add a Fan Engagement Zone, a Hall of Fame indoor waterpark and a Hilton Tapestry Hotel. Phase III is currently in planning stages. For more information, visit www.HOFVillage.com.
Located in Canton, Ohio, the birthplace of the National Football League, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institution with the Mission to Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve its History, Promote its Values, & Celebrate Excellence Together.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. AAM accreditation is national recognition for the museum's commitment to excellence and the highest professional standards of museum operation and public service.
Hundreds of thousands of fans from across the globe travel to Canton annually to experience an inspirational, interactive museum that chronicles America's most popular sport. Fans can also enjoy the Hall of Fame Store at the Hall, and online at www.profootballhof.com/store, for merchandise from all 32 NFL clubs plus the Hall of Fame. Proceeds from the Store support the Hall's Mission. Gridiron Glory Myrtle Beach opened in South Carolina last summer, giving fans another opportunity to experience "The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame." For more information, go to HOFMyrtleBeach.com.
Construction on Hall of Fame Village Powered by Johnson Controls, a mixed-use development project, is under way in Canton to transform the Hall of Fame's campus.
Zac Brown Band is a multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning, Southern rock group led by front man Zac Brown. Throughout their career spanning more than a decade, Zac Brown Band has had six consecutive albums reach the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and five consecutive albums debut at #1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart. To date, the group has won three GRAMMY Awards, including Best New Artist in 2010, sold more than 30 million singles, 9 million albums, amassed over 10 billion catalog streams, achieved 16 #1 radio singles and are the second act to top both the Country and Active Rock formats. Zac Brown Band has headlined 9 North American Tours and currently holds the record for most consecutive sold-out shows at the iconic Fenway Park. Symbolic of their massive success at the ballpark, in July 2022, Zac Brown Band was inducted into the Fenway Music Hall of Fame, joining music icons Paul McCartney and Billy Joel. Since their debut, Zac Brown Band has developed a reputation with critics and fans alike as one of the most dynamic live performers, marked by strong musicianship that defies genre boundaries.
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com
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DETROIT (AP) — Two candidates for Michigan governor, including a business consultant willing to spend personal millions, lost their final appeals Friday and will remain off the ballot in the Republican primary, the result of phony petition signatures that left them short of the 15,000 threshold.
The state Supreme Court was the last stop for Perry Johnson and Michael Markey, who were doomed by forged signatures apparently created by paid circulators without the candidates’ knowledge.
After state officials scratched those names, Johnson and Markey didn’t have enough valid ones.
Detroit’s former police chief, James Craig, is in the same category. The Supreme Court rejected his appeal on narrow procedural grounds, saying he first needed to go to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Nonetheless, he, too, will likely stay off the Aug. 2 ballot.
“Today was the statutory deadline for ballots to be finalized. … They are going to begin the printing process now,” said Tracy Wimmer, spokeswoman at the secretary of state.
A message seeking comment was left for Craig’s spokesman.
The state elections bureau described widespread evidence of fraudulent signatures, names of dead voters and wrong addresses in a May 23 report — a conclusion that rocked the crowded field of GOP candidates vying to challenge Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Five candidates said they were victims of dishonest petition circulators and deserved to be on the ballot. They also complained that the state declared thousands of suspicious signatures invalid although only a portion were actually compared to signatures in the voter registry.
The Board of State Canvassers last week tied, 2-2, on whether to put them on the ballot. A tie meant they were left off, and lawsuits followed.
“There is nothing here meriting our further time or attention,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said, adding that Johnson can’t show that the “Board of State Canvassers had a clear legal duty to certify his name to the ballot.”
Justice Richard Bernstein, the lone dissenter, said the Supreme Court at least should have heard arguments.
Johnson “raises serious concerns about ballot access and whether the current process implemented by the state appropriately balances real concerns about fraud against the possibility of disenfranchising both candidates and voters,” Bernstein said.
Johnson, who refers to himself as a business “quality guru,” began introducing himself to voters with Super Bowl ads and had pledged to spend some of his personal fortune.
There still will be five other candidates in the Republican primary: Tudor Dixon, Kevin Rinke, Garrett Soldano, Ralph Rebandt and Ryan Kelley.
Four of those five appeared at a debate Thursday on Mackinac Island. Dixon earlier in the day picked up an endorsement from Right to Life of Michigan, an anti-abortion group influential in Republican politics.
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WASHINGTON — American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed Saturday that Washington would not stand for any “coercion and bullying” of its allies and partners by China, while assuring Beijing that the United States remains committed to maintaining the status quo on Taiwan and would prefer dialogue over conflict.
Speaking at the so-called Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual forum bringing together top defense officials, diplomats and leaders, Austin lobbied for support for Washington's vision of a “free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific within a world of rules and rights” as the best course to counter increasing Chinese assertiveness in the region.
The U.S. has been expanding its own activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China, including regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea.
“We are committed to ensuring that every country can fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows," he said. "And every country, large or small, must remain free to conduct lawful maritime activities.”
Austin noted that the U.S. had provided millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic and is regularly involved in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance efforts in the region. He said it is working to combat climate change, illegal fishing and ensure that supply chains do not suffer disruptions — ticking off many issues of importance to Asian-Pacific nations.
“We're doubling down on our alliances and partnerships,” he said.
He said the U.S. is also committed to deterring North Korea's missile threat and China's claims on Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy that Beijing says is its territory, and said Washington has been stepping up defense planning, coordination and training with partner nations in the region.
“To be clear, we do not seek conflict or confrontation,” he said. “But we will not flinch in the face of bullying or coercion.”
Austin assured that the U.S. remained “deeply committed” to the longstanding one-China policy, which recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations with Taiwan, and continues to “categorically oppose unilateral changes to the status quo from either side.”
He added that Russia's invasion of Ukraine had served to underline how dangerous the world would be if big countries were able to "just invade their peaceful neighbors with impunity.”
“Conflict is neither imminent nor inevitable,” Austin said. “Deterrence is strong today — and it’s our job to keep it that way. The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.”
China’s new defense minister, Gen. Li Shangfu, declined Austin’s invitation to talk on the sidelines of the conference, though the two did shake hands before sitting down at opposite sides of the same table together as the forum opened Friday.
Austin said this was not enough.
“A cordial handshake over dinner is no substitute for a substantive engagement,” he said.
Li, who was named defense minister in March, is under American sanctions that are part of a broad package of measures against Russia — but predate its invasion of Ukraine — that were imposed in 2018 over Li’s involvement in China’s purchase of combat aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles from Moscow.
The sanctions, which broadly prevent Li from doing business in the United States, do not prevent him from holding official talks, American defense officials have said.
It was not clear whether Li, who is to address the forum Sunday morning, was in the room while Austin talked.
Austin reiterated calls that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made in his opening address at the forum for China to engage in regular, direct communications to help prevent any possible conflict.
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MONROE, N.C. (WNCN) — Deputies in North Carolina used a drone Friday night to track down suspects they say were throwing rocks from an overpass onto the toll highway below it.
There were several reports of at least two people throwing “large rocks off a bridge” onto the expressway, U.S. 74, below, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
“Deputies arrived and located a semi-truck and trailer that had been struck by one of the rocks causing significant damage to the roof of the truck and the front side of the trailer,” deputies said in a news release.
Deputies then launched a drone with infrared technology to search the area.
During the drone’s flight, deputies “located several distinct heat signatures hiding near the on-ramp to the expressway,” the news release said.
Two suspects were initially caught before a perimeter was set up and three more were captured.
The five suspects range from 13 to 15 years old, deputies said.
All five suspects will now face criminal charges for their actions via petitions issued by the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice.
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- Agreement grants Eterna rights to license up to four next-generation iPS cell derived NK and T cell cancer therapies
- License terms include an upfront license fee, development and commercialization milestone and single-digit royalties.
- Exacis' allogeneic cell therapies are made from iPSCs engineered for stealthing and performance using proprietary mRNA-based gene editing and differentiated into NK and / or T cells targeted at virtually any tumor antigen
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exacis Biotherapeutics Inc. ("Exacis" or the "Company"), a development-stage immuno-oncology company working to harness the immune system to cure cancer, today announced that it has signed an option agreement with Eterna Therapeutics Inc. ("Eterna") providing Eterna the right to license up to four off-the-shelf, iPSC derived NK cell and T cell cancer treatments to be produced using Exacis' proprietary mRNA-reprogrammed iPSCs that will be engineered with Exacis' mRNA-based gene editing platform. The option agreement provides Exacis and Eterna until December 31, 2022 to negotiate the license agreement. Terms include an upfront license fee, development and commercialization milestones, and single-digit royalties.
Exacis' non-viral platform uses mRNA-reprogrammed iPSCs engineered for stealthing and performance using Exacis' proprietary mRNA-based gene editing system including mRNA vector RiboSlice™ and nuclease NoveSlice™. The Exacis process avoids use of potentially harmful DNA and viruses by using mRNA.
Dr. Dimitri Goundis, Exacis' Chief Business Officer commented, "Exacis is committed to using its powerful platform to produce safe and effective immune cell therapies for cancer. Eterna is well positioned to rapidly advance products toward the clinic and patients".
Dr. Matt Angel, Eterna's Interim Chief Executive Officer added, "The opportunity to partner with Exacis and add next-generation mRNA-based NK and T cell therapies to our oncology portfolio is an important step in advancing Eterna's mission to realize the potential of cell engineering to provide patients with transformational new medicines."
Exacis is a development stage immuno-oncology company focused on harnessing the human immune system to cure cancer by engineering off-the-shelf iPSC-derived NK cell therapies targeting hematologic and solid tumors. Exacis' allogeneic engineered cell therapies, ExaNK™ and ExaCAR-NK™, are designed to be used alone or in combination with antibodies or NK cell engagers for superior performance. For more information, please visit www.exacis.com.
Eterna is focused on developing advanced therapies using state-of-the-art mRNA cell engineering technology. Its mission is to realize the potential of cell engineering to provide patients with transformational new medicines. The Company has in-licensed a portfolio of over 100 patents covering key cell engineering technologies, including what it believes are the most widely used methods for therapeutic gene editing currently in clinical development. Eterna has multiple next-generation cell and gene-editing therapies in preclinical development for various indications. For more information, please visit www.eternatx.com.
NK cells and T cells are types of human immune cells that recognize and destroy cancer cells and can be modified through genetic engineering to target and kill specific tumors.
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NEW YORK Energy , July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).
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Maryville Apostolic school loses sex abuse prevention certification
- Knox News has written a series of articles detailing separate failures of Apostolic leaders to properly handle reports of sexual abuse.
- The school lost its Partners in Prevention status in January. The change came after a former teacher was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse by an authority figure.
- Knox News reported how school leaders knew of at least two separate times Abbott sent inappropriate messages to a 14-year-old who attended the school. She alleges she was later sexually assaulted.
Four months after Maryville’s Apostolic Christian Academy renewed its membership in a program designed to protect students from sex abuse, its certification was revoked due to the “severity of the situation” at the school, Knox News has learned.
The school was forced out of Darkness to Light's Partners in Prevention program after former teacher Joseph “Kade” Abbott was arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault by an authority figure.
After the arrest, Knox News reported extensively about how leaders at the church and affiliated school knew of at least two separate times Abbott sent inappropriate messages to a 14-year-old girl but was allowed to maintain contact with students.
Abbott was suspended both times, but Apostolic leaders did not notify the girl's parents about the messages, nor is there evidence to show they notified law enforcement as required by state law. After Apostolic leaders learned about the messages, but before they told the girl's parents about them, Abbott allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times.
"Once we became aware of the allegations and arrest through our network of facilitators, our leadership made the decision to immediately terminate their designation in January," Darkness to Light spokesperson Jessie Watford said in an emailed statement this week to Knox News.
"Darkness to Light is deeply saddened by this situation, and especially alarmed because of the school’s previous Partner in Prevention designation," she continued. "This is a horrific situation on so many levels and should never have happened. We in no way condone nor justify the school’s response and are actively looking for ways to improve the Partner in Prevention self-reporting system."
Natalia Roubicek, Darkness to Light’s programming and partnership manager, told the alleged victim's mother in an email, which was obtained by Knox News, that the school's status was revoked "due to the severity of the situation and our commitment to ensuring a safe environment for all children."
Knox News could not confirm whether the school was made aware of the status change. Knox News interviewed Darkness to Light employees in February, but the school’s loss of status was not conveyed at that time.
The church, through its attorney, did not respond to questions about the status change.
What is Partner in Prevention status?
Partner in Prevention status is given to organizations that take extra steps to protect the children they serve by training staff to understand child sexual abuse, identify unsafe situations and react responsibly in the best interest of children. The status has to be renewed every year. The school had been certified since 2018.
Kristen Moir was chief of staff for Darkness to Light when she spoke to Knox News in February, though she has since left the organization. She said the school renewed its Partners in Prevention certification in September.
In order to become a Partner in Prevention with Darkness to Light, organizations must fulfill the following:
- "All current employees and volunteers have been trained using Stewards of Children, a child sexual abuse prevention training. (Note: all constitutes 90% or more of employees and volunteers who interact with youth). We require a retraining of employees using Stewards of Children every three years."
- "Background checks are completed for all employees and volunteers."
- "We ask that the organization requires that all situations where one adult is alone with one child be observable and interruptible."
Reporting incidents is incredibly important, Moir told Knox News, because it holds the person accountable. “And then they are unable to go to another facility where that information is not disclosed because it’s going to be on a record someplace,” she said.
Notably, Abbott left Maryville after the lawsuit was filed, but then volunteered at an Apostolic church out of state until his arrest in January.
Tyler Whetstone is an investigative reporter focused on accountability journalism. Email tyler.whetstone@knoxnews.com. Twitter @tyler_whetstone.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear defended his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offered a spirited assessment of the state's future after a series of tragedies, his predecessor Matt Bevin watched in the audience Thursday — fueling more speculation he wants a rematch.
Amplifying the drama built into a state with divided political leadership, Beshear was followed to the podium at the Kentucky Farm Bureau's annual country ham breakfast by Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, who gave a blistering critique of the Democratic governor's pandemic response.
Paul, who is seeking a third term this year in his campaign against Democratic challenger Charles Booker, said virus-related restrictions encroached on Kentuckians' freedoms. The Democratic governor, who will be on the ballot next year, maintained that his measures saved lives.
But it was Bevin's reemergence that added an element of surprise to the event, which draws the state's top political leaders. The former Republican governor lost to Beshear in 2019 and has been out of the limelight since. Bevin's legacy includes a flurry of pardons he issued in the waning days of his term. Several stirred outrage from victims or their families, prosecutors and lawmakers.
Bevin offered no hints Thursday on whether he's preparing for a political comeback.
“I am planning to eat ham,” Bevin replied when asked if he's planning to run for governor in 2023. He said he attended the event as a guest of business executives. Asked if he's being encouraged to join the race, he said: “You get a lot of encouragement to do a lot of things in life. ... It's all good."
Adding to the intrigue, Bevin attended a GOP dinner in Louisville on Wednesday night. Many political observers have speculated for the past year that Bevin might be weighing another run for governor.
Beshear is seeking a second term next year. He's dealt with one crisis after another — first the global pandemic, then the devastation caused by tornadoes last December in western Kentucky and historic flooding last month that ravaged portions of eastern Kentucky. Despite the state's strong Republican tilt, Beshear consistently receives strong approval ratings from voters.
Several alumni of Bevin's administration attended the ham breakfast. Scott Brinkman, who served as a top-ranking executive to Bevin, said he's had no conversations with his former boss regarding Bevin's future plans.
The speculation did not stop with Bevin. Former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft, another potential GOP candidate for governor, also attended the ham breakfast but did not tip her hand.
“Do you think I'm going to give you my game plan?” Does coach Cal or coach Payne share their game plan on the pregame show? Absolutely not,” Craft said, referring to Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari and Louisville basketball coach Kenny Payne.
Republicans already in the race for governor are taking aim at Beshear's handling of the pandemic, and Paul gladly joined the fray Thursday. The senator lavished praise on the state's GOP-led legislature for reining in the governor's virus policymaking power.
“I don’t care how bad the pandemic was," Paul said. “I don’t care what the emergency was. The constitution still holds, and I’m incredibly proud of the state legislature for standing up and saying no one person should have all that power.”
Defending his pandemic-related actions, Beshear said early projections indicated the death toll from COVID-19 could soar to 80,000 or more in Kentucky. His restrictions were in place when there were no vaccines to combat the coronavirus. More than 16,600 people in Kentucky have died as a result of the virus, but people's willingness to comply with the measures prevented more losses, he said.
"Our willingness to do things to save the life of the neighbor we know and the neighbor we have never met is why we have been more successful than most,” the governor said.
Beshear also touted the state's unprecedented economic performance during his term, including record business investment and job creation. He said the state is poised for more growth.
“We have the chance to leave this commonwealth with more prosperity for generations to come than any of us had ever thought was possible,” Beshear said.
In their speeches, Kentucky's Republican U.S. senators focused on the present — especially the soaring prices hitting consumers' wallets.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed Democratic-backed spending bills in Washington for fueling the surge in inflation, which hit a four-decade high this year.
“So the single-biggest problem facing the country is a direct result of the government making a gargantuan mistake last year and doubling down on it this year,” McConnell said.
Paul, who hails from the GOP’s libertarian wing, said Democratic-backed pandemic-relief measures created a “free-money syndrome” that helped sparked inflation.
“People are paying more in gas costs than they ever received from government,” Paul said. "Who does inflation damage the most? The working class, the poor, those on fixed incomes. All the people the ‘free-money people’ say they want to help.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Views-on-pandemic-clash-in-politically-divided-17398311.php | 2022-08-25 19:58:51 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Views-on-pandemic-clash-in-politically-divided-17398311.php |
Jeff Van Gundy, Suzy Kolber, Jalen Rose and Steve Young are among roughly 20 ESPN commentators and reporters who were laid off on Friday as part of job cuts by the network.
ESPN had planned this additional round involving on-air talent to prevent further reductions to off-air staff after two rounds of mandated cuts by its corporate owner, the Walt Disney Company.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February that the company would reduce 7,000 jobs either through not filling positions or layoffs.
Friday’s announcement resembled what happened in April of 2017, when reporters and hosts were informed at one time that they would no longer be on the air.
“Given the current environment, ESPN has determined it necessary to identify some additional cost savings in the area of public-facing commentator salaries, and that process has begun. This exercise will include a small group of job cuts in the short-term and an ongoing focus on managing costs when we negotiate individual contract renewals in the months ahead,” ESPN said in a statement. “This is an extremely challenging process, involving individuals who have had tremendous impact on our company. These difficult decisions, based more on overall efficiency than merit, will help us meet our financial targets and ensure future growth.”
The New York Post first reported the layoffs of Van Gundy and Rose.
Van Gundy had been the network’s top NBA analyst since 2007 and recently completed calling a record 17th NBA Finals. Kolber was a longtime ESPN veteran, including being the co-host of a nightly show when ESPN2 debuted in 1993.
She was also the host of ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” show.
“Today I join the many hard-working colleagues who have been laid off. Heartbreaking-but 27 years at ESPN was a good run. So grateful for a 38 yr career! Longevity for a woman in this business is something I’m especially proud of,” Kolber said on social media.
Rose had also been with ESPN since 2007. He was mainly part of the NBA studio shows but also did a radio show for 11 years and was a co-host when Mike Greenberg’s “Get Up” morning show premiered in 2018.
ESPN’s NFL coverage and the radio side, were the ones to take the biggest hits.
Longtime draft analyst Todd McShay, who also contributed to college football coverage, and analyst Matt Hasselbeck were also laid off.
ESPN Radio’s morning show team of Max Kellerman and Keyshawn Johnson as well as afternoon host Jason Fitz were also affected. Kellerman also did an afternoon show on ESPN, but that was unlikely to continue after Pat McAfee signed to bring his show to the network’s airwaves in the fall.
Others include “SportsCenter” anchor Ashley Brewer, radio and ACC Network host Jordan Cornette, college basketball analyst LaPhonso Ellis, NBA reporter Nick Friedell, baseball writer Joon Lee and “College GameDay” analyst David Pollack.
Most will be bought out of their contracts and receive their full pay. If they want to take another job, they would have to negotiate an exit arrangement with ESPN.
Johnson and Rose might be the first two to come to mind after Shannon Sharpe left FS1’s “Undisputed” due to increased tensions with co-host Skip Bayless.
ESPN is expected to continue assessing its talent pool over the next year as contracts are reviewed or negotiated for renewal. It had already started some reductions by not renewing the contracts of NHL studio analyst Chris Chelios, longtime “SportsCenter” anchor Neil Everett and NFL analyst Rob Ninkovich.
While its NFL, NHL and baseball contracts are set well into the future, negotiations for the renewal of NBA rights is expected to begin next year.
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Ashley Craft was excited to explore the food of Universal Theme Parks for her latest cookbook.
"I'm a big fan of 'Jurassic Park' and Harry Potter," said Craft, who recently released "The Unofficial Universal Theme Parks Cookbook." The book features recipes inspired by food served at the parks as well as recipes inspired by Universal attractions and characters.
Craft, a native of Anaheim, California, who currently lives in Minneapolis, is also the author of "The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook."
The author said the vision for the cookbook started to take shape about a year ago. She visited the Universal Parks on both coasts - in California and Florida - extensively while doing research for the project.
"There are a lot of hidden gems (when it comes to the food) at the parks," Craft said.
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In the preface to the book, she writes "My family and I visit Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort each year and have been blown away by the tastiness and high quality of their foods and drinks over the course of our travels."
The cookbook features an array of recipes including Cinnamon Sugar Cruffins, Green Eggs and Ham Tots, Pizza-Stuffed Pretzels, Who Hash, Chicken and Waffle Sandwiches, Tropical Roasted Chicken Salad, Crusty Burger, Minion Apples, Fainting Fancies, No Melt Ice Cream and much more.
Craft, who has enjoyed researching the culinary scene at Universal, said prior to her very first cookbook, she originally began compiling Disney recipes while she was blogging in 2017. In addition to "The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook," she has also written "The Unofficial Disney Parks Drink Recipe Book." Craft's blog is titled Ashley Crafted.
The author said she always strives to recreate authentic recipes for her cookbooks. Craft never tires of researching, preparing and experimenting with the recipes for her books.
"I still believe I have the best job in the world," she said. "I think it's amazing."
For readers of the new book, Craft said, "I hope they find the recipes they love from the Universal Parks."
The following recipes are from "The Unofficial Universal Theme Parks Cookbook."
Fainting Fancies
1 ounce pulp-free orange juice
3 teaspoons gelatin powder, divided
1 ounce lemon juice
3/4 cup granulated sugar, divided
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
DIRECTIONS:
1. Grease a mold with 12 or more shallow 2-inch circle divots with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
2. Add orange juice and 1 1/2 teaspoons gelatin powder to a small bowl. Add lemon juice and remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons gelatin powder to another small bowl. Stir each well and set aside.
3. In a small saucepan over medium heat, add 1/2 cup sugar, water and corn syrup. Bring to a boil, then allow to boil until temperature on a candy thermometer reads 234 degrees F.
4. Pour half of hot mixture into orange juice mixture and other half into lemon juice mixture. Stir well to combine.
5. Strain each mixture through a mesh sieve separately. Fill six divots of prepared mold with orange juice mixture and six divots with lemon juice mixture. Carefully place in refrigerator to set, about four hours up to overnight.
6. When confections are set, remove from mold to a large plate greased with nonstick cooking spray. Using kitchen shears, snip each circle in half. Press an orange half to a lemon half at their center seams. Repeat with remaining halves. Dip each fancy in remaining 1/4 cup sugar to coat. Serve. Yields 1 dozen Fancies.
No Melt Ice Cream
1/2 cup salted butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
2 teaspoons rainbow sprinkles
2 maraschino cherries
DIRECTIONS:
1. In the bowl of a stand mixture fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter and confectioners' sugar. Add vanilla and cornstarch. Mix. Slowly add in cream while mixing, adding more if needed to achieve a creamy consistency.
2. Scoop "ice cream" into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and squeeze into small martini glasses. Sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles and top each glass with a maraschino cherry. Serves 2. | https://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/books/theme-park-goodies-author-explores-universal-food-in-cookbook/article_e27edc95-7e88-564d-95aa-b283cc87a234.html | 2023-01-08 18:49:19 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/books/theme-park-goodies-author-explores-universal-food-in-cookbook/article_e27edc95-7e88-564d-95aa-b283cc87a234.html |
The EPA on Wednesday proposed a new phase of tougher emissions standards for model years 2027 to 2032 that would trigger a massive increase in the sales of EVs—but not technically mandate them.
The proposed standards aims for fleet average emissions of 82 grams of CO2 per mile by the 2032 model year, a 56% reduction in emissions from the existing standards in effect through the 2026 model year. Meeting this target will require up to 67% EV sales by the 2032 model year, the EPA projects.
The EV sales figure is not a mandate, as California is put in place for 2035, but rather the most likely path to meeting the stricter emissions targets. Manufacturers will still be able to produce new vehicles with internal-combustion engines, and attempt to meet the tougher standards by improving their efficiency, according to the EPA. That means the scenario in which automakers are selling mostly EVs by the 2032 model year is not set in stone.
The EPA also doesn’t appear ready to incentivize more efficient EVs, treating all vehicles with zero “tailpipe” emissions the same.
That scenario represents a very steep ramp-up from what the Biden administration has already put in place through the 2026 model year. Recently announced EPA rules aim for just 8% EV sales by then, still more than 2022, when EVs made up 5.8% of U.S. new-car sales. In terms of anticipated real-world results, the proposed 2027-2032 rules are also more ambitious than President Biden’s 2021 executive order calling for 50% EV sales by 2030.
According to the EPA, the proposed standards would avoid 7.3 billion tons of CO2 by 2055 through a cleaner fleet—equivalent to eliminating four years’ worth of emissions from the entire U.S. transportation sector. That would save lives through lower levels of the particulate matter that can lead to a range of health issues and premature mortality.
The targets bring federal emissions standards into closer alignment with California, however. The state is currently looking to end sales of most internal-combustion vehicles by 2035, leaving some room for plug-in hybrids that meet certain targets for emissions and electric range.
The proposal also includes new emissions standards for medium-duty commercial vehicles projected to lead to up to 46% EV sales by the 2032 model year. The EPA is targeting a fleet-wide average of 275 grams of CO2 per mile for 2032-model-year medium-duty vehicles, a 44% reduction from the 2026 model year. Proposed standards for heavy-duty trucks could also lead to 35% of new short-haul tractors and 25% of new long-haul tractors becoming electric by the 2032 model year.
The EPA claims these proposals would avoid nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions, equivalent to more than twice the total U.S. CO2 emissions in 2022. It would also save the average consumer $12,000 in ownership costs over the lifetime of a car, the agency claims.
The cost argument may not win over consumers, however. A poll published this week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) found that most Americans aren’t ready to buy an EV, in part because consumers tend to weigh the purchase price of a new vehicle more heavily than savings on fuel and maintenance. And while most respondents supported EV incentives like tax credits, fewer supported emissions standards that force more EV sales.
The proposed standards could become an issue in the 2024 presidential election and beyond. Even if Biden is re-elected, this next phase of emissions rules will run past the end of his second term. A future administration could seek to undo them, as was the case during the Trump administration with rules proposed under President Obama—although it took until March 2020 to issue lower gas mileage targets that took effect in 2021.
The response of automakers over the next few years will be another thing to watch. Recently seven automakers backed California in a challenge to its emissions authority, which allowed the state to enact its 2035 gas-car sales ban. But General Motors, Toyota, and Stellantis predecessor Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) joined the Trump administration in opposing that authority.
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LONDON (AP) — American-Canadian writer Ruth Ozeki won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “The Book of Form and Emptiness.”
Ozeki was awarded the 30,000 pound ($36,000) prize at a ceremony in London for her playful, philosophical novel about a bereaved boy’s relationship with books and the objects in his house — all of which speak to him. His world becomes increasingly cacophonous as his widowed mother deals with her grief by hoarding.
Inspired in part by Buddhist philosophy and by the decluttering doyenne Marie Kondo, the novel explores the complex relationship between people and their possessions.
British journalist Mary Ann Sieghart, who chaired the judging panel, said Ozeki’s novel “stood out for its sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence, humor and poignancy.”
“A celebration of the power of books and reading, it tackles big issues of life and death, and is a complete joy to read,” she said.
Ozeki, who is also a filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, is the author of three previous novels, including the environmentally themed “My Year of Meats” and “All Over Creation.” She was a Booker Prize finalist in 2013 for “A Tale for the Time Being,” a Pacific-spanning story set after Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
She also stared at her face in a mirror for three hours for the nonfiction book “Timecode of a Face.”
Bookmakers had ranked Ozeki’s novel a longshot to win, behind New Zealand author Meg Mason’s “Sorrow and Bliss,” Turkish-British author Elif Shafak’s “The Island of Missing Trees” and American writer Maggie Shipstead’s “Great Circle.” This year’s other finalists were U.S. writer Louise Erdrich’s “The Sentence” and Trinidadian author Lisa Allen-Agostini’s “The Bread the Devil Knead.”
The Women’s Prize, founded in 1996, is open to female English-language writers from around the world. Previous winners include Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones and Maggie O’Farrell. Last year’s winner was Susanna Clarke for her literary fantasy “Piranesi.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/Ruth-Ozeki-s-Book-of-Form-and-Emptiness-wins-17243887.php | 2022-06-15 20:26:02 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/Ruth-Ozeki-s-Book-of-Form-and-Emptiness-wins-17243887.php |
Russian soldier to go on trial in first war-crimes case
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian soldier is scheduled to go on trial Friday in the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first time since the start of the invasion that a member of the Russian military will be prosecuted for a war crime.
Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin stands accused of shooting the 62-year-old man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern village of Chupakhivka. He faces up to life in prison under the penalties spelled out in the section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war.
Shyshimarin’s attorney, Victor Ovsyanikov, acknowledged that the case against him is strong, but said the final decision over what evidence to allow will be made by the court in Kyiv. Ovsyanikov said Thursday that he and his client had not yet decided how he will plead.
Shyshimarin, a 21-year-old captured member of a tank unit, goes on trial as Ukraine’s top prosecutor conducts an ever-growing number of investigations into allegations that Russian troops killed, tortured and abused Ukrainian civilians.
Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova’s office has said it is looking into more than 10,700 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects, including Russian soldiers and government officials.
Many of the alleged atrocities came to light last month after Moscow’s forces ended their bid to capture Kyiv and withdrew from around the capital, exposing mass graves and streets and yards strewn with bodies in towns such as Bucha.
As the inaugural war-crimes case in Ukraine, Shyshimarin’s prosecution is being watched closely.
Volodymyr Yavorskyy, coordinator at the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s largest human rights groups, said activists will monitor the Russian soldier’s trial to ensure that his legal rights are protected. It can be difficult, he said, to maintain the neutrality of court proceedings during wartime.
The observance of the trial’s rules and norms “will determine how similar cases will be handled in the future,” Yavorskyy said.
Vadim Karasev, an independent Kyiv-based political analyst, said it’s important for Ukrainian authorities “to demonstrate that the war crimes will be solved and those responsible will be brought to justice in line with international standards.”
Over the past week, Venediktova, her office and the Security Service of Ukraine, the country’s law enforcement agency, have posted a few details from the investigation into Shyshimarin’s actions on their social media accounts.
On Feb. 28, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Shyshimarin was among a group of Russian troops that had been defeated by Ukrainian forces, according to Venediktova’s account. As the Russians fled, they fired at a private car and seized the vehicle. They then drove to Chupahivka, a village in the Sumy region about 200 miles east of Kyiv.
On the way, Venediktova said, the Russian soldiers saw a man walking on the sidewalk and talking on his phone. Shyshimarin was ordered to kill the man so he wouldn’t be able to report them to Ukrainian military authorities. She does not identify who gave the order.
Shyshimarin fired his Kalashnikov rifle through the open window and hit the victim in the head.
“The man died on the spot just a few dozen meters from his house,” Venediktova wrote.
The Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, posted a short video on May 4 of Shyshimarin speaking in front of camera and briefly describing how he shot the man. The SBU described the video as “one of the first confessions of the enemy invaders.”
“I was ordered to shoot,” said Shyshimarin, wearing a blue and gray hooded sweatshirt. “I shot one (round) at him. He falls. And we kept on going.”
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Lardner reported from Washington.
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CARSON, Calif., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakeshore, the nation's leading provider of educational products and services, is thrilled to debut its latest creations just in time for holiday shopping—including a Play & Explore Rover that channels kids' inner astronaut and an Animal Friends Clubhouse where pretend play comes to life. The 2022 Gifts for Growing Minds product line invites kids to use their imaginations to learn through play. With hundreds of items for children ages 0–11, Gifts for Growing Minds offers families a fun-filled way to bring learning home.
This new assortment features multiple new and exclusive products designed by a team of education experts―all former teachers with years of classroom experience. Every product is intentionally designed to get kids excited about learning, spark their imaginations and help them reach developmental milestones and education goals—all while having fun! Highlights include:
Play & Explore Rover - With tons of play space inside and out, this rover is ready for nonstop excitement! Two snap-in astronauts and a robot can climb on and off using the flip-down ladder, steer from the two-seat cockpit, dig for discoveries with the swiveling drill rig and more. Plus, the free-rolling rover has so many authentic details built in—from a command center to a robot charging station—kids' imaginations will blast off for hours of cosmic fun! $49.99, ages 3-8 years
Create & Play Magnetic Monsters - A monstrously good time awaits! Children love creating one-of-a-kind monsters as they mix & match magnetic body parts—in endless combinations. Plus, since all 20 parts turn a full 360 degrees, the monsters are a cinch to pose—so kids can really bring them to life! $29.99, ages 3-8 years
Animal Friends Clubhouse - Join the cutest club in the forest! This adorable clubhouse is made for endless entertainment! With exciting play spaces built right in, the multilevel clubhouse has charming features on every side—so the three poseable animals can paint in the art studio, go down the slide and so much more. Plus, the clubhouse has a furnished kitchen, a dinette, a bedroom with bunk beds, a game room, a music theater…there's even a real-working basket elevator! $69.99, ages 3-8 years
"Lakeshore is committed to inspiring kids to learn through play," said Bo Kaplan, Lakeshore's CEO. "We're excited to add these new products to the Gifts for Growing Minds collection, fostering creativity and problem solving at home, at school and anywhere children learn."
The Gifts for Growing Minds collection is available now at LakeshoreLearning.com and at Lakeshore stores nationwide. View the complete assortment at LakeshoreLearning.com.
Lakeshore Learning Materials is a leading developer and retailer of top-quality materials for early childhood education programs, elementary schools and homes nationwide. Since 1954, Lakeshore has offered innovative learning materials distinguished by their quality, educational merit and safety. To learn more, visit LakeshoreLearning.com.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum, who came within a whisker of defeating Republican Ron DeSantis in 2018, was acquitted Thursday of lying to the FBI in a corruption case that also involved illegal use of campaign contributions.
But the federal jury hung on charges that Gillum funneled tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money to personal accounts. Prosecutors said they will retry him on those counts. They had claimed Gillum was struggling financially after quitting his $120,000-a-year job with the People for the American Way group to run for governor.
Gillum was acquitted of lying to undercover FBI agents posing as developers who paid for a 2016 trip he took with his brother to New York, including hotel rooms, meals, a boat tour and a ticket to the hit Broadway show “Hamilton.”
Outside the courthouse, Gillum thanked his family, wife, legal team and pastor for their support, but took a dig at prosecutors.
“They have quite literally tried to take everything from us. And the beauty is in our system the powers that be don’t always get to decide. Everyday people like you and me sometimes get our swing at the ball,” he said.
Asked about what comes next, Gillum said “sleep” as he walked away from a gaggle of news reporters.
Gillum had faced a potentially lengthy prison sentence if convicted, although, under federal sentencing guidelines, he would have likely gotten far less than the maximum.
The jury came back hung for public relations executive and Gillum adviser, co-defendant Sharon Lettman-Hicks, in the case. Prosecutors said they will also retry her.
Gillum, 43, a former Tallahassee mayor, sought to become the first Black governor in Florida history when he took on DeSantis in 2018. Gillum lost by less than 34,000 votes to DeSantis, triggering an automatic recount. | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ex-democrat-florida-gov-nominee-not-guilty-of-lying-to-fbi/ | 2023-05-05 06:32:25 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ex-democrat-florida-gov-nominee-not-guilty-of-lying-to-fbi/ |
How to watch and stream the Dodgers this season
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Dodgers sign veteran reliever Hansel Robles to minor league deal
The Dodgers made a move to bolster the depth of their injury ravaged bullpen on Friday, signing veteran right-hander Hansel Robles to a minor league contract, a person familiar with the deal confirmed.
Robles, 31, was designated for assignment by Boston and released last Saturday after going 1-3 with a 5.84 ERA in 26 games for the Red Sox, striking out 21, walking 14 and giving up 25 hits — five of them homers —i n 24 2/3 innings for a 1.581 WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched).
But the right-hander’s average four-seam fastball velocity of 96.0 mph was only a tick down from his 97.2-mph velocity in 2019, when he had a career-best season for the Angels, going 5-1 with a 2.48 ERA and 23 saves in 71 games, striking out 75 and walking 16 in 72 2/3 innings.
Robles, who has a 28-26 record and 4.11 ERA in eight big-league seasons, also features an 88.7-mph slider and a 90.2-mph changeup.
He is expected to report to triple-A Oklahoma City before being considered for a spot in the Dodgers’ bullpen, which is without the injured Blake Treinen, Brusdar Graterol, Daniel Hudson, Tommy Kahnle, Victor Gonzalez and Danny Duffy. | https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/dodgers-vs-angels-live-updates-start-time-score-mlb-news | 2022-07-15 19:51:26 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/dodgers-vs-angels-live-updates-start-time-score-mlb-news |
MOSCOW (AP) — Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on the way.
The peninsula, which extends into the Pacific Ocean about 6,600 kilometers (4,000 miles) east of Moscow, is one of the world’s most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes.
The sudden new activity followed a strong earthquake on Saturday, news reports said.
The Russian Academy of Sciences’ vulcanology institute said that at Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at 4,754 meters (nearly 16,000 feet) is Eurasia’s tallest active volcano, as many as 10 explosions an hour were being recorded.
Lava flows and ash emissions also are coming from the Shiveluch volcano, the institute said.
Kamchatka is sparsely populated. The town of Klyuchi, with about 5,000 people, lies between the two volcanoes, 30-50 kilometers (20-30 miles) from each.
The volcanoes are about 450 kilometers (270 miles) from the peninsula’s only major city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-2-volcanoes-rumble-into-action-in-russias-far-east/ | 2022-11-21 04:18:34 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-2-volcanoes-rumble-into-action-in-russias-far-east/ |
Abortion foes downplay complex post-Roe v. Wade realities
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a 10-year-old Ohio girl traveled to Indiana last month to end a pregnancy allegedly forced onto her by a rapist, several conservative politicians and TV pundits called the report a hoax.
After horrific details confirmed the case was real, some tried a new tact: claiming, without evidence, that the child could have still legally obtained an abortion in Ohio under a near-total abortion ban that exempts only mothers whose lives or major bodily functions are at risk once fetal cardiac activity is detected.
Catherine Glenn Foster, president of the anti-abortion Americans United for Life, added another defense for young rape victims: She told the House Judiciary Committee that a 10-year-old’s pregnancy “would probably impact her life and so, therefore, it would fall under any exception and would not be an abortion.”
In televised statements and interviews, anti-abortion advocates have used misleading rhetoric about abortion access to downplay fallout and complications from restrictive abortion laws as doctors, struggling to interpret laws that have largely been untested in courts, turn away pregnant patients for care.
Those efforts have had an immediate impact, casting a narrative about a post-Roe v. Wade world that overlooks how abortion laws enacted in recent weeks have complicated the way doctors treat rape victims, miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
More than half a dozen doctors interviewed by The Associated Press said they feel compromised and uncertain operating in an abortion landscape fundamentally changed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected nearly 50 years of precedent that abortion was a protected constitutional right.
“It’s a horrible position for health care providers to be in, to be unsure about what’s legal and what’s not legal, and to be questioning the care that they know that they should provide,” said Dr. Jennifer Kerns, an associate professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who initially questioned reporting of the 10-year-old girl’s rape case, said in a Fox News Channel interview that she did not have to leave Ohio for abortion treatment, citing the state’s exemptions. Last week, Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis repeated the claim during a public forum: “She could have had that abortion here.” The law’s Republican sponsor said the same in a newspaper column published Thursday.
But it’s not as clear cut as they’ve suggested.
The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission confirmed in an analysis that the age of a mother, alone, would not allow a girl to legally access the procedure in the state. Doctors in Ohio are required to document a medical condition and rationale if they administer an abortion to provide life-saving treatment.
Yost’s office did not return a request for additional comment. Gonidakis laid out “different scenarios” to the AP under which the girl might have been able to access the abortion in Ohio, such as if a doctor agreed her life was at risk because of her age, while noting that he had not reviewed her medical records.
Across social media, some conservatives have also minimized concerns about access to treatment for ectopic pregnancies, calling it “still legal in every state.” An ectopic pregnancy is defined as one in which a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus, where it has no chance of survival.
Earlier this month, abortion opponent Erin Morrow Hawley told the House Reform and Oversight Committee that ectopic pregnancies had become the subject of “misinformation.”
“There have been social media posts suggesting that women won’t get treated for an ectopic pregnancy because doctors might be afraid of performing the procedure, but that’s absolutely false,” said Hawley, an attorney at the religious nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom. “Treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is not, in fact, an abortion.”
State abortion laws, however, have fueled confusion.
Doctors generally agree that the procedure to an end an ectopic pregnancy, which typically includes medication or surgery to remove the pregnancy, is not the same as an abortion.
But women reportedly have been declined care in states that have severely restricted abortion access, like Ohio, where an abortion is banned once fetal cardiac activity is detected. Fetal heartbeats can still be present in ectopic pregnancies. In one case, a central Texas hospital told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, per a letter from the Texas Medical Association.
In an email to the AP, Hawley said that doctors who have turned away ectopic pregnancy patients because of abortion bans are misinterpreting the laws.
Still, before Roe v. Wade was even overturned by the Supreme Court in June, some religious hospitals had policies against treating women for ectopic pregnancies.
And many states have not specified in their newly enacted abortion bans that an ectopic pregnancy can be treated as an exception. That’s left doctors in some states leery of ending the pregnancy, said Dr. Kate White, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine. Lawmakers in West Virginia, for example, are considering an abortion ban that would carve out an exception for ectopic pregnancies.
“Clinicians may be afraid to treat it if the abortion law in their state does not explicitly carve out ectopic pregnancy. You can see their worry, ‘Hey, growing pregnancy, can’t interrupt it ever,’” White said. “They are afraid that the law is too broad.”
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Kelety reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio contributed.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 60 people died and many are feared injured after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river Sunday evening in the western Indian state of Gujarat, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said.
Authorities said the 19th-century, colonial-era bridge over the Machchu river in the state’s Morbi district collapsed because it could not handle the weight of the large crowd, as the Hindu festival season drew hundreds of people to the recently opened tourist attraction. The bridge had been closed for renovation for almost six months and was reopened just four days ago.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on the 764-foot-long (232-meter-long) bridge, but officials fear the death toll could rise. State minister Brijesh Merja told reporters that 60 people have died so far and that 17 people were admitted to hospitals.
Merja said emergency responders and rescue workers were searching for the survivors and those killed and injured were mostly teens, women and older people. Teams from the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force were also dispatched to help with the rescue.
“A rescue operation is underway,” Merja was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency. “There are reports that several people have suffered injuries. They are being rushed to hospitals.”
Videos on social media showed people clinging onto the metal cables of the partly submerged bridge in distress as emergency teams and rescuers used boats and inflatable tires to reach them. Some people were seen swimming ashore to safety. Others, who were fished from the waters, were carried away and transported to the hospitals in private vehicles and ambulances.
Local news channels ran pictures of the missing shared by concerned relatives in search of their loved ones.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in his home state of Gujarat on a three-day visit, said he was “deeply saddened by the tragedy.” His office announced compensation to the families of the dead and urged for speedy rescue efforts.
Meanwhile, the state government said it has formed a special team to investigate the disaster.
A vote for Gujarat’s state government — led by Modi’s party — is expected in the coming months and opposition parties have demanded an investigation into the collapse, saying that the bridge was reopened without getting safety clearance from the city’s civic body. The claim could not be independently verified.
Modi ruled the state as the top elected official for 12 years before becoming India’s prime minister in 2014.
The bridge collapse is Asia’s third major disaster in a month.
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Oracle's new Paris region brings its total number of cloud regions to 38 worldwide
Public and private organizations benefit from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's price-performance, built-in security, and disaster recovery capabilities
Oracle now operates nine European cloud regions that run on 100 percent renewable energy
AUSTIN, Texas and COLOMBES, France, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the opening of a second cloud region in France to deliver public cloud services to help businesses modernize their operations. In addition to the Oracle Cloud Marseille region, the new region in La Courneuve, Paris will give Oracle's European customers and partners access to a vast cloud services portfolio with built-in security, disaster recovery, and industry-leading price-performance. Oracle's unique dual-region cloud strategy enables French customers to deploy resilient applications in multiple geographical locations in-country.
"Organizations have reached a critical milestone in how they deploy data for strategic planning and operations," said Christophe Negrier, general manager, Oracle France. "Oracle is helping customers realize their cloud-first strategy to grow faster, become more sustainable, and increase their security posture with Oracle's two cloud regions in France and 38 cloud regions worldwide."
The new Paris region expands Oracle Cloud's extensive European presence, which already includes more than 10 cloud regions with Marseille, Frankfurt, London, Zürich, Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, and Newport (Wales) already live, and the Madrid region is due to come online this year. All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services are available in the Oracle Cloud Paris region to support regulatory compliance requirements, which are especially critical in banking and the public sector. Available services include Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
Sustainable Cloud Operations to Run Businesses at Lower Costs with Less Energy Use
Several Oracle Cloud regions, including regions in North America, South America, and – with the addition of Paris – nine regions in Europe, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy. Oracle is committed to sustainability and has pledged to power all Oracle Cloud regions worldwide (as well as its offices) with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025. All Oracle Cloud regions already use state-of-the-art energy management and cooling technologies to minimize their impact on the environment. As part of its renewable energy clean Cloud initiative, Oracle reused or recycled 99.6 percent of its retired hardware in FY'21 while strictly adhering to Oracle's data privacy and security practices.
The Multi-Cloud Opportunity to Achieve the Best-in-Class Technology Across Clouds
OCI's extensive network of more than 70 regional and global FastConnect partners provides customers with dedicated connectivity to Oracle cloud regions and OCI services, giving them the best options globally. FastConnect is an easy, flexible, and cost-effective way to create a dedicated, private network connection with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more consistent performance than public Internet connections. Partners available at launch for the Oracle Cloud Paris region are Orange, Colt, and Equinix.
In addition, Oracle and Microsoft have established a strategic partnership that allows joint customers to run workloads across OCI and Microsoft Azure. The partnership offers a low latency, cross-cloud interconnection between OCI and Azure in 11 regions (Ashburn, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Jose, Phoenix, Vinhedo, Seoul, Singapore, and Frankfurt), a federated identity for joint customers deploying applications in both clouds, and a collaborative support model. This enables customers to run full-stack applications in a multi-cloud configuration, while maintaining high performance connectivity that doesn't require another architecture. Customers can also migrate existing applications or develop cloud native applications that use a combination of OCI and Azure services.
Customers, Partners, and Analysts Applaud the New Oracle Cloud Paris Region
Jacques Orsini, deputy director SNCF - e.SNCF Solutions, said: "SNCF is delighted that Oracle, one of its technology partners, is continuing to invest in France."
Laurent Breugnot, head of infrastructure and security, Louvre Hotels Group, said:
"Having the opportunity to host our data in the Paris region, while continuing to benefit from OCI's services and features, offers us huge potential."
Cyril Charpentier, infrastructure department director, Galeries Lafayette, said:
"Oracle's investment in Paris and Marseille will help us redesign our performance infrastructure in France. The Oracle Cloud services in France will also help us meet our customer data compliance policies."
Francois Delys, head of data and IT service delivery, Poclain Hydraulics Industrie, said: "The opening of the Paris region provides us with disaster recovery in France, with a data center near Poclain's headquarters that will guarantee excellent latency, and a site in Marseille that will duplicate the infrastructure.
"This opportunity is the perfect fit with our plan to adopt Oracle Cloud services as a replacement for on-premises components. With today's ongoing security challenges, we are looking to outsource certain services that will enhance the agility of the Poclain group."
Cedric Allain, chief information officer, Nasco, said: "Nasco's DNA is to always be close to its customers. Meeting this commitment, we've deployed a part of our infrastructure in Marseille and a second portion in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The growth of the Oracle Cloud region footprint, and in particular the arrival of the Paris region, will enable us to strengthen our commitment to our local customers and our partnership with Oracle."
Christophe Moison, CEO and co-founder, Coqliqo, said: "The opening of the new Oracle Cloud Paris Region is very good news, offering new technology choices and additional options for where our data is located. Business continuity is critical for our customers, and this new region will help support our disaster recovery strategy."
Nicolas Gelly, technical director, Virage Group, said: "At Virage Group, a software company operating in project portfolio management, the availability of our services is critical for our customers, and the new Paris region will help us strengthen our disaster recovery processes. The arrival of a second Oracle Cloud region in Paris reinforces our choice and opens up new perspectives. The geographical proximity is a benefit, as we prioritize enhancing performance and meeting our customers' requirements in terms of data localization."
Frederic Malicki, chief technology officer, Southern Europe, Atos, said: "The opening of a second region in Paris is great news and demonstrates Oracle's commitment to Europe. This new cloud region will allow our clients to deploy more use cases and accelerate their move to the cloud, leveraging the Atos One Cloud portfolio."
Philippe Montmartin, managing director, Oracle Business Group lead, France & Benelux, Accenture, said: "We are delighted to see Oracle open a new cloud region in France, particularly in Paris. In addition to the unmatched performance of Oracle Database and the elasticity and security of Oracle's next-generation cloud, Accenture offers a differentiated set of services and consulting expertise to support our clients in their digital acceleration with Oracle technologies."
Eugene Ebara, Oracle Cloud Leader, Cloud Center of Excellence, Capgemini – South Central Europe, said: "In late 2021, Sergio Werner, head of South Central Europe Cloud Center of Excellence, Capgemini, took part in the launch of Oracle's first Cloud region in Marseille, France. And today, we are very excited about the opening of a second datacenter in France in the Paris region. I am delighted to be able to offer our customers and prospects a broader range of services, including the implementation of data recovery across two national datacenters. I look forward to helping Oracle's teams in France leverage the best of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
Raphael Sanchez, chief operating officer, Kyndryl France, said: "Kyndryl welcomes the opening of a new Oracle Cloud Paris region. This is a new opportunity to address the specific needs of certain customers, and it's another step in Kyndryl's strategy to support its customers in hybrid and multicloud management – in collaboration with Oracle."
Rahiel Nasir, associate research director, European Cloud, IDC, said: "IDC Research shows that most organizations in Europe expect a full portfolio of services from a regional data center run by a global cloud provider. Meeting issues of regulatory compliance is the top reason why organizations choose local, as opposed to global, cloud providers. The latter can gain the edge over their local counterparts by not only offering a full line-up of sophisticated services, but also by making sure they comply with EU data rules and regulations. In addition, customers also expect them to offer a lower cost of services as well as local support from their data centers."
Roy IIIsey, chief analyst, Omdia, said: "Data sovereignty is becoming a critical aspect of enterprise decision makers' strategic planning – in fact, Omdia's IT Enterprise Insights survey found globally 20 percent of enterprises put security, identity, and privacy as the top IT trend in 2022, and this number increased to nearly 25 percent in France. As Oracle built its next-generation cloud infrastructure with 'security by-design,' OCI's solutions resonate perfectly with these companies' priorities. Moreover, the opening of a second cloud region in France, especially in Paris, will offer the opportunity for more French businesses to manage their data locally."
Oracle Cloud's Expanding Global Footprint
As part of Oracle's planned expansion of its cloud region footprint to support strong customer demand for Oracle Cloud services worldwide, Oracle will open additional cloud regions in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Israel, and plans to offer at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022.
Currently available Oracle Cloud regions:
- Asia Pacific: Tokyo (Japan), Osaka (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Chuncheon (South Korea), Mumbai (India), Hyderabad (India), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia), Singapore (Singapore)
- Americas: San Jose (United States), Phoenix (United States), Ashburn (United States), Toronto (Canada), Montreal (Canada), São Paolo (Brazil), Vinhedo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile)
- Europe: Frankfurt (Germany), London (United Kingdom), Newport, Wales (United Kingdom), Zürich (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Marseille (France), Stockholm (Sweden), Milan (Italy), La Courneuve, Paris (France)
- Middle East: Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Abu Dhabi and Dubai (U.A.E), Jerusalem (Israel)
- Africa: Johannesburg (South Africa)
- Government: Two general U.S. Government regions, and U.S. National Security regions, three U.S. Department of Defense specific Government regions, two in the United Kingdom (London and Newport, Wales)
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Oracle Cloud Regions
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Donald Trump Jr. posted several photos and comments on Twitter and Instagram making light of the violent home invasion attack last week against Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Former President Trump’s eldest child, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, retweeted a photo on Sunday of a piece of underwear and a hammer that was captioned: “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.”
“The internet remains undefeated… Also if you switch out the hammer for a red feather boa you could be Hunter Biden in an instant,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was attacked early Friday morning by an assailant who was reportedly shouting “Where is Nancy?” when he broke into their California home.
When police arrived, they found the assailant tussling with Paul Pelosi over a hammer before the attacker began beating him with it.
Upon arrival, officers quickly detained the suspect, David DePape, who has frequently espoused far-right conspiracy theories online.
Paul Pelosi underwent a successful surgery for a skull fracture and is expected to survive.
Former President Trump on Monday called the attack “a terrible thing,” and other Republicans have decried the act of political violence.
“Look at what’s happened to San Francisco generally. Look at what’s happening in Chicago. It was far worse than Afghanistan,” the former president said.
Donald Trump Jr., however, began posting memes mocking the attack over the weekend. He retweeted another photo joking about banning hammers on Monday morning.
On Instagram, Trump Jr. posted a salacious “South Park” meme with characters from the TV show, including one holding a hammer.
“Dear fact checkers this has nothing at all to do with anything going on in the news and simply posting a cartoon of what appears to be an altered South Park scene,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote.
On Saturday, he also tried to twist the attack against Democrats.
“Imagine how safe the country would be if democrats took all violent crime as seriously as they’re taking the Paul Pelosi situation,” he tweeted. “They simply don’t care about you.”
President Biden has warned that DePape’s chants of “Where is Nancy?” were eerily similar to the chanting of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“And what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections, COVID being a hoax, that it’s all a bunch of lies, and it not affect people who may not be so well balanced,” Biden said Friday.
“What makes us think that it’s not going to corrode the political climate? Enough is enough is enough. Every person of good conscience needs to clearly and unambiguously stand up against violence in our politics, no matter what your politics are,” Biden added.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Efe Odigie scored 22 points and Zach Nutall hit a 3-pointer in overtime to put SMU ahead in a 79-76 win over Tulsa on Wednesday night.
Odigie added nine rebounds for the Mustangs (7-12, 2-4 American Athletic Conference). Zhruic Phelps scored 18 points and added six steals. Nutall was 5 of 11 shooting, including 2 for 7 from distance, and went 4 for 5 from the line to finish with 16 points.
The Golden Hurricane (4-13, 0-6) were led in scoring by Bryant Selebangue, who finished with 24 points, 14 rebounds and two blocks. Sam Griffin added 18 points, six assists and two steals for Tulsa. Anthony Pritchard also had 17 points and five assists. The Golden Hurricane prolonged their losing streak to seven in a row.
Odigie scored nine points in the first half for SMU, who went into halftime tied 28-28 with Tulsa. The game was tied at 64-all at the end of regulation.
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ISTANBUL, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a "Hepsiburada") (NASDAQ: HEPS), a leading Turkish e-commerce platform (referred to herein as "Hepsiburada" or the "Company"), today announces its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Financial and Operational Highlights
- Gross merchandise value (GMV) grew by 84.4% compared to Q1 2021, reaching TRY 8.3 billion.
- Revenue grew 82.4% compared to Q1 2021, reaching TRY 2,527.9 million.
- Number of orders increased 63.2% to 15.0 million compared to 9.2 million orders delivered in Q1 2021.
- Active Customers reached 12.0 million from 9.4 million in Q1 2021 on 27.5% increase.
- Frequency grew to 4.9 in Q1 2022 from 4.1 in Q1 2021 on 22.1% increase.
- Active Merchant base increased to 82.9 thousand from around 53.5 thousand in Q1 2021 with 55.0% increase.
- Number of SKUs reached 110.7 million as at March 31, 2022 compared to 52.6 million at March 31, 2021, marking 110% year-over-year growth.
- Share of Marketplace GMV resulted in a 65.4% level, compared to 69.6% in Q1 2021.
- EBITDA was negative TRY 302.9 million in Q1 2022 compared to negative TRY 103.7 million in Q1 2021.
- Net loss for the period was TRY 239.7 million compared to a net loss of TRY 237.3 million for Q1 2021.
- Free cash flow was negative TRY 1,361.9 million compared to negative TRY 158.8 million in Q1 2021.
Commenting on the results, Mr. Emirdag, CEO of Hepsiburada said: "We had a solid start to the year in the first quarter with continued growth across our key operational metrics, delivering 84% GMV growth, resulting in an 82% revenue growth compared to the same period of last year. This performance was mainly driven by 15 million orders, a rise of 63% year over year, fueled by healthy customer and order frequency growth, despite headwinds from rising inflation, fierce competition and geopolitical uncertainty.
Our household brand name, the availability of our wide product selection, our hybrid 1P-3P business model, our robust logistics network and affordability solutions contributed to this performance as we continued our focus on path to profitability with diligent execution. We continued to drive growth in strategic assets, notably Hepsipay. In just nine months since it was launched, Hepsipay Wallet surpassed 7.1 million users, or around 60% of our Active Customer base as at the end of first quarter.
We believe customer satisfaction is a critical long-term success factor for e-commerce. We are delighted to have been named Turkey's most recommended e-commerce brand in the first quarter by FutureBright. The trust of customers encourages us to work even harder towards further improving our best-in-class customer experience, which already includes frictionless return, next-day delivery, and our convenient two-men handling cargo service, all enabled by our well-established logistics and technology infrastructure.
Meanwhile, we have progressed on our path to profitability by seeking further marketing efficiency, effective cost management and gross contribution margin improvement. Looking ahead, we are focused on continuing to build on our strong value proposition for both customers and merchants, standing by them in the current challenging macroeconomic environment. We remain committed to taking further steps forward on our path to profitability."
Summary: Key Operational and Financial Metrics
The following table sets forth a summary of the key unaudited operating and unaudited financial data for the three months ended March 31, 2022, March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2021 prepared in accordance with IFRS.
Note that EBITDA and free cash flow are non-IFRS financial measures. See "Presentation of Financial and Other Information" section of this press release for a definition of such non-IFRS measures, a discussion of the limitations on their use, and reconciliations of the non-IFRS measures to the most directly comparable IFRS measures. See the definitions of metrics such as GMV, Marketplace GMV, share of Marketplace GMV, gross contribution, gross contribution margin, EBITDA as a percentage of GMV and number of orders and Active Customer in the "Certain Definitions" section of this press release.
Financial Outlook
The below forward-looking statements reflect Hepsiburada's expectations as of June 1, 2022, considering trends year to date and could be subject to change, and involve inherent risks which we are not able to control or foresee. The financial outlook is based on management's current views and estimates with respect to existing market conditions. However, there are several uncertainties including geopolitical headwinds in the region, the inflationary environment both in Turkey and global markets, local currency volatility, low consumer confidence, pressure on purchasing power, disruption risks in the supply chains, evolving competitive landscape as well as potential regulatory changes in the e-commerce law. In addition, the implementation of International Accounting Standard 29 "Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies" ("IAS 29") to the financial statements starting from the second quarter onwards (See section "Upcoming Adjustment to the Financial Statements to Implement IAS 29 Standard") will impact our financial statements as well as non-IFRS measures including GMV. Please refer to the Forward Looking Statements section below. Management's views and estimates are subject to change without notice.
Our differentiated value proposition for both customers and merchants combined with our diligent execution have enabled us to make a solid start to 2022. Given the aforementioned market dynamics, the continuation of uncertainties and the limited visibility on inflation trajectory and its impact on consumer behavior for the remainder of the year, we are not making any adjustments to our guidance at this time. As a reminder, we had set our guidance at around 50% GMV growth for the full year 2022 compared to 2021 with figures unadjusted for inflation as per IAS 29.
As the improvement in our profitability margins from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 demonstrates, we remain focused on progressing on our path to profitability through disciplined cost and cash management. Our path to profitability will continue to be derived from our accelerating growth drivers, differentiating services through robust logistics and technological capabilities, as well as prudent execution of our strategic assets. As a result, as of the end of Q1 2022, we remain committed not to raise further capital for the next 18 months.
Key Business Developments
GMV and Order Growth
At TRY 8.3 billion, our Q1 2022 GMV grew by 84.4% compared to the same period of last year when we had already experienced strong GMV growth (i.e. 94.9% GMV growth in Q1 2021 compared to Q1 2020). At a two-year compounded annual growth rate (calculated over the last 24-months period), our Q1 2022 GMV growth rate was 90%. If we were to adjust our GMV for inflation with the announced the Turkish Statistics Institute ("TurkStat") monthly consumer price index numbers, GMV growth in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2021 would have been 19.2%.
For Hepsiburada, GMV growth is a function of the growth in number of orders and average order value. Total number of orders in the first quarter was at 15.0 million, indicating a 63.2% increase compared to the same period of last year. As the two key components of the order growth, our Active Customer base increased to 12.0 million in Q1 2022 from 9.4 million in Q1 2021 while the (order) frequency grew to 4.9 in Q1 2022 from 4.1 in Q1 2021. Our strong order growth was instrumental in generating the GMV growth in Q1 2022. Such performance was attributable to our hybrid 1P-3P business model, strong customer value proposition including our affordability solutions, wide selection, continued product and user experience adjustments and use of data driven smart marketing tools.
In our business model, the change in average order value and the inflation trend are not fully correlated. As at the end of Q1 2022, the annual inflation as published by the TurkStat reached 61.1%, whereas our average order value rose by 13.1% in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2021. We believe that the shift in consumer purchases towards more affordable alternatives (i.e., towards lower-priced brands, regardless of whether sales are of essentials or non-essentials); the decline in the unit sales of certain consumer electronics such as TVs, laptops, and robot vacuum cleaners; and the likelihood of having inventory purchased at lower prices (across 1P-3P) as well as competitive dynamics in the market have impacted the increase in our average order value in the first quarter of 2022.
Marketplace
In the first quarter, share of Marketplace GMV became at 65.4%, 4.2 points lower compared to the first quarter of 2021, keeping the level from the previous quarter (Q4 2021 at 65.4%). Our active merchant base increased to 82.9 thousand in Q1 2022 from 53.5 thousand in Q1 2021 a year ago, strengthening our product offering, particularly in categories such as supermarket and fashion. Our comprehensive merchant value proposition and our progress in enhancing merchant experience contributed to this strong increase in our active merchant base on our platform. Number of SKUs reached 110.7 million as at March 31, 2022 compared to 52.6 million as at March 31, 2021 with continued expansion in non-electronics and long tail products. As of March 31, 2022, the number of active SKUs through our cross-border operations on our platform has reached 2.7 million with over 1,400 participating merchants.
Our comprehensive suite of value-added services for our merchants has continued their penetration within our base. HepsiJet delivered around 53% of total Marketplace parcels in the first quarter, compared to 28% a year ago. This was possible through a distribution network of 7 fulfillment centers, 172 cross-docks and 16 transfer hubs on almost 200 thousand square meters and with of approximately 2,000 carriers. Total companies that HepsiLojistik provides fulfillment services reached 330, with the addition of 139 during the quarter. We believe having our own fulfillment services contributes to a greater customer experience while providing benefits for merchants on our marketplace. Meanwhile, over 9 thousand merchants used HepsiAd's adtech solutions in Q1 2022, up from 6 thousand in the first quarter of 2021.
With our cross-border operations at HepsiGlobal, we aim to enable our merchants in Turkey to make cross-border sales. Using our platform, merchants from various countries (including Turkey) will be able to export their products through our convenience model. As a first step, following the pilot phase, we began our cross-border operations to Azerbaijan market in the first quarter of 2022 which we aim to gradually scale.
Customer Experience
Based on the results of the market research conducted by FutureBright (a local research company) for Hepsiburada, we continued our Net Promoter Score ("NPS") leadership in the Turkish e-commerce market with an NPS of 72 in Q1 2022. Our services, which provide "peace of mind" experience to our customers during their shopping journey, were instrumental in customer appreciation and trust.
Among those services, we provide frictionless return, next-day delivery, and convenient two-men handling cargo service, all enabled by our well-established logistics and technology infrastructure. HepsiJet delivered 82% of the orders from retail (1P) on the next day in the first quarter, continuing the performance of the previous quarter. Having reached a coverage of all 81 cities in Turkey, HepsiJet XL, our two-man cargo handling service, has continued to provide a high quality and reliable service for the delivery of oversized products, evidenced by approximately 99% customer satisfaction score in the first quarter of 2021 according to our internal reporting.
Hepsipay
Hepsiburada offers its customers innovative payment solutions and services such as one-click check-out, multi-credit card payment, payment in installments, instant customer loans, store credit such as buy-now-pay-later and charge to billing ability with a telco partner.
Hepsiburada's wallet solution, Hepsipay Wallet has continued its rapid penetration within the platform, marking 7.1 million Hepsipay Wallet customers (represents those users who have opened their wallet account by giving required consent to Hepsipay) as at the end of Q1 2022. In the first quarter of 2022, around 40% of total GMV passed through Hepsipay Wallet, compared to 37% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
In February 2022, we launched a new store credit solution called "Buy Now Pay Later"("BNPL"), marking a first in the Turkish e-commerce. Our customers enjoy the opportunity to pay in up to six monthly installments for their purchases at our Hepsiburada store (1P). BNPL limits are defined based on the financial history of consumers based on their record at the Credit Bureau of Turkey and shopping track record at Hepsiburada. The early demand for this new store credit solution has been encouraging. While we plan to scale our offering cautiously and roll-out new features gradually in the remainder of 2022, we remain focused on monitoring the credit risk behavior including early delinquency and default rates.
HepsiExpress
HepsiExpress, our on-demand delivery service for grocery, water and flower verticals, remains focused on enhancing the end-to end customer experience and excelling in the customer journey by maintaining our perfect order ratio performance (measured as the number of orders delivered on time, in full and with no return request to the total number of orders of HepsiExpress) which was around 74% in the first quarter of 2022. Starting in early 2022, HepsiExpress has been in the process of optimizing its service models in groceries where its partners execute most of the picking and delivery operations. This has resulted in minimal dependency on our own delivery resources, helping us reach a more cost-effective service model, evolving from delivering through our own resources into acting mainly as an intermediary. We will continue to seek to better fulfill our value proposition of verticals and constantly explore different service models with the target of achieving more sustainable business model in the long term.
ESG Actions (post Q1 2022)
Hepsiburada became a member of the United Nations Global Compact ("UNGC") in January 2022. By aligning to the Global Compact, we aim to improve our corporate sustainability efforts on a global scale. By becoming a signatory, we have committed to adopting and aligning the Company's strategy and operations to UNGC principles which outline the basic responsibilities of the global business community.
As part of our efforts in relation to key UN Sustainable Development Goals related to our impact areas, namely Quality Education, Gender Equality, Reduced Inequalities and Partnership for Goals, we continued corporate social responsibility programs in cooperation with Turkey's leading NGOs focusing on children and youth, women, and animal welfare. Within this context, in addition to our "Technology Empowerment for Women Entrepreneurs'' program, we launched a new initiative addressing the basic needs of children with toys, books or stationery etc. with participating merchants and employees.
On the governance front, on May 20, 2022, we announced the appointment of two new independent board members to our Board of Directors, replacing two non-independent board members through a Form 6-K furnished with the SEC. Neither resignations were the result of any disagreement with Hepsiburada. These appointments will be submitted to the approval of Hepsiburada's shareholders at our upcoming Annual General Assembly, scheduled on June 24, 2022, as required by the Turkish Commercial Code. We trust that strengthening our board composition with four independent members out of nine is a major achievement in our efforts for good governance.
Hepsiburada Financial Review
Further to the completion of Doruk Finansman A.Ş. acquisition ("Doruk Finansman") by Hepsi Finansal Danışmanlık A.Ş. on February 28, 2022, we accounted for this acquisition by using the purchase method in the scope of IFRS 3 "Business combinations". The consideration transferred in a business combination is measured at fair value, which is calculated as the sum of the acquisition-date fair values of the assets transferred by the Group, liabilities incurred by the Group to the former owners of the acquire and the equity interests issued by the Group in exchange for control of the acquire. Since the initial accounting of this acquisition within the scope of IFRS 3 standard has not been completed as of the date of preparation of consolidated financial statements, it has been accounted for with provisional amounts in the consolidated financial statement as of 31 March 2022. The initial accounting of the business combination and the necessary adjustments will be completed within 1 year from the date of merger.
In the consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2022, Doruk Finansman's contribution to our revenue from 28 February 2022, which is closest financial statement date to the date of acquisition, to 31 March 2022, was TRY 0.4 million and was booked under "other" line in revenue.
Revenue
Revenue increased by 82.4% to TRY 2,527.9 million in Q1 2022 compared to the first quarter of last year. This was mainly driven by a 92.3% growth in 1P operations, comprising 80.4% of revenue, 45.2% growth in our Marketplace revenue and 43.7% increase in our delivery service revenue.
While 1P GMV grew by 109.9% compared to the same period in 2021, our 1P revenue growth was 92.3%. As part of our focus on primarily serving end-users, we continued to cancel certain B2B orders (due to these orders' high quantity item per basket not serving our end-user strategy) which in turn impacted the conversion of 1P GMV to revenue.
In Q1 2022, while the Marketplace GMV grew by 73.3% our 3P revenue growth was 45.2%. This was mainly as a result of higher campaign costs and customer discounts for both the core business and for strategic assets (i.e. HepsiExpress and Hepsipay), which are deducted from the revenues, compared to the Q1 of 2021 under increased competition.
The 43.7% increase in delivery service revenue compared to the first quarter of last year was primarily attributable to higher delivery service revenue generated from services provided to third-parties by HepsiJet. The growth of delivery service revenue generated through Hepsiburada platform was slower than the order growth due to i) acceleration of HepsiJet's penetration through attractive pricing to our merchant base and ii) shift in the GMV mix towards 1P, where we generate lower delivery service revenue. The increase in other revenue is mainly driven by the increase in HepsiAd (our advertising platform) and HepsiLojistik (our fulfillment services provider) revenue streams.
Gross Contribution
Our gross contribution in Q1 2022 compared to the same period of last year increased 63.7% to TRY 688.3 million whereas our gross contribution margin (as a % of GMV) declined 1.0pp to 8.3% compared to the Q1 2021. This decline in gross contribution margin in Q1 2022 was mainly due to higher customer discounts compared to Q1 2021.
Compared to Q4 2021, our gross contribution margin improved by 1.2pp in Q1 2022. This performance was mainly as a result of our focus on the path to profitability. In addition, we continued to benefit from our 1P operations as product availability and pricing flexibility in a rising inflationary environment. For our Q4 2021 results, refer to our Form 6-K furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 24, 2022 and our Form 20-F filed with the SEC on May 2, 2022, both available on SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Our Marketplace gross contribution reflects our Marketplace commission net-off customer discounts. Marketplace commission rate charged to merchants remained in the high single digits on average during the first quarter.
Operating Expenses:
The table below shows our operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 in absolute terms and as a percentage of GMV:
Our net operating expenses increased by 90.8% to TRY 2,893.1 million in Q1 2022 compared to the first quarter of last year. As a percentage of GMV, our net operating expenses rose 1.2 percentage points (pp) mainly due to 1.8 pp increase in advertising expenses as a percentage of GMV, 0.7 pp rise in cost of inventory sold as a percentage of GMV offset by 1.7 pp decrease in payroll and outsourced staff expenses.
The increase in advertising expenses was mainly due to continued investment in our growth drivers and brand. In 2022, with our continued focus on expanding non-electronic and long-tail products, we used both influencer marketing and new digital channels more actively. In addition, higher unit cost of advertising compared to the same period of last year also impacted the rise in advertising expenses in the first quarter.
The increase in cost of inventory sold was mainly due to 4.2 percentage points shift in GMV to 1P compared to a year ago.
The rise in payroll and outsource staff expenses due to the increase in the number of full-time and outsourced employees with talent onboarding for core operations and for our strategic assets, along with the impact of annual salary rise and the increase in annual bonus accrual have been offset by the decrease in share based payment expenses (related to shared based payments under the incentive plan adopted prior to our initial public offering, discussed in further detail below). Accordingly, the share based payment expenses in Q1 2022 (covering the provision for equity settled part only as no share-based payment provision has been recognized for the performance target-based payments since the relevant criteria have not yet been set) was TRY 28.5 million compared to TRY 123.7 million in Q1 2021 (covering the provision for cash settled part). Excluding the effect of share based payment expenses, the payroll and outsource staff expenses as a % of GMV would have been 3.0 pp and 2.3 pp in Q1 2022 and Q1 2021, respectively.
The rise in net operating expenses was also driven by the 85.3% increase in shipping and packaging expenses, on the back of 63.2% increase in number of orders and around 38% rise in unit prices applied by our delivery partners. As the share of our own last-mile delivery service (Hepsijet) in total delivery volume increased, the growth of shipping and packaging expenses was slower than the increase in number of orders and unit prices.
Financial Income
Our financial income increased by TRY 380.1 million to TRY 433.1 million compared to the first quarter of last year. This was mainly driven by a TRY 351.9 million increase in foreign currency exchange gains from our U.S. dollar denominated bank deposits and financial investments due to the 88.9% appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Turkish Lira as compared to Q1 2021.
Financial Expenses
Our financial expenses increased by TRY 148.1 million to TRY 307.6 million compared to the first quarter of last year, primarily attributable to a TRY 84.1 million increase in foreign currency exchange losses from our U.S dollar denominated trade payables due to the 88.9% appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Turkish Lira as compared to Q1 2021. The increase in our financial expenses was also due to a TRY 49.4 million increase in commission expenses related to early collection of credit card receivables due to the rise in annual effective interest rates as well as the increase in our GMV which are partially offset by our decision to increase the minimum threshold for installment level leading to higher volume of sales with no installments.
Net Loss for the Period
Net loss in Q1 2022 was TRY 239.7 million compared to net loss in Q1 2021 of TRY 237.3 million. The TRY 2.4 million increase was a result of the factors mentioned above, which also includes TRY 267.8 million net foreign exchange gains from our U.S. dollar denominated bank deposits and financial investments against fx-denominated trade payables.
EBITDA
EBITDA was negative TRY 302.9 million, compared to negative TRY 103.7 million in Q1 2021. This corresponds to a 1.3pp decline in EBITDA as a percentage of GMV in Q1 2022 compared to the same period last year. This decline was driven by 1.0pp decline in gross contribution margin, 1.8pp rise in advertising expenses as a percentage of GMV and 0.2pp increase in other operating expenses as a percentage of GMV offset by 1.7pp decline in payroll and outsource staff expenses items as a percentage of GMV.
Compared to Q4 2021, our EBITDA margin improved by 4.4 pp in Q1 2022. This improvement was driven by 1.2pp improvement in gross contribution margin, 3.1pp decline in advertising expenses as a percentage of GMV, 0.9pp improvement in other operating expense items as a percentage of GMV offset by 0.6pp rise in payroll and outsource staff expenses and 0.2pp rise in shipping and technology expenses as a percentage of GMV. The decline in customer discounts and advertising expenses from Q4 2021 to Q1 2021 is also partially due to the seasonality with the fourth quarter is being a high shopping season.
Capital Expenditures
Capex was TRY 119.4 million in Q1 2022 compared to TRY 36.3 million in the same period in 2021. Over 60% of total capex consists of the costs of employees who are employed for the development of website and mobile platforms for both core and strategic assets and whose costs are capitalized as per IFRS. Remaining capex mainly consisted of purchase of property and equipment and software and rights.
Net Working Capital
Net working capital decreased to negative TRY 1,576.6 million as of March 31, 2022 from negative TRY 2,584.6 million as of December 31, 2021. TRY 1,008.0 million decrease in negative net working capital was mainly driven by TRY 544.4 million decrease in trade payables and payables to merchants, TRY 298.7 million increase in inventories and TRY 116.8 million increase in trade receivables. The decrease in trade payables and payables to merchants was mainly due to higher volume of inventory procurements and increased service payables such as advertising, shipping and other operational expenses in Q4 2021 and which are paid in Q1 2022. We continued our inventory purchases in Q1 2022 for 1P operations with relatively shorter payment terms to ensure product availability and pricing flexibility in a rising inflationary environment. The increase in trade receivables is mainly due to increase in credit card receivables balance as a result of higher GMV generated during March 2022 compared to December 2021.
Cash Flow From Operating Activities
Our net cash used in operating activities for Q1 2022 comprises of TRY 239.7 million net loss (Q1 2021: net loss of TRY 237.3 million), negative TRY 1,071.4 million change in net working capital (Q1 2021: negative TRY 158.4 million) and TRY 68.5 million change in other (comprising of non-cash items such as provisions and depreciation expenses) (Q1 2021: TRY 273.3 million). Net cash provided by operating activities decreased by TRY 1,120.0 million, reaching negative TRY 1,242.5 million in Q1 2022 as compared to Q1 2021.
The decrease in our net cash provided by operating activities is mainly a result of TRY 335.3 million increase in change in inventories, TRY 284.3 million increase in trade payables and payables to merchants, TRY 143.8 million increase in other assets and TRY 120.8 million increase in change in trade receivables. Furthermore, the increase in net cash used in operating activities was also supported by a negative TRY 198.7 million increase in net foreign exchange differences for the period.
Free Cash Flow
Our free cash flow was negative TRY 1,361.9 million in Q1 2022 from negative TRY 158.8 million in Q1 2021. TRY 1,203.1 million decrease in free cash flow was mainly driven by the decrease in cash flow used in operating activities and rise in our capex, as further detailed above.
Total Cash and Financial Investments
Total cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2022 decreased to TRY 2,328.5 million from TRY 3,813.5 million as of December 31, 2021. The decrease is mainly due to inventory payments for both the purchases in December and during the quarter. Around 99% of our cash is in U.S. dollar (equivalent to USD 151.0 million) as of March 31, 2022 (December 31, 2021: USD 281.3 million).
Total financial investments as of March 31, 2022 amounts to TRY 1,290.1 million. Our financial investments consist of a financial asset measured at fair value and consists of U.S. dollar and Turkish Lira based mutual funds that have mainly invested in sovereign and public sector debt instruments and foreign currency linked Turkish Lira time deposits.
Bank Borrowings
Our short-term bank borrowings are utilized to facilitate supplier and merchant financing facilities as well as for our short-term liquidity if and when required in the ordinary course of our operations. As a result of the increase in our cash and cash equivalents following the IPO proceeds, our short-term borrowings decreased to TRY 176.4 million as of March 31, 2022, from TRY 193.2 million as of December 31, 2021. As of March 31, 2022, supplier and merchant financing loans corresponded to TRY 103.2 million of the short-term bank borrowings compared to TRY 92.2 million as of December 31, 2021.
In March 2022, we utilized a TRY 8.3 million long-term loan from a Turkish bank for our delivery operations (HepsiJet). The respective loan has a maturity of two years with monthly equal repayments at a total cost of funding at 23.28%.
All of our bank borrowings are denominated in Turkish Lira. As of March 31, 2022, the average annual effective interest rate for bank borrowings was 20.0% compared to 23.2% as of December 31, 2021.
Additional Information
Upcoming Adjustment to the Financial Statements to Implement IAS 29 Standard
The International Practices Task Force of the Centre for Audit Quality ("IPTF"), which monitors countries experiencing high inflation, categorized Turkey as a country with projected 36 months' cumulative inflation rate greater than 100%. Therefore, Turkish companies reporting under IFRS, including us, will be required to apply International Accounting Standard 29 "Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies" to their financial statements for periods ending on and after June 30, 2022. Our financial statements and non-IFRS measures will be impacted as a result of the application of this standard. However, as of the date of this press release, we cannot predict the extent and magnitude of the impact that the application of IAS 29 and related adjustments will have on our financial statements, non-IFRS measures and consequently, our margins.
Conference Call Details
The Company's management will host an analyst and investor conference call and live webcast to discuss its unaudited financial results today, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 16.00 Istanbul time / 14.00 London / 9.00 a.m. New York time.
The live webcast can be accessed via https://87399.themediaframe.eu/links/hepsiburada220601.html.
Telephone Participation Dial in Details:
- Turkey: + 90 212 900 3719
- UK & International: + 44 (0) 203 059 5872
- USA: + 1 516 447 5632
Participants may choose any of the above numbers to participate should they wish to ask questions.
The Company's results presentation will be available at the Hepsiburada Investor Relations website https://investors.hepsiburada.com on June 1, 2022.
Replay
Following the call, a replay will be available on the Hepsiburada Investor Relations website https://investors.hepsiburada.com
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Presentation of Financial and Other Information
Use of Non-IFRS Financial Measures
Certain parts of this press release contain non-IFRS financial measures which are unaudited supplementary measures and are not required by, or presented in accordance with, IFRS or any other generally accepted accounting principles. Such measures are EBITDA, Free Cash Flow and Net Working Capital. We define:
- EBITDA as profit or loss for the period plus taxation on income less financial income plus financial expenses, plus depreciation and amortization;
- Free Cash Flow as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures plus proceeds from sale of property and equipment and
- Net Working Capital as current assets (excluding cash, cash equivalents and financial investments) minus current liabilities (excluding current bank borrowings and current lease liabilities).
You should not consider them as: (a) an alternative to operating profit or net profit as determined in accordance with IFRS or other generally accepted accounting principles, or as measures of operating performance; (b) an alternative to cash flows from operating, investing or financing activities, as determined in accordance with IFRS or other generally accepted accounting principles, or as a measure of our ability to meet liquidity needs; or (c) an alternative to any other measures of performance under IFRS or other generally accepted accounting principles.
These measures are used by our management to monitor the underlying performance of the business and our operations. However, not all companies calculate these measures in an identical manner and, therefore, our presentation may not be comparable with similar measures used by other companies. As a result, prospective investors should not place undue reliance on this data.
This section includes for a reconciliation of certain of these non-IFRS measures to the closest IFRS measure set forth in the consolidated financial statements.
EBITDA is a supplemental non-IFRS financial measure that is not required by, or presented in accordance with, IFRS. We have included EBITDA in this press release because it is a key measure used by our management and board of directors to evaluate our operating performance, generate future operating plans and make strategic decisions regarding the allocation of capital. In particular, the exclusion of certain expenses in calculating EBITDA facilitates operating performance comparability across reporting periods by removing the effect of non-cash expenses and non-operating expense/(income). Accordingly, we believe that EBITDA provides useful information to investors in understanding and evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management and board of directors.
Management uses EBITDA:
- as a measurement of operating performance because it assists us in comparing our operating performance on a consistent basis, as it removes the impact of non-cash and non-operating items;
- for planning purposes, including the preparation of our internal annual operating budget and financial projections; and
- to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our strategic initiatives.
EBITDA has limitations as a financial measure, including that other companies may calculate EBITDA differently, which reduces its usefulness as a comparative measure and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for profit/(loss) for the period as a profit measure or other analysis of our results as reported under IFRS.
The following table shows the reconciliation of EBITDA to net loss for the period for the periods presented.
Free Cash Flow is a supplemental non-IFRS financial measure that is not required by, or presented in accordance with, IFRS. We have included Free Cash Flow in this press release because it is an important indicator of our liquidity as it measures the amount of cash we generate/(use) and provides additional perspective on whether we have sufficient cash after funding our operations and capital expenditures. Accordingly, we believe that Free Cash Flow provides useful information to investors in understanding and evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management and board of directors.
Free Cash Flow has limitations as a financial measure, and you should not consider it in isolation or as substitutes for net cash used in operating activities as a measure of our liquidity or other analysis of our results as reported under IFRS. There are limitations to using non-IFRS financial measures, including that other companies may calculate Free Cash Flow differently. Because of these limitations, you should consider Free Cash Flow alongside other financial performance measures, including net cash used in operating activities, capital expenditures and our other IFRS results.
The following table shows the reconciliation of Free Cash Flow to net cash used in operating activities for the periods presented.
Net Working Capital is a supplemental non-IFRS financial measure that is not required by, or presented in accordance with, IFRS. Starting from Q4 2021, we have revised the definition of Net Working Capital to include the "financial investments" balance on our balance sheet as at December 31, 2021. As we believe financial investments are cash-like item by nature, we deducted from current assets along with cash and cash equivalents.
We have included Net Working Capital in this press release because it is used to measure the short-term liquidity of a business, and can also be used to obtain a general impression of the ability of company management to utilize assets in an efficient manner. Net Working Capital is critical since it is used to keep our business operating smoothly and meet all our financial obligations in the short-term. Accordingly, we believe that Net Working Capital provides useful information to investors in understanding and evaluating how we manage our short-term liabilities.
The following table shows the reconciliation of Net Working Capital to current assets and current liabilities as of the dates indicated:
Certain Definitions
We provide a number of key operating performance indicators used by our management and often used by competitors in our industry. We define certain terms used in this press release as follows:
- GMV as gross merchandise value which refers to the total value of orders/products sold through our platform over a given period of time (including value added tax ("VAT") without deducting returns and cancellations), including cargo income (shipping fees related to the products sold through our platform) and excluding other service revenues and transaction fees charged to our merchants;
- Marketplace GMV as total value of orders/products sold through our Marketplace over a given period of time (including VAT without deducting returns and cancellations), including cargo income (shipping fees related to the products sold through our platform) and excluding other service revenues and transaction fees charged to our merchants;
- Share of Marketplace GMV as the portion of GMV sold through our Marketplace represented as a percentage of our total GMV;
- Gross Contribution as revenues less cost of inventory sold. Gross Contribution is an indicator of our operational profitability as it reflects direct costs of products sold to our buyers;
- Gross Contribution margin as Gross Contribution represented as a percentage of GMV;
- Number of orders as the number of orders we received through our platform including returns and cancellations;
- Frequency as the average number of orders per Active Customer over a 12-month period preceding the relevant date;
- Active Merchant as merchants who sold at least one item within the 12-month period preceding the relevant date, including returns and cancellations;
- Active Customer are users (both unregistered users and members) who purchased an item within the 12-month period preceding the relevant date, including returns and cancellations;
DISCLAIMER: Due to rounding, numbers presented throughout this presentation may not add up precisely to the totals provided and percentages may not precisely reflect the absolute figures.
About Hepsiburada
Hepsiburada is a leading e-commerce technology platform in Turkey, combining a globally proven e-commerce business model with a one-stop 'Super App' to cater to our customers' everyday needs and to help make people's daily lives better. Customers can access a broad range of products and services including same-day delivery of groceries and essentials, products from international merchants, airline tickets and payment services through our embedded digital wallet, Hepsipay. As at the end of March 2022, we had seamlessly connected 44.2 million members and 85 thousand Active Merchants.
Founded in Istanbul in 2000, Hepsiburada was built to lead the digitalization of commerce in Turkey. As a female-founded organization, we are committed to meaningful action to empower women. Through our 'Technology Empowerment for Women Entrepreneurs' programme, we have reached over 32 thousand female entrepreneurs across Turkey to date.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release, the conference call webcast, presentation and related communications include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Safe Harbor provisions of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and encompasses all statements, other than statements of historical fact contained in these communications, including but not limited to statements regarding (a) Company's future results of operations and financial position; (b) our expectations regarding current and future GMV; (c) potential disruptions to our operations and supply chain that may result from (i) epidemics or natural disasters, including the duration, scope and impact on our operations in general and the pace of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic (ii) global supply challenges, port shutdowns and energy crisis in China; (iii) the ongoing conflict in Ukraine; (iv) changes in the competitive landscape in the industry in which the Company operates (v) rising inflationary environment and/or (vi) currency devaluation; (d) anticipated launch of new initiatives, businesses or any other strategic projects; (e) our expectations and plans for short- and long-term strategy, including our anticipated areas of focus and investment, market expansion, product and technology focus, and projected growth and profitability; (f) our ability to respond to the ever-changing competitive landscape in the industry in which we operate; (g) our liquidity, substantial indebtedness, and ability to obtain additional financing; (h) our strategic goals and plans, including our relationships with existing customers, suppliers and partners, and our ability to achieve and maintain them; (i) outcomes resulting from the pending litigation; (j) expectations regarding our future performance based on our ability to attract more customers to our platform in a cost effective manner, to increase frequency of our customers on our platform, to add more merchants to our platform, to expanding our selection of products and services, to scale our new strategic assets and leverage logistics and technology as business enablers; (k) potential regulatory changes in the e-commerce law and (l) implementation of IAS29 standard. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may", "could", "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "targets", "likely to" and similar statements. Among other things, quotations from management in this announcement, as well as our outlook and guidance, strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations. However, it is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors and circumstances that may cause Hepsiburada's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from its expectations expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including conditions in the U.S. capital markets, negative global economic conditions, potential negative developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, other negative developments in Hepsiburada's business or unfavorable legislative or regulatory developments. We caution you therefore against relying on these forward-looking statements, and we qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements. For a discussion of additional factors that may affect the outcome of such forward looking statements, see our 2021 annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form 20-F (File No.001-40553), and in particular the "Risk Factors" section, as well as the other documents filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Company from time to time. Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC at www.sec.gov, or on the SEC Filings section of our Investor Relations website at https://investors.hepsiburada.com. These and other important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information currently available to the Company, and the Company and its authorized representatives assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
This press release includes certain non-IFRS financial measures, including but not limited to, EBITDA, Free Cash Flow and Net Working Capital. These financial measures are not measures of financial performance in accordance with IFRS and may exclude items that are significant in understanding and assessing our financial results. Therefore, these measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to profit/loss for the period or other measures of profitability, liquidity or performance under IFRS. You should be aware that the Company's presentation of these measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies, which may be defined and calculated differently. See "Presentation of Financial and Other Information" in this press release for a reconciliation of certain of these non-IFRS measures to the most directly comparable IFRS measure.
Statement Regarding Unaudited Financial Information
This press release includes quarterly financial information for the three months ended March 31, 2022, March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2021. The quarterly information has not been audited or reviewed by the Company's auditors. The unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All periods presented have been accounted for in conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") and pursuant to the regulations of the SEC.
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Dog food recalled over salmonella concerns
(CNN) - If you feed your dog Freshpet, listen up.
The company is recalling the 4.5-pound bag of Freshpet Select Fresh from the Kitchen Home-cooked Chicken Recipe, the Food and Drug Administration said.
The recalled products may have been purchased from Walmart stores in Alabama and Georgia, and from Target stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia.
The company says the dog food might be contaminated with salmonella, which could affect dogs who eat it and anyone who handles the food.
The recall is voluntary and it’s just one lot. Look for retail UPC code 627975011673 and the sell by date 10-29-22.
Salmonella can make people sick and cause stomach issues, and it affects animals the same way.
At this point, Freshpet says it hasn’t gotten any reports that anyone has gotten sick.
The issues here is that this lot was supposed to be thrown out, but a small portion of it got sent out to stores by mistake.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti bursting from its famous chandelier.
It was show No. 13,981 at the Majestic Theatre and it ended with a reprise of “The Music of the Night” performed by the current cast, previous actors in the show — including original star Sarah Brightman — and crew members in street clothes.
Andrew Lloyd Webber took to the stage last in a black suit and black tie and dedicated the final show to his son, Nick, who died last month after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia. He was 43.
“When he was a little boy, he heard some of this music,” Lloyd Webber said. Brightman, holding his hand, agreed: “When Andrew was writing it, he was right there. So his son is with us. Nick, we love you very much.”
Producer Cameron Mackintosh gave some in the crowd hope they would see the Phantom again, and perhaps sooner than they think.
“The one question I keep getting asked again and again — will the Phantom return? Having been a producer for over 55 years, I’ve seen all the great musicals return, and ‘Phantom’ is one of the greatest,” he said. “So it’s only a matter of time.”
The musical — a fixture on Broadway since opening on Jan. 26, 1988 — has weathered recessions, war, terrorism and cultural shifts. But the prolonged pandemic may have been the last straw: It’s a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. The curtain call Sunday showed how out of step “Phantom” is with the rest of Broadway but also how glorious a big, splashy musical can be.
“If there ever was a bang, we’re going out with a bang. It’s going to be a great night,” said John Riddle just before dashing inside to play Raoul for the final time.
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, “Phantom” tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Webber’s lavish songs include “Masquerade,” ″Angel of Music” and ″All I Ask of You.”
In addition to Riddle, the New York production said goodbye with Emilie Kouatchou as Christine and Laird Mackintosh stepping in for Ben Crawford as the Phantom. Crawford was unable to sing because of a bacterial infection but was cheered at the curtain call, stepping to the side of the stage. The Phantom waved him over to stand beside him, Riddle and Kouatchou.
There was a video presentation of many of the actors who had played key roles in the show over the years, and the orchestra seats were crowded with Christines, Raouls and Phantoms. The late director Hal Prince, choreographer Gillian Lynne and set and costume designer Maria Björnson were also honored.
Lin-Manuel Miranda attended, as did Glenn Close, who performed in two separate Broadway productions of Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard.” Free champagne was offered at intermission and flutes of it were handed out onstage at the curtain call.
Riddle first saw “The Phantom of the Opera” in Toronto as a 4-year-old child. “It was the first musical I ever saw. I didn’t know what a musical was,” he said. “Now, 30-some odd years later, I’m closing the show on Broadway. So it’s incredible.”
Kouatchou, who became the first Black woman in the role in New York, didn’t think the show would ever stop. “I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to do my run, ‘Phantom’ is going to continue on and they’ll be more Christines of color,’ ” she said. “But this is it.”
The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. On Broadway alone, it has grossed more than $1.3 billion.
When “Phantom” opened in New York, “Die Hard” was in movie theaters, Adele was born, and floppy discs were at the cutting edge of technology. A postage stamp cost 25 cents, and the year’s most popular songs were “Roll With It” by Steve Winwood, “Faith” by George Michael and Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Critics were positive, with the New York Post calling it “a piece of impeccably crafted musical theater,” the Daily News describing it as “spectacular entertainment,” and The New York Times saying it “wants nothing more than to shower the audience with fantasy and fun.”
Lloyd Webber’s other musicals include “Cats,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Evita,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “School of Rock.” The closing of “Phantom” means the composer is left with one show on Broadway, the critically mauled “Bad Cinderella.”
The closing of “Phantom,” originally scheduled for February, was pushed to mid-April after a flood of revived interest and ticket sales that pushed weekly grosses past $3 million. The closing means the longest-running show crown now goes to “Chicago,” which started in 1996. “The Lion King” is next, having begun performances in 1997.
Broadway took a pounding during the pandemic, with all theaters closed for more than 18 months. Some of the most popular shows — “Hamilton,” “The Lion King” and “Wicked” — rebounded well, but other shows have struggled.
Breaking even usually requires a steady stream of tourists, especially for “Phantom,” and visitors to the city haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. The pandemic also pushed up expenses for all shows, including routine COVID-19 testing and safety officers on staff. The Phantom became a poster boy for Broadway’s return — after all, he is partially masked.
Fans can always catch the Phantom elsewhere. The flagship London production celebrated its 36th anniversary in October, and there are productions in Japan, Greece, Australia, Sweden, Italy, South Korea and the Czech Republic. One is about to open in Bucharest, and another will open in Vienna in 2024.
Kouatchou, who walked the red carpet before the final show in a hot pink clinging gown with a sweetheart neckline and a cut out, said the bitterness was undercut by the big send-off. Most Broadway shows that close slink into the darkness uncelebrated.
“It kind of sweetens it, right?” she said. “We get to celebrate at the end of this. We get to all come together and drink and laugh and talk about the show and all the highs and lows. It’s ending on a big note.”
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s parliament voted Thursday to approve a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual assault cases, freeing victims of having to prove that violence or intimidation was used against them.
The bill, popularly known as “Only Yes is Yes,” seeks to tackle the nebulous definition of consent in Spanish law. In the absence of a codified definition, the law had long relied on evidence of violence, resistance or intimidation to decide whether a criminal sexual act occurred.
The new bill defines consent as an explicit expression of a person's will, making it clear that silence or passivity do not equal consent. Non-consensual sex can be considered aggression and subject to prison terms of up to 15 years.
The change was heralded by Equality Minister Irene Montero.
“From today, Spain is a freer, safer country for all women,” she told parliament. “We’re going to swap violence for freedom, we’re going to swap fear for desire.”
The bill had long been championed by the Spain's left-wing coalition government, with only the conservative Popular Party and the far-right Vox party voting against it. The draft will now face a vote in the Senate before it can become law.
It includes a raft of other measures, from obliging minors who commit sexual crimes to undergo sex education and gender equality training to creating a network of 24-hour crisis centers for sexual assault victims and their family members.
The legislation traces its roots to the furor sparked by a gang-rape case during the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016.
Initially, the five accused in the case were found guilty of sexual abuse but not rape, as the victim wasn’t deemed to have objected to what was happening. The sentences prompted widespread protests across the country and calls for Spain to join the dozen other countries in Europe that define rape as sex without consent, according to a 2020 analysis by Amnesty International. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Spain-Parliament-backs-Only-yes-means-yes-17201059.php | 2022-05-26 18:09:44 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Spain-Parliament-backs-Only-yes-means-yes-17201059.php |
Frostproof teen with spina bifida sets sights on 2024 Paralympics
FROSTPROOF, FL - A Frostproof teen who was born with spina bifida has garnered state and national attention for his athletic prowess.
Zach Holman has 18 gold and two silver medals under his belt in Florida in adaptive track and field. He also holds a national record.
"He never lets anything get him down." His mom, Karen Holman, told FOX 13. "He pushes himself."
Zach’s passion for track and field started when someone recognized his potential years ago.
"A teacher came up to me and said, you should do track," he recalled. "I did it, and I fell in love with it."
He especially loves the javelin.
"It is kind of effortless for me," he said. "I just kind of throw. It is not a whole lot of technique."
However he pulls it off, it’s working. In one competition, he threw a javelin four times further than the guy who came in second.
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Zach just graduated from Frostproof Middle-Senior High School, so he won’t be competing at that level anymore.
His coach says he will miss him.
"I wish I had another year," said a smiling Coach David Andrews. "If we had one more year, we could finish business."
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Zach has already gotten down to business with his next move.
He plans to attend Webber University in the fall and has an interest in possibly pursuing sportscasting as a career.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the legal age of consent for sex should be raised to 18 from 16, a judgment welcomed by many in a country where rights groups say teen pregnancies are forcing hundreds of girls out of school.
In a ruling handed down by the country’s highest court this week, the court struck down as unconstitutional provisions in the Criminal Law that set the age of consent for sex at 16.
Following the court’s decision, the minister of justice and parliament have 12 months to “enact a law that protects all children from sexual exploitation in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution,” read the ruling.
The case was brought by two women who were married as children.
Many welcomed the ruling in hopes that criminalizing sex with underage girls could help slow cases of teen pregnancies and child marriages. Authorities and human rights groups say cases have spiked following the outbreak of COVID-19 that resulted in prolonged school closures and deepening poverty.
“It is vital that we protect children, especially girls. This ruling will not stop child abuse, but it will mitigate, it offers a deterrent,” Tendai Biti, a lawyer who argued the case, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
“This ruling guarantees protection of girls under 18. In the past we had old men taking advantage of girls. Pedophiles were getting away with abuse,” said Talent Jumo, director of Katswe Sistahood, a group that campaigns for girls’ rights. She described the ruling as “a landmark.”
The age of consent for sex has for long been controversial in this southern African country. Campaigners argued that the 16-year age for consent was too young and it allowed for the exploitation of young girls.
However, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi argued in parliament late last year that “most children are mature, beyond their age nowadays and are already sexually active.” He claimed that raising the age of consent to 18 “means children below the age of 18 having sexual intercourse will be criminalized” and have “unwanted criminal records.”
The Constitutional Court in 2016 outlawed marriage before the age of 18 following a challenge to provisions of the marriage law that allowed child marriages.
In the latest case, Biti argued on behalf of the women that it was unconstitutional that children could not be married until they attain 18 “yet the law allowed them to be abused from the age of 16.” Biti is also a leading official of the opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change.
“Men were now having their cake and eating it too, so in some instances a man could say ‘I slept with you, I want to marry you but the law says I can’t marry you but I can have sex with you’.” Zimbabwe’s constitution defines a child as someone below the age of 18.
However, even supporters of the latest ruling urged caution, noting that more needs to be done to eradicate entrenched religious, traditional and cultural norms and as well as deepening poverty which all promote teen pregnancies and child marriages.
“Religious and other groups that had made this a norm are a major threat and need to be stopped. Secondly, children should be protected from the negative consequences of early sexual debut by providing access to sexual reproductive and health rights information and also provide for a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ clause in the law to guard against criminalizing adolescent sexual activity,” said Jumo, of Katswe Sistahood.
The “Romeo and Juliet clause” in legal terms often seeks to protect from criminal prosecution underage children who engage in consensual sexual activity with each other. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/zimbabwes-court-raises-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-years/ | 2022-05-27 01:23:28 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/zimbabwes-court-raises-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-years/ |
MEXICO CITY, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV: FIBRAPL 14), the leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today announced that it has recast its sustainable and unsecured line of credit of US$400 million.
FIBRA Prologis amended and restated its $400 million unsecured, sustainability-linked revolving line of credit with a syndicate of nine banks. Additionally, an accordion feature provides FIBRA Prologis with the option to increase the credit facility up to US$500 million subject to lender approval. The new credit facility has an initial maturity of April 27th, 2026 with two one-year extensions at borrower's option, subject to the payment of an extension fee. Based on the FIBRA's rating, the current spread is 150 basis points. The spread can be adjusted +/- 2 basis points upon achievement of certain KPIs. This represents a reduction of 50 basis points from pricing in the prior line of credit.
"We are very pleased to recast this line of credit for FIBRAPL with better conditions, thanks to the strong support from our sponsor and its long-standing relationship banks," said Jorge Girault, senior Vice-President, Fund Asset Management Prologis Property Mexico. "This transaction is a testament of our commitment to the integration of environmental sustainability into the management of our business adding significant value to our stakeholders."
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Thanksgiving often serves up a feast of new family movies at the box office, but the Walt Disney Co.’s animated offering “ Strange World ” fizzled with audiences out of the gates. The production, which carried a reported $180 million budget, grossed just $18.6 million in ticket sales in its first five days and $11.9 million over the weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The top spot for the holiday corridor, which runs from Wednesday through Sunday, instead went to another Disney movie, Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which raked in an additional $64 million over the last five days, $45.9 million of which was from the weekend. The superhero sequel has reigned over the charts for three weekends now and has grossed $675.6 million worldwide.
It was a muted weekend despite a buffet of well-reviewed options, including the Korean War aviation drama “ Devotion,” the nationwide expansion of the Timothée Chalamet cannibal romance “ Bones and All ” and Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” also opened in 600 theaters nationwide for a weeklong limited run. It marks the first time a Netflix film has played in the nation’s major theater chains, including AMC, Regal and Cinemark, but neither Netflix nor the exhibitors provided sales estimates for the film, which won’t hit the streaming service until Dec. 23. The first “Knives Out,” which was released by Lionsgate, opened to $41.4 million over Thanksgiving weekend in 2019.
Between the “Glass Onion” mystery and the “Strange World” miss, it was a reminder that the exhibition business is still far from normal.
“This was not pre-destined to be a blockbuster Thanksgiving weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. He noted that the marketplace is still being impacted by the pandemic’s effects on Hollywood production and release schedules.
Disney has historically “owned” the Thanksgiving weekend. Walt Disney Studios and Pixar animated titles account for the top six Thanksgiving openings of all time, including films such as “Frozen,” which made $93.6 million in 2013, “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” which pulled in $84.8 million in 2018 and “Moana,” which earned $82.1 million when it opened in 2016. But it’s also been a difficult two years at the company, which last week stunned the industry when it announced that Bob Iger was returning to the company as CEO, replacing his handpicked successor Bob Chapek
“Strange World” opened in 4,714 locations on Wednesday, but it was clear from early preview showings that it was going to be slow going. On Friday, it earned only $5.2 million. “Wakanda Forever,” by contrast, made $18.2 million on Friday in 4,258 theaters and has been out for three weeks.
The animated adventure film’s debut is one of the bigger bombs in the modern history of the Disney Animation studio, similar to the $16 million 2002 Thanksgiving opening of “Treasure Planet.” “Strange World” was directed by Don Hall and Qui Nguyen and follows a family of explorers and features the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Gabrielle Union and Lucy Liu. Reviews have been mostly positive, with a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.
A lack of new family oriented films over the past several weeks may have resulted in “muted” awareness for “Strange World,” according to Dergarabedian.
Third place went to “Devotion,” directed by JD Dillard and starring Jonathan Majors and Glenn Powel, which made $9 million in its first five days and $6 million over the weekend from 3,405 locations. The film was made by Black Label Media and distributed by Columbia Pictures in 3,405 locations. The war epic is based on the true story of Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in the history of the U.S. Navy, who along with his friend Tom Hudner were pivotal in turning the tide in one of the most brutal battles of the Korean War.
“ The Menu,” the satirical fine-dining thriller starring Ralph Feinnes and Anya Taylor-Joy, landed in fourth in its second weekend, with $7.4 million over the past five days and $5.2 million over the weekend. Fifth place went to “Black Adam.”
In sixth place for the weekend was Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” which is based on the filmmaker’s own family and teenage years. The Universal release expanded to 638 theaters, where it earned $3.1 million over five days and $2.2 million over the weekend.
United Artists Releasing rolled “Bones and All” out to 2,727 theaters, where it made an estimated $3.6 million over the five-day opening, with $2.2 million of that coming from the weekend. According to exit polls, some 74% of the audience was between the ages of 18 and 34. The R-rated film from Luca Guadagnino stars Chalamet and Taylor Russell as young cannibals on a road trip through the American Midwest.
In more limited releases, Elegance Bratton’s “The Inspection ” expanded to 32 screens and earned $103,033 over five days.
Overall ticket sales are expected to net out around $125 million. That would be down about 12% from last year, which boasted releases such as “Encanto,” which opened to $40.6 million even with a spiking COVID-19 variant. For movie theater owners, it places even more pressure on “Avatar: The Way of Water,” to deliver a big windfall to close out the year. It launches on Dec. 16.
“Usually Thanksgiving weekend is all about kids and families going to the theater. This year, it’s a heavy mix of films aimed at adults and that’s not a recipe for a box office feast in theaters,” Dergarabedian said. “But it’ll come back in a big way when Avatar opens.”
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore, with five-day Wednesday through Sunday in parentheses. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. ”Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” $45.9 million ($64 million).
2. “Strange World,” $11.9 million ($18.6 million).
3. “Devotion,” $6 million ($9 million).
4. “The Menu,” $5.2 million ($7.4 million).
5. “Black Adam,” $3.4 million.
6. “The Fabelmans,” $2.2 million ($3.1 million).
7. “Bones and All,” $2.2 million ($3.6 million).
8. “Ticket to Paradise,”$1.9 million ($2.6 million).
9. “The Chosen Season 3: Episode 1 &2,” $1.6 million.
10. “She Said,” $1.1 million ($1.5 million). | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/thanksgiving-brings-mixed-box-office-for-disney/ | 2022-11-28 15:36:14 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/thanksgiving-brings-mixed-box-office-for-disney/ |
Mysterious series of fires along Tempe railroad tracks under investigation
TEMPE (3TV/CBS 5) - Smoke was in the air as crews extinguished multiple brush fires along railroad tracks in Tempe on Friday afternoon, and an investigation is underway to find out what sparked the flames.
Around 2 p.m., Tempe firefighters were called to a grass fire on Cedar Street near McClintock Drive and Broadway Road. Crews arrived and found multiple spot fires lit up along the train tracks. Trees and brush in the area were charred from the blaze. At about the same time, firefighters were also called out to a nearby house fire that was also along the same railroad tracks. It is currently unknown how any of the fires were started or if they are connected.
While investigating the blaze, SRP briefly shut down their power lines in the area, leaving approximately 1,600 customers in the dark. However, power was restored around 5 p.m.
The train and tracks are owned by Union Pacific Railroad. A spokesperson for the company released the following statement regarding the fires:
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Citizens Financial Group Inc. (CFG) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $364 million.
On a per-share basis, the Providence, Rhode Island-based company said it had net income of 67 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.14 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.02 per share.
The bank posted revenue of $2.12 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2 billion, meeting Street forecasts.
Citizens Financial Group shares have fallen 21% since the beginning of the year. The stock has decreased 14% in the last 12 months.
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LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man became trapped while trying to crawl down through a vent from a strip mall roof into a pizza restaurant on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to slice open the vent to free him, police said.
The man was taken to a hospital and the extent of his injuries was unclear.
Police told local news outlets that emergency responders cut open the vent where it extended upward from a pizza oven at a Little Caesars outlet in suburban Lithonia, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of downtown Atlanta.
Brittany Davis, a U.S. Army recruiter, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she could hear the man yelling for help when she arrived for work at a neighboring recruiting office.
“I looked on the roof but couldn’t see anybody,” Davis said. She called 911.
Davis said a Little Caesars employee told her he could hear the man’s voice coming from inside the oven. Davis said she went inside the pizza restaurant and spoke to the man, who reported he was in pain and having a panic attack.
“I’m not sure what time the restaurant closes at night but the oven still gives off heat after they close I imagine,” DeKalb County Fire Cpt. Jason Daniels told WXIA-TV. “For him to get down into the pipe … he had to do it in a certain window of time when the oven was cool enough and obviously nobody was there.”
The man walked to an ambulance shortly after being removed and was taken to a hospital. Police did not identify him or announce any criminal charges.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — With a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants holding after nearly three days of violence, Gaza’s sole power plant resumed operations Monday and Israel began reopening crossings into the territory.
Israel also lifted security restrictions on southern Israeli communities after the Egyptian-mediated truce took effect late Sunday.
War-weary people in Gaza and Israel were left to pick up the pieces after another round of violence — the worst since an 11-day war between Israel and the territory’s militant Hamas rulers last year.
Since Friday, Israeli aircraft had pummeled targets in Gaza, while the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
Over three days of fighting, 44 Palestinians were killed, including 15 children and four women, and 311 were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Twelve of those killed were Islamic Jihad militants, one was from a smaller armed group, and two were Hamas-affiliated policemen who were not taking part in the fighting, according to the armed factions.
Israel estimated a total of 47 Palestinians were killed, including 14 killed by misfired Islamic Jihad rockets. It said that 20 fighters and seven civilians died in Israeli airstrikes and that it is still investigating six deaths.
No Israelis were killed or seriously wounded in the fighting.
The violence had threatened to spiral into another all-out war but was contained because Hamas stayed on the sidelines, possibly because it fears Israeli reprisals and an unraveling of economic understandings with Israel, including the issuing of Israeli work permits that provide a vital source of income for thousands of Gaza residents.
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since the group overran the territory in 2007. The clashes have exacted a staggering toll on the impoverished territory’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents.
The latest violence may have bolstered the political fortunes of Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, who lacked experience leading military operations. He unleashed the offensive less than three months before a general election in which he is campaigning to keep the job.
Israel began to reopen crossings into Gaza for humanitarian needs and said it would fully open them if calm continued. Fuel trucks were seen entering the main cargo crossing and heading for the power plant, which shut down Saturday after Israel closed the crossings.
That added to the misery at the height of the summer heat in the territory, which is under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade and suffers from a chronic power crisis that leaves residents with only a few hours of electricity a day.
Life for hundreds of thousands of Israelis was disrupted during the violence, even as the country’s sophisticated Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted many of the rockets.
Israel launched its operation with a strike Friday on an Islamic Jihad commander, saying there were “concrete threats” of an anti-tank missile attack against Israelis in response to the arrest last week of a senior Islamic Jihad member in the occupied West Bank. That arrest came after months of Israeli raids in the West Bank following a spate of Palestinian attacks.
Israel killed another Islamic Jihad leader in a strike on Saturday.
Both sides boasted of their successes. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Sunday, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhalah said the militant group remained strong, despite losing two commanders. “This is a victory for Islamic Jihad,” he said.
Despite that claim, the group undoubtedly sustained a blow. Beyond losing the two leaders, it reduced its arsenal by firing hundreds of rockets.
Israel said some of the deaths in Gaza were caused by errant militant rocket fire, including in the Jebaliya refugee camp, where six Palestinians were killed Saturday. On Monday, the army said the deaths of five Palestinians in Jebaliya were still under investigation. Spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.
The cease-fire deal contained a promise that Egypt would work for the release of two senior Islamic Jihad detainees held by Israel. The weekend fighting is also bound to complicate Islamic Jihad’s relations with Hamas.
In the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli troops demolished the homes of two Palestinians suspected of carrying out a deadly attack against Israelis in the city of Elad in May. The soldiers faced a violent protest during the operation, the military said.
The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting Monday on the latest round of fighting.
“We underscore our commitment to do all we can towards ending the ongoing escalation, ensuring the safety and security of the civilian population, and following up on the Palestinian prisoners file,” the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, said in a statement.
The Israeli army said militants in Gaza fired about 1,100 rockets toward Israel, with about 200 landing inside the Palestinian enclave. The army said its air defenses intercepted 380, including two fired toward Jerusalem. The military did not specify what happened to the remainder, but they most likely fell in open areas or broke up in flight.
Islamic Jihad has fewer fighters and supporters than Hamas, and little is known about its arsenal. Both groups call for Israel’s destruction, but have different priorities, with Hamas constrained by the demands of governing.
Over the past year, Israel and Hamas have reached tacit understandings based on trading calm for work permits and a slight easing of the border blockade, imposed by Israel and Egypt when Hamas overran the territory 15 years ago. Israel has issued 12,000 work permits to Gaza laborers and has held out the prospect of granting 2,000 more.
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Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/cease-fire-between-israel-and-gaza-militants-holds-overnight/ | 2022-08-08 16:20:19 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/cease-fire-between-israel-and-gaza-militants-holds-overnight/ |
HOUSTON (AP) — Sandy León has worn many jersey numbers during a long career in Major League Baseball.
To understand the gravity of the No. 12 that adorns the catcher’s uniform this season with the Texas Rangers, he has to revisit the worst day of his life.
That was Aug. 18, 2020. León, then playing for Cleveland, had just arrived by bus to the team hotel in Pittsburgh when he called his wife, Liliana, who was at home in Fort Myers, Florida, with their two small children.
He was growing concerned after several unanswered calls. Then he began getting alerts from his home security system.
“That happens when somebody is making a lot of noise in the house, when the camera gets the sounds,” León said.
He logged onto an app where he can monitor the cameras in their home. He discovered a horrifying scene with Liliana and their then-15-month-old daughter, Nahomy.
“My wife was screaming, and she was praying,” León recalled. “She was saying words I didn’t understand. Then I saw (Nahomy) on the ground. She was purple. She was dead.”
Little Nahomy had wandered outside and slipped through an open gate to a backyard pool. She fell in the water trying to grab a rubber duck.
When a frantic Liliana discovered her, she was motionless and floating face down in the pool. She jumped in, grabbed the girl and rushed her to the kitchen, where she called 911 while trying to revive her.
Nahomy wasn’t breathing. The natural color had drained from her tiny body.
“She looked black, deeply black,” Liliana said. “I tried to open her eyes and it was blank. I don’t see her eyes. All the things that I looked on her, she was dying, she was dying, she was dying.”
Liliana hadn’t been trained in CPR, but she tried it anyway. She pressed on Nahomy’s chest again and again.
“I did CPR like five times, but nothing happened,” Liliana said. “She didn’t do anything.”
Getting no response, she abandoned her resuscitation efforts.
Needing a miracle, she did the one thing she thought could help.
“The only one who could do something for her was God,” Liliana said. “So, I just prayed. Holy spirit help me. Holy spirit help me. Because I knew that my daughter was dying.”
She screamed that plea over and over while an ambulance raced to the house. Meanwhile, a terror-stricken Sandy desperately tried to comprehend what he was witnessing on that tiny screen.
Liliana clutched her dying daughter’s tiny hand. It was then she noticed a small sign that gave her hope.
“I started to see in her fingers, at the bottom of her fingers, that it was a little bit pink,” Liliana said. “Then all of her body color started to change, and she began to look like a normal, live person.”
The mother wept as her daughter began showing signs of life.
“Then she started to breathe,” she said. “But it was really, really difficult and really, like, forced.”
Relief washed over Liliana.
“In that moment I was like, ‘Oh my God it happened,’” she said. “‘She’s alive again.'”
Paramedics soon rushed in. As they worked on Nahomy, they peppered Liliana with questions about what happened.
The big one: How long was she in the pool?
Liliana didn’t know. But she told them there was a surveillance camera they could check.
Nahomy was taken to a hospital, sedated and placed on a ventilator while the water was drained from her lungs.
Still unable to reach Liliana, Sandy talked to a neighbor, who provided scant details.
“She told me (Liliana) brought her back and then the ambulance came,” Sandy said.
Sitting in that faraway room in Pittsburgh, Sandy was at a loss.
“I was having a hard time at the hotel,” he said. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Needing help, he called someone from the team. Officials chartered a private jet so he could get to his baby girl immediately.
Liliana was sitting in the hospital room with Nahomy when authorities who saw the video — which the Leóns showed to The Associated Press — came in to talk to her about what they saw.
“They looked at me with that face that something really, really bad happened,” she said. “And they told me from the time she fell, until the time you picked her up was 12 minutes.”
Twelve minutes.
“When I heard them say that she was in the pool for that long, I broke down,” Sandy said. “I was like, ‘She’s not coming back.’”
Doctors warned the family that even if Nahomy awoke, she was almost certain to have brain damage because of how long she was in the water.
They cautioned that she might not be able to walk, talk or do everyday things that people take for granted. The next 72 hours, they said, would be crucial in discovering what toll this had taken on Nahomy.
Sandy arrived in Fort Meyers at about 8 p.m. that night. He was not prepared for what he saw.
“She was in the bed with all the tubes, and she still wasn’t breathing by herself,” he said. “It was tough. I didn’t know what to do. I went to my wife, and I just hugged her.”
The couple spent that night in the small room with their little girl as she fought for her life.
A groggy Sandy woke up at 6:30 the next morning and couldn’t believe his eyes.
“I saw my daughter on her knees on the bed,” he said. “She’s awake. I don’t know what happened.”
By 10 that morning, she was breathing by herself. She started talking immediately when tubes were removed from her throat.
“She just said: ‘Papi you’re here,’” Liliana recalled. “He said: ‘Yes, I’m here baby, with you.’”
The Leóns were encouraged, but doctors still cautioned that Nahomy could have physical difficulties. But later that day, they removed the remainder of the tubes and put her on the floor.
“And she started running,” Sandy said. “The doctors couldn’t believe it.”
Nahomy spent a few days in the hospital recovering and undergoing tests to make sure she was OK. Everything came back clean, and the family got to go home. The medical team told the Leóns they couldn’t explain Nahomy’s recovery. A few called it a miracle.
She’s perfectly healthy now and has no lingering effects from the harrowing experience. She’ll turn 4 later this month and revels in being a girly girl, loving anything that’s pink or sparkly.
“She really likes to think she is a princess,” Liliana said. “She really loves her dad. She’s a daddy’s girl. And she loves to sing, dance. She is a normal girl.”
The Leóns shared their story with the AP before news this weekend that the 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned in a swimming pool at the family’s home.
Last year, several family members were reminiscing about what happened to Nahomy and her remarkable recovery in a group text. Someone suggested to Sandy — a journeyman catcher who has now worn seven different numbers with six teams — that he change to No. 12 to mark that interminable time she spent in the pool.
It wasn’t available last year in Minnesota. But when he joined the Rangers this season, he finally got the number that means so much to his family.
And each time he buttons up that jersey and puts the No. 12 across his back, he says a little prayer to give thanks that the number didn’t take his beloved Nahomy away.
“I feel blessed and grateful every time I go onto the field knowing that she’s normal and nothing happened,” he said. “She has no idea, but it’s so special for me.”
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Integrated smart room solution to alleviate workload pressures on clinical staff and elevate patient care.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vibe Health by eVideon, the leader in hospital smart room technology and digital workflow solutions, announces a new partnership with OhioHealth, a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health system with 14 hospitals, 200+ ambulatory sites and health services spanning 50 Ohio counties. This strategic partnership will see the initial deployment of the Vibe Health smart room platform into OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital, which is scheduled to open its doors in December of this year.
The new partnership will deploy Vibe Health's full suite of patient and nurse-centric solutions:
- Engage, an interactive TV solution that personalizes the in-room experience to educate, entertain and engage
- Insight, a digital whiteboard that integrates with the EMR to bring real-time information to improve communication
- Companion, a bedside tablet software that provides all of the features and benefits of the Engage in-room TV solution with the convenience of an interactive tablet
- Aware, a dynamic digital door sign outside the patient room that integrates with the EMR to display real-time notifications and alerts to staff and visitors.
The deployment includes seamless integration with Epic, OhioHealth's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) partner, to leverage the EMR as the single point of truth for critical health information. The partnership will also include integration with Caregility, an enterprise telehealth solutions company, in order to provide virtual nursing support for the patient and care team, as well as video calls to keep patients connected to family and loved ones throughout their care journey.
"OhioHealth's desire for a complete solution that not only elevates the care experience for patients and families, but also transforms the day-to-day for nurses and clinical teams perfectly aligned with Vibe Health's mission," said Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO of Vibe Health by eVideon. "We are thrilled to partner with such a dedicated group at OhioHealth to bring the many benefits of smart room innovation to their staff and the communities they serve."
To further reduce inefficiencies for nurses, Vibe Health will also integrate with OhioHealth's vendors of choice for Meal Ordering and Real Time Location Services (RTLS). These integrations play a vital role in providing patients with autonomy and control throughout their stay, and they are key to bridging communication gaps between patients and clinical teams. Through RTLS integration with Vibe Health's Insight digital whiteboard, notifications will display in real-time when staff enter the patient room, and a history of staff visits will be accessible via the digital whiteboard. Reductions in manual tasks will enable clinicians to spend more time with patients and their families at the bedside.
"As we prepare to open Pickerington Methodist Hospital, we want to ensure that we have the technology to elevate the quality of care that patients and their families will experience during their time with us," said Andrea Darby, OhioHealth VP, IT Integration.
"Our nursing staff will benefit from this technology as well, as the Vibe Health suite will mitigate inefficiencies throughout the care continuum, letting them focus on patient care," Kevin Lutz, DPM, president, Pickerington Methodist.
Attending HIMSS? Representatives from Vibe Health will be on hand at booth #8313 to demonstrate the interactive features of this platform, including its EMR and telehealth integrations. Schedule a meeting with the Vibe Health team in Chicago, April 17-21, 2023.
About Vibe Health by eVideon
Vibe Health is the trusted platform to leading hospitals and health systems seeking to modernize the care experience for patients, families, and clinicians. Using smart room technology, the software platform streamlines clinical workflow and transforms the patient room into a highly personalized and interactive care environment. The platform integrates with the hospital's EMR and other installed technologies to improve communication and care coordination, ensuring that accurate, real-time information is always accessible via the in-room Smart TV, digital whiteboard, digital door sign, and bedside tablet. With automated service requests, education assignments, and documentation, Vibe Health reduces the technology burden on clinicians and enables them to operate at the top of their licensure. Vibe Health empowers hospital leaders to meet the unique needs of their patient population with customizable features, including in-room surveys and video chat, which serve to amplify the voice of the patient and make real-time service recovery a reality. Find out why top-ranked hospitals are choosing Vibe Health by eVideon: https://www.evideon.com/vibe-health
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Based in Columbus, Ohio, OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare outreach of the United Methodist Church.
Serving its communities since 1891, OhioHealth is a family of 35,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, and a network of 14 hospitals, 200+ ambulatory sites, hospice, home-health and other health services spanning a 50-county area. It has been recognized by FORTUNE as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" 15 times since 2007. For more information, visit ohiohealth.com.
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SCRANTON — Health care officials gathered at the Wright Center for Community Health Scranton Practice on Thursday to discuss lower prescription drug costs, changes to Medicaid renewal requirements, health equity and other key topics in health care policy.
“We know that health care costs are rising, but we are trying to work with pharmaceutical companies, drug companies and community partners everywhere to make sure that we are doing what's best for the needs of the people in communities just like this one,” said Melissa Herd, acting regional director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services based out of Philadelphia.
When the public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic ended, so too did automatic Medicaid renewal, Herd said. Now, Medicaid recipients must update their contact information to continue their coverage.
Over 3,500 Pennsylvania residents have been disenrolled from Medicaid since May because they did not renew their coverage, and the Wright Center for Community Health is working to increase awareness about the change. Herd urged the public to make sure their loved ones on Medicaid are informed that they will need to take action to renew their coverage.
“No one should lose their health insurance coverage as a result of an administrative error or procedural error,” she said.
Herd also spoke about the Biden administration’s efforts to curtail prescription drug prices, which include allowing Medicaid to negotiate medication costs and implementing a $35 monthly cap on insulin per prescription. These changes are part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which the president signed into law last year.
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The insulin cap would have saved over 80,000 Pennsylvanians an average of $543 on insulin in 2020, Herd said.
These changes are accompanied by a shifting policy landscape. Part of the Affordable Care Act guarantees free preventative healthcare measures, like screenings and vaccines, but a Texas judge struck down this provision in March.
On Monday, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed legislation that would uphold the provision in Pennsylvania, regardless of whether appeals in the Texas case prove successful. Proposed by Rep. Kevin Boyle, D-Philadelphia, H.B. 1050 will require insurance to cover preventative healthcare services if it passes in the senate.
The Wright Center welcomed the officials to connect with the community and discuss topics that are important to everyone, said Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education.
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Whether you put it out there or not, everyone has a big digital footprint. Your name, email address, phone number, street address, and even what your house looks like from the street. All that information can be found with a simple Google Search. But it's rolling out an option where you can request having some of that information removed.
Announced earlier this year, Google said the tool allows you to easily control whether your personally identifiable information can be found in Google search results.
To see your personal information posted on websites, Google your name. If you see a site publishing your personal information, you can click or tap on the three dots and you should see a prompt to remove the information.
The tool hasn't been rolled out to everyone yet. It isn't working on my Chrome computer browser, nor the Google app for iOS or Android. Google says when it is available, you'll be able to request that the website be removed from the search results.
The tool is an addition to Google's attempts to protect the personal information of its users. There are tools to delete your web and tracking information. And a tool to blur your house on Google Street View.
This is a step in the right direction for Google, but since the information will stay online, someone can find your name, address, email address, and phone number using another internet browser. If you want to have that information deleted, you'll need to ask the owner of the website. | https://www.wfmz.com/features/what-the-tech/what-the-tech-new-tool-will-allow-people-to-remove-some-personal-information-from-google/article_622e35e8-3b68-11ed-a7ca-77887e49ce35.html | 2022-09-23 22:29:35 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/features/what-the-tech/what-the-tech-new-tool-will-allow-people-to-remove-some-personal-information-from-google/article_622e35e8-3b68-11ed-a7ca-77887e49ce35.html |
Just six months after being diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Chicago White Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks notched his first win since returning to the mound — and it just so happened to coincide with National Cancer Survivors Day.
The White Sox and Detroit Tigers were knotted up 2-2 heading into the 9th and final inning Sunday night when Chicago manager Pedro Grifol called on his Australian All-Star to keep things close. Hendriks worked flawlessly, striking out two of the three batters he faced and keeping the game tied for his offense to try and win it.
And win it they did, thanks to a four-run game-ending grand slam off the bat of Alex Lange. The 385-foot bomb not only secured the win for Chicago, but also gave Hendriks his first win of the season.
"It's one of those scripts," he said after the game. "I mean, my wife texted me and was like 'You got your first win in National Cancer Survivors Day' and that's one thing that's pretty special."
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After finding some lumps on his neck last summer, Hendriks was diagnosed with advanced stage blood cancer in December and immediately stepped away from baseball to undergo a grueling treatment regimen that included immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Then in April, Hendriks posted a video online of him ringing the "victory bell" after receiving his final round of treatment.
"Being able to ring this victory bell has been one of the most emotional things I've ever done," he said. "I cannot thank my team of doctors and nurses enough for coming up with the best medical plan for me. No words can express the gratitude I have for them saving my life."
Just 15 days later, Hendriks announced he was officially cancer-free.
With his health restored and his spirit unyielding, Hendriks returned to the White Sox on May 30, a moment that was a testament not only to his physical recovery but also his mental resilience. His story is one that transcends sports and truly embodies the meaning of "inspirational." It's a story that Hendriks hopes can serve as a beacon of hope for many others.
"As soon as you get diagnosed, you're considered a survivor. You've lived through this," he said. "Hopefully I can continue moving forward and continue somewhat at least doing the right thing on the field and give some people some hope to continue fighting."
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A Rancho Cucamonga daycare reported a person attempting to speak to children on Thursday. 38-year-old Cristian Rodriguez was once detained through police around the side road from the daycare. Rodriguez was once discovered to possess a hid copy firearm and was once discovered to be a sought after suspect for strong-arm theft. Rodriguez is now being held at the West Valley Detention Center on $50,000 bail.
If you’ve got any information referring to Rodriguez, please touch the Rancho Cucamonga Station at 909-477-2800 or publish an nameless tip to the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-7827-463 or on-line at www.wetip.com. | https://blackchronicle.com/robbery-suspect-accused-of-attempting-to-speak-to-children-at-rancho-cucamonga-daycare/ | 2023-05-27 13:25:20 | 1 | https://blackchronicle.com/robbery-suspect-accused-of-attempting-to-speak-to-children-at-rancho-cucamonga-daycare/ |
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RNP) (the "Fund") has declared a special distribution, as summarized in the chart below. In addition to the regular monthly dividend, this special distribution distributes all remaining income and realized capital gains from the Fund's prior year and is required for Federal income tax purposes to maintain its status as a regulated investment company. The total distribution will be taxable to shareholders in 2022.
The Fund declares this distribution pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan. The Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. Information can also be found on the Funds' website at cohenandsteers.com. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares. The Fund's distributions may include net investment income, long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains and/or return of capital. Under the plan, prior to the payment date of this distribution, the Fund will issue a press release and a notice containing information about the amount and sources of the distribution and other related information to shareholders of record on the record date. Please note that the notice is not provided for tax reporting purposes but for informational purposes only. Information can also be found on the Fund's website at cohenandsteers.com
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Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
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About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
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Princeton student charged with joining mob’s Capitol attack
(AP) - A Princeton University student was arrested Tuesday on charges that he joined other rioters in pushing against police officers guarding an entrance to the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack, court records show.
Larry Fife Giberson, 21, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, was at the front line of the mob’s fight against police in a tunnel when one of the officers was briefly crushed between rioters and tunnel doors, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. Giberson waved other rioters into the tunnel before joining a second round of “heave ho” pushing against police, the agent said.
Giberson tried in vain to start a chant of “Drag them out!” and then cheered on rioters using weapons and pepper spray against police in the tunnel, according to the FBI. Giberson remained in that area for roughly an hour on Jan. 6, 2021, the affidavit says.
Giberson was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, on charges including a felony count of civil disorder, according to a court filing. He faces four other counts including engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.
A federal magistrate judge ordered Giberson’s release from custody after his initial court appearance in Washington on Tuesday.
Charles Burnham, an attorney for Giberson, declined to comment on the charges.
University spokesman Michael Hotchkiss said in an email Tuesday that Giberson is currently enrolled at Princeton as an undergraduate.
“We don’t have anything to add beyond that,” Hotchkiss wrote.
Giberson was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a Trump flag around his neck when he joined the mob’s assault on police officers in a tunnel on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrance, the affidavit says.
The FBI posted images of Giberson on social media to seek the public’s help in identifying him. Online sleuths also posted mages of Giberson online using the “#DragThemOut” hashtag moniker.
Investigators matched photos of Giberson from the Capitol to several images found on Instagram and Princeton University’s website, the FBI agent said. The FBI interviewed Giberson at the Princeton Police Department in the presence of an attorney before his arrest.
Approximately 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot, which disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The FBI agent’s affidavit doesn’t say whether Giberson attended the “Stop the Steal” rally where then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters on Jan. 6.
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Ocean Innovation Technology Company Responds to Heightened Demand Following Launch of
Eco-Restorative Futuristic Floating Homes
LINTON BAY, Panama, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the September launch of Ocean Builders' highly anticipated SeaPods, the leading ocean innovation technology company is responding to high demand for their fleet of eco-restorative Pods and innovative state-of-the-art technology through strategic research-driven partnerships that are projected to accelerate the company's international expansion plans in 2023.
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Activated by a global launch that welcomed more than 350 international guests including Ministers from Panama and Italy, representatives from the Israeli Embassy, and brand partners including Miele premium appliances, Minotti, and Duke University, among others, Ocean Builders has received over 183 deposits with some deposits made for multiple units in less than six months. Of the deposits received, seventy-five percent of the deposits are for the original SeaPod. Deposits for full ownership came from 22 different countries spanning four continents including the United States, Panama, Vietnam, Portugal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Italy, Maldives, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Japan, Israel, United Kingdom, Guatemala, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada — cementing the global impact of the revolutionary futuristic homes. It also confirms the growing consumer interest in high-quality living experiences driven by cutting-edge technology and eco-restorative sustainability.
"When we first started Ocean Builders and conceptualized the Pods, we knew that we were creating something truly special that the world had never seen before while solving for future real estate demands," said Grant Romundt, CEO at Ocean Builders. "Our experience in ocean technology innovation led to offshore infrastructure that is both restorative and sustainable and the sales response was beyond our expectations. As a result, we now have the privilege to work with like-minded partners that we have engaged toward our collective goals of enhancing environment restoration and innovative living capabilities."
RESEARCH & CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIPS
In addition to their existing luxury design partners, Miele, Minotti and Reef2Reef, a foundation committed to the conservation and restoration of coral reefs, Ocean Builders is now partnering with Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, and Duke University to work with their marine science and oceanic research teams to develop new programming geared towards ocean preservation and restoration. The team is also working with leading acquatech innovators Fathom Ocean and Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers to develop underwater camera and mapping technology that will generate data-driven information to ensure the Pods continue to restore their ocean environments. Ocean tech organizations PanaSea, Coralive, and the Caribbean Coral Restoration Foundation are working with Ocean Builders to create artificial 3D clay reefs and the deployment of sea cucumbers to generate thriving ecosystems in protected areas.
EXPANSION PLANS: WHERE TO NEXT?
Ocean Builders is currently in conversation with government officials who have expressed interest in sustainable development including Costa Rica, Maldives, and the United States, among others.
The company will have the first 10 fully owned custom Pods in production or delivered by the end of the year. A second deployment of over 100 Pods will begin in 2024. Guests who have made deposits for the SeaPod overnight accommodations will be able to book their reservations for stays starting in April 2023.
For more information, please visit oceanbuilders.com.
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(The Hill) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the newsfeed related to the New York Post story about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his laptop after warnings from the FBI, but defended the law enforcement agency as a “legitimate institution.”
Zuckerberg said on an episode of Rogan’s podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” that was uploaded on Thursday, that the FBI reached out to his company ahead of the 2020 presidential election to warn them to take note of potentially polarizing content. This warning came after Russia used social media platforms, including Facebook, to post content intended to be polarizing ahead of the 2016 election.
Zuckerberg said he took the warning seriously. He said the social media platform did not ban people from sharing the Post’s story, but it took action to limit how often the story appeared on feeds.
The Post reported shortly before the 2020 election that the FBI obtained a laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden as part of a federal investigation into him.
Former President Trump and some of his allies seized on the report at the time as showing evidence that Hunter was involved in questionable business dealings while his father served as vice president. Some of the emails on the laptop have since been confirmed as authentic, but no wrongdoing from the president or his son has been confirmed.
The investigation into Hunter Biden reached a critical juncture last month as prosecutors weigh whether to bring any charges, CNN reported.
Zuckerberg said he did not remember if the FBI specifically mentioned the Post’s story in its warning.
He said he does not want Facebook to be the “ministry of truth” in deciding what is considered misinformation.
His defense of the FBI as “legitimate” comes as many conservatives have criticized the agency for conducting a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida earlier this month. Some Trump allies have called for defunding the FBI as a result. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/zuckerberg-tells-rogan-facebook-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning/ | 2022-08-26 15:37:23 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/zuckerberg-tells-rogan-facebook-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning/ |
ARLINGTON, Va., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Venture Global LNG announced the successful raising of the roof of the second LNG storage tank at the Plaquemines LNG export facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This major project milestone was completed ahead of schedule and comes just seven weeks after the roof raising for tank one.
"Today represents another major milestone in the construction of Plaquemines LNG, with both roofs now raised for the tanks serving Phase One," said Mike Sabel, CEO of Venture Global LNG. "With Phase One deep into construction and our recent FID and full notice to proceed on Phase Two, Plaquemines is well positioned to be the next new major LNG capacity to reach the global market."
This is the second tank of four in total for Plaquemines LNG. When operational it will be capable of storing 200,000 m3 of LNG. The roof weighs 900 tons and is 294 feet in diameter. Air raising allows for better and safer access as well as a faster construction schedule, as the roof can be erected concurrently with the shell. The tank dome was raised in 71 minutes using 0.3 psi of pressure underneath the roof. It was raised from ground level to top of the wall height of 130 feet. Eventually, the tank will have an inner tank made from 9% nickel alloy and outer wall and outer roof made from concrete to provide full containment of the LNG and provide the maximum level of resilience and safety.
About Venture Global
Venture Global is a long-term, low-cost provider of U.S. LNG sourced from resource rich North American natural gas basins. Venture Global's first facility, Calcasieu Pass, commenced producing LNG in January 2022. The company is also constructing or developing an additional 60 MTPA of production capacity in Louisiana to provide clean, affordable energy to the world. The company is developing Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) projects at each of its LNG facilities.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Nearly two dozen northwestern pond turtles can “just keep swimming” in the wild after the Oregon Zoo, wildlife officials and volunteers released them from captivity and into the waters of the Columbia River Gorge last week.
Northwestern pond turtles are considered endangered and the Oregon Zoo is working to help restore their populations.
On Thursday they released 23 turtles that had been reared at the zoo.
The turtles were collected from wild sites shortly after they were born in October and since then, they’ve been enjoying the warmth and light of a simulated summer at the zoo’s conservation lab. The zoo waited to release them until the turtles grew big enough to have a fighting chance in the wild.
This “head-start” program is part of the Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project. Conservation scientists will collect newly hatched turtles gathered from wild sites and nurture them at the zoo for up to a year.
“In the conservation lab, the turtles experience summer year-round,” said senior keeper Sara Morgan. “In about nine months they grow to the size of a young adult wild turtle. This gives them a much greater chance of surviving in the wild.”
The turtles get a taste of life in the wild by spending time outside to adjust to changing temperatures. Once the turtles weigh about 50 grams, conservationists take them to ponds along the Columbia River Gorge where they’re returned to their natural habitat and monitored for safety.
In one study, scientists estimated that 95% of the turtles released back into the Gorge survive annually.
Morgan said giving turtles time to grow to a larger size protects them from predators like bullfrogs. The bullfrog is considered invasive in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been driving pond turtles and other small, vulnerable aquatic species to the brink of extinction, the Oregon Zoo said.
The northwestern pond turtle is listed as an endangered species in Washington and a sensitive species in Oregon. About two decades ago, the turtles almost died out completely in Washington. There were fewer than 100 of them left in the state.
Since then, the zoo has released more than 1,500 turtles into the wild. | https://www.koin.com/news/environment/oregon-zoo-releases-23-endangered-turtles-to-the-wild/ | 2022-06-01 00:47:33 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/environment/oregon-zoo-releases-23-endangered-turtles-to-the-wild/ |
With the vast majority of the 2023 class signed and the recruiting of midterm transfers winding down, college football coaches are focusing more on 2024 class of prospects.
With the dead period ending on Thursday, schools can start hosting juniors and other underclassmen on Friday up to Jan. 30.
The University of Arkansas is expected to host highly recruited Mills defensive lineman Charleston Collins and other prospects for unofficial visits this weekend.
Collins has noticed an uptick in activity of coaches.
"My phone has been buzzing a lot ever since everybody started to switch their focus to the 24s," Collins said. "Coaches are reaching out trying to get me down to the campus. I have a few different visits scheduled right now."
Collins, 6-5, 263 pounds, has accumulated 30 scholarship offers from Arkansas, LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss, Oregon, Miami, Georgia, Penn State, Texas A&M, Michigan State, Tennessee, Colorado and others.
He named his top 12 schools – Arkansas, LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss, Miami, Tennessee, Oregon, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida State, Michigan State and Mississippi State – on Nov. 30.
Recent conversations with coaches have been geared more toward getting him on campus.
"It's definitely been different," Collins said. "A lot of the conversations have changed from 'Hey man, how are you?' to 'Hey man, when you coming down? You can definitely see and feel the difference."
He plans to make his seventh visit to Fayetteville on Saturday since his recruiting process started. He last visited the Hogs on Dec. 10 with some teammates.
He also plans to visit Texas on Jan. 21.
Collins' relationship with defensive line coach Deke Adams has been key for his interest in the Hogs.
"Coach Adams is my guy," Collins said. "Coach Adams is a little deeper than football. We've really built a bond, like on an emotional level, more like a mentor. It's not only about football. We check on each other. I check on him, his mom and his wife. He checks on my family. It's really like a mentorship with coach Adams."
He had 124 tackles, 46 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 5 recovered fumbles, 4 pass breakups and 1 forced fumble this season.
On3.com rates Collins a 4-star prospect, the No. 10 defensive lineman and No. 132 overall prospect in the nation in the 2024 class.
Collins said he's talked to co-defensive coordinator Travis Williams about four times since he joined the Arkansas staff around mid-December. Williams replaced former defensive coordinator Barry Odom, who was named the head coach at UNLV in early December.
"We've had a few different conversations," Collins said of he and Williams. "He's a real cool guy. He and I decided I'm going to sit down in his office and break down some of my film. Really just talk to each other and really get a feel for each other because with Coach Odom leaving was a big punch in the stomach because that was my guy but it's all good.
"I'm just focused on building this relationship with Coach T-Will. We'll go from there."
His initial reaction after talking to Williams was positive,
"He came off real cool, high energy, all smiles," said Collins of their FaceTime conversation. "He was the whole package. He had told me he had already broke down my highlights from this past season. So he already knew about my game and how I played.
"We really just got on the phone and got to know to know each other and talked a little football, but my first impression of him was I loved him. I feel like he's somebody I can grow close to because he has that vibe."
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SURREY, BC, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CanadaPharmacyOnline.com, one of the premier online Canadian pharmacies, has announced the achievement of a major milestone: 70,000 reviews on Shopper Approved, a highly reputable US-based online review platform.
In business since 2006, Canada Pharmacy Online is a well-established and accredited online pharmacy and has served many customers seeking the opportunity to save money and time in acquiring quality prescription medications in a completely contactless manner. Not all customers take the time to leave a review, especially when they are satisfied with their order, and are ready to move on with their lives. Earning 70,000 positive reviews with an overall star rating of 4.8 is a major accomplishment. What's more, 62,000 reviews (or 87.7% of the total reviews) are perfect five-star ratings.
The company specializes in chronic care medicines that many patients must take over the long term to sustain or improve their life and provides one of the quickest and easiest ordering processes available online today. A valid prescription is required to order prescription medications.
Garnering 70,000 reviews is no easy feat. Join with Canada Pharmacy Online in celebrating a job well done and more than 16 years of excellent service. As a token of their appreciation to all their customers, Canada Pharmacy Online is offering a $5 customer appreciation coupon valid for one week only (Use coupon code "thanks5" to place an order and save $5.00, one-time use only). Customers can phone the company's call center to use the coupon.
Canada Pharmacy Online is located in Surrey BC, a CIPA certified Canadian pharmacy for over 16 years. The pharmacy dispenses both brand-name and generic prescriptions as well as pet medications. Getting medications from Canada Pharmacy Online does not require a trip to a brick-and-mortar pharmacy, just a short walk to their own front door once the shipment arrives. Medications arrive quickly and reliably, and ordering from Canada Pharmacy Online crosses one more item off the to-do list in a smooth, hassle-free way.
Visit CanadaPharmacyOnline.com to learn more about the company. Reference the pharmacy's FAQ page if you have any questions about shipping, safety, ordering, and more.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — The one and only Joe Gatto is making his way to San Angelo for a night of comedy on June 1.
Those in and around San Angelo can laugh the evening away with Gatto, who is a comedian, actor and producer, at the Murphey Performance Hall at 7 p.m.
According to the San Angelo Performing Arts Center website, Gatto is known not only for his jokes but also for hit TV shows like “The Misery Index” and “Impractical Jokers”. Gatto is also a founding member of The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe, which toured to sold-out shows across the world.
Tickets for Joe Gatto’s Night of Comedy are on sale on the SAPAC website ranging from $39.75 to $114.75. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/community/joe-gatto-is-coming-to-san-angelo/ | 2022-12-27 23:19:04 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/community/joe-gatto-is-coming-to-san-angelo/ |
Cotton County and Comanche Nation repair and build new bridges
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Cotton County is teaming up with the Comanche Nation to repair roads and bridges in the county and surrounding areas.
Officials here in Cotton County say bridges are one of the biggest issues across the county and have projects already in place to build new ones as well as fixing existing ones.
“Comanche nation cell transportation come down they won’t spend money on possibly four or five bridges needs district we have three districts”, said District 1 County Commissioner Mike Woods.
“Well some of the bridges that were looking at are just in all kind of locations that will help the farm community and some of the thru traffic make the road safer”, said District 3 County Commissioner Greg Powell.
Repairs are currently underway and two of them have completed the engineering process.
“Right now currently the committee transportation department come talk to us about helping us out with a couple bridges that we already have on the list and I’ve already been through the engineering process and one of them is on Little Beaver Creek and the other one is on Big Red Creek”, said Powell.
“Well the one on Little Beaver it’s been down since in the 80s and it hadn’t been replaced and then once South of a cookie town it was low water crossing no bridge at all they wanna put a bridge in that”, said Woods.
It will take some time for the bridges to be complete, but the commissioners say it’s worth the wait and the money being spent.
“Right now the two bridges that we have one of them is estimated cost is 1.2 million and I think the other estimated cost on the other one on Beaver is around 1 million dollars”, said Powell.
Up to 15 bridges will be built between the three districts.
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The Maxwell Football Club recently announced five finalists for the 5thannual Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award presented to the outstanding freshman player in college football and North Carolina’s Drake Maye was one of them. The award will be presented at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala along with several of the other top awards in college and professional football.
Maye, a red-shirt freshman, led the Tar Heels to a 9-4 overall record and a 2022 ACC Coastal Division title. He has passed for 4,115 yards and threw 35 touchdowns so far this season. Maye and the Tar Heels will play Oregon in the SDCCU Holiday Bowl at Petco Park in San Diego Dec. 28.
The Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award has been presented to the College Freshman Player of the Year since 2018 and is named in honor of Shaun Alexander, a former standout at the University of Alabama and with the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL. Past winners include; Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) - 2018, Kenneth Gainwell (Memphis)-2019, Will Anderson Jr. (Alabama) – 2020 and Brock Bowers (Georgia) 2021.
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The winner of the 5th annual Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year award will be unveiled Dec. 29, 2022. The formal presentations of these awards will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards in March 2023. Questions concerning the 2022 Shaun Alexander Award watch list can be directed to MFC Executive Director Mark Wolpert mwolpert@maxwellfootballclub.org or MFC Director of College Awards Rich Cirminiello rcirminiello@maxwellfootballclub.org.
ABOUT THE MAXWELL FOOTBALL CLUB
The Maxwell Football Club was founded in 1935 and is the oldest football organization of its kind in America. The Club recognizes excellence in performance at the high school, collegiate and professional levels of the game. The Maxwell Club is also deeply involved and fully vested in the community through programs to promote academic excellence, community volunteerism, and leadership. High school student-athletes around the country have an opportunity to participate in MFC Showcase events, free of charge, through the generosity of our corporate partners, Montage Mountain Resort, Ivy Rehab, The Buccini Pollin Group, the Edward T. Coombs Foundation and the Run Around Inc. To learn more about our story visit www.maxwellfootballclub.org.
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• Malaki Starks, Georgia - Defensive Back, Freshman
• Harold Perkins, Jr., Louisiana State – Linebacker, Freshman
• Quinshon Judkins, Mississippi - Running Back, Freshman
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GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. -- Two Michigan boys are being hailed as heroes for saving another boy from drowning in a swimming pool.
Noah Roche, 12, and his brother Weston Woods, 8, were at an apartment swimming pool when they noticed 7-year-old Griffin Emerson.
Griffin had been playing in the shallow end of the pool in his floaties but then decided to remove them and start to drift over toward the pool's deep end.
"I just wanted to prove myself. Like, yeah, I can actually swim and stuff," Griffin said.
But in surveillance video provided to ABC News by the Genesee County Sheriff's Office, Griffin can be seen struggling to keep his head above the water.
Initially, other people around Griffin don't seem to notice the boy and nearly a full minute passes with Griffin sinking to the bottom.
"I saw him and I just knew that he wasn't OK," Noah said. "I saw him at the bottom of the pool and then I didn't know if he was just playing down there or something. So I just told Weston to get in and dive down to see if he's OK."
"His head was going up and down. I knew he wasn't OK," Weston added.
Weston jumped in and reached down to pull Griffin to the pool's surface.
The boys' mother, Sylese Roche, called 911, telling the operator that Griffin wasn't breathing, had turned blue and was receiving CPR.
"[Griffin's]mom ran over to him and instantly started CPR," Roche said.
Eventually, Griffin started to breathe again and his mother can be seen in the surveillance video rubbing his back as he coughs up water from the pool.
"I was scared I was gonna drown. It felt all weird. I spit out some water and that's it," Griffin said afterward.
Within 36 hours of the initial incident, Griffin was released and had made a full recovery.
Sheriff Christopher R. Swanson of Genesee County, Michigan, said, "By getting him to breathe on his own that fast, that's the best possible outcome. And that's why we celebrate the story."
The Genesee County Sheriff's Office honored Noah and Weston in a special ceremony where the boys reunited with Griffin and first responders.
Tom Kinczkowski, Griffin's grandfather, shared a message of thanks to the young heroes.
"Weston and Noah, you know, they hold a special place in my heart. And they basically saved Griffin. A lot of my heroes don't wear capes. And they are two of them," Kinczkowski said.
To avoid a drowning situation, the Genesee County sheriff shared three tips for the general public:
- Know your surroundings.
- Know CPR.
- Teach your children what to look for and how to swim. | https://abc30.com/swimming-pool-caught-on-camera-surveillance-video-genesee-county-michigan/13474438/ | 2023-07-07 20:28:29 | 0 | https://abc30.com/swimming-pool-caught-on-camera-surveillance-video-genesee-county-michigan/13474438/ |
Biden admin's taxpayer-backed contracts to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation come under a microscope
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is seeking answers on Vera Institute of Justice's government contracts
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is probing hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-backed Biden administration contracts with a left-wing nonprofit to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation.
Fox News Digital previously reported that the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York-based nonprofit that views immigration enforcement agencies as a "threat" to civil liberties, received hefty Health and Human Services (HHS)-backed contracts as part of efforts to keep illegal immigrants in the United States.
Now, Grassley is seeking answers on the federal contracts with Vera, who he says has a history of not fully complying with legal and regulatory requirements regarding the expenditure of government funds. In a Feb. 16 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Grassley raised concerns about the Vera contracts, particularly regarding oversight structures to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
"My concerns with respect to HHS' oversight of its contracts with third parties stems, in part, from HHS' FY 2022 Agency Financial Report," Grassley wrote. "In that report, the HHS Inspector General identified a range of problems with HHS oversight of contracts, including contracts for services with respect to unaccompanied alien children."
BIDEN ADMIN GIVES LEFT-WING GROUPS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO HELP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FIGHT DEPORTATION
"The report included a finding that the ORR 'did not award or sufficiently manage a sole source contract in accordance with Federal requirements,'" Grassley wrote. "Given that Vera could receive almost a billion dollars of taxpayer funds under one contract alone, even a fraction of improper conduct can add up to large sums of money. A robust oversight structure needs to be in place to protect taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud and abuse."
Grassley elaborated on his concerns by referencing a Department of Justice inspector general report that found Vera did not comply with previous "essential award conditions."
"Vera did not comply with essential award conditions related to award expenditures including: personnel and fringe benefits, travel, supplies and other costs, consultants and contracts, and subawards," Grassley wrote. "Additionally, OIG found issues related to Vera's compliance with award special conditions, procurement practices, subrecipient monitoring, and financial reporting."
"The audit also found that Vera had $325,907 in expenditures 'that do not comply with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements; are not supported by adequate documentation at the time of the audit; or are unnecessary or unreasonable,'" Grassley continued. "This example further demonstrates the need for transparency in how Vera and its subcontractors are using taxpayer funds and what HHS has done to employ robust oversight procedures and policies to ensure Vera is in full compliance with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements."
Grassley posed a series of questions to Becerra, including on HHS oversight procedures, policies, and guidelines that are in place to ensure Vera is in full compliance with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
HHS did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by press time.
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The Vera Institute of Justice and the Acacia Center for Justice, a nonprofit linked to Vera and another left-wing immigration group, have combined to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-backed government contracts since President Biden took office.
According to records previously reviewed by Fox News Digital, a vast majority of the money is going towards efforts to keep illegal immigrants in the United States.
Vera has collected around $350 million from government contracts for immigration services in the past two years. The Acacia Center for Justice has also pocketed tens of millions of dollars in recent federal contracts. The progressive groups landed the contracts amid the escalating border crisis.
Vera received a $171 million HHS-funded contract last March to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation, the records show. The contract has since paid out around $180 million with supplemental agreements as of December.
The arrangement lasts until March but can hit as high as $983 million if renewed until March 2027. If extended, it will be the most significant federal contract the group has received for immigration-related services.
Vera has also secured other large government contracts since early 2021, including a $168 million contract in March 2021 for the same purpose of helping unaccompanied minors avoid deportation. During this time, the group also obtained smaller contracts ranging from $4 million to $12 million from other federal departments.
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Vera did not respond to a request for comment on Grassley's letter.
Meanwhile, the Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit started from a partnership between Vera and Capital Area Immigrants' Rights, has received several "legal services" contracts from the Department of Justice last September that netted the group around $41 million in payments, records show.
The Acacia Center appears to have launched to expand Vera's work with illegal immigrants detained at the border. However, unlike Vera's government contracts for unaccompanied minors, the Acacia Center's contracts do not specify an age group for the legal services.
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Its partner organization, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights, also directs an adult defense program that provides information, support, and legal representation to illegal immigrants, according to its website. It also has a detained unaccompanied children's program that works with minors at the Office of Refugee Resettlement juvenile immigration detention centers in Maryland and Virginia.
The Acacia Center launched last year and received the contracts less than two months after getting a July 2022 determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service, which stated the group's effective date of tax exemption was Dec. 29, 2021, according to filings. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admins-taxpayer-backed-contracts-help-illegal-immigrants-avoid-deportation-come-microscope | 2023-03-01 22:47:38 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admins-taxpayer-backed-contracts-help-illegal-immigrants-avoid-deportation-come-microscope |
TX Brownsville TX Zone Forecast for Saturday, April 1, 2023
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winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and windy. Highs in the upper 80s. South
winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and windy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Showers likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ355-021600-
Coastal Cameron-
Including the cities of Port Isabel and Laguna Vista
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Areas of fog this morning. Breezy with highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers likely after midnight. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ455-021600-
Cameron Island-
Including the cities of South Padre Island and Boca Chica Beach
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Areas of dense fog this morning. Breezy. Near steady temperature
in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 20 to
25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs around 80. South winds
20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Near steady temperature around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers likely after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Near steady
temperature around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Near steady
temperature in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Near
steady temperature in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ252-021600-
Starr-
Including the cities of Rio Grande City and Roma
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the upper 60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ254-021600-
Inland Willacy-
Including the city of Raymondville
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Partly sunny. Breezy with highs
in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 90s.
South winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Showers likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ354-021600-
Coastal Willacy-
Including the city of Port Mansfield
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Breezy with highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
South winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Showers likely. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ248-021600-
Zapata-
Including the city of Zapata
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ249-021600-
Jim Hogg-
Including the city of Hebbronville
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ250-021600-
Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ353-021600-
Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ251-021600-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ351-021600-
Coastal Kenedy-
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog this morning. Breezy with highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 70. Southeast
winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows
around 70. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ454-021600-
Willacy Island-
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Areas of dense fog this morning. Highs in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to around 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
South winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then showers likely after midnight. Near steady
temperature in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ451-021600-
Kenedy Island-
355 AM CDT Sun Apr 2 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
Areas of fog this morning. Breezy with highs in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Breezy with highs around 80. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy. Near steady temperature in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Showers likely. Near steady temperature in the upper 60s. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 70s.
$$
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022, after the market closes on February 2, 2023. GoPro management will host a conference call and live webcast following the release at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's financial results. A webcast link and management commentary will be posted on the "Events & Presentations" section of the Company's Investor Relations website at gopro.com prior to the start of the call.
To listen to the live conference call, please call +1 833-927-1758 (US) or +1 929-526-1599 (International) and enter access code 900334. A replay will be available on the investor page referenced above from approximately two hours after the call through April 27, 2023.
About GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO)
Founded in 2002, GoPro helps the world to capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways.
For more information, visit GoPro.com. Open roles can be found on our careers page. Members of the press can access official logos and imagery on our press portal. GoPro customers can submit their photos and videos to GoPro Awards for an opportunity to be featured on GoPro's social channels and receive gear and cash awards. Connect with GoPro on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and GoPro's blog The Current.
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6-year-old boy severely burned trying to protect younger brother in car fire
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – A 6-year-old boy was severely burned as he tried to shield his 4-year-old brother from flames when their mother’s car caught fire in a parking lot.
Lesha Newson left her two sons in the car when she went into a store to pick up a prescription, WOIO reports.
When she came out of the store, she saw her car on fire.
Newson said Dean, 6, put his brother, Elijah, 4, in the trunk and stood in front of him so he wouldn’t get burned.
“That’s very selfless for a 6-year-old,” Newson said.
A few good Samaritans helped rescue Elijah who told them his brother was still in the car.
“Right as they pulled Dean out of the car, it exploded,” Newson said.
He is recovering from second and third-degree burns on his face, arms and legs at Metro Health in Cleveland.
“He said, ‘I’m Spider-Man, Mom. I saved my brother.’ That was the first thing he said to me when we got here and he woke up,” Newson said.
Newson said she learned a lot from this heart-dropping experience and won’t leave her children unattended in the car again.
“In three minutes, you never know what can happen,” she said.
Newson said she bought her car two months ago. It is unclear how the fire started.
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Heart of Downtown train exhibit to open Thursday
The Heart of Downtown Model Train Exhibit opens Thursday at the Museum of North Texas History in downtown Wichita Falls.
The large model railway display was put together by Ron Mauch, an Air Force retiree whose fascination with model trains began when he was eight or nine years old. Since that time Mauch has collected 16 O-gauge model trains that zip through a variety of tunnels, trestles and even towns.
The exhibit, parts of which Mauch acquired on Ebay, includes Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, a military train, cargo and Amtrak passenger trains.
“Ron Mauch spent so much time planning, designing, and installing this amazingly intricate model train and display. We hope visitors enjoy it as much as we are,” said Leanne Ray, Museum of North Texas History Curator.
The trains will be on display through January. The museum at 720 Indiana Ave. is open 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Train shows run at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. and last about 45 minutes. They are free to the public, but donations are accepted. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/10/31/heart-of-downtown-train-exhibit-to-open-thursday/69605982007/ | 2022-10-31 21:46:15 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/10/31/heart-of-downtown-train-exhibit-to-open-thursday/69605982007/ |
JERUSALEM — Israeli police on Saturday shot a Palestinian suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, and Palestinian officials said the teenager was critically wounded.
Police said the Palestinian seriously wounded an Israeli pedestrian before fleeing to an east Jerusalem neighborhood. They said police identified the attacker and shot him when he turned toward an officer with an “object” in his hand. The statement did not say how police identified him, what kind of object he was holding or how close he was to the officer.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the alleged suspect was 16 years old and was seriously wounded by Israeli gunfire. It did not provide his name or further details. Israeli medics evacuated him to a Jerusalem hospital.
Separately, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 32-year-old man died at a hospital Saturday after being wounded by Israeli gunfire near a checkpoint in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian assailants have carried out a series of stabbings, shootings and car ramming attacks in east Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent years. While Israel says it uses deadly force only in life-threatening situations, Palestinians and human rights groups have accused Israeli security forces of using excessive force, and in some cases killing people uninvolved in violence.
The violence escalated in the spring with Israel intensifying nightly raids in the occupied West Bank to chase suspects involved in recent attacks. The raids often spark deadly clashes between the army and Palestinians.
More than 125 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year. The fighting has surged since a series of Palestinian attacks killed 19 people in Israel. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and has built more than 130 settlements there, many of which resemble small towns, with apartment blocks, shopping malls and industrial zones. The Palestinians want the West Bank to form the main part of their future state. Most countries view the settlements as a violation of international law. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/palestinian-teen-suspected-of-stabbing-attack-shot-by-police/2022/10/22/91e97164-5222-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html | 2022-10-22 17:18:05 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/palestinian-teen-suspected-of-stabbing-attack-shot-by-police/2022/10/22/91e97164-5222-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html |
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