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What's happening
Apple is scheduled to publish its fiscal third-quarter earnings statements Thursday, giving us the latest look at the financial health of the world's most highly valued company.
Why it matters
As a titan of industry, Apple's results are a bellwether for both the tech world and consumer spending more broadly.
What it means for you
Sky-high inflation around the world could soon lead to a recession. Apple's results may be one of the first indicators of whether that's happening or not, and when.
Apple, it seems, has been able to weather nearly every storm of the past two decades. Its iMacs and iPods powered through the dot-com crash at the turn of the century, and its iPhones helped it power past the great recession a decade later. But the tech giant may have met its match with the latest spike in inflation.
The Cupertino, California, company is set to release a financial report for its fiscal third quarter on Thursday, giving us a look at its revenue and profit between April and June. Apple watchers typically treat the event as a formality -- akin to a temperature check at the doctor's office -- before the company's typical blockbuster holiday shopping season begins with the launch of the newest iPhone.
But this time may be different.
Wall Street's become accustomed to Apple's hemming and hawing about how the coronavirus pandemic's effects are still hard to plan around or mitigate. But on Thursday, they'll be poring over the financial data for any signs of how worldwide inflation, mixed with historically low unemployment rates and a continuing tight job market, has changed the company's fortunes.
"The Street is well aware of weakness this quarter," Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives wrote in a note to investors last week. But, he said, iPhone demand appears to be "holding up well despite the fears."
That isn't the case for everyone though. On Tuesday, Walmart -- the largest retailer in the US -- said customers are starting to pull back on spending amid higher prices for food and fuel. The International Monetary Fund, meanwhile, warned that the economies of the US, China and Europe may be on the brink of a global recession. All raising the question of whether a luxury brand like Apple will be able to continue weathering the coming storms.
Any long-term Apple watcher knows well the jitteriness around the company's fortune. Apple's earnings releases are typically preceded by a procession of analyst notes and seemingly gloomy headlines, only to be followed by the company's usually upbeat results. But some people still can't shake the fear that Apple's rocket-like rise from near bankruptcy in 1998 to the world's largest company today will eventually end, and potentially with a shocking turn of fortunes.
Though the laws of gravity say whatever goes up must eventually come down, Apple's been able to beat average Wall Street estimates for its profits every quarter since February 2020, when it first warned investors about the coronavirus pandemic, according to data compiled by Reuters. This quarter, it's expected to report $1.16 per share in profits, off $82.7 billion in sales.
"The stickiness of the iPhone upgrade cycle is still being underestimated by investors," Ives said, noting his team's estimate that 240 million of the 1 billion active iPhones in the world today haven't been upgraded in roughly 3.5 years. "This importantly speaks to the Apple growth path over the next 12 to 18 months."
That growth path will be driven by the iPhone, which still represents more than half the company's revenue. While Evercore ISI analysts said they'll be watching for signs of how Apple can grow beyond its 1 billion active iPhones, they didn't sound an alarm either. "We do see demand remaining intact in the coming quarters barring major further macroeconomic shock," they wrote.
Mad world
When the coronavirus pandemic was initially beginning, investors on Wall Street were terrified the economy would come to a screeching halt as the world entered a series of lockdowns, disrupting everything from manufacturing to shipments to shopping. The tech industry largely came out ahead though, as people began stocking up on new computers to work and learn from home. They bought and played video games at record rates, and they signed up for subscriptions for HBO Max, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus, growing them into sizable competitors to Netflix.
Two years into the pandemic, investors have found new things to worry about. Even though the coronavirus pandemic is by no means over -- the latest variant, called BA.5, is considered extremely contagious and "substantially" evades antibodies from prior infections -- the new financial threat of inflation has emerged around the world. Persistent supply shortages, exacerbated by Russia's attack on Ukraine, have combined with rising wages and near-record employment statistics to create a financial whirlwind of rising prices for gas, food and housing, threatening to push up costs for nearly everything else in the process or kickstart a recession.
The tech industry has responded, meanwhile, by "hitting the brakes on hiring," Jefferies Research analyst Brent Thill wrote last week. Those moves, by Google, Twitter and, yes even Apple according to Bloomberg, raised new fears among investors that "weakening hiring trends could be an early signal that companies are observing slowing demand."
Now the question Apple CEO Tim Cook and his team will likely face Thursday is whether that slowing demand is indeed real, and what he plans to do about it. After all, Apple's expected to announce its next-generation iPhone 14 in the fall, the most important of its product releases alongside new iPads, Apple Watches and Mac computers.
But even if we all stop buying as many iDevices, Morgan Stanley analysts say, Apple appears ready for that too. "Over the last 40-plus years, Apple has built a market-leading technology platform with dominant positioning across several, large hardware end markets," they wrote last week.
Now it's moving toward focusing on subscriptions, which offer more predictable and long-term sales. "The path to over $3 trillion of market cap," they said, will be built on a mass of subscriptions that are "cheaper than a cup of coffee." | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-navigated-coronavirus-to-record-sales-and-profits-inflation-may-change-all-that/ | 2022-07-27 12:47:40 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-navigated-coronavirus-to-record-sales-and-profits-inflation-may-change-all-that/ |
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient wireless method of providing the wireless cable TV signal link to a TV set from a cable TV outlet," said an inventor, from Beech Allen, S.C., "so I invented the GHOST SET PLUG. My design enables the user to locate the electronic device near any AC power outlet without the limitations of wired cable TV connections."
The patent-pending invention provides a wireless cable TV link accessory for remotely relaying cable TV signals between the cable TV wall outlet and a TV set. In doing so, it increases convenience and safety. It also provides added aesthetics. The invention features an effective design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households.
The original design was submitted to the Savannah sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SVH-182, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) — A central Ohio family says their parents were robbed of their final wishes when they were buried in the wrong plots at a Delaware County cemetery. The family said they were later told they had to pay to move their parents to the correct spots.
Annetta and Bee Slone were together for over 50 years, said their daughter, Reba Tomblin.
“They were best friends. They loved each other so much,” she said.
Tomblin said her parents always worked hard to make sure to take care of their two daughters and two sons.
“Dad was the type of person that whenever I would look for a job, he would say, ‘You have to have a job that has a 401(k), Reba. You have to take care. You have to take care of the future,’” Tomblin said. “That was how he was, and they planned for the future.”
In 1970, the Slones purchased their own burial plots at Fairview Memorial Park. The plots were between each of their parents and next to each other.
The Slones later purchased two more plots, roughly six sections from theirs, for their two sons.
The family’s plans unraveled when Annetta Slone died in June 2020.
“The day of Mom’s funeral, we found out that the plots that they had both selected, that they wanted, in between their parents and their family, it was no longer available,” Tomblin said.
Bee Slone watched as his wife was laid to rest about 50 yards away from her father and sisters, in a plot intended for her son.
“He was devastated,” Tomblin said.
Bee died six months later. Tomblin and her family made what she called a difficult choice to bury her father next to her mother, so they would not be apart.
The family later learned that the plots Annetta and Bee had bought for themselves were available, but the family would have to pay for the entire process of relocating their parents to the correct plots.
“I want them together, and I want them to be where they chose, where they want to be,” Tomblin said. “It’s very frustrating, and it’s very heartbreaking.”
“I understand completely where [Tomblin] is at,” said Tim Foor, who runs the cemetery, which is run by Berlin Township.
The township took control of Fairview Memorial Park in 2020, three years after previous owners Theodore and Arminda Martin were convicted on theft charges for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from families that paid for services they never received.
“We’re trying as hard as we can to make things right over there,” Foor said. “It’s just there’s a lot of wrongdoing that needs to be corrected.”
Foor showed WCMH the cemetery’s records, which included a disorganized box of cards with burial information on them, and complaints from families handwritten on the back of some of the cards. Foor said that’s how he received the records, which he is in the process of entering into a computer program.
Because the records were so disorganized and in some cases, inaccurate, the township spent more than $25,000 on a ground-penetrating radar survey last summer.
The survey unearthed a long list of problems: people were buried beneath walkways, doubled up in plots, overlapping plots, and buried in areas that were never even meant to be plots. Some graves were dug diagonally, and in one instance, a husband and wife were buried on opposite sides of a headstone instead of side by side.
Foor said he spoke with Tomblin about her family’s situation and he wants to help.
“I’m dealing with possibly —how many families we don’t know — that are buried in situations like this,” Foor said. “If we extend the courtesy to Mrs. Tomblin and move her family at the township’s expense, then suddenly, I have all these people coming down and [they’ll say] ‘Oh, you moved her family. Move ours, too.’ And the township just can’t handle that load.”
Foor estimates correcting burial issues in just one section of Fairview Memorial Park would cost roughly $250,000.
It’s why he’s been applying for grants from the state and working with Ohio lawmakers on legislation, like Senate Bill 224, which includes measures to help make sure peoples’ preneed funeral contracts are honored.
“It’s not a problem that you can isolate and make go away,” Foor said. “You’ve got to address it on a scale that it’s going to grow to if it continues to go the way that it’s going.”
Foor said Berlin Township is not selling plots at Fairview Memorial Park until all of the existing issues are sorted out.
“I don’t think we’ll ever get it all resolved,” he said.
Meanwhile, a headstone for Annetta and Bee Slone sits in a warehouse, waiting to be placed in the right plot.
“We are still suffering. We are still here, and we want it done right,” Tomblin said.
Last year the township got a $13,000 grant from the state, which was used to repair things above ground.
As part of their criminal sentence, the cemetery’s former owners were ordered to pay more than $183,000 in restitution to dozens of families. According to court records, $60 has been paid, as the Martins remain in prison. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/children-told-to-pay-to-relocate-parents-remains/ | 2022-07-29 20:19:04 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/children-told-to-pay-to-relocate-parents-remains/ |
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - DeVonta Smith's celebrity softball game just got a little more star powered added to the roster.
Philadelphia Eagles teammates, Darius Slay and Jalen Hurts joining the event, and former Alabama teammate and current Pittsburgh Steeler running back, Najee Harris will be in attendance.
The event is slated for Saturday, June 4th at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown.
A home run Derby will kick things off at 2PM with the game itself scheduled to start by 3PM. Tickets are available for this event at ironpigsbaseball.com. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/jalen-hurts-darius-slay-and-najee-harris-adding-star-power-to-celebrity-softball-game/article_f335110e-c027-11ec-a3cf-e307efd9a6e6.html | 2022-04-20 01:10:03 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/jalen-hurts-darius-slay-and-najee-harris-adding-star-power-to-celebrity-softball-game/article_f335110e-c027-11ec-a3cf-e307efd9a6e6.html |
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is a man in a hurry.
After waiting 74 years to become king, Charles has used his first six months on the throne to meet faith leaders across the country, reshuffle royal residences, stage his first overseas state visit and hold a sleepover at Windsor Castle that included the coach of the England soccer team. Then there was the big news: He opened the royal archives to researchers investigating the crown's links to slavery.
“We are already surprised by the Prince Charles who was turned into King Charles and who we still call Prince Charles, because that’s how we think of him,” quipped royal historian Robert Lacey. “But, actually, he’s become a monarch quicker than people expected.”
With the coronation just weeks away, Charles and the Buckingham Palace machine are working at top speed to show the new king at work. And the public is seeing a new kind of sovereign as he tries to slim down the monarchy and show that it is still relevant in a modern, multi-cultural nation where reverence for Queen Elizabeth II muted criticism during her 70 years on the throne.
Out is the matronly decorum that characterized Elizabeth's reign. In is a more human monarch, who held back tears as he addressed the nation after his mother’s death and threw a mini-tantrum when a pen leaked on his fingers while signing a book in Northern Ireland. The public had a good laugh. The king now carries his own pen for signing emergencies.
While Elizabeth progressed grandly through meetings with subjects who bowed and curtseyed before her, King Charles sat on the floor with the congregation during a visit to a gurdwara, or Sikh house of worship, in Luton, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of London. On his first state visit, he displayed an ability to properly roll his R's while flipping between German and English in a speech to the Bundestag, the German parliament.
Germans were impressed. Britons were surprised. Who knew he could speak German?
It's as if Charles, long derided as gray and stiff, has just stepped into the room. With extreme subtlety, his personality is starting to show, such as with the ever-changing pocket squares that give a dash of color to his conservative suits.
“Charles, the monarch, with his faults and virtues, has become a subject of more genuine interest,'' said Lacey, the author of “Battle of Brothers: William & Harry and the Inside Story of Family in Tumult.''
“I mean, what pocket handkerchief is he going to wear? Maybe this will become the equivalent of the queen’s handbag.”
One reason Charles is so eager to get started may be because he knows he won’t have much time to make his mark.
The man who waited a lifetime to be king alluded to the march of time during a white tie dinner at the presidential palace in Berlin, saying he hoped he and Camilla would “live long enough’’ to return to see the sapling they had just planted grow into a tree.
But there are speed bumps on the horizon, some linked to history, others to family.
Charles tried to get ahead of the history question by promising openness about the crown’s links to slavery, but some think that commitment fell short.
Laura Trevelyan, whose ancestors enslaved at least 1,000 people on the island of Grenada, says the king should do what her family did and apologize.
“I hope that he will use some of the wealth that the royal family accumulated from the slave trade to better the lives of people in the Caribbean and in Britain who are descendants of the enslaved,” she told the Times of London.
Then there is family.
Charles continues to fend off criticism from Prince Harry, whose memoir “Spare” painted his father as distant and unsympathetic toward a son who struggled with the death of his mother, Princess Diana, and then had to fight for the royal family to accept his wife, Meghan, a biracial American.
Hugo Vickers, a royal historian and author of “Coronation: The Crowning of Elizabeth II,’’ compared the new king’s accession to the throne with being named chairman of a global corporation at a time when most people have retired. It’s a job where he will face questions of religion, the armed forces and politics, in addition to running the royal household and mediating family feuds.
“It’s a big thing to take on at that age,” Vickers said of Charles, who turns 75 in November. "So, yes, I suspect he’s a man in a hurry."
But on another level, Charles’ long apprenticeship may also be an advantage, giving him more training and experiences to draw upon than his mother, who was just 25 when she became queen.
While Elizabeth, like all British monarchs before her, was educated by tutors, Charles was bundled off to Hill House School in London just shy of age 8 to begin experiencing the world outside the palace.
Richard Townend, the son of the school's founder, was a contemporary of Charles’ at Hill House.
Townend said his father created the school as an antidote to what he had seen as a soldier, thinking that children who learned about other cultures would be less likely to wage war as adults.
“What he wanted to do was to make a school, which was quite unlike other schools at the time, in which half the children were not English,” Townend said. “They came from all over the world, so the children would learn to live with each other, different nationalities, different people, different colors, different races, different religions."
"He felt passionately that if children learned to live in peace with each other, then the world could only get better.''
Charles eventually earned a degree in history from the University of Cambridge and spent six years in the Royal Navy before leaving to focus on his duties as heir to the throne.
As Prince of Wales he founded charities, including one that helps young people get jobs, education and training. He started an organic food company and dabbled in urban planning. Charles was also an early advocate for conservation and environmental protection.
That said, he ruffled feathers when he lobbied government ministers and spoke out against projects he thought threatened Britain’s historic architecture, drawing complaints that he had violated the prohibition against royals intervening in politics.
But the biggest controversy of Charles’ life was the breakdown of his marriage to Princess Diana amid stories about his long-time relationship with the woman who would become his second wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Many people still remember Charles’ admission of adultery and the leaked tapes of intimate conversations between Charles and Camilla, including one in which he compared himself to a tampon.
It took Charles years to shake off the failure of his first marriage, and many people were slow to accept Camilla.
In “Spare,'' Harry wrote bitterly of the palace’s effort to rehabilitate Camilla’s image, suggesting that unflattering and untrue stories about him were leaked to the media in exchange for more glowing portraits of the senior royals.
Over time, Camilla’s charity work, her sense of humor and down-to-earth style won over the public, and she moved from being home wrecker to queen.
She will be crowned alongside her husband at Westminster Abbey.
“This is a man who has overcome problems and hurdles,” said Lacey, the historical consultant to the Netflix series "The Crown.''
“He’s loved despite the problems that he’s been through. He’s loved for his mistakes as well as for his virtues. We’re getting a rounded figure, and that’s what a personal represented monarchy is all about.”
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The AZ State Nutrition Action Committee's Summer Food Work Group has joined forces to boost participation in the Summer Food Service Program.
"Free Meals for Kids and Teens 0-18" is Arizona's SFSP awareness campaign.
Kids and teens 18 and under are eligible for free summer meals.
Some sites even offer low-cost meals for parents and caregivers.
No sign-up or registration is required.
Students do not need to be enrolled or attend open school sites to get their free meals.
For more information and to find sites near you, AZ Health Zone organized an online map of Arizona's SFSP locations. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/summer-food-service-program-provides-free-meals-for-kids-and-teens | 2023-06-20 23:57:11 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/summer-food-service-program-provides-free-meals-for-kids-and-teens |
The TQSKY T1 combines style with enhanced functional performance for entertainment-loving users
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TQSKY, a newcomer in the consumer technology offering world class experiences, is releasing the world's first audio-visual glasses, TQSKY T1, on Kickstarter today. Slim, light, and fashionable, these AR/XR glasses seek to change how consumers view entertainment options on the go or in the comfort of their own homes.
The TQSKY T1 smart glasses come packed with features that distinguish it from other smart glasses, including:
- A unique design: Multi-color steamer lenses with easy magnetic replacements; a nosepiece made of anti-allergenic skin-friendly material, suitable for a variety of face shapes and skin types; a 90° right-angle interface cable that allows users to lie down and watch content more comfortably. The TQSKY T1 is also adjustable for 0-600° myopia.
- Enhanced viewing experience: High picture quality together with a 3.5m equivalent viewing distance and 150in ultra-clear giant screen delivers cinematic picture quality at any time.
- Immersive and CD-grade audio quality: The only audiovisual glasses with Hi-Res sound quality certification that does not require headphones to enjoy high-quality audio. The dual speakers with rotary sound bins lead to a wider sound range, stronger resolution, and better bass and surround sound effects.
- High privacy: Directional sound transmission with no external amplification allows for more privacy. Luminescent coated privacy lenses create directional light transmission to make any space more private.
- Highly compatible: The TQSKY T1 can connect with phones, tablets, and gaming systems including the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and even drones.
Weighing in at only 79g, the TQSKY T1 is comfortable to use on a daily basis while keeping users connected to their world of entertainment and looking fashionable at the same time.
We set out to develop products that are highly functional while meeting new age consumer demands. With the technology landscape continuously evolving, the team has enabled integration of various elements to produce the audio-visual glasses that is expected to take over the scene as consumers seek for more immersive experiences," said Jessie Wang, Founder and CEO of TQSKY.
Designed for the modern consumer, the TQSKY T1 is available on Kickstarter at an introductory price of $469 (33% off the original price of $799) for the first 100 units.
To learn more, visit the campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tqksy/tqsky-t1-your-own-portable-and-private-cinema?ref=uxwzj3&token=38b72399
About TQSKY Technology Limited Co.
Established in January 2022 by a team of founding members with over 20 years of experience in the industry, TQSKY focuses on the research and development and application of near-eye display and interaction field and is committed to being a leader in the field of audio-visual glasses through the combination of technology and fashion. TQSKY aims to pioneer a more futuristic lifestyle by creating portable, private, and diversified audio-visual experiences for users by developing smart audio-visual products and creating new experiences for private spaces.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole dreamed of this moment growing up in California, winning a postseason game in pinstripes at Yankee Stadium.
Harrison Bader had a similar fantasy while sitting in the first base seats as a 15-year-old and watching New York’s last championship team.
They combined to make each other’s wishes come true.
Cole cruised for most of the night, Bader and Anthony Rizzo homered and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 on Tuesday in their AL Division Series opener.
Bader hit his first home run since the Yankees made the surprising deal to acquire him from St. Louis at the trade deadline, tying the score with a third-inning drive to left-center on a Cal Quantrill sinker after Steven Kwan had homered in the top half.
A graduate of Horace Mann School, 5 miles from Yankee Stadium, Bader was in a walking boot with a foot injury at the time of the trade and didn’t make his Yankees debut until Sept. 20.
“I want to validate myself,” Bader said. “I want to play hard and I want to show my teammates and I want to show —- my parents are in the stands — I want to show them all why I earned that uniform.”
Not even another Josh Donaldson baserunning blunder could slow the Yankees, who have won six straight postseason games against Cleveland dating to a comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the 2017 Division Series. The crowd of 47,807 roared from the first pitch.
“It was just a really awesome experience,” Cole said. “Sometimes when you feel the crowd or the energy, it sometimes can become a little easier just to quiet things down because it’s so loud. I don’t know if that makes sense, but it does to me.”
After Kwan’s homer, Cole hit Amed Rosario with a pitch and José Ramírez lined a gapper to left-center. Bader, a Gold Glove center fielder, saved a run by cutting off the ball and holding the runners at second and third. Cole escaped a bases-loaded jam by striking out Andrés Giménez with his 60th pitch.
“That may be the at-bat of the game right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Cole needed just eight pitches in the fourth and allowed just two more runners, on a single and his only walk. He left after giving up one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts.
“We did a really good job early of driving his pitch count up,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. “And then he had a real quick fourth inning, that kind of got him back into the game.”
Jonathan Loáisiga, Wandy Peralta and Clay Holmes finished with two-hit relief to begin the best-of-five matchup. Holmes hit Owen Miller with a pitch before retiring the final two batters.
“Just had to check on my heart,” quipped Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who got a pacemaker last year.
AL Central champion Cleveland, playing on the 74th anniversary of its last World Series title, struck out nine times against the AL East-winning Yankees, who returned from a five-day layoff. Guardians batters had the fewest strikeouts in the majors during the regular season.
Jose Trevino put New York ahead with a sacrifce fly in the fifth after Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on a single into the right-field corner and Wild Card Series star Oscar Gonzalez allowed the ball to bounce through his legs for a two-base error.
“It took a little more spin than I was expecting, and it just went away,” Gonzalez said through a translator.
Rizzo chased Quantrill with a drive into the right-field second desk in the sixth after Aaron Judge walked.
“The Guardians are a young team that has a lot of momentum and have been pitching really well and playing really well,” Rizzo said. “That’s a scary combination.”
An inning earlier, Donaldson made another of the lack-of-hustle gaffes marking his first season in New York. With the score tied 1-1, the former AL MVP led off the fifth with a drive that hit the top of the 10-foot wall in right field, just in front of a fan’s hands, and bounced back onto the field.
Donaldson went into a trot, thinking it was a home run, and even high-fived first base coach Travis Chapman. But Gonzalez grabbed the ball off the carom and threw to shortstop Amed Rosario, whose throw to first caught Donaldson trying to get back.
“We have to make sure we’re getting where we need to get to,” Boone said.
After the final out, that became a minor matter. Judge, who set an AL record with 62 homers, cited Bader for poor form.
“Judgey told me I ran a little too fast,” Bader said. “As soon as he clips it, he knows he’s got it. I haven’t hit a home run in a long time, so I have to work back into it.”
WEB GEMS
Yankees rookie left fielder Oswaldo Cabrera made a leaping catch against the stand s on Will Brennan leading off the fourth as his cap fell into the hands of a fan. Cabrera threw the ball back to the infield, took a step toward the wall as the fan tossed back his cap, then gave the spectator a high-five with his glove. Two pitches later, Donaldson snagged Austin Hedges’ grounder as he slid into foul territory, then got up and made a strong throw to first to retire the slow-footed catcher.
MOUND MATTERS
Quantrill lost for the first time since July 5 following 11 wins over 17 starts. He gave up four runs — three earned — four hits and three walks in five-plus innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: RHP Nick Sandlin (strained shoulder) was dropped along with LHP Kirk McCarty, and RHPs Aaron Civale and Cody Morris were added.
Yankees: INF DJ LeMahieu was left off the roster and may have a broken bone under the second toe of his right foot. … RHP Scott Effross needed Tommy John surgery.
UP NEXT
After an unusual day off between Games 1 and 2, LHP Nestor Cortes (12-4) starts for the Yankees against RHP Shane Bieber (13-8) on Thursday. Rain is in the forecast.
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SEOUL, South Korea, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kokam Limited Company, a global provider of innovative lithium-ion battery solutions and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., announced that its Offshore Liquid-cooled battery system (KOL) obtained DNV certification under the revised 2021 class rules. The quality seal addresses strict industry standards covering revised testing and certifies the safety and reliability of lithium-ion batteries.
The KOL battery solution enables commercial and offshore vessels to save fuel and extend the life of combustion engines or generators. KOL has successfully passed fire propagation tests with IP 56 grade and are designed to prevent propagation between the cells in case a certain cell goes into a thermal runaway due to misuse and/or improper operation.
"The KOL battery solution, now certified by DNV, is comprised of multiple KOL battery modules configured to accommodate voltage and energy or current capacity requirements. Due to its flexibility and compact size, the KOL battery solution can be installed in locations where space is limited. KOL is suitable as a reliable source of energy for long-term operations while its outstanding power output serves as an optimal power source for engine starters." Ike Hong, CMO of Kokam, said.
More information at kokam.com
About Kokam:
Kokam is a global market leader in the manufacturing of premium quality lithium-ion battery systems and advanced ESS solutions. Its patented battery cell technology allows Kokam to provide battery solutions for applications and use-cases that require high levels of quality, performance, safety, and reliability. Committed to solving energy storage challenges, Kokam develops customized solutions for the most demanding energy storage and UPS applications. Today, Kokam's state-of-the-art battery solutions are deployed around the world and in a wide variety of industries, including electric vehicles (EV), energy storage systems (ESS), marine and uninterrupted power supply (UPS). Kokam is a subsidiary of SolarEdge, a NASDAQ traded company and global leader in smart energy. Kokam is online at kokam.com.
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Jonathan Clauss gave Marseille the lead in the 29th minute with both goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier and defender Bafode Diakite making futile attempts to clear.
But Lille levelled thanks to Jonathan David's 22nd goal of the season courtesy of a 50th-minute penalty awarded when Marseille keeper Pau Lopez brought down teenage Cameroon midfielder Carlos Baleba.
Marseille's Alexis Sanchez had a goal ruled out for offside on the hour mark before Jonathan Bamba headed the winner for Lille in the 72nd minute from a cross by Remy Cabella.
The result left Marseille third on 73 points, two behind Lens who travel to Lorient on Sunday.
"We are sad because we wanted to win. We had opportunities. They had opportunities," said Marseille coach Igor Tudor.
On the chances of ending the season in second place, Tudor added: "As long as it is mathematically possible, we will try. It seems very difficult but in any case, we are having a very good season."
Should Marseille end the season in third, they will have to take their chances in the Champions League preliminary round and then possibly a play-off to make the lucrative group stages.
For Lille, victory kept them in fifth with a spot in the Europa Conference League within reach.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Nantes slipped closer to relegation after a 3-0 home loss to Montpellier.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, November 14, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
441 AM PST Sun Nov 13 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM PST THIS
MORNING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Increased risk of sneaker waves and strong rip currents
along the coast, especially for northwest facing beaches.
* WHERE...San Francisco, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes
National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Southern
Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast.
* WHEN...From 10 AM PST this morning through Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...Large, unexpected waves can run-up far onto the beach
without warning, sweeping people into the sea from rocks,
jetties, and beaches. These waves can also move large objects
such as logs, crushing anyone caught underneath.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Don't be fooled by an ocean that looks calm. There can be 30
minutes of small waves before a sneaker wave strikes. Avoid rocks
and jetties. Avoid steep beaches. Stay much farther back from the
water and never turn your back on the ocean.
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Work continues on 40 tiny homes for homeless veterans in Myrtle Beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The Veterans Welcome Home and Resource Center is changing the lives of homeless veterans one tiny home at a time.
The non-profit group provides various services for veterans across the Grand Strand, but Scott Dulebohn, Director of the Veterans Welcome Home and Resource Center, says their main goal is to make sure every Veteran has a place to call home.
“Anybody calls we got food, shelter, emergency shelter and tiny homes which are popping up all over now,” said Dulebohn.
Currently, the group is building 40 tiny homes along 3rd Avenue North in Myrtle Beach specifically to house homeless veterans.
Dulebohn said veterans can stay in the tiny homes as long as they would like but have to follow a few rules including no drugs or alcohol, cleaning up after themselves and being respectful to others in the community.
Glenn Raxtor, an Air Force Veteran, knows what future residents are walking into because he moved into one of the few tiny homes built at the VWHRC in Little River and said it’s changed his life.
“Prior to my getting up here I was living in a car. A dodge neon. Much smaller than the tiny house. This is quite an upgrade and I feel privileged to be able to be the first one in here. It’s like brand new. Really nice,” said Raxtor.
Dale O’Flanagan, a Vietnam Veteran, described being in one of the tiny homes as heaven on earth.
“It’s so much better than the alternative. You know sleeping in the woods. Sleeping in a culvert or cardboard box. It’s so much better than that,” said O’Flanagan.
The property and project for the new tiny home community were provided to the organization by an anonymous local donor.
One 8x18 sq. ft. tiny home costs between $20,000-25,000.
However, many locals and businesses have sponsored a tiny home for $15,000 and their logo will be placed on the home.
The VWHRS is also asking the community to help out by donating $5 a month which you can do by clicking here.
The non-profit will hold an event to put the roofs on all the tiny homes at the same time on September 10th.
The group hopes the first 25 tiny homes will be completed by the end of October.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-1-6-4
(zero, one, six, four)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-1-6-4
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Want to do something about domestic violence? Come to this town hall on Thursday
One woman told of having her throat cut.
Another was nearly beaten to death.
Many had been shot – one woman 23 times, another nine times and a third woman four times.
Theirs were the voices Antonia Drew Vann, founder of The Asha Project, wanted to hear from most.
“People don’t realize the extent of the violence,” Vann said.
Vann, whose organization has served Black women in Milwaukee for decades, convened a focus group this fall that included 25 women who had survived near-fatal domestic violence. The city has seen another 50 people die in domestic violence-related homicides this year, she said.
Shawn Muhammad, Asha’s associate director, led a separate focus group of men and those two discussions have helped shape a wider town hall about domestic abuse planned for Thursday at the Washington Park Senior Center.
The public event is being organized by We Are Here MKE, a collective of seven organizations, including Asha, that serve victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence from Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous and LGBTQ communities.
In the focus groups, it became clear that people struggled to recognize domestic violence before it almost turned deadly, Vann said.
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“There are victims that don't see this as domestic violence,” she said. “They see it as ‘so what, y’all get into it, you all have a fight.’”
“We were at this point 30 years ago,” she added. “We used to have a list explaining domestic violence – hitting, punching, shoving, kicking – and now we’re hearing, well, everybody does that. There is a generation of people that did not get the message.”
Participants also said they did not see any meaningful messaging around domestic abuse in their daily lives.
“I think the biggest thing was our messaging,” Muhammad said of the men’s group. “What should our role be? How do we hold one another accountable? How do we have thought-provoking messaging?”
Effective prevention, Vann said, would be consistent messaging that domestic violence is a crime and culturally-specific help is available for those experiencing it.
Vann and others planning the town hall hope those who attend leave with a better understanding of the scope of the domestic abuse and what they can do to stop it. It's not just those experiencing abuse who can seek help by calling local hotlines. Family and loved ones speak with an advocate to get tips on how to approach and support their loved one who is experiencing domestic violence.
“Domestic and sexual violence has a rippling effect in our community,” said Ashanti Hamilton, director of the Office of Violence Prevention, one of the event’s sponsors.
“The community’s input is invaluable to crafting a plan and solution for Milwaukee,” he said.
Monique Minkens, executive director of End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, also emphasized the importance of people with a variety of experiences coming together.
“Community is medicine," she said in a news release. "And this type of event is exactly what our communities need as part of collective healing.”
If you goWhat: We Are Here MKE - All Hands On Deck Against Domestic Abuse and Community ViolenceWhen: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. ThursdayWhere: Washington Park Senior Center, 4420 W. Vliet St., MilwaukeeCost: Free and open to the public
Where to find help
The Asha Project, which serves African American women in Milwaukee, provides a crisis line from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at (414) 252-0075.
The UMOS Latina Resource Center in Milwaukee offers bilingual, bicultural, domestic violence, sexual assault and anti-human trafficking supportive services and operates a 24-hour hotline at (414) 389-6510.
The Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center offers culturally sensitive, trauma-informed services for those who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and can be reached at (414) 383-9526.
Our Peaceful Home, which serves Muslim families and is a program of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, operates a crisis line at (414) 727-1090.
The Hmong American Women’s Association, which serves the Hmong and Southeast Asian community, has advocates available at (414) 930-9352 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee operates a 24-hour confidential hotline at (414) 933-2722.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 800-799-7233.
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Agencies join forces to help Hoosiers after tornado outbreak
WHITELAND, Ind. (WISH) — For the first time, state and local agencies came together in one place Thursday to help people affected by Friday’s tornadoes in Whiteland and Sullivan.
Luckily, help isn’t just available around the neighborhood. More resources were put into a one-stop shop that’s making sure people get the help they need.
Jonathan Whitham, the chief of staff for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, said, “When we have major disasters and big events in Indiana we like to bring all of our state agencies together.”
At the one-stop shop, Whitham added, “A lot of these tables up front are state agencies and then what we have on the far side of the room are the volunteer organizations: Red Cross, Salvation Army, the Johnson County department of health.”
On Thursday, the groups were helping people replace important documents, such as birth certificates and vehicle registrations, lost in the debris. People also were offered short-term rental assistance and emergency hotel vouchers at two locations.
In addition, people can find mental health resources, long-term support from a case manager, and more.
The Whiteland site is at the Clark-Pleasant Community Schools Administration Building, 50 Center St.
The Sullivan site is at the new Sullivan City Hall, 32 N. Court St.
Mike Beaty was one of several families that came looking for help in Whiteland. “Might’ve been one of the lucky ones. My porch was gone. Part of my back porch was gone. Couple of windows were smashed and some shingles were missing, and there was a hole in the roof. A couple of spots. So, at least we all got out alive.”
Beaty says he’s worried about housing. “Hoping to get some time. We’ve got a big cleanup ahead and an adjuster coming by.”
So, he’ was working on getting an extension on his hotel visit. “You’re never sure about anything anymore, but it’s worth a shot. I’m having to go to work on top of it, and it’s hard to concentrate at work while this is going on and it’s just not the best time right now.”
These are some of the agencies participating at the two sites:
- Indiana Department of Homeland Security
- Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
- Indiana Department of Insurance
- Indiana Department of Workforce Development
- Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
- Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority
- Indiana Department of Health
- American Red Cross
- Salvation Army
- United Way of Johnson County (Whiteland only)
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NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York has a new breastfeeding law for all employers.
On Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation to expand accommodations for breastfeeding in the workplace. It calls for employers to provide a convenient and private space - one that has seating, running water, and electricity.
Employers must also create a written policy on breastfeeding rights.
"Every nursing mother deserves access to a safe, hygienic, and convenient space to pump in the workplace," Governor Hochul said. "By requiring employers to provide quality accommodations, this legislation will help employees feel comfortable and respected when breastfeeding."
The law takes effect in six months.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the U.N., as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children are brought into hospital wards.
U.N. and other aid agencies were able to stave off outright famine after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year, rolling out a massive emergency aid program that fed millions.
But they are struggling to keep pace with relentlessly worsening conditions. Poverty is spiraling and making more Afghans in need of aid, global food prices are mounting from the war in Ukraine and promises of international funding so far are not coming through, according to an assessment report issued this month.
As a result, the vulnerable are falling victim, including children but also mothers struggling to feed themselves along with their families.
Nazia said she had lost four children to malnutrition — two daughters and two sons under 2 years old. “All four died due to financial problems and poverty,” the 30-year-old Nazia said. When her children fell ill, she didn’t have the money to treat them.
Nazia spoke to The Associated Press at Charakar Hospital in the northern province of Parwan, where she and her 7-month-old daughter were both being treated for malnutrition. Her husband is a day laborer but is also a drug addict and rarely brings in an income, she said. Like many Afghans, she uses only one name.
UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, said 1.1 million children this year are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, nearly double the number in 2018 and up from just under 1 million last year.
Severe wasting is the most lethal type of malnutrition, in which food is so lacking that a child’s immune system is compromised, according to UNICEF. They become vulnerable to multiple bouts of disease and eventually they become so weak they can’t absorb nutrients.
The numbers of children under 5 being admitted into health facilities with severe acute malnutrition have steadily mounted, from 16,000 in March 2020 to 18,000 in March 2021, then leaping to 28,000 in March 2022, the UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, Mohamed Ag Ayoya, wrote in a tweet last week.
Hit by one of its worst droughts in decades and torn by years of war, Afghanistan was already facing a hunger emergency; but the Taliban takeover in August threw the country into crisis. Many development agencies pulled out and international sanctions cut off billions in finances for the government, collapsing the economy.
Millions were plunged into poverty, struggling to afford food for their families. By the end of last year, half the population of around 38 million lived under the poverty line, according to U.N. figures. As the economy continues to crumble and prices mount, that could rise this year to as high as 97% of the population by mid-2022, according to the U.N. Development Program.
Because of poverty, “mothers do not have proper nutrition during pregnancy, and are not able to eat properly after birth, said Mohammad Sharif, a doctor at Charakar hospital.
At the Mirwais Hospital in southern Kandahar province, 1,100 children with malnutrition have been admitted in the past six months, 30 of whom died, said Dr. Mohammad Sediq, head of the children’s ward.
One mother, Kobra, said she had been unable to breastfeed her 6-month-old child. “He is constantly losing weight and cries a lot, I know it is all because of hunger, but I can’t do anything” she said.
At her home in an impoverished district of Kandahar city, Jamila said her 8-month-old son died last month after being diagnosed with severe malnutrition. If she doesn’t get help, she fears for her other four children, she said.
“The government hasn’t helped us at all, no one has asked us if we are hungry or have something to eat or not,” she said.
U.N. agencies launched a massive, accelerated aid program after the Taliban takeover, ramping up to a point that they now deliver food assistance to 38% of the population.
The number of people facing acute food insecurity fell slightly from 22.8 million late last year to 19.7 million currently, according to a May report by IPC, a partnership among U.N. and other agencies that assesses food security. From June to November this year, that number is expected to fall a little further, to 18.9 million, IPC said.
But those small reductions “are far from indicating a positive trend,” it warned.
The decrease was low compared to the scale of the aid, it said. Moreover, deteriorating conditions threaten to overwhelm the effort. It pointed to the continued crumbling of the economy, higher food and fuel prices and supply disruptions caused by the Ukraine war, and “unprecedented inflation” in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, lack of funding threatens aid’s reach. The proportion of the population receiving food aid could plummet to only 8% over the next six months because so far only $601 million of the $4.4 billion needed has been received from the world community, the IPC said. Just over $2 billion has been pledged.
Melanie Galvin, chief of UNICEF’s nutrition program in Afghanistan, said the 1.1 million children figure came from the agency’s annual assessment, conducted last fall and based on expected conditions.
“Every year, all the factors connected to malnutrition keep going up,” she told the AP. It just keeps going up and up in terms of a deteriorating situation.
Drought has been the main driver of food insecurity, she said, compounded by growing poverty, lack of access to clean water and to medical care, need for greater vaccination for diseases like measles that hit malnourished children.
The good news is that agencies have access to the entire country now, she said. UNICEF opened around 1,000 treatment sites in remote locations where parents can bring their malnourished children rather than having to trek to larger urban centers.
But an emergency response is not sustainable in the longer term, she said. “We need all these factors in the external environment to improve.”
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Modular phone and tablet cases now more protective and versatile
FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OtterBox is proud to announce the second generation of their popular uniVERSE Case System. These enhancements, which include protection from drops up to six feet, are available now for Apple iPhone 13 and iPad mini (6th Gen).
With an extensive array of modules developed by our partners, uniVERSE 2.0 allows users to greatly expand device features by leveraging the groundbreaking rail system. A slotted rail, hidden under a removable accent plate, lets users attach and swap powerful accessories such as card readers, hand straps, batteries, scanners, professional-grade cameras, and more without removing the case. The rail system, and the creativity of our partners, ensures the possibilities for increasing a device's features are nearly endless. Designed for use with OtterBox screen protectors, this rugged, low-profile case also includes a lanyard attachment point for a hand and neck strap1 and MIL-STD drop rating.
To build upon the success of the original uniVERSE Series case, the OtterBox team collected feedback from partners to discover how to make the uniVERSE Case System even better. Partner feedback was vital in the development of the new uniVERSE Series case design, leading to the enhancement of this innovative product line.
"As part of our ongoing dedication to innovation, we rely on user feedback to continuously evolve our products, making them more impactful in business use cases," said Brian Jacoby, Senior Vice President of OtterBox Business Solutions. "The goal of the uniVERSE Case System was to create an ever-expanding ecosystem of mobile solutions that enhance productivity. The new case design provides an even more robust solution, and we're excited to see what new accessories our partners can ideate to further improve upon the uniVERSE 2.0 cases, and especially excited to see how our customers take advantage of this system's unique set of features."
New uniVERSE Series cases are now available for iPhone 13 and iPad mini 6. To learn more about the uniVERSE Case System, please visit OtterBoxBusiness.com.
OtterBox innovates bold products that deliver confidence and trust in any pursuit. From its humble beginnings with a drybox in a Fort Collins, Colo., garage, OtterBox has honed and leveraged its expertise in manufacturing and design to become the No. 1-selling smartphone case brand in the U.S. and a leader in rugged outdoor lifestyle products.2
At the center of every OtterBox innovation is a deeper goal to affect positive, lasting change. In partnership with the OtterCares Foundation, OtterBox grows to give back by inspiring kids to change the world through entrepreneurship and philanthropy. To learn more about this mission, visit OtterBox.com/GivingBack.
For more information, visit OtterBox.com.
1Hand and neck strap sold separately.
2Source: The NPD Group/Retail Tracking Service, U.S., Cell Phone Device Protection, Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2022 combined.
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Deputy immediately fired after drunk driving arrest, sheriff’s office reports
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - Authorities in Florida announced a county deputy was arrested and charged with driving under the influence earlier this week after failing field sobriety tests.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office reports police in St. Petersburg conducted a traffic stop involving 26-year-old deputy Shelby Coniglio at around 1 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to officers, Coniglio showed signs of impairment by having an odor of alcohol on her breath, slurred speech, blank expression, bloodshot/glassy eyes and being unsteady on her feet.
Coniglio agreed to field sobriety tests but did not pass, according to authorities.
Officers said the 26-year-old submitted a breath sample that returned a blood alcohol level of .206/.219. According to a Florida law firm, the state’s legal BAC limit is .08.
The sheriff’s office said Coniglio was arrested and charged with one count of DUI with a BAC above .15. She was transported to the Pinellas County Jail without incident.
Coniglio was hired by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in September 2018 and worked in the patrol division. However, per the sheriff’s office policy, Coniglio’s employment was immediately terminated following the arrest.
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Encompass Health reports results for second quarter 2022
Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 5:02 PM EDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC), the largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in the United States, today reported its results of operations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and affirmed its 2022 guidance.
"Our second quarter results are further evidence of the strong demand for our inpatient rehabilitation services," said President and Chief Executive Officer of Encompass Health Mark Tarr. "Second quarter discharge growth was 4.9%, on top of 18.7% discharge growth in the second quarter of 2021. While we continue to face near-term staffing challenges, we remain confident in the long-term prospects for our business."
On July 1, 2022, Encompass Health completed the spin off of Enhabit Home Health & Hospice ("Enhabit"), which is now an independent, publicly traded company. Enhabit's second quarter results are required to be in this earnings release, but no commentary on those results is included herein. Beginning with the third quarter of 2022, Enhabit's historical results will be reported in Encompass Health's discontinued operations.
Consolidated results
See attached supplemental information for calculations of non-GAAP measures and reconciliations to their most comparable GAAP measure.
General and administrative expenses
General and administrative expenses decreased as a percent of consolidated revenue due to improved operating leverage, a decline in the mark-to-market value of the Company's nonqualified 401(k) plan, and lower incentive compensation in Q2 2022.
General and administrative expenses in the above table exclude $22.9 million and $4.1 million in costs associated with the strategic alternatives review of the Company's home health and hospice business for the second quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2021, respectively.
Inpatient rehabilitation segment results
Revenue – Inpatient revenue growth resulted from increased volumes and pricing. Total discharge growth for the second quarter of 2022 was 4.9% with same-store growth of 1.6%. Revenue reserves related to bad debt as a percent of revenue increased 50 basis points, primarily attributable to a shift in payor mix toward non-Medicare payors.
Growth in net patient revenue per discharge of 1.3% primarily resulted from an increase in reimbursement rates, partially offset by the resumption of sequestration.
Outpatient and other revenue was unchanged.
Adjusted EBITDA – The 11.4% decrease in Adjusted EBITDA primarily resulted from increased utilization and pricing of agency staffing and sign-on and shift bonuses.
The Company is affirming its guidance for its ongoing inpatient rehabilitation business for full-year 2022.
For considerations regarding the Company's 2022 guidance ranges, see the supplemental information posted on the Company's website at http://investor.encompasshealth.com. See also the "Other information" section below for an explanation of why the Company does not provide guidance for comparable GAAP measures for Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted earnings per share.
Earnings conference call and webcast
The Company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 to discuss its results for the second quarter of 2022. For reference during the call, the Company will post certain supplemental information at http://investor.encompasshealth.com.
The conference call may be accessed by dialing 866 342-8591 and giving the pass code EHCQ222. International callers should dial 203 518-9713 and give the same pass code. Please call approximately ten minutes before the start of the call to ensure you are connected. The conference call will also be webcast live and will be available for on-line replay at http://investor.encompasshealth.com by clicking on an available link.
About Encompass Health
Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) is the largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in the United States. With a national footprint that includes 150 hospitals in 35 states and Puerto Rico, the Company provides high-quality, compassionate rehabilitative care for patients recovering from a major injury or illness, using advanced technology and innovative treatments to maximize recovery. Encompass Health is ranked as one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit encompasshealth.com, or follow us on our newsroom, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Other information
The information in this press release is summarized and should be read in conjunction with the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 (the "June 2022 Form 10-Q"), when filed, as well as the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 1, 2022 (the "Q2 Earnings Form 8-K"), to which this press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1. In addition, the Company will post supplemental information today on its website at http://investor.encompasshealth.com for reference during its August 2, 2022 earnings call.
The financial data contained in the press release and supplemental information include non-GAAP financial measures, including the Company's adjusted earnings per share, leverage ratio, Adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted free cash flow. Reconciliations to their most comparable GAAP measure, except with regard to non-GAAP guidance, are included below or in the Q2 Earnings Form 8-K. Readers are encouraged to review the "Note Regarding Presentation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" included in the Q2 Earnings Form 8-K which provides further explanation and disclosure regarding the Company's use of these non-GAAP financial measures.
Excluding net operating revenues, the Company does not provide guidance on a GAAP basis because it is unable to predict, with reasonable certainty, the future impact of items that are deemed to be outside the control of the Company or otherwise not indicative of its ongoing operating performance. Such items include government, class action, and related settlements; professional fees—accounting, tax, and legal; mark-to-market adjustments for stock appreciation rights; gains or losses related to hedging instruments; loss on early extinguishment of debt; adjustments to its income tax provision (such as valuation allowance adjustments and settlements of income tax claims); items related to corporate and facility restructurings; and certain other items the Company believes to be not indicative of its ongoing operations. These items cannot be reasonably predicted and will depend on several factors, including industry and market conditions, and could be material to the Company's results computed in accordance with GAAP.
However, the following reasonably estimable GAAP measures for 2022 would be included in a reconciliation for Adjusted EBITDA if the other reconciling GAAP measures could be reasonably predicted:
Interest expense and amortization of debt discounts and fees - estimate of $160 million to $170 million
Amortization of debt-related items - approximately $10 million
The Q2 Earnings Form 8-K and, when filed, the June 2022 Form 10-Q can be found on the Company's website at http://investor.encompasshealth.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, net cash used in investing activities was $123.2 million and resulted primarily from capital expenditures. Net cash used in financing activities during the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $19.3 million and resulted primarily from cash dividends paid on common stock and distributions to noncontrolling interests of consolidated affiliates.
For the three months ended June 30, 2021, net cash used in investing activities was $226.0 million and primarily resulted from capital expenditures and the acquisition of assets from Frontier Home Health and Hospice. Net cash used in financing activities during the three months ended June 30, 2021 was $186.4 million and primarily resulted from net debt payments, cash dividends paid on common stock, and distributions to noncontrolling interests of consolidated affiliates.
For the six months ended June 30, 2022, net cash used in investing activities was $246.3 million and primarily resulted from capital expenditures. Net cash used in financing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $80.2 million and primarily resulted from cash dividends paid on common stock and distributions to noncontrolling interests of consolidated affiliates.
For the six months ended June 30, 2021, net cash used in investing activities was $321.6 million and primarily resulted from capital expenditures and the acquisition of assets from Frontier Home Health and Hospice. Net cash used in financing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2021 was $263.9 million and primarily resulted from net debt payments, cash dividends paid on common stock and distributions to noncontrolling interests of consolidated affiliates.
Encompass Health Corporation and Subsidiaries Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release and the supplemental information which are not historical facts, such as those relating to the spin off of the home health and hospice business and its impact on the business model, outlook and guidance, the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Encompass Health's business and financial assumptions, legislative and regulatory developments, financial guidance, development projects, balance sheet and cash flow plans, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In addition, Encompass Health, through its senior management, may from time to time make forward-looking public statements concerning the matters described herein. All such estimates, projections, and forward-looking information speak only as of the date hereof, and Encompass Health undertakes no duty to publicly update or revise such forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Such forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates based upon current information, involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and relate to, among other things, future events, Encompass Health's plan to repurchase its debt or equity securities, dividend strategies, effective income tax rates, its business strategy, its financial plans, its future financial performance, its projected business results or model, its ability to return value to shareholders, its projected capital expenditures, its leverage ratio, its acquisition opportunities, and the impact of future legislation or regulation. Actual events or results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors. While it is impossible to identify all such factors, factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those estimated by Encompass Health include, but are not limited to, the continued spread of COVID-19, including the speed, depth, geographic reach and duration of the spread, which could decrease our patient volumes and revenues and lead to staffing and supply shortages and associated cost increases; actions to be taken by the Company in response to the pandemic; the legal, regulatory and administrative developments that occur at the federal, state and local levels; Encompass Health's infectious disease prevention and control efforts; the demand for Encompass Health's services, including based on any downturns in the economy, consumer confidence, or the capital markets and unemployment among family members; the price of Encompass Health's common stock as it affects Encompass Health's willingness and ability to repurchase shares and the financial and accounting effects of any repurchases; any adverse outcome of various lawsuits, claims, and legal or regulatory proceedings involving Encompass Health, including any matters related to yet undiscovered issues, if any, in acquired operations; Encompass Health's ability to attract and retain key management personnel; any adverse effects on Encompass Health's stock price resulting from the integration of acquired operations; potential disruptions, breaches, or other incidents affecting the proper operation, availability, or security of Encompass Health's or its vendors' information systems, including unauthorized access to or theft of patient, business associate, or other sensitive information or inability to provide patient care because of system unavailability as well as unforeseen issues, if any, related to integration of acquired systems; the ability to successfully integrate acquired operations, including realization of anticipated tax benefits, revenues, and cost savings, minimizing the negative impact on margins arising from the changes in staffing and other operating practices, and avoidance of unforeseen exposure to liabilities; Encompass Health's ability to successfully complete and integrate de novo developments, acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures consistent with its growth strategy; increases in Medicare audit activity, including increased use of sampling and extrapolation, resulting in additional unpaid reimbursement claims and an increase in the backlog of appealed claims denials; changes, delays in (including in connection with resolution of Medicare payment reviews or appeals), or suspension of reimbursement for Encompass Health's services by governmental or private payors; changes in the regulation of the healthcare industry at either or both of the federal and state levels, including as part of national healthcare reform and deficit reduction and Encompass Health's ability to adapt operations to those changes; competitive pressures in the healthcare industry and Encompass Health's response thereto; Encompass Health's ability to obtain and retain favorable arrangements with third-party payors; Encompass Health's ability to control costs, particularly labor and employee benefit costs, including group medical expenses; adverse effects resulting from coverage determinations made by Medicare Administrative Contractors regarding its Medicare reimbursement claims and lengthening delays in Encompass Health's ability to recover improperly denied claims through the administrative appeals process on a timely basis; Encompass Health's ability to adapt to changes in the healthcare delivery system, including value-based purchasing and involvement in coordinated care initiatives or programs that may arise with its referral sources; Encompass Health's ability to attract and retain nurses, therapists, and other healthcare professionals in a highly competitive environment with often severe staffing shortages, which may be worsened by the pandemic, and the impact on Encompass Health's labor expenses from potential union activity, staffing shortages, and competitive compensation practices; general conditions in the economy and capital markets, including any instability or uncertainty related to armed conflict or an act of terrorism, governmental impasse over approval of the United States federal budget, an increase in the debt ceiling, or an international sovereign debt crisis; the increase in the costs of defending and insuring against alleged professional liability claims, including claims associated with patient and employee exposures to COVID-19, and Encompass Health's ability to predict the estimated costs related to such claims; and other factors which may be identified from time to time in Encompass Health's SEC filings and other public announcements, including Encompass Health's Form 10‑K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, when filed.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ObvioHealth announces it has been rated as the top "major contender" on Everest Group's 2022 PEAK Matrix®, an industry report providing analysis and insights on decentralized clinical trial vendors. ObvioHealth is ranked 5th overall in a field of 24 industry players.
The company improved on both axes of the PEAK Matrix when compared to 2021. The Market Impact score aggregates market adoption, portfolio mix and value delivered, while the Vision and Capability score measures the ability of a company to successfully deliver products.
Due to the rapid adoption of the DCT model across the industry, both legacy players and young startups are aggressively seeking to establish a foothold. The field of companies analyzed by Everest Group increased by 60 percent vs a year ago. Despite this expansion, ObvioHealth maintained its top contender spot, beating out much larger CROs, EDC vendors and endpoint technology companies.
"With only a fraction of the financial resources compared to most of the top contenders, we ranked higher than many powerhouse players, a tremendous achievement for a 5-year-old company," said Ivan Jarry, ObvioHealth's CEO. "This confirms that our emphasis on agile end to end technology, boutique service and endpoint optimization is paying off."
ObvioHealth recently released ObvioGo, its next-generation DCT platform and app. This powerful and flexible tech stack is designed to capture, track and report more accurate data to deliver stronger therapeutic evidence. The company recently announced a partnership with Oracle Health Sciences, enabling multisource data collected from sites, patients, devices and labs to be seamlessly integrated into Oracle's Clinical One platform. This technology offer is complemented by ObvioHealth's COACH (Clinical Oversight And Coordination Hub), a virtual support team offering personalized assistance to patients and sites.
"Our COACH team is a key differentiator that has been instrumental to our success," said Jarry. "Our team is augmented by AI-assisted technology that increases workflow efficiency, improves the experience for sites and patients, and allows us to offer trial sponsors a single source solution for end-to-end trials."
For more information about ObvioHealth, visit www.obviohealth.com.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man with a large kitchen knife who terrorized tourists and locals on the Las Vegas Strip in a stabbing rampage that left two people dead and six others wounded will be charged with murder, the region's top prosecutor said Friday.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said he intends to file two counts of murder with the use of a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon against Yoni Barrios, 32. He did not rule out pursuing a death penalty.
"We are going to give it serious consideration. But it’s so early on," Wolfson told media outlets after Barrios' afternoon initial court appearance ended.
Barrios, who wore a dark blue jumpsuit and orange hand restraints, was ordered held without bail. An initial arraignment was scheduled for Tuesday.
It wasn’t immediately known whether Barrios had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
He is being held in the Clark County Detention Center.
Two of the victims went to Sunrise Hospital Trauma Center. One was in good condition and another in fair condition Friday, said Marissa Mussi, a hospital spokeswoman.
The remaining four went to University Medical Center. Officials did not immediately return a message seeking their current status.
Police say they began receiving 911 calls about the stabbings around 11:40 a.m. Thursday across the street from the Wynn casino and hotel.
Barrios, who is not a Las Vegas resident, was detained by Sands security guards and Metropolitan Police officers while running on a Strip sidewalk, police said. There were no other suspects involved.
Police said they were continuing to investigate the motive but do not believe there was an altercation before the attacks.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the victims who were killed as Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, both Las Vegas residents.
The names of those wounded in the attack were not immediately released.
The initial stabbing was unprovoked and on the eastern sidewalk of Las Vegas Boulevard. The suspect then headed south and stabbed others, Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said.
The man fled and was followed by 911 callers before he was taken into custody, authorities said. Police recovered the “large knife with a long blade” believed to have been used, LaRochelle said, calling the case a “hard-to-comprehend murder investigation.”
Dewaun Turner, 47, a porter at The District at Resorts World, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was walking home when he saw two people dressed as showgirls in red dresses and heels fleeing from a man with a knife. He saw the man stab both of them, a man walking by and then two more women.
“Ten or 15 steps ahead, and I would’ve been one of the people stabbed,” Turner said.
A witness told Las Vegas TV station KTNV the suspect told a woman that he was a chef who wanted to take a picture with some of the showgirls with his knife. But he started stabbing people when the group declined the man’s offer.
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Q: For years, I’ve accessed my Gmail account on my iPad, and went to a public computer at the library to print from email. Lately, I can’t access Gmail from the library. I don’t have a cellphone, so the verification code goes to my home phone or my iPad, which I leave at home. The librarian explained I can print from my iPad, but this is inconvenient. What I want is for Google to leave my security decisions to me. I should be able to use a variety of devices to access my account. Is there a way to get this message to Google?
— Marianne Mitchell
A: Google does leave your security decisions to you, at least with respect to requiring two-factor authentication for logging into Gmail. Here’s how to turn off two-factor authentication.
1. Open your Google account.
2. Go to the “Security” section and click on 2-Step Verification.
3. Select “Turn off.”
Finally, a dialogue box with pop up asking you to confirm that you want to turn off two-factor verification.
Once you’re done, all you’ll need is your password to log in.
But I want to caution you that by doing so, your email account will be more vulnerable to getting hacked.
Q: About every day my mouse starts jumping around the screen, and I can’t select anything. I replaced the mouse but that didn’t help. The only way to stop it is turning off the power with the power button. Can you help?
— Brent Norton
A: There are quite a few different things that could cause your mouse cursor to be erratic. But the first thing to check is to make sure it’s not the mouse itself. You’ve done that by trying a new mouse on the same computer. Since the same problem occurs with the new mouse, suspicion turns to the computer.
For other readers who have this problem and don’t have another mouse to try, before buying a new one you can connect the mouse to another computer. If the problem recurs, get a new mouse. If it doesn’t recur, follow the suggestions below.
The first question I’d ask is whether the mouse is a wired one connected to a USB port. If so, try a different port. It could be that the port in question is defective or is getting radio frequency interference.
Next, for a Bluetooth mouse, try the Bluetooth troubleshooter. You’ll find it in the Control Panel under Troubleshooters/Hardware and Sound.
Next, check for an updated driver for the mouse. You can try checking the mouse entry in Device Manager and going directly to the manufacturer’s website.
Next, scan your computer for malware.
Finally, if your computer is a laptop and has a touchpad, disable the touchpad. In some cases, users brush the touchpad when typing, causing the mouse cursor to move. Some laptops have a setting that disables the touchpad when a mouse is connected.
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Bill to expand U.S. Supreme Court reintroduced in Congress
Democrats say the legislation is necessary to bring balance to the bench
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Surrounded by activisits, democrats stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, calling for four more seats to be added to the 9-justice bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. They are urging Congress to pass legislation they’re calling the Judiciary Act, which would add four more seats.
“Our most fundamentally held freedoms are under attack from an illegitimate, far-right United States Supreme Court,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who joined other Democrats in calling the current U.S. Supreme Court corrupt.
The Constitution gives Congress the right to organize the court. The 9-justice bench has been in place since 1869. Since the formation of the court in 1790, the number of justices has changed six times.
Democrats stress it’s necessary to once again change the bench, citing polls taken over the last year that have found a majority of voters disapprove of how the court is handling its job.
They said the U.S. Supreme Court faces a ‘legitimacy’ crisis after Senate Republicans blocked the confirmation of then-President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. They criticized Republicans for then rushing the confirmation of current Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 election. Additionally, they criticized Justice Clarence Thomas, who has been accused of failing to disclose gifts made by Republican supporters. Finally, they spotlighted the court’s decision to overturn Roe versus Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion for nearly 50 years.
The Judiciary Act is supported by multiple organizations, including abortion rights groups NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
“The Judiciary Act must pass because we’re talking about an unelected court of judges stripping away rights and protections. Fundamental rights and protections from people all across this country. Protections that save lives,” said Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), “and we’re talking about reproductive access when we’re talking about abortion care. Abortion care saves lives because it’s healthcare. And, as a nurse, that is something that I strongly believe in and I’ve seen it in action. You know, when we talk about voting rights, people need access to the ballot box. We don’t need to have anyone talking about stripping away access.”
Republicans argue any change to the current U.S. Supreme Court is ‘court packing.’
As Democrats pursue court expansion, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) has re-introduced his legislation to ‘Keep the Nine.’
“People understand that in Washington, D.C., the politicians will weaponize just about everything. We want to do what we can to protect the court from that kind of gamesmanship. We don’t want the size of the Supreme Court ping-ponging, going up and down, on the basis of the most recent election. You want to go to 13 justices, Well, then Republicans will go to 15. Democrats will go to 17. We need to nip that kind of obnoxiousness in the bud. That’s what the keep the nine bill would do,” said Johnson.
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LONGMONT, Colo. — Two small airplanes collided in midair near Denver on Saturday, killing three people, authorities said.
It wasn't known what might have caused the crash between the four-seater Cessna 172 and the Sonex Xenos, a light, aluminum, homebuilt aircraft that can seat two.
Nearby residents who heard the crash and rushed outside told CBS affiliate 9News in Denver they were surprised the planes could have struck each other on such a clear morning.
One of the planes crashed in a field, the other in a stand of trees, near Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Denver. Two people were found dead in one wreckage, and one person in the other, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The NTSB said a preliminary report would be released in about 15 days.
The collision happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday. The identities of the victims were not immediately released.
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Which Sur La Table measuring spoons are best?
A good set of measuring spoons can go a long way. It’s just the kind of thing you don’t realize you need until you’re staring at a half-made recipe trying to figure out if you have a 1/4 teaspoon. The Sur La Table retail website has several kinds of measuring spoon sets in assorted materials, colors and shapes. Take a look at the Sur La Table Spice Measuring Spoons for a thorough set of high-quality spoons that are made to last.
What to know before you buy measuring spoons at Sur La Table
Sizes
There are four to seven measuring spoons in a full set. If you don’t do a lot of cooking or baking, then a four-piece set should suffice. This standard set includes a 1/4 teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon, 1 teaspoon and a 1 tablespoon. If you spend a lot of time in the kitchen and want more extensive options, there are six- or seven-piece sets that include a 1/8 teaspoon, 3/4 teaspoon and a 1/2 tablespoon.
Materials
Measuring spoons are typically made from plastic or metal. Plastic spoons are lightweight and less expensive, while metal spoons are more durable and have a longer life span. Metal spoons are made from stainless steel but can be plated in a material such as copper for a different color design. Plastic and metal measuring spoons are usually dishwasher-safe.
Shape
You might notice that some measuring spoon sets feature rounded or oval spoon heads, while others have square or rectangular heads. All of these shapes adhere to the same measurements. The shape does, however, impact how you use the spoons. Oval and rectangular spoons are more convenient for spice jars and other containers with narrow openings.
What to look for in quality measuring spoons at Sur La Table
Double-sided
A double-sided measuring spoon has a spoon on each end. One is rounded for liquid ingredients and the other is curved as a scooper for dry ingredients. This way you don’t have to worry about drying a wet spoon before dipping it into something that will stick to the moisture. It’s an efficient, practical option that can reduce mess and fumbling as you measure out each ingredient.
Clip vs. magnet closure
While there are sets that feature loose spoons, most measuring spoon sets are attached so that you don’t have to worry about misplacing one. The most user-friendly methods for attachment are a clip or magnets.
- Clip: It is typically round and pops open so you can slide the spoons out. After you’ve used the spoons and washed them, simply put them back on the ring and close the clip.
- Magnet: The rounded magnet is attached to the center of the spoon handles. It lets the spoons pull apart easily and realign easily without worrying about a closed ring that might get stuck.
Bonus scraper
A great set of measuring spoons comes with a scraper for leveling. This lets you scrape the excess off the top of a spoon to get the most accurate measurement without having to use your fingers or a knife. Some scrapers feature a curved tip for working with sticky ingredients.
How much you can expect to spend on measuring spoons at Sur La Table
A set of plastic measuring spoons at Sur La Table costs $8-$10, and a set of metal measuring spoons costs $15-$30. A combo set that features measuring spoons and measuring cups costs up to $45.
Measuring spoons on Sur La Table FAQ
How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?
A. There are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon. This means that 1 1/2 teaspoons measures out to a 1/2-tablespoon.
How many tablespoons are in a cup?
A. There are 16 tablespoons in a cup.
Does stainless steel rust?
A. Stainless steel is not designed to rust. It is made with chromium, which forms a protective layer when it reacts with oxygen. Stainless steel can corrode, however, when exposed to extreme conditions, such as heat or moisture,, for long stretches of time.
What are the best measuring spoons to buy at Sur La Table?
Top measuring spoons at Sur La Table
Sur La Table Spice Measuring Spoons
What you need to know: This set includes six stainless steel measuring spoons with rectangular heads, measurements stamped into the handles and a metal clip for organizing.
What you’ll love: The set comes with two more spoons than the average set with a 1/8 teaspoon and a 3/4 teaspoon. The spoons are well-made and shaped perfectly for spice jars. They are dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: The metal clip isn’t easy to open and close.
Where to buy: Sold by Sur La Table
Top measuring spoons at Sur La Table for the money
Oxo Good Grips Measuring Spoons
What you need to know: This set includes six plastic measuring spoons with round heads, a scraper and a hook for hanging.
What you’ll love: It includes a 1/8 teaspoon and a 1/2 tablespoon. The measurements are color-coded for easy identification. The spoons have nonslip handles, and each one rests flat on a countertop without spilling. They are dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: The measurement numbers can start to wear off after multiple rounds in the dishwasher.
Where to buy: Sold by Sur La Table
Worth checking out
Progressive Stainless Steel Magnetic Measuring Spoons
What you need to know: This set includes four double-sided stainless steel measuring spoons with magnetic handles.
What you’ll love: The double-sided scoopers are perfect for wet or dry ingredients. The spoon handles snap together magnetically for easy storage. They are dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: The spoons are great, but the magnets are not as durable. If they fall off, you have to glue them back on.
Where to buy: Sold by Sur La Table
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Short 'Stories from the Tenants Downstairs' describe the gentrification of their home By Daniel Estrin Published August 13, 2022 at 8:04 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:26 NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with author Sidik Fofana about his debut collection, "Stories from the Tenants Downstairs." Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-08-13/short-stories-from-the-tenants-downstairs-describe-the-gentrification-of-their-home | 2022-08-13 13:27:06 | 1 | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-08-13/short-stories-from-the-tenants-downstairs-describe-the-gentrification-of-their-home |
Search for St. Louis prosecutor Gardner’s replacement begins
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican governor on Wednesday officially opened the application process to replace St. Louis’ embattled prosecutor, Kim Gardner, who resigned last week amid crushing pressure from Republicans who have called her negligent.
Gov. Mike Parson said he’s looking for a “member of the St. Louis community” with “strong managerial experience,” a “commitment to the rule of law” and a record of “fair and just” application of state and local law.
“We truly want the best person for the job who can restore law and order to our great City of St. Louis,” Parson said in a statement. “The prosecutor we appoint has a real opportunity to make meaningful and lasting change that strengthens public safety.”
Parson has only weeks to name a successor to Gardner, who is the city’s first Black circuit attorney. Her last day is June 1.
Republicans have been calling for Gardner to resign for months. They argue too many cases, including homicides, have gone unpunished under Gardner’s watch, that victims and their families are left uninformed, and that the prosecutor’s office is too slow to take on cases brought by police. Gardner has said efforts to push her out of office are politically motivated.
State Senate leaders have said she reached a breaking point when she learned that her departure likely would mean the death of pending legislation to allow a special appointed prosecutor to take over most of her duties.
Republican Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer, who sponsored that legislation, said he will not push for its passage this year now that Gardner is stepping down.
Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey also took legal steps to remove Gardner from office in February. A hearing on whether Gardner should be removed had been scheduled for September.
Gardner has faced intense public scrutiny for years, especially from Republican elected officials.
In 2018, she charged then-Gov. Eric Greitens with felony invasion of privacy, accusing him of taking a compromising photo of a woman during an extramarital affair. The charge was eventually dropped. But Greitens, a Republican who was also under investigation by Missouri lawmakers, resigned in June 2018.
The case drew scrutiny that led to the conviction of Gardner’s investigator. Gardner received a written reprimand for failing to produce documents and mistakenly maintaining that all documents had been provided to Greitens’ lawyers.
Criticism of Gardner escalated earlier this year after 17-year-old Janae Edmondson, a volleyball standout from Tennessee, was struck by a speeding car after a tournament game in downtown St. Louis. She lost both legs.
The driver, 21-year-old Daniel Riley, was out on bond on a robbery charge despite nearly 100 bond violations that included letting his GPS monitor die and breaking the terms of his house arrest, according to court records. Critics questioned why Riley was freed.
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DENTON, Texas (AP)Tylor Perry’s 21 points helped North Texas defeat Fresno State 61-52 on Saturday night.
Perry was 6 of 14 shooting, including 4 for 10 from distance, and went 5 for 5 from the foul line for the Mean Green (2-1). Jayden Martinez added 10 points and nine rebounds.
The Bulldogs (1-3) were led by Jordan Campbell, who recorded 14 points and two blocks. Jemarl Baker Jr. added 12 points for Fresno State. In addition, Isaih Moore finished with 11 points and seven rebounds.
North Texas led Fresno State at the half 31-28.
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North Texas plays Tuesday against Paul Quinn at home, while Fresno State squares off against Washington on Wednesday.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Red Sox vs. Yankees on June 17, 2023
Published: Jun. 17, 2023 at 11:50 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Gleyber Torres is among the players with prop bets available when the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees meet at Fenway Park on Saturday (at 7:15 PM ET).
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Red Sox vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Boston Red Sox
Brayan Bello Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 4.5 (Over Odds: -149)
Bello Stats
- The Red Sox will hand the ball to Brayan Bello (3-4) for his 11th start of the season.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his third consecutive quality start.
- Bello has two starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has yet to finish an appearance without an earned run allowed this season.
Bello Recent Games
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Rafael Devers Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Devers Stats
- Rafael Devers has 63 hits with 16 doubles, 17 home runs, 19 walks and 56 RBI.
- He's slashed .243/.299/.502 so far this season.
Devers Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Torres Stats
- Torres has eight doubles, a triple, 11 home runs, 30 walks and 28 RBI (64 total hits). He's also swiped six bases.
- He's slashed .252/.330/.421 on the season.
Torres Recent Games
Anthony Rizzo Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +120)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +160)
Rizzo Stats
- Anthony Rizzo has recorded 65 hits with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 21 walks. He has driven in 35 runs.
- He has a slash line of .265/.342/.437 so far this year.
Rizzo Recent Games
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This after a young black bear was roaming around residents' backyards. Talk about a frightening scene for your Friday morning commute. The bear was later released back into the wild in Maryland.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
609 PM CST Fri Nov 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Nueces and
southern San Patricio Counties through 645 PM CST...
At 608 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Odem, or 8 miles north of Robstown, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Corpus Christi, Portland, Robstown, Sinton, Taft, Corpus Christi
International Airport, Odem, Del Mar College Windward Campus, Edroy,
Clarkwood, Annaville, Calallen, Taft Southwest and Tuloso.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 37 between mile markers 2 and 24.
US Highway 181 between mile markers 626 and 636.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 648 and 658.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2779 9763 2779 9764 2780 9765 2791 9777
2807 9761 2795 9730 2768 9751
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 308DEG 26KT 2792 9762
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...Big Temperature Change Tonight and Saturday for Deep South
Texas and the Rio Grande Valley...
A strong cold front tonight brings a quick and drastic end to the
warm temperatures. Citizens of Deep South Texas should be
prepared for 30 degree drop of temperatures overnight. The cold
front currently, moving south of Laredo and nearing Corpus Christi
moves into the northern and Western Ranchland between 8 and 10 PM
and quickly passes through the Rio Grande Valley between 10 PM
and Midnight surging south of South Padre Island after Midnight.
Temperatures are likely to drop at least 15 degrees within the
first 1 to 2 hours behind the front and 25 to 30 degrees in 4 to 6
hours, or in other words, temperatures in the 70s in advance of
the cold front fall into the 50s a few hours after the front
bottoming out in the upper 40s to lower 50s by sunrise Saturday.
Temperatures remain steady through the morning with a slow
recovery through the 50s Saturday afternoon. Strong northerly
winds of 15 to 30 mph are also expected to accompany the frontal
passage combining with the falling temperatures pushing the "feel
like" wind chills down near 40 degrees.
Listen to NOAA Weather Radio or your local media for the latest
updates on this change in the weather.
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Inflation, the curse of our pocketbooks and the Federal Reserve, has hit almost every good in the U.S. But the price of a beloved toy has managed to hover around $1 — for more than 50 years.
Hot Wheels are a retail oddity. They remain one of the most affordable toys in the country at a time when inflation is chipping away at savings accounts and compounding credit card debt for many Americans, experts like James Zahn told NPR.
Zahn is the editor-in-chief of The Toy Book, a trade publication that has covered the toy industry in North America since 1984. Inflation and other supply chain-related factors have boosted prices this year in a few toy categories, most notably action figures, dolls and electronic toys, Zahn said.
On average, The Toy Book has recorded a 15% jump in manufacturers' suggested prices for a lot of toys this season; many products that would've been $19.99 a year or two ago are coming in at $22.99 to $24.99, he added.
"It is exceptionally rare to find a toy that maintains its price for a few years, let alone more than five decades," Zahn said. "Hot Wheels are an anomaly in that the continued sales volume and razor-sharp production pipeline manage to keep costs just low enough to maintain that sweet $1 price point."
A brief history of Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels are the brainchild of Elliot Handler, a co-founder of Mattel, who was eager to create toy cars that reflected "the radical versions altered by custom-car shops — like vehicles he often saw on California's highways," New York's Museum of Play states on its website.
The result was an initial run of 16 Hot Wheels — including Camaros, Corvettes, and Firebirds — unveiled at the New York Toy Fair in 1968, MotorTrend reported.
Kevin Feeley happens to own each of these 16 cars (though not in each of the dozens of colors released at the time).
Feeley, of Firestone, Colo., has been collecting Hot Wheels for about 45 years. Included in the 37,000 cars are many coveted Redline models, which feature a red circle on the sidewalls of their tires.
"Early on, they had what was called Spectraflame paint, which was kind of a glittery paint. It was a very shiny paint," Feeley told NPR. "But the paint they're using now [for most cars] is not a Spectraflame paint, it's not as costly of a paint that they use."
These initial models sold for 69 to 89 cents each (which is about $6 to $7.60 today, accounting for inflation), said Bruce Pascal, an avid Hot Wheels collector and author of Hot Wheels Prototypes which includes the narrative history of the toy.
Those prices, combined with promotions at gas stations, were crucial in the early success of Hot Wheels, Pascal said.
"There were a lot of gas stations in the 1970s where if you filled your car up with 8 gallons of gas, you got either a free Hot Wheels or you got one for 69 cents, but most of them gave it to you for free," Pascal said. "Mostly Shell gas stations, but also private gas stations wanted to get in the game."
Turning a children's toy into a serious business
It's been nearly 55 years since Handler cooked up the idea for Hot Wheels and Ted Wu is helping to keep things pretty radical at the company.
Wu, Mattel's vice president of design for Hot Wheels, swiveled the chair in his Los Angeles home office in November to show off a collaboration the company did on a Gucci collectible.
"Someone stole my Gucci car, oh no," Wu said, laughing, unable to find the $120 car on the shelves behind him. "We did the Cadillac Seville. This was a literal Cadillac that Gucci did back in 1972. So we did a die-cast version of it for Gucci's 100th anniversary."
The Cadillac marked Hot Wheels' first high fashion collaboration and one that reflects the evolution of the toy brand and is a reason why so many of its cars maintain that $1 price.
Wu leads a design team of 60 people spread across the U.S. and Asia who are responsible for each Hot Wheels model. The team includes former automotive designers who have worked for Toyota and General Motors, he said.
A glimpse at Mattel's Hot Wheels store reveals a smorgasbord of collaborations (Nintendo, DC Universe), race track accessories, and toys completely devoid of wheels. The brand has also extended its reach into pop culture through categories like gaming, apparel, film, and NFTs. Then there's Mattel Creations, which features limited Hot Wheels releases like the RLC Exclusive Nissan Skyline GT-R which retailed for $25 and included a full metal base and Spectraflame paint.
Each Hot Wheels made today contains die-cast or metal in them but less than they did in 1968, Wu said. Parts of each car —which are produced in a limited number of colors— are also made of plastic; sometimes that can be the body or the chassis of the car. Investment in high-tech manufacturing capabilities and the introduction of cutting-edge technology have also helped keep costs down, Wu added.
While Hot Wheels has fully embraced the nostalgic adult demographic, the production of high-quality, $1 cars, remains at the heart of the company's mission, Wu said.
"We like to say that everyone's first car is a Hot Wheels," Wu said. "And as new parents get back into the brand for their kids, it can sometimes rekindle the joy they had for the brand as a child."
Today, more than 16 Hot Wheels cars are sold per second across the globe and more than 6 billion have been produced to date, the company said.
That so many of those billions have been sold to parents looking for an affordable toy for their child says a lot about the brand, said Pascal, the collector.
"You're gonna buy a Hot Wheel for what, $1.29 today, or whatever the average number is? It's pocket change," Pascal said. "One of the reasons why I think Mattel is so successful is, you know, there are 330 million Americans, probably every adult, every kid that you know, has played with the Hot Wheel at one time, because they're so affordable."
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Funded research will benefit policymakers and the affordable housing industry
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has named Jongwoong Kim and Julie Wilson as its 2023 Kathy A. Possinger Housing Policy Fellowship recipients. Both Kim and Wilson will receive a financial stipend of up to $12,000 during the year to conduct research benefiting the affordable housing industry. This is the first time that two fellowships have been awarded in the same year: one is designated for an academic-led project and one for a practitioner-led project.
"We couldn't be more pleased with the high caliber of our two 2023 fellows," said PHFA Executive Director and CEO Robin Wiessmann. "Jongwoong Kim and Julie Wilson have exceptional backgrounds focused on housing issues, and their separate research projects should produce valuable insights to help us expand housing opportunities and address pressing housing issues. Our hope is that their fellowship experience with PHFA also further prepares them for future leadership roles in the housing field"
Jongwoong Kim is an assistant professor and assessment coordinator in the Department of Geography and Planning at West Chester University; he is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for GIS and Spatial Analysis at the university. Kim's research and teaching interests include housing and community development, geospatial analysis and visualization, and health and aging and the built environment. He holds a doctorate in regional development planning from the University of Cincinnati and a master's in urban planning from the University of Michigan.
Kim's fellowship project will connect and analyze issues that are often discussed separately but have consequences from their combined impact on seniors: those are property taxes and aging-in-place. Using spatial analysis techniques, his project will examine the geography of locally varied property tax components (such as the local tax rate and school tax rate) in Pennsylvania and their implications for older Pennsylvanians, especially those with limited financial means, as they age-in-place. The project will develop a set of publicly accessible web-based and interactive maps, as well as a series of rankings of counties and municipalities, to provide a more comprehensible analysis of the feasibility of aging-in-place across the commonwealth.
Julie Wilson is the director of housing and community development at Common Roots, a community organization committed to developing permanently affordable housing that builds wealth and security for low-income residents in Meadville. She is a leader in Meadville's community wealth building movement and co-author of the report "Community Wealth Building in Meadville: A Strategic Assessment by The Democracy Collaborative."
Wilson's fellowship project will explore how new approaches to cooperative housing might intervene in the escalating housing affordability crisis through the medium of documentary film. Specifically, the film will chronicle Common Roots' work to establish a renting cooperative where renters are able to build equity by collectively governing and managing their homes. The film will be targeted to affordable housing professionals, grassroots actors and organizations, and general audiences interested in housing issues and cooperative enterprises.
Wilson is a former associate professor of communication arts and community and justice studies at Allegheny College. She is the author of "Neoliberalism," a textbook that explores contemporary politics, economics, and culture; and the director/producer of "Bending Hell," a documentary about a local city council campaign. Before getting her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, she was a neighborhood organizer, during which time she helped support a housing cooperative and served on the board of the Rondo Community Land Trust.
The stipend provided to both these researchers through PHFA's housing policy fellowship can be used for a variety of activities supporting the fellows' approved research, including interviews with experts, securing resources and study materials, and travel for attending relevant conferences.
This is the third year of PHFA's housing policy fellowship. In 2021, the fellowship was renamed the Kathy A. Possinger Housing Policy Fellowship in honor of PHFA board designee and affordable housing champion Kathy Possinger. She was a passionate affordable housing advocate who served Pennsylvanians for two decades through her work in both the public and private sectors.
Editors: Head shots of both PHFA fellows are available upon request.
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency works to provide affordable homeownership and rental housing options for older adults, low- and moderate-income families, and people with special housing needs. Through its carefully managed mortgage programs and investments in multifamily housing developments, PHFA also promotes economic development across the state. Since its creation by the legislature in 1972, it has generated more than $16.7 billion of funding for more than 190,750 single-family home mortgage loans, helped fund the construction of 141,492 rental units, distributed approximately $239 million to support local housing initiatives, and saved the homes of more than 50,660 families from foreclosure. PHFA programs and operations are funded primarily by the sale of securities and from fees paid by program users, not by public tax dollars. The agency is governed by a 14-member board.
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717-649-6522 (cell)
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Cherfilus-McCormick wins re-election to 20th Congressional District
Published: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:07 PM EST|Updated: 54 minutes ago
Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick won re-election to the U.S. House in Florida's 20th Congressional District, easily defeating Republican challenger Drew-Montez Clark.
Cherfilus-McCormick collected 72% of the votes compared toDrew-Montez Clark's 28%.
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This is Cherfilus-McCormick's first full term in the House after being elected to Congress in a special session held in January of this yearfollowing the death of Democratic U.S. Rep.Alcee Hastings.
Florida's 20th Congressional District covers western Palm Beach County, Riviera Beach and areas of northern Broward County.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following an extensive international search, Emory University announced today that Ravi I. Thadhani, MD, MPH, has been appointed executive vice president for health affairs (EVPHA). Thadhani also will serve as executive director of Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors. He will begin his tenure at Emory on Jan. 1, 2023.
"Dr. Thadhani is a dynamic and innovative leader for Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center," says Emory President Gregory L. Fenves. "He has deep experience in delivering the highest-quality health care, advancing biomedical research, training health professionals and serving the public to improve the health of all. He will inspire Emory's talented doctors, nurses, frontline staff, faculty and researchers to reach new heights of excellence. In his many years of academic health system leadership, he has never stopped his research and clinical work, which is a testament to his lifelong commitment to serving patients and improving community health. I can't wait for him to get started at Emory."
Thadhani currently serves as chief academic officer and dean for faculty affairs for Mass General Brigham and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts. At Mass General Brigham, he is a member of the executive leadership team and oversees graduate medical education, professional development and a $2.3 billion research enterprise. Previously, he served as vice dean of research and graduate research education at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (2017-2019), associate director of research at Mass General Brigham (2012-2017) and chief of nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital (2013-2017).
"I am excited to be coming to Emory University and honored to be joining its outstanding leadership team," says Thadhani. "Emory's commitment to serving the Georgia community is impressive and is the driver for its international reputation as a leader in health care delivery and health sciences research, discovery and innovation."
As EVPHA, Thadhani will oversee Emory's academic health sciences center, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC), and in this position will shape the next era of research, training and health-care delivery innovation. Founded in 1966, WHSC includes Emory's schools of medicine, public health and nursing, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory Global Health Institute, Goizueta Institute @ Emory Brain Health, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center and Emory Healthcare.
Emory Healthcare, with more than 24,000 employees, 11 hospital campuses and 425 locations, is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia. As EVPHA and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board, Thadhani will provide oversight of Emory Healthcare's CEO and leadership team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care focused on supporting the health and well-being of patients around the state.
"As a physician leader and researcher, Dr. Thadhani understands the needs of patients and how those needs translate to the mission of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, including Emory Healthcare," says John Rice, chair of the WHSC Committee of Emory's Board of Trustees and chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors. "He has a vision for the future that will support our community to address complex health care needs not only in Atlanta and Georgia but around the world."
With more than 30 years as a general and specialized internal medicine physician, Thadhani has extensive experience in patient care, research and clinical trials. He has led a successful research lab with continuous federal funding for more than 25 years, with a focus on kidney disease and developing diagnostics and therapeutics for patients with preeclampsia. Thadhani has performed several clinical trials focused on effective treatments and preventative measures for preeclampsia, which is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality.
He is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific manuscripts and has published in top-tier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association. Thadhani has been inducted into several honor societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, American Epidemiological Society and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He also serves as a board member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a research organization that convenes a community of researchers from across many disciplines and partner institutions — MIT, Harvard and Harvard-affiliated hospitals.
A recipient of several distinguished national awards, Thadhani has an extensive track record of recruiting and mentoring women and underrepresented staff, trainees and faculty. He has been honored with the Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School, the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the John P. Peters Award from the American Society of Nephrology.
Thadhani earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1991. He received a master of public health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame. He also completed the LEAD Innovation Certificate Program in 2020 at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
"This is an exciting time at Emory, and I look forward to supporting the tripartite mission of education, research and clinical care of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and advancing its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and justice," says Thadhani. "There is no limit to what we can accomplish with the remarkable faculty, staff and students at Emory."
Media contacts:
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Brian Katzowitz, brian.katzowitz@emory.edu
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WASHINGTON, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Freight Division is calling on ArcBest to invest in its workforce at ABF Freight following the recent sale of its FleetNet subsidiary to Cox Enterprises for $100 million.
ArcBest is the parent company of ABF Freight, which employs more than 8,000 Teamsters nationwide. FleetNet is a fleet maintenance company owned by ArcBest.
"Our members at ABF are the driving force behind ArcBest's corporate success. Teamsters make this company profitable, and we're going to demand that this sale benefits workers, not just executives and shareholders," said Teamsters National Freight Director John A. Murphy.
On Dec. 31, ArcBest had $158.4 million cash on hand. The proceeds from the sale, $75 million after taxes and expenses, are estimated to increase the company's available cash nearly 50 percent. Because of the sale, ArcBest's board of directors has increased the total amount available under the company's common stock repurchase program by nearly $100 million – from $26.5 million to $125 million.
The Teamsters current national agreement with ABF Freight expires June 30.
"This company can clearly afford to invest in its Teamster workforce, and we are going to demand everything our members deserve at the table. ArcBest's financial success is a direct result of our members' hard work at ABF, and we are going to demand the wages and working conditions they deserve," Murphy said.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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TAIPEI, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE, the world's leading computer brand, wowed the creator community with its completely re-designed AERO series laptops since their launch earlier this year. Above all, the AERO 16 creator laptop is particularly designed with graphic designers, video editors, and photographers in mind, delivering X-Rite™ certified and Pantone® validated (Delta E<1) color accuracy. Combined with the Super Narrow Bezel 4K+ OLED display and VESA-certified DisplayHDR™ 500 True Black, the AERO 16 laptop brings true-to-life colors that make creators' inspirations come alive.
To share such a creative edge, GIGABYTE is inviting the whole community to join AERO 16 Relay Challenge and pass on the joy of color and creation on social platforms. The campaign is led off with the Color Relay Challenge. Starting from August 10, participants are invited to apply the AERO 16-themed Instagram AR filter and complete the tasks for a chance to win awesome prizes.
The campaign will be later succeeded by the Creativity Relay Challenge. GIGABYTE will be teaming up with several world-renowned content creators, including Asia Ladowska, Carles Dalmau, Elenamics, Elliot Ulm and Li Cambon. These creative talents will be split into two, as each team will create a piece of art in a relay format based on the subjects of realness and freedom. Each talent will be using the AERO 16 laptop and let their creativity fly thanks to its powerful performance and perfect color accuracy. Starting from August 23, everyone can visit Official Facebook Page and vote for their favorite artwork for a chance to win a custom AERO 16 laptop featuring the winning design.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of NeoGenomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEO) between February 27, 2020 and April 26, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 6, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased NeoGenomics securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the NeoGenomics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4888 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 6, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) it was not a "one-stop-shop" for cancer testing because it did not offer the most technologically advanced NGS tests, which led to a significant decrease in revenue as current and prospective customers went elsewhere for their testing needs; (2) costs were not fixed because the Company needed to hire additional employees to process more complex customized testing demanded by customers utilizing the Company's outdated portfolio of tests, leading to operational challenges, decrease lab efficiency, and increased testing turnaround times; and as a result (3) the Company violated federal healthcare laws and regulations related to fraud, waste, and abuse. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Make your own version of Girl Scout cookies at home
The main problem with Girl Scout cookies is the brief window you have to buy them. These treats are only available through your local council for a six- to eight-week period. That leaves a lot of weeks when the cookies aren’t available.
To determine if there was a way to get that irresistible Girl Scout cookie flavor the other 44 to 46 weeks of the year, we asked our baking expert, Andrea Boudewijn, whether Girl Scout cookies can be duped. In this article, Andrea answers that question and provides a recipe for a tantalizing Girl Scout cookie-themed dessert.
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Can Girl Scout cookies be duped?
When you can’t have something, you tend to want it even more. This is part of the reason why America loves Girl Scout cookies. The other part is because they are so yummy. Whether it’s the ever-popular Thin Mints, the Caramel deLites, or the classic Trefoils, just by thinking about your favorite Girl Scout cookie, you can probably already taste the flavor.
When asked if it would be possible to duplicate a Girl Scout cookie recipe, our expert responded, “I think it’d be impossible to replicate the actual cookie. We have a rough idea of the ingredients, but we don’t know the recipe.”
Another reason it might be tough to get that exact flavor when making fresh cookies is because Girl Scout cookies have to be shelf-stable so they can last a long time. That means there’s a lot of wax mixed in with the chocolate because a higher wax content facilitates longer shelf life.
How to get the “look” of a Girl Scout cookie
Just because you can’t get the exact recipe for Girl Scout cookies doesn’t mean you can’t get a very close approximation in both the look and the taste. Here are some ways to do that.
Chocolate-dipped cookies
To make chocolate-covered cookies, like Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and more, our expert said you can use any kind of chocolate except traditional Nestle chips because “they have special chemicals in there that make them hold their shape in chocolate chip cookies. So get something a little bit better — anything available at the store in bars.” Melt the chocolate, tip the cup sideways, and use a fork to dip the cookie in fully.
Andrea suggested scraping off the bottom layer of chocolate and placing the cookies on a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet. “Don’t make your cookies have ‘feet’ — that means there’s so much chocolate on it that when you set it down on the parchment paper, it runs off and makes a foot once it firms up. Put the cookies in the fridge and let them sit in there for maybe 10 minutes, not overnight, because the cookies will absorb the moisture in the fridge and they will get soggy. Take them out and voila, you’ve got perfectly dipped cookies.”
Caramel-covered cookies
To get the scrumptious flaky caramel coconut found on Caramel deLites (also known as Samoas), after baking your cookies, use a pastry brush “to paint chocolate on your cookie and then turn your cookie upside down and dip it in coconut.”
Lemon glaze cookies
Reproducing the lemon glaze found on Lemonade cookies is fairly simple. According to our expert, just mix up a lemon glaze using powdered sugar and lemon juice.
Creative ways to use crushed Girl Scout cookies
- Use crushed lemon shortbread cookies to make a killer pie crust.
- Crush up some Girl Scout cookies and add a little icing to make cake pops.
- Use crushed Girl Scout cookies to decorate cakes.
- Crushed Girl Scout cookies make a more interesting ingredient. “For example, if you make chocolate truffles, a really easy way to do the exterior is to roll them in cocoa. Imagine rolling or dipping them into crushed-up Girl Scout cookies.”
Recipe and baking tips for Thin Mint Cake
A Thin Mint Cake is everything you love about Thin Mints, only in cake form. According to Andrea, this cake is a “cloud of peppermint, almost like a breath mint, without overwhelming the chocolate.” It takes advantage of the defining trait that makes the favorite Girl Scout cookie so special: there’s mint and there’s chocolate, but there’s no sharpness to it. It would be the perfect birthday cake for a chocolate lover or an impressive treat for a special occasion.
Recipe for Thin Mint Cake
Chocolate Cake:
Yield: One 6-inch round.
1 1/2 ounces milk chocolate chips
1 1/2 ounces black onyx cocoa
6 ounces boiling water
2 large eggs (room temperature)
1 1/2 ounces sour cream
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 ounces cake flour
8 1/2 ounces sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 + 1/8 teaspoon salt
4 ounces butter, room temperature
4 ounces vegetable oil
- Whisk boiling water with chips and cocoa until no lumps appear and place on a table to cool.
- In another bowl whisk eggs, yolks, sour cream and vanilla together.
- On the mixer, gently paddle flour, sugar, soda and salt to mix.
- Add butter and oil and mix on low to blend, then mix on medium for 1 minute. Scrape down the whole bowl.
- Add the egg mixture and beat on medium for 1 1/2 minutes until it’s lighter in color and well incorporated. Scrape down well.
- With the mixer on low, gradually add the chocolate mixture. Scrape down, then after all is added, beat the mixture on medium for 30 seconds. Scrape and blend the last edges by hand. Fill pans and bake.
Peppermint Buttercream:
Makes 6 cups. A half-recipe is enough to fill a four-layer, 6-inch round.
5 large egg whites
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 pound (4 sticks) of butter (room temperature)
1 tablespoon of peppermint extract
Green food coloring for pale-green color
- Whisk whites and sugar together over a pot of hot water (bain-marie) just until the sugar is dissolved.
- Pour the warm mixture into the mixer bowl and whip on high until cooled (about 7 minutes).
- Pull pieces of butter off and slowly chunk them into the whipping sugar/egg white mixture. Watch your fingers and long hair!
- Switch off the whisk attachment and insert the paddle, then gently beat in the extract and color until just incorporated.
Decor items:
- Tiny Reese’s cups
- Chopped nuts
- Edible flowers
- Pirouette cookies
- Chocolate shavings (Shave a bar of Ghirardelli chocolate with a carrot peeler)
- Sugar pearls
Thin Mint Cake baking tips
- Use a special kind of cocoa called Black Onyx. “It’s incredibly dark and makes the cake crumb look like the color of an Oreo.”
- Use peppermint, not spearmint. You might not think much about it when grabbing a breath mint, but when making this cake, using the right flavor extract is crucial.
- “Go easy when you’re adding the extract. Peppermint can be overwhelming.”
- Adding a dropper of green food coloring sets expectations: people will see the color and think, “Oh, that’s probably either mint or pistachio.”
- Put some additional peppermint around the edge of the crumb coat to add more flavor.
- When decorating, our expert suggests letting your muse guide you. “I like to pile things on top of the cake. So there are Girl Scout cookies, and there are chocolate curls, and then maybe raspberries and flowers stuck in there. I’ll do drips down the side of vanilla or more chocolate or caramel. It just looks amazing.”
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MUNDY TWP., MI -- Repairs to the damaged Hill Road bridge over US-23 will shut down northbound traffic next weekend and maybe the weekend after.
The Michigan Department of Transportation said in a news release on Thursday, Oct. 27, that it will first close one lane of northbound US-23 traffic on Thursday, Nov. 3, followed by the closure of all northbound lanes of the expressway at 10 p.m. on Nov. 4.
Northbound traffic will be detoured via the entrance and exit ramps at the US-23 and Hill Road interchange, MDOT said, and crews will reopen one lane of northbound US-23 by 5 a.m. on Nov. 7.
Additional closures of northbound US-23 may be required the following weekend, depending on how much work is completed during the first weekend of repairs, the agency said.
The Hill Road bridge was damaged after a high-load hit in May.
Although emergency repairs allowed traffic to resume on northbound US-23, a single-lane of eastbound Hill Road has been closed in the area since the accident.
Planned repairs include heat straightening and steel repairs to the bridge beam, followed by protective paint coating, the state said.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
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DULUTH — The largest-ever grant awarded to the College of St. Scholastica is being used for a partnership between Northland schools and the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy program.
The $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will be used over five years to increase mental health support for K-12 students.
The grant will fully fund a project directed by Shelly Smart and Kaisa Syvaoja, assistant professors in St. Scholastica’s Department of Occupational Therapy. Graduate students will be placed starting this fall in area schools, where they will practice as mental health providers. The program’s goal, Smart said, is to both help train their graduate students in mental health practice and to help the students in local schools.
Syvaoja said mental health is at the core of an occupational therapist's work and training, but the expertise can often be overlooked or underutilized.
“In this partnership, it’s really showcasing what we can do as part of our profession in this school-based setting and it’s really also showing how we can be part of that team,” Syvaoja said. “Our goal is not to take away what the social workers are doing or what the counselors are doing — that’s not the intent at all because they’re doing something that’s totally different related to mental health, and we’re able to support those providers in a different way.”
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The role of the graduate students will vary based on each school’s needs. Jamie Hunter, academic fieldwork coordinator and assistant professor in St. Scholastica’s Department of Occupational Therapy, said the graduate students will work alongside the school’s counselors, social workers and teachers to help students learn mental health coping skills and early interventions to use in everyday life.
For example, the students may work on skills to help with anxiety, trouble focusing or behavioral problems that interfere with their abilities to focus, interact socially and complete their daily tasks and routines.
“We could provide some co-teaching opportunities where we’re in the classroom, we’re teaching the kiddos some of the skills and strategies that they can use, but we’re also modeling some of those strategies to the teacher so when we’re not there it gets carried over and it’s helping everyone,” Hunter said.
Area school districts with existing partnerships with the College of St. Scholastica are on board to participate in the project: Superior School District, Duluth Edison Charter Schools, Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative, Northland Learning Center and Paul Bunyan Education Cooperative in Brainerd.
St. Scholastica program directors are still working with school leaders to identify how they can be of the most help, including which schools, grade levels and areas of greatest need they will be focused on.
To qualify for the grant, the schools participating in St. Scholastica’s project had to meet a threshold of undersupported mental health services for students. Hunter said there has been a significant increase in mental health needs among children, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Education pushed out the grant funding for mental health service demonstration because of the growing need of mental health resources nationwide. Each of the grant recipients are training school-based mental health providers. St. Scholastica is the only occupational therapy program in the country to receive a grant.
The real joy to this project is that we’re coming in and really being able to provide additional supports and hopefully become part of that inner fabric.
The graduate students will likely be working with all students, and not just students with individualized learning plans or Section 504 plans. The participating schools already have existing mental health professionals and occupational therapists. However, Syvaoja said the St. Scholastica occupational therapists will be specifically focusing on mental health and not other occupational therapy practices like fine motor skills or behaviors.
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“The real joy to this project is that we’re coming in and really being able to provide additional supports and hopefully become part of that inner fabric,” Syvaoja said. “None of these are situations where you have to go in and start from the very beginning or they’ve never heard about mental health before. These are all really great schools and districts and they’ve got a lot to showcase and to build off of.”
The five-year plan for the project will place five students each during the fall semester of 2023 and spring semester of 2024. The following fall, the number of students will increase to 10 student placements each semester. The placement at the schools will count as field work required for graduation and licensing.
Beginning in the third year of the program, a fellowship of five licensed mental health providers will be placed in schools for the full academic year. The fellows will be licensed occupational therapists who are interested in building more mental health practice with mentorship from St. Scholastica faculty.
“Historically, occupational therapy’s role in mental health promotion/intervention has been overlooked,” Smart and Syvaoja wrote in the project brief for the grant funding. “In school settings, OTs are uniquely positioned to focus on the developmental growth of youth to achieve independent functioning in the self-management of mental well-being and roles such as students, players and friends.”
Smart said they hope this program will attract occupational therapists and students from across the nation, especially those interested in working in rural communities. Ideally, the program will continue to grow after the five-year plan is complete and more people will be trained to fill mental health gaps.
“We’re focusing on sustaining the positions, so there will be talks over those five years with administration in the schools to find out how that might be funded and if this is something that can sustain,” Smart said. “Hopefully by having these students participate in the prevention and early intervention will change the system and do more prevention when it comes to mental health in kids.”
Smart also hopes the additional resources the graduate students and fellows bring to schools will help improve the mental health of providers at the schools they are placed in by giving them extra support.
“I think the unique thing about how this grant is structured and what it’s intended to do, because the intent is to address the mental health needs of kiddos in schools, but it’s really intended to increase the number of providers that are able to do that in the future,” Syvaoja said. “While we’ve set up a structure of training and providing advanced support for our students and the fellowship, it’s also opening the door for some of those future collaborations with practitioners that are already in those schools.”
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As Wales took on Iran, soccer fans witnessed the first red card of the FIFA World Cup on Friday.
The New York Times reported that the moment happened in the 86th minute of a scoreless match when Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey raced out of his box to try to stop Iran star Mehdi Taremi. Instead, Hennessey missed the ball and collided with Taremi.
Initially, referees issued Hennessey a yellow card, but after they reviewed a replay, the ref overturned his original decision and issued the keeper a red card, Fox Sports reported.
This left Wales down a man and backup goalkeeper Danny Ward stepped in for Hennessey.
Iran went on to win the game 2-0 during stoppage time, with goals by Rouzbeh Cheshmi in the 98th minute and Ramin Rezaeian three minutes later, Sports Illustrated reported.
Hennessey is the third goalie in the soccer tournament's history to receive a red card, Fox Sports said.
The other two goalies to receive one was Italy's Gianluca Pagliuca in 1994, and South Africa's Itumeleng Khune in 2010. | https://www.wptv.com/news/world/wales-hennessey-becomes-first-player-to-receive-red-card-at-world-cup-2022 | 2022-11-25 19:24:21 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/world/wales-hennessey-becomes-first-player-to-receive-red-card-at-world-cup-2022 |
EMI uses TeamViewer's remote access and support solution to connect to and manage their digital signs and advertisements
TAMPA BAY, Fla., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electra-Media, Inc. (EMI), a custom digital outdoor advertising display firm, is using a secure remote access and support solution to reduce costs, improve customer service, and spur new growth and innovation. With the TeamViewer solution, EMI technicians can now access, troubleshoot, and program signs from anywhere, at any time. This allows more time to focus on high standards of excellence and to develop dynamic digital campaigns.
TeamViewer allows EMI employees to remotely log into a sign at a moment's notice and receive analytics, providing customers with specifics on the sign's performance for each campaign with complete accuracy and in real time. Without TeamViewer, EMI would have to dispatch a technician to travel on-site to fix any software issue with their signs, which takes about four hours of labor and a high 4-figure cost per issue.
With instances like this happening at least twice a week, TeamViewer has saved EMI on average over five figures a month, or more than six figures a year, by being able to immediately and remotely troubleshoot and repair an issue. As a result, EMI's technicians can focus on the important hardware issues that require their expert maintenance.
"Working quickly and efficiently to resolve an issue with our signs is critical to ensure we meet contractual obligations with our clients," said Christy McEwen, Director of Digital Media at EMI. "TeamViewer allows us to better manage resources and focus time on creating revenue driving campaigns, collaborating with clients, and facilitating new business as opposed to coordinating software maintenance."
"TeamViewer is proud to see our remote connectivity solution being used by EMI to reduce troubleshooting and increase support efficiencies," said Patricia Nagle, President, Americas at TeamViewer. "EMI can now spend more time and resources driving business growth while continuing to provide industry-leading customer support."
EMI was able to restructure its operations to create teams that can work remotely, allowing the company to expand its business to other areas of the country. In just the last few years, EMI has established a presence in New Jersey, Minnesota, Georgia, and more, with plans for additional states in the upcoming year.
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For almost 40 years, EMI has been industry renowned for its ability to create the largest and most iconic freestanding outdoor digital displays with the best quality products that stand the test of time and operate for decades.
EMI has cultivated a standard of excellence and a team of experts that work together to ensure the highest quality customer experience and end result. EMI assists clients through every step of the sign purchase process without the bias of a manufacturer and with a specialization in designing for impact, facilitation of entitlements and permits, management of the fabrication and installation of the project, and maintenance of the signs thereafter with custom content programming.
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TeamViewer is a leading global technology company that provides a connectivity platform to remotely access, control, manage, monitor, and repair devices of any kind – from laptops and mobile phones to industrial machines and robots. Although TeamViewer is free of charge for private use, it has around 620,000 subscribers and enables companies of all sizes and from all industries to digitalize their business-critical processes through seamless connectivity. Against the backdrop of global megatrends like device proliferation, automation and new work, TeamViewer proactively shapes digital transformation and continuously innovates in the fields of Augmented Reality, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. Since the company's foundation in 2005, TeamViewer's software has been installed on more than 2.5 billion devices around the world. The company is headquartered in Goppingen, Germany, and employs around 1,400 people globally. In 2021, TeamViewer achieved billings of EUR 548 million. TeamViewer AG (TMV) is listed at Frankfurt Stock Exchange and belongs to the MDAX. Further information can be found at www.teamviewer.com.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the United States Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and following the vote, U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran issued this statement:
"With today's vote, the Senate has begun to solve some of the biggest challenges facing American cities, including rising costs and dangerous climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act will save Americans on their prescription drugs and other health care costs, ensure our nation's tax system is more just, and make the largest investment the United States has ever made to fight the climate crisis. This bill is a huge win for our cities, and America's mayors urge the House of Representatives to swiftly approve and send it to the president's desk for his signature."
About the United States Conference of Mayors -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are more than 1,400 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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(KRON) — One of three men accused of killing 1-year-old Jasper Wu will not be put on trial for murder. An Alameda County judge ruled on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence compiled against defendant Johnny Jackson Jr.
Jackson, 28, will only face one charge — being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors said Jackson was one of four men involved in a rolling gun battle between rival San Francisco gangs on an Oakland freeway. Jasper, who was riding in his family’s car, was killed in the crossfire on Interstate-880 on the afternoon of Nov. 6, 2021.
Former district attorney Nancy O’Malley charged Trevor Green, Ivory Bivins, and Johnny Jackson with murder, as well as gang and street terrorism enhancements. The fourth man, Keison Lee, was killed in a separate gang shooting before investigators could arrest him.
All but one charge filed against Jackson was “discharged” by Judge Scott Patton on Wednesday following after a 13-day preliminary hearing, his defense attorney, Anne Beles, said.
“Mr. Jackson committed no act that caused the death of this child,” Beles told KRON4.
A spokesperson for Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price confirmed to KRON4 that Jackson will only face the gun possession charge. The District Attorney’s Office said Green and Bivins will go on trial for murder.
Green, Bivins, Jackson, and Lee were members of two rival gangs, Chopper City and Eddy Rock, based in San Francisco, according to O’Malley. Green and Bivens were driving in an Infiniti on I-880 when Jackson and Lee drove past in a Nissan Altima.
Beles said Jackson was a victim of an unprovoked freeway ambush.
Prosecutors said a shot fired from the Infiniti missed the Nissan, and traveled through the windshield of the Wu family’s car. Jasper, who was sleeping inside his mother’s white Lexus sedan, was shot in the head.
“The Wu family has suffered an unspeakable loss. The depraved indifference shown by these suspects shocks us all and cannot be tolerated,” CHP Golden Gate Division Chief Ezery Beauchamp said at a 2022 news conference.
Santa Rita Jail inmate records show Green, Bivens, and Jackson remained locked up on Thursday without bail. The trio of defendants will be back in court on June 8.
Price has faced criticism since she took office in January, and hate messages escalated when reports surfaced that she might go easy on the suspects charged with the toddler’s death. “Someone is suggesting that I should have a bullet in my forehead,” Price said of the threats. Price said no plea deals will be offered in the Jasper Wu case. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/jasper-wu-murder-case-1-of-3-defendants-exonerated/ | 2023-05-25 22:18:25 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/jasper-wu-murder-case-1-of-3-defendants-exonerated/ |
MERRILLVILLE — Police have issued an arrest warrant for a Gary man in connection with gunshots at a moving vehicle in the 4100 block of 21st Avenue in Gary.
Jonathan Taylor, 37, was charged Thursday with criminal recklessness and three counts of battery, an offense punishable up to 16 years in prison.
The gunshot victim said he received incoherent, drunk phone calls from Taylor on June 18, according to charging documents. The victim attempted to talk to Taylor in person but was unable to reach him.
When driving with his son later that night, the victim's son said they were approached by three men carrying rifles. Two of the men were unknown and one was recognized as Taylor.
Taylor reportedly began to make an "ugly grin" through the victim's window as he began to shoot at the vehicle. The victim and his son ducked, but a bullet grazed his right arm, as stated in police reports.
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The two immediately drove to Methodist Hospital in the 600 block of Grant Street and called police. When officers arrived at the hospital, they reportedly saw a black Jeep Cherokee with shattered rear window and apparent bullet holes in the trunk and passenger door, as well as the windshield. The Jeep also had a flat tire.
At the crime scene, police said they found spent cartridge casings before securing the area.
Taylor remains at large as of Friday. His next court date has not been set.
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This week's local crime and court updates from The Times.
CROWN POINT — A Gary man was charged with inappropriately touching a pair of preteen girls.
Khalil Gipson, 17, was charged Saturday with attempted murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. If convicted, Gipson faces up to 70 years in prison.
Lake Criminal Court Magistrate Mark Watson recommended bail be granted for Marcus Mathis but not Cordero Miller. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/gary-aggravated-battery-gunshot-guns-jonathan-taylor/article_5ec9869a-1cfa-11ee-aba7-b331496f0301.html | 2023-07-08 18:02:05 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/gary-aggravated-battery-gunshot-guns-jonathan-taylor/article_5ec9869a-1cfa-11ee-aba7-b331496f0301.html |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan student is one of the world’s foremost “speedcubers,” a person capable of quickly solving a Rubik’s Cube. He also is an accomplished violinist.
Stanley Chapel says the two fields go hand in hand.
Not only does Chapel say he has equal interest in both, but the 21-year-old says the violin has aided in his speedcubing success.
“Repetition, breaking things down into their smallest fundamental elements, all of these different things that we use to improve at an instrument, and being able to take these into the world of cubing has certainly been a huge help to my progression,” said Chapel, a junior majoring in violin performance at the university’s school of music, theater and dance.
Chapel, who grew up in Ann Arbor not far from the Michigan campus, solved his first 3×3 Rubik’s Cube as a 14-year-old. Five weeks later, Chapel entered his first competition, solving the cube in an average of 22 seconds.
Fast-forward a year to 2017 in Paris, with Chapel placing fifth in both the 4×4 blindfolded and 5×5 blindfolded categories at the World Cube Association World Championship.
At the 2019 world championship in Melbourne, Australia, the recent high school graduate won both events.
Factoring in the time it takes for him to review the cube before placing the blindfold over his eyes, Chapel can solve one in around 17 seconds.
“The deeper I go into the realm of cubing technique, the more I find interest in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible there,” he said.
Chapel has certain inherent abilities: He is capable of remembering and applying thousands of algorithms to solve a Rubik’s Cube and performing one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s violin sonatas from memory.
But he also spends hours upon hours honing his craft, including doing regular hand stretches that help Chapel avoids the kinds of aches and pains that come with the frequent and frenetic turning of the cube’s sides.
Chapel says years of playing the violin also has contributed to him having “very, very fine motor control already built up.”
Later this year, Chapel intends to defend his world titles in South Korea. Since the 2021 event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chapel is the reigning champion in both heading into the 2023 event in Seoul.
Once he’s done with school, though, Chapel isn’t sure how speedcubing fits into his future plans.
“I guess it’s cool to know that nobody is able to do this,” he said. “But, at the same time, giving myself a little bit of a reality check, it’s like, ‘How much does that actually matter?’”
“It’s not going to pay the bills when I’m older,” Chapel said, laughing. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/entertainment/watch-world-champion-says-rubiks-cube-and-violin-go-hand-in-hand/ | 2023-01-27 21:59:24 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/entertainment/watch-world-champion-says-rubiks-cube-and-violin-go-hand-in-hand/ |
Caden Lozito struck out eight through five innings and gave up one hit as West Essex toppled Bloomfield 11-1 in North Caldwell.
Devin Fogg went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a double while Angelo Ferrovecchio and Lozito each had two RBI for West Essex (2-1), which is close to already equaling last season’s win total when they went 3-19-1 last season. Jack Epstein had a triple for West Essex.
Bloomfield (2-1), which has recently won two slugfests, beating Montclair Kimberley 16-9 and Verona 10-8, went down 10-0 by the third inning.
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Opinion: The housing market is slowing down, but homes aren’t getting cheaper anytime soon
Opinion by Orphe Divounguy for CNN Business Perspectives
Rising home prices and mortgage rates have made it next to impossible for many Americans to afford a home. And, even though the market is starting to show signs of cooling, many prospective buyers will remain on the sidelines for now.
Although they have fallen slightly from the 5.81% peak reached earlier this year, mortgage rates have nearly doubled since the start of the year. Combined with rising home prices, the mortgage payment for the nation’s typical home is up by roughly 60% from a year ago, dragging housing affordability down to a 15-year low in June.
That means an increasing number of people are being priced out of the market, especially in some of the nation’s most expensive areas. Sales of existing homes fell 14.2% in June from a year before and have fallen on an annual basis in each of the last 12 months, according to Zillow data, indicating a drop in both supply and demand.
For now, there are enough people who are still able to afford a home that prices continue to rise, but there are clear signs the market is starting to rebalance. Home value growth, for instance, is slowing. And while homes that have recently gone under contract have done so very quickly compared to historic norms, the time that the typical home spends on the market is starting to rise from record lows, according to Zillow data. More sellers are also cutting prices.
Many potential buyers who have been stuck on the sidelines are likely cheering this slowdown and hoping prices might fall enough for them to jump back in. But that is unlikely, at least on a grand scale.
While rising mortgage and interest rates chill demand, they also chill supply. Residential construction, which tends to be highly responsive to changes in interest rates, has pulled back in recent months — limiting supply and pushing home prices up. Housing starts fell 6.3% in June from a year ago, and while total home construction permits are up slightly from last year’s levels, permits associated with single-family homebuilding fell 11.4% in June from last year’s levels.
Declining new construction has long been a leading indicator of economic malaise. And while we can’t fully see the future, one thing remains crystal clear: A persistent housing deficit does not bode well for housing affordability in the United States. A key reason homes are so expensive in the first place is that the country is 3.8 million homes short of meeting housing needs.
It’s not just new construction that’s being slowed by higher mortgage rates. Potential sellers are pulling back from listing — 8% fewer new listings came on the market in June compared to the same month in 2021, according to Zillow data. If a potential seller expects housing demand to fall and their house to sit on the market longer, they become less likely to list in the first place. Nearly a fifth of homeowners surveyed by Zillow earlier this year with no plans to sell cited financial uncertainty as a reason. And with 71% of sellers buying at the same time, and likely facing a much higher mortgage rate than the one they currently have, the idea of trading up — or even downsizing — is much less appealing.
For those trying to get on the housing ladder, all of this means buying won’t get notably less expensive for the foreseeable future. Instead, this market transition only suggests that those who can still afford to buy a home are getting a little breathing room.
To truly ease America’s affordability crisis, we need to build more housing at all price points — especially entry-level.
Zillow research has shown there is broad support for duplexes, triplexes and accessory dwelling units throughout residential neighborhoods — even among homeowners. Adding units generally helps keep prices down, and these types of homes especially tend to be more affordable than single-family homes.
In addition, loosening single-family zoning restrictions — which prevent homes from being built — could yield millions of additional homes. At the federal level, expanding and passing new tax incentives to build or rehabilitate affordable housing — like the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act — can also help.
Struggling Americans shouldn’t be left cheering for a crash that ultimately won’t get them any closer to homeownership. There’s no better time for policymakers to help homes of all types be built faster.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — You might never see a group more eager to be tested.
With tail wagging, 22 explosive-sniffing police K-9s took part in the ATF’s National Odor Recognition Test this week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“It’s a standardized test that we use to validate that explosive detective K-9 teams can find 10 different explosives,” explained James James, a member of the ATF’s K-9 training team out of northern Virginia.
Each year, the team travels around the country to offer state and police K-9s the opportunity to be certified on explosives detection. This year included a testing session in Indianapolis. K-9s and their handlers from Indiana, Illinois and Ohio took advantage of the testing.
Central Indiana K-9’s Dave Kirkland noted his organization worked to bring the testing here.
“We are able to do it at a very low cost to the (law enforcement agencies), and we’re not having the dog and handler travel outside the state,” said Kirkland.
The actual testing involves an array of gallon-sized paint cans arranged on the floor in a circle. Some have explosive odors. Some do not. The handler moves the through cans, with K-9 sniffing inside each one. When the dog detects a type of explosive, the K-9 signals a positive “hit” by sitting. A correct detection gets the dog a treat.
To a casual observer, it may look like play, but it’s a serious exam.
“It’s a huge responsibility to ask the dogs to be able to go to a scene and discern from all the different odors that are in a building or a place, a residence, and find an explosive,” said ATF trainer David McMullen.
K-9s that pass the test receive a two-year certification. | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/police-k-9s-take-explosive-detection-exam-at-ims/ | 2022-08-26 23:31:08 | 0 | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/police-k-9s-take-explosive-detection-exam-at-ims/ |
3 officers shot in Kansas City standoff
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - The Kansas City Police Department has been in a standoff for several hours with a suspect who shot three SWAT officers during a search warrant at a home.
Police knocked on the door of the home on Blue Ridge Boulevard near 23rd Street South around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and announced their presence. SWAT officers then attempted to enter the home, but were shot at.
Three officers ended up getting hit by gunfire and were taken to University Health with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the police department.
Authorities then set up defensive measures outside, and a standoff was initiated.
As of Wednesday morning, the standoff was still ongoing, but two people who were inside the home were taken into custody and being questioned.
It’s not clear yet what the search warrant was for or how many people are inside the home. The area around the home is secured, and negotiators are working to communicate with the person inside and bring the situation to a peaceful conclusion.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol were called to investigate the shooting as a third-party agency. The highway patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control is also investigating the shooting.
Copyright 2023 KCTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/03/01/3-officers-shot-kansas-city-standoff/ | 2023-03-01 12:29:36 | 1 | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/03/01/3-officers-shot-kansas-city-standoff/ |
WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 23, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
328 AM PST Thu Dec 22 2022
...AREAS OF FREEZING RAIN AND WINTRY MIX POSSIBLE THURSDAY
AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY MORNING...
.Cold arctic air could funnel down from the Willamette Valley,
into the far northern area of Douglas County. This cold air would
be in place while a warm front brings overrunning precipitation
into the area. This will bring the threat of freezing rain until
the cold air is scoured out by southerly winds expected late
Thursday. East of the Cascades, a more wintry mix is expected, but
pockets of cold air will maintain the possibility for freezing
rain, especially from the Chemult area northward.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS
EVENING TO 7 AM PST FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Wintry mix and periods of freezing rain expected, which
could result a thin layer of ice.
* WHERE...Portions of the Klamath Basin as well as portions of
Lake County below 5000 feet. This includes Highways 97, 395,
31, 140, 62, 66 and 139. This does include the communities of
Klamath Falls, Chiloquin, Chemult, Bly, Lakeview, Dorris,
Macdoel, and Paisley.
* WHEN...From 7 PM Thursday to 7 AM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Ice will create slippery and hazardous road
conditions, which may impact the morning commute. This could
also create a slip hazard on walkways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Confidence in the potential for freezing
rain is highest from Chemult northward, but isolated areas of
wintry mix and freezing rain are possible elsewhere in the
advisory area.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* Slow down and allow extra time to reach your destination.
* Carry tire chains and be prepared for snow covered roads and
limited visibilities.
* See https://www.tripcheck.com or http://quickmap.dot.ca.gov
for latest road conditions.
* A Winter Weather Advisory for wintry mix means that periods of
slippery conditions will cause travel difficulties.
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Hunter Biden’s plea agreement with the Justice Department appeared to unexpectedly crumble during an initial hearing on the case on Wednesday.
Biden, 53, made his first federal court appearance in Wilmington, Del., where he was set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay income taxes.
But U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who is overseeing the case, expressed concern about the terms of the agreement, according to CNN and the Associated Press.
NBC reported lawyers for both sides were continuing to huddle nearly two hours after the plea hearing began.
DEVELOPING | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/hunter-biden-plea-deal-on-tax-charges-appears-to-fall-apart/ | 2023-07-26 16:18:47 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/hunter-biden-plea-deal-on-tax-charges-appears-to-fall-apart/ |
WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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TORNADO WARNING
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Western Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana...
Southern Newton County in southeastern Texas...
Southeastern Hardin County in southeastern Texas...
Southeastern Jasper County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 330 PM CDT.
* At 257 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 7 miles north of Sour Lake, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Lumberton around 330 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile
home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and
protect yourself from flying debris.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH...SOUTHERN
NEWTON AND SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The tornadic thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out
of the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY...
At 258 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 7 miles north of Sour Lake, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Hardin County.
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Fayette County in south central Texas...
* Until 400 PM CDT.
* At 259 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near La Grange,
moving north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
La Grange, Fayetteville, Round Top, Carmine, Rutersville,
Warrenton, Ledbetter, Waldeck, Ellinger, Walhalla, Willow Springs,
Ammannsville, Winedale, Rek Hill, Mullins Prairie, Nechanitz and
Holman.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will send your report to the National Weather Service
office in Austin San Antonio.
Large hail, damaging winds, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is
one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
The National Weather Service in League City has issued a
Southwestern Grimes County in southeastern Texas...
Southeastern Brazos County in southeastern Texas...
Northeastern Washington County in southeastern Texas...
Northwestern Waller County in southeastern Texas...
* At 259 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southwest
of Washington, or 11 miles northeast of Brenham, moving northeast
at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
Navasota and Washington.
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Recent data have brought more bad news about long COVID-19. Roughly 18 million American adults (7 percent of the adult population) have at least one symptom that has lasted 12 weeks after infection. Now 14 million of them say their long COVID symptoms limit their daily activities, including 4.5 million who say their activities are limited “a lot.” The most common symptoms are fatigue, shortness of breath, difficulty concentrating, and muscle aches.
Long COVID costs at least $60 billion up to as much as $100 billion a year in just lost wages. The annual cost of medical care for these patients may be another $100 billion. And those numbers don’t factor in decreased productivity from people working with severe fatigue and brain fog, or family members of long COVID patients who must reduce their work hours to take on caretaker roles. Acute COVID is a pandemic; long COVID could be a mass disabling event.
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Despite the scale, lack of patient tracking means that much less is known about long COVID than ought to be. Long COVID can involve a few weeks of mild symptoms, disabling chronic illness, or elevated mortality risk from the effects of high levels of inflammation. Researchers and policy makers still don’t know exactly how long COVID impacts daily life or people’s ability to work. And they don’t know how long people stay sick, though a recent study finds little change in overall long COVID recovery rates 6, 12, and 18 months after infection.
This lack of knowledge might be ascribed to the fact that long COVID is new. But long COVID is not the first infection-associated chronic illness. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, usually triggered by a viral infection, is a chronic illness that impacts 840,000 to 2.5 million Americans — many of whom can’t work. In fact, many long COVID patients meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS.
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But ME/CFS has been ignored and underfunded for years. The National Institutes of Health has dedicated less than $20 million a year to research on ME/CFS — a startlingly small amount for an illness of that prevalence and severity. As a result, scientists have made relatively little progress in understanding its underlying mechanisms and testing treatments.
The scale of long COVID means health officials can no longer afford to ignore infection-associated chronic illness. Incremental steps are not enough; the United States needs a radically different approach to understanding and addressing these illnesses.
First, access to affordable treatment must be expanded. Few doctors treat infection-associated chronic illnesses due to a combination of stigma (ME/CFS has historically been dismissed as a “yuppie flu”) and challenges with insurance reimbursement. To get more doctors involved, the federal government should support multidisciplinary long COVID (and ME/CFS) clinics, as proposed by US Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, combined with alternative reimbursement model pilots for Medicare or Medicaid. Training is also key: Medical schools need to add infection-associated illnesses to their curriculums.
Second, the scale, scope, and speed of research must be expanded. With no validated long COVID treatments and scant support for clinical trials, patients are turning to the Internet and each other, comparing notes on untested treatments. One challenge to driving more research is that infection-associated chronic illnesses do not fit well in any of the traditional medical research areas. That is why we endorse an idea put forward by long COVID patient advocacy groups: Create an NIH institute dedicated to long COVID and other infection-associated chronic illnesses. The government should provide the institute funding on par with diseases with similar burdens — perhaps $2 billion per year — with at least a quarter earmarked for clinical trials.
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Third, there needs to be support for patients to keep working or get back to work. This entails more research and guidance on the types of accommodations that work for infection-associated chronic illness (such as the ability to work sitting vs. standing, longer or more frequent breaks, flexible hours, and remote work) and an understanding of which job types allow for those accommodations.
Fourth, there are many long COVID patients for whom workplace accommodations are unlikely to suffice — especially low-wage service workers like nursing aides or baristas, whose jobs are physically demanding and ineligible for remote work. These patients need a better social safety net, which Congress needs to support: federally funded short-term disability insurance to allow long COVID patients early in their disease to rest and, hopefully, recuperate; adjusted Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance guidance and expedited review processes for infection-associated illness patients, who need a different standard of “proof” of disability and for whom early rest may be crucial to recovery; and a waiver of the 24-month Medicare waiting period for those on disability, in the hope that early care will shorten disease duration.
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BMW won’t abandon its entry-level models in the transition to EVs, the automaker’s CEO said in a recent interview with Reuters.
“We are not leaving the lower market segment,” BMW CEO Oliver Zipse said. “Even if you consider yourself a premium manufacturer, it is wrong to leave the lower market segment—that will be the core of your business in the future.”
As Reuters noted, those comments contrast the strategy of rival Mercedes-Benz, which is cutting the number of entry-level models and shifting resources to more expensive—and higher-profit—models.
BMW’s most recent EV efforts have not emphasized affordability. The BMW i4 is a step up in size and price from the discontinued i3, the BMW iX is positioned near the top of the automaker’s SUV lineup, and the BMW i7 is an electric version of BMW’s 7-Series flagship.
On the other hand, BMW currently builds one of the most affordable EVs in the U.S. market—but it’s a Mini. The 2023 Mini Cooper SE is one of the five lowest-priced EVs currently available in the U.S., with a $35,075 base price. That only buys 114 miles of range, however.
Any future affordable BMW-badged EVs will likely draw from the Neue Klasse dedicated EV platform and component set BMW plans to roll out later this decade. This will mark a shift from BMW’s current strategy of using shared platforms for electric and internal-combustion models, such as the CLAR platform that underpins the i4 and i7, and will also be used for the BMW i5 launching in 2023.
Zipse earlier this year clarified that the Neue Klasse will initially be nearly the size of the current BMW 3-Series, which has historically been the automaker’s top-selling model. It’s no longer a true entry-level model, however, as the BMW 2-Series Gran Coupe is now positioned below it in the automaker’s U.S. lineup.
BMW in September also confirmed a shift to cylindrical battery cells in the Neue Klasse models—and likely other EVs, moving forward. The automaker hopes this format, which is already used by Tesla, Lucid, and Rivian, will unlock range gains of up to 30%.
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Annual industry survey demonstrates resiliency of the advisory industry; demand for adviser services surges as industry grew by 2.1% in 2022
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Investment Adviser Association (IAA) and National Regulatory Services (NRS), a COMPLY company, today published its annual Investment Adviser Industry Snapshot (Snapshot) which found the sector grew by 2.1% in 2022, with 15,114 fiduciary investment advisers managing $114.1 trillion in assets for 61.9 million clients.
While assets under management declined for the first time since 2008 due to a vacillating economy, the investment advisory industry was resilient, with both the number of advisers and non-clerical employees climbing to a record high in 2022.
The 2023 Snapshot by the Numbers:
Most Advisers are Small Businesses
- 91.7% of advisers employed 100 or fewer employees
- 70.2% of advisers managed less than $1 billion in assets, and 88.5% managed less than $5 billion
- Smaller advisers accounted for a high proportion of employees relative to their assets managed
- Advisers focused on individuals as clients were likely to be small, with an average of just 9 employees, 2 offices and $330 million in assets under management
- Advisers with less than $1 billion in assets accounted for almost all of the new SEC registrations, with new registrants accounting for 10.0% of firms in this size range
"Investors are increasingly engaging investment advisers, which continuously provide investment management advice as fiduciaries, putting their clients' interests ahead of their own," said Karen Barr, the CEO and president of the Investment Adviser Association. "Over the past five years, over 22 million more individuals have engaged an investment adviser for asset management – a rate of growth in both the number of individual clients and assets of roughly 12% per year."
Significant Themes in the Results
- Growing Client Base: The number of clients using asset management services increased in 2022 to a record high of 54.3 million, a gain of 2.1%. However, the total number of clients not using asset management services, such as clients using only financial planning services, declined in 2022 as digital advice offerings evolved and providers realigned their platforms. As a result, the total number of clients declined by 4.3%.
- Regulatory Uncertainty: Regulatory change looms large. Rule proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have the potential to lead to significant industry change. Of note is the safeguarding proposal which would subject 1/3 of the industry to custody requirements.
- Acceleration in Trend: During this period, the number of offices in private residences rose sharply. The 25.6% increase in 2022 suggests that advisers are transitioning to a permanent remote or hybrid model.
- PE over Hedge Funds: Over the past 10 years, both the number of funds and assets under management have been increasing more rapidly for private equity funds than for hedge funds. Private equity funds now account for 44.2% of the number of private funds and 32.8% of private fund assets.
"This year's report underscores the diverse nature of the industry and its continued growth, most notably in terms of the number of firms and the number of private funds. These trends are clearly having an impact on the SEC's focus areas for examinations and rulemaking, as evidenced by the proposals made this year which aim to increase protections for private fund investors," said John Gebauer COMPLY's Chief Regulatory Officer.
The full Investment Adviser Industry Snapshot 2023 can be viewed and downloaded from the IAA website or by going to the NRS website.
About the Investment Adviser Association
The Investment Adviser Association (IAA) is the leading trade association representing the interests of fiduciary investment adviser firms. The IAA's member firms collectively manage more than $35 trillion in assets for a wide variety of institutional and individual investors. In addition to serving as the voice of the advisory profession on Capitol Hill and before the SEC, DOL, CFTC and other U.S. and international regulators, the IAA provides extensive practical and educational services to its membership. For more information, visit investmentadviser.org or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
About COMPLY
At COMPLY, we pride ourselves on being the champion for compliance professionals. Merging technology, consulting and education, we help clients navigate the ever-changing regulatory environment. Our portfolio of offerings includes ComplySci, RIA in a Box and National Regulatory Services (NRS), whose more than 7,000 clients include some of the world's largest financial institutions. Clients throughout our portfolio enjoy access to our full suite of industry-leading governance, risk and compliance (GRC) consulting, technology, managed services, analytics and outsourcing solutions.
Learn more at comply.com.
About NRS
National Regulatory Services (NRS), a COMPLY company, is an advanced provider of compliance and registration products and services for investment advisers, broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment companies and insurance institutions. NRS is the consulting and education partner for your compliance program. Combining industry-leading experts and real-world insight to help you stay up to date with the ever-changing regulatory landscape and minimize risk.
NRS is part of the COMPLY portfolio, which includes ComplySci, RIA in a Box and NRS.
Visit nrs-inc.com to learn more.
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Company discloses progress in IP, innovation at themed event
SHENZHEN, China, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei announced a batch of key inventions as part of its biennial "Top Ten Inventions" Awards at the "Broadening the Innovation Landscape 2022" forum held at its Shenzhen headquarters.
The award is designed to recognize inventions that could create new series of products, become important commercial features of existing products, or that generate considerable value for the company and the industry.
The awarded inventions range from an adder neural network that significantly reduces power consumption and circuit area to a game-changing "optical iris" that provides a unique identifier for optical fibers. It is designed to help carriers manage their network resources, cutting time and costs associated with broadband deployment.
The announcement came in the context of intellectual property rights, the protection and sharing of which Huawei believes is critical to the tech ecosystem.
"Protecting IP is key to protecting innovation," said Huawei's Chief Legal Officer, Song Liuping. "We are eager to license our patents and technologies to share our innovations with the world. This will help broaden the innovation landscape, drive our industry forward, and advance technology for everyone," he added.
"Huawei is constantly changing itself, and constantly showcasing to the world the value of IP from China," said Tian Lipu, President of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property's China Chapter.
By the end of 2021, Huawei held more than 110,000 active patents across over 45,000 patent families. It has more granted patents than any other Chinese company, has filed the most patent applications with the EU Patent Office, and ranked fifth in terms of new patents granted in the United States. For five straight years, Huawei has ranked No. 1 worldwide in terms of Patent Cooperation Treaty applications.
Alan Fan, Head of Huawei's IPR Department, said the value of Huawei patents has seen wide recognition in the industry, especially in mainstream standards such as cellular technology, Wi-Fi, and audio/video codecs.
"In the past five years, more than two billion smartphones have been licensed to Huawei's 4G/5G patents. And for cars, about eight million connected vehicles licensed to Huawei patents are being delivered to the consumers every year," Fan said.
Huawei is also working actively with patent license administration companies in offering "one-stop" licenses for mainstream standards.
"Over 260 companies—accounting for one billion devices—have obtained Huawei's HEVC patent licenses through a patent pool," Fan said. He added that the company is in discussions to establish a new patent pool to give the industry "quick access" to Huawei's patents for Wi-Fi devices worldwide.
Huawei is also discussing joint licensing programs for 5G patents with licensing experts and other leading industry patentees.
Liu Hua, Director of World Intellectual Property Organization Office in China, praised Huawei's sustained focus on innovation, saying: "We look forward to seeing Huawei continue to take part in high-level global competition with innovation at its core."
For Manuel Desantes, former Vice President of European Patent Office, given the vast number of changes in the world these days, what matters most is no longer the number of registered patents or inventions. "The IP system should assure that the creations that merit protection are those that bring actual value," he said.
This marked the third innovation and IP-themed event Huawei has hosted on its innovation practices. Every year, Huawei invests over 10% of its sales revenue into R&D.
In terms of R&D expenditure, Huawei ranked second in the 2021 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. In 2021, the company increased its R&D investment to CNY142.7 billion, representing 22.4% of our total revenue. Over the past decade, Huawei's total R&D investment surpassed CNY845 billion.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcellx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLX), a biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy through the development of innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases, today announced that management will participate in a fireside chat at the Canaccord Genuity 2023 Horizons in Oncology Virtual Conference on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
A live webcast of this discussion will be accessible from Arcellx's website at www.arcellx.com in the Investors section. A replay of the webcast will be archived and available for 30 days following the event.
About Arcellx, Inc.
Arcellx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy by engineering innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases. Arcellx believes that cell therapies are one of the forward pillars of medicine and Arcellx's mission is to advance humanity by developing cell therapies that are safer, more effective, and more broadly accessible. Arcellx's lead product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, is being developed for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (rrMM) in a Phase 2 pivotal trial. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Arcellx is also advancing its dosable and controllable CAR-T therapy, ARC-SparX, through two clinical-stage programs: a Phase 1 study of ACLX-001 for rrMM, initiated in the second quarter of 2022; and ACLX-002 in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, initiated in the fourth quarter of 2022. For more information on Arcellx, please visit www.arcellx.com. Follow Arcellx on Twitter (@arcellx) and LinkedIn.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including Arcellx's expectations regarding the timing and outcomes of clinical trials for its product candidates and the potential impact of its product candidates and platforms on patients and cell therapy. The forward-looking statements contained herein are based upon Arcellx's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, including risks that may be found in the section entitled "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 29, 2023, and other documents that Arcellx files from time to time with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and Arcellx assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Today will be sunny, with a high of 52 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
Conditions tonight will be partly cloudy, with temperatures dropping down into the low 30s. Warm temperatures will persist into Monday and all the way to Thursday with a cold front bringing colder conditions Friday.
Monday sees a high of of 53 degrees and a mostly sunny sky to accompany the above average temperatures for the season. Wind gusts will vary, ranging from 6 to 15 mph.
The overnight will be mostly clear and dry with a low of 29 degrees.
Tuesday will continue with the warm trends, bringing a high of 53 degrees and a partly sunny sky. Tuesday night has a 50% chance of rain showers but otherwise will be mostly cloudy.
The overnight low temperature will be 47 degrees.
Wednesday will be mostly sunny, breezy and warm with a high of 69 degrees. A mostly cloudy sky will occur overnight, with a chance of rain possible.
The low will be around 55 degrees.
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SINGAPORE, July 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning from July 8th, MoonXBT, the innovative crypto social trading platform will implement zero-fee policy on multiple trading pairs for the spot market indefinitely until there's further official notice.
This zero-fee approach comes following the footsteps of some major exchanges such as Robinhood, Coinbase and Binnance. It is a necessary step to take to lessen the burden of the retail investors facing the bearish market. MoonXBT is one of the few crypto exchanges with a middle size of trading volume to carry out the zero-fee policy in sync with major players of the industry.
However, compared to Binance whose zero-fee policy only applies to Bitcoin trading pairs mainly including only BTC/USD, BTC/USDT, BTC/USDC, and BTC/BUSD, MoonXBT eliminates transaction fee for much more crypto trading pairs including BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, BNB/USDT, ADA/USDT, and XRP/USDT.
The exchange will also consider adding more trading pairs to the no-fee list in the future based on how the user base reacts to the zero-fee policy this time.
All users will enjoy zero-fee for both maker and taker orders without trading volume requirements or other pre-conditions.
"In spite of the fact that our trading volume is moderate compared to Binance or others, we have reserved enough power to handle the current market situation. No matter if it's a temporary correction or a bearish period, we want to take measures to make sure our users can cope with this phase together with our platform. We also want to make it easier for new users who want to try crypto investing during a relatively quiet time, " says Geroge Lee, the COO of MoonXBT.
Furthermore, MoonXBT has prepared 10,000 USDT for airdrop for the upcoming new users. Considering the social nature of the platform, the airdrop will be allocated based on the number of invites users bring.
Also, as the social trading platform, MoonXBT is equipped with social power to provide mental support to users to cope with the hard times. Users can always join the community or come to the forum to exchange thoughts and share strategies to discover effective ways to manage the market and to lessen fears and anxieties to keep emotional clarity and stability which is crucial for making investment decisions.
MoonXBT is also developing new products that can potentially hedge the crypto downtrend at this phase. It is also exploring new pricing models, new corporations and new business sources to provide consistent benefits to the users while keeping the sustainability of the exchange.
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HAMDEN, Conn., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SimiTree, a company that provides industry-leading, tech-enabled specialty revenue cycle management (RCM), coding, professional services, and talent management resources for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, has strengthened its position in the U.S. behavioral health support market with the acquisition of two new companies.
SimiTree CEO and Managing Principal Bill Simione today announced the acquisition of Michigan-based Afia, a leader in behavioral health data analytics and consulting, and Florida-based GreenpointMed, a medical billing and credential service provider to healthcare practices nationwide.
The strategic expansion augments the full spectrum of support services SimiTree and its behavioral health flagship, Infinity Behavioral Health Services, offer behavioral health providers of all sizes, ranging from start-up to enterprise operations.
"This move delivers the scalability SimiTree needs to address the behavioral health industry's growing need for our services as we head into 2023," Simione said. "We remain committed to providing a robust array of services to assist behavioral health providers in developing a stronger revenue cycle with improved cash flow, higher collection rates, and best-in-class processes."
Afia uses data-driven decision making to solve business challenges by simplifying EHR implementations, driving clinical best practice, optimizing revenue cycles, and creating IT infrastructures that move behavioral businesses forward. Its acquisition expands SimiTree's leading data analytics capabilities to benefit clients with tech-enabled optimization of clinical, financial, and operational functions and greater insight from actionable data.
"As a leader in data analytics for the post-acute field, SimiTree recognizes how important actionable data is to the success of all our post-acute and behavioral health clients," Mike Freytag, SimiTree managing principal and EVP, said. "The acquisition of Afia brings SimiTree's post-acute and behavioral health clients a level of technology that will allow them to become leaner, smarter and most importantly, more profitable."
"We will expand our data analytics impact in the behavioral health industry with the synergies that are created across the enterprise," said Matt Hoffman, managing partner of Afia. "Afia's technology solution and consulting services can now be leveraged to all SimiTree's clients."
The acquisition of GreenpointMed further enhances the level of support SimiTree delivers to clients, expanding billing and debt recovery capabilities and offering behavioral health providers time-saving credentialing services with insurance panels. GreenpointMed has extensive credentialing experience with all insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, in every state.
"We're excited to bring on board GreenpointMed's skilled team, with its impressive record of supporting clients in achieving their financial goals," said Freytag.
"Becoming part of SimiTree offers GreenpointMed the ability to provide greater efficiencies for our customers and gives us the ability to serve a wider population of mental health practices," said GreenpointMed Founder and President Justin Gaines. "We will now be able to offer SimiTree's broader clinical, financial, and operational resources while continuing to grow and expand our offerings."
Greenberg Advisors, LLC served as exclusive M&A advisor to SimiTree.
About SimiTree
SimiTree, a company that provides industry-leading, tech-enabled specialty revenue cycle management (RCM), coding, professional services, and talent management resources for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, was created by the merger of Simione Healthcare Consultants and BlackTree Healthcare Consulting in 2021. In 2022, SimiTree further expanded its RCM capabilities with its Imark Billing acquisition, and its behavioral health footprint with a strategic alignment with Infinity, a SimiTree company.
In addition to clinical, financial, and operational consulting, SimiTree offers a robust suite of outsourced services, including billing, coding, OASIS, Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) and Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI), and revenue cycle management; executive placement, interim management, retention consulting and other talent solutions; mergers and acquisitions support; compliance assessments and risk mitigation plans; sales and growth training; and benchmarking and data analytics. For more information, visit www.SimiTreeHC.com.
About Afia
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Afia works with behavioral health organizations, human service agencies, physician groups, health systems, and other medical practices to generate ideas, implement solutions, and positively impact their futures. From the company's founding in 2007, it has built capabilities based on client needs working with behavioral health agencies across the country to optimize their clinical, financial, and operational functions through the use of technology.
About GreenpointMed
Founded in 2016, GreenpointMed is a leading medical billing and credentialing service provider offering a streamlined process for billing and credentialing. GreenpointMed is the trusted partner of hundreds of healthcare providers and practices throughout the nation. For more information, visit https://greenpointmed.com.
Media contact: Lynn Eastep, Vice President, Marketing, SimiTree, leastep@SimiTreeHC.com
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STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, COUNTY Amy Lynn Johnson 1921 Iowa Ave. Superior, WI 54880 vs Ed Oman 5092 Howard Gnesen RD Duluth, MN 55803 Publication Summons and Notice (Small Claims) Case No. 23SC139 TO THE PERSON(S) NAME ABOVE AS DEFENDANTS (S): You are being sued by the person(s) named above as Plaintiff(s), A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. The lawsuit will be hearing in the following small claims court: Douglas County Courthouse Telephone Number of clerk of court: 715-395-1203 Courtroom/Room Number: 301 Address: 1313 Belknap St. City: Superior State: WI Zip: 54880 on the following date and time: Date: 04-06-2023 Time: 2:30 PM If you do not attend the hearing, the court may enter a judgement against you in favor of the person(s) suing you. A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. A judgement may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate (property) to own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property. You may have the option to answer without appearing in court on the court date by filing a written Answer with the clerk of court before the court date. You must send a copy of your Answer to the Plaintiff(s) named above at their address. You may contact the clerk of court at the telephone number above to determine if there are other methods to answer a Small Claims complaint in that county. /s/ Amy Johnson Plaintiff Date: 3-7-23 (March 15, 2023) 203352 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-wisconsin-circuit-court-count-stratica-legals-203352 | 2023-03-15 08:00:29 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/state-of-wisconsin-circuit-court-count-stratica-legals-203352 |
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Quarterback Ryan Tannehill was out only one possession for the Tennessee Titans after he injured his right ankle during the opening series of Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Tannehill suffered the injury after a 1-yard scramble up the middle on third-and-13 from the Titans 22-yard line. He was tackled by Chargers linebacker Khalil Mack and spent a couple of minutes on the turf while being looked at by trainers.
Tannehill went into the medical tent before being carted into the locker room. On his first series back, he led a six-play, 63-yard drive, capped off by Derrick Henry's 1-yard run off a direct snap to tie the game 7-7 in the second quarter.
Rookie Malik Willis came in for Tannehill. This was the seventh game the third-round pick saw action in this season, including two starts when Tannehill was sidelined because of an ankle injury.
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FENGDU, China, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 23 September, the Fengdu home field held a grand opening ceremony of the Chongqing 2022 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival in Baoluan Township, Fengdu County. The opening ceremony was featured with an exhibition and spot sale of agricultural products as well as an exhibition and performance of intangible cultural heritage. A total of 54 booths were set up at the exhibition and spot sale site, displaying and promoting chestnut rice, spicy chicken, beef, longan from Fengdu and other local specialities from Zaozhuang. Live broadcasters were invited to broadcast live on the live platform Douyin to drive the sales of related agricultural products and the atmosphere was very lively.
In addition to the exhibition and spot sale in Baoluan Township on that day, Fengdu County has held two home field exhibitions and spot sale (marketing) activities for the 2022 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival according to the overall arrangement of Chongqing 2022 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival activities in Fengdu County and Gaojia Township from September 22 to September 28, 2022, respectively. These activities focused on the leading industries, featured products as well as home field exhibition and sales, promoting product sales through the development of online marketing, offline exhibition and spot sale, purchase and sale through assistance and aid etc., which have achieved remarkable effectiveness of the sales promotion.
It is understood that Fengdu County has vigorously implemented agricultural excellence action based on the "national main production area for agricultural products, municipal special agriculture and livestock industry base" in recent years in accordance with the mindset of "attracting powerful leading companies, maintaining powerful industries and striving for powerful revitalization"; improved the quality of the development of the modern mountain characterized high-efficiency agriculture with emphasis on livestock and poultry breeding, speeded up the construction of a national agricultural modernization demonstration area, which has effectively promoted agricultural efficiency, farmers' income and the development in rural areas. The county's annual stock and slaughter of beef cattle has been maintained at around 160,000 and 90,000 up to now; the annual stock and slaughter of poultry has been maintained at around 6.76 million and 10.54 million; the annual stock and slaughter of pigs has been maintained at around 350,000 and 530,000, while the planting area of squash is 240,000 mu, the planting area of red grapefruit is 75,000 mu and the planting area of pepper is 80,000 mu.
It is reported that Baoluan Township has prepared a local colorful rice field landscape area of 471 mu for its home field, with 160 mu core pattern area. The colorful rice field landscape has introduced the concept of a hundred birds saluting the phoenix and living toward the sun. The colorful rice field landscape has fully explored the history and culture of Baoluan Township in the design. "Luan" is a kind of phoenix according to ancient mythology, incarnating itself often in "phoenix", "sun" and other elements. And harmony, felicity, brightness, warmness and other beautiful connotations also represent the farmers' aspirations for a more prosperous future. The colorful rice field landscape is mainly based on high-yielding rice varieties of high-quality in terms of variety selection, with purple rice and yellow rice independently cultivated by the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences to enrich the colors. The surrounding hills in the shape of grain stacks show the meaning of the granary, highlighting the charm of the "City of Harvest".
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8-year-old known as ‘Mullet Boy’ competes in USA Mullet Championship
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU/Gray News) - An 8-year-old from Wisconsin with a rock-star do is competing for the best mullet in the Kids Division of the USA Mullet Championship.
Emmitt Bailey, also known as “Mullet Boy,” got the chance to show off his hairstyle when he threw the opening pitch at the Eau Claire Express collegiate baseball game this summer.
Emmitt’s father, Eric Bailey, told WEAU that the moment was an important one.
“I’m pretty excited, I mean it’s a big deal,” Bailey said. “The Express are a big deal in the Eau Claire community in themselves, so to have him out there throwing the first pitch is exciting.”
Emmitt not only advanced onto the mound, but also to the top 25 in the Kids Division of the USA Mullet Championship.
“It’s extremely fun to watch the votes, so it started out at, I think there was 600 kids that made the Facebook cut,” Bailey said. “Then they went to 100 and then all of the sudden we were watching the votes and he kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and then it went to the 25.”
The 8-year-old said he has been waiting a while to show off his mullet.
“Last year my parents found out about it (USA Mullet Championship), but it already started, so then we did it this year,” Emmitt said.
For Emmitt’s dad, the USA Mullet Championship is all about inspiring people to bring the ‘80s hairstyle back while supporting a good cause.
“Mullets in general, they’ve come back in full force,” Bailey said. “It was $10 to enter and all of the donations are going to the Michigan Wig Foundation for kids.”
The winner of the contest will get $2,500. The Menomonie, Wisconsin, student said he knows how he would spend the prize money,
“Buy a go-cart,” Emmitt said.
Bailey said he and his family are big into racing.
“I told him if he wants a go-cart to start his racing career, by all means dad will help you out with the rest,” Bailey said.
If you are looking to add a little business to the front and party in the back of your hair, Bailey has some fatherly advice.
“It does take some time to grow ‘cause this is two years in the making to get this one, but have fun with it,” he said.
Win or lose, the Baileys said the experience has already been more than they could have asked for.
The final round of voting began Monday, Aug. 15, and will end Friday, Aug. 19. Visit the USA Mullet Championship website to cast your vote for the best mullet.
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- Ford to become Nemaska Lithium's first customer and will use lithium hydroxide produced at the Bécancour facility for manufacturing its electric vehicle batteries.
- Both companies share a commitment to the development of a sustainable and socially responsible North American battery supply chain.
MONTRÉAL, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Ford Motor Company ("Ford") has entered into a long-term agreement with Nemaska Lithium for the supply of lithium products, including lithium hydroxide, over an 11-year period. The agreement calls for the delivery of up to 13,000 tons of lithium hydroxide per year. The agreement also provides that prior to commencing delivery of lithium hydroxide produced in Bécancour, Nemaska Lithium will supply Ford with spodumene concentrate from its Whabouchi mine. Nemaska Lithium's integrated project is planned to be the first one to produce lithium hydroxide in Québec.
"We are proud to work with Nemaska Lithium and its partners, Livent and Investissement Québec. The Nemaska Lithium project will be a sustainable source of lithium, supporting Ford's ability to scale and helping us make EVs more accessible and affordable over time to millions of customers," said Lisa Drake, Ford's vice president of EV Industrialization, Model e.
Nemaska Lithium is committed to the manufacturing and sale of high-quality battery-qualified lithium hydroxide and, like Ford, is committed to establishing sustainable and responsible practices in all its operations. The lithium hydroxide that will be produced by the Québec company will meet high standards of quality and sustainability, with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the lithium industry. The lithium hydroxide produced by Nemaska Lithium should help qualify Ford vehicles for consumer tax benefits under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
"We are honored to have Ford as a major customer of Nemaska Lithium. This long-term agreement with a global leader in the automotive industry and in the development of electric vehicles is a tribute to the strength of Nemaska Lithium's project and the quality of the product we will supply. It also strengthens our position as a major player in the development of the battery industry in Québec and Canada," said Gervais Jacques, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nemaska Lithium.
Nemaska Lithium is owned in equal parts by Investissement Québec, the economic development agency of the Québec government, and Livent (NYSE: LTHM), a global leader in lithium technology. With its proven expertise as a supplier of lithium chemicals for nearly 80 years, Livent was appointed by Nemaska Lithium's Board of Directors to undertake, on an exclusive basis, the sales and marketing efforts for Nemaska Lithium's products. In addition, Livent is helping Nemaska Lithium with planning and construction management of both the Whabouchi and Bécancour sites.
"We are excited to support Québec in its development of a domestic battery supply chain, and to develop a relationship with Ford as it focuses on developing electric vehicles built on a strong, North American supply chain," added Paul Graves, President and Chief Executive Officer of Livent and Board Member of Nemaska Lithium.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan, committed to helping build a better world, where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. The company's Ford+ plan for growth and value creation combines existing strengths, new capabilities and always-on relationships with customers to enrich experiences for customers and deepen their loyalty. Ford develops and delivers innovative, must-have Ford trucks, sport utility vehicles, commercial vans and cars and Lincoln luxury vehicles, along with connected services. The company does that through three customer-centered business segments: Ford Blue, engineering iconic gas-powered and hybrid vehicles; Ford Model e, inventing breakthrough EVs along with embedded software that defines exceptional digital experiences for all customers; and Ford Pro, helping commercial customers transform and expand their businesses with vehicles and services tailored to their needs. Additionally, Ford is pursuing mobility solutions through Ford Next, and provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Ford employs about 174,000 people worldwide. More information about the company and its products and services is available at corporate.ford.com.
Nemaska Lithium intends to extract lithium spodumene at its Whabouchi mine located in Northern Québec, and to transform the concentrated mineral into lithium hydroxide at its future conversion plant to be located in the Parc Industriel et Portuaire de Bécancour. The high purity lithium hydroxide that will be produced is primarily destined for the fast-growing lithium-ion battery market, which is driven by the increasing worldwide demand for ground transportation electrification and energy storage. Through its products and processes, Nemaska Lithium intends to facilitate access to green energy. The company is owned by Investissement Québec and Livent, a world leader in lithium production.
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Proposed rule is intended to increase options for the development of safe and effective nonprescription drugs
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule titled, "Nonprescription Drug Product with an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use," which is intended to broaden the range of marketed nonprescription drugs available to consumers, empowering them to self-treat certain common conditions and improving public health.
"Nonprescription drug products play a vital role in America's healthcare system, as millions of people use them to self-manage health conditions every day," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "As part of the FDA's ongoing efforts to improve public health, this proposal can broaden the types of drugs that can be approved as nonprescription—increasing availability of drugs that would otherwise only be available by prescription."
Nonprescription drug products are used by consumers without the supervision of a health care professional and require the ability of the consumer to determine that they have the condition for which the drug is to be used, and to appropriately use the drug. Consumers are likely familiar with the "Drug Facts Labeling" on nonprescription drug packaging as the primary source for information about a product's intended use, directions for use, and important safety information, all designed in understandable language that is tested for consumer comprehension.
The proposed rule, if finalized, would expand options for consumers by establishing the requirements for a drug company that submits a new application to bring a nonprescription drug product to market with an additional condition for nonprescription use. Under the proposed rule, when the FDA finds that labeling alone is not sufficient to ensure that the consumer can appropriately self-select and use a drug product in a nonprescription setting, an applicant may submit an application proposing an additional condition for nonprescription use that a consumer must successfully fulfill to obtain the nonprescription drug product.
An additional condition for nonprescription use is one or more FDA-approved conditions that an applicant of a nonprescription drug product must implement to ensure appropriate self-selection or appropriate actual use, or both, by consumers of the nonprescription drug product. For example, an applicant could propose an additional condition for nonprescription use that requires a consumer to respond with specific answers to a set of questions on a self-selection test available by either a phone "app" or an automated telephone response system in order to purchase the nonprescription drug product. Under the proposed rule, if the FDA finds that the additional condition for nonprescription use will permit appropriate self-selection and/or appropriate actual use of the product, and consumers can use the product safely and effectively without the supervision of a healthcare practitioner, it may approve the product for nonprescription use with the additional condition for nonprescription use. As with all proposals, the safety of patients remains a top priority.
The FDA encourages public comment for this proposed rule. The comment period will end 120 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register. After the comment period closes, the FDA will review and consider comments as it develops the final rule. The timing of the final rule will depend on the number and substance of the comments.
For more information on the proposed rule, visit the Nonprescription Drug Product with an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use Proposed Rule webpage.
Related Information:
- Guidance: Innovative Approaches for Nonprescription Drug Products
- Guidance: Self-Selection Studies for Nonprescription Drug Products
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The generosity of the couple, along with gifts from their friends and family, will support VOW's mission to end child marriage.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of their wedding celebration, Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal have made a gift of $1 million to VOW for Girls in support of the nonprofit's mission to end child marriage. This generous gift will allow VOW to expand its work and reach more girls at risk of early marriage around the world so that they too can choose love on their own terms.
"We are thrilled by this generous gift from Sheryl and Tom that will be instrumental to advancing girls' rights,'' said Clay Dunn, CEO of VOW for Girls. "It will allow us to support more girls to live lives of their choosing and we hope it will serve as an inspiration to other couples, showing how celebrations of love can also create meaningful impact. We are incredibly grateful for Sheryl and Tom's support."
In addition to the couple's generous personal gift in honor of their wedding celebration, Sheryl and Tom invited guests to donate to VOW for Girls in lieu of wedding gifts, allowing their friends and family to help make an increased impact.
VOW for Girls' unique model raises funds alongside weddings and other celebrations of love. More than 8,000 couples to date have aligned their weddings with VOW. Sheryl and Tom's wedding marks the organization's first celebration that has raised in excess of $1 million.
"All girls should be able to choose when and who they marry. Tom and I made the decision to marry each other - to choose a partner who we deeply love. Too many young girls are robbed of this same choice," said Sheryl Sandberg. "We hope our support can help put an end to child marriage so that millions more girls can live healthy, fulfilling lives."
"Sheryl and I know that child marriage leads to catastrophic consequences for girls and their families. We're honored to support VOW's work to end the practice and help all girls have the right to make their own decisions about their own lives," said Tom Bernthal.
The wedding celebration was planned by Lindsay Landman, a NYC-based wedding planner who also supports VOW for Girls with her business by being a proud member of the VOW Pro community, a global collective of wedding-aligned businesses that support ending child marriage.
To learn more about how to VOW your wedding, visit vowforgirls.org/couples.
About VOW for Girls
VOW for Girls partners with the wedding industry, engaged couples, brands, and individuals to end the international child marriage crisis. Count to three…. A child just became a bride. VOW's vision is a world where no child is ever a bride. As couples celebrate choosing each other they can help millions of girls choose love on their own terms. VOW provides a number of options for engaged couples to align their weddings with VOW from charitable wedding registries in lieu of gifts, replacing favors with a donation in honor of every guest or option to shop a range of products with proceeds that benefit VOW.
Thanks to generous donors, 100% of the funds raised by VOW for Girls are invested in underfunded yet effective community-led efforts that advance girls' rights by providing education, job training, and vital life skills, so girls can own their futures. VOW for Girls is a vow for the future.
To date, VOW has supported over 175 organizations, 85% of which are women-led, and an estimated 260,000 girls have been directly impacted and 1.6 million individuals have indirectly benefited. Please visit vowforgirls.org and follow along @vowforgirls to learn more about VOW.
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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide steps aside after months of protests and an armed revolt swept his Caribbean nation. International attempts to broker a power-sharing agreement between Aristide and the opposition proved fruitless, leading several nations, including France and the United States, to call for Aristide to bow out.
Looting spread through the capital Sunday, as news of the president's resignation spread. Following the country's constitutional procedure, the chief justice of Haiti's supreme court, Boniface Alexandre, has stepped in to lead the nation.
Haiti remains in disarray as anti-Aristide supporters hold raucous celebrations, even as pro-Aristide groups move to attack those they see as responsible for deposing their leader. U.S. troops are under way to join a multinational force to help stabilize the nation. NPR's Gerry Hadden and NPR's Martin Kaste report.
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Michelin recalls snow tires that don’t have enough traction
DETROIT (AP) — Michelin is recalling more than 542,000 snow tires in the U.S. because they don’t have enough traction to work in all snowy conditions.
The recall covers certain Agilis CrossClimate C-Metric tires that Michelin says don’t meet U.S. safety standards. The tire maker says in documents posted Thursday by safety regulators that tires without sufficient traction can increase the risk of a crash.
Dealers will replace the tires at no cost to owners. Owners will get interim notification letters starting June 12. They’ll get another letter once the replacements are available.
The company says initial tire testing was done with the wrong tire pressure. Later tests by Michelin discovered the problem.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has posted a document with the tire sizes on its website.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia agreed to a two-month extension of a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday, a boost to global food security after the war drove up prices.
Turkey and the U.N. brokered the breakthrough accord with the warring sides last summer, which came with a separate agreement to facilitate shipments of Russian food and fertilizer that Moscow insists hasn’t been applied.
Russia had threatened to bow out if its concerns were not ironed out by Thursday. Such brinkmanship isn’t new: With a similar extension in the balance in March, Russia unilaterally decided to renew the deal for 60 days instead of the 120 days outlined in the agreement.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that problems would need to be resolved “at the technical level.” Neither she nor Erdogan mentioned any concessions Moscow may have received.
“We will continue our efforts to ensure that all the conditions of the agreement are fulfilled so that it continues in the next period,” said Erdogan, who announced the highly anticipated decision two days after being forced into a runoff in Turkey’s presidential election.
Extending the Black Sea Grain Initiative is a win for countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia that rely on Ukrainian wheat, barley, vegetable oil and other affordable food products, especially as drought takes a toll. The deal helped lower prices of food commodities like wheat over the last year, but that relief has not reached kitchen tables.
“Ukrainian and Russian products feed the world,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. “They matter because we are still in the throes of a record-breaking cost-of-living crisis.”
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov welcomed the extension, but emphasized that the deal “has to work effectively.” On Facebook, he blamed Russia for dragging its heels on joint inspections of ships by Russian, Ukrainian, U.N. and Turkish officials.
Average daily inspections — meant to ensure vessels carry only food and not weapons that could aid either side — have steadily dropped from a peak of 10.6 in October to 3.2 last month. Shipments of Ukrainian grain also have declined in recent weeks.
Russia had denied slowing the work. No vessels have been cleared to enter Ukraine’s three open ports since May 6, and Kubrakov says nearly 70 vessels are waiting in Turkish waters to participate.
Russia, meanwhile, is shipping record amounts of its wheat through other ports. Critics say that suggests Moscow was posturing or trying to wrest concessions in areas such as Western sanctions.
The deal has allowed over 30 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain to be shipped, with more than half that going to developing nations. China, Spain and Turkey are the biggest recipients, and Russia says that shows food isn’t going to the poorest countries.
Guterres has said developed countries bring in Ukrainian corn for animal feed, while emerging economies receive “a majority” of grain for people to eat. He noted exports bring prices down for everyone.
“Looking ahead, we hope that exports of food and fertilizers, including ammonia, from the Russian Federation and Ukraine will be able to reach global supply chains safely and predictably,” the U.N. chief said Wednesday.
The U.S. said Russia should stop creating hurdles to the deal.
“We should not need to remind Moscow every few weeks to keep their promises and to stop using people’s hunger as a weapon in their war against Ukraine,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
Russia is expected to export more wheat than any country ever has in one year, at 44 million metric tons, said Caitlin Welsh, director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Trade flows tracked by financial data provider Refinitiv show that Russia exported just over 4 million tons of wheat in April, the highest volume for the month in five years, following record or near-record highs in several previous months.
Exports since last July reached 32.2 million tons, 34% above the same period from last season, according to Refinitiv.
Welsh says Russia knows that the less grain Ukraine can export, the more it can make up for the shortfall. And restrictions on Black Sea shipments mean the war-torn country would have to rely more on land routes through the European Union, which has stirred anger from its neighbors.
“The more it restricts Ukraine’s access to Black Sea ports, the better it is for its political influence with trading partners and the better it is for Russia in the sense that it’s straining unity among EU member states and their support for Ukraine,” she said.
With Ukraine’s wheat harvest coming up in June and the need to sell that crop in July, maintaining a Black Sea shipping corridor is key to avoid “taking another large chunk of wheat and other grains off the market,” said William Osnato, a senior research analyst at agriculture data and analytics firm Gro Intelligence.
It comes as places including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria and East Africa — big importers of food — are facing drought and economic issues that are likely to keep food prices high.
“Shortages of food in the system and lack of affordable fertilizer continues to push up prices, making it difficult for families in countries like Somalia to predict if they will be able to afford a meal the next day,” said Shashwat Saraf, emergency director for East Africa at the International Rescue Committee.
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Baby swallows water bead, ends up in ICU
PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) - A mother in Maine is urgently sounding the alarm as her infant daughter is fighting for her life in the pediatric ICU.
Folichia Mitchell said her 9-month-old baby swallowed a water bead, which grows when put in water. That’s what it did in the infant’s body.
“She went two days without eating anything,” Mitchell said. “By the time we made it to Portland Hospital, she was not off the stretcher before she started vomiting bile.”
The mother is asking the manufacturer to give a better warning.
“I’m just scared every single second right now,” Mitchell said.
The cause of the problem was a bead about the size of a small pebble. The child swallowed one of the Ultimate Water Beads made by Chuckle & Roar, a brand sold at Target.
The beads vary in size and grow when placed in water, with the product’s jumbo beads growing to up to a half inch.
“The bead blocked her small intestine, which made it swell so large it leaked into her body, and that caused sepsis and an infection,” the mother said. “She’s had three surgeries this week. Her lungs were struggling, her heart was struggling and her kidneys were struggling.”
The box and the instructions for the beads contain warnings about a potential choking hazard, but neither warn of the potential consequences of what happens if they are ingested.
Mitchell wanted to sound the alarm about the product so other mothers won’t have to experience her pain.
“Parents don’t have the chance to make an informed choice before buying, because if I had seen how ‘toxic if ingested, can cause blockage,’ I never would have bought them and brought them into my house,” she said.
For now, all she can do is wait and pray for her daughter’s life.
“I just really hope people can think about my daughter in a positive way or pray for her so that she could make it through,” Mitchell said.
Chuckle & Roar did not respond to request for comment by Monday. In a statement, a Target spokesperson says the company has engaged with Chuckle & Roar about the situation.
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Families of some of the 19 children killed in the Uvalde school massacre commemorated the Day of Dead with a rally, procession and a decorated altar outside the Texas Capitol on Tuesday night.
Relatives, who marched to the mansion of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott carrying the altar, chose the location to again demand tougher gun laws in Texas following the May shooting at Robb Elementary School. They have been most vocal about raising the age to purchase AR-15-style rifles from 18 to 21. Abbott, who is up for reelection, has pushed back on that, saying it would be “unconstitutional.”
“We are here today celebrating our children’s lives,” said Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter Lexi Rubio died in the Uvalde shooting, “but also trying to reach out to parents on a personal, on a mom and dad level. Just if you care about your children, protect them, go out to vote for candidates who support sensible gun legislation.”
Uvalde Mass Shooting
Day of the Dead — or Dia de los Muertos — is a Mexican and Latino holiday in which people celebrate the lives of deceased loved ones and encourage their souls to visit with them. Nearly three-quarters of the residents of Uvalde are Hispanic.
Abbott is running for a third term against Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who has drawn the support of several Robb Elementary parents but faces an uphill climb in Tuesday’s election.
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PRINCETON, N.J., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today that the Company will deliver a corporate presentation at the upcoming H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference. The conference will be held May 23 through 26, 2022 with presentations, one-on-one meetings, and networking. The on-demand presentation will be available Tuesday, May 24 at 7AM ET. To view the presentation, please go to https://journey.ct.events/view/854b33a1-dbee-4dbb-9a35-e3239dfbc75c. The presentation will be archived there for 90 days. For more information about the H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference, please refer to the conference website at https://hcwevents.com/globalconference/.
Key members of Soligenix management will hold one-on-one meetings throughout the conference. Registered conference attendees may schedule a meeting with Soligenix via the conference scheduling platform.
If you are unable to attend the conferences and would like to schedule a meeting with management, please contact ir@soligenix.com.
About Soligenix, Inc.
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Our Specialized BioTherapeutics business segment is developing and moving toward potential commercialization of HyBryte™ (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin) as a novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). With a successful Phase 3 study completed, regulatory approval is being sought and commercialization activities for this product candidate are being advanced initially in the U.S. Development programs in this business segment also include expansion of synthetic hypericin (SGX302) into psoriasis, our first-in-class innate defense regulator (IDR) technology, dusquetide (SGX942) for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including oral mucositis in head and neck cancer, and proprietary formulations of oral beclomethasone 17,21-dipropionate (BDP) for the prevention/treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders characterized by severe inflammation including pediatric Crohn's disease (SGX203).
Our Public Health Solutions business segment includes active development programs for RiVax®, our ricin toxin vaccine candidate, and SGX943, our therapeutic candidate for antibiotic resistant and emerging infectious disease, and our vaccine programs targeting filoviruses (such as Marburg and Ebola) and CiVax™, our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2). The development of our vaccine programs incorporates the use of our proprietary heat stabilization platform technology, known as ThermoVax®. To date, this business segment has been supported with government grant and contract funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
For further information regarding Soligenix, Inc., please visit the Company's website at https://www.soligenix.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @Soligenix_Inc.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect Soligenix, Inc.'s current expectations about its future results, performance, prospects and opportunities, including but not limited to, potential market sizes, patient populations and clinical trial enrollment. Statements that are not historical facts, such as "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," "hopes," "intends," "plans," "expects," "goal," "may," "suggest," "will," "potential," or similar expressions, are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results in future periods to differ materially from what is expressed in, or implied by, these statements, such as experienced with the COVID-19 outbreak. Soligenix cannot assure you that it will be able to successfully develop, achieve regulatory approval for or commercialize products based on its technologies, particularly in light of the significant uncertainty inherent in developing therapeutics and vaccines against bioterror threats, conducting preclinical and clinical trials of therapeutics and vaccines, obtaining regulatory approvals and manufacturing therapeutics and vaccines, that product development and commercialization efforts will not be reduced or discontinued due to difficulties or delays in clinical trials or due to lack of progress or positive results from research and development efforts, that it will be able to successfully obtain any further funding to support product development and commercialization efforts, including grants and awards, maintain its existing grants which are subject to performance requirements, enter into any biodefense procurement contracts with the U.S. Government or other countries, that it will be able to compete with larger and better financed competitors in the biotechnology industry, that changes in health care practice, third party reimbursement limitations and Federal and/or state health care reform initiatives will not negatively affect its business, or that the U.S. Congress may not pass any legislation that would provide additional funding for the Project BioShield program. In addition, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of any of its clinical/preclinical trials. Despite the statistically significant result achieved in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, there can be no assurance that a marketing authorization from the FDA or EMA will be successful. Notwithstanding the result in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and the Phase 1/2 proof-of-concept clinical trial of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of the clinical trials of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis. Further, there can be no assurance that RiVax® will qualify for a biodefense Priority Review Voucher (PRV) or that the prior sales of PRVs will be indicative of any potential sales price for a PRV for RiVax®. Also, no assurance can be provided that the Company will receive or continue to receive non-dilutive government funding from grants and contracts that have been or may be awarded or for which the Company will apply in the future. These and other risk factors are described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Soligenix's reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K. Unless required by law, Soligenix assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.
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The Carpet Cleaning Franchise Will Bring 65 New Locations in 2022
LAKEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning, recognized as one of the nation's greenest and fastest-growing carpet cleaning franchises, has announced plans to continue their expansion throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Following its growth during the first two quarters of the year, the company aims to reach 50 new locations by the end of 2022. The carpet cleaner has already expanded to the following cities this year:
- Gilbert, AZ
- Cartersville, GA
- John's Creek, GA
- Genesee County, MI
- Midland, MI
- The Twin Cities, MN
- Joplin, OK
- Boone, NC
- Albuquerque, NM
- Warwick, RI
- Roanoke, VI
- Virginia Beach, VI
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
"We are thrilled that more people are able to experience our fast-drying, eco-friendly carpet cleaning services," said Matt Kline, Director of Franchise Development. "The demand for carpet cleaning has only increased within the last few years, and we're ready to provide our services to more communities."
The Fast-Drying, Eco-Friendly Carpet Cleaner
Since opening in 2006, the carpet cleaning company has established itself as an industry leader thanks to its modern cleaning technology, eco-friendly methods, and focus on customer convenience.
Oxi Fresh achieves world-class results while using 95% less water than many cleaning services. This is thanks to Oxi Fresh's powerful cleaning machine and green products that work in tandem to rapidly break down dirt. Thanks to this process, the green carpet cleaner eliminates the need for massive amounts of water.
This is both good for the environment and also reduces dry times. While many traditional steam carpet cleaners have 12-24 hour dry times, Oxi Fresh's dry times are about one hour. That convenience, coupled with the brand's results and eco-friendly approach, has earned them hundreds of thousands of positive reviews. In addition, the company's support of the nonprofit Water.org—which has now passed $200,000 in donations since 2015—has further cemented the brand as many customers 'go-to' cleaner.
"We are extremely proud of Oxi Fresh's growth this year," said Jonathan Barnett, founder and CEO of Oxi Fresh. "Our dedicated teams and welcoming communities have allowed the company to continue growing for over 15 years. We can't wait to see what the rest of 2022 has in store for us."
About Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning®
Through innovative products and modern technology, Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning offers green carpet cleanings and exceptional results. The company's powerful combination of knowledgeable people, innovative technology, and strong processes has landed the brand in Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500, ranked in Inc. magazine's Inc. 500|5000, and saw them named as one of "America's Best Franchises to Buy," by Forbes magazine. Oxi Fresh has over 460 locations throughout the United States and Canada, with more locations currently in development. For more information, visit oxifresh.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees captain Aaron Judge went on the injured list because of a strained right hip, joining Giancarlo Stanton, Harrison Bader and third baseman Josh Donaldson on the sidelines.
New York announced the move before Monday night’s series opener against Cleveland and made the move retroactive to Friday. Judge is eligible to be activated for the May 8 series opener against Oakland.
Judge was hurt last Wednesday when he landed hard while making an awkward headfirst slide at Minnesota on his 31st birthday. He remained in the game and started Thursday at Texas, then left in the fourth inning after striking out twice.
A four-time All-Star and the reigning AL MVP, Judge is batting .261 with six homers and 14 RBIs in his first season after signing a $360 million, nine-year contract.
“Each of the last few days I feel like it’s going better,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said earlier Monday before Judge worked out. “Just want to make sure we do right by him and what’s best for him and for us.”
Judge is on the injured list for the seventh time since making his debut in 2016, He stayed healthy last year and hit an American League-record 62 home runs, batting .311 with 131 RBIs, tying the Mets’ Pete Alonso for the major league lead.
Judge has missed 156 games on the injured list since 2016: the final 18 games of 2016 with a strained right oblique, 45 in 2018 with a broken right wrist after hit by a pitch from Kansas City’s Jakob Junis, 54 in 2019 with a strained left oblique, two stints totaling 30 games in 2020 with a strained right calf and nine games in 2021 on the COVID IL.
New York lost six of eight heading into the homestand, its record down to 15-14. The Yankees totaled eight runs during the six losses.
Outfielder/infielder Franchy Cordero was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Cordero traveled from Texas to Worcester, Massachusetts, on Saturday after he was optioned to the RailRiders.
Then, after Jake Bowers got hurt crashing into the left-field wall in the first inning of his Yankees debut on Saturday, Cordero headed back to Texas on Sunday to join the Yankees taxi squad.
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How Jeremy Pruitt, each Tennessee staff member cheated NCAA — and the show cause received
The NCAA handed out seven show-cause penalties to former Tennessee football coaches and staff members during Jeremy Pruitt's dodgy tenure in Knoxville.
The recruiting malfeasance spread through most of Pruitt's stint at UT from 2018 to early 2021 and resulted in the NCAA handing down its verdict Friday in the scandal that featured more than 200 rule violations by at least a dozen staff members that went unreported. Pruitt, notable, received a six-year show-cause for his role. A show-cause penalty means a university cannot hire a coach or recruiter without being subjected to penalties during the length of the ban, unless given NCAA approval.
Former defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley, director of recruiting Bethany Gunn, and assistant director of recruiting Chantryce Boone also received show-cause orders.
Here is who was punished and why by the NCAA:
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Jeremy Pruitt
Former role at Tennessee: Head coach, 2017-21
Punishment: Six-year show-cause that includes a 100% suspension from the first year of his employment if he employed by an NCAA school in athletics during the six-year show-cause
NCAA findings: Pruitt took the brunt of the punishment and attention for Tennessee's 18 Level I violations as the head coach of a program that orchestrated rampant and blatant rules violations. He was accused of not meeting his responsibility to promote an atmosphere of compliance due to his involvement in violations. He also failed to monitor his staff.
Brian Niedermeyer
Former role at Tennessee: Assistant coach, 2017-21
Punishment: Five-year show-cause.
NCAA findings: Niedermeyer was at the middle of the cash flow for Tennessee. The NCAA found he paid recruits and players from large ATM cash withdrawals and money stashed in his desk drawer. His bank records showed large withdrawls coinciding with prospect visits. He was accused of providing false or misleading information to the school and NCAA enforcement staff. He funded and was involved in impermissible visits during the COVID-19 dead period.
Shelton Felton
Former role at Tennessee: Quality control analyst, 2018; assistant coach, 2020-21
Punishment: Four-year show-cause
NCAA findings: Felton helped fund and was involved in impermissible visits during the COVID-19 dead period. He was accused of providing false or misleading information to the school and NCAA enforcement staff.
Drew Hughes
Former role at Tennessee: Director of player personnel, 2017-21
Punishment: Four-year show-cause.
NCAA findings: Hughes provided and arranged impermissible inducements to multiple prospective student-athletes. The NAA deemed the inducements were intentional, substantial, repetitive and provided to gain a significant recruiting advantage.
Bethany Gunn
Former role at Tennessee: Director of recruiting, 2018-21
Punishment: Five-year show-cause
NCAA findings: Gunn factored into the middle of the NCAA findings as the director of recruiting. She consistently was part of the structure that sought to conceal recruiting visits, scheduling and illicit activities. She was accused of providing false or misleading information to the school and NCAA enforcement staff and influencing a prospect's mother to provide false or misleading information to investigators.
Chantryce Boone
Former role at Tennessee: Assistant director of recruiting, 2020-21
Punishment: 10-year show-cause.
NCAA findings: Boone was part of the recruiting operation to facilitate impermissible unofficial visit activities, inducements and contacts. Her actions included setting up visits and paying for meals and hotel rooms.
Michael Magness
Former role at Tennessee: Student assistant, 2017-20
Punishment: Three-year show-cause.
NCAA findings: Magness existed as a money runner for the staff, paying for meals, hotels, and entertainment during recruit visits. He got money to players who were hosting recruits on visits. He was accused of providing false or misleading information during the investigation. He funded and was involved in impermissible visits during the COVID-19 dead period.
Casey Pruitt and others
Other names that have factored in throughout the process but were not included in the NCAA punishments include Casey Pruitt, Jeremy Pruitt's wife; former director of player personnel Danny Stiff; former director of recruiting Rachel Bell; former assistant director of player personnel J.T. Hill; assistant director of recruiting Taylar Hooker; and offensive analyst/quality control coach Larry Harold.
Stiff, Bell, Hill, Hooker and Harold were fired for cause in January 2021 along with Jeremy Pruitt, Niedermeyer, Felton, Gunn, and Boone.
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POTTSVILLE, Pa. — Yuengling's Stars and Stripes Celebration is on to round two, returning to Pottsville for the first time since 2019.
The event stretches blocks, from the Yuengling Brewery to the main stage, at the intersection of Laurel Boulevard and North Railroad Street. With live performances on three stages, dozens of vendors, and several beer gardens Yuengling is bringing to the party.
"It's our way to give back to the community and to be able to get everybody together, celebrate some great music, have some great beer. We're also honored to be able to celebrate the military, so we're partnering with Team Red, White, and Blue. So we're going to have a military celebration on stage as well," said Debbie Yuengling, Employee Engagement & Culture Manager.
The Stars and Stripes Celebration packs some serious star power this year, with Grammy-nominated country music recording artist Lee Brice closing out the day. The performance is free.
"This is a guy that sells out arenas and stadiums and he's gonna be right here, small town Pottsville with America's oldest brewery. It's a whole new level of turnout," said Mayor Dave Clews, Pottsville.
Pottsville Mayor Dave Clews says he's excited to welcome tens of thousands of visitors to his city, but he's concerned about traffic and sheer space.
Festival organizers say the main stage area can hold approximately 17,000 people, but Clews estimates that as many as 50,000 fans could show up.
"We have a population here of somewhere around 13,000. So if you look at the numbers, we're talking, double, triple, maybe four times the population of the city is going to be in town," said Mayor Clews.
Paul T. Kennedy heads the security company that Yuengling hired for the event. He expects a lot more people than in 2019. The event will rely heavily on satellite parking.
"We're utilizing 14 parking lots, somewhere around 4,000 parking spaces that we have at our disposal tomorrow. We'll be having eight different shuttle buses on three colored lines running. So we'll be coordinating both on the ground and in the air to watch what traffic is coming into the city," said Kennedy, Signal Security Executive Director.
Kennedy says state and local law enforcement and emergency personnel are working together to make sure the festival is safe and enjoyable for everyone. Mayor Clews hopes it all runs smoothly.
"Every day I've kinda left my police chief's office and go, 'Hey chief, are we ready?' He assures me, 'our staff's already to go, Dave.' I said, 'that's all I need to know.' said Clews.
"We're prepared to have a lot of people to be here in the city. Not exactly sure what that number is, but we're prepared to welcome a lot of friends to have a great party," said Kennedy.
The head of security asks those attending the event to visit the festival website for details on parking and traffic.
The stage is assembled and festival officials are ready to put on a show beginning at 11 a.m.
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Brands and agencies are now able to holistically compare advertising performance across all channels under measurement, including YouTube
DALLAS, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynata, the world's largest first-party data platform for insights, activation and measurement, today expanded its partnership with Google as a third-party brand-lift measurement provider approved to include YouTube as part of a cross-media study. Brands and agencies now can leverage Dynata's advertising solutions to measure advertising effectiveness, optimize media spend and improve marketing ROI on YouTube by analyzing the performance of their YouTube ads compared to TV, print or any other digital, social or offline media channels under measurement.
Media fragmentation has made it more challenging than ever to accurately measure advertising impact across all publishers and channels. Dynata now enables any company to better understand how a campaign is influencing consumers at all levels of the purchase funnel, holistically, across all channels.
In 2020, Dynata was approved to measure YouTube lift as part of a digital ad campaign using Google's Ads Data Hub. Dynata's cross-media studies — which include non-digital media channels, such as TV, radio, print and out-of-home — measure the media performance of panelists' exposure to digital ads alongside other ad types across multiple channels. For the first time, YouTube now can be included as a media channel in such studies.
"Adding a premier channel, such as YouTube, into our cross-media advertising lift offerings further enhances our ability to help clients accurately and comprehensively measure advertising performance," said Dynata CEO Gary S. Laben. "This capability reinforces our commitment to helping our clients not only to uncover insights, but also to activate these insights, measure overall marketing ROI and ultimately drive growth."
Dynata is the world's largest first-party data platform for insights, activation and measurement. With a reach that encompasses nearly 70 million consumers and business professionals globally, and an extensive library of individual profile attributes collected through surveys, Dynata is the cornerstone for precise, trustworthy quality data. The company has built innovative data services and solutions around its robust first-party data offering to bring the voice of the customer to the entire marketing continuum — from uncovering insights to activating campaigns and measuring cross-channel marketing ROI. Dynata serves more than 6,000 market research, media and advertising agencies, publishers, consulting and investment firms and corporate customers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at www.dynata.com.
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles landed in Edinburgh on Monday to accompany his late mother’s coffin on an emotion-charged procession through the historic heart of the Scottish capital to a cathedral where it will lie for 24 hours to allow the public to pay their last respects.
Charles flew to Scotland after earlier receiving condolences at Parliament and telling lawmakers he would follow his late mother’s example of “selfless duty.”
Earlier, Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Prince Harry hailed her as a “guiding compass” and praised her “unwavering grace and dignity.”
The government, meanwhile, announced that the nation will observe a minute of silence on Sunday, the evening before the queen’s funeral. The “moment of reflection” will take place at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). People were encouraged to mark the silence at home or at community events.
Hundreds of lawmakers crowded into the 1,000-year-old Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament for the service, rich in pageantry, in which Parliament offered its condolences to the king, and he replied.
A trumpet fanfare greeted the king and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, as they entered the hall, which was packed with hundreds of legislators.
Charles told members of the House of Commons and House of Lords that he would follow his late mother Queen Elizabeth II in upholding “the precious principles of constitutional governance” that underpin the U.K.’s political system.
He paid tribute to his mother, saying: “As Shakespeare said of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was a pattern to all princes living.”
The hall, with its magnificent hammer-beam roof, is the oldest part of the parliamentary complex — a remnant of the medieval Palace of Westminster that once stood on the site.
“As I stand before you today, I cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which members of both Houses dedicate yourselves, with such personal commitment for the betterment of us all,” Charles said.
The ceremony was held in Westminster Hall because monarchs are not allowed inside the House of Commons. That rule dates from the 17th century, when King Charles I tried to enter and arrest lawmakers. That confrontation between crown and Parliament led to a civil war which ended with the king being beheaded in 1649.
Earlier Monday, a personal statement posted on Harry and his wife Meghan’s Archwell website said he cherished their times together “from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved greatgrandchildren.”
Amid acrimony in the House of Windsor, Harry quit as a senior royal and moved to the U.S. two years ago. On Saturday, there was a possible sign of a reconciliation as Harry and Meghan joined his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Catherine in meeting mourners outside Windsor Castle.
The national outpouring of grief continued Sunday as thousands of people lined streets and roadsides as the oak coffin was borne from the late queen’s beloved Balmoral Castle summer retreat, where she died on Thursday, to Edinburgh.
In Edinburgh, the king will walk behind his mother’s coffin as it is slowly transported from Holyroodhouse to St. Giles’ Cathedral, where the crown of Scotland will be placed on the coffin ahead of a service of prayer and reflection on the life and 70-year reign of the widely cherished monarch.
The queen’s coffin will lie at the cathedral for 24 hours, giving members of the public a chance to file past and pay their respects. On Tuesday, it will be flown to London where the coffin will lie in state at the Houses of Parliament Palace from Wednesday afternoon until the morning of the funeral on Sept. 19.
Authorities already have issued rules and guidelines for people wanting to pay their respects in London, with a long queue expected.
After visiting Scotland, Charles embarks on a tour of the other nations that make up the United Kingdom — he visits the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast, on Tuesday and Wales on Friday.
Harry’s statement ended on a poignant note alluding to the death last year of his grandfather, Prince Philip, saying that “We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace.”
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College of the Sequoias basketball sweeps Fresno City
The most heralded member of College of the Sequoias' men's basketball team delivered the most important moment so far this season for the Giants.
Javohn Garcia, a transfer from NCAA Division I UMass, scored 11 points during the game's decisive final 10 minutes to help send Sequoias over rival Fresno City College 87-77 on Jan. 21 and into sole possession of first place in the Central Valley Conference.
The California Community College Men's Basketball Coaches Association state No. 10-ranked Giants (17-3 overall, 6-0 in the CVC) now enjoy a one-game lead on the No. 15-ranked Rams (15-3, 5-1) with eight conference games remaining. The rematch is set for 7 p.m. on Feb. 15 at Porter Field House.
Sequoias is in pursuit of a fifth straight conference title. The Giants won the past two CVC titles on the court and were awarded championships in 2019 and 2020 because of Fresno City forfeits.
Playing on its home court, Fresno City twice opened 10-point leads, first at 39-29 with 4 minutes and 47 seconds remaining in the first half and a second time at 58-48 with 14:35 left in the second half.
Sequoias erased the Rams' lead for the last time when Cameron Clark (Snellville, Ga.) dunked off an assist from Terri Miller (Clovis North High) to tie the score 60-60 with 10:53 to play.
The Giants outscored Fresno City 27-17 the rest of the way, with Garcia pouring in 11 of his game-high 25 points during the stretch to propel Sequoias to its 12th straight win. Garcia, a 6-foot-3 guard from Columbus, Ohio, also had five rebounds, two assists, two blocks, and a steal.
Tyjean Burrell (Sacramento) scored seven of his 15 points, and Miller added four of his 16 points during the game-closing run. Burrell also had two rebounds, while Miller delivered 14 rebounds, seven assists, two steals, and a block.
Sequoias also received nine points, 12 rebounds, two blocks, an assist, and a steal from Clark; seven points, two assists, and a steal from Jose Cuello (Harlem, N.Y.); seven points and a steal from Tyree Gill (Sacramento); five points, four assists, three rebounds, a steal and a block from Alex Argandar (Modesto); and three points, two rebounds and a steal from Tre'von Martin (Las Vegas).
When the Giants fell behind the Rams by 10 points in the first half, Gill, Argandar, and Cuello contributed 3-pointers as Sequoias pulled within 45-42 at halftime. The Giants made seven 3-pointers overall.
Sequoias will play its next three games on the road, at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 against Reedley (8-12, 2-4), at 6 p.m. Jan. 28 against No. 13 Columbia (15-4, 3-2), and at 7 p.m. Feb. 1 against Merced (6-13, 3-2).
The Giants return home on Feb. 4 against West Hills-Lemoore (8-12, 1-5). Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m., and admission into Porter Field House is $8 for general and $5 for seniors and students.
Sequoias is looking to extend its streak of three straight state Elite Eight appearances and compete for the school's third state championship. The Giants won state titles in 1953 and 1982.
Women's Basketball
College of the Sequoias’ women’s basketball team has pulled a likely state rankings shaker.
The California Community College Sports Information Association state No. 5-ranked Giants pulled away in the final 5 minutes behind nine points from Maria Dias to upset No. 3 Fresno City on its home court, 76-72, in a Central Valley Conference game on Jan. 21.
The win sends Sequoias (19-2 overall, 5-0 CVC) into first place in the conference. The Rams (19-3, 5-1) drop a half-game behind in the conference standings while having a 17-game winning streak snapped.
The showdown of state powers and conference rivals saw 10 lead changes, the ninth coming with 5:02 remaining in the game when Jasmine Heu's basket put Fresno City ahead 59-58.
The Giants responded with 4:25 left, getting a steal and layup from Camila Barreno (Ambato, Ecuador) to take a 60-59 lead.
Barreno's basket kickstarted an 18-13 game-closing run for Sequoias.
Grizzle Jones (Bullard) and Dias (Lisbon, Portugal) sank 3-pointers on consecutive possessions, off assists from Taylor Roth (Sanger) and Alana Roberts (Sierra Pacific-Hanford), respectively, to put the Giants ahead by seven points (66-59) with 3:10 to play.
Fresno City would slice the deficit to two points (74-72) with 23 seconds left on Daeja Holmes' 3-pointer, but Dias sank two free throws with 20 seconds to go to extend the lead to four (76-72), and the Rams missed their final three shots before time expired.
Dias finished with 26 points, six rebounds, two assists, a steal, and a block to help Sequoias win its fifth straight game.
Roberts delivered 14 points, 11 rebounds, three blocks, two steals, and an assist.
Tiana Holland (Washington Union-Easton) contributed 14 points, six rebounds, three assists, and a steal. Jones added 10 points, six rebounds, two steals, two blocks, and an assist as the Giants produced four players in double-figure scoring.
Sequoias also received eight points, nine assists, three steals, and two rebounds from Barreno; two points, three rebounds, and an assist from Roth; and two points and two rebounds from Maci Chavez (Kingsburg).
The Giants are scheduled to play their next two games on the road: at 5 p.m. Jan. 25 against Reedley (3-18, 0-5) and at 5 p.m. Feb. 1 against Merced (11-9, 3-2).
Sequoias’ next home game is set for 3 p.m. Feb. 4 against West Hills-Lemoore (5-13, 2-2). Admission into Porter Field House is $8 for general and $5 for seniors and students.
The Giants will host Fresno City at 5 p.m. on Feb. 15.
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DENVER, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AgentSync today announced it has named Hippo President and CEO Rick McCathron as a Board Advisor. McCathron will provide AgentSync with invaluable guidance based on his extensive experience as an insurance industry leader who has embraced technology throughout his successful career.
"Rick is relentlessly focused on integrating technology in the insurance industry," said Niji Sabharwal, Chief Executive Officer of AgentSync. "He understands the complexity of distribution and how to use technology to quickly scale producer channels. His expertise is perfectly aligned with our goals at AgentSync."
McCathron has held senior executive positions at multiple insurance companies including First Connect Insurance as President and CEO from 2012 to 2017; Superior Access Insurance as President and CEO from 2007 to 2010; and Mercury Insurance Group as Regional Vice President from 2004 to 2007.
At Hippo, McCathron is responsible for the company's strategic vision, ensuring Hippo offers a superior customer experience and maintains high operational velocity. During his tenure, Hippo has focused on proactive home protection, leveraging technology to help homeowners prevent small issues from becoming big problems.
"AgentSync is transforming insurance distribution by improving the producer experience and empowering agents and carriers with solutions that help their customers protect what matters most," said McCathron. "The company has already built significant momentum in both distribution and producer management. I am excited to work with Niji, Jenn, and the larger AgentSync team as they continue to deliver modern insurance infrastructure and tackle some of the industry's biggest challenges."
AgentSync builds modern insurance infrastructure that connects carriers, agencies, MGAs, and producers. The company's solutions create onboarding, licensing, and appointing processes insurers and producers love while ensuring growth and compliance never compete. Founded in 2018 by Niranjan "Niji" Sabharwal and Jenn Knight, and headquartered in Denver, Colo., AgentSync has been recognized as one of Denver's Best Places to Work, as a Forbes Magazine Cloud 100 Rising Star, and an Insurtech Insights Future 50 winner. For more information, visit www.agentsync.io.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kelsey Plum scored 27 points, A’ja Wilson added 25 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Dallas Wings 92-84 on Wednesday.
Las Vegas opened the third quarter by scoring 24 of the opening 33 points to build a 59-53 lead. Plum gave the Aces their first lead of the game at 51-49 on a 3-pointer.
Chelsea Gray had 16 points and eight assists for Las Vegas (12-2), which also beat Dallas 84-78 on June 5 behind a career-high 32 points from Plum. Dearica Hamby had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and the Aces starters accounted for all 92 points.
Plum, who entered needing nine points to reach 1,500 in her career, scored 14 in the first half. Plum also made a 3-pointer in her 21st straight game.
Arike Ogunbowale led Dallas (6-8) with 28 points. Marina Mabrey, who missed the last two games due to health and safety protocols, added 18 points. Satou Sabally did not play due to a knee injury.
Ogunbowale made all three of her shots in the first quarter to help Dallas build a 23-14 lead after Las Vegas shot 36.8%. The Wings led 44-35 at the break, behind 17 points from Ogunbowale, for only their fourth halftime advantage of the season.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SARA CLINE
Associated Press
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Voters in an Oregon county where a ballot-printing error has delayed primary results for nearly two weeks have elected the same county clerk five times in the past 20 years despite missteps that impacted two previous elections and cost taxpayers at least $100,000.
Opponents have repeatedly tried to unseat Clackamas County Clerk Sherry Hall, who was first elected in 2002, following elections errors in 2004, 2010 and 2011 and a state vote-tampering investigation in 2012. Hall makes $112,600 a year in the nonpartisan position overseeing elections, recording property transactions, keeping public records and issuing marriage licenses. She is running for a sixth four-year term in November in the suburban county south of Portland.
The latest scandal in Oregon comes against the backdrop of a polarized political landscape in which vote counts are increasingly scrutinized. Races for local elections clerks — who until recently toiled in obscurity and relative anonymity — are getting new attention, particularly from right-wing voters who deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Local elections chiefs are the first line of defense for elections integrity, but most voters don’t know who their county clerk is, or even what they do, and are likely to skip over the nonpartisan race on Election Day, or simply pick the incumbent. Some county clerks are appointed, but in many counties in Oregon and elsewhere they are beholden to the whims of voters who may not be paying attention, said Christopher McKnight Nichols, an associate professor of history at Oregon State University.
There’s a “myopia and invisibility about this sort of office in American public life,” he said.
The situation in Oregon’s third-largest county underscores the importance of such contests.
In the current election, tens of thousands of ballots sent out with blurry barcodes were rejected by a vote-counting machine. The issue affected Democratic and nonpartisan ballots more than Republican ones, state officials have said. The fiasco forced the county to shift nearly 200 county employees to vote tabulation duties; county officials don’t yet know the full cost of the cleanup job.
For days, workers have been transferring each voter’s intent from spoiled ballots to fresh ones, by hand using purple markers, in a painstaking process that might not be complete for more than two more weeks. Nearly 72,000 ballots out of more than 116,000 had been counted by Thursday, and more than 38,000 spoiled ballots remained to be duplicated, according to county tallies.
“This affects all of us. This is voter integrity,” said Janet Bailey, a Republican voter who protested outside the Clackamas County election offices Thursday with about a dozen others. “We, in Oregon, a week ago we had our primary, and we still don’t know the results.”
Hall knew of the problem with the ballots on May 3, but did not take significant action until after the election on May 17, when it became clear the vote tally was substantially delayed. The Oregon Secretary of State has said Hall refused offers of help from the state; at least one Democratic state lawmaker has demanded a legislative inquiry into the ballot blunder.
Meanwhile, the results of several contests, including the much-watched Democratic primary for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, remain undecided. And some voters are seizing on the county’s problems to demand an end to Oregon’s trailblazing vote-by-mail system and the use of electronic machinery to count votes.
“Our votes have to count,” said Cindy Hise, a Clackamas County voter who wants the entire primary redone. “This has been going on for days. We’re past all hope of it being a true vote.”
Hall declined a phone or in-person interview with The Associated Press for this story but said in response to emailed questions Thursday that she would cooperate with any investigation. She said she has no comment on calls from some for her resignation.
She also addressed numerous 2020 contributions she made to national Republican causes, saying in a brief email that she “maintains neutrality.” The donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and to WINRED, a Republican Party fundraising platform, were all $100 or less.
“I have the right as a private citizen to exercise free speech and association. I do give small contributions to a large number of organizations,” she wrote. “I do not accept endorsements of any kind.”
Controversy isn’t new to Hall, who has overseen the county’s elections since she took office in 2003.
— In 2004, the county excluded three annexation questions on ballots mailed to 300 voters and didn’t alert the public for 10 days.
— In 2010, a county commission race was listed on the primary ballot when it should not have been. The ballots were reprinted at a cost of more than $100,000. Hall later filed a complaint with state elections officials saying the episode, including press “leaks” and public criticisms of her by county officials, cost her primary votes and forced her into a November runoff.
— In 2012, an elections worker was caught tampering with two ballots and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
— In 2018, Hall placed her name and the county clerk title on the ballot return envelopes and on voter information pamphlets while also seeking reelection to the post, a decision critics called egregious self-promotion in a tight race.
Hall said in her email that all the elections incidents “did happen under my watch” and that she or those in her office “took appropriate steps as needed.”
Pamela White, who challenged Hall in 2018 and lost by fewer than 6,000 votes, said even with such missteps it seemed impossible to defeat Hall. In that election, more than 52,000 voters skipped the county clerk race altogether despite persistent criticisms of Hall’s elections oversight and White’s endorsement by Hall’s recently retired elections manager.
White spent $100,000 on the race, including $25,000 of her own money, and campaigned for two years, she said.
“I worked very hard,” she said. “I knew what I was doing, but that down-ballot thing is an issue even in your own party. It just takes all the air out of the room.”
Steve Kindred, the former elections manager who endorsed White, said his relationship with Hall soured after a 2014 incident in which she asked him to do work on her reelection campaign during office hours without telling him what it was for. She was later fined $100 by state elections officials for the lapse. Kindred retired early.
Kindred said seeing the ballot fiasco now after experiencing the ballot-tampering probe in 2012 was like a “punch to the gut.”
“We had a couple of hell elections, not nearly as bad as this one,” he said. “It’s almost like she’s frozen, like a deer in the headlights.”
For now, the county is focused on getting the votes counted by June 13, the state’s election certification deadline.
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Cline reported from Portland. Associated Press writer Andrew Selsky in Salem and AP investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report.
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BUFFALO N.Y. (WIVB) – The City of Buffalo introduced its new GPS tracking tool for snow plows during last week’s snowstorm, but leaders say there were some problems with the system.
News 4 received reports of the maps not updating, and roads being marked as plowed when they were not.
“I think it was literally the perfect storm. You had a lot of traffic going to the site, I talked to the mayor today about the GPS system and they are doing everything in their power to find out exactly what happened,” said Common Council President Darius Pridgen.
The city was all set to use a new GPS tracking tool to help road crews clear out the streets and people could check online to see what roads were snow plowed and which ones weren’t.
However, during last week’s snow storm, the system malfunctioned.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown spoke earlier this week about his frustrations with the system.
“Obviously we’re not happy that there were failures in the system. The system was not reliable for this storm, that’s the fact,” Brown said during a news conference on clean up efforts Monday. “I would have liked to not see the GPS system fail. I would have liked to have not seen that malfunction.”
“I think everybody was disappointed, I think citizens were disappointed, the administration was disappointed, council was disappointed but it’s mechanical and it’s new,” Pridgen told News 4.
Pridgen says besides the technical glitches, another problem was that many of the plows on the roads were private contractors that did not have the GPS technology. Any work they did would not be shown on the tracking website.
“We’re going to have much more winters so I don’t think we will have any problems hopefully in the future by learning what the problem was this time,” Pridgen said.
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(NEXSTAR) – “Unprecedented amounts” of rainfall and flooding have kept Yellowstone National Park closed since Monday. According to National Park Service officials, parts of the park may remain closed for quite some time.
Floodwaters began ravaging Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area Monday, washing out roads and bridges, cutting off electricity, and forcing thousands to evacuate. Officials say heavy rain and melting snowpack are responsible for the deluge.
The Yellowstone River crested at 13.88 feet Monday, surpassing the previous record of 11.5 feet that was set in 1918, according to the National Weather Service.
“It’s a lot of rain, but the flooding wouldn’t have been anything like this if we didn’t have so much snow,” said Cory Mottice, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, Montana. “This is flooding that we’ve just never seen in our lifetimes before.”
As of Thursday, all entrances to Yellowstone remain closed. Even when the floodwaters recede, park officials believe the northern portion of the park will likely stay closed “for a substantial length of time due to severely damaged, impacted infrastructure.”
Aerial assessments showed major damage to multiple sections of roadway between the North Entrance to the park, Mammoth Hot Springs, Lamar Valley and Cooke City near the Northeast Entrance. The road between Gardiner, Montana, and Cooke City will likely not reopen for the rest of the season, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly explained during a press conference earlier this week.
“Many sections of road in these areas are completely gone and will require substantial time and effort to reconstruct,” park officials said in a release on Tuesday. “The National Park Service will make every effort to repair these roads as soon as possible; however, it is probable that road sections in northern Yellowstone will not reopen this season due to the time required for repairs.”
There may still be more damages in the park that officials haven’t yet seen. During a press conference earlier this week, Sholly explained high water was making it difficult to fully assess the damages.
In a statement Thursday, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said the agency is “committed to working quickly to reopen as much of Yellowstone National Park as possible as soon as it is safe to do so.”
That would likely include opening the southern loop of the park, where visitors can visit Old Faithful, first. But, because “half the park cannot support all of the visitation,” Sholly said officials are evaluating options such as timed entry reservation systems. He added that he’s hopeful the southern loop can open “relatively soon.”
If you had already booked a stay with Yellowstone National Park Lodges, cancellation fees have been waived for reservations through June 30, 2022. Guests will receive a full refund, according to officials, and reservations can be canceled online.
“We realize there is much challenging work ahead, and we will do everything we can to support the park, partners, concessioners, and gateway communities on the road to recovery,” Sams said.
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We look at what a fragmented Republican party means for President Biden's agenda, as well as what his trip to both sides of the southern border today will accomplish.
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We look at what a fragmented Republican party means for President Biden's agenda, as well as what his trip to both sides of the southern border today will accomplish.
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Proud Boys leaders’ Jan. 6 sedition trial inches to a close
WASHINGTON (AP) — After almost three months of testimony, dozens of witnesses and countless legal fights, a jury will soon decide whether the onetime leader of the Proud Boys extremist group is guilty in one of the most serious cases brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Closing arguments could be as early as this week before jurors decide whether to convict Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors say was a plot to forcibly stop the transfer of presidential power from Republican Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
In a trial that has lasted over twice as long as expected, little new information has emerged about the Jan. 6 attack that halted Congress’ certification of Biden’s victory or the far-right extremist group’s role in the Capitol riot. But a guilty verdict against Tarrio, who wasn’t even in Washington, D.C., when the riot erupted, would affirm that those accused of planning and inciting the violence could be held responsible even if they didn’t join in it.
The case is nearing a close as a new problem may be on the horizon for the Proud Boys, a neofacist group known for brawling and street fights with left-wing activists and disrupting storytelling sessions by drag performers and other LGBTQ events around the country.
The group, Tarrio and two others on trial are also facing a separate, multimillion-dollar lawsuit. A judge is poised to decide how much they should have to pay a historic Black church in Washington for Proud Boys destroying a Black Lives Matter sign during a weekend of pro-Trump rallies in December 2020 that erupted into violence. Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church is seeking up to $22 million in punitive damages, saying it was part of an effort to intimidate those who fight for racial justice.
Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6 because he had been arrested two days earlier for his role in burning another Black Lives Matter banner torn down from a different Washington church, Asbury United Methodist. Tarrio was ordered to stay out of the city after his arrest.
The seditious conspiracy case in Washington’s federal court, which began with opening statements in January, has been slowed by bickering between the judge and defense attorneys, repeated requests for a mistrial, lengthy cross-examinations of witnesses and other legal maneuvers that often kept jurors waiting in the wings instead of hearing courtroom testimony.
On trial with Tarrio are Proud Boys chapter leaders Ethan Nordean, of Auburn, Washington; and Zachary Rehl, of Philadelphia; self-described Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida; and Dominic Pezzola, a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
It is unclear if any of them will testify before the defense rests and jurors hear attorneys’ closing arguments.
The backbone of the government’s case is a trove of messages that Proud Boys leaders privately exchanged on the Telegram platform before, during and after the Capitol riot. Their online rhetoric became increasingly angry with each failure by Trump’s lawyers to challenge election results in court.
“If Biden steals this election, (the Proud Boys) will be political prisoners,” Tarrio posted in Nov. 16, 2020. “We won’t go quietly ... I promise.”
As the mob attacked Capitol, Tarrio posted on social media, “Don’t (expletive) leave.”
When a Proud Boys member asked, “Are we a militia yet?” Tarrio responded with one word — “Yep” — in a voice note.
“Make no mistake,” Tarrio wrote. “We did this.”
Defense attorneys have argued that there is no evidence of a plan for the Proud Boys to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6.
They have stressed that Proud Boys had FBI informants in their ranks who didn’t raise any red flags about the group before Jan. 6. In an effort to show jurors that Tarrio was trying to avoid violence, they also showed how Tarrio frequently communicated with an officer assigned to monitor extremist groups’ activity in Washington and advised the officer of the group’s plans in the weeks before Jan. 6.
Several Oath Keepers leaders and members who previously stood trial on seditious conspiracy charges similarly argued that the riot was a spontaneous outpouring of election-fueled rage, not the result of a premediated plan. While prosecutors said the Capitol attack was only a means to an end in the Oath Keepers’ larger plot to stop the transfer of power, defense attorneys repeatedly raised the lack of evidence that the Oath Keepers had an explicit plan to storm the Capitol.
In the end, prosecutors managed to secure seditious conspiracy convictions at trials against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and five other members, but three others were acquitted of the charge. Those others, however, were convicted of other serious felonies. Sentencings for Rhodes and other Oath Keepers are scheduled for next month.
In the Oath Keepers case, prosecutors could point to a cache of guns stashed at a Virginia hotel as evidence they planned to use force to stop the transfer of power, a key element of the crime.
Among the Proud Boys defendants, only Pezzola is accused of engaging in violence or destruction after being filmed smashing in a Capitol window with a riot shield.
The prosecutors in the Proud Boys case have instead argued that Tarrio and the others handpicked and mobilized a loyal group of foot soldiers — or “tools” — to supply the force necessary to carry out their plot.
Defense attorneys say that’s an unusual, flawed legal concept, and their messages were taken out of context. They’ve also painted Tarrio in particular as a scapegoat for the riot and an easier person to blame than Trump, whose spoke to a crowd of supporters just before they marched on the Capitol. Pezzola’s lawyers even tried to subpoena Trump, but the effort seemed to go nowhere.
Even without his testimony, Trump could factor into the jury’s verdict. Jurors saw a video of the 2020 presidential debate at which Trump told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” a moment that led to an explosion of attention and membership requests.
“These men did not stand back. They did not stand by. Instead, they mobilized,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough told jurors.
Key prosecution witnesses included two former Proud Boys members who cooperated with the government in hopes of getting lighter sentences. One of them, Matthew Greene, testified that Proud Boys members were expecting a “civil war” after the 2020 election. The other, Jeremy Bertino, testified that the Proud Boys saw themselves as “the tip of the spear.”
Bertino is the only Proud Boy who has pleaded guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge. Both said they didn’t know of a specific plan to storm the Capitol, though Bertino said they wanted to keep Biden from taking office. Greene said group leaders celebrated the attack on Jan. 6 but didn’t explicitly encourage members to use force.
The trial was briefly disrupted when prosecutors told defense attorneys that a woman expected to testify for Tarrio’s defense had secretly worked as an FBI informant after the Jan. 6 attack. Defense attorneys were alarmed because the woman had been in touch with the defense team, but prosecutors said the informant was never told to gather information about the defendants or their lawyers. Tarrio’s lawyers ultimately decided not to call her as a witness.
In the civil case brought by the Metropolitan AME, the judge is expected on Tuesday to hear final arguments from the church. The case is against the Proud Boys as an entity as well as Tarrio, Biggs, Nordean, Bertino and another member. The judge has already said they will be liable by default because the group failed to respond to the lawsuit or participate in the case. The only question remains is how much, if anything, they will have to pay.
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Richer reported from Boston.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of sellers of the stock of Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA) between April 11, 2016 and February 22, 2019, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") against 1Globe Capital LLC and certain of its officers. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 17, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you sold Sinovac securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Sinovac class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8179 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 17, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants' intentionally false statements and omissions concerning the true nature of 1Globe, a family investment office that is owned and controlled by defendant Jiaqiang Li, and Li's ownership of Sinovac stock caused the exchange, under the Rights Agreement of March 28, 2016 which included a "poison pill" limiting the number of Sinovac shares that a shareholder could acquire, to be delayed by several years. If Li had fully disclosed his ownership of Sinovac stock, as he was required to do under Section 13(d), it would have been clear that the Rights Agreement was triggered by May 2016, at the latest. While Sinovac knew enough information starting in 2016, largely based on private correspondence, to determine that 1Globe and Li triggered the Rights Agreement, defendants hid the full extent of their ownership of Sinovac stock and their agreements in connection with the battle for control of the Company. Defendants therefore also tortiously interfered with Sinovac's contractual obligations to its shareholders under the Rights Agreement.
Also according to the lawsuit, if 1Globe's and Li's actions were disclosed publicly, as they were required to be under Section 13(d), shareholders' rights would have been exercisable based on that public disclosure, and an exchange would have occurred based on that date. By misrepresenting the true nature of their ownership of Sinovac stock, defendants caused that date to be delayed almost three years, until February 22, 2019, resulting in the class losing their rights to acquire additional shares of Sinovac stock for all of their shares that they sold in the interim. While Sinovac should have implemented the Rights Agreement in 2016 based on the information available to it at the time, 1Globe and Li exacerbated the problem by violating their disclosure obligations under Section 13(d). Moreover, defendants caused the value of Sinovac stock to be artificially depressed by preventing the public from accounting for the value of defendants' stake in Sinovac and their efforts to take control of the Company.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new head of the nation's largest sheriff's department vowed Saturday to usher in an era of integrity and collaboration after his predecessor's tenure was marked by clashes with other public officials and allegations that ganglike groups of deputies ran amok within the agency.
Robert Luna took an oath of office during a noontime ceremony with family at his side. He officially begins his term as the 34th Los Angeles County sheriff next week, after winning election last month by a landslide.
The former police chief of Long Beach, California, will take charge of an agency with nearly 10,000 sworn deputies after the turbulent single term of Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
In a 20-minute speech, Luna promised a new direction, saying he would focus on accountability for deputies and cooperation with elected officials. He will be tasked with bringing down rates of violent and property crime that have spiked in the county, the nation's most populous with about 10 million people.
Luna said he was elected “with a very clear mandate to bring new leadership.”
“We must continue to embrace change,” he said. “If our streets are unsafe for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists, if our homeless crisis causes desperation and misery ... then we will never have public safety.”
Luna said he would eliminate what he called “deputy gangs” and improve conditions in jails.
“We need to defend good policing,” he said, adding, “It is our responsibility to call out bad policing, and we will do so — that’s an element of keeping the public trust.”
Villanueva’s term was marred by clashes with members of the county Board of Supervisors and criticism that he downplayed allegations of malfeasance by some deputies. He blamed the controversies on “false narratives” by his political opponents.
Villanueva has said his accomplishments include managing the jail system during the pandemic, addressing homelessness humanely and overhauling the department’s body camera program. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-LA-sheriff-vows-accountability-integrity-for-17629335.php | 2022-12-03 23:09:04 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-LA-sheriff-vows-accountability-integrity-for-17629335.php |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-8-6
(two, eight, six)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-8-6
(two, eight, six)
¶ Top Prize $500 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17639400.php | 2022-12-08 05:51:30 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17639400.php |
Fans can own the thrill by bidding-to-win one of 5® gum's fifteen limited-edition luxury necklaces that feature Yungblud's chewed 5 gum
NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, one of Mars' most exhilarating and adventurous brands, 5® gum, announced its "Masterpieces" campaign in collaboration with musician and Gen Z icon, Yungblud, and prominent New York City luxury jeweler and artist, Greg Yuna. The campaign brings to life across multiple touch points the brand's purpose: to encourage people to embrace the thrill of taking a chance, pushing the limits of their craft, and doing what makes them feel alive.
At the center of the new campaign is the "Masterpieces" collection, a set of 15 custom luxury necklaces designed and crafted by Yuna using pieces of Cobalt Peppermint 5 gum that were chewed by Yungblud as part of his pre-concert ritual during his 5 gum-sponsored U.S. album release tour last month. Leaning into the brand's namesake of stimulating all five senses, Yungblud chewed a piece of 5 gum before hitting the stage at each show throughout his tour, capturing the anticipation and exhilaration felt moments before doing something life-changing.
After his electrifying concerts, a total of 15 pieces of the iconic bright blue 5 gum were collected and sent to Yuna to handcraft into 15 collectible necklaces, each representing the thrill felt by both Yungblud and his fans before, during and after each performance, as well as by Yuna when ideating and creating such fascinating pieces of jewelry.
"I love these jewelry pieces that Greg Yuna created. His work is next level and the fact that some of my fans will have the chance to own a little piece of history is amazing," said Yungblud. "I loved this tour with 5 gum and I couldn't think of a better way to have celebrated the release of my album than by hitting as many cities in the U.S. as I could and seeing as many of my fans as possible. Playing these new songs for the first time in these beautiful record stores was an experience I'll never forget."
No two necklaces of the 15-piece collection are the same. Each one features a piece of chewed cobalt blue gum in its original shape as the center piece, encased in Lucite. White diamonds and a charm engraved with the 5 gum logo and Yuna's signature stamp surround the gum pendant, which hangs on a 14K white gold chain. Each of the necklaces will be encased in a custom-designed 5 gum jewelry box, featuring an exterior inscription noting the edition number of that specific "Masterpiece" within the larger collection. The jewelry will also come with a certificate of authentication and a pack of the limited-edition Cobalt Peppermint 5 gum featuring Yungblud's name and image.
"Creating slightly shocking luxury jewelry pieces out of an everyday item such as gum is something that has never been done before in the industry, so I loved stepping into the unknown and challenging myself to create pieces that were equally as exhilarating as Yungblud and 5 gum," said Greg Yuna. "Experiences that heighten your sense is the new luxury, and I'm incredibly proud of both this partnership with 5 gum and the final jewelry pieces. As fans will see, they truly embody self-expression, passion and boldness, which is what I'm all about."
"As a brand that strives to be the most adventurous and distinct brand for life's most exhilarating moments, 5 gum's partnership with two authentically bold, artistic geniuses, like Yungblud and Greg Yuna, was a natural fit and a great honor," said Justin Hollyn-Taub, Senior Marketing Director at Mars Wrigley. "The 15 pieces of custom jewelry, featuring our very own 5 Cobalt gum, were created in such a way that they truly live up to the name of this campaign and collection – Masterpieces. We simply cannot wait for fans to get the unique chance to take home a piece of the thrill that was experienced throughout Yungblud's tour and the masterful creation of the jewelry."
Now through October 26, fans worldwide can bid on 5 gum's Masterpieces collection on eBay at www.ebay.com/e/ad/5GumMasterpieces. Bidding starts at $5 and all proceeds from the sale of each Masterpiece will benefit the National Independent Venue Foundation (NIVF) to further its mission to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of independent venues, promoters, festivals, and cultural hubs of local communities across the United States.
To see a behind-the-scenes look at the thrill felt on stage and in the studio with Yungblud and Greg Yuna, check out this video and follow 5 gum on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook.
ABOUT MARS, INCORPORATED
Mars, Incorporated is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a global, family-owned business, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving to make a positive impact on the world.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of quality confectionery, food, and pet care products and services, we employ 140,000+ dedicated Associates. With almost $45 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including Ben's Original™, CESAR®, Cocoavia®, DOVE®, EXTRA®, KIND®, M&M's®, SNICKERS®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, and WHISKAS®. We are creating a better world for pets through our global network of pet hospitals and diagnostic services – including AniCura, BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, Linnaeus and VCA™ – using cutting edge technology to develop breakthrough programs in genetic health screening and DNA testing.
For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
ABOUT YUNGBLUD
Born in Yorkshire, England, YUNGBLUD (aka Dominic Harrison) is a multi-instrumentalist who first picked up a guitar at age two and began writing his own songs at age 10. The 24-year-old artist is known for voicing what he feels are major concerns for his generation, using his music to unite and empower the youth of today. Following the release of his self-titled EP and his full-length 2018 debut, 21stCentury Liability, YUNGBLUD released the underrated youth EP in 2019, which debuted in the top 10 on the Official UK Albums chart. YUNGBLUD was crowned MTV Push: Ones to Watch winner at the beginning of 2020, when he was also shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2020 poll. YUNGBLUD went on to win 'Best Music Video' at the NME Awards in Feb 2020 and Best Alternative artist at the 2021 MTV EMAs. Over the years, YUNGBLUD has performed to sold-out crowds in over 20 countries and played some of the world's biggest festivals. YUNGBLUD released the full-length album 'weird!' on December 4th, 2020, which debuted at number one on the UK Official Album Chart after racking up a massive 39,000 chart sales in the first week. Described as a coming-of-age album, 'weird!' features tracks "god save me, but don't drown me out", "weird!", "strawberry lipstick" and "Mars". In Autumn 2020, he launched The YUNGBLUD Podcast on BBC Sounds, where he meets young music fans who are approaching turning points in their lives, to discuss topics and issues affecting young people today whether it be gender, sexuality, identity, money worries, friendships, style or mental health. YUNGBLUD now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify and over 3 billion global streams, his chart-topping self-titled studio album is out everywhere now.
ABOUT GREG YÜNA
Greg Yüna is a luxury jewelry brand founded in 2017 by prominent NYC jeweler, Greg Yuna. Yuna's creativity and unique aesthetic drives the design direction of the company's contemporary collections of precious jewelry, apparel, accessories and artwork. From rings and necklaces to pendants and earrings, the Greg Yüna collections reflect a clean modern aesthetic and fine craftsmanship infused with passion and bold sophistication. The company is based in the heart of the Diamond District in Manhattan and is honored to have a clientele that includes top celebrities in music, sports and film.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are officially the comeback kids.
Their most recent comeback? A 20-16 victory over the Tennessee Titans to clinch the AFC South and a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
Tennessee opened things up with a 10-0 lead midway through the second quarter, but the Jaguars started to make some noise with a touchdown of their own, even waking franchise owner Shad Khan from his slumber.
Jacksonville continued to cut into the deficit throughout the second half behind a pair of field goals from kicker Riley Patterson, setting the stage for a rowdy fourth quarter.
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Trailing by three with just under three minutes remaining, Rayshawn Jenkins delivered the decisive play to strip Titans quarterback Josh Dobbs of the ball. Linebacker Josh Allen returned the ball for a touchdown to put the Jaguars on top for the first time Saturday night.
Dobbs had another chance to take the lead, but was unable to convert on downs, ending Tennessee's playoff hopes in the process.
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In many ways, this come-from-behind win was fitting for the Jaguars. After posting the worst record in the each of the last two seasons -- winning only four games -- Trevor Lawrence and the Jags seemed destined for another disappointing regular season.
They lost seven of their first 10 games heading into the bye week. That week off proved vital to the team's postseason outlook as they returned to win six of the next seven matchups.
The Tennessee Titans, on the other hands, suffered a different fate. The reigning division champs started strong with a 7-3 record, but ultimately dropped their final seven games of the season and saw their starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill sidelined in Week 15 with an ankle injury.
The Titans will now miss out on the playoff for the first time since 2018, while Jacksonville makes its long-awaited return by hosting a Wild Card matchup against either the Los Angeles Chargers or Baltimore Ravens. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/jacksonville-jaguars-come-from-behind-to-clinch-playoff-berth-for-the-first-time-since-2017/4034863/ | 2023-01-08 06:19:37 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/jacksonville-jaguars-come-from-behind-to-clinch-playoff-berth-for-the-first-time-since-2017/4034863/ |
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light didn’t support her during backlash
(AP) - Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” over her partnership with the beer giant.
In a video posted Thursday to Instagram and TikTok, she said she “was waiting for the brand to reach out to me. But they never did.” She said she should have spoken out sooner but was afraid and hoped things would get better — but they didn’t.
“For months now, I’ve been scared to leave my house,” Mulvaney said. “I have been ridiculed in public. I’ve been followed, and I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
A deluge of criticism and hate erupted soon after Mulvaney cracked open a Bud Light in an Instagram video on April 1 as part of a promotional contest for the beer brand. She showed off a can emblazoned with her face that Bud Light sent to her — one of many corporate freebies she gets and shares with her millions of followers.
Conservative figures and others called for a boycott of Bud Light, while Mulvaney’s supporters criticized the beer brand for not doing enough to support her.
In the weeks and months that followed, two marketing executives at parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev took a leave of absence, Bud Light lost its decadeslong position as America’s best-selling beer and the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest advocacy group for LGBTQ+ rights, suspended its benchmark equality and inclusion rating for the brewing giant.
“For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all — because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said, without naming Bud Light.
Belgium-based ABInBev didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment Friday.
In an April 14 statement, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth said the company “never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
Other companies, including Target and Starbucks, have recently come under fire for their efforts to appeal to the LGBTQ+ community, especially during June’s Pride celebrations, only to face more outcry when they tried to backpedal.
The clashes come amid a furious and fast-spreading debate over the rights of transgender people. At least 17 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors, most since the start of this year.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wymt.com/2023/06/30/transgender-influencer-dylan-mulvaney-says-bud-light-didnt-support-her-during-backlash/ | 2023-06-30 11:34:02 | 1 | https://www.wymt.com/2023/06/30/transgender-influencer-dylan-mulvaney-says-bud-light-didnt-support-her-during-backlash/ |
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Payton Sparks scored 24 points as Ball State beat Missouri State 67-64 on Saturday.
Sparks added 12 rebounds for the Cardinals (4-2). Jarron Coleman added 10 points while shooting 4 for 18, including 2 for 7 from beyond the arc, and he also had eight rebounds. Demarius Jacobs finished 4 of 5 from the field to finish with 10 points.
The Bears (2-3) were led by Chance Moore, who recorded 14 points. Alston Mason added 12 points and Bryan Trimble Jr. had nine points.
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