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KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian missile strikes in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv killed at least five people, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday, part of a series of artillery and missile barrages across the country in the past day that left at least 10 dead and dozens wounded in eastern and southern regions.
While Mykolaiv has repeatedly been the target of Russian fire in recent days, Russian missiles also struck the city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, an attack that could signal Moscow's determination to hold onto territory in Ukraine's south as it aims to fully conquer the east. Ukrainian forces have stepped up actions in a bid to reclaim more territory in the south.
Also Wednesday, the top U.S. diplomat accused Russia of committing a "war crime" by forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men, women and children to Russia with the intention of changing Ukraine's demographic makeup.
Some of the civilian deaths occurred in the Donetsk province, which is part of a region the Kremlin is intent on capturing. The city of Bakhmut faced particularly heavy shelling as the current focus of Russia's offensive, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
In the adjacent Luhansk province, which Russian and separatist forces have all but conquered, Ukrainian soldiers battled to retain control of two outlying villages as they came under Russian shelling, Gov. Serhiy Haidai said.
Luhansk and Donetsk together make up the Donbas region, a mostly Russian-speaking region of steel factories, mines and other industries.
The Russians are "deliberately turning Donbas into ashes, and there will be just no people left on the territories captured," Haidai said.
With Russia's sights set on the east, the Ukrainian military has tried to reclaim a captured city in the south. More Ukrainian missiles rocked Nova Kakhovka, a city east of the Black Sea port of Kherson, on Wednesday night, a day after the Ukrainian military claimed to have used missiles to destroy a Russian ammunition depot there. Russia said a mineral fertilizer storage facility had exploded.
More ammunition depots were hit late Wednesday, regional officials said. The Russian news agency RIA Novosti, citing Russian-appointed officials in the occupied region, reported that Russian air defenses had intercepted five incoming Ukrainian missiles. Social media posts showed large, fiery explosions.
In the Russian attack on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, two cruise missiles hit a factory and wounded 14 people, Ukrainian officials said. The regional governor posted a photo showing the rubble. The UNIAN news agency said the factory management had evacuated the staff to bomb shelters, which it said may have saved their lives.
Russian artillery also rained down in northeast Ukraine, where the regional governor, Oleg Syniehubov, accused Russian forces of trying to "terrorize civilians" in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meanwhile, strongly condemned the "unlawful transfer and deportation of protected persons" from areas in Ukraine that Russia now controls.
"Russian authorities must release those detained and allow Ukrainian citizens forcibly removed or coerced into leaving their country the ability to promptly and safely return home," Blinken said in a statement.
Blinken said an estimated 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens -- including 260,000 children -- have been interrogated, detained and deported to Russia, with some sent to the country's far east.
"Moscow's actions appear pre-meditated and draw immediate historical comparisons to Russian 'filtration' operations in Chechnya and other areas," the U.S. official said. "President Putin's 'filtration' operations are separating families, confiscating Ukrainian passports, and issuing Russian passports in an apparent effort to change the demographic makeup of parts of Ukraine."
Bliken cited mounting evidence that Russian authorities are detaining, torturing or "disappearing" thousands of Ukrainian civilians who Russia considers a threat because of their potential ties to the Ukrainian army, media, government or civil society groups. Some Ukrainians, according to reports, have been summarily executed.
"President Putin and his government will not be able to engage in these systematic abuses with impunity. Accountability is imperative," said Blinken. "The United States and our partners will not be silent. Ukraine and its citizens deserve justice."
In other developments:
• The leader of a Moscow-backed separatist government in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province said foreign fighters convicted of terrorism and trying to overturn constitutional order for helping Ukrainian troops have appealed their death sentences. If the court rejects the appeals, two British men and a Moroccan could face a firing squad. Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin said about 100 members of a Ukrainian National Guard battalion captured after the fall of Mariupol were scheduled to appear before a court soon.
• Pushilin also announced that North Korea has joined Syria in recognizing the independence of his "people's republic." Separatists have controlled parts of both the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces since 2014, but Putin recognized their independence only shortly before the invasion began in February.
• The United Nations refugee agency reported that most Ukrainian refugees want to return home but plan to wait until the war subsides. Nearly two-thirds plan to stay put in their host countries for now. The vast majority of refugees from Ukraine are women and children. The U.N. agency's findings came in a survey based on 4,900 interviews with refugees in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
• Ukraine's emergency services agency said the death toll from a weekend Russian airstrike in the Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar rose to 47. Rescue crews continued searching for survivors Wednesday in the rubble of three apartment buildings hit by Russian missiles on Saturday.
Information for this article was contributed by Jamey Keaten of The Associated Press.
Gallery: Images from Ukraine, month 5
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Is there any more memorable and cherished taste from childhood than a Pop-Tart?
The sugary toaster pastries have been an iconic grab-and-go breakfast food since Kellogg Co. introduced them in the 1960s, probably because they taste more like a dessert than a healthy way to start your day.
I rarely had them as a child because they were considered “junk food” and continued that as a mom. My kids only ate them on special occasions like birthday party sleep-overs and vacations.
They’re even more of a guilty pleasure when you make them from scratch. The fruity filling is encased in a flaky pastry dough with real butter instead of a mass-produced dough sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, dextrose and soybean and palm oil.
This recipe comes from Pittsburgh-based recipe developer Michelle Lettrich, the voice behind the food blog Brown Eyed Baker. It’s a winner because it’s relatively easy for even non-bakers to follow and the end result is incredibly tasty.
The key to a great pastry dough is to start with super chilled ingredients, so be sure to use very cold butter and ice-cold water. Also beware of overworking the dough (that makes it tough) or adding too much filling between the layers. Remember, too, you will need at least a 1/4 -inch border on the edge of each tart to properly seal and crimp it.
While this recipe calls for a homemade strawberry filling, feel free to get creative with other fillings such as Nutella, cinnamon brown sugar and your favorite jams. For a more savory version, consider gently stuffing the pastries with ham and cheddar or goat cheese and bacon.
Don’t worry if they’re not perfectly rectangular — no one will care! I tinted half the icing with red food coloring and sprinkled a little sanding sugar on top for a bit of sparkle.
Homemade toaster pastries
For strawberry filling:
- 3/4 cup strawberry jam
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon water
- For pastry crust
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
For egg wash:
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
- For icing
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Food coloring, optional
Prepare strawberry filling: In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and water, then combine with jam in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from the heat and let cool.
Make the pastry crust: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar and salt. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until it is the size of peas and the mixture holds together when you squeeze it. In a small bowl, whisk together egg and milk and add to the dough. Mix together with a fork until everything is evenly moistened. Knead briefly on a floured surface, if necessary, until the dough comes together.
Divide dough in half. (At this point you can wrap each portion in plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 2 days. If you refrigerate the dough, let it come to room temperature for about 15 minutes before rolling out.)
Roll out one piece of dough to about 1/8 -inch thick, in a 9 1/2- by-12 1/2-inch rectangle. (I used a yardstick to measure.)
Using a sharp knife, pastry wheel or bench scraper, trim the rectangle to 9 by 12 inches. Cut the sheet of dough into nine 3-by-4-inch rectangles.(I used the first one as a template.) Using a spatula, transfer the rectangles to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Assembly: In a small bowl, whisk together egg and milk. Brush egg wash on each of the rectangles. Spoon a tablespoon of filling into the center of each one, leaving a 1/2-inch of space around the edges. (Be careful not to use too much — it will leak out the sides.)
Roll out and cut second piece of dough in the exact same manner. One at a time, place a second rectangle of dough on top of the nine assembled ones. Using your fingers, press around the seams of the dough to seal. Press the tines of a fork around the edges and prick the tops in multiple spots to allow steam to escape.
Refrigerate the pan with the pastries (you don’t need to cover them) for 30 minutes. This will firm up the dough and keep it flaky.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Bake pastries for 25-30 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool slightly before serving if not using icing. If you plan to ice them, cool completely before doing so. Store pastries in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week.
Make icing: In a small bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, milk, vanilla extract and food coloring, if using, until it reaches spreading consistency. You want a thick glaze, but not too thick that it is hard to spread. Add another teaspoon or two of milk if needed. Use a spoon or knife to glaze each pop-tart. The glaze will slightly harden in about an hour, if you can wait that long.
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Prosecutors detail extensive evidence in murder case against Brian Walshe, accused of killing his wife Ana Walshe. Here’s what we know
By Kristina Sgueglia and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN
As Massachusetts prosecutors build their case against Brian Walshe, they have laid out considerable evidence alleging the husband murdered his wife on New Year’s Day and gruesomely disposed of her body.
Brian Walshe, 47, appeared in court Wednesday to be arraigned on charges of murder and illegally disinterring or moving a body. Walshe has been in jail since January 8, when he was arrested on a charge of misleading investigators searching for his wife, 39-year-old Ana Walshe.
He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
Prosecutors alleged in Quincy District Court on Wednesday that Brian Walshe killed his wife, with whom he shares three children, because he wanted to end their marriage. Their criminal complaint against the husband says he assaulted and beat Ana Walshe to death.
“Rather than divorce, it is believed that Brian Walshe dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body,” prosecutor Lynn Beland said in court.
Beland presented an array of evidence that led to the charges against the husband, including discoveries of Ana Walshe’s blood and personal items in local garbage, phone data showing Brian Walshe’s movements, and his alleged Google searches related to dismembering and disposing of a body.
Investigators have been searching for Ana Walshe since her workplace reported her missing on January 4. Wednesday marks the first time prosecutors have said she is believed to be dead, though they did not say whether her body has been found.
Brian Walshe allegedly told police his wife left their home for a work trip to Washington, DC, around 6 a.m. New Year’s Day. But Beland said there is no record of Ana taking such a trip and the wife’s phone continued to ping in the area of the house until around 3 a.m. on January 2.
Brian Walshe’s defense attorney Tracy Miner said in a statement Wednesday that she would not comment on the evidence and suggested prosecutors’ case against her client appears weak. She said she has not been sent the evidence yet.
“In my experience, where, as here, the prosecution leaks so-called evidence to the press before they provide it to me, their case isn’t that strong,” she said. “When they have a strong case, they give me everything as soon as possible. We shall see what they have and what evidence is admissible in court, where the case will ultimately be decided.”
Walshe is being held without bail and is next expected in court February 9.
Ana Walshe, a corporate real estate manager, would travel between the family’s home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, and her job in Washington, DC, her former colleague Pamela Bardhi has told CNN. Bardhi described Ana as “a force to be reckoned with” and a “supermom” to her three sons between the ages of 2 and 6.
The couple’s children are in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, a spokesperson said. Bhardi said “a flood of families” have offered to take the kids in so they can stay together.
Garbage bags containing blood, personal items
Prosecutors say Brian Walshe’s phone data shows he traveled to several apartment complexes in different towns, where they accuse him of disposing of evidence in dumpsters.
Surveillance video from two of the complexes shows his Volvo and a figure fitting his description throwing bags into the dumpsters, Beland alleged.
The trash from these dumpsters was incinerated before investigators could sift through it.
However, investigators were able to track down trash the husband allegedly threw away at his mother’s home in Swampscott, a town about an hour drive north of the Walshe’s home.
Ten trash bags of evidence were found at a garbage collection station containing apparent blood stains, a hacksaw, hatchet, towels, rags, gloves, a heavily stained rug and a Tyvek suit — a near-total body covering often used to protect from contaminants or hazardous materials — Beland said.
In the bags, investigators also found Ana Walshe’s Covid-19 vaccination card, a Prada purse she carried and part of a necklace consistent with one she can be seen wearing in photos, the prosecutor said.
The state crime lab tested some of the bloody items in the bags and found DNA from both Ana and Brian Walshe on a pair of slippers and the Tyvek suit. The wife’s DNA was also found on some tissues, she said.
Additionally, a search of the couple’s home uncovered blood stains and a bloody knife in the basement, prosecutors allege.
Blood was also found in Walshe’s car, Beland said. Police observed a plastic liner in the back of his car the day Ana Walshe was reported missing, but the husband later told investigators he had thrown the liner away, the prosecutor said.
Gruesome Google searches
Brian Walshe’s internet records show several grim Google searches about body decomposition, dismemberment and disposal of human remains, Beland alleged.
All but one of the searches was made on or after the day prosecutors allege Brian Walshe killed his wife, she said.
The husband appeared stoic as Beland read the searches aloud in court, only shaking his head once when the prosecutor said he had made some of the searches on his son’s iPad.
The first, she said, was on December 27: What’s the best state to divorce for a man?
Here are a few of the searches he allegedly made between January 1 and January 3:
- How long before a body starts to smell?
- What does formaldehyde do?
- How long does DNA last?
- Can identification be made on partial remains?
- Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body.
- How to clean blood from wooden floor.
- What happens when you put body parts in ammonia?
- Is it better to put crime scene clothes away or wash them?
- Hacksaw best tool to dismember.
- Can you be charged with murder without a body?
“He basically lays out the questions for his plan in the Google searches, as prosecutors allege,” CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller said.
Prosecutors detail several purchases of cleaning supplies
Prosecutors also listed multiple items Brian Walshe allegedly bought that they believe are connected to his wife’s killing.
At a Home Depot on January 2, prosecutors say he wore a face mask and rubber gloves as he purchased mops, brushes, tape, a Tyvek suit with boot covers, buckets, baking soda and a hatchet. Beland has previously said he spent about $450 at the store.
The husband also went to Home Goods that day and bought three rugs, Beland said.
Two days later, he allegedly went to Home Goods and TJ Maxx where he bought towels, bath mats and men’s clothing, Beland said. He then went to Lowe’s, where the prosecutor said he purchased squeegees and a trash can.
Meanwhile, Beland said, there was no activity on Ana Walshe’s credit cards.
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ÖSTERSUND, Sweden, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a contract with Ruskeasuon Varikkokiinteistö Oy, a subsidiary of City Transport Ltd, to build a tram and bus depot in Helsinki, Finland. The contract is worth EUR 101M, about SEK 1.1 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the second quarter of 2022.
The depot is designed for 100 trams, and it has space for their daily maintenance, cleaning and repair work. The parking area for 200 buses and their maintenance building will be located on the roof of the depot. The building also has office space and a room where the drivers and personnel can rest.
The project has high environmental ambitions. The aim for the depot building is to be certified according to BREEAM level "Excellent". The certification system sets goals for example for waste management, energy and resource efficiency and natural values. The depot will be in use round the clock, which enables recycling of energy within the building.
The construction began in the fourth quarter of 2021 with the development phase and is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
For further information please contact:
Petri Mälkiä, Project Director, Skanska Finland, tel +358 503 704 728
Pilvimaari Heikkinen, Communications Manager, Skanska Finland, tel +358 405 194 787
Andreas Joons, Press Officer, Skanska AB, tel +46 (0)10 449 04 94
Direct line for media, tel +46 (0)10 448 88 99
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Chesterfield County Police Department is still working to locate 6-month-old Kynsley Grimshaw more than a week after she was last seen with her father.
On Friday, April 8, the Chesterfield County Police Department (CCPD) first issued a notice that they were searching for the baby and Andrew Grimshaw, 32, after obtaining warrants for the latter’s arrest. Grimshaw has been charged with misdemeanor assault on a family member, felony strangulation and misdemeanor brandishing a firearm, stemming from a March 31 incident.
In the early morning hours of March 31, police said the suspect physically assaulted someone and displayed a firearm in a threatening manner. Shortly after, on April 1, Grimshaw reportedly left the area with his infant child. Although authorities did not specify where the incident happened, a release stated that Grimshaw resided at the 5300 block of Hunt Master Drive.
On Sunday, police said that Grimshaw turned himself in. However, Kynsley was not with him. Grimshaw was granted bond, meaning that both his whereabouts and the child’s are unknown.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,” 8News legal analyst Russ Stone said. “You’re in a situation where this individual is accused of crimes, but he has not been convicted yet, and he is presumed to be innocent of those crimes, and he is a parent to the child. Obviously, there is a mother, as well, who is also a parent to the child.”
Court records show that Grimshaw does not have prior charges in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Stone said that was likely taken into account when the judge on this case granted him bail.
“The decision on bond depends on three issues that a judge is supposed to decide. First, is the person a flight risk? Are they going to show up in court?” he said. “The second two factors are, is the person a threat to themselves or a threat to other people?”
Court documents obtained by 8News show that, in being granted bail, it was noted that Andrew is not “likely to obstruct or attempt to obstruct justice or threaten, injure or intimidate or attempt to threaten, injure or intimidate a prospective witness, juror, victim, or family or household member,” despite one of the charges against him being assault on a family member.
The documents surrounding his $2,500 bail also detailed that he “may not leave the Commonwealth of Virginia” until his case and any relevant appeals are finished.
“When […] any defendant appears in court on charges, if the court has concerns that a child might be in danger, then it can be placed as a condition of bond that the person not be around children,” Stone said. “It doesn’t sound like, in this situation, there was any concern about that.”
“If there was domestic violence between two adults and there just happens to be a child involved, that doesn’t necessarily mean the child is in danger.”
According to police, Kynsley is believed to be with her father and not in any danger. But because Grimshaw was released on bond until his next court appearance, authorities do not know their location.
“They’re just checking to see where a person is. They wouldn’t necessarily have a right to stop a vehicle or stop a car or anything of that nature because there’s no probable cause that a crime has occurred, other than the one he’s charged with,” Stone said. “I don’t think people should assume that this person is guilty of anything at the moment, just because a charge has been placed.”
Grimshaw is due in court in Chesterfield County on Thursday. Stone said that authorities would have a right at that time to inquire about the location of the child. If Grimshaw does not show up in court, he could face additional charges.
Anyone with information about Kynsley is asked to contact CCPD at 804-748-1251, or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660.
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It is one of the most replayed moments in the history of presidential debates.
Standing on a stage in Kansas City in October 1984, President Ronald Reagan was asked the question that was on most everyone's mind. He was the oldest president ever, and had been described as being "very tired" after an earlier debate. Did he have any questions in his mind about his ability to function if deprived of sleep during a national security crisis?
Reagan, 73 at the time, said, "Not at all." And, after scowling for a moment, he submitted to a flicker of a smile as he added, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit — for political purposes – my opponent's youth and inexperience."
The question of how old is too old has also dogged President Biden, the oldest president ever to take the oath of office. Polls have found even Democratic voters express doubts about whether he's too old for the job. He told CBS 60 Minutes that his answer to the age question is, "Watch me," citing his schedule and energy level.
On Sunday, Biden turns 80. He has said he will be talking with his family during the next couple of months about whether to make good on an intention to seek a second term, at the end of which he would be 86.
"I'm a great respecter of fate. And this is, ultimately, a family decision," Biden told reporters earlier this month. "I think everybody wants me to run, but ... we're going to have discussions about it."
Reagan was the first president to face the 'how old is too old' question
In 1984, when Reagan deflected the age question on the debate stage with humor, everyone in the room laughed. That included Reagan's opponent, veteran senator and former vice president Walter Mondale, age 56 — even as he knew his slim chance of beating Reagan had just vanished. The incumbent went on to carry 49 states, a landslide victory.
But there is far more to the story than what is usually remembered. The question of Reagan's fitness had been very much in the air prior to that meeting in Kansas City. In an earlier debate, Reagan had seemed fuzzy on facts. When speaking of military uniforms, he struggled and came up with the word "wardrobe," a term more appropriate to his years as a movie star.
Speculation over Reagan's acuity loomed over the political conversation. Time magazine drew the candidates on cartoon horses running down a track with the headline: "A Real Race?"
Reagan's avuncular style lent itself to concealing uncertainty in a cloak of affability. But even on that stage in Kansas City, minutes after his marvelous quip seemed to bury the age issue, Reagan's closing speech raised questions.
Asked to sum up, he started describing a trip he and his wife Nancy had taken down California's coastal Highway 1 years earlier. The story meandered, much like that highway. Those present in the auditorium, including this writer, felt a rising sense of discomfort as Reagan continued on, aimlessly.
The moderator, NBC's Edwin Newman, finally interrupted and cut him off. And the room shifted back to its previous mood of assurance. Reagan was okay. Wasn't he?
Lapses in attention or effectiveness in his second term were sometimes attributed to his age. Voters, however, did not seem troubled. When Reagan's term was up, 40 states voted for his vice president, George H.W. Bush, to succeed him. Bush was 13 years younger than Reagan but very much part of the World War II generation.
Years after Reagan left office, the nation would learn he had Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative condition that eventually claimed his life. The revelation of the diagnosis reignited questions about whether there had been signs of early symptoms during his second term.
There is no upper limit on age for federal elected office holders, including presidents
Biden is the first octogenarian in the Oval Office. Only three others before him were in their 70s while in the White House. The first was Dwight Eisenhower, who turned 70 just before his term ended in January 1961, and the second was Reagan, who was 77 when he left.
Until Biden, Donald Trump had been the oldest president on his inauguration day. Trump was 74 when he left office, and has filed paperwork to run again. If he returned to office, he would be 82 by the end of that term.
While airline pilots face mandatory retirement at 65, federal law enforcement at 65, and judges in some states at 70, there is no age limit for elected federal office holders. The rule is that the voters decide.
As a reference point, check the U.S. Senate, where Iowa Republican Charles Grassley was just elected to another six-year term. He's already 89. Back in 2003, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond retired at 100.
But senators, no matter how important, are not presidents. They can take a day off, or even a week or a month. They are not the daily custodians of the nuclear codes, with all that implies.
The Constitution requires members of Congress to be 25 and presidents and vice presidents to be 35. That's it. No upper age limit. And apparently the participants at the convention that wrote that document in 1787 were not at all concerned with an upper limit. That may have been because they themselves were relatively young, averaging 42 years. The youngest was just 26, the oldest, Benjamin Franklin, was 81. (He was carried to and from the sessions in a sedan chair.)
There was a big age gap between Clinton and his rivals
Age was an implicit contrast in the 1992 election, when Bill Clinton challenged incumbent President George H.W. Bush. Clinton was a youthful 46 when he was first nominated, and was still widely perceived as the "Boy Governor" first elected in Arkansas when he was just 32.
Bush was 22 years his senior. At the time, it was the widest age gap between the two major parties' nominees since before the Civil War.
In 1996, when President Bill Clinton was seeking re-election at age 50, the age issue was raised in another presidential debate in 1996. His Republican challenger was Bob Dole, a longtime senator who was then 73.
"I don't think Senator Dole is too old to be president. It's the age of his ideas that I question," Clinton said.
Dole did not seem overly ruffled by references to his age, although he did generate anxiety midway through the campaign when he leaned on a flimsy railing and fell a short distance from the stage at a campaign rally.
Candidates need to be mindful of every public move they make. That image of Dole's tumble has since served as a reminder that this imperative applies especially to those of a certain age.
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Convergence identifies childcare obstacles, financial instability and inadequate public policy as potential areas for nonpartisan collaboration and problem-solving.
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new framing paper, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution outlined the focus for its Supports for Working Families project, a multi-staged convening of experts that will identify areas for nonpartisan collaboration to address some of the most intractable problems facing American families today. The project, which is funded in part by The Packard Foundation, will explore challenges around childcare, financial instability, and public policy.
"In the wake of the pandemic, the challenges facing working families are more urgent than ever," said Convergence CEO David Eisner. "Our collective success demands cooperative solutions to promote economic mobility and opportunity for the long term."
The focus areas outlined in this first stage of Convergence's Supports for Working Families project were identified through a months-long assessment, including more than 60 interviews with leading stakeholders on family issues across a wide diversity of political, ideological, sectoral and other experiences and perspectives. Interviewees included parent advocates, childcare providers, Congressional staff, academics, employers, faith-based groups, racial justice organizations, and more.
In addition to focusing on the challenges identified, participants in the project will consider the efficacy of potential solutions including a monthly child allowance, universal parental leave, workplace policies to create more flexibility and predictability, and increased access to affordable, high-quality childcare for low- and moderate-income families.
"Challenges like these can only be overcome in a sustainable way when we all talk to one another," said Abby McClosky, Director of the Convergence Supports for Working Families project. "Our goal in convening such a diverse set of voices from all sides of the debate to discuss how we can best serve working families is to find areas of agreement and to ultimately share the responsibility of delivering impactful solutions to communities. Convergence is optimistic that this process will lead us to lasting change for families that are in dire need of our support."
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution is a longtime leader in the fields of bridge-building and problem-solving across differences. It serves as a neutral third-party convenor to provide a confidential and collaborative space for leaders through its flagship Dialogue process, which is informed by social science. The methodology includes three phases: assessment, dialogue, and implementation. Past projects have yielded measurable impact on public policy and practice.
About Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
Convergence is a national non-profit that builds trust and bridges divides to solve critical issues and strengthen our democracy. Convergence Dialogues convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to understand each other, find common ground, develop consensus solutions, and build unusual alliances to see those solutions enacted. Dialogues usually address critical national issues in impact focus areas, including economic opportunity, health and wellness, and democracy and society. Learn more at: https://convergencepolicy.org.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee’s most influential Republican lawmakers says the state should stop accepting the nearly $1.8 billion of federal K-12 education dollars that help provide support for low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton told The Associated Press that he has introduced a bill to explore the idea during this year’s legislative session and has begun discussing the idea with Gov. Bill Lee and other key GOP lawmakers.
“Basically, we’ll be able to educate the kids how Tennessee sees fit,” Sexton said, pointing that rejecting the money would mean that Tennessee would no longer have “federal government interference.”
To date, no state has successfully rejected federal education funds even as state and local officials have long grumbled about some of the requirements and testing that at times come attached to the money. Many Republican politicians and candidates at the federal level have also made a habit of calling for the outright elimination of the U.S. Department of Education.
According to Sexton, Tennessee is currently in the financial position to use state tax dollars to replace federal education funds. He pointed to the $3.2 billion in new spending outlined in Gov. Lee’s recent budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year as proof that the state could easily cover the federal government’s portion.
Federal dollars make up a small slice of Tennessee’s K-12 education funding, which had an almost $8.3 billion budget as of fiscal year 2023. Yet the federal money is seen as a key tool to supporting schools in low-income areas and special education.
Sexton says he has been mulling the proposal for a while, but this week, he publicly touted the idea in front of a packed room full of lawmakers, lobbyists and other leaders at the Tennessee Farm Bureau luncheon on Tuesday.
“We as a state can lead the nation once again in telling the federal government that they can keep their money and we’ll just do things the Tennessee way,” Sexton said at the event. “And that should start, first and foremost, with the Department of Education.”
However, he later acknowledged to the AP that such an undertaking had never been accomplished before by a state.
A spokesperson for Lee did not immediately return a request for comment.
Senate Speaker Randy McNally said he was open to the proposal, saying that “federal mandates in the area of education can be overly burdensome.”
“McNally thinks a discussion about forgoing this money, a relatively small part of overall education funding, in order to maintain more control over how we educate our Tennessee students is a constructive conversation to have,” said spokesperson Adam Kleinheider.
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(The Hill) — A divided federal appeals court panel ruled that a North Carolina law cannot be used to prevent People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from using undercover cameras.
In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that blocking the animal rights group’s “newsgathering activities” would violate the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
North Carolina’s Property Protection Act prohibits employees from placing unattended cameras on their employer’s premises, among other provisions.
“We enjoin the Act insofar as it applies to bar protected newsgathering activities PETA wishes to conduct. But we leave for another day all other applications of the Act,” wrote Judge Albert Diaz, who was nominated by former President Obama.
Judge Henry Floyd, a fellow Obama appointee, joined Diaz’s opinion. Judge Allison Rushing, who was nominated by former President Trump, dissented.
PETA, which regularly conducts undercover animal-cruelty investigations and publishes what it uncovers, argued the law was a discriminatory speech restriction disguised as a property protection law.
“If PETA’s actions truly violate some lawful prohibition (like trespass), PETA may be charged for that violation,” the court ruled. “What North Carolina may not do, however, is craft a law targeting PETA’s protected right to speak.”
North Carolina contended the entire law passed constitutional muster and that undercover investigations in nonpublic areas are unprotected speech.
“That is a dangerous proposition that would wipe the Constitution’s most treasured protections from large tranches of our daily lives,” the court ruled. “Fortunately, it has no basis in law.”
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SAN ANTONIO — Our "Forgotten Friends" series showcases a dog or cat each week that has spent time at an area shelter, just waiting for someone to notice them and bring them home to love.
Ravyn is a two year old shepherd and heeler mix who has been at Cash’s Kingdom Animal Rescue in a Llano for a little over one year. Sadly, the rescue will be closing this month, so they are trying to find homes for the dogs in their care.
Ravyn was dropped off at the shelter in March of 2022 for what was supposed to be a temporary situation while her owners found a new home. But they never came back for her.
"I had an agreement with her owners that they would make every effort to help find her a home, visit her and walk her weekly and supply dog food during the six week duration I agreed to take her while they were "between homes," said Corinne McCann. "They left $10 to buy dog food and a cage to keep her in. Turns out, they never moved. They never came back one time."
After that they also stopped answering phone calls and responding to messages. One year later, the shelter reached out to the owner one last time and they made it clear that they did not want their dog back.
"They told me they would dump her on a backroad if the shelters wouldn't take her or if they would have to pay a surrender fee," said Corinne.
Since that time, CKAR doubled-down on their efforts to find a home for Ravyn with no luck.
Ravyn's owner dropped her off and never came back | Forgotten Friends
Ravyn gets along well with other dogs, but we don’t know about cats.
"She is very smart, responds quickly to training," said Corinne. "I've been working with her on a leash and she is learning to walk without pulling but she does get very excited for the first few minutes."
Oh, and she is always wagging her tail.
"I also witnessed her on several occasions leaping into the air off all fours like Tigger," said Corinne. "She'll just pop right out of the tall grass straight into the air and it's the cutest thing, just waggin' her tail the whole time."
We think she’d do best in a home with older kids or active adults.
She is crate trained but not housebroken. She is super smart and loving and loves to play in the water. She's also very trainable, learning new things quickly.
For a dog whose had it rough their whole life, she doesn’t seem to hold it against humans and is always eager to please. She’s healthy, spayed and vaccinated.
"She has so much joy and love despite the recurring abandonment she's endured in her young life," said Corinne.
Ravyn has spent her almost her whole short life inside a kennel. Who is ready to show her the love she deserves?
You can contact Corinne at Cash's Kingdom Animal Rescue at cashskingdomanimalrescue@gmail.com.
For whoever adopts Ravyn, Lucy's Doggy Daycare & Spa will be lending a paw by offering them a free "Glow Up" Day at the Spa, which includes a massage therapy bath and Pawdicure. One of Lucy's most cherished core values is to continue Lucy’s legacy of giving back to pups in need, as Lucy herself was a rescue!
Remember when you adopt a shelter pet, you save two lives... the one you bring home with you and the one that now will be saved because the shelter has more room.
If you know of a Forgotten Friend that has been overlooked and is still looking for a "furr-ever" home, contact Andrea at acarden@kens5.com.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress.
“Following multiple verifications of reported position through multiple searches, no boat was sighted in the reported position,” the Armed Forces of Malta said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
On Monday, four rescue groups operating in the central Mediterranean accused Maltese authorities of coordinating the return of around 500 people to eastern Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law.
The group of migrants, including 55 children and pregnant women, had been trying to reach Europe on May 23 aboard a rusty iron fishing vessel when they reported to Alarm Phone — a hotline for migrants in distress — that they were adrift and taking in water, according to the NGO.
Communicating by satellite phone, the migrants shared their GPS location with Alarm Phone multiple times, showing they were in international waters inside Malta’s area of search and rescue responsibility.
Alarm Phone say they relayed their position and distress to Maltese authorities repeatedly, but received no confirmation that a rescue operation had been launched. Humanitarian rescue ships and plane also searched for the vessel in vain. Alarm Phone lost contact with the migrants on the morning of May 24.
Two days later, Alarm Phone says relatives of the migrants reported they had been returned to Benghazi, Libya, and imprisoned.
The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Refugee Agency told The Associated Press that 485 people were brought back to Benghazi by a vessel belonging to the self-styled Libyan National Army, a force in the east of the country led by military commander Khalifa Hifter.
IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli said that the migrants were taken to the Qanfouda detention center, but couldn’t confirm that it was the same group of people reported by Alarm Phone.
Both U.N. agencies have repeatedly condemned the return of migrants and refugees to Libya, saying the lawless nation shouldn’t be considered a safe place for disembarkation as required by international maritime law.
In their emailed statement, Maltese authorities added that they “have no jurisdiction over any autonomous actions conducted in international waters.”
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLineRx Ltd. (NASDAQ: BLRX) (TASE: BLRX), a pre-commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, today announced that management will participate in the 12th Annual LifeSci Partners Corporate Access Event, taking place January 9-11, 2023, in San Francisco, CA, and will be available for one-one-one meetings on January 11, 2023. Learn more about the event and schedule an in-person meeting with BioLineRx management here.
About BioLineRx
BioLineRx Ltd. (NASDAQ/TASE: BLRX) is a pre-commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology. The Company's lead development program, motixafortide, a novel selective inhibitor of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor, may support diverse therapeutic approaches in oncology and other diseases. APHEXDA® (motixafortide) was successfully evaluated in a Phase 3 study in stem cell mobilization for autologous transplantation in multiple myeloma patients, has reported positive results from a pre-planned pharmacoeconomic study in the U.S., and has had its NDA submission accepted by the FDA with a PDUFA date of September 9, 2023. Motixafortide was also successfully evaluated in a Phase 2a study for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (PDAC) in combination with KEYTRUDA® and chemotherapy and is currently being studied in combination with LIBTAYO® and chemotherapy as a first-line PDAC therapy. A randomized phase 2b study with 200 patients in combination with an anti-PD1 and chemotherapy as a first-line PDAC therapy will initiate in 2023. BioLineRx is also developing a second oncology program, AGI-134, an immunotherapy treatment for multiple solid tumors that is currently being investigated in a Phase 1/2a study. For additional information on BioLineRx, please visit the Company's website at www.biolinerx.com, where you can review the Company's SEC filings, press releases, announcements, and events.
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The Clemson Tigers meet the South Carolina Gamecocks in an NCAA Week 13 college football game on Saturday, November 26, 2022 (11/26/2022) at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.
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What: NCAA Football, Week 13
Who: Clemson vs. South Carolina
When: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Where: Memorial Stadium
Time: 12 p.m. ET
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Here’s a recent college football story, via the AP:
One of the greatest rivalries in sports seems set up for another classic.
No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan will both be ranked in the top five of the AP poll for the 12th time when they meet Saturday at the Horseshoe in what’s known as The Game. No other rivalry in the country has as many top-five matchups.
The winner will earn a trip to the Big Ten championship game and a probable spot in the College Football Playoff.
“This is what we’ve been striving for all year, 11-0, and now to play The Game,” Michigan receiver Ronnie Bell said. “That’s all we wanted.”
The Wolverines are coming off a rare win in the series. Until Jim Harbaugh finally beat the Buckyes last year at home, they had won a school-record eight straight and 15 of 16 against Michigan.
What has it been like for coach Ryan Day to have a whole year to think about that loss to the Wolverines?
“That has not been easy, hasn’t been good,” Day said. “We’ll probably talk about it more this week, but looking forward to the preparation. Our guys have been focused on it all offseason. And during the season, it’s always been in the back of our minds.
“We work it every day of the year. And so, the week is officially here.”
The Buckeyes have been waiting for two years to beat their rivals at home, missing out on the last opportunity in 2020 during the pandemic-shortened season when the matchup was canceled because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the Wolverines’ program.
Michigan has not won at Ohio State since 2000, which is also the last year it won a second straight game in the series.
The Buckeyes have not lost a game since Hassan Haskins matched a school record with five rushing touchdowns and Aidan Hutchinson had three sacks in last year’s win for Michigan.
“Coming off of that game, we were highly motivated this season to get back to where we are right now,” Day said.
After dominating conference opponents for much of the season, both powerhouse programs struggled to earn their 11th win.
Slumping Illinois led Michigan for several minutes in the first half and was ahead from late in the third quarter until Jake Moody made a go-ahead, 35-yard field goal with nine seconds left.
Harbaugh, who has both coached and played in the rivalry, wasn’t in the mood to look ahead to facing the Buckeyes after surviving a scare in the game and with running back Blake Corum.
“I just want to enjoy this one,” Harbaugh said.
Ohio State trailed at Maryland from late in the second quarter until early in the third and led by just three points in the final minutes before pulling away.
Both teams have banged-up backfields.
Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson returned against Maryland after missing two games with an injury. He did catch a 31-yard touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud but had just 19 yards rushing on 11 carries.
The Buckeyes are hopeful that running back Miyan Williams will face Michigan after leaving last weekend’s game with a leg injury.
Corum grabbed his left knee after being tackled late in the first half and pulled himself out of the game after one carry and one pass-blocking assignment early in the third quarter against the Fighting Illini. His backup, dual-threat Donovan Edwards, did not play because of an undisclosed injury.
On Sunday, Corum spoke with reporters outside a school in Ypsilanti, where he was handing out turkey dinners and other items as part of a charitable effort.
“The knee’s fine. It will get better. I’ll be back,” he said.
Asked whether he intends to play on Saturday, Corum responded: “I’ll be there.”
Michigan has relied on its running game, but it might have to lean more on its inconsistent passing game that has missed many opportunities with high throws and dropped balls.
“A lot of the meat is still on the bone and it’s ready to come off next Saturday,” quarterback J.J. McCarthy said.
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Forget Hulk Hogan and the Rock or even Mike Tyson and George Foreman.
Some real heavyweights may soon enter the ring (if you’re weighing their bank accounts that is).
The next fight of the century will be between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
The tech billionaires have been going back and forth on their social media platforms and have agreed to meet in a cage match, USA Today reported.
Zuckerberg has been training in jiu-jitsu and Musk took notice when a Twitter user referenced Zuckerberg’s training with Musk posting “I’m up for a cage match if he is.”
The comment didn’t go unnoticed by Zuckerberg who responded on his own Instagram platform, “Send me the location.”
Musk did just that, posting “Vegas Octagon,” adding, “I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus’ where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.”
Some thought that the billionaire banter was a joke by Zuckerberg, TMZ reported.
It came in response to a Tweet thread focusing on Zuckerberg’s plans to launch a platform similar to Twitter but under the Meta umbrella.
I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023
At least it will be “sane”. Was worried there for a moment 😅.
I’m up for a cage match if he is lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023
But apparently, the Facebook founder was serious, according to The Verge.
A Meta spokesperson told The New York Times that the Meta CEO’s response “speaks for itself,” while Twitter sent an auto-response of a poop emoji when asked for a comment.
Whether or not the fight happens is yet to be seen, but the Times reminded readers that the back and forth on social media “rarely, if ever, spilled into the physical world.”
Zuckerberg, 38, competed in his first jiu-jitsu tournament recently, taking home gold and silver, USA Today reported. Musk, 51, has spoken that he was part of “real hard-core street fights” while growing up in South Africa, according to The Verge.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD) today announced the selection of Columbus, Mississippi, as the location for the initial SDI Biocarbon Solutions biocarbon production operations, a joint venture between the company and Aymium. The site is strategically located in close proximity to one of the company's largest electric-arc-furnace steel mills, which will consume a significant portion of the biocarbon as a replacement for anthracite, and is also central to plentiful fiber raw material sources. Final site determination is subject to the anticipated receipt of necessary permits and continued state and local government support.
"We are incredibly excited to announce our selection of Columbus, Mississippi as the site for our first biocarbon production facility. We believe this strategic joint venture with Aymium will significantly reduce our steelmaking greenhouse gas emissions, which are already materially lower than our global competitors, in a cost-effective manner," stated Mark D. Millett, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. "We are eager to begin construction on this meaningful greenhouse gas reduction project, and we appreciate the warm welcome and support that we have received from Governor Tate Reeves and the State of Mississippi, as well as leaders from the Mississippi Development Authority and local leaders from the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, the Lowndes County Industry Development Authority, the Lowndes County Port Authority, the Golden Triangle Regional Airport Authority and the Golden Triangle Development LINK. We anticipate the project will create 40 high-paying positions.
"Our commitment to all aspects of sustainability is embedded in our founding principles — valuing our teams, our partners, our communities, and our environment. This investment represents a significant step forward on our path to carbon neutrality, and our continued commitment to reduce our environmental footprint," concluded Millett.
The Columbus, Mississippi location brings numerous strategic advantages, including:
- Synergies related to being within close proximity of our Columbus Flat Roll Division, which will consume a significant amount of the biocarbon, as well as the extremely talented workforce in the area,
- Proximity to numerous fiber raw material suppliers, and
- Excellent logistics provided by on-site access to a class I railroad, proximity to the major U.S. highway systems, and access to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
The planned biocarbon production facility will supply Steel Dynamics' electric arc furnace steel mills with a renewable alternative to fossil fuel-based carbon sources using Aymium's patented technology. This initial facility's production capability is expected to be more than 160,000 metric tons per year and operations are planned to begin early 2024. We have successfully trialed Aymium's biocarbon product in our steel operations, and estimate this first facility will reduce our Scope 1 steelmaking greenhouse gas emissions intensity between 20 and 25 percent, with potential upside from the use of the facility's excess available renewable energy, representing a meaningful step toward achievement of our environmental goals.
About Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico. Steel Dynamics produces steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and coated sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, specialty steel sections and steel joists and deck. In addition, the company produces liquid pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.
Aymium Overview
Aymium produces high value biocarbon and biohydrogen products that can be used to immediately replace fossil fuels in the production of metals, energy, crops, and in the purification of water and air with no modifications to equipment or processes. Produced using sustainably sourced biomass – recovered and unusable wood – Aymium's bioproducts are renewable, carbon-negative and they replace emission-heavy fossil fuels such as coal and coke. Aymium's leading technology is backed by more than 300 issued or pending patents on a global basis. Aymium is headquartered in Minnesota.
Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains some predictive statements about future events, including statements related to conditions in domestic or global economies, conditions in steel, aluminum, and recycled metals market places, Steel Dynamics' revenues, costs of purchased materials, future profitability and earnings, and the operation of new, existing or planned facilities. These statements, which we generally precede or accompany by such typical conditional words as "anticipate","intend","believe","estimate","plan","seek","project", or "expect", or by the words "may", "will", or "should", are intended to be made as "forward-looking", subject to many risks and uncertainties, within the safe harbor protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements speak only as of this date and are based upon information and assumptions, which we consider reasonable as of this date, concerning our businesses and the environments in which they operate. Such predictive statements are not guarantees of future performance, and we undertake no duty to update or revise any such statements. Some factors that could cause such forward-looking statements to turn out differently than anticipated include: (1) domestic and global economic factors; (2) global steelmaking overcapacity and imports of steel and North American aluminum flat rolled supply deficit, together with increased scrap prices; (3) pandemics, epidemics, widespread illness or other health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; (4) the cyclical nature of the steel industry and the industries we serve; (5) volatility and major fluctuations in prices and availability of scrap metal, scrap substitutes, and our potential inability to pass higher costs on to our customers; (6) cost and availability of electricity, natural gas, oil, or other energy resources are subject to volatile market conditions; (7) increased environmental, greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability considerations or regulations; (8) compliance with and changes in environmental and remediation requirements; (9) significant price and other forms of competition from other steel and aluminum producers, scrap processors and alternative materials; (10) availability of an adequate source of supply of scrap for our metals recycling operations; (11) cybersecurity threats and risks to the security of our sensitive data and information technology; (12) the implementation of our growth strategy; (13) litigation and legal compliance; (14) unexpected equipment downtime or shutdowns; (15) governmental agencies may refuse to grant or renew some of our licenses and permits; (16) our senior unsecured credit facility contains, and any future financing agreements may contain, restrictive covenants that may limit our flexibility; (17) the impacts of impairment charges; (18) unanticipated difficulties in integrating or starting up new assets; and (19) risks and uncertainties involving product and/or technology development.
More specifically, refer to Steel Dynamics' more detailed explanation of these and other factors and risks that may cause such predictive statements to turn out differently, as set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K under the headings Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factors, in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, or in other reports which we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These are available publicly on the Securities and Exchange Commission website, www.sec.gov, and on the Steel Dynamics website, www.steeldynamics.com under "Investors — SEC Filings".
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The discovery of the dismembered body of an opposition activist who had been missing is stoking tensions in Zimbabwe, a country with a history of politically motivated abductions and killings.
Moreblessing Ali, 46, was abducted outside a bar in Nyatsime, a neighborhood of Chitungwiza on the outskirts of Harare on May 24. Her body, cut into pieces, was found in a well in the area at the weekend, family lawyer Job Sikhala said.
Police said they are investigating the matter and dismissed allegations that the case is linked to politics.
But opposition supporters and other groups allege it is a political killing, pointing to the southern African nation’s troubled legacy of political violence.
“This is a very bad indication of the elections in 2023. The dark clouds of violence are gathering,” Nelson Chamisa, president of the Citizens Coalition For Change told dozens of mourners Tuesday.
Many of those who gathered to grieve Ali were clad in the opposition party’s yellow colors and carried sticks amid reports of clashes with ruling party supporters in the area.
Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe, as economic hardships worsen and potentially divisive elections set for next year. Zimbabwe has had a series of violent and disputed elections since independence from white minority rule in 1980.
The Southern African nation’s history of politically motivated abductions, enforced disappearances and killings is “fueled by the impunity of perpetrators,” Amnesty International said in a statement Tuesday, urging that authorities “must not leave any stone unturned” to ensure the arrests of the perpetrators of Ali's killing.
Some victims of past abductions have been released after days or weeks, many after being tortured. Others, such as journalist and political activist Itai Dzamara who was abducted in 2015, have not been found.
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NTSB releases preliminary report on Logan Co. fatal helicopter crash
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A report from the National Travel and Safety Board has revealed more information about a fatal helicopter crash that happened in Logan in June.
Around 4:45 p.m. on June 22, the bell UH-1B helicopter, N98F, was destroyed and all those onboard died when it crashed in Amherstdale, West Virginia.
Six people were onboard the helicopter: three trained pilots and three passengers. All died in the crash.
The helicopter was a Vietnam-era Huey based out of the Logan airport and was used for tourism flights.
According to the preliminary report from the NTSB, the flight was associated with the 7th annual Huey Reunion during which the operator gave passengers the opportunity to fly the former military helicopter with a safety pilot seated in the left front seat.
The flight involved in the deadly crash was the last flight of the day and the accident happened about 15 minutes after its departure from Logan County Airport.
The report says the helicopter hit the side of a cliff before landing sideways onto state Route 17 along Blair Mountain. Two utility cables were fractured in the crash.
An investigation of the wreckage revealed that the cockpit of the helicopter had crashed into the road and guardrail before catching fire. The back end of the helicopter remained attached to the main body.
There were no known witnesses to the accident.
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Moderated by the CEO of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, forum will spotlight real-world patient experience and lessons from healthcare and community outreach leaders
BEDMINSTER, N.J., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyowa Kirin, Inc., an affiliate of Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin, TSE: 4151) a global specialty pharmaceutical company, will host a virtual roundtable discussion, Challenging Disparities in Cancer Care — Lessons for Cutaneous Lymphomas and Other Patient Communities, on June 14, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET, ahead of National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week (June 16 – 22). During the event, panelists will discuss their firsthand experiences and best practices for how to overcome the barriers to diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care often faced disproportionately by people of color living with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) and other forms of cancer or chronic disease.
"When it comes to cancer, the ability to secure a timely and accurate diagnosis and to remain engaged in treatment and disease management can be impacted by numerous factors," said Lauren Walrath, Vice President of Public Affairs, Kyowa Kirin North America (KKNA). "We know people of color may face additional challenges, particularly those living with rare cancers like CTCL that are less recognizable in people with darker skin tones. We are proud to host this roundtable discussion to explore lessons and solutions as part of our ongoing commitment to fostering health equity for patients from all backgrounds."
The moderated discussion will explore all aspects of patient experience and emerging strategies to address racial health inequities via research, education, community outreach, and care team engagement. This will be followed by a Q&A during which registered attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions. Registration for the event is free and can be made at https://bit.ly/3NpwgbU.
The roundtable panelists include:
- Susan Thornton, Chief Executive Officer, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation (Moderator): A leader and community advocate, Susan Thornton is committed to advancing understanding and support for all people affected by cutaneous lymphomas.
- Olenga Anabui, MBA, MPH, The Penn Center for Community Health Workers, IMPaCT Program: IMPaCT is a standardized, scalable program that centered on community health workers to improve health and equity. Through this and other initiatives, Olenga Anabui is committed to supporting people made disadvantaged by race and socioeconomic position to have full participation in life.
- Pierluigi Porcu, MD, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Dr. Porcu is focused on the treatment and research of rare cancers like CTCL. He advocates for the importance of diverse representation in clinical trials to address racial disparities in drug development and clinical care.
- Anita Larkin, MSN, CMSRN, RN, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.: Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Incorporated is a nonprofit organization of registered professional nurses representing many cultures and diverse ethnic backgrounds committed to supporting healthy communities of color through advocacy, collaboration, education, leadership, research, and service. Anita Larkin furthers this mission through her participation in their hallmark health outreach programs. Anita Larkin is also the Clinical Director of Surgical Oncology/Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN, and a member of the Oncology Nursing Society.
"This event is a great opportunity to discuss the challenges that those living with rare and chronic diseases face every day, especially people of color," says Susan Thornton. "My hope is that this diverse panel surfaces solutions that empower patients, including the CTCL community."
National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, observed June 16 – 22, 2022, was created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence to, "increase cancer awareness in one of the most vulnerable segments of the US population." The initiative aims to marshal community-based stakeholders to build knowledge surrounding cancer clinical trial participation and minority population specimen donations to national genomic databases for cancer research.
Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma is a rare form of blood cancer that first appears on the skin. It is often mistaken for more common skin conditions, such as eczema or psoriasis, which can delay an accurate diagnosis and treatment by years or even decades. African Americans are twice as likely to develop and present with CTCL compared to those of European or Asian descent. They are often diagnosed with CTCL at an earlier age and with more advanced disease, resulting in a significantly shorter overall survival. In 2020, KKNA established a grant program to identify and fund meaningful projects that can help diminish these disparities. To date, the Company has awarded over $200k dollars to university researchers and patient advocacy organizations in support of, community outreach, and educational programming focused on closing the gap in awareness and understanding of CTCL among African American communities.
Kyowa Kirin strives to create and deliver novel medicines with life-changing value. As a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company with a more than 70-year heritage, the company applies cutting-edge science, including expertise in antibody research and engineering, to address the needs of patients across multiple therapeutic areas such as nephrology, oncology, immunology/allergy and neurology. Across its four regions – Japan, Asia Pacific, North America and EMEA/International – Kyowa Kirin focuses on its purpose, to make people smile, and is united by its shared values of commitment to life, teamwork, innovation and integrity.
Learn more about the Company at www.kyowakirin.com.
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OLIVET, S.D. — A Lake Preston man was acquitted of all charges related to a 2021 crash that killed two in Hutchinson County.
On the third day of a Hutchinson County jury trial held in mid-June, 30-year-old Jacob Langland, of Lake Preston, was acquitted of two counts of vehicular homicide, two counts of second-degree manslaughter in the alternative and ingestion of methamphetamine.
The charges stem from Sept. 11, 2021, when Langland was driving a pickup truck with an empty horse trailer northbound on U.S. Highway 81 near Freeman. According to the South Dakota Highway Patrol, Langland was attempting to pass a semi when his truck struck a southbound vehicle head-on.
The crash resulted in the deaths of 75-year-old Albert and 74-year-old Marilyn Wingate, a husband and wife couple from Norfolk, Nebraska.
According to Brent Matter, Langland’s defense attorney, the acquittal followed the defense’s presentation of evidence that showed the crash was the result of brake failure. Matter said the truck Langland was driving was not owned by Langland.
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According to court records, Judge Patrick Smith granted Langland a judgment of acquittal on June 14 regarding the vehicular homicide and manslaughter charges. Matter said a jury also found Langland not guilty of ingestion of methamphetamine, of which the South Dakota Highway Patrol had previously accused Langland of being under the influence of at the time of the crash.
Matter did not provide a comment regarding the drug charge.
Prior to the acquittal, Langland was facing up to 35 years in prison and fines of up to $70,000. The verdict resulted in the dismissal of all charges. Langland’s $2,500 bond has also been returned, according to court records.
The acquittal draws to a close nearly 13 months of criminal proceedings since Langland was first indicted in May 2022.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities on Friday were set to release police video depicting five Memphis officers beating a Black man whose death resulted in murder charges and provoked outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality. Family members of Tyre Nichols pleaded for any protests to remain peaceful.
The officers, all of whom are Black, were charged Thursday in the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after a Jan. 7 confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told a news conference that although the officers each played different roles in the killing, “they are all responsible.”
Nichols’ family members and their lawyers said the footage shows officers savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes in an assault that the legal team likened to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.
“This young man, by definition of the law in this state, was terrorized. Not by one, not by two, but by five officers who we now know … acted in concert with each other,” said attorney Antonio Romanucci, who represents Nichols’ family.
The officers “acted together … to inflict harm, terrorism, oppression of liberty, oppression of constitutional rights, which led to murder,” Romanucci said.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis described the officers’ actions as “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” and said that her department has been unable to substantiate the reckless driving allegation that prompted the stop.
She told The Associated Press in an interview that there is no video of the traffic stop that shows Nichols recklessly driving.
During the initial stop, the video shows the officers were “already ramped up, at about a 10,” she said. The officers were “aggressive, loud, using profane language and probably scared Mr. Nichols from the very beginning.”
“We know something happened prior to this officer or these officers getting out of their vehicles … Just knowing the nature of officers, it takes something to get them amped up, you know, like that. We don’t know what happened,” she said.
“All we know is the amount of force that was applied in this situation was over the top,” Davis said.
Video of the traffic stop will be released sometime Friday evening, Mulroy said, noting that investigators wanted to complete as many interviews as possible before making the footage public. Nichols’ family members viewed the video Monday.
Given the likelihood of protests, Davis told ABC that she and other local officials decided it would be best to release the video later in the day, after schools are dismissed and people are home from work.
Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, warned supporters of the “horrific” nature of the video but pleaded for peace.
“I don’t want us burning up our city, tearing up the streets, because that’s not what my son stood for,” she said Thursday. “If you guys are here for me and Tyre, then you will protest peacefully.”
Davis also urged calm after the video’s release.
“None of this is a calling card for inciting violence or destruction on our community or against our citizens,” she said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was “appalled” by the video and that all FBI field officers have been alerted to work with state and local partners, including in Memphis, “in the event of something getting out of hand.”
Andre E. Johnson, pastor of Gifts of Life Ministries and a local activist, noted that past protests in Memphis have largely been peaceful. He said the anticipation of unrest is different from when white people stormed the U.S. Capitol or “show up at any statehouse with weapons,” and said people in the community see the contrast.
“Any time any violence has ever happened in this city, more than likely it has come from the police,” he said. “I pray that the police tonight will not be violent, and I pray that all goes well.”
Court records showed that all five former officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were taken into custody.
The officers each face charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. Four of the five officers had posted bond and been released from custody by Friday morning, according to court and jail records.
Martin’s lawyer, William Massey, and Mills’ lawyer, Blake Ballin, said their clients would plead not guilty. Lawyers for Smith, Bean and Haley could not be reached.
“No one out there that night intended for Tyre Nichols to die,” Massey said.
Both lawyers said they had not seen the video.
“We are in the dark about many things, just like the general public is,” Ballin said.
Second-degree murder is punishable by 15 to 60 years in prison under Tennessee law.
Romanucci and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who also represents Nichols’ family, called on the police chief to disband the department’s so-called scorpion unit focused on street crime.
Nichols “at all times was an innocent victim,” Romanucci said Friday. “He did nothing wrong. He was caught up in a sting. This scorpion unit was designed to saturate under the guise of crime fighting, and what it wound up doing instead was creating a continual pattern and practice of bad behavior.”
Davis said other officers are still being investigated for violating department policy. In addition, she said “a complete and independent review” will be conducted of the department’s specialized units, without providing further details.
Two fire department workers were also removed from duty.
As state and federal investigations continue, Davis promised the police department’s “full and complete cooperation.”
Crump said the video showed that Nichols was shocked, pepper-sprayed and restrained when he was pulled over near his home. He was returning home from a suburban park where he had taken photos of the sunset.
Relatives have accused police of causing Nichols to have a heart attack and kidney failure. Authorities have said only that Nichols experienced a medical emergency.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven employees in Memphis who were fired earlier this year after leading an effort to unionize their store.
In a decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman agreed with the National Labor Relations Board, which had asked the court to intervene in May. The labor board said Starbucks violated U.S. labor law by interfering in workers’ right to organize.
Lipman’s decision requires Starbucks to offer to reinstate the employees within five days. Starbucks will also be required to post the court order in the Memphis store.
Starbucks said Thursday it strongly disagrees with the court order and will appeal. It will also request a stay of the opinion, which would delay the reinstatement of the employees while the appeal is considered.
The case has been among the most closely watched in the unionization effort at Starbucks. Since late last year, more than 220 U.S. Starbucks stores — including the Memphis store — have voted to unionize. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort.
Starbucks fired the seven employees in early February, citing safety. The Seattle coffee giant said the employees violated company policy by reopening a store after closing time and inviting non-employees — including a television crew — to come inside and move throughout the store.
“These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards,” the company said in a statement Thursday. “Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve.”
But the NLRB and the fired workers told the court that Starbucks had routinely tolerated off-duty employees and non-employees remaining in the store after hours to make drinks, collect belongings or assist each other.
“Such tolerance before union activity, but terminations resulting thereafter, supports an inference of discriminatory motive,” the judge wrote.
The NLRB had begun administrative proceedings against Starbucks, saying the company was unlawfully interfering in workers’ right to organize. But those proceedings can take so long that the NLRB asked the federal court for an immediate injunction requiring Starbucks to reinstate the workers.
“Today’s federal court decision ordering Starbucks to reinstate the seven unlawfully fired Starbucks workers in Memphis is a crucial step in ensuring that these workers, and all Starbucks workers, can freely exercise their right to join together to improve their working conditions and form a union,” the labor board’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a statement. “Starbucks, and other employers, should take note that the NLRB will continue to vigorously protect workers’ right to organize without interference from their employer.”
One of the workers, Beto Sanchez, said he and his colleagues have suffered financial distress since they were fired, and he has had to work several jobs. Sanchez said he was so surprised after receiving a text about the favorable ruling that he dropped his phone.
“We’ve had a lot of tough moments, but we kept fighting each day,” Sanchez said. “It feels like all the hard work has paid off during all those months, and we’re just really happy.”
The NLRB has filed a separate federal court case in New York seeking the reinstatement of seven pro-union workers who were fired from a store in Buffalo. A decision in that case is pending.
The agency lost a similar case in Arizona in June, when a federal judge declined to order Starbucks to reinstate three workers.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94.
Moore, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, made his famous observation — now known as “Moore’s Law” — three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It appeared among a number of articles about the future written for the now-defunct Electronics magazine by experts in various fields.
The prediction, which Moore said he plotted out on graph paper based on what had been happening with chips at the time, said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.
Strictly speaking, Moore’s observation referred to the doubling of transistors on a semiconductor. But over the years, it has been applied to hard drives, computer monitors and other electronic devices, holding that roughly every 18 months a new generation of products makes their predecessors obsolete.
It became a standard for the tech industry’s progress and innovation.
“It’s the human spirit. It’s what made Silicon Valley,” Carver Mead, a retired California Institute of Technology computer scientist who coined the term “Moore’s Law” in the early 1970s, said in 2005. “It’s the real thing.”
Moore later became known for his philanthropy when he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which focuses on environmental conservation, science, patient care and projects in the San Francisco Bay area. It has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes since its founding in 2000.
“Those of us who have met and worked with Gordon will forever be inspired by his wisdom, humility and generosity,” foundation president Harvey Fineberg said in a statement.
Moore was born in California in 1929. As a boy, he took a liking to chemistry sets.
After getting his Ph.D. from the California University of Technology in 1954, he worked briefly as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University.
His entry into microchips began when he went to work for William Shockley, who in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize for physics for his work inventing the transistor. Less than two years later, Moore and seven colleagues left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory after growing tired of its namesake’s management practices.
The defection by the “traitorous eight,” as the group came to be called, planted the seeds for Silicon Valley’s renegade culture, in which engineers who disagreed with their colleagues didn’t hesitate to become competitors.
The Shockley defectors in 1957 created Fairchild Semiconductor, which became one of the first companies to manufacture the integrated circuit, a refinement of the transistor.
Fairchild supplied the chips that went into the first computers that astronauts used aboard spacecraft.
In 1968, Moore and Robert Noyce, one of the eight engineers who left Shockley, again struck out on their own. With $500,000 of their own money and the backing of venture capitalist Arthur Rock, they founded Intel, a name based on joining the words “integrated” and “electronics.”
Moore became Intel’s chief executive in 1975. His tenure as CEO ended in 1987, thought he remained chairman for another 10 years. He was chairman emeritus from 1997 to 2006.
He received the National Medal of Technology from President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2002.
Despite his wealth and acclaim, Moore remained known for his modesty. In 2005, he referred to Moore’s Law as “a lucky guess that got a lot more publicity than it deserved.”
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Betty, sons Kenneth and Steven, and four grandchildren.
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Jeffrey Goldberg, experienced biotech executive, appointed president and CEO; further strengthened senior management team with appointments of chief medical officer and chief product officer
$57.3 million of cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities, and restricted cash as of December 31, 2022, which is expected to fund operations into the fourth quarter of 2023
AUSTIN, Texas, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new generation of human enzyme therapeutics as innovative solutions for rare metabolic diseases, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022, and provided program updates.
"Since joining the company, I have been impressed by the programs and the potential impact that they may have on patient lives. In 2023, we are highly focused on execution, specifically the generation of data from our pegtarviliase Phase 1/2 clinical trial in Classical Homocystinuria and, assuming success with those data, preparations to advance into a potential pivotal trial," said Jeffrey Goldberg, president and chief executive officer of Aeglea. "We are also continuing to work with our partner Immedica Pharma AB to support the EMA [European Medicines Agency] review process for the Marketing Authorization Application for pegzilarginase for the treatment of Arginase 1 Deficiency. A decision by the EMA regarding the approval of the pegzilarginase Marketing Authorization Application is expected in late 2023. By delivering on these objectives, I believe we will be in a strong position to bring forward solutions that can positively impact the lives of our patient communities."
Program and Corporate Updates
Pegtarviliase in Homocystinuria
- Received Fast Track Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fast Track Designation is designed to expedite the FDA's review of innovative, new drugs that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical need.
- Announced in late November 2022 the completion of dosing of two patients in the third cohort of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial. Patients in the third cohort receive 1.35 mg/kg of pegtarviliase administered subcutaneously once weekly.
Pegzilarginase in Arginase 1 Deficiency
- Transitioning patients who participated in the PEACE Phase 3 long-term extension (LTE) and Phase 1/2 open-label extension (OLE) studies into one simplified open-label trial. The PEACE LTE and Phase 1/2 OLE studies were closed in the first quarter of 2023.
- Continuing to progress the review of the Marketing Authorization Application submission with the EMA for the potential approval of pegzilarginase. EMA approval can facilitate possible patient access and regulatory approval in many other geographies, including Latin America and the Middle East.
Corporate
- Appointed Jeffrey Goldberg, a highly experienced executive with strong operational and rare disease background, as president and chief executive officer.
- Strengthened senior management team with the promotions of Linda Neuman, MD, MBA, to chief medical officer and Cortney Caudill, MBA, to the newly created role of chief product officer. Ms. Caudill will serve as a strategic leader and team supervisor of Aeglea's clinical programs.
- Implemented changes to corporate structure to increase operational efficiency. Additionally, the company halted preclinical work on Cystinuria and other unnamed pipeline programs. The company will evaluate potential strategic options for these programs in order to maximize their value.
Upcoming Events
- ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah
Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Aeglea recognized development fee revenues of $0.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, as a result of its license and supply agreement with Immedica Pharma AB for the commercial rights to pegzilarginase in Europe and several countries in the Middle East (License and Supply Agreement). The revenues recorded in the fourth quarter of 2022 are related to manufacturing services. Aeglea recognized $3.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2021 in development fee revenues.
Research and development expenses totaled $14.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and $16.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. The decrease was primarily related to a decrease in Biologics License Application (BLA) activities for pegzilarginase and reductions in headcount and recruiting activities.
General and administrative expenses totaled $5.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and $7.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. This decrease was primarily due to a reduction in commercialization activities for pegzilarginase and a reduction in headcount and related expenses.
Net loss totaled $18.8 million and $20.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively, which includes non-cash stock compensation expense of $1.4 million and $2.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Full Year 2022 Financial Results
As of December 31, 2022, Aeglea had available cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and restricted cash of $57.3 million. The company expects its cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities will enable it to fund its operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into the fourth quarter of 2023.
Aeglea recognized development fee revenues of $2.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2022, as a result of its License and Supply Agreement. The revenues recorded in the year ended December 31, 2022 are primarily related to the PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial and the submission of the BLA. Aeglea recognized $18.7 million in license and development fee revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Research and development expenses totaled $58.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 and $57.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase was primarily associated with activities involved in closing the PEACE Phase 3 trial and initiation activities for the new open-label study for the treatment of patients with Arginase 1 Deficiency and Investigational New Drug-enabling activities conducted for AGLE-325 in the first half of the year. These increases were partially offset by decreases due to the completion of non-clinical toxicology studies for pegtarviliase and a reduction in preclinical lab activities.
General and administrative expenses totaled $28.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 and $27.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. This increase was primarily due to an increase in commercial capabilities and infrastructure expenses in the first half of the year.
Net loss totaled $83.8 million and $65.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, which includes non-cash stock compensation expense of $7.1 million and $8.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
About Pegtarviliase in Homocystinuria
Pegtarviliase is a novel recombinant human enzyme, which is engineered to reduce elevated levels of total homocysteine circulating in the plasma by degrading the amino acid homocysteine and its dimer. Pegtarviliase is currently being studied in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with Classical Homocystinuria, a rare inherited disorder of methionine metabolism that results in elevated levels of total homocysteine. Homocysteine accumulation plays a key role in multiple progressive and serious disease-related complications, including lens dislocation, skeletal abnormalities, vascular complications and neurologic effects, as well as the potential for sudden and early death. In preclinical studies, pegtarviliase improved important disease-related abnormalities and survival in a mouse model of Homocystinuria. Pegtarviliase has received both U.S. and EU Orphan Drug Designation as well as U.S. Rare Pediatric Disease and Fast Track Designations.
About Pegzilarginase in Arginase 1 Deficiency
Pegzilarginase is a novel recombinant human enzyme engineered to degrade the amino acid arginine and has been shown to rapidly and sustainably lower levels of the amino acid arginine in plasma. Aeglea is developing pegzilarginase for the treatment of people with Arginase 1 Deficiency (ARG1-D), a rare debilitating and progressive disease characterized by the accumulation of arginine. ARG1-D presents in early childhood and patients experience spasticity, seizures, developmental delay, intellectual disability and early mortality. The PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial met its primary endpoint with a 76.7% reduction in mean plasma arginine compared to placebo. Additionally, 90.5% of pegzilarginase treated patients achieved normal plasma arginine levels.
About Aeglea BioTherapeutics
Aeglea BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company redefining the potential of human enzyme therapeutics to benefit people with rare metabolic diseases with limited treatment options. Aeglea is investigating pegtarviliase in an ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of Classical Homocystinuria. Pegtarviliase has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation. Aeglea's other clinical program, pegzilarginase, achieved the primary endpoint of arginine reduction in the PEACE Phase 3 clinical trial and has received both Rare Pediatric Disease and Breakthrough Therapy Designations. The Marketing Authorization Application for pegzilarginase is currently under review with the European Medicines Agency. For more information, please visit http://aeglea.com.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. ( (AP)Tyler Thomas scored 29 points as Hofstra beat Stony Brook 79-58 on Saturday night.
Thomas also had 11 rebounds for the Pride (17-8, 10-2 Colonial Athletic Association). Warren Williams scored 14 points, making 6 of 7 shots. German Plotnikov shot 5 for 8, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc to finish with 14 points. Bryce Washington shot 5 of 9 with two 3s for 14 points.
The Seawolves (8-16, 4-7) were led in scoring by Toby Onyekonwu, who finished with 15 points and six assists. Kenan Sarvan added 14 points for Stony Brook. In addition, Frankie Policelli had 12 points and 13 rebounds.
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Change-Swallowing Pooch Treated for Deadly Zinc Poisoning
MINNEAPOLIS, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Every dog lover knows that pets swallow items they shouldn't, so when Alicia Thunder's playful pug Winnie vomited several coins, she wasn't that concerned.
"Dogs eat all sorts of things. When we found that Winnie had thrown up a few quarters and nickels I didn't think it was that big of a deal," said Thunder. "Next, there were two pennies and a nickel. When she started bringing up bile two days in a row, we decided to take her to the hospital." Winnie had been vomiting for almost a week at that point.
A radiograph performed at the first hospital showed that there was a clump of coins still in Winnie's stomach. Unfortunately, that hospital and the next hospital she visited did not have an available surgeon, so Thunder ultimately admitted her at the PAW Health Network in Kronenwetter, Wis. Pennies minted after 1982 contain zinc, which is highly toxic when ingested. The main clinical signs with zinc poisoning in dogs and cats are severe gastrointestinal distress with possible ulceration and hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells). Additional signs can include cardiac changes, pancreatitis, possible kidney failure and liver damage.
"Once they confirmed that Winnie still had coins in her stomach, including pennies which contain zinc, it was critical that she get to surgery as soon as possible due to potential zinc poisoning," said Dr. Renee Schmid, a senior veterinary toxicologist at Pet Poison Helpline. "Winnie had clinical signs consistent with zinc poisoning including anemia due to hemolysis, pancreatitis and severe GI distress. One of our most critical recommendations was to surgically remove the coins instead of recommending chelation, as chelation increases zinc absorption if the zinc-containing object is still present in the stomach or intestinal tract. Once the coins are removed zinc levels decrease quickly and chelation is usually not necessary." Chelation is a process that uses a drug that seeks out and binds to certain metals in the bloodstream, creating a compound that is excreted in urine. Due to hemolysis, Winnie was severely anemic and required a transfusion of packed red blood cells to stabilize her enough for surgery.
"They actually had to do two surgeries on Winnie," explained Thunder. "When they finished the first surgery to remove the coins, they did another X-ray, which showed she still had something in her system. When they went back in, they found that acid had eroded one of the pennies and they had to scrape it out."
"As we suspected, Winnie's condition began to stabilize and improve following surgery," added Dr. Schmid. "Winnie's post-surgical care included intravenous fluids, analgesics, antibiotics and medication to help control her vomiting and nausea." Fortunately, her anemia had improved by the next day and her other clinical signs continued to improve over the next several days.
"She had to spend two nights in the hospital," added Thunder. "When she got home, she had to wear a cone, she wasn't allowed to jump, and she was prescribed a number of medications. The good news is she's back to her normal little self. We still have no idea where she found the coins. My dad rebuilds old cars, so we think she may have gone scrounging around and found some old coins in one of the cars that had something tasty spilled on them. Who knows?"
Winnie's penny was far from lucky. Since May 23, 2022, is National Lucky Penny Day, the toxicology experts at Pet Poison Helpline are warning pet owners about the dangers of zinc poisoning by sharing Winnie's harrowing story as May's Toxin Tails case of the month.
Pet Poison Helpline created Toxin Tails to educate the veterinary community and pet lovers on the many types of poisoning dangers facing pets, both in and out of the home. All the pets highlighted in Toxin Tails have been successfully treated for the poisoning and fully recovered.
About Pet Poison Helpline
Pet Poison Helpline, your trusted source for toxicology and pet health advice in times of potential emergency, is available 24 hours, seven days a week for pet owners and veterinary professionals who require assistance treating a potentially poisoned pet. We are an independent, nationally recognized animal poison control center triple licensed by the Boards of Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Pharmacy providing unmatched professional leadership and expertise. Our veterinarians and board-certified toxicologists provide treatment advice for poisoning cases of all species, including dogs, cats, birds, small mammals, large animals and exotic species. Pet Poison Helpline's fee of $75 per incident includes follow-up consultations for the duration of the case. Based in Minneapolis, Pet Poison Helpline is available in North America by calling 800-213-6680. Additional information can be found online at www.petpoisonhelpline.com.
Contact: Dr. Renee Schmid
Pet Poison Helpline
(952) 806-3803
RSchmid@petpoisonhelpline.com
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The San Antonio Business Shower will mark Warrior Rising having helped fund more than 100 Veteran-owned businesses
SAN ANTONIO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Warrior Rising, the Nation's premier veteran entrepreneurship non-profit, will be hosting its 5th Veteran Business Shower™ this September. Having helped create and fund more than 100 Veteran owned businesses, Warrior Rising has established itself as the preeminent transition organization for prospective veteran entrepreneurs. The shower is being hosted at the Grunt Style headquarters, located in San Antonio, Texas. Grunt Style was founded by an Army combat veteran who grew the brand to be worth more than $100 million by selling not just clothing, but a lifestyle. Together these partners will hold a two-day seminar for 16 veteran entrepreneurs over the weekend of September 11th, a date that holds obvious significance for both active duty service members and Veterans.
The seminar will focus on key learnings from industry experts and successful entrepreneurs. Participants will be gifted a custom suit, new laptop, website development and SEO optimization, headshots, and the opportunity to present their brands in a "shark tank" style pitch competition where they'll be eligible for up to $20k in charitable grants.
Jason Van Camp, Founder and Executive Director stated, "The Warrior Rising Business Shower is our signature event. Similar to a bridal shower or a baby shower, the Warrior Rising business shower was created to give veterans everything they could possibly need to succeed in business. We provide veteran entrepreneurs the education, coaching, mentorship, equipment, tools, network, and funding to become a multi-million dollar business. It's an honor and privilege to be invited to a business shower, but we don't invite just anybody - veterans earn the right to attend our business showers through hard work and determination."
Warrior Rising will also be hosting a fundraising gala that same weekend at the historic Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in downtown San Antonio. The Tobin Center is located next to the San Antonio Riverwalk and is named for Robert L. B. Tobin, one of the city's most prominent residents. The Master of Ceremonies for the event will be Nick Palmisciano, film producer and co-author of New York Times best seller, Scars and Stripes. Special guests will also include guest speaker Rob O'Neill, one of the Navy SEALs present for the historic Bin Laden raid.
Nick Palmisciano emphasized, "As a young entrepreneur just out of the military, I made mistakes that cost me millions of dollars…all unnecessarily. When you're starting out, it's easy to feel like you have to work it out yourself. In fact, the military breeds that mentality. While that's great for personal resiliency, it's terrible for running a successful business. Business is about teamwork, and there is no better team than Warrior Rising. The training, mentorship, and support that Warrior Rising provides our nation's veterans is absolutely unmatched. There's no organization I've seen come close. As such, they have my unlimited support. "
With an ever-increasing impact on the Veteran community, Warrior Rising's upcoming Business Shower will serve as another testament to their continued service to our Nation's most valuable asset, the American service member.
About Warrior Rising
Founded in 2015, Warrior Rising is a 501(c)(3) non-profit started by Veterans, for Veterans. The Warrior Rising team has a singular goal: transform Veterans into Vetrepreneurs. We have achieved this through carefully selecting strategic partners in business, and leveraging a vast network of young professionals and successful entrepreneurs from a wide variety of backgrounds. The organization hosts a robust team of professionals, business owners, and experts in their fields.
Learn more at warriorrising.org
About Nick Palmisciano
Nick Palmisciano graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point as a member of the Class of '98 and then served six years as an Infantry Captain. Upon trading in his fatigues for civilian clothes, he attended Duke University's MBA program and then worked in areas of increasing responsibility at a Fortune 100 company. He then plunged himself into the world of entrepreneurship, where over the course of 15 years he has built multiple successful and unique businesses across a wide spectrum of industries. His passion for sharing his trials and tribulations as an entrepreneur have led him to become a mentor to many aspiring business owners and transitioning veterans over the years.
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The first full web3 game to release on ImmutableX in 2023, Undead Blocks, will invite gamers to collect NFT weapons and battle endless waves of zombies with their friends — with console-grade graphics coming to mobile devices.
SYDNEY, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wagyu Games Studio, a web3 game development company founded by former Goldman Sachs analyst Grant Haseley, today announces that its free-to-play/kill-to-earn multiplayer zombie survival first-person shooter (FPS) Undead Blocks will be launched on ImmutableX, the preferred platform for building and scaling web3 games on Ethereum.
Undead Blocks is the first multiplayer zombie FPS on ImmutableX, inviting players to collect and upgrade a wide range of weapons to survive endless hordes of zombies — alone or with friends. Each weapon comes in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) and can be customized to increase damage, ammo capacity, and accuracy.
"Undead Blocks is exactly the right combination of innovative tech and approachable, inclusive gameplay poised to give a massive push to the mass adoption of web3 gaming," said Andrew Sorokovsky, VP of Global Business Development at Immutable. "Immutable is excited to provide Wagyu Games Studio with the full suite of our cutting-edge scaling solutions and toolsets to help make the game the blockbuster title it aspires to be."
Currently in beta, Undead Blocks can be played on PC and Mac, and internet browsers and even comes with controller compatibility. The game will soon be available on mobile devices via a special cloud gaming service, allowing it to feature AAA-level visuals on most modern smartphones without any hindrances.
In Undead Blocks, users can play alongside their friends or random people and participate in tournaments to earn ZBUX, a digital currency that can be used to acquire rare weapons and character skins. They can also stake UNDEAD, the game's deflationary utility and governance token, to earn more ZBUX tokens or special weapon NFTs. Thanks to fully integrated web3 functionality, players have full digital ownership over these items and can freely transfer, exchange, or trade them anytime.
While still in beta, Undead Blocks developers have already hosted a sponsored community tournament in Nashville — which attracted more than 7,500 participants — with a prize pool of over $150,000. Similar events are planned to take place in St. Louis, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas in the future. Meanwhile, the game has also attracted a loyal community of around 2,500 active daily players, with more than 100,000 people playing Undead Blocks over the past quarter alone.
By leveraging ImmutableX, Wagyu can offer Undead Blocks players an immersive and seamless experience that anyone can enjoy, regardless of their familiarity with the web3. For instance, users won't need to set up separate digital wallets; instead, they simply use their email addresses to register and start playing for free immediately. Notably, more than half of Undead Blocks' community members have never owned NFTs or cryptocurrencies.
At the same time, ImmutableX's robust scaling solutions and frameworks will ensure that all Undead Blocks-related transactions are as cheap and as fast as possible, including gas-free NFT minting.
"Immutable's laser focus on web3 gaming, community building, innovation, fairness, and inclusivity has made it the perfect choice for us," noted Grant Haseley, executive director of Wagyu Games. "Combined with our cloud gaming service, allowing interactive gameplay to be processed on remote servers and live streamed to any mobile device, we are about to make another massive step towards our joint mission to onboard the next billion users to web3."
The full launch of Undead Blocks on PC, Mac, and browsers is scheduled for February 28, bringing with it more quests, challenges, and a plethora of other improvements and new features. The game's mobile beta, including its cloud-based service that will bring console-grade graphics quality to anyone with a smartphone, will follow later this year.
About Immutable
Immutable is powering the next generation of web3 games through ImmutableX - the leading developer platform for building and scaling mainstream-ready web3 games on Ethereum, entirely carbon neutral and gas-free.
ImmutableX offers unparalleled support to launch a successful web3 game on Ethereum. SDKs and APIs make adding NFT functionality to a game seamless and easy, the wide ecosystem of products and partners manage all blockchain infrastructure needs, and the ImmutableX Global Order Book generates real liquidity for assets.
Today, many world-class web3 games are built on ImmutableX including Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, Illuvium, Embersword, Planet Quest and many more.
Join the Immutable community on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and Youtube
About Wagyu Games Studio
Wagyu Games is leading the charge on Kill-To-Earn Gaming. The Wagyu Games flagship product is set in the post-apocalyptic world with Undead Blocks, the premier Web3 zombie shooter on mobile and PC/Mac platforms. In this arcade style game players will be able to collect weapon skins, participate in sponsored tournaments, and survive endless waves of zombies as they navigate easter egg-filled maps and compete with their friends. Undead Blocks has already rewarded their player base with over $150K in sponsored tournaments as of November 2022, where players can enter the fight with no crypto wallet required.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Sema4 Holdings, Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of SMFR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 14, 2022 to August 15, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there was a significant risk that Sema4 would reverse a material amount of previously recognized revenue that it could not recoup from third party payors; (2) the Company was experiencing declining selling prices for its reproductive health segment; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Sema4's financial results would be adversely affected; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: November 7, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/sema4-holdings-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=32502&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of SMFR during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is November 7, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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(KTLA) – “Yellowstone” is coming to an end.
According to Variety, the hit series’ fifth season will be the last one and it’s set to debut in November.
However, this is not a complete goodbye to the Duttons.
An “untitled sequel series has been ordered and will debut on Paramount Network and Paramount+ in December,” the publication reported.
The announcement comes after Entertainment Tonight reported Kevin Costner wouldn’t be returning to the show after Season 5.
Behind Costner, who plays Montana rancher, John Dutton, series creator Taylor Sheridan launched a phenomenon. The opening of its fifth season last November was seen by 12.1 million viewers on the night of its debut, more people than any other scripted series last fall — a remarkable feat for a show not on a broadcast network.
The actor is reportedly in the middle of “Horizon: An American Saga,” which is a four-film series that he’s in charge of and starring in. Production is taking place in Utah.
“’Yellowstone’ has been the cornerstone on which we have launched an entire universe of global hits – from ‘1883’ to ‘Tulsa King,’ and I am confident our ‘Yellowstone’ sequel will be another big hit, thanks to the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and our incredible casts who bring these shows to life,” said Chris McCarthy, president & CEO of Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios in a statement obtained by Variety.
Paramount would not comment on that Friday, with a spokesperson saying only, “Kevin Costner is a big part of ‘Yellowstone’ and we hope that’s the case for a long time to come.”
Not much is known about the upcoming sequel, but back in February Deadline reported that Matthew McConaughey was in talks for an upcoming project involving the franchise.
David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios, which produces “Yellowstone” with MTV Entertainment, said the new series “will be picking up where ‘Yellowstone’ leaves off in another epic tale.” While the series hasn’t been named, the word “Yellowstone” will be part of the title — an important distinction because that wasn’t the case for spinoffs like “1883” or “1923.”
Paramount has denied published reports that actor Matthew McConaughey is signed to star in the sequel. But a spokesperson said Friday that McConaughey “is a phenomenal talent with whom we’d love to partner.”
Following its debut on the cable network, the sequel will also air on the Paramount+ streaming network.
That’s a hugely important distinction for the company. “Yellowstone” streams on NBC Universal’s Peacock service, owned by Comcast, meaning a big chunk of revenue created by the popular drama has been going elsewhere.
“Yellowstone” is currently filming its fifth season.
Back in November, the series began airing the first half of the season, which was eight episodes.
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(WFLA) — A Long Island father and son rescued a baby deer after it fell in their family pool twice after it got separated from its mother.
According to NBC New York, the fawn fell into the pool and struggled to get out. That’s when 12-year-old Anthony and his dad Greg Masaitis stepped in to rescue the animal.
“I was like oh my gosh, is she going to drown is she going in the deep end? Do I have to go inside the pool to get her?” Anthony asked his dad.
Anthony was able to scoop the fawn out of the pool before it fell in again.
“I grabbed her out again, put her a little bit away from the pool so she wouldn’t fall back a third time.”
Greg told his son to get the fawn out quickly, so his scent wasn’t on the animal.
“From what I was told, if your scent gets on the baby, the mother won’t want to take care of it,” Greg said. “So, that was my concern like after getting out of the pool. First was drowning in the pool and second was touching the baby.”
The family told NBC they believe the fawn was reunited with its mother. Security cameras in the family’s backyard showed images of a doe happily reunited with her fawn.
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VinFast will go public via a SPAC deal with New York Stock Exchange-listed Black Spade Acquisition Co., the Vietnamese electric vehicle startup announced last week. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2023.
Also referred to as a reverse merger, a SPAC deal is where a private company goes public by being taken over by a company that’s already listed, typically one set up solely for the purpose, known in investor circles as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The advantage is that it avoids the complexity of launching an IPO, a route VinFast originally planned to pursue.
Most EV startups in recent years have chosen the easier route of SPAC deals when going public. One of the exceptions was Rivian, which launched an IPO in 2021.
Following the close of the transaction, which VinFast expects for the second half of the year, the combined company will have an equity value of more than $23 billion. VinFast shareholders will own approximately 99% of the combined company, which will operate as VinFast and trade on the NYSE.
VinFast started U.S. deliveries in March, with the VF 8 mid-size SUV the first of two models to arrive. The other is the VF 9 full-size SUV, due later this year.
Funds raised from the SPAC deal will help VinFast in its ambitious plans, including adding VF 5, VF 6, and VF 7 crossovers and expanding into Europe. The company also plans to construct a U.S. plant in Chatham County, North Carolina.
“The partnership with Black Spade and listing of VinFast in the U.S. represents the perfect capital raising avenue for our future global ambitions,” Thuy Le, VinFast’s CEO, said in a statement.
The announcement comes at an inopportune time for VinFast as its VF 8 SUV was widely panned in initial reviews last week, including by Motor Authority sister site, Green Car Reports.
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Crash slows rush-hour traffic Monday morning in North Topeka
Published: May. 8, 2023 at 1:05 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A rear-end collision slowed traffic but resulted in no serious injuries during rush hour Monday morning in North Topeka.
The crash was reported around 8:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the 2000 block of N.W. Topeka Boulevard.
Police at the scene told 13 NEWS that a Dodge Journey sport utility vehicle rear-ended a truck at that location.
The driver of the Dodge was examined at the scene by American Medical Response ambulance, However, police said, the driver didn’t require ambulance transportation to the hospital.
The Dodge, which had substantial front-end damage, had to be towed from the scene.
The truck was able to be driven away.
Additional details weren’t immediately available.
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Advocates for, against abortion access say fight isn’t over after bill fails at SC State House
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A push to further restrict or even ban abortion in South Carolina is now over for this year, but advocates fighting for and against that effort say their work is not over.
Throughout this summer and fall, lawmakers spent hours hearing public testimony, sitting in meetings, and debating abortion, all to result in the state’s restrictions staying exactly as they are. For now, South Carolina’s “Fetal Heartbeat Law” bans most abortions after around six weeks, but pending a ruling from the state Supreme Court over the legality of that law, abortion is legal before 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Republicans control both the state Senate and the House of Representatives, and many of them wanted to further restrict South Carolina’s abortion law following the US Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade this summer.
“We were happy of course, but we had no idea how it would play out,” A Moment of Hope founder and executive director Mark Baumgarter said. His organization offers free ultrasounds and pregnancy tests out of an RV parked outside Planned Parenthood in Columbia every day the clinic is open.
Before the state legislature ended its regular legislative session in May, it passed a resolution allowing members to be called back to Columbia for a special session if Roe was repealed.
“We knew we were going to come back for a fight. We just didn’t know what that would look like,” Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN) Director of Policy and Government Relations Ashley Lidow said.
But ultimately, there were factions among those Republicans, and they were not able to come to an agreement over how restrictive to make a new law after the House passed a ban from conception with limited exceptions and the Senate passed a modification of the current six-week ban.
“It brings to mind that picture of Charlie Brown getting the football yanked away from him every time he went to kick it, and I feel that way with our state legislators,” Baumgartner said.
He had hoped and expected the Republican-dominated General Assembly would have imposed tighter abortion restrictions in the months immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision.
“Our hope is that the senators and the representatives will continue pushing forward to be a voice for the unborn,” Baumgartner said.
Other South Carolinians had been working to stop the abortion-ban bill taken up in the legislature.
“Everything as a community that we have worked for to defeat a total abortion ban has happened, which is a great thing,” Lidow said. “That’s a good feeling to know that a new law isn’t going the governor’s desk and new lawsuits don’t have to be filed.”
Lidow said that effort was a continuation of the work WREN has been doing for years to protect abortion access in South Carolina, like opposing the six-week ban before it became law in early 2021 and fighting other abortion-restriction legislation that failed to become law earlier in 2022.
She said they haven’t gotten a moment to catch their breath until now.
“People have been attacking our bodies, our integrity, this entire time, and so today, after the bill has now been finalized, we get that breath point. But we know that this is just, take a breath, and we’ll do it again in January,” Lidow said.
Some of the State House’s most ardent abortion opponents have pledged to introduce new bills to outlaw the procedure when the next legislative session begins in January.
But the question will be if enough conservative lawmakers have the desire to take it up, with many exhausted and frustrated by the end of the fruitless special session this week.
While the House will gain more Republican members after Tuesday’s election, potentially pumping new energy into the push, the makeup of the Senate will stay the same, as senators were not up for re-election and won’t be in until 2024.
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Colts mailbag: Can Sam Ehlinger be the future? Can Matt Ryan be traded?
This Colts season has been everything but uninteresting. The football product hasn't been fun if you're a fan of the team, or a fan of offense in general, but it's been a rollercoaster of different storylines that has gone from Matt Ryan leading four fourth-quarter comebacks to getting benched in favor of Sam Ehlinger.
We're not even to midseason yet.
Ehlinger will make his first start Sunday against the Commanders at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts are moving to a different kind of offense with a different style of quarterback in Ehlinger, hoping it can spark a team that is 3-3-1 but on the outside looking in on the AFC South race.
So, you have questions. I tried to find some answers:
Question: "Could using Ellinger like we’ve seen the changes Chicago is making for Justin Fields be enough to possibly still push for the playoffs this season?" -- Jeff Stein via Twitter
Answer: As someone who started out covering the Bears, I would not recommend them as a model to build your use of a quarterback around. But you are certainly on the right train of thought. What Luke Getsy did to utilize Fields' athleticism against Bill Belichick and the Patriots on Monday night was masterful and, frankly, overdue. He looked like a different player in that offense. The environment matters so much to these young players.
The primary reason Ehlinger is in this spot right now is his mobility and freshness. The Colts built a drop-back progression pocket passing game for Ryan that never worked because the offensive line couldn't protect enough to let downfield routes develop and Ryan didn't have the space or arm strength to drive those throws with anticipation. They are acknowledging that they don't have the offensive line or running game they thought they would to set this structure up.
The Colts don't have the time to design or install a completely new offense. They've trained their young wide receivers and tight ends in the current one, and they've developed those pieces reasonably well, so they're going to maintain those parts, which Ehlinger has been studying in the quarterback room all season. What will change is some of the designs for the quarterback. Offensive coordinator Marcus Brady said to expect more naked and boot action on roll-outs. That will create some natural time for routes to develop and will allow a 6-foot-1 Ehlinger to get away from a crowd of bodies in order to see them and to throw to them on the move, with that forward drive elevating an arm that is still developing strength. Defenses have gotten better at defending the boot since Sean McVay's coaching tree spread throughout the league, so picking the spots will be key.
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I think we'll also see a few run designs with Ehlinger and Jonathan Taylor in shotgun. Ehlinger has the legs to keep the ball and take a few carries off Taylor's legs, and since the defense has to respect that threat, he can serve as an extra blocker by freezing a defensive end. The Colts rank dead last in rushing DVOA right now, so they could use all the blocking they could get.
Lastly, I'd expect the scramble elements to come back to this playbook. The Colts worked on those in practice last year with Carson Wentz at quarterback, and they created some of their better plays, like those deep shots to Michael Pittman Jr. Indianapolis badly wants those plays back, and it will mean emphasizing that work but also empowering Ehlinger to play that way by de-emphasizing the structure.
As a result, the entire playbook is going to see a simplification, which always happens with a backup quarterback. Expect this new version to become more about players than plays.
Question: "Why would you make the QB change with an obvious eye towards the future without also going back to Bernhard Raimann at left tackle?" -- Chuck DeBleu via Twitter
Answer: This is an interesting question because I think it gets at the chasm between outside expectation and internal hopes.
I don't sense the Colts are making this switch because they just want to see what Ehlinger has. They have 10 games left to think about that, they're 3-3-1, they have Ryan locked financially into next season, and there's no reason to pull that plug this emphatically unless they believe this could be the spark that gives them a route to the playoffs. We'll see if they're right or desperate in that thinking, but I believe that's what the "collective decision" was about.
Again, it's not that Ehlinger is better than Ryan, who has 15 years of experience, which we've seen pay off with four fourth-quarter comebacks. It's that they have to play differently to have any chance with this offense. They're currently averaging 16 points per game, which isn't going to get to the playoffs even if they eliminate Ryan's league-leading 20 turnovers. They don't see a fix to the lack of interior pass protection and run blocking they promised Ryan. They don't see how, at 37 years old, he can play a different way.
So, every other decision they make right now will be about trying to win the upcoming game, and then the next one, while also bringing out the most in Ehlinger. It'll be messy. It's chaotic. But it's the spot they've put themselves in. They'll save the future discussion for later.
Question: "Has there been any discussion of trading Matt Ryan?" -- Matthew Borders via Twitter
Answer: It's all so early, and the emotions are still raw. But it's a question worth exploring with the trade deadline next Tuesday and the line in the sand the Colts appear to be drawing by naming Ehlinger the starter for the rest of the season.
When the Colts traded for Ryan this spring, they did so expecting him to be the starter for two years. They hoped it could be three or even four. But they promised two years to convince him to come here, guaranteeing his 2023 salary to do it. That plan has obviously backfired and left them in a crunch.
The Colts owe Ryan $2.76 million for the remainder of this season, and his cap hit next year is $35.2 million. Given the broken version of him they've displayed on the field and announced with their decision this week, it's hard to picture another team taking that on. It's especially not happening while he has a Grade 2 shoulder sprain, as any trade is contingent upon him passing a physical. With six days until the deadline, it's just hard to picture, but it's a quarterback-needy league and you can never say never.
But unless they change their mind and reinsert Ryan as the starter, this conversation will continue through the offseason, much like it did with Wentz this past spring. The Colts can cut Ryan before March 17 to save half of the $35 million they'll owe, but they need a trade to clear the other half. He'll be turning 38 then. That will make this a different conversation than it was with a 29-year-old Wentz, especially if the last version the league saw of Ryan is this broken and ineffective one.
Needless to say, the Colts have created another mess at the quarterback position.
Question: "Ehlinger forced them to keep him on the active roster because of his preseason play. Now that he's the starter, will the Colts cut Nick Foles?" -- Jason Sanders via Twitter
Answer: I don't think so. As of right now, Foles is the No. 2 quarterback because Ryan isn't healthy enough to be. It's also a job he signed up for, that he excels in and finds excitement in preparing a quarterback to attack that week's opponent. That's a job Ryan has never done and certainly never imagined doing this season.
There's also a financial incentive to keeping Foles as the backup. Ryan has an injury clause in his contract that guarantees him an extra $7.2 million for 2023 beyond the $18 million he's going to get whether he's cut or not. So playing Ryan but not as the starter has risk of adding to the tax they'll have to pay next spring.
It's all complicated, because if Ehlinger doesn't play well, or if he gets hurt and the Colts are still in the playoff hunt, Ryan could still be the option that gives them a chance. Going back to him, of course, would be very weird. It's all weird, and I think as a result they'll roll with the three quarterbacks they have for now because this is the bed they've made for themselves.
Question: "How well does Sam/The Colts need to play in order to convince the Colts not to draft a QB in the 1st round?" -- Kaarthik via Twitter
Answer: He needs to be sensational, on and off the field. So much so that he blows away owner Jim Irsay and general manager Chris Ballard and wins too many games for the Colts to have a reasonable shot at any of the quarterbacks they really want in that draft.
The odds say that's unlikely, given that no quarterback since Tom Brady has been drafted as late as Ehlinger and become the long-term answer for his team at that position. Brady will forever be an outlier in this league, and it's worth remembering he earned that trust before the league became so obsessed with quarterbacks, back when learning and developing as a game manager could still win you a lot of games. Nowadays, not only does the quarterback have to be the driving source behind your success, but the league knows it so much that the good ones just don't fall to Day 3. It's rare enough that they make it to Day 2, like Jalen Hurts did before he unseated Wentz.
The Colts have made a lot of half-measures and band-aids since Andrew Luck's abrupt retirement in the 2019 preseason. They rolled with a career backup in Jacoby Brissett for a season, then did a one-year rental of a 39-year-old Phillip Rivers, then tried a reclamation project on a broken Wentz for a season, and then experimented with a 37-year-old Ryan. None of it has solved the riddle, and yet the one move they haven't tried is drafting a quarterback and developing him as a starter.
The Colts love Ehlinger as a person, but they drafted him in the sixth round last year to be a developmental backup. That's what the league scouted him as. That's how he saw himself as recently as the preseason, when he spoke about learning for three seasons and reworking a throwing motion with renowned throwing coach Tom House in order to build the kind of arm scouts never saw. It's gargantuan to ask that to come together this quickly in an offense with the 32nd-ranked run game per Football Outsiders and the 31st-ranked pass-blocking unit per ESPN.
If he can dominate in the 2022 Colts offense, then it'll be a sign he's something truly special. He has that chance now. But everyone should be shocked if it actually gets to that point, because it's not supposed to.
Contact Colts insider Nate Atkins at natkins@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @NateAtkins_.
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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for California
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
CAZ364-170115-
Los Angeles County Beaches-
Including LAX, Long Beach, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach,
Santa Monica, and Torrance
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s to around 60.
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CAZ365-170115-
Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles-
Including Beverly Hills, Compton, Culver City, Downey, Hollywood,
Lakewood, and Norwalk
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 60.
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CAZ087-170115-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon and Two Harbors
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
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CAZ362-170115-
Malibu Coast-
Including Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Zuma Beach
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around
15 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
Northeast winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
around 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the 60s. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
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CAZ354-170115-
Ventura County Beaches-
Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the 60s. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s to around 60.
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CAZ355-170115-
Ventura County Inland Coast-
Including Camarillo and East Ventura
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid to upper 60s. East winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 60.
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CAZ350-170115-
Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
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CAZ349-170115-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to around 60. Southeast winds around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. East
winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
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CAZ351-170115-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
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CAZ352-170115-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s
except around 60 warmer foothills. East winds around 15 mph in the
morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. East
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. East winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50. East
winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
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CAZ548-170115-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Patchy frost in
the morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
around 60.
$$
CAZ547-170115-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Northridge, Universal City, and Woodland Hills
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Patchy frost in
the morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. North to northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s to around 70. East winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ088-170115-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Castaic Lake, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to around 60. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid to upper 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ359-170115-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the 60s. Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the 50s.
$$
CAZ358-170115-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the 30s to around 40. Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s to around 70. East winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ357-170115-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
around 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ356-170115-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around
15 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the upper 20s and 30s. Northeast winds around 15 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. East winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
$$
CAZ363-170115-
Santa Monica Mountains-
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds around 15 mph shifting
to the east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50 except
around 40 colder valleys.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the 50s.
$$
CAZ059-170115-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows 19 to
31. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
East winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph becoming northeast
10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
$$
CAZ054-170115-
Los Angeles County Mountains-
Including Acton and Mount Wilson
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs from the
upper 40s and 50s at low elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s at
high elevations. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from the 30s to around 40 at low
elevations to 19 to 26 in colder valleys and peaks. East winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs from the 50s to around 60 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s at high elevations. East winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks. Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph decreasing
to 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
from the mid 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to
lower 50s at high elevations. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs from the mid 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the mid 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s
at low elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the mid 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows from the upper 30s to mid
40s at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys
and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Highs from the upper 40s to mid 50s at low elevations to the upper
30s to mid 40s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-170115-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs from the 50s to around 60 at low
elevations to the mid 30s to around 40 at high elevations. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from the upper 20s and 30s at low
elevations to 17 to 24 in colder valleys and peaks. East winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs from the 50s to lower 60s at low
elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s at high elevations. East
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the mid 20s to lower 30s in colder valleys and
peaks. East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
from the mid 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to
around 50 at high elevations. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the mid 20s to around 30 in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s
at low elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the mid 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the mid 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows from the mid 30s to mid
40s at low elevations to the mid 20s to around 30 in colder valleys
and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Highs from the mid 40s to mid 50s at low elevations to the mid 30s
to lower 40s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ353-170115-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs from the mid 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from the mid to upper 30s at low
elevations to around 30 in colder valleys and peaks. Southeast
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Southeast winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows from around 40 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 40 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows from around 40 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ340-170115-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy morning frost. Highs around 60.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s. East winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ341-170115-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ346-170115-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s to lower 60s. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s to around 40.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. East winds around 15 mph
in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ347-170115-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to lower 60s. South afternoon winds around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ348-170115-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ343-170115-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid to upper 50s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ342-170115-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the 50s to around 60.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. East winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
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302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
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the 50s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the upper 20s to mid 30s. Southeast winds around 15 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. East winds around
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s. East winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
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Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range, and Santa Margarita Lake
302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs from the mid 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to the lower 50s at high elevations.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Southeast
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to around 60. East winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to mid 60s. East winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and
snow. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
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302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the 50s to around 60.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the upper 20s to mid 30s. Southeast winds around 15 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60. East
winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 40s to mid 50s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
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302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid to upper 50s.
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302 AM PST Thu Feb 16 2023
.TODAY...Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs
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Former Patriots executive Lou Imbriano, right, gives his 2003 Patriots Super Bowl ring to Andrew Lucchesi of Tyngsborough, Mass. Lucchesi won a raffle of Imbriano’s ring, with the $100,000 in proceeds going to Swim With a Mission.
MANCHESTER — Former New England Patriots VP and Chief Marketing Officer Lou Imbriano wanted to do something big to show his support for New Hampshire veterans, so he donated his official Super Bowl XXXVIII championship ring won by the Pats 20 years ago to Swim With A Mission, to raffle it off in the hopes of raising a large amount of money for veterans-related programs.
The goal was to sell 1,000 tickets at $100 apiece, raising $100,000 for veterans. The goal was reached.
“This is the 20th anniversary of the Patriots’ thrilling three-point win over the Carolina Panthers. This is the ring given to me by the organization in celebration of that memorable season. I was honored to donate this ring, a rare and valuable symbol of a great season and incredible players, to raise money to support the men and women who are the reason why any of us can enjoy the freedoms and successes we have in our lives today,” said Imbriano. “I am thrilled that we hit our goal of raising $100,000 and I hope it is able to make a major difference in the lives of our veterans.”
SWAM Founder Phil Taub pledged that every dollar raised will go straight to veterans programs such as funding service dogs, rehabilitation programs, mental health supports, housing and food services for those in need and much more.
“We are all familiar with the success behind the so-called “Patriot Way”, explains Taub. “This raffle borrowed from that motto and extended that team-oriented supportive philosophy to the tens of thousands of veterans and their families who need our support today. It was an honor to team up with Lou in a unique and exciting way to raise funds for veterans who need us now more than ever.”
The winner of the Super Bowl ring was Andrew Lucchesi of Tyngsborough, Mass.
“My father was a huge Patriots fan and passed away right before the season started so this is very special. He would take me to games when we had the money and helped create a great bond between us,” Lucchesi said.
He also received an official printing plate from the Boston Globe’s 2003 Super Bowl edition donated by Navy Veteran Rod Crochiere, who owns a collectable shop called I Have Coins in Franklin, Mass.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EIGR) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: March 10, 2021 to October 4, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 9, 2023
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) defendants overstated Eiger's clinical and regulatory drug development expertise; (ii) defendants failed to properly assess, and/or ignored issues with, the design of the TOGETHER study and its ability to support the Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") for the Company's product candidate, peginterferon lambda ; (iii) there were issues with the conduct of the TOGETHER study and/or the TOGETHER study was not properly designed for the peginterferon lambda EUA in the current context of the pandemic; (iv) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the submission of a peginterferon lambda EUA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, peginterferon lambda's regulatory and commercial prospects for the treatment of COVID-19 were overstated; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Eiger you have until January 9, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Eiger securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the EIGR lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/eiger-biopharmaceuticals-class-action-submission-form?id=34080&from=4.
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10 children, 2 adults taken to hospital after crash splits truck in 2
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA/Gray News) – A dozen people were taken to the hospital in Indiana Monday night after a crash that split a pickup truck in two pieces, police said.
According to WPTA, officials said they believe the 65-year-old driver of a pickup truck crossed an intersection without stopping.
A large passenger van, driven by a 41-year-old woman carrying 10 children, crashed into the side of the truck.
Police said the children involved were between the ages of 6 months and 15 years. They were all wearing seat belts and only had minor injuries.
Authorities said they believe alcohol played a role in the crash, and police said the truck driver would not cooperate with the investigation.
At this time, no charges have been filed, but the investigation is ongoing, authorities said.
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FILE - Ralph Yarl looks at a badge that he received after walking at a brain injury awareness event on Monday, May 29, 2023 in Kansas City, Mo. Yarl tells ABC's “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, June 27, that he never thought he would be shot even after the white man at the door he had mistakenly knocked on in Kansas City pointed a gun at him. Yarl was shot in the head and arm in April, after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell. (KCTV via AP)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There was no way, Ralph Yarl thought, that the white man pointing the gun at him through the glass door would shoot him. But the Black teenager, who had gone to the wrong house in Kansas City looking for his younger brothers, was wrong a second time.
Yarl's brothers were actually at a home a block away, and he said in an interview with "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts that aired Tuesday that he hadn't met the family of his brothers' friends, "so maybe it was their house."
After ringing the doorbell, he said, he waited a long time on the porch before the door opened.
"I see this old man and I'm saying, 'Oh, this must be like, their grandpa,'" said Yarl, now 17. "And then he pulls out his gun. And I'm like, 'Whoa!' So I like, back up. He points it at me."
Yarl, whose brothers were actually at a home a block away, braced and turned his head.
"And then it happened, and then I'm on the ground. I fall on the glass, the shattered glass," he told Roberts, and "then before I know it, I'm running away, shouting, 'Help me! Help me!'"
Yarl was bleeding and said he wondered how it was possible that he had been shot in the head. The man he had never met before said only five words to him, he said: "Don't come here ever again."
Andrew Lester, 84, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the April 13 shooting.
Lester admitted that he shot Yarl through the door without warning because he was "scared to death" he was about to be robbed by the Black person standing at his door. He remains free after posting $20,000 — 10% of his $200,000 bond.
The shooting drew international attention amid claims that Lester received preferential treatment from investigators after he shot Yarl. President Joe Biden and several celebrities issued statements calling for justice. Yarl's attorney, Lee Merritt, has called for the shooting to be investigated as a hate crime.
Yarl's mother, Cleo Nagbe, said on "Good Morning America" that she had been worried that her son got a flat tire, but that she then got a call from police telling her about the shooting, and she headed to the hospital. He was partially alert, but it was traumatizing, she said.
Ten weeks later, Yarl is physically recovered but said that he has headaches and trouble sleeping and that sometimes his mind is just foggy.
"You're looking at a kid that took the SAT when he was in eighth grade — and now his brain is slowed," Nagbe told Roberts. "So physically he looks fine. But there's a lot that has been taken from him."
Yarl said he is seeing a therapist and hopes to continue his recovery by focusing on his passions for chemical engineering and for music.
"I'm just a kid and not larger than life because this happened to me," Yarl said. "I'm just going to keep doing all the stuff that makes me happy. And just living my life the best I can, and not let this bother me."
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have endorsed a fast-track procedure aimed at providing Ukraine with sorely needed artillery shells to repel Russia's invasion forces, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday, as Moscow maintains its focus on attacking the industrial east of the war-ravaged country.
As he chaired a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers in Brussels, Borrell took to Twitter to hail what he described as “a historic decision” for the 27-nation bloc and Norway to send Ukraine 1 million 155-milimeter artillery shells within 12 months.
“We are taking a key step towards delivering on our promises to provide Ukraine with more artillery ammunition,” he said, and noted that 18 countries had signed up to a European Defense Agency, or EDA, project to place joint orders for ammunition with the defense industry.
Borrell said that he had won approval for his proposal to provide 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to encourage member nations to provide artillery shells from their stocks and any orders for new rounds that they might have placed with industry.
A further 1 billion euros would also be used to fast-track new orders and encourage countries to work together on those purchases through the EDA or in groups of at least three nations. Germany has already called for countries to join its own effort, which Berlin believes will go faster.
The third track of the program involves support to Europe’s defense industry. so that it can ramp up production in the longer term. EU officials have said that new joint orders could be placed by May if the plan is endorsed.
Germany’s defense industry says it stands ready to ramp up its output, including the kinds of arms and ammunition needed by Ukraine, but that it needs clarity about what governments want before investing in further production capacity.
Ukraine became the world’s No. 3 importer of arms in 2022 after Russia’s invasion triggered a big flow of military aid to Kyiv from the United States and Europe, according to Swedish think tank SIPRI.
“What’s important for us as an industry is to get predictability,” Hans Christoph Atzpodien, the head of Germany’s arms manufacturing association, told The Associated Press last week. “That means we have to be clearly told which products are needed within which time.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a passenger who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico was rescued on Thanksgiving after likely being in the water for hours.
The 28-year-old man was reported missing at noon Thursday while the vessel, the Carnival Valor, was heading to Cozumel, Mexico. According to Carnival Cruise Line, the man was with his sister at a bar on Carnival Valor Wednesday at 11 p.m. and went to use the restroom. His sister reported him missing the next day after the man did not return to his stateroom.
The Coast Guard launched search and rescue crews Thursday afternoon and alerted nearby ships to be watchful.
Coast Guard Lt. Seth Gross said a cargo ship later saw a person in the water about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana, and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Gross said the man confirmed he was the missing cruise ship passenger after he was hoisted into a helicopter about 8:25 p.m. Thursday.
"He appeared to be suffering from mild hypothermia, shock, dehydration, but his condition overall appeared stable," Gross told WWL-TV, adding the man was taken for medical care.
Gross called the rescue "a miracle especially on a holiday like Thanksgiving."
In a statement, Carnival said: "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water."
The man's name has not been released.
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CHICAGO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite professed commitments to create a more inclusive workplace, many organizations still struggle to gain traction, according to a new report by Kincentric, the part of global leadership advisory firm Spencer Stuart that is specifically focused on unlocking the power of people and teams to ignite change and achieve organizational success. Based on a survey of nearly 5000 employees across the globe, the research reveals the critical role leaders play to drive inclusion, with benefits ranging from better employee retention and engagement to improved team agility during challenging times.
According to Kincentric's findings, there are four key elements required for inclusion in the workplace: people are valued, are enabled to use their voice, have decision-making influence and can contribute their best. However, in this latest research, 73% of employees report having experienced exclusion in the workplace, while only one in three employees say they work in a culture that powers inclusion – one that lifts everyone up and in which everyone is treated fairly, has equal opportunities and can speak up, be heard and respected.
Kincentric conducted the study to better define and understand the experiences that drive or derail inclusion and demonstrate its impact on overall business performance, and their full report shares several notable findings:
- Ultimately, inclusive cultures are created at the top. Leaders must walk the talk and model inclusive behaviors or risk their credibility. Nearly 1 out of 3 employees view senior leadership actions as performative or insincere when words are not backed up by action. Of those employees who question the sincerity of their leaders' actions, only 3% report experiencing a culture of inclusion.
- In general, senior leaders often have a more favorable outlook on inclusion than employees. Senior leaders are having a more favorable day-to-day experience of inclusion (62%) than managers (48%) or employees (26%). This is causing a disconnect between leader's perceptions and employee's reality.
- Inclusion drives retention and engagement. Individuals at workplaces they describe as inclusive are twice as likely to stay with their organization and three times more likely to have a sense of belonging than those who don't.
- Inclusion can maximize the potential of people and teams, creating better team dynamics and expanding skill sets across teams. Additionally, employees that report experiencing inclusion in the workplace are four times more equipped to navigate challenges and work collaboratively to find solutions in the face of conflicting opinions.
"Leaders can make or break an inclusive culture. Inclusion doesn't just happen – Inclusion is leader-led and must be intentional," says Dnika J. Travis, Ph.D., Director of Research and Insights at Kincentric, who led the research. "Creating a culture of inclusion is a business imperative. It ensures every employee is valued and able to fully contribute to the organization, delivering a number of advantages, including improvements in retention, engagement and team performance."
Kincentric offers actionable advice to leaders looking to build a culture of inclusion:
- Take charge with an unwavering commitment: Inclusion must be embedded in everything you do, from the talent systems that drive consistency in your employee experience to words, behaviors and actions that reinforce a culture of inclusion that enables people to thrive. As a leader, you must be willing to talk about the difficult aspects of your culture and shift performance management processes to root out and address bias. It is also crucial that you put processes in place that deal with and eliminate any acts of exclusion and mistreatment you observe – don't leave it to anyone else to tackle.
- Be willing to embrace discomfort. CEOs and senior leaders can achieve greater impact by not shying away from tough, unsurfaced, or polarizing aspects of an organization's culture. As a leader, not acknowledging, validating, or truly understanding what is happening within your organization undermines your credibility and employees may perceive this as a lack of sincerity in your efforts. You must also have the courage to address your own non-inclusive behaviors while challenging others to do the same.
- Embrace failures and adopt the right mindset. Achieving inclusion requires a firm commitment to learning and refining your approach based on data, insights, and the experiences of the people you are seeking to include. You and your organization will make mistakes, but that doesn't necessarily mean what you're doing is not working; it's what you do next that is most vital.
- Step back and take stock. Be honest with yourself. How have your assumptions around organizational cultural norms impacted your ability to lead inclusively? Have your actions affected your credibility, and are there any steps you need to take to redress this? You must hold yourself and everyone else in the organization accountable for building a true culture of inclusion—in which all employees are valued and can contribute their full potential.
Click here to view the full report.
About Kincentric
Kincentric, a Spencer Stuart company, helps organizations unlock the power of people and teams to ignite change and drive better business results. With decades of experience and specialist expertise in areas such as culture, employee engagement, leadership assessment and development, HR and talent advisory, and diversity, equity and inclusion, Kincentric uses data-driven insights to architect solutions that add value, enhance agility and increase organizational effectiveness. For more information, visit kincentric.com.
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Which accounting software is best?
Remember the good old days when your only money troubles were trying to stretch your allowance until your next “payday”? Now you have to worry about taxes, making a budget and balancing your income with your bills. And many have to run their own business with a dizzying array of black and red numbers to keep track of.
You could try and do everything manually, but it would be much easier to use accounting software such as H&R Block 2021.
What to know before you buy accounting software
Complexity of software
Everyone’s finances are different. As such, there are several tiers of software that aim to give you only what you need.
- Basic software is for those with little to no complications. If your only income is from one W-2 job and you live on your own, this is likely all you need.
- Advanced software covers those with more variables, such as deductions and filing jointly, with or without children.
- Premium software covers extra sources of income such as investments, properties and cryptocurrency.
- Self-employed software is for freelancers, contractors, gig workers and the like. It’s the first tier that introduces features you can use year-round rather than just at tax time.
- Small business software is for those who need year-round accounting but not for those who have employees to pay.
- Business software is the final step for those with numerous accounts and people to manage.
Basics
No matter the tier you use, accounting software should have the same basic features, such as being able to import data and being able to electronically file your taxes once completed.
What to look for in quality accounting software
Access
The best accounting software lets you access your data from anywhere with a single login and has a matching mobile app. Some software even lets you create multiple unique users to access and manage the data, but many require each user to pay full price for the software.
Budgeting
The best accounting software has features, or at the very least guidelines, for helping you create and keep track of a budget. It’s the foundation that all accounting is based on – what’s coming in and what’s going out?
Payroll
If you have employees, then accounting software with payroll functions is a must. These let you make and keep track of invoices and paychecks. Some programs can even let you set up direct deposit for your employees.
How much you can expect to spend on accounting software
Accounting software can be a one-time cost or require a monthly or yearly subscription. One-time software for basic taxes is free, while complex accounting for businesses can cost several hundred to several thousand dollars. Monthly subscriptions cost roughly $10-$100, with yearly options coming at a discount.
Accounting software FAQ
Can’t I just use a free spreadsheet?
A. For those with the most basic needs and the least complex tax information, a free spreadsheet is pretty much all you need. However, every new piece of information you add to the equation exponentially increases the complexity of your tax filing alone, not to mention the complexity of your budgeting.
And since many accounting software is straightforward and affordable, it’s worth considering to save yourself some money, time and effort.
How much do I save money doing my own accounting over using a certified public accountant?
A. To answer from a pure hard cash standpoint, you can save hundreds to thousands of dollars. This depends on the cost of your software and how much an accountant would charge based on the complexity of your accounting needs.
That said, if you aren’t the best with numbers, then trying to do your own accounting can easily create hundreds to thousands of dollars in mistakes and missed deductions.
What’s the best accounting software to buy?
Top accounting software
What you need to know: H&R Block offers several tiers of software that are all simple to use.
What you’ll love: The tiers of service include a free online option for the simplest of tax returns, a more complex “Deluxe” option, a “Premium” option for those with investments — including cryptocurrency — and a “Self-Employed” option for freelancers, contractors and gig workers.
What you should consider: This is last year’s tax information; the 2022 tax software will be available in November. All of these are best for tax-related use rather than complex accounting.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
Top accounting software for the money
Quicken Home and Business 2021
What you need to know: This is an excellent option for tracking personal and small business expenses if you have no employees.
What you’ll love: You can download your bank account statements straight into the software for easy tracking. It can recognize and point out tax deductions as they occur, so you get your best return. You can log into your books from anywhere, including your phone.
What you should consider: There’s only a yearly subscription option. Some customers were unhappy with the interface, calling it outdated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, HP and Staples
Worth checking out
Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Premier Plus With Payroll 2022
What you need to know: This is the perfect software for those running a thriving business with employees to pay.
What you’ll love: It includes unlimited customer support and automated data backup and recovery. Each update, including those that cover tax law changes, is part of the subscription. You can set up direct deposits for your employees inside the software. You can also import your old spreadsheet information to get started.
What you should consider: There’s only a yearly subscription option, and it’s among the most expensive. For multiuser access, each user has to pay full price.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
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High school football coach charged with home invasion, assault
VASSAR, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) - A Michigan high school assistant football coach is facing felony charges after an alleged home invasion, according to authorities.
Lawrence McGrandy, assistant football coach for Vassar High School, was arrested by the Tuscola County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 27, WNEM reported.
The 43-year-old Vassar man has been charged with first-degree home invasion, malicious destruction of property more than $1,000, and aggravated domestic assault.
The sheriff’s office has not yet released more information about the charges.
McGrandy was placed on administrative leave by Vassar Public Schools on Sept. 21 pending the result of the investigation, the district said in a Facebook post.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Out of all the high school football our cameras caught in this Regional round of the IHSAA playoffs, two plays stand out as the best of the best. Now your vote will determine which of them wins the Shelbourne Knee Center Play of the Game.
NOMINEE #1: CATHEDRAL’S DANNY O’NEIL AND DAVID AYERS
Cathedral’s Danny O’Neil evades the Brownsburg rush and fires deep down field where David Ayers is waiting in the end zone for the Irish touchdown in their Regional win over the Bulldogs.
NOMINEE #2: NEW PALESTINE’S DANIEL TIPPIT AND ISAIAH THACKER
On a fourth down play, New Palestine goes for it all as Daniel Tippet heaves up the pass and Isaiah Thacker comes down with it in the end zone for a Dragons’ touchdown.
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The nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards already raised suspicions about the Recording Academy’s intentions with the show, and the winners confirmed it. Regardless, the show still provided some well-deserved recognition for overlooked musicians as well as some entertaining pop culture moments for those watching from home. Here are a few thoughts and highlights.
The Awards
In the most coveted category, my previously stated fear came true. “Harry’s House” was in no way deserving of this Grammy. Although Beyoncé has now broken the record for most Grammy wins ever with 32 awards, she was robbed yet again of Album of the Year. I appreciate categories such as Best Rap Album and Best Musica Urbana Album, but it seems they are becoming an excuse to overlook people of color and foreign artists in the bigger categories.
Kendrick Lamar rightfully cleaned house with his album “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,” winning Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, but like Beyoncé, he didn’t stand a chance when it came to Album of the Year because of this bias.
Even if the Recording Academy considers music’s popularity among its quality, Bad Bunny, who was also nominated, has almost a million more monthly listeners on Spotify than Harry Styles and is arguably more popular worldwide. The Recording Academy cannot get past their Western-centric mindset when voting on the most coveted Grammys and artists are being overlooked year after year because of it. Styles is oblivious to this fact, stating “this doesn’t happen to people like me very often” in his acceptance speech. No, Harry — it only happens to people like you.
Regardless of opinions on the winner, listening to audience members yelling and booing during Styles’ acceptance speech was not enjoyable for anyone. While I’m on the same page they are, heckling isn’t at all necessary and they should save it for Twitter next time.
Bonnie Raitt received a lot of hate for beating out the collection of renowned pop stars she was up against for Song of the Year, but this plot twist was one of the Recording Academy’s better decisions. Yes, I would have liked to see Lamar or Steve Lacey win, but “Just Like That” is a well-written, well-produced song. It has been over 30 years since Raitt won Album of the Year, so hopefully this new award will bring the impact she had on the music industry back to light. This Grammy was well deserved by Raitt and restored my hope in the Recording Academy for a moment.
Upon the initial release of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” in 2001, the album didn’t receive a single nomination. Luckily, Tweedy gave the Recording Academy a chance to fix their mistake from two decades ago, and Wilco’s remastered album finally received the recognition it deserved with the win of Best Historical Album.
Live Performances
Questlove’s hip-hop tribute performance was executed extremely well, easily the best part of the entire award show. The performance included Missy Elliot, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Big Boi of OutKast and Queen Latifah, as well as dozens of other hip-hop artists who paid tribute to 50 years of hip-hop.
Harry Styles performed “As It Was” and did a fantastic job of distracting the audience from his mediocre music with a glittery muppet-like outfit paired with choreography straight from a department store advertisement. Styles usually has a great voice, but his extensive touring has seemed to wear him dry as his voice sounded exhausted, resulting in an overall very poor performance.
Samara Joy stunned the audience with her live performance, which was followed by her win of both “Best New Artist” and “Best Jazz Vocal Album.”
Honorable Mentions and Moments
The Grateful Dead won their first-ever Grammy after their art director, Dave Van Patten, won the Grammy for “Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package” for his work on “In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83.” This category is often overlooked, but depicting music using art is just as important and impressive as creating music, and this award was well-deserved.
Viola Davis becomes the 18th person to join the EGOT club with her win of “Best Audiobook, Narration and Storytelling Recording,” for her memoir “Finding Me.” Davis is the third Black woman to win.
Taylor Swift was applauded for the loyalty of fans, but when asked by host Trevor Noah if the fanbase could lower the current price of eggs, she clearly had no idea what he was talking about. Swift is well on her way to becoming a billionaire, so I guess we can’t expect her to laugh at a joke only a commoner would understand. In Swift’s defense, Noah rarely made a joke that hit home all night, but neither did the rest of the hosts.
A full list of the 2023 winners and nominations, as well past Grammy winners, can be found here.
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Many OB-GYNs, including some who perform abortions, are celebrating a decision that allows them to avoid traveling to Texas for certifying board exams.
Some feared gathering en masse would make them vulnerable to violence. Others who are pregnant themselves worried about developing complications and being forced to seek care in a state with strict abortion limits.
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology exams are voluntary, but certification lends respect to doctors’ credentials, indicating they graduated from an accredited medical school and passed written and oral competency exams. Some employers also require the tests.
The Dallas-based board had held virtual exams during the pandemic but planned to have the upcoming fall oral exams in-person. On Thursday, the board announced a reversal, saying the exams would be virtual.
The decision was made “due to the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country and concerns regarding the U.S. Supreme Court opinion” that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the board said.
The switch came after many OB-GYNs — including some taking the tests and others administering the exams — objected to traveling to Texas.
“They’re scared. They have nothing to lose but their own personal safety,” said Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald, a Pennsylvania OB-GYN, who signed a petition against in-person exams.
The three-hour exams test skills, knowledge and ability to treat different conditions. The examiners also review cases related to patients whom doctors have treated during the past year, the board website says.
Doctors can start the certification process in their fourth year of medical residency training.
Fitzgerald, who has taken board exams in person and virtually, said the setup for both is similar and she could see no advantage to an in-person exam.
The board did not return calls and emails requesting comment.
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Riviera Beach controversial legislative aide resigns
A controversial legislative aide in Riviera Beach resigned on Friday after lying about his arrest last week.
Sammie Brown worked for councilmember Julia Botel, pulling in thousands of dollars in overtime that appears to have violated a policy set by the city manager. In turn, Brown often would attack Botel's political enemies.
Contact 5 in March broke that the FBI interview Botel in relation to the charity she started. Now her trusted aide — and political pitbull — has resigned.
After his arrest on an outstanding warrant last week, Sammie Brown said someone else used his name and address to the officer who pulled him over.
He told Contact 5 on April 30th, he was a victim of identity theft, "That's what it looks like, someone using my identity fraudulently, what have you, things happen."
After bodycam video reportedly showed it was Sammie Brown and there was no ID theft he posted online, “I was able to find out that this ticket in question did belong to me…given that it happened almost four years ago I had completely forgotten about it.”
The city confirmed Brown resigned from his position.
Former Riviera Beach Chief Building Official and current community activist Ladi March Goldwire blames Brown’s behavior and the circumstances that led to his resignation on Botel.
More: Riviera Beach Councilwoman Among People Questioned By FBI About Charity
“It was blatantly obvious how quiet she became as this situation began to take form,” said
Goldwire says Brown was out of control.
She’s suing a social media group that Brown is a member of, which posted she took a bribe from businessman Fain Lozman allowing him to build a fence on Singer Island.
"I have never, ever, nor will I ever accept a bribe from anyone," said Goldwire.
Some of the criticism of Brown centers upon the fact that he made $58,000 last year for a part-time job. That's more than many full-time workers in the city, and thousands more than the four other legislative aides.
The $14,000 in overtime payments for Smith last year appear to not be authorized under a policy set forth by City Manager Jonathan Evans.
In a memo last year, Evans wrote, “It is not permitted for legislative aides to exceed 30 hours per week unless explicitly authorized by the Office of the City Manager, adding, “overtime is highly discouraged.”
Brown's $14,000 in overtime was 94% of all the overtime paid to legislative aides in the city.
“When you make the comparison to some of the tenured police officers and first responders who struggle from a base pay standpoint, it can be a bit frustrating,” Goldwire said.
Other critics add Brown has gone from legislative aide to attack dog.
“Tradrick, you are a bully, a liar, and quite frankly, a jerk.,” said Brown at a March 2 City Council meeting just days before city elections as he ripped into Councilman Tradrick McCoy, who frequently clashed with Botel.
“You are an embarrassment to Riviera Beach,” added Brown, “And I see why your own family don’t like you.”
“What it witnessed tonight, was awful,” countered Riviera Beach Mayor Ronnie Felder, who was infuriated by Brown’s remarks that he added he would fire Brown if he were on his staff.
Contact 5 also wanted to ask Brown if he has been interviewed by the FBI like Botel.
She was queried about the charity she founded, Friends of the Riviera Beach Schools. Brown was active in the charity, even playing Santa Claus at the non-profit's holiday gift giveaways.
Brown declined our request for an on-camera interview, and Botel did not return our call.
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LOS ANGELES — Shaina Pellington led No. 22 Arizona on an 11-0 run to tie the game, then scored six over her team’s 10 points in overtime to earn the Wildcats a 71-66 win over No. 14 UCLA in the lone meeting of the regular season between the Pac-12 Conference rivals on Friday night.
Arizona came into the game after losing at home to Washington State, 70-59 and trailed by as many as 12 points in the first half against the Bruins.
UCLA. struggled from the field, hitting just 22 of 72 shots from the floor, but knocked down 11 of 31 from beyond the arc and that long-range boost was the difference through the first three quarters. Freshman Londynn Jones came off the bench to hit 5 of 7 from 3 and Emily Bessoir was 4 of 10.
Jones hit from 3 with 4:49 left to give the Bruins a 61-50 lead, but UCLA did not score again until Jones hit a 3 with 3:33 left in overtime.
Arizona’s Lauren Fields, who had not made a field goal all night, took a kick-out pass from Pellington and drilled a 3 with 1:08 left to make it 61-61, but the Wildcats could not find a go-ahead point and the game went to overtime.
Pellington hit a jumper in the lane to open overtime and Esmery Martinez knocked down a mid-range jumper before Jones hit to get UCLA within one. Pellington hit two free throws to take a three-point lead, 67-64, and after a time out UCLA opted to have Kiki Rice drive for a layup coming out of a timeout. Down by one, the Bruins sent Madison Conner and Pellington to the line and they each hit both free throws to close out the win.
Pellington finished with 21 points to lead Arizona (17-5, 7-4). Martinez had 17 points and 13 rebounds and Jade Loville had 13 points.
Jones finished with 20 points to lead UCLA (17-6, 6-5) and Bessoir and Rice each added another 14 points and Rice grabbed nine rebounds.
Arizona plays at USC on Sunday. UCLA plays host to Arizona State on Sunday.
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HAMBURG, Germany, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, a business of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has unveiled Aurora, the company's first fully lie-flat Business Class suite designed exclusively for narrow-body aircraft.
"Aurora's exceptional comfort, space and thoughtful amenities offer travelers a luxurious retreat, providing an elevated experience harmonized with wide body standards," said Cynthia Muklevicz, Vice President of Business Development at Collins Aerospace. "Intelligent design, engineering and integration provide premium levels of privacy, living area and customizable options without impacting cabin density and allows customers to make Aurora uniquely theirs."
Aurora's seamless integration with existing or bespoke cabin furniture optimizes footprint, functionality and service.
- Incorporating directly into existing or bespoke front and aft structures, Aurora maximizes cabin density while increasing crew work areas and storage.
- The integrated design gives cabins a more spacious and open feel.
Aurora is uniquely configured, optimizing passenger living space and storage options within the suite.
- The seat width is maximized, giving passengers more room than existing solutions.
- Passengers are set deeper into the seatback and next to the window – increasing privacy and maintaining 78 inches of bed length.
An array of customization opportunities is available with Aurora.
- Aurora optimizes privacy with or without a door.
- The suite shell can be modified to include a privacy divider – handy if traveling with a companion.
- Bespoke trim and finish options are available throughout, ensuring complimentary brand design language.
Aurora is scheduled to deliver to its first customers beginning in 2024 and is on display at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany in Hall B5 at stand 5B30.
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace is a business of Raytheon Technologies, the largest aerospace and defense company in the world. Our global team of 73,000 employees dreams, designs and delivers smarter, more connected solutions for passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and operational efficiency and sustainability. We make the most powerful concepts in aerospace a reality.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) is the world's largest aerospace and defense company. Our global team of 180,000 employees pushes the limits of known science and redefines how we connect and protect our world. We are advancing aviation, building smarter defense systems and creating innovations to take us deeper into space. The company, with 2022 sales of $67 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Concourse Labs and Stone Door Group (SDG) announce the release of Security as Code Ansible Accelerator, a DevSecOps solution that integrates Red Hat Ansible and Concourse Labs to enable IT teams to create and apply Security-as-Code policies to their Infrastructure as code (IaC) automation pipelines.
Many IT organizations find little synergy between automation and policy compliance tools. The automation system deploys and manages IaC while policy compliance tools scan hours, days, or weeks after the fact. This time gap increases both the attack surface and duration of systems in a compromised state, creating unthinkable security incidents, like ransomware attacks, for IT stakeholders. Recently, hackers have found ways to insert compromised code into the automation backplane itself and turn trusted systems into distribution networks for their malware.
The Security as Code Ansible Accelerator connects automation and policy compliance by deploying a secure automation reference architecture with best of breed Red Hat Ansible and Concourse Labs. "The solution prevents malicious Infrastructure as Code configurations from executing in automation pipelines and continuously monitors for policy violations in deployed infrastructure," said J Ram, CISO and Co-Founder of Concourse Labs. "With this solution, clients can decrease the risk of a broad based multi system ransomware attack, increase the security of their software supply chain, and ensure in real time that infrastructure is compliant with security policies."
"We're excited to partner with Concourse Labs. Customers are very concerned about ransomware and they're looking for more sophisticated security controls to apply to provisioning workflows," said Darren Hoch, President Stone Door Group. "Concourse Labs' Security as Code platform integrates seamlessly into Red Hat Ansible, preventing potential security incidents before they happen, making this a valuable bundle we can easily position with our customers."
Security as Code Accelerator is a turnkey solution that provides the software, certified implementation services, and integration templates to integrate Security as Code into an automation backplane as part of a broader DevSecOs strategy, significantly reducing the attack surface for ransomware and providing IT stakeholders assurances that their systems remain compliant.
About Concourse Labs
Concourse Labs® enables automated build-time and runtime security policy evaluation on all major clouds, cloud-native application infrastructure, and Infrastructure As Code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform®, Kubernetes®, OpenShift®, and Ansible®. With comprehensive bundled policy based on industry standards and easy-to-use policy creation, Concourse Labs enables clients to automate security checks at every stage of the application lifecycle, from development pipeline through runtime. For more information about Concourse Labs products and services, contact sales@concourselabs.com.
About Stone Door Group LLC
Stone Door Group® is a Red Hat Premier partner that helps to modernize digital enterprises through skilled cloud, automation, and DevOps professional services. They make it easy to digitally transform organizations and provide certified consultants and instructors to deliver projects on time effectively and efficiently. In addition to intelligent automation services that increase site reliability and uptime, SDG provides fully-integrated software, consulting, and training support to close the skills gap required to launch new digital native cloud initiatives.
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Leslie Frazier expected another opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL after a three-year-plus stint in Minnesota from 2010-13.
The Buffalo Bills’ 63-year-old defensive coordinator is still waiting for that second chance while doing his best to help young coaches advance their careers. Frazier was among the featured speakers at the NFL Quarterback Coaching Summit last month.
”I’d be lying if I told you that I felt like it would take this long to have that opportunity come along, especially after some of the success and particularly the most recent success we’ve had in Buffalo,” Frazier said on the AP Pro Football Podcast. ”So it’s discouraging in some ways, but you just have to be able to control what you can control. I’m going to do the very best I can and help us to have another good defense in 2022 and help the Buffalo Bills win as many games as we can and put us in a position to compete for the world championship.”
Frazier’s defense finished No. 1 in the NFL last season in fewest points, yards and several other statistical categories. He interviewed for head coaching vacancies with Miami, Chicago and the New York Giants. The Dolphins hired 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel. The Giants chose Brian Daboll, who was the offensive coordinator in Buffalo. The Bears went with Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.
”Two of those cases, they said we would prefer to go with an offensive coach and they pointed to their young quarterback as the reason,” Frazier said. ”And, I said this to both teams that I think I would do a good job of hiring a strong offensive coordinator, even though my background is defense. There have been a lot of defensive head coaches that have won Super Bowls in our league because at the end of the day, you need the right leadership. … It’s unfortunate. I think it’s very narrow-minded to only see the head coach as an offensive guy because you have a young quarterback. You need the right leader in that role because you’ve got to be able to handle multiple responsibilities, not just call offensive plays. I just I think that’s a misguided approach, but I’m not the guy doing the hiring.”
At the QB Summit, Frazier did a presentation on how to interview for a position as a quarterbacks coach. He interviewed Jaguars quality control coach Henry Burris and Vikings assistant QBs coach Jerrod Johnson and fielded questions from coaches in attendance.
A wide receivers coach and a running backs coach both asked Frazier how they could get in a position to become a coordinator because the path from QBs coach has been more direct.
”I just tried to stress to both of them that you work as hard as you can to be the very best that you can at your position and to keep learning the offense and not just get pigeonholed,” Frazier said. ”That means you have to listen in on what the offensive line is teaching, what the current quarterbacks coach is teaching. So I found it interesting that guys are really becoming concerned about being pigeonholed when they have greater aspirations. … We need to let coaches know that there are opportunities for them no matter what position they’re at to ascend to that coordinator or head coach role.”
Frazier won a Super Bowl as a player with the Bears on Buddy Ryan’s defense and won another one as an assistant coach under Tony Dungy with the Colts. He was 21-32-1 as head coach with the Vikings.
Players and former teammates praise his sincerity, leadership, calm demeanor and ability to communicate.
”The way he treats people, the respect level he has for guys, he’s not a yeller, he’s not a screamer when it comes to that, but he knows his stuff,” said Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins, who played under Frazier in Philadelphia.
”You see the defenses that he’s been coaching for a while now, they’re absolutely tearing up the place. So he has a philosophy in place at how he goes about teaching it, and it’s something that is easily digested the way he coaches it.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Eastman is expected to spend the day testifying before the State Bar of California in a proceeding that could result in him losing his license to practice law in the state. He faces 11 disciplinary charges stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy that was aimed at helping Trump remain in power by disrupting the counting of state electoral votes.
The State Bar’s counsel will seek Eastman’s disbarment during a hearing before the State Bar Court that’s expected to last at least eight days. If the court finds Eastman culpable of the alleged violations it can recommend a punishment such as suspending or revoking his law license. The California Supreme Court makes the final decision.
Eastman is scheduled to testify in his own defense Tuesday. The proceedings will feature witnesses such as Greg Jacob, a former attorney for then-Vice President Mike Pence who pushed back against Eastman’s plan to have Pence stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
Eastman was one of Trump’s lawyers during the election. He argued, in a memo, that Pence could keep Trump in power by overturning the results of the election during a joint session of Congress convened to count electoral votes. Critics have likened that to instructions for staging a coup.
Eastman violated California’s business and professions code by making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of “moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption,” the State Bar alleges, and in doing so he “violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land — an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy.”
Eastman’s attorney previously said his client disputes “every aspect” of the allegations.
The State Bar’s action “is part of a nationwide effort to use the bar discipline process to penalize attorneys who opposed the current administration in the last presidential election. Americans of both political parties should be troubled by this politicization of our nation’s state bars,” Eastman’s attorney, Randall A. Miller, said in a statement when the charges were announced in January.
Eastman has been a member of the California Bar since 1997, according to its website. He was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute. He ran for California attorney general in 2010, finishing second in the Republican primary.
Eastman retired as dean of the Chapman University law school in Southern California last year after more than 160 faculty members signed a letter calling for the university to take action against him.
The California State Bar is a regulatory agency and the only court system in the U.S. that is dedicated to attorney discipline.
Eastman’s disciplinary hearing comes as special counsel Jack Smith continues his investigation into efforts by Trump and his Republican allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A federal grand jury in Washington has been meeting behind closed doors for months to hear testimony from witnesses, including Pence, who has publicly described a pressure campaign by Trump aimed at getting him to halt Congress’ certification of the election results and the win by Biden, a Democrat.
Federal agents seized Eastman’s cellphone last summer as he was leaving a restaurant, he said in a court filing. That day, law enforcement officials conducted similar activity around the country as part of their probe.
Since Smith’s appointment in November, he has cast a broad net in demanding interviews and testimony related to fundraising, Trump’s rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and communications between Trump associates and election officials in battleground states. Eastman spoke at the rally.
In December, Smith subpoenaed local election officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania, asking for communications with or involving Trump, his 2020 campaign aides and a list of allies — including Eastman — who were involved in his efforts to try to overturn the results of the election.
The investigation is separate from another probe by Smith into classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, that led this month to felony charges against Trump. Trump pleaded not guilty last week to 37 felony counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz attempted to humiliate a teenage girl after arguing that overweight and unattractive women don't need to worry about getting pregnant or needing abortions. That same girl has since raised over $700,000 for abortion care.
Nineteen-year-old political activist Olivia Julianna thanked Gaetz for his attack, which she credits for the wave of donations, and offered to send him a bouquet of flowers; one for every $100,000 raised. The money is being raised through Gen Z for Change, the nonprofit where Julianna serves as a political strategy specialist, but ultimately will be dispersed evenly to 50 abortion funds across the US.
During his speech at the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla., Saturday night, Gaetz said, "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?"
Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." pic.twitter.com/0qqvun3Pf8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022
"Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," he told the crowd.
Julianna responded to the congressman's words in a Twitter post.
"It's come to my attention that Matt Gaetz — alleged pedophile — has said that it's always the 'odious ... 5'2 350 pound' women that 'nobody wants to impregnate' who rally for abortion," Julian wrote. "I'm actually 5'11. 6'4 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your place."
Its come to my attention that Matt Gaetz — alleged pedophile— has said that it’s always the “odious.. 5’2 350 pound” women that “nobody wants to impregnate” who rally for abortion.
— Olivia Julianna 🗳 (@0liviajulianna) July 24, 2022
I’m actually 5’11. 6’4 in heels. I wear them so the small men like you are reminded of your place
Gaetz returned fire, sharing a photo of Julianna and suggesting he had struck a nerve.
Dander raised… https://t.co/3KkGN3fMdB pic.twitter.com/DX7SVf884X
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) July 25, 2022
Julianna said she started raising money for abortions funds in response to the public attack. And though the two have both directly and indirectly exchanged blows over Twitter all week — including some posts that have since been shared thousands of times — the young activist has managed to blast through one fundraising goal after another.
As of 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, she had raised more than $725,000 for abortions.
Meanwhile, Gaetz has been criticized for his actions. Once more, the incident drew unwanted attention to an ongoing investigation from 2020 involving the congressman and a series of allegations involving sex with an underage girl. Gaetz has denied the allegations made against him.
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UK woman arrested a second time for 'offense' of silently praying outside abortion clinic: 'This isn’t 1984'
A pro-life activist arrested for the second time only weeks after the court cleared her of criminal charges for silently praying near an abortion facility
A pro-life activist was arrested for the second time Tuesday for the "offense" of silently praying in her head near an abortion facility in a so-called censorship or "buffer zone" in Birmingham, England.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce's arrest comes only weeks after the court cleared her of criminal charges for breaking a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which enforces a censorship zone around the abortion facility, according to an Alliance Defending Freedom UK press release.
Bail conditions for Vaughan-Spruce' prohibit her from entering the vicinity of the abortion facility which extends beyond the "buffer zone."
Birmingham's authorities established a buffer zone around abortion clinics, which makes it illegal for an individual to engage in any act or attempted act of approval or disapproval as it relates to abortion and includes "verbal or written means" like "prayer or counseling."
"I'm not protesting, I'm not engaging in any of the activities prohibited," Vaughn-Spruce told officers during her second encounter when they asked her to step outside the exclusion zone.
"But you said you are engaging in prayer, which is the offense," the officer responded.
"Silent prayer," she responded.
"No, but you were still engaging in prayer," he said. "It is an offense,"
Vaugn-Spruce said she disagreed with the officer, and he asked her if she would rather be arrested and taken away instead of standing outside the exclusion zone, explaining those were her only two options.
"Only three weeks ago, it was made clear by the court that my silent prayers were not a crime," Vaughn-Spruce said in a statement. "And yet, again, I have been arrested and treated as a criminal for having the exact same thoughts in my head, in the same location."
"The ambiguity of laws that limit free expression and thought – even in peaceful, consensual conversation or in silent, internal prayer – leads to abject confusion, to the detriment of important fundamental rights," she added. "Nobody should be criminalised for their thoughts."
The House of Commons in the UK Parliament voted 116-299 Tuesday to criminalize all forms of "influence" near abortion facilities across England and Wales, which includes silent prayer, according to an ADF UK press release. Amendments put forth by parliament member Andrew Lewer that would exempt silent prayer and consensual conversations from the ban failed to gain support.
"Police shouldn’t be asking ‘What are you thinking about?!’", Lewer said, according to ADF UK. "Censorship of this sort is a notoriously slippery slope. It might not be your thoughts that are criminalised today, but I think we should all be careful not to open the door to that tomorrow about some other opinions that people may hold about something else."
PRIEST CHARGED AFTER PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC DECRIES CRIMINALIZATION OF THOUGHT
Today it’s abortion, but tomorrow it could be another contested matter of political debate, Jeremiah Igunnubole, Legal Counsel for ADF UK, said in a statement. "The principle remains that the government should never be able to punish anyone for prayer, let alone silent prayer."
"Today’s vote marks a watershed moment for fundamental rights and freedoms in our country," he said. "Parliament had an opportunity to reject the criminalisation of free thought, which is an absolute right, and embrace individual liberty for all. Instead, Parliament chose to endorse censorship and criminalise peaceful activities such as silent prayer and consensual conversation."
"There seems to be crime happening that is left unaddressed," A local resident named Edel, who lives close to the abortion facility near where Vaughn-Spruce was arrested said, according to ADF. "And yet it is the people who are praying who are being targeted. I really question what the police are doing and why they’re spending their time and resources into targeting innocent people."
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DENVER, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altvia is pleased to announce that Marlin Equity Partners ("Marlin") has completed a significant majority growth investment in Altvia, a market leader in software solutions for the alternative asset space. Altvia's comprehensive platform, comprising a verticalized CRM built on Force.com, investor engagement offerings, and analytics engine, helps hundreds of asset managers more effectively raise and deploy capital, optimize workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, and analyze performance across their investments.
The transaction enables Altvia to further expand its leadership position within the software ecosystem for alternative asset managers by accelerating product innovation and supporting the go-to-market function.
"We are incredibly proud of the market-leading products and loyal customer base that we have built at Altvia," said Brie Aletto, CEO of Altvia. "Marlin shares our strategic vision of equipping private capital market participants with purpose-built systems to drive world-class partnerships between Limited Partners and General Partners. We are thrilled to partner with Marlin as we enter the next phase of growth."
"Participants in the private capital markets are rapidly adopting new technologies to drive improvements and efficiencies as they navigate increasing demands from regulatory bodies, ESG impacts, and expanding partnerships with Limited Partners," said Nick Lukens, a managing director at Marlin. "We look forward to providing our operational expertise and financial support to further advance Altvia's position in the market, accelerate technological innovation, and enhance its existing product capabilities for its current and future customer base."
Altvia is a market-leading provider for investor and deal management systems specifically built for private capital market firms. Founded in 2006, Altvia has hundreds of clients and supports over 40,000 Limited Partner investors. The company's mobile-optimized platform (AIM, ShareSecure, Correspond and Answers) is transforming the way General Partners deliver continuous value, real-time decision support and secure communications to their valued constituents. Marquee firms across multiple verticals trust Altvia to optimize operational functions and enable critically important communications. For more information, please visit www.altvia.com.
Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with over $8.1 billion of capital under management. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs. Marlin invests in businesses across multiple industries where its capital base, industry relationships and extensive network of operational resources significantly strengthen a company's outlook and enhance value. Since its inception, Marlin, through its group of funds and related companies, has successfully completed over 200 acquisitions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an additional office in London. For more information, please visit www.marlinequity.com.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge on Friday sentenced a key member of an Islamic State cell known as the Beatles to eight concurrent life terms without parole in the abduction, abuse, and deaths of four Americans in Syria, ending a wrenching effort by their families to bring the militants to justice.
In April, a jury found El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, guilty on four counts of hostage-taking and four counts of conspiracy after a two-week trial. Former captives detailed relentless beatings, sexual abuse, waterboarding, and killings by three young Britons, who were nicknamed the Beatles for their accents and their incessant banter.
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The relatives of the four Americans — journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff as well as aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig — watched intently, linking arms and grasping hands, as Judge Thomas S. Ellis III of US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia imposed three life terms at the request of lawyers with the Justice Department.
“It is a hollow victory,” said Diane Foley, Foley’s mother, adding that the sentence was handed down on the eighth anniversary of her son’s beheading. “Our families have lost our loved ones forever.”
Ellis, noting the gradual decline in interest in the case over the years, urged reporters covering the hearing and the country at large “to not forget what happened here.”
That Elsheikh, who remained polite, relaxed, and largely impassive in his court appearances, already knew he would be spending the rest of his days behind bars was a foregone conclusion before the sentencing Friday. He was slated to serve five life sentences under mandatory federal guidelines.
But prosecutors viewed every additional year as vital, given the brutality of the crimes. In a graphic 22-page sentencing memo presented to the court, the lead prosecutor in the case, Raj Parekh, requested the maximum penalty allowed by law. Elsheikh’s punishment should reflect the militant cell’s involvement in many other offenses committed during the Islamic State group’s rampage through Syria in 2012 and 2013, he said.
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“The ISIS Beatles engaged in the systematic torture and abuse of their victims, ultimately resulting in the horrific deaths of at least eight American, British, and Japanese citizens, among others, including gruesome executions that were videotaped and broadcast globally,” wrote Parekh, the first assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The families of the victims worked for years to secure a conviction, pressuring the Justice Department to bring Elsheikh and an associate, Alexanda Kotey, to justice on American soil. In August 2020, William Barr, then the attorney general, agreed to waive the death penalty against the men in exchange for cooperation from British prosecutors.
Elsheikh never denied fighting for the Islamic State, but in their rebuttal, his court-appointed defense lawyers contended that he was not a member of the Beatles. His supposed involvement in the kidnappings was a result of mistaken identity given that the captors often wore black balaclavas to conceal their identities, they said.
Elsheikh has not been directly implicated in the killings, but his participation in — and knowledge about — numerous kidnapping, ransom, and murder plots was enough to secure a conviction under the law, prosecutors argued.
The British extremists repeatedly beat the hostages they kept imprisoned in Raqqa, Syria, which the Islamic State claimed as its capital at the time, according to prosecutors. They subjected their prisoners to abuses such as waterboarding, mock executions, painful stress positions, food deprivation, chokeholds that caused blackouts, electric shocks, and beatings that lasted 20 minutes or longer. They also forced the prisoners to fight one another and to witness killings, court papers said.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meituan (HKG: 3690) (the "Company"), China's leading e-commerce platform for services, today announced the unaudited consolidated results of the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Reportable Segment Update
Starting from this quarter, our chief operating decision makers ("CODMs") started to review information under a new reporting structure, and segment reporting is updated to conform to this change. We think the new segment disclosure better reflects our business strategies, the development phases of various businesses and the financial performance, and better aligns with our resource allocation. The first segment is Core local commerce, which includes the former Food delivery and In-store, hotel & travel segments, as well as Meituan Instashopping (美團閃購), alternative accommodations and transportation ticketing. The second segment, New initiatives, includes Meituan Select (美團優選), Meituan Grocery (美團買菜), B2B food distribution (快驢), ride sharing, bike sharing, e-moped sharing, power banks, RMS and other new initiatives. Food delivery and in-store, hotel & travel both have proven monetisation models, as well as industry-leading positions. Meituan Instashopping not only shares the user base and the existing on-demand delivery network of food delivery, but also has a clear path to profitability and similar unit economics model. Alternative accommodations and transportation ticketing are classified into hotel & travel as they belong to the same broader industry and have mature business models. On the other hand, all the businesses in New initiatives require iterations on business models and more resources. Our management will periodically review their developments, and dynamically adjust resource allocation and strategies.
Company Financial Highlights
During this quarter, our revenues increased by 16.4% to RMB50.9 billion from RMB43.8 billion for the same period of 2021. Our Core local commerce segment achieved an operating profit of RMB8.3 billion for the second quarter of 2022, up from RMB5.9 billion for the same period of 2021, while the operating loss for our New initiatives segment narrowed on both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter basis to RMB6.8 billion for the second quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net profit were RMB3.8 billion and RMB2.1 billion for this quarter, turning from loss positions to profit positions on both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter basis. We held cash and cash equivalents of RMB25.5 billion and short-term treasury investments of RMB82.0 billion as of June 30, 2022.
"During this quarter, Meituan continued to improve business quality and efficiency, and our various businesses delivered stable operating results in Q2," said Meituan Founder and CEO Xing Wang. "As a technology and online retail company in China, Meituan deeply senses the resilience of China's economic fundamentals and great potential of domestic consumption capabilities. Meituan will firmly continue to execute our strategy 'Retail + Technology', integrate online digital technologies and the real economy through technology and innovations, and make contributions to China's economic growth, helping people eat better, live better," concluded Wang.
Meituan CFO Shaohui Chen said, "The ongoing pandemic has presented continuous challenges to every member of our ecosystem, including ourselves. We responded to these challenges by focusing on high-quality growth and improving our operating efficiency over the past several quarters, which is reflected by our results in this quarter. More importantly, we did not act only in regard to our own needs; we reaffirmed our commitment to creating more value for consumers, helping merchants maintain their operations, and providing our couriers with better welfare and working conditions in the current challenging environment. We are still confident that our businesses will resume normalized growth when pandemic control measures loosen, and our long-term business objectives remain unchanged."
Company Business Highlights
Core Local Commerce
In the second quarter of 2022, we achieved 9.2% revenue growth for the Core local commerce segment, despite negative impacts from the spread of Omicron. Operating profit increased by 39.7% year over year to RMB8.3 billion, and operating margin improved to 22.5%.
During the quarter, the total orders of our food delivery and Meituan Instashppoing businesses increased by 7.6% year over year. Our food delivery business was negatively impacted by the pandemic and the control measures, especially in some tier-1 cities, which usually contribute higher percentages of the total food delivery order volume. Order volume was heavily affected in April and May but swiftly recovered in June as the pandemic became effectively under control. Our food delivery business was resilient in spite of external challenges, and our high-frequency users contributed even higher order volume during the quarter. People recognised food delivery as an important source to get food. In Omicron-affected regions, we did our best to fulfill consumer needs, and launched multiple measures to ensure supply and delivery capacity. For example, we launched the community group meals and emergency helper services in Shanghai, and increased our delivery capacity and ensured cross-city deliveries for consumers in Beijing. On the merchant side, we rapidly onboarded many fine dining and high-end restaurants and helped them launch food delivery services on Meituan. In Shanghai, we launched our first "Must-Order" list in June, allowing consumers to enjoy high-quality food at home, while helping restaurants increase food delivery order volume. Going forward, we will launch "Must-Order" lists in more key cities nationwide. When dine-ins were restricted, food delivery became an important revenue driver for restaurant merchants and helped them recover after the pandemic subsided. We also continued to provide support measures, offering commission discounts to small- and medium-sized merchants who have experienced difficulties in business operations due to the pandemic, and assisting them with online operations. Moreover, we collaborated with certain restaurants to register their employees as couriers, which effectively stabilised their personal income while supplementing our delivery capacity during the pandemic. All these measures showcased our strong organisational and execution capabilities, and further helped accelerate the digital transformation of the traditional offline restaurant industry.
Meituan Instashopping continued its rapid growth trajectory, with daily average orders reaching 4.3 million in the second quarter of 2022. Growths in user base and transaction frequency led to a notable increase in the order volume. During the quarter, the spread of Omicron catalysed an increase in consumer reliance on on-demand delivery, especially in case of imminence control measures when consumers have to quickly stock up groceries and daily necessities from local stores at short notice. Average ticket size increased as a result of this surging demand, and led to improvement in the unit economics. We continued to onboard more merchants across different categories, and acutely captured the emerging consumption trends to offer more diverse selections to our consumers. Leveraging our strong and flexible delivery network, we effectively met the increasing demand of consumers, and on-demand retail has become a new form of online shopping. During the quarter, we worked with well-known brands to launch shopping festivals and marketing campaigns, through which we not only deepened the merchant penetration and our collaborations, but also helped stimulate local consumption recovery. In addition, we introduced more Meituan InstaStore (美團閃電倉) into our supply, launched city-wide pharmacy services, and extended delivery distance for medicines. All these measures successfully enhanced consumer mindshare on Meituan Instashopping that delivers everything to their doorsteps.
The in-store, hotel & travel business was heavily impacted by the COVID resurgence, with revenues decreasing meaningfully in the second quarter of 2022. During April and May, offline operations of many merchants were significantly affected by the spread of Omicron in many mid-and high-tier cities, including Shanghai and Beijing. Nevertheless, our business began to recover in June, as control measures were relaxed, and we supported local governments to distribute consumption vouchers to further stimulate economic recovery.
For in-store dining, as offline operations were largely impacted in Shanghai, Beijing and many other cities, we were dedicated to help restaurant merchants withstand the difficulties. We offered discounted online marketing services to temporarily closed restaurants, introduced food delivery options and self-pickup services to merchants, including many fine-dining restaurants, and launched themed promotions to boost consumption recovery. We also took this opportunity to expand and refine our own products and services, facilitate the growth of light meals, and help accelerate the digital transformation of the overall industry.
For other in-store services, although group activities and gathering events were negatively affected, consumption trend evolved dynamically and new consumption categories emerged. For example, as outdoor activities became more popular, we promptly adjusted our platform's offerings and services to cope with the new trend, allowing consumers to efficiently find the products and services needed when browsing on our platform. Fitness, pets and life services also maintained strong growth during the quarter. We are confident on the post-pandemic recovery of local services and the consumption growth. Our strong brand awareness among both consumers and merchants, our unparalleled execution capability, and our deep industry insights will render us growth potential in the long run.
For hotel & travel, the spread of Omicron and strict control measures in April and May caused sharp decline in travel activities, and our domestic room nights experienced notable decrease before a gradual recovery in June. High-star hotels were more heavily impacted than low-star hotels, yet we continued to optimise supply, improve service qualities and upgrade packaged deals in the high-star domain. For alternative accommodations, we onboarded more supplies from Airbnb after their announcement to exit the China domestic market, and we guided the hosts through a smooth transition on our platform.
New Initiatives
In the second quarter of 2022, revenues from the New initiatives segment increased 40.7% year over year to RMB14.2 billion, mainly driven by growths from the goods retail businesses. Operating loss narrowed on the sequential basis to RMB6.8 billion, while operating margin improved to negative 48.0%, primarily attributable to improvement in operating efficiency from the goods retail businesses.
For Meituan Select, we continued to focus on high-quality growth and operating efficiency improvement. We partnered with more brands and further expanded our product selections to provide consumers with more high-quality and value-for-money products. Through these partnerships, we also helped evoke some traditional local brands to innovate and launch their products online so that they can reach a broader consumer base. Moreover, we enhanced our direct sourcing, centralised procurement, and sorting solutions to improve supply chain efficiency, and we further optimised our cold-chain logistics across the entire supply chain to ensure stable offerings of frozen products during summer. In the regions that were impacted by the COVID resurgence and extreme weather conditions, such as Shanghai, Jilin, and Guangdong, we actively supported local governments to ensure sufficient supplies of necessities for consumers and fulfilled our social responsibilities.
For Meituan Grocery, both quarterly Transacting Users and order volume broke records in the second quarter of 2022. We are proud that Meituan Grocery played an important role to ensure supplies of daily necessities for consumers during the COVID resurgence. We responded to the pandemic in Shanghai by quickly locking in sufficient product supply from major suppliers, increasing volume of direct sourcing, and preparing in advance on alternative suppliers. We also accumulated know-hows from our operational experience in Shanghai and quickly launched similar models in Beijing when the city was under strict control measures. We supported Shanghai government with the resumption of work and productions after the COVID situation became under control. Looking forward, we will continue to optimise supply and fulfillment and strive to bring better experience to consumers.
Although the pandemic has brought short-term difficulties, we are confident that as it becomes under control, local consumption will recover and our Core local commerce segment will resume its normal growth trajectory. Leveraging our strong on-demand delivery network, we will continue to provide meals, groceries, necessities, and medicines for consumers. We will also cope with the evolving consumer demand on local goods and services and further strengthen consumer mindshare. Meanwhile, we will assist local merchants to recover, especially those small- and medium-sized merchants, through better products and solutions that can effectively help them improve operating efficiency. Our investment in New initiatives, especially the goods retail businesses, also allows us to reach broader consumers and bring more convenience to people's lives. We will continue to execute our strategy of "Retail + Technology" while providing more diverse, value-for-money goods and services. We are fully committed to accelerating the digital transformation of the retail industry and creating more value for our society.
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About Meituan
Meituan (HKG: 3690) (the "Company") is China's leading e-commerce platform for services. With the mission of "We help people eat better, live better," the Company's platform uses technology to connect consumers and merchants. Service offerings on the platform address people's daily needs for food, and extend further to broad lifestyle and travel services. Meituan is the world's leading on-demand food delivery service provider and China's leading e-commerce platform for in-store dining services. Meituan helps consumers discover merchant information, make informed decisions, complete online and offline transactions and enjoy on-demand delivery. The Company currently owns several household brands in China, including Meituan, China's leading online marketplace for services, Dianping, China's leading online destination for discovering local services, Meituan Waimai for on-demand delivery services, and Meituan Bikes for bike-sharing services. Meituan has 684.7 million Annual Transacting Users and 9.2 million Annual Active Merchants as of June 30, 2022. The Company operates in over 2,800 cities and counties in China.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business outlook, forecast business plans and growth strategies of the Company. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to the Company and are stated herein on the basis of the outlook at the time of this press release. They are based on certain expectations, assumptions and premises, some of which are subjective or beyond our control. These forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect and may not be realized in future. Underlying the forward-looking statements is a large number of risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these risks and uncertainties is included in our other public disclosure documents on our corporate website.
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BEIJING, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Edianyun resubmitted to HKEX. In line with its updated prospectus, Edianyun's remanufacturing capacity is further improved with annual capacity increased to 600,000 devices.
Currently, Green and Sustainable Development represented by "carbon neutrality" has become a global consensus. China aims to hit peak emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, and has released two policies in succession, namely Working Guidance for Carbon Dioxide Peaking and Carbon Neutrality in Full and Faithful Implementation of the New Development Philosophy by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, and Action Plan for Carbon Dioxide Peaking Before 2030, demonstrating China's confidence and determination in promoting carbon emission reduction. In this context, green development becomes the inevitable course for enterprises pursuing digital transformation.
Edianyun, as an office IT integrated solution provider, provides one-stop office IT services for SMEs to boost their digital transformation. Meanwhile, it also constantly innovates its remanufacturing technology to extend service life of IT devices.
Edianyun own the remanufacturing factory in China that has a production capability of over 600,000 PC devices in a year according to the data as of June 30, 2022. Its core remanufacturing factory locates in Wuhan, while it also sets up four other facilities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu in sync with its expansion of customer reach nationwide.
Its industry-leading remanufacturing technology has largely enhanced device utilization through extending the service life of devices from an average of three years to an average of seven to ten years, achieving cost reduction and profitability improvement.
Leveraging its remanufacturing facilities that have been operating for more than 15 years, it has adopted the use of various devices and technologies, including software systems, hardware devices for batch inspection, quick refurbishment tools, as well as innovative refurbishment technology, to improve the efficiency of remanufacturing while maintaining the appearance and performance of the device at the same time. Its innovative remanufacturing technology has the following features.
Firstly, Edianyun enables efficient production through standardized remanufacturing process. Differentiated from the traditional mass production of new devices where the assembly line predominates, the challenges in standardizing the remanufacturing process lie in the identification of the specific issue for each device. To solve this issue, Edianyun developed a set of standard protocols covering device diagnosis, refurbishment and testing. Leveraging its standardized remanufacturing process, it is able to achieve greater production output.
In 2021, it remanufactured over 600,000 devices. Furthermore, with the assistance of automatic testing technology, Edianyun can realize automatic batch testing of devices and precisely locate problems, which greatly improves efficiency. According to Edianyun's prospectus, its average remanufacturing time was less than ten days, while the process of device repair or replacement under traditional IT service providers warranty services is usually twice as long as that.
Secondly, Edianyun delivers low remanufacturing cost through chip-level repair. With its chip-level repair capability, instead of replacing the whole malfunctioning component as commonly done by traditional IT service providers, it takes the component apart and replaces only the faulty unit as necessary. It is calculated that its average cost of remanufacturing was below RMB100 per device.
Finally, Edianyun has the long-term know-how created by extensive industry experience. Through its extensive industry experience for over ten years, Edianyun is able to accumulate know-how and gain insights into the key elements in the complex value chain of office IT service industry to develop its core competitive advantages.
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Shares of GameStop fell sharply Thursday after the company fired CEO Matthew Furlong, the former Amazon executive who was brought in two years ago to turn the struggling video game retailer around.
The company based in Grapevine, Texas, gave no reason for the dismissal and named Ryan Cohen, the company’s biggest investor, as executive chairman. Cohen sent a cryptic tweet that read “Not for long” around the time the company announced Furlong’s firing.
GameStop said Cohen will oversee investment and management for the company.
GameStop briefly addressed the changes in a regulatory filing for its quarterly earnings.
“We believe the combination of these efforts to stabilize and optimize our core business and achieve sustained profitability while also focusing on capital allocation under Mr. Cohen’s leadership will further unlock long-term value creation for our stockholders,” the company said.
GameStop’s shares tumbled almost 18% Thursday, ending down $4.67 at $21.44.
In another regulatory filing, GameStop said that its board terminated Furlong on Monday. The company said he’s entitled to receive payments and benefits associated with a termination without cause.
Furlong resigned as a board member and the company reduced its size to five members.
Furlong was named GameStop’s CEO in June 2021 with the mandate of heading the company’s digital remake. He had been the executive that oversaw Amazon’s Australia business and spent nine years with the company. Furlong was one of two Amazon executives hired at the time, the other being Mike Recupero, hired as GameStop’s chief financial officer.
Cohen’s holding company RC Ventures is the biggest investor in GameStop, holding about a 12% stake. Cohen co-founded Chewy, the online pet supply company, and had hoped to modernize the GameStop, founded in 1984.
Cohen began snapping up large stakes of GameStop at a time when the company was being buffeted by new technology. Gamers no longer needed GameStop because they were downloading games, rather than buying digital discs.
Furlong and other executives were brought in to execute Cohen’s goal of getting GameStop more online.
After building a massive stake, Cohen joined GameStop’s board in January 2021, along with two of his former Chewy colleagues.
GameStop became the embodiment of the “meme stock” craze two years ago, when a band of smaller-pocketed and novice investors encouraged each other to pile in. That helped trigger a “short squeeze” on larger institutional Wall Street firms that were betting the company would continue to flounder.
The gambit worked and GameStock’s shares spiked more than 8,000% in 2021.
They have fallen drastically from that year, when the stock raced above $120 apiece.
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The Tiny Desk Contest, NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist, is back!
First, let's meet this year's esteemed panel. Returning judges Bob Boilen (Tiny Desk series creator and All Songs Considered host) and Bobby Carter (Tiny Desk series producer) will be joined by five new experts: The inimitable Sharon Van Etten, who performed behind the original Tiny Desk in 2010 and then played again at today's Tiny Desk; Baby Rose, who graced the Desk with her incredible voice in early 2020; fellow Tiny Desk alum Sudan Archives, a gifted singer and violinist whose sound pulls from R&B, hip-hop and experimental electronic music and, last but not least, Albina Cabrera of KEXP, a champion of independent musicians and Latin American music. Each of these judges has an ear for exceptional talent, is passionate about up-and-coming artists and knows exactly what it takes to perform behind the Tiny Desk.
Are you an unsigned artist 18 years or older? Here's how to enter:
The winner will play a Tiny Desk concert, be interviewed on All Things Considered and headline our Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour. But even if you don't win, there are tons of ways you might benefit from entering – first, you join a supportive community of creatives from across the country. You also have a ton of opportunities to be featured by NPR Music over the next few months – we'll be sharing standout entries on the Contest blog, on NPR Music's social channels, on YouTube as part of our annual Top Shelf series and more.
We're also expanding our Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour this summer. After this year's winner plays their Tiny Desk concert, they'll hit the road to play shows alongside other entrants in Los Angeles, Oakland, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Brooklyn.
Questions? We recommend first completing this quick checklist to make sure your video is eligible to win. You could also check out our FAQs, or if you're feeling ambitious, the official Contest rules.
One last, important thing to keep in mind: Your video doesn't need to be fancy. The Tiny Desk was born as a DIY project and is a space where artists perform stripped-down sets. While some of our winners had ambitious entry videos, most filmed theirs while simply sitting at their regular old desks in their bedrooms and basements. Our judges are looking for artists with a story to tell, a new perspective to share and a singular talent. Show us what you've got.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Phillips, CEO of Cavulus, a leading technology provider in the Medicare Advantage (MA) industry, says the private insurance program is increasingly being utilized by underserved and low-income segments of US population prompting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to solicit input to further eliminate barriers and provide more equitable access.
Phillips said CMS released a Request for Information earlier this month "seeking feedback on ways to strengthen MA coverage for underserved and disadvantaged individuals in order to make the program even more equitable and accessible.
"Few realize that MA coverage plays a pivotal role relating to socioeconomics," said Phillips, pointing out, this is due to $0 premium plans and specialized products based on low income. According to a recent report from Better Medicare Alliance, over two thousand $0 premium plans were offered in 2022 and 98% of beneficiaries had access to them.
"The average cost of a Medicare Supplement is $150 monthly. Beneficiaries are responsible for 20% coinsurance for most services covered under Original Medicare. These options aren't affordable for much of the aged population" says Phillips.
He notes demand for economical coverage has also given rise to a unique MA product called Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP). "There are various types of Special Needs Plans but the most prevalent is D-SNP which requires eligibility for both Medicare and Medicaid" Phillips explains.
"Most insurers we serve have D-SNPs in their product offerings" says the Cavulus CEO. "We also serve several organizations that exclusively offer these plans which speaks to the demand."
"CMS recognizes such coverage is vital for low-income beneficiaries. They're asking probing questions in their RFI such as 'how can CMS support strengthened efforts by SNPs to provide targeted, coordinated care for enrollees?'" said Phillips.
"CMS's ability to seek feedback and issue new guidance is why MA continuously improves" asserts Phillips. "These are incredibly important programs for our most vulnerable populations, especially in a year where inflation is a factor."
ABOUT CAVULUS - Cavulus is a technology driven specialist in Medicare Advantage insurance solutions. The Cavulus Cloud-based Medicare Advantage Platform (Cavulus MAP™) unifies marketing, sales and enrollment operations and is utilized by many top insurers, including several BlueCross/ BlueShield companies, UPMC Health Plan, Johns Hopkins, Lumeris and United Healthcare. For details visit: www.cavulus.com.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took an extraordinary step in issuing a travel advisory to Florida in response to policies by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that many have criticized as discriminatory and anti-Black.
The move comes as DeSantis prepares to launch his candidacy for president in the coming days, putting him in a potentially uncomfortable spot as his critics look to shine a spotlight on his controversial policies.
“We didn’t get here overnight. It was because of the election, so we have to prepare for the next election so we can get rid of him once and for all,” said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP.
Since his election, DeSantis has faced allegations of attempting to suppress Black votes through gerrymandering and targeting mostly Black people with a police division dedicated to prosecuting voting fraud.
He also received backlash for passing legislation limiting how race can be taught or discussed in classrooms and workplaces, previously calling the idea of systemic racism in the U.S. “a bunch of horse manure,” and, most recently, signing legislation prohibiting colleges and universities from using public funding on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
“Anybody that has been following what’s been happening in Florida understands that it’s essentially become a hostile territory for Black people in the state,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, an organization dedicated to community organizing.
Albright added that Black travelers need to be cautious when thinking about going to Florida, whether for business or a conference — or even school.
“Students that they might be going there for school, they might need to rethink whether that’s a safe option for them, especially if they’re going to colleges, which is a big part of the DeSantis of Florida government’s attack against Black people,” Albright said.
Florida high school students, some of them 18 years old, have already expressed their dissatisfaction with DeSantis after he attempted to ban an Advanced Placement African American studies course this year. Sixty-five percent of Black voters nationwide disagreed with the governor for that move, according to HIT Strategies.
In a statement, Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones (D) said the NAACP’s advisory was not a surprise because Black Americans are “absolutely less safe” under DeSantis’s administration.
Jones, the first openly gay lawmaker in the state Senate, added the governor is too focused on a 2024 run instead of the constituents in his state.
“It’s deeply distressing that DeSantis cares more about his campaign for president than he does delivering for people and actually doing the job he was elected to do,” said Jones, who is working on President Biden’s reelection campaign.
“His dangerous agenda not only hurts people in our communities, but also harms our state’s economy, tourism, and local small businesses. When we have major employers pulling events and development out of the state in response to DeSantis’s embrace of right-wing authoritarianism, that hurts all of us.”
Still, Albright said, DeSantis’s latest policy moves shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise considering his record.
“Black voters have really seen who he was in Florida four or five years ago, when he was running against Andrew Gillum and he made the remark about, ‘Let’s not monkey this up,’” he said, referring to DeSantis’s comment about Gillum, who would have been the first Black governor elected to the state.
“That was just a precursor to the anti-Blackness that we’ve seen throughout his administration.”
DeSantis, for his part, defended the comment at the time, saying it had “zero to do with race.”
The governor’s moves ultimately could impact how Black voters view him in 2024, Albright argued, adding that the NAACP’s travel advisory simply raised awareness about what DeSantis has been doing.
But these actions also won’t necessarily impact how DeSantis, currently a distant second to former President Donald Trump in most GOP primary polls, does in the primaries, Albright claimed. Instead, he argued DeSantis’s performance in the race will come down to organizations like Black Voters Matter and the messaging from other candidates.
“What we do has to be about what these policies mean to our community, how it’s impacting us, how it’s impacting our children, our families and our jobs. And that’s got to be the eyes on the prize,” Albright said.
Meanwhile, others are pushing back against the NAACP’s move, including Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). Donalds, who is Black, blasted the travel advisory as “just really stupid” on Monday.
“I don’t even know what the NAACP is talking about,” Donalds said on “Fox and Friends.” “This is silly, and it’s dumb. It’s political. It makes no sense. We should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve, which Florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states, let’s say New York or California or Washington state.”
Other groups have applauded DeSantis’s administration. In a statement to CNN, the Florida Department of Commerce said it had no comment in regard to the travel advisory but said that over the past few years, “Florida has moved into the number one spot in the United States for Black-owned businesses and number two for Hispanic and number two for women owned businesses.”
DeSantis’s office in a statement to The Hill blasted the NAACP’s travel advisory as a “stunt.”
“As Governor DeSantis announced last week, Florida is seeing record-breaking tourism,” said Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for DeSantis. “This is nothing more than a stunt.”
Estimates show that Florida welcomed nearly 40 million visitors between January and March 2023, the most visitors recorded in a quarter for the state.
DeSantis’s administration also has denounced assertions that it is anti-Black. The accusation, spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in January, “is absurd, demonstrably false, and insulting and demeaning to all of us serving in and supporting this administration.”
Meanwhile, DeSantis and his allies are quick to that he did fairly well with Black voters in 2022. Exit polling from CNN saw 13 percent of Black voters cast their ballots for DeSantis — something that stood out to Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright, too.
“The exit polling is a true indicator that Black voters are not monolithic,” Seawright told The Hill. “The other thing I think people should know is that different things move different constituencies and different voters. While some of us African Americans may think all these things are bad and they’re not good for our community, there are some in our community who may say that was not that bad, so I’m gonna hold my nose, or I’m gonna vote for him.”
DeSantis could also use the NAACP’s travel advisory as part of an “us vs. them” messaging, Seawright warned, galvanizing his supporters and the Republican base across the nation against those who promote topics like DEI and Black history.
Seawright argued others need to throw their support into helping the NAACP build a competitive and multicultural coalition ahead of 2024.
“We have to make racism, bigotry, hate, white supremacy — we have to make it expensive,” Seawright said. “And we have to hit people in their pocketbooks when we make it expensive. … We’ve got to make folks pay until it hurts, so that they will suspend these motions and these emotions around things that don’t make sense.”
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‘That could’ve been us’: Father, son turned down spots on doomed Titan trip due to safety concerns
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – As crews finish up an investigation into the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed all five people on board, a Las Vegas family is working through a wide array of emotions.
Jay Bloom and his son Sean Bloom were offered spots on the Titan submersible’s ill-fated trip and made the decision not to go, which ultimately saved their lives.
“I just kept seeing pictures of the victims,” investor Jay Bloom told KVVU on Friday. “And but for the grace of God, that could be me and my son.”
Last year, Bloom was introduced to Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that built the Titan. Rush invited Bloom on an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic in the custom-made submersible.
“It sounded at first very exciting, very sexy,” Bloom remembered. “Like an amazing experience.”
But Bloom was off-put by the way Rush said he flew into Las Vegas on an experimental two-seater plane that he built.
“This guy is coming into Las Vegas in an experimental plane that he built to pitch me on going on an experimental sub that he built to go to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean,” Bloom recalled.
Bloom’s son Sean Bloom was also invited to see the Titanic, and he was up for it at first.
“I was obsessed with the Titanic as a little kid,” Sean Bloom said. “It was one of my favorite things to talk about.”
But after doing some research into OceanGate and the Titan, he realized it might not be a good idea.
“I was like, ‘Hey, I think thing’s going to implode,’” Sean recalled. “I don’t think it can make it to the bottom of the ocean, and if it has before, I don’t know how that’s possible.”
The Titan had been to the ocean floor several times before, but still, Sean Bloom brought his concerns to his dad, particularly about the carbon-fiber hull.
“Something just felt so off about it this time,” Sean Bloom said.
Jay Bloom asked Rush about the safety of the trip. The OceanGate CEO, who died in the implosion, played down the safety concerns.
“Stockton called us ‘The Misinformed,’” Sean Bloom said. “And I’m like, ‘Maybe we are misinformed. Maybe we don’t know what we’re talking about.’ But it just didn’t seem safe.”
Jay Bloom said he believes Rush was so passionate about this project that it clouded his judgment.
“He was making emotional decisions, not rational decisions,” Jay Bloom said. “Anybody who brought any safety concerns to him, he would just rationalize away. It was just a differing opinion and he’s doing things different, and the industry’s just kind of set in its ways.”
Jay Bloom credits his son with sniffing out disaster before it happened, but he still needed a creative way to tell Rush they were not going, especially after Rush offered them discounted tickets just weeks before the voyage was set to begin.
“I knew that if I told him that we didn’t want to go because of safety concerns, he would’ve just negated it and fought me on it,” Jay Bloom said. “So, I just told him it was a scheduling conflict.”
Their spots ended up going to Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood.
And now, after the disaster, Jay and Sean Bloom are both still grappling with all the emotions this week has brought them.
“The fact that it was a father and son, the son being close to my age, is really crazy,” Sean Bloom said. “And the son also being the one that had doubts about going, and the dad who really wanted to go, kind of like the situation with me and my dad. And then the fact that we didn’t go, and our tickets went to those exact people for the same trip. That father and son. That could’ve been us.”
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BLOOMINGTON — College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin women's basketball leader Millikin stormed out to a 20-point lead through one quarter and defeated Illinois Wesleyan 82-65 on Wednesday at Shirk Center.
Elyce Knudsen led Millikin with 28 points as the Big Blue moved to 18-4 overall and 12-1 in the CCIW.
Millikin hit five 3-pointers in the opening quarter to lead 27-7.
IWU (13-10, 8-6) trailed 45-26 at the half. The Titans rallied within 47-38 on a Katelyn Heller basket at the 6:42 mark of the third quarter.
Millikin extended its margin back to 61-46 entering the final period.
Lauren Huber topped Wesleyan with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Kate Palmer added 14 points and Sawyer White and Caite Knutson had 10 points each.
Bailey Coffman scored 16 and Emily White 11 for Millikin.
IWU outrebounded the Big Blue 49-29 but committed 22 turnovers, eight more than Millikin.
The Big Blue finished 13 of 28 from 3-point range, while the Titans were 5 of 15.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith showed off the game ball that marked her 400th career win.
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Brian Ehresman poses with Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith at the Titan Golf Outing this summer
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith donned a mask as her Titans practiced behind her Tuesday at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith directs her team during the Titans' 86-81 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin victory over Millikin on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith rallies her team as they take on Wheaton Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith talks to her bench during the Titans' 80-54 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin win over Millikin on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team members presented coach Mia Smith with a game ball to mark 400 career wins.
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Mike Wagner, left, Illinois Wesleyan University Athletic Director, and former Athletic Director Dennie Bridges, presents women's basketball team coach Mia Smith with a decorated cookie and bouquet of flowers to mark her 400th career win after IWU defeated Whittier last Saturday.
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A special game ball was decorated to honor Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith to mark 400 career wins.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith directs her team during the Titans' 77-76 nonconference loss to the University of Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at Shirk Center.
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The resume of Illinois Wesleyan's IBCA Hall of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, includes winning the 2011-12 NCAA Division III national title. She addressed fans during a celebration for that team at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan's IBCA Hall of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, saluted fans after a 2012 NCAA Division III national semifinal win over St. Thomas at Holland, Mich. That squad went on to win the national title.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith, center, instructs her team during a timeout in the third quarter of Wednesday's CCIW game against Elmhurst at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith, center, addresses the crowd at Shirk Center after the Titans' 85-45 win over Carroll in the 10th annual Pink Zone game benefiting the Bloomington-Normal Community Cancer Center.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s defenders chased ballhandlers and used their length to disrupt any flow. Its bigs continued to snag just about every miss coming off the rim.
It’s an unwavering combination, one that at times has the Gamecocks’ push for a second straight national championship flirting with a vibe of inevitability.
Three-time All-American Aliyah Boston had 14 boards and two blocks while reigning national champion South Carolina turned in its latest overwhelming defense-and-rebounding-first performance to beat UCLA 59-43 on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
Kamilla Cardoso added 10 points and Boston had eight for the Gamecocks (35-0), the top overall tournament seed and the headliner in the Greenville 1 Region. It marked South Carolina’s 41st consecutive victory, securing the program’s sixth trip to the Elite Eight under coach Dawn Staley.
“We definitely do a lot of (defensive) work in practice, whether it’s ball-screen, whatever the case may be,” said Brea Beal, who had 10 points for South Carolina. “I think for games like this when offensive scoring is very low, we definitely rely on our defense to keep their scoring lower than ours.”
Three games into the NCAAs, the Gamecocks have yet to surrender more than 45 points or let an opponent hit even 30% of its shots. They next face 2-seed Maryland in Monday’s regional final in a rematch of the Gamecocks’ 81-56 win from the season’s opening week.
It wasn’t an easy offensive operation for South Carolina, with UCLA sagging defensively to pack the paint in hopes of negating the Gamecocks’ size advantage behind Boston. But South Carolina turned nearly every look into a difficult one for the fourth-seeded Bruins (27-10).
“It was the lowest point total that anyone had held them to in a half in the first half,” UCLA coach Cori Close said, “and we couldn’t even take advantage of that because we were struggling so much offensively.”
The Gamecocks won the first meeting with UCLA 73-64 in November, with the Bruins shooting 32% in that game. Things got worse this time, with UCLA going shooting 29% — including 3 for 18 from 3-point range.
“I feel like everything was rough,” UCLA guard Camryn Brown said, adding: “We were a little frantic out there.”
By the final horn, UCLA had committed 15 turnovers on 63 possession, a nearly 25% rate.
Charisma Osborne scored 14 points to lead UCLA, which was in the Sweet 16 for the eighth time. The Bruins were trying to reach the regional finals for the first time since 2018 and only the third time in program history while pursuing their first Final Four appearance.
But in a sign of what was to come, the Bruins kept missing shots that they needed for any chance at a stunning upset. Worse, they failed to grab even a few of those misses to keep possessions alive early, with the Gamecocks taking a 9-0 edge in offensive rebounds in the first half.
Meanwhile, the Gamecocks led 25-15 at halftime before matching their game-long point total in the third quarter.
That included a couple of way-too-familiar sequences for Close. Twice the Gamecocks managed to lob a pass inside to the 6-foot-7 Cardoso, who used her long arms to reach over 6-2 fronting defender Christeen Iwuala and snag the ball for easy under-the-rim finishes in traffic.
Or there was Beal using her right hand to tap out a loose rebound over Gabriela Jaquez before securing it, then dumping it immediately inside to Victaria Saxton inside for a soft hook.
It was all the same often-demoralizing sequences that has overwhelmed teams all season, this time coming with the home-state Gamecocks as the main draw here in the new double-regional format.
They drew loud cheers from the crowd just for making their way into the locker-room tunnel during the Notre Dame-Maryland game with their game to follow. The roars returned as each player who lingered to wrap up pregame shootaround came off the court — several waving two arms high in acknowledgement — in a mostly full arena.
The cheers were louder, of course, as the Gamecocks spent the final minutes closing out a win to advance again.
WORD OF THE DAY
The key for South Carolina’s offense was patience, and making sure to keep working the ball to find seams inside.
“That’s something Coach emphasized at halftime,” Boston said. “She was like … ‘Just take our time, we’re taking great shots but taking a split-second longer could help us out.”
CLASSY GESTURE
Staley showed a noteworthy bit of sportsmanship in the third quarter.
UCLA’s Emily Bessoir fell awkwardly after trying to beat Boston to a rebound, and the Bruins forward was down on the baseline as the Gamecocks took possession across half-court. But instead of continuing to run the play 5-on-4, Staley burned a timeout and pointed for officials to tend to Bessoir at the far end.
“I think these kind of moments in games, they reveal people’s character,” Close said, “and I think it just revealed a layer of her character, of what she deems most important. And that’s always the kids.”
Staley said: “It was the right thing to do to make sure the young lady was OK.”
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Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are heading to Iowa on Saturday for dueling events that underscore the escalating rivalry between the two leading contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
DeSantis has been slated for weeks to headline Rep. Randy Feenstra’s (R-Iowa) annual Family Picnic in Sioux Center, Iowa, and speak at a state GOP fundraiser in Cedar Rapids, while Trump’s campaign announced just last week that he would hold a rally in Des Moines.
The competing engagements are expected to shine a light on the increasingly contentious and bitter matchup between DeSantis and Trump, who has sought to freeze the Florida governor out of the 2024 race before he even officially announces a campaign.
A person familiar with Trump’s plans said that the Iowa rally had been planned for weeks before it was officially rolled out. Still, the optics of the event, taking place on the same day as DeSantis’s Iowa swing, underscore how eager Trump is to counter DeSantis in a critical early-voting state.
“It absolutely looks intentional,” one Republican strategist who’s worked on presidential campaigns said. “It’s par for the course for Trump. He sees something happening somewhere and immediately thinks he needs to counterprogram it.”
DeSantis hasn’t formally jumped into the 2024 race yet but is expected to launch a campaign in the coming weeks.
Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis’s presidential ambitions, has already begun to lay the groundwork for an Iowa operation, hiring half a dozen staffers in the state to begin rallying support for him ahead of a formal campaign launch. The group noted that DeSantis’s scheduled appearance at Feenstra’s picnic had already broken records for RSVPs.
Never Back Down has also begun to run ads in Iowa and other early-voting states, like New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and has begun to hire staff in 14 other states in preparation for Super Tuesday.
“The Never Back Down grassroots movement is seeing huge support swelling on the ground in Iowa for DeSantis, from the endorsements of influential state GOP leaders to a record number of RSVPs for Rep. Feenstra’s Family Picnic headlined by the Governor,” Erin Perrine, the communications director for Never Back Down, said in a statement.
“Iowans are impressed with Governor DeSantis’ record of unapologetic success in Florida and want to see that in the White House. Should DeSantis decide to run for President, it’s clear Iowans will be behind him.”
Early polling out of Iowa is scarce, though most surveys show Trump with a comfortable lead over DeSantis. Yet a poll from Public Opinion Strategies conducted in March pegged DeSantis’s favorability rating above that of Trump.
And when DeSantis touches down in the Hawkeye State on Saturday, he will already have something to brag about.
State Senate President Amy Sinclair and House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl endorsed the Florida governor’s presidential ambitions on Thursday, lending him the support of two well-known — and deeply conservative — Iowa Republicans and highlighting a desire among at least some GOP officials to move on from Trump in 2024.
“We need a leader that’s looking forward towards the future, not a leader that’s looking in the rearview mirror and potentially going to be vindictive towards other people,” Windschitl told the Des Moines Register this week. “We need somebody that’s accountable to the people that has proven in their state that they can do this job and take that same prosperity and spread it throughout America.”
But Trump has his own high-profile backers in Iowa, including his former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and former Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa), as well as nearly a dozen other state Republican lawmakers.
The former president is heading into 2024 with a much more professional and organized caucus infrastructure, intent on heading off a repeat of 2016. Leading the effort as his state director is Marshall Moreau, who managed Brenna Bird’s successful campaign last year to oust now-former state Attorney General Tom Miller.
The Saturday stops in Iowa will test both Trump and DeSantis. The former president notably finished second to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, and a lackluster finish in 2024 would almost certainly be seen as a blow to his standing in the GOP.
At the same time, Trump and DeSantis will have to step outside of their respective comfort zones to focus on the kind of face-to-face retail politicking typical of presidential campaigns in Iowa, Keith Naughton, a veteran Republican strategist said.
“Iowa’s more about retail politics,” Naughton said. “Trump is a rally guy. He’s the guy that’s going to do all the talking. I think DeSantis has had a little more experience on that front, but he has had a hard time connecting with voters on a personal level, so I think it’s a test for both of them.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Families from Uvalde on Tuesday pleaded with new urgency for tougher gun laws in the wake of a series of mass shootings in California, including the nation's deadliest act of gun violence since last year's attack at a Texas elementary school.
“People are dying every day, this shouldn’t be happening,” said Veronica Mata, whose 10-year-old daughter, Tess, was among those killed in the May attack at Robb Elementary School.
The three shootings in California, which have claimed the lives of at least 24 people since last week, occurred as the Texas Legislature is getting back to work for the first time since the Uvalde massacre. Democrats have fielded dozens of proposals that would tighten Texas gun laws, but most stand little chance of advancing in the face of a commanding GOP majority.
Still, several parents and relatives of the 19 children and two teachers killed in Uvalde traveled more than three hours Tuesday to renew their calls inside the Texas Capitol. Some families have said Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who did not mention the Uvalde shooting while being sworn into a third term during his inaugural address last week, privately told them he does not support tougher restrictions.
No Republican lawmakers joined Democrats who stood with victims' families and gun control advocates in a news conference outside the Senate floor. Some Republican senators walked past on their way out of the chamber.
The proposals sought by Uvalde parents include increasing the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles like the one used in the May attack from 18 to 21 — the state's current age limit to buy a handgun. Another would open avenues for families to sue officers who don't do their duty. An investigative report by state lawmakers last summer found that nearly 400 officers waited in a hallway and outside more than an hour to breach the classroom where the gunman was shooting.
Slain Uvalde teacher Irma Garcia was shot 11 times from her head to her legs with an AR-15-style rife, her sister, Marisol Lozano, said. She recalled seeing her sister's face and hands reconstructed for the funeral to hide the bullet wounds. Garcia's husband, Joe Garcia, died of a heart attack shortly after the shooting.
“I wonder if it had been 21 abortions being performed in those classrooms, if our elected officials would step in and do the right thing?" Lozano said, referencing restrictions that state lawmakers have enacted over the years, including one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S.
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, said earlier this month that he knew “difficult discussions” were coming on gun legislation. But he later told reporters he did not believe the the bills would find support in the state's Republican-controlled chamber.
Javier Cazares, the father of 9-year-old Uvalde victim Jacklyn Cazares, said Phelan privately told families that he and his constituents did not support the tougher gun laws the families were backing.
“Our blood boiled, because what can you do?" Cazares, speaking in Spanish, told the Associated Press.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Teddy Bridgewater left the game against the New York Jets on Sunday with what the team said was an elbow injury and he was also being evaluated for a concussion.
Bridgewater, starting in place of the injured Tua Tagovailoa, was hurt on the Dolphins’ first offensive play. Miami ruled Bridgewater out for the rest of the game early in the second quarter.
Jets rookie cornerback Ahmad Gardner blitzed and hit Bridgewater as he was about to throw. Bridgewater was called for intentional grounding in the end zone, resulting in a safety and a 2-0 lead for New York.
Bridgewater headed to the blue injury tent to be examined and then walked with doctors and trainers into the locker room. He was replaced by third-stringer Skylar Thompson.
Bridgewater was starting after Tagovailoa suffered a concussion in Miami’s previous game on Sept. 29 at Cincinnati. Tagovailoa took a hard sack in the first half and displayed the fencing response after the hit. He was stretchered off the field and immediately taken to the hospital. He remains in the concussion protocol.
That came four days after Tagovailoa took a hit from Buffalo linebacker Matt Milano, which caused him to slam to the ground. He appeared disoriented afterward and stumbled as he tried to get to his feet.
Tagovailoa was immediately taken to the locker room, went through the NFL’s concussion protocol — and cleared of any head injury. He started the third quarter, drawing wide-spread criticism as to why he was allowed to return.
On Saturday, the NFL and NFL Players Association agreed to make changes to the league’s concussion protocol following a joint investigation into the procedures after the back injury Tagovailoa suffered. The league and players’ union said in a joint statement that while the Dolphins followed protocol after the injury, the outcome of the Tagovailoa case “was not what was intended when the Protocol was drafted.”
As a result, language addressing abnormality of balance/stability was added to the league’s protocol list of symptoms that would keep a player from returning to the game.
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UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Hundreds of mourners and victims’ families gathered Tuesday evening to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift furnaces at cremation ceremonies for the young children and others who died in last week’s mass killings at a day care center in Thailand’s rural northeast.
Families bid their final goodbyes at a Buddhist temple a short distance from the Young Children’s Development Center in the town of Uthai Sawan, where a former policeman, who was fired from his job earlier this year for using drugs, barged in last Thursday and shot and stabbed children and their caregivers.
The police sergeant, Panya Kamrap, ended up killing 36 people, 24 of them children, in this small farming community before taking his own life. It was the biggest mass killing by an individual in Thailand’s history.
Joint ceremonies for most of the victims were held at three temples to spare families from having to wait long hours for successive cremations to be completed, Phra Kru Adisal Kijjanuwat, the abbot of the Rat Samakee temple, said.
A ceremony for 19 of the dead, 18 of them children, was held at his temple. With a large crowd watching, monks slowly walked out of the temple hall, followed by grieving relatives. Each family was led by one monk, with police bearing the coffin behind them.
After the coffins were placed on each of the small, brick furnaces, the victims’ relatives came forward in the darkening skies to put portraits of their loved ones on top. Some family members also placed children’s toys alongside.
A large mesh barrier was set up, separating onlookers from the relatives, monks and royal palace officials tasked with lighting the fires, who began putting paper flowers along the sides of the pyres and dousing them with gasoline. The officials then ushered the family members to take the portraits and toys away, and move several meters (yards) from the coffins where they knelt on mats.
Buddhist chants played from a speaker system set up behind the relatives, as the officials and monks began lighting the pyres one by one. The coffins were soon engulfed by flames, at times stoked by the officials adding more gasoline. The victims’ relatives sat silently by, hands clasped in prayer.
“Each one of them watched the cremation with their minds in a state of conscious awareness,” said the abbot. “The support they received from people all around has blessed them, lessened the sorrow they have.”
On Tuesday morning, many of the young victims’ bodies had been outfitted as doctors, soldiers or astronauts — what they wanted to be when they grew up — before their evening cremation.
“The more we talked (to the families), we realized that these children also had dreams of becoming doctors, soldiers, astronauts, or police officers,” said volunteer rescue worker Attarith Muangmangkang, whose organization arranged for the costumes.
Petchrung Sriphirom, 73, was one of many local residents who traveled to the temple to offer condolences to the families and make a small donation to help with funeral costs, which is a common Thai custom.
“I just want to help our friends and share our thoughts with them,” said Petchrung. “We are not talking about money or anything but rather sharing our thoughts and feelings as a fellow human being,”
The perpetrator’s body was cremated Saturday in a neighboring province after temples in Uthai Sawan refused to host his funeral, Thai media reported.
Mass shootings are rare but not unheard of in Thailand, which has one of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in Asia, with 15.1 weapons per 100 people compared to only 0.3 in Singapore and 0.25 in Japan. That’s still far lower than the U.S. rate of 120.5 per 100 people, according to a 2017 survey by Australia’s GunPolicy.org nonprofit organization.
Thailand’s previous worst mass killing involved a disgruntled soldier who opened fire in and around a mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima in 2020, killing 29 people and holding off security forces for some 16 hours before eventually being killed by them.
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Candid authorities in and around Washington DC attribute the war in Ukraine and apparent bankruptcy of US’s moral & economic authority to policies spawned by wealthy, privileged “neocons”: ie. Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Victoria Nuland (part of the neocon Kagan family of Yale fame), Wm Kristoll III (the American Enterprise Institute), etc.. – “…people who never had to make a thing work in their lives” (Gen. Binney, NSA).
They “budded” during the Reagan Administration and bloomed in the Bush II Administration. They’re rigidly anti-Russian/pro-Capitalist and authors of the infamous Project For A New American Century purporting that, because of the US’s exceptionalism and “values”, the US should be the sole power in a world. That ‘power’ should begin by militarily overcoming 7 major adversaries – starting with Iraq, ending with Iran.
But neocons fomented brutality in more places than the Middle East. They pushed US financing of brutal military juntas in Central and South America – “disappearing” death squads and all – through the 80’s (and far more before and after). They were major in NATO”s incorporation of eastern European countries after USSR’s collapse (despite promises made and expert warnings against it), overthrowing Ukraine’s elected President in 2014, and supporting attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine’s Donbas area after that overthrow.
Huge money and power from Democrats and Republicans support neocons. We lay people must say “NO” to such conscienceless politics.
Google more about those warmongering gems: Salon; 4/22; “Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled…..”
— Linda Furr, Chico
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North Korea: Missile tests were practice to attack South, US
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to attack its rivals’ air bases and warplanes and paralyze their operation command systems, showing Pyongyang’s resolve to counter provocative U.S.-South Korean military drills “more thoroughly and mercilessly.”
North Korea fired dozens of missiles and flew warplanes last week, triggering evacuation alerts in some South Korean and Japanese areas, in response to massive U.S.-South Korean air force drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
U.S. and South Korean officials strongly condemned the North’s missile launches, saying their drills were defensive in nature.
“The recent corresponding military operations by the Korean People’s Army are a clear answer of (North Korea) that the more persistently the enemies’ provocative military moves continue, the more thoroughly and mercilessly the KPA will counter them,” the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by state media.
It said its weapons tests involved ballistic missiles loaded with dispersion warheads and underground infiltration warheads meant to launch strikes on enemy air bases; ground-to-air missiles designed to “annihilate” enemy aircraft at different altitudes and distances; and strategic cruise missiles.
The North’s military said it carried out an important test of a ballistic missile with a special functional warhead missioned with “paralyzing the operation command system of the enemy.” It said it also launched super-large, multiple-launch missiles and tactical ballistic missiles.
It didn’t specifically mention a reported launch Thursday of an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at hitting the U.S. mainland. Almost all other North’s missiles launched last week were likely short-range, many of them nuclear-capable weapons. They place key military targets in South Korea, including U.S. military bases there in striking range.
“The KPA General Staff once again clarifies that it will continue to correspond with all the anti-(North Korea) war drills of the enemy with the sustained, resolute and overwhelming practical military measures,” it said.
This year’s “Vigilant Storm” air force drills between the United States and South Korea were the largest-ever for the annual fall maneuvers. The drills involved 240 warplanes including advanced F-35 fighter jets from both countries. The allies were initially supposed to run the drills for five days ending on Friday, but extended the training by another day in reaction to the North’s missile tests.
On Saturday, the final day of the air force exercises, the United States flew two B-1B supersonic bombers over South Korea in a display of strength against North Korea, the aircraft’s first such flyover since December 2017.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the participation of the B-1Bs in the joint drills demonstrated the allies’ readiness to “sternly respond” to North Korean provocations and the U.S. commitment to defend its ally with the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear.
Even before the “Vigilant Storm” drills, North Korea test-launched a slew of missiles in what it called simulated nuclear attacks on U.S. and South Korean targets in protests of its rivals’ other sets of military exercises that involved a U.S. aircraft for the first time in five years.
Some experts say North Korea likely aims to use the U.S.-South Korean military drills as a chance to modernize its nuclear arsenal and increase its leverage to wrest greater concessions from the United States in future dealings.
U.S. and South Korean militaries have been expanding their regular military drills since the May inauguration of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has promised to take a tougher stance on North Korean provocations. Some of the allies’ drills had been previously downsized or canceled to support now-stalled diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.(AP) -
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Idaho Supreme Court justice to retire, cites low salary
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Supreme Court Justice John Stegner has announced his resignation, telling the governor that the relatively low pay has made it necessary to return to private practice.
The Idaho Legislature gave most state employees cost-of-living raises of up to 7% last year, but refused to approve any raises for judges, and declined to make up the difference during this year’s session.
In his letter Monday to Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, Stegner said his decision is bittersweet and that serving as judge has been the privilege of his professional career. His resignation will take effect at the end of October, and Stegner will serve as a Senior Judge, until any pending appellate cases are resolved.
“Given the disparity in pay between a Supreme Court Justice (which is lower than a beginning lawyer at some Boise firms and one of the lowest in the nation) and a lawyer in private practice, I find it necessary financially to leave the public sector and return to the private sector,” Stegner said. “The job requires extraordinary hours to do it well. In sum, the state is asking judges to do too much for too little.”
Idaho Supreme Court Justices earn just over $165,000 a year — the equivalent of about $79 an hour.
Stegner was appointed to the state’s highest court in 2018 by then-Gov. Butch Otter. He previously served as a 2nd District Judge in Latah County.
The vacancy means the Idaho Judicial Council will provide a list of applicants to the governor’s office, and Little will appoint one of them to serve out the rest of Stegner’s term, which ends in January 2027. The judicial seat will be up for election in the 2026 May primary.
Chief Justice Richard Bevan said he wishes Stegner the best as he retires from the bench.
“Justice Stegner brings a principled, deliberate approach to both the appeals we resolve and his vision of what Idaho’s courts should be,” Bevan said. “His drive to better ourselves and our work has improved justice for Idahoans.”
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Oregon tight end Spencer Webb died Wednesday in a recreational accident, the Lane County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday. He was 22 years old.
According to the sheriff's office, Webb fell and struck his head just a short distance from Triangle Lake, a location popular for cliff jumping and natural rock waterslides that is near Eugene, Oregon.
"So full of life in every moment of the day," Ducks coach Dan Lanning posted to Twitter on Wednesday night. "Your smile and energy will be missed Spencer. I love you!"
The sheriff's office said bystanders and responding paramedics were unable to revive Webb, who was about 100 yards down a steep trail, and Lane County Sheriff's Search and Rescue personnel assisted with bringing him back to the roadway.
Authorities said his death appeared to be accidental, ABC News reported.
Webb, from Sacramento, was set to begin his fifth season at Oregon. He played in all 14 games last season, catching 13 passes for 87 yards and a touchdown. In 2019, he had 18 receptions for 208 yards and three TDs.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Spencer Webb," said a statement issued Thursday by Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens and Lanning. "Our hearts go out to his family, teammates, and friends at such a difficult time. We will miss Spencer greatly."
Webb attended Christian Brothers High School and was the No. 1-ranked tight end in California.
Oregon Ducks football player Spencer Webb, 22, dies after striking head in fall: sheriff's office
Authorities said his death appeared to be accidental
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Sophia Rodriguez, University of Maryland
(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Latino youth in middle and high school have a lower sense of belonging at school and in the community overall when compared with white peers. That is a key finding from my analysis, which is currently under review and based on surveys with students in midsize districts – one urban and one suburban – on the East Coast. I also found that being a language learner is associated with lower school belonging.
To measure belonging, I analyzed a 40-question survey that included questions about belonging at school, in after-school programs and in the community. Students reported that the reasons for feeling a lack of belonging stem from negative experiences at school, few trusting adult-student relationships and little affirmation from school of students’ Latino identity. Latino youths, especially those from immigrant households and nonnative English speakers, report lower sense of belonging.
One Latina middle schooler explained: “I am from two places, El Salvador and Honduras, but I mostly use Hispanic, or I say I am from Honduras.” This teen is proud of her identity but feels it is rare to see someone like her and worries about being accepted in school because of her multicultural identity.
Some young people worry about racial discrimination and immigration policies that affect their families. One Latina youth stated: “I get worried sometimes we might get deported,” demonstrating her isolation.
Belonging generally relates to feeling accepted, included, respected and supported. My research found that Latino youths with lower sense of belonging report feeling unimportant in school, have negative or unsupportive interactions with adults, and have just one or no adults to ask for help. In my research, “I don’t feel like I belong” was a common phrase from youths. Even before the pandemic, adolescents broadly were reporting feelings of isolation and negative mental health effects.
Latino youths in this project also reported higher belonging if they are connected to peers with similar ethnic or immigrant family identities. Additionally, Latino youths tend to have stronger relationships with adults outside of school – such as in their community or at after-school programs – than in school. This is often because of the diversity in those out-of-school settings.
In fact, community spaces, such as public libraries or after-school programs, foster belonging and affirm identities and cultures. Frequently, these community spaces also connect Latino immigrant youths and their families to important resources, such as access to immigration attorneys, social workers and counselors, or scholarship information.
Why it matters
Latino students make up nearly 30% of U.S. public schools students. If school leaders are to improve academic outcomes and lessen negative mental health effects for Latino youths, belonging has to be part of the process.
Prior research has already demonstrated how academic outcomes are connected to belonging. Young people need to feel safe, respected and supported in order to succeed in school.
Relationships are critical for belonging. They must be focused on helping students succeed and include mutual respect with adults to affirm who they are. Otherwise, the resulting lower belonging can lead to less engagement with academics and lower graduation rates. These effects of low belonging limit youths’ future opportunities, such as by lowering their chances of going to college.
With a steadily rising Latino population across the U.S., many Latino students are from immigrant backgrounds and face language and economic barriers. It’s critical for educators to cultivate supportive relationships and affirm these students’ ethnic and immigrant identities.
What other research is being done and what’s next?
New research explores how to improve school environments and make them more responsive to Latino youths’ needs. As such, schools should honor identities and cultures.
This can happen through improving educator awareness and training about how immigration affects students’ lives and families, reducing segregation in schools and bias toward nonwhite students, and valuing students’ cultures.
Schools can also partner with community-based organizations, since research shows these organizations are where young people have a higher sense of belonging and more positive adult-student relationships.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/latino-youth-struggle-with-sense-of-belonging-in-school-203385.
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Mississippi man wanted for child sex crime arrested in West TN
MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. — A Corinth, Mississippi man accused in a sex crime against a child was arrested this week in West Tennessee.
U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announced that 35-year-old Robert Roy Thompson was apprehended near a residence in McNairy County on Wednesday.
A news release states that on August 22, 2022, the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Mississippi issued an arrest warrant for Thompson, charging him with violating supervised release conditions. Thompson was previously convicted in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to the release, Thompson also had an active warrant issued in Lee County, Mississippi on June 30, 2022, for fondling a child.
The release says during the evening of October 19, the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force in Jackson received a request from the U.S. Marshals in North Mississippi to apprehend Thompson.
An investigation led authorities to Thompson’s location near a residence off Old U.S. Highway 45 South, in the Guys community in McNairy County.
The release states Thompson was located, and after a short pursuit and foot chase, he was safely taken into custody by the Two Rivers Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Thompson was transported to the Alcorn County Jail in Corinth, Mississippi, where he is currently being held pending further action.
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(The Hill) – More than two-fifths of baby boomers are nearing retirement with no retirement savings.
That fact may surprise you, if you are a typical white-collar worker, dwelling in a corporate culture of near-universal retirement coverage, encouraged to save a half-million dollars or more before taking the gold watch.
But many Americans work for smaller companies that don’t offer retirement savings, or are self-employed, or live paycheck to paycheck.
“You think everyone works for a Fortune 500 company, and everybody has a pension plan, but that’s not the reality,” said Craig Martin, managing director of wealth and lending intelligence at J.D. Power.
Fewer than half of working-age Americans have any retirement savings, according to Census data for 2020. Savings rates rise with age, but only to a point. In the 55- to –64-year-old boomer age group, 58 percent of Americans own retirement accounts.
And that is a problem. A newly minted retiree of 65 can now expect to live 20 more years, on average, according to Social Security projections.
Without a retirement account, most retirees count on Social Security. The average monthly Social Security check to a retired worker is around $1,800. The average household run by an over-65 American spends more than $4,000 a month.
Yet, “many people go into retirement thinking that Social Security is going to provide for them,” said Josh Hodges, chief customer officer for the National Council on Aging.
A chasm of wishful thinking separates America’s retirement goals from its retirement realities.
By one rule-of-thumb retirement calculator, workers should aim to save 10 times their annual salary by age 67: $375,000 for an individual, and $708,000 for a household, based on median incomes.
If the goal is to retire in relative comfort, Americans assume they will need something closer to $1.1 million, according to a survey by Schroders, the asset management company.
But the average retirement account held just over $100,000 at the close of 2022, according to a Fidelity analysis.
The median baby-boom household isn’t doing much better, with $134,000 in retirement savings in 2019, the most recent federal data. That’s about one-third of the average retirement savings in that age group, $408,420, a figure inflated by the super-rich.
And most retirement nest eggs are much smaller now than a year ago. By Fidelity’s estimate, the average retirement account lost one-fifth of its value in 2022, dwindling from $135,600 to $104,000.
“There were a lot of downsides in the last year,” said Courtney Alev, consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma. “It really shows why it’s really important for everyone, no matter how old you are, to have a diversified portfolio.”
Among retirees, the average savings account dwindled from $192,000 to $171,000 in 2022, according to a survey by Clever Real Estate. The share of retirees without any savings jumped from 30 percent to 37 percent.
Earlier generations of retirees counted on Social Security and employer-funded pensions to deliver a steady income.
Social Security has dwindled as an income source over the years, and pensions are in decline. More than ever, Americans who desire a “comfortable” retirement must squirrel away money in a retirement account.
Yet, nearly half of private-sector employees, 57 million Americans, have no option to save for retirement at work.
According to an AARP analysis, huge swaths of the American public lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans: 78 percent of workers at companies with fewer than 10 employees, 76 percent of workers who lack high school diplomas and 64 percent of the nation’s Hispanic employees.
“When you get below 100 employees, the likelihood of a plan really goes down, said Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. “That leaves those people to try to do an IRA on their own. And if they’re lower income, they’re less likely to have a relationship with a financial institution to set that up, and they’re likely living paycheck to paycheck.”
Anyone can start a retirement plan. But for lower-income Americans, it is easier said than done.
Since the 1980s, inflation-adjusted wages have stagnated for all but the wealthiest Americans.
To make ends meet, more Americans are working into their 70s. The share of people over 75 in the labor force is projected to reach 11 percent in 2026, up from 5 percent in 1996.
But even with those added wage-earning years, the poverty rate among seniors reached 10.3 percent in 2021, Census data show, the highest quotient in two decades.
“If you didn’t have Social Security, it would be well north of 40 percent,” said Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans.
The savings shortfall leaves many older people unprepared for the medical costs that come with old age.
More than half of Americans will eventually need long-term care. Someone who turns 65 today will incur $120,900 in future long-term care costs, on average, by one estimate.
But an analysis by the National Council on Aging found that 60 percent of older adults could not afford two years of long-term, in-home care.
“People don’t want to admit they’re going to need it,” Hodges said. “The idea that you’re going to need help going to the bathroom, help getting out of bed, that’s a concept people don’t want to deal with.”
The good news, retirement experts say, is that an older American with insufficient retirement funds still has plenty of options.
One is to keep working.
“We are seeing a growing number of people at older ages who are in the workforce because they want to be,” said David John, senior strategic policy advisor at AARP. On top of making money, older workers might “want the social connections, to get out of the house, to do something that feels worthwhile.”
Additional years of work deliver another chance to build retirement savings, rather than deplete them.
Retirees might consider postponing Social Security benefits. You can claim them at age 62, but the monthly check almost doubles if you wait until 70, according to a federal analysis. The extra money “is a better deal than you can get pretty much anywhere else,” John said.
Homeowners should consider leveraging home equity to bridge gaps in retirement savings. Home equity makes up most of the typical retired homeowner’s net worth. But many seniors balk at the reverse mortgage, a loan against home equity that yields tax-free income. The loan ends when the borrower dies, moves out or sells the property.
The reverse mortgage has a mixed reputation, but “there are good, reputable companies that can provide you a respectable amount of income,” Copeland said.
As a long-term policy fix, many retiree advocates point to a growing list of states that offer universal retirement savings.
More than a dozen states have adopted retirement-savings plans for workers at companies that don’t offer them. Many other states are considering “auto-IRA” programs. The ultimate goal, advocates say, is to reach all of the 57 million Americans who can’t save for retirement at work.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado gay club shooter tried to reclaim guns seized after 2021 bomb threat but prosecutor says they were not returned.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado gay club shooter tried to reclaim guns seized after 2021 bomb threat but prosecutor says they were not returned.
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Police: Man charged with murder after living with girlfriend’s body in closet for months
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A man accused of killing his girlfriend told investigators that he lived with her body in a closet for months before she was discovered.
KVVU reports that George Bone faces a murder charge in the death of Beverly Ma.
Police said they discovered Ma’s body after the woman’s family located her in a home on July 26.
Bone was reportedly Ma’s boyfriend, and the two were living together.
The family said they went to the house where the two were to check on the air conditioning unit. They had received an expensive bill and the repair man said no one was answering the door.
They arrived at the home, but Ma still did not answer them.
According to an arrest report, they talked to Bone upstairs, and that’s when he told them that Ma was dead.
While a family member was on hold with 911, she asked Bone why he didn’t call the police and why he stayed in the house with her body, the report said.
He reportedly told the family member that he wanted to prolong his arrest. The family described Bone as being casual about the situation and brushing his teeth while speaking to them.
The woman’s family said they were not close but did keep in touch with Ma as she suffered trauma in the past.
They had last seen her in person in April, but she stopped responding to their messages a couple of months ago.
During Bone’s interview with police, he said he had known Ma since high school, and they developed a romantic relationship in 2019 after he left prison.
He started living with Ma in July 2022 and Bone told police they fought often, the arrest report said.
According to authorities, Ma had called 911 on May 4 at about 4:40 a.m. Dispatchers could hear a woman and a man screaming at each other, but Ma never responded to the dispatcher’s questions and the line went dead.
Officers said they did a door knock at the house. However, no one answered.
During his interview with police, Bone reportedly told investigators he found Ma in the closet with a belt around her neck in May. He responded to text messages on her phone so her family would think she was alive.
He also told police that he was keeping the temperature in the home at 60 degrees because of the number of flies in the house.
According to Bone’s arrest report, investigators didn’t find consistent evidence regarding his story about Ma’s suicide attempt. Police pointed out these inconsistencies to Bone and he said he didn’t know how to dispose of a body.
Eventually, Bone requested an attorney and the police interview ended.
Bone was not granted bail in a July 27 hearing. His next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 1.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Walt Disney World employee is facing a charge that he surreptitiously took a video up the skirt of a female customer, allegedly telling investigators he had done it more than 500 times over the past six years.
Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star Wars gift shop inside Disney World’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Florida until his recent arrest on one count of video voyeurism, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
According to court records filed by Orange County Sheriff’s detectives, Vega was spotted by a witness shooting a video up an 18-year-old woman’s skirt. She later told security officers she was not aware of Vega’s actions.
Detectives said that Vega volunteered during questioning that he takes the videos as a “guilty pleasure” and showed them multiple examples on his cellphone.
He was arrested March 31 and released on $2,500 bail. Court records do not show if Vega has an attorney and a current phone number could not be located.
Disney World said Sunday that Vega doesn’t currently work for the company.
The sheriff’s office deferred until Monday commenting on whether investigators are pursuing more charges against Vega.
Both the sheriff’s office and Disney declined to say whether they are working to identify the other women who Vega allegedly took videos of.
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Woman, teen hospitalized after car flips off of I-35 near Emporia
Published: Sep. 14, 2022 at 8:45 AM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW) - A woman and a teenager from the Emporia area were sent to the hospital after their car flipped off of I-35 near Emporia.
The Kansas Highway Patrol Crash Log indicates that around 5:55 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, emergency crews were called to the area of mile marker 117.6 on northbound I-35 in Lyon Co. with reports of an injury accident.
When officials arrived, they reported that a 2019 Nissan Sentra driven by Barbara L. Stuhlsatz, 59, of Burns, had lost control after passing a Commercial Motor Vehicle. This caused the vehicle to flip off the Intestate.
KHP indicated that Burns and a 13-year-old boy were both taken to Newman Regional Hospital for suspected minor injuries.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday to prioritize sending arms to Taiwan to defend itself against China over helping Ukraine hold off the Russian invasion, arguing that the former is more important to U.S. national security interests.
Hawley said in a letter to Blinken that arms transfers to Ukraine are impeding the United States’ ability to prevent a war in Asia through supplying Taiwan.
“Seizing Taiwan is Beijing’s next step toward dominating the Indo-Pacific region,” he said. “If Beijing succeeds, it would have dire ramifications for Americans’ national security, as well as our economic security and freedom of action.”
Hawley said the Biden administration is prioritizing Ukraine over our own “vital security interests” in Asia, a strategy he said is not sustainable. He pointed to comments in which Blinken noted the Chinese government is determined to accomplish “reunification” on a faster timeline.
Hawley said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, an independent government agency that submits annual reports to Congress on the U.S.-Chinese relationship, found that the direction of existing stocks of munitions and arms to Ukraine and supply issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a backlog in delivering weapons that were approved for sale to Taiwan.
He cited a Wall Street Journal report that said the backlog has grown to $18.7 billion in supplies.
China considers Taiwan to be a part of its territory and awaiting reunification. The U.S. pursues a policy of strategic ambiguity regarding the situation, recognizing the People’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate government but considering Taiwan’s status to be unsettled.
Hawley said the Biden administration will argue that mechanisms for delivering arms to Ukraine and Taiwan differ.
“But this explanation does little to allay concerns,” he said. “Regardless of the weapons’ source, if both Taiwan and Ukraine need them, they should go to Taiwan first.”
He said the U.S. cannot wait for a Chinese invasion before sending weapons to Taiwan because of the island’s susceptibility to a blockade and because the goal is to deter an incursion, not fight against it.
Hawley asked Blinken a series of six questions that he requested to have responses to by Dec. 16. They include whether both Ukraine and Taiwan would benefit from some of the same capabilities to defend themselves, if sending weapons to Ukraine that could be used for Taiwan weakens deterrence against China, and how NATO allies can do more to arm Ukraine so the U.S. can focus on arming Taiwan.
Hawley has previously called for the U.S. to prioritize Taiwan’s security over Ukraine. He asked the Biden administration in February to drop any U.S. support for Ukraine joining NATO, arguing that it distracts from China’s growing influence.
He has also voted against overwhelmingly bipartisan bills to send additional aid packages to Ukraine.
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BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in Solomon Islands, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation.
The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which ended Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, the Coast Guard office in Honolulu said.
There was no response from the Solomon Islands’ government for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to stop there, however, so the Oliver Henry diverted to Papua New Guinea, the Coast Guard said.
When the stop in Solomon Islands had been scheduled wasn’t disclosed, but the Coast Guard said the Oliver Henry had arrived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Tuesday “following a patrol in parts of the Coral Sea and the Solomon Islands.”
Britain’s Royal Navy did not comment directly on reports that the HMS Spey, also taking part in Operation Island Chief, was also denied a port call in Solomon Islands.
“Ships’ programs are under constant review, and it is routine practice for them to change,” the Royal Navy said in an emailed statement.
“For reasons of operational security we do not discuss details. The Royal Navy looks forward to visiting the Solomon Islands at a later date.”
During Operation Island Chief, the U.S., Australia, Britain and New Zealand provided support through aerial and surface surveillance for Pacific island nations participating in the operation, including Solomon Islands.
China has been assertively trying to expand its presence and influence in the Pacific, and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare alarmed some neighbors, the U.S. and others after he signed a new security pact with China.
The pact has raised fears of a Chinese naval base being established within 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia’s northeast coast. A Chinese military presence in the Solomon Islands would put it not only on the doorstep of Australia and New Zealand but also in close proximity to Guam, the U.S. territory that hosts major military bases.
Both the Solomon Islands and China have denied their pact will lead to a Chinese military foothold in the South Pacific.
Sogavare also raised eyebrows earlier in August when he skipped a memorial service marking the anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal, a key battle in World War II in which American and other allied forces wrested control of the islands from Imperial Japan.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, whose father was wounded during the Guadalcanal campaign and who attended the memorial, said Sogavare “missed an important opportunity” by failing to attend.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn met with Sogavare in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday but it was not clear whether she raised the issue of the Coast Guard’s refused port call.
The Tennessee Republican said in a statement on her website that her visit to the Solomon Islands as well as Fiji and Papua New Guinea “was an important step in showcasing America’s commitment to the region and expanding our strategic relationships.”
The Coast Guard, in the statement from Honolulu, said it respects the sovereignty of its foreign partners and looks forward to future engagement with Solomon Islands.
Coast Guard Lt. Kristin Kam told the Stars and Stripes newspaper that the U.S. State Department had been in touch with the Solomon Islands government following the refusal of the port call and that they “expect all future clearances will be provided to U.S. ships.”
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Version 23.2 includes more powerful tools to drive direct lead conversion in its immersive sales and marketing platform
TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Threshold 360, a trusted sales platform provider that features immersive virtual tour technology, announces the general availability of its latest release, 23.2. Boasting an array of powerful sales and analytic capabilities, 23.2 represents a significant leap forward for the company. After extensive field testing, 23.2 is now ready to serve organizations of all sizes across industries, including travel and tourism, hospitality, and the senior living industries, among others.
The 23.2 release improves the way businesses engage with their customers. Enhanced with an upgraded 360° viewer, innovative call-to-action functions, and advanced analytics to track campaign effectiveness, this release empowers businesses dependent on in-person traffic to convert online views into in-person visits and tours.
"Threshold 360 provides our partners with the advantage they require. It lets visitors, conference planners, sports organizers, and the community discover their ideal place," said Vimal Vyas, Vice President of Data, Security, and Digital Innovation for Greater Raleigh CVB. "With their most recent virtual tour technology and analytics release, Threshold360 continues to develop enterprise-level products, with faster loading visual content that is clear, sharp, and vivid."
By harnessing the power of 23.2, Threshold 360 customers gain valuable insights through intuitive data dashboards. The new viewer and analytics system features tagging at the campaign, per-session, source, and metadata levels. With this tagging, customer dashboards unveil the story behind tour viewership, revealing who is engaging with specific tours or landing pages.
"The upgraded user interface 23.2 allows us to dynamically tweak the spec requirements so it is configured for the differently sized templates across our website," said Lee Prutsman, Marketing Manager for Visit KC. "Using the new reporting and analytics features, we're able to tag and track tours to monitor the levels of engagement for locations with multiple website integrations."
"Our goal with this release is to provide our customers with tools that minimize conversion friction through enhanced analytics and call-to-action features that ultimately convert online viewers into in-person visitors," said Jesse Taylor, VP of Engineering at Threshold 360. "The improved analytics give actionable insights to enable our customers to effectively manage their virtual tours, and maximize their reach, engagement, and conversions."
With the general availability of 23.2, Threshold 360 solidifies its position as an industry leader in delivering immersive experiences that drive tangible business outcomes. The company remains committed to empowering organizations in the hospitality, senior living, and tourism sectors to thrive in an increasingly digital landscape.
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Threshold 360 is the leading virtual tour platform for the hospitality and tourism industry. With a library of over 100,000 locations and over 1 billion views, Threshold 360's immersive virtual experiences increase lead conversion rates, viewer engagement, and drive business growth for its customers.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Well hipsters and anti-hipsters and everyone in between, pay attention because it’s about to get serious as Lawnstarter has released its list of the best cities for hipsters in 2022.
Lawnstarter says, “If you love all things indie, vintage, and obscure, then you’re likely to thrive in one of 2022’s Best Cities for Hipsters.”
So, they’ve gone ahead and ranked the 200 biggest U.S. cities in order to help all of you out there find all the things a hipster could want and of course, chill vibes. In order to come up with their findings, they looked at multiple “anti-cool factors” like access to thrift stores, farmers’ markets and more!
So, how did Texas do?
- Austin (9)
- Houston (18)
- San Antonio (35)
- Dallas (40)
- El Paso (111)
- Fort Worth (126)
- Plano (136)
- Lubbock 145)
Here’s a look at the top 10 cities for hipsters in the U.S. according to Lawnstarter:
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Portland
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- Seattle
- San Diego
- Denver
- Austin
- Atlanta
Lawnstarter says that Texas and Vegas suburbs are, “The antithesis of the anti-cool. Outliers in the DFW like Denton (No. 191), Grand Prairie (No. 192), and Mesquite (No. 197), as well as Sin City’s Paradise (No. 196), Spring Valley (No. 198), and Sunrise Manor (No. 200), are the most mainstream cities in our ranking. “
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National Geographic releases ‘Best of the World 2023′ with 25 must-see destinations
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- National Geographic has unveiled its annual list of ‘Best of the World 2023′, 25 must-see locations across the globe.
This line-up is themed around travel experiences that helps strengthen local communities and environments. Each location is grouped by category: family, adventure, culture, and nature. This year features the community category, meant to focus on ways tourists can give back to the locations they’re visiting!
“We have experienced so many changes and disruptions in the way we explore over the last few years, so with this year’s list, we really wanted to get back to identifying positive stories about destinations and communities,” said Amy Alipio, senior editor at National Geographic Travel. “We also worked hard to provide lesser-known gems on the list, equally inspiring alternatives to destinations that have become overcrowded (think Choquequirao vs. Machu Picchu in Peru).”
The following list was created in collaboration with National Geographic Traveler’s editorial teams:
Culture
- Appian Way, Italy
- Busan, South Korea
- Longmen Grottoes, Henan Province, China
- Egypt
- Charleston, South Carolina
Nature
- Scottish Highlands
- Botswana
- Slovenia
- Big Bend National Park, Texas
- Azores
Adventure
- New Zealand
- Choquequirao, Peru
- Utah
- Austrian Alps
- Revillagigedo National Park, Mexico
Community
- Dodecanese Islands, Greece
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Alberta, Canada
- Laos
- Ghana
Family
- Trinidad and Tobago
- San Francisco, California
- Colombia
- Manchester, UK
- Switzerland
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Pakistani court extends pause in arresting ex-premier Khan
By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED
Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Thursday extended a pause in the effort to arrest former premier Imran Khanin a graft case, a sign of easing tension in the country’s cultural capital after clashes erupted this week when police tried to detain him.
The decision is a reprieve for Khan, who was due to be arrested a few hours earlier. The Lahore High Court ordered police to suspend the plan to arrest the 70-year-old opposition leader until Friday. It also asked Khan’s legal team for talks to resolve the issue.
The court also barred Khan’s Pakistan Tehree-e-Insaf opposition party from holding a rally that was to be led by Khan on Sunday ahead of the elections for a regional assembly, according to lawyers from the two sides.
Thursday’s order sent a wave of relief through Khan’s stick-wielding supporters, who were prepared to prevent police from reaching Khan’s house in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. Despite the order, however, police and paramilitary rangers deployed for Khan’s arrest were not immediately withdrawn.
Usman Anwar, the police chief in the Punjab province, said the violence in Lahore began Tuesday when officers went to comply with the court order and arrest Khan. But, he said, Khan’s supporters started throwing stones at officers, who were unarmed and only carrying batons.
“We will comply with the court order, and we will do it,” he told a local Geo TV station.
Lahore police have registered two new cases against Khan and his supporters on charges of damaging public property and attacking police when they went to his house Tuesday to arrest him.
In Islamabad, Khan’s legal team on Thursday asked judge Zafar Iqbal to suspend the arrest warrants he had issued last week for Khan, who is accused of illegally selling state gifts and concealing his assets.
Iqbal gave no indication of whether he will suspend the arrest warrants for Khan. Instead, he asked why Khan resisted when officers went to his house to arrest him. The judge said if Khan surrenders to the court now, he will stop police from arresting him.
During Thursday’s court hearing in Islamabad, Saad Hassan, a lawyer for the election tribunal, opposed Khan’s request for the cancellation of his arrest warrants, saying the former premier had been avoiding court hearings since January.
Violence erupted in Lahore on Tuesday when about 1,000 supporters of Khan clashed with police when they tried to arrest the former premier at his house in the upscale area of Zaman Park. Khan’s supporters hurled petrol bombs, rocks and bricks at police. Officers responded by swinging batons, firing tear gas and using water cannons. They failed to arrest Khan.
On Wednesday, Khan said in a video message that he was ready to travel to Islamabad on March 18 to appear before the court, if he is not arrested. Khan also posed for cameras seated at a long table, showing off piles of spent tear gas shells he said had been collected from around his home.
“What crime did I commit that my house has been attacked like this,” he tweeted the previous day.
Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April, was ordered to appear before a judge in Islamabad on Saturday to answer charges of illegally selling state gifts he had received during his term as premier and concealing his assets.
He was also disqualified from holding any public office in October on the charges.
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The Washington Post’s David Herszenhorn looks back at key points from an interview that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave this week to WAPO.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
256 PM PST Sun Dec 25 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Periods of high wind and blowing snow possible. Total
snow accumulations of 5 to 8 inches possible below 9000 feet
with 1 to 2 feet possible above 9000 feet. Winds could gust as
high as 60 mph in the slopes and above 70 mph at ridgetops.
* WHERE...Eastern Sierra Slopes.
* WHEN...From Monday evening through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Plan on periods of blowing snow resulting in
slippery road conditions and very low visibility. Very strong
gusty winds could bring down trees, their branches, and any
suspended power lines.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Winter Storm Watch means there is potential for significant
snow accumulations that may impact travel. Continue to monitor
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BURLINGAME, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halo Labs, a leading life science instrumentation company announced it has raised $6M in series C financing. The round was led by Agilent Technologies Inc. and includes participation from existing investors Research Corporation Technologies, Broad Oak Capital Partners, BioAdvance, and members of the Board of Directors and senior management.
This new funding will be used for continued commercialization of Halo Labs' Aura™ platform, increasing manufacturing capacity and developing innovative new products to meet the current and new needs of pharmaceutical researchers.
"For the past two years, Halo Labs has deployed an aggressive growth strategy and has raised the bar for innovation in our market," said Rick Gordon, CEO of Halo Labs. "The fact that we were able to close on a funding round in the current economic environment demonstrates the success of that strategy. Our instruments have been adopted by virtually every major biopharmaceutical company and are now one of the leading tools in cell and gene therapy. With this capital, we will continue our current trajectory and scale our business in some exciting new directions. We are excited to have Agilent as a partner in that journey."
First launched in 2017, Aura from Halo Labs has disrupted pharmaceutical product development by combining multiple stability, quality, and safety assays into one instrument. Now available in six different models, representing tools specific for different therapeutic modalities and development stages, Aura instruments give pharmaceutical scientists access to an unprecedented amount of data in a matter of minutes, allowing for new therapies to move from the lab to the clinic faster and more safely.
Halo Labs in Burlingame, CA is a venture-backed scientific instrumentation and consumable company that commercializes high throughput aggregate, visible and subvisible particle analysis for biopharmaceutical formulation, stability, and product quality control using state-of-the-art custom optics and image processing techniques. Researchers around the globe depend on Halo Labs for unprecedented insights into aggregates and subvisible particles present in their drug products via optical imaging on membranes. For more information, visit www.halolabs.com.
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Fraud, possession of marijuana, assault and theft among incidents in the Everest Metro Police Department log for Aug. 5 through Aug. 11.
EMPD-8-5-to-08-11-2022-Media-BlotterFraud, possession of marijuana, assault and theft among incidents in the Everest Metro Police Department log for Aug. 5 through Aug. 11.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the riverfront fountain, the upscale shopping district — is another side of the city.
Here, neighborhood roads are pitted with potholes and sometimes unpaved. Weeds swallow abandoned cars in empty lots. Grocery stores are sparse.
The people who live in this other Jacksonville are mostly Black, and many of them lay blame for their neighborhoods’ lack of services on the city’s politics. They point to a lack of representation resulting in part from the way the districts have been drawn for the city council, the decision-making body for Jacksonville’s 950,000 residents.
“It’s about diluting Black representation, Black power and change that needs to happen in the Black community,” said Moné Holder, a city resident who holds a leadership role at Florida Rising, a local voting rights group that focuses on communities of color. “Others may tell a different story as to why it is, but we see it in the lack of resources that go into those communities.”
A group of Jacksonville residents and local civil rights organizations sued the city last year, alleging that the council’s redistricting maps packed Black communities into four of the 19 council districts, five of which are at-large.
A U.S. district court judge last fall ruled in their favor and ordered the maps redrawn. Advocates said the city returned with more of the same, and in December the same court ordered that a map proposed by the advocates be used for Jacksonville’s elections this spring.
“There’s just naturally an incentive to keep things the same, and that’s what you saw in the Jacksonville process,” said Nick Warren, staff attorney with the ACLU of Florida.
The council argued in its court filings that the advocates’ latest plan would be the third council map in less than a year and would “cause voter confusion and undermine voter confidence.” The court rejected the appeal in early January, so voters will be casting ballots in new council districts for the city’s March elections.
The fight over how Jacksonville’s districts are drawn reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Redistricting for congressional and state legislative boundaries captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years, as the two major political parties seek mapmaking advantages that will help them retain or regain power at the federal or state level — a process known as gerrymandering.
No less fierce are the battles over the way voting lines are drawn in local governments, for city councils, county commissions and even school boards.
Conflicts over local redistricting erupted into public view late last year when a leaked audiotape revealed how Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council were plotting to gerrymander council districts in a way that would boost political power for their community at the expense of traditionally Black ones.
The exchange was punctuated with racist and graphic language and has widened racial fissures within the city, led the state Department of Justice to announce an investigation and prompted a legislative effort to remove the council’s redistricting power.
“Self-interest should not be the deciding factor,” said the bill’s sponsor, Democratic state Sen. María Elena Durazo. “It should be the Voting Rights Act, the California Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.”
When the city was going through the redistricting process, Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson recalled bringing up topics important to his constituents related to what he termed the “One Black district” but said he was ignored.
“Now I understand that that was on purpose,” he said.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling a decade ago gutting a section of the federal Voting Rights Act gave state and local governments tremendous freedom to change voting procedures and to redraw political boundaries, even if redistricting was done in a way that diluted the voting power of minority communities. Previously, some states and local governments were required to get approval from the Justice Department before making significant voting-related changes.
The gerrymandering for local government bodies receives far less attention than congressional or state legislative gerrymandering, in part because few local groups have the money and expertise to bring lawsuits against what they perceive as unfair maps.
Jacksonville is an exception. Local branches of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union teamed up with community civil rights groups to challenge the maps the City Council approved in March 2022.
Some community activists trace the city’s redistricting problems to a 1968 consolidation with Duval County, which allowed the city to grow but also changed its racial dynamics. At the time, it was hoped that a mix of predominantly Black council districts and at-large council positions would help boost Black representation.
Yet in the more than half-century since the merger, just six Black residents have served in the at-large positions, which are elected on a citywide basis, and just two of those were Democrats, according to research by Marcella Washington, a retired Florida State College at Jacksonville political science professor who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Black residents made up at least 40% of Jacksonville’s total population at the time of the consolidation, and today they account for a little over 30%.
While seven members of today’s Jacksonville council are Black, Washington said they don’t always vote in the interest of the Black community. As one example, she cited contentious votes over whether to remove Confederate monuments across the city. Other residents noted additional concerns in predominantly Black areas of Jacksonville they feel the council does not prioritize — city properties that are overgrown, problems with water and sewer service, inadequate services for homeless people.
Councilman Rory Diamond was the lone vote against the council’s original map, saying it was designed to protect incumbents. But he also is critical of the redrawn map to be used in the upcoming elections because he believes it could have the unintended consequence of “destroying African-American representation on the City Council.” Other council members declined to comment, citing the litigation.
Local activists say forcing Black residents into a handful of council districts has led to a sense in those communities that their voice doesn’t matter. That has made it difficult to get them engaged politically, said Rosemary McCoy, a plaintiff in the lawsuit and CEO of the Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters, a nonprofit that registers new voters.
“We understand that when you pack a group of people together, then these people don’t have a say. Their vote happens to be wasted,” McCoy said. “I ask people to sign petitions to put things on the ballot … and many times they’re telling us, ‘My vote don’t matter. My vote don’t count. Why should I vote? Nothing’s going to change’”
Ben Frazier, another plaintiff in the case and CEO of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, which focuses on injustice, said he would like the court fight in Jacksonville to inspire other groups around the country to challenge local redistricting maps when they appear to be drawn unfairly.
“I’m hopeful that there will be other cities and other states who look at Jacksonville and say Jacksonville moved against them, and maybe we should, too,” he said.
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The 2023 3M Open Odds & Preview: Nicolai Hojgaard
The field for the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota features Nicolai Hojgaard. The par-71 course spans 7,431 yards and the purse is $7,800,000.00 for the tournament, running from July 27-30.
Looking to bet on Hojgaard at the 3M Open this week? Keep reading for the betting odds and stats you need to know before you make your picks.
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Nicolai Hojgaard Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Hojgaard has shot below par eight times, while also posting eight rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded one of the five best scores in two of his last 16 rounds played.
- Hojgaard has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in three of his last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day seven times.
- Hojgaard has finished in the top 10 in one of his past five appearances.
- He has made three cuts in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five tournaments, Hojgaard has finished in the top 10 once.
- Hojgaard hopes to qualify for the weekend for the fourth straight time.
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3M Open Insights and Stats
- At 7,431 yards, TPC Twin Cities is set up as a par-71 for this event. In the past year, tournaments on the Tour have been played on courses with a shorter average distance of 7,017 yards.
- TPC Twin Cities has seen an average tournament score of -8 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- Courses that Hojgaard has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,416 yards, 15 yards shorter than the 7,431-yard TPC Twin Cities this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -3 among finishers, higher than the -8 average at this course.
Hojgaard's Last Time Out
- Hojgaard was good on the 16 par-3 holes at The Open Championship, averaging par to finish in the 67th percentile of the field.
- He shot well to finish in the 86th percentile on par 4s at The Open Championship, averaging 4.02 strokes on those 44 holes.
- Hojgaard was better than just 30% of the field at The Open Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.92 strokes per hole compared to the field average of 4.78.
- Hojgaard recorded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at The Open Championship, better than the field average of 1.3.
- On the 16 par-3s at The Open Championship, Hojgaard recorded more bogeys or worse (three) than the tournament average (2.3).
- Hojgaard had more birdies or better (seven) than the tournament average of 3.4 on the 44 par-4s at The Open Championship.
- In that last outing, Hojgaard's par-4 performance (on 44 holes) included a bogey or worse eight times (better than the field's average, 8.1).
- Hojgaard finished The Open Championship with a birdie or better on four of the 12 par-5s, more than the field average of 3.4.
- On the 12 par-5s at The Open Championship, Hojgaard had more bogeys or worse (three) than the tournament average (1.2).
3M Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: TPC Twin Cities
- Location: Blaine, Minnesota
- Par: 71 / 7,431 yards
- Hojgaard Odds to Win: +4000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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The Academy Awards may have snubbed our faves, but at least we got to see Rihanna hit the stage for her second performance of 2023. The Oscar Award nominee hit the stage and belted out “Life Me Up,” the ballad that landed her the Best Original Song for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The Bajan beauty traded in her black Alaïa dress for a Maison Margiela ensemble. Her black bra top featured diamonds cascading from the bottom, and it was paired with black embroidered wide-leg pants. Rihanna accessorized the look with leather opera gloves, diamond bracelets and diamond necklaces.
During Rihanna’s first pregnancy, we learned that there’s no slowing her down. Judging from her last two performances, it is clear she is prepared to dominate – with the baby bump in tow. She looked amazing on stage, and we can only hope to get more of the superstar.
As we wait for the Best Original Song category to be read, we can only hope that Rihanna, Tems and Ryan Coogler take home this win. The Black Panther film received a few snubs tonight, including Angela Bassett for Best Supporting Actress and Camille Friend for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Ruth Carter saved the evening by taking home the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
We have our fingers crossed!
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Weekend weather concerns Northern California firefighters
FORESTHILL, Calif. (AP) — A weekend weather system could hamper firefighters’ efforts in Northern California to battle the week-old blaze that’s become the largest in the state so far this year.
The system is forecasted to bring colder temperatures and precipitation — from 1/4 inch (0.6 centimeters) to more than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of rainfall over several days — to the Mosquito Fire about 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
But stronger winds are also expected to arrive in the area beginning Saturday, and the winds could throw burning embers and create spot fires despite the rain.
“That’s a bit of a mixed blessing here,” fire behavior analyst Jonathan Pangburn said Thursday.
The forecast came as firefighters again prevented flames from entering a mountain town and reported major progress Thursday, just two days after the fire roared back to life and burned structures near Foresthill. Crews on the ground built up containment lines while water-dropping helicopters knocked down hotspots.
Conditions on the ground Thursday were “looking a whole heck of a lot better,” according to fire spokesman Scott McLean.
“It’s looking really good on the west end where we had that dramatic increase of fire earlier this week,” McLean said. Flames raced up a drainage ditch into a neighborhood, but firefighters saved all the homes.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history.
Evacuation orders remained for some 11,000 residents because of the unpredictable nature of the winds, McLean said, which typically blow in the direction of several canyons and could rapidly spread flames if gusts pick up.
The Mosquito Fire was 20% contained after destroying at least 70 homes and other buildings. Total containment of the fire is expected to occur around Oct. 15.
The 109-square-mile (282-square-kilometer) blaze on Wednesday surpassed the size of the previous largest conflagration in 2022 — the McKinney Fire — although this season has seen a fraction of last year’s wildfire activity so far.
In Southern California, dogs aided the hunt for a person missing in a heavily damaged area of the San Bernardino Mountains where thunderstorms unleashed rocks, trees and earth that washed away cars, buried homes and affected 3,000 residents in two remote communities. Nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell Monday at Yucaipa Ridge between Oak Glen, home to apple orchards that are a fall tourist destination, and Forest Falls, once a summer getaway for cabin owners that has become a bedroom community.
“This entire area is blanketed with up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) of mud, debris, large boulders,” said Jim Topelski, a San Bernardino County fire chief.
The mudslide damage in Oak Glen and Forest Falls served as a powerful warning to residents of the lingering damage wildfires can cause months or even years after flames are extinguished and the smoke clears.
An intense amount of rain even over a short period of time can have catastrophic effects on hillsides where fire has stripped vegetation that once held the ground intact.
Also in Southern California, firefighters were close to completely surrounding a deadly wildfire that erupted Sept. 5 and initially spread very quickly.
The Fairview Fire was burning about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. The 44-square-mile (114-square-kilometer) blaze was 94% contained Friday. Two people were killed trying to flee the fire, which destroyed at least 35 homes and other structures in Riverside County.
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Sheriff: 5 arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into jail
IBERVILLE PARISH, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana say a handful of people have been arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into a jail.
According to the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, five individuals are facing charges for attempting to get narcotics into the parish jail.
Sheriff Brett Stassi said Jamie Guidry, 41, is facing charges that include possession with intent to distribute narcotics, the introduction of contraband, possession of drug paraphernalia, and having controlled dangerous substances in the presence of a juvenile.
Authorities said Jewell Herron, 42, has been charged with the introduction of contraband. Coy Simpson, 45, is facing charges of possession with intent to distribute narcotics and introduction of contraband.
The sheriff’s office said Kerwin Williams, 40, has been charged with the introduction of contraband. Darius Washington, 35, is facing charges of possession with intent to distribute narcotics and introduction of contraband.
The Iberville Parish Jail is located about 17 miles south of Baton Rouge.
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Tiger Woods had fusion surgery on his right ankle Wednesday morning to alleviate arthritis from a broken bone, putting in doubt whether he plays any more majors this year.
Woods disclosed the surgery on Twitter and said it was a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from when he broke his talus bone in February 2021.
“He’s resting now and will start the recovery process,” Mark Steinberg, his agent at Excel Sports, said in a telephone interview.
The surgery took place in New York, and Steinberg said Woods has returned to his home near Jupiter, Florida, to begin rehabilitating.
As for when Woods could return to playing golf, Steinberg said there was “no timetable on this.”
“The first goal is to recover and lead a much more enjoyable day-to-day life,” he said.
Woods shattered multiple bones in his right leg and ankle in February 2021 when the SUV he was driving crashed off a suburban coastal Los Angeles road at about 85 mph and tumbled down the side of a hill. The injuries were so severe, Woods said, that doctors contemplated amputation.
Woods has had multiple surgeries on his leg as a result of the car crash. The ankle has been causing most of the problems of late, including a noticeable limp when he played four of the last five majors, most recently the Masters two weeks ago.
The talus is the second-largest of a group of bones known as the tarsus, which forms the lower part of the ankle joint and transmits the weight of the body from the lower leg to the foot. The subtalar joint allows for side-to-side movement needed for walking, especially on uneven surfaces.
Most estimates put recovery from subtalar fusion at eight to 12 weeks. That would all but rule out the PGA Championship next month — Woods was doubtful, anyway, given it will be at Oak Hill in Rochester, New York, with likely cold temperatures.
The U.S. Open is June 15-18 at Los Angeles Country Club, and the British Open is in three months (July 20-23) at Royal Liverpool in England.
Woods made an improbable return 14 months after the car crash to play in the Masters and walked 72 holes. Remarkably, he has missed only one cut — the British Open at St. Andrews last summer — although he withdrew after three rounds of the PGA Championship last year and he withdrew this year in the middle of the third round of the rain-delayed Masters.
Woods cited plantar fasciitis for his withdrawal from the Masters, where he tied the record by making his 23rd cut. Plantar fasciitis also was cited when he had to withdraw from his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in December, which he said was caused by working too much to get ready to play.
Jason Day said at the Masters that Woods told him the reason for his withdrawal from the PGA Championship last year “was a screw went through the skin.”
Woods previously had five surgeries on his back. That included fusion surgery on his lower spine that allowed him to return to play. He won the Tour Championship in 2018, the Masters in 2019 for his 15th major championship and the Zozo Championship in Japan in the fall of 2019 for his 82nd career PGA Tour title, tying the career record of Sam Snead.
He has said in numerous interviews that hitting shots is not the problem, it’s walking to the next one. Woods also has said his schedule would be limited to the majors and maybe a few others, such as the 36-hole PNC Championship with his son in which he can ride in a cart.
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