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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The heavily armed men appeared around the small farming village in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, frightening residents already on edge after recent clashes between government troops and rebels.
“The militants assured us that they will not touch us. They said they are not after us,” resident Nur Hussein Abdi told The Associated Press. “But in reality, they were surrounding our whole village for a deadly massacre. What happened the next day was a total bloodbath.”
Abdi escaped by hiding on a rooftop, a horrified witness to one of the worst mass killings in Ethiopia in recent years. Hundreds of people, mostly ethnic Amhara, were slaughtered in Tole village and the surroundings on June 18 in the latest explosion of ethnic violence in Africa’s second most populous nation.
Multiple witnesses told the AP they are still discovering bodies, with some put in mass graves containing scores of people. The Amhara Association of America said it has confirmed 503 civilians killed. Ethiopian authorities have not released figures. One witness, Mohammed Kemal, said he has witnessed 430 bodies buried, and others are still exposed and decomposing.
Kemal begged Ethiopia’s government to relocate the survivors, saying the armed men had threatened to return.
“They killed infants, children, women and the elderly,” resident Ahmed Kasim said. The Amhara Association of America said the dead include a 100-year-old and a one-month-old baby, and some people were killed in a mosque where they had tried to hide.
Residents and Oromia regional officials have blamed the Oromo Liberation Army, an armed group that Ethiopia’s government has declared a terrorist organization. An OLA spokesman denied it, alleging that federal troops and regional militia attacked the villagers for their perceived support of the OLA as they retreated from an OLA offensive.
Again, Ethiopians are left wondering why the federal government failed to protect them from the violent side of the country’s ethnic tensions — and why ethnic minorities in a federal system based on identity are left so vulnerable.
Teddy Afro, Ethiopia’s much celebrated pop star, released two songs this week highlighting the crisis that has worsened in the past four years and dedicating his songs to civilians who have lost their lives.
“It’s never an option to keep quiet when a mountain of death comes in front of me,” one of his lyrics says.
On Friday, thousands of students at Gondar University in the neighboring Amhara region protested the killings and demanded justice.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has said security forces have launched a military operation against the OLA, but many Ethiopians appear skeptical after seeing the deadly cycle play out in the past.
The president of the Oromia region, Shimelis Abdisa, on Thursday acknowledged that it will be difficult to arrange security in every location, but said the current operation “will cripple the enemy’s ability to move from place to place.”
Ethnic Amhara are Ethiopia’s second-largest ethnic group but have found themselves under attack in some areas where they are in the minority. Several dozen were killed in attacks in the Benishangul Gumuz and Oromia regions over the past three years alone.
“Ethnic Amharas who live outside of their region do not have legal and political representation, which results in no protection,” said Muluken Tesfaw, a community activist who tracks abuses against the Amhara. “There were even speeches by Oromia region government officials that seek to reduce Amharic-speaking people.”
“An anti-Amhara narrative has been spreading for over 50 years now,” said Belete Molla, chairman of the opposition NaMA party. “The Amhara living in Oromia and Benishangul are hence being targeted.” He also accused some members of the Oromia region’s ruling party of “working for or sympathizing with the Oromo Liberation Army.”
The latest mass killings brought international alarm. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has urged Ethiopian authorities to hold “prompt, impartial and through” investigations. The U.S. State Department called on Ethiopians to “reject violence and pursue peace.”
Ethiopia continues to struggle with ethnic tensions in several parts of the country and a deadly conflict in the northern Tigray region that has severely affected the once rapidly growing economy, but the prime minister is adamant that better days are ahead.
“There is no doubt that Ethiopia is on the path of prosperity,” he declared in a parliament address this month.
But Ethiopians who escaped the latest attack seek answers.
Nur Hussein said he and other Tole villagers had called nearby officials about the appearance of the armed men shortly before the violence exploded. “Their response was muted. They said there were no specific threats to respond to. But look at what unfolded,” he said. “God willing, we will get past this, but it is a scar that will live with us forever.”
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Police arrest juvenile accused of being peeping Tom
Published: Apr. 18, 2023 at 2:51 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ZACHARY, La. (WAFB) - A juvenile is facing a peeping Tom charge after officials chased him from outside a home early Tuesday morning, April 18, according to the Zachary Police Department.
Police said someone called them around 6:30 a.m. to report a man looking into a home’s window while inappropriately touching himself.
Responding officers found the juvenile at the scene, and he led them on a foot pursuit before being taken into custody, according to officials.
Police said they arrested him for criminal trespass, obscenity, peeping Tom, and resisting an officer. He was booked into the juvenile detention center.
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Erie Strategic Ventures will invest in and offer commercial support to startups focused on the insurance industry and related spaces
ERIE, Pa., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance, an auto, home, business and life insurance company based in Erie, Pennsylvania, today announced the establishment of Erie Strategic Ventures to support visionary entrepreneurs. The fund is the most recent example of ERIE's commitment to supporting entrepreneurship and delivering innovative products, services and experiences to its customers and network of independent agents.
Erie Strategic Ventures' focus will span the personal and commercial insurance value chain as well as natural adjacencies that offer potential to deliver value to ERIE customers and agents. Initial areas of interest include insurance innovation in risk avoidance, claims, underwriting, digital sales, agency productivity tools, and products and services for home, families and small businesses. The fund is stage and geography agnostic but will focus primarily on early-stage investments in North America.
"We are excited to build upon our expanding innovation efforts with the launch of this venture fund," said Keith Kennedy, senior vice president for Next Level Innovation at Erie Insurance. "ERIE is committed to a culture of service and our corporate values will translate well into supporting the founders we invest in."
Erie Strategic Ventures is the venture capital arm of Erie Insurance, a Fortune 500 insurance company that generated $7.9 billion in direct written premium in 2021. Founded in 1925, ERIE is the nation's 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer based on direct premiums written. ERIE is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best and has more than six million policies in force.
In addition to capital, Erie Strategic Ventures will leverage ERIE's industry leadership and value proposition to support portfolio companies. With nearly 100 years of insurance expertise, ERIE has the potential to serve both as a customer and development partner for startups. ERIE will seek to partner with startups to bring innovative products and services to market, leveraging a strong network of independent agents across 12 states and Washington D.C.
Erie Strategic Ventures will partner with Touchdown Ventures, a firm specializing in corporate venture capital, which will work closely with senior executives at ERIE on fund operations.
"We are thrilled to partner with a values-driven company such as Erie Insurance that has the scale, resources and ability to make a positive impact on the corporate venture landscape," noted Rich Grant, co-founder and managing director of Touchdown Ventures. "Our combined Erie Strategic Ventures team has significant insurance industry and corporate venture capital experience. We will leverage this expertise and ERIE's unique position in the market to support entrepreneurs."
Learn more about Erie Strategic Ventures at www.erieinsurance.com/ventures.
About Erie Insurance
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
About Touchdown Ventures
Touchdown Ventures partners with corporations to manage their venture capital programs. Touchdown works closely with each corporation to achieve the financial and strategic benefits from venture capital investments. The firm is a Registered Investment Adviser and maintains offices in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. More information on Touchdown can be found at www.touchdownvc.com.
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NORWALK, Conn., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG) today announced that it has nominated Sumit Singh, Chief Executive Officer of Chewy, Inc. - a leading online destination for pet parents and partners - for election to the Board at the company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders in June 2022.
Mr. Singh has held Chewy's CEO position since March 2018, and also serves on the company's Board of Directors. In 2019, he led the company through its initial public offering. Mr. Singh was subsequently named to the 2020 "Bloomberg 50," Bloomberg Businessweek's annual list of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have changed the global business landscape over the past year, and to other notable lists such as NRF Foundation's "The List of People Shaping Retail's Future 2022." Prior to joining Chewy, Mr. Singh held senior leadership positions at Amazon, and prior to Amazon, Mr. Singh served in senior management positions at Dell Technologies Inc. He has over 20 years global leadership experience that spans e-commerce, technology, retail, and logistics. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Punjab Technical University and a Master's in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
"Sumit brings extensive executive experience across a number of online retailers that will be of great value to the Board and Holdings' leadership team. We are delighted to welcome him to the Board," said Robert J. Mylod Jr., Chair of Booking Holdings.
Booking Holdings also announced that Director Bob van Dijk has decided to retire from the Booking Holdings Board, effective at the Company's Annual Meeting in June.
"We would like to thank Bob for his commitment and service to the Booking Holdings Board and stockholders," said Mr. Mylod. "Bob brought extensive leadership, finance, global business, and internet/e-commerce experience and counsel to the Board, which has served our stockholders well. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
About Booking Holdings
Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visit BookingHoldings.com and follow us on Twitter @BookingHoldings.
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SHANGHAI, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Development Bank (NDB) has just approved five new projects totalling USD 875 million for water, sanitation, ecotourism and transport. Investments will support commitments by Brazil, China and India towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In Brazil, NDB will channel USD 300 million that will contribute to connecting 592 thousand households to water supply and 727 thousand to sewage collection networks in the state of Sao Paulo. It also promotes environmental protection by augmenting wastewater treatment capacity, among other development outputs. The project will be implemented by the Water and Sanitation Company (SABESP).
In India, NDB will direct USD 79 million for the Meghalaya Ecotourism Infrastructure Development Project. Investments will foster much needed infrastructure in Meghalaya state that will lead to the establishment of 5 ecotourism circuits. The project includes the construction 114km of roads and bridges. NDB will also direct USD 70 million to the Lamphelpat Waterbody Rejuvenation Project. Investments will contribute to the development of the waterbody, greenspaces and tourism facilities. A technology-driven real time flood management system with early warning capacity will also be set up and thus improve efficiency in flood prevention, as well as timely delivery of relief and recovery efforts to the flood affected region.
In China, NDB approved EUR 265 million for the expansion of the Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport and RMB 805 million for the expansion of the Xi'an Xianyang International Airport. The two projects combined will contribute to the construction of five new runways with associated taxiway system, two new terminal buildings, apron with 187 aircraft stands, cargo facilities and supporting infrastructure, with considerations of energy conservation, low carbon emission, and optimization of resource consumption. After the expansion, both airports will be able to serve the projected demand at least till the year 2030. The design capacity for annual passenger throughput of Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport will increase by over 4 times to 38 million and that of Xi'an Xianyang International Airport by about three times to 83 million.
With these five new projects, NDB's cumulative approvals have now reached nearly USD 32 billion, contributing to the infrastructure and sustainable development areas that will maximize positive impacts on people and economies in emerging markets and developing countries.
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New Development Bank (NDB) was established with the purpose of mobilizing resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging market economies and developing countries, complementing the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions for global growth and development.
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Did you lose money on investments in Innovative Industrial Properties? If so, please visit Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. ("IIPR" or the "Company") (NYSE: IIPR) between May 7, 2020 and April 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
IIPR purports to be an internally-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of specialized industrial properties leased to experienced, state-licensed operators for their regulated state-licensed cannabis facilities.
In the Complaint, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) that IIPR's focus is to be a cannabis company lender rather than a REIT; (2) that the true values of IIPR's properties are significantly lower than the Company represented; (3) existential issues plagued its top customers; and (4) that as a result, its top customers may not be able to continue making payments to IIPR, which would face significant issues replacing these customers.
On April 14, 2022, before market hours, market researcher Blue Orca Capital released a report on IIPR (the "Report") that described the Company as "a marijuana bank masquerading as a REIT. IIPR's model is to conduct sale-leaseback transactions with cannabis producers who are otherwise prohibited from borrowing money because of federal regulations."
The Report explained that "[i]n exchange for overpaying for properties from cannabis companies and funding the tenant improvements to build out the facilities, IIPR receives repayment of the loan in the form of long-term lease agreements at 11–14% yields. In effect, IIPR is less of a traditional REIT, and more of a marijuana bank, lending to cannabis companies who otherwise would not have access to the banking system to grow their businesses. This works so long as the tenants can repay their loans by continuing to make their lease payments, meaning IIPR's business and valuation is contingent on high quality tenants". The Report also stated that "unlike with other REITs, IIPR cannot expect to recover the lost income from defaulting tenants because it appears that the actual values of its properties are substantially below their carrying value on IIPR's balance sheet."
On this news, the price of IIPR stock fell more than 7% to close at $169.68 per share on April 14, 2022.
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If you purchased or acquired IIRP securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Taiwan’s military fired warning shots at drones from China flying over its outposts just off the Chinese coastline, underscoring heightened tensions and the self-ruled island’s resolve to respond to new provocations.
Taiwan’s forces said in a statement that troops took the action on Tuesday after drones were found hovering over the Kinmen island group. Dadan, one of the islands where a drone was spotted, lies roughly 15 kilometers (9 miles) off the Chinese coast.
The statement Wednesday referred to the unmanned aerial vehicles as being of “civilian use,” but gave no other details. It said the drones returned to the nearby Chinese city of Xiamen after the shots were fired. Taiwan previously fired only flares as warnings.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions after China fired missiles into the sea and sent planes and ships across the dividing line in the Taiwan Strait earlier this month. It followed angry rhetoric from Beijing over a trip to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. dignitary to visit the island in 25 years.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and its recent actions have been viewed as a rehearsal of a possible blockade or invasion. China’s drills brought strong condemnation from Taiwan’s chief ally, the U.S., along with fellow regional democracies such as Australia and Japan. Some of China’s missiles early in August fell into nearby Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
Taiwan maintains control over a range of islands in the Kinmen and Matsu groups in the Taiwan Strait, a relic of the effort by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists to maintain a foothold on the mainland after being driven out by Mao Zedong’s Communists amid civil war in 1949.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said China’s actions failed to intimidate the island’s 23 million people, saying they had only hardened support for the armed forces and the status quo of de-facto independence.
Officials said anti-drone defenses were being strengthened, part of a 12.9% increase in the Defense Ministry’s annual budget next year. The government is planning to spend an additional 47.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($1.6 billion), for a total of 415.1 billion NTD ($13.8 billion) for the year.
The U.S. is also reportedly preparing to approve a $1.1 billion defense package for Taiwan that would include anti-ship and air-to-air missiles to be used to repel potential Chinese invasion attempt.
Following the Chinese drills, the U.S. sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait, which China has sought to designate as its sovereign waters. Foreign delegations from the U.S., Japan and European nations have continued to arrive to lend Taipei diplomatic and economic support.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is currently visiting Taiwan to discuss production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Ducey is seeking to woo suppliers for the new $12 billion Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) plant being built in his state.
The governor is also visiting tech powerhouse South Korea, and in a statement on his official website said his aim was to take these relationships to the next level – to strengthen them, expand them and ensure they remain mutually beneficial.”
Last week, the Indiana governor visited Taiwan on a similar mission.
Taiwanese Air Force pilots have also trained at Luke Air Force Base outside Phoenix for more than 25 years, an indication of continuing U.S. support for Taiwan’s defense despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties.
Taiwan produces more than half the global supply of high-end processor chips. China’s firing of missiles during its exercises disrupted shipping and air traffic, and highlighted the possibility that chip exports might be interrupted.
Reacting to Ducey’s visit, China on Wednesday reaffirmed its opposition to any official contacts between the U.S. and Taiwan. That was a further reminder of the Communist Party’s refusal to acknowledge the separation of powers within the U.S. government and the right of American local officials to operate independently of the administration.
“We urge the relevant parties in the U.S. to … stop any forms of official contacts with Taiwan, and refrain from sending wrong signals to the Taiwan independence forces,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing.
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Southern New Haven-
337 AM EDT Fri May 13 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of light rain and drizzle.
Areas of fog this morning. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog
in the evening. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. A chance
of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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CTZ007-132000-
Northern Middlesex-
337 AM EDT Fri May 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of light rain and
drizzle. Areas of fog this morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
CTZ011-132000-
Southern Middlesex-
337 AM EDT Fri May 13 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of light rain and drizzle.
Areas of fog this morning. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog
in the evening. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 70. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CTZ008-132000-
Northern New London-
337 AM EDT Fri May 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of light rain and drizzle
this morning. Areas of fog this morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
East winds around 5 mph, becoming south this afternoon. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog in the evening, then areas of fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CTZ012-132000-
Southern New London-
337 AM EDT Fri May 13 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of light rain and drizzle.
Areas of fog this morning. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog
in the evening. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of
fog in the morning. Highs around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
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MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) –All sorts of Star Wars characters from far, far away landed at the Northeast Louisiana Children’s Museum, where the community had the opportunity to take pictures and make memories.
These characters were members of costuming organization 501st Legion Members of Northeast Louisiana.
Lyla Nix was one of the attendees. She says she loves all the Star Wars films.
“I love it, it’s wonderful. I love seeing all the different characters. I like all of them, they are the best.”
Families were invited to come dressed up as their favorite pop culture characters.
“It was very much fun. I took pictures with Darth Vader and played. I like how he is a very talented Jedi,” another attendee, James said.
James says his favorite part is Darth Vader’s breathing sound.
The event was geared toward people of all ages. Northeast Louisiana Children’s Museum development director, Dawn Landry, says this was something to be shared with the entire family.
“What a great event for our Star Wars fans, and children to be able to enjoy the museum. The 501st Legion was here, and all of them were here. We had a house full of amazing things for the kids.”
And the event brought a closer bond between parents and their children indeed.
“She has watched a lot of Star Wars movies with me. I have pointed out a lot of nerdy details to her. She just enjoys that kind of stuff. She did have a lot of fun,” John Nixon, Lyla’s dad said.
“Yeah, we are in the middle of watching all of them because there are different characters every single time, and they are destroying different things every single time,” Lyla said.
From Darth Vader to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Grogu, and Stormtroopers, the event fueled children with creativity and imagination. | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/nela-childrens-museum-hosts-meet-and-greet-with-real-life-star-wars-characters/ | 2023-07-17 14:52:59 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/nela-childrens-museum-hosts-meet-and-greet-with-real-life-star-wars-characters/ |
The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Wednesday:
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Children’s painkillers are in high demand as respiratory illnesses continue to rise
By Carma Hassan, CNN
With all but six states experiencing “high” or “very high” respiratory virus levels, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, certain over-the-counter children’s medications are hard to find in many places across the United States.
The availability of children’s painkillers first started dropping in June. After some recovery in early fall, it started to dip again in November, according to market research firm Nielsen IQ, which tracks point of sale data from retailers.
The US Food and Drug Administration said it is closely working with drug manufacturers to assess the situation.
“The FDA recognizes the potential impact that reduced availability of certain products may have on health care providers and patients. While the agency does not manufacturer drugs and cannot require a pharmaceutical company to make a drug, make more of a drug, or change the distribution of a drug, the public should rest assured the FDA is working closely with numerous manufacturers and others in the supply chain to understand, mitigate and prevent or reduce the impact of intermittent or reduced availability of certain products. The FDA understands that manufacturers expect availability to continue to increase in the near future,” the agency said.
According to Seattle Children’s Hospital, the continuing surge of respiratory illnesses has affected liquid acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which are commonly given to children.
“We are actively implementing mitigation strategies for the shortages of these fever reducing medications,” said Emily Benefield, manager of pharmacy clinical programs at Seattle Children’s.
A Kroger spokesperson told CNN its pharmacy team is working “diligently to ensure our customers have the medications they need. At this time, our inventory of children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen are constrained. We continue to work daily to manage through the constraints.”
Johnson & Johnson says it’s seeing high demand for its pain relief products and is working to maximize production capacity.
“We are doing everything we can to make sure people have access to the products they need, including maximizing our production capacity, and running our sites 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Some products may be less readily available due to this increased demand but we are not experiencing an overall shortage of Children’s TYLENOL or Children’s MOTRIN in the United States,” the company said in a statement Friday. “We will continue to work with our retailers to provide these products throughout the Cold & Flu Season.”
Despite the increased demand, retail pharmacy Walgreens said, it is “prepared and able to continue meeting the needs of our customers and patients.”
“We are working with our diverse set of suppliers and distributors to ensure our patients have the products they need most,” the company said.
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FOREST GROVE, Ore., Oct. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Streak" lives on at Linfield University, an NCAA Division III university.
With a 42-21 win over Pacific University (Ore.) on Saturday, the Linfield Wildcats moved to 5-0 (3-0 conference) on the season and guaranteed themselves a 66th consecutive winning season.
Beginning in 1956, "The Streak" is the longest run of consecutive winning season in the history of college football in any division or at any level. The second-longest winning streak is held by the University of Mount Union (Ohio), at 42 years.
Linfield remains at the top of the Division III Northwest Conference. The Wildcats entered this week nationally ranked No. 7 in the latest D3football.com Top 25 and No. 5 in the latest American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) poll.
The first half Saturday was a physical, back-and-forth contest, and Linfield took a slim 14-7 lead into halftime. But the Wildcats marched down the field for a quick touchdown to start the second half and never looked back.
The winning tradition kicked off under legendary coach Paul Durham and is a major point of pride at Linfield: in nearly seven decades, Linfield has won 83.7% of its regular-season games, and 81.1% overall.
"The Streak is testament to the power of sticking to your core values and principles," said head football coach Joseph Smith. "We focus on putting the team ahead of the individual, creating a work ethic that is always focused on improvement, having a positive attitude and being a man of your word; those values and principles are why we have won more than 80% of our games here for more than six decades."
Since the Streak began, Linfield has won 43 conference championships, posted 22 undefeated regular seasons and recorded five undefeated seasons, with four national championships, three national runner-up trophies and seven trips to the national semifinals.
"I love this program," Smith said. "I could not be prouder of the players that have come before, as well as the players and coaches that are making it happen now. The credit goes to the men in the arena, and this year's team is, indeed, to quote Theodore Roosevelt, daring greatly."
To learn more about the Streak, visit linfield.edu/thestreak.
About Linfield University
Linfield University is an independent, nonprofit university with two physical campuses in McMinnville and Portland, Oregon, and an eCampus. Since 1858, Linfield has connected a traditional liberal arts experience with practical education through 57 majors, including wine studies, sport management and nursing. Linfield also offers interdisciplinary graduate degrees in business, nursing, education and sports sciences. For three years running, U.S. News & World Report magazine has named Linfield one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation when it comes to social mobility. Thirty-two percent of Linfield students are first-generation college students, and more than one-third are U.S. students of color. Linfield competes in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. Learn more at www.linfield.edu.
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Rep. Evans and Rep. Cleaver raise the (cheese)steaks in Super Bowl bet
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It started as a friendly bet, but with all the trash talking, Pennsylvania Congressman Dwight Evans and Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver are now raising the (cheese) steaks.
“When he loses, he will give me the Philly cheesesteak, And out of pity, I will give him Kansas a barbecue. He’s a good person. And I’m sorry this is going to happen to him,” said Cleaver.
Kansas City Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver is so confident the Lombardi trophy will be in the hands of the Chiefs Sunday, he feels sorry for his colleague; PHILADELPHIA Representative Dwight Evans of Philadelphia.
“One of the reasons I’m not wanting the Chiefs to beat the Eagles too badly is because, you know, I think it’s going to ruin Dwight Evans for life,” said Cleaver. “It’s one of those things that he won’t be able to get it out of the system. And I feel guilty that this is where it goes.”
The taunt doesn’t fly with Evans.
“I can only say to him, that he hasn’t met a team like the Eagles,” said Evans.
Evans keeps reminders of past Eagles victories all around his office - and his hoping to add more victory front-pages come Monday. He just hopes Cleaver doesn’t take it to hard.
“He is one of my buddies. I really enjoy him in the period. I have known him as my colleague. He’s a very sincere spiritual leader,” said Evans. “He gives some good spiritual insight and I admire him.”
“He’s a good person. The Lord loves him, but he’s going to lose,” said Cleaver
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Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke settle longstanding legal battle over rape, defamation claims
NEW YORK (AP) — Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her accusation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him, they announced Thursday, with the singer saying that “only God knows what happened that night.”
Dr. Luke, meanwhile, said he was “absolutely certain that nothing happened. I never drugged or assaulted her.”
Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, as both she and he revealed on Instagram that they had agreed to “a resolution” of the case and to a statement from each of them. Messages seeking comment were sent to their attorneys.
“I cannot recount everything that happened,” Kesha wrote, adding that she wishes “nothing but peace to all parties involved.”
Dr. Luke, in turn, said he wished her well and wanted “to put this difficult matter behind me” after years of fighting to clear his name.
The deal averts a trial that had been scheduled for this summer over allegations that became a #MeToo cause for Kesha’s supporters and came to involve a lineup of music industry luminaries. Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Adam Levine and Taio Cruz are among those who gave testimony or sworn statements related to the case.
At the same time, the case raised important legal questions about fame and defamation. The stakes were seen as high enough that media outlets weighed in about pretrial rulings that they worried could help powerful people suppress unflattering reporting.
The court clash between the multiplatinum-selling singer and the Grammy-nominated producer has been playing out since 2014 and looming over both of their careers.
The Associated Press does not generally name people who report being sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Kesha has done.
The singer made her name — originally styled Ke$ha — with a series of swaggering, just-try-to-stop-me party anthems, beginning with 2009′s “TiK ToK.” Those early hits were produced by Dr. Luke, who founded the record label that signed a Nashville unknown named Kesha Rose Sebert at age 18.
Born Lukasz Gottwald, he has produced chart-toppers for Perry, Lavigne, Flo Rida and more. Besides notching multiple Grammy nominations, Dr. Luke has repeatedly won pop songwriter of the year awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Kesha sued him in 2014, alleging he drugged and raped her nine years earlier and psychologically tormented her throughout their working relationship. She said he harangued her about her weight, denigrated her voice and lorded his power over her career.
“The abuse I suffered from Luke was a decade long, every day, every moment of every day,” she said during sworn questioning in 2017. According to Kesha, the ordeal sparked a flare-up of an eating disorder that led to her spending two months in a rehabilitation clinic in 2014.
Dr. Luke, who has not been charged with any crimes, responded by suing Kesha. He has asserted that she made “completely untrue and deeply hurtful” claims to tarnish him and get out of her record contract.
“Any reasonable person will not believe her,” he said when questioned under oath in 2017.
His attorneys have noted that Kesha herself said he “never made sexual advances at me” during sworn questioning in a separate lawsuit in 2011. She has since said she was “not entirely transparent” in those 2011 statements because she was terrified of Dr. Luke and felt compelled to protect him.
Kesha went five years without releasing an album during the standoff, saying she could not work with a “monster” but couldn’t get away from him because she was under contract with his label. His lawyers and the label’s attorneys maintained that she did not have to work with him personally.
She eventually returned with 2017′s “Rainbow” and two subsequent albums, all with other producers. Her most recent album, “Gag Order,” came out in May.
Dr. Luke’s career also took a hit after she went public with her allegations. He has said various artists, particularly female ones, eschewed “working with someone who’s called a rapist.”
But under the name Tyson Trax, he made it back to the top of the charts in 2020 with Doja Cat’s “Say So,” garnering his first Grammy nomination since 2014. By this year, he was ASCAP’s pop songwriter of the year once again.
Along the way, Kesha’s sexual abuse-related claims were dismissed because of time limits and other legal issues, without any findings about the merits of the allegations themselves. But she countersued Dr. Luke under a New York law against bringing frivolous suits to try to intimidate critics into silence; New York’s highest court recently ruled that she could pursue those claims.
The top court, which New York calls the Court of Appeals, also declared that Dr. Luke is a “public figure” in the eyes of the law. That’s significant because the legal requirements for proving defamation are tougher for public figures than for everyday people.
Lower courts had said the producer wasn’t a public figure. Over a dozen media outlets and organizations got involved in the case to argue that those earlier rulings could end up helping famous people squash free speech and reporting on sexual abuse allegations.
Earlier in the case, Kesha was ordered to pay Dr. Luke more than $373,000 in interest on royalties she paid him years late.
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From Emergency Water Damage Restoration, Flood Cleanup, Mold Removal and More, M&G Water & Fire Restoration Can Handle It
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joel Gracia, the founder of M&G Water & Fire Restoration Services Inc., is pleased to announce that when it comes to water damage restoration services in San Jose, California, his company is definitely one that customers can trust.
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Bill Russell is often shortchanged by those lists of the greatest NBA players, so leave it to fellow all-stars of his era Bill Bradley ("The smartest player that ever played the game") and Jerry West ("We're never going to see a winner like that again") to appropriately eulogize him in "Bill: Russell Legend," a two-part Netflix documentary that covers the Boston Celtics great's triumphs on the court, and activism off of it.
Directed by Sam Pollard ("MLK/FBI"), with Corey Stoll narrating and Jeffrey Wright reading from Russell's memoirs when not using the center's own voice, it's a wonderfully well-rounded look at what made Russell such a dominating player, and how the same determination manifested itself when he refused to sit idly by amid the overt racism of the times.
For basketball fans, the material about Russell's friendship with, estrangement from and eventual reconciliation with rival legend Wilt Chamberlain should, frankly, be enough reason to devote time to this splendid production, and the remarkable clips from their on-court battles are a treat unto themselves.
Indeed, their relationship is particularly chewed over by the who's who of past and current basketball players who participate in the discussion, including Russell's contractual demand that his salary match the then-astronomical sum of $100,000 a year that Chamberlain was being paid -- plus one dollar, befitting his status as the linchpin of all those Celtics championships.
Russell won an unparalleled 11 titles during his 13 years in the league, retiring when he appeared to have mileage left in the tank physically, but simply worn out mentally. Part of that surely stemmed from the struggles he undertook off the court, dealing with housing discrimination in his Boston neighborhood (despite being honored by the community), traveling to Mississippi after civil-rights activist Medgar Evers' murder and speaking out in support of Muhammad Ali when he refused to fight in Vietnam on religious grounds.
Russell and his Black teammates also took a stand when the Celtics journeyed South, sitting out a game in Kentucky after a Whites-only hotel denied them service.
Russell became the first Black head coach of a North American professional team when Auerbach moved upstairs, reflecting an organization far more progressive than the city in which it resided.
As Pollard emphasizes, Russell reflected a different attitude on the requirements of his celebrity, refusing to sign autographs and feeling a strong connection to the Celtics organization and his coach, Red Auerbach, but saying he owed nothing to the city itself.
"I played for the Celtics," Russell said. "I didn't play for Boston."
The term "Legend" is thrown around too loosely, but it certainly applied to Russell, who knew how to throw sharp elbows both on and off the court, and whose thoughtfulness about what an athlete owes to fans has obviously resonated with the generations of players that have followed him.
Wedding the civil-rights era and the budding growth of the NBA as it integrated Black players, "Legend" is a well-rounded addition to programming tied to Black History Month. Russell died last year, but not before plenty of tributes came his way, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2011.
Auerbach famously lit up a cigar when he knew a game was in the bag, and one suspects he'd light up a big fat stogie taking in the three-plus hours of "Bill Russell: Legend." Because even for this Lakers fan, it's a winner.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BeatBox Beverages, The World's Tastiest Party Punch, is now the official party punch of Oklahoma State University Athletics. Peach Punch, Tropical Punch, and Juicy Mango are available at Boone Pickens Stadium, Gallagher-Iba Arena, Cowgirl Stadium, and O'Brate Stadium. BeatBox will have year-round brand visibility and availability for all spectators at Cowboy and Cowgirl sporting events.
This three-year partnership kicks off the Cowboy's football season at the home opener under the lights on September 1st. At home games fans, 21 and older, can visit the on-site BeatBox activation outside the West endzone for product sampling, music, giveaways, and fun.
In addition to in-stadium and outside activations, BeatBox will utilize media and broadcast integrations across digital, print, and radio campaigns to amplify the partnership with OSU.
"As we continue to expand our partnerships beyond major national music festivals, we are constantly searching for new and exciting ways to integrate our product responsibly by connecting fans and bringing people together. And what brings people together more than cheering for their favorite team while enjoying BeatBox? Our partnership with Oklahoma State University gives consumers another fun place to drink the world's tastiest party punch," says Zech Francis, VP of Global Marketing.
BeatBox Beverages, one of the fastest growing RTD brands of 2022, is currently available in more than 40,000 retail locations. The brand is the fastest growing alcoholic beverage brand on social media and has reached over 6 million customers at festivals and events to date in 2022.
"We could not be more excited to partner with OSU Athletics & Learfield Cowboy Sports Properties for the upcoming football and athletics seasons. BeatBox has deeply invested in its consumers through an all-inclusive customer experience so it was a natural fit to partner with OSU athletics as we continue to expand to new platforms and avenues to spread the BeatBox love," said Phil Jamison, VP of Sales - North America.
About BeatBox Beverages:
United through a love of music and inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of Austin, Texas, the founders of BeatBox Beverages set out to create something that could help everyone #PartyBetter. One year later, they made Shark Tank, walking away with the biggest investment the show had made at that time, $1million from Mark Cuban. Later adding on a team of industry veterans from InBev, MillerCoors, Deep Eddy, and Tito's Handmade Vodka, to name a few – who know how to develop, launch, and quickly grow authentic brands. Boasting a roster of investors including Mark Cuban, Rob Dyrdek as well as DJs Party Favor, Louis The Child, Good Times Ahead, and many others. BeatBox Beverages' reputation is secured as a company that creates products that drive incremental profit in high-growth categories with specific expertise in the Millennial and Gen Z target.
CONTACT: Taylor Foxman, +1-609-432-2237, taylor@theindustrycollective.org
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The Milford Little League 12U softball team is headed to Greenville, North Carolina, to compete in the Little League Softball World Series. A Connecticut team has never won, and it has been 15 years since the last team competed.
Community members recently gathered at Brewster Field in Milford to celebrate the occasion and send off the team.
Head coach Mike Bonanno credits the success to the team's dedication to setting and achieving obtainable goals. He said they’ll have these incredible memories for the rest of their lives.
Milford will represent the New England region and plays its first game Aug. 10 against the Delmar, Maryland, Little League team, which won the Mid-Atlantic region.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of Adidas’ remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after the German sportswear company cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Adidas ended its yearslong partnership with Ye in late October, in light of his antisemitic remarks and other harmful behavior. In the months that followed, the fate of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of unsold Yeezys remained unknown — until earlier this month, when Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden announced the company would be selling a portion of the remaining inventory and donating some of the proceeds to social justice organizations.
The first batch of Adidas’ remaining Yeezys went on sale Wednesday. At this time, the sneakers appear to be available through Adidas’ app “Confirmed,” according to the retailer’s website. Part of the profits will be donated to organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change, Adidas says.
Wednesday’s release marks the first time that Adidas has sold Yeezys since the partnership termination in October. The Yeezy products up for sale will include already-existing designs as well as those that were initiated in 2022 and set to be released in 2023, Adidas previously noted.
“We believe (selling and donating these Yeezys) is the best solution as it respects the created designs and produced shoes, it works for our people, resolves an inventory problem, and will have a positive impact in our communities,” Gulden said in an May 19 statement.
At a May 11 annual shareholder meeting, Gulden explained the company made the decision to sell and donate Yeezys after speaking with nongovernmental organizations and groups that were harmed by Ye’s comments and actions.
Some details of Adidas’ plans are still unclear — including how many Yeezys will eventually go on sale and what portion of sales will be donated. The Associated Press reached out to Adidas for further information on Wednesday.
Cutting ties with Ye cost Adidas hundreds of millions of dollars — contributing to a loss of 600 million euros ($655 million) in sales for the last three months of 2022, which helped drive the company to a quarterly net loss of 513 million euros.
Adidas reported 400 million euros ($441 million) in lost sales at the start of 2023, the company announced earlier this month.
Net sales declined 1% in the first quarter, to 5.27 billion euros, the company said. It reported a net loss of 24 million euros, a plunge from a profit of 310 million euros in the same period a year ago.
Operating profit, which excludes some items like taxes, was down to 60 million euros from 437 million euros a year earlier.
Meanwhile, investors also filed a class-action lawsuit against Adidas in late April, alleging the company knew about offensive remarks and harmful behavior from Ye years before terminating its pact with him. Adidas has pushed back on the allegations.
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The FBI found more documents at President Biden’s home in Delaware on Friday during a search that Biden agreed to.
Meanwhile, Biden has chosen Jeff Zients to be his next chief of staff, after Ron Klain leaves. Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with NPR’s Asma Khalid.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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NEWARK, Del., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) is pleased to announce approximately $15.8M in planned project activities through the Institute's Project Call 5.2 for 14 new projects in technology and workforce development that will help to address key opportunities for innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry.
These projects were selected to best align with key areas of focus identified by NIIMBL and which best align to address industry needs.
"NIIMBL is looking forward to adding these projects to our technology portfolio, advancing our community's efforts in key areas of cell processing, measurement of critical quality attributes and process variables during biopharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as improving reliability and assuring quality during those manufacturing processes," states Chris Roberts, Associate Institute Director.
Project Call 5.2 also included several workforce development projects that provide a variety of opportunities to those interested in entering or developing skills within the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
"The newest slate of workforce projects will advance NIIMBL's workforce and talent development mission by driving industry adoption of alternative pathways into the industry, increasing awareness about biopharmaceutical manufacturing careers in diverse populations, as well as catalyzing new education and professional development in cell therapy, gene therapy, and mRNA vaccine manufacturing," adds John Balchunas, Director of Workforce Development.
To date, NIIMBL has awarded approximately 100 technical, workforce development, and Global Health Fund projects through the Project Call process with a total project investment of over $95M since 2017 when the Institute launched. The NIIMBL community is comprised of more than 200 members from academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations all sharing a common goal to advance biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
For a description of each project and to learn more about NIIMBL, please visit the Project Call 5.2 website.
Project: Integrated Continuous USP Platform for Maximum Productivity and Closed-loop controlled CQA
Lead: University of Massachusetts System
Participant(s): Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whirlcell LLC., Yokogawa Corporation of America, Pfizer, Inc.
Project: Real-Time, Absolute Quantitation of Critical Bioprocessing Metabolites with the AI-powered Pyxis™ Metabolomics Platform
Lead: Matterworks, Inc.
Participant(s): Sartorius Stedim, Eli Lilly and Company
Project: Innovative scalable technologies for production of cell therapies
Lead: University of Delaware
Participant(s): MilliporeSigma/EMD Serono, Agilent
Project: An Integrated Platform for Fully Automated, Continuous, & Real-Time Multi-Attributes Monitoring of Upstream Processes for Glycosylated Monoclonal Antibodies Production
Lead: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Participant(s): University of Delaware, Agilent, Endress + Hauser Optical Analysis,
Project: Virus and Endotoxin Clearance Strategies for Safe and Reliable Production of AAV
Lead: BioCentriq
Participant(s): Pall Corporation/Cytiva
Project: Advanced Bioprocessing Sensor and Analytical Technologies for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Online Monitoring and Automation
Lead: Northeastern University
Participant(s): Agilent, Clemson University, MilliporeSigma/EMD Serono, Physical Sciences Inc., University of Massachusetts System
Project: Machine-guided rapid decision-making on quality of viruses as products and for viral clearance determination
Lead: Carnegie Mellon University
Participant(s): Sartorius Stedim
Project: Modernizing clearance and quantification of host-cell proteins in mAb manufacture
Lead: University of Delaware
Participant(s): Bristol-Myers Squibb, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Genentech, LigaTrap Technologies, LLC, Merck & Co., Inc., North Carolina State University, Pfizer, Inc., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Project: Time-Gated Raman spectroscopy to improve chemical sensitivity for in-situ bioreactor monitoring
Lead: National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education, Inc. (NIPTE) (Duquesne University)
Participant(s): Pfizer, Inc.
Project: Biomanufacturing Technician Apprenticeship Program
Lead: MassBio Education Foundation
Participant(s): Northeastern University
Project: Promoting Careers in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Operations to High School Students
Lead: North Caroline Biotechnology Center
Participant(s): Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Pitt Community College
Project: A Public-Private Partnership Strategy for Workforce Training in Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
Lead: University of California, Davis
Participant(s): Eli Lilly and Company, Pall Corporation/Cytiva, Solano College
Project: Bridge to Bio
Lead: University of Virginia
Participant(s): Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, Inc.
Project: Modular Training for the Vaccine Development & Manufacturing Workforce
Lead: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Participant(s): Merck & Co., Inc., Quincy College, Sanofi
*All funding is subject to project agreement negotiations.
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) is a public-private partnership whose mission is to accelerate biopharmaceutical innovation, support the development of standards that enable more efficient and rapid manufacturing capabilities, and educate and train a world-leading biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce, fundamentally advancing U.S. competitiveness in this industry. NIIMBL is part of Manufacturing USA®, a diverse network of federally sponsored manufacturing innovation institutes, and is funded through a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce with significant additional support from its members.
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Report: US gun suicides reached record high in 2022
(Gray News) - One person died from a firearm-related injury every 11 minutes in the U.S. last year, more than 48,000 people total, according to a report by John Hopkins University.
A drop in firearm homicides helped drive that number down from 2021, but the total did not decrease as much as it should have. The reason is that gun-related suicides are up to a new record high.
For the first time, the rate of gun suicides among Black adolescents 10 to 19 years old surpassed that of white children.
According to John Hopkins University, guns continue to be responsible for most deaths among American teens for the fifth year in a row.
Anyone who is experiencing a mental health crisis can call or text 988 to connect with a trained mental health counselor.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Gov. Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency on Wednesday ahead of the arrival of the remnants of Hurricane Ian.
"A State of Emergency is needed now so that farmers and those preparing for the storm can more quickly get ready for the heavy rain that is likely to fall in much of our state," Cooper said. "North Carolinians should stay aware, keep a close eye on the forecast and prepare their emergency supplies."
Though the storm will have weakened from the Category 4 monster that made landfall Wednesday in Florida, the Tar Heel State could still see significant effects.
North Carolina could see heavy rainfall and possible flooding and tornadoes on Friday and Saturday from the remnants of Ian. The State Emergency Response Team will activate Thursday at the State Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh and plans to move to 24-hour operations on Friday morning.
North Carolina's price gouging law against overcharging in a state of emergency is now in effect statewide.
Cooper also authorized the activation of about 80 members of the North Carolina National Guard to assist as needed.
Much of North Carolina is forecast to see 2-5 inches of rain but 5-7 inches or more will be possible near the coast and along the Blue Ridge Escarpment. There could be flash flooding, landslides in the mountains, and rises on main-stem rivers.
Gusty winds, isolated tornadoes, minor coastal flooding and hazardous marine conditions will also be possible.
The Governor shared tips to make sure people are personally prepared:
- Have multiple ways to receive emergency information, including watches and warnings. Make sure emergency alerts are enabled on a cell phone and download a weather app
- Have an emergency plan. Know where to go if there's a need to evacuate. Make a plan to stay with family, friends or at a hotel. Public shelters should be a last resort
- Gather some emergency supplies or refresh an emergency kit. Visit ReadyNC.gov for info on how to build an emergency kit
Hurricane Ian is the strongest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Rita in 2005.
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By Saturday morning, the storm -- which is expected to no longer be hurricane strength -- will make another landfall somewhere along the Georgia or South Carolina coast. The system will continue on a northwestern path into the North Carolina mountains.
Localized flooding could start to happen around midday Friday. This will coincide with heavy bands of rain from the storm system, meaning the flooding is expected to be localized and not widespread.
With all those conditions combining, power outages are most likely to happen Saturday.
The entire system will be pushing its way out of North Carolina on Sunday. Monday could still have some unsettled weather on the backend of the storm, including scattered showers and cooler temperatures.
Officials in Raleigh and Durham are already planning for any impacts felt from Hurricane Ian. Officials in Raleigh are making sure flood-prone areas are being looked at to deal with any heavy rains. Meanwhile in Durham city leaders are meeting with Duke Energy to talk about their hurricane preparations.
WATCH: First Alert to Hurricane Season
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Helen Mirren Admits She ‘Learned Her Lesson’ About Cursing After Coming To America
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Avril Lavigne is stepping out at Paris Fashion Week as a single woman. The "Girlfriend" singer attended the Courrèges runway show in the City of Lights on Wednesday, just over a week after news broke of her split from fiancé Mod Sun. She rocked an edgy, all-black ensemble featuring a trench coat, thigh-high boots and a statement T-shirt from the luxury brand Vetements with this bold message: "I'm not doing s*** today – Mission accomplished." | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/avril-lavigne-steps-out-after-mod-sun-breakup-with-bold-style-statements-at-paris-fashion-week/ACCN302405525 | 2023-03-15 15:07:27 | 1 | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/avril-lavigne-steps-out-after-mod-sun-breakup-with-bold-style-statements-at-paris-fashion-week/ACCN302405525 |
2 people rescued by boaters after plane crashes into Lake Tahoe
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A small, single-engine airplane crashed into Lake Tahoe early Saturday, and the two people on board were rescued by boaters, authorities said.
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement they received calls for service shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday.
One of the rescued people sustained a serious head injury, according to the statement.
The single-engine Piper PA-28 crashed into the southern part of Lake Tahoe, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an email. The administration will investigate along with the National Transportation Safety Board.
The sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for information.
The plane left the nearby Truckee Tahoe Airport around 9:15 a.m., according to flight tracking platform FlightAware. It was not immediately known where the plane was headed or what caused the crash.
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The supper scenario can be daunting. There is more drama than drive, more demands than day, and yet, there is that overriding aim to eat well. We have good intentions, but the time it takes to plan, shop, prepare and yes, tidy up, crowds an already busy life. Do we grab take-out again or snag a ready meal? Those options are fine on occasion, but they won’t deliver a healthy lifestyle, despite Grub Hub’s willingness to drop it at our door.
Perhaps, the solution to the problem is a personal chef. They’re not just for the famous or fabulous; they’re niche operators that cater—literally—to our needs. Aside from basic planning, prepping and putting away, they can satisfy dietary and creative preferences. They can introduce new dishes like a fish curry stew or put a spin on an old favorite like smoked gouda mac ‘n cheese with ham and peas.
Having a reunion? You don’t want to spend all your time in the kitchen; you want to spend it reminiscing around the table. Dinner party? Host it with a welcoming vibe without the hassle. Family getaway? Getaway from the stove and focus on having fun.
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You might think you can’t afford it. Think again. Seating a large party at a restaurant is impossible while the expenses surrounding a meal out from parking to check stack up quickly. Consider the convenience and comfort of staying put and let the restaurant come to you where your personal chef does it all. Those, who enjoy cooking, can even learn a technique or two from a pro.
Chef Nicholas di Paolo logs 30-plus years of experience, and now relishes the most rewarding part of his culinary journey in Northern Arizona, ensuring a client’s every desire is fulfilled. This ranges from family style events to exacting menus for tastings or formals.
“I was always gonna’ be a chef,” he says. “All of our menu items are made from scratch with the best ingredients—a standard that was born in Little Italy and honed over time to bring you the best experience available.”
His career began in the Bronx, and soon exploded when he began working at Raoul’s, a bustling bistro dating to the 70s with an utterly French menu. By 1997, di Paolo made executive chef, but over time, noticed an edgy turn in the industry. He followed his family to Las Vegas, but was unfulfilled. After the 2008 crash, Nick missed the harmony of the house—front and back—when dedicated staff previously had covered for one another. The cutthroat atmosphere he felt—where knowledge was guarded, not mentored—became stifling.
“Chefs produce chefs,” he says. “We’re partners in business—that’s old school.” But he admits, “People grow out of positions. I was 40 years old and wanted to buy a home.”
Reading about the booming Sedona vacation rental business sparked an epiphany and a jump into entrepreneurship for Chef Nick. With the launch of a website, he embraced the world. Then, COVID hugged back—a challenge for the industry across the board.
“As long as a house had a kitchen, I could cook a meal,” he remembers, and in 2022, his business popped, growing to solid bookings today. “My clients are the best—happy to see me. Everyone is on vacation and in a good mood.”
His business is his name, and Nicholas di Paolo is restaurant standard, utilizing the highest quality ingredients, like Arizona beef, results in top fare. A sample of a tantalizing five-course, French family meal offers: caramelized onion and mushroom tart with mixed greens, dressed with walnut oil and gorgonzola dulce; soupe de Pistou—minestrone with pesto; salade de carrots, julienned and marinated in sesame vinaigrette; Mediterranean seas bass with lemon vinaigrette, served with fennel potatoes and roasted, shaved Brussel sprouts and finishes with an apple tart, baked with caramel in puff pastry and served with fresh cream.
The menus are all-inclusive, so no tipping is required, priced at $135 per guest. Buffet, cocktail party and formal menus range in price according to numbers of items or guests.
Delivering the delicious goods begets prestige, and the accomplished chef was asked to cook and join the Sedona chapter of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs. The International Association of Gastronomy, established in over 75 countries, brings together enthusiasts—including industry professionals, such as hoteliers, sommeliers and chefs—who share the same values of quality and fine dining through encouragement of the culinary arts and pleasures of the table.
Chef Nick oversees every aspect of an event from backyard weddings to buffets, staying humble to his mission. “You’re just feeding people,” he says. “Gosh, our mothers did that three times a day.”
Lastly, as a chef, one is always working when others are playing, so a happy attitude is key. “It’s easy to please people, who want to be pleased,” he confesses. “I love feeding people and watching others have a good time.”
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Dear Miss Manners: We have about a dozen fruit trees at our home. We fertilize, prune and care for them ourselves. When the fruit is on the trees, we have invited a few specific people, usually from our church, to come pick some.
One of the children in the group was climbing the trees, and I was horrified — especially since lawyers in our area like to heavily advertise the large settlements they win for clients.
This group nearly stripped the trees. Obviously, I will never invite her again, but is there anything that I could have said to discourage this at the time?
As your church acquaintance was smugly aware of her rudeness, the only thing Miss Manners would have done is agreed with her: “Yes, we weren’t expecting such a large crowd and thorough picking of our fruit. It looks like we may not have enough left for the pie I was hoping to make for everyone later. The children would have particularly enjoyed it after their exhausting and dangerous climbs.”
Dear Miss Manners: At the age of 85, I have a number of digestive problems, including acid reflux and lactose intolerance. I am fortunate to have many friends at this age and stage of life, and while I enjoy getting together for dinner, I prefer to avoid eating at people’s homes. I know the host/hostess will go to a great deal of trouble to prepare food, and I am often unable to eat it.
Announcing my situation in advance can cause a problem for the hosts, who choose to allow it to dictate the menu. Not explaining my problem causes me great embarrassment when confronted with a plate of food I cannot eat.
How can I gracefully respond to these invitations without revealing my food issues and answering a barrage of questions? I don't like making an issue of what I can and cannot eat.
Refusing the invitation without giving an honest reason seems to convey not wanting to get together. Responding that I am unavailable at the date/time suggested often is met with an offer to change the date/time. Suggesting that we meet in a restaurant instead seems rude, since I am controlling and changing their plans.
How would you handle these invitations in my position?
While Miss Manners does not usually condone hijacking invitations, yours is a good reason for an exception.
“You know what? It has been too long since I have had you and the tree-shaping club over for dinner. Why don’t we do it at my house this time?”
Yes, you are still usurping plans, but in a gracious way. And it is far more appetizing, as you say, than telling them the real reason behind the change.
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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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Posts mislead on photo of Zelenskyy in front of green screen
CLAIM: A photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy filming in front of a green screen shows he was “never in his own land.”
THE FACTS: The photo, taken in Kyiv last week, shows Zelenskyy filming a message that appeared as a hologram at various digital conferences. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, misinformation campaigns have falsely accused Zelenskyy of fleeing the country or its capital. In recent days, some social media users have misrepresented a photo of the leader filming in a studio to push the false narrative. The picture shows Zelenskyy dressed in a khaki T-shirt and standing on a set in front of a green screen. “The ukraine king was never in his own land he was using green screens.jpg,” reads the caption on the photo. One post of the photo on Twitter was retweeted over 900 times. It was also shared on Facebook. However, the photo was taken in Kyiv as Zelenskyy filmed an address that was played as a hologram at various digital technology conferences across Europe, director Martin Williams confirmed. Williams, the founder of media production company Talesmith, wrote in an email to the AP that the image was captured on June 14, and is actually a screengrab from a behind-the-scenes documentary he is making about the project. The picture was distributed in a June 16 press release about the hologram. “I directed the piece and was in the room. We built the green screen studio as part of a volumetric capture for an AR hologram,” Williams wrote. AP reporters have interviewed Zelenskyy in person in Kyiv during the war. AP reporting also shows he also visited soldiers on the front line in Kharkiv in May.
— Associated Press writer Karena Phan in New York contributed this report.
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Video claiming to show Russian missile was created using visual effects
CLAIM: Video captures an American journalist reacting as a Russian Kinzhal missile hits land in Ukraine and causes a massive explosion.
THE FACTS: The video was previously posted by a visual effects artist who has used the same background and sound effects in multiple videos, and hypersonic missile experts confirmed it does not resemble such a weapon. Throughout Russia’s war on Ukraine, social media users attempting to push certain narratives or gain followers have posted digital animations and video game sequences, misrepresenting them as combat footage. Four months into the war, another computer-generated video is circulating, this one with false claims it shows a Russian missile hitting land in Ukraine and an American journalist reacting in shock. The video shows a grassy field with a white tent and trees behind it. A white object falls from the upper right side of the sky and disappears behind the trees. A fiery explosion erupts in the distance, and a male voice shouts profanities in the background. “A Russian Kinzhal missile at 12,000 kilometers per hour, 10 times faster than the speed of sound, was used today to destroy a Ukrainian weapons depot 136 meters underground,” reads a caption shared with the video on Instagram. “The video shows the amazement of an American reporter who witnessed this.” However, an analysis of frames from the video reveals it was previously posted by a visual effects artist who goes by InsanePatient2. On YouTube and TikTok, the artist titled the video, “What if Russia Started Nuclear War?” The visual artist, who did not respond to an emailed request for comment, has posted other videos that use the same field landscape and the same audio track. Russia’s Kinzhal missile is a hypersonic missile, a class of weapons which travel at speeds akin to ballistic missiles but are difficult to shoot down because of their maneuverability. In March, Russia claimed it used the Kinzhal missile for the first time in combat, to destroy an underground warehouse storing Ukrainian missiles and aviation ammunition in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region. The Pentagon said at the time that the U.S. could not confirm the Russians used a hypersonic missile. Hypersonic missile experts confirmed the video circulating widely online this week did not show such a missile, because the object in the video moved too slowly. “The speed of a hypersonic missile in terminal phase (right before it hits target) is very high, greater than a mile a second,” Kelly Stephani, a mechanical science and engineering professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “If I had to estimate, this video shows a projectile traveling (tilde)1000-2000 ft to target, and took 2 seconds to impact. If it were a hypersonic missile, it would have traveled that distance in a fraction of a second. “ “The real missile would be so fast that it would appear as a quick streak on video - probably captured in only a single frame,.” said Jonathan Poggie, a professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.
— Associated Press writer Ali Swenson in New York contributed this report.
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Man charged for child porn didn’t work for Drag Queen Story Hour
CLAIM: The head of Drag Queen Story Hour was arrested for child pornography.
THE FACTS: A man who was arrested on child pornography charges last year previously ran an organization that acted as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor for Drag Queen Story Hour’s Milwaukee chapter. But he never worked for Drag Queen Story Hour, nor did he help plan its events, according to the group’s executive director. Misleading, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in recent months has targeted drag storytimes — kid-friendly story hours in public spaces led by performers dressed in drag — with claims that the events are abusive or harmful to children. Among the widely shared misinformation is the false claim that the head of a national organization that organizes the drag storytimes was arrested on child pornography charges. The claim appeared in headlines on conservative websites last year, and thousands of social media users have resurfaced them this week. The claims refer to Brett Blomme, a Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge, who in March 2021 was arrested and charged in state court for seven counts of possession of child pornography. Those charges were later dropped in exchange for Blomme pleading guilty in federal court to two counts of distributing child pornography. Before Blomme was elected as a judge in spring 2020, he was CEO of the Cream City Foundation, an LGBTQ nonprofit that nods to Milwaukee’s nickname as “Cream City” for its cream-colored bricks. The Cream City Foundation at the time was a nonprofit fiscal sponsor for Drag Queen Story Hour’s Milwaukee chapter, its executive director said. That relationship allowed the non-tax-exempt Drag Queen Story Hour Milwaukee to receive donations. Besides being a fiscal sponsor, the Cream City Foundation has “had no part in DQSH Milwaukee & DQSH National,” Drag Queen Story Hour Executive Director Jonathan Hamilt told The Associated Press in an email. “DQSH Milwaukee has never been run by the Cream City Foundation nor Brett Blomme, nor have either participated in planning, organizing, hosting or performing at any of our events. Brett has never held a title or position within our organization ever.” Cream City Foundation confirmed these details. In an emailed statement, it said the fiscal agency agreement between the two entities was “purely transactional.” Hamilt said Drag Queen Story Hour condemns pedophilia and is “angry and outraged” by Blomme’s actions. After Blomme’s arrest in 2021, the Cream City Foundation published a statement saying it was “deeply troubled, angered and shocked to learn of the allegations involving our former CEO.” In December 2021, a federal judge sentenced Blomme to nine years in prison for distributing child pornography. Blomme apologized in court, acknowledging his crimes were “disgusting and outrageous.”
— Ali Swenson
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Video shows dead sheep in the country of Georgia, not Idaho
CLAIM: A video shows sheep in Idaho who dropped dead a week after thousands of cattle died in Kansas.
THE FACTS: While the video does show dead sheep, the footage was actually recorded in August 2021 in the nation of Georgia. After a video of cattle apparently killed by heat stress in southwestern Kansas drew attention last week, social media users are sharing the sheep footage, falsely claiming it was recorded in Idaho in recent days. Some users also suggested that there was a link between the two incidents, and that the deaths were intentional. In the video, dozens of sheep can be seen lying motionless on rocky ground surrounded by hills. “Who is doing this?” wrote one Twitter user in a post that was shared over 8,000 times, while also falsely claiming it happened in Idaho. But the video doesn’t show Idaho, nor was it recorded this month. It was filmed on Aug. 9, 2021, on a mountain in southern Georgia, according to Rima Gharibyan, editor of the Georgian media outlet Jnews, which published the footage at the time. The footage was provided by Yagor Levanov, the son of a farmer who owned deceased sheep, Gharibyan said. Jnews reported at the time that a thunderstorm killed the sheep. Gharibyan said that local authorities came to the same conclusion. Government officials with Ninotsminda, a municipality in southern Georgia, did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment. At least 2,000 cattle died in feedlots in southwestern Kansas last week, according to officials. While video of the lifeless livestock piled in rows spurred a variety of baseless and conspiratorial claims about mass killings, experts said a fatal combination of soaring temperatures, high humidity and little wind were to blame, the AP reported. “This was a true weather event — it was isolated to a specific region in southwestern Kansas,” A.J. Tarpoff, a cattle veterinarian with Kansas State University, told the AP last week.
— Associated Press writer Josh Kelety in Phoenix contributed this report.
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Fake Atlantic headline spreads on social media
CLAIM: The Atlantic published an article with the headline, “The Heroism of Biden’s Bike Fall” after President Joe Biden fell on Saturday as he tried to dismount his bicycle.
THE FACTS: The Atlantic did not publish such an article, a spokesperson for the media outlet confirmed to The Associated Press. A screenshot purporting to show the headline is fabricated. Following Biden’s fall at the end of a bike ride on June 18 at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, an image of the bogus article circulated widely on social media. The image resembles a screenshot of The Atlantic’s website, and features the media outlet’s logo and text such as “Subscribe” and “THE ATLANTIC DAILY,” in an apparent reference to one of the outlet’s newsletters. “The Heroism of Biden’s Bike Fall,” the headline in the image reads. Below the headline is the text, “The President gracefully illustrated an important lesson for all Americans – when we fall, we must get back up.” While some social media users realized that the headline is fake, others appeared to view it as authentic. No such story or headline can be found on The Atlantic’s website, or in archived versions of the site from June 18 captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Anna Bross, a spokesperson for The Atlantic, confirmed in an email to the AP that the supposed story is fake. “I can verify that this is not a real article from The Atlantic, and is indeed fabricated,” Bross wrote. Biden fell after he pedaled over to a crowd of well-wishers standing by the trail and tried to dismount his bike, the AP reported. He wasn’t hurt by the fall and told reporters that he got his foot “caught” in the toe cages.
— Josh Kelety
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — R&A chief Martin Slumbers tore into the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series on Wednesday as a money grab that threatens the game’s merit-based culture that has been cultivated over centuries.
He threatened to change the British Open criteria that would make it more difficult for some players to gain entry to golf’s oldest championship.
“Professional golfers are entitled to choose where they want to play and to accept the prize money that’s offered to them. I have absolutely no issue with that at all,” Slumbers said at his annual news conference ahead of the Open.
“But there is no such thing as a free lunch.”
He said two LIV Golf events held outside London and Portland, Oregon, were not in the best long-term interests of golf and were “entirely driven by money.”
Those 54-hole events with no cut offered $25 million in prize money to 48 players. Many of them were given signing fees, reportedly $150 million or more, for the bigger names.
“We believe it undermines the merit-based culture and spirit of open competition that makes golf so special,” Slumbers said.
He spoke two days after The Wall Street Journal reported that the dispute between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour had the attention of the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division.
“That is a testament to their stupidity, quite honestly,” Greg Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf, said of the PGA Tour in an interview with the Palm Beach Post in Florida.
“They brought it on themselves. We haven’t done anything other than putting together a business model and giving independent contractors a right to earn a living doing something else, as well as still being a member of the PGA Tour,” Norman said.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has suspended players for competing without a release; some of them, such as Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia, decided to resign their memberships.
The European tour fined its players who joined 100,000 pounds and banned them from certain tournaments. Four players appealed to a judge and were given a temporary stay from being suspended, allowing them to compete in the Scottish Open.
USGA CEO Mike Whan said last month he could foresee a day when players who joined LIV Golf would have a harder time getting into the U.S. Open. That was as far as he went because it was in the early stages of LIV’s series and he found no need to rush to a decision.
Slumbers said the R&A had no intention of banning any players. That presumably would include Open champions whose exemptions end at age 60.
“But what is on our agenda is that we will review our exemptions and qualifications criteria for The Open,” Slumbers said. “And whilst we do that every year, we absolutely reserve the right to make changes as our Open Championships Committee deems appropriate. Players have to earn their place in The Open, and that is fundamental to its ethos and its unique global appeal.”
The U.S. Open and British Open did not keep out any players suspended by their tours because of the “open” nature of their championships. Even if LIV Golf players are excluded from exemptions, they would be able to attempt 36-hole qualifying.
Augusta National has yet to say how criteria for the Masters might change. The club is closed for the summer and does not open until October to its members. Masters champions typically have a lifetime exemption, and five of them dating to 2010 — Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel, Garcia, Patrick Reed and Johnson — are now part of the Saudi-backed series.
All the majors rely on world ranking to determine who is exempt. Slumbers, Whan, Monahan and European tour chief Keith Pelley are among the eight-member Official World Golf Ranking board. It met Tuesday and acknowledged receiving an application from LIV Golf to be part of the ranking system. That process typically takes one to two years for approval.
By then, most of the LIV players will be out of the top 50 in the world.
The start of LIV Golf and the players it keeps signing — none from the top 15, though Norman promised more names to come — has been divisive in golf.
Tiger Woods spoke out strongly against the players who have joined, saying Tuesday that they had “turned their backs” on the PGA Tour.
The R&A said it had asked Norman, a two-time Open champion, not to come to St. Andrews for the 150th celebration — the four-hole exhibition on Monday, the champions’ dinner held only at St. Andrews — because it might be a distraction.
Jack Nicklaus didn’t want to choose sides.
“Greg Norman is an icon in the game of golf. He’s a great player. We’ve been friends for a long time, and regardless of what happens, he’s going to remain a friend,” Nicklaus said. “Unfortunately, he and I just don’t see eye to eye in what’s going on.”
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BOSTON, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2022, hype around extended reality (XR) devices and the metaverse is at an all-time high, but hardware hurdles continue to hold back headset development. The specialized optics required by augmented and mixed reality (AR & MR) headsets have so far proved to be one of the industry's major stumbling blocks. In virtual reality (VR) headsets, there is a growing usage of new, unconventional lens types to solve the deficiencies of the Fresnel lens-based architectures that have dominated until now.
IDTechEx has been covering the XR industry since 2015, staying close to the technical and market developments, interviewing key players worldwide, attending numerous conferences, and delivering multiple consulting projects. The new IDTechEx report, "Optics for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 2022-2032: Technologies, Players and Markets" offers a detailed analysis of the key technologies enabling XR devices to be immersive, light, and unobtrusive. 10-year granular market forecasts, segmented into 20 different technologies, are provided, along with analysis of the industry's material demands. The report includes multiple company profiles based on interviews with major players across these technologies.
AR/MR Optics: Optical Combiners, Waveguides, and Ancillary Lenses
The AR optics landscape. Source: IDTechEx - "Optics for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 2022-2032: Technologies, Players and Markets"
In 2022, a consensus is emerging that optical waveguides are the way forward to enabling immersive AR/MR by overlaying created reality onto the real. Surface relief diffractive waveguides, as used in Hololens and Magic Leap devices, have made early strides. Manufactured via processes inherited from the silicon industry, these enable relatively slim and compact devices but suffer from high costs, image quality issues and poor efficiency. Holographic diffractive waveguides and reflective waveguides offer alternatives which promise to revolutionize manufacturability and redefine image quality respectively but have yet to gain significant traction.
Other optical combiner technologies, particularly "birdbath" and freespace holographic combiners, also offer convincing candidates for AR/MR headset designers, particularly where cost or compactness, respectively, are top priority. As different technologies fit different headset types, "Optics for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 2022-2032: Technologies, Players and Markets" segments the AR/MR market into wide vs. narrow field of view, highlighting the likely technological winners for each category. Further discussion is devoted to the status of ancillary lenses for waveguides, which enable correction of eyewear prescriptions and solving the vergence-accommodation conflict.
VR Optics: Emerging Lens Technologies vs. Fresnel Lenses
For most VR users, the currently dominant Fresnel lenses used to magnify images and bring them into comfortable focus are "good enough". These lightweight, low-cost optics, typically molded or embossed in plastic allow relatively compact headsets but have drawbacks in terms of ring artifacts, color contrast, and more – in 2022, they have little scope for further development. Competing technologies entering the market solve many of these issues while adding functionality and making headsets smaller – IDTechEx's report highlights the upcoming path of progress here.
The first wave of new designs focuses on compactness. Pancake lenses saw their first entry into Western headset markets in 2021 and are expected to be used in an upcoming device from Meta this year. These lenses promise more compact designs by folding the optical path, allowing dioptric correction, and are devoid of Fresnel artifacts. However, they offer tough development challenges, with lower optical efficiency and preventing double images through material development key amongst these.
Later iterations will solve the vergence-accommodation conflict, maximizing immersion. Dynamically focus-tunable geometric phase lens arrays may offer the final say in VR optics yet remain years from deployment. Based on holography or metasurfaces, these have seen interest and patent activity from major players including Meta, Valve, and Apple. This once-static field has transformed into a hotbed for innovation.
IDTechEx predicts the XR optics industry to grow at a CAGR of 24% to 2032 – to find out more, please see "Optics for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 2022-2032: Technologies, Players and Markets". This report falls within IDTechEx's wearables research portfolio.
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Advanced Server, Telco, and AI Solutions Showcased: PnP Rack Scale Solutions, GrandTwin®, SuperEdge, and Universal GPU
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTEX 2022 Virtual -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking, and green computing technology, continues its industry leadership role with an exciting and dynamic Computex program.
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang will deliver an insightful overview of market trends, recent product innovations, and the importance of green computing. In addition, Supermicro's virtual booth has the latest server and storage products and customer success overviews.
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang highlights the newest server and storage products, invites industry partners NVIDIA and Intel on stage for updates, and introduces real-time product demonstrations. Mr. Liang addresses how AI and accelerated computing make many industries more efficient, enabling better healthcare and scientific research. The importance of Building Block Solutions® is the basis for Supermicro's broad range of AI/GPU, servers, storage and workstation solutions that deliver products to market faster with the latest technologies. Supermicro's plug-and-play (PnP) full multi-rack cloud integration and tested/validated configurations, including liquid-cooled options, ensure a faster and easier power-up in a customer's data center. Also, Supermicro is continuing the expansion of its manufacturing facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and other countries to meet increased customer demand.
New server architectures from Supermicro include the Universal GPU and the Supermicro GrandTwin, which are highlighted in the virtual booth. In addition, the SuperBlade®, SuperEdge, and workstations will be on display. Many Supermicro systems feature a choice between 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. In addition, a wide range of servers optimized for applications will be explained, and product experts will be available to answer questions.
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Boys and Girls Club of the Magic Valley plan to open a new center in Jerome, offering services until then
For the time being, they are offering their services to 4th and 5th graders after school right at Summit Elementary.
JEROME, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The Boys and Girls Club of the Magic Valley currently has 10 locations, but now for the first time, they are opening up their services to the Jerome community, with an 11th location.
“We are thrilled, the Boys and Girls Club of the Magic Valley has grown immensely in the last three to five years and we are excited to be in this community and to be offering our services to the youth of Jerome,” said Lindsey Westburg, the Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club.
This is made possible due to the generosity of Lisa and Con Paulos, the owners of Con Paulos Chevrolet. they made a $100,000 contribution to get the program started.
“I’ve had the good fortune of watching from a far what the Boys and Girls Club has done for the kids, improving test scores in the schools and things in that nature, and I just thought it was very important that the kids in Jerome have a similar opportunity to participate in the Boys and Girls Club,” said Con Paulos.
For the time being, they are offering their services to 4th and 5th graders after school right at Summit Elementary, but the ultimate goal is to open their services to all Jerome students and build their own center.
“We have the land, we have other businesses who have stepped up and said they are going to contribute and have contributed, we are looking for more businesses, more manufacturing plants, larger organizations to donate, so we can get this building built,” said Con Paulos.
It will eventually be located across from the courthouse in Jerome.
Paulos says what they learn at the Boys and Girls Club is unmatched and the reason why he is passionate about bringing it to Jerome.
“Character, leadership, study skills, all the things they are involved in helping kids, including the fun, it’s so important, it’s building a foundation in our youth, and we need that so desperately,” said Paulos.
The program will run from 2:45-5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday’s and is open to 4th and 5th graders at Summit Elementary.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday fired coach Nate McMillan, who was unable to follow up on the success of leading the team to the 2021 Eastern Conference finals.
Atlanta general manager Landry Fields announcing the firing. The Hawks are 29-30 and in eighth place in the East this season.
Assistant coach Joe Prunty will serve as interim coach. Prunty joined the Hawks in July 2021 as lead assistant.
The 58-year-old McMillan went 99-80 as Atlanta’s coach, including a 27-11 record as interim in the second half of the 2020-21 season. His success that season earned him the full-time position.
McMillan was frustrated in his attempts to improve Atlanta’s defense, a consistent weakness that weighed down a team led by high-scoring guard Trae Young.
McMillan denied reports early this season that he considered resigning.
Overall in 19 seasons, McMillan has a 760-668 record with the Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers, Indiana Pacers and Hawks.
“I would like to thank Nate for his leadership and professionalism during his time with the Hawks,” Fields said in a statement. “He is truly a class act, and we appreciate the graciousness and work ethic he brought with him every day.”
The Hawks finished 43-39 in the 2021-22 season and, after escaping the play-in tournament, lost to the Miami Heat 4-1 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Atlanta then added more emphasis to a win-now approach by trading Danilo Gallinari and three first-round picks to the San Antonio Spurs for All-Star guard Dejounte Murray.
The trade formed a backcourt pairing of All-Star guards in Murray and Young and placed more heat on McMillan to guide the Hawks back to the top of the conference.
Instead, the Hawks have struggled near .500 most of the season. They lost four of six games before the All-Star break and are only one game ahead of 10th-place Toronto in the East. The slide left Atlanta closer to falling out of the play-in tournament than moving into the No. 6 spot for a guaranteed playoff position. The New York Knicks are sixth, 3 1/2 games ahead of Atlanta.
“Decisions like these, especially in-season, are always extremely difficult, but we believe it’s in the best interest of our team to move forward with another voice leading the way,” Fields said.
McMillan dealt with persistent rumors he had disagreements with Young. Fields’ desire to seek “another voice” could be a sign McMillan’s message had worn thin with Young and other players.
This has been a season of turnover for Hawks’ leadership. Travis Schlenk stepped down as team president on Dec. 21 as Fields assumed control of daily operations. Kyle Korver was named assistant general manager on Jan. 16 as the team continued to remodel its front office.
Fields and Korver are working with principal owner Tony Ressler’s son, Nick Ressler, the director of basketball and business operations, in the new management team.
McMillan’s 760 wins rank 18th all-time. In 11 trips to the postseason, his teams have a 28-48 record, including a 11-12 record with Atlanta.
This is not Prunty’s first experience as an interim coach. He posted a 21-16 record as Milwaukee’s interim coach over the final 37 games of the 2017-18 season. He was an assistant with Milwaukee from 2014-18.
Prunty also served as an assistant with the Phoenix Suns (2018-19), Brooklyn Nets (2013-14), Cleveland Cavaliers (2010-13), Portland Trail Blazers (2008-10), Dallas Mavericks (2005-08) and San Antonio Spurs (2000-05), where he won three NBA championships.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series between the Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees did not start on time because of rain.
The game was scheduled to begin at 7:07 p.m. on Monday night, and Major League Baseball announced at about 6:20 p.m. that the start was being delayed.
An announcement by public-address announcer Paul Olden informed fans of the impending delay, and the grounds crew at Yankee Stadium covered the infield with the tarp just before 6:40 p.m. A steady rain started at 7:30 p.m.
“If weather is an issue, I don’t want to be powering through that necessarily,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said around 4 p.m.
Cleveland outfielder Myles Straw, who got into an angry confrontation with Yankees fans in April, exchanged football tosses with fans in the first and second decks during the delay, as did outfielder Will Brennan.
Aaron Civale was scheduled to pitch for the Guardians against Jameson Taillon.
Cleveland or New York will open the AL Championship Series at Houston on Wednesday night.
Game 2 of the series was rained out last Thursday at Yankee Stadium, pushing it back to Friday afternoon.
After losing last week’s opener, Cleveland won Games 2 and 3, overcoming a two-run deficit in the ninth inning to win Game 3 by 6-5. The Yankees won 4-2 on Sunday night in Cleveland to force the series back to New York.
The Yankees’ banged-up bullpen has been taxed, while Cleveland’s top relievers are fresh.
New York used Clay Holmes for 17 pitches and Wandy Peralta for seven on Sunday, a night after Peralta threw 27, Clarke Schmidt 12, Jonathan Loáisiga 15 and Lou Trivino seven. Peralta has pitched three straight days.
The Yankees are missing Chad Green, Scott Effress, Zack Britton, Michael King and Ron Marinaccio because of injuries, and Aroldis Chapman was dropped after failing to show up for a mandatory Oct. 7 workout.
Cleveland has not used its top relievers since Friday, when All-Star closer Emmanuel Classe threw 33 pitches after Trevor Stephan tossed 21 and James Karinchak 29.
The Guardians used Sam Hentges (31), Enyel De Los Santos (19) and Eli Morgan (12) on Saturday, and Morgan (23), Cody Morris (22) and Zach Plesac (11) on Sunday.
PLAYING THE FIELD
New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton could see time in left field in Houston if the Yankees advance. He has been limited to DH and pinch hitting, and he last played the outfield on July 21, before he went on the injured list for a month with left Achilles tendinitis.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Marinaccio (right shin) and fellow RHP Frankie Montas (right shoulder inflammation) could be available if the Yankees face Houston. Marinaccio last pitched Oct. 2 and Montas on Sept 16. … OF Andrew Benintendi, who hasn’t played since Sept. 2, had an injection for his right wrist and probably would not be available against the Astros.
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First Alert Forecast: few showers, storms early; sun breaks Tuesday; more storms late week
TUESDAY: An early rain chance will be in play for areas near and south of US 84 – but finally, trending quieter through the latter parts of the day. Morning clouds will give way to afternoon sun breaks with highs in the lower 70s. Skies will stay partly clear with lows falling back into the middle to upper 40s.
WEDNESDAY: Veiled sunshine amid a light northeast breeze will filter in slightly cooler air through the middle part of the week. After a cool start, we’ll rebound only to the upper 60s to near 70 through the afternoon hours. Expect skies to turn clear with lows in the middle 40s as winds go calm as high pressure moves overhead.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Warmer air quickly invades again with highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s by Thursday, lower to middle 80s Friday. Storm chances may emerge by the latter parts of Friday into Saturday – a few storms could be strong. Most of the rain will exit through Saturday morning, but with a frontal boundary nearby, another wave of rain and storms will shift through the area by the afternoon hours of Sunday. Temperatures will reach well into the 80s by next week.
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RFI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on June 30, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2011, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES.
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2023 (January 1, 2023 through May 31, 2023) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2023. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending May 31, 2023 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2023. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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Jan. 6 suspect charged with firing gun toward Texas officers
By PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Texas man who agreed to surrender on charges of taking part in the U.S. Capitol riot but later fired a gun toward sheriff’s deputies at his house in response to a welfare call. Forty-year-old Nathan Donald Pelham faces four misdemeanor charges for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 attack. Prosecutors say Pelham last week had agreed to surrender on the charges before officers were sent to his house after a relative called police. The Justice Department says no law enforcement officers were injured. An attorney for Pelham did not immediately return a message for comment Thursday. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/04/20/jan-6-suspect-charged-with-firing-gun-toward-texas-officers/ | 2023-04-21 06:50:53 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/04/20/jan-6-suspect-charged-with-firing-gun-toward-texas-officers/ |
Three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence said the highest levels of the Kremlin approved the aggressive actions of Russian military fighter jets against a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea Tuesday.
The Russian jets dropped jet fuel on the MQ-9 Reaper, an unprecedented action, and two of the officials said the intelligence suggests the intent seemed to be to throw the drone off course or disable its surveillance capabilities.
It was “Russian leadership’s intention to be aggressive in the intercept,” said one of the officials.
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California property tax vote gives hopeLeo Lynn, former president of the Taxpayers Association of Lackawanna County, in 1976 launched a campaign to encourage taxpayers to forgo paying their taxes early to receive a 2.5% discount on their bill and to place the amount they would have saved into an interest-bearing bank account.
Only a few taxpayers participated in his idea.
Lynn saw hope in the recent approval of Proposition 13 by voters in California. This proposition cut property taxes in California by 57%. Lynn feels the approval sends a message to state legislators and governors that taxpayers “have had enough.”
There was a bill up for approval in the Pennsylvania Senate that would abolish property taxes as the means to fund public education in the state. The bill would raise the state’s personal income tax by 2.2% to fund education along with increases on business taxes.
Lynn said “officials in Harrisburg are numb to the feelings of their constituents on taxes.”
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At the clubs: The Classics at the Weldwood, Mars at Tomaino’s Lounge, Wildfire at Gallagher’s Wooden Nickel, The After 5 at the Ten Pin Lounge and Bill Saar at Waldorf Park.
Dinner specials: Prime rib dinner for $5.95 at the Cardinal Inn in Moscow, lobster or New York strip steak dinner for $4.95 at Bruno’s in Scranton and stuffed chicken breast dinner for $2.25 at Barrels Whiskey & Rhyme at the Viewmont Mall.
At the movies: Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains The Same” and “It Lives Again” at the Center Theatre, “Capricorn I,” “The End” and “The Greek Tycoon” at the Viewmont Cinema, “Thank God It’s Friday” at the West Side and “Checkered Flag or Crash” and “Smokey and the Bandit” at the Circle Drive-In.
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FORT ST. JOHN, BC – When James Bergen steps from a plane and plummets toward fire below, he’s not scared. Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he’ll face when he parachutes in as one of the smokejumpers confronting the wildfires that have scorched Canada this spring and summer.
One call may mean a drop and a hike to a meadow to put out a single burning tree. “Next day you go to a fire and it’s a giant roaring beast threatening a community,” said Bergen, a solidly built 46-year-old with graying stubble. "That anticipation of what you're going to get, an unknown every time you get on the plane — that to me is still the excitement.”
As more than 900 fires burn in a Canadian fire season that has periodically pushed dangerous smoke south into the U.S. and even far east to Europe, only one province — British Columbia — relies on smokejumpers to help fight the blazes. Its history dates back to 1998.
Canada's provinces organize their own fire resources, and others may choose to use helicopters to get firefighters to remote areas, or aircraft to fly people and equipment to bases. British Columbia does that too. But Bergen, whose primary job is serving as wildfire officer for the Fort St. John Fire Zone, pointed to British Columbia's size, large population and huge timber industry as reasons it maintains a smokejumper program that takes significant money and expertise — but can get to fires faster.
“It's not something you can quickly stand up,” Bergen said.
Bergen said this wildfire year is the busiest he can remember since 2016.
WHERE SMOKEJUMPERS ARE USED
When fires are remote or there's a need to move resources from one location to another very quickly, that can be a time to send in smokejumpers, who bail out of planes at 1,500 feet (458 meters) to 3,000 feet (914 meters).
“It's just one of the fastest, quickest delivery methods ... to take action on a fire that by other means may not be possible," Bergen said. “The big value to smokejumping is speed, range and payload.”
Though helicopters are sometimes used to get firefighters into tough-to-reach areas, they don't parachute in like smokejumpers — the copters land and unload them quickly, or they jump to the ground as the craft hovers. And the copters can't carry nearly as many people or get to a fire as fast as fixed-wing aircraft.
The modified DC-3 that's one of the planes used at Bergen's Fort St. John base carries up to 13 smokejumpers plus two spotters.
THE GEAR THEY CARRY (AND WEAR)
Outfitting a single jumper can run about $12,000, Bergen said, with equipment that protects the firefighters from being speared by tree limbs, allows them to rappel down if they get hung up in a tree, and floats them if they wind up in a lake or river. Ballistic Kevlar suits protect against sharp objects as well as against intense fire heat; helmets have mesh face shields.
Many smokejumpers wear additional armor — hockey pads or motocross gear — for further protection. The whole package, including the parachute, weighs 70 to 90 pounds.
The plane also carries fire suppression equipment the firefighters will need: four chain saws, hand tools for everyone, four heavy pumps, 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) of hose and enough water for everyone for 48 hours, Bergen said. All that gets dropped separately.
After arriving at a fire and evaluating what they see, the firefighters work out a plan to tackle it. Then it's time to jump.
“It could be three or four, one crew, or it could be the entire bus — all 13 jumpers on the fire," Bergen said.
WHO WANTS TO BE A SMOKEJUMPER
The jumpers are experienced wildland firefighters — at least two years, and more typically six to seven years of experience before they become smokejumpers, Bergen said.
But it takes more than experience. Not everyone wants to jump out of planes, Bergen said. “They're generally people that are quite passionate about wildland firefighting,” he said. “It is a very specific person that wants to do that.”
He said the ranks include people who are gung ho and supremely fit, but also more ordinary people. He said many wildland firefighters are people who started to make summer money while in college, but then fell in love with the work and eventually decided to be smokejumpers. The lure, he said, is being part of a team “focused on becoming the best you can, in smoke jumping as well as fire suppression.”
The province has 67 smokejumpers. About 120 jumpers are working in the region right now, with the balance made up of American firefighters sent over by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
THE GUY WITH 100 JUMPS
Dan Frittenburg, one of the North Peace Smokejumpers at the Fort St. John base, started fighting fires in 2005 and became a jumper in 2008.
Earlier this summer he set a Canadian record with his 100th jump, he and Bergen said.
“I've kind of always been a thrill seeker,” said Frittenburg, 41. “But the reason why I do it (is) my love for the outdoors, working with the people that this program draws, and also just challenging myself. I find it’s definitely a job that keeps you young.”
Frittenburg said it took him a while to learn the intricacies of jumping, and has become more comfortable doing it as years pass.
“But that feeling (nerves) never kind of leaves the pit of your stomach," he said. "I find that a good thing because it keeps you on your game. Once you're comfortable, you'll get shown very quickly that mistakes can be made.”
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Glass reported from Minneapolis.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A pedestrian hit by a car Tuesday, Nov. 8 has died.
According to Tucson police, the unnamed victim — a man in his 80s — was hit by a gray 2003 Chevrolet Suburban at First Avenue and Limberlost Drive just before 2 p.m. that day. He died in the hospital Tuesday.
The driver was not impaired during the crash.
No charges or citations have been issued.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Properties, Inc. (OTCQX: CPTP) announced that at its regular quarterly meeting held on July 26, 2023 the Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.07 (seven cents) per share on the Company's outstanding Class A Common Shares (6,599,912) payable on August 25, 2023 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 11, 2023.
About Capital Properties, Inc.
Capital Properties, Inc. and its subsidiary's principal business consist of the long-term leasing of certain of its real estate interests in downtown Providence, Rhode Island for commercial development and the leasing of locations along interstate and primary highways in Rhode Island and Massachusetts for outdoor advertising purposes.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids pet owners are invited to take their dogs for a dip at a city pool in August.
The free, “Wag ‘n’ Wade” dog swim will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, at the Richmond Park Pool, located at 1101 Richmond St. NW. It’s the sixth year the city has held the event.
The event will close out the summer 2023 pool season, which ends Aug. 19. Splash pads will be open every day through Sept. 10.
There will be five, one-hour sessions on Aug. 20 for open swim for dogs. Each session can accommodate up to 175 dogs.
Registration is required for the free event. Registration opens July 24, and people can register at this link. Only two dogs per household can be registered.
The first session from 11 a.m. to noon will be for dogs less than 35 pounds. The next three sessions are for dogs weighing more than 35 pounds and will take place from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
The final session, from 4 to 5 p.m., will be for dogs ages 8 and older.
The city’s parks and recreation department will provide tennis balls, drinking water for the dogs and dog waste cleanup bags at the event.
Owners will need to provide proof of their dogs’ rabies vaccinations and a leash to walk their pets in and out of the pool area. Dogs must be off leash once in the pool area.
Dog owners may only enter the pool to the zero-depth area to their knees with their pets.
City officials also recommend participants bring towels, paw booties and dog life jackets. Local pet vendors will be on site with giveaways, information and additional activities.
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On a Friday evening at a call center in southeastern Pennsylvania, Michael Colluccio stirs his hot tea, puts on his headset, and starts up his computer. On the screen, calls are coming in to the suicide prevention lifeline from around the state.
The 38-year old Colluccio says he knows what it's like to be on the other end of one of those calls.
"So I had a suicide attempt when I was about 10, 11 years old," Colluccio says. "And we do get callers who are about that age, or quite young, and they are going through similar stressors."
For people having a mental health crisis, calling 988 can be a life-saving decision. But what happens after you call depends on where you are. The new 988 system launched in mid-July, and one early estimate says calls went up 45% nationally during the first week.
With calls expected to increase more as people learn about the helpline, some call centers say there are limits to what they can accomplish without more local resources.
Colluccio says callers in this area — Bucks County, a suburb of Philadelphia — have access to more services than in many parts of the state. His job with the Family Service Association, which runs the hotline, sometimes involves connecting them with services such as homeless shelters, therapists or drug and alcohol counselors.
More than anything, his job is to listen.
'If you did not pick up, I'd have killed myself'
Colluccio's first call of the evening is from a woman who sounds panicked. Her partner has been using drugs and has started making violent threats.
He spends a lot more time listening than talking. He says by listening closely to what she has to say, he offers relief, validation and human connection.
When he does talk, he usually asks questions — gently searching for specific ways to help. In this case, his questions lead him to connect the caller with local domestic abuse services and a social worker.
One service he rarely turns to is 911. Part of the idea behind 988 is that it offers an alternative to involving police or an ambulance for a mental health crisis. He would typically use 911 only if someone was an immediate threat to themselves or others.
After talking with the woman for a half hour, Colluccio asks her a few key questions to determine whether she feels suicidal. Colluccio says this is an important step to make sure each caller is safe after they hang up.
What happens next is surprisingly common. At the start of the call it seemed like the woman wanted help for her partner. But when he asks her directly on a scale of one to five how suicidal she is, she says she's a two or maybe a three — and she's attempted suicide before.
Before they end the call, Colluccio asks her if she would like a call back tomorrow. She says yes, so he schedules one.
Colluccio has just enough time for a sip of tea when another call comes in. It's a young man in college, overwhelmed by stress. They talk for over an hour.
This is a pretty typical evening.
"Sometimes it's more of an immediate intervention because sometimes people call with pills in hand and are actively considering ending their lives," Colluccio said. "There are people who have called and said, if you did not pick up, I'd have killed myself."
He says that's why having a national network of call centers works so well. There are more than 200 call centers like this one across the country. Calls are tied to area codes. If nobody picks up locally, the call gets kicked to somewhere else.
The promise is to always have someone pick up the phone.
Strained resources for in-person help
In some places, like Bucks County, there are options for callers who need more help than counselors can offer on the phone. Colluccio says he can even dispatch a mobile crew of mental health workers to visit someone at their home.
But that's not the case everywhere. In Hanover, a small town a few hours west, the 988 call center doesn't have that option.
Jayne Wildasin runs that center and says workers sometimes have to put down their headsets, get in their cars and go meet with people sometimes as far as an hour away.
"So right now if there's a crisis at someone's house we could potentially go there," Wildasin says.
In rural Centre County, the local 988 call center relies on volunteers — mostly college students from Penn State University. Denise Herr McCann runs the operation and says that her team can call in mobile mental health experts, but there need to be more of them.
Plus there's a gaping need for other mental health professionals to continue helping people once the crisis has passed.
"Sometimes those resources are other counseling services, and they don't have capacity," Herr McCann says. "People are calling, and providers are six weeks out if they're lucky. That's not any good."
For decades, suicide prevention call centers have had to scrape together funding from local, state and federal sources. Now with the switch to 988, they have to meet new federal regulations, such as data collecting and licensure requirements, says Julie Dees, who oversees the call center in Bucks County. That all costs money.
"There are increased responsibilities that are being put on the call centers, but there's really no additional funding being put on that," Dees says.
It's an issue around the U.S., according to a recent analysis from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The group notes that states are largely left to foot the bill for the change to 988 — and many of the call centers doing the actual work have been underfunded for years. It recommends that state policymakers evaluate funding needs to ensure that crisis services connected to 988 will be sustainable.
The Biden administration has dedicated $432 million toward building the capacity of local and backup call centers and providing associated services. But the expectation is that states will come up with the main funding streams.
The 2020 law enacting the 988 number also allows states to pass legislation to add a small fee to cell phone bills as a permanent source of funds for 988 and associated mental health services. So far, only four states have done so, and only two more have proposed legislation.
Pennsylvania is not one of those states, and doesn't have any other funding plan implemented. That worries Kevin Boozel, who heads the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania.
"This is life or death," Boozel says. "And you can't halfway do it."
He pointed out that Pennsylvania has decided to hold back on publicizing the new 988 number until next year. The fear is that too many calls could flood the system, and counties need more time to set up funding, hire workers and build capacity for things like those mobile crisis teams.
Challenges aside, In Centre County, Herr McCann emphasizes that calling the hotline works. In most cases, just talking with someone is enough to defuse a crisis.
"When they have someone who is empathetic and who listens, that connection helps them," she said. That lets people know that "it isn't hopeless. There is hope out there. There is help out there."
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Authorities on Wednesday seized about 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that were found packaged in several bags of what appeared to be candy at Los Angeles International Airport.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department narcotics detectives and DEA agents assigned to the airport responded to a TSA screening area around 7:30 a.m. after a person tried to go through with bags of candy and other snacks, officials said in a news release.
Authorities found the pills inside boxes of Sweetarts, Skittles and Whoppers.
The suspected trafficker fled but has been identified, authorities said.
Authorities have recently warned that drug dealers have been disguising fentanyl in candy wrappers and manufacturing them in rainbow colors in order to disguise them from authorities.
In its news release, the LA County Sheriff’s Department warned of the potential for the pills to be confused with candy.
“With Halloween approaching, parents need to make sure they are checking their kids candy and not allowing them to eat anything until it has been inspected by them,” the Sheriff’s Department said.
But despite fears that drug dealers are deliberately pushing fentanyl on trick-or-treaters, many experts argued that there is a very low possibility of any danger in Halloween candy, WVNS reported.
Joel Best, a sociology professor at the University of Delaware, has been researching this exact topic for decades, and has not been presented with any evidence “that any child has ever been killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating,” he told PBS’ The Conversation earlier this month.
There is one standout example, however, of a child dying after ingesting cyanide-laced Pixie Stix, WVSN reported. The child’s father, in that case, was ultimately arrested and charged with his son’s murder.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For two weeks, an owl that escaped from New York’s Central Park Zoo has flown from treetop to treetop, eluding capture and amassing legions of fans worried about its ability to survive alone in the big city.
Would Flaco, a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl, go hungry because he hadn’t developed an ability to hunt while in captivity?
With a collective sigh of relief, the answer was a resounding no: It appears Flaco has regained his killer instincts and is becoming an old hand at swooping down from his lofty perch to feed on the park’s bounty of rats.
As a result, Zoo officials announced that they were suspending recovery operations, at least for now, but will keep a close eye on the owl’s health.
“We are going to continue monitoring Flaco and his activities and to be prepared to resume recovery efforts if he shows any sign of difficulty or distress,” Zoo officials said in a statement.
The bird’s name in Spanish means “skinny,” and it seemed he was in danger of living up to his name in the early days of his escape because he hadn’t been seen eating. But when he started coughing up fur and bones, it sparked excitement — proof that he had been hunting and eating.
Officials acknowledged that recovering Flaco had proven difficult, especially “since he has been very successful at hunting and consuming the abundant prey in the park.”
The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the larger owl species, with a wingspan of up to 79 inches (2 meters), according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. They have large talons and distinctive ear tufts.
Despite evidence that Flaco had been dining on rodents, the task of capturing him went on.
Most recently, zoo officials tried to lure Flaco with bait and recordings of eagle-owl calls. He showed some interest but didn’t fall for the ruse.
The search for Flaco was launched Feb. 2 after the discovery that vandals had cut stainless steel meshing at the bird’s enclosure.
Flaco has made his rounds of upper Manhattan but hasn’t strayed too far from the park. He flew to the nearby shopping hub of Fifth Avenue, where police officers tried to catch him and failed. He captivated audiences wherever he went, including a visit to the park’s skating rink. Twitter has been aflutter with sightings, and the hashtag #freeflaco, as well as an online petition to keep him free, soon took flight.
“Flaco has been doing well in Central Park. And that’s amazing. He’s made a remarkable move from being a captive owl to being in the wild much faster than anyone would have expected,” said David Barrett, who runs the birding Twitter accounts Manhattan Bird Alert, Brooklyn Bird Alert and Bronx Bird Alert.
“He’s catching prey on his own. He continues to fly better and better,” he said. “He seems to be enjoying himself out there.”
Eurasian eagle-owl’s aren’t native to North America, so Flaco would have to fly across the ocean to find his own kind in the wild. He was less than a year old when he made his home at the Central Park Zoo in 2010.
Owls are mostly solitary animals and usually only interact with another animal during breeding season.
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Reducing the Product's Carbon Footprint by Using 28% Less Plastic
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ASR Group – the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar – announces the release of an improved easy baking tub with new features for its legacy brands, Domino® Sugar and C&H® Sugar. The easy baking tub is a new packaging format for sugar that offers more convenience for bakers and benefits related to sustainability. The reinvented packaging uses 28 percent less plastic than the previous round canister design, reducing transportation emissions by 65%, and includes instructions on how to recycle. This is the first time easy baking tubs will be available in-store at participating retailers across the United States.
Enhancing the baking experience, the tub holds approximately 8 cups of sugar that can be scooped and leveled directly from the container to a mixing bowl and can be refilled using Domino Sugar or C&H Sugar bags. The tub features a click-to-close hinged and the rectangular shape makes storing simpler than ever with a stackable design made for your pantry.
"The in-store launch of the easy baking tub and expansion to brick-and-mortar accessibility demonstrates our commitment to increase convenience for consumers," said Suzzette Arroyo, Director of Brand Management. "The easy baking tub was conceived with home bakers in mind to inspire baking love, and the flip-up lid and easy-to-scoop canister makes in-home baking a breeze."
New easy baking tubs are in stores now for both Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar. The tub will replace the previous round canister design supporting efforts to reduce the product's carbon footprint and provide added convenience for bakers.
Domino Sugar is available across the Eastern United States. To find a location in your area carrying Domino Sugar, please visit dominosugar.com/store-locations. C&H Sugar is available across the Western United States. To find a location in your area carrying C&H Sugar, please visit https://www.chsugar.com/store-locator.
About ASR Group
ASR Group International, Inc. is the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in New York, California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy. ASR Group also farms sugarcane and owns sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The company's portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's® and Sidul®. ASR Group is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. ASR Group and its parent companies jointly own Tellus Products, LLC, a maker of compostable tableware and foodservice products from sugarcane and other plant fibers. For more information, visit www.ASR-Group.com.
About Domino® Sugar
Since 1901, Domino® Sugar has maintained a commitment to quality, a passion for craftsmanship and a dedication to sweetening the lives of countless bakers. Our products are trusted by everyone from home bakers to gourmet chefs to perform flawlessly when it matters most. That's why, when the time comes for high-quality baking, those who understand the importance of high-quality ingredients turn to the experts at Domino® Sugar.
About C&H® Sugar
Crafting sugar and happiness has been our mission since 1906, and our experts have dedicated themselves to quality, earning the respect and trust of the baking community for more than a century. Over the years, we've grown, but we're still in California, still committed to quality and still bringing sweetness to every home. We know that when you mix family, friends and food made with C&H® sugar, you create magical moments and memories you'll never forget. In other words--the recipe for happiness starts with C&H®.
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The 2023 Barracuda Championship Odds & Preview: Keith Mitchell
The field for the 2023 Barracuda Championship in Truckee, California at Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) will include Keith Mitchell. The event is from July 20-23.
Looking to place a bet on Mitchell at the Barracuda Championship this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you can use before you make your picks.
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Keith Mitchell Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Mitchell has scored under par seven times, while also posting 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-10 score once in his last 16 rounds.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Mitchell has finished within five strokes of the top score for the day six times.
- Mitchell has finished in the top 20 in one of his past five appearances.
- He has qualified for the weekend in three of his past five tournaments.
- Mitchell has not posted a score better than the tournament average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his past five events.
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Barracuda Championship Insights and Stats
- At 7,480 yards, Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) 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 7,005 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) has a recent scoring average of -6.
- Courses that Mitchell has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,296 yards, 184 yards shorter than the 7,480-yard Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -5 among finishers, higher than the -6 average at this course.
Mitchell's Last Time Out
- Mitchell was relatively mediocre on the 10 par-3 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, averaging par to finish in the 52nd percentile of competitors.
- His 4.05-stroke average on the 20 par-4 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open ranked in the 45th percentile among all competitors (the tournament average was 4.03).
- On the six par-5 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, Mitchell shot better than 39% of the golfers (averaging 4.67 strokes).
- Mitchell carded a birdie or better on one of 10 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open (the tournament average was 1.8).
- On the 10 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open, Mitchell recorded one bogey or worse (the tournament average was 2.4).
- Mitchell's two birdies or better on the 20 par-4s at the Genesis Scottish Open were less than the tournament average (4.9).
- In that last competition, Mitchell carded a bogey or worse on three of 20 par-4s (the field averaged 5.6).
- Mitchell ended the Genesis Scottish Open underperforming compared to the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (3.6), with two on the six par-5 holes.
- The field at the Genesis Scottish Open averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the six par-5s, but Mitchell finished without one.
Barracuda Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood)
- Location: Truckee, California
- Par: 71 / 7,480 yards
- Mitchell Odds to Win: +2000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Which Bissell cordless vacuum is best?
When it comes time to clean the house, the last thing you want to do is lug a heavy vacuum out of the closet and waste time untangling the cord. Cordless vacuums have taken much of the hassle out of cleaning without compromising power or versatility. They are often lightweight, get to hard-to-reach spaces, come with multiple attachments and are easy to store.
Bissell is a company that specializes in carpet cleaners and vacuums. That’s all it does, so it knows about cleaning different surface types. It has multiple vacuum models to suit all of your cleaning needs, but when it comes to cordless varieties, the best is the Bissell AirRam Cordless Vacuum.
What to know before you buy a Bissell cordless vacuum
Surface type
Before purchasing any vacuum, consider the type of surfaces in your home. Some models and features are better suited for hardwood floors and others for carpets. If you have different surfaces in your home that you plan to vacuum, look for Bissell models with a multi-surface brush roll because they are just as effective on both surfaces.
3-in-1 versatility
There are plenty of spots in your home that you won’t be able to get to, even with the Bissell lay-flat handle and swivel features. The Bissell models that offer 3-in-1 versatility allow the unit to transition into a hand-held device and a high-reach version to get every corner and crevice.
Battery life
Any cordless vacuum is only as good as the charge it holds. The battery life of Bissell models will depend on the cleaning mode and attachments being used, but the lithium-ion battery on higher-end models can last as long as 50 minutes, while the budget models may last only 20.
What to look for in a quality Bissell cordless vacuum
Lightweight models
Weight is a major consideration when purchasing any vacuum, and stick vacuums are ideal for those who want a light vacuum that is easy to maneuver and easy to store.
Bissell offers lightweight stick vacuums that weigh only eight pounds. The Bissell featherweight models weigh as little as 4.1 pounds. Keep in mind that these extremely light vacuums don’t have as much power.
Pet vacuums
If you have pets, vacuuming your home takes on a whole new meaning and becomes a necessity because stray hairs only seem to multiply over time.
Pet vacuums pick up all types of pet hair, and Bissell makes cordless pet vacuums that come with a tangle-free brush roll. Some of the higher-end models have a large capacity, easy to empty tank that let you pick up even more dirt.
Storage
The other problem with bigger traditional vacuums is that they take up a lot of closet space. The smaller, lightweight Bissell models come with a two-way folding handle that makes for easy storage, while others come with a wall mount to store your vacuum off the floor.
How much you can expect to spend on a Bissell cordless vacuum
They range in price from $100-$500, depending on the features, weight and size of the vacuum. Pricing can also vary if there are extra attachments included.
Bissell cordless vacuum FAQ
Do I need to keep my cordless vacuum plugged in at all times?
A. As with other electronics, a cordless vacuum should not be left on the charger at all times. Since Bissell cordless vacuums only need a few hours of charging time, it’s best to plug it in the night or morning before you plan to use it.
Why does my vacuum stop picking up dirt?
A. There are a few potential causes, but it’s often due to the lack of airflow going through the device. First, check if the bin is full and needs to be emptied. If there is still substantial room, look for any blockages, which can usually be fixed by a soft knock or two on the machine. For details on further troubleshooting issues, visit the Bissel website and consult the manufacturer’s instructions.
What’s the best Bissell cordless vacuum to buy?
Top Bissell cordless vacuum
Bissell AirRam Cordless Vacuum
What you need to know: Powerful and lightweight, the entire unit weighs less than eight pounds and easily collapses to make for convenient storage.
What you’ll love: This comes with the innovative power foot design and the multi-surface brush roll, which works well on both carpet and hardwood floors. The swivel steering and lay-flat handle make it so you can vacuum under and around all of your furniture, while the lithium-ion battery will last 40 minutes when fully charged and is easy to remove and replace when needed.
What you should consider: Some customers felt the frame was frail and broke easily, so be careful and avoid any unnecessary wear and tear.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Bissell cordless vacuum for the money
Bissell Featherweight Cordless Stick Vacuum
What you need to know: Inexpensive, lightweight and easy to use, this cordless Bissell comes with a removable hand vacuum to help you clean every nook and cranny.
What you’ll love: You get 20 minutes of cleaning time for every 4.5 hours of charging time. The built-in upholstery cleaning tool effectively attracts and removes dirt from soft and delicate furniture and surfaces, while the two-way folding handle allows you to store the vacuum easily when not in use.
What you should consider: Given how light the vacuum is, it’s not as strong as a regular vacuum and will need to be emptied after each use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bissell PowerGlide Pet Slim Cordless Stick Vacuum
What you need to know: This lightweight 3-in-1 vacuum can easily convert to a hand-held device and a high-reach cleaner to get floor-to-ceiling coverage.
What you’ll love: It features a large-capacity tank, 30 minutes of run time and the patented tangle-free brush roll to prevent hair wraps. The LED headlight will help spot dirt in hard-to-see spaces, and the multi-level filtration system traps dust particles.
What you should consider: This vacuum is lighter than a regular vacuum but heavier than other lightweight models. Check the weight before purchasing to ensure that it fits your needs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a part of its 2022 Project Launch initiative, First Bank announces the creation of the First Bank Book Club. Through the First Bank Book Club, public elementary and middle schools throughout North and South Carolina will receive visits from award-winning children's authors for a day of fun, discussion, and literacy.
In addition to time with the authors, students from the hosting grade level at each school will receive a copy of the book discussed, with additional copies to be donated to the school's library.
First Bank CEO & President, Mike Mayer, said of the initiative, "At First Bank, we believe Education benefits everyone. Concurrently, we believe reading is one of the best ways to get young students engaged in their education. That's why we are creating the First Bank Book Club to provide students in the communities we serve with the opportunity to become avid readers. We believe the more children read, the more they experience a world outside of their own, think more creatively and are more excited about learning."
The First Bank Book Club was built in partnership with the nonprofit Authors in Moore Schools (AIMS) of Southern Pines (NC). Authors in Moore Schools was established in 2015 with the mission to promote the love of reading by bringing students, parents, schools, communities, and authors together through great books. In the past 7 years, AIMS has hosted events with more than 100 authors in 40 schools and provided 19,000 free copies of those authors' books to students in Southeastern North Carolina. Authors include the best of the best in children's literature including Newbery, Caldecott and National Book Award Honor winners, Battle of the Books Authors and New York Times bestsellers. The donated books to the students and schools will be provided through The Country Bookshop, also of Southern Pines.
Angie Tally, Program Director of AIMS and Children's Department Manager of The Country Bookshop said of the program and partnership, "Community support has long been part of AIMS core with a number of local businesses, individuals, book clubs, and foundations providing funds for book purchases. Healthy communities know that Readers are Leaders, and we are thrilled to be partnering with First Bank Book Club in the Fall of 2022. AIMS and First Bank Book Club will join forces to extend the reach of the program to the towns throughout all of NC and SC where First Bank has a presence. Authors in Moore Schools looks forward to hosting more authors to more schools in more places and placing more amazing autographed books in the hands of more children in 2022 and beyond." AIMS and First Bank are working to finalize the schedule for the 2022-23 school year, but so far nearly a dozen authors have signed on to visit almost 30 schools, with more being added each week. These include writers like Terry Crews, Dhonielle Clayton, Kelly Yang, Stacy Macnaulty, and more.
Joining First Bank in the inaugural year of the First Bank Book Club is Quality Data Systems (QDS, Inc.) through its nonprofit, the Lionheart Charities. QDS is a long-time trusted vendor partner of First Bank's, and through Lionheart, they are a proven supporter of those who need it most in their communities. Their $10,000 donation will allow AIMS and First Bank to schedule more author visits and to get more books in the hands of students. "QDS, through Lionheart Charities, is proud to partner with our banking partner First Bank to invest in our local communities. We have a passion for children and learning and we are proud to be able to make this $10,000 donation to the Book Club to help learning come alive for children in the Carolinas" said Sean Farrell, CEO of QDS, Inc.
Although born out of Project Launch, which sees First Bank committing $500,000 in support of education throughout the Carolinas in 2022, First Bank hopes the First Bank Book Club will be an ongoing effort in years to come.
First Bank CEO Mike Mayer continued, "We hope to put books in the hands of hundreds of children in the Carolinas and get them excited by talking to and meeting these authors. And who knows, maybe some of these students will one day write a book of their own."
To learn more about the First Bank Book Club, visit www.localfirstbank.com/bookclub.
First Bank is the banking subsidiary of First Bancorp and is headquartered in Southern Pines, North Carolina, with total assets of approximately $10.6 billion. As a state-chartered community bank, First Bank operates 110 bank branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. Since 1935, First Bank has taken a tailored approach to banking, combining best-in-class financial solutions, helpful local expertise, and technology to manage a home or business. First Bancorp's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FBNC." Visit our website at www.LocalFirstBank.com. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.
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BEIJING (AP) — China threatened retaliation on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets with Taiwan’s president during her upcoming trip through Los Angeles.
President Tsai Ing-wen left Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon on a tour of the island’s diplomatic allies in the Americas which she framed as a chance to demonstrate Taiwan’s commitment to democratic values on the world stage.
Tsai is scheduled to transit through New York on Thursday before heading to Guatemala and Belize. She is expected to stop in Los Angeles on her way back to Taiwan on April 5, when a meeting with McCarthy is tentatively scheduled.
The planned meeting has triggered fears of a heavy-handed Chinese reaction amid heightened friction between Beijing and Washington over U.S. support for Taiwan and trade and human rights issues.
The spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, denounced Tsai’s stopovers and demanded that no U.S. officials meet with her.
“We firmly oppose this and will take resolute countermeasures,” Zhu said at a news conference. The U.S. should “refrain from arranging Tsai Ing-wen’s transit visits and even contact with American officials and take concrete actions to fulfill its solemn commitment not to support Taiwan independence,” she said.
Beijing claims self-governing Taiwan is part of its territory and threatens to bring the island under its control by force if necessary.
Speaking later Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China will “closely follow the development of the situation and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Mao said the United States was “conducting dangerous activities that undermine the political foundation of bilateral ties.”
McCarthy, a Republican from California, has said he will meet with Tsai when she is in the U.S. and has not ruled out the possibility of traveling to Taiwan in a show of support.
Following a visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in 2022, Beijing launched missiles over the area, deployed warships across the median line of the Taiwan Strait and carried out military exercises in a simulated blockade of the island. Beijing also suspended climate talks with the U.S. and restricted military-to-military communication with the Pentagon.
Tsai told reporters before boarding her plane that “I want to tell the whole world democratic Taiwan will resolutely safeguard the values of freedom and democracy and will continue to be a force for good in the world, continuing a cycle of goodness, strengthening the resilience of democracy in the world.”
“External pressure will not obstruct our resolution to engage with the world,” she said.
Beijing has recently ramped up diplomatic pressure against Taiwan by poaching its dwindling number of diplomatic allies while also sending military fighter jets flying toward the island on a near-daily basis. Earlier this month, Honduras established diplomatic relations with China, leaving Taiwan with only 13 countries that recognize it as a sovereign state.
U.S. administration officials in a call with reporters ahead of Tsai’s arrival underscored that her transit is in line with what she and her predecessors have done in the past. Tsai has made six transits through the U.S. — stopovers that have included meetings with members of Congress and members of the Taiwanese diaspora — during her presidency.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive visit, said Tsai is also expected to meet with American Institute in Taiwan chair Laura Rosenberger. AIT is the U.S. government-run nonprofit that carries out unofficial relations with Taiwan.
One official added that “there is absolutely no reason” for Beijing to use Tsai’s stopover “as an excuse or a pretext to carry out aggressive or coercive activities aimed at Taiwan.”
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi was the highest-ranking elected American official to visit the island since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. Under its “one China” policy, the U.S. acknowledges Beijing’s view that it has sovereignty over Taiwan, but considers Taiwan’s status as unsettled. Taiwan is an important partner for Washington in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. officials are increasingly worried about China attempting to make good on its long-stated goal of bringing Taiwan under its control. The sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949 and Beijing sees U.S. politicians’ visits as conspiring with Tsai’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to make the separation permanent and stymy China’s rise as a global power.
The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which has governed U.S. relations with the island, does not require Washington to step in militarily if China invades but makes it American policy to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself and to prevent any unilateral change of status by Beijing.
Tensions spiked earlier this year when U.S. President Joe Biden ordered a Chinese spy balloon shot down after it traversed the continental United States. The Biden administration has also said U.S. intelligence findings show that China is weighing sending arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine, but has no evidence Beijing has done so yet.
China, however, has provided Russia with an economic lifeline and political support, and President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Moscow earlier this month. That was the first face-to-face meeting between the allies since before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
The Biden administration postponed a planned visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken following the balloon controversy but has signaled it would like to get such a visit back on track.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao said the blame for tensions lies squarely with Washington for boosting relations with Tsai. Beijing has frozen almost all contacts with Tsai’s administration since shortly after she was elected to the first of her two terms in 2016.
“It is not that China overreacts. It is that the U.S. kept emboldening Taiwan independence forces, which is egregious in nature,” Mao said at a daily briefing.
Tsai’s state visits coincide with a 12-day trip to China by her predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, of the pro-unification Nationalist Party, in an appeal to voters whose descendants arrived with Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated forces in 1949.
Ma has been visiting sites in the former Nationalist capital of Nanjing and emphasizing historical and cultural links between the sides, while avoiding the politically sensitive topics of China’s determination to eliminate Taiwan’s international presence and refusal to recognize its government.
Tsai is barred from seeking a third term and her party is widely expected to nominate Vice President Lai Ching-te to run for the presidency in January.
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Following a two-year Covid-related suspension of Mississippi’s third grade reading assessment test, the Mississippi Optometric Association (MOA) and the Mississippi Vision Foundation (MVF) will again provide eye exams at no-cost to third graders who do not pass the state test. The eye exams are offered May 1 through July 31.
"It has been said that a child must be able to see to learn. The MVF is excited to once again help promote future success by providing much-needed access to eye exams to our third graders who do not pass the state assessment,” said Dr. Kimberly Ragan, MVF President.
In 2019, nearly 15 percent of the state’s third graders did not pass the literacy promotion test. Studies show that children who struggle to read are more likely to leave school without graduating; ultimately contributing to the poverty rates in our state.
“Vision is a better predictor of academic success than socioeconomic status. As citizens of Mississippi, we are committed to identifying those students who have vision problems,” said Dr. Evan Davis, MOA President.
Statistics show that 25 percent of all school age children have vision problems, and more than 80 percent of those students do not get the help they need. Results of the MOA and MVF Third Grade Eye Exam program (aimed at students who did not pass the third grade reading assessment) reveal that 88 percent of the students who took advantage of the eye exams were found to need some form of visual intervention.
“We are grateful the association is able to offer these eye exams to students once again,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education. “Vision problems can cause students to not comprehend well when reading, so this intervention is a welcomed tool to address the problem.”
For students who are covered through private insurance, applicable co-pays may apply due to laws that require the doctor to collect this amount. All children, regardless of their family’s ability to pay, will be seen by ODs participating in the program. The MVF, working with industry partners, will cover the costs for any student who needs an exam and is not covered through insurance. Additionally, industry partners are working with Mississippi ODs to provide glasses to any student whose eye exam reveals the need for corrective lenses.
To locate a participating optometrist, parents of eligible third graders should go to www.msvisionfoundation.org or call 601.572.0845. When making the appointment, parents should tell the receptionist they are scheduling the third grade eye appointment. They should bring the letter notifying them that their child did not pass the assessment test with them to the appointment.
Participating locally are:
Robin Bennett, O.D.
New Albany Vision Clinic
484 W. Bankhead Street
(662) 534-0101
Julie C. Brock, O.D.
Eyes2See
109 St Highway 15 S
Kelli Wooten Mullen, O.D.
Weeden Eye Clinic
717 Coulter Drive
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SHENZHEN, China, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JSAUX has been all the rage in the world of steam deck gaming recently, and rightly so.
The renowned digital accessories brand rolled out its steam deck docking station in June and became an instant hit amongst steam deck users around the globe.
Following the delay in the launch JSAUX's new accessory, the Steam Official Dock – the first third-party docking station made specifically for the steam deck – attracted attention and captured the imagination of many worldwide.
The all-new steam deck offers users multiple customisable and flexible options. Equipped with a desktop mode, the steam deck transforms into a PC gaming by connecting to a monitor or TV.
The docking station also acts as a stand for the steam deck, allowing gamers to optimise their playing experience, functionality, and aesthetics by playing while standing on a table.
Priced at $39.99, the steam deck docking station is an affordable accessory for users, adding to its functional appeal. Furthermore, with plans for the second batch of products to start shipping globally by the end of June, steam deck gamers can expect to get their hands on their own docking station if they haven't already.
With a USB-C male and female and HDMI capabilities, the steam deck allows a stunning power input of 100W and output of 4K60Hz and supports high-intensity data transfers of up to 10Gbps. The advanced steam deck accessory further improves the user experience with a USB-A*2 that supports data transmission of up to 480Mbps and a power supply of 5V/1A. For more connectivity options, it also has an RJ45 option to support 100/10M networks.
This isn't the first JSAUX product that has captured the attention and enthusiasm of steam deck players worldwide. The brand offers an exclusive range of high-tech and comfort accessories to pair with the steam deck and provide an ultimate gaming experience. Going by the motto, "Connect More, Power More," JSAUX is changing the game with its accessories.
Like the docking stations, JSAUX protective standing case has also added comfort, convenience, and optimisation to steam deck gaming. Along with serving its core purpose of protecting the steam deck from dust and damage with high-quality TPU and PC material, the built-in stand allows users to place the device on any desk and continue gaming uninterrupted.
But that's not all. The protective standing case also boasts a reserve heat dissipation port, or in simple terms, a cool vent, that prevents the device from heating up during intense gameplay. Despite such improved features, the usability and gameplay remain as smooth as ever with the case's texture being incredibly adaptable for the skin and not affecting user control.
About JSAUX: JSAUX's range of steam deck accessories covers every area of the gaming experience ensuring users can keep their steam decks in perfect condition while maximising their gameplay performance. From screen glass and silicon cases to storage bags, 90° adapters, stand bases, and much more, the JSAUX collection has it all.
A brand built upon identifying customer needs and tailoring its products to fulfil them, JSAUX is much more than an electronics accessories supplier. Delivering power, enabling data transit, providing audio/video connectivity, and enhancing productivity, the company develops customer-centric solutions beyond what is available in the market.
Transforming its customers' digital life with comfort, functionality, style, and performance is what drives the JSAUX brand!
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NEWPORT, R.I., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. ("Pangaea" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PANL), a global provider of comprehensive maritime logistics solutions, announced today its results for the three months ended September 30, 2022.
THIRD QUARTER 2022 RESULTS
(As compared to the Third Quarter 2021)
- Total revenue decreased 13% year over year to $184.5 million; voyage revenue decreased 7% year over year
- Net income attributable to Pangaea of $18.8 million, or $0.42 per diluted share, a decline of 30% y/y
-Adjusted net income attributable to Pangaea of $23.3 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, an increase of 8% y/y - Adjusted EBITDA of $38.5 million, an increase of 14% y/y
- Operating cash flow of $32.6 million, an increase of 41% y/y
- Time Charter Equivalent ("TCE") rates earned by Pangaea of $24,107 per day, a decline of 16% y/y
- Cash and cash equivalents of $117.9 million, an increase of $68.8 million y/y
- Ratio of net debt to trailing twelve-month Adjusted EBITDA of 1.2x
For the third quarter ended September 30, 2022, Pangaea reported non-GAAP adjusted net income of $23.3 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, on total revenue of $184.5 million. Third quarter TCE rates declined 16.2% on a year-over-year basis, while total shipping days, which include both voyage and time charter days, declined 14.2% to 4,553 days, when compared to the year-ago period. In a declining market, Pangaea's flexible business plan turns defensive, with high cost chartered in ships redelivered to be later replaced by lower market cost tonnage to be utilized in the Company's cargo trades.
The TCE earned was $24,107 per day for the three months ended September 30, 2022, compared to an average of $28,770 per day for the same period in 2021. During the third quarter 2022, the Company's average TCE rate exceeded the benchmark average Baltic Panamax and Supramax indices by approximately 41%, supported by Pangaea's long-term contracts of affreightment ("COAs"), specialized fleet, and cargo-focused strategy.
Total Adjusted EBITDA increased 14% to $38.5 million in the third quarter due to more owned ship days from a larger owned fleet and a decline in charter-hire expenses, given lower market rates, partially offset by fewer shipping days. Third quarter Adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 20.9%, when compared to the year-ago period.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had $117.9 million in cash and equivalents. Total debt, including lease finance obligations was $298 million. At the end of the third quarter 2022, the ratio of net debt to trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA was 1.2x. During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company repaid $12.2 million of long-term debt, $11.8 million of finance leases, $5.0 million of other long-term liabilities and paid $9.0 million of cash dividends.
The Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per common share, to be paid on December 15, 2022, to all shareholders of record as of December 1, 2022.
STRATEGIC UPDATE
Pangaea remains committed to developing a leading dry bulk logistics and transportation services company of scale, providing its customers with specialized shipping and supply chain and logistics offerings in commodity and niche markets, which drive premium returns.
Leverage integrated shipping and logistics model. In addition to operating the largest high ice class dry bulk fleet of panamax and post-panamax vessels globally, Pangaea also performs stevedoring services, together with port and terminal operations capabilities. During the third quarter, the Company continued to expand its logistics offering to new and existing customers; collaborated with multiple third-party freight and logistics providers to transport 140,000 tons of coal to a power plant operator in the northeastern United States; provided stevedoring and terminal services to an offshore cable installation vessel; discharged 13,000 tons of cement in super-sack bags in Texas; provided lay berth and support services for a wind farm commissioning service operations vessel ("CSOV") at our berth at Brayton Point in Somerset, Massachusetts; and, was awarded a stevedoring license in the Port of Freeport, Texas.
Continue to drive strong fleet utilization. In the third quarter, Pangaea's ten ice class 1A panamax and post-panamax vessels were fully deployed and trading in the Arctic under ten-year contracts that utilize approximately 35% of annual available days. This is the first year of full operation of all four post-panamax ships the Company built specifically for this service, which were delivered in 2021.
Continue to upgrade fleet, while divesting of older, non-core assets. In August 2022, the Company acquired the Bulk Sachuest, a 2010 Hyundai Vinashin shipyard-built 56,000 dwt dry bulk vessel, in the second-hand market for $16.6 million. With this acquisition, Pangaea now owns 25 ships, while continuing to operate a total fleet of approximately 55 vessels in worldwide trades. Looking ahead, the Company intends to opportunistically manage its fleet with the purpose of maximizing TCE rates, while continuing to support client requirements on an on-demand basis.
MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY
"Our diverse portfolio of stable, long-term transportation contracts, leading positions in higher-margin ice-class trade routes and improved fleet utilization culminated in a strong third quarter performance, one highlighted by significant year-over-year growth in operating cash flow and Adjusted EBITDA," stated Mark Filanowski, Chief Executive Officer of Pangaea Logistics Solutions. "During the third quarter, all ten of our modern, Ice Class 1A vessels were active within premium-rate ice trades, contributing to a reported TCE rate that was 41% above the broader market benchmark. While most dry-bulk trades experienced typical levels of seasonal softness during the summer months, demand within our core Ice Class routes was solid, positioning us to deliver another consecutive quarter of profitability."
"During a period of broader rate volatility, we continue to manage market risk through a combination of strategic COAs, increased backhaul activity, integrated logistics capabilities and expansion of our owned fleet. In October, we took delivery of the newest addition to our owned fleet, the M/V Bulk Sachuest, a 55,618 dwt supramax," continued Filanowski. "Bulk Sachuest is currently in service and is expected to contribute positively to both operating cash flow and net income beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022."
"With more than 90% of our long-term debt sitting at a blended fixed rate of less than 5.1%, we are well insulated from a rising interest rate environment," noted Filanowski. "We ended the third quarter with cash and equivalents of $118 million, an increase of nearly $62 million from the beginning of the year, while our ratio of net debt to trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA was 1.2x at end of the third quarter. Entering the fourth quarter, our business remains strong, and our strategy remains consistent, supported by stable cash flow generation across our niche shipping and logistics markets. We will continue to be opportunistic and are well positioned for any market scenario."
THIRD QUARTER 2022 CONFERENCE CALL
The Company's management team will host a conference call to discuss the Company's financial results on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 8:30 a.m., Eastern Time (ET). Accompanying presentation materials will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://www.pangaeals.com/investors/. To listen to a live broadcast, go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download, and install any necessary audio software.
To participate in the live teleconference:
Domestic Live: 1-877-269-7751
International Live: 1-201-389-0908
To listen to a replay of the teleconference, which will be available through November 24, 2022:
Domestic Replay: 1-844-512-2921
International Replay: 1-412-317-6671
Conference ID: 13733405
INFORMATION ABOUT NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES. As used herein, "GAAP" refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. To supplement our consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, this earnings release discusses non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP net revenue and non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. This is considered a non-GAAP financial measure as defined in Rule 101 of Regulation G promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's historical or future performance, financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. The presentation of this non-GAAP financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
We use non-GAAP financial measures for internal financial and operational decision making purposes and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons of the performance and results of operations of our core business. Our management believes that non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the performance of our core business by excluding charges that are not incurred in the normal course of business. Non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal planning and comparisons to our historical performance and liquidity. We believe certain non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors as they allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision making and are used by our institutional investors and the analyst community to help them analyze the performance and operational results of our core business.
Gross Profit. Gross profit represents total revenue less net transportation and service revenue and less vessel depreciation and amortization.
Net transportation and service revenue. Net transportation and service revenue represents total revenue less the total direct costs of transportation and services, which includes charter hire, voyage and vessel operating expenses. Net transportation and service revenue is included because it is used by management and certain investors to measure performance by comparison to other logistic service providers. Net transportation and service revenue is not an item recognized by the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, or U.S. GAAP, and should not be considered as an alternative to net income, operating income, or any other indicator of a company's operating performance required by U.S. GAAP. Pangaea's definition of net transportation and service revenue used here may not be comparable to an operating measure used by other companies.
Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. Adjusted EBITDA represents net income (or loss), determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, excluding interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, loss on impairment, loss on sale and leaseback of vessels, share-based compensation and other non-operating income and/or expense, if any. Earnings per share represents net income divided by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Adjusted earnings per share represents net income attributable to Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. plus, when applicable, loss on sale of vessel, loss on sale and leaseback of vessel, loss on impairment of vessel, unrealized gains and losses on derivative instruments, and certain non-recurring charges, divided by the weighted average number of shares of common stock.
There are limitations related to the use of net revenue versus income from operations, adjusted EBITDA versus income from operations, and adjusted EPS versus EPS calculated in accordance with GAAP. In particular, Pangaea's definition of adjusted EBITDA used here are not comparable to EBITDA.
The table set forth above provides a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures presented during the period to the most directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
About Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ: PANL) provides logistics services to a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of dry bulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The Company addresses the transportation needs of its customers with a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, and voyage planning. Learn more at www.pangaeals.com.
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Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise these statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, dry-docking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, charter counterparty performance, ability to obtain financing and comply with covenants in such financing arrangements, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors, as well as other risks that have been included in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which are available at www.sec.gov.
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DALIAN, China, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAT) ("CBAK Energy," or the "Company"), a leading lithium-ion battery manufacturer and electric energy solution provider in China, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nanjing CBAK New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. ("Nanjing CBAK"), has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Welson Power, a China-based new energy company with a global network in over 20 countries.
According to the agreement, Nanjing CBAK will supply its Model 32140 batteries to Welson Power which will sell the products to overseas market, mainly India, mostly for LEV applications. Nanjing CBAK has obtained the certification of the Bureau of Indian Standards ("BIS") on its Model 32140 battery, which is the only certification for distributing lithium-ion battery products in India. With a subsidy program of INR100 billion (or $1.26 billion) to electrify all of its new automobiles came up with by the Indian government, the prospect of the new energy industry is bright. Both parties believe that the partnership will be mutually beneficial.
Mr. Yunfei Li, Chief Executive Officer of CBAK Energy commented, "The partnership with Welson Power brings us into the Indian market which is expected to be one of the largest markets for LEV applications. Our 32140 batteries are much attractive to local manufacturers, and we will not be surprised to see our sales and market shares start going up there with this partnership."
About Welson Power
Welson Power is a Wuxi-based new energy company with focus on lithium battery energy solutions (ESS) to portable energy storage, household energy storage, and small industrial and commercial energy storage, and manufactures power battery systems for EV and LEV applications. Welson Power has a global footprint over 20 countries with major focus on the Indian market.
About CBAK Energy
CBAK Energy Technology, Inc. is a leading high-tech enterprise in China engaged in the development, manufacturing, and sales of new energy high power lithium batteries. The applications of the Company's products and solutions include electric vehicles, light electric vehicles, electric tools, energy storage, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and other high-power applications. In January 2006, CBAK Energy became the first lithium battery manufacturer in China listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. CBAK Energy has multiple operating subsidiaries in Dalian and Nanjing, as well as a large-scale R&D and production base in Dalian.
For more information, please visit www.cbak.com.cn.
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Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are only estimates or predictions of future events based on information currently available to our management and management's current beliefs about the potential outcome of future events. Whether these future events will occur as management anticipates, whether we will achieve our business objectives, and whether our revenues, operating results, or financial condition will improve in future periods are subject to numerous risks. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release, including: significant legal and operational risks associated with having substantially all of our business operations in China, the Chinese government may exercise significant oversight and discretion over the conduct of our business and may intervene in or influence our operations at any time, which could result in a material change in our operations and/or the value of our securities or could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and could cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless, trading in our securities may be prohibited under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act if the PCAOB subsequently determines our audit work is performed by auditors that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely, the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic, changes in domestic and foreign laws, regulations and taxes, uncertainties related to China's legal system and economic, political and social events in China, the volatility of the securities markets; and other risks including, but not limited to, the ability of the Company to meet its contractual obligations, the uncertain market for the Company's lithium battery cells and business, macroeconomic, technological, regulatory, or other factors affecting the profitability of battery cells designed for energy storage that we discussed or referred to in the Company's disclosure documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, including the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K as well as in our other reports filed or furnished from time to time with the SEC. You should read these factors and the other cautionary statements made in this press release. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, other than as required by applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
CBAK Energy Technology, Inc.
Investor Relations Department
Mr. Thierry Jiewei Li
Phone: 86-18675423231
Email: ir@cbak.com.cn
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Upgraded AI Solution Adds Income, Employment, and Phone Validation to their innovative Identity Fraud Solution
SAN DIEGO, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Point Predictive Inc., the San Diego-based company that provides artificial intelligence solutions powered by more than 22 billion proprietary risk attributes, today launched its newest solution, BorrowerCheck 3.0. Available via API or web browser, BorrowerCheck 3.0 addresses the problem of fraud and identity theft in a more comprehensive way than existing identity solutions to help stop the billions in fraud losses that slip through controls today.
With BorrowerCheck 3.0, customers receive:
- A fraud score that precisely identifies the level of risk of identity theft, synthetic identity, income fabrication, fake employer use, and first-party fraud.
- Validated Red Flag alerts for each fraud type that can be used to target stipulation and manual review strategies based on the type of risk that is present.
- One Time Passcode (OTP) Phone Identity Validation
- OFAC checks
- Comprehensive Dashboard reporting
- Geo Address Survey Questionnaires for enhanced verification
The solution's new features include a brand new way to enhance the validation of a borrower's identity when red flags are present. Currently, many companies will use a knowledge-based authentication (KBA) survey, which includes questions generally generated from public information (that can be accessed by fraudsters) that legitimate consumers have a hard time answering. Data reveals that up to 92% of fraudsters can successfully pass knowledge-based question tests compared to 46% of legitimate customers.
"From our experience, fraud is slipping through the cracks because companies approach the fraud problem too narrowly since most existing solutions have one purpose: alerting potential identity fraud," says Tim Grace, CEO of Point Predictive. "Fraud perpetrators are not only using stolen or synthetic identities, but they are also using fabricated income with forged paystubs, fake employers, and phone numbers that don't belong to the real consumer. With BorrowerCheck 3.0, we address all these risks in a single, cost-effective solution."
The solution leverages the power of Point Predictive's unequaled proprietary risk data elements – data points that are not available on any other data source, including the credit bureaus. Additionally, the solution leverages select and key data points from public records and phone ownership. Point Predictive can perform a more comprehensive identity and fraud assessment by incorporating four comprehensive checks into a single transaction – Identity Validation, Income Validation, Employment Validation, and Phone Validation. The result is a solution that can detect a majority of the fraud that lenders, dealers, and financial institutions are missing today with lower false positives and less customer friction. No other solution on the market provides this combination of identity, income, employment and phone validation -- in real-time by API or on-demand through a simple user interface.
"With BorrowerCheck 3.0, we are introducing a replacement to time-consuming KBA surveys that many legitimate borrowers fail, and most fraudsters can pass", said Frank McKenna, Chief Fraud Strategist of Point Predictive. "We're using Phone-Based Authentication instead. Once we verify the borrower does own the phone, we can send a one-time passcode to that borrower to make sure that they are in possession of the phone they own. If the borrower can provide the passcode, we know that identity theft is far less likely. This process saves an average of 5 minutes of customers' time and is exponentially harder for an identity thief to fake. The result is legitimate customers pass through the checks in seconds, while fraudsters can get detected before the loan is approved."
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There is a scene deep in A.J. Eaton's 2019 documentary "David Crosby: Remember My Name," where the subject, then 78, muses about his former bandmates.
"I still have friends, but all of the guys I made music with won't even talk to me," Crosby says. "One of them hating my guts could be an accident. But [Roger] McGuinn, [Graham] Nash, Neil [Young] and Stephen [Stills] all really dislike me, strongly. I don't quite know how to undo it."
When McGuinn saw the movie, he was touched by the sentiment. He Tweeted at Crosby: "Hey ... you're saying I won't talk to you and hate you. That's just not true."
This elicited a response from Crosby: "Thanks Roger ... want to do a couple of Byrds dates? I'll just sing harmony ... no talking ... ?"
McGuinn was not moved by the offer. Through his representative he issued a statement: "Neither Roger or Chris [Hillman] entertain the idea of a Byrds reunion. Roger was just tired of David crying about being hated. DC is not hated, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to work with him."
It had been that way for a while. I spoke to McGuinn at Austin's South by Southwest Music Festival in 2000. Back then there were rumors of a potential Byrds reunion, one that McGuinn immediately quashed.
"Nobody wants the Byrds to get back together except for a small group of diehard fans and David Crosby," McGuinn said, adding that even if it had happened, Crosby wasn't going to give up occasionally working with Nash, Stills and Young because, McGuinn said, "David has a business plan where he's in a lot of bands."
Crosby, who died Jan. 18, was almost as well known for his spectacular breakups with collaborators as he was for his preternaturally smooth tenor. Graham Nash sounded a little like Brendan Gleeson's character in "The Banshees of Inisherin" when he told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2018, "I just don't like Crosby. I can't make music with him. It's done. It's over."
But last fall, in another interview with the Union-Tribune, Nash noted he was preparing a compilation album that features his and Crosby's harmony vocals on tracks like Stephen Stills' 1970 solo hit "Love the One You're With," Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes" and James Taylor's "Mexico."
HARMONY
Nash said the yet-to-be-released album, tentatively titled "Harmony," takes the pair up to 1993, with them backing Carole King on a live version of "You've Got a Friend" recorded at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre. Presumably the partnership deteriorated after that, with Crosby, Stills & Nash giving their last performance in 2015.
"The truth is, I do miss David," Nash said. "I think he's really a great musician, totally unique, and we made a lot of really good music together in our lives ...
"But, as with brothers, sometimes you argue and that (can wreck) your relationship. That's what happened to David and me. But look at the music we made together."
Most of us never talked to Crosby, we only have the music he made. Last week there was an amusing story in Jewish digital publication The Forward by Adam Langer, who as a young freelancer had occasion to try to interview Crosby in 1989, on the occasion of the release of his album "Oh Yes I Can."
"I was just out of college and I was freelancing a lot," Langer writes. "I wasn't what you might call a music journalist and I wasn't a major Crosby fan ... ."
Langer was familiar with Crosby's work with CSN and CSNY; and a publicist messaged him a copy of the new album and a copy of Crosby's memoir "Long Time Gone" the day before the scheduled interview. Anyone who has been in this racket for any length of time can probably relate — you put on the album and skim the bio and hope for congenial circumstances.
But when Langer arrived at Crosby's Chicago hotel room, there was a leak in the room's ceiling, and when Crosby sat down on a couch it collapsed and he landed in a puddle of water, sustaining a minor wardrobe malfunction. If he hadn't been grumpy before, he now was exceedingly prickly.
Langer's questions were met with monosyllabic answers. When Crosby's wife, Jan Dance, came into the room to check how things were going, Crosby told her he was "trying to help out the most spectacularly unprepared journalist" he'd ever met.
Langer bristled at that, pointing out that he'd only gotten the materials the day before, and Crosby unceremoniously threw him out of his hotel. As Jan escorted Langer out, her rueful smile signaled he wasn't the first writer to suffer such an ignominious fate. The lesson Langer took from this? Be prepared. And don't meet your heroes, though it doesn't sound like Crosby was much of a hero to Langer.
Or to most of us.
REMEMBER MY NAME
Like Langer, I liked Crosby but wasn't exactly arrested by the songwriting of his solo career. I generally found his bandmates more interesting and it wasn't until I saw "David Crosby: Remember My Name" that I got a sense of his personality. Before that, he was to me a beautiful voice, a bad reputation and a presumed drug casualty.
The premise of the film is simple. Basically they drive Crosby around while Cameron Crowe, the film's producer and an empathetic interviewer, asks him questions. Crosby is thoughtful and for the most part conciliatory. It doesn't come off as an act. He seems like Guitar Center's oldest shop assistant in wool cap and denim shirt, a semi-grumpy guy who is dubious about getting that $5,000 dreadnought down off the wall so you can noodle on it.
There's an avuncular air about him as he tells on himself while unraveling his life story, which follows the contours of a lot of rock 'n' roll survivor stories.
His father, Floyd Crosby, a Wall Street banker who became the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shot "High Noon," was remote. He never told his sons he loved them. (The film does not touch on the suicide of Crosby's older brother Ethan in 1997 or 1998. The exact date is unknown because Ethan, who taught David to play guitar, was a recluse living in a remote mountain cabin.) His mother was gentler, a music lover. Both parents came from money, from old New York society.
David's middle name is "Van Cortlandt."
He was briefly in Les Baxter's Balladeers, which is exactly what it sounds like: a Kingston Trio-style folk group. Jim Dickson produced some solo sessions for him in 1963; if anybody has a copy of those demos, I'd like to hear them.
His first mega-successful band — The Byrds, a perpetually underrated L.A. band that might have been the American Beatles — blew up largely because of his ego and excesses. (On stage, Crosby would say that the "other guys" in the band wrote the hits, while he wrote "the weird ones."
That's not strictly true. He was a co-writer of "Eight Miles High." He wrote "Everybody's Been Burned" which should have been a hit. And he wrote "Triad," one of the weird ones.
In his 20s, Crosby strutted around in a Russian fur hat and spewed conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination. He admits he misused young women. One of them — the one he may have loved — died tragically in a traffic accident at 21.
BIRTH OF CSN(Y)
In a Laurel Canyon kitchen he found singing with Nash, then of the Hollies, and Stills, then of Buffalo Springfield, was strong medicine. Legend has it that it took 40 seconds for CSN to come together (and nearly 50 years to fall apart; the film contains a painful video of what will likely be their final performance ever, a dissonant pass at the Christmas carol "Silent Night" at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in 2015). Then Neil Young petitioned to join the band; he auditioned for Crosby in the latter's driveway. Crosby deigned to let him in.
They were the biggest thing for a while after Woodstock, in the early '70s. That died too.
The documentary reveals Crosby as a surprisingly droll storyteller, candid, free of self-pity (despite what McGuinn thinks). He seems to genuinely wonder how he is still alive. Prison probably saved his life in the '80s when he was better known for abusing substances than making music.
Since the '90s, fewer and fewer people seemed interested in his music. So, to try to hold everything together, he's forced to go out on the road and play his old songs in tertiary markets.
Cameras follow him and his band of young musicians. They reveal him to be in wonderful voice, except when that voice deserts him and he has to cancel dates. Crosby seems to be happy on stage, to play for crowds that tolerate his new jazzier work while waiting for him to sing the old songs like "Guinnevere" or "Almost Cut My Hair."
That's probably the best that career musicians can hope for, that someone remembers their name and the songs they used to sing.
There's nothing in this shambling film to dispel the notion that Crosby was, for most of his life, a selfish dude and a bad guy. But he twinkles, and that's disarming. He takes responsibility for whatever has gone wrong with his life, for being the source of pain for many. We might imagine that feels familiar to McGuinn and Nash, whose legendary forbearance was eventually exhausted by their old friend.
They had all the David Crosby they could handle.
But some people genuinely were looking forward to more Crosby — his late career was fairly rich, as he found time to collaborate with younger musicians like John Mayer and Jason Isbell, record and (constantly) tour as he grew progressively jazzier in his taste.
FOR FREE
His final studio album, 2021's "For Free," might be most notable for its striking cover art (by singer Joan Baez). Still, it's a pleasurable grown-up pop album that feels like a freshly discovered lost recording from 1979 (the contributions of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald accentuate the vibe).
It feels like a circle-closing project, produced by James Raymond, Crosby's son who was placed for adoption as an infant in 1962 and reunited with him as an adult in the jazz-rock band CPR in 1996.
Raymond went on to become his father's musical director. That was one reunion that took. And Crosby stayed married to Jan for 35 years. That wasn't nothing.
Released four years ago, "David Crosby: Remember My Name" feels like an elegy. Crosby understands the end is near and that he is bound to leave behind unrepaired relationships and financial messiness. He's trying to fix it, but there's not enough time.
When we mourn people with whom we have only a parasocial relationship, we're not mourning their loss. We're pre-mourning our own demise. That's not to say that Crosby doesn't matter, only that there's nothing going away for us to miss. We will still hear him sing "Guinnevere" and "Wooden Ships." We will still hear him harmonize with Nash and Stills and sometimes Young.
We will still be able to dial up The Byrds' recordings, even if all possibilities for the Byrds reunion nobody wants have been foreclosed. Unless you were eagerly awaiting the next David Crosby album, you haven't lost anything. Thanks to our technology, we mostly listen to ghosts.
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Which Victor dog food is best?
Determining what food to feed your dog is one of the most important decisions to make as an owner. Recipes should provide holistic support, from enhancing their immune system to supplying energy to enjoy the day. Food should also cater to the dog’s specific needs, including allergies or metabolic issues.
Victor Super Premium Pet Food features over a dozen different formulas with both general recipes and ones targeting specific lifestyles. A top pick, the Victor Select Lamb Meal and Brown Rice formula gives a boost to all dogs, especially those with common sensitivities.
What to know before you buy Victor dog food
About Victor dog food
Based in Texas, Victor prepares dog food formulas for dogs of all ages, breeds and lifestyles. However, most formulas are high in protein and intended for dogs with medium to high energy levels who lead active lives. In particular, Victor dog food formulas suit working and hunting dogs as well as those who go on long hikes and other adventures.
Dry vs. wet dog food
Victor offers both dry and wet dog food, though most owners prefer to feed dry food. It’s easy to serve and clean, aids in teeth cleaning and lasts a long time under proper storage conditions.
Some dogs, however, may prefer or need wet food, which is gentler on teeth and gums. It is more aromatic, which helps encourage picky eaters to dine, and assists in hydration. Wet food, though, will deplete more quickly than dry and tends to cost much more over time, especially if feeding larger dogs. In some cases, wet and dry can be combined to soften kibble and make mealtime more enticing.
Size
Each bag of dry dog food may come in two, three or four sizes depending on the formula. Small bags are around 5 pounds, while medium bags are typically 15 to 30 pounds. Most recipes are offered in large 40-pound bags, and some even come in the biggest size at 50 pounds.
The size of the bag should match the general size of your dog. However, sizing up can be cost-effective, as the per-pound price goes down in bigger bags. To preserve kibble, keep the bag sealed and stored in a container free from moisture, heat, sunlight and humidity.
Wet food comes in 13.2-ounce cans and may be sold six or 12 to a pack.
What to look for in quality Victor dog food
Product lines
Victor dog food has three product lines for their dry dog food formula.
- Classic: The five formulas in this line feature balanced diets for dogs of all ages and lifestyles. Recipes incorporate meats, vegetables, fruits and grains along with vitamins and minerals. The main source of protein is beef, pork or chicken.
- Select: Focused on eliminating common allergens, this group of recipes is ideal for dogs with digestive sensitivities. Several formulas are grain-free, while others are free from gluten, chicken and soy.
- Purpose: This line is designed to support dogs in need, whether they should improve their skin and coat, lose weight or ease pressure on their joints. These recipes are specific to ages, lifestyles or conditions and likely won’t be used continuously throughout a dog’s life.
Ingredients
Every dog food bag lists ingredients in order of prevalence. The first few listed comprise a majority of the formula, and the initial listing should be a protein source. There are certain helpful ingredients to look out for.
- Selenium yeast helps with stress and immune function.
- Prebiotics and probiotics aid in digestion and immune response.
- The mineral complex in Victor food comprises iron, magnesium and zinc for healthy coats, paw pads and bones.
RealTree formulas
In partnership with RealTree, an outdoors apparel and hunting company, Victor offers a pair of formulas designed for working and hunting dogs. Both recipes feature beef, fish and duck backed by added glucosamine and chondroitin designed to keep hips and joints healthy.
How much you can expect to spend on Victor dog food
A medium bag of dry dog food costs around $30-$40. A can of wet food costs around $3 or $4 each.
Victor dog food FAQ
How should I introduce the new formula to my dog?
A. Anytime you are switching over to a new formula, or even a new bag of dog food, you should transition your pet slowly to ease any potential digestive upset. This transition is done across 10 to 14 days. Start by mixing in about 75% old food with 25% of the new formula. Every few days, mix in more of the new recipe until the transition is complete.
What is blood meal?
A. Certain formulas include the ingredient blood meal. It is essentially dried blood that’s a byproduct of the slaughter process ground up into a powder. It is high in protein, low in fat and boosts calcium levels in the formula. Blood meal is included as part of a growing belief that dogs should adhere to an ancestral diet in which they enjoyed high protein and consumed most parts of any animal they killed.
What’s the best Victor dog food to buy?
Top Victor dog food
Victor Select Lamb Meal and Brown Rice
What you need to know: Lamb meal and whole grain brown rice are the top two ingredients in this formula suited for all ages and sizes.
What you’ll love: As part of the Select series focused on growth and maintenance, this balanced diet features gluten-free grains and a mix of vitamins and supplements. As the main ingredient, lamb is ideal for dogs with allergies to beef and chicken.
What you should consider: This formula is among the more expensive options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top Victor dog food for the money
Victor Classic Multi-Pro Dog Food
What you need to know: A popular formula, this balanced recipe is ideal for most dogs of all ages who lead an active lifestyle.
What you’ll love: From the Classic line, this inexpensive formula features a mix of beef, pork and chicken ingredients. It is suitable for puppies, adults and seniors of all sizes.
What you should consider: Grain sorghum is the first ingredient; meat would be preferred.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Victor Purpose Senior Healthy Weight
What you need to know: This diet is formulated to assist elderly dogs manage their weight, stay mobile and feel comfortable.
What you’ll love: Featuring beef, chicken and fish, this appealing recipe helps weight management for older, less active dogs. Glucosamine and chondroitin target hips and joints, while probiotics aid in digestion and immune response.
What you should consider: Beef, chicken and blood meal may not be suitable for dogs with allergies or sensitivities.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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ORONO – Twelve undergraduates have been named 2023 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Their full profiles are online.
Mille Baartvedt of Oslo, Norway is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The kinesiology and physical education major is a Presidential Scholar. On campus, she has worked at the New Balance Student Recreation Center and as a teaching assistant, and been a member of the Maine chapter of Pi Beta Phi and the Women’s Soccer Club. Baartvedt did her student teaching at Hampden Academy and Orono Middle School. She will pursue a graduate degree in sports management at Boston College, and plans a career as an educator and athletic director.
Samantha Costanza from Norwalk, Connecticut is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Division of Lifelong Learning. Costanza is a university studies major in the labor studies track, and an Online Flagship Scholarship recipient. Costanza has worked full-time as a communications professional for a national retirement company while pursuing an associate degree at a local community college, then transferring to UMaine. Her research as part of her academic work included how COVID impacted the union construction industry; how the legalization of marijuana has changed the landscape of workplace drug testing; and the pay gap and working conditions for women in many industries. Beyond her coursework, Costanza is active in her community choir. She plans to continue her now 23-year career with Transamerica.
Emily Davison of North Waterboro, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development. She is majoring in athletic training with a minor in child development and family relations. The UMaine Presidential Scholarship recipient also received the 2023 Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association Joseph Abraham Scholarship and 2022 Maine Athletic Trainers’ Association Wes Jordan Scholarship. Davison did her athletic training internship this spring at Foxcroft Academy and has had numerous athletic training clinical experiences with athletics teams at UMaine, Husson University and Hampden Academy. On campus, she also worked in the UMaine Ticket Office. Davison plans to pursue a master’s degree in sport management at the University of Central Arkansas while working full time as a high school athletic trainer. Her goal is to be an athletic director at a class AA high school in southern Maine.
Kell Fremouw of Orono, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering. The Honors College student is majoring in engineering physics, with a concentration in mechanical engineering and a minor in mathematics. Last summer, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Sensor Science and Engineering, and he has worked as a teaching assistant in physics. His honors thesis is: “Thermal Stability of Platinum-Silicon Alloy Films Grown on Langasite Substrates for Use in Microwave Acoustic Sensor Technology.” Fremouw has been a student researcher examining optical microscopy data in the laboratory of professor Samuel Hess and modeling graphene transistors in the laboratory of professor Sheila Edalatpour. In addition, Fremouw worked on a materials science project with professor Robert Lad. He also participates in STEM outreach with the Society of Physics Students. Fremouw is a competitive kayaker and canoeist who qualified in the U.S. trials for the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships. He has been awarded a Dean’s Fellowship for Excellence at the University of Colorado Boulder where he will pursue a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering. He plans to work in academia or in a lab on improving sustainable energy production and energy efficiency.
Anna Kahelin of Helsinki, Finland is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the Maine Business School. She is a business administration major in management with a minor in psychology, and member of the Women’s Basketball team. Kahelin received an America East Elite 18 award, and was a member of Team Maine from 2021–22. She plans to pursue an MBA at UMaine and play basketball for another year.
Abigail Mulligan of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Mulligan is an Honors College student triple-majoring in chemistry with a pre-med concentration; in food science and human nutrition, with a concentration in dietetics; and in zoology. She is minoring in psychology, sustainable food systems and neuroscience. Among her numerous honors is the Charles A. Brautlecht Scholarship, the S.P. Livermore Award, and the Dr. Melanie Gershman-Tewksbury ’77 Scholarship. Her honors thesis is: “The Development of Sustainable, Flax-Integrated, Plastic Composite.” Mulligan has been a student researcher in professor William Gramlich’s laboratory, studying the development of sustainable, flax-integrated biocomposites. She is president of the Nutrition Club, secretary of the UMaine chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu and a 4-H STEM Ambassador. Mulligan also has been a member of the UMaine Swimming and Diving team and was a peer tutor. She plans to attend medical school to pursue a career in pediatric neurosurgery.
Theophile Nkulikiyinka of Kigali, Rwanda is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering. Nkulikiyinka, a biomedical engineering student, is a Presidential Scholar and the recipient of the International Presidential Scholarship. He has been an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of professor Michael Mason, evaluating the potential of cellulose nanofiber as a biomaterial for bone replacement. His academic experiences off campus included shadowing at Hanger Orthotics and Prosthetics Clinic, and working as a cardiac technician at Northern Light Health and a direct support professional for adults with disabilities at MERT Enterprises and Peace Residential Care. Nkulikiyinka is president of UMaine’s African Student Association. He plans to pursue a master’s degree in prosthetics and orthotics at the University of Hartford.
Shelby Philips of Buffalo, New York is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Maine Business School. Philips is a business administration major in management. Her numerous academic awards include the Senior Alumni Non-Traditional Student Scholarship, the Carville Non-Traditional Student Scholarship, and David and Debra Scott Scholarship. Philips interned with Food Rescue Maine, an initiative of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, and served as president of MBS Corps. She also was a member of SPIFFY and the International Business and Culture Club, and was a cast member in the School of Performing Arts production of “Everybody.” This summer, she will be a producer on an independent feature film. Philips plans to pursue a career in management.
Aiden Pike of Searsmont, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. He is a double major in biochemistry, and molecular and cellular biology, with minors in French and chemistry. The Honors College student, who will receive two bachelor’s degrees, also is in the 4+1 master’s bioinformatics program with the Roux institute at Northeastern University. His numerous academic honors include a Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship, the Professor Frederick H. Radke Award and the Honors INBRE Thesis Fellowships in Comparative Functional Genomics. His honors thesis is: “The Role of Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase IV in Regulating JC Polyomavirus Infection.” Pike has been a student researcher in professor Melissa Maginnis’ laboratory, studying how the immune response is implicated in JC polyomavirus infection and the signaling mechanisms that the virus may take advantage of to gain control of the host cell. He also spent a summer as a research fellow at MDI Biological Laboratory. On campus, Pike has been a teaching assistant and a course facilitator, and a member of the Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band and the Concert Band. With the completion of his master’s degree, Pike plans to apply to an M.D./Ph.D. program to study infectious diseases and practice translational medicine.
Elaine Thomas of Hampden, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Honors College. She is a business administration major in management with a minor in music. The Honors College student received the 2022 John M. Rezendes Ethics Award for her first-place essay: “When We Cannot Care for Ourselves: Ethics, Interdependence, and the Moral Danger of the Self-Care Message.” Also in 2022, she received the Maine Campus Compact PILLARS (Philanthropy, Innovation, Learning, Leadership, Action, Responsibility, and Service) Award and participated in the Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership program. Her honors thesis is: “Evidence-based Family Strengthening Training in Maine: A Resource Assessment and Proposal to Reduce Barriers and Increase Facilitators.” Throughout her time at UMaine, Thomas has been a member of the Attachment Theory Team of the Honors College Servant Heart Research Collaborative. She also has interned with three nonprofit organizations: Heart of Maine United Way, Partners for Peace and the American Red Cross, and donates her time to Literacy Volunteers of Bangor. Thomas plans to work for a nonprofit organization in Maine.
Maria Vina Lopez of Santiago de Compostela, Spain is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and in the Honors College. The biology major with minors in mathematics and neuroscience is the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Presidential Scholarship and a Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Her honors thesis is: “An Organoid Model for Human Brain Aging.” As a student researcher, Vina Lopez studied the drug synergy effect of fluconazole and cyclosporine A on Candida albicans in the laboratory of professor Robert Wheeler, and used C. elegans to study the effect of novel small molecule combinations on age reversal in vivo and identify life span-extending cocktails in professor Suzanne Angeli’s lab. For two summers, she also was a research intern in the microbiology laboratory of professor Darren Higgins at Harvard Medical School, and for eight months last year, collaborated on her honors research in the genetics laboratory of professor David Sinclair, also at Harvard Medical School. At UMaine, Vina Lopez has been president of Engineers Without Borders, a resident assistant, a Maine Learning Assistant and peer tutor in genetics, and a member of the University Volunteer Ambulance Corps. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard Medical School.
Willow Wind of Rumford, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Honors College student is a communication major with minors in media studies and Spanish. Her academic honors include a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellowship and James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior Award, both in 2022, and a 2021 Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award and first-place recognition the Communication and Journalism Showcase for her research project: “Communication Goals and Practices of Trans- and Gender Non-conforming (TGNC) Individuals and Their Impact on Mental Health.” Her Honors thesis is: “Conceptualizing and Enacting Gender Euphoria: Exploring Awareness and Action Across Gender Demographics.” Wind has conducted research in collaboration with professor Liliana Herakova, focused on trans and gender-nonconforming communication and mental health, and as a research assistant in the Media Psychology Lab of professor Amelia Couture Bue, working on a project exploring the desirability of STEM to college women. She also has been active in the Scholars Strategy Network, Progressive Pipeline, and Partners for Peace, and in a UMaine collaborative effort to improve classroom belonging. Wind plans to pursue nonprofit advocacy work and a master’s degree. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/27/bdn-maine/umaine-names-its-2023-outstanding-graduating-students/ | 2023-04-27 15:32:53 | 0 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/27/bdn-maine/umaine-names-its-2023-outstanding-graduating-students/ |
Kendall Outing has a cinematic dream: to one day see his name up in lights in Hollywood and beyond.
Already, the 21-year-old film student is making moves — or more precisely, movies — while honing his craft as an emerging director, producer and screenwriter.
“I’ve made six short films including my first documentary,” said Outing, who is completing his junior year at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts. The top-rated film school’s alumni include director Barry Jenkins of “Moonlight” fame. Another graduate, Allison Rose Carter, was a co-producer for this year’s Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“It’s amazing to be learning and doing what I love,” said Outing, a New Jersey native whose family, including older brother Chaz, relocated to Harford County when he was in kindergarten.
“My wife Robin and I introduced our sons to sports and all kinds of activities, from religious camp to the arts,” said his father, Cornelius “Neal” Outing. “Our philosophy in raising children was, ‘It takes a village.’ School, church, grandparents. They were never idle, and we kept them engaged.”
Today, the family and “village” are cheering on both brothers — Chaz Outing is a visual artist/designer who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design — as they pursue creative careers.
“We are very proud of them, and they support each other,” said their father.
Family movie nights provided inspiration for Kendall Outing’s early film interests. After viewing movies, “we would talk about them, watch behind-the-scenes videos’ and look at the equipment the filmmakers used,” he said.
In 8th grade, he penned a feature film script. At Fallston High School, encouraged by his teachers, he wrote several screenplays. “I convinced my friends to act in them,” he chuckles.
These days, the aspiring auteur is juggling coursework while promoting his first documentary, “Freetown.” The short film tells the story of a small Black community in Anne Arundel County established December 26, 1845.
“The founder of Freetown was my great-great grandfather, James Spencer” said Tony J. Spencer, a descendant and historian who appears in the documentary. “He was a sea captain, landowner, and during the Civil War, he served in the Union Army with the U.S. Colored Troops.”
Early settlers in Freetown were free or formerly enslaved Blacks, and some of their names still exist on street signs in the community. The film features several descendants, highlighting their memories of a tight knit, self-sufficient enclave that has survived for centuries.
“I first heard about Freetown from my father,” said Kendall Outing, explaining that his dad knew a family with ties to the town. “I started doing research,” aided by Spencer and other sources.
Once his professor greenlit the project, Outing and two classmates with whom he collaborated on the film, embarked on a road trip from Tallahassee to Freetown, which is in Glen Burnie.
The production had a shoestring budget — about $400 dollars — mostly allotted for gas, hotel and food costs. “We filmed on location over four days in March 2022,” said Outing, adding that they captured “a ton of footage,” which had to be whittled down to the movie’s final 8-minute cut.
“Freetown” has since hit the film festival circuit. This spring, the documentary was screened at the D.C. Independent Film Forum and the Annapolis Film Festival. Up next is a festival in Toronto.
Meanwhile, Outing is developing new projects that offer different perspectives. “Being raised in rural Maryland, I realized that many people live in a cultural bubble,” he said. “I’ve used my films to try and pop it. …to see a person’s experience on screen, completely different from my own, and still empathize and connect with them always intrigued me.”
With his senior year and anticipated graduation approaching, Outing said he’s considering a move to Los Angeles to further his career.
“There are production assistant jobs there for young people, and I want to network, and seek mentorships,” he said. Above all, he is committed to his craft.
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(Our Auto Expert) – Volvo has a mission to become fully electric by 2030 and climate neutral by 2040. The next step they take to make sure that happens is the release of the new flagship, the all-electric EX90.
All EX90s will come with a dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain, but the entry-level Twin Motor model makes 402 horsepower while the Twin Motor Performance variant makes 496 horsepower. Volvo says the Twin Motor model should be able to hit 60 mph in 5.7 seconds, while the twin motor performance should be able to get there in 4.7 seconds.
A 111-kWh battery pack gets you around 300 miles per charge. DC fast charging capability is standard and can afford you a 10% to 80% battery jump in about a half hour. Volvo used the EV architecture that allows for bi-directional charging, which means you can hook it up to your house to power appliances during a power outage or charge another EV if needed.
The safety features of the EX90 are second to none. Volvo rolls out the driver understanding system. The driver understanding system makes the EX90 the safest Volvo ever made. It comprises a whole suite of sensors, including two driver-monitoring cameras, ultrasonic sensors, and the first-ever standard LiDAR, which creates a shield of safety around the car that’s there for you at all times.
Not only is the EX90 a big step toward the electrification goal for Volvo, it’s also going to add to the economy and create jobs. Volvo plans to build the EX90 in its Ridgeville plant near Charleston, SC starting next year, and by then, Volvo is aiming for those production facilities to be climate neutral. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/the-new-all-electric-volvo-suv-can-tell-if-you-are-impaired/ | 2022-11-22 16:16:59 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/reviews/br/automotive-br/the-new-all-electric-volvo-suv-can-tell-if-you-are-impaired/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Black North Carolina teacher has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Charlotte charter school, alleging he was fired after some White parents opposed his teaching of a novel about a Black teen struggling with "racial injustice" during Black History Month.
Charlotte Secondary School hired Markayle Gray on a contract basis to teach seventh and eighth grade English last October, according to the lawsuit filed in US District Court on Monday.
The school terminated his contract in February over what the lawsuit described as "racially inspired backlash" over Gray's teaching of the novel "Dear Martin" to his seventh-grade honors students along with "other aspects" of the class content connected to "racial equality."
"Dear Martin" is a New York Times bestseller about a Black teenager who falls victim to racial profiling by law enforcement.
Some White parents complained to school administrators that the novel's content "was divisive and injected what they regarded as unwelcome views on systemic racial inequality into their children's classroom," according to the lawsuit.
When reached for comment regarding the lawsuit, attorneys for Charlotte Secondary told CNN they were limited in what they could say about the reasons for Gray's termination, because it was a personnel matter.
"However, I can say that the termination of Mr. Gray's employment was based on legitimate, nondiscriminatory, nonretaliatory reasons. The School denies any and all allegations of wrongdoing and intends to vigorously defend the suit," said attorney Katie Weaver Hartzog, who represents the school.
Attorneys for Gray say the school's principal had previously approved and recommended the young adult novel "as a challenging but age-appropriate work that promoted a discussion of core American values like justice and equality," the suit said.
Additionally, the lawsuit says Gray was fired because the principal was seeking to avoid pressure from North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction after she learned a complaint had been circulated to the department stating that a teacher at Charlotte Secondary was teaching "Critical Race Theory," according to the lawsuit.
The department has no record of a complaint about a teacher at Charlotte Secondary teaching critical race theory, according to Blair Rhoades, a department spokesperson.
"We have no record of this complaint. However, if we did, it would be considered a confidential personnel record as it relates to school employees and would therefore not be subject to public disclosure," Rhoades told CNN.
Artur Davis, an attorney for Gray, told CNN that evidence will show the teacher "was fired because he is a young Black man, teaching about racism in society."
"We are confident we are going to prove our claim in a court of law," Davis added.
The lawsuit said Charlotte Secondary's student body is about 80% to 85% Black, Hispanic, or biracial, and its faculty is evenly split between White people and people of color.
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End Devices with Airoha Bluetooth LE Audio Chips Will Be Widely Available in 1H 2023
HSINCHU, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Airoha Technology today announced that its new series of Bluetooth audio chips have successfully completed the latest Bluetooth® Low Energy Audio Qualification Process. This is one of the most important R&D achievements of its Bluetooth audio R&D team consisted of hundreds of engineers, who continues to revolutionize the wireless audio end device market. The "flagship" and "professional" series of chipsets support LE audio and Bluetooth 5.3 for multiple applications such as True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds, Bluetooth smart speakers, assistive listening devices, and Bluetooth transmitters. The products are currently being tested by many brand customers and are expected to be available worldwide in the first half of 2023.
After 10 Years of technology investment, Airoha Revolutionizes the Global Bluetooth Audio Market
"The LE Audio specifications are the most important milestone reached in the Bluetooth audio industry in the past decade. With the support of our strong R&D team consisting of hundreds of engineers who have accumulated nearly a decade of technical expertise, Airoha became one of the world's first certified chip providers. This supports many customers to accelerate the launch of their end devices. The wireless audio innovation brought by the latest Bluetooth LE technology will expedite the process by which consumers and businesses enjoy the convenient and innovative services it brings, fully demonstrating the Airoha's vision and business philosophy." said Yuchuan Yang, Sr. Vice President of Airoha.
Bluetooth LE Audio Will Dramatically Change the Business Model of Wireless Audio Services for Consumers and Businesses
AuracastTM broadcast audio sharing, the most important technology in the Bluetooth LE Audio qualification, is the industry standard for one-to-many unidirectional audio playback, which will dramatically change the audio service model of existing dedicated earbuds. As AuracastTM improves the convenience and experience of users and reduces the cost of service providers, it will inspire more innovative application services and scenarios. For example, museum tours no longer need to provide dedicated headset rentals, and visitors can receive audio services inside by wearing portable earbuds of their own. Other venues such as gatherings, ball games, concerts, and even corporate events can also use this feature to provide customized and innovative services that will dramatically change the consumer experience and corporate service model.
In addition to supporting broadcast audio, Bluetooth LE Audio also offers two major advantages: improved sound quality and low latency. In the past, true wireless stereo (TWS) Bluetooth earbuds were limited by size, weight and battery capacity, which made it difficult to find a balance between hardware requirements and sound quality. According to the Bluetooth SIG, the LC3 codec introduced by LE Audio can transmit audio at half the bitrate of traditional SBC without compromising sound quality. In addition, LE Audio reduces the latency issue by 70%. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, LC3 will become a standard for high-quality and power-saving Bluetooth audio codec.
Market-leading Launch of Two Series of Bluetooth LE Audio Chips
By launching two series of chips, Airoha Technology not only brings new experiences and changes to the global wireless audio market, but they also introduced the high performing and low-power consuming Software Development Kit (SDK). Integrating the full range of features required by different Bluetooth applications, the SDK further simplifies the R&D design of Bluetooth connectivity and allows its customers to accelerate the time-to-market of their end devices and create a new, seamless user experience.
- Flagship Series: The performance leader AB1585 supports the latest LE Audio and Bluetooth 5.3, with built-in HiFi 5 DSP for high computing power, suitable for running AI algorithms and provides customizable and flexible applications for headphones, TWS, speakers and assistive listening devices, etc., while simultaneously allowing for personalized wireless audio experience beyond imagination.
- Professional Series: The low-power consumption and highly-integrated AB1565/AB1568 supports the latest LE Audio and Bluetooth 5.3 system which is suitable for headphones, TWS, speakers and Bluetooth transmitters. It also enables quick mass introduction of market applications for the enterprise and a professional user experience.
About Airoha Technology
Airoha Technology Corp., a fabless IC design house and one of MediaTek's subsidiaries, dedicated in four technology areas: Bluetooth, Satellite, Broadband and Ethernet. Its fixed network team was first established in 2001, followed by the wireless communication team, a spin-off from MediaTek, in 2017. All members of both teams have more than 20 years of experiences in their respective technical fields.
With its customer-centric culture that drives engineering excellence, Airoha is committed to shortening the product development cycle for its customers and creating great experiences for the consumers. Therefore, Airoha has the broadest customer base including almost all leading brands in the above four technology areas. Airoha's vision is to make technology accessible for the benefits of all end users and businesses.
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Man shoots thief who stole mother-in-law’s car while making Amazon deliveries, police say
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - Police in Missouri say they have arrested three people in connection with stealing an Amazon driver’s personal vehicle.
According to Sunset Hills police, an Amazon driver’s black BMW was stolen Monday around 5 a.m. in a neighborhood when the worker left it running while delivering a package.
Police said a group of men got out of an SUV and into the BMW before driving away.
Richmond Heights Police Chief Gerry Rohr told KMOV that the delivery driver’s son-in-law used the vehicle’s remote tracking function to track down the car.
Rohr said the son-in-law caught up to the vehicle at an intersection and confronted the group, which led to him shooting the driver in the leg.
The BMW became disabled at an intersection near Interstate 64, and the suspects ran past the police department and into a nearby neighborhood.
Authorities said two adults and a juvenile ended up being arrested, along with two handguns recovered.
The police chief said he doesn’t condone the son-in-law’s actions but understands his motivation since his mother-in-law needs her car to make a living. Rohr said the vehicle theft problem has gotten so bad that he wouldn’t be surprised if other victims took matters into their own hands.
According to KMOV, Amazon drivers make deliveries as early as 4 a.m., and drivers use their own cars for such early deliveries.
Rohr said the son-in-law will likely face a charge of unlawful firearm use.
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GRAPHIC: Video shows police dog attacking unarmed man who surrendered to authorities
(CNN) - Newly released body camera video shows a police dog attacking an unarmed Black man who surrendered to authorities with his hands up despite an officer with the Ohio State Highway Patrol urging the officer not to release the dog.
GRAPHIC WARNING: The video in this story may be considered disturbing.
The footage provided by Ohio State Highway Patrol is under scrutiny after a man was mauled by a police officer’s K-9.
A case report shows a Ohio State Highway Patrol officer in a marked vehicle tried stopping the driver of the big rig for a missing mud flap.
The man behind the wheel later identified by authorities as 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose drives on, and a chase begins.
About 20 minutes into the pursuit, the big rig is seen rolling to a stop.
“Get out of the truck!” an officer said.
But that lasts only a few seconds. The driver continues to flee, and officers stay on him for another eight minutes.
It wasn’t until police used tire deflation devices that the chase came to a slow but dramatic and disturbing stop.
A Circleville, Ohio, Police Department K-9 unit rolling up to the scene.
After repeated orders from a state patrol officer, the driver eventually steps out of the rig, his hands in the air as requested.
A patrolman is heard asking for the K-9 to not be released, though it’s unclear if he could be heard by all officers on scene
But that’s when the K-9 is deployed.
“Do not release the dog with his hands up. Do not release the dog with his hands up. Do not release the dog with his hands up, don’t!” the patrolman said. “Get the dog off of him!”
After the K-9 takedown, an officer approaches then quickly walks away, her hands covering her face as Rose screams in pain, the frustration audible in the voice of another state officer.
“Was I not loud enough?” the officer said.
After the dog is removed, officers move in to arrest Rose and administer first aid.
“You just let a dog bite me,” Rose said.
“All you had to do was come to me,” the officer said.
“I was coming, I had all the guns pointed at me. How do you expect me to respect you? You have a gun pointed at me. There’s like 20 of you all!” Rose said.
“All you had to do was stop, brother,” the officer said.
“I did stop,” Rose responds.
A spokesperson for the Ohio State Highway Patrol said, “As troopers were attempting to gain compliance by providing verbal commands to the suspect, the Circleville Police Department deployed their canine, which resulted in the suspect being bitten.”
CNN has reached out to the Circleville Police Department for comment.
Police said Rose was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released before being taken to jail. His attorney declined to comment.
The Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP is calling for an investigation and wants the officer involved to be disciplined or fired.
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A rally has been scheduled for Rasheem Ryelle Carter, the Mississippi Black man who mysteriously when missing in early October. Carter’s remains were found less than a month later on private property in a wooded area in Taylorsville.
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The peaceful protest will take place on 221 Welcome Street in Taylorsville, MS Dec. 31 at 1:00 p.m.
Rasheem Carter’s unusual disappearance and death have left his family searching for answers. Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump has joined the family as they continue to demand answers from law enforcement about Carter’s mysterious death
Rasheem Ryelle Carter, 25, was last seen outside of a Super 8 Hotel Oct. 2 in Laurel, about 30 minutes outside of Taylorsville, where Carter had been contracted to work.
Carter’s family believes their son was threatened and stalked by white men in the area and demanded a full investigation into their son’s disappearance and death.
According to the family, the day before Carter’s disappearance he went to the police department in Taylorsville and informed officers that men were after him and that he feared for his life.
Carter didn’t have a car at the time and asked the police for a ride to the Super 8 hotel in Laurel, but officers refused, telling Carter it was outside their jurisdiction. He returned to the police station again on foot early the next morning pleading with the police to help him, but once again they refused.
He allegedly informed his mother that there were white men after him and that if something were to happen to him to start the investigation there. “He did speak with his mom Tiffany about a white truck and white males in there threatened to harm him,” his cousin, Shonda Wright told WLBT. “He did give her the names.”
More than three months later, Rasheem Carter’s family still hasn’t gotten any closure on what happened to their son. A GoFundMe was started by the family to raise funds to help defray the cost of seeking justice for Rasheem and to help alleviate the financial stresses that have accrued throughout this process.
How long does this family have to suffer before they can get the answers they deserve? When a Black man dies, does his family not deserve justice?
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Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated.
He was soon swarmed by dozens, then hundreds, then more than 1,000 hateful messages from an anti-vaccine extremist group known as V_V. The group, active in France and Italy, has harassed doctors and public health officials, vandalized government offices and tried to disrupt vaccine clinics.
Alarmed by the abuse of its platform, Facebook kicked off several accounts tied to the group last December. But it didn’t stop V_V, which continues to use Facebook and other platforms and, like many anti-vaccine groups around the world, has expanded its portfolio to include climate change denialism and anti-democratic messaging.
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“Let’s go and get them at home, they don’t have to sleep anymore,” reads one post from the group. “Fight with us!” reads another.
The largely unchecked nature of the attacks on the indisputable health benefits of the vaccine highlight the clear limits of a social media company to thwart even the most destructive kind of disinformation, particularly without a sustained aggressive effort.
Researchers at Reset, a U.K.-based nonprofit, identified more than 15,000 abusive or misinformation-laden Facebook posts from V_V — activity that peaked in spring 2022, months after the platform announced its actions against the organization. In a report on V_V’s activities, Reset’s researchers concluded that its continued presence on Facebook raises “questions about the effectiveness and consistency of Meta’s self-reported intervention.”
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, noted in response that its 2021 actions were never meant to eliminate all V_V content but to take down accounts found to be participating in coordinated harassment. After The Associated Press notified Facebook of the group’s continued activities on its platform, it said it removed an additional 100 accounts this week.
Meta said it’s trying to strike a balance between removing content from groups like V_V that clearly violate rules against harassment or dangerous misinformation, while not silencing innocent users. That can be particularly difficult when it comes to the contentious issue of vaccines.
“This is a highly adversarial space and our efforts are ongoing: since our initial takedown, we’ve taken numerous actions against this network’s attempts to come back,” a Meta spokesman told the AP.
V_V is also active on Twitter, where Reset researchers found hundreds of accounts and thousands of posts from the group. Many of the accounts were created shortly after Facebook took action on the program last winter, Reset found.
In response to Reset’s report, Twitter said it took enforcement actions against several accounts linked to V_V but did not detail those actions.
V_V has proved especially resilient to efforts to stop it. Named for the movie “V for Vendetta,” in which a lone, masked man seeks revenge on an authoritarian government, the group uses fake accounts to evade detection, and often coordinates its messaging and activities on platforms such as Telegram that lack Facebook’s more aggressive moderation policies.
That adaptability is one reason why it’s been hard to stop the group, according to Jack Stubbs, a researcher at Graphika, a data analysis firm that has tracked V_V’s activities.
“They understand how the internet works,” Stubbs said.
Graphika estimated the group’s membership to be 20,000 in late 2021, with a smaller core of members involved in its online harassment efforts. In addition to Italy and France, Graphika’s team found evidence that V_V is trying to create chapters in Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Germany, where a similar anti-government movement known as Querdenken is active.
Groups and movements such as V_V and Querdenken have increasingly alarmed law enforcement and extremism researchers who say there’s evidence that far-right groups are using skepticism about COVID-19 and vaccines to expand their reach.
Increasingly, such groups are moving from online harassment to real world action.
For instance, in April, V_V used Telegram to announce plans to pay a 10,000 Euro bounty to vandals who spray painted the group’s symbol (two red Vs in a circle) on public buildings or vaccine clinics. The group then used Telegram to disseminate photos of the vandalism.
A month before Facebook took action on V_V, Italian police raided the homes of 17 anti-vaccine activists who had used Telegram to make threats against government, medical and media figures for their perceived support of COVID-19 restrictions.
Social media companies have struggled with responding to a wave of misinformation about vaccines since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Facebook and Instagram suspended Children’s Health Defense, an influential anti-vaccine organization led by Robert Kennedy Jr.
One reason is the tricky balancing act between moderating harmful content and protecting free expression, according to Joshua Tucker of New York University, who co-directs NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and is a senior advisor at Kroll, a tech, government and economic consulting firm.
Striking the right balance is especially important because social media has emerged as a key source of news and information around the world. Leave up too much bad content and users may be misinformed. Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
“It is dangerous for society for us to be moving in a direction in which nobody feels they can trust information,” Tucker said.
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ANN ARBOR, MI -- An Ann Arbor café and bar originally set to open this fall has been delayed, according to an update from the concept’s owner.
Lower Town Proper, 1031 Broadway St., was originally set to open in fall 2022, but has been delayed until early summer 2023.
“Construction delays across the board are holding things up,” wrote co-owner Pete Baker in an email to MLive/The Ann Arbor News. “We’re aiming for early next summer now.”
The combination café and bar will be open early to serve coffee, but also stay open into the evening to offer up wine, beer and canned cocktails sourced from local breweries and distilleries. Although the concept will not have a full kitchen, Baker previously told MLive/The Ann Arbor News that there are plans to partner with local restaurants for delivery and to sell pastries from Milan-based Botanical Bakeshop.
The bar will also have outdoor seating in the style of a beer garden.
The Lower Town Proper space was previously occupied by Sic Transit Cycles, which moved to 1001 Broadway St. in late 2020.
With just a 40 to 50-person capacity limit and limited parking, the café and bar is really meant for those who live in the direct area, Baker previously said.
“I think there’s entirely too much pressure on downtown to serve as the main commercial area, and I have been struck by going to other cities of barely larger scale and just seeing how other neighborhoods – having a small, central commercial district -- just makes for such a lively residential area around it,” Baker previously said.
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Inside one second-grade class, students are about to bring some new characters to life through a crash course in puppet-making. But this puppet workshop isn't just about kids showing off their creativity. It's also about getting them to open up about their feelings.
"I definitely see a huge change in kids' attitudes and just their overall social-emotional well-being since the pandemic," said Erin Trudeau, who teaches the class.
New data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing a closer look at the mental health of children in America. The National Health Interview Survey analyzed data collected in 2021 — during the COVID-19 pandemic — and found that nearly 15% of kids between the ages of 5 and 17 received treatment for their mental health.
The data shows that more than 11% of children sought counseling and just over 8% were taking medication for their mental health. Boys were also more likely than girls (9% and 7.3% respectively) to be taking medication.
How children are faring since the pandemic has prompted soul-searching among mental health professionals at the University of Connecticut.
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"Think about the lost social skills, opportunities to practice using big emotions and understanding and naming emotions," said Sandy Chafouleas, professor of educational psychology at UConn's Neag School of Education. "So, all those things were going to come in the door — in a door that's already stressed. Schools were already stressed."
With that, they came up with an idea: partnering with UConn's Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry to create "Feel Your Best Self" — a series of free, online YouTube videos hosted by a trio of puppets.
In the videos, the puppets help kids develop simple strategies for navigating big feelings.
"Whatever we wanted to do needed to be something that could be taught in three steps — three simple steps could be taught in less than five minutes, accessible to kids, appropriate for adults as well, and then could be packaged into something fun," Chafouleas said.
The videos are available in both English and Spanish and come with curriculum that teachers can use in the classroom.
Teachers have reached out to use the curriculum in states around the U.S., and the videos are gaining a following in the United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico.
"We have fun names for them now, like 'Shake Out the Yuck' and 'Turning the Dial,' but these are strategies and things that we can do throughout our life," said Emily Iovino, implementation coordinator of the initiative. "They're really important life skills to be able to help us when we are out in the world."
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In the classroom, those strategies come to life, with puppet-making workshops like the recent one at North Windham Elementary School in Connecticut.
"You can feel the energy in the room and the joy from the kids, and that's something that's just so rewarding," Iovino said.
Second-grader Kei Morales adores the "Feel Your Best Self" puppets and created her own handmade book about them.
"At home, I've been going to my mom's room and searching it up so I can go find more information about it," she said, adding, "Sometimes when I get angry or frustrated, I use those, so they can help me when to calm down."
But it's not just kids who get into it.
"Honestly, I was wicked excited about getting to make my puppet," said Trudeau, their teacher. "It just makes you smile because it's kind of goofy — but just like with stuffed animals or with pets, I think that people feel connected to being able to talk to something other than themselves."
Emily Wicks, who helped lead the puppet workshop and co-created "Feel Your Best Self," said she hoped the children will share with others what they learned in class.
"We want the kids to take it home, show their siblings, show their caregivers, demonstrate these strategies and hopefully kind of keep them in their back pocket," Wicks said.
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Blinken says no Ukraine cease-fire without peace deal that includes Russia’s withdrawal
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that there can be no cease-fire in the war in Ukraine unless it is part of a “just and lasting” peace deal that includes Russia’s military withdrawal.
Blinken said that “a cease-fire that simply freezes current lines in place — and enables Putin to consolidate control over the territory he has seized, and rest, rearm, and reattack — that is not a just and lasting peace.”
Russia must also pay a share of Ukraine’s reconstruction and be held accountable for launching its full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022, Blinken said in a speech during a visit to Finland, which recently joined NATO and shares a long border with Russia.
Allowing Moscow to keep the one-fifth of Ukraine territory it has occupied would send the wrong message to Russia and to “other would-be aggressors around the world,” according to Blinken.
Washington is ready to support peace efforts by other countries, including recent overtures from China and Brazil, he said. But any peace agreement must uphold the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence.
The United States is a leading Western ally and supplier of arms to Kyiv to help it push back against the Kremlin’s forces.
China, which says it is neutral and wants to serve as a mediator but has supported Moscow politically, on Friday urged countries to stop sending weapons to Ukraine.
In Ukraine, air defenses shot down more than 30 Russian cruise missiles and drones Friday in Moscow’s sixth air attack in six days on Kyiv, local officials said.
The Ukrainian capital was simultaneously attacked from different directions by Iranian-made Shahed drones and cruise missiles from the Caspian region, senior Kyiv official Serhii Popko wrote on Telegram.
A 68-year-old man and an 11-year-old child were wounded in the attack, with private houses, outbuildings and cars sustaining damage from falling debris, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office.
A recent spate of attacks on the capital has put strain on residents and tested the strength of Ukraine’s air defenses while Kyiv officials plot what they say is an upcoming counteroffensive to push back the Kremlin’s forces 15 months after their full-scale invasion. Kyiv was the target of drone and missile attacks on 17 days last month, including daylight attacks.
Moscow’s strategy could backfire, however, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
The air campaign aims to “degrade Ukrainian counteroffensive capabilities, but ... the Russian prioritization of Kyiv is likely further limiting the campaign’s ability to meaningfully constrain potential Ukrainian counteroffensive actions,” it said in an assessment late Thursday.
Ukrainian air defenses intercepted all 15 cruise missiles and 21 attack drones, Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said.
Ukraine’s presidential office said Friday that at least four civilians were killed and 42 wounded over the previous 24 hours.
Meanwhile, border regions of Russia once again came under fire from Ukraine. Recent cross-border raids have also rattled those regions of Russia and put the Kremlin on guard.
That could be a Ukrainian strategy to disperse Russian forces before a counteroffensive begins.
“Russian commanders now face an acute dilemma of whether to (strengthen) defenses in Russia’s border regions or reinforce their lines in occupied Ukraine,” the U.K. ministry of defense said Friday.
Air defense systems shot down “several Ukrainian drones” overnight Thursday in Russia’s southern Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, regional Gov. Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram.
In the neighboring Bryansk region, which also borders Ukraine, regional Gov. Alexander Bogomaz said that Ukrainian forces shelled two villages on Friday morning. No casualties were reported.
Two drones also attacked energy facilities in Russia’s western Smolensk region, which borders Belarus, in the early hours of Friday, officials said.
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Matthew Lee reported from Oslo, Norway. Karl Ritter contributed to this report from Stockholm.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series on Monday night.
Serdachny beat goalie Nicole Hensley on the short side with a snap shot in front of 8,640 fans at Crypto.Com Arena.
“They took away (Marie-Philip) Poulin on the 2-on-1 naturally, so decided to take a shot and it went in,” said Serdachny, who scored her first goal in the series.
Canada has won the last two games after the Americans took the first three in the best-of-seven series.
“We didn’t expose their weaknesses in the first three games. We were very passive and sat back a lot,” Canada forward Sarah Nurse said. “A big thing was to take their time and space away. If they can’t break out of their zone, they can’t score goals.”
U.S. forward Taylor Heise tied it 2-all at 9:44 of the third period with a shot from the faceoff circle that got past Canada goalie Emerance Maschmeyer’s blocker.
Cayla Barnes also scored for the U.S., and Hensley stopped 25 shots.
Laura Stacey and Sarah Fillier scored in regulation for Canada. Maschmeyer made 32 saves.
Barnes, the only member of the U.S. team from Southern California, opened the scoring at 4:06 of the first with a shot from the point through traffic that beat Maschmeyer.
Barnes grew up in Eastvale, just an hour from Los Angeles, and played for bantam and junior teams supported by the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks.
“I got a nice pass up from the corner and saw a lane to the net. I think traffic in front screened the goalie and it found its way through,” Barnes said.
Stacey tied it at 2:29 of the second by going short side. Fillier gave Canada a 2-1 lead at 17:11 with its first power-play goal of the series. Canada had not converted on its first 16 chances with the skater advantage.
It was the second game in the series to be won in overtime or a shootout. Four of the five games have been decided by one goal.
The last two games of the series will be played next year in Canada. The dates and venues have not been determined by Hockey Canada.
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There were 38 shooting incidents over the holiday weekend with 21 people shot on July 4.
One of those deadly incidents was in the Bronx, where 62-year-old John Edwards was shot in the chest on Prospect Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx around 10:30 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, while a 23-year-old man shot in the leg is in stable condition.
A third victim in that shooting, a 26-year-old man wounded in the right arm, arrived via private means to St. Barnabas and is listed in stable condition.
Police say Edwards, a military veteran who lives nearby, was not the intended target of the gunfire.
The suspect appeared to instead be targeting the two other shot men, both of whom have criminal records, in a drive-by from a white Ford Taurus.
The vehicle was later recovered and an 18-year-old is being questioned, but no charges have been filed.
Edwards was described as a father figure on the block, someone they all looked up to and someone they could always count on.
He was also a former seasonal city parks department employee. He had last worked for the city in 2018.
Now, there is a growing vigil now outside of his home.
Rachel Sanchez knew him for 20 years and considered him family.
"He was the man," she said. "He was the man. Every cookout, cooking out. You need your car wash, he's going to clean it. You need the pump open, he going to open it. You need your window fixed, he going to fix it. You needed your heart fix, he was gonna fix that too."
In East New York, Brooklyn, two men who were killed when gunfire rang out inside a bodega.
It happened just after 11:30 p.m. inside Spring Creek Food Mart on Loring Avenue. Police have recovered surveillance video from the bodega that showed the victims and the suspects involved in a gunfight.
Three men were shot, and a 21-year-old wounded in the head was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 23-year-old was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was pronounced dead upon arrival.
An 18-year-old who was shot in the torso is expected to survive.
A good Samaritan, Nazeria Blake, spoke with Eyewitness News reporter Stacey Sager on her decision to help save that 18-year-old victim.
"Immediately I called 911, called the cops and I told them you all gotta get here as soon as possible," Blake said. "I said this young man's been shot in his chest and he's bleeding out."
Police arrested 19-year-old Malachi Kirkland with shooting two of three people. Another person is still being sought in the shooting of the third victim.
The shooting seems to stem from a gang dispute, police say.
Overall, there were 38 shooting incidents with 52 victims over the holiday weekend, Friday through Monday.
There were nine homicides compared to eight over same four days in 2021.
There have been 213 homicides so far this year in New York City, down 10.12% from 237 homicides in 2021.
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Alejandro Tabilo vs. Benoit Paire: Live Stream, TV Channel, How to Watch | ATP Challenger San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy Men Singles 2023
The ATP Challenger San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy Men Singles 2023 is nearing its apex, as Alejandro Tabilo (No. 145) and Benoit Paire (No. 147) will play in the semifinals on Saturday, July 15.
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Alejandro Tabilo vs. Benoit Paire Date and TV Info
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- Date: Saturday, July 15
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Tabilo vs. Paire Matchup Info
- Tabilo is looking to stay on track after a 3-6, 7-6, 7-6 win over No. 188-ranked Kimmer Coppejans in Friday's quarterfinals.
- In the the Wimbledon, Tabilo's previous tournament, he was beaten 7-6, 4-6, 6-7 by No. 494-ranked Pierre-Hugues Herbert on June 26 in the qualification round 1 round.
- Paire advanced past Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-2, 6-4 in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- Paire suffered defeat in the qualification round 1 of his last tournament (the Wimbledon) on June 26, when he lost 3-6, 3-6 to Oscar Otte.
- Tabilo and Paire went head to head in the finals at the ATP Challenger Francavilla, Italy Men Singles 2023 on May 14, 2023. Tabilo won the match 6-1, 7-5.
- In two sets between Tabilo and Paire, Tabilo has gone undefeated, pulling off victories in all of them.
- In 19 total games, Tabilo has the upper hand, winning 13 of them, while Paire has taken six.
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A former public high school football coach in Washington state who famously lost his job for leading prayers on the field after games will be reinstated by the spring of next year, court documents show.
A joint stipulation filed in Washington state district court on Tuesday by attorneys representing Joseph Kennedy and lawyers for Bremerton School District stated that "Kennedy is to be reinstated to his previous position as assistant coach of the Bremerton High School football team on or before March 15, 2023."
Kennedy's attorney, Jeremy Dys, confirmed to ABC News that the coach will be moving back to Bremerton, Washington, from Florida later this year to return to his part-time job with the team. It's expected he'd take the field again for the fall 2023 football season.
A spokeswoman for the school district said there are "areas where there are still questions" between the parties as to how Kennedy's post-game prayers will be accommodated consistent with the Supreme Court ruling.
The United States Supreme Court sided with Kennedy in June, when justices ruled 6-3 that the coach was protected by the Constitution when he knelt and prayed aloud at the 50-yard-line post-game, sometimes with his players.
For years, lower courts had repeatedly sided with Bremerton School District in the case. The Supreme Court reversal in favor of Kennedy could soon expand the ability of government employees nationwide to practice their faiths more openly while on the job, according to legal experts.
"This is a right for everybody. It doesn't matter if you're this religion or that religion or have no faith whatsoever," Kennedy told ABC News during an interview earlier this year. "Everybody has the same rights in America."
The First Amendment protects free speech and free exercise of religion, but it also prohibits the establishment of religion by the government. Prior to the ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court had long said that public school-sponsored prayer violates the Establishment Clause, even if the prayer is voluntary.
Kennedy and his attorneys at First Liberty Institute, a Texas-based Christian legal group, filed suit against the Bremerton School District after he was suspended seven years ago over the midfield prayers and his contract was not renewed. He insisted the prayers were brief, private individual acts of faith, while the school district argued that student participation breached constitutional prohibitions against the promotion of religion by government officials.
Kennedy had routinely prayed on the field after games for more than seven years, attracting varying levels of participation from students. He said the ritual typically lasted less than a minute.
"It was my covenant between me and God that after every game, win or lose, I'm going to do it right there on the field of battle," he told ABC News.
It wasn't until 2015 that the school district informed the coach of constitutional concerns. In a statement released at the time, the school district said Kennedy's prayers violated "constitutionally-required directives that he refrain from engaging in overt, public religious displays on the football field while on duty."
The school district said it "has a fundamental obligation to protect the rights of all of its students," though the statement noted that no players had complained about the prayer sessions.
"It is very likely that over the years, players have joined in these activities," the school district added, "because to do otherwise would mean potentially alienating themselves from their team, and possibly their coaches."
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Gator baseball wins rubber match to clinch series win over No. 22 Miami, 14-4
BT Riopelle with a grand slam in the second inning
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - There is nothing like payback. The Florida baseball team was humbled by No. 22 Miami on Saturday night, 14-6. On Sunday, the (10-3) Gators sent home the (8-4) Hurricanes with a series loss, 14-4.
Florida brought the lumber out from the first pitch. BT Riopelle started things off with a single up the middle to bring home Wyatt Langford. The Gators ended up scoring three off a trifecta of singles to take a early 4-0 lead.
In the second inning, Florida loaded up the bases for Riopelle. The senior slammed it out to right center for a grand slam. The Gators took a 9-0 lead into the eighth inning. The Hurricanes scores four runs, but so did Florida.
Langford smacked a two-run shot to the left field wall. It was followed up by Josh Rivera’s fifth homer of the season and capped off by Ty Evans two-run blast. Evans would make the “U” sign as he crossed the plate and broke it upon his knee.
On the mound, Jac Caglianone silenced the Miami bats for six innings surrendering four hits, a earned run, and retired eight batters. The two-way player is 2-0 on the season along with 10 home runs at the plate.
The Gators will host a two-day series vs Florida Atlantic starting on Tuesday. First pitch is at 6pm
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Praise and lament for the overturning of abortion rights filled sacred spaces this weekend as clergy across the U.S. rearranged worship plans or rewrote sermons to provide their religious context — and competing messages — about the historic moment.
Abortion is a visceral issue for deeply divided religious Americans. Some are sad or angry in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic Dobbs v. Jackson decision Friday. Others are grateful and elated.
At St. Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh, the Very Rev. Kris Stubna discarded his planned Sunday homily and focused on the decision, calling it “a day of great joy and blessing.” He said the overturning of the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling was the result of prayers and efforts of many Catholics and others.
“This law violated the very law of God, that every life is sacred,” he said. “A person cannot support abortion and still be a faithful member of the church.”
Stubna’s comments would be considered divisive by some since U.S. Catholics disagree on abortion rights. Supporters include high-profile members of the faith like President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who face Communion restrictions as a result.
Not everyone sat through Stubna’s entire homily. Although unable to ask their reasons, an Associated Press photographer saw one woman leave during it. Security personnel estimated three others also exited early.
Views on abortions are not just polarizing within denominations; the divisions span the religious landscape.
“SCOTUS just dealt a terrible blow to women, to girls, to all childbearing people, to freedom,” said the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural Protestant congregation in Manhattan.
She mourned the overturning of Roe, expressing deep emotions during a service Sunday, saying, “It took safe legal abortions off the table, opening the door for states to rush in and crush reproductive justice. We are reeling. Spinning. So hurt we can hardly move. We are feeling the loss, the pain of it.”
A majority of adults from Buddhist, Hindu, historically Black Protestant, Jewish, mainline Protestant, Muslim and Orthodox Christian faiths support legal abortion in all or most cases, according to a Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study.
Rabbi Sarah DePaolo carved out time at the start of Friday night’s Shabbat service at Congregation Shir Ha-Ma’alot in Irvine, California, to express her disappointment, urging community members to support each other and create space for the fearful.
“One of the most upsetting things about this decision is that while it claims to represent people of faith, it does not represent our faith,” DePaolo said. “It does not reflect our Jewish law. It does not reflect our traditions. It does not reflect our community.”
Catholics are split on the issue while most evangelical Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say abortion should be illegal in all or most instances, according to the Pew Research Center study.
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, views the ruling as a moral and spiritual victory. On Sunday, he told his California congregation at New Season that now is the time for an unprecedented adoption movement.
“We’re gonna adopt babies, but we’re gonna adopt moms, pregnant moms … who have abortions because they can’t afford to have a baby,” he said.
Southern Baptists, who are members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, are staunch supporters of anti-abortion views. On Sunday, several pastors praised the ruling from their pulpits.
The congregation at First Baptist Concord in Knoxville, Tennessee, broke into applause when Pastor John Mark Harrison addressed it. He invited a panel of advocates to explain how everyone can continue supporting those with unwanted pregnancies via mentorship, fostering, adoption, addressing systemic issues and more.
“There’s so much anger and emotion,” Harrison said. “What we need to understand is that we’re not called to fuel the emotions of the right or the left. We’re called to walk in and through the gospel of Jesus Christ … and minister to real people in real times of crisis.”
At Central Church, in College Station, Texas, lead Pastor Phillip Bethancourt echoed that overturning Roe is not the finish line: “It’s the starting gate of a new chapter. Abortion should be not just be unlawful but unnecessary and unthinkable.”
David Rhoades, lead pastor of Broadview Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, said in an email the court decision was on a par with the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth, and will reverberate for years.
He hoped church members left Sunday’s service with a clear understanding of what they must do next, including ”minister to both the baby and its mother, and continue to work to elect pro-life representatives.”
Other faith leaders doubled down on their support for abortion rights.
Women should be able to make their own decisions, preached the Rev. Fletcher Harper at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Secaucus, New Jersey.
“Outlawing abortion is a sinful act that perpetuates male domination and the subjugation of women,” he said. “It extends the coercive power of the state into a place where it should have no business.”
During a service Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, director of music Mary Pratt read aloud a denominational statement affirming it would remain “committed to reproductive justice.”
Pratt said members were shocked and grieving, although they expected the outcome. “They were looking for reminders of why we need to get back out and fight,” she said.
The start of services at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Durham, North Carolina, included two verses of “We Shall Overcome” and a prayer by the Rev. Melinda Keenan Wood for those outraged, heartbroken and fearful about Roe’s demise.
“We know that this decision will be measured in deaths, incarcerations and life-altering trauma as politicians rush to control the most painfully intimate of decisions,” Keenan Wood said.
A prominent Black pastor in Columbus, Ohio — Bishop Timothy Clarke of the First Church of God — tried to strike a balance in his Saturday message to congregants, acknowledging conflicting views on abortion and calling on the church to show compassion.
“I know and love persons in both camps,” Clarke said. “They are sincere, committed. … They truly see this as a life altering issue.”
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Meyer reported from Nashville, Tennessee, and Crary from New York. AP Religion Team members Peter Smith and Jessie Wardarski in Pittsburgh; Luis Andres Henao, in Princeton, New Jersey; Mariam Fam in Winter Park, Florida; Deepa Bharath in Los Angeles; and AP writer Tom Foreman Jr. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, contributed.
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DETROIT (AP) — A class action lawsuit is accusing three automakers and a parts manufacturer of knowingly selling vehicles containing air bag inflators that are at risk of exploding. Two deaths and at least four injuries have been linked to such explosions.
The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco, names ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee, which made the inflators and sold them to air bag manufacturers. The air bag makers, in turn, sold them to General Motors, Ford and Volkswagen, which are named in the lawsuit, too.
The five plaintiffs are the owners of vehicles with ARC inflators who contend the defective air bag parts were not disclosed when they made their purchases.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been investigating ARC inflators for nearly seven years without a resolution, estimates that there are 51 million on U.S. roads. That’s somewhere between 10% and 20% of all passenger vehicles.
Yet most drivers have no conclusive way to determine whether their vehicle contains an ARC inflator. Even if they were to tear apart the steering wheel assembly, the internal parts might bear the markings only of the automaker or the air bag manufacturer, not the inflator maker.
“You could have a ticking time bomb in your lap and you’ve got no way of knowing,” said Frank Melton, a Florida lawyer who is among those filing the new lawsuit.
One of the deaths was a mother of 10 who was killed in what appeared to be an otherwise minor crash in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last summer. Police reports show that a metal inflator fragment hit her neck in a crash involving a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse SUV.
In a statement Tuesday, GM said it hadn’t had a chance to review the lawsuit. It said it is dedicated to the safety of its products and customers and is cooperating with NHTSA in its investigation.
Messages were left seeking comment from ARC, Ford and Volkswagen.
The plaintiffs allege that ARC’s inflators use ammonium nitrate as a secondary propellant to inflate the air bags. The propellant is pressed into tablets that can expand and develop microscopic holes if exposed to moisture. Degraded tablets have a larger surface area, causing them to burn too fast and ignite too big of an explosion, according to the lawsuit.
The explosion can blow apart a metal canister housing the chemical, sending metal shards into the cabin. Ammonium nitrate, used in fertilizer and as a cheap explosive, is so dangerous that it can burn too fast even without moisture present, the lawsuit says.
The plaintiffs allege that ARC inflators have blown apart seven times on U.S. roads and two other times in testing by ARC. There have so far been five limited recalls of the inflators that totaled about 5,000 vehicles, including three recalls by GM.
Auto safety advocates say the case seems to mirror the Takata air bag saga that began in the early 2000s, which also involved exploding air bag inflators and resulted in 28 deaths worldwide, hundreds of injuries and the largest automotive recall in U.S. history. So far NHTSA has gathered information but hasn’t forced any wider recalls from its investigation that began in July of 2015.
Sean Kane, president of Safety Research & Strategies Inc., which conducts research for lawyers that sue automakers as well as for other groups, noted that just as in the early stages of the Takata ordeal, many ARC ammonium nitrate inflators remain in use.
“It’s almost like Groundhog Day here,” said Kane, who asserts that NHTSA should have acted already. “It’s not a question of whether it can kill or injure people. It already has.”
ARC, the lawsuit alleges, knew about the danger of ammonium nitrate in patent applications it filed in 1995 and 1998. In 2019, after several ARC inflators blew apart, ARC acknowledged that its use was not acceptable for automotive air bags, according to the lawsuit.
The suit asserts that General Motors, which began recalling Takata ammonium nitrate inflators in 2013, should have known that ARC’s inflators were also unstable.
“GM recalled only a small number of vehicles that contained a particular lot of inflators, despite its knowledge that ARC driver- and passenger-side inflators in various models and model years from 2002 through at least 2015 also had experienced ruptures,” the lawsuit said.
In its statement Tuesday, GM said it makes recall decisions based on data and facts. It declined to comment further.
The lawsuit alleges that ARC’s inflators are marred by a systemic problem rather than just a limited manufacturing defect. In 2014, an ARC inflator in a 2004 Kia Optima blew apart in a crash in New Mexico, injuring the driver.
Two years later, the driver of a car made by Kia’s sister automaker Hyundai was killed in Canada when an ARC inflator exploded in a crash.
The lawsuit also names Volkswagen and Ford as defendants, alleging that they represented the air bag inflators as safe while knowing they were dangerous.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began investigating ARC inflators in 2015 after an Ohio woman was injured when an inflator exploded in a Chrysler minivan. At the time the agency estimated that there were 490,000 ARC inflators on the nation’s roads.
The review was elevated to an engineering analysis — a step closer to a product recall — in 2016 after the death in Canada.
Though a seven-year investigation is longer than most NHTSA reviews, inflators are particularly complex, said David Friedman, a former NHTSA acting administrator who is now a vice president at Consumer Reports.
Automakers appear to be balking at recalls for cost reasons, Friedman said. And NHTSA, he suggested, needs a “slam dunk” case before seeking recalls because of threats and lawsuits that automakers have filed in the past.
“That’s one of the things that’s broken in the system,” he said.
Friedman described NHTSA as a chronically underfunded agency that has had to prioritize safety issues after four years of the Trump administration, which demanded far less federal regulation.
“The fact that it’s stretched on seven years, the companies should have blinked, or NHTSA should have made them, or if they truly don’t have a case, then say so,” Friedman said.
A NHTSA official who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about an ongoing inquiry, said the investigation has persisted because of the complexity of air bag inflators and because ARC’s design is different from Takata’s.
“We want to make sure what we do is thorough.” he said.
He noted that NHTSA’s investigation of ARC has had to examine issues different from the Takata case. Ammonium nitrate in Takata’s inflators, for example, would deteriorate when airborne moisture entered the canister. But ARC pressurizes its inflator canisters to keep moisture out.
“It’s not similar to Takata,” the official said.
Whether the ammonium nitrate tablets can deteriorate without moisture is still being investigated, he said.
The agency, he said, has retrieved ARC inflators from vehicles to learn how they work. It also has gathered production and other data from ARC and automakers and issued an order making automakers report any problems with ARC inflators.
He noted that several years went by without any incidents, before there were three in the past two years and that each of those cases is informing the investigation.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Apyx Medical Corporation.
Shareholders who purchased shares of APYX 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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ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) 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.
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Cosby faces sex abuse allegations again as civil trial opens
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Cosby will again be facing sex abuse allegations Wednesday as attorneys give opening statements in a civil trial that’s one of the last remaining legal claims against the comedian.
Lawyers for 64-year-old Judy Huth will outline the evidence they plan to present that Cosby forced her to perform a sex act at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16 years old. The case will hinge on the testimony of Huth, bolstered by photos and other archival exhibits to place the incident in time.
Cosby’s attorneys, who say no sexual abuse happened, are likely to emphasize that the burden of proving the nearly 50-year-old case lies entirely with the plaintiffs. They have acknowledged that Cosby took Huth to the Playboy Mansion, as a photo from the visit shows, but say they believe she was not a minor when it happened.
The trial is one of the last cases Cosby, 85, faces after a Pennsylvania appeals court threw out his criminal sexual assault conviction and freed him from prison 11 months ago. Several other lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct were settled by his insurer against his will.
Cosby will not testify after the judge ruled that he could assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. And he has no plans to leave his Pennsylvania home to attend the trial, which is taking place at a small courthouse in Santa Monica. Cosby’s representatives say glaucoma has left him blind and made travel too difficult.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they have been sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly, as Huth has.
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NEW YORK, June 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relevant Customs, an underground sneaker company with deep ties to the celebrity world, is putting up the "artist proof" pair of the famous Brooklyn Zoo sneaker for auction with ClubRare. With only 10 pairs ever created, the Brooklyn Zoo custom sneaker was made viral by Jay-Z, and the item re-sells for over $25,000.
Now, the artist is revealing the original artist proof of the sneaker – the template and prototype by which the other 10 were created. This coveted sneaker will go on auction on June 21 at https://clubrare.xyz, as an NFT-backed item with exclusive compatibility in the metaverse. These will be the only pair of Brooklyn Zoo sneakers to gain web3 features.
Relevant Customs is an artist cohort of sneaker designers using incredibly exotic materials. Their elite list of celebrity customers and brands include Jay-Z, Beyonce, LeBron James, P. Diddy, Wu-Tang, Jägermeister, Arizona Iced Tea, and Anheuser-Busch.
ClubRare is a web3 startup innovating real-world logistics and shipping for NFT-backed collectibles. The bespoke sneaker pair will be auctioned on the ClubRare Marketplace, and on physical display at NFT.NYC, June 21-23.
As platinum sponsor of the NFT.NYC conference, ClubRare will be engaging community and showcasing their innovative "phygital NFT" solutions for solving real-world shipping for NFT-backed collectibles. The CEO, Paul Chung, will be delivering a talk on the future of e-commerce on the blockchain.
Sneaker collectors and NFT enthusiasts will see the sneaker on display in NYC on June 21, and begin bidding for the item on ClubRare Marketplace.
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Rapper A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was released on bond following his arrest Wednesday in connection with a shooting that occurred in Hollywood last November.
Police arrested him early Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, the city's police department announced. The 33-year-0ld, who is a resident of Los Angeles, is facing a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The case is being referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, which said the case is under review.
The victim of the shooting sustained a minor injury, according to police.
The incident occurred in Hollywood on Nov. 6, 2021, at around 10:15 p.m., police said. An argument broke out between two "acquaintances" and then escalated. The suspect, later identified as Mayers by police, allegedly fired a gun at the victim, whom police did not identify. Following this shooting, Mayers and two other males allegedly fled the area on foot.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Mayers was booked at 12:42 p.m. Wednesday and had his bail set at $550,000. His next court date is scheduled for Aug. 17.
Mayers is expecting a baby with musician Rihanna.
NBC News reported, citing law enforcement sources, that Rihanna was with Mayers at the time of his arrest. They were arriving at the airport from Barbados, and he was arrested when they landed. NBC News also reports that a search warrant has been executed at Mayers' residence in Los Angeles.
Mayers' attorney didn't respond to NPR's requests for comment.
This is not Mayers' first brush with the law.
In 2019, he was arrested and charged with assault in Sweden after a fight involving two men and two members of Mayers' entourage. The incident led to him being held in jail. Mayers was found guilty in a trial; he had claimed to authorities that he had acted in self-defense.
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Republican lawmakers say GOP voters are shifting away from former President Trump because of widespread doubt he can win a general election in 2024.
They say the disappointing results of the 2022 midterm elections, in which several high-profile Trump-endorsed candidates lost key races, reenforced the view that Trump doesn’t appeal to independent and moderate GOP voters.
They note that Trump’s expanding legal problems and recent gaffes give his potential Republican rivals plenty of ammo to use in the 2024 primary and have only increased the Trump fatigue many feel.
And they are increasingly willing to go public with their concerns.
“We win general elections when we bring independents with us. We need more than simply the loyal base that understands conservative principles,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). “That’s the reason why you’re seeing the polls suggest that we have a number of individuals who would get more votes [than Trump] in the general election and so that’s going to drive the determination who we bring as our candidate.”
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, which he launched on Nov. 15, has failed to gain traction in part because he has continued to push unsubstantiated claims that he lost the last presidential election because of widespread fraud.
“I don’t think it was helpful when the issues he was focusing on after he announced [his 2024 presidential campaign] related to the 2020 election. I think if he’s going to succeed, he has to focus on the future. I think if he focuses on the past, he won’t succeed,” she said.
“I do believe that people are over the 2020 election, and they want to move on,” she added.
A third Republican senator, who requested anonymity to discuss Trump fatigue among GOP voters, said “people are tired of losing.”
“If Trump was winning or if we were winning Senate seats or got a big majority in the House or got the majority in the Senate, many people would judge former President Trump differently,” the senator said.
“I have those kind of conversations with constituents frequently, and they say, ‘It’s probably time to move on. I like his policies but I think he killed us in Georgia twice,’” the senator said, citing perceptions that Trump hurt Republicans’ ability to win runoff Senate races in Georgia in 2020 and 2022.
A recent USA Today-Suffolk University poll of 1,000 registered voters across the country found that 61 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they like Trump’s policies but want to have a different presidential nominee in 2024.
The survey found that those voters favor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as a potential nominee over Trump by a margin of 56 percent to 33 percent. It was conducted from Dec. 7-11.
A CNN poll of 1,208 adults nationwide conducted from Dec. 1-7 showed similar results.
That poll found that only 38 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said the party should nominate Trump for the presidency, down 12 percentage points from the 50 percent who said so in a survey conducted in January and early February.
Sixty-two percent of Republican and Republican-leaning respondents in the CNN survey, which was conducted by SSRS, an independent research company, said the party should nominate a different candidate.
Thirty-eight percent of Republican voters who said they wanted someone other than Trump atop the ticket named DeSantis as their favorite.
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill say DeSantis’s surge in popularity among Republican voters is being driven by the recent success of GOP candidates in Florida, which was considered a swing state not long ago but has now turned sharply in favor of Republicans.
DeSantis trounced Democrat Charlie Crist in the gubernatorial race 59 percent to 40 percent, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R) cruised easily to reelection in the state, beating Democratic Rep. Val Demings 57.7 percent to 41.3 percent.
Republican candidates also won statewide races in Florida for attorney general, agriculture commissioner and chief financial officer by large margins.
Lummis said she sees DeSantis as the new leader of the Republican Party.
“I do think that,” she said. “What Republicans have accomplished in Florida is truly phenomenal.“
She said DeSantis has “been extremely able to articulate” his accomplishments in Florida and “shown an extraordinary ability with the Florida legislature to accomplish policy goals.”
“He just has a very good sense of how to make it about the team,” she added. “That’s pretty key.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said he’s staying out of the 2024 presidential primary but noted that many Republicans are ready to move on from Trump.
“You got to elect the Republican who’s best suited to your values but who can also win. That’s certainly the story of the midterms,” he said, referring to the perception among many Republicans that Trump and his brash brand of politics hurt the party in November.
He said the recent polling results showing the shift in Republican voters away from Trump isn’t surprising.
“This trend is not new,” he added. “The rest of us have been seeing it for a very long time. None of it surprises me.”
Crenshaw said “hearing from voters, hearing from donors, hearing from activists, they all kind of say the same thing.”
“None of us really have anything bad to say about Trump but — I don’t think this is rocket science — people think there’s an electability problem,” he added.
Chris Sununu, the Republican governor of New Hampshire, an early presidential primary state, told CNN in an interview aired Friday that “we’re moving on” from Trump.
“There’s an argument to be made that someone like DeSantis could beat him in a primary today,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), after largely avoiding attacking Trump over the past year, has come out swinging in recent weeks. He has told reporters Trump hurt the party in two ways.
He said on Tuesday that Trump made it tougher to weed out weak candidates in Senate Republican primaries by making endorsements that diminished the ability of party leaders in Washington to determine who would emerge as the nominee.
And McConnell also implied after Election Day that Trump’s prominence in the national spotlight and his repeated claims that the 2020 election was stolen — something that became a litmus test in Republican primaries — turned off independent and moderate voters.
“Here’s the problem: We underperformed among voters who did not like President Biden’s performance, among independents and among moderate Republicans, who looked at us and concluded [there was] too much chaos, too much negativity, and we turned off a lot of these centrist voters,” he said.
He said this was “fatal” in Pennsylvania, where he said Republican candidate Mehmet Oz’s attempt to a run as a moderate “got muddled” in the final weeks of the race.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s most loyal Senate allies, acknowledged that Trump is “leaking oil” because of the political hits he’s taken in recent weeks.
“It’s snapshot in time,” he said of this polls. “I think it’s fair to say President Trump has been leaking oil a bit.”
He noted that Trump is still popular in South Carolina and is “still in a pretty commanding position.”
“People do like his policies. He still has very high approval rating” among Republican voters, Graham said, but “what people are concerned about is, ‘can he win?’”
Graham argued that Republican voters who say they support Trump’s policies but don’t want him to the be the party’s nominee are stumbling into a fallacy.
“What he has to do fairly soon is convince people that not only did his policy work before but they’ll work again and he’s the best guy to advocate them,” he said.
“It’s easy to say ‘I like Trump’s policies but a lot of the people talking about running, I wonder if they could do what he did?’” he added. “Trump’s policies and personality are pretty hard to disconnect. He got other countries to do things because they were afraid of him.” | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/gop-lawmakers-say-trump-electability-problem-is-behind-cratering-support/ | 2022-12-19 13:37:05 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/gop-lawmakers-say-trump-electability-problem-is-behind-cratering-support/ |
A 33-year-old Midlander was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison for possessing approximately 1,000 grams of methamphetamine and a handgun in furtherance to drug activity, according to the Department of Justice.
While staying at at downtown hotel on Sept. 23, 2022, Midland Police Department officers searched Fabian Hernandez's room. MPD officers found "over two pounds of methamphetamine and a 9mm Rock Island Armory handgun," according to court documents. He was arrested that same day.
Hernandez pleaded guilty on Dec.15, 2022, to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking activity.
“We are grateful for the collaboration between the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Midland Police Department that resulted in the removal of another dealer from the streets,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas.
The DEA’s Midland Resident Office and the Midland Police Department investigated the case. | https://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article/midlander-sentenced-30-years-prison-meth-17840950.php | 2023-03-15 16:41:29 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article/midlander-sentenced-30-years-prison-meth-17840950.php |
Announces appointments for SVP Global Channels, Partner Alliances and VP of Sales, North America
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel , May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cymulate, the Extended Security Posture Management market leader, today announced the appointment of Federica Melis, as SVP Global Channels and Partner Alliances and Rudy Piekarski as Vice President of Sales, North America, to lead their respective sales strategies and help further expand its customer base. The company continues to experience exceptional growth, having achieved 100% revenue growth globally, and 200% growth in North America in new bookings in 2021.
Melis joins Wendy Hoey, VP Alliances of North America and a previous winner of CRN's top Women of the Channel, in spearheading Cymulate's go-to-market channel strategy. Originally from Italy, Melis moved to the US five years ago after working in Germany for several years. Prior to joining Cymulate, Federica held senior roles at cybersecurity companies such as Proofpoint where she was recognized for her commercial leadership and was a member of the advisory council for business growth. She also held positions at tech giants such as Oracle, Citrix, Red Hat, and Dell, with her core focus on Fortune 1000 companies.
"I am very excited to join Cymulate," said Federica. "Cybersecurity is a complex and interesting space where you have the opportunity to make a difference for companies and help protect them from real threats. Cymulate's product is extremely compelling and I am looking forward to working alongside this dynamic team of professionals."
With over 25 years of experience, Rudy is a seasoned sales executive with an impressive track record of leading teams and growing customer bases comprising Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies as well as government organizations, most notably at LogRhythm. He has played a key role in taking several companies he has worked for to successful exits.
"Cymulate's platform has broadened its capabilities over recent months and provides a simple, surefire route for companies to understand their cyber posture. I believe this technology will play a vital role in the cyber arsenal of security teams for years to come," said Rudy. "I'm delighted to be joining the team, propelling the company to the forefront of CISO agendas and assisting in taking the company to its next growth level."
"We are very excited to expand our workforce and welcome Federica and Rudy to our Cymulate family as we continue reaching our key milestones," said Eyal Wachsman, CEO and Co-Founder of Cymulate. "They are both stellar executives, with rich experience, who will contribute great outcomes for our company. We look forward to Cymulate's continued success with both Federica and Rudy's talent onboard."
About Cymulate
Cymulate SaaS-based Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM) deploys within an hour, enabling security professionals to continuously challenge, validate and optimize their cyber-security posture end-to-end, across the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. The platform provides out-of-the-box, expert and threat intelligence led risk assessments that are simple to deploy and use for all maturity levels, and constantly updated. It also provides an open framework to create and automate red and purple teaming by generating penetration scenarios and advanced attack campaigns tailored to their unique environments and security policies. Cymulate allows professionals to manage, know and control their dynamic environment.
For more information, visit www.cymulate.com and register for a free trial.
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(Green Car Reports) — General Motors on Wednesday said it would have trouble complying with proposed emissions rules that would require vastly greater EV sales over the next decade.
As reported by Reuters, GM said in comments to the EPA that there are six state and federal regulations that “could require each automaker to exceed 50% EVs in at least a dozen vehicle averaging sets in the approximate 2030 timeframe.”
The EPA in April said proposed federal emissions rules would effectively require 60% EV sale by 2030 and would max out at 67% EV sales by 2032, which the agency estimates will cut emissions by 56% compared to the current rule set, which runs through 2026. The proposal doesn’t mandate EVs as a technology, though. A public comment period for it ended this week.
GM said it is “concerned that either a potential lack of clarity or a lack of coordination across the agencies may hinder an automaker’s ability to remain in compliance, year-after-year, across each of these regulatory programs even while meeting EPA’s overall EV targets.”
However GM, which in 2021 said it “aspired” to make its light-duty vehicle lineup all-electric by 2035, said it supported the “original goals” outlined in President Biden’s August 2021 executive order, which called for 50% of new-car sales to be EVs or plug-in hybrids by 2030. Which is still more than some in the auto industry are doing.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents many of the legacy automakers, said in comments submitted in May: “To be clear, [the] administration’s 50% target was always a stretch goal. It was ambitious and challenging to meet by any measure.”
The Alliance and its full-line automakers supported the rules when revealed but have tried to soften them since. The organization has also said the stricter rules might affect vehicle availability. In a recent executive summary of comments submitted to the EPA, it argued that the limits “are neither reasonable nor achievable in the time frame covered.”
Meanwhile, as ZETA, which represents EV makers and associated suppliers has pointed out, Stellantis, GM and Toyota are among several automakers sitting on a large amount of emissions credits that will soften their shift to EVs. GM and Stellantis recently paid record fines for missing earlier emissions targets, but a stockpile of credits could prevent a repeat of that.
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GM CEO Mary Barra has said that about 75% of the carbon impact from the company comes from the vehicles it sells. But GM has also ramped up efforts to shift to renewable energy for manufacturing facilities way ahead of original goals. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/automotive/gm-has-issues-with-epa-rules-seeking-50-evs-by-2030/ | 2023-07-09 17:17:08 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/automotive/gm-has-issues-with-epa-rules-seeking-50-evs-by-2030/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic") (NASDAQ: KRBP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Kiromic, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
DEADLINE: October 4, 2022
Aggrieved Kiromic investors only have until October 4, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany and India signed a series of bilateral agreements Monday focused on sustainable development that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy.
The accords were signed during a visit to Berlin by India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking to elicit India's support for the tough stance taken by Europe and the United States toward Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Modi reiterated his call to both Russia and Ukraine to end the fighting, saying: "We believe that no party can emerge victorious in this war.”
But unlike Scholz, Modi refrained from any overt criticism of Moscow, which has previously praised India for its “neutral” stance on the conflict.
Reporters were not permitted to ask questions after the two leaders spoke - an unusual arrangement at German chancellery where at least four questions are routinely taken. The decision was taken at the insistence of the Indian delegation, said a German official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The agreements covered issues ranging from technical assistance to increase the use of renewable energy and hydrogen, to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting biodiversity and improving agricultural land use. Other areas of cooperation center on migration, nuclear research and the establishment of secure communications channels between the two governments.
Scholz also invited India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa to attend the meeting of the Group of Seven major industrialized economies in Germany at the end of June. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Germany-India-sign-10-5B-green-development-deal-17141548.php | 2022-05-02 14:56:04 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Germany-India-sign-10-5B-green-development-deal-17141548.php |
Workers fulfill orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on Prime Day in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 21, 2021. Amazon.com Inc.'s annual Prime Day sale, which begins Monday, arrives as the world grapples with the lingering effects of the pandemic.
The buzz around artificial intelligence that’s helped juice gains for Microsoft and Amazon.com this year may also be masking struggles in a business far more critical to the pair’s bottom lines.
Once-booming demand for cloud-computing services is slowing as businesses rein in spending amid economic uncertainty. And when Microsoft and Amazon report results next week, analysts anticipate the slowest revenue growth for their cloud-computing businesses since the firms started breaking out performance last decade.
Trouble is, not much of that is priced into stocks that are up solidly this year, according to Ted Mortonson, a technology strategist at Robert W. Baird.
“Given how much they’ve run, the setup for earnings is horrible,” Mortonson said. “I don’t know why you’d want to be over your skis going into first-quarter prints.”
For years, robust demand for cloud-computing services has acted as a steady growth driver for both Microsoft and Amazon, which in addition to AI excitement have been riding the wave of a broader rally in technology stocks.
Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud unit, which is home to its Azure cloud-services business, accounted for 38% of its revenue and 39% of operating income in 2022.
Amazon Web Services was the fastest-growing of the Seattle-based company’s major businesses last year and generated $22.8 billion in operating income. The rest of Amazon’s businesses combined posted a $10.6 billion operating loss.
For both companies, cracks are starting to appear. In the first three months of 2023, growth for Microsoft’s Azure unit and Amazon Web Services is expected to fall to 31% and 14%, respectively, when excluding currency fluctuations, according to the average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. A year ago, Azure sales expanded 49% and Amazon Web Services 37%.
In a shareholder letter released two weeks ago, Amazon said AWS “faces short-term head winds” related to the economic backdrop that will “soften” the growth rate. This echoed what it said in its most recent results. Microsoft also warned of a slowdown in cloud software sales last quarter.
Wall Street has been getting more cautious. UBS lowered growth estimates for Azure this month, warning that “customer efforts to optimize/trim their cloud spend will be deeper and last longer than most think.” Analyst Karl Keirstead added that recent trends on spending and new developer activity continued in the first quarter and “feel worse than three months ago.”
Jefferies sees slowing cloud demand as “a key concern” for Amazon. Analyst Brent Thill said that because AWS generates so much of Amazon’s operating income “a stabilization in cloud is crucial for shares to outperform.”
For Alec Young, chief investment strategist at MAPsignals, Microsoft and Amazon remain attractive despite the slowdown, which he expects to be a temporary pause before growth re-accelerates.
“There’s still a lot of runway ahead for cloud computing, so I don’t think investors should obsess too much over the level of growth over a couple quarters,” he said. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/amazon-and-microsofts-ai-gains-mask-cloud-slowdown/article_5f5e2304-fbb1-560a-af1f-79c40b240822.html | 2023-04-24 01:42:23 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/amazon-and-microsofts-ai-gains-mask-cloud-slowdown/article_5f5e2304-fbb1-560a-af1f-79c40b240822.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Roy Wood Jr., who plays a reporter on “The Daily Show,” the long-running Comedy Central program that blends comedy and news, will headline the event on April 29.
Tamara Keith, president of the correspondents’ association, said Thursday that Wood brings “a journalistic eye to his comedy.”
“He’s hilarious — but also makes sure his audiences are thinking as they laugh,” Keith said.
The show’s former host Trevor Noah spoke at last year’s dinner, at which President Joe Biden poked fun at himself, former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the members of the press.
“I’m really excited to be here tonight with the only group of Americans with a lower approval rating than I have,” Biden, a Democrat, quipped then to an audience of about 2,600, among them journalists, government officials and celebrities. | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-daily-show-reporter-to-headline-white-house-press-dinner/ | 2023-02-03 01:26:15 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-daily-show-reporter-to-headline-white-house-press-dinner/ |
Record Growth as Businesses Continue to Prioritize Digital Infrastructure Despite Macroeconomic Conditions
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 4:05 PM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Quarterly revenues increased 10% on both an as-reported and normalized and constant currency basis over the same quarter last year to $1.8 billion, representing the company's 78th consecutive quarter of revenue growth—the longest streak of any S&P 500 company
Delivered record quarterly gross and net bookings led by the Americas and EMEA regions— sizably surpassing the prior peak
Achieved record channel bookings in Q2, accounting for more than 35% of total bookings
Exceeded 435,000 interconnections in Q2, highlighting the company's critical role in the digital infrastructure of today's businesses
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure companyTM, today reported results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Equinix uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, which are described further below and reconciled to the most comparable GAAP financial measures after the presentation of our GAAP financial statements. All per share results are presented on a fully diluted basis.
Second Quarter 2022 Results Summary
Revenues
Operating Income
Net Income and Net Income per Share attributable to Equinix
Adjusted EBITDA
AFFO and AFFO per Share
2022 Annual Guidance Summary
Revenues
Adjusted EBITDA
AFFO and AFFO per Share
Equinix does not provide forward-looking guidance for certain financial data, such as depreciation, amortization, accretion, stock-based compensation, net income (loss) from operations, cash generated from operating activities and cash used in investing activities, and as a result, is not able to provide a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures for forward-looking data without unreasonable effort. The impact of such adjustments could be significant.
Equinix Quote
Charles Meyers, President and CEO, Equinix:
"With record Q2 gross bookings that sizably surpassed the prior peak, Equinix had an outstanding first half of 2022, and our business continued to deliver strong and consistent results. The demand environment and our pipeline remain robust despite a complex global macroeconomic and political landscape, as we continue to enable digital leaders on their transformation journey."
Business Highlights
As customers continue to embrace Equinix as the best manifestation of the interconnected digital edge, the company continues to invest in the expansion of its global platform:
Equinix continued to strengthen its leadership position in the cloud ecosystem through the company's xScaleTM program, which experienced strong leasing activity from top hyperscalers in Q2. The xScale portfolio has now leased more than 170 megawatts globally, with 11 xScale builds currently under development, of which more than 80% is pre-leased.
Equinix's Future First sustainability strategy was recently recognized by Sustainalytics as among the best large-cap REITs for ESG. Equinix was also ranked seventh on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Top 100 list of the largest green power users.
Equinix continued the growth of its indirect selling initiatives, with channel sales delivering a fifth consecutive quarter of record bookings, accounting for over 35% of Q2 bookings and nearly 60% of new logos in the quarter. Wins were across a wide range of industry verticals and use cases, with continued strength from strategic partners including AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Google, Microsoft and Orange Business Services. In Q2, Equinix was recognized as HPE GreenLake's Momentum Partner of the Year for 2022 as the two companies work together to deliver a consistent hybrid multicloud experience for joint customers.
Business Outlook
For the third quarter of 2022, the Company expects revenues to range between $1.827 and $1.847 billion, a 1 - 2% increase over the prior quarter on both an as-reported and normalized and constant currency basis. This guidance includes a negative $12 million foreign currency impact when compared to the average FX rates in Q2 2022. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to range between $831 and $851 million. Adjusted EBITDA includes a negative $5 million foreign currency impact when compared to the average FX rates in Q2 2022 and $9 million of integration costs from acquisitions. Recurring capital expenditures are expected to range between $42 and $52 million.
For the full year of 2022, total revenues are expected to range between $7.259 and $7.299 billion, a 9 - 10% increase over the previous year, or a normalized and constant currency increase of 10 - 11%. This updated full-year guidance includes an underlying raise of $35 million from better-than-expected business performance, $30 million from the Entel Chile Acquisition and a negative $102 million foreign currency impact when compared to the prior guidance rates. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to range between $3.323 and $3.353 billion, an adjusted EBITDA margin of 46%. This updated full-year guidance includes an underlying raise of $25 million from better-than-expected business performance excluding integration costs, $18 million from the Entel Chile Acquisition, offset by $10 million due to a lease accounting classification change and a negative $49 million foreign currency impact when compared to the prior guidance rates. For the year, the Company now expects to incur $30 million in integration costs related to acquisitions. AFFO is expected to range between $2.636 and $2.666 billion, an increase of 8 - 9% over the previous year, or a normalized and constant currency increase of 8 - 10%. This updated AFFO guidance excluding integration costs includes an underlying raise of $17 million, a $3 million net benefit due to a lease accounting classification change, $13 million from the Entel Chile Acquisition and a negative $42 million foreign currency impact when compared to the prior guidance rates. AFFO per share is expected to range between $28.77 and $29.10, an increase of 6 - 7% over the previous year on an as-reported basis, or 8 - 9% on a normalized and constant currency basis. Total capital expenditures are expected to range between $2.313 and $2.563 billion. Non-recurring capital expenditures, including xScale-related capital expenditures, are expected to range between $2.133 and $2.373 billion, and recurring capital expenditures are expected to range between $180 and $190 million. xScale-related on-balance sheet capital expenditures are expected to range between $85 and $135 million, which we anticipate will be reimbursed to Equinix from both the current and future xScale JVs.
The U.S. dollar exchange rates used for 2022 guidance, taking into consideration the impact of our current foreign currency hedges, have been updated to $1.14 to the Euro, $1.31 to the Pound, S$1.39 to the U.S. Dollar, ¥136 to the U.S. Dollar, A$1.45 to the U.S. Dollar, HK$7.85 to the U.S. Dollar, R$5.20 to the U.S. Dollar and C$1.29 to the U.S. Dollar. The Q2 2022 global revenue breakdown by currency for the Euro, British Pound, Singapore Dollar, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Brazilian Real and Canadian Dollar is 19%, 9%, 8%, 6%, 4%, 3%, 3% and 3%, respectively.
The adjusted EBITDA guidance is based on the revenue guidance less our expectations of cash cost of revenues and cash operating expenses. The AFFO guidance is based on the adjusted EBITDA guidance less our expectations of net interest expense, an installation revenue adjustment, a straight-line rent expense adjustment, a contract cost adjustment, amortization of deferred financing costs and debt discounts and premiums, income tax expense, an income tax expense adjustment, recurring capital expenditures, other income (expense), (gains) losses on disposition of real estate property, and adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures' and non-controlling interests' share of these items.
Q2 2022 Results Conference Call and Replay Information
Equinix will discuss its quarterly results for the period ended June 30, 2022, along with its future outlook, in its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. PT). A simultaneous live webcast of the call will be available on the company's Investor Relations website at www.equinix.com/investors. To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-517-308-9482 (domestic and international) and reference the passcode EQIX.
A replay of the call will be available one hour after the call through Wednesday, October 26, 2022, by dialing 1-866-363-4001 and referencing the passcode 2022. In addition, the webcast will be available at www.equinix.com/investors (no password required).
Investor Presentation and Supplemental Financial Information
Equinix has made available on its website a presentation designed to accompany the discussion of Equinix's results and future outlook, along with certain supplemental financial information and other data. Interested parties may access this information through the Equinix Investor Relations website at www.equinix.com/investors.
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Equinix provides all information required in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), but it believes that evaluating its ongoing operating results may be difficult if limited to reviewing only GAAP financial measures. Accordingly, Equinix uses non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate its operations.
Equinix provides normalized and constant currency growth rates, which are calculated to adjust for acquisitions, dispositions, integration costs, changes in accounting principles and foreign currency.
Equinix presents adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. Adjusted EBITDA represents net income excluding income tax expense, interest income, interest expense, other income or expense, gain or loss on debt extinguishment, depreciation, amortization, accretion, stock-based compensation expense, restructuring charges, impairment charges, transaction costs and gain or loss on asset sales.
In presenting non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted EBITDA, cash cost of revenues, cash gross margins, cash operating expenses (also known as cash selling, general and administrative expenses or cash SG&A), adjusted EBITDA margins, free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow, Equinix excludes certain items that it believes are not good indicators of Equinix's current or future operating performance. These items are depreciation, amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations and accrued restructuring charges, stock-based compensation, restructuring charges, impairment charges, transaction costs and gain or loss on asset sales. Equinix excludes these items in order for its lenders, investors and the industry analysts who review and report on Equinix to better evaluate Equinix's operating performance and cash spending levels relative to its industry sector and competitors.
Equinix excludes depreciation expense as these charges primarily relate to the initial construction costs of a data center, and do not reflect its current or future cash spending levels to support its business. Its data centers are long-lived assets, and have an economic life greater than 10 years. The construction costs of a data center do not recur with respect to such data center, although Equinix may incur initial construction costs in future periods with respect to additional data centers, and future capital expenditures remain minor relative to the initial investment. This is a trend it expects to continue. In addition, depreciation is also based on the estimated useful lives of the data centers. These estimates could vary from actual performance of the asset, are based on historic costs incurred to build out our data centers and are not indicative of current or expected future capital expenditures. Therefore, Equinix excludes depreciation from its operating results when evaluating its operations.
In addition, in presenting the non-GAAP financial measures, Equinix also excludes amortization expense related to acquired intangible assets. Amortization expense is significantly affected by the timing and magnitude of acquisitions, and these charges may vary in amount from period to period. We exclude amortization expense to facilitate a more meaningful evaluation of our current operating performance and comparisons to our prior periods. Equinix excludes accretion expense, both as it relates to its asset retirement obligations as well as its accrued restructuring charges, as these expenses represent costs which Equinix also believes are not meaningful in evaluating Equinix's current operations. Equinix excludes stock-based compensation expense, as it can vary significantly from period to period based on share price and the timing, size and nature of equity awards. As such, Equinix and many investors and analysts exclude stock-based compensation expense to compare its operating results with those of other companies. Equinix excludes restructuring charges from its non-GAAP financial measures. The restructuring charges relate to Equinix's decision to exit leases for excess space adjacent to several of its IBX® data centers, which it did not intend to build out, or its decision to reverse such restructuring charges. Equinix also excludes impairment charges generally related to certain long-lived assets. The impairment charges are related to expense recognized whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of assets are not recoverable. Equinix also excludes gain or loss on asset sales as it represents profit or loss that is not meaningful in evaluating the current or future operating performance. Finally, Equinix excludes transaction costs from its non-GAAP financial measures to allow more comparable comparisons of the financial results to the historical operations. The transaction costs relate to costs Equinix incurs in connection with business combinations and formation of joint ventures, including advisory, legal, accounting, valuation and other professional or consulting fees. Such charges generally are not relevant to assessing the long-term performance of Equinix. In addition, the frequency and amount of such charges vary significantly based on the size and timing of the transactions. Management believes items such as restructuring charges, impairment charges, transaction costs and gain or loss on asset sales are non-core transactions; however, these types of costs may occur in future periods.
Equinix also presents funds from operations ("FFO") and adjusted funds from operations ("AFFO"), both commonly used in the REIT industry, as supplemental performance measures. Additionally, Equinix presents AFFO per share, which is also commonly used in the REIT industry. AFFO per share offers investors and industry analysts a perspective of Equinix's underlying operating performance when compared to other REIT companies. FFO is calculated in accordance with the definition established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT"). FFO represents net income or loss, excluding gain or loss from the disposition of real estate assets, depreciation and amortization on real estate assets and adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures' and non-controlling interests' share of these items. AFFO represents FFO, excluding depreciation and amortization expense on non-real estate assets, accretion, stock-based compensation, stock-based charitable contributions, restructuring charges, impairment charges, transaction costs, an installation revenue adjustment, a straight-line rent expense adjustment, a contract cost adjustment, amortization of deferred financing costs and debt discounts and premiums, gain or loss on debt extinguishment, an income tax expense adjustment, recurring capital expenditures, net income or loss from discontinued operations, net of tax and adjustments from FFO to AFFO for unconsolidated joint ventures' and non-controlling interests' share of these items. Equinix excludes depreciation expense, amortization expense, accretion, stock-based compensation, restructuring charges, impairment charges and transaction costs for the same reasons that they are excluded from the other non-GAAP financial measures mentioned above.
Equinix includes an adjustment for revenues from installation fees, since installation fees are deferred and recognized ratably over the period of contract term, although the fees are generally paid in a lump sum upon installation. Equinix includes an adjustment for straight-line rent expense on its operating leases, since the total minimum lease payments are recognized ratably over the lease term, although the lease payments generally increase over the lease term. Equinix also includes an adjustment to contract costs incurred to obtain contracts, since contract costs are capitalized and amortized over the estimated period of benefit on a straight-line basis, although costs of obtaining contracts are generally incurred and paid during the period of obtaining the contracts. The adjustments for installation revenues, straight-line rent expense and contract costs are intended to isolate the cash activity included within the straight-lined or amortized results in the consolidated statement of operations. Equinix excludes the amortization of deferred financing costs and debt discounts and premiums as these expenses relate to the initial costs incurred in connection with its debt financings that have no current or future cash obligations. Equinix excludes gain or loss on debt extinguishment since it represents a cost that is not a good indicator of Equinix's current or future operating performance. Equinix includes an income tax expense adjustment, which represents the non-cash tax impact due to changes in valuation allowances and uncertain tax positions that do not relate to the current period's operations. Equinix excludes recurring capital expenditures, which represent expenditures to extend the useful life of its IBX and xScale data centers or other assets that are required to support current revenues. Equinix also excludes net income or loss from discontinued operations, net of tax, which represents results that are not a good indicator of our current or future operating performance.
Equinix presents constant currency results of operations, which is a non-GAAP financial measure and is not meant to be considered in isolation or as an alternative to GAAP results of operations. However, Equinix has presented this non-GAAP financial measure to provide investors with an additional tool to evaluate its operating results without the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of Equinix's business performance. To present this information, Equinix's current and comparative prior period revenues and certain operating expenses from entities with functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar are converted into U.S. dollars at a consistent exchange rate for purposes of each result being compared.
Non-GAAP financial measures are not a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation, but should be considered together with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. Equinix presents such non-GAAP financial measures to provide investors with an additional tool to evaluate its operating results in a manner that focuses on what management believes to be its core, ongoing business operations. Management believes that the inclusion of these non-GAAP financial measures provides consistency and comparability with past reports and provides a better understanding of the overall performance of the business and its ability to perform in subsequent periods. Equinix believes that if it did not provide such non-GAAP financial information, investors would not have all the necessary data to analyze Equinix effectively.
Investors should note that the non-GAAP financial measures used by Equinix may not be the same non-GAAP financial measures, and may not be calculated in the same manner, as those of other companies. Investors should, therefore, exercise caution when comparing non-GAAP financial measures used by us to similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures of other companies. Equinix does not provide forward-looking guidance for certain financial data, such as depreciation, amortization, accretion, stock-based compensation, net income or loss from operations, cash generated from operating activities and cash used in investing activities, and as a result, is not able to provide a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures for forward-looking data without unreasonable effort. The impact of such adjustments could be significant. Equinix intends to calculate the various non-GAAP financial measures in future periods consistent with how they were calculated for the periods presented within this press release.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks to our business and operating results related to the COVID-19 pandemic; the current inflationary environment; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and the general volatility in the global energy market; the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX and xScale data centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and upcoming Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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(PINPOINT WEATHER) — Rain and storm chances come down a bit for Thursday and Friday before abundant moisture arrives this weekend.
Thursday starts off mostly dry with temperatures locked into the upper 60s and low 70s. Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy with winds mainly coming out of the north.
Thursday will peak below normal, only reaching the low 80s with a healthy amount of cloud cover for much of the day. There is a slight chance for an isolated shower developing this afternoon but I don’t anticipate much of an impact from these pockets of rain.
Overnight we’ll dip into the mid-60s making for a cool and refreshing start to Friday. We’ll host a bit more sunshine and comfortable conditions to end the work week with highs peaking in the low 80s and dew points in the mid-60s.
Rain and storms will become ubiquitous this weekend as a low pressure system kicks up moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. This southern flow will deliver waves of heavy rain and isolated storms early Saturday and continue through much of the weekend.
These storms can impact weekend sporting events such as Charlotte FC Saturday afternoon and the Panthers Game on Sunday. PACK THOSE PONCHOS!
70s will also take hold throughout the weekend with low 80s returning early next week. Rain and storm chances will also dissipate by Wednesday.
The tropics are still active with Hurricane Earl intensifying into a major hurricane as it bares down on the island of Bermuda. Danielle is now a tropical storm and will continue to dissipate as the weekend approaches.
We are still watching two more areas of interest with the cluster of storms over the Central Atlantic having a 70% chance of becoming our next named system which would be Fiona.
Be sure to stay with your Queen City News Pinpoint Weather Team for the latest on what to expect this weekend!
Today: Mix of Sun & Clouds with Isolated Showers. High: 82.
Tonight: Partly Cloudy & Refreshing. Low: 66. | https://www.qcnews.com/weather/drier-weather-around-charlotte-thursday-widespread-rain-returns-for-wet-weekend/ | 2022-09-23 00:24:47 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/weather/drier-weather-around-charlotte-thursday-widespread-rain-returns-for-wet-weekend/ |
(The Hill) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has significantly raised the risk of global self-annihilation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Tuesday, moving forward the Doomsday Clock to its closest point to midnight ever.
The Doomsday Clock is meant to measure the gravest risks to human existence to pressure world leaders to recommit to addressing extinction-level challenges, such as the threat of nuclear weapon use, but has grown to include the dangers of climate change and biological risks such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The clock has moved to 90 seconds before midnight, 10 seconds closer than when it was last set in January 2022, shortly before Russia launched its invasion against Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The consortium of scientists noted then “that without swift and focused action, truly catastrophic events are more likely,” Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said Tuesday.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has earlier condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric around the use of nuclear weapons “outrageous.”
“The possibilities that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high,” Bronson warned, citing United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’s earlier warning that the world has entered a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.
The announcement by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists occurred the same day that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Conference of Nuclear Disarmament criticized Russia for delaying for a second time strategic nuclear talks between Washington and Moscow aimed at nuclear arms reduction.
Russia has earlier said it delayed meeting for the talks over U.S. support for Ukraine.
Asked by a Russian reporter Tuesday how nuclear talks between Washington and Moscow can resume as the U.S. and other Western nations debate sending tanks and long-range weapons to Ukraine, former world leaders and scientists spoke up in continuing to arm Ukraine.
“I think they need more tanks,” Elbegdorj Tsakhia, former president and prime minister of Mongolia, said of Ukraine. “They have no time to wait. I think they need more support. More weapons, more tanks.”
Steve Fetter, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said that the U.S. and Russia should be able to pursue nuclear talks despite the war in Ukraine, “just as we did during the darkest days of the Cold War,” but also warned against Russia succeeding in Ukraine.
“If Russia prevails in Ukraine, other non-nuclear countries may conclude that they can’t be defended from attack against nuclear-armed adversaries and that could undermine the nonproliferation regime and fuel a new round of proliferation,” he said.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has also worsened other global challenges, such as climate change and biological risk. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists released its findings for the first time in English, Russian and Ukrainian with the intention to have it read in the capitals most affected, the consortium of scientists said.
Suzet McKinney, principal and director of life sciences at Sterling Bay and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, raised the warning around biological threats, both natural and manmade.
She warned that Russia, North Korea and Iran all continue to maintain biological weapons program and that the risk Russia will deploy biological weapons in Ukraine “continues to escalate as conditions there become more and more chaotic.”
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, McKinney said the international community needs to improve its ability to prevent disease outbreaks and to detect them quickly when they occur, both from disease originating in animals and transmitted to humans and laboratory accidents.
“Events like COVID-19 can no longer be considered rare, once in a century occurrences,” she said.
On climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has contributed to two countervailing dynamics, said Sivan Kartha, senior scientist at the Stockholm Environmental Institute.
The push to decouple from Russia’s oil and gas exports has spurred investment in renewables, Kartha said, but high natural gas prices have “driven a frenzied push to develop new natural gas supplies,” and a short-term reliance on coal in power plants, “leading this past year to be a record high for global coal consumption.”
Bronson, in closing remarks, said the clock moving closer to midnight is sending a message to the public to exert more pressure on leaders to address these fatal risks.
“We’re in a situation now where leaders aren’t doing what they need to and we need the public, desperately, to make sure they focus on key issues,” she said.
“Those who are listening, say … ‘it doesn’t feel safer today,’ they’re not alone. We’re very concerned about this. No one can do this alone, but everyone can do something. And with that, we hope that the moving of the clock as we assess where the threats are, is a motivator that we all need to pay attention to these key issues.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/doomsday-clock-now-at-closest-point-to-midnight-in-history/ | 2023-01-24 19:23:02 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/doomsday-clock-now-at-closest-point-to-midnight-in-history/ |
WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 8, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
147 PM PST Sat Jan 7 2023
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...South/southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts 40 to 50
mph.
* WHERE...Sacramento Valley, Northern San Joaquin Valley,
Carquinez Strait and Delta, Northeast Foothills/Sacramento
Valley and Motherlode.
* WHEN...From 1 PM Saturday to 1 PM PST Sunday. Strongest wind
expected this evening into Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Saturated soils may allow for trees to
topple more easily with gusts of this magnitude.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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E-commerce companies now have the ability to eliminate imprecise addressing
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global e-commerce landscape is rapidly increasing. Still, companies worldwide face a challenge regarding delivery: imprecise addressing, and consumers taking notice. Today, AxleHire, which provides e-commerce companies with expedited, urban, same- and next-day deliveries, announced its collaboration with innovative location technology company what3words to address this issue head-on. AxleHire is what3words' first last-mile delivery partner in the United States.
A what3words *survey revealed that nearly three-quarters (73%) of US residents say that deliveries or services struggle to find their homes, and over two-thirds (68%) say they'd benefit from a more accurate addressing system. Moreover, the problem is so widespread that over one-third (35%) of residents say they'd be willing to adopt an entirely new address system.
what3words provides a straightforward solution to imprecise shipping issues, solving problems created by street name changes, large buildings with multiple access points, rural locations, and much more. It divides the world into a grid of 10ft x 10ft (or 3 meters x 3 meters) squares and gives each square a unique combination of three random words: a what3words address. So, for example, you can find the front of the Statue of Liberty monument at ///darker.highs.pans. Likewise, every door, building entrance, delivery point, and even parking space on the planet has a unique address.
With this collaboration, AxleHire's clients will be able to collect what3words addresses from customers and share them within AxleHire's delivery app, allowing drivers to deliver more efficiently than ever before, minimizing the risk of lost packages and unhappy consumers.
"A typical driver might spend 10 minutes driving around an unfamiliar apartment complex, trying to find the right building and then the exact unit number, wasting time, fuel, and patience," said Evan Robinson, VP of Engineering, AxleHire. "With what3words, the driver can see the exact 10-foot square they need to go to, allowing them to find the right drop-off location much more seamlessly… and with a home delivery, the driver will be able to see exactly where the customer wants their package left, whether it be in front, at the back door, near the garage, etc."
AxleHire has already begun to build systems to make it easier for e-commerce businesses and their customers to identify a doorstep's location.
"Using a what3words address has been shown to significantly reduce delivery times for our partners and ensures parcels arrive exactly where they need to go. Accurate addresses also mean fewer time-consuming phone calls to customers asking for directions and a better customer experience. AxleHire is leading the way in thinking about what the world of digital delivery looks like. We're excited to work with them as our first last-mile delivery provider in the U.S.," adds Chris Sheldrick, Co-Founder & CEO of what3words.
Around the world, what3words is being used by thousands of businesses on a daily basis whether that's logistics and e-commerce businesses ensuring goods are delivered exactly where they're needed, or helping travelers to find the right hotel entrance or a hard-to-find restaurant. The technology has also been built into in-car navigation systems by automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover, Subaru of America, and Mitsubishi, enabling drivers to enter any destination with just three words. Emergency call centers are also embracing what3words at a rapid pace, with control rooms in the UK, US, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Singapore, Canada, India, and South Africa. The technology is available offline and in 54 languages to date.
*Survey results based on analysis from a survey of 1,000 motorists across the US aged 18+.
About what3words
Co-founded in London in 2013 by Chris Sheldrick, what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. The system covers the entire world, never needs updating, and works offline. A what3words address is a human-friendly way to share very precise locations with other people, or to input them into platforms and machines such as ride-hailing apps or e-commerce checkouts. It is optimized for voice input and contains built-in error prevention to immediately identify and correct input mistakes.
The free what3words app, available for iOS and Android, and the online map enable people to find, share and navigate to what3words addresses in 53 languages to date. Millions of what3words addresses are in use around the world, with thousands of businesses using them to save money, be more efficient and provide a better customer experience. what3words is integrated into apps, platforms and websites, with just a few lines of code. Products are available for free or for a nominal fee for qualifying NGOs. Its partners include Mercedes-Benz, Triumph Motorcycles, Premier Inn, the AA and many emergency services across the world.
what3words has a team of over 150 people, across offices in the UK, USA, Germany, India, South Korea and Mongolia. The company has raised over £100 million in capital from investors such as Intel, Ingka (Ikea), Mercedes-Benz, Aramex, Deutsche Bahn, Subaru and Sony Innovation Fund.
About AxleHire
AxleHire is an expedited urban last-mile delivery service, providing customers with a superior same- and next-day delivery experience. AxleHire leverages purpose-built modern technology and a gig driver fleet to drive transformative outcomes that catalyze customers' brand growth. Logistics teams can now provide a differentiated delivery experience at a competitive cost, overcoming the limitations of legacy delivery providers. AxleHire operates in 17 of the 25 major U.S. metro urban areas across the U.S., enabling high-volume shippers to consistently cater to the rising needs and expectations of their customers.
For more information, please visit axlehire.com.
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Priscilla Hernandez
Chair
Hollenbeck Youth Center
Priscilla Hernandez advocates for youth holistically, ensuring the path to adulthood provides the best outcomes for children from all backgrounds and areas. She is chair and president of the L.A.-based nonprofit organization, Hollenbeck Youth Center. A positive, safe environment and violence-free relationship between the community and police were established at the facility in 1981, and a movement of hope was inspired to provide afterschool support to inner-city youth. During the pandemic, Hernandez was instrumental in ensuring Hollenbeck Youth Center continue providing vital community support. | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/priscilla-hernandez | 2022-11-18 18:55:08 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/priscilla-hernandez |
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