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Video shows moment car crashes into police cruiser and school bus, injuring 3
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - A child was transported by helicopter to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children after being injured in a crash involving two vehicles and a school bus.
The child was not onboard the Osceola School District bus but was a passenger in one of the other vehicles involved in the incident late Monday afternoon at Orange Blossom Trail and East Keen Street. It happened at 4:30 p.m. and closed down one lane of OBT for hours.
Security footage shows a clear shot of a white car careening into the northbound lane. Police said the driver was avoiding pedestrians before swerving into the school bus and then hitting an unmarked Kissimmee police car head-on.
The school district confirmed to FOX 35 News that there were no students on the bus at the time of the crash. "It has already been determined by the Transportation Services Safety and Compliance Supervisor that the bus driver was not at fault in the incident," said Zach Downes with the Osceola County School District.
The child was awake and stable, authorities said. The driver of the school bus was taken to AdventHealth in Kissimmee and was expected to be okay. Kissimmee Police said one of their officers sustained a non-life-threatening injury.
A woman who lives right next to the scene told FOX 35 the crash sounded like a bomb going off, adding that she sees crashes there every week.
"They’re driving so fast," said Carmen Zhuno. "They don’t respect when the school bus stops. They don’t follow the rules. It’s very dangerous here."
Zhuno said she would like to see more police, traffic lights, and even cameras in that area to combat dangerous driving.
The crash is being investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol. | https://www.wogx.com/news/1-child-2-adults-injured-in-crash-in-osceola-county-involving-school-bus | 2023-01-31 07:18:59 | 1 | https://www.wogx.com/news/1-child-2-adults-injured-in-crash-in-osceola-county-involving-school-bus |
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s newly elected parliament was holding its first session Tuesday, with lawmakers expected to choose the country's longtime parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, for a seventh four-year term. His reelection is practically guaranteed, even though there are more than a dozen new lawmakers who won seats running on a reform platform.
The new legislature is being ushered in as Lebanon remains in the grip of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the ruling class, which has been running the country since the end of the civil war.
Elected on May 15, the new parliament is deeply divided with no coalition holding majority seats in the 128-member legislature. The militant Hezbollah group and its allies lost the majority they had held since 2018, and now hold 61 seats — four short of an absolute majority.
The 13 independent candidates, drawn from the 2019 protest movement, and some of the Christian parties in parliament have said they will not vote for Berri, leaving him with a much slimmer support, mainly from Shiite parties.
Despite this, the Hezbollah-led coalition is expected to re-elect Berri, an ally who has been in the post since 1992. Berri heads the Shiite Muslim Amal militia and is the only candidate for the post of speaker, which under Lebanon’s power-sharing agreement is held by a Shiite.
Ahead of the session, some of the independents and new legislators, gathered outside Beirut’s port — the scene of a massive explosion in August 2020 that killed more than 200 people — and met with families of the victims who perished in the blast. After the meeting, they walked to Parliament, surrounded by hundreds of supporters chanting “thawra,” revolution in Arabic.
The investigation into the port explosion, when hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate detonated, has been stalled for months amid legal challenges by officials charged by the investigative judge.
“Beirut has the right to know who killed her,” said independent legislator Yassin Yassin, in a reference to the bungled probe.
The presence of the independent lawmakers in the legislature is a major achievement — they went into the vote fragmented and faced intimidation and threats by entrenched mainstream parties.
It sends a strong message to politicians who have for decades held on to their seats and continue to do so despite the economic meltdown, which has impoverished Lebanon and triggered the biggest wave of emigration since the 1975-90 civil war.
Tuesday's session is expected to reflect the legislature's divisions between pro- and anti-Hezbollah lawmakers who will likely find it difficult to work together to form a new government and enact desperately needed reforms. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lebanon-s-divided-parliament-holds-first-session-17208873.php | 2022-05-31 08:51:47 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lebanon-s-divided-parliament-holds-first-session-17208873.php |
Actress Tori Spelling on life hacks for parenting and back-to-school
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 2:34 PM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -
Back-to-school is quickly approaching, and actress Tori Spelling, who juggles her career with her most important job as a mom to five children, knows what a particularly manic period of time it can be for all parents.
She joined Susan on Studio 3 to share her top tips.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia’s embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.
North Korea has not officially acknowledged a lockdown in Pyongyang or a re-emergence of COVID-19 after leader Kim Jong Un declared a widely disputed victory over the coronavirus in August, but the Russian embassy’s Facebook posts have provided rare glimpses into the secretive country’s infectious disease controls.
The embassy posted a notice Monday issued by North Korea’s Foreign Ministry informing foreign diplomats that the “intensified anti-epidemic period” imposed in Pyongyang since Wednesday was lifted as of Monday.
Last week, the embassy said that North Korean health authorities required diplomatic missions to keep their employees indoors and also measure their temperatures four times a day and report the results to a hospital in Pyongyang. It said the North Korean measures were in response to an increase in “flu and other respiratory diseases,” but it didn’t mention the spread of COVID-19 or restrictions imposed on regular citizens.
Shortly before that post, NK News, a North Korea-focused news website, cited a North Korean government notice to report that health officials had imposed a five-day lockdown in Pyongyang in an effort to stem the spread of respiratory illnesses.
North Korea’s state media didn’t mention any preventive measures specifically tied to COVID-19 as it tightened restrictions in Pyongyang last week. But on Wednesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said North Korean health workers have “redoubled” their efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and firmly maintain an “anti-epidemic atmosphere” throughout society to cope with the “daily-worsening world health crisis.”
“(Health workers) are directing primary efforts to consolidating the anti-epidemic barrier and intensifying the medical examination and disinfection to prevent the outbreak and spread of viral respiratory diseases including influenza,” the agency said. “They also make it a daily routine to measure temperatures and sterilize hands of the people in crowded places and ensure the accuracy of medical examination.”
Getting a read of North Korea’s virus situation is difficult as the country has been tightly shut since early 2020, with officials imposing strict border controls, banning tourists and aid workers and jetting out diplomats while scrambling to shield their poor health care system.
North Korea’s admission of a COVID-19 outbreak in May last year came after it spent 2 ½ years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and other help while steadfastly claiming that its socialist system was protecting its population from an “evil” virus that had killed millions elsewhere.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said the number of foreign missions that are currently active in North Korea would be 10 or less, a list that includes the missions of China, Vietnam and Cuba along with the Russian embassy.
North Korean state media in recent weeks have stressed vigilance against a possible re-emergence of COVID-19. The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which previously described the anti-virus campaign as the “No. 1 priority” in national affairs, called for North Koreans to maintain a “sense of high crisis” Monday as COVID-19 continues to spread in neighboring countries.
Some analysts say North Korea could be taking preventive measures as it prepares to stage huge public events in Pyongyang — possibly as early as next week — to glorify Kim’s authoritarian leadership and the expansion of his nuclear weapons and missiles program.
Recent commercial satellite images indicated preparations for a massive military parade in Pyongyang, likely for the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army that falls on Feb. 8 — an occasion Kim could potentially use to showcase his growing collection of nuclear-capable missiles.
Satellite images taken Friday indicated continuing parade practices at a training site in southeast Pyongyang despite the reported lockdown, according to 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies. But no activities were seen at Kim Il Sung Square in the central part of the city where the country usually hosts military parades, the report said.
Some outside experts linked North Korea’s 2022 COVID-19 outbreak to a massive military parade in April, where Kim vowed to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if provoked.
North Korea maintains it has had no confirmed COVID-19 cases since Aug. 10, when Kim used a major political conference to declare the country has eradicated the coronavirus, just three months after the country acknowledged an omicron outbreak.
While Kim claimed that the country’s purported success against the virus would be recognized as a global health miracle, experts believe North Korea has manipulated disclosures on its outbreak to help him maintain absolute control.
From May to August, North Korea reported about 4.8 million “fever cases” across its population of 26 million but only identified a fraction of them as COVID-19. Experts say the country’s official death toll of 74 is abnormally small, considering the country’s lack of public health tools.
North Korea has dubiously insisted that rival South Korea was responsible for its COVID-19 outbreak, saying that the virus was transported by anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and other materials flown across the border by balloons launched by South Korean civilian activists. South Korea has dismissed such claims as unscientific and “ridiculous.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-russian-embassy-says-north-korea-lifted-lockdown-in-capital/ | 2023-01-31 01:29:23 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-russian-embassy-says-north-korea-lifted-lockdown-in-capital/ |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE American: BRBS), the holding company of Blue Ridge Bank, National Association ("Blue Ridge Bank") and BRB Financial Group, Inc. ("BRB Financial Group"), announced today financial results for the quarter and year-to-date periods ended June 30, 2022. For the second quarter of 2022, the Company reported net income from continuing operations of $1.1 million, or $0.06 earnings per diluted common share, compared to $17.4 million, or $0.93 earnings per diluted common share, for the first quarter of 2022, and $28.7 million, or $1.54 earnings per diluted common share, for the second quarter of 2021. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company reported net income from continuing operations of $18.5 million, or $0.99 earnings per diluted common share, compared to $32.9 million, or $1.95 earnings per diluted common share, for the same period of 2021. Net income in the second quarter of 2021 included an after-tax gain of $19.2 million resulting from the sale of Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loans.
Net income from continuing operations before income taxes and provision for loan losses was $9.0 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $25.1 million for the first quarter of 2022. The decrease in these amounts for the consecutive quarter periods was primarily due to $9.4 million of fair value adjustments related to the Company's equity investments in certain fintech companies recorded in the first quarter of 2022 and the decline in income from the Company's mortgage division, which was $3.6 million less in the second quarter period.
The Company reported total assets of $2.80 billion as of June 30, 2022, an increase from $2.67 billion as of December 31, 2021, while reported loans held for investment, excluding PPP loans, grew $271.2 million in the first half of 2022, an annualized growth rate of 30.5%. Of this loan growth, $205.0 million occurred in the second quarter.
In the first quarter of 2022, the Company sold its majority interest in MoneyWise Payroll Solutions, Inc. ("MoneyWise") to the holder of the minority interest in MoneyWise. Asset and liability balances and income statement amounts related to MoneyWise are reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
The Company completed the merger of Bay Banks of Virginia, Inc. ("Bay Banks"), the holding company of Virginia Commonwealth Bank, into the Company on January 31, 2021. Immediately following the completion of the merger, Virginia Commonwealth Bank was merged into Blue Ridge Bank. Earnings for the first quarter and year-to-date periods ended June 30, 2021, included the earnings of Bay Banks from the effective date of the merger.
"The Company continues to experience strong loan demand, as evidenced by the year-to-date growth in the held-for-investment loan portfolio of 15%", said Brian K. Plum, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "Over half of 2022 second quarter loan growth occurred in the last two weeks in the quarter, so the Company recorded additional provision funding without experiencing the full related interest income lift in the quarter. This impact, combined with expenses associated with building our middle market team and adding to our fintech operational, risk, and compliance teams, had a negative impact on this quarter's earnings."
"We remain mindful of macroeconomic headwinds and the impacts of a potential slowdown," Plum continued. "Our team is working hard to generate quality relationships with loan and deposit pricing that incorporates rate increases and the current yield curve environment."
Fintech Business
The Company's fintech partnerships include Unit, Flexible Finance, Increase, Upgrade, Kashable, Jaris, Grow Credit, MentorWorks, Aeldra, and Marlette. Deposits related to fintech relationships were approximately $395 million as of June 30, 2022, up from approximately $189 million as of December 31, 2021. Loans held for sale and loans held for investment related to fintech relationships totaled $25.6 million and $24.1 million as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Interest and fee income related to fintech partnerships represented approximately $1.8 million and $1.3 million of revenue for the Company for the second and first quarters of 2022, respectively. The Company's fintech relationships also generated assets under management of $55.9 million in BRB Financial Group's Trust Division as of June 30, 2022. The Company continues to grow its infrastructure to support the expansion of its fintech partners.
Mortgage Division
The Company's mortgage division, which consists of a retail division operating as Monarch Mortgage and a wholesale division operating as LenderSelect Mortgage Group, reported net income of $406 thousand and $2.3 million for the second and first quarters of 2022, respectively. Income attributable to mortgage servicing rights was $1.6 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $6.7 million for the first quarter of 2022. Higher income from mortgage servicing rights in the first quarter of 2022 was primarily due to the impact of greater longer-term interest rate increases in this period. Mortgage servicing rights income in the second and first quarters of 2022 was attributable to fair value adjustments of $(229) thousand and $3.8 million, respectively, and new servicing rights retained of $1.8 million and $2.9 million, respectively. Residential mortgage banking income increased by $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2022 when compared to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to the impact of hedging activities as production slowed in the first quarter of 2022. Quarterly mortgage volumes declined to $117.8 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $151.4 million for the first quarter of 2022, primarily attributable to declining demand in the increasing interest rate environment. Noninterest expenses reported for the Company's mortgage division were $5.7 million and $6.9 million for the second and first quarters of 2022, respectively. The Company reduced mortgage personnel beginning in the fourth quarter of 2021 and throughout the first half of 2022, resulting in total annualized noninterest expense savings of approximately $2.0 million, the full benefit of which is expected to begin in the second half of 2022.
Income Statement
Net Interest Income
Net interest income was $24.1 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $23.7 million for the first quarter of 2021 and $30.5 million for the second quarter of 2021, while accretion of acquired loan discounts included in interest income was $1.3 million, $2.7 million, and $865 thousand for the same respective periods. Amortization of purchase accounting adjustments on assumed time deposits and borrowings, which reduced interest expense, was $499 thousand, $502 thousand, and $1.0 million for the same respective periods. Interest income in the second quarter of 2022, excluding accretion, benefited from higher yields on loans held for investment, while deposit costs decreased slightly compared to the first quarter of 2022.
Included in interest income for the second and first quarters of 2022 and the second quarter of 2021 were $64 thousand, $393 thousand, and $11.7 million, respectively, of PPP loan interest income and fees, net of costs. PPP loans were partially funded through the PPP Liquidity Facility ("PPPLF"), offered by the Federal Reserve Banks to fund PPP loans, and interest expense incurred for the PPPLF was $100 thousand, $14 thousand, and $382 thousand for the second and first quarters of 2022 and the second quarter of 2021, respectively. Cost of funds was 0.36% for both the second and first quarters of 2022 and 0.43% for the second quarter of 2021, while cost of deposits was 0.26%, 0.27%, and 0.29% for the same respective periods.
Net interest margin for the second and first quarters of 2022 was 3.89% and 3.88%, respectively, compared to 3.82% for second quarter of 2021. Accretion and amortization of purchase accounting adjustments had a 29, 53, and 22 basis point positive effect on net interest margin for the same respective periods. In addition, interest and fee income from PPP loans, including the corresponding funding, had a 4, 2, and 55 basis point positive effect on net interest margin for the second and first quarters of 2022 and the second quarter of 2021, respectively.
Net interest income was $47.8 million and $50.5 million for the first halves of 2022 and 2021, respectively, while net interest margin was 3.88% and 3.66% for the same respective periods. Accretion and amortization of purchase accounting adjustments and the contributions from PPP loans, including the corresponding funding, had a cumulative 40 and 56 basis point positive effect on net interest margin for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Provision for Loan Losses
The Company recorded a provision for loan losses of $7.5 million in the second quarter of 2022 compared to $2.5 million first quarter of 2022 and no provision in the second quarter of 2021. Provision for loan losses for the first halves of 2022 and 2021 was $10.0 million and $0, respectively. Provision for loan losses in the 2022 periods was primarily attributable to reserves for significant loan growth, greater qualitative factor adjustments due to changes in economic conditions, and higher specific reserves for impaired loans.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income for the second and first quarters of 2022 was $10.2 million and $24.1 million, respectively, compared to $36.2 million for the second quarter of 2021. Noninterest income for the first quarter of 2022 included $9.4 million of fair value adjustments for the Company's equity investments, primarily in certain fintech companies, while noninterest income in the second quarter of 2021 included a $24.3 million net gain on the sale of PPP loans. Mortgage banking income, including mortgage servicing rights, contributed $6.0 million, $9.6 million, and $9.0 million of noninterest income in the second and first quarters of 2022 and the second quarter of 2021, respectively.
Noninterest income for the first halves of 2022 and 2021 was $34.3 million and $51.8 million, respectively. Excluding the fair value adjustments for the Company's equity investments in the first half of 2022 and the net gain on the sale of the PPP loans in the first half of 2021, noninterest income for the respective periods was $25.0 million and $27.4 million, a decline of $2.4 million. This decline was primarily attributable to lower mortgage banking income, including mortgage servicing rights, of $6.1 million, partially offset by a higher gain on sales of government guaranteed loans, higher fee income related to the Company's fintech partnerships, and a net gain on the sale of a former branch location in the first quarter of 2022.
Noninterest Expense
Noninterest expense for the second and first quarters of 2022 was $25.3 million and $22.7 million, respectively, compared to $30.3 million for the second quarter of 2021. Salaries and employee benefit expenses increased $1.8 million in the second quarter of 2022 from the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to the addition of commercial lenders and personnel to support the fintech business, partially offset by lower expenses attributable to the mortgage division. Noninterest expenses in the second quarter of 2021 included greater incentive expense attributable to the PPP loan program and merger-related expenses of $1.2 million compared to $0 and $50 thousand for the second and first quarters of 2022, respectively.
Noninterest expense for the first halves of 2022 and 2021 was $48.0 million and $60.6 million, respectively. Excluding merger-related expenses, noninterest expense was $48.0 million and $50.3 million for the same respective periods.
Balance Sheet
Loans held for investment, excluding PPP loans, increased $271.2 million to $2.05 billion at June 30, 2022, from $1.78 billion at December 31, 2021, an annualized growth rate of 30.5%. Of this first half 2022 growth, $205.0 million occurred in the second quarter. The Company's middle market and specialized lending teams, which began building in the first quarter of 2022, contributed to this second quarter loan growth.
Loans held for sale, which was comprised primarily of residential mortgages, decreased $89.2 million to $32.8 million at June 30, 2022, from $121.9 million at December 31, 2021, primarily attributable to lower mortgage activity, due to the reasons noted previously.
Total deposits at June 30, 2022, were $2.34 billion, an increase of $37.9 million from December 31, 2021. Noninterest-bearing demand deposit growth was $80.0 million in the first half of 2022, primarily due to the Company's fintech partnerships. Noninterest-bearing demand deposit accounts represented 33.6% and 30.7% of total deposits as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
Asset Quality
Nonperforming loans, which include nonaccrual loans and loans 90 days or more past due and accruing interest1, totaled $12.2 million at June 30, 2022 and $16.1 million at December 31, 2021. The ratio of nonperforming loans to total assets was 0.44% and 0.60% at June 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021, respectively. The Company's allowance for loan losses was $17.2 million at June 30, 2022, or 0.84% as a percentage of gross loans held for investment, excluding PPP loans2, compared to 0.68% at December 31, 2021, and 0.76% at June 30, 2021. The increase in this ratio from December 31, 2021 to June 30, 2022, was primarily attributable to additional allowance for loan growth in the first half of 2022 and greater qualitative factor adjustments, as noted previously. Remaining acquired loan discounts related to loans acquired in the Company's completed mergers were $12.2 million as of June 30, 2022, and $16.2 million as of December 31, 2021.
1 Excludes purchased credit-impaired loans.
2 The Company holds no allowance for loan losses on PPP loans as they are fully guaranteed by the U.S. government.
Capital
The Company previously announced that on July 7, 2022, its board of directors declared a $0.1225 per common share quarterly dividend, payable July 29, 2022, to shareholders of record as of July 18, 2022. Tangible book value per share, a non-GAAP (defined below) measure, was $12.21 and $13.01 as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, while book value per share was $13.95 and $14.76 as of the same respective periods.
Primarily as a result of an increase in market interest rates in the first half of 2022, the fair value of the Company's portfolio of securities available for sale declined approximately $42.8 million, resulting in an after-tax decline in stockholders' equity of $33.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022. The accumulated other comprehensive loss ("AOCL") attributable to this securities portfolio as of June 30, 2022, was $37.5 million, or $2.00 in book value per share, compared to a $3.6 million AOCL, or $0.19 in book value per share, as of December 31, 2021.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The accounting and reporting policies of the Company conform to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and prevailing practices in the banking industry. However, management uses certain non-GAAP measures to supplement the evaluation of the Company's performance. Management believes presentations of these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information that is essential to a proper understanding of the operating results of the Company's core businesses. These non-GAAP disclosures should not be viewed as a substitute for operating results determined in accordance with GAAP, nor are they necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures that may be presented by other companies. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures are included at the end of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release of the Company contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections, and statements of the Company's beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate, or imply future results, performance or achievements, and are typically identified with words such as "may," "could," "should," "will," "would," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "aim," "intend," "plan," or words or phases of similar meaning. The Company cautions that the forward-looking statements are based largely on its expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond the Company's control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces that it is investigating potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of RTX Corporation f/k/a Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX) resulting from allegations that RTX may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 25, 2023, RTX issued a press release announcing an update on its Pratt & Whitney fleet. The Company stated "Pratt & Whitney has determined that a rare condition in powdered metal used to manufacture certain engine parts will require accelerated fleet inspection. This does not impact engines currently being produced. As a result, the business anticipates that a significant portion of the PW1100G-JM engine fleet, which powers the A320neo, will require accelerated removals and inspections within the next nine to twelve months, including approximately 200 accelerated removals by mid-September of this year."
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By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
Bill Belichick passed George Halas for second place on the NFL’s career coaching victories list and the New England Patriots continued their mastery of the New York Jets by beating them for the 13th straight time, 22-17 on Sunday.
Devin McCourty had two of the Patriots’ three interceptions of Zach Wilson, Nick Folk kicked five field goals against his former team and Belichick’s bunch slowed the surprising Jets, who had won four in a row.
Belichick missed a chance to break a tie with Halas on Monday night, when New England (4-4) lost to Chicago 33-14. But he got No. 325, including playoffs, against the Jets and now trails only Don Shula (347). The victory was also Belichick’s 100th in the regular season against AFC East opponents as coach of the Patriots.
Mac Jones, who was benched against the Bears for rookie Bailey Zappe, finished 24 of 35 for 194 yards with a touchdown to Jakobi Meyers and an interception.
The Jets (5-3), who snapped a 12-game skid against AFC East opponents by beating Miami three weeks ago, couldn’t change their fortunes against the Patriots — even while debuting their stealth black alternate helmets.
After a promising start, Wilson made too many mistakes in the first 300-yard passing game of his career — he was 20 of 41 for 355 yards and two TDs to Tyler Conklin— and New England took advantage.
Many in the MetLife Stadium crowd that was raucous at kickoff with the Jets off to their best start since 2010 were booing by the third quarter — and filing to the exits long before the game was over.
New York made it closer on Wilson’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Conklin with 1:51 left, but New England recovered the onside kick and Jones took three kneeldowns to run out the clock.
Trailing 10-6 coming out of halftime, the Patriots marched down the field with an efficient drive keyed by Rhamondre Stevenson’s 35-yard run. On fourth-and-1 from the 5, Belichick went for it — and Jones found Meyers in the end zone for a go-ahead touchdown.
After Greg Zuerlein was wide left on a potential tying 45-yarder early in the third, Folk — who spent seven seasons with the Jets — made kicks of 49, 45 and 52 yards to make it 22-10 early in the fourth.
Helped by an unnecessary roughness call on Jabrill Peppers, the Jets quickly got into Patriots territory on their first possession of the second quarter. Wilson capped the drive with an 8-yarder to Conklin for a 10-3 lead.
It was Wilson’s first TD pass in four games.
With the Patriots trailing by seven and facing fourth-and-1 from the Jets 21 coming out of the 2-minute warning, Belichick opted to go for it. Jones’ throw to Meyers fell incomplete and New York took over on downs.
But Wilson was intercepted for the first time in four games when his pass floated into the hands of Ja’Whuan Bentley, giving the Patriots the ball at the Jets 40.
It appeared Jones gave it right back to the Jets when Michael Carter II intercepted him and returned it 84 yards for a touchdown — but had it wiped out by a roughing-the-passer call on John Franklin-Myers. The Patriots ended up getting points on the drive and cutting the deficit to 10-6 on Folk’s 42-yarder as time expired in the half.
J-ROB’S DEBUT
Running back James Robinson, acquired from Jacksonville during the week, made his Jets debut. He finished with 17 yards on five carries.
BRICK HONORED
The Jets inducted former left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson into their Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.
Ferguson was a first-round pick in 2006 who made three Pro Bowls and never missed a practice or game during his 10-year NFL career.
INJURIES
Patriots WR DeVante Parker left in the first quarter with a knee injury.
UP NEXT
Patriots: Return home next Sunday to face the Indianapolis Colts.
Jets: Home again to take on another AFC East rival in the first-place Buffalo Bills next Sunday.
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House adjourns for third day without picking a speaker in longest contest in 164 years
Originally Published: 05 JAN 23 05:06 ETUpdated: 05 JAN 23 20:07 ETBy Clare Foran, Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Kristin Wilson, CNN
(CNN) -- The House has adjourned for the third day without electing a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy continued to suffer a string of defeats in multiple rounds of voting on Thursday. As the fight for the gavel drags on, it has now become the longest speaker contest in 164 years.
Each failed vote only increases pressure on McCarthy to end the impasse, but it is unclear whether he will be able to pull it off as the situation grows increasingly dire for his future political prospects.
Even after proposing major concessions to his hardline conservative opponents late Wednesday, the California Republican has still not yet been able to lock in the 218 votes he needs to win the gavel. The longer the fight drags out, the more dire it becomes for McCarthy's future, as it risks further defections and a loss of confidence in the GOP leader.
Talks have continued among Republicans as the GOP majority hopes to find a path forward. Negotiators between the McCarthy allies and opponents are pushing for a deal Thursday night in attempt to show progress, according to a source in talks. They believe they have made significant progress, but they are still haggling over some of the details. Complicating matters is the fact that at least four Republican members are leaving town Friday because of various family issues.
An agreement is close with Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and McCarthy's team, led by Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, according to multiple sources. If they can get an agreement, they would be able to get the votes to adjourn the chamber for the night. But that still wouldn't get McCarthy to 218 votes -- the threshold he needs to hit -- since there are other members who have concerns that haven't been addressed.
Patience is wearing thin among lawmakers and moderates have also grown increasingly frustrated over the concessions, which many believe may make it harder for the new GOP majority to effectively govern, though they will likely still swallow them.
McCarthy was defiant on Thursday in the face of the stiff headwinds, saying that he will continue to face opposition until he reaches a deal with his detractors.
"It's all going to be this way until an agreement comes," he told CNN. "It's easier if we're able to all get an agreement together."
Asked by CNN the point he would make a realization that the outcome won't change, McCarthy said: "After I win."
McCarthy agrees to additional concessions
In a series of new concessions first reported by CNN Wednesday night, McCarthy agreed to propose a rules change that would allow just one member to call for a vote to oust a sitting speaker, according to two sources familiar with the matter. McCarthy had initially proposed a five-member threshold, down from current conference rules that require half of the GOP to call for such a vote.
He also agreed to allow for more members of the Freedom Caucus to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee, which dictates how and whether bills come to the floor, and to vote on a handful of bills that are priorities for the holdouts, including proposing term limits on members and a border security plan.
Republican sources say that even if McCarthy's offers are accepted, it would still not get him the 218 votes he needs to be speaker. While these concessions could attract some new support, other opponents have raised different concerns that have yet to be fully addressed.
McCarthy has already made a number of concessions to his opponents, though so far his efforts have not been enough. But sources said the talks Wednesday between McCarthy allies and holdouts have been the most productive and serious ones to date. And in one sign of a breakthrough, a McCarthy-aligned super PAC agreed to not play in open Republican primaries in safe seats -- one of the big demands that conservatives had asked for but that McCarthy had resisted until this point.
One moderate Republican told CNN Thursday morning that they aren't happy about the concessions, though they are willing to have "discussions" about them.
The fear is that lowering the threshold for a vote to oust the speaker to one member will make governing on items like the debt limit and funding almost impossible.
"I don't like the rules but am willing to hear discussions. I think they're a mistake for the conference. These handful of folks want a weak speaker with a four-vote majority. The public will not like what they see of the GOP, I fear," the member said.
House in chaos over speaker fight
The fight over the speakership, which began Tuesday on the first day of the 118th Congress, has thrown the new House GOP majority into chaos and undercut the party's agenda.
McCarthy has so far come up short in multiple rounds of voting. The final GOP tally for the sixth vote, which took place on Wednesday, was 201 for McCarthy, 20 for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida and one "present" vote.
In the seventh ballot, McCarthy still had 20 total GOP lawmakers voting against him, except this time GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz voted for former President Donald Trump, while the other 19 voted for Donalds. GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz voted present again. The final tally was 201 for McCarthy, 19 for Donalds, one for Trump and one present vote.
The final tally for the eighth ballot was 201 for McCarthy, 17 for Donalds, two for GOP Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, one for Trump and one present vote.
The final tally for the ninth ballot was 200 for McCarthy, 17 for Donalds, 3 for Hern, and 1 present vote. Buck, who has supported McCarthy, did not vote that round.
In the tenth vote, McCarthy still had 20 total GOP lawmakers voting against him. The final tally was 200 for McCarthy, 13 for Donalds, seven for Hern and one present vote.
On the eleventh ballot, there were 200 for McCarthy, 12 for Donalds, seven for Hern, one for Trump and one present vote.
The House will remain paralyzed until this standoff is resolved. This is the first time an election for speaker has gone to multiple ballots since 1923.
To be elected speaker, a candidate needs to win a majority of members who vote for a specific person on the House floor. That amounts to 218 votes if no member skips the vote or votes "present."
House Republicans won 222 seats in the new Congress, so for McCarthy to reach 218, he can only afford to lose four GOP votes.
This story and headline have been updated with additional developments.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon and Washington lawmakers and leaders reacted swiftly to the U.S. Supreme Curt’s ruling Thursday to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases and climate change.
The Clean Air Act passed nearly 60 years ago with bipartisan support. Since 2015 Oregon has been working through litigation over the EPA’s right to regulate power plant emissions.
The leaders deplored the decision which could reportedly have far-reaching implications for climate change goals.
“The Supreme Court’s effort to protect polluters that spew poison into our air and water continues apace. The Republicans on the Supreme Court are not going to allow any meaningful administration efforts to combat climate change,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.
In a Twitter post, Sen. Jeff Merkley said “We don’t want dirty air, extreme weather, and climate chaos. But you know who does? Fossil fuel companies.”
In a subsequent release, Merkley said this was just the latest of a “long line of dangerous decisions” where the court is disregarding what the American people need and want.
Meanwhile, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee held a press conference following the ruling where he addressed the potential implications.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — To the many “firsts” filling Ons Jabeur’s résumé, add a new one: First Arab woman to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament.
The third-seeded Tunisian improved on last year’s quarterfinal run at Wimbledon by doing one better on Tuesday at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. She beat Marie Bouzkova 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 on Centre Court.
“It means a lot,” said the 27-year-old Jabeur, who is ranked No. 2 in the world. “I was hoping that I could get to this stage for a long time already. … I was talking a little bit to (former Moroccan player) Hicham Arazi, and he told me, ‘Arabs always lose in the quarterfinals and we are sick of it. Please break this.’ I was, like, I’ll try, my friend.”
She tried and it’s true, she did it.
In the semifinals, Jabeur will face another newcomer to this stage at a major tournament — Tatjana Maria.
The 34-year-old German, who twice took breaks from tennis to have a child, became the oldest first-time Grand Slam semifinalist in the Open era in her 35th appearance at such a tournament. She defeated 22-year-old Jule Niemeier 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 on No. 1 Court.
Jabeur and Maria are good friends.
“I’m really happy for her that she’s getting what she deserves. I know she struggled a lot,” Jabeur said. “It’s not easy coming back after having two babies. It’s going to be a great match between us, a lot of respect, for sure.”
Jabeur has been setting record after record for Arab players in recent years. She became the first Arab woman to reach the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam tournament in 2020 at the Australian Open. In 2021, she was the first Arab player to break into the top 10 of the men’s or women’s rankings, then became the first Arab to win a WTA title, and topped it off with her record run to the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
This year, things have been going even better for Jabeur on the grass at the All England Club. She won her first four matches in straight sets and was rarely troubled in any of them.
That changed against Bouzkova, a 23-year-Czech who had never before been to the third round at a major tournament. Bouzkova’s strong start, however, didn’t last into the second set.
“She gets all the balls and doesn’t make, to win a point, easy for me,” Jabeur said. “I’m glad I stepped in with my game. I was more aggressive in the second set, and especially tactically I was playing some angles that she didn’t like much.”
Maria also lost the first set before recovering to win the next two. The victory made her only the sixth woman to reach the Wimbledon semifinals after turning 34 years old.
The previous five women — Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Venus Williams and Serena Williams — won a combined 30 titles at the All England Club in their careers.
“To be in a list of such great players, it’s amazing,” said Maria, who had only ever reached the third round at a major once before — at Wimbledon in 2015. “I mean, to have my name in the same spot, yeah, I still cannot believe it, really.”
Maria is making her 10th appearance at the All England Club — her participation was twice interrupted to have children. Her first daughter was born in 2013 and the second came in 2021.
Tennis, despite this incredible run at Wimbledon, has taken a back seat to family ever since the kids came along.
“I think for me, that’s the most important in my life, to be a mom of my two kids. Nothing will change this,” Maria said. “I’m in the semifinal of Wimbledon, it’s crazy, but I’m still a mom. After this I will go out over there and I will see my kids and I will do the same thing what I do every single day.”
Maria was ranked outside the top 250 as recently as March, but she has worked her way back to No. 103.
She returned from her second maternity leave about a year ago and lost in the first round of the U.S. Open. At the majors this year, she lost in the first round at both the Australian Open and the French Open.
“I always believed that I have something inside, I mean, that I can do this,” Maria said. “I always believed in this, but to be now here in this spot … one year ago I gave birth to my second daughter. If somebody would tell me one year later you are in a semifinal of Wimbledon, that’s crazy.”
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Democratic Minnesota senators, holding firm despite only a one-vote majority, successfully passed sweeping gun control legislation in an effort to keep guns out of the hands of people in crisis and criminals.
The public safety and judiciary finance and policy agreement passed early Tuesday, May 16 by a vote of 69-63, after passing the Senate 34-33 on Friday, May 12.
The proposals included the controversial "red flag law" that would allow authorities to ask courts for "extreme risk protection orders" to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to be an imminent threat to others or themselves.
"What we are going to be providing — finally — is a path forward for families and law enforcement who know that someone's exhibiting signs of crisis and danger," said Democratic Sen. Rob Latz of St. Louis Park, chairman of the Senate public safety committee. "And it will give them lawful tools to separate people in crisis from the firearms that are around them."
MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING 'RED FLAG' LAW, BACKGROUND CHECK EXPANSION
The provision is part of a broad public safety budget bill that also contains expanded background checks for gun transfers, with opponents arguing it violates a person’s due process and the Second Amendment of the constitution.
The extension on background check requires background for private transfers, which excludes family and law enforcement, of pistols and "semi-automatic military-style assault weapons."
MINNESOTA RECREATIONAL POT BILL GOES TO CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, GOV. WALZ PLEDGES TO SIGN
Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz is expected to sign the bill into law, after sharing his thoughts on the legislation in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
"As a veteran, gun-owner, hunter, and dad, I know that basic gun safety isn’t a threat to the Second Amendment. It’s about our first responsibility to our kids: Keeping them safe," Waltz wrote in a Twitter post. "When the bill reaches my desk, I’m going to sign a red flag law and background checks into law."
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A majority of Americans think that the slate of state and federal investigations into former President Donald Trump are fair, according to a new poll, despite Republican attempts to frame the probes as a left wing witch hunt of the former president.
A 56 percent majority of respondents think the investigations into Trump are fair, according to a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll, with 41 percent of saying the inquiries are a “witch hunt.”
The split in opinion, largely along the partisan divide, comes after Trump said he expected to be arrested last week in connection with a Manhattan probe into the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
The poll surveyed 1,327 adults and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
A 92 percent majority of those surveyed were registered voters, and they were split between 37 percent Democrats, 33 percent independents and 29 percent Republicans.
Although the former president has yet to be indicted in the investigation, he and his allies went on the offensive against Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, framing his investigation as a political attack designed to damage Trump as he again campaigns for president.
Trump’s allies in Congress have called on the prosecutor to testify about the hush money case, but Bragg has refused.
An overwhelming majority of Republicans in the survey, 80 percent, thought the investigations were a witch hunt. That is opposed to the 87 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents who thought the probes were fair.
The other investigations into Trump include the federal inquiry into his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and his handling of classified information, a Georgia investigation into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state, and a New York state civil lawsuit that alleges Trump and his business inflated the value of his real estate assets.
A plurality of respondents to the survey thought that Trump had done something improper.
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Pantry on Magnolia, 713 W Magnolia Av, FW. 682-224-2381. 11am-10pm Sun, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat.
I’m embroiled in a quasi-abusive relationship.
I know what you’re thinking. “Dump ’em and don’t look back!” Truly, I wish I could, but when it comes to spicy food — especially my best friend’s mom’s famous mole, laced with what I can only assume is every chili pepper on the planet — I just. can’t. stop. And, oh, my god, is it worth the pain!
The same goes for the dumplings and fried rice at Pantry on Magnolia. My body may have rejected the heat of the housemade chili oil from every last pore, but the rest of me embodied a red-faced Adam Driver in Star Wars screaming, “More, more!”
My good friend and former neighbor who was in town visiting requested we go somewhere new for a late lunch. From her response to the first bite of the black garlic mushroom dumpling — “That’s one of the more intense umami experiences of my life” — I’d say the Pantry was the right choice. Nestled into the sliver of a spot between Shinjuku Station and Grandma’s on West Magnolia Avenue, the multicultural dumpling house incorporates regional foods from all over the globe into their menu on a rotating basis.
The restaurant’s interior feels cozy in that particular way older buildings do. Though the space appears small from the outside, it doesn’t seem so inside, with its high ceilings, exposed brick, and vibrant, colorful decor. Cobalt walls are accented with Big Bird-yellow trim — a funky mix when you notice the off-white vintage ceiling tiles outlined in a scarlet red.
On one side hangs a gallery of different-sized mirrors with intricate gold frames. Floating shelves and nearly every other surface are filled with a festive, homey clutter of eclectic knick-knacks, from smiling ceramic dumplings to a Hamsa hand and several pieces of Asian-influenced art. Four long tables provide seating in the main area, along with a couple of bright bistro ones on the patio out front, and, beyond the curtained doorway marked “KiTcHeN” in mismatched letters, a series of two-top high tables face the bustling kitchen. In that back, more intimate area, life-size versions of the parasols you’d find floating in fruity cocktails dangle from the rafters among twinkly lights for a more whimsical, enchanting touch.
On the day my friend and I visited, Natasha Bruton, the establishment’s pastry queen — her “2023 Fort Worth Pastry Chef of the Year” certificate is prominently displayed at the register — greeted everyone with a “Thanks for braving the heat to be here.” What she meant, of course, was the sauna outside. What Natasha didn’t intend or know was that my revenant companion and I were about to brave a different kind of heat altogether. Good thing we can take it.
The dumpling flight offered seven unique flavors: Jamaican jerk chicken, Indian butter chicken, garlic ground beef, smoked barbacoa beef cheek, loaded baked potato, pork shiitake, and black garlic mushroom. A laminated page with photos to identify the various dumplings accompanied our order, which was a helpful guide as a couple of them were similarly shaped. Once you bit into the pillow of dough and filling, though, you could fairly quickly pick out which was which.
I tried, y’all. I intended to take diligent notes on each dumpling, but I got lost in the experience and the reverie of seeing an old friend. What I can tell you — and I can’t stress this enough — is that they were the best damn dumplings I’ve ever had. Each took you on a culinary journey, whether it was the spicy hot Indian butter chicken that lived up to its buttery name or the hearty, meaty filling of the well-balanced garlic ground beef. Not a single dumpling disappointed. In fact, quite the opposite. I mean, you know the food is good when conversation is abruptly interrupted after each bite as your crew exchanges animated “Oh, wow” faces.
Even the spring roll appetizers were exceptional. With crunchy veggies and delectably fresh shrimp tightly wrapped within, the roll packed a strong mint flavor that paired well with the ultra-smooth, not-too-sweet peanut sauce. I’m pretty picky about peanut sauce, but I’d bathe in the Pantry’s.
After scarfing down the dumplings and spring rolls, my fellow reveler and I weren’t quite ready to call it a day. While Natasha suggested several mouthwatering options, our eyes grew big and stomachs gurgled, mouths still ablaze from the earlier onslaught. I can’t be entirely sure which fried rice dish we ended up choosing — the house special, perhaps? Either way, it constituted the second-best decision we’d made that afternoon.
As it emerged from the kitchen, the fried rice with housemade kimchi and savory sausage had billows of steam rolling off it. The mix of tender meat, including succulent, semisweet pork, was topped with a perfectly fried egg and green onions. We barely made a dent in the mound we were served, and, this time, the chili oil was served on the side.
The experience came to a close like any good meal should: with a warm, gooey-centered dessert. The Everything in the Pantry cookie contained pretzels and white, dark, and semisweet chocolate drizzled with more chocolate and caramel sauces and topped with sea salt. Need I say more?
Despite inevitably panting in between bites, I’d brave the fire-breathing, sweating, nose running, and then some again and again for what’s in the Pantry — dignity, be damned.
Pantry on Magnolia
The Dumpling Flight $16
Spring rolls $8
Fried rice $12
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DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifteen BAL attorneys were named to the prestigious Lawdragon® 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers ranking, with the firm achieving more accolades than all other corporate immigration firms.
In the newly released 2022 Lawdragon rankings, which recognizes only 79 top immigration attorneys in the country, BAL is the most cited firm for corporate immigration, representing 19% of the ranked attorneys. These BAL Partners are singled out by Lawdragon: Rob Caballero, Kelli Duehning, Jeremy Fudge, Frieda Garcia, Delya Ghosh, Kortney Gibson, Jeff Joseph, Lynden Melmed, Edward Rios, Petra Tang, Carla Tarazi, and Susan Wehrer. Additionally, Jeff Appleman and David Berry, partners emeriti, are inducted into the Immigration Hall of Fame.
BAL has solidified its reputation as the go-to immigration firm for companies seeking a business advantage in acquiring and retaining the best talent in the world. With coast-to-coast offices and a dedicated Government Strategies team in Washington, D.C., BAL elevates immigration strategy while navigating compliance issues for many of the biggest companies in the world, as well as mid-sized entities and start-ups.
"Our clients deserve teams that deliver unprecedented results in record time thanks to our one BAL collaborative culture and groundbreaking in-house legal technology," says BAL Managing Partner Jeremy Fudge. "We deliver this elite service thanks to the efforts of the leaders that Lawdragon recognized and the 1,400 BAL employees who dedicate themselves to exceptional client service."
The firm's employee-centered culture inspires leaders—reflected in the significant uptick in the number of attorneys recognized by Lawdragon this year – and attracts the best legal talent to our unconventional environment. From unlimited vacation to firmwide community service days, BAL offers perks that allow attorneys to thrive both inside and outside the office.
"We've excelled in a challenging job market and continue to attract top talent, because people recognize that there's something different going on here," says BAL's Chief Operating Officer Leslie C. Rohrbacker. "Our incredibly diverse staff, our majority-female ranks, and our fun-loving culture set us apart from traditional law firms. Add in industry-leading legal tech that frees us to focus on what really matters, and you have a special place that just keeps getting better."
BAL, the world's leading corporate immigration law firms, is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of corporate clients around the world in ways that make immigration more strategic and enable businesses to be more successful. Established in 1980, BAL has consistently provided immigration expertise, people-centered client services, and leading technology innovation. In 2018, BAL entered into a first-of-its-kind strategic alliance with Deloitte U.K. to create the world's first global immigration service delivery model.
BAL's proprietary Cobalt® digital immigration services platform won the 2020 CODiE Award for Best Legal Tech Product, the prestigious CIO100 award for Innovative Use of Intelligent Automation in Immigration Services, and Legalweek's Most Innovative Law Firm Operations Team of 2021. BAL and its leaders are highly ranked in every major legal publication, including Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal. BAL has ranked #1 on multiple industry rankings for diversity, equity and inclusion, including the #1 Law Firm for Women on the National Law Journal's Women in Law Scorecard the past four years in a row (2019-2022), #1 on the Diversity Scorecard by The American Lawyer (2020 and 2021), and #1 on Law360's Diversity Snapshot for three years running (2020-2022). In 2022, BAL won the "Best Company for Diversity," the "Best HR Team" and the "Best Company for Career Growth" by Comparably, based solely on employee ratings. See website for details: https://www.bal.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — Straight out of “Top Gun: Maverick,” actor Miles Teller will host the opening episode of the 48th season of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 1.
Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar will be the musical guest on opening night, his third appearance on “SNL,” NBC said on Tuesday.
It promises to be a transition season for NBC’s comedy institution, which has seen the departure of eight cast members.
Actor Brendan Gleeson, star of the upcoming film “The Banshees of Inisherin,” will host the Oct. 8 edition of the show. Willow makes her “SNL” debut as musical guest.
Megan Thee Stallion earns double duty on Oct. 15 as the host and musical guest, NBC said on Tuesday.
The Lorne Michaels-produced show soldiers on this season minus cast members Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Christopher Redd, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Aristotle Athari and Melissa Villaseñor.
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Dec. 30, 1947, in The Starvault1939: Brown Speedway at Eastaboga will be the scene of an exciting New Year’s Day sport feature at 2 p.m. when some of the South’s leading stock car drivers will compete in local races – including Red Byron, Billy Carden, Lamar Woodall, Eddie Martin and Buster Whaley. Also this date: The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the right of Black citizens to vote in Democratic Party primaries in South Carolina in a stinging opinion which said the power of the state was being used to violate the Federal Constitution. A few years ago a Federal District Court ruling had barred South Carolina election officials from denying qualified Black voters a voice in the primaries, at which point the South Carolina Legislature promptly repealed all laws relating to primaries and turned over that part of the process to Democratic Party officials.
Dec. 30, 1997, in The Star: You might find this hard to believe, but the prediction of 3-6 inches of snow for Calhoun County Sunday night turned out to be a bust. It was way less than an inch, just barely enough for kids to play in Monday morning, based on Star photos. The Tennessee Valley and Kentucky are the regions that got the snow. “This won’t be the last time that a forecast is wrong,” remarked James Spann of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham. | https://www.annistonstar.com/features/look-back-to-a-stock-car-race-planned-for-jan-1-1948/article_ea98fc92-87f8-11ed-804d-7b9863e6d207.html | 2022-12-30 15:39:06 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/features/look-back-to-a-stock-car-race-planned-for-jan-1-1948/article_ea98fc92-87f8-11ed-804d-7b9863e6d207.html |
Family was shot in murder-suicide minutes before being evicted from foreclosed home, sheriff says
CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray news) - Investigators believe Theresa Cain shot her family members, killing three of them, just minutes before deputies arrived to serve them with eviction papers and they were put out of their foreclosed home, Sheriff Steve Leahy said Thursday.
The eviction was the culmination of a long history of financial problems for the family and appears to be the motive of the murder-suicide that left a total of four relatives dead and a fifth fighting for her life, he said.
“It is tragic and unnecessary,” Leahy said. “’What can we do to keep this from happening again?’ Well, I’m just not that sure that we can. When people are in crisis, it’s not as easy as just reaching out and saying, ‘I need help.’ They are spiraling. Nothing makes sense.
“What we see here, you can’t make sense of this. Murder is a senseless thing, but then you throw in suicide and the homicide of your family. It’s all very sad. This lady had been totally cooperative the entire time. "
[4 dead, 1 critical after potential murder-suicide in Clermont County, sheriff says]
When deputies pulled up to the family home on Riebel Ridge Road in Ohio Township around 9:40 a.m. Monday, Theresa Cain was standing on the patio outside, the sheriff said.
Deputies expected no issues. They had checked with her before Monday to ensure all would go smoothly.
She told them she still had a few things left to pack and requested a few extra hours but would be ready by 10 a.m.
She also assured deputies the family had a place to go.
But as soon as she saw them approaching, she quickly went inside, the sheriff said. One of the deputies thought that was weird and immediately knocked on the front and then back doors.
No one answered.
The deputy stepped inside the home and called out to her, announcing the sheriff’s office was there.
He heard a muffled “No, no, no, no,” the sheriff recalled, followed by a quick succession of gunfire.
She fired five gunshots, ones they now believe were meant to keep deputies away - and then turned the gun on herself.
Deputies found her dead inside, along with her 13-year-old son, Ethan Cain; her husband, Steven Cain, 50, and her 74-year-old father, William Felton.
Samantha Cain, 20, was critically hurt and remains in critical condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Not a thing was packed, leading investigators to believe Theresa Cain hid the eviction from her family right up until she killed them, the sheriff said.
Detectives found a .38-caliber revolver they believe Theresa Cain used to kill her husband first.
He was found on a downstairs sofa.
The others, including Theresa Cain, were found upstairs.
The sheriff said their investigation determined the victims were awake when they were killed and likely were aware of what was happening.
They also believe Theresa Cain shot them just minutes before deputies arrived.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is now tracing the weapon to see who owned it.
“You would think,” the sheriff said, “there would be resources for someone like them, but I think she kept this a very close secret. Hopefully, Samantha recovers and can help fill in some blanks.”
In May 2022, Freedom Mortgage Corporation foreclosed on the home the family lived in since moving to the area from Connecticut in 2015, according to court filings and the sheriff.
It was sold at a sheriff’s sale last fall back to the mortgage company, who hired a crew to remove the family’s belongings from the property, county officials said.
The tragedy has hit the community and New Richmond School District hard.
Both Cain children attended New Richmond schools. Samantha Cain graduated from New Richmond High School, and Ethan Cain was a student at New Richmond Middle School.
Counselors have been at the schools all week.
The middle school students are lovingly memorializing Ethan with handwritten notes and pictures that fill a bulletin board in the hallway.
Superintendent Tracey Miller was at the middle school again Thursday, talking with students at dismissal time.
“Today was more normal than yesterday and yesterday was more normal than the day before,” he said. “It will get better day by day. They had a ‘Wear Blue Day for Ethan Day” yesterday. And they are still adding to the bulletin board.
“I think the hardest thing is we’ll always have that question: could we have seen something? Is there something we could have done to make a difference in that family’s life? And we’ll just never know.”
He said Ethan was a “little bit quiet but a nice, polite young man. He was very conscientious. He just really wanted to do a good job on his assignments and get them all done, and he made sure they were done. He would get upset with himself and (his teachers) would say ‘That’s OK. We’ll make this work.
“He took over a piece of people’s hearts here at the middle school. There was no shortage of Ethan stories. You just talk and remember some of the better times, and the importance of taking care of your loved ones. Nobody’s promised tomorrow. Look out for each other.”
Samantha’s sorority sisters at Northern Kentucky University established a GoFundMe account to help pay for her medical care.
Some of the New Richmond School District student groups are going to get behind the fund, the superintendent says.
“Samantha currently remains in critical condition in the hospital, and we would like to try and raise money for any expenses that she might face when she wakes up,” one of the Go Fund Me organizers, Kalie Clark, wrote on the page.
“Any donations and prayers that you can offer are greatly appreciated as we want to do everything that we can to be there for her during this time. Thank you.”
So far, more than $21,000 has been raised toward the $25,000 goal.
Many donations are in small amounts, from $5 and up. The top donor, who is anonymous, gave $1,000.
An Amelia coffee shop and its workers also helped out: $200 from “Annette DiTommaso and the Team at BIGGBY Amelia” and $100 from “Mills Family Biggby Coffee Stores.”
Clark thanked everyone in the latest update on the GoFundMe page.
“We are overwhelmed and overjoyed with the amount of support being given to Samantha! While she is still in the hospital and listed under critical condition, we know that once she wakes up this will mean so incredibly much to her.
“We are still unsure of what exactly happened as Samantha has not been conscious thus far, however, we are just extremely grateful to see the community come together and support her in this way. Our goal is to raise as much money for her as possible for her to use for whatever expenses she will face once she is awake as her life will have been changed completely. Please continue to share this link for donations, please continue to pray for this sweet girl, and please continue to give what you can.”
Steven Cain was known as the lead singer of a local band, “Critical Khaos, which plays groove/thrash metal music, according to the band’s website.
Editor’s note: Help is available for those in distress. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support.
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Bam Adebayo NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Heat vs. Celtics - May 25
Bam Adebayo and his Miami Heat teammates face the Boston Celtics in the 2023 NBA Playoffs, at 8:30 PM ET on Thursday.
In this article, we look at Adebayo's available prop bets, providing stats to help you figure out the best wagers to make.
Bam Adebayo Prop Bets vs. the Celtics
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Bam Adebayo Insights vs. the Celtics
- Adebayo has taken 14.9 shots per game this season and made eight per game, which account for 15.9% and 18.7%, respectively, of his team's total.
- Adebayo's opponents, the Celtics, have a neutral offensive tempo, averaging 101.9 possessions per game, while his Heat average 99.2 per game, which ranks 29th among NBA teams.
- On defense, the Celtics have given up 111.4 points per game, which is fourth-best in the league.
- On the boards, the Celtics are ranked 18th in the NBA, giving up 44 rebounds per game.
- The Celtics are the second-ranked team in the NBA, allowing 23.1 assists per game.
Bam Adebayo vs. the Celtics
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WASHINGTON — If you feel like Mother's Day snuck up on you in 2022, you're not alone. WUSA9 is here to ensure you don't show up empty-handed Sunday.
Before you make a mad dash to the florist or frantically search for a free reservation, here's why the day feels sudden this year.
First of all, Mother's Day isn't a static holiday. It changes year to year.
Some of the most universally celebrated days in the U.S. that always stay the same are New Year's Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Christmas Day. They're all observed on the same calendar date each year, irrespective of the day of the week.
Meanwhile, holidays like Easter and Mother's Day can be tricky. Although they're not always on the same date, they are always on the same day - a Sunday. And they're often around the same time each year.
Mother's Day is always the second Sunday of May.
The 2022 holiday is creeping up on daughters and sons everywhere because while this year's celebration is on Sunday, May 8 - which is the second Sunday of May - it doesn't feel like it. That's because it is the first full weekend of May; the month began on a Sunday. So, technically May 1 was the very first Sunday of the month.
Next year, the day will go back to what feels more normal: May 14, 2023. Might be smart to put it in the calendar now 😉 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/holidays/mothers-day-does-feel-earlier-than-usual-this-year-heres-why/65-44506041-6df1-44d0-b46f-e1f96c4f58a8 | 2022-05-02 17:00:13 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/holidays/mothers-day-does-feel-earlier-than-usual-this-year-heres-why/65-44506041-6df1-44d0-b46f-e1f96c4f58a8 |
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If you suffer from aches and pains, including lower back pain and menstrual cramps, that keep you tied to a heating pad, you may want to consider purchasing a cordless heating pad, like this Yeamon Portable Cordless Heating Pad on Amazon that also offers a massage setting for extra pain relief. Oh, and it’s marked down right now!
This top-rated cordless heating pad uses USB charging and has three different adjustable temperatures and three different massage modes. The back of the heating pad has a soft contact surface so it feels nice on your skin, but Yeamon suggests putting it over your clothes if you don’t want too much heat. It also comes in seven colors including pink, blue, orange and red.
The waistband is adjustable up to 50 inches and because it straps on, you can use it even while moving around. Because of its small size, you can also take it to go and use it while driving or at work. The heating pad automatically shuts off after 30 minutes if it does not detect movement, so you do not have to worry about falling asleep while using it.
Regularly priced at $50, several colors of this portable heating pad are currently 40% off, making it $30 on Amazon (the other colors are still 36% off, or $32). You can then clip a 10% off coupon at checkout, bringing the total to $27 for a total savings of $23 off the list price.
With more than 4,600 reviews so far, the Yeamon Portable Cordless Heating Pad has almost 3,000 5-star reviews and an overall score of 4.3 out of 5 stars. Customers say it has great battery life, is easy to use and works well for both menstrual cramps and back pain. Some customers have even called it a “game changer” and “life saver.”
One reviewer who gave the heating pad a perfect grade titled their review, “Wow,” and said they were blown away by how well the heating pad works, but they cautioned that if you need it for all-day relief, you may still want to keep a plug-in heating pad around.
“I’ve always used the conventional heating pad but this product truly stands on its own for mobility and comfort! It is small and lightweight and I can wear it out when errands/activities must be done,” they wrote. “I will also state, this does not replace my corded heating pad as the battery life of this product is only a few hours (if you don’t use the vibration) so for those extra hard days of painful cramps that leave you at home for hours upon hours, I would not recommend this product.”
Another five-star reviewer, who said they battle severe cramp pain, said the heating pad is “the best product ever.”
“This product is amazing!! Let me first tell you, I have such horrific cramps every month due to fibroids and an ovarian cyst. I also have terrible [irritable bowel syndrome], and this little powerful gadget helps tremendously with both painful situations,” they wrote. “A life-saver for anyone who lives with pain.”
On the other hand, the negative reviews have complained that the heating pad actually gets too hot for their preference and some buyers have also said the battery does not last as long as they need it to.
While it is a pricier option, this GoHeat Cordless Sunbeam Heating Pad also has a high rating at Amazon, with more than 1,100 five-star reviews. and an overall score of 4.3 stars out of 5. Priced at $70, the heating pad has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that runs for up to four hours on a single charge, but can also be plugged into a wall outlet while being used.
Measuring 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches, it has a removable, adjustable strap that fits up to 55 inches around. This machine-washable heating pad heats up within 30 seconds and has three heat settings, according to Sunbeam.
Amazon’s Top-Rated Heating Pad
Don’t mind being tethered to a power outlet? The highest-rated heating pad on Amazon is this corded Mighty Bliss Electric Heating Pad, which has more than 83,000 perfect reviews. (It’s currently unavailable, unfortunately — perhaps because it’s so popular?)
The Mighty Bliss heating pad comes in L or XL sizes and is made of soft microplush fibers. It has three heat settings and an auto-protection feature to prevent overheating.
If you’ve got an older heating pad, it may be time to upgrade it with one that has automatic safety features, like the ones shown here. State Farm recommends replacing any electric blanket that’s at least 10 years old, even if it still works, to avoid a potential fire hazard.
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Beatrice Laus, who performs as beabadoobee, possesses the sort of soft, lilting voice that often runs the risk of getting lost in her signature sound — a mix of grungy, '90s rock and noisy dream pop. Mix Laus the wrong way in a live setting and you miss out on vocals that lend whatever song they're paired with an undeniable sweetness and sincerity.
But in her Tiny Desk performance, beabadoobee drops her rock and roll tendencies to a low simmer, giving her voice ample room to shine in a collection of songs suited for our quiet little corner. She begins with "See You Soon" on her acoustic guitar, the first of a string of tracks from her latest album, Beatopia, backed by a trio of strings and her longtime guitarist and collaborator Jacob Bugden (who she at one point politely ribs for failing at a recent attempt at crowd surfing while on tour).
"Ripples" and "The Perfect Pair" follow, before she closes out with an unreleased song. "I could have played 'Coffee,' but I'm not," she says, laughing, referring to her 2017 viral hit, a song that sounds so simple given how far her music has come. Instead she plays what she refers to as "Glue song," a love song about a romance so strong it sticks its lovers together — you guessed it — like glue.
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Boat owners relieved Ian's track continues to head west
Boat owners in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast said they are relieved the chances of a hurricane hitting our area are becoming less likely.
Sunset at the Sunset Bay Marina in Stuart on Saturday was where the nerves of boat owners were as calm as the waters of the St. Lucie River.
"I'm relieved," said sailboat owner Scott Sims, who was with his wife Maha, as they watched the projected path of Tropical Storm Ian bump westward every few hours.
TRACKING THE TROPICS: Hurricane Center | Hurricane Guide
The couple realized they likely won't have to rig their sailboat, which is their home, to prepare for the worst.
"We've been in some storms before here, and it can be a pretty wild ride," Sims said.
Across town at the Sailfish Marina, several yachts were moved from the docks to the warehouse in the past few days.
Others in the water that are tied to the docks will likely stay.
"It was a little spicy out there," Rich Dubord, who runs a charter fishing boat, said.
At the Sandsprit launch site in Stuart on Saturday, he towed his craft from the water after a busy day of fishing.
With rain from the storm expected, he may have to wait a few days before his next trip.
"It's too early to predict," Dubord said. "It's still up in the air. We're going to have to wait it out."
Back at the Sunset Bay Marina, Sims only hopes the rest of the storms this hurricane season stay away from the sailboat dock that he calls home.
"The season's nearly over," Sims said. "As long as they aim for the jet stream and bounce off, I'm good with it."
Sims knows that even though Tropical Storm Ian may not be a threat here, it's still likely to develop into a hurricane, and threaten other boaters in other parts of Florida.
Scripps Only Content 2022 | https://www.wflx.com/2022/09/25/boat-owners-relieved-ians-track-continues-head-west/ | 2022-09-25 05:12:15 | 0 | https://www.wflx.com/2022/09/25/boat-owners-relieved-ians-track-continues-head-west/ |
Multiple Intercepts of High-Grade Polymetallic Mineralization, Including 8.24 Meters with a Copper Equivalent Grade of 8.8%
Update on Ambler Access Project
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the second set of drilling results from the 2022 summer field season at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") located in northwestern Alaska. In addition, the Company is providing an update on the Ambler Access Project – the proposed 211-mile, industrial-use-only road from the UKMP to the Dalton Highway that will enable advancing exploration and development at the Ambler Mining District.
The UKMP includes the Arctic (volcanogenic massive sulphide, or "VMS") deposit ("Arctic"), the Bornite (carbonate-hosted copper, or "CHC") deposit ("Bornite"), and prospective mining claims in the surrounding area. The drill program was completed by Ambler Metals LLC ("Ambler Metals"), the joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Limited (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32; ADR: SOUHY) ("South32").
The 2022 field program included 10,738 meters of diamond drilling, of which 8,376 meters was drilled at Arctic, the most ever drilled at Arctic in a single field season, while the remainder of the meterage was used on regional targets in the Ambler VMS Belt and near Bornite. The 2022 field program prioritized advancing Arctic with additional infill drilling to further improve the confidence in the mineral resource and for geotechnical studies to further de-risk the project.
On November 29, 2022, the Company released the first assay results from the 2022 field program at Arctic, including four infill holes (AR22-0191, 0192, 0193, and 0195) and three geotechnical holes (AR22-0194, 0196 and 0197). For more information on these drill results, please visit the Company's website at https://trilogymetals.com/news-and-media/news/.
This release covers an additional 10 holes comprising eight infill and two geotechnical. The infill holes are from two areas of the Arctic deposit – three holes from the northern edge of the Arctic deposit and five holes from the eastern part of the deposit (see Figure 1).
Significant intersections of high-grade copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver mineralization include:
- Hole AR22-0201: 6.72 meters of 3.40% copper, 3.26% zinc, 0.48% lead, 0.358 g/t gold and 32.66 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 5.27%.
- Hole AR22-0204: 5.03 meters of 3.57% copper, 4.46% zinc, 0.69% lead, 0.351 g/t gold and 33.05 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 5.96%.
- Hole AR22-0213: 4.66 meters of 3.22% copper, 3.22% zinc, 0.28% lead, 0.194 g/t gold and 28.90 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 4.87%.
- Hole AR22-0215: 8.24 meters of 3.19% copper, 10.04% zinc, 2.50% lead, 0.705 g/t gold and 72.35 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 8.81%, and 19.87 meters of 2.67% copper, 1.72% zinc, 0.22% lead, 0.427 g/t gold and 38.34 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 3.99%.
- Hole AR22-0232: 3.03 meters of 4.70% copper, 5.47% zinc, 1.35% lead, 0.636 g/t gold and 56.67 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 8.07%.
- Hole AR22-0237: 10.00 meters of 3.73% copper, 2.54% zinc, 0.42% lead, 0.067 g/t gold and 47.95 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 5.66%.
Tony Giardini, President and CEO of Trilogy, commented, "As expected, the 2022 infill drill program continues to yield high grades of copper, zinc and precious metals, demonstrating the continuity of the high-grade zones of these metals at Arctic. The assay lab is going full steam ahead as we anticipate an ongoing flow of results in the near future, not only from Arctic but also from the nearby Ambler Belt and Cosmos Hills areas."
Richard Gosse, Vice President, Exploration at Trilogy, stated, "We are pleased with these additional infill drill results where grades and thicknesses continue to compare well with our resource model. It is very encouraging to see the model perform so well, especially as these infill holes are designed to test areas that were identified as having the potential for greater variance."
Mineralized intervals of high-grade mineralization at a cut-off of 0.5% copper equivalent are reported in Table 1. The locations of the holes are shown in Figure 1 and Table 2. The drill holes are shown in cross sections in Figures 2, 3 and 4.
The drill results contained in this news release are from 10 drill holes from the 2022 Arctic drill program, which include eight infill holes (AR22-0201, 0204, 0213, 0215, 0224, 0231, 0232 and 0237) and two geotechnical holes (AR22-0200 and 0207). All drill holes are sized HQ3 (63.5 mm diameter). The 2022 Arctic infill program was designed to increase confidence from Indicated to Measured in areas of the mineral resource block model that would be mined during the first four years of production, based on Trilogy's 2020 Arctic feasibility study1 mine plan and with the highest estimated metal value.
Results indicate mineralization is reasonably continuous, especially in Zone 5 which typically contains higher grades and most consistent thicknesses at Arctic.
Within the Arctic deposit, mineralization occurs as stratiform semi-massive sulphide to massive sulphide beds within primarily graphitic to chloritic schists and fine-grained quartz schists. Sulphide mineralogy is similar for all intercepts: chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena.
Geotechnical holes AR22-0200 and 0207 were drilled to further define the talc horizon in the eastern pit wall. Hole AR22-0200 was abandoned and redrilled at 0207; both holes intersected Zone 4 mineralization as anticipated.
Table 1. Drill intercepts from the 2022 Arctic infill drilling program.
- Copper equivalent (CuEq) calculations use metal prices assumptions of $3.00/lb for copper, $1.10/lb for zinc, $1.00/lb for lead, $1,300/oz for gold, and $18.00/oz for silver.
- Results are core intervals and not true thickness; true widths have not been determined for the above intercepts but are believed to be greater than 80% of actual drill thicknesses.
- Cut-off grade of 0.5% CuEq.
- Maximum internal dilution of up to three consecutive meters of <0.5% CuEq.
- Within mineralized zones the minimum sample length was 0.29 m, maximum sample length was 2.50 m, and the average sample length was 0.98 m.
- Core recovery averaged 84%.
- No core recovery between the reported intercepts in AR22-0232, between 62.73 to 66.16 meters.
- No core recovery in the 2.60 meters immediately prior to the reported intercept in hole AR22-0224, between 31.54 to 34.14 meters.
- Some rounding errors may occur.
Coordinates are in UTM Zone 4N (meters) coordinate system, NAD83 Datum.
On November 15, 2022, the United States Bureau of Land Management ("USBLM") submitted a status report announcing the anticipation of publishing a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement ("SEIS") in the second quarter of calendar 2023 and a final SEIS in the fourth quarter of calendar 2023. On January 17, 2023, the USBLM submitted a status report reaffirming the timing of the draft and final SEIS.
In September 2022, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, and U.S. Representative Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a bi-partisan show of support for the road. Senators Murkowski and Sullivan urged prompt re-approval of the road, while Representative Peltola reiterated the potential economic benefits the road could bring to area residents, the state and the nation, and to also encourage the timely completion of its approval process. In November 2022, Senators Murkowski and Sullivan wrote a second letter to Interior Secretary Haaland to reiterate their support for the road, stressing that further delay in its approval process would be a risk to Alaskan jobs, and U.S. economic and national security due to prolonged reliance on foreign sources of supply of minerals and metals needed for renewable energy infrastructure and modern defense systems.
The drilling program, sampling and assaying protocol, and data verification were managed by qualified persons (QPs) employed by Ambler Metals. The diamond drill holes were completed using HQ3 diameter core, and recoveries averaged 84%. Drill core was cut lengthwise into halves using a diamond saw, with one-half used for the assay sample and the other half retained in core boxes and archived at site.
Samples were collected through mineralized zones using a 0.29 m minimum length and 2.50 m maximum length; average sample length is 0.98m. Weights of the drill core samples range from 0.72 to 11.46 kg, depending on the size of core, rock type, and recovery.
Each core sample was placed into a bag with a numbered tag and quality control samples were inserted between core samples using the same numbering sequence. Then, samples were grouped into batches for shipping and laboratory submissions. Each batch of 20 samples contains quality control (QC) samples that comprise one certified reference material (CRM), one core blank (BLK), and one crushed or pulp duplicate (DUP). In addition, 1 field duplicate was taken within mineralized intervals for every 20 samples. Chain of custody records are maintained for sample shipments and the custody is transferred from Ambler Metals expeditor to the laboratory upon delivery.
Samples were shipped to ALS Minerals laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, for sample submission. ALS Minerals Fairbanks is a satellite sample preparation facility accredited under ALS Minerals. The ALS Minerals Fairbanks shipped the samples to ALS Minerals in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for sample preparation and analysis. ALS Minerals North Vancouver is an independent laboratory certified under ISO 9001:2008 and accredited under ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Standards Council of Canada. Selected sample batches were sent to ALS Minerals laboratory in Vientiane, Laos for fire assay. ALS Minerals includes its own internal quality control samples comprising certified reference materials, blanks, and pulp duplicates.
Drill core samples were weighed (WEI-21), dried if excessively wet (DRY-21), coarse jaw crushed to 70% passing 6 mm (CRU-21), fine jaw crushed to 70% passing 2 mm (CRU-31), riffle split to 250 g subsamples (SPL-21) and pulverized to 85% passing 75 μm (PUL-31). Crushed duplicates were created by riffle splitting crushed samples into two parts.
Gold analyses were completed using a 30 g lead fire assay and AAS finish (Au-AA23). Multi-element analyses for 48 elements were completed using a geochemical four acid digestion and ICP-ES/MS finish (ME-MS61). Over-range assays for Ag, Cu, Zn, and S were completed using an ore grade four-acid digestion and ICP-ES finish (ME-OG62). Additional analyses were completed for Ba and Hg.
Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn assays for QC samples were reviewed to ensure that CRMs are within tolerance limits specified on supplier certificates, BLKs are below acceptable thresholds, and DUPs display statistical patterns normally expected for sample types, methods, and elements. CRMs that returned assays outside of tolerance limits and BLKs with assays above thresholds were deemed to have failed. Sample batches containing failed QC samples were re-assayed to ensure that the QC samples returned acceptable results before release. All QC monitoring data are reviewed and signed off by an independent QA/QC geologist.
There is no known relationship between core sample recoveries and assay grades. Ambler Metals will submit 5% of the assay intervals from prospective lithologies to a laboratory independent of ALS Minerals for check assaying.
Richard Gosse, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration for Trilogy, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Gosse has reviewed the scientific and technical information in this news release and approves the disclosure contained herein.
Trilogy Metals Inc. is a metal exploration and development company that holds a 50 percent interest in Ambler Metals LLC which has a 100 percent interest in the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwestern Alaska. On December 19, 2019, South32, a globally diversified mining and metals company, exercised its option to form a 50/50 joint venture with Trilogy. The UKMP is located within the Ambler Mining District, one of the richest and most-prospective known copper-dominant districts in the world. It hosts world-class polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits that contain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, and carbonate replacement deposits that have been found to host high-grade copper and cobalt mineralization. Exploration efforts have been focused on two deposits in the Ambler Mining District – the Arctic VMS deposit and the Bornite carbonate replacement deposit. Both deposits are located within a land package that spans approximately 190,929 hectares. Ambler Metals has an agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation that provides a framework for the exploration and potential development of the Ambler Mining District in cooperation with local communities. Trilogy's vision is to develop the Ambler Mining District into a premier North American copper producer while protecting and respecting subsistence livelihoods.
This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including, without limitation, statements relating to interpretation of drill results; the Company's beliefs regarding the potential of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects; and the Company's expectations regarding de-risking of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", "poised" and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", "would" or "should" occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include the uncertainties involving success of exploration, permitting timelines, requirements for additional capital, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, unanticipated reclamation expenses, supplies and services the interpretation of drill results, the need for additional financing to explore and develop properties and availability of financing in the debt and capital markets; uncertainties involved in the interpretation of drilling results and geological tests; the need for cooperation of government agencies and native groups in the development and operation of properties; the need to obtain permits and governmental approvals; unanticipated variation in geological structures, metal grades or recovery rates; unexpected cost increases, which could include significant increases in estimated capital and operating costs; fluctuations in metal prices and currency exchange rates and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2021 filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and in other Company reports and documents filed with applicable securities regulatory authorities from time to time. Copy of Company's Form 10-K may be obtained at no charge by visiting our Investors website at www.trilogymetals.com, the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or at www.sedar.com. The Company's forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2021 Pepperstone launched its first podcast called The Trade Off (https://thetradeoff.tv/), a fast-paced and entertaining weekly show (video and podcast) with a focus on helping traders make sense of the news flow across global markets, as discussed, and debated by Pepperstone's Head of Research, Chris Weston and Blake Morrow of Forex Analytix.
Following its huge success and market demand for more of its type, Chris Weston has teamed up with Pepperstone's Head of Product, Scott Redford to bring Pepperstone's newest edition to its suite of podcasts, Open Outcry.
Similarly, Open Outcry, is also a fun, fast-paced, digestible, and entertaining podcast with a focus on helping traders make sense of the news flow across global markets. This podcast, however, comes straight from the dealer's desk and starts at the close of the US session and into the new trading day, providing traders with a unique form of access to information. Chris and Scott engage in an energetic debate and assess the key themes, views, flows, movers, and shakers every Tuesday and Thursday morning, designed to help traders and investors efficiently navigate the financial markets.
Tony Gruebner, Pepperstone's Chief Marketing Officer said "Open Outcry is an antiquated trading term which is a fitting way to describe the two presenters who are two of the more seasoned members of the industry. The interest for our Pepperstone insights has been extremely promising, and we look forward to delivering more market insights to our traders more regularly, in this format and beyond".
Open Outcry is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. You can subscribe here: Apple Music and Spotify.
For interviews or assistance with hosting the content on your website and distribution to your base, please reach out to Jodi Cutler, Head of Marketing APAC & LATAM on jodi.cutler@pepperstone.com.
About Pepperstone
Established in 2010, Pepperstone has grown to become an award-winning online global forex and CFD broker known for delivering exceptional client service to tens of thousands of clients around the world. Pepperstone has subsidiaries across the globe and is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (SCB), the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and The Capital Markets Authority of Kenya (CMA). Learn more at http://www.pepperstone.com
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Chris Weston or Westy is Pepperstone's Global Head of Research and holds over 2 decades of experience in the industry. A highly-respected financial services expert, Chris has supported both retail and institutional clients at IG, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, covering research as well as sales and trading roles. His extensive exposure to the FX, equities and fixed income markets puts him in a unique position to provide inspiring insights, research, ideas and risk-management strategies that support every step of your trading journey. Based in Australia, Chris is a well-known global media figure, regularly appearing on Bloomberg, Bloomberg Arabia, Channel News Asia and Sky News Business.
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Scott Redford, a ten year veteran of the CFD industry, is Pepperstone's Global Head of Product on the Market Risk team. Following a stint in London as an M & A Analyst, Scott began on the dealing desk at IG where he covered the FX and equities books, then settled into the futures desk, specialising in out-of-hours market making. At Pepperstone, he works tirelessly to ensure that our offering is as competitive and compelling as clients have come to expect; keeping spreads tight, execution razor-fast and liquidity deep.
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BOSTON -- A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges and revealed how billing records and interviews with social media comrades helped pinpoint the suspect.
Among the revelations: That the platform Discord provided information that helped lead the FBI to guardsman Jack Teixeira, and that Teixeira used his government computer to search for the word "leak" on the day last week when news media reports revealed that classified documents had been improperly disclosed.
President Joe Biden said the government was working to determine "the validity" of the leaked documents. In the meantime, he said in a White House statement, "I have directed our military and intelligence community to take steps to further secure and limit distribution of sensitive information, and our national security team is closely coordinating with our partners and allies."
Friday's new details about the highest-profile intelligence leak in years shed light on how investigators came to zero in on Teixeira, 21, even though a motive for the disclosures remains publicly unexplained. The Justice Department has said its investigation is continuing, and the Pentagon, which earlier in the week called it a serious national security breach, said it would conduct its own review of access to sensitive intelligence to prevent a similar leak in the future.
Teixeira appeared in federal court in Boston to face charges, under the Espionage Act, of unauthorized retention and transmission of classified national defense information.
Teixeira was wearing a beige prison-issued outfit and was handcuffed. He sat next to his lawyer, looked around the room, and nodded at his family in the first row.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge David Hennessy asked Teixeira whether he understood that he has the right to be silent. Teixeira answered yes. The judge reminded him, "Your words can be used against you."
At the end of the proceedings, Teixeira's father shouted, "Love you, Jack!" The suspect responded, "Love you, too, Dad."
Teixeira did not enter a plea, but a federal magistrate judge ordered him jailed until a detention hearing next week.
The court appearance came less than 24 hours after Teixeira was arrested Thursday by heavily armed tactical agents following a weeklong criminal investigation into the disclosure of the government records, a breach that exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments on the war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other national security issues.
"This is not just about taking home documents. That is, of course, itself illegal. But this is about the transmission, both the unlawful retention and the transmission of the documents. Everyone knows here that the documents in the end were transmitted," Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday at the Justice Department.
Investigators believe Teixeira was the leader of an online private chat group on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games and where Teixeira is believed to have posted for years about guns, games and his favorite memes.
FOLLOWING THE STEPS
The eight-page court affidavit details several steps in the FBI investigation, including an interview Monday with a Discord user familiar with Teixeira's online posts.
The document does not identify the person or say the person was located. But the source told the FBI that a username linked to Teixeira began posting what appeared to be classified information roughly in December in an online chat that the user said was meant for the discussion of geopolitical affairs and past and current wars.
The person provided the FBI with basic identifying information about Teixeira, including that he called himself "Jack," claimed to be part of the Air National Guard and appeared to live in Massachusetts, according to the affidavit.
Billing records the FBI subsequently obtained from Discord, which has said it was cooperating with the bureau, helped lead investigators to Teixeira, according to the FBI affidavit.
The person also told the FBI that Teixeira switched from typing out documents in his possession to taking them home and photographing them because he "had become concerned that he may be discovered making the transcriptions of text in the workplace."
That's different from what posters have told The Associated Press and other media outlets, saying the user they would call "the O.G." started posting images of documents because he was annoyed other users weren't taking him seriously.
Teixeira, whom The New York Times identified before his arrest, oversaw a group on Discord named Thug Shaker Central. Members of the group indicated that Teixeira lectured members on the importance of staying abreast of world events.
Thug Shaker Central drew roughly two dozen enthusiasts who talked about their favorite types of guns and also shared memes and jokes. The group also held a running discussion on wars that included talk of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
On April 6, after the documents began to be made public through news reports, Teixeira used his government computer to search classified intelligence reporting for the word "leak."
The agent also said "there is reason to believe" Teixeira used his security clearance to search "for classified reporting regarding the U.S. intelligence community's assessment of the identity of the individual" who leaked the documents.
The Justice Department has not declared a particular motive. Accounts of those in the online private chat group where the documents were disclosed have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
DAMAGE CONTROL
The Biden administration has scrambled to contain the potential diplomatic and military fallout from the leaks since they were first reported, moving to reassure allies and assess the scope of damage.
The classified documents -- which have not been individually authenticated in public by U.S. officials -- range from briefing slides mapping out Ukrainian military positions to assessments of international support for Ukraine and other sensitive topics, including under what circumstances Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons.
The leak of dozens of pages also upset senior Ukrainian officials, who had sought to keep details of their military's vulnerabilities hidden as Russia's war with Ukraine grinds on in its second year. The Washington Post reviewed approximately 300 photos of classified documents, most of which have not been made public.
Classified documents have strict guidelines on how they must be handled, secured and destroyed. They are required to be kept in secure facilities, protocols Teixeira would have violated if copies were taken to his house.
It still has not been disclosed how Teixeira, an information technology specialist, is believed to have obtained the documents, or what safeguards had been in place.
National Guard units perform some support services for active-duty units, including intelligence support for senior military officials, one U.S. official said. In that case, Teixeira could have had access to the kinds of highly classified documents that he is alleged to have shared with his fellow members on the Discord server, the official said.
The FBI said he has held a top secret security clearance since 2021 with access to highly classified programs.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a statement issued after the arrest, said the Pentagon would conduct a review of its "intelligence access, accountability and control procedures" to prevent such a leak from happening again.
At the Justice Department, Garland noted government officials and others who have clearance to review classified documents sign agreements that "acknowledge the importance to national security of not disclosing those documents."
"We intend to send that message: how important it is to our national security," he said.
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Federal investigators put out a warning late Tuesday to the nation’s school systems after a series of high-profile ransomware attacks on their computer networks.
The most recent publicized incident involved the country’s second-largest school system – the Los Angeles Unified School District. Over the weekend, the district’s IT team recognized an attempted hack on the system and had to quite literally pull the plug to prevent any further data compromise.
“It’s undeniable that, if we had not number one detected this anomaly, and responded by alerting our law enforcement partners, and brought in all the extra police that we have brought on board so quickly, it could have been a catastrophic set of circumstances that we would be facing today,” said Alberto Carvalho, the Superintendent of Los Angeles’ schools.
In a ransomware attack, the perpetrator gains control of data, or even an entire system, and demands a ransom to relinquish control.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint alert on Tuesday about an increase in ransomware threats.
“School districts with limited cybersecurity capabilities and constrained resources are often the most vulnerable,” the CISA noted in a news release.
The Mansfield Independent School District was recently targeted in a ransomware attack. Late last month, hackers were able to get control of the district’s system, which forced a shutdown.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, “I hate him passionately.”
Carlson’s private text comments were revealed in court papers at virtually the same time the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media. Trump said he was doing a “great job” in presenting excerpts of U.S. Capitol security video of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — though Carlson used the video to produce a false narrative of the attack.
The documents are coming to light at a time of increased tension between Trump and Fox, the dominant media force appealing to conservatives, as he campaigns to regain the presidency.
Voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, claiming the network broadcast false claims that the company was responsible for fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The case is to go to trial this spring, and a trove of documents related to Fox’s actions after the election are being publicly released in advance.
A common theme emerging from the internal documents and depositions is that Fox executives and hosts doubted the election claims being peddled by Trump and his allies, but aired and emphasized them anyway. Fox was growing concerned about a decline in viewership as Trump supporters turned away from the network after it — correctly — called Joe Biden the presidential winner in Arizona on election night.
The exchanges include Carlson’s text conversation on Jan. 4, 2021, with an unknown person, in which the prime-time host expressed anger toward Trump.
Carlson said that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and that “I truly can’t wait.”
Carlson said he had no doubt there was fraud in the 2020 election, but that Trump and his lawyers had so discredited their case — and media figures like himself — “that it’s infuriating. Absolutely enrages me.”
Federal and state officials, courts, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, although Trump continues to falsely state that the presidency was stolen from him.
Addressing Trump’s four years as president, Carlson said, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
In another text exchange more than a month earlier, Carlson denigrated Trump’s business abilities: Trump’s talent, he said, is to “destroy things. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
Publicly, Fox viewers heard very different views, such as a 2017 exchange with colleague Greg Gutfeld in which Carlson agreed that Trump was “the greatest president that ever will be.” On his show in 2019, Carlson said Trump had fought as hard as he could to make sure everyone in America was treated equally under the law.
“You can say what you really believe in public,” Carlson said then. “You’re an American citizen. That is your right.” Trump could lose in 2020, he added, “but he’ll be a genuinely great president.”
Fox, in response to the court exhibits quoting Carlson that were released late Tuesday, said that “Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”
Carlson has continued rolling out security video from the Capitol attack, footage handed to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. For that, Trump said on his social media platform, “congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest ‘scoops’ as a reporter in U.S. history.”
The selective release of the footage to sway the historical account has drawn criticism, including from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called on Fox to stop spreading election lies, which he said was eroding trust in American democracy.
Fox’s founder, Rupert Murdoch, has a complex relationship with Trump: “I was not close to him,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the libel lawsuit.
Indeed, though Murdoch acknowledged talking to Trump occasionally, he said he also sought inside information from Sean Hannity, one of his network’s primetime hosts, because Hannity was the closest person at Fox to Trump.
Following Trump’s loss in November 2020, Murdoch despaired of the president’s behavior.
“The real danger is what he might do as president,” Murdoch wrote in an email to a friend that month. “Apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls! Don’t know about Melania, but kids no help.”
But Murdoch told his network’s officials that he also didn’t want to “antagonize” Trump: “He had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the Dominion case.
In separate questioning in the case, Murdoch acknowledged that he believed the 2020 presidential election “ was not stolen.”
On social media recently, Trump was critical of Fox when other court papers released in the Dominion case made clear that a number of the network’s executives and personalities privately believed the election fraud claims were bunk.
Trump and his team also have accused Fox of giving his latest campaign for the presidency little attention and favoring a potential challenger for the GOP nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fox and Trump have long had a complicated relationship. While he frequently has used the network to reach its audience, he also has been furious at a perceived lack of loyalty, most prominently after the 2020 election.
In a fiery speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee last week, Trump ally Steve Bannon complained that Fox had disrespected the former president.
“You’ve deemed Trump’s not going to be president,” Bannon said. “Well, we deem you’re not going to have a network.”
On Saturday afternoon, Fox News aired Trump’s speech to CPAC in its entirety.
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Riccardi reported from Denver. Associated Press writers Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta, Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix, Gary Fields and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report, as did news researcher Randy Herschaft in New York. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/scorning-of-trump-by-foxs-tucker-carlson-revealed-in-court/ | 2023-03-09 12:06:17 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/scorning-of-trump-by-foxs-tucker-carlson-revealed-in-court/ |
Updated June 22, 2023 at 12:02 PM ET
Rescue teams hunting for a missing Titanic-touring submersible have uncovered a field of debris near the site of the wrecked ocean liner, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday.
"Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information," the Coast Guard said, implying that more information would be shared at a media briefing today at 3 p.m. ET.
Remote-operated vehicles were searching for the sub, called Titan, near the site where a surveillance aircraft first detected "underwater noises" late Tuesday.
Here's a guide to what we know.
Have officials discovered the source of the "underwater noises"?
The U.S. Coast Guard said that maritime surveillance planes operated by Canada detected underwater sounds late Tuesday, then again on Wednesday.
Various underwater search efforts had been moved to the location of the noise to discover its source, but that so far, underwater drones operated remotely had "yielded negative results," the Coast Guard said.
Underwater acoustic experts from the Navy are analyzing the sounds, which one expert described as "banging noises," but the Coast Guard and other experts with knowledge of the search are warning that the sounds may not necessarily be proof of life.
"You have to remember that it's the wreck site of the Titanic, so there is a lot of metal and different objects in the water around the site," Rear Adm. John Mauger said in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday morning.
Where and how is the search unfolding today?
The U.S. Coast Guard says that the data from the Canadian aircraft, known as a P-3 Orion, is nevertheless serving as a focus point for its unified search efforts.
The remoteness of the location and the size of the search area — extending 10,000 miles on the surface and 2.4 miles down to the ocean floor — has complicated efforts to locate the vessel and its passengers. Thursday's weather, at least, may prove more favorable to search crews, with winds slowing to 14 mph and wave swells dropping around 4 to 5 feet.
At least one remote-operated vehicle, deployed by the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic, reached the sea floor on Thursday, and another, the French vessel L'Atalante, is expected to deploy on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Multiple maritime surveillance planes from U.S. and Canadian armed forces have flown over the site and dropped sonar buoys in the area.
Also en route is the U.S. Navy's Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS), a motion-compensated lift system which can lift heavy undersea objects.
The design of the Titan means that only those outside the vessel can unseal it, so regardless of whether it rises to the surface or not, the passengers will require outside help to escape.
The Canadian ship Glace Bay, which contains a mobile decompression chamber and is staffed with medical personnel, is also expected to arrive Thursday morning.
The unified search command led by the U.S. Coast Guard has been criticized by industry experts and U.S. lawmakers who say the teams didn't send equipment to the site early enough.
Richard Garriott de Cayeux, president of the Explorers Club, tweeted that members of the research group continually offered their expertise and equipment — including a deep-diving ROV with the ability to attach a lift cable to the Titan — but were not approved to send the equipment until Wednesday, putting the estimated arrival time hours behind when the Titan's emergency oxygen supply is due to expire.
When will the sub's oxygen supply run out?
At the beginning of the search on Sunday, officials estimated the submersible, if still fully functional, contained about 96 hours of reserve oxygen. At a 1 p.m. ET press conference on Wednesday, the Coast Guard estimated that supply was down to about 20 hours.
That means the the oxygen on board the Titan could run out early Thursday morning.
But U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said that's only "one factor" in what is still "a search-and-rescue operation, 100 percent."
"We need to have hope," he said in a Wednesday media briefing. He added that he wasn't ready to speculate about when the search efforts might end.
On Thursday morning, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said that crews would continue their efforts throughout the day on the assumption that the people on board are still alive.
"In all of our search and rescue efforts that the Coast Guard does every day, we use all available data and information to prosecute those searches," Mauger said in an interview with NBC. "But we continue to find, especially in complex cases, that people's will to live needs to be accounted for as well."
Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard speaks to TODAY about the latest efforts to rescue the five people on board the missing submersible Titan as it runs low on oxygen.
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 22, 2023
“People’s will to live really needs to be accounted for, as well,” he says. pic.twitter.com/6FJ3w1Z0Ty
When and where did the sub go missing?
Titan lost contact with its support ship — a Canadian research vessel called Polar Prince — an hour and 45 minutes after it first entered the water on Sunday around 8 a.m. ET.
At that point, it was already more than halfway down to the Titanic's wreck on the Atlantic's ocean bed, roughly 900 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
The Coast Guard said it was first notified of the missing vessel at 5:40 p.m. ET, nearly three hours after the Titan was expected to resurface at 3 p.m. ET.
Who was on board?
The people on board Titan include pilot Stockton Rush, the head of OceanGate, the company that developed the submersible; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French underwater wreck expert who has written about the Titanic and visited the wreck dozens of times; a British entrepreneur Hamish Harding; and father-son Pakistani nationals Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.
A former passenger of the Titan described the vessel as like being in a "minivan without seats" and says its interior design relies on "off-the-shelf parts," including a video game controller for steering.
What was the sub's mission?
The missing vessel is owned by OceanGate, a company based in Washington that's become a major chronicler of the Titanic's decay.
In May, OceanGate shared the first-ever full-size digital scan of the wreck site, which is slowly succumbing to a metal-eating bacteria and at risk of disintegrating in a matter of decades.
For $250,000 a person, the company promises tourists an underwater voyage to explore the remains of the Titanic from the seafloor. From St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada, explorers travel 380 miles offshore and 2.4 miles below the surface. A full trip can take eight days and include multiple dives.
If successful, the dives offer a glimpse of what's left of the 1912 crash into an iceberg, which took the lives of all but 700 of the Titanic's 2,200 passengers and crew.
Did anyone warn OceanGate that the Titan wasn't safe?
Years before the Titan went missing, OceanGate faced several complaints and warnings about the safety of its submersible vessels.
Records from a 2018 lawsuit show that the company's former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, flagged potential safety issues with the Titan as it was under development in 2015.
Lochridge was particularly concerned about the company's lack of testing on the Titan's 5-inch-thick carbon fiber hull, which employed an experimental design developed in collaboration with NASA. He also said that the Titan's port window was only designed to withstand depths of about 4,200 feet — far shallower than the 13,000-foot depth of the Titanic.
OceanGate responded in legal filings by saying it relied on acoustic testing "better suited" to detect safety issues. The company fired and sued Lochridge, accusing him of breaching his contract.
Separately, but in the same year the lawsuit was settled, the chairman of the Marine Technology Society's Submarine Group wrote a letter to OceanGate saying 38 industry experts had "unanimous concern" about the Titan's lack of adherence to industry standards.
"We have submarines all over the world diving at 12,000 to 20,000 feet every day of the year, for research. We know very well how to design these machines and operate them safely," the chairman, Will Kohnen, told NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday.
How did OceanGate respond to warnings about Titan's safety?
OceanGate has seen at least two documented safety incidents with the Titan after these warnings.
During a 2022 expedition, OceanGate reported that its sub had experienced a battery issue during a dive and had to be manually reattached to its lifting platform, court filings show.
In the same year, the vessel lost contact with its surface crew for nearly five hours during a dive, according to CBS correspondent David Pogue, who was observing the mission for a journalistic report on the company.
Pogue reported that a waiver for passengers of the Titan clearly states the vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body.
OceanGate's founder, who is reportedly on board the missing Titan, said in a 2019 interview that the commercial submarine industry's regulations stood in the way of progress.
"It's obscenely safe because they have all these regulations," Rush told The Smithsonian Magazine. "But it also hasn't innovated or grown."
NPR's Willem Marx, Ayana Archie and Juliana Kim contributed reporting.
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COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,’ Justice Gorsuch says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence.
Justice Neil Gorsuch had a lot more to say, leveling harsh criticism of how governments, from small towns to the nation’s capital, responded to the gravest public health threat in a century.
The justice, a 55-year-old conservative who was President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, called emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans perhaps “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”
He pointed to orders closing schools, restricting church services, mandating vaccines and prohibiting evictions. His broadside was aimed at local, state and federal officials — even his colleagues.
“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale,” Gorsuch wrote in an eight-page statement Thursday that accompanied an expected Supreme Court order formally dismissing a case involving the use of the Title 42 policy to prevent asylum seekers from entering the United States.
The policy was ended last week with the expiration of the public health emergency first declared more than three years ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.
From the start of his Supreme Court tenure in 2017, Gorsuch, a Colorado native who loves to ski and bicycle, has been more willing than most justices to part company with his colleagues, both left and right.
He has mainly voted with the other conservatives in his six years as a justice, joining the majority that overturned Roe v. Wade and expanded gun rights last year.
But he has charted a different course on some issues, writing the court’s 2020 opinion that extended federal protections against workplace discrimination to LGBTQ people. He also has joined with the liberal justices in support of Native American rights.
When the omicron variant surged in late 2021 and early 2022, Gorsuch was the lone justice to appear in the courtroom unmasked even as his seatmate, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has diabetes, reportedly did not feel safe in close quarters with people who were not wearing masks.
So Sotomayor, who continues to wear a mask in public, did not take the bench with the other justices in January 2022. The two justices denied reports they were at odds over the issue.
The emergency orders about which Gorsuch complained were first announced in the early days of the pandemic, when Trump was president, and months before the virus was well understood and a vaccine was developed.
The thrust of his complaint is not new. He has written before in individual cases that came to the court during the pandemic, sometimes dissenting from orders that left emergency decrees in place.
The justices intervened in several COVID-related cases.
With Gorsuch and five other conservatives in the majority, they ended the eviction moratorium and blocked a Biden administration plan to require workers at larger companies to be vaccinated or wear a mask and submit to regular testing. Once Amy Coney Barrett joined the court, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, they ended restrictions on religious services in some areas.
By a 5-4 vote from which Gorsuch and three conservative colleagues dissented, the court allowed the administration to require many health care workers to be vaccinated.
But on Thursday, Gorsuch gathered his complaints in one place, writing about lessons he hoped might be learned from the past three years.
“One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action —almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force,” he wrote.
Another possible lesson, he wrote: “The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government.”
He also had strong words for the Republican-led states that tried to keep the Title 42 policy in place, and the five conservatives justices whose votes extended the policy five months beyond when it would have otherwise ended in late December.
“At the very least, one can hope that the Judiciary will not soon again allow itself to be part of the problem by permitting litigants to manipulate our docket to perpetuate a decree designed for one emergency to address another,” Gorsuch wrote.
In the final paragraph of his statement, Gorsuch acknowledged, but only grudgingly, that emergency orders sometimes are necessary. “Make no mistake — decisive executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate. But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to generate others,” he wrote.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor on Thursday vetoed parts of the Republican-backed $6 billion funding plan for the state’s K-12 schools, setting up a likely legal battle that will test her office’s powers.
Gov. Laura Kelly, who won reelection in the conservative state in November, issued a statement explaining her decision to take the unprecedented step of vetoing parts of the proposed education budget, saying she objected to one provision, in particular, that she says would cut funding for rural public schools, which have been dealing with declining enrollment.
“This provision pulls the rug out from rural school districts at the 11th hour,” Kelly said. “If the provision is enacted, it will bring dangerous and devastating consequences for our rural districts.”
Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins, leaders of the GOP-controlled Legislature, quickly issued a joint statement criticizing Kelly, saying the state’s constitution limits line-item vetoes to appropriations.
“We strongly encourage the Attorney General to immediately review this unconstitutional overreach,” they said.
The spending plan, which would provide the bulk of the money that the state’s 286 school districts rely on, would also expand a program aimed at providing private school scholarships for low-income families. Although Kelly opposes that provision, she didn’t veto it.
Kelly said that because the bill mixed policy with funding, the Kansas Constitution allows her to veto parts but not all of the bill, as it does with legislation setting the state’s annual budgets. Top Republicans are likely to object and to challenge the assertion in court.
The issue has never been tested legally, creating uncertainty about how much money school districts might have and what policies they might face the next academic year.
In her statement, Kelly said the GOP-backed bill would change the way districts count their enrollment, which determines their funding. Currently, districts are allowed to use one of the two previous school years to determine how much money they will receive.
The new education bill requires districts to use the current or previous year’s enrollment to determine appropriations. That provision would force districts with declining enrollments to immediately make changes to budgets they have already approved for the upcoming year, she said.
Kelly also noted that the Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the current method for determining enrollment, and she said changing the formula would raise questions over the state’s compliance with that law.
Education groups had pushed Kelly to veto the bill even though it would increase the state’s total aid to districts by about 4% for the next school year. The increases would vary by district, with 29 — most with fewer than 700 students — receiving less aid than they did this school year.
Kelly has signed education bills with a similar marriage of funding and policy in the past. But she and top Republicans clashed repeatedly over her handling of the coronavirus pandemic. GOP lawmakers forced her to accept a whittling away of the powers of her office and of local officials to close schools and businesses and impose mask mandates.
If Kelly had vetoed the entire bill, she would have forced a special legislative session to ensure that schools are funded for the next school year because lawmakers have adjourned for the year. If she were to lose a court battle over her vetoing parts of the bill, it’s unclear if the entire bill would become law or if it would die altogether.
Educators also were upset that GOP lawmakers rejected Kelly’s proposal to phase in a 70% increase in funding for programs for students with physical or intellectual disabilities, or behavioral problems. It would have required an extra $72 million in the next state budget, but legislators only approved $7.5 million.
Kelly said she was disappointed that lawmakers didn’t increase special education funding and that they need to “correct their mistake” when they return for next year’s session.
In a statement Thursday, the Kansas Association of School Boards praised Kelly’s line-item veto and also expressed disappointment in lawmakers’ “inadequate response” to special education funding at a time when the state has a record budget surplus.
And educators opposed provisions that would expand an income tax credit program for donors to funds that provide annual private school scholarships of up to $8,000 annually to students from low-income families. Although the total credits would remain capped at $10 million a year, more students would be eligible for the scholarships.
Kelly said most Kansans don’t support such policies, and she chastised lawmakers for “logrolling” them into the education funding bill rather than proposing them as separate bills.
Conservative Republicans wanted to pass a far broader plan to use state education dollars to help parents pay for private or home schooling for their children, something GOP lawmakers have enacted in other states, including Iowa,South Carolina and Utah.
Kelly is strongly opposed to the idea, saying public funds should go to public schools. Republican legislators were split.
The state constitution says that if any bill “contains several items of appropriation of money,” the governor can veto one or more “such items” while signing the rest.
While lawmakers often set policy in the budget with provisions directing how money must be spent or prohibiting some spending, those provisions are in effect only for a year. In the past, it’s been uncommon for lawmakers to mix spending with measures rewriting state laws permanently, so governors haven’t previously taken actions similar to Kelly’s.
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Expert tips to consolidate multiple 401(k) accounts
Vanguard: Median 401(k) balance is $33,472
InvestigateTV - An estimated 24 million 401(k) accounts holding approximately $1.35 trillion in assets are believed to have been forgotten according to Capitalize, an online 401(k) rollover platform.
Each year millions of Americans change jobs, leaving behind an old 401(k) at their old job and picking up a new one at their current employer.
Virginia Credit Union financial coach Cherry Dale said while you can always roll the money from your previous plan into your new account, you could also just leave that money where it is and let it grow.
Dale added that if your new company doesn’t have a 401(k), you could open a Roth IRA and roll your old account into it.
“So [a Roth IRA] is an individual retirement account that you do not need an employer to have that type of retirement account,” Dale said.
If you are considering opening a Roth IRA or keeping multiple retirement accounts, Dale said to consider the fees for the plans.
“You’ve got to just make sure if you’ve got multiple retirement accounts that you are taking care of everything and that you’re keeping things like your beneficiaries up to date, contact information up to date as well,” Dale said.
Dale recommended contacting a financial advisory if you feel you need help deciding which option is best for you.
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OCALA, Fla., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Auctions on HiBid.com brought in over $39.2 million in gross auction proceeds last week from a combined total of 1,399 online-only and webcast auctions. From June 6th through June 12th, HiBid.com averaged 1.45 million bids on the site per day, resulting in the sale of more than half a million lots. This week, HiBid.com bidders have the chance to bid on a wide selection of home furnishings, rugs, rare and collectible toys and comic books, antiques, vintage housewares, and coins, in addition to thousands of other lots for sale.
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ATLANTA (AP) — ATLANTA (AP) — Global Payments Inc. (GPN) on Monday reported a loss of $11 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had a loss of 4 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.40 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.30 per share.
The electronics payment processing company posted revenue of $2.29 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2.05 billion, also surpassing Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2 billion.
Global Payments expects full-year earnings in the range of $10.32 to $10.44 per share, with revenue in the range of $8.64 billion to $8.74 billion.
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TORONTO, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSXV: ELBM) ("Electra") today announced the start of commissioning of its black mass recycling demonstration plant at its battery materials park located north of Toronto following the successful installation of material feed handling and lime delivery systems, two key circuits in Electra's hydrometallurgical process designed to recycle end of life lithium-ion battery materials.
"Automakers are looking for a closed-loop supply chain for their batteries and Electra's recycling process presents a compelling solution to move to a circular model for recycling end-of-life batteries and battery manufacturing scrap," said Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials. "Consistent with our strategy, integrating battery materials recycling to our cobalt sulfate production activities at our refinery will not only serve as an important differentiator but will allow us to generate incremental cash flow while strengthening our relationships with various stakeholders that make up the North American EV supply chain."
Mr. Mell added, "Pending completion of the demonstration plant and a review of project economics, success could pave the way towards the buildout of a 5,000 tonne per annum black mass processing facility within our battery materials park in Ontario using existing infrastructure, personnel, and lab facility. Additional capacity would be added through construction of additional modules as the market for recycled battery material expands."
Electra is currently retrofitting its existing cobalt sulfate refinery located in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario to accommodate its proprietary hydrometallurgical process designed to treat black mass, a byproduct generated from the recycling of end-of-life EV and other lithium-ion batteries.
Under the parameters of the black mass demonstration, Electra plans to process up to 75 tonnes of material in a batch mode. Using its lab tested process, Electra anticipates the recovery of high value elements found in lithium-ion batteries, including nickel, cobalt, lithium, manganese, copper, and graphite.
Electra also anticipates the full commissioning of all equipment and circuits of the black mass recycling demonstration in the fall of 2022 with the full commissioning of the cobalt sulfate refinery expected in the spring of 2023. The Company will provide regular updates on the status of its demonstration plant and commissioning efforts.
In preparation for the black mass demonstration plant, Electra completed process development and engineering on recycling black mass material. Electra previously sourced black mass samples from suppliers in North America, Europe, and Asia, studied the feed characteristics, and developed a hydrometallurgical process route to recover contained lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper and graphite. The test work was conducted using the facilities of SGS Labs in Lakefield, Ontario and engineering was completed using the combined resources of Electra technical personnel, supported by process design engineers of Hatch Associates and mechanical and electrical engineering support by Bestech.
Electra's proprietary hydrometallurgical process has a low carbon footprint and produces stable non-acid generating tailings, thereby reducing environmental impacts while meeting or exceeding water discharge effluent criteria as stipulated by both federal and provincial regulations.
Electra completed a benchmarking study that indicates that the carbon intensity of the cradle-to-gate battery grade nickel sulfate produced from recycled black mass using its hydrometallurgical process in a low-carbon electricity grid is lower than other feed options, including Class 1 nickel metal, nickel mixed hydroxide precipitate or ferronickel.
In addition, the carbon intensity of nickel sulfate produced from recycled black mass at Electra's refinery, which uses hydroelectricity as its primary energy source, is less than 50% of the carbon intensity of nickel sulfate produced from mixed hydroxide precipitate when the source of energy relies on non-renewables such as coal-powered electricity. The refinery's primary power source is hydroelectric from Ontario Power Generation, resulting in a nearly zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials. Currently commissioning North America's only cobalt sulfate refinery, Electra is executing a multipronged strategy focused on onshoring the electric vehicle supply chain. Keys to its strategy are integrating black mass recycling and nickel sulfate production at Electra's refinery located north of Toronto, advancing Iron Creek, its cobalt-copper exploration-stage project in the Idaho Cobalt Belt, and expanding cobalt sulfate processing into Bécancour, Quebec. For more information visit www.ElectraBMC.com.
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — More elected officials are opposed to a controversial plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to ship hazardous materials from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, to a landfill about an hour south of Lafayette.
The landfill, owned by Heritage Environmental Services, is located in Roachdale in Putnam County. Now, truckloads of contaminated soil unearthed during the clean-up are arriving there this week for disposal.
Indiana Sen. Mike Braun and Rep. Jim Baird, who represents the WLFI viewing area and Roachdale residents, recently sent a letter to the EPA demanding answers.
"It was due to the fact there was a political resistance from a blue state, Michigan, that had a certified site to take it," Braun says Thursday in an interview with News 18. "That is sadly looking like it was purely politics. Since we're a red state, maybe, a state of a different political persuasion, we have to take it."
But Michigan's GOP chair says during a recent protest the push-back there is non-partisan. It's unclear why the EPA paused the Michigan shipment.
"This is not a partisan issue," Kristina Karama, Michigan GOP chair, says during the protest, according to sister station WWJ. "This is about our very lives."
Braun and Baird question how the EPA picked Roachdale instead of landfills in Michigan and others close to the crash site.
"There was not a certified site in Pennsylvania, evidently," he says. "This is ironic: There was one in Ohio. It's got a lot of questions that need to be answered."
In the letter, Braun says he has "a high degree of confidence in the Hoosiers operating the facility in Roachdale, Indiana, who are used to and well-practiced in handling these types of contaminated materials."
But the EPA website shows at least one violation unaddressed for the past three years.
"Why they've got those warnings there ... I have to learn more about it. ... It would beg the question, then, 'Why didn't you keep it in Ohio?'" he says.
Braun has yet to hear back from the EPA.
"Now, Hoosiers have to be concerned with all the uncertainty and the angst about it when there should be very good reasons, and I don't think we're going to find them," he says.
Gov. Eric Holcomb was among the first elected officials in Indiana to openly object to the EPA's plan, saying he learned about it third-hand. He's now asking to speak with the head of the agency.
News 18 reached out to the EPA and Heritage Environmental Services for comment. So far, we haven't heard back. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/epas-plan-to-ship-contaminated-soil-to-indiana-is-purely-political-senator-says/article_fa55946c-b942-11ed-af96-ffc6cd9eda31.html | 2023-03-02 23:49:58 | 0 | https://www.wlfi.com/news/epas-plan-to-ship-contaminated-soil-to-indiana-is-purely-political-senator-says/article_fa55946c-b942-11ed-af96-ffc6cd9eda31.html |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
637 PM CDT Mon May 8 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Montgomery and northeastern Harris Counties through 700 PM CDT...
At 636 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
northeastern Bush Intercontinental Airport, or over Humble, moving
southeast at around 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Humble, Galena Park, Tomball, Jacinto City, Jersey Village, Near
Northside Houston, Aldine, Northside / Northline, Kingwood, Greater
Greenspoint, Spring, Greater Fifth Ward, northeastern Greater
Heights, The Woodlands, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Eastex /
Jensen Area, Northshore, Willowbrook, Hunterwood and Clinton Park
Tri-Community.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Locally heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may
lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through
flooded roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in League City.
LAT...LON 2997 9572 3012 9563 3010 9508 2973 9523
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 289DEG 26KT 2999 9531
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning has
been cancelled.
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William J. Desciak, 81, of Mountain Top, passed away peacefully Friday morning, Oct. 28, 2022, the Feast of St. Jude, surrounded by his loving family.
Born Dec. 16, 1940, in Wilkes-Barre, William “Bill,” “Desi,” was the son of the late William Leo and Margaret Decker Desciak. Bill was a proud graduate of Catholic education having been instructed by the Sisters of Christian Charity at St. Boniface Parochial School and St. Nicholas High School, Wilkes-Barre. He was educated by the Holy Cross Fathers and Brothers along with the Jesuits. Bill earned his A.B. in Sociology at King’s College in 1963 and his M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Scranton. Bill later served as an adjunct instructor at area colleges and universities.
Bill married Patricia Ann Brady on Oct. 5, 1963, in the Church of St. Patrick, Wilkes-Barre. Pat and Bill would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this coming year. They have five children and Bill considered each of them his greatest treasure. In 1984, the family home was destroyed by fire. The only material possessions to survive the fire were the Christmas nativity and the ring Bill gave to Pat as teenagers, amazingly picked from the rubble by Pat’s sister, Mary.
Bill had three priorities in his life. First, he was a devout Roman Catholic. His faith in God was shown in everything he did. He would regularly say, “all by the grace of God.” Second, Bill loved his wife. Third, Bill was a dad. He was his children’s greatest advisor. He was the happiest surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren. Bill enjoyed athletics, attending his children’s events as well as coaching basketball at St. Jude School.
His professional career was devoted to local economic development.
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Bill is survived by his wife; children, Aileen (Jay Rule), Valley Forge; William Brady (Jennifer), Charleston, S.C.; Edward Brady (Kristine), Ridgewood, N.J.; Margaret Brady (Timothy Malcarney), Haddonfield, N.J.; and Joseph Brady (Lindy), Boston, Mass.; 12 grandchildren, Jacob, Keegan, Jared, William, Logan, Edward, Catherine, Grace, Jude, Joseph, Timothy and Daniel; and siblings, Margaret Ann (James McGinn), Mary Jean Simpson and Robert (Linda) Desciak.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at noon in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Jude, Mountain Top. Family and friends may call from 10 to 11:45 a.m. Wednesday in the narthex of St. Jude Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Elementary School, 422 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top, PA 18707.
Arrangements are by George A. Strish Inc. Funeral Home, Ashley. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/william-j-desciak/article_9e7cab1a-e985-58d7-8cfa-fb4a0d141a48.html | 2022-10-30 03:14:07 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/william-j-desciak/article_9e7cab1a-e985-58d7-8cfa-fb4a0d141a48.html |
The next BuzzFeed quiz you take might have been written by a computer.
BuzzFeed announced last week that it will begin using artificial intelligence for some of its content, including its personality quizzes.
“The creative process will increasingly become AI-assisted and technology-enabled. If the past 15 years of the internet have been defined by algorithmic feeds that curate and recommend content, the next 15 years will be defined by AI and data helping create, personalize, and animate the content itself,” wrote BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. “Our industry will expand beyond AI-powered curation (feeds), to AI-powered creation (content).”
Peretti said when readers view the work, they’ll find it pretty “amazing.”
“You’ll see AI-inspired content move from an R&D stage to part of our core business, enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience,” he said.
AI chatbots are software applications used to have a conversation that can take on the role of a live human using technology.
One of the top AI programs, ChatGPT, is owned by research company OpenAI and is one of these chatbot programs. The chatbot can be used for applications like customer service and virtual assistants.
It was also recently used in research to determine whether it could pass a master's of business administration exam. It was determined that the AI program could pass with roughly a B grade.
BuzzFeed will not be the first outlet to use AI for its content. The Associated Press said it began using computer-generated stories as early as 2014. Many of these stories are for sporting events where the AP does not send reporters to. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/buzzfeed-to-use-artificial-intelligence-for-content | 2023-01-30 21:27:52 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/buzzfeed-to-use-artificial-intelligence-for-content |
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The level of online betting activity on Thursday night’s NFL kickoff game surged 77% over the level from last year’s opener, according to a company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its customers are where they say they are.
Data released Friday by GeoComply recorded 22.6 million location verification transactions Thursday before and during the Buffalo Bills’ 31-10 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
That was up from 12.7 million such transactions from the 2021 season opener, and seems to indicate “the biggest season yet” for legal betting on the NFL, the company said.
The data records the amount of times the company was called on to verify a customer’s location. It is considered a good indicator for at least a minimum level of sports betting activity, more than 80% of which is done online in the U.S.
States require a gambler to be physically located within their borders in order to make an online sports bet, which is where geolocation technology comes in. It uses a combination of cellphone data, software, hardware and databases to determine where a phone or laptop trying to make a bet is actually located.
While it is true that customers can log in and have their location verified without actually placing a bet, many gamblers also make more than one bet after a single login.
In New Jersey, the state whose 2018 U.S. Supreme Court victory cleared the way for all 50 states to offer legal sports betting if they so desire, the level of geolocation transactions has risen by 550% from the 2018 NFL season opener.
And bettors in New York, which quickly became the nation’s largest sports betting market when it began taking online bets earlier this year, made 3.7 million locations checks in the Bills’ home state.
The level of location checks in the Buffalo area on Sept. 1, a week before the kickoff game, was 86,400. Thursday night, that number soared to 267,600, the company said.
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FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to death Wednesday in the state’s third execution since officials resumed carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus.
Murray Hooper, 76, received a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the killings of William “Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, at Redmond’s home in Phoenix. Redmond’s wife, Marilyn, also was shot in the head in the attack but survived and testified against Hooper at trial.
Authorities say the killings were carried out at the behest of a man who wanted to take over Redmond’s printing business.
In Texas late Wednesday, prison officials executed an inmate for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago. Stephen Barbee was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Hooper’s death was announced by Frank Strada, a deputy director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.
Hooper chuckled several times while interacting with the execution team. It took more than 20 minutes from the time the execution team members walked into the room until they inserted IV lines in his right leg and right forearm to administer the sedative pentobarbital.
There also was one unsuccessful attempt to insert a line in his right arm. The IV in his leg was inserted through his femoral artery.
After the execution warrant was read aloud, Hooper said, “It’s all been said. Let it be done.”
He then told his attorneys, friends and family “don’t cry for me — don’t be sad.”
Hooper turned to look out the windows at about 30 witnesses seated on bleacher-type benchers, including an Associated Press reporter and two other journalists. He made eye contact, smiled broadly and waved.
During the first few minutes after the warden read the death warrant, nothing happened, and Hooper said “what are we waiting on?”
Once the drug began flowing, Hooper’s fingers quivered, and he yawned. After that, he made no movement. About 15 minutes passed between when a warden said the execution was beginning and when Hooper was pronounced dead.
At one point while trying to insert the IV lines, a medical professional present couldn’t find a syringe with the anesthetic used to numb the area, so one was brought in and used on Hooper.
“It will hurt less,” the medical professional said. Hooper said, “OK, all right.” He later said, “I can’t believe this” and shook his head.
Arizona did not carry out the death penalty for nearly eight years after criticism that a 2014 execution was botched and because of difficulties obtaining execution drugs. No other executions are currently scheduled in Arizona, where 110 people are on death row.
Hooper was executed within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting without comment a last appeal over his claim that authorities had until recently withheld that Marilyn Redmond had failed to identify him in a photo lineup.
Authorities said that claim was based on a mistake a prosecutor made in a letter to the state’s clemency board and now insist no such lineup was shown to her. She later identified Hooper in an in-person lineup.
Courts also rebuffed attempts by Hooper’s lawyers to order fingerprint and DNA testing on evidence from the killings.
Authorities say Hooper and two other men forced entry into the Redmond home on Dec. 31, 1980. The three victims were bound, gagged, robbed and shot in the head.
Two other men, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were convicted in the killings. Both died before their death sentences could be carried out.
Authorities say Robert Cruz, who was alleged to have had ties to organized crime, hired Hooper, Bracy and McCall to kill Pat Redmond, who co-owned a printing business. They said Cruz wanted to take over the business and was unhappy Redmond rejected his offers to enter several printing contracts with Las Vegas hotels, according to court records. Cruz was acquitted of murder charges in both deaths in 1995.
Hooper’s lawyers say Marilyn Redmond’s description of the assailants changed several times before she identified their client, who said he was not in Arizona at the time. They also raised questions about the benefits received by witnesses who testified against Hooper, including favorable treatment in other criminal cases.
Barbee was executed in Texas for the February 2005 suffocation deaths of Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son Jayden at their home in Fort Worth. Barbee was the fifth inmate put to death this year in Texas. His was the 15th execution in the U.S. this year, up from last year’s three-decade low of 11.
The executions come despite waning support in recent years for the death penalty across all political parties. About 6 in 10 Americans favor the death penalty, according to the General Social Survey, a major trends survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. While a majority continue to express support for the death penalty, the share has declined steadily since the 1990s, when nearly three-quarters were in favor.
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Billeaud reported from Phoenix.
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WASHINGTON, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Jen Judson, President of the National Press Club and Gil Klein, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute urging the release of wrongfully detained journalists in Ethiopia and commenting on the broader worsening press freedom conditions in the country.
"The rapidly deteriorating press freedom climate in Ethiopia is of grave concern with conditions worsening by the week. According to the head of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, there are 19 journalists and media workers being unlawfully detained by the government. Ethiopian authorities have reportedly justified their media crackdown by claiming those detained were sympathetic with rebel groups. But as the head of the country's own human rights body has noted, pre-trial detentions of journalists accused of committing a legal offense through their press work are now illegal under the government's own recently adopted media law. We call for the immediate release of all those journalists and media personnel unlawfully detained.
"Furthermore, we condemn the central government's statement in recent days that it would pursue 'irreversible measures' against individuals 'wearing a cloak of media outlets and journalists' if they do not adhere to the government's preferred narrative. Draconian threats like that have no place in any society but particularly in a country such as Ethiopia, which has a long history in Africa as a regional leader and aspirations of becoming one of the continent's leading economies in the years ahead. This turn of events in Ethiopia is particularly disappointing given hopes in 2018 that the national government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed would be supportive of a robust and independent press after decades of repression and the targeting of journalists by the previous government."
Founded in 1908, The National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. The Club has 3,000 members representing nearly every major news organization and is a leading voice for press freedom in the United States and worldwide.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged, global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire civic engagement.
Contact: Bill McCarren, 202-662-7534 for the National Press Club
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BEL AIR, Md., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperGreen Solutions (www.supergreensolutions.com), is thrilled to unveil its highly anticipated referral app, which will allow our clients, other business owners and the general public to earn $1,000 for every referral of theirs that goes solar through SuperGreen.
As a company that strives to make a global impact, the SuperGreen Solutions Referral App makes it easy for anyone to earn thousands of extra dollars per year in additional side income, right from their phone, while also being good stewards of the environment.
When a user downloads the app, they instantly become an advocate (referral partner) and receive access to a personalized dashboard. There, they can add their referrals, easily track referral progress, and view earnings. Advocates will automatically be notified each time their referrals move from stage to stage throughout the solar sale journey and track that in the dashboard under "Referral History". Once their referral goes solar, advocates can select from several payout options such as bank direct deposit, Visa Gift Card, or a multitude of other gift card options!
Within the app, there are several resources to help maximize referral earnings such as training videos, easy social media sharing functionalities, QR codes for in-person sharing, and more.
Daniel Dubell, CEO of SuperGreen Solutions, stated: "The launch of our Referral App is monumental for our company and the environment. This incredibly simplistic tool allows friends, family, other business owners and the general public to be rewarded financially for helping us get the word out about solar and other energy efficiency products for the global good!"
The SuperGreen Solutions App is FREE to download and is available in the Apple App Store, or Google Play. Make your network, your net-worth.
SuperGreen Solutions (www.supergreensolutions.com) is a growing renewable energy company that is innovatively working to serve commercial and residential clients in achieving their sustainability goals. We are a Franchise organization and are aggressively offering opportunities across the nation. Our primary verticals include Solar, EV Charging and Air Purification. We welcome inquiries to partner with us as we become a dominant force in the years ahead.
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The Beyond Meat executive charged with biting a man’s nose during a fight last month left the plant-based meat company Friday amid a larger round of job cuts as the company seeks tries to offset a decline in sales.
Doug Ramsey, a former Tyson Foods executive who joined Beyond Meat as its chief operating officer late last year, was charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a Sept. 17 fight in a parking garage at the University of Arkansas.
Beyond Meat suspended Ramsey a few days later. On Friday, Beyond Meat said in a regulatory filing that Ramsey was leaving the company. Ramsey is scheduled to appear in court next week.
The news came as Beyond Meat announced a second round of job cuts and trimmed its revenue expectations for the year.
The company said Friday that 200 job cuts, which amount to about 19% of its total global workforce, will be mostly completed by the end of the year. It cited record inflation as well as increased competition and lower demand for plant-based meat.
Beyond Meat Inc. expects about $4 million in one-time charges tied to the job cuts, with most of the charges booked in the fourth quarter.
The company now foresees full-year revenue in a range of approximately $400 million to $425 million. Its prior guidance was for revenue of $470 million to $520 million.
Analysts polled by FactSet predict revenue of $481 million.
The announcement by Beyond Meat comes two months after the company said that it was laying off 4% of its workforce after a difficult second quarter that saw cost-conscious customers bypass its higher-priced products.
Shares of the El Segundo, California-based company ended Friday down $1.43, or 9.7%, at $13.35. | https://who13.com/business/ap-business/ap-beyond-meat-cutting-200-jobs-lowers-2022-revenue-outlook/ | 2022-10-14 23:25:17 | 1 | https://who13.com/business/ap-business/ap-beyond-meat-cutting-200-jobs-lowers-2022-revenue-outlook/ |
SEATTLE — A man was shot while in the passenger seat of a car while on the offramp to Interstate 5 from the West Seattle Bridge.
The driver of the car called 911 just after 1:30 p.m. to report that her passenger was shot by someone in another vehicle.
The 39-year-old man was struck in the shoulder and taken to Harborview Medical Center. He is in stable condition.
Witnesses said a suspect in a silver or gray vehicle opened fire on the car the victim was in. The suspect then fled the scene.
Officers could not find the suspect's vehicle.
Detectives with the Gun Violence Reduction Unit are asking those with information to call the tip line at (206) 233-5000.
This shooting comes after officials say road rage shootings are on the rise in western Washington.
Earlier this month, a 9-year-old boy was shot in a road rage incident in Renton.
On Nov. 25, an 11-year-old boy was shot in a road rage incident in Tacoma.
A 24-year-old woman was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident while driving on SR 2 in Skykomish in October.
This year in King County, there have been 230 road rage incidents where weapons were brandished, and 193 where shots have actually been fired.
This trend is being seen across the country. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, 2021 was record-setting for the number of road rage shootings in the United States, with more than 500 people shot.
In 2021, there were 44 gun deaths and injuries from road rage incidents in an average month—double the pre-pandemic average, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
Washington State Patrol urges drivers to be polite on the road, avoid eye contact with angry drivers and report aggressive driving to stay safe. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/man-shot-west-seattle-bridge/281-73f85512-9dfe-4c18-8b18-4a53dba5dcaa | 2022-11-30 02:46:36 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/man-shot-west-seattle-bridge/281-73f85512-9dfe-4c18-8b18-4a53dba5dcaa |
The industry leader in integrated workplace management systems has invested in international security assessments for its products
WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvolo, the world's fastest-growing workplace software company, today announced that it has successfully completed four security assessments for its integrated workplace management software. The assessments were completed by A-LIGN, an independent, third-party assessment organization (3PAO), to assess and report on its security measures, which found Nuvolo in compliance with nationally and internationally recognized standards. These include:
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 certification for information security policy and procedures. This certification applies to the Information Security Management System (ISMS), which supports Nuvolo as a provider of enterprise cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services across the global enterprise. The certification also applies to all supporting resources including product development, service delivery, customer support, applications, and end-user services.
- Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1, which confirms the existence of internal organizational controls that have been designed and implemented to meet the requirements for the security and confidentiality principles outlined in the Trust Services Principles and Criteria for Security.
- Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Version 2, Level 1, which confirms that Nuvolo has demonstrated basic cyber hygiene to provide sufficient safeguarding of Federal Contract Information (FCI).
- FedRAMP ISV Report, which indicates that Nuvolo was assessed on a subset of controls that are typically expected for an independent software vendor to demonstrate in the Federal space.
"We have dedicated thousands of hours over the last 9 months to ensure a successful outcome in these assessments. Passing four significant audits gives us a distinct competitive edge, as we can assure our current and prospective customers that we have taken all steps necessary to keep their data safe," said Jason Siegrist, Chief Information Security Officer at Nuvolo. "As a company with a SaaS-first design, we understand the potential risk and will continue to ensure that our controls, protocols, and procedures are aligned with industry-recognized standards of security."
The recent assessments Nuvolo has completed build upon its extensive portfolio of security compliance and audit controls. For more information about Nuvolo security policies, visit https://trust.nuvolo.com .
Nuvolo is the global leader in modern, cloud-based connected workplace solutions, Built on NOW™. Nuvolo provides a single platform to manage all people, all physical locations, all assets, and all work across the business. Industries served include healthcare, life sciences, retail, public sector, higher education, technology, financial services and enterprise. Nuvolo is headquartered in Wellesley, MA, with a global workforce located throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
CONTACT: Lisa Laczynski, lisa.laczynski@nuvolo.com
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BHUBANESWAR, India, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar has won the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2022 for its outstanding literacy programme based on the recommendations of an international jury.
The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize is sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Korea and recognizes contributions to mother language-based literacy development. KISS has received the award in the category of 'Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education programme'. The award carries an endowment of US$ 20,000, a medal and a diploma. KISS is a constituent of the KIIT Group of Institutions.
The award was presented at a global award ceremony organised by UNESCO in Côte d'Ivoire on 8 and 9 September 2022 to celebrate International Literacy Day.
The programme aims to tackle the challenges of poor retention of indigenous students in elementary schools due to classroom language barriers and teachers' incapacity to deal with multilingual and multicultural classrooms effectively.
Every year, the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes focus on a specific theme. This year, the spotlight was on Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces. KISS is the fifth institute from India and the first from Odisha to receive this international prize. It is also the third among the non-profit NGOs and first indigenous based organisation to be conferred with this award.
KISS, the largest institute for the indigenous students in the world, is credited with the adoption of innovative pedagogies as learning tools and bringing about a perceptible change in the socio-economic lives of the indigenous population through education. This recognition also brings the state of Odisha to prominence on the world map for its efforts at changing the education ecosystem. Moreover, it is also a big day of celebration for indigenous communities as it is truly an award for them.
KISS is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It was established in 1992-93 by well-known educationist Dr Achyuta Samanta to empower the indigenous population through education. It is a fully free residential educational institution that provides holistic education, comprehensive skilling and sports empowerment.
The educational initiative at KISS comprises a school, a college and a university founded with the objective of providing food, education and empowerment to indigenous children.
"I thank UNESCO for recognizing our efforts and social innovations in the field of education, literacy and indigenous empowerment. In my childhood, I struggled to get proper education and now I put all my life and soul to provide holistic education to millions at margins," Dr. Samanta said in his message.
KISS has transformed the lives of 70,000 indigenous children (30,000 children pursuing education and 40,000 alumni) directly and about 700,000 lives in the indigenous communities indirectly. Its higher education wing, KISS Deemed-to-be University is the world's first university exclusively for indigenous students. KISS has in its course of evolution and function collaborated with various UN agencies and organs for the implementation of several initiatives related to education and empowerment. KISS has been in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2015 and is affiliated with UNDPI.
Since its inception, KISS has been respecting the diversity of indigenous languages and dialects. It has consistently focused on imparting classroom teaching in the mother tongue at elementary levels before transitioning to a common language. This one-of-its-kind pioneering efforts of KISS took a concrete shape in the form of 'Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education' in 2013.
KISS, which adopted the Multilingual Education Programme through innovation sandbox, has set an example for other educational institutions and governments to impart classroom teaching in indigenous languages. It aims to tackle the challenges of poor retention of indigenous students in elementary schools due to classroom language barriers and teachers' incapacity to deal with multilingual and multicultural classrooms effectively. The programme is in a hybrid format with face-to-face and distance learning modules using low-tech solutions such as television, radio, and text messaging.
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CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — K.D. Johnson scored 12 points, Allen Flanigan made a contested go-ahead layup with 31 seconds left and No. 13 Auburn held on to beat Northwestern 43-42 on Wednesday night in the championship game of the Cancun Challenge.
Jaylin Williams made 3 of 6 from 3-point range and finished with 11 points for the Tigers (6-0).
Chase Audige hit Northwestern's second 3-pointer to take a 40-39 lead with 3 minutes to play. Wendell Green Jr. — Auburn’s leading scorer at 14.0 per game — scored his only points when he hit a pull-up jumper with 1:43 to go then Audige answered with a layup to give the Wildcats a one-point lead 24 seconds later. After Robbie Beran stole a pass from Auburn's Johni Broome, Green created a Northwestern turnover that led to Flanigan's layup.
Johnson contested a potential winning jumper by Audige in the closing seconds that bounced off the backboard, deflected off Beran and was finally secured by Green.
Audige led Northwestern with 10 points, three blocks and two steals. The Wildcats shot 4 of 24 (16.7%) in the first half and finished shooting 25% (14 of 56) from the field and 2 of 24 (8.3%) from 3-point range.
The game was tied at 19 at halftime.
Northwestern missed its first 17 3-point shots before Ty Berry hit from behind the arc with 12:02 remaining to cap a 12-2 run that gave the Wildcats a 31-25 lead. Johnson answered with a three-point play before Williams hit a 3 then threw down a dunk to put Auburn back in front less than 2 minutes later.
Auburn shot 26% (13 of 50) from the field and made just 5 of 21 (23.8%) from behind the arc.
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Northwestern returns home to take on Pittsburgh in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Monday
Auburn plays at home Sunday against Saint Louis
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and another man have been indicted by a grand jury on capital murder charges for the January shooting death of a 23-year-old woman near campus, defense lawyers confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday.
Miles was charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Jamea Harris, his defense lawyer Mary Turner told the AP. Michael Davis, who police investigators said was the triggerman, was also indicted, his lawyer, John Charles Robbins, said.
Tuscaloosa County District Attorney Hays Webb told AL.com that the indictments against Miles and Davis, who’ve been held without bond since their arrest, were issued on Wednesday.
Harris was sitting in a car when she was struck by a bullet. A police investigator testified last month that Miles provided the handgun Davis allegedly used in the shooting.
During a court hearing last month, Turner suggested Miles was in a defensive posture when he told Davis where the gun was located.
But prosecutors maintained there was ample evidence to pursue charges in the shooting, which happened early Jan. 15 on “The Strip,” a district of bars and restaurants near the Tuscaloosa campus. Testimony at the hearing last month indicated there had been some type of verbal altercation before the shooting.
The Turner Law Group, which is representing Miles, issued a statement Friday, saying they were disappointed by the decision to pursue capital murder charges “considering the evidence uncovered during our investigation and the obvious weaknesses in the government’s case brought to light during the preliminary hearing.”
Davis maintains he is innocent, Robbins, his attorney, said. “I look forward to the opportunity to vigorously defend Michael at trial and to defend his right to protect himself when somebody points a gun at him and shoots him,” Robbins said.
Miles was a reserve on the Crimson Tide, but an ankle injury sidelined him for the rest of the season. After he was charged in January, Alabama said he was “removed from campus” and the team.
During the February court hearing, Tuscaloosa Police investigator Brandon Culpepper testified that Miles texted Tide freshman basketball star Brandon Miller to bring him his gun. Police have said another player, guard Jaden Bradley, also was at the scene.
Neither Miller nor Bradley have been charged with anything.
“This whole situation is just really heartbreaking, but respectfully that’s all I’m going to be able to say on that,” Miller told reporters Wednesday in his first public comments about the case.
Both Miller and Bradley have continued to play as the No. 4-ranked team in the country makes its way through the Southeastern Conference Tournament ahead of the NCAA Tournament. Miller scored 18 points and had nine rebounds in Friday’s SEC quarterfinal win over Mississippi State.
In the postgame news conference, Miller was asked his thoughts on the indictment. He said, “I can’t — I’m not going to be able to say on that.”
Coach Nate Oats was asked whether he has a weapons policy for his team, and said that “our players are required to follow the university policy on guns, which essentially bans them on campus.”
He also was asked who was involved in deciding whether Miller and Bradley could continue to play.
“It’s been a difficult situation, as you understand. I mean, we’re dealing with a criminal matter,” Oats said, adding that as the school received “facts from law enforcement as they do their investigation,” “this was a decision made, based on all the facts we had, with, obviously, my boss, (Director of Athletics) Greg Byrne; his boss, (President) Dr. (Stuart) Bell; and the Board of Trustees.
“And everybody was comfortable, and based on the information we had, Brandon didn’t break any school policy or team policy, so … I was comfortable with the decision that was made.”
Harris’ mother told reporters last month that she is frustrated by the focus on basketball instead of her daughter’s death. She said her daughter was a beautiful person who was trying to have a night out with friends when she was killed.
“She has a 5-year-old son that is still waiting for his mother to come home,” DeCarla Heard told reporters. “I want justice for my grandson.”
Oats was asked Friday whether he has spoken to Harris’ family.
“Listen, this whole situation has been, obviously, as you know, hard to deal with, tragic, to have any involvement in a young woman losing her life. What you ask is a private matter. I’m not going to discuss publicly with everybody,” he said. “A lot of this is just hard to deal with, to be honest with you. But it’s a private matter.”
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Cameron Shelton scored 32 points as Loyola Marymount beat Pepperdine 75-67 on Saturday.
Shelton also added four assists and three steals for the Lions (19-11, 9-7 West Coast Conference). Keli Leaupepe scored 13 points while shooting 5 for 11, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc, and added three steals. Jalin Anderson shot 5 for 11, including 2 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.
Jan Zidek led the way for the Waves (9-21, 2-14) with 22 points. Pepperdine also got 13 points, seven rebounds and two blocks from Jevon Porter. In addition, Mike Mitchell Jr. had 11 points, five assists and two steals.
Shelton scored seven points in the first half and Loyola Marymount went into the break trailing 28-25. Cam Shelton's 25-point second half helped Loyola Marymount finish off the eight-point victory.
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DUBAI, UAE, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC), in a strategic partnership with UNESCO and the Asian Universities Alliance (AUA), upgrades the 'Climate x' Campaign it initiated last year to contribute to the progress of global climate governance and the success of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28).
The Campaign aims to mobilize global multi-stakeholders to cultivate future climate leaders, with a particular focus on the synergistic perspective between climate change and other UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 'Climate x' Leadership Training Program 2023 (the 'Climate x' Training), which is the first flagship program of the Campaign, has received an enthusiastic response from global youth. Within just one week, over 1,000 college students from over 70 nations and regions have applied. The application portal will remain open at http://climatexleadership.gauc.net/ until June 30th.
"The innovative actions and contributions of young people on promoting carbon neutrality, addressing climate change and achieving the SDGs are remarkable," said Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for East Asia and Representative to China, DPRK, Japan, Mongolia and ROK, at the launching ceremony of the 'Climate x' Training. "International organizations, educational institution alliances, policy makers and the private sectors should work together to provide a global platform for them, so that their talents can be lightened, their voices can be heard and their actions can be seen."
A paradigm shifts
Being an existential challenge, climate change is closely interconnected with all the other UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and holds transforming impact across social and economic sectors. The transition towards a carbon-neutral economy is a paradigm shift that will give rise to a new model of development.
As its theme indicates, the 'Climate x' Campaign emphasizes the synergy between climate change and other SDGs and features a three-dimensional structure to engage with the broadest multi-stakeholders. At the national level, the Training aims at fostering future climate leaders. On the regional scale, a Regional Forum on Climate Change is to encourage broader academic collaboration. At the international level, the Global Youth Climate Week, a brand-new mechanism co-initiated by GAUC and its global partners, is to amplify youth climate action worldwide.
Thanks to the collective strength of GAUC's member universities and the firm support from its global partners, the first 'Climate x' Campaign harvested significant success. It cultivated 100 young students from GAUC's member universities to take the lead in climate actions, mobilized over 40 universities across Africa ahead of the COP27 in Egypt, and attracted over 100 multi-stakeholders on 6 continents to support the climate actions of youths. At the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), the representative students selected from the training issued an open letter to global climate leaders in Sharm el Sheikh, and handed it personally to 5 national heads of state, 14 ministers from 11 countries, and a dozen government delegations.
Building upon the success from last year, the Campaign 2023 will adhere to its mission and structure while further enhancing the inclusivity and impact.
U28 for COP28
Given that COP28 will take place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), GAUC has established a strategic partnership with the Asian Universities Alliance (AUA), which comprises 15 member universities across Asia.
With the University of Tokyo and Tsinghua University being members of both alliances, this partnership brings together the educational and academic resources of 28 universities worldwide, with a special focus on Asia. During the Campaign, the member universities from the two alliances will collaborate to provide interdisciplinary online courses for the 'Climate x' Training. Moreover, they will work closely to raise global awareness of Asia's climate challenges and to mobilize the network of higher education institutions across the continent for decisive climate efforts leading up to and following COP28.
In addition to the expanded collaboration within the higher education sector, the Campaign also witnesses even more concrete support from global partners across a wide range of industries, including UNESCO, UNITAR, and Arab Youth Council on Climate Change, among others.
Train the Trainers
To empower more young individuals and enable them to embrace the opportunities presented by the paradigm shift and lead future climate initiatives, the 'Climate x' Training 2023 is open to college students worldwide.
"Youth are the backbone of the net-zero future. The 'Climate x' Training is designed to help them shoulder this historic responsibility." said Dr. WANG Binbin, the Executive Secretary-General of GAUC. "It will impart academic knowledge, expand their global perspective, and deepen their understanding of global climate governance. Moreover, we hope it serves as a guiding light, facilitating their journey towards self-fulfillment."
Featuring the 'Train the Trainer' approach within a "1+3" module, the training program is dedicated to empowering students to transition from being learners of climate knowledge to becoming leaders of climate action. The module is divided into two parts: "1" represents the online coursework spanning one month in July, while "3" symbolizes the three hybrid events that enrolled students must organize from August to November.
As an integral part of the 'Climate x' Campaign, the Global Youth Climate Week 2023, scheduled from November 20th to 24th this year, will provide a platform for all training participants to showcase their third event and bring the climate actions of college students to the international arena.
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XIAMEN, China, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd ("Pop Culture" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CPOP), a hip-pop culture company in China, today announced that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Fujian Shuzhi Fuxin Exhibition Co., Ltd. ("FSFE"), planned, designed and constructed the Fujian Pavilion at the 22nd China International Fair for Investment and Trade ("CIFIT") that opened in Xiamen on September 8, 2022. With the theme of "Global Development: Sharing Digital Opportunities and Investing in a Green Future", CIFIT is a four-day exhibition, covering an area of 120,000 square meters in total. CIFIT is hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of China. CIFIT is committed to creating international investment opportunities, releasing authoritative information and discussing the international investment trend. CIFIT has become one of the most influential international investment events.
FSFE mainly focuses on providing services for conferences and exhibitions; designing, producing and distributing advertisements; planning marketing activities; and organizing cultural, artistic and sports events.
The Fujian Pavilion, which covered an area of 891 square meters and was located in Hall C1 of Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center, comprehensively showcased the economic development, innovation achievements, international cooperation and characteristics of Fujian Province through 15 display panels and 50 products featured at the CIFIT. Fujian Pavilion also showcased technology innovations by presenting high-tech products, information-based electronic exhibition walls, and electronic equipment. In addition, the "Cloud Pavilion" was set up at the "Cloud Investment Fair" for the CIFIT to provide a platform for domestic and foreign merchants to gain an understanding of economic and investment opportunities available in Fujian Province, in order to expand cooperation opportunities between domestic and foreign merchants.
Mr. Zhuoqin Huang, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pop Culture, commented, "We are honored to participate in the preparation of Fujian Pavilion for the CIFIT, which displayed the achievements and opportunities of Fujian Province's development in the past and provided a platform to benefit both domestic and foreign merchants who are willing to explore opportunities in Fujian Province. FSFE planned, designed, and constructed the Fujian Pavilion from a professional perspective. The success of the Fujian Pavilion demonstrates FSFE's professional capabilities and creative planning strengths. Looking forward, FSFE intends to continue improving its capabilities and stature in the field of creative design, brand communication and marketing planning."
About Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd
Headquartered in Xiamen, China, Pop Culture Group Co., Ltd is a hip-hop culture company. The Company aims to promote hip-hop culture and its values of love, peace, unity, respect, and having fun, and to promote cultural exchange with respect to hip-hop between the United States and China. With the values of hip-hop culture at its core and the younger generation as its primary target audience, the Company hosts entertainment events, operates hip-hop related online programs, and provides event planning and execution services and marketing services to corporate clients. The Company has in recent years focused on developing and hosting its own hip-hop events. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://ir.cpop.cn/.
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Federal funds to go toward fixing chronic flooding in Orange County community
Orlo Vista residents had to be rescued from flooding by national guardsmen during Hurricane Irma in 2017 and again during Hurricane Ian this fall.
"In no time at all, the water was up above my knee and the couch was floating,” Orlo Vista resident Daniel Taschner said.
He says that while his home did not flood during Irma, he had to be rescued by boat during Ian.
"As I walk by the bathroom, the bathtub is just overflowing in sewage and brown water coming into the house,” Taschner said.
The chronic flooding comes from three nearby retention ponds. A project to fix it was first approved three years ago.
But it was repeatedly delayed as the county worked to secure federal funds to pay for it, and in the meantime, the cost kept going up.
This week, the county announced the over $23 million needed has finally been secured. FEMA will come through with $16.7 million, HUD with $2.5 million and Orange County with $4.3 million.
Currently, each pond is only about four feet deep and the plan is to make them 10 feet deeper and also modernize the pump system.
The chief stormwater engineer for Orange County admitted Wednesday that he believes if the fix had been in place before Ian, more than 100 homes could have been spared.
"We calculated about 140 were flooded before Ian. Had the improvements been in place, it would have been around eight to 10,” Daniel Negron with Orange County Public Works said.
So why did it take so long to get started on the improvements? Negron said dealing with FEMA, many requirements take time.
As for how residents are reacting to the news, after so many years of waiting and hoping, they're skeptical.
"Seeing is believing. You can say it, but let's make it happen,” Jimmy Washington, who was helping repair a friend’s home, said.
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President Biden faces a ticking timer on the resumption of student loan payments by the end of the summer — but will he allow it to go off?
The payments, paused amid the coronavirus pandemic, are set to begin either 60 days after the Supreme Court makes a ruling on Biden’s student debt forgiveness program or 60 days after June 30, the White House has said.
Biden had also previously said the payments would resume at the beginning of 2023, and that there would not be another extension of the pause, which began under then-President Trump in 2020.
Although the White House won’t discuss the possibility of a Plan B if the high court strikes down Biden’s relief proposal, experts believe yet another extension of the loan payment pause is a possibility.
“I definitely think this is on the table,” said Rebecca Natow, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University and a higher education policy expert.
Policy-wise, the move would put the Democratic president in line with student debt advocates and others in his party who are demanding an extension of the payment pause.
“From a political standpoint, this is popular among a cross section of voting demographics, and that should always be a a consideration going into a presidential election year,” said Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic strategist.
Borrowers have not had to make their payments since March 2020, as the pause has been extended nine separate times.
Even if the legality of Biden’s student debt relief plan isn’t resolved by June 30, the administration insists borrowers will have to soon begin repayment of student loan debt.
“If the program has not been implemented and the litigation has not been resolved by June 30, 2023 — payments will resume 60 days after that,” the White House said when the last pause was extended.
Trump and then Biden paused the payments under the authority of the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act, which gives the Education secretary more power over student loans during a national emergency.
Biden previously tied the resumption of payments to his proposal for up to $20,000 in student loan relief, but if that plan is struck down by the Supreme Court, the resumption of payments could be a blow for voters going into a presidential election year.
“Anybody that takes the pause off is going to be relatively unpopular for a while and not just with Democrats,” said Daniel Collier, assistant professor of higher and adult education in the Department of Leadership at the University of Memphis.
However, if Biden sticks with payments resuming at the end of this summer, there is another whole year until the election, which could give borrowers time to move on from the decision.
“[T]he 2024 elections are still a year and a half away, so any action that occurs in the next few months would probably not be as impactful on the next presidential election as an action that happens closer to next November,” Natow said.
The Biden administration could face difficulty either way, as it has not given a specific reason defining when the pause is no longer needed.
“I believe the Biden administration has made several blunders with the repayment pause in the way that they’ve extended it,” Collier said. “They’re doing this seemingly arbitrarily, you know, there’s no economic targets for like when is it OK to turn this on.”
Even if the political climate would seem ripe for another student loan extension, the legal headaches that follow might be costly.
Currently, the administration is arguing that although the COVID-19 national emergency declaration is ending in May, they can still forgive student loan debts under the HEROES Act because it relates to the lingering effects of the pandemic. The White House could use the same argument for extending student loan payments yet again.
“There’s nothing in the HEROES Act that limits the relief that the secretary can provide to the end date of the national emergency,” said Abby Shafroth, director of the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project.
The administration could point to its data that shows resuming student loan payments without debt relief could increase the number of delinquency and put borrowers in a worse financial position than before the pandemic.
“There isn’t like a date certain. It’s not like you can only use [the HEROES Act] for one year after the end of the national emergency or anything like that. It’s just based on the facts. It’s based on when and whether relief is still needed to ensure that people aren’t left worse off as a result of the national emergency,” Shafroth added.
Others, however, are not quite as confident about the certainty of the Biden administration’s ability to use to HEROES Act again to extend payments.
“The answer is because the seminal power to do this came from the emergency acts of a pandemic, it’s not really clear that [Biden] alone has the power to keep the pause off,” Collier said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/what-are-the-chances-biden-extends-the-student-loan-pause-again/ | 2023-04-11 11:17:41 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/what-are-the-chances-biden-extends-the-student-loan-pause-again/ |
On Sunday, February 5, Gary and Sally Haslett hosted the 15th Annual Unit-24 Souper-Bowl Party. This event, held on the Sunday before the Super Bowl, was interrupted by COVID for three years. The Souper-Bowl Party is a patio party with a twist. Men are asked the make soups (we had 18 this year) and others bring patio party goodies. Attendees are also asked to bring canned food for the Mammoth Food Bank (125 cans donated this year).
Over 60 people enjoyed the party on a nice sunny day. Literally hundreds of bowls of soups were sampled.
There was another twist to this event, although not planned. Gary was taken to the emergency room a few days prior and was still in the hospital as the party approached. He and Sally decided that the party must go on despite the setback.
Sally put out a call to the U-24 neighbors and several arrived early to help set up and stayed late to clean up. This is quite a testament to the great neighbors in Unit 24. | https://tucson.com/saddlebag/units/unit-24-souper-bowl-party/article_bd062a42-bc4c-11ed-8d01-1fb9d2f0f296.html | 2023-03-31 08:00:32 | 1 | https://tucson.com/saddlebag/units/unit-24-souper-bowl-party/article_bd062a42-bc4c-11ed-8d01-1fb9d2f0f296.html |
Updated September 15, 2022 at 8:22 AM ET
A strike that could have halted both freight and passenger trains across the country seems to have been averted.
After a marathon negotiating session lasting 20 hours, the White House announced early Thursday that a tentative agreement had been reached between rail companies and the unions representing conductors and engineers.
"These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned," said President Biden in a statement, calling the deal a win for rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to deliver goods to American families.
Union members still have to vote to ratify the agreement before it is finalized.
The parties had been negotiating the contract without resolution for several years and were facing a 12:01 am Friday deadline, the end of a "cooling off period."
Already this week, freight rail companies had halted shipments of hazardous materials, including chlorine to water treatment plants and chemicals for fertilizers, not wanting those goods to be left unattended should a strike be called.
Amtrak said in a statement it is working to quickly restore canceled trains and reaching out to impacted customers to accommodate on first available departures. Yesterday, Amtrak announced that it was canceling all of its long-distance trains starting Thursday due to the threatened strike.
The National Carriers' Conference Committee, which represents the nation's freight railroads said: "The tentative agreements announced today follow the August 16 recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board...which include a 24% wage increase during the five-year period from 2020 through 2024 — with a 14.1% wage increase effective immediately — and five annual $1,000 lump sum payments."
The deal also includes changes to workplace attendance policies that workers found overly punitive. "For the first time our Unions were able to obtain negotiated contract language exempting time off for certain medical events from carrier attendance policies," the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division said in a joint statement.
Those policies had become the major sticking point as the deadline for a deal neared, with the union demanding that workers have protection from penalties when taking unscheduled time off for medical reasons.
The two sides sat down for a meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh that went all day and deep into the night. Shortly after 5 a.m. Thursday, the White House and the Association of American Railroads released statements announcing the tentative deal.
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NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Teladoc Health, Inc. ("Teladoc") (NYSE: TDOC) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Teladoc, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Teladoc includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) accordingly, the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Doppel, a real-time, cross-chain monitoring service for detecting NFT fraud and counterfeits, today announced the close of a $5 million seed investment round led by FTX Ventures. Additional participants in the seed round include Solana Ventures, Polygon Studios, OpenSea Ventures, Dapper Labs, SV Angel, South Park Commons, Script Capital, Spartan Group, Paxos, Punk 6529, Quiet Capital, AlphaLab Capital, and prominent angels such as Balaji Srinivasan, Sabrina Hahn, Gokul Rajaram, Magic Eden co-founder, and Tagomi co-founder.
Doppel was founded in February 2022 with the goal of supporting the NFT ecosystem by building trust infrastructure for content creators, collectors, and marketplaces. The platform, powered by cutting edge computer vision and AI models, protects the IP of NFT creators and ensures that the NFTs being sold, bought, and minted are legitimate. It is able to detect counterfeit NFTs and bad actors with future plans to identify market manipulations and malicious contracts. Doppel currently supports Ethereum, Solana and Polygon NFTs, will be servicing the Flow ecosystem, and is set to add additional blockchains throughout 2022.
Kevin Tian, co-founder and CEO of Doppel commented on today's news, "We began building Doppel due to the need for a platform to verify, secure, and protect NFT holders and creators. This investment round is a landmark moment for the company and will allow us to scale the platform, increase functionalities and grow our team to continue creating a platform that is relied upon by the entire NFT ecosystem. We're excited for the future of Doppel and our future collaborations with major players in the NFT space who want to make serious investments in creator IP and community trust and safety."
Doppel will leverage the funds from this round to enhance its detection capabilities, which will allow the platform to better identify bad actors within the ecosystem and expand upon the current illicit activities that it monitors for. Currently, the platform is able to identify counterfeit NFTs in under 1 minute and has flagged over 37 million NFTs as potential duplicates or rip-offs.
Currently, Doppel is a trusted partner of Dapper Labs and other yet-to-be-disclosed NFT platforms, working with them to protect NFT collections for their communities. Additionally, Yuga Labs has been testing Doppel's technology as one way to improve response times to bad actors.
Ramnik Arora, Head of Product and Investor at FTX Ventures, stated, "The NFT ecosystem is plagued with trust issues. A large number of NFTs are counterfeit. This harms user experience and keeps legitimate brands from accessing the space. We're excited to work with Doppel to build the real-time trust, transparency and security layer for NFT ecosystem."
About Doppel
Doppel is a real-time, cross-chain monitoring service for detecting NFT fraud and counterfeits. Doppel provides the underlying infrastructure and tooling needed for content creators, collectors, and marketplaces to protect their IP and determine legitimacy. It is able to detect and identify counterfeit NFTs and bad actors in under 1 minute. Doppel was founded with the goal of building trust in the NFT ecosystem and protecting IP. Platforms utilizing Doppel's detection AI are able earn the trust of their user base by assuring them that NFTs that exist on the marketplace are genuine, have not been tampered with, and that by purchasing one you are supporting the creator.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Hearst Television received the 2022 Catalyst Award for their outstanding support of Ad Council public service campaigns over the past year.
The Ad Council's Catalyst Award is awarded to the communications company that best advanced meaningful social change. In 2021, all 33 of Hearst TV stations across the country provided exceptional donated media support to Ad Council campaigns, with especially notable support of Project Roadblock, an annual local broadcast TV campaign designed to reduce drunk driving fatalities throughout the winter holiday season.
The award was given at TVB's Forward Conference 2022, the Television Bureau of Advertising's (TVB) annual leadership conference. After two years of being held virtually, the Forward Conference has returned as both an in-person and virtual event in New York City. The Catalyst Award was presented to Hearst Television during the live Executive Summit.
In 2021, 1,066 local broadcast television stations participated in Project Roadblock and generously supported the Ad Council in this campaign. The initiative gained national reach with participation across all 50 states.
"Hearst's contributions to Project Roadblock last year have helped positively change the lives of Americans across the country," said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. "Their commitment to keeping our roads safe during the holiday season makes them highly deserving of this year's Catalyst Award."
"For nearly two decades, Project Roadblock has successfully leveraged the power of local broadcasting to educate citizens about road safety," said Jordan Weitlieb, Hearst Television President. "Over this time, Project Roadblock has contributed to the reduction in deaths from alcohol-impaired driving. But there is more to do. Hearst Television is exceedingly proud to participate in this effort by NHTSA, the Ad Council and TVB and it's an honor to be recognized for our longstanding support."
Since 2004, Project Roadblock has leveraged local TV stations' donated media during the period between Christmas and New Year's to raise awareness of the dangers of impaired driving. PSAs urge viewers to find a safe ride home instead of driving buzzed, with a focus on reaching adult men ages 21 - 34. The partnership between TVB, the Ad Council, NHTSA and local broadcast television stations is now entering its 19th year.
In 2021, stations secured nearly 125 local business sponsors for Project Roadblock PSAs, amplifying the message from participating stations. The initiative garnered nearly 7,000 detections in local broadcast TV support, valued at an estimated $5.8 million in airtime over the six-day period. In 2021, detections were at its highest over the past four years.
Since Project Roadblock's inception in 2004, local broadcast TV stations across the nation have donated more than $153 million in support.
"TVB congratulates Hearst Television for the 2022 Catalyst Award and their ongoing commitment to enacting positive social change throughout the year. Local broadcasters inform and support their communities day in and day out; we are especially proud of their collaborative industry effort to make roads safer with the Project Roadblock campaign," said Steve Lanzano, President and CEO, TVB.
TVB is the not-for-profit trade association representing America's local broadcast television industry. Its members include television stations, television broadcast groups, advertising sales reps, syndicators, international broadcasters and associate members. TVB actively promotes local media marketing solutions to the advertising community and works to develop advertising dollars for the medium's multiple platforms, including on-air, online and mobile. TVB provides a diverse variety of tools and resources, including its website, to support its members and to help advertisers make the best use of local ad dollars.
The Ad Council is where creativity and causes converge. The non-profit organization brings together the most creative minds in advertising, media, technology and marketing to address many of the nation's most important causes. The Ad Council has created many of the most iconic campaigns in advertising history. Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Smokey Bear. Love Has No Labels. Its innovative social good campaigns raise awareness, inspire action and save lives. To learn more, visit AdCouncil.org, follow the Ad Council's communities on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and view the creative on YouTube.
Hearst Television owns and operates 33 television and two radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, Estrella and more. The radio stations are leaders in Baltimore news/talk and rock music listenership. Its Hearst Media Production Group unit produces original programing across linear and streaming platforms for domestic and international distribution. Its Very Local app, free to download on household OTT devices and available across popular streaming services, offers 24/7 access to local news, weather and an array of local and regional programming. Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. Hearst Television is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst.
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The 2023 Burkburnett softball team is experiencing success the program hasn’t seen in a decade.
Back in 2013, the Lady Bulldogs qualified for State, and now they are one series win away from getting back to Austin.
There are similarities between the 2013 squad and this years team, including familiar faces that are still with the program.
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The Russian number 18 seed remarkably won the first 14 games of the fourth-round contest, inflicting two double bagels on Japanese opponent on Sunday.
That had not been achieved in the men's draw since Philipp Petzschner won the first two sets against Lukas Rosol without losing a game in 2012, and was just the fifth time it had happened in the Open Era.
Khachanov completely dominated Nishioka until the third set, incredibly only dropping two points in the whole of the second.
Nishioka, seeded 31, showed some fight to force a third-set tie-break, but Khachanov came out on top in the breaker to seal his place in the quarter-finals, where he will face American Sebastian Korda.
"First two sets I didn't know what was going on, but it's never easy when you are going with the score too easy. You feel it," Khachanov said after the victory. "Then at one point Yoshi tried to turn it around, he pumped [up] the crowd and it's normal.
"I tried to stay focused all the match from the beginning until the end. But it's not easy to win with this score, three sets, so the third set it was a really tough one and I'm playing well, so I'm really happy to go through." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/tennis/news/khachanov-dishes-out-double-bagel-to-nishioka/2026486 | 2023-01-23 02:05:46 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/tennis/news/khachanov-dishes-out-double-bagel-to-nishioka/2026486 |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Outgoing NCAA President Mark Emmert had some advice for his replacement in his first public appearance since announcing in April he was stepping down from position he has held for the last 12 years.
“The job requires a lot of patience. And it requires a lot of tolerance for ambiguity and it’s got a lot of moving parts because of the scale of the enterprise,” Emmert said Wednesday during an appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. “But that just means you got to stay as focused as you can on what really counts. And that’s doing the right thing by the athletes.”
Emmert, 69, has kept a low-profile during this lame-duck period as the NCAA’s leader. His tenure is set to end officially June 30, but the search for his successor is expected to be completed by the NCAA convention the second week of January.
He will leave the association, which has more than 1,100 member schools that serve half a million college athletes, as it is in the process of a sweeping reorganization and attempt to decentralize the regulation of college athletics.
Major college sports is making an awkward transition into a new era where athletes can be paid endorsers, while enforcement of rules regarding name, image and likeness has been flimsy. The games have never been more valuable media content, but the NCAA is still fighting to keep from paying the athletes like employees.
NCAA revenue has surpassed $1 billion annually in recent years, most coming from the media rights contracts for the men’s Division I basketball tournament.
Emmert has led the NCAA through a tumultuous time when it has been battered by antitrust lawsuits and threatened by politicians. Last year’s unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court left the NCAA exposed to further legal attacks and pivoting to deregulation.
“Mark walked … in at one of — if not the most — challenging time for intercollegiate athletics and has continued to lead well,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said. “I think you have to take a step back and look at how the NCAA is continuing to function as a priority and how it’s continuing to adapt, and you can make plenty of observations: ‘Well, it hasn’t done this. It hasn’t done that.’ That’s true in any endeavor.”
Despite all the uncertainty, Emmert said leading the NCAA is still a desirable opportunity.
“I guess I’ll confess to a little bit of envy to whoever winds up stepping in next because they get to continue to shape that amazing American institution,” he said.
Emmert called college sports a “public trust” and he conceded the job was even bigger than he thought it would be when took over in 2010. Emmert had previously served as the president at the University of Washington and LSU.
Even with that experience in higher education, Emmert admitted the governance of college sports — a representative democracy with limited power for the person sitting at the top — was complicated.
Chris Howard, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Arizona State, called Emmert “a good leader” who had a challenging role.
“It’s a different type of leadership that’s much different than that stern hand that we think we associate with leadership,” said Howard, a former college football player at Air Force who previously was president at Robert Morris University.
Emmert has faced plenty of criticism as he became the face of an increasingly unpopular entity.
“I think it’s in a lot of ways inappropriate to have an administrator be the face of the NCAA,” Emmert said. “The athletes are the face of the NCAA.”
Emmert, who made $2.9 million in 2021, said the only time the criticism bothered him was when he was accused of not caring about the athletes and prioritizing generating revenue.
“That’s painful. It’s offensive. It means somebody’s not spent two minutes trying to figure out, you know, who this guy is and what he’s done all his life,” he said.
Emmert said it was fair to say the NCAA should have acted sooner on name, image and likeness, but the association’s ability to create guidelines was overrun by state laws and other challenges.
“And the legal environment right now really constrains any national entity from saying, ‘Yeah, here’s how we’re going to manage this and control it,’” he said.
He called — again — for Congress to create federal NIL legislation.
Emmert said he didn’t regret going outside the NCAA’s normal enforcement process to punish Penn State’s football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case in 2014.
The NCAA was sued for the penalties and sanctions against Penn State and eventually many of them were rolled back.
“In retrospect, it would have been useful to do that a little more slowly, probably. And maybe some of the anxiety would have died down but I don’t second guess that one as much as people think,” Emmert said.
Emmert said he has played no role in choosing the next NCAA president beyond helping the Board of Governors create a job description.
“I’ve just loved 12 years of working in this space. I think college sports is one of the most consequential things that goes on in the country,” Emmert said. “And I hope people always recognize that we’re talking about changing a half a million people’s lives on an annual basis. There’s very few enterprises that do that.”
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Ida, 1 year later — NJ families still fighting to get home
Maryann Morris has been draining her funds to live in an apartment in Bridgewater since October with her young daughter, as she continues a handful of battles aimed at eventually returning to her home in Manville that was destroyed by Ida one year ago.
"We will not have a kitchen, but we will be moving back at the end of September, into a partial house," Morris told New Jersey 101.5. "I am scared to go back to the house, but I know that I can't afford $3,000 a month in rent."
The return home comes just in time for the end of her mortgage forbearance, which is set to expire on Oct. 1.
Since the remnants of Hurricane Ida struck New Jersey on Sept. 1, 2021, Morris has learned that she would not be reimbursed for the initial thousands of dollars she had spent on hotel stays, and that her required flood insurance policy would not be covering critical pieces of her home that were pummeled by sewage water the night of the storm.
Currently, she's waiting on FEMA to investigate her case and determine whether she deserves more from the insurance company.
"If I don't get more from them, I'm going to have to figure out a way to get myself into more debt, just to fix the house," Morris said.
Morris represents just one of the many New Jersey families still fighting to make themselves whole, following the storm that delivered tornadoes and catastrophic, deadly flooding. Ida resulted in major disaster declarations for residents, businesses and local governments in the counties of Bergen, Cape May, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic, Somerset, Union, and Warren.
"Now when it rains, I'm afraid to fall asleep," said Debby Josephs, who managed to move back into her Manville home in April, but still sees water coming into her home during storms.
Josephs and one of her sons were rescued by the fire department in a boat, after waking up around 5 a.m. on Sept. 2 to find her neighborhood underwater.
"This was my proud and joy, being able to buy this home," she said. "For seven months, I didn't sleep until I was able to get home, and at least have a roof over my head to call my own."
Josephs had to take on debt in the form of a Small Business Administration loan in order to stay afloat, not knowing that making such a move would make her ineligible for other forms of help. Meanwhile, Josephs said, she's dealing with a "contractor from hell" and waiting on her insurance company to provide more assistance.
The public comment period is open now, on New Jersey's plans to spend more than $228 million in federal Ida recovery funds. The spending plan was developed, in part, through survey responses from impacted residents. These are "last in" dollars for folks who've exhausted other routes of financial assistance.
According to New Jersey Organizing Project, an advocate for storm survivors, $228 million "is not nearly enough" for all Ida-impacted families to recover, and many survivors will be left without sufficient help.
The group is calling for an increase in funding of $160 million, to be pulled from federal pandemic aid and other possible federal funding sources.
Dino Flammia is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dino.flammia@townsquaremedia.com
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PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global Cervical Cancer Treatment market has been expanding for several years and is projected to continue at a growing CAGR. Cervical Cancer is a cancer arising from the cervix which is due to the abnormal growth of cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Early on, typically no symptoms are seen. Later symptoms may include abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, or pain during sexual intercourse. Increased disease prevalence, proactive government initiatives, and advent of targeted therapies are the major factors contributing to the market expansion. Cervical cancer has a high mortality rate (nearly 50%), which can be reduced by diagnosis and prevention. A report from 360ResearchReports projected that the global Cervical Cancer Treatment market size is expected to expand at a CAGR of 4.8% during the forecast period, reaching USD 11117.68 million by 2027. The report added that the market is growing at a steady rate and with the rising adoption of strategies by key players, the market is expected to rise over the projected horizon. Active biotech companies in the market this week include BioVaxys Technology Corp. (OTCQB: BVAXF) (CSE: BIOV), Seagen Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN), PDS Biotechnology Corporation (NASDAQ: PDSB), Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD).
A report from Grand View Research previously added: "Increased disease prevalence, proactive government initiatives, and advent of targeted therapies are the major factors contributing to the market expansion. Cervical cancer has a high mortality rate (nearly 50%), which can be reduced by diagnosis and prevention, but since the disease progression is generally slow, precancerous changes provide possibilities for prevention and treatment… rising R & D expenditure in oncologic diseases offer a promising future for the global cervical cancer treatment market in the foreseeable future. Hospital pharmacies captured the largest share of the global market in (recent years). Hospital pharmacies preserve the stock of products related to cervical cancer for out-patients as well as in-patients. The segment will be driven further by growing consumer awareness and increased investments in healthcare infrastructure in developing and underdeveloped countries. Online pharmacies segment is expected to be the fastest-growing distribution channel segment. This growth can be attributed to user-friendly interfaces and convenience offered by these pharmacies, in terms of access, prices, and delivery. In addition, they have several discounts on purchase of a certain amount or offer bundle pricing for cancer products."
BioVaxys Technology Corp. (OTCQB: BVAXF) (CSE: BIOV.CNQ) BREAKING NEWS: BioVaxys Executes Binding Term Sheet for the US Marketing & Distribution for Papilocare Gel and Oral Immunocaps - Agreement Includes Right of First Refusal in the US for Ovosicare and Libicare - BioVaxys Technology Corp. ("BioVaxys") announced today that it has executed a binding Term Sheet ("Term Sheet" or "Agreement") with Procare Health Iberia, S.L. ("Procare Health"), of Barcelona, Spain ("Procare Health"), for exclusive marketing and distribution in the United States of Procare Health's leading patented product, Papilocare™, the world's first and only vaginal gel product with clinical evidences to prevent and treat HPV-dependent cervical lesions, and for Immunocaps®, an oral over-the-counter nutritional supplement that supports immune function and vaginal microbiota to help re-epithelialization of cervical lesions. As Immunocaps® is an OTC supplement, BioVaxys anticipates that regulatory approval is not required, allowing the rapid build out of sales channels and revenue generation from the product.
In addition, the agreement gives BioVaxys right-of-refusal in the United States for Ovosicare® and Libicare®, Procare Health's over-the-counter supplements to support fertility enhancement for late maternity or IVF processes and Menopausal symptoms improvements which includes low libido among women suffering menopausal changes.
Financial terms include milestone payments and royalties on sales. The companies have agreed to complete an initial ten-year duration exclusive supply and distribution agreement ("Distribution Agreement") by December for Papilocare® Gel (packs of 7 and 21 5ml cannulas), 2x40ml and applicators, packs of 1x5ml samples, and 30 capsule packs of Immunocaps®. Manufacturing will remain in Spain under Procare Health.
Founded in 2012, Procare Health is a leading privately-held pharmaceuticals company in the women's health field based in Spain with several affiliates in Europe including France, Portugal and the UK, with marketed products including Papilocare®, Libicare®, Palomacare®, Idracare®, Pronolis HD® and Ovosicare®. Procare Health commercializes its products within more than 60 countries in the world via distribution agreements with well-known and established pharmaceuticals company within the field of Women's Health such as Gedeon Richter, Besins Pharmaceuticals, and MegaLab.
The Agreement follows the Letter of Intent ("LOI") signed last year outlining several collaborations between the two companies, including Papilocare® and the clinical development of BioVaxys' BVX-0918 for late-stage ovarian cancer. Whereas the LOI had originally granted BioVaxys right of first refusal for Papilocare®, today's agreement grants BioVaxys exclusive right to market and distribute the brand in the United States and establishes marketing support from Procare Health for Papilocare® and Immunocaps®. CONTINUED... Read this full release and more news for BioVaxys Technology at: https://www.financialnewsmedia.com/news-biov/
Other recent developments in the cancer treatment space include:
Seagen Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN), a world leader and pioneer in antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapies, and Zai Lab Limited (NASDAQ: ZLAB), a patient-focused, innovative, commercial-stage global biopharmaceutical company, recently announced an exclusive collaboration and license agreement for the development and commercialization of TIVDAK®(tisotumab vedotin-tftv) in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. TIVDAK is the first and only ADC approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with disease progression on or after chemotherapy.
Under the terms of the agreement, Seagen will receive an upfront payment of $30 million, as well as development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments, and tiered royalties on net sales of TIVDAK in the Zai Lab territory. Based on the existing TIVDAK co-development and co-commercialization collaboration between Seagen and Genmab (GMAB), all upfront, milestone payments, and royalties will be shared 50/50 with Genmab.
PDS Biotechnology Corporation (NASDAQ: PDSB), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing a growing pipeline of targeted immunotherapies for cancer and infectious disease, recently announced that two abstracts reporting the results of clinical development studies of PDS0101 have been accepted for presentation at the 37th Annual Meeting for the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2022) being held November 8-12, 2022, in Boston.
PDS0101 is PDS Biotech's lead candidate being developed as a treatment for HPV-expressing cancers. The abstracts accepted for presentation at SITC 2022 highlight research from the ongoing IMMUNOCERV Phase 2 clinical trial investigating PDS0101 in combination with standard of care chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancers and the phase 2 clinical trial involving the PDS0101-based triple combination therapy in advanced HPV16-expressing cancers. The IMMUNOCERV clinical trial is being led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The PDS0101 triple combination clinical trial is being led by the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, recently announced multiple breakthrough sequencing innovations at its inaugural Illumina Genomics Forum: The launch of NovaSeq™ 6000 Dx as the first FDA-registered and CE-marked in vitro diagnostic (IVD) high-throughput sequencer, delivering the highest standards of compliance and driving actionable insights for patient care. This technology expands the breadth of applications and clinical testing in countries that require IVD products, increasing access to clinical genomics with scalable throughput, while also achieving significant reductions in cost/Gb and total cost of ownership. NovaSeq 6000 Dx is an open platform, with RUO and IVD modes and a dedicated DRAGEN™ server, resulting in flexible, high-quality, automated data processing that will minimize the time and labor required to complete projects; and Illumina® Complete Long-Reads, formerly known as Infinity, will accelerate access to the remaining 5% of genic regions with a scalable, high-throughput, low DNA-input long read technology. Further, the technology provides a complete and accurate representation of the genome at the single molecule level without needing a new platform. In addition, it offers contiguous long reads to close key gaps.
Two products will be launched with full end-to-end workflows in 2023. The first product, currently in early access, is a whole-genome assay that uses long contiguous reads to further extend the coverage and completeness of our existing 30x genome. The second is an enrichment panel targeting only the difficult to map regions of the genome. When combined with the 30x genome on NovaSeq 6000 and NovaSeq X Series, the panel delivers a significant improvement in throughput and cost versus on-market long read technology for human whole-genome sequencing.
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) recently announced updates to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline, which now conditionally recommends Veklury® (remdesivir) for the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 and continues to conditionally recommend Veklury in those with non-severe COVID-19 at the highest risk of hospitalization.
The WHO conditional recommendation for Veklury's use in the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 is mainly driven by the final results of the WHO-sponsored SOLIDARITY study, which showed a statistically significant 17% lower relative risk of death or progression to needing ventilation in patients requiring supplemental oxygen at baseline, compared to standard of care (RR: 0.83; 95% CI: 0.75-0.93). Additionally, SOLIDARITY showed a statistically significant 13% lower relative risk of mortality with Veklury treatment for those patients hospitalized on supplemental oxygen and not requiring mechanical ventilation, compared with standard of care (RR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.76-0.99). In the study, Veklury had no significant effect on patients with COVID-19 who were already being ventilated. These findings complement results from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' double-blind placebo-controlled ACTT-1 trial, in which a mortality reduction was seen in Veklury-treated patients on low flow oxygen at baseline, as compared to placebo, in a post-hoc subgroup analysis (HR: 0.30; 95% CI: 0.14-0.64). Veklury did not demonstrate a mortality benefit in the overall population or other baseline oxygen subgroups in either ACTT-1 or SOLIDARITY.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced the appointment of Jeff Eidel as Chief Commercial Officer, effective August 16, 2022. In this role, Mr. Eidel will have global responsibility for all commercial activity including sales, marketing, and customer support.
"Jeff is a strong leader and an incredible executive, and I expect him to have a significant impact on the entire organization," said Christian Henry, President and Chief Executive Officer of PacBio. "Jeff is joining PacBio at a critical time as we continue in our efforts to expand our sequencing portfolio to become a multiplatform solution provider, scale our global commercial footprint and move towards profitability. Jeff has a strong track record of success leading cross-functional teams and growing high-performing organizations in commercial, finance, and corporate and business development."
Mr. Eidel joins PacBio from Cradle Genomics, a reproductive health startup where he was most recently Chief Executive Officer after joining the company in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Cradle Genomics, Mr. Eidel was Head of Corporate and Business Development at Illumina. During his 13 years at Illumina, he also held critical positions focused on negotiating and integrating acquisitions, leading deals with several of Illumina's largest customers and business partners, catalyzing global growth, and introducing new products. Before Illumina, Mr. Eidel held roles with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Corillian Corporation, and KPMG.
"It's an exciting time to be in the sequencing industry with many new entrants looking to disrupt an established market. PacBio's highly accurate sequencing technologies are well-differentiated and offer the company the rare opportunity to transform the market and delight customers with solutions capable of advancing science," said Mr. Eidel. "I look forward to working with Christian and the PacBio team to capitalize on this opportunity helping to strengthen our global footprint and accelerate the company's growth."
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) is a premier life science technology company that is designing, developing, and manufacturing advanced sequencing solutions to help scientists and clinical researchers resolve genetically complex problems. Our products and technology under development stem from two highly differentiated core technologies focused on accuracy, quality, and completeness which include our existing HiFi long-read sequencing and our emerging SBB® short-read sequencing technologies. Our products address solutions across a broad set of research applications, including human germline sequencing, plant and animal sciences, infectious disease and microbiology, oncology, and other emerging applications. For more information, please visit www.pacb.com and follow @PacBio.
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BuzzFeed to close news division, cut 15% of all staff
(AP) - Pulitzer prize-winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division as it cuts about 15% of its entire staff.
In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that cuts would also occur across its business, content, tech and administrative teams, according to multiple media reports. BuzzFeed is also considering making job cuts in some international markets.
Peretti said in a memo to staff that he “made the decision to overinvest” in the news division, but failed to recognize early enough that the the financial support needed to sustain operations was not there.
“I’ve learned from these mistakes, and the team moving forward has learned from them as well,” Peretti wrote. “We know that the changes and improvements we are making today are necessary steps to building a better future.”
He added that the company will now have one remaining news brand, HuffPost.
The announcement comes just a few months after BuzzFeed said that it would be cutting 12% of its workforce, citing worsening economic conditions.
BuzzFeed, founded by Peretti in 2006 and initially known for listicles and online quizzes, had established itself as a serious contender in the news business, winning a Pulitzer in 2021 for international reporting.
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Giuliani avoids jail in dispute over payments to ex-wife
New York – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani beat a contempt order and avoided jail Monday in an ongoing dispute over money he owes to his third wife, Judith Giuliani, as part of a divorce settlement reached three years ago.
At a brief court hearing, Giuliani said he’s making progress in paying the debt, though he and Judith remain far apart on how much he still owes for things like her country club memberships, condominium fees and health care.
Judge Michael Katz lifted the contempt order he issued after Giuliani missed a September court date. At the time, Judith Giuliani said the ex-mayor owed her more than $260,000. Katz had given Giuliani a final warning at a hearing a few weeks later, telling him the sheriff was “on notice to come at a moment’s notice” to jail him if he didn’t pay up.
Giuliani, also known for his work as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has since provided copies of $150,000 worth of checks he’s written to Judith and said he paid another $45,000 on Sept. 9, Katz said.
“It seems to me that he’s shown proof of payment,” Katz said Monday. “I am going to direct that he makes those payments and to remain current with any other obligations under the stipulation.”
Katz, exasperated with both sides, added: “I am hoping this is the last time I have to sit through this kind of exercise.”
Giuliani, who represented himself, praised Katz as “very fair” and quipped that the judge had finally “seen the reason why I’m not married to her.”
Outside the courthouse, Giuliani celebrated his freedom by quizzing reporters with “The Godfather” trivia, ranting about Hunter Biden’s laptop and plugging his radio show.
Judith Giuliani, in a telephone interview, said she found Katz’s decision “quite baffling” and that the matter is far from over.
Judith Giuliani said her ex-husband, once hailed as America’s Mayor for his leadership after 9/11, is still in arrears to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and that her lawyers will be taking him to court again if he doesn’t pay up. Giuliani disputes that, saying he owes about $14,000.
“The bottom line is that Rudy is what Rudy always is,” Judith Giuliani said. “He learned how to avoid the system, as we see in every other case that he’s done.”
Judith Giuliani said she agreed to the settlement in 2019 – rather than taking $40,000 in monthly support payments a judge awarded – as a favor to Giuliani, who was facing mounting costs at the time stemming from an investigation into his work in Ukraine.
Giuliani has since been under scrutiny for his efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss, as well as his actions prior to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. He alluded in court Monday to still more financial trouble, saying one check he wrote to Judith, for $30,000, bounced.
Katz quickly tired of the bickering couple, snapping at Judith Giuliani as she tried interrupting him and chiding Rudy Giuliani for talking in “apples and oranges” and attempting to submit evidence after a deadline.
“I don’t know why everyone thinks this is a free-for-all,” Katz said.
Lamenting that the case had turned him into an accountant, poring over checks, the judge said: “It seems everyone’s record-keeping in this case is very poor.”
Rudy Giuliani, 78, insisted in court that he could write a $5,000 check immediately to cover various costs, but said as he was leaving court that he needed to know what name to write on it.
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- Dot won the Best of Innovation award in the "Accessibility" category at CES 2023.
- Dot was named as an honoree in three categories after being nominated as the finalist
in each. - As of November 2022, the startup had secured KRW 25 billion in total cumulative investment and obtained 130 patents in Korea and overseas.
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot (co-founders: Eric Ju Yoon Kim and Ki Kwang Sung), a member of the Born2Global Centre (CEO Kim Jong-kap), and a startup that develops devices and software for the visually impaired, announced November 17 that its "Dot Pad" won the Best of Innovation award in the "Accessibility" category at CES 2023. Dot became the 15th certified B Corp in Korea four years ago, joining the ranks of other global heart-forward companies and further fortifying its aspirations toward increasing accessibility for the visually impaired.
The Dot Pad was nominated as the finalist in three categories—Accessibility, Mobile & Devices, and Virtual & Augmented Reality—and awarded in all three.
The CES Innovation Award, granted by the National Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is conferred for innovative technologies and products that are expected to lead the world and is viewed as the highest honor of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Since its founding in 2015, Dot has developed various assistive devices using its independently developed core technology, "Dot Cell," and introduced the world's first tactile display, the Dot Pad, in 2021. The Dot Pad consists of 2,400 pins arranged in a pixel-like grid that can quickly be set in up or down positions, reproducing letters in braille or easily identifiable shapes, symbols, tables, or charts stored on PCs or mobile devices. To recognize the image displayed on the Dot Pad, the user simply needs to touch it with his or her fingers. The device is expected to increase accessibility for the visually impaired in various areas of daily life such as education, music, and entertainment.
Dot collaborated with Apple to have the Dot Pad update included in the iOS 15.2 update last December. Now, the Dot Pad integrates directly into Apple's VoiceOver screen reading feature, enabling visually impaired users of iPhones or iPads to read text, icon labels, and even graphs or simple images with just a simple touch. Besides Apple, Dot is working on innovative projects with companies, organizations, and research institutes around the world.
Dot co-founders Eric Ju Yoon Kim and Ki Kwang Sung said, "We are grateful that the value of the world's first tactile display has been recognized worldwide, and we hope this will serve as an opportunity to bring more attention to education for the blind and the work environment around the world."
Meanwhile, Dot is working closely with American Printing House(APH) and Humanware in education for the visually impaired in the United States through their unique technology. They are ultimately aiming to help rehabilitate people with acquired visual impairment and increase work productivity by facilitating access to essential office programs such as Excel and PowerPoint in the workplace through collaboration with Apple and NV ACCESS. Dot's continuous research is expected to change the education and work environment of the visually impaired around the world.
Dot
Founded in 2015, Dot has commercialized products such as the Dot Watch, Dot Pad, and Dot Kiosk. The company has focused its business on the "social" component of ESG and introduced innovative solutions to social problems through its technological advancements in domestic and overseas markets. As of November 2022, Dot has attracted KRW 25 billion in Series B investment and acquired 130 patents in Korea and overseas.
For more information, please visit: https://pad.dotincorp.com/
About Born2Global Centre
The Born2Global Centre, operated by Born2Global, is a full-cycle service platform that supports the global expansion of promising companies. Established in 2013 under the Ministry of Science and ICT, Born2Global has been setting the standards for a successful startup ecosystem in Korea and continues to expand and transform startups so that they are engaged, well equipped, and connected with the global market.
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ATLANTA (AP) _ Mueller Water Products Inc. (MWA) on Monday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $23.6 million.
The Atlanta-based company said it had net income of 15 cents per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 15 cents per share.
The maker of fire hydrants, pipes and water valves posted revenue of $310.5 million in the period.
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Which cocktail smokers are best?
Previously, homemade cocktails were basic and didn’t have much flair beyond an orange slice or two. Forget about tasting a smoked cocktail! You could only get those made from a fancy mixologist at a high-end bar uptown. However, with the sudden surge of homebrewers and increased interest in creating the perfect drink, cocktail smokers have become more accessible to meet the demand.
The best smokers, like the Breville Polyscience Gun Pro Smoke Infuser, are made with high-quality materials that ensure the perfect smoked cocktail but are also easy enough for a beginner to use.
What to know before you buy a cocktail smoker
Aesthetics
Making a cocktail is about the flair as much as it is about the flavor. You tend to appreciate the drink more when you watch the bartender flip bottles behind them in the air and light your drink on fire.
In regards to smoked cocktails, the smoker plays a vital role in maintaining the aesthetics. Consider if the smoker is for your eyes only or if you plan on entertaining guests at a party or outdoor get-together. Some cocktail smoker kits available tend to look like they’re haphazardly put together and may ruin a great ambiance. While that’s perfectly fine when you’re creating your own smoked drinks, a nice smoker serves to make you and the drinks you serve look that much more remarkable.
Wood chips
There is a seemingly limitless list of options regarding what you can use to smoke your cocktail. Some excellent types of wood include mesquite, apple and cherry, but you can also use herbs, like rosemary and thyme, to enhance your drink.
For example, after putting on a show with your best cocktail shaker, you can use your smoker to infuse cinnamon bark and sage into the drink to leave a lasting impression.
Drink types
The most common smoked cocktails tend to be whiskey-based because of how their aging process compliments a smoky flavor. Similar to how you’re not limited to using wood chips in a smoker, you can also enhance cocktails with various base liquors.
For example, a smoked old-fashioned is a favorite among home mixologists, but you’ll find that smoking martinis and even mojitos can take those cocktails to the next level.
What to look for in a quality cocktail smoker
Kit
Regardless if you’re a seasoned mixologist or a budding home cocktail enthusiast, it’s much easier to purchase a smoker that comes with all the necessary accessories. In fact, it may be beneficial to start with a smoker kit that comes with the wood chips, a dome and board so that you’re ready to go the second it arrives. It can be incredibly frustrating to start making your favorite drink, only to find that you forgot to purchase smoke screens.
Getting a kit allows you to get a feel for your smoker and determine if you require upgraded accessories. That can include a larger or customized glass dome or a tray full of various herbs and types of wood.
Size
Most cocktail smokers you find are compact handheld devices. This makes them more portable, so you can impress your family and friends at their house party or create delicious smoked cocktails in the great outdoors.
However, some cocktail smokers are quite large and require an abundance of additional equipment compared to handheld versions. Consider where you’ll be using your smoker and if a smaller handheld device is enough for your smoking needs or if you need a more powerful device.
Power
Consider how often you plan on using your cocktail smoker to determine which power source would best serve your needs. For example, if you plan on using it for large parties, it’s advantageous to use a battery-powered smoker.
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However, if you plan on mixing a few drinks at a time, a rechargeable smoker that uses a USB cable port that can plug into an outlet is more than sufficient.
How much you can expect to spend on cocktail smokers
Depending on the quality and items included, you can expect to spend between $80-$150 on a quality cocktail smoker.
Cocktail smoker FAQ
How long does a tin of wood chips last?
A. That entirely depends on how often you use your cocktail smoker. Most standard-size tins of wood chips can last several months because you only require a small pinch each time.
Are cocktail smokers safe?
A. Cocktail smokers are safe as long as you follow the manufacturer’s instructions. The only issues arise when you forget to put out the wood chips before throwing them away. Similar to camping, the wood chips must be completely put out. A single spark can cause more problems than you bargained for. Additionally, when lighting the smoker, ensure that it’s lit in a well-ventilated area. You don’t want to inhale accumulated smoke continuously.
What are the best cocktail smokers to buy?
Top cocktail smoker
Breville Polyscience Gun Pro Smoke Infuser
What you need to know: Breville presents a smoke infuser that’s high-quality enough for professional use and intuitive enough for beginners.
What you’ll love: This smoker allows you to get the exact smoke flavor profile you need by allowing you to control the airflow and smoke intensity with a smooth dial. It also comes with a built-in stand that you can use to keep your smoker in place while making other drinks. There’s no need to go out and purchase additional supplies because it comes with an extender hose, batteries and additional smoke screens to help with clogging. You can also remove the chamber and barrel for a quick and easy machine wash.
What you should consider: It includes sample kits, but it would be nice if it had an entire bag of wood chips. While it works great on cocktails, it’s not the best option to smoke meat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top cocktail smoker for the money
What you need to know: MITBAK presents a high-quality smoker complete with a kit at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: This cocktail smoker kit comes with everything you need from the all-important infuser, wood chips, a lid and charger cable. It’s beginner-friendly, so it’s intuitive to use. While it’s cheaper than its competitors, the quality makes it rank among some of the best.
What you should consider: The dome may be too low for high balls or other taller glasses.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Smoke Board Smoked Cocktail Kit
What you need to know: Be the center of attention at your next party or create delicious smoked cocktails with the compact and portable Smoke Board Cocktail Kit.
What you’ll love: This compact kit comes with various wood chips, like pecan, apple and cherry, to help you create drool-worthy cocktails. It also has an oak smoking board to safely burn your wood chips and a glass Mason jar to contain all the smoke. This is an extremely versatile smoking kit because it’s not only effective for cocktails but it also deeply infuses the flavor in deli meats, cheeses and more.
What you should consider: You must purchase the butane gas can separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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New Made Easy Line Provides All the Health Benefits of Olive Oil and None of the Guesswork in the Kitchen
BALTIMORE, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, America's best-selling olive oil brand, Pompeian, Inc. announces the debut of its Made Easy Olive Oil collection featuring four new cooking oils with easy-to-understand usages, including Made Easy Fry Olive Oil, Made Easy Bake Olive Oil, Made Easy Sauté Olive Oil and Made Easy Drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil. As the category leader, Pompeian has set out to eliminate confusion surrounding olive oil usage with this intuitive, easy-to-understand new line, ultimately helping to drive consumption of this original superfood, while growing category sales. With over half of olive oil buyers unsure how to use or differentiate between types of oils, and non-buyers citing confusion to be a primary barrier to purchase, Pompeian is excited to bring to the marketplace a kitchen secret weapon that's been long anticipated by home cooks.
"With so many varieties to choose from in the olive oil aisle, we understand why consumer confusion is at an all-time high and empathize with home cooks," says Casey Smith, Innovation Marketing Manager at Pompeian. "We're on a mission to democratize olive oil and healthy eating for all, and that starts with ensuring our products are easy to use and not contributing to the confusion. We're so excited to introduce this Pompeian Made Easy collection and know it will help new and existing customers shop and cook with ease."
With all the health benefits of olive oil and none of the guesswork about which to buy and use in recipes, Pompeian Made Easy Olive Oils are expertly crafted to simplify the shopping and cooking process, so home cooks can focus on what's most important, cooking a healthy and delicious meal. Each Made Easy Olive Oil, available in 16-ounce and 32-ounce bottles starting at $6.09, has a unique taste and smoke point level, creating ideal options for the variety of olive oil cooking needs.
- Made Easy Fry is expertly crafted so shoppers can fry healthier. With its high smoke point, this oil is perfect for making healthier fried foods like chicken cutlets, fish or even french fries.
- Made Easy Bake is perfect for making healthier baked goods like brownies, cakes and breads, as it's a certified heart-healthy food by the American Heart Association (AHA). With an ultra-light taste, this olive oil won't compromise the flavors in your favorite baking recipes.
- Made Easy Sauté is expertly crafted for pan cooking recipes. It is certified heart-healthy by the AHA and has an extra smooth taste that's perfect for sautéing veggies, proteins or even whipping up a stir-fry.
- Made Easy Drizzle is an AHA-certified, flavor boosting finishing extra virgin olive oil for recipes in need an extra drizzle, such as salads, veggies, breads and even ice cream.
Pompeian is 100% farmer owned and sustainably sourced from the world's best olive groves to provide consumers with a high-quality cooking oil that's better for people, the planet and plates. Pompeian Made Easy Olive Oils will be available for nationwide shipping to retailers this month. For information about the full Pompeian olive oil portfolio, please visit www.pompeian.com. Other recipe inspiration and updates can be found by following Pompeian on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn.
About Pompeian, Inc.
Pompeian, Inc. – The Olive Oil People - is America's largest national brand of olive oil, bestselling vinegars and a variety of cooking sprays. Farmer owned and Baltimore based since 1906, Pompeian is a family of olive farmers and olive oil craftsmen whose passion, expertise and dedication bring the best-tasting, highest-quality olive oils to kitchens everywhere. Upholding the highest quality standards, Pompeian conducts daily testing through their in-house quality assurance team in the state-of-the-art Pompeian Quality Control and Research & Development Center ensuring each bottle is always at peak freshness. Inspired by heritage and tradition, Pompeian products are rooted in authenticity and crafted for quality and great taste. Learn more at www.pompeian.com.
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ST. PETERSURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor vowed Sunday to fight his suspension from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis over his promise not to enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban and support for gender transition treatments for minors.
Andrew Warren, a Democrat suspended last week from his twice-elected post as state attorney in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, said in a Facebook video message and news release Sunday he plans a “vigorous defense” by his legal team but did not give specifics.
“I’m not going down without a fight,” Warren said on the video. “I refuse to let this man trample on your freedoms to speak your mind, to make your own health care decisions, and to have your vote count.”
Warren was suspended Thursday by DeSantis, a Republican seeking re-election in November and potential 2024 presidential candidate, who cited neglect of duty and other alleged violations. The governor contended that’s because Warren signed statements with dozens of other prosecutors nationwide vowing not to pursue criminal cases against people who seek or provide abortions or gender transition treatments.
Warren contended Sunday the governor was essentially seeking to nullify the will of voters in the Tampa area who elected him in 2016 and 2020.
“I was elected because the people of this county share my vision for criminal justice, trust my judgment, and have seen your success,” Warren said in the video. “I swore to uphold the Constitution, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. DeSantis is trying to take away my job for doing my job.”
Under Florida law, the Republican-controlled state Senate has authority to reinstate Warren or uphold his removal from office. Warren could also take his case to court.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Sunday. DeSantis said Thursday, however, that Warren was acting “above the law” and “displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform” the duties of his office.
“I don’t think the people of Hillsborough County want to have an agenda that is basically woke, where you’re deciding that your view of social justice means certain laws shouldn’t be enforced,” said the governor.
Florida’s new abortion restriction became effective July 1 and remains under court challenge by abortion providers and allies. It prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not allow exemptions in cases where pregnancies were caused by rape, incest or human trafficking.
Violators could face up to five years in prison. Physicians and other medical professionals could lose their licenses and face administrative fines of $10,000 for each violation.
Florida has not enacted laws criminalizing gender transition treatments for minors.
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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — An undersheriff in rural Kansas faces a manslaughter trial Monday for fatally shooting an unarmed man with a homemade beanbag round out of his personal shotgun, a case that comes amid a national reckoning on police violence.
Jury selection will start in the trial of Virgil Brewer, who was with the Barber County Sheriff’s Office at the time of the deadly encounter with Steven Myers in October 2017 outside a shed in Sun City, about 300 miles (555 kilometers) from the Kansas City, Kansas.
A civil lawsuit brought by Myers’ family against Brewer and then-Barber County Sheriff Lonnie Small was settled in 2020 after county officials agreed to pay $3.5 million.
Brewer’s criminal trial is expected to focus on whether his lack of knowledge and training with the less-lethal munitions amounted to reckless involuntary manslaughter.
Defense attorney David Harger did not respond to messages seeking comment on the case. Brewer has been on unpaid leave since his 2018 arrest. He has been free pending trial.
“The fact of the matter is that it is not going to be a good outcome for anybody, no matter whether or not he gets convicted,” Steven Myers’ widow, Kristina Myers, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Yes, it will be over in that sense, but this one bad decision has ruined the lives of so many people.”
On the evening of Oct. 6, 2017, Brewer was carrying his personal weapon when he, along with the sheriff and a sheriff’s deputy, responded to a call about a man holding a rifle on a street after an altercation at a local bar.
About five minutes before the fatal shooting, Small said: “A little luck and he’ll just pass out and die,” a remark captured on the sheriff’s body camera as they searched for Myers. They eventually found him hiding in a shed.
Both Brewer and the deputy later told the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that they could clearly see that Myers was not armed when they confronted him outside the shed, according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by AP.
Body camera footage reviewed by investigators shows Brewer repeatedly told Myers to “get on the ground” before shooting him, while Deputy Mark Suchy gave conflicting commands to “put your hands up now.” Seconds later, Brewer shot Myers with one round.
Brewer told the Kansas Bureau of Investigation during an interview that he was in fear for his and the deputy’s lives when Myers continued to walk toward them, adding that he did not expect the beanbag round to penetrate Myers’ chest.
The deputy’s body camera video showed Myers was not making any aggressive movement at the time Brewer shot him, according to Bureau Agent Brian Carroll in an affidavit in support of the criminal charge against the undersheriff.
“Myers was never told he was under arrest, Myers was never warned that his failure to comply with commands would result in the use of the impending force,” Carroll wrote.
Brewer then discharged his personal weapon at too close of a distance and shot Myers in the chest, a lethal force zone.
Carroll’s affidavit contends that Brewer’s lack of knowledge and training regarding the proper use of less-lethal beanbag munitions recklessly caused Myer’s death. Proper training would have provided critical information about the proper distance to deploy the round and the proper target zone on a person.
Such training would have also informed Brewer about past problems with rectangular-shaped bean bags like the one he used, Carroll wrote. Those are known to penetrate subjects shot with them, and their use has been discontinued for years. The rounds used today are rounded, balloon-shaped bean bags, according to the affidavit.
Before coming to Kansas, Brewer worked in Texas where he was given the beanbag ammunition used the evening of Myers’ death. The affidavit revealed that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation interviewed Travis Martin, the deputy at the Freestone County Sheriff’s Office in Texas who gave Brewer the ammunition.
Martin, who is expected to testify, told the agency that after speaking with the beanbag maker, that type of ammunition would no longer be carried and should not be fired on a person.
Martin told investigators that he “thought he had talked with Brewer about not using the ammunition on a person,” according to the affidavit.
Medical Examiner Timothy Gorrill is also expected to take the witness stand. His autopsy found the cause of death to be a penetrating shotgun bag wound to the trunk with the manner of death ruled a homicide.
Kristina Myers said she has been subpoenaed, adding she hopes to be allowed to watch the trial after her testimony.
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Philippines stun New Zealand to notch first ever Women's World Cup victory
Sarina Bolden scored the lone goal for the Philippines in the 24th minute
Philippines made history at its first Women’s World Cup with its first goal and first win Tuesday, holding on under pressure to upset co-host New Zealand.
The New Zealanders only five days earlier had celebrated their first win in six trips to the Women’s World Cup.
Sarina Bolden scored the historic match-winner in the 24th minute and goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel — one of 18 U.S.-born or based players in the Philippines squad — produced a tireless performance to frustrate New Zealand as it desperately tried to rally.
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For the tournament co-hosts, the jubilation that surrounded their 1-0 win over Norway in the tournament opener and transformed a rugby-mad nation into one suddenly besotted by soccer, melted away too soon.
A victory over Philippines would have meant New Zealand was the first of 32 teams at this World Cup to advance beyond the group stage.
But after conceding Bolden’s goal against the run of play, New Zealand was unable to recover. It had enjoyed 80% of possession before Santa Clara-born Bolden scored from the Philippines’ first shot on goal.
New Zealand ended with 67% of possession and 14 shots on goal to the Philippines’ three, but couldn’t find an equalizer, let alone a winner.
Hannah Wilkinson went close on a couple of occasions and Jacqui Hand hit the post in the 64th. In the cruelest blow for the home team, Wilkinson crossed in the 68th to Hand, who headed into the net for what appeared to be goal.
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But a review showed Wilkinson was a fraction offside and the goal was disallowed. For the rest of the match, McDaniel was a sentinel in front of the Philippines’ goal.
"I’ve got everyone else’s tears all over my eyes, it’s so emotional," Philippines coach Alen Stajcic said. "You saw how long New Zealand had to wait for its first win — six World Cups — and (for Philippines) to get it today was incredible.
"We made our own luck but we also had a lot of luck. New Zealand were on the front foot the whole game and deserved something. But football is cruel sometimes."
When the final whistle sounded after five minutes of added time in which McDaniel pulled off two outstanding saves, there was only joy and celebration for the Philippines. Their fans were numerous — New Zealand has a substantial Philippines population — but apart from Bolden’s goal when they gave full voice to their support, they had been subdued; afraid it seemed to tempt fate.
Those fans must have watched some of the second half through their fingers as New Zealand pressed forward on attack and tested McDaniel with shot after shot. At the end they let their cries of joy rise out of Wellington’s Sky Stadium and into a fine but cool Wellington night.
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New Zealanders, so optimistic after the win over Norway, were briefly shaken, silent but at last the saluted their team. A loss was unexpected but not terminal. Switzerland and Norway had a 0-0 draw later Tuesday in Hamilton in a result that leaves all four teams in Group A still able to advance.
The Swiss lead with four points, New Zealand and the Philippines each have three and Norway has one.
New Zealand will play Switzerland and Philippines is against Norway on Sunday.
New Zealand’s match in Dunedin is sold out, making it a third consecutive capacity crowd as New Zealanders embrace soccer and the Ferns in unprecedented numbers.
"We were dominating the game tonight, we were keeping the ball," New Zealand coach Jitka Klimkova said. "There were too many unforced turnovers. We didn’t see those turnovers in our game against Norway.
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"We can be more prepared against Switzerland. The tournament is not over yet — we’ll keep fighting."
New Zealanders will keep hoping. The win over Norway was a transformative for women’s soccer, women’s sport in New Zealand. Another win could be revolutionary.
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Alicia Keys reimagines a classic for ‘Bridgerton’ soundtrack
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- Samsung 55-Inch Class QLED Outdoor The Terrace 4K Smart TV
- Anker Nebula Capsule Max Mini Projector
- Owlenz 150-Inch Projector Screen
To help fuel the excitement for the new “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” series available on Netflix on Thursday, May 4th, 2023, Alicia Keys has recorded a new version of her iconic hit “If I Ain’t Got You.” The new track features a 90-piece orchestra and can be heard in the popular show. Besides the feverishly awaited new season of this steamy series, Netflix has a number of other exciting titles dropping this month.
Must-see upcoming Netflix releases
Over the next few weeks, Netflix is releasing 23 new titles. The list includes anime, drama, stand-up comedy, documentaries, reality shows and more. No matter what your genre, there’s something new for you.
One of the most hotly awaited releases is “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.” This season has six episodes that focus on Queen Charlotte’s rise to prominence and power. It’s a prequel that tells the story of how the young queen’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton. It comes out on May 4.
“The Mother” is an action movie that stars Jennifer Lopez as a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she was forced to give up years before when she was on the run. Netflix will release this film on May 12.
Six days later, on May 18, the spin-off to the hugely popular “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” will be released. The 10-episode series centers on Kitty Song Covey, played by Anna Cathcart, who is convinced she knows everything there is to know about love. However, when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she begins to realize she doesn’t know as much as she thought she did.
On May 25, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a CIA operative on the verge of retirement who is forced to go back into the field for one last job. “FUBAR” focuses on family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, action and humor.
Full list of May Netflix releases
May 2: “Love Village” (reality series)
May 2: “The Tailor” (drama series)
May 3: “Jewish Matchmaking” (reality series)
May 4: “Sanctuary” (drama series)
May 4: “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” (romance/drama series)
May 9: “Hannah Gadsby: Something Special” (stand-up comedy special)
May 10: “Queen Cleopatra” (documentary series produced by Jada Pinkett Smith)
May 10: “Dance Brothers” (drama series)
May 11: “Royalteen: Princess Margrethe” (drama)
May 11: “Ultraman” (anime series)
May 12: “Black Knight” (action series)
May 12: “The Mother” (action/thriller starring Jennifer Lopez)
May 12: “Queer Eye” (reality series)
May 16: “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” (documentary)
May 17: “Rhythm + Flow France” (reality series)
May 18: “XO, Kitty” (romance/comedy series inspired by “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”)
May 18: “Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune” (anime series)
May 19: “Selling Sunset” (reality series)
May 23: “Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer” (stand-up comedy special)
May 23: “Victim/Suspect” (documentary)
May 24: “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” (reality series releasing four episodes each week)
May 25: “FUBAR” (comedy/action series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger)
May 26: “Blood & Gold” (action/drama)
Fun ways to enjoy Netflix this season
Samsung 55-Inch Class QLED Outdoor The Terrace 4K Smart TV
If you want the best backyard Netflix experience, consider this outdoor TV from Samsung. It is optimized to display a brilliant picture, even in sunlight, and it features built-in Alexa for convenience.
Anker Nebula Capsule Max Mini Projector
With a portable projector, you can turn any wall into a big-screen TV. This model has autofocus for crisp images and is best suited for low-light environments, such as a backyard movie night. The projector treats you and your family to a 100-inch image size.
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Apple iPad Air (5th Generation)
This iPad has a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with accurate color and an antireflective coating so you can see every detail. The stereo landscape speakers offer above-par sound, and the thin, lightweight design makes it handy for weekend getaways.
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This tablet from Amazon is affordably priced and features an 8-inch HD screen. The battery lasts for up to 13 hours, so you’ll have time to binge an entire series before recharging, making it perfect for long car rides.
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Panasonic SoundSlayer Dolby Atmos Soundbar
If you want powerful, movie-theater-like sound, you’ll want to add a soundbar to your entertainment setup. This option has a compact size but delivers audio with impressive depth and clarity.
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Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
The personalized spatial audio of these wireless earbuds puts you in the middle of the action. With the noise-canceling mode, you’ll hear every word in this season of “Bridgerton,” so you won’t miss a single steamy whisper.
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Owlenz 150-Inch Projector Screen
If you’re going to turn Netflix night into a backyard party, you need an outdoor screen. This one is 150 inches, features a lightweight, foldable design and can be hung in nearly any environment, even between two trees.
Sold by Amazon
Other products worth checking out
- This tablet mount attaches to the back of the front seat so passengers can more easily watch their favorite shows on a tablet.
- If you’re seeking a clever outdoor screen solution, this inflatable model is easy to set up and store.
- This tablet stand can prop up your tablet, so you can stream in comfort
- If you’d like a little isolation so you can fully immerse yourself in a Netflix show, these Sennheiser closed-back over-the-ear headphones are a solid choice.
- People who want a little more sound from their tablet should consider this Sony portable Bluetooth speaker.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteHorse Finance, Inc. ("WhiteHorse Finance" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: WHF) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. In addition, the Company's board of directors has declared a distribution of $0.355 per share with respect to the quarter ending September 30, 2022. The distribution will be payable on October 4, 2022 to stockholders of record as of September 20, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Summary Highlights
- Net Asset Value of $347.4 million, or $14.95 per share
- Investment portfolio(1) totaling $766.5 million
- STRS JV investment portfolio totaling $318.8 million
- Gross investment deployments(2) of $48.1 million for the second quarter, including new originations of $28.9 million and $19.2 million of fundings for add-ons to existing investments
- Net investment income of $7.9 million, or $0.339 per share
- Core net investment income of $7.8 million, or $0.334 per share(3)
- Second quarter distribution of $0.355 per share
Stuart Aronson, WhiteHorse Finance's Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Despite economic headwinds, our well-diversified portfolio continued to perform well this past quarter, and WhiteHorse ended the quarter with no investments on non-accrual status. We believe, given the modest leverage levels that we underwrite our loans to, that the majority of our portfolio companies will be able to service our debt in a rising interest rate environment. Additionally, as a result of elevated repayment activity during the quarter, we remain comfortably below our leverage targets and have capacity to redeploy capital to higher yielding assets. While our pipeline for future deal flow is at record levels, due in part to our differentiated three-tiered sourcing approach and relationship with the leading H.I.G. platform, we have a cautious approach and are selectively taking advantage of market conditions. Our investment portfolio is also well-positioned to benefit from a rising interest rate environment as nearly 100% of our debt portfolio is comprised of floating rate debt investments. Combined with the reset of three-month LIBOR and SOFR contracts and the full impact of our increased ownership in the Ohio STRS JV, we expect to achieve earnings accretion in the coming quarters."
Portfolio and Investment Activity
As of June 30, 2022, the fair value of WhiteHorse Finance's investment portfolio was $766.5 million, compared with $800.4 million as of March 31, 2022. The portfolio as of June 30, 2022 consisted of 105 positions across 68 companies with a weighted average effective yield of 9.9% on income-producing debt investments. The average debt investment size (excluding investments in STRS JV (as defined below)) was $7.9 million with the overall portfolio comprised of approximately 80.3% first lien secured loans, 2.9% second lien secured loans, 3.5% equity and 13.3% in investments in STRS JV. Almost all loans were variable rate investments (primarily indexed to the London Interbank Offered Rate or Secured Overnight Financing Rate) with fixed rate securities representing only 0.4% of loans at fair value. Nearly all performing floating rate investments have interest rate floors.
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, WhiteHorse Finance made investments in four new portfolio companies for a total of $28.9 million, added a total of $19.2 million to existing portfolio companies, and made net fundings of $1.4 million to revolver loans. Proceeds from sales and repayments totaled approximately $66.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, driven by five full realizations in IvyRehab Intermediate II, LLC, What If Holdings, LLC, RLJ Pro-Vac, Inc., Tensar Corporation and Education Networks of America, Inc.
In addition to the transactions discussed above, during the three months ended June 30, 2022, WhiteHorse Finance transferred assets comprised of one new portfolio company and one add-on investment, totaling $17.8 million to STRS JV in exchange for cash proceeds.
WHF STRS Ohio Senior Loan Fund LLC
As of June 30, 2022, STRS JV's portfolio totaled $318.8 million, consisted of 32 portfolio companies and had a weighted average effective yield of 8.7% on its portfolio.
Results of Operations
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company's net investment income was approximately $7.9 million, compared with approximately $6.1 million for the same period in the prior year, representing an increase of approximately 29.5%. The increase in net investment income for the year-over-year period was primarily attributable to higher investment income from interest income and STRS JV due to larger portfolio sizes in both the Company and STRS JV and higher accretion income due to more repayment activities. This was partially offset by higher interest expense incurred due to higher leverage balances and higher interest rates. For the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company's investment in STRS JV generated an annualized, gross investment yield of approximately 12.1%.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, core net investment income(3) was $7.8 million, or $0.334 per share, compared with $7.0 million, or $0.338 per share for the same period in the prior year.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, WhiteHorse Finance reported a net realized and unrealized loss on investments and foreign currency transactions of $0.5 million. This compares with a net realized and unrealized gain on investments and foreign currency transactions of $4.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease for the year-over-year period was primarily attributable to markdowns on the portfolio in the current quarter, partially offset by a $1.7 million realized gain from the recovery proceeds received from the RCS Class B Units investment.
WhiteHorse Finance reported a net increase in net assets resulting from operations of approximately $7.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, which compares with a net increase of $10.5 million the three months ended June 30, 2021.
WhiteHorse Finance's net asset value was $347.4 million, or $14.95 per share, as of June 30, 2022, compared with $347.9 million, or $14.99 per share, as of Mach 31, 2022.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of June 30, 2022, WhiteHorse Finance had cash and cash equivalents of $18.6 million, compared with $21.3 million as of Mach 31, 2022, inclusive of restricted cash. As of June 30, 2022, the Company also had $96.3 million of undrawn capacity under its revolving credit facility.
Distributions
The Company's Board of Directors has declared a distribution of $0.355 per share with respect to the quarter ending September 30, 2022. The distribution will be payable on October 4, 2022 to stockholders of record as of September 20, 2022.
On May 10, 2022, the Company declared a distribution of $0.355 per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, consistent with distributions declared for the thirty-ninth consecutive quarter since the Company's initial public offering. The distribution was paid on July 5, 2022 to stockholders of record as of June 20, 2022.
Distributions are paid from taxable earnings and may include return of capital and/or capital gains. The specific tax characteristics of the distributions will be reported to stockholders on Form 1099-DIV after the end of the calendar year and in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Conference Call
WhiteHorse Finance will host a conference call to discuss its second quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. To access the teleconference, please dial 800-459-5346 (domestic and international) approximately 10 minutes before the teleconference's scheduled start time and reference Conference ID #WHFQ222. Investors may also access the call on the investor relations portion of the Company's website at www.whitehorsefinance.com.
If you are unable to access the live teleconference, a replay will be available beginning approximately two hours after the call's completion through August 17, 2022. The teleconference replay can be accessed by dialing 800-839-6911 (domestic and international). A webcast replay will also be available on the investor relations portion of the Company's website at www.whitehorsefinance.com.
About WhiteHorse Finance, Inc.
WhiteHorse Finance is a business development company that originates and invests in loans to privately held, lower middle market companies across a broad range of industries. The Company's investment activities are managed by H.I.G. WhiteHorse Advisers, LLC, an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, LLC, ("H.I.G. Capital"). H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative asset manager with $50 billion of capital under management(4) across a number of funds focused on the small and mid-cap markets. For more information about H.I.G. Capital, please visit http://www.higcapital.com. For more information about the Company, please visit http://www.whitehorsefinance.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
SCHEDULE 1
As a supplement to GAAP financial measures, the Company has provided information relating to core net investment income, which is a non-GAAP measure. This measure is provided in addition to, but not as a substitute for, net investment income determined in accordance with GAAP. The Company's non-GAAP measures may differ from similar measures by other companies, even if similar terms are used to identify such measures. Core net investment income represents net investment income adjusted to exclude the net impact of costs associated with the refinancing of the Company's indebtedness, the accrual of the capital gains incentive fee attributable to net realized and unrealized gains and losses, and excise or other income taxes related to such net realized gains and losses (net of incentive fees). There were no excise or other income taxes related to net realized gains and losses nor did the Company incur any costs with refinancing any of its indebtedness for the quarters ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021.
The following table provides a reconciliation of net investment income to core net investment income for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021 (in thousands, except per share data):
Contacts
Stuart Aronson
WhiteHorse Finance, Inc.
212-506-0500
saronson@higwhitehorse.com
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WhiteHorse Finance, Inc.
305-379-2322
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Rose & Company
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking lawsuits against British tabloids, lawyers said Wednesday.
A trial in a case involving the Duke of Sussex and three others against the publisher of The Mirror is due to start May 9 in the High Court and last six to seven weeks.
While the trial begins three days after the coronation of his father, King Charles III, Harry is is not expected to take the witness stand until early or mid-June, according to a preliminary schedule of witnesses. It’s not clear if Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will attend the coronation.
Harry’s testimony will be the second time he’s been in the High Court in three months after his surprise appearance last week in a similar case.
Harry sat through parts of three days of hearings to see if the phone hacking suit he brought with Elton John, actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, and others survives a legal challenge by the publisher of The Daily Mail.
His presence in court for the dense legal arguments indicated the importance of the case to Harry in his broader battle against the British press. He has several lawsuits against the news media and has said he wants to reform the tabloid press as part of his life’s work.
British tabloid publishers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims dating back well over a decade that journalists and private investigators hired by them hacked the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and others in the public eye.
The case against Mirror Group Newspapers alleges that Harry’s voicemail messages were intercepted.
The Mirror publisher is contesting the claims and argues they were brought too late.
The May trial is a test case by four claimants against the Mirror out of a larger group of well-known people who sued the publisher.
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Autel will launch the Autel Training Academy next month at its U.S.-headquarters in New York, providing technicians and shop owners with hands-on one-day and two-day training courses. The first set of classes will be an intensive two-day course focusing on diagnostics, alignment, and ADAS calibrations.
Classes are intended for current and potential owners of Autel ADAS calibration equipment.
The Academy's first onsite training, scheduled for July 24 and 25, 2023, will offer comprehensive education and instruction on ADAS calibration. The two-day, 16-hour course will provide students with a thorough understanding of the technology and functionality of these safety systems. The training comprises classroom lectures in Autel's 30-seat classroom with hands-on instruction on Autel products in the newly constructed 2,800-square-foot demonstration and training facility featuring the new Autel ADAS Bay Max 14K flush-mounted alignment lift.
"ADAS calibration is the fastest-growing segment in automobile service and repair. North America has over 90,000,000 ADAS-equipped vehicles as of December 2022, with more than 15,000,000 expected to enter service this year. Today, nearly 100% of new passenger vehicles manufactured for the North American market are equipped with one or more ADAS features. With the rise in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), learning how to calibrate these systems accurately is more important than ever," said George Lesniak, Autel Vice President of Training.
In the training facility, students will be shown on a range of vehicle brands how to perform multiple types of calibrations, including camera and radar for numerous safety systems, including automatic emergency braking, lane keep assist, and blind spot monitoring using Autel tablets, software, calibration frame systems, and alignment and ADAS lift.
Further, the class will review calibration space requirements, technician skill set, the importance of vehicle preconditioning, producing insurer-ready documentation, and calibration troubleshooting.
Two-day courses cost $1,295, and the one-day course is $695. Meals and hotel accommodations will be provided if needed.
Contact your authorized Autel dealer to purchase an Autel Training Academy (ATA) card at a discounted rate and register for your class online at autel.com/us/academy/. ADAS classes are currently available once a month through December 2023. Space is limited. Please monitor our Academy page as classes with additional training topics will be scheduled, including TPMS, EV diagnostics, and ICE diagnostics.
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Firm Has Signed Lease to Operate Southfield Town Center Office
DETROIT, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gresham Smith, a top-ranked national architecture and engineering firm with more than $290 million in annual gross revenue, has expanded its operations into the Detroit metropolitan area. The firm's office is located in the Southfield Town Center.
Gresham Smith has a longstanding history of serving automotive clients. The firm is currently designing facilities for numerous premier automotive lithium-ion battery manufacturers and suppliers, including Ultium Cells, a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution; NextStar Energy, a joint venture of Stellantis and LG Energy Solution; L-H Battery Company, a joint venture between Honda and LG Energy Solution; Envision AESC; Duksan Electera America; and LG Chem.
Additionally, Gresham Smith has delivered projects in Michigan for a variety of other clients, including Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Jackson National Life Insurance Company and McLaren Greater Lansing hospital. Gresham Smith is actively hiring local professionals for architectural and engineering positions.
"Loving where you work, who you're working with, and what you're working on is important to us, which is why we strive to create a culture that fosters collaboration, innovation and inclusivity. Detroit's legacy as a center of manufacturing excellence, as well as the area's strong colleges and universities, means there is tremendous talent in the region, and we hope to attract professionals who share our values and want to design world-class projects that create healthy and thriving communities," said Rodney Chester, CEO and Board Chair of Gresham Smith.
The office will be led by Charles Poat, AIA, LEED AP, a Vice President who recently joined the firm's Industrial market. He has more than 25 years of experience advising clients on high-profile projects, including the Ford Rogue Industrial Complex; the Harley Davidson Sportster Plant and Visitor Center; automated vehicle test track facilities at M-City and Willow Run; and most recently the Ford Global Technology and Business Center Mexico. Charles is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Engineering Society of Detroit, and he previously served as former Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council Detroit Chapter.
The Detroit team also recently welcomed Henry Montague, P.E., a Senior Mechanical Engineer with more than three decades of experience designing mechanical systems for a variety of project types. His impressive portfolio of automotive research, design and manufacturing facilities includes projects for Chrysler, General Motors, Honda, Mercedes and Toyota. Henry is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers and serves on the Capstone Project Student Advisory Board at Lawrence Technological University.
Learn more about Gresham Smith's career opportunities at www.GreshamSmith.com/Careers-and-Culture.
About Gresham Smith:
Gresham Smith is a top-ranked architecture, engineering and design firm with more than $290 million in annual gross revenue and 26 offices across the United States. The firm provides full-service solutions for the built environment with a focus on the aviation, building engineering, healthcare, industrial, land planning, life and work places, transportation, and water and environment market sectors. Our team of diligent designers, creative problem-solvers, insightful planners and seasoned collaborators work closely with our clients to improve the cities and towns we call home. Consistently ranked as a "best place to work," we are committed to creating a culture that fosters diversity of experience combined with a common goal of genuine care for each other, our partners and the outcome of our work. Learn more at GreshamSmith.com.
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YORKVILLE - Tuesday's Southern Lakes Conference girl golf meet was wrapping up around 3 p.m. when the weather took over.
Treacherous lightning bolts filled the sky as several golfers scurried to their golf balls, eager to get off shots before everything got cancelled.
A few lightning strikes later and some thunder, and it was a mad dash to the clubhouse for the groups of girls, who were forced to cruise in golf carts and wait a few hours for play to finish.
After it was all said and done late Tuesday, the Central Falcons proved why they are the defending Division 1 state champions and currently ranked No. 1 in the state of Wisconsin with a conference championship over second-place Union Grove.
The Falcons fired a 326 with the Broncos coming in second with a 334.
Kylie Walker was the meet's medalist with a 74. She tied the Grove's Norah Roberts and edged her in a tiebreaker.
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Roberts would up being named the SLC player of the year, based on the lowest average from conference majors plus the conference tournament.
"It was a great battle again between both teams," Central coach Ryan Dahl said. "Kylie and Katelyn played great rounds as always, and Chloe Brown came up with a great round in our number 4 spot."
The tiebreaker was based on the WIAA rules of back-9 score then back-6 score. Kylie Walker shot better on the back-9 than Roberts so she won.
"We're happy we got the win and always love conference championships, those are really important to us," Dahl said. "Kylie started slow and picked it up in the middle of the round. I was so impressed in how she responded to a tough situation on the 12th hole."
"She came back and made a couple birdies and built a lead. Norah hit an amazing shot on 18 to force a tie, but Kylie won on the tiebreaker."
The Grove's Lexi Manteufel took third overall with a 76 Tuesday, Central's Katelyn Walker was fourth with an 80 and Elle OReilly and Chloe Brown, both Falcons, were next with 86s.
Union Grove's Allie McBryde fired an 88 to take seventh.
Burlington's Kendall Kafar shot a 90 to place eighth, tying with Badger's Chloe Chappell, and Wilmot's Payton Morton added a 95.
Wilmot took fourth with a 405.
Burlington placed third with a score of 385.
Wilmot first-year coach Ellie Greene, a 2016 Panthers graduate, said her first year of coaching a golf team has been challenging, but fun.
"The girls are being pushed in ways they haven't been pushed in awhile," Greene said. "Our scores are coming down, and we are actually able to compete in our conference."
"Payton Morton didn't play as well as she wanted to, but our No. 2, Julie Awe, played well."
Awe added a 97 Tuesday.
"I had some really good bunker shots, and my par-3s were decent," Morton said about Tuesday's performance. "I want to make it to sectionals, and a girl from Wilmot has never made it to state for golf. I want to make it to state."
Top dogs in the whole state
It is "incredibly rare" for two Southern Lakes team to be No. 1 and No. 2 in the state golf rankings. In fact, it's never happened before.
Dahl said the Central-Grove rivalry this season is "pretty cool to see" and it's even better that all the girls get along.
For Grove coach Eric Swanson, the goal is a state championship.
"It's been a very good year," Swanson said Tuesday at Ives Grove. "The day after Labor Day, we won the tournament at University Ridge in Madison, and Central was there."
"Lexi has been outstanding. She's just been unbelievable. Allie, and the improvement of our No. 4, Larah Hood Brennan, she was our No. 5 last year, she put in a lot of time and improved a lot."
Is the Grove better than last year, when the Broncos took sixth at state?
"Statistically, we're better," Swanson said. "The girls just spent more time on their game. They enjoy playing, and they go out and play."
Roberts, who will play at Division 1 North Dakota State, is averaging an impressive 34.5 per 9 holes this season and has won all but one individual tournament this season.
Swanson says the team has lofty goals, and the Grove will meet Central at sectionals, where only two teams will advance to the state tournament, which takes place Oct. 10-11 at University Ridge Golf Course in Madison.
"We'll be the two favorites," Swanson added. "Our goal is to win a state title. Westosha is the state champ, and they're very, very good. There's five or six teams that have a legitimate chance to win a state title, and we're one of them." | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/central-union-grove-girls-golf-ranked-1-2-in-the-state-of-wisconsin-gear-up/article_8d884bc2-3a99-11ed-b27e-43eb5c345032.html | 2022-09-22 19:16:10 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/central-union-grove-girls-golf-ranked-1-2-in-the-state-of-wisconsin-gear-up/article_8d884bc2-3a99-11ed-b27e-43eb5c345032.html |
Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses, advocates say
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — It was pharmacist Gwendolyn Herzig’s first time testifying before a legislative committee when she spoke to several Arkansas lawmakers in a packed hearing room this month about a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors.
Herzig, who is transgender, spoke out against the legislation and told the panel that one of the biggest obstacles trans people face is a lack of empathy. Only a few minutes later, a Republican lawmaker asked her an inappropriate question about her genitalia.
“It was horrifying,” she said.
The exchange, which was livestreamed on the Legislature’s website and has since been widely shared on social media, is an example of the type of demeaning questions and rhetoric that transgender people meet when they show up to statehouses to testify against new bills targeting their rights.
In South Dakota, a lawmaker invoked “furries” — people who dress up as animals — when talking about gender-affirming care. In Montana, a legislator compared parents supporting their children in finding treatment to asking doctors to carry out medically assisted suicide.
Advocates worry that increasingly hostile rhetoric about transgender people could have a chilling effect on those who want to speak out against new restrictions and could do lasting damage to a community of trans youth that is already marginalized.
“I feel like that’s what they’re trying to do, to keep us from coming and exercising this right that we have,” said Rumba Yambu, executive director of Intransitive, an advocacy and support group for transgender people in Arkansas. “Because who wants to go and be asked about their genitalia in front of a bunch of strangers? Especially strangers in power.”
So far this year, at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced, which is the highest in a single year, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Bans on gender-affirming care for minors have already been enacted this year in South Dakota and Utah, and Republican governors in Tennessee and Mississippi are expected to sign similar bans into law. Arkansas and Alabama have bans that were temporarily blocked by federal judges.
The push has included efforts in some states to restrict gender-affirming care for adults and proposed bans on drag shows that opponents have warned would also discriminate against transgender people.
Herzig came to the state Capitol to testify against a bill attempting to reinstate Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming care for minors by making it easier to file malpractice lawsuits against providers. In her testimony, Herzig talked about working with transgender patients who are on hormone replacement therapy.
“Bills like SB199 are designed to hinder, not help, Arkansans by creating barriers to evidence-driven health care they deserve under the guise of helping the young and innocent,” she said, later saying a vote for the bill was “unpatriotic, and casts doubts on our own health and research institutions who have worked through health care fields to improve the lives of Americans.”
During follow-up questions, Republican Sen. Matt McKee asked Herzig if she is transgender.
When she said yes, he asked: “Do you have a penis?”
The question was met with jeers and audible gasps in the packed committee room.
“That’s horrible,” Herzig responded, telling McKee that asking her such a question was inappropriate and noting she was testifying as a health care professional.
“I had never been so publicly humiliated in my life,” Herzig told The Associated Press in an interview days later.
McKee did not respond to an email or phone call, but defended his question in a written statement.
“As a father of 4 daughters, I will do everything in my power to protect my children and the children of Arkansas, especially from the woke mob who intend to push their agenda and beliefs down our throats and destroy our families,” McKee’s statement said.
The idea of protecting children by withholding medical care is undermined by health experts, who have said minors with gender dysphoria who do not receive appropriate care face dramatically increased risk of suicide and serious depression.
McKee’s questions were similar in tone to those posed to Debi Jackson’s teen Avery, who is transgender and nonbinary, when they testified before Missouri legislators last year about a proposal to ban trans girls and women from participating on sports teams matching their gender identity.
During the hearing, a lawmaker asked Avery if they were “gonna go through the procedure.” Since that exchange, Jackson said Avery hasn’t wanted to testify again before the Legislature.
“It’s this same idea that in any of these discussions about trans people just being treated with basic dignity and respect, legislators want to reduce them to one body part,” Jackson said. “They miss the entirety of the human being sitting in front of them having a conversation.”
Advocates say the rhetoric surrounding these proposed bans further exacerbates an already treacherous environment for transgender people, their families and medical providers. Children’s hospitals around the country have faced an uptick of harassment and threats of violence for providing gender-confirming care.
Though she said she’s received an outcry of support since her testimony, Herzig said she and the pharmacy she owns have also gotten hateful emails and calls.
People opposed to gender-affirming care for minors argue that children are too young to make decisions about their futures, sometimes comparing such treatments to child abuse. That’s despite medical experts saying the care is safe when administered properly.
Nearly every major medical group, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the bans on such care for minors.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last year ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-affirming care for kids as abuse, but a judge has since blocked those investigations.
Amber Briggle, the mother of a transgender teenager in Texas whose family was investigated after Abbott’s order, said she gets frustrated when speaking before lawmakers in her state who she thinks already have made up their minds on the issue. But Briggle said she plans on returning to Texas’ Capitol this year and that Herzig’s encounter motivates her even more to show up and speak out.
“They should not have to fight this alone,” Briggle said of transgender people testifying in statehouses. “They should know they have loving, supporting allies in their corner.”
Herzig said she probably would not have testified had she known she was going to be asked about her genitalia.
“I felt like I was pretty much prepared for any combative question,” she said. “Except that.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Independence Fund strongly endorses the VA Caregiver Continuity Act that protects Legacy Veterans and Caregivers in the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) from being discharged or having their support reduced because they do not meet the Veteran's Administration (VA)'s new eligibility criteria.
"Caregivers everywhere are relieved to hear that the VA Caregiver Continuity Act has been introduced," said Sarah Verardo, CEO of the Independence Fund. "I and others are so thankful that Congressman Andy Kim (NJ-03) and Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08) introduced this act. The erroneous disenrollments earlier this year from the PCAFC was devastating to the Caregiver community."
If adopted, the VA Caregiver Continuity Act will require the VA to permanently extend existing benefits for Veterans who were enrolled in the Caregiver Program before September 2020 and who meet the VA's Priority One Group criteria. Those who meet the VA's Priority One Group criteria include Veterans who (1) have a service-connected disability rating of 50% or more, (2) have a service-connected disability that the VA has concluded makes them unable to work, or (3) received the Medal of Honor.
"Most importantly, this legislation will require the VA to contact Veterans and their Caregivers already in the program who received notice that they were discharged and/or their benefits were reduced to inform them they will remain in the program with their current benefits intact," Verardo said.
The Independence Fund submitted a Petition for Rulemaking in early 2022 alongside 21 fellow Veteran Serving Organizations. "We were optimistic with the VA's announcement last March regarding the suspension of disenrollments and demotions for Legacy Veterans, and we promised to continue to engage and push for change," Verardo said. "We have certainly taken several steps forward since that announcement nine months ago."
This legislation ensures our nation's most at risk catastrophically disabled Veterans will retain critical Caregiver services.
"These Veterans deserve to live with dignity; providing them with the care they earned through their service is the right thing to do," Verardo said.
Founded in 2007, The Independence Fund (501c3) is committed to serving the Warfighter Community by providing innovative programs and services to support the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual independence of our servicemembers, combat Veterans, their caregivers, families, and those allies who served in combat alongside our troops, through innovative mobility and adaptive technologies and therapies for combat veterans; suicide prevention; caregiver and family support; and Veteran advocacy with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, other government agencies, federal and state legislators, and other partners. The Independence Fund believes in fairness and equality for all Veterans and families irrespective of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and will continue to uphold these American values.
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Airlines count on business travelers to keep recovery going
DALLAS (AP) — With summer vacations winding down, airlines are counting on the return of more business travelers to keep their pandemic recovery going into the fall.
Air travel in the United States, bolstered by huge numbers of tourists, has nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Inflation — and especially this year’s sharp rise in airfares — raises concern about how long vacationers can afford to keep flying at their current pace. Airlines say they see no signs of a slowdown in leisure travel.
Business travel, however, remains about 25% to 30% below 2019 levels, according to airlines and outfits that track sales.
And it is not clear when — or if — road warriors will return to their old travel habits.
“The whole challenge for the industry is around the return of the corporate traveler, and whether he is going to come back in enough volume and frequency that is going to help these airlines,” says John Grant, an analyst with travel-data provider OAG.
The Global Business Travel Association recently predicted that corporate travel won’t fully return until mid-2026, 18 months later than the trade group had previously forecast.
Business travelers generally pay higher fares, so their absence has an outsized impact on airline revenue and profit.
Business travel is slower to return because it is more complicated than somebody deciding they want to take a vacation after staying home during the first two years of the pandemic, says Chuck Thackston, who leads data research at the Airlines Reporting Corp., a ticket-settlement firm that operates as a middleman between airlines and travel agents.
“On the corporate side, it just takes a little more to restart that because there are so many moving parts,” Thackston said. “If you want to go visit clients in New York, it could be that nobody is in the office in New York. That is slowly building back.”
Conventions and other big meetings are another key driver of business travel, and also seem to be coming back, Thackston said.
Airline officials say that travel by small-business operators has recovered nearly fully, but that many corporate travelers have not returned to the road or skies.
The chief commercial officer of Southwest Airlines, Andrew Watterson, said that since business travel began picking up this spring, “it was skewed toward smaller businesses and government and education were traveling. Our largest corporates are the ones that are lagging, particularly banking, consulting and technology.”
Watterson said that among Southwest’s biggest corporate accounts, they all have employees traveling — but not as many of them, and not as often.
The nature of business travel is changing as companies become accustomed to smaller travel budgets. Some trips are being replaced by video calls, perhaps permanently. Speculative sales trips could be especially easy for companies to cut.
Conventions now routinely offer a “hybrid” format with an option to stay behind and watch online — although that means missing the hallway conversations and other opportunities to network.
Standard & Poor’s said this week that many convention center operators are running summer and fall schedules similar to those in 2019, but a recession or new COVID-19 variant are still risks.
Vasu Raja, the chief commercial officer at American Airlines, said demand has dropped for one-day business trips in which someone leaves in the morning and flies home that evening.
“But interestingly, we’ve seen more demand for blended trips where somebody leaves on a Thursday from Dallas to go to New York, they don’t return on the Friday — they stay through the weekend and they come back on Sunday,” he said. Sometimes a spouse goes with them, he added.
Business travel is big business worldwide. The Global Business Travel Association estimates that it was worth more than $1.4 trillion in 2019, then plummeted by more than half each of the next two years. The trade group estimates that after being hindered by the omicron variant early this year, business travel will hit $933 billion in 2022 — still 35% below the pre-pandemic mark.
The widespread availability of vaccines and better treatment of COVID-19 — along with relaxation of mandatory quarantines and other travel restrictions — have boosted leisure and corporate travel. However, travel is now threatened by deteriorating economic conditions including surging inflation and labor shortages. New COVID-19 variants remain a concern among travel managers, particularly in Asia.
The cost of travel is expected to keep rising, putting pressure on corporate budgets. A recent report from travel-management company CWT predicted that fares paid by business travelers will rise nearly 50% this year and 8% next year, and hotel rates will rise 19% this year and 8% in 2023.
Most U.S. airlines reported profits for the April-through-June second quarter. For American and United, it was their first profitable quarter excluding government aid since the pandemic started, and they should be in the black for the third quarter, which ends with vacation-heavy July and August.
Business travel traditionally enjoys a peak in the spring and another in September and October. Airlines are about to find out whether that happens this year.
“There has been a lot of discussion about, yeah, business travel is coming back, and U.S. airline CEOs being quite bullish about it,” said Grant, the OAG analyst. “But the hard evidence now needs to come forward.”
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ESCANABA, MI -- A fungal disease outbreak at an Escanaba paper plant has now caused one death, with 96 others infected, health officials said.
Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties, the local health department, on Friday, April 14 released an update to the outbreak and noted the death.
Health staff said a contractor who worked at the mill recently died from blastomycosis, the fungal infection.
So far, there have been 21 confirmed cases of blastomycosis and 76 probable cases since the problem first surfaced in early March. A probable case involves someone who has blastomycosis symptoms with a positive antibody test.
Of the 97 total cases, 12 people have been hospitalized.
Related: ‘Exceedingly rare’ fungal disease identified in 35 U.P. mill workers
“Everyone at Billerud is deeply saddened by this news,” Brian Peterson, vice president of operations at the mill, said of the death in a written statement.
Billerud on Thursday announced the mill would be temporarily idled for up to three weeks for extensive cleaning and other measures.
Blastomycosis is a disease tied to a fungus that grows in moist soil and decomposing matter, such as wood and leaves. It can become airborne if disturbed and infect someone through fungal spores.
Those who do get sick can develop symptoms such as cough (sometimes with blood), fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, muscle aches and joint pain. People experiencing these symptoms should contact their healthcare provider.
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Scottsdale-based Discount Tire signs league sponsorship deal with WNBA
Scottsdale-based Discount Tire is now the official tire retailer of the WNBA, after signing a multi-year deal with the league, the company's first league-wide sponsorship deal.
The deal also names one of Discount Tire’s top-selling brands, Continental Tire, as the official tire of the league, the company announced on June 13.
"The WNBA is thrilled to partner with Discount Tire and Continental," Colie Edison, chief growth officer for the WNBA said in a statement. “This collaboration represents an exciting opportunity to join forces with a brand that shares our commitment to excellence and empowering communities. Together, we will drive the game forward, while promoting inclusivity, safety and innovation."
Discount Tire has stores in nine of the WNBA’s 12 team markets and sells online throughout the country.
"We are proud to partner with the WNBA, a dynamic collaboration that celebrates strength, perseverance and the power of teamwork," Dean Muglia, chief executive officer of Discount Tire, said in a statement.
Discount Tire has other sports sponsorships, including sponsoring NASCAR drivers Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney.
Development for new headquarters:Discount Tire buys land in Phoenix
Financial details of the sponsorship were not released.
The partnership gives Discount Tire media exposure through on-court virtual signage, TV visual signage and other promotions across the league.
In December, Discount Tire bought 35 acres of land in north Phoenix, near Tatum and Mayo boulevards to build a new corporate headquarters, which will consolidate several office locations and give the company room to grow.
The corporate headquarters will accommodate about 1,100 employees, the company said. The new office complex will also include the offices of The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A worse-than-expected report on inflation is hitting Wall Street Thursday, and stocks are falling toward their weakest levels in almost two years.
The S&P 500 was 1.4% lower in morning trading after a government report showed inflation is spreading more widely across the economy, with one closely followed component accelerating to its hottest level in 40 years. That’s forcing investors to brace for continued, big hikes to interest rates by the Federal Reserve to get inflation under control, and the potential recession those moves could create.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 287 points, or 1%, to 28,923, as of 9:57 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.2% lower. All three indexes were down even more at the start of trading, with the S&P 500 tumbling 2.4% and the Dow down 549 points.
They’re the latest drops for Wall Street, where stocks have already lost a quarter of their value this year on worries about the worst inflation in four decades and the harsh remedy the Federal Reserve is doling out to treat it. The S&P 500 touched its lowest point since early November 2020.
Most investors came into the morning already expecting the Fed to hike its key overnight interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point next month, which would be its fourth straight hike that was triple the usual size.
But Thursday’s disappointing data means many investors now expect a fifth such increase in December, dashing expectations that the Fed may begin downshifting soon. Bets are increasing that the Fed could pull its overnight rate above 5% by early next year. It started this year at virtually zero.
Higher rates make buying a house, car or anything else purchased on credit more expensive, and the hope is that will slow the economy and job market enough to undercut inflation. But they take a notoriously long time to take full effect, and the Fed risks causing a recession if it ends up going too far.
“If the Fed insists on continuing to hike until the numbers improve, they are going to over-hike,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “They’re swinging from doing too little to doing too much. Those two vices don’t cancel out.”
The growing expectations for an even more aggressive Fed sent Treasury yields jumping. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and many other loans, soared to 4.01% from 3.90% late Wednesday and is near its highest level in more than a decade.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for Fed action, surged to 4.49% to from 4.29%.
Higher yields amp up the pressure on the economy not only by making loans more expensive and slowing growth. They also drag down prices for stocks, cryptocurrencies and nearly every other investment because they mean bonds are paying more in interest, which pulls some dollars away from other investments.
Investments seen as the riskiest, the most expensive or forcing investors to wait the longest for big growth have been the ones hit hardest by this year’s rise in rates. On Thursday, bitcoin lost 3.5%, and technology companies led the drops for stocks on Wall Street.
Gold fell 1.5%, as investors found they could get paid more for owning bonds instead of the metal, which pays nothing.
The inflation report thudded onto Wall Street just as companies gear up to report how much profit they earned during the summer.
If they could report big growth, that would give some major support to stock prices even as the worries about higher-for-longer rates roil markets. But analysts have been highlighting the pressures created by high inflation, high interest rates and the soaring value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies, which dilutes the dollar value of sales made abroad.
“Earnings season might not be bad,” said Yung-Yu Ma, chief investment strategist at BMO Wealth Management, “but being strong enough to reverse this tide will be a tough go.”
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China records fewest marriages since 1986, adding to fears of population crisis
By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau
China last year registered the fewest marriages since its public records began more than three decades ago — adding to concerns the country faces a looming demographic crisis.
There were 7.6 million marriage registrations in 2021, data released by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs last week shows.
That’s the fewest since 1986, when the ministry began publicly releasing the figures, according to state-run tabloid Global Times. It is a 6.1% decrease from the previous year and the eighth consecutive year marriage rates have fallen.
At the same time, the average age of newlyweds is inching up, with nearly half of those married last year age 30 and above.
The figures reflect a trend that is increasingly a cause for concern among officials in the world’s most populous nation, home to 1.4 billion: young people, especially millennials, are increasingly choosing not to get married or have children — and even when they do, they tend to do so later in life.
Experts say the knock-on effect on what is already a shrinking workforce could have a severe impact on the country’s economy and social stability.
In just six years, the number of Chinese people getting married for the first time fell by 41%, from 23.8 million in 2013 to 13.9 million in 2019, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics.
The decline is partly due to decades of policies designed to limit China’s population growth, which mean there are fewer young people of marriageable age, according to Chinese officials and sociologists.
But it’s also a result of changing attitudes to marriage, especially among young women who are becoming more educated and financially independent.
Faced with widespread workplace discrimination and patriarchal traditions — such as the expectation for women to be responsible for child care and housework — some women are growing disillusioned with marriage.
Statistics show both genders are delaying marriage. From 1990 to 2016, the average age for first marriages rose from 22 to 25 for Chinese women, and from 24 to 27 for Chinese men, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Global Times also pointed to increasing work pressures for young people, who face stagnating wages, a competitive job market and rising costs of living.
The decline in marriages adds to concerns over China’s looming demographic crisis as it struggles to raise a falling birth rate.
In 2014, the country’s working-age population started to shrink for the first time in more than three decades.
The following year, the Chinese government announced an end to its one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children, then increased that to three children in 2021 — but both marriage and birth rates continued to drop.
China isn’t the only country struggling with this problem.
Japan and South Korea have also faced falling birth rates and shrinking populations in recent years.
Governments in all three countries have introduced measures to encourage births — such as financial incentives, cash vouchers, housing subsidies and more child care support — with limited success.
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Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval Receives Financial Support from Nation's Leading Cannabis Brand
POMONA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tak Sato, President of STIIIZY, presented Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval with a check for $207,381.92 today at John F. Kennedy Park as part of their ongoing commitment to support the communities where STIIIZY operates.
Coming just over a year after STIIIZY Pomona's opening, the funds will be used towards improvements at John F. Kennedy Park and the schools near the STIIIZY location. Improvements to the lighting, building a concession stand next to the baseball field and additional playground equipment are some of the options being considered with the funds.
Working hand-in-hand with city officials, STIIIZY Pomona has also been engaged in an ongoing effort to help revitalize the area of Pomona where they operate, introducing a secure, vibrant business and providing safe access to cannabis, and providing 90 jobs.
"During the cannabis licensing process, we made certain commitments to the City of Pomona if we had the honor of opening a store in their city. We believe we have honored those commitments so far with the community benefits we continue to provide, the additional security which has made the neighborhood safer, and the relationships we have forged with this neighborhood," said Sato.
Joining Mayor Sandoval at the ceremony was a wide range of community representatives, including Mark Ramos, the President of UFCW Local 1428, and Carlos Goytia, the current Director of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District and the former Parks & Recreation Commissioner. This group represents the potential positive impact of cannabis on everything from the local economy to utilities to parks and recreation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin were tossed out Monday by a federal judge, leaving Benjamin to face only records falsification charges and prompting his lawyers to say it was tragic that the case was ever brought.
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Judge J. Paul Oetken in a written opinion said prosecutors failed to allege an explicit example in which Benjamin provided a favor for a bribe, an essential element of bribery and honest services fraud charges.
Benjamin, a Democrat, resigned after his arrest last April. He pleaded not guilty to charges that he obtained campaign contributions from a real estate developer in exchange for his influence to get a $50,000 grant of state funds for a nonprofit organization the developer controlled.
Benjamin's arrest had created a political crisis for Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat who chose him to serve as second-in-command when she became governor following a sexual harassment scandal that drove from office her predecessor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
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At the time of his arrest, Benjamin's lawyers had issued a statement saying they planned to show the courts that their client's actions were laudable rather than a crime.
On Monday, attorneys Barry Berke and Dani James said in a statement that the ruling “shows how these wrongful charges so harmed Mr. Benjamin and unfairly cost him his position as Lt. Governor.”
“While today is a great day for justice, democracy and the rule of law, it is tragic that this case was ever brought and such a decision was necessary,” they said.
“From the very beginning, we said we are shocked and dismayed that the prosecution would bring such flimsy and unwarranted charges based on nothing more than routine fundraising and support of a non-profit providing needed resources to Harlem public schools,” the attorneys said.
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They wrote that Benjamin was “thankful for his vindication and looks forward to new opportunities to serve the people of New York and his Harlem community.”
A spokesperson for prosecutors declined comment.
Benjamin was the state’s second Black lieutenant governor. During a state Legislature career that began in May 2017, he emphasized criminal justice reform and affordable housing. His district included most of central Harlem, where he was born and raised by Caribbean immigrant parents.
In tossing out the first three charges in a five-count indictment, the judge wrote that appeals courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have made clear that proof of a promise was necessary to support criminal charges when payments are made in the form of campaign contributions.
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The judge said he also agreed with a separate defense argument that the facts alleged in the indictment, even if true, fail to establish criminal liability. He noted that the government's timeline of events show that there was no agreement between the Benjamin and the developer at the time Benjamin procured the $50,000 in state funding.
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(NEXSTAR) – Bed Bath & Beyond told Nexstar Monday that it will be closing 87 additional stores, an announcement that comes days after the beleaguered home goods chain said it had defaulted on its loans.
The company also plans to close five buybuy BABY stores as well as all of its Harmon beauty locations.
Bed Bath & Beyond said the closures are being done to increase efficiency as the company works with advisors to “consider multiple paths” as the retailer tries to turn the business around.
“This store fleet reduction expands the Company’s ongoing closure program of approximately 150 lower-producing Bed Bath & Beyond banner stores,” a spokesperson told Nexstar. “We will update all stakeholders on our plans as they develop and finalize.”
Impacted store locations were not immediately available Monday.
Last Thursday, Bed Bath & Beyond said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had defaulted on its loans, which may force it to consider restructuring its debt in bankruptcy court.
The filing included some of the other strategies Bed Bath & Beyond is employing to improve its financial position, such as lowering costs, trimming capital expenditures, trying to rework rental deals with landlords and reducing the footprint of its stores, as well as the caveat that “these measures may not be successful.”
Bed Bath & Beyond warned on Jan. 5 that it was considering options including filing for bankruptcy, saying that there was “substantial doubt” that it could stay in business. A week later, it reported a 33% drop in sales and a widening loss for its fiscal third quarter that ended Nov. 26, compared with the year-ago period. Sales at stores opened at least a year — a key indicator of a company’s health — dropped 32%.
Its recently appointed president and CEO, Sue Gove, blamed the poor holiday performance on inventory constraints and reduced credit limits that resulted in shortages of merchandise on store shelves.
Typically, struggling retailers file for bankruptcy protection after the holiday shopping season because they have a cash cushion coming from the two-month sales period.
Still, turning around Bed Bath & Beyond is expected to be difficult amid increasing competition from discounters. Its struggles come as the economy is weakening, and shoppers are tightening their purse strings.
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(CNN) — Russian aircraft once again harassed US MQ-9 Reaper drones over Syria Friday, the Air Force said, in a sign of increasing friction between the two countries in Middle East airspace.
The incident marked the third time this week that US drones over Syria were intercepted by Russian aircraft.
“Earlier today three MQ-9 drones were once again harassed by Russian fighter aircraft while flying over Syria,” commander of US Air Forces Central Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich said in a news release. “During the almost two hour encounter, Russian aircraft flew 18 unprofessional close passes that caused the MQ-9s to react to avoid unsafe situations.”
“We continue to encourage Russia to return to the established norms of a professional Air Force so we can all return our focus to ensuring the enduring defeat of ISIS,” Grynkewich added.
On Thursday, Russian fighter jets harassed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that was conducting a mission against ISIS targets in northwest Syria. One of the Russian jets dropped flares in front of US drone in an apparent attempt to hit the drone, forcing it to take evasive maneuvers, the Air Force previously said.
And earlier in the week, three Russian jets dropped parachute flares in front of three US drones, forcing the drones to take evasive maneuvers. One Russian jet also lit its afterburner in front of a US drone, limiting the drone operator’s ability to safely operate the aircraft.
Russia is operating in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while the US maintains its presence as part of the anti-ISIS coalition.
While the two countries have used a deconfliction line in Syria over the last several years to avoid unintentional mistakes or encounters that can inadvertently lead to escalation, Russian military actions have increasingly violated the deconfliction protocols, including flying too close to US military bases in Syria.
But the US wasn’t the only target of harassment from the Russian military this week. On Thursday, a Russian SU-35 fighter jet conducted a “non-professional interaction” with two French Rafale fighter jets that were flying a mission near the Iraq-Syria border, according to the official Twitter account of the French Armed Forces. | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-politics/russian-aircraft-harass-us-drones-over-syria-for-third-time-this-week/article_1cacf04f-7dac-5462-8ba8-88b6af997a0b.html | 2023-07-09 00:31:08 | 1 | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-politics/russian-aircraft-harass-us-drones-over-syria-for-third-time-this-week/article_1cacf04f-7dac-5462-8ba8-88b6af997a0b.html |
Elon Musk's transgender daughter has filed legal documents in court to change her name and gender while also pursuing a new birth certificate.
According to legal documents obtained by ET, Xavier Alexander Musk filed the petition on April 18, just one day after she turned 18. In the documents, she would like to change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson and would like her legal gender to be changed from male to female.
In the documents, she cites the reason for the name change as "gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."
The judge has yet to rule on the filing and a hearing for the petition is set for Friday in a Santa Monica Courthouse.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief was married to Justine Musk from 2000 and 2008. They share 18-year-old twins (Vivian and her brother, Griffin) as well as 16-year-old triplets, Kai, Saxon and Damian. They also welcomed Nevada in 2002 but he died at just 10 weeks old from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Musk and the singer Grimes share two children -- son X, almost 2, and a newborn daughter, Y. Musk and Grimes broke up after their second child was born.
It's unclear what exactly led to Musk's strained relationship with Vivian, but Musk's tweets in the past have been far from supportive of the LGBTQ+ community, though he begs to differ.
Back in 2020, he came under fire after tweeting a drawing with the headline "when you put he/him in your bio" and an 18th-century soldier smearing blood on his face in front of a pile of dead bodies. The soldier was also wearing a hat that read, "I love to oppress." Two days after that tweet, Musk tried to defend his stance, saying, "I absolutely support trans, but all these pronounce are an esthetic nightmare."
Earlier this month, Musk said he voted Republican "for the first time ever" before revealing he's leaning toward voting for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should he run in the 2024 presidential election. DeSantis came under fire earlier this year after signing a piece of legislation largely known as the Don't Say Gay bill.
Meanwhile, Justine Musk took to Twitter on Monday and revealed a recent conversation with her child.
"'I had a weird childhood,' my 18 year old said to me,'" Justine wrote. "'I can't believe I'm as normal-seeming as I am.' I said, 'I'm very proud of you.'"
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Smooth-voiced South African jazz musician Gloria Bosman has been lauded for her contribution to the country’s music industry in a career spanning more than two decades.
Bosman died on Tuesday following a short illness, her family announced.
“After a short illness, she transcended peacefully at her home, surrounded by family,” the family said in a statement. “Gloria had devoted her life, not just to her family, but to her music, she was loved and adored by many here in South Africa and beyond its borders.”
The Soweto-born Bosman was praised for her soothing, silky vocals and versatility in crossing over to various music genres.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party paid tribute to Bosman, saying the country’s music industry will be poorer without her.
“Gloria Bosman belongs to a generation of female musical greats who refused to submit to patriarchal stereotypes in a male dominated industry. She was a fiery and militant revolutionary in the creative sector,” the ANC said in a statement.
South African jazz legend Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse was among the first to express sadness at her passing, tweeting that he was “sad, gutted and shattered.”
Bosman started singing in church and theaters, but a scholarship to study opera at the then-Pretoria Technikon (now Tshwane University of Technology) was crucial in her development as an artist.
She returned to perform at the educational institution later in her career.
The award-winning musician’s first album “Tranquility” was released in 1999 to critical acclaim, winning her the Best Newcomer award at the South African Music Awards.
Her career took off and later she won a second Sama awards and 11 nominations, won two Africa-wide Kora awards and performed on many stages across the world.
Bosman performed and recorded with some of South Africa’s prominent musicians including the late Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo and Moses Molelekwa, as well as Zimbabwe’s Oliver Mutukudzi.
In December last year she was appointed to the board of the South African Music Rights Organization, a body set up to protect the intellectual property of music creators by collecting licensing fees and distributing royalties.
“As a composer and a performing artist, in the short period that Ms. Bosman was a member of the board, she added a perspective that comprised of a rich blend of insights on member aspirations as well as the direction that our organization should continue to march towards,” said Samro board chairman Nicholas Maweni.
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The multi-award IDIQ contract will deliver mission-critical services to U.S. DOD, Intelligence Community, and Warfighters
ARLINGTON, Va. , May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Royce Geo , a leading provider of advanced intelligence solutions and services, today announced it was selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as one of 13 vendors for the GEOINT Enterprise Operations Service and Solutions Program with Industry, Core Mission Operations (GEO-SPI B), an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract with a potential value of $900M.
Royce Geo will compete with the other selected vendors to support NGA with mission-enabling subject matter expertise, such as core imagery analysis and geospatial production. Royce Geo's world-class internal technical team, network of industry partners, and proprietary CURVE Operational Environment technology place the company in a prime position to compete for and deliver on upcoming task orders. Furthermore, Royce Geo's participation will build on a proven track record of delivering for NGA on demanding, multi-award programs, including the Economic Indicator Monitoring (EIM) program.
"Our people are what makes Royce Geo unique and successful in delivering for our clients," said Royce Geo CEO Dave Sterling . "We encourage our team members to leverage their deep experience to drive innovation. We believe this culture is what uniquely positions Royce Geo to understand customer challenges, quickly respond to requirements, adapt to evolving needs, and ultimately provide valuable support to NGA's most critical missions within the GEO-SPI B program."
Royce Geo's GEO-SPI B team consists of highly skilled intelligence analysts and data scientists who excel in automating intelligence production and are prepared to continue the company's legacy of supporting NGA's global mission. Royce Geo is prepared to respond to task orders on GEO-SPI B, which are anticipated to be released in the coming months.
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Royce Geo is revolutionizing and democratizing advanced analytics for the Department of Defense and the broader Intelligence Community. Our unparalleled technology ecosystem, led by the CURVE Operational Environment, provides actionable intelligence to more decision-makers at mission speed. Royce Geo puts advanced analytics and Low/No-Code technologies in the hands of more Warfighters to address emerging threats worldwide in real time. To learn more, visit www.roycegeo.com and follow #RoyceGeo to see what's coming next.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police are investigating after a woman was shot in the back of her head while driving just northwest of downtown early Monday morning.
It happened around 3:34 a.m. on Fredericksburg Road at Gardina Street near Balcones Heights.
Police say they received a 9-1-1 call from a woman who told them she was being chased by someone on Fredericksburg Road. Shortly after that call, a second call was received by dispatchers about an accident at the intersection with Gardina Street.
When officers arrived at the location, they found a woman in her late 30s with injuries from the crash, as well as a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Initially, police said the woman was not cooperating with the first responders who were trying to help her.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for her injuries.
Police say there was a bullet hole in her headrest and shell casings on the ground about 100 yards away from where her car came to a stop.
Police do not have a description of the suspect in this shooting.
This incident is still under investigation.
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ATV driver hospitalized in critical condition following crash near Mercedes that injured two others
The driver of an ATV remains hospitalized Tuesday night following a two-vehicle collision south of Mercedes, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The crash happened at around 1 p.m. along Pfc Pedro Martinez Road when the ATV driver ran a stop sign and hit a truck.
The driver and passenger of the ATV were both hospitalized, with the driver in critical condition, DPS said.
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As health officials warn of rising Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, the mayor of New York said the city would not reinstate mask mandates at this time.
"I'm proud of what we are doing and how we are not allowing Covid to outstmart us," Mayor Eric Adams said during a Wednesday news conference, after he was asked about reinstating a mandate, specifically in the city's schools. "We're staying prepared and not panicking."
To defend his stance, Adams cited what he said were stable hospitalization numbers and deaths across the city, as well as Covid-19 testing in schools.
"Variants are going to come," he said. "If every variant that comes, we move into shutdown thoughts, we move into panicking, we're not going to function as a city."
City officials this week said New York City has reached the "high" Covid-19 alert level, indicating there is a high level of spread in the community and "substantial pressure on the health care system." The city's health department encouraged people to wear high-quality masks in all public, indoor settings and crowded outdoor spaces, regardless of whether vaccination status is known.
New York isn't the only place seeing high infection numbers. About 40% of people in the US northeast are in counties considered to have high community levels, CNN has reported.
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'An environment of rising risk'
The mayor's comments came the same day New York's health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan told CNN that both infection and hospitalization numbers were rising in the city.
"We're in an environment of rising risk, but we've got all sorts of tools to help keep us safe," including vaccines and boosters, frequent testing and treatments when necessary, he said.
Roughly 78% of city residents are fully vaccinated -- and about 38% of those have received their additional dose, according to a city website.
Much of the city is vaccinated and booster numbers are increasing, the commissioner said, adding, "We have a strong mask culture in this city ... where people are taking those precautions on subways and indoor settings."
"So that's what we're asking New Yorkers to do now, is to just ramp up those activities and take those extra precautions," he said. "We are no longer in an emergency even though we're still in this pandemic."
Vasan said he believes the US is in a "transition" period of the pandemic and that the latest surge pushing infection numbers up again won't last long.
But Vasan said he was concerned about "the impacts of waning immunity" and potential variants going into the fall.
"We are getting geared up for any potential surge in the fall, but it's a little too early to predict. I think we can prepare to have a really nice summer if we just get through this hump. But I am thinking about the fall as well."
CDC chief urges Americans to mask up
Roughly a third of people in the US live in areas with medium or high Covid-19 community levels, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a White House briefing Wednesday.
The CDC chief urged counties with high Covid-19 community levels to encourage people to mask up in public indoor settings to help prevent further infections and severe disease.
"While cases remain much lower than during the Omicron surge this past winter, the current seven-day daily average of cases is now at about 94,000 cases per day, which is an increase nationally of about 26% over the previous week, and a three-fold increase over the last month," Walensky said.
Hospital admissions are also increasing, she added. Deaths have remained low, according to the CDC chief, but the seven-day average of daily deaths is still about 275 per day.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a market leader in the global portable power station market, BLUETTI will officially unveil its brand new model AC500 at 7:00 AM, Sep. 1 PDT. Being a successor of the AC300 solar generator, AC500 is also 100% modular without any built-in batteries. So the B300 will also be launched as an expansion battery pack.
Highlights at a Glance
- 100% modular and expandable, overall capacity up to 18,432Wh;
- Compatible with either B300 or B300S expansion battery pack;
- 5,000W AC pure sine wave inverter (10,000W surge);
- Multiple ways to charge, and dual charging is also supported;
- 3000W solar input, 8000W input rate by dual charging;
- Easily monitor and control with BLUETTI App
A solar generator with massive capacity usually comes in a great size. However, the modular design can significantly reduce the overall size and weight of AC500, while increasing the flexibility to carry each battery pack to customize the capacity to satisfy every need and situation.
BLUETTI also values existing customers a lot. Those who purchased AC300 before don't have to buy B300S to pair with AC500 since B300 can also do the same job.
Blazing Fast Recharging, Ready to Takeoff
BLUETTI is dedicated to building a future with renewable energy and providing a budget-saving solution to go solar. AC500 is equipped with a matchless MPPT solar inverter, allowing for 3000W maximum solar input, which is highly competitive in the market. It's surely no surprise that recharging it from 0 to 80% SOC by prime sunshine only takes about 1.5 hours. Where there's sunlight, there's unlimited power supply.
For an AC500+2*B300S combo, dual recharging via AC and solar simultaneously can achieve up to 8000W input rate (require at least 2*B300S), fully recharge the battery packs at lightning speed (0 to 80% within ONE HOUR). It's time to bid farewell to the antique gasoline generators that produce toxic fumes and annoying noise.
Temperature Adaptive, Performance Impressive
BLUETTI always adopts state-of-the-art technologies and brings forth new ideas to level up user experience. Power stations aren't responsive enough especially on freezing days. Now with Temperature Adaptive Function, B300S will automatically heat up to above 0℃ when the ambient temperature is -20℃ and ensure it can work smoothly as usual.
PV400 Solar Panel Takes PV Charging to The Next Level
It's exciting to hear that BLUETTI will also launch an upgraded solar panel PV400 with innovative double-glazed technology, which will surely boost the solar input rate to higher efficiency. A BLUETTI Spokesperson said, "As this solar panel is in its initial test phase, we don't have additional details to share on the record at this moment."
Availability and Price
AC500+B300S combo and PV400 solar panel are going to be released on Indiegogo at 7:00 AM, Sep. 1 PDT. As for the pricing, BLUETTI puts out a massive debut discount for the combo AC500+B300S at only $2999 .
About BLUETTI
With over 10 years of industry experience, BLUETTI has tried to stay true to a sustainable future through green energy storage solutions for both indoor and outdoor use while delivering an exceptional eco-friendly experience for everyone and the world. BLUETTI is making its presence in 70+ countries and is trusted by millions of customers across the globe. For more information, please visit BLUETTI online at https://www.bluettipower.com/.
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Around 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, asteroid 2023 BU will pass 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America. NASA says no need to panic — the asteroid has no chance of hitting Earth.
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Around 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, asteroid 2023 BU will pass 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America. NASA says no need to panic — the asteroid has no chance of hitting Earth.
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