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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a simple accessory to freshen and cleanse the air and surfaces within a vehicle," said an inventor, from Ruskin, Fla., "so I invented the INSTANT CAR AIR FILTERS. My design helps to reduce the spread of germs and viruses and it offers a pleasing scent."
The invention provides an improved way to freshen the air within a vehicle. It also enables a motorist to easily sanitize the air and interior surfaces. As a result, it helps to reduce odors and it could make traveling safer and more enjoyable. The invention features a simple and versatile design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for vehicle owners, professional drivers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TLS-193, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Russian shelling kills 5 in tough eastern Ukraine combat
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling killed at least five people and wounded 13 others during the previous 24 hours, Ukrainian authorities said Monday, as the Kremlin’s and Kyiv’s forces remained locked in combat in eastern Ukraine ahead of renewed military pushes that are expected when the weather improves.
The casualties included a woman who was killed and three others who were wounded by the Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the country’s northeast, according to regional Gov. Oleh Syniyehubov.
Moscow’s troops seized large areas of the northeastern Kharkiv region in the months following its invasion of its neighbor last February. But Ukrainian counteroffensives that began in August snatched back Russian-occupied territory, most notably in Kharkiv.
Those successes lent weight to Ukraine’s arguments that its troops could deliver more stinging defeats to Russia if its Western allies provided more weaponry.
Kyiv last week won promises of tanks from the United States and Germany to help its war effort.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday hinted at the prospect of more upcoming pledges, saying that “any activity aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s defense powers is under consultation with our NATO partners.”
Such a move could encounter some familiar political obstacles, however.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after demurring for weeks over sending Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, looks set to dig his heels in over providing fighter jets.
Scholz, who is currently on a trip to South America, said he regretted the emergence of the fighter jet discussion.
He said in Chile on Sunday that a serious debate is necessary and not a “competition to outdo each other … in which perhaps domestic political motives are in the foreground rather than support for Ukraine.”
Military analysts say more aid for Ukraine is crucial if Kyiv is to block an expected Russian offensive in the spring and launch its own effort to push back the Russian forces.
“The pattern of delivery of Western aid has powerfully shaped the pattern of this conflict,” the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, said late Sunday.
As Ukraine emerges from a bitter winter, attention is turning to the possibility of new offensives when the weather improves.
The British Ministry of Defense noted Monday that the Kremlin never formally rescinded last September’s order for a partial mobilization of reservists that boosted troop numbers for combat in Ukraine. It said Russia may be keeping the door open for further call-ups.
“The Russian leadership highly likely continues to search for ways to meet the high number of personnel required to resource any future major offensive in Ukraine, while minimizing domestic dissent,” it said in a tweet.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that supplies of Western weapons won’t stop Russia.
“Ukraine keeps demanding new weapons and the West is encouraging those demands,” Peskov said in a conference call with reporters Monday. “It’s a deadlock, it results in a significant escalation and makes NATO countries increasingly involved in the conflict.”
Ukraine’s presidential office said the eastern Donetsk region, which has been the scene of intense fighting for months, remains “invariably hard.”
Heavy fighting continued to rage around Bakhmut and Vuhledar, with regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko saying that 15 towns and villages in the region came under shelling Sunday.
Russian forces have been trying for months to capture Bakhmut, with the effort being led by the Wagner Group, a private military company led by a rogue millionaire with longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian troops last week said they conducted an organized retreat from Soledar, a few kilometers (miles) from Bakhmut, amid pressure from Wagner, which is believed to have a large number of convicts in its ranks.
Ukrainian authorities said the southern city of Kherson also has come under Russian shelling. The bombardment damaged residential buildings, a hospital, a school, a bus station, a bank and a post office.
Two foreign vessels were damaged in the port of Kherson, the presidential office added without elaborating.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A new report from the University of Hawaii provides a comprehensive look at how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Hawaii residents with their jobs, ability to buy food, their mental well-being and how vaccination status played a factor.
“Health Effects and Views of COVID-19 in Hawaii,” the first quarterly report from the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, looks at impacts that the pandemic had on people beyond the direct effects, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
“It looks at a variety of impacts on public health, which obviously impacts economics,” said Ruben Juarez, an economics professor at the UH Manoa College of Social Sciences. “It’s just a start at this point. I’m hoping this will service policymakers and the community to continue the conversation with stakeholders on what strategies we need to move forward.”
The report is based on survey responses from more than 2,000 adult Hawaii residents in May in partnership with the state, Juarez said. Additional monthly surveys will involve the same individuals.
About 66% of those responding said the pandemic had a significant, negative impact on much of the population.
The pandemic caused an economic hardship on many of those responding. Nearly a quarter of those responding said they depleted their savings during the pandemic, 15% said they couldn’t pay bills, 9% lost their jobs while 12.5% said they were furloughed or had their work hours cut.
Another 8% said they didn’t have enough food for their household.
Accessing health care did not seem to be a concern for survey respondents, but about a third reported some symptoms of depression, and 4.2% of the respondents said they had contemplated suicide in the last year.
About a fourth of the survey respondents said they had tested positive for COVID-19. The survey also shows 31% of those reported long-term symptoms after the infection. The most common symptoms were cough and shortness of breath, followed by extreme fatigue, mental fog and headaches.
The report also examined characteristics of those who were not vaccinated.
The unvaccinated tended to be younger — the highest percentage were in their 30s — and less educated. The survey found the highest percentage of those unvaccinated, at 41%, did not have a high school diploma.
Of those responding, those with advanced or bachelor’s degrees had very low rates of being unvaccinated, both under 5%.
The survey also found those who were unvaccinated tend to get more of their information from social media and faith leaders than medical professionals or government officials.
Among ethnic groups, Pacific Islanders have the highest percentage of those unvaccinated, at 21%.
This could be of use for the state health department to target strategies for vaccination outreach, Juarez said.
Those who remain unvaccinated tended to experience greater hardship, food insecurity and depression, the survey found.
The May survey included 2,030 adults statewide, with a higher proportion of women, at 62%, and age range of 18 to 70 and above. More than 40% were ages 60 or older. The sample population was also more educated than the state as a whole.
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WASHINGTON, July 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement Saturday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket:
"The People's Republic of China (PRC) did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.
"All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property. Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth."
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Expansion of Tidewater's construction territory into Alabama strengthens customer support and continues strong dealer network growth for CASE in southeastern United States.
RACINE, Wis., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CASE Construction Equipment dealer Tidewater Equipment Company has expanded its construction equipment footprint in the southeastern United States with an all-new full-service location in Enterprise, Alabama — delivering dedicated equipment sales, parts and service support to southern Alabama. This is Tidewater's sixth construction equipment operation, and the company now serves a broad section of the southeastern U.S. construction industry with facilities throughout southern Georgia and northern Florida.
"Tidewater has been a heavy equipment powerhouse throughout the southeast since 1947 — our construction-focused partnership started in 2019, and their team has shown an unwavering commitment to customer support and helping businesses grow with the right equipment and technology," says Terry Dolan, vice president — North America, CASE Construction Equipment. "Their customer-first approach matched with the continuing evolution and growth of the CASE lineup — including some never-before seen products and solutions available this fall — will position equipment owners and their businesses for success for years to come."
The opening of the new Enterprise location was attended by representatives of CASE and Case IH, Enterprise Mayor William E. Cooper, elected officials, local members of the Chamber of Commerce, and other local celebrities. CASE and Tidewater treated guests and partners to a barbecue lunch and a raffle giveaway of Tidewater, CASE and Case IH branded prizes, and special equipment offers and other swag.
"We are passionate about the jobs we're creating here in southern Alabama, as well as providing the world-class support that equipment owners and construction businesses here deserve," says Jamie Young, president and CEO, Tidewater Equipment Company. "We've been in the heavy equipment game since the 1940s and understand what good equipment and support means to business success — we're passionate about that work and proud to be waving the CASE flag here in Alabama."
The new location is open now and is ready to serve all equipment needs in the region at 1504 East Park Avenue in Enterprise, Alabama. For more information on Tidewater Equipment Company and its work in the region, visit TidewaterEquip.com.
CASE Construction Equipment is a global full-line manufacturer of construction equipment that combines generations of manufacturing expertise with practical innovation. CASE is dedicated to improving productivity, simplifying operation and maintenance while achieving lower total cost of ownership for fleets around the world. The CASE dealer network sells and supports this world-class equipment, by offering customized aftermarket support packages, hundreds of attachments, genuine parts and fluids as well as industry-leading warranties and flexible financing. More than a manufacturer, CASE is committed to giving back by dedicating time, resources and equipment to building communities. This includes supporting disaster response, infrastructure investment, and non-profit organizations that provide housing and resources for those in need.
CASE Construction Equipment is a brand of CNH Industrial N.V., a World leader in Capital Goods listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CNHI) and on the Mercato Telematico Azionario of the Borsa Italiana (MI: CNHI). More information about CNH Industrial can be found online at http://www.cnhindustrial.com/.
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Mater Dei, St. John Bosco lead this week’s top 25 high school football rankings
This week’s top 25 high school football rankings by The Times.
Rk. SCHOOL (W-L); Result; Next game, rk. last week
1. MATER DEI (1-0); def. Salt Lake City (Utah) West, 42-0; at Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, Friday; 1
2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (0-0); idle; at Allen (Texas), Friday; 2
3. MISSION VIEJO (1-0); idle; vs. Servite, Friday; 3
4. CORONA CENTENNIAL (1-0); def. Corona Santiago, 85-0; at San Diego Cathedral, Friday; 4
5. LOS ALAMITOS (1-0); def. Bakersfield Garces, 41-0; vs. Plantation (Fla.) American Heritage (at Fort Lauderdale Aquinas), Saturday; 6
6. SANTA MARGARITA (1-0); def. San Juan Hills, 18-8; vs. Norco (at Saddleback College), Friday; 8
7. ORANGE LUTHERAN (1-0); def. Gardena Serra, 27-26; at Upland, Friday; 12
8. GARDENA SERRA (0-1); lost to Orange Lutheran, 27-26; at Long Beach Poly, Friday; 5
9. NORCO (0-0); idle; at Santa Margarita, Friday; 9
10. WARREN (0-0); idle; vs. La Serna, Friday; 10
11. CORONA DEL MAR (1-0); def. Downey, 41-10; at Los Gatos, Friday; 11
12. JSERRA (1-0); def. Sierra Canyon, 31-17; at Chaminade, Friday; 25
13. OXNARD PACIFICA (1-0); def. Westlake, 41-21; at St. Bonaventure, Friday; 13
14. RANCHO CUCAMONGA (1-0); def. Servite, 27-7; vs. Apple Valley, Friday; 21
15.. SIERRA CANYON (0-1); lost to JSerra, 31-17; vs. Oaks Christian, Friday; 7
Colorado commit Ryan Staub leads West Ranch to 61-41 upset over St. Francis in season opener on Friday night.
16. INGLEWOOD (1-0); def. St. Bonaventure, 41-34; at Henderson (Nev.) Foothill, Friday; 15
17. LONG BEACH POLY (1-0); def. Clovis, 56-7; vs. Gardena Serra (at Veterans Stadium), Friday; 17
18. BISHOP AMAT (1-0); def. Valencia, 29-6 (Thursday); at La Habra, Friday; 19
19. SAN JUAN HILLS (0-1); lost to Santa Margarita, 18-8; at Cypress, Thursday; 16
20. MURRIETA VALLEY (0-0); idle; vs. Great Oak, Friday; 20
21. CHAMINADE (1-0); def. Oaks Christian, 24-17; vs. JSerra, Friday; 22
22. SIMI VALLEY (1-0); def. Ventura, 49-3; at Knight, Friday; 23
23. EDISON (1-0); def. Venice, 48-13; vs. Leuzinger, Friday; NR
24. YORBA LINDA (1-0); def. Damien 28-19; vs. La Mirada, Friday; NR
25. ST. BONAVENTURE (0-1); lost to Inglewood, 41-34; vs. Oxnard Pacifica (at Ventura College), Friday; 14
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AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Opening goal at World Cup disallowed for offside following video review.
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Pope Francis urges people to not let Christmas pass without doing something good
(AP) - VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis presided over the evening Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs.
Francis drew lessons from the humility of Jesus’ first hours of life in a manger.
“While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters,” the pontiff lamented. “How many wars have we seen? And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!”
“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and vulnerable,’’ said Francis, who didn’t cite any specific conflict or situation.
“This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power, and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,’’ the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse. “I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.”
Still, the pontiff exhorted people to take heart.
“Do not allow yourself to be overcome by fear, resignation or discouragement.” Jesus’ lying in a manger shows where “the true riches in life are to be found: not in money and power, but in relationships and persons.”
Remarking on the “so much consumerism that has packaged the mystery” of Christmas, Francis said there was a danger the day’s meaning could be forgotten.
But, he said, Christmas focuses attention on “the problem of our humanity — the indifference produced by the greedy rush to possess and consume.”
“Jesus was born poor, lived poor and died poor,” Francis said. “He did not so much talk about poverty as live it, to the very end, for our sake.”
Francis urged people to “not let this Christmas pass without doing something good.”
When the Mass ended, the pope, pushed in a wheelchair by an aide, moved down the basilica with a life-sized statue of Baby Jesus on his lap and flanked by several children carrying bouquets. The statue then was placed in a manger in a creche scene in the basilica.
Francis, 86, has been using a wheelchair to navigate long distances due to a painful knee ligament and a cane for shorter distances.
Traditionally, Catholics mark Christmas Eve by attending Mass at midnight. But over the years, the starting time at the Vatican has crept earlier, reflecting the health or stamina of popes and then the pandemic.
Two years ago, the start of Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica was moved up to 7:30 p.m. to allow the faithful to get home before a nighttime curfew imposed by the Italian government as a measure to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Although virtually all pandemic-triggered restrictions have long been lifted in Italy, the Vatican kept to the early start time.
During Saturday evening’s service, a choir sang hymns. Clusters of potted red poinsettia plants near the altar contrasted with the cream-colored vestments of the pontiff.
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Romans, tourists, and pilgrims were expected to crowd into St. Peter’s Square to hear Pope Francis deliver an address on world issues and give his blessing. The speech, known in Latin as “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world), generally is an occasion to review crises including war, persecution and hunger, in many parts of the globe.
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Massage therapist accused of inappropriately touching woman at spa, police say
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 1:38 PM CDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
SHELTON, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) – A massage therapist without a license is accused of inappropriately touching a female client, according to police in Connecticut.
Police say Lisa Daubenhauser, 46, also made lewd comments toward the woman at the spa.
“During the investigation, it was discovered that Daubenhauser did not have a license to practice massage therapy,” Shelton police said.
Daubenhauser was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault and practicing massage therapy without a license. She is due in superior court on Aug. 24.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
1122 PM CDT Sun May 7 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Dimmit
County through MIDNIGHT CDT...
At 1121 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Chupadera Ranch Airport, or 24 miles southeast of El Indio, moving
southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southwestern Dimmit
County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2831 10011 2821 9985 2820 9985 2820 10011
TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 294DEG 10KT 2821 10010
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
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‘Ranch on a Branch’ aims to push over ‘Elf on a Shelf’
Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 11:01 AM EST|Updated: 57 minutes ago
(CNN) – Elf on a Shelf is getting a new challenger from a rather unlikely place – salad dressing.
Ranchie is the star of Hidden Valley’s “Ranch on a Branch” holiday tale.
It borrows heavily from “Elf on a Shelf,” where owners are asked to move Ranchie to a new spot every day.
The new locations help him inspire people to spread joy which could power him to achieve his dream of becoming a real bottle of Ranch dressing.
A plush Ranchie and storybook is available for $30 on Hidden Valley’s website. While it’s already sold out, you can get on the waitlist for when more become available.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO sees no sign that Russia has changed its nuclear posture, the head of the military alliance said Thursday, after President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that Belarus has already received some tactical nuclear weapons from Moscow.
In an interview on state television on Tuesday, Lukashenko brashly warned that he wouldn’t hesitate to order their use if Belarus faced an act of aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the weapons will be deployed to Belarus next month and will remain under Moscow’s exclusive control.
“We are, of course, closely monitoring what Russia is doing. So far, we haven’t seen any changes in the nuclear posture that requires any changes in our posture,” Stoltenberg told reporters before chairing a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.
NATO’s secretive nuclear defense planning group is set to meet on Friday. The meeting has long been planned and is not a reaction to recent developments, but the alliance is concerned about Putin’s threats and his decisions to pull Russia out of important arms limitation treaties.
“Russia’s nuclear rhetoric and messaging is reckless and dangerous,” Stoltenberg said. “Russia must know that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” He noted that “Russia has invested heavily in new modern nuclear capabilities and also deployed more nuclear capabilities, including close to NATO borders, for instance, in the high north.”
Earlier this year, Putin announced the planned deployment of short-range nuclear weapons to Moscow’s neighbor and ally Belarus in a move widely seen as a warning to the West as it stepped up military support for Ukraine. Russia is also using Belarus as a staging base for attacks in Ukraine.
During a meeting with Lukashenko on Friday, Putin said work on building facilities for the weapons would be completed by July 7-8, and they would be moved to Belarusian territory quickly after that.
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Benchmarking solution provides real-time measurement of brand love drivers: passion, trust, and customer satisfaction
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talkwalker, the leading consumer intelligence company, today announced the immediate availability of its Brand Love Benchmarking solution. Powered by Talkwalker's advanced AI capabilities, the solution provides real-time quantifiable metrics across social, blogs and forums to deliver a "Brand Love Score" based on three core consumer drivers: passion, trust, and customer satisfaction. The solution, developed as the intelligence driver behind Talkwalker's annual Brand Love Report, is now available for brands to conduct their own brand love benchmarking to gain a deeper understanding of consumer attitudes toward their brand and their competitors, including industry averages.
Brand Love Benchmarking delivers "always-on" tangible metrics that provide deep insights into consumers' positive or negative sentiment toward a brand and reveals how well a brand is connected or disconnected to its target audience. In addition, unlike surveys or NPS assessments that provide static consumer feedback that can quickly become outdated, the solution quantifies how close or far a brand is to achieving brand love.
"Many brands' voice-of-the-customer programs don't go beyond executing static surveys to listen to their customers," said David Low, VP Marketing Americas. "Talkwalker's Brand Love Benchmarking arms brand marketers and their teams with the agility to gain immediate and continuous insights into consumer perceptions. This is especially important today when unforeseen circumstances can impact consumer sentiment in an instant, either positively or negatively. Now this power is in the hands of brands to conduct their own brand love benchmarking research and to develop action plans to strengthen customer relationships."
Available immediately, key features and capabilities of Talkwalker's Brand Love Benchmarking solution include:
- A ready-to-use dashboard that enables marketers to instantly identify their brand's love scores and gain real-time access to brand tracking across local and global markets.
- Easily measure how a company's brand ranks in its industry and vs. top competitors.
- Produce visually appealing brand health reports that can be easily shared and understood by the C-suite and stakeholders across the organization.
- Develop an action plan to move up through the rankings by improving Passion, Trust and Customer Satisfaction scores.
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China wants influence 'at the very top' of US government: Miranda Devine
The Fox News contributor reacts to alleged Pelosi family corruption
Fox News contributor Miranda Devine said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's son Paul Pelosi, Jr. having a board seat on a Chinese company shows that China wants influence "at the very top level" of the U.S. government Thursday on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
MIRANDA DEVINE: The shamelessness of this when we've had now over a year of publicity about Hunter Biden's laptop and the influence-peddling scheme that his family was running, particularly with China and Russia and Ukraine. To hear that Paul Pelosi, Jr. is similar to Hunter Biden on having a lucrative board seat on a Chinese company. China is doing this because they want influence at the very top level of our government. They are our adversary.
JESSE WATTERS EXPOSES PAUL PELOSI JR.'S ALLEGED SHADY BUSINESS DEALINGS
There should be no politician who allows any family member to do this. And Nancy Pelosi has posed as a China hawk for much of her career. And yet here she is — her son would not be getting these jobs without her. He has nothing to recommend him other than he is the son of the third-most powerful person in the country.
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Police: Carbon monoxide killed 3 tourists at Bahamas resort
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 3:50 PM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three U.S. tourists found dead at a resort in May.
Authorities did not provide further details on Tuesday, saying only the deaths were still under investigation.
The victims were a couple from Tennessee and a man from Florida whose wife was hospitalized.
The couples were staying in separate villas next to each other in the same building at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort on the island of Exuma. It was not clear if the villas had carbon monoxide detectors and if they did, whether they were working.
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Claudia Jaramillo Appointed Chief Financial Officer, Effective August 14, 2023
Kevin Berryman to Serve as Special Advisor to CEO Bob Pragada
DALLAS, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE: J) today announced that Claudia Jaramillo, currently Jacobs Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, will succeed Kevin Berryman as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective August 14, 2023. At that time, Berryman will serve as Special Advisor to Jacobs Chief Executive Officer, Bob Pragada.
Ms. Jaramillo has a proven track record of driving continuous operational improvement and disciplined capital allocation through complex business cycles. She joined Jacobs in July 2022 in her current role following more than 20 years with Schlumberger, the world's largest energy services company. During her tenure, Ms. Jaramillo successfully led multiple global operational finance roles, including most recently leading strategic capital deployment as head of treasury.
Jacobs CEO Bob Pragada said, "Claudia's record of leadership and operational execution ideally positions her to serve as Jacobs' next CFO and further advance our 'Boldly Moving Forward' strategy. Since joining Jacobs last year, Claudia's strategic thinking and financial acumen have already made a considerable impact. She has a deep understanding of the compelling growth opportunity across our strategic accelerators of climate response, data solutions and high value consulting and advisory, and her diverse background driving innovative solutions for multi-national companies across industrial sectors aligns with our own ambitious growth objectives. Her experience in driving cultural transformation will further enhance our continued commitment to create a diverse and inclusive company like no other that attracts and retains best in class talent."
Pragada continued, "As a key member of our executive leadership team since 2014, Kevin has been instrumental in transforming Jacobs to a higher growth, higher value technology enabled solutions provider. During his tenure, Kevin has been a proactive partner in forming and implementing our strategies and has driven strong financial performance focused on disciplined cost control, robust cash flow generation and effective capital deployment, in addition to committed leadership to our cultural transformation."
Berryman said, "Claudia is absolutely the right person to continue Jacobs' focus on delivering value to all key stakeholders and is steadfastly committed to compounding returns for our shareholders. The last eight years as Jacobs' CFO have been inspiring. I am proud of our accomplishments in propelling Jacobs' transformational journey and redefining our business portfolio and capital deployment strategy. Our success has resulted in significant, sustainable value creation for our shareholders and has established Jacobs as one of the world's most admired companies. I'm looking forward to continuing to work with Bob as Special Advisor beginning in August."
About Claudia Jaramillo
Ms. Jaramillo joined Jacobs in July 2022 as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development.
Prior to joining Jacobs, Ms. Jaramillo spent more than 20 years at Schlumberger where she served in multiple executive roles with increasing senior leadership responsibility in finance and general management. She has worked in several high growth markets and geographies, including Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.S., and was the top financial executive of the largest region – responsible for overseeing $16 billion of annual revenue as the financial controller of the North America business. She also led significant organizational restructuring and transformation initiatives. Most recently, she served as Vice President Group Treasurer and Corporate Officer and had significant engagement with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) function at Schlumberger. She set up sustainability-linked financing and represented the company on the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) CFO Task Force, whose goal is to reshape the future of corporate finance and investment as a catalyst for growth, value creation and social impact.
Ms. Jaramillo serves as Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Generation USA and as a member of the Board of the Wharton Club of Houston. Previously, she served on the Board of Arabian Drilling ADC.
She is a graduate of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical and electronics engineering followed by an MBA from The Wharton School.
About Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $15 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. Visit jacobs.com and connect with Jacobs on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, a massive infusion of cash that could help support the nation as Russian forces suffer battlefield losses in their nine-month-old invasion.
The administration’s funding request, which comes as lawmakers begin their post-election session, also seeks $9.25 billion in COVID-19 funding to prepare for a possible winter surge and help combat the virus nationwide. Government funding expires in mid-December, and the Ukraine and COVID aid would be part of the package to fund the government through the end of September 2023.
The request for such a sizable amount of money for Ukraine comes as the GOP is poised to take control of the House following the midterm elections. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who is in line to become speaker, has warned that Republicans wouldn’t support writing a “blank check” for Ukraine if they capture the majority.
Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said that more than three-fourths of the $40 billion approved by Congress earlier this year for Ukraine has already been disbursed or committed. The Biden administration has asked for a total of $37.7 billion in support.
“Together, with strong, bipartisan support in the Congress, we have provided significant assistance that has been critical to Ukraine’s success on the battlefield — and we cannot let that support run dry, ” Young said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The proposed Ukraine assistance includes $21.7 billion for military, intelligence and other defense support, $14.5 billion in humanitarian aid and to help keep the Ukrainian government functioning, $900 million for health care and support services for Ukrainians living in the U.S. and $626 million for nuclear security support to Ukraine and for modernizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
U.S. aid to Ukraine has already included tens of thousands of missiles and rockets for air defense and anti-armor systems, and more than 84 million rounds of ammunition, as well as drones, tanks, trucks, radars, body armor and other gear.
Ukrainian leaders have begged for more advanced, longer-range weapons, but the U.S. has been careful to not provide systems that would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deep into Russia or hit Moscow.
In recent months the U.S. assistance has centered on air defense systems and a constant stream of ammunition. Those systems have been critical in helping Ukrainian forces mount a massive counteroffensive that has been able to beat back the advances of Russian forces in the south and east and recapture key territory.
The retaking of Kherson, the only provincial capital captured by the Russians, was one of Ukraine’s biggest successes in the nearly nine-month-old Russian invasion. It dealt a stunning battlefield loss to Moscow, but large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine remain under Russian control and fighting continues.
Russian airstrikes have been targeting civilian infrastructure, including power grids, and they are causing widespread blackouts around the country. The attacks appear aimed at leaving Ukrainian civilians in the cold and dark as winter approaches.
Biden sought $13.7 billion in emergency funding in September, and signed a bill that authorized roughly $12 billion and kept the government funded.
House Foreign Affairs committee chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said the new emergency request was “urgent to make sure that we get them everything that we can possibly get into the omnibus so that they have the weapons to continue the momentum moving through the winter.”
He expressed concerns that Ukraine funding could be jeopardized with the GOP in charge of the House.
“I would hope that if they do take over, that their leadership will get them in line so that we can preserve democracy and not allow Russia to win,” he said.
The coronavirus funding ask is considerably lower than the previous request of $22 billion, which reflects in part the changing nature of the virus and the continued effort to combat it, but also the reluctance among Republicans in Congress to continue to fund COVID-19 efforts.
The request includes $2.5 billion for vaccines and therapeutics, $5 billion to support development of new vaccines, $750 million to support research into long COVID and $1 billion to combat the virus internationally.
The request also includes $400 million in funding for smallpox vaccines used for monkeypox response, and $350 million for hepatitis C and to help prevent HIV.
A request for additional disaster relief funding should come soon but isn’t yet finalized, White House officials said.
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A relatively light day of trading on Wall Street ended Thursday with a broad rally for stocks as investors welcomed new jobless benefits data that shows the labor market remains strong.
The S&P 500 rose 1.7%, with roughly 95% of stocks within the benchmark index closing higher. The gains more than made up for the index’s losses the previous two days, the latest oscillation in what has been a volatile, holiday-shortened week for stocks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% and the Nasdaq composite gained 2.6%.
Technology stocks, which are down 29% this year, powered much of the rally. Apple and Microsoft each rose 2.8%.
Tesla jumped 8.1% as it continued to recover from steep losses Tuesday following reports it temporarily suspended production at a factory in Shanghai. The stock is still down nearly 66% for the year.
Investors have been hoping for a “Santa Claus” rally. That’s Wall Street’s term for when stocks rise in the last five trading days of December and first two of January. Even a late rally likely wouldn’t change the broader market’s trajectory for the month.
Every major index is headed for a loss in December that will cap a dismal year. While companies in the S&P 500 raked in record profits this year, investors in the benchmark index will see a roughly 20% loss in 2022, which would mark its worst year since 2008.
Still, going back to World War II, history suggests the market may fare better next year, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.
“When you look at down years for the market, history offers some encouragement in that the market is up an average of 14% in the following year and has risen in price more than 80% of the time,” Stovall said.
The S&P 500 rose 66.06 points to 3,849.28. The Dow added 345.09 points to 33,220.80. The Nasdaq rose 264.80 points to close at 10,478.09.
Small company stocks also posted solid gains. The Russell 2000 index rose 44.23 points, or 2.6%, to 1,766.25.
Treasury yields were mixed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.83% from 3.89% late Wednesday.
Markets in Europe closed higher, while markets in Asia slipped.
Investors have been focused on the Federal Reserve’s continuing fight against stubbornly hot inflation. The central bank has been raising interest rates in an effort to stifle borrowing and spending and cool inflation, but the strategy risks going too far and sending the economy into a recession. That has put an even greater focus on a wide range of data for Wall Street as it tries to determine whether inflation is cooling and how various areas of the economy are faring.
The latest update from the U.S. shows that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose only slightly last week. The labor market has been one of the stronger areas of the economy. That’s normally good news and it has helped create a bulwark against a recession as other areas of the economy slow. It has also made the Fed’s fight against inflation more difficult and means the central bank will have to likely remain aggressive, raising the risk that its policy could bring on a recession.
The Fed has already raised its key interest rate seven times this year and is expected to continue raising rates in 2023. The key lending rate, the federal funds rate, stands at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, and Fed policymakers forecast that the rate will reach a range of 5% to 5.25% by the end of 2023. Their forecast doesn’t call for a rate cut before 2024. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/ap-asian-shares-extend-losses-after-wall-street-decline/ | 2022-12-30 03:58:08 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/business/ap-asian-shares-extend-losses-after-wall-street-decline/ |
A roundup of the most newsworthy press releases from PR Newswire this week
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- The Famously Saucy McRib® Returns For A Farewell Tour
- Welcome the Holidays with Bed Bath & Beyond®, buybuy BABY® and Harmon®
- Meta Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results
- Discounts at the Top of Shoppers Wish List this Holiday Season
- Alaska Airlines makes biggest Boeing aircraft order in its 90-year history
- U.S. News Unveils 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings
- Jonas Brothers To Perform Live at Cowboys Thanksgiving Day Game Halftime Show
- Mathematics and Reading Scores of Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Declined in Most States During Pandemic, Nation's Report Card Shows
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NPR has named its veteran reporter Juana Summers as the newest host for its flagship afternoon news program All Things Considered.
Summers is now a correspondent covering race, justice and politics for the network. Starting June 27, she will fill the hosting position left vacant by Audie Cornish, who departed NPR for CNN in January.
In an interview, Summers, who is Black, said she hopes to further expand All Things Considered's reach to new and diverse audiences. She aims to reach more people whose experiences are not typically represented in the media and empower them to tell their stories on air. She also said she hopes to do more in digital spaces to reach younger audiences.
"One of the things that I'm the most excited about is that every day I get to sit in that seat and be a stand-in for a smart, curious listener who cares deeply about issues and the world around them," Summers said.
Summers said she knew she wanted to be a reporter since high school, where she started writing for her school newspaper in Kansas City, Mo. She began working in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo. Since 2010, she has covered politics for outlets including CNN, Politico and The Associated Press. Summers covered Congress for NPR in 2014-15 and rejoined in 2019.
"I was so eager to return to NPR because I believe in the public service mission that is at the heart of everything we do," she said. "Serving the public is an incredible responsibility."
"She is a first-rate journalist with an enviable track record," said Sarah Gilbert, the NPR vice president who oversees its news magazines. "She's a natural leader and connects with people in a way that makes them feel heard, and she has an instinct for creative storytelling that is second to none."
Summers will join All Things Considered co-hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro and Michel Martin at a time when questions about diversity, equity and retention have sparked intense discussion inside NPR's newsroom and in public.
Female hosts of color, in particular, have raised questions of pay disparities and whether they have institutional support to pursue the stories they seek to tell.
Within several months spanning from last fall to this spring, show hosts Cornish, Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Noel King — all women of color — left the network. They cited fresh opportunities and, with the exception of King, frustrations with the network.
The network has hired a notably diverse cadre of hosts since, including A Martínez, Leila Fadel, Ayesha Rascoe and now Summers.
Summers said she hopes to attract new audiences to NPR by sharing the voices of people whose perspectives may be missing on the air. She pointed to her reporting on Gen Z Republicans grappling with the future of their party, patriotism among Black Americans and the spotlight the Biden-Harris administration put on blended families.
"It's important for all of us to be thinking really critically about how we create space and opportunity for women and people of color and others from marginalized backgrounds to grow and to feel valued and to be their authentic selves at work," Summers said. "I think that the fact that ATC selected someone like me is a testament to the fact that NPR and NPR's leadership takes that incredibly seriously."
She also sees digital spaces, such as social media, as key to expanding All Things Considered's reach to new audiences.
"I really see this as an opportunity for a person who maybe has to bring the voices of people who perhaps have never heard of NPR or think that NPR is not a place for them, to convince them that they're wrong and that this can be a news home for them," Summers said.
All Things Considered debuted in 1971. Since then, it has won many journalism awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.
Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Intern Jacqueline GaNun and edited by NPR Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp. NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik contributed to this story. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was published.
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Saying strike is “imminent,” UPS gets a Friday deadline from union to come up with a better contract
Frustrated by an “appalling counterproposal” earlier this week, the head of the union representing 340,000 UPS workers said a strike is imminent and gave the shipping giant a Friday deadline to improve its offer.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters walked away from negotiations Wednesday, demanding that UPS give its “last, best, and final offer” no later than June 30.
Teamsters officials did not say what time the Friday deadline was or what actions it might take if it is not met.
“The largest single-employer strike in American history now appears inevitable,” said Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien, who accused UPS executives of hoarding profits instead of sharing them with workers.
“Executives at UPS, some of whom get tens of millions of dollars a year, do not care about the hundreds of thousands of American workers who make this company run,” O’Brien said.
In a brief statement, United Parcel Service said it has offered significant changes to its initial financial proposal and that “Reaching consensus requires time and serious, detailed discussion, but it also requires give-and-take from both sides.”
Negotiations on the national contract began in April. The current contract expires July 31.
Earlier this month, the Teamsters said 97% of unionized workers voted for a strike authorization, which the union urged to give it more leverage during negotiations with the company.
The Teamsters represent more than half of the company’s workforce in the largest private-sector contract in North America. If a strike occurs, it would be the first since a 15-day walkout by 185,000 workers crippled the company a quarter century ago.
UPS has pushed back on those claims by boasting that is provides workers with industry-leading pay and benefits.
Unionized UPS workers are still upset about the current contract, which they feel was forced on them by prior union leadership in 2018 based on a technicality. The contract created two hierarchies of workers with different pay scales, hours and benefits. The union wants it eliminated.
Two weeks ago, the union and the company announced they reached a tentative agreement to equip more trucks with air conditioning equipment, a major sticking point. UPS said it would add air conditioning to U.S. small delivery vehicles purchased after January 1, 2024.
UPS delivers around 25 million packages a day, representing about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. That’s about 10 million parcels more than it delivered each day in the years leading up to the pandemic.
UPS profits have soared since the pandemic began in 2020 as millions of Americans grew to rely on delivery to their doorstops.
Annual profits at UPS in the past two years are close to three times what they were pre-pandemic. The Atlanta company returned about $8.6 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock buybacks in 2022, and forecasts another $8.4 billion for shareholders this year.
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AP Business Reporter Haleluya Hadero contributed to this report from New York.
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Pence calls on Trump to apologize for dinner with Holocaust denier
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” and called on him to apologize after the former president had dinner last week with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West days after launching his third campaign for the White House.
“President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it. And he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification,” Pence said in an interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert airing Monday night.
Still, Pence, who is considering his own potential run against his former boss, said he does not believe Trump is antisemitic or racist and said he would not have served as Trump’s vice president if he was.
“But I think the President demonstrated profoundly poor judgment in giving those individuals a seat at the table and as I said, I think he should apologize for it,” he added. “He should denounce them without qualification.”
Trump had dinner last Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago club with West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist with a long history of antisemitic and white nationalist commentary.
Trump has said that he had “never met and knew nothing about” Fuentes, who had accompanied Ye, before the meeting. But he has so far refused to acknowledge or denounce the positions of ether Fuentes or Ye, who has made his own series of antisemitic comments in recent weeks, leading to his suspension from social media platforms and the end of his ties with major companies like Adidas.
The meeting has been criticized by Jewish groups like the Zionist Organization of America, which honored Trump just two days before his campaign launch, Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another potential Trump 2024 rival, who has become an outspoken Trump critic.
“This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump, which, combined with his past poor judgments, make him an untenable general election candidate for the Republican Party in 2024,” Christie told The New York Times.
On Saturday, Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, another potential 2024 rival, denounced antisemitism as “a cancer,” without directly referencing the dinner or the president under whom he served.
But other top Republicans, including many considering challenging Trump for the GOP nomination, have so far remained silent, underscoring the hold Trump maintains over the party, even as he has been blamed for their worse-than-expected showing during the midterm elections.
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TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (OTCQX: EMMA), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease, today reported on its results of operations and financial condition as of and for the three and nine months ended September30, 2022 and provided a business update.
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Dr. Niihara added, "We are pleased to see progressive decrease in quarterly net loss. We will continue to work with stakeholders and all related parties on further restructuring or refinancing of our outstanding indebtedness and other current liabilities and will report on any transactions in this regard as they may occur."
Financial and Operating Results
Net Revenues. Net revenues for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2022 were $4.9 million and $12.5 million, respectively, compared to $5.8 million and $17.6 million, respectively, for same periods in 2021. The decrease was primarily attributable to lower bulk order purchases in 2022 compared to the same periods in 2021 due to overstocking by U.S. distributors in 2021. Net revenues in Q3 2022 increased by $0.7 million, or nearly 15%, from Q2 2022 net revenues of $4.3 million. Net revenues were positively affected by Q3 sales of Endari in the United Arab Emirates, where Endari was approved for marketing in May 2022, and, to a lesser extent, sales on an early access basis in the other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The company had no similar sales in Q1 2022 or in 2021.
Operating Expenses. Total operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2022 were $5.1 million, compared with $5.4 million for the same period in 2021. Of the decreased expenses in Q3, $0.2 million was attributable to a decrease in professional fees. Total operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 were $15.7 million, compared with $17.4 million for the same period in 2021. The decrease was due to a $1.8 million decrease in research and development expenses related to $0.5 million in cash and $0.5 million in shares of the Company common stock paid and issued in 2021 to Kainos Medicine, Inc. ("Kainos") to lead the clinical development of Kainos's patented IRAK4 inhibitor. Total operating expenses in Q3 2022 decreased slightly from Q2 2022 due to $0.3 million decrease in selling expenses.
Loss From Operations. Loss from operations for the three months ended September 30, 2022 was $0.7 million, compared to $31,000 in the same period in 2021. Operating loss for nine months ended September 30, 2022 increased to $5.2 million, compared to $1.2 million for the same period last year. The increased operating loss resulted from lower net revenues in 2022 compared to 2021. Loss from operations in Q3 2022 decreased by $0.8 million, or 54.2%, from $1.4 million in Q2 2022 as a result of the increase in net revenues in Q3.
Other Income (Expense). Other income increased by $3.1 million to $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022, compared to other expense of $2.9 million in the same period in 2021. Other income in Q3 included a $5.2 million decrease in change in fair value of conversion feature derivatives and a $1.2 million increase in foreign exchange loss as compared to Q3 2021.
Net Loss. For the quarter, the company realized a net loss of $0.4 million, or $0.01 per share based on approximately 49.6 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares. This compares to net loss of $3.2 million, or $0.06 per share based on approximately 49.3 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares for the third quarter of 2021. The decrease in net loss was primarily attributable to the increase of $3.1 million in other income, partially offset by a decrease of $0.7 million in loss from operations discussed above. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the company incurred a net loss of $10.8 million, or $0.22 per share, based on approximately 49.4 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares. This compares to a net loss of $9.1 million, or $0.18 per share, based on approximately 49.2 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. Net loss for Q3 2022 decreased by $8.5 million, or 96%, from $8.9 million in Q2 2022 because of the increase of $7.5 million in other income and a decrease of $0.8 million in loss from operations, as discussed above.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. At September 30, 2022, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $1.2 million, compared with $2.3 million at December 31, 2021. Cash and cash equivalents at September 30 included the net proceeds of $5.5 from related party loans. Based on the company's cash and cash equivalents, anticipated future revenues, current liabilities and expected operating expenses, the company's working capital is insufficient to meet its current liabilities and anticipated future working capital requirement for the next 12 months without restructuring or refinancing its existing indebtedness and other current liabilities and obtaining additional loans from related parties or debt or equity financing from third parties or curtailing certain operations or activities.
About Emmaus Life Sciences
Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease. The company currently markets and sells Endari® (L-glutamine oral powder), indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adults and children 5 years and older, in the U.S. and in the United Arab Emirates, or U.A.E., and is pursuing marketing authorization for Endari® in other Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The company is also engaged in the discovery and development of innovative treatments and therapies for certain rare and orphan diseases as well as those affecting larger populations, such as certain cancers. For more information, please visit www.emmausmedical.com.
About Endari® (prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder)
Endari®, Emmaus' prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder, is approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.A.E. Ministry of Health for treating sickle cell disease. Endari® is also available on a named-patient or early-access basis in France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and Kuwait.
Indication
Endari® is indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients five years of age and older.
Important Safety Information
The most common adverse reactions (incidence >10 percent) in clinical studies were constipation, nausea, headache, abdominal pain, cough, pain in extremities, back pain, and chest pain.
Adverse reactions leading to treatment discontinuation included one case each of hypersplenism, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, burning sensation, and hot flash.
The safety and efficacy of Endari® in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease younger than five years of age has not been established.
For more information, please see full Prescribing Information of Endari® at: www.ENDARIrx.co/PI.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including statements regarding possible increased sales of Endari® in the GCC countries, possible marketing approval in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and perhaps other countries in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, possible restructuring or refinancing of outstanding indebtedness or possible equity or debt financings. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties which change over time, including risks and uncertainties relating to the company's working capital and ability to raise needed financing, risks inherent in the regulatory approval process and commercialization of Endari® in the MENA region, and other factors disclosed in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2021 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and actual results may differ materially. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Emmaus assumes no duty to update them, except as may be required by law.
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Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc.
Willis Lee
Chief Operating Officer
(310) 214-0065, Ext. 1130
wlee@emmauslifesciences.com
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HOYLAKE, England — Brian Harman wants to make the right kind of history in the British Open.
Cameron Young will be alongside in the final group on a cloudy, breezy day. The wind forecast was such the R&A already has adjusted two pin positions on the fifth and 13th holes. The pins are not as deep as originally planned.
Also the tee on the par-3 17th has been moved up 8 yards to play at 132 yards.
In early action, Scottie Scheffler is 3 under for his day through seven holes to reach 1 over for the tournament. Bryson DeChambeau drove the 367-yard fourth hole and made a 25-foot eagle putt. He also has three bogeys in his round.
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— Harman builds a 5-shot lead at British Open.
— Jon Rahm sets Hoylake record with 63 to give himself a chance
— Younger brother of U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the top 10
— Rory McIlroy lets chances slip away with poor putting
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mixed Tuesday as investors took a wait-and-see view on the week ahead that's full of reports on some of the market’s biggest worries, including stubbornly high inflation across the economy.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.7% in morning trading to 29,141.93. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.2% to 7,258.80. South Korea's Kospi shed 0.4% to 2,503.80. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.3% to 20,241.95, while the Shanghai Composite edged up nearly 0.2% to 3,399.98.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 edged up by less than 0.1% to 4,138.12, coming off its worst week in nearly two months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2% to 33,618.69 while the Nasdaq composite added 0.2% to 12,256.92.
A strong reading on U.S. jobs, which calmed worries about a possible recession but raised concerns about high inflation, and fears about smaller and mid-sized banks dominated the previous week. Weighed down by much higher interest rates, smaller and mid-sized banks are scrambling to assure Wall Street their deposits are secure and not at risk of seeing a sudden exodus, similar to the runs that toppled Silicon Valley Bank and others.
The larger concern for markets is that all the turmoil could cause banks to pull back on their lending. That in turn could raise the risk of a recession that many investors already see as highly likely.
A report Monday from the Federal Reserve showed many banks tightened their lending standards during the first three months of the year. Not only that, the survey suggested banks widely expect to raise their standards over the course of 2023. Among the reasons some smaller and mid-sized banks gave for the forecast were wanting to take less risk and worries about deposit outflows.
The Federal Reserve has lifted its benchmark interest rate to a range of 5%-5.25%, up from virtually zero early last year, in hopes of slowing high inflation. High rates do that by slowing the economy and hurting prices for investments, which runs the risk of causing a recession if they stay too high for too long.
The Fed said it’s not sure of its next move, as swaths of the economy have shown sharp slowdowns but the job market remains largely resilient.
Later this week, the U.S. government will give the latest monthly updates on inflation at the consumer and wholesale levels. Earnings reports will also arrive from Duke Energy, The Walt Disney Co. and News Corp.
Also hanging over the economy is the threat of a default by the U.S. government on its debt.
Such an event would rock financial markets because U.S. Treasurys are seen as the safest possible investment in the world. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that there are “no good options” for the United States to avoid an economic “calamity” if Congress fails to raise the nation’s borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion in the coming weeks.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.51% from 3.44% late Friday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury, which moves more on expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.99% from 3.92%.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell 43 cents to $72.73 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, lost 47 cents to $76.54 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched up to 135.08 Japanese yen from 135.04 yen. The euro cost $1.0989, down from $1.1008.
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Lawyer: Teen a worry months before Michigan school shooting
DETROIT (AP) — Some teachers and a counselor at a Michigan high school were aware of a teen’s troubling interest in guns and violence months before he was accused of fatally shooting four students and wounding others, a lawyer representing victims’ families said Thursday.
“From literally the beginning of school, Ethan Crumbley was evidencing signs of being a highly troubled individual, to say the least,” said Detroit attorney Ven Johnson, citing depositions taken in a civil lawsuit against Oxford Community Schools and some staff at Oxford High School.
Crumbley, now 16, faces trial next year as an adult on murder and other charges in the Nov. 30 shooting.
One teacher said Crumbley drew what appeared to be an ammunition magazine on a note card in late August 2021. Crumbley also responded in a survey that his favorite books included “Making Bombs for Hitler,” while “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad” were among his favorite television shows.
A week or so later, he wrote in an autobiographical poem assignment for a Spanish teacher that he “feels terrible and that his family is a mistake,” Johnson quoted from an email the teacher sent to a school counselor.
The teacher who received the note card said in her deposition that she didn’t see the drawing until the day before the shooting. There apparently was no follow up to the Spanish teacher’s email in September asking the counselor to touch base with Crumbley, Johnson said.
Prosecutors have said Crumbley used a semi-automatic handgun to open fire on other teenagers in the hallway at the school roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit. The four students who were killed were 16-year-old Tate Myre, 14-year-old Hana St. Juliana, 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin and 17-year-old Justin Shilling.
Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were charged with involuntary manslaughter and pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors accuse the couple of failing to keep the gun used in the shooting secure at home and failing to reasonably care for their son when he showed signs of mental distress.
The day before the shooting, a teacher saw Ethan Crumbley looking at ammunition on his phone while in class. School officials left a voicemail informing his mother about it.
On the morning of the shooting, Crumbley’s parents were summoned to the school and confronted with his drawings, which included a handgun and the words: “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” Authorities said the parents refused to take him home after the 13-minute meeting and were told to get him counseling.
Several parents attending Johnson’s news conference in Detroit Thursday said they had not known about some of the details revealed in the depositions.
“I don’t see any excuse to not take these red flags very seriously,” said Jill Soave, mother of Justin Shilling. “We’re learning all these months later that this could have been avoided. These children should be with us today. There’s no excuse. Anyone with any type of common sense could put the pieces together that something was very wrong.”
William Myre, Tate Myre’s father, accused the school district of withholding information that could have been used to prevent the shooting.
“Meanwhile, here we are buying memorial shirts for our murdered kid,” he said, holding up a blue T-shirt. “What’s Oxford Community Schools doing? Nothing. Nothing.”
Schools Superintendent Ken Weaver said Thursday that the district has been cooperating with the criminal investigation into the shooting.
“We are also fully cooperating with the civil litigation process and will continue to do so,” Weaver said in a statement. “I remain confident that the multiple investigations, lawsuits and the school board’s third-party review will bring all the facts to light and create the full transparency and accounting of events our community wants and deserves.”
Johnson filed the civil suit earlier this year against the school district. It also names Oxford High School’s dean of students, two counselors and three teachers as defendants.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The campaign for Greece’s May 21 national election officially opened Saturday with the dissolution of the parliament that was elected in July 2019.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou to propose the dissolution and she accepted it, as obliged by the Constitution of Greece. Mitsotakis said that with less than three months before lawmakers’ four-year terms were due to end, next month’s voting does not count as an early election.
Shortly after his meeting with the president, Mitsotakis gave a televised address in which he defended his government’s record. He listed its achievements as well as the challenges ahead, and sought to make the case for a stable government going forward.
However, the prime minister’s center-right New Democracy will be hard-pressed to continue leading Greece in another single-party government. Next month’s legislative election will be the country’s first under a proportional representation system, and polls show that none of the leading parties is expected to receive a majority of votes.
The prospects of New Democracy, the center-left Syriza party or the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, teaming up in some combination to form a coalition government also is considered extremely unlikely by politicians and pundits.
In that event, another election would be held in early July. Another revision to election laws would give the winner of that vote a 30-seat bonus. Yet even the second election may not produce a majority in the 300-member Greek parliament.
Already, talk of a third election has surfaced, although officials and pundits agree that a prolonged period of uncertainty could be harmful for the economy and the overall governance of the country.
Election campaigning has been underway unofficially, only pausing for a few days as Greece marked a week of religious celebrations culminating with Orthodox Easter on April 16.
Political parties have gone hard at each other and, as expected, especially on Mitsotakis’ government. The main opposition Syriza party has promised to form a “progressive” coalition government if it wins, but its relationship with PASOK has recently taken a turn for the worse.
PASOK, which is widely expected to remain the third largest party, would be a necessary coalition partner for both New Democracy and Syriza since Greece’s other parties are either too small or in the case of those on the extreme right, too toxic.
New Democracy’s relationship with PASOK was negatively impacted by a wiretapping scandal that seemed to have targeted party leader Nikos Androulakis, among others.
The Communist Party, the fourth-largest party in parliament, has flatly refused to join any coalition.
When he visited Sakellaropoulou on Saturday, Mitsotakis said the campaign should “stay away from toxicity and extreme attitudes.” The president also wished for a “calm and fruitful campaign for the country.”
But the rhetoric so far — Syriza has referred to the current government as a “regime” — , for one – points to a fraught brutal campaign that could extend to several months, if more than one election is required. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/campaign-for-greek-election-begins-with-dissolved-parliament/ | 2023-04-22 18:40:15 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/campaign-for-greek-election-begins-with-dissolved-parliament/ |
Once again, Nets head coach Steve Nash said injured star Ben Simmons is still a ways away from making his season debut.
And once again, a series of reputable reports suggest otherwise.
Quite frankly, no one knows what to believe as it pertains to Simmons, the 25-year-old Australian All-Star forward who has been recovering from a herniated disk in his lower back. Simmons was still limited to only individual rehab work at Thursday’s practice at Brooklyn’s HSS Training Facility.
“He’s still not working with the group, so to speak,” Nash said after practice. “He’s with the group, watching, observing, taking everything in, but his physical plan is still individual.”
Nets veteran guard Goran Dragic arrived at Nets practice early on Thursday and said Simmons was not at the facility while the team played pickup and practiced.
That makes it near impossible to believe Simmons could be ready to take the floor in 11 days, which is the timeline The Athletic’s Shams Charania provided on Thursday, and even more impossible to believe that Simmons could ramp-up to playing five-on-five basketball by the end of next week, which is what ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported Thursday morning on “Get Up.”
Both Windhorst and Charania are now reporting Simmons can make his Nets debut at some point after Game 3 of the Nets’ upcoming first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics. Charania gave a specific window between Games 4 and 6 of the series, which would be sometime between April 25 and 29.
“For seven, eight weeks now, I’ve heard nothing but pessimism on the Ben Simmons front, and that has switched dramatically in the last few days,” Windhorst said on ESPN Thursday morning. “So right now I have to report that it is possible we will see Ben Simmons in this series against the Celtics.”
The reports, however, contradict what Nash has told the public. He said Simmons still has not started sprinting. Nash said Simmons is doing exercises in the water and has been using the Anti-Gravity AlterG Treadmill, but the star forward has not progressed beyond individual work and needs to get to one-on-one, two-on-two and eventually to five-on-five.
As of Thursday, Nash remained noncommittal as to whether or not he expects to see Simmons on the floor this season. If he returns, the Nets will welcome him with open arms, but if not, they will forge ahead without him.
“Yeah, I think that’s it. I mean, it’s up to Ben’s back,” Nash said after practice. “You know, it’s not up to me, any of us other than his back and how we can help that resolve. There’s a chance Ben comes back, there’s a chance he doesn’t come back.
“So I think for us, we’ve got to focus on the group, support Ben and his journey to get back on the floor, but at the same time, we don’t have time to lose focus on the group that’s playing.”
Kevin Durant said it’s easier for him not to expect Simmons is going to return any time soon.
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“I’m not putting any pressure on Ben to come out there and hoop,” Durant said after Thursday’s practice. “So I’m not expecting him to do anything but just to get his body right and get healthy as fast as he can. So in my mind, I’m preparing as if we’re playing with the team we have.”
He also said he’s not thinking about what it would look like with Simmons on the floor alongside the other Nets starters.
“We all know what type of player Ben is,” Durant added. “You can put together scenarios in your mind on your own on what it’ll look like, but I’m not gonna go there because we’re just taking it a day at a time.”
Nash, however, previously told the Daily News he sees the comparison between Simmons and Golden State Warriors’ star Draymond Green. Nash doubled-down on that comparison on Thursday.
“Absolutely. I think that’s Ben’s brilliance,” he said. “You look at the athlete that he is, the ability to handle and pass, rebound, defend, push and transition. That’s a lot of skills, and a lot of ways that he can affect the game.”
Thinking like that, however, is putting the cart before the horse, and despite reports suggesting Simmons could make a debut in the first round, the star forward has benchmarks he must clear before he can take the floor. Nash has to coach the team he has in front of him while also keeping tabs on Simmons’ progress.
“Ben’s a franchise cornerstone, but right now, it’s about supporting him physically and mentally to get back on the floor and coaching the group to put his best foot forward in the first few games of the series at least,” he said. “Internally, we’re not sitting here saying Ben’s returning in this series. We’ll see what happens.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ny-ben-simmons-playoff-return-rumors-20220414-m5l6zkrc2bfunje34py555fjzq-story.html | 2022-04-16 00:47:59 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ny-ben-simmons-playoff-return-rumors-20220414-m5l6zkrc2bfunje34py555fjzq-story.html |
Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration
By Camilo Rocha, CNN
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States on Friday, according to CNN Brasil, two days before the inauguration of his successor, President-elect Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.
Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane. He was accompanied by advisers and first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, CNN Brasil reported.
“I’m on a flight, I’ll be back soon,” Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil.
His decision to leave comes as Brazil’s government issued an ordinance on Friday authorizing five civil servants to accompany “future ex-president” Bolsonaro to Miami, Florida, between January 1 and 30, 2023.
While it is unclear when Bolsonaro plans to return, his trip to the US may break with Brazilian convention of outgoing leaders being present at their successors’ inauguration ceremony. Lula da Silva is due to be inaugurated on Sunday.
Bolsonaro earlier on Friday said goodbye to his supporters in live broadcast shared online.
“Brazil will not end on January 1, you can be sure about that,” the outgoing president said in reference to Lula da Silva’s inauguration date.
“Today we have a mass of people who know more about politics”, he continued. “They understand they are at risk. Good will win. We have leaders all over Brazil. New politicians or reelected politicians, they will make a difference.”
He also condemned a bombing attempt at an airport in Brasilia.
The suspect, who was arrested last weekend, said in a written statement to police that he intended to “create chaos” so as to prevent former Lula da Silva from taking office again in January.
“There is no justification, here in Brasília, for this … terrorist act, here in the region of the Brasília airport. Nothing justifies it.” Bolsonaro said Friday.
Bolsonaro’s administration has said it is cooperating with the transition of power, but the far-right leader has stopped short of explicitly conceding his election loss on October 30. In protest, thousands of his supporters have gathered at military barracks across the country, asking the army to step in as they claim, with no evidence, that the election was stolen.
Yet on Friday, Bolsonaro revoked an ordinance that banned the entry of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and other authorities from that country in Brazil.
The request to lift the ban came from Lula da Silva’s team, according to the president-elect’s press officer. Maduro was invited to the inauguration.
The ordinance, which began in August 2019, was enacted by Bolsonaro himself. A new ordinance was published in the federal government’s official journal on Friday.
In November, Maduro announced on social media that he and Lula had agreed to resume a “cooperation agenda” between the two countries, after Bolsonaro’s government adopted a hostile stance towards Brazil’s Latin American neighbor.
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DALLAS (AP) — Officials on Monday identified the six men killed in a deadly collision between two vintage military aircraft at a Dallas air show, all of whom were experienced aviators with years of flight training.
The Commemorative Air Force, which put on the show, identified the victims as: Terry Barker, Craig Hutain, Kevin “K5” Michels, Dan Ragan, Leonard “Len” Root, and Curt Rowe. They died Saturday when a World War II-era bomber and a fighter plane collided and crashed in a ball of flames, horrifying spectators who had gathered for the air show that opened on Veterans’ Day.
Several videos posted on social media show the fighter plane flying into the bomber.
All of the men were volunteers, but each had gone through a strict process of logging hours and training flights and were vetted carefully, Hank Coates, the CEO of Commemorative Air Force said at a weekend news conference.
“This is not their first rodeo,” Coates said. “These guys are very well versed. Many of them are airline pilots, retired airline pilots, retired military pilots like myself.
“These are very well-trained folks who have been doing this for a long time.”
Officials have not publicly identified which of the victims was piloting the aircrafts.
Hutain, of Montgomery, Texas, has been a commercial airline pilot since 1985. He started flying at the age of 10 and had logged more than 34,500 flight hours, according to his LinkedIn page.
In a recent interview with Vintage Aviation News posted on YouTube, Hutain described aviation as a “lifelong obsession” passed down from his father, a bomber pilot in World War II. He described having to use pillows to boost him up in the seat of the first airplane he learned to fly.
“It’s near and dear to my heart,” Hutain said. “I’ve always been a pilot.”
Armin Mizani, the mayor of Keller, Texas, said Barker was a retired pilot who lived in Keller, a town of 50,000, where many of the residents know each other.
“It’s definitely a big loss in our community,” he said. “We’re grieving.”
Barker was an Army veteran who flew helicopters during his military service. He later worked for American Airlines for 36 years before retiring in 2020, Mizani said.
Rowe, a member of the Ohio Wing Civil Air Patrol, was a crew chief on the B-17, his brother-in-law Andy Keller told The Associated Press on Sunday. Rowe, of Hilliard, Ohio, did air shows several times a year because he fell in love with WWII aircraft, Keller said.
Root, also from Keller, was a pilot and manager for the Gulf Coast Wing of the Commemorative Air Force who worked over the last year as a contract commercial pilot for various companies, according to his LinkedIn page.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the collision, including why both aircraft were flying at the same altitude and in the same air space, NTSB member Michael Graham said at a Sunday news conference.
Graham said investigators are analyzing radar and video footage to pinpoint the exact location of collision. He said most of debris from the crash was scattered on the airport property and will be carefully examined, along with audio recordings from the air traffic control tower, pilot training records and aircraft maintenance records.
Neither aircraft was equipped with a flight-data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder, separate devices referred to collectively as the black boxes, and neither were required to have those devices, Graham said.
The crash came three years after the crash of a bomber in Connecticut that killed seven, and amid ongoing concern about the safety of air shows involving older warplanes. The company that owned the planes flying in the Wings Over Dallas show has had other crashes in its more than 60-year history.
Investigators will examine the wreckage from both aircraft, conduct interviews of crews present at the air show and obtain pilot training and aircraft maintenance records.
“We’ll look at everything that we can and we’ll let the evidence basically lead us to the appropriate conclusions. At this point, we will not speculate” on the cause, Graham said.
A preliminary report from the NTSB is expected in four to six weeks, while a final report will take up to 18 months to complete.
The B-17, a cornerstone of U.S. air power during World War II, is an immense four-engine bomber that was used in daylight raids against Germany. The Kingcobra, a U.S. fighter plane, was used mostly by Soviet forces during the war. Most B-17s were scrapped at the end of World War II and only a handful remain today, largely featured at museums and air shows, according to Boeing. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-dallas-air-show-victims-named-ntsb-investigation-underway/ | 2022-11-14 20:55:27 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-dallas-air-show-victims-named-ntsb-investigation-underway/ |
Every month, Renee Hoolan sends her son, Bailey Sanders, $75. He's been incarcerated for the last 6 years, so he uses that money for things like over-the-counter medications, shoes for his job or minutes on the phone. Hoolan said it's hard having a son in prison, but she wants to stay connected and help him out.
Under a new rule proposed by the Bureau of Prisons, however, most of the money Hoolan sends to her son would not go to him. Instead, the majority of the money sent to prisoners' commissary accounts would first go to pay their restitution debts and outstanding court fines.
Opponents of the plan say it shifts responsibility to family members, like Hoolan.
"I still love him, and understand addiction," Hoolan said. But "it's more like now I'm paying his restitution and not him."
Sanders agrees with his mother. He hates that he has to ask for help. "My mother is all that I have, and she can only do so much," he said. "The bottom line is, I don't feel that it's her responsibility to pay my restitution."
The new rule would require that 75 percent of all the money family and friends send a person in prison go to pay their outstanding debts.
The Bureau of Prisons is considering the rule change after a Washington Post investigation raised concerns about high-profile people, like sex offender and former rap artist R. Kelly, keeping large sums of money in their prison accounts rather than paying restitution to their victims.
Members of Congress from both parties were outraged to learn inmates were avoiding paying restitution. In a hearing on Capitol Hill last September, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa said that "inmates, such as the Boston bomber and Larry Nassar, have thousands of dollars to spend on cigarettes and candy that's stashed at the Bureau of Prisons."
But lawyers and advocates for people in prison feel that the proposed rule goes too far. Shanna Rifkin, deputy general counsel for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, agrees that the Bureau of Prisons should not let wealthy people like R. Kelly avoid restitution, but she also thinks the proposed rule is too broad.
"It's really like a sledgehammer, when you could bring a tool that was much smaller to address the problem," she said.
Other advocates, like Ellen Degnan, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, argue the courts should fix the problem themselves by setting individual payment plans during sentencing.
"Courts can solve this problem," she said. "This is not for the BOP to meddle in."
Even advocates for people who are owed restitution are wary of the proposed rule. Bridgette Stumpf, executive director at the nonprofit Network for Victim Recovery of D.C., thinks the rule has the potential to get some victims restitution more quickly than they would otherwise. Still, she thinks the consequences need to be balanced.
Many of the people who would be impacted by the proposed rule do not owe victim restitution, but instead owe court fines and fees related to their initial sentencing. Sagan Soto-Stanton's husband is one of those people. He has been incarcerated for the last 10 years for a non-violent drug crime, and still has $9,000 worth of court fees to pay off. Seeing the proposed rule was difficult for Soto-Stanton.
"It's already an impact to families like myself that are supporting their loved ones," she said, "but then to do something like this it's only making it more challenging."
The Bureau of Prisons declined NPR's request for comment. In a statement, a spokesperson said that commissary accounts are a privilege, and that the Bureau remains committed to assisting inmates in paying their financial obligations. Officials say they will be reviewing public comments carefully, and that there isn't a deadline for a decision on this rule being made.
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Macronix Quad I/O Serial NOR Flash Memory Complements Efinix Titanium FPGA for Edge Computing, Hardware Acceleration, Machine Learning
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Macronix International Co., Ltd. (TSE: 2337), a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, today announced that its MX25U25645G 1.8V 256Mb Quad I/O Serial NOR Flash memory has been selected as the preferred Serial NOR Flash memory for the Efinix® Titanium Ti180 FPGA development platform. By implementing the Macronix Flash memory, Efinix, an innovator in programmable products and technology, brings to market a powerful development platform featuring Efinix's high-capacity, low-power FPGA and Macronix's high-performance Serial NOR Flash memory.
The new Efinix development platform empowers engineers with the tools to design products for diverse applications such as vision systems, edge computing, hardware acceleration, and machine learning. The platform also provides designers with the confidence that the Flash memory and FPGA they're working with have been fully tested and verified for compatibility.
"Both Macronix and Efinix are known globally for their innovation in developing high quality and performance products for demanding applications," said Macronix Vice President of Marketing F.L. Ni. "The new Efinix Ti180 FPGA development platform is testimony to that innovation, as it leverages our decades of experience in non-volatile memory and Efinix's revolutionary Titanium FPGA technology at the heart of the Ti180."
"This new development platform featuring our Titanium Ti180 FPGA and Macronix's MX25U25645G Quad I/O Serial NOR Flash memory will enable engineers to streamline the process of creating powerful yet highly efficient products designed around the Ti180," said Mark Oliver, Vice President of Marketing at Efinix. "They'll realize tremendous benefits from using this platform for designs serving some of the industry's fastest-growing markets and most-demanding applications."
The Titanium Ti180 FPGA features Efinix's high-density, low-power Quantum™ compute fabric with an I/O interface in a small foot print package for easy integration. The FPGAs include a 2.5 Gbps hardened MIPI D-Phy which can be used with an Efinix MIPI CSI-2 and DSI controller IP cores to create multi-camera, high-definition vision systems, edge computing and hardware-acceleration systems. With the ultra-low-power Ti180 FPGAs, designers can build always-on products and other enhanced capabilities.
A member of Macronix's MXSMIO™ Duplex family of multi-I/O Serial NOR Flash memory and manufactured with Macronix's advanced, high-reliability 55nm process, the MX25U25645G provides a Quad I/O interface with double transfer rate (DTR) mode operation, featuring the maximum read throughput up to 100MB/s, densities from 64Mb to 2Gb, and operating voltage from 1.65V to 2.0V. The MX25U25645G supports a vast number of applications requiring fast read performance with 256Mb density and 1.8V operating voltage.
For more information on Macronix's Quad I/O Serial NOR Flash memory, including the MX25U25645G, please click here. For more information on the Efinix Titanium FPGAs, including the Ti180, please click here.
About Macronix
Macronix, a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, provides a full range of NOR Flash, NAND Flash, and ROM products. With its world-class R&D and manufacturing capability, Macronix continues to deliver high-quality, innovative and performance-driven products to its customers in the consumer, communication, computing, automotive, industrial, medical, and other market segments. Find out more at www.macronix.com.
About Efinix
Efinix®, an innovator in programmable products, is committed to delivering the low power and reconfigurability of its high-performance Titanium FPGA silicon platforms for applications in the mainstream market. Efinix FPGAs deliver power, performance, and area advantages over traditional FPGA technologies, unlocking new applications and delivering rapid time to market. Titanium devices range from 35K to 1M logic elements, have a small form-factor, low-power, and are priced for high-volume production. The Efinity® Integrated Development Environment provides a complete FPGA design suite from RTL to bit stream.
MXSMIO is a trademark of Macronix International Co., Ltd. Efinix is a registered trademark and Quantum is a trademark of Efinix, Inc.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent encampments have risen along the American River and highway overpasses have become havens for homeless people, whose numbers have jumped a staggering nearly 70% over two years.
Among the 9,300 without a home is Eric Santos, who lost his job at a brewery and was evicted from his apartment in July. Now he carries a list of places where free meals are available and a bucket to mix soap and water to wash his hands, and to sit on.
“The bucket is part of my life now,” the 42-year-old said, calling it his version of Wilson, the volleyball that becomes Tom Hanks’ companion in the film “Castaway.”
Cities big and small around the country are facing a similar experience to Sacramento.
Fueled by a long-running housing shortage, rising rent prices and the economic hangover from the pandemic, the overall number of homeless in a federal government report to be released in coming months is expected to be higher than the 580,000 unhoused before the coronavirus outbreak, the National Alliance to End Homelessness said.
The Associated Press tallied results from city-by-city surveys conducted earlier this year and found the number of people without homes is up overall compared with 2020 in areas reporting results so far.
Some of the biggest increases are in West Coast cities such as Sacramento and Portland, Oregon, where growing homelessness has become a humanitarian crisis and political football over the past decade. Numbers are also up about 30% in South Dakota and Prince George’s County, Maryland, and 15% in Asheville, North Carolina.
The data comes from the Point in Time counts the federal government requires communities to conduct to reflect how many people are without homes on a given winter night. The counts usually rely on volunteer census-takers and are always imprecise. This year’s tallies were conducted amid the pandemic and advocates caution changed counting methods could have thrown off results.
Research has shown places seeing spikes in homelessness often lack affordable housing. Making matters worse, pandemic government relief programs — including anti-eviction measures, emergency rental assistance and a child tax credit that kept people housed who may have been on the streets otherwise — are ending.
Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said the counts are generally rising more where housing costs are jumping the fastest — but the government’s response makes a difference, too.
Some communities where numbers are down, he said, “are really looking at housing people versus criminalizing people and putting them in encampments.”
In Sacramento, where rents are soaring and officials disagree on how best to deal with the problem, homelessness has jumped 68% from 2020 to 2022 — the most among larger cities reporting results so far.
The surge has been driven in part by the city’s legacy of being more affordable than other California cities, which has attracted new residents, overwhelming the housing market. People moving out of the San Francisco Bay Area, 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the southwest, have flooded Sacramento with more potential homeowners and renters, driving up prices.
A Zillow analysis found the average rent in July was $2,300 — a 28% increase since July 2019, before the pandemic began. Sacramento County’s median income was about $70,000 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The crisis has deepened even as things have improved in other California cities that have contended for years with homelessness. Sacramento’s efforts to address the problem have been marred by years of squabbles between the city and county governments.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has made reducing homelessness a priority since taking office in 2017. The city now has more than 900 beds in shelters and motels, compared to about 100 five years ago and has moved to ban single-family zoning, a move that could make it easier to build more housing.
But so far, it hasn’t been enough.
“People are becoming homeless much faster than we are getting them off the street,” Steinberg told the AP.
Santos is among them. He’s been able to sign up for food assistance but is still on a waiting list to access other benefits, he said. Each night he hunts for a park bench that feels safe to sleep on. When he lost a suitcase to broken wheels, he got rid of some of his warmer clothing, a decision he regrets as the fall evenings get colder.
“Luckily I’ve been able to keep afloat with what I have,” he said.
Steinberg has advocated for adopting a legal right to shelter and a legal obligation for people to accept it when offered. The approach has drawn some criticism from advocates who say it’s just a means of taking the problem out of the public eye without providing meaningful help for those who need it.
County officials voted in August to ban camping along Sacramento’s American River Parkway, with a misdemeanor charge for people who don’t comply. City voters will decide in November on a ballot measure requiring the city to open hundreds more shelter beds. But it would only take effect if the county agrees to pony up money for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Still, the rise in homelessness is not uniform across the country.
In Boston, the number of people sleeping on the streets and in shelters has dropped 25% over two years as advocates focused on finding permanent housing for those on the streets the longest.
In some cities, “housing first” policies intended to move the homeless into permanent homes have paid off. And while the pandemic brought economic chaos, an eviction moratorium, boosted unemployment payments and family tax credits prevented some people from becoming homeless at all.
Along with Boston, numbers have fallen by about 20% or more in Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Even in California, homeless counts are down in San Francisco, and growth has slowed significantly in Los Angeles.
The numbers have also dropped in California’s Orange County, where there have been extensive efforts to remove encampments — though some advocates there question the accuracy of the count.
In Boston, Steven Hamilton moved into a new apartment in September after decades staying on a friend or relative’s couch or in a homeless shelter.
With the help of a program run by the Boston Medical Center, he was able to get a subsidized apartment in a public housing development. His portion of monthly rent is $281 — or about 30% of his Social Security payments.
“I’m grateful,” he said. “I am not looking to move nowhere else. I am going to stay here until eternity. I lost a lot of stuff. I’m not going through that again.”
After what he called a “horrible nightmare” in a shelter with residents injecting drugs in the bathroom, the studio apartment has changed his outlook. He’s planning to get furniture, save money for a car and hopes to invite his family for Thanksgiving.
“I have a place I can call my own,” he said.
Hamilton’s studio apartment is the result of a Boston strategy whereby the city and area nonprofits use extensive outreach to get people who’ve been on the streets for over a year into apartments and then provide services such as drug treatment and life-skills training like budgeting with the help of case managers.
Since 2019, annual funding in Boston for homeless programs has jumped from $31 million to over $51 million.
Those efforts were bolstered last year by a city program that pulled together a list of homeless individuals to target for housing and other services. The city also moved to shut down one of its biggest homeless encampments, going tent-to-tent to assess the needs of those living there and referring more than 150 to shelters and other housing.
The efforts have not been seamless. There have been reports of a cleared-out tent city re-emerging. And family homelessness numbers, though down from 2020, have ticked up in the past year.
Still, the city has been able to reduce the numbers of homeless people to about 6,000, down 25% since 2020.
Boston’s shelters have become less crowded even as Zillow found the city’s average rent rose to $2,800 this summer — up 13% from three years earlier.
Housing advocates say prioritizing chronically homeless people ensures funds have the greatest impact, since the long-term homeless spend so much time in shelters. It also costs less to provide permanent housing than temporary shelter.
Lewis Lopez is among the success stories.
After cycling in and out of Boston shelters for several years, Lopez finally secured keys to his own apartment. No longer fearing his possessions would be stolen or he would get into fights over food, the 61-year-old felt he had finally gotten his life back.
“I felt so free, like a ton of bricks were lifted off my shoulders,” Lopez said of the studio apartment he has lived in for five years, paid for partly with federal funds.
“I felt like part of society again,” he said.
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Casey reported from Boston. Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Kavish Harjai in Los Angeles contributed.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A retired British geologist sentenced to 15 years for antiquities smuggling in Iraq may soon go free after a Baghdad court overturned his conviction, his family and lawyer said on Tuesday.
Baghdad's Court of Cassation, or appeals court, overturned the verdict against Jim Fitton, 66, last month, his lawyer Thair Soud told the Associated Press. The decision was made on the basis of an appeal filed by Soud shortly after Fitton was convicted.
Fitton's release date was not immediately known, but Soud said pending paperwork, he should be freed soon.
The court "agreed with the justifications we drove in the memo against the sentence and how it was based on mistakes in the application of the law, and further, in the assessment of the evidence,” Soud told The Associated Press.
Fitton drew international attention last month after the conviction for picking up shards of pottery from an archeological site in southern Iraq. Many feared the incident would deter tourists from visiting Iraq, where the government hopes to grow the nascent tourism sector.
Some of the pieces he picked up were no larger than a fingernail, he later told the criminal court. He was arrested in March at Baghdad Airport and sentenced in June.
Documents posted to the judiciary website said the appeals court found that Fitton's trial judges had made mistakes and that key circumstantial evidence had been overlooked, including Fitton's unfamiliarity with local laws. It also pointed out that the areas where he had picked up the pieces were unguarded.
The court noted that Fitton had made no attempt to hide the items at the airport. The shards were clearly visible when airport staff checked his luggage. Based on this, court found that Fitton harbored no criminal intent to smuggle antiquities and ordered his immediate release, according to the document.
The decision was a “a real win,” said Soud.
Fitton's family said they were “over the moon” but that “we still have no idea what the timeline looks like and do not want to do any formal interviews until Jim is safely home with us,” his son-in-law, Sam Tasker, told the AP.
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How Monumental Sports investment impacts Mystics
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NEW YORK (AP) — A man in Chile is infected with a bird flu that has concerning mutations, but the threat to people from the virus remains low, U.S. health officials said Friday.
Past animal studies suggest these mutations could cause the virus to be more harmful or spread more easily, health officials said. But they also said there is no evidence that the mutations would make it easier for it to take root in a person’s upper lungs — a development that would raise concerns about spread among people.
The mutations do not change public health officials’ assessment of the overall risk to people from the H5N1 virus, which “continues to be low,” said Vivien Dugan of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mutations, which have appeared only in the one hospitalized patient, may have occurred after the man got sick, CDC officials said. There’s no evidence that the mutated virus spread to other people, mixed with other flu viruses, or developed the ability to fight off current medicines or evade vaccines, agency officials said.
Such genetic changes have been seen in past bird flu infections.
“Nevertheless, it’s important to continue to look carefully at every instance of human infection,” Dugan said. “We need to remain vigilant for changes that would make these viruses more dangerous to people.”
This type of flu, called Type A H5N1, was first identified as a threat to people during a 1997 outbreak in Hong Kong, when visitors to live poultry markets caught it.
Sporadic outbreaks have followed, and more than 450 people have died in the past two decades from bird flu infections, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of infected people got it directly from birds.
As bird flu hits other species, however, scientists fear the virus could evolve to spread more easily among people. And it has been spreading widely, to birds and animals in scores of countries.
In the U.S., it has recently been detected in wild birds in every state, as well as in commercial poultry operations and backyard flocks across the country. Since the beginning of last year, tens of millions of chickens have died of the virus or been killed to stop outbreaks from spreading, one of the reasons cited for soaring U.S. egg prices.
The new lab analysis looked at the virus found in the lungs of a 53-year-old man living in Chile’s Antofagasta region. It may be that he became infected through contact with sick or dead birds or infected sea lions, according to a WHO summary of the case.
The man was healthy and had not traveled recently. On March 13, he started getting a cough, sore throat and hoarseness, the WHO said.
His symptoms worsened and he eventually was sent to an intensive care unit and treated with antiviral medicines and antibiotics. He is still hospitalized and being monitored, CDC officials said.
Genetic sequencing this week revealed the two concerning mutations. Chilean and American health officials have been working together on the investigation.
Andrew Pekosz, a flu researcher at Johns Hopkins University, said he hasn’t seen the preliminary analysis of the Chilean patient’s infection.
“When these viruses get into humans, there’s a likelihood that they start to adapt to grow better in us,” and this is a sign that is happening, he said.
There are three or four kinds of mutations that would need to be seen in a H5N1 virus “before that would really raise the alarm signal that something is happening of concern,” he added.
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WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The United States Hockey League (USHL) is pleased to announce that Athletica Sport Systems Inc. will be the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the league and their member clubs. Athletica, the world leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of dasher board systems, has a long history of supplying innovative infrastructure equipment to competitive Ice Hockey globally.
"We are proud to partner with Athletica who has an outstanding reputation as a rink system provider and someone who is a trusted name in the safety of our sport," said USHL President and Commissioner Bill Robertson. "Athletica and their rink systems have always been the very best is so many aspects. We look forward to working with them as a league partner and an organization that has great brand awareness in the hockey world."
With the addition of the USHL, Athletica continues to develop its industry leading position as the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the National Hockey League (NHL), American Hockey League (AHL) and USA Hockey.
"The sponsorship of the USHL continues our support of competitive ice hockey as we extend our existing league relationships" said Andrew McRae, CEO of Athletica Sport Systems Inc. "This partnership underpins our industry commitment and "Safety through Innovation" brand promise across all levels of hockey - from community and development, through all professional leagues. We look to continue our collaborations with member USHL Clubs and host Arenas over the next three seasons and well into the future."
Athletica, a leader in arena services is a designer, manufacturer, and installer of dasher board systems for hockey arenas and multi-sport athletic facilities, serving the professional, semi-pro and community end-markets. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, the company also has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Vancouver, British Columbia. Athletica is the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the National Hockey League (NHL), American Hockey League (AHL) and USA Hockey.
To learn more, please visit Athletica's website.
To learn more, please visit the USHL's website.
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Oilers vs. Golden Knights NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 2: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
Saturday's playoff slate includes the Edmonton Oilers visiting the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round, starting at 7:00 PM ET on TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Golden Knights lead the series 1-0. The Golden Knights are the underdog (+105) in this matchup with the Oilers (-125).
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- When: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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LOS ANGELES -- Flu, COVID and RSV are all viruses that may all seem like the common cold at first, but there are slight differences that can help parents get a sense of what is going on.
RSV symptoms peak at different times from the flu and COVID can be a mixed bag.
Pediatricians break down how the symptoms vary and what to look for. This winter's triple threat of flu, COVID and RSV is filling pediatric beds across the nation.
In Los Angeles County, hospital admissions for COVID have topped more than 1,000 and the youngest patients are being hospitalized for RSV.
"The youngest babies are at the most risk of bronchiolitis, which is a viral pneumonia type of thing, and also the elderly and the immunocompromised," said pediatrician Dr. John Rodarte with Huntington Health Physicians. "So the extremes are really the ones we worry about with RSV."
At Descanso Pediatrics in La Canada, doctors are going through boxes of rapid tests.
"We have a point of care test or rapid test for influenza A and B and also for RSV. In fact, our RSV test was out because we used up a lot of them," said Rodarte.
Due to the surge, more definitive lab tests are taking longer to process, but Rodarte said a test can help doctors guide their patients, but symptoms can tell you a lot.
"They'll be coughing, this just really dry, nonstop cough," he said. "For RSV, only worry if you have a young infant. It will look like a cold at first for the first three to four days. RSV peaks between day four to six so that's what you're watching for."
Flu feels bad right from the start.
"It tends to start out with a high fever and you're knocked down from the beginning," said Rodarte. "The headaches, the body aches, just feeling wiped out."
However, it gets tricky when it comes to COVID.
"COVID is really the big imitator, who knows what to expect with COVID?" said Rodarte. "It can look a little like a cold, it can look like a stomach virus, it can look like a sore throat. That's the one that can look like anything."
RSV, flu and COVID are all viruses that don't require antibiotics. The advice is to rest, drink plenty of fluids and keep a close eye on how symptoms are progressing.
"It's really more about supportive care through it," said Rodarte.
The biggest concern with all these viruses is secondary infections like pneumonia. Children with COVID are not usually treated with antivirals like Paxlovid, but someone with the flu might benefit from a drug like Tamiflu.
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CHICAGO, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sweets & Snacks Expo – kicking off this week in Chicago – announced today the winners of its annual Most Innovative New Product Awards. The awards recognize the year's most innovative confectionery and snack products and honor the companies that make them.
"Recognizing and celebrating innovation in the confectionery and snack categories is a vital part of our show, because innovation is the key driver of the industry in terms of setting trends and appealing to consumers," John Downs, president and CEO of the National Confectioners Association – host organization of the Sweets & Snacks Expo, said. "These new products, brand collaborations, and flavors enhance consumers' celebrations, holidays, and daily routines and they ensure that candy and snacks continue to play an important role in the lives of people around the world."
Retail leaders representing 85% of the buying power for the confectionery and snack categories served as judges across the 13 categories that comprise the Most Innovative New Product Awards. More than 300 candy and snack products were submitted for judging and the winners will be displayed beginning on May 23rd in the Featured Product Showcase at the Sweets & Snacks Expo. The products submitted for the awards were developed over the last year and will be available to consumers in the coming months.
The Most Innovative New Product Award Winners are as follows:
- Best in Show: Chunk Nibbles - Apple Cinnamon Chunk Nibbles
- Small Business Innovator: Jackson's Chips - Farmhouse Ranch Sweet Potato Chips made with Avocado Oil
- Chocolate: Nuts.com/Kopper's Chocolate - Mexican Hot Cocoa Bites
- Non-Chocolate Candy: Shenzhen Amos Sweets & Foods Co., LTD - 4D Fruit Gummy Juicy Burst Strawberry
- Gum & Mints: Perfetti Van Melle USA, Inc. - Mentos Fruit Mints with Vitamins - Cool Fruity Mix
- Salty Snacks: Big Dipper Food Company - Peanut Butter Caramel Coated PopCrunch
- Sweet Snacks: Tru Fru LLC - Parfait Poppers: Nature's Raspberries Frozen Fresh in Greek Yogurt & Granola
- Meat Snacks: PepsiCo Foods - Jack Link's Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Beef Jerky
- Savory Snacks: Truly Good Foods - Henrietta Said Ancho Kimchi Flavored Peanuts
- Novelty/Licensed: Shenzhen Amos Sweets & Foods Co., LTD - TastySounds™ RecordableLollipop – Peach Nectar
- Seasonal: Hawaiian Host LLC - Strawberries & Cream White Chocolate Macadamias
- Gourmet/Premium | Candy: Tru Fru LLC - Nature's Strawberries Hyper-Dried Fresh in White & Dark Chocolate
- Gourmet/Premium | Snack: Oh Snap! Pickling Co. - Cranberry Sweeties
To set up an interview with a Sweets & Snacks Expo spokesperson, please email SweetsAndSnacks@locuststreet.com. Visit the official Sweets & Snacks Expo Media Kit for more information on the show and media resources.
About Sweets & Snacks Expo
The Sweets & Snacks Expo is the premier event for the confectionery and snack industries. Featuring new product launches, business-building solutions and merchandising innovations, this annual trade show brings together qualified candy and snack retail professionals and company representatives who showcase the latest in candy and snack products. The event is sponsored by the National Confectioners Association. Learn more at SweetsAndSnacks.com.
About the National Confectioners Association (NCA)
The National Confectioners Association is the leading trade organization for the U.S. confectionery industry, which generates $42 billion in retail sales each year. NCA advocates for an environment that enables candy makers to thrive and works to ensure that chocolate, candy, gum and mints are celebrated for their contributions to culture, society, the economy and everyday moments of joy. The industry employs nearly 58,000 workers in more than 1,600 manufacturing facilities across all 50 states and supports an additional 635,000 jobs in related fields. The U.S. confectionery industry has made a commitment to increasing transparency, providing more portion guidance options and educating consumers about the role of confectionery in a happy, balanced lifestyle. Learn more at CandyUSA.com or follow NCA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man convicted of fatally shooting another man during a traffic confrontation on Halloween night in 2020 has been sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said.
Jairo Esdel Galva, 23, of Central Falls, was sentenced last week to consecutive life sentences for second-degree murder and discharge of a firearm resulting in death in connection with the death of Joel Rosario, according to a statement Tuesday from the office of Attorney General Peter Neronha.
Galva was convicted last November.
Rosario had been celebrating his 22nd birthday with friends on the night of Oct. 31, 2020 when they got into several cars to travel to another location for a party, prosecutors said.
Galva, driving behind them, flashed his high beams several times.
At an intersection in pawtucket, Rosario got out of a vehicle and walked to the front passenger side of Galva’s vehicle, prosecutors said. Galva fired one shot with a .38 caliber revolver he did not legally own into Rosario’s chest before driving away, prosecutors said.
Rosario's friends took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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To accelerate the Company's business expansion in the vocational education industry
BEIJING, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China Liberal Education Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: CLEU) ("China Liberal," the "Company," or "we"), a China-based company that provides smart campus solutions and other educational services, today announced that on June 9, 2022, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, China Liberal (Beijing) Education Technology Co., Ltd. ("China Liberal Beijing"), entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement (the "Agreement") with Beijing Cloud Class Technology Co., Ltd. ("Cloud Class") to acquire from Cloud Class 100% of the issued equity interests of Beijing Oriental Wisdom Cultural Development Co., Ltd. ("Oriental Wisdom"), an integrated education service provider focusing on operating jointly-managed academic programs in the vocational higher education industry in China. This acquisition is a critical initiative of the Company's business strategy of boosting the Company's development in the vocational education industry through integrating enterprises and developing vocational education across various industries.
Pursuant to the Agreement, China Liberal Beijing agrees to acquire 100% of the equity interests of Oriental Wisdom from Cloud Class in consideration of 7,000,000 ordinary shares of the Company, subject to certain payment schedules set forth in the Agreement. The transaction contemplated by the Agreement has been approved by the Company's board of directors at a special meeting on June 1, 2022, with the closing expected to occur near the end of June 2022.
The acquisition of Oriental Wisdom is expected to bring synergy to the Company in the vocational education industry, enhancing the collaboration between educational institutions and companies, and improving the Company's management capabilities. Following the completion of the acquisition, the Company believes that it will be able to develop curriculum systems with trusted teacher resources and integrate professional skills and knowledge into liberal arts education, overcoming the obstacles many higher education institutions face in professional studies and reformations. Meanwhile, with a large and increasing number of students, the Company expects to expand its services to internship referrals, project outsourcing, and multi-level cooperation with leading companies for talent recruitment and training, providing students with premium employment opportunities.
Ms. Ngai Ngai Lam, Chairperson and CEO of China Liberal, commented, "We are excited to acquire Oriental Wisdom and it is another milestone for the Company to move toward our goal of contributing to the vocational education sector in China. With the recent favorable governmental policies and increasing government budgets for vocational education, we believe this acquisition demonstrates China Liberal's long-term strategic vision. Additionally, as the demand for digitalization grows in the education sector, we expect to leverage our advantages in technology, research and development (R&D) resources, and patented products to further cooperate with universities and colleges and assist them in fulfilling their needs for smart-campus management by enhancing their software system in order to achieve campus planning and inter-department coordination. The all-in-one teaching machine, AI-Space, will serve as the core of our hardware system and deliver online and in-person integrated teaching solutions to various educational institutions, allowing them to adapt to various teaching scenarios and improve the overall teaching quality. Looking forward, we will proactively expand our business in vocational education and continue to put efforts into education digitalization as we aim to benefit more students who are in vocational education and create more value for our shareholders."
About Beijing Oriental Wisdom Cultural Development Co., Ltd.
Beijing Oriental Wisdom Cultural Development Co., Ltd. is an integrated services provider in the higher education industry in China. Through the research of industry-education integration education model, school-enterprise cooperation in running schools, professional practice, practical training and employment, teacher training and other businesses, it currently cooperates with 10 colleges and universities in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shandong, and other provinces to operate school-enterprise jointly-managed programs covering various majors. There are about 4,000 students in these jointly-managed programs of these partner colleges and universities, including about 3,700 undergraduates, 250 junior college students, and about 50 unplanned enrollments.
About China Liberal Education Holdings Limited
China Liberal, headquartered in Beijing, is an educational service provider in China. It provides a wide range of services, including those under sino-foreign jointly managed academic programs; overseas study consulting services; technological consulting services for Chinese universities to improve their campus information and data management system and to optimize their teaching, operating and management environment, creating a "smart campus"; and tailored job readiness training to graduating students. For more information, please visit the Company's website at ir.chinaliberal.com.
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This document contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on the Company's expectations and projections about future events, which the Company derives from the information currently available to the Company. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance, including: our ability to successfully integrate the newly acquired business; our financial performance and projections; our growth in revenue and earnings; and our business prospects and opportunities. You can identify forward-looking statements by those that are not historical in nature, particularly those that use terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "anticipates," "contemplates," "estimates," "believes," "plans," "projected," "predicts," "potential," or "hopes" or the negative of these or similar terms. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including: our ability to change the direction of the Company; our ability to keep pace with new technology and changing market needs; and the competitive environment of our business. These and other factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements are only predictions. The forward-looking events discussed in this press release and other statements made from time to time by us or our representatives, may not occur, and actual events and results may differ materially and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review risk factors that may affect its future results in the Company's registration statement and in its other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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An expected mild recession is expected to slow economic growth in the Tucson region and across Arizona in early 2023, University of Arizona economists say.
But the Tucson metro area is still expected to fare better than the national economy next year, the UA’s top economist said at the latest forecast Friday by the Economic and Business Research Center in the UA’s Eller College of Management.
George Hammond, director of the research center, said the most likely forecast shows a mild downturn starting late this year and ending in mid-2023.
“That is expected to take the wind out of Tucson’s sails, generating a significant slowdown in growth next year across all major economic indicators,” Hammond said. “Even so, the metro area is forecast to outperform the national economy.”
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A top bank economist who was a guest speaker at the UA forecast luncheon on Friday agreed that a mild recession lies ahead.
Gus Faucher, chief economist for PNC Bank, said despite the Federal Reserve’s effort to raise interest rates to cool off the economy and inflation that is running near a 40-year high, he sees a mild recession starting in the second quarter in 2023 and lasting until the end of the year.
After showing negative GDP growth through the first two quarters of this year, U.S. GDP grew at an annualized rate of 2.9% in the third quarter as consumer spending remained strong. Fourth-quarter GDP numbers won’t be out until February, and GDP figures are subject to later adjustment.
“Although PNC expects an economic downturn in 2023, the recession should be mild given strong consumer balance sheets, a well-capitalized banking system and a tight labor market, which will limit layoffs,” said Faucher, who spoke for the first time at the UA outlook event at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa.
PNC entered the Arizona market in 2021 with its acquisition of the U.S. operations of BVA Compass Bank.
Higher interest rates are already starting to weigh on the economy, in particular the housing market, Faucher said.
The UA's Hammond said downside risks to his baseline forecast include uncertainty created by the war in Ukraine, supply-chain issues and high inflation.
“If the national downturn is more severe than expected under the baseline scenario, that will generate a more significant slowdown in Tucson as well,” Hammond said.
But Tucson is likely to fare better than the nation due to its relatively large share of jobs and economic activity accounted for by federal, state and local government activity, which is less affected by inflation.
In October, U.S. inflation measured by the all-items Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPIU) was 7.7% over the year. Prices in the Phoenix metro area rose even faster in October, up 12.1% over the year.
Phoenix is the only metro area in Arizona for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIU data, but it is likely that Tucson is experiencing a similar trend, Hammond said.
Here are other highlights from the UA’s latest outlook, available online at tucne.ws/uaoutlook:
Housing
Skyrocketing home prices pushed housing affordability to very low levels in the third quarter of 2022 and drove inflation in Arizona well above the national average, Hammond said.
He noted that according to the National Association of Home Builders-Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index, 40.2% of homes sold in the Tucson metro area in the third quarter were affordable to a family making the median income, down from 40.6% in the second quarter but well below the national average of 42.2% — and “miles below” pre-pandemic affordability of 71.2% in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Skyrocketing mortgage rates, plummeting housing affordability, and slowing population growth will combine to drive Tucson-area housing permit activity down from 6,284 in 2021 to 4,312 in 2024.
Jobs and wages
As of October, Tucson replaced 95.4% of the jobs lost during the first two months of the pandemic, Hammond said. Since February 2020, trade, transportation and utilities has generated by far the most jobs, followed by manufacturing and education and health services.
Tucson’s labor market remains very tight, with a seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate near historic lows at 3.8% in October.
The UA forecasts that Tucson job growth will decelerate from 3.4% in 2022 to 0.9% in 2023 and 0.8% in 2024.
While tight labor markets have driven growth in wages, Hammond sees nominal personal-income growth in Tucson to slow from 7.5% in 2021 to 0.5% in 2022, as federal pandemic-related income support ends, then rebounding to 5.1% in 2023.
Retail sales
The UA forecasts that growth in nominal retail sales (including online sales) will slow from 19.1% in 2021 to 9.3% in 2022, and then to 1.7% in 2023, as negative real income growth, declining stock and real estate values, and reduced consumer confidence take their toll.
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DENVER (AP) — A man who shot at a Denver police officer sitting in a patrol vehicle Wednesday died after an exchange of gunfire, police said.
The officer was shot three times in the torso but all the rounds were stopped by his bulletproof vest, Denver police chief Ron Thomas said. The officer was in “significant discomfort” but in stable condition at a hospital, he said.
The shooting happened outside a hotel near downtown Denver at around 4 a.m.
According to Thomas, the officer was sitting in a patrol vehicle near the hotel entrance when he saw a man walk inside the hotel and then out again. The man, whose name has not been released, then began shooting at the officer first from the passenger side of the patrol car and then the driver’s side.
The wounded officer was able to get out of the car, take cover and exchange shots with the suspect, Thomas said.
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- Record revenue of $64.2 million for the quarter, up 14% as reported and 18% at constant currency (year-over-year)
- Supporting a record 626 global clinical trials; a net of 17 new trials added during the quarter
- Opened first two Global Supply Chain Centers, which include BioServices, in June 2022
- Expanded global footprint into Spain and Ireland
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cryoport, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYRX) ("Cryoport" or the "Company"), a global leader in temperature-controlled supply chain solutions for the life sciences industry, today announced financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022.
Jerrell Shelton, CEO of Cryoport, commented, "We delivered a strong performance for the second quarter of 2022 highlighted by overall top-line growth of 14%, or 18% on a constant currency basis. Each of our end markets, Biopharma/Pharma, Reproductive Medicine and Animal Health, grew in the double digits during the quarter driven by strong continued demand for all of our products and services.
"Our Biopharma/Pharma revenue was $51.7 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $45.5 million for the second quarter of 2021. We are now supporting a record 626 global clinical trials in regenerative medicine, up by 17 trials sequentially compared to our previous quarter end. Importantly our clinical trial pipeline continues to mature with 285 trials now in Phase 2 and 81 in Phase 3. Overall revenue growth in the Biopharma/Pharma market was driven by our support of global clinical trials and commercially launched therapies.
"Demand for our Animal Health products and services, which is driven primarily by protein production, increased by 14% to $9.6 million for the second quarter of 2022.
"Reproductive Medicine revenue increased by 24% to $2.9 million for the second quarter of 2022. This growth was driven by CryoStork® logistics solutions and cryogenic shipper products. We continued to grow in the Reproductive Medicine market as the number of fertility clinics we support increases and as IVF technologies continue to stimulate increased interest on a global basis.
"Our strategic expansion continued to progress during the second quarter and included the grand openings of Cryoport's two new Global Supply Chain Centers in Texas and New Jersey. These world-class facilities form the foundation of our Global Supply Chain Center Network and include the important addition of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) BioServices to our portfolio of premier, comprehensive supply chain solutions. During the quarter, we further strengthened our presence in the EMEA region with the acquisition of Cell&Co BioServices in Clermont-Ferrand, France. We anticipate that Cell&Co BioServices will play a significant role in the further development of our Global Supply Chain Center Network as we expand into the Paris, France region.
"We also continued our development in EMEA subsequent to quarter end with CRYOPDP opening a logistics center in Ireland and acquiring Polar Expres, based in Spain, which adds logistics centers in Madrid and Barcelona. Additionally, Cryoport Systems just completed the acquisition of Cell Matters, based in Belgium, specializing in cryo-process optimization, cryo-processing, and cryopreservation. These developments are important steps in further building out our leadership position as a provider of global temperature-controlled supply chain solutions to the life sciences industry and are expected to also positively impact our operations in the Americas and APAC in the future.
Mr. Shelton concluded, "We continue to have robust product and services development projects underway as well as an accretive acquisition pipeline. We remain confident in our outlook for the remainder of the year and reiterate our previous full year 2022 revenue guidance to be between $260 million and $265 million, representing a 17% to 19% increase over 2021 revenue."
In tabular form, revenue by market for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021 was as follows:
As of June 30, 2022, the Company supported nine (9) commercial therapies and a net total of 626 global clinical trials, a net increase of 65 clinical trials over second quarter 2021 and an increase of 24 clinical trials from year-end 2021. The number of trials in Phase 3 was 81 as of the end of the second quarter. The number of trials by phase and region are as follows:
During the second quarter of 2022, Bristol Myers' Breyanzi® received FDA approval for the second line treatment of relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma, Gilead's Yescarta® received approval by the European Commission for the treatment of follicular lymphoma, and Novartis' Kymriah® received a label expansion approval for follicular lymphoma in the US, EU, and Japan. A total of two (2) Cryoport supported Biologic License Applications (BLAs) or Marketing Authorization Applications (MAAs) were filed in the second quarter and two filings occurred in the first quarter. During the remainder of 2022, we anticipate up to an additional 12 filings, three (3) new therapy approvals, and an additional four (4) label or geographic expansion approvals. Also, we are now forecasting a combined total of 23 BLA or MAA filings in 2023, up from our previous estimate of 20 filings.
Financial Highlights
- Total revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $64.2 million compared to $56.2 million for the second quarter of 2021, a year-over-year increase of 14% or $8.0 million, and 18% at constant currency, driven by the continued strong demand for Cryoport's comprehensive supply chain solutions and systems.
- Total revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2022 increased to $116.5 million compared to $109.5 million for the first half of 2021, a year-over-year increase of 6% or $7.0 million and 9% at constant currency. Revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was adversely impacted by approximately $9.4 million during the first quarter of 2022 from the fire at our New Prague, Minnesota manufacturing facility.
- Gross margin was 45.0% for the second quarter of 2022, remained steady year-over-year and increased by 224 basis points from 42.7% in the preceding quarter. Gross margin was 43.9% for the first half of 2022 compared to 45.6% in the first half of 2021. The gross margin for the first half of 2022 was adversely affected by increased costs due to global supply chain constraints, primarily impacting the first quarter of 2022, as well as the ramp up of resources to support the expected increase in demand for our solutions as well as the opening of the new global supply chain centers.
- Operating costs and expenses increased by $4.9 million, or 17% to $34.1 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $29.2 million for the second quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to the further build out of our competencies, infrastructure, and technology development to support the continuing scaling of our business and demand for Cryoport's systems and solutions. Operating costs and expenses increased for the first half of 2022 by $9.4 million, or 17% to $64.2 million compared to $54.8 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Net loss for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 was $9.2 million and $22.6 million, respectively, compared to a net loss of $5.4 million and $8.9 million for the same periods in 2021, respectively. Net loss for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 was partially impacted by a non-cash expense of $3.7 million and $8.6 million, respectively, related to unrealized losses on the mark-to-market value of certain securities investments.
- Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $11.2 million, or $0.23 per share and $26.6 million, or $0.54 per share, for the second quarter and first half of 2022, respectively. This compares to a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $7.4 million, or $0.16 per share and $13.1 million, or $0.29 per share, for the second quarter and first half of 2021, respectively.
- Adjusted EBITDA was $6.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of $4.0 million sequentially and flat year over year. Adjusted EBITDA for the first half of 2022 was $8.0 million compared to $13.2 million for the first half of 2021. The decrease for the six-month period primarily reflects the impact from the fire at our New Prague, Minnesota manufacturing facility during the first quarter of 2022 and increased investments in our growth initiatives.
- Cryoport held $550.6 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments as of June 30, 2022.
- Share Repurchase - On March 11, 2022, the Company announced that its board of directors authorized a repurchase program through December 31, 2025, authorizing the repurchase of common stock and/or convertible senior notes in the amount of up to $100.0 million. During the first half of 2022, the Company purchased 1,341,571 shares of its common stock under this program, at an average price of $24.84 per share, for an aggregate amount of $33.3 million. These shares were returned to the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock.
Note: All reconciliations of GAAP to adjusted (non-GAAP) figures above are detailed in the reconciliation tables included later in the press release.
Outlook
The Company expects that its revenue guidance for the full year 2022 of $260 - $265 million will be driven primarily by the record demand for dewars, cryogenic freezer, and shipper systems and solutions; growth from our support of global clinical trials and commercially launched therapies from our cell and gene therapy clients; growth in temperature-controlled logistics for the life sciences industry; and expanded client utilization of our new BioServices offering. The Company's guidance is dependent on its current business and expectations, which may be impacted by, among other things, factors that are outside of our control, such as the ongoing and prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain constraints, inflationary pressures, and the effects of foreign currency fluctuations, as well as the other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC during 2022, as well as in its subsequent filings with the SEC.
Additional Information
Further information on Cryoport's financial results is included in the attached condensed consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, and additional explanations of Cryoport's financial performance are provided in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, which is expected to be filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022. Additionally, the full report is available in the SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations section of Cryoport's website at www.cryoport.com.
Earnings Conference Call Information
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: A document titled "Cryoport Second Quarter 2022 In Review", providing a review of Cryoport's recent financial and operational performance and a general business update, will be issued at 4:05 p.m. EDT on Thursday, August 4, 2022. The document is designed to be read by investors before the questions and answers conference call and will be accessible at: http://ir.cryoport.com/events-and-presentations.
Cryoport management will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. EDT on August 4, 2022. The conference call will be in the format of a questions and answers session and will address any queries investors have regarding the Company's reported results. A slide deck will accompany the call.
Conference Call Information
Questions and answers will be recorded and available approximately three hours after completion of the live event on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.cryoport.com for a limited time. To access the replay of the questions and answers, please follow this link. A dial-in replay of the call will also be available to those interested, until 11:59 p.m. ET on August 11, 2022. To access the replay, dial 1-877-344-7529 (United States) or 1-412-317-0088 (International) and enter replay pin number: 1018766.
About Cryoport, Inc.
Cryoport, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYRX), headquartered in Nashville, TN, is a global leader in temperature-controlled supply chain solutions for the life sciences industry serving the Biopharma/Pharma, Animal Health, and Reproductive Medicine markets and supporting life-saving cell and gene therapies across the clinical and commercial spectrum. With 38 strategic locations covering the Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific), Cryoport's global platform provides mission-critical solutions, services, and products to customers worldwide. In addition to its standard setting supply chain solutions, Cryoport is the world's largest manufacturer of cryogenic equipment and systems and one of the largest life science focused specialty couriers.
For more information, visit www.cryoport.com or follow @cryoport on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cryoport for live updates.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release which are not purely historical, including statements regarding the Company's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, representations, projections, plans or predictions of the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those related to the Company's industry, business, long-term growth prospects, plans, strategy, acquisitions, future financial results and financial condition, such as the Company's outlook and guidance for full year 2022 revenue and the related factors expected to drive revenue, projected trends in the markets in which the Company operates, the Company's intention to expand overall manufacturing capacities, the Company's plan for a new Global Supply Chain Center in Paris, the Company's repurchases of shares of its common stock, and regulatory approvals with respect to the products of the Company's clients. It is important to note that the Company's actual results could differ materially from those in any such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with the effect of changing economic conditions, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants, supply chain constraints, inflationary pressures and the effects of foreign currency fluctuations, trends in the products markets, variations in the Company's cash flow, market acceptance risks, and technical development risks. The Company's business could be affected by a number of other factors, including the risk factors discussed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") reports including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC during 2022, as well as in its subsequent filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and the Company cautions investors not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any obligation, and does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements in this press release.
Note Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our financial statements, which are presented on the basis of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the following non-GAAP measures of financial performance as defined in Regulation G of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are included in this release: revenue growth rate at constant currency and adjusted EBITDA.
Under GAAP, revenues received in local (non-U.S. dollar) currency are translated into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rate for the period presented. When we use the term "constant currency," it means that we have translated local currency revenues for the current reporting period into U.S. dollars using the same average foreign currency exchange rates for the conversion of revenues into U.S. dollars that we used to translate local currency revenues for the comparable reporting period of the prior year.
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net loss adjusted for interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization expense, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition and integration costs, investment income, unrealized (gain)/loss on investments, foreign currency loss and charges or gains resulting from non-recurring events.
In evaluating Cryoport's performance, management uses non-GAAP financial measures to supplement financial statements prepared under GAAP. Management believes that revenue growth rate at constant currency and adjusted EBITDA provide useful measures of Cryoport's operating results, a meaningful comparison with historical results, with the results of other companies, and insight into Cryoport's revenue trends and ongoing operating performance. Further, management and the Board of Directors utilizes these non-GAAP financial measures to gain a better understanding of Cryoport's performance from period-to-period and as a basis for planning and forecasting future periods. Management believes that the non-GAAP financial measures presented, when read in conjunction with Cryoport's GAAP financials, are useful to investors because they provide a basis for meaningful period-to-period comparisons of Cryoport's revenue trends and ongoing operating results, including results of operations, against investor and analyst financial models. Management also believes the non-GAAP financial measures are also useful in identifying trends in Cryoport's underlying business and performing related trend analyses, plus they provide a better understanding of how management plans and measures Cryoport's underlying business.
The non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures presented by other companies. Non-GAAP financial measures, including revenue growth rate at constant currency and adjusted EBITDA, should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc., a global communications company (NASDAQ: VSAT), and Intellian, a leading provider of feature-rich, future proof satellite communications solutions, today announced a contract award for Intellian to design and supply a bespoke range of Ka-band user terminals exclusively for Viasat's Maritime connectivity solution.
In addition to the bespoke new terminals, Intellian will also develop a 100cm upgrade kit for Intellian's popular NX Series. The NX Series is the world's market leading VSAT maritime antenna, and this conversion kit will enable thousands of vessels the opportunity to connect to Viasat services.
The new 60cm and 100cm bespoke user terminals leverage Intellian's innovative satellite terminal technology and geostationary satellite orbit (GEO) modem integration expertise. With many world-firsts and industry leading innovations, Intellian has quickly garnered the reputation for engineering excellence through their customer-centric approach.
With the new range of Viasat products, customers will benefit from highly reliable access to Viasat's satellite network, including the upcoming ViaSat-3 constellation. The launch of the first of the trio of ViaSat-3 satellites is scheduled for the first quarter of 2023, and is expected to be in service for the maritime market in 2023.
From streaming to video conferencing, Intellian and Viasat will empower a true at-home and in-office experience for superyacht, energy, and commercial customers, so everybody onboard can do anything online. Viasat offers customers access to on-demand, 24/7 personalised support to keep up and running, fixed pricing for a high quality experience, and flexibility to meet seasonal demands.
Eric Sung, CEO of Intellian, said: "This is a great opportunity for Intellian to collaborate with one of the leading global communications companies, combining our individual excellence to form a long-lasting and fruitful relationship. The contract win is yet another tangible example of our placement as a market leader, utilising our unparalleled engineering and supply chain capabilities to deliver exceptional value to the market."
For more than 35 years, Viasat has powered customers across air, land, and sea, building a foundation as a trusted and stable partner for long term investment and vital services. Its GEO satellite technology is equipped with the flexibility, efficiency and bandwidth required to be the foundational technology for the maritime market.
Shameem Hashmi, VP and GM, Maritime at Viasat, said: "With the upcoming launch of ViaSat-3, our relationship with Intellian has come at a critical time, enabling us to deliver the connectivity that our leisure and commercial customers require. We're excited about broader access to the Intellian customer base on a global scale, and for the continued collaboration and development of terminal technology that supports our network. We believe Intellian aligns with our innovative and forward-thinking approach to satellite connectivity."
Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. For over 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate. Today, the Company is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea.
Intellian is driven by a passion for innovation and an agile responsiveness to customer needs. As the crucial link between satellite networks and millions of people on Earth, Intellian's leading technology and antennas empower global connectivity across oceans and continents, organizations and communities. Strategic thinking, an obsession with quality and a proven ability to deliver enables Intellian to invent for the future, creating mutual success for partners and customers as the world's connectivity needs evolve. For more information, follow @Intellian and visit intelliantech.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements include among others, statements about the timing, performance, capabilities and anticipated benefits of the ViaSat-3 class satellite platform; statements related to Viasat and Intellian's relationship; the introduction of a new maritime broadband connectivity solution; the availability, capabilities and performance of the connectivity solution; and the satellites used to provide the service. Readers are cautioned that actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: risks associated with the construction, launch and operation of the ViaSat-3 class satellites and Viasat's other satellites, including the effect of any anomaly, operational failure or degradation in satellite performance; the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the ViaSat-3 satellite platforms; unexpected expenses or delays related to the satellite system; the ability to successfully implement Viasat's business plan for broadband satellite services on Viasat's anticipated timeline or at all, including with respect to the ViaSat-3 satellite platforms; contractual problems, product defects, manufacturing issues or delays; regulatory issues; technologies not being developed according to anticipated schedules, or that do not perform according to expectations; and increased competition and other factors affecting the connectivity sector, generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in Viasat's SEC filings available at www.sec.gov, including Viasat's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. Viasat undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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It wasn’t that long ago that Porsche was seriously considering a supercar to fill the (wide) gap between its top 911 and the former 918 Spyder hypercar. Rumors of a flat-8 engine and the 960 name (potentially designating the car as a successor to the 959) even surfaced.
It turns out those rumors were credible as a Porsche executive recently revealed the automaker had developed a prototype mid-engine supercar powered by a flat-8.
Marcos Marques, currently Porsche’s project manager for e-fuels, told The Intercooler (via Motor1) in an interview published last week about the car, which he said featured a twin-turbo 5.0-liter flat-8 that developed 750 hp and 738 lb-ft of torque, revved to 9,000 rpm, and was coupled to a manual transmission. While not as powerful as the 918 Spyder, which extracted 887 hp and 940 lb-ft from a 4.6-liter V-8 and a trio of electric motors, it sounds like a purer driving experience.
Porsche built a prototype based on a Cayman chassis and did some on-road testing, but then abruptly pulled the plug on the project. In the interview, Marques said Porsche felt “it wasn’t the right car for that moment in time,” adding that the project’s abrupt cancellation was just part of engineering.
“We’re an engineering company at the core and we’re always searching for new answers, different solutions, and sometimes those answers aren’t needed at that time,” he said. “But that’s all part of the engineering process.”
This is far from the only discarded supercar idea from Porsche in recent years. The automaker in 2020 revealed a number of secret concepts, including a road-going version of the Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid race car, and the 904 Living Legend (shown here), a tribute to the 904 Carrera GTS of the 1960s. It’s worth mentioning that some versions of the 904 used a flat-8 engine.
An actual 918 successor is likely coming at some point, but Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said in 2021 that it probably won’t arrive until after 2025. And it will probably be electric.
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Sen. Mark Kelly gave Democrats some breathing room when he clinched his victory in the Arizona Senate race. But open seats leave questions about what the makeup of Congress will look like in January.
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A number of changes in coaching staffs in the area were the big news in the offseason, including the return of Rick Darlington to the Orlando area, now at DeLand. He is one of five other new names to programs in the area:
● Clermont East Ridge hired former Eustis assistant and Mount Dora coach Donnie Burchfield. The 40-year-old also has served as an assistant at East Ridge over a decade ago. He is the third coach in the past three seasons for the Knights and will look to turn around a program that went winless in 2021.
● Eustis returns middle linebacker and rising junior Nicholas Chandler, who led the team in tackles with 125. But Eustis lost quarterback Blayne Romano, who was one of the top passers in the state with 2,284 passing yards and 25 touchdowns.
● Mount Dora introduced Luke Hutchinson as its fifth head coach since 2015. He replaces Cameron Porch, who finished 3-7 last year and 4-14 in two seasons. For his 13-year coaching career, Hutchinson has spent time in California and down the road in Orlando at Dr. Phillips High. The Mount Dora program also recently announced a $1.25 million reconstruction of its football field and renovations to the surrounding stadium.
● Deltona Pine Ridge brought in Eric Poyner as its new coach in March. He will be the eighth head coach employed since 2010. He previously served as an offensive line coach with the Panthers and was offensive coordinator at Lake Howell for the last five seasons, with stops as an assistant at Hagerty, DeLand and Edgewater during the past two decades.
● Orange City University will be retooling on both sides of the ball following the graduation of dual-threat quarterback Adan Figueroa, who threw for 2,380 total yards and 24 touchdowns, and defensive end Joel Vargas, who notched 82 tackles and 13 sacks.
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SYDNEY, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HaemaLogiX Ltd, a clinical stage biotech company developing novel immunotherapies for multiple myeloma, today announced that its anti-KMA CAR-T cell preclinical development has been completed and is the subject of an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), held 14-19 April in Orange County.
HaemaLogiX's CAR-T is being developed to target Kappa Myeloma Antigen (KMA) a myeloma-specific antigen not found on normal cells. The completed preclinical data demonstrates strong proof of concept to support the use of anti-KMA CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of patients with myeloma.
The preclinical development of anti-KMA CAR-T forms part of a research collaboration project with the Centre of Excellence in Cellular Immunotherapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
The abstract is available here and the Poster will be made available by AACR and via the HaemaLogiX website shortly after presentation.
POSTER PRESENTATION DETAILS
Title: Cellular immunotherapy targeting kappa myeloma antigen for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
Presenter: HaemaLogiX Chief Scientific Officer Rosanne Dunn
Abstract ID: 4074 / 26
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About HaemaLogiX Ltd - www.haemalogix.com:
Formed in 2014, HaemaLogiX is a public unlisted biotech company researching antibody therapies for multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma is a haematological (blood) cancer of plasma cells (B cells) that can cause focused damage to a patient's bone marrow. Multiple myeloma is considered treatable but generally incurable. The HaemaLogiX team has a wide range and depth of experience in antibody research, nonclinical & clinical development, manufacturing and commercialisation. The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members are internationally recognised experts in monoclonal antibody therapies and haematology. Our current research and clinical trial partners are global leaders in Multiple Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis therapy. HaemaLogiX is located in Sydney, Australia
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Army adds polices to handle sexual harassment
Published: Sep. 22, 2022 at 9:58 AM EDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
(CNN) - The United States Army is working to improve how it handles sexual assault and harassment.
Under Secretary of the Army Hon. Gabe Camarillo says the military branch has implemented most of the recommendations from the 2020 Fort Hood report.
The report was ordered after the death of several people on base, including 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillen.
It found that Army investigators tasked with reviewing complex crimes were inexperienced, overwhelmed and understaffed.
In response, the Army established the Office of the Special Trial Council.
It also removed commanders from making decisions related to the prosecution of certain crimes, like rape and sexual assault.
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HOUSTON, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC ("Freepoint Eco-Systems") and The Bartow County Resource Recovery Development Authority ("RRDA") have announced the execution of a 20-year municipal solid waste recycling agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Freepoint Eco-Systems will build a recycling facility at the Bartow County-owned landfill to separate plastic, metal and cardboard from trash that has been delivered to the landfill. Once separated, Freepoint Eco-Systems will deliver the recovered material to the appropriate market, where it will be recycled into new plastic, metal containers and cardboard.
The project, which will be located in Cartersville, GA, is expected to divert as much as 30% of the County's trash (33,000 tons per year) from the landfill to the recycling markets and convert it to recycled products. The Freepoint Eco-Systems recycling facility is expected to become operational in the first half of 2024. Freepoint Eco-Systems and the RRDA are both firmly committed to diverting as much recyclable volumes as possible from landfills and creating a circular economy where waste is recovered and recycled into new products.
"Freepoint Eco-Systems is delighted to partner with Bartow County and the RRDA in an effort to reduce the amount of recyclable waste that ends up in landfills. Bartow County is a forward-looking and innovative municipality that is making a positive impact on the environment. This partnership will significantly increase the recycling rate in Bartow County, reduce the amount of non-biodegradable materials in its landfill, extend the life of the landfill and close the loop to a more sustainable economy. This agreement is an important step in Freepoint Eco-System's wider commitment to recycling worldwide," said Jeff McMahon, Chief Executive Officer of Freepoint Eco-Systems.
"Bartow County and the RRDA continue to explore efficient ways to reduce the volumes to the County landfill and increase the amount of recycling recovered in the waste streams. We are pleased to work with Freepoint Eco-Systems to implement this state-of-the-art recycling facility on County property," said Peter Olson, Bartow County Administrator and Chairman of the RRDA.
About Freepoint Eco-Systems
Freepoint Eco-Systems is an affiliate of Freepoint Commodities LLC, a global commodities merchant providing supply chain management services and eco-friendly products and solutions to its customers. Among other things, Freepoint Eco-Systems is in the business of securing supplies of waste plastic that is not being recycled and converting that waste into recycled products via its advanced recycling facilities. Freepoint Eco-Systems is engaged in business operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. More information can be found at www.FreepointEcoSystems.com
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — U.S. Route 30 in Lancaster County is expected to be closed for an extended period of time, according to Lancaster County Dispatch, following a crash.
East Hempfield Township police are currently responding to the scene of the crash, which was first called in at 4:32 p.m.
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Delivers Excellent Progress Toward 2025 Long-Term Targets
- Outstanding earnings delivering quarterly net income attributable to KBR of $94 million; diluted EPS of $0.61; adj. EPS1 of $0.76, an increase of 31% over 2021; and 12% adj. EBITDA1 margins
- Expanding flexibility with robust quarterly operating cash flow of $125M; added an additional $232M of deployable free cash in the quarter
- Growing platform of long-term, strategic programs; 2.1x book-to-bill2
- Advancing strategic deployment with expanded investment in Mura Technology and acquisition of VIMA Group
HOUSTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) today announced its second quarter 2022 financial results and updated its FY 2022 financial guidance.
"Building on strong momentum in attractive end markets, we continue to make excellent progress toward KBR's 2025 long-term targets," said Stuart Bradie, President and CEO of KBR. "Themes that favor our capabilities and technologies - national security, defense modernization, global energy security and climate change - continue to be at the forefront of priorities. Combined with the unwavering commitment of our team of teams to deliver on our clients' missions, I am pleased to report that the company posted another outstanding quarter of superb safety results, earnings growth, cash generation and strategic program awards."
Bradie also announced KBR continues to prioritize enhancing its position in attractive, differentiated end markets with high barriers to entry through a combination of investments and acquisitions.
"During the quarter, we continued to shape our portfolio and deployed capital in a strategic, accretive, balanced manner," Bradie said. "Our acquisition of VIMA Group, a leading UK company specializing in digital transformation for clients in the defense sector, advances our growing platform of high-end consulting, engineering and advisory services in the international defense market. Furthermore, the expansion of our investment in Mura Technology, a UK-based pioneer in circular plastics recycling technology, strengthens the alliance between our companies and places KBR at the center of enabling a global plastics circular economy. We welcome our new colleagues and partners into the KBR family and are excited about the opportunities to shape the future together."
Summarized Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
*As adjusted for the adoption of ASU 2020-06 using the full retrospective method
Financial highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2022
- Revenue of $1.6 billion grew 5% compared to the same period in 2021 primarily attributable to increased activity in 2022 in the European Command related to the war in Ukraine as well as the acquisition of Frazer-Nash Consultancy in October 2021, partially offset by activity in 2021 related to our exit from Middle East contingency operations.
- KBR net income attributable to KBR, diluted earnings per share, adj. EBITDA1 and adj. EPS1 increased in line with revenue as well as the following.
- GS earnings continue to benefit from favorable international mix, strong project execution, excellent customer performance scores in challenging technical areas that reflect high client satisfaction, core revenue growth and favorable project closeouts.
- GS earnings were favorably impacted by the sale of selected non-core assets for which we received $42 million in proceeds and recorded $22 million in gains on assets sales that elevated margins by ~165 bps in Q2 2022.
- STS earnings reflect strong end markets, superior technology offerings, and highly sought-after engineering solutions.
- STS earnings were enhanced by the acceleration of certain project close-outs and other timing items that elevated margins by ~160 bps in Q2 2022.
- STS earnings in Q2 2021 were favorably impacted by a net favorable $16 million benefit associated with the settlement of a subcontractor dispute.
Recent Developments and New Business
In the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the company delivered book-to-bill2 of 2.1x and recorded $2.9 billion of awards and options, including the following:
- A new $69 million ceiling, five-year best value takeaway to provide research and development for airborne manned reconnaissance aircraft intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting systems for Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane; services include systems engineering, technology improvements, integration, test & evaluation, and training.
- A $95 million, five-year expanded recompete win to develop tools to manage maintenance data, monitor trends, and conduct prognostic analysis using DEVSECOPS to improve readiness of naval aircraft. This award is double the predecessor contract.
- A $1.5 billion award that represents KBR's proportionate share of its non-majority joint venture KZJV's notice to proceed with Phase 1 of Plaquemines LNG for Venture Global LNG, inclusive of KBR services to be provided to KZJV. KZJV will integrate highly modularized, owner-furnished equipment for the 13.33 million tonnes per annum nameplate facility. KBR's role in the joint venture is project management, engineering, program integration and interface management, and commissioning support under an innovative commercial structure that enhances overall program alignment between KZJV and its client. Consistent with our backlog policy, we have recorded our proportionate share of KZJV's estimated backlog into KBR's backlog. As this project is predominantly accounted for as an equity method investment, our proportionate share of the joint venture's future earnings will be recorded in Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates.
- As announced in Q1 2022, a $640 million ceiling Ground Systems and Mission Operations contract to support more than 10 NASA exploration missions, including continued efforts on the James Webb Space Telescope, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Earth Observing System. KBR will provide systems engineering, launch and early orbit support, flight operations, and flight dynamics support to various NASA missions managed by Space Science Mission Operations and Earth Science Mission Operations at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This highly strategic and technical win represents KBR's largest recompete in 2022.
Capital Deployment
KBR continues to employ a balanced approach to capital allocation, which includes investments that facilitate sustainable, long-term growth and prudent return of capital to shareholders. In the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the company generated $344 million of deployable free cash, which included strong quarterly operating cash flows, planned capital expenditures, and the receipt of proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and subcontractor settlements.
- Today, the company completed its acquisition of VIMA Group, a leading UK digital transformation company serving defense clients, for an agreed-upon purchase price of approximately $73 million funded from cash on hand, subject to certain working capital and other closing adjustments, $5 million of deferred consideration and potential additional cash payments aggregating up to approximately $12 million, contingent upon the achievement of certain performance targets. VIMA Group delivers solutions across a number of large-scale, high-priority digital transformation programs to support its clients in ensuring availability of effective digital and information technology as guided by the UK's Digital Strategy for Defence. VIMA Group is a trusted advisor and a top five supplier to Defence Digital and Navy Digital – both organizations within the UK Ministry of Defence with a number of highly strategic, fast-growing programs. The VIMA Group acquisition is KBR's third acquisition announced in the UK over the past year and enhances the company's platform of high-end consulting, engineering and advisory services in this growing defense market. In July 2021, KBR acquired Harmonic Ltd and in October 2021, Frazer-Nash Consultancy.
- In June 2022, we announced an expansion of our investment in Mura Technology, a UK-based pioneer in circular plastics recycling technology. This investment builds on an alliance KBR and Mura entered into in early 2021 whereby KBR became the exclusive licensing partner for Mura's innovative, proprietary, closed-loop plastics recycling technology powered by super critical water. Not only does this incremental investment increase KBR's potential ownership percentage in Mura from ~5% to ~18.5%, but it also expands the suite of professional services KBR will deliver to Mura-led projects (e.g., advisory, engineering, project management services).
- In the first half of 2022, KBR returned capital to shareholders through the repurchase of $74 million of its common shares, inclusive of share repurchases to satisfy requirements of equity compensation plans and paid $32 million in shareholder dividends.
FY 2022 Guidance
KBR combines deep mission understanding, market-leading expertise and technology, and unwavering operational focus to deliver solutions that help solve our clients' most complex issues. Our 2022 financial guidance is underpinned by favorable market tailwinds, good bookings momentum, a strong first half, and work under contract of over 90% to deliver our 2022 results.
KBR updates its FY 2022 guidance as follows:
- Consolidated revenue: $6.4 billion to $6.8 billion;
- Adjusted EBITDA1 margin: ~10%;
- Effective tax rate: 24% to 25%;
- GAAP earnings per share (EPS): $1.09 to $1.21 (updated) and adjusted EPS1: $2.53 to $2.65;
- GAAP operating cash flow (OCF): $330 million to $370 million; adjusted OCF1: $360 million to $400 million.
Conference Call Details
The company will host a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results and updated guidance on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at 7:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time. The conference call will be webcast simultaneously through the Investor Relations section of KBR's website at investors.kbr.com. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the call on KBR's website or by telephone at +1.929.458.6194, passcode: 662918.
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 34 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
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Forward-Looking Statements
The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the related impacts on our business as we wind down our business operations in Russia; the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.
The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
The following information provides reconciliations of certain non-GAAP financial measures presented in the press release to which this reconciliation is attached to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The company has provided the non-GAAP financial information presented in the press release as information supplemental and in addition to the financial measures presented in the press release that are calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Such non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered superior to, as a substitute for or alternative to, and should be considered in conjunction with, the GAAP financial measures presented in the press release. The non-GAAP financial measures in the press release may differ from similar measures used by other companies.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
We evaluate performance based on EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA is defined as Net income (loss) attributable to KBR, plus interest expense, net; provision for income taxes; other non-operating income (expense); and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA excludes certain amounts included in EBITDA. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 are considered non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules because EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude certain amounts included in the calculation of net income (loss) attributable to KBR in accordance with GAAP for such periods. Management believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA afford investors a view of what management considers KBR's core performance for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 and also affords investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core performance for the comparable periods.
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Adjusted EPS
Adjusted earnings per share (Adjusted EPS) for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 is considered a non-GAAP financial measure under SEC rules because Adjusted EPS excludes certain amounts included in the diluted EPS calculated in accordance with GAAP for such periods. The most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is diluted EPS for the same periods. Management believes that Adjusted EPS affords investors a view of what management considers KBR's core earnings performance for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 and also affords investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core earnings performance for the comparable periods.
We have calculated Adjusted EPS for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 by adjusting diluted EPS for the items included in the table below.
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We have calculated the 2022 guidance for Adjusted EPS by adjusting diluted EPS for the items included in the table below.
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Adjusted Cash Flows Provided by Operating Activities and Adjusted Free Cash Flows
Adjusted operating cash flows and adjusted free cash flows are considered non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules. Adjusted operating cash flows exclude certain amounts included in the cash flows provided by operating activities calculated in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted free cash flows exclude capital expenditures from adjusted operating cash flows. Deployable free cash flows exclude capital expenditures from adjusted operating cash flows and include certain amounts included in the cash flows provided by investing activities calculated in accordance with GAAP. The most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is cash flows provided by operating activities. Management believes that adjusted operating cash flows, adjusted free cash flows and deployable free cash flows afford investors a view of what management considers KBR's core operating cash flow performance and also afford investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core operating cash generation performance.
We have calculated adjusted operating cash flows and adjusted free cash flows for each of the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 by adjusting operating cash flow provided by operating activities for items included in the table below.
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We have calculated the 2022 guidance for adjusted operating cash flows by adjusting cash flows provided by operating activities for the items included in the table below.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The caricatures on Nick Sirianni’s T-shirt depicted A.J. Brown making a one-handed grab and DeVonta Smith holding the ball as he struck a Heisman Trophy pose.
The caption read: “The Dynamic Duo.”
The Eagles coach wears all kinds of Philly sports shirts to news conferences and practices, often for fun, sometimes with a not-so-hidden message to a player he’s trying to support. His attire of choice Wednesday could have been a salute to what is — by the numbers — the greatest wide receiver tandem in franchise history.
Or maybe Sirianni was making a point that all is cool between Brown and the Eagles.
Brown was caught on camera looking perturbed in a chat with Sirianni at the end of the Eagles’ playoff win against the Giants. Was Brown agitated because he was banged up? Yeah, a little, though Brown didn’t want to get into specifics of any injury. Was the receiver who set team records this season irritated that he had only three catches for just 22 yards?
Ah, now we’re on to something.
“Throw the ball to me 100 times,” Brown said, “I’m going to want it 101 times. I just feel like I can change the game. Getting the ball often keeps you in the rhythm. It puts you in the zone. Locked in. Of course I want the ball.”
So many times this season, Brown got the ball.
Brown was acquired in a draft-night deal with Tennessee that is already on the short list for one of the greatest heists in team history. Upset with his contract in Tennessee, the Eagles sent two draft picks to the Titans for Brown and immediately gave him a $100 million, four-year deal with $57 million guaranteed.
Brown was worth the price and is a big reason the Eagles are preparing to host San Francisco in Sunday's NFC championship game.
He had 155 yards receiving in his Eagles debut and kept on rolling all the way to 88 catches for 1,496 yards and 11 touchdowns. He topped Mike Quick’s 1,409 yards in 1983 for most in a season in team history.
Across the field, Smith put up similar bold numbers. Smith finished his second NFL season with 95 catches, which are the most by a wide receiver in team history (Irving Fryar had 88 in 1996). Smith’s 95 receptions trailed only tight end Zach Ertz’s 116 in 2018 for most in a season.
Smith also caught a TD pass in the playoffs against the Giants.
The explosiveness out the "Dynamic Duo" helped QB Jalen Hurts morph into a finalist for MVP.
But Hurts and the Eagles romped past the Giants without much need for super stats out of Brown — who sprung a pivotal block on Smith’s TD catch — and could only watch as the Eagles finished with 268 yards on the ground.
Sirianni downplayed any lingering effects of friction between the two.
“Not really anybody in the pass game really got a lot of targets or a lot of opportunities because we were running the ball so well,” Sirianni said. “But that’s what you want from your receivers, to want to have the football. Part of the reason receivers are good is because they want and crave the football. They want the ball to change the game. But make no mistake about it, he was thrilled that we won the football game.”
Brown won’t let a few seconds of unhappiness define him.
While so many elite wide receivers over the last two decades exhibited look-at-me “diva” behavior, Brown has mostly kept a low profile when it comes to showboating. Sure, he pulled out a towel and wagged his finger at the goal post before he swatted the structure three times after he scored twice against the Titans.
But that’s kid’s play compared to former Eagle Terrell Owens and his driveway sit-ups when he wanted a new contract. Or when Minnesota’s Randy Moss bent over and pretended to moon the Green Bay crowd. Or when Owens, then with San Francisco, celebrated a touchdown against Dallas by posing on the star in the middle of the field. Or when Antonio Brown stripped off his gear on the sideline and walked off. The list goes on.
“I’m never the receiver to go on the sideline to try and cause problems on the sideline,” Brown said. “I’m not that person. I’m a guy who goes and talks to the quarterback or talks to the OC and do it that way. I’m not out to cause commotion on the sideline. That’s not who I am. I’d never be that guy.”
Brown and Smith, the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner and 10th overall pick in the 2021 draft, may not cause commotion off the field but they sure do disrupt opponents once they get there.
Cornerback Darius Slay playfully called Brown with his tinted visor “a swole Batman” and Smith “a skinny Batman” early in the season and the nicknames caught fire in Philly. Center Jason Kelce rocked a Batman mask in their honor following a win over the Steelers. Slay said there are no “Robins” on the Eagles, no room for sidekicks. The receivers feel that way, too.
“Anybody in the receiving room feels like he could be a number one receiver,” Smith said. “Just go out there and do your job. When plays come to you, make the most of the opportunity.”
Philadelphia’s history with wide receivers has been spotty at best. Donovan McNabb’s prime seasons were spent throwing to James Thrash, Todd Pinkston and Freddie Mitchell. Travis Fulgham topped Eagles wide receivers in yards with 539 in 2020 and he didn't play an NFL game this season.
Brown hangs an “Always Open” sign in his locker. He hopes Hurts sees it in bright lights against the 49ers, when the focus is on playing to win, not whatever aches or gripes still might be nagging Brown.
“I know I’ve got a big week ahead of me,” he said. “I’m not worried about it and I don’t think nobody else should either because it’s not a big deal.”
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San Diego State storms back from 9-point deficit to upset Alabama, head to Elite 8
SDSU awaits the winner of Creighton-Princeton
The San Diego State Aztecs kept Alabama's Brandon Miller off his game, and it paid dividends.
The fifth-seeded Aztecs upset No. 1 Alabama in the Sweet 16, 71-64.
It's the first Elite 8 appearance in the school's history, and it was the Aztecs' first victory over a No. 1 seed.
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Alabama was down five at the half but went on a 25-11 run to take a nine-point lead. San Diego State answered back with a 23-5 run of its own, with its lead, like Bama's, getting as high as nine points.
Bama cut the deficit to two points with 46.9 points to go, but that was as close as the Tide got the remainder of the night.
SDSU's defense paved the way to victory. It blocked eight Bama shots and shut down its best player.
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As a team, Alabama was just 3-for-27 from 3-point lead.
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NAPLES, Fla. — Police arrested a man in Florida after they found a baby alligator, weapons and drugs during a traffic stop.
31-year-old Michael Marolla was in the front passenger seat when a pickup truck was pulled over after midnight last Friday in Naples.
The driver was stopped because they were driving with a suspended license.
During the stop, a live baby alligator was found in an open, plastic tub in the bed of the truck.
Officers said they also found two firearms and loaded syringes with methamphetamine in Marolla’s jacket.
Marolla now faces a series of charges, including drug possession and carrying a firearm.
It does not appear he faces any charges for having a baby alligator.
It is illegal to own an alligator in the state of Florida, unless it is authorized by the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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(Motor Authority) — Volvo is set to unveil an electric successor to the XC90 mid-size SUV on Nov. 9, a vehicle recently confirmed as the EX90.
Volvo is set to unveil an electric successor to the XC90 mid-size SUV on Nov. 9, a vehicle recently confirmed as the EX90.
The automaker will then launch two more electric vehicles in relatively quick succession, Stephen Connor, head of Volvo’s Australian division, told Drive in an interview published on Monday.
One will be an electric crossover smaller than the XC40 compact crossover and the other a sedan, which according to Drive will likely be a mid-size sedan in the same segment as the Volvo S90. Both are expected by the end of 2024.
Volvo’s smallest models at present are the XC40 and related C40 Recharge. However, former Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said during the reveal of the C40 Recharge the company was planning a model to sit below the 40 series.
The new baby Volvo crossover may go by the name EX30, which Volvo has trademarked. It’s expected to be based on the SEA modular EV platform from Volvo parent company Geely. The platform made its debut last year in the 001 hot hatch from fellow Geely brand Zeekr and features an 800-volt electrical system for high-speed charging.
The small Volvo will likely be built in China to keep costs down. Geely has built a state-of-the-art plant in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo for the production of SEA-based vehicles.
As for the sedan, it may end up using a version of the aluminum-intensive platform fellow Geely brand Polestar has developed for the Polestar 5 sedan, which is due in 2024. Electric sedans from Volvo are expected to carry the designation ES and a number to signify their size and positioning. The mid-size sedan is expected to be called an ES90. | https://www.wjhl.com/automotive/volvos-next-evs-reportedly-include-subcompact-crossover-mid-size-sedan/ | 2022-09-28 00:39:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/automotive/volvos-next-evs-reportedly-include-subcompact-crossover-mid-size-sedan/ |
One of the top teams in the country hopes to get back on the horse after a tough loss to a rival, as the Purdue Boilermakers get set to host the Iowa Hawkeyes on Thursday night.
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Though Purdue has been the No. 1 team in the country for most of the season, and deservedly so, that does not mean they are invincible. After winning nine-straight games, the Boilermakers came up short in Bloomington, losing to their hated rivals, Indiana, this past Saturday. Despite the defeat, Purdue remains at the top of the Big Ten standings, and is still a top-five team in the latest polls. They are three games ahead of Rutgers, Michigan and Indiana. They will look to advantage of their home court on Thursday, as the Boilermakers are 11-1 at Mackey Arena. The powerful Zach Edey continues to lead the offense, averaging a double-double by scoring 22.4 points per game, while grabbing 13.2 rebounds a game.
Iowa comes into this matchup on a little bit of a roll, as they have won three-straight games following a two-point win over Illinois last Saturday. Though they are just two games above .500, the Hawkeyes are in the upper half of the Big Ten. They are tied for fifth in the conference, 3.5 games back of the Boilermakers. However, they face a tough task on Thursday, not just because they are taking on an excellent team, but also because they have struggled on the road this season. Iowa is just 2-4 outside of Iowa City so far.
Though Iowa stunned Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament last year, the Boilermakers are 25-17 all-time against the Hawkeyes.
What: NCAA Men’s Basketball
Who: Iowa Hawkeyes (15-8, 7-5 B1G) vs. #1 Purdue Boilermakers (22-2, 11-2 B1G)
When: Thursday, February 9
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Where: Mackey Arena (West Lafayette, Ind.)
Channel: ESPN2
Stream: FuboTV (Free Trial), Sling, DirecTV Stream
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford will invest $700 million mainly at its Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, creating about 500 new jobs over the next four years.
The company made the announcement Tuesday after a state board approved incentives for Ford’s investment in the state.
Most of the money will go to retool the truck plant, which makes Super Duty pickup trucks and chassis cabs, plus the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator large SUVs. The company has pledged to add around 500 jobs at the plant by 2026. It now employs about 8,700 hourly and salaried workers.
The investment will support vehicle production, mainly new versions of the Super Duty pickup. Ford was to unveil a revamped Super Duty for the 2023 model year at Churchill Downs on Tuesday night. It goes on sale in the spring of next year.
Ford says it has more than 12,000 people working at two vehicle assembly plants in Kentucky. The company also has about 3,400 workers at the Louisville Assembly Plant, which makes the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair small SUVs. It’s also building two electric vehicle battery factories in the state, which will employ another 5,000.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear praised the expansion during a visit to the truck plant Tuesday morning. Beshear said Ford’s long history in Kentucky has led to a “special relationship” with the state.
“Together we’re going to be building these automobiles and trucks of the future for hundreds of years to come,” Beshear said.
Beshear, the only Democrat who holds a statewide office in Kentucky, is eager to tout his administration’s economic successes ahead of next year’s governor’s race.
Along with the recent Ford announcement, the company last year announced it would spend $5.8 billion to build the two new electric battery plants in Hardin County, just south of Louisville. Another electric vehicle battery plant from Japanese firm Envision AESC is planned for southern Kentucky. Beshear unveiled that $2 billion investment in April.
Ford officials said the investment in the truck plant will go toward retooling machinery inside the existing facility space at the Louisville plant.
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EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Islanders have signed defensemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov to three-year contracts.
The Islanders also announced Monday the signing of forward Kieffer Bellows to a one-year deal. All three were restricted free agents.
Contract terms were not immediately available.
Dobson led Islanders' defensemen in goals (13), assists (38) and points (51) last season during his third NHL campaign. The 22-year-old, who was a first-round pick in 2018, also led the team with 22 power-play points and with an average time on ice of 21 minutes, 28 seconds.
In 160 career NHL games, Dobson has 17 goals and 55 assists. He’s added seven assists in 20 career playoff games.
Romanov had three goals and 10 assists in 79 games last season with the Montreal Canadiens. The Moscow native averaged more than 20 minutes of ice time during his second NHL campaign.
The Islanders acquired Romanov and a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL draft from Montreal on July 7, in exchange for the Islanders’ first- round pick in the draft.
The 22-year-old Romanov was a second-round pick in the 2018 draft. As a rookie in 2020-21, he had one goal and five assists in 54 regular- season games, and added a goal in four playoff games.
Bellows has played in 67 games for the Islanders over the course of three seasons, scoring 11 goals and 14 assists. He also has played in 125 career AHL games, registering 34 goals and 16 assists with the Islanders' affiliate in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Which Mandalorian action figure is best?
“Star Wars” has always dominated the sci-fi section of pop culture. The original films, made in the late ’70s and early ’80s, blew movie-goers’ minds with its epic story and unbelievable special effects. Decades later, the tale lives on through anthology films, television series and made-for-TV specials. The most well-received series has without a doubt been “The Mandalorian.” This offshoot follows the journey of a rogue bounty hunter simply known as The Mandalorian. Alongside him on his trip throughout the galaxy is a vulnerable, yet adorable, infant named Grogu.
“The Mandalorian” has created a new fandom for “Star Wars” and alongside it has come some cool toys and action figures. The best Mandalorian action figure is The Black Series Mandalorian which features a 7-inch Mando in his full battle attire and his weapons of choice.
What to know before you buy a Mandalorian action figure
Characters
“The Mandalorian” action figures can include a number of the important and unique characters from the series. The first and most important character is the Mandalorian himself. Also known as Mando, he wears a full head-to-toe suit of armor made of beskar, which in the show is considered the strongest armor in the galaxy. There are a few variations of his armor but the main style is shiny, silver-like armor. Moff Gideon is the antagonist of the story. Think of him like a less-scary Darth Vader, although he also wears a black Imperial suit with a black cape. There is one character who stole the show and that’s Grogu, otherwise known as Baby Yoda. This cute, green toddler wears a brown onesie that looks like a potato sack.
Materials
Most action figures are made with plastic. This usually includes acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) for the main portion of the figure and various other materials for accessories. In “The Mandalorian” action figures, softer plastics, like polypropylene are also used for capes and weapons so that they can conform to the figures’ hands and necks for poses.
Size
Most action figures from “The Mandalorian” are smaller in size — around 7 inches in height and 2 inches wide. After all, action figures are meant to be played with, so it’s important they can easily fit in your hand. If you’re a collector, size isn’t all that important because the items will stay in their package and be displayed on a shelf. There are larger action figures like the animatronic Snackin’ Grogu, which stands over 9 inches tall and 4 inches wide.
What to look for in a quality Mandalorian action figure
Authenticity
Authenticity is equally important for collectors and those who just want a fun toy to play with. Authentic action figures will come straight from the Star Wars store and clearly state their manufacturer. Purchasing a knock-off Mandalorian action figure can include cheap materials that may break easily. Also, they won’t be an accurate representation of the original source material. For true Mandalorian fans, authenticity is crucial.
Accessories
The most common accessory for Mandalorian action figures is a weapon. The galaxy can be a scary place and no true bounty hunter would be caught without his blaster. Mando also fancies the phase-blaster rifle, which is the Star Wars version of a sniper rifle. High quality Mandalorian action figures will include all the accessories to make them as realistic and true to the story as possible. A constant joke throughout the series was that Grogu liked to snack. He was always sneaking away and trying to steal food from others, which is why his accessories feature a spoon, bowl with tentacles, a cookie and a shifter knob, which he attempts to eat before Mando snags it away.
Movement
Action figures are all about movement. For this reason, poseable features are yet another high-quality addition to any Mandalorian action figure. Your action figure’s arms and legs should move both forward and backward and include adjustments at the ankle and head. The ankles should move so that you can put your character in different poses, all the while maintaining its balance on a flat surface.
How much you can expect to spend on Mandalorian action figure
The Mandalorian action figures will cost between $27-$80.
Mandalorian action figure FAQ
Are Mandalorian action figures suitable for children?
A. Most Mandalorian action figures are suitable for children ages 4 and up. This is mainly due to the small parts that are included with the toys. Weapons and other accessories are small enough that they can be swallowed by young children.
Do Mandalorian action figures require batteries?
A. Standard Mandalorian action figures don’t require batteries. Instead, they are poseable on their own simply by moving the section with your hand. If the action figure is animatronic, such as the Snackin’ Grogu, then it will require four AA batteries to operate.
What’s the best Mandalorian action figure to buy?
Top Mandalorian action figure
Star Wars: The Black Series Mandalorian
What you need to know: This authentic Mandalorian action figure comes directly from the makers of Star Wars and features the star of the hit spinoff series.
What you’ll love: The Mandalorian himself is wearing his original battle-worn garb, including a flowing cape and his signature Mandalorian helmet. The figure is poseable and comes with his blaster pistol and phase-pulse blaster rifle.
What you should consider: There are small parts included in this set, which can be hazardous to small children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Mandalorian action figure for the money
Star Wars: The Black Series Imperial Death Trooper
What you need to know: Every Mandalorian has an enemy or two and this Imperial Death Trooper covered from head to toe with rustic armor is one of them.
What you’ll love: This 7-inch poseable action figure lets you live out your dark side with its intimidating presence. He holds an E-11D rifle from the Stormtrooper Corps and includes a collectable Imperial Credit accessory.
What you should consider: The included rifle is small and can be a choking hazard to small children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Star Wars Galactic Snackin’ Grogu
What you need to know: A Star Wars Mandalorian action figure set wouldn’t be complete without the adorable baby who stole the show, Grogu.
What you’ll love: Also known as Baby Yoda, this heartwarming alien child stands over 9 inches tall and moves using animatronic motion. The action figure includes four food-related accessories that, when put in Grogu’s hand, will cause him to react in up to 40 different ways.
What you should consider: You will need a screwdriver to remove the back panel and four AA batteries before operating.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a "wild teenager" with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path. Music wasn't on her radar.
But one day, a friend coaxed Wolfe into taking a peculiar music class, taught by a forward-thinking Quaker who didn't care how much you knew about composing. Wolfe found the idea of creating something with music not only liberating, but empowering. Her imagination blossomed. Around campus she could be seen strumming an Appalachian dulcimer, playing the rhythm bones and writing music for a women's theater group. She was on the right track, whether she knew it or not.
Now 63, Wolfe is still in touch with that teacher — one of many key people who, over the course of a celebrated career, opened doors and helped inspire her to take risks and spot opportunities. In 1987, almost on a whim, Wolfe, along with fellow composers Michael Gordon and David Lang, founded Bang on a Can, a new music collective that eventually spun off an in-house performing group (the Bang on a Can All-Stars), a festival, a record label and an education component. And she has maintained that youthful wildness in her own compositions, known for being frenetic, abrasive and concussively loud. The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, another important force in Wolfe's life, once remarked that while she looked quiet and polite, her music, compared with that of her colleagues, was "the sharpest and most aggressive." That risk has paid off, too: Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and was awarded a MacArthur "genius grant" the following year.
Wolfe's latest work, Her Story, follows in a string of large-scale pieces for orchestra and voices that arrestingly mix history with documentary storytelling in a quasi-oratorio style. These musical documentaries, with their proletarian leanings, have examined American labor history, from the legend of John Henry to Pennsylvania coal mining culture and the tragic 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York. Her Story explores what Wolfe calls "the passion and perseverance of women refusing subordination, demanding representation and challenging the prejudice and power structures that have limited women's voices." The work receives its world premiere Thursday with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, before moving on to performances by the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and the San Francisco Symphony.
From her lower Manhattan home, Wolfe logged on for a video chat to talk about her own battles for representation, her progressive approach to her career, her love of Led Zeppelin and the folk and rock traditions that are woven into her very American sound.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Tom Huizenga: When we last spoke, in April 2015, it was just minutes after you won the Pulitzer Prize for your piece Anthracite Fields. You told me then that you thought of yourself as a renegade. Do you still feel that way?
Julia Wolfe: Well, that was a big statement for me to make. I guess maybe I should just back off and say, what the heck does that mean? Rather than being too self-congratulatory, I would say it means I'm always looking to challenge myself — I'm not just sort of going forward with what I already know, or business as usual. Certainly, there are dramatic examples of very inventive, forward-looking composers over the years. I don't know if I could claim that spot, but I think that it's sort of like an attitude. I'm not trying to write the perfect orchestral work. I'm trying to find a way to express myself that feels fresh and full of discovery.
When you and your colleagues David Lang and Michael Gordon were just starting Bang on a Can in the late 1980s, I feel you were thought of as renegades. But now, 30 years later, the so-called renegades are racking up Pulitzer Prizes and MacArthur Fellowships and commissions with many of the biggest orchestras. Have the mavericks finally become mainstream?
You know, the world is always changing — sometimes in your favor and sometimes not. I don't think that adventurousness or innovation is necessarily lodged in one place. For example, when I first got the opportunity to write for orchestra, I didn't think, "Oh, this is my orchestral music and that is my Bang on a Can All-Stars music." I just thought, how do I bring my voice to this context?
I felt like I really wanted to go into these larger contexts, these more establishment contexts, and bring myself to it. And "myself" is a kind of a wacky, folky, gritty, distorted-guitar-loving person. So I never think, "Well, OK, that's what orchestras do." I think, "What could an orchestra do?" I'm still thinking in this way. Certain environments are conducive to experimentation. But I think it's still me, I guess is what I'm saying.
What does that say about the listeners and the music industry? Maybe they are finally catching up to you?
[Laughs] That sounds good, yeah. But it's always evolving. There's been a huge explosion of interest in new ideas and music, and you can hear that in the so-called concert world that I'm lodged in. You can hear it in pop music and a lot of indie bands — people really interested in sound. You hear it in Sonic Youth or other bands that are very experimental, and Björk. Everybody's ears have opened and different kinds of musics and sounds are so accessible now. Things that might have been exotic in the past are very much in our ears for all kinds of reasons.
There are still challenges for all of us. It's never going to be, like, Top 40. I'm still basically in an experimental world. [But] I think some of the subjects I've been addressing connect to a different public — they've crossed a divide to a certain degree.
Speaking of renegades, my mother has a silver plate with the words "Well-behaved women rarely make history" engraved on it. And I'm thinking that's perhaps an appropriate epigram for your brand new piece, Her Story, which receives its world premiere in Nashville on Sept. 15. It's a large-scale work for orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble, the Boston-based women's choir.
Beth Willer, the artistic director of Lorelei, came to me and said, "Look, the anniversary of suffrage is coming up, we'd love to commission you to write a piece." I was a little bit hesitant. I knew there was going to be a lot of attention paid to suffrage, a very important moment in American history and history all over the world, but I didn't want to limit it to that anniversary year. It's just one important moment in a very long conversation, a very long battle for equality.
So I went fishing for some text and wound up becoming totally fascinated by Abigail Adams — the wife of John Adams — and her role as an informal adviser. Her letters are pretty amazing — letters that she wrote to John because he was traveling. And I picked this one particular letter that I didn't know before. Abigail is writing to him and saying: "Dear John, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and more favorable than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could." It is just very beautiful and powerful — a woman way ahead of her time.
The other historical figure whose text appears in the piece is Sojourner Truth.
Also an incredibly inspiring figure. They're sort of like bookends of the piece, because it begins with Abigail and the very last text is attributed to Sojourner Truth — an amazing woman, born a slave and then escaped to freedom. I don't know exactly at what point, but she had a kind of spiritual awakening. She was very much an abolitionist and a suffragist, but also very much a spiritual figure of strong faith. And her mission was to fight oppression of all kinds.
I'm wondering if, while writing this new work about equality for women, you were looking back and thinking about your own pathway to becoming a composer.
Especially in the beginning, I definitely came across weird moments of sexism — from being discouraged, like someone saying, "You're just going to be dilettante, dabbling in this," to, "We don't have time to rehearse this piece." So there were battles. But I have had so much support in so many different ways, from my Bang on a Can colleagues and from other musicians, that it's been a glorious ride, and certainly a very different world than when I started. I was the only female composer in my class in graduate school, and then another female composer came the second year. And now, I think a lot of programs are sometimes all women, or half. It's been so much easier for me than, say, the generation before me — people like Joan Tower and Tania León and Meredith Monk, they really had to get the machete out and carve a path. Nobody was really, truly recognizing women composers in that generation.
People like Joan Tower, Tania León and Meredith Monk, they really had to get the machete out and carve a path. Nobody was really, truly recognizing women composers in that generation.
Women composers, as you can see now, are very celebrated — not that you don't run into odd moments at times. And there's the flipside, which is, you don't want to be dealing with tokenism either. You want to just be a composer, you know? You don't want to be a "female composer." You really want to just do your art and say what you have to say.
Women are still underrepresented at America's big orchestras. For example, next season the Cleveland Orchestra will present music by 39 different composers and only three are women.
Historically, and in recent history, it's been a problem. But I feel a very strong reaching out now, like orchestras — obviously not every orchestra — are reexamining representation in every way.
I can just speak for myself, but you grow by the opportunities you get. When you look at history, it's problematic because women didn't have opportunities. It wasn't even a question of, are we leaving them out. Now, there's a wonderful process of rediscovery. I just was a curator for a festival in Finland and I programmed Fanny Mendelssohn, whose pieces are really incredible and certainly have been ignored. She didn't write very many pieces because she wasn't asked to. Amazing that these women powered through the lack of opportunity and made really incredible work. Opportunity is big, as it is in any field, if you get to have it. So I feel a shift, not just for me personally.
Your new work, Her Story, is set up similarly to three large works that precede it: Fire in My Mouth, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York; Anthracite Fields, about Pennsylvania coal mining culture; and Steel Hammer, about the legend of John Henry. I think of these pieces as "docu-torios" — a marriage of documentary, history and music, in basically an oratorio format. I'm curious as to how that formula came to you.
I totally love "docu-torio." Can I steal that? Because just the other day someone asked, "What do you call these pieces, oratorios?" I thought that worked, because they are narratives and I am telling a history. But I like docu-torio much better.
I think [the formula] has been there all along. I've been a storyteller and I have a theater background. It's been there in the titles of my pieces. It's been there in that I think extra-musically. But at a certain point I thought, OK, people are asking for pieces and it's so wonderful to be commissioned, but I really need to just stop in my tracks and think, what do I want to do next?
That's when I started to think about Steel Hammer. For that piece, I thought about the sound before the subject, and I just kept coming back to that quintessential American ballad about working, human against machine and all the variations of that ballad. That's the piece where I made the shift. It was much closer to a lot of the performance elements and practices of my American folk music background than my classical life.
I watched a video interview you did for Carnegie Hall not long ago. You said, "As a composer, I'm very interested in human stories and how you can tell history in a very different way with music." How does music help you tell the history in a different way?
There are so many books about all these subjects, great books. You read about the tragic elements of all these stories and it's heartbreaking. You're going to feel that when you read about them and when you look at the photographs or when you watch documentaries. But it's a very different thing to sing an idea, and find ways of singing it. It makes it very personal and emotional, and just takes you to a different place. All art is a reflection of somehow figuring out who we are, what we want to say about who we are.
Some of your docu-torios are presented with theatrics and projections, and they strike me as just one step removed from opera. Might we hear a Julia Wolfe opera one day?
Well, people have asked me that. If and when I ever would try to go in that direction — where there are characters — I would definitely want to pick the singers. All of my pieces that are in this docu-torio form require a very natural voice, in the sense that there is very little vibrato. I really want to hear the words; the words are so important. In many of the pieces, they get chopped up and repeated, so you have a good chance to get them if you didn't hear them the first time. I think in opera — because you know the piece already or it's in a different language — there's sometimes less emphasis placed on hearing what they're saying. I guess it's taken care of by subtitles or supertitles. I want it to be more like old balladry, where you're just going to hear it.
You grew up in a household that loved music — you studied piano as a kid and strummed a guitar — but music was not your path at first. You kind of backed into it while at the University of Michigan when a friend talked you into taking a class called "Creative Musicianship." What happened in that class and how did it change your mind about music?
First of all, I should say the program that I went to was called the Residential College. I left high school a year early — I was this restless, wild teenager, and I was like, "I've got to get out of here. I've got to go do my thing." Because I was sort of political in high school, I was always saying we shouldn't have grades. And so this program had no grades, very interesting faculty, really small classes. I was thinking I would study social sciences. I was taking classes reading Marx and Engels, looking at labor history.
Anyway, I walked into this class and I was fascinated about the idea of being able to make something with music, to build something. As a young woman, it felt very empowering. I liked reading about people doing things, but I didn't want to just read about people doing things. I wanted to do something! And in a way, because I was coming from the outside, I probably didn't feel the oppression and inhibition of being a woman composing.
I'm still in touch with the teacher, Jane — she's, I think, 88 or 89 now. She wasn't a composer, she was a pianist and a singer. And she had this really interesting educational philosophy, which was: It didn't matter where you started, you could be the most advanced person in the class, but if you didn't go from here to somewhere else, that was a problem. I'm sure I was the most beginning person in her class that semester. She had these ear training laboratories — beginning, middle and highest level. By the end, I was teaching the beginning one with her.
I think it did make a difference that she was a woman. She then led me to a graduate student, sort of the star student at the University of Michigan music school, Laura Clayton. She was great, super-supportive. I remember looking at these women who were composing and going, "I'd like to do that." Role models are very powerful.
So once you felt like writing music was a thing, how did you eventually find your voice as a composer? Or are you still looking for it?
I think I've found the things I love. And that's what I think a voice is, in a way — when you can identify a composer's style. I always think, "Well, those are all the things they love, and that's why they put it in their pieces." I can identify certain things that I love doing and it seems to be present in a lot of my music. But it wasn't a straight route. I did music and theater. I wrote music in the context of plays. I just didn't go from here to there.
I remember going into the first lesson at University of Michigan [as a postgraduate]. I brought in this crazy piece that was for a mixed ensemble with trapeze artists; it was a wacky thing. The teacher said, "Oh, no, no. We have to put that aside. Here are your 12 pitches. We're going to write a solo piano piece." And it was like being in a straitjacket. I learned a lot, and I did get exposed to [composers] Ligeti and Ives and Crumb and all this amazing music. It was a good exercise — but way too long, about two years. And that's the point where I met Michael, whose life was so varied musically, and he said, "You've got to get out of those lessons." So I did.
Then I got a spot at the Yale School of Music — miraculously, because I hadn't written that much yet — and studied with Martin Bresnick for all four semesters. He handed me a score of De Staat [by Louis Andriessen], and I just looked at it and thought, "Whoa, what the heck is this?" It was so bold and direct. It's not trying to be subtle and mysterious, it's just like, bam, right in your face! And I loved that. Just the way it looked on the page, with the chicken scratch handwriting he had, but it was quarter notes pounding away. It was a very bold sound. That was a huge influence.
So that experimental interest also began in that context. I was very green, and I was finding my language — but I had the support, and had already met David Lang. So between Michael and David and all the conversations we had, it felt like everything's possible, the world's cracked open. It was a great moment in my life, a huge shift, hanging out with those guys. They were so adventurous and curious themselves, and pretty radical in many ways.
Speaking of Michael and David, I'm wondering how Bang on a Can might have helped influence your sound. It started in the late 1980s as a concert presented by a trio of composers, but grew into a multi-pronged organization that included an in-house performance ensemble, a record label and an annual festival. You would have had to think about things like the marketplace for new music, advertising, fundraising, grant proposals, et cetera. Did that responsibility affect your writing?
It was more like a liberation. Even with your greatest teachers, you have to get them off your back, because they're going to have a different perspective from you. They're a different generation. Bang on a Can was just us kids, figuring out what was meaningful to us, and I got exposed to so much music and learned about so many great artists. Just these interesting ideas that John Cage had — he came to the very first Bang on a Can marathon. So, you're absolutely right, that was a huge education, just being in that context of curating. We did learn how to get the word out, but it starts from the music — like, "Oh, I love that piece. We have to figure out how to do that piece."
When people talk about your music, they always mention rock. Compared to your Bang on a Can colleagues, your music does have a louder, more feisty sound. Did you listen to a lot of rock music growing up?
Oh yeah, that's probably all I listened to. Well, I was a big Joni Mitchell fan. But you know, as ridiculous as the lyrics are, I totally listened to Led Zeppelin. I find that music amazing. I listened to The Doors and Aretha Franklin, going into Motown and R&B. I love a lot of music, I have to say. But my upbringing was far less classical than it was connected to popular music. I played show tunes on the piano and my grandmother would sing. I spent a lot of time with popular music, dancing to it and playing it. So, very much a child of rock and roll.
Was there a certain point where that more aggressive sound entered your music? I guess the piece where I think it shows up for sure is Lick, from 1994, with that ferocious drumming and grinding guitar.
Lick was a change point. You're spot on about that. I remember saying to myself, "Oh, I've got to crack this open. I've just got to let this come into the music." And that's the piece where I really embrace it. It's a piece of new music, in a sense, that is irregular and erratic, and the beats are all kind of disjointed, but it's got a lot of rock and roll in it. And some funk.
That might have been a breakthrough piece for you in terms of a more energetic sound. But was there a general breakthrough piece for you, a work which made everybody take notice, something that opened doors for you as a composer?
I remember with Cruel Sister I thought, I'm writing pieces that aren't that long. I think I need to have a longer trajectory. I need to make a bigger statement. And Cruel Sister did that, as well as got into some new sonic territory for me. But I'd say, in terms of the public, Steel Hammer was the change point.
And that work was shortlisted for a Pulitzer in 2010.
I remember being very surprised, especially with Anthracite Fields winning the Pulitzer later — because those are two really gritty pieces. It seems like such a fancy prize for such a gritty piece.
Since we're talking about those pieces, quite a bit of your music is tied to America — whether it's that legend of John Henry in Steel Hammer or your love for the Appalachian dulcimer in Four Marys, or even your response to Sept. 11 in Big Beautiful Dark and Scary. Do you think your music has an "American sound?"
Absolutely, in a number of ways. One is just the rawness of it and what I feel is a very natural tie to rock and roll and American folk music. It's interesting because Michael and I lived in Amsterdam for a year; I think it was 1992. We went there partly because Louis Andriessen was just a great, very welcoming figure. He'd say, "Everybody meet for drinks," or "Everyone come down, let's play doubles ping pong." That was a great year — but I felt very American. There's just a different sensibility, a different tie to history. You feel the weight of history more, I think, as a European. [In America] it's like anything goes, and the irreverence has its problems. But it also sets an environment where you can do whatever the heck you want. I don't have to worry about what the tradition is, or if I'm breaking with tradition.
Getting back to that idea of being a renegade, from the beginning of our conversation: You've created an entire renegade organization with Bang on a Can and its many tentacles reaching here and there. Is there still room for renegades in music today?
It's a really good question: What does it mean to be a renegade now? When I look at the generation before us, there was more to fight against. It was a very restrictive period, like when I was describing those lessons I had at the University of Michigan. Now, the university is a really great place. I have friends teaching there, everyone's happy. But it was a period where you had to make a stand: "I'm against this!" or "I'm for that!" That was their battle. When we came into the professional field, it wasn't as much our battle. [Although] we definitely annoyed a lot of people who were like, "What's this bulls*** that they're doing?"
Now it's a much more open time. It's a much healthier time. I teach at NYU and in the summer institute of Bang on a Can up at Mass MOCA, so I'm very connected to the new generation of composers and performers coming up. It's great that people can realize their ideas, and because it's so open, there are a lot of crossovers with popular music. People are in bands, and they compose. It's very fluid, which I think is very healthy for everybody.
But it's great to remember — and I try to have my students think — about thinking outside the box. What's exciting? Where can we take ideas? It's still interesting to think about experimentation, and to take risks.
So there's still a box to think outside of?
I think there is. It's a much broader box. I guess I have a bias towards the grit. Looking for the intensity, and how we can express who we are, still has its challenges.
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LEWISTON, N.Y. (AP) — Allen Powell scored 15 points as Rider beat Canisius 66-64 on Saturday.
Powell went 6 for 7 from the line for the Broncs (6-6, 3-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Mervin James scored 12 points and added seven rebounds. Tariq Ingraham shot 5 of 5 from the field to finish with 12 points.
Jordan Henderson led the Golden Griffins (2-10, 0-3) in scoring, finishing with 17 points and six rebounds. Canisius also got 14 points, nine rebounds, four assists and two steals from Xzavier Long. In addition, Tahj Staveskie finished with 11 points and five assists. The loss is the eighth in a row for the Golden Griffins.
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Can Donald Trump still run for president despite indictment?
A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers said Thursday, producing the first criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House.
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly attacked the investigation, called the indictment "political persecution" and predicted it would damage Democrats in 2024.
The indictment is an extraordinary development after years of investigations into his business, political and personal dealings. It is likely to galvanize critics who say Trump lied and cheated his way to the top and embolden supporters who feel the Republican is being unfairly targeted by a Democratic prosecutor.
In a statement, his lawyers, Susan Necheles and Joseph Tacopina, said: "He did not commit any crime. We will vigorously fight this political prosecution in court."
Yes, Trump can still run for president
Nothing in the U.S. Constitution prohibits candidates with criminal records from holding office.
The only qualifications needed to run is to be at least 35 years old and be a natural born citizen who has lived in the country for at least 14 years.
However, according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a person who has engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States, cannot hold office unless overcome with a two-thirds vote from Congress.
Minutes after the indictment was announced Thursday, Trump released a lengthy statement calling it the next step in a campaign from the left "to destroy the Make America Great Again movement."
"The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable - indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference," Trump's statement said.
Trump accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of "doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on."
Alina Habba, an attorney for Trump, said the former president is a victim "of a corrupt and distorted version of the American justice system and history. He will be vindicated."
An indictment wouldn’t stop Trump from continuing his campaign. There is no prohibition against running while facing criminal charges — or even following conviction. Indeed, convicted felons have run for president before, including from behind bars.
How will this impact his chances of winning in 2024?
Trump faces other potential legal perils as he seeks to reassert control of the Republican Party and stave off a slew of one-time allies who are seeking or are likely to oppose him for the presidential nomination.
The district attorney in Atlanta has for two years been investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to meddle in Georgia’s 2020 vote count. And a U.S. Justice Department special counsel is investigating Trump’s storage of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and his efforts to reverse his election loss.
Politically, Trump allies believe the case actually will benefit the former president in the short term by energizing his base in a competitive Republican primary, and would provide another boost later on if it ultimately fails to yield a conviction.
"The prosecutor in New York has done more to help Donald Trump get elected," says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., echoing other GOP officials, who have also argued the probe will likely help Trump in the short term, even if it could prove damaging in a general election.
"It boggles the mind to think that we have an ex-president on the eve of being indicted still the frontrunner for the Republican Party in 2024," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley weeks before Trump was indicted. "You would have thought (potentially) being arrested would have been a disqualifying factor in presidential politics. But Trump constantly surprises people by his devious and inappropriate behavior that he transcends by turning it into being a victim of a witch hunt."
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Maxwell Frost on becoming the first member of Gen Z to be elected to Congress By Vincent Acovino, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Ailsa Chang Published November 10, 2022 at 1:36 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:55 NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Maxwell Alejandro Frost, the first member of Gen Z to be elected to Congress. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-11-10/maxwell-frost-on-becoming-the-first-member-of-gen-z-to-be-elected-to-congress | 2022-11-10 22:17:15 | 0 | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-11-10/maxwell-frost-on-becoming-the-first-member-of-gen-z-to-be-elected-to-congress |
US regulators to vote on largest dam demolition in history
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The largest dam demolition and river restoration plan in the world could be close to reality Thursday as U.S. regulators vote on a plan to remove four aging hydro-electric structures, reopening hundreds of miles of California river habitat to imperiled salmon.
The vote by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the lower Klamath River dams is the last major regulatory hurdle and the biggest milestone facing a $500 million demolition proposal championed by Native American tribes and environmentalists for years.
Approval of the application to surrender the dams’ operating license is the bedrock of the most ambitious salmon restoration plan in history, and if approved the parties overseeing the project will accept license transfer and could begin dam removal as early as this summer. More than 300 miles (483 kilometers) of salmon habitat in the Klamath River and its tributaries would benefit, said Amy Souers Kober, spokeswoman for American Rivers, which monitors dam removals and advocates for river restoration.
“This is an incredibly important milestone,” she said. “This project really carries important lessons for rivers and the conservation movement, and the most important lesson is the leadership of the tribes. It’s because of the tribes that these dams will come out and the river be will restored.”
The vote comes at a critical moment when human-caused climate change is hammering the Western United States with prolonged drought, said Tom Kiernan, president of American Rivers. He said allowing California’s second-largest river to flow naturally, and its flood plains and wetlands to function normally, would mitigate those impacts.
“The best way of managing increasing floods and droughts is to allow the river system to be healthy and do its thing,” he said.
“Instead of having reservoirs where a significant amount of that water evaporates, it’s better to have that river flow and allow the flood plains and wetlands filter the water and bring it down to groundwater where it doesn’t evaporate.”
The Klamath Basin watershed covers more than 14,500 square miles (37,500 square kilometers), and the Klamath itself was once the third-largest salmon producing river on the West Coast. But the dams, constructed between 1918 and 1962, essentially cut the river in half and prevent salmon from reaching spawning grounds upstream. Consequently, salmon runs have been dwindling for years.
Native tribes that rely on the Klamath River and its salmon for their way of life have been a driving force behind bringing the dams down. Members of the Yurok, Karuk and Hoopa tribes plan to light a bonfire and watch the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meeting Thursday on a remote Klamath River sandbar via a satellite uplink to symbolize their hopes for the river’s renewal.
Frankie Myers, Yurok vice chairman, told The Associated Press before the meeting that he was excited, but also anxious, about the outcome of the vote.
“We’ve been doing this a long time and we’ve been let down so much over the last two decades,” he said. “If there’s still salmon in the water, they have a chance and we have a chance. ...They will come down. They have to come down. Our existence depends on it.”
But plans to remove the dams have been controversial.
A group of homeowners who live around Copco Lake, one of the large reservoirs, have fought the dam removal plans for years and say the values of their lakefront homes have plummeted. A coalition formed to oppose the demolition plan argues that the money set aside to cover the demolition isn’t adequate, and that cost overruns and liability concerns would fall on the shoulders of taxpayers.
They also question whether removing the dams will work to restore salmon because of changes in the Pacific Ocean that are also affecting the fish, said Richard Marshall, head of the Siskiyou County Water Users Association.
“The whole question is, will this add to the increased production of salmon? It has everything to do with what’s going on in the ocean (and) we think this will turn out to be a futile effort,” he said. “Nobody’s ever tried to take care of the problem by taking care of the existing situation without just removing the dams.”
Rate payers in the rural counties around the dams are also angered by the project, which is funded by $200 million from PacifiCorp and $250 million from a voter-approved water bond in California.
U.S. regulators raised flags about the potential for cost overruns and liability issues in 2020, nearly killing the proposal, but Oregon, California and PacifiCorp, which operates the hydroelectric dams and is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway, teamed up to add another $50 million in contingency funds.
The utility would face steep costs to add fish ladders and other environmental mitigations to the outdated dams in order to renew their hydroelectric license and in recent years has diversified their energy portfolio enough to absorb the loss of the dams, the company has said.
If regulators approve on Thursday, Oregon, California and the Klamath River Renewal Corporation — the entity formed to oversee the demolition and environmental mitigation — must sign off on the license surrender and then work can begin. Regulators could also approve it, but add further specifications, or reject it altogether.
If approved, Copco 2, the smallest dam, could come down as early as the coming summer, said Craig Tucker, natural resources policy consultant for the Karuk Tribe. In early 2024, the reservoirs behind the dams would be slowly drawn down, with the hope of putting the river fully back in its channel by late 2024, he said.
The scope of the project exceeds the other largest U.S. dam demolition to date, when two century-old dams were breached on the Eolwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in 2012, said Kober, of American Rivers. Environmental experts are unaware of any other river restoration project in the world with a bigger scope than the one planned for the lower Klamath, she added.
Across the U.S., 1,951 dams have been demolished as of February, including 57 in 2021, the organization said. Most of those have come down in the past 25 years as facilities age and come up for relicensing.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-1-5
(four, one, five)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-1-5
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Is the Microsoft Surface Pro or Surface Go right for you?
A decent number of manufacturers have released Windows tablets over the last decade, most in the form of detachable two-in-one laptops. Only one family of tablet PCs has survived throughout that time and continues to offer updated releases with impressive performance.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, that family is the Microsoft Surface lineup. Since Microsoft is responsible for the ubiquitous Windows operating system, it makes sense that their in-house designed laptops run it so efficiently.
There are currently two active members of the Surface lineup, the Surface Pro and Surface Go. While at first glance they look just like small and large versions of the same tablet, in many ways, they couldn’t be more different. Either one is worth considering, depending on your needs, although there’s another Windows tablet that also deserves a look, the Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable.
What is the Microsoft Surface Pro?
It takes the form of a tablet, but make no mistake — the Surface Pro 8 is a full-featured laptop packed with powerful hardware. It’s built to meet the requirements of the Intel Evo certification, which designates modern laptops with a certain level of power, convenience, connectivity and usability.
What are the Intel Evo requirements?
It’s a relatively strict standard to adhere to, which makes it a good barometer of how efficient and easy to use a laptop is. The Surface Pro earns the Intel Evo badge, but the Surface Go does not.
- 11th-generation or newer Intel central processing unit: Starting with the Tiger Lake family, Intel CPUs took a big step forward in terms of power and heat efficiency. Having a recent model ensures peak performance and minimal battery drain.
- Respectable system memory and storage: Intel Evo laptops must have at least 8 gigabytes of RAM and 256 GB of solid-state storage.
- Large screen and slim body: The standard calls for a 12- to 15-inch Full HD display with slim bezels. Either a tablet form factor or ultra-thin and light clamshell fit the bill.
- All-day battery life with fast charging: Intel calls for nine hours of real-world battery life and four hours of added battery life in the first 30 minutes of charging.
- Advanced connectivity options: USB-C charging, Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6 are all required.
- Fast and convenient login: Biometric security must be offered, and the laptop must wake from sleep in one second or less.
- Fanless or nearly fanless design: For noise purposes, Evo laptops must have no fans larger than 15 millimeters.
Microsoft Surface Pro benefits
There are a few important ways the Surface Pro stands out among Windows tablets.
- Above-average battery life: For the first time in the lineup’s history, the Surface Pro 8 just barely ekes out an all-day battery life, but only under the right conditions. You’ll have to keep the brightness down and possibly the Windows battery saver option on for it to run for more than about seven hours on a regular basis.
- Impressive performance for a tablet: Its high-efficiency Intel Tiger Lake CPU does an excellent job of performing all kinds of resource-intensive tasks. At the same time, it doesn’t draw a ton of power or generate a huge amount of waste heat.
- Top-of-the-line display: The screen’s resolution, color volume, color accuracy and consistency from edge-to-edge rival even some of the most high-end clamshell laptops. For example, if you’re comfortable with the relatively small screen, it’s one of the most portable options suitable for photo editing.
Microsoft Surface Pro drawbacks
- The battery isn’t perfect: While it’s better than ever, the battery is still susceptible to running out fast. If you keep the screen at peak brightness or frequently use a lot of resource-intensive programs without plugging it into the wall, you’ll find yourself out of battery before the day’s up.
- It’s relatively expensive: It costs a lot compared to clamshell laptops with similar specs. You’re paying a premium for its high-end display panel and unrivaled portability.
- Accessories are not included: It’s a bit frustrating that you will have to purchase the keyboard and stylus separately.
- Not suitable for advanced gaming: There are no versions of the Surface Pro that offer the kind of performance needed for modern 3D games.
What is the Microsoft Surface Go?
In short, the Microsoft Surface Go is the smallest and most portable tablet that you can rely on running Windows dependably. It doesn’t have the firepower for most resource-intensive tasks, and even some multitasking can slow it down. But, if you need to take notes in class, entertain yourself during a commute or put together the ultimate minimalist digital nomad setup, it’s worth a look.
Microsoft Surface Go pros
- It’s compact: There aren’t any smaller tablets that can run Windows so smoothly. Microsoft, after all, knows exactly what the operating system needs to run properly and can outfit their most efficient tablet with the bare minimum in hardware required for a good experience.
- It’s affordable: For that matter, there aren’t even a ton of cheaper laptops that work so well.
- There’s an optional 4G LTE model: For the ultimate in portability, consider the LTE-enabled Surface Go, which keeps you connected whenever you have cell service.
Microsoft Surface Go cons
- Subpar battery life: There isn’t anywhere inside the Surface Go to put a large battery. It will struggle to last most of the day without plugging into the wall.
- Limited performance: The Surface Go has limited hardware options in terms of CPU, memory and storage. Furthermore, the components’ performance is further held back by the tablet’s size and heat dissipation constraints.
To minimize the performance issue, the Surface Go ships with Windows 11 in S Mode. S Mode limits the programs you can install and the settings you can tweak. This delivers an especially secure experience that’s light on resources and keeps you from noticing that the components are a bit underpowered.
Should you buy a Microsoft Surface tablet?
If you value display quality and convenience in a highly portable and full-featured laptop, the Surface Pro 8 is definitely worth a look.
What you need to buy for the Microsoft Surface
Surface Pro Signature Keyboard
It’s arguably the best two-in-one keyboard available, with a surprisingly good typing experience. However, it’s also pretty costly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Surface Pro Signature Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader
It’s identical to the standard keyboard but sports a fingerprint reader that confers complete Intel Evo certification on the Surface Pro 8.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Though not as premium as the Surface Pro type cover, it’s still a touch better than most other laptop keyboards.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Fintie Rechargeable Surface Go Keyboard
Keyboards use up a surprising amount of a detachable laptop’s battery power, and the Fintie’s internal battery helps to take some of that load off the tablet itself. The drawbacks are that it’s slightly thicker and heavier than the official model.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
The best Surface Pro alternative
Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable
This highly capable tablet is the first in a while to rival the Surface Pro series. If you want peak performance plus portability and aren’t concerned with ultra-high resolution or near-perfect color accuracy, take a good look at the X12 Detachable.
Where to buy: Sold by Lenovo and Amazon
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Dee Snider: Twisted Sister Rejects ‘Lucrative Offers’ to Reunite
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider said his band has no interest in reuniting, despite “lucrative offers” to do so.
The singer made his declaration during a question and answer with fans on Twitter.
Asked about potentially releasing new music, the Twisted Sister vocalist was direct. “Never say never, but I don't see me recording anymore,” Snider said, noting that he’s more focused on other projects, such as “movies, books, tv, radio, etc.”
When one fan challenged Snider’s claim -- and likened it to bands who conduct farewell tours, only to reunite later -- the singer doubled down on his statement.
“Actually it's these never ending farewell tours, fake farewells and ‘we changed our minds’ after the farewell that keep me honest,” Snider explained. “I hate all that fake farewell bullshit. Bands should stay forever if they want to...just don't sell us a B.S. farewell tour!”
“Twisted Sister retired in 2016,” Snider continued, “and while we talk to each other regularly, none of us has even mentioned reuniting. And believe me, we are getting lucrative offers.”
Snider’s new remarks follow similar statements indicating he’s largely done with music. In May, the rocker told fans that he was likely done with touring and playing shows, and was instead turning his attention towards new endeavors. To that end, Snider recently announced an upcoming graphic novel with Z2 Comics titled He’s Not Gonna Take It. The story will chronicle Snider’s lifelong defense of free speech, including his role in the Parents Music Resource Center senate hearing of 1985. | https://1019therock.com/dee-snider-twisted-sister-reunion-offers/ | 2022-07-12 00:41:48 | 0 | https://1019therock.com/dee-snider-twisted-sister-reunion-offers/ |
GOP wins slim House majority, complicating ambitious agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans won control of the U.S. House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern.
More than a week after Election Day, Republicans secured the 218th seat needed to flip the House from Democratic control. The full scope of the party’s majority may not be clear for several more days — or weeks — as votes in competitive races are still being counted.
But they are on track to cobble together what could be the party’s narrowest majority of the 21st century, rivaling 2001, when Republicans had just a nine-seat majority, 221-212 with two independents. That’s far short of the sweeping victory the GOP predicted going into this year’s midterm elections, when the party hoped to reset the agenda on Capitol Hill by capitalizing on economic challenges and Biden’s lagging popularity.
Instead, Democrats showed surprising resilience, holding on to moderate, suburban districts from Virginia to Minnesota and Kansas. The results could complicate House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s plans to become speaker as some conservative members have questioned whether to back him or have imposed conditions for their support.
President Joe Biden congratulated McCarthy on Wednesday night and said he is “ready to work with House Republicans to deliver results for working families.”
“Last week’s elections demonstrated the strength and resilience of American democracy. There was a strong rejection of election deniers, political violence, and intimidation,” Biden said in a statement. “There was an emphatic statement that, in America, the will of the people prevails.”
He added, that “the future is too promising to be trapped in political warfare.”
The narrow margins have upended Republican politics and prompted finger-pointing about what went wrong. Some in the GOP have blamed Donald Trump for the worse-than-expected outcome. The former president, who announced his third White House bid Tuesday, lifted candidates during this year’s Republican primaries who often questioned the results of the 2020 election or downplayed the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol last year. Many of those struggled to win during the general election.
Despite the GOP’s underwhelming showing, the party will still have notable power. Republicans will take control of key committees, giving them the ability to shape legislation and launch probes of Biden, his family and his administration. There’s particular interest in investigating the overseas business dealings of the president’s son Hunter Biden. Some of the most conservative lawmakers have raised the prospect of impeaching Biden, though that will be much harder for the party to accomplish with a tight majority.
Any legislation that emerges from the House could face steep odds in the Senate, where Democrats won the barest of majorities Saturday. Both parties are looking to a Dec. 6 Senate runoff in Georgia as a last chance to pad their ranks.
With such a potentially slim House majority, there’s also potential for legislative chaos. The dynamic essentially gives an individual member enormous sway over shaping what happens in the chamber. That could lead to particularly tricky circumstances for GOP leaders as they try to win support for must-pass measures that keep the government funded or raise the debt ceiling.
The GOP’s failure to notch more wins — they needed a net gain of five seats to take the majority — was especially surprising because the party went into the election benefiting from congressional maps that were redrawn by Republican legislatures. History was also on Republicans’ side: The party that holds the White House had lost congressional seats during virtually every new president’s first midterm of the modern era.
The new majority will usher in a new group of leaders in Washington. If elected to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the top post, McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Trump’s bare-knuckle brand of politics. Many Republicans in the incoming Congress rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election, even though claims of widespread fraud were refuted by courts, elections officials and Trump’s own attorney general.
McCarthy won the nomination for House speaker on Tuesday, with a formal vote to come when the new Congress convenes in January.
“I’m proud to announce the era of one-party Democrat rule in Washington is over,” McCarthy said after winning the nomination.
Republican candidates pledged on the campaign trail to cut taxes and tighten border security. GOP lawmakers also could withhold aid to Ukraine as it fights a war with Russia or use the threat of defaulting on the nation’s debt as leverage to extract cuts from social spending and entitlements — though all such pursuits will be tougher given how small the GOP majority may end up being.
As a senator and then vice president, Biden spent a career crafting legislative compromises with Republicans. But as president, he was clear about what he viewed as the threats posed by the current Republican Party.
Biden said the midterms show voters want Democrats and Republicans to find ways to cooperate and govern in a bipartisan manner, but also noted that Republicans didn’t achieve the electoral surge they’d been betting on and vowed, “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.”
AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the national electorate, showed that high inflation and concerns about the fragility of democracy had heavily influenced voters. Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. Slightly fewer — 44% — said the future of democracy was their primary consideration.
Counter to the GOP’s expectations, Biden didn’t entirely shoulder the blame for inflation, with close to half of voters saying the higher-than-usual prices were more because of factors outside his control. And despite the president bearing criticism from a pessimistic electorate, some of those voters backed Democratic candidates.
Democrats also likely benefited from anger over the Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision cementing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Voters in Michigan voted to amend their state constitution to protect abortion rights while far more reliably Republican Kentucky rejected a constitutional amendment declaring no right to an abortion.
Overall, 7 in 10 voters said the high court’s ruling overturning the 1973 decision enshrining abortion rights was an important factor in their midterm decisions. VoteCast also showed the reversal was broadly unpopular. About 6 in 10 say they are angry or dissatisfied by it. And roughly 6 in 10 say they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as its lead football analyst once his playing career ends, the network said Tuesday.
When that actually happens is unclear, because Brady recently changed his mind about retiring and said he plans to continue playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for his 23rd NFL season.
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch made the announcement during a corporate investor call on Tuesday.
“Over the course of this long-term agreement, Tom will not only call our our biggest NFL games with Kevin Burkhardt, he will also serve as an ambassador for us, particularly with respect to client and promotional initiatives,” Murdoch said.
Murdoch said it’s “entirely up to” Brady when he decides to retire from football and join Fox. Brady led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title following the 2020 season and NFC South championship last season. He teamed with coach Bill Belichick to win six Super Bowls during 20 seasons with the New England Patriots.
Fox recently lost its top football announcers, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, to ESPN. It replaced Buck with Burkhardt.
Murdoch offered no other details on the deal.
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Spencer Carbery got his start in coaching in the minors with the Washington Capitals watching closely.
They liked what they saw, and on Tuesday they brought him back to fill the job they envisioned he would get.
The Capitals hired Carbery as their next coach, ending their search for Peter Laviolette’s successor by landing on a favorite of the organization who in recent years had become one of the NHL’s most intriguing candidates. He now is tasked with getting Washington back in the playoffs with an aging roster and extending the organization’s run of success a few more years while Alex Ovechkin chases Wayne Gretzky’s goals record.
“Spencer is one of the best young coaches in the game who’s had success at every level at which he has coached,” general manager Brian MacLellan said in a statement. “We feel his leadership, communication skills, ability to develop players and familiarity with our organization will be a tremendous asset as he makes this next step in his coaching career.”
Carbery spent the past two seasons as an assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs, running the power play that ranked second in the league over that time. Before the Leafs hired him, he was considered the heir apparent to Laviolette because of his time with the Capitals’ top minor league affiliate, the American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears.
When Hershey VP of hockey operations Bryan Helmer was interviewing candidates for his head-coaching gig in 2018, he asked Carbery how long until he saw himself in that kind of role in the NHL. Carbery gave himself five years and nailed that projection.
“He did an incredible job for us when he was here, and I knew that he would be an NHL coach at one point down the road,” Helmer told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday. “He wanted to make sure that he was ready to make that step. He went through the steps, and I think he’s ready for the NHL.”
Carbery coached Hershey for three years before getting the NHL promotion to Sheldon Keefe’s staff in Toronto. At the time, there wasn’t an opening for an assistant in Washington.
There is now, and Carbery at 41 usurps Keefe as the youngest coach in the league after going from a Capitals’ homegrown prospect who began with their ECHL team in South Carolina to one of the hottest names on the market. He interviewed with the San Jose Sharks for their vacancy last year and multiple others this spring.
The Capitals got him back before a rival team could scoop him up. They chose Carbery from a pool of candidates that also included former captain-turned-Tampa Bay assistant Jeff Halpern, Philadelphia associate coach Brad Shaw and others with more experience.
“I would like to thank the Capitals organization for affording me the opportunity to lead this team,” Carbery said. “I look forward to working with this group of talented players and building upon the winning culture in place. I would also like to thank the Toronto Maple Leafs organization for all their support over the past two years.”
Carbery’s job won’t be an easy one. Five years removed from Washington winning the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history, the team is coming off missing the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade and could be on the verge of changes beyond coaching.
MacLellan must decide how much to shuffle the roster, but in no way is he beginning the process of rebuilding. With Ovechkin, the 2018 playoff MVP and longtime face of the franchise, about to turn 38 and sitting 73 goals away from breaking Gretzky’s career record, the organization from owner Ted Leonsis down has set a goal of continuing to contend while the Russian star is under contract for three more seasons.
Helmer, who played with Ovechkin briefly in 2008-09, said Carbery’s relationships with Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and other Leafs stars will only help him moving forward.
“It’s going to be a great mix,” Helmer said. “Spencer really stays on top of it. He expects a lot out of his players and he holds them accountable, which is a great thing. I see big things coming from Spencer and what he can do with the Caps.”
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LANCASTER, Calif. — Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He was 34.
Representatives for Carter’s family confirmed the singer’s death. They did not provide any immediate further comment.
Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, performed as an opening act for Britney Spears as well as his brother’s boy band, and appeared on the family’s reality series “House of Carters” that aired on E! Entertainment Television.
Deputies responded around 11 a.m. following reports of a medical emergency at the home in Lancaster, said Deputy Alejandra Parra with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Parra said the deputies found a deceased person at the residence, but she could not immediately confirm it was Carter.
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Digital Campaign Launches this Week Across Shinola Social Platforms @Shinola Featuring Burleson, Father of Three, Highlighting the Invaluable Role Dads Play in Shaping the Lives of their Children and the Enduring Impact of Timeless Memories
DETROIT, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As Father's Day approaches, an inspiring collaboration between Shinola – the Detroit-born lifestyle brand – and Nate Burleson, former pro athlete, CBS Mornings co-host and devoted father of three, is celebrating the profound impact fathers have on shaping their children's lives through a heartwarming digital campaign, "Celebrate This Father's Day With A Timeless Legacy."
Shinola is renowned for its commitment to building timeless products and experiences embodied with a distinctive and unmistakable sense of American design, craft, quality, and warmth, deeply rooted in Detroit's rich history and resilient spirit. Burleson, a former Lions wide receiver, also shares a deep connection to the city and has teamed up with Shinola to highlight Dads this Father's Day.
In the short film launching this week on the brand's social platforms, Nate shares his thoughts on being a father, emphasizing the importance of cherishing family time that he is passing down to his children and future generations of Burlesons. Created by award- winning creative agency Falkon through their new Purpose Division, and Creative Directed & Directed by its founder Dexton Deboree, the campaign's video and photo assets merge style and sentiment to create a meaningful tribute to fatherhood.
Cameras follow Nate on a trip to the Shinola store in search of a very special heirloom gift for his children, acknowledging his sons and daughter as the best Father's Day gift he could ever receive. Nate's journey to find the perfect timepieces turns into a moment that captures the significance of cherishing family connections and time well spent.
"I'm looking for something very special. I want to do something for my sons and daughter that will stand the test of time but also be a reminder of our relationship," shares Nate as he enters the store. Guided by the expert Shinola team through a signature Shinola in-store experience, he explores the range of timepieces available, carefully selecting the perfect ones for his children. After being personalized with special engraving, Nate presents the gift to his teenage sons and imparts a valuable lesson in the heartfelt moment.
"Thank you for being the best Father's Day gift year after year after year. I wish time would stop… Every stage of your life, I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Because I can't stop time, I want to put a timepiece on your wrist that you can take with you forever."
"Take advantage of the time we have," he adds. "And let's create the best memories possible."
Through rich visual storytelling, the campaign captures the essence of a father's legacy and the timeless gift of shared experiences. Video and photo assets will be showcased on Shinola's social media platforms, as well as collaborative posts with Burleson.
"This collaboration with Nate Burleson is a meaningful tribute to the power of fatherhood and the lasting impact we have on our children's lives," says Philip Pirkovic, Shinola Director of Brand Partnerships. "We are honored to be a part of this campaign and to create timepieces that represent the profound bond between fathers and their children."
As Father's Day approaches, "Celebrate This Father's Day With A Timeless Legacy" featuring Nate Burleson and Shinola serves as a tangible reminder of the invaluable role Dads play in shaping our lives and the enduring impact of cherished memories.
For more information, visit Shinola.com.
Editor's Note: Click HERE to download original assets from the Shinola in-store moment/image campaign shoot with Nate Burleson or PDF of the press release. Please credit the following: Video provided courtesy of Shinola; Photo credit: Antoine Debrill
About Shinola Detroit:
Born in Detroit, Shinola is a design brand with an unwavering commitment to crafting lasting products, from watches to leather goods and hotel. Celebrating a decade in business, Shinola represents timeless design and thoughtful craftsmanship with products and stories that inspire people to live well and be confident in a style that is uniquely their own. To learn more, visit www.shinola.com.
About Nate Burleson:
Nate Burleson is an esteemed co-host of CBS Mornings, an Emmy-award winning sports analyst, and former NFL player for the Detroit Lions. Nate is a devoted family man and father of three. Known for his charismatic personality and insightful sports commentary, Nate has become a beloved figure in the broadcasting world.
About Falkon:
Falkon is a visionary agency that creates meaningful connections and impactful campaigns through its Purpose division. Committed to shaping purpose-driven narratives and experiences, Falkon enables brands to connect with underserved and underrepresented audiences on a deeper level.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Individuals will be allowed to make sure that their records with the Social Security Administration align with their gender identity under a plan announced Wednesday.
The action, which is part of the agency’s “Equity Action Plan,” follows through on a March announcement to do so by the agency's acting commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi.
Kijakazi said the move is part of a "commitment to decrease administrative burdens and ensure people who identify as gender diverse or transgender have options in the Social Security Number card application process.” It's also part of a larger Biden administration-wide effort to increase acceptance of gender identity.
In June, President Joe Biden signed an executive order meant to take steps to advance LGBTQ equality, including “strengthening supports and protections for transgender Americans.”
At Social Security, the agency will accept the applicant’s self-identified gender identity of either male or female, even if it is different from the designation shown on identity documents, such as a passport or state-issued driver’s license or identity card.
The agency says it is exploring possible future policy and systems updates to support an “X” designation for the SSN card application process for people who don't identify as male or female.
In June 2021, the State Department started implementing procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender, including an “X," and no longer required medical certification if an applicant’s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents.
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A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage from conservative leaders while also angering trans rights activists who note schools could still prevent some athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity.
The proposed rule, which still faces a lengthy approval process, establishes that blanket bans, like those that have been approved in at least 20 states, would violate Title IX, the landmark gender-equity legislation enacted in 1972. But schools could still adopt policies that limit transgender students' participation, particularly in more competitive high school and college sports.
Under the proposal, it would be much more difficult for schools to ban, for example, a transgender girl in elementary school from playing on a girls basketball team. But it would also leave room for schools to develop policies that prohibit trans athletes from playing on more competitive teams if those policies are designed to ensure fairness or prevent sports-related injuries.
Imara Jones, a trans woman who created “The Anti-Trans Hate Machine” podcast, said the proposal shows that President Joe Biden is attempting to “straddle the fence” on a human rights issue ahead of an election year by giving legal recourse to schools that bar some trans athletes from competition.
“The Biden Administration framed their proposal as a ban on blanket discrimination against trans athletes. But actually, it provides guidelines for how schools and universities can ban trans athletes legally,” Jones said in a statement.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, also offered pointed criticism, saying in a tweet that the plan was “indefensible and embarrassing.”
Erin Reed, a prominent trans activist and researcher, said the proposal “alarmingly” echoes right-wing talking points, which argue that trans participation could increase injuries and take away scholarship opportunities from female athletes who are cisgender, meaning their gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. She worries school boards and lawmakers will use it to justify bans.
Extensive research is virtually nonexistent when it comes to determining whether adolescent trans girls have a clear athletic advantage over cisgender girls.
“I can’t read this any other way than a betrayal,” Reed said in a tweet. “This entire document is worse than doing nothing.”
The U.S. Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the criticisms posed by trans rights advocates.
Sean Ebony Coleman, founder of the LGBTQ+ center Destination Tomorrow in New York, said policymakers — particularly on a national level — need to completely rule out any option for trans people to be further ostracized.
“While it hypothetically prevents across-the-board bans, it offers enough gray area for discrete gender policing and demonization to occur, specifically on a local level,” Coleman said.
Still, some transgender athletes welcomed the proposal as an important first step toward protecting trans kids' access to sports.
“I would love to see protections expanded to include elite and collegiate sports, but this seems like a good start,” said Iszac Henig, a trans man and competitive swimmer at Yale University. “Trans athletes should have the ability to compete on the team of their choice if their athletic skills allow it.”
Doriane Coleman, a law professor at Duke University, said the proposal allows for schools that receive federal funding to “still choose to have male and female sports teams" and makes sense compared with the “one-size-fits-all approach” found in some states.
"You wouldn’t be able to make the same argument for kindergarten or elementary school sport that you can make for elite high school and college sport under this two-part test,” Coleman said.
A way that the federal government, states and advocacy groups can avoid “piecemeal litigation” is by making clear “there is a body of evidence to support generalizable sex-specific eligibility standards for each sport at each level of development,” she said.
The proposal was quickly assailed by many Republican leaders who said they were ready to fight the plan in court.
“South Dakota will not allow this to stand,” Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted. “We will lead. We will defend our laws.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a statement suggesting the state might also try to challenge the federal rule. Alabama lawmakers in 2021 approved legislation that bans trans women and girls from participating on female sports team in K-12 schools. It was also one of 20 states that filed a lawsuit in 2021 seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ people.
“I have made myself abundantly clear to the Biden Administration that he will NOT impose his radical policies on Alabama athletes. He will NOT destroy athletic competition for our young women & girls. In Alabama our law protects girls’ sports. Stay tuned!” Marshall said in a statement.
The public will have 30 days to comment on the proposal after it is published in the Federal Register. After that, the U.S. Department of Education will review the comments and decide whether any changes are needed before issuing a final rule.
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How to Watch the Jets vs. Golden Knights Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs First Round Game 3
Published: Apr. 21, 2023 at 4:12 PM EDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
Game 3 of the NHL Playoffs First Round on Saturday will see the Winnipeg Jets host the Vegas Golden Knights, beginning at 4:00 PM ET on TBS, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and SportsNet RM. The series is tied 1-1.
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Jets Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TBS, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and SportsNet RM
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Where: Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Jets vs. Golden Knights Head-to-Head
Jets Stats & Trends
- Defensively, the Jets are one of the stingiest units in NHL action, allowing 224 total goals (2.7 per game) to rank 10th.
- The Jets' 246 total goals (three per game) rank 21st in the league.
- Over the last 10 games, the Jets have earned 80.0% of the possible points with a 6-4-0 record.
- On the defensive end, the Jets have given up 2.1 goals per game (21 total) over those 10 outings.
- They have averaged 3.3 goals per game (33 total) during that stretch.
Jets Key Players
Golden Knights Stats & Trends
- The Golden Knights have conceded 225 total goals this season (2.7 per game), 11th in the NHL.
- The Golden Knights' 267 goals on the season (3.3 per game) rank them 14th in the NHL.
- In their last 10 games, the Golden Knights have gone 6-1-3 to earn 65.0% of the possible points.
- On the defensive side, the Golden Knights have given up 22 goals (2.2 per game) in those 10 matchups.
- They have put up 31 goals during that span.
Golden Knights Key Players
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The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT is set to testify before Congress as lawmakers call for new rules to guide the rapid development of AI technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to speak at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after its release late last year of ChatGPT, a free chatbot tool that answers questions with convincingly human-like responses.
What started out as a panic among educators about ChatGPT’s use to cheat on homework assignments has expanded to broader concerns about the ability of the latest crop of “generative AI” tools to mislead people, spread falsehoods, violate copyright protections and upend some jobs.
And while there’s no immediate sign that Congress will craft sweeping new AI rules, as European lawmakers are doing, the societal concerns brought Altman and other tech CEOs to the White House earlier this month and have led U.S. agencies to promise to crack down on harmful AI products that break existing civil rights and consumer protection laws.
“Artificial intelligence urgently needs rules and safeguards to address its immense promise and pitfalls,” said a prepared statement from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is also known for other AI products including the image-maker DALL-E. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars into the startup and has integrated its technology into its own products, including its search engine Bing.
Also testifying will be IBM’s chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery, and Gary Marcus, a professor emeritus at New York University who was among a group of AI experts who called on OpenAI and other tech firms to pause their development of more powerful AI models for six months to give society more time to consider the risks. The letter was a response to the March release of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4, described as more powerful than ChatGPT.
“Artificial intelligence will be transformative in ways we can’t even imagine, with implications for Americans’ elections, jobs, and security,” said the panel’s ranking Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. “This hearing marks a critical first step towards understanding what Congress should do.”
Altman and other tech industry leaders have said they welcome some form of AI oversight but have cautioned against what they see as overly heavy-handed rules. In a copy of her prepared remarks, IBM’s Montgomery asks Congress to take a “precision regulation” approach.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade weakened in August as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus measures weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand, while imports of Russian oil and gas surged.
Exports rose 7% over a year ago to $314.9 billion, decelerating from July’s 18% expansion, customs data showed Wednesday. Imports contracted by 0.2% to $235.5 billion, compared with the previous month’s already weak 2.3% growth.
Demand for Chinese exports has softened as Western economies cool and the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia raise interest rates to contain surging inflation. At home, repeated closures of Chinese cities to fight virus outbreaks has weighed on consumers’ willingness to spend.
“The slowdown in China’s export sector is adding to headwinds for the Chinese economy,” said Rajiv Biswas of S&P Global Market Intelligence in a report. Lack of import growth highlights “continued weakness of Chinese domestic demand.”
Growth in the world’s second-largest economy fell to 2.5% in the first half of 2022, less than half the ruling Communist Party’s 5.5% annual target, after Shanghai and other industrial centers were shut down to fight virus outbreaks.
Factories have reopened, but restrictions more recently in areas including the southern business center of Shenzhen weighed on activity. So has a dry summer that left reservoirs in the southwest unable to generate hydropower and disrupted river shipping.
The International Monetary Fund and private sector forecasters have trimmed their already low growth forecasts.
China’s global trade surplus widened by 36.1% over a year earlier to $79.4 billion.
Exports to the United States sank 3.8% from a year ago to $49.8 billion while imports of American goods declined 7.3% to $13 billion. The politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States that helped to spark a tariff war narrowed by 2.4% to $36.7 billion.
President Joe Biden has left in place tariff hikes imposed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, in a fight over Beijing’s technology development tactics. Beijing retaliated by raising its own import duties and told Chinese companies to stop buying American exports.
Envoys from the two sides talk by phone but have yet to announce a date to resume negotiations.
Imports from Russia, mostly oil and gas, surged 59.3% to $11.2 billion as China appeared to take advantage of discounts offered by the Kremlin to attract buyers in the face of Western sanctions over its war on Ukraine.
China’s purchases of Russian energy irritate Washington and its allies but don’t violate sanctions on Moscow. Last year, China bought 20% of Russian crude exports, according to the International Energy Agency.
Beijing declared ahead of the February invasion that it had a “no limits” friendship with Moscow. It criticizes the sanctions but has avoided helping President Vladimir Putin for fear of losing access to Western markets and the global banking system.
Exports to Russia rose 26.5% to $8 billion.
Exports to the 27-nation European Union tumbled 18.4% to $51.3 billion, reflecting weak European demand.
Imports of European goods plunged 33.1% to $26 billion. China’s trade surplus with Europe widened by 5.4% to $25.3 billion.
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WILMINGTON, Mass., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UniFirst Corporation (NYSE:UNF), a North American leader in providing customized business uniform programs, facility service products, and first aid and safety services, has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Detroit Lions, naming them the Official Uniform Supplier of the Detroit Lions.
In addition to being the official uniform supplier for Lions gameday staff, UniFirst will be promoting its brand and business services through a variety of in-stadium signage, through the DetroitLions.com website and being featured in the Detroit Lions radio spots.
Throughout the Greater Detroit area, the company's redesigned and rebranded delivery trucks, a major aspect of the company's ongoing brand evolution initiative, will communicate the partnership with the Detroit Lions.
"UniFirst is honored to join forces with the Detroit Lions in a multi-year partnership," said Asit Goel, UniFirst Vice President of Marketing. "We are proud to be a part of the greater Detroit community and share in the excitement with home team fans."
UniFirst has evolved into a North American leader in providing managed uniforms, protective clothing, and custom corporate image apparel programs to businesses large and small. The company services over 5,000 customers throughout Detroit and outfits more than two million workers across the U.S. and Canada in high-quality, hygienically clean uniforms each workday. UniFirst also helps keeps businesses clean, safe, and healthy through an extensive line of facility service programs, first aid products and trainings.
For more information about UniFirst and how we always deliver for our customers, please visit UniFirst.com.
About UniFirst
Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF) is a North American leader in the supply and servicing of uniform and workwear programs, as well as the delivery of facility service programs. Together with its subsidiaries, the company also provides first aid and safety products, and manages specialized garment programs for the cleanroom and nuclear industries. UniFirst manufactures its own branded workwear, protective clothing, and floorcare products; and with 260 service locations, over 300,000 customer locations, and 14,000 employee Team Partners, the company outfits more than 2 million workers each business day. For more information, contact UniFirst at 800.455.7654 or visit UniFirst.com.
ABOUT THE DETROIT LIONS
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), and play their home games at Ford Field in downtown Detroit. The team located to Detroit in 1934 and is the National Football League's fifth oldest franchise. The Detroit Lions most recently made the NFL playoffs in 2016, when they finished with an 9-7 record. For more information, please visit www.detroitlions.com.
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Which reel mower is best?
Keeping your lawn mowed eliminates pests and promotes healthy growth. Still, choosing the right lawnmower can be tricky. Gas mowers are loud and produce emissions, and battery-powered mowers can be inconvenient.
Reel mowers, on the other hand, don’t require a power source and are easy to maintain. When choosing a reel mower, you’ll want to consider the blades, cutting width and weight.
What to consider when buying a reel mower
Reel mower cutting width
Mowers with wide cutting widths help you cut your lawn faster. Many reel mowers have a 14- to 20-inch cutting width. Still, wider mowers can be more challenging to maneuver and may weigh more. Because the wheelbase is wider than the width of the reel, you’ll want to overlap slightly with each pass.
Reel mower weight
Using a reel mower can feel like an upper-body workout if you’re used to self-propelled mowers. It’s good to consider the weight when buying one, so it’s less strenuous to use.
Reel mower blades
These mowers generally have four to seven blades and a bed knife. Mowers with more blades are usually best for tall, coarse grass.
How to back lap your reel mower blades
To ensure you’re always getting a clean cut, you can sharpen up the blades with this simple method.
- Get your materials: You’ll need a back-lapping compound, a paintbrush, a way to turn your blades and an abrasive.
- Remove the drive wheel: Most reel mowers have a nut or pin that covers the drive wheel. The drive wheel is usually on the left side of the mower. Once you remove the wheel, you’ll see the gears that control the blades. Remove the gear, and you’ll be left with the shaft.
- Adjust the blades: There are different ways to adjust your blades depending on your mower. It’s best to read your instruction manual to understand how to adjust them. You’ll want to make them come in contact with your bed knife.
- Use your lapping compound: Spread the lapping mixture on your blades using a small paintbrush.
- Crank your blades: Begin cranking your blades backward. Crank them for around eight to 10 minutes and apply more lapping compound. Continue cranking the blades backward until you see a thin, shiny surface.
- Reassemble your mower: Put everything back together in reverse order, cleaning and greasing the parts as you go.
Reel lawnmower FAQ
Are reel mowers good for your lawn?
A. Rotary mowers leave a jagged edge on your grass. Alternatively, reel mowers function like a pair of scissors, leaving a smooth edge on the cut grass. The clean cut leads to healthier, better-looking grass.
Are reel mowers hard to push?
A. Reel mowers require upper-body strength to push. Still, they’re usually lighter than traditional mowers and shouldn’t be particularly difficult to move. If you feel your reel mower is hard to use, it may be due to bent or dull blades. You may need to sharpen the edges or bend them back in shape with a hammer.
Can you use a reel mower on wet grass?
A. They can be used on damp grass, but you shouldn’t run them through standing water. Rust may form if you let your mower sit while wet.
Are reel mowers effective on tall grass?
A. Reel mowers are best for short grass. If you own a reel mower, it’s a good idea to trim the grass at least once a week, or it may become difficult to use.
Best reel mowers
Reel mowers under $200
Remington RM3000 16-Inch Reel Push Mower
What you need to know: It’s easy to use and features a built-in grass catcher.
What you’ll love: It’s affordable and simple to assemble. The blades are sharp, and the grass catcher is ideal for those who want mulching capabilities. The reel is also adjustable.
What you should consider: The handle is relatively flimsy, and the blades may squeak.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Great States 16-Inch Five-Blade Reel Mower
What you need to know: It’s affordable and assembly is straightforward.
What you’ll love: This model is lightweight and features a simple design. Most people love how easy it is to maneuver, and the alloy steel blades stay sharp for a while.
What you should consider: The handle isn’t as durable as other reel mowers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Greenworks 18-Inch Reel Lawnmower
What you need to know: This features a wide cutting path and a built-in grass catcher.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to maneuver and has an ergonomic handle and a nine-position height adjustment. It’s easy to assemble and works well on damp grass.
What you should consider: The grass catcher doesn’t hold much grass.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Fiskars 17-Inch Staysharp Push Reel Lawnmower
What you need to know: This is one of the most-affordable Fiskars reel mowers.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to assemble and use. It’s durable and efficient, and you can adjust the cutting height from 1.5-3.5 inches.
What you should consider: It isn’t as powerful as other Fiskars reel mowers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Scott’s 16-Inch Walk-Behind Reel Lawn-Mower
What you need to know: It’s easy to use and features a straightforward design.
What you’ll love: Ideal for small yards, you can assemble this with no tools. The blades provide a clean cut.
What you should consider: It isn’t as durable as other reel mowers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Reel mowers above $200
Fiskars StaySharp Max Reel Lawn Mower
What you need to know: This features a durable design and effectively cuts lawns.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to use and leaves you with a precise cut. It has an 18-inch cutting path and an adjustable handle. It’s also easy to assemble and adjust the blades.
What you should consider: It’s relatively expensive and heavy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
California Trimmer 20-Inch Seven-Blade Honda Self-Propelled Reel Mower
What you need to know: This is one of the few gas-powered reel mowers available.
What you’ll love: It features 15 blade settings and a two-year limited warranty. It’s durable and has seven sharp blades. It’s self-propelled and easy to use.
What you should consider: It’s much more expensive than other reel mowers.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from lifting the pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 next week.
That public health order, which had been set to end on Monday, allows immigration authorities to quickly expel migrants at the border without allowing them to seek asylum.
The ruling is a victory for the Republican-led states that are pushing to extend the restrictions.
More than 20 states signed on to a lawsuit brought by Arizona, Missouri and Louisiana. They argued that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not go through the proper procedures to end Title 42, and should have considered the impact on state health care systems and other costs.
U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays in Louisiana granted the preliminary injunction those states had been seeking, saying they were likely to prevail on their claim.
"Today's ruling is a significant win as Title 42 is one of the few immigration policies that is actually working," said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in a statement.
The CDC first authorized the Title 42 restrictions in March of 2020, saying they were necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19. In April of this year, the CDC said those restrictions were no longer necessary to protect public health, and moved to terminate the policy on May 23rd.
The preliminary injunction was not unexpected. Judge Summerhays had already granted a temporary restraining order in the case, and indicated that he was sympathetic to the states' arguments.
Still, immigrant advocates were disappointed.
"Title 42 and this lawsuit were never about public health but a transparent attempt to end asylum," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been challenging the legality of the public health order in a separate case.
"If the administration doesn't immediately seek to undo the injunction, it will say a lot about whether the White House truly wants Title 42 to end," Gelernt said.
The Department of Justice says it intends to appeal the ruling.
"CDC has now determined, in its expert opinion, that continued reliance on this authority is no longer warranted in light of the current public-health circumstances," said Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley in a statement. "That decision was a lawful exercise of CDC's authority."
The injunction leaves tens of thousands of migrants in limbo in cities and towns south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Title 42 has had a catastrophic effect on asylum seekers," said Sameera Hafiz, the policy director with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
"Border officials have the ability to employ measures recommended by public health experts to keep asylum seekers safe as they seek refuge in the U.S. There is no excuse for the continuation of Title 42, other than allowing the anti-immigrant playbook to continue," Hafiz said in a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security has been preparing for a possible influx of migrants when Title 42 ends. Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley, and pledged to scale up the enforcement of normal U.S. immigration laws when Title 42 is lifted.
"We will be increasing the number of criminal prosecutions to meet the challenge," Mayorkas said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Since it was put in place by the Trump administration, Title 42 has sharply limited the number of migrants who can seek asylum at the southern border. But migrants who are quickly expelled under the policy are also shielded from criminal prosecution. Mayorkas and other administration officials argue that restoring those consequences will help to deter migrants from crossing repeatedly, and drive border numbers down.
The Biden administration has faced bipartisan criticism for moving to end Title 42 at a time when border apprehensions are near record levels.
Immigration authorities encountered migrants at the southern border more than 234,000 times in April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That's one of the highest totals ever recorded, although tens of thousands of migrants crossed multiple times and were counted more than once in the total.
The April total also includes more than 20,000 Ukrainians fleeing from the war in their country, who crossed into the U.S. at the southern border before the launch of a new program intended to bring Ukrainians directly from Europe.
The number of apprehensions made by Border Patrol last month actually declined slightly compared to March, to just over 200,000. But that is still one of the largest monthly totals on record.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP)Dayvion McKnight had 19 points in Western Kentucky’s 76-66 win against Louisiana Tech on Thursday.
McKnight had three steals for the Hilltoppers (15-13, 7-10 Conference USA). Dontaie Allen scored 17 points while going 6 of 12 (4 for 7 from distance). Khristian Lander was 4 of 7 shooting (4 for 6 from distance) to finish with 12 points to match Jairus Hamilton.
The Bulldogs (13-15, 6-11) were led by Isaiah Crawford, who recorded 16 points and six rebounds. Keaston Willis added 14 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals for Louisiana Tech.
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Joel Embiid waved his index finger, Dikembe Mutombo style, as Patrick Beverley fired a desperation jumper after the shot-clock buzzer sounded.
After surrendering 10 points during a frenzied final 29 seconds of regulation, the Sixers defense held the Los Angeles Lakers scoreless for nearly the duration of overtime to secure a 133-122 victory Friday night in front of a charged crowd at the Wells Fargo Center.
» READ MORE: Five burning questions after a quarter of the 2022-23 season
The Lakers did not score in the extra frame until Beverley got free under the basket with 35 seconds to play and the Sixers up, 132-120. James Harden anchored the Sixers on the other end, scoring nine of his 28 points in those five minutes.
But a Sixers collapse in the final minute of regulation is what led to overtime. After De’Anthony Melton — who scored a career-high 33 points on 11-of-16 shooting — buried a three-pointer that put the Sixers up, 118-110, with 44.3 seconds to play, they were outscored, 10-2, thanks to a barrage of miscues.
They committed three turnovers, missed one free throw, and fouled Austin Reaves on a three-point attempt. Yet the Lakers’ Anthony Davis also missed the potential game-winning free throw with 3.1 seconds to play.
It was a game that was sloppy at times and entertaining in others. The Sixers (13-12) built an early 13-point lead on Embiid’s brilliance, then lost it when he was off the floor. They took a 10-point advantage into the final period, then failed to hold off the Lakers’ rally in regulation.
Melton’s point total surpassed the 25 he scored against the Denver Nuggets in April 2021. Embiid finished with 38 points on 14-of-19 shooting, 12 rebounds and five assists. Davis totaled 31 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers, while LeBron James finished with 23 points on 9-of-22 shooting and six assists.
The victory snapped the Sixers’ three-game skid and began a seven-game homestand, their longest of the season. They will next play the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday night, followed by games against the Sacramento Kings (Tuesday), Golden State Warriors (Dec. 16), Toronto Raptors (Dec. 19), Detroit Pistons (Dec. 21), and Los Angeles Clippers (Dec. 23).
Embiid’s dominant start
Embiid was masterful to start his 38-point outing, scoring 20 in the opening frame on 8-of-9 shooting.
He mixed jumpers, finishes inside, and three-pointers. And he closed the quarter with the power and flair that perhaps only he currently possesses, punching a thunderous dunk on Thomas Bryant before hitting a fadeaway deep ball just before the buzzer.
He also helped get Davis off the floor, drawing two of the Lakers star’s three fouls in the game’s first five minutes.
Unsurprisingly, the Sixers’ double-digit lead rapidly evaporated when Embiid was off the floor to start the second quarter. When he returned, he almost immediately hit the go-ahead three-pointer and followed a Shake Milton miss to help the Sixers take a two-point lead into the break.
Embiid later tried to posterize Davis with the Sixers up, 106-95, midway through the fourth, but was called for an offensive foul and missed the dunk off the front of the rim.
» READ MORE: Sixers head back to drawing board to correct poor rebounding, defensive struggles
Harden’s night
Until his overtime scoring, Harden had put together another uneven night in his second game back from a foot injury. He went 9-for-19 from the floor and added 12 assists and four rebounds.
His found more rhythm on his shot as the game progressed. Early in the fourth quarter’s opening two minutes, he hit step-back 17-footer and a three-pointer that propelled the Sixers to a 102-84 lead.
He started 1-of-5 from the floor, including missing a clean look at the rim. But he knocked down a three-pointer about midway through the second and then drew contact on another made deep shot that caused the home crowd to explode.
Bench adjustments
With Georges Niang and Danuel House Jr. sidelined with foot injuries, Rivers initially deployed an eight-man rotation until Matisse Thybulle (nine points on 4-of-7 shooting) entered for the second quarter’s final two minutes.
That decision worked out excellently. Thybulle scored six points — a driving dunk, an alley-oop finish from Harden, and another slam — to ensure the Sixers would have the lead heading to the locker room. Thybulle was then rewarded as the Sixers’ first sub after the break and hit a corner three-pointer that gave the Sixers a 93-79 lead late in the period.
Before that second-quarter burst from Thybulle, Milton (six points, four rebounds, three assists in 24 minutes) was the first Sixer off the bench, followed by Furkan Korkmaz (two points, three rebounds in nine minutes), and Paul Reed (zero points, three fouls in four minutes). Montrezl Harrell, not Reed, subbed in for Embiid at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
The Lakers had a 40-17 advantage in bench points, led by Reaves’ 25 points and Russell Westbrook’s triple-double with 12 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists.
Stat watch
Entering the game, Sixers coach Doc Rivers said he was concerned about the Lakers’ ability to score in transition and in the paint, two categories they ranked in the league’s top five.
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Man in coma after living with black mold for months
ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (WBBH) - A Florida man is in the hospital fighting for his life after suffering an asthma attack on Christmas Eve. His family’s troubles began when Hurricane Ian flooded their home, and toxic black mold appeared.
Kendra Elliot’s bathroom and bedroom are both off limits for her family of five living in Englewood, Florida. Hurricane Ian flooded their home in September, and toxic black mold started growing.
Elliot says neither the landlord nor the Federal Emergency Management Agency would clean the mold, so they lived with it.
“The wall, when you touch on it, it’s like you can almost push through it,” she said.
The danger culminated in an asthma attack on Christmas Eve that sent Elliot’s fiancé, 26-year-old Christian Childers, into a medically induced coma.
“They were on their way to the emergency room, and they didn’t make it. They had to pull into a fire station, and he went into cardiac arrest. He died, and they had to work on him for an hour to get his heartbeat back before they got him on the way to the hospital,” Elliot said.
The couple have been working to find someplace else to stay since the mold first showed up, but with FEMA denying help and rental rates through the roof, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
Now, in addition to trying to find safe housing, Elliot sits at her fiancé's bedside during visiting hours. She never imagined she’d spend Christmas Day in the hospital.
“I wake up in the morning: ‘Where’s Christian?’ And I sleep with his dirty clothes, just to smell him at night. I wasn’t expecting this. He’s the love of my life, and I just want him to wake up. That’s all I can say. It’s all about Christian right now, and I’m there for him,” she said.
The latest reports from the hospital suggest Childers’ condition may not improve, but his family is not giving up hope.
To add insult to injury, the family’s landlord sent them an eviction notice after Elliot informed her of the hospital stay.
The county says they’ve been in touch with FEMA and are assigning a team to try to help the family with their case.
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MAUMEE, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE) will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 after 4 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. The company will host a webcast on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 11 a.m. EST to discuss the results and provide a company update.
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Letter to the editor: Teach by showing integrity, responsibility
An example occurred during halftime at the Super Bowl. A demonstration to demoralize and degrade all females of any age. The off button achieved my point of view.
Is this the kind of display we want for our United States? This infiltration of behavior, drugs and etc.? Our youth can and do receive many varieties of messages with information about everything from our tech world. A corruption to Americanism.
Bringing up the past from decades ago in anger with resentment only incites unrest and animosity. Our society should not be a part of that equation.
We are so much better than that. We need to focus on teaching with examples to our youth to obey laws, not run from authority. Work diligently by examples in integrity, honesty and righteousness. These can be accomplished as a nation united in voice and actions.
Our present government is striving to take control, leading us into a socialistic venue. Many in office quote, "for the American people." Not listening to our words or needs with a solid security in trust.
Our middle class does not live in the bracket of earning $400,000 or even $100,000 a year. There is no comparison to this equation. We are being deceived as taxpayers. Jobs are created, yet many do not want to work. Countless receive more on welfare, like mothers raising three or more children. Where are the fathers with responsibility?
Our silent voice can only be heard by illustrating responsibility for a brighter tomorrow as our beautiful red, white and blue flag is raised. Example to our world that we are a proud nation under God. Diligently grateful with liberty and justice for all, prevailing in peace and harmony.
God bless our home land, our free and our brave.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Libertarian Chase Oliver isn’t going to win Georgia’s Senate race.
But the 37-year-old self-described former Democrat could command outsize national attention, influencing the election night outcome and potential next round in a highly competitive contest expected to help determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate over the final two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
Oliver is the third name on the ballot in the marquee matchup between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
In most states, that make would Oliver an afterthought. But Georgia law requires an outright majority to win statewide office. With polls suggesting a tight contest between Warnock and Walker, it may not take a considerable share of the vote for Oliver to force a runoff. It’s a scenario that played out in Georgia’s two Senate races in 2020, both won by Democrats, giving their party the slimmest of Senate majorities — 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote.
The chance of an encore could be growing if Oliver’s level of support increases as Walker struggles to navigate his rocky past, including reports that the staunch anti-abortion Republican paid for the 2009 abortion of a then-girlfriend who later gave birth to their child.
“I do think that there are a lot of Republicans who feel like he’s not able to really be the best person to espouse the policies of limited government and keeping spending under control and lowering taxes,” Oliver said.
Oliver was getting a shot at the spotlight in a debate schedule for Sunday night with Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta who won his seat via special election in 2021 and now seeks a full six-year term. First-time candidate Walker, who made his name in college and professional football, did not accept an invitation to the Atlanta Press Club forum. Under the club’s rules, he will be represented by an empty podium.
Walker and Warnock met in their lone one-on-one debate Friday in Savannah. Oliver was not included because he did not meet organizers’ polling threshold.
A runoff, if needed, would take place Dec. 6, setting up a four-week blitz after the general election, Nov. 8. That’s half the time of Georgia’s runoff campaign two years ago, when Warnock and now-Sen. Jon Ossoff prevailed over their Republican rivals with Senate control at stake.
Neither the Warnock nor Walker campaigns will publicly discuss a possible second round.
“We’re focused on getting the job done Nov. 8,” Walker spokesman Will Kiley said.
Whether a Georgia runoff could again decide the Senate majority will depend on the outcomes of competitive races in Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada and elsewhere.
Oliver wants to use the attention to raise awareness that Libertarians offer a third choice to voters across the spectrum, whether limited-government conservatives or social liberals who support abortion and LGBTQ rights. He noted that he was once an anti-war Democrat but gravitated to Libertarians when he became disillusioned that President Barack Obama did not curtail U.S. military interventions.
Since 2014, Libertarians in Georgia have won 2% of the vote, on average, in contests for governor and U.S. senator.
Even if Walker gives Oliver his best opening to increase that share, it’s not necessarily true that Oliver’s candidacy would help Warnock in the long run.
In November 2020, Libertarian Senate candidate Shane Hazel won 2.3% of the vote in a race where Ossoff was challenging Republican incumbent David Perdue. Perdue led Ossoff in the general election by about 88,000 votes, but finished with 49.7% of the nearly 5 million votes, mere thousands from a majority that would have meant a second term and a continued GOP majority in the Senate.
With a second chance, Ossoff outpolled Perdue by about 55,000 votes and won a full term.
Warnock won his seat over then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, the same night as Ossoff. But Loeffler and Warnock had advanced to a runoff from a 20-candidate special election field that featured candidates of all parties, so neither of them had come close to an outright majority in the first round.
If Oliver forces a runoff this time, he said, “It means that there were enough voters who felt like they weren’t being listened to. And I hope that whoever eventually wins the race, maybe listens to those voices in the future and realizes they have to represent all of Georgia and not just a partisan interest.”
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CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man accused of killing five neighbors in Texas after some of them complained that gunfire was keeping a baby awake was indicted Friday for capital murder of multiple persons, which allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
Prosecutors said they do not yet know whether they will seek the death penalty against Francisco Oropeza, 38, who is a Mexican national and had been deported multiple times in the years prior to the April attack outside Houston. He was already charged in May with five counts of murder.
“I think it’s a little too early for us to make that call,” San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said.
Oropeza is scheduled to appear in court in August. Anthony Osso, his attorney, said his client will plead not guilty.
“We expected the capital indictment so there’s no surprise,” Osso said. “We have been contacted by many people in support of Mr. Oropeza’s character. He was extremely well regarded in this neighborhood and often helped others with all types of tasks around their homes. He was a go-to kind of guy for help.”
Police say Oropeza stormed into his neighbor’s house on April 28 after being asked by his neighbors to stop firing his AR-style rifle because a baby was trying to sleep. All five victims were from Honduras, including a 9-year-old boy. One neighbor who lived down the street from said that a few months before the shooting, Oropeza threatened to kill his dog after it got loose and chased the pit bull in his truck.
The shooting happened in the rural town of Cleveland, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Houston. Police say Oropeza fled the neighborhood after the shooting, setting off a widening manhunt that came up empty for days despite more than 250 officers, drones and scent-tracking dogs searching and $80,000 in reward money being offered.
Oropeza was eventually arrested near Conroe, roughly 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the home where the shooting took place.
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We sat beside a campfire and listened to the boys, almost men, laugh, joke and stretch tales deep into the neighborhood of lie. Their joy made me happy. The yarns were just part of the scene.
The night had grown bitingly cold, even after the wind finally began to die. I wasn’t sure anyone would want to sit outside around a fire. As it turned out, there was nowhere else they’d rather be.
Through rising smoke shone lights from a
heaven that has looked down upon man since mankind first dreamed and looked upon it.
Camping for camping’s sake is a unique proposition, one sometimes hard to sell with words alone. There’s almost always a pretense required, even if it’s thin. Once the high hurdle of making ourselves go is crossed though, it’s an activity guaranteed to get a great deal of remembering done.
Patrick F. McManus, a legendary outdoor writer and humorist, said camping is a fine and pleasant misery, and I’ve not found a description yet to beat that one.
After the fact, it’s enjoyable to look back upon it. During the fact, it’s best for looking back upon other times much the same. With enough experience, any camping trip’s immediate misery can be downplayed by comparison to another.
That’s a handy exercise to practice because, with enough experience, any moment in life can have its immediate misery downplayed through comparison of hard paths walked before. The practice brings a warmth and comfort only suffering can let us enjoy. It’s easily found on a cold night, outside, around a fire. | https://www.djournal.com/sports/outdoors/campfires-spark-memory-imagination-to-warm-the-dark/article_d39a1c9b-d2a1-5e93-b381-0c45a94f7adf.html | 2022-12-09 10:06:25 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/sports/outdoors/campfires-spark-memory-imagination-to-warm-the-dark/article_d39a1c9b-d2a1-5e93-b381-0c45a94f7adf.html |
CHARLESTON, Ill. — Kinyon Hodges scored 14 points as Eastern Illinois beat UT Martin 77-75 on Thursday night.
The Skyhawks (15-11, 7-6) were led by Jordan Sears, who recorded 20 points and two blocks. Parker Stewart added 18 points for UT Martin. K.J. Simon also had 12 points and four assists.
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Both teams play again on Saturday. Eastern Illinois visits SIU-Edwardsville and UT Martin hosts Little Rock.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/hodges-puts-up-14-eastern-illinois-edges-ut-martin-77-75/2023/02/09/cc9fb21e-a8fd-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html | 2023-02-10 06:01:48 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/hodges-puts-up-14-eastern-illinois-edges-ut-martin-77-75/2023/02/09/cc9fb21e-a8fd-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html |
Harvey Weinstein goes on trial in Los Angeles on charges of rape and sexual assault
By Eric Levenson, CNN
Two years after his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges, disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein is again set to go on trial on similar charges in Los Angeles.
Weinstein, 70, has pleaded not guilty to charges including four counts of rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by force and sexual battery by restraint in incidents dating from 2004 to 2013.
Weinstein was already found guilty in New York of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
The New York charges were based on testimony from Miriam Haley, who testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 at his Manhattan apartment, and from Jessica Mann, who testified that he raped her in 2013 during what she described as an abusive relationship.
He did not testify in his own defense, but at his sentencing he offered an unexpected, rambling speech which oscillated between remorse, defense of his actions and confusion.
“I’m not going to say these aren’t great people, I had wonderful times with these people, you know,” Weinstein said of the women who accused him of assault. “It is just I’m totally confused, and I think men are confused about all of these issues.”
Weinstein has maintained his innocence, and New York’s highest court agreed in August to hear his appeal in the case.
The former movie producer appeared in frail health during the trial and used a walker as he arrived to and left court each day. He used a wheelchair to arrive to the sentencing in March 2020 as well as in a court hearing in Los Angeles in July 2021. His attorneys have argued the lengthy prison sentence was a de facto life sentence due to his failing health.
As founder of Miramax Films, Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and helped produce movies such as “Pulp Fiction,” “Clerks” and “Shakespeare in Love.”
In 2017, investigative stories by The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed Weinstein’s alleged history of sexual abuse, harassment and secret settlements as he used his influence as a Hollywood power broker to take advantage of young women.
The revelations led to a wave of women speaking publicly about the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and harassment in what became known as the #MeToo movement.
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On-air challenge: Every answer today is a word or name with the accented syllable "sell" — in any part of the word, and in any spelling.
Ex. Place for wine to be stored --> CELLAR
1. Merry-go-round
2. Speed up, as a car
3. Alternative to Fahrenheit
4. Noted site of a 1965 march
5. Crunchy bit in a salad
6. Infrequently
7. Sportscaster Howard
8. Actor Peter who played Inspector Clouseau
9. Tennis star Monica
10. Mime Marceau
11. Boston's N.B.A. team
12. High-speed train service between Boston and Washington, D.C.
13. Picture you take with your own phone
14. Transparent sheet of wrapping material
15. New York's state motto ("Ever upward")
16. Outer casing of an aircraft engine
17. Have a party, as for a birthday
Challenge answer: 81
Winner: Ryan Berry of Seattle, WA
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Steve Baggish, of Arlington, Mass. Name a famous person in American television — 6 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then reverse the order of the two modified names. You'll get a phrase meaning "almost typical." What is it?
If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here by Thursday, August 4 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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