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WASHINGTON (AP) — Women often use hormone therapy to relieve hot flashes and other menopause symptoms — and new research suggests patches or creams may be safer for their blood pressure than pills.
As women’s bodies produce lower levels of reproductive hormones during menopause their risk for heart disease rises. High blood pressure further increases that risk — but it’s not clear whether there’s a link with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms.
Canadian researchers wondered if the way hormones are absorbed — orally, vaginally or through the skin — could play a role.
The University of Calgary team examined health records of more than 112,000 women ages 45 and older who filled prescriptions for at least six months’ worth of estrogen-only hormone treatment between 2008 and 2019. They tracked which women went on to develop high blood pressure at least a year after starting treatment.
While the differences weren’t huge, women who took estrogen pills had a 14% higher risk of developing hypertension compared to those using skin patches or creams, the researchers reported Monday. Oral estrogen carried a 19% greater risk than vaginal versions.
The findings were published in the journal Hypertension.
Hormone therapy has a mix of risks and benefits that mean it’s not for everyone. Today it’s prescribed not to prevent disease but to relieve menopause-related symptoms — generally using the lowest possible dose for the shortest time. Most commonly used are combination pills of estrogen and another hormone, progestin. (Estrogen-only pills typically are prescribed to women without a uterus.)
Different versions of hormone therapy may work better for different menopause symptoms, something the study didn’t address.
But it adds important clues to understanding the complex relationship between hormone therapy and blood pressure, said Dr. Garima Sharma, a women’s heart specialist with Virginia’s Inova Health System and the American Heart Association.
Sharma would like to see a more rigorous trial that compares different hormone versions. But she pointed to a possible biological explanation: Maybe oral estrogen affects enzymes linked to blood pressure as it’s being processed, while skin and vaginal versions have much more limited activity in the body.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GrowLab™ Pharmaceuticals PLC ("GrowLab") recorded 96% Clinical Diabetes Remission following independent clinical trials of its phytocannabinoids based therapeutic Comacadine® curated and synthesised from its proprietary DNA-specific strains of medical cannabis in treatment of Diabetes Mellitus.
Diabetes is a global pandemic which affects over 537 million people and causes more deaths annually than COVID-19 according to data from the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization. GrowLab™ Pharmaceuticals is one of the very first biopharmaceutical companies in the world to have synthesised phytocannabinoids (medical cannabis compounds) based therapeutic Comacadine® and successfully carried out clinical trials in patients with phenomenal clinical outcomes and little side effects.
GrowLab™ initiated independent clinical trials of Comacadine® over a period of seven months (October 2021 to April 2022) on twenty-five patients who were clinically diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus and were on either Insulin or Metformin/Glibenclamide treatment for periods ranging from two to five years. Side effects that are usually associated with taking of Insulin and or Metformin/Glibenclamide were not experienced by any of the twenty-five patients on Comacadine®.
Three of the twenty five patients who participated in the Comacadine® clinical trials also had Venous Leg Ulcer, a complication associated with diabetes. Two of the patients' Venous Leg Ulcer has completely healed while one patient who also suffers from obesity, with a much deeper wound showed drastic improvement.
Two of the patients with high cholesterol levels noticed a reduction in cholesterol levels to normalcy since they started with Comacadine® treatment. Therefore, GrowLab™ intends to initiate another clinical study to focus on this in the future.
GrowLab™ is now entering a crucial phase in its development with plans to commercially produce Comacadine® therapies with annual capacity of approximately 25 million dose packs from the biopharmaceutical campus designed and engineered for construction in compliance with the European Medicines Agency cGMP requirements and International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering guidelines.
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Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Partners with Tsuburaya Productions and Tsuburaya Fields Media & Pictures Entertainment to Bring a Variety of Ultraman Toys to North America
IRVINE, Calif., June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Tsuburaya and its new U.S. entity, Tsuburaya Fields Media & Pictures Entertainment, Productions and Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America (BNTCA) announce a new partnership that awards BNTCA the master toy license for Ultraman and will be introducing an exciting new, much sought-after line for fans of the hit property.
The upcoming Ultraman line, with toy rights exclusive to BNCTA, will include action figures, role play, playsets, and plush that encapsulate the adventurous spirit and high-quality storytelling that has made the IP a staple of the genre since the '60s. The initial lineup will include products based on the upcoming 2024 Tsuburaya x Netflix animated family feature film and is scheduled to release in Summer 2024 across North America, with select categories launching in territories across South America and Europe.
Teppei Onoki, COO of BNTCA, will lead the introduction of an omnichannel Ultraman retail program designed to extend its expansive offering of much sought-after anime titles.
"Ultraman originally started off as a Tokusatsu (live action) property and has been added into the world of Anime. Here at BNTCA we are true fans and have been following the IPs journey," says Onoki. "Both Tokusatsu and Anime are some of the things we do best. Our extensive experience and knowledge of the media gives us a unique perspective on how to bring IPs to life through highly detailed, quality toys and figures. We are thrilled to be part of this next chapter for Ultraman and to bring Anime fans into the IP."
The most famous and celebrated Japanese superhero of all time, Ultraman has joined the ranks of the most iconic characters in global popular culture as a sleek, silvery being who arrives on Earth to protect the human race against an endless array of invading aliens and monsters.
"More than 50 years after the character's inception, Ultraman is building an extensive fan base in North America which supports our global marketing initiative," says Kei Minamitani, Executive Manager for Tsuburaya. "When it came time to decide who the master licensee would be, BNTCA was the most logical choice. The care and quality that goes into each of their products, plus their extensive presence within the world of anime, makes them a true leader within the industry."
The partnership between Tsuburaya and BNTCA comes as interest in nostalgic properties and Japanese culture is reaching an all-time high, and more Ultraman content makes its way to viewers in the North American market. Fans will now be able to show off their fandom of this beloved superhero with BNTCA alongside the successful live action Ultraman series, the Anime Ultraman series on Netflix, and the eagerly awaited upcoming CG animated film.
Under this new agreement, BNTCA will coordinate expansion of their Ultraman line with the newly established Los Angeles-based Tsuburaya Fields Media & Pictures Entertainment headed up by Danny Simon.
For more information about Ultraman and other exciting upcoming Bandai releases, visit: https://www.bandai.com/ and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. exists to share dreams, fun and inspiration with people around the world. Connecting people and societies in the enjoyment of uniquely entertaining products and services, we're working to create a brighter future for everyone. A leader in developing engaging, quality toys that capture children's and collector's imaginative spirit and provide endless "Fun For All into the Future," Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. is the manufacturer and master toy licensee of some of the most popular brands in children's toys, pop culture figures and interactive entertainment today. The Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. brand family includes PAC-MAN®, Gundam, Anime Heroes™, Bandai Hobby Model Kits, Tamashii Nations, DIGIMON® and Tamagotchi®, among other toys and hobby product lines. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Find out more about our expertise in connecting with kids in fun and fresh ways at www.bandai.com.
Tsuburaya Productions is one of the leading independent production companies in Japan. Founded in 1963 by Eiji Tsuburaya, the company continues to produce content that has been licensed to both the domestic and international markets. The company also engages in licensing, merchandising, publishing, and live stage shows and events, exploiting the IP it creates and owns.
Tsuburaya Fields Media & Pictures Entertainment Inc., located in Los Angeles, is active in the production and distribution of Ultraman entertainment content for North America and other markets. Headed by Danny Simon, the new subsidiary will expand the Ultraman North America licensing program into the UK, EU, South America, and MENA markets thereby solidifying the franchise's place on the global stage.
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Named #73 Nationwide due to 5,514% 3-Year Growth
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. Magazine revealed its annual list of the nation's fastest growing private companies, and IDEAL AGENT®, the premier full-service real estate technology company, is the number 1 Real Estate company, ranking number 2 in Tampa and in the real estate category, number 11 in Florida, and number 73 nationwide across all categories on the list due to its 5,514%, 3-year growth. This year's list is proven to be winning in a time of change and achieving spectacular growth. Among the 5,000 companies, the average median three-year growth rate soared 230%, added 1,178,302 jobs and generated $317.2 billion in total revenue.
"We're thrilled to make this prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies, said Steve Johnston, Founder & CEO of IDEAL AGENT®. "This award is a testament to the hard work and resilience of everyone at IDEAL AGENT®. We recognize the housing market is shifting and poised to help fight rising interest rates with lower commissions, saving clients' money and time with their real estate transaction due to our proprietary technology platform."
IDEAL AGENT® makes the home buying and selling process easy and profitable by providing a seamless online experience matching clients with the top 1% local and national agents from top brokerages with variable commissions as low as 2%. IDEAL AGENT® streamlines the real estate transaction connecting all the services including title, mortgage, insurance, warranty, moving, and home services set up, providing clients a seamless experience getting them 5-star results, ranking #1 in real estate on Trust Pilot.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
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CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Sunday, February 26, 2023
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Matt Paxton of “Legacy List with Matt Paxton” and Hoarders joined us along with Laura Faison, Chief Communications Officer with Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia who shared their insight on decluttering.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Matt Paxton of “Legacy List with Matt Paxton” and Hoarders joined us along with Laura Faison, Chief Communications Officer with Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginiawho shared their insight on decluttering. For more information on Matt and Goodwill, you can visit their websites.
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Will Joel and Ellie finally reach the doctors in “The Last of Us”? Will Michelle Yeoh take home the Oscar for best actress?
Both questions will be answered this Sunday, but viewers may have to make a choice about which answer they want in real time. The season finale of the HBO hit is up against the live telecast of the Oscars on ABC.
Of course, there’s an opportunity to see both. The Oscars begin at 8 p.m. Eastern; “ The Last of Us ” airs at 9 p.m. Viewers could begin their night watching the Oscars, click over to “The Last of Us,” and return for the ceremony’s last hour. That’s when the biggest categories are usually handed out, but that plan comes with the risk of missing any buzzy, unscripted moments. And if you choose to stick with the Oscars throughout? You risk spoilers on the fate of Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal’s characters.
The debate essentially boils down to zeitgeist, says Robert Thompson, a professor at Syracuse University specializing in media and director for the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
“Watching television isn’t just about watching a show. … It’s about talking about it and putting your two cents in,” Thompson said. “I suspect a lot of people are going to want to talk about ‘The Last of Us,’ and get on their keyboards and talk to others, and all of that kind of thing.”
Thompson says the Oscars have “more to lose” in the match up against the apocalyptic, mushroom-infected zombie video game adaptation.
Last year’s telecast reached an estimated 15.36 million viewers, an improvement from the record low 9.85 million who tuned in to watch in 2021. The Oscars have advertising dollars at stake, which is not something that the premium cable channel HBO has to worry about (although “The Last of Us” did attract a series high of 8.1 million viewers for its penultimate episode).
“The Oscars really is a live event, which you really need to watch live to register the ratings for the broadcast. That’s the audience that they’re counting,” Thompson said. “If people choose to watch ‘The Last of Us,’ that’s going to eat into the Oscars ratings. If people choose to watch the Oscars, they’ve got lots of other times to watch ‘The Last of Us.’”
Interestingly, HBO did concede to the ratings behemoth that is the Super Bowl, dropping the fifth episode of “The Last of Us” on HBO Max and HBO On Demand early last month, on the Friday before the big game. The channel aired the episode as the Philadelphia Eagles played against the Kansas City Chiefs (for the record: The Chiefs were victorious and that Super Bowl was the third most-watched TV show in history, with an average of 113.1 million people watching, per Nielsen).
The network has no official explanation for that programming move and a publicist for the network said they have “nothing to contribute” on their decision to keep the schedule as is during the Oscars.
Pascal, however, gets the best of both worlds on Sunday. “The Last of Us” star will also present at the Academy Awards. It’s unclear when in the three-hour telecast he’ll appear.
So which channel will you watch the internet’s favorite dad on? ABC or HBO?
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(NEXSTAR) – He won multiple Emmys. He was nominated for an Academy Award. And he also played a part in popularizing Cap’n Crunch for generations of cereal-chomping kids.
The late Allan Burns is probably better known as the co-creator of such sitcoms as “My Mother the Car” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” but before that, he was a young writer and animator working for Jay Ward, the producer of such animated series as “Crusader Rabbit” and “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.”
In 1962, Burns was working at Jay Ward Productions when he got a call from Ward, who was off on vacation. Ward had forgotten he had scheduled a meeting with some Chicago-based advertising executives working for Quaker Oats, who were looking to build a campaign around a new cereal. Ward asked Burns to take a stab at it, but not before trying some of the cereal, which Ward had kept in a bag in his office.
“I tasted it, and … it tasted like it was going to shred my mouth, it was so crunchy,” Burns said in a 2004 interview with the Television Academy. “And I called Jay [Ward] back and I said, ‘I think I’ve got a [tagline]: It’s not, “It stays crunchy, even in milk” — it would be, “Stays crunchy, even in hydrochloric acid.” This stuff is going to shred children’s mouths all over America.’”
Ward nevertheless asked Burns to “whip something together” over the next few days, so he drew up a “Horatio Hornblower-figure” he named “Cap’n Crunch, as well as a slew of supporting characters for television commercials or a possible cartoon series.
Burns ended up pitching the idea to the ad executives, who apparently thought it was funny before leaving to pursue meetings with other animation houses, including Hanna-Barbera. But about a month later, Burns learned that Jay Ward Productions had successfully sold the idea to Quaker Oats.
Burns had also earned himself a bonus, though it wasn’t anywhere near the “millions” he estimated his creation earned for Quaker Oats.
“I got a thousand dollars for creating this thing. That was it,” he said.
Burns probably wasn’t miffed for too long. He and Chris Hayward, a fellow writer for Jay Ward Productions, pitched an idea for a half-hour sitcom (loosely inspired by the Addams Family cartoons in the New Yorker) that went on to become “The Munsters.” Within a few years, they also co-created “My Mother the Car,” and later became writers and story consultants on “Get Smart.”
But perhaps Burns’ biggest hit was “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which he co-created with James L. Brooks. The show aired for seven seasons and spawned three spin-offs — “Rhoda,” “Phyllis” and “Lou Grant” — all of which Burns wrote for. He was also the executive producer of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Rhoda” and “Lou Grant,” among other popular shows listed in his IMDb credits.
Over the years, Burns picked up several Emmy Awards, mostly for writing and producing “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” but also for “He & She,” a comedy series starring Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin that he wrote for in the late ‘60s. He would later earn an Academy Award nomination for co-writing 1979’s “A Little Romance” starring Laurence Olivier.
Burns passed in Jan. 2021, leaving behind a body of work that entertained generations of viewers, young and old.
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1/6 panel to interview Pa. governor nominee Mastriano
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano is appearing Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection as the panel probes Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Mastriano, who was outside the Capitol that day, helped organize efforts in Pennsylvania to submit alternate presidential electors beholden to Trump. He is one of two people expected to provide private interviews Tuesday before the committee, according to a person familiar with the situation who was granted anonymity to discuss it.
Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson issued the subpoena for Mastriano back in February as the panel intensified its probe of the “fake electors” scheme, seeking documentation from him and others potentially involved and in close contact with Trump.
The committee “is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Thompson wrote. “We’re seeking records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who we believe have relevant information about the planning and implementation of those plans.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also been in talks to testify on Tuesday, CNN and other outlets have reported.
Mastriano, a retired Army officer who beat out several candidates to emerge as the GOP nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, has been willing to talk to the committee, his attorney has said. He also spoke with the FBI last year and said he did not know about a planned insurrection, his lawyer has said.
The committee is working through August, deepening its work after blockbuster public hearings this summer that began to outline its investigation into Trump’s multi-pronged effort to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden and the subsequent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The scheme to compile alternative electors emerged as a last-ditch plan by Trump’s team to stop Biden’s victory when Congress met for the typical routine job of certifying the state election results.
Growing from Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, the fake electors strategy relied on having several battleground states that Biden won submit their tally for the defeated Republican president, rather than the Democratic winner, Biden.
Federal authorities earlier this summer issued subpoenas in several key battleground states across the nation to individuals in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and other Republican officials potentially involved in the strategy to submit electors for Trump.
Prosecutors in Georgia are similarly probing Trump’s attempt to subvert the election results in that state.
The Justice Department has charged more than 800 people in the deadly Capitol riot and is investigating Trump’s actions in the run up and aftermath of the insurrection.
The Jan. 6 attack left at least nine people killed in the riot and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot by police and a police officer who died later.
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ATLANTA — Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software available for download. Ballot-counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access.
The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states -- Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. The stakes appeared to rise this week when the existence of a federal probe came to light involving a prominent loyalist to former President Donald Trump who has been promoting voting machine conspiracy theories across the country.
While much remains unknown about the investigations, one of the most pressing questions is what it all could mean for security of voting machines with the midterm elections less than two months away.
Election security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November voting. Election officials already assume hostile foreign governments might have the sensitive data, and so they take precautions to protect their voting systems.
The more immediate concern is the possibility that rogue election workers, including those sympathetic to lies about the 2020 presidential election, might use their access to election equipment and the knowledge gained through the breaches to launch an attack from within. That could be intended to gain an advantage for their desired candidate or party, or to introduce system problems that would sow further distrust in the election results.
In some of the suspected security breaches, authorities are investigating whether local officials provided unauthorized access to people who copied software and hard drive data, and in several cases shared it publicly.
After the Georgia breach, a group of election security experts said the unauthorized copying and sharing of election data from rural Coffee County presented “serious threats” to the November election. They urged the state election board to replace the touchscreen devices used throughout the state and use only hand-marked paper ballots.
Harri Hursti, a leading expert in voting security, said he is concerned about another use of the breached data. Access to the voting equipment data or software can be used to develop a realistic looking video in which someone claims to have manipulated a voting system, he said.
Such a fake video posted online or to social media on or after Election Day could create chaos for an election office and cause voters to challenge the accuracy of the results.
“If you have those rogue images, now you can start manufacturing false, compelling evidence — false evidence of wrongdoing that never happened," Hursti said. “You can start creating very compelling imaginary evidence.”
There has been no evidence that voting machines have been manipulated, either during the 2020 election or in this year's primaries. But conspiracy theories widely promoted among some conservatives have led to calls for replacing the machines with hand-marked and hand-counted ballots and raised concerns that they could be targeted by people working inside election offices or at polling places.
The suspected breaches appear to be orchestrated or encouraged by people who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. In several of the cases, employees of local election offices or election boards gave access to voting systems to people who were not authorized to have it. The incidents emerged into public view after the voting system passwords for Mesa County, Colorado, were posted online, prompting a local investigation and a successful effort to replace the county clerk from overseeing elections.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has organized or attended forums around the U.S. peddling conspiracy theories about voting machines, said this week that he had received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating the breach in Colorado and was ordered to hand over his cellphone to FBI agents who approached him at a fast-food restaurant in Minnesota.
“And they told me not to tell anybody,” Lindell said in a video afterward. "OK, I won’t. But I am.”
Lindell and others have been traveling the country over the past year, holding events where attendees are told that voting machines have been corrupted, that officials are “selected” rather than elected and that widespread fraud cost Trump the 2020 election.
In an interview with the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Lindell said FBI agents questioned him about the Colorado breach and Dominion Voting Systems. The company provides voting equipment used in about 30 states and has had its machines targeted in the Colorado, Georgia and Michigan breaches.
When agents asked him why he flies between different states, Linden told them, “I’m going to attorney generals and politicians, and I’m trying to get them to get rid of these voting machines in our country.”
The Justice Department did not respond when asked for details about its investigation.
Dominion has sued Lindell and others, accusing them of defamation. In a statement this week, the company said it would not comment about ongoing investigations but said its systems are secure. It noted that no credible evidence has been provided to show that its machines “did anything other than count votes accurately and reliably in all states.”
The scope of the federal grand jury probe in Colorado isn't known, but local authorities have charged Mesa County clerk Tina Peters in what they described as a “deceptive scheme which was designed to influence public servants, breach security protocols, exceed permissible access to voting equipment and set in motion the eventual distribution of confidential information to unauthorized people.”
Peters has pleaded not guilty and said she had the authority to investigate concerns that the voting equipment had been manipulated. She has appeared at numerous events with Lindell over the past year, including Lindell’s “cybersymposium” last August in which a digital copy of Mesa County’s election management system was distributed.
David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who now leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research, notes the irony of those who raise alarms about voting equipment being involved in allegations of breaches of the same systems.
“The people who have been attacking the integrity of elections are destroying the actual integrity of elections,” he said. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/breaches-of-voting-machine-data-raise-concerns-for-midterms/507-45271a5c-4fd1-47ea-97f8-1e3f4f82ea23 | 2022-09-17 15:33:24 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/breaches-of-voting-machine-data-raise-concerns-for-midterms/507-45271a5c-4fd1-47ea-97f8-1e3f4f82ea23 |
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Brayden Parker scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Idaho State beat Sacramento State 65-61 on Thursday night.
Miguel Tomley and Kolby Lee added 10 points apiece for the Bengals (7-12, 4-2 Big Sky Conference).
Zach Chappell finished with 23 points for the Hornets (11-8, 4-2). Sacramento State also got 10 points from Cameron Wilbon. Akolda Mawein had nine points and eight rebounds.
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Remains of 160 people found in Bay Area cremation warehouse
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area officials were working Tuesday to identify the families of 160 people whose remains were found in a warehouse used by a cremation business whose license was suspended.
Six bodies and the ash remains of 154 other people were found earlier this month at a warehouse in Hayward after the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau received several complaints from customers saying Oceanview Cremations had stopped responding to them, Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Tya Modeste said.
Oceanview Cremations had a corporate license that was suspended in 2018 and an individual license under the same name that was suspended last year and was not supposed to be operating or keeping remains in a warehouse, Modeste said.
“Many of the families say that they paid to have their loved one’s ashes dispersed at sea, and obviously that didn’t happen,” she said.
Other families complained Oceanview Cremations, which is based in Hayward, a city 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco, did not return their messages when seeking to pick up their loved one’s remains.
“One family said they called over 100 times and they never got a call back,” Modeste said.
Modeste said the remains date back to 2013 and that Oceanview Cremations received them from families in 15 Northern California counties but that the business did a poor job keeping records and that no contracts were found.
She said the business owner, Robert Smith, was not cooperating with officials. A telephone number listed for the company was disconnected, and Smith couldn’t be reached for comment.
The Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau has identified five of the bodies and has a tentative identification of the other one, Modeste. The ash remains have tags with names and the county where the person died, but no other information or contact information for next of kin, she said.
Officials now have to check different databases to find out their relatives. So far, 11 families of the deceased have been contacted, she said.
Anyone who used Oceanview Cremations between 2013 and 2022 to arrange their loved one’s cremation and who may have questions about what happened to those remains should contact Alameda County officials. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/03/14/remains-of-160-people-found-in-bay-area-cremation-warehouse/ | 2023-03-15 01:32:59 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/03/14/remains-of-160-people-found-in-bay-area-cremation-warehouse/ |
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts' $280 million, 11-year contact with the San Diego Padres was finalized Friday after the All-Star slugger passed his physical.
The Padres planned to introduce the shortstop at an afternoon news conference at Petco Park.
“His consistency and top-level production places him among the best players in our game," general manager A.J. Preller said in a statement. "Xander’s makeup and championship pedigree are a strong fit for our team as we look to achieve our goal of bringing a World Series championship to San Diego.”
The Padres reached the NL Championship Series before losing to the Phillies last season.
Bogaerts joins an already deep lineup that includes third baseman Manny Machado and outfielder Juan Soto. Shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. will be eligible to rejoin the Padres on April 20 at the conclusion of his 80-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
Tatis, who is expected to move to the outfield, missed all of last season. While on the cusp of returning from a fractured left wrist, he was suspended by MLB on Aug. 12. He then had surgery on his troublesome left shoulder as well as a follow-up surgery on his wrist.
The 30-year-old Bogaerts was one of the headliners in a stellar group of free-agent shortstops that also included Trea Turner, Carlos Correa and Dansby Swanson. The Padres met with Turner before he signed with Philadelphia. The Padres drafted Turner in the first round of the 2014 amateur draft before trading him later that year to Washington.
Bogaerts, who’s from Aruba, terminated his $120 million, six-year contract with Boston after the season. He forfeited salaries of $20 million for each of the next three years after hitting .307 with 15 homers and 73 RBIs in 150 games.
Bogaerts is a .292 hitter with 156 homers and 683 RBIs in 10 big league seasons — all with Boston. He helped the Red Sox win the World Series in 2013 and 2018.
He had his best big league season in 2019, batting .309 with a career-best 33 homers and 117 RBIs. He had 23 homers and 103 RBIs in 2018.
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There's a movement that made it through this year's midterm elections despite political attacks - that's the push to support prosecutors who call themselves progressive and try to reduce incarceration by prosecuting fewer people. Many Republican candidates had blamed progressive prosecutors for rising crime. But, as NPR's Martin Kaste reports, the movement mostly held its ground.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: It's a bright morning in downtown Seattle a couple of days after the election, and a man squats on the sidewalk outside the county courthouse to smoke a crushed pill off a strip of tinfoil. The fact that he can do this here without fear of prosecution is due in part to policies pioneered by the man whose office is up on the fourth floor - the county prosecuting attorney, Dan Satterberg.
DAN SATTERBERG: Fundamentally, the power that a prosecutor has to make a difference is in prosecutorial discretion - the discretion that we inherently have as separately elected executive branch agencies with finite resources. We can decide what our priorities are.
KASTE: And his priorities do not include charging people for drug possession - something Satterberg sees as doing more harm than good. Washington state courts and the legislature have followed his lead on this in the last few years. And he says now, even if he wanted to prosecute low-level offenders, the post-pandemic surge in violent crime has made that impractical.
SATTERBERG: I'm here to tell you the court is full. If we were ever a path to treatment, we're not now. That goes for people with drug addictions. That goes for people who have just fallen into the wrong crowd or need a little bit of a kick in the butt toward a more positive outcome in their life.
KASTE: He knows people are sometimes frustrated by the disorder they see in the streets, but he says you can't blame social problems on the prosecutor. You need to look at the whole community for solutions. It's an attitude that voters here continue to endorse. Satterberg is retiring, but another progressive prosecutor from his staff has just been elected to succeed him.
MIRIAM KRINSKY: What we saw in 2022 were communities doubling down on the desire for change.
KASTE: Miriam Krinsky runs Fair and Just Prosecution. It's a kind of national club for DAs who identify with the progressive prosecutor philosophy. After this election, that club has grown to about 28 members.
KRINSKY: Leaders who ran on an agenda of wanting to right-size the criminal legal system - of wanting to avoid criminalizing people who are suffering.
JASON JOHNSON: I'd be misleading you if I didn't say that we were, you know, a little disappointed.
KASTE: Jason Johnson is president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a group opposed to the progressive prosecutors. He acknowledges their ability to get reelected by liberal voters in big cities. But he sees some hope for his side in the fact that Republican Lee Zeldin came close to winning the governor's race in New York with a campaign promise to fire the progressive DA in Manhattan.
JOHNSON: Although he didn't prevail, I think there probably is a message there that, in many parts of New York - that people would like to see more of a traditional approach to criminal justice.
KASTE: And the progressive prosecutors did see some setbacks in 2022 - chief among them, the successful recall of San Francisco's DA, Chesa Boudin, in June. They've also had trouble expanding beyond big cities or other pockets of liberal voters. In Massachusetts' Plymouth County, a progressive challenger failed to unseat longtime DA Tim Cruz. Cruz says his voters are not interested in what he calls turnstile justice.
TIM CRUZ: It's just really dangerous. You know, you have to hold people accountable.
KASTE: Still, even traditional DAs like Cruz have come to share some of this movement's aims.
CRUZ: I am not a progressive DA, but I think that I am progressive. Don't we really all want the same thing? Don't we want to have a just society? Don't we want to make sure that people are held accountable when they do something or they hurt somebody? But at the same time, how do you make sure that the mistakes that they've made don't parlay into something bigger than what they originally were? And how can you help those kids stay out of the system?
KASTE: Beyond political labels, there has been a growing willingness by prosecutors of all political stripes to back the broader goal of reducing America's incarceration rate. And incarceration numbers have been slowly falling. But in Seattle, Satterberg is already thinking about the next round of elections, saying the continuing reelection of these progressive prosecutors is what will determine whether this is a moment or a movement. Martin Kaste, NPR News.
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How did Mage end up winning the Kentucky Derby on May 6?
Maybe with a little luck made by a teenager in Montgomery.
Mage did not race as a 2-year-old, which is usually a handicap for Kentucky Derby hopefuls, and the 149th Run for the Roses was only the fourth race for the colt.
Mage went off at 15-1 to win. Bettors liked seven horses’ chances better than Mage’s -- and that doesn’t include Forte, the race favorite who was pulled from the Kentucky Derby the morning of the race because of a bruised front right foot.
But Mage overtook Two Phil’s in the stretch at Churchill Downs and beat hard-charging Angel of Empire to the wire to become this year’s Triple Crown hopeful.
Mage is scheduled to try to secure the second step toward that thoroughbred-racing rarity in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
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Josephine Foshee will be rooting hard for Mage after making a connection with the colt before the Kentucky Derby.
The Montgomery 15-year-old has an Etsy business where she transforms basic Breyer model horses into look-a-likes of real horses.
“For the past couple of years, I’ve been painting these model horses by the brand Breyer, and I sell them on Etsy,” Foshee said. “They’re people’s horses, so it’s a commission kind of thing.
“Somebody reached out to me about a month ago and said they had a horse that was running in the Kentucky Derby. It was a partial owner of the horse, and she wanted the smallest size that I offer as a good-luck charm to have in her pocket.”
Mage has a complex ownership. Gustavo Delgado Jr., the son of Mage’s trainer, owns 25 percent as do blood stock agent Ramiro Restrepo and Sterling Racing. The other 25 percent belongs to Commonwealth, which sells shares from its portion. The Associated Press reported Mage has 382 stockholders through Commonweath.
“I guess she just wanted a custom model of her horse made for the Kentucky Derby as a good-luck charm (that she could take to Churchill Downs) and just looked it up on Etsy, because Etsy is a place where people make custom items,” Foshee said. “Normally it takes me three to four weeks for the big ones, and two to three weeks for the medium and small ones. I got that one done in a week.”
Because Mage won, Foshee will be creating another model of the colt for the owner.
“I told her if he wins, I would make her one, like a bigger size, for free,” Foshee said.
Foshee’s connection to horses goes beyond her artistic skills, and like Mage, she’s a champion, too.
Riding for her Saint James school team last month, Foshee won the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association varsity intermediate 2-foot competition at the Interscholastic Equestrian Association’s Hunt Seat and Dressage National Finals at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina.
“I’m not sure about the Breyer, but I’m hoping to ride in college on a team, hopefully D-1,” Foshee said about her future with horses, “and then maybe do something professionally with it afterward.”
Post time for the 148th Preakness Stakes is 5:50 p.m. CDT Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. NBC will televise the race.
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1. | https://www.al.com/sports/2023/05/triple-crown-hopeful-mage-running-with-a-little-luck-from-alabama.html | 2023-05-19 13:47:23 | 1 | https://www.al.com/sports/2023/05/triple-crown-hopeful-mage-running-with-a-little-luck-from-alabama.html |
Man charged with murder after infant daughter shot with crossbow, authorities say
COLESVILLE, N.Y. (WBNG/Gray News) - A New York man is facing murder and attempted murder charges after authorities allege he fired a crossbow at his wife, injuring her and killing their infant daughter.
Broome County Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics responded around 5:15 a.m. Monday to a report that a woman and an infant had been shot with a crossbow at a home in the Town of Colesville, WBNG reports.
The initial investigation showed that 26-year-old Patrick D. Proefriedt got into an argument with his wife and fired a crossbow while she was holding their 3-week-old daughter, according to the sheriff’s office. The broadhead crossbow bolt hit the child in the upper torso, exiting the armpit before striking the woman in the chest.
The sheriff’s office said Proefriedt allegedly removed the bolt and tried to stop his wife from calling 911. He fled the scene in a pickup truck before deputies arrived.
Responding deputies secured the scene, located the weapon and attempted life-saving measures on the infant before bringing her out to paramedics. The infant, identified in a press release as Eleanor Carey, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The woman was taken to the hospital to be treated for her injuries.
Broome County deputies formed a perimeter around the area with help from the New York State Police and the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office. They used multiple patrol units and aerial drones to locate Proefriedt.
The suspect was found in the woods less than a mile from the house after his truck got stuck in the mud. He was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder along with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection.
“This is one of the most heartbreaking and senseless crimes committed in this community in recent memory,” said Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar in the press release. “Our thoughts are with the family of this innocent 3-week-old girl. I commend the quick and decisive action of our Law Enforcement division in responding to this tragedy and ensuring Mr. Proefriedt did not escape justice.”
Proefriedt remains in custody as he awaits arraignment. He has a history of domestic incidents with the adult victim and an active stay-away order of protection in place.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Police shoot, kill 1 person responding to Englewood, NJ domestic call
ENGLEWOOD — One person was shot and killed by police responding to a domestic dispute call at a Bergen County home over the weekend, authorities said.
The state attorney general's office said Englewood officers were called to the home just before 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning by someone who said a person had been stabbed inside.
Officers entered the home and “one individual was shot by police and pronounced deceased at Englewood Hospital" less than an hour later, authorities said. The person's name wasn't immediately released. Officials didn't say whether a stabbing victim was found.
The attorney general's office is investigating as required by law in any death involving a law enforcement officer
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Program provides mobile home park residents with enhanced safety, reliability, and cost savings by replacing privately owned gas systems with direct utility service
INDIO, Calif., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced the beginning of construction at Arabian Gardens Mobile Home Park in the City of Indio to provide safety and service upgrades through the Mobilehome Park Utility Conversion Program. The modernization program replaces aging, privately owned, master-metered systems with new utility-owned systems at qualified mobile home parks throughout California. In addition to enhanced safety and reliability, Arabian Gardens residents will be eligible to participate in a host of SoCalGas programs, including energy savings and customer assistance programs. Since the Mobilehome Park Utility Conversion Program started in 2014, SoCalGas has upgraded infrastructure and enhanced safety at more than 20,000 mobile homes in more than 287 mobile home communities throughout central and southern California.
"We are pleased to help yet another mobile home park community and its residents through this program," said David Buczkowski, vice president of gas distribution at SoCalGas. "This program helps park residents, many of whom are working families and seniors, have access to safer, more reliable energy as well as various cost-saving customer assistance programs."
The program covers costs for installing new utility service at each mobile home community including individual resident meters. Mobile home park residents with direct natural gas service will have advanced meters to check their natural gas usage. Access to this information helps customers manage their usage and save money. Another benefit of the program is owners of mobile home communities will no longer have to maintain privately-owned gas systems and instead can contact SoCalGas directly for service needs.
Due to the program's pilot success, in 2020 the CPUC voted to establish the conversion effort as a 10-year, ongoing program, authorizing SoCalGas to upgrade up to half of the approximately 132,000 mobile homes in its service territory to direct utility service through 2030. SoCalGas plans to start construction on 43 mobile home parks this year.
More information on the Mobilehome Park Utility Conversion Program can be found at socalgas.com/mobilehome.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.
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WILKES-BARRE — A Pittston man described by a child he sexually assaulted as a “demon” lost his composure inside a Luzerne County courtroom Wednesday when he was sentenced to spend up to eight decades in state prison.
Ferdinand Cuevas-Heredia, 44, of Frothingham Street, openly cried and frequently turned to his attorney yelling, “I did not rape” the girl when Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. sentenced him to 40 to 80 years in prison on 25 total counts consisting of sexual offenses against two girls and a woman and plotting to kill the victims.
County detectives and Pittston police initially arrested Cuevas-Heredia in July 2021 on allegations he repeatedly raped a girl and forced two children and a woman to engage in sex acts with him. One of the children described Cuevas-Heredia as a “demon,” court records say.
While jailed at the county correctional facility, Cuevas-Heredia solicited other inmates for help in finding a hit man to kill the woman and two girls. A state police trooper in an undercover capacity acted as a hit man and accepted a $8,000 down payment.
Cuevas-Heredia mostly kept his head down and conversed with his attorney, Evan T. L. Hughes, of Philadelphia, when he faced his victims prior to being sentenced.
“I see a person who has no soul,” one victim said. “You acted delusional; you acted like other people did wrong to you.”
A father of a child called Cuevas-Heredia a “monster” as his daughter will forever be traumatized, and another victim said she is afraid to return to Pennsylvania after moving out of state.
“You hurt so many people throughout the years,” one victim told Cuevas-Heredia.
Cuevas-Heredia said he is a “sick person and in need of help” while asking Sklarosky for “mercy.” He would ask for mercy several more times during the sentencing hearing including after Sklarosky imposed the lengthy sentence.
Despite pleading guilty to the 25 counts of sexual offenses and soliciting to commit murder, Cuevas-Heredia said he did not rape a girl.
“Forty years for something I didn’t do, I didn’t rape (girl),” a sobbing Cuevas-Heredia bellowed. “I never raped that girl. It’s my life, it’s my life, I didn’t rape that girl.”
State Deputy Attorney General Amanda Makoid McCool said Cuevas-Heredia, “is a threat to anyone who crosses his path.”
Hughes said Cuevas-Heredia has a history of alcohol abuse and mental illness that had never been addressed with therapy or rehabilitation.
Cuevas-Heredia was deemed a sexually violent predator subject to life time registration under the state’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1599288/demon-sentenced-for-murder-plot-sex-offenses | 2023-02-09 19:57:33 | 1 | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1599288/demon-sentenced-for-murder-plot-sex-offenses |
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Bad behavior at school is leading to an alarming surge in students getting suspended in a New Jersey city, and the superintendent thinks social media is partly to blame for the rise in violence.
The dramatic rise in the number of students suspended in Jersey City moved a substitute teacher for the district to tears.
"Honestly how much can I do, me being compared to everybody," said teacher Obina Onuchukwu. "I don't feel like kids should be labeled so young, it doesn't make sense to me, they're still growing up."
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Leaders in the city are determined to reverse the trend that's only gotten worse as the school year has progressed, evidenced by student suspensions up 140% since September.
In the month of March alone, nearly 500 students were suspended district-wide. The most serious out-of-school suspensions for disruptive behavior and fighting also more than doubled.
"Imagine how they feel if they're all getting suspended, all getting into fights. How their ego would say 'Oh, I'm a bad kid,'" Onuchukwu said.
Jersey City's superintendent has placed some of the blame on social media, saying in a statement: "Online platforms that glorify fighting, and aggressive verbal altercations, have become very popular and have influenced many children’s behaviors."
Mental health professionals say acting out in school is a concern that goes well beyond Jersey City, though.
"Modeling has taken on a whole new concept since we had the internet, and you're seeing a tremendous amount of violence on the internet, all kinds of things on TikTok...that could account for some of the violence you see, some of the acting out behavior," said psychologist Dr. Harris Stratyner.
At Snyder High school, 104 suspensions were recorded in March, in a school with only 739 students. Some teachers have said they're trying to break the cycle by going back to basics:
"I'm not doing anything different, I just talk to them," Onuchukwu said.
There are also concerns that students are still suffering the effects of COVID shutdowns and disruptions. Jersey City has now opened four mental health clinics in the high schools and they started Project Resilience, a trauma support system for students. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/fights-and-suspensions-have-surged-in-jersey-city-schools-is-social-media-to-blame/3562660/ | 2023-05-09 15:58:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/fights-and-suspensions-have-surged-in-jersey-city-schools-is-social-media-to-blame/3562660/ |
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world continues to grapple with supply chain disruption, entrepreneurs Michael Goldberg and Robyn Shapiro saw this as an opportunity to fill the gaps traditional distributors left behind. Their new company, Foresight Supply has emerged as a market leader in scarce goods distribution. Foresight solidified its place in the national spotlight over the last two years with $100MM in sales, mostly driven by PPE and Covid-19 tests.
However, the recent baby formula shortage hit home for the company's co-founder, Robyn Shapiro. "Being pregnant myself, this shortage was particularly unsettling. On one hand, I would see expecting women in crisis about the shortage – the last thing any new mother needs on her plate. Yet, because of the business we are in, I knew Foresight had access to this desperately needed inventory. It was obvious to us, we needed to do our part to help."
Foresight was able to quickly mobilize and procure a large quantity of infant formula that the company donated to Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). This month, Foresight delivered more than 34,000 fluid ounces of infant formula in a mission to help vulnerable families provide for their newborns. "RIDOH is very grateful to Foresight for their donation and for reaching out to us to see what the need is in Rhode Island," said Interim Director of Health James McDonald, MD, MPH. "We work with local community agencies throughout Rhode Island. Foresight was able to send us Similac, one of the most widely used brands. This generosity and sense of community helped so many families who were in need."
Foresight Supply was born out of a need for rapid solutions for critical medical supplies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. They are a next generation distributor, focused on providing scarcity sourcing to ensure critical goods get in the hands of those who need them most. Foresight works closely with government, private enterprises, healthcare organizations and retailers to keep their fingers on the pulse for items experiencing supply chain disruptions. The company has worked with Conde Nast, Lyft, The State of Rhode Island, Stony Brook Medicine, The State of Texas, Value Drug Company and others to address critical supply chain issues. To learn more about Foresight Supply, visit www.foresightsupply.com.
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ESTERO, Fla., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz (NASDAQ: HTZ) today announced that Liz Bowyer has joined the company as executive vice president of corporate affairs, effective June 1. Bowyer will be responsible for Hertz's strategic approach to communications, corporate reputation, and the company's social responsibility and sustainability initiatives.
"This new senior leader position demonstrates our continued focus on communicating across our broad group of stakeholders, and actively positioning Hertz in the public conversation on issues related to our business and the future of mobility," said Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr. "Liz brings a wealth of experience that will be invaluable as we continue to evolve our business and the Hertz story."
Bowyer has spent her career working at the intersection of communications, politics and law. She's been a television producer for NBC News, a speechwriter and researcher at the White House, and an attorney practicing complex civil litigation. She was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, overseeing the company's brand and content strategy as it emerged from the financial crisis. Most recently, she was responsible for brand, content and strategic communications at a tech start-up focused on making home ownership more accessible.
Bowyer received her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. She's a member of the board of directors of Human Rights First and the Progressive Policy Institute.
"I'm delighted to join Stephen and the team at Hertz for the next chapter of this iconic American company," said Bowyer. "I'm excited to be part of Hertz's vision to transform the future of mobility while creating a world-class customer experience."
About Hertz
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., operates the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty vehicle rental brands throughout North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized globally. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles through Hertz Car Sales. For more information about The Hertz Corporation, visit www.hertz.com.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- From celebrated vascular surgeon and veteran medical maverick Dr. Frank J. Veith comes a captivating memoir and exposé of the medical establishment that unveils an often clubby industry that many believe needs serious reform. The Medical Jungle: A Pioneering Surgeon's Battle to Revolutionize Vascular Care and Challenge the Medical Mafia (Amplify Publishing; February 7) candidly recounts Dr. Veith's countless battles inside what he calls the "medical jungle"—-a cut-throat environment that threatens as much as it heals.
Part captivating memoir, part disclosure of a self-serving system, The Medical Jungle recounts Dr. Veith's tireless efforts to improve medical care for patients. With wisdom garnered from a sixty-year career as a pioneering surgeon, Dr. Veith pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of innovative medical procedures, while candidly describing the self-interested parties that sought to block progress with no thought to how their actions would impact patient care.
The New York Times calls Dr. Veith "an unlikely radical…waging an aggressive fight in the clubby world of the medical profession" for his tireless advocacy of patients and medical progress instead of the hospital's bottom line—no matter the consequences. The Medical Jungle will inspire anyone who faces adversity at any level to stand up and be radical, even when it is unpopular.
A starred review from Blue Ink Review calls The Medical Jungle "a fascinating chronicle of the complex inner workings of the 'medical jungle,'" while Kirkus calls the book "an engaging and evocative medical memoir." Former president of the European Society of Vascular Surgery Sir Peter R. F. Bell calls it "a must read for doctors and the public."
Frank J. Veith, MD, is one of America's leading vascular surgeons, a pioneering creator of life- and limb-saving medical advances, and the chairman of VEITHsymposium—the largest vascular surgery conference in the world. He currently serves as a professor of surgery at NYU and the Cleveland Clinic and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Vascular Surgery. Glenn Plaskin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books and his profiles and syndicated columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, W, and Playboy.
Dr. Frank Veith is available for interviews, features, and events, and The Medical Jungle is on sale now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Amplify Publishing. To learn more about Dr. Veith visit medicaljunglebook.com.
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AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — A firefighter was injured while crews were responding to an incident on Woodbury Drive in Amherst.
First responders arrived at the scene around 8:30 Thursday night, where smoke was reported to be seen coming from the roof. The fire was later found in the attic.
Firefighters brought it under control within 70 minutes, but in the process, the fire caused $600,000 worth of damage, $350,000 of which was to the structure itself.
The one firefighter who was injured had to be taken to a local hospital for treatment. Their injuries were described as “minor.”
It’s not clear what caused the fire, but investigators are looking into it.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Hearing, LLC, a Fort Worth-based market leader and global provider of advanced hearing technology and audio solutions, is offering its over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids to consumers in more than 450 Sam's Club locations nationwide starting today.
An August ruling finalized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opens up a market for OTC hearing devices, a long-awaited industry event for which Lucid Hearing has been preparing for years.
"We're ready and excited to offer consumers affordable and accessible hearing aids that comply with all FDA regulations and provide those with hearing impairments a broad range of designs and product features," said Lucid Hearing President and COO Jason Kidd. "Our technology for these devices has been in the making for years and is based on research done in conjunction with the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), a top audiology research university."
Click here to access video sound bites from Kidd and a Lucid Hearing Instrument Specialist, plus product b-roll for additional Lucid Hearing OTC details.
The FDA ruling allows for consumers ages 18+ to purchase hearing aids for perceived mild to moderate hearing loss without a medical visit, an audiogram test or prescription. While testing is not required for OTC hearing aids, most hearing experts agree that a hearing test is the best way for consumers to accurately measure their degree of hearing loss and determine which product offers the right support for their needs (an OTC product or a prescriptive hearing aid).
Lucid Hearing offers free hearing tests for people age 19+ at more than 500 hearing centers across the nation, most located inside Sam's Club locations. Lucid's OTC hearing aids will generally range in price from $199.99 to $1,699.99 and can be purchased through Sam's Club both in-club and online, plus other retail outlets and through Amazon and lucidhearing.com. Sam's Club pricing for Lucid's OTC hearing aids will range from $199 to $799.
Executive Vice President of Research and Development Bennett Griffin noted that the company's OTC hearing aids will offer numerous features including wireless streaming and varied styles including discreet in-ear offerings. He added that Lucid's significant investment in scientific and innovative pre-set programs developed as a result of the UTD audiology research offer a unique advantage in that they will cover the vast majority of consumers' perceived mild to moderate hearing loss needs.
"Lucid Hearing has deep roots and decades of experience with hearing research and technology," said Griffin. "Now we're able to offer our expertise with OTC devices to millions of consumers who may not otherwise get help for their hearing loss, allowing them to reconnect with the sounds and experiences that matter most," Griffin added.
According the to the Hearing Loss Association of America, only one in five people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually uses one. Lucid Hearing will continue to partner with Sam's Club to sell its prescriptive devices, in addition to its OTC hearing aids.
Since its founding in 2009, Lucid Hearing's mission has been to advance hearing healthcare holistically across its family of brands that encompass hearing enhancement, enjoyment, protection, detection and wellness. Lucid Hearing has a strong engineering team that designs and engineers products in the United States. The company has helped close to 300,000 nationwide hear better through its hearing aid solutions, and it has aided millions inclusive of its hearing aids and hearing protection products. Lucid Hearing's dedicated licensed hearing professionals provide free hearing tests and prescriptions to match a consumer's specific hearing loss at one of 500+ Lucid Hearing centers. For more information about Lucid Hearing, visit LucidHearing.com.
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Nike responds to backlash over Dylan Mulvaney partnership, instructs customers to 'Be kind, be inclusive'
Mulvaney is one of Nike's paid ambassadors
Athletic apparel giant Nike doubled down on its decision to use transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in marketing campaigns to promote the company's female clothing.
In a pinned comment to Nike's verified Instagram account, the company instructed customers to "Be kind, be inclusive … Encourage each other."
The response came amid calls for a boycott of the company shortly after Mulvaney, who identifies as female, appeared in paid social media content dancing in Nike women's sportswear.
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Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has been one of the athletes leading calls for customers to stop buying Nike's products.
Davies, who won silver in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, said Nike's decision represented a "step" back after some sports organizations created protected categories for biological women in competitions.
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"It's so frustrating. We take two steps forward with World Athletics and Swim England protecting women's sport and then Nike does this," Davies told Dan Wootton Tonight on GB News.
"The ad feels like a parody of what women are. In the past, it was always seen as an insult to say ‘run like a girl,’ and here we've got someone behaving in a way that's very unsporty and very unathletic. And it's so frustrating when only 1% of the USA sponsorship dollar goes to females in sport. That Nike would do this feels like a kick in the teeth."
In Friday's social media response, Nike vowed to remove any comments that were not "in the spirit of a diverse and inclusive community."
"You are an essential component to the success of your community! We welcome comments that contribute to a positive and constructive discussion: Be kind… Be inclusive… Encourage each other… Hate speech, bullying, or other behaviors that are not in the spirit of a diverse and inclusive community will be deleted," Nike wrote.
Nike has recently experienced an uptick in overall sales, especially after English soccer star Chloe Kelly showed off Nike gear after scoring a goal in the World Cup.
Davies also took issue with the item of clothing Mulvaney wore in the advertisement, pointing out the company's treatment of other athletes in the past.
"Dylan is advertising sports bras when there's nothing to put in the sports bra, when actually it's really important women get proper support when they do sport. It just doesn't make sense.
"For a long time, Nike sponsored Allyson Felix, one of the world's most incredible track athletes. Then, when Allyson got pregnant, they reduced her sponsorship by 70% when she had something happen to her that happens only to women. Women are being treated with total disdain at the moment, particularly in the world of sport where physiology makes so much difference."
Caitlyn Jenner has also been outspoken about Mulvaney's partnership with Nike.
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DEAR CAR TALK: Over the past couple of decades, wheels on cars have gotten bigger and tires have gotten shorter.
Why? It seems as though that would make cars ride rougher. — Randy
DEAR READER: It does.
There are two reasons for the wheel size wars, Randy. The main reason is looks. People like the look of a larger wheel filling more of the wheel opening. It seems silly, but if you go back and look at cars from, say the 1980s to now, the wheels actually do look kind of small.
So I guess it's the same reason my beehive hairdo went out of fashion. Tastes change.
The second reason for bigger wheels is better handling. That's simply a matter of physics. If the wheel is bigger, the tire's sidewall is shorter. And if the sidewall is shorter, there's less of it to flex and bend when you take a corner.
Now, if you're driving a 1987 Buick LeSabre, maybe you want shorter sidewalls to improve your handling. But if you're driving a 2018 Audi A4, you may find the car handles well enough already. And it may not be worth the trade-off of a harder, noisier ride. Not to mention a greater chance of a blowout and a bent wheel.
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DEAR CAR TALK: Could someone steal your catalytic converter while you are driving? If they had, like, a motorized creeper? Thanks. — Keith
DEAR READER: If a thief used a motorized creeper, followed behind you, accelerated under your car and stole your catalytic converter while you were driving, I'd say he deserves to keep it, Keith.
I mean, one decent-size pothole, and he'd be headless. If he succeeded, his fellow thieves would probably give him a silver star for bravery. Along with a Darwin award.
I'd say it's extraordinarily unlikely, Keith. Unless you live in Florida, in which case all bets are off.
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DEAR CAR TALK: I have a 2017 Ford F-150 3.5 Eco-Boost. One cold night this winter, I plugged in the block heater. The next day, I came down with a bad stomach bug and didn't leave the house the next two days. It never crossed my mind that the truck was still plugged in (not something you think about when you're making frequent visits to the bathroom).
On the third day when I moved it, I noticed a fairly large spot on the driveway. I checked all the fluid levels, and they were good. I assumed it was oil from the outside of the engine, but after about six days, the spot was gone (no rain or snow, somewhat low temperatures).
I didn't think oil would evaporate like that. The truck has been fine since this happened.
Here are my questions: Did I damage the engine by leaving the block heater plugged in for two days straight? What was the spot in the driveway: oil, radiator fluid or something else? Should I be concerned?
Thanks. — Troy
DEAR READER: No, water or coolant, and probably not.
You didn't do any damage to the engine by leaving the block heater plugged in for two days.
All the block heater does is heat up the coolant. And it doesn't even make the coolant hot. It just heats it up about 50 degrees or so, so it's not freezing cold when you start the car.
If you had left the truck parked outside during the summer when it was 75 degrees out for a couple of days, that would have been no different, as far as the engine is concerned.
So, what was the fluid that came off the engine? It's not oil. It's not transmission fluid. It's not differential fluid. Those petroleum-based fluids would never evaporate in a few days. If it had rained or snowed, maybe they'd get diluted a bit. But there's a reason they call them "oil stains," Troy. They're really hard to get rid of.
So I'm guessing it was either a small amount of coolant, which — because it's water soluble — could disappear over time, or it was water from some ice that melted when you warmed up the engine compartment.
And it's entirely possible that your small puddle has nothing to do with your block heater. You could have a loose hose clamp or a dripping water pump. You came out the other day looking for trouble. Maybe something's been leaking slowly for months and you just haven't noticed it?
If you see the spot again, see if it's got a greasy feel on your fingers. Coolant will feel slippery. It'll also have a sweet aroma and taste. Don't taste it, though, Troy, or you'll be trotting to the bathroom again.
If it's coolant, ask your mechanic to pressure test your cooling system. If there's a small leak, he'll find it that way, and you can fix it.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
05-07-09-14-31-34
(five, seven, nine, fourteen, thirty-one, thirty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $4,500,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
05-07-09-14-31-34
(five, seven, nine, fourteen, thirty-one, thirty-four)
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A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate Wednesday would tighten federal oversight of trains carrying hazardous materials like the one that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
The measure, the Railway Safety Act of 2023, was cosponsored by Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown (D) and J.D. Vance (R) and Pennsylvania Sens. John Fetterman (D) and Bob Casey (D). Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also cosponsored the measure.
The bill would introduce new safety requirements for trains carrying hazardous materials, such as the vinyl chloride carried by the derailed Norfolk Southern train. Going forward, such trains would be required to submit a “gas discharge” plan for all such materials. Citing fear of an explosion, first responders in East Palestine conducted a controlled burn of the materials shortly after locals were evacuating.
The measure would also transfer oversight of railroads’ heat sensors from railways to the federal government. Shortly before the Norfolk Southern train derailed, the sensors showed a wheel bearing at temperatures 200 degrees over ambient temperatures, the threshold at which they are required to brake, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. While personnel attempted to brake, they could not avert the derailment. The Senate bill would allow the federal government — rather than railroads — to set this heat threshold.
It also contains a number of items railroad unions have long demanded, including a requirement of at least a two-person crew per train. Jeremy Ferguson, president of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division (SMART-TD), endorsed the legislation, saying the bill “offers a chance for the nation to make the giant rail corporations take rational measures to get the industry to do what it’s designed to do — move freight through our nation safely and efficiently and be an example for the rest of the world to model.”
SMART-TD was one of the unions that voted against a tentative agreement with management last year to avert a rail strike, citing the lack of sick leave provisions. Congress backed a White House-backed bill forcing workers to accept the tentative deal, voting down an amendment that would add their sick leave demands. All of the bill’s sponsors except Vance and Fetterman, who were not yet in office, voted for the sick leave amendment. | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-bill-would-tighten-federal-oversight-of-trains-carrying-hazardous-materials/ | 2023-03-02 19:26:36 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-bill-would-tighten-federal-oversight-of-trains-carrying-hazardous-materials/ |
CHICAGO — Following news that NASCAR is on course for a stop in Chicago next year, city officials revealed new details about how the race will impact the downtown area.
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the race, scheduled to take place July 1-2 in 2023, will tie up all of Grant Park for two weeks. The city’s Park District issued a permit to organizers that spans from June 22 to July 5.
NASCAR issued the following statement:
In collaboration with the City of Chicago and Choose Chicago/the Chicago Sports Commission to bring world renown events that elevate Chicago’s global sports presence, the Chicago Park District entered into a permit agreement with NASCAR for non-race activities which include a fan festival celebrating the NASCAR Cup Series Street Race, to take place in Grant Park. As with other large events permitted on park property, the District will work with the organizers and the community over the coming months to ensure its success for the city.
The race course will include DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Michigan Avenue, and South Columbus Drive.
It is still unclear how long streets will be shut down or if NASCAR will compensate for their use. | https://wgntv.com/sports/nascar_in_chicago/14-days-of-nascar-new-report-reveals-how-race-will-impact-grant-park/ | 2022-07-29 03:46:25 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/sports/nascar_in_chicago/14-days-of-nascar-new-report-reveals-how-race-will-impact-grant-park/ |
Partnership with Montbello Career and Technical High School
Jumpstarts Training for Jobs of the Future
DENVER, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz (NASDAQ: HTZ) Chair and CEO Stephen Scherr and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock launched Hertz Electrifies in Denver at Montbello Career and Technical High School and announced intentions to expand the availability of electric vehicles (EVs), charging infrastructure, and EV education and training opportunities in the Denver community. Denver is the first city in this new public private initiative with Hertz, which is expanding to other cities across the country.
"Hertz is investing in the largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America and as part of that effort, we are committed to helping communities tap into the economic and environmental benefits of electrification," said Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr. "We are proud to launch Hertz Electrifies with the city of Denver and Mayor Hancock, and to partner with Montbello Career and Technical High School to help create EV educational and training opportunities for the workforce of the future."
Through Hertz Electrifies, Hertz aims to bring up to 5,200 rental EVs to Denver – including models from Tesla, Polestar, and GM – for availability to leisure and business travelers as well as rideshare drivers. In addition, Hertz is supporting the installation of publicly accessible charging infrastructure in partnership with bp and its global high-speed electric charging network, bp pulse. To help inform the buildout of charging infrastructure across all neighborhoods of Denver, Hertz is sharing with the city anonymous, aggregated telematic insights from its fleet of connected cars through its "Hertz Charging Opportunity Index."
Hertz is donating an electric vehicle and providing EV educational and training materials to Montbello Career and Technical High School to enable the school to incorporate EV technology into its auto servicing curriculum. Hertz is also making summer jobs available to young people in Denver, including through the Denver Youth Employment Program.
"Our partnership with Hertz and their donation of resources and an EV to Montbello Career and Technical High School is a groundbreaking new endeavor to teach young people new skills and prepare them for the next wave of technological advances," said Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock. "We're targeting this initial effort right where it's most needed, and also partnering with the Denver Youth Employment Program to make sure there are similar opportunities across the city. These alliances will further educate our youth and put them on a path to success in the economy of tomorrow."
"At bp we know it's going to take a high level of coordination to transition to a net zero future," said Denver native and bp America chairman and president Dave Lawler. "These public private partnerships are important, and equally important is engaging students early and often to ensure they have the right skills for the future. We can't do it without them. I commend Mayor Hancock and Hertz as we continue to make steady progress in Denver."
"Montbello Career and Technical houses the only high school automotive program in the far northeast region of Denver," said Arnetta Koger, Principal of Montbello Career and Technical High School. "We are glad to partner with Hertz and Denver. Now, with our first electric vehicle, we will be able to ensure that our students are preparing for the jobs and technologies of the future."
In January, Hertz announced Hertz Electrifies, a new public-private partnership aimed at accelerating the transition to electric vehicles, while creating economic opportunity and environmental benefits for communities. In addition, Hertz and bp have announced an intention to bring fast charging infrastructure to Hertz locations in major cities, including Denver.
About Hertz Electrifies
Hertz Electrifies is a new public-private partnership aimed at furthering the mainstream adoption of electric vehicles and extending the benefits of electrification to communities throughout the United States. The initiative has five pillars: (1) electric vehicle and charging infrastructure; (2) creating jobs of the future; (3) broadening economic opportunity; (4) community engagement; and (5) policy and city planning analysis.
About Hertz
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., operates the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty vehicle rental brands throughout North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized globally. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles through Hertz Car Sales. For more information about The Hertz Corporation, visit www.hertz.com. Hertz has tens of thousands of EVs available at more than 500 Hertz locations across 38 states.
About The City of Denver
The City of Denver is the capital of Colorado and home to over 700,000 residents. Known as the Mile High City for its 5,280-foot elevation, Denver serves as the gateway to the Rocky Mountains and is home to one of the largest city park systems in the country. Under Mayor Hancock's leadership, Denver has become known as a top U.S. city for startups and entrepreneurship, especially for minority and women-owned businesses, one of the best places to live and is working to make sure that all residents, no matter which background they represent, can experience the success that Denver has experienced.
About bp
bp's ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. bp has a larger economic footprint in the United States than anywhere else in the world, investing more than $140 billion since 2005 and supporting about 245,000 jobs. For more information on bp in the US, visit www.bp.com/US.
About bp pulse
bp pulse is bp's electric vehicle (EV) charging business, rolling out fast, reliable charge points to consumers and commercial fleets around the world. Entering into the Americas, bp pulse focuses on providing EV charging and energy management to fleets that operate heavy-, medium- and light-duty vehicles. Key offerings for these fleets include intelligent charge management software, Omega, and a Charging-as-a-Service solution–allowing bp pulse to manage the charging of an EV fleet from start to finish, while optimizing energy costs and vehicle utilization. Globally, bp pulse is one of the UK's leading rapid and ultrafast public EV charging networks. It also operates the largest number of sites with ultra-fast charging in Germany, with a growing charging point footprint in China and the Netherlands. The company aims to increase its network of public EV charging points by 2030 to over 100,000 worldwide.
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as "aim," "create," "accelerate," "transition," "will," "build," "future," "transform," "invest," "shift," "launch," "increase," "initiative," "expand," add," and "develop," and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which include but are not limited to statements related to the expansion of Hertz's EV fleet and its partnership with Uber, installation of charging infrastructure including in partnership with bp, and any other statements regarding future expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, future events or performance. We caution you that these statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to numerous evolving risks and uncertainties that we may not be able to accurately predict or assess, including Hertz's ability to expand its EV fleet, develop and install sufficient EV charging infrastructure, and otherwise execute on its strategic plans, as well as other factors identified in the risk factors of Hertz's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 23, 2022 and any updates thereto in subsequent filings with the SEC including in Hertz's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We caution you not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their date, and Hertz undertakes no obligation to update this information.
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Full Year 2022 Outlook Continues to Improve
WILLOW PARK, Texas, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProFrac Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PFHC) ("ProFrac" or the "Company") today announced financial and operational results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Results and Recent Highlights
- Closed on acquisition of FTSI on March 4, 2022
- Total revenues of $345.0 million
- Net income of $24.1 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $91.5 million, which includes approximately one month of FTSI's results
- On a pro forma basis for the FTSI acquisition(2), first quarter Adjusted EBITDA of $99.4 million
- Completed IPO and began trading on NASDAQ on May 13, 2022
Ladd Wilks, ProFrac Holding Corp.'s Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are very pleased to have closed on the FTSI acquisition in March. The value created with this acquisition far exceeds our expectations in terms of timing and magnitude. We are also pleased to have completed our initial public offering on May 13, 2022. We view this as a great starting point in creating a preeminent energy investment vehicle with the best teams focused on maximizing shareholder value and generating free cash flow through-the-cycle. If we continue to execute on our plan as expected, we hope to explore options to return cash to shareholders."
Matt Wilks, Executive Chairman, added, "Our first quarter results came in slightly ahead of our internal expectations and market demand continued to increase into the second quarter. Looking forward, combining this momentum with the price increases that went into effect in April on the acquired FTSI fleets, we now estimate that we will be operating 31 average active fleets for the entire second quarter and expect approximately $23-$25 million of annualized Adjusted EBITDA per fleet(3) in the second quarter.
"We are even more excited about our near-term and long-term growth opportunities based on our two-prong strategy to Acquire, Retire, Replace,(™)combined with scaling our vertical integration model. We believe this two-prong growth strategy enables us to drive revenue, improve margins, further enhance free cash flow and improve our through-cycle positioning."
First Quarter 2022 Financial Results
For the first quarter of 2022, consolidated revenues totaled $345.0 million, or approximately $63.6 million per fleet on an annualized basis. SG&A was $34.1 million and included $13.0 million of transaction costs related to the FTSI acquisition. Net income was $24.1 million. Adjusted EBITDA totaled $91.5 million in the first quarter of 2022, or $16.9 million per fleet on an annualized basis.
With 17 average active fleets before the FTSI acquisition and 31 average active fleets for the month of March post acquisition, the Company's average active fleet count for the 2022 first quarter was 21.7 fleets.
Business Segment Information
The Stimulation Services segment generated revenues in the first quarter of 2022 of $336.2 million, which resulted in $73.6 million of Adjusted EBITDA. The FTSI acquisition contributed $48.6 million in revenue, or 14%, which included approximately one month's revenue during the quarter.
The Manufacturing segment generated revenues of $32.0 million in the first quarter of 2022, which resulted in $10.0 million of Adjusted EBITDA. Approximately 84% of the Manufacturing segment's revenue was intercompany.
The Proppant Production segment generated revenues of $12.4 million in the first quarter of 2022, which resulted in $7.9 million of Adjusted EBITDA. Approximately 69% of the Proppant Production segment's revenue was intercompany.
Second Quarter 2022 Outlook
Looking at the second quarter of 2022, the Company expects strong growth in revenues and substantial improvements to profitability compared to the first quarter of 2022, driving annualized Adjusted EBITDA per fleet to approximately $23-$25 million per fleet. The primary contributor of the anticipated increased profitability is due to April's resetting of FTSI fleets to current market pricing as well as incremental fleets added from the acquisition.
Capital Expenditures and Capital Allocation
Capital expenditures for full year 2022 are expected to range from $240 million to $290 million, consisting of maintenance capex, growth capex, three electric fleets that are under construction, and the West Munger sand plant that is also under construction. The electric fleets and the West Munger sand plant are expected to be operational in the third quarter of this year.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
Total debt outstanding as of March 31, 2022 was $625.6 million, compared to $301.6 million as of December 31, 2021. As of March 31, 2022, cash and equivalents totaled $28.7 million. Total liquidity as of March 31, 2022 was $108.8 million, including net availability of $80.1 million under our asset-based credit facility. On April 8, 2022, the Company increased the size of its ABL to $200 million.
The Company's IPO and the subsequent exercise of the overallotment resulted in approximately $304 million in proceeds, net of the underwriting discount and other estimated fees. This reduced total debt outstanding by approximately $225 million. The amount outstanding under the term loan is $306 million as of June 10, 2022. Also in June, the Equify Bridge Loan, the Backstop Note, and the Closing Date Note were fully paid off with proceeds of the IPO.
FTSI Acquisition
On March 4, 2022, the Company acquired the outstanding stock of FTS International, Inc. ("FTSI") for a purchase price of $405.7 million, consisting of cash consideration of $332.8 million paid in the first quarter and $72.9 million paid in connection with the IPO in the second quarter of 2022. For additional information related to the acquisition, please reference the Company's press releases available on its website at https://ir.pfholdingscorp.com/news-events/press-releases.
Conference Call
ProFrac has scheduled a conference call on Friday, June 17, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time / 9:00 a.m. Central time. Please dial 412-902-0030 and ask for the ProFrac Holding Corp. call at least 10 minutes prior to the start time of the call, or listen to the call live over the Internet by logging on to the website at the address https://ir.pfholdingscorp.com/news-events/ir-calendar. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through June 24, 2022 and may be accessed by calling 201-612-7415 using passcode 13730279#. A webcast archive will also be available at the link above shortly after the call and will be accessible for approximately 90 days.
About ProFrac Holding Corp.
ProFrac Holding Corp. is a growth-oriented, vertically integrated and innovation-driven energy services company providing hydraulic fracturing, completion services and other complementary products and services to leading upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production ("E&P") of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. Founded in 2016, The Company was built to be the go-to service provider for E&P companies' most demanding hydraulic fracturing needs. ProFrac is focused on employing new technologies to significantly reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions and increase efficiency in what has historically been an emissions-intensive component of the unconventional E&P development process. For more information, please visit the Company's website, https://www.pfholdingscorp.com
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, the reader can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "may," "should," "expect," "intend," "will," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "predict," or similar words. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial or operating performance. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding: the Company's strategies and plans for growth; the Company's positioning, resources, capabilities, and expectations for future performance; market and industry expectations; the anticipated benefits of the Company's May 2022 IPO and the capital raised thereby; the anticipated benefits of the Company's March 2022 acquisition of FTS International, Inc.; the Company's estimates with respect to the profitability and utilization of its fleets; expectations regarding near-term and long-term growth, and the attendant impact on the Company's future revenues, margins, free cash flow and through-cycle positioning; the Company's currently expected guidance regarding its second quarter 2022 revenues, profitability and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet; the Company's currently expected guidance regarding its full year 2022 capital expenditures and capital allocation; the Company's anticipated timing for operationalizing its new electric fleets and its West Munger sand plant; the potential to return cash to shareholders; any financial or other information based upon or otherwise incorporating judgments or estimates relating to future performance, events or expectations; any estimates and forecasts of financial and other performance metrics; and the Company's outlook and financial and other guidance. Such forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions made by the Company as of the date hereof and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to achieve anticipated benefits of the Company's May 2022 IPO and March 2022 acquisition of FTS International, Inc., including risks relating to integrating acquired companies and personnel; the Company's ability to deploy capital, including capital raised in the May 2022 IPO, in a manner that furthers the Company's growth strategy, as well as the Company's general ability to execute its business plans; industry conditions, including fluctuations in supply, demand and prices for the Company's products and services; global and regional economic and financial conditions; the effectiveness of the Company's risk management strategies; the transition to becoming a public company; and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Forward-looking statements are also subject to the risks and other issues described below under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures," which could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations included in the Company's forward-looking statements included in this press release. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward looking statements will be achieved, including without limitation any expectations about the Company's operational and financial performance or achievements through and including 2022. There may be additional risks about which the Company is presently unaware or that the Company currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its assessments to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it expressly disclaims any duty to update these forward-looking statements, except as otherwise required by law.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet are non-GAAP financial measures and should not be considered as substitutes for net income (loss) or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our profitability or liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet are supplemental measures utilized by our management and other users of our financial statements such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, to assess our financial performance because they allow us to compare our operating performance on a consistent basis across periods by removing the effects of our capital structure (such as varying levels of interest expense), asset base (such as depreciation and amortization) and items outside the control of our management team (such as income tax rates).
We view Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet as important indicators of performance. We define Adjusted EBITDA as our net income (loss), before (i) interest expense, net, (ii) income tax provision, (iii) depreciation, depletion and amortization, (iv) loss on disposal of assets and (v) other unusual or non-recurring charges, such as costs related to our initial public offering, non-recurring supply commitment charges, certain bad debt expense and gain on extinguishment of debt. We define Adjusted EBITDA per fleet for a particular period as Adjusted EBITDA calculated as a daily average of active fleets during period.
We believe that our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet will provide useful information to investors in assessing our financial condition and results of operations. In particular, we believe Adjusted EBITDA per fleet allows investors to compare the performance of our fleets across comparable periods and against the fleets of our competitors who may have different capital structures, which may make a fleet-for-fleet comparison more difficult. Net income (loss) is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA, and net income (loss) per fleet is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA per fleet. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss), and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) per fleet. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some but not all items that affect the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. Because Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet may be defined differently by other companies in our industry, our definition of these non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, thereby diminishing their utility.
The presentation of non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be a substitute for, and should not be considered in isolation from, the financial measures reported in accordance with GAAP. The following tables present a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure for the periods indicated:
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The following table reconciles Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA for FTSI to net loss, which we consider to be the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure to Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA for FTSI, presented as if the FTSI acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2022:
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Ninety percent of the counties in the United States suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a report published Wednesday.
Some endured as many as 12 federally-declared disasters over those 11 years. More than 300 million people — 93% of the country’s population — live in these counties.
Rebuild by Design, which published the report, is a nonprofit that researches ways to prepare for and adapt to climate change. It was started by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the catastrophic storm that slammed into the eastern U.S. just over ten years ago, causing $62.5 billion in damage.
Researchers had access to data from contractors who work closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, allowing them to analyze disasters and payouts down to the county level. The report includes some 250 maps. They also looked at who is most vulnerable, and compared how long people in different places are left without power after extreme weather.
California, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Iowa and Tennessee had the most disasters, at least 20 each, including severe storms, wildfire, flooding, and landslides. But entirely different states — Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, North Dakota and Vermont — received the most disaster funding per person over the 11-year period.
Amy Chester, managing director of Rebuild by Design and co-author of the report, said she was surprised to see some states are getting more money to rebuild than others. Partly it’s that cost of living differs among states. So does the monetary value of what gets damaged or destroyed.
“Disaster funding is oftentimes skewed toward communities that are more affluent and have the most resources,” said Robert Bullard, an environmental and climate justice professor at Texas Southern University, who was not part of the team that wrote the report. Bullard wrote a book, “The Wrong Complexion for Protection” in 2012 with another environmental and climate justice expert, Beverly Wright, about how federal responses to disasters often exclude black communities.
The new report seems to support that. People who are most vulnerable to the effects of these extreme weather events are not receiving much of the money, the report said. Those areas of the country also endure the longest electric outages.
“When disasters hit …. funding doesn’t get to the places of greatest need,” Bullard said.
Another reason for the unevenness of funds could be that heat waves are excluded from federal disaster law and don’t trigger government aid. If they did, states in the southwest like Arizona and Nevada might rank higher on spending per person.
REPORT OVERSTEPS
The report was prepared by policy advocates, not scientists, and oversteps in attributing every weather disaster to climate change. That is inaccurate. Climate change has turbocharged the climate and made some hurricanes stronger and disaster more frequent, said Rob Jackson, a climate scientist at Stanford University. But, “I don’t think it’s appropriate to call every every disaster we’ve experienced in the last 40 years a climate disaster.”
Even though all the weather disasters compiled aren’t attributable to climate change, Jackson said the collection could still have value.
“I do think there is a service to highlighting that weather disasters affect essentially all Americans now, no matter where we live.”
The annual costs of disasters has skyrocketed, he said, to over $100 billion in 2020. The National Centers for Environmental Information tallied more than $150 billion for 2021.
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The federal government provided counties a total $91 billion to recover after extreme events over the 11 years, the researchers found. That only includes spending from two programs run by FEMA and HUD, not individual assistance or insurance payouts from the agency. Nor does it include help from other agencies like the Small Business Administration or Army Corps of Engineers.
Chester said that if all these federal disaster relief programs were included, the total would be far higher. The National Centers for Environmental Information estimate over $1 trillion was spent on weather and climate events between 2011 and 2021.
The report recommends the federal government shift to preventing disasters rather than waiting for events to happen. It cites the National Institute of Building Sciences which says that every dollar invested in mitigating natural disaster by building levees or doing prescribed burns saves the country $6.
“The key takeaway for us is that our government continues to invest in places that have already suffered instead of investing in the areas with the highest social and physical vulnerability,” Chester said.
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FARMINGTON, Conn. , Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadcastMed, the world's most innovative healthcare media company has acquired PentaVision, expanding its audience of healthcare professionals once again to its existing membership of 1.7+million physicians across 11 specialties, resulting in the addition of hundreds of doctors, writers, speakers, artists, and editors who have further enabled PentaVision to sustain an enviable track record of innovation, accuracy and success in delivering high quality content in enhanced vision care globally. The official announcement was made on August 19, 2022. This strategic investment is backed by 424 Capital, a growth capital partner.
BroadcastMed is committed to providing physicians and other allied healthcare professionals with convenient access to the very best in educational content. Its recent acquisition of PentaVision – the publishing leader in ophthalmology, optometry and opticianry allows BroadcastMed to continue its tradition of providing industry-leading clinical content to front-line healthcare professionals with the ultimate objective of improving patient outcomes.
The acquisition continues BroadcastMed's tremendous growth trajectory which is driven by its commitment to expand the global dialogue on healthcare, by connecting and expanding an audience of healthcare constituents, BroadcastMed is able to gather and analyze intelligence from those engagements to create more value for its clients.
"Our acquisition of PentaVision will further provide essential content to vision health professionals. BroadcastMed is committed to using our industry-leading media solutions to advance the ways in which specialty-centric clinicians share their subject matter expertise," stated Ross Joel, CEO.
"As we take another strategic step toward growing a multi-channel resource to serve all healthcare constituencies, our acquisition of PentaVision allows BroadcastMed to continue to elevate the critical conversations in the healthcare space," stated Peter Gailey, President.
PentaVision produces six free-standing magazines, two live conferences, multiple live custom and virtual events, nearly three dozen subscription-based email newsletters, 11 media/event websites, and well over 100 content marketing projects annually in print, video and online. PentaVision also produces touring seminars, digital "infomercials," influential roundtables — featuring key opinion leaders, market research as well as sophisticated commercial email-based direct marketing programs that lead the vision care industry and that set a standard for business-to-business marketing services providers.
With decades of experience and more than 18,000 media productions to date, BroadcastMed is solidifying its position as a healthcare media company inspiring the future of medicine. BroadcastMed was the first media company in the world to livestream surgeries online. The company provides data-driven solutions to optimize marketing and education initiatives for healthcare organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Novartis, Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, and the Institute for Functional Medicine.
PentaVision LLC is the publishing leader in ophthalmology, optometry and opticianry with an operational focus on business agility and that empowers its entire publishing team with the best technology available today. The company's leadership team is enlightened from a technology standpoint, focused on quality in all aspects of production and content creation, committed to marketer return-on-investment and embraces innovation that advances industry practices which provides measurable results.
BroadcastMed is the world's most innovative healthcare media company with an unwavering commitment to elevating and expanding the global dialogue on healthcare to improve patient outcomes. BroadcastMed helps the world's leading hospitals, medical device, association, and pharmaceutical companies create and distribute trusted educational content to physicians and allied healthcare professionals.
BroadcastMed has evolved into an industry staple for hospitals and healthcare companies hoping to actively engage physicians and healthcare professionals, launch new products, provide peer-to-peer education, advance continuing medical education (CME), participate in clinical affairs, and deliver patient-focused health information. BroadcastMed powers more than 200 client-branded video portals and has an email list of more than 1.7 million healthcare providers. Ten of the Top 20 U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll Hospitals are BroadcastMed clients. For more information about BroadcastMed visit broadcastmed.com.
424 Capital is a growth capital partner that invests in lower middle-market companies within technology and tech-enabled services. 424 Capital works in partnership with founders and management teams to accelerate and scale for long-term growth. Focusing primarily on investments in healthcare and renewable energy, we invest in, empower, and enable companies to step up, stand out, and make a difference in the world. For more information about 424 Capital, visit 424capital.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles data breach that the Department of Transportation said likely occurred in May jeopardized millions of ID card holders’ personal information, but many of their most valuable documents were protected, the DMV said.
On Thursday, June 15, ODOT said the global hack on the data transfer software MOVEit jeopardized the personal information of 3.5 million Oregon ID card or driver’s license holders, since the Oregon DMV used the software to encrypt and transfer files.
ODOT said the hackers could have access to first and last names, driver’s license or identification card numbers, dates of birth, physical addresses, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.
What wasn’t included in the accessed data records were the documents Oregonians have been using to obtain their Real IDs from the DMV.
The federal government plans to require all citizens to have a Real ID for domestic air travel by May 7, 2025. For the past several years, Oregonians have been bringing documents like their U.S. passport, birth certificate, certificate of citizenship, tribal ID cards, marriage certificates and more to the DMV to prove their identity and obtain a Real ID card.
KOIN 6 News asked the Oregon DMV if any documents that were used to verify people’s identity were at risk due to the breach. Oregon DMV public information officer Michelle Godfrey said these documents are not part of DMV data files and were not part of the breach.
Godfrey also said Oregon ID card photographs and full Social Security numbers were not accessed during the breach.
Oregon ID card or driver’s license holders should check their credit often to watch for any suspicious activity. Oregon DMV customers should also put a fraud alert and a credit lock or credit freeze on their credit files so no one can access it.
ODOT has more information online about the breach and how Oregon DMV customers can protect themselves from fraud.
Anyone who believes they’re a victim of identity theft should file a police report immediately. Incidents of identity theft can also be reported to the Oregon Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. | https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/were-documents-required-for-real-id-included-in-oregon-dmv-breach/ | 2023-06-27 23:24:18 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/were-documents-required-for-real-id-included-in-oregon-dmv-breach/ |
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020 election that included voter fraud claims he knew to be false, a federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge David Carter in an 18-page opinion ordered the release of those emails between Trump and attorney John Eastman to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He said those communications cannot be withheld because they include evidence of potential crimes.
“The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” Carter wrote.
Though the judge’s conclusion has no practical bearing on a separate Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the election, any evidence that Trump signed documents he knew to be false could at minimum be a notable data point for criminal prosecutors trying to sort out culpability for far-ranging efforts to undo the results.
The judge specifically cited claims from Trump's attorneys that Fulton County in Georgia had improperly counted more than 10,000 votes of dead people, felons and unregistered voters. Those false allegations were part of a filing that Trump's legal team made in Georgia state court on Dec. 4, 2021.
Later that month, Eastman warned in a message that Trump had been made aware that “some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts)" in that Georgia filing "has been inaccurate.”
Yet even after the message from Eastman, Trump and his team filed another legal complaint that had “the same inaccurate numbers," the judge wrote. Trump under oath verified the complaint was true to the best of his knowledge.
Carter wrote that the emails are “sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
Representatives for Trump and Eastman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee declined to comment on the ongoing litigation.
The ruling is the latest development in a monthslong legal battle between Eastman — a conservative lawyer and lead architect of Trump's last-ditch efforts to stay in office — and congressional investigators.
Eastman has been trying to withhold documents from the committee on the basis of attorney-client privilege claims. The committee has argued that there is a legal exception allowing the disclosure of communications regarding ongoing or future crimes. And Carter has mostly agreed, ordering the release of hundreds of emails to the House committee since the spring.
In a stunning ruling in March, the judge had asserted that it is “more likely than not” that Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
Carter in his ruling Wednesday said the messages he has reviewed from Eastman and other attorneys show that the “primary goal” for some of their litigation was to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election win.
The totality of the evidence makes clear that "Trump filed certain lawsuits not to obtain legal relief, but to disrupt or delay the January 6 congressional proceedings through the courts,” the judge wrote.
The emails from Eastman are part of the House committee's investigation into a multi-part plan by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election and the ensuing violence at the Capitol. The release of the emails could be critical for the committee as it enters the last few months of its probe when lawmakers will have to decide whether to send a criminal referral against Trump and his allies to the Justice Department.
The judge ordered Eastman to give the documents to the committee by the afternoon of Oct. 28.
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Local Make-A-Wish chapter receives surprise $100,000 gift
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - On Thursday, Ty Eschenbaum of the Ty Eschenbaum Foundation surprised the local Make-A-Wish chapter with a $100,000 donation.
The money will help make the wishes of children with critical illnesses come true. Eschenbaum’s foundation was created in memory of his late wife, Autumn, who was passionate about children.
“Keeping Autumn’s spirit alive and her love for kids, her tender heart for kids, that is very important for me, very personal for me,” explained Eschenbaum. “But then getting to meet all of these kids and meet their families and hear their stories, and I remember what it is like to go through a lot of that stuff, so it hits me about as hard as anybody.”
The foundation also supports missionary causes in memory of Eschenbaum’s brother, Calder, who passed away in 2021.
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Move over, Meek Mill. The Eagles are rocking to Creed on this Super Bowl run.
The Eagles opened practice Wednesday with Creed tunes blasting after Lane Johnson texted Nick Sirianni to add the 90s rock band to the playlist.
The Eagles were fueled five years ago by Meek Mill on their way to the Super Bowl. This time, they’ll see if Creed can play the right notes.
The Eagles opened practice Wednesday with Creed tunes blasting after Lane Johnson texted Nick Sirianni to add the 90s rock band to the playlist. The Birds played the band — best known for songs like “With Arms Wide Open” and “Higher” — last week at one of their final practices in South Philly before departing for the Super Bowl.
“I don’t know if he thinks I’m the DJ or what, but I guess he knows I can get things done,” Sirianni said after the Eagles started practice by jamming to “My Sacrifice.”
The credit (or perhaps the blame) belongs to Chris Long, as the defensive end of the 2018 Super Bowl champion Birds texted Johnson a picture of Creed’s debut album. Johnson listened to the tracks and then started doing his best Scott Stapp in the huddle.
“I like a few of their songs,” Johnson said. “I remember back in the 90s, I think I was in sixth grade and they were big at that time. It’s like my childhood songs.”
Cam Jurgens said Creed has “kind of juiced us up.”
“It just makes me laugh,” Jurgens said. “I remember that Creed performance at halftime so many years ago on Thanksgiving. Legendary.”
The Eagles rallied in 2017 behind Meek Mill as they ran into Super Bowl LII with “Dreams and Nightmares” playing. The song was the team’s anthem and fans rapped along with it. Five years later, it may be a challenge to get the city on board as Creed might be one of the most polarizing bands of the 90s. Just don’t tell that to the Birds.
“There is no Creed slander in our locker room,” Jurgens said. | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-creed-super-bowl-music-20230208.html | 2023-02-10 00:34:36 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-creed-super-bowl-music-20230208.html |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy culture press releases from PR Newswire, including a campaign to #StandUpToJewishHate and events for World Autism Month at Chuck E. Cheese.
NEW YORK, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering different cultural groups stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Robert Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism is Calling Upon All Americans to #StandUpToJewishHate
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism launched a new, national campaign to mobilize all Americans, and especially non-Jews, to #StandUpToJewishHate by using the blue square emoji as a unifying symbol of support. - Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Returns to In-Person Competition in Longstanding Celebration of HBCU Academic Excellence
Four-student teams from each participating school face off in head-to-head competition and must quickly answer questions about history, science, literature, religion, math, the arts, pop culture, and sports. - The Museum at FIT Presents "¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today " May 31-November 12, 2023
It seeks to challenge stereotypes about fashion by designers of Latin American heritage, moving away from a notion of a singular Latin American style and drawing attention to the diversity of talent. - Meet the 10 Tech Startups in the Inaugural Geekz Ventures Pre-Accelerator
The GROWTH pre-accelerator program supports Black and Latinx-led early-stage companies from any industry, with a focus on MediaTech, Entertainment, and Mobile Technology. Applicants were assessed on their product, video pitch, potential impact, and capacity to build a scalable business. - Chuck E. Cheese Steps Up Commitment to Kids with Autism for World Autism Month
The family entertainment brand will host a national Sensory Sensitive Sunday event on April 30 and expand workforce training and its Autism Friendly Designation program. - New Research from Harvard School of Dental Medicine Finds Oral Health Workforce Expansion Improves Health Outcomes in Underserved Communities
"Our analysis suggests that expanding the dental workforce through the NHSC would reduce the burden of dental caries among children in underserved areas and address disparities in the social and economic determinants of oral health," said author Dr. Choi, instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. - The It Gets Better Project Premieres New Web-Series "The Assignment," Focusing on Career Readiness in Culinary Industry for LGBTQ+ Youth
"In pairing well-known LGBTQ+ professionals in the culinary and design industry with young people who are curious about cooking or creating spaces that feel authentic to them, the conversations went far beyond what technical skills the mentors could offer," said Eboni Munn, Director of Brand Marketing, Content & Creative. - Cracker Jack® Announces "I Am Cracker Jill® Award" to Support Women and Girls in Sports
In partnership with the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), Cracker Jack will choose nine contest recipients to receive the I Am Cracker Jill Award, along with $5,000 to fuel their sports endeavors. - The Trevor Project Announces New Roundtable Series "Sharing Space" to Amplify the Voices of LGBTQ Young People
"Sharing Space" provides a much-needed platform for young trans and nonbinary voices – whom new research shows are coming out at younger ages compared to previous generations. The conversations bring humanity to identities that are often marginalized, misunderstood, and weaponized in political spheres. - Paine College Leadership Calls for Strong Financial Support to Continue HBCU Legacy
During Women's History Month, which coincides with the College's capital campaign, President Cheryl Evans Jones, PhD and her team have doubled down as fierce advocates for women's rights, with a keen focus on Paine's contributions to education and equity for all. - Astronaut John Shoffner Hosts Student Art Competition from Space
John is asking students ages 5-18, "What would it look like if we lived in space?" With the help of a teacher or guardian, participants are encouraged to submit their most creative drawings, paintings, or poetry. - National Women's History Museum Opens Inaugural In-person Exhibition at the MLK Library Focusing on DC Black Feminists and their Influence on National Policy
Entitled We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC, the exhibition highlights more than 20 Black women activists whose work in Washington, DC, influenced national policy from the turn of the 20th century through the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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- The Bahrain-based service centre marks a new milestone for the Kingdom's financial services sector
- The new center anticipates 250 new job opportunities for Bahrainis
MANAMA, Bahrain, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC Middle East, is set to establish a new service delivery center in Manama, Bahrain during the first quarter of 2024. The service centre will offer strategic compliance and advisory services to a wide range of global institutions. In line with PwC Middle East's objective to expand its market presence regionally, this new centre will strengthen PwC's global network of 328,000 people working in 152 firms around the world. Located at the heart of the Gulf and providing an accessible gateway into Saudi Arabia, Bahrain is strategically placed to facilitate the regional success of the new service centre.
As a leading global firm, specialising in taxation, legal, deals, assurance (audit) and consultancy services, the new delivery center will continue supporting its diverse client portfolio, comprising of the public sector, financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, Telco providers, and more from its Bahrain office.
Leveraging on its established international strategies as an extension of its capabilities from its global network, PwC Middle East anticipates 50 new job opportunities for Bahrainis for the launch, with an overall operational target of 250 for the centre. The regional service centre in Bahrain will be working closely with the other centres in the region, with initial plans already in place to serve the region's client base.
Hani Ashkar, Middle East Senior Partner at PwC Middle East, said, "Beyond its competitive operating costs and strategic location providing facilitated access to serve the region, Bahrain's highly talented bi-lingual workforce is an undeniable asset against the backdrop of a growing economy that is witnessing impressive and consistent growth."
He added: "We are a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, expertise, technology and innovation to deliver sustained outcomes."
His Excellency Khalid Humaidan, Chief Executive at the Bahrain Economic Development Board, added, "PwC's decision to establish its regional service centre in Bahrain is a testament to the Kingdom's thriving financial ecosystem. Over the years, Bahrain has built solid financial foundations that today enable the efficient delivery of established business services. Owing to a world-class infrastructure and a talented workforce that merges local insight with global perspectives, Bahrain continues to create global success stories and support the expansion plans of leading industry players. We look forward to supporting PwC's latest initiative throughout their investment journey."
In line with the Economic Recovery Plan (ERP, 2021) which aims to develop Bahrain's economy with a focus on strategic high-impact sectors, the regional hub is set to emerge as an influential contributor to diversification efforts. Recently overtaking the oil and gas industry as the highest contributor to GDP growth at 17.5% as of 2022, Bahrain's financial services sector continues to showcase steady growth and is home to a balanced portfolio of leading local, regional, and global financial institutions.
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Get Firsthand Knowledge from the Masters, Follow the Footsteps of the Great
HANGZHOU, China, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On its 95th Anniversary Day, Gao Shiming, President of the China Academy of Art, announced a series of academic events to be held for this particular occasion and declared that starting from this year, April 8 will be the day of the annual event CAA Launch.
The CAA Launch Brings forth a Creative Festival, Launching "1 School, 2 Platforms and 2 New Things" for the First Time
CAA kicked off a series of academic events to mark the 95th Anniversary of its founding on April 8th, 2023, its Launch Day.
Starting from this year, CAA has designated April 8 as the CAA Launch Day each year. The CAA Launch will become a festival for the creative circle, a public platform for all art creators, a creative festival for the society, and an "artistic engine" that drives social innovation.
It happens to be the Academy's 95th anniversary. The Academy has prepared three items for the first CAA Launch.
First, it establishes the CAA School of Calligraphy In 1963, artists and educators, such as Pan Tianshou, Lu Weizhao, Sha Menghai set up the first calligraphic education major in Chinese higher education. As calligraphy art continued to develop, a major adjustment was made by the authorities in the classification of artistic disciplines in 2022, and the discipline of Fine Arts and Calligraphy has hence become a first-level discipline.
Second, it establishes two academic platforms, namely China Cinematic Arts Institute and the School of Social Aesthetic Education to shoulder the responsibility for creating public culture and promoting social aesthetic education. Building on the CAA's profound artistic foundation, China Cinematic Arts Institute is dedicated to further elevating the status of Chinese movies in the world, enhancing their international influence, and promoting the development of dynamic image technology, striving to become a new engine for artistic innovation of Chinese movies. The School of Social Aesthetic Education carries on the original aspiration Cai Yuanpei proposed at the opening ceremony of the National Academy of Art (now China Academy of Art), that we should transform people's hearts with the heart of beauty so that they could obtain a true life. It advocates all-round and lifelong education, promotes traditional Chinese culture and nourishes the souls of the general public. The School will collaborate with other institutions of higher education, government departments, enterprises and industry associations to realize the integration, investment and transference of quality resources and deliver aesthetic education results throughout society.
Third, it releases two new things, the CAA Cosmos and Meta Art Academy. CAA Cosmos is an online art community that allows real-time multi-person interaction. Users can learn, socialize, and play games by creating their own digital identities, sharing their original artworks, and organizing and participating in art activities. CAA Cosmos builds virtual spaces and social scenarios with infinite possibilities, providing an innovative and interactive platform for artists, designers, and creators around the world. Meanwhile, by continuously exploring and applying AI and other new technologies, CAA Cosmos will bring a more wonderful meta social app full of imagination to its users. Meta Art Academy (MAA) is a mixed reality interface for single-person immersive experience. With hyper-immersive theme world courses, realistic audio-visual exhibition and performance sympathetic theater and mixed reality entrances transcending every dimension, MAA creates a virtual art academy that offers one multiverse to each person, and one thematic world for each lesson.
With the Gate of Classic Chinese Art Debuting by the Xianghu Lake, the CAA's Xianghu Campus is Launched
A ceremony on the debut of the Gate of Classic Chinese Art and the launch of the CAA's Xianghu Campus kicked off on the morning of April 8, as this year marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the CAA.
Situated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Xianghu Campus will have an overall schooling structure to carry forward China's fine traditional culture and inherit classical Chinese art, based on the CAA's expertise and talents, as well as bountiful culture and resources of Xianghu Lake in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. The "Gate of Classic Chinese Art" is built by drawing on the merits of the Imperial Painting Academy of the Song Dynasty, traditional Chinese academies and modern academies of art, thus nurturing outstanding talents with "mastery in art and science, skills and practices" and building the most influential cultural hub of China's fine traditional culture.
The CAA Xianghu Campus aims to lead the innovative development of Chinese painting and calligraphy, gather distinguished scholars of humanities and art and develop student training paradigms. It puts the most effort into postgraduate and doctoral programs. Based on its first-class majors of Chinese painting and calligraphy, Xianghu Campus is composed of "four organizations, three museums and four centers" to carry forward China's fine traditional culture and inherit classical Chinese art.
Among them, "four organizations" refer to the Advanced Institute of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Xianghu Academy, Advanced School of Art and Humanities and National Institute of Art/Education, embracing talents of classic Chinese art, drawing inspiration from fine traditions of ancient academies, and helping integrate Chinese painting and calligraphy with classical academics; "three museums" are the Classic Chinese Art Museum, Xianghu Museum and Ancient Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Museum, housing CAA's abundant collections of Chinese painting and calligraphy works and crafts, and bringing together domestic and international collections, based on the scenery and long-lasting culture of Xianghu Lake; "four centers" mean Chinese Character Research Center, Landscape Research Center, Philosophy and Technology Research Center and Landscaping Research Center, aimed at carrying forward the China's fine traditional culture by carrying out special research projects on Chinese cultural elements. Besides, a lab of Chinese calligraphy and painting materials, a cluster of master offices and a research center of the global art history will be set up on the campus, to unveil the unique style of Chinese art from a great viewpoint of the global history and create the "visual classic Chinese art" for the Chinese people.
The CAA Xianghu campus is expected to operate in September, 2023. Notably, Xianghu Campus will be one of the venues to feast the public's eyes with stunning art works created by young artists, designers and scholars in summer this year.
Themed Get Firsthand Knowledge from the Masters, Follow the Footsteps of the Great, the Research Project "Grand Masters of the Century" is Launched.
With a legacy spanning close to a century, the Academy has witnessed master predecessors springing up, lighting up the sky of Chinese modern art history, who constitute the CAA's spirit and academic foundation.
The theme "Get Firsthand Knowledge from the Masters, Follow the Footsteps of the Great" implies the way to make innovations by drawing inspiration from the past. Specifically, tradition gets developed and evolved as it passes down, and thus it may lead to innovations. Since 2023, the Academy has launched its academic program "Grand Master of the Century" until the centennial of the CAA's founding in 2028. In the second half of 2023, the CAA will host a "memorial exhibition of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Zhu Lesan", a "memorial symposium of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mr.Lin Wenzheng", a "grand memorial exhibition of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mr.Wu Dayu" and other academic events. It will also hold "The Centennial Exhibition of Mr.Zhao Wuji's Masterpieces" during the 19th Asian Games. In memory of those art masters and wise predecessors, the events dive into the history and philosophy of Chinese modern art and art education.
Since 2000, the CAA has its every "fifth" anniversary celebrated in the second half of that year. Each theme of the anniversaries is beyond the CAA's history and revolves around frontier academic topics. In 2023, the core academic event of the 95th anniversary of the CAA's founding is "Inter-World-View: World Civilizations Forum", an international art campaign comprising "teaching, creation, action and communication". Under the framework of mutual learning among civilizations, we will go to 12 crucial historic sites of world civilizations to experience spectacular histories through the dialogue of worldview. sessions distributed in different places will be delivered and a themed short video shot to form the forum and exhibition. This event is to drive a real "Institute Campaign" in the post-pandemic era and to progress toward the centennial of "CAA's founding". It intends to fathom the origin of art and education from the perspective of exchange and mutual learning among civilizations by exploring the historical sources of majors and paying homage to all "pioneering" moments. Meanwhile, a present-focused mindset is emphasized. The development and potential trends of human civilization, especially science and technology in the 21st century will be probed into. By doing so, the event provides an opportunity to cultivate young artists with a global view, historical awareness and artistic ambition.
In the second half of 2023, Liangzhu Campus, CAA will be fully opened. As the subject of design will be introduced here, "2023 Design, Start Again" is planned to be held. Progresses in the technological revolution, technology iteration and social improvement are expected. The event is to create a 21st-century historical mission book through design. In other words, it is to rebuild design in the dialectical integration of art with technology and aesthetic with ethics. Also, it represents everyday life in the general network of "information, technology, capital and power", thus driving social innovation.
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U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is in Beijing to revive cooperation between the world's biggest polluters to fight climate change. NPR's A Martinez talks to Chatham House Research Director Bernice Lee.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.
Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.
Her death marks the last chance for anyone to be held accountable for the kidnapping and murder that shocked the world.
Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago so the world could see her 14-year-old son’s mutilated body, which was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.
In August 1955, Till had traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi. Donham — then 21 and named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store where she was working in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.
When Till disappeared in Mississippi, Ollie Gordon — one of Till’s cousins — was 7 years old and living in the Chicago home with Till’s mother and family. Gordon told The Associated Press on Thursday that in the days after he went missing, the home was full of fear, because people knew there was a strong likelihood he had been killed.
Gordon said she had mixed emotions about Donham’s death.
“She was never tried in the court of man,” Gordon said. “But I think she was judged by God, and his wrath is more punitive than any judgment or penalty she could have gotten in a courtroom. I don’t think she had a pleasant or happy life.”
Parker is the last living witness to Till’s abduction. He has said in interviews and speeches that he heard Till whistle at the woman working behind the counter at Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market.
Days later, Parker saw men kidnap Till in the dark of night from their uncle’s home in Mississippi, where the teenagers were staying. Parker said Thursday that his heart goes out to Donham.
“As a person of faith for more than 60 years, I recognize that any loss of life is tragic and don’t have any ill will or animosity toward her,” Parker said in a statement. “Even though no one now will be held to account for the death of my cousin and best friend, it is up to all of us to be accountable to the challenges we still face in overcoming racial injustice.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that President Joe Biden was proud to sign the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act last year to make lynching a federal crime.
“The president is committed to … dealing with racial hatred,” Jean-Pierre said.
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The AP in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to Till. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, North Carolina, provided a copy of the 99-page manuscript, “I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” to AP. He said he received it from Donham while interviewing her in 2008.
Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded in 2021. A campus spokesperson said Thursday that the university returned Tyson’s materials to him in 2022 because they did not agree on open access to the information.
Tyson said in 2022 that he decided to release the memoir to news outlets after some of Till’s relatives and other people doing research at the Leflore County, Mississippi, courthouse in June 2022 found an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for “Mrs. Roy Bryant” in 1955 but never served.
Tyson said in a statement Thursday that Donham’s precise role in the killing of Till remains murky, but it’s clear she was involved.
“It has comforted America to see this as merely a story of monsters, her among them,” Tyson said. “What this narrative keeps us from seeing is the monstrous social order that cared nothing for the life of Emmett Till nor thousands more like him. Neither the federal government nor the government of Mississippi did anything to prevent or punish this murder. Condemning what Donham did is easier than confronting what America was — and is.”
Joe Stidhum was born two years after Till, his cousin, was killed. Stidhum said that older family members protected him and his siblings, and didn’t tell them about Till’s lynching until they were teenagers.
Stidhum said he wishes he knew how Donham reckoned with her own conscience.
“What did she take with her that no one would know, other than her and her maker?” Stidhum told AP on Thursday. “I just hope that no one ever has to go through the pain that our family has endured, mostly the elderly family” members who have died.
In October, a bronze statue of Till was unveiled in Greenwood, Mississippi, just miles from his uncle’s home.
Also last year, members of the New Black Panther Party and other activists began showing up at addresses associated with Donham, including in North Carolina and Kentucky. They were there to serve unofficial “warrants” for her arrest and trial.
Weeks after the unserved arrest warrant was found, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said there was no new evidence to pursue a criminal case against Donham. In August, a district attorney said a Leflore County grand jury declined to indict Donham.
Till’s cousin, Priscilla Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit against the current Leflore County Sheriff, Ricky Banks, on Feb. 7, seeking to compel him to serve the 1955 warrant on Donham. In a response April 13, Banks’ attorney said there was no point serving the warrant because the grand jury did not indict Donham last year.
Malik Z. Shabazz, one of the attorneys in the lawsuit against Banks, said it’s tragic that Mississippi never held Donham accountable.
“Carolyn Bryant’s legacy will be one of dishonesty and injustice,” Shabazz said. “A legacy that verifies that Mississippi coddles and protects white supremacy.”
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MEXICO CITY, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- W MEXICO CITY, one of the most prestigious hotels located in the heart of Polanco, announced the official opening for a limited time, of its most recent thematic and gastronomic pop-up to immerse yourself in a pink world with a new experience: It's a Barbie World!, which will be available until August 20th on the first floor of the hotel.
This space features an installation that looks taken from the movie set and is perfect for enjoying food and photo-ops. The Barbie diner is an immersed pink experience, ideal for both family and friends.
The pop-up has two available menus, the delicious breakfast, served by 9 am and 12 pm, that includes adult options, like the Breakfast Burrito, Rainbow Hot Cakes, the Make Waves Salmon Toast, and the all time favourite, the Live your Dream Burger, a juicy beef burger with melted cheese, caramelised onion and French fries.
As well as a kids menu, that includes the Stay Groovy grilled cheese sandwich, Nifty Chicken Wings with an irresistible BBQ sauce. Also, the Shine Quesadilla, stuffed with melted fontina cheese, a sweet treat with the Candied Bacon, a crispy bacon dipped in an irresistible mixture of white and dark chocolate or they can also go for a classic order of W Waffles.
Both menus include unlimited coffee or chocolate milk, juice and a plate of fresh fruit, as well of delicious desserts, including Pink Macarons, Cake Pops, Fab Raspberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Milkshake, and the fantastic Malibu Beach Ice Cream.
During the lunch served between 4 pm and 6 pm, the menu includes the Real World Mac & Cheese, Venice Beach Pizza, the Best Hot Dog Ever, served with bacon and french fries, and the Party Salad, a refreshing combination of burrata, arugula, cherry tomato, rustic bread and house dressing, as well as the So Cool Pasta, which contains pink fusilli, Parmesan cheese and grilled chicken.
In addition, the soda fountain offers a variety of unlimited options, ranging from the famous Pink Lemonade, Naranjada, California Iced Tea and coffee.
"It's a Barbie World" is not only a dining experience, but also a magical event for the whole family.
You can purchase tickets at Fever website or mobile application to reserve the date and time of their visit, which is subject to availability and duration.
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Nordic combined, which uniquely tests skiers on jaw-dropping jumps and heart-pounding trails, has been a part of the Winter Olympics since 1924. Its time might be up.
It is the only Olympic sport without women and the International Olympic Committee is due to make a decision later this month about whether to allow women to compete in Nordic combined at the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Games.
There is the possibility, however, that Nordic combined is dropped entirely from the Olympics, according to athletes and advocates.
“What I heard loud and clear in back channels is that the solution to take care of the gender equity dirty secret is to take men out of the program for 2026,” said Billy Demong, a five-time Olympian in Nordic combined and member of USA Nordic’s board of directors. “To take away one of the original sports from the first Winter Olympics would be tragic, short-sighted and misguided.”
The IOC said final decisions on the 2026 Olympics program of medal events are scheduled to be decided at a June 24 meeting of its executive board, chaired by president Thomas Bach.
“We’re seeing sports such as ski mountaineering added and I’m hearing the IOC does not want to increase the number of athletes and the solution is take men out of Nordic combined,” Demong said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Men in the Nordic combined have been publicly pushing on social media and elsewhere for women to be included, adding a mixed team format as another Olympic medal event, and are now bracing for their future as athletes on the world’s stage.
Jasper Good, who competed for the U.S. earlier this year at the Beijing Olympics, said he was “blindsided” by the possibility.
“Information is trickling to us from athlete groups from around the world and national governing bodies, and most of us didn’t realize the sport is in jeopardy,” he said.
International Ski Federation Nordic combined race director Lasse Ottesen said he has not heard officially from the IOC about men potentially being eliminated from the Olympic program.
“We do hear speculation from different sides,” Ottesen said Wednesday. “If the IOC, for some reason, would make a decision not to include women for the ‘26 events, what would happen with the men’s? Would that be sort of a signal to say you’re on for the ‘26 events, but for ‘30, we are thinking gender equality and then the men are out.”
Nordic combined skiers must have finesse and fearlessness for ski jumping while training to have the strength and stamina necessary for a 10-kilometer cross-country course. The athlete who wins the ski jumping stage starts the cross-country race in the front of the pack, followed by the rest of the competition in their order of finish and then they race to the line for gold.
While Nordic combined is a fringe sport in the United States, it is very popular in parts of Europe and Japan.
“It’s really big in countries like Norway, Germany and Austria,” U.S. Olympic Nordic combined skier Jared Shumate said. “Those three countries usually dominate the world cup podiums, and Olympic podiums. And obviously, we don’t have quite the same fame.”
Annika Malacinski is one of dozens of women around the world who have sacrificed a lot of time and money to go for Olympic gold. The 21-year-old Malacinski, who has American-Finnish dual citizenship and competes for the U.S., had high hopes of competing in China dashed in 2018.
The IOC executive board considered denied an application then that would have allowed her and other women to compete in Nordic combined at the Beijing Games. IOC sports director Kit McConnell said then that development in terms of the universality, competitiveness,and following was needed.
During the 2022 season, nearly 40 women competed at the highest level of the sport in a successful follow to the debut World Cup season for women a year ago.
“There’s no reason that we shouldn’t be in the Olympics,” said Norway’s Ida Marie Hagen, who finished No. 2 in the World Cup standings. “The level is getting higher. There’s also a lot of athletes from different continents.”
The IOC is proud to point to improvements made toward gender equality, saying the Beijing Games set new marks for female competitors by increasing participation to 45% from 41% in 2018. The 2024 Paris Games are expected to be the first Olympics with as many women as men competing.
Alas, the Olympics’ Instagram post to point that out led to another round a flurry of responses calling for women to be included in Nordic combined.
“It makes it just so much more intense, especially when the decision is only a week away,” Malacinski told the AP.
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WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Late Wednesday afternoon, a local jeweler store was robbed in what the Westfield Police Department describe as a smash-and-grab style theft.
Three suspects entered the store at the 14700 block of Thatcher Lane wearing black hoodies and face masks. According to Westfield police, one suspect held the door while the other two suspects smashed jewelry cases, robbing watches and various precious stones.
According to a report, the suspects were inside for only a short amount of time before fleeing in a dark colored Jeep Cherokee with an Illinois license plate numbered DH31399.
The suspects were described as two black males and one lighter skinned male.
No staff or customers were injured during the robbery.
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US mortgage rates top 7% for the first time in 2 decades
WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate topped 7% for the first time in more than two decades this week, a result of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes intended to tame inflation not seen in some 40 years.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate jumped to 7.08% from 6.94% last week. The last time the average rate was above 7% was April 2002, a time when the U.S. was still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but six years away from the 2008 housing market collapse that triggered the Great Recession.
Last year at this time, rates on a 30-year mortgage averaged 3.14%.
The Fed has raised its key benchmark lending rate five times this year, including three consecutive 0.75 percentage point increases that have brought its key short-term borrowing rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since 2008. At their last meeting in late September, Fed officials projected that by early next year they would raise their key rate to roughly 4.5%.
Mortgage rates don’t necessarily mirror the Fed’s rate increases, but tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. That’s influenced by a variety of factors, including investors’ expectations for future inflation and global demand for U.S. Treasurys.
Many potential homebuyers have moved to the sidelines as mortgage rates have more than doubled this year. Sales of existing homes have declined for eight straight months as borrowing costs have become too high a hurdle for many Americans already paying more for food, gas and other necessities. Meanwhile, some homeowners have held off putting their homes on the market because they don’t want to jump into a higher rate on their next mortgage.
The Fed is expected to raise its benchmark rate another three-quarters of a point when it meets next week. Despite the rate increases, inflation has hardly budged from 40-year highs, above 8% at both the consumer and wholesale level.
The Fed rate increases have shown some signs of cooling the economy. But the rate increases have seemed to have little effect on the job market yet, which remains strong with the unemployment rate matching a 50-year low of 3.5% and layoffs still historically low.
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Alex Veiga reported from Los Angeles.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor and his appointees, claiming the jurist's prior statements in other cases have raised questions about his impartiality on the state's efforts to take over Disney World's governing body.
DeSantis ' attorney filed a motion in federal court in Tallahassee on Friday seeking to disqualify U.S. District Judge Mark Walker from overseeing the lawsuit filed by Disney last month. The lawsuit alleges that DeSantis and his appointees violated the company's right to free speech, as well as the contracts clause, by taking over the special governing district that previously had been controlled by Disney supporters after Disney opposed Florida legislation that critics have dubbed “Don't Say Gay.”
The Republican governor's motion was filed a day after Disney announced that it was scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida and relocate 2,000 employees from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development, amid an ongoing feud with DeSantis.
DeSantis' motion said Walker referenced the ongoing dispute between his administration and Disney during hearings in two unrelated lawsuits before him dealing with free speech issues and fear of retaliation for violating new laws championed by DeSantis and Republican lawmakers. One of those was a First Amendment lawsuit filed by Florida professors that challenged a new law establishing a survey about “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on state campuses.
Walker, who was nominated to the federal bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama, tossed out that lawsuit on the grounds that the professors didn't have standing to challenge the law championed by DeSantis and Florida lawmakers.
In the first case, Walker said, “What’s in the record, for example — is there anything in the record that says we are now going to take away Disney’s special status because they’re woke?"
In the second case, the judge said, “And then Disney is going to lose its status because—arguably, because they made a statement that run afoul—ran afoul of state policy of the controlling party,” according to the DeSantis motion.
Disney and DeSantis have been engaged in a tug-of-war for more than a year that has engulfed the GOP governor in criticism as he prepares to launch an expected presidential bid next week.
The feud started after Disney, in the face of significant pressure, publicly opposed the state concerning lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades that critics called “Don’t Say Gay.”
As punishment, DeSantis took over Disney World’s self-governing district through legislation passed by lawmakers and appointed a new board of supervisors. Before the new board came in, the company signed agreements with the old board stripping the new supervisors of design and construction authority.
In response, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature passed legislation allowing the DeSantis-appointed board to repeal those agreements and made the theme park resort’s monorail system subject to state inspection, when it previously had been done in-house.
Disney filed the First Amendment lawsuit against DeSantis and Disney-appointed board last month in federal court in Tallahassee, and it landed in Walker's court. The Disney-appointed board earlier this month sued Disney in state court in Orlando seeking to void the deals the company made with the previous board.
The creation of Disney’s self-governing district by the Florida Legislature was instrumental in the company’s decision in the 1960s to build near Orlando. Disney told the state at the time that it planned to build a futuristic city that would include a transit system and urban planning innovations, so the company needed autonomy. The futuristic city never materialized, however, and instead morphed into a second theme park that opened in 1982.
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How to Watch UCLA vs. Gonzaga on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
Published: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:16 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
This Sweet 16 matchup features the No. 2 seed UCLA Bruins (31-5) hitting the court against the No. 3 seed Gonzaga Bulldogs (30-5) on Thursday at T-Mobile Arena. It tips off at 9:45 PM, with the winner advancing to the West Region bracket final.
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- When: Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 9:45 PM ET
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
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UCLA Stats Insights
- The Bruins are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 44.3% the Bulldogs allow to opponents.
- UCLA has an 18-1 straight-up record in games it shoots better than 44.3% from the field.
- The Bruins are the 135th-ranked rebounding team in the country, the Bulldogs sit at 57th.
- The Bruins score only one more point per game (74.1) than the Bulldogs give up (73.1).
- UCLA is 16-1 when scoring more than 73.1 points.
Gonzaga Stats Insights
- The Bulldogs have shot at a 52.6% rate from the field this season, 12.1 percentage points above the 40.5% shooting opponents of the Bruins have averaged.
- Gonzaga is 26-3 when it shoots higher than 40.5% from the field.
- The Bulldogs are the 57th-ranked rebounding team in the country, the Bruins sit at 48th.
- The Bulldogs average 27.1 more points per game (87.3) than the Bruins allow their opponents to score (60.2).
- When Gonzaga allows fewer than 74.1 points, it is 14-2.
UCLA Home & Away Comparison
- UCLA puts up 77.8 points per game when playing at home, compared to 69.8 points per game on the road, a difference of eight points per contest.
- The Bruins allow 57.5 points per game in home games this season, compared to 61.4 when playing on the road.
- At home, UCLA is making 0.9 more three-pointers per game (6.6) than away from home (5.7). However, it has a lower three-point percentage at home (33.9%) compared to in away games (37.1%).
Gonzaga Home & Away Comparison
- Gonzaga averages 92.9 points per game at home, and 84.8 away.
- At home the Bulldogs are giving up 69.4 points per game, nine fewer points than they are on the road (78.4).
- Gonzaga makes fewer 3-pointers at home (7.4 per game) than away (7.6). It also has a lower 3-point percentage at home (37.1%) than away (40%).
UCLA Schedule
Gonzaga Schedule
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7 p.m.;NLCS: Phillies at Padres;FS1
BASKETBALL
6:30 p.m.;76ers at Celtics;TNT
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Mitch Garver Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. White Sox - June 19
Published: Jun. 19, 2023 at 2:34 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
On Monday, Mitch Garver (.250 batting average in his past 10 games, with four doubles, a home run, three walks and five RBI) and the Texas Rangers play the Chicago White Sox, whose starting pitcher will be Tanner Banks. First pitch is at 8:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-2) against the Blue Jays.
Mitch Garver Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Monday, June 19, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Guaranteed Rate Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Tanner Banks
- TV Channel: NBCS-CHI
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -139)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Mitch Garver At The Plate
- Garver is hitting .255 with four doubles, three home runs and six walks.
- Garver has gotten a hit in 10 of 16 games this season (62.5%), including four multi-hit games (25.0%).
- He has homered in two of 16 games played this season, and in 4.9% of his plate appearances.
- In six games this season, Garver has picked up an RBI, with more than one RBI once.
- In eight games this season (50.0%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Mitch Garver Home/Away Batting Splits
White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the White Sox pitching staff leads MLB.
- The White Sox have the 22nd-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.52).
- White Sox pitchers combine to surrender 99 total home runs at a clip of 1.4 per game (fifth-most in baseball).
- Banks makes his first start of the season for the White Sox.
- The 31-year-old southpaw has appeared in relief six times this season.
- In six appearances this season, he has compiled a 3.86 ERA and averages 7.7 strikeouts per nine innings while opposing batters are hitting .220 against him.
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The United States added 372,000 jobs in June, which held the national unemployment rate at 3.6%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The data indicate that even with the added jobs, the U.S. workforce remains below pre-pandemic levels.
Data showed professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care industries saw notable increases in workforce participation.
The leisure and hospitality industry, which saw a mass exodus during the pandemic, saw gains of 67,000 workers in June. The industry, however, remains down 1.3 million employees since February 2020.
While inflation is raising the costs of goods, employees saw a bump in pay in June. The average nonfarm hourly rate increased by 10 cents, or .3%, to $32.08. In the last 12 months, the BLS reports that the average hourly rate for nonfarm work rose 5.1%.
While Americans are getting paid more, salaries have failed to keep up with inflation, which has remained over 8% in the last year.
Although the number of Americans collecting unemployment ever so slightly declined, the U.S. workforce declined by 500,000 in June, suggesting a number of Americans continue to retire or voluntarily leave the workforce. The overall workforce participation rate dropped .1% to 62.2%.
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The 2023 Genesis Scottish Open Odds & Preview: Kyoung-Hoon Lee
The Genesis Scottish Open is underway, and Kyoung-Hoon Lee is currently in fifth place with a score of -5.
Looking to place a wager on Kyoung-Hoon Lee at the Genesis Scottish Open this week? Read on for the betting trends you can use before you make your picks.
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Kyoung-Hoon Lee Insights
- Over his last nine rounds, Lee has shot below par on three occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and two rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded one of the five best scores in one of his last nine rounds played.
- Lee has recorded a score within five shots of the day's best in one of his last nine rounds.
- In his past five events, Lee has finished in the top five once.
- He has qualified for the weekend in one of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five tournaments, Lee has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average once.
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Genesis Scottish Open Insights and Stats
- In Lee's previous three appearances in this tournament, he has finished among the top five once. His average finish has been 15th.
- In his past three appearances at this tournament, he has made the cut twice.
- Lee finished fifth on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- The par-70 course measures 7,237 yards this week, 217 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- Courses that Lee has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,297 yards, 60 yards longer than the 7,237-yard The Renaissance Club this week.
Lee's Last Time Out
- Lee finished in the 40th percentile on the eight par-3 holes at the John Deere Classic, with an average of par.
- His 4.05-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at the John Deere Classic ranked in the 26th percentile of the field (the tournament average was 3.95).
- Lee shot better than 35% of the competitors at the John Deere Classic on the tournament's six par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.60.
- Lee shot worse on par 3s than the field his last time out, carding a birdie or better on one of eight par-3s at the John Deere Classic (the other golfers averaged 1.9).
- On the eight par-3s at the John Deere Classic, Lee recorded one bogey or worse (less than the tournament average of 1.6).
- Lee had fewer birdies or better (two) than the tournament average of 6.4 on the 22 par-4s at the John Deere Classic.
- At that last competition, Lee had a bogey or worse on three of 22 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- Lee ended the John Deere Classic registering a birdie or better on three par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 3.8 on the six par-5s.
- On the six par-5s at the John Deere Classic, Lee recorded one bogey or worse, more than the field average of 0.6.
Genesis Scottish Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: The Renaissance Club
- Location: North Berwick, United Kingdom
- Par: 70 / 7,237 yards
- Lee Odds to Win: +5000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Employee Experience platform recognized for building a cloud-native solution that can unify modern workforces through better communication, engagement and access information
AUSTIN, Texas, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LumApps, a leading Employee Experience Platform, today announced it has received a Google Cloud Communications and Service Provider 2021 Customer Award. LumApps was recognized for the company's achievements with Google Cloud, having demonstrated innovative thinking, technical excellence and transformation.
"Using Google Cloud's infrastructure has allowed us to focus all of our energy on product development. Today our cloud-native platform is a market leading solution used by more than 4 million users working at some of the world's biggest enterprises. We've built a solution that is safe, secure and scalable with powerful features that unify modern workforces through better communication, engagement and access to information," said Elie Mélois, CTO at LumApps.
LumApps uses Google Cloud to make work easier for employees by unifying the full range of their digital apps into a single, simplified employee experience platform. Integrated with Google Workspace, and running on Google Cloud, the platform intelligently connects people, information, and business applications to empower employees and enhance productivity. The solution tailors each experience to the unique needs of the employee, from executives and managers to frontline workers.
"Our next big push will be into AI and machine learning. We're always striving to make content more relevant and personalized for our customers, and Google Cloud will play a big part in that," said Mélois.
"The Google Cloud Customer Awards are an opportunity to recognize the most innovative, technically advanced, and transformative cloud deployments across industries, from around the globe, built on our platform," said Kirsten Kliphouse, President, Google Cloud. "I want to congratulate LumApps on achieving this award and serving as an innovator for the industry."
The partnership between LumApps and Google Cloud began in 2016. This is the second year LumApps has been honored with a Google Cloud Customer Award. Last year, LumApps was named Google Cloud's Technology Partner of the Year award for Productivity and Collaboration. In 2018, LumApps was a finalist for the Global Technology Partner of the Year. And in 2016, LumApps received the Global Partner Award for Solution Innovation.
To learn more about LumApps, visit www.lumapps.com.
LumApps is a cloud-native Employee Experience Platform launched in 2015. Integrated with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 collaborative suites, LumApps intelligently connects employees to the information and business applications they need to be productive, engaged, and empowered. Whether in the office or in the field, on desktop or mobile app and in any language, LumApps enables knowledge management and best practices sharing across communities. LumApps also automates HR processes and orchestrates personalized journeys for key phases in the employee life cycle, such as onboarding, interviews with managers and more.
With over 300 employees in 7 offices on 3 continents, LumApps serves some of the biggest companies in the world, such as Airbus, Air Liquide, Electronic Arts, Galeries Lafayette, Japan Airlines, Publicis Sapient, Stellantis, The Economist, Valeo, and Veolia, and has over 4 million users worldwide.
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Elon Musk has gotten into a Twitter tussle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the tech billionaire floated a divisive proposal to end Russia’s invasion.
The Tesla CEO, who on Tuesday revived a $44 billion deal to take control of Twitter, argued in a tweet that to reach peace Russia should be allowed to keep the Crimea Peninsula that it seized in 2014. He also said Ukraine should adopt a neutral status, dropping a bid to join NATO following Russia’s partial mobilization of reservists.
Musk also crossed red lines for Ukraine and its supporters by suggesting Monday that four regions Russia is moving to annex following Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” denounced by the West as a sham should hold repeat votes organized by the United Nations.
Musk noted Crimea was part of Russia until it was given to Ukraine under the Soviet Union in 1950s and said that a drawn-out war will likely not end in a resounding Ukrainian victory.
These positions are anathema for Zelenskyy, who considers them pro-Kremlin. The Ukrainian leader has pledged to recover all the terrain conquered in the war and considers Crimea as Ukraine’s to reclaim as well.
Musk also launched a Twitter poll asking whether “the will of the people” should decide if seized regions remain part of Ukraine or become part of Russia.
In a sarcastic response, Zelenskyy posted a Twitter poll of his own asking “which Elon Musk do you like more?”: “One who supports Ukraine” or “One who supports Russia.”
Musk replied to Zelenskyy that “I still very much support Ukraine, but am convinced that massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world.”
Andrij Melnyk, the outgoing Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, responded to Musk’s original tweet with an obscenity.
“Russia is doing partial mobilization. They go to full war mobilization if Crimea is at risk. Death on both sides will be devastating,” Musk wrote in another tweet. “Russia has (over) 3 times population of Ukraine, so victory for Ukraine is unlikely in total war. If you care about the people of Ukraine, seek peace.”
The Kremlin itself chimed in, praising Musk for his proposal but warning that Russia will not backtrack on its move to absorb the Ukrainian regions.
“It’s very positive that such a person as Elon Musk is trying to look for a peaceful settlement,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. But, “as for the referendums, people have voiced their opinion and there could be nothing else.”
Ukraine and the West have said that the hastily organized votes in four occupied regions were clearly rigged to serve Putin’s purpose to try to cement his loosening grip on Ukrainian terrain.
Musk’s ideas seemed to get little support on Twitter, including from Russian chess great and anti-Putin political activist Garry Kasparov, who bashed the plan.
“This is moral idiocy, repetition of Kremlin propaganda, a betrayal of Ukrainian courage and sacrifice, and puts a few minutes browsing Crimea on Wikipedia over the current horrific reality of Putin’s bloody war,” Kasparov tweeted.
In the first weeks of the invasion in early March, Musk came to Ukraine’s aid when his SpaceX company shared its Starlink satellite system that helps deliver internet access to areas that lack coverage. At the time, Zelenskyy thanked Musk for the equipment that he said would help maintain communications in cities under attack.
However, in April, Musk said that as a “free speech absolutist” Starlink would not block Russian state media outlets that spread propaganda and misinformation on the war in Ukraine.
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Normal played the role of Thor, dropping its hammer on East Moline United Township during a 60-22 beating on Feb. 21 in Illinois girls high school basketball action.
In recent action on Feb. 16, Normal faced off against Minooka . Click here for a recap. East Moline United Township took on Peoria Richwoods on Feb. 7 at Peoria Richwoods High School. For more, click here.
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We will have more great fall weather with plenty of sunshine and low humidity today as the ridge of high pressure moves over the Deep South. High temperatures will be in the lower 80s and lows will be in the 50s each day.
Tonight, we will be mostly clear and cool with lows in the 40s and 50s, so grab that jacket or sweater again.
Thursday will have more delightful weather with sunshine and low humidity. High temperatures will be in the lower to mid 80s.
A cold front will move across Alabama on Friday, but we will not have any rain with this one. It will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy and warm. High temperatures will be in the lower 80s. Friday evening will be mostly clear and comfortable with temperatures falling from the 70s into the 60s. This will be very nice for the high school football games.
Weekend Outlook: Another ridge of high pressure will build over the Plains and Southeast behind the front this weekend. We will be mostly sunny and breezy on Saturday with highs only in the lower to mid 70s. Saturday night will be clear and chilly with lows in the lower to mid 40s. Sunday will be sunny and mild with highs in the lower to mid 70s. This is perfect weather for football games, tailgating or anything outside!
Next Week Outlook: The new work week will start out sunny and dry Monday through Wednesday. Highs will be in the upper 70s to lower 80s. A cold front will move through on Thursday, and it looks like we may get some rain with this front! Expect scattered showers and a few thunderstorms throughout the day with highs in the 70s. It will turn a little cooler and drier on Friday with highs in the 70s.
Tracking the Tropics: Invest 91L, a large area of low pressure, is located east of the southern Windward Islands. It is producing disorganized showers and storms, and it does not have a well-defined center of circulation. However, conditions are favorable for some development, and a tropical depression could form over the next few days as it moves west across the Central Caribbean. NHC is giving this system a high chance to develop. This is not a threat to the U.S.
Tropical Depression 12 formed on Tuesday over the far eastern Atlantic. It is not expected to last long due to strong wind shear, and the forecast calls for it to dissipate later today or Thursday over the open Atlantic. Some of the models are showing that it could redevelop in a few days across the Central Atlantic, but it is expected to stay out at sea.
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By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce the release of 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve Wednesday as part of a response to recent production cuts announced by OPEC+ nations, and he will say more drawdowns are possible this winter, as his administration rushes to be seen as pulling out all the stops ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Biden will deliver remarks Wednesday to announce the drawdown from the strategic reserve, senior administration officials said Tuesday on the condition of anonymity to outline Biden’s plans. It completes the release of 180 million barrels authorized by Biden in March that was initially supposed to occur over six months. That has sent the strategic reserve to its lowest level since 1984 in what the administration called a “bridge” until domestic production could be increased. The reserve now contains roughly 400 million barrels of oil.
Biden will also open the door to additional releases this winter in an effort to keep prices down. But administration officials would not detail how much the president would be willing to tap, nor how much they want domestic and production to increase by to end the withdrawals.
Biden will also say that the U.S. government will restock the strategic reserve when oil prices are at or lower than $67 to $72 a barrel, an offer that administration officials argue will support domestic production by guaranteeing a baseline level of demand. Yet the president is also expected to renew his criticism of the profits reaped by oil companies — repeating a bet made this summer that public condemnation would matter more to these companies than shareholders’ focus on returns.
It marks the continuation of an about-face by Biden, who has tried to move the U.S. past fossil fuels to identify additional sources of energy to satisfy U.S. and global supply as a result of disruptions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and production cuts announced by the Saudi Arabia-led oil cartel.
The prospective loss of 2 million barrels a day — 2% of global supply — has had the White House saying Saudi Arabia sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin and pledging there will be consequences for supply cuts that could prop up energy prices. The 15 million-barrel release would not cover even one full day’s use of oil in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration.
The administration could make a decision on future releases a month from now, as it requires a month and a half for the government to notify would-be buyers.
Biden still faces political headwinds because of gas prices. AAA reports that gas is averaging $3.87 a gallon. That’s down slightly over the past week, but it’s up from a month ago. The recent increase in prices stalled the momentum that the president and his fellow Democrats had been seeing in the polls ahead of the November elections.
An analysis Monday by ClearView Energy Partners, an independent energy research firm based in Washington, suggested that two states that could decide control of the evenly split Senate — Nevada and Pennsylvania — are sensitive to energy prices. The analysis noted that gas prices over the past month rose above the national average in 18 states, which are home to 29 potentially “at risk” House seats.
Even if voters want cheaper gasoline, expected gains in supply are not materializing because of a weaker global economy. The U.S. government last week revised downward its forecasts, saying that domestic firms would produce 270,000 fewer barrels a day in 2023 than was forecast in September. Global production would be 600,000 barrels a day lower than forecast in September.
The hard math for Biden is that oil production has yet to return to its pre-pandemic level of roughly 13 million barrels a day. It’s about a million barrels a day shy of that level. The oil industry would like the administration to open up more federal lands for drilling, approve pipeline construction and reverse its recent changes to raise corporate taxes. The administration counters that the oil industry is sitting on thousands of unused federal leases and says new permits would take years to produce oil with no impact on current gas prices. Environmental groups, meanwhile, have asked Biden to keep a campaign promise to block new drilling on federal lands.
Biden has resisted the policies favored by U.S. oil producers. Instead, he’s sought to reduce prices by releasing oil from the U.S. reserve, shaming oil companies for their profits and calling on greater production from countries in OPEC+ that have different geopolitical interests, said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute.
“If they continue to offer the same old so-called solutions, they’ll continue to get the same old results,” Macchiarola said.
Because fossil fuels lead to carbon emissions, Biden has sought to move away from them entirely with a commitment to zero emissions by 2050. When discussing that commitment nearly a year ago after the G-20 leading rich and developing nations met in Rome, the president said he still wanted to also lower gas prices because at “$3.35 a gallon, it has profound impact on working-class families just to get back and forth to work.”
Since Biden spoke of the pain of gas at $3.35 a gallon and his hopes to reduce costs, the price has on balance risen another 15.5%.
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Ukrainian president observes 1st grain exports leaving
July 29, 2022 Updated: July 29, 2022 7:11 a.m.
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1of 11 In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, surrounded by ambassadors of different countries and UN officials, visits a port in Chornomork during loading of grain on a Turkish ship, background, close to Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) Show More Show Less
2of 11 The ship Navi-Star sits full of grain since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began five months ago as it waits to sail from the Odesa Sea Port, in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. David Goldman/AP Show More Show Less 3of 11
4of 11 In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, surrounded by ambassadors of different countries and UN officials, visits a port in Chornomork during loading of grain on a Turkish ship, background, close to Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) Show More Show Less
5of 11 In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, surrounded by ambassadors of different countries and UN officials, visits a port in Chornomork during loading of grain on a Turkish ship, background, close to Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) AP Show More Show Less 6of 11
7of 11 In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, surrounded by ambassadors of different countries and UN officials, visits a port in Chornomork during loading of grain on a Turkish ship, background, close to Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) Show More Show Less
8of 11 A person walks past a grain storage terminal at the Odesa Sea Port, in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. David Goldman/AP Show More Show Less 9of 11
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ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday visited the Odesa region to observe the loading of grain as exports resume for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion.
Zelenskyy observed a Turkish ship loaded with grain.
“The first vessel, the first ship is being loaded since the beginning of the war,” Zelenskyy said.
He said the export of grain will begin with the departure of several ships that were already loaded but could not depart the Ukrainian ports. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ukrainian-president-observes-1st-grain-exports-17337707.php | 2022-07-29 11:21:26 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ukrainian-president-observes-1st-grain-exports-17337707.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is calling for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate.
In messages posted late Thursday on his Truth Social platform, Trump writes, “Release the documents now!”
The Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant earlier Thursday, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
Garland said he had personally approved the search warrant, which was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/trump-calls-for-immediate-release-of-mar-a-lago-warrant/ | 2022-08-12 12:08:40 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/trump-calls-for-immediate-release-of-mar-a-lago-warrant/ |
Bruce Cassidy walked out of the tunnel at TD Garden and stood on the home bench, and not because of muscle memory.
“Just to see what it was like,” the Vegas coach said Sunday, as his Golden Knights ran through an optional practice. “I’ve been in that spot a lot. I used to always look at the banners up top. Wanted to hang one. That didn’t happen. But still, great memories.”
Cassidy is back for Monday’s game with the red-hot Bruins, the team that stunned many by dismissing him last June. The Garden was quiet on Sunday, when bull gang mainstay John Grzelcyk, Matt’s dad, was one of the few familiar faces greeting him. There will be more who do so on Monday, including some in Black and Gold uniforms.
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Cassidy had a deep appreciation for the Spoked-B long before joining the organization in 2008. He grew up a Bruins fan in Ottawa, mesmerized by Bobby Orr. After 14 seasons with the franchise, including a successful six-year run as head coach, his love for that crest is now dormant. But not erased.
“The appreciation of being around solid professionals like Zdeno Chara, Bergy [Patrice Bergeron] obviously,” he said, reflecting on what he took with him to Vegas. “Watched the growth of Marchy [Brad Marchand] and Pasta [David Pastrnak], the growth of Tuukka [Rask]. I could go down the list. The culture that was created — and I’ve said this before, Claude [Julien] laid a terrific foundation. We built off that, and Monty’s continued to do the same.
“When I was younger, I didn’t maybe appreciate it that much. I was thinking, ‘This is how we’re going to play, these are my matchups.’ It’s deeper than that.”
Matchups against his successor, Jim Montgomery, could be a challenge on Monday. Vegas (18-7-1), the top team in the Western Conference, could be without its two best players. No. 1 defenseman Alex Pietrangelo is not in Boston, set to miss his fourth consecutive game for personal reasons.
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No. 1 center Jack Eichel took a friendly-fire puck to the face five days ago and has since worn a bubble face shield. Like ex-Bruins Sean Kuraly and Noel Acciari once did under Cassidy, he played well in the fishbowl: He scored a goal in each game. Eichel, however, left Saturday’s 4-1 win over Detroit with a lower body injury. He was at the Garden on Sunday receiving treatment.
“That’s a tough one for him,” Cassidy said of the North Chelmsford and Boston University product (13-16—29 in 26 games), who leads the Golden Knights in scoring. “He’s having such a good year. He was really looking forward to it. Hopefully he heals quickly.”
Because of injuries in Buffalo and the Nov. 2021 trade west, Eichel hasn’t skated on TD Garden ice since Dec. 29, 2019. In six seasons with the Sabres, he posted a pair of 4-point games at the Garden, going 5-7—12 in eight games here.
He has been Vegas’ “best player every night ― away from the puck,” Cassidy said. He is trying to build Eichel into a 200-foot center, in the mold of Bergeron, Jonathan Toews, or Anze Kopitar. Faceoffs (42.3 percent) are the only area of improvement. He’s even playing some secondary penalty kill minutes.
“I can’t say enough about the commitment he’s made to be a full, complete player,” Cassidy said. “He’s walked the walk.”
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Breakouts have been tougher without Pietrangelo, the Knights losing more than their share of battles on the walls. Cassidy sees a Bruins team that activates its weak-side defenseman more than he did — Hampus Lindholm being a key driver of that — and is more aggressive in the neutral zone than his old squad.
“Sometimes your game simplifies when you’re missing key players,” Cassidy said. “I think our team has responded to good teams. We’re a bit of that team that can elevate our game. Sometimes unfortunately we can go the other way against opponents we should be doing better against.”
Goaltending was a major worry for Vegas, after No. 1 Robin Lehner was lost for the year with hip surgery. Logan Thompson has inserted himself into the Calder trophy race with a .920 save percentage and 12–5–0 record through his first 17 starts. He also has a pair of shutouts.
“There’s some [Jeremy] Swayman comparisons there,” Cassidy said. “A guy that came in the year before, did well late in the year and the guys had confidence in him. We knew he had the ability to play. Could he sustain that over the course of the year? We’re still finding that out. So far, so good.”
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin judge sides with Republicans and blocks election clerks from completing absentee ballot envelopes.
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Pod of 55 pilot whales die after being stranded on a beach in Scotland
LONDON (AP) — A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday.
Marine rescuers, the coast guard and police were called to Traigh Mhor beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland after receiving reports that dozens of the mammals were in difficulty there early Sunday.
The British Divers Marine Life Rescue found that only 15 of the whales — a mixture of adults and calves — were still alive, and attempted to refloat two of the more active animals that were low down in the water.
But by Sunday afternoon rescue teams decided that the remaining whales should be euthanized on welfare grounds, after considering the shallow beach, rough wave conditions and how long the whales had been out of the water.
The charity said the whole pod may have followed a female whale onto the beach when she had problems giving birth.
“Pilot whales are notorious for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow,” it said in a statement. “A sad outcome for this pod and obviously not the outcome we were all hoping for.”
Experts will begin carrying out post-mortem work Monday to determine what caused the whales’ death.
Andrew Brownlow, from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, said that would be a “monumental task.” Experts will take samples and data from some of the whales, and the bodies will be to a landfill site and buried after the post-mortem is complete, he told the BBC.
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Innovative content-delivery solution among the nation's fastest-growing privately held companies
DENVER, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. Magazine today revealed that Edison Interactive (EI) is ranked 1105 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, a prestigious compilation of the fastest-growing private companies. EI's growth of 588 percent from 2018 to 2021 earned the company a spot on the list for the second consecutive year.
"We are thrilled to be announced to the Inc. 5000 list for the second straight year. It's an honor to be recognized alongside other innovative and disruptive companies that are changing the game in their space. The strong adoption of our Content Management System across a predominantly Fortune 500 client base has led to explosive growth," said Edison Interactive CEO and co-founder, Jeremy Ostermiller. "We are on a mission to provide a superior customer experience for digital devices and the Edison Platform is making that possible in planes, trains, automobiles and beyond.
EI has made a number of "best of" lists, including Colorado Companies to Watch. In 2021, EI ranked 144 on the Inc. 5000 list and ranked 27 on the Inc. 5000 Regional List for the Rocky Mountain Region.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Inc. 5000 2022 list companies have an average three-year growth rate of 230 percent, $317.2 billion in revenue and nearly two million jobs. Complete results can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
For more, visit www.edisoninteractive.com.
Edison Interactive (EI) is a leading out-of-home (OOH) content management system (CMS) for connected devices in golf carts, rental vehicles, hotel rooms and more. Focused on digitally transforming the customer experience, EI is known for its vast network of premium displays, digital signage and infotainment solutions. The EI platform delivers valuable back-end insights and management capabilities for businesses while providing end-users with meaningful content and features that can be monetized. Its client base is predominantly Fortune 500 companies, including Verizon Wireless, Avis Budget Group and Yahoo!. EI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Denver. For more, visit www.edisoninteractive.com.
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SHANGHAI, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei has shown up in full force for MWC Shanghai 2023, with their activities all falling under their theme of "GUIDE to the Intelligent World". This year, the company's activities include an experiential tour that takes audiences to multiple cities to learn about their technology and business, as well as the launch of its newest innovative products and solutions for 5GigaGreen, 5G intelligent core networks, Intelligent OptiX Networks, private line + X products, and other intelligent digital transformation solutions.
At these activities, Huawei will also host numerous roundtables and dialogues with global operators, industry partners, and opinion leaders, to explore a variety of topics which include speeding up 5G prosperity, advancing intelligent digital transformation, and striding towards the 5.5G era to realize business, industry, and social value. The company says its goal is to create new value for customers and revitalize the digital economy through sustained innovation.
Sabrina Meng, Huawei's Rotating Chairwoman and CFO, gave a keynote titled "Embracing 5G transformation". She said, "The digital infrastructure of the future intelligent world will be deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, industry, and society. It won't be based on advancements in individual technologies, but rather on incredibly massive, complex systems – the convergence of multiple elements. It's going to require systems-level thinking and design. When watching a chess game, you can see the big picture. But when you're playing chess, you focus on the details. Likewise, systematic capabilities to integrate technology and transform management are critical for the future success of 5G. First, let's talk about integrating different technologies. We can achieve greater synergy across cloud, networks, edge, and devices through systematic design and innovation across domains. When coupled with optimization across software, hardware, chips, and algorithms, we can address the challenges associated with developing complex solutions for vastly different industrial scenarios. Next, management transformation. Digital and intelligent transformation is not just about technology itself. It's more about transforming your approach to management. Going digital requires redefining the relationships between people, events, things, and theory, and adopting a more open, forward-looking management approach to address future challenges."
There are currently over 1.2 billion 5G users worldwide, and operators who moved quickly to develop 5G are already enjoying the first wave of benefits. This is thanks to the increasing network requirements being set by new applications in various markets. In the consumer market, new services like New Calling, cloud phones, and glasses-free 3D require faster data rates and lower latency, while in the industrial market, the RedCap ecosystem has matured, the passive IoT market is expanding, and the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) requires higher uplink speeds. These all-scenario applications are expected to result in 100 billion connections. These new service models are also expected to drive industry upgrade that will create a second wave of benefits.
Commercial 5G services hit the market four years ago, and has since been introduced to more than 17,000 private-network projects around the world. Both revenue from 5G private networks and the number of industrial connections have tripled. In addition, many operators have leveraged the CNY10 billion in revenue earned from 5GtoB private networks to drive a CNY100 billion increase in DICT revenue from cloud, data storage, and platform services. While many 5GtoB services were piloted in China, they have since expanded to other parts of the world, and have been commercially replicated in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These services allow industry customers to reduce costs and improve efficiency, while enabling intelligent digital transformation in industries like manufacturing, ports, mines, oil fields, and healthcare.
5.5G is also rapidly approaching for the communications industry. 5.5G technologies are expected to improve network capabilities 10-fold and create 100 times more business opportunities for operators. At this year's MWC Shanghai, Huawei is showcasing four of the major features of 5.5G – 10 Gbit/s downlink, 1 Gbit/s uplink, 100 billion connections, and native AI. It is also exploring the five connectivity areas expected to go mainstream with 5.5G – connectivity for people, for things, for vehicles, for industries, and for homes. Huawei has already started helping a number of operators around the world begin commercial verification of 5.5G. The 5.5G industry will continue growing quickly as the first release of 5.5G standards is expected to be frozen in the first half of 2024 and related technologies have already been extensively verified.
MWC Shanghai 2023 runs from June 28 to June 30 in Shanghai, China. Huawei will showcase its products and solutions at stands E10 and E50 in Hall N1 of Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we dive into topics such as speeding up 5G prosperity, striding towards the 5.5G era, and intelligent digital transformation. 5.5G creates new business value in areas like connecting people, Internet of Things (IoT), and Internet of Vehicles (IoV), supporting countless industries as they move towards an intelligent world. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwcs2023.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Current fired coach Matt Potter just hours before its game in Houston on Wednesday for what the NWSL club called “issues around his leadership and employment responsibilities.”
The club did not elaborate, and appointed Caroline Sjöblom the interim coach.
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“We watch the play on the pitch, we keep a pulse on the locker room, and we are constantly evaluating ways to improve our club,” Current general manager Camille Ashton said in a statement. “Through our ongoing process of continuous improvement, we believe now is the right time for this change.”
Potter was in his second season. He replaced Huw Williams, who along with the Current were named in a joint report by the NWSL and its players' union in December that alleged mistreatment by the coach during the 2021 season.
Potter led the Current to a 10-6-6 record and a fifth-place finish last season, but the club advanced to the NWSL championship game before losing to the Portland Thorns. Potter was a finalist for the league's coach of the year award.
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The Current, expected to move into a new riverfront stadium near downtown Kansas City next season, are 0-3 to start the season. Their game in Houston is their opener of the Challenge Cup.
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- Additional keynotes announced include thought leaders from Arm, China Mobile, Dell Technologies, Emerson, Microsoft, and ZEDEDA
- Ecosystem partners to host co-located events addressing open source 5G, NOS, RAN, Metaverse, Cloud & Edge, in a variety of formats from hackathons to sessions to hand-on tutorials
- New Virtual registration option enables global attendance amidst travel restrictions
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Networking, the facilitator of collaboration and operational excellence across open source networking projects, announced additional executive keynote speakers for ONE Summit North America 2022. In addition, the organization announced a new Virtual Viewing option to enable keynote and session viewing from anywhere in the world.
Taking place in Seattle, WA, November 15-16, ONE Summit is the one industry event that brings together decision-makers and implementers for two days of in-depth presentations and interactive conversations around 5G, Access, Edge, Telco, Cloud, Enterprise Networking, and more open source technology developments. The event enables attendees to engage directly with thought leaders across 5G, Cloud Native and Network Edge and expand knowledge of open source networking technology progression.
"We are pleased to welcome even more industry leaders to the ONE Summit keynote stage to share insights. While we see the biggest value in face-to-face interaction, it's important that the strong content and thought-leading keynotes and sessions featured at this year's event are available to those who cannot travel to be with us in person," said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT, the Linux Foundation. "Given the intense budget and travel restrictions currently in place around the globe, we've made the decision to offer a virtual viewing option for ONE Summit."
To register for ONE Summit Virtual Viewing, please visit the ONE Summit registration page and select "Virtual."
The ONE Summit keynote lineup has expanded, with additional presentations now scheduled. The latest keynotes speakers include:
- Dr. Junlan Feng, chief scientist and general manager, China Mobile Research
- Ihab Tarazi, CTO and general manager, ISG Core, Dell Technologies
- Said Ouissal, CEO and founder, ZEDEDA
- Claudio Fayad, vice president of technology, Emerson
- Tina Tsou, director, China Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm
- David Maltz, technical fellow & CVP, Microsoft Azure Networking
- Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge & IoT, the Linux Foundation
For a current list of all keynote speakers and moderators, visit https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/program/schedule/.
In addition to a powerful line-up of thought-leading keynote speakers, the event features an extensive program of 70+ diverse business and technical sessions that cover cutting-edge topics across five presentation tracks: Industry 4.0; Security; The New Networking Stack; Operational Deployments (case studies, success & challenges); and Emerging Technologies and Business Models.
Co-located Technology Events
ONE Summit features a collection of co-located technical events that enable onsite attendees to extend and expand their ONE Summit experience. From technical deep dives ro project overviews and hands-on collaboration with developers, co-located events provide more time for innovation at the open source network and edge. ONE Summit co-located events include:
- NOS for the Distributed Edge: A Mini-Summit on the DENT Ecosystem, Tuesday, November 15, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- Build Your Own Commercial CBRS LTE / 5G Network Based on Magma on Arm and Tier 1 RAN, Wednesday, November 16, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM
- Nephio Developer Summit, Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM
- Cloud & Metaverse, Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
- ONE SONiC Workshop, Thursday, November 17, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
- LF Networking Developer & Testing Forum, Thursday, November 17 – Friday, November 18
Registration
Register today to gain fresh insights on technical and business collaboration shaping the future of networking, edge, and cloud computing. Virtual registration is offered at the price of $149 USD.
Members of The Linux Foundation, LF Networking, and LF Edge receive a 20 percent discount off registration, and those based in the Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., or Vancouver, BC areas may receive a 50 percent local attendee discount; please contact lfnevents@linuxfoundation.org to request a member or local discount code.
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@lfnetworking.org.
To register, visit https://events.linuxfoundation.org/one-summit-north-america/register/.
Sponsors
ONE Summit is made possible thanks to generous sponsors, including: Diamond sponsor Dell Technologies and Gold sponsors Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Huawei, kyndryl, LF Edge, SUSE, and ZEDEDA.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 2,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, PyTorch, and more. Learn more at linuxfoundation.org.
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BANGOR -- 11 potential students are getting a preview of what it's like working in the healthcare industry at Husson University's three-day summer camp.
Their first assignment was creating ibuprofen powder for people who can't swallow pills.
"It's not what you think that pharmacy would be like because a lot of people think it's filling out prescriptions, but this is another big part of it," said Ella Lewis, a participant of the summer camp.
Husson University's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Chair Tianzhi Yang highlighted the importance of learning the fundamentals of the healthcare industry.
More importantly, she says she wants students to find what their interested in throughout the next few days.
"We want the students to explore what really in this pharmacy field what they can do. Not just to say it's CVS, it's Walgreens, but see a variety of the path entailed with that pharmacy field," said Yang.
Participant Nadia Broadhead flew across the United States from Austin, TX to attend this camp.
She says she developed a passion for being a pharmacist at a young age. She wants to make sure the healthcare industry continues to have a personal effect on patients.
"A lot of companies focus more on how much we can sell or then price. And they forget they're human beings and not just robots that they took money from. I want to make sure the human aspect is still there in healthcare," said Broadhead. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/husson-university-hosts-pharmacy-summer-camp/article_7b50c4e2-24eb-11ee-8e45-3fa919c4c1d1.html | 2023-07-17 23:32:47 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/husson-university-hosts-pharmacy-summer-camp/article_7b50c4e2-24eb-11ee-8e45-3fa919c4c1d1.html |
Wisconsin hunting accident results in 11-year-old's death
Boy was shot in chest by 41-year-old man trying to unload his gun
An 11-year-old boy died in an apparent accident in Green Lake County during the opening weekend of Wisconsin's deer hunt.
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The boy was shot in the chest around 9 a.m. Sunday as a 41-year-old man was trying to unload his gun while it was in the back seat of a vehicle, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Green Lake County Sheriff's Office said.
The boy died at a hospital, WLUK-TV reported. He and the man were part of the same hunting party, authorities said.
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Gravyty, the leading provider of purpose-driven technology, announces acquisition of Fabrik, expanding Graduway from Gravyty customer base
LONDON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravyty expands its market leadership in the UK through the acquisition of Fabrik, a technology that enables schools, colleges and universities to engage alumni, support mentoring and enhance fundraising. This acquisition supports the evolution of the Graduway from Gravyty solution, a branded and exclusive platform that allows institutions to engage with their alumni anywhere, at any time.
Integrating Fabrik and their clients into their Graduway solution is a significant step in providing transformative technology that empowers organizations to leverage the power of their network and increase growth strategies.
"This acquisition is an important part of our Engagement + Fundraising Suite's strategy," said president Sevonne Eliyahu. "Your network and connections are the people most likely to support you—tapping into and nurturing that community is a massive opportunity. We want to amplify that opportunity while also making it smarter with AI, automation and integrations."
Will Fairbairn, Sebastian Manhart, Ivan Pirlik, founders of Fabrik, said:
"Fabrik chose Graduway as our preferred acquisition partner, being the market leader who had the best product and customer focus to create an exceptional experience for our clients."
Fabrik is trusted by some of the oldest higher education institutions in the world to drive online alumni engagement.
Together, Gravyty and Fabrik empower alumni communities of 3,000+ schools, colleges, nonprofits and healthcare organizations globally.
For more information on Gravyty's ecosystem of solutions including Graduway from Gravyty, please visit https://gravyty.com/ecosystem.
About Gravyty
Gravyty is headquartered in the U.K., with operations in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. Gravyty provides impactful technology to nonprofits, organizations, universities, K12/independent schools and corporations by accelerating their mission and putting them at the center of their community.
For more information, visit https://gravyty.com.
About Fabrik
Fabrik enables schools, colleges and universities to engage alumni, support mentoring and enhance fundraising.
For more information, visit https://www.fabrikgroups.com.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party said Wednesday that it has delayed sending out ballots for the party’s leadership election after a warning from the U.K. intelligence services about the risk of fraud.
Ballots had been due to be mailed out early this week to about 180,000 party members, who are selecting a new leader for the party and the country.
The party said it decided to “enhance security” on the advice of the National Cyber Security Centre, part of U.K. electronic spy agency GCHQ.
The party had intended to allow members to vote online or by postal ballot, with an option to change the vote up until voting closes on Sept. 2. It now says each member will get a unique code that allows one, unchangeable vote, either online or by post.
It said members should receive their ballot packs by Aug. 11.
The National Cyber Security Centre said it had “provided advice to the Conservative Party on security considerations for online leadership voting,” but did not give details of the advice. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that the changes were made in response to concerns about the vulnerability of the voting process to hackers, rather than because of a specific threat from a group or state.
Tory members are choosing between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who resigned as party leader in July after months of ethics scandals.
The winner will be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become prime minister. The new leader won’t have to face voters until the next general election, due to be held by 2024.
Supporters of Sunak hope the delay will give him time to close the gap on front-runner Truss, who leads in polls of party members and had gained backing from several high-profile Cabinet ministers.
Sunak is running as an experienced minster who can guide the country through the economic turbulence caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. He accuses Truss of peddling “fairy tales” with her promise to slash taxes within weeks of taking office. Sunak argues it is vital to get inflation under control first
But he is facing a backlash from some Conservatives for resigning from Johnson’s Cabinet last month as the government floundered amid ethics scandals. More than 50 government ministers went on to quit, leaving Johnson no choice but to resign.
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CHICO — The Butte County Homeless Continuum of Care approved its 2023 Point-in-Time Count executive report on Monday, a document describing the data and methodology behind the annual census of unhoused people living in Butte County.
The Point-in-Time count was conducted on Jan. 25, 2023 and asked unhoused people questions about their housing status the night before.
Sherry Morgado, director of the nonprofit Housing Tools which wrote the report, said the report gives background and narrative to how the count is conducted.
Morgado said there is a disclaimer in the report that it is likely an undercount because of various factors that change year to year with each census. The report makes minimal comparisons year over year because of this, she said.
“It’s really important to remember each PIT study is always snapshot in a moment in time, and it’s subject to many variables. And many of these are absolutely impossible to control,” Morgado said. “So in general, it’s always to appropriate to assume for any PIT study that it undercounts those experiencing homelessness.”
Included in the report are all the questions asked to unhoused people and how the answers translate into this report, Morgado said.
The report will be available to the public at https://www.buttehomelesscoc.com/reports1.html.
Study highlights
The report highlights several subjects of note about the data collected, including jurisdictional and demographic breakdowns.
With 1,237 people reported experiencing homelessness in the county, 925 were from Chico, 24 were from Gridley and Biggs, 277 were from Oroville and 11 were from ridge communities.
Regarding household type, 84% of households were without children, 12% of households had at least one child and 4% of households consisted only of children, according to the report.
Morgado said that households with at least one child may be undercounted because their child was in school, and the survey requires them to be present.
In regards to sheltering status, 47% of respondents were unsheltered. In Gridley, Biggs and Ridge communities, 100% of respondents were unsheltered; in Oroville, 65% reported being unsheltered and in Chico, 40% reported being unsheltered.
The report describes chronic homelessness as being homeless for at least a year or more while struggling with a serious mental illness, substance use disorder or physical ability.
The report counted 379 people who are chronically unhoused — 31% of the total count. The report said this is an ongoing decrease from what was reported in 2017 when 49% of respondents met the definition.
“This may be a reflection of efforts made to implement housing first principles and rapidly rehouse individuals, especially in Chico,” the report said.
People who reported being unhoused for the first time accounted for 30% of the total count. The report said the figures were pronounced in the Ridge communities.
The report noted 7% of respondents identified as American Indian or Alaskan native and said this disproportionately impacts homelessness relative to the population countywide, which is 2.7% according to the U.S. Census 2022 population estimates.
For youth homelessness, 157 people were counted ages 0-24. Of children under the age of 18, 43 were under five, 34 were ages 5-12 and 16 were ages 13-17.
Informing decisions
Data collected in the annual Point-in-Time counts are used to apply for grant funding from the state and to inform decisions at the organization level.
Director of Catalyst Domestic Violence Services Anastacia Snyder said she looks at the PIT report specifically around people without homes and experiencing domestic violence.
“Interestingly enough, that number has remained fairly unchanged year to year, so that’s something for our organization to be thinking about,” Snyder said.
Butte County Department of Employment and Social Services administrator Erin Murray said that a lot of the additional data collected, including needs and wants from unhoused people, help inform the Continuum of Care as a whole to make decisions of where to provide services — especially where gaps are noted.
“In my experience with the county Department of Employment and Social Services, we’re really leaning on that data to decide or help influence what methods we want to try; what different interventions that need to be looked into, and align on the overall picture within the jurisdiction” Murray said. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/06/13/homeless-census-highlights-demographics-jurisdictions/ | 2023-06-13 13:36:52 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/06/13/homeless-census-highlights-demographics-jurisdictions/ |
SEATTLE, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG), which is transforming the way people buy, sell, rent and finance homes, today announced its consolidated financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022.
Complete financial results for the second quarter and outlook for the third quarter of 2022 can be found in our shareholder letter on the Investor Relations section of Zillow Group's website at https://investors.zillowgroup.com/investors/financials/quarterly-results/default.aspx.
"Zillow stands on solid ground and is well-positioned for long-term growth, with a healthy balance sheet, positive operating cash flow, and a trusted household brand," said Zillow Group CEO and co-founder Rich Barton. "Despite the challenges of the macroeconomic environment, we're making strides in key growth areas — including financing, touring and seller solutions — that get us closer to our vision of an integrated digital experience to help customers with all their real estate needs in our 'housing super app.'"
Recent highlights include:
- Zillow Group delivered second-quarter IMT segment and consolidated results in line with our outlook for both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA.
- Consolidated Q2 revenue was $1.0 billion, above the midpoint of our outlook range.
- Consolidated GAAP net income was $8 million in Q2. Segment income (loss) before income taxes was $69 million, $(14) million and $(38) million for the IMT, Homes and Mortgages segments, respectively.
- Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $164 million exceeded the midpoint of our Q2 outlook range. Adjusted EBITDA by segment was $186 million, $(1) million and $(21) million for the IMT, Homes and Mortgages segments, respectively. Consolidated Q2 results were driven by higher-than-anticipated margins in our IMT segment and better-than-expected unit economics on a higher volume of homes sold in our Homes segment.
- Zillow and Opendoor announced a multi-year partnership that combines two category leaders to transform how people start their move.
- Zillow Group's mobile apps and websites had 234 million average monthly unique users in Q2, an increase of 2% year over year. Visits during Q2 were 2.9 billion, up 5% year over year.
- Cash and investments of $3.5 billion at the end of Q2 were down slightly from $3.6 billion at the end of Q1 2022, after $249 million in share repurchases during the quarter. Approximately $850 million remains under our total share repurchase authorizations of $1.8 billion. Debt was $1.7 billion at the end of Q2, down from $2.5 billion at the end of Q1 2022, after paying down all remaining iBuying debt in the quarter.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
The following table sets forth Zillow Group's financial highlights for the periods presented (in millions, unaudited):
Conference Call and Webcast Information
Zillow Group co-founder and CEO Rich Barton and CFO Allen Parker will host a live conference call to discuss these results today at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern Time). A shareholder letter and link to both the live webcast and recorded replay of the call may be accessed in the Quarterly Results section of Zillow Group's Investor Relations website. Participants must register for the live call in advance at https://ige.netroadshow.com/registration/q4inc/11212/zillow-group-second-quarter-2022-earnings-call/ to receive emailed instructions. This pre-registration process is designed to reduce delays due to operator congestion when accessing the live call.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, statements regarding the future performance and operation of our business, the expected amount and timing of charges, write-downs and cash expenditures and expected wind down plans of iBuying operations, the current and future health and stability of the residential housing market and economy, volatility of mortgage interest rates and our expectations regarding future shifts in behavior by consumers and employees. Statements containing words such as "may," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "predict," "will," "projections," "continue," "estimate," "outlook," "guidance," "would," "could," or similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made based on assumptions as of August 4, 2022, and although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee these results. Differences in Zillow Group's actual results from those described in these forward-looking statements may result from actions taken by Zillow Group as well as from risks and uncertainties beyond Zillow Group's control.
Factors that may contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the current and future health and stability of the economy, financial conditions and residential housing market, including any extended downturn or slowdown; changes in general economic and financial conditions (including federal monetary policy, interest rate changes, inflation, home price appreciation, and housing inventory) that may reduce demand for our products and services, lower our profitability or reduce our access to financing; actual or anticipated changes in our rates of growth and innovation relative to that of our competitors; investment of resources to pursue strategies and develop new products and services that may not prove effective or that are not attractive to customers and real estate partners; the duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (including variants) or other public health crises on our ability to operate, demand for our products or services, or general economic conditions; actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition and results of operations; changes in projected operational and financial results; addition or loss of a significant number of customers; acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, capital-raising activities or other corporate transactions or commitments by us or our competitors; actual or anticipated changes in technology, products, markets or services by us or our competitors; ability to protect the information and privacy of our customers and other third parties; ability to protect our brand and intellectual property; ability to obtain or maintain licenses and permits to support our current and future businesses; ability to comply with MLS rules and requirements to access and use listing data, and to maintain or establish relationships with listings and data providers; ability to operate and grow our mortgage origination business, including the ability to obtain sufficient financing; the impact of natural disasters and other catastrophic events; changes in laws or government regulation affecting our business; and the impact of pending or future litigation or regulatory actions.
The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative but not exhaustive. For more information about potential factors that could affect Zillow Group's business and financial results, please review the "Risk Factors" described in Zillow Group's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and in future quarterly and annual reports. Except as may be required by law, Zillow Group does not intend and undertakes no duty to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
About Zillow Group, Inc.
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life's next chapter. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting or financing with transparency and ease.
Zillow Group's affiliates and subsidiaries include Zillow®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans™, Zillow Closing Services™, Trulia®, Out East®, ShowingTime®, Bridge Interactive®, dotloop®, StreetEasy® and HotPads®. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org).
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To provide investors with additional information regarding our financial results, this press release includes references to Adjusted EBITDA in total and for each segment, each a non-GAAP financial measure. We have provided a reconciliation below of Adjusted EBITDA in total to net income and Adjusted EBITDA by segment to income (loss) before income taxes for each segment, the most directly comparable U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") financial measures.
Adjusted EBITDA is a key metric used by our management and board of directors to measure operating performance and trends and to prepare and approve our annual budget. In particular, the exclusion of certain expenses in calculating Adjusted EBITDA facilitates operating performance comparisons on a period-to-period basis.
Our use of Adjusted EBITDA in total and for each segment has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider these measures in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not consider the potentially dilutive impact of share-based compensation;
- Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect cash capital expenditure requirements for such replacements or for new capital expenditures or contractual commitments;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect restructuring costs;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect acquisition-related costs;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the loss on extinguishment of debt;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect interest expense or other income;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect income taxes; and
- Other companies, including companies in our own industry, may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently than we do, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure.
Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted EBITDA in total and for each segment alongside other financial performance measures, including various cash flow metrics, net income, income (loss) before income taxes for each segment, and our other GAAP results.
Adjusted EBITDA
The following tables present a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, which is net income on a consolidated basis and income (loss) before income taxes for each segment, for each of the periods presented (in millions, unaudited):
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BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- goTenna, the world's leading provider of mobile mesh networking solutions, and Urban Sky, a leading developer of stratospheric flight and remote sensing technology, announced a groundbreaking achievement in network coverage at the 2023 Tough Stump Tech Rodeo. During this annual off-grid communications and technology expo, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head (NSWC IHD), Urban Sky, and goTenna showcased their capacity to achieve network coverage across an expansive 14,412 square miles.
The rapid deployment capability of Urban Sky's balloon, within five minutes of parking a vehicle, introduces a game-changing mobile solution for operators. The combination of this rapid deployment feature and goTenna's long-range communications capabilities offers ground-based forces a practical and reliable connectivity solution over significant distances.
"This showcase represented a breakthrough in low-cost, rapidly deployable, long-range stratospheric communications," said Andrew Antonio, Co-founder & CEO of Urban Sky. "We were thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase our new flight vehicle, the Microballoon™, alongside the goTenna and NSWC teams."
The project was a meticulously coordinated multi-balloon operation, strategically positioning one balloon at Mission Field Airport in Livingston, MO, and the other at Ennis Lake in Ennis, MO. This project was funded by NSWC IHD, a naval research and development organization within the United States Navy.
"This demonstration shows the enhanced capability High-Altitude Balloons (HABs) provide and the goal of NSWC Indian Head in the management and execution of this project is to prove greater capabilities and flexibility for operators and expeditionary units," said Jason Bruce, Engineering Project Manager of NSWC, Indian Head. "This payload-agnostic system is designed to provide extended over-the-horizon, line of sight connectivity with wider coverage areas, more affordability and time on station, with significantly less maintenance and cost requirements."
Enabled by Urban Sky stratospheric balloons, goTenna Pro Series devices achieved and maintained an altitude of 57,000 Feet Mean Sea Level (MSL) across two balloons for a flight time of five hours. The elevated positioning provided the ideal platform to establish a Line-of-Sight (LOS) network spanning at least 14,412 square miles, with linear distances exceeding 130 miles from the central balloon.
"The powerful combination of goTenna and Urban Sky empowers military, law enforcement, and public safety operators with the remarkable capability to rapidly deploy expansive, pervasive communications networks anywhere in the world," said goTenna's CEO, Ari Schuler. "We are grateful for the invaluable collaboration with Urban Sky and NSWC Indian Head as we advance groundbreaking technologies that revolutionize operational safety by establishing seamless communication in austere environments."
This achievement builds upon the previous point-to-point record of 126 miles at the 2022 Tough Stump Tech Rodeo.
About goTenna
goTenna believes that preparedness leads to better outcomes – a multi-layered service goTenna provides straight out of the box with network setup, training, and execution. We are advancing universal access to connectivity by building the world's most intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks. goTenna is the world's leading mobile mesh networking company, providing off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices and augmenting traditional communications networks. This technology enables mobile, long-range connectivity without cellular service, Wi-Fi, or satellite connectivity. goTenna's drive to create resilient connectivity began during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations in affected areas failed. Based in Brooklyn, New York, goTenna is a proud partner of the United States military, first responders, and law enforcement, among others, and is backed by investors, including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. To learn more, please visit https://gotenna.com.
About Urban Sky
Urban Sky, a stratospheric technology and remote sensing company, is developing the innovative new stratospheric Microballoon™, a high-altitude remote sensing platform that is leveraging component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability and the high vantage point of the stratosphere to drastically reduce the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and communications over very broad areas.
About NSWC Indian Head
NSWC IHD is the Department of Defense Energetics Center and serves as the DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Program lead. NSWC IHD focuses on the research, development, test, evaluation and in-service support of energetics and energetic systems.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG).
Class Period: November 19, 2020 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Yatsen lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/yatsen-holding-limited/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period and in the Offering Documents, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) cosmetic and skincare sales of Perfect Diary and Little Ondine products were substantially declining in the period leading up to (and including at the time of) the IPO, and continued to decline throughout 2021, and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFTYDoor LLC, a digital mortgage startup, today unveiled its home equity platform to give American homeowners a modern way to access their equity with a one-minute online application and funding in as little as three days.
American homeowners are equity-rich, with more than $11 trillion of tappable home equity. However, homeowners looking to use their equity will find that current higher interest rates often make a cash out REFI cost prohibitive. At the same time, traditional home equity lenders take 30 to 90 days to fund due to manual underwriting. NFTYDoor provides a fast solution that is seamless.
"We help homeowners manage and pay for life's big events," said Mark Schacknies, CEO and Co-Founder of NFTYDoor. "Homeowners should be able to easily tap their equity on demand to pay for a home renovation, tuition, a car, or pay off high priced personal debt."
Homeowners can access $25,000 to $250,000 of their home's equity with a 25-year fixed-rate term, after completing a simple online application. NFTYDoor is a proprietary digital end-to-end platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence to automate underwriting, closing, funding, and servicing. These innovations are regulatory compliant and reduce origination time and costs.
NFTYDoor partners with bank and non-bank lenders so they can offer a branded home equity product to their customers. Jonathan Spinetto, COO and Co-Founder of NFTYDoor, said, "Our platform is a plug-and-play home equity solution for lenders. Our eNotes are stored in the blockchain, unlocking next level efficiency in capital markets."
Virginia-based NFTYDoor LLC, a digital mortgage lender (NMLS 2324343), provides home equity loans via bank and non-bank lender partners. NFTYDoor is licensed in Virginia, Maryland, DC, Illinois, and Florida, with plans to go nationwide in its first year of operation. Lenders and homeowners can visit NFTYDoor.com to learn more.
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Armed man shot after entering California police station lot
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California police officer shot and wounded a man who entered a secure parking lot of a police station armed with a rifle, authorities said.
The shooting happened Monday after the officer drove his cruiser through the security gate at the Rialto police station and was followed closely by a black Dodge Charger, said police Chief Mark Kling.
The suspect exited the Charger “armed with an AR-15-type weapon” and ran toward the officer’s vehicle, Kling said in a video posted to Twitter.
Security camera footage showed the suspect suddenly walking back to the Charger before turning around and aiming the rifle at the officer.
The officer, a three-year veteran, fired several rounds that struck the suspect, Kling said. The man, who was not identified, was hospitalized in stable condition, the chief said. No officers or civilian police employees were injured.
The suspect did not fire his weapon. The incident was under investigation.
Rialto is a city of 99,000 residents in San Bernardino County, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan apologized Monday for taking a job as a consultant for a marijuana company — part of an industry that her office just audited — that paid far more than her state salary.
After previously refusing to disclose the terms of her contract, Fagan had her office email reporters a copy on Monday. It showed the consultancy paid $10,000 per month, with bonuses three times that amount if she helped the company get licensed in other states.
Fagan, a Democrat who is the state’s second-highest ranking official, indicated she aims to hold onto her elected position despite Republican calls for her to resign. Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, requested investigations by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission and the Oregon Department of Justice into the matter Friday.
“I am sorry for harming the trust that I and so many others have worked so hard to build with you over the last few years,” Fagan said during a Zoom conference she held Monday. “I will begin working to build that trust back today.”
The matter came to a head after Fagan’s office released an audit Friday that called for the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to “reform” some rules for marijuana businesses, saying they are “burdens” when combined with federal restrictions on interstate commerce, banking and taxation.
Fagan recused herself from the audit of Oregon’s marijuana regulatory agency because she is a paid consultant of an affiliate of marijuana retail chain La Mota, her spokesperson, Ben Morris, said at a virtual news conference timed with the audit’s release.
Fagan noted Monday that ethics guidelines allow outside employment. She said the consultancy didn’t represent a conflict of interest because any action taken as a result of the audit would be by the governor, Legislature or cannabis commission; and because a wide range of businesses would be affected by any regulation changes, not just her client.
La Mota’s co-owner has hosted fundraisers for top Democratic Oregon politicians, including Fagan, while the co-owner, her partner and their business allegedly owed $1.7 million in unpaid bills and more in state and federal taxes, according to Willamette Week, a Portland newspaper.
Fagan told reporters Monday she contacted Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz as part of her consulting gig, “just to ask who would be somebody for a cannabis company to talk to if they wanted to get the lay of the land.”
Bysiewicz spokesperson Samantha Taylor said in a statement that Fagan called about three weeks ago, asking about “Connecticut’s cannabis license process for a client Fagan had as part of her consulting business.”
After learning of Fagan’s outside work, minority Republicans in the Legislature called for her resignation.
“This appears to be an ethics violation and if it isn’t then Oregon’s ethics laws are broken,” Senate Republican leader Tim Knopp and House Republican leader Vikki Breese-Iverson said in a joint statement Friday.
The governor underscored her own concerns as she called for the probes, saying: “It’s critical that Oregonians trust their government.”
Fagan announced Monday she was terminating her contract with Veriede Holdings, the La Mota affiliate. She also provided a copy of the contract, signed Feb. 24, which paid $10,000 per month plus a bonus of $30,000 if she helped the company acquire marijuana licenses in any state other than Oregon or New Mexico. A total of 21 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational use of marijuana.
Fagan’s annual salary as secretary of state, a job that is responsible for running elections in Oregon and overseeing state audits, is $77,000. Fagan told reporters she is divorced with two young children and has student loans and other bills that she says her secretary of state’s salary is not enough to cover.
She said her consultant job had nothing to do with her elected position. Reporters, though, were skeptical. They asked why she would be hired as a pot consultant unless La Mota wanted her to leverage her position to expand their business in other states, especially when there are numerous bona fide marijuana business experts in Oregon.
Fagan responded that she has experience advising and representing, as a lawyer, Oregon businesses and contended that her work for La Mota didn’t require her to be a marijuana expert.
At Monday’s news conference, Fagan fought back tears as she said she is “deeply honored to serve as Oregon Secretary of state, regardless of the compensation.”
“I owe the people of Oregon an apology,” Fagan said. “I exercised poor judgment by contracting with a company that is owned by my significant political donors and is regulated by an agency that was under audit by my audits division.”
Fagan said she was donating all money in her political action committee to the Oregon Humane Society.
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Supporting small businesses is key to the overall community and local economic success.
Here in New Mexico, it’s easy to support local vendors. One of those companies to support is Upside Goods Company and Dany Hart Design Studio.
Based in Albuquerque, Upside Goods is focused on making quality, clean, burning candles that give back to mental health awareness organizations. Danny Hart Design Studio began when he started making jewelry for his wife when all of her was stolen. People saw the design and loved them.
They joined for of their businesses together and opened Studio 611, where they make their respective products and grow their businesses in a shared space. This holiday season, they are popping up at markets like the Railyards Holiday Market and the String of Lights Market in Santa Fe, but they are also offering candle-making workshops. Scrubbing to their email list allows you to view the candle classes first.
” More than anything, we want people to see what it takes to make a small business run as a maker in ABQ, and we are showing it in our space while popping up with our community,” said owners Ashley Fathergill, owner of Upside Goods Co. and Dany Hart owner, Danny Hart Design Studio. For more information, visit upsidegoodsco.com and dannyhartdesignstudio.com. | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/support-new-mexico-businesses-by-shopping-at-studio-611/ | 2022-12-08 22:53:27 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/support-new-mexico-businesses-by-shopping-at-studio-611/ |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, June 7, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
336 AM PDT Tue Jun 7 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range.
* WHEN...Until 8 AM PDT this morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected. Strongest through the Interstate 5 corridor.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
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BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports went on strike Friday in the latest of several walkouts that have added pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation.
The 48-hour strike, which is to end on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major ports including Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, news agency dpa reported. It follows a 24-hour walkout in June and a previous one-shift warning strike.
However, there will be no further strikes before late August under a deal reached at the labor court in Hamburg on Thursday night, the court said. The agreement calls for the two sides to set three further dates for negotiations up to Aug. 26. Courts in several cities had rejected bids by employers for injunctions halting this week’s strike.
So far, seven rounds of negotiations haven’t produced any results. The ver.di union has been calling for a one-year deal that would include a raise of 1.20 euros (dollars) per hour for around 12,000 employees in Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony state, plus a 7.4% increase to balance out inflation.
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BEIJING, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- So-Young International Inc. (Nasdaq: SY) ("So-Young" or the "Company"), the largest and most vibrant social community in China for consumers, professionals and service providers in the medical aesthetics industry, today announced that its board of directors has authorized an adjustment to the Company's previously adopted Share Repurchase Program, increasing the aggregate value of shares (including in the form of ADS) that the Company is authorized to repurchase under the program from US$15 million to US$25 million to demonstrate the Company's confidence in its long-term prospects. The Share Repurchase Program is effective for a 12-month period beginning from November 18, 2022.
The Company's proposed repurchases may be effected from time to time in the open market at prevailing market prices, in privately negotiated transactions, in block trades and/or through other legally permissible means, depending on market conditions and in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. The Company's board of directors will review the share repurchase program periodically, and may authorize adjustment of its terms and size. The Company expects to fund the repurchases out of its cash balance.
About So-Young
So-Young is the largest and most vibrant social community in China for consumers, professionals and service providers in the medical aesthetics industry. The Company presents users with reliable information through offering high quality and trustworthy content together with a multitude of social functions on its platform, as well as by curating medical aesthetic service providers that are carefully selected and vetted. Leveraging So-Young's strong brand image, extensive audience reach, trust from its users, highly engaging social community and data insights, the Company is well-positioned to expand both along the medical aesthetic industry value chain and into the massive, fast-growing consumption healthcare service market.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Among other things, the Financial Guidance and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as So-Young's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. So-Young may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to fourth parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about So-Young's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: So-Young's strategies; So-Young's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; So-Young's ability to retain and increase the number of users and medical service providers, and expand its service offerings; competition in the online medical aesthetic service industry; changes in So-Young's revenues, costs or expenditures; Chinese governmental policies and regulations relating to the online medical aesthetic service industry, general economic and business conditions globally and in China; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to So-Young's business operations and the economy in China and elsewhere generally; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of the press release, and So-Young undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
For more information, please contact:
So-Young
Investor Relations
Ms. Vivian Xu
Phone: +86-10-8790-2012
E-mail: ir@soyoung.com
Christensen
In China
Mr. Eric Yuan
Phone: +86-10-5900-1548
E-mail: eric.yuan@christensencomms.com
In US
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
Email: linda.bergkamp@christensencomms.com
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It was a big week for Brandon Jew, chef-owner of Mister Jiu’s in San Francisco. He took home the James Beard award for best chef in California on Monday evening after also winning best restaurant cookbook for “Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown,” which he co-authored with Tienlon Ho.
Since opening Mister Jiu’s in 2016, Jew garnered critical acclaim for his Bay Area-inflected Chinese food as well as a reputation for mentoring the chefs who come through the Chinatown kitchen. In a speech on Monday in Chicago, he thanked his staff for going “through every service wanting to prove that Chinese food deserves to be held in high esteem as all the other cuisines.”
“I’m excited about the evolution of Chinese American food and I’m honored to be representing our version in San Francisco’s Chinatown and following the legacy of restaurants that came before us,” Jew said. He beat out fellow Bay Area finalists James Syhabout of Commis in Oakland and Pim Techamuanvivit of Nari in San Francisco.
The James Beard awards, the restaurant industry’s equivalent to the Oscars, was held on Monday in Chicago — red carpet included. Several Bay Area food figures were nominated this year but didn’t win awards, including Oakland’s Horn Barbecue, up for best new restaurant (Owamni, an indigenous restaurant in Minneapolis, won); Reem Assil of Reem’s in San Francisco and Oakland for outstanding chef (which went to Mashama Bailey of The Grey in Savannah); San Francisco classic House of Prime Rib for outstanding hospitality (North Carolina spot Cúrate won); and Crystal Wahpepah of Wahpepah’s Kitchen in Oakland for emerging chef (Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria in Texas won).
Monday’s ceremony also honored famed TV cooking show host and Bay Area resident Martin Yan, who co-owned the now-closed M.Y. China in San Francisco. Yan won this year’s previously announced James Beard lifetime achievement award for his decades-long career. Wearing his chef’s whites under a black suit, he received a standing ovation from the large crowd in Chicago.
“(As) I stand here, basking in the limelight, there are tens of thousands of culinary professionals around the world sweating in the busy kitchen, particularly where I came from,” said the Chinese native. “The hardworking chefs all around the world who devote their entire life to this particular profession, this one is for you. They all deserve a lifetime achievement award.”
Monday marked the first James Beard Foundation’s awards ceremony in two years. It was held in the wake of the pandemic’s devastation of the restaurant industry and controversy that forced a reckoning inside the James Beard Foundation. A new independent ethics committee is now in place to address any potential misconduct allegations about nominees, winners and committee members.
Bay Area cookbook authors also received James Beard media awards over the weekend, while Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho won an award for their criticism. Oakland’s worker-led Understory was honored with an emerging leadership award.
View the full list of 2022 James Beard award winners here.
Disclosure: Some Chronicle staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Awards.
Elena Kadvany is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: elena.kadvany@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ekadvany. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Mister-Jiu-s-chef-wins-big-at-James-Beard-Awards-17239555.php | 2022-06-14 03:24:37 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Mister-Jiu-s-chef-wins-big-at-James-Beard-Awards-17239555.php |
Solve your dog’s fear of water with these engaging products
Do you have a water-averse pet? If you’ve ever dreamed of spending the dog days of summer at the beach with your pet, throwing a stick or flying disc into the water as they fetch, it can be kind of a bummer when, in fact, your dog exhibits a fear of water. That means no dog pools to keep them cool when it’s hot out and no kayaking or boating with your pup (if you’re feeling brave). Luckily, you may be able to teach an old dog new tricks when it comes to making friends with the water (pool, lake or otherwise), so long as you have a few water-friendly products that entice your dog to get involved and keep them safe — all at once.
Shop this article: TINGOR Ripstop Dog Life Jacket, CoubonTail Dog Squeaky Pool Toy, Dog Traction Pad for Kayaks.
How to make your puppy not scared of water
What’s the key to making your puppy not scared of water? Well, the more they become acquainted with water, the better. Products like the ones below can help alleviate any water-based fear your dog might have. Splash pads and toys show dogs that water can be fun, while dog life jackets teach dogs that they’ll be safe no matter what happens.
Best water products for dogs
Raxurt Anti-slip Dog Splash Pad
Designed for anti-slip traction, this dog splash pad comes in several sizes — 59, 67, 75, 87, 97 and 118 inches. The PVC surface is protected by a 5-millimeter lip that keeps water inside, and it easily hooks up to the hose for a fountain-like effect that can feel more approachable to cautious pups that aren’t yet ready to dive into the pool quite yet.
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TINGOR Ripstop Dog Life Jacket
This dog life jacket is available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large, accommodating dogs of all sizes. With two seatbelt-like buckles and a durable D-ring that safely attaches to a dog leash, it’s also reinforced with quick-drying and rip-resistant Oxford fabric that provides extra buoyancy. This life jacket reassures apprehensive dogs that water and be a safe activity they don’t have to fear.
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CoubonTail Dog Squeaky Pool Toys
This floating dumbbell toy is designed for water fetch. Shaped like a bone, it squeaks when pressed or chewed and is made from a variety of materials and textures — all of which are quick to dry —that keep dogs engaged in water play.
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Best Choice Products 30-in Elevated Cooling Dog Bed
This elevated cooling bed has mesh ventilation holes at the bottom and a protective canopy that keeps dogs out of the sun. Lightweight and portable, it can be placed next to the pool or anywhere outside. Should it ever get wet, it is easy to spot-clean, and the nylon material dries quickly.
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If you (and your pup) are feeling extra brave, the next step up from swimming may be to acclimate your dog to kayaking or even paddle boarding. This traction pad measures 21.25 by 13.51 by 1.96 inches and comes with four EVA foams in a diamond pattern, providing the most stable grip possible, so that kayaking dogs can enjoy the open water without worrying about falling in.
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Worth checking out
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The BINGPET Floating Fetch Pool Toy for Dogs squeaks and floats, giving your pet incentive to hop in and out of the pool.
- For dogs that prefer to chill rather than swim, the Funboy x Bark Rainbow Cloud Dog Float is the companion float to its sister float, which is made for humans.
- The Shark Dog Life Jacket comes in blue and orange shades for bright visibility that dogs can see, too.
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Keep your dog safe with the Dog Mermaid Lifesaver, available in extra small to extra large sizes.
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You can play fetch in the water with the ChuckIt! Zipflight Flyer Dog Frisbee, which is made of polyester canvas that floats.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transportadora de Gas Internacional S.A. E.S.P. ("TGI"), announced today the early tender results in connection with its previously announced partial cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to U.S.$150,000,000 in aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum Tender Amount") of its outstanding 5.550% Senior Notes due 2028 (CUSIP: 89387Y AC5 (144A) / P93077 AC2 (REG S) ISIN: US89387YAC57 (144A) / USP93077AC28 (REG S) (the "Notes"). In addition, TGI announced that it has extended the payment of the Total Consideration (as defined below) through the Expiration Date (as defined below) (the "Extension"), such that the Total Consideration payable to holders who validly tender (and do not validly withdraw) their Notes on or prior to the Expiration Date will include the Early Tender Premium (as defined below).
The Offer is being made on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated September 26, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The Offer is scheduled to expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on October 24, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated as described in the Offer to Purchase (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Date"). The amount of Notes that may be purchased in the Offer is subject to the Maximum Tender Amount. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Offer to Purchase.
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 7, 2022 (the "Early Tender Date"), according to Morrow Sodali International LLC, the tender agent and information agent (the "Tender and Information Agent") for the Offer, tenders were received (and not validly withdrawn) from holders of Notes representing U.S.$134,554,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes.
TGI will accept all the Notes tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to or at the Early Tender Date. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Offer, holders who validly tendered their Notes at or prior to the Early Tender Date are eligible to receive U.S.$913.00 per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase (the "Total Consideration"), plus accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes ("Accrued Interest") up to but not including the Early Settlement Date (as defined below).
Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase on or prior to the Early Tender Date are expected to be purchased on October 13, 2022, which is the third Business Day following the Early Tender Date (the "Early Settlement Date"), subject to the terms and conditions described in the Offer. In addition, tendering holders whose Notes are accepted for purchase will also be paid accrued and unpaid interest from, and including, the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date.
Withdrawal rights with respect to the Offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 7, 2022 (the "Withdrawal Date"). Accordingly, Notes tendered (in the past or the future) in the Offer may no longer be withdrawn, except if required by applicable law.
Pursuant to the Extension, holders who validly tender their Notes after the Early Tender Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date will be eligible to receive the Total Consideration of U.S.$913.00, which includes an "Early Tender Premium" of U.S.$30.00, for each U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase, plus Accrued Interest up to but not including the Final Settlement Date (as defined below). Tendered Notes may be subject to proration if the aggregate purchase price of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Offer exceeds the Maximum Tender Amount, subject to disclosure and other requirements under applicable law. TGI reserves the right to increase or decrease the Maximum Tender Amount.
Payment for Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Date but prior to the Expiration Date and accepted for purchase is expected to be made on October 26, 2022 (the "Final Settlement Date").
Completion of the Offer is subject to customary conditions. If the conditions to the Offer are satisfied or waived, and TGI decides to proceed with settlement on the Early Settlement Date, TGI will thereafter accept for purchase and pay for any Notes validly tendered in the Offer at or prior to the Early Tender Date on the Early Settlement Date.
TGI reserves the absolute right to amend or terminate the Offer in its sole discretion, subject to disclosure and other requirements as required by applicable law. In the event of termination of the Offer, Notes tendered and not accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer will be promptly returned to the tendering holders. The complete terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the Offer to Purchase, dated September 26, 2022, a copy of which may be obtained from the Tender and Information Agent for the Offer, at https://projects.morrowsodali.com/tgi, tgi@investor.morrowsodali.com, by telephone at +1 203 609 4910 (Stamford), +44 4513 6933 (London) or +852 2319 4130 (Hong Kong) or in writing at 333 Ludlow Street, South Tower, 5th Floor, 06902, Stamford, USA, Attention: Debt Services team.
TGI has engaged Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. to act as the dealer manager (the "Dealer Manager") in connection with the Offer. Questions regarding the terms of the Offer may be directed to the Dealer Manager by telephone at +1 888 770 4828 (U.S. Toll Free) or +1 212 710 6749 (collect)
None of TGI, the Dealer Manager, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee for the Notes, or any of their respective affiliates, is making any recommendation as to whether holders should or should not tender any Notes in response to the Offer or expressing any opinion as to whether the terms of the Offer are fair to any holder. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Notes and, if so, the purchase price of Notes to tender. Please refer to the Offer to Purchase for a description of the offer terms, conditions, disclaimers and other information applicable to the Offer.
This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to purchase or the solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The Offer is being made solely by means of the Offer to Purchase. The Offer is not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require any tender offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer will be deemed to be made on behalf of TGI by the Dealer Manager or one or more registered brokers or dealers licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including those related to the Offer. Forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future, and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. TGI is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Investor Relations
laura.higuera@tgi.com.co
CC: ir@geb.com.co
TGI is a stock corporation (sociedad anónima) organized as a public utility company (empresa de servicios públicos) under the laws of Colombia. As of December 31, 2021, TGI was the largest natural gas transportation company in Colombia, in terms of number of kilometers of pipeline assets, according to the Colombian Mining and Energy Planning Unit (Unidad de Planeación Minero Energética). For the year ended December 31, 2021, TGI delivered approximately 55.9% of the total natural gas transported in Colombia. TGI's pipeline system (the "TGI Pipeline System") consists of nine main pipelines (including secondary branches and loops) with a net transportation capacity of 849.4 MMpcd. The total length of the TGI Pipeline System is approximately 4,033 km.
The distribution of materials relating to the Offer and the transactions contemplated by the Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. The Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the Offer come into a holder's possession, the holder is required by TGI to inform itself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a Dealer Manager or any affiliate of a Dealer Manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the Offer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate on behalf of TGI in that jurisdiction. Owners who may lawfully participate in the Offer in accordance with the terms thereof are referred to as "holders."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation would be unlawful.
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Gov. DeSantis signs visit Florida extension during Ocala stop
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida’s tourism-marketing agency can continue to plan advertising campaigns for the next five years, under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The measure (SB 434), which was one of 11 bills signed, extends the authorization of Visit Florida from Oct. 1, 2023, to Oct. 1, 2028.
The Senate initially pushed to extend the Visit Florida "sunset" date to Oct. 1, 2031, but some House leaders continued to question past spending by the agency and whether Florida needs to provide tax dollars to market a state filled with natural attractions and such things as theme parks.
Visit Florida, however, has drawn praise the past few years for its marketing work amid stories against crises such as toxic algae outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final quarter of 2021, Florida attracted 30.9 million visitors, the second consecutive quarter of drawing more tourists than in the comparable period of 2019, which was before the coronavirus pandemic slammed into the state. First-quarter 2022 figures are expected to be released this month.
A proposed budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year includes $50 million to fund Visit Florida’s efforts. The Legislature has not formally sent the budget to DeSantis, who has line-item veto power. The marketing agency received $80 million for the current fiscal year, which included $30 million in federal stimulus money. The highest-profile bill signed Friday was a tax package (HB 7071), which DeSantis signed during a ceremony inside a Sam’s Club in Ocala.
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Devin Vassell arrived from Florida State in 2020 with a ready-made, high-arching jump shot that seemed lifted straight from a shooting manual.
It was this potential as an elite NBA scorer that made Vassell the Spurs’ first lottery pick since Tim Duncan.
But like a pin-up model hoping to be known for his brains as well, Vassell was determined not to be pigeonholed by his ability to put the ball in the basket.
“My thing isn’t all about scoring,” Vassell said.
Vassell’s third NBA season has become a Mardi Gras of new moves — step-back jumpers, behind-the-back-dribbles, turnaround shots and deep 3-pointers.
His scoring average has jumped 7.3 points to 19.6 heading into Thursday’s game against New York at the AT&T Center. He made an almost identical leap between his rookie and sophomore seasons.
Those looking only at the scoring column of Vassell’s nightly box scores might be seeing the points, but missing the point.
Spurs (10-23)
vs. Knicks (18-17)
When, where: 7 p.m. Thursday, AT&T Center
TV/radio: BSSW; 1200 AM, 1350 AM (Spanish), 107.5 FM (Spanish).
PROBABLE STARTERS
Spurs: PG Tre Jones (6-1, 3rd year), SG Devin Vassell (6-5, 3rd), SF Keldon Johnson (6-5, 4th), PF Jeremy Sochan (6-8, 1st), C Jakob Poeltl (7-1, 7th).
Knicks: PG Jalen Brunson (6-2, 5th year), SG Quintin Grimes (6-5, 2nd), SF R.J. Barrett (6-6, 4th), PF Julius Randle (6-8, 9th), C Mitchell Robinson (7-0, 5th).
RESERVES
Spurs: C Charles Bassey (6-9, 2nd), C Zach Collins (6-11, 5th), F Stanley Johnson (6-6, 8th), G Josh Richardson (6-6, 8th), F Doug McDermott (6-6, 9th), G Malaki Branham (6-4, 1st), F Isaiah Roby (6-8, 4th), F Keita Bates-Diop (6-8, 5th), C Gorgui Dieng (6-10, 10th), G/F Romeo Langford (6-5, 4th). Inactive: Dominic Barlow (G League), Blake Wesley (G League).
Knicks: G Ryan Arcidiacono (6-3, 6th), G/F Evan Fournier (6-6, 11th), C Isaiah Hartenstein (7-0, 5th), G Miles McBride (6-2, 2nd), G Immanuel Quickley (6-2, 3rd), G/F Svi Mykhailiuk (6-7, 5th), C Jericho Sims (6-10, 2nd), F Cam Reddish (6-7, 4th), G Derrick Rose (6-3, 14th). Inactive: Obi Toppin (right fibula fracture), Trevor Keels (G League), Daquan Jeffries (G League).
COACHES
Spurs: Gregg Popovich.
Knicks: Tom Thibodeau.
STAT LEADERS
Spurs: Points, Johnson, 20.9 per game; rebounds, Poeltl, 8.9; assists, Jones, 6.5; steals, Jones, 1.5; blocks, Poeltl, 1.1.
Knicks: Points, Randle, 23.3 per game; rebounds, Randle, 9.6; assists, Brunson, 6.6; steals, Brunson, 1.1; blocks, Robinson, 1.8.
NOTABLE
• The Spurs have dropped three in a row against New York. Last season marked the first time the Knicks swept the season series since 2012-13.
• The Knicks had a six-game road winning streak stopped in Dallas on Tuesday, their longest since the 2012-13 campaign.
• Robinson's 507 career blocks rank fourth on New York's all-time list behind Patrick Ewing, Bill Cartwright and Marvin Webster. He has the fourth-most blocks in the NBA since entering the league in 2018-19, trailing Rudy Gobert, Myles Turner and Brook Lopez.
Jeff McDonald
“I’ve had a good year when it comes to scoring, but it’s not just scoring,” the 22-year-old Vassell said. “Me being a leader on the team, I’ve got to be out there rebounding. I’ve got to set the tone with steals and playing defense.”
From that perspective, Vassell’s performance in the Spurs’ most recent victory — Monday’s 126-122 home triumph over Utah — could be considered one of the best of his career.
Vassell led the Spurs with 24 points, shaking off inefficient shooting numbers (8 of 22 overall, 2 of 7 from 3-point range).
With his jumper not falling at the usual rate, Vassell chipped in any other way he could. He matched a career best with eight assists, grabbed six rebounds, pilfered a pair of steals and logged two blocks.
“His whole game has improved every year,” coach Gregg Popovich said. “He’s obviously confident with his shots. He’s moving better to get open. He’s finding other people on the court. He knows he’s drawing (defensive) attention and he’s finding those guys. It’s all positive.”
In the throes of an 11-23 season steaming toward a fourth straight trip to the draft lottery, Vassell’s all-around coming-out party has been the brightest of bright spots for the Spurs.
As the 20-point games have begun to pile up, Vassell has seen opposing teams begin scheming to stop him.
This has been adjustment for Vassell, who for his first two NBA seasons was a nice complimentary piece but never the center of anyone’s defensive game plan.
“That’s the biggest thing right now,” Vassell said. “Teams are showing different coverages. I have to help my teammates get involved. Seeing the roll, seeing the skip guy, seeing guys cutting back door. It’s another part of my game where I’ve just got to keep growing and getting better.”
Spurs coaches hope Vassell will continue to grow as a defender as well.
At 6-foot-5, Vassell has the length and instincts to become one of the NBA’s better defensive wings.
As it is with Vassell’s offensive repertoire, improving that part of his game isn’t as straightforward as it sounds.
Spurs assistant Brett Brown, who has been actively involved in Vassell’s development since returning to San Antonio this season, acknowledges the difficulty of asking one of the team’s top scorers to become one of its best defenders.
“At times, he may come out of his stance, at times he may lose vision of what’s really going on off the ball,” Brown said. “We are always challenging guys to be aware and make plays off the ball and rotate within the rules that we have. I think all of that is coming along.”
The Spurs expect Vassell to accomplish all of that without sacrificing the scoring that has become essential to their offense.
Much of that work also occurs off the ball.
As the ball is moving around the court, Vassell’s job is to keep moving until he finds an open spot.
Popovich calls it “chasing space.”
“Nobody chases space better than Steph Curry, for instance,” Popovich said. “He makes that pass and then you don’t know where the hell he’s at. He doesn’t stand around. Devin is learning how to do that and getting more uncontested shots because of it.”
According to NBA tracking data, Vassell covers a team-high 13,294 feet per game — 2.52 miles.
That is a skill in itself, and opposing teams are beginning to stress it in their scouting reports of Vassell.
“You have to account for him really throughout the entire possession, from the first couple of seconds in transition all the way through,” Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault said. “And he makes you pay if you are late.”
Once the ball is in his hands, Vassell has become adept at getting to his preferred shooting locations on the baseline or along the wings.
As such, Vassell has blossomed into the Spurs’ best release valve for possessions that might otherwise go awry.
“He is getting to his spots and rising up, and there is nothing you can do to stop it,” point guard Tre Jones said. “You can tell he’s just playing with a lot more confidence.”
That confidence has grown day by day from the moment Vassell walked into the Spurs’ practice gym.
Vassell is a bona fide NBA bucket-getter now. He is determined to be more than that.
“Since I came out here my rookie year, I wasn’t just a scorer,” Vassell said. “I was a defender. “I was trying to make sure I was doing the right plays to help the team win. I’ve got to keep that same mentality, day in and day out.”
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- LGES to supply Freudenberg with 19 GWh lithium-ion battery cell modules for truck and bus applications
- Partnership combines the strengths of LGES, a leading global manufacturer of batteries, and Freudenberg as a leading provider of e-mobility solutions for the commercial vehicle market
- Freudenberg invests and expands state-of-the-art XALT battery gigafactory in Midland, USA
MUNICH, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freudenberg e-Power Systems and LG Energy Solution (LGES; KRX: 373220) have signed a multi-year contract for the supply of lithium-ion battery cell modules. With a total capacity of 19 GWh, Freudenberg is expanding its capacities to meet rising demand and ensure the best possible supply for its customers in commercial vehicle applications, such as trucks and buses in North America and Europe.
The signing of the contract marks an important milestone for both companies in the further expansion of sustainable electric drives in the demanding field of commercial vehicles. Freudenberg's e-Power Systems Business Group is one of the market leaders for emission-neutral energy systems in this sector, which places particularly high demands on the robustness and durability of batteries. To be able to support its customers with the best quality, innovative and cost-efficient solutions, Freudenberg partnered with LGES, a leading global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries.
The partnership covers the supply of lithium-ion battery cell modules, whose properties make them particularly suitable for use in commercial vehicles. For a commercial vehicle, for example, the battery has to withstand a much higher energy throughput, which can be up to 11 times that of a passenger car. The battery cell modules supplied by LGES are integrated by Freudenberg e-Power Systems in their battery packs, offering their customers in the truck and bus sector fully engineered drive solutions including intelligent battery management systems, cooling, telematics, and all other relevant elements. The battery cell modules will be assembled at Freudenberg e-Power Systems' XALT gigafactory in Midland, Michigan, USA. With the recent acquisition of XALT by Freudenberg e-Power Systems, the company is investing a further double-digit million sum in the expansion of its battery business and its capacities.
"The partnership with LG Energy Solution enhances our leading battery offering for the bus and truck market," explains Dr. Max Kley, CEO of Freudenberg e-Power Systems. "Together we are able to offer our customers an unparalleled range of solutions specifically tailored to the demanding requirements of this market." Jeff Michalski, Managing Director Battery Business, adds: "Especially in view of the strong increase in demand worldwide, this is a major plus in the market. We can thus offer both our existing and new customers the highest quality and secured supply."
Leveraging its extensive experience in battery manufacturing, LGES has been expanding its battery business into the commercial vehicle sector. Based on the partnership with Freudenberg, the company now intends to drive its commercial vehicle battery business in North America and Europe.
"Our partnership with FEPS will serve as a launch pad to lead in the commercial vehicle battery market which has the potential for exponential growth," said Dong-Myung Kim, President of Advanced Automotive Battery Division at LG Energy Solution. "Together with Freudenberg, we will endeavor to create unparalleled customer value through differentiated capabilities accumulated across the entire battery-related field, such as battery cells, modules, packs, and BMS."
With this contract, the two companies are building on their cooperation and continuing to drive forward the transformation to sustainable, emission-free drive solutions for commercial vehicles. "The official signing ceremony marks a special day for us as we take another strategically important step to best serve our customers with top-quality battery solutions in the heavy-duty sector. As the preferred partner of LGES in this segment, we are strengthening our collaboration with one of the world's leading battery manufacturers", summarizes Nils Martens, CCO Freudenberg e-Power Systems, at the signing ceremony.
With well over 40 million miles driven, Freudenberg's battery systems are among the leading solutions on the market. The long-term contract with LGES underscores the strategic importance and growth potential that Freudenberg sees in its e-mobility solutions. Its competence and innovative strength in both battery and fuel cell technologies distinguish Freudenberg e-Power Systems as a pioneer of electromobility in the heavy-duty sector.
Freudenberg e-Power Systems is one of the world's leading suppliers of emission-neutral energy systems for heavy-duty applications. With its experience and expertise in battery and fuel cell technology, the company offers tailor-made solutions, in particular combined systems, for sustainable and economical e-mobility. With over 700 employees, Freudenberg e-Power Systems supports its customers from application development through to production, commissioning and service.
The company is part of the global Freudenberg Group, which has four business areas: Seals and Vibration Control Technology, Nonwovens and Filtration, Household Products as well as Specialties and Others. In 2021 the Group generated sales of more than 10 billion euros and employed more than 50,000 associates in around 60 countries. More information is available at www.freudenberg.com.
LG Energy Solution (KRX: 373220), a split-off from LG Chem, is a leading global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, mobility, IT, and energy storage systems. With 30 years of experience in revolutionary battery technology and extensive research and development (R&D), the company is the top battery-related patent holder in the world with over 25,000 patents. Its robust global network, which spans North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, includes battery manufacturing facilities established through joint ventures with major automakers such as General Motors, Stellantis N.V., Hyundai Motor Group, and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. At the forefront of green business and sustainability, LG Energy Solution aims to achieve carbon neutral operations by 2050, while embodying the value of shared growth and promoting diverse and inclusive corporate culture. To learn more about LG Energy Solution's ideas and innovations, visit https://news.lgensol.com.
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Great pop songs need not embody the strangeness of the American mood upon their arrival, but it’s cool when they do, especially when the whole thing feels like a glitch, the way this new Sky Ferreira song, “Don’t Forget,” felt last week when it dropped from spacious skies, radiating weirdo grace and unambiguous animus, like a lavish announcement of the ugly summer ahead.
“Tears of fire in the sky, makes me feel good to feel alive,” Ferreira sings in her perfect pop-song voice, reciting scraps of mystic poetry at the fulcrum between belting and sighing. “Big dream, sick dream. Used to think God’s inside us all.” As she surveys this vast and godless landscape, a synth-worm squirms beneath her feet in the form of a bass line, while the drums loiter in places where they’re not supposed to, like an ’80s power ballad malfunctioning outside of its native spacetime.
Yet somehow, this song’s defeated, distracted majesty feels punctual. Unlike Lady Gaga throwing all of her lungs into a tacit military recruitment anthem on the new “Top Gun: Maverick” soundtrack, Ferreira’s delivery feels as intimate and burnt-out as your zombie thumb doom-scrolling past a snippet of Tom Cruise doing barrel rolls over a cheap graphic of his Rotten Tomatoes score.
That sensation — feeling exhausted, angry and lost in a sprawling senselessness — has always been central to Ferreira’s work, which, sadly, has only been reinforced by her spotty public presence over the past decade. “Don’t Forget” is believed to be a single from her many-years-delayed sophomore album, “Masochism,” which follows 2013’s “Night Time, My Time,” the singer’s thrill-ride interpretation of the ’80s-into-’90s mutation aesthetics of Jane Child, Jody Watley, Roxette and others. Melodically sweet and lyrically seething, “Night Time, My Time” reached its emotional crest with a lashing hook: “Nobody asked me if I was okay.”
Is “Don’t Forget” a rejoinder? “I won’t forget,” Ferreira sings in her new refrain, sounding cool and furious at once, “I don’t forgive.” She’s holding her grudges, but when the melody goes airborne, it’s clear that her grudges do not hold her — a reminder that our most bitter disappointments give shape to our optimism and meaning to our hopes. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/06/03/sky-ferreira-dont-forget-review/ | 2022-06-03 10:43:25 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/06/03/sky-ferreira-dont-forget-review/ |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 23, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
716 PM EST Sun Jan 22 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST
MONDAY...
* WHAT...Wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 5
inches.
* WHERE...Hamilton, southern Herkimer, Fulton, Warren, northern
Washington, Columbia, western Ulster and eastern Greene
Counties.
* WHEN...Until 1 PM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions will impact the Monday morning commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates between a half inch and
one inch per hour are possible tonight into Monday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4
to 8 inches, with locally higher amounts possible.
* WHERE...The Greater Capital Region and Saratoga region,
Montgomery County, the central Taconics, and southeast
Catskills.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 6
to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts possible especially
in the southern Greens.
* WHERE...In Massachusetts, Northern Berkshire County. In
Vermont, Bennington and Windham Counties. In New York, eastern
Rensselaer County.
* WHEN...Until 5 PM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions will impact the Monday morning commute and may impact
the Monday evening commute as well. Downed tree limbs due to
combined weight of snow from the previous storm, and the
additional heavy wet snow could result in power outages,
especially across higher elevations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates may exceed one inch per
hour at times tonight into Monday morning.
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GREENSBORO, N.C., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since inception Triad Business Bank ("the Bank") has had a vision to promote the local economy and support small businesses that are often overlooked by larger financial institutions. It is executing this vision as demonstrated by the fact that in the first nine months of 2022 the Bank processed over $3.7 billion of business transactions from nearly 400 mostly local small businesses.
The bank was profitable for the quarter with net income of $228,000, or $0.03 per diluted share. The previous two quarters the Bank was operationally profitable, which is a measure of net income before tax and provision for loan loss outside of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In the September quarter, the Bank's operating profit increased $303,000 to $449,000 from $146,000 in the June quarter and $61,000 in the March quarter.
Third Quarter 2022 Compared to Second Quarter 2022:
Income Statement Highlights:
- Net income increased $329,000 to $228,000
- Core operating earnings (net income before provision for loan losses and taxes) increased $303,000 to $449,000 compared to $146,000 in the previous quarter
- Net interest income increased 10% to $3.1 million
- Interest income on core loans increased $531,000, or 25%
- Noninterest income increased $157,000, or 107%
- Noninterest expense increased $169,000, or 6%
Balance Sheet Highlights:
- Core loans increased $16.3 million to $252.9 million, or 7%
- Total assets increased $11.4 million to $441.3 million, or 3%
- Deposits increased $14.7 million to $399.1 million, or 4%
- Allowance for loan losses increased $205,000 to $3.2 million, or 1.25% of core loans
- No classified, non-performing or past due assets reported
- New loan pipeline remains robust at approximately $123 million
- Regulatory total risk-based capital increased $657,000 to $61.4 million
CEO Comments
CEO Ramsey K. Hamadi commented, "With each consecutive quarter the Bank has expanded its loan portfolio which has driven consistent growth in operating revenues. Through the first nine months of 2022, the Bank grew its core loan portfolio $85.2 million, or 51%. Net interest income plus noninterest income increased to $3.4 million in the September quarter from $2.9 million in the June quarter and $2.5 million in the March quarter. Noninterest expenses have also risen but at a slower rate, climbing to $2.9 million in the September quarter from $2.7 million in the June quarter and $2.4 million in the March quarter." Hamadi continued, "The Bank remains well positioned in the rising rate environment. With each successive rate hike, the Bank's net interest margin has continued to rise. In the September quarter, the Bank's net interest margin increased to 2.88% compared to 2.77% in the June quarter and 2.50% in the March quarter. The rising interest rate environment has also created temporary declines in the fair market value of the Bank's bond portfolio, which is reflected as accumulated other comprehensive income/loss (AOCI loss) of $19.0 million at September 30, 2002. The bond portfolio has a 5-year duration and as this portfolio matures, this temporary loss should be recovered as bonds return to their face value. AOCI is not a component of regulatory capital; therefore, it has no impact in the Bank's capacity for growth. At September 30, 2022 the Bank's regulatory capital totaled $61.4 million and its total risk based capital ratio was 16.3%."
Third Quarter Results
The Bank reported net income of $228,000, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2022 compared to a loss of $101,000, or $0.02 per share, in the second quarter of 2022. However, when excluding the provision for loan losses and taxes, the third quarter resulted in net core operating income of $449,000 compared to $146,000 for the second quarter.
The Bank's primary source of income is the spread between the interest it earns on loans and investments and the interest it pays on deposits. Total interest income increased $615,000 to $3.8 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $3.2 million in the second quarter of 2022. The growth in interest income was due primarily to growth in income on core loans which increased 25% to $2.6 million. Income on investment securities totaled $926,000 for the third quarter compared to $874,000 for the second quarter. Interest expense increased $344,000 in the third quarter to $709,000 from $365,000 in the second quarter primarily as a result of Federal Reserve rate hikes. The Bank's net interest margin increased to 2.88% in the third quarter from 2.77% in the second quarter, due to the repricing of variable rate loans in a higher interest rate environment as well as growth of higher yielding core loans. The weighted average yield on core loans increased to 4.20% in the third quarter from 3.72% in the preceding quarter. The weighted average rate on interest-bearing liabilities increased from 0.59% in the second quarter of 2022 to 1.08% during the third quarter due to higher deposit rates offered by the Bank resulting from the increase in market interest rates.
Balance Sheet Comparison
Total assets increased $11.4 million during the quarter to $441.3 million. During the third quarter, core loans increased $16.3 million.
Deposit balances increased $14.7 million in the third quarter. Growth in deposits stemmed primarily from a $30.1 million increase in money market and savings balances but was partially offset by declines in demand and now account balances. Retail now accounts declined $12.5 million to $19.6 million as retail depositors were quick to find alternatively higher yielding opportunities for their cash. Business deposit accounts are proving to be less sensitive to changing interest rates. Time deposits which consist primarily of brokered deposits increased $8.8 million to $49.3 million during the quarter.
Shareholders' equity declined $3.8 million during the quarter to $39.2 million. This decline was primarily driven by changes in the market value of the Bank's investment portfolio which resulted in a $4.3 million increase in AOCI loss.
Regulatory Capital
The Bank's regulatory capital, which is the primary factor that allows for bank growth, grew during the second quarter, with total risk-based capital increasing by $657,000 to $61.4 million. Total risk-based capital consists of tier 1 capital and tier 2 capital. The Bank's tier 1 capital is largely a measure of the Bank's shareholder equity as calculated under GAAP but eliminates certain volatile elements such as AOCI loss. The Bank's tier 1 capital increased from results of operations by $428,000 to $58.2 million at September 30, 2022. The Bank's tier 2 capital increased by $229,000. Tier 1 and tier 2 capital ratios are measured against total assets and risk-weighted assets. For the Bank to be able to grow, it must maintain capital ratios that meet "well-capitalized" standards under regulatory guidelines. The Bank is increasing the leverage of its "well-capitalized" position as it grows. The following is a summary presentation of the Bank's total capital to risk-weighted assets, tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets and tier 1 capital to average assets in comparison with the regulatory guidelines at September 30, 2022:
Capital and Capital Ratios
Loans
The Bank's core loans increased $16.3 million, or 7%, during the third quarter to $252.9 million. While not included in loans outstanding, the Bank also had unfunded loan commitments of $96.1 million, bringing total core loans outstanding and unfunded commitments to $349.0 million at quarter end. For internal monitoring purposes, the Bank considers owner occupied real estate loans to be part of commercial and industrial ("C&I") loans. At September 30, 2022, approximately 52% of the Bank's outstanding core loan portfolio was composed of C&I loans:
Loan Diversification
Noninterest Expense
Noninterest expense increased $169,000, or 6%, in the third quarter to $2.9 million from $2.7 million in the second quarter of 2022. Salaries and benefits expense totaled $2.1 million for the third quarter, which was an increase of $152,000, or 8%. Most of this increase was due to growth in compensation expense which was due to staff additions and lower deferred salary expense on loan production.
Credit Risk
The Bank had no past due loans or nonperforming assets and reported no criticized or substandard assets at September 30, 2022. The Bank's loan portfolio has been underwritten conservatively with a focus on cash flows of prospective borrowers.
Deferred Tax Asset and AOCI (Non-GAAP Measures)
The Bank's GAAP tangible book value declined from $6.52 at June 30, 2022 to $5.94 at September 30, 2022. On a non-GAAP basis, excluding the Bank's AOCI loss and the impairment on its deferred tax asset (two reductions in capital the Bank anticipates it will recover over time), adjusted tangible book value was $9.05 at September 30, 2022 compared to $8.99 at June 30, 2022.
The organization and startup costs incurred during the Bank's organizational period and net operating losses the first nine quarters of operations have created a deferred tax asset of $1.5 million. This asset is currently fully impaired and will be carried at $0 until sufficient, verifiable evidence exists (generally, sustained profitability) to demonstrate that the deferred tax asset will more likely than not be realized. At that time, the valuation allowance will be reversed.
The change in value of the Bank's investment securities that are available for sale is recorded in AOCI loss as an unrealized component of equity. At quarter end the Bank had an AOCI loss of $19.0 million. Assuming the underlying investment securities are held to maturity and there are no credit losses, the value of the securities will return to the face value at maturity. Therefore, as a non-GAAP measure, the Bank eliminates the AOCI loss to reflect an adjusted tangible book value.
Outlook
Management expects the Bank to continue its trends of strong loan and deposit growth, higher margins and improved profitability during the balance of 2022. With a focus on controlling costs, we anticipate the Bank will soon be delivering consistent profitability.
About Triad Business Bank
With three co-equal offices located in Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro, Triad Business Bank focuses on meeting the needs of small to midsize businesses and their owners by providing loans, treasury management and private banking, all with a high level of personal attention and best-in-class technology. For more information, visit www.triadbusinessbank.com
Forward Looking Language
This release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of Triad Business Bank. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on the beliefs and assumptions of management of Triad Business Bank and on the information available to management at the time that these disclosures were prepared. These statements can be identified by the use of words like "expect," "anticipate," "estimate" and "believe," variations of these words and other similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Triad Business Bank undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The barricades are down, the world leaders have left and New Yorkers are complaining slightly less about traffic. The gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly is over. Here, we break down the stats for you:
U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSIONS: 77
The first U.N. General Assembly was convened in 1946. This month the 77th session opened.
DAYS OF GENERAL DEBATE: 6
The stately fireworks that mark the so-called General Debate — where presidents, prime ministers and kings take the stage — began on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Speeches continued through Monday, Sept. 26, with Sunday off.
SPEAKERS: 195
The 195 includes speeches from three permanent observers — Palestine, the Holy See and the European Union — as well as opening speeches from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the 77th General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, who also delivered a closing speech.
FIRST SPEECH: Brazil
LAST SPEECH: Nauru
Brazil is historically the first member to speak, as their decision to volunteer amid others’ reluctance in the early days of the General Assembly set a precedent. Nauru is by no means obligated to go last — in 2021, the final speaker was Timor-Leste — but the order of speakers is generally determined by factors including geography and what position the speaker holds.
TITLE OF SPEAKERS:
— Presidents: 73
— Kings: 2
— Princes: 2
— Emirs: 1
— Prime ministers: 49
— Transitional or acting leaders: 2
— Secretaries of state: 1
— Vice presidents: 4
— Ministers: 52
— Permanent representatives to the United Nations: 7
The most common types of speakers are heads of state, heads of government and ministers. This year saw four royals at the rostrum including the kings of Jordan and Eswatini and the emir of Qatar. There were two speakers with the title of prince: Prince Albert II is Monaco’s head of state, while Prince Farhan bin Faisal is Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister (though the tally above counts him only in the prince column).
Pietro Parolin, the delegate from the Holy See, has the title of “secretary of state.” The position is held by a cardinal who acts as the pope’s deputy and handles the Vatican’s political and diplomatic affairs.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan is Sudan’s transitional leader. He led a coup against a transitional government charged with shepherding the country to democracy last year. Mali’s acting prime minister, Abdoulaye Maiga, is also a spokesperson for the government of the country’s coup leader, Assimi Goita.
GENDER OF SPEAKERS:
Male: 173
Female: 22
Women’s voices at the U.N. General Assembly typically number few. Even among this year’s speakers, fewer than half — nine, to be precise — were heads of state or government. The paltry total still represented an improvement from last year, when only 18 women spoke.
The president of last year’s General Assembly, Abdullah Shahid of the Maldives, convened the first-ever UNGA Platform of Women Leaders to try to address the gap. During the meeting last week, participants said it could take anywhere between 130 and 300 years to achieve gender parity.
ABSENCES: 3
Afghanistan, Myanmar and São Tomé and Príncipe are all U.N. member-states, but none took the microphone this year. The status of Afghanistan and Myanmar’s representation remains in dispute — the same issue precluded the two Asian countries from speaking last year, following the military junta’s toppling of Myanmar’s civilian government and the resurrection of the Taliban’s control over Afghanistan. The reason for the small African island nation’s absence was less clear; an email seeking comment from its U.N. mission was not returned and the phone numbers for the mission were not operational.
LANGUAGES USED TO DELIVER SPEECHES: 22
— English: 105
— French: 23
— Spanish: 20
— Arabic: 19
— Portuguese: 6
— Russian: 3
— Korean: 2
Belgium and Canada do not factor into the breakdown above, as their representatives each delivered significant portions of their speeches in both English and French.
Of the six official U.N. languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish — Chinese was the lone in which only a single speech (China’s) was delivered. The other languages with one-speech-only appearances: Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Farsi, German, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Polish and Turkish. Regardless of the language, the United Nations has its own argot, too.
VIDEO SPEECHES: 1
Because of the ongoing war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was granted special dispensation by a vote to address the General Assembly via a prerecorded video. His speech aired Wednesday, running a little under a half-hour, and was delivered in English.
RIGHT OF REPLY
Usages: 21
Country that made the most use of the exercise: Iran, at 4
The right of reply is the closest the General Debate gets to a, well, debate. Countries are allotted time after the day’s speeches to respond to claims made by others. In addition to Iran, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Armenia and Azerbaijan all made multiple uses of this feature.
SHORTEST SPEECH: Guinea-Bissau’s, given by President Úmaro Sissoco Embaló, at 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Embaló’s speedy speech, delivered in Portuguese, still managed to touch on a range of topics including climate change, regional security, infectious diseases and the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
LONGEST SPEECH: Palestine’s, delivered by President Mahmoud Abbas, at 47 minutes, 23 seconds
Palestine is not a member of the United Nations, but regularly speaks at the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting because of its status as a permanent observer. Abbas even brought props. The runner-up was Congo, a U.N. member-state represented this year by President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, whose French speech clocked in about 10 minutes shorter than Abbas’.
AVERAGE LENGTH OF SPEECHES: Around 19 minutes
Delegates are “kindly requested” to keep speeches to 15 minutes, as the president of the General Assembly reminded the hall multiple times as the first day of the General Debate wore on. Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová ended her speech (under 12 minutes!) with a bit of a mic drop: “And since obeying even the smallest of rules matters, let me finish here to respect the agreed time limit.”
REFERENCES TO “AUGUST” BODY, ASSEMBLY, HALL OR HOUSE: At least 24
REFERENCES TO “SEPTEMBER” BODY, ASSEMBLY, HALL OR HOUSE: 0
Yes, we know what “august” means — but when listening to more than 10 hours of oration on the dire state of the world, one looks for moments of levity.
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Associated Press journalists Jennifer Peltz, Sarah DiLorenzo and Ted Anthony contributed to this report.
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