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Which glucometers are best?
Millions of Americans live with diabetes and rely on a glucometer to measure their blood glucose levels. Glucometers take a blood sample to an enzyme electrode and mix it with a glucose oxidase enzyme. Then an electrical current measures the level of resistance and provides a reading. This helps people with diabetes know if their levels are too high or low, which would require insulin or ingesting sugar, respectively.
Since a glucometer is used every day for such an important purpose, finding the right one is essential for managing your diabetes. For a complete start with a glucometer, test strips and lancets, the Ascensia Contour Next Blood Glucose Monitoring System All-in-One Kit is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a glucometer
Glucometer sizes
There are multiple sizes of glucometers. Some are large, resembling the size of a smartphone, around 2 by 3 inches. Others are smaller, slightly bigger than a computer flash drive, around 1 by 2 inches. Decide where you plan to carry your glucometer and determine which size is best for you. What’s most important is to make sure the carrying case includes test strips and a lancet for your next measurement.
Coding
Since manufacturers use their own test strips with their glucometers, test strips come with a code that needs to be entered into the meter for it to work properly with a new batch of test strips. There are newer glucometers that no longer require coding or read the code automatically, saving time in the testing process. Check your manufacturer’s requirements for coding.
Amount of blood
The less blood you have to provide, the better. Many glucometers require three-tenths to six-tenths of a microliter of blood. Look for meters and test strips that require the least amount of blood.
What to look for in a quality glucometer
Accuracy
Glucometers are reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, so their accuracy is held to the highest standard for medical devices. This is important since users are making decisions about whether to increase their sugar intake for hypoglycemia or to take insulin for hyperglycemia. Even though all are FDA-approved, test results can vary slightly.
Data storage
You and your doctor should review your blood glucose trends to determine how best to manage your diabetes. Knowing how your body is responding to exercise, diet and medication, and even what time of day your levels increase, is essential for building your treatment plan. Look for glucometers that can store your readings over a long period, such as a week. This data can often be downloaded at your doctor’s office.
Bluetooth
Newer glucometers can upload your readings to a smartphone app that can hold the data for your next doctor’s appointment and also provide you with real-time updates about your latest trends.
How much you can expect to spend on a glucometer
They run from $10-$100, depending on features. Ease of use and accuracy are critical, so look for those first, within your budget.
Glucometer FAQ
Do glucometers come with test strips?
A. Many come with an initial supply of test strips, but you’ll eventually need to purchase more. They can be expensive, but many insurance companies cover a portion of this cost. Check your plan to determine how much coverage you have.
What else can I do to better manage my diabetes?
A. Regularly see your doctor and follow their advice. Also be sure to see your dentist and eye care professional for regular exams, since diabetes can affect teeth and eyes, too. Exercise according to your doctor’s recommendations and limit your consumption of artificial sweeteners and carbohydrates. Consider an insulin pump if you’ll be having repeated injections.
What’s the best glucometer to buy?
Top glucometer
Ascensia Contour Next Blood Glucose Monitoring System All-in-One Kit
What you need to know: This complete starter kit comes with everything you need, all while providing fast, accurate results.
What you’ll love: In addition to a compactly designed meter, this kit comes with 20 test strips and 10 lancets, a manual and a carrying case. Affordable and accurate, there is no coding, and the glucometer has alarm reminders. An 18-month warranty on all parts is included.
What you should consider: Some inaccurate readings have been reported. The console is a bit more confusing than others in this series.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top glucometer for the money
On Call Express Diabetes Testing Kit
What you need to know: This affordable kit provides results in just a few seconds.
What you’ll love: It has a large, easy-to-read screen, and results come within four seconds. It’s backed by a five-year warranty and 24/7 customer service.
What you should consider: Calibration of the glucometer can be challenging but is necessary.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
FreeStyle Freedom Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System
What you need to know: This kit is small, fast and accurate, from a trusted brand.
What you’ll love: It comes with a sleek-styled glucometer, lancet, lancing materials and a manual. It’s very fast and reasonably accurate.
What you should consider: The kit doesn’t come with test strips, and the test strips for it can be pricey.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Labcorp's Menopause Test and Menopause Support Program provide women with insights to guide their healthcare decisions
BURLINGTON, N.C., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, announced today it now offers menopause testing through its Labcorp OnDemand digital health platform.
Approximately 1.3 million women enter menopause each year. While menopause officially marks the end of a woman's menstrual cycles, most women begin experiencing symptoms much earlier, during perimenopause, which typically begins about eight to 10 years before menopause. Yet, recent studies show more than 60% of women do not feel informed about menopause or the associated symptoms and only 38% of women who are approaching menopause age have discussed it with their providers.
Labcorp OnDemand's Menopause Test aims to help individuals understand hormonal factors related to menopause in order to take proactive steps to address symptoms and have more informed conversations with providers. With the addition of Ovia Health by Labcorp's Menopause Support Program, Labcorp helps women navigate this life transition through diagnostic testing, resources and education.
"As individuals look to take an increasingly more proactive role in their health and healthcare, it's critical they have easy access to trusted testing options," said Amy Summy, Labcorp's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, and consumer business lead. "Our new Menopause Test is just one more example of how Labcorp is listening to the needs of consumers, empowering them to understand their symptoms, and enabling them to have more informed conversations with their doctors."
The test is part of a suite of more than 50 curated tests available to consumers. Once purchased, specimens can be collected at one of over 2,000 Labcorp patient service centers nationwide, including over 400 Labcorp at Walgreens locations.
Learn more about Labcorp OnDemand's suite of products https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/
About Labcorp
Labcorp (NYSE: LH) is a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services that helps doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers and patients make clear and confident decisions. We provide insights and advance science to improve health and improve lives through our unparalleled diagnostics and drug development laboratory capabilities. The company's more than 60,000 employees serve clients in over 100 countries, worked on over 80% of the new drugs approved by the FDA in 2022 and performed more than 600 million tests for patients around the world. Learn more about us at www.Labcorp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Labcorp.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
SUMMARY NOTICE OF (i) PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; (ii) MOTION FOR AN AWARD OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND REIMBURSEMENT OF LITIGATION EXPENSES; AND
(iii) SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, that the above-captioned action ("Action") has been provisionally certified as a class action for the purposes of settlement only and that the parties to the Action have reached a proposed settlement of the Action ("Settlement"). A hearing will be held on November 18, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. before the Honorable Denise Cote, United States District Judge, at the Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl St., Courtroom 18B, New York, NY 10007-1312, for the purpose of determining: a) whether the proposed Settlement of the claims alleged in the Action for Seven Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,900,000.00), is fair, reasonable, and adequate and should be approved by the Court; b) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice against the Defendants as set forth in the Stipulation; c) whether the Settlement Class should be certified for purposes of settlement; d) whether the proposed Plan of Allocation is fair and reasonable and should be approved by the Court; e) whether Lead Counsel's request for an award of attorneys' fees and reimbursement of Litigation Expenses should be approved by the Court; and f) any other relief the Court deems necessary to effectuate the terms of the Settlement.
IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE SETTLEMENT CLASS, YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF THIS ACTION, AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SHARE IN THE SETTLEMENT FUND.
If you have not received a detailed Notice of (i) Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement; (ii) Motion for an Award of Attorneys' Fees and Reimbursement of Litigation Expenses; and (iii) Settlement Fairness Hearing ("Notice") and Claim Form, you may obtain a copy by contacting the Claims Administrator by mail at Textron Securities Litigation c/o A.B. Data Ltd., P.O. Box 173042, Milwaukee, WI 53217, by email at info@TextronSecuritiesLitigation.com by telephone at 877-354-3791, or by the website at www.TextronSecuritiesLitigation.com . If you are a Settlement Class Member, in order to share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, you must submit a Claim Form by mail (postmarked no later than January 20, 2023), or electronically no later than January 20, 2023, establishing that you are entitled to recover. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not submit a proper Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the net proceeds of the Settlement but you will nevertheless be bound by any releases, judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action.
If you are a Settlement Class Member, you have the right to object to the Settlement, the Plan of Allocation, or the attorneys' fee and Litigation Expense applications, or otherwise request to be heard. To object, you must submit a written objection in accordance with the procedures described in the more detailed Notice, referred to above. Any written objection must be delivered to the following recipients so that it is received no later than October 28, 2022: (a) the Clerk's Office, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007; and (b) Frederic S. Fox, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, 850 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Note that the Court can only approve or deny the Settlement, not change the terms of the Settlement.
If you are a Settlement Class Member and wish to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you must submit a request for exclusion such that it is received no later than October 28, 2022, in accordance with the procedures described in the Notice. If you properly exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will not be bound by any releases, judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action and you will not be eligible to share in the net proceeds of the Settlement. Excluding yourself is the only option that allows you to be part of any other current or future lawsuit against Defendants or any of the other released parties concerning the claims being resolved by the Settlement. Please note, however, if you decide to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you may be time-barred from asserting the claims covered by the Action by a statute of repose.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT, THE CLERK'S OFFICE, DEFENDANTS OR THEIR COUNSEL REGARDING THIS NOTICE. If you have any questions about the Settlement, you may contact Lead Counsel at the address listed below:
Frederic S. Fox
KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP
850 Third Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(212) 687-1980
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PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR PIERCE COUNTY
In the Matter of the Estate of:
BARBARA P. SCOTT,
Deceased.
The personal representative na- med below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) thirty days after the personal representative has served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in section 11 of this act and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and non-probate assets.
Date of Filing with Clerk of
Court: December 20, 2022
Date of First Publication:
December 22, 2022
Personal Representative:
Wendy J. Hrvatin
Attorney for the Personal Rep-
resentative: Michael B. Smith
Address for Mailing or Service:
Comfort Davies Smith & Crawford
P.S.
1901 65th Ave. W, Ste. 200
Fircrest, WA 98466-6225
Wendy J. Hrvatin, personal repre-
sentative
Attorney for Estate:
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Top Player Prop Bets for Suns vs. Nuggets Western Conference Semifinals Game 3 on May 5, 2023
Published: May. 5, 2023 at 11:17 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Bookmakers have listed player props for Deandre Ayton, Nikola Jokic and others when the Phoenix Suns host the Denver Nuggets at Footprint Center on Friday at 10:00 PM ET.
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Suns vs. Nuggets Game Info
- Date: Friday, May 5, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Venue: Footprint Center
NBA Props Today: Phoenix Suns
Deandre Ayton Props
- Ayton's 18 points per game average is 2.5 points higher than Friday's over/under.
- Ayton's per-game rebound average of 10 is 0.5 more than his prop bet over/under for Friday's game (9.5).
- Ayton's year-long assist average -- 1.7 per game -- is 0.2 higher than Friday's assist prop bet value (1.5).
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Devin Booker Props
- The 30.5-point over/under for Devin Booker on Friday is 2.7 higher than his scoring average on the season (27.8).
- He has averaged 4.5 rebounds per game, equal to his prop bet for Friday.
- Booker's assists average -- 5.5 -- is 2.0 lower than Friday's prop bet.
- He drains 2.1 three-pointers per game, 0.4 fewer than his prop bet total on Friday (2.5).
Kevin Durant Props
- Kevin Durant is averaging 29.1 points during the 2022-23 season, 0.6 more than Friday's prop total.
- Durant's rebounding average -- 6.6 -- is 1.9 lower than his over/under on Friday.
- Durant averages five assists, 0.5 less than his over/under on Friday.
- Durant, at two three-pointers made per game, averages 0.5 less than his over/under on Friday.
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NBA Props Today: Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic Props
- The 26.5-point prop total for Jokic on Friday is 2.0 higher than his season scoring average, which is 24.5.
- Jokic has grabbed 11.8 boards per game, which is less than his prop bet for Friday's game (13.5).
- Jokic averages 9.8 assists, 2.3 more than his over/under for Friday.
- Jokic, at 0.8 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.7 less than his over/under on Friday.
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Jamal Murray Props
- Jamal Murray's 20 points per game average is 2.5 fewer than Friday's over/under.
- Murray's per-game rebound average -- 3.9 -- is 0.6 fewer than his prop bet over/under for Friday's game (4.5).
- Murray has averaged 6.2 assists per game, 0.3 less than Friday's assist over/under (6.5).
- Murray's 2.6 made three-pointers per game is 0.1 more than his over/under in Friday's game (2.5).
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Q. I live in New Jersey and work in New York so I file tax returns for both states. I also have a NY Saves 529 plan for my kids’ college expenses. If I would like to open another 529 account in a state which does conform to the federal law with regards to K-12 tuition, will I have to report it on my New York tax return when I use it for K-12 expenses and will I have to pay taxes to New York on the earnings?
— Parent
A. We’re glad to hear you’re saving for college.
NY Saves accounts are New York State-sponsored 529 college savings plans.
The primary benefit of a 529 plan is the funds grow tax free, said Bernie Kiely, a certified financial planner and certified public accountant with Kiely Capital Management in Morristown.
He said if the funds are used for tuition, room and board, books and fees, the funds are never taxed.
“If you have to file a New York income tax return, you can also deduct the funds you put into the plan,” he said. “New Jersey does not allow a tax deduction for funds deposited into a 529 plan. New Jersey does not tax funds withdrawn if used for college purposes.”
If you open a 529 Plan in a state where you do not have to file an income tax return, you obviously do not get a tax deduction, Kiely said. But when the funds are withdrawn, they are withdrawn tax-free if the money is used for college purposes or for grades K-12.
“When you withdraw funds from a 529 plan for K-12 or college purposes the money is not reported on your federal or any state income tax return,” he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prosecutors say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in a pending federal drug conspiracy case.
Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, told the man, “Imma kill you and everybody you with,” and flashed a gun during the Dec. 11 video call about two months after his arrest in the drug case, prosecutors said.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, acting on a request from prosecutors, revoked Maxwell’s bond and sent him to jail following a hearing Monday in federal court on Long Island.
Messages seeking comment were left with Maxwell’s lawyers. The “Trap Queen” rapper is scheduled to perform in Mobile, Alabama, on Aug. 19 and Austin, Texas, on Aug. 27, according to his website.
Maxwell was initially arrested last October on charges alleging he participated in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.
Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty, was released after posting a $500,000 bond, secured by property he owns in Georgia, and agreeing to certain conditions, including that he not violate any federal, state or local laws while on release and that he not possess a gun or other weapon.
Prosecutors say evidence, including a recording of the FaceTime call, showed probable cause that Maxwell knowingly violated the conditions of his release.
During the call, Maxwell repeatedly threatened, “I’m gonna kill you” and was seen holding a gun and pointing it at the screen, according to an FBI affidavit filed on the court docket. After the man on the other end of the call called Maxwell a rat, Maxwell responded by saying, “Your man is a rat,” according to the affidavit.
Prosecutors did not identify the person Maxwell is accused of threatening, referring to the man in court papers only as John Doe.
In the underlying drug case, Maxwell and five co-defendants are accused of conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020.
The scheme allegedly involved using the U.S. Postal Service and cars with hidden compartments to move drugs from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers on Long Island and in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
Maxwell rose to prominence after “Trap Queen,” his debut single, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
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How to Watch the NBA on Monday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
Published: Apr. 24, 2023 at 1:37 PM EDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
In a Monday NBA Playoff slate that has three competitive contests, the Milwaukee Bucks versus the Miami Heat is a game to see.
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Today's NBA Games
The Miami Heat take on the Milwaukee Bucks
The Bucks hope to pick up a road win at the Heat on Monday at 7:30 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: Bally Sports
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
Records and Stats
- MIA Record: 44-38
- MIL Record: 58-24
- MIA Stats: 109.5 PPG (30th in NBA), 109.8 Opp. PPG (second)
- MIL Stats: 116.9 PPG (eighth in NBA), 113.3 Opp. PPG (14th)
Players to Watch
- MIA Key Player: Bam Adebayo (20.4 PPG, 9.2 RPG, 3.2 APG)
- MIL Key Player: Giannis Antetokounmpo (31.1 PPG, 11.8 RPG, 5.7 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: MIL -7
- MIL Odds to Win: -306
- MIA Odds to Win: +244
- Total: 218.5 points
The Philadelphia 76ers play the Brooklyn Nets
The Nets hit the road the 76ers on Monday at 7:30 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: TNT
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
Records and Stats
- PHI Record: 54-28
- BKN Record: 45-37
- PHI Stats: 115.2 PPG (14th in NBA), 110.9 Opp. PPG (third)
- BKN Stats: 113.4 PPG (19th in NBA), 112.5 Opp. PPG (eighth)
Players to Watch
- PHI Key Player: Joel Embiid (33.1 PPG, 10.2 RPG, 4.2 APG)
- BKN Key Player: Mikal Bridges (20.1 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 3.3 APG)
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The Los Angeles Lakers play the Memphis Grizzlies
The Grizzlies look to pull off a road win at the Lakers on Monday at 10:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: Bally Sports
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- LAL Record: 43-39
- MEM Record: 51-31
- LAL Stats: 117.2 PPG (sixth in NBA), 116.6 Opp. PPG (20th)
- MEM Stats: 116.9 PPG (eighth in NBA), 113.0 Opp. PPG (11th)
Players to Watch
- LAL Key Player: Anthony Davis (25.9 PPG, 12.5 RPG, 2.6 APG)
- MEM Key Player: Ja Morant (26.2 PPG, 5.9 RPG, 8.1 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: LAL -4.5
- LAL Odds to Win: -199
- MEM Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 221.5 points
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Unbeaten Saint Mary’s faces off with Washington in Wooden final
Saint Mary’s aims to keep its perfect record intact when it opposes Washington on Thursday night in the championship game of the Wooden Legacy at Anaheim, Calif.
The Gaels (6-0) reached the title game with a 75-65 victory over Vanderbilt on Wednesday night. Washington (4-1) advanced with a 62-57 triumph over Fresno State.
Logan Johnson had a solid all-around game for Saint Mary’s with 19 points, eight assists and seven rebounds.
“He was really good,” Gaels associate head coach Mickey McConnell said of Johnson on the school’s postgame radio show. “Early on, he got us going. … He was huge for us. He’s grown so much as a playmaker. It’s a nice weapon for us.”
Aidan Mahaney scored 20 points and Mitchell Saxen added 19 to form a stellar scoring trio with Johnson.
The 20-point outing was the second of the season for Mahaney, a freshman who is quickly forming a bond with Johnson.
“He’s an elite leader and I think that speaks more than any stat number he can put up,” Mahaney said on the radio network.
As for Washington, its tight defense forced 21 turnovers, which was crucial as the Huskies shot 37.9 percent from the field.
“Winning is hard in college basketball,” Washington coach Mike Hopkins said afterward. “I felt like tonight was a great stepping stone. We took a step up in the sense that we didn’t play great offensively. When you shoot 37 percent from the field and 21 percent from three, you have to play great defense.
“We just learned how to win against a really good coach (Justin Hutson), a really good program and a really good team.”
Washington’s Keion Brooks Jr. scored 16 points and had three blocked shots but made just 4 of 15 field-goal attempts. Brooks is just 8 of 27 in two games since returning from a two-game absence caused by a leg injury.
“If you look at it statistically, he’ll have better days because we know how good of an offensive player he is,” Hopkins said. “But he stepped up and played unbelievable on the defensive end. The one thing about Keion that’s just so great is that it’s all about winning.”
Washington holds a 6-1 series lead over Saint Mary’s, but the Gaels won the most recent meeting, 85-81 in the second round of the 2018 NIT.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers reported Wednesday the discovery of what could be two planets sharing the same orbit around their star.
They said it’s the strongest evidence yet of this bizarre cosmic pairing, long suspected but never proven.
Using a telescope in Chile, the Spanish-led team spotted a cloud of debris in the same orbit as an already confirmed planet circling this star, 370 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. They suspect it’s either a planet in formation or remnants of a planet that once was.
Asteroids are known to accompany planets around their star — for example, Jupiter and its so-called Trojan asteroids. But planets in the same orbit “have so far been like unicorns,” noted study co-author Jorge Lillo-Box of Madrid’s Center for Astrobiology.
“They are allowed to exist by theory, but no one has ever detected them,” he said in a statement.
The scientists said they will need to wait until 2026 in order to properly track the two objects around the star known as PDS 70.
The confirmed planet with the suspected tagalong takes 119 years to complete a lap. A gas giant, it’s three times the size of Jupiter. Another gas giant is known to circle this star, albeit from a much greater distance.
Lead author Olga Balsalobre-Ruza of the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid, said the findings, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, are “the first evidence” that such double worlds might exist.
“We can imagine that a planet can share its orbit with thousands of asteroids as in the case of Jupiter, but it is mind-blowing to me that planets could share the same orbit,” she said in a statement.
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Barkley knows postseason runs will help cement Giants legacy
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Saquon Barkley recently did some research, studying the NFL record book as if he were preparing for a game.
The New York Giants running back was curious as to what some of the greatest players at his position accomplished in the playoffs. He sat wide-eyed as names such as Emmitt Smith, Eric Dickerson, Franco Harris and John Riggins jumped off the page — all Pro Football Hall of Famers who cemented their marks when it counted most.
Barkley hopes to run his way onto those lists someday as one of the game’s all-time best.
“You’ve got to do it in both — regular season and postseason — throughout your whole career,” Barkley said this week. “There’s going to be ups, there’s going to be downs, but you’ve got to try to be a consistent player.
“You want to create a legacy. You look at all the Giants greats — they did it in the postseason.”
The 25-year-old Barkley got his first taste of playoff football in his fifth season with the Giants, helping New York to a 31-24 victory in Minnesota last Sunday. He ran for two touchdowns, gained 53 yards on nine carries and also caught five passes for 56 yards.
Barkley could add to his postseason numbers Saturday night in the Giants’ NFC divisional round game against the Eagles in Philadelphia.
“Yeah, that’s extra motivation, but when you’re looking back and actually playing in my first playoff game — there’s nothing that even comes to mind,” Barkley said. “You’re just so locked in, so focused because every play, every quarter is so crucial. The situation becomes so critical because it’s one game. If you don’t take care of one game, you go home. That’s really what pushes you — your competitive nature just goes to a whole another level.
“Your intensity just rises because of the nature of the game.”
Barkley led the NFC in rushing during the regular season, finishing fourth in the league with a career-high 1,312 yards. He was a workhorse early with 20 or more rushing attempts six times in the Giants’ first nine games while they tried to find consistency on offense.
“I never thought I had to do everything,” Barkley said. “I think it speaks to the coaching staff, to the players. Our identity changed throughout the season. We’re a team that can run the ball 30, 40 times. We’ve done that. We’re a team that can throw the ball 40 times.
“I feel it speaks to myself as a versatile player. I can run in between the tackles. I feel like if you give me a space, I can be dangerous in space and help us out there.”
Barkley’s role changed in the second half of the season when Daniel Jones emerged as one of the game’s best dual-threat quarterbacks. It lifted some of the workload off Barkley and made the Giants an even more dangerous and productive offense.
Against the Vikings, Jones actually out-carried Barkley 17-9 and outgained him on the ground by 25 yards while setting a franchise postseason record for yards rushing by a quarterback.
It could be a different story Saturday night against Philadelphia’s stout defensive line, which has helped power a pass rush that generated 70 sacks during the regular season — third most in NFL history.
“They’re hard to block,” coach Brian Daboll said. “They can stop the run. They’ve got a lot of really good players. They use them well.”
That could make Barkley the X-factor against the Eagles because of his ability to do so many things out of the backfield. But he hasn’t run for more than 92 yards in the five games he has played against Philadelphia since two 100-yard performances against them as a rookie in 2018.
“You’ve got to be above the Xs and O’s,” Barkley said. “They’re going to scheme it up to get you one-on-one and you’ve got to find a way to create the extra yards. Whether it’s the toss (move) or spin or using speed or whatever, I feel like that’s what separates me from a lot of other backs. And hopefully I can continue to show that throughout the rest of the playoffs.”
Barkley’s future with the Giants beyond Saturday night is uncertain because he’s scheduled to be a free agent this offseason. None of that matters to him now, though.
It’s all about adding to his Giants legacy Saturday night — and helping deliver another playoff win.
“I’m chillin’,” Barkley said. “I’m just locked in. That’s really it.”
NOTES: OLB Azeez Ojulari (quadriceps) was listed as questionable on the Giants’ final injury report Thursday after he was limited at practice. … S/LB Landon Collins (ankle), WR Isaiah Hodgins (ankle), S Julian Love (hamstring) and CB Fabian Moreau (hip) were limited but expected to play.
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The Dolphins’ offensive line concerns got more serious Friday when coach Mike McDaniel said right tackle Austin Jackson (right ankle) will go on the short-term injured reserve list, meaning he’ll miss at least four games, and left tackle Terron Armstead is questionable for Sunday’s game at Baltimore with a toe injury.
“It was kind of close,” McDaniel said about putting Jackson on IR. “Ankles are kind of finicky. But really what we wanted to avoid after we took all consideration into effect was that we don’t want it to linger for the whole season.”
Jackson sustained his injury in the second quarter of last week’s season-opening 20-7 victory over New England when he got rolled up on a run by fullback Alec Ingold. He stayed in the game for one more play before going to the sideline.
Greg Little, who replaced Jackson in the game, will replace Jackson in the starting lineup, protecting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s blind side.
Armstead, who left the Patriots game for two plays in the fourth quarter, is battling a toe injury. Asked whether he had confidence Armstead would play Sunday, McDaniel was guarded.
“I have confidence that he’s limited today and is questionable for the game,” he said.
Armstead, the three-time Pro Bowl selection who is the Dolphins’ best offensive lineman, might be a gametime decision.
“It just depends on if he’s worried about it, it will go all the way up to the game because he will do whatever it takes to play,” McDaniel said. “If he’s feeling pretty good about it, it won’t.”
McDaniel said the team is “very confident” in Little.
“He did a great job jumping in there [last week] and he’s really made the most of all of his reps,” McDaniel said.
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One of Kate Fox’s first priorities as the new head of the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism was launching the $750,000 “Massachusetts For Us All” campaign, to emphasize the state’s openness to LGBTQ visitors. Billboards and social media ads went up in Florida and Texas in recent weeks, and then in New England and New York.
The wheels were in motion for the campaign under Governor Maura Healey, the first openly gay person elected governor here, when Fox joined MOTT in June.
Now, Fox wants all the state’s branding and marketing to signal that Massachusetts is welcoming to everyone.
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“My goal is to make sure everything we do is inclusive,” said Fox, who ran Destination Salem before joining the Healey administration. “That campaign is a catalyst for revisioning all of our marketing strategy going forward. It’s: How can everything we do clearly communicate that Massachusetts is ‘for us all’?”
Does that mean Massachusetts has a new marketing slogan? Fox didn’t want to go that far, but did say “there’s a great opportunity to look at what a slogan would be.”
The MOTT ad budget is relatively small. The Legislature sets aside $10 million for tourism each year: $6 million for regional tourism bureaus and $4 million for MOTT. The agency has nine staffers, including the three-person Massachusetts Film Office.
MOTT is also in the midst of a separate $2.5 million campaign, dubbed “Take a Moment,” that launched in the spring under Fox’s predecessor, Keiko Orrall. That campaign, which highlights scenic attractions, involves spots on TV, radio, social media, and billboards and will run through September.
Fox said she’s excited to take on what she calls the “biggest tourism job in the state,” fostering a sector that employs more than 130,000 people here.
“Tourism is a really critical part of our economy,” Fox said. “It has a tremendous amount of potential for telling the Massachusetts story. There’s a lot of responsibility to do it correctly and authentically.”
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Passing the baton at Mass. Municipal
Jill Hai knew she had a tough task ahead: Just as she started a one-year tenure as president of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, longtime executive director Geoff Beckwith announced he would retire. After more than three decades in that job, Beckwith and the MMA have become inseparable in many ways.
On Friday, Hai’s task was fulfilled. The MMA board approved an executive committee recommendation to name Adam Chapdelaine as Beckwith’s replacement. Chapdelaine, who takes over for Beckwith on Sept. 9, has spent the past year as deputy director of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, which aims to make Boston more resilient to climate change. He’s perhaps best known, though, for his previous tenure in Arlington, first as deputy town manager and then serving as town manager for a decade until 2022.
Chapdelaine said he’s excited to work with cities and towns across the state as they strive to provide services for their residents while “meeting the myriad challenges of the 21st century.”
Hai had hired headhunting firm Mercer Group Associates to help, and assembled a nine-member search committee. Chapdelaine — himself a past president of the MMA — emerged as the best choice.
“He understands what it’s like in the trenches as well as in the policy world,” said Hai, a Lexington select board member. “It was such a unique combination of experience and vision.”
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Shah wonders: Where would Wayfair grow now?
When Wayfair cofounders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine were starting their careers in 1995, the choice was simple. Boston? Or New York? The two Cornell grads had a strong preference for Boston.
Shah recounted his experience during a Massachusetts Competitive Partnership event last week, held to discuss making this state more friendly for tech startups. Shah, now Wayfair’s chief executive, recalled that he liked the wealth of innovation talent here and the density of venture capital firms. While those strengths still hold true, “Boston’s stature has definitely dropped on a relative basis to some other cities in the country [since 1995],” Shah said. “For the vitality of the economy, I just think there’s a lot we could do today that would . . . make it feel a lot more like 1995.”
He particularly cited the region’s high cost of living as a reason why it’s become tougher to attract talent here.
State economic development secretary Yvonne Hao then said she gets it. As Governor Maura Healey’s point person for economic competitiveness, Hao said she has become “relentlessly paranoid” about rival states poaching our best and brightest people and companies, particularly amid the rise of remote work and residents moving to lower-cost places to live.
On the other hand, Hao remains optimistic the pendulum might swing back. She said the Somerville startup where she worked, PillPack, would not have survived until it was acquired by Amazon if not for all the in-office collaboration. “A lot of business is a ‘full contact sport,’” Hao added. “I think over time, we’ll see some of that shift back again.”
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Travel industry turns its eyes to Washington
Now that we’re all free to move about the cabin again, what will the biggest stumbling blocks be for the travel industry going forward?
That was one of the major recurring themes at the U.S. Travel Association’s Summer Summit, held last week at the Omni Hotel in the Seaport. Attendees came from across the country, representing various corners of the travel and tourism sector. Local panelists included Meet Boston chief executive Martha Sheridan, Google executive Pratip Banerji, and Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani. NBC10 Boston′s Glenn Jones emceed.
Geoff Freeman, the trade group’s chief executive, said he’s particularly concerned that other countries seem far more ambitious than the US government in bolstering inbound international travel. Would-be travelers headed for the United States are often confronted with super-long wait times for visas, and super-long lines at customs gates. And the Federal Aviation Administration, Freeman said, has 1,200 fewer air traffic controllers today than it did a decade ago — a shortage that contributes to a wide range of flight delays and cancellations. Not helping matters: the federal government does not have one central agency to deal with travel issues.
“The threat to Boston is more Washington than Boston,” Freeman said in an interview. “The message from Washington is, ‘We don’t care about travel as much as you care about travel.’”
Andy Freed is out of the office. In the meantime...
It’s that time of year again. Time for Andy Freed to go on vacation. Or, maybe more accurately, time for Andy Freed to release his out-of-office “message.”
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The tradition for the chief executive of Wakefield events and marketing firm Virtual Inc. started some two decades ago when he started writing wacky sign-offs to indicate he was away: a spoof of Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” poem when he took Patriots Day off in 2011, or a satirical vacation-themed song to the tune of “Jingle Bells” in December 2012.
The tradition eventually escalated into crazy vacation-themed videos with pop culture references, produced with the help of buddy Thomas Pimentel, owner of TNT Ltd. Productions. Think “Top Gun” or “Ted Lasso.” And don’t forget that 27-minute homage to “Game of Thrones.”
This year, Freed’s OOO message includes a link to a 4-plus minute pharmaceutical ad for a drug called “Vacation.” (The long list of side effects includes eating desserts for breakfast, participating in absurd water sports, and drinking Dr Pepper from novelty binoculars.)
“I always look for what’s out there and ubiquitous,” said Freed, while vacationing in Edgartown. “What’s more ubiquitous than pharmaceutical ads right now?”
Freed started these offbeat messages to make a point.
“It’s the notion that anything in life, anything in business, can be fun, even the most mundane task,” Freed said. But he conceded: “It’s completely spun out of control.”
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Dinosaur skeleton up for auction could fetch $8 million
Published: Jul. 11, 2022 at 2:16 PM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
(CNN) – A unique item from the past is going up for grabs.
Sotheby’s New York is auctioning off the skeleton of a gorgosaurus, a cousin to the T. Rex.
This carnivore lived on the earth around 77 million years ago, during the cretaceous period.
The fossil is 10 feet tall and 22 feet long. It’s expected to sell for around $8 million.
The skeleton was discovered in 2018 in Montana.
It will go on display starting July 21 at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries. The auction will begin a week later.
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The Lamphouse Theatre is not only a place to go for movies but also to listen to speakers talk about interesting topics.
Theater owner David Woodhead started his monthly speaking series called “Chautauqua Tuesday” back in December. Chautauqua was the name of a popular traveling adult education series in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Woodhead said that after the Lamphouse reopened, he had been trying to figure out what to do with the front part of the building, which originally was a DVD shop.
“It seemed like a cool thing to do,” Woodhead said.
The event is free and those who attend will have the chance to participate in a Q&A with the speakers at the end of the event.
According to Woodhead, the talks average about 40 attendees and the program seems to be getting more popular with each one.
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The next event will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Local historian Ron James will speak about Asian heritage in southern Idaho before World War II, and how Chinese and Japanese immigrants helped establish Idaho Territory.
“It’s something a lot of southern Idahoans don’t even know about,” Woodhead said.
Presentations don’t have to be history related though. Woodhead said he’s open to anything as long as it’s interesting.
“If you have an idea of something that you think people would find interesting to listen to, we’ll give you the stage,” Woodhead said.
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MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A 10-year-old boy has died from his injuries after he was found unconscious inside a trampoline park in Merced on Thursday night.
Merced police say Anthony Duran was found unresponsive around 5 p.m. at the Rockin' Jump near Main and T streets.
Officials say witnesses saw Duran playing basketball with other children when he and another child got into a brief fight.
Duran collapsed and the other child ran away.
Bystanders began performing CPR on Duran until first responders could arrive and take over.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where later died from his injuries.
Police say the incident was captured on surveillance video and detectives will be working with the Merced County Coroner's Office to determine the cause of death.
Detectives have identified the other child involved in the fight and have been in contact with the parents throughout the investigation.
The Merced Police Department is reviewing this incident with the Merced County District Attorney to determine if charges will be filed.
Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to call Detective Edwin Arias at (209) 388-7826.
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DENVER, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AirDNA's mid-year outlook report reveals the short-term rental (STR) industry is expected to reach 20.3% more demand in 2022 than in 2021, despite rising interest rates, stock market volatility, and travel disruption.
"2022 will be a record year for STRs, with more nights stayed in a rental than at any other point in history," said Jamie Lane, AirDNA's VP of Research. "A huge influx of new supply has even outpaced demand growth, pushing occupancy down."
Investment has accelerated in the first half of 2022, especially in pandemic-favorite destinations such as mountain, lake, and rural areas. Listing totals are now projected to reach 21% growth for 2022, with AirDNA's forecast calling for available supply to reach a record 1.4 million listings in 2023, up 8.6% from 2022.
Long-term stays of 28 days or more are helping to boost demand in suburban areas, up 10.8% from 2019, whereas their inner-city counterparts are still lagging 21.6% behind pre-pandemic levels. Urban centers are the only location type with occupancy still below 2019, though they have grown 5.2% year over year.
With hosts feeling the pressure of rising costs, average daily rates are forecast to rise by 6.3% this year. So far, these increases have exceeded inflation, but as occupancy rates continue to decline, competition to attract guests may push hosts to lower prices. In 2023, rates are expected to halve their growth.
"Despite relentless growth for U.S. STRs, turbulent trends are the new normal in the industry," said AirDNA's COO, Demi Horvat. "Leveraging data is essential for all industry stakeholders to turn these trends to their advantage and enhance their profitability through timely strategic planning."
As international travelers from key feeder markets like Canada and the U.K. begin to return to the U.S., larger cities should benefit. For the summer, the majority of coastal and mountain markets are seeing demand even higher than last year's record figures. With lead times still lagging behind 2019 levels, 2022 bookings are likely to end up surpassing their current pacing, showing the golden age of the STR sector is far from being over.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore executed a man Wednesday for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman Friday — the first in 19 years — prompting renewed calls for a halt to capital punishment.
Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, was hanged at Singapore's Changi Prison and has been buried, said activist Kirsten Han of Transformative Justice Collective, which advocates for abolishing the death penalty in Singapore. A citizen of the city-state, he was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking around 50 grams (1.75 ounces) of heroin, Han said.
Saridewi Djamani, a 45-year-old Singaporean woman, is due to be hanged Friday after she was convicted and sentenced in 2018 for trafficking around 30 grams (1.05 ounces) of heroin, the group and other human rights organizations said. Han said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.
"Singaporean authorities must immediately stop these blatant violations of the right to life in their obsessive enforcement of misguided drug policies," Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary-general of the International Federation of Human Rights, said in a statement.
If Djamani's is executed as planned, Singapore will have executed 15 people for drug offenses since it resumed hangings in March 2022, an average of one execution every month, Transformative Justice Collective, Amnesty International and seven other groups said in a joint statement.
Anyone — citizens and foreigners alike — convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams (17.64 ounces) of cannabis and 15 grams (0.53 ounces) of heroin faces the mandatory death penalty.
Human rights groups, British business mogul Richard Branson and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug-related offenses as increasing evidence shows the death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent. But Singapore authorities insist that all prisoners get due process of law and that capital punishment remains key to helping halt both drug demand and supply.
The joint statement by Transformative Justice Collective and other groups noted that Law Minister K. Shanmugam reportedly acknowledged in a 2022 interview that Singapore's harsh policy on drugs has not led to the arrest of the so-called drug kingpins.
"Instead of disrupting drug cartels ... the government of Singapore deliberately retains capital drug laws that, in practice, operate to punish low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalised groups with intersecting vulnerabilities," the statement said.
The groups said Singapore is out of step with the global trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment. Neighboring Thailand has legalized cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year. The groups urged Singapore to halt all executions and instead pursue effective measures to humanely address drug trafficking in the country.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLPX).
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According to a filed complaint, Olaplex Holdings, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) macroeconomic pressures and competition in the haircare market were more robust than the Company had represented to investors; (ii) accordingly, the Company was unlikely to maintain its sales and revenue momentum; and (iii) as a result, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to achieve the financial and operational growth projected in the offering documents; and (iv) as a result, the offering documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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REHOVOT, Israel, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Steakholder Foods Ltd. (Nasdaq: STKH) ("Steakholder Foods" or the "Company"), an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering of 6,000,000 of the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") (or ADS equivalents in lieu thereof), each ADS representing ten (10) ordinary shares, at a purchase price of $1.00 per ADS (or ADS equivalent in lieu thereof). The Company also issued in a concurrent private placement unregistered warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,000,000 ADSs. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.10 per ADS, are immediately exercisable upon issuance, and expire three and one-half years from the date of issuance.
H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The total gross proceeds to the Company from the offering were $6 million, before deducting the placement agent's fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering as working capital for general corporate purposes.
The securities described above (excluding the warrants and ADSs underlying the warrants) were offered by the Company in a registered direct offering pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-264110) that was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 4, 2022, and declared effective on April 13, 2022. The offering of such securities in the registered direct offering was made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus that forms a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the registered direct offering were filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus may also be obtained from H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by phone at (212) 856-5711 or e-mail at placements@hcwco.com.
The warrants described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and Regulation D promulgated thereunder and, along with the ADSs underlying such warrants, have not been registered under the Act, or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the warrants and the underlying ADSs may not be reoffered or resold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and such applicable state securities laws.
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About Steakholder Foods
Steakholder Foods Ltd., is an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat revolution. The company-initiated activities in 2019 and is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "STKH" (formerly MITC), with headquarters in Rehovot, Israel.
The company is developing a slaughter-free solution for producing cellular agriculture meat products, such as beef and seafood, by offering manufacturers the ability to produce a cultivated meat product that aims to closely mimic the taste, texture, and appearance of traditional meat- as an alternative to industrialized farming and fishing. With its membership in the UN Global Compact, Steakholder Foods is committed to act in support of issues embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include strengthening food security, decreasing carbon footprint, and conserving water and land resources.
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Forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which change over time, and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include market and other conditions; the use of proceeds; the Company's expectations regarding the success of its cultured meat manufacturing technologies it is developing, which will require significant additional work before the Company can potentially launch commercial sales; the Company's research and development activities associated with technologies for cultured meat manufacturing, including three-dimensional meat production, which involves a lengthy and complex process; the Company's ability to obtain and enforce its intellectual property rights and to operate its business without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; and other risks and uncertainties, including those identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on April 4, 2023. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict their occurrence or how they will affect the Company. If one or more of the factors affecting Company's forward-looking information and statements proves incorrect, then the Company's actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward-looking information and statements contained in this press release. Therefore, the Company cautions you not to place undue reliance on its forward-looking information and statements. The Company disclaims any duty to revise or update the forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward-looking statements, except as specifically required by law.
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Robin Matthews was enjoying the Indianapolis 500 like 300,000 others on Sunday when suddenly things changed drastically.
On lap 184, Felix Rosenqvist lost control of his car between turns one and two. As he spun, Kyle Kirkwood made contact with Rosenqvist, which caused his tire to fly off the car and outside of the track.
The tire struck Matthews' car in the parking lot, and the car had to be towed from the track.
Now, Indianapolis Motor Speedway has confirmed the woman will receive a new car, but details have not be finalized on what the car will be.
The tire narrowly missed striking the grandstand and potentially injuring dozens of spectators. The incident brought immediate safety concerns as the rear tire weighs 22 pounds.
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"I saw what had happened; saw it bounced on top of a building and went and hit a car over there, which obviously is very concerning. We have tethers on the wheels, and it was a rear wheel that came off, and I'm sure the guys at INDYCAR will look at it, will determine what really happened," said team owner Roger Penske. "We haven't seen a wheel come off in a long time. We have high fences here. But we were very fortunate we didn't have a bad accident."
This story was originally published by James Howell Jr. for Scripps News Indianapolis.
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LOS ANGELES — When Cardi B was searching for a record deal six years ago, the rapper remembered when several labels didn’t financially believe in her talents enough – except for Atlantic Records executives Julie Greenwald and Craig Kallman.
In a heartfelt speech, the Grammy winner thanked Greenwald and Kallman for supporting her career aspirations. Kallman is the CEO and chairman of Atlantic Records, while Greenwald holds the position as CEO and chairman of Atlantic Music Group - a newly formed label that’s home to Atlantic Records and 300 Elektra.
“Other labels were low-balling me and not giving me what I thought I deserved, but Atlantic was right there respecting me, my vision and my career,” the rapper recalled. “Craig and Julie took me under their wing.”
Cardi B said she had fears of choosing between her career or being a mother while recording her debut album “Invasion of Privacy,” which ultimately won her a Grammy in 2019.
“I was very scared, I was pregnant and I was afraid to tell anyone,” she said. “I was afraid to tell anyone. I was afraid of people who wanted me to decide between my family and my career, because I knew that happened to other artists with other labels. But with Craig and Julie, the exact opposite happened. You told me I could do both and I will never ever forget that.”
Davis’ annual gala is hard to gain entry or an invite to. With more than 300 tables filled, a plethora of well-known figures helped pack the room including former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her husband Paul Pelosi, Tom Hanks, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Lil Nas X, Demi Lovato, Tyrese, Olivia Rodrigo, Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Fox and Chance the Rapper.
Kevin Costner kicked off the multi-hour event with speech about his relationship with Davis and the late Whitney Houston, who the actor starred with in the 1992 film “The Bodyguard.” The three of them took a “huge leap” to move forward with the film - especially for Davis, the actor said.
“Maybe the hardest was for Clive,” Costner said. “I needed to believe I could make the movie that I was imagining. Whitney saw it as a chance to reinvent herself. But for Clive, it was a career move that had a recipe for disaster written all over it. I needed Clive. I needed his trust and his blessing. I needed one thing he was not used to doing: control.”
Costner called Davis a “miracle” in Houston’s life. The singer died in 2012 at the age of 48.
“You couldn’t protect your beloved Whitney. Your fingerprints on her life are clean, my friend,” Costner said. “You were a miracle in her life. Thank you for being her bodyguard, Clive. … Everyone in this business has a momma. But everyone doesn’t get a Clive.”
The event included several performances including Maneskin, Lizzo, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Hudson, Frankie Valli, Lauren Daigle, Latto, Lil Baby and Lil Wayne.
“This one night, we still break bread, we celebrate the music that basically and forever bonds us all,” Davis said. “There are no awards. There are no winners or losers tonight. It’s just our passion that makes our heartbeat faster. It makes our life so much more greatly purposed with joy and fulfillment.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/cardi-b-pays-homage-to-kallman-greenwald-at-pre-grammy-gala/2023/02/05/4c142856-a550-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html | 2023-02-05 12:45:33 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/cardi-b-pays-homage-to-kallman-greenwald-at-pre-grammy-gala/2023/02/05/4c142856-a550-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html |
FUTABA, Japan (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency toured Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and said he is satisfied with still-contentious plans to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi observed where the treated water will be sent through a pipeline to a coastal facility, where it will be highly diluted with seawater and receive a final test sampling. It will then be released 1 kilometer (1,000 yards) offshore through an undersea tunnel.
“I was satisfied with what I saw,” Grossi said after his tour of equipment at the plant for the planned discharge, which Japan hopes to begin this summer. “I don’t see any pending issues.”
The wastewater release still faces opposition in and outside Japan.
Earlier Wednesday, Grossi met with local mayors and fishing association leaders and stressed that the IAEA will be present throughout the water discharge, which is expected to last decades, to ensure safety and address residents’ concerns. He said he inaugurated a permanent IAEA office at the plant, showing its long-term commitment.
The water discharge is not “some strange plan that has been devised only to be applied here, and sold to you,” Grossi said at the meeting in Iwaki, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the plant. He said the method is certified by the IAEA and is followed around the world.
The IAEA, in its final report on the Fukushima plan released Tuesday, concluded that the treated wastewater, which will still contain a small amount of radioactivity, will be safer than international standards and its environmental and health impact would be negligible.
Local fishing organizations have rejected the plan because they worry their reputation will be damaged even if their catch isn’t contaminated. It is also opposed by groups in South Korea, China and some Pacific Island nations due to safety concerns and political reasons.
Fukushima’s fisheries association adopted a resolution on June 30 reaffirming its rejection of the plan.
The fishery association chief, Tetsu Nozaki, urged government officials at Wednesday’s meeting “to remember that the treated water plan was pushed forward despite our opposition.”
Grossi is expected to also visit South Korea, New Zealand and the Cook Islands to ease concerns there. He said his intention is to explain what the IAEA, not Japan, is doing to ensure there is no problem.
In an effort to address concerns about fish and the marine environment, Grossi and Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, signed an agreement on a joint project to determine whether they are impacted by tritium, the only radionuclide officials say cannot be removed from the wastewater by treatment.
In South Korea, officials said in a briefing Wednesday that it’s highly unlikely that the released water will have dangerous levels of contamination. They said South Korea plans to tightly screen seafood imported from Japan and that there is no immediate plan to lift the country’s import ban on seafood from the Fukushima region.
Park Ku-yeon, first vice minister of South Korea’s Office for Government Policy Coordination, said Seoul plans to comment on the IAEA findings when it issues the results of the country’s own investigation into the potential effects of the water release, which he said will come soon.
China doubled down on its objections to the release in a statement late Tuesday, saying the IAEA report failed to reflect all views and accusing Japan of treating the Pacific Ocean as a sewer.
“We once again urge the Japanese side to stop its ocean discharge plan, and earnestly dispose of the nuclear-contaminated water in a science-based, safe and transparent manner. If Japan insists on going ahead with the plan, it will have to bear all the consequences arising from this,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
Grossi said Wednesday he is aware of the Chinese position and takes any concern seriously. “China is a very important partner of the IAEA and we are in close contact,” he said.
A massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and contaminating their cooling water, which has leaked continuously. The water is collected, treated and stored in about 1,000 tanks, which will reach their capacity in early 2024.
The government and TEPCO, the plant operator, say the water must be removed to prevent any accidental leaks and make room for the plant’s decommissioning.
Japanese regulators finished their final safety inspection last week, and TEPCO is expected to receive a permit within days to release the water.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after meeting with Grossi, said Japan will continue to provide “detailed explanations based on scientific evidence with a high degree of transparency both domestically and internationally.”
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- CAE advancing green aviation technology with development of an electric conversion kit for Piper Archer® aircraft
- CAE and Piper to work on development and commercialization of the technology
- Two-thirds of CAE's Archer® fleet to be electrified
- H55 to provide the aircraft battery system
- SAFRAN to supply ENGINeUSTM 100 electric smart motor
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (NYSE: CAE) (TSX: CAE) - CAE announced today at the Farnborough International Air Show 2022 that it has partnered with Piper Aircraft to develop a conversion kit via a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for in-service Piper Archer® (PA-28-181) aircraft and bring an electric variant option of the iconic aircraft to market.
CAE expects to convert two-thirds of its Piper Archer® training fleet and develop a curriculum for new pilots to train on the operation of electric aircraft. CAE is bringing together industry leaders from Canada, the United States, and Europe to develop an aircraft that will reduce carbon emissions and noise levels at its flight schools around the world, while training future pilots to operate electric aircraft.
CAE and Piper Aircraft intend to work together on an electrical conversion kit for third parties, along with training and support services required for the operation of electrified Piper Archer® aircraft.
Executives from CAE, Piper Aircraft, and project partners joined the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry as well as Pierre Fitzgibbon, Quebec's Minister of Economy and Innovation for the announcement.
"Piper Aircraft has been a longstanding trusted partner for CAE's flight training operations, and we are very pleased to have them join us, along with other electric aviation leaders, in this leap forward for the sustainable future of aviation." said Marc Parent, CAE's President and CEO.
"The development of this technology is a first for CAE. As an engineering powerhouse and one of the largest Piper Archer® operators, CAE is uniquely positioned to make electric-powered flight a reality at our flight schools and beyond. CAE's partnership with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for investment into R&D has enabled us to boldly look to the future and prepare our electric aircraft for take-off," added Parent.
"Piper Aircraft is excited to support CAE's development of an electric aircraft modification conversion kit for the Piper Archer®", said Piper Aircraft President and CEO, John Calcagno. "With 28,000 aircraft in global service, the PA-28 is the ideal platform for real world flight training curriculums and professional pilot training programs like CAE's. Piper Aircraft is focused on aviation's commitment to greenhouse gas reductions and as such, we look forward to collaborating with CAE on the integration of an electric propulsion system for the Piper Archer®.
H55 of Switzerland is set to provide the battery system. H55 is one of the leading aerospace battery and propulsion system suppliers with years of successful electric flight experience, including the technology used in all of the Solar Impulse airplanes. In addition to developing clean propulsion technologies, battery packs and energy management solutions for new airplanes, H55 is also active in transforming existing designs. The path to clean aviation, will only be accelerated by the fact that this project brings H55 together with a leading aerospace technology company and an experienced aircraft manufacturer.
CAE is also engaging with Safran Electrical & Power, to incorporate the new ENGINeUSTM 100 electric smart motor into the STC conversion kit. The ENGINeUSTM 100 delivers 150 kW maximum at take-off power and features a fully integrated motor controller within the machine. The thermal management is provided by an optimized air-cooling system. The new industry leading motor is aligned with CAE's flight training operating requirements.
Safran Electrical & Power is a global leader in aircraft electrical systems. The company has extensive capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and broad expertise to provide its customers with solutions for electric powertrains and equipment electrification.
The development of the electric conversion kit is part of Project Resilience through which CAE is investing C$1 billion in innovation over five years in partnership with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec to develop aviation and cross-sectoral digital technologies of the future. CAE will draw on the expertise of Canada's strong Aerospace cluster and will collaborate and co-develop technology solutions with OEMs, small and medium sized companies, post-secondary institutions, and research centers from across Quebec and Canada.
"Canada is leading the world when it comes to the innovation required for the low carbon economy. Thanks to our government's recent support of CAE, not only will we see 700 new jobs in Canada, today's announcement means we will see green and clean aircraft technologies that will be used all over the world," said the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry.
"CAE understands that the aerospace industry needs to shift to reducing its environmental footprint through new technology. This is the type of project we intend to support so they can develop innovative solutions that will make air transportation more electric," said Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy and Innovation and Minister Responsible for Regional Economic Development.
In 2020, CAE became the first Canadian aerospace company to be carbon neutral, compensating for its direct GHG emissions (scope 1), electricity indirect GHG emissions (scope 2) and emissions related to business travel by plane (partial scope 3) with a view to further reduce its overall carbon footprint.
When it enters service, the electric Piper Archer will reduce aviation fuel consumption – scope 1 emissions.
CAE is committed to being a sustainability leader through the development green aviation technology and existing corporate initiatives like the use of 100-percent renewable energy for electricity at its facilities around the world through the energy generated on site and the purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). Furthermore, CAE is actively developing solutions aligned with Canada's newly implemented Clean Technology Key Industrial Capability.
Read more about CAE's commitment to social responsibility in the FY22 Annual activity and corporate social responsibility report.
At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We're investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we'll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.
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South Korean president invited to address US Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. congressional leaders have invited the president of South Korea to address a joint meeting during a visit to Washington later this month.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other leaders announced Thursday they have invited Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to address a joint meeting of Congress in honor of the 70th anniversary of the alliance between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea. The session is set for April 27.
“With this year marking the 70th anniversary of the alliance between our two countries, it is an especially important time to reflect on the achievements of our partnership and to reaffirm our shared commitment to democracy, economic prosperity, and global peace,” the leaders wrote.
They said the relationship between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea “is one of great importance and significance” and said the meeting “would provide an ideal platform for you to share your vision for the future of the U.S.-Korea alliance.”
President Joe Biden is hosting Yoon at an April 26 state dinner, Biden’s second as president.
The invitation to address the Congress comes as the U.S. is strengthening its alliances with Asia and intensifying its focus on China. This week, McCarthy risked China’s anger by hosting a bipartisan meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan in a diplomatic show of U.S. support for the island government that is territory claimed by Beijing.
South Korea recently increased joint security efforts with the United States as concerns grow about China’s intentions in the region. The country also has economic concerns about U.S. measures regarding the tech industry and trade with China.
Congress routinely welcomes heads of state to deliver an address during a joint meeting, a high-profile opportunity to showcase bonds between the U.S. and other nations.
The letter included the congressional minority leaders, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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For the past two seasons Husson University baseball coach Chris Morris has led his Eagles to North Atlantic Conference tournament championships, which sent them to the NCAA Division III baseball playoffs.
The Eagles also won the conference four seasons ago under then-coach Jason Harvey, but lost to CUNY Athletic Conference winner Baruch in a best-of-three series for the NCAA berth. There was no tournament in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, fourth-year head coach Morris and his second-seeded Eagles — who are 20-16 overall and went 14-2 in the NAC’s East Division — will begin defense of their title on Sunday in their conference tournament opener at Husson’s Winkin Sports Complex in Bangor against their third-seeded rival Thomas College of Waterville (18-15, 13-3) at 3 p.m.
Top seed SUNY Cobleskill (20-13, 13-2) and fourth seed SUNY Canton (11-21, 8-7), both from the NAC West, will open the four-team double-elimination tourney at noon Sunday.
The losers of the two games will play at 6 p.m., and the winners will play noon Monday. The two teams remaining with one loss will square off at 3:30 p.m. Monday and the championship round begins noon Tuesday, with an if-necessary game to follow.
Husson will enter the tourney on a five-game winning streak and with 10 wins in its last 11 games.
“First and foremost, our pitching and defense have carried us all season long,” center fielder Ethan Stoddard said. “Our offense wasn’t clicking well early in the season but it has been lately so now all three phases are clicking.”
The Eagles have scored 84 runs over their last 11 games after scoring just 15 in the seven previous games.
“We’re experienced but we’re also a little young and it is a great mixture between everybody. We do the best we can to put up as many runs as possible,” tri-captain and utility player Brett Riffe said.
Four-straight conference titles would be an impressive feat for the Husson team, which features five starters who grew up within 28 miles of the school.
Tri-captains Kobe Rogerson and Stoddard, both graduate students are from Brewer and Old Town, respectively, while Tanner Evans is from Greenbush and the Curtis brothers, Jackson and Hunter, are from Ellsworth.
Rogerson is the shortstop. Evans is a sophomore third baseman, Hunter Curtis is a freshman right fielder, and his brother Jackson plays first base and is a junior.
A pair of sophomore right handers, Matt Wallingford from Greene and Connor Abood from New Hampshire, have had outstanding seasons. Wallingford is 3-0 with a 2.03 earned-run average and 38 strikeouts in 31 innings, and Abood is 2-3 with a 3.00 ERA and two complete games.
Opponents are hitting just .145 off Wallingford, who has given up just 16 hits in 31 innings.
Husson has three other pitchers who have thrown at least 22 innings and have ERAs under 3.50 in Alex Smith (3-2, 3.12, 34 ⅔ innings), Brandon Brunell (3-1, 3.18 in 22 2/3 innings) and East Machias’ Zain Fitzsimmons (0-0, 3.47 in 23 ⅓ innings).
Morris has some other dependable arms who have thrown between 9 and 16 innings, including Windham’s Chris Naylor (0-1, 2.00), Ryne Rametta (2-1, 2.50), Sully Beers (1-0, 2.77), Tanner Audyatis (1-0, 3.38), Ben Phillips (2-0, 3.75) and saves leader Ryan Robb (2 saves, 3-0, 5.28).
The team ERA is 4.73.
The Curtis brothers have paced the offense and are within .12 of each other in batting average. Jackson is hitting .369.05 and Hunter is at .368.93.
Jackson has two homers and 16 runs batted in, while Hunter leads the team in runs batted in (24) and doubles (11) and is tied for the lead in homers with three.
“They’re awesome,” Rogerson said of the brothers. “And their connection in the locker room is cool to see. It’s nice to see them play college baseball together.”
Junior left fielder Akira Warren from Hallowell is at .314 with one homer and 17 RBIs, Evans is hitting .305-1-20 and Kennebunk freshman catcher-designated hitter David York is at .290-0-15.
Rogerson is hitting .270 and has 17 RBIs, Stoddard is at .267-2-18 and Bath sophomore catcher-designated hitter Ty Knowlton is tied for the team lead in homers with three and has 15 RBIs while hitting .259.
Freshman second baseman Keegan Cyr from Bangor is hitting .186 and has knocked in seven runs. Riffe is at .194 with three RBIs.
The Eagles are hitting .267 as a team and averaging 5.4 runs per game.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James is not only coming back for a 21st season, he’s coming back in his original uniform number.
James will return to No. 23 next season, a move the Los Angeles Lakers revealed Saturday by tweeting a picture of his back with James’ name and number showing on the gold jersey.
James has alternated between No. 23 and No. 6 after wearing 23 when he entered the NBA in 2003 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was in No. 6 while becoming the NBA’s career scoring leader last season, a number now retired by the league following the death of Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bill Russell.
Rich Paul, James’ agent, told ESPN that James decided to make the switch out of respect for Russell.
James said Wednesday during the broadcast of the ESPY Awards that he would continue playing next season.
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Body camera video shows guests complaining they were drugged at wedding
LONGWOOD, Fla. - Seminole County Sheriff’s deputies released body camera video showing the scene as investigators responded to reports of guests being drugged at a Longwood wedding reception February 19.
"Firefighters have seen about three, four more people at the entrance that aren’t feeling good. Might be transporting a few more people to the hospital because of this," a responding deputy says.
One wedding guest is seen on a stretcher being wheeled into an ambulance.
Earlier this week deputies arrested the bride, Danya Shay Glenny and her caterer, Joycelyn Bryant, of Joycelyn’s Southern Kitchen. They are facing charges of tampering, negligence and delivery of marijuana.
"We all have been affected, somehow. What, was put in food," another wedding guest asked. "Yeah we’re trying to figure out who put it in the food. Was it the catering company?" a deputy said. "What would you suggest I do?" the guest responded. "Well I would not drive in your condition, so you probably want to take an Uber," the deputy advised.
Body camera worn by Seminole County sheriff's deputies show wedding guests complaining that they think they had been drugged. [Seminole County Sheriff's Office].
Investigators said food laced with marijuana was served at the wedding, and the guests did not know before they ate it. Deputies recognized immediately that some guests were intoxicated.
"Hey, are you guys with the catering? You with catering?" a deputy said to some staff members carrying trays out to a van.
"Yeah we’re just putting stuff away," a member of the catering staff responded. "Yeah, don’t put anything away. You can put that back inside," the deputy instructed.
In the body camera video, you could see investigators pulling food off of the dinner tables as they approached the bride and groom.
"Apparently, supposedly your food had cannabis inside of it when your guests ate it. Did you authorize that?" a deputy asked. "I have no idea," the groom said. "I just need a yes or no. Did you guys authorize that from the catering company to have cannabis placed in the food? Edibles? Whatever the case may be?" the deputy asked again. "No, sir. It could have been. I mean I’m not going to lie, people here are, consume marijuana. I mean I think people probably, I wouldn’t be surprised, if people had like their own edibles," the groom said.
The deputy told the groom that he noticed children at the wedding and that if any marijuana was put in food that was served to everybody, including minors, then it would be a problem.
"I just need a yes or no. Did you guys authorize that from the catering company to have cannabis placed in the food? Edibles? Whatever the case may be?" the deputy asked again. "No, sir," the groom answered.
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Which compost bin is best?
Food waste is a major problem in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that each day, people throw out an average of 30%-40% of the food they buy. But a compost bin can help you make lemonade out of slightly overripe lemons. These simple containers take organic material that would otherwise rot uselessly in a landfill and turn it into rich, organic soil.
The Miracle Gro Dual Chamber Compost Tumbler is a great outdoor bin from a trusted name in garden tools. It’s easy to use and produces plenty of compost.
What to know before you buy a compost bin
Indoor vs. outdoor
Garden composters and indoor compost bins each perform essentially the same function on different scales. Indoor bins sit on the counter and are great for smaller quantities of food waste, while outdoor garden composters can handle not only food but also yard waste and other organic brown or green material.
Tumbler vs. bin
If you choose an outdoor compost bin, the next decision to make is whether you want a tumbler or a bin.
- Tumbler: A composting tumbler is a container that sits in a frame. This container is easily spun around with each addition. On the positive side, this quickly mixes organic matter for optimal processing. On the other hand, these are smaller, holding just 30-60 gallons of material. They also cost more than a simple bin.
- Bin: The bin is the simplest type of composter you can find. It’s essentially a square that sits directly on the ground. Organic material is added to the top. The system requires that you manually turn the compost, which makes it harder for some gardeners. However, if you are on a budget and need a bigger capacity — up to 250 gallons of material — this is a great choice.
Compost bin materials
Compost bins for the countertop are made of metal, ceramic or plastic. Outside, look for composters in plastic, metal or wood.
What to look for in a quality compost bin
Easy crank
If you choose a tumbler, look for a handle that turns easily and smoothly. Most people choose this type of composter to avoid heavy physical labor, so it should be easy to use.
Filters
Countertop compost bins need to have odor-blocking filters. These may use charcoal, or they may be doubled up for the best protection.
Tightly fitted lids
When combined with a filter, tightly fitted lids ensure that no odors seep out. This also prevents any accidental spills.
Temperature gauge
Because compost needs to reach a certain temperature to kill off harmful bacteria and weed seeds, a temperature gauge can be helpful. Look for composters with integrated temperature readings.
Composting 101
- Whichever compost bin you choose should have adequate ventilation. This helps speed up decomposition.
- Chopping up food waste or shredding leaves and grass clippings also helps speed up composting.
- Aim for an equal ratio of brown matter — leaves, twigs and dead branches — to green matter — food scraps, grass clippings and coffee grounds.
- Water compost judiciously. If your bin begins to smell, there is too much water. Add dry material to compensate.
- Tumble or manually turn your composter every couple of days.
How much you can expect to spend on a compost bin
Price will vary depending on whether you choose a countertop compost bin or full-size outdoor garden composter. Expect to spend $20-$200.
Compost bin FAQ
How do composters work?
A. The process of turning food scraps and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil is simple.
- Organic material of all kinds contains microbes that break down plants and food waste. This creates carbon dioxide and builds to temperatures of up to 140 degrees.
- At high temperatures, other bacteria join the party and break the matter down even further.
- Worms and slugs also help. They eat and digest material in your composter and create waste that further speeds the process.
- When the compost is ready, it looks just like garden soil — dark brown and crumbly, with no smell other than clean dirt.
How long does composting take?
A. It depends entirely on how much material you have, and whether it is in good balance between brown and green matter, air and water. Generally speaking, completely composted material that has become soil takes three months or more.
Is there anything that should not go in a compost bin?
A. Yes. Avoid adding any of the following to your composter:
- Animal protein (e.g., meat or fish)
- Dairy products
- Oils of any kind
- Plants with pesticides
- Treated wood
- Plants with disease
- Weeds with seeds
- Cat or dog waste
What’s the best compost bin to buy?
Top compost bin
Miracle Gro Dual Chamber Compost Tumbler
What you need to know: With two chambers going at the same time, you’ll always have rich organic soil when you need it.
What you’ll love: Internal mixing bars keep material moving for compost in less than six weeks. The tumbler design is easy to operate. It holds up to 37 gallons of material and comes with a two-year warranty.
What you should consider: It is small and may not be adequate if you are incorporating yard waste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top compost bin for the money
FCMP Dual Chamber Tumbling Composter
What you need to know: This speedy model produces compost in as little as two weeks.
What you’ll love: It holds 37 gallons of material. It is made of recycled polypropylene, free of potentially harmful bisphenol A, and treated to inhibit the sun’s ultraviolet rays and not degrade in direct sunlight. The tumbler handle is easy to turn.
What you should consider: Some users report leaking. Make sure to incorporate dry ingredients as needed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
RSVP International Endurance Stainless Steel Compost Pail
What you need to know: This sleek indoor bin has a large capacity and looks great on the counter.
What you’ll love: It holds 1.5 gallons of waste and comes with two charcoal filters for better odor control. It’s dishwasher-safe and has a relatively small footprint — just 9.5 inches wide and 10 inches tall.
What you should consider: It is expensive and also requires expensive filters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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After two and a half years of COVID-induced pandemonium, the Baton Rouge area’s labor market for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse practitioners seems to have cooled off a bit.
Job postings for RNs, LPNs and nurse practitioners in the region fell to 1,257 in September, the lowest total since November 2020, according to data available from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. RNs, LPNs and nurse practitioners form the bulk of the U.S. health care workforce, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Among Baton Rouge health care employers, total job postings for those positions held above the 1,600 level from April 2021 to April. Postings went back up to 1,667 in July but have steadily fallen each month since then.
Postings for RNs, LPNs and nurse practitioners were as low as 1,050 in the Baton Rouge metro area back in November 2019, right before the pandemic gripped the globe. They shot up to a pandemic-high of 2,240 in March 2020 and stayed above the 2,000 plateau for another two months before falling the rest of the year. The total surged back to 1,916 in July 2021 as the delta variant of the coronavirus swept through Louisiana.
The figures show the Baton Rouge area’s nursing workforce has found some stability after it was pushed to the brink by repeated waves of coronavirus infections. The onslaught forced hospitals to turn to travel nurses to fill the gaps.
However, officials cautioned that nurses are still sorely needed, especially with labor markets nationwide in flux — not to mention that COVID-19 “is still here,” as Jennifer Manale, Baton Rouge General’s chief nursing officer, put it.
“The demand on nursing was a lot during that time. You saw a lot of postings for us,” Manale said. “Now we’re getting back to those baseline staffing levels.”
Finding success amid challenges
Manale said demand is down for the ICU, which is reflected in Baton Rouge General’s job postings. However, finding bedside nurses across the hospital is still a challenge.
Baton Rouge General has ramped up its recruiting efforts, including visiting markets such as northwest Louisiana and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to connect with nursing students, Manale said.
The hospital system is also trying to strengthen its retainment efforts as retirements and departures for positions with better hours remain an issue. Manale noted she left a nighttime position at Woman’s Hospital decades ago for a daytime job at Baton Rouge General.
“There are so many other job opportunities out there for this younger nursing staff,” she said. “There are job openings out there for people that can work from home. It’s just (challenging) trying to get them at the bedside.”
Ed Halphen, Woman’s Hospital’s vice president of human resources, said his institution has noted an increase in nursing hires and a decrease in open positions in the last year. Our Lady of the Lake officials have seen a “positive increase in filling open nursing positions over the last several months,” according to a company statement.
Officials from Woman’s, Baton Rouge General and the Lake touted their respective companies’ culture and compensation and benefits packages as reasons for recent hiring success.
“Our recruiting team and hiring managers have worked hard to identify new ways to recruit and new talent pools to tap into,” Halphen said in a statement.
By the numbers
The decrease in job postings is being driven by a drop in demand for RNs across the region.
Until August, RN listings for the Baton Rouge area held above the 1,000 threshold for all but two months of the pandemic, including a high of 1,771 in March 2020. After a dip to 911 in November 2020, RN postings went back above the 1,000 level in February 2021 and hit 1,364 five months later.
The RN total finally fell to 894 in August of this year and 777 in September, the lowest such mark since November 2019.
Meanwhile, postings for LPNs and nurse practitioners have fluctuated during the pandemic.
Baton Rouge employers posted 88 nurse practitioner listings in March 2020 but 27 by February 2021. Demand grew to 106 postings by October 2021 but fell the next three months.
After more ups and downs, nurse practitioner postings have been above 100 since May and totaled 126 in August and 114 in September.
Local health care employers had 200 LPN postings in November 2019, but that total more than doubled to 408 by May 2020. Like RNs and nurse practitioners, LPN postings dipped in late 2020 and early 2021 but swelled back to 459 in August 2021. After more ebbs and flows, LPN postings hit a recent high of 431 in May but fell to 366 in September.
On the flip side, demand is growing nationally for RNs, LPNs and nurse practitioners. Total postings for those positions across the country have grown from more than 555,000 in March 2020 to more than 815,000 in August, according to BRAC data.
Working together
Jake Polansky, BRAC’s manager of economic and policy research, noted that total nursing jobs in the Baton Rouge region have grown by 9% since 2019, compared with 1% decreases in Lafayette and New Orleans. Job postings for RNs, LPNs and nurse practitioners in the New Orleans metro area have held above the 4,000 mark since May after seven months in a row below that level, according to data from Greater New Orleans Inc.
Polansky touted partnerships between local hospital networks and educational institutions, such as Baton Rouge Community College and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, as a driver behind the region’s health care workforce growth.
He said the organizations have worked to increase nursing school enrollment and create streamlined programs that can boost worker skills, such as BRCC’s partnership with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Baton Rouge Clinic to help medical assistants become LPNs.
“That could be an indication that these programs that get students in and out quicker and into the workforce quicker are seeing more demand here,” Polansky said.
Though rising wages are a standard driver for increased workforce participation, Polansky said wages for health care positions “aren’t quite going up as much in Baton Rouge as they are in other places.” However, wages for LPNs grew “much higher than the national average,” he said.
“It looks like wages alone aren’t being the motivating factor,” he added. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_801320e4-5ad7-11ed-b1b1-97ea091cb11a.html | 2022-11-03 15:15:00 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_801320e4-5ad7-11ed-b1b1-97ea091cb11a.html |
CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Advisor Group (Liberty), a premier management consulting firm that helps clients tackle their toughest business and IT challenges, has been named one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Chicago. Crain's Chicago Business partnered with Best Companies Group on this survey and awards program to identify companies that have excelled in creating quality workplaces for employees.
"It is an honor to be recognized as a Best Place to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business for the third year," said Chad Smith, CEO, Liberty Advisor Group. "This award is an incredible testament to our people and culture. We have created a strong culture that fosters a supportive work environment and empowers our people to deliver world-class results to our clients."
Liberty is dedicated to firm culture and works hard to build a sense of family amongst everyone with team outings and activities. We are a flat organization with high-performing, self-motivated entrepreneurs that have fun while delivering client value. Most recently, Liberty was recognized as one of the Best Small and Medium Workplaces in Chicago by Fortune Magazine.
Determining the Best Places to Work in Chicago involved a two-step process. The first step consisted of evaluating each participating company's workplace policies, practices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of employee surveys aimed at assessing the experiences and attitudes of individual employees with respect to their workplace. This part was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the best companies and the final ranking. The full list of Best Places to Work in Chicago is featured in Crain's Chicago Business and is available online here.
Liberty Advisor Group is a goal-oriented, client-focused, and results-driven consulting firm. Founded in 2008, Liberty's world-class team has added an impressive $1 billion to our clients' operating incomes over the years, and has been involved in 1000+ mergers, acquisitions, and carve-out projects. The company aims to drive future growth by continuing to align with our clients on their toughest business and IT challenges; further strengthening our collaborative, problem-solving culture; and building genuine and trusting relationships both inside and outside of the firm. In short, we will continue to grow, evolve, and improve.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Joe Musgrove and had four RBIs to retake the major league lead, leading the New York Mets over the San Diego Padres 8-5 on Sunday night.
Alonso hit his 25th home run in a five-run sixth and added a RBI double high off the center-field wall in a three-run seventh that built an 8-1 lead. With 82 RBIs, he moved one ahead of the Yankees’ Aaron Judge heading into the first Subway Series game of the season at Citi Field on Tuesday night.
Eric Hosmer provided Musgrove (8-5) a 1-0 lead with an RBI double in the sixth off Drew Smith (2-3), but the Mets rallied in the bottom half on the sweltering night and reopened a 1 1/2-game NL East lead over second-place Atlanta. New York avoided a three-game sweep and what would have been its first four-game losing streak this year.
After wasting a second-and-third, no-outs threat in the fifth, the Mets pressured again when Starling Marte singled leading off the sixth and Francisco Lindor doubled.
Pitching coach Ruben Niebla went to the mound, and Musgrove hung a 2-1 slider that Alonso hit into the left-field seats for a 3-1 lead.
Daniel Vogelbach, making his Mets debut, walked and scored when Luis Guillorme hit a perfectly placed two-out RBI single on a jam shot off Nick Martinez that dropped into shallow left as shortstop Ha-Seong Kim pulled up. Tomás Nido followed with an opposite-field RBI double that hopped off the right-center fence.
Rookie center fielder Esteury Ruiz allowed Alonso’s double against Steven Wilson to go over his glove and high off the wall, Mark Canha followed with an RBI infield hit on a slow roller, and third baseman Manny Machado threw past first for a run-scoring error.
Machado had three hits, included an RBI double in a three-run ninth off Joely Rodríguez. Edwin Díaz, energizing the crowd when he entered to Blasterjaxx & Timmy Trumpet’s “Narco,” relieved with two on and got three outs for his 21st save in 24 chances.
Musgrove, 0-3 in his last five starts, didn’t allow a hit until the fifth but gave up four runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings. He escaped trouble in the fifth by inducing three straight groundouts.
Vogelbach, acquired Friday from Pittsburgh, went 1 for 3 with a fifth-inning single. He had been 0 for 8 against Musgrove.
Mets starter Carlos Carrasco allowed six hits over five scoreless innings on the 90-degree night.
WEB GEM
New York’s Brandon Nimmo made a leaping catch against the center-field wall in the sixth to rob Austin Nola of a run-scoring extra-base hit.
PLUNKED BUT NO BASE
Machado struck out leading off the sixth when he was hit on a hand by a Smith changeup, but first base umpire Ángel Hernández ruled Machado swung at the 0-2 pitch.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: CF Trent Grisham didn’t play, a day after leaving in the eighth following a collision with pitcher Chris Bassitt at first base. … INF C.J. Abrams (sore biceps) was out of the lineup for the second straight day. He felt better batting but still was sore when throwing, manager Bob Melvin said. … OF Wil Myers (right knee inflammation) will need additional minor league rehab games in the coming week. … LHP Drew Pomeranz threw about 20 pitches Saturday in his first simulated game following flexor tendon surgery last August. Melvin said Pomeranz likely will throw another simulated game.
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom (stress reaction in his right scapula) threw a side session at Citi Field and will make at least a fourth minor league rehab start. The 34-year-old right-hander, a two-time NL Cy Young Award winner, has not pitched in the major leagues since July 7 last year. … RHP Trevor May (right triceps inflammation) threw 14 pitches during a one-inning appearance for Double-A Binghamton.
Booth: ESPN and YES broadcaster David Cone worked his first game since the former big league pitcher had hip replacement surgery on July 11.
UP NEXT
Padres: LHP Sean Manaea (5-4, 4.11) is to start Monday night at Detroit against RHP Drew Hutchison (1-4, 4.46).
Mets: RHP Taijuan Walker (7-2, 2.55) is 4-0 with a 1.80 ERA in his last seven starts going into his Tuesday outing against LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-2, 3.24). Mets manager Buck Showalter said RHP Max Scherzer will start in Wednesday’s finale of the two-game series.
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The GI bill has helped generations of veterans get an education and easy home loans. But that benefit has never really been available to Native Americans living on tribal land.
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The GI bill has helped generations of veterans get an education and easy home loans. But that benefit has never really been available to Native Americans living on tribal land.
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Dozens of parents, students, alumni, and community members in the Central Regional School District confronted the Board of Education and administration during an emotional meeting Thursday night, the first since the suicide of a freshman garnered national attention and prompted others to speak out with stories of bullying and violence.
“I am angry and I am upset with every single one of you guys,” said senior Danielle Ledesma, one of many speakers who shared harrowing stories with the board during the hours-long meeting. “You’re here to protect the students, but the students don’t feel protected.” | https://www.nj.com/education/2023/02/i-am-going-home-scared-bullying-is-pervasive-at-nj-school-kids-tell-board-of-ed.html | 2023-02-17 11:12:08 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/education/2023/02/i-am-going-home-scared-bullying-is-pervasive-at-nj-school-kids-tell-board-of-ed.html |
Announcing a new partnership with the Center for Dermatology and Laser Surgery
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden State Dermatology (GSD) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the dermatology practice of Emil Tanghetti, MD located in Sacramento, CA. The new partnership expands GSD's network to 28 practices across the San Francisco Bay and California's Central Valley and Sacramento Valley.
The Center for Dermatology and Laser Surgery was established in 1981 by Emil A. Tanghetti, M.D. as a practice solely devoted to diseases and surgery of the skin. As his practice has expanded over the past four decades, so has the range of services. Dr. Tanghetti and his team of staff includes aesthetic nurse Amanda Knox and esthetician Rahnie Wood to assure your procedures are performed and supervised by qualified medical personnel.
The Center for Dermatology and Laser Surgery was one of the first centers to introduce lasers into an office-based practice in 1994. With over 50 types of lasers, our providers treat vascular lesions, wrinkles, unwanted hair, sun damage, remove tattoos and more.
The clinic team is committed to ongoing clinical research to provide state-of-the-art treatment and Dr. Tanghetti has published over 200 articles based on studies that we have conducted with lasers as well as medications. In addition to laser surgery, Dr. Tanghetti's research interests include psoriasis, photo aging and acne vulgaris. Dr. Tanghetti also serves as Associate Editor for the journal Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. For over 20 years, Dr. Tanghetti and team have participated in the removal of unwanted gang-related tattoos for the California Division of Juvenile Justice. Dr. Tanghetti has been honored with the "Heroes in Healthcare" award for his community service for this tattoo removal program.
The clinic is located at 5601 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, near California State University, Sacramento.
"Our partnership with Golden State Dermatology will afford us more time to focus on patient care and continue to pursue cutting edge treatments, both medical and cosmetic, in the field of dermatology. I also gain new professional colleagues, many of whom I've known and respected for years, along with GSD's administrative support," shared Dr. Tanghetti.
GSD offers 24 convenient locations throughout the Bay Area and Central Valley and accepts most forms of insurance. "We're proud to support our clinicians to provide the highest-quality, patient-centered care possible. We will continue to seek and add the most talented providers in California and beyond to our team," says Dr. Ed Becker, founder of Golden State Dermatology.
To learn more about Golden State Dermatology, and its partnership with The Center for Dermatology and Laser Surgery, please visit GoldenStateDermatology.com
In the midst of health care consolidation, Golden State Dermatology (GSD) was founded to maintain a relatively independent model of practice. GSD is physician-owned and led and is rapidly growing with over 60 providers in the San Francisco Bay Area and California's Central Valley. GSD is led by a team of board-certified dermatologists with a mission to deliver the highest quality care and a great patient, provider, and staff experience. GSD's services include dermatology, cosmetics, Mohs surgery for skin cancer, pathology, and plastic surgery in state-of-the-art medical facilities.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation ("M&T") (NYSE:MTB) announced today it has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.3515625 per share on its Perpetual Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series H ("Series H Preferred Stock").
The dividend will be payable June 15, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 1, 2022.
M&T is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the northeastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank.
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Al Pacino is a father for the fourth time.
Pacino's publicist, Stan Rosenfield, confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the actor, 83, and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah welcomed a son named Roman.
No other details, including when or where the baby was born, were released. The news was first reported by TMZ.
He is Pacino’s fourth child and first with Alfallah. Pacino has a 33-year-old daughter, Julie Marie, with acting coach Jan Tarrant and 22-year-old twins Anton and Olivia with actor Beverly D’Angelo.
Pacino and Alfallah reportedly began dating last year. She describes herself as a “raconteur” on her Instagram page and her IMDB page notes that she’s a producer on two movies currently in post-production, including “Billy Knight," starring Pacino.
Pacino’s baby news follows close on the heels of that of longtime friend and fellow actor Robert De Niro. A representative for the 79-year-old actor confirmed last month that De Niro had become a father for the seventh time. | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2023/06/15/al-pacino-83-is-a-father-for-the-fourth-time-welcoming-son-roman-with-noor-alfallah/ | 2023-06-15 20:58:49 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2023/06/15/al-pacino-83-is-a-father-for-the-fourth-time-welcoming-son-roman-with-noor-alfallah/ |
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chairman of the Board, Conny Karlsson, has corrected the reporting which today was mistakenly made to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority regarding a sale of his shareholding in Swedish Match. The background to the mistake is the Chairman's instruction to his bank to accept the public offer from Philip Morris in respect of his shares in Swedish Match. Such acceptance of the offer may be withdrawn at any time until the expiry of the acceptance period in accordance with the terms of the offer and Swedish Takeover Regulation. An acceptance of the offer should only be reported if and when the offer is declared unconditional and provided it has not then been withdrawn.
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(iSeeCars) — Driving in the winter can be an unpleasant experience.
There’s the discomfort of entering a freezing vehicle to warm it up as well as the inherent safety dangers associated with winter driving conditions. Even if you’re confident in your ability to drive in the snow, your winter driving proficiency may not be shared with other people on the road.
Luckily there are vehicles out there to make winter driving safer and more comfortable. Among those vehicles are SUVs across all sizes. We are breaking down the Best SUVs for Snow to help ensure you and your car are properly equipped for winter road conditions.
Best SUVs for Snow Driving
To select the best SUV for snow driving, iSeeCars analyzed SUVs across all sizes. These cars achieved a score of 8.0 or above (out of 10) on iSeeCars quality analysis that takes into account long-term reliability, value retention, and highest average safety ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Based on this criteria, an iSeeCars Quality Score was calculated. These cars also have all-wheel or four-wheel drive and the right combination of safety features that aid drivers in snowy conditions.
Here are the best SUVs for snow across multiple vehicle categories:
Best Small SUVs and Crossovers for Snow
Small SUVs provide a higher ground clearance than sedans while adding cargo and passenger space. Here are the best compact SUVs for snow:
1. Jeep Wrangler
iSeeCars Quality Score: 9.2
Reliability Score: 8.5
Retained Value Score: 9.8
Safety Score: N/A
MSRP: $29,725
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $40,119
The best small SUV for snow is the Jeep Wrangler. The Wrangler is known for its off-road prowess, thanks to its high ground clearance, which also helps this vehicle maneuver in the snow. It also has optional four-wheel drive, which provides added traction in snow and icy conditions.
2. Subaru Outback
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.8
Reliability Score: 8.4
Retained Value Score: 8.0
Safety Score: 10.0
MSRP: $26,945
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $34,433
The 2022 Subaru Outback, which also tops the iSeeCars Rankings for the Best Small SUVs, is a top SUV for snow. Every Subaru Outback includes forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist, and radar cruise control. The Outback comes standard with all-wheel drive to provide increased grip, and also has excellent outward visibility from its wagon-like exterior design.
3. Subaru Forester
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.7
Reliability Score: 8.1
Retained Value Score: 8.1
Safety Score: 10.0
MSRP: $25,195
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $31,934
The Subaru Forester’s standard safety technology includes forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist, and radar/adaptive cruise control. Similar to the Outback, standard all-wheel drive means the Forester offers increased grip during inclement weather. Upper trims also include hill descent control with X-Mode traction enhancement, which assists drivers in safely travelling down snow-covered hills.
4. Honda CR-V
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.6
Reliability Score: 8.5
Retained Value Score: 8.3
Safety Score: 9.0
MSRP: $25,750
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $31,408
The Honda CR-V ranks fourth as the best small SUV for snow. Every CR-V includes Honda Sensing, which includes standard forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning, lane-keeping assist, radar cruise control, and automatic high beams. The Honda CR-V comes standard with front-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive can be added for $1,500 to every trim except the Touring trim, which includes all-wheel drive as standard equipment.
5. Toyota RAV4
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.5
Reliability Score: 8.0
Retained Value Score: 8.5
Safety Score: 9.0
MSRP: $26,525
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $31,467
The Toyota RAV4 comes standard with forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist, radar cruise control, and automatic high beams. The Toyota RAV4 comes standard with front-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive is available for buyers seeking increased confidence on slippery roads for an extra $1,400. Weather packages can be added to certain trims which includes a leather-wrapped heated steering wheel, heated front seats, and rain-sensing windshield wipers.
6. Hyundai Tucson
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.4
Reliability Score: 7.5
Retained Value Score: 7.8
Safety Score: 10.0
MSRP: $24,950
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $26,080
Standard driver-assist technologies for the Hyundai Tucson consist of forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, lane-departure warning, lane-keeping assist, driver attention monitoring, and rear-seat reminder. Front-wheel drive is standard on the Hyundai Tucson, with all-wheel drive available on all trims for $1,400.
7. Kia Sportage
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.1
Reliability Score: 7.6
Retained Value Score: 7.6
Safety Score: 9.0
MSRP: $24,090
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $25,280
The Kia Sportage’s standard driver safety tech includes forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning, lane-keeping assist, and driver attention monitoring. Blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, radar cruise control, and front and rear parking sensors can be added at higher trim levels. Front-wheel drive is standard on the Sportage but all-wheel drive can be added to all trim levels for $1,500.
8. Mitsubishi Outlander
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.1
Reliability Score: 7.7
Retained Value Score: 7.1
Safety Score: 9.6
MSRP: $25,795
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $23,239
The Mitsubishi Outlander was redesigned for 2022 and has standard forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, lane-departure warning, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, and lane-keeping assist. All-wheel drive is standard.
9. Ford Escape
iSeeCars Quality Score: 7.8
Reliability Score: 8.0
Retained Value Score: 6.5
Safety Score: 9.0
MSRP: $25,555
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $28,082
The Ford Escape offers forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning, lane-keeping assist, blind-spot monitoring, and rear cross-traffic alert as standard equipment. The Ford Escape comes standard with front-wheel drive and makes all-wheel drive available on all trims for an added $1,500 except the top-line Titanium model, which includes all-wheel drive as standard equipment.
Best Midsize SUVs for Snow
Midsize SUVs and crossovers provide more cargo and passenger space than their small SUV counterparts and often include a third row of seating.
1. Toyota Highlander
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.9
Reliability Score: 8.5
Value Retention Score: 8.2
Safety Score: 10.0
Average New Car Price: $35,205-$49,510
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $41,763
The Toyota Highlander is a capable crossover with a comfortable, high-quality cabin and three rows of seats. The Highlander comes standard with a suite of safety features including cross traffic alert, traffic sign recognition, lane departure warning, forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and pedestrian detection. All trims come standard with front-wheel drive. AWD can be added to lower trims for $1,600 or $1,950 on higher trims.
A new Toyota Highlander costs between $35,205 and $49,510 and a three-year-old used Toyota Highlander costs an average of $41,763.
2. Honda Pilot
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.8
Reliability Score: 8.6
Value Retention Score: 7.4
Safety Score: 10.0
Average New Car Price: $36,830-$50,620
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $38,652
The Honda Pilot is a spacious three-row crossover SUV for those seeking a family-friendly hauler without the bulkiness of a full-size SUV. It’s available in all-wheel-drive or front-wheel drive and is a popular minivan alternative with spacious seating for up to eight passengers. It comes standard with a suite of safety features including collision mitigation braking, lane departure warning, and automatic high-beam headlights. The Pilot’s highest trim comes with heated and ventilated front seats and heated second-row captains chairs. AWD can be added to lower trims for $2,000, and it comes standard on its highest elite trim.
A new Honda Pilot costs between $36,830 and $50,620 and a three-year-old used Honda Pilot costs $38,652.
3. Toyota 4Runner
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.6
Reliability Score: 8.8
Value Retention Score: 9.0
Safety Score: 8.0
Average New Car Price: $37,305-$52,120
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $45,844
The Toyota 4Runner is one of the most reliable SUVs available thanks to its ruggedness and durability. Rear-wheel drive comes standard in most trims with the exception of TRD models, where four-wheel drive is standard; four-wheel drive can be added to the other trim levels for either $1,610 or $1,875. With over 9-inches of ground clearance, 4WD-equipped 4Runners can handle the harshest of winter conditions, making it the best midsize SUV for snow. The 4Runner’s TRD Pro trim, which has the off-road prowess to compete with the Jeep Wrangler, has a standard 4WD system that features low-range gearing and a locking rear differential to help escape extreme weather conditions. Standard safety features include forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure warning.
A new Toyota 4Runner costs between $37,305 and $52,120 and a three-year-old used Toyota 4Runner costs an average of $45,844.
4. Hyundai Santa Fe
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.5
Reliability Score: 8.5
Value Retention Score: 7.0
Safety Score: 10.0
Average New Car Price: $27,200-$42,660
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $29,744
The Hyundai Santa Fe is a two-row SUV that seats five passengers. The Santa Fe consistently earns high rankings for predicted reliability and has above-average fuel economy for its class. It has an upscale interior and comes standard with safety technology like forward collision warning, blind spot monitoring, pedestrian and cyclist detection, forward automatic emergency braking, and automatic high-beam headlights. Front-wheel drive is standard, and all-wheel drive can be added to all trims for $1,700. Heated rear seats and a heated steering wheel can be found on upper trims.
A new Hyundai Santa Fe costs between $27,200 and $42,660, and a three-year-old used Hyundai Santa Fe costs an average of $29,744
5. Ford Explorer
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.5
Reliability Score: 8.1
Value Retention Score: 6.8
Safety Score: 10.0
Average New Car Price: $32,245-$55,740
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $43,244
The Ford Explorer has multiple powerful turbocharged engines to choose from and drives comfortably. The Explorer also has plenty of cargo space, with three rows of seats and a list of standard features that include active safety features like forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, and rear cross traffic alert. It also comes standard with a remote starter and heated seats in all but the base trim. The Limited trim features heated second-row seats and a heated steering wheel. Four-wheel drive comes standard in the two highest trims and can be added to the lower trims for $2,000.
A new Ford Explorer costs between $32,245 and $55,740 and a three-year-old used Ford Explorer costs an average of $43,244.
6. Nissan Pathfinder
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.4
Reliability Score: 8.3
Value Retention Score: 6.8
Safety Score: 10
Average New Car Price: $33,410-$48,989
Average Used Car Price: $30,226
The Nissan Pathfinder ranks sixth. The midsize three-row Pathfinder comfortably seats seven or eight and has an efficient V6 engine. The Pathfinder also has many standard active safety features including forward and rear collision warning, automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, automatic high-beam headlights, and lane keep assist. Front-wheel drive is standard and four-wheel drive can be added to all trims for $1,900.
A new Nissan Pathfinder costs between $32,610 and $45,710, and a three-year-old used Nissan Pathfinder costs an average of $26,660.
Best Large SUVs for Snow
Large SUVs, also known as full-size SUVs, are the largest SUVs you can buy. They commonly feature three rows of spacious seats and are built on truck platforms.
1. Ford Expedition
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.6
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.8
Value Retention Score: 6.8
Safety Score: 10.0
Average New Car Price: $49,625-$77,425
Average Used Car Price: $61,717
Unlike its rivals with V8 engines, the Ford Expedition has a twin-turbo V6, giving it better gas mileage than the rest of its class. Ford introduced a new base two-row trim for the 2021 model year, which makes the vehicle available as a two- or three-row SUV for the first time. The Expedition comes standard with rear-wheel drive, but four-wheel drive can be added to any trim for $3,050. The 202A package costs $3,685 and can be added to the XLT trim to provide winter-friendly features such as remote start, heated and ventilated front seats, and a heated steering wheel. The package comes standard on higher trims, but is not available on the base trim.
A new Ford Expedition costs $49,625 to $77,425, while a used Ford Expedition for sale costs from $61,717.
2. Chevrolet Tahoe
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.2
Reliability Score: 8.0
Value Retention Score: 7.8
Safety Score: 8.0
Average New Car Price: $48,400-$74,000
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $54,767
The Chevrolet Tahoe ranks second as the best large SUV for snow and was fully redesigned for 2021 to add more legroom and standard safety features. The Tahoe has three available engine options, including two powerful V8 engines and a turbo diesel inline-six. Rear-wheel drive is standard in every trim, and four-wheel drive can be added to all trims, except in the Z71, which has standard 4WD. Upgrading to 4WD costs an additional $3,000. With 4WD, the Tahoe can handle snowy conditions with ease thanks to its generous ground clearance and powerful engine. The Tahoe has a suite of standard safety features including forward collision warning, forward emergency braking, automatic high-beam headlights, and rain-sensing windshield wipers. Heated front seats come standard in all but the base trim and a heated steering wheel is also available.
The Tahoe is also among the more affordable vehicles in the large SUV class, with a new Chevrolet Tahoe costing between $48,400 and $74,000. If you opt for a three-year-old used Chevrolet Tahoe, you can expect to pay an average of $54,767.
3. GMC Yukon
iSeeCars Quality Score: 8.1
Reliability Score: 8.7
Value Retention Score: 7.5
Safety Score: 8.0
Average New Car Price: $52,100-$73,000
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $59,354
Ranked third is the GMC Yukon. Also redesigned for 2021, the Yukon and the Yukon XL share a platform with the other full-size GM SUVs, including the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Chevrolet Suburban. All these full-size GMs will pull more than 8,000 pounds, making them great options for families with regular towing needs. The Yukon comes standard with a RWD drivetrain, but 4WD can be added for $3,000 on all trims except the AT4 off-road trim, which includes standard 4WD. The SLT Luxury package costs $2,030 and adds heated second-row seats and a heated steering wheel to the SLT trim, and these features come standard on higher trims.
A new GMC Yukon costs between $52,100 and $73,000 and a three-year-old used GMC Yukon costs an average of $59,354.
Bottom Line
If you live in an area that experiences snow and winter weather, you should consider one of our picks for the best SUVs for snow to keep you safe on snowy roads. It’s important to understand that standard versions of many SUVs aren’t properly equipped for snow, so make sure you’re aware that all-wheel or four-wheel drive as well as many comfort features are often add-ons.
If you’re interested in other vehicle types with all-weather driving capability, check out our list of the Best Cars for Snow.
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The Easton Planning Commission gave preliminary, conditional approval Wednesday night to a new five-story, 27-apartment building in the 500 block of Northampton Street.
Just up the street, the planners in February gave final approval to a new six-story, 14-apartment building at 533-35 Northampton St. And just around the corner, a developer last year received final approval for a new five-story, 34-apartment building at 34-42 S. Sixth St.
South Side Easton resident Eric Riedinger proposes the latest addition, which would combine vacant parcels at 513-15 and 517-19 Northampton St. into one 7,199-square-foot lot. He has the parcels under agreement of sale, he told the commission. | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2023/04/eastons-500-block-of-northampton-street-in-line-for-another-new-apartment-building.html | 2023-04-06 15:52:06 | 0 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2023/04/eastons-500-block-of-northampton-street-in-line-for-another-new-apartment-building.html |
JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday.
The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother.
Afraa’s mother died in the quake along with her father and four siblings. A day after the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there named her Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God.”
Afraa’s story has been widely shared in news reports and people from around the world have offered to help her, with some saying they would like to adopt her. However, the relatives who took her in said that, however hard their circumstances, the best place for the infant is with family.
On Monday, Afraa was being cared for by her uncle, Khalil al-Sawadi, who is now living with relatives in the town of Jinderis in northern Syria after his home was also destroyed in the earthquake. Al-Sawadi and his wife have four daughters and two sons and now Afraa will be living with her cousins.
“She is one of my children now. I will not differentiate between her and my children,” al-Sawadi, who is also a cousin of the newborn’s parents, told The Associated Press on Monday while sitting cross-legged holding Afraa and surrounded by his six children. “She will be dearer than my children because she will keep the memory alive of her father, mother and siblings.”
He added that days after Afraa was born, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Attaa.
While in the hospital in the nearby town of Afrin, the director’s wife has been breast-feeding Afraa.
Judicial officials in Afrin had taken over the case of Afraa after the girl drew international attention and some people came to the hospital claiming they are related to her although they had different family names than Afraa and her mother.
For days, al-Sawadi was worried that someone might kidnap her and he visited her frequently at the hospital.
A hospital official said Afraa was handed over to her aunt’s family days after a DNA test was conducted to make sure the girl and her aunt are biologically related.
“It was sad and some nurses wept” when she was taken from the hospital, said Dr. Hani Maarouf who had taken care of Afraa since she was brought to the facility. He added that the baby girl was in very good health when she was released.
Rescue workers in Jinderis discovered the dark-haired baby girl more than 10 hours after the quake as they were digging through the wreckage of the five-story apartment building where her parents lived.
Al-Sawadi recounted how he rushed out of his home when the earthquake happened and found that the nearby building where Afraa’s family lived had been reduced to a pile of rubble. Along with others from the area, al-Sawadi said they dug through the rubble in heavy rain for hours until he grew tired and sat to rest nearby.
Shortly afterward, someone called him to identify a dead woman whom they found under the rubble. He told people around that she was his cousin, Afraa. Then, they started hearing a child crying and frantically removed the sand that covered the baby, whose umbilical cord was still still connected to her mother.
Al-Sawadi said he took a razor from his pocked and cut the umbilical cord and handed the girl to another cousin and they rushed her to a nearby hospital where he was told that the girl was in good health. They drove to another hospital in the nearby town of Afrin where they were told it was full and unable to take more patients. They continued to a second hospital, which was also full, before reaching the children’s hospital where she was kept until Saturday.
He said during the chaos after they pulled Afraa from under the rubble, al-Sawadi thought that the newborn was a boy and told the doctor to name “him” after her late father Abdullah Turki Mleihan. They later found out it was a girl.
He said that the girl was kept in hospital for nearly two weeks until the paperwork for her adoption was done.
The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Turkey’s southeastern Kharamanmaras province struck in the early hours of Feb. 6, followed by multiple aftershocks. Many communities in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria were reduced to piles of broken concrete and twisted metal. More than 44,000 people have been reported dead, a toll expected to rise as search teams find more bodies.
The earthquake destroyed dozens of housing units in the town of Jinderis, where Afraa’s family had been living since 2018.
Afraa’s father, Abdullah Turki Mleihan, was originally from the village of Khsham in eastern Deir el-Zour province, but left in 2014 after the Islamic State group captured the village, Saleh al-Badran, an uncle of Afraa’s father, said earlier this month.
“I will raise her in a way that she will not feel in need for anything,” said al-Sawadi, who buys and sells cars. Surrounded by his children, al-Sawadi asked them if he should give away Afraa to the well-wishers offering to adopt her and they said in one voice, “No.”
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Mroue reported from Beirut. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-newborn-saved-from-earthquake-in-syria-adopted-by-her-aunt/ | 2023-02-21 14:36:48 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-newborn-saved-from-earthquake-in-syria-adopted-by-her-aunt/ |
FORT DODGE, Iowa – Police in Fort Dodge are investigating a shooting that left a woman fighting for her life Tuesday afternoon.
Calls about shots fired in the area of the 1000 block of South 20th Street started coming in around 4:40 p.m., according to the Fort Dodge Police Department. More calls indicated a woman had been shot.
Officers were dispatched to the area and on arrival found a 26-year-old woman who was suffering from gunshot wounds. She was transported to Unity Point-Trinity Regional Medical Center for treatment, where her condition was considered critical as of Tuesday night. The victim’s name has not been released.
Investigators located several witnesses in the area and also found several houses that had been hit by gunfire. A large amount of physical evidence was also gathered at the scene of the shooting.
Police said it appears this was an isolated incident and not a random act.
The investigation into the shooting is continuing and police are asking anyone with information about the incident, or who may have video footage related to the case, to contact them.
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International Children's Gym Gives Back to Customers with a National Birthday Party Giveaway
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Little Gym, the world's premier enrichment and physical development center for children ages four months through 12, is giving one lucky family the ultimate birthday present this summer – a free party. The brand has launched a national contest to give back to customers for a chance to win a one-of-a-kind birthday bash for one lucky child and their group of friends. Birthday parties at The Little Gym are the perfect mix of free-flowing fun and planned activities to celebrate your child's big day.
The contest is now live and runs until Sunday, July 31 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Entries can be submitted at https://www.thelittlegym.com/birthday-contest/ and there's one entry per person. The Little Gym will announce the winner of the Birthday Bash giveaway August 3 via email and on Instagram.
"With the world opening back up, we thought it would be the perfect time to kick off the summer season with a giveaway that anyone can enter to socialize our children and give them a chance to have a party of a lifetime," said Nancy Bigley, Brand President and CEO. "We love surprising our customers with giveaways to fully express our gratitude and love that we have for our community!"
The birthday kid and up to 14 of their friends will receive access to The Little Gym's entire facility with instructor-led games, music and activities created especially for maximum fun. The Little Gym activities and trained instructors will keep the kids entertained while stretching their body, imagination and social skills. The winner will also have the option to choose from one of The Little Gym's Birthday Bash themes for their party, including:
- Royal Princess
- Spectacular Superhero
- Llama Llama
- Very Hungry Caterpillar
With a party at The Little Gym, parents don't have to worry about planning, activities, setup or cleanup – the trained staff takes care of everything so you can enjoy your child's big day – making it stress free and hassle free. To book your child's birthday party, please visit the booking link at https://www.thelittlegym.com/parties-camps.
The Little Gym prides itself on providing support to children in all areas of development. From motor and language development to social and emotional development, parents continue to bring their children to The Little Gym to hone the skills they may not learn elsewhere through three-dimensional learning.
With nearly 400 locations across 31 countries, The Little Gym teaches kids social and physical skills appropriate to each stage of childhood by creating opportunities to experience achievement and build self-confidence. At the core of the international franchise's mission is becoming the foundation of a child's development that will set them up for success. Through three-dimensional learning including physical activities, cognitive skills and social and emotional learning, the core teaching methods create opportunities for children to experience achievement and build self-confidence.
For more information about The Little Gym, class schedules, events, parties and to find your nearest location, please visit www.TheLittleGym.com. Also connect with The Little Gym on social media: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About The Little Gym International
The Little Gym is an internationally recognized program that helps children build the developmental skills and confidence needed at each stage of childhood. The Little Gym's first location was established in 1976 by Robin Wes, an innovative educator with a genuine love for children. The Little Gym International, LLC., headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., was formed in 1992 to franchise The Little Gym concept. The brand is part of Unleashed Brands, a global growth-focused platform company that curates and expands franchise brands that help kids learn, play and grow, including Snapology, Urban Air Adventure Park, Premier Martial Arts, Class 101 and XP League. The Little Gym International has nearly 400 locations in over 31 countries including the U.S., Canada, China, the United Kingdom, Thailand and more. For more information, visit The Little Gym at www.TheLittleGym.com.
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Actor Michael Lerner, who's best known for his memorable performances in film, television and on stage, has died at the age of 81, his nephew announced Sunday in a social media tribute.
"We lost a legend last night," actor Sam Lerner said on Instagram. "It’s hard to put into words how brilliant my uncle Michael was, and how influential he was to me. His stories always inspired me and made me fall in love with acting. He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy, and the fact that he was my blood will always make me feel special. Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was — in the best way. I’m so lucky I got to spend so much time with him, and we’re all lucky we can continue to watch his work for the rest of time. RIP Michael, enjoy your unlimited Cuban cigars, comfy chairs, and endless movie marathon."
Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 and studied drama at Brooklyn College. He later earned a Fulbright scholarship to study theater at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After two years in England, Lerner returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to join the American Conservatory Theater, where he was discovered by an agent who moved him to Los Angeles to launch his Hollywood career.
He starred in a number of pilots and TV shows throughout the 1960s before landing his first movie, "Alex in Wonderland," in 1970. He went on to appear in films such as "National Lampoon's: Class Reunion," "Anguish" and "Harlem Nights."
But he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the wily studio executive Jack Lipnick in the 1991 film "Barton Fink." Lerner received widespread acclaim for his performance, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
"I read the script, and you just know good writing. It was brilliantly written, and I just knew it," Lerner said of the film in 2016.
Lerner's other notable film credits include "Elf," "Godzilla" and "Eight Men Out." He also made numerous television appearances throughout his career, including guest spots on "Law and Order," "The Sopranos," "Entourage" and "Glee."
Lerner is survived by his brother, Ken, and his nephew, Sam.
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CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Saturday, November 19, 2022
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653 FPUS56 KSGX 201022
ZFPSGX
Zone Forecast Product for Extreme Southwest California
National Weather Service San Diego CA
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
CAZ552-202215-
Orange County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Huntington Beach, Coasta Mesa,
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s at the beaches to
the mid 70s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain. Areas
of winds east 15 mph this morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s at the beaches
to 70 farther inland and near higher coastal terrain.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s at the
beaches to the mid 70s farther inland and near higher coastal
terrain.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s at the beaches to
the upper 70s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s at the beaches
to the lower 70s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain.
$$
CAZ554-202215-
Orange County Inland Areas-
Including the cities of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine,
Orange, Fullerton, and Mission Viego
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s towards the coast
to the mid 70s farther inland. Areas of winds east 15 to 25 mph.
Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Areas of winds east
15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph overnight.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the morning becoming light.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the morning becoming light.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
CAZ043-202215-
San Diego County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Encinitas,
Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s near the coast to
the mid 70s inland. Areas of winds east 15 mph this morning
becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Light
winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s near the coast
to 70 inland. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s near the coast
to 70 inland.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s near the
coast to the mid 70s inland.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s near the coast to the upper 70s inland.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70 near the coast to the
mid 70s inland.
$$
CAZ050-202215-
San Diego County Valleys-
Including the cities of Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos, La Mesa,
Santee, and Poway
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills. Areas of winds east
15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of winds
east 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills. Areas of winds east
15 mph with gusts to 30 mph becoming west with gusts to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills. Areas of winds east
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the morning becoming light.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the upper 70s
in the western valleys to the lower 70s near the foothills.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s in the western
valleys to the mid 70s near the foothills.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s in the western
valleys to the lower 70s near the foothills.
$$
CAZ048-202215-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds east 15 to
20 mph with gusts to 40 mph becoming north with gusts to 35 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds east
15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 70. Areas of winds east 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of
winds east 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Gusts to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
CAZ057-202215-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 25 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph overnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s. Areas of winds northeast 15 mph with gusts
to 25 mph in the morning becoming light.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds northeast 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ055-202215-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 40s above
6000 feet to the mid 50s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds north
with gusts to 25 mph this afternoon. Areas of winds east 15 mph
with gusts to 30 mph this morning. Near ridge tops and along
desert slopes, light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s above 6000 feet to
the upper 30s below 6000 feet. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 40s above 6000 feet to the mid 50s below
6000 feet. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s above 6000 feet to
the mid 50s below 6000 feet. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s above 6000 feet to the
upper 50s below 6000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs around 50 above
6000 feet to the lower 60s below 6000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s above 6000 feet to
the mid 60s below 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s above 6000 feet
to the lower 60s below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-202215-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Areas of winds east 15 to
20 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 50s. Areas of winds east 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Areas of
winds east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the morning becoming light.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ058-202215-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Areas of winds east 15 to
25 mph with gusts to 40 to 50 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Areas of winds east
15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Areas of winds east 15 to 20 mph with
gusts to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Areas of
winds east 15 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Areas of winds
east 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ060-202215-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ065-202215-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds northeast 15 to
25 mph with gusts to 40 mph becoming southeast 15 mph with gusts
to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Areas of winds northeast
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Gusts to
25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds
becoming northeast 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 mph in the morning becoming light. Gusts to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
CAZ061-202215-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds northwest
15 mph with gusts to 30 mph this morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Light
winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
CAZ062-202215-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
222 AM PST Sun Nov 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 70. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Chevron said on Tuesday it reported how much money it made in January from selling gasoline in California, disclosing the data after regulators threatened to fine the company for not following a new law aimed at investigating the cause of the state’s high gas prices.
The law requires oil companies to report their monthly “gross refining margin,” the difference between how much refineries paid for crude oil and how much the company sold it for as gasoline. State lawmakers and regulators believe the data will give them a clearer picture of what has driven sharp increases in California’s gas prices, which are consistently the highest in the nation.
Chevron spokesperson Ross Allen said the company filed a “revised response” late Tuesday afternoon with regulators that included the data required by law. He said the company was never out of compliance with the law, noting they began reporting the data March 2 — the deadline for oil companies to report January pricing data — and supplied the rest of the information after seeking clarification from the California Energy Commission.
“Since the statutory guidance was unclear, rather than speculate and supply inconsistent and potentially inaccurate data, Chevron exercised its statutory right to object and seek clarification in a timely manner,” Allen said.
State law requires much of the data to remain confidential. Representatives with the Energy Commission did not respond late Tuesday afternoon to confirm if Chevron had filed the data.
Gas in California is always more expensive because the state has higher taxes and fees than other states and requires a special blend of fuel that’s better for the environment but more expensive to produce.
Last summer, however, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in California was more than $2.60 higher than the national average, a difference that regulators and state lawmakers said was too large to be explained by taxes and fees.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused the state’s big five oil companies of price gouging. He has asked the state Legislature to pass a first-in-the-nation law that would penalize oil companies once their profits surpassed a certain threshold.
The proposal is still pending in the state Legislature. But starting in January, a new law required oil companies to disclose more data about their pricing. That data could serve as the threshold for any new penalties on oil profits in the future.
Of the big five oil companies that provide 97% of the state’s gasoline, four of them met the March 2 deadline for reporting January pricing data: Marathon Petroleum Corporation, PBF Energy Inc., Phillips 66 and Valero Energy Corp., according to the California Energy Commission, which collects the data.
Chevron only submitted a “small fraction of the data required,” according to the commission, and objected to reporting anything else. The California-based company accounts for about 30% of all gasoline sold in the state, giving it the largest share of the market.
In a letter to the Energy Commission dated March 2, Chevron attorney Melissa Sladden asked the commission to delay enforcing the law in favor of a lengthy rule-making process to clarify which data must be reported. Sladden said the data required by the law “paints a false picture of actual refinery profit margins by significantly undercounting refinery costs.”
“Getting this term right is doubly important as it is currently being contemplated by legislators as a measure on which to impose a tax on refiners,” Sladden wrote. “Legislating or regulating based on inaccurate data could result in unintended consequences, such as decreased investment in gasoline production and higher long-term prices at the pump.”
Regulators responded by warning Chevron that the company had until Tuesday to disclose the data or face penalties, which could include fines of up to $2,000 per day.
Allen said Chevron was “disappointed” that their letter to the Energy Commission that objected to disclosing the data was made public. He said the law and the commission’s information request “falls short of the transparency and trust that should inform good policymaking.”
The dispute reflects a larger conflict between the oil industry and Newsom, who is just beginning his second term and is seen as a possible presidential candidate one day. Newsom has pushed aggressive climate policies, including banning drilling new oil wells within homes, schools and community sites.
The oil industry is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the state, donating lots of money to state lawmakers’ political campaigns. The industry is backing a referendum to overturn the ban on drilling oil wells near sensitive sites. And Newsom’s proposal to penalize oil companies for making too much money has made little progress so far in the state Legislature, with several Democrats voicing concerns about it during a public hearing last month.
State Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Santa Monica who authored the law requiring oil companies to disclose more pricing data, said before the latest Chevron filing that it was “disappointing” the company had not disclosed the data.
“The fact that all of the other industry players were able to do it and they weren’t, I just don’t know what’s going on with them,” he said. “We’re going to hold them accountable.” | https://wgntv.com/business/ap-business/despite-objections-chevron-says-it-reported-oil-price-data/ | 2023-03-16 00:15:16 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/business/ap-business/despite-objections-chevron-says-it-reported-oil-price-data/ |
WASHINGTON — Four-time Grammy-winner Drake is teaming up with collaborator 21 Savage for a North American arena tour this year.
The It's All a Blur Tour will kick off June 16 in New Orleans and stop in Dallas, Miami, New York, Montreal, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Additional shows including Toronto will be announced later.
The Canadian rapper-singer and Spotify’s most-streamed artist in the U.S. last year put out two albums in 2022, “Honestly, Nevermind” and his collaboration with 21 Savage, “Her Loss.” His last headlining tour was in 2018.
During a show at the famed Apollo Theater earlier this year, he hinted at a tour and possibly even more music on the horizon.
Several of the stops will be two-night stands, including in Atlanta, Chicago and Boston.
Presales will be available through Cash App and Sprite beginning Wednesday and general sales will start Friday.
Drake 2023 tour dates
Fri Jun 16: New Orleans, LA - Smoothie King Center
Mon Jun 19 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
Wed Jun 21 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sat Jun 24 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Wed Jun 28 Miami, FL Miami-Dade Arena
Sat Jul 01 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena
Sun Jul 02 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena
Wed Jul 05 Chicago, IL United Center
Thu Jul 06 Chicago, IL United Center
Sat Jul 08 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
Tue Jul 11 Boston, MA TD Garden
Wed Jul 12 Boston, MA TD Garden
Fri Jul 14 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Mon Jul 17 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Tue Jul 18 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Tue Jul 25 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Wed Jul 26 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Fri Jul 28 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
Mon Jul 31 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Sat Aug 12 Inglewood, CA Kia Forum
Sun Aug 13 Inglewood, CA Kia Forum
Fri Aug 18 San Francisco, CA Chase Center
Mon Aug 21 Los Angeles, CA Crypto.com Arena
Tue Aug 22 Los Angeles, CA Crypto.com Arena
Fri Aug 25 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena
Mon Aug 28 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
Fri Sep 01 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena
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CHICAGO, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced the preliminary shareholder voting results from its 2022 Annual Meeting held today.
All 14 board of director nominees served on the 2021-2022 board term and received a majority of votes cast. The board members re-elected to serve one-year terms expiring in 2023 are:
- Edward T. Tilly
- Eugene S. Sunshine
- William M. Farrow III
- Edward J. Fitzpatrick
- Ivan K. Fong
- Janet P. Froetscher
- Jill R. Goodman
- Alexander J. Matturri, Jr.
- Jennifer J. McPeek
- Roderick A. Palmore
- James E. Parisi
- Joseph P. Ratterman
- Jill E. Sommers
- Fredric J. Tomczyk
Edward T. Tilly will serve as Chairman of the board for a sixth consecutive year. Eugene S. Sunshine, who has served on the board of Cboe Global Markets since 2010 and Cboe Options from 2003 to 2017, will serve as Lead Director for a fifth consecutive year.
In other proposals, shareholders:
- approved, in a non-binding resolution, the compensation paid to the company's executive officers; and
- ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the 2022 fiscal year.
Additional information about each of the matters acted upon by shareholders at the Annual Meeting is in the proxy statement that was furnished to shareholders in connection with the meeting. The proxy statement is also available in the Investor Relations section of www.cboe.com. The final vote totals for the matters acted upon by shareholders at the Annual Meeting will be reported in a current report on Form 8-K filing with the SEC and posted on http://ir.cboe.com.
About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives and FX, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
4-9-2-7
(four, nine, two, seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
4-9-2-7
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Trading on NYSE American Expected to Commence Under Ticker Symbol "MNK" on October 27, 2022
DUBLIN, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mallinckrodt plc (OTCMKTS: MNKPF) ("Mallinckrodt" or the "Company"), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has received approval to list its ordinary shares on NYSE American. Trading of the Company's ordinary shares on NYSE American is expected to occur under the ticker symbol "MNK" beginning on October 27, 2022.
Siggi Olafsson, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Our listing on NYSE American marks an important step toward executing on our strategic priorities and business objectives. We are confident that Mallinckrodt is well positioned to drive sustainable growth and create long-term shareholder value while advancing therapies for underserved patients with severe and critical conditions."
Mallinckrodt's listing is subject to meeting all NYSE American requirements at the time of listing. Trading on the OTC Pink Current Market will cease concurrent with the NYSE American listing.
About Mallinckrodt
Mallinckrodt is a global business consisting of multiple wholly owned subsidiaries that develop, manufacture, market and distribute specialty pharmaceutical products and therapies. The Company's Specialty Brands reportable segment's areas of focus include autoimmune and rare diseases in specialty areas like neurology, rheumatology, hepatology, nephrology, pulmonology, ophthalmology and oncology; immunotherapy and neonatal respiratory critical care therapies; analgesics; cultured skin substitutes and gastrointestinal products. Its Specialty Generics reportable segment includes specialty generic drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients. To learn more about Mallinckrodt, visit www.mallinckrodt.com.
Mallinckrodt uses its website as a channel of distribution of important company information, such as press releases, investor presentations and other financial information. It also uses its website to expedite public access to time-critical information regarding the Company in advance of or in lieu of distributing a press release or a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing the same information. Therefore, investors should look to the Investor Relations page of the website for important and time-critical information. Visitors to the website can also register to receive automatic e-mail and other notifications alerting them when new information is made available on the Investor Relations page of the website.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS RELATED TO FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements in this release that are not strictly historical, including statements regarding Mallinckrodt's listing on NYSE American, future financial condition and operating results, legal, economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting Mallinckrodt's businesses, and any other statements regarding events or developments Mallinckrodt believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, may be "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. The "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Mallinckrodt's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended July 1, 2022 and April 1, 2022, and other filings with the SEC, all of which are on file with the SEC and available on Mallinckrodt's website at http://www.sec.gov and http://www.mallinckrodt.com, respectively, identify and describe in more detail the risks and uncertainties to which Mallinckrodt's businesses are subject. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date hereof and Mallinckrodt does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
CONTACTS
Investor Relations
Daniel Speciale
Global Corporate Controller and Chief Investor Relations Officer
314-654-3638
daniel.speciale@mnk.com
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314-654-3950
derek.belz@mnk.com
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PARIS — Novak Djokovic made clear for years that this was his goal. What drove him. What inspired him. The biggest titles from his sport's biggest stages were Djokovic's main aim and now he finally stands alone — ahead of Rafael Nadal, ahead of Roger Federer, ahead of every man who ever has swung a racket.
If Djokovic could wait this long to hold this record, he certainly could wait for the half-hour or so it took to straighten out his strokes in the French Open final. And so, after a bit of a shaky start in thick, humid air and under foreboding charcoal clouds Sunday, he imposed himself. The opponent at Court Philippe Chatrier, Casper Ruud, never really stood a serious chance after that.
Djokovic earned his men's-record 23rd Grand Slam singles championship, breaking a tie with Nadal and moving three in front of the retired Federer, with a 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 victory over Ruud that really was not in doubt for most of its 3 hours, 13 minutes.
Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, puts this one alongside the French Open titles he earned in 2016 and 2021, making him the only man with at least three from each major event. He has won 10 trophies at the Australian Open, seven at Wimbledon and three at the U.S. Open.
Djokovic is halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam
Also worth noting: Djokovic is again halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam — winning all four majors in one season — something no man has achieved since Rod Laver in 1969. Djokovic came close to pulling off that feat in 2021, when he won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and made it all the way to the title match at the U.S. Open before losing to Daniil Medvedev.
Djokovic will resume that pursuit at Wimbledon, which begins on the grass of the All England Club on July 3.
He has now clutched the trophy at 11 of the last 20 Slams, a remarkable run made even more so when considering that he did not participate in two majors during that span because he did not get vaccinated against COVID-19. Djokovic was deported from Australia in January 2021 before the Australian Open, and he was not allowed to fly to the United States ahead of last year's U.S. Open under a rule that since has been lifted.
Getting to 23 not only sets the mark for men, but it also lets Djokovic equal Serena Williams, who wrapped up her career last year, for the most by anyone in the Open era, which began in 1968. Margaret Court won some of her all-time record of 24 Slam trophies in the amateur era.
At 20 days past his 36th birthday, Djokovic is the oldest singles champion at Roland Garros, considered the most grueling of the majors because of the lengthy, grinding points required by the red clay, which is slower than the grass or hard courts underfoot elsewhere.
Nadal's 22nd major arrived in Paris a year ago, two days after he turned 36. He has been sidelined since January by a hip injury and had arthroscopic surgery on June 2.
As if all of that weren't enough, Djokovic's triumph on Sunday also means he will return to No. 1 in the ATP rankings on Monday, replacing Carlos Alcaraz. Djokovic already has spent more weeks at the top spot than any player — man or woman — since the inception of computerized tennis rankings a half-century ago.
It was Djokovic who eliminated Alcaraz in the semifinals on Thursday, wearing him down over two thrilling sets until the 20-year-old Spaniard's body cramped up badly. Alcaraz continued to play, but the scores of the last two sets of the four-set match told the story: 6-1, 6-1.
This was the third Slam final in the past five events for Ruud, a 24-year-old from Norway, but he is now 0-3. He lost to Nadal at the French Open a year ago and to Alcaraz at the U.S. Open last September.
Perhaps due to an awareness of all that was at stake, Djokovic, in his 34th major final, was the one who got off to a shaky start.
Ruud emerged to a partial ovation and polite applause. More folks rose to their feet as a roar met Djokovic's entrance, followed by thunderous chants of his two-syllable nickname, "No-le! No-le! No-le!" That chorus resumed right before play began — and repeatedly over the course of the afternoon, sometimes to celebrate his best moments, sometimes to encourage him.
As Djokovic reeled off 12 of the last 13 points to end things, dropping onto his back with limbs spread wide at the finish, the shouts of his name were thunderous.
The preferred method of saluting Ruud? Drawn-out, monotone pronouuncements of his last name — "Ruuuuuuuuuud" — that sounded as if it were booing, which, of course, it was not.
At first, Ruud seemed to do whatever he could to test Djokovic's forehand, the weaker side. It paid off early, when Djokovic kept missing that stroke — into the net, wide, long — then made a different sort of mistake, shanking an overhead from near the net way beyond the opposite baseline to get broken and trail 2-0.
For whatever reason, that shot always has been Djokovic's "bête noire," and he missed another overhead later in the set.
Soon, Ruud led 4-1, thanks in part to Djokovic's troubles. By then, Djokovic accumulated 13 unforced errors, while Ruud made just four.
And then everything changed.
After finishing the first set with 18 unforced errors, Djokovic recalibrated himself, with merely 14 over the last two sets combined.
Then it was Ruud's turn to flub an overhead, rocking back and depositing his into the net to end a 29-stroke point. Djokovic's first service break made it 4-3, and he shook his right fist.
They went to a tiebreaker, truly Djokovic's dominion. When the import rises, along with the tension, he simply excels. Has forever, it seems.
During the first-to-7 segment, Djokovic contributed four winners and zero unforced errors.
That made his career mark in tiebreakers 308-162, a winning percentage of .655. In 2023, he's 15-4, including 6-0 in Paris — there were 55 points played across that half-dozen, and Djokovic's sum total of unforced errors was zero.
Read that again: zero.
That set alone lasted 1 hour, 21 minutes, chock full of extended exchanges, the sort of points about which entire stories could be written. There were those that lasted 20, 25, 29 strokes. One was won by Ruud with the help of a back-to-the-net, between-the-legs shot. On another, Djokovic tumbled behind the baseline, smudging his red shirt, blue shorts and skin with the rust-colored clay.
Djokovic's scrambling and stretching and bending and twisting on defense shows up on the scoreboard, for sure. But all of the long points also sap a foe's energy and will.
Helps as well, maybe, that Djokovic knows all the little ins and outs. He complained to chair umpire Damien Dumusois about how much time was being allotted for changeovers — a little extra rest never hurt anyone, right? Djokovic took the 25-second serve clock down until it expired and occasionally beyond that, so much so that one voice from the seats exclaimed, "Serve it!" And Dumusois warned him for the time-taking in the third set.
When he broke Ruud to lead 3-0 in the second set, his powers now on full display, Djokovic jabbed his right index finger against his temple over and over and over. He wheeled to face his nearby box in the stands, where the guests included his coach, Goran Ivanisevic; his wife and two children; his agent; and even seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
The recently retired Brady is widely viewed as the NFL's "Greatest of All-Time" — or "GOAT," for short — and there has been a debate in the tennis world for quite some time over which among Djokovic, Nadal or Federer deserves that sobriquet.
If the barometer is Grand Slam championships, no one can argue against Djokovic's status at the moment.
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Games for kids to play outside
One of the best things about playing outside is almost anything goes. Kids can run, jump, throw things, laugh and be as loud as they want. Playing outside can also help develop both fine and motor skills while letting children burn off energy.
In this article, we’ve listed 15 outdoor lawn games that are appropriate for kids. To make it easier to find one that matches your child’s interests, we’ve categorized them into tossing games, active games, golf games, classic games and water games.
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Tossing games for kids
The games in this category require a little bit of skill. If your child is getting frustrated, you can allow them to stand closer to the target to make the games more fun.
GoSports Premium Metal Ladder Toss Game Set
This high-quality ladder toss set is manufactured with easy-to-assemble steel targets, but the bolos are made of soft rubber using thicker strings to prevent tangles. The tossing game is simple to learn, easy to play and enjoyed by kids of all ages.
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GoSports Bullseye Bounce Cornhole Game
This reinvented cornhole offering has one flexible board with five holes, so there are more ways to score. Additionally, there are three ways to play, and kids can improve their math skills by practicing as they count up points to see who wins.
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Hey! Play! Rubber Horseshoes Set
This versatile horseshoe set is designed to be played anywhere: lawn, beach, driveway and even indoors. The lightweight, plastic horseshoes are weatherproof and safe for kids 5 and up.
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Active games for kids
If you want an activity that gets your kids moving, then these active games should fit the bill as they get heart rates up and help burn kids’ ample energy.
The classic game you remember playing as a kid only supersized for outdoor play. The Twister Ultimate mat is twice as large as an ordinary Twister mat, making it ideal for playing on the lawn. If you have an Alexa device, you can use the Twister Spinner Alexa skill to play with Alexa calling the moves.
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Liberty Imports Snap-Together Hula Rings
Whether they are creating an obstacle course, playing follow the leader or just swirling it around their hips, kids can have endless fun with this six-pack of 32-inch snap-together hula rings. Each ring comes in eight easy-to-store durable ABS plastic pieces that can hold sand if you want to add some weight.
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Slackers NinjaLine 36-Inch Intro Kit
With this versatile course that features seven obstacles (two rings, two bars and three knots), your kids can train to be ninja warriors in your backyard. The slackline webbing is capable of supporting 250 pounds, and the kit includes a storage bag.
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Golfing games for kids
Kids will enjoy competing against their friends and family while playing these multi-player lawn games.
This fun golf-like game is a centuries-old classic. The object of croquet is to hit balls through a course made of wire hoops and a peg. It can be played on any lawn and requires a little skill, but the whole family can still play. This wooden set includes everything you need.
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GoSports BattleChip Versus Golf Game
This clever game is a hybrid of golf and cornhole. Two players or teams square off in a chipping competition to see who can get the most points after nine rounds of play. While the set comes with two boards, a hitting mat, a scorecard, 16 foam balls and a tote bag, you will need to supply your own clubs.
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Franklin Sports Disc Golf Target
You get everything you need with this disc golf set: three discs, a target and a travel bag. The fold-out and fold-up design of the target makes it easy to transport, so you can play at home or bring it with you on a family excursion. Unlike other models, this one features plastic chains instead of a net to catch the disc.
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Board games for kids
These games are enlarged outdoor versions of familiar board games you’re used to playing on your coffee table. They can teach strategy and critical thinking while allowing your child to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine.
ECR4Kids Jumbo 4-to-Score Game Set
This game aims to drop giant rings into a grid to out-strategize your opponent and be the first to connect four in a row. It’s made of heavy-duty plastic, which is easy to clean, and it features rounded edges, so it is safe for children ages 3 and up.
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Imagine a classic checkers set, except the chips are three inches wide, and the board is a rug that you can place anywhere. The OleOletOy’s Giant Checkers Set can be rolled up and taken with you wherever you go. Plus, the back features two versions of Tic-Tac-Toe.
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Triumph Sports 28-Piece Lawn Domino Set
This large set of wooden dominos is designed to be played outside. It comes with 28 pieces that are 4 inches by 7 inches and have color-coded pips for added fun. Each piece is coated with varnish to increase durability.
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Water games for kids
When it gets hot out, a game that involves water can let your child have fun without getting overheated.
ArmoGear Water Guns & Water-Activated Vests
This water gun variation of laser tag is perfect for warmer, sunny days. It comes with two water guns and two water-activated vests that have five targets. When the targets are hit with water, they change color and reveal a point value. The vests are adjustable to fit kids who are ages 8 and up.
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Melissa & Doug Pretty Petals Sprinkler
If your kids are hot, chances are your lawn is thirsty. This fun flower sprinkler from Melissa & Doug can solve both problems. The 12 flowers squirt water in a multitude of directions that make it fun for kids (and adults) to play while your lawn gets an afternoon drink.
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Costzon Giant 7-in-1 Crocodile Water Park
Why stop at a lawn game when you can turn your backyard into a water park? This seven-in-one adventure features two slides, a climbing wall, a tunnel, a basketball rim, a splash pool and more. It is suitable for kids up to 99 pounds and can support a total weight of up to 298 pounds (six kids under 50 pounds). It comes with everything you need and can be fully inflated in about a minute.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain.
The growing warmth and saltiness of the Gulf of Maine off New England is causing a dramatic decrease in the production of phytoplankton, according to Maine-based scientists who recently reported results of a yearslong, NASA-funded study. Phytoplankton, sometimes described as an “invisible forest,” are tiny plant-like organisms that serve as food for marine life.
The scientists found that phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by New England and Canada, than they were two decades ago. The Gulf of Maine has emerged as one of the fastest warming sections of the world's oceans.
Potential loss of phytoplankton has emerged as a serious concern in recent years in other places, such as the Bering Sea off Alaska. The loss of the tiny organisms has the ability to disrupt valuable fishing industries for species such as lobsters and scallops, and it could further jeopardize imperiled animals such as North Atlantic right whales and Atlantic puffins, scientists said.
“The drop in the productivity over these 20 years is profound,” said William Balch, a senior research scientist with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, who led the study. “And that has large ramifications to what can grow here. The health of the ecosystem, the productivity of the ecosystem.”
The scientists did the study using data gathered since 1998 by tracking chemical changes in the Gulf of Maine. The samples used to perform the work were gathered via commercial ferries and research vessels that run the same routes over and over.
The data showed changes between the gulf and the broader Atlantic, Balch said. Intrusions of warm water from the North Atlantic since 2008 have created a gulf that is hotter, saltier and less hospitable to the phytoplankton, the study states. The scientists published their findings last June in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
Phytoplankton are eaten by larger zooplankton, small fish and crustaceans, and they are critically important to sustaining larger marine life up the food chain such as sharks and whales. Loss of phytoplankton “will likely have negative impacts on the overall productivity" of larger animals and commercial fisheries, the study states.
Decline of fish stocks in the Gulf of Maine would be especially disruptive to American fishermen because it's a key ground for the U.S. lobster industry. Other important species such as haddock, flounder and pollock are also harvested there.
Researchers have tracked similar warming trends in the Bering Sea, Southern Ocean and northern Barents Sea in recent years. Warming's impact on plankton is an ongoing subject of scientific inquiry. A 2020 article in the journal Nature Communications found that climate change “is predicted to trigger major shifts in the geographic distribution of marine plankton species.”
Cyclical ocean conditions also have placed more stress on phytoplankton. An El Niño climate pattern, when surface water in the equatorial Pacific becomes warmer, can reduce phytoplankton production, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said. The impacts include lack of anchovies off South America, fewer squid off California and less salmon in the Pacific, NOAA said.
The Maine scientists say loss of phytoplankton is also significant because the organisms absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, much like plants do on land.
It's part of the toll climate change is taking on ecosystems all over the world, said Jeff Runge, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, who was not involved in the study.
“There's mounting evidence that it's linked to climate change,” Runge said. “It's having all kinds of effects on the system that we're beginning to see.”
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The new-look American Athletic Conference will not use divisions and play an eight-game league football schedule when it expands to 14 teams next season, the league announced Wednesday.
The scheduling model was approved for use the next four seasons (2023-26) by the American’s athletic directors.
The American will continue to go division-less and match the top two teams in the regular-season conference standings in its championship game.
The AAC is losing three of its current 11 members to the Big 12 next year, but adding six new schools from Conference USA.
Replacing Houston, UCF and Cincinnati will be UAB, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, UTSA, Rice and North Texas.
The plan calls for the 14 teams to face each other at least twice during the four-year cycle – once at home and once on the road.
The schedule also will include six annual matchups: North Texas-SMU; UAB-Memphis; Rice-UTSA; Charlotte-East Carolina; Florida Atlantic-South Florida; and Navy-Temple.
A full schedule with game dates for next season will be announced after the 2022 season. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ucf-knights/os-sp-ucf-knights-aac-conference-no-divisions-20221110-gepuxbg4mvbinacfbxjmqigbsu-story.html | 2022-11-10 20:22:46 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ucf-knights/os-sp-ucf-knights-aac-conference-no-divisions-20221110-gepuxbg4mvbinacfbxjmqigbsu-story.html |
More and more people are falling behind on their car payments. A look at what's driving the delinquencies and why those whose cars are repossessed still have a good chance of getting them back.
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More and more people are falling behind on their car payments. A look at what's driving the delinquencies and why those whose cars are repossessed still have a good chance of getting them back.
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the Ads Debut Today to Coincide with First Games of the Playoffs
NEW YORK, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --The National Hockey League (NHL) today unveiled its new creative for the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Three new spots will rotate and run across the NHL's digital and social media platforms before making a national TV debut tonight during First Round game broadcasts on ESPN, ESPN2, SN, SN360, SNE, SNO, SNP, CBC and TVA Sports, and tomorrow night on TBS. (Photos and credits are available here.)
Created by Highdive - an independently owned, full-service creative agency - each of the three spots ("First Kiss," "Look Up" and "Built to Share") underscore the magic, thrills and emotions Players and fans experience in the presence of the Stanley Cup. "First Kiss" is from the perspective of winning Players in the euphoric moment and the tradition of kissing the Cup for the first time. "Look Up" is a reminder of how young fans dream of hoisting the Cup and, for a select few, it turns into reality. "Built to Share" highlights the Stanley Cup's meaning and emotional connection with people around the world in its role as hockey's greatest ambassador.
"It's the greatest trophy in sports, and our goal was to illustrate the relationship and emotional connection that both Players and fans have with the Stanley Cup," said Casey Hall, NHL Senior Vice President of Marketing & Consumer Insights. "We hope these spots remind all sports fans how special the Cup is, and why the Stanley Cup Playoffs are so meaningful to so many different people."
"Each piece of work showcases what's special about the Stanley Cup in a unique way, both tonally and conceptually," stated Chad Broude, co-founder of Highdive. "Instead of going with just one perspective, we decided to create three separate yet connected spots so fans can get different looks at all of the emotions attached to winning the championship. Fans wait all year for the Playoffs and we believe these ads will help build excitement and make them feel inspired by the quest for the Cup."
The 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs begin tonight. Playoff games will be televised on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and TBS in the U.S., and on SN, SN1, SN360, CBC, TVA Sports and TVAS2 in Canada. NHL international television partners will broadcast games to fans around the world.
For the full First Round schedule, visit NHL.com. Fans can follow the conversation via the hashtag #StanleyCup.
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About the NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 32 Member Clubs. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup®. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 191 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including ESPN, WBD Sports and NHL Network in the U.S.; Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada; Viaplay in the Nordics, Baltics, and Poland; YLE in Finland; Nova in Czech Republic and Slovakia; Sky Sports and ProSieben in Germany; MySports in Switzerland; and CCTV5+ in China; and reaches fans worldwide with games available to stream in every country. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL® App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. NHL Original Productions and NHL Studios produce compelling original programming featuring unprecedented access to players, coaches and League and team personnel for distribution across the NHL's social and digital platforms.
The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities using the sport of hockey to celebrate fans of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. The NHL's Hockey Is For Everyone® initiative reinforces that the official policy of the sport is one of inclusion on the ice, in locker rooms, boardrooms and stands. The NHL is expanding access and opportunity for people of all backgrounds and abilities to play hockey, fostering more inclusive environments and growing the game through a greater diversity of participants. To date, the NHL has invested more than $100 million in youth hockey and grassroots programs, with a commitment to invest an additional $5 million for diversity and inclusion programs over the next year. To learn more about the NHL, visit NHL.com.
About Highdive Advertising
Founded in 2016, Highdive (highdiveus.com) is an independently owned, full-service creative agency headquartered in Chicago. With a focus on creating work so powerful it can't be ignored, the agency has a simple promise: to create the healthiest client and agency relationships in the world. Led by four seasoned advertising executives who set out to create an agency made up exclusively of top performers across every discipline, Highdive is breaking the traditional agency model to deliver big ideas for brands including Jeep, Ram Trucks, Boost Mobile, Airheads, Fruit-tella, Lay's, Beam Suntory and Rocket Mortgage. On a rapid growth trajectory, Highdive has been named Advertising Age Small Agency of the Year (Midwest, Gold) three times and in 2020 Advertising Age Small Agency of the Year (Gold, National). Highdive also ranked number one on Adweek's 2020 Fastest Growing Agencies List. To learn more about Highdive, visit https://highdiveus.com/.
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World's Largest In-Home Fitness Franchise Strengthens Presence in Central Ohio, Sets Stage for Expansion in Additional Target DMAs
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GYMGUYZ, the world's largest in-home and on-site personal training franchise, has announced a newly signed agreement set to bring its services to the North Columbus area. The rapidly-growing brand also plans to expand deeper into Cleveland and Cincinnati, and just announced the addition of stretching services to its locations across the country.
The new North Columbus location, owned and operated by local entrepreneur, Dave Dulin, will be hosting a grand opening event on Wednesday, September 27th at 5:00 pm at Rose Run Park in New Albany, Ohio. Co-sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association, there will be a ribbon cutting facilitated by New Albany Chamber of Commerce and an opportunity to make a voluntary charitable donation to the Alzheimer's Association for participation in a group activity.
Dulin was born and raised in central Ohio. He earned a degree in Finance from Ohio State University before earning a Master's Degree in Criminology from Xavier University, and has always been physically active. His daily routine consists of weight training, cardiovascular exercise, and healthy eating. It is this passion for a healthy lifestyle that fueled his desire to help others via his new GYMGUYZ franchise.
"The central Ohio area has grown tremendously over the past few decades, and the need for in-home and onsite fitness trainers has definitely grown alongside it," said Dulin. "With a family history of dementia, I've always prioritized being physically active as part of my preventative plan. Sometimes, people just need the right personal trainer to truly hold them accountable, and I look forward to bringing GYMGUYZ to my community. Not to mention, our in-home and onsite fitness instruction can be an important part of corporate wellness programs throughout the area, so we are looking forward to serving the Columbus business community as well."
Founded by Josh York, who created the concept in his parent's dining room before scaling it to the world's largest in-home fitness franchise, GYMGUYZ prides itself on its ability to help customers stay accountable to their fitness goals.
With a 15-year strong business model, GYMGUYZ is transforming lives every day by offering convenient, customized, and creative workouts. Clients and companies in over 1,100 cities are being delivered a Certified Personal Trainer, state-of-the art equipment, and tailored workouts right to their homes, offices, corporate campuses, or other settings.
"The GYMGUYZ franchise model offers hands-on training, assistance with business planning, and comprehensive marketing support. We use an analytical approach to help our franchise owners proactively manage their business, and deliver the high level of service we expect from all of our locations," said Josh York, Founder & CEO of GYMGUYZ. "As we continue to attract fitness-minded owners like Dave to our franchise system, we plan to have a strong presence of red GYMGUYZ vans across central Ohio and surrounding areas by the end of the year."
As demand for in-home services increases across Ohio, GYMGUYZ, is actively seeking qualified single and multi-territory franchisees who are looking to help change lives through convenient, customized and creative workouts. Due to its success in the consumer market, GYMGUYZ also began offering fitness services to major corporations, schools, hospitals, government agencies, and residential communities several years ago. Prospective franchisees do not need to have a fitness background to be considered.
To apply for employment with GYMGUYZ North Columbus, visit https://gymguyz-north-columbus.careerplug.com/j/01sw2x3.
To train with GYMGUYZ, visit https://www.gymguyz.com/. To learn more about franchising with GYMGUYZ, visit https://www.gymguyz.com/franchise-opportunities/.
About GYMGUYZ
GYMGUYZ is proud to be the largest in-home and on-site personal training company in the world. GYMGUYZ brings the workout to their clients and provides convenient, customized and creative workouts. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., and founded in 2008 by fitness specialist Josh York, the brand delivers expert personal trainers that utilize a fleet of branded vehicles stocked with state-of-the-art fitness equipment to deliver exceptional fitness experiences. In 2019, the brand was recognized as No. 5 on Inc. Magazine's 10 Hottest Franchise Businesses in America, which highlighted their growth of more than 801% over the last three years. GYMGUYZ also scored the first and second place spots on Franchise Gator's annual list of the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Franchises and received recognition as a top franchise in Entrepreneur's Highly Competitive 41st Annual Franchise 500. Now serving over 1,100 cities internationally, including cities in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, GYMGUYZ is the fastest-growing fitness concept in the U.S. with plans to open another 75 territories by the end of 2023. For more information on GYMGUYZ and franchising opportunities, visit http://www.gymguyz.com/.
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New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority has plans for its national airline to start weighing passengers before flights from Auckland International Airport.
The program, set to run through July 2, is being called a passenger weight survey and will provide data on the weight load and distribution for Air New Zealand’s international flights, CNN Travel reported.
“We weigh everything that goes on the aircraft — from the cargo to the meals onboard to the luggage in the hold,” Alastair James, the airline’s load control improvement specialist, was quoted as saying.
“For customers, crew and cabin bags, we use average weights, which we get from doing this survey,” he added.
The airline has claimed that the weight records will be kept anonymous and out of sight during the process.
Passengers will be expected to stand on a digital scale during preflight check-in, and the information will reportedly be submitted to a database but will not be viewable to the in-person agent.
“We know stepping on the scales can be daunting. We want to reassure our customers there is no visible display anywhere. No one can see your weight, not even us,” James continued in his statement.
Air NZ has required passengers to step on the scales previously, during a survey in 2021, but this is the first time the regulation will affect international travelers, said the airline.
One of the first groups to take part in the new program, will be those traveling direct from Auckland to New York’s JFK Airport.
The 17-hour flight was introduced last fall as a milestone in Air NZ’s post-pandemic revamp, and is one of the longest flights in the world. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/air-new-zealand-announces-plan-to-weigh-passengers-before-boarding/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-05-31 05:22:13 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/air-new-zealand-announces-plan-to-weigh-passengers-before-boarding/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
SAM Business Portal™ allows for direct purchase of augmented reality (AR) immersive advertising and metaverse land that is superimposed right onto the physical world where life happens.
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spotselfie, the leader in AR social networking, today announced the beta launch of its most recent development, The SAM Business Portal (Socialize, Advertise, & Monetize), which allows companies to place GPS-located AR ads in real time at any live event around the world.
The SAM Business portal is a feature developed in conjunction with Spotselfie's AR patented technology, Spotland™ ownership, and vision to equalize advertising exposure for businesses. Customers are able to identify as a small business or a large corporation, select an area via GPS location, then customize their advertisement to be viewed through the app's augmented reality lens. By accessing the metaverse through a standard smart phone app, users will begin to see augmented reality ad placements relevant to their immediate surroundings and their unique urMojo™, Spotselfie's patented personal profile mechanism.
Spotland allows for businesses to have a digital twin of the company's physical location, giving them the power to immerse their brand, marketing, and customers into the new digital world. Based on diameter size, companies are able to purchase metaverse land and hold administrative rights including the name, digital GPS locations and managing the social content and advertising associated with it.
Ray Shingler, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Development for Spotselfie, said, "We want to help small businesses get back on their feet after the Covid-19 pandemic, by offering them a customized advertising model directly into our social metaverse. Small businesses can now place AR ads at any live event where our users are, including concerts, sports events, entire city blocks, and anywhere around the world. The SAM BusinessPortal gives small businesses the power to compete against large corporations, leveling the advertising playing field with our patented innovative AR technology."
This feature is now live on the Spotselfie website. From there, businesses are able to begin crafting their advertisements for review and share with the Spotselfie network. Learn more about The SAM Business portal at https://www.spotselfieapp.com/sam-business-portal.html
About Spotselfie:
Spotselfie™ is an innovative augmented reality powered social metaverse that allows users to post virtual objects, pictures, videos, stickers, and other digital material geotagged to locations around the globe. Created specifically for live social interaction, this patented technology allows other users on the app to view the posted content in AR via their own phones, as they walk throughout the digital landscape simultaneously. Learn more at: https://www.spotselfieapp.com
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If ever there was a team in need of some good home cooking, it’s No. 12 Kansas State, losers of two consecutive games, both on the road.
The Wildcats return home to Manhattan, Kan., on Saturday afternoon for a game against No. 19 Iowa State.
Iowa State (17-8, 8-5 Big 12) and K-State (19-7, 7-6) are part of a six-team logjam atop the Big 12 Conference, all bunched within two games of each other.
The Cyclones have been spinning their wheels, unable to string together two consecutive wins since a six-game win streak in early January.
Meanwhile, the Wildcats are in a free fall. They’ve lost five of their last seven games and are in danger of eliminating themselves from any chance at a share of the regular-season title.
The latest K-State setback came Tuesday against Oklahoma, which remains tied for last in the conference at 3-10. The Sooners used a 12-0 run early in the second half to put the Wildcats away in a 79-65 defeat in Norman, the Wildcats’ fifth straight road loss in the Big 12.
It left head coach Jerome Tang pretty upset.
“They kicked our butts, and they deserve all the credit in the world for that,” Tang said after the game. “We did not play hard enough to deserve to win tonight.”
The biggest problem has been the defense. K-State allowed the Sooners to hit 11 of 23 3-point attempts (47.8 percent) despite coming into the game allowing opponents to hit just 28.6 percent, best in the Big 12 and 12th-best in the nation.
“So far, effort hadn’t been an issue with our guys,” Tang said. “Execution maybe at times. But effort hadn’t been an issue. Tonight, effort was an issue.”
Further, over the last seven games, Markquis Nowell has averaged 5.3 turnovers per game, well above his season average of 2.9 before that stretch.
Iowa State has struggled on the road this season, going just 2-6 away from Ames. They snapped a two-game losing streak, including their only home loss of the season, with a 70-59 victory over No. 22 TCU on Wednesday.
Iowa State jumped out to a 10-0 run to start the game and led 15-2 with 14:33 remaining in the first half. TCU nearly erased the lead with a 12-0 run of its own before Aljaz Kunc connected on his second of four first-half 3s in the half, putting ISU up 18-14.
The Cyclones went into the break leading 35-24 as Kunc knocked down a 3-pointer with 0:32 before halftime. Kunc finished with a career-high 22 points. Iowa State then opened the second half with a 12-2 run.
“Where I gauge it is how we start games defensively, and then how we start the half,” Iowa State coach TJ Otzelberger said following the game. “We set the tone and I felt like starting the game we had some turnovers, and then really coming out of halftime, that’s something we hadn’t done as well.We’ve more traded baskets with people.
“And for them to score two points, for us to start with three stops or whatever it was, and have that two points speaks to being focused, being intentional in dictating things defensively.”
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A former employee of an Upper Saucon Township-based medical device company faked documents saying he received government clearance to sell two new kinds of medical devices, according to court records.
The criminal information filed Monday in federal court against Peter N. Stoll III says his actions allowed $139,000 worth of medical devices to be sold between March and August 2017 even though the devices hadn’t been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The court records say the 34-year-old Conshohocken man worked for Company A, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Company B.
A spokesperson for B. Braun of America, Inc., acknowledged Stoll worked for Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC, an Upper Saucon Township company owned by B. Braun of Bethlehem.
Spokesperson Allison Longenhagen said Aesculap promptly notified the federal government when it learned of the fabricated documents on Aug. 23, 2017. Stoll’s employment at Aesculap ended that day, she said.
“There have been no reports of patient harm related to the sale of those products,” Longenhagen said. “The products ultimately received FDA clearance. The company has fully cooperated with the government’s investigation into the incident and will continue to do so.”
Stoll didn’t return a message seeking comment.
Court records say Stoll was hired as a regulatory affairs specialist for Aesculap in July 2015. He was tasked with seeking FDA clearance for the ELAN-4 Electro Drill, which drills and saws through bones during surgery. He was also supposed to get clearance for a sterilization container system called the SterilContainer JS Series. He faked documents claiming he got the clearances but never actually got the clearances, records say.
As a result, $78,840 worth of unapproved ELAN drills were sold between March and June 2017 and $59,781 worth of SterilContaners were sold between July and August 2017, records say.
Court records say Company A is based in Lehigh County and Company B is headquartered in Melsungen, Germany. An internet search shows Aesculap and B. Braun sell the ELAN-4 Electro Drill and SterilContainer JS Series devices.
Stoll is charged with introducing misbranded or adulterated medical devices into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud or mislead.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Edward G. Smith and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Leahy.
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We will continue to see some good weather in our area through the day. Temperatures will warm up into the same category as today, well into the 80s to near 90 degrees with plenty of sunshine.
We will see some low pressure and an associated fronts move into our area Thursday night and into our Friday night. This will bring back into our area some good chances for some rain and thunderstorms. Some of the rainfall will be on the heavy side. We will see the best bet for some severe thunderstorms to the west and southwest of our area during this time period. A few areas in our neck of the woods still will see the potential for some severe thunderstorms. Mainly, damaging winds and some hail, however an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out of the question.
We will see more high pressure build into our area on Saturday and this will give us once again some drier weather along with some cooler weather for the weekend and into early portions of next week. We could even be flirting with some temperatures down into the frosty level in some portions of our area on our Sunday and Monday mornings. | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/sunny-and-dry-today-but-rain-is-on-the-way/article_9891dfaa-df77-11ed-b5a2-379d19a04a5f.html | 2023-04-20 15:30:11 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/top-stories/sunny-and-dry-today-but-rain-is-on-the-way/article_9891dfaa-df77-11ed-b5a2-379d19a04a5f.html |
TSX.V: DME
U.S. OTC: DMEHF
Frankfurt: QM01
VANCOUVER, BC, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the "Company") (TSXV: DME) (U.S. OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) is pleased to announce that it is proceeding with a non-brokered private placement offering to raise up to CAD $5 Million. Under the terms of the private placement, the Company will offer for sale up to 1.667 million Units (the "Units") at CAD $3.00 per Unit. The Company may in its sole discretion increase the maximum of the offering by up to 5% to a maximum of 1.75 million Units.
Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company and one share purchase warrant (the "Warrants"), with each whole Warrant allowing the subscriber to purchase one additional share of the Company for a period of three years from the date of the closing at a price of CAD $4.00 per share. The expiry of the Warrants may be accelerated at the election of the Company by written notice if the closing price for the common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange shall be equal to or greater than CAD $8.00 per share for a minimum of ten consecutive trading days. Finder's fees are payable of up to 7% in cash and 5% in finder warrants, with the finder warrants having an exercise price of CAD $4.00 per share, but with no forced conversion. Proceeds from the private placement will be utilized for exploration and development of the Company's helium projects, as well as working capital and general corporate purposes.
The Units will be subject to a 4-month hold period. The private placement is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
"We, like every other Company, are dealing with inflationary and supply chain bottleneck pressures," says Robert Rohlfing, CEO of Desert Mountain Energy Corp. "Having a healthy treasury has been invaluable in staying ahead of inflation by prepaying for essential components of our business such as cement, fuel and steel. This raise with minimal dilution allows us to continue with that strategy."
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is a publicly traded resource company primarily focused on exploration, development and production of helium, hydrogen and noble gases. The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries.
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Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in polices of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward looking statements and information herein include but are not limited to statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in the future the planned exploration activities, receipt of positive results from drilling, the completion of further drilling and exploration work, and the timing and results of various activities.
Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company and its operations to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, changes in national and local governments, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada and the United States; financial risks due to helium prices, operating or technical difficulties in exploration and development activities; risks and hazards and the speculative nature of resource exploration and related development; risks in obtaining necessary licenses and permits, and challenges to the Company's title to properties.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including but not limited to the continued operation of the Company's exploration operations, no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or information, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
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Who knew zombies and their prey could live in such harmony?
In an exclusive chat with E! News at 2022 Comic-Con on July 22, Tales of the Walking Dead star Terry Crews said he received an out-of-the-blue welcome to the franchise from one of its most beloved stars.
"I got a DM on Instagram from Melissa McBride," Terry revealed. "She said, ‘Welcome to our world.' As a fan, to be a part of this universe now and to get that introduction from her, I was like, ‘Oh my god.'"
McBride plays fan favorite Carol on The Walking Dead, which begins to roll out its final episodes on October 2.
Crews' co-star Samantha Morton echoed his sentiments, saying, "It really is a family."
And she would know!
On Tales of the Walking Dead, Morton reprises her role as Alpha from the original Walking Dead series—but there's a twist. Seeing as Alpha—spoiler alert!—died in season 10, Morton's episode is of the prequel variety, as she explained, "I play someone called Dee, who becomes Alpha."
Both Crews and Morton described the grueling filming process on the show, which premieres Aug. 14 on AMC and AMC+.
"Each one was like shooting a small film," Crews explained. "In 10 days, we were shooting a whole movie. It was like triple time. It was a big commitment."
Morton agreed, but said the crew made the experience marvelously seamless, explaining, "They're a well-oiled machine. They've been doing this. They just know the gig. There's no fumbling around."
Tales of the Walking Dead is an anthology series, meaning each episode focuses on different characters and points of view, all with distinct tones and textures.
Crews, who is paired with his former The Newsroom co-star Olivia Munn for his episode, found the experience to be somewhat musical.
"It's almost like a song. We get to sing the same song, but our way," he explained. "Our version. Our thing. Which becomes a whole other thing. Dolly Parton did 'I Will Always Love You' and then when Whitney Houston did it, it was a whole different deal. With every episode, we stay in the world of Walking Dead, but it's our song."
We didn't expect Terry Crews to relate The Walking Dead back to Dolly Parton today, but that's what makes life worth living.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Raging inflation has so scrambled the economy that it’s come to this: If Friday’s jobs report for August were to show a significant hiring slowdown, the Federal Reserve — and even the White House — would likely welcome it.
The government is expected to report that employers added 300,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet. That would be down from a blockbuster gain of 528,000 in July and an average of about 440,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.5%, FactSet says, matching a half-century low.
The August jobs report will be issued at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
A weaker pace of hiring should help moderate wage increases and lift hopes that inflation pressures are starting to ease. That, in turn, would help the Fed make progress toward its goal of conquering high inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
Many companies pass along their higher labor costs to customers through price increases. Conversely, when wages rise more slowly, businesses have less need to raise prices.
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have increasingly stressed their determination to tame inflation even at the cost of damaging the economy. In a major speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week, Powell underscored the Fed’s tight focus on curbing inflation and said he was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and keep them elevated to achieve that goal. He warned that the Fed’s inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The stock market has fallen every day since that speech as fears that the Fed may cause a recession have escalated.
Powell also said the job market is “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Indeed, the government reported this week that the number of available jobs rose in July to a near-record high, after three months of declines. There are roughly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, a sign that many companies are still desperate to hire and may keep raising wages to do so.
“I don’t think the Fed is rooting for a poor jobs report, but they are certainly not rooting for a repeat of July,” when hiring accelerated and wage increases were strong, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at Parthenon-EY. “They are going to want to see some moderation.”
The central bank has raised its short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% this year, after the fastest series of increases since it began using its short-term rate to influence the economy in the early 1990s. It has projected that its key rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5% by year’s end. Those rate hikes have made borrowing and spending steadily more expensive for individuals and businesses. The housing market, in particular, has been weakened by higher loan rates.
If Friday’s jobs report is another strong one, with substantial hiring and rapid wage growth, the Fed could opt to announce another sizable three-quarter-point hike when it meets later this month, after similar rate increases in June and July.
The jobs figures will also help fill out the economic backdrop as this fall’s congressional elections intensify. Republicans have pointed to high inflation to try to pummel Democrats in midterm campaigns. The Biden administration has pushed back and claimed credit for a robust pace of job growth.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters this week that “we’re expecting job numbers to cool off a bit.” The administration has been saying for months that it expects the economy to move to slower but still-steady growth after a swift economic rebound from the pandemic that came with a burst of inflation.
Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades as employers scramble to fill jobs at a time when fewer Americans are working or seeking work in the aftermath of the pandemic. Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% in July from a year earlier. Still, that was less than the 5.6% year-over-year in March, which was the largest annual increase in 15 years of records outside of the spring of 2020, when the pandemic struck.
Higher wages aren’t necessarily inflationary if they are accompanied by greater efficiencies — if, for example, workers use machines or technology to produce more output. But worker efficiency, or productivity, has tumbled in the past year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Wednesday that “current wage increases are not consistent with inflation returning to our 2% goal” and that she thought with worker productivity so low, wage growth would have to slow to 3.5% or so to reduce inflation.
Yet some skeptics warn that the Fed may be focusing excessively on the strength of the job market when other indicators indicate that the economy is noticeably weakening. Consumer spending, for example, and manufacturing have slowed. The central bank might raise rates too far as a result, to the point where it causes a deeper recession than might be needed to conquer inflation.
“They run a risk of not realizing how much those rate hikes are restraining economic growth, if they’re just looking at the really strong employment gains,” said Jonathan Pingle, chief U.S. economist at Swiss bank UBS. “You could end up risking over tightening or moving too fast, too soon.”
The economic picture is highly uncertain, with the healthy pace of hiring and low unemployment at odds with the government’s estimate that the economy shrank in the first six months of this year, which is one informal definition of a recession.
Yet a related measure of the economy’s growth, which focuses on incomes, shows that it is still expanding, if at a weak pace.
So far, the Fed’s rate hikes have severely dented the housing market. With the average rate on a thirty-year mortgage reaching 5.66% last week — double the level of a year ago — sales of existing homes have fallen for six straight months.
Consumers have moderated their spending in the face of much higher prices, though they spent more in July even after adjusting for inflation. But companies’ investment in new equipment has slowed, indicating they have an increasingly cautious outlook on the economy.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LEONID, a Department of Defense Trusted Capital Provider, is pleased to announce the closing of its latest Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), LEONID Capital Management SPV 2, with the funds raised to be exclusively used for originations under the Company's unique Government Contract Financing model.
Raised from both existing investors and new, strategic investors, the SPV closed within four weeks of launch, and is already 100% deployed or committed to immediate-term pipeline.
"Our ability to raise and deploy capital in a rapid fashion is becoming the hallmark of our growing organization," said LEONID Founder, Christopher Lay. "The new investors coming in are wonderful to have, but the real feather in our cap was the roster of our existing investors that came back for a second and larger bite."
The projected portfolio yield on the SPV holdings is well above target, includes six different US Government Prime Contracting clients, ten individual contracts, and eight different Federal payors.
"To be able to achieve such a wide diversification, while maintaining yields and capital deployment targets is a defining goal of our strategy," added LEONID Co-founder James Parker. "We love the headline of 'Federal Government as loan security', but it is important to realize there are thousands of different Government departments and offices, and hundreds of thousands of contractors in our target niche."
LEONID offers true government contract financing in the form of term loans and revolving lines of credit, based on the full, future value of contracts. With this successful close and deployment, LEONID has begun raising into its third SPV with a targeted close of Oct 31st, 2022.
LEONID is the leading financial services platform supporting U.S. Federal Government contractors. As an official Department of Defense Trusted Capital Provider, LEONID offers advance financing on all government contracts, including SBIR and STTRs, up to $25MM. The firm can help companies improve their working capital position to help finance growth strategies and manage operating expenses. LEONID contributes 50% of net profits to mission-oriented charitable causes that are committed to veterans' causes and warfighter support. Learn more at leonidfinance.io.
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HONG KONG, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 27th Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) was unveiled on March 13. Tencent Video participated in the exhibition with excellent film and television programs. By holding a content promotion workshop and setting up exclusive exhibition areas, Tencent Video exhibited the rich high-quality content on the platform, attracting the attention of producers, distributors, investors and industry representatives from all over the world. On March 14 afternoon, Tencent Video held a special event to promote its content.
During the event, Tencent Video introduced the platform's diversified content strategy in TV series. In particular, "Three-Body" was adapted from the novel of the same name which won the Hugo Award, the highest award in the science fiction industry. As soon as it was aired, the drama has been highly received by global audiences as "the new peak of Chinese science fiction drama", becoming a new benchmark for Chinese science fiction dramas to go overseas. The TV series also included "Where Dreams Begin", "Hao Shi Cheng Shuang", "Trio In Chengdu", "Sword and Fairy 6", as well as "Out of the Yu Men", "The Longest Promise" and "Amidst a Snowstorm of Love" adapted from popular novels.
Meanwhile, Tencent Video also showed premium content in various genres, including animation, variety show, documentary, children's programs, etc. As the top domestic animation platform, Tencent Video platform fully meets the needs of different users through a wide range of programs such as "Soul Land", "The King's Avatar", "Blades of the Guardians", "Swallowed Star", "Ling Long", and "Left-Hand Layup!", as well as "Shrouding the Heavens", China's first animation completely produced in Unreal Engine 5, and "Honor of Kings", the game's first official animation drama. In addition, high-quality content of Tencent Video's variety show, documentary and child channels were also demonstrated and attracted wide attention, including "Fifty Kilometers of Taohuawu", "Rock & Roast 5", "the Potala Palace", "Once Upon a Bite 5", "Monsters in the Forbidden City" and "Comic Wonder".
In recent years, Tencent Video has been committed to exploring the overseas market while consistently expanding the domestic market, which became a part of its strategic deployment. From 2017 to 2023, Tencent Video continues to export hundreds of films, TV dramas, variety shows, documentaries and cartoons to TV stations and streaming media platforms worldwide, covering more than 200 countries and regions overseas. For example, the TV drama "Three-Body" has been successfully distributed to Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia, America, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, India and other regions. On YouTube, over 7 million viewers watched the TV Drama "Three-Body". On WeTV, the average daily view number ranked top 1 in North America. On IMDb, the highest score of a single episode reached 9.9.
As a leading online video platform in China, Tencent Video always has firm confidence and maintains its investment in high quality and high value content. Adhering to the content values of "high quality, positive energy, innovation and youth", its diversified high-quality content actively responds to the constantly upgrading user needs. With the mission of delivering Chinese culture to the world, Tencent Video proactively uses its own platform to go overseas and promote diverse international cooperation, telling China stories and spreading China's voice. As a result, it has become a force to be reckoned with in promoting Chinese culture in the international arena.
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TULSA, Okla., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSign Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: CLIR) ("ClearSign" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and safety while dramatically reducing emissions, today provides an update on operations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
"We have made significant headway this quarter in both major product lines, including sales development and advancing our technology," said Jim Deller, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of ClearSign. "Progress on existing projects has been good, with the timeline of our largest project accelerating and a significant follow on order received; we have greatly increased proposal and sales activity and expect to make further announcements soon; and finally we have approval to return to China in person and look forward to continuing our development there."
Recent strategic and operational highlights during and subsequent to the second quarter of 2022 include:
Received Follow On Purchase Order for California Refinery Multi Heater Project: The order is to proceed with the next phase in the previously announced twenty burner project for a California refinery and is for the purchase of four burners for testing, the multi burner test and other ancillary items. The timing and scope of this order is due to the acceleration of the project timeline. The engineering and computer modelling for this project has been completed and the remaining timeline for this project has been accelerated. The Company expects an additional purchase order for the manufacture and supply of the remaining sixteen burners during the fourth quarter of this year.
Announced an Enclosed Oxidizer Sale to Canada Based Hydrogen Technology Production Company: The company closed a sale of a ClearSign Core™ enclosed oxidizer for installation in a pilot scale hydrogen production plant. The Canadian customer is developing a breakthrough technology for the production of clean hydrogen.
Announced the Appointment of Energy Industry Veteran Gary DiElsi to the Board of Directors: Mr. DiElsi is a seasoned energy executive with a broad background of over 40 years of experience from private equity, major global enterprises, smaller industrial companies, and startup ventures, including both turnaround and growth situations. He is filling the open position from which Bruce A. Pate stepped down from.
Closed an underwritten public offering of Common Stock and Full Exercise of Purchase Right Granted to clirSPV LLC: The Company closed an offering of 4,186,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $1.11 per share. The total offering included 546,000 shares issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriter's over-allotment option. Gross proceeds to ClearSign from this offering were approximately $4,646,460 before deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other offering expenses. As a result of the Company's underwritten public offering completed on June 1, 2022, and pursuant to their Purchase Right, clirSPV LLC purchased its entire allotment of 1,591,594 shares for net proceeds of approximately $1,740,000 to the Company. ClearSign intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital, research and development, marketing and sales, and general corporate purposes.
Awarded Grant from Department of Energy to Develop a Hydrogen Fueled Ultra Low NOx Process Burner: The Company was awarded a government grant through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program with the Department of Energy. The goal of this project is to develop ultra-low NOx hydrogen burner technology which will enable the adoption of hydrogen fuel for industrial heating, leading to reductions in the industrial emissions of both carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. The project and funding are in phases. The initial funding amount is approximately $250,000 and the project will last six months starting at the end of June. If needed, and upon completion of the Phase 1 work, the Company will be able to submit a follow-up proposal to continue the development work with a Phase 2 grant. Phase 2 grant funding can be up to $1.6 million for a two-year duration.
Cash and cash equivalents were approximately $9,007,000 on June 30, 2022.
There were 37,951,559 shares of the Company's common stock issued and outstanding as of August 1, 2022.
The Company will be hosting a call at 5:00 PM ET today. Investors interested in participating on the live call can dial 1-866-372-4653 within the U.S. or 1-412-902-4217 from abroad. Investors can also access the call online through a listen-only webcast at https://app.webinar.net/ky4KLm5LgR2 or on the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://ir.clearsign.com/overview.
The webcast will be archived on the Company's investor relations website for at least 90 days and a telephonic playback of the conference call will be available by calling 1-877-344-7529 within the U.S. or 1-412-317-0088 from abroad. Conference ID #3932241. The telephonic playback will be available for 7 days after the conference call.
About ClearSign Technologies Corporation
ClearSign Technologies Corporation designs and develops products and technologies for the purpose of improving key performance characteristics of industrial and commercial systems, including operational performance, energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety and overall cost-effectiveness. Our patented technologies, embedded in established OEM products as ClearSign Core™ and ClearSign Eye™ and other sensing configurations, enhance the performance of combustion systems and fuel safety systems in a broad range of markets, including the energy (upstream oil production and down-stream refining), commercial/industrial boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries. For more information, please visit www.clearsign.com.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
8-5-2-4
(eight, five, two, four)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
8-5-2-4
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ANN ARBOR, MI -- A little rain didn’t put a damper on Ann Arbor Skyline’s prom at the Big House Friday.
Hundreds of students took to the field at Michigan Stadium, carrying white umbrellas and posing for photos.
ANN ARBOR, MI -- A little rain didn’t put a damper on Ann Arbor Skyline’s prom at the Big House Friday.
Hundreds of students took to the field at Michigan Stadium, carrying white umbrellas and posing for photos.
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UNIVERSITY PARK (WTAJ) — Penn State junior safety Ji’Ayir Brown stands the be the latest in a run of defensive backs drafted in the NFL out of Penn State, but his path to the league is a little less common than most.
“A lot of people don’t know that he wasn’t recruited at all high school, and he had earned his way up in junior college,” said former Nittany Lion teammate Jaquan Brisker. “So from junior college and earning his way here, a scholarship at Penn State, you know, it’s just an amazing story.”
Last year’s second round pick of the Chicago Bears can related to Brown’s non-traditional path. The two were teammates at Lackawanna Junior College before winding up at Penn State.
“When God has a plan for you and a path for you nothing can stop it,” Brown said during his pro day in April. “He’s going to see his plan through, just keep believing and keep following and do your part of the plan, and you can execute every time. So, operate with no fear. You know, you trust that everything you’ve already been written, you’ve just got to follow through and see it through.”
The safety has been mad productive in two years starting for the Nittany Lions. He was the Rose Bowl’s defensive MVP and a two-time All-Big Ten selection. He finished his career with 147 tackles, 4.5 sacks, and ten interceptions.
“I love his game. I love what he does. I love his intelligence, his vision and his love for football. Like you can see it in the way he plays,” said Blue White Illustrated film analyst Thomas Frank Carr.
Brown is versatile, and played both safety positions for Penn State. He covered receivers in man, was an electric pass rusher and was aggressive in run support.
“But the problem is he ran his best time of a 4.57 (in the 40-yard dash.) He ran a 4.6-something at the combine that’s not fast enough to play free safety,” Carr said.
Also unsized, Brown’s future has been tough to pinpoint. Unlike his defensive teammate Joey Porter Jr. who is a near first round lock, Brown will likely go somewhere between the third and fifth rounds. While the NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah named him the 40th best prospect in February, most mock draft currently have the New Jersey native going in the middle-to-end of day two with the 49ers, Bills and Browns among the favorite landing spots.
When Tig hears his name, he will be the 12th defensive back drafted out of Penn State since James Franklin took over in 2014. The most of any position. | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/nittany-nation/path-to-the-draft-jiayir-brown/ | 2023-04-13 04:27:46 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/nittany-nation/path-to-the-draft-jiayir-brown/ |
BALI, Indonesia — President Joe Biden said Monday that Democrats still lack the power to codify abortion rights into law despite his party's stronger-than-expected performance in the midterm elections.
“I don't think there's enough votes,” he said at a press conference during the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia.
Biden's blunt comments reflected how Democrats' euphoria over their strength in the midterms will soon collide with the likely reality of divided government in Washington.
During the campaign, Biden said that if Democrats picked up seats, the first piece of legislation that he would send to Congress would be to enact a nationwide right to abortion.
The right was previously guaranteed only by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and the court's conservative majority overturned that ruling earlier this year.
Although Democrats defied historical odds by avoiding a midterm wipeout, they did not gain enough ground to ensure abortion access nationwide.
Asked what voters might expect on the issue, Biden replied, “I don’t think they can expect much of anything."
Although ballots are still being counted, Republicans are on track to take control of the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, putting them in position to block any abortion legislation.
“I think it's gonna be very close, but I don't think we're gonna make it,” Biden said.
Democrats will maintain control of the Senate, and may even expand their majority after next month's runoff in Georgia. But some members of the party have been unwilling to sidestep filibuster rules to pass an abortion law.
Biden previously said “we need two more senators” to codify abortion rights, a reference to Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who want to preserve the filibuster.
If Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia wins a second term next month, Democrats will have only gained one seat.
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Federal lawsuit: military failed to maintain water system, did not alert residents to toxic contamination
HONOLULU, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acclaimed trial lawyer Mark Lanier and the Lanier Law Firm have joined forces with legal teams seeking answers and demanding justice for as many as 93,000 Honolulu-area residents whose drinking water has been contaminated by jet fuel spills from the U.S. Navy's Red Hill fuel storage facility.
The Lanier Law Firm joins Just Well Law firm and the Hosoda Law Group in high-profile litigation following two large fuel spills of JP-5 jet fuel in 2021 that released toxic chemicals into the water supply supplying Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), Aliamanu Military Reservation (AMR), Red Hill Housing and surrounding areas.
"This was a systemic failure to protect citizens at the most basic level," said Mr. Lanier, who has garnered nearly $20 billion in verdicts and settlements in his career. "Every step of the way, the practices at the Red Hill facility represent a shocking dereliction of duty to protect soldiers, their families and everyone who relies on the public water system."
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation found that the Navy and Army failed to adequately operate and maintain the public water systems serving JBPHH and AMR. In addition, military authorities failed to warn residents about the release of the toxic chemicals for several days and only issued an alert after receiving numerous complaints about petroleum odors in the tap water. The investigation resulted in citations for inadequate maintenance, emergency response protocols and safety operations at the two bases.
Residents who consumed the tap water have reported medical problems including seizures, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological issues, burns, rashes, lesions, thyroid abnormalities, migraines, neurobehavioral challenges, and other complications.
"These residents and the public need answers, not just about how and why this happened but also about the health risks they face going forward," said Alex Brown, managing attorney of the Lanier Law Firm's Commercial Litigation group.
The lawsuit is Patrick Feindt, Jr., et al., v. The United States of America, Case No. 1:22-cv-0039, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. In addition to four named plaintiffs, the firms represent hundreds who have filed pre-litigation SF-95 claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
About the Lanier Law Firm
For more than 30 years, the men and women at The Lanier Law Firm have worked tirelessly, throughout the United States, to find unique and effective solutions for their clients. More than 60 skilled attorneys practice law in a broad array of areas, including business litigation, pharmaceutical litigation, asbestos exposure, oil and gas litigation, personal injury as well as defective and dangerous products, among others. Named an Elite Trial Law Firm by The National Law Journal, The Lanier Law Firm has offices in Houston, New York and Los Angeles. To learn more visit http://www.lanierlawfirm.com.
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When 11 Black quarterbacks started NFL games in Week 1, it was another indication those racial stereotypes have finally been overcome.
While there is a continued lack of diversity among general managers and coaches, four of the five largest contracts in the sport have been given to Black QBs — including Deshaun Watson’s fully guaranteed $230 million deal from the Cleveland Browns. Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray received the other three. Lamar Jackson is in line to join that group next.
Black QBs — Cam Newton, Mahomes and Jackson — have won three of the last seven NFL MVP awards. Over the last 11 drafts, 11 of the 33 quarterbacks taken in the first round were Black.
But it’s been a long, difficult journey since Fritz Pollard became the first Black QB to play in the NFL in 1923.
“There has been a traditional and historical underrepresentation of Black quarterbacks in the league because of various myths and falsehoods,” NFL executive Troy Vincent told The Associated Press. “At the opening of this 2022 season, 11 Black quarterbacks are not only leading NFL clubs, but are demonstrating their ability to win. This leaves no doubt how this position has been normalized at both the collegiate and professional levels.”
Despite the increase in Black quarterbacks and Black officials, who represent about 40% of the league’s officiating crew, the growth in diversity isn’t reflected on the sideline. There are only four Black head coaches in 2022: Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Houston’s Lovie Smith, Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles and Miami’s Mike McDaniel, who is biracial.
It took nearly 100 years to go from Pollard breaking the QB race barrier to 11 starters, and it’s unclear how long it will be for Black coaches to make that leap.
Those decisions fall on the owners.
The league hires officials. Owners can have the say on general managers and coaches.
It took several decades to get to the new normal for QBs.
Along the way, Doug Williams became the first Black QB to win a Super Bowl following the 1987 season. Wilson and Mahomes joined him over the past nine years.
Michael Vick was the first Black QB selected No. 1 overall in the draft in 2001. Steve McNair became the first Black QB to win MVP in 2003.
All of those QBs and many others have dealt with many stereotypes. Some still do.
Jackson said a scout from the Los Angeles Chargers asked him to run routes at the NFL combine in 2018. He refused. The Baltimore Ravens selected him with the 32nd pick in the 2018 draft. He was MVP in his second season.
Donovan McNabb said college scouts asked him to play running back or wide receiver. He wouldn’t switch positions. He was drafted No. 2 overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999 and led the team to five NFC championship games in 11 seasons.
“Center, quarterback, wide receiver were the last positions to integrate in the National Football League,” Vincent said. “Why? Because someone said that they were thinking positions and that Black QBs didn’t have the aptitude, didn’t have the football IQ.”
While that unfair criticism isn’t widely heard anymore, it hasn’t been eradicated. It still seeps through when a critic says a Black quarterback can’t read coverages or doesn’t understand the playbook.
Coaches seem to have evolved beyond that stereotype. Teams just want to win and it doesn’t matter who is under center, as evidenced by the contract the Browns gave Watson even though he faced accusations of sexual assault and harassment.
“It’s the evolution of the game, and it’s coaches who have realized that not only can these men win, they’re dynamic and they can lead and they’re winning at a high clip,” Vincent said. “There’s not a kid around the country that’s a person of color that doesn’t believe he can’t be a quarterback because they’re everywhere and they’re winning championships.”
Among the coaches who have relied on Black QBs is Andy Reid. From McNabb to Vick to Mahomes, Reid has had a Black QB start 272 of 406 games he has coached during his 24-year career with the Eagles and Chiefs.
“This is a great example that these men can lead,” Vincent said about the number of Black QBs. “The barriers were a myth.”
It’s time for owners to embrace that Black GMs and coaches can also lead.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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MIAMI, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the return of Formula 1's Miami Grand Prix, BleauLive at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, in partnership with Capture Studio Group, is pleased to announce 'Miami Race Nights' – a two-night beachside music experience with performances by Global DJ icons Martin Garrix and Kaskade. Additional performances include DJ Vice, Alec Monopoly, DJ Five Star, Julian Banks, and more. The energized fan fest will take place poolside on Saturday, May 6th, and Sunday, May 7th, 2023. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. and the party continues until 1:00 a.m. Tickets are on sale now at www.bleaulive.com.
Miami Race Nights will transform the 70,000-square-foot pool at the oceanfront property into a multisensory, audio-visual experience by bringing together a main stage of music, more than 60 VIP tables and cabanas, and state-of-the-art special effects. Miami Race Nights will mark the kick-off to many more highly anticipated events by BleauLive, a custom-curated, experiential event series located at the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
Presenting brand partners include Heineken Silver, Celsius Energy, and Gel Blaster. Additional brand partnerships include Pirelli, NUTRL, Ketel One Vodka, Tanqueray, Don Julio 1942 Tequila, Remy Martin, PhygitalTwin, Axia Spirit, and Cool Cat wine.
MIAMI RACE NIGHTS LINEUP
Saturday, May 6th (9:00 PM - 1:00 AM)
Martin Garrix with DJ Vice and Julian Banks
Sunday, May 7th (9:00 PM - 1:00 AM)
Kaskade with Alec Monopoly and DJ Five Star
All tickets include a premium open bar starting at $99, and prices may vary per night. Private tables and cabanas are available and range from $3,500 to $20,000. Table packages include an exclusive space for 8 to 20 guests, bottle service, and a designated VIP entry.
BleauLive Experiential Event Series continues the legacy of hosting iconic entertainment artists that design the culture at Fontainebleau Miami Beach. From the days when The Rat Pack and Elvis graced the stage, to today's history-making 2023 programming and live concert series. In recent years, celebrities including Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Pitbull, Doja Cat, Alesso, Snoop Dogg, Marshmello, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber have brought unique and iconic memories to guests.
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BleauLive Experiential Event Series continues the legacy of hosting iconic entertainment artists that design the culture at The Fontainebleau Miami Beach. From the days when The Rat Pack and Elvis graced the stage, to today's history-making programming and live concert series, celebrities including Lady Gaga, Calvin Harris, Snoop Dogg, Marshmello, Doja Cat, and David Guetta have brought unique and iconic moments and memories to guests. With over 40 dates already slated in the 2023 calendar year, the series of events features platinum-selling artists, comedy shows, fashion events, and more. All event information, tickets, and VIP table packages can be found by visiting www.BleauLive.com. For sponsorship opportunities and VIP packages, contact info@BleauLive.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 155 mm howitzer round is one of the most requested artillery munitions of the war in Ukraine. Already the U.S. has shipped more than 1.5 million rounds to Ukraine, but Kyiv is still seeking more.
A look at why this particular munition is so commonly used, and why it’s been so critical to the war in Ukraine.
WHAT IS THE 155 MM?
Essentially, the 155 mm round is a very big bullet, made up of four parts: the detonating fuse, projectile, propellant and primer.
Each round is about 2 feet (60 centimeters) long, weighs about 100 pounds (45 kilograms), and is 155 mm, or 6.1 inches, in diameter. They are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns that are identified by the range of the angle of fire that their barrels can be set to.
The 155 mm shells can be configured in many ways: They can be packed with highly explosive material, use precision guided systems, pierce armor or produce high fragmentation.
Past variants have included smoke rounds to obscure troop movement and illumination rounds to expose an enemy’s position.
“The 155 mm round and the similar Soviet-era 152 mm rounds are so popular because they provide a good balance between range and warhead size,” said Ryan Brobst, a research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “If you have too small a shell, it won’t do enough damage and go as far. If you have a larger shell, you can’t necessarily fire it as far. This is the most common middle ground, and that’s why it’s so widely used.”
155 MM HISTORY
The French first developed the 155 mm round to respond to World War I’s extensive trench warfare, and early versions included gas shells, Keri Pleasant, historian for the Army’s Joint Munitions Command, said in a statement to The Associated Press.
As World War I continued, the 155 mm gun became the most common artillery piece used by the Allies, Pleasant said, and the U.S. Army later adopted it as its standard field heavy artillery piece.
The U.S. military fielded its own version, the M1, for World War II. After the war, the new NATO alliance adopted the 155 mm as its artillery standard.
By the Korean War, the round had been modified again, with a cluster munition variant. “The round contained 88 submunitions, which were dispersed over a wide area to destroy vehicles, equipment, and personnel,” Pleasant said.
ITS USE IN UKRAINE
Howitzer fires can strike targets up to 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 kilometers) away, depending on what type of round and firing system is used, which makes them highly valued by ground forces to take out enemy targets from a protected distance.
“Adversaries don’t have much warning of it coming. And it’s harder to hide from incoming rounds that are arcing in from the top, which makes it highly lethal,” Brobst said.
In Ukraine, 155 mm rounds are being fired at a rate of 6,000 to 8,000 a day, said Ukrainian parliamentary member Oleksandra Ustinova, who serves on Ukraine’s wartime oversight committee. They are eclipsed by the estimated 40,000 Russian variant howitzer rounds fired at them, she told reporters at a recent Washington event sponsored by the German Marshall Fund.
The Pentagon previously had said how many rounds it was providing in each of the security assistance packages being sent about every two weeks to keep weapons and ammunition flowing into Ukraine. But it stopped specifying the number of 155 mm rounds shipped in each package in February, citing operational security.
However, in its overall count of assistance provided to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, the Pentagon says it has sent more than 160 155 mm howitzers, more than 1.5 million 155 mm rounds, more than 6,500 precision-guided 155 mm rounds and more than 14,000 155 mm Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems — essentially a 155 mm shell packed with four mines that scatter on the ground and can take out a Russian tank if it drives over them.
Other countries have also provided howitzers, but Kyiv has continually asked for more. As of last year Ukrainian officials were requesting as many as 1,000 howitzer systems to push Russian forces back.
SPRING OFFENSIVE
As Ukraine prepares for an intense counteroffensive this spring, it will likely need to fire 7,000 to 9,000 155 mm shells a day, said Yehor Cherniev, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who spoke to reporters at the German Marshall Fund event.
In recent months, the Biden administration has been using presidential drawdown authority to send ammunition directly from U.S. military stockpiles to Ukraine, instead of having to wait and buy rounds from defense firms, so they can get there in time for the anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The U.S. has also been training Ukrainian troops in Germany on how to better use the 155 mm rounds in combined arms tactics — coordinating strikes with targeting information provided by forward-based troops and other armored systems to maximize damage and reduce the number of rounds needed to take out a target.
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TORONTO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Liquid Meta Capital Holdings Ltd. ("Liquid Meta" or the "Company") (NEO: LIQD) (FRANKFURT: N5F) (OTC: LIQQF) a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company focused on bridging the gap between traditional and decentralized finance, today announced that its board of directors (the "Board") has approved a change of the Company's auditor. The Board and the Audit Committee of the Board have appointed RSM Canada LLP ( "RSM") as the company's new auditor, effective as of July 22, 2022 and the Company's former auditor, Zeifmans LLP ( "Zeifmans"), has submitted its resignation, effective July 22, 2022.
There were no disagreements or unresolved issues with Zeifmans on any matter of the audit scope or procedures, accounting principles or policies, or financial statement disclosure. There have been no "reportable events" (as defined in National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations) between the Company and Zeifmans.
A Notice of Change of Auditor (the "Notice"), together with the response letters from Zeifmans and RSM, has been reviewed by the Audit Committee and the Board and have been filed on www.sedar.com.
"I would like to thank Zeifmans for their efforts over the last year. The firm provided us with excellent services and were instrumental in our RTO transaction last December. Zeifmans has been a valuable resource to Liquid Meta during the Company's first few quarters as a public company. Furthermore, we are very excited to be working with RSM going forward. RSM has a significant amount of experience and expertise working with other similar companies operating in Web3.0" commented Jonathan Wiesblatt, CEO of Liquid Meta.
Liquid Meta is a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company that is powering the next generation of open-access protocols and applications. The Company is creating the bridge between traditional and decentralized finance while ushering in a new era of financial infrastructure that benefits anyone, anywhere.
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Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Liquid Meta to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements are described under the caption "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's Filing Statement dated as of December 17, 2021 which is available for view on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Forward-looking statements contained herein are made as of the date of this press release and Liquid Meta disclaims, other than as required by law, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, results, future events, circumstances, or if management's estimates or opinions should change, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Liquid Meta's operations could be significantly adversely affected by the effects of a widespread global outbreak of a contagious disease, including the recent outbreak of illness caused by COVID-19. It is not possible to accurately predict the impact COVID-19 will have on operations and the ability of others to meet their obligations, including uncertainties relating to the ultimate geographic spread of the virus, the severity of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, and the length of travel and quarantine restrictions imposed by governments of affected countries. In addition, a significant outbreak of contagious diseases in the human population could result in a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that could further affect operations and the ability to finance its operations.
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Missouri law bans ‘sexually explicit’ books; calls for jail time, fines for educators found in violation
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) – A new law limiting reading materials in Missouri schools went into effect Sunday as many districts start the new school year.
Missouri SB 775 states that books containing material that is considered sexually explicit are now illegal in schools. The exceptions are those considered artistic or informational in nature.
The law applies to both public and private schools.
Tiffany Mautino, the Missouri Library Associaton’s Intellectual Freedom Committee’s chair-elect, said banning books from school libraries wasn’t how the language of the bill started out.
“This bill was going forward and at the last second, this part that would affect libraries, school libraries specifically, was added,” Mautino said.
Keturah Flockstra, a junior at Nixa High School in southwestern Missouri, said she has been fighting the school board against these types of policies for months.
“This new law going into effect and this stuff happening within my own school are setting up my generation for failure,” Flockstra said. “It’s not allowing us to get multiple perspectives. It’s not allowing us to know about some of the harsh realities, know about some of the stuff that happened before our time,” she said.
Recent Nixa High School graduate Nicholas Jungen agrees. He said the academic curriculum is already limited.
“You’re not taught real history in school. It’s annoying when you find out, ‘Oh that’s not what we were taught, why weren’t we taught this?’ This is important,” he said.
The penalty for breaking the new law is a class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
KY3 reached out to some of the largest districts in central Missouri, all of which declined an on-camera interview.
In a statement, Nixa Public Schools said, “We are currently reviewing the impact the new law will have on any materials in our district. We will be reviewing materials on a case-by-case basis as questions arise from parents or staff.”
Mautino said books are not the only place where students will be exposed to complex and challenging issues.
Jungen agreed, pointing out that students have easy access to the internet.
“Yeah, take away books; we have the internet. It’s a vast place. You can really fall down some holes that are worse than some of the content that these books offer,” Jungen said.
KY3 also reached out to the Missouri Association of School Librarians for an interview. They declined based on the number of media requests they are receiving. You can find their statement on the law here.
A full version of the bill can be found here.
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A motorist has been critically injured in a two-vehicle crash at Broad Street and Skipwith Road in Henrico County, police said.
Henrico police were on the scene Wednesday morning, where they said that westbound Broad Street was reduced to one travel lane while they investigated.
One of the vehicles involved was a motorcycle, according a post on Twitter.
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While the big news for the Silverado going into the 2024 model year is the arrival of the Silverado EV, Chevrolet also has a round of updates for the internal-combustion variant.
Key among them is the option of a diesel powertrain for the Silverado 1500 ZR2 off-roader. There’s also an active exhaust system for the Silverado 1500’s 6.2-liter V-8, and a new black appearance package available for multiple grades.
The diesel powertrain is Chevy’s Duramax 3.0-liter turbodiesel inline-6, which is paired with a 10-speed automatic in the ZR2 and offers 305 hp and 495 lb-ft of torque. The standard engine in the ZR2 is the existing 6.2-liter V-8, rated at 420 hp and 460 lb-ft.
For buyers of the 6.2-liter V-8, Chevy will add a new active exhaust system. Chevy said its engineers tuned the exhaust to deliver a burly V-8 sound, but this can be dialed down with various drive modes. There will be three to choose from: Normal, Tow/Haul, and Sport.
Buyers looking to add a little style to their trucks can look forward to a black appearance package that adds black accents to the exterior. The package will be available on the Custom, Custom Trail Boss, RST, LT Trail Boss, and ZR2 grades, as well as a special High Country Midnight Edition. The Midnight Edition adds things like powered side steps in black and LED lightning.
Another key change Chevy has announced for the 2024 Silverado 1500 is TurboMax branding for the 2.7-liter turbo-4 base powertrain. The powertrain is rated at 310 hp and 430 lb-ft, and with the right vehicle setup can tow up to 9,500 pounds. Chevy said the TurboMax branding will also be used for the same powertrain in the smaller Colorado pickup.
Also available for the 2024 Silverado 1500 is a 5.3-liter V-8 rated at 355 hp and 383 lb-ft.
New colors for 2024 include Lakeshore Blue Metallic and Slate Gray Metallic.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Jesica Fernández used to join seven family members every weekend for a large beef barbeque. Beef is no longer on the menu, and now they’re more likely to eat spaghetti or chicken wings.
In beef-loving Argentina, barbeques nowadays happen only on birthdays or special occasions, Fernández said.
Fernández, 31, is among millions of Argentines struggling to make ends meet as the country’s annual inflation rate clocked in at an annual rate of 102.5 percent in February, the first time it has reached triple digits since 1991.
She was shopping at a market sponsored by the Lomas de Zamora municipality, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the capital, where businesses offer basic goods at cheaper prices in exchange for the free retail space.
“We buy less beef and we buy fewer things. In reality, you can’t give yourself the luxuries that you could before,” Fernández said,
The country’s Indec statistics agency said this week that consumer prices increased 6.6% in February from the previous month, a higher number than expected, on top of years of double-digit annual inflation over the past decade. Food was among items that increased the most in February, rising 9.8% from January, in part due to a punishing drought that has pushed prices of meat and other goods higher.
“The situation is very difficult, and every day it gets worse,” said Daisy Choque Guevara, 42.
Mabel Espinosa, 37, was walking around the market with her 10-day old baby, Gael, hoping to find deals to buy enough food for herself, her husband and six children.
“The money isn’t enough for anything,” Espinosa said. “Barbeques? Forget about it.”
President Alberto Fernández has been struggling to put the brakes on the country’s soaring inflation rate that will undoubtedly be a key issue in the presidential campaign ahead of October elections.
Argentines have long suffered large bouts of rising prices, worse than elsewhere, because of the government’s penchant for printing money to finance spending. That trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic while a sharp depreciation of the local currency also pushed prices higher.
President Alberto Fernández’s center-left administration has tried to rein in the spiraling prices through price controls that have largely failed. Much of the opposition says Argentina needs a broader stabilization plan that includes a sharp decrease in spending.
“We obviously think the inflation data is bad, very bad, plus it was unexpected,” presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti said Thursday. “The government remains firmly committed to controlling prices, controlling inflation, reducing inflation, and not allowing prices to continue increasing.”
Espinosa, however, is not convinced things will improve, at least in the short term.
“I call it resignation, nothing will change … Why get angry?” she said. “Today you get something at one price and tomorrow it will be another price, but it doesn’t matter, you have to pay for it because you need it.”
People have to make cuts where they can.
“For example, if I could buy two yogurts before, now I can only buy one,” said Roxana Cabrera, 38. “It’s very difficult to buy now, you have to search for prices.”
Anything that isn’t absolutely essential is left for a later date.
“I was able to buy clothes before, for example, but not anymore,” Cabrera said. “Now I can only buy food.”
For some, the choices are even more drastic.
“We don’t eat dinner,” said Yanet Nazario, who lives with three of her children and seven grandchildren in an impoverished neighborhood in Buenos Aires. She was buying flour and soap from an improvised stand set up by a cooperative in her neighborhood that sells a few basic goods at lower prices than the stores.
“There’s a lot of sacrifice now because the money you make isn’t enough, you have to work a lot more, we have to go to soup kitchens,” Nazario said.
The children in the household get dinner from soup kitchens that now limit their food to only young people because overall demand has become so high.
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Element Biosciences leverages Amazon Omics to democratize genomic data by offering an innovative federated compute model
SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Element Biosciences, Inc.— developer of the Element AVITI™ System, an innovative DNA sequencing platform that is disrupting the genomics industry — announced it is now leveraging a new Amazon Omics feature, Ready2Run workflows, to provide simple, powerful, and cost-effective analysis workflows. The combination of technologies gives customers the option to stream their sequencing data from AVITI™ directly to the cloud and automatically perform subsequent analysis using Amazon Omics.
Amazon Omics is a service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that helps remove the heavy lifting from storing, querying, and analyzing various omics data. Ready2Run workflows are a set of pre-built workflows from third-party software companies and open-source pipelines. With just a few clicks or a single API call, customers can run pre-built workflows to perform analyses such as converting base calls to FASTQ files, secondary analysis such as gene expression or variant calling, and tertiary analysis such as protein structure prediction. Ready2Run workflows are priced-per-run to give customers predictable and transparent pricing.
Element's Bases2Fastq Ready2Run workflows on Amazon Omics enable customers to stream their sequencing data from AVITI and perform analysis on Amazon Omics. This allows customers access to scalable cloud computing, the ability to process multiple runs or samples in parallel, and the simplicity of combining multiple downstream secondary or tertiary analysis tools on a single platform, all while maintaining end-to-end control of their own data. Data security is enhanced with AVITI running on Ubuntu Core, a Linux OS.
"It was quick and easy to launch the Bases2Fastq Ready2Run workflow. We are excited to use this solution to streamline our pipelines and significantly shorten the time (and effort) between our data coming off AVITI and entering secondary analysis," said Claire Seibold, Director of Software and Data Analytics at FYR Diagnostics.
The Bases2Fastq Ready2Run workflows offer a fast and affordable sample demultiplex and FASTQ generation solution. The AVITI system's dual flow cell capacity enables sequencing of up to six human whole genomes concurrently, each sequenced to a depth of around 30x. The Bases2Fastq Ready2Run workflow enables customers to demultiplex and convert their sequencing data into FASTQ files in less than two hours after completing the run. This process costs less than 1% of the total sequencing cost. By further leveraging the various secondary analysis Ready2Run workflows available in Amazon Omics, the conversion of FASTQ files to BAM or VCF files can be performed within a similar timeframe without incurring significant additional costs.
Starting in Q3 2023, customers will also be able to use Elembio Cloud™, a new offering from Element Biosciences, to seamlessly configure orchestrating the automatic launch of Element's Bases2Fastq Ready2Run workflows using Amazon Omics.
"AVITI on Amazon Omics brings customers a cost-effective, scalable, and straightforward sample-to-answer workflow," said Francisco Garcia, PhD, SVP of Informatics at Element. "Providing users control over their own data is key to Element's mission to accelerate scientific progress."
"We're excited to be working with companies like Element Biosciences to offer pre-built workflows as part of the new Ready2Run feature in Amazon Omics," said Tehsin Syed, General Manager of Health AI, AWS. "Customers can now simply bring their data and run these workflows within minutes, making analysis easier and optimizing costs with predictable pricing."
About Element Biosciences, Inc.
Element Biosciences is a multi-disciplinary life science company currently focused on developing disruptive DNA sequencing technology for research and diagnostic markets. Through innovating every fundamental element of a sequencing system, Element empowers customers with affordable, high-quality data and an improved user experience, which in turn will accelerate scientific discoveries and broaden the use of genomic medicine. To learn more about Element, please visit www.elementbiosciences.com.
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Last year, a landlord stopped by Patrick John's home in the Salt Lake City area to replace a broken dishwasher. John was always a little shy with people he didn't know well, but he welcomed his guest with the warmth that he was known and loved for.
In the process of replacing the dishwasher, they discovered that mice had found their way inside the house, likely because of nearby construction. But for John -- a husband and father of four -- the mess became a physical representation of his sense that he was failing his family.
A few years earlier, physical health challenges had made John unable to work. The change took a toll on him in many ways. That day, his worries spiraled into fears of eviction or homelessness, and he called his wife, Sabina, in a panic.
John had also struggled with depression and anxiety for years and was working hard to overcome his mental health challenges with regular therapy and medication. But his access to therapy was cut off in 2020 as the office closed to in-person visits amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and in early February 2021 -- within hours of the landlord leaving -- he died by suicide at age 32.
"It was everything leading up to that point that made such a small thing so big to him," Sabina John said. "The day was just hard, in general, and I think that may have just tipped him over the edge to say 'I can't do this anymore.' "
Patrick John was one of 47,646 people in the US who died of suicide last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- one death every 11 minutes.
Suicide has long been a growing concern -- rates have increased 31% over the past 20 years, CDC data shows -- but experts were divided in their expectations of what the pandemic would bring. Isolation and other new stressors could take a heavy toll, for example, but the forced changes could also help people remove themselves from previous stressors and find solace in a shared crisis.
A dip in suicide rates in 2019 continued into 2020, but the CDC report, released Friday, shows that 2021 reversed most of that improvement and brought rates back to near-record levels -- about 14 suicide deaths for every 100,000 people.
The pandemic may have introduced new difficulties into our lives, but experts say the many reasons a person may attempt suicide have a common core.
"There is individual difference that exists with what might make me lose hope versus you," said Sarah Brummett, director of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's executive committee. "But taking a step back, when we're talking about the drivers for suicidal despair, we're talking about pain and the loss of hope that things can get better."
For some, like John, the path is long and winding before it reaches a breaking point. For others, it's more direct.
"Traditionally, we thought of suicide as linear. First, you start having thoughts, and you maybe practice with attempts, and then you actually attempt. But people can jump these phases," said Justin Baker, a psychologist and assistant professor at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. "This may be someone that has previously never struggled with suicide. So universal screening measures would have missed that kind of individual."
In either case, it is often just a matter of minutes between the time a person decides to take their life and when a suicide attempt is made, experts say. But there's usually a trigger -- like a breakup, a financial crisis, violence or other trauma.
"That individual can't think their way through that situation or find an alternative strategy to get out. They're just flooded and overwhelmed, and so they see suicide as the solution to that immense distress or pain," Baker said.
But, he said, most people who survive suicide attempts say they didn't really want to die -- they just want help getting through that immediate pain.
Better lifelines
Although CDC data shows that suicides increased from 2020 to 2021, experts say it's challenging to draw conclusions from one year of change. And rates are relatively stable compared with three years earlier.
In recent years, progress has been made on both critical fronts: better options for addressing the immediate crisis and building up support for broader mental health resources.
"Suicides did not skyrocket the way a lot of people thought they would" during the pandemic, partly because there were efforts by so many who were "trying to head off what we were afraid would happen," said Doreen Marshall, a psychologist and vice president of mission engagement with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
There was also a "growing awareness and learning on the part of the public about what mental health is and how to help someone who's struggling," she said.
Although John would often isolate himself during tough times, he did recognize the positive effects of talking things through with his therapist and family -- and he was generous in offering that support to others.
He was an avid gamer and found respite in the online gaming community. After his death, one fellow gamer reached out to his wife to share the story of how talking with John -- and the compassion and empathy he gave him in times of pain -- helped save his own life.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline also recently transitioned to a three-digit hotline, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, to make it easier for people to get help.
"The impulse to act is a very short, intense one. And so the goal is really to get people through those difficult moments," Marshall said. "The shorter number is more accessible for people to remember in that time of crisis."
And calls into the hotline jumped 45% after its launch over the summer, compared to the same time a year earlier, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
But critical challenges remain.
Managing risk factors
In 2021, the CDC report shows, the suicide rate among men in the US was four times higher than it was for women -- a disparity that continues to grow. There were about 23 suicide deaths for every 100,000 men in 2021, compared with about 6 for every 100,000 women.
Some point to guns as the driving risk factor.
The new CDC report does not include data on suicide methods or attempts for 2021. But data from 2020 shows that for every person who died of suicide, there were eight suicide-related hospital visits and 27 suicide attempts. And firearms were used in more than half of suicide deaths.
Young women are most likely to present at an emergency room after a suicide attempt, but older men are most likely to die as a result of a suicide attempt -- and that's directly correlated to gun ownership, said Ari Freilich, state policy director for Giffords Law Center, a gun-control advocacy group.
"The population most at risk and most likely to attempt suicide in the United States is not the population most likely to die by suicide," he said. "Firearms explain so much of that difference."
Owning a gun does not make a person more likely to feel suicidal, but having access to one during a crisis can be a "really bad combination," Brummett said. "We're really talking about collaborative approaches that create time and distance between me, in the presence of a suicidal crisis, and my firearm."
And with a record year of gun sales in 2020, the risk increases with more guns in more homes.
"Guns are so uniquely lethal compared to the most common other methods in the United States," Freilich said. The vast majority -- 9 out of 10 people -- who attempt suicide using a gun die as a result, but about the exact opposite is true for those who attempt with other methods.
"Even if you were 0% effective at preventing people from attempting suicide, replacing the means -- the access to firearms -- would save the majority of people."
But mental health struggles, including suicidal ideation, can affect anyone, experts say.
Suicide is a major contributor to premature death in the US overall, and it's the second leading cause of death among people ages 10 to 34, according to the CDC.
Between 2020 and 2021, suicide deaths among girls ages 10 to 14 increased more than any other group, followed by teenage boys and young men ages 15 to 24, according to the new CDC report. And in 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a state of emergency concerning children's and adolescents' mental health.
"Now that we've made it easy to talk about mental health, we have to ensure that our infrastructure is able to withstand the additional referrals," Bakersaid. "We need to now adjust to being able to absorb all the people who are wanting to actually address their mental health.
"In some ways, we've created a new problem," he said.
Not a burden but a gift
Once John stopped therapy, Sabina said, it was tough for him to get back into it once services were available again and he often lamented the burden he felt that he put on his family.
But for Sabina, he was anything but.
"He really thought I would be better off without him, but that's just not the case," she said.
"Whatever struggles we would have gone through, I would have rather gone through those together than have to struggle without him."
She is proud of the qualities he instilled in their kids: curiosity, ambition, humor and compassion. Their oldest daughter talks with her hands like he did and has a laugh that sounds just like his, and it makes her smile.
And when his memory or the topic of suicide comes up, Sabina is sure to never shy away from it.
"It was really important for me that [the kids] knew the circumstances and the why," she said. "I didn't want to hide the fact that he committed suicide. I just explained that Daddy had been sick for a very long time, and his mind had also been sick for a very long time."
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TOKYO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Despite some unfavorable factors such as a decrease in automobile unit sales due to the semiconductor supply shortage and the lockdown of Shanghai, and an increase in the cost of raw materials, consolidated operating profit for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2022, amounted to 222.2 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease by 20.9 billion yen), securing operating profit margin equivalent to that of the same period last year. This was due primarily to the effect of changes in sales prices and costs, a reduction of incentives and favorable currency effects.
- Consolidated profit for the fiscal first quarter attributable to owners of the parent amounted to 149.2 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease by 73.2 billion yen), due primarily to a decrease in the share of profit of investments accounted for using the equity method in China.
- The previously announced forecast for consolidated operating profit for the current fiscal year (April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023) was revised upward by 20 billion yen to 830 billion yen. The previously announced forecast for profit for the fiscal year attributable to owners of the parent remains the same, 710 billion yen.
- Honda will acquire its own shares, with the maximum acquisition amount of 100 billion yen, with the purposes including improving efficiency of its capital structure and implementing a flexible capital strategy.
I. Consolidated financial summary and business-by-business results for the fiscal first quarter (3 months) ended June 30, 2022
- Sales revenue: 3,829.5 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 6.9%)
Although automobile sales decreased, consolidated sales revenue experienced a year-on-year increase due primarily to an increase in motorcycle sales and favorable currency effects. - Operating profit: 222.2 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease of 8.6%)
- Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent: 149.2 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease of 32.9%)
1) Motorcycle business
Sales revenue: 676.0 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 30.5%)
Increase due primarily to a sales increase in Asia and favorable currency effects.
Operating profit: 97.8 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 21.2%)
Increase due primarily to an increase in profit related to changes in sales prices and costs and favorable currency effects.
2) Automobile business
Sales revenue: 2,328.1 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 3.4%)
Although sales decreased mainly in North America, sales revenue experienced a year-on-year increase due primarily to favorable currency effects.
Operating profit: 38.2 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease of 45.9%)
Decrease due primarily to a decrease in profit attributable to sales impacts.
Combined with operating profit from financial services business related to automobile sales, the estimated operating profit for automobile business is 113.9 billion yen.
3) Financial Services business
Operating profit: 78.8 billion yen (a year-on-year decrease of 14.5%)
Decrease due primarily to a decrease in profit due to lower revenue.
4) Power Product and Other businesses
Operating profit: 7.3 billion yen (a year-on-year increase of 7.7 billion yen)
Aircraft/aircraft engine business, which is included in "Other businesses," accounted for an operating loss of 3.8 billion yen.
II. Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2023 (FY23)
- Sales revenue: 16,750 billion yen
(upward revision of the previously announced forecast by 500 billion yen)
- Operating profit: 830 billion yen
(upward revision of the previously announced forecast by 20 billion yen)
- Profit for the fiscal year attributable to owners of the parent: 710 billion yen
(no change from the previously announced forecast)
III. Acquisition of the Company's Own Shares
For the purpose of improving efficiency of its capital structure and implementing a flexible capital strategy, among others, Honda resolved the following details regarding the acquisition of its own shares at the Board of Directors meeting held today.
Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal 1st Quarter ended June 30, 2022
Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2023 (FY23)
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https://global.honda/investors/library/financialresult.html
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ABU DHABI, UAE, Jan. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of State, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund today announced next steps in developing the Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA), a joint initiative to catalyze private capital to accelerate the transition from dirty to clean power in developing countries.
The three partners introduced the broad outlines of the ETA at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27) in November in Sharm el-Sheikh with the aim of undertaking an inclusive process to fully design the initiative in the lead up to COP 28 this December in Dubai.
In a session today at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Bezos Earth Fund Chief Executive Officer Andrew Steer, and The Rockefeller Foundation Executive Vice President Elizabeth Yee announced a set of broad principles that will guide the ETA, the formation of a High-Level Consultative Group to provide input informing its development, and a core team of experts and institutions contributing to the ETA's design.
The ETA's aim is to help keep a 1.5°C limit on warming within reach by driving private investment in comprehensive energy transition strategies that accelerate the deployment of renewable power and the retirement of fossil fuel assets in developing countries. Annual clean energy investment must triple to $4.2 trillion by 2030 to keep 1.5°C within reach, according to the International Energy Agency, with more than half of that investment in emerging and developing economies.
As envisioned, the ETA will support country-driven energy transition strategies through a high-integrity voluntary carbon market framework that will generate carbon credits representing verified greenhouse gas emissions reductions and make them available to qualified private sector and sovereign government buyers.
In accelerating the clean energy transition, the ETA will aim to deliver deeper, earlier emissions reductions, help developing countries achieve and strengthen their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, and advance broader sustainable development goals, including expanded energy access and poverty alleviation. It also will generate new finance to strengthen adaptation efforts in vulnerable countries.
The guiding principles (full text below) call for an inclusive, comprehensive, high-integrity approach that mobilizes new climate finance, supplementing other sources, to promote ambitious efforts to rapidly reduce emissions in this critical decade.
The High-Level Consultative Group helping to inform the ETA's development will include leading experts across a wide range of regions and constituencies representing civil society organizations, standard-setting initiatives, private sector coalitions, and intergovernmental bodies. Participants confirmed to date are listed below.
In addition to the High-Level Consultative Group, the partners will provide broader opportunities for stakeholders to provide input, including briefings and listening sessions, and the release of draft elements of the ETA methodology for public comment.
The Department of State, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund are collaborating for the purpose of developing the Energy Transition Accelerator as an independent initiative.
The partners' efforts to develop the ETA are being supported by a strong team of experts and institutions, with lead coordination provided by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). In designing the ETA, the partners will seek broad alignment with evolving best-practice standards, including those of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Voluntary Carbon Markets Initiative (VCMI) and the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM).
The Energy Transition Accelerator will aim to help keep a 1.5°C limit on warming within reach by catalyzing private capital to accelerate the transition from dirty to clean power in developing countries. Its development will be guided by broad, transparent consultation and the intention to align the ETA with these six core concepts:
- Near-term—Promoting ambitious efforts by countries and companies to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) now, in this critical decade.
- Inclusive—Advancing programs that deliver on broader sustainable development goals, including expanded energy access and poverty alleviation, and that are underpinned by strong transparency and social, environmental, and other just transition safeguards.
- Comprehensive—Supporting ambitious power sector-wide energy transition strategies that accelerate the deployment of renewable power and the retirement of fossil fuel assets.
- High-integrity—Ensuring strong environmental integrity by offering payments only for GHG reductions that are based on and verified to a robust standard and by seeking strong alignment with best practices for the pursuit of global net zero GHGs, including for private sector net zero strategies and the use of carbon credits.
- Supplemental—Incentivizing new private-sector climate finance for mitigation and adaptation that augments, not substitutes for, other sources of public, private, multilateral, and philanthropic finance and companies' continued investments in deep emissions reductions within their own value chains.
- Transitional—Helping, on a time-limited basis, to kickstart the energy transition by rewarding accelerated power sector decarbonization and by providing an option for companies to responsibly use the resulting verified GHG emission reductions to reinforce science aligned progress toward global net zero GHGs.
- Luiz Fernando do Amaral, CEO, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
- Inger Andersen, Executive Director, U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Peter Bakker, President and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- Manish Bapna, President and CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Harry Boyd-Carpenter, Chair, Joint MDB Climate Group
- Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
- Aniruddha (Ani) Dasgupta, President and CEO, World Resources Institute (WRI)
- Saliem Fakir, Executive Director, The Africa Climate Foundation
- Arunabha Ghosh, CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
- Andrea Guerrero García, Program Director, Growald Climate Fund
- Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
- Catherine McKenna, Chair, U.N. High-level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities
- Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC)
- Helen Mountford, President and CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation
- Brian Moynihan, Chair, Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI)
- Annette Nazareth, Chair, Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM)
- Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
- Michele Roberts, National Co-Coordinator, Environmental Justice Health Alliance
- Vera Songwe, Co-Chair, U.N. High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance
- Sir Nicholas Stern, Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics
- Fabby Tumiwa, Executive Director, Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR)
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The Bezos Earth Fund is Jeff Bezos' $10 billion personal commitment to fund scientists, activists, NGOs and others to help drive climate and nature solutions. By allocating funds creatively, wisely, and boldly, the Bezos Earth Fund has the potential for transformative influence in this decisive decade. Funds will be fully allocated by 2030 — the date by which the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved. More information about the Bezos Earth Fund is available here: https://www.bezosearthfund.org/who-we-are.
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(WHNT) — After the University of Tennessee (UT) earned a six-figure fine for fans storming the field after a win over Alabama, fans may be wondering … why?
The Vols earned a $100,000 fine from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) after the fans rushed the field on Saturday. According our Knoxville sister station WATE, this is the second time that Tennessee has been fined under the SEC’s “access to competition area” policy.
The policy was implemented in 2004 with financial penalties increased further in 2015.
The policy states:
In all sports, institutions shall limit access to the competition area to participating student-athletes, coaches, officials, support personnel, and properly-credentialed or authorized individuals at all times. For the safety of participants and spectators alike, at no time before, during or after a contest may spectators enter the competition area. It is the responsibility of each member institution to implement procedures to ensure compliance with this policy.
Institutional penalties against individuals who improperly enter the competition area must include, but are not-limited to, expulsion from the facility, arrest for trespassing, and the loss of future ticket privileges. In addition to these penalties, violators who are students must be subject to institutional student disciplinary measures.
Each institution shall publicize this policy, as well as the penalties associated with violations, through appropriate means, such as ticket back statements, public address announcements, video/matrix announcements, facility signage, and other means available. In addition, each head coach shall publicly discourage spectators from entering the playing area at any time.
2020 Commissioners Regulations
The policy says a $50,000 fine is levied for the first offense, $100,000 for the second, and $250,000 for the third offense and those after.
Very few schools have incurred a full $250,000 fine from the SEC. The most recent fine that large came last year, when Kentucky violated the access to competition area policy after a 20-13 victory over Florida.
A 2021 SEC report stated just four schools in the conference haven’t been fined for fans storming the field. Those schools are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi State.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting during an LGBTQ festival in Norway has refused to explain his actions to investigators and will remain in pretrial custody for the next four weeks, police and his defense lawyer said Sunday.
The man, whom authorities described as a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested shortly after the shooting in Oslo’s nightlife district early Saturday. He is being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism.
Two people were killed and more than 20 were injured in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act.”
Oslo police said they tried to question the suspect on Saturday and again on Sunday without success. Norwegian media identified him as Zaniar Matapour.
Matapour’s defense lawyer, John Christian Elden, told The Associated Press by email that his client refused to have his statement recorded and videotaped unless police released the entire recording to the public “with no time delay so it won’t be censored or manipulated.”
Recording interrogations is a standard police practice.
Elden previously said his client did not deny being the shooter but had not divulged any motive. The lawyer said Sunday that Matapour did not object to remaining in custody for four weeks so would not appear in court on Monday.
In Norway, pre-trial detention hearings are normally held every four weeks.
Norway’s prime minister and members of the royal family joined mourners at a memorial service Sunday at Oslo Cathedral for the victims of the attack.
The gunman opened fire at three locations, including outside the London Pub, a popular gay bar in Oslo. Police investigators said it was too early to say whether the attacker specifically targeted the LGBTQ community.
A Pride parade scheduled for Saturday was called off because of the shooting.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said during Sunday’s memorial service that “the shooting in the night hours put an end to the Pride parade, but it did not stop the fight and the efforts to fight discrimination, prejudice and hatred.”
He also addressed Norway’s Muslim community.
“I know how many of you felt when it turned out that the perpetrator belonged to the Islamic community. Many of you experienced fear and unrest. You should know this: We stand together, we are one community and we are responsible for the community together,” Stoere said during the church service, which was also attended by Crown Princess Mette-Marit.
Norwegian media said Matapour arrived in Norway with his family from a Kurdish part of Iran in the 1990s.
He had a prior criminal record that included a narcotics offense and a weapons offense for carrying a knife. Investigators said they seized two weapons after Saturday’s shootings: a handgun and an automatic weapon.
The Norwegian domestic security agency, known by its Norwegian acronym PST, said Saturday it first became aware of the suspect in 2015 and later grew concerned he had become radicalized and was part of an unspecified Islamist network.
On Sunday, Norwegian media outlets reported that Matapour allegedly was in close contact with an Islamic extremist living in Norway whom Norwegian police had been aware of for a long time.
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IRVINE, Calif., April 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A Clarksville Tennessee businessman recently pled guilty to a single count of tax evasion and faces a sentence that could potentially include five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. According to allegations, the defendant underreported cash salaries paid to employees and misclassified employees as independent contractors.
Cash payments and misclassified employees are two key issues that the IRS and most state taxing authorities want to know more about every year. If your returns feature either of these red flags, it is substantially more likely that you may find yourself or your business the target of a government audit. Moreover, paying employees or subcontractors in cash that does not ultimately get reported on a W2 or a 1099 can be considered aiding and abetting income tax evasion by itself because employees and subcontractors are not likely to report income that is not documented by a W2 or a 1099.
For concerns about impending or possible future audits or criminal tax investigations based on cash payroll or employee misclassification issues, you would be wise to contact the Dual Licensed Tax Attorneys and CPAs at the Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing. Reach out to us as soon as possible at (800) 681-1295.
Owner of Call It Pho and Venus Nails Spa Faces up to Five Years in Prison, $250k Fine
Recently, a Tennessee business owner entered a guilty plea on tax evasion charges in federal court. He owned multiple businesses on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, admitted to concealing wage payments to employees of the businesses, culminating in a total tax loss of over $428,000.
He was the owner of Call It Pho restaurant and Venus Nails Spa, where he allegedly avoided paying employer's taxes by using several underhanded reporting tactics. According to court documents, he would fail to issue W-2 forms to employees, instead offering payments in cash, personal checks, or a combination of the two.
He would also disguise wages by classifying them as nonemployee compensation. To do this, he would issue 1099 forms meant for independent contractors to employees. In doing so, he would represent employees of Call It Pho as though they actually worked for Venus Nails Spa, and vice versa.
During the tax years of 2017, 2018, and 2019, he paid Venus Nails Spa employees at least $946,716.24 in cash, which he did not report on the 1099 forms that he issued to them. This caused his employees to file false tax returns that did not report all their income, which resulted in a tax loss of approximately $315,856. In addition, he willfully failed to withhold and pay over to the IRS approximately $78,667 in employment taxes and federal income taxes from his employees' paychecks at Call It Pho.
Nguyen was officially charged on March 3 with multiple counts but would ultimately plead down to just one count of tax evasion as part of a plea agreement. Nguyen faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine upon sentencing, which is scheduled to occur on September 23, 2022. As part of the plea deal, Nguyen has agreed to pay immediate restitution to the IRS of $428,620.12.
The IRS is Looking for Red Flags in Your Returns
The Nguyen case is a prime example of two of the major red flags that will catch the eye of the IRS or a State taxing authority on a tax return: running a cash payroll and overuse of 1099s. Below are some of the issues with these red flags and how you can look to resolve them today.
Paying Employees in Cash
Small businesses that deal primarily in cash are some of the most frequent targets for IRS audits and investigation. This is not because there is anything inherently wrong with paying employees in cash. However, in the eyes of the IRS, these are typically the situations that are most ripe for tax filing mistakes and willful abuse.
If you own or operate a business that does a substantial amount of your payroll in cash, it is imperative that you have a dedicated Dual Licensed Tax Attorney and CPA on your side. Even if you remain fully compliant at all times, the IRS will likely show up at your door ready to seek out any inconsistencies. If you do have some inconsistencies in your past filings due to the complicated nature of your business' revenue and payroll operations, you can act now to rectify these mistakes with the help of your Tax Attorney to reduce or avoid any potential penalties you could face were the government to discover them first.
Using 1099s Instead of W-2s
As business models become more unique and creative, so too do the definitions of employment. Key to any small business is a thorough understanding of the differences between a traditional employee and an independent contractor. California has all but regulated subcontractors out of existence in most industries.
Many business owners mistakenly believe that they can simply choose which classification works for them, which provides tax and insurance coverage savings for the company. It may be true that your business requires the services of many independent contractors relative to traditional employees. However, you should also know that this may provoke the suspicions of the IRS.
Proper classification of an individual as either an employee or an independent contractor needs to answer to a number of determining factors. An independent contractor will typically do business with multiple other entities and come into a particular task with their own knowledge or expertise, requiring no training. Independent contractors are only responsible for completing the tasks in their contract, otherwise known as a Scope of Work (SOW). To that end, independent contractors typically work their own hours, set billing rates, and submit invoices for services, rather than simply receiving a salary.
If you are not sure how to classify an employee or independent contractor or believe that you may have misclassified an employee in the past, we recommend that you reach out to one of our Dual Licensed Tax Attorneys and CPAs to get specified analysis and competent legal advice on how to proceed.
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Call our Dual Licensed Tax Attorneys and CPAs at (800) 681-1295 today to discuss your concerns about an upcoming or potential audit or criminal tax investigation on your small business.
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A person blowing a whistle disrupted Republicans who were speaking outside a Washington, D.C. jail where rioters who stormed the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were being held on Friday.
The whistling came as Republicans spoke outside the jail following a GOP-led trip that included members of both parties. An organization that challenges investigations into President Biden as politically motivated also protested against the GOP members.
Hannah Muldavin, who served as the spokesperson for the House select committee that investigated the insurrection, tweeted that the Congressional Integrity Project was tied to the protest against the Republicans, many of whom have stood by former President Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Muldavin said the organization played a video that the committee created showing the “awful violence” of the attack.
“During our first summer hearing, the @January6thCmte produced a 12-minute video w/new footage that depicted the awful violence of that day. Today, as Republicans tried to whitewash & belittle what happened on Jan 6, @usintegrityorg played the video as a reminder of the truth,” she said.
The project tweeted that a “mobile billboard” showing the footage circled the jail during the visit.
“Our mobile billboard is circling outside of the DC jail playing footage released by the January 6th Committee while @RepMTG leads a cohort of Donald Trump’s closest election-denying MAGA allies in the House to visit the January 6th defendants and insurrectionists,” it said.
The Hill has reached out to the organization for additional information and comment.
The whistling occurred as GOP congresspeople like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Byron Donalds (Fla.) spoke.
Greene said at a press conference that what happened on Jan. 6 was not an insurrection. She said “paid protesters” were interrupting her as she spoke.
“And they can whistle and say everything they want, but we will not be deterred. We do not care about them because they work for evil,” she said.
Greene later tweeted that the man blowing the whistle “assaulted” everyone by blowing it as loudly as he could in people’s ears. She said the man should be arrested for his actions.
She took the lead in organizing the visit, as she and other GOP members of Congress have been vocal about conditions inside the jail. They have also questioned why many defendants are being held without bail.
Three dozen Jan. 6 defendants requested last year that they be transferred to Guantanamo Bay because of the conditions in the jail. They mentioned mold and worms in the walls and food and alleged abuse from guards. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/person-with-whistle-disrupts-gop-led-trip-to-see-jailed-jan-6-suspects/ | 2023-03-25 01:48:42 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/person-with-whistle-disrupts-gop-led-trip-to-see-jailed-jan-6-suspects/ |
BOSTON (AP) — His team trailing by a point and its season on the brink, Hawks star Trae Young got all the encouragement he needed in the huddle during his team’s timeout.
“I just had to trust in what I’ve done my whole life and shoot it with confidence,” Young said.
He did, and kept Atlanta’s season alive.
Young had 38 points and drained a long go-ahead 3-pointer from beyond the top of the key with 2.8 seconds left to help the Hawks cap a late comeback and beat the Boston Celtics 119-117 Tuesday night.
The victory trims Boston’s lead in the first-round playoff series to 3-2 and sends the teams back to Atlanta for Game 6 Thursday.
Young had 16 points in a frenetic fourth quarter, getting support from his teammates who collectively knocked down a series-best 19 3-pointers.
John Collins added 22 points for Atlanta, who played without Dejounte Murray, who was suspended for one game for bumping official Gediminas Petraitis after the end of Game 4.
With Murray out, Young picked up the offensive slack and helped Atlanta keep pace early, scoring nine of Hawks’ first 13 points. By the time the final quarter arrived, Collins got a sense of familiarity watching his teammate.
“I know what time it is. It’s Ice Trae time. He’s clutch. He wants to be in that moment. He wants the big shot,” Collins said. “It’s what he does.”
Jaylen Brown scored 35 points and Jayson Tatum added 19 for the Celtics, who were outscored 37-25 in the fourth quarter. It came after Boston had dominated for three quarters. For the game the Celtics held a 60-38 scoring edge in the paint and 24-8 in transition.
A sloppy finish made it all for not.
“We had some boneheaded plays, some fouls. Gave them some opportunities to get going,” Brown said. “We just gotta finish the game.”
Derrick White put the Celtics in front 117-116 with 7.3 second remaining, setting up a final possession for the Hawks. The ball went to Young in the backcourt, who dribbled into the front court and knocked down a 29-footer over Brown.
The Celtics bobbled their initial inbounds pass and had another chance with 0.5 seconds left, but Tatum’s fading 3-point try found only air as time expired.
Brown, who has been recovering from a late-season facial fracture, went unmasked for most of the Celtics’ victory in Game 4, saying he found energy after taking it off during a 31-point scoring night.
He wore it again for Game 5 and maintained the same intensity, leading all scorers with 23 first-half points.
Atlanta trailed by 13 before tying the game at 111 on a 3-pointer Young.
As the Hawks began to mount their run, fans inside TD Garden began peppering him with expletive-laced chants.
“When people do that I think that’s just total respect. I mean, they aren’t doing that to everybody,” he said.
Boston pushed the ball up the court and got the ball to Robert Williams, who dropped in a layup. He was fouled but missed his ensuing free throw.
The score was still 113-111 when Young drove and was fouled by Al Horford. Tatum took issue with the call and was whistled for a technical foul. Young hit all three free throws to put the Hawks in front 114-113.
Brown turned it over, then misfired on a driving layup. Atlanta’s next possession ended in a jump ball that was controlled by Boston. Williams scored on a layup to put the Celtics back in the lead with 25 seconds left.
Young was fouled again with 15.8 seconds remaining and connected on two more free throws.
The Celtics called a timeout. The ensuing play wound up with White driving to the basket. He was fouled and went to the line for what appeared to be the game-winning free throws.
Young had other plans.
“You can tell, you look in his eyes and there was a calm,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said. “Sometimes that happens in the middle of a storm.”
MR. 4TH QUARTER
Young now has 60 fourth-quarter points in the series.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Started collectively better from 3-point range, hitting 6 of 11 in the opening 12 minutes to take a 30-27 lead into the second quarter. But they shot just 3 for 10 from beyond the arc in the second period as Boston nudged in front.
Celtics: Had a two-point jumper by Horford upgraded to a 3 after review with 8:07 left in the second quarter to tie the game at 41. Boston then outscored Atlanta 25-17 the rest of half and led 66-58 at the half.
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Updated December 1, 2022 at 2:59 PM ET
The Supreme Court on Thursday put President Biden's student loan relief program on ice for now, agreeing to hear arguments about the program in February. The court's action means the rollout of debt cancellation will remain blocked until then.
The case will be argued in the February 2023 argument session, the court said in a brief order.
The court's order is something of a blow to the Biden administration, which had petitioned the court to allow the program to move forward while various legal challenges were considered in the lower courts. The loan forgiveness program includes up to $20,000 in loan relief for low- and middle-income borrowers.
The states' argument
The challenge to the loan relief program was brought by a coalition of Republican-led states. Their lawsuit was initially dismissed by the district court, which said the states had not suffered an injury that would give them the right to sue. But the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently blocked the loan forgiveness program from taking effect anywhere in the country while it considers the case.
The coalition of states challenging the program — Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina — argue primarily that the Department of Education does not have the right to cancel loans in these circumstances. The pandemic, the states say, is just being used as "pretext" for fulfilling the Biden administration's campaign promise to cancel debt, and they contend that in addition to being fiscally irresponsible, the program will specifically harm the states' loan authorities — state or non-profit organizations that service federal loans — by reducing their revenue.
The Biden administration's position
The Biden administration defends the loan forgiveness program, citing in particular the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003. This authorizes the Department of Education to forgive the student loans of some borrowers who are at risk of default because of a "war, military operation, or national emergency." COVID-19, the administration argues, is a qualifying national emergency under the statute, as it was formally declared a national emergency by President Trump, and, subsequently, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos invoked the HEROES Act when pausing loan repayments early in the pandemic. The Biden administration argues that the need to mitigate the financial hardship caused by the pandemic has not gone away.
According to the government's briefs, current conditions affecting vulnerable borrowers include, among other things, "acute inflationary pressures on household budgets for 'basic necessities, including energy, food, and shelter costs.'"
Those challenging the debt relief plan respond that the HEROES Act was intended to provide relief to borrowers, particularly military personnel, who have suffered economic hardship due to a war or national-security-related issue. Moreover, they say that they administration cannot directly connect the current economic conditions in the country to the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore cannot connect the loan relief to a national emergency at all.
Loan payments are on pause
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced on Nov. 22 that the pause on student loan repayments would be extended once again, this time until 60 days after litigation surrounding the relief plan has been resolved and the Department of Education is allowed to implement the forgiveness program. If that has not occurred by June 30 of next year, repayments would begin on Aug. 29, 2023.
Mandatory loan payments have been paused since March 2020.
At least for now, Biden's student loan forgiveness program is, separately, being considered in the Fifth Circuit, on appeal of a district court decision striking down the program – the first decision to do so on the merits. On Wednesday evening, the Fifth Circuit announced it would refuse to allow the program to go forward while it considers the appeal, and it remains to be seen whether the Biden administration will challenge that decision at the Supreme Court as well, or how Thursday's Supreme Court order will affect those proceedings.
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