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EVANSTON, Ill. — Boo Buie scored the tiebreaking basket with two seconds remaining and Northwestern followed up its first win over a top-ranked team by beating No. 14 Indiana 64-62 on Wednesday night.
After defeating Purdue on Sunday for the program’s first victory over an opponent ranked No. 1 in the AP poll, the Wildcats (19-7, 10-5 Big Ten) came away with another big win after the Hoosiers (18-8, 9-6) rallied from 19 down at halftime to tie it in the final minute.
Northwestern took sole possession of second place in the conference standings with its program-record fourth victory over a ranked opponent this season. Northwestern hadn’t beaten Top 25 teams in consecutive games since January 2009. And this one sure wasn’t easy in the end.
The Wildcats led 62-58 with 44 seconds remaining after Buie drove for a layup off a turnover. But Indiana wasn’t finished.
Former Wildcat Miller Kopp stole a pass by Robbie Beran, leading to a tying layup by Trayce Jackson-Davis with 28 seconds left. Buie then scored on a hook shot with two seconds left, and Jalen Hood-Schifino’s attempt hit the rim as time expired.
Buie had 21 points, six rebounds and four assists. Chase Audige scored 14, and Northwestern augmented its case for a second NCAA Tournament berth with its fourth straight win and seventh in nine games.
Jackson-Davis led Indiana with 23 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. But the Hoosiers came up short after winning eight of nine.
Hood-Schifino and Race Thompson each scored 13.
Audige and Buie scored 11 apiece in the first half, and Northwestern led by 21 before heading to the locker room up 39-20.
Audige nailed back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Wildcats a 17-12 lead and spark a 17-1 run that delighted rowdy student sections behind each basket.
Indiana's bench and Mike Woodson got called for technical fouls as the coach argued that Buie should have been whistled for traveling, leading to four free throws for the Wildcats' guard. And Northwestern continued to pour it on from there.
Buie capped the run when he nailed a 3 to make it 28-13 with just over seven minutes remaining in the half.
Brooks Barnhizer made it 39-18 with two free throws in the closing minute. Jackson-Davis made two for the Hoosiers in the closing seconds, and Woodson had more heated words for the officials before heading to the locker room with his team trailing by 19.
BIG PICTURE
Indiana: The Hoosiers dominated the second half. But it wasn't enough to overcome a rough start.
Northwestern: The Wildcats continued to make a case for a spot in the Top 25 as well as the NCAA Tournament.
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Indiana: Hosts Illinois on Saturday. The Hoosiers beat the Illini on the road 80-65 on Jan. 19.
Northwestern: Hosts Iowa on Sunday. The Wildcats lost on the road to the Hawkeyes 86-70 on Jan. 31. | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/basketball/buies-late-basket-lifts-northwestern-over-no-14-indiana-hoosiers/531-64702fcb-5769-4b4a-8fc1-80a76070d21f | 2023-02-16 07:05:00 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/basketball/buies-late-basket-lifts-northwestern-over-no-14-indiana-hoosiers/531-64702fcb-5769-4b4a-8fc1-80a76070d21f |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Renovations continue at Fort Wayne International Airport, with a $70 million expansion of the east terminal that’s expected to be complete in two years.
Spanning 35,000 square feet, the East Terminal Expansion and Rehabilitation Project officially began with a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday. The work is part of Project Gateway, which has recently brought big changes to the airport.
“We are proud of the work accomplished with the West Terminal Expansion and Rehabilitation project, and the beginning of the new FWA passengers are able to enjoy. We are excited to continue the progress with the beginning of the East Terminal Expansion and Renovation project with Clayco. As we continue to move toward completion over the coming years—we are ensuring that we will offer a spectacular gateway to our region and the best possible experience for travelers.”
Scott Hinderman, Executive Director of Airports
The expansion also includes relocating all airline gates and passenger boarding bridges to the second level, expansion of the TSA security checkpoint area, relocating the airport restaurant and creating a new frequent flyer lounge, the release said. The airport is also taking measures to increase accessibility, the release said, along with new and improved restrooms, baggage claim, rental car areas and much more.
The expansion is expected to be completed in June of 2025. Learn more about the ongoing project at the airport online. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/70m-expansion-underway-for-east-terminal-of-fort-wayne-international-airport/ | 2023-06-15 20:19:19 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/70m-expansion-underway-for-east-terminal-of-fort-wayne-international-airport/ |
As Jesus hung on the cross, as the people passed by and insulted him, as the priests and the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him, as the thief sneered at him, what kept Jesus on the cross? What kept him from using his power to come down? What kept him from summoning his angelic hosts? What kept him from leaving his place of torture, pain and agony? What held Jesus on the cross? I assure you it was not the nails.
It was love that held our Savior to the tree. It was love that kept him there in spite of the humiliation. It was love that held him fast in the midst of suffering and pain. It was love that surpasses our human understanding. Love for His people, for His creation, for the unlovable, for those tainted by sin. It’s a love so great, so wondrous that it would keep Jesus on a cross until he proclaimed, “It is finished,” as He gave up His Spirit in exchange for death. It truly proves to all of us that God indeed is love (1 John 4:8). It’s not merely something that God does, but rather something that God is.
Jesus had options, but we do not. We needed a sacrifice for our sins. In fact, we needed a sacrifice that was flawless and perfect. We needed a sacrifice of such dimensions and quality that there was only one who could pay such a price: Jesus. We had no options: it was Jesus or eternal death. Jesus had options. Leave the cross alive with power flashing. Leave this world to its own devices. Leave these people to their just and deserved punishment. Jesus had options, but he chose not to exercise them.
Jesus stayed on the cross, held there by His love for us. As he hung there and endured the shame and agony to give up His precious, perfect life; He accomplished that which we so desperately needed. Forgiveness and cleansing, salvation and an eternal dwelling place. Jesus stayed on the cross and for that we are forever blessed.
Nothing earthly held our Savior and Redeemer to the rough wood of Calvary. It certainly wasn’t nails, but rather His was love for us. Nothing demonstrates God love for us more powerfully than the cross.
“For the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” – Hebrews 12:2 | https://www.kcbi.org/it-was-love-that-kept-jesus-on-the-cross/ | 2022-11-03 16:45:09 | 1 | https://www.kcbi.org/it-was-love-that-kept-jesus-on-the-cross/ |
ALLEN PARK -- Eagles center Jason Kelce was named first-team All-Pro last season. He was first-team All-Pro in three of the four seasons before that, too. That guy is unquestionably one of the great centers in the league.
And a sixth-round pick named Malcolm Rodriguez just hip-tossed Kelce to the ground in his NFL debut.
“It was good,” Kelce said on a podcast with his brother, Travis. “I thought I had him. I was driving him in the end zone, and right at the last second, wuzah! Did not see it coming.”
One person who did see it coming: Rodriguez’s position coach.
After all, Kelvin Sheppard also saw Rodriguez do it on the first day he was promoted to the first team, during joint practices with the Indianapolis Colts.
“That was not my first time seeing that happen,” said Sheppard, the linebackers coach. “I’ve seen it before. He’s a wrestler. That’s what I tell the guys in the locker room, ‘Y’all get into stuff and Malcolm might not be the one that you want to get into it with, because he can do some stuff to you that you can’t come back from.’”
Rodriguez continues to wildly impress the Lions. He was taken with the 188th overall pick in the draft, and expected to contribute on special teams. But then he showed up in Allen Park, and almost immediately started outplaying some of his veteran teammates on defense.
By the middle of training camp, he was outplaying all of them. That includes guys like Chris Board, a free agent who was expected to vie for the starting job alongside Alex Anzalone, as well as Derrick Barnes.
Sheppard began challenging the linebackers to keep up, or they’d be replaced.
“Watch Rodriguez,” Sheppard bellowed at the linebackers during a fiery film session that was caught by the “Hard Knocks” cameras. “Watch Rodriguez. (Expletive) sick of saying this about a rookie. What y’all want me to do, put him out there first? Because that’s what’s about to happen. This is nothing against you Rodriguez, you’re (expletive) playing your ass off dude. But it’s a rookie. I’m doing everything I can not to put him out there first.”
Eventually, they did put Rodriguez out there with the first team. And he immediately hip-tossed a Colts player to the ground.
Then his pro debut, Rodriguez did the same thing to one of the best offensive linemen in the game -- an All-Pro who weighed 65 pounds more than him at that.
“He used that wrestling background that he has and kind of got him there,” Sheppard said. “That’s the game, man. Those guys are going to get him, he’s going to get them. What he’s got to do is continue to understand it’s not going to be perfect, things are going to happen. All I want you to do is to cut it loose and have fun.”
Rodriguez might not have been perfect, but he didn’t miss any assignments either. While the Kelce play showed his strength and athleticism, it might have been more impressive that he finished with zero missed assignments and zero mental errors, according to the team’s internal accounting.
Most players can’t do that.
Rookies, especially so.
Rookie sixth-round picks, it’s basically unheard of.
“It is (rare), especially at that position,” defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn said. “Man, over training camp and as a coach, you really don’t want to get into his mindset, but you want to expect out of him because of how smart he is and things that he’s shown. But we do have to realize that he’s a rookie, and mistakes are going to happen.”
Sure. Eventually.
But so far, so very, very good.
“You can say what you want, but I genuinely, in my heart, was not surprised by the way he played because it’s the only thing I’ve seen since rookie minicamp,” Sheppard said. “Now I know it’s a different, controlled environment. OTAs, training camp, we’re here in a controlled setting. But then he went out in the preseason and showed the same thing. So this is a consistent thing with this player.
“But now he understands he’s created expectations for himself. Not with the national (audience) or anything, but with me. My players know I coach them hard, I hold them to the highest standard, and we’re not going to waver or deviate from that. So you’ve put it on tape now, so the only place for Malcolm to go is forward now.”
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IRVINE, Calif., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FarrowTech, a Danish entrepreneurial company, has developed a range of wireless sensors for use in pig farms.
The product utilizes InPlay's NanoBeacon SoC IN100, a Bluetooth beacon chip that requires no software programming, low power consumption and low cost, providing users with great flexibility to connect multiple sensors so they can quickly build a wireless sensor platform system. Even on such a tiny chip, both sensor measurements and Bluetooth advertising can be achieved simultaneously, and year-long operation can be achieved with a small density coin cell battery. It is also worth noting that the cost of the system is very attractive, making large-scale deployment of FarrowTech's technology possible.
"After having done thorough research and comparison of the chips currently available in the market, the IN100 SoC was chosen. Low price, low power consumption and extreme ease of use made it a clear winner," said Erik Hougaard, CEO of FarrowTech.
"I am very pleased that FarrowTech has adopted our NanoBeacon Bluetooth beacon technology for their wireless sensor product design. The accurate measurement of piglet temperature has been an industry challenge, and we are proud to work with FarrowTech colleagues to solve this challenge and contribute to it." said Jason Wu, co-founder and CEO of InPlay.
About NanoBeacon
NanoBeacon is a Bluetooth Beacon technology developed by InPlay with focus on active RFID and wireless sensor applications. It is a software programming free and configure-to-use solution. IN100 is the first of its kind in NanoBeacon product family and features small size (2.5mm x 2.5mm for DFN8 package and 3.0mm x 3.0mm for QFN18 package), low power, wide operating voltage, and wide operating temperature range. More product information is available at https://www.inplay-tech.com/in100.
About FarrowTech
FarrowTech specializes in developing, manufacturing, and marketing sensors and wireless infrastructure for use in pig farms. With animal welfare, environmental footprint and production efficiency all being areas requiring constant improvement, the detailed monitoring of each animal's wellbeing is essential to the modern farmer. FarrowTech products include solutions for monitoring water consumption, temperature, birth complications, ovulation, fever and more.
About InPlay
InPlay Inc is a fabless semiconductor company whose mission is to provide highly scalable, low-latency, low-power wireless communications technologies that unlock the vast potential of the VR/AR, healthcare and wireless industrial IoT markets. The company was founded by a group of wireless engineers experienced in wireless and mobile communication systems with unique technologies in RF, analog mixed-signal circuits and low-power circuit design. InPlay has a research and development team in Irvine, California, with operations and business development in both the United States and China.
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Med spa owner accused of secretly filming female clients in bathroom
SURPRISE, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - A medical spa owner in Arizona is accused of voyeurism and other charges after allegedly secretly taping women in the bathroom.
According to court documents, officers were called to a home on Thursday where police say Timothy Savage runs his body sculpting business called Pro Fit Body Sculpting.
Authorities say that a woman called them after discovering a camera in the bathroom. She also stated she had found photos of undressed women in an email.
A short time later, Savage was arrested and taken to Surprise police headquarters for questioning.
In an interview with investigators, Savage admitted to having a pornography addiction and tried to stop it.
Savage told detectives he put the camera in the bathroom to catch anyone breaking into his office. However, he reportedly told police that once he realized he had access to the camera where the women were changing, he began viewing and screenshotting the photographs on an app on his phone.
Savage would then email the images to himself so they wouldn’t stay on the phone, police said.
Investigators asked Savage if his clients had an expectation of privacy, and he said they did. Savage then asked for a lawyer and the interview concluded.
“We are deeply appreciative that a brave individual was willing to come forward so we could put a stop to this unlawful and invasive behavior,” Surprise Police Chief Benny Pina.
Savage was booked on more than a dozen charges that include voyeurism and surreptitious photographing, according to authorities.
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Denver’s first snow was the biggest in 11 years, up next is fierce wind
By Ashton Altieri
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DENVER (KCNC) — The first snow of the season arrived more than two weeks later than average and brought Denver the biggest first snow of the season since 2012.
The snow that started to fall Thursday afternoon and wrapped up early Friday morning brought 4.5 inches at Denver International Airport. That’s the biggest first snowfall of the season since 8.5 inches fell on October 25-26, 2011.
Elsewhere along the Front Range, the highest snowfall total was in Boulder near Baseline and Broadway where 6.6 inches of snow was measured on the grass. Most other areas received between 1-4 inches of snow.
The weather story on Friday quickly shifts from snow to cold with high temperatures only in the 40s or about 15 colder than normal. It will feel more like December or January rather than early November across the entire state of Colorado.
Warmer weather is on the way for the weekend especially on Saturday along the Front Range thanks to strong downsloping winds. Those winds could gust as high as 75 mph in the foothills of Jefferson, Boulder, and Larimer Counties. There is a High Wind Watch for these areas that should eventually become a High Wind Warning from late Friday night through Saturday afternoon.
Most of the wind will never reach the I-25 corridor but gusts up to 35 mph will still be possible on Saturday around Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins. Temperatures will also be about 20 degrees warmer with lower 60s Saturday afternoon.
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The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, over allegations that the company’s voting machines were central to the 2020 “stolen” election conspiracy, carries with it the potential for a crippling injury to the right-wing propaganda machine and a blow to its pretense to be a legitimate news organization. But in some respects, the case could also be a legal watershed, with immense consequences for news coverage and First Amendment protection, although not in the way Fox lawyers would have one believe.
1. Summary judgment: Before trial, the parties in a civil suit can bring a partial or complete motion for summary judgment, asking the court to rule that, as a matter of law, there is nothing for the jury to decide. The facts can be so one-sided that there is, in essence, no dispute. In nearly all cases, the motion is typically brought by the defendant, asserting that the plaintiff has not presented sufficient facts to establish liability. In a defamation case, the defendant seeking summary judgment could point out that the supposedly defamatory allegations have the virtue of being true, negating the plaintiff’s case. But in the case involving Fox News, it is the plaintiff, Dominion, bringing the motion — a rare instance in which a litigant argues that there is simply no defense for the alleged defamer’s conduct.
The reason this seldom happens is that in most defamation cases, both sides can present evidence addressing such matters as whether the defendant intended to smear the plaintiff, whether the statements at issue were facts or opinions — and whether the statements were true. Here, however, Dominion’s case appears to be so overwhelming that there is a good chance the judge will rule for the plaintiff before the case even goes to trial.
In particular, Fox News has not disputed that the accusations it made against Dominion were false. (“Because Fox has zero evidence to dispute the falsity of this claim, Fox cannot raise any issue of material fact,” Dominion’s lawyers argue in their motion. “Fox already admitted that it is ‘not planning to assert the truth or falsity’ of the assertion that Dominion rigged the election at trial and does not ‘have evidence to prove’ its truth.”)
If Dominion wins its motion on this point, the judge would tell the jury that allegations aired by Fox News about rigged voting machines were false. The only issues would be whether Fox News acted maliciously. But even that might not go to the jury.
Quoting from Fox News employees’ depositions, Dominion’s lawyers begin their brief: “Fox knew. From the top down, Fox knew ‘the dominion stuff’ was ‘total BS.’ ... Yet despite knowing the truth — or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth — Fox spread and endorsed these ‘outlandish voter fraud claims’ about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as ‘crazy,’ ‘absurd,’ and ‘shockingly reckless.’”
I have never seen the issue of malice resolved for the plaintiff as a matter of law. But Dominion has mounds of evidence from depositions and documents implicating hosts, their producers and others, all the way up the chain of command to Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch. As Dominion’s lawyers put it, “This case differs from nearly any defamation case before it. Normally plaintiffs prove defendants’ actual malice — whether they knew it was false or ‘in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statement’ — ‘by inference, as it would be rare for a defendant to admit such doubts.’ ... Here, however, overwhelming direct evidence establishes Fox’s knowledge of falsity, not just ‘doubts.’”
In ordinary litigation, you virtually never have proof of news organization employees admitting to each other that they were spreading lies. Except in this case. If the judge goes for Dominion on the question of malice, that would put Fox News, appropriately, in a different category from virtually all other outlets.
2. Damages. If the judge rules in Dominion’s favor on the entirety of the motion, the jury would only decide damages. Imagine a jury getting instructed: “Fox News deliberately spread falsehoods about the defendant. Now just tell us how much they must pay.” One can imagine that in such a case a jury could be inclined to award steep damages, both compensatory and punitive.
Until now, the assumption has been that Fox News’s deep pockets will protect it against any verdict. That might not be the case; the financial ramifications could be immense.
Moreover, with a finding of actual malice as a matter of law, senior Fox executives and board members might be accused in other litigation of failing to protect the company up from devastating damages and failing to disclose the enormous risk in its securities filings. Fox’s problems may only have just begun.
3. A blow to critics of mainstream media. The lawsuit takes place at a time when conservative lawyers and judges, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., are vowing to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, which set up the malice standard, a high bar to reach for public figures suing to defend their reputations. Conservative critics argue that the test for malice is just too high, thereby giving media outlets too much latitude to damage individuals. (The argument is constitutionally faulty, since deliberately false speech has never been protected by the First Amendment.)
However, the Dominion lawsuit may affect the right-wing critics in two ways. First, they might finally grasp that right-wing outlets with shoddy or nonexistent journalistic standards are at more risk than their foes in the mainstream media. Bluntly put, do they want to make it easier for lots of people to sue Fox News and its ilk?
Second, the underlying argument that the malice standard makes it too hard to protect injured parties would be blown to smithereens if Fox News, a major media giant, is held liable for millions (or billions) of dollars. A robust judgment against Fox would show that it’s entirely possible to prove malice. In that sense, a verdict against Fox News may dissuade conservative courts from changing the New York Times v. Sullivan standard that protects legitimate news organizations operating in good faith.
That would be an ironic end to the right-wing echo chamber’s war on truth. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/09/fox-news-dominion-media-first-amendment/ | 2023-03-09 18:47:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/09/fox-news-dominion-media-first-amendment/ |
BEIJING, China — Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat Saturday night. Showing chants about removing COVID-19 restrictions and demanding freedom, they would only stay up for only minutes before being censored.
Elliot Wang, a 26-year-old in Beijing, was amazed.
“I started refreshing constantly, and saving videos, and taking screenshots of what I could before it got censored,” said Wang, who only agreed to be quoted using his English name, in fear of government retaliation. “A lot of my friends were sharing the videos of the protests in Shanghai. I shared them too, but they would get taken down quickly.”
That Wang was able to glimpse the extraordinary outpouring of grievances highlights the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between millions of Chinese internet users and the country’s gargantuan censorship machine.
Chinese authorities maintain a tight grip on the country’s internet via a complex, multi-layered censorship operation that blocks access to almost all foreign news and social media, and blocks topics and keywords considered politically sensitive or detrimental to the Chinese Communist Party’s rule. Videos of or calls to protest are usually deleted immediately.
But images of protests began to spread on WeChat, a ubiquitous Chinese social networking platform used by over 1 billion, in the wake of a deadly fire Nov. 24 in the northwestern city of Urumqi. Many suspected that lockdown measures prevented residents from escaping the flames, something the government denies.
The sheer number of unhappy Chinese users who took to the Chinese internet to express their frustration, together with the methods they used to evade censors led to a brief period of time where government censors were overwhelmed, according to Han Rongbin, an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s International Affairs department.
“It takes censors some time to study what is happening and to add that to their portfolio in terms of censorship, so it’s a learning process for the government on how to conduct censorship effectively,” said Han.
In 2020, the death from COVID-19 of Li Wenliang, a doctor who was arrested for spreading rumors following an attempt to alert others about a “SARS-like” virus, sparked widespread outrage and an outpouring of anger against the Chinese censorship system. Users posted criticism for hours before censors moved to delete posts.
As censors took down posts related to the fire, Chinese internet users often used humor and metaphor to spread critical messages.
“Chinese netizens have always been very creative because every idea used successfully once will be discovered by censors the next time,” said Liu Lipeng, a censor-turned-critic of China’s censorship practices.
Chinese users started posting images of blank sheets of white paper, said Liu, in a silent reminder of words they weren't allowed to post.
Others posted sarcastic messages like “Good good good sure sure sure right right right yes yes yes,” or used Chinese homonyms to evoke calls for President Xi Jinping to resign, such as “shrimp moss,” which sounds like the words for “step down” and “banana peel," which has the same initials as Chinese President Xi Jinping.
But within days, censors moved to contain images of white paper. They would have used a range of tools, said Chauncey Jung, a policy analyst who previously worked for several Chinese internet companies based in Beijing.
Most content censorship is not done by the state, Jung said, but outsourced to content moderation operations at private social media platforms, who use a mix of human and AI. Some censored posts are not deleted, but may be made visible only to the author, or removed from search results. In some cases, posts with sensitive key phrases may be published after review.
A search on Weibo Thursday for the term “white paper” turned up mostly posts that were critical of the protests, with no images of a single sheet of blank paper, or of people holding white paper at protests.
It's possible to access the global internet from China by using technologies such as virtual private networks that disguise internet traffic, but these systems are illegal and many Chinese internet users access only the domestic internet. Wang does not use a VPN.
“I think I can say for all the mainlanders in my generation that we are really excited,” said Wang. “But we’re also really disappointed because we can’t do anything. … They just keep censoring, keep deleting, and even releasing fake accounts to praise the cops.”
But the system works well enough to stop many users from ever seeing them. When protests broke out across China over the weekend, Carmen Ou, who lives in Beijing, initially didn’t notice.
Ou learned of the protests only later, after using a VPN service to access Instagram.
“I tried looking at my feed on WeChat, but there was no mention of any protests,” she said. “If not for a VPN and access to Instagram, I might not have found out that such a monumental event had taken place.”
Han, the international affairs professor, said that censorship “doesn't have to be perfect to be effective.”
"Censorship might be functioning to prevent a big enough size of the population from accessing the critical information to be mobilized,” he said.
China’s opaque approach to tamping down the spread of online dissent also makes it difficult to distinguish government campaigns from ordinary spam.
Searching Twitter using the Chinese words for Shanghai or other Chinese cities reveals protest videos, but also also a near-constant flood of new posts showing racy photos of young women. Some researchers proposed that a state-backed campaign could be seeking to drown out news of the protests with “not safe for work” content.
A preliminary analysis by the Stanford Internet Observatory found lots of spam but no “compelling evidence” that it was specifically intended to suppress information or dissent, said Stanford data architect David Thiel.
“I’d be skeptical of anyone claiming clear evidence of government attribution,” Thiel said in an email.
Twitter searches for more specific protest-related terms, such as “Urumqi Middle Road, Shanghai,” produced mainly posts related to the protests.
Israeli data analysis firm Cyabra and another research group that shared analysis with the AP said it was hard to distinguish between a deliberate attempt to drown out protest information sought by the Chinese diaspora and a run-of-the-mill commercial spam campaign.
Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment. It hasn’t answered media inquiries since billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform in late October and cut back much of its workforce, including many of those tasked with moderating spam and other content. Musk often tweets about how he’s enacting or enforcing new Twitter content rules but hasn’t commented on the recent protests in China.
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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in London and AP Technology Writer Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island contributed to this story. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/china-cat-and-mouse-censors/507-2805298d-34d0-4474-a423-4d8afb623bcd | 2022-12-01 13:12:06 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/china-cat-and-mouse-censors/507-2805298d-34d0-4474-a423-4d8afb623bcd |
(KRON) — The Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade on Friday, taking away the right to abortion that lasted nearly 50 years. However, reproductive rights groups say they will not stop fighting despite the recent decision.
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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) – A San Antonio man was arrested last week and faces a murder charge in a 42-year-old cold case out of Comal County, Texas.
Larry Allen West, 68, was arrested by Texas Rangers on April 13 and charged in the 1981 murder of 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon, who was killed just days after graduating high school, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced.
West was linked to the murder through new evidence obtained through advanced DNA testing made possible by DPS’ Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) program.
Deleon’s body was found in June 1981, along IH-35 in southern Comal County, but she wasn’t identified until 27 years later. Investigators tried to determine her identity using fingerprints and a composite sketch that was released to local media at the time, but she was ultimately buried as a Jane Doe.
An autopsy determined she died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, according to DPS.
The Texas Ranger’s Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program reviewed the case file in May 2008, a year after the victim’s sister filed a second missing person’s report for Deleon.
According to DPS, the victim’s family had attempted to file a missing person report back in 1981, when Deleon went missing only days after her high school graduation. But because Deleon was 18 and no foul play was suspected, authorities didn’t take the report at the time.
Deleon had also told the family she would be moving away once she turned 18, and they had assumed she followed through, DPS said. However, after years of not hearing from her, Deleon’s youngest sister decided to file another report in 2007.
Upon revisiting the case in 2008, investigators only found one missing person that matched a similar description of the victim from the 1981 time frame.
Texas Rangers met with Deleon’s family and provided a photo of the Jane Doe from the 1981 cold case. Her family recognized her, and further family DNA testing confirmed her identity 27 years after being labeled a Jane Doe.
The Texas Rangers continued pursuing the case with forensic DNA advancements. In 2010, an unknown DNA profile was developed and entered into the Combined DNA Index System. At that time, no matches were found, and the case once again stalled due to the lack of leads caused by the long time frame.
In 2020, evidence in the case was then subjected to Advanced DNA testing under DPS’ SAKI program, which is funded by the Department of Justice/Bureau of Justice Assistance.
The agencies provide investigative funding for investigative departments across the United States to further investigate unsolved sexual assaults and sexually related homicides with the hope of bringing justice to the victims and their families, according to the DPS release.
The evidence obtained with the help of the SAKI program revealed a new suspect, Larry Allen West, whose DNA was confirmed through normal forensic testing.
West was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Jail on a $125,000 bond.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyers are expected Thursday to begin their defense of the former adviser to then-President Donald Trump as Bannon’s contempt of Congress trial enters a new phase.
Bannon was in an unofficial capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is charged with defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events leading up to the deadly riot.
It is unclear whether Bannon, 68, will take the stand or whom the defense might call as witnesses.
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel’s referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars upon conviction.
The Justice Department rested its case Wednesday after calling just two witnesses: Kristin Amerling, the House committee’s chief counsel, and FBI special agent Stephen Hart. The prosecution’s case was dominated by testimony from Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.
Bannon’s lawyer tried Wednesday to establish that the deadline for the onetime Trump strategist to appear before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot was flexible as long as the two sides were on negotiating terms.
Bannon lawyer Evan Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered “yes,” but added only “when witnesses are cooperating with the committee.”
Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.
The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump’s claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.
The panel gave Bannon a hard deadline of Oct. 14 to come before the committee. When that deadline passed, the committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote Bannon’s lawyer on Oct. 15 threatening criminal prosecution.
The committee, which is holding a prime time hearing Thursday, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that Bannon was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. The subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and other people in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
The emphasis on the subpoena timeline is one of the few avenues of defense that U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols left Bannon’s legal team after a hearing last week. Nichols ruled that major elements of Bannon’s planned defense were irrelevant and could not be introduced in court. The judge said Bannon could not claim he believed he was covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to withhold confidential information from the courts and the legislative branch, or that he was acting on the advice of his lawyers.
In opening statements Corcoran argued that the charges against him were politically motivated and that Bannon was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged.
“No one ignored the subpoena,” Corcoran told the jury.
In reality, Corcoran said, one of Bannon’s previous lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted an attorney for the House committee to express some of Bannon’s concerns about testifying.
“They did what two lawyers do. They negotiated,” Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed “the dates of the subpoena were not fixed; they were flexible.”
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Elon Musk’s Twitter reinstates Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(AP) – Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, which was banned in January for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policies at the time.
Greene’s reinstatement comes after Musk over the weekend reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump, who was banned in the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol in 2021. Twitter — at the time — feared there was a risk of further incitement to violence if Trump was allowed to remain on the platform. Trump himself has said he won’t return to Twitter and as of Monday had not yet tweeted since the reinstatement, although he also hasn’t deleted his account.
Musk apparently based his decision to allow Trump back on the site on an unscientific Twitter poll he posted on his timeline. There appeared to be no such poll for Greene’s account. Earlier, Musk said he won’t make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts before setting up a “content moderation council” with diverse viewpoints.
Musk has frequently expressed his belief that Twitter had become too restrictive. Before the U.S. midterm elections this month, he urged his “independent-minded” Twitter followers to vote Republican.
One account Musk has said he won’t allow back on Twitter is that of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was banned in 2018 for abusive behavior.
“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted Sunday in response to calls for Jones’ reinstatement. “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
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HARRIMAN, Tenn. (WATE) — An emu led police on a ‘wild goose chase’ in Roane County on Wednesday, only to escape captivity again the next day.
Roane County resident Harry McKinney and his family have two emus, MeeMoo and MeeMee, that live on their farm.
According to McKinney, crews were logging nearby when MeeMoo was “spooked” and jumped over the seven-foot fence. The emu managed to escape and ran through Harriman.
McKinney said he tried to follow MeeMoo but soon lost sight of the bird. So, McKinney went to social media and asks the community to help find him. The post gained traction as more people worked to help return the emu to its rightful home.
“Immediately we were flooded with private messages with, you know, ‘Hey your emu is in my backyard and then we got all of these videos,” McKinney told WATE.
Steven McDaniel caught video of the emu running from Harriman police as he was outside with his dog. He explained that he went to the top of the hill where he saw four police cars stopping in the middle of the road with their lights flashing. That is when he saw the emu.
“Cop cars just, blue lights going, going right in front of my house about three miles an hour,” McDaniel said. “Then one of the cops stopped next door and talked to the guy next door and the guy just started like… laughing hysterically, I could hear him from my house.”
There were also people at a restaurant nearby who came outside to watch the chase. According to McDaniel, the chase seemed to be going about 20 mph in his area.
“Everyone in the area got their own private video for this,” McKinney said.
McKinney said he and his wife managed to follow tips from information given to dispatch, including the videos that showed MeeMoo going to landmarks in the area. According to McKinney, Harriman Police Department told him that officers clocked MeeMoo’s speed at 40 mph.
McKinney was able to get MeeMoo from a Victorian home in Roane County.
“We were terrified that he would get hit by a car and somebody would hit him with a tranquilizer dart, that he would hurt himself in the chase,” he said.
According to McDaniel, the video of the slow-speed chase is good for the community, especially with the serious news that has hit Tennessee recently.
“There’s been a lot of comments about just how, how funny it was and you know, everybody’s wanting to meet the emu now… couple minutes of life that was… it was well worth it just to take a little video, you know,” McDaniel said.
McKinney is glad to get his emu back and even emphasized that their seven-foot fence is now a nine-foot fence.
For those unfamiliar with the animal, emus are large flightless birds native to Australia. It is the second largest bird to the Ostrich, which it somewhat resembles, according to the Smithsonian Institute. The institute adds that Emus are typically around 5’8″ and weighs between 110-130 pounds.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The online travel agency Booking.com said Monday it plans to add warnings to listings in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, becoming the latest foreign company to wade into one of the world’s most contentious debates.
Booking.com said it would caution customers booking accommodations in Israeli settlements that they were traveling to a “disputed, conflict-affected or high-risk” area that “may pose greater risks.”
The company told The Associated Press that it was still working on the language of the safety warning for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a few other regions around the world. It did not say when the alert would take effect.
The move would come as violence rises in the West Bank, with raids by Israeli forces in cities and villages leaving at least 85 Palestinians dead so far this year. On Monday, the Israeli army said a vehicle came under fire as it passed by a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank. No injuries were reported.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
Most of the world considers the settlements, built on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, to be a violation of international law. Some 700,000 Jewish settlers live in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem. The Palestinians seek these lands as parts of a future independent state.
Online travel companies like Airbnb and Booking.com long have faced pressure from Palestinian officials, activists and human rights groups to end their listings there.
But they risk Israeli fury if they do. Israel and its supporters have accused those who support anti-Israel boycotts, including products made in the settlements, of antisemitism. Airbnb scrapped its plan to bar listings in the settlements in 2019 after lawsuits were filed against it in the United States and Israel.
Similar controversy has engulfed ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s. The Vermont company set off an outcry in Israel by saying that it would stop selling its products in the occupied West Bank last year.
But a recent deal will see Ben & Jerry’s ice cream back on shelves in the occupied territories, after parent company Unilever sold the brand’s Israeli business to a local licensee.
Booking.com’s announcement did not directly question the legitimacy or legality of the settlements, and instead focused on safety. To some Israelis, the disclaimer showed Israel’s pressure has paid off.
“It shows Booking.com has paid attention to the massive damage Airbnb and Ben & Jerrys did to themselves when they adopted a boycott of Israeli controlled territories,” said Eugene Kontorovich, director of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a conservative Israeli think tank. “At the same time they want to throw a bone to anti-Israel activists.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights group in the U.S., welcomed the travel warning as a decision to “recognize the reality of the occupation and human rights abuses,” calling on more foreign corporations to do the same.
Booking.com said its safety banner for the West Bank would resemble those currently shown for accommodations in Ukraine or Cyprus. The site’s warning for Ukraine cautions travelers of “an increased risk to customers’ safety in this location” and urges them to “review travel guidelines for this area provided by your government.”
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McCowan makes late go-ahead layup, Wings beat Aces 82-80
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Teaira McCowan made a go-ahead layup with 11.4 seconds left to help the Dallas Wings beat the Las Vegas Aces 82-80 on Thursday night.
Kelsey Plum sank a 3-pointer with 1:11 left to pull Las Vegas to 80-78 and after a Dallas miss, Chelsea Gray made a jumper from the free-throw line to tie it at 80. Dallas guard Tyasha Harris dribbled down the clock before driving into the lane and finding a wide open McCowan under the basket with 11.4 seconds remaining.
Las Vegas struggled to get into its offense and called a timeout with 3.8 seconds to go. Then Gray found a wide open A’ja Wilson in the paint, but her layup rolled off the rim as time expired.
McCowan finished with 21 points and a season-high 16 rebounds for Dallas (15-16), which was without leading scorer Arike Ogunbowale for a second straight game. Marina Mabrey and Harris each scored 15 points.
Dallas had its lead cut to 64-58 entering the fourth quarter after Las Vegas ended the third on a 10-2 run. But the Wings scored the first eight points of the fourth to regain a double-digit lead.
Gray made five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 28 points for Las Vegas (22-10), which lost consecutive games for just the third time this season. Jackie Young scored 19 points, Plum had 15 points and seven assists, and Wilson had 12 points and nine rebounds.
Players from Las Vegas and Dallas locked arms before the game to honor Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison earlier in the day. Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time WNBA all-star, was convicted of drug possession and smuggling.
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Last pro-impeachment Republican faces almost certain defeat. How did the others fare in GOP primaries?
Only two GOP reps who voted to impeach survived so far, and Rep. Cheney's chances are not looking good
The vast majority of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump have been denied re-election, or retired; the last of that group — Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. — is in the fight of her political career in Wyoming's primary election Tuesday.
After the 10 Republican House members voted to impeach Trump for his role in the January 6 riots — where pro-Trump demonstrators attacked the U.S. Capitol as the House and Senate were voting to certify President Biden's 2020 presidential win — Trump made it his mission to defeat those who he viewed as betraying his America first message.
Of the 10 GOP members on Trump's target list, seven have already lost their primaries or chose to retire, and only two survived a difficult primary challenge to become the Republican nominee in the November general election.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
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Cheney was the highest-profile Republican to favor impeachment as the House Republican conference chair. With encouragement from Trump and his allies, the GOP booted Cheney from the leadership role.
Trump backed Cheney's primary challenger Harriet Hageman early on in her campaign, and recent polls show her with a massive lead over the incumbent Republican representative, who is one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack.
Tuesday's primary is all but certain to show Cheney the door, and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has already hinted at looking beyond the November election.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.
Herrera Beutler conceded her race in Washington state's open primary Aug. 9, as Republican Joe Kent, who received Trump's endorsement, secured a spot on the November general election ballot.
The impeachment vote was a big part of the race, with Kent painting Beutler as no different from a Democrat.
"Rep. Beutler voted for the impeachment of President Trump based on a false narrative that Trump inspired an armed insurrection against the Capitol," Kent told Fox News in an email. "But the facts don’t matter to the left or Rep. Beutler."
Kent said in an interview with Fox News that part of the reason he supports Trump is that the former president took steps to remove American troops from Syria. He experienced the personal tragedy of America's involvement in the Middle East when his wife, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, was killed in Syria on Jan. 16, 2019.
Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich.
Meijer lost his primary Aug. 2 to a Trump-backed opponent John Gibbs, but it was not just the former president's influence that tipped the scales. Meijer also blamed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) meddling that boosted the Trump-endorsed calendar.
Meijer said Sunday that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) decision to meddle in the GOP House primary for Michigan's 3rd District was "risky" and "paints a very telling picture of where our politics are in 2022."
"So we had a scenario where not only did I have the former president aligned against me but in a rare showing of bipartisan unity, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Campaign Committee also united to try to knock me off the ballot, Meijer told CBS News' "Face the Nation."
Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C.
Rice conceded his race to Trump-backed challenger and state Rep. Russell Fry in South Carolina's June 14 primary.
Fry had told Fox News he would not have run against Rice in deep red South Carolina if the congressman had not voted for impeachment. "I think the impeachment is the big elephant in the room and the voters are incredibly frustrated by that," Fry said.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
Kinzinger opted to not seek re-election, announcing in October that he would not campaign for his seat.
"I want to make it clear, this isn’t the end of my political future but the beginning," Kinzinger said when he announced he wouldn't run for Congress. "Let me be clear, my passion for this country has only grown. My desire to make a difference is bigger than it’s ever been."
Like Cheney, Kinzinger also serves on the Jan. 6 committee.
Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y.
Katko announced in January that he would not seek re-election in his central New York district, claiming it was "so that I can enjoy my family and life in a fuller and more present way.
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.
Upton announced his retirement on the House floor in April, after facing censure from his own state GOP for his impeachment vote.
"Hopefully civility and bipartisanship versus discord can rule, not rue, the day," Upton said in his retirement announcement.
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, the Ohio Republican who voted to impeach former President Trump, announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election, citing the "toxic dynamics inside" the Republican Party.
Gonzalez faced a well-financed challenger in former Trump aide Max Miller, who is the GOP nomination for the seat.
Miller told Fox News that "weak Republicans" like Gonzalez "need to see the door and have an exit." Miller said Trump endorsed him because "he knows that I am not ever going to fold or take a knee, and I will continue to fight for the people and the America First agenda no matter at what cost."
Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif.
Valadao is the only Republican not targeted by Trump in his primary. He survived his primary challenger Chris Mathys, an Army veteran and former member of the Fresno City Council, to secure a spot on the November ballot.
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Though he voted for impeachment, he did not double down as other pro-impeachment Republicans did, which may have helped him avoid Trump's wrath.
"All the other ones are going out and making hay, elongating the story. Valadao’s stayed rather quiet and subdued," a source close to Trump’s political orbit told Fox News.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.
Unlike fellow Washington state Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, Newhouse survived his own challenge from the right to win a spot on the November ballot.
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He came under fire for his impeachment vote and faced calls to resign from Republicans in his district, but ultimately got more votes than Trump-backed former GOP gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp in the August.
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Two-Month Campaign Raised More than $150,000 to Support Dogtopia Foundation's Mission to Unite Service Dogs with Veterans in Need
PHOENIX, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dogtopia, the national dog daycare franchise, is celebrating the success of its Dogs Save Lives initiative led by retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Gretchen Evans, recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2022 ESPYS. The campaign, which began on September 11 and fittingly culminates on Veterans Day (November 11), helped the brand's charitable arm, Dogtopia Foundation, gain new supporters and raise more than $150,000 to support its mission to provide service dogs for veterans in need.
"Gretchen has been an incredible ambassador for Dogs Save Lives, igniting a spark among the communities we serve to give back to the men and women who so bravely fought for our country," said Neil Gill, President and CEO of Dogtopia. "Every time I see someone wearing a Dogs Save Lives T-shirt or a news piece about Gretchen's journey, I'm reminded of how strong the Dogtopia network is and the power we have to change the world for good."
The two-month campaign included speaking engagements hosted by Dogtopia franchisees in select markets across the country, including Boise, Colorado Springs, Denver, Kansas, Sacramento and San Jose. At these fundraising events, Evans was able to share her personal experience with service dogs following a traumatic brain injury and nearly total hearing loss which ended her 27-year military career. Along with hundreds in attendance, local communities were exposed to Evans' impactful journey through print, television and radio interviews leading up to and following the events.
Dogtopia also touted Evans' story on the campaign website where supporters could purchase limited-edition Dogs Save Lives T-shirts to benefit the Dogtopia Foundation. The shirts were largely embraced by the Dogtopia franchise network and worn by employees, pet parents and community supporters who advocated for the cause. Given the success of the campaign, Dogtopia has decided to keep these limited-edition shirts available for a bit longer. Shirts can be purchased at https://dogtopiafoundation.org/dogssavelives/
"I am extremely moved by the way the Dogtopia network and dog-loving communities across the U.S. have come together to hear my story and help unite more service dogs with veterans in need," said Evans. "There are veterans across the country whose lives will be changed for the better because of this incredible campaign. Dogs really do save lives!"
For more information about Dogtopia visit www.dogtopia.com, and to learn more about Dogtopia Foundation, visit www.dogtopiafoundation.org.
About Dogtopia:
Founded in 2002, Dogtopia is an early pioneer and innovator in the pet services industry, offering an experience focused on wellness, quality of care, safety and transparency in the market. The ultimate destination for improving the physical and mental well-being of dogs and pet parents, Dogtopia helps our furry friends live long, healthy, and happy lives with services that address canine wellness in a holistic manner. Pet parents have the assurance of leaving their beloved furry family members in the hands of trained professionals in an environment created with the safety of dogs in mind, including an open-play environment with comfortable rubber flooring to ease joints and paws, top quality meals and snacks, as well as webcams for pet parents to check in on their pups. For more information, visit www.dogtopia.com.
About Dogtopia Foundation
The Dogtopia Foundation's mission is to "enable dogs to positively change our world" and does this by supporting programs, research and initiatives focused around three worthy causes: Service Dogs for Veterans, Youth Literacy Programs that foster the joy of reading, and Employment Initiatives for Adults with Autism. 100 percent of all donations are given directly organizations that help returning veterans, young school children, and adults with autism reach their full potential. To learn more, visit www.dogtopiafoundation.org.
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SPARKS, Md., June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AiRISTA, a leader in Real Time Location Services solutions (RTLS), is pleased to announce the addition of Wyatt Meek to its leadership team. In his role as Global Vice President of Sales, Wyatt will guide AiRISTA's market expansion in what is becoming a period of rapid growth for the RTLS industry.
"Navigating the opportunity ahead of us requires a skilled individual with a proven record," said Sy Sajjad, founder and CEO of AiRISTA. "Wyatt's hire was an easy decision and helps complete the leadership team we have carefully assembled."
Prior to joining AiRISTA, Wyatt held a number of executive level positions in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. Most recently Wyatt was the Global Industry Director for Healthcare, Education, Retail, and Financial Services at Cisco Systems where he focused on industry marketing, sales enablement, and business development. "I am thrilled to be part of the AiRISTA team. For the majority of my career, I have focused on helping customers achieve their desired business outcomes through the integration of technology with new processes. By joining the technology leader in RTLS, I look forward to working with customers and partners across industries to bring new use cases to life."
Before joining Cisco Systems, Wyatt was the VP Sales & Marketing at V I Engineering, a professional services firm in the manufacturing industry. Wyatt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and executive certificates from Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Management.
About AiRISTA
AiRISTA's Location Services Solutions are the heart of some of the world's largest RTLS deployments representing hundreds of thousands of end points per customer in demanding environments like the California Department of State Hospitals, the US Defense Health Service, and Fortune 500 companies. AiRISTA was recognized as a LEADER in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services for a second consecutive year (click for the complementary 2023 report). For details visit our web site or contact us for a demo (salesinfo@airista.com).
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UScellular Uncovers Connections to Smartphones Among Different Generations
CHICAGO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent UScellular survey1 to uncover usage trends, attitudes and habits of Gen Z and millennial smartphone consumers, the age when kids get their first phone is holding steady. Both parents and non-parents think, on average, that 13 years old is an appropriate age for a child to have their first phone.
From the survey, nearly 9 out of 10 parents reported monitoring their child's phone usage, with app usage (85%) and time spent on the phone (68%) as the most commonly monitored areas. Consistent with monitoring usage, 74% of parents are likely to speak with their children about their app usage and safe web browsing. UScellular recognizes this need to help parents and kids navigate how they use their smartphones and has a variety of helpful resources at www.digitalfamilymatters.com.
Here are some of the data points that stood out from this year's survey:
- Phones bring value to consumers' lives, but some have concerns
- Concern about losing their phone is also quite high
- Social media consumes much of each generation's phone usage
- Consumers are optimistic about the impact of 5G technology
UScellular is the fourth-largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, providing national network coverage and industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier provides a strong, reliable network supported by the latest technology and offers a wide range of communication services that enhance consumers' lives, increase the competitiveness of local businesses and improve the efficiency of government operations. To learn more about UScellular, visit one of its retail stores or www.uscellular.com. To get the latest news, visit newsroom.uscellular.com. Connect with UScellular on social media at facebook.com/uscellular, twitter.com/uscellular, instagram.com/uscellular, YouTube.com/uscellularcorp and linkedin.com/company/uscellular.
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How long will vote counting take in Shasta County races? What to know now about vote results
Shasta County voters can expect to learn final results from Tuesday’s primary by July 7, the last day for California county election officials to certify results.
As of Wednesday morning, 26,140 ballots have been counted in this primary election, but more remain to be counted, including votes from some mail-in, drop-off and provisional ballots.
There were a total of 22 local, state and federal races in the county. Six local races of high interest because they are contested are: Superintendent of schools, District 1 supervisor, District 5 supervisor, clerk, district attorney and sheriff.
Over the next four weeks, the Shasta County Elections Office will report updated vote results at least once a week for all contests.
Here is how the ballot counting process will work as election officials canvass and certify the vote results within the state's required 30-day window.
Which ballots were counted by early Wednesday morning?
County Registrar of Voters Cath Darling Allen said the votes that have been counted are:
- Ballots from in-person voting Tuesday at all 68 precincts
- Ballots cast by early voters at the elections office in downtown Redding from May 9 through Monday
- And vote-by-mail ballots delivered to the elections office before Tuesday.
What else is happening this week?
On Thursday, the elections office will report the approximate number of ballots yet to be counted by elections officials, Darling Allen said in an announcement.
By Friday, the office will publish updated results that include some ballots dropped at polls on Election Day, Darling Allen said.
Which ballots could arrive later this month?
Some ballots are expected to arrive later in June. They could include ballots postmarked by June 7 from:
- County voters who are overseas
- U.S. military personnel stationed abroad
- County voters who dropped off at polling places and drop boxes in other California counties
When will Shasta County release updated vote results?
Each week, elections officials plan to post updated results by 5 p.m. Friday, Darling Allen said, although they may upload data more often.
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas marked the end of Title 42 immigration policy by once again warning migrants that “the border is not open.”
“Do not believe the lies of smugglers. The border is not open,” he said just a minute before midnight on Thursday, echoing his calls throughout this week to prepare for the lifting of the policy.
The U.S. has been bracing for an influx of migrants as Title 42, a COVID-era policy that has allowed for the rapid expulsion of asylum seekers, is set to expire at midnight. The rule was implemented in the early stages of the pandemic under the Trump administration and President Biden has kept it in place.
“Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum,” the secretary said in his statement.
Mayorkas earlier on Thursday laid out plans to respond to the end of Title 42 and reiterated in his statement that there are 24,000 Border Patrol agents and officers at the border, thousands of troops and contractors, and over a thousand asylum officers.
“We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to remain in the U.S.,” he said.
“People who do not use available lawful pathways to enter the U.S. now face tougher consequences, including a minimum five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution,” the secretary added. “Together with our partners throughout the federal government and Western Hemisphere, we are prepared for this transition.”
Earlier on Thursday, House Republicans passed legislation to crackdown on the border, including finishing former President Trump’s border wall and to restrict access to asylum.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart says there’s a “strong likelihood” he'll play Saturday after missing Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal with a bruised right thigh.
“We’re just dealing with the last part of it, and that’s getting that restriction off of the knee and the joint so I can be able to bend,” Smart said Thursday in a Zoom session from Boston. “Once that goes away, I should be back to myself. Everything else is healing up the right way.”
Celtics coach Ime Udoka said “we’ll know more tomorrow, how he reacts to what he did today.” The series is tied 1-1 as it heads back to Milwaukee after the Celtics earned a 109-86 victory in Game 2.
Smart said the injury is similar to an issue he faced in the regular season. The NBA defensive player of the year missed six games in January due to a quadriceps problem. He added he’s also dealing with fluid in his knee.
“It’s literally the exact same one in the exact same spot,” Smart said. “Just reaggravating the same injury I’ve been dealing with. As we all know, injuries like that, they kind of linger.”
Smart said the injury is particularly bothersome when he tries to get into a defensive crouch.
“That’s what’s kind of keeping me back, because of the fluid on the knee that is restricting that movement to really bend down as much as I need to, especially to get into a defensive stance and explode and push off. It’s kind of hard to get out there and play when you can’t do that.”
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Reduced visibility, isolated power outages, and dangerously cold conditions are expected today. Get all the details and see what's in store for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in our latest forecast video.
Here are 10 cold weather safety tips
Top 10 cold weather safety tips
Wear layers
Wear layers of lightweight clothing to stay warm. Gloves and a hat will help prevent losing your body heat.
Don't forget your pets
Don’t forget your pets - bring them indoors. If they can’t come inside, make sure they have enough shelter to keep them warm and that they can get to unfrozen water.
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Take care of your car
Make sure your gas tank is full and that all fluids are at the appropriate levels. Include a car disaster kit and an extra blanket in your trunk in case you are stranded.
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Protect your pipes
Protect your pipes - run water, even at a trickle, to help prevent your pipes from freezing. Open the kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warmer air to circulate around the plumbing.
Be safe when using a space heater
If you are using a space heater, place it on a level, hard surface and keep anything flammable at least three feet away.
Turn off heaters
Turn off space heaters and make sure fireplace embers are out before leaving the room or going to bed.
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Don't use a stove to heat your home
Never use a stove or oven to heat your home.
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Use a fireplace screen
If you are using a fireplace, use a glass or metal fire screen large enough to catch sparks and rolling logs.
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Use generators correctly
Use generators correctly – never operate a generator inside the home, including in the basement or garage.
Connect equipment directly to the generator
Don’t hook a generator up to the home’s wiring. The safest thing to do is to connect the equipment you want to power directly to the outlets on the generator.
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A new law sponsored by Dayton-area lawmakers will make it easier to convict someone of human trafficking by closing what she described as a loophole in Ohio law.
House Bill 427 expands the legal definition of compulsion to include using drugs to control someone. Previously compulsion only covered “fear, force, duress, intimidation or fraud,” according to a legislative news release.
State Reps. Andrea White, R-Kettering, and Susan Manchester, R-Waynesfield, introduced the bill in September. It passed the House in February and the Senate on May 25, unanimously approved by both chambers. Gov. Mike DeWine signed it into law Tuesday.
Now luring someone with drugs, forcing them to use drugs, or manipulating them through addiction, can be used in charges of human trafficking or compelling prostitution.
“The crimes of human trafficking and prostitution are rampant in Ohio, with substance use and addiction frequently being used as weapons to prey on vulnerable victims,” White said in the announcement. “One study suggests as high as 84% of sex trafficking survivors reported substance abuse during their victimization.”
Speaking to a Senate committee in March, White said traffickers know police are less likely to believe someone has been trafficked if the victim is under the influence of drugs.
The change in the law could affect hundreds of people in Ohio each year, she said.
Ohio generates the sixth-most calls of any state to the national human trafficking hotline, according to White.
Anyone who has been a target of human trafficking, or who knows someone who may be a victim, can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888 or by text at 233733.
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LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Nick Day proposed to his wife Shaina 21 years ago with a diamond engagement ring. But before the couple said “I do,” the token of Nick’s love went down the toilet. Literally.
“She came to me one day and said, ‘I think I lost my ring,'” Nick recalled of the incident, which took place at his mother’s house. “She said, ‘It was on the counter now it’s gone and I think I may have flushed it down the toilet on accident.”
The couple searched for the missing ring by getting down and dirty trying to find the diamond.
“I climbed down into the septic tank so we could pump every bit of it through a strainer to try to find it. No luck,” Shaina said.
Then, last month, Nick’s mother Renee hired a local plumber to replace her toilet. He discovered the ring lodged inside.
“He said, ‘Do you think it’s Shaina’s ring?’ and I looked at it again and I went, ‘Oh my God, yes!'” Renee recalled.
Proving diamonds are forever — even if this one needed a good cleaning — the ring was wrapped up as a Christmas present by Nick’s parents and given as a surprise to the couple on Christmas night.
“They brought this out. It was wrapped up in a little Christmas bag so we opened it up and both of us knew exactly what it was,” Nick said.
“It was kind of an ugly cry,” Shaina added. “I sat there and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is my ring. This is my ring.’ I’m wiping my eyes and mascara is going everywhere.”
The couple says they may incorporate the diamond into a new piece of jewelry, or pass it on for a future generation to enjoy. But they definitely learned a valuable lesson.
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It wasn’t just you: Flying was miserable for a lot of people this summer.
Travelers were most irate about flight problems: cancellations, delays or other schedule changes. Those issues made up nearly 29 percent of the complaints. That’s not surprising, considering the widespread issues passengers faced over the long holiday weekend that included Juneteenth and Father’s Day, when more than 3,000 flights were canceled and over 19,000 were delayed. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was among those whose flights were axed.
The Transportation Department said in a news release that its office of aviation consumer protection “routinely contacts airlines with widespread cancellations or delays to make clear their obligation to promptly refund passengers who choose not to accept the alternative offered for a canceled or significantly changed flight.”
Refunds were also high on the list of traveler concerns, with those issues making up more than 24 percent of complaints.
Airlines canceled just over 3 percent of their scheduled domestic flights, higher than the cancellation rate of 1.6 percent a year earlier and 2.1 percent in 2019. On-time arrival was actually slightly better than before the pandemic, with 73.5 percent of flights arriving on time this June compared to 73.3 percent in 2019. That performance was worse than May of this year, when 77.2 percent of flights were on time.
Carriers mishandled more than 300,000 bags in June out of 43 million checked. That made the mishandled baggage rate .71 percent, higher than May but on par with June 2019.
The number of lost or damaged wheelchairs and scooters continued to increase, with airlines mishandling 1,145 out of more than 68,000 — a rate of 1.68 percent — in June. That’s higher than the rate of 1.54 percent in 2019. Travelers with disabilities have told The Washington Post that they experienced more issues with wheelchair damage and long waits for assistance this summer amid labor shortages. Those experiences are reflected in the data: the Transportation Department got 177 complaints related to disability in June, an increase from 158 in May and 70 in June of 2019. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/26/air-travel-complaints-refunds/ | 2022-08-26 21:23:36 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/26/air-travel-complaints-refunds/ |
Responding to a strong demand for more sustainable and transparent cane sugar supply chains, Raízen and ASR Group have partnered in this world first: Through a unique and dedicated farming, bioenergy parks and infrastructure operation, Raízen has created a 100% physically traceable and non-genetically modified supply chain. In return, ASR Group is making an investment and long-term purchasing commitment to Raízen, the proceeds of which will be dedicated to strengthening the sustainability of both companies' supply operations and supply chains.
SAO PAULO and WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raízen, the world's largest sugar exporting company, and ASR Group, the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, announce a partnership that sets the standard for sustainable raw cane sugar supply chains globally. The unprecedented multi-year agreement between the partners creates the world's first fully physically traceable and 100 percent non-genetically modified (non-GM) certified supply chain. The partnership stretches from Raízen's sustainably certified sugarcane farms and bioenergy parks in Center-South Brazil, all the way to supporting the well-loved brands that make up ASR Group's cane sugar consumer products in North America and Europe.
Supported by an investment and a 10-year purchasing commitment from ASR Group, Raízen has developed unique processes, infrastructure, and technological solutions to track raw cane sugar from their farms and bioenergy parks – where the sugarcane is milled to produce raw sugar and biofuels – and segregate the final raw sugar through to a dedicated port terminal facility for export. In addition to carrying non-GM status, Raízen also ensures that the raw cane sugar meets the highest global ethical and environmental standards.
The first shipments of raw cane sugar under the new partnership are running through a dedicated export facility contracted by Raízen at the Port of Paranaguá in Paraná State, Brazil. During the first year of the partnership, ASR Group's cane sugar refineries in Canada, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Italy will receive deliveries as part of the supply chains of ASR Group's local brands, including Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, and Sidul®. Future shipments to ASR Group's refineries in the United States and its Domino® and C&H® brands are also being considered.
"This partnership marks a new chapter in global sugar traceability," said Paulo Neves, Vice President of Trading at Raízen. "By segregating our operation, this initiative enables us to measure the full impact and footprint reduction in our supply chain more accurately. This certification enables us to confirm, through a third-party audit, the absence of GM sugarcane in our entire process, increasing the value of the product to customers who seek this type of sugar. We want to offer another alternative to this market."
The premium that ASR Group will pay for the raw cane sugar will be re-invested by Raízen to continue to further both companies' ESG targets. This will include projects looking at improving land productivity, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through operational efficiency and innovation, increasing water circularity, and other sustainability initiatives.
Alan Wood, ASR Group's Senior Vice President of Global Sugars, said, "This partnership between ASR Group and Raízen represents a big and important investment by both of us in our commitments to be the most sustainable sugar companies in the world. We are paying a premium for this sugar and are excited that this will be re-invested back into even more sustainability projects by Raízen. We're confident this will give our customers, as well as the thousands of people working in our own businesses, great pride that the supply chains they are a part of will continue at the cutting edge of reducing their impact on people and the planet."
The traceability of the whole chain is independently certified by FoodChain ID, an international leader in standard-setting and certification of food supply chains. The company has more than 20 years experience in creating secure and certified supply chains across the industry, working with agriculture, food brands, and food and drink retailers. Raízen is the first company in the sugar and energy sector to earn the certification for non-GM sugar. FoodChain ID has supported ASR Group for more than 10 years with verification and certification work in its global raw cane sugar sustainability program.
The bioparks involved in the process are located in the hubs of Piracicaba, Araçatuba, Andradina, Brotas, Araraquara, and Assis, and are part of the certified structure that covers Raízen's 15 bioenergy parks.
We are Raízen – a global benchmark in bioenergy with an integrated business ecosystem: from the cultivation and processing of sugarcane in our bioenergy parks, to the sales, logistics and distribution of fuels, we continually invest in innovation to reshape the future of energy.
Through advanced technologies, we seek to play a leading role in the energy transition by expanding our portfolio of renewable energy sources, such as second-generation ethanol (2GE), biogas, bioelectricity and solar energy. By doing so, Raízen has already avoided the emission of 5.2 million tonnes of C02 per year (reference: 2020); by 2030, we aim to avoid twice this amount.
With a team of 40,000 employees, we operate 35 bioenergy parks with an installed sugarcane crushing capacity of up to 105 million tonnes. In the 2020-2021 crop year, they produced 2.5 billion liters of ethanol and 4.4 million tonnes of sugar. We have approximately 1.3 million hectares of agricultural areas that are cultivated with state-of-the-art technology and mechanized harvesting. Our installed power generation capacity is 1.3GW; in the last harvest we produced 2.1 TWh of electricity using sugarcane biomass.
Through a network of 7,300 gas station resellers bearing the Shell brand in Brazil and Argentina, we serve millions of consumers on their daily journeys, offering everything from the exclusive Shell V-Power family of fuels to convenience and benefits when paying with Shell Box. Through Grupo Nós (a joint venture with FEMSA Comercio), we operate in the convenience and proximity retail market with Shell Select stores and OXXO markets.
In the 2020-2021 crop year, we sold 29 billion liters of fuel and 7.3 million tonnes of sugar through our infrastructure that includes 69 airport supply bases, 70 distribution terminals located across the country and operations in 11 ports.
We are one of the largest companies in Brazil in terms of revenue (R$ 114.6 billion in the last crop year); we create jobs and income, drive the economy, and invest in social responsibility via the Raízen Foundation.
ASR Group International, Inc. is the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in New York, California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy. ASR Group also farms sugarcane and owns sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The company's portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's® and Sidul®. ASR Group is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. ASR Group and its parent companies jointly own Tellus Products, LLC, a maker of compostable tableware and foodservice products from sugarcane and other plant fibers. For more information, visit www.ASR-Group.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Major League Baseball Players Association asked management Tuesday to voluntarily accept the union as the bargaining agent for minor leaguers.
Bruce Meyer, the union’s deputy executive director, sent a letter to MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem that claimed a majority of minor leaguers had signed authorization cards.
The MLBPA, which reached its first collective bargaining agreement for major leaguers in 1968, launched the minor league unionization drive on Aug. 28. Players with minor league contracts, who earn as little as $400 weekly during the six-month season, would become their own bargaining unit within the MLBPA.
If MLB does not voluntarily accept the union, signed cards from 30% of the 5,000 to 6,5000 minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition to the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election. A majority vote in an election would authorize union representation.
“Minor league players have made it unmistakably clear they want the MLBPA to represent them and are ready to begin collective bargaining in order to positively affect the upcoming season,” MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said in a statement.
The union did not say what percentage of minor leaguers had signed authorization cards.
MLB did not immediately comment on the letter.
Players with major league contracts average more than $4 million and have a $700,000 minimum salary while in the big leagues. Their minimum is $57,200 while on option to the minor leagues, with a first major league contract and $114,100 if a second or later big league contract.
MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Triple-A. For players on option, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league contract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
In addition, MLB this year began requiring teams to provide housing for most minor leaguers.
Major League Baseball and lawyers for minor leaguers agreed this year to a $185 million settlement of an eight-year-old federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a deal that may be finalized next year. An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share roughly $120 million with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, and their lawyers will split $55.5 million.
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SANFORD, Fla. – A Sanford neighborhood was blocked off for hours as police investigated a reported shooting early Wednesday.
Police responded to the area of 13th Street and Oleander Avenue by Mangoustine Avenue around 1 a.m.
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Video taken in the neighborhood shows officers taped off a part of the area with crime scene tape.
The department has not released any information regarding the police response.
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Fred McGriff elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling left out again
McGriff was a star first baseman
Fred McGriff was a five-time All-Star, three-time Silver Slugger and won a World Series with the Atlanta Braves in 1995. In July, he’ll be able to call himself a Hall of Famer.
McGriff was elected to Cooperstown through the contemporary baseball era committee. He received unanimous support from the 16 members of the committee – comprised of Hall members, executives and baseball writers. The group included Greg Maddux, who played with McGriff on the Braves, along with Paul Beeston, who was an executive with the Toronto Blue Jays when McGriff made his debut.
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McGriff got 169 votes (39.8%) in his final year on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot in 2019. The contemporary era committee considers candidates whose careers were primarily from 1980 on. A player needs 75% of the vote to be elected.
Known as the "Crime Dog," McGriff hit .284 in his 19-year career that ended with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He hit 493 home runs and had a 52.6 bWAR.
He got into the Hall over Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling. Bonds and Clemens’ careers have been tied to the steroid era while writers have refused to vote Schilling in over comments he’s made in his post-playing career.
Each of the three players fell short in January in their final chances with the BBWAA. Bonds received 66% of the vote, Clemens got 65.2% and Schilling got 58.6%.
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Don Mattingly was the next closest to election with eight votes of the 12 required to get into the Hall through the committee. Schilling had seven and Murphy had six. Nobody else had more than three.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.
More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.
But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump's Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.
Ben Smith, who lives in suburban Larimer County, Colorado, north of Denver, said he reluctantly registered as a Republican earlier in the year after becoming increasingly concerned about the Democrats' support in some localities for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the party's inability to quell violent crime and its frequent focus on racial justice.
“It’s more so a rejection of the left than embracing the right,” said Smith, a 37-year-old professional counselor whose transition away from the Democratic Party began five or six years ago when he registered as a libertarian.
The AP examined nearly 1.7 million voters who had likely switched affiliations across 42 states for which there is data over the last 12 months, according to L2, a political data firm. L2 uses a combination of state voter records and statistical modeling to determine party affiliation. While party switching is not uncommon, the data shows a definite reversal from the period while Trump was in office, when Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of party switchers nationwide.
But over the last year, roughly two-thirds of the 1.7 million voters who changed their party affiliation shifted to the Republican Party. In all, more than 1 million people became Republicans compared to about 630,000 who became Democrats.
The broad migration of more than 1 million voters, a small portion of the overall U.S. electorate, does not ensure widespread Republican success in the November midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress and dozens of governorships. Democrats are hoping the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overrule Roe v. Wade will energize supporters, particularly in the suburbs, ahead of the midterms.
Still, the details about party switchers present a dire warning for Democrats who were already concerned about the macro effects shaping the political landscape this fall.
Roughly four months before Election Day, Democrats have no clear strategy to address Biden’s weak popularity and voters’ overwhelming fear that the country is headed in the wrong direction with their party in charge. And while Republicans have offered few policy solutions of their own, the GOP has been working effectively to capitalize on the Democrats' shortcomings.
Republicans benefited last year as suburban parents grew increasingly frustrated by prolonged pandemic-related schools closures. And as inflation intensified more recently, the Republican National Committee has been hosting voter registration events at gas stations in suburban areas across swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania to link the Biden administration to record-high gas prices. The GOP has also linked the Democratic president to an ongoing baby formula shortage.
“Biden and Democrats are woefully out of touch with the American people, and that’s why voters are flocking to the Republican Party in droves," RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel told the AP. She predicted that “American suburbs will trend red for cycles to come” because of “Biden’s gas hike, the open border crisis, baby formula shortage and rising crime.”
The Democratic National Committee declined to comment when asked about the recent surge in voters switching to the GOP.
And while Republican officials are quick to take credit for the shift, the phenomenon gained momentum shortly after Trump left the White House. Still, the specific reason or reasons for the shift remain unclear.
At least some of the newly registered Republicans are actually Democrats who crossed over to vote against Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries. Such voters are likely to vote Democratic again this November.
But the scope and breadth of the party switching suggests something much bigger at play.
Over the last year, nearly every state — even those without high-profile Republican primaries — moved in the same direction as voters by the thousand became Republicans. Only Virginia, which held off-year elections in 2021, saw Democrats notably trending up over the last year. But even there, Democrats were wiped out in last fall's statewide elections.
In Iowa, Democrats used to hold the advantage in party changers by a 2-to-1 margin. That’s flipped over the last year, with Republicans ahead by a similar amount. The same dramatic shift is playing out in Ohio.
In Florida, Republicans captured 58 percent of party switchers during those last years of the Trump era. Now, over the last year, they command 70 percent. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans went from 58 to 63 percent of party changers.
The current advantage for Republicans among party changers is playing out with particular ferocity in the nation's suburbs.
The AP found that the Republican advantage was larger in suburban “fringe” counties, based on classifications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to smaller towns and counties. Republicans boosted their share of party changers in 168 of 235 suburban counties AP examined — 72 percent — over the last year, compared with the last years of the Trump era.
These included suburban counties across Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Washington state.
Republicans also gained ground in further-out suburban counties, which the CDC lumps in with medium-size cities and calls “medium metro” — more than 62 percent of such counties, 164 in all, saw Republican growth. They range from the suburban counties north of Denver, like Larimer, to Los Angeles-area ones like Ventura and Santa Barbara in California.
The Republican advantage was nearly universal, but it was stronger in some places than others.
For example, in Lorain County, Ohio, just outside Cleveland, nearly every party switcher over the last year has gone Republican. That's even as Democrats captured three-quarters of those changing parties in the same county during end of the Trump era.
Some conservative leaders worry that the GOP's suburban gains will be limited if Republicans don't do a better job explaining to suburban voters what they stand for — instead of what they stand against.
Emily Seidel, who leads the Koch-backed grassroots organization Americans for Prosperity, said her network is seeing first-hand that suburban voters are distancing themselves from Democrats who represent "extreme policy positions.”
“But that doesn’t mean that they’re ready to vote against those lawmakers either. Frankly, they’re skeptical of both options that they have,” Seidel said. “The lesson here: Candidates have to make their case, they have to give voters something to be for, not just something to be against.”
Back in Larimer County, Colorado, 39-year-old homemaker Jessica Kroells says she can no longer vote for Democrats, despite being a reliable Democratic voter up until 2016.
There was not a single “aha moment” that convinced her to switch, but by 2020, she said the Democratic Party had “left me behind.”
“The party itself in no longer Democrat, it's progressive socialism,” she said, specifically condemning Biden's plan to eliminate billions of dollars in student debt.
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Colbert skewers MSNBC, CNN for redefining recession, claims they’re not ‘qualified’ to speak on issue
Colbert mocked the outlets for helping Biden White House redefine 'recession'
During the Thursday evening episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the host mocked cable news outlets for being unclear whether the U.S. is currently in a recession.
Colbert lampooned both CNN and MSNBC for helping the White House muddy the waters on what traditionally constitutes a recession or not. At the end of the segment, Colbert also made sure to skewer how unqualified each channel’s economic experts seemed on the topic.
The host’s Thursday night humor spoke to the confusion over the White House and its media allies redefining what typically indicates a recession.
Historically, two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth constitute the biggest tell of a nation in recession. On Thursday, the U.S. hit this marker, yet the Biden White House insisted the country had not entered a recession as they claimed other aspects of the economy are doing well.
Colbert opened his recession segment with the big question: "So we’re in a recession … or are we?" To find his answer he began by reading a White House statement cited in a CNN Business article. "According to the White House, ‘two consecutive quarters of economic contraction does not, in and of itself, constitute a recession.’"
Sarcastically, he pivoted to the news. "Thankfully, we have cable news to cut through all the spin and give us some straight answers," he said, as the audience laughed.
Miming a conversation with CNN, he asked, "CNN, we've had back-to-back quarters of negative growth. What does that mean historically?" Colbert played a clip of CNN business reporter Matt Egan in response. Egan stated, "Every single time since 1948 that you’ve had back-to-back quarters of negative growth, you've had a recession, every time."
The host then followed up, "So that’s the case this time?" A clip of Egan responded, "That may not necessarily be the case this time."
The audience laughed as Colbert conveyed the confusion generated by Egan’s statements.
Next, he turned to clips from MSNBC. "Okay. Still, recession-wise, we should be able to use history as a guide, right, MSNBC?" The show featured a quote from Financial Times editor-at-large Gillian Tett speaking on "Andrea Mitchell Reports." Tett stated, "We really don't know how far we can or cannot use history as a guide."
Colbert pressed on, asking, "Sure, but at the bare minimum, on the GDP next quarter, up or down?"
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The host then hammered all the pundits featured in the segment with his last query. He said, "Okay. Last question: do you need any qualifications at all to go on TV and talk about the economy?"
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KAUFMAN — Argyle struggled to surmount a key injury and turnover woes in a 49-36 loss to North Forney on Tuesday at Kaufman High.
The loss capped off a 1-1 first day at the Kaufman Holiday Tournament for the Eagles, who knocked off Ennis (6-12) by a score of 67-49 in their first game of the day.
“After being six days off, we played really well for two-and-a-half quarters in our first game,” Argyle coach Russell Perkins said. “To turn around and have to play again in an hour and 15 minutes, I think that really showed in the second game, but that’s what this is for, to get back on the floor and keep going.”
Argyle (15-3) also lost standout guard/forward Jayson Demcher to a potential season-ending injury against Ennis, leaving it to regroup on the fly.
Without Demcher — who averaged 10 points, seven rebounds and three assists per game for the Eagles last season — they struggled to generate consistent offense against North Forney.
Grayson Bernard and Evan Harbach combined to lead the offensive effort with seven points apiece. Kash Polk added five points, and Jett McCasland chipped in four.
It was all Falcons early on, however, as they jumped out to a 6-0 lead over the first 1:26 and forced an Argyle timeout. The Eagles rallied to make it 8-4 before ultimately falling behind 13-5 after a quarter.
A high-scoring second period saw North Forney jump ahead 25-7 before a layup and 3-pointer by Bernard cut into the edge. The Falcons’ strongest offensive quarter of the contest helped them lead 30-15 at halftime as they generated a plethora of easy baskets off turnovers in the first half.
Argyle kept pace with North Forney in a 12-10 third quarter, then had some late points in the fourth quarter bring the final margin a bit closer at 49-36.
The Eagles will play two more games Wednesday to wrap up play at the tournament before returning to district play next week. They will look to rally from falling 57-42 to Colleyville Heritage in their Dec. 20 district opener.
Perkins hopes his team can learn from its loss to North Forney as it moves forward in the tournament and the season in general.
“We found a team that was a lot better than us in the first half,” Perkins said. “Hopefully we can learn from that and know that’s why we want to do this — to try to play teams that are going to make us better.”
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CarLotz, Inc. ("CarLotz" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LOTZ), in connection with the proposed merger of the Company with Shift Technologies, Inc. ("Shift") (NASDAQ: SFT). Under the terms of the merger agreement, Company shareholders will receive 0.692158 shares of Shift common stock for each share of CarLotz common stock, leaving then- current Shift equity holders owning approximately 52.9% and CarLotz then-current equity holders owning approximately 47.1% of the combined company upon closing of the transaction.
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By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet
Medicare open enrollment starts soon, but 7 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries say they don’t compare Medicare plans during this period, according to a 2021 analysis by KFF, a health policy nonprofit.
That’s not great, since Medicare Advantage plans — which operate much like the private insurance you may have had through an employer — change from year to year. One of your doctors may have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices may have gone up. And people with Original Medicare should compare their Part D prescription drug coverage.
Here’s how to approach switching Medicare plans.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ENROLLMENT PERIODS
If you have a Medicare plan, Medicare open enrollment from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 is your opportunity to change coverage. You can switch from Original Medicare to Medicare Advantage, or vice versa, or enroll in or change Medicare Part D prescription drug plans.
If you have Medicare Advantage, you can also use Medicare Advantage open enrollment from Jan. 1 to March 31 each year to switch plans or go back to Original Medicare and sign up for a Medicare Part D drug plan.
CONSIDER PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
If you’re on any prescription medications, understand how your current plan will cover them in 2023 and whether another plan might be more affordable.
“It can be as simple as putting your drugs into Medicare.gov,” says Scott Maibor, a Medicare advisor based in Boston. “You should at least verify that ‘This is the plan I’m on, this is the plan that’s recommended, what are the savings?’”
That’s because Part D prescription drug plans — whether you’re with Original Medicare or getting coverage through a Medicare Advantage plan — can change each year. You may find that one of your prescriptions will cost more in 2023, or that your plan will stop covering it. Or you may have started a new medication and you can find a plan that charges you less for it.
Don’t forget to browse your drug plan’s preferred pharmacies. “It’s not even just a matter of cost sometimes, it’s a matter of location,” says Karen Schechter , director and assistant professor of the health care management and health administration programs at Maryville University. “If I’m a person who needs to refill a prescription once a month, I may not want to go to a place that’s far away.”
THINK HARD BEFORE GIVING UP YOUR MEDIGAP PLAN
You’re first eligible for a Medicare Supplement Insurance, or Medigap, plan once you’re 65 or older and you have Medicare Part B. This six-month Medigap open enrollment period happens only once, and you can buy any policy you want, regardless of your health. After that, you may not be able to get a Medigap plan — or it might cost more.
Medigap pays many of the out-of-pocket costs of Original Medicare. If you have a serious or chronic health condition, that can lead to significant cost savings. Some people switch to Medicare Advantage plans during open enrollment, not realizing they might not be able to switch back to a Medigap plan later.
“Our clients are sitting at home, they’re seeing these commercials on television talking about the free gym membership, zero premiums and they go ahead and make changes on their own,” says Emily Gang , owner of The Medicare Coach. “They realize early in the year that they made a mistake and we can’t go back.”
COMPLETE THE PROCESS
To sign up for a new plan, you’ll need your Medicare number and the date your Part A and/or Part B coverage started. (All of this information is on your Medicare card.)
You may be able to enroll online , but you might also have to make a call or two:
— If you’re moving from one Medicare Advantage plan to another, you’ll be disenrolled from your previous plan automatically once your new coverage kicks in.
— If you’re switching from Medicare Advantage to Original Medicare, call 800-MEDICARE to make the change or call your plan provider to disenroll . Don’t forget to sign up for prescription drug coverage (Part D) to avoid paying a penalty.
— If you’re switching from Original Medicare to Medicare Advantage, your new plan will transfer your benefits from Medicare . But you’ll need to disenroll from any Part D plan you may have.
— If you’re switching Part D drug plans, your old coverage will end when your new coverage starts.
— If you’re staying with your current plan, do nothing. Your coverage will renew automatically.
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance site NerdWallet. Kate Ashford is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: kashford@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @kateashford.
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METHODOLOGY:
According to KFF , its analysis used survey data for community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) 2019 Survey File. The analysis was weighted to represent the ever-enrolled Medicare population in 2019 using the topical survey weight KNSEWT and relevant replicate weights. The analysis excludes beneficiaries who reported just enrolling in Medicare.
The analysis excludes beneficiaries with Part A or Part B only and those with Medicare as secondary payer. Results from all statistical tests were reported with p0.05 are considered statistically significant.
KFF. (October, 2021). “Seven in Ten Medicare Beneficiaries Did Not Compare Plans During Past Open Enrollment Period.” https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/seven-in-ten-medicare-beneficiaries-did-not-compare-plans-during-past-open-enrollment-period/
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LOS ANGELES — Are you ready for some football? Fine, but the return of the NFL is why the 2022 Emmy Awards have been drop-kicked from their usual Sunday berth to Monday.
The industry is expected to put on its Monday best, swan down the red carpet and celebrate itself and the wealth of shows across streaming services, cable and, to a degree that pales compared to years’ past, old-school network fare.
But what’s a Hollywood awards show without a TV audience? A low-rated disappointment, and that’s where you come in. If you decide to do your bit and tune in, here’s a roadmap to everything you need to know about the 2022 Emmys.
WHEN ARE THE 2022 EMMMYS?
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Monday, Sept. 12, at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. The roughly three-hour ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. EDT and air live on NBC and, for free, on the streaming service Peacock.
But the Emmys, with 118 total awards, aren’t a one-day affair. Winners in 25 key categories including best drama and comedy series will be announced during the broadcast ceremony, with the rest divvied up between the Sept. 3 and 4 creative arts awards. An edited version of the weekend ceremonies, with categories including sound editing and cinematography, will air at 8 p.m. EDT Sept. 10 on FXX.
WHO IS HOSTING THE EMMYS CEREMONY?
The honor usually goes to a comedian with a link to the network airing the event, and NBC stayed the course: It chose “Saturday Night Live” veteran Kenan Thompson, a first-time Emmy host who’s been preceded in the emcee job by a number of “SNL” stars. The ceremony has tried going without a host, most recently in 2019, but the results weren’t always pretty. Or entertaining.
WHICH SHOWS ARE NOMINATED FOR THE TOP AWARDS AT THE EMMYS?
Some previous winners are vying again for best series honors, including “Ted Lasso,” a freshman when it won 2021’s best comedy series, and “Succession,” which claimed the 2020 best drama award. (The series didn’t air during the eligibility window for 2021, when “The Crown” won.)
There are also formidable newcomers, including the dystopian drama “Squid Game” and comedy crime romp “Only Murders in the Building.”
Among the nominated actors, those hoping to be repeat victors include Jason Sudeikis of “Ted Lasso,” Jean Smart of “Hacks” and Zendaya of “Euphoria.” Check out the full list of Emmy nominees.
WHAT WERE THE MOST SURPISING EMMY NODS?
So many, where to begin? The farewell season of “This Is Us” got a single nomination, for original music and lyrics, after reaping Emmys for several cast members in years past. It was a similar case for the last year of “black-ish,” which ended its groundbreaking run with just two creative arts nominations. On the flip side, it was far from a slam dunk that Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer,” with its controversial anti-transgender comments, would earn a best variety special nomination. It did.
WHO DECIDES THE EMMY WINNERS?
The more than 17,000 voting members of the TV academy are eligible to decide nominees and winners in 14 categories, including drama, comedy and limited series. The acting awards, including lead, supporting and guest actors, are determined by peer groups, as are directing, writing and other individual areas of achievement. The number of nominees in most categories generally is tied to the number of submissions, with exceptions including best comedy and dramas series: They get eight nominees each.
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Which fishing hat is best?
Anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors needs a hat. Baseball caps keep sun out of your eyes but have no protection for your neck, ears or the rest of your face. Bucket hats don’t provide much coverage, and cowboy hats don’t stay on your head when the wind blows.
People who fish are at higher risk because they are also exposed to the sun that reflects off the water, doubling their risk of harm from ultraviolet rays. If you’re looking for a fishing hat with a wide brim, vents and moisture-wicking technology, take a look at the Columbia Bora Bora Booney.
What to know before you buy a fishing hat
The best fishing hat is also a sun hat that not only provides protection from ultraviolet rays that burn your skin but is also comfortable to wear.
UVA and UVB rays
Sunlight is made up of visible and invisible rays. The ones that are the most damaging are called ultraviolet rays, named for their position on the color spectrum of light. There are two types of ultraviolet rays, named UVA and UVB.
- UVA rays penetrate deeply and are most responsible for premature aging and wrinkling of the skin.
- UVB rays are responsible for causing sunburn. They also are the rays most responsible for skin cancers, including malignant melanoma.
- The UV ray index is a scale you see in detailed weather reports online and on TV. It rates the strength of UV rays, your risk levels, suggested exposure times and precautions you should take.
Protection ratings
- SPF stands for sun protection factor. It refers to a hat’s ability to prevent your skin from turning red due ultraviolet B radiation. A hat with an SPF rating of 50 means exposed skin can stay in the sun 50 times longer before reddening.
- UPF stands for ultraviolet protection factor. Where SPF measures your hat’s ability to block ultraviolet B, a hat with UPF protection blocks both UVA and UVB rays.
The hat brim
Your hat’s brim is your primary defense against the sun.
- Width: The wider the brim, the more shade you get. The downside is that the wider the brim, the likelier it is to blow off your head in a stiff breeze.
- Coverage: Brims that go all the way around shade the back and sides as well as the front. Baseball hats provide shade only in front and bucket hats have only a narrow brim that provides minimal shade.
- Stiffness: Wide brims can be stiff or floppy. Stiff wide brims, like those on a cowboy hat, are unmanageable when the wind gets up. Floppy brims stay on your head, but may disturb you with the way they flap around in a breeze.
What to look for in a quality fishing hat
Breathability
Scientists say most of the heat from our bodies escapes through the top of our heads just as most of a fireplace’s heat goes right up the chimney. When we wear hats, we are capping our chimneys. Look for a fishing hat with vents that let the heat from your head escape.
Technology
Wicking moisture away produces a cooling effect. Look for a hat with a wicking band that absorbs the moisture from your skin and transfers it to the air, making your head feel cooler.
Flaps
Some fishing hats are made to provide extreme protection. Be aware that the more of these flaps you have, the more restricted your field of vision.
- Rear: These have long flaps that extend from the rear to provide complete protection for the back of your neck.
- Side: Some have side flaps to keep the sun off your cheeks and the sides of your neck and face.
- Front: A few fishing hats are made with breathable mesh flaps on the front that cover your face.
How much you can expect to spend on a fishing hat
Most wide-brimmed fishing hats cost from $10-$30, depending on materials and design features.
Fishing hat FAQ
If I buy a good hat, do I still need sunscreen?
A. Yes. Always wear sunscreen that blocks both UVA and UVB rays, and always remember to reapply it as your perspiration washes it away.
What colors are best for fishing hats?
A. Light colors reflect the sun’s rays more than dark colors do, deflecting some of the heat and keeping you cooler. But light colors also get dirty quicker, so if you want a hat that won’t show dirt and is easy to keep clean, choose a dark color.
What’s the best fishing hat to buy?
Top fishing hat
What you need to know: Moisture-wicking technology gives you a dry fit that keeps you cool and comfortable.
What you’ll love: This breathable, wide-brimmed mesh hat has a tight weave that’s great for yard work as well as fishing. It has built-in UPF shielding designed to block ultraviolet rays from every angle. Choose from 25 colors, all with adjustable chin straps and hat size adjustment cords.
What you should consider: Its brim is too floppy for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top fishing hat for the money
Home Prefer UPF 50-plus Wide Brim Fishing Hat
What you need to know: This lightweight fishing hat blocks 98% of harmful ultraviolet rays.
What you’ll love: The mesh vents let cooling air through the crown and the kepi flap keeps your neck from being burned by the sun. The crown has a drawstring adjusting mechanism for a snug fit in breezy conditions,
What you should consider: It’s not waterproof and must be hand-washed only.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Einskey Waterproof Wide Brim Boonie Hat
What you need to know: This fishing hat has one of the widest brims you can find.
What you’ll love: This polyester hat keeps the sun off while repelling water, too. The mesh panels allow air to circulate, the built-in sweatband keeps sweat out of your eyes and the elastic drawstring keeps your hat securely on your head on windy days.
What you should consider: Some buyers reported problems with the inner lining.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Sock Bottoms eliminate the hassle of children removing their socks, parents having to search for missing pairs, or losing them in the washing machine.
MILWAUKEE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- All busy parents have faced the problem of trying to keep socks on their children's feet, not to mention issues with finding lost socks and matching missing pairs. Entrepreneur and mother of two young children, Katy Prushiek launched Sock Bottoms out of frustration with her young son struggling to keep his socks on his feet.
Contemporary, chic, and functional, Sock Bottoms are unique patent-pending children's pants with socks attached. They save stressed parents time by conveniently eliminating the hassle of their children removing their socks. This means no more searching for missing pairs, figuring out if the socks still fit and match, or losing them in the washing machine.
"I'm always on the hunt for adorable children's clothing that's functional," said Prushiek, owner of Sock Bottoms. "Our target audience is parents, with a focus on busy moms. There's nothing like it on the market. Sock Bottoms will change the world because pants and socks will be worn in a whole new way."
Besides the aforementioned, additional benefits of Sock Bottoms include:
- Matching sizes – Because the pants and socks are combined, parents don't have to worry about finding the correct sock size.
- No gap – There is no gap between the pants and socks for cold weather.
- Durable – Sock Bottoms will last at least 1 year or longer when properly cared for.
- Simplicity – Simply put Sock Bottoms on like regular pants and adjust the socks.
- Unique – Sock Bottoms are unique, but look like typical pants and socks, fit better in shoes, and designs are stylish and cute.
- Affordable – The product costs similar to a usual pair of children's pants. They can be bought on the company's website or on Amazon.
- Elastic waistband – Helps with fitting properly and making sure pants stay up.
Sock Bottoms can be purchased directly from the company's e-commerce site, https://www.sock-bottoms.com/.
Created by an entrepreneur and mother, Sock Bottoms are innovative patent-pending children's pants with socks attached that are ideal for busy parents. For more information, please visit the company's website https://www.sock-bottoms.com/.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper got a gift double in the ninth inning when Miami left fielder Brian Anderson slipped chasing a flyball, then hustled home on Jean Segura's single to send the Philadelphia Phillies over the Marlins 3-2.
Edmundo Sosa homered and doubled and Aaron Nola struck out 10 for the playoff-contending Phillies, who rebounded from a poor road trip in which they lost five of six to the sub-.500 Diamondbacks and Giants.
Anderson drove in both runs for the Marlins. Miami lost its eighth in a row and has scored no more than two runs in nine straight games.
Harper hit a high fly down the line in medium left with one out in the ninth. Anderson stumbled and Harper wound up on second. After an intentional walk, Segura singled to win the game. | https://www.wdel.com/sports/harper-phils-get-gift-in-9th-to-beat-marlins/article_febc0be6-2e58-11ed-a3a1-7b20b0d27ea0.html | 2022-09-07 04:07:32 | 1 | https://www.wdel.com/sports/harper-phils-get-gift-in-9th-to-beat-marlins/article_febc0be6-2e58-11ed-a3a1-7b20b0d27ea0.html |
MIAMI (AP) — The game was over. So, finally, was Al Horford’s journey. He grabbed what would be the final rebound of the Eastern Conference finals, threw the ball skyward, sprinted to join his teammates in celebration and then dropped to his knees to slap the floor.
His time has come.
The oldest player — by six years — on the Boston Celtics’ roster will savor this trip to the NBA Finals in ways that his teammates simply cannot. He will finally play in the title series, with the Celtics set to open the matchup against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, one day before Horford’s 36th birthday.
“Nobody deserves it more,” Boston guard Jaylen Brown said.
Nobody in the history of the NBA has played more playoff games without making the finals than Horford; Sunday night’s 100-96 East title-clinching win in Miami was his 141st postseason appearance. When the ball is tipped in San Francisco for the start of Celtics-Warriors, that dubious distinction becomes Paul Millsap’s possession; he’s been in 130 playoff games, none in the finals.
Horford didn’t know what the moment — making the finals — would be like. Turns out, it was better than he envisioned.
“Just didn’t know how to act,” Horford said. “Just caught up, excited. A lot of hard work. I’ve been a part of a lot of great teams, a lot of great teammates, and I’m so proud of this group. … I’m really grateful to be in this position.”
Horford had a previous three-year stint in Boston, making the East finals twice, before signing with Philadelphia and eventually getting moved to Oklahoma City. He didn’t play much for the Thunder, and they traded him last summer back to Boston — a move that worked out better than even the Celtics hoped.
His averages so far in these playoffs: 11.9 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists while playing nearly 37 minutes per contest.
“Al could care less about the numbers,” Celtics guard Marcus Smart said. “He cares about the wins and this team. When he came back, that gave us a sense of security. We got Al back there, he’s always going to make the right play on both ends, he’s going to calm us down, he’s going to show us what we missed and he’s going to help us learn the game even more.”
Horford isn’t Boston’s best player. But make no mistake: He is the leader. In practices, timeouts, the locker room, wherever, his voice resonates.
“It’s incredible what he’s done all season,” coach Ime Udoka said. “As I mentioned, came into training camp in extremely great shape, chip on his shoulder, prideful, wanted to come back to Boston. … He lays it all out there guarding bigs, smalls and everything in between. His leadership goes without saying.”
Winning the East title was hard enough, going through a No. 1 seed like Miami and having to win a Game 7 on the road.
That told only part of the story.
Horford wasn’t himself in Game 6 on Friday night, when Boston had a chance to clinch the series on its home floor, and for understandable reasons. His grandfather died the day before, though family members urged Horford to keep playing.
“My grandfather was somebody that I was extremely close with, somebody that I really care for,” Horford said. “All week my mom, my family were just kind of telling me to just go out there and play. That’s something that he would have wanted me to do, to just continue on and really just try and stay focused and understand that he’s at peace now.”
There was grief. There was joy. The last few days have been quite the emotional pendulum for Horford.
But maybe it was fitting that the NBA Finals ticket came his way in Miami, given that he played his college ball at Florida and is a hero in his native Dominican Republic — where countless people have become Celtics fans again because of him.
“We’re here in Miami really close to the DR. Everybody is watching. The country was watching,” Horford said. “I know everybody was there. They were sending me pictures, they were ready for this, and we’re enjoying this time.”
Before long, though, he was already thinking ahead. The celebration in Miami had to end. A new challenge — the ultimate challenge for a basketball player, the one for an NBA title — awaits.
Finally.
“His energy, his demeanor, coming in every day, being a professional, taking care of his body, being a leader, I’m proud to be able to share this moment with a veteran, a mentor, a brother, a guy like Al Horford, man,” Brown said. “He’s been great all season, really my whole career. I’m happy to be able to share this moment with somebody like him.”
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MONTHLY RELEASES FEATURE HANDPICKED RARITIES AND FAN FAVORITES FROM VERVE LABEL GROUP'S GROUNDBREAKING JAZZ CATALOG
ONGOING SERIES LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 11 WITH ALICE COLTRANE'S PTAH, THE EL DAOUD AND ROY BROOKS' BEAT
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of iconic labels, the series will offer two titles per month – each hand-picked by Verve and Third Man Records. The records will include both long-out-of-print titles from the vault as well as the first-ever vinyl pressings for albums released in the '90s and aughts that were only originally released on CD.
Albums will be newly remastered from original analog sources, when available, and pressed on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl at Third Man Pressing in Detroit. Each month, a limited Third Man Edition yellow color variant of each LP will also be available exclusively via Third Man Records and uDiscoverMusic. Each of the Third Man Editions will come in a limited edition, two-color, screen-printed jacket on archival French cover stock, custom printed and assembled in Detroit. The series launches on November 11 with a nod to Third Man's birthplace with two of Detroit's finest: Alice Coltrane's Ptah, the El Daoud (1970) and Roy Brooks' long out-of-print Beat (1964).
Recorded at Motown's legendary Hitsville USA studio for Workshop Jazz – Berry Gordy's short-lived jazz imprint – Beat marks Roy Brooks' debut as a leader and finds the innovative drummer fusing his hard bop roots with a Motor City soul-jazz groove. Brooks, who served as a sideman for Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, and Chet Baker, among others, is joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon (trombone) and Hugh Lawson (piano), along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates: Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor saxophone), and Eugene Taylor (bass). Together, they deliver a high-energy set that features tracks written by Brooks, Joe Henderson, and Duke Pearson. Notably, the track "Soulsphere" was composed by Alice McLeod (erroneously credited as "McCloud" on the sleeve), who would blaze a new musical path a few years later as the incomparable Alice Coltrane. Hailed by All Music as "a record of uncommon scope and reach," Beat is the first official reissue of any Workshop Jazz album.
Following the death of her husband John Coltrane in 1967, Alice Coltrane continued to forward the musical and spiritual version they set out on together and started to release records on her own as composer and bandleader. The hypnotic Ptah, the El Daoud, was the fourth album to bear the pianist and harpist's name released between 1968-70, which also included her joint album, Cosmic Music, partially recorded with John a year before his death. The transcendent Ptah, the El Daoud, recorded in the Coltrane home studio in 1970 and released later that year on Impulse! Records, features an all-star line-up on the four compositions, including Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson (both on tenor sax and alto flute). A masterpiece of spiritual jazz, the album's title track is an ode to the Egyptian God, Ptah (the El Daoud meaning "the beloved"), while many moments on the record can best be described by the Hindu word "Turiya," which Coltrane defines in the liner notes as "a state of consciousness – the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life."
The releases continue on December 9 with Chicken Fat, the 1967 Impulse! debut by blues guitarist Mel Brown. Brown's clean picking style – honed while playing alongside John Lee Hooker, Bobby Bland, and T-Bone Walker – marinates deliciously with the swinging soul-jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins. Featuring the simmering lament "I'm Goin' to Jackson," the electrifying "Greasy Spoon," and the standout title track, Chicken Fat is quite possibly the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label.
Also available in December is James Brown's Soul on Top. Originally released in 1970 via King Records, the album was a dream project for the Godfather of Soul, a fan of big-band jazz who is provided the full treatment with an 18-piece band, led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson. Joined by his soul consigliere, saxophonist Maceo Parker, Brown offers up a swinging set of jazz and pop standards, while revisiting several of his classic hits, including "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." This reissue features a new mix of the original album by legendary bassist and James Brown superfan Christian McBride and UMe A&R Vice President Harry Weinger.
Pre-order Alice Coltrane's Ptah, the El Daoud: https://alicecoltrane.lnk.to/PtahTheElDaoudPR
Pre-order Roy Brooks' Beat: https://RoyBrooks.lnk.to/BeatPR
Pre-order Mel Brown's Chicken Fat: https://MelBrown.lnk.to/ChickenFatPR
Pre-order James Brown's Soul On Top: https://JamesBrown.lnk.to/SoulOnTopPR
Future Verve By Request titles, which are listed below through June 2023, will include vinyl debuts of Wayne Shorter's Footprints Live! (2002) and Herbie Hancock's The New Standard (1996), plus reissues from Pharoah Sanders, Ahmad Jamal, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and many more.
Verve By Request Releases (November 2022 – June 2023):
November 11, 2022: Roy Brooks – Beat
November 11, 2022: Alice Coltrane – Ptah, The El Daoud
December 9, 2022: James Brown - Soul On Top
December 9, 2022: Mel Brown – Chicken Fat
January 13, 2023: Ahmad Jamal – The Awakening
January 13, 2023: Archie Shepp – Kwanza
February 10, 2023: Dorothy Ashby - The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby
February 10, 2023: Gábor Szabó - The Sorcerer
March 10, 2023: Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie
March 10, 2023: Eartha Kitt - Bad But Beautiful
April 28, 2023: Yusef Lateef – Psychicemotus
April 28, 2023: Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
May 26, 2023: Wayne Shorter - Footprints Live!
May 26, 2023: Herbie Hancock - The New Standard
June 30, 2023: Albert Ayler - Love Cry
June 30, 2023: Sun Ra - Space Is The Place
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Spring wildfire season has arrived in Maine, and there have already been almost 50 smaller wildfires this year. Fire dangers will increase as the weather warms. As Wildfire Awareness Week approaches, we'll learn about the causes of increased wildfires in recent years and the links to climate change. We'll also discuss the state's newly implemented free burn permits.
Panelists:
Chief Ken Brilliant, Fire Chief and Emergency Management Agency Director, Brunswick Fire Department
Col. Robby Gross, Chief Forest Ranger, Maine Forest Service
Erin Lane, fire ecologist, U.S. Forest Service; coordinator, USDA Northeast Climate Hub | https://www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-calling/2022-04-15/maine-wildfires-on-the-rise-linked-to-climate-change-and-other-causes | 2022-04-15 11:39:39 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-calling/2022-04-15/maine-wildfires-on-the-rise-linked-to-climate-change-and-other-causes |
Wall Street closed lower Thursday and banks were among the biggest weights on the market following weak earnings and a warning from JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan Chase reported a sharp drop in earnings for its latest quarter, falling short of forecasts. CEO Jamie Dimon reaffirmed a pessimistic view for the economy.
Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier. It follows a worrisome report on Wednesday showing consumer inflation is still accelerating.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 fell 11.40 points, or 0.3%, to 3,790.38.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 142.62 points, or 0.5%, to 30,630.17.
The Nasdaq rose 3.60 points, less than 0.1%, to 11,251.19.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 18.53 points, or 1.1%, to 1,707.51.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 109.00 points, or 2.8%.
The Dow is down 707.98 points, or 2.3%.
The Nasdaq is down 384.12 points, or 3.3%.
The Russell 2000 is down 61.86 points, or 3.5%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 975.80 points, or 20.5%.
The Dow is down 5,708.13 points, or 15.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,393.79 points, or 28.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 537.81 points, or 24%. | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Wednesday-17305734.php | 2022-07-14 20:50:45 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Wednesday-17305734.php |
CONCORD, Calif. (KRON) — A person died of a drug overdose at the Concord BART station, according to an update from the BART police log. Police said the male victim was given a dose of Narcan, but it was unsuccessful. Narcan is a drug that can restore people’s breathing after an overdose.
Police responded to the station at 3:46 p.m. for the report of an unresponsive male. They arrived and found the victim who appeared to be suffering from an overdose.
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Police gave the victim Narcan and initiated CPR until medical services arrived, but he was declared dead at the scene. BART PD does not believe any foul play was involved.
There was another incident at the Concord BART station on Thursday, police said. An 18-year-old man from Discovery Bay was taken into custody and booked in the Contra Costa County juvenile hall for an outstanding arrest warrant. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/person-dies-of-overdose-at-concord-bart-station/ | 2022-12-16 03:14:26 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/person-dies-of-overdose-at-concord-bart-station/ |
China furious after US warns against arming Russia: ‘The US is in no position to tell China what to do’
A Chinese spokesman did not reject the US allegations
Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China deteriorated further on Monday after China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs snapped at the Biden administration for suggesting that it has information suggesting that China is considering sending weapons and ammunition to Russia to help its war against Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made that accusation Sunday on CBS, where he said Chinese companies have already been supplying Russia with non-lethal aid and may soon do more.
"The concern that we have now is, based on information we have, that they’re considering providing lethal support, and we’ve made very clear to them that that would cause a serious problem for us and in our relationship," Blinken said. When asked what lethal aid China might deliver, Blinken said, "weapons."
That remark drew a furious comment from China on Monday – but not an outright denial – even as China’s top diplomat was expected to travel to Moscow this week.
"It is the U.S. not China, that has been pouring weapons into the battlefield," Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin said. "The U.S. is in no position to tell China what to do. We would never stand for finger-pointing, or even coercion and pressurizing from the U.S. on our relations with Russia."
Wang said China supports peace and took another shot at the U.S. by saying it’s the U.S. that is promoting conflict by arming Ukraine.
BLINKEN ISSUES WARNING TO CHINA ABOUT SPY CRAFT IN ‘CONFRONTATIONAL’ MEETING WITH COUNTERPART
"The international community is fully aware who is calling for dialogue and striving for peace, and who is fanning the flames and stoking confrontation," he said. "We urge the US side to seriously reflect on the role it has played, do something to actually help deescalate the situation and promote peace talks, and stop deflecting the blame and spreading disinformation."
Wang said China would soon release a document proposing a peaceful resolution of the conflict, which will stress that a "nuclear war must never be fought and can never be won."
Wang also fired back at the U.S. over the diplomatic disruption that was caused when the Biden administration confirmed the existence of a Chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the U.S. That discovery prompted Blinken to postpone a scheduled trip to China.
PRESIDENT BIDEN MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO KYIV, UKRAINE, MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY
Blinken said over the weekend he met with Chinese officials at the Munich Security Conference to warn that the U.S. would not stand for any violation of U.S. sovereignty. But Wang accused the U.S. of continuing to "fuss" over the incident.
"The U.S. itself is the number one country in conducting surveillance worldwide, whose high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China multiple times," Wang said, repeating an assertion the U.S. has rejected. "The U.S. is in no position to smear China. The U.S. needs to demonstrate sincerity, and acknowledge and resolve the damage its abuse of force has done to China-US relations."
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"If the U.S. side continues to fuss over, dramatize and escalate the unintended and isolated incident, it should not expect the Chinese side to flinch," he added. "The U.S. side should be prepared to bear all consequences arising from an escalation." | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-furious-us-warns-against-arming-russia-us-no-position-tell-china | 2023-02-20 18:16:53 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-furious-us-warns-against-arming-russia-us-no-position-tell-china |
HIGH SCHOOL
Greenwood Christian posts win at Traders Point Christian Schools' expense 51-40
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Winning wasn't going to be easy in this matchup, but Greenwood Christian still prevailed 51-40 against Traders Point Christian Schools for an Indiana boys basketball victory on February 14.
In recent action on February 4, Greenwood Christian faced off against Indian Creek . Click here for a recap. Traders Point Christian Schools took on Christel House on February 4 at Christel House High School. For more, click here.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) abruptly cut off Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a hearing Thursday and declared, “That’s a lie,” when Yellen said that President Biden is ready to work with Congress on reforming Social Security.
“What, doesn’t the president care?” Cassidy asked during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Biden’s budget.
“He cares very deeply,” Yellen answered.
“Then where is his plan?” Cassidy interjected.
“He stands ready to work with Congress…” Yellen began answering when Cassidy cut her off.
“That’s a lie,” Cassidy exclaimed.
“Because when a bipartisan group of senators has repeatedly requested to meet with him about Social [Security] so that someone who is a current beneficiary will not see her benefits cut by 24 percent, we have not heard anything on our request,” Cassidy said.
That heated interaction prompted Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to step in and admonish Cassidy for breaching Senate decorum.
“I would just caution colleagues, we’ve got plenty of differences around here but accusing witnesses of lying is over the line,” Wyden said.
Cassidy softened a bit and explained that he wasn’t accusing Yellen of lying but repeating a talking point that didn’t match reality.
“I accept that, and I did not mean that for the Madam Secretary who is merely saying that which she’s been told, I’m saying it for an empiric observation — when the president says he’s ready to meet, then he’s turned down…” the Louisiana senator started to explain before Wyden cut him off.
“The time of the gentlemen is expired. Accusing witnesses of lying is over the line,” Wyden repeated tersely.
Cassidy later insisted to reporters that he did not call Yellen a liar.
“I didn’t call her a liar. She’s got talking points. She was told that the president has said that. Just because she’s reporting what she was told the president said, that’s not making me call her a liar,” Cassidy.
“Whoever gave that talking point either doesn’t know that there’s been multiple attempts to speak to [Biden,] or knows it and decided it’s better pub[licity] to say something different,” he said.
Asked if he expected the hearing to be so tense, Cassidy pointed out that Biden has called for nearly $5 trillion in tax increases without proposing “a dime” in new funding for Social Security, referring to the budget plan the White House sent to Congress last week. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/sen-cassidy-to-yellen-at-hearing-thats-a-lie/ | 2023-03-16 20:46:16 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/sen-cassidy-to-yellen-at-hearing-thats-a-lie/ |
E-truck-maker sets first dealer in state
Electric delivery truck maker Envirotech Vehicles on Thursday named Jonesboro-based DaVinci Innovations as its first dealer in Arkansas.
"Envirotech is proud to be pushing the transportation industry towards the future of greener technology as we announce DVI [DaVinci Innovations] as our first Arkansas-based dealer," said Envirotech Chief Executive Officer Phillip Oldridge. "The days of going to dealerships to purchase vehicles continue to become less prevalent in the industry, and we are excited to see how DVI's entirely online system will help enhance buyer experience and make purchasing our heavy-duty, fully-electric vehicles more convenient and accessible across the state."
DaVinci Innovations was created in 2022 by owner Guy Pardew, a news release said. Envirotech customers will be able to view inventory and make purchases through DaVinci's website. New vehicles will be shipped directly from Envirotech's factory in Osceola.
"We are thrilled to be accommodating both the federal and state government's demand for electric vehicles," Pardew said. "As a fully online electric vehicle dealer, we are proud to be embracing a quick and efficient way for businesses to find and purchase vehicles that meet their needs without having to visit a dealership."
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
State's milk output falls 35% in quarter
Milk production in Arkansas dropped 35% in the second quarter of 2022, compared with the same period a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Arkansas' dairy cows produced 11 million pounds of milk in April through June period, down from 17 million pounds from the second quarter of 2021. The state's first quarter 2022 milk production was down 24% compared to last year. A gallon of milk weighs 8.6 pounds.
Dairy cows in Arkansas numbered 4,500 head, down from 5,000 head in the same period last year but unchanged when compared with the first quarter of 2022.
U.S. milk production was 56.3 billion pounds in the second quarter, down about 1% from 56.8 billion pounds a year ago. The average number of dairy cows was 9.4 million head, down from 9.5 million a year ago.
-- John Magsam
Index inches up 2.89 to end day at 760.64
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, closed Thursday at 760.64, up 2.89.
"The S&P 500 index closed above the 50-day moving average for a third consecutive day as the market was led by the consumer discretionary and health care sectors as companies continue to report quarterly earnings," said Leon Lants, managing director at Stephens Inc.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/22/news-in-brief/ | 2022-07-22 09:01:55 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/22/news-in-brief/ |
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California police officer was arrested for firing his gun into the air several times in a tavern’s parking lot after drinking with his friends, authorities said.
San Bernardino Police Officer Fidel Ocampo-Rodarte, who was off-duty at the time, fired his service weapon multiple times about 2 a.m. Sunday, then fled the tavern in Blue Jay, the San Bernardino Police Department said in a tweet Monday night.
Ocampo-Rodarte turned himself in hours later and was arrested on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm, the police department said in a news release. He was put on administrative leave.
It was not immediately clear whether the officer, who has been with the police department for three years, had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The shooting was captured on surveillance cameras, police said. Authorities found multiple firearms at Ocampo-Rodarte’s home during a search warrant.
“The conduct is not something that is fitting of a San Bernardino police officer, or any officer for that matter,” San Bernardino Police Chief Darren Goodman said in a news release.
Blue Jay is an unincorporated community in the San Bernardino Mountains about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of San Bernandino. | https://www.koin.com/news/weird/ap-calif-police-officer-arrested-after-firing-shots-into-air/ | 2022-11-08 19:32:26 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/weird/ap-calif-police-officer-arrested-after-firing-shots-into-air/ |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the auto and transportation industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Hybrid Reborn: 2023 Toyota Prius Revealed
With the addition of the most fuel-efficient Prius to date, achieving a manufacturer estimated 57 MPG combined fuel economy rating on the LE FWD model, this Toyota hybrid brings accessible electrification to drivers everywhere. - Carnival Venezia Opens for Sale on Year-Round Cruises from New York The ship will offer guests a wide range of sailing options, with 10 different cruise durations and 22 unique itineraries featuring visits to 25 ports across 14 countries.
- Lexus Joins Forces with adidas and adidas S.E.E.D to Create a Custom All-New Lexus RX Inspired by Marvel Studios' 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'
"The all-new RX 500h is part of our expanding Lexus Electrified portfolio with evolved innovative technology that elevates the driver's experience," said Michael Moore, general manager, Lexus International. "There's an athleticism in the performance of the RX that makes it a perfect fit to join the 'Wakanda Forever' team." - Transforming the Future of Foodservice Delivery: Sysco Receives First Battery Electric Freightliner eCascadia
"This zero-emission tractor is powerful, quiet and -- importantly – very comfortable to drive. That means it's not only good for the planet, but it will improve the driving experience for thousands of our delivery partners," said Marie Robinson, Sysco's EVP and chief supply chain officer at the Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) Manufacturing Plant in Portland, Ore. - Lucid Gravity: A Luxury Electric SUV with Breathtaking Performance and Seating for Up to Seven; Reservations Open in Early 2023
Gravity builds upon Lucid's core DNA of luxury, spaciousness, performance, and efficiency, setting itself apart from the competition with a previously unattainable combination of supercar performance and seating for up to seven adults. Lucid Gravity also promises more range than any other EV on the market – other than its stablemate, Lucid Air. - Colorado Governor and Burrell Aviation Announce $110 Million Investment for Colorado Springs Airport Project
Burrell Aviation intends to construct multiple facilities on a 65-acre parcel at the Colorado Springs Airport (COS) to expand the airport's non-passenger business lines, including facilities for air cargo handling, aircraft maintenance and testing, cold storage, warehouse/distribution, and integrated logistics. - Union Pacific Details Efforts to Address Climate Change; Becomes First U.S. Railroad to Support Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
Since the publication of its first Climate Action Plan in 2021, Union Pacific has taken considerable steps to reduce its environmental impact, including increasing use of low-carbon fuels and reducing fuel consumption by more than 11 million gallons in 2021 compared with 2020. - United Becomes First U.S. Airline to Invest in Biofuel Refinery
NEXT is a Houston-based company developing the biorefinery which, at full production, could produce up to 50,000 barrels per day of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and other renewable fuels. United Airlines Ventures could invest as much as $37.5 million into NEXT, as long as the company meets certain milestone targets. - CerebrumX to Use Ford Connected Vehicle Data, with Customer Consent, to Help Transform Auto Insurance in North America
Usage-based insurance (UBI) programs using embedded connected vehicle systems, with the consent of the customer, provide more accurate and reliable driving data, empowering insurers to reward safe driver behavior with opportunities for reduced personalized premiums.
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Sweeps have become the standard for Bismarck State College's volleyball team this season.
NDSCS, one of only two teams to beat the Mystics, became the latest to lose 3-0 to BSC on Monday night.
The Mystics, ranked 15th in the latest NJCAA Division II poll, have won 12 straight matches, the last eight by sweep. In fact, BSC has not dropped a set since Sept. 17 — that's 27 set wins in a row.
BSC head coach Kyle Kuether doesn't worry about such things, rather how his team is playing, which obviously, is quite well.
"I'm pleased with the effort and the wins. The other stuff, we don't really worry about too much," he said. "We try to stay in a day-to-day approach. (Monday) it was Wahpeton. Today was practice. (Wednesday) is Lake Region. We try to keep our focus on what is in front of us and our players have done a really good job with that too."
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Monday's match was a big one and figured to be competitive. Not that it was a blowout, but NDSCS didn't get over 21 in any of the three sets. The Wildcats came into the match 17-2 overall.
"It was a good match. I thought we brought a lot of energy and I was really happy with the stuff we had worked on in practice, the girls did a good job of carrying that over into the match," Kuether said. "Wahpeton is a very good team. To win the way we did, it was a very good performance by our team."
Of the Mystics' 24 wins, 17 finished 3-0. It's not because they're relying on one, two or even three players, either.
"One of our recruiting goals is to recruit players that can do multiple things so that we don't get stuck in any certain rotation or end up becoming a one-player offense or anything like that," Kuether said. "We try to look for girls that can hit on the outside pin, the right-side pin, play good defense, all of that stuff. Just being well-rounded and we've been fortunate to find players capable of doing that."
Sophomore Reile Payne has a team-best 269 kills, but five players have 100 or more kills.
Jenna Rust has assumed a larger role this season and has excelled, pounding 197 kills with a .353 hitting percentage.
“We’re happy with all the sophomores. From last year to this year Jenna Rust has really become a core part of our offense,” Kuether said. “I wouldn’t say surprised, because we saw big leaps this spring, but just very pleased with how she’s played.”
Paige McAllister, a freshman from Fargo, got high marks from Kuether. McAllister has 172 kills. Morgan Wheeler has 154 and Greta Gibson 107.
Camaryn Beasley, a Legacy High product, runs the offense to a T.
“Cam is definitely an amazing setter, she’s like a general in how she runs our offense, but the leadership she brings is also so important for us,” Kuether said. “She makes our hitters more confident. She’s very smart when it comes to strategy. It is a lot like having a player-coach out there.”
The Mystics also excel defensively. They have nearly 400 more digs than their opponents. St. Mary’s grad Eden Schlinger leads the way with 558. Payne and Beasley are over 200 and Wheeler is close.
McAlister has 75 total blocks. Rust has 61.
About the only thing the Mystics don't have much of is high-intensity matches. With so many blowout wins, Kuether is interested to see how his team responds when things get tight. But, that might not come until the postseason.
"When a team has those three, four and five-point runs, like Wahpeton did against us Monday, how do we respond to that? I don't want to make it sound like there's a downside to winning 3-0, but you can't really simulate those high-pressure moments in practice," Kuether said. "I think it speaks well to our girls in that, they've done a really good job of maintaining focus and respecting every opponent. They don't really look ahead.
"It's a fun group to coach. They set a high bar for themselves and it's been really enjoyable to watch them compete consistently at a high level." | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/college/sweeps-have-become-standard-for-bsc/article_c6c79048-49c4-11ed-a64a-a7116ec8b14f.html | 2022-10-12 03:14:54 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/college/sweeps-have-become-standard-for-bsc/article_c6c79048-49c4-11ed-a64a-a7116ec8b14f.html |
HANOVER, Germany, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dana Incorporated (NYSE: DAN) today announced the development of metallic bipolar plates specifically engineered to maximize the performance and accelerate the commercialization of proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers used to produce hydrogen fuel.
Debuting at Hannover Messe this week in hall 13, stand E03, the bipolar plates will leverage Dana's more than two decades of design-to-manufacturing experience with similar components for fuel cell stacks used in mobile applications.
Dana's integrated bipolar plates are made of steel or titanium with various coating options used as surface treatment of the active area. They also improve stack efficiency through better flow field design and reduced electrical losses, and they feature integrated molded sealing to prevent permeability at operating pressures of up to 50 bar.
Currently in prototype testing with global manufacturers of electrolyzers and electrolysis stacks, the bipolar plates will be ready for commercial production by the end of 2023.
"Dana is committed to developing innovations that are helping to propel the energy transition," said Antonio Valencia, president of Dana Power Technologies and Global Electrification. "These new bipolar plate designs for hydrogen electrolyzers demonstrate how we can readily adapt our portfolio of advanced technologies to serve new markets and applications."
Established Leadership in Bipolar Plate Engineering and Production
In addition to introducing the company's latest innovations for electrolyzers at Hannover Messe, Dana will showcase its end-to-end capabilities for designing, engineering, testing and producing metallic bipolar plates and graphite fuel cell plates for mobile and stationary applications.
As the only supplier offering capabilities for both metallic and composite designs, Dana will supply nearly 2 million bipolar plates this year with integrated seals and coatings that offer reliable, cost-effective product solutions for a wide range of advanced fuel-cell engine configurations.
Dana delivers improved performance and reliability at a lower system cost through its expertise in precision stamping, laser welding, composite molding, integrated seals, and in-line coating technologies.
To support growing global demand, Dana is installing the largest production line for metallic bipolar plates in Europe at the company's existing facility in Neu-Ulm, Germany. Scheduled to commence high-volume production later this year, the plant will be capable of producing up to eight million metallic bipolar plates annually.
In 2022, Dana's metallic bipolar plate for fuel-cell stacks was named a finalist in the Automotive News PACE Awards program, which recognizes suppliers for game-changing technologies that deliver superior innovation, technological advancement, and business performance.
It was also recognized by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) with a 2019 FCH Award in the Best Success Story category as part of the INSPIRE Project. The FCH Award recognizes outstanding projects and developments in the field of fuel cells that reduce production costs, speed up manufacturing, develop new materials, increase performance, and demonstrate the reliability of hydrogen energy.
Additionally, Dana has a long-term cooperation agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH to mass produce metallic bipolar plates for fuel-cell stacks. Dana's licensed intellectual property serves as the foundation for the cooperative development and production of next-generation metallic bipolar plates.
For more information on Dana's solutions for next-generation metallic bipolar plates, visit dana.com/product/metallic-bipolar-plates.
About Dana Incorporated
Dana is a leader in the design and manufacture of highly efficient propulsion and energy-management solutions that power vehicles and machines in all mobility markets across the globe. The company is shaping sustainable progress through its conventional and clean-energy solutions that support nearly every vehicle manufacturer with drive and motion systems; electrodynamic technologies, including software and controls; and thermal, sealing, and digital solutions.
Based in Maumee, Ohio, USA, the company reported sales of $10.2 billion in 2022 with 42,000 people in 31 countries across six continents. Dana, with a history dating to 1904, was named among the "World's Most Ethical Companies" for 2023 by Ethisphere and as one of "America's Most Responsible Companies 2023" by Newsweek. The company is driven by a high-performance culture that focuses on valuing others, inspiring innovation, growing responsibly, and winning together, earning it global recognition as a top employer. Learn more at dana.com.
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MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he plans to petition the state’s Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Republican governor, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, gave no specifics on what wrongdoing the panel would investigate, but suggested it would be in part aimed to jogging loose more information about the vaccines.
He made the announcement following a roundtable with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and a panel of scientists and physicians, in which some discussion centered on the fact that pharmaceutical companies have not provided their data on the COVID-19 vaccines to independent researchers.
“We’ll be able to get the data whether they want to give it or not,” DeSantis said. “In Florida, it is illegal to mislead and misrepresent, especially when you are talking about the efficacy of a drug.”
DeSantis noted that Florida recently “got $3.2 billion through legal action against those responsible for the opioid crisis. So, it’s not like this is something that’s unprecedented.”
DeSantis said he expects to get approval for the statewide grand jury to be empaneled, likely in the Tampa Bay area.
“That will come with legal processes that will be able to get more information and to bring legal accountability to those who committed misconduct,” DeSantis said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/desantis-seeks-grand-jury-investigation-of-covid-19-vaccines/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-12-13 18:09:21 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/desantis-seeks-grand-jury-investigation-of-covid-19-vaccines/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
LONDON (AP) — The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to nine on Saturday, as emergency workers combed through piles of rubble for people who are still missing.
Irish police said they did not expect to find any more survivors from Friday’s explosion in Creeslough, County Donegal. Eight people have been hospitalized after the blast destroyed the Applegreen service station in the community of about 400 people near Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast.
“The search and recovery for further fatalities continues,” said the police force, An Garda Siochana. The cause of the blast is under investigation.
Emergency responders from Ireland and neighboring Northern Ireland were involved in what police said was now a “search and recovery” operation. Sniffer dogs combed the debris, and a mechanical digger lifted piles of rubble from the site.
The explosion leveled the gas station building, which holds the main shop and post office for the village, damaged an adjacent apartment building and shattered the windows in nearby cottages.
“There were blocks thrown a hundred yards away from the scene,” local medic Dr. Paul Stewart told Irish broadcaster RTE. “The whole front of the building collapsed… and the roof of the first floor collapsed down into the shop. It’s a miracle they got anyone out.”
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said it was one of the “darkest of days for Donegal and the entire country.”
“People across this island will be numbed by the same sense of shock and utter devastation as the people of Creeslough at this tragic loss of life,” Martin said.
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue, who represents Donegal in Ireland’s parliament, said the service station was well known across the country because of its prominent position on the area’s main N56 road, and was “the heart” of the local community.
“People are shocked and numbed,” he told Irish broadcaster RTE. “People have been rallying together and everyone’s concern is with the families of those who have lost their loved ones and how they can support them.”
Another local lawmaker, Pearse Doherty, said the full impact of the tragedy had yet to sink in.
“(It’s) something nobody ever thought could happen in a little village like this where everyone knows each other,” he said. “A quarter past three yesterday, kids were coming out of school, people were going to collect their welfare payments. For such a nightmare to occur, that will take some time to sink in.”
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Nikola Jokic NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Nuggets vs. Lakers - May 16
The Denver Nuggets, Nikola Jokic included, will be in action at 8:30 PM on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
In this piece we'll examine Jokic's stats and trends, helping you with your prop bets.
Nikola Jokic Prop Bets vs. the Lakers
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Nikola Jokic Insights vs. the Lakers
- This season, Nikola Jokic has made 9.4 field goals per game, which adds up to 18.1% of his team's total makes.
- He's knocked down 0.8 threes per game, or 5.9% of his team's makes from beyond the arc this season.
- The Nuggets rank 27th in possessions per game with 99.5. His opponents, the Lakers, have one of the fastest tempos, ranking second with 104.8 possessions per contest.
- On defense, the Lakers have given up 116.6 points per contest, which is 20th-best in the league.
- On the boards, the Lakers have conceded 44.9 rebounds per game, which puts them 25th in the league.
- Allowing 25.7 assists per game, the Lakers are the 15th-ranked squad in the NBA.
- In terms of 3-pointers, the Lakers are 18th in the league, allowing 12.5 makes per game.
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Encouraging people to eat plants, not animals, the campaign comments on as well as pays homage to the classic Think Different campaign.
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In one of the largest campaigns ever produced to inspire people to eat plants, not animals, "Eat Differently" launched today with a massive outdoor campaign which includes 29 billboards that will be displayed for three months in the Greater San Diego area.
The billboards feature luminaries, all of whom have been vocal and/or passionate about eating a plant-forward diet. The campaign illustrates the fact that a large portion of the original icons featured in the Think Different campaign ate differently as well, including Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Cesar Chavez, and many others.
Eat Differently is an homage to and commentary on Apple's classic Think Different campaign introduced in the late 90's. The Eat Differently campaign hopes to inspire people to question the status quo and think–and eat–for themselves.
Accompanying the PSA is a poignant video featuring iconic figures, both from history and the present day, who have advocated consuming plants over animals. The website will also feature famous quotes from more than 25 historic figures such as this quote from Sir David Attenborough, "We must change our diet. The planet can't support billions of meat-eaters."
States GenV.org CEO, Naomi Hallum, "It's extremely pressing that people switch from eating meat to a diet that centers on plants." Hallum further adds, "And I can't wait for the people of San Diego to see these stunningly beautiful billboards and to make the connection between thinking differently and eating differently."
The billboard images were painted exclusively for the Eat Differently PSA by renowned speed artist, Amy Burkman. Amy's freehand artistic interpretation of seven icons is chronicled in this video.
The campaign will punctuate why consuming plants over animals is critically important to transition to a plant-based diet for improving our health, stopping animal cruelty, protecting our planet, fighting world hunger, and preventing diseases and pandemics.
ABOUT EAT DIFFERENTLY
Eat Differently, LLC was formed in 2023 as a public service resource. The Eat Differently mission is to inspire the world to eat plants, not animals. @eatlikeanicon eatdifferently.com
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy put the silver-plated shovels into a pile of dirt and left sizable divots.
With that, their high-tech golf league got a bit closer to launch.
The ceremonial groundbreaking for the arena that will house the league that’s being called TGL was held Tuesday at Palm Beach State College, with Woods and McIlroy — two of the co-founders of TMRW Sports — there for the first step of actual construction.
TMRW — pronounced “tomorrow” — says TGL play will begin early next year, and the league will be in partnership with the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy, so far, have 11 players committed to the league. Besides them, the league will include world No. 1 Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Collin Morikawa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Justin Rose and Xander Schauffele.
That list includes six players currently ranked 10th or better in the world, plus the game’s biggest draw in Woods.
“In terms of fan experience, it’s going to be nothing like golf has offered before,” McIlroy said.
The concept is this: six teams of three PGA Tour players, squaring off in match play on a data-driven virtual course that also includes a short-game complex for chipping and putting.
It’ll be played on Monday nights, and will take only two hours, with in-arena fans all very close to the action. There will be 15 matches in the regular season, followed by semifinals and a final.
“We’re going to have excitement, we’re going to have something different, something that is is passionate,” Woods said. “We’ve been involved in teams before whether it’s Ryder Cup, President’s Cup, Irish national teams, for me high school, college, whatever it is. You’re going to get home and away, you’re going to get some people that you want to win and not win. We’re going to have that type of excitement.”
And you can bet on it. Literally, Woods pointed out.
“Wagering is part of our sport, part of our culture,” Woods said, then turned and looked at McIlroy. “We don’t know how to play golf without it.”
Access is part of the allure of the concept, along with the technology. Only a handful of fans at typical golf events can get close to the action, and they’re often running from hole to hole to stay with a certain group.
TGL players will be mic’d-up, and fans won’t have to guess what their thought processes are on certain shots.
“It’s going to give the viewer at home and also the people in the arena just more of an in-depth of sort of how we do things and how we sort of think through things in our head,” McIlroy said. “It’s just a more in-depth look into that.”
Mike McCarley, another co-founder and former Golf Channel president, said the arena will be built on a 10-acre (435,600-square feet) parcel of unused land. The partnership includes educational and recreational initiatives that will benefit Palm Beach State students, along with offering paid internships and other opportunities for students in technology, hospitality and administrative services.
“Think about how cool this will be for this land, this campus, to become a launching pad for future leaders in sports and media and technology as they learn here as part of TGL,” McCarley said. “We are breaking ground on much more than a dream, much more than a prime-time golf league.”
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 4, 2022
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- Oral presentation highlights preclinical data of ATG-031, an in-house discovered anti-CD24 monoclonal antibody
- Three poster presentations showcase preclinical data of ATG-101, a PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody developed in-house, ATG-018, an ATR inhibitor discovered in-house, and ATG-027, a B7H3/PD-L1 bispecific antibody discovered in-house
- Antengene has global rights to these pipeline assets
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 37th Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting (SITC 2022), set to take place on November 8-12, 2022, in Boston, Massachusetts (United States), via in person/virtual attendance, Antengene will release data from preclinical studies of four pipeline assets, ATG-031, ATG-101, ATG-018, and ATG-027, in one oral presentation and three poster presentations. As the world's largest and most anticipated gathering in the field of immuno-oncology, the SITC Annual Meeting is designed to promote scientific exchanges and cooperation for improving treatment outcomes for cancer patients.
Details of the oral presentation are shown as below:
Title: ATG-031, a first-in-class anti-CD24 antibody, showed potent preclinical anti-tumor efficacy by blocking "don't-eat-me" signal
Abstract#: 482
Date: November 11, 2022
Time: 5:20 PM – 5:35 PM (Eastern Time)
(6:20 AM – 6:35 AM Beijing Time, November 12, 2022)
Presenter: Dr. Jay Mei, Antengene
First Author: Dr. Peng Chen, Antengene
Corresponding Authors: Dr. Bo Shan, Dr. Bing Hou, Antengene
Details of those three poster presentations are shown below. All posters will be presented at:
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM (Eastern Time)
(10:00 PM November 10 to 10:00 AM November 11, 2022 Beijing Time)
Title: ATG-101, a tetravalent PD-L1×4-1BB BsAb, demonstrates potent in vivo anti-tumor efficacy in ICI-resistant or refectory mouse tumor models
Abstract#: 1150
Date: November 10, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Bing Hou, Antengene
First Author: Dr. Wenhui Yu, Antengene
Corresponding Authors: Dr. Bo Shan, Dr. Bing Hou, Antengene
Title: Discovery of blood pharmacodynamic biomarkers for ATR inhibitors
Abstract#: 76
Date: November 10, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Bin Jiang, Antengene
First Author: Dr. Ya Kong, Antengene
Corresponding Authors: Dr. Shan Bo, Dr. Bing Hou, Antengene
Title: ATG-027, a first-in-class B7-H3/PD-L1 bispecific antibody, shows potent T cell activation capability and in vivo anti-tumor efficacy
Abstract#: 1397
Date: November 10, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Linjie Tian, Antengene
First Author: Dr. Wenhui Yu, Antengene
Corresponding Authors: Dr. Bo Shan, Dr. Bing Hou, Antengene
About Antengene
Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK) is a leading commercial-stage R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative first-in-class/best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, in realizing its vision of "Treating Patients Beyond Borders".
Since 2017, Antengene has built a broad and expanding pipeline of 15 clinical and preclinical assets, of which 10 are global rights assets, and 5 came with rights for Asia Pacific markets including the Greater China region. To date, Antengene has obtained 24 investigational new drug (IND) approvals in the U.S. and Asia, and submitted 6 new drug applications (NDAs) in multiple Asia Pacific markets, with the NDA for XPOVIO® (selinexor), already approved in mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and Australia.
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Chung Loy rejoins the global network after appointments at Omnicom and Dentsu.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After several years in marketing and communications roles at both Omnicom and Dentsu International, Regina Chung Loy has rejoined DDB Worldwide as Senior Director, Global Marketing & Communications reporting into Global Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Donna Tobin. Chung Loy brings almost ten years of agency and holding company communications experience and most recently led strategic marketing and communications for Dentsu's Merkle B2B, playing a key role in its rise to agency of the year across several business to business award shows. She has also been responsible for building brand awareness and raising executive profiles across the Dentsu and Omnicom networks. In her new role, she will partner with Tobin on all DDB global network marketing and communications, leading DDB's global social media strategy, content plan and execution, and DE&I-related global communications.
Said Donna Tobin: "I am absolutely thrilled Regina is rejoining DDB Worldwide in this expanded capacity. She brings a refreshing dose of positive energy, terrific experience, and innovative ideas to our dynamic, global MarComms team. She will be instrumental as we continue to build our DDB WW brand and fuel heightened growth for our network. Regina's pre-existing knowledge of DDB and Omnicom give her an immediate advantage right from the start and we are lucky to have her back."
Said Chung Loy: "It is great to be part of the DDB Worldwide once more. It was clear to me that there is so much new momentum, strong leadership, vision and solid strategic plan for growth. DDB has always held a special place in my heart, and I am very happy to have rejoined the network."
ABOUT DDB WORLDWIDE
DDB Worldwide (www.ddb.com) is one of the world's largest and most influential advertising and marketing networks. DDB has been named Agency Network of the Year 2022 Effies US, Asia Pacific Network of the Year 2022 Spikes Asia, #3 Global Network in 2022 by the Cannes International Festival of Creativity, Network of the Year by D&AD in 2022 and 2021, Network of the Year ADC in 2021, Network of the Year 2021 Effies Latin America, Network of the Year 2021 El Ojo, as well as numerous accolades from the industry's leading advertising publications and awards shows. WARC has listed DDB as one of the Top 3 Global Networks for 12 of the last 15 years. The network's clients include Molson Coors, Volkswagen, McDonald's, Unilever, Mars, Peloton, JetBlue, Johnson & Johnson, and the U.S. Army, among others. Founded in 1949, DDB is part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) and consists of over 10,000 employees across 149 offices in over 63 countries, with its flagship office in New York, NY.
ABOUT OMNICOM
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE – OMC) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries.
CONTACT: Donna Tobin, Global Chief Marketing & Communications Officer; donna@ddb.com
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Man dies saving daughter from rip current at New Jersey beach
Published: Jun. 10, 2023 at 1:02 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
AVON BEACH, N.J. (News 12 New Jersey LLC) - A man is dead after trying to save his daughter from rip currents off the shore of New Jersey.
Officials say the teenager was swept out by a jetty and pulled several yards out into the ocean at Avon Beach on Friday.
Lifeguards were not on duty, so her father jumped in and tried to save her.
Rescue crews arrived and were able to pull the teen out, but they initially could not find her father.
Crews on Jet Skis and in helicopters were called in to search. They eventually found his body.
The father’s name has not been released.
Officials say the daughter is OK.
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EARLY RESERVATIONS TO BEGIN IN MARCH 2023
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2023), VinFast announced the specifications of its newest all-electric crossover models, the VF 6 and VF 7. Early reservations for both vehicles will begin in March 2023. These two models are in B and C segments respectively in VinFast's full range of high-quality electric vehicles introduced last year.
The VF 6 and VF 7 have stylish, sophisticated designs, crafted by VinFast and world-famous car designer, Torino Design. Both models will be available with Eco and Plus versions.
The VF 6 is an all-electric vehicle positioned in the small crossover segment, with a maximum range on a full charge of 248 miles (WLTP target) for the Eco version, 174 horsepower and 184 lb-ft torque. The Plus version has a maximum range on a full charge of 237 miles (WLTP target), 201 horsepower and 228 lb-ft torque. In-car entertainment applications will be displayed on a 12.9-inch touch screen.
The VF 7 is slightly larger than the VF 6 and has a maximum range on a full charge of 280 miles (WLTP target) for the Eco version, with power checking in at 201 horsepower at 228 lb-ft of torque. The Plus version with its standard 2-motor AWD system has a maximum range of 268 miles (WLTP target) and provides a peppy 348 horsepower with 368 lb-ft of torque. The VF 7 Eco will also be equipped with a 12.9-inch touch screen while the Plus will increase to 15.0 inches.
Both models will be equipped with level 2 ADAS features for all Eco and Plus versions and modern technology features such as virtual assistant, mobile application - C-app, etc. creating an exhilarating experience for every journey.
Madam Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vingroup Vice Chairwoman and CEO of VinFast Holdings said: "VinFast always strives to bring diverse vehicle options to meet the demands of most customers, while pushing the transition from ICE to all-electric vehicles. VinFast's VF 6 and VF 7 are models that combine the elements of style, modern technology and outstanding technology in an efficient and fun package. I believe that these models will resonate well with young customers who are passionate about technology and exhilarating driving experiences."
Since announcing its pure electric strategy less than twelve months ago at CES 2022, VinFast has introduced design details and specifications for four electric vehicle models in the most popular crossover and SUV segments in America. This month, the VF 8 City Edition was also delivered to customers in the US following the September distribution to owners in Vietnam.
In addition to the four passenger vehicle models and four e-bike variants in the VinFast CES show stand, visitors can also test drive the VF 8, take advantage of the VinFast Chauffeur service running between the Bellagio and the Las Vegas Convention Center, and experience an immersive journey detailing VinFast's rise to prominence in the automotive landscape.
VinFast's ecosystem of products demonstrates its strong commitment to a greener and more sustainable future by bringing high-quality products, reasonable prices, and smart services to global consumers.
*Maximum ranges are targeted based on WLTP standards. The official EPA ranges will be announced when available.
VinFast - a member of Vingroup – envisioned to drive the movement of global smart electric vehicle revolution. Established in 2017, VinFast owns a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing complex with globally leading scalability that boasts up to 90% automation in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Strongly committed to the mission for a sustainable future for everyone, VinFast constantly innovates to bring high-quality products, advanced smart services, seamless customer experiences, and pricing strategy for all to inspire global customers to jointly create a future of smart mobility and a sustainable planet. Learn more at: https://vinfastauto.com.
Established in 1993, Vingroup is one of the leading private conglomerates in the region and currently focuses on three main areas: Technology and Industry, Services and Social Enterprise. Find out more at: https://www.vingroup.net/en.
Torino Design is a leading private, independent and Italian Design House established in 2005 by Roberto Piatti, a team made of reputation and vision for a future mobility that is more than cars, a commitment to people and sustainability. See more at: https://www.torino-design.com
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio couple will have quite a story to tell their daughter when she’s older.
Addilynn Gibbs was born earlier this month with someone very special there to catch her.
David and Kaily Gibbs were expecting their first child to be born on Nov. 8, but baby Addilynn had other plans. However, the timing worked out because David was already at the hospital.
David is a third-year medical student at Ohio State University. It just so happens that when Kaily went into labor, David was at the hospital on his surgery OB/GYN rotation.
“I’m really thankful for that memory we all share now, and it’s a cool way to start things out,” he said.
And while Addilynn appeared five days early, it was perfect timing.
“The timing of it was just crazy that she got sent into the hospital, and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m already here, I’ll meet you,’ and things just started happening,” David said. “Next thing we knew, it was all coming to be.”
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so the fact she was the very first one you ever caught and the fact you were the one able to do it, it was just so special,” Kaily said.
Given the baby’s due date and David’s rotation schedule, the couple had already talked about this scenario, not necessarily expecting it would happen. But it did.
The couple asked the attending physician if all was going smoothly could David help with the delivery. She said yes, and the first baby David caught was his own daughter.
“The attending physician was like, ‘All right, you can stay up there with mom, and I’ll let you know when you should put on your sterile gown and gloves,’” David said. “I was like, ‘OK, great.’ Then, two minutes later, she’s like, ‘You should put on your gown and gloves right now, baby is coming,’ so it was a really exciting moment.”
“It was perfect, he was right there by my side through all the parts I needed him, and everything was going smoothly and going well, so I felt comfortable to have him leave my side for a few minutes, and it was perfect,” Kaily said.
“She had the hard job, so…,” David added with a laugh.
As you can imagine, David said this was the highlight of his medical school experience by far. | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ohio-state-medical-student-delivers-own-child/ | 2022-11-16 20:25:15 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ohio-state-medical-student-delivers-own-child/ |
2 men who sold fentanyl that killed California firefighter sentenced to federal prison
Two San Diego County men who sold a lethal dose of fentanyl to a Cal Fire firefighter were sentenced last week to more than a decade in prison, federal prosecutors said.
Justin Mata, 41, and Everett Curtis, 48, both of Poway, were charged in the January 2021 death of Brian Parrish, 45. They pleaded guilty to fentanyl distribution charges, admitting they knowingly supplied the drugs that led to Parrish’s death, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant sentenced Mata to 15 years in prison and Curtis to 12½ years.
On Jan. 30, 2021, Curtis and Parrish exchanged text messages about buying fentanyl acquired from Mata, federal prosecutors said. Curtis picked up Parrish and the two drove to a casino to meet Mata, who provided the firefighter with the drug, prosecutors said.
Parrish died the next morning of an overdose, prosecutors said.
In L.A. County, the number of deaths linked to fentanyl rose from 109 in 2016 to 1,504 in 2021, the county public health department found.
“Brian Parrish dedicated himself as a firefighter to combating California’s deadly wildfires, and his loss is tragic for his family and the entire community,” U.S. Atty. Randy Grossman said in a statement. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office will relentlessly pursue justice for victims like Brian, and continue to hold dealers accountable under federal law when their drugs result in death.
“If you are a dealer — find a different business — you will be caught and no money you make from fentanyl is worth the hard time you will spend in a federal prison cell,” Grossman said.
Parrish’s family described him as a loving, funny, “nature boy,” according to court records. Parrish’s father said he was “born smiling,” according to prosecutors.
Parrish’s fire captain told the court that Parrish “was a great firefighter” who “loved what he did” and “what the job represented.”
Fentanyl deaths among teens more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, increasing from 253 to 680. Last year, the number jumped to 884, according to a report from the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
A third defendant in the case, Ashley Cohen, 28, of San Diego, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with Mata, her boyfriend, to distribute fentanyl. Cohen was not implicated in Parrish’s death. She was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.
According to a recent San Diego County drug abuse task force, prescription drug overdose deaths have decreased, but fentanyl overdoses increased in 2021. They make up 93% of the 873 total deaths last year.
People seeking help to deal with addiction can call the San Diego County Access & Crisis Line at (888) 724-7240.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
0-9-3-9
(zero, nine, three, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
0-9-3-9
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Queen Elizabeth II's beloved Balmoral: A look at the Scottish castle
Summer residence of Queen Elizabeth II was reportedly her 'paradise in the Highlands'
Queen Elizabeth II died on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 8, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, the Royal Family announced at 1:30 p.m. EDT. She was 96.
Balmoral Castle, the Queen's summer residence, is located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 50 miles west of the city of Aberdeen.
The Queen reportedly loved the grounds of the sprawling, 50,000-acre Balmoral, calling the home her "paradise in the highlands," according to Perthnow, an Australian website.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S DEATH: A LOOK AT THE BRITISH MONARCH'S RECENT HEALTH SCARES
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were invited to stay with the royals at Balmoral back in 1988, the outlet reported.
Blair later said that Prince Philip was stationed at the barbecue grill and the Queen washed the dinner dishes herself.
Princess Eugenie, the Queen's granddaughter, has also commented on the Queen’s holiday home, describing it as "the most beautiful place in the world," Perthnow noted.
"I think Granny is the most happy there. I think she really, really loves the Highlands," the young royal reportedly said.
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The estate has been in the hands of the royal family since February 1848, according to the official Balmoral website.
Prince Albert first acquired the property as a present for his wife, Queen Victoria, before either of them had visited the estate.
Four years later, in 1852, the sale of the estate to the royal family was officially completed, according to the website.
While Queen Victoria reportedly loved the estate, the website says, it quickly became apparent that the existing buildings were too small.
Construction on a new and larger castle home began shortly after Prince Albert purchased the property; that work was finished in 1856.
Balmoral architecture is considered to be Scottish baronial combined with Gothic Revival, according to Architectural Digest.
Since the purchase by Prince Albert, the estate has remained in the hands of the British royal family, notes the Balmoral website.
As of 2022, the Balmoral Estate contains about 150 buildings.
The family has continued to add buildings and land, and as of 2022, the Balmoral estate contains about 150 buildings.
REV. FRANKLIN GRAHAM REACTS TO QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PASSING: 'TRUE FRIEND OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH'
On Tuesday, September 6, two days before her death, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Liz Truss as the new prime minister, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
The two met at Balmoral in what would be the Queen’s last public appearance.
One American tourist was traveling through Scotland this summer when she turned around only to see the Queen's car driving by.
"We were in Scotland at the entrance to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh when we happened to see the Queen drive by," Mary Anne Donaghey, who lives in the Boston area, told Fox News Digital.
"It was July 2nd," she said. "The Royal week is celebrated in Scotland each [end of] June" through early July.
Donaghey also said, "Scotland is absolutely beautiful, and being a fan of all things royal, it was just wonderful to see the Queen drive by."
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"Someone of her character comes along only once in a generation or so — she dedicated her entire life to service. God bless her." | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/queen-elizabeth-iis-beloved-balmoral-look-scottish-castle | 2022-09-08 23:03:35 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/queen-elizabeth-iis-beloved-balmoral-look-scottish-castle |
Spring is a busy time for the SaddleBrooke Singles Club. Monthly dine-aways at local restaurants have continued. We enjoyed Italian food at Caffé Torino in Oro Valley in March, and wings and other delectables, as well as decadent desserts, at Wildfire Wing Company in Catalina. We are happy to support these local restaurants, where the service was outstanding and the food delicious.
On Thursday, April 20, club members visited Sabino Canyon Recreation Area in Coronado National Forest. Member Colleen Strening, who volunteers as a docent at Tohono Chul, led a walk on the Bajada Loop nature trail and taught us about the plants we encountered. A crazy crested saguaro greeted us as we made our way.
After our walk, we boarded the open-air, electric tram for a narrated tour of Sabino Canyon. The weather was perfect, the company great, and the views outstanding. Lunch at El Charro Café capped off our trip.
In May, we look forward to the Cinco de Mayo celebration at HOA-1’s Vistas, a tour on the Dolly Steamboat at Canyon Lake and a visit to the Ed Basha Museum.
If you are a SaddleBrooke resident who is single and looking for friends and fun, the SaddleBrooke Singles Club is the place for you. We meet regularly to play bocce, attend Friday happy hours, and take trips to area attractions and restaurants. For more information or to join the SaddleBrooke Singles Club, email Susan Williams at susanfw1010@gmail.com. | https://tucson.com/saddlebag/clubs/saddlebrooke-singles-club-has-a-busy-spring/article_3d0b5d98-e835-11ed-adfa-83e8eb99a56c.html | 2023-05-26 07:38:49 | 0 | https://tucson.com/saddlebag/clubs/saddlebrooke-singles-club-has-a-busy-spring/article_3d0b5d98-e835-11ed-adfa-83e8eb99a56c.html |
HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Total revenues of $301.7 million in Q1 FY23 compared to $287.4 million in Q4 FY22
- Net income of $4.0 million, or $0.14 per diluted stock, in Q1 FY23 compared to net loss of $4.3 million, or $(0.15) per diluted stock, in Q4 FY22
- EBITDA adjusted to exclude special items and asset dispositions was $51.1 million in Q1 FY23 compared to $35.9 million in Q4 FY22
- Adjusted Free Cash Flow was $26.0 million in Q1 FY23, with unrestricted cash balance of $255.0 million and total liquidity of $318.0 million
- Awarded £1.6 billion second-generation search and rescue aviation contract by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ("UK SAR 2G")
- Signed favorable, long-term maintenance support agreements for global AW139 helicopter fleet
Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: VTOL) today reported net income attributable to the Company of $4.0 million, or $0.14 per diluted stock, for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2022 ("Current Quarter") on operating revenues of $294.1 million compared to net loss attributable to the Company of $4.3 million, or $(0.15) per diluted stock, in the quarter ended March 31, 2022 ("Preceding Quarter") on operating revenues of $275.6 million.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") was $39.0 million in the Current Quarter compared to $26.0 million in the Preceding Quarter. EBITDA adjusted to exclude special items and gains or losses on asset dispositions was $51.1 million in the Current Quarter compared to $35.9 million in the Preceding Quarter. See Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Metrics for a reconciliation of net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP (as defined below) measure, to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. The following table provides a bridge between EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA excluding gains or losses on asset dispositions (in thousands, unaudited).
"I want to thank the Bristow team members who have worked diligently over the last several months to successfully deliver on several of the Company's strategic priorities, including securing the highly important UKSAR2G contract award, winning new government contracts to provide critical SAR services throughout the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean region, and completing the acquisition of British International Helicopters Limited, which expands our government services offering to the Falklands Islands and establishes an important new relationship with the British Armed Forces," said Chris Bradshaw, President and CEO of Bristow Group. "We have continued to make investments to strengthen our business such as the new long-term, highly favorable maintenance support agreements for our global AW139 helicopter fleet, while at the same time returning capital to shareholders with $10 million of share repurchases executed over the last two months. I'm grateful to the Bristow team for their collective efforts to deliver these successful outcomes and, most importantly, to deliver another quarter of world-class safety performance and excellent customer service."
Sequential Quarter Results
Operating revenues in the Current Quarter were $18.6 million higher compared to the Preceding Quarter. Operating revenues from oil and gas services were $5.8 million higher primarily due to higher utilization in the Africa and Europe regions and higher fuel revenues. These increases were partially offset by lower lease payment collections from Cougar Helicopters Inc. ("Cougar"), which are recognized on cash basis, and the weakening of the Norwegian krone and British pound sterling relative to the U.S. dollar. Operating revenues from government services were $3.9 million higher primarily due to higher activity, partially offset by the weakening of the British pound sterling relative to the U.S. dollar. Operating revenues from fixed wing services were $9.1 million higher primarily due to higher utilization related to the reopening of borders in Australia.
Operating expenses were $6.8 million higher in the Current Quarter primarily due to higher fuel expenses and maintenance costs, partially offset by lower personnel, insurance and leased-in equipment costs.
General and administrative expenses were $1.5 million lower in the Current Quarter primarily due to lower professional services fees and lower compensation expenses.
Merger and integration costs were $0.5 million lower in the Current Quarter primarily due to lower lease return costs related to the merger with Era Group Inc. (the "Merger").
During the Preceding Quarter, restructuring costs were $2.1 million primarily due to severance costs in the Africa region.
During the Current Quarter, the Company recognized a $5.2 million loss on impairment related to power-by-the-hour ("PBH") intangible assets write-off.
During the Current Quarter, the Company recognized a loss on disposal of assets of $2.1 million from the sale of five helicopters for cash proceeds of $7.6 million.
During the Current Quarter, the Company recognized earnings of $0.1 million from unconsolidated affiliates compared to losses of $0.3 million in the Preceding Quarter.
Other income, net of $16.8 million in the Current Quarter resulted from foreign exchange gains of $14.0 million, government grants to fixed wing services of $2.5 million and a favorable interest adjustment to the Company's pension liability of $0.2 million. Other income, net of $13.0 million in the Preceding Quarter resulted from foreign exchange gains of $6.0 million, government grants to fixed wing services of $3.8 million, a gain on the sale of inventory of $1.9 million, insurance gains of $0.7 million and a favorable interest adjustment to the Company's pension liability of $0.6 million.
Income tax expense was $8.2 million in the Current Quarter compared to $3.3 million in the Preceding Quarter. The increase in income tax expense in the Current Quarter primarily related to changes in the blend of earnings, the tax impact of valuation allowances on the Company's net operating losses and deductible business interest expense.
Liquidity and Capital Allocation
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $255.0 million of unrestricted cash and $63.0 million of remaining availability under its amended asset-based revolving credit facility (the "ABL Facility") for total liquidity of $318.0 million. Borrowings under the amended ABL Facility are subject to certain conditions and requirements.
In the Current Quarter, purchases of property and equipment were $9.0 million, and cash proceeds from dispositions of property and equipment were $7.6 million, resulting in net purchases of / (proceeds from) property and equipment ("Net Capex") of $1.5 million. In the Preceding Quarter, purchases of property and equipment were $7.8 million, and there were no cash proceeds from dispositions of property and equipment. See Adjusted Free Cash Flow Reconciliation for a reconciliation of Net Capex and Adjusted Free Cash Flow.
In June and July 2022, the Company repurchased 425,938 shares of common stock for gross consideration of $10.0 million, which is an average repurchase price of $23.48 per stock. As of July 29, 2022, $15.0 million remained available under the authorized $75.0 million stock repurchase program.
In August 2022, the Board of Directors of Bristow (the "Board") approved a new $40.0 million stock repurchase program, and terminated the prior program, under which $15.0 million remained available of the original $75.0 million authorized. Purchases of the Company's common stock under the stock repurchase program may be made in the open market, including pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 program, by block repurchases, in private transactions (including with related parties) or otherwise, from time to time, depending on market conditions. The stock repurchase program has no expiration date and may be suspended or discontinued at any time without notice, subject to any changes in applicable law or regulations thereunder.
Recent Highlights
On August 3, 2022, the Board approved a change in the fiscal year end of the Company from March 31st to December 31st. The Company expects to change the fiscal year on a prospective basis and will not adjust operating results for prior periods, and the Company will file a transition report on Form 10-K for the transition period ended December 31, 2022. The Company believes this change to align with the calendar year will provide numerous benefits, including improving comparability between periods and relative to its peers. Bristow intends to issue financial guidance for the 2023 calendar year when it announces next quarter's earnings.
On August 2, 2022, Bristow completed the acquisition of British International Helicopter Services Limited ("BIH") for £10.4 million, further enhancing its leading global government services offering. Bristow will integrate BIH into its U.K. operations, where BIH will adopt the Bristow name and brand throughout its operations. BIH's more than 110 employees currently deliver combined search and rescue and support helicopter services for the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MOD) with operations in the Falkland Islands and deliver Fleet Operational Sea Training (FOST) helicopter support for the Royal Navy in the U.K. BIH currently operates a fleet of two AW189 SAR-configured helicopters, three S61 helicopters, and one AS365 helicopter, performing various passenger and freight transport as well as hoist operations. With this acquisition, Bristow established an important new relationship with the British Armed Forces, and the Company is well-positioned to further expand its government services business throughout the U.K. and beyond.
On July 27, 2022, Bristow was pleased to release its first sustainability report, which emphasizes Bristow's commitment to formally embedding sustainability into the Company's vision and highlighting its role as a leader in sustainability within the vertical lift industry. Bristow's global environmental sustainability highlights in 2021 include completing flights in the U.K. using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), initiating a transition to electric ground support vehicles in Norway and the U.K., publishing the first-of-its-kind greenhouse gas emissions report in Brazil, and partnering with leading companies developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) and electric short take-off and landing (eSTOL) aircraft. The Company's social sustainability highlights for 2021 include donating more than $500,000 to community engagement programs through its global Bristow Uplift program as well as rescuing 593 people through its U.K. search and rescue program. Additionally, Bristow's executive management team is 50% female, and the Company boasts a U.S. employee base in which one in four employees is a veteran. The complete sustainability report can be viewed at: https://www.bristowgroup.com/sustainability-report-2022.
As announced on July 21, 2022, Bristow has been awarded the £1.6 billion 10-year UKSAR2G contract by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the U.K. Department for Transport. Bristow will work in partnership with 2Excel Aviation, a leading specialist in fixed wing services, and Nova Systems, the consortium's innovation partner, to deliver the contract for the MCA on behalf of Her Majesty's Coastguard. The UKSAR2G contract combines the existing two separate aviation contracts for fixed wing aircraft and rotary aircraft and will include the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). As part of the new contract, Bristow will continue to operate from its current 10 bases and will launch two new seasonal bases in Fort William and Carlisle. The partners will operate: 18 helicopters, including nine existing Leonardo AW189s and three existing Sikorsky S-92s augmented by the introduction of six new Leonardo AW139 helicopters; six King Air fixed-wing airplanes; and one mobile deployable Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS. The companies will transition from the current contracts starting from September 30, 2024 through to December 31, 2026, to ensure a continuation of critical search and rescue aviation services across the whole of the U.K.
As announced on June 30, 2022, Bristow has signed long-term, favorable maintenance support agreements with Leonardo Helicopters for airframes and Pratt & Whitney for engines on the Company's global fleet of AW139 helicopters. The legacy Era AW139 fleet was previously covered by a limited PBH support agreement with Leonardo for the airframes, while the engines were maintained on a time and cost of materials basis. The legacy Bristow AW139 fleet was covered by multiple, disparate PBH support agreements with Leonardo for the airframes, and the engines were covered under a PBH agreement with Pratt & Whitney. The new agreements result in consistent, global maintenance support programs for Bristow's AW139 helicopters, both the airframes and the engines. These agreements mitigate cost uncertainty in an inflationary environment and will result in maintenance expenses that are more directly correlated with flight hours. The Company expects the new agreements to deliver unlevered, cash-on-cash returns of approximately 20 percent over the life of the agreements. The aggregate buy-in cost is approximately $55 million, which will be paid in installments between July and December 2022. In addition to the AW139 agreements, Bristow has also signed long-term maintenance support agreements with Leonardo for the AW189 airframe and with Honeywell for the AW139 avionics suite. Bristow has also signed a long-term maintenance agreement with General Electric for support of AW189 and S-92 engines.
Conference Call
Management will conduct a conference call starting at 9:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. CT) on Friday, August 5, 2022, to review the results for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2022. The conference call can be accessed as follows:
All callers will need to reference the access code 162062.
Within the U.S.: Operator Assisted Toll-Free Dial-In Number: (800) 207-0148
Outside the U.S.: Operator Assisted International Dial-In Number: (856) 344-9282
Replay
A telephone replay will be available through August 19, 2022 by dialing 888-203-1112 and using the access code 6245002. An audio replay will also be available on the Company's website at www.bristowgroup.com shortly after the call and will be accessible through August 19, 2022. The accompanying investor presentation will be available on August 5, 2022 on Bristow's website at www.bristowgroup.com.
For additional information concerning Bristow, contact Jennifer Whalen at InvestorRelations@bristowgroup.com, (713) 369-4636 or visit Bristow Group's website at https://ir.bristowgroup.com/.
About Bristow Group
Bristow Group Inc. is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions. Bristow primarily provides aviation services to a broad base of major integrated, national and independent offshore energy companies. Bristow provides commercial search and rescue ("SAR") services in several countries and public sector SAR services in the United Kingdom ("U.K.") on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency ("MCA"). Additionally, the Company offers ad hoc helicopter and fixed wing transportation services.
Bristow currently has customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Dutch Caribbean, the Falkland Islands, Guyana, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad, the U.K. and the U.S.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure
This press release contains "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements represent Bristow Group Inc.'s (the "Company") current expectations or forecasts of future events. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "project," or "continue," or other similar words. These statements are made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, reflect management's current views with respect to future events and therefore are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown. The Company's actual results may vary materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. The Company cautions investors not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the document in which they are made. The Company disclaims any obligation or undertaking to provide any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which the forward-looking statement is based that occur after the date hereof. Risks that may affect forward-looking statements include, but are not necessarily limited to, those relating to: public health crises, such as pandemics (COVID-19) and epidemics, and any related government policies and actions; any failure to effectively manage, and receive anticipated returns from, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures and other portfolio actions; our inability to execute our business strategy for diversification efforts related to, government services, offshore wind, and advanced air mobility; our reliance on a limited number of customers and the reduction of our customer base as a result of consolidation and/or the energy transition; the possibility that we may be unable to maintain compliance with covenants in our financing agreements; global and regional changes in the demand, supply, prices or other market conditions affecting oil and gas, including changes resulting from a public health crisis or from the imposition or lifting of crude oil production quotas or other actions that might be imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producing countries; fluctuations in the demand for our services; the possibility that we may impair our long-lived assets and other assets, including inventory, property and equipment and investments in unconsolidated affiliates; the possibility of significant changes in foreign exchange rates and controls; potential effects of increased competition and the introduction of energy efficient alternative modes of transportation and solutions; the possibility that we may be unable to re-deploy our aircraft to regions with greater demand; the possibility of changes in tax and other laws and regulations and policies, including, without limitation, actions of the Biden Administration that impact oil and gas operations or favor renewable energy projects in the U.S.; the possibility that we may be unable to dispose of older aircraft through sales into the aftermarket; general economic conditions, including the capital and credit markets; the possibility that segments of our fleet may be grounded for extended periods of time or indefinitely; the existence of operating risks inherent in our business, including the possibility of declining safety performance; the possibility of political instability, war or acts of terrorism in any of the countries where we operate; the possibility that reductions in spending on aviation services by governmental agencies could lead to modifications of our search and rescue ("SAR") contract terms with governments, our contracts with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ("BSEE") or delays in receiving payments under such contracts; the effectiveness of our environmental, social and governance initiatives; the impact of supply chain disruptions and inflation and our ability to recoup rising costs in the rates we charge to our customers; and our reliance on a limited number of helicopter manufacturers and suppliers. If one or more of these risks materialize, or if underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those expected. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements because the matters they describe are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unpredictable factors, many of which are beyond our control. Our forward-looking statements are based on the information currently available to us and speak only as of the date hereof. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for us to predict these matters or how they may affect us. We have included important factors in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (the "Annual Report") which we believe over time, could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ from the anticipated results, performance or achievements that are expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. You should consider all risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Annual Report and in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), all of which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Metrics
The Company's management uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to assess the performance and operating results of its business. Each of these measures, as well as Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Free Cash Flow and Net Capex, each as detailed below, have limitations, and are provided in addition to, and not as an alternative for, and should be read in conjunction with, the information contained in the Company's financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP") (including the notes), included in the Company's filings with the SEC and posted on the Company's website. EBITDA is defined as Earnings before Interest expense, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA further adjusted for certain special items that occurred during the reported period, as noted below. The Company includes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to provide investors with a supplemental measure of its operating performance. Management believes that the use of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is meaningful to investors because it provides information with respect to the Company's ability to meet its future debt service, capital expenditures and working capital requirements and the financial performance of the Company's assets without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis. Neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA is a recognized term under GAAP. Accordingly, they should not be used as an indicator of, or an alternative to, net income as a measure of operating performance. In addition, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not intended to be measures of free cash flow available for management's discretionary use, as they do not consider certain cash requirements, such as debt service requirements. Because the definitions of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA (or similar measures) may vary among companies and industries, they may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies.
The following tables provide a reconciliation of net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA (in thousands, unaudited).
Adjusted Free Cash Flow Reconciliation
Free Cash Flow represents the Company's net cash provided by operating activities plus proceeds from disposition of property and equipment, less expenditures related to purchases of property and equipment. Adjusted Free Cash Flow is Free Cash Flow adjusted to exclude certain nonrecurring professional services fees, other costs paid in relation to the merger between Era Group Inc. ("Era") and Bristow Group Inc. (prior to such merger, "Old Bristow") which was completed in June 2020 (the "Merger") and reorganization items. Management believes that Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow are meaningful to investors because they provide information with respect to the Company's ability to generate cash from the business. The GAAP measure most directly comparable to Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow is net cash provided by operating activities. Since neither Free Cash Flow nor Adjusted Free Cash Flow is a recognized term under GAAP, they should not be used as an indicator of, or an alternative to, net cash provided by operating activities. Investors should note numerous methods may exist for calculating a company's free cash flow. As a result, the method used by management to calculate Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow may differ from the methods used by other companies to calculate their free cash flow. As such, they may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other companies.
The following table provides a reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow (in thousands, unaudited).
The chart below presents the number of aircraft in our fleet and their distribution among the regions in which we operate as of June 30, 2022 and the percentage of operating revenue that each of our regions provided during the Current Quarter (unaudited).
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After members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, their leader called someone on the phone with an urgent message for then-President Donald Trump, another extremist told investigators.
While gathered in a private suite at the Phoenix Park Hotel, an Oath Keeper member says he heard their leader, Stewart Rhodes, repeatedly urge the person on the phone to tell Trump to call upon militia groups to fight to keep the president in power.
“I just want to fight,” Rhodes said after hanging up with the person, who denied Rhodes’ appeal to speak directly to the Republican president, court records say.
Federal prosecutors have not said who they believe Rhodes was speaking to on that call, which was detailed in court documents in the case of an Oath Keeper member who has pleaded guilty in the riot. An attorney for Rhodes says the call never happened.
The story, however, has raised questions about whether the extremist group boss may have had the ear of someone close to Trump on Jan. 6 — an issue that could take center stage when the House committee that’s investigating the insurrection holds its next public hearing on Tuesday.
The Jan. 6 committee has said it is looking closely at any ties between people in Trump’s orbit and extremist groups accused of helping put into motion the violence at the Capitol.
Top leaders and members of the Oath Keepers and another far-right group — the Proud Boys — have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the most serious cases the Justice Department has brought so far in the Jan. 6 attack.
Neither federal prosecutors nor House investigators have alleged that anyone in the Trump White House was in communication with extremist groups in the run-up to Jan. 6.
But at least two men close to Trump — longtime friend Roger Stone and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn — have known contacts with far-right groups and extremists who, in some cases, are alleged to have been involved in Jan. 6.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, also told the House committee that she heard the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers mentioned leading up to the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on Jan. 6. But no further details about that have been revealed.
Cassie Miller, a Southern Poverty Law Center senior research analyst who has provided the committee with information about extremists, said she expects lawmakers to build on that testimony and possibly reveal more information about connections between people close to Trump and groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
“Right now, things are very blurry,” Miller said.
During the committee’s last televised hearing, Hutchinson told lawmakers that Trump instructed Meadows to speak with Stone and Flynn the day before the riot. Hutchinson said Meadows called both Flynn and Stone on the evening of Jan. 5, but she said she didn’t know what they spoke about.
In posts on the social media platform Telegram after the hearing, Stone denied ever speaking to Meadows on the phone. When asked by The Associated Press for comment about the call, Flynn’s brother replied in an email that the Jan. 6 hearing “is a clown show.”
Neither Stone nor Flynn has been charged in connection to the Capitol riot, and both of them have invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before the House committee. Trump pardoned each of them after they were convicted by jurors or pleaded guilty in cases unrelated to Jan. 6.
During events in Washington before the riot, Stone used members of the Oath Keepers — a far-right militia group that recruits current and former military, first responders and law enforcement — as security guards.
Photos and video on Jan. 5 and 6 show Stone flanked by people dressed in Oath Keepers gear. Among them was Joshua James, then the leader of the group’s Alabama chapter, who has pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and is cooperating with authorities investigating the insurrection.
Stone, an informal Trump adviser, has denied having any knowledge of or involvement in anything illegal on Jan. 6.
“The Oath Keepers provided security for me on the voluntary basis on January 5. Nothing more nothing less,” he wrote recently on Telegram.
On Friday, attorneys for Rhodes told the committee that their client wants to testify in person and publicly. A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment, but it’s unlikely lawmakers would agree to Rhodes’ conditions.
The committee already interviewed Rhodes for hours behind closed doors, but he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination under the direction of his attorneys when asked about the post-election period, one of his lawyers, James Lee Bright, told the AP. Bright said Rhodes now wants to “confront the narrative they are portraying,” which he believes is “completely wrong.”
Rhodes, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, and four co-defendants are scheduled for trial in Washington in September. The Oath Keepers have largely avoided public forums since Jan. 6, and it’s unclear who is handling the “day to day” operations of the group with Rhodes behind bars, said Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
The Oath Keepers have denied there was any plan to storm the Capitol. They say their communications and planning leading up to Jan. 6 was only about providing security for right-wing figures like Stone before the riot as well as protecting themselves against possible attacks from antifa activists.
Stone has also not been shy about a close association with Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman who is scheduled to stand trial in December on sedition charges alongside other members of the extremist group that refers to itself as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.”
In February 2019 — one month after being charged with witness tampering and other crimes in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation — Stone was summoned back to court to answer for a post on his Instagram account featuring a photo of the judge with what appeared to be the crosshairs of a gun. On the witness stand, Stone publicly identified Tarrio as one of five or six “volunteers” who provided him with images and content to post on social media. Stone said his house functioned as a headquarters for his volunteers.
Trump commuted Stone’s 40-month prison sentence in that case days before he was due to report to prison and pardoned him months later.
The Proud Boys have been trying to forge connections with mainstream Republican figures since Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes started the group in 2016, Miller said.
A Proud Boys member told the Jan. 6 committee that membership in the group skyrocketed after Trump refused to outright condemn the group during his first debate with Biden. Instead, Trump told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
And while extremist groups tend to collapse after law-enforcement authorities jail their top leaders, that hasn’t seemed to have happened to the Proud Boys. Despite a brief lull in activity after the riot, 2021 became one of the most active years for the extremist group, according to Miller.
Flynn also had contact with some far-right groups before Jan. 6. In the weeks after the election, Flynn became a leading figure in the campaign to sow doubt about the results and urge Trump to take extraordinary measures to stay in power.
Flynn called Trump’s loss a “coup in progress,” and publicly suggested Trump should seize voting machines and floated the idea of martial law. He and several allies ultimately brought those ideas directly to Trump in an Oval Office meeting that December. Flynn was also a featured speaker at a large rally in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020, backing Trump’s desperate efforts to subvert his election loss.
In text messages later filed in court, Rhodes — the Oath Keepers leader — and other members discussed how members of the group had worked with another far-right group, 1st Amendment Praetorians, or 1AP, to provide personal security to Flynn that day. A photograph taken by UPI shows Flynn leaving the rally with Rhodes and at least one member of 1AP.
The House committee has subpoenaed 1AP Founder Robert Patrick Lewis, noting in a letter to Lewis that he claimed to coordinate regularly with Flynn and also claimed to be in contact with Rhodes prior to Jan. 6.
Lewis, who has not been charged in Jan. 6, has said the group was made up of military and law enforcement veterans, and provided pro bono security and intelligence in the months after the election. In a recent defamation lawsuit, Lewis and another member of 1AP, Philip Luelsdorff, have denied involvement with the planning or execution of the Capitol attack, and said that 1AP has never been a militia or paramilitary group.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation before being pardoned by Trump a little more than a month before the Capitol riot.
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Richer reported from Boston, Smith from Providence, Rhode Island, and Kunzelman from College Park, Maryland. Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former national security director was arrested Saturday over a suspected cover-up surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020.
Suh Hoon’s arrest early Saturday came as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government investigates his liberal predecessor’s handling of that killing and another border incident the same year, cases that prompted criticism Seoul was desperately trying to appease the North to improve relations.
Former President Moon Jae-in, who staked his single-term on inter-Korean rapprochement before leaving office in May, has reacted angrily to the investigation into Suh’s actions. Moon issued a statement this week accusing Yoon’s government of raising groundless allegations and politicizing sensitive security matters.
Judge Kim Jeong-min of the Seoul Central District Court granted prosecutor’s request to arrest Suh over concerns that he may attempt to destroy evidence, the court said in a statement. Suh didn’t answer reporters’ questions about the allegations on Friday as he appeared at the court for a review over the prosecution’s warrant request.
A previous inquiry by South Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection concluded that officials from Moon’s government made no meaningful attempt to rescue Lee Dae-jun after learning that the 47-year-old fisheries official was drifting in waters near the Koreas’ western sea boundary in September 2020.
After confirming that Lee had been fatally shot by North Korean troops, officials publicly played up the possibility that he had tried to defect to North Korea, citing his gambling debts and family issues, while withholding evidence suggesting he had no such intention, the audit board said in an October report.
Suh also served as Moon’s spy chief before being appointed as national security director two months before the killing. He faces suspicions that he used a Cabinet meeting to instruct officials to delete intelligence records related to the incident while the government crafted a public explanation of Lee’s death.
Suh is also suspected of ordering the Defense Ministry, National Intelligence Service, and the Coast Guard to portray Lee as trying to defect in their reports on his killing.
Critics say the Moon government went out of its way to paint Lee as unsympathetic as it tried to appease a nuclear-armed rival with a brutal human rights record.
In June, the Defense Ministry and coast guard reversed the Moon government’s description of the incident, saying there was no evidence that Lee had tried to defect.
Moon’s Democratic Party issued a statement criticizing Suh’s arrest, saying suspicions he might destroy evidence were unreasonable since “all the materials are in the hands of the Yoon Suk Yeol government.”
“The Defense Ministry, Coast Guard, National Intelligence Service and other security-related agencies have made a judgment on the Western Sea incident based on an analysis of information and circumstances,” the party said in a statement. It called the investigation a type of political vendetta.
Yoon’s government is separately investigating the 2019 forced repatriation of two North Korean fishermen, despite their reported wish to resettle in South Korea.
In July, the National Intelligence Service filed charges against Suh and his spy chief successor Park Jie-won for alleged abuse of power, destruction of public records and falsification of documents regarding the two cases.
The agency accused Park, who served as its director until May, of ordering the destruction of intelligence reports on Lee’s death. It accused Suh of forcibly closing an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 2019 repatriation of the two North Korean fisherman captured in South Korean waters.
Critics say Moon’s government never provided a clear explanation of why it sent the two escapees back to the North to face possible execution. Moon’s officials described the men as criminals who confessed to murder and questioned the sincerity of their wish to defect.
Dozens of international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, issued a joint statement accusing Moon’s government of failing to provide due process or to “protect anyone who would be at substantial risk of torture or other serious human rights violations after repatriation.”
Moon left office with little to show for his engagement efforts with the North and the investigations into the two incidents have further tarnished his legacy.
Moon met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times in 2018 and lobbied hard to set up Kim’s meetings with former U.S. President Donald Trump as part of efforts to defuse the nuclear standoff and improve inter-Korean ties.
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NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. ("Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SDIG) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Stronghold Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's October 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SDIG investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) contracted suppliers, including MinerVa Semiconductor Corp., were reasonably likely to miss anticipated delivery quantities and deadlines; (2) due to strong demand and pre-sold supply of mining equipment in the industry, Stronghold would experience difficulties obtaining miners outside of confirmed purchase orders; (3) as a result of the foregoing, there was a significant risk that Stronghold could not expand its mining capacity as expected; (4) as a result, Stronghold would likely experience significant losses; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 13, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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‘We started running’: 8 killed in Texas outlet mall shooting
ALLEN, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of terrified shoppers fled in panic after a gunman stepped out of a silver sedan and opened fire at a Dallas-area outlet mall, killing eight and wounding seven before being killed by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said.
The shooting in Allen, Texas, on Saturday was the latest eruption of what has been an unprecedented pace of mass killings in the U.S. Barely a week before, authorities say, a man fatally shot five people in Cleveland, Texas, after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon while a baby slept.
Police did not immediately provide details about the victims at Allen Premium Outlets, a sprawling outdoor shopping center, but witnesses reported seeing children among them. Some said they also saw what appeared to be a police officer and a mall security guard unconscious on the ground.
A 16-year-old pretzel stand employee, Maxwell Gum, described a virtual stampede of shoppers. He and others sheltered in a storage room.
“We started running. Kids were getting trampled,” Gum said. “My co-worker picked up a 4-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.”
Dashcam video circulating online showed the gunman getting out of a car and shooting at people on the sidewalk. More than three dozen shots could be heard as the vehicle that was recording the video drove off.
Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd said seven people including the shooter died at the scene. Nine victims were taken to area hospitals, but two of them died.
Three of the wounded were in critical condition in the evening, Boyd said, and four were stable.
An Allen Police Department officer was in the area on an unrelated call when he heard shots at 3:36 p.m., the department wrote on Facebook.
“The officer engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat. He then called for emergency personnel,” the post said.
Mass killings are happening with staggering frequency in the United States this year: an average of about one per week, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
President Biden was briefed on the shooting in Allen and the administration offered support to local officials, the White House said. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has signed laws easing firearms restrictions following past mass shootings, called the mall shooting an “unspeakable tragedy.”
A live aerial broadcast from a news station showed armored trucks and other law enforcement vehicles outside the mall. More than 30 police cruisers with lights flashing blocked an entrance, with multiple ambulances on the scene in the city of roughly 105,000 residents about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of downtown Dallas.
Video shared on social media showed people running through a parking lot amid the sound of gunshots.
Fontayne Payton, 35, was at H&M when he heard the sound of gunshots through his headphones.
“It was so loud, it sounded like it was right outside,” Payton said.
People in the store scattered before employees ushered the group into the fitting rooms and then a lockable back room, he said. When they were given the all-clear to leave, Payton saw the store had broken windows and a trail of blood to the door. Discarded sandals and bloodied clothes lay nearby.
Once outside, Payton saw bodies.
“I pray it wasn’t kids, but it looked like kids,” he said. The bodies were covered in white towels, slumped over bags on the ground. “It broke me when I walked out to see that.”
Further away, he saw the body of a heavyset man wearing all black. He assumed it was the shooter, Payton said, because unlike the other bodies it had not been covered.
Tarakram Nunna, 25, and Ramakrishna Mullapudi, 26, said they saw what appeared to be three people motionless on the ground, including one who appeared to be a police officer and another who seemed to be a mall security guard.
Another shopper, Sharkie Mouli, 24, said he hid in a Banana Republic during the shooting. As he left, he saw what appeared to be an unconscious police officer lying next to another unconscious person outside the outlet store.
“I have seen his gun lying right next to him and a guy who is like passing out right next to him,” Mouli said.
Stan and Mary Ann Greene were browsing in a Columbia sportswear store when the shooting started.
“We had just gotten in, just a couple minutes earlier, and we just heard a lot of loud popping,” Mary Ann Greene told The Associated Press.
Employees rolled down the security gate and brought everyone to the rear of the store until police arrived and escorted them out, the Greenes said.
Eber Romero was at an Under Armour store when a cashier mentioned there was a shooting.
As he left, Romero said, the mall appeared empty and all the shops had their security gates down. That is when he started seeing broken glass and victims of the shooting on the floor of the shopping center.
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Associated Press writers Gene Johnson in Seattle and Adam Kealoha Causey in Dallas contributed to this report.
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-- Collaboration leverages expertise across both companies, including Kite's global cell therapy leadership and industry leading reliable manufacturing --
-- Arcellx to receive $225M upfront payment; $100M equity investment; and up to $3.9B in total contingent consideration --
-- Companies to co-commercialize and split profits in the U.S.; Arcellx to receive low to mid-teen royalties outside the U.S. --
-- Arcellx to continue independently progressing its development pipeline and researching new product candidates beyond myeloma --
-- Arcellx to host a conference call and webcast today at 5:45 a.m. PT --
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcellx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLX) and Kite, a Gilead Company (NASDAQ: GILD), today announced a global strategic collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialize Arcellx's lead late-stage product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma is an incurable disease for most patients and the need remains for effective, safe, and broadly accessible therapies.
"This collaboration marks a significant achievement for the myeloma field and Arcellx," said Rami Elghandour, Arcellx's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Combining our potentially best-in-class CART-ddBCMA therapy for multiple myeloma with Kite's global leadership in cell therapy provides the foundation for us to commercialize our therapy at scale. Most importantly this collaboration is focused on accelerating access for patients in need. The synergies between the two companies are a natural fit. We both bring complementary expertise to the collaboration allowing each company to contribute to the partnership without duplication or competing interests, which is critical for building long-term value."
Currently in Phase 2 clinical development, CART-ddBCMA is an investigational cell therapy product comprising autologous T cells that have been genetically modified to target multiple myeloma. CART-ddBCMA utilizes Arcellx's novel D-Domain binder. Kite and Arcellx will jointly advance the CART-ddBMCA asset.
"The collaboration with Arcellx enables Kite to expand into a new area of high unmet need and bring a potentially best-in-class cell therapy to help many patients," said Christi Shaw, Chief Executive Officer of Kite. "Cell therapy has proven it can change the way cancer is treated by creating a potentially curative therapy for an individual patient, engineered from their own T cells. To deliver cell therapy globally, and at scale, it requires a highly coordinated, vertically integrated organization from R&D to commercialization to manufacturing, dedicated to the unique needs of this very complex field. The Kite team is excited to engage on this meaningful program in the multiple myeloma field, alongside Arcellx's talented team."
Upon closing, Arcellx will receive an upfront cash payment of $225 million and $100 million equity investment. Both companies will share development, clinical trial, and commercialization costs for CART-ddBCMA and will jointly commercialize and split U.S. profits 50/50. Outside the US, Kite will commercialize the product and Arcellx will receive royalties on sales. Kite will be responsible for the development and commercialization costs for any product under the collaboration that is not co-commercialized. After completion of the technical transfer, Kite will be responsible for manufacturing.
Terms of the Collaboration
- Upfront: Upon closing, Arcellx will receive an upfront cash payment of $225 million and $100 million equity investment from Kite.
- Manufacturing: After completion of the technical transfer, Kite will be responsible for manufacturing. Kite will be responsible for all manufacturing expenses associated with commercial readiness.
- Development: U.S. and global study costs for the iMMagine-1, iMMagine-2 and future clinical studies for CART-ddBCMA and any other co-commercialized product will be shared 50/50 in the U.S. and 60 to Kite / 40 to Arcellx in the Ex U.S. territory.
- U.S. Commercialization: 50/50 profit split for products co-commercialized by Arcellx and Kite; Kite will commercialize all other products and Arcellx will receive low to mid-teen royalties.
- Ex-U.S. Commercialization: Kite will commercialize the product and Arcellx will receive low to mid-teen royalties on sales.
- NextGen, Non-Autologous, and ARC-SparX Programs: Arcellx and Kite to collaborate on next generation autologous and non-autologous programs incorporating ddBCMA. Arcellx to receive an option to co-develop and co-commercialize next generation autologous programs and Kite to receive an option to selected ARC-SparX programs in myeloma.
Bank of America is acting as financial advisor to Kite. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is serving as legal counsel to Arcellx.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. Closing of the transaction is subject to expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and other customary conditions.
Conference Call and Webcast Details
The live webcast and conference call will be accessible under the Events & Presentations in the Investors section of the company's website www.arcellx.com. To participate in the conference call, dial 1-888-440-3310 (domestic) or 1-646-960-0513 (international) and reference conference ID# 1012518. The archived audio webcast will be available on Arcellx's website following the call and will be available for 30 days.
About Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a type of hematological cancer in which diseased plasma cells proliferate and accumulate in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy blood cells and causing bone lesions, loss of bone density, and bone fractures. These abnormal plasma cells also produce excessive quantities of an abnormal immunoglobulin fragment, called a myeloma protein (M protein), causing kidney damage and impairing the patient's immune function. Multiple myeloma is the third most common hematological malignancy in the United States and Europe, representing approximately 10% of all hematological cancer cases and 20% of deaths due to hematological malignancies. The median age of patients at diagnosis is 69 years with one-third of patients diagnosed at an age of at least 75 years. Because MM tends to afflict patients at an advanced stage of life, patients often have multiple co-morbidities and toxicities that can quickly escalate and become life-endangering.
About CART-ddBCMA
CART-ddBCMA is Arcellx's BCMA-specific CAR-modified T-cell therapy utilizing the company's novel binding domain for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. CART-ddBCMA is currently being investigated in a pivotal Phase 2 study called iMMagine-1. Arcellx's proprietary binding domains are novel synthetic proteins designed to bind specific therapeutic targets. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
About Arcellx
Arcellx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy by engineering innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases. Arcellx believes that cell therapies are one of the forward pillars of medicine and Arcellx's mission is to advance humanity by developing cell therapies that are safer, more effective, and more broadly accessible. Arcellx's lead product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, is being developed for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/r MM) in an ongoing Phase 2 study. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Arcellx is also advancing its dosable and controllable CAR-T therapy, ARC-SparX, through two programs: a Phase 1 study of ACLX-001 for r/r MM, initiated in the second quarter of 2022; and a Phase 1 study of ACLX-002 in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, initiated in the fourth quarter of 2022. For more information on Arcellx, please visit www.arcellx.com.
About Kite
Kite, a Gilead Company, is a global biopharmaceutical company based in Santa Monica, California, focused on cell therapy to treat and potentially cure cancer. As the global cell therapy leader, Kite has treated more patients with CAR T-cell therapy than any other company. Kite has the largest in-house cell therapy manufacturing network in the world, spanning process development, vector manufacturing, clinical trial production and commercial product manufacturing. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Follow Kite on social media on Twitter (@KitePharma) and LinkedIn.
About Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California. Gilead Sciences acquired Kite in 2017.
Arcellx, Inc. Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including the potential benefits, synergies and results that may be achieved through the proposed collaboration; the anticipated completion of the proposed transaction including the closing of a proposed concurrent equity investment; the anticipated payments expected to be received by Arcellx in connection with the collaboration, including potential milestones and royalties; expectations regarding the timing and outcomes of clinical trials for its product candidates; the expected capabilities, including in manufacturing and commercialization, of Kite and Arcellx to complete clinical development, obtain regulatory approval, and if approved, commercialize the product candidates; the collaboration's impact on Arcellx's research and development, clinical and commercial activities, expenditures, capabilities and financials; Kite's rights around certain ARC-SparX programs; and Arcellx's research and development pipeline plans in autologous and allogeneic programs and beyond myeloma. The forward-looking statements contained herein are based upon Arcellx's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, including the ability to complete the proposed transaction, including the concurrent equity investment, in a timely manner or at all, including the possibility that a governmental entity may prohibit, delay or refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the transaction; the possibility that certain closing conditions to the proposed transaction will not be satisfied; uncertainty as to whether the anticipated benefits and opportunities of the proposed collaboration may not be realized or make take longer to realize or may cost more than expected; challenges in technology transfer and cell therapy manufacturing, particularly in scaling up to commercial supply volumes, that can limit the benefits of the collaboration; challenges inherent in new product candidate development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and obtaining regulatory approvals; challenges associated with collaborating with third parties, including intellectual property, operational, financial and other risks; uncertainty of commercial success for new products; the ability of Arcellx and Kite to successfully execute their strategic plans; the risk that the collaboration can be terminated; potential for other unexpected hurdles, costs or delays; and other risks that may be found in the section entitled Part II, Item 1A (Risk Factors) in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other documents that Arcellx files from time to time with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and Arcellx assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Gilead Forward-looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, including the ability of the parties to complete the transaction in a timely manner or at all; the possibility that various closing conditions for the transaction may not be satisfied or waived, including the possibility that a governmental entity may prohibit, delay or refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the transaction; difficulties or unanticipated expenses in connection with the collaboration, including with respect to the co-development, co-commercialization, and manufacturing of CART-ddBCMA or other programs subject of the collaboration and associated funding; the risk that Gilead and Kite may not realize the anticipated benefits of the collaboration with Arcellx; the possibility that the parties may make a strategic decision to terminate this collaboration at any time; the risk that Gilead's investment in Arcellx will lose value for any number of reasons; uncertainties relating to regulatory applications and related filing and approval timelines for CART-ddBCMA or other programs subject of the collaboration, including the risk that FDA may not approve any such programs on the currently anticipated timelines or at all, and any marketing approvals, if granted, may have significant limitations on its use; the potential effect of any of the foregoing on Gilead and Kite's earnings; and any assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. These and other risks, uncertainties and other factors are described in detail in Gilead's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and is cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to Gilead and Kite, and Gilead and Kite assume no obligation and disclaim any intent to update any such forward-looking statements.
Arcellx Contacts:
Investors:
Myesha Lacy
ir@arcellx.com
510-418-2412
Media:
Andrea Cohen
Sam Brown Inc.
andreacohen@sambrown.com
917-209-7163
Kite Contacts:
Investors:
Jacquie Ross
investor_relations@gilead.com
Media:
Tracy Rossin
trossin@kitepharma.com
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday squared off against former Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) for the first and only time in a debate that put into stark contrast their visions for the Sunshine State little more than two weeks out from Election Day.
The debate highlighted some of the most pressing issues for the state, including rising property insurance rates and what to do with Florida’s budget surplus. But it also spilled into the realm of national politics, with the two candidates staking out very different positions on issues such as abortion rights and immigration.
Here are five takeaways from Monday night’s showdown.
Crist comes out swinging
Crist wasted no time during Monday night’s debate in holding his opponent’s feet to the fire.
With the FiveThirtyEight polling average showing him running nearly 8 points behind DeSantis in a state known for ultra-close elections, Crist barreled into the debate with force, hammering the governor over everything from his focus on culture war issues such as abortion to his unwillingness to rule out a 2024 White House bid.
“He won’t even tell you if he’ll serve four years if reelected,” Crist said. “You deserve better than that. Florida deserves better than that.”
Of course, Crist isn’t new to debates. After all, he ran successfully for Florida governor as a Republican in 2006 and has made a couple of runs for statewide office since then.
Still, his performance on Monday night was that of a candidate who recognized he needed a big moment to turn around his increasingly slim prospects in a state that has shifted quickly toward the GOP in recent years.
DeSantis fuels more 2024 chatter
It’s no secret that DeSantis is seen as a potential 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
And on Monday, he did little to dispel such chatter. Throughout the debate, Crist questioned DeSantis about his future political prospects, pressing him on whether he would commit to serving out another four-year term in the governor’s mansion.
“You’re running for governor,” Crist said. “And I have a question for you. … Why don’t you look at the eyes of the people of Florida you will serve all four years?”
“Will you serve a full four year term?” he asked.
DeSantis repeatedly refused to answer those questions, instead pivoting to the Biden administration and Crist’s record in Congress.
Of course, the candidates weren’t permitted to ask each other questions. Still, DeSantis’s silence on the matter is likely to raise further questions about his future political ambitions.
DeSantis seizes on President Biden, inflation
For DeSantis, the Monday debate didn’t do much to surface new positions or talking points. The conservative Florida governor largely stuck to the same lines of attack, going after the Biden administration and reminding voters that the nation is dealing with the highest inflation in decades.
Even in opening the debate, DeSantis was quick to accuse Crist of voting “with Joe Biden 100 percent of the time” and blaming “Biden-Crist” policies for the ever-increasing cost of living.
It’s a familiar strategy for DeSantis, who has built a national reputation as one of Biden’s chief Republican antagonists.
And there’s reason to believe that it will pay off. Biden lost Florida in 2020 by an unusually large margin for the Sunshine State and still holds an underwater approval rating there. DeSantis, meanwhile, has an above-water approval rating and has a reputation among Republicans as a conservative bulwark against a Democratically controlled Washington.
Abortion, immigration are flashpoints
Florida’s population has swelled in recent years as out-of-staters have poured into the Sunshine State. It’s no wonder, then, that national political issues dominated the conversation in Monday night’s debate just as much as state-specific issues did.
Crist, seizing on Democrats’ 2022 playbook, repeatedly reminded the audience that conservatives have worked for years to dismantle protections for abortion rights, warning that DeSantis and the state’s GOP-controlled legislature would impose further restrictions if given the chance.
DeSantis, meanwhile, accused Crist of being an accomplice to illegal immigration, tying the former congressman to the Biden administraiton’s “open border” policies.
One central topic in the debate was DeSantis’s decision to use state funds to fly dozens of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, the elite Massachusetts resort town. Crist accused DeSantis of playing with people’s lives for political gain, while DeSantis said he succeeded in putting the country’s migrant crisis “front and center.”
Democrats still face an uphill climb
Crist held his own against DeSantis throughout the debate, keeping his focus on the governor’s record in office and pressing him over some of his most controversial decisions.
Whether that will be enough to alter the course of the Florida gubernatorial race remains an open question.
Public polling has repeatedly shown DeSantis as the favorite to win reelection, and the Florida governor has a loyal base of conservative support that he’s relying on to push him to victory on Election Day.
At the same time, he’s cast himself as the person best suited to tackle towering inflation and economic uncertainty, despite the rapid rise in the cost of living in the Sunshine State. That could help earn the support of moderates who are eager for financial relief.
All told, Crist needed more than just a good night on Monday to turn things around for his campaign; he needed a game changer.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap" or the "Company") (NYSE: AER) today announced it has filed an interim financial report including its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). AerCap's Form 6-K can be accessed on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.aercap.com, as well as on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
About AerCap
AerCap is the global leader in aviation leasing with one of the most attractive order books in the industry. AerCap serves approximately 300 customers around the world with comprehensive fleet solutions. AerCap is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (AER) and is based in Dublin with offices in Shannon, Miami, Singapore, Memphis, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Seattle, Toulouse and other locations around the world.
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BISMARCK, N.D., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU) today reported 2022 earnings on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $367.5 million, or $1.81 per share, with adjusted earnings of $380.2 million, or $1.87 per share, compared to 2021 GAAP earnings of $378.1 million, or $1.87 per share.
In the fourth quarter, the company on a GAAP basis earned $117.1 million, or 57 cents per share, with adjusted earnings of $125.7 million, or 61 cents per share, compared to fourth quarter 2021 GAAP earnings of $86.5 million, or 42 cents per share.
MDU Resources announced on Aug. 4 its intent to separate its construction materials subsidiary, Knife River Corporation, into a standalone publicly traded company, and on Nov. 3 announced a strategic review of its construction services subsidiary, MDU Construction Services Group, Inc. MDU Resources is reporting adjusted earnings that exclude costs attributable to these strategic initiatives. Adjusted earnings are a non-GAAP measure. For an explanation of non-GAAP earnings adjustments, see the "Non-GAAP Measures" section in this news release. Additional information about the proposed strategic initiatives can be found on the company's website at www.mdu.com.
"Our businesses performed very well in 2022 and finished the year strong. We are particularly pleased with results in the latter half of the year as we saw our operational adjustments, including product pricing, offsetting inflationary pressures," said David L. Goodin, president and CEO of MDU Resources. "We see this momentum continuing into 2023 as we remain focused on safely and efficiently providing essential products and services to our customers while making great progress toward completing the planned spinoff of our construction materials business, Knife River Corporation, and the strategic review of our construction services business, MDU Construction Services Group. We are optimistic about the future as combined backlog at our construction businesses is at an all-time high of more than $3 billion, and we have $2.5 billion in capital investments planned within our regulated energy delivery businesses over the next five years."
Results at each of MDU Resources' businesses were negatively impacted in 2022 on a non-cash basis by lower investment returns on nonqualified benefit plans. Collectively, the negative earnings variance for 2022 was approximately $21 million, or 10 cents per share, compared to 2021. The company attributes this change in investment returns to significant fluctuations in the financial markets.
Business Unit Highlights
The electric and natural gas utility earned $102.3 million in 2022, compared to earnings of $103.5 million in 2021. Natural gas retail sales volumes increased 13.7% and electric retail sales volumes increased 2.2%, primarily from colder weather compared to the prior year. In addition to volume increases, higher rate relief positively impacted results. Lower investment returns on nonqualified benefit plans, higher operation and maintenance expense and higher interest expense more than offset the positive increases. The utility saw rate base growth of 7.8% and customer growth of 1.6%. It has three rate cases pending before regulatory agencies and anticipates filing four additional rate cases in 2023. Construction is expected to be complete this summer on Heskett Station Unit IV, an 88-megawatt simple-cycle natural gas-fired electric generation combustion turbine.
The pipeline business earned $35.3 million in 2022, compared to $40.9 million in 2021. The company had record transportation volumes for the sixth consecutive year, largely from ongoing system growth and steady demand for services. The company experienced higher transportation revenues, largely attributable to the North Bakken Expansion project that was placed in service early in the year. The revenue increase was partially offset by the absence of income recorded in 2021 as allowed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for funds used during construction on the North Bakken Expansion project and higher depreciation. Earnings also were negatively impacted by higher interest expense. 2023 revenues are expected to increase approximately $10 million from the North Bakken Expansion project, primarily from contracted volume commitment increases of approximately 70%, to 215 million cubic feet per day. The company filed a rate case with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 27, 2023, in which it is seeking rate increases for its transportation and storage services. The pipeline business continues to work on a number of expansion projects that are expected to add incremental natural gas transportation capacity of more than 300 million cubic feet per day as they are completed later in 2023 and in 2024, pending regulatory approvals.
The construction services business had record revenues of $2.70 billion and record earnings of $124.8 million in 2022, compared to revenues of $2.05 billion and earnings of $109.4 million in 2021. Electrical and mechanical services workload was higher, particularly for hospitality, data center and renewable energy projects. Demand for utility-related transmission and distribution work was strong, particularly projects related to power line fire-hardening. Margins decreased from higher operating costs primarily related to inflationary pressures. Demand for construction services work remains strong, with record backlog at Dec. 31 of $2.13 billion, up 54% compared to $1.38 billion at Dec. 31, 2021.
The construction materials business had record revenues of $2.53 billion in 2022 and earned $116.2 million, compared to revenues of $2.23 billion and earnings of $129.8 million in 2021. While performance improved in the second half of the year as adjustments in response to inflationary pressures took effect, Knife River's full-year margins decreased because of higher costs on asphalt oil, labor, fuel and cement. Higher interest expense also negatively impacted results. Unfavorable weather early in the year and during the fourth quarter across the majority of Knife River's markets shortened the company's construction season. Demand remains strong for construction materials and contracting work as evidenced by a record backlog at Dec. 31 of $935 million, up 32% compared to $708 million at Dec. 31, 2021.
Corporate Strategy Updates
MDU Resources' board of directors has determined the future company structure that is most likely to maximize long-term value for shareholders is to create two pure-play publicly traded companies, one focused on regulated energy delivery and the other on construction materials. To achieve this future structure, the company is working toward spinning off Knife River and is evaluating options to optimize the value of its construction services business. Both strategic initiatives are expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2023. MDU Resources remains committed to managing its businesses to deliver best-in-class operating performance and value for all stakeholders.
Guidance
MDU Resources is providing guidance for 2023 by business because of the strategic initiatives that it has underway. For 2023, MDU Resources expects earnings from its regulated energy delivery businesses in the range of $140 million to $150 million. The company expects construction services revenues of $2.75 billion to $2.95 billion in 2023, with higher margins compared to 2022, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $200 million to $225 million. Construction materials revenues are expected to be $2.50 billion to $2.70 billion in 2023, with higher margins compared to 2022, and EBITDA of $300 million to $350 million. These guidance ranges do not reflect one-time costs expected in 2023 related to the strategic initiatives. Such costs will be incurred at MDU Resources and reflected in the consolidated results. EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial metric. For a reconciliation of EBITDA to income from continuing operations, see Non-GAAP Financial Measures later in this release.
Conference Call
MDU Resources management will discuss 2022 results on a webcast at 2 p.m. EDT today. The event can be accessed at www.mdu.com under the "Investor Relations" heading by selecting "Events & Presentations" and clicking on "Year-End 2022 Earnings Conference Call." A replay of the webcast will be available at the same location.
About MDU Resources
MDU Resources Group, Inc., a member of the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats indices, is Building a Strong America® by providing essential products and services through its regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses. For more information about MDU Resources, visit www.mdu.com or contact the Investor Relations Department at investor@mduresources.com.
Media Contact: Laura Lueder, manager of communications and public relations, 701-530-1095
Financial Contact: Brent Miller, director of financial projects and investor relations, 701-530-1730
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The information in this news release highlights the key growth strategies, projections and certain assumptions for the company and its subsidiaries and other matters for each of the company's businesses. Many of these highlighted statements and other statements not historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the company believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance the company's projections, including estimates for growth, shareholder value creation and financial guidance or other proposed strategies, including the anticipated separation of Knife River or the proposed future structure of two pure-play publicly traded companies, will be achieved. Please refer to assumptions contained in this news release, as well as the various important factors listed in Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors in the company's most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC, including the company's Form 10-Q for the period ended Sept. 30, 2022.
Changes in such assumptions and factors could cause actual future results to differ materially from growth and financial guidance. All forward-looking statements in this news release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by law, the company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Throughout this news release, the company presents financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP, as well as EBITDA, EBITDA from continuing operations, and adjusted earnings, which are considered non-GAAP financial measures. The use of these non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as alternatives to earnings, operating income or operating cash flows. The company believes the use of these non-GAAP financial measures are beneficial in evaluating the company's financial performance due to its diverse operations. Please refer to the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section contained in this document for additional information.
Performance Summary
The capital program is subject to continued review and modification by the company. Actual expenditures may vary from the estimates due to changes in load growth, regulatory decisions and other factors, including the proposed separation of Knife River and the strategic review of MDU Construction Services. Acquisitions would be incremental to the company's 2023 to 2027 outlined capital investment plan.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The company, in addition to presenting its earnings in conformity with GAAP, has provided non-GAAP financial measures of EBITDA by operating segment, EBITDA from continuing operations, 2023 EBITDA guidance from continuing operations, adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share. The company defines EBITDA as net income (loss) attributable to the operating segment before interest; taxes; and depreciation, depletion and amortization; and EBITDA from continuing operations as income (loss) from continuing operations before interest; taxes; and depreciation, depletion and amortization. The company defines adjusted net income as net income (loss) attributable to the company before any costs related to announced strategic initiatives.
The company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful information to investors about operational efficiency compared to the company's peers by excluding the impacts of differences in tax jurisdictions and structures, debt levels, capital investment and the one-time costs associated with announced strategic initiatives. The company's management uses the non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with GAAP results when evaluating the company's operating results internally and calculating compensation packages. Non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized; therefore, it may not be possible to compare such financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names. The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered a substitution for financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The company strongly encourages investors to review the consolidated financial statements in their entirety and to not rely on any single financial measure.
The following tables provide a reconciliation of consolidated GAAP net income to EBITDA from continuing operations for actual as well as forecasted results. The reconciliation for each operating segment's EBITDA is included within each operating segment's condensed income statement.
The following table provides a reconciliation of consolidated GAAP net income to adjusted net income and GAAP earnings per share to adjusted earnings per share.
The electric business reported net income of $19.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $10.3 million for the same period in 2021. This increase was largely the result of higher retail sales volumes across all customer classes in large part due to colder weather, rate relief in North Dakota and lower operation and maintenance expenses, partially associated with the Heskett Station plant closure.
For the full year, the electric business reported net income of $57.1 million, compared to $51.9 million in 2021. This increase was primarily the result of higher retail sales revenue due to rate relief in North Dakota and higher net transmission revenues, including increased investment. In addition, higher retail sales volumes of 2.2%, primarily from residential customers due to colder weather in the first and fourth quarters of the year, contributed to the increase in revenues. Net income also was favorably impacted by lower operation and maintenance expense due to lower payroll-related and materials costs, primarily associated with the Heskett Station and Lewis & Clark Station plant closures. Partially offsetting the increase were lower investment returns of $4.6 million on nonqualified benefit plans; higher interest expense, largely from higher debt balances; and higher planned maintenance outage costs at Coyote Station offset in part by the absence of planned maintenance outage costs at Big Stone Station during 2021.
The previous table also reflects items that are passed through to customers resulting in no impact to earnings. These items include $5.7 million and $17.9 million higher electric fuel and purchased power costs for the fourth quarter and the year ended 2022, respectively, which increased both operating revenues and electric fuel and purchased power; and higher production tax credits driven by higher wind production during the year, which decreased operating revenues and increased income tax benefits.
The electric business's EBITDA increased $10.3 million in 2022 compared to 2021, primarily the result of higher retail sales revenue due to rate relief and higher volumes and lower operation and maintenance expense, partially offset by lower investment returns, as previously discussed.
The natural gas distribution business reported net income of $34.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $31.5 million for the same period in 2021. The main drivers behind the increase were 16.9% higher natural gas retail sales volumes, primarily to residential and commercial customer classes as a result of colder weather, partially offset by weather normalization and decoupling mechanisms, and approved rate relief in Washington. These increases were offset in part by higher interest expense, largely related to higher debt balances and interest rates during 2022; higher operation and maintenance costs, primarily due to higher expected credit losses as a result of higher receivables balances associated with colder weather and higher gas costs and payroll-related costs; and higher income tax expense as a result of higher income before income taxes.
For the full year, the natural gas distribution business reported net income of $45.2 million, compared to $51.6 million in 2021. This decrease was primarily the result of higher operation and maintenance expense, largely higher subcontractor costs and expected credit losses as a result of higher receivables balances associated with colder weather and higher gas costs; lower investment returns of $7.0 million on nonqualified benefit plans; and higher interest expense, largely related to higher debt balances and interest rates. Partially offsetting the decreased net income were 13.7% higher natural gas retail sales volumes to all customer classes due to colder weather, partially offset by weather normalization and decoupling mechanisms, and approved rate relief in certain jurisdictions.
The previous table also reflects items that are passed through to customers resulting in no impact to earnings. These items include $110.9 million and $274.1 million in higher natural gas costs for the fourth quarter and the year ended 2022, respectively, which increased both operating revenues and purchased natural gas sold; and $3.7 million and $10.1 million in higher revenue-based taxes for the fourth quarter and the year ended 2022, respectively, that increased both operating revenues and taxes, other than income.
The natural gas distribution business's EBITDA increased $1.3 million in 2022 compared to 2021, primarily the result of higher retail sales volumes and rate relief in certain jurisdictions, partially offset by higher operation and maintenance expense and lower investment returns, as previously discussed.
The pipeline business reported net income of $11.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $12.2 million for the same period in 2021. The decrease reflects lower allowance for funds used during construction, which is reflected in other income and interest expense, as well as higher depreciation expense and higher interest expense from an increase in debt balances and interest rates. The business benefited from increased transportation revenues due largely to the North Bakken Expansion project.
For the full year, the pipeline business reported net income of $35.3 million, compared to $40.9 million in 2021. This decrease was primarily the result of higher interest expense, lower investment returns of $1.4 million on nonqualified benefit plans and lower non-regulated project margins resulting from lower revenues. The business benefited from increased transportation revenues due largely to the North Bakken Expansion project offset in part by associated lower allowance for funds used during construction and higher depreciation expense.
The pipeline business's EBITDA increased $5.7 million in 2022 compared to 2021, primarily the result of higher transportation revenues, partially offset by lower allowance for funds used during construction, investment returns and non-regulated project margins, as previously discussed.
The company expects to complete in 2023 an estimated $1.76 billion of the backlog on record at Dec. 31, 2022.
The construction services business reported record net income of $41.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to $27.6 million for the same period in 2021. Most of the business's sectors saw increased revenues, partially from increased contract pricing resulting from inflationary pressures. The business experienced a 77% increase in electrical and mechanical revenues during the quarter, largely from the progress on hospitality and data center projects in the commercial sector. The business's revenues also benefited from the mix of projects in the institutional sector from government, health care and education projects and an increase in the renewable sector from timing and progress on projects. Partially offsetting the higher electrical and mechanical revenues were slightly lower transmission and distribution revenues with fewer street lighting projects due to project timing, partially offset by higher demand from utility customers for underground line work. Lower margins on record fourth quarter revenues were attributable mostly to higher operating costs related to inflationary pressures, including labor costs. This business also experienced higher selling, general and administrative costs, largely related to payroll; higher income taxes as a result of higher taxable income; and higher interest expense due to higher working capital needs and interest rates; partially offset by higher income from the business's joint ventures.
For the full year, the construction services business reported record net income of $124.8 million, compared to $109.4 million in 2021. The business experienced a 50% increase in electrical and mechanical revenues for the year, partially resulting from increased contract pricing due to inflationary pressures. The commercial sector benefited from progress on hospitality, data center and general commercial projects. The renewable sector benefited from the timing and progress on projects, and the institutional sector benefited from increased activity and progress on education, health care and government projects. Transmission and distribution revenues decreased compared to 2021, with lower transportation workloads driven by lower customer demand for street lighting projects offset somewhat by higher utility workloads. The business experienced lower margins during the year, which were mostly attributable to higher operating costs related to inflationary pressures, including labor, materials and equipment costs. Also negatively impacting the business during the year were higher selling, general and administrative costs, largely related to payroll expenses, increased expected credit losses and office expenses; higher income taxes as a result of higher taxable income; and higher interest expense due to higher working capital needs and interest rates; partially offset by higher income from the business's joint ventures.
The construction services business's EBITDA increased $24.8 million in 2022 compared to 2021, primarily the result of higher gross margin and income related to joint ventures, as previously discussed.
The construction materials and contracting business's backlog was $935 million at Dec. 31, 2022, compared to backlog of $708 million at Dec. 31, 2021. The company expects to complete in 2023 an estimated $836 million of the backlog on record at Dec. 31, 2022.
The construction materials business reported net income of $20.9 million for the fourth quarter 2022, compared to $12.9 million for the same period in 2021. The business had record fourth quarter revenues, largely from price increases implemented across its product lines in response to inflationary pressures and increased agency and commercial contracting workloads. The record revenues from higher pricing also contributed to increased margins as they more than offset the higher operating costs during the quarter, mostly the result of inflation, including asphalt oil, cement, fuel and labor costs. Additional net asset sale gains of $6.4 million, after tax, and contributions from recent acquisitions also positively impacted the quarter. Increased interest expense from higher average debt balances and interest rates, as well as unfavorable weather impacts, had a negative impact on the quarter.
For the full year, the construction materials business reported net income of $116.2 million, compared to $129.8 million in 2021. Revenues grew 14% in 2022, primarily due to higher average materials pricing across all product lines in response to recent inflationary pressures and increased contracting revenues of approximately 17% over the previous year, partially resulting from inflationary pressures. The business also experienced increased earnings from recent acquisitions. Margins for the business decreased as higher operating costs, mostly due to inflation, outpaced the pricing increases in the first half of the year. The increase in operating costs includes higher asphalt oil, fuel, labor and cement costs. Higher selling, general and administrative expenses for labor costs, travel expenses, office expenses and professional services, as well as increased expected credit losses, were partially offset by additional net asset sale gains of $5.6 million, after tax. Increased interest expense as a result of higher average debt balances and interest rates and lower investment returns of $6.1 million on certain benefit plans also had a negative impact on the year.
The construction materials and contracting business's EBITDA increased $13.3 million in 2022 compared to 2021, as a result of higher gross profit and the benefits from recent acquisitions, as previously discussed.
Other experienced higher operation and maintenance expense during the fourth quarter of 2022 as a result of the announced strategic initiatives, partially offset by a reduction in estimated losses recorded at the captive insurer. Other was positively impacted by income tax adjustments related to the consolidated company's annualized estimated tax rate, as well as higher premiums included in operating revenues in 2022 for the captive insurer.
For the full-year net loss, Other experienced higher operation and maintenance expense related to costs incurred for the announced strategic initiatives, partially offset by a reduction in estimated losses recorded at the captive insurer. Other was positively impacted by higher premiums included in operating revenues in 2022 for the captive insurer compared to 2021.
Also included in Other are general and administrative costs and interest expense previously allocated to the exploration and production and refining businesses that do not meet the criteria for income (loss) from discontinued operations.
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Platform to be deployed within next-generation vehicles from Geely Auto and Dongfeng Liuzhou Auto
WATERLOO, Ontario and SHANGHAI, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced that Chongqing Yazaki Meter Co., Ltd. , a leading Chinese Tier 1 automotive supplier, has selected the BlackBerry QNX® Neutrino® Realtime Operating System (RTOS) to power its digital instrument cluster, which has now entered mass production.
The next-generation digital instrument cluster is being installed in models from Geely Auto and Dongfeng Liuzhou Auto, providing a more intuitive, personalized, and interactive user experience for drivers while ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the vehicle's critical systems.
Leveraging BlackBerry QNX's high performance, reliable and secure technologies, Chongqing Yazaki has built multiple cutting edge LCD instrument clusters, including 10.25 and 12.3 inch LCD clusters as well as 10.25 and 12.3 inch double screen LCD clusters, which together will enhance the display of information by providing the most appropriate interface between the car and driver through innovative Human-Machine Interface (HMI) technology. This not only helps deliver intuitive and personalized interior design, but also ensures a safe, intelligent and seamless driving experience for drivers and passengers.
The QNX Neutrino RTOS provides the necessary technology to power the automotive industry's next generation vehicles, while also supporting 64-bit ARMv8 computing platforms and Intel x86-64 architecture. ISO 26262 ASIL D certification by TÜV Rheinland also guarantees that OEMs and Tier 1's can utilize the QNX Neutrino RTOS to accelerate product launches and develop connected cars with proven safety and reliable performance.
"As a market leader in safety-certified embedded automotive systems, BlackBerry QNX has a wide-ranging technology portfolio that provides advanced foundational software technologies to Tier 1 automotive suppliers and manufacturers worldwide," said Dhiraj Handa, Vice President, Asia-Pacific, BlackBerry IoT. "We are pleased to work with Chongqing Yazaki to develop a next generation digital instrument cluster and look forward to continuing to deliver trusted products and solutions to Chinese automakers."
"Chongqing Yazaki has built up considerable experience in the automotive instrument area, with leading self-developed capabilities. By collaborating with BlackBerry QNX, we look forward to leveraging its function, safety and cybersecurity advantages to create safe and secure automotive electronics that meet the needs of the growing automotive market," said Mr. Liu Degao, General Manager of Chongqing Yazaki Meter Co., Ltd.
For more information on how BlackBerry QNX can help with building the safe and secure vehicles of tomorrow, please visit: BlackBerry.QNX.com.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 215M cars on the road today. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
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About Chongqing Yazaki
Chongqing Yazaki Meter Co., Ltd., founded in 1995, is a joint venture established by Chongqing Li-Long Technology Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. and Japan Yazaki Corporation (the world's largest multinational company in the production of automotive wiring harnesses and instruments, one of the world's top 15 auto parts enterprises, and one of the FORTUNE 500 enterprises), Isuzu Auto, Qingling Motor and Yugao Group.
Chongqing Yazaki has a wide range of products, covering LCD Clusters, Double Screens Clusters, Cockpit Control Units, Head-up Displays(HUD), Electronic Rearview Mirrors, Electronic Control Modules and other automotive electronic products, mainly supplying for SAIC-GM, Toyota, Volvo, PSA, Qingling Motor, Geely Auto, Great Wall Motor, SAIC Motor, Dongfeng Liuzhou Auto, GAC Aion Auto, Hozon Auto, Livan Auto, ZEEKR Auto, SRM, SINO TRUCK, SAIC-Hongyan Auto and dozens of famous automotive OEMs.
Chongqing Yazaki adheres to the mission: aiming at the world's advanced level, providing customers with full life-cycle technology products and provide services efficiently.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean government was engulfed in a diplomatic spat Friday after the South American country’s president suspended the acceptance of the credentials of the new Israeli ambassador due to increased military activity in the occupied West Bank.
“Israel views with severity the puzzling & unprecedented behavior of Chile. This seriously harms the relations between the two countries,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter.
The Israeli ambassador, Gil Artzyeli, went to the government offices in Chile’s capital of Santiago Thursday to present his credentials to President Gabriel Boric along with other diplomats but was stopped in his tracks.
Artzyeli “was already at the place, waiting to go into the room, when the minister of foreign relations came up to him and said that due to an incident that had taken place … with the death of a 17-year-old teenager in an operation by the Israeli military, the president had decided in that context to postpone the delivery of the credentials,” a diplomatic official with close knowledge of the incident who was not authorized to speak on the record told The Associated Press.
No date has been scheduled date yet for the delivery of the credentials, the source said.
Israeli forces shot and killed Odai Salah in the occupied West Bank Thursday, according to Palestinian officials. The Israeli military said it opened fire on suspects who threw explosives at troops patrolling the hometown of two Palestinian gunmen who had killed an Israeli officer in a shootout on Wednesday.
Chile’s ambassador to Israel “has been summoned … for a reprimanding conversation” on Sunday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said. “Israel’s response will be made clear to the ambassador.”
After the incident sparked controversy within Chile, Artzyeli was summoned to the Foreign Ministry Thursday afternoon.
“They apologized to me and the state of Israel numerous times,” Artzyeli told journalists after a meeting with Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Ximena Fuentes. “It wasn’t a very comfortable incident this morning, but being Israeli and a Jew, my people have gone through worse things over the past four thousand years. And we will overcome this morning’s incident for the good of Chile, for the good of Israel and our bilateral relations.”
In Chile, a group of 21 lawmakers criticized Boric for what they characterized as a “snub” of “unprecedented” proportions.
“President Boric boycotts bilateral relations, improvising a decision at the moment the ambassador was in the Foreign Relations Ministry,” the lawmakers who are part of a Chile-Israel interparliamentary group said in a letter Friday. “Situations like these demonstrate a profound disdain for the more than 70 years of friendship between Chile and Israel.”
Several opposition lawmakers also independently criticized Boric for the move.
Left-leaning Boric has frequently spoken up against Israel and its military operations. In a television interview last year, Boric, who became Chile’s president in March, was asked if he maintained his earlier stated opinion that Israel is a “genocidal and murderous” state. “I maintain it,” he answered.
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METRO CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calamos Investments®* has announced monthly distributions and sources of distributions paid in August 2022 to shareholders of its seven closed-end funds (the Funds) pursuant to the Funds' respective distribution plans.
The following table provides estimates of Calamos Global Total Return Fund's and Calamos Global Dynamic Income Fund's distribution sources, reflecting YTD cumulative experience. The Funds attribute these estimates equally to each regular distribution throughout the year.
Regarding Calamos' remaining five closed-end funds, which operate under a managed distribution policy: The information below is required by an exemptive order granted to the Funds by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and includes the information sent to shareholders regarding the sources of the Funds' distributions.
The following table sets forth the estimated amount of the sources of distribution for purposes of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the related rules adopted thereunder. The Funds estimate the following percentages, of their respective total distribution amount per common share, attributable to (i) current and prior fiscal year net investment income, (ii) net realized short-term capital gain, (iii) net realized long-term capital gain and (iv) return of capital or other capital source as a percentage of the total distribution amount. These percentages are disclosed for the current distribution as well as the fiscal YTD cumulative distribution amount per common share for the Funds. The following table provides estimates of each Fund's distribution sources, reflecting YTD cumulative experience. The Funds attribute these estimates equally to each regular distribution throughout the year.
Note: NAV returns are as of July 31, 2022, and Distribution Returns include the distribution announced today.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's plan.
If the Fund(s) estimate(s) that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this 19(a) notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099 DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
Return figures provided below are based on the change in the Fund's Net Asset Value per share ("NAV"), compared to the annualized distribution rate for this current distribution as a percentage of the NAV on the last day of the month prior to distribution record date.
1Since inception for CPZ
Note: NAV returns are as of July 31, 2022 and Distribution Returns include the distribution announced today.
While the NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Monthly distributions offer shareholders the opportunity to accumulate more shares in a fund via the automatic dividend reinvestment plan. For example, if a fund's shares are trading at a premium, distributions will be automatically reinvested through the plan at NAV or 95% of the market price, whichever is greater; if shares are trading at a discount, distributions will be reinvested at the market price through an open market purchase program. Thus, the plan offers current shareholders an efficient method of accumulating additional shares with a potential for cost savings. Please see the dividend reinvestment plan for more information.
Important Notes about Performance and Risk
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. As with other investments, market price will fluctuate with the market and upon sale, your shares may have a market price that is above or below net asset value and may be worth more or less than your original investment. Returns at NAV reflect the deduction of the Fund's management fee, debt leverage costs and other expenses. You can purchase or sell common shares daily. Like any other stock, market price will fluctuate with the market. Upon sale, your shares may have a market price that is above or below net asset value and may be worth more or less than your original investment. Shares of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount which is a market price that is below their net asset value.
About Calamos
Calamos Investments is a diversified global investment firm offering innovative investment strategies including alternatives, multi-asset, convertible, fixed income, equity, and sustainable equity, currently managing approximately $39 billion in assets under management. The firm offers strategies through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, and UCITS funds. Clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations, and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them. Headquartered in the Chicago metropolitan area, the firm also has offices in New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Portland (Oregon), and the Miami area. For more information, please visit us on LinkedIn, on Twitter @Calamos or at www.calamos.com.
*Calamos Investments LLC, referred to herein as Calamos Investments®, is a financial services company offering such services through its subsidiaries: Calamos Advisors LLC, Calamos Wealth Management LLC, Calamos Investments LLP and Calamos Financial Services LLC.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets right-hander Max Scherzer described pitching under Major League Baseball’s new rules as a “cat-and-mouse” game.
Contrary to previous years, Scherzer feels the pitcher finally has control of the tempo because of the new pitch clock.
In his first start of the Grapefruit League schedule, Scherzer allowed a run in the second inning but struck out five while working the first two innings of the Mets’ 6-3 win over Washington.
“Really, the power the pitcher has now — I can totally dictate pace,” the three-time Cy Young Award winner said. “The rule change of the hitter having only one timeout changes the complete dynamic of the hitter-and-pitcher dynamic. Yeah, I love it.”
The pitch clock is among a series of new rules for this season — including limits on infield shifts and larger bases — that MLB hopes will improve pace of play and introduce more action into the game.
The average game time through three days of spring training is 2 hours, 39 minutes, down from an average of 3:01 for all of spring training last year.
Scherzer says he is learning to play around with the pitch clock.
Washington’s Michael Chavis, the second hitter in the second inning, stepped out of the box when he felt Scherzer was taking too long. That was fine with Scherzer.
The right-hander held the ball for more than 10 seconds before delivering the next pitch as Chavis had to remain in the batter’s box, locked eyes with Scherzer. The veteran pitcher felt he had imposed his will, even though Chavis ultimately singled to right.
“I can work extremely quick. And I can work extremely slow,” Scherzer said. “There’s another layer here to be able to mess with the hitter’s timing.
“I can come set even before the hitter’s in the box. I can’t pitch until eight (seconds left on the clock). But as soon as his eyes are up, I can go. If his eyes are up with 12 seconds to go, I can fire.
“I had the conversation with the umpire (David Rackley) to make sure that’s legal. And that is (legal). I’m just getting used to how this is going to be in 2023.”
According to MLB, there were 69 pitch-timer violations through the first 35 spring training games over the weekend — including 35 violations in 16 games Sunday.
While Scherzer thinks the timer is working in pitchers’ favor, hitters aren’t complaining, either.
“I like it,” Yankees star Aaron Judge said. “I think you can kind of play around with it a little bit. I think it definitely speeds up the game. Anything that kind of keeps the pitcher moving and on the go, and hopefully keep him out of breath, I’m looking forward to it.”
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said MLB is providing updates — nearly in real time — on the rules changes package that is making this spring training unique.
The two major changes are a pitch clock and a limit on extreme infield shifts.
“They did a really nice job of sending out a memo this morning with all the things that took place yesterday and questions that players and managers that just had to be addressed in order that you can cover it with your staff and club as you feel appropriate,” Marmol said. “So we did that with our staff and brought two different points with our players because they’ve done a really good job of communication.”
There were more hiccups on Sunday throughout the Cactus and Grapefruit League games, but most took the changes in stride.
Rockies reliever Daniel Bard was called for a ball after throwing a warmup pitch after the 30-second deadline heading into an inning. The 30-second mark before innings was also a source of confusion during the Cardinals-Marlins game. Two Cardinals pitchers were called for balls before the start of innings before, according to Marmol, the umpires gathered and realized they were interpreting the rule incorrectly.
“It’s spring training for everybody,” Marmol said. “Those things will get ironed out before we get out of here.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox ace Dylan Cease lost his bid for a no-hitter when Luis Arraez singled for Minnesota with two out in the ninth inning Saturday night.
After Arraez’s hit, Cease struck out Kyle Garlick for his first career nine-inning complete game in Chicago’s 13-0 victory.
Cease walked Jake Cave in the third and Gilberto Celestino in the sixth for Minnesota’s first two baserunners. Cave was erased when Gary Sanchez bounced into a double play. Celestino was stranded when Cease struck out Luis Arraez.
Jake Cave hit a liner right at first baseman José Abreu for the final out of the Minnesota eighth.
The most recent no-hitter for Chicago was Carlos Rodon’s gem against Cleveland on April 14, 2021.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen takes on the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and other soul legends in an album of cover songs due out next month.
The disc “Only the Strong Survive” is named for the Jimmy Butler song, among the 15 other cover songs, which will be released on Nov. 11.
“I wanted to make an album where I just sang,” Springsteen said in a statement. “And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I’ve taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray and Scott Walker, among many others.”
Those who’ve seen Springsteen perform live know that he’ll frequently pull out some soul covers. The disc arrives three months before the beginning of his tour with the E Street Band.
Among the songs he tackles are the Commodores’ “Nightshift,” The Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore” and the Four Tops’ “When She Was My Girl.”
Other covers are “I Wish it Would Rain” by The Temptations and “Someday We’ll Be Together” by Diana Ross and The Supremes.
Soul legend Sam Moore sings on two of the cuts. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-springsteen-takes-on-temptations-supremes-four-tops/ | 2022-09-30 11:35:37 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-springsteen-takes-on-temptations-supremes-four-tops/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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‘Just Dingers’ J.D. Martinez gives Dodgers a lift in Tuesday’s win over Mets
J.D. Martinez crushed a 438-foot, two-run home run to center field in the first inning and lined a 378-foot solo shot to right field in the third inning Tuesday night, and you could almost see the thought bubbles filling up above heads in the Dodgers dugout.
It was right here in Chavez Ravine six years ago that Martinez, then with the Arizona Diamondbacks, carved out a piece of baseball history, becoming only the 18th big leaguer to hit four homers in a game, each one against a different Dodgers pitcher.
Only two Dodgers have ever hit four homers in a game, Gil Hodges in 1950 against the Boston Braves and Shawn Green in 2002 against the Milwaukee Brewers. The odds of Martinez becoming the first player to hit four homers in a game twice were astronomical, but he was on a good pace.
“I wish, I wish,” Martinez said with a laugh, when asked if his two early bombs triggered flashbacks of his four-homer game on Sept. 4, 2017. “But there’s a big difference between two and four. You don’t really start thinking about it until you get to three.”
Clayton Kershaw was outstanding over seven scoreless innings as the Dodgers beat the visiting New York Mets 5-0 to return to .500 on Tuesday night.
Martinez did not reach three. But he hit an infield single in the fifth inning and capped a two-run eighth with a two-out, RBI single to right-center field to pace the offense in a 5-0 victory over the New York Mets in which left-hander Clayton Kershaw notched his 200th victory.
“I remember that game — the first at-bat he struck out, and he went four for four with a strikeout and four homers,” Dodgers left fielder David Peralta, a 2017 teammate of Martinez in Arizona, said, recalling Martinez’s four-homer game. “But I told him tonight, ‘That’s the J.D. that I know.’ ”
The J.D. the Dodgers had for the first three weeks of this season wasn’t exactly an imposter, but it didn’t look like the guy the Dodgers hoped they’d get when they signed the 13-year veteran to a one-year, $10-million deal to be their everyday designated hitter in February.
Martinez entered Tuesday night’s game with a .231 average, .724 OPS, one homer and nine RBIs in 17 games, including a four-for-27 skid in his previous seven games that shaved 58 points off his average and 181 points off his OPS.
“Inconsistent,” Martinez said, when asked to assess his season so far. “That’s pretty much the one word I can summarize it with. I’m not usually that inconsistent. I’ve taken pride my whole career in being a complete hitter, a consistent hitter.
“Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not going to settle for [inconsistent]. I’m going to bust my butt and do everything I’ve got to do to be the player I can be.”
Martinez got to Dodger Stadium early Tuesday afternoon and began “grinding on some stuff” with the team’s hitting coaches, “really trying to feel my connection on the front side, and it worked.”
Max Scherzer’s short Dodgers career ended when he couldn’t pitch in a game that ended the season for the defending World Series champs.
Martinez followed Freddie Freeman’s first-inning single with a 10-pitch at-bat against Mets right-hander Tylor Megill, fouling off four full-count pitches before clobbering an 83-mph slider well beyond the center-field wall for a 2-0 lead.
“I fell behind in the count and was able to see a couple pitches,” said Martinez, who had never faced Megill before. “I started feeling more comfortable as the at-bat went on.”
That lengthy first-inning duel played a part in Martinez’s third-inning homer, which came on a 95.5-mph Megill fastball that Martinez shot the other way for a 3-0 lead.
“It definitely makes you feel more comfortable,” Martinez said of the 10-pitch at-bat out of the chute. “You got to see all of his pitches, you see what his plan is for getting you out. If you get a long at-bat, you definitely want it early like that.”
Martinez’s four-hit, four-RBI night helped ease the loss of leadoff man Mookie Betts, who missed Tuesday night’s game because of paternity leave, and No. 3 hitter Will Smith, who is sidelined by concussion-like symptoms.
“This is what we want from J.D., just to be a cog and to help us win ballgames,” manager Dave Roberts said. “With Mookie not in the lineup, it was good to see Max [Muncy, three walks and a single] and J.D pick up the slack offensively. We’ve got a lot of good players, but to see J.D. have the night he did was certainly special.”
Peralta sensed Martinez was due for a breakout game.
“He’s always working his ass off, and it’s just a matter of time until it’s gonna click,” Peralta said. “With him, you never panic. You see today, everything he was hitting was hard. That’s who he is.
“Baseball is hard. We always wish we could hit all the time, but it’s not gonna happen. But you always make adjustments. And today, all the hard work he’s been putting in in the cage paid off. That’s why he’s J.D. — ‘Just Dingers.’ ”
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Nassar survivors sue Michigan State, saying it made ‘secret decisions’ about releasing documents
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Women who were sexually assaulted by former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar filed a lawsuit Thursday saying school officials made “secret decisions” about releasing documents in the case.
The group of survivors and parents says the lawsuit seeks accountability — not money — from the university. They say the school refused to give the state attorney general’s office more than 6,000 documents for an investigation into how Nassar was allowed to get away with his behavior, and later wouldn’t turn over emails about the board of trustees’ decision-making. The school has said the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Nassar was sentenced in 2018 to 40 to 175 years in prison after he admitted to molesting some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment. He was accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of women and girls.
Michigan State has been criticized for its handling of the Nassar investigation and its dealings with survivors in the aftermath of his arrest and conviction. The school has settled lawsuits filed by Nassar victims for $500 million.
Mark Bullion, a spokesperson for Michigan State, said Thursday in an email that the school does not comment on pending litigation, and that the school has not seen or been served with the new lawsuit.
The civil suit names the school and its elected trustee board, saying the decisions and “secret votes” by a public body skirted Michigan’s open meetings laws and the state Constitution, according to a news release.
“We contend that board members made a behind-closed-doors secret decision not to release the records in blatant violation of the Open Meetings Act,” victims’ attorney Azzam Elder said in a release. “They followed that up with violations of the Freedom of Information Act when we requested emails that might show they discussed and made a closed-door decision on the matter in violation of law.”
The suit wants the school to turn over emails and other communications about decisions trustees may have made out of the public eye, to have a court declare that Michigan State violated the Freedom of Information Act and to compel the university to comply with both FOIA and the Open Meetings Act going forward.
Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the school to release the more than 6,000 documents to help shine a light on what the school knew about the abuse. She ended her investigation in 2021 of the school’s handling of the Nassar case because the university refused to provide documents related to the scandal.
“This is about who knew what, when at the university,” Nasar victim Melissa Brown Hudecz said prior to Thursday’s lawsuit filing. “We can’t heal as a community until we know that everyone who enabled a predator is accountable. By protecting the 6,000 secret documents and anyone named in them, the board is adding to survivors’ trauma with their lack of institutional accountability.”
Earlier this month, Nassar was stabbed multiple times by another prisoner in his federal penitentiary cell in Florida. The prisoner said Nassar provoked the attack by making a lewd comment about wanting to see girls play in the Wimbledon women’s tennis match while they were watching the tournament on TV, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and did so on condition anonymity.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ' family and friends gathered Wednesday for a funeral that blended a celebration of his life with outrage over the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police and heated calls for police reform.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Vice President Kamala Harris both delivered impassioned speeches calling on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad package of police reforms that includes a national registry for police officers disciplined for misconduct, a ban on no-knock warrants and other measures.
Harris said the beating of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Black police officers was a violent act that went against the stated mission of police to ensure public safety.
“It was not in the interest of keeping the public safe, because one must ask, was not it in the interest of keeping the public safe that Tyre Nichols would be with us today? Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? So when we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means in its truest form. Tyre Nichols should have been safe,” she said.
Sharpton said the officers who beat Nichols might have acted differently if there was real accountability for their actions. He also said he believes that if Nichols had been white, “you wouldn't have beat him like that.”
“We understand that there are concerns about public safety. We understand that there are needs that deal with crime,” Sharpton said.
“But you don’t fight crime by becoming criminals yourself. You don’t stand up to thugs in the street becoming thugs yourself. You don’t fight gangs by becoming five armed men against an unarmed man. That ain’t the police. That’s punks,” he said, to rousing applause from the crowd.
The Rev. J. Lawrence Turner called Nichols “a good person, a beautiful soul, a son, a father, a brother, a friend, a human being” who was gone too soon and "denied his rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, denied the dignity of his humanity, denied the right to see the sun set another day, to embrace his mother, hang out with his friends, hold his child, and the right to grow old.”
“As we celebrate Tyre’s life and comfort this family, we serve notice to this nation that the rerun of this episode that makes Black lives hashtags has been canceled and will not be renewed for another season,” Turner said. “We have come and we shall overcome.”
Tiffany Rachal, the mother of Jalen Randle, who was fatally shot by a Houston police officer in 2022, sang a rendition of the classic gospel standard "Total Praise" to rousing applause from the congregation and Nichols' family.
“All of the mothers all over the world need to come together, need to come together to stop all of this," Rachal said.
Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, fought back tears as she spoke of her son.
“The only thing that’s keeping me going is that I truly believe that my son was sent here on assignment from God. And I guess now his assignment is done. He’s gone home," she said.
She also urged Congress to pass the law named after George Floyd. Members of his family and others who have been killed by police attended the funeral, including Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and Eric Garner.
“We need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son — and all the other parents here have lost their children — we need to get that bill passed,” Wells said. "Because if we don’t, that blood — the next child that dies, that blood is going to be on their hands.”
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Nichols' family, referred to the graphic video showing the officers punching, kicking and beating Nichols, even after he lay helpless on the ground.
“Why couldn’t they see the humanity in Tyre?” he asked.
In the three weeks since Nichols' death, five police officers were fired and charged with murder. Their specialized unit was disbanded. Two more officers have been suspended. Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a lieutenant were also fired. And more discipline could be coming.
But Wednesday was about Nichols, a skateboarder and amateur photographer who worked making boxes at FedEx, made friends during morning visits to Starbucks and always greeted his mother and stepfather when he returned home with a sunny, “Hello, parents!”
Nichols was the baby of their family, born 11 years after his closest siblings. He had a 4-year-old son and worked hard to better himself as a father, his family said.
Nichols grew up in Sacramento, California, and loved the San Francisco 49ers. He came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck. But he was fine with it because he was with his mother, RowVaughn Wells, and they were incredibly close, she said. He even had her name tattooed on his arm.
Friends at a memorial service last week described him as joyful and kind, quick with a smile, often silly.
“This man walked into a room, and everyone loved him,” said Angelina Paxton, a friend who traveled to Memphis from California for the memorial service.
The beating of Nichols happened after police stopped him for an alleged traffic violation Jan. 7. Video released after pressure from Nichols’ family shows officers holding him down and repeatedly punching him, kicking him and striking with him batons as he screamed for his mother.
Nichols’ death was the latest in a string of early accounts by police about their use of force that were later shown to have minimized or omitted mention of violent encounters.
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AP reporters Travis Loller and Jonathan Mattise contributed from Nashville, Tenn.
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — The World Health Organization has declared Ghana’s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.
A preliminary analysis of samples from two patients from Ghana’s southern Ashanti region — both of whom died and were unrelated — turned up positive, but were forwarded for full confirmation to the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. That U.N. health agency lab corroborated the results from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana, WHO said in a statement Sunday.
The first case was a 26-year-old male who checked into a hospital on June 26 and died on June 27. The second was a 51 -year-old male who went to the hospital on June 28 and died the same day, WHO said, adding that both men sought treatment at the same hospital.
“Health authorities have responded swiftly, getting a head start preparing for a possible outbreak,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti. “This is good because without immediate and decisive action, Marburg can easily get out of hand. WHO is on the ground supporting health authorities and now that the outbreak is declared, we are marshalling more resources for the response.”
More than 90 contacts, including health workers and community members, have been identified and are being monitored, WHO said.
Marburg is potentially very harmful and deadly: Case fatality rates in past outbreaks have ranged from 24% to 88%.
This outbreak marks only the second time that the disease has been detected in West Africa — after Guinea confirmed a single case detected in August, according to WHO. The outbreak in Guinea was declared over five weeks later.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Black fifth grader in Utah who died by suicide last year plans to file a $14 million lawsuit against her school, arguing that an inadequate response to reports of her being bullied over her race and disabilities led to her death.
Attorneys representing Brittany Tichenor-Cox on Wednesday said they would seek damages for the 2021 death of her daughter, Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor. In a notice of claim, they said the school had violated state and federal laws, including those that require schools ensure equal treatment, provide educational opportunity and protect students experiencing homelessness.
Notices of claim are required before people can sue government entities and the family’s claim said that the lawsuit will seek $14 million in damages. The notice of claim from Tichenor-Cox names Foxboro Elementary School in North Salt Lake City as a defendant, as well as its director and principal. It also names as defendants the Davis School District, school board and superintendent. They have 60 days to respond before the family can file a lawsuit based on the claim.
“We appreciate the interest on the case, but until we carefully review it and confer with legal counsel, our district will not be able to comment further,” Chris Williams, spokesperson for the Davis School District, said in a statement after the notice of claim was filed.
Tichenor’s death in November 2021 sparked massive outcry and a groundswell of anger over youth suicide, bullying and the treatment of children with autism. In Utah, a predominantly white state where incidents of racism in schools frequently make headlines, it prompted state legislators to pass a new law requiring districts to track reported bullying and racism in schools.
The notice of claim recounts how Tichenor, who was autistic and the only Black student in her class, was bullied by students who said she smelled, made fun of her skin color, eyebrows and used racist slurs against her. It provides a timeline of Tichenor’s parents repeatedly alerting the school of bullying in the months leading up to their daughter’s death and alleges administrators did not take action to stop it.
“As a result of this unchecked bullying and the school’s overall ‘deliberate indifference’ to minority students, Izzy failed nearly all her classes. At the time of her death, she could barely read or do math on a first-grade level,” it says.
The Davis School District teaches roughly 73,000 students in Salt Lake City’s north suburbs. Only about 1% are Black. It was reprimanded last year by the U.S. Department of Justice for failing to address widespread racial discrimination and forced to as part of a settlement agreement change its policies, offer more training and establish a new department to handle complaints.
The district defended its actions last year after Tichenor’s death, arguing it had responded to Tichenor’s family appropriately and “worked extensively” with them over their complaints.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until December 5, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGS: PYPL), if they purchased the Company's shares between February 3, 2021 and February 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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PayPal and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On February 1, 2022, the Company disclosed that its net new active accounts figure ("NNAs") was only 49 million for 2021, less than the guidance of 50 million it initially provided in February 2021 and lower than the raised guidance it reiterated just months prior, that it had identified 4.5 million accounts believed to have been illegitimately created, and that, as a result, it would change focus to increasing active user engagement rather than cash account opening incentives, which would reduce its ability to maintain growth in its NNAs.
On this news, shares of PayPal plummeted $43.23 per share, or approximately 25%, from a close of $175.80 per share on February 1, 2022 to close at $132.57 per share on February 2, 2022.
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WILLIAMSPORT, Penn. (KTVX) – A Utah Little League all-star baseball player is in the hospital after falling from his bunk bed at the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania.
Easton Oliverson, an outfielder and pitcher from Snow Canyon, fell roughly six feet from the bed while he was sleeping and hit his head Sunday, his uncle Spencer Beck told The Associated Press.
Oliverson was airlifted to a nearby hospital and underwent surgery. Doctors say he suffered fractures to his skull and cheekbone, with bleeding between the inside of his skull and the outer covering of the brain.
In a Wednesday post to a Facebook page sharing updates on the boy’s progress, Oliverson’s family says the 12-year-old is no longer sedated or using a breathing tube. He is becoming more alert but “still has a very long road ahead.”
Little League International confirmed Oliverson was injured in the World Series dormitory.
“Little League International will continue to use all available resources to support the player, his family, and his coaches and teammates, as we navigate this unfortunate situation,” a statement read. “In the interest of privacy, it would be inappropriate to comment further, and additional updates will be issued as they are available.”
Easton’s father Jace is an assistant coach on the team, and in a statement, wanted the team to continue on with Easton in their thoughts.
“As a team preparing for the Little League World Series, Coach O (Oliverson) expressed his desire for Team Utah to finish what we started and compete and enjoy this amazing experience. While our hearts are heavy, we are committed as a team to have an opportunity to take part in something that is only dreamt about by others,” the statement read. “We teach our players to do everything with a purpose — that hasn’t changed. It has perhaps been added to with something far greater than ever. We believe in Team Utah. We believe in Team Easton.”
The accident has drawn a reaction from Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox, who tweeted out, “Terrible news. Our prayers are with this player, family and team today.” It even captured the attention of Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts, who sent Easton a video showing his support, according to the boy’s Facebook page.
Eason’s Santa Clara team is Utah’s first team to reach the Little League World Series after defeating Nevada in the Mountain Regional. The team, representing the Mountain Region, is scheduled to play its first game on Friday against the winner of the Southeast, represented by Tennessee, versus New England, represented by Massachusetts.
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SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BuildFire earned a "Leader" badge in G2's Grid Report for Drag and Drop App Builders for the sixth consecutive quarter. BuildFire was also named a "Leader" in the Small Business Drag and Drop App Builder Software category for the second successive quarter.
Leader badges are the most prestigious recognition in G2's quarterly reports. Of the 112 software brands in the drag and drop app builder category on G2.com, just 11 received a Leader badge in the Summer 2022 Grid Report.
BuildFire's founder and CEO, Ian Blair, said, "I'm always looking forward to the G2 quarterly report release. It's a great benchmark to see where we stand in the app development industry, and I'm thrilled to see our brand recognized as a market leader."
"Continuing to earn prestigious badges in some of the most competitive app development categories affirms everything that we're doing here at BuildFire. We're still growing and creating more apps for mid-market and enterprise organizations. I expect to see these efforts reflected in future G2 reports as well," Ian continued.
In total, BuildFire was recognized for 11 achievements in G2's Summer 2022 Reports. This includes six "High Performer" honors in notable categories for mid-market app builder software, mobile development platforms, and application development platforms. BuildFire was also named a "Momentum Leader" in three additional categories.
About: BuildFire is an industry leader in the mobile app development space. The software makes it easy for businesses to create iOS and Android apps without writing any code. Simple enough for DIY users and robust enough for companies with advanced customization needs, BuildFire offers limitless scalability at a fraction of the price compared to traditional development. More than ten thousand professional-grade apps have been created with BuildFire since its launch in 2014.
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OMAHA — Waverly sophomore Brayden Canoyer was just a young kid 10 years ago, but the Nebraska wrestling state tournament was no stranger to him.
After watching his brothers Kaleb and Evan Canoyer secure gold at the state tournament at the CHI Health Center Omaha numerous times, Brayden could only one day dream of making it a trifecta.
Brayden Canoyer (47-6), a third-place finisher at 120-pounds in 2022, will get his first taste of the state finals after securing a 7-5 decision over O'Neill's Joseph Yates Friday in the 132 Class B state semifinals.
“It means a lot,” Canoyer said. “I've been dreaming of this as a kid and everyone has helped me out along the way.”
And with the Canoyer name a staple in Nebraska wrestling with his dad Brad Canoyer, a former Husker wrestler, and brothers Kaleb and Evan combining for three state titles, Brayden has all the help he needs to add his name to the trophy case.
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“It's kind of scary at first,” Brayden Canoyer said. “It's nice when (Kaleb and Evan) help you along the way. They are mentoring me throughout my high school career. One (Evan) is texting me and one (Kaleb) is a coach. It's awesome having my brothers help me out.”
The atmosphere at the CHI Health Center Omaha is intimidating in its own right, wrestling in front of a sold-out crowd. But once a spectator and now a competitor, Canoyer's dream is just a night's sleep from reality.
“If you would have told me 10 years ago I'd be wrestling under this many people, I probably would have been a little scared,” Canoyer said. “Coming to this and getting to know it helps out a lot.”
Waverly assistant coach and older brother Kaleb Canoyer agreed.
“I think it's definitely good to get the experience,” Kaleb Canoyer said. “Us here, obviously and have us to help mentor him.”
But for the Canoyers — they've all taken the path to the state tournament their own way.
“I think that is a daily thing in our household,” Kaleb Canoyer, who won Waverly's first state title after a 13-year drought. “Don't expect to live up to us, but be better than us even. … I was a senior here when I made it to the state finals. I'm proud of that, but he just does his thing. (Brayden) wrestles to score and doesn't back out of matches. He doesn't quit in matches.”
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BLAINE, Minn. – Lee Hodges got off to a good start in his bid to make the FedEx Cup playoffs, shooting an 8-under 63 on Thursday for a one-stroke lead in the first round of the 3M Open.
Two-time major champion Justin Thomas, who's trying to make both the playoffs and the U.S. Ryder Cup team, opened with a 69 in windier afternoon conditions at the TPC Twin Cities.
“I played really well,” Thomas said. “I think everybody that played this afternoon was pretty shocked with that wind. I think it was supposed to be somewhere in the kind of 8-to-10 (mph) range, but that was wild. It was not only blowing hard, but it was blowing in different directions.”
Kevin Streelman had the best of the afternoon rounds with a 64, matching Hideki Matsuyama, Brandt Snedeker and Tyler Duncan. Emiliano Grillo, Nick Hardy and Justin Suh were another shot back, and defending champion Tony Finau was one of nine players to shoot 66.
Hodges entered the week having missed the cut in three of his past four tournaments and 14 of 29 events this season. He's 74th in the FedEx Cup standings; the top 70 will make the playoffs that begin in two weeks.
He got off to a hot start with back-to-back birdies.
“To see that wedge shot go to an inch on the first hole and then make that 40-footer on the second hole, I was like, ‘All right, here we go, might as well make a lot of birdies if we’re gonna make a couple,’” Hodges said.
Thomas is No. 75 in the FedEx Cup standings. He was grouped with another struggling major champion, Gary Woodland (No. 90), who shot 72.
“I just can’t put into words how far the ball was going. It was just wild. I mean, we had the wind quartering down off the left on 8 and Gary just hit kind of a smooth 8-iron. ... He flew it 205, 200 yards,” Thomas said. “When you get a little bit, just a little bit of altitude like this and it gets this hot, it’s just, it goes. It goes really, really far. I guess I just did a decent job of judging it.”
Due to approaching inclement weather, play was halted Thursday evening with seven groups on the course. Several players were 3 under with a few holes left. They will resume their rounds Friday morning.
Finau was 5 under through his first four holes but stalled from there.
“I didn’t miss a shot for the first seven holes really. That was a pretty hot start, it was a nice way to start my title defense this week and kind of calmed my nerves,” Finau said.
Along with winds topping 20 mph, players in the afternoon had to deal with a heat index of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
“To get out early where we had a few holes where we didn’t have to deal with wind is pretty key and just take advantage of those holes,” said Suh, also part of the morning wave.
Matsuyama needed some heat-related attention after his round but tour officials said it was nothing serious.
“It got really hot out there on the back nine. I’ll relax this afternoon and hopefully get ready to play well again tomorrow,” Matsuyama said.
Playing for the sixth time after sternum surgery that sidelined him for nine months, the 42-year-old Snedeker was coming off four straight missed cuts. He had six birdies over eight holes around the turn.
“I knew it was going to be a little learning curve coming back, and took a little longer than I wanted to, but finally able to put a round together today,” Snedeker said. “It was coming, and it was nice to see some putts go in and kind of have an easy stress-free round where I hit the ball really well, didn’t do anything poorly all day.”
Billy Horschel, who entered at No. 119 in the FedEx Cup, was among the group at 66.
Sepp Straka, coming off a tie for second in the British Open, rallied for an even-par 71.
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Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.
Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a nearly 20-year member of the force.
The U.S. Supreme Court had declined a request by Buntion’s attorneys to stop his execution.
“I wanted the Irby family to know one thing: I do have remorse for what I did,” Buntion said while strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney. “I pray to God that they get the closure for me killing their father and Ms. Irby’s husband.
“I hope to see you in heaven some day and when you show up I will give you a big hug.”
Buntion, joined by his spiritual adviser, began praying Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd...” as the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began. He took a deep breath, coughed once, then took three less pronounced breaths before all movement stopped.
He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m., 13 minutes later.
Several dozen motorcyclists, showing support for the slain motorcycle officer, loudly revved their engines as the execution took place, the roar clearly audible in the death chamber.
Buntion had been on parole for just six weeks when he shot the 37-year-old Irby. Buntion, who had an extensive criminal record, was a passenger in the car that Irby pulled over. In 2009, an appeals court vacated Buntion’s sentence, but another jury resentenced him to death three years later.
“I feel joy,” the officer’s widow, Maura Irby, said after watching Buntion’s execution. “I’m sorry someone died. But I didn’t think of him as a person. I just thought of him as a thing, as a cancer on the face of my family.”
Before his slaying, James Irby had talked of retirement and spending more time with his two children, who at the time were 1 and 3 years old, Maura Irby, 60, said earlier.
“He was ready to fill out the paperwork and stay home and open a feed store,” she said. “He wanted to be the dad that was there to go to all the ballgames and the father daughter dances. He was a super guy, the love of my life.”
Leading up to his execution, various state and federal courts had also turned down appeals by Buntion’s lawyers to stop his death sentence. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday had rejected his clemency request.
Buntion’s attorneys said he was responsible for Irby’s death and “deserved to be punished severely for that crime.”
But they argued his execution was unconstitutional because the jury’s finding he would be a future danger to society — one of the reasons he was given a death sentence— has proven incorrect, and also his execution would serve no legitimate purpose because so much time has passed since his conviction. His attorneys described Buntion as a geriatric inmate who posed no threat as he suffers from arthritis, vertigo and needed a wheelchair.
“This delay of three decades undermines the rationale for the death penalty ... Whatever deterrent effect there is diminished by delay,” his attorneys David Dow and Jeffrey Newberry, wrote in court documents.
With his execution, Buntion became the oldest person Texas has put to death since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976. The oldest inmate executed in the U.S. in modern times was Walter Moody Jr., who was 83 years old when he was put to death in Alabama in 2018.
Buntion was also the first inmate executed in Texas in 2022. Although Texas has been the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, it had been nearly seven months since it carried out an execution. There have been only three executions in each of the last two years, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic and delays over legal questions about Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud in the death chamber.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court said states must accommodate requests to have faith leaders pray and touch inmates during executions.
As Texas prepared to execute Buntion, officials in Tennessee canceled the execution of an inmate Thursday in what would have been the state’s first execution since the start of the pandemic. Oscar Smith, 72, was scheduled to die for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her teenage sons. Republican Gov. Bill Lee didn’t elaborate on what issue forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution.
Texas prison officials agreed to Buntion’s request to allow his spiritual adviser to pray aloud and touch him while he was put to death.
The adviser, Barry Brown, placed his right hand on Buntion’s right ankle in the moments before the drugs began flowing and prayed for about five minutes. He said Buntion no longer was the “hard-headed young man” but had been “humbled by the walls and cold steel of prison.”
While the execution stirred up painful memories for her, Irby said it also reminded her of her advocacy work in public safety after her husband’s death, including helping put together legislation that allowed victim impact statements at trials.
“I still miss him, 32 years later,” she said Thursday night.
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Lozano reported from Houston.
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FLINT – Grace Cameron is adept at helping keep the ball out of the Powers Catholic net.
That’s pretty obvious after two straight appearances on the Division 3 All-State soccer team.
FLINT – Grace Cameron is adept at helping keep the ball out of the Powers Catholic net.
That’s pretty obvious after two straight appearances on the Division 3 All-State soccer team.
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