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- Landsea Homes expands presence in Inland Empire
- Eave II will feature mid-century courtyard townhomes with High Performance features
ONTARIO, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) ("Landsea Homes" or the "Company"), a publicly traded residential homebuilder, has closed on 144 townhomes for a new neighborhood, Eave II, at the Neuhouse master planned community in Ontario, CA.
"We jumped at the opportunity to expand our presence in the Neuhouse master planned community in particular, and the Inland Empire in general, with the addition of these 144 new townhomes," said Tom Baine, Southern California Division President, Landsea Homes. "Ontario is an important and very popular market for us. We have had great sales success, selling out 432 single-family homes at ShadeTree earlier this year. The new homes at Eave II will provide even more opportunities for first time homebuyers looking to break into the Southern California housing market, all while living in a beautiful, responsibly designed and built home."
Eave II will be an extension of Landsea Homes' existing Eave neighborhood and feature a collection of 144 mid-century courtyard townhomes ranging from 949 to 1,510 square feet, with options for one to three bedrooms and up to two-and-half bathrooms. Also included are gourmet kitchens, open and airy layouts, and outdoor decks. Residents will also enjoy a community pool and rec center.
All homes at Eave II at Neuhouse will be equipped with Landsea Homes' High Performance Home features, including smart home automation technology utilized by the Apple HomeKit™ environment. The smart home automation features include an Apple TV media manager, wireless network Internet throughout the home, entry door locks, thermostat control, garage door opener control, light dimmer switches, doorbell camera pre-wire, and high-touch customer service with an individualized training session.
REME HALO® air purifiers will be installed in all homes. This state-of-the-art product mitigates indoor contaminants to keep residents safe and support healthy living by reducing airborne particles such as dust, dander, pollen and mold spores, killing up to 99% of bacteria, mold and viruses.
Buyers will also be able to take advantage of Landsea Homes' LiveFlex™ program, which presents the opportunity to transform spaces into whatever a homebuyer's lifestyle may need, whether that's a home office, an at-home learning space, a guest bedroom or a place to exercise.
Neuhouse is conveniently located near the 15, 60, 10 and 71 freeways and offer commuters easy access to major employment centers in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties. It is also close to galleries and museums, shopping and entertainment as well as trendy breweries, restaurants and coffee shops
Homes are currently selling in the Eave, Alto and Rohe neighborhoods at Neuhouse.
To learn more about Neuhouse, visit: https://landseahomes.com/southern-california/san-bernardino-county/ontario/neuhouse/.
About Landsea Homes Corporation
Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) is a publicly traded residential homebuilder based in Dallas, Texas that designs and builds best-in-class homes and sustainable master-planned communities in some of the nation's most desirable markets. The company has developed homes and communities in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Texas and throughout California in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County.
An award-winning homebuilder that builds suburban, single-family detached and attached homes, mid-and high-rise properties, and master-planned communities, Landsea Homes is known for creating inspired places that reflect modern living and provides homebuyers the opportunity to "Live in Your Element." Our homes allow people to live where they want to live, how they want to live – in a home created especially for them.
Driven by a pioneering commitment to sustainability, Landsea Homes' High Performance Homes are responsibly designed to take advantage of the latest innovations with home automation technology supported by Apple®. Homes include features that make life easier and provide energy savings that allow for more comfortable living at a lower cost through sustainability features that contribute to healthier living for both homeowners and the planet.
Led by a veteran team of industry professionals who boast years of worldwide experience and deep local expertise, Landsea Homes is committed to positively enhancing the lives of our homebuyers, employees and stakeholders by creating an unparalleled lifestyle experience that is unmatched.
For more information on Landsea Homes, visit: www.landseahomes.com.
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VALLETTA, Malta, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindred Group plc ("Kindred") hereby announces that it, on 14 July 2022, has received a notification of major holdings from The Capital Group Companies, Inc., a company with its registered office in Los Angeles, USA. The Notification relates to a reduced number of shares and voting rights in Kindred (the "Notification") by Capital Research and Management Company, a subsidiary within The Capital Group Companies, Inc. which holds the relevant position in Kindred Group.
According to the Notification, Capital Research and Management Company holds 14.86% of the shares and voting rights in Kindred as of 13 July 2022. Please note that the notification submitted on 14 July 2022, includes the holdings of SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., a mutual fund managed by Capital Research and Management Company.
The relevant chain of controlled undertakings can be found in the Notification, a copy of which can be found on Kindred's website: https://www.kindredgroup.com/investors/the-share/major-holdings.
This information is information that Kindred Group plc is obliged to make public pursuant to the Listing Rules published by the Malta Financial Services Authority under the Financial Markets Act (Chapter 345 of the Laws of Malta).
For more information:
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Experts concerned over who will cash in with the ‘Credit Card Competition Act’
Swipe fees add up to more than $77 billion dollars in revenues for Visa and Mastercard
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - 70 percent of Americans hold at least one credit card. It’s a financial tool which makes many transactions easy, but also comes with a cost. Every time you swipe or tap your card - there’s a fee. Two senators are now trying to diversity who collects it.
Senator Roger Marshall along with Dick Durbin are introducing a bill that aims to create more competition in the credit card sphere.
“I think that competition is the backbone of capitalism,” said Marshall. “It works in every other industry. Why would it work in this particular one?”
The Credit Card Competition Act would mandate that larger banks would have to provide at least two card networks for every credit card transaction. The idea is that there will be more choice in the market of who collects swipe fees.
“I think that this bill absolutely will help consumers I think whenever you introduce competition into a market, it’s going to benefit consumers,” said Marshall.
For Ted Rossman, a financial expert at Bankrate, this could be a solution looking for a problem.
“I think large merchants would benefit,” said Rossman. “I think card companies would certainly lose. And unfortunately, I think consumers would lose as well.”
Major retailers sent a letter to congress urging the bill’s passing. According to the letter, retailers say the bill would create 11 billion dollars in savings for merchants. But as rossman explains - there’s no guarantee any of those savings will be passed on to the consumer.
“I think the merchants are just going to keep the difference,” said Rossman. “They’re not going to lower prices. They say they would. But with the durbin amendment, the federal reserve found that only 1% of merchants lowered prices”
Rossman also explains that with banks losing money - they’ll find a way to make it up elsewhere.
“These fees can be kind of like whac-a-mole. If things get taken away in one area, banks are going to raise them somewhere else. So that may hurt us with other fees. They may be less likely to issue credit cards, especially for people that may not spend as much or may have lower credit scores or lower incomes. I think that there would be some unintended consequences,” said Rossman.l
Another one of those unintended consequences could be security. By opening up the market the new vendors, there’s room for error.
51 bankers associations also sent a letter to congress, saying the bill would quote, “hand control of our nations credit card systems to breach-prone merchants.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)KJ Simpson had 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead Colorado to an 78-66 upset victory over No. 11 Tennessee on Sunday.
Tristan de Silva added 14 points for the Buffaloes, who shot 43.5% from the field, compared with the Volunteers’ 25.4%.
Josiah-Jordan James and Tyreke Key led Tennessee with 15 points apiece.
The Vols (1-1) could not overcome a poor shooting performance to rally and come from behind after giving up the lead early in the second half. The Buffaloes (2-1) led by as many as 14 down the stretch as part of a dominant second half in which they outscored Tennessee 46-32.
Simpson had 15 second-half points.
Tennessee held a 34-32 lead at halftime after shooting just 23.1% from the field. The Buffaloes trailed by as many as eight points before halftime.
Key paced the Vols in the first half with 12 points, with all but three points coming from the free-throw line.
Colorado’s bench outscored Tennessee’s 52-34.
The victory was the Buffaloes’ first over the Vols after dropping the previous four matchups between the schools.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Tennessee likely will drop dramatically when the next poll is released, as the 10 teams ahead of it all have wins in their first two games.
BIG PICTURE
Colorado: After a disappointing loss Friday to Grambling State, the Buffaloes held the Vols to 66 points after surrendering an average of 74.5 points per game while splitting their first two of the season.
Tennessee: The Vols need to find their shooting touch from the field as the season progresses. They shot 40% in their season-opening win over Tennessee Tech but struggled against Colorado.
UP NEXT
Colorado: Faces UMass on Thursday at the Myrtle Beach Invitational.
Tennessee: Hosts Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday before heading to the Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis the following week.
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Officials search for pair accused of stripping woman at gunpoint, stealing her car
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW/Gray News) – Authorities in Kansas are looking for two people they say stripped a woman of her clothes at gunpoint, stole her car, and left her in the middle of the road.
Deputies with the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office are looking for Nicole Fox, 41, and London Pike, 20, following the reported robbery earlier this month.
On the evening of July 16, deputies were called to the area and found the 27-year-old victim in the road.
The victim told them she had been taken at gunpoint from another area to the current location. She also said the suspects hit her on the head with a gun, threatened her, and stripped her of her clothing.
The victim told deputies the suspects then stole her black 2017 Chevy Malibu and left her in the middle of the road.
The sheriff’s office said a good Samaritan found the victim walking naked and alone in the roadway and called 911.
The victim was given medical attention on the scene and taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
During the investigation, the sheriff’s office identified the suspects as Fox and Pike, who are still at large. Officials did not say if the suspects and victim knew each other.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 785-251-2200 or CrimeStoppers at 785-234-0007.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-05-07-32-33
(three, five, seven, thirty-two, thirty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $180,000
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-05-07-32-33
(three, five, seven, thirty-two, thirty-three)
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HONOLULU — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus outbreak. Patrolling waters for swimmers harassing dolphins and turtles.
Taking care of Hawaii's unique natural environment takes time, people and money. Now Hawaii wants tourists to help pay for it, especially because growing numbers are traveling to the islands to enjoy the beauty of its outdoors — including some lured by dramatic vistas they've seen on social media.
"All I want to do, honestly, is to make travelers accountable and have the capacity to help pay for the impact that they have," Democratic Gov. Josh Green said earlier this year. "We get between nine and 10 million visitors a year (but) we only have 1.4 million people living here. Those 10 million travelers should be helping us sustain our environment."
Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. They're still debating how much they would charge.
The governor campaigned last year on a platform of having all tourists pay a $50 fee to enter the state. Legislators think this would violate U.S. constitutional protections for free travel and have promoted their parks and trails approach instead. Either policy would be a first of its kind for any U.S. state.
Hawaii's leaders are following the example of other tourism hotspots that have imposed similar fees or taxes like Venice, Italy, and Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. The Pacific island nation of Palau, for example, charges arriving international passengers $100 to help it manage a sprawling marine sanctuary and promote ecotourism.
State Rep. Sean Quinlan, a Democrat who chairs the House Tourism Committee, said changing traveler patterns are one reason behind Hawaii's push. He said golf rounds per visitor per day have declined 30% over the past decade while hiking has increased 50%. People are also seeking out once-obscure sites that they've seen someone post on social media. The state doesn't have the money to manage all these places, he said.
"It's not like it was 20 years ago when you bring your family and you hit maybe one or two famous beaches and you go see Pearl Harbor. And that's the extent of it," Quinlan said. "These days it's like, well, you know, 'I saw this post on Instagram and there's this beautiful rope swing, a coconut tree.'"
"All these places that didn't have visitors now have visitors," he said.
Most state parks and trails are currently free. Some of the most popular ones already charge, like Diamond Head State Monument, which features a trail leading from the floor of a 300,000-year-old volcanic crater up to its summit. It gets 1 million visitors each year and costs $5 for each traveler.
A bill currently before the state House would require nonresidents 15 years and older visiting forests, parks, trails or "other natural area on state land" to buy an annual license online or via mobile app. Violators would pay a civil fine, though penalties wouldn't be imposed during a five-year education and transition period.
Residents with a Hawaii driver's license or other state identification would be exempt.
The Senate passed a version of the measure setting the fee at $50. But the House Finance Committee amended it last week to delete the dollar amount. Chair Kyle Yamashita, a Democrat, said the bill was "a work in progress."
Dawn Chang, chair of the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, told the committee that Hawaii's beaches are open to the public, so people probably wouldn't be cited there — and such details still need to be worked out.
Rep. Dee Morikawa, a Democrat on the committee, recommended that the state create a list of places that would require the license.
Green has indicated he's flexible about where the fee is imposed and that he's willing to support the Legislature's approach.
Supporters say there's no other place in the U.S. that imposes a similar fee on visitors. The closest equivalent may be the $34.50 tax Alaska charges to each cruise ship passenger.
Hawaii's conservation needs are great. Invasive pests are attacking the state's forests, including a fungal disease that is killing ohia, a tree unique to Hawaii that makes up the largest portion of the canopy in native wet forests.
Some conservation work directly responds to tourism. The harassment of wildlife like dolphins, turtles and Hawaiian monk seals is a recurring problem. Hikers can unknowingly bring invasive species into the forest on their boots. Snorkelers and boats trample on coral, adding stress to reefs already struggling with invasive algae and coral bleaching.
A 2019 report by Conservation International, a nonprofit environmental organization, estimated that total federal, state, county and private spending on conservation in Hawaii amounted to $535 million but the need was $886 million.
At the Diamond Head trail recently, some visitors said the fee would make the most sense for people who come to Hawaii often or who might be staying for several weeks. Some said $50 was too high, especially for those who view a walk through nature as a low-cost activity.
"For a large family that wants to have the experience with the kids, that would be a lot of money," said Sarah Tripp, who was visiting Hawaii with her husband and two of their three children from Marquette, Michigan.
Katrina Kain, an English teacher visiting from Puerto Rico, said she thought the fee would "sting" some people but would be fine so long as it was well-advertised.
"If tourists were informed about it, then they would be OK with it," she said. "If that was a surprise $50 fee, it would be a pretty lousy surprise."
The legislation says proceeds would go into a "visitor impact fee special fund" managed by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Carissa Cabrera, project manager for the Hawaii Green Fee, a coalition of nonprofit groups supporting the measure, said this would ensure the state has money for conservation regardless of budget swings.
Mufi Hanneman, president and CEO of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, which represents hotels, backs the bill but said Hawaii must carefully monitor how the money is used.
"The last thing that you want to see is restrooms that haven't been fixed, trails or pathways that haven't been repaved or what have you — and year in, year out it remains the same and people are paying a fee," Hannemann said.
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Taco Bell’s iconic crunchwrap is going vegan
Published: Jun. 8, 2023 at 10:44 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(Gray News) – Taco Bell is testing its first fully vegan entrée item: the Vegan Crunchwrap.
The new version of the popular menu item includes a plant-based protein, topped with two vegan sauces, wrapped in a crunchy tortilla shell.
For now, the fast food chain said it’s only available in cities with notable vegan populations – Los Angeles, New York City and Orlando, while supplies last.
It’s unclear when they might be sold nationwide.
Taco Bell has appealed to vegetarians and vegans for years and even rolled out a vegetarian menu in 2019.
Taco Bell said nearly a quarter of its sales came from vegetarian options last year.
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WEXFORD, Pa., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coeptis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: COEP), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cell therapy platforms for cancer, today announced that two members of its Scientific Advisory Board, Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, M.D., Ph.D., and Evren Alici, M.D., Ph.D., are featured in the first episode of the Immuno Oncology Talks podcast titled, "Biology of Natural Killer (NK) Cells."
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fcuNuUVUkxyAihldNNfV7
Coeptis' product portfolio is highlighted by a cell therapy technology (CD38-GEAR-NK) and an in vitro diagnostic (CD38-Diagnostic) targeting CD38-related cancers, which the company is co-developing with VyGen-Bio, Inc. and its scientific co-founder, Arnika Wagner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet. CD38-GEAR-NK is a natural killer (NK) cell-based investigational therapeutic engineered to enable combination therapy with anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). CD38-Diagnostic is an investigational in vitro screening tool to potentially pre-determine which cancer patients are most likely to benefit from targeted anti-CD38 mAb therapies, either as monotherapy or in combination with CD38-GEAR-NK.
"The discovery and development of our CD38-GEAR-NK and CD38 Diagnostic platforms are a direct result of Professor Ljunggren, Dr. Alici, and Dr. Wagner, and the groundbreaking research they are leading at the Karolinska Institutet," said David Mehalick, President and CEO of Coeptis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. "The impressive body of work that they have spearheaded serves to strengthen Coeptis' commitment to finding effective treatments for deadly cancers, and their service on our Scientific Advisory Board helps assure that our development programs will be on cutting edge of biotechnology innovation."
Professor Ljunggren, the former Dean of Research at Karolinska Institutet and founder of the Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, and Dr. Alici, the Head of the Gene and Cell Therapy Group, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, have been instrumental in the discovery of the GEAR-NK and GEAR Diagnostics platforms. On the podcast, the pair discuss how NK cells function and what makes them so effective in treating cancers.
Drs. Ljunggren and Dr. Alici also serve as co-Managing Directors for NextGenNK, the international Competence Center for the development of next-generation NK cell-based cancer immunotherapies. The Center is coordinated by Karolinska Institutet and collaborates with the Karolinska University Hospital and prominent national and international partners. The Center was launched in 2020 and is jointly funded by Karolinska Institutet, its industrial/corporate partners, and Vinnova, Sweden's innovation agency.
Coeptis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries including Coeptis Therapeutics, Inc. and Coeptis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (collectively "Coeptis"), is a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cell therapy platforms for cancer that have the potential to disrupt conventional treatment paradigms and improve patient outcomes. Coeptis' product portfolio and rights are highlighted by a universal, multi-antigen CAR T technology licensed from the University of Pittsburgh (SNAP-CAR), and a cell therapy technology (CD38-GEAR-NK) and an in vitro diagnostic (CD38-Diagnostic) targeting CD38-related cancers, which Coeptis is developing with VyGen-Bio and leading medical researchers at the Karolinska Institutet. Coeptis' business model is designed around maximizing the value of its current product portfolio and rights through in-license agreements, out-license agreements, and co-development relationships, as well as entering into strategic partnerships to expand its product rights and offerings, specifically those targeting cancer. The Company is headquartered in Wexford, PA. For more information on Coeptis visit https://coeptistx.com/.
This press release and statements of our management made in connection therewith contain or may contain "forward-looking statements" (as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). Forward-looking statements include statements concerning our plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions, and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When we use words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, we are making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve significant risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially and perhaps substantially from our expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences include but are not limited to: (1) the inability to maintain the listing of the Company's securities on the Nasdaq Global Market following the business combination; (2) the risk that the business combination disrupts current plans and operations of Company as a result of the consummation of the business combination; (3) the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth economically and hire and retain key employees; (4) the risks that the Company's products in development fail clinical trials or are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or other applicable regulatory authorities; (5) costs related to the business combination; (6) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (7) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (8) the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on any of the foregoing risks and other risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. All forward-looking statements are subject to significant uncertainties and risks including, but not limited, to those risks contained or to be contained in reports and other filings filed by the Company with the SEC. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings made or to be made with the SEC, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof unless required by applicable laws, regulations, or rules.
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Demolition crew saves abandoned litter of baby raccoons
MORGAN, Utah (AP) — An abandoned litter of raccoons discovered at a construction site in northern Utah found new homes earlier this week after a construction crew uncovered the animals below the remnants of a demolished home.
“A big-hearted foreman for the demolition crew working on Morgan Valley Drive came to the fire station asking for help,” the Morgan County Fire Department said in a statement on Wednesday. “After his crew knocked down an abandoned home, they heard chirping in the rubble.”
The eight baby raccoons appeared to have no mother. Firefighters cared for them until someone with permits to raise raccoons offered to adopt them.
Utah requires permits to home non-native species like raccoons or coyotes, which frequently roam wild.
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Polestar has joined the ranks of automakers offering coupe-like SUVs with the unveiling of the Polestar 4 at this week’s 2023 Shanghai auto show.
The newcomer sits between the Polestar 2 compact hatch and Polestar 3 mid-size SUV in terms of size, but when it comes to performance, the 4 is at the top of the ladder.
It’s Polestar’s quickest model to date, eclipsing even the 619-hp Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid by delivering 0-62 mph acceleration in 3.8 seconds. That’s made possible thanks to a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain good for 536 hp. A tamer version with a single motor will also be offered, aimed at buyers seeking maximum range over maximum performance.
An available Performance Pack will add items like 22-inch wheels, Brembo brakes with 4-piston calipers, a performance-tuned chassis, and gold-colored accents inside and out.
The Polestar 4 rides on the SEA modular EV platform of parent company Zhejiang Geely. The platform made its debut in 2021 in the 001 hatchback from fellow Zhejiang Geely brand Zeekr, and it comes with up to 536 hp in that model as well.
The biggest battery is a 102-kwh unit, which for the single-motor variant is estimated by Polestar to deliver an EPA-rated range of more than 300 miles. Other features include charging capacity of up to 200 kw and bi-directional charging. A heat pump is also used, enabling the vehicle to capitalize on ambient heat when preconditioning the cabin and battery.
The exterior design borrows elements from Polestar’s Precept concept from 2020, including the lack of a rear window. Instead, a camera-based system provides the driver with a view out the rear. Occupants won’t need to worry about feeling claustrophobic as a full-length glass roof is standard.
Inside, the design sticks to Polestar’s typical spartan style. The dash is largely devoid of features apart from a pair of screens serving as a digital instrument cluster (10.2 inches) and infotainment hub (15.4 inches). The infotainment system is powered by Android and offers a number of popular built-in Google apps. Apple CarPlay and a head-up display are also included.
Specific details for the U.S. market will be announced in 2024, with the Polestar 4 to reach local showrooms later that year as a 2025 model. Polestar said to expect a starting price of about $60,000.
Production will be handled at a plant in Hangzhou Bay, China.
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For the Patriots, it’s nine weeks down. And nine weeks to go. That’s the beauty of having a bye week at the midway point of the season.
It’s also a great time for the Pats to do a little self-scouting with the hope of improving some of the trouble areas when they return.
At 5-4, the Pats currently sit in the basement of the AFC East. The Bills (6-2), Dolphins (6-3) and Jets (6-3) are above them, but there’s plenty of time for the Pats to make a move.
No doubt, Bill Belichick and his coaching staff spent a good part of the off week trying to figure out how to get better, and get themselves into the postseason race in the AFC.
The players also looked at film, and looked in the mirror, critiquing their respective performances.
That said, there was a lot to assess during the nine games played thus far, both good and bad.
Whether it was the offense, defense, or special teams, plenty of storylines emerged.
So with the team off, here’s some midseason superlatives to help pass a Sunday without Patriots football.
Best coaching decision
Moving Jonathan Jones from the slot to outside corner to help make up for the loss of J.C. Jackson.
With his speed and coverage skills, Jones has excelled out on the boundary, and capably handled whatever assignment he’s been given, whether that’s guarding the opposing team’s top receiver in man coverage, or within the realm of a zone.
He’s come away with two interceptions, one a pick-six against the Colts, and a forced fumble.
“Jon’s one of our best players,” Belichick said of Jones, who he moved to the outside midway through training camp. “He started out as an undrafted free agent out of Auburn, came in here and lit up things on special teams with his speed, his toughness, his intelligence. He’s a smart football player. Worked his way into a big role defensively.”
He sure did. He was a very good slot corner. Now, he’s turned into a very good outside corner and invaluable piece in the secondary.
Most baffling coaching decision
Not giving Mac Jones an offensive guru. And not providing the offense with an experienced play caller.
While Belichick believes a good coach can coach any position, or perform any variety of roles, he overshot on this one.
Having two coaches with little to no experience dealing with the offense replace Josh McDaniels’ following his departure has been a disaster, especially when it comes to Jones.
While Matt Patricia has had some good moments calling plays, it’s hard to ignore what’s happened to Jones, their 2021 first-round pick and quarterback of the future.
He’s taken a step back, and then some, after a promising rookie season.
Some of it is on him, but not having an experienced play caller, much less a coach who’s dealt with a quarterback, has weighed heavily in his regression.
And he’s not alone. Like Jones, others have taken a step back. Kendrick Bourne was poised for a big season, but he’s been nearly invisible. Tight end Hunter Henry is another who hasn’t been nearly as effective as last season.
Much of that has to go back to the play caller and coaches running the offense.
Best offensive player
Rhamondre Stevenson.
To this point, he’s essentially carried the offense both running the football, and catching it out of the backfield. He’s one player who hasn’t gone backwards. He’s in the middle of a breakout season.
After nine games, he has 618 yards rushing, with 4.8 yards per carry. He’s also pulled in 35 catches for 227 yards.
He’s gained many of those yards with a keen ability to force missed tackles.
And Belichick absolutely loves him.
”Mondre just gets better every day,” Belichick said earlier this month. “He’s one of the guys that I’ve coached that just shows continuous improvement almost every day he walks into the building. In every phase of the game.”
Jakobi Meyers, Mr. Dependable, gets honorable mention. He’s also gotten better.
Best defensive player
Matt Judon.
Like last year, he’s off to a great start. He’s been a force terrorizing opposing quarterbacks, as he leads the league with 11.5 sacks.
Right now, he’s a legitimate candidate for Defensive Player of the Year.
The trick for Judon will be maintaining his fast start, something he struggled to do a year ago. He worked hard during the offseason on his conditioning, taking up Pilates. The coaches have also been easing his workload slightly perhaps with an eye toward the second half of the season.
Fellow pass rusher Josh Uche says it’s no mystery who the best edge rusher on the planet is.
“This is one of the greatest I’ve ever seen in my life,” Uche said following last Sunday’s win over the Colts, “so it’s an honor to be able to learn from him and watch his game each and every day.”
Best rookie
Jack Jones.
The numbers halfway through tell the story. Nine games in, playing roughly 50 percent of the snaps, he’s had 24 tackles, two interceptions, one touchdown, five passes defensed, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery, and one tipped field goal attempt.
The fourth-round pick has worked both on the outside and as a nickel back, and boosted the secondary with his presence.
Offensive lineman Cole Strange might have been the easy choice here having started every game, but he’s struggled mightily of late. Receiver Tyquan Thornton hasn’t really played enough for consideration.
Returner Marcus Jones, who’s been terrific giving the offense good field position, backup quarterback Bailey Zappe, who won two games with both Jones and Brian Hoyer out, and special teamer Brenden Schooler get honorable mention.
Most un-Belichick-like statistic
Leading the league in turnovers with 17.
Ten have come via interception, and seven via fumble.
Add in the fact they have been called for 52 penalties, 13th in the league, and it’s a real head-scratcher how much they get in their own way.
Historically, Belichick’s teams have not been known for beating themselves. This team does quite often.
Most Belichick-like statistic
Being second in the league in takeaways.
They have 17, one behind the Philadelphia Eagles, with 11 picks, and six fumble recoveries.
To a degree, all of their ballhawking exploits have helped negate the turnovers at the other end.
Worst development
Mac Jones’ regression.
Quarterback is the most important position. Having Jones take a step back in practically every statistical category doesn’t bode well for the future.
Having new coaches and a new system hasn’t allowed for any kind of Year 2 leap by Jones.
Missing three weeks with a high ankle sprain also hasn’t helped his development.
Worst development II
Bourne’s disappearance.
Last season, his first with the Patriots, he had 55 catches for 800 yards with two TDs.
Nine games into the 2022 season, he has 14 catches for 167 yards with no touchdowns.
He’s one of their only explosive players, and, save for one play against Miami in the season opener, has pretty much been a non-factor.
Worst development III
Watching Jake Bailey punt.
The Patriots are last in the league in net punt average.
Bailey used to be the king of hang time, and ball placement. He’s been neither this season. His high, long majestic bombs have been MIA.
Ditto his percentage of kicks inside the 20.
Best break
Jets defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers being called for roughing the passer on a pick-six delivered by Mac Jones.
It was an absolute stroke of luck for Jones and the Patriots.
With no call, the Jets would have had a 17-3 lead at halftime thanks to Michael Carter taking his interception of Jones back 84 yards.
But because of the questionable call, which nullified the touchdown, the Pats avoided that disaster, and instead moved into position for a field goal, making it 10-6 at the half before going on to win the game.
Most reliable
Nick Folk.
The 38-year-old kicker has converted 90.5% of his field-goal attempts thus far this season (19 of 21) and all 20 of his extra points. The last two games alone, he went 9-for-9 on field goals.
Folk owns the NFL record for most consecutive field goals under 50 yards. That streak ended at 64 last month. The previous record was 56.
He doesn’t boast the biggest leg, but always makes the kicks he’s supposed to make. That kind of reliability is priceless in the NFL.
Best under the radar player
Michael Onwenu.
Granted, there isn’t much to brag about with the offensive line. But Onwenu has quietly turned into one of the best guards in the NFL.
The former Michigan standout has been highly graded all year, performing his job at an extremely high level each week.
Based on how he’s played thus far, he deserves Pro Bowl consideration.
Overperforming position group
Cornerbacks.
This has been far from the doom and gloom that was forecast after losing Jackson in free agency, coupled with trading Stephon Gilmore last season.
Along with Jonathan Jones excelling out on the boundary, he’s had company. Jalen Mills is playing well opposite Jones. Same for rookie Jack Jones, who has seen quite a bit of time either spelling Mills, or subbing in when Jonathan Jones has been hurt.
Add in Myles Bryant, who has taken over for Jones in the slot, and the Patriots haven’t been quite the disaster at cornerback that many had predicted.
We’ll see what happens when the unit has to defend some elite receiving corps ahead, namely Buffalo, Minnesota, Miami and Cincinnati, but thus far, with Jon Jones having a more permanent role on the outside, and the emergence of Jack Jones, the Patriots have survived.
Underperforming position group
Receivers.
While the Patriots don’t have an elite receiving corps along the lines of the Dolphins, it’s still a decent group.
It just hasn’t performed like one.
While Meyers has been a stud, no one else has picked up the slack.
Meyers currently leads the team with 40 receptions, and that’s with missing two games. After that, it’s DeVante Parker (15), Nelson Agholor (15), Kendrick Bourne (14) and Tyquan Thornton (9).
Too many of them aren’t getting open, or dropping catchable balls.
Best backup
Bailey Zappe.
The Patriots third-string quarterback, a 2022 fourth-round pick, had New England abuzz and all agog to see him under center during a three-week window in October.
Zappe Fever gripped the Hub after the rookie nearly beat the Packers in Green Bay after coming on for injured Brian Hoyer, then producing back-to-back wins against the Lions and Browns.
If the Patriots go on to make the playoffs, look no further than Zappe getting the job done when called upon Weeks 5 and 6, and nearly pulling it off Week 4 against the Pack.
It unravelled a bit when he came on in relief of Jones Week 7 against the Bears, but Zappe still made everyone happy for a good chunk of time during the first half of the season.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — One by one, the presenters inside the crowded hotel ballroom shared their computer screens and promised to show how easy it is to hack into voting systems across the U.S.
Drawing gasps from the crowd, they highlighted theoretical vulnerabilities and problems from past elections. But instead of tailoring their efforts to improve election security, they argued that all voting machines should be eliminated — a message that was wrapped in conspiracies about elections being rigged to favor certain candidates.
“We are at war. The only thing that’s not flying right now is bullets,” said Mark Finchem, a Republican candidate for secretary of state in Arizona last year who continues to contest his loss and was the final speaker of the daylong conference.
Finchem was among a group of Republican candidates running for governor, secretary of state or state attorney who disputed the outcome of the 2020 election and who lost in a clean sweep last November in important political battleground states, including Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Yet deep distrust about U.S. elections persists among Republicans, skepticism fueled by former President Donald Trump’s false claims and by allies who have been traveling the country meeting with community groups and holding forums like the one recently just outside Nashville, attended by some 250 people.
As the nation barrels toward the next presidential election, the election conspiracy movement that mushroomed after the last one shows no signs of slowing down. Millions have been convinced that any election in which their preferred candidate loses has been somehow rigged against them, a belief that has fed efforts among conservatives to ditch voting machines and to halt or delay certification of election results.
“Voters who know the truth about our elections have faith in them,” said Liz Iacobucci, election security program manager with the voter advocacy group Common Cause. “But the people who have been led into disbelief — those people can be led into other things, like Jan. 6.”
Trump, running for the White House for the third time, has signaled that the 2020 election will remain an integral part of his 2024 presidential bid. In a recent call with reporters about a new book, Trump pointed to polls that show a sizable number of people believe the 2020 election was stolen, even though there is no such evidence.
“I’m an election denier,” Trump said. “You’ve got a lot of election deniers in this country and they’re not happy about what’s happened.”
There has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in the U.S., and multiple reviews in the battleground states where Trump disputed his loss confirmed the election results were accurate. State and local election officials have spent more than two years explaining the many layers of protection that surround voting systems, and last year’s midterm election was largely uneventful.
Trump allies such as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn remain prominent voices calling for a ban on voting machines. They want hand-marked paper ballots counted individually without the aid of machines by poll workers in the nearly 180,000 voting precincts across the country.
“We all have the same agenda, to get our elections fair and transparent and where they can’t be hacked,” said Lindell, who recently announced plans to form what he calls an “election crime bureau” to bring his myriad legal, cybersecurity and legislative efforts under one organization.
In an interview, Lindell said he has spent $40 million since the 2020 election investigating fraud claims and supporting efforts to ban voting machines. He said he is taking out loans to continue to fund the work.
During an “America First Forum” held last month in South Carolina, Flynn told those gathered at a Charleston hotel that they were fighting not only Democrats but fellow Republicans who are dismissive of their concerns about the 2020 election.
“Our Republican Party, they want to move on,” Flynn said via video conference. “And frankly, the American people are not going to move on.”
An investigation by the AP and the PBS series “Frontline” last year examined how Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, was traveling the country spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vaccines as he builds a movement based on Christian nationalist ideas. He relies in part on groups such as The America Project and America’s Future.
The America Project was launched in 2021 by Patrick Byrne, founder of Overstock.com. Byrne said elections remain a top priority for the group, though it also will focus on border issues. Asked how much he’s planning to spend ahead of the 2024 election, Byrne told the AP, “There is no budget.”
“I have no children, no wife,” he said. “There’s no point in me saving it for anything.”
Recently filed tax forms do not detail where the group’s $7.7 million in revenue came from that year, but Byrne and Michael Flynn’s brother, Joseph Flynn, told the AP that most of it came from Byrne himself. The group reported giving $2.75 million to Cyber Ninjas for a partisan and much-criticized review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix.
Michael Flynn is now focused on the nonprofit group he leads, America’s Future, and other projects, according to his brother. That group reported raising $2.3 million in 2021 and paying out $1.2 million in grants, including just under $1 million to Cyber Ninjas.
Others who have been central in the effort to raise doubts about the accuracy of elections also have been active this year. Among them is Douglas Frank, an Ohio math and science educator, who said on his social media account that he met with various groups in six states in January, seven states in February and planned to be in eight states in March.
At the Tennessee forum, Kathy Harms, one of the event organizers, took the stage to talk about why she is fighting to get rid of voting machines.
“I don’t do this for me. I would rather just be a grandmother at home,” said Harms, who lives in the county where the conference was held. “I have granddaughters I do this for because I want them to have what I have. I don’t want a banana republic.”
Presentations by people who work in information technology claimed election officials have little security knowledge or experience.
One of them, Mark Cook, walked attendees through the voting process, pointing out potential threats and playing a video he said was of an “Iranian whistleblower” accessing U.S. voter registration data to fraudulently request and submit military ballots.
Cook said the video had some “real components to it” and “could be legitimate.” He did not mention that an influx of duplicate military ballots would be readily apparent because election workers log each person who casts a ballot, meaning a second ballot that appears to be cast by the same person would be caught.
“There are thousands of ways to exploit these systems,” Cook said, dismissing security steps taken by election officials as a “shell game” and “smoke and mirrors to distract us.”
Election officials acknowledge that vulnerabilities exist, but say multiple defenses are in place to thwart attempted manipulation or detect malicious activity.
“Election officials and their partners understand that the goal isn’t to create a perfect election system, but one that ensures that any attack on the election system doesn’t exceed the ability to detect and recover from it.” said David Levine, a former local election official who is now a fellow with the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
Among those listening to the presentations at the Tennessee conference was Luann Adler, a retired educator and school administrator who said she has lost confidence in elections after reading articles and watching videos online about voting machines. She has been advocating in her community to ban voting machines and limit voting to a single day.
Serving as a poll worker last year, Adler said, she did not observe any problems. Still, the experience did not change her mind.
“As we have seen today, a machine can be manipulated,” Adler said. “I’m not pointing the finger at any individual or any community as being nefarious, but I don’t trust the machine.”
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Associated Press writers Michelle R. Smith in Providence, Rhode Island; Nicholas Riccardi in Denver; and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board on Wednesday for defamation, arguing a statement by the group that concluded a review conducted of previous claims he’d made defamed him.
Trump had threatened to file the suit for months after the board issued the allegedly defamatory statement, which announced the conclusion of two independent reviews requested by Trump and others over Pulitzers that had been awarded for stories about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The board ultimately rejected Trump’s request to revoke the 2018 national reporting awards, which were given to the staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post, saying the reviews concluded: “no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
Trump’s suit, which was filed in an Okeechobee County, Fla., court and reported earlier by Fox News, alleges the board acted with actual malice in issuing the statement with the aim of damaging Trump’s reputation, asking for an unspecified amount of damages.
Trump has long used the courts to go after his opponents and get attention for his own claims. It’s a pattern that goes back decades before his presidency.
The former president claimed the statement issued by the Pulitzer board included multiple falsities as he called the group the “establishment’s establishment.”
“On the facts known to Defendants at the time these reviews were allegedly conducted, it would have been impossible that a single objective, thorough and independent review would have reached such a conclusion, much less two,” the suit states. “Defendants knew this and published the Pulitzer Statement anyway.”
The 20 winning stories chronicle attempts by the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and the federal investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Trump has railed against the probe as a witch hunt for years, noting that some of the underlying allegations have been debunked. His complaint repeatedly attacks the winning stories as an “unprecedented media circus.”
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Man accused of stabbing Cash App founder gets new court date
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The arraignment of the tech consultant charged with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee was delayed until next week after his defense attorney told a San Francisco judge Tuesday that prosecutors have not shared all their evidence with her.
Nima Momeni, 38, was charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement of using a knife in the April 4 stabbing death of Lee. Momeni, who is being held without bail, was scheduled to return to court on May 2.
Prosecutors say Momeni drove Lee to a secluded spot and stabbed him over dispute related to the suspect’s sister.
Paula Canny, Momeni’s defense attorney, said he will enter a plea of not guilty and deny the special allegation. She said she will ask the judge that Momeni be allowed to remain free during his trial.
“My argument is going to be that Nima is not dangerous to society and Nima is not a flight risk. Under the law, if those two criteria are met, he should be released from custody,” Canny said.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said her office has shared all evidence with the defense, except for an autopsy report that can take the medical examiner up to 60 days to complete. She said prosecutors will continue to argue Momeni needs to remain in custody because he is a flight risk and poses a danger to society.
“Somebody that we believe committed murder is an extreme threat to the public safety. In this situation, we have an individual who stabbed Mr. Lee multiple times, including in his heart. That is about as dangerous as it gets,” Jenkins said.
Lee’s killing drew national attention after tech leaders like Elon Musk took to Twitter to mourn Lee’s death and blame San Francisco for what they called the city’s lax attitude toward crime.
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Special counsel asks judge to compel Mike Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe
Washington — Federal prosecutors have asked the chief judge in Washington, D.C.’s federal court to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify as a witness in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, three people familiar with the investigation told CBS News.
The motion to compel Pence’s testimony — filed in secret to Chief Judge Beryl Howell in recent days — came after lawyers for former President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege in response to Pence’s subpoena, the people said.
That assertion of executive privilege on Pence’s subpoena, the people added, is in line with how Trump’s team has responded to related subpoenas over the past year, with Trump’s attorneys often arguing that private conversations or interactions with a president should remain confidential.
The latest filing also comes after Pence has signaled he would oppose a subpoena from Smith’s office.
Pence and his lawyers have also been preparing to invoke the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause as a means of protecting him from the investigation. That clause protects members of Congress from being questioned about their legislative actions by other branches of the federal government.
Pence contends his unique role as both a member of the executive branch and president of the Senate — who presided over Congress’ certification of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021 — would be covered under the clause.
“On the day of Jan. 6, I was acting as president of the Senate, presiding over a joint session described in the Constitution itself. So, I believe that that Speech and Debate clause of the Constitution actually prohibits the executive branch from compelling me to appear in a court, as the Constitution says, or in any other place,” Pence — who is considering whether he will run for president in 2024 — told reporters in Iowa last week.
“We’ll stand on that principle and we’ll take that case as far as it needs to go, if it needs be to the Supreme Court of the United States,” he added.
The motion to compel testimony filed by the special counsel’s office is the logical next step in a criminal probe, with prosecutors seeking to force a witness or third party to comply with a grand jury subpoena. Filed less than two weeks after news broke that Pence had received the subpoena, the legal document asks the court to uphold the subpoena’s legal authority and indicates Justice Department prosecutors are moving quickly in their attempt to get Pence before a grand jury.
People familiar with the probe told CBS News in November that the Justice Department had reached out to Pence in connection to Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Pence’s legal team, Trump’s lawyers and federal prosecutors will now likely work behind closed doors and under seal to convince the federal judge that their interpretation of the law is the right one.
Two people familiar with the investigation say the chief judge has also made a common move during a grand-jury investigation, issuing a court instruction for secrecy, or “gag order,” in recent days. That means all those involved with the probe in any capacity cannot comment on it.
The moves by the special counsel come as Howell’s term as chief judge presiding over all sealed grand juries in Washington, D.C.’s federal court is set to expire on March 17, and a new judge will take over.
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A Pence spokesman declined to comment.
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The European Central Bank’s rate-setting council will hold an unscheduled meeting Wednesday “to discuss market conditions,” with borrowing costs for several countries having increased after the bank said it would raise interest rates — bringing back bad memories of the European debt crisis from over a decade ago.
The bank last week announced the hikes in July and September without specifying how it would protect countries sharing the euro currency if borrowing costs rose excessively — as they did during the 2010-2012 debt crisis. That’s a potential concern for heavily indebted governments, notably Italy.
The spreads for Italian and Spanish debt over safe German government debt — a key fear index for the 19-country eurozone — have risen after the ECB made only unspecific promises to prevent financial “fragmentation,” or interest rates in individual countries that are so high that they don’t reflect the bank’s benchmarks.
The ECB has a bond-market backstop in which it could step in and buy the debt of a troubled country. That tool helped calm the debt crisis a decade ago after the bank announced it in the wake of then-President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to keep the eurozone from breaking up. But that program, which never actually had to be used, can come with tough conditions for reform and governments may be reluctant to turn to it.
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank, said the “situation today is different from the euro crisis a little more than a decade ago” because countries have improved growth prospects and the ECB has the bond-market backstop in its back pocket if needed.
Current conditions “should not present an imminent risk even for fiscally challenged Italy,” he said.
A top ECB official, Isabel Schnabel, tried to calm market concerns Tuesday, saying the bank “will not tolerate” unjustified market rate increases. But she did not outline how the ECB would do that, stressing the bank’s track record of intervening when needed.
“Our commitment to the euro is our anti-fragmentation tool,” she said in a speech at Paris’ Sorbonne University. “This commitment has no limits. And our track record of stepping in when needed backs up this commitment.”
Interest yields on Italy’s 10-year government bonds have risen from around 1.2% at the start of the year to 4.1% on Wednesday. The ECB’s pandemic support programs, including 1.7 trillion euros ($1.8 trillion) of bond purchases, helped keep government borrowing costs low across the eurozone. That program, however, came to an end in March, and markets are now looking at increases in interest rates from record low levels.
The ECB’s surprise meeting comes the same day that the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to announce its largest interest rate hike since 1994. Europe’s bank has trailed the Fed and other central banks in raising rates to combat decades-high levels of inflation, including the Bank of England, which has hiked rates four times since December and will meet again Thursday.
But now the ECB has scheduled rate increases for July and September and indicated September’s increase might be a larger-than-usual half-percentage point. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/european-central-bank-to-gather-after-borrowing-costs-rise/ | 2022-06-15 12:21:43 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/european-central-bank-to-gather-after-borrowing-costs-rise/ |
Ever since she was a little girl, Jessie Gaynor has had a passion for books. Whether classic literature or YA fiction, she spent her youth devouring novels. She wouldn't just read them. She would reread them, sometimes the same book over and over again.
"My mom used to say that my rereading of books worried her because she thought I wasn't expanding my horizons enough," Gaynor says. "And, later, in retrospect, she decided that what I was doing was learning the language of the books."
In the sixth grade, Gaynor read Angela's Ashes. She loved the book so much, she actually looked up the author in the phone book and called him to talk about it. She got his answering machine and didn't talk to him, but she self-mockingly tells the story as an early example of her literary enthusiasm.
Gaynor carried this enthusiasm for books into adulthood. She's now a Senior Editor at Literary Hub, an online publication that focuses on literary fiction and nonfiction. And, just recently, she's become an author herself.
This June, publishing powerhouse Penguin Random House is set to publish Gaynor's first novel, The Glow. It's a dark comedy that centers on a struggling publicist named Jane Dorner who, in a desperate effort to save her job, tries to land a lucrative client: an enchanting wellness guru. "Jane decides that she will try to aggressively monetize this woman's shtick," Gaynor says.
Gaynor is part of a sea change in book publishing that has seen women surge ahead of men in almost every part of the industry in recent years. Once upon a time, women authored less than 10 percent of the new books published in the US each year. They now publish more than 50 percent of them. Not only that, the average female author sells more books than the average male author. In all this, the book market is an outlier when compared to many other creative realms, which continue to be overwhelmingly dominated by men.
These findings and others come from a new study by Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Waldfogel crunches the numbers on the book market's female revolution. And, in a recent interview, the economist helps us think through potential reasons why women trail men in many creative industries, but have had spectacular success in achieving — in fact, surpassing — parity with men in the US publishing business.
Female Authors Leap Ahead
Waldfogel got interested in studying female representation in creative industries after spending part of last year at the U.S. Copyright Office as a visiting scholar. The federal agency, which is part of the Library of Congress, is tasked with keeping records on copyrighted materials.
One of the first projects the Copyright Office had Waldfogel work on was a data analysis of the evolution of women in copyright authorship. Looking at the numbers, Waldfogel's eyes opened wide when he realized that women have seen incredible progress in book authorship but continue to lag in other creative realms.
For example, while they have made inroads in recent years, women still accounted for less than 20 percent of movie directors and less than 10 percent of cinematographers in the top 250 films made in 2022. Likewise, when looking at the data on patents for new inventions, women make up only between 10 to 15 percent of inventors in the US in a typical year.
For a long time, the book market saw a similar disparity between men and women. Sure, some rockstar female authors come to mind from back in the day: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Agatha Christie, Zora Neale Hurston — to name just a few prominent ones. But, Waldfogel says, between roughly 1800 and 1900, the share of female authors hovered around only 10 percent each year.
In the 20th century, female authorship began to slowly pick up. By the late 1960s, the annual percentage of female authors had grown to almost 20 percent.
Then, around 1970, female authorship really began to explode. "There was a sea change after 1970," Waldfogel says.
By 2020, Waldfogel finds, women were writing the majority of all new books, fiction and nonfiction, each year in the United States. And women weren't just becoming more prolific than men by this point: they were also becoming more successful. Waldfogel analyzes data from a whole range of sources to come to this conclusion, including the Library of Congress, the U.S. Copyright Office, Amazon, and Goodreads. Waldfogel finds that the average female-authored book now sees greater sales, readership, and other metrics of engagement than the average book penned by a male author.
Why 1970?
The progress women have made in the book market can be seen as one small part of the broader feminist movement. Picking a single year as a clear turning point for any social movement can get pretty arbitrary. Dramatic social changes often proceed incrementally, not in one fell swoop. That said, if you were to pick one single year as an inflection point, 1970 is a pretty good one for the women's movement, not just in book publishing, but in a whole range of social and economic pursuits.
Female participation in the overall US labor market seems to have really picked up steam after 1970 (although, to our point, you can clearly see the antecedents for this progress beforehand). Economists have offered various theories and evidence for why, after centuries of playing second fiddle in the labor market, American women made significant advances. The lasting effects of women entering the labor force as men fought overseas during WW2, the feminist movement, cultural change, and declining discrimination surely played important roles.
So did the increasing diffusion of labor and time-saving technologies, like electricity, plumbing, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and microwaves, which changed the economic calculus for many families. Before households adopted widespread use of these technologies, domestic work was much more burdensome than it is now, requiring hours and hours of labor per day. The bulk of that work was done by women. As new technologies decreased that workload, various economic studies suggest, women were increasingly freed to pursue careers — including careers in publishing.
The birth control pill, which exploded in use during the 1960s, and increased abortion access in the 1970s, also helped free women to enter domains traditionally dominated by men, by giving more women greater choice over if or when to have children, and how many.
Intimately related to the pursuit of writing books, women began investing more and more in education around 1970. "If you look at the share of women who are going to college, it looks very similar to book publishing," Waldfogel says.
It's probably no coincidence that, by 2020, women weren't only the majority of book authors, they had also become the majority of college graduates in the United States. Women also now represent around 70 percent of high school valedictorians every year.
But why has the book market seen so much more progress than other industries?
Despite progress over the last half century, however, women continue to lag behind men in many parts of the labor market, including many creative industries. Why are books different?
The answer matters not just for women, but for society at large. With women continuing to represent less than 15 percent of inventors in the US, to give one glaring example, Waldfogel worries that there are likely a whole bunch of "Lost Marie Curies" out there who could be helping us find cures for diseases or creating innovative, new technologies. But something seems to be holding them back. The reason why the book market has seen so much more progress might help us figure out how to replicate the success there in other domains.
However, lacking hard evidence, Waldfogel's new study offers no rigorous explanation for why the book market revolutionized while others saw limited progress.
Waldfogel says his best guess for why women have seen so much progress in book publishing in the US, as opposed to other creative domains, has to do with the reality that the process of book-writing is typically a solo endeavor, in which the author has more power to choose when and how to do the work.
Maybe the fact that book writing is done mostly alone means there is less discrimination and fewer female-disadvantaging biases and social dynamics in the industry. Industries like movie production and scientific and technological inventing are dominated by gigantic corporate bureaucracies, which are intensely hierarchical. They also are more capital intensive. Maybe that opens the door to more sexism and a resistance to investing in historically underrepresented creators like women.
But American publishing, while seeing huge growth in self-publishing in recent years, also continues to be dominated by large corporations, like NewsCorp and Amazon. There is a twist, however, which is that individual publishing houses in the US — unlike film, TV and other creative production organizations — are largely dominated by women. In 2015, the publisher Lee & Low Books surveyed the staff at 34 US-based publishers and 8 review journals. They found that, while the industry is disproportionately white, it's also disproportionately female. About 78 percent of staffers at all levels and 59 percent of executives in the publishing industry identified as women in the survey.
In her process of writing The Glow and getting to know the book publishing industry through her work at Literary Hub, Gaynor says, she's seen this herself. "In my work, I encounter a lot more women who work in publishing, and I think it makes sense that women editors and women publicists are very happy to read books by other women and buy them," she says.
The demand for books in the US is also disproportionately driven by women. Surveys over at least the last couple decades have consistently found that American women are more likely to read books than American men, especially when it comes to fiction.
Gaynor says some of the most famous channels in which books gain popularity in the US are run by women. She points to Oprah's Book Club and Reese's Book Club (which is helmed by Reese Witherspoon). "Even TikTok, with the popular BookTok videos, my sense is it's mostly women — and BookTok is driving sales hugely right now," Gaynor says.
Beyond the demographics of book readers and publishers, the social dynamics of the book writing business could be more favorable for women than other creative industries. For example, it is a generally solitary affair that lacks the office politics, practices and hierarchies that can still all too often leave women at a disadvantage.
"We hear a lot about women being socialized to not take the lead, not make a fuss," Gaynor says. Other creative pursuits — like movie directing, for example — may reward self-confidence and assertiveness, traits that research suggests is more associated with men, on average. "I have a personality that is — I don't know if I can blame this on my gender socialization — but I don't like to feel like I'm bothering people. One of the great things about publishing a book is that you get an agent who bothers people on your behalf. Also, the solo part of writing a book is also very appealing because you just get to write the book and then put it in someone else's hands. You have to advocate for yourself to a certain extent, but the work is not about being loud, which I know for some women, at least like me, that can be an uncomfortable thing."
A growing body of research in economics points to something more than personality traits and interests that separate men and women in the labor market. The Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has published influential research that suggests one central culprit behind gender inequality in the labor market: the reality that women continue to bear the overwhelming burden of caregiving responsibilities in many couples. As a result, Goldin finds, women, on average, show greater demand for "temporal flexibility." That is, they put a greater premium on jobs that offer flexibility in their work schedule. These jobs tend to offer smaller paychecks, but they also allow more time and flexibility to spend on unpaid domestic work at home.
Gaynor is quick to point out that, for most authors — and for fiction authors, in particular — writing a book is a "really low-paying field." That may dissuade more men, on average, from aspiring to pursue a writing career. "I know women are driven by a number of market forces, but I do feel like it seems possible that more women would be more willing to work in a low-paying field at first."
At the same time, book writing, for the most part, offers the ultimate in temporal flexibility, to use Claudia Goldin's terminology. You can write a book whenever — morning, afternoon, or night. That may be particularly attractive to some women, who are more likely to be saddled with domestic work. And it might put men and women on a more equal footing in the industry. Unlike being a corporate lawyer or executive or inventor, writing doesn't place a large premium on being available to work at all hours, which entails a greater sacrifice of your family life.
Gaynor says she mostly wrote her book before having her kids, waking up early to write before starting work at her day job. After having her first child, she says, she did have to spend a significant amount of time addressing edits from her editor and finalizing her book. But, she says, her editing process "was facilitated by my husband doing more of the childcare in the mornings."
Whatever the reasons for the boom in female authorship, Waldfogel says that readers of all kinds, not just women, are clearly benefiting from it. And so are we, with new books like The Glow, which will be on bookshelves on June 20.
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Company recognized for advanced soil analysis that promotes sustainable farming and plays vital role in supporting net-zero goals
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trace Genomics, the leader in delivering comprehensive, precise soil analysis, today announced that the company has earned a place on the 2023 Global Cleantech 100 list. Trace Genomics also won the award in 2022. This recognition highlights companies across the globe that have put words to action toward the goal of net-zero carbon emissions.
Trace Genomics is a pioneer in using data science to activate the hidden insights in soil, working at the forefront of high-definition genomics to decode and catalog the complete soil environment. Trace Genomics' solutions help companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint connect with growers who are doing the same through sustainable management practices and the adoption of nature-based solutions that reduce carbon emissions and increase carbon storage on their land.
"We at Trace are incredibly proud to win a place among the 2023 Global Cleantech 100 for the second year in a row," said Trace Genomics' Vice President of Product and ESG Ronald Zink, "Our mission from day one has focused on activating soil's full potential. Our work to provide stakeholders with a holistic understanding of the soil microbiome through genetic analysis is a key step in the journey to net-zero emissions globally."
The Global Cleantech 100 program has been running since 2009, celebrating companies that deliver sustainable solutions in agriculture and food, enabling technologies, energy and power, materials and chemicals, resources and environment, and transportation and logistics sectors.
The selection process begins with nominations made by the public, Cleantech Group's expert panel, i3 research portal, awards and the Cleantech Group's staff. This year, Cleantech Group received 15,753 nominations from more than 93 countries. These companies were weighted and scored to create a short list of 330 companies that were reviewed by the 81 members of an expert panel. The Global Cleantech 100 Expert Panel is made up of leading investors, corporate and industrial executives who are active in technology and innovation scouting.
These featured companies will be recognized at the upcoming Cleantech Forum North America, January 23-25, in Palm Springs, Calif.
To learn more, visit tracegenomics.com.
Trace Genomics is a pioneer in the use of hi-definition genomics to activate the hidden insights in soil for healthier soils and a healthier planet. Through innovation in genomics, soil science and machine learning, Trace Genomics creates a pathway to deliver targeted database insights and actions at cost-speed-scale-accuracy for partners who are advancing modern farming solutions for a net-zero food production system. Where most companies deliver a partial picture, we provide a comprehensive and precise understanding of the soil's composition—analyzing the soil's biology, physical properties and chemistry. Trace Genomics has won several awards, including being selected as a 2020 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Winner of FoodShot Global's Innovating Soil 3.0 Challenge, Forbes Top 25 Most Innovative AgTech, THRIVE Top 50 AgTech, 2022 Global Cleantech top 100 start-ups and many more.
Cleantech® Group provides research, consulting and events to catalyze opportunities for sustainable growth powered by innovation. At every stage from initial strategy to final deals, we bring corporate change makers, investors, governments and stakeholders from across the ecosystem the access and customized support they need to thrive in a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient future.
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(CNN) — A mission designed to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of the universe is ready to launch.
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is expected to lift off at 11:12 a.m. ET Saturday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Both NASA and ESA will provide live streams, with coverage starting at 10:30 a.m. ET.
After launch, Euclid will separate from the rocket at 11:53 a.m. ET, and mission control expects to receive a signal from the telescope a few minutes later at 11:57 a.m. ET.
The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope will set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with the Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
After arriving at orbit, Euclid will spend two months testing and calibrating its instruments — a visible light camera and a near-infrared camera/spectrometer — before surveying one-third of the sky for the next six years.
Investigating cosmic mysteries
Euclid’s primary goal is to observe the “dark side” of the universe, including dark matter and dark energy.
While dark matter has never actually been detected, it is believed to make up 85% of the total matter in the universe. Meanwhile, dark energy is a mysterious force thought to play a role in the accelerating expansion of the universe.
In the 1920s, astronomers Georges Lemaître and Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe has been expanding since its birth 13.8 billion years ago. But research that began in the 1990s has shown that something sparked an acceleration of the universe’s expansion about 6 billion years ago, and the cause remains a mystery.
Unlocking the true nature of dark energy and dark matter could help astronomers understand what the universe is made of, how its expansion has changed over time, and if there is more to understanding gravity than meets the eye. Both dark matter and dark energy also play a role in the distribution and movement of objects, such as galaxies and stars, across the cosmos.
Euclid is designed to create the largest and most accurate three-dimensional map of the universe, observing billions of galaxies that stretch 10 billion light-years away to reveal how matter may have been stretched and pulled apart by dark energy over time. These observations will effectively allow Euclid to see how the universe has evolved over the past 10 billion years.
The telescope was named in honor of Euclid of Alexandria, the Greek mathematician who lived around 300 BC and is considered the father of geometry. While primarily an ESA mission, the telescope includes contributions from NASA and more than 2,000 scientists across 13 European countries, the United States, Canada and Japan.
The telescope’s image quality will be four times sharper than those of ground-based sky surveys. Euclid’s wide perspective can also record data from a part of the sky 100 times bigger than what Webb’s camera can capture.
During its observations, the telescope will create a catalog of 1.5 billion galaxies and the stars within them, creating a treasure trove of data for astronomers that includes each galaxy’s shape, mass and number of stars created per year. Euclid’s ability to see in near-infrared light could also reveal previously unseen objects in our own Milky Way galaxy, such as brown dwarfs and ultra-cool stars.
A dynamic duo
In May 2027, Euclid will be joined in orbit by the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. The two missions will overlap in their study of cosmic acceleration as they both create three-dimensional maps of the universe.
“Twenty-five years after its discovery, the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the most pressing mysteries in astrophysics,” said Jason Rhodes, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement.
“With these upcoming telescopes, we will measure dark energy in different ways and with far more precision than previously achievable, opening up a new era of exploration into this mystery,” said Rhodes, who serves as the deputy project scientist for Roman and the US science lead for Euclid.
Roman will study one-twentieth of the sky in infrared light, allowing for much more depth and precision. The Roman telescope will peer back to when the universe was just 2 billion years old, picking out fainter galaxies than Euclid can see.
Roman also has the ability to hunt down rogue planets that aren’t attached to stars, search for exoplanets across our galaxy and study objects on the outskirts of our solar system.
“Together, Euclid and Roman will add up to much more than the sum of their parts,” said Yun Wang, a senior research scientist at the California Institute of Technology, in a statement. “Combining their observations will give astronomers a better sense of what’s actually going on in the universe.”
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Today’s All Indiana Artists, “Keller & Cole,” are making a return trip to the “All Indiana” studio today.
They are an indie folk and American duo and their songs share profound lyrics and catchy hooks and harmonies.
You’ve heard them on FM radio and opening for some big name artists.
You can see them performing at the Palladium on Wednesday, July 27 at 7:30 p.m. during a series of livestream concerts and tickets are “pay what you can,” starting at $5 for the in-person show and free for the livestream show.
Today the duo performed their song, “Love, Drunk, Alchemy.” Watch the video above for their full performance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — If confirmed as IRS commissioner, Daniel Werfel says he will commit to not increasing tax audits on businesses and households making less than $400,000 per year.
Anticipating questions ahead of his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Werfel in prepared testimony makes several other commitments aimed at revamping the beleaguered agency.
President Joe Biden nominated Werfel to steer the Internal Revenue Service as it receives a massive funding boost — nearly $80 billion over the next 10 years through the Inflation Reduction Act, which Congress passed in August. Noting the act's impact on the federal tax collector, Werfel says that “Americans rightfully expect a more modern and high-performing IRS.”
While promising to modernize the agency's technology, address its paperwork burden and audit high-income earners, Werfel says he will be “unyielding in following my true north to increase public trust.”
Werfel, 51, who led Boston Consulting Group’s global public sector practice, was nominated to replace Charles Rettig. Selected by President Donald Trump to lead the agency, Rettig left when his five-year term ended in November. An acting commissioner has been filling in.
Werfel will also have to navigate controversy surrounding the new funding, brought by critics who have distorted how the new law would affect the IRS and taxes for the middle class. About $46 billion was allocated for enforcing tax laws and the rest to taxpayer services, operations support and updating business systems.
Republicans have suggested without evidence that the agency would use the new money to hire an army of tax agents with weapons.
Disapproval of the agency reached new heights when House Republicans began their tenure in the majority last month by passing a bill that would rescind the funding, fulfilling a campaign promise. The legislation has not advanced in the Senate and is unlikely to reach Biden, who has promised a veto.
“The hearing promises to be a doozy, and not only because the IRS is one of the most unpopular government agencies in the United States," said Janet Holtzblatt, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. “This will be the first big IRS hearing since it received an $80 billion boost to its budget in the Inflation Reduction Act.”
GOP criticism appeared more directed at Biden administration efforts to bolster funding for the agency than at Werfel himself. But tax experts say Werfel should expect to face a slew of managerial questions.
Caroline Bruckner, a tax professor at the American University Kogod School of Business, said that, if confirmed, Werfel would have to address the massive workforce challenges at the IRS wrought by attrition, an aging workforce and a generally poor reputation.
“The next generation of accountants don't want to work for the IRS,” Bruckner said. She added, "To attract the best talent, particularly with Millennials and Gen-Z workers who will be the future of the workforce, transparency as a leader will go a long way.”
Bruckner referred to a Stanford University study that showed IRS data-driven algorithms chose Black taxpayers to audit up to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers. “The next generation of workers care about these things, and this is a leadership challenge," she said.
Robert J. Kovacev, a federal tax attorney at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, said Werfel will have to explain how the agency could best spend its new funding.
“I think that $80 billion gives the IRS some choices on how to improve that they didn't have before," he said. "They could spend it on new revenue agents, or new technology investments to make it fairer and more efficient.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/irs-nominee-no-audit-boost-for-households-under-17785358.php | 2023-02-15 10:34:22 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/irs-nominee-no-audit-boost-for-households-under-17785358.php |
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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL) (NYSE: PBA) announced today that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem the currently outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Rate Reset Class A Preferred Shares, Series 15 ("Series 15 Shares") (TSX: PPL.PR.O) on September 30, 2022.
As a result, and subject to certain terms of the Series 15 Shares, the holders of the Series 15 Shares will have the right to elect to convert all or part of their Series 15 Shares on a one-for-one basis into Cumulative Redeemable Floating Rate Class A Preferred Shares, Series 16 of Pembina ("Series 16 Shares") on October 3, 2022 (the "Conversion Date"), being the first business day following the statutory holiday on September 30, 2022. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 15 Shares into Series 16 Shares will retain their Series 15 Shares.
As provided in the terms of the Series 15 Shares: (i) if Pembina determines that there would remain outstanding immediately following the conversion less than 1,000,000 Series 15 Shares, then all remaining Series 15 Shares will be automatically converted into Series 16 Shares on a one-for-one basis effective as of the Conversion Date; or (ii) if Pembina determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 16 Shares outstanding immediately following the conversion, no Series 15 Shares will be converted into Series 16 Shares on the Conversion Date. There are currently 8,000,000 Series 15 Shares outstanding.
With respect to any Series 15 Shares that remain outstanding after the Conversion Date, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Pembina. The annual dividend rate for the Series 15 Shares for the five-year period from and including September 30, 2022, to, but excluding, September 30, 2027, will be 6.164 percent, being equal to the five-year Government of Canada bond yield of 3.244 percent determined as of today plus 2.92 percent, in accordance with the terms of the Series 15 Shares.
With respect to any Series 16 Shares that may be issued on the Conversion Date, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Pembina. The annual dividend rate applicable to the Series 16 Shares for the three-month floating rate period from and including September 30, 2022, to, but excluding, December 31, 2022, will be 6.238 percent, being equal to the annual rate of interest for the most recent auction of 90-day Government of Canada treasury bills of 3.318 percent plus 2.92 percent, in accordance with the terms of the Series 16 Shares (the "Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate"). The Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate will be reset every quarter.
Beneficial holders of Series 15 Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion during the conversion period, which runs from August 31, 2022, until 3:00 pm (MT) / 5:00 pm (ET) on September 19, 2022, should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other intermediary for more information. It is recommended that this be done well in advance of the deadline in order to provide the broker or other intermediary with the time to complete the necessary steps. Any notices received after this deadline will not be valid.
As previously announced, the dividend payable on October 3, 2022, to holders of the Series 15 Shares of record on September 15, 2022, will be $0.2790 per Series 15 Share, consistent with the dividend rate in effect since the issuance of the Series 15 Shares. For more information on the terms of the Series 15 Shares and the Series 16 Shares, please see Pembina's articles of amendment dated October 2, 2017, relating to the creation of the Series 15 Shares and the Series 16 Shares, which can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a leading energy transportation and midstream service provider that has served North America's energy industry for more than 65 years. Pembina owns an integrated network of hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas pipelines, gas gathering and processing facilities, oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics services, and a growing export terminals business. Through our integrated value chain, we seek to provide safe and reliable infrastructure solutions which connect producers and consumers of energy across the world, support a more sustainable future and benefit our customers, investors, employees and communities. For more information, please visit pembina.com.
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The forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that Pembina has made in respect thereof as at the date of this news release regarding, among other things: oil and gas industry exploration and development activity levels and the geographic region of such activity; the success of Pembina's operations; prevailing commodity prices, interest rates, carbon prices, tax rates and exchange rates; the ability of Pembina to maintain current credit ratings; the availability of capital to fund future capital requirements relating to existing assets and projects; future operating costs; geotechnical and integrity costs; that all required regulatory and environmental approvals can be obtained on the necessary terms in a timely manner; prevailing regulatory, tax and environmental laws and regulations; maintenance of operating margins; and certain other assumptions in respect of Pembina's forward-looking statements detailed in Pembina's Management's Discussion and Analysis and Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2021 and from time to time in Pembina's public disclosure documents available at www.sedar.com, www.sec.gov and through Pembina's website at www.pembina.com.
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This list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Readers are cautioned that events or circumstances could cause results to differ materially from those predicted, forecasted or projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date hereof. Pembina does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information contained herein, except as required by applicable laws. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An analysis that was the basis of a highly criticized recommendation from Florida’s surgeon general cautioning young men against getting the COVID-19 vaccine omitted information that showed catching the virus could increase the risk of a cardiac-related death much more than getting the mRNA shot, according to drafts of the analysis obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.
The nonbinding recommendation made by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last fall ran counter to the advice provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ladapo, a Harvard-trained medical doctor who was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021 to head the Florida Department of Health, has drawn intense scrutiny over his shared resistance with the Republican governor to COVID-19 mandates for vaccines and masks and other health policies endorsed by the federal government.
The early drafts of the analysis obtained by the Times through a records request showed that catching COVID-19 could increase the chances of a cardiac-related death much more than getting the vaccine, but that information was missing from the final version put out by the Florida Department of Health last October.
Ladapo said that the risk of men ages 18 to 39 having cardiac complications outweighed the benefits of getting the mRNA vaccine.
Matt Hitchings, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, told the Times that it seems that sections of the analysis were omitted because they did not fit the narrative the surgeon general wanted to push.
“This is a grave violation of research integrity,” Hitchings said. “(The vaccine) has done a lot to advance the health of people of Florida and he’s encouraging people to mistrust it.”
In a statement on Twitter posted Saturday in response to the Times’ story, Ladapo said, “It’s not only unfortunate that COVID has corrupted scientists’ ability to think clearly about epidemiology but also sad that people rush to defend a vaccine that has shown increased cardiovascular risk in multiple studies.”
Last year, Ladapo released guidance recommending against vaccinations for healthy children, contradicting federal public health leaders whose advice says all kids should get the shots. In response, the American Academy of Pediatrics and its Florida chapter issued written statements reiterating support for vaccinating eligible children age 5 and older against COVID-19.
DeSantis, who is contemplating a run for the GOP presidential nomination, also has requested that a grand jury be convened to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines. DeSantis’ request argues that pharmaceutical companies had a financial interest in creating a climate in which people believed that getting a coronavirus vaccine would ensure they couldn’t spread the virus to others.
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Carbon dioxide pipeline debate: ND lawmakers ask AG to investigate Summit Carbon Solutions’ investors
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A proposed Summit Carbon Solutions carbon dioxide pipeline has sparked a bitter debate in North Dakota.
Some people, including the majority of elected officials in North Dakota, see carbon capture as a way to get the most out of the state’s energy industry, while also maximizing investment in North Dakota. Others see a landowner’s worst nightmare in the form of property rights violations. It’s that latter group that’s now encouraging the Attorney General to investigate Summit Carbon Solutions’ investors.
A line of vehicles with out-of-state plates on a section line. For some, this represents a serious threat.
“It feels terrible. It makes you angry, it makes you sad, it makes you just, I can’t describe it,” said Sue McLean of Menoken.
The vehicles carry surveyors, whose job is to determine if a carbon pipeline will run through this land.
“Water will get me wet, oil will get me dirty, gas might rupture and I might have a problem, but this will kill me,” said McLean.
The concern? Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and if a pipeline carrying CO2 were to rupture near a population center, people could be in danger.
“There’s going to be a lot of damage and a lot of death,” said Representative Lori VanWinkle, R-Minot.
But that issue isn’t exactly settled.
“There’s been a lot of concerns about safety. But, of course, nationally, there’s never been a death from a CO2 pipeline,” said Governor Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota.
Now, 31 lawmakers say Summit’s purchase of land would violate recently-passed North Dakota laws because of their investors.
“We respectfully ask for an Attorney General investigation into the investors of the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions carbon pipeline,” said Senator Jeff Magrum, R-Hazelton.
Senator Magrum says foreign countries like China have invested in Summit, which would violate House Bill 1135 and Senate Bill 2371. Those bills prohibit foreign governments from owning land in the state.
“Make no mistake, a 99-year easement is an acquisition of a property right, and allowing such a pipeline to potentially fall under foreign control is something we should be very cautious about,” said Representative SuAnn Olson, R-Baldwin.
Representatives for Summit Carbon Solutions call these concerns “unfounded accusations,” and they say it’ll provide North Dakota with economic opportunities — a sentiment that’s echoed by top-ranking elected officials.
“Coal, agriculture, oil and gas, which means, our three biggest industries, all benefit mightily from being able to capture or utilize CO2,” said Gov. Burgum.
Many of those in attendance Tuesday plan to voice their concerns to the Public Service Commission next week.
The North Dakota Public Service Commission will hold another public hearing about the project at the Heritage Center in Bismarck on June 2. The last one lasted about 14 hours, and many who attended didn’t have a chance to speak.
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(Our Auto Expert) — Pickup trucks are one of the hottest items for electric vehicles. The biggest problem is that they are in short supply. The Rivian RT1 is at the top of that list. Unfortunately, the fastest you can get an RT1 is 40 days after ordering. Buyers should expect a wait of six months if they still need to be added to the reservations list.
The second recommended pickup truck is the Ford F150 Lightning. It’s a hot item, so you could wait for years if you are not on the reservation list already.
There are at least five other pickup trucks scheduled for release in the next 12 to 24 months, so get on the waiting list now if you want one.
Small family cars are more readily available than any other electric vehicle on the market.
The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV are on dealer lots. Starting under $26,000, it is an excellent buy. The car that started the modern era of electric vehicles was the Nissan Leaf. It starts at around $29,000 and is a solid choice. Finally, a huge fan favorite is the Mini SE. These begin under $30,000 and are the most exciting to drive.
Unfortunately, this Mini is hard to come by, but if you widen your search area, you can find them.
The recommended list of Luxury electric sedans has the BMW i4 at the top, Followed by the limo-style BMW i7 and the Mercedes EQS sedan. All three are great drivers and have varying ranges, prices, and technology. Since this is the luxury category, you will have a price range from $85,000 to $130,000, depending on the model you want. The waiting time is around three months. Modifying your car to your taste is also recommended as many options are available.
Family SUVs are the hottest category of new electric vehicles this year; most are available on dealer lots. The Kia EV6 was the 2023 North American Utility car of the year; it is a thrill from hood to trunk. The Hyundai Ioniq five and the Ford Mach-E also make the list of recommended family SUVs. In addition, the Ford Mach-E’s performance and infotainment are class leaders compared to the competition, making it far above other vehicles in the class. All three electric SUVs are on dealer lots now and will not disappoint future owners.
The electric luxury SUV category is one of the most contended. Recommended is the Mercedes EQB, an entry-level offering starting at $53,000. The Volvo XC40 and C40 are both great offerings in electric cars. Expect them to be available in states that are electric-positive. Finally, the BMW iX is fantastic, well-balanced, well-equipped, and has outstanding usable tech. The design needs some work, but no doubt this would be a great daily driver. | https://phl17.com/automotive/the-best-electric-vehicles-on-the-market/ | 2023-02-02 03:22:10 | 0 | https://phl17.com/automotive/the-best-electric-vehicles-on-the-market/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa — March Madness is on its way to Des Moines.
The Wells Fargo Arena will host First and Second Round games in the 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament this week.
If you're traveling into town for the games, here's everything you need to know, including ticket prices, parking availability and more.
What days will the 2023 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament take place in Des Moines?
The best of the best in men's college basketball will face off in Des Moines on March 16-18.
Drake University will serve as the host of the games.
Three Iowa teams (Drake, Iowa and Iowa State) have secured their own positions in the tournament. However, none of the three teams will play on their home turf.
Instead, teams from Texas A&M, Penn State, Texas, Colgate, Kansas, Howard, Arkansas and Illinois will play at Wells Fargo Arena.
Previously, Wells Fargo Arena hosted men's tournament games in 2016 and 2019.
Here's a breakdown of the 2023 schedule:
How much are tickets?
Individual day tickets start at $70, but can reach more than $100. If you want a pass for all three days, the cheapest tickets will run you around $300.
You can buy your tickets here.
What should I know before I arrive?
Like most large venues, there are some things to know before getting to the Wells Fargo Arena. Here's a list of some of their event policies:
- Only clear bags, measuring 12"x6"x12" at maximum, are allowed inside. There are some exceptions, including medical, family and child care bags as well as clutches no larger than 4.5"x6.5".
- Banners and signs are allowed as long as they do not advertise anything, present a safety hazard, have obscene material on them or block the view of others at the event.
- No weapons of any type, including permit to carry, are allowed inside.
- The arena is a cashless facility - meaning, all concessions accept only card payments.
For a full list of prohibited items and security measures, click here.
What parking is available at Wells Fargo Arena?
Wells Fargo Arena is part of the Iowa Events Center complex, which includes Hy-Vee Hall and the Community Choice Convention Center.
Spectator parking is available at the lot north of the Iowa Events Center. To park in that lot, it'll cost $10 for cars, $20 for large trucks and $40 for RVs and buses.
For ADA Accessible parking, enter the lot south of Crocker Street, next to the Community Choice Convention Center.
To ensure you have a place to park, you can reserve a parking spot for the NCAA tournament in Des Moines here.
No overnight parking is available at the Iowa Events Center.
If the main lot fills up, there are plenty of other parking garages and street parking options. Check out Des Moines' visitor parking page to see other options.
What transportation options are there in Des Moines?
Ubers and Lyfts will be tough to come by during the tournament.
Your best bet for getting around the city in a timely and cost-efficient manner is public transport, which comes in the form of Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) buses and shuttles.
With over 15 local routes and plenty of on-call and ride share options, the DART system can take you to and from the Wells Fargo Arena for a few dollars a day.
Or, if you're staying downtown for the tournament, a free ride on the LINK shuttle will take you all the way to the Center Street Park and Ride, only minutes away from the Wells Fargo Arena on foot.
Check out all the DART schedules, line maps and fares here.
If you plan on paying in cash, DART drivers ask you bring exact change. Bus passes can be purchased at the DART Central Station, or you can order ahead on the MyDART app.
Looking to explore after the games are finished? There's a free D-Line shuttle that runs from the Iowa State Capitol complex, through downtown Des Moines and finishes at the Western Gateway.
Are there any road closures?
Yes, some roads in downtown Des Moines will be affected by the various events happening this weekend.
All lanes are affected unless otherwise stated.
Closed through the NCAA Basketball Tournament:
- 2nd Street from Martin Luther King Jr Parkway to Walnut Street
- Crocker Street from 3rd Street to 5th Avenue
- Center Street from 2nd Avenue to 3rd Street
- Court Avenue from 2nd Avenue to 3rd Street
Closed until Friday, March 17 for St. Patrick's Day celebrations:
- 8th Street from Tuttle Street to High Street
- 10th Street from Locust Street to High Street
- 12th Street from Locust Street to Grand Avenue
- 13th Street from Locust Street to Grand Avenue
- Court Avenue from 2nd Avenue to 3rd Street
- Grand Avenue from 7th Street to 15th Street
- E 1st Street from E Walnut Street to E Court Avenue
- E 5th Street from E Locust Street to E Walnut Street
- E Locust Street from E7th Street to E 5th Street
- E Walnut Street from E 5th Street to E 1st Street
- Locust Street from 16th Street to 13th Street and 9th Street to 8th Street
- Pennsylvania Avenue from E Grand Avenue to E Locust Street
- Walnut Street from 16th Street to 13th Street and 9th Street to 8th Street
- SW 16th Street/15th Street from Martin Luther King Jr Parkway to Grand Avenue
Here is the city's interactive road closure map.
How do the skywalks work?
With cold temperatures and dreary skies forecasted, most will want to avoid long walks outside. Luckily, Des Moines has a system of climate-controlled pedestrian bridges meant to keep you dry and warm, no matter the weather.
The four-mile long Skywalk paths connect most major streets and buildings in downtown Des Moines, including a path directly to the Wells Fargo Arena. Other pitstops include hotels, restaurants and parking garages.
Skywalk doors lock at varying times, so keep an eye out for posted signs as you explore.
There are kiosks throughout the skywalks, but a PDF version of the map is also available here.
What else is there to check out in Des Moines?
While you may be honed in on the basketball, there's plenty to do in downtown Des Moines.
Check out Court Avenue for great daytime eats and busy bars once the sun sets. Some notable downtown favorites for food include Fong's Pizza, Spaghetti Works, Pho Real Kitchen and Bar, Bernardo's Burritos and plenty more.
Johnny's Hall of Fame and 1908 Draught House deliver a classic bar experience. But for a more unique night out, Richochet right off of Court or Up-Down in the East Village lets you have some arcade fun while you drink.
If it's intellectual adventures or beautiful scenes you're after, check out the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens, Historic East Village, Iowa Science Center, Principal Riverwalk, Pappajohn Sculpture Park — and, of course, the Iowa State Capitol.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mycronic AB (publ) has received an order for a Prexision Lite 8 Evo from an existing customer in Asia. The order value is in the range of USD 7-9 million. Delivery of the system is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023.
Prexision Lite 8 Evo is designed to meet the requirements for cost-efficient production of photomasks for displays up to G8 mask size.
"The market for less complex photomasks continues to be significant and important and this order, to replace one of the customer´s older systems, confirms that the Prexision Lite 8 Evo is well positioned to meet our customers' requirements", says Charlott Samuelsson, Sr VP Pattern Generators at Mycronic.
Mycronic provides mask writers for display manufacturing and production of semiconductors.
For additional information, please contact:
Charlott Samuelsson
Sr VP Pattern Generators
Tel: +46 70 984 42 82
E-mail: charlott.samuelsson@mycronic.com
Sven Chetkovich
Director Investor Relations
Tel: +46 70 558 39 19
E-mail: sven.chetkovich@mycronic.com
The information in this press release was published on September 29, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. CEST.
About Mycronic
Mycronic is a Swedish high-tech company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment with high precision and flexibility requirements for the electronics industry. Mycronic's headquarters are located in Täby, north of Stockholm and the Group has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Mycronic is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.mycronic.com
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MIAMI, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) provides first quarter 2023 business update.
- U.S. GAAP net loss of $693 million, or $(0.55) diluted EPS, and adjusted net loss of $690 million, or $(0.55) adjusted EPS, better than the December guidance range of $750 to $850 million net loss for the first quarter of 2023 (see "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below).
- Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2023 was $382 million, better than the December guidance range of $250 million to $350 million, despite a $31 million unfavorable impact from fuel price and currency rates since December guidance.
- Revenue in the first quarter of 2023 was $4.4 billion, representing 95% of 2019 levels.
- The company experienced the highest booking volumes for any quarter in its history, breaking booking records for both the North America and Australia ("NAA") and Europe segments.
- Total customer deposits reached a first quarter record of $5.7 billion (as of February 28, 2023), surpassing the previous first quarter record of $4.9 billion (as of February 28, 2019) by 16%.
- Cash from operations turned positive in the first quarter of 2023. The company expects continued growth in cash from operations to be the driver for paying down debt over time.
- First quarter 2023 ended with $8.1 billion of liquidity.
Carnival Corporation & plc's Chief Executive Officer Josh Weinstein commented, "In the first quarter, we outperformed our guidance on all measures. We achieved record first quarter net per diems, exceeding the high end of our guidance, driven by improving ticket prices and sustained growth in onboard revenue, while delivering an additional seven points of occupancy on higher capacity compared to the prior quarter." (See "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below)
Weinstein continued, "We are enjoying a phenomenal wave season, achieving our highest ever quarterly booking volumes and breaking records in both North America and Europe. Our strong performance has extended into March and we expect this favorable trend to continue based on the success of our efforts to drive demand."
Weinstein added, "We remain focused on executing our overarching strategy of driving net yield growth, while maintaining our industry-leading cost base. With adjusted free cash flow for the year expected to be positive, our revolver renewal behind us, more committed export credit financings in hand, a reduced capex profile going forward and over $8 billion of liquidity, we believe we are well positioned to pay down near term debt maturities from excess liquidity and therefore have no intention to sell equity (except in connection with our advantageous and non-dilutive stock swap program)."
First Quarter 2023 Results and Statistical Information
First quarter 2023 results exceeded the company's guidance due to stronger pricing and onboard spending, higher occupancy and favorable timing of operating costs.
- Adjusted EBITDA (see "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below) for the first quarter of 2023 was $382 million, better than the December guidance range of $250 million to $350 million, despite a $31 million unfavorable impact from fuel price and currency rates since December guidance.
- Continuing to close the gap to a strong 2019:
- Cruise costs per available lower berth day ("ALBD") increased 3.3% as compared to the first quarter of 2019.
- In constant currency, adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD (see "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below) increased 5.9% compared to the first quarter of 2019, continuing its sequential quarterly improvement and better than the December guidance of up to 6.5% to 7.5%. Costs remain higher as compared to 2019 as a result of higher advertising investments to drive 2023 revenue as well as partially mitigating the impacts of a high inflation environment.
- Total customer deposits reached a first quarter record of $5.7 billion (as of February 28, 2023), surpassing the previous first quarter record of $4.9 billion (as of February 28, 2019) by 16%, driven by strong demand, bundled package offerings and pre-cruise sales.
Bookings
Weinstein noted, "We are well booked for the remainder of the year at higher prices (normalized for FCCs), which coupled with continued strength in onboard revenue, supports our improving outlook for the remainder of the year. We expect the extension of booking lead times, combined with our investment in advertising, to position us even better in 2024 and beyond."
The company is very encouraged with the improving demand environment, kicked off by an early start to wave season (peak booking period) on very strong Black Friday and Cyber Monday booking volumes. The company experienced the highest booking volumes for all future sailings for any quarter in its history. Both the company's NAA and Europe segments broke records, contributing to the company's record-breaking quarter. Consistent with previous comments, during the first quarter of 2023 the company continued its increased advertising activities, supporting its booking volumes.
The booking window has continued to return to historical patterns, providing further confidence in the continued strengthening of the demand environment and facilitating improving revenue yields over time. The company's NAA segment's booking curve mirrored peak 2019 levels, while the company's Europe segment continued to see an extension of its booking curve, which is over 80% recovered compared to 2019 levels.
The company's cumulative advanced booked position for the remainder of 2023 is at higher ticket prices in constant currency, normalized for future cruise credits ("FCCs"), as compared to strong 2019 pricing and a booked occupancy position that is solidly in the higher end of the historical range. (The company's current booking trends are compared to booking trends for 2019 as it is the most recent full year of guest cruise operations.)
2023 Outlook
For the full year 2023, the company expects:
- Adjusted EBITDA of $3.9 billion to $4.1 billion
- Occupancy of 100% or higher, returning to historical levels this summer
- Adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD (in constant currency) one point higher than December guidance, reflecting an expected increase in occupancy levels and strategic decisions taken during the quarter
For the second quarter of 2023, the company expects:
- Adjusted EBITDA of $600 million to $700 million, a significant improvement compared to the first quarter of 2023
- Occupancy of 98% or higher
- Net per diems of 2.5% to 3.5% (in constant currency) above 2019 levels
- Adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD higher than first quarter of 2023, reflecting an expected increase in occupancy levels and higher dry-dock related expenses
See "Guidance" for additional information on the company's 2023 outlook.
Financing and Capital Activity
Carnival Corporation & plc Chief Financial Officer David Bernstein noted, "We believe our debt balance has peaked this quarter and will reduce over time based on our ample liquidity position of $8.1 billion and the expected cash flow strength of our business."
Cash from operations turned positive in the first quarter of 2023. The company expects continued growth in cash from operations to be the driver for paying down debt over time.
During the quarter, the company obtained two new export credit facilities, bringing the total committed financing related to ship deliveries scheduled for delivery through 2025 to $3.2 billion. These export credit facilities provide the company with the ability to finance its newbuild program at preferential interest rates.
The company continues its efforts to proactively address its debt profile. The company successfully arranged a new $2.1 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility (the "New Revolver"). The New Revolver will replace the existing $2.9 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility upon its maturity in August 2024. The New Revolver has an initial term of one year, commencing in August 2024, with two one-year extension options. The New Revolver also contains an accordion feature, allowing for additional commitments up to an aggregate of $2.9 billion.
During the first quarter the company invested $1.1 billion in capital expenditures, repaid $0.7 billion of debt principal and incurred $0.5 billion of interest expense, net. The company ended the first quarter of 2023 with $8.1 billion of liquidity, including cash and borrowings available under the revolving credit facility.
Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG")
Piloting the use of alternative fuels and biofuels
The company continues to focus on innovation in its commitment to decarbonization by evaluating and piloting the use of alternative fuels and biofuels. During the quarter, Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises announced a partnership with a leading methanol producer which aims to enhance the supply of and necessary infrastructure for methanol. Suitably sourced green methanol is considered a lower-carbon fuel which virtually eliminates particulate matter and sulfur oxides. This partnership builds on the company's progress throughout 2022, which included the completion of two successful pilots using a blend of marine biofuel made from 100% sustainable raw materials. These biofuels can be used in existing ship engines without modifications to the engine or fuel infrastructure, including on ships already in service.
Laura Weil appointed Chair of the Audit Committees
As of February 1, 2023, Laura Weil became the Chair of the Audit Committees. Ms. Weil has extensive financial, strategic information technology and operating skills, which make her highly qualified to lead the Audit Committees. She will serve as the successor of Richard J. Glasier, who will not seek re-election to the Boards of Directors at the 2023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders and will retire from the Boards with effect from the conclusion of the 2023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders. As of April 2023, the company's Boards will be comprised of eleven members, nine of whom are independent directors, four of whom are female and one of whom is ethnically diverse.
Other Recent Highlights
- The company sold Seabourn Odyssey and expects to record a gain on the sale.
- Carnival Corporation & plc was named by Newsweek as One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2023.
- Carnival Cruise Line was recognized as one of the 25 Best Companies for Latinos to Work in 2023 by Latino Leaders Magazine.
- Costa Cruises was honored at the Excellence Cruise Awards as Best Cruise Line for a First Cruise, Best Value for Money and Excellence in Sustainability.
Guidance
Capital Expenditures
The company's annual capital expenditure forecast, which includes year-to-date actuals for 2023, is as follows:
Outstanding Debt Maturities
As of February 28, 2023, the company's outstanding debt maturities are as follows:
Refer to Financial Information within the Investor Relations section of the corporate website for further details on the company's Debt Maturities, which will be available upon filing the Form 10-Q: https://www.carnivalcorp.com/financial-information/supplemental-schedules
Conference Call
The company has scheduled a conference call with analysts at 10:00 a.m. EDT (3:00 p.m. BST) today to discuss its business update. This call can be listened to live, and additional information can be obtained, via Carnival Corporation & plc's website at www.carnivalcorp.com and www.carnivalplc.com.
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest global cruise company, and among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines – AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), P&O Cruises (UK), Princess Cruises, and Seabourn.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.aida.de, www.carnival.com, www.costacruise.com, www.cunard.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.pocruises.com, www.princess.com and www.seabourn.com. For more information on Carnival Corporation's industry-leading sustainability initiatives, visit www.carnivalsustainability.com.
Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future Results
Some of the statements, estimates or projections contained in this document are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions with respect to us, including some statements concerning future results, operations, outlooks, plans, goals, reputation, cash flows, liquidity and other events which have not yet occurred. These statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability provided by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical facts are statements that could be deemed forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our business and the industry in which we operate and the beliefs and assumptions of our management. We have tried, whenever possible, to identify these statements by using words like "will," "may," "could," "should," "would," "believe," "depends," "expect," "goal," "aspiration," "anticipate," "forecast," "project," "future," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "target," "indicate," "outlook," and similar expressions of future intent or the negative of such terms.
Forward-looking statements include those statements that relate to our outlook and financial position including, but not limited to, statements regarding:
Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, there are many factors that could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. This note contains important cautionary statements of the known factors that we consider could materially affect the accuracy of our forward-looking statements and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial position. Additionally, many of these risks and uncertainties are currently, and in the future may continue to be, amplified by our substantial debt balance as a result of the pause of our guest cruise operations. There may be additional risks that we consider immaterial or which are unknown. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Events and conditions around the world, including war and other military actions, such as the invasion of Ukraine, inflation, higher fuel prices, higher interest rates and other general concerns impacting the ability or desire of people to travel have led, and may in the future lead, to a decline in demand for cruises, impacting our operating costs and profitability.
- Pandemics have in the past and may in the future have a significant negative impact on our financial condition and operations.
- Incidents concerning our ships, guests or the cruise industry have in the past and may, in the future, negatively impact the satisfaction of our guests and crew and lead to reputational damage.
- Changes in and non-compliance with laws and regulations under which we operate, such as those relating to health, environment, safety and security, data privacy and protection, anti-corruption, economic sanctions, trade protection, labor and employment, and tax have in the past and may, in the future, lead to litigation, enforcement actions, fines, penalties and reputational damage.
- Factors associated with climate change, including evolving and increasing regulations, increasing global concern about climate change and the shift in climate conscious consumerism and stakeholder scrutiny, and increasing frequency and/or severity of adverse weather conditions could adversely affect our business.
- Inability to meet or achieve our sustainability related goals, aspirations, initiatives, and our public statements and disclosures regarding them, may expose us to risks that may adversely impact our business.
- Breaches in data security and lapses in data privacy as well as disruptions and other damages to our principal offices, information technology operations and system networks and failure to keep pace with developments in technology may adversely impact our business operations, the satisfaction of our guests and crew and may lead to reputational damage.
- The loss of key team members, our inability to recruit or retain qualified shoreside and shipboard team members and increased labor costs could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
- Increases in fuel prices, changes in the types of fuel consumed and availability of fuel supply may adversely impact our scheduled itineraries and costs.
- We rely on supply chain vendors who are integral to the operations of our businesses. These vendors and service providers are also affected by COVID-19 and may be unable to deliver on their commitments which could negatively impact our business.
- Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may adversely impact our financial results.
- Overcapacity and competition in the cruise and land-based vacation industry may negatively impact our cruise sales, pricing and destination options.
- Inability to implement our shipbuilding programs and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments may adversely impact our business operations and the satisfaction of our guests.
- Failure to successfully implement our business strategy following our resumption of guest cruise operations would negatively impact the occupancy levels and pricing of our cruises and could have a material adverse effect on our business. We require a significant amount of cash to service our debt and sustain our operations. Our ability to generate cash depends on many factors, including those beyond our control, and we may not be able to generate cash required to service our debt and sustain our operations.
The ordering of the risk factors set forth above is not intended to reflect our indication of priority or likelihood.
Forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual results. Subject to any continuing obligations under applicable law or any relevant stock exchange rules, we expressly disclaim any obligation to disseminate, after the date of this document, any updates or revisions to any such forward-looking statements to reflect any change in expectations or events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based.
Forward-looking and other statements in this document may also address our sustainability progress, plans and goals (including climate change and environmental-related matters). In addition, historical, current and forward-looking sustainability- and climate-related statements may be based on standards and tools for measuring progress that are still developing, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve, and assumptions and predictions that are subject to change in the future and may not be generally shared.
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NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (CONTINUED)
Data in the below table is compared against 2019 as it is the most recent year of full operations due to the pause and resumption of guest cruise operations.
Gross margin per diems and net per diems were computed by dividing the gross margin and adjusted gross margin by PCDs. Gross margin yields and net yields were computed by dividing the gross margin and adjusted gross margin by ALBDs as follows:
CARNIVAL CORPORATION & PLC
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (CONTINUED)
Data in the below table is compared against 2019 as it is the most recent year of full operations due to the pause and resumption of guest cruise operations.
Cruise costs per ALBD, adjusted cruise costs per ALBD and adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD were computed by dividing cruise costs, adjusted cruise costs and adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel by ALBDs as follows:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We use non-GAAP financial measures and they are provided along with their most comparative U.S. GAAP financial measure:
The presentation of our non-GAAP financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation from, as substitute for, or superior to the financial information prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. It is possible that our non-GAAP financial measures may not be exactly comparable to the like-kind information presented by other companies, which is a potential risk associated with using these measures to compare us to other companies.
Adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted earnings per share provide additional information to us and investors about our future earnings performance by excluding certain gains, losses and expenses that we believe are not part of our core operating business and are not an indication of our future earnings performance. We believe that gains and losses on ship sales, impairment charges, gains and losses on debt extinguishments, restructuring costs and certain other gains and losses are not part of our core operating business and are not an indication of our future earnings performance.
Adjusted EBITDA provides additional information to us and investors about our core operating profitability by excluding certain gains, losses and expenses that we believe are not part of our core operating business and are not an indication of our future earnings performance as well as excluding interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization. In addition, we believe that the presentation of adjusted EBITDA provides additional information to us and investors about our ability to operate our business in compliance with the covenants set forth in our debt agreements. We define adjusted EBITDA as adjusted net income (loss) adjusted for (i) interest, (ii) taxes and (iii) depreciation and amortization. There are material limitations to using adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA does not take into account certain significant items that directly affect our net income (loss). These limitations are best addressed by considering the economic effects of the excluded items independently and by considering adjusted EBITDA in conjunction with net income (loss) as calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Adjusted free cash flow provides additional information to us and investors to assess our ability to repay our debt after making the capital investments required to support ongoing business operations and value creation as well as the impact on the company's liquidity level. Adjusted free cash flow represents net cash provided by operating activities adjusted for capital expenditures (purchases of property and equipment) and proceeds from export credits that are provided for related capital expenditures. Adjusted free cash flow does not represent the residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures as it excludes certain mandatory expenditures such as repayment of maturing debt.
Net per diems and net yields enable us and investors to measure the performance of our cruise segments on a per PCD and per ALBD basis. We use adjusted gross margin rather than gross margin to calculate net per diems and net yields. We believe that adjusted gross margin is a more meaningful measure in determining net per diems and net yields than gross margin because it reflects the cruise revenues earned net of only our most significant variable costs, which are travel agent commissions, cost of air and other transportation, certain other costs that are directly associated with onboard and other revenues and credit and debit card fees.
Adjusted cruise costs per ALBD and adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD enable us and investors to separate the impact of predictable capacity or ALBD changes from price and other changes that affect our business. We believe these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to us and investors and expanded insight to measure our cost performance. Adjusted cruise costs per ALBD and adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD are the measures we use to monitor our ability to control our cruise segments' costs rather than cruise costs per ALBD. We exclude gains and losses on ship sales, impairment charges, restructuring costs and certain other gains and losses that we believe are not part of our core operating business as well as excluding our most significant variable costs, which are travel agent commissions, cost of air and other transportation, certain other costs that are directly associated with onboard and other revenues and credit and debit card fees. We exclude fuel expense to calculate adjusted cruise costs without fuel. The price of fuel, over which we have no control, impacts the comparability of period-to-period cost performance. The adjustment to exclude fuel provides us and investors with supplemental information to understand and assess the company's non-fuel adjusted cruise cost performance. Substantially all of our adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel are largely fixed, except for the impact of changing prices once the number of ALBDs has been determined.
Reconciliation of Forecasted Data
We have not provided a reconciliation of forecasted non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures because preparation of meaningful U.S. GAAP forecasts would require unreasonable effort. We are unable to predict, without unreasonable effort, the future movement of foreign exchange rates and fuel prices. We are unable to determine the future impact of gains and losses on ship sales, impairment charges, gains and losses on debt extinguishments, restructuring costs and certain other non-core gains and losses.
Constant Currency
Our operations primarily utilize the U.S. dollar, Australian dollar, euro and sterling as functional currencies to measure results and financial condition. Functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar subject us to foreign currency translational risk. Our operations also have revenues and expenses that are in currencies other than their functional currency, which subject us to foreign currency transactional risk.
Constant currency reporting removes the impact of changes in exchange rates on the translation of our operations plus the transactional impact of changes in exchange rates from revenues and expenses that are denominated in a currency other than the functional currency.
We report adjusted gross margin, net per diems, adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel and adjusted cruise costs excluding fuel per ALBD on a "constant currency" basis assuming the 2023 periods' currency exchange rates have remained constant with the 2019 periods' rates. These metrics facilitate a comparative view for the changes in our business in an environment with fluctuating exchange rates.
Examples:
- The translation of our operations with functional currencies other than U.S. dollar to our U.S. dollar reporting currency results in decreases in reported U.S. dollar revenues and expenses if the U.S. dollar strengthens against these foreign currencies and increases in reported U.S. dollar revenues and expenses if the U.S. dollar weakens against these foreign currencies.
- Our operations have revenue and expense transactions in currencies other than their functional currency. If their functional currency strengthens against these other currencies, it reduces the functional currency revenues and expenses. If the functional currency weakens against these other currencies, it increases the functional currency revenues and expenses.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The company operating a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of oil into a Kansas creek during a test for potential problems is recovering at least a small portion of the crude.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that Canada-based TC Energy has recovered 2,598 barrels of oil mixed with water from the 14,000-barrel spill on a creek running through rural pastureland in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City. Each barrel is enough to fill a household bathtub.
Last week’s rupture in Kansas forced the company to shut down the Keystone system, and it hasn’t said when it will come back online. The company said it is working around-the-clock to suck up spilled oil using trucks equipped with what essentially are large wet vacuums.
No one was evacuated, and officials said no drinking water was affected. The company has promised to fully comply with demands from regulators and to work until it has “fully remediated the site.”
Concerns that spills could pollute waterways spurred opposition to plans by TC Energy to build another crude oil pipeline in the same system, the 1,200-mile (1,900-kilometer) Keystone XL, across Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. President Joe Biden’s cancelation of a permit for the project led the company to pull the plug last year.
Last week’s spill was the largest on the Keystone system since it began operating in 2010 and the largest onshore spill since a Tesoro Corp. pipeline rupture in North Dakota leaked 20,600 barrels in September 2013, according to U.S. Department of Transportation data. The agency’s pipeline safety arm last week ordered TC Energy to take corrective action.
The order said TC Energy was running an in-line inspection using a device inside the pipeline that was some 80 miles (129 kilometers) past where the pipeline ruptured. Such devices are designed to fit tightly inside and are known as “pigs” because early wooden ones squeaked as they went through.
Three university petroleum engineering instructors who reviewed the regulators’ order ahead of Associated Press interviews pointed out the testing, which federal guidelines call for doing at least once every five years.
“That timing is definitely suspicious,” said Jennifer Miskimins, head of the Colorado School of Mines’ petroleum energy department. “It is like blowing a pea through a pod.”
She along with instructors from the University of Tulsa and Pennsylvania State University said moving a pig through the pipe would have required additional pressure. But Bill Caram, executive director of the advocacy Pipeline Safety Trust, saw the timing of the two events as “a weird coincidence.”
Local farmer Bill Pannbacker said the rupture occurred on his land at a point after the pipe goes under a creek and starts to ascend an 80-foot (24-meter) hill. Mike Stafford, the University of Tulsa instructor, said such a location is typical of where pipes tend to fail. That’s because oil contains a little water that tends to separate, and when oil is carried up hills that water flows back down, causing corrosion.
While Sanjay Srinivasan, the Penn State professor, was skeptical that corrosion was to blame because it is a slow process, he took note of the failure occurring in a section with a lot of bends.
“It’s not unusual for those kinds of locations to go through some severe stress that can cause these things,” he said. ”If there is any weak spot, that’s when it’ll show up.”
TC Energy used booms, or barriers, to contain the oil in the creek and built two earthen dams to prevent it from moving into larger waterways.
The regulators’ order said TC Energy cannot restart operations for the 96-mile (155-kilometer) Keystone segment from Steele City, Nebraska, south to Hope, Kansas, without their permission. It also said the company must reduce the operating pressure by 20% inside that segment of the pipeline.
The company also must identify the cause of the spill and submit a plan for finding similar problems elsewhere and conducting additional tests by early March.
“They need to excavate the pipe in such a way that it’s preserved just for the investigation, for that root-cause analysis, and that takes probably the most time,” Caram said. “But the actual repair can be pretty quick.”
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Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Mo.
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SEATTLE, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpenglow Biosciences today announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to integrate Alpenglow's 3D spatial biology platform to accelerate drug development and advance clinical diagnostics. Alpenglow has created an end-to-end 3D spatial biology solution including patented high-throughput 3D imaging, cloud-based, GPU accelerated bioinformatics pipelines, and AI-powered spatial analysis.
An abstract that will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023, in collaboration with Dr. Janani Reisenauer, Dr. Eric Edell, and Dr. Christopher Hartley from Mayo Clinic, describes the application of Alpenglow's 3D spatial biology platform to analyze human lung cancer samples from patients treated with immunotherapy, revealing novel 3D spatial insights that the team aims to correlate with treatment response. "Tissue contains incredible insights into disease processes and therapeutic mechanisms of action, but the problem is we miss 99% of that information with traditional slide-based pathology," said Dr. Nicholas Reder, MD, MPH, CEO and Co-Founder of Alpenglow Biosciences. Alpenglow's technology not only uncovers the missing information by digitizing entire tissues down to sub-cellular resolution but can also generate unique insights on the vast amounts of data with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
"The future of pathology is digital and 3D and we are excited to collaborate with Alpenglow to benefit researchers, external partners, and ultimately, patients," said Dr. Bobbi Pritt, Chair of Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
"This collaboration aims to unlock additional insights and expand the offerings while driving innovation within our biopharma diagnostics space and the Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory," said Dr. William Morice II, President and CEO of Mayo Clinic Laboratories. Alpenglow's 3D spatial biology platform will be integrated with multi-omics approaches including multiplex immunofluorescence and single cell sequencing to predict response to therapy and patient prognosis using Mayo Clinic's unique biospecimen repositories.
Current innovations in pathology have focused on digitization of 2D slides, automated slide scanning, and AI analysis of these thin digitized sections. Alpenglow Biosciences has built a leapfrog technology by cutting out slides entirely and going direct to digital with 3D imaging and AI-powered insights. "In collaboration with Mayo Clinic's deep clinical and pathology expertise, we're focused on solving the biggest problems facing pathology to accelerate drug development and advance clinical diagnostics," said Dr. Reder.
Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology referenced in this press release. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education and research.
About Alpenglow Biosciences
Alpenglow Biosciences is a venture-backed company focused on accelerating drug development and improving clinical diagnostics with AI-enabled 3D imaging technology. Their platform solution provides new spatial biology insights with greater accuracy by non-destructively digitizing entire tissues. Alpenglow partners with pharmaceutical companies to bring better therapeutics to market faster through greater understanding of mechanism of action, efficacy & toxicology, and patient trial enrollment using their patented platform. Five of the top 10 pharma companies already work with Alpenglow to accelerate development timelines, save costs, gain new insights, and improve therapeutic success. See what you've been missing at alpenglowbiosciences.com.
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Dallas Animal Services crippled by city ransomware attack
DALLAS - A ransomware attack on the city of Dallas continues to leave the city without access to important computer systems for the third day.
Due to technical issues caused by the attack, Dallas Animal Services is urging the public to not surrender any animals right now unless it is an emergency.
The assistant director says they need time to get a new paper system up and running. The shelter is still open for adoptions and fostering.
DAS is one of many city departments now locked out of the computer systems that they need to operate.
"The ransomware attack is affecting us in the most serious of ways because it has impacted our ability to see information about the animals, our server, and our software, Chameleon, is completely inaccessible to us," said DAS Asst. Director Mary Martin.
It's part of a massive ransomware attack that happened early Wednesday morning affecting Dallas police, fire, water utilities, and municipal court.
Martin says they have been getting help from colleagues in New Mexico, who were locked out of their computer system for six weeks.
"We talked to them about who they handled it," she said. "They created a shelter in a box using Chameleon on paper like we used to do in the old days, creating a file for every animal in the building. That takes time, literally every kennel."
Martin says if someone already started the process to adopt or foster a dog or cat, they should call or visit the shelter because the workers don't have access to that information right now.
The shelter is giving owners more time to come claim dogs.
"They can't see them online," Martin said. "It’s harder to claim them. We’re trying to give everyone time to claim their pets."
DAS is still moving forward with adoptions and fosters.
"Be patient. We apologize, but we can't help this," Martin said. "If you want to adopt, don't let this stop you. Now is the time to come!"
The city's IT director will be briefing the Dallas City Council on Monday at 1:00 p.m.
The city has yet to hold a news conference or agree to any interviews on the security breach affecting so many departments. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-animal-services-crippled-by-city-ransomware-attack | 2023-05-05 22:15:08 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-animal-services-crippled-by-city-ransomware-attack |
(Motor Authority) – A 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow owned by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is heading to auction with RM Sotheby’s on November 5, with proceeds from the sale going to the Superhumans Center, a charity providing aid to Ukraine.
While the Silver Chalice-painted sedan was registered in the United Kingdom when it was new, it didn’t enter Mercury’s orbit until 1979, when it was purchased by the rock star’s production company, Goos Productions Ltd., the listing says. While Mercury was likely chauffered in the Rolls, he probably never drove it himself because he seemingly never got a license.
The car is accompanied by documents supporting its connection to Mercury, including workshop invoices in the singer’s name, other documents in the name of his former partner Mary Austin, and a letter from longtime Queen manager Jim Beach confirming Mercury’s ownership.
Produced from 1965 to 1980, the Silver Shadow was a big technological step forward for Rolls. The Shadow (and related Bentley T-Series) had unibody construction rather than the body-on-frame construction of previous models, along with a hydraulic self-leveling suspension system licensed from Citroën.
Power is provided by the ubiquitous Rolls-Royce/Bentley L-Series V-8, which started at 6.3 liters when the Silver Shadow launched, but was later enlarged to 6.8 liters (this car has the larger-displacement version). Iterations of this engine—with electronic fuel injection and turbocharging—continued in production until 2020.
After Mercury’s death in November 1991, the Silver Shadow was driven by the late rock star’s sister Kashmira Cooke, who bought the car from the Freddie Mercury Estate in 2003. It was then auctioned off in 2013, when it was bought by the current owner. The listing notes that the car has been stored for a while, and should be inspected before being driven.
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RM Sotheby’s expects the Silver Shadow to sell for between 20,000 and 30,000 British pounds, equivalent to $22,539 to $33,808 at current exchange rates. Even those relatively low estimates likely reflect this car’s celebrity connection. The Silver Shadow’s long production run makes it relatively common for a Rolls-Royce, so values have never been particularly high. | https://www.wric.com/automotive/freddie-mercurys-1974-rolls-royce-silver-shadow-heads-to-auction/ | 2022-10-21 16:53:54 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/automotive/freddie-mercurys-1974-rolls-royce-silver-shadow-heads-to-auction/ |
TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Equitable Bank (the "Bank" or "Equitable"), a wholly owned subsidiary of EQB Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: EQB) (TSX: EQB.PR.C) (TSX: EQB.R) today announced it is increasing its prime lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.95% from 5.45%, effective October 27, 2022.
EQB Inc. trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: EQB, EQB.PR.C and EQB.R) and serves more than 340,000 Canadians through its wholly owned subsidiary Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™. Equitable Bank has a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Founded over 50 years ago, Equitable Bank provides diversified personal and commercial banking and through its EQ Bank platform (eqbank.ca) has been named the top Schedule I Bank in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks 2022 and 2021 lists. Please visit equitablebank.ca for details.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent former soccer player in Iran who has expressed support for anti-government protests says his wife and daughter were prevented from leaving the country on Monday after their plane made an unannounced stopover en route to Dubai.
Ali Daei, who had his own passport briefly confiscated after returning to the country earlier this year, said his wife and daughter departed from the capital, Tehran, legally before the flight made an unannounced stop on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, where they were questioned by authorities.
He said his daughter was released but the doors to the flight were closed by then. He said his family had planned to travel to Dubai and return next week.
The flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed Mahan Air Flight W563 being diverted to Kish Island before traveling onward to Dubai a couple hours later.
There was no comment from the airline or Iranian authorities.
The semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the Revolutionary Guard, said a travel ban was imposed on Daei’s wife earlier this month because of her support for the protests. It said she tried to illegally bypass the ban, without elaborating, and that her final destination was the U.S. The reports did not name his wife or daughter, who are not public figures.
Daei is one of several Iranian celebrities who have come out in support of the protests ignited by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September. The Kurdish woman died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code.
The protests rapidly spread across the country and escalated into calls for the overthrow of the theocracy established after the 1979 revolution, making it one of the biggest challenges to clerical rule in over four decades.
At least 507 protesters have been killed and more than 18,500 people have been arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has closely monitored the unrest. Iranian authorities have not released figures for those killed or arrested.
Before his passport was confiscated, Daei, a top international goal scorer and former Iranian team captain, had urged the government on social media to “solve the problems of the Iranian people rather than using repression, violence and arrests.” He later said it was returned to him.
The leaderless protesters, rallying under the slogan “women, life, freedom,” say they are fed up after decades of social and political repression by a clerical establishment they view as corrupt and out of touch. Iranian authorities have blamed the unrest on foreign adversaries like the U.S. and Israel.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said in a statement Sunday that it had arrested seven individuals in the southeastern city of Kerman with a “direct link” to Britain who were involved in the protests. It said some members of the network had dual nationality, without elaborating.
Iran has arrested a number of Iranians with dual nationality in recent years and convicted them of state security offenses in closed-door trials. Rights groups say such detainees are denied due process and accuse Iran of using them as bargaining chips with the West, something Iranian officials deny. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-protest-backing-soccer-stars-family-kept-from-leaving-iran/ | 2022-12-26 22:55:24 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/international/ap-protest-backing-soccer-stars-family-kept-from-leaving-iran/ |
Judge orders crime scene, autopsy media into sealed evidence in Murdaugh trial
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - In the most recent filing in the highly anticipated Alex Murdaugh murder trial, the presiding judge has ordered all crime scene, autopsy photos and videos into sealed evidence.
The filing, which is a joint motion from the state and defense, seals photos and videos that would graphically depict the victims.
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The media can still be offered as evidence by either party as seen by the jury; however, prosecutors will have to describe generally the nature of the photo or video being introduced under the seal.
Signed by Judge Clifton Newman, the one-page document states the reason for this order is to provide a fair trial for both parties and to prevent further emotional distress to the victims’ families.
Any evidence offered or accepted under the seal cannot be copied, reproduced, disseminate photographed, or otherwise made available to the public.
It is possible for the court to later unseal any sealed evidence.
The 54-year-old Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife, Maggie, 52; and their youngest son, Paul, 22; at the family’s rural hunting property on June 7, 2021.
His trial continued Wednesday afternoon with opening statements from the prosecution and defense after 12 jurors and six alternates were selected earlier in the day.
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Catherine M. Allan, 90, of Nanticoke, passed away peacefully at home Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022.
Catherine was born March 12, 1932, to the late Anthony and Jenny Elias Morrash.
Her husband, Allan J. Allan, preceded her in death in 2009.
After graduating from Meyers High School, Catherine married her sweetheart, Allan J. Allan, and then moved to his Air Force base in Oklahoma. When he completed his service, they returned to Nanticoke, and she worked with Allan as they started John Allan and Son scrapyard, later changing the name to Allan’s Scrapyard. Shortly thereafter, Catherine became a mother, having two sons, Richard J. and John David.
Catherine was a member of Eastern Star and of both the choir and ladies’ auxiliary at St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Wilkes-Barre. She also helped establish Teen S.O.Y.O. youth organization at the church. She became their advisor and traveled with them to conventions. Catherine was also very active with her granddaughters and never missed their sporting events.
Although Catherine was still recovering from her lengthy July hospital stay, her family rallied to provide Catherine with the best summer possible, bringing her home to enjoy her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and their families.
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As Catherine has always done, she hosted her family at backyard pool get-togethers for home-cooked meals all summer long. Nothing gave Catherine more joy than to see her family gather around her at her home.
Catherine will be greatly missed by her sons, Richard J. and wife, Patricia; John D. and wife, Susan; grandchildren, Alana, Nicole and Brittney Allan; Lori Bonomo Niedzwiecki; sister, Mary Mamary; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her siblings, Ruth Chrzanowski, George Morrash, John Morrash and Joseph Morrash.
The family wishes to extend a special thank you to Diane Fort for being the daughter she never had; to Mary Erwine and Erwine Home Health Care and Hospice, especially Chrissy, Ta Ta and Thavee; and to Ruthie, her long-time friend and housekeeper who was always there for her.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Monday from Mamary-Durkin Funeral & Cremation Services, 59 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre, with services held at 10:30 a.m. in St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery, Hanover Twp. Family and friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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US economy likely slowed in April-June quarter but still showed its resilience
WASHINGTON (AP) — The most aggressive streak of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes in 40 years has slowed the U.S. economy. But to the surprise of many, it hasn’t derailed it.
The economy’s resilience has been on display for months, and on Thursday the government could provide another encouraging snapshot: Its first estimate of growth in the April-June quarter is expected to show that the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — expanded at a modest 1.5% annual rate, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.
A pace of roughly that size would reflect a continuing slowdown from a 2% growth rate in the January-March quarter, 2.6% for the October-December period and 3.2% for July through September of last year. But it would still point to consistent growth.
In fighting inflation, which last year hit a four-decade high, the Fed has raised its benchmark rate 11 times in 17 months, most recently on Wednesday. The resulting higher borrowing costs for a broad range of loans — from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and business borrowing — have taken a toll on growth. But they have yet to tip the United States into a widely forecast recession.
Optimism has been growing that a recession isn’t coming after all, that the Fed can engineer a so-called “soft-landing” — slowing the economy enough to bring inflation down to its 2% annual target without wrecking an expansion of surprising durability.
This week, the International Monetary Fund upgraded its forecast for U.S. economic growth for all of 2023 to 1.8%. Though that would be down from 2.1% growth for 2022, it marked an increase from the 1.6% growth that the IMF had predicted for 2023 back in April.
At a news conference Wednesday after the Fed announced its latest quarter-point rate hike, Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the central bank’s staff economists no longer foresee a recession in the United States. In April, the minutes of the central bank’s March meeting had revealed that the Fed’s staff economists envisioned a “mild” recession later this year.
In his remarks, Powell noted that the economy has proved resilient despite the Fed’s rapid rate hikes. And he said he still thinks a soft landing remains possible.
“My base case is that we will be able to achieve inflation moving back down to our target without the kind of really significant downturn that results in high levels of job losses,” the Fed chair said.
By any measure, the American job market has shown itself to be remarkably strong. At 3.6% in June, the unemployment rate hovers just above a five-decade low. A surge in retirements after COVID-19 hit in early 2020 has contributed to a shortage of workers across the country, forcing many companies to raise wages to attract or keep staffers.
Higher pay and job security are giving Americans the confidence and financial wherewithal to keep shopping. Indeed, consumer spending, which drives about 70% of economic activity, rose at a 4.2% annual rate from January through March, the fastest quarterly pace in nearly two years. Americans have kept spending — crowding airplanes, traveling overseas and flocking to concerts and movie theaters.
And the Conference Board, a business research group, reported Tuesday that Americans this month are in their sunniest mood in two years, based on the board’s reading of consumer confidence.
Indeed, many consumers are finally enjoying some relief from spiking prices: Year-over-year inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, has eased consistently ever since. Inflation-adjusted hourly pay rose 1.4% in June from a year earlier, the sharpest such gain since early 2021.
Still, the risk remains that the weight of ever-higher interest rates will eventually slow borrowing so much — for homes, cars, renovations, business expansions and other costly expenses — as to pull the economy into recession.
“Consumers are still willing to spend, but they have become increasingly cautious and selective,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at the accounting and consulting firm EY.
Daco said he expects consumer spending to slow sharply and for annual growth in the April-June quarter to come in at 1.7%. He pegs the likelihood of a recession at 50%.
Among the economy’s weakest links has been the housing market. In June, sales of previously occupied homes sank to their slowest pace since January. The problem is that a near-historic low number of homes for sale and higher mortgage rates kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines. Sales fell 19% compared with June 2022 and were down 23% through the first half of the year.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) _ SurModics Inc. (SRDX) on Wednesday reported a loss of $4.1 million in its fiscal second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company said it had a loss of 29 cents. Losses, adjusted for amortization costs, were 22 cents per share.
The drug delivery technology company posted revenue of $26.1 million in the period.
SurModics expects full-year results to range from a loss of $1.42 per share to a loss of $1.07 per share, with revenue in the range of $98 million to $101 million.
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CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Crown and Company ("HCC") today announced the appointment of German national Andreas Holtschneider as Investment Partner to accelerate the deployment of its private equity investment strategy in the DACH1 markets. Andreas brings over 12 years of international private equity experience, including in industrials and business services. This hire is part of a broader reinforcement of HCC's organization; two Investment Partners, each with geographic expertise, have recently been hired.
With these hires, HCC has doubled its number of Investment Partners, signaling the group's intentions to increase the weight of private assets in its portfolio.
HCC seeks to invest in companies exhibiting mega-trends driving the economy such as consumer experience, health awareness, sustainability and digital/technology. HCC's mandate is flexible; investments can range from EUR 50 million to EUR 250 million for a majority or minority stake with influence, and thanks to the group's permanent capital, holding periods can be significantly long.
James S. Crown, President, Henry Crown and Company, stated, "I am pleased to count Andreas Holtschneider as one of our Investment Partners. HCC stands to benefit from his industry expertise as well as his extensive and diverse network in the DACH markets where he will be instrumental in deal generation."
Andreas Holtschneider added, "Henry Crown and Company's permanent capital and track record of value creation make it an attractive partner for private companies. Together with this talented team, I look forward to strengthening HCC's portfolio with additional long-term compounders."
Henry Crown and Company is a Chicago-based, privately-held operation that manages business interests and coordinates investments falling into four broadly-defined categories: publicly-traded securities, real estate, investment funds, and privately-held operating companies. The Company owns and operates a diversified group of companies spanning the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Asia.
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Recruit loses more than 100 pounds to join Marines: ‘It was worth it’
ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC/Gray News) - A 19-year-old Michigan man says he hopes his recent weight-loss journey can motivate others.
Austin Stephens said he wanted to join the Marines but was not physically fit.
When he first walked into Marine Staff Recruiter Caros Reinhold’s office, he had a long way to go to achieve his goal of becoming a Marine.
“When he said he wanted to be a Marine, I took that to heart,” Reinhold said. “It meant a lot to me.”
Stephens was over 300 pounds, but Reinhold said he saw potential.
“I was willing to take him under my wing, help him out and show him everything I could,” Reinhold said. “It was worth it. He is an outstanding young man.”
With a bit of help from Reinhold and a lot of determination and work, Stephens lost more than 100 pounds in a year.
“I looked at myself, and I looked at Staff Sergeant Reinhold and Sergeant Kohrs and other Marines when I realized I needed to hold myself to a higher standard,” Stephens said.
The 19-year-old said he is excited to join the brotherhood and serve.
“It is a family. I am excited to be a part of it,” Stephens said.
Reinhold said Stephens’ story is an example of setting a goal and working to reach it.
“For Austin, it wasn’t, ‘I have to lose 100 pounds tomorrow.’ He did it a day at a time,” Reinhold said. “You can’t take the whole situation and accomplish it at once. Set a goal, set how you will get there, and keep pushing.”
Stephens said he hopes his story inspires others.
“I just hope people see it and realize they can always do more,” Stephens said. “They can push themselves to a higher standard than they are right now.”
Stephens is starting boot camp in San Diego this weekend. He said he plans to specialize in cyber security in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 brutal murder of his mother, the Collin County District Attorney Office announced Thursday.
Adam Steven Barney pleaded guilty in the murder of his mother, 50-year-old Stacy Ellen Barney.
On Jan. 3, 2021, McKinney police officers responded to a home in the 700 block of Donelson Drive after Adam Barney’s father called 911 saying his son killed his wife.
When officers arrived on scene, the father shared video from the security cameras that were installed throughout the home.
Police said the video showed Adam Barney, who was 15 years old at the time, attacking his mother from behind while she was seated on the living room couch, bludgeoning her in the head 11 times with a hammer, and strangling her until she stopped breathing.
Police said when Barney’s father came out of his bedroom unaware of the gruesome crime, Barney attacked him with a screwdriver before fleeing out of the front door.
Officers found Barney seven hours later walking down the street the morning after the murder and took him into custody.
During trial, the State presented evidence of Barney’s long history of violence, manipulation and unprovoked aggression towards other people, officials said.
Officials said a journal entry from his mother was also shared, revealing Barney had made statements about the desire to kill his family from as young as 7 years old.
During testimony, forensic psychologist Dr. Kristi Compton said Barney had traits of a psychopath.
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It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to rise after one lucky winner in Ohio won $251 million in the April 19 drawing. Is this your lucky night?
Here are Monday’s winning lottery numbers:
2-24-34-53-58, Powerball: 13, Power Play: 2X
The estimated Powerball jackpot is $675 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $340.9 million.
The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held following the regular drawing and has a top cash prize of $10 million.
Powerball is held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Double Play add-on feature is available for purchase in 13 lottery jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
A $2 ticket gives you a one in 292.2 million chance at joining the hall of Powerball jackpot champions.
The drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The deadline to purchase tickets is 9:45 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted 10.8 million job openings in January, indicating the American job market continues to run too hot for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.
Job openings fell from 11.2 million in December but remained high by historical standards, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Employers also hired more workers in January. But layoffs rose.
For 20 straight months, employers have posted at least 10 million openings — a level never reached before 2021 in Labor Department data going back to 2000. The number of openings in January exceeded what economists had forecast and translates to about two vacancies for every unemployed American.
Still, there some signs the job market is cooling in the Labor Department’s monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report. Amid high-profile job cuts at many big tech companies such as Google and Amazon, overall layoffs rose in January to 1.7 million, highest since December 2020. And the number of Americans quitting their jobs – a sign they are confident they can find better pay or working conditions elsewhere – fell to the lowest level since April 2021.
The American job market has been surprisingly resilient in the face of punishing inflation and rising interest rates.
The years 2021 and 2022 were the two best years for job creation in official records dating to 1940. Hiring was expected to slow this year; instead, employers added a stunning 517,000 jobs in January, and economists expect that they added another 208,000 last month, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet. The February numbers come out Friday.
In January, the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, lowest since 1969.
But the flipside of healthy economic growth and robust hiring has been a resurgence of inflation. Consumer prices hit a four-decade high last June — up 9.1% from a year earlier. Inflation rates have since come down — to 6.4% in January — but that is more than three times the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. A tight labor market can push wages — and overall prices — higher.
In response, the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rates eight times in the past year.
“The JOLTS report showed only a slight slowing in the robust labor market, keeping opportunities plentiful for workers looking for better, higher paying jobs,’ said Robert Frick, economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. “The report is another chunk of data pushing the Fed to raise’’ its benchmark rate by half a percentage point at its next meeting March 21-22, up from a quarter-point increase at its previous meeting, Jan. 31-Feb. 1
Fed policymakers are aiming for a soft landing — slowing the economy enough to contain inflation without causing much economic pain. One hope was that that employers would cut job openings — and ease upward pressure on wages that can feed inflation — and without actually cutting many jobs.
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Industry veteran of top global agriculture firms to lead company's research, development and sales support efforts
IRVINE Calif., Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ONIT Sciences, an agriculture company specializing in organic input technologies, announced today that Eric Mathur, a globally recognized plant geneticist and molecular biologist, has been named the company's Chief Science Officer. Mathur is a subject matter expert in crop improvement and has conducted research worldwide in the industrial plant sciences arena. His skill sets and knowledge traverse genome sciences, molecular biology, plant molecular breeding, environmental microbiology and agricultural biotechnology. His expertise, industry network and insights into plant health make him the perfect professional to lead ONIT's research, development and sales support initiatives.
"There has never been a better time for organic alternatives to traditional chemical agriculture inputs," stated Mathur. "ONIT Sciences has demonstrated an astounding ability to accelerate nutrient uptake and improve pathogen control in a wide variety of crops and conditions with its products, resulting in augmented plant health and productivity, including drought tolerance, pest resistance, and yield preservation. I am extremely excited to be involved with this company and look forward to introducing ONIT Grow™ and ONIT Input +™ to my contacts in the US and abroad."
Mathur's career spans over 40 years with focus on translational science, making significant advances in plant sciences research. He managed large scientific teams and multiple corporate collaborations with plant science partners including Syngenta, Dow, Monsanto and BASF while at Diversa Corporation. Later, at Synthetic Genomics, he spearheaded DNA sequencing and annotation of the oil palm genome and established a platform for plant growth promoting bacteria, Agradis, which was acquired by Monsanto.
Mathur has served as Chief Science Officer and focused on crop improvement for multiple agricultural biotech companies including Yulex, SG Biofuels, GreenKiss NY, Cultivation Technologies Inc., and Tilt Holdings, where he applied modern genomic tools and plant molecular breeding methods to accelerate plant productivity. His work culminated in dramatic yield improvements in a number of sustainable crops including, Guayule for natural rubber production, Jatropha for biodiesel, Coffee, Cannabis and Hemp.
"Since joining the team last month, Mathur has led several projects, including field trials for a cattle rancher in Georgia who is using the product in his grazing fields," stated Gerry Martin, ONIT's CEO. "This rancher owns a processing center serving 195 local cattle ranchers and intends to serve as a distribution center for ONIT products pending favorable trial results. Mathur also traveled to Colombia, where he met with a major producer of organic palm oil with field trial design plans underway, and sample product scheduled to be shipped soon.
Eric Mathur is an internationally recognized speaker who authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and is named inventor on 125+ issued patents. His passion lies in leveraging genome-based technologies to develop nutrient dense foods and therapeutic medicinals. Mathur is also an ardent supporter of sustainable agricultural and does his part to help secure global food & energy security, while minimizing the impact on our fragile environment.
ONIT Sciences (Organic Natural Input Technologies) is an agriculture technology company whose mission is to increase plant health and crop yield through natural, organic, non-GMO sciences while maximizing value to customers, shareholders, partners and employees. Established in 2018, the company maintains offices in Irvine, California.
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Ex-Uber security chief sentenced for data-breach cover-up
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service.
Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to a three-year term of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $50,000, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.
Sullivan, 54, of Palo Alto was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco last October of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge that a federal felony had been committed.
It was believed to be the first criminal prosecution of a company executive over a data breach.
Sullivan was hired as Uber’s chief security officer in 2015. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver’s license numbers, prosecutors said.
After learning of the breach, Sullivan began a scheme to hide it from the public and the Federal Trade Commission, which had been investigating a smaller 2014 hack, authorities said.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Sullivan told subordinates that “the story outside of the security group was to be that ‘this investigation does not exist,’ ” and arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements promising not to reveal the hack. He also never mentioned the breach to Uber lawyers who were involved with the FTC’s inquiry, prosecutors said.
Uber’s new management began investigating the breach in the fall of 2017. Despite Sullivan lying to the new chief executive officer and others, the truth was uncovered, and the breach was made public, prosecutors said.
Sullivan was fired along with Craig Clark, an Uber lawyer he had told about the breach. Clark was given immunity by prosecutors and testified against Sullivan.
Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 15 months in federal prison for Sullivan, who submitted more than 100 letters of support from friends, family and colleagues.
In an April sentencing memo, prosecutors said that showed that Sullivan is “a wealthy, powerful man” with a deep network of family and friends.
“There cannot be two different systems of justice, one for the privileged and another for the rest,” the memo argued. “Any such perception would do grievous damage to public respect for the law.”
His lawyers argued that Sullivan already “has suffered, and will continue to suffer, significant consequences because of this case.”
No other Uber executives were charged in the case.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GameOn (CSE: GET) (OTCQB: GMETF) ("GameOn" or the "Company") is providing an update on the status of a management cease trade order (the "MCTO") application to the British Columbia Securities Commission that the Company announced was granted on May 2, 2023.
As a result of delays to its audit, due to an auditor change for cost savings and continued efforts related to web3 revenue and grants, the Company's annual financial statements and accompanying management's discussion and analysis for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (the "Annual Filings"), were not finalized by May 1, 2023, being the date that such filings are due under applicable Canadian securities law requirements.
The Company reports that the audit is progressing and will provide a further update on the timing of its Annual Filings on or about June 30, 2023, if it doesn't file the Annual Filings on or before then. The Company is working diligently with its auditors to complete the audit in a timely manner. Upon completion of the change of auditor, the Company will file the applicable materials in compliance with section 4.11 of National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations. The Company will issue a news release announcing completion of such filings at such time. Further updates on timing will be provided by the Company as necessary.
Until the Company files the Annual Filings, it will comply with the alternative information guidelines set out in National Policy 12-203 – Management Cease Trade Orders for issuers who have failed to comply with a specified continuous disclosure requirement within the times prescribed by applicable securities laws. The guidelines, among other things, require the Company to issue bi-weekly default status reports by way of a news release so long as the Annual Filings have not been filed.
During the MCTO, the general investing public will continue to be able to trade in the Company's listed common shares. However, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer will not be able to trade in the Company's common shares.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors:
Matt Bailey, Director & Chief Executive Officer
GameOn Entertainment Technologies Inc.
matt@gameon.app
ABOUT GAMEON
GameOn (CSE: GET) (OTCQB: GMETF) partners with the world's best sports, media, and entertainment IPs to launch brand-building, money-making web3 games (with intuitive web2-friendly rails). We turn fans into superfans - engaging, retaining, and monetizing audiences, and getting upside in the entire economic cycle of web3 games. With a diverse team of web3, gaming, sports, and media veterans with experience at Take-Two Interactive, Twitch, EA, Dapper Labs, and the Brooklyn Nets, GameOn works with broadcasters, TV networks, streaming platforms, leagues, tournaments, and web3 companies to launch best-in-class web3 games. GameOn has launched products for NBCUniversal, Bravo, Karate Combat, Times Internet, the WNBA, DICK'S Sporting Goods, and Gaming Society.
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This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is generally identifiable by use of the words "believes," "may," "plans," "will," "anticipates," "intends," "could", "estimates", "expects", "forecasts", "projects" and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this news release may include statements about the expected filing of the Annual Filings as well as the grant of a MTCO.
Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause GameOn's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analysis and opinions of management made in light of its experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date such statements are made including, without limitations, information based on the current state of the Annual Filings and discussions with the auditors of the Company. Although GameOn has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information, and there is no guarantee the Annual Filings will be made on the timeline currently expected or at all or that an MCTO will be granted. If the MCTO is not granted and/or the Annual Filings are not filed on time or are subject to additional delays, the securities of the Company could be subject to a cease trade order or other actions taken by the securities regulators and/or exchanges. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and GameOn disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
Neither the CSE nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – One person is dead following a house fire in west Wichita.
It started around 7:45 a.m. Friday at a home in the 3400 block of W. 2nd St., just east of West Street.
Extra crews were called to the home due to excessive storage and the floor of the home giving out during the fire attack.
Crews found one person inside the home. They were pronounced dead.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demolition of a shuttered 19th-century church in Philadelphia has begun following a yearslong battle by some neighbors to save the crumbling structure.
Crews last week surrounded the 140-year-old St. Laurentius Church in the Fishtown neighborhood with scaffolding, fencing and barricades. Neighbors gathered Wednesday to get their final look, taking pictures and pointing to the huge cross, once affixed to the building, that lay against a fence, KYW reported.
“I don’t want to see a church, regardless of denomination, to come down,” Margaret Ann Ramsey told KYW. “It’s always been part of the area, so it’s sad, especially for the people who belong to this parish.”
Michael Johnson of HC Site Construction told WTXF-TV that the work to dismantle the 150-foot spires is being done by hand, with material dropped through chutes to the basement to prevent vibrations from truck activity.
The city’s department of licenses and inspections issued a demolition permit almost a year ago, but officials said relocating utility poles and wires ringing the property took longer than expected. Crews also were told to wait until summer because of classes at a Catholic school next door, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
St. Laurentius is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and the Philadelphia Historical Commission has ordered the developer to preserve or rebuild the church’s front face in any new development. A zoning permit for a proposed eight-story 49-unit multifamily residential building is being appealed, the newspaper reported.
The church was built in 1882 with the donations of Polish immigrants. In 2014, the archdiocese of Philadelphia announced its closure, citing “vertical cracks” and a “heavily deteriorated” facade that threatened collapse absent a $3.5 million restoration. Supporters said their estimates totaled only $700,000. The historical commission added the church to the city’s historic register in 2015.
Concerns arose in 2019, when pieces of the facade crumbled, in one case with 6,000 pounds (2,720 kilograms) of rock breaking off a spire, puncturing steel scaffolding and falling into a fenced safety zone around the church, prompting closure of the nearby school for two days.
The archdiocese spent $135,000 to stabilize the building, and city inspectors said it appeared to be in better shape, but later two engineers hired by the new owner concluded that St. Laurentius had decayed substantially, with one predicting “at least partial collapse” within a decade. A structural engineer hired by the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia said the building had remained standing despite dire assessments by a number of engineers. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/demolition-of-shuttered-church-begins-after-long-battle/ | 2022-08-21 16:06:46 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/demolition-of-shuttered-church-begins-after-long-battle/ |
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Chase Elliott declared NASCAR Pocono winner after Denny Hamlin and Kyle Bush disqualified for failed inspections.
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Hood River Valley’s third-ranked Class 5A boys cross country team had a good showing at Saturday’s Nike Portland XC, a huge cross country gathering at Blue Lake Park.
The Eagles finished ninth in the Division 1 varsity race, which featured runners from schools of varying enrollment levels from Oregon, Washington, and California. The meet, which also included Idaho schools, affords runners a chance to compete at different levels, whether individually or as a team.
Hood River’s boys were led by senior Elliot Hawley, who was seventh overall in a season-best 16 minutes, over 5,000 meters. Senior William Bunch was 36th in 16:46, a seven-second PR. Bunch has lowered his time successively in each of his three races this fall. Hawley went out with eventual winner Owen Powell of Mercer Island (WA.) for the first mile before settling into a more comfortable pace. Powell won in 15:33.
A couple of Eagle sophomores have worked their way to spots in the varsity seven. Davis Kerr had a 32-second PR at the Nike meet (18:06). Kerr has run personal records both times he has raced at Blue Lake (the first time Sept. 7, during a league meet there). More impressive was Logan King, who improved his 5,000-meter best by 90 seconds to 17:01 while finishing 52nd in the Division 1 varsity race on Saturday. Also of note, freshman Sebastian Clarkson passed 11 runners over the final 1,000 meters to finish 91st in 17:27.
The Eagle girls entered four runners in the Division 1 varsity race (and thusly did not have a team score) and each ran personal bests or season bests. The two personal bests came from senior Olivia Nickson, who led the Eagles with her 19th place overall in 19:32, and freshman, Syl Perrin, who was 26th in 19:54. HRV’s Phoebe Wood was 58th in a season best 20:40 and teammate Alex Bronson was 106th in 22:38. Freshman Charlotte Fuller raced to personal best of more than a minute in 22:47 in the Division 1 junior varsity race — the meet’s first of 18 races.
HRV will next compete in Saturday’s Champoeg Invitational at Champoeg State Park west of Butteville.
Eagle girls win league meet in Portland
Senior Phoebe Wood and freshman Syl Perrin led Hood River Valley to first place Sept. 21 at a Northwest Oregon Conference cross country meet at Portland’s Lents Park.
The Eagles bested two other scoring girls teams with 24 points. Wilsonville was second with 35 points and Centennial was third with 65.
Wood won the 5,000-meter girls race in 22 minutes, 10 seconds, one second ahead of Perrin. The Eagles also received point-scoring efforts from sophomore Alex Bronson (fifth, 23:37); junior Christine Kinoshita (sixth, 23:37); and junior Calla King (10th, 24:15).
There were four complete teams in the boys race, won by Wilsonville with 25 points; Hood River was second with 46. The Eagle boys were led by Jackson Bullock and freshman Sebastian Clarkson, who were both timed in 17:18, good enough for fourth and fifth place, respectively. Sophomore teammate Kai Wagner was ninth in 17:58; Davis Kerr was 12th (19:00); and freshman Victor Coffman 16th (19:24). | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/sports/cross-country-hrv-competes-at-nike/article_af275b9c-3e90-11ed-8c15-7f5ce3ecb3ca.html | 2022-09-28 05:06:18 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/sports/cross-country-hrv-competes-at-nike/article_af275b9c-3e90-11ed-8c15-7f5ce3ecb3ca.html |
SHANGHAI, May 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Growatt, a world-renowned provider of distributed energy solutions, has concluded its successful participation at the SNEC PV Power Expo in Shanghai. The company's achievements were highlighted by its receipt of the Top Brand PV 2023 award from EUPD Research, along with the showcase of an impressive array of cutting-edge energy solutions.
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The Top Brand PV 2023 award further solidifies Growatt's leading status in the industry, with a dominant presence in the residential sector and a prominent standing among the top three global players in the commercial and industrial (C&I) market. "We are delighted to award Growatt as a Top Brand PV 2023 for multiple key markets, reflecting the company's ongoing performance and dedication to driving the energy transition on an international level," commented Daniel Fuchs, Vice President of EUPD Research at the award handover ceremony.
Full Range Battery Ready Solutions
One of the highlights of Growatt's exhibition was the comprehensive suite of battery-ready solutions. With capacities from 2.5 to 30 kW, the solutions empower households worldwide to adopt low-carbon lifestyles by providing the flexibility to integrate battery systems at a later time. By combining the battery-ready inverters with the latest APX HV battery, homeowners gain enhanced control over their energy management, increasing solar self-consumption and elevating overall system safety.
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The brand's advancements in C&I energy storage systems were also on display, featuring the WIT inverters and APX commercial batteries. The WIT series 50-100kW storage inverters, boasting advanced functions such as built-in UPS, black start capability, 100% unbalanced output, and 110% continuous AC overloading, work seamlessly with the APX Commercial battery. This powerful combination empowers businesses to achieve energy independence while optimizing operational efficiency.
Innovations for Vast Application Scenarios
To address diverse energy needs, Growatt impressed attendees with its revolutionary NEO 2000M-X, a flexible and scalable micro-inverter that not only prioritizes high yields with four MPP trackers and a maximum efficiency of 96.5% but also supports long signal transmission distance with Lora communication. Additionally, the innovative portfolio of off-grid products, THOR EV chargers, and portable power stations exemplify the manufacturer's ongoing efforts to provide sustainable energy solutions across various application scenarios.
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In the race for Pennsylvania governor, it's Josh Shapiro vs. Doug Mastriano.
Josh Shapiro's campaign is still getting a watch party set up in Montgomery County Tuesday evening. People are expected to start showing up around 8 p.m. The campaign staff are confident they are going to see a Shapiro victory Tuesday night.
And that mood is partly because of recent polling in the governor's race.
Shapiro and his wife voted Tuesday morning in Abington Township, so that's two votes at least for Shapiro.
The final Muhlenberg College-Morning Call poll put Shapiro 14 points ahead of Mastriano in the governor's race.
What's even more surprising about those numbers is the majority of people who responded in that poll identified as Republicans.
Shapiro has been leaning into the issue of abortion following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V. Wade earlier this summer.
It's an issue that could be decided by this race. Both chambers of the Pennsylvania legislature are dominated by Republicans, but so far Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed any bills that would add more restrictions to abortion in Pennsylvania.
Shapiro says if elected he would do the same. But Mastriano says he is committed to signing a "heartbeat bill" into law, stopping any abortion if a heartbeat is detected. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/election/shapiro-faces-mastriano-in-governors-race-as-poll-shows-shapiro-with-big-lead/article_75cad06c-5fac-11ed-87eb-a3cc056e2d04.html | 2022-11-09 00:16:26 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/election/shapiro-faces-mastriano-in-governors-race-as-poll-shows-shapiro-with-big-lead/article_75cad06c-5fac-11ed-87eb-a3cc056e2d04.html |
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — It’s a battlefield, and N.M. 283 is the latest line of defense.
The defenders of the west side of Las Vegas are armed with chain saws and setting up barriers with hand tools and heavy equipment.
Some of the fight takes place in the air as well, with lumbering aircraft dumping water and fire retardant. Time is of the essence because the enemy — fire, aided by its closest ally, wind — continues to move forward.
The most recent chapter in the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire saga moved toward a new scene — an east-west state highway on the south side of town that firefighters believe can be the bulwark that begins to turn things in their favor.
“I’ll be optimistic: It’s gonna hold,” said Don Muise, a veteran firefighter and team safety officer for a portion of the 1,200 firefighters now battling the biggest blaze in America.
The fire, roughly shaped like a fist from from Las Vegas to beyond Mora, was a little over a mile from the city of 13,000 on Wednesday. As Muise spoke, wind gusts nearing 50 mph at times drowned out his comments. Behind him, smoke from the small prescribed burns across the highway drifted into the air, creating their own wispy plume.
Fortunately, they could not be mistaken for the larger, 160,000-acre conflagration, some of which has been menacing Las Vegas for days. In all, the fire is just 20 percent contained.
Those not fighting the fire — or trying to avoid the fire — had not been allowed on the line by officials until Wednesday. At first glance, it was hard to avoid the striking similarity to a military operation.
The scene was every bit a conflict, with Super Scooper planes dredging water from nearby lakes — up to 2,000 gallons per plane — and laying it down as a wet blanket along the west side of N.M. 283.
The firefighters — who work 16-hour shifts 14 days in a row and then get three days off to rest — are weighed down with at least 40 pounds of equipment, including fire shields, water and food. Pursuant to the military approach, some carry ready-to-eat kits for nourishment.
More than 1,208 people are now engaged in the fires in San Miguel and Mora counties.
The defense is orchestrated with the help of lookouts on nearby hills and commanders with radios strapped to their hips so they can provide directions as fire and firefighters move forward, backward and to the side.
“We’re organized like [the military],” said Muise. “Our operations are based on some military stuff: an aviation assault, a ground assault, heavy machinery.”
The goal, Muise said, pointing to the highway, is to “hold that line.”
But the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire has a will of its own. Though it may back down for a day — on Thursday, those winds are expected to dissipate, according to the National Weather Service in Albuquerque — next week’s unfriendly forecast might make it seem like the wind, and not the fire crews, will be supported by reinforcements.
Come Friday, or perhaps Saturday, the wind will grow stronger again, whipping to 40-45 mph, with gusts of 60 mph possible through the middle of next week, said meteorologist David Craft of the weather service.
“Seems like the [fire] area of greatest concern will get very little of a break,” Craft said.
Humidity levels in the single-digit range and a lack of rain in next week’s forecast won’t help the fire crews either, he said.
Muise knows what is coming.
“It’s gonna be a ‘hold on to your hat’ weekend,” he said adding the wind behind the fire has been “continuous — bang, bang, bang, bang!”
Recalling the scene when he was on the front lines of fire, Muise, a 45-year firefighting veteran from Flagstaff, Ariz., said it’s a battle that takes place “in smoke all the time, smoke all the time.”
Dehydration, not burns, brings down some on the line, he said.
Meanwhile, San Miguel County Sheriff Chris Lopez said many of those who have been displaced are anxious to return. He held out some hope people could begin returning but likely not until fire lines have been tested by the weekend’s expected fierce winds.
“[The thing] I’ve mentioned over and over in the days that we’ve been dealing with this is repopulation,” he said in a Wednesday night briefing. “That’s one thing we’re very interested in. … Everybody wants to get back home. And so as we continue to improve conditions … we can test lines that have been developed when we do enter that wind event or that extreme fire weather event over the weekend. I really feel with the work that’s being done I feel good that we’ll be able to open up some areas — if those lines are able to withstand that extreme weather event.”
The battle near Las Vegas came the same day President Joe Biden approved Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s request for a presidential disaster declaration for New Mexico because of the widespread fires around the state in April and May.
Most presidential disaster declarations come only after the end of a catastrophic event, such as a tornado, flood or fire. But state officials say they worked with federal authorities to process New Mexico’s request faster than usual. Such federal assistance can include funding for housing support, crisis counseling, disaster unemployment benefits, child care programs and loan aid.
All five members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation — U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, and U.S. Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández, Melanie Stansbury and Yvette Herrell — asked Biden to approve that request. They also asked Biden to waive a 25 percent nonfederal cost sharing requirement that goes with that federal assistance.
Assistance will be available for Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Valencia and San Miguel counties.
After the announcement, Las Vegas Mayor Louie Trujillo said he’s asking Biden to visit the city.
“We don’t know what the likelihood is of it happening, but nonetheless, I think it’s important that the president come and address our people and bring [members of his Cabinet] to assure the residents that those services are going to be secured for them,” he said.
The approval comes as at least three other fires work their way through various stages of growth. The Cerro Pelado Fire, which started several miles east of Jemez Springs on April 22 and has been fueled by heavy winds, covered nearly 27,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon and was only 13 percent contained.
The fire continues to creep closer to Los Alamos National Laboratory property and now is a bit more than five miles away.
In a news release from Los Alamos County, one official noted the difference between the Cerro Pelado and Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire.
“The good news is that this fire is behaving more like a controlled burn,” said Rich Nieto, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s wildland fire manager. “It’s not burning in the tree canopy like the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires. It’s burning the brush and fallen trees on the ground.
“There’s a lot of smoke, but the smoke can be misleading and make things appear worse than they are,” he said. “We’re still taking this fire very seriously because conditions can always change, but currently, we feel confident that our mitigation measures will protect laboratory property and the county.”
Santa Fe National Forest spokeswoman Julie Anne Overton said firefighters battling the blaze remain “worried about winds switching direction.” There is also concern the fire could jump N.M. 4 and move into the Valles Caldera National Preserve where, she said, “it would take off into those dry grasses.”
But firefighters continue to make headway on the Cooks Peak Fire north of Ocate, which started April 17. Though it remains around 60,000 acres, firefighters have it 89 percent contained.
And a new wildfire, the Bear Trap Fire in the San Mateo mountain range, started Sunday and was burning about 2,300 acres as of Wednesday, with no containment.
Asked if firefighters on the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire might lose that battle despite all the planning, Muise shook his head no.
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Jon Rahm is off to another rough start in a major — not one hole, like in the Masters, but a lot of them in the PGA Championship.
The Masters champion was 1 under for the round when he made five bogeys in a six-hole stretch at Oak Hill. His bad run began with errant tee shots — the rough on the 16th, the rough on the 17th and a deep bunker on the 18th, all leading to bogeys.
He went long of the green at No. 2 and didn’t get his chip up the hill to the green, and then failed to save par from a bunker on the par-3 third.
Rahm was 4 over through 13 holes.
At the Masters, he four-putted the first hole of the tournament for a double bogey, and then recovered for a 65. He wound up winning the green jacket by four shots.
Corey Conners of Canada already had six birdies and was at 3 under with two holes to play.
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Let the sun shine — and Kazuki Higa, as well.
The 28-year-old from Japan made the turn at 3 under for an early one-shot lead on the opening day of the weather-delayed PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
With the temperature warming to 55 and under a cloudless sky, Higa enjoyed a four-birdie run through Nos. 11-14 as a a member of the first threesome to tee off on the back nine. After saving par with an up-and-down out of the bunker on No. 16, Higa gave a shot back on the par-4 17th.
The opening round was delayed by nearly two hours with the temperature at near freezing at dawn.
The PGA Championship is Higa’s second career major after he missed the cut at The Masters last month.
Among the other notable players on the course, defending tournament champion Justin Thomas and Masters champion Jon Rahm are tied at 1 under.
Shaun Micheel, who won the 2003 PGA Championship played at Oak Hill, was 3 over through 11 holes after being part of the threesome to open the tournament teeing off from No. 1.
The afternoon group, which is scheduled to begin at 2:20 (EDT) includes defending U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick, Phil Mickelson and Tony Finau.
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The PGA Championship is officially underway at Oak Hill.
Shaun Micheel, the 2003 PGA champion, kicked off golf’s second major of the year with the opening tee shot following a frost delay of nearly two hours.
The delay likely means the groups in the 156-player field teeing off later in the day may have trouble finishing their rounds on the East Course before darkness.
Defending champion Justin Thomas begins his bid for a third PGA championship a little after 10 a.m. EDT. Thomas is playing with two-time PGA champion Rory McIlroy and 2020 PGA champion Collin Morikawa.
Masters champion and No. 1 Jon Rahm is playing with British Open champion Cameron Smith and U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick. Scottie Scheffler, the world’s second-ranked player, is in a group that includes two-time PGA champion Brooks Koepka.
Thick rough and chilly temps in the morning will make the par-70 layout even more difficult for the early starters. Temperatures are expected to rise throughout the day, topping out in the mid-60s in the afternoon.
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This is what everyone feared about Oak Hill hosting the PGA Championship in May.
Baby, it’s cold.
The opening round is being delayed by frost and everyone is being ordered to stay off the lawns. Fairways were covered by a thin layer of frost. Temperatures were right around freezing as dawn broke.
The good news for the PGA Championship is it won’t last long. The PGA of America said the first tee time would be 1 hour, 15 minutes after the practice facilities are open. And the weather is expected to get warmer each day the rest of the week.
Shaun Micheel is to hit the opening tee shot, an honor afforded the oldest former champion in the field. He won the PGA at Oak Hill in 2003. That was his only PGA Tour win.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Republican legislative candidate who traveled to Washington for former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally was arrested Friday and charged with federal crimes for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, officials said.
Matthew Brackley, 39, of Waldoboro, Maine, entered the the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and asked for the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office before shouting, “Let’s go,” according to prosecutors.
He was arrested on felony charges including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, along with several misdemeanors. He made his initial court appearance on Friday.
It was not clear if Brackley had a lawyer, and he did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.
Brackley tried unsuccessfully to unseat Democratic state Sen. Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic last year. His campaign website described him as a Maine Maritime Academy graduate whose approach would be to have “respectful, thoughtful conversations on the issues.”
At the Capitol, prosecutors said, Brackley led a group that pushed through police officers several times before ultimately being dispersed by chemical spray and exiting.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack.
Approximately 100 of them have been convicted by juries or judges after trials, and more than 600 have pleaded guilty.
Over 570 riot defendants have been sentenced, with more than half receiving prison terms ranging from three days to 18 years. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-former-republican-legislative-candidate-has-been-charged-for-his-role-in-the-us-capitol-riot/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-21 21:24:14 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-former-republican-legislative-candidate-has-been-charged-for-his-role-in-the-us-capitol-riot/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The second tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season formed off southern Mexico on Tuesday, though forecasters said it's unlikely to threaten land.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Blas could reach hurricane force late Wednesday before losing force while moving into the open ocean.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) late Tuesday morning and it was centered about 380 miles (615 kilometers) south-southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico. Blas was moving north at 2 mph (4 kph).
The hurricane center said the storm is likely to kick up dangerous surf conditions along the coast.
The season's first storm, Hurricane Agatha, ran ashore near Puerto Angel in Oaxaca state on May 30 with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph). Authorities said it killed at least nine people, with five others missing suspected to be dead. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Tropical-Storm-Blas-forms-off-Mexico-s-Pacific-17240623.php | 2022-06-14 17:02:59 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Tropical-Storm-Blas-forms-off-Mexico-s-Pacific-17240623.php |
Adding industry-leading senior executive, amid 70 percent growth year-over-year, will continue accelerating ShipBob's scale and expansive global fulfillment network.
CHICAGO, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - ShipBob, the leading global omnifulfillment platform designed for businesses of all sizes, today announced the hiring of Melissa Nick as its first Chief Supply Chain Officer. Melissa joins ShipBob with over 20 years of experience with the last 9+ years at Amazon, most recently serving as Amazon's VP of North America Customer Fulfillment where she led operations, planning, and engineering teams across more than 250 fulfillment centers. Prior to overseeing North America fulfillment, Melissa helped build AMXL, Amazon's global extra-large fulfillment and delivery service, from the ground up.
With over 100 million orders shipped through their fulfillment network, Melissa will help steer ShipBob's next chapter of growth by leveraging her deep domain expertise in supply chain and operational excellence. ShipBob's solutions have quickly become the default standard in shipping and fulfillment for omnichannel brands of all sizes looking to fully outsource their direct-to-consumer and retail fulfillment, improve their in-house fulfillment with ShipBob's proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), or take advantage of a hybrid solution. Melissa will manage ShipBob's robust partner network of 50+ fulfillment centers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. In addition, there will be a continued focus on unlocking personalization and a custom unboxing experience at scale, analytics and data ownership, and online and offline sales channel expansion for their customers across their owned website, direct-to-consumer, retail, brick and mortar, and marketplaces.
"I'm incredibly excited to join ShipBob as CSCO, as the growth mindset of the leadership team and their relentless focus on building new solutions to support merchants is something very special," said Nick. "ShipBob has been instrumental in helping small and medium size businesses reach their customers through multiple channels across the globe, and they have raised the bar with the technology solutions that enable their success."
Nick will oversee the end-to-end design and execution of ShipBob's supply chain and logistics infrastructure for both their fulfillment network and customers managing their own fulfillment with ShipBob's WMS, spanning from the time merchants' inventory leaves the manufacturer's factory floor until it arrives at its final destination at the shopper's doorstep. This includes innovating for the most efficient delivery with new transportation strategies, optimizing the orchestration of inventory across the network, and creating customizable solutions while simultaneously providing unparalleled visibility and simplifying the complexity of managing logistics for merchants.
"This new CSCO role will be incredibly impactful for the future of ShipBob, and I don't know of anyone who has overseen a larger scope than Melissa, heading up North American fulfillment for Amazon and delivering on customer expectations during the most uncertain times due to the pandemic and subsequent years," said ShipBob COO and co-founder, Divey Gulati. "We are focused on delivering best-in-class logistics to our merchants across all sales channels or however they want to handle their fulfillment, and we have the utmost confidence in Melissa to drive massive improvements to our operations while tying in our technology to drive incremental efficiencies across every part of the supply chain."
ShipBob CEO and co-founder, Dhruv Saxena, added, "Melissa has built a reputation as a deeply curious, humble, and strong leader. Her passion for building top-performing, results-driven teams and inventing on behalf of customers, will help set a new standard for ShipBob. Not only has she solved problems on the front lines, but built and scaled arguably the most impressive logistics programs that we've seen. I'm very excited to welcome her to the ShipBob team, as she is not only an ultimate expert in her field, but someone who cares deeply for employees and merchants alike."
With a continued focus on the merchant and end consumer experience, ShipBob has recently added several other senior hires to its greater operations team, including Dan Weiss as its VP, Transportation and Amy Hardman as its VP, Global Controller. Dan brings nearly 30 years of experience at companies such as AxleHire, Transportation Insight, Ingram Micro, Shipwire, Restoration Hardware, Gap, and UPS, and has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of the Pacific Eberhardt School of Business. Amy brings over 20 years of experience, working for companies such as HairClub and Tupperware Brands, and in process of obtaining an Executive MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies from University of Warwick's Warwick Business School.
About ShipBob
ShipBob is the leading global omnifulfillment platform designed for businesses of all sizes, providing them access to best-in-class supply chain capabilities. The ShipBob platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers across all of their sales channels to manage products, inventory, orders, and shipments, leveraging real-time analytics and reporting. ShipBob enables merchants to optimize fulfillment operations in their own facilities with ShipBob WMS (ShipBob's proprietary warehouse management system), and/or outsource fulfillment to have their orders picked, packed, and shipped from any of ShipBob's 50 fulfillment centers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. By providing proprietary fulfillment software, comprehensive support, and dozens of tech and retail partnerships, ShipBob enables brands to build a scalable, affordable fulfillment strategy and fulfill orders with seamless omnichannel connectivity. Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati, two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. Learn more by visiting shipbob.com.
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Dan Aykroyd and his wife Dona Dixon are separating after nearly 40 years of marriage, ET can confirm.
In a joint statement to ET, the Ghostbusters star and Dixon said that "after 39 years as a couple we are now on separate lifepaths." They added, "We remain legally married, co-parents, co-workers and business partners. This is our choice in loving friendship."
Donna Dixon and Dan Aykroyd at the The Dennis Basso Fur Store 2003 opening in New York City.
The 69-year-old actor and 64-year-old actress share three children -- Danielle, 32, Belle, 28, and Stella, 24. People was first to report the news.
Aykroyd and Dixon got married in 1983 after having met on the set of Doctor Detroit. They'd go on to work together in Twilight Zone: The Movie, Spies Like Us, The Couch Trip and Exit to Eden.
In a 2014 interview with the Tampa Bay Times, the Blues Brothers star once referred to Dixon as the "White Goddess" and himself as the "Green Demon" while explaining their deep chemistry.
"You gotta find the right person -- look them in the eye, have them look back, and know their soul," he said at the time. "She's a Southern woman who is understanding and doesn't mind dealing with the boys from time to time. I call her the White Goddess. And I'm the Green Demon."
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DEAR HELOISE: When you have extra coffee filters that don't fit your new coffee pot, don't throw them away. I like to use mine to line small bowls for snacking. No washing afterward; I just toss the liner away.
-- Mary Ann K., Fishersville, Va.
DEAR HELOISE: I'm out on my own now and cooking a lot of my meals. I'm hoping you'll reprint your one-pot chicken dish for me, because as I recall, it was not only easy to make but very tasty as well. I'm learning to cook a number of things, but that recipe is one of my all-time favorites.
-- Jacob Q., Jacksonville, Fla.
DEAR READER: This is one of my most requested recipes and is a fan favorite:
One-Pot Chicken
1 teaspoon oil
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup diced potato (1/2-inch cubes)
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped celery
1 cup water
1 bay leaf
1/8 teaspoon thyme
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 cup canned peas
2 (3-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley (for garnish)
Heat oil in a heavy, large skillet and add onions and potatoes. Cook over medium heat while stirring until they begin to brown. Add the remaining ingredients as listed except peas and chicken. Stir and bring to a boil. Place chicken in sauce, reduce heat to simmer. Cover and cook for about 12 minutes. Then add peas and continue to simmer until the liquid is reduced, about 5 minutes or so. To serve, place one chicken breast on each plate and spoon the sauce over the top. Garnish with parsley, if desired.
DEAR HELOISE: My family loves soup, and I like to make it rather than buy prepared soup from a can. My only problem with my own homemade version is that it's often too watery. That also applies to my gravy. How do I fix this problem?
-- Monica D., Bogota, N.J.
DEAR READER: Just add some instant mashed potatoes to either your soup or gravy. If your stews are too thin, then puree some vegetables and add that to the stew.
DEAR HELOISE: I have an automatic rice cooker, but rice sticks to the bottom, and I have a terrible time getting all of it out. Help!
-- Nancy H., Dolores, Colo.
DEAR READER: Spray the bottom of the rice cooker with a non-sticking spray, and your problem should be solved.
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If Roe v. Wade is over turned, certain groups of people would be disproportionately affected. Unemployment data is released Friday. Results are expected Friday in Northern Ireland's election.
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If Roe v. Wade is over turned, certain groups of people would be disproportionately affected. Unemployment data is released Friday. Results are expected Friday in Northern Ireland's election.
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$1.6 billion RIA founded by the CEO's grandfather in 1963 is one of the original fee-only firms
CHICAGO, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightower today announced it has made a strategic investment in Meyer Capital Group, a $1.6 billion firm with offices in Marlton, N.J. and Naples, Fla. With 17 employees, including 10 advisors, Meyer Capital Group serves more than 800 clients.
Under the leadership of Thomas C. Meyer, CEO of Meyer Capital Group, the fee-only fiduciary wealth management firm's mission is its motto: Commoda Tua Ante Nostra – Your Interest Before Ours. Meyer Capital Group has been helping families achieve their financial goals since 1963, when Meyer's grandfather started the business as one of the original fee-only firms. Since 1982, when Tom took the helm, the firm has grown from $2 million to $1.6 billion assets under management (AUM). Today it serves an impressive group of clients, including business owners, non-profits, and high-net-worth individuals.
"We were looking for a partner that would support our growth while also understanding our deep roots that stem back to when my grandfather founded the business nearly six decades ago," said CEO Tom Meyer. "Hightower is the right fit for us. Having access to their value-added services, operational resources and large community of other like-minded firms will serve as a catalyst for our accelerated growth. And most importantly, this will give us more time to focus on our clients."
"I have personally known Tom and Meyer Capital Group for almost 20 years, and they have a long history of helping clients to achieve their financial goals, which makes them a perfect fit for our community. They've already aligned with our mission on spreading well-th," said Hightower Chairman and CEO Bob Oros. "Our valued-added service offering as well as back and middle-office platform support will enable them to enhance their client value proposition while giving them time to build even stronger client relationships."
Gladstone Associates, LLC served as advisor to Meyer Capital Group.
In addition to inorganic support, Hightower offers its 133 advisory businesses in 34 states and the District of Columbia a range of services designed to catalyze and accelerate organic growth, including business development consulting, leadership and team development, talent acquisition, marketing support, technology, investment management resources, compliance, accounting, payroll and human resources. Advisors benefit from streamlined access to the Hightower National Trust Company, estate & financial planning, and business management services such as personal CFO, bookkeeping, bill pay and tax preparation for their clients.
As of March 31, 2023, Hightower's assets under administration were approximately $148.2 billion, and assets under management (AUM) were $119.9 billion, an increase from $113.7 billion as of December 31, 2022.
About Hightower
Hightower is a wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations, and family offices, as well as 401(k) consulting and cash management services to corporations. Hightower's capital solutions, operational support services, size and scale empower its vibrant community of independent-minded wealth advisors to grow their businesses and help their clients achieve their vision of "well-th. rebalanced." Based in Chicago with advisors across the U.S., the firm operates as a registered investment advisor (RIA). Learn more about Hightower's collaborative business model at www.hightoweradvisors.com.
Securities offered through Hightower Securities, LLC member FINRA/SIPC. Hightower Advisors, LLC is a SEC registered investment advisor.
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SHANGHAI, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 10th All China-International Tube & Pipe Industry Trade Fair (Tube China), co-organized by Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Metallurgical Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and Metallurgical Center for International Exchange and Cooperation opened with grandeur at Shanghai New International Expo Center on 14th June, ushering the show's tenth spectacular appearance in Shanghai.
As one of the leading exhibition brands of Düsseldorf's global series of tube exhibitions, Tube China will inherit the advantages of internationalization, maximize the resources and channels of Messe Düsseldorf group's global network. With a focus on the Chinese market and extending its influence in Asia, Tube China serves as a multi-functional exhibition and trade platform for participants to develop business, consolidate contacts and explore advanced technology in China.
Gathering 332 brand suppliers to build a one-stop procurement platform
Tube China, a professional tube and pipe industry event radiating all over Asia, will build an exhibition, trade and communication platform for the entire tube and pipe industry, including its upstream and downstream participants to promote more business and cooperation opportunities.
The total exhibition area at Tube China 2023 is nearly 20,000 square meters. In order to cater the need of increasing exhibitors, the organizers have specially added outdoor halls W4-1 and W4-2, in addition to Hall W4. Tube China 2023 have brought together 332 brands from 14 countries and regions including Germany, Switzerland, North America, Italy, Austria, France, Japan, South Korea and many more, to showcase their new products and technologies. The exhibits cover the complete industrial supply chain of the tube and pipe industry, including raw materials, tube and pipe processing equipment, pipe bending, tube and pipe forming technology, tube and pipe cutting and heat treatment processes, welded pipes, stainless steel pipes, and tube and pipe fittings of various specifications and models, to build a one-stop procurement platform for industry enterprises to purchase and place orders.
Materials and tube and pipe fittings, Strong demand for high-end products
Benefiting from the economic recovery and policy incentives, areas such as infrastructure, public transportation, and new energy will create new demand and opportunities for the tube & pipe industry.
At present, China's steel pipe production capacity has accounted for 60% of the world's production capacity. Due to intensified competition among ordinary steel pipes and low-end products, a greater number of steel companies have turned their attention to more lucrative high-end products, especially products like seamless pipes and stainless-steel pipes.
As the vane of the tube and pipe industry, Tube China 2023 has gathered domestic and foreign brand suppliers specialized in various specifications of seamless steel pipes, welded pipes, and several patented materials.
Lots of new products are displayed during the show time. Such as Sanicro® 35 Austenitic Stainless-Steel Alloy from Alleima; Ferrite Stainless Welded Low Finned Tube from NEOTISS, which is used in MSR HE of nuclear industry; High Frequency Longitudinal Seam Welding Steel Pipe (HFW) from Huludao Steel Pipe; as well as HFW pipe from Changfeng Steel Pipe.
Pipe processing equipment move into green, intelligent, and innovative mode
Wafios, a well-known company in the industry, will present its new intelligent finishing solution - CNC pipe bender RBV25 R-KSB. This product has several breakthrough technical advantages. It can achieve the highest precision with the largest body rigidity and head bending range, it works faster and maximizes energy efficiency, with great levels of flexibility in various application environments.
New products like the WT Series Online Profile Laser Welding Machine from DGE LASER, and the Automatic Pipes Strapping Machine from SINOAUDE Tech showcase the smart tube processing technology.
Boilers and induction heat treatment equipment also have plenty of new products on display: INDUCTOTHERM INDUSTRIES brings their new product CFI8 high-frequency welding machine; WELDAC high-frequency welding machine of EFD Induction; Industrial furnaces from Handuk R-FECO are also one of the highlights of this exhibition.
Moreover, in the pipe cutting segment, well-known international enterprises will bring their innovative technical equipment, innovative products of pipe cutting processing equipment and saw blade tool materials, including RSA, Stark Tools, Kinkelder, Contor.SY, Lindemann, Zhejiang Jinyun Hanli Saws Co., Ltd, Chenlong, JLH and more.
China International Steel Tube & Pipe Summit, knowledge and inspirations from industry gurus
Tube China is not only a professional one-stop business platform, but also an ideal place to publish cutting-edge technologies, share industry development trends, and learn advanced case studies.
In order to facilitate the demand of information exchange of domestic and overseas industry followers, the organizer of Tube China, in conjunction with China Iron and Steel Association, China Steel Pipe Association, and ITA-International Tube Association, will hold the "China International Steel Tube & Pipe Summit" concurrently with Tube China 2023.
Tube China 2023 will continue to uphold the concept of "Based on the Chinese market. Gathering global business opportunities" to create a professional one-stop platform for local and foreign business exchanges. During the 3-day exhibition period, exhibitors and buyers can explore business opportunities face to face, it will certainly be a fruitful journey.
Join China's leading exhibition. The 10th International Tube & Pipe Industry Trade Fair (Tube China) is waiting for you in Shanghai in June.
For more details of the exhibition, please visit the official website of Tube China: www.tubechina.net.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump is reportedly on the brink of facing charges related to a hush money payment during the 2016 campaign, throwing a wrench into the nascent 2024 GOP presidential primary.
Trump has already said in interviews that he plans to continue his campaign for the presidency even if he is indicted, and he was defiant in posts on Truth Social late Thursday that made clear he was undeterred by the latest specter of criminal charges.
But a possible indictment in New York would be another blow for Trump, whose extensive legal woes already have some Republican voters and leaders suggesting it may be time for the party to move on to a candidate with less baggage.
“Given all the unknowns right now, it’s far too early to know the political impact,” said Alex Conant, who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) 2016 campaign.
“That said, it’s hard to see how this is a positive for Trump,” added Conant, who now works with Firehouse Strategies. “At a minimum, it’s a distraction from the relatively well-disciplined campaign he’s run in recent weeks. It will remind a lot of voters about the chaos that they really disliked during his administration.”
The New York Times reported Thursday that the Manhattan district attorney’s office has signaled to Trump’s lawyers that he could appear before a grand jury next week, a strong indication that the former president could face criminal charges over a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet an alleged affair during the 2016 campaign.
A conviction would not be assured, but a decision to charge a former president and current candidate for president would be a significant step from district attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels, and in a lengthy statement late Thursday denied any wrongdoing while casting the probe in Manhattan as the latest in a slew of politically motivated investigations into his conduct.
“This is a political Witch-Hunt, trying to take down the leading candidate, by far, in the Republican Party while at the same time also leading all Democrats in the polls, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote.
“It is appalling that the Democrats would play this card and only means that they are certain that they cannot win at the voter booth, so they have to go to a tool that has never been used in such a way in our country, weaponized law enforcement,” Trump added.
The prospect of criminal charges is just the latest case of legal issues hovering over Trump and his 2024 bid, which some have speculated was launched last November in part to try and stave off an indictment.
The Fulton County District Attorney in Georgia is investigating whether Trump interfered in the 2020 election, and experts believe that probe could be the first one to bring charges against the former president. Portions of a grand jury report in that investigation were made public last month.
A Justice Department special counsel is simultaneously investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when pro-Trump rioters violently stormed the Capitol, as well as whether Trump mishandled classified documents after dozens of sensitive materials were found last year at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Trump and his team have been unflinching in arguing that the pileup of legal threats will only harden support among his most loyal backers, who represent enough of the Republican primary electorate that it could even be enough to win in a splintered field.
“It’s only going to embolden a lot of his supporters,” one Republican strategist said. “With a lot of Trump supporters, you’ve gone through the Russia hoax, you’ve gone through so many different impeachments, so when he is targeted like that it causes a lot of people to double down.”
Trump himself told reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month that he “won’t even think about leaving” the 2024 race if he’s indicted.
And national polls still largely show Trump garnering the most support among declared and potential 2024 presidential candidates, with only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) coming close or surpassing him in some surveys.
But there are signs the party may look to move past Trump even if he won’t bow out himself.
Republican strategists have for months raised concerns that Trump may be the only GOP candidate who could lose to President Biden in a general election due to concerns about his conduct and character.
DeSantis has seen his star rise in the last few months since his resounding reelection victory in November, and he is making the rounds in early voting states as he moves closer to a 2024 campaign of his own.
Ken Cuccinelli, a former Trump administration official, launched an outside group to draft DeSantis into the 2024 race, and former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), who Trump backed for a 2018 Senate run, tweeted Friday in support of DeSantis launching a presidential bid.
A poll of Iowa voters released Friday underscored the party’s Trump problem at its core.
The poll of 805 Iowans, including 257 self-identified Republicans, found 80% of them hold a mostly favorable or very favorable opinion of Trump, a higher rating than any other potential GOP presidential candidate. Seventy-five percent said they had a very or mostly favorable view of DeSantis.
But the poll also showed that Trump’s grip on the party may not be as iron-clad as it once was. Forty-seven percent of Iowa Republicans said they would definitely vote for Trump if he became the party’s presidential nominee, down from 69% in June 2021.
“Iowa is where the competition starts,” pollster J. Ann Selzer told The Des Moines Register of the data. “And someone who has already held the office and who won the state twice would be presumed to be the front-runner, and I don’t know that we can say that at this point.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/trump-indictment-possibility-throws-wrench-into-campaign-plans/ | 2023-03-11 21:56:51 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/trump-indictment-possibility-throws-wrench-into-campaign-plans/ |
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, visited Scotland Monday in their first joint public engagement since the royal mourning period to remember Queen Elizabeth II ended.
Large crowds turned out on the streets of Dunfermline in Fife, north of Edinburgh, hoping to get a glimpse of the new monarch. Charles, who wore a kilt for the visit, spent some time shaking hands with well-wishers after he greeted Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and other leaders.
The royal couple were visiting to formally give city status to Dunfermline, the birthplace of another King Charles: Charles I, who reigned in the 17th century before his execution, was the last British monarch born in Scotland.
Dunfermline was among towns that won city status as part of Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne.
Later Monday, Charles and Camilla will host a reception for around 300 guests at Edinburgh to celebrate the British South Asian community. The royals will meet British Indians, Pakistanis, and many others and pay tribute to the contributions they made to the U.K.
Charles became sovereign immediately upon the death of his mother Elizabeth in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, on Sept. 8. Britain held 10 days of national mourning, while the royal family extended the mourning period for a week after the queen's funeral on Sept. 19. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/King-Charles-III-in-first-engagement-since-17482833.php | 2022-10-03 12:55:16 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/King-Charles-III-in-first-engagement-since-17482833.php |
North Carolina flood victim rescued after clinging to tree; 1 dies after leaping from car into floodwater
This death comes after more deadly flash flooding swamped parts of the Northeast over the weekend and nearly a week after deadly flooding soaked areas from the mid-Atlantic to New England.
ALEXANDER COUNTY, N.C. – One person was killed and another was rescued during flash flooding in North Carolina over the weekend, according to local officials.
This death comes after more deadly flash flooding swamped parts of the Northeast over the weekend and nearly a week after deadly flooding soaked areas from the mid-Atlantic to New England.
Just before midnight on July 15, the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office said it, along with other emergency crews, responded to reports of a water rescue along Duck Creek Drive.
According to emergency dispatches, two people needed to be rescued, with one of the victims clinging to a tree.
That victim was located, and emergency crews were able to use a raft to perform the successful rescue.
The rescued victim said there was a second victim who had jumped out of a vehicle into the fast-moving floodwaters.
U.S. HAS ENTERED PEAK FLASH FLOODING SEASON
The search for that victim continued throughout the night and into the daytime hours.
That victim, who was identified as Lisa Michelle Riahi, 49, of Hickory, North Carolina, was found dead about 2 miles from where the incident took place.
The sheriff’s office said that Alexander County Emergency Management officials had reported more than 7 inches of rain fell in the area at the time of the deadly incident.
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SAINT BONAVENTURE, N.Y, (AP) — Daryl Banks III recorded 34 points as St. Bonaventure beat Bowling Green 81-68 on Saturday.
Banks added six rebounds and four blocks for the Bonnies (2-2). Chad Venning scored 15 points while going 3 of 5 and 9 of 12 from the free throw line, and added seven rebounds. Yann Farell recorded 14 points and was 5-of-13 shooting (4 for 12 from distance).
The Falcons (2-2) were led in scoring by Leon Ayers III, who finished with 18 points and seven rebounds. Samari Curtis added 13 points, six rebounds and four assists for Bowling Green. In addition, Chandler Turner finished with 10 points.
St. Bonaventure entered halftime up 33-26. Banks paced the team in scoring in the first half with 10 points. Banks scored 24 points in the second half to help lead the way as St. Bonaventure went on to secure a victory, outscoring Bowling Green by six points in the second half.
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Both teams next play Tuesday. St. Bonaventure hosts Southern Indiana and Bowling Green visits Notre Dame.
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Leading digital personal finance company earns a top spot for second year
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Financial Network (FFN), a leading digital personal finance company, today announced it has been recognized as one of the top 100 corporate philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. This is the second consecutive year the company has appeared on the list.
"We are proud to be honored once again alongside our peers in the Bay Area and remain steadfastly committed to our core value of caring for everyone with empathy, compassion and human kindness." said Brad Stroh, co-founder and co-CEO of FFN. "Whether we are supporting co-workers who are experiencing hardships or local organizations needing support to build stronger communities, we're there to lend a hand and give back."
Headquartered in San Mateo, California with more than 2,600 teammates across the country, Freedom Financial Network has served more than 1 million customers and is rapidly growing as the leading digital personal finance company that helps everyday Americans move forward on a path to a better financial future.
"Freedom Financial Network is excited to receive this distinction and to be recognized for our commitment to giving back," said Linda Luman, executive vice president of human resources at FFN. "As we continue to grow our business we add more talented teammates to both drive our mission forward and support our spirit of philanthropy and volunteerism."
The San Francisco Business Times Corporate Philanthropy list annually highlights the Bay Area's most generous corporate citizens and highlights those who made contributions to Bay Area-based charitable organizations in the following counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma.
Earlier this year, FFN was named to the Phoenix Business Journal's 2022 Healthiest Employers List in recognition of its efforts to motivate employees to achieve and maintain wellness through a strong emphasis on mental and physical health. FFN has also been named to the Phoenix Business Journal's annual "Best Places to Work" list 11 times, including winning first place in the extra-large company category in 2021. The company was also recently named to the 2022 list of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Last year, FFN was also named one of "Arizona's Most Admired Companies" by AZBigMedia.
Full details on the San Francisco Business Times' Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists in the Bay Area List can be found here.
About Freedom Financial Network
Freedom Financial Network is a leading digital personal finance company. Our solutions help everyday people get on, and stay on, the path to a brighter financial future, with innovative technology and personalized support. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of a consumer's financial journey and include personal loans (FreedomPlus), home equity loans (Lendage), help with debt (Freedom Debt Relief), and even financial tools and education (Bills.com). Freedom Financial Network has more than 2,600 dedicated employees across California, Arizona and Texas and is recognized as a Best Place to Work.
For information on career opportunities at Freedom Financial Network, visit: https://jobs.freedomfinancialnetwork.com/
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Amos Hochstein, who advises President Biden about energy security, about the administration's goal to have the U.S. be a bigger player in making electric car batteries.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Amos Hochstein, who advises President Biden about energy security, about the administration's goal to have the U.S. be a bigger player in making electric car batteries.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
2-7-1, WB: 4
(two, seven, one; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
2-7-1, WB: 4
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Customer brutally assaults bar manager, leaves her with brain bleed, police say
TEMPE, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) — A bar manager in Arizona was brutally struck in the head while trying to close-up shop.
Police said Ryan McElhannon is behind bars after assaulting Tiffany Albrecht at the Five Star Bar & Grill in Tempe so badly he left her with a brain bleed.
Albrecht is on the road to recovery after Saturday’s shift was almost her last.
Albrecht said she recalled a hospital staff member saying it was “a matter of life or death” for her and that “she will die if we don’t stop this brain bleed.”
Albrecht has been a bartender for more than 20 years, and Saturday’s closing shift started like any other.
“The night was going very well. We had live music that night,” she said.
When closing time hit at 2 a.m., one guest, later identified by police as McElhannon, refused to leave.
“He didn’t seem drunk. He just seemed entitled and angry,” Albrecht said.
When she tried to talk to McElhannon, Albrecht said he swung his arm and hit her in the head.
“The whole reason why I got such a massive brain bleed was because I got knocked out and couldn’t catch myself before I hit the ground,” she said.
Officials said McElhannon knocked Albrecht out in one motion and then immediately left the bar with her still unconscious.
Albrecht was rushed to Banner Desert Medical Center, just minutes away, where they performed life-saving surgery.
“Right when we got to the emergency room, they did a CT scan and within minutes, they swarmed around me and said we have to have an operation right now,” she said. “The doctors said, ‘How did you know to come here? If you didn’t come here, you wouldn’t be alive, because there isn’t a neurosurgeon everywhere at 3 o’clock in the morning.’”
Tempe police arrested McElhannon a few days later and charged him with aggravated assault. They also said he texted a woman he had met at the bar after the assault.
“I don’t care if I go to jail… that B**** is lucky I open hand slapped her and didn’t break her F****** jaw. Anyway, it was nice talking to you. sorry it ended this way,” the text message read.
Albrecht said she was disgusted when she learned about the message.
“It made me sick to my stomach,” Albrecht said. “It was not only just bragging about it. It was calling me names. Like what kind of person are you? I’ve never seen such evil in my life.”
Albrecht said the road to her recovery will be long.
Friends and family are rallying support through a benefit concert this upcoming Saturday.
“They’re throwing it and having this event for me. They are very, very sweet people,” Albrecht said.
Anyone who is interested in donating to pay for Albrecht’s medical costs can find more information on the Facebook page Tiffany’s 5 Star Benefit Concert! or on her GoFundMe page.
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Weather disrupts Big Ten, Rutgers leads Indiana 9-0
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Evan Sleight had three hits, Mike Nyisztor drove in two runs and Ryan Lasko scored twice as second-seeded Rutgers took a 9-0 lead over eighth-seeded Indiana midway through their Big Ten Tournament game early Sunday morning. A lightning-caused weather delay halted the game at 1:23 a.m. Central Time. A win would send the Scarlet Knights (43-14) into the conference championship game on Sunday against the winner of the Iowa-Michigan game, which will be player earlier Sunday. Should Indiana (27-31) rally to win the teams would play again after the earlier loser-out game. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/29/weather-disrupts-big-ten-rutgers-leads-indiana-9-0/ | 2022-05-29 09:09:48 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/29/weather-disrupts-big-ten-rutgers-leads-indiana-9-0/ |
CARRILLO, Albino "Al"
Age 58, passed away suddenly on October 18, 2022. Service will be held at a later date. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.tobiasfuneralhome.com.
CARRILLO, Albino "Al"
Age 58, passed away suddenly on October 18, 2022. Service will be held at a later date. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.tobiasfuneralhome.com. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/carrillo-albino/YI6RCSPSMNFWJEIY2R6QMYFY5E/ | 2022-10-30 06:39:24 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/carrillo-albino/YI6RCSPSMNFWJEIY2R6QMYFY5E/ |
From products that protect marine wildlife, to fire-safe batteries for electric vehicles - GreenSwans begins rollout of innovative technologies that accelerate the clean energy transition
PITTSBURGH, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenSwans, a climate technology company that identifies and commercializes breakthrough technologies to address the $6 trillion global climate economy, announced its first commercial launches today. The Pittsburgh-based company with a global presence has been growing quietly since 2020. Now, two of GreenSwans patented industrial technologies are primed to bolster planetary health by protecting oceanic wildlife and reducing water waste and carbon emissions.
"We're beyond the startup phase and will end 2023 profitable," said GreenSwans founder Chetan Chothani, who leads a team of experienced manufacturing and technology executives who have realized eight exits totaling in the billions. "Our products help companies transition their operations to be greener and cleaner, derisk their businesses, and grow their bottom lines."
With six patents already in hand, GreenSwans' commercialized products include a pasteurization technology from Bawat, a Danish publicly-traded company, that treats ballast water on ships and vessels. According to a maritime expert, nearly 30 percent of all ballast water discharges from floating vessels are untreated, contributing to the rise in invasive species in our oceans. New regulations set by the International Maritime Organization will require all ballast water to be treated before discharge by September 2024 – an effort to prevent invasive species from impacting waterway health, fisheries, and wildlife. This chemical-free, single-pass technology is already being used to provide Ballast Water Treatment as a service by a GreenSwans enterprise in the Port of New Orleans, Houston and Rotterdam.
The second technology to be commercialized, called TMCAqua™, recovers water and energy from hot, humid waste exhaust stacks. From industrial spray dryers used in various industries like consumer packaged goods to gas-fired boilers which include packaged boilers used in commercial and manufacturing facilities, the technology captures and returns hot water from exhaust gasses for reuse. The technology improves efficiency while reducing water usage by up to 12 percent. When applied to an average sized boiler used in a manufacturing plant, as much as 700,000 gallons of hot water can be recovered annually while significantly reducing carbon emissions. Adopters of the technology may also be eligible for various energy efficiency and water conservation grants that vary from state to state.
In addition to Bawat and TMCAqua™, GreenSwans is readying the rollout of two additional licensed products, including a technology that makes the world's most widely used batteries – lithium-ion – fire-safe. Called Safe-Li, the breakthrough product that received a grant from Shell Energy's GameChanger program is months away from commercialization. Safe-Li also enables fire-safe lithium metal batteries by replacing the flammable materials with non-flammable versions while maintaining performance - a revolutionary solution addressing the flammability problem at the battery design level.
"As the world speeds toward electrification to combat climate change, Safe-Li will improve the safety, reliability, and performance of battery and energy storage that powers everything from utility grids and laptops to electric vehicles," said Chothani. "Our vision is to be a foundational leader in the global climate economy. To have two strong technologies that solve significant energy and environmental protection challenges today – and one that will be a game changer for advancing electrification – signals that we are well on our way."
About GreenSwans
Green Swans is a climate technology company dedicated to identifying and commercializing visionary technologies for a green, clean world. With a founding team that has led or built 22 companies in the industrial manufacturing, software, technology, and industrial process automation sectors – GreenSwans is uniquely suited to source, grow, and bring climate technology solutions to market.
Contact: Joanna Doven, jdoven@premoconsultants.com
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MONTREAL, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Paraza Pharma Inc., a fully integrated drug discovery organization passionately committed to contributing to the life sciences sector today announced the appointment of Dr. Sultan Ahmad as Chief Business Officer reporting to Dr. Arshad Siddiqui, founder and CEO of Paraza Pharma.
"We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ahmad is taking on this strategic role in order to support our next phase of growth'' said Dr. Siddiqui. ''His considerable expertise in business development, corporate strategy, and drug discovery research and development, will be very valuable as we continue to further expand our position as a leader in the small molecule integrated drug discovery service space''.
Dr. Ahmad has a successful career in pharmaceutical R&D sector with more than 30 years of experience. He has held positions of increasing responsibilities at Astrazeneca, Neomed Institute and Purdue Pharma, Canada. Dr. Ahmad is uniquely qualified as a drug discovery researcher and business development professional to bring Paraza to the next level of growth. Dr. Ahmad completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He has co-authored over forty (40) peer-reviewed publications and is a co-inventor on seven (7) patents.
''Paraza is a remarkable R&D organization with an exceptionally talented team of scientists and a culture of innovation and high performance,'' said Dr. Ahmad. '' I look forward to starting this new role and excited to work with the Paraza team to outline our business and growth strategy, and work towards establishing innovative partnerships.''
Paraza Pharma is a Montreal, Canada based, fully integrated drug discovery organization passionately committed to contribute to the life sciences sector. As part of the growth strategy, it attracts worldwide best-in-class talent and continues to offer a unique collaborative model to help companies achieve their success milestones and accelerate their business growth. To learn more, visit www.parazapharma.com
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Cardinals first. Lars Nootbaar walks. Paul Goldschmidt doubles to deep left field. Lars Nootbaar to third. Paul Goldschmidt to third. Lars Nootbaar scores. Nolan Gorman walks. Nolan Arenado flies out to left field to David Peralta. Willson Contreras out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Jason Heyward. Nolan Gorman to third. Paul Goldschmidt scores. Alec Burleson flies out to left field to David Peralta.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 2, Dodgers 0.
Dodgers first. Mookie Betts homers to left field. Freddie Freeman singles to center field. Will Smith reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Freddie Freeman out at second. Max Muncy walks. Will Smith to second. Jason Heyward singles to right field. Max Muncy to third. Will Smith scores. Fielding error by Lars Nootbaar. James Outman strikes out swinging. Miguel Vargas grounds out to shortstop, Paul DeJong to Paul Goldschmidt.
2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Cardinals 2, Dodgers 2.
Dodgers third. Freddie Freeman singles to center field. Will Smith flies out to center field to Dylan Carlson. Max Muncy doubles to deep center field. Freddie Freeman scores. Jason Heyward doubles to left field. Max Muncy scores. James Outman called out on strikes. Miguel Vargas strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 4, Cardinals 2.
Dodgers fifth. Freddie Freeman flies out to right center field to Lars Nootbaar. Will Smith singles to shallow left field. Max Muncy walks. Jason Heyward reaches on catcher interference. Max Muncy to second. Will Smith to third. Interference error by Willson Contreras. James Outman hit by pitch. Jason Heyward to second. Max Muncy to third. Will Smith scores. Miguel Vargas strikes out swinging. Chris Taylor pinch-hitting for David Peralta. Chris Taylor strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 3 left on. Dodgers 5, Cardinals 2.
Dodgers seventh. Max Muncy flies out to right field to Lars Nootbaar. Trayce Thompson pinch-hitting for Jason Heyward. Trayce Thompson walks. James Outman strikes out on a foul tip. Miguel Vargas homers to left field. Trayce Thompson scores. Chris Taylor flies out to deep right field to Lars Nootbaar.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Dodgers 7, Cardinals 2.
Cardinals ninth. Paul DeJong walks. Tommy Edman pinch-hitting for Brendan Donovan. Tommy Edman called out on strikes. Dylan Carlson singles to left field. Paul DeJong to second. Lars Nootbaar singles to second base. Dylan Carlson to second. Paul DeJong scores. Paul Goldschmidt flies out to right field to Mookie Betts. Nolan Gorman strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Dodgers 7, Cardinals 3. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/st-louis-l-a-dodgers-runs-17926557.php | 2023-04-29 06:29:09 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/st-louis-l-a-dodgers-runs-17926557.php |
Deal that prevented rail strike still needs worker support
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A last-minute deal prevented a railroad strike for now, but many rail workers remain unhappy with working conditions, including some who protested outside their workplaces Wednesday ahead of votes to approve the new contracts.
Handfuls of workers gathered outside railyards across the country in pickets organized by a newly formed workers group separate from the 12 unions that negotiated the deals last week with the major U.S. freight railroads. The protesters expressed dissatisfaction with the deals, just as the unions are trying to explain the potential benefits they negotiated to their roughly 115,000 members ahead of contract votes.
Fears about the dire economic consequences of a rail strike that could cripple all kinds of businesses that rely on railroads to deliver raw materials and finished goods prompted the Biden administration to jump into the middle of the contract talks last week and urge both sides to reach an agreement. The contract talks included Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and a number of other railroads, so the entire country would have been affected by a strike.
Nearly a dozen BNSF workers gathered near Minot, North Dakota, Wednesday with homemade signs declaring “We demand more!!” and “We will not back down.” Another group of a half dozen workers stood outside their worksite in Olathe, Kansas, with signs saying “Railroad greed driving inflation” and “Greedy railroads harming nations supply chain.”
Workers’ concerns about time off and demanding attendance policies at the railroads took center stage in the negotiations. In the end, the unions that represent engineers and conductors secured a promise of three extra unpaid days off for workers to attend doctors’ appointments without being penalized and improved scheduling of days off to go with the 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses that a special board appointed by President Joe Biden recommended this summer for the five-year deals.
It remains to be seen whether those concessions are enough to get workers to vote for these deals. A branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union rejected a deal last week that didn’t include those extra days off, so they are back at the table now working on a new pact. Two smaller unions did approve their deals, but the nine other unions will be counting their votes at various times over the next two months.
The two biggest unions that held out the longest — the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that represents engineers, and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union that represents conductors — aren’t expected to report the results of their votes until mid November. Members of those unions are still waiting to see all the details of the deals that Biden announced last Thursday because lawyers are still finalizing everything before the full agreements get released.
That puts any potential for a strike out beyond the midterm elections, which mitigates the potential political impact of the talks for Biden and the Democrats. If any of the unions do reject their contracts, Congress could still be forced to step in.
Recently retired engineer Marilee Taylor, who left the railroad in Chicago after more than 30 years earlier this year when BNSF imposed the strictest attendance policy in the industry, said she doesn’t think the tentative agreements do enough to address the schedule and workload concerns after the major railroads eliminated nearly one-third of their workforces over the past six years. Unions say the railroads’ strict policies make it hard to take any time off without a penalty.
“The issue remains we’re working fatigued,” said Taylor, who is active with the Railroad Workers United coalition that urged workers to go on strike. “The safety of ourselves, our coworkers and the people that we serve — whose communities we run through — are at risk .... These conditions are losing many, many workers who cannot maintain 90% of their every breathing moment in service or at the behest of the railroad.”
Norfolk Southern engineer Hugh Sawyer said it’s hard to tell how many workers will ultimately vote for these deals because they might decide these agreements are the best they can get, although he said he’s not hearing many people happy with them. Even if they remain frustrated, workers may not be willing to go on strike and risk having Congress intervene and impose a contract on them that could be worse than what the unions agreed to.
“We’re sick and tired of the way we’re treated out there,” said Sawyer, a 34-year veteran of the railroad who serves as treasurer of the Railroad Workers United group that includes workers from all the unions. “There’s a lot of anger out there.”
One example of the schedule challenges rail workers face is that Sawyer just had outpatient surgery done earlier this week on one of his days off, but he has no idea when he’ll be able to schedule an appointment to have the stitches removed from his head next week because he’ll be on call then and doesn’t know when he’ll be working.
“It’s just ridiculous,” he said.
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10th year of St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway underway with groundbreaking
Last year, you helped us raise a record $2.6 million by buying up all the tickets available for a chance to win the dream home in just 28 hours.
UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - Ground has officially been broken on the 2023 St. Jude Dream Home campaign in Charlotte!
On Thursday morning, WBTV anchor Mary King was at the lot for this year’s dream home on Grey Pond Lane just west of Monroe with Dream Home builder Jeff Newton of Newton Custom Homes and Realty and other sponsors to mark the start of the campaign.
This year marks 10 years of WBTV’s efforts through the Dream Home campaign to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the children and families who are treated there.
Last year, you helped us raise a record $2.6 million by buying up all the tickets available for a chance to win the dream home in just 28 hours.
ST. JUDE DREAM HOME: Complete coverage
With your help, this year we will look to raise a record $3 million! That money will help make sure seven children get the life-saving treatment they need at St. Jude and never have to pay for that treatment, travel, housing or food.
This is a rendering of this year’s home you will have a chance to win.
Newton and his team say the modern ranch-style home will be on a nearly one-acre wooded lot. It is estimated to be just over 2,500 square feet with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, a rocking chair front porch, a large covered back porch and numerous custom features.
Tickets to win the home will be just $100, and only 30,000 tickets will be sold for your chance to win.
Mark your calendars and get ready to get yours in July as we celebrate 10 years of the St. Jude Dream Home campaign here in Charlotte.
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KOKOMO — A Kokomo man faces charges after a year-long investigation into child sexual abuse material.
The Kokomo Police Department said the investigation into Matthew Powell started after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped them off in March 2021. The tip was generated by Kik Messenger and included three videos depicting child sexual abuse material.
An investigation into the videos determined Powell as the Kik user who is suspected of transmitting the content.
Police got a search warrant for his property on September 6. The department said officers seized a cell phone that had evidence of child sexual abuse material. Powell was already incarcerated at the Howard County Criminal Justice Center on an unrelated charge.
Powell faces charges of child exploitation and possession of child pornography as a result of the investigation.
Anyone with additional information about the case is asked to contact Detective Austin Bailey at 765-456-7280 or at abailey@cityofkokomo.org. Anyone with information about child sexual abuse material or child exploitation is asked to contact the Kokomo Police Department or report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 1-800-843-567. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/police-kokomo-man-sent-child-sexual-abuse-material-through-kik/ | 2022-09-23 20:37:15 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/police-kokomo-man-sent-child-sexual-abuse-material-through-kik/ |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
6-3-5-1
(six, three, five, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
6-3-5-1
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ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. (KTOS) on Wednesday reported a loss of $7 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Round Rock, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 6 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 3 cents per share.
The military contractor posted revenue of $231.8 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $223.7 million.
For the current quarter ending in June, Kratos said it expects revenue in the range of $230 million to $240 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $980 million to $1 billion.
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The local news anchors are now making national news.
E! News can confirm Mark Mester is no longer employed by KTLA. The news comes less than a week after he criticized on-air how the Southern California station went about his co-anchor and close friend Lynette Romero's sudden departure.
"I want to start off by offering an apology to you," Mester told viewers Sept. 17 while anchoring the KTLA weekend morning show. "What the viewers experienced was rude, it was cruel, it was inappropriate and I'm so sorry. I also want to say sorry to Lynette Romero because Lynette, I love you so much. You literally are my best friend. You do not deserve what happened to you."
KTLA would not comment on the reason behind Mester's termination.
So what happened to Romero? On Sept. 14, KTLA anchor Sam Rubin surprised viewers when he announced her departure after more than two decades with the station.
"After nearly 24 years, our friend Lynette has decided to move on," Rubin shared on the air. "KTLA Management had hoped she would stay here her entire career. KTLA worked hard to make that happen, but Lynette has decided to move onto another opportunity elsewhere. Lynette we wish you luck. We miss you and we thank you for everything you've done."
On Sept. 23, KTLA's Vice President and General Manager Janene Drafs reiterated that sentiment in a statement to E! News.
"After 24 years, Lynette Romero has decided to move on from anchoring our weekend morning news," she said. We really wanted her to stay, and KTLA Management worked hard to make that happen. Lynette decided to leave for another opportunity. We had hoped she would record a farewell message to viewers, but she declined. Lynette has been a wonderful member of the KTLA family and wish her and her family the best."
E! News has reached out to Mester and Romero for comment and has not heard back.
Earlier this week, Romero posted a message on Twitter writing, "I will always be grateful for the love and affection L.A. viewers have given me. Stay tuned my friends I'll be right back."
Many viewers have expressed their disappointment with KTLA's handling of Romero's exit. In KTLA's Instagram post announcing her departure, many had questions for the station.
"What is happening at KTLA?!?" one user wrote. "This seems so weird that Lynette herself would not say goodbye to her loyal viewers! This makes me so sad. She was the heart and soul of KTLA and was so professional."
Another added, "Why didn't she make the announcement herself? Seems so sudden."
On what would turn out to be his final day anchoring the KTLA weekend morning show, Mester reportedly arranged for a plane to fly over the station with a banner that read, "We love you Lynette."
"All we can say to you Lynette Romero this morning is we love you and miss you," he said. "We are going to offer you dignity and grace, which is what this station should have done from the beginning…I'm going to miss you on this set each and every day." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1347694/ktla-s-mark-mester-fired-after-on-air-reaction-to-co-anchor-lynette-romero-s-departure | 2022-09-23 19:10:40 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1347694/ktla-s-mark-mester-fired-after-on-air-reaction-to-co-anchor-lynette-romero-s-departure |
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ExchangeRight, one of the nation's leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, is pleased to announce that it has fully subscribed its $58.95 million Net-Leased Portfolio 57 DST, which features 283,313 square feet of property net-leased to grocery, healthcare, and necessity-based retail tenants. The offering launched with a loan-to-value of 48.35 percent and non-recourse interest-only financing at a fixed rate of 4.91 percent over a 7-year term.
The offering contains six long-term net-leased properties diversified across five states. A Wegmans Food Market in North Wales, Pennsylvania, provides 40.79 percent of the portfolio's net operating income. Kroger, Walgreens, and Fresenius Medical Care are also featured in the portfolio.
"We are grateful for the investors, advisors, and representatives who chose to entrust us with their wealth by investing in this DST," said Joshua Ungerecht, a managing partner at ExchangeRight. "Our capital- and income-preservation strategy is designed to provide stable passive income to investors through market cycles, including recessions, economic crises, and periods of high inflation. Due to our focus on primarily investment-grade tenants in essential industries, all of our net lease offerings have consistently produced monthly cash flow at or above projected distribution targets. It is an honor to be able to protect investor capital, especially through difficult economic times like we are currently seeing."
ExchangeRight and its affiliates' vertically integrated platform features more than $5.3 billion in assets under management that are diversified across over 1,100 properties and 21 million square feet throughout 47 states. ExchangeRight pursues its passion to empower people to be secure, free, and generous by providing REIT, fund, and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income, and strategic exits. The company strategically syndicates net-leased portfolios of assets backed primarily by investment-grade corporations that successfully operate in the necessity-based retail and healthcare industries, as well as diversified value-add portfolios of inline and outparcel retail properties shadow-anchored by strong-performing grocery tenants. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Please visit www.exchangeright.com for more information.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)Tyler Toffoli scored in the sudden death round of the shootout to send the Calgary Flames to a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Wild.
Toffoli beat Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson five-hole to end Tuesday’s game, which nearly ended in overtime.
Both teams scored in the third round of the shootout, but Matt Boldy’s missed backhander for Minnesota set the stage for Toffoli to win it.
Gustavsson made 26 saves for Minnesota, while Jacob Markstrom stopped all 40 shots in net for Calgary for his first shutout of the year. The 40 shots by the Wild were the most surrendered by the Flames all season.
Tuesday was the second night of a back-to-back for Calgary, which beat Dallas 5-4 on Monday.
“We haven’t done that much this year,” Markstrom said of the back-to-back wins. “Now you just refocus, relax when we get home tonight and then refocus for the next game.”
Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon appeared to have scored the game-winner with 1:36 remaining in overtime when he buried a Ryan Hartman rebound. The play was reviewed, however, and it was deemed Spurgeon was offside as he skated backwards into Calgary’s zone.
“We just looked at it. We think it’s offside,” said Wild coach Dean Evason. “He definitely released it before it got over the blue line by an inch. So, yeah, hard to argue with that.”
Flames coach Darryl Sutter said he knew right away that Spurgeon was offside.
“When you’re skating backwards, the puck’s gotta be on your stick,” he said. “It’s the first thing I said is they gotta look at that in a hurry because I don’t think it was on his stick.”
Some of Calgary’s players had already headed to the locker room and had to return to the bench after the call was overturned. After Minnesota’s players stopped their celebration at center ice, play eventually resumed.
“I think there was 10 of us in the room. We just thought the game was over, obviously,” Toffoli said. “Obviously we heard everyone screaming to get back out there. We went back out there and Darryl told us to get our heads back into it, and we found a way.”
Tuesday marked the second time the two teams played in a four-day span. Minnesota won 3-0 in Calgary on Saturday, with Gustavsson making 31 saves in the shutout.
Minnesota dominated Calgary in shots on goal, with the Wild out-shooting the Flames 40-26.
The Wild had several golden opportunities in the third period. Hartman was stopped on a breakaway after a nice pass from linemate Kirill Kaprizov, and forward Ryan Reaves missed a good look on the doorstep a few minutes later.
Frederick Gaudreau also had a good look for Minnesota early in overtime, but his shot was blocked into the protective netting. Mikael Backlund had Calgary’s best shot in overtime but was denied by Gustavsson.
“These games are real fun. It’s very close games and there’s lots of opportunities back and forth,” Gustavsson said. “They had a breakaway in overtime. We had a few good chances. It’s the way the game goes.”
Play was chippy throughout the game, with several scrums after the whistle. One of those resulted in two penalties on Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman during a first-period dustup.
WILD CELEBRATE PRIDE NIGHT
The Wild hosted its second annual Pride Night on Tuesday. Players used Pride pucks and Pride tape on their sticks during warmups. Jack Jablonski, a former Minnesota high school hockey player who has been paralyzed since 2011 and came out as gay last year, performed the “Let’s Play Hockey!” chant pregame. Wild defenseman Jon Merrill donated tickets to Tuesday’s game to Queerspace Collective, a mentorship program for LGBTQIA+ youth in Minnesota. The Wild players wore Pride jerseys during the inaugural Pride Night last year but did not on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Flames: Host Anaheim on Friday.
Wild: At Winnipeg on Wednesday. —
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians manager Terry Francona's beloved ride has been stolen.
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The scooter that Francona rides from his downtown Cleveland apartment to Progressive Field on game days was swiped over the weekend. Francona’s scooter was parked outside his residence.
A team spokesman said police were notified of the theft, which happened late Friday night or early Saturday.
The 63-year-old Francona, who spends the offseason in Arizona, was in Cleveland over the weekend for Guards Fest, the team's annual winter fan festival. He noticed his scooter was missing before attending Saturday's event.
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Francona has used a scooter for his short commute to the ballpark in recent years. It's common to see Francona, known as “Tito,” waving to fans as he zips around the city. The team had a bobblehead giveaway a few years ago with Francona riding his scooter.
A two-time World Series winner with Boston, Francona has spent 10 seasons with Cleveland. He was named AL Manager of the Year for the third time last season after leading the Guardians to 92 wins and an unexpected division title despite having the majors' youngest team.
Francona has been slowed by health problems the past few seasons.
On Saturday, he said he's feeling great and looking forward to the 2023 season. Francona has an open-ended contract with the organization, which intends to keep him as its manager as long as he wants.
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DETROIT, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Airspace Link, a leading provider of digital drone safety infrastructure services, announced today the completion of a successful 10-day flight operation showcasing a real-world drone transportation program for the movement of critical medical items; the first of its kind in Southeast Michigan.
Armed with a Michigan Mobility Funding Grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Office of Future Mobility and Electrification, Airspace Link brought together drone operator MissionGO, Beaumont Health, and metropolitan Detroit community leaders to execute Michigan's first real-world package delivery operations via UAS (Uncrewed Aircraft System or "drone").
The Michigan Mobility Grant was awarded to Airspace Link with the ambition to establish a drone delivery network in southeast Michigan to transport urgently needed medical items safely and efficiently. Airspace Link's AirHub Platform was used to perform the initial community assessments, including air and ground data analysis, to understand optimal routes and use cases to identify ideal partners as first movers on the network.
Airspace Link worked with Beaumont Health, a leading health care provider in southeast Michigan, who recognized the opportunity that drones will provide for improving patient health care by moving medical items more efficiently. MissionGO, a leader in drone delivery services, with experience transporting organs and other medical items, was selected to execute the real-world drone delivery services..
"This 10-day operation was just Phase I of what is promising to be an incredibly innovative future for Southeast Michigan and for UAS package deliveries as a whole," says Scott Plank, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MissionGO.
"Drones offer the benefit of expedited, on-demand, and contactless delivery. We are optimistic that drones could help us serve our patients," Melanie Fisher, VP of supply chain operations for Beaumont Health, said.
Airspace Link led the project, providing the digital infrastructure and data services required to enable the safe planning and execution of scalable drone delivery and logistics services in Michigan through their proprietary AirHub®Platform.
"Participation with the city, county, and state will assist in driving successful end results, including economic growth and new, sustainable mobility options for residents and businesses over time. We're currently deployed in over ten communities throughout the state of Michigan and look forward to continuing to work together to propel Michigan forward as a leader in drone innovation" says Michael Healander, Co-Founder & CEO of Airspace Link.
The data collected from the 10 days of operations will include a transportation impact analysis, including an assessment of the opportunity to reduce carbon emissions and vehicle miles traveled as drone delivery operations scale. Ultimately, the data will be used to inform a model that the State of Michigan can use to help understand the tremendous impact that drones can have on the environment, the economy and, especially in this case, improved patient outcomes for healthcare providers when integrated at scale. The model can then be applied to any location in the State.
"We're thrilled to see Airspace Link continuing to grow their business in Michigan while demonstrating how mobility technologies can play a vital role in improving quality of life and providing access to critical services such as health care," said Charlie Tyson, Technology Activation Manager for the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. "Michigan takes pride in being a state where high-tech mobility companies like Airspace Link can access the type of public support they need while pioneering an industry, creating jobs and accessing the type of venture capital funding they need to thrive."
The final report and analysis will help companies and communities across Michigan and beyond, to better understand the viability and impact of safely integrating drone operations in their current workflows, enabling the environmental, economic, and societal benefits to be realized sooner.
Airspace Link's vision is to create a world where the safe integration of drones fuels human progress, advancing social equity, the environment, and the economy. Founded in Detroit in 2018 by CEO Michael Healander, Airspace Link is one of the few FAA Approved UAS Service Suppliers of the Low Altitude Authorization & Notification Capability (LAANC). Airspace Link's cloud-based platform, AirHub™, provides the digital infrastructure required to support the safe use of recreational and commercial drone use in communities at scale, supporting the growth of drone operations, drone service providers, drone manufacturers, package delivery, and air taxi deployment in the future. Learn more at www.airspacelink.com.
MissionGO is setting a new standard for next-generation transportation logistics. By leveraging uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), MissionGO delivers improved reliability, reduced costs, and increased transparency to benefit multiple sectors, including healthcare and critical infrastructure. MissionGO is a portfolio company within JSP Ventures. Learn more at www.missiongo.io.
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(WHTM) – Less than one year after losing the 2022 Republican primary for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, Dave McCormick reportedly met with Republican leaders with speculation he may run a second campaign.
According to the Associated Press, McCormick spoke at a multiday National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat at the Breakers, a luxury resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with senators and potential candidates in attendance.
A former hedge fund CEO, McCormick narrowly lost the crowded 2022 Republican primary to the Donald Trump-backed candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz by 950 votes.
McCormick conceded the primary after an automatic recount was triggered, and Oz was defeated by Democrat John Fetterman in the November election by more than 263,000 votes.
With McCormick meeting with national Republicans, the Associated Press reports McCormick is now considering another U.S. Senate run in 2024 for incumbent Democrat Senator Bob Casey’s seat.
Casey, who is recovering from recent prostate cancer surgery, has not formally announced whether he will seek re-election. In January Cook Political Report lists Casey’s seat as one of five “leaning Democrat.”
If he enters the primary, McCormick has also been promised support from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that spends millions of dollars on TV advertising, according to two other Republican strategists familiar with the matter.
That serves as a warning to anyone else thinking about the race: If McCormick gets in, he would have the full weight and resources of the Senate Republican campaign operation behind him.
At this point, no other Republican candidates have announced their intentions to run in 2024. The 2022 primary ballot featured seven Republican candidates, only three of whom received at least 20%, and the other four of which received less than 6% each.
Marc Levy of The Associated Press contributed to this report | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/2022-united-states-senate-election-in-pennsylvania/dave-mccormick-considering-2024-pennsylvania-u-s-senate-race-report/ | 2023-02-27 20:19:49 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/2022-united-states-senate-election-in-pennsylvania/dave-mccormick-considering-2024-pennsylvania-u-s-senate-race-report/ |
Sometimes growing out your hair can feel like a long, uphill battle that requires endless time and patience. Depending on what length you’re starting with and how long you’re hoping to get to, it can feel like it can take ages.
So why does it seem like some women don’t even have to try to grow their hair long and luscious when the rest of us spend our bad hair days searching online for the best ponytail extensions?
Hair grows at an average rate of half an inch per month or six inches per year, and the average person sheds 50-100 hairs each day. If you think your hair is thinning, you might be right. More than 50% of women experience hair loss at some point in their lives, which equates to shedding more than 125 hairs per day.
Eat Well
To grow long, thick hair, you first have to start with your lips! A diet rich in healthy fats is essential. Eat plenty of protein and good fats, such as olive oil, nuts, eggs, salmon and avocados, to make sure you’re getting the nutrients needed to grow those shiny, vibrant locks.
Exfoliate Your Scalp Regularly
While most of us have exfoliating our face down pat, we tend to forget this can be beneficial for our scalp, too. Exfoliating one to two times per week can increase blood flow and help drive inactive hair follicles into a state of growth.
You can also maintain a healthy scalp by massaging your scalp to stimulate circulation using a special scrub brush. This can remove buildup from hair products that can clog follicles, which can inhibit or delay growth.
Shampoo Wisely
Over-washing attributes to hair harm more than you might think. Depending on your hair type, lifestyle and climate, you might not need to shampoo every day. You can help hair along by distributing its natural oils through regular brushing and shampooing every few days.
Trim Regularly
Ward off split ends with regular trims to prevent damage. Brittle ends can continue to split up the hair shaft, which can make the rest of the strand thinner.
Be Pool Savvy
In order to grow your hair longer, you have to maintain what you already have to the best of your abilities. Chlorine can wreak havoc on our hair. The American Academy of Dermatology Association suggests wetting and conditioning hair before swimming or wearing a tight-fitting swim cap. They also recommend using a shampoo formulated for swimmers and deep conditioning afterward to replenish any lost moisture.
Turn Down The Heat
Over-styling your hair can lead to frizz and breakage. You’ve probably already heard that you shouldn’t use heat every time you style. Letting your hair air dry (or at least semi-air dry) can be a nice way to reduce regular heat use. When you do need to use heat, use a hair heat protectant and decrease the temperature.
Fake It Til You Make It
Springing for the best ponytail extension might be worth the money while you are in the process of growing your hair out.
Are you thinking about growing your hair out? We hope these tips help your locks grow faster — and healthier — as quickly as humanly possible!
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Company appoints industry exec to lead Product, Design & Engineering and take automation to the next level.
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, today announced the appointment of Niranjan Vijayaragavan as Chief Product Officer. He brings more than two decades of technology leadership experience to Nintex, having driven product strategy, vision and execution at organizations like Microsoft, BCG, Expedia, Avalara and—most recently—at Nuna, a health-tech company.
Niranjan will work closely with the executive team and the board to help define Nintex's product strategy and execute for scale. Process automation is being transformed through artificial intelligence, creating new opportunities for innovation and growth.
"To lead in this new era of automation and artificial intelligence requires someone with perpetual curiosity and a growth mindset," said Amit Mathradas, Nintex CEO. "Niranjan, is a proven product leader who's capable of building innovative products and solutions at scale."
"Despite step changes in technology, several sectors and domains remain under-automated, impacting the pace and effectiveness of their businesses. Many SaaS companies are exploring to serve this need, but few can do it at scale in the way Nintex can," said Niranjan Vijayaragavan, Nintex CPO. "Nintex's deep process expertise and portfolio of automation products, combined with the power of artificial intelligence, can unlock incredible value for customers that will transform their business. I'm excited to join this talented team and help unlock this potential."
Niranjan will start with Nintex on July 10th, 2023, and report to Amit Mathradas, Nintex CEO.
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Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimizing business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).
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Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 0
Brandon 4 Edmonton 1
Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 0
Kamloops 5 Saskatoon 2
Everett 2 Spokane 1
Seattle 6 Red Deer 1
Prince George 9 Kelowna 2
Vancouver 2 Victoria 1 (OT)
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Regina 8 Moose Jaw 4
Prince Albert 4 Swift Current 1
Brandon 3 Calgary 2
Seattle 3 Portland 0
Medicine Hat 3 Lethbridge 2 (SO)
Winnipeg 7 Edmonton 1
Red Deer 2 Tri-City 1 (SO)
Everett 2 Spokane 1 (SO)
Victoria 6 Vancouver 2
Kamloops 5 Prince George 4
Saskatoon 4 Kelowna 2
Tuesday's results
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
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An attorney representing the 17-year-old arrested in connection with the July 2 Brooklyn Homes mass shooting said late Friday his client has been charged with two counts of inciting a riot.
The attorney, Michael S. Clinkscale, said the new charges were filed July 13.
“The people are bringing the new charges because they were derelict in their duty,” said Clinkscale. “They are pinning it on a young man who has done nothing... My client was carrying a toy gun.”
The teen suffered a shot in the leg during the Brooklyn Homes community party and is one of the 28 surviving victims. The Baltimore Sun is not naming the suspect because he is a minor.
The 17-year-old, who was charged as an adult, was denied bail.
The new riot charges are in addition to earlier charges of possession of a firearm by a minor, reckless endangerment, possession of an assault weapon, having a handgun in a vehicle and on his person — all misdemeanors.
He has never been arrested before, according to court records.
A city judge ordered the teen held without bond. He is detained at Baltimore’s Youth Detention Center, according to Clinkscale, his attorney. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-riot-charges-brooklyn-shooting-20230715-xiwwxzvhifg63ebmanevbdws3q-story.html | 2023-07-15 01:40:02 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-riot-charges-brooklyn-shooting-20230715-xiwwxzvhifg63ebmanevbdws3q-story.html |
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Madison city leaders to appeal county’s decision to rezone 350 acres along Bozeman Rd.
MADISON, Miss. (WLBT) - Madison County supervisors’ decision to rezone some 350 acres of property along Bozeman Road will soon land them in court.
On Tuesday, the Madison mayor and board of aldermen approved bringing on an attorney to file an appeal of the county’s decision to rezone the property along the future Reunion Parkway extension from a special use district to C2 commercial.
The vote comes just one day after supervisors granted the request from the Minnie J. Bozeman Family Limited Partnership, despite continued opposition from the city and from residents.
“We’re working on the appeal paperwork right now and plan to file it next week,” attorney Michael Bentley said.
The appeal will be filed in Madison County Circuit Court.
The city came out in opposition to the rezoning earlier this year, with Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler saying the property was located within her city’s path of growth.
The city filed annexation papers to take in approximately four square miles of territory north of its current city limits in May. That territory includes the Bozeman acreage.
Bentley said the city’s suit likely will include the same objections it raised during a public hearing on the Bozeman request last month.
According to a letter submitted to the board on May 16, the city argued that the rezoning was not needed because “no such commercial uses exist on or within the immediate vicinity of this rural land.”
The 350 acres are located between Bozeman Road and I-55 North. The property currently is used for agricultural purposes, but likely will be opened up for commercial development with the Reunion Parkway expansion project.
The city also alleges that the county agreed to rezone the land in exchange for right-of-way for the project.
The Reunion expansion will include the construction of a new stretch of the parkway from where it now dead ends into Bozeman to the interstate.
The state, meanwhile, is expected to construct an interchange along the interstate after the Reunion flyover bridge is built.
Approximately 35 acres of right-of-way were needed for the project to go forward. The land was valued at $1.4 million.
Under terms of a memorandum of understanding, the county paid the partnership $965,000 for the acreage. The partnership will return those funds once the parkway expansion is completed, the agreement states.
“Mississippi law does not permit a governing body to bargain away its zoning power by committing to the developers’ preferred zoning changes,” attorney Erin Saltaformaggio told supervisors. “It has to engage in the public process required by the zoning ordinances and state law.”
The letter points to minutes from the February 2023 planning and zoning meeting to back up their claims.
According to those minutes, “Mr. Espy confirmed that Madison County had agreed to assist in the rezoning of the subject property in order for the applicant to make commercial use of the property and had provided [the] applicant with information on the planned roadway and ramps that would traverse his property.”
Espy is the attorney for the Madison County Board of Supervisors. He, Board President Gerald Steen, and Richard Skinner, an agent for the partnership, have all denied any deal was made.
A copy of the planning and zoning minutes from the February meeting is posted below.
Planning and Zoning Minutes by Anthony Warren on Scribd
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Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Great Balls of Fire' singer, dies at 87
Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87.
The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at home in Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release.
Of all the rock rebels to emerge in the 1950s, few captured the new genre's attraction and danger as unforgettably as the Louisiana-born piano player who called himself "The Killer."
Tender ballads were best left to the old folks. Lewis was all about lust and gratification, with his leering tenor and demanding asides, violent tempos and brash glissandi, cocky sneer and crazy blond hair. He was a one-man stampede who made the fans scream and the keyboards swear, his live act so combustible that during a 1957 performance of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin’ On" on "The Steve Allen Show," chairs were thrown at him like buckets of water on an inferno.
"There was rockabilly. There was Elvis. But there was no pure rock ’n ’roll before Jerry Lee Lewis kicked in the door," a Lewis admirer once observed. That admirer was Jerry Lee Lewis.
'Million Dollar Quartet' consisting of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash perform in the Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, December 4, 1956. The woman is Marilyn Evans, a showgirl whom Elvis met in Las Vegas. (Photo by Mich
But in his private life, he raged in ways that might have ended his career today — and nearly did back then.
For a brief time, in 1958, he was a contender to replace Presley as rock’s prime hit maker after Elvis was drafted into the Army. But while Lewis toured in England, the press learned three damaging things: He was married to 13-year-old (possibly even 12-year-old) Myra Gale Brown, she was his cousin, and he was still married to his previous wife. His tour was canceled, he was blacklisted from the radio and his earnings dropped overnight to virtually nothing.
"I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people," Lewis told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 when asked about the marriage. "I just went on with my life as usual."
American rock and roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis with his third wife Myra, who he married at age 13, photographed following his arrival in the UK. 8th May 1962. (Photo by Daily Herald/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
Over the following decades, Lewis struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, legal disputes and physical illness. Two of his many marriages ended in his wife’s early death. Brown herself divorced him in the early 1970s and would later allege physical and mental cruelty that nearly drove her to suicide.
"If I was still married to Jerry, I’d probably be dead by now," she told People magazine in 1989.
Lewis reinvented himself as a country performer in the 1960s, and the music industry eventually forgave him, long after he stopped having hits. He won three Grammys, and recorded with some of the industry's greatest stars. In 2006, Lewis came out with "Last Man Standing," featuring Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King and George Jones. In 2010, Lewis brought in Jagger, Keith Richards, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw and others for the album "Mean Old Man."
In "The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll," first published in 1975, he recalled how he convinced disc jockeys to give him a second chance.
"This time I said, ‘Look, man, let’s get together and draw a line on this stuff — a peace treaty you know,’" he explained. Lewis would still play the old hits on stage, but on the radio he would sing country.
Portrait of rock-and-roll recording artist Jerry Lee Lewis. He is shown full-length, playing piano in 1957. (Credit: Getty Images)
Lewis had a run of top 10 country hits between 1967-70, and hardly mellowed at all. He performed drinking songs such as "What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)", the roving eye confessions of "She Still Comes Around" and a dry-eyed cover of a classic ballad of abandonment, "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye." He had remained popular in Europe and a 1964 album, "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg," is widely regarded as one of the greatest concert records.
A 1973 performance proved more troublesome: Lewis sang for the Grand Ole Opry and broke two longstanding rules — no swearing and no non-country songs.
"I am a rock and rollin’, country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin’ motherf-----," he told the audience.
Lewis married seven times, and was rarely far from trouble or death. His fourth wife, Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate, drowned in a swimming pool in 1982 while suing for divorce. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, 23 years his junior, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1983. Within a year, Lewis had married Kerrie McCarver, then 21. She filed for divorce in 1986, accusing him of physical abuse and infidelity. He countersued, but both petitions eventually were dropped. They finally divorced in 2005 after several years of separation. The couple had one child, Jerry Lee III.
Another son by a previous marriage, Steve Allen Lewis, 3, drowned in a swimming pool in 1962, and son Jerry Lee Jr. died in a traffic accident at 19 in 1973. Lewis also had two daughters, Phoebe and Lori Leigh, and is survived by his wife Judith.
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His finances were also chaotic. Lewis made millions, but he liked his money in cash and ended up owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Internal Revenue Service. When he began welcoming tourists in 1994 to his longtime residence near Nesbit, Mississippi — complete with a piano-shaped swimming pool — he set up a 900 phone number fans could call for a recorded message at $2.75 a minute.
The son of one-time bootlegger Elmo Lewis and the cousin of TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country star Mickey Gilley, Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. As a boy, he first learned to play guitar, but found the instrument too confining and longed for an instrument that the only the rich people in his town could afford — a piano. His life changed when his father pulled up in his truck one day and presented him a dark-wood, upright set of keyboards.
"My eyes almost fell out of my head," Lewis recalled in "Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story," written by Rick Bragg and published in 2014.
He took to the piano immediately, and began sneaking off to Black juke joints and absorbing everything from gospel to boogie-woogie. Conflicted early on between secular and scared music, he quit school at 16, with plans of becoming a piano-playing preacher. Lewis briefly attended Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, a fundamentalist Bible college, but was expelled, reportedly, for playing the "wrong" kind of music.
"Great Balls of Fire," a sexualized take on Biblical imagery that Lewis initially refused to record, and "Whole Lotta Shakin’" were his most enduring songs and performance pieces. Lewis had only a handful of other pop hits, including "High School Confidential" and "Breathless," but they were enough to ensure his place as a rock ‘n’ roll architect.
"No group, be it (the) Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’’ for my money," John Lennon would tell Rolling Stone in 1970.
CIRCA 1970: Photo of Jerry Lee Lewis Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
A roadhouse veteran by his early 20s, Lewis took off for Memphis in 1956 and showed up at the studios of Sun Records, the musical home of Elvis, Perkins and Cash. Told by company founder Sam Phillips to go learn some rock ‘n roll, Lewis returned and soon hurried off "Whole Lotta Shakin’" in a single take.
"I knew it was a hit when I cut it," he later said. "Sam Phillips thought it was gonna be too risque, it couldn’t make it. If that’s risque, well, I’m sorry."
In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Killer not only outlasted his contemporaries but saw his life and music periodically reintroduced to younger fans, including the the 1989 biopic "Great Balls of Fire," starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary "Trouble in Mind." A 2010 Broadway music, "Million Dollar Quartet," was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.
He won a Grammy in 1987 as part of an interview album that was cited for best spoken word recording, and he received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2005. The following year, "Whole Lotta Shakin’" was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, whose board praised the "propulsive boogie piano that was perfectly complemented by the drive of J.M. Van Eaton’s energetic drumming. The listeners to the recording, like Lewis himself, had a hard time remaining seated during the performance."
A classmate at Bible school, Pearry Green, remembered meeting Lewis years later and asking if he was still playing the devil’s music.
"Yes, I am," Lewis answered. "But you know it’s strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don’t."
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the second graduating class of the Florida Southern College Doctor of Nursing Practice program presented their capstone project posters in the Joe K. and Alberta Blanton Nursing Building, on August 4th, 2022. The seven-member cohort completed community- and practice- based health care improvement projects.
As a part of the curriculum, DNP students are required to choose a real-world problem, examine the literature and show evidence-based interventions to assist population health and provide health care delivery. Under the guidance of Dr. Melanie Michael, DNP, MS, APRN, FNP-C, CPHQ, FNAP, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Nursing Program; Dr. Tracy Magee, PH.D., RN, CPNP, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing and Education Coordinator; and Dr. Imke Casey, DNP, CRNA, RN-BC, RHIT, Assistant Professor, these posters represent the peak of the six-semester program.
"I am delighted with the results of the DNP projects completed by students in the summer 2022 graduating DNP cohort," Dr. Michael said. "The presentations represent the culmination of a year-long learning journey that provides a solid foundation for continued scholarly work into the future."
These seven DNP candidates will be hooded and officially earn their DNP degrees, in a ceremony on August 17 at 5:00 p.m., in the Branscomb Auditorium.
Project Poster Presentations included:
- Conversations to Improve Advance Care Planning for Older Adults in Primary Care: A Pilot Project, presented by Amy Davis, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, supervised by Dr. Melanie Michael
- Implementation of a Strength Training Intervention for Treating Sarcopenia Among Older Residents in a Skilled Nursing Facility, presented by Donna-Marie Lanton, MSN, APRN, ANP-C, supervised by Dr. Imke Casey
- Reducing Falls in a Memory Care Unit Through Implementation of the STEADI Program, presented by Cory B. Lord, MSN, APRN, NP-C, supervised by Dr. Imke Casey
- Improving Transitional Care Outcomes in Primary Care: A Pilot Study, presented by Satoria Reid-Rowe, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, supervised by Dr. Melanie Michael
- Orientation Recommendations for Travel Nurses Based on Nurse Identified Learning Needs, presented by Olga C. Rodriguez, MSN, COL (ret), MSN, RN, CPHQ, supervised by Dr. Tracy Magee
- Suwannee River Area Health Education Center and Florida Southern College: Meeting the Need for Interprofessional Practice to Improve Health, presented by Tila Skipper-Resendiz, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-C, supervised by Dr. Melanie Michael
- Seeing Is Believing: Continuous Glucose Monitoring Versus Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes, presented by Dorothea Thompson, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, supervised by Dr. Imke Casey
About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2022 Best 387 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022." The 2021-2022 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Crews to close East Topeka street as sewer repairs made
Published: Mar. 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM CDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Crews are set to close an East Topeka street as they repair a sewer in the area.
Officials with the City of Topeka say that on Monday, March 27, crews will completely close SE Minnesota Ave. at the 21st St. intersection.
Crews also said they would close the right eastbound lane of SE 21st St. in the area.
According to officials, the closures are necessary to complete a wastewater sewer repair.
Officials noted that the closures are expected to last between two and three weeks.
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Max Kepler Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Tigers - June 23
Published: Jun. 23, 2023 at 3:23 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Max Kepler -- batting .259 in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Detroit Tigers, with Joey Wentz on the hill, on June 23 at 6:40 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-4 against the Red Sox.
Max Kepler Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Friday, June 23, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Comerica Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Joey Wentz
- TV Channel: BSDET
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -182)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Max Kepler At The Plate
- Kepler is hitting .201 with five doubles, nine home runs and 13 walks.
- Kepler has reached base via a hit in 23 games this year (of 47 played), and had multiple hits in eight of those games.
- He has hit a long ball in 19.1% of his games in 2023 (nine of 47), and 5.1% of his trips to the dish.
- Kepler has driven home a run in 15 games this season (31.9%), including more than one RBI in 10.6% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on one occasion..
- He has scored in 16 of 47 games this season, and more than once 4 times.
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Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in the league with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Tigers' 4.45 team ERA ranks 22nd among all league pitching staffs.
- Tigers pitchers combine to rank 19th in baseball in home runs given up (87 total, 1.2 per game).
- Wentz (1-7) gets the starting nod for the Tigers in his 14th start of the season. He's put together a 6.82 ERA in 62 2/3 innings pitched, with 57 strikeouts.
- In his last appearance on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins, the left-hander tossed six innings, giving up two earned runs while surrendering two hits.
- In 14 games this season, the 25-year-old has put up a 6.82 ERA and 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .286 to opposing batters.
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